Simultaneous Transmigration: We Level Up Alone Across Multiple Worlds

Chapter 101 The Savvy Old Demon

Chen Chen folded his wings and landed, and Zi Ling stood firmly in his arms.

Fortunately, he had some Azure Scale Deer droppings in his storage bag, so he sprinkled the crumbs on the roots of several spiritual herbs.

In no time, the soil around the roots of a spiritual herb not far away stirred.

A white rabbit poked its head out of the soil.

Its fur is snow-white, its eyes are pale gold, its ears are pressed against the back of its head, and its nostrils twitch rapidly.

It wasn't a real rabbit—it was the transformed form of the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng. The white rabbit hopped forward and lowered its head to smell the pinch of dust that Chen Chen had sprinkled at the base of the root.

The cage of consciousness closed the moment it touched it.

The white rabbit transformed into a beam of white light, attempting to disappear into the earth, but was bounced back by an invisible barrier, crashing into the inner side of the divine consciousness cage and falling back to the ground.

Chen Chen squatted down, placed his palm on the white rabbit's head, enveloped it with spiritual energy, and the white light gathered in his palm. A small jade box was already open and placed beside him.

He sealed the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng into a jade box, and then put the jade box into his storage bag.

All in one go!

"Senior Chen is truly skilled."

Zi Ling was initially a bit dazed from being suddenly transported at such a rapid pace, but now it seems that Chen Chen had known about this opportunity all along.

Even if we don't know the grade of that spiritual herb, the fact that Senior Chen came all the way here to pick it means it's no ordinary spiritual herb.

"Practice makes perfect. This skill will be indispensable for you as you travel and gain experience on your own in the future."

Chen Chen stood up and turned his head away.

Outside the grove of dwarf trees, Xuan Gu had just arrived at the boundary between the shadows of the trees; he was still quite far from here.

Divine senses detected that Xuan Gu paused for a moment at the edge of the grove of dwarf trees.

He seemed to realize something and immediately turned and left.

Seeing that he was so sensible, Chen Chen did not chase after him, nor did he linger in the secret realm.

A quick scan with his divine sense revealed that besides the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng, there were a few other aged spiritual herbs in this secret realm, but their quality was inferior to the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng, making them unworthy of lingering.

Outside the stone gate is a narrow passageway, with walls transitioning from rough stone to blue bricks, and the black soil underfoot gradually being replaced by stone slabs.

After walking for about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the passageway suddenly opened up into a bright and spacious area.

A stone chamber.

The four walls are square, and there are two doors directly opposite the stone chamber.

The left door frame was reddish, and heat waves seeped out from the cracks in the door, causing the air to distort slightly in front of the door panel.

The door frame on the right was covered in white frost, so thick that it obscured the natural color of the stone.

There were already people standing between the two doors.

The bearded man leaned against the stone wall with his arms crossed. He noticed someone coming in, glanced at them, and when he saw it was this scoundrel, he quickly looked away.

Ji Yin and Qing Yi stood two steps away from him. Seeing him like this, their lips twitched slightly, and they silently turned their heads away.

Wan Tianming stood on the other side of the stone chamber, with Tian Wuzi and Mu Tengzi behind him.

His gaze lingered on Chen Chen for a moment, then he nodded slightly as a greeting.

There was a moment of silence in the stone chamber.

The bearded man started walking towards Xuanbing Road, stopped in front of the door frame, and glanced back at the people in the stone chamber.

His gaze deliberately avoided Chen Chen, finally landing on Wan Tianming's face.

"Master Wan, I'd like to see you in the inner palace."

The bearded man's silhouette was swallowed by the cold air.

Ji Yin and Qing Yi followed behind him, filing in one after another.

Wan Tianming led Tian Wuzi and Mu Tengzi toward Xuanbing Road, pausing briefly as they passed Chen Chen.

"Which way should Fellow Daoist Chen take?"

"Lava Road"

Wan Tianming nodded and said nothing more.

Only Chen Chen and Zi Ling remained in the stone chamber.

Chen Chen walked to the entrance of Lava Road and stepped inside.

Before the muffled thud of the door closing behind me had even subsided, a gust of dry, hot air rushed over my head.

Chen Chen narrowed his eyes.

Before me stretched a vast expanse of Gobi Desert, with dark brown gravel extending to the horizon. A few clumps of withered camel thorns lay crookedly in the cracks between the rocks, their branches charred black as if scorched by fire.

The sky was grayish-yellow, without clouds or the outline of the sun, and the heat from the ground seeped up through the soles of my boots.

Zi Ling took a step behind him, and the amulet automatically glowed with a light blue halo.

Chen Chen took a few steps forward, his boots crunching softly over the gravel.

His divine sense spread out.

Several meters below the Gobi Desert, countless spiritual energy fluctuations were moving, so numerous that divine sense could not immediately perceive their boundaries.

The gravel beneath their feet began to sink.

Zi Ling cautiously took a half step back and placed her hand on her storage bag.

Chen Chen had already opened the spirit beast pouch with his left hand.

The swarm of gold-devouring insects poured out of the bag. The golden lines on the adult insects' carapaces were particularly eye-catching under the gray-yellow light. The swarm spread out in mid-air as a thin cloud of dark gold, and the sound of their flapping wings sent chills down one's spine.

Black sand surged out from the cracks in the ground, the grains as fine as iron filings, gleaming with a dull metallic luster in the air.

Fire ants emerged from under the sand, forming a dense, black wave that filled the field of vision. The sound of their legs scraping across the sand was like heavy rain hitting sheet metal.

Splash—

The swarm of insects pounced on the ants at the same moment they emerged.

The gnawing sounds of the gold-eating beetles and the cracking sounds of the iron fire ants' shells mingled together, as golden waves and black tides clashed in the center of the Gobi Desert, turning up half a person's height the sand on the front line.

"This is----"

Zi Ling watched as the swarm of insects swept past like golden waves, her small mouth slightly agape in surprise.

Chen Chen stood behind the swarm of insects, using his divine sense to pinpoint the trajectory of each Gold-Eating Insect.

A rapid surge of spiritual energy emanated from the depths of the ant colony, accompanied by the crisp sound of metal clashing.

He probed with his divine sense.

A female cultivator was trapped in a sunken sand pit by a swarm of ants. Her protective aura had thinned to the point of being almost transparent. The short sword in her hand was covered with black marks from formic acid corrosion, and there was a tear in her sleeve.

She leaned against a charred stone pillar, and each time she swung her sword, she could only repel the swarm of ants a few steps in front of her, while iron fire ants kept swarming up from behind.

With a thought, Chen Chen sent out a flank of the Gold-Eating Insect swarm to flank the ant colony from the left. The golden waves bypassed the main force of the ant colony in front of the sand pit and cut in from the side, tearing a gap in the encirclement.

The remains of the fire ants quickly disintegrated as they were devoured by the swarm, leaving a layer of broken carapace on the black sand.

The queen ant was forced out from deep within the sand by the swarm of insects. She was several times larger than a common fire ant, and her abdominal carapace had a dark red sheen.

The gold-eating beetles swarmed and attacked, the adult beetles' mandibles gnawing at the queen ant's carapace with a piercing crunching sound.

A moment later, the queen ant's carapace cracked, and the refining crystal flew out from the wreckage. Chen Chen reached out and caught it, then put it into his storage bag.

After the ant swarm dispersed, the female cultivator in the sand pit felt her knees buckle and only managed to stay upright by supporting herself with one hand.

She gasped for breath, and the protective aura around her shattered under the final wave of formic acid corrosion, its fragments scattering in the grayish-yellow air.

Raise your head.

Chen Chen glanced at her face.

When Zi Ling was organizing information about Tianxing City, she mentioned a female cultivator named Yuan Yao. The Miaoyin Sect had recorded her activities of collecting materials for the Resurrection Technique on the black market.

This is probably the person.

Yuan Yao stood up, supporting herself with her short sword, and bowed to Chen Chen. Her voice was a little hoarse: "Thank you for your help, senior."

"This junior, Yuan Yao, may not know how to address you, senior."