Chapter 701: Sudden Change
All around, ancient trees grew twistedly, with a faint green light shining through the branches and leaves, like gatekeepers of the underworld, quietly watching the intruders.
The further north you go, the dimmer the light becomes. Only the power of light can illuminate the dark environment ahead.
Half an hour later, they finally saw human figures, about thirty people, standing in a circle, with dull and lifeless faces.
The three of them looked at each other and immediately sped up, arriving next to those people in an instant.
Then they also saw clearly why they were gathered in a circle.
In their center stood a dilapidated ancient stone tablet, engraved with runes that had long been eroded by time and became blurred. Black air filled the air, giving it an entirely ominous aura.
Everything around seemed even more bizarre and unpredictable.
Luo Li narrowed her eyes, "Is this... a sacrifice?"
Before she finished speaking, a cold wind blew by, causing the hair and clothes of the dazed people to sway gently, as if it was the only movement in the dead silence.
Tiny cracks could be vaguely seen on the ground around the stone tablet, from which black air seeped out, like a poisonous snake lurking in the dark night, slowly wrapping around the ankles of those people and gradually spreading upwards, trying to swallow their figures in the darkness.
There was a cold and decayed smell in the air, which made people feel chilled.
Feng Yan frowned, "It's truly sinister and evil!"
Luo Li held the spear in her hand and said, "We must find the center of the formation quickly!"
Di Xuanming and Luo Li looked at each other and immediately felt a tacit understanding.
Luo Li's figure flashed, and the long spear cut through the air, bringing up a sharp gust of wind, and pierced straight into the place where the black air was thickest.
Wherever the tip of the gun touched, the black gas seemed to encounter flames, making a hissing sound and quickly dissipating.
Emperor Xuanming narrowed his eyes and swung his sword, directly cutting off the connection between the thirty-odd people and the stone tablet.
The thirty or so people regained some consciousness and fell to the ground, trembling all over like Lingyang.
Feng Yan raised his finger lightly, and golden runes leaped out from his fingertips, circling in the air like living things, and finally turned into a curtain of light, protecting everyone inside and resisting the increasingly thick coldness and decay around them.
Outside the light curtain, black air surged like a tide, but it could never penetrate the golden barrier. It could only surge angrily on the periphery, emitting bursts of shrill howling sounds.
Luo Li and Di Xuanming found nothing outside and retreated cautiously back into the light curtain.
She made a hand gesture with one hand, and the power of light surrounded the contestants, and their consciousness began to return to normal.
Emperor Xuanming glanced at the stone tablet still swirling with black energy. "This formation would probably require a Soul Emperor-level formation master to break. We are not formation masters to begin with, so breaking it would be difficult."
Feng Yan urged, "Don't worry about breaking the formation. After all, everyone is here, so we can just send them away."
After all, he was at least a Grand Emperor in the Continent of Gods. Luo Li felt that he was quite knowledgeable. "Senior, do you mean that it's okay as long as this formation is not broken?"
Feng Yan nodded, "That's right, let's go quickly, we can't stay here."
A hint of solemnity appeared between Luo Li's brows. She nodded immediately and produced nearly forty new formation talismans in one go.
The remaining contestants have almost returned to normal, but they can only communicate normally and have basically no fighting ability.
She distributed the formation talismans to them and said in a deep voice, "Crush them."
Luo Li stood up and handed one to Feng Yan and Di Xuanming respectively.
Feng Yan was stunned, "This..."
Luo Li glanced at him hastily, "Senior, even if you don't say it, I know that you are so enthusiastic because you want to do some good things before you die, right?"
Feng Yan coughed violently twice, "Why are you being so blunt? I'm helping you because I'm enthusiastic to begin with."
Luo Li glanced at him and said, "Don't be so stubborn. Come back to Wanshou with us first. At least you can survive."
She directly helped Feng Yan crush the formation talisman, and the thirty or so contestants also came to their senses and crushed the formation talisman immediately.
However, the next second, a flash of light passed, and four people were still left there.
Luo Li, Feng Yan and two contestants from unknown realms.
After the light dissipated, the four looked at each other in shock.
Luo Li frowned, Feng Yan smiled bitterly, brushed off the dust on his body, and looked at the two unfamiliar contestants. They looked pale, obviously frightened by this sudden change.
"W-Why are we still here?!"
The wind gently blew the grass, making a rustling sound. The four people seemed to be abandoned in this secret place, and an inexplicable sense of urgency quietly spread.
Suddenly, the surrounding scene seemed to distort, and dark mist slowly rose from the ground, surrounding them with a chilling chill, like countless hands of the dark world, silently reaching out to them, trying to drag them into the endless abyss.
The crack in the sky erupted completely, and the entire dark world could be vaguely seen inside.
Luo Li narrowed her eyes, and divine power surged around her. "This is truly bizarre!"
What luck she has!
Feng Yan sighed, "Your luck isn't as good as mine. At least I can still say that I'm mutually exclusive with the Myriad Beast Continent, but you..."
Luo Li gritted her teeth and laughed, "Maybe it's because I also have a mutual repulsion with the Myriad Beast Continent."
She looked up at the sky, "Something is falling."
I saw a black shadow suddenly falling from the crack with a roar, bringing with it a gust of wind that made the clothes of several people rustle.
The black shadow was extremely huge, shaped like a giant beast, with dark demonic energy surrounding it. Its eyes were red, like two burning flames, staring directly at Luo Li and the others opposite. Its ferocious mouth opened and closed, as if it would let out a deafening roar at any time and completely swallow up this world.
Luo Li narrowed her eyes, "Is it the Blood Qilin Undead?"
She frowned, "How could the undead spirits of pure-blooded monsters appear in the Dark World?!"
Pure-blooded magical beasts of the Qilin race are born with the power of light, which is mutually exclusive with the dark world. It is even reasonable to say that pure-blooded magical beasts will completely dissipate between heaven and earth after death and will not fall into the dark world.
"It has changed a long time ago." Feng Yan naturally knew why.
His expression changed. Could it be that he was related to that person again...
At this moment, the blood unicorn undead roared, and the demonic energy surged, condensing into a huge black demon claw in the air, and suddenly grabbed Luo Li and others.
Luo Li dodged the attack lightly with a flash of light in her hand, and a spear flashing with cold light was in her hand.
She tapped the ground lightly with the tip of her sword, and her body suddenly jumped up, rushing straight towards the black shadow. The sword light was like a dragon, and it collided fiercely with the devil's claws, causing a deafening roar. The powerful energy fluctuations made the surrounding space tremble.
Luo Li's arm went numb and she was thrown dozens of meters away, falling to the ground in a mess.
She half-knelt on the ground, supporting her body with her spear. Even though the Blood Qilin was dead, its attack power was still extremely high. She had just faced it head-on, and now half of her body was numb and painful.
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