Three years passed in the blink of an eye.
There were countless strange trees by a lake in the Sixty Thousand Mountains. They were ferocious and looked like monsters.
Every night, countless fluorescent lights would dance in the strange forest, painting the forest with a layer of color. It was as beautiful as the Milky Way. However, the craggy shadows cast in the forest were even more sinister and strange.
Seven or eight humanoid toddlers of different ages were running. Their skin was green, and their ears were long and slanted. Their eyes were black crystals, and their fangs popped out of their mouths.
From time to time, they would grab a jade-waisted slave with a beast's face and a butterfly's body and stuff it into their mouths.
Before the jade-waisted slave became an insect, its host was a human. After breaking out of its body, it had a human face. If the host was a beast, it had a beast face.
Its wings were as hard as steel, but they could not resist the toddlers. They did not seem to have the desire of ordinary life forms to survive.
A few adult herdsmen were not far away. Their skin was wrinkled, and they were nearing the end of their lifespans.
The herdsmen would grow up here when they were young. When they became adults, they would erase all emotions and live in different places.
When their lifespans were nearing the end, they would return to a burial ground and bury themselves. Only a few elders would stay here to take care of the toddlers.
At this moment, a herdsman was looking at the toddlers with a cold gaze. Suddenly, his expression changed, and he appeared in the distance.
At the same time, a huge rock broke through the air and smashed into the ground where he had been standing. Most of it had sunk into the soil.
A few herdsman elders looked up expressionlessly. They saw more than 10 burly men leaping from afar and landing in front of them.
"You bugs are really hard to find …" One of the burly men laughed sinisterly and waved the mace in his hand.
"Kill them!" Another burly man roared. He tapped his foot and charged toward a herdsman elder.
However, a person with a human body and legs that looked like entangled vines came out of the darkness and collided with the burly man.
A few herdsman elders stretched out their arms, and countless jade-waisted slaves formed a river of light and surged toward the burly man.
Just as the river of light was about to drown everyone, a flame ignited in the air. It covered a radius of nearly 300 meters and covered a large number of jade-waisted slaves.
Chains appeared in the air and formed a large net, binding the herdsman elders.
A few herdsmen twisted their bodies into extremely strange shapes and broke free from the layers of chains in the blink of an eye.
However, at this moment, a mirror appeared behind one of the Herders, and an arm stretched out from it.
The Herdsman was already retreating, but he didn't expect something like this to happen behind him. The arm instantly pierced through his chest.
The men didn't care about the jade-waisted slaves that filled the sky. They jumped high into the air and pounced toward the remaining herdsmen.
The chains enveloped the surroundings as if they were trapping the herdsmen and the men in an iron cage.
In less than a dozen breaths, the four Herder elders died one after another, leaving behind only the startled Herder child.
"Bring these little things back to Emperor Qi." Ma Hongyu walked out of the darkness step by step.
Following the death of a few herdsman elders, the jade-waisted slaves fell into chaos. Apart from a few who continued to attack, most of them started killing and devouring each other.
A green-clothed, white-bearded old man stretched out his hand and pointed. Chains appeared out of thin air and tied up a few Herder children.
"Tang Ge, search the surroundings with Dongguo Xun. The rest of you, go to the place where they live and investigate, "Ma Hongyu continued. In the darkness, many people followed her orders and headed in a certain direction.
A beautiful lady in a blue dress walked out of the mirror in the air and cupped her fists at Ma Hongyu.
In the shadow formed by the jade-waisted slaves and the strange wood, a figure crawled out. His entire body was as black as ink. Soon after, the ink faded, revealing a handsome young man with a frivolous expression.
These two people looked young, but they were actually Spirit Wheel experts with long lifespans. Their real age was more than 50 or 60 years old.
The earlier they attained the Spirit Wheel level, the younger they looked.
After making arrangements for everyone, Ma Hongyu ignored the ferocious people in Dayao's Martial Arts Hall. She walked to the mangled corpses of the herdsmen and remained silent for a moment. That day, they were ambushed by these herdsmen. Nearly half of the 30 experts were killed, and many of them were buried here.
Now, it took them some time to find their lair and exterminate them. First, they could stabilize the rear and finally head to the boundary between the two realms. Secondly, he could also comfort those experts who had perished at the hands of the enemy.
Although their friendship wasn't deep, they were all human experts and most of them came from Great Xia. Compared to the aboriginals, they were naturally closer.
Four hours later, everyone returned to the top of a mountain where the empress, more than 10 experts from the Martial Arts Hall, and the people from the Temple of Heaven were waiting.
Two experts who were good at concealment and investigation had previously investigated the herdsmen's hiding place. This elder was only here to raise children and wasn't dangerous. Therefore, he didn't have much protection.
In fact, there were only two Outsiders that were being controlled. One was the Ginseng Race, whose legs were like entangled vines, and the other was the Giant Arms Race, whose arms were like pillars and whose hind limbs were relatively short. They ran on all fours and moved very quickly.
This time, they dispatched nearly half of their manpower and took them down without any trouble.
The gathering place of these two races had already been destroyed a year ago, and this time, they were also killed.
In addition to the five herdsmen's children, there were many other discoveries, including the eggs of the jade-waisted slaves. They were crystal white and fist-sized. Every day, countless small, fish-like eggs would fall from them.
After peeling off the outer layers of eggs, they discovered that there was a pink and tender piece of meat inside, which was amazing.
As for this pink and tender piece of meat, everyone studied it for a few days and discovered that if it was placed near the jade-waisted slaves, a jade-waisted slave would attach itself to it every day. In just a moment, that jade-waisted slave would turn into ashes.
Presumably, the jade-waisted slaves were also food for this piece of meat.
Upon seeing this, the empress asked someone to capture some live jade-waisted slaves, that strange wood, and this piece of meat back to the capital.
"Now that most of the gathering places of the foreign races have been exterminated, the matter here is considered over. Next, we will head to the boundary between the two realms, "the empress instructed everyone.
Everyone was excited when they heard this.
The boundary between the two realms was extremely suitable for breakthroughs, and it was 100 times better than here.
Li Fu and the others used the wall of the two realms to cultivate. In just three years, two of them had broken through to the realm of opening heaven and earth, and the rest had also made great progress.
Everyone had been fascinated by this for a long time.
…
A few hundred kilometers away from Qu Xia City, a group of Kismet Heaven elites were lying in ambush on a cliff, draped in a net made of grass and leaves. Half of them were armed with longbows.
After waiting for a full two hours, two soldiers each carried a giant egg that was half the size of a human and climbed up from the cliff. They threw the giant egg to the ground, and a fishy smell spread out.
In less than an hour, two giant birds with a wingspan of more than 30 meters flew over from the distant sky. They seemed to have discovered that there was a change in their nest. Immediately, they let out a mournful cry and pounced toward the place where the giant egg had been smashed.
When they got close to a certain distance, the net was suddenly lifted. Hundreds of soldiers raised their longbows and shot a rain of arrows.
The two giant birds couldn't dodge in time and were immediately pierced by countless arrows.
Not only did the two giant birds not die, but they also didn't slow down in the slightest. Instead, they became even more ferocious, and their speed increased. A pair of giant claws swooped down on top of everyone's heads.
However, at this moment, dozens of sword gleams leaped into the air.
Blood and internal organs poured down.
A burly man who looked like a captain laughed and said, "This time, it went smoothly! We didn't let these two leopards escape. "
"I don't know what route they're going to clear. These birds and beasts can't be stopped, and not long after they cleared the route, more came from elsewhere," a soldier asked curiously.
"Heh, I only heard about this two days ago. It's said that as long as they clear a route, the Chamber of Commerce won't have to rely on walking to enter the mountain." The captain revealed a mysterious smile.
Everyone immediately became alert and looked over.
"If they don't walk, are they going to fly over?" Someone laughed.
"Hehe, they really flew over!" The captain's words were met with disbelief.
"You'll know when the time comes."
In fact, he didn't know much and had only heard a few words.
However, as he said this, everyone became even more curious.
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