I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts

Chapter 443: Chapter 342: Fortune Favors the Bold

In the eyes of the others:

Li Heng suddenly stopped in his tracks, then leaped towards the bloody sea with a startling cry.

”Help me, there’s a monster below! Be careful!”

Everyone looked down, only to see the bloody sea rippling slightly, otherwise as calm as usual.

”It’s pollution.”

”On our way here, we breathed in a lot of dense fog, which contains pollution and has already started affecting our judgment.”

”Li Heng’s willpower is relatively weak, he was the first to be affected.”

Li Wu quickly said.

But soon, he stopped talking.

Because before his eyes, a twisted blob of black ink suddenly extended towards the west, growing slender limbs like bamboo joints.

Then, on these bamboo-like limbs, countless crimson eyes suddenly opened,

whispering insane murmurs began to echo beside his ears,

as the giant, black, bamboo-jointed insect-like monster opened its mouth towards Li Wu.

In an instant, a dark red beam poured down towards Li Wu.

”Damn!”

Li Wu cursed, hurriedly placing his hands in front of him while activating the Demon God Bloodline within him.

A giant three zhang tall instantly took shape.

Han Zhan and Li Lingzhen hadn’t moved yet; Li Heng and Li Wu had both already made their moves, one suddenly jumping down, the other transforming into a giant form.

The next second.

Li Heng’s lower half suddenly disappeared, as if something had gnawed it away, swallowing half.

Li Wu wasn’t faring much better; his arms guarded his chest, but both his arms, along with his chest, had been burned through, leaving a large hole.

The air was filled with the smell of something burned.

Li Lingzhen moved more skillfully than Han Zhan, her fingers dancing as she summoned two silver-white threads from thin air.

These threads quickly wound themselves around the two, injecting into the location of their heart pulses as guided by Li Lingzhen’s fingers.

Immediately, Li Heng’s lower half and Li Wu’s pierced chest and arms began to heal rapidly.

In no time, they both recovered, sitting heavily on the ground, gasping for breath.

”It’s pollution, I saw the pollution!”

Li Heng looked at the calm, bloody sea beneath him, his voice trembling with fear.

”It was an abyssal maw, nearly taking up half the sea surface; I had nowhere to run and was bitten half me away.”

”I saw a black, giant bamboo-jointed insect, its limbs covered in eyes that could shoot red energy beams from its mouth.”

Li Wu also raised his hands, looking at his restored arms, murmuring, ”With my defensive power, I still couldn’t withstand its attack!”

Han Zhan and Li Lingzhen exchanged a glance, both seeing the seriousness in each other’s eyes.

For they had seen nothing!

The unseen pollution, the unseen monsters, these were the truly terrifying things.

Because if unseen, it means they can’t be stopped.

”Unlike Bob’s Virtual-Real Technology, even using Heaven’s Origin Power to sense, no abnormal fluctuations can be detected.”

After quickly sensing the situation, Han Zhan muttered to himself.

It wasn’t the first time this situation had occurred.

Previously, when they encountered the ”Curse” of the Fallen Knight, Heaven’s Origin also couldn’t detect or remove it.

This proved that the source of pollution wasn’t tangible and couldn’t be transformed into something tangible.

”Han Zhan, it’s appeared again!”

Li Wu quickly got up from the ground, instinctively activating the Demon God Bloodline once more, transforming entirely into his giant form.

But it was still futile.

This time, his entire right leg was obliterated.

”Fight back!” Li Lingzhen couldn’t help but urge anxiously upon seeing his pathetic state.

Though the Shennong Cauldron had the special ability of Creation of Living Beings, this ability wasn’t free; it required a lot of Spiritual Power.

The more severe the injury, the more Spiritual Power was consumed.

”I’d like to fight back,” Li Wu said angrily as his right leg recovered again, ”but this pollution is so treacherous, always attacking from afar, I can’t reach it!”

No sooner had Li Wu finished speaking than Han Zhan took action.

He stomped his foot, and above the bloody sea, countless tightly assembled light bricks began to appear, one by one connecting until they covered a vast range in the sky, turning the area into flat ground!

Li Wu was straightforward as well.

The moment Han Zhan transformed the area below into flat ground, he struck at just the right moment.

As a Jiu Li Warrior who had undergone Body Tempering dozens of times with medicine, Li Wu’s close combat ability was unmatched among Tier Seven clansmen.

He rushed forward with strides like thunder, grasping the Beheading Great Saber in his right hand, a series of explosive sounds filling the sharp air.

In the blink of an eye, Li Wu had charged forward hundreds of meters.

”You shall—die!” Li Wu leaped high, slashing heavily at the air in front of him.

Boom!

The Beheading Great Saber struck the light bricks condensed by Heaven’s Origin, cracks spreading across.

Success?

But before anyone could rejoice, Li Wu’s eyes suddenly widened; under his incredulous gaze, his abdomen was shredded into countless pieces of flesh, his entire body falling backward.

”Creation of Living Beings!”

Li Lingzhen called out sharply.

The silver-white threads linking Li Wu quickly transmitted Life Spiritual Power, reassembling the flesh fragments shredded from Li Wu’s body.

Though his body had healed, the pain from being forcibly torn to shreds remained etched in his mind.

Li Wu groaned in pain.

He clutched his healed abdomen, his heart filled with lingering fear.

On the other side, Li Heng also moved.

His weapon was a pair of large hammers, ground into a special octagonal shape, each face bearing sharp spikes.

Li Heng gripped the hammers tightly, slamming them together to produce a deafening crash.

He swung the massive hammers with force, furiously smashing down on the light bricks below him.

”Die, die, die!”

Li Heng roared with all his might, but in the next moment, his two giant hammers, along with his arms grasping them, were completely gnawed away!

”We must think of something; at this rate, even Creation of Living Beings can’t hold on, the Spiritual Power consumption is too immense.”

While maintaining Creation of Living Beings, Li Lingzhen quickly spoke to Han Zhan.

The situation was rapidly deteriorating.

Breaking the stalemate couldn’t wait a moment longer.

”No tangible form, trait substances need to attach to golden particles to be detected, the essence of trait substances is... Divine Thought Enlightenment... the essence of Divine Thought Enlightenment is... consciousness!”

”These dense fogs, these trait substances, they pollute our consciousness!”

Only when consciousness is polluted to a certain extent does the mental state decline enough to ”see” those monsters purely formed from pollution!

Thinking of this, Han Zhan looked again at Li Wu and Li Heng.

Their Blood Embryos had recovered, but within them, black pollution had already spread.

Even though their bodies had healed, it didn’t change the fact that they were polluted.

If this situation occurred a few more times, no matter how powerful Creation of Living Beings was, it would still be unable to save them.

”Lingzhen,” Han Zhan called out, stopping Li Lingzhen.

”I’ve thought of a way to solve the current crisis.”

”What way?”

”Fortune favors the bold!”