Chapter 477 Waiting for the rabbit
The cave hall, with the wide crack in the center of the hall as the starting point, seemed like an endless blood-red wave was pouring out madly, and after a moment, the entire hall was filled with blood.
However, although the space was full, the waves surging forward never stopped. Along the entrances of the corridors around the rock walls, a tide of blood formed by a large amount of evil spirits began to charge towards the entire cave.
The rumbling sound continued to expand outward at an extremely fast speed. Hundreds and thousands of meters were reached in just a whistling sound. After just a few minutes, the blood tide, accompanied by the roar, spread to a distance of thousands of meters away, and its scale was still continuing to spread.
Inside the cave, the densely packed corridors and caves seemed to have turned into intricate veins and blood vessels. Wherever the surging blood passed, the originally dead and gloomy cave quickly became boiling and restless.
Pairs of blood-red eyes lit up one after another. Under the large-scale erosion of the evil spirit, the goblins who were still alive in the cave were instantly defeated. There was no resistance at all. Their already limited rationality collapsed in an instant, and all that was left was the pure and insane murderous intent.
Then, the violent roars and sounds of fighting began to resound along with the pace of the expansion of the blood tide, making the entire cave soon completely transformed into a huge and cold flesh and blood mill. As the millstone turned, all living things were instantly wiped out. Looking around, all one could see was bones and flesh turned into mud, and blood spilling everywhere.
At the outer edge of the cave, the surging tide of blood had not yet reached there, but due to the damage to the core barrier, the cave space that was supposed to be endless finally revealed its proper boundaries.
It was a translucent light curtain of the formation. In a stagnant state, although the blockade formation of the cave could no longer distort the spatial perception of living beings, it still blocked all escape routes extending outward from top to bottom.
Suddenly, a black shadow jumped out of the ground in front of the light curtain, and stopped when it almost touched the surface of the light curtain.
"Hey, is this...the border?"
With a slight exclamation, the black shadow stopped and turned out to be Ah Fu, who was wearing a black Tang suit.
In the previous few hours, he had traveled at least hundreds of kilometers in the same direction by traveling underground, but no matter when he surfaced, what came into his sight was always the same dim corridor.
He had originally planned to give up, but he never expected that this time he would unexpectedly touch the boundary of the cave.
So...did the master do something?
After running for several hours without any progress, Ah Fu didn't think that this time it was just luck. As his thoughts turned, he turned around and looked deep into the cave behind him.
There was a deep and wide corridor with no end in sight, but one could vaguely hear bursts of low roars coming continuously, as if a ferocious giant beast was breathing slowly in the darkness opposite. Just hearing the sound made people feel nervous.
Although he didn't know what exactly happened there, his intuition told him that if he didn't want anything unexpected to happen, he had to escape from this damn place immediately.
With his brows slightly furrowed, Ah Fu, sensing something strange, did not hesitate any longer, but immediately turned around and pounced towards the translucent light curtain of the formation behind him.
At the moment of collision, the 'crossing' ability derived from his blood made him look like an untouchable shadow, and he easily passed through the light curtain of the formation that had sealed off the cave for hundreds of years.
After losing the ability to distort space, this light curtain is actually equivalent to a large isolation barrier, and the barrier is completely insignificant in the face of the ability of "travel".
The figure landed on the ground, and after gaining his footing, Ah Fu looked back. The thick light curtain remained the same, but a hint of blood light appeared in the corridor at the end of his field of vision.
After a few breaths, the faint blood light quickly expanded into a mighty blood tide, rushing over like an overwhelming force. For a moment, the blood-red color occupied all vision, and continued to expand at an alarming speed until it heavily hit the light curtain in front of Ah Fu.
"boom!"
A dull slapping sound resounded, causing the surrounding rock walls to tremble violently. However, despite the loud sound, the light curtain that blocked the rushing blood tide remained motionless, without even the slightest tremor.
Gazing quietly at the transparent light curtain in front of him that was filled with surging blood, Ah Fu looked calm. He took out a small round mirror. As mana was poured in, ripples soon appeared on the mirror surface, and then another scene emerged.
"Master, I have escaped from the confines of the cave, but the interior of the cave..."
As he spoke, he turned the mirror in front of him over to face the transparent light curtain with a surging blood color. After a moment, a familiar voice was heard from the magic mirror.
"Well, don't worry about the anomaly in the cave. Continue to evacuate. The area above the cave should be the tiger tribe's territory. Be careful not to expose yourself."
"Yes, sir!"
...............
On the other side of the magic mirror, that is, within the crack, even though a huge amount of blood mist had been poured out, the amount of spiritual essence remaining in the core space was still so vast that it was difficult to estimate.
The sticky fog gathered into a vast blood-red ocean, through which one could faintly see a large number of ferocious beasts made entirely of fog moving through, with low roars and long hisses ringing from time to time.
The underground cave formation absorbs not only evil spirits, but also the spirits of fairies produced by infighting. After a long period of nurturing, these evil spirits corroded by the spirits have become an important line of defense outside the core. Although they have no reason, their crazy desire for killing is enough to make them become death nightmares floating around in the blood mist.
However, lack of reason does not mean that they will not seek benefits and avoid harm. At least when facing the pure Yangyan with the characteristics of "Big Sun", these evil spirits will quickly move away as soon as they approach, driven by instinct.
In the center of the blood-red fog sea, a circular shield composed of blazing flames was passing by. Inside the shield were Xu Yue and Fei Lian, who had stepped into the rift not long ago. Outside the shield, the blood fog was thick, but inside it was clear. As for the rear, a large area of dark red flames was spreading, and more than a dozen hellhounds were following closely.
"Boss, is the one in the mirror your men? Did he really escape from the cave formation?" Fei Lian's curious voice came to his ears. At such a close distance, Xu Yue never thought of retreating deliberately during the conversation. He glanced at a cat demon beside him with a look of surprise. He had no intention of replying. He directly put the magic mirror in his hand that had returned to calm back into his body. As his eyes moved, he looked again at the sticky blood mist in front of him that seemed to have no end.
At this time, nearly ten minutes had passed since they stepped into the rift, but all they could see was still a sea of blood. The scale of the sea of blood in the rift was far more exaggerated than they had imagined.
"How long will it take to get out of the sea of blood?"
Hearing this, Fei Lian on the side immediately suppressed the curiosity on his face and looked into the distance, with a faint yellow and green glow appearing in his pupils.
The blood mist could even obscure Xu Yue's overclocked vision, but it was nothing for Fei Lian's 'Dongzhen' perspective. When the skill was activated, everything within a thousand meters radius could be seen at a glance.
"It's almost there, but there are two evil spirits hovering 120 meters ahead. Do we need to take a detour?"
"Need not."
Xu Yue replied lightly without saying much, but the fire shield surrounding his body became noticeably brighter.
Soon, the evil spirit that Fei Lian mentioned appeared in front of the two people, but all they could see were two backs fleeing in panic. After a few minutes, the sticky blood mist around the shield began to gradually thin until it completely disappeared.
After dispelling the raging flames around him, what came into Xu Yue's sight was finally no longer the endless blood mist. Looking around, the space inside the sea of blood was quite vast, the ground was a rough desert, and right in front of him was a steep hill of several hundred meters rising from the ground.
There is almost no vegetation on the surface of the hill, and even the exposed rocks appear a strange light red color, as if the entire mountain has been continuously poured with blood. It looks wild and ferocious.
Several houses can be vaguely seen lying on the mountainside, but the most eye-catching one is the blood-red pillar on the top of the hill that reaches from sky to earth. The pillar connects to the hill below and leads directly to the dark red sky at the dome above. It truly connects heaven and earth and is extremely magnificent.
"What exactly is the formation center you mentioned? This mountain? Or the pillar at the top of the mountain?"
Outside the foot of the mountain, Xu Yue's face was a little solemn. If the center was the former, it would be easy to say, but if it was the latter, given the huge size of the hill, it would be difficult to destroy it by conventional means. Moreover, he always felt that the hill in front of him did not seem to be a simple dead object. Just by looking at it from a distance, he could sense an inexplicable sense of oppression coming towards him.
Beside him, Fei Lian was also gazing into the distance. With her skill of 'Dong Zhen', her perspective was obviously broader and deeper than what Xu Yue could see.
"That blood-colored pillar is just a channel for the infusion of a large amount of evil spirit essence that is aggregated and absorbed. It should be the energy source that supports the smooth operation of the entire formation. As for the center, it is at the top of the hill, inside the pillar! However..."
Having said this, Fei Lian paused slightly, and the bright yellow-green light in his pupils slowly dimmed.
"But the worst-case scenario has come true. There is indeed an immortal-level being guarding the top of the mountain. I saw his completely undisguised aura. He should have sensed our arrival. Should we... continue?"
After she finished speaking, Fei Lian glanced sideways at Xu Yue beside her. Although she had anticipated the current situation, she still couldn't help but hesitate when she was about to face an immortal.
Without replying immediately, Xu Yue looked up and down at the barely tall hill in front of him. He was hesitating whether to directly summon the Sun Chaser to fire a shot at the opponent.
Although he had no idea how powerful the immortal that Fei Lian mentioned was, he was certain that the other party would not be able to withstand a head-on attack from Zhuri's main cannon. Since the other party was so confident that he was sitting on the top of the mountain and waiting for an opportunity, he didn't mind giving the other party a big surprise.
However, after thinking for a moment, Xu Yue finally gave up this tempting plan. In fact, as long as he wanted, he could leave the cave directly through the magic mirror at any time.
But compared to evacuation, he is undoubtedly more interested in testing his own combat power level, and now is the best opportunity. What's more, the power of the main gun is difficult to control. If the entire space is accidentally destroyed, it may end in a tragic ending where both parties perish.
"Since the host is already waiting, as a visitor, we certainly cannot retreat halfway. Also...what is the carrying capacity of this space? Is there a possibility of it being destroyed by the explosion?"
"Boom?"
Fei Lian was stunned when he heard this, but after thinking for a moment, he replied:
"This specially refined ownerless space can fully withstand the impact of immortal-level power. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to be destroyed or completely torn apart. However, if it is destroyed, since this space has been anchored to the cave, it will only throw us back to the cave if it is broken. As long as we are not unlucky enough to be affected by the spatial turbulence, the danger is generally not too great."
"So, Boss! If you have any large-scale weapons, don't worry. We can just fight with them. There's no need to fight that immortal head-on."
With his eyebrows slightly raised, Xu Yue glanced at the overly sensitive cat demon beside him and said calmly:
"Let's go, don't keep the owner waiting too long."
…………
A few minutes later, the sound of approaching footsteps suddenly rang out from the top of the dead silent hill, followed by a teasing voice that slowly spread out.
"A moon cat, a dead spirit, and a human. Interesting. I remember this kitten was one of the mice that broke into the cave two years ago. So, human, what about you? I remember that our tiger tribe has never captured anyone from the Ming King."
(End of this chapter)
The cave hall, with the wide crack in the center of the hall as the starting point, seemed like an endless blood-red wave was pouring out madly, and after a moment, the entire hall was filled with blood.
However, although the space was full, the waves surging forward never stopped. Along the entrances of the corridors around the rock walls, a tide of blood formed by a large amount of evil spirits began to charge towards the entire cave.
The rumbling sound continued to expand outward at an extremely fast speed. Hundreds and thousands of meters were reached in just a whistling sound. After just a few minutes, the blood tide, accompanied by the roar, spread to a distance of thousands of meters away, and its scale was still continuing to spread.
Inside the cave, the densely packed corridors and caves seemed to have turned into intricate veins and blood vessels. Wherever the surging blood passed, the originally dead and gloomy cave quickly became boiling and restless.
Pairs of blood-red eyes lit up one after another. Under the large-scale erosion of the evil spirit, the goblins who were still alive in the cave were instantly defeated. There was no resistance at all. Their already limited rationality collapsed in an instant, and all that was left was the pure and insane murderous intent.
Then, the violent roars and sounds of fighting began to resound along with the pace of the expansion of the blood tide, making the entire cave soon completely transformed into a huge and cold flesh and blood mill. As the millstone turned, all living things were instantly wiped out. Looking around, all one could see was bones and flesh turned into mud, and blood spilling everywhere.
At the outer edge of the cave, the surging tide of blood had not yet reached there, but due to the damage to the core barrier, the cave space that was supposed to be endless finally revealed its proper boundaries.
It was a translucent light curtain of the formation. In a stagnant state, although the blockade formation of the cave could no longer distort the spatial perception of living beings, it still blocked all escape routes extending outward from top to bottom.
Suddenly, a black shadow jumped out of the ground in front of the light curtain, and stopped when it almost touched the surface of the light curtain.
"Hey, is this...the border?"
With a slight exclamation, the black shadow stopped and turned out to be Ah Fu, who was wearing a black Tang suit.
In the previous few hours, he had traveled at least hundreds of kilometers in the same direction by traveling underground, but no matter when he surfaced, what came into his sight was always the same dim corridor.
He had originally planned to give up, but he never expected that this time he would unexpectedly touch the boundary of the cave.
So...did the master do something?
After running for several hours without any progress, Ah Fu didn't think that this time it was just luck. As his thoughts turned, he turned around and looked deep into the cave behind him.
There was a deep and wide corridor with no end in sight, but one could vaguely hear bursts of low roars coming continuously, as if a ferocious giant beast was breathing slowly in the darkness opposite. Just hearing the sound made people feel nervous.
Although he didn't know what exactly happened there, his intuition told him that if he didn't want anything unexpected to happen, he had to escape from this damn place immediately.
With his brows slightly furrowed, Ah Fu, sensing something strange, did not hesitate any longer, but immediately turned around and pounced towards the translucent light curtain of the formation behind him.
At the moment of collision, the 'crossing' ability derived from his blood made him look like an untouchable shadow, and he easily passed through the light curtain of the formation that had sealed off the cave for hundreds of years.
After losing the ability to distort space, this light curtain is actually equivalent to a large isolation barrier, and the barrier is completely insignificant in the face of the ability of "travel".
The figure landed on the ground, and after gaining his footing, Ah Fu looked back. The thick light curtain remained the same, but a hint of blood light appeared in the corridor at the end of his field of vision.
After a few breaths, the faint blood light quickly expanded into a mighty blood tide, rushing over like an overwhelming force. For a moment, the blood-red color occupied all vision, and continued to expand at an alarming speed until it heavily hit the light curtain in front of Ah Fu.
"boom!"
A dull slapping sound resounded, causing the surrounding rock walls to tremble violently. However, despite the loud sound, the light curtain that blocked the rushing blood tide remained motionless, without even the slightest tremor.
Gazing quietly at the transparent light curtain in front of him that was filled with surging blood, Ah Fu looked calm. He took out a small round mirror. As mana was poured in, ripples soon appeared on the mirror surface, and then another scene emerged.
"Master, I have escaped from the confines of the cave, but the interior of the cave..."
As he spoke, he turned the mirror in front of him over to face the transparent light curtain with a surging blood color. After a moment, a familiar voice was heard from the magic mirror.
"Well, don't worry about the anomaly in the cave. Continue to evacuate. The area above the cave should be the tiger tribe's territory. Be careful not to expose yourself."
"Yes, sir!"
...............
On the other side of the magic mirror, that is, within the crack, even though a huge amount of blood mist had been poured out, the amount of spiritual essence remaining in the core space was still so vast that it was difficult to estimate.
The sticky fog gathered into a vast blood-red ocean, through which one could faintly see a large number of ferocious beasts made entirely of fog moving through, with low roars and long hisses ringing from time to time.
The underground cave formation absorbs not only evil spirits, but also the spirits of fairies produced by infighting. After a long period of nurturing, these evil spirits corroded by the spirits have become an important line of defense outside the core. Although they have no reason, their crazy desire for killing is enough to make them become death nightmares floating around in the blood mist.
However, lack of reason does not mean that they will not seek benefits and avoid harm. At least when facing the pure Yangyan with the characteristics of "Big Sun", these evil spirits will quickly move away as soon as they approach, driven by instinct.
In the center of the blood-red fog sea, a circular shield composed of blazing flames was passing by. Inside the shield were Xu Yue and Fei Lian, who had stepped into the rift not long ago. Outside the shield, the blood fog was thick, but inside it was clear. As for the rear, a large area of dark red flames was spreading, and more than a dozen hellhounds were following closely.
"Boss, is the one in the mirror your men? Did he really escape from the cave formation?" Fei Lian's curious voice came to his ears. At such a close distance, Xu Yue never thought of retreating deliberately during the conversation. He glanced at a cat demon beside him with a look of surprise. He had no intention of replying. He directly put the magic mirror in his hand that had returned to calm back into his body. As his eyes moved, he looked again at the sticky blood mist in front of him that seemed to have no end.
At this time, nearly ten minutes had passed since they stepped into the rift, but all they could see was still a sea of blood. The scale of the sea of blood in the rift was far more exaggerated than they had imagined.
"How long will it take to get out of the sea of blood?"
Hearing this, Fei Lian on the side immediately suppressed the curiosity on his face and looked into the distance, with a faint yellow and green glow appearing in his pupils.
The blood mist could even obscure Xu Yue's overclocked vision, but it was nothing for Fei Lian's 'Dongzhen' perspective. When the skill was activated, everything within a thousand meters radius could be seen at a glance.
"It's almost there, but there are two evil spirits hovering 120 meters ahead. Do we need to take a detour?"
"Need not."
Xu Yue replied lightly without saying much, but the fire shield surrounding his body became noticeably brighter.
Soon, the evil spirit that Fei Lian mentioned appeared in front of the two people, but all they could see were two backs fleeing in panic. After a few minutes, the sticky blood mist around the shield began to gradually thin until it completely disappeared.
After dispelling the raging flames around him, what came into Xu Yue's sight was finally no longer the endless blood mist. Looking around, the space inside the sea of blood was quite vast, the ground was a rough desert, and right in front of him was a steep hill of several hundred meters rising from the ground.
There is almost no vegetation on the surface of the hill, and even the exposed rocks appear a strange light red color, as if the entire mountain has been continuously poured with blood. It looks wild and ferocious.
Several houses can be vaguely seen lying on the mountainside, but the most eye-catching one is the blood-red pillar on the top of the hill that reaches from sky to earth. The pillar connects to the hill below and leads directly to the dark red sky at the dome above. It truly connects heaven and earth and is extremely magnificent.
"What exactly is the formation center you mentioned? This mountain? Or the pillar at the top of the mountain?"
Outside the foot of the mountain, Xu Yue's face was a little solemn. If the center was the former, it would be easy to say, but if it was the latter, given the huge size of the hill, it would be difficult to destroy it by conventional means. Moreover, he always felt that the hill in front of him did not seem to be a simple dead object. Just by looking at it from a distance, he could sense an inexplicable sense of oppression coming towards him.
Beside him, Fei Lian was also gazing into the distance. With her skill of 'Dong Zhen', her perspective was obviously broader and deeper than what Xu Yue could see.
"That blood-colored pillar is just a channel for the infusion of a large amount of evil spirit essence that is aggregated and absorbed. It should be the energy source that supports the smooth operation of the entire formation. As for the center, it is at the top of the hill, inside the pillar! However..."
Having said this, Fei Lian paused slightly, and the bright yellow-green light in his pupils slowly dimmed.
"But the worst-case scenario has come true. There is indeed an immortal-level being guarding the top of the mountain. I saw his completely undisguised aura. He should have sensed our arrival. Should we... continue?"
After she finished speaking, Fei Lian glanced sideways at Xu Yue beside her. Although she had anticipated the current situation, she still couldn't help but hesitate when she was about to face an immortal.
Without replying immediately, Xu Yue looked up and down at the barely tall hill in front of him. He was hesitating whether to directly summon the Sun Chaser to fire a shot at the opponent.
Although he had no idea how powerful the immortal that Fei Lian mentioned was, he was certain that the other party would not be able to withstand a head-on attack from Zhuri's main cannon. Since the other party was so confident that he was sitting on the top of the mountain and waiting for an opportunity, he didn't mind giving the other party a big surprise.
However, after thinking for a moment, Xu Yue finally gave up this tempting plan. In fact, as long as he wanted, he could leave the cave directly through the magic mirror at any time.
But compared to evacuation, he is undoubtedly more interested in testing his own combat power level, and now is the best opportunity. What's more, the power of the main gun is difficult to control. If the entire space is accidentally destroyed, it may end in a tragic ending where both parties perish.
"Since the host is already waiting, as a visitor, we certainly cannot retreat halfway. Also...what is the carrying capacity of this space? Is there a possibility of it being destroyed by the explosion?"
"Boom?"
Fei Lian was stunned when he heard this, but after thinking for a moment, he replied:
"This specially refined ownerless space can fully withstand the impact of immortal-level power. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult to be destroyed or completely torn apart. However, if it is destroyed, since this space has been anchored to the cave, it will only throw us back to the cave if it is broken. As long as we are not unlucky enough to be affected by the spatial turbulence, the danger is generally not too great."
"So, Boss! If you have any large-scale weapons, don't worry. We can just fight with them. There's no need to fight that immortal head-on."
With his eyebrows slightly raised, Xu Yue glanced at the overly sensitive cat demon beside him and said calmly:
"Let's go, don't keep the owner waiting too long."
…………
A few minutes later, the sound of approaching footsteps suddenly rang out from the top of the dead silent hill, followed by a teasing voice that slowly spread out.
"A moon cat, a dead spirit, and a human. Interesting. I remember this kitten was one of the mice that broke into the cave two years ago. So, human, what about you? I remember that our tiger tribe has never captured anyone from the Ming King."
(End of this chapter)
