Chapter 389: Remains of the Zhou General (1)
They watched from sunrise to sunset, and just when everyone thought they had to wait until the next day, the fog suddenly thickened, and the howling of ghosts became looming, sometimes far away, sometimes near.
Tao Zi noticed that something in her sea of consciousness was getting restless, so she suppressed it with her spiritual sense and warned, "Now is not the time for you to take action."
The ghost reluctantly quieted down, but she could sense its eagerness to try.
At a certain moment, all sounds disappeared and the fog rushed towards them madly.
The cultivators from the three sects and four schools all moved together to intercept the thick fog. Simultaneously, the teleportation talismans in everyone's hands lit up. The Tiandao Sect's leading disciple shouted, "If you encounter danger, please use the teleportation talismans to leave the ruins. Also, if the teleportation talismans dim, your teleportation ability is gone, and you are responsible for your own survival."
Tao Zi turned the teleportation talisman in his hand. Since it was a disciple of Tiandao Sect who came forward to explain the matter, the talisman was most likely created by Tiandao Sect.
The first to enter the fog were the disciples of the three sects and four schools. They were going there to explore the way. If they found a killing array inside, they would destroy the ruins immediately. Even if they were not strong enough to destroy it, they would still list it as a forbidden area.
The moment they entered, Tao Zi keenly sensed something was wrong and sent out his out-of-body consciousness, discovering a formation on the ground that was invisible to the naked eye.
There are dim circles with numbers written on them on the formation. Every time someone enters, a circle will light up, and the light will be according to the size of the number.
Tao Zi withdrew his spiritual sense. He understood why the three sects and four schools required cultivators to enter the ruins in order. But this mortal ruin was so dangerous? Ordinary formations could not be used, and this extremely special formation was required.
Not long after, the leaders of the three sects and four schools nodded, and the disciples of the other sects stepped in in order.
Tao Zi and Li Xiu's order was in the middle, neither good nor bad. To prevent them from getting lost, she also left a temporary spiritual mark on Li Xiu.
Li Xiu’s method of preventing her from getting lost was more direct—ignoring the contemptuous looks of the other monks, he grabbed her arm, and almost had the word "fear of death" carved on his face.
The fog surrounded them, without any change, as if they had not entered the ruins, but were traveling in the fog. Occasionally, they could see monks who had entered ahead of them.
The journey was unusually quiet.
Li Xiu suddenly smelled something and wanted to speak up to remind her, but because the situation was not right, she remained silent and just drew a small "X" on Tao Zi's hand.
Tao Zi glanced at the blurry figure beside her in confusion. He continued to explore and held her wrist, writing the word "blood" on the palm of her hand.
She shuddered, but without stopping, she whispered, "Is there a smell of blood?"
Li Xiu drew a “√” on the palm of her hand.
Tao Zi took out a retractable rope from her storage ring and tied the two together. She continued to transmit a message: "If the smell of blood gets stronger or you find out where it's coming from, alert me immediately."
He nodded, but afraid that Tao Zi couldn't see it, he tapped on the palm of her hand.
The two walked forward for a while, and Li Xiu suddenly tripped and almost fell. Tao Zi supported him and stopped.
At this moment, the sound of an aircraft sounded behind her. Her ears moved and her expression immediately became gloomy. She lowered Li Xiu's body and almost fell to the ground.
Li Xiu didn't know why at first, until the aircraft pressed down on his head and flew past.
He almost exploded. Using an aircraft in such a foggy place, flying so low and so fast, was no different from taking human life lightly!
Suddenly, he paused, sniffed, and lowered his head even lower to smell the scent on the ground.
Tao Zi noticed his actions and asked in a voice transmission, "What's wrong?"
Li Xiu stood up and wrote the word "earth" on the palm of her hand.
She immediately realized: "Is the smell of blood coming from the ground?"
Li Xiu tapped on the palm of her hand.
Tao Zi frowned and bent down cautiously, but smelled nothing except the scent of soil.
She sent another voice message: "I don't smell blood."
He wrote the word "淡".
As a medical practitioner, Li Xiu is much more sensitive to the smell of blood than she is a physical practitioner who bleeds easily.
Tao Zi also knew this, so she chose to believe Li Xiu's words without hesitation.
She took out a small flying vehicle and asked Li Xiu to stand on it. It floated slowly forward, at about the same speed as the two of them walking.
Just after floating a few steps, a sound of breaking air was heard. Tao Zi immediately pressed Li Xiu down and took out the powder hammer to turn it into a shield to resist.
With a hissing sound, the thing fell to the ground. She no longer cared whether there were any mysterious creatures in the fog or whether they would be lured out by her spiritual sense. She directly extended her spiritual sense to check, but found that she could not detect it at all. She tried her spiritual power again but it did not work. It seemed that the thing was covered with some materials that could hinder the detection of spiritual sense and spiritual power.
Tao Zi frowned, put on a pair of gloves on his hands, and then added spiritual power to prevent being attacked. Then he squatted down and felt the thing from head to tail. The more he touched, the more strange it felt. Why did it look so much like an arrow?
Before she could stand up, countless whooshing sounds rang out again. She pushed Li Xiu back and directly used the defensive spiritual weapon.
Countless things that looked like arrows fell to the ground, making scattered landing sounds.
After the whooshing sound passed, she picked up one and handed it to Li Xiu, saying in a voice transmission, "Put spiritual energy on your hand and feel it to see what it looks like."
Not long after, Li Xiu wrote the word "arrow" on her hand.
Tao Zi didn't hesitate any longer. He picked up the arrows on the ground, wrapped them with spiritual energy, and continued moving forward.
After walking for a while, even she could smell the smell of blood, which was extremely strong.
Tao Zi's heart sank as she stepped down from the aircraft. The ground under her feet was no longer solid, but something soft.
This time, the spiritual sense investigation was very successful - there was a corpse under her feet, still quite fresh, with blood flowing down his chest, still bright red, but she couldn't see clearly what was stuck in his chest.
She pulled the thing out, reached out and touched it, and sure enough, it was still an arrow.
Tao Zi returned to the aircraft. Li Xiu held her hand and wrote: Is someone dead?
"Hmm," she transmitted, "He must have been killed by those arrows that suddenly appeared."
Li Xiu frowned, feeling that it was not right. Those who came in first were disciples from sects, not independent cultivators. Even if they were not strong enough, they would have magic weapons or spiritual weapons to help them. How could they not be able to block even a few arrows?
Tao Zi guessed what he was thinking and explained in a voice transmission, "They don't know what this is. They only know that they can't use their spiritual sense or spiritual energy to investigate. When faced with the unknown, they always feel fear and panic. It's normal for them to die."
He tapped her hand twice to show that he understood.
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