studiobondurri Chapter 163: Each act separately
Chapter 163: Each act separately
Chapter 163: Each act separately
Fourteen members of the Baiye Sanmeng Alliance, also dispersed and joined temporary teams of two people each.
The white-clad youth Tuo Zhe walked into the team where Yuan Ming was, showing a meaningful smile towards him. Vice Alliance Leader Huan Shi happened to be in their team as well.
Afterwards, the seven teams set off and entered the Ghost Cry Gorge.
The narrow Ghost Cry Gorge was hundreds of zhang long. The outermost section was normal, but as they walked halfway, white mist began to fill the gorge, becoming denser the further they went.
"Don’t be nervous, we have already investigated this area. It’s just ordinary mist. The color of the poison mist is yellow. You will see it when we enter the Snake King Valley." Huan Shi timely reassured, dispelling everyone’s doubts.
The members of each team began to whisper and communicate in low voices.
"Please introduce yourselves, so we can address each other inside. I am Tuo Zhe from the Baiye Sanmeng Alliance." Yuan Ming, in the six-person team, took the initiative to speak.
"Ha Gong." Yuan Ming responded first.
"I am Mang Tun." The burly man with an iron tower-like voice said.
"I am Bai Rong." The woman in black veil said softly, her voice pleasant to the ears.
The young man in a black short-sleeved shirt spoke last, his voice hoarse like that of a seventy-year-old.
"Kun Sha." He succinctly uttered two words.
That’s how they got to know each other.
The distance of a hundred zhang was not far, and they quickly reached the end of the gorge.
Yuan Ming looked into the distance and saw not a narrow and cramped valley, but a vast ancient forest.
The trees in the forest were towering, each reaching a hundred zhang in height. What was peculiar was that their crowns were extremely high, almost concentrated at the top of the trees. From a distance, they looked like towering umbrellas.
Within a range of tens of zhang below the trees, there was a dense white mist.
The mist near the gorge was still white, but as they went further in, it became a thick and unbreakable milky white.
Before Huan Shi could speak, Yuan Ming had already rushed into the dense fog.
The pervasive mist instantly concealed his figure.
"Come back, don’t act on your own." Huan Shi immediately shouted upon seeing this.
Tuo Zhe’s expression also changed, obviously not expecting Yuan Ming to be so reckless, and couldn’t help but curse silently, "Idiot."
The members of the other teams from the Baiye Sanmeng Alliance frowned, while the temporary members looked on with a mocking attitude, as if watching a show.
Fortunately, after Huan Shi spoke, Yuan Ming quickly returned.
"What’s wrong with you all? Aren’t you going in?" He looked surprised, as if he didn’t know he had made a mistake.
"The poison mist is dangerous, don’t act on your own." Huan Shi felt embarrassed by the gazes of the members of the other teams, but still suppressed his anger and reminded them.
"Didn’t you say that the white mist is not poisonous?" Yuan Ming blinked his eyes in confusion.
"Just because it’s not poisonous doesn’t mean you can run around recklessly. If you continue to act like this, if you fall into danger, no one will save you." Huan Shi frowned and reminded.
Without further ado, Yuan Ming immediately returned to the team.
Not long after his words fell, a flurry of wing flapping sounds came from the fog. Then, a large swarm of black dots broke through the poisonous fog, numbering in the thousands, and rushed towards them.
Yuan Ming took a closer look and found that they were a swarm of walnut-sized poisonous bees. Their bodies were covered in black and yellow fur, and they had sharp poisonous stingers at their tails.
"Tiger-tail bees, highly poisonous," Yuan Ming recognized them at a glance.
The books said that these poisonous bees could be found in many places in the southern border, but their size was much larger than described, much larger indeed.
Yuan Ming’s eyes narrowed, and he drew out his Cold Star Sword. Without using any magic power, he relied solely on the cold aura emitted by the sword itself to slash at the flying poisonous bees around him.
Wherever the sword aura passed, even the bees that were not killed but got too close were eroded by the cold and fell stiffly.
They were crushed by Yuan Ming’s foot, bursting with a "pop".
In the fog, everyone else also took action.
Huan Shi raised his palm and waved it forward. A red light shone from his palm, and a large flame surged out, instantly engulfing half of the bees rushing towards him.
Bai Rong wore a pair of black gloves, seemingly made of metal. They emitted a faint black mist. Every time she swung her hand, a wisp of smoke enveloped the bees.
In no time, the tiger-tail bees stopped flying and fell to the ground.
Kun Sha opened another red porcelain bottle, and a swarm of white poisonous insects flew out, fighting the tiger-tail bees with poison against poison, causing casualties on both sides.
Under his feet, the red ant was eating frantically, continuously devouring the bodies of the fallen tiger-tail bees.
The burly man was more direct. He held a wolf-tooth club in his hand, swinging it with great force, continuously striking the attacking bees.
In the "bang bang" explosion sounds, the tiger-tail bees burst open, splattering blood mist.
These creatures, which couldn’t even be considered as low-level beasts, only slightly hindered their progress and didn’t pose much danger to them.
After a bit of effort, everyone managed to eliminate all the attacking bees.
Compared to them, the other teams had similar experiences, but there were also some unlucky ones.
One team had been safe and sound during their journey, not attacked by any poisonous insects or beasts.
At first, they thought they were just lucky. But as they continued, they noticed something was wrong when their necks inexplicably swelled up.
By the time they noticed the anomaly, it was too late.
Out of the six people in the team, besides the two official members and one temporary member of the White Night League, the rest of the temporary members mistakenly thought they were poisoned and tried to force out the toxins in their necks with magic power.
In reality, they had mistakenly entered a breeding area of grey haze poisonous mushrooms and were parasitized by the mushroom spores.
When they tried to force out the toxins with magic power, they were actually feeding the spores parasitizing their necks, accelerating their growth until they matured and burst, severing their necks.
Another team stumbled into an area where poisonous vines grew.
Those green vines full of poisonous thorns were extremely sensitive to living creatures. The moment they entered, the vines attacked like sentient demon vines.
The overwhelming demon vines surged forward, instantly strangling two temporary members.
The others, after recovering from their initial panic, immediately fought back and finally managed to escape.
(End of Chapter)