My apprentice is too diligent.

"This is not the third level of demonic energy!"

Zhang Hongru was surprised and interrupted, "The third-level demonic energy is as thick and thick as smoke. Although the demonic energy of these gold-swallowing rats is also very thick, it is unstable and loose."

"Indeed."

Chen Wuji flew in the air, got a little closer, looked down at a dozen monster rats as big as buffaloes on the ground, and frowned slightly, "These gold-swallowing rats are a bit weird. They seem to be inflated and expanded. Rather than growing naturally, they gradually transformed into A third-level monster."

"No matter where it comes from, just kill it!"

Jin Ao shouted coldly, his fists bloomed with light, pulling the power of heaven and earth.

boom! boom! boom!

The fist mark was like the sun coming down, crossing the void, carrying a terrifying momentum, and killing more than a dozen gold-eating rats that rushed out of the hole.

Although the aura of these dozen gold-swallowing rats swelled up, it was like the third level.

But after all, it is not the third level.

Even if it is really the third level, facing Jin Ao in the late stage of the Divine Sea realm, he still cannot escape the end of being blown up and broken into pieces.

"Bang bang bang~"

After a series of explosions, there were more than a dozen pools of blood and minced meat on the ground.

However, the commotion caused did not stop.

rumbling~

Rumble~!

The ground shook, rocks fell, and dust flew.

It seemed like thousands of troops and horses were galloping, charging, and roaring.

A chaotic, high-pitched neighing sound came from beneath the huge exposed hole.

The invisible mental shock waves are getting more and more intense, and the power of interference is getting bigger and bigger.

"Is this...a rat tide riot?"

Zhang Hongru's expression changed and he jumped into the sky.

"Ying Changlong, this bastard, actually led out the rat tide!"

Rumble!

The earth shook and the mountains shook. A deafening roar, accompanied by a scream, suddenly rushed out fiercely along the open cave.

Oh no!

Gold-eating rat!

Thousands of gold-swallowing rats swarmed out of the ground and joined together, like a fountain, surging crazily into the air before falling back to the ground and surging towards the east like a tide.

Less than fifty miles east of Jiulang Mountain is the town of Pingfeng County!

"Ying Changlong deserves death!"

Chen Wuji shouted, "Sect Master Zhang, Senior Jin, I have to ask you to lend a hand and join me to eliminate this wave of rats."

"As it should be, Master Chen doesn't need to bother."

Zhang Hongru responded seriously.

As the words fell, the power of pulling heaven and earth condensed into a huge flag, waving to the ground.

Wow~

The flag swept through the dense swarm of rats.

Each of these gold-swallowing rats was as big as an ox and had an aura comparable to that of a second- or third-level gold-swallowing rat. They all burst apart on the spot and exploded into clouds of blood mist.

Uh-huh! Huh~

The flag, like the wind, continued to sweep over the rats.

Pieces of gold-eating rats exploded into clouds of blood mist.

However, there are too many gold-eating rats.

As soon as the flag was swept, dozens or hundreds of gold-swallowing rats exploded. The next moment, the vacated area was filled by other gold-swallowing rats.

"Squeak~"

"Shout!"

Dozens of millions of gold-eating rats gathered into a tide and headed eastward.

Wherever he passed, none of the plants or animals in the mountain forest could escape. They were instantly submerged and disappeared without a trace.

boom! boom!

Jin Ao was covered in golden light, smashing fist marks one after another, killing the rats, and smashing out large blood flowers.

Seeing that there were too many rats, they simply landed on the ground, blocked the way, and killed them head-on.

Killing in pieces, destroying every gold-eating rat.

The energy of heaven and earth within a radius of more than ten miles was extracted and pulled over, allowing Jin Ao to mobilize it.

Use one person's power to block the tide of rats and prevent them from advancing eastward.

shhhhhh!

Chen Wuji flew through the air, and unfolded the "Ten Thousand Swords Art". The force of heaven and earth pulled him, and the condensed sword energy fell down like rain.

Phew~puff~puff!

Bloody flowers burst out from the rat tide.

The sword energy spilled out and cut diagonally. Each sword brought up three or five gold-eating rats.

The three of them went to great lengths to kill the gold-eating rats and suppress the rat tide.

just.

The number of gold-eating rats rushing out from the ground is almost endless, too many.

There are indeed monsters under the Jiulang Mountain ruins.

The most common ones are gold-eating rats.

But no one knew that there were so many gold-eating rats.

This is no longer just a million heads, but has risen to three or four million!

Chen Wuji, Zhang Hongru, and Jin Ao are all in the Divine Sea realm.

It is not difficult to kill these inflated second- and third-level gold-eating rats.

But if they continue to kill like this endlessly, their true energy and soul power will be exhausted.

"Something's wrong."

While attacking, Zhang Hongru shouted via voice, "There's something wrong with these gold-eating rats. There may be something going on underneath the Jiulang Mountain ruins. If the source is not removed, the rat tide may not be extinguished."

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The deafening loud noises continued into the film.

Jin Ao stood alone in front of the rat tide, and the sky was filled with blood mist, and the entire hill was covered with minced meat and remains.

"You go to the underground to check and eliminate the source. I'm blocking it on the ground, so the rat tide can't get past it."

"Okay." Chen Wuji said without any nonsense, "Senior, wait a moment, we will find the source and eliminate it!"

Swish!

With a flash of his body, he rushed towards the ground, sticking to the surface next to the dozen or so holes dug by the rat tide himself. His consciousness spread out, seeping into the ground and scanning all the way.

Like Zhang Hongru, he scanned the ground with his spiritual consciousness.

The two of them went on separate sides, searching for the target.

Soon, Chen Wuji found an empty underground tunnel.

Immediately release the sword energy and dig downward.

Chi chi chi~

The soil was flying, and the passage continued to deepen.

After a while, Chen Wuji entered the scanned empty passage.

Underground in the Jiulangshan ruins are intricate caves and tunnels.

These caves and corridors have become natural caves and activity places for monsters.

However, according to common sense, there are many kinds of monsters and monster insects active underground in the ruins, not just gold-eating rats.

However, at the moment, Chen Wuji flew deep along the corridor, scanning the area he passed and found that there was no other active life form.

In the entire underground, in countless caves and tunnels, there are only gold-swallowing rats!

Each of the gold-swallowing rats also took medicine and swelled up like a balloon.

Either the second level or the third level.

This is definitely not normal!

"Clan Master Chen, have you discovered anything?"

Zhang Hongru's voice sounded in Chen Wuji's mind from a distance.

"No."

Chen Wuji responded, "We haven't found the source of the change in the Gold-Swallowing Rat yet, but Chen just sensed a qi force deep in the ground. It's quite strange, cold and dead, and I don't know what it is."

"Cold and dead?"

Zhang Hongru sent a message, "It seems that there is no surprise, it is this energy that is causing trouble. Master Chen, since we have discovered something abnormal, let's speed up."

"it is good."

Chen Wuji replied.

Whizzing!

With the sound of breaking wind, Chen Wuji accelerated his speed and headed straight into the depths of the ground.

When he responded just now, he did sense a deathly cold energy, faintly dancing.

At this moment, as the speed increases and the distance gets closer, this energy becomes more and more obvious.

Sa!

Sa~

The body is like electricity, flying and flying. call!

My eyes lit up.

Chen Wuji came deep underground and entered a vast and empty underground space.

The first time I came in, I saw a huge gold-swallowing giant rat, lying in the center of the underground space. It released one after another strange aura containing strong vitality, which was passed on to the animals surrounding the giant rat. Gold-eating female rat.

The giant gold-swallowing rat is nearly ten feet long and as tall as a hill.

The female rats surrounding the giant gold-swallowing rat are each one and a half feet long.

After these female rats absorbed the strange aura, they produced little gold-swallowing rats, which spit out like shit.

The little gold-swallowing rats that came out were moved by other gold-swallowing rats, taken to the surrounding corners, and put into large blood-colored pools of water.

Under Chen Wuji's gaze, the little gold-swallowing rats that were originally as big as a baby's fist fell into the pool of blood, and in less than half a cup of tea, they became as big as a washbasin.

The gold-swallowing rat as big as a washbasin crawled into the blood pool. The mother rat quickly rushed towards the giant gold-swallowing rat, stopped at a place where the weird aura could be sprayed, absorbed the weird aura, and quickly grew bigger.

The male rat continued to devour the various rocks and metals unearthed from the corners of the cave, eating them like a spoonful and growing in size.

The entire process has formed a production chain.

The source is the giant gold-swallowing rat!

but.

What caught Chen Wuji's attention was not the giant gold-swallowing rat, but a pile of corpses standing in a depression more than ten feet away on its right side.

These corpses are of people and animals.

But more of them are people.

The corpses were stacked up at a specific angle and orientation, at least three feet high.

There were about a hundred corpses at the bottom.

It's three to four feet tall. If you look over it, there are almost a thousand of them.

Thousands of complete flesh and blood corpses without any damage were piled together, but none of the gold-eating rats around them chewed or damaged them...

"Altar of Thousand Corpses and Thousand Souls!?"

As exclamations rang out, Zhang Hongru chased after him and stopped beside Chen Wuji, looking at the pile of corpses with a look of astonishment on his face.

"Altar of Thousand Corpses and Thousand Souls? Does Sect Leader Zhang know about it?" Chen Wuji asked through a message.

The two of them were currently lurking at the exit of a corridor five or six feet above the ground, concentrating their breath.

The group of gold-eating rats in the underground space did not find them yet.

"know."

Zhang Hongru also sent a message and replied, "The Altar of Thousand Corpses and Thousand Souls is the work of the ghost clan. It is one of the important key points in opening the gate of ghosts. How come it appears here?"

"Open the ghost gate?"

Chen Wuji raised his eyebrows and figured out the cause and effect in a flash of lightning.

"What a ghost tribe, they actually colluded with the gold-swallowing rat king here! It's convenient for them to open the ghost gate..."

"wrong!"

Halfway through, Chen Wuji came to his senses and discovered the problem.

"This is not a city. The nearest town on the surface is fifty miles away."

"What are the ghost clan doing here opening a ghost gate?"

"This..." Zhang Hongru also fell silent.

Yes.

The ghost clan opened the ghost gate in order to massacre the human race and absorb the three treasures of spirit, energy and spirit.

There is no one here, so a high-level altar of thousands of corpses and thousands of souls has been set up underground. What do you want to do?

For this altar of thousands corpses and souls, he also colluded with the Gold-Swallowing Rat King.

The aura of the Gold-Swallowing Rat King, which is more than ten feet long, is comparable to that of the fourth level!

You know, for a monster to step from the third level to the fourth level, it needs to survive a thunderstorm.

Only after successfully overcoming the tribulation can one transform into a fourth-level monster.

If you fail to overcome the tribulation, you will basically turn into a corpse or fly ashes.

The movement of the monster beasts during their tribulation was very loud.

Back when Chen Wuji was in the Black Rock Mountains, the demonic insects he saw passing through the tribulation were earth-shattering and affected dozens or hundreds of miles in radius.

If the Gold-Swallowing Rat King really survives the tribulation, Pingfeng County will definitely hear the news.

People from Jingyesi will rush over on the spot.

However, there was no movement.

But the Gold-Swallowing Rat King is already at the fourth level?

Obviously, this fourth level is also virtual, and it is inflated by blowing air through some secret method.

Why didn't the Gold-Swallowing Rat King use this secret method before?

Because it was not known before.

Now I know that it was the ghost clan who told it!

Why do the ghosts do this?

……

"We'll discuss the ghost clan's conspiracy later. Let's kill this gold-eating rat king first!"

After thinking for a while, Zhang Hongru couldn't figure it out. He stopped thinking, shouted low, rushed out of the hiding place first, and flew towards the Gold-Swallowing Rat King.

boom!

A punch broke through the air, tearing the air current, and carrying the momentum of the sky, it descended on the prone Gold-Swallowing Rat King.

"Roar~"

The Gold Swallowing Rat King reacted quickly and opened his mouth to face Zhang Hongru with a terrifying air blade.

rustling

Boom!

The violent energy exploded into the air instantly.

Zhang Hongru did not retreat and continued to move forward. The divine sea vision flag spread out, drowning the other gold-swallowing rats below and spreading towards the gold-swallowing rat king.

Puff puff!

Dozens or hundreds of gold-eating rats exploded on the spot, leaving no trace of their flesh and blood.

However, the body of the Gold-Swallowing Rat King suddenly rose with a pale white light, blocking the attack.

The next moment, the huge body trembled, raised its front paws, and waved towards Zhang Hongru.

hum!

Chen Wuji used a move called "Sunset Dome Sword" from a distance to strangle the soul.

"Hoar~!"

The Gold-Swallowing Rat King roared in pain and swung out his front paws, but stopped trembling before he even got close to Zhang Hongru.

How could Zhang Hongru miss the opportunity? A five-turn sword suddenly appeared. Blessed by true energy and wrapped in the power of heaven and earth, he aimed it at the neck of the Gold-Swallowing Rat King and slashed it with one strike.

The dazzling sword light streaked through the space, and with a pop, it broke through the defensive surface of the Gold-Swallowing Rat King.

It’s just the epidermis!

Going further down, into flesh and blood, is impossible.

"A tough enough body."

Zhang Hongru shouted coldly, mobilized more and stronger true energy, blessed the five-turn sword, and performed unique skills.

Puff puff!

Amidst the blade light, the sound of sharp blades cutting flesh suddenly resounded.

It's like drilling a hole.

Zhang Hongru controlled the five-turn sword and quickly penetrated the neck of the Golden Rat King, drilling deeply into it.

Chen Wuji also didn't stop and used the divine soul killing move from the air.

The forced Gold-Swallowing Rat King began to run away while roaring in pain, trying to avoid Zhang Hongru.

Compared with Zhang Hongru's drilling and cutting, Chen Wuji's divine soul sword killing made the Gold-Swallowing Rat King feel more painful, and he could temporarily forget the physical pain.

"Sigh~"

"Roar!!"

A deafening roar resounded through the underground cave.

The huge body of the gold-eating rat king rolled on the ground, crushing the gold-eating female rats to death.

The gold-swallowing female rats that were originally surrounding the gold-swallowing rat king did not dare to stay any longer and fled quickly.

Puff puff!

Zhang Hongru kept cutting and cutting deeply.

Chen Wuji used the "Great Sunset Dome Sword" from a distance to kill the Gold-Swallowing Rat King, which screamed and screamed incessantly.

The huge body of the Gold-Swallowing Rat King rolled on the ground until it hit the Altar of Thousand Corpses and Thousand Souls, and was rebounded by an inspired force, punching out a row of bloody holes.

"The ghost tribe still has defensive measures on the altar of thousands corpses and souls?"

Chen Wuji's heart sank.

"This thing must be destroyed!" (End of Chapter)