Lingyuan Immortal

Chapter 87: Sand Sea Scorpions
Chen Mu nodded slightly, but did not take it lightly. He quietly summoned the Zhaokong Sword to protect himself.

Manager Hu then turned around and looked at everyone. Seeing that they all had serious expressions and seemed to be fully prepared, he chuckled and summoned his copper coin sword.

Then he took the lead and stepped into the whirlpool.

The white vortex swayed like water waves and swallowed the figure of Manager Hu.

Wu Xuanyang followed closely behind and walked in, protected by a fiery red short ruler. Following him were Fang Xiaopan and the other two.

"call!"

Chen Mu took a deep breath to ease his slightly tense mood. Unlike Manager Hu and others, he had not been here several times and had entered several whirlpools, so they had some idea of ​​what was going on.

But he was different, because until now, everything in the vortex was unknown to him, and the unknown meant uncertainty...

Seeing that everyone walked in in order, Chen Mu collected his thoughts, used his magic power, and drove the Zhaokong Sword to circle around his body. Then his face became serious and he strode into the vortex.

For a moment, the vast cave returned to its previous silence, leaving only a bronze mirror hanging in the air, emitting white light without stopping for a moment...

A feeling of dizziness came over Chen Mu, making his eyes go dark and he shook his head quickly.

When he opened his eyes again, although he had imagined many scenes, the scene before him still shocked him.

Chen Mu and his group were standing on a vast sea of ​​sand. In the distance, a golden red sun was hanging in the sky, pouring out its scorching light.

Apart from this, they could not see anything else.

Chen Mu frowned and looked up to carefully observe the scorching sun in the sky.

The scorching sun looked a little fake, but the scorching light it emitted was slightly better than the real one, and it already made him feel hot.

He then squatted down, picked up a handful of sand, and silently felt the sand slipping from his fingertips.

"Illusion array..."

Chen Mu murmured.

This time it wasn't the teleportation technique he had suspected before, but simply that they had stepped into an illusion array of unknown grade.

Manager Hu, who was exploring the surrounding environment, heard Chen Mu's mumbling and turned around and smiled, "That's right, we've been like this several times before. After stepping into the vortex and triggering the restrictions protecting the treasure, we were trapped in the illusion array."

"It's a pity that there's no one among us who is proficient in formations, so we can't find the weaknesses of the formation. We can only break it by force step by step."

Chen Mu stood up, nodded, and asked, "Then what should we do next?"

Upon hearing this, Manager Hu turned around and looked around, then slowly said, "The illusion array is not a trap array. Moreover, this is a treasure protection array, so we only need to wait for a moment, and something should come to clean us up..."

"But Junior Brother, please don't take it lightly. The illusion array here must be of a high grade. If someone enters the array and gets injured, the injury will persist even if the array is broken."

Li Hu took over and said sharply, "It's a pity that fellow Daoists Zhou and Wang lost their lives due to their carelessness..."

Chen Mu's heart moved. He had heard Manager Hu say when he came here that their group originally consisted of six people, but two monks unfortunately died during several treasure hunts.

"I guess it's these two people. I didn't expect them to die in the illusion array..."

“People die for money, birds die for food…it’s perfectly normal.”

Chen Mu sighed twice, then nodded to Manager Hu, indicating that he had taken note of it.

After a while, just as Manager Hu said, before they had to wait long, everyone noticed that there were faint demonic auras coming up from under the sand sea.

Chen Mu's eyes narrowed as he stared at the sand slope on one side.

"Wow..." The sand and gravel flowed like water, and a number of ochre whip-tailed scorpions as big as heads jumped out.

Each of them held up a long and thin tail spike, with a bit of demonic energy surging through their bodies, and rolled and crawled towards Chen Mu and others.

For a moment, dense swarms of ochre whip-tailed scorpions rushed forward together, and the same-colored sand and gravel beneath them kept surging, looking extremely creepy.

Chen Mu took a quick look and saw that these whip-tail scorpions were condensed from an illusion array, and the demonic energy on their bodies could only barely reach the level of a low-level demon beast.

So he didn't even swing out the Zhaokong Sword, but just used the Chonglang Sword Technique to continuously swing out sword energy to kill.

Often, when a sword energy was released, a group of whip-tail scorpions would collapse.

The same was true for Manager Hu and others. They either used spells or controlled magical instruments, but none of them used their real abilities.

But even so, the seemingly formidable scorpion group could not get close to them.

This one-sided situation was simply due to the huge difference in realm. Chen Mu's group, including the lowest-level cultivator, Li Hu, was already a cultivator at the seventh level of Qi Condensation, while the scorpion group was only at the level of low-level demonic beasts. Even if more of them came, as long as Chen Mu and his group's mana was not exhausted, they would not pose a threat to them...

Two quarters of an hour later, Chen Mu swung out a water-blue sword energy, defeating the bodies of the last few whip-tail scorpions, turning them into sand and gravel that melted into the sand sea.

Before everyone could take a break, dozens of slightly thicker demonic auras emerged from under the sand sea.

Chen Mu tightly grasped the water sword in his hand, silently sensing the level of demonic energy with his spiritual sense, then turned around and said, "This should be a mid-level demonic beast condensed by the illusion array, everyone be careful."

Manager Hu and others nodded when they heard this, but they were not surprised. It was obvious that they had expected that the illusion array here was not that simple.

A moment later, dozens of whip-tailed scorpions the size of stone benches broke out of the sand, stirring up a cloud of gravel.

"Wow!"

Chen Mu held up a magic shield to block the sand and gravel falling towards him.

Then he suddenly activated his magic power and summoned a huge rootless water, which wrapped more than ten whip-tail scorpions.

Chen Mu's heart moved, feeling a little surprised. He originally thought that the sand sea environment in the illusion array would greatly reduce the power of his water-based magic, but now it seems that he was overthinking it.

"It seems that the level of this illusion array is not as exaggerated as I thought..."

He regained his composure, and swung the water sword with his right hand, and streams of sword energy instantly slashed towards the scorpion's body.

Manager Hu and the others also stopped a few scorpion beasts and fought together...

This wave was dealt with even faster than the first. If Li Hu hadn't been slowing down, they would have been able to kill all the scorpion beasts in a quarter of an hour.

"There should be another wave..."

Manager Hu shook the small copper coin sword gently to shake off the sand and gravel on it, while facing the yellow sand, frowning and speaking softly.

Sure enough, before long, five streams of demonic aura emerged from under the sand sea at a speed far exceeding that of the previous one. In the blink of an eye, five adult-sized whip-tail scorpions sprang out.

In addition to its body size, the scorpion beast this time has another change: its khaki shell has become more refined, like armor, and has strange patterns on it.

"Five?..."

Chen Mu's heart moved, and his brows knitted tightly together. The subtle feeling he had suppressed since entering the cave surged up again...

"It just matches our number. What a coincidence..."

(End of this chapter)