inspire-indiana Chapter 181 Wilderness 2
Chapter 181 Wilderness 2
"Thunderous Strike!" Li Wei's sword flashed with lightning as he thrust it towards his opponent: "Coward! Troublesome!"
Lightning exploded into sparks in that small space. The sword pierced through the air, and Li Weixin cursed as he watched the Earth Crocodile darting about underground, waiting for its chance to strike.
"what!"
"Ah!"
With Shangguan Song's swift punches, clouds of dust and smoke exploded on the ground, but not a single blow hit its target!
The earth-hide crocodile thrived in the soil, constantly lurking and attacking like a swift dragon.
"Let me do it!" Cheng Jiu carefully sensed the weeds on the wasteland. At this moment, these weeds became Cheng Jiu's eyes and hands, constantly telling her the location of the Earth Crocodile. Perhaps the Earth Crocodile was the overlord of this wasteland, but these weeds were the true masters of the entire wasteland.
As the green light spread across the ground, the low-lying weeds grew rapidly. Among these weeds, faint red light shone through, revealing the Bloodthirsty Thorns. As the weeds broke through the soil, layers of grass leaves wrapped around a huge, struggling object, clearly the Hidden Crocodile hidden underground.
The opponent struggled incessantly, and the branches of the bloodthirsty thorns entered its body through its mouth, constantly sucking away its life force and flesh, growing wildly.
The veins and leaves constantly break off and grow back, like tens of millions of tentacles, leaving the opponent nowhere to escape.
Gongcheng and Gongyu couldn't help but gasp at the sight; their junior sister seemed to be getting more and more perverted!
The Bloodthirsty Thorns sucked the Earth Crocodile half to death, and the Earth Crocodile fell heavily to the ground.
"Aren't you going to kill your junior sister?" Gongcheng asked.
“Keep it for transportation. After all, it knows better than us outsiders where it can and cannot go. Besides, didn’t Senior Brother Li just fall into the swamp? This can’t go on like this.”
Cheng Jiu wanted to do this as soon as she caught the crocodile. Instead of constantly trying and failing in this wasteland swamp, and knowing that they wouldn't be able to catch up with their master at their speed, it would be better to catch a vehicle. Coincidentally, this one came along.
"Junior Sister Jiu, you're so kind! From now on, we'll share the good times and the bad!"
Li Weixin was deeply moved upon hearing this, after all, he really didn't have any advantages here, and the Gong brothers, Gong Cheng and Gong Yu, might be more at ease than him by supporting each other.
"Aren't we already in this relationship?" Cheng Jiu said with a look of disdain, "When did you become so pretentious?"
Li Weixin immediately withdrew her emotion. Ah, it was still the familiar feeling: "How do you tame them? We're not demons!"
The idea is good, but this is a demon beast, not a spirit beast. How can we guarantee that this thing will listen to them?
"Didn't we bring a demon with us?" Cheng Jiu pointed to the ginseng doll near Gong Yu.
"But it still hasn't woken up." Gong Yu took out the ginseng doll, his tone somewhat helpless.
"It's just because of insufficient energy!" Cheng Jiu knew the other party's situation after a quick investigation, as she herself had a wood spirit root.
Cheng Jiu rummaged through her ring and exclaimed, "Found it!" She pulled out a green crystal, its lustrous sheen permeating her fingertips, radiating spiritual energy that refreshed the mind and spirit.
She placed the crystal between the ginseng doll's eyebrows.
"Where is this?" As the crystal continued to shrink and disappear, the ginseng doll slowly crawled out of Gong Yu's palm, looking around in confusion. When it looked at Cheng Jiu, its eyes lit up with great surprise: "You are Master's teacher!"
"Yes, it's me!" Cheng Jiu nodded, noticing that it was completely different from the first time they met. Could this also be one of the effects of the spacetime distortion?
"Master's teacher, is there anything I can help you with? I will definitely do my best to help!" The little ginseng doll puffed out its chest, looking like it was ready to give her any orders.
It didn't ask where Nabu and Agana went. Perhaps as a subconscious act of protection, Cheng Jiu didn't mention it either, to avoid recalling those painful memories.
"It's just a small matter; I'd like you to help me tame this monster and give us a ride."
"No problem, leave it to me!" The ginseng doll jumped onto the head of the earth crocodile. The originally fierce earth crocodile became incredibly docile under the ginseng doll's care. The green light on the ginseng doll's body kept flashing, and the earth crocodile's vitality was visibly restored rapidly.
“Alright, little one, it’s willing to carry us out of the wasteland swamp,” the ginseng doll said obediently, sitting on the head of the earth crocodile.
"Wow, Ginseng Doll, you're amazing! Thank you, Ginseng Doll!"
"You're welcome, Master's teacher!" The ginseng doll blushed at Cheng Jiu's praise, feeling a little flustered, and waved its little hands haphazardly.
Seeing the ginseng doll's adorable antics, Cheng Jiu stopped teasing it: "Alright, let's get the crocodile!"
The Nascent Soul stage Earth Crocodile was enormous; its mouth alone could swallow Cheng Jiu and five others. Its back was also incredibly broad, covered with scales, making it an uncomfortable place to sit.
Cheng Jiu spread out a soft spiritual cloth, which was also a spiritual artifact of a high grade, the seventh rank. It would not affect the movement of the Earth Crocodile, nor would it make the crocodile uncomfortable. Moreover, it was quite soft and was highly praised by cultivators who used mounts.
The five sat down around her: "Comfortable, no wonder she's our junior sister!" Li Weixin even wanted to roll around in bed.
"Alright, sit tight! Let's go!"
"Little Earth, let's go!" With a command from the Ginseng Doll, the Earth Crocodile swung its body rapidly and sped off forward.
Sure enough, it was much faster than walking to find the crocodile.
As the most disgusting and vengeful overlord of the wasteland swamp, most monsters that see the Earth Crocodile dare not approach it, even if they see several humans sitting on its back.
The journey was smooth and unobstructed. Most of the Earth Crocodile's body was hidden on the ground, with only a small part of its scales protruding above the surface. Cheng Jiu and his group of five sat on the award platform, enjoying the passing scenery.
Suddenly they sensed that the Earth Crocodile was moving even faster, as if it were trying to escape. Its routes became chaotic and disorganized, leaping out of the ground one moment and diving back underground the next. It even nearly made direct contact with the ground. Cheng Jiu almost thought that the crocodile was trying to escape the control of the Ginseng Doll and was about to have Weeds catch the escaped giant and teach it a lesson.
Fortunately, even so, the other party did not abandon them, but the experience was not good.
"What happened?" The group of people, sitting haphazardly and feeling dizzy, asked the ginseng doll.
The ginseng doll, its face pale, climbed directly onto Gong Yu's head: "I'm telling you, the swamp is angry! How scary, how scary!"
"Is he angry?" The others were puzzled.
"Look ahead! Look ahead quickly!" Li Weixin's voice was hoarse from looking at the road ahead.
Groups of monsters that had been foraging in the wasteland swamps fled in one direction as if their lives depended on it, kicking up clouds of dust.
"Wait a minute, no way!" Cheng Jiu watched as the Earth Crocodile kept approaching the group!
"I go!"
"This is terrible!"
As if confirming their suspicions, before they could react, the Earth Crocodile plunged into the massive herd. Cheng Jiu and the others had never imagined such an experience. At their feet were tens of millions of enormous hooves. It was easy to imagine that if they left the Earth Crocodile's backdrop, they would be crushed into blood and gore in an instant by this massive tide of beasts.
A thin, golden protective shield firmly enveloped the five people. It seemed that not a single demonic beast noticed the attack on them. All the demonic beasts had the same goal and fled in one direction.
Gong Yu wiped the sweat from his face: "That was terrifying! I almost died!"
Cheng Jiu's hand also flashed with the protective light of a ninth-grade array: "Senior brother, you're still the quickest to react!"
The crocodile kept charging forward, even swimming towards the center. The group couldn't control it or escape, and could only sit on its back.
"Is that the swamp's wrath?" Cheng Jiu stared wide-eyed at the spot where the Earth Crocodile had left. A large area of land was twisting and turning wildly, and swarms of demonic beasts were sinking into the ground, as if being swallowed up by this wasteland swamp. Amidst the countless howls and struggles of the demonic beasts, they disappeared into the swamp.
The amazing thing is that after this swamp finished swallowing up the previous area, the next monsters rushed into the swamp as if walking on flat ground, without noticing the tragic scene just now. They went in one after another, as if the swamp was feeding on them.
"My master said this is a magical phenomenon in the wasteland swamp called Earth Devouring. If you encounter Earth Devouring, it will devour you..." Shangguan Song didn't continue, the consequences were obvious, what could be more obvious than that?
In the face of natural disasters, even powerful demonic beasts cannot escape death.
Almost all the demonic beasts were blinded by rage, and if they fell behind even slightly, they would instantly become the victims of this beastly onslaught. They dared not stop for even a moment.
"Wait and look at the sky!" Cheng Jiu pointed to the sky. Not only were there yellowish-brown bubbles rising from the ground on both sides of the sky, but they were also getting bigger and bigger as they rose from the ground into the sky.
Suddenly, it exploded with a loud bang, and countless foul-smelling yellow liquids splashed everywhere. Any monsters that came into contact with these yellow liquids screamed and howled in agony, their flesh visibly corroded.
Seeing this scene, the group couldn't help but gasp. It was terrifying. Tens of thousands of bubbles burst, taking away lives one after another.
Shangguan Song swallowed hard: "This is also a strange phenomenon in the wasteland swamp, called Death Bubble. It has strong corrosive properties. Once the yellow liquid produced after the explosion gets on you, even a body cultivator at the Dao Integration Realm will turn into bones in an instant."
"So many of them exploded in mid-air. If they were right next to us, how could we possibly escape?" Cheng Jiuguang felt a lingering fear just thinking about it.
"Thinking about it this way, this crocodile is quite clever!" Li Weixin exclaimed with admiration as he watched the crocodile swimming towards the center.
Even underground, it's not entirely safe. You have to understand that the yellow bubble comes from the Death Swamp. If this death bubble happens to form right here and explodes under your abdomen, allowing you to fully experience the death bubble, then it can only be said that when the Ghost Emperor beckons, no one can stop him!
The other party kept swimming towards the center. Even when the death bubble exploded, the liquid was blocked by the thick layers of monster flesh and blood on the outside. It can only be said that it is indeed the most sinister monster recognized by the wasteland swamp. It has figured out how to kill your friends rather than yourself!
“Then you must have lived here for so many years, you must be very experienced!” Cheng Jiu replied.
Not only do they have to escape the Earth Devourer that appears out of nowhere, but they also have to be careful of the constantly rising Death Bubbles. At this point, luck is everything, and the monsters that can survive under these circumstances are the lucky ones.
In order to avoid the death bubbles, all the monsters involuntarily moved towards the center, causing their routes to constantly deviate, but fortunately, their directions were very unified.
Cheng Jiu and his group of five put on clothing to conceal their presence. Right, the monsters were too busy to bother with them right now, but what if something did happen? It would be best to blend in like a drop of water into the ocean for safety.
After running for an unknown amount of time, the air ahead was filled with the fragrance of aquatic plants. The beast tide slowly dispersed, and the herbivorous monsters with their own groups scattered in groups across the vast, lush grassland, munching on weeds.
The monsters that were originally hiding here, waiting for their chance to hunt, also took the opportunity to attack those monsters that were alone and had a feast.
The Earth Crocodile also swam in one direction. Most monsters are very territorial, and this was not its empty territory.
It led Cheng Jiu and the others to swim towards the edge of the wasteland. It was truly touching. After a day and a night of running for their lives, this guy still didn't forget his original intention.
Halfway there, a crocodile emerged from the ground, lay panting heavily, and didn't move.