Chapter 43: Eliminating the Mosquitoes
The two Blood Mosquito Kings discovered that their newly born offspring had disappeared. Their first reaction was that those eight human cultivators must have sent someone in to steal them during the battle.
Filled with the pain of losing their children, the two Blood Mosquito Kings resolved to perish together with those eight human cultivators.
Buzz! Buzz!
Their agonized cries drowned out even the intense explosions in the passage!
In an instant, the fifty thousand surviving Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes also felt the pain of the Blood Mosquito Kings and empathized with them. Immediately, an atmosphere of rage filled the entire nest of Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes.
Burn! Life burning! Energy burning!
These Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes began to go all out, unleashing all their energy to burn it up, thereby pushing their strength to its absolute limit!
With their strength soaring, they formed various formations and charged fiercely at the cultivators at the Yuan Ying stage in the passage.
“Not good!”
The eight cultivators at the Yuan Ying stage from the Xianyun Sect, Huoyue Gate, Xuanyang Temple, and Yusu School simultaneously sensed that these Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes’ strength had increased several times over, and they were determined to die. Defending against them would be extremely difficult.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Without coordination, all eight cultivators flew back out of the passage and returned to the skies above the abyss through the circular hole.
They chose to flee. With their speed at the Yuan Ying stage, even though these Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes’ strength had increased again, they still couldn’t keep up.
“What’s the reason? Why do these Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes suddenly have such a fierce will to die?” The eight of them wondered.
It would be a great shame if cultivators at the Yuan Ying stage were scared away by beasts at the Zhuji or Jindan stage. But in the situation just now, even if they had fought to the end, it would have cost them a tremendous amount of vital energy, leaving them vulnerable to attacks from the other three sects’ Yuan Ying cultivators—this was the real danger.
The four major cultivation sects of Cuimu Planet could coexist because each had two cultivators at the Yuan Ying stage; otherwise, some of them would have been eliminated.
Since their own lives were tied to the survival of their sects, losing face for now wasn’t a big deal.
“Everyone, what should we do now? Should we charge in and massacre them?” Huai Qing asked in a deep voice.
The Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes had temporarily boosted their strength by forcing their energy to burn, but this situation couldn’t last long or happen repeatedly. Therefore, Huai Qing planned to wear them down through a series of battles.
“Wait a moment. The battle just now consumed some of our vital energy. Everyone, stay at the entrance of this nest first to prevent the Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes from escaping, and also replenish our vital energy,” suggested Cheng Chang from Xuanyang Temple.
This immediately brought up everyone’s concern. Being entangled with these Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes at the Foundation and Golden Core stages had indeed drained a lot of vital energy. Although these mosquitoes weren’t very strong, they were numerous and coordinated with each other, causing significant energy loss for everyone.
“Good!”
All the Yuan Ying stage cultivators immediately divided into groups according to their sects, taking positions to block the nest of the Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes, then started taking out spirit stones and absorbing them frantically.
The two Blood Mosquito Kings, seeing that the human cultivators had shamelessly fled, became even more enraged and immediately ordered all the Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes to emerge from the nest to fight.
Buzz!
A strong sound wave spread out, and soon around 50,000 Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes flew out of the nest entrance.
“Die!”
At that moment, the Yuan Ying stage cultivators, while absorbing spirit stones, also used their magical weapons to slaughter the mosquitoes that flew out of the nest.
When the Metal-type vital energy was released, it turned into countless sharp sword auras. With whooshing sounds, numerous mosquitoes had their bodies cut in half and fell back into the nest. When the Wood-type vital energy was released, it immediately formed countless sharp qi blades. As long as they hit a mosquito, they could split it in two. When the Water-type vital energy was released, thousands of rain needles were formed, buzzing against the mosquitoes’ bodies and instantly breaking them apart. When the Earth-type vital energy was released, a yellowish aura was created. All the mosquitoes that flew into this aura were like being trapped in mud, being spun, torn, and cut, with none able to escape.
The Master of Fire Moon Sect practiced Metal-type techniques, the Master of Immortal Cloud Sect practiced Wood-type techniques, the Master of Jade Host Sect practiced Water-type techniques, and the Master of Xuanyang Temple practiced Earth-type techniques. The same was true for the two Yuan Ying stage cultivators from each sect. As they released their vital energies, they coordinated perfectly, wiping out all the mosquitoes that flew out in just one strike.
Buzz!
The Blood Mosquito Kings, witnessing such a brutal scene, realized that if more mosquitoes were allowed to emerge, they would all be eliminated. So, they issued an order to retreat.
Another 40,000 Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes immediately flew back into the nest.
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Qu Yi remained inside the Hidden Dust Formation, feeling somewhat anxious.
“Spirit Tool God, when will we leave this palace?” Qu Yi asked tentatively.
Since he sensed that the Blood Mosquito Kings and the mosquitoes had left the passage and gone outside the nest, Qu Yi naturally wanted to leave this palace of the Blood Mosquito Kings as well.
“You can leave now, but you must place the Hidden Dust Array on your body to ensure a safe departure. Then choose a passage and find a place where you can dig upward to return to the surface of the Abyss of Myriad Demons,” said the Artifact God calmly.
Upon hearing this, Qu Yi was overjoyed. He immediately took the Hidden Dust Array and started running.
Inside the Blood-Sucking Mosquito passage, there was an invisible space moving rapidly—that was Qu Yi. If the Hidden Dust Array was left still in one place, it could blend in with the surroundings undetected. But once it moved, although there would be no fluctuations in spiritual energy within the array, the space it covered could no longer be hidden, appearing to outsiders as a moving invisible space.
If the King of Blood Mosquitoes were here, he would surely realize that their offspring were related to this invisible space. But at that moment, all the Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes had gone to the entrance of their nest, so how could they sense what was happening inside this passage?
Qu Yi managed to escape once again by sheer luck.
In one of the passages, Qu Yi found a weak spot in the cave wall. He set up the Hidden Dust Array, then took out the Green Python Sword and began digging upward.
“Hehe, Qu Yi, how’s it going? Finding it hard to dig this passage, right?” said the Artifact God, trying hard to suppress his laughter.
It turned out that even with the Green Python Sword, Qu Yi could only leave some scratches on the cave wall without cutting off a single piece of rock.
“Artifact God, you said this was the weakest part of the passage—how can it still be so hard?” Qu Yi said, feeling embarrassed and puzzled.
The Green Python Sword was an elite magical weapon, yet it couldn’t even cut a piece of rock. Qu Yi was forced to give up hope.
“Haha, Qu Yi, this is the nest of the Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes. After thousands of years of their life force seeping into these rocks, they’ve transformed into Blood Wall Rock, which is also a type of material used in crafting. Although this Blood Wall Rock is quite ordinary for regular crafting, it’s essential for those who practice blood-related cultivation if they want to create their own life magic artifacts,” said the Artifact God happily.
Qu Yi was even more confused and shouted indignantly, “Artifact God, stop talking to me about these materials. Tell me now how to break through this Blood Wall Rock! I’m trying to save my life here, you know? Saving my life—do you understand?”
Qu Yi could only endure the Artifact God’s attempt to teach him at such a time helplessly.
“You’re stupid! Don’t you have the Wild Fire Array on you? Can’t you use it to burn these Blood Wall Rocks? Once they’re red hot, you can cut them,” the Artifact God shouted angrily.
Qu Yi shook his head, reducing the intense pain in his soul a bit, before taking out the Wild Fire Formation as instructed. He then placed the spirit stone to activate it. Sure enough, the fire snakes set the Blood Wall Rock on fire, quickly turning it red. With a gentle swing of the Green Python Sword, the Blood Wall Rock began to fall off one by one.
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Outside the Blood-Sucking Mosquito Nest, the eight cultivators at the Yuan Ying stage from the four sects had all restored their vital energy. “Everyone, let’s go confront the Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes again!” Han Yue Shangren, the strongest among them, spoke first. At the same time, he was communicating with Yong Shan’s spiritual consciousness. “Yong Shan, once we enter the Blood-Sucking Mosquito Nest, take advantage of the chaos to capture some of these mosquitoes and bring them back to cultivate them,” Han Yue Shangren said. “Good. Our original plan was to breed an army of Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes. Although the other three sects are interfering, we still have a chance to get some of them, so we can still breed a group,” Yong Shan said excitedly.
While Han Yue Shangren and Yong Shan’s spiritual consciousness were communicating, the members of the other three sects were also discussing the same topic. Cui Mu Planet was a small cultivation world with extremely scarce resources; even powerful monsters were hard to find. Now that there was a chance to breed an army of Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes, how could the people from the four sects give up such an opportunity?
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The eight of them immediately flew into the Blood-Sucking Mosquito Nest and entered separate passages. Soon, in all eight passages, the Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes began dying in large numbers. Undoubtedly, as the eight cultivators at the Yuan Ying stage slaughtered the mosquitoes frantically, they also secretly caught some and put them into their spirit bags.
The two Blood Mosquito Kings noticed the eight human cultivators entering again. Their previously calm hearts flared with anger once more, and they immediately summoned all the Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes to gather together. Twenty thousand Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes remained, all gathering around the Blood Mosquito Kings.
At this moment, the eight cultivators at the Yuan Ying stage also arrived at the Blood Mosquito Kings’ palace and surrounded all the Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes. “Haha, Blood Mosquito King, we’ve finally found you!” Qiu Yu, the leader of the Yu Su Sect, exclaimed excitedly. “Then let’s attack together, how about that?” Huai Qing suggested calmly. “Good!”
Everyone agreed. In an instant, the eight cultivators at the Yuan Ying stage drew out their magical treasures, their vital energy surging as they prepared to exterminate all the Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes.
Buzz!
The two Blood Mosquito Kings sensed danger and let out another mournful cry. Then, they ignited the energy within them along with all the Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes, instantly forming a mass before launching an attack.
At this moment, the eight beings at the Baby Soul stage also unleashed their ultimate moves, channeling large amounts of vital energy to confront the concentrated power of the Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes.
Boom!
Explosions erupted throughout the Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes’ nest, and all the passages cracked open due to the blasts, then began to collapse.
Meanwhile, at the edge of the muddy land, a hole appeared, and a person flew out of it.
“Haha, I, Qu Yi, am alive again!”
It turned out that Qu Yi had successfully dug a passage and escaped from the Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes’ nest.