Chapter 1217: Deep in the Turbid Forest

"Damn it, why are these monsters endless?!!"

"I have a high-level one here! Someone come and help me!"

"These roots grow back after being killed, grow back after being killed; it's like they are endless!"

"Watch out for that flower on the side! Its scent seems poisonous! Old Huang was ambushed by it just now!"

"The ground in front is fake! That's a piece of camouflaged tree bark! Go around! Go around!!"

“……”

Blood and fire spread among the wriggling Turbid Forest. Numerous figures rushed forward one after another to tear open a path, forcibly biting their way from the periphery to the core, like an indestructible sword splitting a long mark in the thorns.

This was their first time facing a calamity from the Gray Realm, and because of this, they were caught off guard, and the overall charge was extremely difficult. But they were like having great resilience, finding a glimmer of life in every death trap and carving out new bloody paths.

"Don't scatter, gather toward me."

Ying Fu's voice came from the front, his gaze always observing the overall situation. As soon as this sentence came out, it was as if it had magic, lingering in everyone's ears. The crowd, who had already lost their direction in the killing, regained a trace of reason and began to shrink their formation, gathering like a long shuttle.

The casualties of the crowd were already close to one-third. From the periphery to the core, those with weaker strength had almost all sacrificed themselves, but now they had nowhere to retreat and could only fight for their lives.

Zheng Zhiqing herself was a Power Divine Path possessor. Relying on absolute force, she rushed to the very front of the queue, but at this time she was covered in blood, and her eyes were a little red...

"Damn it... are these bastards really endless?!"

She roared, a long whip swung from her hand, entangled with a flesh-and-blood plant that looked like an aloe vera more than ten meters high in front, and then pulled back with all her might, actually forcibly pulling the calamity out of the ground and swinging it behind her.

"Even if they are endless, we must kill them!" Fu Kun held a small hammer and slammed it into the earth. Lava-like spider webs spread crazily. This hammer directly changed the geological structure of the surrounding area, crushing the roots hiding below that hadn't finished growing.

He ran beside Zheng Zhiqing, his tone extremely firm,

"His Majesty and Han Xiang are all paving the way in front; we must not hold them back."

"Do you need to remind me? I know!"

Just as the two were talking, a figure wearing a complicated opera robe flew over their heads.

The hideous Nuo mask flashed with cold light under the dark clouds. As Shen Nan held the black flag and swung it toward the wall of wriggling vines in front, a thick bolt of lightning pierced the battlefield, reducing a lot of pressure for Zheng Zhiqing and Fu Kun.

"If you encounter trouble, remember to call me." Shen Nan's voice sounded calmly from the sky. "No matter what grudges we had before, we are now grasshoppers on the same boat."

After saying that, he carried the black flag and went straight to another direction with greater pressure.

Fu Kun and Zheng Zhiqing looked at the departing figure, their eyes complex... Just yesterday, he was the blocker who intercepted the two at the entrance of the Huixian Hotel, and now he had become a comrade-in-arms who shared life and death. It can only be said that the wonder of fate is unpredictable.

"You, are not bad."

Just as Shen Nan passed by Ying Fu, a voice rang in his ears. "Really don't consider following me?"

Shen Nan's brows under the mask raised. He looked back at Ying Fu, who was in charge of the overall situation, and the latter looked at him with appreciation...

"Whatever requirements or goals you have, I can satisfy them... I am missing a disaster-eliminator by my side."

"No interest."

Shen Nan refused without hesitation. "The people who need me are among the common people... I can't afford to climb high to your imperial disaster; you should find the person you should find."

After saying that, Shen Nan left without looking back.

Ying Fu didn't force him to stay, his gaze falling back on the Turbid Forest in front.

At this time, they had rescued the survivors of almost all the surrounding shelters, and among them, Ying Fu didn't see Jiang Jiang. Only under that brightest star, a shelter was still trapped in the deepest part of the Bitter Flesh Turbid Forest...

Ying Fu looked up and saw Chen Ling in the starlight also looking down at him. After their eyes met briefly, Chen Ling knew the time had come.

He took a deep breath, extinguished the stars hanging above other shelters, and all the starlight gathered between his palms, like a dazzling sword of starlight.

Chen Ling felt his mental power being consumed crazily, but he didn't stop, instead waving the sword in his hand lightly toward the last calamity barrier in front of Ying Fu and the others...

"Break."

Boom—!!!

Starlight flashed,

Everyone saw a galaxy descend from the sky, surging majestically past them. The low-level calamities it touched were instantly melted away, while the high-level calamities, as if brushing against a raging fire, instinctively retreated to both sides. A clear, empty path briefly appeared before them!

"Now." Ying Fu’s imperial might swirled wildly. With a roar, he charged toward the path. "Follow me!"

The path opened by the vast starlight and Ying Fu’s call reignited the nearly exhausted spirits of the crowd. They poured every ounce of their remaining strength into following the two emperors, like a sharp blade thrusting deep into the belly of the Bitter-Flesh Turbid Forest!

……

"What’s that sound outside?"

"Are those monsters trying to break in again??"

“……”

Inside the shelter, the crowd heard the constant, approaching roar and was immediately seized by terror and panic.

Su Zhiwei and Chu Changqing watched their surroundings with heightened vigilance, seemingly prepared to strike again to deal with the swarming root monsters.

"It’s not the monsters..." Lu Xun looked up at the void, starlight flickering in his eyes.

"Our reinforcements have arrived."

*Rustle—*

A faint scraping sound came from the ceiling of the shelter. Everyone looked up simultaneously, and as fine gravel fell, a massive character gradually emerged...

—【Open】.

The moment the character took shape, the entire ceiling of the shelter exploded inward!

The roar of the earth was so loud it made their eardrums ache. Everyone instinctively covered their heads and closed their eyes, their expressions filled with terror... but the next moment, a brilliant, sky-filling starlight enveloped them.

The crowd looked up in a daze. Above the flying debris, a giant embroidered dragon was winding through the air. Han Xiang, who had somehow ended up standing on the dragon's back alongside Xiao Chunping, slowly retracted the two fingers he had just used to pierce through the shelter.

Xiao Chunping’s embroidered dragon moved far too fast; if it weren't for the urgency of saving people, she never would have let that old man stand on its back...

But it was precisely because of their cooperation that they arrived here at top speed, even faster than Ying Fu.

The embroidered dragon danced, and the ink dissipated.

While everyone stood dumbfounded, an imperial shadow stepped through the air toward them.