Half an hour later, Chen Mu estimated that his group had traveled about twenty kilometers in the purple mist.
However, the surrounding scenery remained unchanged, with purple mist filling the sky and lush green weeds covering the ground, without a single tree in sight, presumably also influenced by the purple mist.
Suddenly, Chen Mu felt a sense of foreboding.
"Everyone be careful, stay alert!"
No sooner had he finished speaking than a huge claw descended from the sky, fiercely attacking Chen Mu's small circle.
This claw was ten meters wide and tens of meters long, blotting out the sky. With a single swipe, it enveloped everyone present, truly terrifying.
In the face of crisis, Chen Mu remained calm and slammed his palm into the ground.
" Mountain Upholding the Heavens!"
A massive stone pillar shot skyward from the ground and slammed into the claws.
A loud thud.
Although the claws were fierce, they could not budge the stone pillar in the slightest.
What kind of creature is this?
The others were startled by the giant beast and quickly drew their weapons in preparation.
"Never mind it, let's run and get out of here as soon as possible."
Chen Mu gave the order.
Through this creature's attack just now, its strength has reached the level of the Core Formation Realm Great Perfection.
If they were outside, Chen Mu could still put up a fight with it, but inside the Purple Mist Zone, he couldn't leave the range of the Dispelling Formation Flag, which greatly limited his strength, making it unsuitable for a direct confrontation.
Upon hearing Chen Mu's command, the ten Ancient Desolate Race charged forward without hesitation, quickly escaping the area where the claws were located.
"Roar...!"
In a daze, Chen Mu seemed to hear a fierce roar, followed by a huge fireball falling from the sky and crashing into the center of the circle formed by Chen Mu and the others.
" Five Elements Transformation, Water Column!"
Chen Mu raised his hands, and the Five Elements Ring in his palms spun onto the light blue runes. Then, a huge water column shot out from the middle, colliding fiercely with the fireball and instantly bursting into a large amount of water mist.
"Go! Don't stop!"
Chen Mu stayed close above the circle formed by the Ancient Desolate Race, fending off the attacks from the aerial monsters.
The giant beast relentlessly pursued Chen Mu and his companions, but Chen Mu's methods were ever-changing. No matter what attack methods the giant beast used, Chen Mu always found a way to defend against them.
So the group ran and fought back, and after about half an hour, they finally escaped the purple mist.
"We're out! We're really out!"
When the Ancient Desolate Race first saw the outside world and felt an atmosphere different from that in the Ancient Desolate Mining Area, everyone was overjoyed and could hardly contain themselves.
Although they all revered Chen Mu, their ancestors had been unable to leave the Ancient Desolate Mining Area for generations, which made them worried about leaving this time. Now that their dream had come true, it was inevitable that they would be excited.
As Chen Mu approached the edge of the purple mist, he noticed that the giant beast that had attacked him was no longer following, indicating that it had remained within the purple mist.
When I was in the Ancient Desolate Mining Area, I never heard of anyone being attacked by a giant beast when they entered. It seems that this giant beast may be the guardian of the purple mist, and only those who affect the purple mist, like myself, will be attacked by the giant beast.
With this behemoth around, it won't be easy to take people away again in the future; we'll have to find a solution later.
After confirming that the surrounding area was safe, Chen Mu immediately took out a communication jade token that he had remade in the mining area and contacted Chen Duo to inquire about the situation in Chen Village.
Shortly after Chen Mu activated the jade tablet, he was able to establish communication.
"Brother, is that you?"
Each communication jade pendant has a specific spirit pattern. The spirit pattern on the communication jade pendant that Chen Mu made was a complete copy of his previous ones, so Chen Duo knew that this was a communication initiated by Chen Mu.
"It's me!"
Haha, that's great!
I knew it, brother, you wouldn't get into trouble so easily.
Chen Duo's joyful laughter came from the other end of the communication jade pendant.
"Are the tribespeople all doing well? Has anything unusual happened recently?"
"Everything's fine. We ran into a little trouble earlier, but A Huo brought back some people, and it was all resolved."
"That's good! But I have a feeling someone's watching us, so you need to be careful."
"We know, we've noticed that too, but with Grandpa Turtle around, we doubt they'll dare go too far."
Come back soon, and we'll talk in detail when you're back.
"Okay! I should be able to get back to Chen Village within a day, then we can talk!"
After disconnecting the communication, Chen Mu glanced at the ten Ancient Desolate Race around him and pondered silently for a moment.
His small spaceship in his storage ring could only seat four or five people; there were too many people here to fit them all.
However, letting them travel on their own would be too slow, which put him in a dilemma.
After a moment, he came up with an idea. He made several hand seals and slammed them heavily on the ground.
" Five Elements Transformation, Stone Boat!"
As his Dharma Power spread, a stone spaceship slowly took shape on the ground and then floated up.
The stone boat is barely recognizable as a boat shape; it's very crude, but it's large enough to seat a dozen or twenty people.
Although the stone boat was not as fast as the spaceship Chen Mu had made, and it consumed a lot of his Dharma Power to control, he had no choice but to do so if he wanted to get back to Chen Village as soon as possible.
"Everyone, go up! Let's go back to my tribe first."
"Yes, Lord Chen Mu."
Lu Xinghai nodded obediently and led the others to jump onto the stone boat that Chen Mu had made on the spot.
Chen Mu and Mingye were the last to climb up. Then, Chen Mu made a hand seal, and he led everyone into the sky, flying towards Chen Village.
The Wilderness Divine Temple, next to the Suspended Light Realm.
Xing Le was meditating and regulating his breathing. Occasionally, images would fly out from above the Suspended Light Mirror, many of which showed the figures of Otherworldly Demon.
"Sigh! These Otherworldly Demon really don't stop causing trouble; how come there are so many of them all of a sudden?"
He was quite overwhelmed. Starting seven or eight days ago, the number of Otherworldly Demon venturing into the Wilderness from the northwest had gradually increased, including quite a few King Level Otherworldly Demon.
These past few days, he and Su Wanyi have been taking turns going to the border to clear out the Otherworldly Demon, but the trend of Otherworldly Demon invading the Wilderness has not slowed down, and they don't know why.
At that moment, the communication jade pendant on his waist suddenly lit up. He glanced at it and connected the communication.
"Senior Xing! Didn't you say that everything was under your control?"
Why would a sword-wielding legion, so skilled in charging, suddenly appear in Chen Village? Now that our Jianglan Tribe's territory has fallen, we'll probably be wiped out of the Wilderness soon."
Jiang Ji's voice came through the communication jade tablet. His tone was urgent, even somewhat offensive.
"What? Your tribal territory has fallen?"
Xing Le was shocked to hear this, because he had been busy dealing with the invasion of the Otherworldly Demon these past two days and hadn't paid much attention to the battles of the Jianglan Tribe, only occasionally informing Jiang Ji of the Five Elements Army's whereabouts.