Chapter 3344

Everyone realized that it would be difficult for them to leave now.

Leaving was one thing—even fighting would be affected. The gravity here was simply too strong. The demon beasts were able to withstand it somewhat better after revealing their true forms, but everyone else had to use their true essence to protect their bodies if they wanted to move freely.

Piaoyun asked Ye Liuyun’s women, including Xiao Yunfang, whether they should call Ye Liuyun out.

Leiming immediately called out, “Hey, don’t disturb big brother yet! There doesn’t seem to be any danger here. Let’s investigate first. Since we’re here for an adventure, we can’t call big brother for help before we’ve even encountered any danger!”

After hearing this, the other women also felt that they had relied on Ye Liuyun for protection too much in the past and that it was time for them to face some danger themselves.

“Let’s take a chance and see what happens. We’ll find a way out on our own first!” Feng Wanyi also agreed with Leiming.

Thus, everyone cautiously began exploring in one direction. Qiong Qi took the initiative to lead the group, walking at the very front.

After Shi Yuan’s physical body turned to stone, his combat strength was affected the least, so he followed beside Qiong Qi and cleared the way for everyone.

“There isn’t any fiery power here, so where did all this water vapor come from?” Qiong Qi was very curious about this as well.

The entire planet was shrouded in dense mist. Even Leiming and the others, with their golden eyes, could not see very far. It was as if all the water had been absorbed by the planet’s core before turning into vapor and drifting into the air.

However, their spiritual sense was not greatly affected. So far, they had indeed found no danger, nor could they sense any elemental power here. Qiong Qi had also found no trace of any formations arranged on the planet.

They explored the mist-shrouded planet for two days without encountering any danger, but they came across quite a few dried corpses.

Many of the corpses still had their storage rings, and there were no wounds on their bodies. It did not look as though they had been killed in battle.

“Could this planet be absorbing water and then transforming it into mist? Could these dried corpses have been completely drained by the planet?”

“If we can’t get out, will we end up like them?”

One of the Tang family disciples asked worriedly.

They were currently relying on their true essence to move freely. Once their true essence was exhausted, it was possible that the planet would absorb the water from their bodies as well.

Qiong Qi thought for a moment before setting up a formation that enveloped everyone. This formation could counteract gravity, allowing them to relax a little.

With the formation protecting them, everyone felt reassured. At least they would not be in danger in the short term, and they could also come here to recover the true essence they had expended.

But just as they let out a sigh of relief and prepared to rest, the howls and shrieks of vengeful spirits rang out in the distance.

“The voices of vengeful spirits!” Those who often followed Ye Liuyun could all tell that they were the voices of vengeful spirits.

Qiong Qi hurriedly set up another formation to defend against soul attacks. As soon as it was completed, everyone’s spiritual sense detected vengeful spirits surging toward them from all directions, stirring up a swath of black mist and sinister wind.

If Qiong Qi had not been so quick at drawing formations in the air, those vengeful spirits would already have charged into the formation.

The realms of these vengeful spirits were not low. Most of them had been ninth-level martial cultivators while alive, and even vengeful spirits at the eighth level of the Unity realm were rarely seen.

As soon as the vengeful spirits arrived, they began attacking the formation frenziedly.

“Vermilion Bird, this is your chance!” Qiong Qi reminded Vermilion Bird.

Vermilion Bird was delighted as well. Ever since arriving here, he had not revealed his true form. Since he could not fly anyway, transforming into his true form would only make him slower than walking in human form.

Now that he saw so many vengeful spirits, he immediately released his soul flames and began burning them. Every vengeful spirit struck by the flames let out a miserable shriek before vanishing into smoke. But the remaining vengeful spirits continued bombarding the formation without regard for anything else.

Qiong Qi was also busy repairing the formation. The vengeful spirits were powerful, placing tremendous pressure on it. However, with Qiong Qi constantly reinforcing it, the vengeful spirits still could not break through.

Vermilion Bird burned them for quite some time and absorbed a great many of them, until he could finally absorb no more. Yet the number of vengeful spirits showed no sign of decreasing.

“Where did all these vengeful spirits come from? Are they all martial cultivators who were trapped and died here?”

“Are these vengeful spirits being controlled by someone to attack us, or are they attacking us on their own?”

Everyone offered their own guesses. However, they had no way to capture any of the vengeful spirits alive and communicate with them, so they could only kill them.

Only after Vermilion Bird stopped absorbing them did Dragon Girl release the golden spear from her sea of consciousness. It was a treasure for attacking souls that Ye Liuyun had given her, specifically designed to kill souls, and was a third-level Void-tier treasure.

The golden spear was just as effective against these vengeful spirits. A single thrust could pierce a string of them, annihilating them all.

Little Lanbing took out the Soul-Sealing Pearl, which also had some effect on the approaching vengeful spirits. But its effectiveness was greatly reduced when used through the formation, and the vengeful spirits broke free several times.

The lightning power in Demon Lion’s Wind-Thunder Fan could also attack vengeful spirits. Each wave of the fan could blast several powerful ones to death.

Qin Mengxi and the Tang family disciples also joined the battle, attacking the vengeful spirits with the power of Buddhist light. It was equally effective.

Vermilion Bird watched with great regret. However, there were quite a lot of vengeful spirits here, so he immediately hurried to refine the ones he had just absorbed, preparing to absorb another wave.

A day later, the number of vengeful spirits had decreased considerably. Vermilion Bird attacked once more, sweeping through the remaining ones with his flames and burning them all to nothing.

Everyone let out a long sigh of relief.

“At last, it’s quiet!”

Although the vengeful spirits had been unable to attack them, their wails and shrieks had left everyone feeling irritable. Now that everything had quieted down, they all felt considerably more relaxed.

After a while, Leiming suggested, “How about we rest for a bit and then go out to try again? We can’t stay here forever.”

Everyone agreed to go out and investigate again, looking for where the vengeful spirits had been hiding before. Perhaps they could find a way out through them.

But they had not gone far after leaving the formation when they were attacked by the vengeful spirits once again.

Qiong Qi hurriedly set up another defensive formation, protecting everyone inside it and blocking this wave of attacks as well.

However, the vengeful spirits attacking them this time did not strike after seeing them use the formation for defense. Instead, they scattered into the distance and surrounded them.

“Someone must be directing these vengeful spirits!”

This time, everyone could see it clearly. The vengeful spirits actually knew to surround them without attacking, which obviously could not be mere instinct.

Although the vengeful spirits did not attack them this time, quite a few skeleton puppets and stone puppets charged over and attacked the tangible defensive formation they had set up. Moreover, all these puppets were at the peak of the ninth level of the Unity realm.

These physical attacks placed even greater pressure on the formation.

Luo Yu released her second-level Void-tier puppet beast to engage those puppets in close combat. The others hid within the formation and attacked the puppets from afar.

Powerful vengeful spirits were still guarding the outside, so they did not dare to rush out of the defensive formation.