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Chapter 733 - 620 Battlefield

Chapter 733: Chapter 620 Battlefield

But as Yao Wenxuan looked at Wang Zijia’s fair and amiable countenance, then took in their surroundings, filled with silver-hued voids, fissures, and cobweb-like cracks in such a desolate place.

One could tell from this place that it was not going to be easy, potentially a very dangerous place, and it would be better to explore with more people than one. So, he hesitated for a moment before nodding, saying, "Alright, let’s figure out the situation first."

In his mind, Old Ghost Tong didn’t roar or anything, strangely silent.

It seemed... as if he were guarding against the possibility of Wang Zijia betraying him at any moment!

The two of them, now up and about, were speaking amongst themselves.

Wang Zijia looked around and asked, "Any clues on which way to go?"

Yao Wenxuan shook his head, indicating that he didn’t know.

With a wave of his hand, Wang Zijia produced a tortoise shell.

Whenever in doubt, consult a rune, or throw a stone to test the way!

The next moment, the tortoise shell turned blood red, signifying a bad omen.

Wang Zijia changed the direction and tried again!

After a while, both Wang Zijia and Yao Wenxuan who threw several runes and didn’t get any different result looked at each other. Finally, Wang Zijia said, "Seems like this really is a dangerous place!"

"I see it!" Yao Wenxuan said, looking at the surrounding space cracks that have not healed for many years.

Looking up at the sky, the sky seemed to have shattered, and from the large, silver voids, you could see the darkness and depth of the void. It was like a giant mouth in the sky, about to choose someone to swallow.

Every now and then, they could see streams of Void Turbulence erupting from some of the voids, rampaging across the sky.

They had fallen from one of these caves before.

After both fell silent for a moment, Wang Zijia proactively proposed, "Let’s go, no matter what kind of place it is, we should figure out the situation first."

Yao Wenxuan nodded, and together with Zijia, carefully moved toward a better place indicated by the runes.

Really very careful, and incredibly slow-moving.

The space cracks here were as numerous as shrubs on a barren mountain, densely packed and everywhere, crisscrossing complexly.

Even with their care, they still got cut by some fine cracks from time to time. It was like walking through the hilly wilderness, careful as they might be, they would still get scratched by tree branches.

Wang Zijia was relatively fine. When he was cut, there wasn’t a single drop of fresh blood and the wounds disappeared in a flash.

Yao Wenxuan was much worse off. While he healed quickly, there was always fresh blood.

His Cross-Tribulation Dao Body couldn’t completely avoid the erosion of spatial energy, so there would always be some bloodstains like a mortal wound.

Although it healed quickly for some reasons, only a few traces of blood were seeping out, but after a while, they became densely packed, full of red wounds, some of which were still healing.

It looked somewhat terrifying!

Facing the peculiar states of both parties, neither side asked any more questions.

Because there was no camaraderie!

Even the act of teaming up was merely a strategic consideration.

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In this way, they carefully moved forward for half a day, although they didn’t get very far.

They moved slowly, constantly winding around. If they could go far, then something would be amiss.

The surroundings were also very special, with the ground being uneven in many places, filled with holes of various sizes, and lots of the ground showed signs of mana contamination and crystallization.

Rich chaotic power radiated from them, clearly not the work of any middle or lower-stage cultivators.

It was obvious that this place had experienced the great wars of Immortal-level cultivators, massive free-for-alls!

Yet the surroundings were not bare. A strange, crystalline pillar grew freely here.

Clumps of them covered the crystallized ground, like shrubs.

The pillars weren’t as large as clusters of crystals, only the size of a little finger. But the whole clump was large and new pieces kept growing. Through the accumulation of countless fragments, strange flower-like crystal clusters were formed.

The color was blood-red, with rainbow-colored lights. They were like strange corals, beautiful at first glance.

Wang Zijia initially thought it was some kind of precious natural resource, so he ran up to carefully break off a piece.

"Be careful!"

When Yao Wenxuan saw this, he must have communicated with Old Ghost Tong, and was stunned for a moment. The next moment, he quickly backed away, disregarding his injuries.

Wang Zijia also realized something was wrong. He was very careful, intending to remove a piece, but the entire crystal cluster erupted with brilliant Spiritual Light.

This thing looked like a crystal... but it was not in a stable state!

"Boom!"

With a soft explosion.

"Boom Boom!"

The next moment, like a domino effect, the surrounding crystal clusters detonated one after another.

It affected a large area!

Just the explosions alone would have been enough!

Inside these crystal clusters were the rich, chaotic divine powers of Immortal Dao.

With the explosion, these powers scattered with the crystals, like a series of exploding hand grenades.

Although the movement was not big, the power it released could be described as terrifying!

Wang Zijia estimated that even if he was in top shape, he might not be able to handle it.

Luckily, he dodged in time and wasn’t injured, but his face turned dark.

"Do you know what this stuff is?" Wang Zijia asked Yao Wenxuan with a frown.

Not mentioning it until this point was problematic.

If even basic trust was gone now that they were travelling together, that really would be outrageous.

Yao Wenxuan, ignoring the gloating Old Ghost Tong in his mind, nodded and said, "I think it’s a Chaos Mana Crystal!"

Wang Zijia didn’t respond, waiting for further explanation.

Yao Wenxuan explained, "It is said that the aftermath of a battle between immortals, the pervading influence of divine powers, could render an area’s spirit mechanism in a state of long-term chaos. Especially if there was a lot of immortal blood, or even if an immortal happened to fall here."

"In that case, this place would be cursed, becoming an extremely dangerous area."

"In reality, it is just the intermingling of Tao and reason with mana, causing an extreme level of chaos. When a spirit mechanism normally forms, it gives birth to spirit minerals. But when a spirit mechanism is tangled up in chaos, it yields something like this."

"Although it tends to be harmful most of the time, sometimes, extreme treasures can also be cultivated from within."

At this point, Yao Wenxuan paused, further clarifying, "I also heard about this. I didn’t think of it earlier, which is why I didn’t alert you in time!"

He indeed had heard about this, from the gleefully schadenfreude comments of Old Ghost Tong!

However, Wang Zijia was focused on something else.

"A major battle?" From his words, as he saw the state of his surroundings confirming his previous suspicions, "Was this place once the ruins of an ancient battlefield?"

Yao Wenxuan nodded somewhat dispiritedly, "It likely was."

Confirming this expectation also caused a slight unease in Wang Zijia’s heart.

Since the Six Epochs of Shen Hong, there have been many battlefield ruins.

However, very few are referred to as ancient battlefields, and these are all extremely dangerous locations.

In the travelogues he had studied, they referred to these places with one word: forbidden lands.

It was hazardous even for immortals to venture within, and one could easily meet their end in their carelessness.

The two were silent for a moment, being much more cautious as they headed forward.

Along their path, spatial rifts proliferated and pits of varying sizes resembling craters covered the ground. The land had undergone crystallization everywhere, casting splendid rays of light.

The spirit mechanism pulsated with extreme chaos. If a lower-ranking monk were here, they’d likely be distorted within half a day.

This was even more terrifying than a nuclear war!!!

Both in terms of destructive power and post-incident radiation pollution!

"Hmm?"

"Retreat!"

Just as they were moving forward, both of them suddenly changed their expressions.

They swiftly split up.

"Roar!"

A peculiar creature covered in crystalline structures and hardened cracks like those on a rock surfaced from the ground.

This creature was shaped like a long, cylindrical being with spider crystal-like legs, its body round, resembling a serpent with identical sizes at the head and tail.

Aside from a sole eye? A large mouth? There was nothing else on its face.

Well, if you could consider that thing an eye.

Mainly, because it looked too abstract.

It had a gore-mouthed look of an eyeball, around which were shark teeth that resembled eyelashes.

There were no eyeballs inside, and it was hollow like a mouth-cavity.

But as the creature opened its mouth, you could see that its mouth-cavity, which looked like an eyeball, was full of eyes on its inner walls.

At this moment, the creature was opening its mouth, and numerous eerie eyes were staring at Wang Zijia and Yao Wenxuan.

"This is an infected chaotic creature. Be careful, this thing may look like a wild beast, but if attacked, it would be akin to being hit by a Tribulation Crossing Monk’s Dao Body, or even worse," Yao Wenxuan began to repeat Old Ghost Tong’s words that had come to his mind when he realized what the creature was.

Wang Zijia’s mind willed it and the invisible Primordial Magnetic Sword flew out like lightning.

"Puff!"

The next moment, the long sword penetrated into the creature’s mouth, but it couldn’t easily pass through its entire body!

This thing was extraordinarily tough on the inside.

"Explode!"

Seeing the ambushed monstrous insect about to go berserk, Wang Zijia willed his implanted sword to create a massive explosion.

"Bang, bang!"

Following a few light sounds, the monster’s head exploded, a multicolored fluid — akin to fresh blood — flowed out, finally revealing characteristics of a flesh and blood creature.

It hadn’t died yet and was still writhing on the ground.

To prevent other abnormalities, Wang Zijia gestured with his hand, and again, several swords flew out, directly killing the creature.

Although it looked somewhat horrifying, it wasn’t a tough adversary.

Of course, being hit by it would be another matter.

While Wang Zijia was inspecting the creature, Yao Wenxuan had already moved closer, beginning to fuss over the corpse.

His movements were somewhat overly skilled.

"Does this thing possess a demon pill?" Wang Zijia looked at the chaotic energy-infected insect inside and asked in surprise.

"How could it? If these twisted creatures all had demon pills, the Demon Race wouldn’t have perished!" As Yao Wenxuan continued cutting away some flesh from the body, he responded.

"Then what are you doing?" Wang Zijia questioned in puzzlement.

"We don’t know how long we will be stuck here. We need to identify what we can eat!" Yao Wenxuan said quite efficiently.

By his actions and demeanor, it seemed like he’s done this a lot!

"Eat? This thing?" Wang Zijia said, dumbstruck.

"Compared to the severely infected demonic monster meat, this is much better. That thing is really hard to digest. It’s torturous to eat... " Halfway through his explanation, he seemed to realise something and did not continue.

Wang Zijia listened on in shock!

Eat demonic monster meat?

No wonder you can compete with the Five Ghosts when it comes to eating!