At that moment, Xia Ruofei suddenly felt a sense of danger that he had never felt before.
His whole body trembled, and his mind became clear.
At the same time, Xia Ruofei also saw that Ling Qingxue was moving uncontrollably towards the strange plant. It was as if she had forgotten where she was. She had completely let go of her hands and was about to walk over.
Xia Ruofei immediately broke out in a cold sweat. He grabbed the protrusion of the rock wall with one hand and grabbed Ling Qingxue's extravehicular spacesuit with the other. At the same time, he shouted, "Qingxue!"
Xia Ruofei's shout contained mental power. Ling Qingxue's mind became clearer, but there was still a trace of confusion in her eyes.
At that moment, Xia Ruofei saw from the corner of his eye that there was a pair of cold eyes staring at him about one or two meters away from the vitality shield that he had put up. The eyes were emotionless, and Xia Ruofei felt as if he had been splashed with ice water. He felt cold from head to toe, and his whole body was a little stiff.
Moreover, Xia Ruofei could clearly see that the pair of eyes came from a huge triangular head. The scales on the head were faintly visible in the fog.
At that moment, Xia Ruofei's hair stood on end.
He had never felt such a huge sense of danger before.
However, Xia Ruofei's mental fortitude was still very strong. He did not become weak because of the sudden danger. On the contrary, his brain was abnormally active at this moment. In just a moment, countless thoughts had flashed through his mind.
His first reaction was to directly use his mind, and an invisible force acted on Ling Qingxue's body.
At that moment, Ling Qingxue's mind was still in a confused state. There was no resistance at all. Xia Ruofei easily sent Ling Qingxue into the Ring-Tu space.
Of course, Xia Ruofei was already prepared for this. Therefore, Ling Qingxue was sent into an independent space that he had created in the Mountain Sea Territory.
This independent space was very small. It was surrounded by thick fog, and there were many layers of space outside.
Xia Ruofei had already considered this. It was to deal with this extreme situation so that he could protect Ling Qingxue as soon as possible.
With such an arrangement, even if Ling Qingxue's mental power had broken through to the Spirit Gathering realm, she could not see through the layers of space. After several distortions, even if she used her mental power to investigate, she could not sense the situation in the Ring-Tu space at all.
As for the naked eye, she could not see anything.
Furthermore, the thick fog that Xia Ruofei had deliberately set up was somewhat similar to the thick fog at the bottom of the cliff. In her confusion, Ling Qingxue could not even sense the changes in her environment.
After Xia Ruofei sent Ling Qingxue into the Ring-Tu space, he did not have to worry about anything.
This was only the first movement that he completed in the blink of an eye. Then, he controlled the Qu Shuang Flying Sword and silently activated the sword technique. Without hesitation, he flew up rapidly on the flying sword at an extreme speed.
When the giant snake head appeared, Xia Ruofei had already sensed the extreme danger.
He completed these two movements in only one or two seconds.
Of course, Xia Ruofei did not forget to maintain the protective shield at all times. He knew very well that in such an environment, once the vitality shield dissipated, he would not be able to last more than two minutes with the spacesuit alone.
If he really came into direct contact with the poisonous fog, no matter how strong or talented Xia Ruofei was, there would only be one outcome — his corpse would not even be left.
The Golden Thread Nether Snake had the strength of a cultivator at the peak of the Advanced Golden Core realm. If Xia Ruofei faced it head-on, he would definitely not be able to defeat it.
He had been very careful about the situation around him, but he did not expect that he would not notice it at all.
Xia Ruofei did not know whether it was the two fruits that had confused his mind, causing him to not notice the Golden Thread Nether Snake nearby.
It was also possible that the Golden Thread Nether Snake had been hiding nearby all this time, but Xia Ruofei's mental power did not detect it at all.
In any case, such a dangerous demon beast was only three or four meters away from him. Xia Ruofei knew very well what this meant.
Therefore, apart from protecting Ling Qingxue, his first reaction was to distance himself from the other party as soon as possible.
In reality, Xia Ruofei did not see the full appearance of the monster, but just a glimpse was enough to make him feel extreme danger. Therefore, his intuition told him that it was the Golden Thread Nether Snake. Moreover, he did not hesitate at all and immediately made a move to escape.
When Xia Ruofei received the mission, he knew that it was very difficult, but he still risked many dangers to climb down. However, he did not want to confront the Golden Thread Nether Snake directly. He hoped to use some of the auxiliary methods of a cultivator, such as formations and magic treasures, to deal with the Golden Thread Nether Snake. Therefore, under such circumstances, he did not have any second thoughts other than to escape first.
The Golden Thread Nether Snake was extremely fast. This was already explained in the mission prompt from the Perceptive Mirror. Xia Ruofei was also mentally prepared. However, when he really faced the Golden Thread Nether Snake, Xia Ruofei realized that he had underestimated the beast's speed.
Xia Ruofei put Ling Qingxue into the Ring-Tu space for protection, then immediately stepped on the flying sword and climbed up with all his strength. The entire process took only one or two seconds. It could be said that he had started one step earlier than the Golden Thread Nether Snake.
However, he had only flown a dozen or so meters when he felt the threat of death.
Immediately after, Xia Ruofei felt that the vitality shield he had put up was like an eggshell that had been hit by a sharp stone. It immediately shattered.
The poisonous fog suddenly swept over.
At the same time, Xia Ruofei was surprised to see that the Golden Thread Nether Snake's huge triangular head was only about two meters away from him. The huge snake's body was faintly visible in the fog, like a huge dragon shuttling through the fog.
The poisonous fog was also extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, it enveloped Xia Ruofei. He could clearly feel that his spacesuit was rapidly corroding.
For the first time, Xia Ruofei felt that death was so close to him.
At this time, if Xia Ruofei hesitated for a second, he would either be buried in the snake's belly or fall off the cliff. Soon, his spacesuit would be corroded completely. When that happened, he would die an even more miserable death.
At this critical moment, Xia Ruofei thought of the only way in a desperate situation.
With a thought, the Spirit Map Scroll instantly appeared in his palm.
Then, Xia Ruofei used all his strength to throw the Spirit Map Scroll in the direction of the mountaintop. At the same time, he directly entered the Ring-Tu space's Primordial Realm with a thought.
The Spirit Map Scroll itself was not heavy, and it was very small. The strength of a Golden Core cultivator throwing it with all his might was quite astonishing.
Therefore, from the perspective of the Golden Thread Nether Snake, the human who had fallen into a desperate situation had disappeared into thin air. Only a scroll was whizzing upwards. It was so fast that the Golden Thread Nether Snake had no time to react. It could only see a shadow. In the blink of an eye, the scroll had become a small black dot in its vision.
Xia Ruofei's disappearance in the first place had already stunned the Gold Thread Nether Snake for a moment, and in that moment, the Spirit Map Scroll had already risen a hundred meters. Furthermore, its momentum had not decreased by much, and it was still flying upwards at an extremely fast speed.
The Gold Thread Nether Snake quickly came back to its senses and let out an angry hiss. Its huge snake body twisted slightly, and then it directly jumped up. It followed the cliff as if it was walking on flat ground, and quickly chased up. Its hard scales seemed to have suction cups, and the steep cliff could not stop it at all.
As the Gold Thread Nether Snake moved quickly, the rocks on the cliff fell down with a crackling sound. Wherever it passed, a shallow gully was formed.
This was just the Golden Thread Nether Snake's explosive speed, leaving behind a ravine when it passed by the cliff. It was obvious how powerful its body was.
Xia Ruofei's mind was still extremely calm when she was facing a direct test of death.
It could be said that he had made the only right choice. Furthermore, he did not forget to enter the Archean realm at the last moment and not the Mountain Sea realm.
As there was a thirty-fold difference in the flow of time inside and outside, Xia Ruofei sensed the situation outside in a thirty-fold slow motion after entering the Primordial Realm in the Spirit Map's space. This gave him a lot of time to react.
He immediately used his mental strength to investigate the outside. From his point of view, the entire world was spinning at a slow speed. At one moment, he saw the eternal sky in the trial tower space. At another moment, he saw the cliffs shrouded in clouds. At another moment, he saw the Golden Thread Nether Snake's huge triangular head slowly approaching …
This was because Xia Ruofei had grabbed one end of the Spirit Map Scroll and thrown it with all his might. Therefore, it was actually spinning rapidly in the air. If not for the thirty-fold difference in time, Xia Ruofei's vision would have been a rapidly spinning world that was constantly upside down.
Xia Ruofei's first concern was still the safety of the Spirit Map Scroll.
It must be known that after the Yuan Qi barrier was shattered by the Golden Thread Nether Snake, the Spiritual Map Scroll was directly exposed to the poisonous mist. Even though Xia Ruofei was very confident in the Spiritual Map Scroll, the mist was indeed too frightening, so he was faintly worried that the Spiritual Map Scroll would be corroded.
Therefore, after Xia Ruofei entered the array formation, the first thing he did was check the Spirit Map Scroll's condition.
What made him feel slightly relieved was that the Spirit Map Scroll didn't seem to be affected by the poisonous clouds. Even the surface of the scroll showed no signs of corrosion.
It wasn't just that, Xia Ruofei was even able to sense that the Spirit Map Painting seemed to be absorbing the poisonous mist in the surroundings on its own, and this caused him to be unable to help but be slightly shocked.
The Spirit Map Scroll easily absorbed a lot of the poisonous clouds. Xia Ruofei could sense that the density of the clouds around the scroll had clearly decreased. However, when he tried to sense it again, he couldn't figure out where the poisonous clouds went after being absorbed.
Xia Ruofei frowned slightly. Then, he immediately extended his hand and grabbed the time array flags. He quickly set them up in the small square in the Archean Realm.
Soon, the time array was set up.
Xia Ruofei did not hesitate to enter the array formation's range.
This way, there was a time difference of about two thousand times between him and the outside world. This gave him enough time to investigate the situation outside and think of a countermeasure.
Now, when Xia Ruofei tried to sense the outside world again, he realized that everything seemed to have frozen. If he didn't carefully investigate and compare, he wouldn't even be able to sense that the Spirit Map Scroll was spinning.
This was because the difference in the flow of time inside and outside was just too great. Now, in the time array Xia Ruofei was in, every half an hour was only a second in the outside world.
This way, Xia Ruofei finally had enough time to think of a countermeasure.
He let out a long sigh and sat down cross-legged in the array formation. He began to think about how to escape and how to deal with the Gold Thread Nether Snake.
Although he had personally experienced the terror of the Gold Thread Nether Snake, Xia Ruofei still had no intention of giving up.
As long as there was a chance, Xia Ruofei would do his best to complete the mission.
However, the Gold Thread Nether Snake's strength was so astonishing that Xia Ruofei couldn't find a good way to deal with it.
The Perception Mirror's introduction of the Gold Thread Nether Snake was very limited. As a result, Xia Ruofei had underestimated it.
Xia Ruofei even thought that the Gold Thread Nether Snake was about the same as the ordinary venomous snakes on Earth, but he never expected that just its size alone would make Xia Ruofei gasp. Some species of pythons on Earth were clearly inferior to the Gold Thread Nether Snake in terms of size.
The mission prompt only mentioned the Gold Thread Nether Snake's characteristics. In particular, it said that the Gold Thread Nether Snake had three one-inch golden lines on its head. This caused Xia Ruofei to misunderstand. He didn't expect that the three one-inch golden lines would be almost undetectable compared to the snake's enormous head. Therefore, he made a wrong judgment about the Gold Thread Nether Snake's size.
Pythons with enormous bodies were mostly non-venomous. However, the Gold Thread Nether Snake was not only enormous in size, but also highly venomous. This could be seen not only from the Perception Mirror's introduction, but also from the shape of its head. Generally, snakes with triangular heads were highly venomous.
Xia Ruofei had obtained many ancient books about the world of cultivation from the Jade Talisman of Inheritance. Among them, there was an introduction to many kinds of monsters that had once existed in the world of cultivation. Of course, many monsters had gone extinct. At least on Earth, they had completely disappeared.
In these ancient books, Xia Ruofei couldn't find any introduction to the Gold Thread Nether Snake at all.
Originally, Xia Ruofei wanted to obtain more detailed information, especially the Gold Thread Nether Snake's weakness, so that he could think of a way to deal with it. However, there was no record of the Gold Thread Nether Snake in those ancient books, and the mission prompt from the Perception Mirror was also vague about the Gold Thread Nether Snake. Therefore, it was more difficult for Xia Ruofei to find the snake's weakness.
Xia Ruofei didn't know that in a secret space filled with dense purple gas, the old man wearing a green Taoist robe was constantly paying attention to the situation on the sixth floor of the Tower of Trials.
When he saw Xia Ruofei's series of actions that seemed to be completed reflexively without using his brain, he couldn't help but secretly nod.
It had to be said that Xia Ruofei's ability to adapt was very strong.
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