Chapter 98: Ashes

With Li Weiyi's current cultivation level, he can cross the distance of fifty or sixty feet in a moment.

But being in this dimly lit, spider-web-covered, and dangerous underground spider cave, it seems extremely deep, as if you are walking step by step into a strange and dark underworld.

The mind is highly tense, the five senses are fully released, and one is alert to the feet and the surroundings.

After walking more than forty feet towards the purple Cistanche deserticola, getting closer and closer, Li Weiyi stopped and looked back.

Ten feet away, the slender figure of Hidden Twenty-four was slightly blurred, but the cold and pretty face could be seen. Further away, Yao Yin, who was standing by the Blood River, was only the size of a finger, almost completely blending into the darkness.

It’s already very far.

Further ahead is an unknown area shrouded in purple mist.

The seven Phoenix-winged Moth Kings were so powerful, but after entering, they disappeared without a trace and have not returned yet. As the master, Li Weiyi had lost touch with them.

In the center of the purple mist, the Cistanche deserticola plant was more than one meter tall, emitting a crystal-like luster and flowing colors. However, Li Weiyi no longer had any desire for its seductive posture and the medicinal fragrance it released. Instead, he felt that it was like a femme fatale who took off her clothes and showed off her enchanting beauty to the fullest, which was extremely dangerous.

Yin Twenty-Four tightened the spider rope and nodded to him.

With the support of a Five Seas Realm expert behind him, Li Weiyi felt more confident. Holding the Yellow Dragon Sword in his hand, he secretly mobilized his magic power to activate the corpse shroud and soft armor he was wearing, and then stepped into the purple mist area.

"call!"

It was as if I had stepped into the centre of a storm, my body became unstable, left the ground, and everything in my sight disappeared.

The inside of the purple mist area is not as calm as its surface, but is filled with chaotic forces.

Li Weiyi was horrified. While shouting "Pull me back", he tried to steady his body. He landed on the ground and stumbled out of the purple mist area. Then, he became dazed.

It was no longer in the spider cave.

"What is this place..."

Underfoot was extremely fine black sand, as fine as dust.

In the field of vision, the space is vast, with mounds like Yardang landforms standing tall, strange and rugged, full of wind-eroded ridges.

It is the light of purple Cistanche deserticola that illuminates this place.

A hundred feet away was the edge of the purple light, blurred by darkness. But Li Weiyi believed that there was a wider area in the darkness.

The spider rope around his waist had been broken for some reason, and he looked back suddenly. The purple mist was still shrouding the place, tumbling in the wind and sand, changing into various shapes.

"Li... Weiyi..."

A vague and distant voice sounded.

After a moment, Hidden Twenty-Four floated in the purple mist like a light leaf, and suddenly fell sideways.

Li Weiyi waved her hand and released a ray of magical energy. She quickly found her balance and floated to the ground.

When her feet touched the ground, she immediately realized that there was something wrong with the ground. It was softer than the desert, and her legs sank half a foot deep.

Release the Dharma energy.

Her body became light and her legs slowly pulled out.

After observing the surroundings, Yin Twenty-four's eyes were filled with more and more shock: "How could there be such a strange place underground around Jiuli Insect Valley? This doesn't look like the nest of the flying-winged white spider."

"Why don't you pull me back?" Li Weiyi asked.

Yin Twenty-four glared at him unhappily, his eyes wide and round: "I have tried my best to pull, but the spider rope has broken, and I can't pull it at all."

Li Weiyi realized the seriousness of the problem. While alerting his surroundings, he walked towards the purple mist and said, "You shouldn't have come in! You should take Yao Yin away and ask Yin Jun for help. I feel that this place... is..."

As soon as Li Weiyi took a step into the purple mist, he lost his balance and was swept back by an extremely chaotic and powerful force and thrown several feet away.

Yin Twenty-four exhaled a breath, which turned into a breeze and enveloped him.

Of course, she knew that what Li Weiyi said was the most correct strategy, but she said stubbornly: "I am from the Five Seas Realm. I have the responsibility and obligation to bring you back intact."

After Li Weiyi landed and stood still, a look of fear appeared in his eyes. He pointed at the purple mist, as if saying, "You are from the Five Seas Realm, then come here."

Yin Twenty-Four had the bearing of a strong man. He released powerful magical energy from his palms and strode towards the purple mist, using his palms to clear a path, trying to forcibly tear open a way out.

But the magical energy in her palms dissipated into nothingness as soon as it touched the purple mist.

The stronger the force, the stronger the reaction force.

“Bang!”

Yin Twenty-four flew back and fell heavily to the ground. It was too late for Li Weiyi to catch her.

Her slender body was almost completely submerged in the black sand. After a while, she finally crawled out again, looking extremely disheveled, with dust all over her face, her hair in a loose bun, and her waist-length hair hanging down in a mess.

Yin Twenty-Four quickly adjusted himself and resumed his arrogant demeanor as a master: "Be careful of the black sand on the ground. If you don't use your energy to lift your feet and body, you will be buried by it and fall deep underground, suffocating to death."

Li Weiyi had already noticed this, and he used his magical power to look far into the distance, saying, "This place doesn't look like it was formed naturally, and there may be unpredictable dangers. I just hope that Yao Yin can be smarter and quickly return to the Hidden Gate for help."

“Wow!”

The purple mist began to surge again.

Yao Yin, dressed in a white cloud-like robe, fell down from inside.

Li Weiyi closed his eyes and sighed.

Yin Twenty-four immediately stepped forward and said angrily, "What are you doing here? We are both trapped. You should leave the spider cave immediately and ask Yin Jun for help."

Ignoring the two women behind him, Li Weiyi searched around and found seven Phoenix-winged Moth Kings.

The seven of them flew around a wind-eroded column six or seven meters high, happily gnawing at the sand on it. Li Weiyi was puzzled and used telekinesis to communicate with them, but received a terrifying response that made his heart shudder.

They said they were eating the precious medicine Cistanche.

But that purple Cistanche deserticola plant was clearly dozens of feet away...

What they eat is clearly the sand on the wind-eroded columns.

Li Weiyi's scalp was numb and cold sweat broke out on his back. He quickly used his telekinesis to tell them the truth, but it was useless. The seven phoenix-winged moth kings firmly believed that they were taking the precious medicine.

"Not good...ah, this place is very dangerous!"

Li Weiyi's voice trembled, and he wanted to rush over to bring back the seven Phoenix-winged Moth Kings, but just after taking a step forward, he immediately retracted his foot, fearing to follow in their footsteps.

So, he mobilized his telekinesis, carved insect characters, and forced them to come back.

The seven phoenix-winged moths had their insect patterns flickering in their bodies. They were unable to resist Li Weiyi, whose telekinesis had reached the level of "Bright Flame in a Square Inch", and they flapped their wings and flew back. But just as they flew to Li Weiyi's side, they fell to the ground, their bellies bulging like balls, and they were hard to pinch.

Yin Ershisi and Yao Yin had already come behind Li Weiyi, and naturally discovered the strange situation before. They were scared and just wanted to escape immediately.

"Hurry up and leave!"

Li Weiyi put the seven Phoenix-winged Moth Kings into the insect tube, rushed towards the purple mist, activated the Yellow Dragon Sword, and slashed at it.

Yin Ershishi and Yao Yin also used their own methods to exert their strength.

Unfortunately, instead of opening a path, the area covered by the purple mist became smaller and smaller after the attack, and finally disappeared.

"What's going on?"

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Li Weiyi rushed forward, first swinging his sword, then waving his hands. The area where the purple mist was before became empty. His face was extremely ugly: "There is no way out now!"

Yao Yin squatted down and studied the fine dust and black sand on the ground: "Sister, do you think this could be an ash area?"

Hidden Twenty-Four had already noticed this and said solemnly, "Maybe, but how is this possible? This is underground. The books record that the smallest ash region is hundreds of miles wide."

"What Ash Region?" Li Weiyi asked.

Yao Yin said: "I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but I have read in books that there are six or seven such mysterious places in Lingxiao Habitat. In these mysterious places, life has disappeared and dangers are lurking everywhere, so each ash area is also called the Ash Hell."

"According to records, the largest and most dangerous ash region is located west of the Western Territory. It is tens of thousands of miles wide and cannot be crossed by human power. Legend has it that it is the remains left by an ancient immortal who burned a habitat."

"Look at the sand on the ground. Does it look like the ash from burning grass and trees? It's too soft. If we don't use the magic energy to support our bodies, we will sink deeper into the ground little by little."

Li Weiyi didn't have much idea about the Ash Region, but he knew how dangerous the current situation was. He said, "With our cultivation level, I'm afraid we won't be able to release our magic energy all the time. We must find a way out as soon as possible."

Yin Twenty-four looked up and spit out a wisp of magic mist bridge from his mouth. He twisted his slender waist, jumped up, stepped on the mist bridge, and went to find the top of this ash area.

She rushed up dozens of feet high, then fell back and was caught by the magical energy released by Li Weiyi.

"How about it?"

She shook her head, feeling heavy-hearted: "I can't see the top. I can't use common sense to figure this out."

Li Weiyi pondered for a moment, took out the ghost flag, unfolded it and placed it on the ground, and sat on it to cushion the natural sinking of his body. He closed his eyes and used his telekinesis to ask the three masters in the blood mud space for advice.

The three elders were knowledgeable and experienced, which was far beyond the reach of the two fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls.

A master of the Five Seas Realm cannot be relied upon when faced with real danger.

Master Coffin said, "I don't know much about the Hidden Gate, but I didn't know there was such a strange place hidden there. From what you've described, it does look like the Ashes Region."

"The dangers in the Ash Region are numerous and bizarre. It is hard to guess what happened to the seven Phoenix-winged Moth Kings. However, it is nothing more than some mysterious force from the outside world interfering with their consciousness."

"You can try using your unique breathing method to make your consciousness clear and free from external influences."

The spiritual master said: "You can also try using telekinesis! I will teach you a telepathic technique that can cultivate a spiritual eye."

Master Guan said: "If you shine the golden veins, you may be able to find out the evil. As long as the Yang Qi is strong enough, you will be immune to all evil."

It would have been better if Master Guan hadn't mentioned it. When he did, Li Weiyi suddenly remembered that it had been nearly four months since the Six Desires Talisman was planted on him. He had never gotten the pill that Yin Jun mentioned.

No one knows when the Six Desires Talisman will explode.

It would be very troublesome to be stuck in this damn place forever.

Master Guan said: "Since you can get in, you must have a way out. The key is that you have to figure out the layout here first. I feel like this ash area is artificially created."

Li Weiyi's mental power withdrew from the blood mud space and glanced at the two women who were trying various methods to find a way out several feet away. They should not have noticed that the Taoist Tai Chi Fish had just been activated.

"There is some food stored inside the evil camel bell, but if three of them eat it, I'm afraid it won't last for a few days."

He cleared all distracting thoughts and began to practice the spiritual eye meditation technique taught by his spiritual master.

After about three hours, Yin Ershisi and Yao Yin had tried every possible way, not to mention finding a way out, their internal energy was completely used up. They had no choice but to sit on the ghost flag and practice breathing techniques to recover.

“Wow!”

Li Weiyi pinched his fingers together, raised them above his head, and then slowly lowered them from his brows.

The bright spiritual fire emanated from the center of the eyebrows and condensed into a golden eye.

According to the senior spirit, this is a Taoist skill called "Heavenly Eyes", which is completely different from the ordinary great mind master's eyes. Even if it is just a beginner, it can break through illusions, penetrate the gauze, and observe the subtle and traces.

It was her unique skill! With this unique skill, she defeated the coffin master in the art of opening the coffin, thus forming a bond and a marriage.

Li Weiyi peered into the distance with the eye between his eyebrows, and saw golden light shining in all directions. He saw that the wind-eroded earth mounds that looked like the Yadan landform were shifted in position, like two worlds stacked together.

There is no doubt that one of the two worlds is real and the other is fake.

He immediately stood up and quickly took off his upper body robe, revealing his strong and beautiful muscle lines.

“Wow! Wow…”

Golden veins appeared beneath the skin, interweaving like a group of dragons, wandering throughout the body and illuminating the surroundings.

Yin Twenty-four was startled, sitting on the ghost flag, looking up, her eyes filled with surprise and indescribable shock. She always considered herself to be a top genius, and after reaching the Five Seas Realm, she looked down upon the younger generation, and few people could catch her eye.

But Li Weiyi, who was standing beside her, was only at the Eight Springs Realm, but the divine aura that emanated from him was not inferior to that of a Wuhai Realm martial artist or a great mind master. She suspected that once Li Weiyi broke through to the Nine Springs Realm, he would be able to compete with her with his strength.

Yao Yin's eyes sparkled, not disguising her amazement and admiration. Li Weiyi's body was like a sculpture created by gods themselves, not only full of beauty, but also a masculine charm that could absorb people's souls.

(End of this chapter)