There's no escaping it.
Chu Hongluan's peak strength was only at the Tribulation Transcending Realm.
Even with the addition of the Sword Sect elder, who is also at the Tribulation Transcending Realm, it would be impossible for them to fight against it.
The monster roared and pounced!
However, he did not notice that his abdomen was beginning to faintly emit a golden light.
Chu Hongluan smiled slightly and began a countdown in her mind.
three.
The golden light grew ever brighter.
two.
The monster roared in pain, clutching its stomach and collapsing to its knees.
one.
The golden light engulfed the monster completely, and the air seemed to freeze for a moment before a loud bang.
The explosion was almost cataclysmic, wiping out the third wave of boss monsters, along with the fourth wave of beast horde.
The churning air currents, carrying sand and gravel, hurtled straight at our faces.
Chu Hongluan casually erected a spiritual energy shield, isolating herself from the lingering power of the commotion. Only her long hair was tossed about by the wind, just like her—unrestrained and flamboyant.
"Wow! Looks like I made the right bet."
Do you remember when she pried open the boss's mouth, the Hypnotic Mushroom was mixed in with some golden, shiny things and thrown into its mouth?
This so-called golden, glittering substance is actually crystallized sunlight.
Chu Hongluan was merely making a bold conjecture.
She went to Yuehua's stall and bought plants many times, and found that the roots of almost every plant were covered with some golden crystal powder that looked like shards of glass.
She secretly picked up a small amount and compared it with the sun crystal.
It's practically the same ingredient.
Therefore, she boldly speculated that the reason those plants could restrain the magical beasts was because they grew by absorbing solar crystals.
In other words, what restrains the monsters is not these interdimensional plants, but the Sun Crystal.
It's easy to understand.
The magic core is a black crystal.
Sunstone is a golden crystal.
Light overcomes darkness, and metal overcomes black.
She thinks it's not unreasonable for the Sun Crystal to counter the Magic Core.
So she decided to take the gamble. If all else failed, she had asked Liu Jinghong for a bottle of potent sleeping potion long ago. If she was wrong, she would just use the potion.
Is that the big boss monster?
What are you thinking? Even if you used tons of the kind of drug used to drug elephants on the boss monster, it wouldn't necessarily work! That monster is a half-step Mahayana cultivator!
This bottle of sleeping potion is, of course, prepared for those righteous cultivators.
She planned that if she made a bad bet and things went wrong, she would drug everyone and throw them into the spatial bracelet, and she would go in herself to avoid trouble. Anyway, there were no other living people in this cave, so the spatial bracelet wouldn't be lost.
Moreover, since she broke through the Tribulation Realm and emerged from the Wilderness, some time has passed, and during this period, she has not spent a single day merely standing guard, neither mentally nor physically.
So, it's not unreasonable for her to be at the peak of the Tribulation Transcending stage right now, is it?
The spatial bracelet contains eleven spiritual veins, brimming with spiritual energy. It wouldn't be unreasonable for her to spend some time stabilizing her cultivation, then violently absorb another wave to forcefully break through to the Mahayana stage, would it?
After she defeats the boss monster, she releases the others. However, once they wake up from the drugging, it will be difficult to explain what happened.
Fortunately, she made the right bet, the crisis was averted, and Plan B never even had a chance to be used.
The third wave of bosses has been defeated, the fourth wave of beasts has been quickly brought to an end, and there is still a long gap before the next wave of gathering and separation.
"I have a question, and I would like to ask Senior Chu for clarification."
Feng Sili, the chief disciple of Penglai, stepped forward and bowed.
Tell me about it.
Feng Sili pondered for a moment, carefully considering her words, trying to make them sound less aggressive.
"If the plants' attacks are effective against magical beasts because they are cultivated from sun crystals, and sun crystals are the fundamental source of this resistance, then these plants themselves should be highly poisonous to magical beasts. However, what I see is that the magical beasts clearly exhibit a fanatical love for these plants..."
Chu Hongluan wasn't surprised by his question, and simply replied with a smile, "A fanatical love? Doesn't that say it all? As everyone knows, for demonic beasts and monsters, apart from rare and precious natural treasures that only grow once every ten million years, the flesh and blood of cultivators are the most nourishing food. Yet, these monsters ignore us, who are right in front of them, and instead go crazy gnawing on those strange plants."
She countered, "Why don't you think about what happened to those magical beasts that ate plants?"
"Dead."
Feng Sili responded softly.
"Then how can you be sure that the credit for killing them doesn't go to the plants that were eaten? Just like poisonous mushrooms always look beautiful, maybe those plants themselves are poison coated in honey."
Chu Hongluan thought she had explained things clearly enough, so she said that was all she had to say and turned around to collect more sun crystals.
Feng Sili, lost in thought, bent down and smelled the radish umbrella at his feet. It emitted a strange, sweet fragrance from the inside out. He took a few more steps and smelled the machine gunner, the tall nut, and the sunflower. Although the scents varied slightly from plant to plant, that strange sweetness remained.
Therefore, it is this scent that gives the plant its deadly attraction to magical beasts, causing them to uncontrollably devour it once they get close.
Using oneself to lure the enemy and then corroding their internal organs is also a way to restrain monsters.
No wonder those powerful monsters could flatten or trample the plants; they must have noticed the problem too.
However... in a sense, this characteristic of plants can also provide humans with a lot of time to escape or fight back when they encounter monsters.
Feng Sili suddenly realized what was going on and couldn't help but cast a complicated look at Yuehua.
Is this person righteous or evil?
He couldn't figure it out either.
"Cough cough!"
After collecting the Sun Crystals, Chu Hongluan went to the Moonlight Stall, propped her elbow on the table, and tried to strike up a conversation: "Hey, fellow villager."
Faced with her sudden change in attitude, Yuehua instinctively shrank back.
Unsolicited kindness is either a sign of malice or theft.
"W-What are you doing?"
"Hey, this is the last wave of monsters left. After you finish them, you should pack up and go. Why don't you give me a discount and sell me more?"
Yuehua tilted his head, carefully considering the feasibility of the suggestion, only to see Chu Hongluan's gaze towards him becoming increasingly mocking.
Um?
An alarm bell rang in Yuehua's mind.
"You're trying to trick me, aren't you! How are you trying to get information out of me!"
"So there really is only one last wave left."
Chu Hongluan stretched and dumped all the crystals she had brought onto the table: "Replace them all with cherry bombs."
Yuehua, with a sullen face, silently handed her the plant.
Chu Hongluan accepted them all without hesitation, tossed them into her spatial bracelet, and as she turned away, remarked, "Tsk, fellow villagers are still the most reliable..."
"......"
Chu Hongluan's lips curled up silently. The crystals she brought were clearly only enough to exchange for eleven cherry bombs, but why did Yuehua give her fifteen?
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