Now that the poison had been neutralized, Lan Hua stopped using internal energy and switched to breathing.
A foul stench immediately entered her nose, and Lan Hua gagged a few times, then inhaled another wisp of the stench.
"Damn, this cave stinks! I think I'll switch to using my internal energy!"
After leaving the giant serpent's lair, Lan Hua chose a clean and secluded spot, and then summoned a pile of spirit stones.
By circulating the Yin-Yang Heavenly Technique, the spiritual energy in the spirit stone quickly surged into the body and then transformed into Yuan Power, nourishing the body.
In just a short while, a pile of spirit stones had turned grayish-white, looking no different from lime.
Lan Hua's cultivation level is now very high, but the battle just now consumed a lot of her Yuan energy.
In order to replenish Yuan energy and maintain the best condition, a lot of spirit stones are consumed.
It took a full three thousand high-grade spirit stones for Lan Hua to fully recover her energy.
Looking around at the scattered corpses, Lan Hua muttered, "Including the giant snake's lair, there are no fewer than ten dead people."
There should be about twenty people who came in through this passage. This seems to be the first trial of Tianyuan Cave, and half of them have already been lost.
The reputation of Tianyuan Cave, where one narrowly escaped death nine times, is truly well-deserved!
Lan Hua looked around and saw tunnels everywhere.
Not knowing which way was the exit, I simply picked the direction I had come from and continued walking forward.
The road ahead was still winding and twisting, with many forks.
Lan Hua has lost count of how many forks in the road she has crossed and how many choices she has made.
In short, it's dozens of times more than the choices he's made over the years.
After emerging from a tunnel, the view suddenly opened up before us.
In front of Lan Hua was a relatively large space, where the sound of underground water flowing could be faintly heard.
"Run! Run!"
A shout shattered the rare tranquility.
Lan Hua frowned slightly. "Finally, we can hear voices! Judging from the sound, it's coming from ahead!"
With light steps, Lan Hua quickly moved to another cave entrance.
Upon passing through the cave entrance, a vast space came into view.
There are many pillar-like structures along the edge of the stone wall, covered by a thick layer of dust, and some taller than a person.
A figure disappeared from the distance, though the movement was somewhat stiff.
"Hmm? That's strange. Why didn't I sense any life in that figure just now?"
Lan Hua carefully examined her body and was certain that the snake venom had dissipated and her consciousness had returned to normal.
"That's really strange!"
After taking a few steps forward, I realized that this space was unusual.
In the center of the space, there was a huge pit. The pit was not deep, but four corpses lay inside.
What puzzled him was that there wasn't much blood on the corpse, and it was somewhat similar to the corpses he had encountered before.
Suddenly, a faint sound reached my ears.
The sound was rustling, like the sound of dust falling.
Lan Hua turned her head slightly and discovered that the thing she had previously regarded as a pillar had actually started to move.
With a bang, a pillar suddenly burst into a cloud of dust, obscuring Lan Hua's view.
Then a figure appeared, with lifeless eyes and thick hair.
"Huh? These short pillars are actually people!"
The man was originally dressed in white, but his clothes were now a dull gray due to the dust.
With a single step, he landed heavily, causing the ground to tremble and the dust on the ground to shake.
Lan Hua thought to herself, "Wow, that's impressive!" Then she quickly dodged back more than ten feet, widening the distance between them.
The man suddenly accelerated and struck Lan Hua with his palm. Although he could not detect a trace of life, his palm contained powerful Yuan energy.
With quick steps, Lan Hua dodged the man's attack, leaving a large crater behind her.
The cave was filled with extremely hard rock, yet it was blasted into a crater ten feet wide, demonstrating that the power of this palm strike was in no way inferior to that of a Refining Spirit Realm expert.
Suddenly, the short stone pillars behind Lan Hua also moved, and a person took off like a catapult, shooting out a white beam of light from his palm, pointing straight at Lan Hua's back.
Lan Hua thought to herself that this was never going to end, and quickly slipped away, dodging the white beam of light before rushing back to the entrance.
In just a short while, six people appeared in the spacious cave, looking like zombies.
The cave was filled with beams of light, shattering one huge rock after another. It seemed as if the entire cave was about to be destroyed by these people.
"What powerful beams of light! But who are these people? Why are they all lifeless?"
Although their movements were somewhat stiff, their Yuan energy seemed inexhaustible, and these beams of light never stopped.
What kind of cultivation technique and strength would it take to withstand such a waste of Yuan energy!
Although Lan Hua was puzzled, she maintained a distance of several dozen feet to prevent those people from getting close.
"It's time to retaliate!"
After the reconnaissance was completed, Yue Que drew his bow fully, and Lan Hua used the Triple Yangguan technique, shooting four invisible arrows at four of them.
Bang!
The invisible arrow shattered immediately after hitting the four people, scattering sparks, but the opponents were completely unharmed.
Lan Hua's expression changed slightly. "These people aren't wearing armor again, are they?"
In that brief moment of hesitation, all six of them simultaneously unleashed a barrage of hidden weapons, each resembling a needle, aimed at Lan Hua.
The hidden weapons were densely packed, like several venomous snakes, trying to engulf Lan Hua.
"Damn, they even have hidden weapons!"
Lan Hua quickly waved her right hand, and a defensive barrier appeared, blocking the first wave of hidden weapons. Then she quickly retreated and dodged.
When their hidden weapons failed, the six seemed to fly into a rage, wildly waving their arms, and white beams of light, like laser cannons, blasted towards Lan Hua.
Lan Hua's expression changed drastically. She retreated more than ten feet, dodging several white beams of light, and then fired three talisman arrows, intending to kill him with one arrow.
boom!
The opponents made no attempt to dodge; the three talisman arrows accurately struck the heads of the three men, blasting large holes in their skulls and sending up a cloud of debris.
"They're definitely going to be dead this time!"
No sooner had the thought crossed their minds than the three men, whose heads had been pierced, raised their hands again, and six beams of light blasted towards them simultaneously.
Only now, at this point in the battle, did Lan Hua understand the true situation of those people.
They were neither human nor puppets, but lifelike mechanical figures.
"Damn, how come there are mechanical figures in Tianyuan Cave? These mechanical figures are made just like real people, except they are lifeless and their eyes are dull!"
Now that she knew about the other party's situation, Lan Hua felt much more at ease.
If there are six people, they will be difficult to deal with, but if they are mechanical beings, it will be much simpler.
"The mechanical man's head was pierced, but it didn't affect its movement. It seems that the central control of the machine is most likely located between its chest and abdomen!"
Lan Hua fired three more talisman arrows, each infused with crimson lotus fire to increase their power.
boom!
The three arrows were as fast as lightning, piercing through the chests and abdomens of the three mechanical figures almost instantly, leaving a huge hole from which a bunch of small parts exploded.
Those small parts constitute the central structure of the mechanical man.
After the central control unit was destroyed, the mechanical man instantly lost power and collapsed to the ground with a thud.
The other three mechanical figures still charged towards Lan Hua, but Lan Hua pierced their chests and abdomens with three arrows, and they also fell to the ground, whereupon they made no further sound.
"What amazing mechanical arts! If it weren't for the fact that my talisman arrows have extremely strong single-point penetration power, I wouldn't have been able to kill them in a short time. Who invented this?" Lan Hua sighed.
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