Yu Tingzhang kept hearing vague sounds in his ears, sometimes far and sometimes near.
But his mind went blank, he was dizzy and dazed, and he couldn't think of anything.
He found that he seemed to be trapped in a nightmare, and his body and soul could not synchronize. He wanted to open his eyes, but it seemed as if a huge stone was pressing on his body, unable to move at all.
'Buzz~! Buzz~! Buzz~...'
At this moment, he felt extremely sensitive, and there were constant subtle vibrations under his body, like an earthquake.
'earthquake!'
After this word suddenly appeared in his mind, Yu Tingzhang's blank memory was restored in an instant.
With this thought, the soul seemed to return to the body, and the whole body suddenly sat up.
‘Hoo~~! Hoo~~! Hoo~~!’
Yu Tingzhang gasped for air, as if a drowning person had just been rescued from the water.
"Great, Brother Yu, you finally woke up!"
The anxious look on Luo Jiujiang's side became slightly relieved.
Yu Tingzhang shook his somewhat groggy head and turned to look around.
He found that he was sitting on a piece of grass at this moment, with more than two thousand people lying around and lying in a large area around him.
Some have already woken up and are using various methods to explore the surrounding situation, while others are still in a coma.
Judging from their attire, most of them are trialists, and there are also some Nan Sect disciples and ordinary people wearing white robes.
"Where is this place and how did we get here?"
Yu Tingzhang struggled to stand up, touched his face, and found that the blood had dried up. It was obvious that a long time had passed.
Luo Jiujiang said in a dry tone:
"No one knows where we are now. I just woke up shortly after."
Yu Tingzhang put up a pergola with his hands and looked around, but he saw that there were only slightly undulating green grasslands in the three directions, southeast and west, and there seemed to be many tall stone pillars standing upright in the north behind him.
It's just that because it's far away, some people can't see clearly what it is.
After thinking for a moment, Yu Tingzhang took out a horn-shaped thin metal patch about the size of an egg.
Lie down on the ground, place the metal speaker close to the ground, plug one ear, and place the other ear against the speaker to listen carefully.
Little trick in the world: bend down and listen to the sound
This is an essential skill for casual cultivators to travel around the world. It has the functions of detection, early warning, and escaping encirclement.
People skilled in this method can tell whether a person is lame from miles away.
Yu Tingzhang is not that powerful, but he still has general listening ability.
But at this moment, all he heard in his ears was the sound of 'Russing...Russing...'.
The sound was dense and dense, like countless beans rolling down the hillside.
'Hey, this sound is wrong! Why does it seem like something is approaching quickly?'
Yu Tingzhang was confused in his heart, but he kept listening with the metal horn in his hands from several other directions.
What was heard was still the dense "rustling" sound, and the sound was getting louder and louder.
Yu Tingzhang's expression changed drastically, and he suddenly jumped up from the ground.
He took a deep breath and opened his mouth to warn.
"Look, what is that?"
Someone exclaimed and pointed toward the east.
Yu Tingzhang couldn't help but turn his eyes to the east, but the scene he saw made his pupils suddenly shrink to the size of a needle tip.
I saw a hint of black appearing at the end of my gaze, which was particularly conspicuous against the green grass.
Before anyone could see clearly what it was, they saw the black color smearing and spreading like ink melting into water.
In the blink of an eye, the green land in the distance was completely covered, and the black color was still rushing towards his direction.
"Then...is that sea water?"
Some people looked into the distance with dull eyes and murmured to themselves.
‘Rumble—!’
There seemed to be thunderclaps in Yu Tingzhang's mind.
He suddenly raised his breath and let out the loudest shout in his life.
"Everyone, pay attention, those are bugs!"
Leng Buding's loud voice scared Luo Jiujiang next to him and trembled violently.
"Everyone's attention... That's a bug... It's a bug... A bug..."
Endless sounds echoed back and forth in the lonely wilderness.
'brush!'
Everyone first turned their attention to Yu Tingzhang, and then everyone woke up.
"Oh! It's really a bug, prepare to defend!"
"Run quickly, there are bugs coming!"
"My friend is still unconscious, who can help me?"
"Oops, what about the ordinary people here?"
"Damn it! What are the Xiantian Yiqi Nanzong doing? How did they bring us to this place?"
"TMD, when I get out, I won't be done with the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect'!"
"Hehe! Before we came in, weren't there many sects' Yuanshen True Lords who attacked the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect'?
In my opinion, Zhenjun Ruyi may not be able to protect himself, and the mountain gate of the ‘Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect’ may have fallen.”
"Yes, before I came in, I heard that it seemed like a premeditated revenge.
I just don’t know how many sects are involved. If I’m not sure, how can those sects dare to attack the ‘Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect’.
And I haven’t heard anyone from the ‘Thirty-Three Heavens Palace’ speak from the beginning to the end, so I’m afraid that the Southern Sect is really doomed this time.”
"..."
Countless disturbing noises suddenly sounded nearby, and everyone couldn't help but panic.
With no cover and no barriers on all sides, it was impossible to defend.
The sea of insects in the distance is approaching quickly, but there are still a large number of people nearby who are still in a coma.
'what to do?'
Countless people were looking around, some even running in other directions.
People have the desire to follow the crowd.
When someone takes the lead and runs in one direction, other panicked people will instinctively follow behind.
Yu Tingzhang could see clearly that at this moment, except for the east, there were people running away in all directions.
'But are other directions really safe?'
He reached out to grab Luo Jiujiang, who was about to escape with the crowd, and then turned his attention to the location of the disciples of the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect'.
The more urgent the situation is, the more calm you need to be.
The verbal warning is just to make everyone aware that danger is coming, but it does not mean that there is a way to survive by running away randomly.
He is just a casual cultivator and has not experienced such a large-scale monster attack. Perhaps only the sect knows how to deal with such a situation.
Yu Tingzhang saw some Nanzong disciples gathering together as quickly as possible, and every three people formed a triangular group. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of triangular formations formed.
At the same time, six Jindan real people wearing white robes flew up from the ground with their feet on the 'one-foot plate'.
Four of them flew quickly in four directions: east, west, south, and north.
The remaining three white-robed golden elixirs rose several feet from the spot. After a brief observation, they each emitted dark golden light to some areas.
Immediately afterwards, Yu Tingzhang saw the hundreds of triangular formations scattering quickly like a school of fish in the water, but they were in order and without a trace of chaos.
Yu Tingzhang tugged Luo Jiujiang's sleeve.
"follow me!"
As he spoke, his body quickly turned away and ran towards the direction of the Nanzong disciples.
Luo Jiujiang followed him with a panicked expression. At this moment, he was already at a loss. His mind went blank. He would do whatever Yu Tingzhang said.
There are many people who have the same actions as the two of them. After all, hundreds of people wearing the same clothes will give people a sense of security.
Since they were not too far away, Yu Tingzhang and hundreds of others had already rushed to the area where the disciples of the Southern Sect were in a short period of time.
When he got closer, Yu Tingzhang discovered that the Nan Sect disciples were not preparing for confrontation, but were constantly waking up the unconscious people on the ground.
"Crack~! Hey, wake up! Crack~! Crack~! Hey! Wake up..."
One by one, slaps were slapped on the faces of the sleeping people on the ground. Some people woke up from this violent action, but some others were as unresponsive as dead people no matter how they were slapped.
These unresponsive people are basically ordinary people. Obviously they do not have the strong recovery ability of practitioners.
Seeing many people approaching, a Nanzong disciple said happily:
"Quick, help wake these people up!"
Yu Tingzhang saw a dark golden stream of light flashing next to some sleeping people.
It turns out that those streamers are meant to identify these sleepy people.
Before the Nanzong disciple finished speaking, he saw a trialist rushing towards the disciple and shouted:
"Tell me! Why did your sect put us in this dangerous situation?"
Several other people also rushed to the disciple and asked similar questions.
"What conspiracy and trick did the 'Xiantian Yiqi Nanzong' have to trick us here? If we don't give an explanation, you won't be able to leave today."
"Where is the way out? Since it was your sect who took us here, he must know how to escape from here. Tell me quickly!"
"It hits your lungs, tell me how to get out of here, or..."
Before anyone could shout, a dark golden light flashed in the eyes of the Nanzong disciple.
The magic weapon 'Ruyi Shuttle' on his back flew over his head on its own, and several streams of light flashed through formations on the magic weapon.
“Buzz——!”
The thirty-six eyes of the ‘Ruyi Shuttle’ rotated slightly, and there was a faint flicker of light at the opening of the shuttle.
At the same time, a dozen Nanzong teams around him quickly gathered into a queue.
One after another, 'Ruyi Shuttle' rose from the heads of dozens of Southern Sect disciples and pointed at hundreds of people including Yu Tingzhang.
The Nan Sect disciple who spoke to him had a murderous intent in his brows, and he looked at those people who made rude remarks with a stern look.
A cold voice came out of his teeth like a cold wind.
"Do you want to die?"
Suddenly being pointed at by dozens of 'Ruyi Shuttle', the expressions of those practitioners couldn't help but change drastically.
How could they, who had gone through the academy's strength test, not know the power of this 'Ruyi Shuttle'?
They continued to question and dared not speak out, and all of them stepped back nervously.
The Nanzong disciple's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, and he said in a deep voice:
"My name is Lang Tieying. Now you are under my command. If you dare to disobey, you will be punished immediately!"