As soon as Lu Ye moved, he immediately attracted the attention of many Spirit Sea Realm cultivators. Soon, some of them followed him silently.
More and more people gathered.
Those Spirit Sea Realm cultivators who insisted on observing the situation didn't stop them. They could express their opinions and stand by their own judgment, but they wouldn't rashly interfere with others' actions. This was the principle of living in this world.
Lu Ye didn't care about the people following behind him. To him, it didn't matter even if he was alone.
After rushing into the insect nest, he immediately found a passage and rushed straight down.
As soon as he entered the insect nest, he noticed that something was wrong. This hive was fundamentally different from the hives he had encountered before.
The passages inside the insect nests he had encountered before were just simple insect tunnels. They were tunnels opened up underground by the Insect Race to make it convenient for them to enter and exit.
However, the insect tunnel here was surrounded by a layer of meat walls. Meat walls were usually only seen in the core of an insect nest and were not present in the insect tunnels. However, the insect tunnel in this insect nest was actually covered with meat walls, which was somewhat unusual.
As he rushed, he pulled out the Mountain Coiling Saber and dragged it along. The sharp blade cut open the meat walls, and immediately, a fishy smell spread out.
Lu Ye checked his Talent Tree and found nothing abnormal. This meant that the smell was simply unpleasant and not poisonous.
There was also nothing leaking out from the meat walls. It was no different from the meat walls Lu Ye had seen in the core of the insect nests before.
He continued to go deeper, with a large number of cultivators following behind him.
Along the way, there were no traces of battle, nor did they encounter any Insect Race.
It's different from the other hives. It's inside the other hives.
It was necessary to go deeper, but here, there was no obstruction.
However, Lu Ye felt uneasy in his heart.
After all, if things had gone so smoothly, the Ninth Order cultivators would have solved the problem long ago.
So far, Lu Ye still didn't know what kind of enemy they had encountered.
After a few dozen breaths, a sudden change occurred.
The meat walls around suddenly squirmed rapidly and then expanded. In the blink of an eye, the entire insect tunnel was filled.
Lu Ye felt that he was wrapped in a piece of rotten meat in an instant. His mouth and nose were filled with a fishy smell, and there was a soft and sticky feeling all around him.
Exclamations sounded.
He wasn't the only one who was trapped in the wall of flesh. All of the cultivators following behind him were also caught in the same situation.
In a split second, the violent spiritual energy fluctuated chaotically. Everyone was trying their best to break free from the shackles of the meat wall.
Lu Ye pulled out his saber with great difficulty. As his spiritual power surged, he used the third move of the Tyrant Saber, Lotus Sun.
Dazzling light bloomed, and the incomparably sharp saber light exploded like a blooming lotus. With him as the center, the saber light cut through the void.
The feeling of being bound instantly disappeared, and a huge hole was immediately cleared out in the wall of flesh surrounding him.
However, as soon as he escaped, before he could do anything else, the empty hole was once again filled up by the squirming flesh wall, and the feeling of being squeezed and restrained came from all directions again.
The restraining force was very strong. It felt as if someone was holding him in the palm of his hand. Even his breathing became difficult.
Cultivators below the Spirit Sea Realm would probably explode under such a restrictive force. Even Spirit Sea Realm cultivators would be in trouble if their cultivation was low and their physique wasn't strong enough.
Lu Ye could feel the sounds of several lives withering behind him, mixed with a few short screams.
Someone had already met with misfortune.
This was truly a failure. They were supposed to support the Ninth-Order Realm masters who were fighting, but as soon as they entered the Insect Nest, they had already suffered losses.
Lu Ye was fine for the time being, but he could clearly feel that the restraining force around him was getting stronger and stronger. If he didn't find a way to get rid of the meat wall, sooner or later, he wouldn't be able to bear it.
In fact, in the face of such a crisis, the best way to deal with it was to summon the Dragon Throne, but he was completely wrapped in the meat wall at the moment, so there was no space for it. Moreover, the tunnel under the insect nest wasn't very wide, so it wouldn't be easy to use the Dragon Throne.
"Retreat! Retreat!" Someone shouted from behind.
After just a short contact, everyone realized the seriousness of the problem. It wasn't too difficult to destroy the meat wall surrounding them. After all, everyone was in the Spirit Sea Realm, so their methods were quite sharp.
But the key was that this thing was growing too fast. Even if it was destroyed, it would regrow in an instant and continue to wrap people up. In such a situation, not to mention reinforcements, even self-preservation would become a problem in the long run.
So, if they wanted to survive, they had to retreat quickly.
Lu Ye didn't retreat. Not only did he not retreat, but he also moved forward, but even the power of the Third Style of the Tyrant Saber could only buy him a breath of time. After that, he would be wrapped up by the meat wall again.
At this moment, he was thinking about a question in his heart. When the Sect Master and the others entered, did they encounter such a thing?
They shouldn't have, otherwise, they would have already informed the people outside. When the Sect Master and the others came, they didn't encounter such an attack, but he and the others did. This kind of differential treatment was obviously not an instinct of the insect nest, but rather a consciousness controlling it!
This consciousness obviously didn't want anyone to come and disturb the situation, so it wanted to make them retreat.
This was also the reason why Lu Ye advanced instead of retreating. No matter what this consciousness was, if it wanted him to retreat, he had to advance. At this time, only by singing a different tune would he have a chance to succeed.
However, there was one thing worth rejoicing over. The reinforcements didn't go too far before the meat wall reacted.
If they really went too deep, they might not even have room to retreat. At that time, they would inevitably suffer heavy casualties.
Was this consciousness merciful? Obviously not. There was only one explanation for such a situation.
The consciousness didn't dare to use the meat wall to bind too many cultivators, so it launched an attack when the reinforcements didn't go too far.
Why was this happening?
Lu Ye felt that if he could figure out this problem, it would be very helpful for his next operation.
He spread out his spiritual force and monitored his surroundings. At the same time, he kept waving his saber and trudging forward with difficulty.
In this constant confrontation with the meat wall, Lu Ye discovered one thing, which was the flow of vitality.
Cultivators were very sensitive to vitality, especially Lu Ye, who had refined a drop of sacred blood in the Blood Refinement Realm's blood river. After receiving the Blood Race's inheritance, his perception of vitality was much more sensitive than ordinary cultivators. This was because many of the Blood Race's blood techniques were basically performed based on their own vitality, especially the Blood Refinement Technique.
The meat wall could quickly regenerate after being destroyed. This was obviously replenished by vitality. In other words, he was constantly destroying the meat wall to consume the vitality contained in the insect nest.
He came to a sudden realization. No wonder the consciousness didn't want too many cultivators to enter. Every cultivator's destruction of the meat wall was a consumption of vitality.
The sect master and the others were fighting with an unknown enemy in the depths of the insect nest. They would definitely cause a great deal of damage to the meat wall, which required vitality to replenish.
The consciousness was able to cause the most elite group in the Nine States to fall into a predicament. It was most likely relying on its vast and endless vitality, so it didn't want to waste its vitality on other cultivators. This was why they retreated.
Lu Ye vaguely felt that he had grasped a key point. Vitality might be the deciding factor in this battle! While he was trudging forward in the insect nest's tunnel, many cultivators gathered outside the insect nest. Many of them had a lingering look on their faces.
After cultivating for so many years, none of them had encountered such a strange scene. If they hadn't retreated quickly, they would have been completely wiped out.
Even so, several people died in the tunnel. "Did they all come out?" someone asked.
"There's still someone inside."
The situation was very obvious because there were fluctuations of spiritual power coming from inside.
Everyone looked around and immediately understood who was still in the passageway.
Blue Blood Sect's Lu Yi Ye!
The reason why they were able to judge so quickly was naturally because Lu Ye was the one leading the group, leaving a deep impression on them. Everyone who was still alive had already retreated, but he was the only one missing.
Where he was, the situation was already very clear.
"Does he … not want to retreat?" Under everyone's perception, they didn't feel that Lu Ye had any intention of retreating. Instead, he was slowly moving forward.
It was inevitable that people would sigh in admiration at the boldness of such a skilled individual.
However, such a reckless move obviously wouldn't have a good end. Even if he really succeeded, how much help could he provide to those Ninth Order cultivators on his own?
For a moment, everyone was anxious. They had planned to go deep into the insect nest to provide support, but now they couldn't, which was really embarrassing.
Inside the insect nest tunnel, Lu Ye stopped what he was doing. He couldn't go on like this. He didn't know how deep the Sect Master and the others were, and with his current speed, how long would it take him to reach them? Moreover, doing this would consume a lot of his spiritual power. Before he could reach them, he would probably die of exhaustion.
He had to think of another way.
As soon as he stopped, the surrounding meat walls quickly wrapped around him, as if they wanted to swallow him completely.
Lu Ye's heart sank. Let's see who would be able to swallow who. If his previous speculation was correct, then even if he didn't rush to the battlefield where the Sect Master and the others were, he could still play a role.
Letting the meat walls wrap around him, Lu Ye urged the power of his Talent Tree.
In an instant, roots invisible to the naked eye emerged from the surface of his body and pierced into the meat walls.
At this moment, Lu Yemeng opened his eyes because he could clearly feel the surging vitality contained within the flesh wall.
Looking at the current Nine Provinces, the individuals with the greatest vitality were undoubtedly Ninth Order Body Cultivators, such as the Sect Master.
However, even the life force within the Sect Leader's body couldn't be compared to the life force Lu Ye sensed. There was no comparison at all.
Not only was this vitality enormous, but it also gave off a different feeling, as if it was an existence beyond Lu Ye's comprehension, an existence above the Spirit Sea Realm!
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