The Lord of Void and Real-Chapter 1565 - 1561: Insect Rain

Liu Hong climbed up from the ground, brushed off the dust on his body, and said, "As soon as I went up, I felt a force suddenly press down. With my strength, I couldn’t resist at all and was confusedly knocked down. I guess there must be some prohibition."

"Did you manage to see what the situation was like behind the great hall?" Tao Xiang frowned and pressed on.

"I couldn’t see anything, just a layer of gray mist, similar to the situation over there." Liu Hong shook his head and pointed at the gray mist in the square behind him.

"Since it’s a trial, it won’t give us any loopholes to exploit. We might as well honestly charge through the barriers," Ghost Teng Master said.

"Ghost Vine Fellow Daoist speaks sense. We are indeed here to break through the barriers. Let’s not think about taking any sidesteps." Wanshui Zhenren agreed.

"How about having the two fellow Daoists take the lead and scout ahead?" Tian Sanqi said with a forced smile.

"My cultivation level is inferior, and I don’t have the divine power of transformation like Friend Tian. If we need someone to scout, it’s not my turn anyway," Wanshui Zhenren said with a smile.

"Gentlemen, I see that the City Gate is wide enough. How about we all go in together? With more people, it’s easier to deal with any unexpected situations," Yan Lie suggested with a frown.

"Alright," Shen Luo couldn’t be bothered to argue with them anymore and promptly made Ghost Teng Master respond.

The rest expressed their support one after another.

So, the group stood in a row, each extending their hands, and stirred up a deep mana fluctuation around them, beginning to exert their force simultaneously to push the two enormous City Gates.

"Boom..."

With a muffled sound, the large doors gradually moved inward and opened.

This scene was quite different from when the doors were previously opened. Inside the great hall, there was not a trace of mist to obstruct the view, the lighting was ample, and the hall’s furnishings were clearly visible since it was nearly empty.

Several people walked into the great hall, and the palace doors behind them closed with a heavy scraping sound.

Shen Luo remained vigilant and kept controlling Ghost Teng Master to walk in the middle of the group, always staying beside the others and shielding half of his body to prevent any sudden incidents.

He carefully examined the ground and saw that it was covered in diamond-like patterns with many small hollow holes in the center, which didn’t seem like any Formation Pattern or the like.

"Did the Clan Leader trick us? Where are the Soul Birth Pillars? Aren’t these just ordinary stone pillars?" Liu Hong checked the pillars in the great hall and found nothing special.

"Perhaps there is some sort of blinding technique hidden among them," Li Biao speculated.

"That’s easy then. Just smash them all to pieces, and if the Soul Birth Pillar is hidden among them, are we afraid that we won’t find it?" Liu Hong said with a laugh.

"Do not act recklessly. Since this great hall is part of the Soul Birth Gate Area, there must be Mechanisms to test us. If we accidentally trigger something, it would be seeking death," Tian Sanqi warned.

"None of your business what I want to do," Liu Hong couldn’t help but retort in anger. He was just joking, but Tian Sanqi’s words made him feel unwilling.

Hearing this, a glint of murderous intent flashed in Tian Sanqi’s eyes, but after glancing at Yan Lie and Wanshui Zhenren, he held back. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com

Shen Luo ignored them, controlling Ghost Teng Master, and carefully began to investigate the surroundings.

However, wherever his gaze traveled, he found no anomalies; the entire great hall looked just like an ordinary palace, without even a hidden door.

Just then, a "rustle" sound suddenly started coming from all around.

Everyone immediately became tense, hurriedly looking around, but nothing was found.

Ghost Teng Master suddenly looked up and shouted loudly: "Up there."

Hearing that, everyone also quickly looked up, only to see that the rooftop of the great hall was, at some point, densely covered with fist-sized black insects, emitting black smoke from their bodies, clearly poisonous creatures.

Before the crowd could react, the poisonous insects above began to fall from the rooftop, dropping down towards them.

There were so many poisonous insects that when they fell together, it was like a black rain had poured down, impossible to avoid.

"Everyone spread out." Yan Lie roared angrily, stepping into the center of the great hall.

With a single hand, he formed a magic spell, his body lighting up with a crimson glow, and suddenly he looked up and spat out a flame towards the sky.

A line of fire burst from between his teeth and exploded into a sea of Heavenly Fire at high altitude, meeting the falling rain of insects.

"Boom, boom, boom"

The fire erupted with incredible speed, making roaring sounds, like a huge fire umbrella opened up above everyone’s heads, catching all the fallen poisonous insects without missing a single one.

Accompanied by a series of "pop, pop" explosive sounds, a thick stench also began to fill the great hall, causing everyone to frown.

At this moment, Shen Luo noticed that the toxins from the insects, which were being burned and bursting apart above the fire, were not completely consumed by the flames but began to contaminate the fire instead.

The tips of the fire umbrella had even changed into a strange light green color.

Yan Lie naturally also noticed this and withdrew his figure, cutting off the line of fire at the corner of his mouth as a result.

The fire in the sky continued to burn for a moment longer before extinguishing.

A large number of charred insect corpses fell from above, and everyone hurriedly invoked protective measures to block them.

Ghost Teng Master waved his hand, and layers of black vines surged from his body, forming a vine umbrella over his head to protect himself, while he also swallowed a Detoxifying Pill as a precaution.

Seeing this, the others also each took out Elixirs or activated detoxifying magical instruments.

After a few moments, the remains of the poisonous insects had finally all fallen, and the crowd looked up again.

This glance made their scalp tingle; the rooftop was once again densely covered with poisonous insects, even more numerous than before and three to four times larger in size.

These poisonous insects resembled spiders but only had four legs and white patterns on their backs, with the same black smoke emanating from their bodies, only much denser than the previous smaller creatures.

"Here they come." Someone whispered.

The human-head-sized black poisonous spiders also began to fall, many landing on them.

Ghost Teng Master had the vine umbrella overhead, so he did not have to worry about those things falling on him, but soon, the insects that fell on the vine umbrella started to crawl down the vines, attacking his main body.

Shen Luo subconsciously wanted to take out the Pure Yang Flying Sword but was afraid of being noticed by others, so he held back, controlling Ghost Teng Master to continuously wave the Blood Thorn Vines, slashing off the poisonous insects crawling on him.

After several slashes, he also found that although there were many of these poisonous insects, their defense and attack power were not very strong; they were creatures that could essentially be slain with a casual strike.

The others also discovered this, so the scene in the great hall gradually became a one-sided cleansing of the poisonous insects by the group of monks, and soon the ground of the great hall was covered with a layer of the insect corpses.