When Cheng Xuqing heard what Gu Shi said, he cooperated and put down the staff.
Gu Shi brought the two of them to the bottom of the ice pit. This place had just been burned by the scorching fireball, and the soil was still slightly emitting some heat. Once the snowflakes fell on it, they would quickly disappear.
Gu Shi’s guess turned out to be correct. He had just taken two steps on the ground when a formation emitting bright light automatically emerged.
He stepped on the formation, holding the staff tightly in his right hand, his mind unconsciously tensed, and he was ready to be teleported away, but things did not develop as he imagined.
"What's that smell? It smells so good!"
Cheng Xuqing, who was standing not far away, sniffed his nose. An inexplicable fragrance suddenly rose from the bottom of the pit.
"Oh no, everyone be careful..."
Gu Shi also smelled this refreshing scent. It seemed to have magical power, making people unconsciously indulge in it, forgetting all their worries and sorrows, and revealing their most primitive desires.
The fragrance floated around them like a faint mist, wrapping them tightly in it.
Gu Shi knew that something was not right with his current condition. After inhaling the fragrance, his thoughts seemed to be coated with a layer of syrup and gradually became slow. At the same time, his body temperature continued to rise.
Their minds gradually became blank, their bodies became heavy and completely out of control, and the three of them were about to be wiped out here.
Fortunately, before he completely lost consciousness, Gu Shi pinched himself hard, and the pain immediately made him more conscious.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gu Shi took out a bottle of antidote from the space ring and started drinking it in gulps.
Unsure whether the antidote would work against the scent, he drank several bottles of other potions that might be effective.
Fortunately, after drinking all this time, Gu Shi felt that the abnormal condition in his body was gradually subsiding. It seemed that he had found the antidote by accident.
Before they could even breathe a sigh of relief, Gu Shi immediately ran towards the other two people who were still unconscious, took out the same potion, pinched their mouths and forced the potion into their mouths.
"Cough cough cough..." Cheng Xuqing knelt on the ground, patting his chest continuously, "Gu Shi, cough, can't you, cough, be a little gentler? Cough cough, I almost experienced the feeling of being drowned on land."
Gu Shi coughed awkwardly, "This is an emergency."
Thinking of how he had just held the potion bottle and poured the medicine vertically into their throats, he couldn't help feeling a little guilty.
Zhao Zhize, who had completely recovered by then, said, "What on earth is this fragrance? It seems to be coming from inside the formation?"
Gu Shi nodded. He had just been standing on the formation and could naturally smell the source of the fragrance.
He looked back and saw that the magic circle on the ground was still shining, and the fragrance around it showed no sign of dissipating.
Although this fragrance caused them a lot of trouble, it also provided Gu Shi with a lot of information.
Based on the effect of this fragrance, combined with the information Xie Yuanchuan told him last time, Gu Shi was able to determine that the magic circle they found this time was most likely owned by Tan Xue, a female cultivator from the Hehuan Sect.
But he didn't expect that he would be cheated before he even met the other person.
Gu Shi couldn't help but sigh, "Ah, it's all my fault for being too careless. Seeing that I didn't encounter much danger last time, I let my guard down this time, and even got you two into trouble."
Because of what happened when he met Xie Yuanchuan last time, Gu Shi subconsciously thought that even if there was any danger, it would not start until he was teleported to another space. He was also prepared to fall directly into danger.
Who knew that the other party didn't play by the rules at all, and started setting a trap directly from the space outside the formation.
Fortunately, nothing really happened to Cheng Xuqing and Zhao Zhize, otherwise Gu Shi would have regretted it to death.
Zhao Zhize comforted her, "This is normal. We are all just ordinary people. It's impossible for us to predict everything in advance."
Cheng Xuqing agreed in a cheerful tone: "Yes, we are fine, don't worry, don't worry."
Seeing that Gu Shi was still silent, the two thought that he had not recovered yet and wanted to continue persuading them, but were interrupted by his gesture.
"Hush, listen, is there any noise outside?"
“It seems like there’s a little bit…”
"Oh no, it's that fragrance from before. Could it have attracted all the monsters from far away?"
Without having time to pay attention to the formation over there, Gu Shi and the other two hurriedly left the bottom of the pit. When they saw the situation outside clearly, they all froze in place.
"Oh my god...is this a collective estrus!?"
Cheng Xuqing couldn't help but let out a sigh. He had never seen such a chaotic scene.
Outside the protective shield they had set up, there was a large group of Frost Flower Rabbits gathered, and occasionally a few Snow Hidden Demon Lizards could be seen.
Stimulated by the fragrance, these monsters mated with each other without any scruples. Some of them even kept rubbing their protective shields, while some of the more irritable ones attacked the protective shields, hoping to get closer to the source of the fragrance.
Gu Shi was stunned for a moment, then he immediately realized that he couldn't let the fragrance continue to spread, otherwise they would be overwhelmed by the monsters today.
The staff in his hand lit up slightly, and Gu Shi covered the big pit burned by Cheng Xuqing with a thin layer of ice again, locking all the fragrance into the pit.
Then he blew up a strong wind, blowing all the remaining fragrance away into the distance.
Although the fragrance had disappeared, the impact on the group of monsters in front of him did not stop so quickly. Taking advantage of this time, Gu Shi hurriedly called the other two and prepared to clean up all these monsters.
Fortunately, the fragrance only lasted for a short time, and the monsters gathered here were not very powerful, so there was no big trouble in cleaning them up.
Cheng Xuqing, having completely exhausted his magic power, collapsed on the ground and said, "Huh, I'm so tired."
"Here." Zhao Zhize handed him a bottle of magic potion to restore his magic power.
Cheng Xuqing quickly waved his hands and refused, "No, no, I just drank so many potions, my stomach is still bloated."
Gu Shi buried all the corpses outside with ice and snow to prevent the smell of blood from attracting more enemies. After doing this, he turned and looked at the two people.
"Have you noticed that the combat power of the monsters just now seems to have increased to a higher level?"
Zhao Zhize nodded. "I think it's the scent. Also, some animals tend to become unusually irritable and aggressive during their mating season."
Gu Shi took another look at the ice surface he had sealed. "Now that the formation has been found, I can go down alone. You two stay up there and wait for me."
"good."
Zhao Zhize and Cheng Xuqing had no objection.
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