Li Yao's head was dizzy. He was surrounded by utter darkness. Warehouses and pathways were collapsing and blocking everywhere. But new gaps and hollows had been ripped apart by the intense quakes, too. The water was squeezing and crashing while it was being torn apart, resulting in rapid undercurrents, swirls, and bubbles!
The area that he was in was both a maze and a cube. It had been utterly deformed after the series of quakes and collapses. The frenzied spiritual energy was swirling rapidly around him like ten thousand swirls. Even though he had unleashed his telepathic thoughts to the maximum, they were still swallowed by the swirls. It was barely possible for him to sense his surroundings.
The communication channel that he had established temporarily was buzzing nonstop. The communication between him and Lei Dahu had been completely cut off!
It seems that I have to find another way out. Thankfully, I have the complete map of the underground fortress. Although this area has collapsed, the entire underground fortress cannot have been destroyed. There must be a way out.
Li Yao was pondering when he suddenly held his breath. Instinctively, he sensed that the fault in front of him was full of danger, as if …
A mountain was crashing at him from below the ground!
Li Yao gritted his teeth and dashed to more than a hundred meters away in the mud-like flood.
The fault collapsed again, burying the place where he had been standing a moment ago. But a black, enormous shadow popped up from the collapsed rocks!
The shadow was dozens of meters long. More than half of it was drowned in the rocks, revealing only a couple of thick limbs that were full of thorns. The bumpy shell looked no different from rocks at first glance, but blood-freezing redness was beaming out of the joints of the shell, which looked like the stripes of a certain ferocious beast. ∧? ∀ ≠ ≈ Swamp Web
The translucent compound eyes suddenly glittered like clusters of crystals. Like enormous searchlights, they emitted a brightness that seemed to be tangible and covered Li Yao.
Li Yao secretly spat. He finally understood why such a massive collapse happened for no good reason.
It was the enormous apocalyptic beast lurking above the underground fortress. The Lustful Rock Spider!
Even Bai Xinghe, a Yuanying expert, had to conceal his spiritual energy and hide when he passed through the hunting area of the big guy. He didn't want to provoke it!
It seemed that the Nether River's diversion and the series of explosions in the underground fortress had affected the Lustful Rock Spiders' habitat.
Perhaps the place where it had been hibernating was no longer suitable for survival, or perhaps it had sensed the spiritual energy gushing out of the underground fortress. His appetite was piqued … In any case, this huge monster had also dived into the ground!
The Lustful Rock Spider was born with the ability to escape through the earth. The thick rock stratum might not be able to stop it!
"When enemies meet on a narrow path, only the brave will emerge victorious. Come on!"
Li Yao roared. The environment was so chaotic right now. Once the Lustful Rock Spiders forced them to another place, the path to the Star Prier's House might be completely blocked.
No matter what, he had to kill the monster and find the way to the Star Prier's House!
The Feathered Dragon Saber had yet to recover its battle saber form. It was still in the shape of a drill and unleashed tremendous spiritual energy blatantly, like a burning torch.
Li Yao gritted his teeth and decided to fight the Lustful Rock Spider to the death!
Right then, the rock stratum above his head crumbled again, and a giant pillar made of hair fell from the sky!
The giant pillar was the limb of a Lustful Rock Spider!
A second Lustful Rock Spider crawled out of the rock stratum!
More than half of the Lustful Rock Spider was buried deep inside the rock stratum. Only part of its body was exposed, and it was impossible to tell its size. Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
However, the limb that it extended out was already twice as thick as the first Lustful Rock Spider!
Li Yao's forehead was sweating. He sweated profusely.
"Well, as a matter of fact, a great man knows when to yield and when not to. It is not a bad idea to take a strategic detour once in a while."
The first Lustful Rock Spider was still motionless. It stared at Li Yao with its compound eyes.
Li Yao thought of something and suddenly felt that something was not right.
He scanned with his telepathic thoughts and discovered that the defense coating on the surface of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was almost gone, and the flexibility of the strengthened alloys was plummeting!
In other words, the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was quickly turning into a rock!
"Petrifying Mystic Light!"
Li Yao shuddered violently.
He had read many ancient books. He knew that in the Primeval Era, when the Chaos had just split apart, there used to be many kinds of beasts of the earth class that had terrifying abilities. They could forcibly inject a large amount of earth class spiritual energy into the bodies of other living beings in an extremely bizarre form through mystic rays, robbing them of their vitality and turning them into stone.
These stones were called fossils!
Experts and scholars in the world of cultivation had excavated many kinds of fossils, including countless powerful dinosaurs. Some of them were naturally formed, but the other part, whether it was geological structure or natural environment, could not be naturally formed. That was the masterpiece of these fierce beasts.
He did not expect this Lustful Rock Spider to be able to trigger the Petrifying Mystic Light. It was very likely that it was a descendant of a primeval beast that had been living underground for billions of years!
"Crash! Huala! Huala! "
Before the exclamation mark in Li Yao's heart faded away, another hundred Lustful Rock Spiders that were relatively small crawled out of the rock stratum.
The Lustful Rock Spiders were about the same size as Li Yao. They were extremely agile. Where Li Yao could crawl through, they could crawl through without any trouble. Where Li Yao could not crawl through, they could still crawl through with their earth escape arts!
"Run!"
There was only one thought in Li Yao's head.
It seemed that the Lustful Rock Spiders all belonged to the same group. Their habitat had been completely destroyed, and they had to migrate in search of a new place to live.
Of course, they had to store enough food during the migration!
Hiu! Hiu!
Two small Lustful Rock Spiders lunged at him from two sides. ≧ ≡ v ∧ v ≈. _ _ _.
Li Yao raised his hands and shot out two crystal bombs, blowing up the Lustful Rock Spiders with their liquids all over the place.
Right when he was relieved, thinking that the Lustful Rock Spiders were too vulnerable, he discovered that the liquids of the Lustful Rock Spiders after they exploded would significantly decrease the toughness and increase the fragility of the crystal suit the moment they touched it. It would turn gray and white, indicating that it was going to be fossilized!
"Motherf * cker, these are self-detonating bombs!"
Li Yao was caught unprepared. One of the power rune arrays of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was contaminated by the liquids of the Lustful Rock Spiders. Very soon, it turned into a rock and lost all power.
No wonder even Bai Xinghe was unwilling to deal with the worms!
Li Yao did not hesitate anymore. He released almost a hundred crystal bombs, but they did not explode. Instead, they were freezing rune arrays that froze the water in front of him into ice.
"Kacha kacha!"
The ice was shattered into pieces by the Lustful Rock Spiders within one second. A soul-stirring chase unfolded in the utter darkness!
Li Yao secretly complained. He did not have the time to figure out where he was at all as he ran crazily in the maze-like underground fortress.
If he was slightly slower, a few Lustful Rock Spiders would have caught up with him, and he would have been faced with a tricky battle.
The small Lustful Rock Spiders did not have a high combat ability, but they would automatically explode when they were heavily wounded. The liquids that splashed out were like dry cement. Even the slightest bit of it would be enough to seal one of the rune arrays on the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit.
The two enormous Lustful Rock Spiders, on the other hand, were nowhere to be seen. They did not show up for a long time.
Right when Li Yao took a breath in relief, thinking that he had gotten rid of them, the two enormous Lustful Rock Spiders would suddenly jump out from his front, back, left, and right, turning everything around him upside down!
According to Bai Xinghe, the Lustful Rock Spiders searched for the enemy with their spiritual waves. As long as they did not spread out any spiritual waves, they would not be detected.
Li Yao had considered taking off the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, suppressing all his spiritual energy, pretending to be an ordinary person, and hiding in a corner.
But after hesitating for a long time, he still did not have the courage.
Right now, the Lustful Rock Spiders were right behind him and shooting the Petrifying Mystic Rays at him nonstop. He was only holding on with his spiritual shield and the Crystal Suit.
If he took back the Crystal Suit and concealed his spiritual energy, turning himself into an ordinary person, his skin would probably turn into stone when the Petrifying Mystic Rays glanced at him!
Running like this is not going to work out!
Maybe because Li Yao had blown up two Lustful Rock Spiders, or maybe because the spiritual waves emitted by the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit were more intense than those of the other Crystal Suit, the Lustful Rock Spiders were chasing Li Yao closely.
After more than thirty Lustful Rock Spiders were slain, the rune arrays on the surface of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit gradually turned into rocks. Its performance was plummeting.
Li Yao gritted his teeth. If he ran around like a headless fly, he would certainly be killed.
Although he had a complete map of the underground fortress, the problem was that he did not know where he was.
I need to calculate quickly!
Li Yao condensed the routes that he had run just now into a map and compared them with the channels in the underground fortress.
Most of the routes he had taken were straight lines, which were not unique enough. After the analysis, the crystal processor output seven possible coordinates where he was.
Having no other choice, Li Yao could only turn around and run in circles at the risk of being 'corrupted' by the Lustful Rock Spiders.
After circling around three times, he collected enough topographical features to determine his exact coordinates on the map.
I'm at the southeast corner at the bottom of the underground fortress. There's still a long way to go to the Star Prier's House. I'll have to pass through more than half of the underground fortress before I reach it.
Besides, the Lustful Rock Spiders are right behind me. Even if I'm lucky enough to reach the Star Prier's House, I might not be able to get rid of them.
It will be terrible if the animals break into the Star Prier's House!
Li Yao did not want the Star Prier's House to be destroyed, not just because Lei Dalu and Bai Kaixin were probably hiding in the Star Prier's House to treat their wounds. More importantly, the three hundred crystal processors in the Star Prier's House could search for the coordinates of many Sectors. They were his hope to return to the Tian Yuan Realm.
In any case, the hope could not be destroyed!
Until he got rid of the Lustful Rock Spiders, he could not risk approaching the Star Prier's House.
Is there any place nearby where I can hide from the Lustful Rock Spiders?
Li Yao glanced at the important nodes on the map of the underground fortress. Eventually, he stopped at the deepest part of the underground fortress, where the coordinates were obviously added later.
Li Yao discovered that the secret training room that he and Yan Xinjian were in was right next to him. (To be continued.)
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