Half a month later.
After several days of rushing work, dozens of large and small fortresses were urgently built at the edge of the mountain range around Che Di Mountain, facing the direction of the Southern Wasteland Desert. Relying on the favorable terrain, they formed an impregnable defensive position.
On top of the fortresses, teams of cultivators were patrolling in an orderly manner. On the walls of the fortresses, giant crossbows, large magical tools, and other objects could be seen at intervals, emitting bursts of intense light.
From time to time, a few streams of light floated in the sky. Upon closer inspection, they were cultivators of various forces in different costumes. There were even dozens of people in small teams, reinforcing the various fortresses. Everything seemed to be in order.
This was all thanks to the establishment of the Southern Wasteland Alliance. In this short period of time, a relatively perfect system was formulated, completely rectifying the originally somewhat chaotic situation of Che Di Mountain.
In addition, the entire towering and majestic Che Di Mountain, starting from the mountainside, was shrouded by a layer of grey mist. The light curtain was faintly covered with mysterious runes. From a distance, it was hazy, making it impossible to see the situation inside the mountain.
On top of a fortress built on the mountain, a black light flew from a distance, circled in the air, and landed on a section of the wall.
The black light dissipated, revealing the figure of Liu Ming.
On the wall, the Heavenly Phenomenon Cultivator of Sky Demon Valley, Lion Roar, and more than a dozen cultivators were already standing here.
"Senior Lion Roar, and fellow cultivators, I'm sorry. I was refining a magical tool, so I was delayed, making you wait here for a long time." Liu Ming walked over quickly and said apologetically.
"We have just arrived, Liu, don't worry about it." Lion Roar waved his hand and said indifferently.
Beside Lion Roar, there were also three or four Crystal Level disciples in Sky Demon Valley's costumes. After seeing Liu Ming, they all cupped their hands and bowed to him. Naturally, Liu Ming would not put on airs and returned the greeting one by one.
In addition to the people of Sky Demon Valley, the rest of the people were dressed in different costumes. They should be cultivators of small and medium forces in the Southern Wasteland.
One of them was burly and had long fiery red hair. Impressively, he was a strong Jin Dan Advanced Stage cultivator.
Liu Ming had a deep impression of this person. He was the Brown Dragon Mountain Cultivator that he met on the day he arrived at Mount Che di.
The entire team, including Liu Ming, had a total of 4 Jin Dan cultivators, and the rest were Crystallization Period disciples.
"Since Liu has also arrived, let's make some preparations and set off. The other teams have already gone ahead," Lion's Roar said after looking around.
Naturally, no one had any objections.
The next moment, in the sky above the Che Di Mountain, which was getting darker and darker, the group of people turned into streams of flowing light, like a colorful cloud belt, and flew towards the Southern Wasteland Desert, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
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Ten days later, Liu Ming and the others finally arrived at the edge of the Southern Wasteland Desert after a long and arduous journey.
Liu Ming looked up, and he saw an endless desert in front of him. The sand was yellow and black, but at this moment, the entire desert was filled with raging winds. The huge wind pillars of ten meters soared into the sky from time to time, spinning wildly.
The black sand and dust that blotted out the sky almost covered most of the sky, making people feel as if there was no daylight.
Liu Ming understood what the so-called "Black Sand Day" meant.
"The black sandstorm has begun to rage. It's just the right time for us to hide our tracks. According to the intelligence of the alliance, the bad sandstorm will also affect the perception ability of the stemborers. However, don't be careless. Try to restrain your breath along the way. After all, this is an infiltration mission. Okay, let's go. " Lion's Roar turned his head and said to the others, then he flew into the black sandstorm with a yellow glow on his body.
Everyone looked at each other and cast mystic arts to conceal their spiritual power fluctuations. They only released a layer of protective light to resist the sandstorm, then they followed Lion's Roar and moved forward.
Along the way, under the powerful mental power of Lion's Roar, everyone bypassed the gathering places of the Stemborers one after another.
However, as they went deeper and deeper into the desert, the surrounding scenery also changed.
Because of the sandstorm, the surrounding light was very dim, and the sun above their heads was almost invisible. The black sand frequently hit the protective light of the cultivators, making a pitter-patter sound like rain hitting banana leaves.
At this moment, Liu Ming's body was suddenly surrounded by a layer of faint black gas, easily isolating the black sand and wind.
Other cultivators didn't dare to use magic weapons with strong spiritual power fluctuations to protect themselves because of Lion's Roar.
Facing such a fierce black sandstorm, several Jin Dan cultivators were still fine, but those Crystallization Period cultivators were obviously a little tired after a long time.
Lion's Roar, who was walking at the front, suddenly stopped and looked back at the people behind him. He waved his long sleeve and cast a small brown flag.
The small banner shone with a bright luster and its surface was enveloped by a dark-yellow halo. Following the lion's roar, the small banner released an earthen-yellow mist. The mist swelled up and enveloped the entire team of cultivators.
As soon as the raging sandstorm touched this brown mist, it disappeared without a trace like a clay ox entering the sea.
Everyone suddenly felt that their bodies were light, and those Crystallization Period disciples even showed a big sigh of relief.
Liu Ming's face also showed a trace of surprise. This yellow mist looked very inconspicuous, but it could so easily isolate the sandstorm. Moreover, the spiritual power fluctuation it emitted was so small that it was extremely difficult to be detected when mixed in the sandstorm.
"This is the Hidden Sand Flag. Although it is not a treasure, it is still effective in concealing spiritual power fluctuations." Lion's Roar glanced at the people around him and said.
Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this, and they all thanked Lion's Roar.
"You guys rest well. There will be a hard battle waiting for us later." Lion's Roar sneered and waved his hand. The Hidden Sand Flag rolled up everyone's body and flew toward the sandstorm.
After a while, they disappeared in the vast black sandstorm.
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The Southern Wilderness Desert was extremely vast, with an area of 100,000 miles. Liu Ming and others flew for half a day before gradually approaching their destination.
In their extremely blurred vision, the black sand and stones rushed toward them like a tide. Even with the protection of the yellow mist, there were ripples from time to time.
At this point, they had become even more cautious and were constantly adjusting their route to avoid the stemborers' colonies.
Fortunately, the black sand here was already very dense, and the speed was also extremely fast. It covered their tracks very well.
The concealment effect of the Hidden Sand Flag was very remarkable. Even the stemborers who were very close to them could not detect Liu Ming and the others in such a large black sandstorm.
There was even one time when dozens of stemborers flew less than a hundred feet away from Liu Ming and the others, but they still could not detect the presence of Liu Ming and the others.
In the yellow mist, everyone looked solemn, constantly vigilant of the surrounding situation.
When the group flew over a huge sand dune that was more than a hundred feet high, Liu Ming's expression suddenly changed.
In front of the sand dune, there was a huge blurry shadow moving straight toward them at an extremely fast speed.
A black light flashed in Liu Ming's eyes, and his vision instantly penetrated the sandstorm and saw the black shadow clearly.
It was a huge black stemborer that was around seventy to eighty feet tall. Compared to the human-faced stemborer that he had killed before, this one was slightly smaller, but its aura indicated that it was also a Jin Dan stage stemborer.
However, this stemborer was extremely strange. It had a pair of extremely powerful hind legs and a yellow and black carapace that occasionally leaked some green juice. When the black sand struck its body, it would emit a mist of green smoke. There were three extremely prominent eyes on its head, and they looked as if they were going to fall out of its body.
This praying mantis-like stemborer was able to instantly cover a distance of several hundred feet with a single stomp of its hind legs, as if it were flying. Each time it leaped, it would leave behind two huge pits that were around ten feet deep in the sand, completely unaffected by the violent sandstorm.
The appearance of this huge stemborer was extremely sudden, and before anyone could evade, it had already appeared less than three hundred feet away from Liu Ming's group. A cold light flashed through its three eyes, and it let out a sharp hiss as it stomped its hind legs against the ground, its body transforming into a streak of black light as it pounced forward.
Shi Hou frowned and waved a hand. The yellow flag above his head glowed with a brilliant light, and the yellow cloud expanded to ten times its original size, enveloping this strange stemborer.
"Quickly kill this stemborer, don't attract the attention of other stemborers," Shi Hou ordered, but he didn't take action himself.
Each and every action of a Celestial Phenomenon cultivator would cause violent fluctuations in the world's origin Qi, and if he were to attack, it would only attract the attention of other stemborers.
The other cultivators all rushed forward upon hearing this.
The praying mantis-like stemborer didn't care about the yellow cloud around it at all, and its body turned into a black phantom as it swooped toward Liu Ming, who was closest to it. Its two forelimbs were like machetes, and it slashed toward Liu Ming's body.
Liu Ming's eyes flashed, and he snorted coldly. His figure blurred, and in the blink of an eye, he appeared behind the praying mantis-like stemborer, and a black fist shadow suddenly smashed toward its head.
Before the fist even touched the giant stemborer, a suffocating and heavy fist pressure instantly swept toward it.
A trace of shock appeared in the eyes of the giant stemborer at this moment, but its reaction was also quite fast. Its body suddenly shrank, and it wanted to avoid this blow.
However, the next moment, the praying mantis-like stemborer found that as it moved its body, the black fist shadow also moved a little, like a shadow following its body, and landed precisely on its head.
The giant insect was shocked. Before the fist shadow touched its head, a layer of black light instantly appeared on its body, condensing into a weak black gas shield.
"Boom!" A muffled sound rang out!
The black qi shield was broken in response, and under the bombardment of a huge force, the praying mantis-like stemborer staggered back seven or eight steps, and countless streaks of blood instantly spurted from the surface of its entire head.
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