Sig Delifa rushed to the front and opened her spiritual energy defense wall to help Bai Xiaowen block the tide of insects.
Fortunately, the tunnel was relatively narrow. Sig Delifa fully opened her spiritual energy defense and sealed the tunnel within a three-meter radius, not giving the insects any chance to harass Bai Xiaowen.
The white waves crashed into Sig Delifa's spiritual energy defense wall like a dam.
"Sig Delifa, shrink your spiritual energy defense wall immediately and change from defense to offense!" Bai Xiaowen shouted.
Bai Xiaowen's eyesight was accurate. He could tell at a glance that these small insects were actually the same as the giant ice worms that appeared on the surface — the Ice Leeches! It was just that the difference in size was like heaven and earth. They could be seen as the larvae of the Ice Leeches.
This meant that the larvae of the Ice Leeches might also have the terrifying ability to absorb spiritual energy like the adult Ice Leeches.
Sure enough, Sig Delifa's spiritual energy defense wall became full of holes in an instant. A large group of Ice Leeches gnawed and sucked, leaving "holes" of various sizes.
Sig Delifa was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat — if undead creatures could also break out in cold sweat. She immediately obeyed Bai Xiaowen's order and shrank her defense wall. At the same time, she conjured a spiritual weapon. This time, she chose a horse-slaying long saber.
The spiritual long saber slashed out, and an arc-shaped blade wrapped in powerful spiritual energy slashed out.
However, when the arc-shaped blade landed among the larvae of the Ice Leeches, it didn't cause the expected damage. Under the careful observation of Bai Xiaowen's Eye of Evolution, the larvae of the Ice Leeches actually opened their small mouthparts in the face of the incoming spiritual energy attack. Countless mouthparts activated the innate ability of absorbing energy at the same time!
Although there was a huge gap in energy levels, and these larvae of the Ice Leeches couldn't absorb all of Sig Delifa's spiritual energy attack, it was no problem to weaken it by about three levels. Furthermore, they had devoured three layers to strengthen themselves, increasing their defense against spiritual power attacks by a lot.
As a result, Sig Delifa was only able to unleash forty percent of his spiritual power.
When the energy saber landed in the middle of the swarm, only a few dozen Ice Leech larvae nearby were killed. It did not have the effect of causing the swarm to retreat as expected.
"Master, what should we do?"
Sig Delifa repeatedly brandished his long saber to drive away the Ice Leech larvae that were pouncing on him while asking at the same time. She could no longer use her spiritual energy to attack. She could only use her most basic attacks, which were physical strength, to kill these insects.
Kitts was also shrieking, waving his sharp claws to help Bai Xiaowen drive away the larvae.
"Don't worry."
The Kusanagi Sword Soul appeared in Bai Xiaowen's palm, and with a gentle wave, a flame spread out. He wanted to test the effects of an elemental attack materialized from spiritual energy.
Amidst the clamor, the larvae opened their mouths in an attempt to turn the flame attack into the most primitive and delicious spirit energy and devour it.
Boom!
The flame swallowed up a small swarm of insects, and the larvae within were all burned black and withered, falling to the ground dead.
"Very good. Although these larvae can devour elemental attacks, the total amount they can devour has been greatly reduced, about ten percent. Therefore, the flame of True Origin can still burn them to death even though it has been weakened by twenty percent."
Bai Xiaowen had done his experiments and knew what to do.
Using flame attacks in this extremely cold environment consumed too much spiritual energy, so Bai Xiaowen raised his hand to summon Butcher.
Buzz buzz —
Large balls of green mist spread out from Butcher Paji's body.
Butcher's Rotting Poison Mist ability, which hadn't been used in a long time, was once again used.
Nowadays, the Rotting Poison Mist ability was no longer useful in many battles, but opening a path here produced a miraculous effect.
One by one, the pure white Ice Leech larvae turned dark green after inhaling the poisonous mist and then exploded. They could only absorb about ten percent of the Rotting Poison Mist's energy. In other words, Butcher's Rotting Poison Mist could still deal about eighty percent of the poison damage to them.
Butcher's Slaughterhouse ability when he was an Awakened had also been upgraded after becoming a Corpse Demon Overlord. He could recover a small amount of health and spiritual energy for every creature that died in the surroundings. Although the amount of recovery for a single creature wasn't high, there were just too many Ice Leeches.
Butcher opened a path in front, and Bai Xiaowen followed closely behind. Behind them, Sig Delifa and Kitts brought up the rear.
The reason Bai Xiaowen chose to be protected by the three summoned creatures was to reduce the consumption of True Origin. His True Origin could only be recovered through spirit crystals and primitive spirit energy, but the spirit energy of the summoned creatures could be replenished with the soul essence of Death's Visage. Comparatively, it wasn't that "valuable."
"Master, the further we go, the more Ice Leeches there are." Kitts noticed this trend and couldn't help but exclaim, "What do we do? Don't tell me this ruin is an insect nest."
"It's not that exaggerated." Bai Xiaowen's current spiritual perception range was extremely large. He could clearly sense that the path of the Ice Leeches was no more than two kilometers away.
Of course, two kilometers was already an insurmountable moat for many evolvers. After all, evolvers had to expend energy to use their abilities, and the Ice Leeches also had to devour a large portion of their spiritual energy value.
If they couldn't drive them away in time, these Ice Leeches would quickly crawl all over their body and suck away all of their spiritual energy.
Once their spiritual energy was exhausted, this kind of cold ice cave would quickly take away the evolver's ability to move, turning them into an ice sculpture. The premise was that the Ice Leeches weren't interested in flesh and blood. But looking at the sharp, thin teeth in their mouths, Bai Xiaowen didn't think they would eat wind and drink dew.
Butcher majestically charged through the tunnel, passing by chambers packed with Ice Leeches. He left a long, dark green trail behind him. Those were the corpses of the poisoned Ice Leeches.
Bai Xiaowen felt that the pores on Butcher's skin seemed to be breathing. They would absorb some energy from the corpses of the surrounding Ice Leeches to replenish their energy. Clearly, this was the manifestation of Butcher's "Slaughterhouse" ability in the evolver's world.
In this way, it wasn't just enemy creatures that died. Even the deaths of allies could be included in the Slaughterhouse's recovery range.
After charging for a while, Butcher's health value was still full. His spiritual energy value was also above 90%. It could be said that his combat strength was basically undamaged.
With such a killing machine opening the way, Bai Xiaowen and the other two could ride on his coattails. They still had time to look at the murals and collect the rest of the Divine Seal Obsidian.
Suddenly, Butcher's charging footsteps came to a halt. He had already followed the tunnel entrance and crashed into a spacious underground space.
"What is this place? Why isn't a single bug willing to come down?" Kitts asked curiously.
It could be seen from the changes in the tunnel. The closer they got to the underground space, the fewer Ice Leeches there were. Towards the end, only a few were slowly crawling.
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