A Strange Riot
Not long after Li Yi and the others had left, Chu Xingyun felt the ground tremble violently. Turning his head, he saw countless spirit beasts running wildly towards him, their eyes shining with a scarlet light.
"Wind Thunder!" Chu Xingyun forcefully endured the intense pain coming from his body and swept his spirit sword across, exploding with the light of wind and thunder as he charged forward.
However, the number of spirit beasts was simply too great.
The light of wind and thunder sank into the horde of spirit beasts and instantly disappeared without a trace. The spirit beasts were still running wildly, their ferocious nature stimulated as they pounced towards Chu Xingyun like they'd gone mad.
Seeing the horde of spirit beasts draw closer and closer, Chu Xingyun's expression became ugly.
Li Yi's sword aura just now had not only injured his meridians, it had also severely injured his internal organs.
It would've been fine if they were in a safe place as Chu Xingyun could enter the Reincarnation Stone's internal space to recover. However, with the horde of spirit beasts running wildly towards him, he couldn't hold his breath and concentrate at all.
Rumbling trampling sounds rang out. Under Chu Xingyun's astonished gaze, a vigorous spirit beast with blood red fur suddenly charged out from within the horde of spirit beasts. Its body was like a tiger, but there was a single horn on its head. A grayish black aura swirled around its entire body. Everywhere it passed, the spirit beasts all avoided it, not daring to block its path at all.
"Earth Spirit Realm!" Chu Xingyun's face twitched. He was already surrounded by a horde of spirit beasts and was in grave danger. Now, an earth spirit level spirit beast had appeared!
The vigorous spirit beast charged out of the horde of spirit beasts and its scarlet eyes immediately locked onto Chu Xingyun. It roared angrily as the grayish black aura on its body blossomed, transforming into numerous wind blades that slashed towards him.
"I'll go all out!" Chu Xingyun gritted his teeth and raised Air Slayer high into the air.
Boom!
The wind blades descended, but were blocked by a ray of snow white light. When the two collided, they both turned into nothingness at the same time. Strong winds swept outwards, causing Chu Xingyun's robes to flutter wildly.
"This is … snow?"
Chu Xingyun opened his eyes wide and discovered that there were actually endless snowflakes floating down from the sky.
These snowflakes landed on the bodies of the vigorous spirit beasts, emitting cold air that condensed into pieces of frost, freezing the bodies of the spirit beasts and causing them to fall from the sky.
"Follow me!" A beautiful figure landed beside Chu Xingyun. Chu Xingyun looked over and saw that it was Xue Qingwu.
At this moment, she was like a fairy controlling the cold snow. With a flick of her hands, snowflakes quickly rushed towards the herd of beasts, causing a thick layer of frost to form on the ground, blocking the stampede of beasts.
"Let's go, I can't hold them back for long." Xue Qingwu said again, and Chu Xingyun immediately came back to his senses. He took a step forward, squeezed out the last trace of spiritual power in his body, and rushed out crazily.
Seeing this, Xue Qingwu's figure twisted and lightly left the battle circle, running out with Chu Xingyun.
Almost at the same time, cracking sounds rang out as the ice that had frozen the spirit beasts shattered. The herd of beasts had completely recovered and roared angrily, causing the entire forest to shake endlessly.
"It seems that we've escaped." Xue Qingwu looked behind her and finally heaved a sigh of relief when she saw that the herd of beasts hadn't charged over.
With her current level of training, it was still too difficult for her to deal with spirit beasts of the earth spirit realm. Being able to restrict them for a short period of time was already extremely good.
"Why did you save me?" Chu Xingyun looked at the devastatingly beautiful girl in front of him with some confusion in his eyes. He'd thought that Xue Qingwu also wanted to kill him, but who would've thought that she'd saved him at the critical moment.
Hearing Chu Xingyun's words, Xue Qingwu's expression froze. She didn't get angry, but instead lowered her head and said apologetically, "I misunderstood what happened a few days ago and treated you as a despicable person. Please forgive me."
"Hmm?" Chu Xingyun's gaze focused slightly.
He could feel that the apologetic look in Xue Qingwu's eyes was sincere and without the slightest bit of falsehood. She was truly deeply apologetic because of that misunderstanding.
"After I misunderstood you that day, I wanted to apologize to you. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to do so until just now when I saw that there seemed to be people fighting here. I hurried over and found you." Xue Qingwu said with some grievance. Seeing that Chu Xingyun was silent, she thought that Chu Xingyun was still blaming her and wasn't willing to forgive her.
Chu Xingyun felt the grievance in Xue Qingwu's eyes and no longer guarded against her. He said softly, "You were also deceived by Li Yi. Let's just forget about this matter."
Xue Qingwu's eyes lit up as she stared at Chu Xingyun. The grievance in her eyes immediately dissipated.
"Right, what's going on with this herd of beasts?" Chu Xingyun changed the topic as he pointed at the frenzied spirit beasts and asked.
He carefully observed for a moment. The riot of these spirit beasts seemed to be somewhat different from the beast tide.
The beast tide was when countless spirit beasts moved together. Like a brave tide, they destroyed everything in their path. No living creature could escape.
But the spirit beasts in front of them seemed to have gone mad. They were either killing each other or crazily colliding with each other. There was no pattern to it and it was fundamentally different from the beast tide.
"I'm not too sure about the specifics. I only know that in this Fog Forest, there will be a spiritual energy riot like this every once in a while. Furthermore …"
Xue Qingwu suddenly frowned and said solemnly, "The spirit beast riot this time appeared too suddenly and there were no signs at all. The spirit beasts that appeared have also become much stronger."
Chu Xingyun followed Xue Qingwu's gaze and saw that not far away, another herd of spirit beasts had appeared. Within the herd of spirit beasts, there were several spirit beasts of the Earth Spirit Realm that were killing each other.
Not only in front, left, right, almost every direction had a violent beast tide that completely surrounded them. There was no way to force their way out.
"In such a situation, we can only hold on." Xue Qingwu gritted her teeth and cold snowflakes spread out from her body. She said to Chu Xingyun, "I've already sent out a signal. There should be people coming to support us soon."
"I'm afraid we can't wait until then." Chu Xingyun looked ahead. At this moment, the surrounding spirit beasts had discovered their existence. They roared softly and were crazily running towards them.
The number of spirit beasts was so huge and there were even spirit beasts of the Earth Spirit Realm. Even if Chu Xingyun and Xue Qingwu's strength were extraordinary, they would probably be killed instantly.
"There's almost no spirit beasts over there. Let's escape over there." Chu Xingyun pointed to the back. That place was shrouded in thick fog and there were not many spirit beasts.
Xue Qingwu looked over there and her face instantly turned pale. She said, "That's the central region of the Fog Forest. It's always shrouded in fog. It's said that once one enters, one will lose all sense of direction and will never be able to leave. One will be trapped to death."
"Being trapped to death is still better than being eaten by the spirit beasts right?" Chu Xingyun said to Xue Qingwu seriously. Xue Qingwu's expression was a little awkward. Looking at the frenzied spirit beasts that were getting closer, her eyes constantly flashed with light of thinking.
"Let's go!" Finally, Xue Qingwu made a decision. The snowy shadow swept past and immediately wrapped around her and Chu Xingyun's body. Without looking back, they rushed into the thick fog.
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