I tried to kill the heroines of destiny, but they ended up chasing after me.

A deafening roar resounded, and a terrifying heat spread around with the fireball of the Yellow Springs, seemingly causing the wooden bridge to sway precariously. Yet, even so, the wooden bridge remained unharmed, as if it would never break no matter what happened!

The greatsword was swung with great force, and the moment it collided with the fireball, Huang Quan's expression changed slightly, and he took two steps back. However, since the greatsword only struck the fireball, Huang Quan, with the fireball as cover, did not suffer much damage!

But the fireball was unexpectedly powerful. When the large sword struck it, it not only failed to cut the fireball in two, but the blade itself was also largely embedded in it!

It was obvious that the broadsword was stuck inside the fireball, and perhaps due to the high temperature of the fireball, a red tinge had slowly appeared on the broadsword!

"What?!" The skeleton with the knife was surprised and suspicious again, but its reaction was not bad. Realizing that something was wrong, it immediately pulled back its left hand and increased the force of its grip on the knife, as if it wanted to forcibly pull the knife out!

But Huang Quan, who had seized this opportunity, was not about to let him have his way. Huang Quan snorted coldly, his gaze resolute, and his Xuan power erupted, surging wildly into the small fireball in his hand!

Suddenly, the temperature of the small fireball rose rapidly, making the red imprint on the broadsword even more intense. In the blink of an eye, the part of the broadsword that was embedded in the fireball snapped open with a crack!

The greatsword, unsurprisingly, broke in two during the breakage. One half fell off the bridge and into the water, while the other half was retrieved by the skeleton. However, the greatsword was already useless, so retrieving it was pointless.

As for the fireball in Huang Quan's hand, after this confrontation, it also lost all its power, as if it had completed its mission. It then gradually dissipated into the air, leaving only a trace of residual heat surrounding Huang Quan.

"Break my shield, destroy my sword..." At this moment, the skeleton threw away the broken greatsword again, and then said to Huang Quan, but there seemed to be a faint anger in his tone: "Boy, I think you won't be leaving here today!"

Upon hearing this, Huang Quan chuckled, snorted, raised his left hand, and pointed his middle finger, saying, "You talk as if you'd let me leave here alive if I didn't destroy your sword and break your shield. Are you stupid?"

"You!" The skeleton was taken aback, speechless for a moment.

"Enough with the nonsense, I haven't had enough fun yet. If you have any more tricks up your sleeve, bring them on. I want to see if you can really kill me!" Huang Quan said defiantly, completely looking down on the skeleton!

"Boy!! You will pay the price for your boastful words!!" Without a doubt, the skeleton, provoked by Huang Quan's words, reached its peak of rage. With a roar, its entire body burst into a dazzling red light, and within this red light, the skeleton's body seemed to grow about three meters taller!

"Hmm? What a big bone!" Huang Quan thought to himself, a sense of solemnity rising within him.

In fact, he had already sensed the skeleton's strength the moment it appeared. Perhaps this guy wasn't always this weak; it had just lost most of its original power over the years, which is why it had become like this.

But now, as the skeleton's body grows taller, its aura suddenly intensifies, and it seems to be recovering to the level of a Great Emperor. As a result, Huang Quan also feels a sense of crisis. However, besides the sense of crisis, what he feels more strongly is... fighting spirit!

His eyes flashed, his hands suddenly clasped together, and after a soft shout, his profound energy erupted once more, forming a powerful wave that spread around. Soon after, five cube-shaped pieces of soil, each about one decimeter in length, materialized from the wave and floated before Huang Quan's eyes!

"Bury! Go!" Muttering to himself, Huang Quan raised his left hand and pointed fiercely at the location of the skeleton. With his movement, the five clods of earth, accompanied by the sound of wind breaking, rushed fiercely towards the skeleton like five cannonballs!

"Hmph! A mere trick!" As the mud approached, a red light flashed in the skull's eyes, and its words were full of disdain. However, despite its words, it still put up a fight against Huang Quan's attack.

Suddenly, the skeleton roared in a ferocious manner, then stretched out its right hand and swung it forward. In an instant, countless blood-red lights appeared and immediately transformed into five small red blades, which made direct contact with the five clods of soil!

With a whooshing sound, the five clods of soil were instantly cut into countless tiny mud balls by the five red blades, which scattered in the air and fell to the ground, seemingly losing their ability to attack!

"Hahahaha! Nothing special, nothing special at all! I thought you were so calm because this mystical art was extremely powerful, but it turns out it's just all bark and no bite!" The skeleton laughed, his tone full of undisguised sarcasm!

Upon hearing its words, Huang Quan merely sneered, then retorted dismissively, "Heh heh, you spineless dog, you're weak enough, but you dare to spout such nonsense. Have you never been bitten by a dog, or have you forgotten the pain after being bitten? I suggest you find a dog to discuss this issue properly!"

"Shut up! I may be a skeleton, but I still have dignity! You may be human, but your words are utterly shameless and you don't deserve to be called human at all!" At this moment, the skeleton's anger had reached its peak, so it did not hesitate to once again control the five red blades and attack the Yellow Springs, as if it wanted to tear the Yellow Springs into eight pieces to vent its anger!

"Oh dear! So stubborn! It seems your bones are neither suited to stay in an exhibition hall nor in the soil! I guess you're only suitable to be eaten by dogs and turned into clumps of nutrients for the soil. Maybe that will even benefit the flowers, plants, and trees. Besides..." At this moment, a fierce glint appeared in Huang Quan's eyes: "Whether I'm human or not is not for you, a non-human skeleton, to judge!"

After speaking, Huang Quan's expression suddenly turned cold. He glanced around and muttered "burial" to himself. At that moment, the soil that had been broken into small balls suddenly began to move again!

The mud pellets that were originally scattered in the air quickly began to gather, and in just a moment they formed a thick wall that blocked the five red blades!

In addition, the mud balls that fell to the ground rushed toward the skeleton at lightning speed without any suspense. However, in the process, these mud balls multiplied and eventually resembled a mud tide, which was quite terrifying!

"What?!" The skeleton was shocked again, but it had lost time to defend itself.

"I won't see you off! I hope you can be a real skeleton in your next life!" Huang Quan thought to himself in silence, then waved his left hand lightly, and the mud balls gradually adhered to the skeleton from bottom to top, as if to completely envelop it.

The skeleton was shocked. It never imagined that it would be defeated by a human boy. Its fear reached its peak. However, despite its frantic shaking, it could not get rid of the countless mud pellets on its body.

They were like countless insects, gnawing away at the skeleton's life.

"No, how could this be?! How could I have perished here? No, it's impossible?! Master, save me! Master, save me!!" the skeleton roared hysterically, but at this moment, the mud ball had already covered its mouth, effectively rendering it... speechless!

Finally, the skeleton's entire body was completely buried in the soil.

The skeleton slowly collapsed peacefully, then fell into the water below along with the soil. With a splash, the skeleton vanished without a trace, but one thing was certain: it could no longer stop the Yellow Springs!

Seeing the skeleton fall into the water, Huang Quan let out a sigh of relief and sat down heavily on the ground, looking quite exhausted. It was clear that dealing with this skeleton was not as easy as it seemed on the surface.

"Damn it!" Huang Quan placed his hand on his chest to steady himself and cursed under his breath.

In fact, he could clearly sense that even though the skeleton had been eroded by time, its power was far greater than that. If he were to fight it head-on, he would definitely be the one to lose!

Therefore, if he wanted to win this battle, he could only resort to some underhanded tactics, such as mocking it, provoking it, and making it lose its composure.

The skeleton has a soul, but it is clear that this soul's intelligence is only superficially high. Furthermore, due to its master, it also has a mysterious self-confidence, which gives Huang Quan an opportunity to exploit. Therefore, in conclusion, Huang Quan's victory is actually full of chance.

After the battle, Huang Quan, who had rested for a while, frowned and fell into thought: "This won't do. Just defeating this skeleton has cost me so much energy. I don't know what dangers might follow."

Chapter 271 The Transaction

After crossing the wooden bridge with the barrier, and walking a short distance, we entered an open space of about fifty square meters.

This open space wasn't much different from the previous one. The only troublesome thing was that four more branching paths appeared ahead, which put Huang Quan in a difficult position.

However, there are both good and bad aspects; the information presented may be intentionally misleading by the creator.

We don't know which of the next four paths is the right one, nor do we know what other dangers may lurk...

So, to avoid any unnecessary problems, he decisively chose to start with the leftmost passage.

He had been walking for almost half an incense stick's time in this passage, which was no more than five meters in diameter. Although nothing had happened yet, and despite the black light shining from the blue stone all around, a sense of oppression still permeated his mind.

This made him look tense and he remained cautious, walking slowly. It seemed he wouldn't relax until he finished the journey.

Slowly, one breath, two breaths, three breaths, until just five breaths later, a spirit-eating insect that looked and was indeed not much different in size from a cockroach appeared in his eyes. And the moment it appeared, it charged towards the Yellow Springs with a ferocious face and a cry, with extreme decisiveness!

"Hmph!" Upon seeing the spirit-eating insect, Huang Quan did not choose to dodge. Instead, he stomped on it the moment it came. In an instant, the insect's body exploded, and its slime stuck to the bottom of his shoe. It seemed to be dead beyond any doubt.

Huang Quan looked up decisively and saw that the densely packed spirit-eating insects were about a hundred meters away from him, crawling towards him at an extremely frantic speed!

For a moment, the chattering sounds echoed throughout the passage, and upon closer inspection, they appeared even more terrifying. Fortunately, they were only interested in spiritual energy; otherwise, after one wave of attack, he would probably only be a skeleton left.

"I don't want to become that skeleton!" Huang Quan thought to himself, then his eyes flickered, and he threw the spirit stone in his hand forward without hesitation.

As expected, as soon as the spirit stone landed, many spirit-eating insects gathered around it and began to gnaw at it. In just half a breath, the spirit stone was eaten up by four or five spirit-eating insects!

"Half a breath? That's a bit short!" Huang Quan naturally knew that a single spirit stone couldn't stop them. He was just calculating how much time a spirit stone could give him. So, after the plan was completed, he endured the pain in his heart and took out tens of thousands of spirit stones, piling them on the ground.

In contrast to Huang Quan's mindset, the spirit-eating insects' eyes lit up when they saw so many spirit stones, just like a glutton who hadn't eaten for seven days suddenly seeing a delicious meal, unable to suppress their impulse!

So in the next moment, they completely ignored Huang Quan and rushed towards the pile of spirit stones like madmen. Perhaps for them, this was happiness!

And watch as countless spirit-eating insects surround the ten thousand spirit stones.

After calming himself down, Huang Quan breathed a sigh of relief and replied, "It should last about half an incense stick's time! And at my speed, that half an incense stick's time is definitely enough to leave this passage!"

But accidents always happen suddenly. Just when he thought he would be safe and sound, a sudden change occurred.

It was a giant spirit-eating insect, entirely red, about two meters tall, and emitting a foul stench. Its black eyes gleamed, and its huge mouthparts, like those of a mosquito, slowly emerged from the front into Huang Quan's gaze!

This strange change was quite surprising.

"What's going on?" Huang Quan frowned and stopped in his tracks. Surrounded by the swarm of spirit-eating insects, he was clearly puzzled.

He shook his head and said, "I'm not entirely sure either, but any spirit-eating insect will definitely be interested in spirit stones. I can try circling around it; if I succeed, I'll be able to escape just the same way..."

However, this giant red spirit-eating worm seemed different from the smaller ones. Although it was also moving towards the spirit stone, it gave people a feeling of indifference because its gaze seemed to be on Huang Quan.

"Hey, hey, hey! Why do I feel like it's not interested in spirit stones, but rather in me?" Huang Quan said, his brows furrowed as he looked at the red spirit-eating worm.

Cultivators, like spirit stones, possess spiritual power, making them far more alluring to the spirit-eating insects. However, cultivators naturally suppress their spiritual power, so the presence of other spirit stones temporarily obscures their presence.

Just then, the red spirit-eating worm arrived in front of Huang Quan. Just as Huang Quan had guessed, it had indeed come to eat him. With a cry, it charged at Huang Quan with its huge mandibles without hesitation, as if it wanted to pierce his body alive.

Of course, Huang Quan wouldn't just sit and wait to die. With a tense expression, he used his Instant Step to move behind the red spirit-eating insect. Then, he moved again and sped forward!

Seeing Huang Quan escape, the red spirit-eating insect roared angrily, as if its food escaping from its mouth was extremely disrespectful. So, the next moment, it began to chase after Huang Quan!

However, the speed of this red spirit-eating insect was completely different from its slow crawl just now. Even with its huge body, and even with Huang Quan constantly using Instant Step, it was still able to catch up and seemed to be closing the gap between them.

"This guy? He's pretty agile!" Feeling the red spirit-eating insect approaching, Huang Quan felt a renewed sense of apprehension. He then secretly circulated his spiritual power and increased his speed again, but even so, he could only barely manage to keep pace with it.

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be a mutated species of spirit-eating insect. Its strength, speed, and ability to sense spiritual energy are all far superior to ordinary spirit-eating insects..."

"This passage is his territory, but they seem to be bound by some kind of restriction, unable to leave this place..."

"So here's the question: if the creatures of nature can survive by relying on their own area, how can they survive in this godforsaken place?"

"Even if that ancestor left behind some spirit stones, he is long gone now, and those spirit stones must have been consumed by now, right?"

"Therefore, in order to survive, they can only change their way of life. Eating the surrounding stone walls is probably impossible, so in the end they can only eat their own..." Huang Quan didn't continue speaking at this point, but the answer was obvious.

"Do they eat their own kind?"

"That should be it! After all, those creatures that love to consume spiritual energy must also possess a trace of spiritual energy themselves. That's an absolute temptation. You know, even people will eat each other when they're starving, let alone these spirit-eating insects..."

"However, as they ate, some of the spirit-eating insects changed, and this red one must be one of them!" Huang Quan's eyes flashed with a sharp light, clearly having guessed everything.

"I see……"

"Well, at this speed, even if I can't shake it off, I can leave this passage before it catches up with me. I just don't know if there will be any more unexpected events!" As he spoke, Huang Quan felt a renewed sense of worry.

But the next moment, looking at him in front of her, her eyes suddenly narrowed and she stopped in her tracks.

"This is troublesome."

He murmured unconsciously, his lips twitching as if they were twitching.

Unsurprisingly, at this moment, nearly ten more enormous red spirit-eating insects appeared in front of him. In addition, behind these red spirit-eating insects, there was a spirit-eating insect that was entirely white, about five meters tall, and looked like a king, sitting quietly on a large rock.

Its appearance immediately caused the red spirit-eating worm that was chasing Huang Quan to stop and lie on the ground, completely afraid to move, and even showing a hint of fear.

"Man...leave...food..." Although the white spirit-eating insect's tone and words were somewhat flawed, it was clearly intelligent. Perhaps it was too lazy to care about lives that were of no use to it, which is why it said these words.

However, its words surprised Huang Quan. After all, apart from humans and alien beasts, there are very few creatures that can speak. But this also fully proves one thing: this white spirit-eating insect may be a creature that is slowly evolving into a real alien beast.

"Holy crap! Isn't this just like a juvenile alien beast?" Huang Quan's eyes flickered slightly as he thought to himself.

"What exactly do you want?" Huang Quan looked at the white spirit-eating insect, relaxed a little, and asked calmly, "You must have something to say, otherwise you can just take action directly. Why stop and say such meaningless things?"

"You're very clever!" the white spirit-eating insect laughed.

“It’s very simple…” the white spirit-eating worm said upon being asked, “I want you to take me out.”

"Huh? Did I hear that right?" Huang Quan asked in surprise.

"You heard me right, I want you to take me out?" the white stone spirit-eating insect said again.

"Hey, hey, hey! This can't be a simple matter, can it?" Huang Quan said with a look of annoyance.

"Of course not. We were raised at the entrance of this cave by our ancestor. So, in order to prevent us from leaving, he set up a powerful barrier at both ends that is only for us. Once anyone tries to escape, they will only face certain death. I have already tested this with other members of our kind!" the white spirit-eating insect said with some apprehension.