Chapter 1190 Endless Desert
"boom--!"
The space crack shook violently the moment Luo Li entered, then quickly collapsed and closed.
All that was left was a mess in the center of the courtyard, and the heart-pounding spatial fluctuations and biting coldness lingering in the air.
Deep in the endless desert.
The sky here is always lead gray, so depressing that it makes people breathless.
The air was filled with a thick, insoluble, foul demonic aura, like a sticky black fog, constantly eroding the vitality of all living things.
The earth was a dead black gravel, with the occasional huge, twisted skeleton half-buried in the sand, emitting a stench of decay.
In the distance, one can vaguely see the outlines of some ancient ruins that have been corroded beyond recognition by demonic energy. They are like the remains of a giant beast, telling an ominous story.
Luo Li's figure stumbled out from a forcibly torn space crack, stirring up a cloud of black sand when she landed.
Even though she was prepared, the aftermath of the spatial turbulence still caused her blood to boil.
What made her uncomfortable was the ubiquitous demonic energy. Like maggots in her tarsal bones, they frantically tried to drill into her protective spiritual shield, bringing waves of chill and corrosive stinging pain.
Sun Devourer said solemnly, "The aura here... is definitely the ancient battlefield where the gods and demons fought!"
Zhaixing also frowned: "The evil energy here has not dissipated after such a long time. The power of Zhaixing Plate is only at the Supreme Saint Lord level now. It can't eliminate all the evil energy. You have to be careful."
"Cough cough..." Luo Li quickly stabilized her body, and the Chaos Jade formed a more condensed layer of translucent white light film on the surface of her body, forcibly isolating most of the demonic energy.
The first thing she looked at was the Star Picking Plate in her hand.
The star pointer on the disk still pointed firmly to the deeper part of the desert, but the light seemed much dimmer than when it was not leaving the city, as if suppressed by the thick demonic energy.
The pale golden soul trajectory that came from the fate plate and represented Ah Ming also became extremely weak and intermittent here, like a candle in the wind.
"It turns out that I've been seriously disturbed..." Luo Li frowned, her heart sinking.
The effectiveness of the Star-Picking Plate is greatly reduced here. It can only provide a vague direction and cannot accurately locate.
She tried to sense Ah Ming's breath, but her consciousness was immediately blocked and distorted by the sticky demonic energy. All she got back was chaos and silence, as well as some disgusting breath lurking deep in the demonic energy.
"What a damn place!" Luo Li cursed softly. Without hesitation, she immediately followed the direction indicated by the Star Picking Plate and rushed away using her skills.
She was moving extremely fast, her figure like a silver lightning flying close to the ground under the dim sky. The black sand under her feet was pushed away by the powerful energy, forming two long sand waves.
The deeper you go, the thicker the demonic energy becomes and the greater the pressure becomes.
The air began to smell faintly of blood, mixed with sulfur and some kind of rotten stench.
Luo Li's heartbeat was getting faster and faster, and the smell of blood... made her extremely uneasy.
Suddenly, her steps stopped abruptly!
A set of footprints suddenly appeared on the black sand not far ahead!
The footprints were deeply sunken in the sand. The strides were large, yet appeared messy and staggering, obviously left by an injured person who had trudged through the sand with great difficulty.
What made Luo Li's pupils shrink even more was that the edge of the footprint was stained with a glaring dark red color that had not yet been completely absorbed by the black sand!
It's fresh blood!
How is that possible!
Luo Li's voice was filled with disbelief and doubt, and it seemed particularly abrupt in this dead silent desert.
Fresh blood!
In the depths of this endless desert where the demonic energy is so dense that it can corrode ordinary creatures in an instant and even Saint King-level strongmen can only withstand it for a short time, how could there be fresh blood that has not yet been completely assimilated and devoured by the demonic energy?
unless……
Luo Li's heart sank suddenly, and the worst possibility instantly gripped her.
Unless the owner of this blood possesses enough power to counter the evil spirit in this place, or... this blood itself is some kind of trap!
She immediately looked around vigilantly, the power of chaos surging in her body, and the white light film on her body surface suddenly thickened, isolating the evil energy that tried to penetrate from her.
At the same time, she moved her fingertips slightly, and a strand of purer chaotic power quietly flowed into the Moon-Swallowing Pot at her waist.
A warm, dark blue glow appeared on the delicate body of the pot, rippling out like water waves, forming a second, stronger protective shield that pushed away the surrounding sticky demonic energy by about a foot.
The ever-present feeling of cold and erosion was suddenly alleviated a lot.
"Be careful!" Shiri's voice echoed in her sea of consciousness, with an unprecedented solemnity. "This blood... is not right! It's too active. Although the remaining aura is weak, it is definitely not ordinary!"
Zhaixing also added, "The Zhaixing Disk's sensing is severely disrupted by this dense demonic energy and unknown forces, making it unable to completely lock onto its target. However... the direction of this bloodstain seems to partially overlap with the path of the faint light band you previously tracked, pointing towards Emperor Xuanming's soul!"
coincide?
Luo Li's eyes were fixed on the set of footprints on the sand, stained with dark red blood, staggering towards the deeper darkness.
Her breathing was slightly rapid.
Reason told her that this was most likely a trap, a bait from the Demon Temple or some unknown existence in the desert.
But emotions... Ah Ming's weak soul sense and the glaring fresh bloodstains in front of her pointing in the same direction were like two red-hot needles, piercing her heart fiercely.
"This bloodstain is too strange, we must go and take a look." A resolute cold light flashed in Luo Li's eyes.
Whether it is a trap or hope, since it has come, she must chase it!
If you stay here and hesitate, you will only be swallowed up by the increasingly powerful demonic energy and the potential dangers.
She no longer hesitated, and her figure turned into a faster stream of light, rushing along the bloody footprints.
Her spiritual consciousness condensed into a line, like the most precise probe, extending forward with difficulty in the violent turbulence of demonic energy, capturing any fluctuations of Emperor Xuanming's breath, while being alert to every abnormal movement in the surrounding environment.
The desert scenery became even more eerie and depressing.
The huge, riddled rocks eroded by demonic energy were crawling on the ground like twisted monsters.
A subtle whistling sound, like the whisper of a ghost, began to appear in the air; it was extremely pure demonic energy flowing.
The black sand under my feet became unusually soft, as if something strange was lurking underneath.
The bloodstains were intermittent, sometimes clear, sometimes covered by wind and sand, but the direction always pointed firmly to the core of the desert.
Luo Li was forced to slow down. She needed to distinguish the traces more carefully while resisting the increasingly strong pressure of demonic energy.
The light shield of the Moon-Swallowing Pot was holding on steadily, but Luo Li could feel the consumption of her own strength increasing rapidly.
I don’t know how long I tracked him, but the scene ahead suddenly changed.
A huge stone forest composed of rugged black rocks appeared in the field of vision.
Deep in the stone forest, the remains of an ancient building half-buried under the black sand can be vaguely seen, exuding an even more ancient and ominous atmosphere.
And the bloody footprints were disappearing at the entrance of the stone forest.
What made Luo Li's heart even more nervous was that on a relatively clean black rock near the entrance of the stone forest, she saw a small piece of dark red blood stain that had obviously just dripped and had not yet completely solidified!
Next to the bloodstain, there was a half-blurred palm print with traces of struggle!
"A Ming..." Luo Li's heartbeat almost burst out of her chest.
She was so familiar with the shape of this palm print!
She immediately rushed into the stone forest.
The jagged rocks obscured the already dim skylight, and the evil spirit seemed to have substance here, like black mist flowing between the cracks in the rocks.
The stars on the star plate were almost completely dim, and could only barely indicate a rough direction.
Luo Li pushed her spiritual sense to its limit, sensing and calling out in a low voice, "Emperor Xuanming!"
Her voice echoed in the empty and eerie stone forest, with only the whimpering of demonic energy in response.
Suddenly, she stopped in her tracks!
At a narrow rock crevice bend ahead, her spiritual sense caught a very faint, yet extremely familiar breath fluctuation!
The fluctuation was fleeting, as fast as an illusion, but Luo Li would never mistake the unique soul mark of Emperor Xuanming contained in it!
"This way!" Luo Li rushed in that direction without hesitation.
Just as she was about to turn around the huge strange rock——
"call out!"
A black shadow as fast as a ghost, wrapped in a thick and deadly demonic aura, shot out silently from the shadow behind her!
The target was directly at her back! The black shadow was not a physical entity, but more like a highly concentrated, malicious arrow of demonic energy. Wherever it passed, even the air emitted a subtle corrosive sound!
trap!
There was indeed an ambush!
Luo Li's eyes flashed fiercely! She had been prepared!
The moment the black shadow attacked, she instantly moved sideways several meters. At the same time, the Moon-Swallowing Pot on her waist glowed brightly, and a moon-white light shield as condensed as a substance instantly condensed beside her.
“Sizzle!”
The demonic arrow slammed heavily into the moon-white light shield, making a harsh corrosive sound.
The light shield fluctuated violently, and the moon-white light and the dark demonic energy clashed fiercely and annihilated each other.
The arrow was so powerful that it knocked the light shield inwards and almost broke through the defense!
However, just as the demonic arrow was about to break through the light shield, the chaotic power in Luo Li's body exploded!
"break!"
She shouted clearly, and pointed her finger like a sword, with a point of extremely bright chaotic power condensed on her fingertips. She was the first to arrive, and hit the core of the demonic arrow with incredible precision!
"boom!"
There was a dull bang.
The power of chaos exploded instantly, and the violent and pure power was like scorching sunlight pouring into the ice, tearing apart, purifying, and eliminating the condensed demonic arrow into nothingness!
The powerful energy shock wave spread out, shaking the surrounding black rocks into powder.
Luo Li stood firmly in the aftermath of the explosion, her clothes fluttering, her eyes as cold as ten thousand years of ice, locked on the direction from which the arrow was shot - that deep shadow.
"You coward, get out here!" Her cold voice, filled with murderous intent, echoed in the stone forest.
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