Immortality Cultivation: I can use my clansmen’s energy and blood to add points.

"Chaos Sword Technique: Guard!"

A gray sword curtain instantly unfolded, like a constantly rotating gray vortex, blocking all the surging black evil spirit!
Zizzi——! ! !
The harsh corrosion sound was endless, the gray sword curtain trembled violently, and the light dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye! Luo Qingchen had already consumed a huge amount of chaotic power, and under the impact of the evil spirit comparable to the full force of the middle stage of the golden elixir, it was almost drained away in an instant!
puff!
Luo Qingchen could no longer suppress himself, and a mouthful of blood spurted out. His face turned pale as paper, and he staggered back a step, and the sword curtain also collapsed!
"Senior Brother Luo!" Lin Wan'er and Su Xiaowan exclaimed at the same time!

It seemed that the remaining evil spirit was about to devour the three of them!
At this critical moment, something strange happened!

Bai Ling'er, who had been carried unconscious on Lin Wan'er's back, seemed to be strongly stimulated by the thick evil energy, or perhaps was splashed by the blood spit out by Luo Qingchen. The leaf of the Nine-Turn Resurrection Grass between her eyebrows, which had originally been dim, suddenly burst into an extremely weak but unusually pure golden light!
At the same time, a faint dragon might, but with supreme majesty and an ancient and vast aura, suddenly spread out with Bailing'er as the center, like a stone thrown into a calm lake!
This dragon power is not strong, it can even be said to be extremely weak, but its essence is high to an unimaginable level!
The several black water demons that were originally ferocious and madly rushing towards them suddenly froze when they came into contact with the dragon's might! For the first time, fear appeared in their scarlet eyes! It was an instinctive fear that came from deep in their blood, like facing a natural enemy!
Roar...Woo...

The ferocious beast that had been roaring incessantly before now let out a low whimpering sound like a puppy, and its huge body trembled. Not only did it not dare to move forward, but it scrambled to turn around and plunged back into the depths of the turbid muddy water. In the blink of an eye, it disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared!
The pervasive black evil spirit, under the sweep of the weak dragon power, seemed to have met its nemesis and quickly dissipated as if it had been purified.

The swamp returned to its dead silence again.

Only Luo Qingchen, Lin Wan'er and Su Xiaowan were left standing there in amazement.

"Just...just...what happened?" Su Xiaowan rubbed her eyes and looked at the direction where the monsters fled. She then looked at Bai Ling'er, who was still sleeping on Lin Wan'er's back with a flash of golden light between her eyebrows. Her mouth was wide open enough to fit an egg. "Is it...is it Sister Ling'er who scared them away?"

Lin Wan'er was also shocked and unbelievable. She could clearly feel that the pressure that had frightened the beasts was indeed coming from Bai Ling'er! Although it was extremely weak, the majesty that came from the depths of her soul made her, a bystander, feel a palpitation!
"It's... a dragon soul..." Luo Qingchen covered his chest and panted, his eyes also full of shock. He had felt it once before in the Starry Sky Illusion, but it was not as clear as this time. It was definitely the breath of a real dragon soul! Although it was only a trace, it was enough to shock these low-level swamp beasts!

It seems that the secret hidden in Bailing'er's body is far more shocking than he imagined!

However, now is not the time to delve into this.

"Let's go, leave here." Luo Qingchen forced himself to stand firm and urged, "Although the noise just now scared these things away, it may also cause other troubles. We must find a safe place to recover as soon as possible."

Lin Wan'er nodded and quickly supported the staggering Luo Qingchen, while Su Xiaowan also hurried forward to help.

The three of them supported each other and quickly rushed up the small hill covered with dark purple vines.

As I stepped onto the hilly land, the feeling under my feet immediately became dry and firm, and the stench in the air also faded a lot. Although the spiritual energy was still thin, it was at least not as oppressive as a swamp.

The hill was covered with strange dark purple vines, and on the vines there were some tiny purple flowers emitting faint light, which made the whole hill look a little weird.

"It seems... a little safer here." Su Xiaowan breathed a sigh of relief, but still looked around vigilantly.

Luo Qingchen's spiritual sense swept across the hill and found a cave half-covered by vines in the shade of the hill.

"go there."

The three of them carefully pushed aside the vines and walked into the cave. The cave was not big, but it was very dry and empty, and it looked like a naturally formed cave.

"Finally, we have a place to stay." Lin Wan'er gently put Bai Ling'er down and let her lean against the stone wall. Then she took out a few healing pills and handed them to Luo Qingchen, "Brother Luo, you should heal your wounds quickly."

Luo Qingchen nodded, took the pill and swallowed it, then sat cross-legged and began to practice the Chaos Sutra, struggling to absorb the thin and complex spiritual energy around him, repairing his damaged meridians and replenishing his consumed strength.

Lin Wan'er also sat down beside him, practicing the Tian Yuan Jue while paying a little attention to be on alert.

Su Xiaowan looked at the cave and the dark purple vines outside curiously. "These vines are so strange, they glow." She reached out to touch a vine hanging from the cave entrance.

"Don't touch it!" Luo Qingchen suddenly opened his eyes and said in a low voice.

Su Xiaowan was startled and quickly retracted her hand: "What...what happened?"

Luo Qingchen looked at the vines with a serious look: "These vines... are strange. I feel that there is a very weak, but very pure... thunder power left on them. Moreover, there seems to be a trace of... spatial fluctuations."

Thunder? Space? How could such a power remain on the edge of this dead swamp?

Luo Qingchen felt a little suspicious and alert. This seemingly safe place might not be as simple as it seemed. They had stepped from a dangerous place into another unknown mystery.

Luo Qingchen's words surprised Lin Wan'er and Su Xiaowan, and they looked at the dark purple vines at the entrance of the cave with vigilance.

"Thunder? Space?" Lin Wan'er sensed it carefully. With her level of cultivation, she could only vaguely feel that the vines were emitting a strange energy fluctuation, but she couldn't distinguish the specific attributes. "Senior Brother Luo, are you sure?" Luo Qingchen nodded slightly. His chaotic power could perceive various energies far beyond that of ordinary people. Although the thunder and space fluctuations were extremely weak and almost integrated with the aura of the vines themselves, he was sure that he was not wrong.

"These vines are probably not naturally formed, or the hills they grow on are problematic in themselves." Luo Qingchen pondered, "We will rest here for the time being, but we must remain vigilant."

Su Xiaowan stuck out her tongue, not daring to touch it anymore. She obediently sat down next to Lin Wan'er, took out her precious turtle shell, and carefully wiped the dirt on it with a clean cloth, muttering to herself, "Turtle shell, turtle shell, wake up, there are a lot of bad guys and monsters outside. If you don't wake up, we will be caught and stewed into soup..."

Unfortunately, the turtle shell still had no reaction and was dull and lifeless, and even the tiny crack that had appeared before did not change at all.

Luo Qingchen closed his eyes and continued to recover as quickly as possible. In order to resist the impact of the evil spirit of the Black Water Demon, he almost exhausted his chaotic power. At this moment, his Dantian was empty and his meridians were aching. He had to recover some combat power as soon as possible to deal with the unknown dangers that might arise.

Lin Wan'er was on guard while trying to guide a gentle stream of Tianyuan spiritual power into Bai Ling'er's body, hoping to help her stabilize her condition. However, after the dragon soul aura in Bai Ling'er's body completely subsided, her body seemed to have fallen into a deeper protective sleep, and had little reaction to external spiritual power stimulation.

The cave fell into silence again, with only the gentle breathing sounds of the three people and the occasional rustling sound of the vines outside the cave caused by the wind blowing through them.

As time went by, the sky seemed to become darker. It seemed that there was no difference between day and night in the swamp area, and it was always dark and depressing.

About an hour later, Luo Qingchen slowly opened his eyes. Although his face was still a little pale, his eyes had regained clarity, and the chaotic power in his body had also recovered by about 30% to 40%. At least, he had some ability to protect himself and deal with emergencies.

Seeing this, Lin Wan'er also breathed a sigh of relief: "Brother Luo, are you feeling better?"

Luo Qingchen nodded: "It has recovered a little. The spiritual energy here is too thin and complex. It will take a long time to fully recover." He stood up, walked to the cave entrance, and looked outside again at the strange dark purple vines.

"I'll go explore this cave and this hill to see if there are any clues." Luo Qingchen said, "You stay here and be careful."

"Brother Luo, be careful." Lin Wan'er warned.

Luo Qingchen hummed, carefully pushed aside the vines at the entrance of the cave, and dodged out. He did not go deep into the hills immediately, but first carefully explored the area around the cave.

These dark purple vines covered the entire surface of the hill, and their roots were deeply embedded in the rocks below. The vines themselves were extremely tough, and Luo Qingchen tried to use his fingertips to condense the chaotic airflow to cut them, but it was quite difficult. The purple flowers on the vines that emitted a faint glow seemed to contain some kind of weak poison, and touching them for a long time would make people feel a slight numbness.

Just as he had sensed before, there were indeed extremely weak thunder and space fluctuations remaining in the vines and rocks of the hills, as if a long, long time ago, there had been an event involving these two powerful forces here, and these vines had grown out after that, absorbing the remaining power and becoming so strange.

"This is definitely not an ordinary swamp hill." Luo Qingchen became more and more certain in his heart. He slowly probed his consciousness into the rocks under his feet, trying to explore the structure inside the hill.

However, just as his consciousness penetrated a few feet into the rock, it was blocked by an invisible, chaotic and violent energy turbulence! It felt as if the inside of the hill was not solid, but filled with some extremely unstable energy!

"Hmm?" Luo Qingchen frowned and tried again, but the result was still the same. Although this energy turbulence was chaotic, it seemed to be restrained by some force inside the hill and did not leak out.

He walked along the edge of the hill, his consciousness constantly scanning the vines and rocks. Suddenly, he stopped in front of a steep rock wall on the other side of the hill where the vines were relatively sparse.

The color of the rocks here is slightly different from other places, showing a burnt black color, as if they were burned by a terrifying high temperature. Moreover, there are some extremely vague marks on the surface of the rocks, which are almost smoothed out by time.

Luo Qingchen walked forward and carefully identified the marks. These marks were messy, not like words, nor like runes, but more like... claw marks or weapon scratches left unintentionally when some powerful force collided?
One of the deepest scratches caught his attention. It was a long, thin scratch that went several inches deep into the rock. The edges were smooth, and there was a faint trace of... sword intent?
This trace of sword intent was extremely weak, and seemed to be different from any sword style he knew. It had a flavor that was ancient, vast, and even... beyond the laws of this world!
"This is..." Luo Qingchen's pupils shrank slightly. He placed his finger lightly on the scratch, closed his eyes, condensed the power of chaos at his fingertips, and carefully probed into it, trying to sense the remaining sword intent.

hum!
At the moment when his chaotic power came into contact with the remaining sword intent, an extremely slight sword sound seemed to ring in his mind! Then, a blurry and broken picture flashed through his consciousness like lightning!

It was a black swamp that was even more vast and terrifying than the current one. The sky was filled with lightning and thunder. Purple lightning was dancing like a mad dragon, tearing the sky apart! The space was constantly breaking and healing!

In the swamp, there seemed to be two indescribable huge figures fighting fiercely! One figure seemed to be condensed from endless filth and resentment, emitting a monstrous demonic aura; the other figure... couldn't be seen clearly, only felt surrounded by purple thunder and broken space fragments, and seemed to be holding a... sword in his hand?

The picture flashed by so quickly that Luo Qingchen could not capture more details, but the devastating battle scene and the remaining sword intent that transcended the laws of the world were deeply imprinted in his mind!
"Huh..." Luo Qingchen suddenly retracted his fingers, his face turned pale, and cold sweat oozed out of his forehead again. The shocking scene just now brought him too much shock! That was definitely not the level of power that this world should have!
What on earth happened here?
Could it be that this seemingly ordinary swamp was once an ancient battlefield? Did those wisterias mutate by absorbing the thunder and space power left over from the war?
Luo Qingchen's heart was filled with turmoil. If this was true, then the place they had accidentally entered might be even more complicated and dangerous than they had imagined!

He forced himself to calm down and carefully examined the charred stone wall and the sword mark again. Apart from these, there seemed to be no other special discoveries.

Just as he was about to leave and return to the cave to join Lin Wan'er and the others, he accidentally caught a glimpse of a corner under the stone wall that was half-covered by several thick vines. (End of this chapter)