Xi Yin raised her hand and touched Wei Wenru's face, then smiled: "Senior Sister Wei, it's not your fault. We all know we can't survive, but we have no complaints. You... live well."
Wei Wenru shook her head, tears streaming down her face. Looking at the desolation and the corpses, they were filled with immense pain.
"Senior Sister Xiyin, Senior Sister Xiyin!" Her other junior brothers and sisters from her sect finally arrived and surrounded Xiyin to see her off on her final journey.
"Farewell, senior sister. We will protect you from behind. Don't worry, sob sob."
Xi Yin closed her eyes contentedly. After her life force dissipated, she turned into a skeleton, which was taken away by her fellow disciples from the same sect.
This is one of the few places where you can still find and even identify the skeletons.
The rest...
They were already mixed together and indistinguishable, so the only solution was to burn them.
When Lexi saw this terrifying hell for the first time, she almost vomited.
The slain demons were scattered all over the ground, along with the withered bones of the cultivators, and black blood flowed on the ground.
They had already killed the later monsters, and the new purification artifacts had purified a lot of the black mist, but something still felt off.
Yuheng, the sect leader, and even the sect leaders of various sects all mobilized, leaving only the elders in charge.
Wei Wenru insisted on coming. After learning of her identity as the chosen one, she came regardless of everything, trying to control the final situation.
She came for her father as well.
Song Yan, as the senior disciple, was left behind in the sect and was unable to come along.
"Why hasn't Junior Sister shown up yet?" A disciple finally noticed the problem. "It's been several years since the incident, and we haven't seen Junior Sister even once. Where did she go?"
A female disciple quickly covered his mouth: "Shh! Why are you bringing this up? Right now, those cowards are just waiting for Junior Sister to come out and be sacrificed. Why are you bringing this up?"
"Yeah, if she didn't show up, she didn't show up. She's safer hiding now!"
Hearing this, Cui Kaichao curiously peeked out. Oh right, he couldn't see the little white dragon. "Don't speak so loudly. If someone with ulterior motives hears this, your Tianji Sect won't have an easy time."
His words were like a wake-up call, and everyone fell silent, no one mentioning the matter again.
What they were about to face was an even more ruthless and vicious attack. Wei Wenru led the younger generation at the forefront, and they could not be stopped. Le Xi was also with them.
"Senior Sister Wei, to find the Grand Elder's remains, we must go to the border town. The Grand Elder... fell there." The other cultivators, still panting, told Wei Wenru this news before passing away.
At that moment, Wei Wenru was stunned. A figure appeared in her mind—the figure of her father—and her eyes welled up with tears again.
Le Xi clenched her fists. The two senior and junior brothers who were at the forefront were both doing this for their master.
The monsters were no match for them at this point.
The newly modified purification artifact is even more powerful and useful. It can even purify the black mist and convert it into its own spiritual power. It is small and exquisite and can be hung on the cultivator's body.
This solves the problem of cultivators being easily injured after exhausting their spiritual energy. This purification artifact is practically tailor-made for combat.
The black mist has invaded the edge of the Central Plains; one step further and you'll reach the most populous area of the Central Plains.
If Wei Wenru and her group want to reach the border town, they must kill all the hundreds of thousands of demons in front of them and pass through the black mist before they can get there.
It doesn't sound easy, but it's actually very difficult.
In particular, the skeletons have reappeared!
Skeletons scurried about incessantly in the dark room, like hungry wolves, ready to pounce on the group at any moment.
"Senior sister, what... what is that?" A disciple nervously swallowed, his words trailing off as he stared in astonishment at the approaching skeleton that had instantly killed the cultivators nearby...
Stop in front of them.
Then came endless darkness; before they died, all they could see was endless darkness.
That was black mist.
"Aaaaaah!!" The person shrouded in the black mist screamed madly, watching helplessly as their soul was torn apart and devoured within the mist, turning into black smoke and dissipating.
One after another, skeletons lay on the ground, lifeless, and a strong smell of death wafted through the air.
The other cultivators, witnessing their companions die before their eyes, felt their fear and despair reach their peak. This was no place for cultivators; they had to escape quickly.
Staying here at this point means certain death!
"I quit! This is a deadly job! There's absolutely no chance of winning!"
"Don't panic, everyone. We have purification artifacts. We can definitely defeat them and leave here safely." Cui Kaichao shouted from the front, looking at the cultivators who were fleeing like rats, feeling helpless and angry.
These cowards.
"Everyone, use the purification artifacts to fight first. We'll leave after the purification is complete. We absolutely cannot get trapped by the black mist and those demons. We must believe in ourselves; we can definitely win!"
Wei Wenru led the disciples of the Tianji Sect forward bravely, completely ignoring the fleeing and frightened cultivators.
After Cui Kaichao finished speaking, he also rushed to the front. He could not retreat. As the senior disciple, he had to shoulder the face and safety of the entire sect. He would not allow anyone to die under his nose.
With a deafening roar, the entire sky collapsed instantly.
Clusters of black clouds churned and rolled amidst the churning of white bones, enveloping the cultivators who tried to flee. The black mist grew thicker and thicker within, as if it would drown everyone inside.
Then, it truly devoured those people.
"Hahaha, the chosen one! I never expected you to actually come out of seclusion. I thought you and Little White Dragon were going to hide in the sect forever, never to emerge again. Sure enough..."
"Your father's death was quite dramatic, didn't you? He was thinking of you and your mother even as he died; his pure, bubbling blood was so delicious. Oh, right, where's Little White Dragon? Why is he still hiding?"
The skeleton let out a chilling, rampant laugh, sending shivers down everyone's spines.
"Shut up!" Wei Wenru made a hand seal, and the Meteor Sword in her hand emitted a blue and white beam of light that struck the white bone.
In an instant, the black mist surrounding the skeleton dissipated slightly, revealing even more clearly visible bones...
Dragon bones!!
"Your father's blood tastes really good, so pure and abundant in spiritual energy, tsk tsk. I wonder how yours, your siblings', is, is better than your father's?"
"Shut up, shut up! I don't care what you were in the past, but now you're a demon that threatens the world! If you have a grudge, go get your revenge! Why are you harming innocent people?"
Enraged, Wei Wenru roared and formed another hand seal. The Meteor Sword emitted a dazzling blue-white light and rushed into the skeleton's body.
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