When the black-clothed teenager Zhang Wei was defeated head-on by Li Shiyin, the red-clothed young woman Zhang Yan also brought ten Jindan cultivators into the Earth-shaped Gate and the formation space.
As soon as you enter this formation space, you will see a lush green forest. The trees are lush and green, and the vines are entwined, as if you have returned to the primeval forest.
Zhang Yan looked up and saw dense branches and leaves. She couldn't see the sky. She wondered what was above the trees. She flew up and saw nothing above the trees. It was a formation barrier.
She landed on the ground and looked around again, discovering that although the place was full of life, there were only trees and vines, and no monsters, animals or other living creatures.
There are only plants in the forest, no animals, no wind, and no sound. The forest is full of vitality but also has a weird sense of death.
Zhang Yan took out the sword and slashed forward. The dense sword energy of petals came out from the sword and cut down more than ten large trees at once.
"The wood is very hard, not just any other tree." She said to the Jindan monk behind her, "This is a forest created by the monks using magic."
Such a large forest was created by magic, how powerful must that monk be?
Plus this weird atmosphere...
Several Jindan cultivators looked at each other and felt uneasy and dangerous.
A shirtless man asked, "Are we going deeper into the forest?"
"How can we kill people and break the formation if we don't go in?" Zhang Yan asked.
Zhang Yan was originally a sword cultivator with wood spiritual roots, so she was actually quite comfortable here. In addition, she was a Yuanying cultivator, so she had nothing to fear.
But when the shirtless man looked at the thick trees and vines in front of him, the scene of them moving automatically emerged in his mind, and he felt that this forest was actually the mouth of a giant beast that would choose its prey and devour people.
He swallowed and said, "Why not think about the strategy here?"
Zhang Yan looked him up and down and sneered, "I see you are so strong, you must be a physical cultivator. Why are you so timid and afraid of death?"
"I mean, it's really dangerous to go in rashly." The man turned around, looked at the formation barrier and suggested, "Why don't we just bombard the formation barrier and break the formation from the inside."
"Why don't you guess why you don't bombard the formation from the outside, but instead take the time and effort to let us in to kill the people guarding the formation?" Zhang Yan asked.
Why?
Because the cost outweighs the gain.
It takes too much energy and time to break the formation violently from the outside. It is more efficient to follow the formation master's method of breaking the formation.
The shirtless man understood this, but he looked at the barrier of the formation, a wall covered with vines, and guessed, "Maybe it won't be that difficult to break the formation from the inside."
"Do you know who set up the formation?" Zhang Yan asked.
The shirtless man naturally knew.
As soon as Zhang Yan finished speaking, the bloody storm in Zhishen Valley that day appeared in his mind unconsciously. His sturdy body couldn't help but pause, and he whispered: "Qin Ran."
“Would someone like Qin Ran… leave you such an obvious flaw?” Zhang Yan sneered and stepped forward with her sword in hand.
The shirtless man remained silent.
The other nine Jindan stage cultivators thought about it for a while and decided to follow him up.
But in reality...
If there was enough time, Qin Ran would not have left such a loophole. However, they did not have enough time, and the formation was not actually set up.
The trapping array, teleportation array, and illusion array have not been set up yet.
There was no trap, which meant they could indeed break the formation from the inside;
There was no teleportation array, so there was no formation guarding people gathering together to deal with the enemy in each array space;
Without the illusion array, the array changes become less and more monotonous, defending the array becomes more difficult, and there are more casualties.
A person's name is like a tree's shadow. They were frightened by Qin Ran.
After walking deep into the forest for a long time, they did not encounter any unusual figures, but they just couldn't find anyone.
Stepping on a bunch of thorns, Zhang Yan looked forward and saw the shadowy trees again.
"How long have we been walking?" she asked aloud.
"Tea time." someone answered.
"Is there no one at this exit?" the shirtless man asked curiously.
"It shouldn't happen... be careful!" the man said hurriedly reminding.
In front of Zhang Yan, a vine as thick as an arm quietly slid down from the tree and bound towards her.
But she was a Nascent Soul cultivator, so she raised her sword and easily cut the vine.
"Looks like there's someone here." She smiled.
But the next moment, the broken vine came towards her again. The vitality of the vine was extremely strong, and it grew more than ten meters in an instant.
While this vine was attacking Zhang Yan, the big trees behind her and next to the ten Jindan cultivators suddenly moved. They pulled out roots and branches, and more than a dozen old trees, either tied or pulled, attacked them.
Upon seeing this, the ten Jindan monks hurriedly used their own skills, each dealing with one or two trees, and finally solved them all.
Zhang Yan followed the vine and pulled it out by the roots. She held it to the side with a sword and said with a smile, "We didn't make a move just now, but now we are making a move. This means that we are almost at the place where the cultivator guarding the gate of life is."
She reminded again, "Be careful."
Having said that, she continued walking forward.
After she walked a few steps, a tree next to her suddenly split open in the middle, like a giant beast opening its bloody mouth and swallowing her in one bite.
The tree cracked without any warning, which scared Zhang Yan. She swung her sword and cut the cracked tree into two pieces.
"How scary!" She was so frightened that she chopped down the tree several times with her sword. The petals and sword energy flew out and turned the tree into sawdust.
Seeing her behavior, the monks behind her were all nervous. What a terrifying female monk. She looked even more ferocious and terrifying than the tree.
One of the pretty female monks patted her chest quietly and continued walking forward.
but……
As soon as she took a step, she suddenly felt a pain under her foot. She looked down hurriedly and saw that her foot, including her shoe, was pierced through by the grass under her feet!
Grass?!
"Ah!" She couldn't help but scream in pain and quickly lifted her foot.
As her feet were lifted up, the green grass was also pulled up by the roots, piercing her soles and following her.
"What is this?!" she asked anxiously.
The others looked at her and were stunned when they saw that her foot was pierced by the grass.
Got your foot pierced by grass?
One of the monks reacted a little faster. He came to his senses and walked towards the female monk to look over. However, he had just taken a step when he also screamed in pain.
Looking down, he saw that his feet were also pierced by the grass!
"Stand still!" Zhang Yan shouted in time.
She bent down and pulled up a piece of grass, tried it, and found that the grass had become extremely sharp at some point, and its hardness was comparable to that of a low-grade magic weapon.
This kind of grass is all over the forest. It was fine and soft when I walked here before, but it suddenly became hard and sharp when I got here.
Trees, grass, she looked around and the whole forest was filled with these things.
She vaguely felt that something was wrong.
"This grass is everywhere and it's a little difficult to clear," she said. "We just fly and don't have to land on the ground."
There was no better solution for the moment, so they had no choice but to do this.
The two Jindan monks whose feet were pierced by the grass had to consider themselves unlucky. They pulled out the grass with great pain and applied some medicinal powder to get the matter over with.
The grass was just sharp, there was nothing else to it. They just felt pain for a moment, but their injuries did not heal quickly, so it did not affect their subsequent actions much.
Flying in the air and continuing to explore the forest, the shirtless man suddenly looked down and saw that the grass below was densely packed. Thinking of the two Taoist friends whose feet were pierced, the grass was so sharp that the grass tips made him feel a little hairy. He said:
"Fortunately, it's just on the ground and won't be launched, otherwise it would be quite troublesome."
As soon as he said this, the others immediately felt something was wrong. They all looked down and saw...
“Swish, swish, swish…”
All the grass leaves on the ground were shot out, shooting towards them in the air like needles and flying swords.
The entire clearing in the forest was covered with this kind of grass, densely packed together, shooting towards them as if it were endless.
Fortunately, they were all Jindan cultivators. The grass was only sharp, with a hardness close to that of a low-grade magic weapon, and average speed. They could easily destroy the grass leaves or blow them away. This grass did not pose any danger to them except for the two unlucky guys at the beginning.
Although……
They've always been there, just as disgusting as mosquitoes.
After flying for a while, the shirtless man exclaimed, "This grass doesn't have much killing power, but if we add those vines and trees, it will be a bit troublesome."
As soon as he finished speaking, the whole team suddenly stopped moving.
"An?" He was stunned for a moment.
"Can you please shut up?!!!" Zhang Yan couldn't help it and scolded.
Just then, the trees and vines around them moved.
It wasn't just one tree or one vine that moved. It was everything, all the plants around them, that moved.
The vines were like whips, some trees waved their roots, and some trees waved their branches, like spears and whips, all attacking them!
These trees are not so bad. They are not hard enough and their attack speed is not fast enough. They can face them calmly and break them with magic.
The problem is…
If branches were gone, they would grow back quickly; if vines were broken, they would regenerate quickly. They could only kill the plants completely by uprooting them.
And there is another question...
Now, it seemed, as if all the trees in the forest, all the plants in the forest, would attack them.
It seemed as if the guardian of this space deliberately waited until they reached the middle of the forest before manipulating all the plants.
While clearing the grass leaves flying from the ground and dealing with the attacks from the surrounding plants, these Jindan monks were strong enough and had enough energy left to continue searching in the forest.
The pretty female monk cast a spell and flew with the team. They flew over a dilapidated bush that looked like it was made of piled leaves. Suddenly, the leaves split open, revealing a huge flower. The petals opened at a very fast speed, like a spring, and swallowed her in one gulp.
"Save me!" She was terrified and shouted. Magic power surged throughout her body and the spell exploded, instantly blowing the flower into pieces. She emerged from the flower plant intact.
The others turned around and saw her coming out of the flower.
"There are also flowers!" She said in shock, gasping for breath.
"Flowers?" The shirtless man broke a branch with his fist and frowned, "Speaking of flowers, do you smell the fragrance of flowers?"
"What?!" Zhang Yan was shocked when she heard that. She suddenly remembered that this formation was set up by Qin Ran. What Qin Ran did in Zhishen Valley was using two kinds of terrifying poisons.
Is it possible that this forest is poisonous! ?
Some things are strange. When people are not aware of them, they don't exist. Once people think of them, they exist immediately.
When the shirtless man had not mentioned the fragrance of the flower, no one would have thought of poison. If they had not thought of poison, they would not have felt that the circulation of their qi, blood and magic power had slowed down.
It’s really poisonous!
They quickly confirmed the worst news.
It's not poisonous now, it has been poisonous since the beginning, and the amount of poison has always been very low, so low that they cannot detect it.
It was not until now, when they had poisoning reactions, that they realized it was really poisonous.
After entering the forest, they have been tortured continuously. Although each time is just like a mosquito bite, very slight, they slowly found that the torture is escalating. Now, they need to deal with the endless grass leaves under their feet, the endless trees and vines in the forest, the occasional carnivorous plants and the ubiquitous poison in the air.
They suddenly felt tortured and exhausted.
After taking the detoxification pills distributed by Zhishengu, they continued to deal with the forest.
The shirtless man pulled up three giant trees in a row, cleared a clear area, frowned, and sighed, "I've been here for so long, and I've been fighting trees all the time. Aren't there ten Jindan, twenty foundation-building, and a powerful cultivator guarding the formation? Where are all the people?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Yan couldn't help but slap her forehead and sighed, "It's over."
The clear-eyed female monk cast a spell and broke a branch with a slap. She hurried forward, gathered strength in her hands, and chopped the tree off with one blow.
But at the moment the tree broke...
"Chi-ying!"
A sword light suddenly appeared from the broken tree and hit the beautiful female monk, splitting her in half!
"Thief!"
Seeing this, the quick-reacting monk activated his magic power and slashed through the air with a magic blade.
But after the sword light appeared, the cultivator in the broken tree drilled into the tree and disappeared.
The Jindan monk is still full of vitality, and the pretty female monk is not dead yet.
But...it's almost the same.
In such an environment, no one could care about her. Even the monk who was quick to react and cared about her, he only left a magic shield for her to protect her from piecing her body together.
Then they had to deal with the mosquito-like attacks from the forest.
"ah!!"
The shirtless man couldn't help it anymore. He went crazy, his muscles bulged, and all his strength burst out. He rushed forward and punched each tree one by one. He threw more than a thousand punches in a row, smashing thousands of trees and clearing a large open space.
"You rat! If you're brave enough, come out and fight me head-on!" He stood in front of a big tree, raised his fists and roared to the sky, "What kind of hero is it to hide your head and show your tail?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a sword energy burst out from the tree in front of him.
"It's you I've been waiting for!"
The shirtless man grinned grimly and clapped his palms, hitting the sword energy, which was directly turned into powder by him. He took a step forward, came to the big tree, and punched it, smashing the tree into pieces. The Daojianmen disciple who didn't have time to slip away was knocked out by his punch and fell under another tree, spitting out large mouthfuls of blood.
But the Daojian Sect member looked at him with a cold smile, then turned around and hid in the tree behind him.
“Ahhh…”
The shirtless man was so angry that he continued to rush forward, intending to smash the tree to pieces.
But as soon as he exerted force, he suddenly felt weak inside his body, causing him to stagger and trip over his left foot, falling flat on his face.
"?"
What’s going on!
He was very puzzled. He was a physical cultivator and a Jindan cultivator. How could he be weak and powerless?
But when he tried to get up again, he found that he had no strength in his hands.
Only then did he look inside his body...
His energy, blood, and magic power became like porridge, sticky and unable to flow.
He was poisoned, deeply poisoned.
Zhishengu's detoxification pills were completely useless. In addition, he had just attacked with all his strength without any regard for anything else, and his magic power, energy and blood were running at full speed, which accelerated the poison's attack on him.
This poison won't kill him, and as long as he is given time to recuperate, he will recover quickly.
But when he tried his best to turn over, he saw that the trees he had just cleared were growing back at a clearly visible speed.
He didn't have time to despair, because beneath him, the tips of grass were pressing against the skin of his back.
The grass is growing.
Soon, the grass penetrated his body and grew out of him.
Jindan stage cultivators have strong vitality, so he is still alive. But it is almost over.
Zhang Yan brought in ten Jindan monks. As these ten monks stayed in the forest longer, they encountered more and more strange things, and their number decreased. In the end, she was the only one left.
She still saw the guardian who was guarding this formation space.
She used all her magic power to the fullest and used all her strength to stimulate her sword energy. Her petal sword energy was like a butterfly, fluttering towards the entire formation space with her as the center. The petal sword energy cut off all the trees, all the grass, and all the flowers, clearing all the trees in this formation space. Finally, at the very center of the formation space, she saw them.
Yao Qingke sat on the throne made of woven green vines like a queen, with her natal magic weapon on her finger, the green ring glowing. Behind her, thirty green vines of different sizes stretched out like tentacles, and on each of them stood a disciple of Daojian Sect.
They all looked down at Zhang Yan, a powerful Nascent Soul cultivator, as if they were looking at a lamb to be slaughtered.
The poison was so severe that the magic power in her body was too sticky to circulate. Zhang Yan, who was physically and mentally exhausted by the torture of the forest, really did not have much strength to resist.
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