Chapter 3345

Everyone was trapped inside the formation by the puppets. After fighting for a while, the puppets retreated, luring Luo Yu’s puppet beast into pursuing them.

Then the puppets suddenly swarmed forward, using their bodies to withstand the puppet beast’s attacks before throwing themselves onto it. Clearly, they intended to capture the puppet beast alive.

“No good! They’re trying to capture that puppet beast alive!” Qiong Qi immediately warned everyone.

If the puppets captured the beast, erased its divine sense, and then turned it against them, their formation would no longer be able to hold.

“I’ll go. I have a defensive treasure in my sea of consciousness.” The Dragon Maiden volunteered. Her sea of consciousness contained not only a golden spear but also a shield that could defend against attacks. With that, she charged straight over to rescue the puppet beast.

“I’m going too!” Lei Ming immediately followed. She also had a pitch-black bone tablet in her sea of consciousness that could defend against soul attacks.

The others had no confidence in defending against soul attacks. The Vermilion Bird was not afraid of soul attacks, but its physical attacks were no match for the puppets.

The others unleashed various attacks to cover the Dragon Maiden and Lei Ming as they went to rescue Luo Yu’s metal puppet.

For a time, black-and-white radiance, sword intention, sword intent, the White Tiger’s golden spears of light, the lightning from the Wind-Thunder Fan, the Vermilion Bird’s flames, and various other attacks were launched all at once, blasting away the puppets surrounding the Dragon Maiden and Lei Ming.

The others also wielded the power of Buddhist light, doing their best to hold back the specters so they would not interfere with Lei Ming and the Dragon Maiden.

The Dragon Maiden and Lei Ming, however, were both unconcerned about soul attacks. Lei Ming’s bone tablet directly devoured the specters that charged into her. The Dragon Maiden used her defensive shield to block the specters’ attacks, then stabbed to death with her golden spear those that entered her sea of consciousness.

The two of them soon rushed to the puppet beast. It had already been firmly pinned to the ground by a heap of skeletal puppets and could not move at all.

Lei Ming and the Dragon Maiden raised their hands and blasted the heap of puppets, breaking apart several of the skeletal puppets on top. Lei Ming also controlled her Golden Eyes to release white light, killing several more skeletal puppets. Only then did the puppet beast stand up again and shake off the puppets clinging to it.

The three of them then worked together and slowly retreated into the formation.

The surrounding skeletal puppets pursued them unwillingly for a while. They did not stop until the three had retreated into the formation.

After that, dozens of stone puppets took their place and began pounding the formation. The other puppets and the specters continued to stand guard outside the formation.

Lei Ming and the Dragon Maiden were also panting heavily from exhaustion. To conserve their true essence, they had been using their physical bodies to resist the gravity here, which had taken a considerable toll on their stamina.

Seeing how hard they were struggling and worrying that they would be trapped and killed here, delaying the army’s advance, Xiao Yunfang immediately suggested, “Why don’t we notify Liu Yun?

We only set out five or six days ahead of the army, and we were originally supposed to scout the way. Judging from the current situation, it will be difficult for us to get out on our own. If we delay any longer, we’ll fall behind the army, which may affect its progress.”

Lei Ming was the one who least wanted to notify Ye Liuyun, afraid that he would blame her after coming out. But with so many puppets and specters around them, she truly had no other choice. Even if she and the Dragon Maiden were the only ones to fight, they would still be no match for so many enemies. Thus, she could only agree.

The others were also rather disappointed in themselves. They had intended to rely on their own strength and take the risk, but instead they had ended up trapped and still had to depend on Ye Liuyun to rescue them.

Although everyone agreed to ask Ye Liuyun for help, they were all extremely dejected.

After being summoned out by them, Ye Liuyun immediately spread out his divine sense to investigate the surrounding situation.

“What happened? Why are you all so downcast?” The first thing he noticed was the look on everyone’s face. After counting them and confirming that no one was missing, he did not become anxious.

As for the specters and puppets outside the formation, he paid them no attention.

Xiao Yunfang immediately told Ye Liuyun what had happened here.

By then, Ye Liuyun’s divine sense had already enveloped the entire planet, allowing him to see much of what was happening here.

“Yes, this place is indeed quite dangerous, and these specters and puppets are all being controlled by someone. As for the cause of the gravity, I haven’t figured it out yet. It doesn’t matter. I’ve found the person controlling them. I’ll go take a look, and then we’ll know.”

Seeing how lightly he spoke and that he had no intention of blaming her, Lei Ming finally dared to come forward and complain to Ye Liuyun. She said that the specters were too annoying, the puppets were difficult to fight, and the gravity was too strong, rambling on and probing Ye Liuyun’s attitude simply because she had nothing else to say. This made everyone else secretly laugh.

The moment Ye Liuyun saw her expression and behavior, he guessed that she had once again encouraged everyone to come exploring.

“You! You were the one who led everyone into this adventure again, weren’t you?”

“Big Brother, I didn’t expect this place to be so dangerous either!” Lei Ming immediately began explaining herself. But when she saw that Ye Liuyun had guessed she was the culprit and had no intention of blaming her, she finally relaxed completely, then came over, took hold of his arm, and swung it back and forth.

Ye Liuyun could do nothing about her. In fact, he did want the women around him to go out and take more risks, but he was always worried that something would happen to them. Lei Ming in particular had far too little experience.

“When there’s a chance, I’ll let them go out and make their own way!”

That was what he thought to himself, but he did not dare say it aloud, afraid that Lei Ming would misunderstand and think he was trying to drive her away again.

He merely said, “All right, I won’t blame you. The danger here is indeed beyond what you can handle. I’ll take care of it!”

Only then did Lei Ming run off with a smile, releasing Ye Liuyun’s arm.

Ye Liuyun said no more and immediately summoned the Netherworld Hell. The gates to the netherworld appeared out of thin air.

At that moment, all the surrounding specters bowed to him, leaving the members of the Tang family who had not seen Ye Liuyun before astonished. The aura of death brought by the appearance of the Entrance of Hell made them even more terrified, raising the hair all over their bodies.

Only those who had previously seen Ye Liuyun summon the Netherworld Hell showed no surprise.

As soon as the gates of the netherworld opened, Zhuge Feiyu appeared at the entrance, waving the Soul Banner and drawing all the specters inside.

At first, the nearby skeletal puppets and stone puppets merely stared blankly, not knowing what was happening. Only after large numbers of specters had been sucked into the Hundred-Refined Soul Banner did the person controlling them from behind apparently react and order them to attack the gates of the netherworld.

Ye Liuyun, however, directly condensed a spirit-qi thunder dragon beast, which smashed several of the puppets that had just attacked with a single slap.

The gates of the netherworld had appeared in midair and were completely unaffected by the gravity here. The spirit-qi beast was the same; being formed from spirit qi, it was also unaffected by gravity.

Thus, it guarded the gates of the netherworld from the air, and the puppets on the ground could not attack it at all.

By this time, countless specters from across the planet were surging toward this place to enter the netherworld. This planet had accumulated a massive number of specters—not just the few that Lei Ming and the others had encountered.

The gates of the netherworld remained open for an entire day before all the specters on the planet had been absorbed. Only then did Ye Liuyun send them back to the netherworld.