Hua Li lowered her eyes, her heart as still as water. With a flick of her finger, the spirit snakes in the formation instantly vanished into nothingness, waiting for the next batch of spirit snakes to enter the formation. Using the same method, any spirit snake that entered the formation would be reduced to nothingness in an instant.
The battle lasted for two hours. Everyone was exhausted and relied on pills to keep going, but these spirit snakes seemed to be endless.
Feng Yu frowned as he looked at the endless swarm of snakes. "At this rate, our spiritual energy will be exhausted sooner or later. How about we fight our way up the mountain?"
Upon hearing this, everyone felt it made sense; even the elixirs would eventually run out, and they couldn't just sit there and wait to die.
Having experienced so many dangers in that eerie forest, the group knew they had to work together as one; acting alone would only lead to their deaths and was not worth it.
Fleeing for their lives, hanging by a thread between life and death.
However, there were simply too many snakes to move them.
Just then, a voice rang out: "What is that?"
The man who spoke was Luo Beiyue, the second senior brother of Blue Star Academy. Everyone looked in the direction he was pointing, where a huge snake head stood tall, its body thicker than a large water vat, its head resembling two fans on either side, and the green gem in the middle of its forehead emitting a faint light.
"Could it be that snake that's controlling these snakes?"
"I wondered," said the Eastern God Clan member. Hua Li narrowed her eyes and snorted coldly, "Why don't we go and see for ourselves and find out!"
With that, she leaped towards the green one, hurling the energy ball at its head. The giant snake, its eyes glowing with an eerie green light, dodged the energy ball. Seeing someone attack the giant snake, the other snakes turned and surged towards Hua Li.
This scene also confirmed Luo Beiyue's words; it was indeed the green snake controlling the snake swarm, and only by killing the green snake could the situation be broken.
"Let's go too."
As they spoke, the group leaped toward the green snake. Upon seeing this, the spirit snakes swarmed forward, and some even leaped up to try and stop them. At this moment, some cultivators were caught off guard and were bitten by the flying spirit snakes. The venom paralyzed them, and they instantly lost control and fell to the ground.
"save·······"
Before he could even cry for help, he was engulfed by the swarm of spirit snakes below. In the blink of an eye, he was reduced to a skeleton, not even a drop of blood remained. The crowd was terrified and became even more careful in dealing with the spirit snakes flying up from below.
Everyone launched a fierce attack on the green snake with all their might, but they were still at a disadvantage.
After more than an hour of fighting, both the snake swarm and the snakes suffered heavy casualties. Gradually, the green-headed snake began to have thoughts of retreating, and the snake swarm gradually dispersed.
A mouthful of venom was spat out, and everyone was terrified, quickly dodging. When they came to their senses, the green snake and the snake swarm that had been in front of them had all disappeared, as if they had never been there. But the mountain of snake corpses on the ground constantly reminded them that this was not a dream.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's go quickly."
The journey was smooth, and the group quickly reached the summit.
A tall tower appeared before the crowd, with three large, gilded characters on its plaque: "Gathering Spirit Tower".
Having learned from past mistakes, no one dared to be the first to step inside. Just as everyone was hesitating, a line of words appeared on the door.
Those who pass through the snake pit can enter the tower to cultivate.
Everyone was overjoyed and eager to participate, thinking, "This should be our reward for clearing the level."
Unable to contain their excitement any longer, the crowd went inside. Some cautious individuals, seeing that those who had gone in were unharmed, followed suit.
A rich spiritual energy wafted towards them, and everyone felt refreshed and invigorated, their earlier fatigue completely gone.
"Such pure spiritual energy."
"This is the most concentrated and purest spiritual energy I have ever seen, bar none."
"Huh, it seems like I can still go upstairs."
A gasp from the crowd drew everyone's attention, and some people couldn't wait to go upstairs. Sure enough, the spiritual energy on the second floor was purer and richer than that on the first floor.
Everyone was overjoyed and wanted to climb even higher. However, after taking only two steps, an invisible pressure came over them, as if a mountain was pressing down on their shoulders. They were instantly drenched in sweat and eventually couldn't withstand it and retreated.
"It seems my strength is insufficient to reach the third level," the man said regretfully.
Some people tried it out of desperation, but unsurprisingly, they were forced to retreat. Hua Li raised an eyebrow, gave it a try, and easily walked up.
"As expected of the Goddess Hua Li, it seems that we can only stop at the second floor."
He then found a place to begin his cultivation.
Dong Li and Bai Ling easily made it to the third level. Luo Beiyue and Feng Yu exchanged a glance, and Feng Yu said, "Senior Brother Luo, shall we go up and try too?"
“Okay.” Luo Beiyue responded and went up. Feng Yu followed without hesitation. An invisible pressure came over them, and the two frowned, but they were able to get up with difficulty.
Only a small number of people were able to go up to the third floor; the rest could only cultivate on the second floor. Hua Li, Bai Ling, and Dong Li stopped at the fifth floor.
The Spirit Gathering Tower was provided by the gods to the dragons for cultivation. In addition to spiritual energy, it also contains dragon energy. The higher the floor, the stronger the dragon energy. For cultivators, this is a great tonic. Therefore, the spiritual energy inside the Spirit Gathering Tower is incomparable to that of the outside continent.
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On the Dragon Palace side, the rich spiritual energy continuously tempered Ji Jiuying's four meridians and five channels. Although the five spiritual roots were good, they were much more difficult to cultivate than those with ordinary spiritual roots.
Feng Qingxue and Feng Che had finished their cultivation, but Ji Jiuying remained motionless.
Some people in the crowd were getting impatient, but they didn't dare to say anything. The Dragon Palace was very large and had no exit. They had tried to find an exit, but unfortunately, they had failed.
Some people sat on the ground with their eyes closed, resting and meditating. Others, seeing the abundant spiritual energy but unable to cultivate, couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
At this moment, Ji Jiuying's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes. She checked her cultivation level and realized that she had progressed from the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm to the peak of the Golden Core realm and reached the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm. She smiled with satisfaction. Not bad, cultivation in this secret realm is indeed fast.
At this moment, Hei Xiangling noticed that Ji Jiuying had woken up and hurriedly went forward: "Die..." Before the girl could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Feng Che's cough.
Hei Xiangling glanced at Feng Qingxue not far away before realizing what was happening, and coughed twice: "You brat, how are you?"
When everyone saw Ji Jiuying wake up, they immediately became very alert, and all eyes fell on her. Ji Jiuying asked in confusion, "It went very smoothly, but why is everyone looking at me like that? Have I been cultivating for a long time?"
Hei Xiangling, Feng Che, and Yin Han nodded. Ji Jiuying smiled awkwardly and said to the people not far away, "Sorry to keep you waiting."
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