“This temple looks like a strange fish,” Bi Linglong said after observing it for a while. “But are there fish this big in the world?”
“There are some, like giant whales.” Zuan looked at the strange temple and felt that it was even larger than the largest blue whale in his previous life.
“Huh, could this be…” came Mi Li’s puzzled voice.
Zu'an hurriedly said, "Queen Master, why have you developed the habit of only saying half of what you mean? Is it something?"
Mi Li shook her head: "Let's go and see, to verify if it's the judgment I have in mind."
Zuan was about to ask another question when Bi Linglong suddenly exclaimed in surprise. A zombie-like hand suddenly emerged from beside her feet and tightly grabbed her ankle.
Bi Linglong, being a sixth-rank cultivator, exclaimed in surprise and immediately slashed with her sword. However, almost simultaneously, more hands emerged from the ground and grabbed her feet. Moreover, the ground became muddy and slippery, like a swamp. She lost her balance and was about to fall to the ground.
Fortunately, Zuan reacted quickly, catching her and then severing the arms around her feet, carrying her several feet backward and back to solid ground.
"What was that just now?" Bi Linglong looked over there with lingering fear. She saw that a large area of land had become muddy and slippery. It turned out that it was not solid ground at all, but a swamp.
Countless arms stretched out from the swamp, grabbing wildly into the air, as if trying to drag any passing creature into the abyss.
Seeing this, her face paled even more; girls are naturally afraid of ghosts and monsters.
“I don’t know, they look like some kind of undead creatures,” Zaun said in a deep voice.
Just as Bi Linglong was about to say something, she suddenly frowned, bent over in pain, and covered her calves where cold sweat poured down.
Zuan squatted down beside her and slightly lifted her skirt, revealing several charred handprints on her smooth, fair calves.
Bi Linglong was feeling somewhat embarrassed and uncomfortable when a man lifted her skirt, but her expression changed when she saw the black handprints.
"This is formed from the resentment between heaven and earth. This resentment will devour living beings, and even just touching it will cause great harm to the body." Zu An repeated Mi Li's words.
"Ah, how do we get over there?" Bi Linglong's face was pale. This swamp was already extremely difficult to traverse, let alone with so many vengeful spirits below.
She wasn't too worried about the marks on her body; the poisoning wasn't too severe yet, and she could still hold on. The key issue was that they couldn't move forward or retreat. If the emperor caught up, the two of them would only face certain death.
However, she never expected that Zhao Ruizhi and his group had taken a different path and were now in big trouble.
They had seen the vast desert before them, but Zhao Ruizhi did not hesitate at all and led the large group into it. Such a vast desert might be a forbidden zone for ordinary people, but it was nothing to them, the cultivators.
However, trouble arose as they ventured deeper into the desert.
A rustling sound came from below. At first, it was intermittent and no one paid much attention to it. But later, the sound grew louder and louder, and many of the sounds came from under their feet.
He Li was already troubled by the strange flower inside his body, so upon seeing this, he simply slammed his palm onto the ground.
The sounds immediately subsided. Some of the assassins from the Prince Qi's mansion dug through the sand and found that many black scorpions had been killed by the shockwave.
One by one, they praised He Li's palm strike for its power, but Zhao Ruizhi frowned and stared intently at the scorpions.
These scorpions are unlike any other scorpions in the world. They are three to four times larger than ordinary scorpions, and their entire bodies are an eerie black, a shiny black.
In that instant, the corpses of the black scorpions suddenly turned into wisps of black smoke and dissipated.
The warriors of Prince Qi's mansion were all stunned. What was going on?
"Watch out!" Zhao Ruizhi's expression suddenly changed slightly, because a rustling sound, even louder than before, came from all around. The sand around them began to churn, as if something was swimming inside.
Everyone in the Prince Qi's mansion drew their weapons in preparation, clearly showing their considerable fear of this unknown danger.
Immediately afterwards, sand began to spray out from the surrounding area, quickly piling up higher and higher, forming small sand dunes like termite nests. Then, with a "poof," countless black scorpions emerged and swarmed towards the group.
The warriors of the Qi Prince's mansion were shocked and quickly brandished their weapons to defend themselves. At the same time, various elemental abilities flew out. Normally, they would have had no problem dealing with the swarm of scorpions, but these scorpions were too strange. They seemed to be immune to many elemental attacks. In addition, with their boundless power, people were soon stung by the scorpions and immediately let out extremely shrill screams, rolling around on the ground.
These people were all handpicked assassins; they wouldn't even flinch at ordinary injuries. The fact that they were screaming so miserably shows just how painful it must have been for them to be stung by these black scorpions.
Zhao Ruizhi snorted, and a golden light spread out from him. The black scorpions that came into contact with the golden light instantly turned into black smoke and disappeared.
The dense swarm of black scorpions around them was wiped out in an instant.
He Li's eyes widened. He thought to himself that the emperor's power always exceeded his expectations. If I were a woman, I might have fallen in love with him. What's wrong with the Crown Princess? She actually ran off with a pretty boy.
Zhao Ruizhi said calmly, "Treat his injuries and continue on your way."
His first thought was to leave the wounded here to avoid becoming a burden, but as a superior, he understood that if morale collapsed, there would be no point in leading these people.
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