Chapter 373: Space passages
Chapter 373 – Space Passage
After two of the twelve Foundation Establishment cultivators died and only ten remained, the atmosphere was obviously much more subdued.
Anyone who was enveloped by the risk of dying at any time would not be in a good mood.
As the group continued to travel, the more demonic beasts they encountered increased, and there were even two times when Jindan stage demonic beasts appeared.
The number of casualties was also increasing, and those with incomplete corpses were all burned to ashes by the black-robed old man’s hand.
Those who were lucky enough to leave their bodies intact were put away by him.
At the end of the journey, apart from the two Jindan cultivators, the only ones left alive were Xu Chuniang, four of them, and another pair of late Foundation Establishment siblings.
And by this time, that feeling of oppression was already everywhere, almost affecting the operation of the aura.
After the black-robed old man led them to a giant spell formation, the powerful aura emanating from inside made the feeling of oppression reach its peak, causing people to want to worship and submit, sacrificing everything.
“There are still six people alive, Old Seven’s selection is not bad.”
A voice rang out abruptly, it turned out that someone had arrived first.
The group of cultivators she led had a total of sixteen people, but only four survived, the mortality rate was fully double.
“Hehe, they were just lucky.”
The black-robed old man smiled with a leathery smile.
The cultivator who had spoken earlier obviously thought the same, and after saying that, he returned his attention to the large formation behind him, his eyes implying anticipation and fervor.
She had fallen into the False Realm for nearly two hundred years, and in the outside world she was a genius cultivator who had formed a dan at the age of one hundred, and everyone thought that she would be able to successfully form a baby, and even have a slight chance at the Realm of Transformation.
However, there were unforeseen winds and clouds in the sky, and she went out to practice after she had formed the dan, and accidentally fell into the False Realm.
At first she had her share of unwillingness and despair, but in the end she pulled herself together and also ushered in this turnaround more than a hundred years ago.
The formation had already been deployed, and as long as the spatial passage was successfully opened without disturbing the Evil Eye Beast, the final teleportation could be completed and she could return to the Qian Luo Realm!
She took a deep breath and suppressed her slightly excited emotions as she examined the formation in front of her for the countlessth time.
Having waited for two hundred years, it wasn’t bad for a moment.
“Senior Sister Xu, can you see what formation is in front of you?”
Zhuge Yun swept a glance at the massive formation and softly inquired.
As a matter of fact, after seeing this formation, Xu Chuniang had been sizing it up, but it was just that this formation was too complicated, and coupled with the fear that using her divine sense would be detected by those Jindan cultivators, she had looked at it many times, but had not been able to discern what kind of formation it was.
“Can’t tell, it’s not any formation I recognize.”
At first, Xu Chuniang thought that it was a teleportation formation because of the extremely faint spatial aura that was vaguely revealed within it.
But this formation, it seemed to be more than just a teleportation formation.
Upon hearing this, Zhuge Yun did not show any disappointment.
The complexity and precision of this formation could be seen with the naked eye, and although Sister Xu was talented in the art of formations, she had less time to accumulate and settle down.
Kong Huan swept a glance around and lowered his voice, “That person had said before that all we need to do is to hunt demonic beasts, but I feel as if it’s not that simple.”
Xu Chuniang felt the same way, killing demonic beasts was only the first part, I’m afraid that what we need to do next is the key.
Under the eyes of many Jindan cultivators, a few people did not want to say too much, simply exchanged a few sentences and then closed their mouths, silently waiting for the arrival of several other teams.
Half an hour later, all nine teams arrived.
Some of the teams encountered powerful demonic beasts and were directly wiped out, except for the two Jindan cultivators who led the team, there were no more survivors. There are also teams that are more lucky, in addition to one or two people injured, there is no death.
There were more than a hundred Foundation Establishment Cultivators in the previous team, but now there were only about forty left.
After the eighteen Jindan cultivators gathered and exchanged words, their gazes swept towards these survivors, “Come this way.”
The Foundation Establishment cultivators walked in front of them, and soon realized that the path the Jindan cultivators had them take was difficult, with many spatial cracks.
And the further they went, the more spatial cracks they encountered along the way, several of them were injured, the aura couldn’t even block these spatial forces, it could only serve as a small buffer.
Going further, they would definitely be completely torn apart by the spatial cracks.
These people were stunned and hesitant, stopping their steps and refusing to go any further.
“Senior, we can’t go any further, or we’ll die.”
“When you guys say that you’re giving us a chance to return to the Qian Luo Realm, you’re not telling us to die in this spatial rift, right?”
The Jindan cultivators behind them heard this, but they were indifferent.
The person in the lead spoke in a grim tone, “How can you want to go back without paying a price, as long as you guys open up this spatial passageway, you will be able to go back to Qian Luo with us.”
Hearing this, these Foundation Establishment cultivators were shocked instead of happy, they just stood here, they felt the threat from the spatial rift at all times.
If they were to actually go and try to open the spatial passage, would there be any lives left to live.
A female cultivator of Foundation Establishment Perfection hardened her head and said, “Senior, our strength is meager, I’m afraid we are incapable of doing anything for …….”
As soon as her words fell, she felt an intense life and death crisis, as if she would completely lose her life as soon as she finished her sentence.
The female cultivator sweated profusely and closed her mouth in horror.
Only after a long time did that sense of life and death slowly disappear.
The Jindan cultivator at the head sneered, “Do you think you are qualified to negotiate conditions?”
They had prepared for more than a hundred years, made so many preparations, and only with great difficulty did they wait for the Evil Eye Beast to fall into slumber, how could they allow anything beyond their control to happen?
He didn’t give a damn, whether these low-ranked cultivators were willing or unwilling, from the moment they were targeted, their bodies were placed under a ban.
Either die or submit.
The atmosphere sank for a moment, and all the Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators looked ugly.
They finally realized that they had been punked by these Jindan cultivators.
These people were completely using them as a raft, going out of their way to let them die in order to achieve their goal, and saying in a nice way that it was their bad luck that they died.
The Foundation Establishment cultivators who managed to make it here alive were mostly people who wanted to leave the False Realm and had strong expectations for this trip.
Because those who were captured to make up the numbers had almost all died under the claws and teeth of the demonic beasts.
“Hehe, it’s all death anyway, what’s the difference between dying in a spatial rift and dying at your hands? If it’s impossible to escape death, then why should I help you guys open the spatial passage?”
“Not bad, from the beginning when you guys said you could leave, it was a trick! For the sake of trying to trick us into selling our lives for you guys for nothing.”
The Jindan cultivator in the lead’s complexion went completely cold as he slowly swept his gaze over the few people who had spoken.
“So, you guys are so uncooperative that you want to die now?”
(End of chapter)