Wang Yu

Chapter 848: The Long, Long Road

"Brother Li, what are you going to do with this beast core? It can't be used to refine spiritual power, and it doesn't seem to have any value for refining tools." Shi Chuan Kong asked, looking puzzled.

"Take a look first." Han Li smiled, tossed it to Shi Chuan Kong, and said.

Shi Chuan Kong caught it and examined it carefully for a moment, a look of surprise flashing across his face.

"This beast core actually contains such strong flesh and blood aura. If an ordinary person were to consume it, it would probably enhance their physical strength." Shi Chuan Kong said.

"Indeed. Although this world prohibits spiritual energy and does not produce demonic energy, it still has its own rules of heaven and earth." Han Li nodded and said.

"These strange beasts are probably so physically strong because of this environment." Shi Chuan Kong said, deeply agreeing.

"Those survivors in this place, after so many years of adaptation, will naturally know the effects of these beast cores, and may collect them as a resource for cultivating the body. We are new to this place, so we might as well collect some when we come across them, in case they might be useful in the future." Han Li said.

"Brother Li is as thoughtful as ever. However, this place has been abandoned for so long, and I wonder what those people who were exiled here for so long are like now." Shi Chuan Kong nodded.

"Compared to the Immortal Realm, the various races in the Sacred Realm are more talented in physical bodies and advocate physical cultivation. Those who were exiled to this place, unable to use their cultivation, will probably focus on physical cultivation if they want to survive." Han Li said thoughtfully.

Having said that, his heart suddenly stirred, his eyes lit up, and his divine sense spread out in all directions.

Upon trying, he discovered that although his divine sense could still be used here, it was also suppressed by the invisible force between heaven and earth, and its range was reduced to within a hundred miles.

After checking for a moment, he suddenly reached into his arms and took out a folded animal skin. After opening it, a map drawn inside was revealed.

Shi Chuan Kong and Xie Dao Ren also came over to take a look.

"I just used my divine sense to investigate the surroundings and compared it with this map. It seems to be in this area." Han Li pointed to a sparsely distributed group of islands on the edge of the map and said.

"Gray Scale Islands... looks like it's a remote place." Xie Dao Ren said.

At this moment, Han Li's voice suddenly sounded in his heart, "How is it, Fellow Daoist Xie? Now that we've arrived in this Scale Accumulation Void Realm, have you remembered anything?"

"I have some vague feelings in my heart, but I don't know if it's because we're too far away. The feeling is very vague, and I don't know if it's good or bad." Xie Dao Ren replied through voice transmission.

"It seems that this place is mostly related to your lost memories. Does your feeling have a direction?" Han Li asked through voice transmission.

"According to the map, the general direction should be in the central area shown on the map, but I can't confirm the specifics." Xie Dao Ren thought for a while and replied.

"We don't know where Zi Ling is now, so let's take this as a direction for now. If those survivors still exist, they will probably gather in the central area." Han Li said through voice transmission.

"Fellow Daoist Li, this world prohibits spiritual energy. Although I have immortal essence stones as internal power, I can only perform ordinary attacks like you. I can't use any of my thunder techniques. Once the immortal spiritual power in the immortal essence stones is exhausted, I will fall into a deep sleep." Xie Dao Ren suddenly said.

"As I expected, even you are suppressed by the rules of this world. Next, no matter what happens, try not to participate in the battle to avoid the consumption of immortal spiritual power. I can't use the storage ring, and I only brought a few middle-grade immortal essence stones with me." Han Li said.

"That's all I can do. With these immortal essence stones, it's enough for me to be active here for a while." Xie Dao Ren nodded.

"Be careful! Something's coming..." Just then, Han Li's expression suddenly changed slightly, and he shouted.

Xie Dao Ren and Shi Chuan Kong's expressions tightened upon hearing this.

"Swish, swish, swish..."

Soon, a rustling sound came from a distance.

The three of them looked around and saw a white line appearing on the ground in the distance, advancing towards them bit by bit.

As the distance got closer, the white line gradually widened and began to cover the entire earth.

"What is this damn thing? There are so many of them!" Shi Chuan Kong muttered.

Han Li didn't speak, but stared intently and found that the black line was made up of white crabs the size of fists, densely packed together, scrambling to climb towards the corpse of the giant lizard.

If these crabs were taken out individually, they would be small and exquisite, and they would look quite pleasing, but when thousands of them gathered together, the scene was really a bit creepy.

The dense crabs climbed onto the giant lizard and quickly wrapped it up like a white blanket.

Some of the crabs even crawled into its body through the holes in the giant lizard's head.

After only a dozen or so breaths, a scene that surprised Han Li and the others appeared.

The crab army surged over the giant lizard's corpse like a tide. The giant lizard, which had just been covered in scales and with complete flesh, was now only a white skeleton, which was extremely clean, without even a bit of tendons or flesh left.

If it weren't for the large amount of yellow-brown blood stains permeating the ground under the skeleton, Han Li and the others would have even thought that the skeleton had been placed here long ago and had been formed after being dried for who knows how many years.

Shi Chuan Kong's expression was extremely solemn, and he subconsciously jumped up, wanting to fly into the sky, but as soon as he jumped up, he fell back to the ground under the pressure of the space.

Obviously, he still hadn't been able to adapt to the fact that he couldn't use immortal spiritual power and demonic energy.

"Fellow Daoist Shi, don't panic. These White Armor Crabs seem to be just scavengers and won't threaten us." Xie Dao Ren suddenly said.

Shi Chuan Kong looked over and saw that the white crabs were indeed avoiding the three of them and swarming towards the centipede corpse.

After only a dozen or so breaths, the centipede was also devoured and turned into a pile of scattered bones.

"Fellow Daoist Xie, how can you recognize these as White Armor Crabs?" Shi Chuan Kong asked in surprise and confusion.

"It just looks like it. I just said it casually." Xie Dao Ren hesitated and said noncommittally.

Shi Chuan Kong rolled his eyes and was speechless.

"Let's go, this is not a place to stay. Let's hurry on and see if we can encounter any surviving prisoners here and find out if there is any news about Zi Ling." Han Li said.

Shi Chuan Kong heard this and was about to speak when he saw the faint worry on Han Li's face. He couldn't help but sigh and comforted him, "Brother Li, you don't need to worry too much. Fellow Daoist Zi Ling is a cultivator who ascended from the Lost Interface like you. This is a proof of strength in itself. Even if she is stranded in this Scale Accumulation Void Realm, she will still be fine."

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Shi. This time, I have to thank you. Otherwise, I'm afraid it would take a lot of effort to enter this place." Han Li nodded, but the worry in his eyes did not diminish much.

"You don't have to be so polite with me. To be honest, you saved my life! Now that I think about it, even when the situation in the Gray Realm was so critical, I have never seen you with such an expression. It seems that Fellow Daoist Zi Ling is really very important to you. Forget it, forget it, I don't think we need to rest. Let's get going." Shi Chuan Kong waved his hand and sighed.

"We do need to hurry on the timing. Now Ti Hun is still sleeping soundly in my Cave Mansion Bamboo Building. Although I have placed many Purple Yang Warm Jade in advance and arranged for puppets to take care of her, I can't enter the Cave Mansion as long as I'm in this Scale Accumulation Void Realm. If it drags on for too long, it will be troublesome if something goes wrong." Han Li frowned.

"Brother Li, the more this is the case, the more you need to concentrate and calm your mind. This Scale Accumulation Void Realm is not like other places. Although you have many supernatural powers, most of them cannot be used here, so the next journey will have to be more cautious." Shi Chuan Kong said seriously.

"Let's go, we'll continue on our way." Han Li's expression hardened, and he stopped thinking about it, nodded, and said.

Having said that, the three of them found their direction and continued on their way.

After crossing the nearby ridge, a slightly sloping plain appeared in front of them. The terrain was relatively flat and extended for hundreds of miles.

However, as far as the eye could see, the ground was covered with shocking cracks. One could not see any green vegetation. When the wind blew, a gust of dust would rise, but it would soon fall back to the ground under the pressure of space.

Han Li and the other two walked down from the ridge and walked along this cracked riverbed-like land, leaving three long strings of footprints on the ground, extending all the way to the edge of the island.

Although the three of them could not fly, their pace was not slow.

Along the way, they occasionally saw some strange-shaped scaled beasts, but they were not actively attacked again. In order to hurry on, Han Li and the others did not take the initiative to provoke them.

In this way, by sunset in the evening, the three of them had arrived at the edge of the island.

At this moment, most of the sun had set, and the remaining half of the red sun shone from the horizon, dyeing the entire earth orange-red. The plain began to echo with the roars of strange beasts, large and small, rising and falling.

Han Li looked back at the plain in the distance, and then frowned as he looked ahead.

He saw a layer of hazy black mist spreading out on the ground outside the edge of the island, spreading like smoke on a lake, separating the island they were on from the adjacent island.