"Everyone, keep up. Don't fall behind," Zhan Yihan said to the people following behind him. He had originally thought that as long as he released his spiritual sense, he would be able to see the situation clearly. However, after entering this forest, he realized that the thick fog in this forest had the effect of blocking spiritual sense.
"Yes!" Everyone responded in unison. To avoid being scattered by the thick fog, they were all tied with ropes. The visibility here was so low that they couldn't even see the people in front of them clearly, let alone looking for the missing villagers.
As everyone slowly entered the depths of the dense forest, the fog became thicker and thicker, almost reaching the point of being tangible.
Zhan Yihan sensed a dangerous aura ahead and quickly stopped, shouting to the crowd behind him, "There's danger ahead, everyone, come closer." He felt as if countless pairs of eyes were watching them, but his consciousness couldn't yet detect what they were. However, he had great faith in his intuition, as it had saved him countless times before.
As everyone gathered around, Zhan Yihan raised his hand and spread out the flags, setting up a defensive formation. He had originally thought that nothing on Earth could threaten him, but now he knew he was wrong. There were still many unknown things on Earth. It's just that they rarely appeared before the world, so they were unknown to the world.
They stood back to back, their sharp eyes scanning the surroundings. Unlike ordinary soldiers, they belonged to a special unit. Each of them was a practitioner of ancient martial arts, possessing formidable strength, so the missions they carried out were extremely difficult.
When Zhan Yihan heard the sound of something hitting the wall of the formation, he knew that his guess was correct. He opened a small hole in the formation, let in a breath of air, and then immediately closed the formation.
As the aura entered the formation, Zhan Yihan realized it was a transparent insect, difficult to detect with the naked eye. If he hadn't set up the formation to block the fog, his spiritual sense would not have been able to detect its existence.
He raised his hand and grabbed the insect that entered the formation. The insect was transparent, the size of a palm, and its wings were shaped like a butterfly's wings.
"Captain, I think I hear the sound of rain." Shao Xian said. He was a late-stage Yellow Rank warrior, and his strength was above average in the team.
"It's not rain, it's the sound of insects hitting the wall of the formation." Zhan Yihan handed the insect in his hand to the crowd. "It's this kind of insect in my hand. It's completely transparent. If you don't look closely, you can't see it at all." He didn't hide his knowledge of formations from everyone. They were all members of the special forces and had some knowledge of the Five Elements Escape Technique. In addition to his ability to use formations, Xi Junrong also knew how to use formations, but his formations were different from his own and were not cultivation formations.
Everyone quickly gathered around and carefully looked at the bug in Zhan Yihan's hand.
"What kind of bug is this? If it weren't so close, I wouldn't be able to see it at all."
“Is it poisonous?”
"This is the first time I've seen this kind of bug."
"This is an ice leaf insect, a non-venomous spiritual insect, but it enjoys sucking human blood. Because its body is transparent, the person sucking its blood is completely unaware of its presence," Zhan Yihan said. In his space, there was a book titled "Realm," which recorded various spiritual insects, spiritual herbs, minerals, flames, and various materials.
"Isn't that a blood-sucking worm?" Li Sui said.
"Unlike blood-sucking worms, ice leaf worms can upgrade. For example, this one is a level one spirit worm. As long as we can spot it, catching it is easy. Once it advances to level two, its body will become more transparent and its speed will increase, making it very difficult to spot it," Zhan Yihan said solemnly. If it weren't for the fog, it would be easy for him to spot them; he only needed to use his spiritual sense.
"Then what should we do?" Xi Junrong asked. If they couldn't find them, then even if they sucked their blood, they wouldn't know.
Zhan Yihan thought for a moment and said, "You guys stay here and don't move. I'll go out and take a look at the situation." He was a cultivator. Although his spiritual sense could not be released because of the fog, it was not so easy for those ice leaf insects to get close to him.
"Captain, you must be careful," they all warned. The captain was the strongest among them, and they believed he would return safely.
Zhan Yihan nodded and slipped out of the formation. They came here to look for the missing villagers. Even if they couldn't find them, they still had to find out what was going on here.
Zhan Yihan rushed towards the depths of the forest, his figure as fast as lightning. The ice leaf insects that wanted to approach him had just discovered him and had lost sight of him before they could attack him.
After about an hour, Zhan Yihan stopped and a scene appeared in front of him that made his scalp tingle.
Not far ahead, there were densely packed ice leaf insects. Some of these ice leaf insects had just been born and were constantly wriggling their bodies, while others had already advanced to level two or three. At this moment, they were all surrounding a huge white insect.
Zhan Yihan suppressed his nausea and summoned flames, wielding them at the ice leaf insects that were attacking him. He finally understood where these ice leaf insects came from; it turned out they were all sired by this mother insect.
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