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Chapter 143 The Black Tide Devours Souls and Enters the Secret Mansion; A Ferocious Head Appears on the Wall [Part Two]

The black mist surged like a torrent, engulfing and covering the entire cave and the surrounding stone walls.

Except for Kitayama Mei, who was unable to react in time, everyone else quickly erected their defensive shields.

The sizzling sound of decay, mixed with Kitayama Ming's screams, rang out instantly.

"Your Highness, be careful! This black aura has a corrosive effect on magic!" Yao Guang's warning came through the air.

Yin Yuan's voice followed closely: "It will also devour your life force, Your Highness. You must not expose yourself to the black energy."

The voices of the others also rang out one after another.

"My Qi and Blood Shield is being depleted very quickly."

"Everyone, switch to your defensive magical artifacts!"

"Your Highness, move closer to Your Highness."

"I'm here!" Upon hearing this, Tang Hao quickly replied, "Hold on a little longer, this black energy can't be endless."

Fortunately, he was prepared. When Beishan Ming activated the stone gate's restriction, he had already led the nine people to retreat to the side and rear.

Given his reaction, he was naturally not harmed in the slightest.

However, the rate at which his mana was being depleted seemed rather exaggerated, so he quickly prepared recovery pills, ready to take them at any time.

'Corrosive magic? Could this black energy be demonic energy?'

Reminded and hearing the constant hissing sound from the protective shield, Tang Hao immediately thought of the Five Elements Wheel being tainted by demonic energy.

Before I could think about it, a sobbing sound came from not far away; it was Kitayama Ming's voice.

"Clan leader, I know I was wrong. Please don't take back the right to use the magic weapon!"

"Elders, please plead for me. I will be eternally grateful in the afterlife."

"Father, Father, please help your child! Without the magic weapon, and if I'm sent to be a law enforcement officer in the Immortal City, what future do I have left?"

His voice was trembling with tears, filled with anxiety.

And there was a "rustling" sound, different from footsteps, accompanied by the rustling of clothes rubbing together.

In an instant, an image formed in his mind: Beishan Ming kneeling on the ground, turning around from time to time, crawling over to beg.

'He seems to be hallucinating?' Tang Hao frowned. Demonic energy doesn't cause hallucinations.

So he quickly warned, "Don't release your divine sense, something's wrong with this black energy!"

"As you command, Your Highness."

He had just given the warning when Langgan and the others fell victim to it one after another.

While the others were one thing, Lang Gan's words drew Tang Hao's attention more.

"The [Inviting Moon Sect] has incense offerings to protect its members during the Reincarnation of the Dead, so why should my Quan family sacrifice their lives and mermaid pearls? Why should we accept this? I refuse to accept it!"

"It's just a facade, it's ruined now. I, Lang Gan, hereby declare myself traitor to the Quan family! You all better watch yourselves!"

Yin Yuan's voice suddenly rang out: "Your Highness, this black energy is probably a mixture of demonic energy and nightmare energy."

"Nightmare energy?" Tang Hao was taken aback and asked, "I didn't fall into hallucinations when I touched the nightmare energy that day."

"The nightmare energy here is many times more concentrated than the amount emanating from my body. They are all living people, unlike us who are essentially ghosts. When our divine sense touches them, we fall into illusions."

Yin Yuan quickly explained to him.

Upon hearing this, he immediately felt puzzled: "How do you know that the nightmare energy here is so strong?"

"Well, I just used my divine sense to check, and it felt pretty much the same as when the nightmare energy entered my body before." There was a hint of embarrassment in her voice.

He then quickly added, "However, I managed to sever that wisp of divine consciousness in time, preventing it from invading my body through my senses."

"Ahem, I actually released my divine sense just now."

"Me too."

"And I."

"..."

With someone taking the lead, the nine women immediately admitted their mistakes.

When I reminded them earlier, they all agreed readily, which means they had already tried it secretly beforehand.

'So I'm the only one who's timid and didn't release my divine sense?' Tang Hao was speechless.

He actually wanted to replenish some of the Nightmare Qi.

The Nightmare Butterfly has just taken shape. Replenishing it with more energy might help it grow faster.

'Extending my divine sense would only lead to hallucinations, and extending my fingers would harm my body. Forget it.' In the end, he followed his heart and remained cautious.

The thought had barely crossed his mind when Tang Hao suddenly realized that the black energy seemed to have reached its limit and was no longer surging outwards.

The nine women naturally noticed this as well.

Yao Guang clapped his hands and said happily, "Once this black mist dissipates, we can go in..."

Before she could finish speaking, the black aura suddenly began to swirl back.

"Protect His Highness!"

Someone shouted, and the nine women immediately surrounded Tang Hao.

The black energy went from slowly flowing back to having an unparalleled suction force in the blink of an eye.

A "whoop" sound.

After the black mist swirled back, a howling gale swept in, which finally stopped after several breaths.

However, there was no trace of Tang Hao and the others in front of the stone gate.

Another moment passed.

A flying boat, carrying a red figure, emerged from the sea of ​​mist.

"Ha, finally out! I'm exhausted!"

Hua Guigui slumped down on her bottom, pressing her hands on the deck.

The whisk that she had pressed down on suddenly struggled free and spun around.

With a "bang," he transformed back into a young Taoist boy with silver hair, a white robe, and red lips and white teeth.

"The scenery here is quite nice." Jingchen Tongzi slowly descended onto the deck, gazing at the island's landscape.

His expression changed as his gaze swept across the coastline, and he snorted, "Unfortunately, it's not a pristine place."

Getting up from the deck, Hua Guigui ignored his sentiments.

He then deployed his divine sense to search for the figures of Beishan Ming and the others.

Upon scanning, however, nothing was found.

Her lips immediately pouted, and she complained to the young Taoist, "It's all your fault! You're so inefficient! Beishan Ming has already gone into battle, and you're still gesturing around!"

"It's because your magic power is insufficient that you can't unleash the full power of my true form. Why are you blaming me instead?" Faced with the blame being shifted, Jingchen Tongzi looked incredulous.

"It's all your fault! It's all your fault!"

Flower Ghost jumped up and down, and seeing that the Taoist boy was about to argue, she pointed her little finger and said, "If I hadn't come up with a solution, you would have been exposed and fallen into the sea! Whose fault is that?"

"It's my fault, it's my fault, okay!" Jingchen Tongzi rolled his eyes and stopped arguing.

"That's pretty much it!"

Having won the argument and successfully shifted the blame, Hua Guigui wore a smug smile.

As she steered the flying boat and hummed a song, her eyes suddenly lit up: "Hey! I found it!"

He immediately channeled his magic power, and the flying boat sped towards the cliff.

Just as they were getting close to the cave, a foul stench suddenly blew out from the stone door.

It was enveloped in endless black energy and arrived in front of the flying boat in the blink of an eye.

"What's going on?" Flower Ghost exclaimed in surprise.

Once the protective shield of the flying boat is raised, it can turn around and run as far as it can.

However, the black mist came on strong and swallowed the flying boat in an instant.

That wasn't all. A howling, bloody wind whipped up giant waves that crashed into the foggy sea, while black mist rapidly spread, covering half of the deserted island.

Hua Guigui simply used the flying boat's protective shield to withstand the corrosive black energy, showing no intention of rushing or running around recklessly.

Otherwise, we might accidentally end up back in the foggy sea.

Without Beishan Ming leading the way, if I want to come out again, I might really have to study the formation properly, maybe in twenty or thirty years.

Jingchen Tongzi extended his divine sense and scanned the outside world: "Hmm, this black energy also affects divine sense. What the hell is this? Did Beishan Ming and the others trigger a restriction?"

Seeing that the Taoist boy was unharmed, Hua Guigui felt somewhat relieved and also extended her divine sense out of the boat.

At the same time, because someone had set an example, she had fewer concerns.

With a "whoosh," his divine sense had already covered an area of ​​several miles.

The next moment, Hua Guigui screamed and collapsed, clutching her head.

This sudden scene startled Jingchen Tongzi, who immediately ran over to check.

Suddenly, black energy began to spread from her eyes, faintly gathering into a vortex, gradually expanding as if to occupy her entire eyes. "Not good!" Jingchen Boy exclaimed in alarm, "This black energy is actually a mixture of demonic energy and nightmare energy! It's my fault!"

He is a spiritual treasure in human form, and his consciousness is similar to that of a weapon spirit, so he is naturally not affected by the illusion of nightmare energy.

He didn't take the black energy's invasion of his consciousness seriously at all.

"Nightmare energy won't corrode the defensive shield; I was just prejudiced." He felt deeply guilty.

He immediately reached out and placed his palm on Hua Guigui's brow, and a purifying power instantly seeped into her sea of ​​consciousness.

The spread of the black energy was slowed down, but her divine sense continued to expand. To completely purify the nightmare energy, she needed to eliminate its source.

"It seems I have no choice but to knock you out first." Once a cultivator faints, their divine sense will automatically withdraw.

Just as he was about to make a move, the words the other party shouted made him pause.

"Hua Yuexi, you are already dead! I don't want to exist as your continuation."

"You are you, and I am me. You can't control me!"

"Alright! Then let's die together!"

I wanted to hear more, but when Hua Guigui shouted out her last sentence, her magical power began to boil.

"Holy crap, self-destruct?" Jingchen Tongzi was terrified.

A mere Core Formation stage cultivator's self-destruction naturally couldn't harm his physical body or spiritual treasure.

But this witch is a blood cultivator; her blood can corrupt the spiritual essence of treasures.

If he were to actually take that hit, he would immediately have to reveal his true form.

Without hesitation, he raised his hand and struck, and Hua Guigui let out a muffled groan, her eyes rolling back as she fainted.

The surging magical power within him gradually subsided.

The Cleansing Dust Boy breathed a sigh of relief: "That scared me to death."

"Blood Lotus Saintess Hua Yuexi?" He frowned, looking at the unconscious girl with a complicated expression.

Finally, she sighed softly and continued to use her purifying power to remove the nightmare energy from it.

"In such a short time, it has become so severely infected. Just how concentrated is the nightmare energy in this black mist?" He couldn't help but be shocked as he purified and investigated.

After a long while, the Pure Dust Boy muttered to himself:

"Fortunately, she refined three [Blood Shark Pearls], and with my purification power, it will only take about half an hour at most..."

"Ok?"

He suddenly looked out of the ship, and the stagnant black mist surged again, this time in the opposite direction.

The howling wind and the mist swirling up from the sea were swept back by the immense suction.

Pulled along by the wind and black mist, the flying boat rushed toward the stone gate.

This flying boat belongs to Hua Guigui; after she faints, the boat will levitate on its own.

But without human intervention, it cannot break free.

The Pure Dust Boy could only watch helplessly as all of this happened.

After a moment, everything returned to calm.

Only a small portion of the island remains, its trees charred as if burned by flames.

Despite being sucked into the stone gate, Tang Hao and the others were not separated.

The moment they realized something was wrong, the nine women grabbed each other's arms, forming a circle.

They grabbed his arms and wrapped their arms around his waist, protecting him tightly in the center.

They endured all the tumbling, collisions, and crashes along the way.

Aside from occasionally getting covered in sweat, Tang Hao was completely unharmed.

After an unknown amount of time, the suction gradually weakened.

With a "plop," the human zorbing ball crashed to the ground and rolled forward quite a distance before coming to a stop.

The nine women scattered with a "whoosh," and Tang Hao finally felt solid beneath his feet.

"Cough cough..."

"cough……"

"Your Highness, are you okay?"

"..."

A suppressed cough, mixed with a concerned inquiry, sounded from my side.

Clearly, after all that commotion, they had all sustained injuries, some minor and some serious.

Tang Hao was moved. The nine women's previous actions were almost instinctive, not due to his orders.

He quickly pulled out a handful of Blood Spirit Cores and handed them to them, saying, "You've had a tough time. Take some time to recover from your injuries."

The second-tier [Blood Spirit Cores] used for advancing ranks aren't particularly plentiful, but the first-tier [Blood Spirit Cores] used for restoring mana and healing injuries are definitely more than enough.

"Thank you, Your Highness!" the nine women said in unison.

At this moment, the surroundings were still shrouded in black mist, making it impossible to see the surrounding situation.

Just to be on the safe side, everyone continued to use the same terms of address.

After swallowing a pill, Tang Hao took advantage of the moment when the nine women were recovering and made a hand seal.

A small, sun-like ball of light suddenly rose into the air and hovered above everyone's heads.

The ball of light emitted a crystal-white halo, a combination of the [Illumination] and [Purification] spells.

Now, Tang Hao is no longer the mere Qi Refining cultivator he was when he purified the Five Elements Wheel, and his Purification Technique is no longer the unique Cleansing Technique he had just displayed back then.

The moment the purifying light sphere bloomed, it slowly purified and forced back the surrounding black energy.

After a brief assessment, he nodded slightly: 'Not bad. The [Illumination] spell depletes slowly; I just need to replenish it with [Purification] spell from time to time.'

With a clear view, the group cautiously ventured deeper into the area.

Tang Hao glanced around, his brows furrowing immediately.

There were some low-lying flowers, grasses and shrubs scattered on the ground, but they looked like charcoal and were obviously no longer alive.

"These are all spiritual plants corrupted and contaminated by demonic energy!"

"Huh? Is that a [Continuing Fragrance Flower]?" Yin Yuan suddenly exclaimed, pointing to a patch of dark, indistinct plants not far away.

The medicinal herb that Tang Hao had once searched so desperately for has now sprung up like weeds in this place, but...

"What a pity." Everyone sighed with regret.

Although this medicine is no longer needed, one can imagine how many similar medicinal herbs are being wasted here.

I walked for an unknown amount of time in the direction from which the suction force was coming.

Suddenly, a gentle breeze blew by, and wisps of black mist seeped into the space illuminated by the dust-purifying sphere.

Tang Hao was startled: "Again?"

Isn't this feeling just like that sudden suction? Only instead of suction, it's blowing.

"Your Highness, there's a fissure in the ground over there!"

"Let's go quickly."

His gaze swept across the area and immediately noticed the crack, which was three or four zhang wide: "Let's go!"

With a swift movement, Tang Hao led the nine women and rushed frantically towards that place.

Braving the fierce winds and fraught with danger, they filed in before they could no longer resist.

The purifying light sphere was destroyed by the black tide, and darkness once again enveloped the surroundings.

After an unknown amount of time, the black tide subsided, and the little sun rose into the sky once more.

"Speed ​​up!" Tang Hao shouted, taking the lead and running forward. "I have a feeling that the suction will come next."

Just as he expected, the unparalleled suction force did indeed appear not long afterward.

And so, the Kuroshio Current cycle repeated three times.

Tang Hao and the others arrived at the foot of a stone wall, where a huge entrance could be vaguely seen under the illumination of the dust-purifying light sphere.

His face lit up with joy, and he was about to enter.

But his gaze caught sight of a black, rope-like shadow trembling on the ground.

He looked up curiously, and immediately felt a chill run down his spine.

Bathed in the light of crystal-white light.

Above the stone wall, there was a huge, ferocious head, as big as a small mountain, lying there.

The so-called rope was actually a mustache near the corner of his lips.

Even more terrifying was the fact that the giant mouth of the head slightly opened.

A suction force then appeared.

(End of this chapter)