Li Ze wanted to find Mo Xingjue, but Liu Haozhi and the others were either dead or injured, and there were very few of them who were still capable of fighting. If he left, these people would surely die.
Li Ze couldn't bring himself to speak.
He didn't speak, but sat down with the others. After the battle, his magic core, which had been saturated, was now more than half empty. He wanted to fill it up before the next wave of puppets arrived.
A large amount of malevolent energy surged into Li Ze's body, and Liu Haozhi, who was closer to him, suddenly shivered.
"It's getting colder?" Liu Haozhi muttered, then took out a handful of spirit stones and placed them in his palm, accelerating the absorption of spiritual energy from the stones.
Time passed silently, and when the puppets attacked again, Li Ze was the first to open his eyes and rushed forward.
He saw a puppet at the Golden Core stage!
With the Foundation Establishment Great Perfection stage facing off against the Golden Core stage, Li Ze's eyes blazed with fighting spirit.
The person who crafted the puppet was extremely skilled; this Golden Core stage puppet was almost indistinguishable from a Golden Core stage cultivator, and it took Li Ze considerable effort to defeat it.
"You've managed to fight someone above your level, impressive," Liu Haozhi said.
"Can Senior Brother Liu see it?" Li Ze asked, even though Liu Haozhi was clearly several meters away from him.
“I heard the sound,” Liu Haozhi replied. “However, Brother He Yu, leave the Golden Core stage to our senior brothers. You should go and take care of those Foundation Establishment stage puppets. One of you is worth several of my senior brothers when it comes to dealing with Foundation Establishment stage puppets.”
It's funny, really. He, a Golden Core cultivator, is no match for a Foundation Establishment cultivator, but that's the truth. For every Foundation Establishment puppet he kills, He Yu can take down three or four, sometimes even five or six. And he seems to grow stronger with each kill, as if he never tires, which is astonishing.
Li Ze nodded, "Okay."
It took quite a while to deal with this wave of puppets, but fortunately no one was injured or killed. When the last puppet fell, everyone smiled with relief.
"Can everyone leave? Or should we go somewhere else?" Li Ze asked.
“We can walk, but I’m worried that our senior brother won’t be able to find us when he comes back,” Liu Haozhi said.
Upon hearing this, Li Ze fell silent.
"Huh, the white mist seems to have thinned out a bit," Fengwu said in surprise.
Upon hearing this, the others all looked around.
"It has indeed become a bit fainter. Before, I couldn't see anything beyond a meter, but now I can see things within two meters."
Unsure whether the change was good or bad, everyone felt uneasy and spontaneously stood back to back with their swords pointing outwards, wary of any potential danger.
The white mist gradually thinned, and as it did, Li Ze discovered that his divine sense could be used normally again. However, its range was limited; he could only probe an area within a radius of two hundred meters.
The white fog thinned to a certain extent and then stopped. At this point, Li Ze and the others could see things within a hundred meters.
Is that all?
No one dared to let their guard down.
boom!
A loud bang was heard, and the ground shook.
Li Ze looked sharply in the direction from which the sound came, but he couldn't see anything.
"I want to go take a look!"
As Li Ze spoke, he took off running.
The others looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Why don't we go take a look too?" Sun Chenghao suggested.
The sound didn't come from far away, but after it disappeared, Li Ze lost his way in the white fog.
"He Yu, wait for us." Liu Haozhi and the others caught up.
Li Ze looked at them and asked, "Do you remember which direction the sound came from?"
Liu Haozhi and the others shook their heads, "We don't remember, we were just busy chasing after you."
"Let's choose a direction first; there might be a second disturbance," Fengwu suggested.
Li Ze remained silent as he carefully sensed the concentration of malevolent energy within the white mist. He discovered that he could only see a distance of one hundred meters, and his divine sense could probe a distance of two hundred meters, but the range he could perceive when the malevolent energy was concentrated could reach several thousand meters.
"This way," Li Ze said.
No one else had any objections; it was just a matter of choosing a direction, and either side was fine.
Everyone followed closely behind Li Ze, remaining vigilant about their surroundings at all times, except for Shangguan Meng, whose gaze almost never left Li Ze.
This handsome young man, whom I haven't seen for more than half a year, has not only grown taller, but his features have also matured. His face, which was still a bit immature when we last met, is now even more charming.
It's a beauty that's stunning at first glance and grows more beautiful the more you look at it. What's most terrifying is that this beauty isn't just on the surface; it emanates from the very bones and the depths of the soul.
Is he really not Mo Xingjue's partner?
If someone like that can't defeat Mo Xingjue, then what chance does she have?
Shangguan Meng smiled bitterly.
She felt that she was growing further and further away from Mo Xingjue, but she was so reluctant to let go. Ever since he saved her life back then, she had been beyond help.
Li Ze sensed someone watching him, but he ignored it. He walked towards the area with the densest malevolent energy, and slowly, he began to hear sounds. The closer he got, the clearer the sounds became, and Li Ze was immediately overjoyed; he had made the right bet.
"There seems to be some movement ahead." Liu Haozhi also heard the sound.
"It sounds like the clash of swords," Sun Chenghao said.
"Could it be another puppet?" Feng Wu frowned.
“Whether it is or not, I’m going to go and see. You can wait here for now,” Li Ze said.
"I won't wait, I'll go and see too. Maybe there are disciples of our Crimson Pill Sect there," Feng Wu said, taking the lead and walking forward.
Of the hundreds of people who entered the Crimson Pill Sect this time, less than ten are currently by Feng Wu's side. She has been feeling very guilty these past few days.
As the senior sister, she failed to protect her junior brothers and sisters.
Among those junior brothers and sisters who disappeared were Lin Jingyuan, Gu Junyu, and Liang Chen, whom Li Ze knew.
The commotion ahead grew louder and louder. When Li Ze and the others arrived, they were horrified to find that the concentration of white fog here was the highest.
Here, they can't see anything at all; it's pitch black, which probably describes the situation right in front of them.
The thick fog carried not only sounds of fighting, but also the sounds of talking.
"They're our martial uncles," a disciple of the Tianyu Sect exclaimed with delight.
"Our martial uncle is here too!" The disciples of the Floating Sect were also pleasantly surprised.
"Judging from this commotion, it seems to be a battle between Nascent Soul stage cultivators. Could there be Nascent Soul stage puppets involved?" Sun Chenghao frowned.
"Let me ask my uncles," Le You said, then called out into the thick fog, "Uncles, what did you encounter in there?"
"A Nascent Soul stage puppet! Don't come any closer, get out of the way!" the person inside replied, slightly out of breath, indicating that the situation was not good.
“Not just one, there are two. There’s another one over there with Mo Xingjue,” another person shouted.
"My God, two Nascent Soul stage cultivators!"
"Our senior brother is here too!"
"Senior Brother is facing a Nascent Soul stage puppet all by himself?"
......
While the others were discussing, Li Ze silently disappeared into the thick fog.
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