Full-Time Mage: Starting from Obtaining the Mysterious Ancient Tree

Chapter 358 The Mystery of the Mogao Caves

"Roar!!!!"

The three heads of the three-headed monster attacked in turn. One of the heads was poisonous, and it used poison gas to suppress Fang Yu's high-level magic, forcing Fang Yu to keep moving to avoid the spread of the poison gas.

After the poison, there was a gust of foul wind. This wind had a strong corrosive ability. Fang Yu hid behind a large stone block. In just a few seconds, the stone block, which was as big as a house, was completely eroded by this foul wind, turning into foam.

After the foul wind came the eerie blue flames.

A ghostly blue flame erupted from the three-headed monster's fiery head, and a ten-meter-diameter fireball flew swiftly towards Fang Yu, exploding with a deafening roar at his location.

"Roar!!!"

The eerie blue flames were unleashed once more, and a fireball fifteen meters in diameter rolled down towards him. This time, Fang Yu did not dodge, but instead focused his mind directly on the enormous fireball!
A silvery light flashed in Fang Yu's eyes, its sharp rays shooting towards the rolling, fifteen-meter-diameter, dark blue fireball. The fireball, which had initially come on strong, began to slow down as it entered Fang Yu's silver vision...

As if it had crashed into a swamp of space with strong resistance, the dark blue fireball gradually came to a stop and could no longer move forward when it was about fifty meters away from Fang Yu.

Fang Yu shouted loudly, his will reaching its limit. The still, dark blue fireball was violently blasted away by Fang Yu's mental power, landing with a thud more than two hundred meters away. Dark blue flames rushed over, but not a single spark could get close to Fang Yu.

The three-headed monster of poisonous wind and fire was stunned. It never expected that its attack would be neutralized by a single glance from the other party.

"rise!"

Thousands of strands of psychic power scattered onto the nearby incredibly hard rock blocks and pillars. Fang Yu broke them apart with his will, turning them all into his weapons, which he then smashed one after another at the three-headed monster!
Each controlled object was imbued with a more powerful layer of psychic energy. Even a small stone could be thrown through a mountain, let alone heavy stone pillars and columns. These could break several bones in the three-headed monster.

After a flurry of mental attacks, the three-headed monster was already bleeding from its head, but it was quite courageous and did not try to escape even in this situation.

Fang Yu naturally wouldn't spare its life just because it was a dog with guts. He crushed space, creating a hexagon that suddenly appeared at the three-headed monster's feet.

"Boom!!!!"

Silver ash danced in the air, and the terrifyingly crushing force obliterated the three-headed monster completely!
A deep, large wisp of firefly light rose from the spot where the three-headed monster had died, drifting slowly for a while, like a homeless child.

"Spirit essence!!! We've got a fortune!!" Fang Yu exclaimed, his face beaming with joy as he watched the crystal-clear ball of light.

A single commander-level spirit is worth hundreds of millions; I never expected to receive such unexpected wealth.

At this moment, the Dark Patterned Wolf came to Fang Yu's side again. Jiang Shaoxu, who was sitting in front, patted Fang Yu, signaling him to look ahead.

The sandstorm that had swept up by the three-headed monster had obscured the view ahead, making visibility very low. Now, as the sand slowly settles, a huge crater, resembling one struck by a meteorite, has been revealed in front of us.

It was very dry inside, and the surrounding ground was cracked. Countless grains of sand were escaping from the cracks. Their inner flames were a deep yellow color, and from a distance they looked like pieces of half-ripe wheat swaying in the wind!

Fang Yu looked ahead and was surprised to find a ball of earth-type spirit seed, completely dark yellow, floating about two meters above the center of the swaying dust crater.

Fang Yu jumped into the giant pit filled with deep yellow sand and picked up the vessel.

Having obtained a spirit essence as an unexpected windfall, the spirit seed was merely a bonus.

The two continued their journey and eventually found a place shrouded in mist in Dunhuang.

"Found it." Fang Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at the vast expanse of land shrouded in mist before him, Jiang Shaoxu said, "Is this the Land of Mist? The entrance to the Mogao Caves?"

"Are you afraid? Many people get lost in this," Fang Yu asked.

"I'm not afraid," Jiang Shaoxu said firmly.

"Let's go then." Fang Yu stepped forward. In the original timeline, Jiang Shaoxu did not encounter any crisis in Dunhuang, so he was not worried.

As the two stepped into the mist, their figures completely disappeared.

Once inside the fog, visibility was less than five meters everywhere; it was almost all gray and hazy!
What surprised him even more was that the range of mental perception here was extremely small, seemingly swallowed up by the mist.

"Something's not right." Fang Yu acted decisively, his star link flashing with brilliant light, instantly enveloping the two of them in spatial power. "Roar!"

Just as they were moving forward, a gaping maw suddenly appeared in front of them, seemingly about to swallow them whole.

At the same time, Fang Yu was surrounded by dazzling light, and the spatial power covering his body trembled.

"Boom~~~"

Fang Yu immediately noticed the terrifying jaws tearing down.

"break!"

Without Jiang Shaoxu needing to intervene, Fang Yu directly used spatial tremor to forcefully repel the attacking demons.

"Bang~~~"

After a mournful wail echoed through the mist, the place returned to silence.

This sudden attack would have been too much for an ordinary mage to react to.

Just like that demon from before, if I hadn't used my spatial power to envelop the two of them beforehand, we would have almost fallen victim to it.

"Stay close to me, something's not right here," Fang Yu said to Jiang Shaoxu.

"it is good."

"Boom!"

During the next leg of his journey, Fang Yu encountered several more attacks by large mouths.

The outcome was always the same: they were defeated in one blow and immediately fled. Fang Yu's creation of a spatial cage to seal them off had no effect on them.

Although I don't know what it is, one thing is certain: all I've encountered along the way are top-tier warrior-level demons.

It's hard to imagine that this is what it is like before even entering the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.

As you walk deeper into the mist, you can feel that it winds upwards, the mist becomes thicker and thicker, and the visible area becomes narrower and narrower.

Clang! Clang!!

Suddenly, a sound like metal clanging came from the pitch-black fog. The place was already quiet, and the sudden sound made everyone feel uneasy.

The metallic clanging sound wasn't the crisp, clear sound you usually hear; it had a dull, abrasive noise that, when it reached your ears, was like the unsettling sound of fingernails scraping against a blackboard.

The place they were walking in was shrouded in gray mist, and the sudden, eerie sound that seemed to come from nowhere made them feel extremely uneasy.

"Did you hear that?" Jiang Shaoxu asked, his teeth chattering as he looked around.

"What do you think it could be?" Fang Yu asked.

"I don't know." Jiang Shaoxu shook her head.

"Whatever it is, just keep moving forward. There's no use worrying now. Besides, if it's hiding in the shadows, we can forget about finding it." Fang Yu said nonchalantly.

In Fang Yu's opinion, if this creature had the ability to devour both of them, it would have simply attacked directly; there was no need to use such a sound to frighten everyone.

With this inexplicable sense of vigilance, the two quickened their pace.

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(End of this chapter)