Please bring your best friends to practice immortality

Chapter 856 Flying Insects
Of course, not everyone is unaware of this. It is said that a former chief of the half-snake tribe once used the power of the compass to enter the second floor when the original compass was still available. It was because the chief abused the compass that time that the compass lost its spiritual power prematurely and could no longer be used. The four replicas that followed were made by that chief.

"Besides this Heavenly Gang and Earthly Evil Formation, are there any other obstacles leading to the secret treasure cave?"

Pu Yanlan asked, and the sturdy man shook his head slowly.
"There are one hundred and eight peaks. As long as you can climb over them, you will reach the cave..."

Pu Yanlan looked at the sturdy man's stunned expression, and suddenly an idea came to her mind and she asked,
"Did you destroy the original compass?"

The strong man shook his head.

"No... that is a holy object passed down by our ancestors. We have been worshipping it in our ancestral land..."

"Where is the ancestral land?"

"The ancestral land is at the foot of the holy mountain..."

The Holy Mountain is the highest peak where the secret realm is located. These half-snake people used to live at the foot of the mountain to guard the treasure, but later with the increase in population and after this world became independent, there were no other tribes competing with them for territory, so the half-snake people scattered to various places and spread out. However, there are not many people left in the place where their ancestors originally lived!
Pu Yanlan nodded slightly and turned to discuss with Cai Heming.

"Elder Cai, what should we do next?"

According to Pu Yanlan's intention, she naturally wanted to rescue the other cultivators trapped in the formation first, but Cai Heming shook his head.

"It's not that I covet the treasure and disregard the lives of my fellow travelers. It's just that this formation is too huge. Even if thousands of troops were trapped in it, it would be difficult to find them, not to mention the people we are traveling with. It will take a lot of time and effort to find them. There is a 90% chance that we will not find them and instead get trapped in it and cannot extricate ourselves. I think we should go look for treasure first!"

The rest of the people nodded. Although this was a bit heartless and ungrateful, it was the most appropriate way to judge the situation. Yan Rufeng and several other Tianyi Sect members also nodded. Only Pu Yanlan thought to herself,

"We have 200 to 300 people in our group, but after one magic array, we are left with less than 100 people. We haven't even reached the entrance to the treasure yet. By then, we will have to deal with tens of thousands of half-snakes, as well as the mechanical arrays on the second and third floors of the cave..."

Although the realms of the people traveling together this time are not very high, it is easier to get things done with more people, even if it means having two more people to serve as cannon fodder!

But at this time, what Cai Heming said was not wrong. If they wanted to find someone in the 108 mountains, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack, and it would be very easy for these people to be trapped in it!
Pu Yanlan thought for a while and nodded,
"Just follow Elder Cai's advice!"

Cai Heming nodded, and the group of people, carrying the captured half-snake man, continued to fly towards the highest peak in the center, leaving behind a field of injured or dead half-snake people. When the rest of the half-snake people arrived, only a few of the injured half-snake people on the ground were still conscious and able to speak!
"Quick! Report to the clan leader!"

As soon as someone gave an order, someone riding a half-snake man galloped away. On the other side, although Cai Heming and others had no compass to guide them, as long as no one deliberately touched the formation, the Tiangang Disha Formation was extremely famous. It had been passed down since ancient times, and all sects had records of it in their books. Although the inheritance of the cultivators in this world was a little weak, they had all learned the introductory formation of this kind of formation.

Therefore, after everyone entered the formation, they looked around. The half-snake clan strongman didn't know what a formation was, but he had been born in this world since he was a child, and he had his own way of moving around. With these combined, although everyone walked carefully, they were always safe. Even if they encountered danger, Elder Cai in the Spiritualization Stage and Pu Yanlan in the late Nascent Soul Stage were there, and they could resolve it with a raise of their hands. In this way... after half a day, they really arrived at the foot of the highest peak in this map...

Gu Shiyi and Pu Yanlan had seen many mountains, so the mountain in front of them was not unusual in their eyes, but in the eyes of others, it was already very extraordinary.
Now!
Everyone was surprised when they saw this huge mountain that connected the sky and the earth and seemed to have pierced through the clouds and had poked a hole in the sky.

"Only the ancient immortals can build caves on such a high peak..."

Pu Yanlan stood silently side by side with Gu Shiyi. Each of them held a little turtle in his hand, but his eyes were fixed on the area below the mountain. There was a lot of aura moving there, like beasts but not humans. There was a faint smell of fishy smell when the mountain breeze blew. Gu Shiyi glanced at the old horse in his hand.

"Are there a lot of half-snake people down there?"

The old horse nodded.

"Yes, quite a few..."

Wangyue, who was lying in Pu Yanlan's palm, spoke.

"You've already played with Gu Shiyi, so it's my turn now, right?"

After saying that, he turned to look at Pu Yanlan, his small green eyes full of excitement.
"Let's go down and fight!"

He waved his front paws, and Pu Yanlan showed a bitter smile.
"This time... I have no choice but to fight!"

As they were talking, they saw a thin layer of red mist rising from the dense forest below. The red mist rose very quickly and soon reached the mid-air where everyone was.

"Be careful……"

Cai Heming shouted upon seeing this, raised his hand and waved his sleeves, a gust of wind blew by, he wanted to blow away the red mist, but he didn't expect that this gust of wind seemed to stimulate the red mist, instead of reducing it, it increased, and even became thicker out of thin air, everyone was shocked upon seeing this,

"What kind of fog is this? How can it not be blown away by the wind?"

Pu Yanlan frowned upon seeing this.
"This is not fog, this is..."

Before she finished her words, she saw the red mist on the opposite side suddenly move, silently surging forward and rushing in front of everyone. Cai Heming saw it clearly and his face changed.
"Retreat quickly, this is not fog, these are flying insects..." They were indeed flying insects, countless red flying insects, these flying insects were extremely tiny, thousands of them gathered together, and from a distance they looked like fog covering the foot of the mountain. Seeing this, everyone hurriedly took defenses, and many people took out a jade pendant and crushed it. As the jade pendant shattered, a white light immediately enveloped it, and when those tiny flying insects approached, they were indeed blocked outside the light shield, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"These bugs are nothing more than that..."

But as soon as he finished breathing, he realized something was wrong.
"Swish..."

There was a tiny sound, just like silkworms eating leaves in spring. When everyone looked closely, they saw countless densely packed flying insects attached to the outside of the light shield, gnawing at the light shield.

"Ah... What kind of bugs are these? They can actually eat spiritual light?"

Everyone was shocked. Some impatient people raised their swords and swung them over.

"call……"

After the magic weapon passed, the light shield was broken, and the number of flying insects decreased. However, when he retracted the long sword, he found that the long sword was already covered with dense flying insects again. Seeing this, Cai Heming shouted,

"This flying insect is best attacked with fire. Which Taoist friend is good at fire attack..."

"I come……"

It was a middle-aged woman with a gourd on her back. She took off her gourd and removed the mouth of the gourd.

"boom……"

A bright flame spurted out from the mouth of the gourd and turned into a flying firebird, which flew towards the swarm of flying insects in front. As the firebird rushed into the swarm of flying insects, the large red mist immediately retreated, and countless flying insects kept falling. Seeing this, everyone showed joy on their faces.
"well……"

He was only happy for a moment, but then he heard the middle-aged woman yelling "Not good", and hurriedly urged the gourd to take back her firebird. The firebird came back and stood on the mouth of the gourd, but he saw that the firebird was also covered with flying insects.

"Chirp..."

The bird cried out to its owner, its voice full of pain, and then it shook itself, and countless flying insects fell off, but the firebird had shrunk a lot. The middle-aged woman was so distressed that she quickly put the firebird into the gourd and said to everyone,
"Although these flying insects are afraid of fire attacks, they can devour the spiritual light of magic weapons before they die. Everyone, be careful!"

Everyone frowned when they heard this. These flying insects were not that powerful. If they were to get rid of them, the magic weapon would be damaged. After the magic weapon's spiritual light was damaged, it would have to be sent back for sacrifice and refinement before it could be used again. But they haven't even touched the door to the cave yet, and already the magic weapon is going to be damaged?
"Everyone, don't panic!"

At this time, a cold voice spoke,
"Let me try!"

The one who said this was Pu Yanlan. Everyone saw her open an eight-colored glass box, and a stream of colorful flowing sand gushed out from it, rolling towards the red mist.

"call……"

The colorful flowing sand turned into a gust of wind and blew past. The red fog in front of him disappeared by more than half. Instead of dimming, the colorful flowing sand became even more colorful!

After these colorful flying sands swept through the air several times, only a few red flying insects were left.

Everyone was delighted to see this. Seeing Pu Yanlan take back the glass box, Cai Heming said happily,
"Elder Pu, this magic weapon is amazing!"

Pu Yanlan smiled and said,
"I just managed it by luck!"

This colored sand is made from various magical sands, and it has the ability to devour and corrode. Although these insects can devour spiritual light, they have no defense ability themselves, and they will naturally melt away when they come into contact with the flowing sand!
Just as Pu Yanlan was picking up the flying insects, the bald old man in the dense forest below had a gloomy look on his face.

"Humph...the flying insects were destroyed by them..."

Squinting his eyes, he looked at Pu Yanlan.
"The leading female cultivator is very powerful. We must be careful when dealing with her..."

An old woman nearby responded,

"Don't worry. Among these people, only the leading female cultivator and the other old man are stronger. The rest are not worth mentioning..."

The bald old man narrowed his eyes and looked at him, but a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"The others are not worth mentioning..."

The bald old man glanced at the tall woman standing beside him with her arms crossed. When he looked at the woman, she seemed to sense something and turned her head to look at the bald old man from a distance. At such a distance, neither of them could see each other's face clearly, but the old man could clearly feel a sneer on the corner of her mouth...