owlsbooks Chapter 48 My Swarm...Endless! [New book, please read!]
Chapter 48 My Swarm...Endless! [New book, please read!]
In the valley outside the Crimson Forbidden Land, when Yunxi was piloting her flying artifact through a patch of dark clouds, she was suddenly startled to see that the dark clouds ahead were actually swarms of restless flying mosquitoes!
"Sure enough... he brought those weird mosquitoes in..." The moment Yunxi saw the dense swarm of black insects, she took out a mysterious blood talisman from her storage bag, stuck it on her body, and then went straight into them.
This blood talisman was given to her by Mengde before. Its only function is to prevent mosquitoes from attacking her. Because Yunxi sometimes went to Blackwater Manor, Mengde gave her a mosquito-repelling blood talisman in advance.
"What is that?! How come there are so many mosquitoes?" The Qi Refining Peak cultivators chasing Yunxi in the air quickly discovered that what was hovering above the outer valley was not a dark cloud, but swarms of mosquitoes that seemed to have no end in sight!
Faced with this sudden outbreak of insect plague, the other Qi Refining Peak cultivators hesitated and subconsciously became wary of the unknown swarm of flying mosquitoes.
"They're just a swarm of ordinary mosquitoes, why should we be afraid?" Feng Yue, who arrived last due to his injuries, looked at the swarm of insects forming dark clouds in front of him, made a hand seal, and his magic sword instantly slashed out a sea of fire, burning countless mosquitoes to ashes in an instant!
"Everyone, follow me and give chase!" Feng Yue of Tianque Fortress took the lead, driving his flying sword directly into the black sea of insects, like a sharp sword slicing through the darkness. The fragile swarm of insects was instantly cut apart by a beam of spiritual energy!
Upon seeing this, the Qi Refining Peak cultivators from the other seven sects realized that the seemingly terrifying swarm of flying mosquitoes was just some ordinary mosquitoes, and they were somewhat relieved. They then transformed into more than ten long rainbows, cutting through the black sea of insects, and chased after the evacuation point on the outskirts of the valley.
"What do we do now?" Deep in the black sea of insects, Yunxi had just arrived at the evacuation point when she heard a heavy voice behind her. When she turned around, she found that the person was Bai Yunsheng.
What surprised Yunxi was that Bai Yunsheng clearly did not have a blood talisman on his body, yet the dense primordial blood mosquitoes around him did not show any intention of attacking him.
"You..." Yunxi frowned slightly, and Bai Yunsheng immediately noticed. He glanced at the dense swarm of mosquitoes around him and sighed with a complicated expression, "This must be the commotion caused by Brother Meng. I saw something similar when I was in Blackwater Manor, but perhaps because I've been in contact with Brother Meng for a long time, the mosquitoes he created didn't attack me."
Bai Yunsheng was also a frequent visitor to Blackwater Manor. Although Mengde had never given Bai Yunsheng a mosquito-repelling blood charm, Bai Yunsheng was still imbued with some of Mengde's aura. Therefore, the mosquitoes in Blackwater Manor generally did not attack Bai Yunsheng on their own initiative.
Simply put, Bai Yunsheng, as a regular visitor to Blackwater Manor, still carries traces of Mengde's pheromones. Even though they are very faint, the Source Blood Mosquitoes, which are exceptionally sensitive to Mengde's aura, can still sense them at close range and therefore will not actively attack Bai Yunsheng.
Just like a dog will be less hostile towards strangers who frequently visit its owner's home.
Inside Blackwater Village, there is also Mengde's old green ox, which shares the same characteristics.
The only difference is that the old green ox has stronger pheromones. The old green ox usually eats the source blood mosquitoes mixed with spiritual herbs from the feeding trough, and the other source blood mosquitoes won't attack him. But Bai Yunsheng is different. At most, the source blood mosquitoes won't attack him on their own initiative, but if he actively kills a large number of source blood mosquitoes, then the source blood mosquitoes will mark him as an enemy.
"Hmm..." Yunxi nodded gently, then looked up at the transparent space she had entered through, and said, "Maintaining the spatial passage of the Crimson Forbidden Land consumes a lot of mana, so those Core Formation elders don't keep it open all the time."
"Normally, those Core Formation elders would only restart the space tunnel during the last bit of time when the restriction is weakening, but now it should be..." Yunxi touched the space bracelet on her wrist, trying to find some kind of token that could connect her with Lei Yun Zhenren of the Spirit Beast Mountain outside. Suddenly, Yunxi felt a tightness in her heart, and the magical wings behind her shook, causing her and Bai Yunsheng to retreat rapidly.
In the instant they dodged, a giant flaming sword sliced through the black sea of insects, striking directly between Yunxi and Baiyunsheng!
The two turned around instantly and saw Qi Refining Peak cultivators from other sects chasing after them above the sea of insects!
Yunxi and Baiyunsheng exchanged a glance, then frowned and said, "Split up and evacuate!" With that, Yunxi and Baiyunsheng ran off in opposite directions!
"There's still a day and a half until the trial ends, they'll definitely come back here! Leave a few people here and wait, the rest of you follow me!" Feng Yue frowned slightly when he saw Bai Yunsheng and Yunxi running away separately, but because he couldn't confirm who had the spiritual herb that was suspected to be the Seven-Leaf Yin Blood Mushroom, he had to divide the pursuit team into three parts.
"Senior brother... have you noticed... that the mosquitoes here are acting strangely..." After Feng Yue and the others chased away the two from Spirit Beast Mountain, a Giant Sword Sect cultivator stationed at the evacuation point of the Crimson Forbidden Land noticed that mosquitoes with shimmering green spots on their bodies had silently landed on his magic shield. He couldn't help but ask his fellow disciples.
Following the reminder from the peak Qi Refining cultivator from the Great Sword Sect, the four remaining peak Qi Refining cultivators, along with the other cultivators at the eleventh or twelfth level of Qi Refining, all noticed that among the dense swarm of black flying mosquitoes, there seemed to be some special flying mosquitoes with faint green stripes...
"This... Fire Dragon Technique!" When a Qi Refining Peak cultivator from the Blade Transformation Valley saw that the mouthparts of the green-patterned flying mosquito could actually pierce his magic shield and directly inject a trace of dark green poison, he was immediately shocked and furious. His fingers instantly formed a hand seal, and his magic power surged. The surging flames directly turned the surrounding flying mosquitoes into ashes!
"Magic power solidified... the mosquitoes are poisonous!" The Qi Refining Peak cultivator from Huadao Dock felt his magic power solidify and was immediately alarmed. He shouted to the other cultivators around him!
"Quickly clear out the surrounding insects! Don't let them get close!"
Fire Rain! Storm Slash! Ice Shatter! Myriad Water Sword Formation!
In an instant, at the evacuation point of the Crimson Forbidden Land, the cultivators who wanted to ambush Yunxi and her companion immediately used area-of-effect spells to clear away the surrounding black swarms of mosquitoes!
In just a short while, the group cleared a vacuum zone with a diameter of fifty meters. However, they were not happy for long, because they saw that the black sea of insects thirty meters away was like an endless tsunami, relentlessly crashing towards them with a terrifying low-frequency buzzing sound!
Ten minutes...twenty minutes...After half an hour of holding the escape point of the Crimson Forbidden Land and using area-of-effect spells to slaughter the surging black swarm of insects, they looked at the swarm of insects whose numbers did not decrease and even increased, and suddenly realized something terrible!