roccoschili Chapter 232 This is the Trial
Chapter 232 This is the Trial
Several people tried to pull their companions away, but they couldn't wake up the person who was lost in the oasis mirage. Some even attacked those who tried to stop them.
Ning Xiaoxi frowned. Did they not even remember their Celestial Master? She grabbed the Black Sand Heart from Xiaoxue's hand, channeled her spiritual power into it, and a tornado began to spin rapidly inside the Black Sand Heart.
Suddenly, the clear blue sky above the lake in the illusion began to gather dark clouds, and the lake surface began to surge, with waves forming huge billows that swayed incessantly. Finally, the waves broke off from the lake surface and swept towards the crowd.
The Celestial Masters were stunned by the sudden sight and instinctively released defensive talismans. In an instant, the various defensive talismans emitted colorful light, covering their bodies one by one.
The wave crashed down, but there was no impact or water vapor as expected; it dissipated suddenly upon contact with their defensive shield.
"It's an illusion! There's a demon!"
"There's a demon!"
Everyone reacted quickly and unleashed their respective spells, sending fireballs, ice needles, and water spheres flying everywhere.
Ning Xiaoxi was stunned. They attacked without even investigating what kind of demons they were?
The illusion vanished, and the people at the front realized that their feet were entangled in quicksand, which had buried them up to their knees.
"Ah! Help me!"
"It's quicksand."
"Don't move! Don't move!" a Taoist priest shouted.
"Thump! Thump!" A violent heartbeat came from underground.
"Ah! My feet, my feet!" Crimson blood seeped through the sand as the Celestial Master screamed. He formed hand seals, using earth magic to reinforce the sand, and used it to pull his legs out.
"puff!"
"what!"
Blood gushed forth, and the screams intensified. He had pulled himself out, but left his legs below the knees, exposed bones and a bloody mess. A long whip wrapped around the man's waist and dragged him out of the quicksand.
The people next to them all felt pain in their feet at the same time, but dared not pull them out.
"Divert!" A celestial master pressed down with both hands, causing the quicksand surrounding his legs to swirl and divert, revealing his knees, which had been buried. A long rope was wrapped around his waist, and he intensified the diversion spell, pulling the rope tightly from the quicksand.
A sudden chill swept through, encasing the celestial master entirely in ice; it seemed he had cast his own spell to trap himself. The whip lashed out again, pulling the ice ball from the sand, where it fell to the ground with a thud.
The sand beneath the other man's feet also turned red. He gritted his teeth and didn't cry out, as the scorching heat ignited around him.
Ning Xiaoxi handed the Black Sand Heart back to Xiaoxue, who then carried it close to the ground into the sand dune. The Black Sand Heart traversed the sand and soon found a violently beating red sand heart. This sand heart was much larger than the original Black Sand Heart, and at its center, a portion had solidified, with a small demon core emitting a yellow halo inside.
Black Sand Heart charged forward recklessly, its black mist enveloping the demon core.
The quicksand above instantly went out of control, creating whirlpools and chaotic suction.
The remaining two celestial masters sensed the abnormality of the quicksand, grabbed the whips and ropes that had just wrapped around their waists, and with a forceful effort broke free from the quicksand's restraints, leaping out of the quicksand area.
Black Sand Heart finished devouring the demon core, turned its head and shook the tornado in its heart, then suddenly disappeared and reappeared under the sand pile, near a small tornado energy source on the thin sand close to the array runes. There were strange runes flashing on the tornado. Although the tornado was small, its wind force was incomparably strong.
Black Sand Heart released its own tornado and stealthily approached the small tornado.
The quicksand was not controlled by demonic power; it was just ordinary quicksand, and the illusion had already been broken.
The Taoist priest, whose legs had been severed, lay unconscious. The Taoist priest frozen into an ice ball had his spell broken and was shivering in the scorching heat. The first Taoist priest to be pulled out also had bloody, mangled legs, having lost a great deal of blood and energy, and his face was pale.
The celestial masters all looked grim. They had been fooled by a mere mirage demon and fallen into the quicksand of the Heart-Eating Demon. What an inauspicious start!
The tornado in the heart of the black sand swept the smaller tornado back into the sand core, where they tested their patience.
Holding the returned Black Sand Heart, Xiaoxue looked at the large tornado inside containing the smaller tornado, and happily returned to her cave.
Ning Xiaoxi stood at the very back, and no one noticed what she put down or took back.
A bloody aura permeated the air, attracting a demon.
"A demon is coming!" a Taoist priest shouted a warning from the crowd, and at the same time threw a fireball.
"boom!"
Amidst the clash of flames, a ferocious blood demon, twice the height of two people, revealed itself.
Its entire body was covered in a layer of rough, spiky, dark red scales, from which black, foul blood seeped from time to time, emitting a nauseating stench. Its head resembled a twisted bull, with thick, curved horns, their surfaces etched with mysterious blood-red patterns, the tips of which gleamed with a cold light.
Its blood-red vertical pupils burned with an endless bloodlust, and its fangs were interlocked, dripping thick blood. A pair of enormous bat wings grew from its back, with clearly visible blood vessels on the wing membranes, flowing with crimson blood, as if they might burst at any moment.
It had barely appeared when it grabbed a Taoist priest who hadn't reacted yet, biting off his neck and beginning to suck his blood.
The sprayed blood drenched several Taoist masters who were near the Blood Demon.
[A mid-tier, level three Berserker Blood Demon.]
At this moment, the mad blood demon threw away the tattered corpse in its hand, opened its mouth wide, and roared, "Roar!" The dozen or so celestial masters standing around were instantly stunned and disoriented.
Ning Xiaoxi, holding a stick formed from a spirit crystal heart, suddenly jumped up and struck the Mad Blood Demon's open mouth, knocking out several of its teeth.
"Susu!"
The ice needles, as fine as rain, chased after the flying Blood Demon and pierced its mouth. At the same time, fine wind blades suddenly appeared beside the Blood Demon's flapping bat wings, severing the blood vessels on its wing membranes, and thick black blood sprayed out.
As the Blood Demon was attacked, its blood absorbed magical power, causing the wounds on the several Celestial Masters who had been injured earlier to suddenly burst open, gushing out blood.
Ning Xiaoxi's figure flashed, gripping the handle of the great hammer with both hands, and she swung it to strike the Blood Demon's jaw. The immense force sent the Blood Demon flying backward again, its teeth flying out, and the surging blood energy, no longer having any suction, scattered on the ground.
The Blood Demon of Madness shook its bat wings to steady itself, and its thick, black blood, carrying a corrosive aura, was flung towards the Celestial Masters below.
"Clang clang!" One after another, golden light shields blocked the corrosive blood.
With a series of hissing sounds, the golden light shield was quickly corroded, leaving holes in it.
The Celestial Masters behind quickly retreated out of the blood attack range, and then several Celestial Masters wielding weapons leaped high into the air and rushed towards the Mad Blood Demon.