sinovels Chapter 1919: The Insect Pond
Chapter 1919: The Insect Pond
Chapter 1919: The Insect Pond
"By the way, may I ask if there is a fixed landing place when entering the demon world using this method?"
Just as the formation was about to be activated, Song Yaoguang seemed to suddenly think of something and asked.
"Of course not! Stop asking such meaningless questions and concentrate!"
Wang Cheng couldn't understand why Song Yaoguang would question such an obvious thing, and he responded impatiently.
Song Yaoguang didn't care about Wang Cheng's attitude. His eyes flashed and he looked at Luo Hong beside him, and saw him nodding slightly at him.
The next moment, the green light above the altar suddenly increased, and with a whoosh sound, everyone was sucked into the altar.
Sima Lei stopped casting spells at this moment, but looked towards the direction of the Demon Realm, as if talking to himself:
"I'm going to start now. Ask your parents to keep an eye on it and make sure nothing goes wrong!"
"I will go back and report now."
A human voice suddenly came from a shadow, and then with a weak force of law, it immediately disappeared.
At the same time, Luo Hong and others who were traveling at high speed through the earth veins felt that they were squeezing through narrow cracks, which was quite uncomfortable!
Fortunately, the teleportation process was not long. After only thirty breaths, they were squeezed out of the earth veins and appeared in the air in a somewhat embarrassed manner.
As soon as he steadied himself, Wang Cheng looked around and saw that under their feet was a muddy black land with many rock clusters mixed in it, emitting a sour and rotten smell.
"This is the Insect Pond of the Demon Realm. We are not too far away."
As the name suggests, the Ten Thousand Insects Pool is where the magic insects gather. It is also a dangerous place in the Demon Realm.
But here only the dung beetle demon clan has some strength, and the rest of the demon insects are no match for these Taiyi monks.
However, just as Wang Cheng was about to relax, he saw Luo Hong and Song Yaoguang both using self-defense measures, as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
"Hmph! As timid as a mouse!"
Wang Cheng immediately cursed with disdain.
"Haha, you two are really cautious. You are making a fuss when there is no movement at all. If there are really demon insects attacking us, you will have to use desperate means immediately!"
The beautiful woman with black lips covered her mouth and chuckled, her words full of mockery towards Luo Hong and Song Yaoguang.
“Haha, if that’s all the courage you have, you two should have found a demon city to hide in long ago, so as not to embarrass us Heavenly Court monks!”
A man in heavy armor carrying a sledgehammer nearby also shook his head and laughed.
However, Luo Hong and Song Yaoguang ignored them and were busy communicating with each other.
"Brother Luo, how is it?"
"No surprises, it's coming!"
Song Yaoguang became more alert immediately after hearing this. She was the only one who knew that when Luo Hong said there was no accident, it meant there was an accident.
Because as long as they are teleported randomly, they will never be safe, and there will definitely be changes when they land, and obviously there were no accidents this time.
As soon as the heavily armored man finished speaking, Wang Cheng's expression suddenly froze and he quickly looked towards the ground.
"not good!"
As soon as the exclamation was uttered, the ground exploded, and a huge worm with a black back, a white belly, and a human face on its head rose into the sky, opened its huge mouth, and bit towards the man in heavy armor!
"what!"
The heavily armored man was caught in a surprise attack, but he still reached out and slapped his chest in time, activating the armor on his body, causing magma-like patterns to appear on it, and instantly condensed an extremely thick layer of red light shield.
But at this moment, a stream of black-green slurry suddenly spurted out of the mouth of the human-faced worm, almost all of which poured onto the red light shield.
"what!!!"
Then, everyone heard a scream. It turned out that the red light shield was completely corroded by the black and green liquid. The remaining liquid fell on the body of the man in heavy armor, immediately causing many pustules to grow on the skin of his face.
When everyone looked closely, they saw a worm wriggling in the abscess, as if it was trying to break out of the egg!
"Master!"
As soon as the huge mouth closed, the man in heavy armor was swallowed by the human-faced worm.
It was not until this time that the Golden Immortal cultivator next to the heavily armored man reacted and shouted in extreme grief and anger.
"What kind of demonic insect is this? How can it be bad? Be careful!"
Just as someone was about to exclaim in amazement, he sensed more energy rushing in and immediately wanted to raise his body.
But as soon as the light of escape appeared on everyone's bodies, they saw that the ground beneath their feet seemed to be boiling, and human-faced worms kept breaking out of the ground and attacking them!
Even though Wang Cheng was a cultivator in the late Taiyi stage, he was still in a rather awkward position at this moment, not to mention the black-lipped beautiful woman and others.
Their situation can be described as "surrounded by dangers".
The only group that responded appropriately was naturally Luo Hong and Song Yaoguang.
Because they had prepared in advance and had already sacrificed their magic weapons, when the human-faced worms attacked, the two of them just played whack-a-mole and knocked them all down.
"My fellow Taoists, these are dung beetles. You must not use your magical powers to take their venom. You can only use magical weapons to deal with them!"
After finally finding a gap, Wang Cheng quickly reminded everyone.
If the assessment had just begun and ended like this, his guilt would definitely be huge!
Upon hearing this, the beautiful black-lipped woman threw a dart, which went straight into the forehead of an attacking dung beetle.
However, with a "ding" sound, the dart bounced off directly at the center of his eyebrows, and had no effect at all except leaving a little white mark.
"That face is a bait, attack the white parts!"
Seeing that the beautiful woman with black lips was almost swallowed because of a momentary negligence, Wang Cheng immediately added in a hurry.
As soon as he finished speaking, a golden long knife was seen slashing quickly, directly ripping open the belly of a dung beetle.
The insect let out a mournful cry, and without caring about its organs scattered all over the ground, it burrowed back into the ground.
"It's her! How abominable!"
Upon seeing this, Wang Cheng wanted to praise him so that the others would follow suit, but he found out that the one who had swung the sword was Song Yaoguang, so he had to swallow his words back.
After Song Yaoguang successfully forced back a dung beetle demon, everyone gradually regained their footing and recovered from the panic of being suddenly attacked.
After all, the one with the highest cultivation level among these dung beetles is only the first one, which is in the middle stage of Taiyi. As long as you know how to deal with it, it is not difficult to deal with.
But the problem was that they seemed to have been teleported into the lair of the dung beetle demon insects, and it took several more days to completely resolve the crisis.
Except for the unlucky man in heavy armor at the beginning, no one else died.
There was only one person who was seriously injured, and that was the Golden Immortal helper brought by the heavily armored man, who was also his disciple.
He flew to the ground, reached out to a pile of disgusting worm organs, and immediately pulled out a huge round-headed hammer.
Holding the only relic left by the heavily armored man, the Golden Immortal flew to Wang Cheng, saluted, and said:
"Master, I can no longer carry on with this assessment. Can you please tell me where the nearest demon city is?"
Upon hearing this, Wang Cheng knew that the other party planned to hide in the demon city and leave the demon realm after the assessment period was over.
And this is exactly what the heavily armored man had just laughed at Luo Hong and the others for!
Although Wang Cheng felt ashamed, he couldn't say no. He could only take out a jade slip and throw it to the other party as if he had eaten a fly.
"You all come together. There is no one else here except us. I will assign you a mission location."
As he spoke, Wang Cheng took out more similar jade slips and threw them to Song Yaoguang and others who were flying over.
Later, Luo Hong took the jade slip from Song Yaoguang's hand, scanned it with his spiritual sense, and a regional map of the Demon Realm was imprinted into his soul.
Although this map only covers a corner of the Demon Realm, it is marked in great detail, making the dangers and resources of each place clear at a glance.
The Ten Thousand Insects Pool where they are currently is also among them. The dangers marked on it are Taiyi demon insects such as dung beetles, and the resources are the eggs of dung beetles.
According to the jade slips, the eggs of this demon insect are the main material for refining the fifth-grade Taiqing Pill, which is of great benefit to the cultivation of Taiyi cultivators!
However, it is useless to the demons, so this place is so deserted.
However, the Demon Realm has always traded with the Immortal Realm, and Guangyuanzhai was established for this purpose, so the dung beetle eggs here have already been collected by the demon monks, so they can forget about getting this bargain right now.
"According to the time, Han Lao Mo and his men should be coming out of the Gray Realm. Next time I see Shi Chuan Kong, I can ask him to exchange part of my reward for these dung beetle eggs so that Han Lao Mo can refine a few furnaces of Dao Dan."
While planning, Luo Hong put down the jade slip and prepared to see how Wang Cheng would attack.
"According to Prison Master Sima's request, you need to complete the assessment task alone, so you must disperse and go to nearby places where magical beasts gather.
Li Moxian, go east to the Thousand Demons Cave.
Nan Zhengli, go southeast and Shegu Ridge will be left to you.
Lu Xiaozhi."
Following the place names one by one, Wang Cheng assigned a task location to each person.
However, Song Yaoguang had not heard her name for a long time, which gave her a bad feeling.
"Song Yaoguang, go north. The Ten Suffering Mountains are where your mission will take place."
It was not until the end that Wang Cheng looked at Song Yaoguang and smiled sinisterly.
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but say "As expected" in their hearts. This Song Yaoguang really offended Wang Yushi badly.
Song Yaoguang's face changed immediately. Although she didn't know much about the Demon Realm, she had heard of the famous Ten Suffering Mountains.
The reason why this mountain range is named "The Ten Troubles" is because there are ten demon beasts with the cultivation level of Daluo entrenched in it. They have long been a scourge to the border and are an extremely dangerous place!
Moreover, in order to resist the invasion of magical beasts, the demons arranged for great demon cultivators to guard the nearby large cities.
This is also extremely inconvenient for their movements!
So, Song Yaoguang frowned and said:
"Prison Envoy Wang, the Ten Suffering Mountains should be considered to be in the wilderness, not in the Demon Realm, right?
Is there something wrong with you arranging me to go there?"
"Fellow Daoist Song, Prison Master Sima has previously told me that all areas on the map can be used as test locations.
Are you questioning the decision of Prison Master Sima when you say this? "
Wang Cheng felt very pleased.
Don’t you like taking advantage of situations?
I'll let you have a taste of it yourself!
Song Yaoguang opened and closed his mouth, not knowing how to refute.
At this time, Luo Hong on the side suddenly spoke:
“Of course we dare not question the decision of Prison Master Sima, but the Ten Suffering Mountains are indeed much more dangerous than other places, so in fairness, our performance after completing the mission should be improved.
I believe that given Sima Yuzhu's character and intelligence, he would certainly not fail to think of this.
If Wang Yushi wants to keep up with Sima Yushi's pace, he needs to be more perceptive. "
"What did you say!"
Wang Cheng became furious when he heard this and glared at Luo Hong.
If it were an ordinary Golden Immortal, being oppressed by the aura of a Taiyi cultivator like him, he would have already collapsed and retreated, but Luo Hong seemed to be fine at the moment and continued:
"Oh? The King of Prisons is so angry, but he doesn't agree with what I said?
Then may I ask whether the King of Prisons does not approve of the character of Prison Master Sima, or does he underestimate the Prison Master's intelligence?"
Wang Cheng's eyes twitched twice and he didn't dare to respond to Luo Hong's words.
Seeing him like this, Luo Hong knew that this guy could not cause any trouble.
He didn't even think about it, could it be the same as before?
Sima Lei could show up at any time before, but now, he can just wave the banner as he pleases!
"Hmph! You are so sharp-tongued. What if I, the prison guard, agree to your request? Don't let that happen and you won't even be able to come back alive!"
Although Wang Cheng's tone was still unfriendly, he undoubtedly made a concession at the moment.
After the assessment locations were assigned, everyone set off.
As an examiner, Wang Cheng would travel around, observing the examinees openly or secretly and recording their performance.
But since everyone now needs to travel for a while, he is naturally not in a hurry to work.
While flying on the way to the Ten Disasters Mountains, Song Yaoguang felt amused when he thought of Wang Cheng's frustrated look.
But when she thought that the result had not changed much, a look of worry appeared on her face again.
"Brother Luo, the Ten Disasters Mountains are extremely dangerous. Although you have helped me gain some convenience, it cannot reduce the danger much.
In my opinion, we should just stay outside the mountain range and find a Taiyi early stage monster to capture."
"Haha, Yaoguang, don't worry. Do you know why Luo wants to stay in the Demon Realm and travel around?"
Luo Hong chuckled at the moment.
"Brother Luo, aren't you here for the cultivation resources that are unique to the Demon Realm?"
Song Yaoguang said with some doubt.
“This is just one of the reasons. The main reason is that Luo once made friends with a prince of the demon clan by chance.
Although he is not an important figure among all the princes and princesses, his noble status is enough to help us a lot in this assessment!"
The person Luo Hong was talking about was Shi Chuankong. He had connections in the Demon Realm, so naturally he would not be content to just complete the task honestly.
"Brother Luo has such an opportunity! However, this action breaks the rules. If Wang Cheng knew about it."
Song Yaoguang was not a pedantic person. His eyes lit up when he heard this and he was about to agree.
But when she thought of Wang Cheng, she couldn't help but have new worries.
“Hehe, does Yaoguang think he has the courage to go deep into the Ten Suffering Mountains?”
Luo Hong didn't take it to heart at all.
(End of this chapter)