The road is vague

Chapter 98: Absorbing Popularity
After the four of them walked for a while in this cave full of stalagmites, they found another fork in the road ahead.

This time, everyone chose a wider fork in the road and soon encountered several evil spirits living in groups with slimy tentacles. These evil spirits had the ability to sneak into shadows. Although it was very dangerous if caught off guard, as long as you knew the abilities of these evil spirits, you could easily defeat them by being careful.

So after a battle, the four of them killed these disgusting and weird-looking cunning and evil spirits one by one.

Unfortunately, Ma Xuanji and Miao Qianhua both said that these evil spirits could not be used, and they were immediately burned to ashes by Xin Yueyao.

"There seems to be something ahead."

Ma Xuanji, who was walking in front, suddenly made a sound of surprise.

“It’s Yin Shui Zhi!”

Upon hearing this, several people came closer.

I saw a large number of black Ganoderma lucidum growing on an inconspicuous stalagmite, emitting a cold and pure aura. There were more than ten of them.

"so much!"

Xin Yueyao and Miao Qianhua also made sounds of surprise.

Li Mo opened his spiritual eyes and observed carefully, and was slightly surprised.

"Actually, all of these medicines are just over a hundred years old?"

After the four of them looked at each other, they came up with a reliable guess.

"This place was probably discovered by a senior before, but he only took away the Yin Shui Ganoderma of sufficient age, leaving behind some Yin Shui Ganoderma of insufficient age. These Yin Shui Ganoderma grew for decades and formed the ones we have today."

The next step was to distribute the harvest. Li Mo got four hundred-year-old Yinshuizhi, which was a considerable harvest.

Then they continued on their way.

This time, the four of them walked for more than half an hour in one breath, and apart from encountering an evil spirit that emitted a foul smell and had corrosive abilities, they found nothing else.

Just when a few people were thinking of backing out, a huge, empty cave suddenly appeared in front of them.

The grotto is about ten feet high and seventy to eighty feet wide, like an underground palace. There are more than twenty caves of different sizes on the stone wall, and no one knows where they lead to.

"hiss!"

Miao Qianhua took a deep breath, as if shocked by the complicated passages here.

I don’t know if the underground caves that were missed by several people before are also so complicated.

"Why do I feel like this is a maze?"

After Ma Xuanji finished speaking, he noticed traces of artificial carvings in the stone cave. There were actually several stone sculptures of peacock men, all with animal heads and human bodies, and tails.

"what is this?"

"This seems to be... a demon."

Miao Qianhua spoke and said what Li Mo wanted to say.

Just as a few people were carefully observing the stone sculpture and wanted to discuss it, Li Mo suddenly noticed something strange and turned around and shouted.

"What is this!"

Upon hearing this, the other three people took out their magic weapons, looked at the stone cave they had just walked out of, and took a vigilant stance.

I saw a green worm about ten feet long slowly crawling out of the dark cave. It opened its mouth like a blooming chrysanthemum, and its pink tentacles kept absorbing something from the air and chewing it greedily in its mouth.

This giant worm is evil and looks very clumsy.

But its body can float in the air and crawl forward little by little, as if it has no weight and no ability to attack or defend.

The four of them couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

The scary thing about evil spirits is that they have all kinds of abilities to create disasters.

Ma Xuanji suddenly thought of something and took a breath.

"Stop it! It's eating away our popularity!"

"Popularity?"

Although Li Mo was puzzled, he still instinctively joined the other three people in taking out their magic weapons and attacking this strange evil spirit.

Various attacks fell on the fat evil caterpillar, and it cried out in pain.

But in contrast.

The four people, including Li Mo, were shocked and squatted down with pale faces, with beads of sweat dripping down their cheeks.

Li Mo finally understood the consequences of having his popularity devoured by this evil spirit.

The harm and pain suffered by this evil spirit can actually be felt by those whose vitality is devoured. Li Mo, as a foundation-building cultivator, was also fooled and performed no better than these Qi-cultivating cultivators. This has nothing to do with the essential connection between cultivation. The attacks of the evil spirit tend to be of the nature of disaster rules, rather than the fighting and killing in the eyes of ordinary mortals.

Ma Xuanji gritted his teeth.

"This is just an illusion caused by it devouring our popularity. We must hold on and kill it!"

Having said that, because of his previous empathy, even though Ma Xuanji was gritting his teeth, he couldn't bring himself to do it. It felt like he was hitting himself, or committing suicide. Even Li Mo couldn't control this instinct to commit suicide.

In comparison, Miao Qianhua's condition is actually the best.

She let out a scream, and a large number of purple beetles flew out from her sleeves again, instantly wrapping around the evil spirit and biting it madly.

"what……"

The four of them fell to the ground and wailed in pain, as if they were being bitten by insects.

Li Mo felt as if he had fallen into a hell of insects, his body being torn apart. Even though he kept telling himself that all this was just an illusion, his veins were still exposed and his eyes were bloodshot.

Ma Xuanji rolled over on the side, covering his head.

The beautiful Xin Yueyao was trying to endure it at first, but then she could no longer bear the pain and screamed hysterically.

"Stop it right there, make them stop now, I'm going to kill you, ah..."

She was unable to cast any spells and ended up wrestling with Miao Qianhua.

The pain of being bitten by insects was heartbreaking for her, and she kept trying to stop Miao Qianhua. However, since both of them were suffering from the pain of being bitten by insects, they couldn't even activate their magic weapons. They could only tear each other's clothes like village shrews, revealing large areas of white.

Ma Xuanji rolled his eyes and foamed at the mouth in pain.

Li Mo tried hard to sit cross-legged on the ground, but his body couldn't help shaking and twitching. He could only silently recite the "Eye of the True Spirit" mantra to clear his mind, and deeply felt the strange and cunning evil spirit.

Muran.

The pain that almost drove Li Mo crazy receded quickly like the tide.

Li Mo stopped and his face turned extremely pale.

He leaned against the stone statue and gasped for breath, looking at the evil worms that were bitten to death by the swarm of insects. Waves of emotion surged in his heart, and he realized that the task of the inspector of the Ministry of Destiny was not that simple.

Then he looked at the other three people.

Ma Xuanji was foaming at the mouth and twitching, unwilling to get up. It was obvious that his endurance had reached its limit.

A lot of Xin Yueyao's clothes were torn off, revealing her red bellyband and a large area of ​​snow-white skin. She gradually woke up and noticed that Li Mo was looking at her. She immediately turned pale and tried to turn over, and then adjusted her clothes bit by bit to cover up her embarrassment.

By comparison.

Miao Qianhua's endurance was beyond Li Mo's imagination.

She stood up slowly, and did not blame Xin Yueyao. Instead, she looked down at her exposed skin. On her snow-white skin, there were several holes where poisonous insects were crawling. Her body was like an insect nest. Then she calmly put on her clothes.

After a while.

Ma Xuanji finally recovered and stood up, panting.

He looked at the huge evil worm that was being madly bitten and devoured by the swarm of insects, and a hint of fear appeared on his face.

"We almost fell into the hands of this guy!"

After recovering, Li Mo deliberately avoided Xin Yueyao's gaze and turned to look at Ma Xuanji.

"What will happen if it continues to eat away at our popularity?"

Ma Xuanji's face turned a little ugly when he heard this.

"If it's mild, we'll be possessed and go insane for a while. If it's severe, one of our three souls and seven spirits will be missing, and we'll become demented and mentally retarded."

Seeing how knowledgeable the other party was, Li Mo couldn't help but wonder if a familiar cultivator from the Divine Machine Sect had used the evil organ to create a mechanical device with similar abilities. The four of them rested here for a while and fell silent.

The embarrassing situation just now obviously became a topic that the four people did not want to talk about, especially Xin Yueyao, who wanted to part ways immediately. She looked extremely ugly and no longer had the image of a fairy who was so high and mighty before.

Then the four of them randomly chose one of the many cave entrances.

This time they walked for half an hour and arrived at the end of the cave.

"Flower of the Two Worlds!"

Ma Xuanji made a sound of surprise.

At the end of the cave, there was a one-foot-tall spiritual flower growing, blooming quietly in the darkness.

The petals of the Two Worlds Flower are blue and red, two different colors intersecting each other, with spiral patterns inside. Its value is higher than that of the Yin Shui Zhi, and it is a rare species.

Unfortunately, there is only one plant here.

Miao Qianhua looked excited.

"This Two Worlds Flower must be at least three hundred years old!"

Li Mo opened his spiritual eyes and observed carefully for a while before giving the correct answer.

"The medicine is approximately 430 years old, give or take two years."

Upon hearing this, Xin Yueyao remembered that Li Mo was a disciple of Lingmu Sect.

"The three of us naturally have no objection to Fellow Daoist Li's judgment. Since there is only one spiritual medicine here, let's start the auction according to the method we agreed upon before. The highest bidder wins. How do you say that?"

Ever since Xin Yueyao and Miao Qianhua had a fight, the two of them had intentionally distanced themselves from each other and tacitly agreed not to mention the incident.

This also made the atmosphere along the way a little dull.

It was not until the discovery of this magical medicine that the atmosphere finally eased a little.

The three of them had no objection when they heard this.

In the end, this two-world flower was obtained by Xin Yueyao for 800 spirit stones. After the four of them divided the spirit stones equally, Li Mo got 200 spirit stones.

"Let's go and explore other caves."

After everyone returned to the huge cave they had been in before, they chose another cave to enter.

But this time their luck was not very good. The journey to this cave was surprisingly long, and there was a fork in the road. The four of them walked for two hours before finally reaching the end, but they found nothing.

Ma Xuanji was somewhat unwilling and suggested exploring another fork in the road.

As a result, they wasted more than half an hour and found nothing except a weak evil spirit that could eat sound. They returned empty-handed.

In the blink of an eye, it was already noon and everyone had not slept all night.

However, since everyone had rested for a long time before, it was not a big deal to not sleep that night, and everyone was still full of energy.

Ma Xuanji complained unwillingly as he walked.

"You should have listened to me earlier. When we get to the caves, we'll explore along the route I told you about. We're sure to find something."

Xin Yueyao couldn't help but complain when she heard this.

"It was you who asked to explore the fork in the road just now, and now you blame me."

"Fairy Xin, please don't misunderstand. I don't mean to blame you. I'm just discussing the matter..."

"careful!"

Li Mo was still the first to notice something was wrong and summoned the Green Steel Shield.

There were two loud "bang" sounds, and the blue steel shield's light flickered slightly, blocking a flying sword and a golden spear magic weapon.

Ma Xuanji, Xin Yueyao, and Miao Qianhua, who had reacted quickly, shouted loudly, summoned their magic weapons, and rushed towards the spacious cave in the distance, glaring at the four attacking monks.

These four people are all disciples of Lu State.

When they saw Li Mo and others rushing out of the cave, they were suddenly stunned and embarrassed.

Especially the two people who recalled the golden spear and flying sword magic weapons, there was a hint of shock in their eyes when they looked at Li Mo.

"The Cangshi from Immortal Mountain, Zai Zao Men, Tian Dou Sect, and Tu Xing Sect?"

Li Mo identified the sects that the four people belonged to by their clothes.

However, what Li Mo did not expect was that he would meet Cang Shi of the Tuxing Sect again. Recalling the other party's previous experience of escaping by using the earth escape technique, he was surprised and could not help but sneer.

Ma Xuanji activated his armor and angrily addressed the four men through his metal mask, "So you are the four Daoists from Lu. I wonder what your intentions were in attacking us just now?"

Upon hearing this, the Lu disciple holding a golden spear and wearing the clothing of the Immortal Mountain shifted his gaze from Li Mo to look at Ma Xuanji.

"This place is full of evil spirits. The four of us just arrived when we heard some unusual movements in the cave. It's reasonable for us to take action first just in case. Now that you're fine and it was all just a misunderstanding, what else do you want?"

He sneered.

"Do you want me, Feng Aoxie, to kneel down and apologize to you?"

"Brother Feng, please be patient."

The dashing male cultivator, dressed in the attire of a disciple of the Duotian Sect, bowed and smiled gracefully.

"Four fellow Daoists, please forgive me. I am Ximen Xiaochen, a disciple of the Duotian Sect. I am honored to be here. This was indeed a misunderstanding. It was an unintentional mistake on our part."

"To put it lightly."

Li Mo snorted coldly.

"If I hadn't reacted in time and blocked your sneak attack, someone might have died here. Will you apologize like this then?"

"I remember you are Li Mo from Lingmu Sect?"

Cangshi of the Tuxing Sect also snorted coldly.

"The previous vengeance over the hundred-year-old elixir was fine, but now we've met again. It can be said that we've met on a narrow road."

He looked proud.

"You asked me earlier how Lu's way to immortality compared to your Qian's way of the primordial spirit. I can now clearly tell you that our Lu follows the way of nature, not the way of immortality. Your deliberate disparagement of Lu is merely a blind spot, a glimpse into the world from a narrow perspective. Are you satisfied?"

"Brother Cangshi, you are too kind."

The female cultivator dressed in the Zaizaomen uniform spoke last.

"I am the second Ruoyu, a disciple of the Zaizao Sect. It was indeed a misunderstanding just now. We definitely did not intend to kill you subjectively. Otherwise, why would only Feng Aoxie and Ximen Xiaochen take action? It must be all four of us going all out."

Having said that, she looked at Li Mo.

"Even if Fellow Daoist Li possesses profound magical powers and sophisticated magical weapons, I'm afraid he won't be able to withstand the combined attack of the four of us if he's caught off guard."

Feng Aoxie, Ximen Xiaochen, Di Er Ruoyu, Cang Shi.

Li Mo sighed in his heart that the two compound surnames Ximen and Di Er seemed quite ancient, worthy of being a disciple of Lu State who was studying the way of immortality. At the same time, after hearing Di Er Ruoyu's arrogant words, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

As a disciple of the Lingmu Sect, he hated the disciples of the Zaizao Sect to the core and regarded them as his mortal enemies.

"you try?"

Say it.

Li Mo looked at Cang Shi again and sneered.

"You still have some backbone."

Just as he looked at Xin Yueyao and Miao Qianhua again, waiting for their opinions, Xin Yueyao actually let out a delicate cry.

"They are from Lu anyway, let's fight them first!"

Say it.

She pointed at the oil lamp in her hand, and launched four fireballs towards the four people from Lu.

Seeing this, Ma Xuanji, Li Mo and Miao Qianhua, who had been holding a lot of anger in their stomachs, no longer hesitated and rushed forward immediately.

(End of this chapter)