The bottom of the hole had been cleared out, and even the ground had been roasted by Lu Ye's Fire Dragon Technique.
Several ropes hung down from above, and the cultivators with low cultivation used them to climb down. Of course, the main purpose was to make it easier for them to escape …
Small teams held torches as they moved deeper into the wormhole.
This was the first time the Blue Blood Sect had dealt with an insect tide, so there were two main tasks at hand. One was to find the location of the insect nest. As long as they found the nest, the rest would be easy.
The other was to explore the underground environment and draw a map of the underground space.
The insect tide would not be the only one and would appear again next time, but the location of the insect nest would definitely change. If they spent more effort to draw a map now, it would save them a lot of time and effort in the future.
When Lu Ye came down earlier, he had discovered that this underground space was connected in all directions and had many forks. It was comparable to the mineral veins in Evil Moon Valley. He did not know how such a complex terrain was formed.
Exploring such a complex environment would not work if there were fewer people.
Lu Ye was sincerely glad that after the battle at Spirit Creek, he had recruited many disciples and Rogue Cultivators for the station. Otherwise, he would have no one to use.
Suddenly, he remembered that Senior Sister Shui Yuan had mentioned before that since the Blue Blood Sect had opened the door to recruiting disciples, they might as well open it wider. She wanted Lu Ye to recruit as many disciples and Rogue Cultivators as possible, which was related to the future development of the Sect.
Now, it seemed that Senior Sister Shui Yuan had given Lu Ye such a suggestion because she had considered the insect tide.
Lu Ye urged his Spirit Qi to construct a huge Spirit Gathering Spirit Rune here. This place would become a place for the registered disciples and Rogue Cultivators to heal.
Hua Ci and the others would also stay here.
After doing this, Lu Ye was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, he recovered for a while and refined a few Spirit Pills to ensure that his Spirit Qi was abundant before he got up and walked inside.
Along the way, there was green insect blood everywhere, but there were no insect corpses as they had all been collected.
Soon, he came to the second fork and Lu Ye chose one at random to move forward.
The further he went, the more forks he encountered.
After an incense stick's worth of time, he came to an empty fork and took out the Mountain Plate Saber. He moved forward while killing insects, exploring the terrain and searching for the location of the insect nest.
At this time, in this underground labyrinth, the Blue Blood Sect's disciples and rogue cultivators were engaged in a fierce battle with the Insect Race.
The deeper they went, the larger the size of the Insectoids they encountered. Correspondingly, the stronger the Insectoids were. As such, it was inevitable that the disciples would be injured. Those who were injured immediately retreated back to the entrance of the cave. While receiving treatment from Hua Ci, they took out the map drawn by their team and handed it to Hua Ci.
Hua Ci was responsible for gathering all the scattered maps and drawing a complete map of the underground.
Their progress was quite smooth. Other than not being able to find the hive's location, every team had a good harvest. However, as the insectoids they encountered became stronger, casualties were inevitable.
The life of a cultivator was like this, filled with danger everywhere. Yesterday, they were drinking and chatting happily while thinking about their future companions, but today, they might become cold corpses.
A day later, Lu Ye, who was slaughtering his way through a fork in the road, received a message that he had found the insect nest. The more people there were, the higher the efficiency!
He immediately turned back and went back the way he came.
Half an hour later, below the entrance of the wormhole, Lu Ye returned covered in green blood.
Hua Ci helped him deal with the bloodstains on his body. Lu Ye used his spirit power to dry the moisture on his body. Under the illumination of the surrounding torches, he and Hua Ci arrived at a table.
There was a map on the table. This was the result of a day's worth of exploration by the seven hundred cultivators of the Blue Blood Sect.
From the map, it could be seen that there were many forks in the underground, and they were all twisting and turning without any pattern. Many of the forks were connected to each other.
The map was not complete, and there were many places that had not been filled in.
Hua Ci pointed at a location, "The insect nest is here, but that place is very dangerous. Chen Yu has already led a team there. Hu Po and Yi Yi are also there."
Lu Ye looked at the map in front of him and gradually formed a clear path in his mind.
He then looked at the other paths on the map and said, "According to Fourth Senior Brother, the insect nest is a very large underground space. This space is connected to many passages, and these passages will eventually converge towards the exit, which is where we are. If we look at it the other way around, no matter which path we take, it will eventually lead us to the insect nest!"
Therefore, if the entire map was completed, the lines that represented the forks would form the shape of a spindle. The two ends of the spindle would be the exit of the wormhole, and the other would be the location of the insect nest.
At present, the spindle was more than half drawn, which represented the progress of the Blue Blood Sect's cultivators. However, there was only one line that connected the two ends of the spindle, which was the line that represented the group that had found the insect nest.
The other lines were still in progress. Some were progressing very slowly because their overall strength was not high, but some were progressing quite well. They were almost reaching the underground space where the insect nest was.
"I'll go take a look at the insect nest first."
After Lu Ye said this, he turned around and went deeper into the wormhole.
Along the way, there was a burning torch on the cave walls at regular intervals. Almost every cultivator would have a lot of these common illumination items in their storage bags, because no one knew when they would need them. It was better to be prepared.
He was very fast, and in just half an hour, he could hear the sounds of a fierce battle in front of him, as well as Hu Po's roar.
Looking up, he saw flashes of light from spells and the fierce roar of a girl!
"It's a Seventh Layer insect, Yin Yin, stop it!" Chen Yu's voice rang out.
By now, everyone had a rough idea of the insect race's strength. The so-called Seventh Layer insect race was equivalent to a Seventh Order cultivator.
"I'm a girl, Senior Brother Chen Yu, you're going too far! Ah, I'll kill you! "
Lu Ye turned a corner and saw He Xiyin's body brimming with energy and blood. She was holding a huge shield in front of her. In front of her was a mantis that was even taller than her. It was waving its mantis knife and slashing at the shield. Every time the knife landed, He Xiyin's body would tremble.
Don't be fooled by He Xiyin's cute appearance, she was actually a body cultivator!
When Lu Ye had found out about this, he had been taken aback. He had no idea how such a small body could contain so much Blood Qi.
With her holding off the insectoid on the seventh floor, Chen Yu, Yi Yi, and the others naturally went all out. They unleashed one spell technique after another and killed the mantis in an instant.
However, what came after was one gigantic insect race after another.
"Retreat, there's too many of them!" Chen Yu roared. The commotion here had obviously alarmed the insect race in the insect nest. Several Seventh Layer insects and many Sixth and Fifth Layer insects rushed out.
Before Lu Ye's arrival, they had already retreated a great distance away from the battlefield.
"Body cultivators can only die standing, there's no way to live by retreating. I can still do it!" He Xiyin gritted her teeth. Suddenly, her body became light and she floated backward. "Huh?"
At that moment, she felt that someone had grabbed her collar and flung her away.
Landing lightly, she looked over and saw that there was an additional figure in her original position. There was a fiery red light flowing through the tunnel, and the insect race fell one by one.
When the long saber, imbued with spirit energy, slashed down, the Seventh Layer insect race that had leaped up high was split into two …
"Lu Ye!" Yi Yi cried out in surprise.
"Fifth Senior Brother!"
Shouts rang out. Lu Ye shook off the blood on his Mountain Pan Saber and nodded slightly. "Kill them first!"
With his reinforcement, the situation that was about to collapse immediately stabilized. Under the Imperial Artifact's light, the insect race died one by one, and the group pushed forward.
Lu Ye didn't use his saber again. Imperial Artifact was enough. He even had time to observe Yi Yi and Hu Po.
Hu Po had grown tremendously. Ever since he came to the Blue Blood Sect, he had been eating and drinking well, swallowing countless spirit pills every day. Every few days, he would run over to Lu Ye to ask for a blood line on his scales.
Right now, Hu Po's strength couldn't be directly judged. After all, he wasn't a cultivator. However, the Monster Qi fluctuations coming from his body in battle weren't the slightest bit inferior to a Sixth Order cultivator. Golden Monster Qi wrapped around his body, causing his entire body to shine with a golden light, giving him an awe-inspiring presence. When his tiger mouth bit down, the hard exoskeleton of the insect race would be crushed in a single bite. When his huge tiger claw landed, a dent would immediately appear on the insect race's body.
As for Yi Yi … At first, she wanted to learn medicine from Senior Sister Shui Yuan. Because Lu Ye was often injured, Yi Yi's biggest dream was to become a medical cultivator. That way, she could treat Lu Ye's injuries anytime and anywhere.
However, a dream was just a dream. After being beaten by reality, her dream was shattered. Because of this, Yi Yi was depressed for a few days.
After that, when Senior Sister Shui Yuan saw that she was too depressed, she suggested that she learn Spells from the Sect Master. Yi Yi didn't have much hope at first, but this opened the door to a new world …
Lu Ye never asked about Yi Yi's progress in learning Spells, but she spent most of her time by the Sect Master's side.
Until now, when he saw Spells blossoming in Yi Yi's hands …
In fact, in private, the Sect Master had praised Yi Yi's talent in the Dao of Spells more than once. He even speculated that Yi Yi should have been a Dao Cultivator before she turned into a Puppet Spirit. Many times, the Sect Master only had to teach her two or three times before Yi Yi could use Spells.
She was Hu Po's companion Puppet Spirit, so she was as strong as Hu Po was. Therefore, the strength she displayed now was equivalent to a Sixth Order cultivator.
Moreover, because she was a Spirit Body, she didn't have any affinity with the five elements. Therefore, no matter what Element Spell it was, she could use it.
Her biggest problem was the recovery of her own strength. As a Spirit Body, she couldn't take Spirit Pills. If she wanted to recover, she could only hide in Hu Po's body and refine his vitality.
Therefore, when Hu Po and Yi Yi combined, the source of their strength was Hu Po himself. This would increase Hu Po's consumption.
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