Even though his spaceship was faster than the True Lake Realm spaceship, Mo Wuji didn't feel relieved at all. He could indeed shake off his pursuer, but the fact that the other party could intercept him halfway meant they knew his destination. And he had to go to the Prickly Wind Gate, so he was in a dilemma.
He had to find a way to break through to the True Lake Realm. As long as he entered the True Lake Realm, he would have a chance to plot against the True Lake Realm Completion cultivator chasing him from behind.
The difference in strength was too great. Even with the best planning, he might lose his life.
As Mo Wuji stood at the front of the spaceship, pondering how to get rid of the guy chasing him, the spaceship suddenly shook violently. Before Mo Wuji could figure out what was happening, his spiritual will detected an endless wave of demonic beasts rushing toward him.
These demonic beasts looked like scorpions, with two huge pincers and a tail like a steel whip. Even more terrifying was that these demonic beasts had densely packed legs. The large ones were two to three meters long, and the small ones were one or two feet long.
Without hesitation, Mo Wuji immediately turned the spaceship around.
He was seeing this thing for the first time, but he had heard of it before. When they were traveling, Chu Qianlou had mentioned among the Starry Sky Beasts, there was this kind of Starry Sky Scorpion. Moreover, the Starry Sky Scorpion was ranked high among various Starry Sky Beasts. This thing wasn't strong individually, but Starry Sky Scorpions always attacked in swarms. And it was poisonous. Whether bitten, pinched, or stung, one would be poisoned.
One bite meant one dose of poison. An endless swarm of scorpions would rush up. Once bitten countless times, the accumulated toxins could be fatal.
Even a True God Realm expert would find it difficult to escape if trapped by an endless swarm of Starry Sky Scorpions.
Seeing Mo Wuji's spaceship returning, the True Lake Realm cultivator was overjoyed. Without hesitation, he rushed directly toward Mo Wuji's spaceship, slashing down with his dual blades.
Mo Wuji knew that if he didn't retract his spaceship, this attack would directly destroy it. He could use the spaceship to block it and continue to escape. But if his spaceship was destroyed, where could he go? The other spaceships in his ring were not as fast as this True Lake Realm cultivator's.
Mo Wuji retracted his spaceship, and the vital energy in his one hundred and two meridians flowed simultaneously. Violent power burst out through the Heavenly Machine Staff.
At this time, there was no room for trickery. He could only meet force with force.
"Boom!" Vital energy exploded, and Mo Wuji spat out a mouthful of blood. He was blasted away, heading straight into the overwhelming swarm of Starry Sky Scorpions.
At this moment, the True Lake Realm cultivator also understood why Mo Wuji had fled back. Faced with so many Starry Sky Scorpions, he would have to run too.
Unfortunately, because he was so eager to kill Mo Wuji, although he had dragged Mo Wuji into the Starry Sky Scorpion swarm, he himself was also caught in it.
It was too late to regret it now. The most important thing was how to stop these Starry Sky Scorpions.
Mo Wuji's body was flickering with lightning, and countless Starry Sky Scorpions were blasted to death by his lightning arcs. This relieved Mo Wuji. The combat strength of these Starry Sky Scorpions was low. The strongest were only equivalent to the Yuan Dan Initial Stage, and many were only equivalent to the Detachment Mortal Realm, Foundation Building Realm, or even Vein Opening Realm.
The Starry Sky Scorpions' fighting style was biting and stinging. Mo Wuji discovered that some of the stronger Starry Sky Scorpions could also shoot out invisible poison needles.
He was accidentally hit by two needles. Fortunately, he had many antidotes on him. He immediately forced out the poison needles and swallowed the antidote pills.
At this point, Mo Wuji realized that he should have a defensive treasure. He rummaged through his magical treasure ring for a while and found a somewhat old concave shield. This concave shield originally belonged to Jing Gumu. After refining Jing Gumu's ring, he obtained several good spiritual tools, including this concave shield.
While continuously blasting out lightning arcs, Mo Wuji refined the concave shield as quickly as possible. During this time, he was hit by several more invisible poison needles.
As soon as the concave shield was released, it transformed into three concave defensive slots, and Mo Wuji's pressure was instantly reduced. At this moment, Mo Wuji wanted to curse himself for not thinking of refining a few defensive treasures first. Sure enough, one learned from experience. After today's incident, Mo Wuji knew that it wouldn't hurt to refine a few more treasures and keep them on hand. Fortunately, although there were many Starry Sky Scorpions, their strength was not high, giving him a chance to refine a defensive spiritual tool.
Mo Wuji quickly scanned his storage ring again and found that in addition to this one, he had two more defensive shields that were slightly inferior. These two defensive shields were from the rings of True God Realm cultivators.
He rarely saw anyone using defensive spiritual tools, wondering if it was because the value of defensive spiritual tools was higher than that of ordinary offensive spiritual tools. It was a pity that his Heavenly Silkworm Treasure Robe had been destroyed long ago. If it hadn't been destroyed, it would still be useful at this time.
After quickly forcing out the poison needles again, Mo Wuji unleashed large swathes of lightning arcs. Large numbers of Starry Sky Scorpions were blasted to death.
Mo Wuji estimated that his Qing Jin Heart would be even more useful against these Starry Sky Scorpions with relatively low combat power.
He didn't dare to take out the Qing Jin Heart yet. At least until that True Lake Realm cultivator was killed, he wouldn't dare to expose his Qing Jin Heart so easily.
There was no need to even think about how precious the Qing Jin Heart was. Just the fact that he had almost lost his life several times to obtain it showed that it was not an ordinary treasure. After Mo Wuji came to this cultivation world, the Qing Jin Heart was the most difficult treasure he had ever obtained. Or rather, it was the only decent treasure he had on him.
Mo Wuji's spiritual will landed on the True Lake Realm cultivator and discovered that he also had no defensive treasures.
His situation was even worse than his own. Although his strength was high, he lacked mass-killing techniques. The large swathes of blade light that he unleashed did indeed kill large numbers of Starry Sky Scorpions with each attack. But there were too many of them. No matter how strong this True Lake Realm cultivator was and how many Starry Sky Scorpions he killed, he would eventually run out of strength and be killed.
Mo Wuji was overjoyed. While constantly blasting away Starry Sky Scorpions, he grabbed another defensive shield. When he started refining this defensive shield, Mo Wuji knew that he had done something stupid.
With two defensive spiritual tools activated at the same time, his spiritual will immediately stalled. In just a moment, he was hit by several invisible poison needles in a row.
Mo Wuji quickly retracted the defensive shield he had just refined and forced out the poison needles with a pale face, using large swathes of lightning strikes to block the Starry Sky Scorpions from attacking him.
Mo Wuji finally understood why so few cultivators used defensive treasures. The spiritual will consumed by defensive treasures was simply too strong. If he didn't have one hundred and two meridians to support him, and hadn't started tempering his spiritual will in the Mortal World, he might have given up long ago.
Even so, he could guess that he wouldn't be able to hold on for long. Thinking of this, Mo Wuji was in no mood to continue killing Starry Sky Scorpions. He killed Starry Sky Scorpions while moving.
It was absolutely impossible to escape from this Starry Sky Scorpion swarm without a powerful killing move. Although these Starry Sky Scorpions were rushing up madly one after another, they were not completely without instinct. For example, once he tried to break through, more Starry Sky Scorpions would block all the directions he was trying to break through.
If he wanted to break through, he had to kill this True Lake Realm cultivator first.
The True Lake Realm cultivator was frantically blasting away the surrounding Starry Sky Scorpions. He had also been hit by many poison needles and had no energy to pay attention to Mo Wuji. In his opinion, it was already so difficult for him to hold on, so Mo Wuji must be having an even harder time.
Mo Wuji had approached not far behind the True Lake Realm cultivator. While the True Lake Realm cultivator was blasting away the surrounding Starry Sky Scorpions, Mo Wuji shot out more than a dozen Invisible Swords. At the same time, he hurled several large lightning balls towards the True Lake Realm cultivator.
The True Lake Realm cultivator was trapped by the endless Starry Sky Scorpions, constantly killing them. He was only thinking about rushing out as soon as possible. How could he distinguish the spatial fluctuations around him? By the time he realized that these spatial fluctuations were not the attacks of the Starry Sky Scorpions, it was already too late.
"Puff! Puff!" Two streams of blood shot out from the True Lake Realm cultivator's body. The True Lake Realm cultivator immediately knew that he had been ambushed. He quickly moved sideways, but before he could stand firm, two violent explosions erupted at his feet.
His legs were directly blasted away by the lightning balls. The surrounding Starry Sky Scorpions were not so kind and pounced on the True Lake Realm cultivator.
The True Lake Realm cultivator desperately turned his head to look at Mo Wuji. He didn't even try to resist the pouncing Starry Sky Scorpions. He knew that even if Mo Wuji didn't make another move, he would definitely die today. In his situation, he definitely wouldn't be able to break out of the Starry Sky Scorpion encirclement.
Mo Wuji wouldn't be soft-hearted. He didn't even bother to force out the several poison needles that had just hit him. Another Invisible Sword pierced through the True Lake Realm cultivator's forehead.
The True Lake Realm cultivator's hand loosened, and his entire body completely disappeared into the Starry Sky Scorpion swarm.
Mo Wuji quickly blasted out another pile of lightning arcs to blast away some of the surrounding Starry Sky Scorpions. Only then did he swallow a few detoxification pills.
In just this short moment, the True Lake Realm cultivator had disappeared without a trace. He was devoured by the endless Starry Sky Scorpions. After devouring the True Lake Realm cultivator, these Starry Sky Scorpions surged toward Mo Wuji like a raging storm.
Mo Wuji retracted the concave shield. Under the control of his spiritual will, the Qing Jin Heart transformed into a flame dome, protecting his entire body. Then, he frantically rushed out. If he didn't rush out quickly, even if he had three vital energy storage meridians, he would eventually be exhausted and die in this endless Starry Sky Scorpion encirclement.
Countless Starry Sky Scorpions turned into ashes or corpses and fell into the starry sky as soon as they touched the outside of the Qing Jin Heart flame.
Mo Wuji secretly rejoiced. Fortunately, the Starry Sky Scorpions were just numerous, and their resistance was not strong. Once he encountered demonic beasts with strong resistance, the Qing Jin Heart, which he was using to create a protective barrier around himself, would quickly collapse under this terrifying Starry Sky Scorpion surge. After being refined by him, the Qing Jin Heart's offensive capabilities were far weaker than when it was unowned.
Mo Wuji wasn't worried about this. He knew that as his strength grew stronger, the Qing Jin Heart would definitely advance.
Dense masses of Starry Sky Scorpions were directly burned to death by the Qing Jin Heart. More Starry Sky Scorpions were instinctively blocking Mo Wuji's escape route.
(Today's update ends here. It's also the last update for September. Good night, friends! Finally, please ask for monthly tickets!)
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