Everyone turned to look at him.
"The attack of the tree just now definitely exceeded ten feet, which means that as long as you enter the space within ten feet of it, you will definitely be attacked." Liu Suifeng drew a line on the array plate with his finger, "However, Senior Brother Ming's line is almost right next to the tree, and the distance is not even ten feet, which is much closer than where we were standing just now."
He raised his gaze and looked at the golden track that was still flickering on the formation disk.
"We retreated from that tree, losing one scout puppet, three formation flags, and each of them injured. But Senior Brother Ming passed directly under the tree, and judging from the traces, he did not take a detour, and no battle occurred."
The gravel slope was quiet for a moment, and a few people even had some ridiculous ideas in their minds.
"Did you really make the right move?" Du Heng directly asked the question in his heart, "I mean, that tree is something that even the few of us can't deal with together. Senior Brother Ming not only passed it, but also passed it unscathed. There was no detour. Is Senior Brother Ming so strong? Could there be other helpers?"
Liu Suifeng opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but found that he couldn't find the right words. He had known Qin Tiexin for about the same time as Du Heng, and had known for a long time that this person was not a simple person. Later, he went to the Medicine Garden to face Blood-Eyed Devil Ape, and Sky-Splitting Cliff traveled alone to the canyon in the Land of Unparalleled Spirits. Each time he refreshed his understanding of the three words "not simple".
But along the way, he was still refreshed again and again, and he even felt that he didn't understand this "Senior Brother Ming" at all.
Not only him, but everyone else was silent as well.
Lin Chuan didn't speak. His eyes swept around the edge of the gravel slope and landed on a very small trace not far ahead. It was a dead branch that Qin Tiexin had stepped on. The break was crisp, and there were a few crushed blood scabs beside the dead branch.
Judging from the distance between his steps, he did not stop here, his steps were extremely steady, and he did not hesitate in the direction. He kept the same speed and walked straight in the direction of Pure Land Chan Temple.
"Everyone, Senior Brother Ming is stronger than us. This is a fact. But we have come here and we can't retreat here." Lin Chuan turned around and stuck the long sword at his feet. "Take a short rest and continue moving forward."
No one asked to retreat. Du Heng put the broadsword back on his shoulder. Liu Suifeng lowered his head to calibrate the detection aura on the array disk. Xu Ying silently distributed the new batch of elixirs. Ling Shuyao summoned another war puppet from the storage ring to fill the vacancy of the scout puppet being scrapped.
The golden light track is still flickering on the array disk, guiding the route Qin Tiexin has taken.
The closer Qin Tiexin is to the Pure Land Chan Temple range, the stronger the surrounding Demon Beast are.
He turned Edgeless from his shoulder to his hand, and his steps were lighter than before. The Divine Sense sensor and Killing Intent Perception were spread out at the same time, and the Demon Beast aura in front of him was so dense that it was almost connected.
Four or five auras of the Golden Core Realm are scattered in the ruins around the Zen temple. Some are sinking deep in the soil, with extremely long intervals between breaths and inhalations. They are obviously sleeping; some are moving slowly, from one ruin to another, as if they are patrolling their own territory. There is also an extremely obscure aura, as dense as a mountain, pressing in a half-collapsed side hall on the west side of the main entrance of the Zen temple. It is at least Golden Core Middle Stage.
It is no accident that these Demon Beast are guarding the Zen temple.
Pure Land Chan Temple is the location with the strongest concentration of Spiritual Qi in the entire ancient battlefield, and it is also the place where the fallen monks were most concentrated.
After the monk dies, the spiritual power does not dissipate immediately, but slowly penetrates into the surrounding land and buildings. Coupled with the effect of the formation and the influence of the environment, this process lasts for thousands of years.
Coupled with the elixirs, spiritual materials and Law Artifact fragments that the monk scattered before his death, these things are the best Cultivation Resources for Demon Beast.
Instead of looking for food in the woods, it is better to stay in these ruins. Just absorbing the spiritual power dissipated in the air is several times stronger than outside.
Qin Tiexin walked more carefully, making sure at every step that there was no boundary of Demon Beast's territory in front of him. He walked around a rancid black swamp. Sticky bubbles appeared on the surface of the swamp. When the bubbles burst, they emitted a pungent smell of sulfur. Half of the swamp could be vaguely seen in the center. The huge Demon Beast spine was filled with white bones and was surprisingly large in size. The part exposed above the mud was three feet long. Something was moving deep in the mud, and a Golden Core Realm breath slowly rose from the bottom of the mud. Qin Tiexin avoided it before it appeared.
Passing through a collapsed stone corridor. The corridor was originally supposed to be a corridor connecting two side halls. Now all the stone beams at the top have collapsed. The stone walls on both sides are densely covered with scorch marks left by the Law Technique bombardment. The original stone surface is almost invisible. Broken tiles and half-melted copper bell fragments are scattered on the ground. The Sanskrit characters engraved on the copper bell have been distorted by the high temperature.
Next to the ruins of a collapsed side hall, he saw the fresh corpse of a monk.
Three bodies were stacked together. The blood stains on the robes had not completely dried, and the death time did not exceed half a day. The fatal injuries were all tooth marks of Demon Beast. Judging from the spacing and shape of the tooth marks, it was a very large snake Demon Beast. The posture of the corpse was extremely unnatural, the limbs were twisted, and the spine was forcibly severed by something.
Qin Tiexin walked around the corpse and continued walking forward.
Ahead is a narrow stone path, with towering ruined walls on both sides, and rubble piled up to form a natural stone forest. This path is the only way to reach the Pure Land Chan Temple mountain gate through the ruins. Either go here, or go around a large area of the ruins of the side hall occupied by the Golden Core Realm Demon Beast.
Qin Tiexin was about to speed up through the stone forest when he suddenly stopped.
There is a sound ahead.
There was a very sharp neighing sound, followed by a dull impact sound, like something heavy was smashed against a stone wall and then fell to the ground. Then there was another neighing sound, and another impact. There were a few breaths between each impact, the rhythm was neither urgent nor slow, and there was even a leisurely tone in the sound.
Qin Tiexin leaned sideways behind a broken wall and looked forward through a crack in the wall.
In a small clearing in the stone forest, a silver-white python was teasing a girl.
The python's cultivation level is Golden Core Early Stage, and it is about one foot long. Its fine scales are densely covered like silver foil, glowing with a cold metallic luster under the dark red sky. The thickest part of the snake's body is about the same as the waist of an adult, but its movements are extremely flexible and it makes almost no sound when it meanders among the gravel.
The most eye-catching thing is that there is a fist-sized bulge on the top of its head. The surface is covered with a translucent film. You can vaguely see something hard growing inside the flesh ball, and there is a very subtle silver-white aura flowing between the scales.
The girl was covered in bruises.
She was holding a broken sword in her hand. The sword was broken into two pieces in the middle, and the fracture was uneven.
The light cyan dress was torn apart in multiple impacts, revealing the blood-stained skin underneath. She leaned against the stone wall behind her, using a broken sword to support the ground to barely fall down. The hem of her skirt was covered in dust and blood, and she was in an extremely embarrassed state.
Blood dripped down her forehead and covered her left eye, and there were blood stains on the corners of her mouth, but there was no begging for mercy or tears in the remaining eye, only a wrenching stubbornness, gritting her teeth, silently, staring at every step of the python's movement.
Qin Tiexin recognized that face.
Xiao Yan's maid.