Crazy sand rose, violent spiritual energy spread, and a monster corpse fell into the sand dunes.
Only half of the body is exposed.
The blue blood spurting out from the exploded wound looked particularly beautiful in the orange-red skylight.
"Huh." Cheng Lin took a deep breath and slowly lowered the He sword in his hand.
After checking the consumption of the sword just now, it turned out that more than a third of the spiritual energy reserves in his body had been drained.
The consumption of He Jian's sword energy is as huge as ever, but the effect is also quite good.
Stabbing the dark iron sword into the sand, Cheng Lin leaned on the hilt of the sword to wipe his sweat, and then looked at the dead fifth-level monster with great relief.
Yes, fifth grade.
It was originally a "beast fishing" as usual, but unexpectedly, a big guy was provoked.
Fortunately, Cheng Lin had enough cards, so it wasn't a big problem.
It's just that when this thing saw that the situation was bad, he turned around and tried to escape by hiding in the ground. He had no choice but to kill him with a sword.
"Now we have the main material."
Cheng Lin wiped off his sweat and thought happily.
One of the main materials needed for the spirit gathering ceremony is the body of a fifth-grade creature.
Control the combined fighting spirit to put away the scythe.
After absorbing the opponent's soul energy and recovering the loss, Cheng Lin dug out the crystal core and moved the corpse into the spirit world. Only then was he completely relieved.
The SUV was parked aside.
Cheng Lin washed his hands with water, then leaned tiredly in front of the car and squinted his eyes to look ahead.
At this moment, it was already evening.
The desert is solitary and the smoke is straight, and the sun is setting over the long river.
Gu Yan didn't see it, but the remaining scenery was complete.
In the boundless desert, the meandering river is much wider here. If you calm down and listen carefully, you can still hear the sound of rushing water.
In the open field of vision, a huge red sun hangs on the horizon, releasing its last heat and rendering the entire world in dim and gorgeous colors.
If they were far enough apart, the car and Cheng Lin would become dark silhouettes.
Coupled with the sunset in the desert, it must be a good scene to shoot.
However, Cheng Lin's mood at the moment was not beautiful, and he was even a little worried.
"I have only obtained a total of twenty fourth-grade magic cores...and one fifth-grade magic core...and seeing that the projection is half gone, I am afraid that I will not be able to achieve the goal if this continues...although this goal is a bit too big to begin with.
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Lean against the car.
Cheng Lin was holding a bag in his hand and was counting the number of crystal nuclei in it carefully at this moment, and then frowned worriedly into the character "Chuan".
After bidding farewell to the little lapel of Wusi, he has been diligent along the way.
In addition to the normal exploration marks, it is to attract fourth-grade people to hunt, but so far, the results have made him very dissatisfied.
No, it should be extremely dissatisfying!
Twenty... is far from three hundred.
Of course, you can understand it if you think about it carefully.
After all, he was only one person, and considering that the large army behind him did not dare to stay in one place for too long.
Even if you use flesh and blood to attract them, you will most likely attract some third-grade and lower-level creatures. After all, fourth-grade creatures are not everywhere in this desert.
However, by now, Cheng Lin has also discovered that the strength level of the creatures in this projection is not high.
Seeing that he was about to reach the core area, the strongest monster he encountered was only a fifth-level monster... maybe there were higher ones, but he just hadn't encountered them yet.
"Too slow."
After putting away the twenty-one magic cores, Cheng Lin gradually began to recognize the reality.
It seems unlikely that all materials will be collected during this exploration.
Before, he had thought about going to Projection No. 1 next door, but looking at Projection No. 2, Cheng Lin felt that it was no longer necessary to go there.
In addition, projection does not exist for a long time, so spending too much time on the road may result in more gain than loss.
He raised his head, squinted his eyes, and focused on the black shadow in front of him.
Yes, comparing the map, the black shadow standing on the horizon in front of him was the center area of the projection.
Because he was facing the sun, Cheng Lin couldn't see clearly, but he vaguely felt that there seemed to be many trees there.
This made him extremely curious.
After resting, I drank potion to fill up the spiritual energy in my body.
Cheng Lin got into the car again, stepped on the accelerator, and sped towards the central area against the round sunset.
…
Cars travel very fast in the desert.
Not long after, when the sunset finally began to slowly fall behind the horizon, Cheng Lin also arrived outside the central area.
Then he was stunned for a moment.
oasis.
What appeared in front of him turned out to be a rather large oasis!
Green plants, grasses and rivers gather together to form this oasis that is thousands of meters long.
"squeak"
The four tires rubbed violently against the ground. Cheng Lin stopped the car, slammed the door and walked out, staring at the green fertile soil in front of him in surprise.
Maybe it's because of the evening, or maybe it's because of the climate here, the heat in the air has obviously decreased.
Cheng Lin could even feel the cool breeze coming towards him and the water vapor in the air.
"Is this the source of the river?"
Cheng Lin thought to himself, instead of entering rashly, he turned on his perception ability and condensed his mental power into a bundle to explore forward.
Immediately, the scene inside emerged in his mind.
Under the setting sun, there are sparkling rivers, tender green grass, and tall exotic tree species with full and fresh leaves.
There are still fruits on some trees, and there are faint chirping of insects in the grass, but there is no presence of high-grade monsters, not even the smell of danger.
The huge oasis is peaceful.
However, as his vision continued to expand, Cheng Lin finally discovered something unusual.
There were actually many monster bones and rotten flesh left in the grass.
Some were old, some were fresh, and he even saw a few that had clearly died recently.
Lying peacefully in the grass, on the land, and beside the river.
Eyes closed, no breath.
There are various types and grades, scattered and scattered.
What’s surprising is that no matter what kind of monster they are, their heads are all facing the center of the oasis!
All the corpses were facing the center, as if someone had placed them deliberately!
Another special feature.
There are almost no wounds on these monsters, and they all look very old, giving the impression that...
"They were not killed, but when they reached a certain level, they ran over on their own and lay here to die of old age!"
Cheng Lin suddenly opened his eyes and was amazed.
This scene was quite strange and made him confused.
"If this is really the case, then why do they do this? It's like some kind of ritual... Moreover, there are so many corpses here, but they are not eaten by the monsters outside. It's like... this is the entire desert.
Like a public cemetery... no living monsters will come to intrude."
Cheng Lin thought for a moment and had no idea, but another discovery made his heart beat loudly.
Among the white bone skeletons in the grass, there are many magic cores scattered!
This is obviously the remnant of the dead monster after it rotted away.
Based on his rough observation just now, the number of magic cores deposited in this oasis is probably tens of thousands!
This means that this "public cemetery" may have existed for a long time...
"No magic core was found in the bones of monsters encountered in the desert before, which means that the magic core can probably be digested, eaten by other monsters, or dissipated naturally... If it has been here for countless years, then
Perhaps...this oasis was conceived and developed by these magic cores."
Cheng Lin could clearly detect that the concentration of spiritual energy here was many times thicker than outside.
This made him breathe quickly.
No matter what the reason was, he was not ready to give up, he just wanted to be prepared for possible dangers.
Cheng Lin expanded his wide-area vision.
Then he carried the "black flag" behind his back, abandoned the car, and walked into the oasis.
Relying on the ability of perception, he began to search for magic cores above the fourth grade.
One...two...three...
The reserves here are surprisingly large.
"Probably only fourth-level monsters and above can successfully live to old age. Most low-level monsters are hunted before they die of old age." Cheng Lin thought to himself.
He was cautious at first, but after picking up dozens of them, he confirmed that there was really no danger here.
Gradually, he went deeper and deeper.
Soon, he arrived at the center of this oasis.
There is actually a shallow lake here.
It's not big, you can see all the way to the end at a glance.
Clear and peaceful.
It is like a piece of warm jade dotted on this land, glowing with sparkling golden light in the light of the setting sun.
It is hard to imagine that this is the source of the river.
"What is that?"
Just when Cheng Lin came to the shore and looked at the small lake, his eyes suddenly widened.
I saw a collapsed stone gate in the middle of the lake.
The stone gate seems to have existed for countless years, mottled with vicissitudes of life, ancient and mysterious, like a pile of rocks, piled there, soaked in the lake water.
But it can still be seen that it was originally supposed to be an extremely huge portal.
"Space gate!"
Cheng Lin's heart moved and he recognized its origin.
This is clearly the entrance for alien monsters to enter in the deduction. After Shi Shengcun self-destructed, that door finally broke through the critical line and became the door to real matter!
"It still exists?"
Cheng Lin remembered that when he released countless meteorites and ignited the Bohai Sea, the door collapsed and sank into the sea.
But I didn’t expect that after countless years, it would still exist!
At this moment, he suddenly figured out some things, such as why these monsters ritually turned their heads toward the center and died quietly.
"They are species that mutated and evolved after absorbing the blood and genes of monsters from other worlds. To a certain extent, they are the descendants of those monsters from other worlds. Perhaps it is the information engraved in their genes that makes them yearn for their hometown, and this
Although the door collapsed, it still retains the atmosphere of another world, so this oasis cemetery was formed under the influence of this instinct."
This is a bold conjecture without evidence.
Cheng Lin didn't know whether his guess was correct, but this was the only explanation he could give.
And just when he was staring at this "relic" with some sadness.
Western horizon.
The sun finally sank below the horizon.
The light and heat are gone.
On the sky, the last ray of afterglow finally disappeared.
Cheng Lin only felt that the sky and the earth were dark, and night was falling.
The next moment, he only felt a blur in front of his eyes, and a muffled sound that seemed to come from the sky enveloped the earth!