Who said I practiced the exercises incorrectly?

Chapter 299: Falling into a trap
Ning Yan thought about it and found that there seemed to be no way to solve this problem.

The interference to cognition around him was not just an illusion, so even he would be affected.

If you can't break through the cognitive barrier, no matter what you do, it will be useless.

Because this is a separation between the consciousness and body levels, the actions you perform are most likely not what you really want to do.

If you think about it more deeply, since the other party can toy with them so easily, then killing them will certainly not be particularly difficult.

Just find a dead corpse outside and kill them all with a "click".

But this did not happen.

Or the other party is unable to do it for the time being.

Or in the other party's perception, you and others have more important value.

If he was the only one here and he was single, he would just jump down and fight him on the spot no matter what his purpose was.

But now he has four experienced companions.

As the saying goes, three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang. Now there are four of them, so there is no need for him to worry alone.

He then turned his gaze to the people around him.

Ji Dinghuang glanced around and said hesitantly:

"Since we're going down wherever we go, why don't we just stop? We can't just stop and continue moving down, right?"

Everyone thought about it and it seemed that this method was feasible.

To deal with ever-changing situations by remaining constant is perhaps a clever solution.

Maybe in this process you can observe the opponent's loopholes and weaknesses and completely break the dilemma.

After reaching a consensus, everyone stayed where they were and looked around, trying to find the possible gap.

After about a hundred breaths, He Qianyan suddenly said in a startled voice:
"Something's not right. Look, isn't the fog rising over there?!"

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger and saw that the thick fog as heavy as a river was slowly rising below, and its edge was gradually submerging the surrounding rocks.

Judging from the situation, it would only take another half a quarter of an hour to reach where they are now.

"not only that!"

Ji Dinghuang wiped the rock wall beside him and said solemnly:
"The surrounding environment is also undergoing some unknown changes. The most obvious thing is that the mosses growing on the rock walls are dying rapidly."

Die?

Everyone looked around.

As expected, just as Ji Dinghuang said, the tiny mosses that originally grew in layers on the rock wall have now rapidly changed from vibrant bright green to dark green, and are even withering and turning into ashes and falling away.

In addition, even the color of the rocks has changed slightly, as if a long time has passed.

"What it is?!"

Qi Ruyue suddenly spoke up, her face looking extremely ugly.

At the bottom of the rock, near the mist, I saw several figures crawling on the ground.

They were wearing ancient robes, and many of them had wounds on their bodies. Some of them had their necks and hearts pierced by sharp weapons, or they were missing some body parts. They all had a strong aura of death and looked like they had been dead for a long time.

Of course, at first glance, there seemed to be nothing wrong with these bodies.

But their appearance was so strange.

Clearly, when I looked down just now, everything was visible, without any unnecessary objects.

But now, several corpses suddenly appeared.

For a moment, everyone felt a chill in their hearts.

Ji Dinghuang couldn't help but ask:

"Could it be possible that they were thrown out from the mist below?"

When asking, his voice couldn't help but tremble a little.

"I think it looks more like crawling out of a fog."

He Qianyan gripped the magic sword tightly, his expression extremely solemn.

“It shouldn’t have crawled out from below.”

Ning Yan shook his head and said:
"Not to mention that they are all headfirst now, which doesn't fit the crawling posture. The more important point is that crawling takes time. It may have been less than a moment before our line of sight passed below. If they crawled out of these corpses in such a short time, how terrifying would their speed be?"

"I agree with Brother Ning's opinion."

Duan Haishan frowned and said:
"The most important thing is, if they really crawled out from below, they would definitely bring with them scattered mist. But in fact, there is no such scene. It's like they should have been there, but we just didn't notice it before."

As soon as the words fell, everyone felt their vision suddenly blur for a moment.

The next second, when the scene in front of them came into view again, they saw that the corpses that were originally hundreds of feet away from them had now moved one-third of the distance towards them.

And the most important thing is that behind those corpses, there were more corpses suddenly appearing on the rocks.

Suddenly encountering this scene, Ji Dinghuang's hairs almost exploded:
"What's going on here? Can they move on their own?!"

"You should have seen the emblem of the Shinra Wanxiang Sect on their clothes. If nothing unexpected happened, these corpses should have been disciples of the Shinra Wanxiang Sect. Now they look like corpses. Maybe they have been transformed into dead bodies and are controlled by the unknown enemy.

We must find a way to stop them, otherwise if they get close, we'll be in big trouble!"

He Qianyan's expression was extremely solemn.

Everyone could naturally predict this result.

The only question is, how can we break through this dangerous situation?
Right now, they were trapped in this cave. No matter which direction they moved, they would only get closer to the bottom and deeper into the unknown dangerous area.

And if they attack those undead, even if they can successfully destroy them, the strength in their bodies will not be enough to support the subsequent series of battles.

No matter how you look at it, it's an inevitable dead end.

In the interval of thinking, my eyes became dazed again for a moment.

Then he saw the corpses standing not far in front of him.

They were so close that even everyone present could see the shriveled and blackened organs in their wounds.

Moreover, they had changed from their initial lying position to a standing position, but they were still facing away from this side.

It always gives people the illusion that he will turn around and attack violently in the next second.

No, it's not an illusion!
If we let it go, this will inevitably be the result!

At this moment, everyone had this premonition in their hearts.

Then I heard Duan Haishan shouting:

"Don't wait any longer! Let's rush down together!"

"Instead of waiting to die, it is better to seek survival!"

Realizing the utter determination of this plan, Ji Dinghuang and the others were only slightly stunned, and then they all became resolute.

After hearing this, Ning Yan sighed secretly.

It seemed to be no different from his original idea. After making the decision, everyone stopped hesitating and immediately rushed down.

No matter which direction you run, you will eventually be carried downwards.

If you actively rush forward like you are doing now, there is a sense of beauty in it, like walking into a trap.

But whether you walk into a trap or not depends on the situation. If you rush in too fast and too hard, you may be able to break through the net.

This is their only thought, their only hope at the moment, and their last struggle in a desperate situation.

There was a "boom" explosion.

Ning Yan's vision suddenly blurred for a moment, and then a loud roar came from in front of him.

Among the five people, he was the one rushing in the front, because of his adaptability, he was the least affected by this strange environment, and he also had the most powerful defensive spiritual weapon, the Feather Stele.

This approach has indeed achieved results.

When the surrounding environment changed again, the corpses that were originally blocking the way ahead suddenly appeared in front of him and all attacked this side fiercely.

However, before their attacks landed, they were knocked to the ground by Ning Yan, who was holding the stone tablet with the word "Yu" on it, and fell into the rapidly rising mist in the center of the cave.

Some of the corpses were even smashed into countless pieces.

But this magnificent scene did not make Ning Yan relax, but made him feel more stressed.

The strength of the undead varies, reflecting the huge difference in physical strength.

Even though these corpses don't look very smart, if there is a being comparable to the third realm, they can still easily stop him.

Even if there is only some Hua Jin, it will greatly hinder the subsequent retreat.

But I don't have time to think about these things anymore.

He carried the stone tablet with the word "羽" on it and rushed downwards frantically at an extremely high speed. With the help of the powerful potential energy brought from top to bottom, he knocked all the corpses that tried to block his way into the mist, and finally he himself fell into it on the spot.

Before this, Ning Yan imagined that falling into the mist would be like a plane crash, with passengers falling directly from a high altitude into the sea.

Although water is a fluid, it can greatly reduce the impact of falling.

However, if the impact force is too great to be absorbed and diffused quickly by the water surface, it will end up like falling on solid ground and crushing the person to death on the spot.

Therefore, even in a real air crash over sea, survivors who jump into the sea are extremely rare.

Fortunately, his physical fitness was far superior to that of ordinary people. In addition, the mist below was not a real liquid. Therefore, after falling into it, apart from his vision suddenly becoming dim and his speed rapidly decreasing, he did not encounter any other problems.

But after falling into the mist, the perception of time suddenly became ambiguous.

It seemed like a moment had passed, but it also seemed like a thousand years had passed.

After his mind completely returned to normal, Ning Yan stood up from the ground with a dizzy head.

He rubbed his temple and felt a belated feeling of nausea.

It's like the 3D sickness you get when playing games.

After a while, he managed to recover.

Looking up, you can see a huge spiral dark cloud rotating clockwise.

As it rotates, one can vaguely see the corpses of humans or monsters floating in it.

All the corpses were facing downwards, and their faces were extremely blurry.

Seeing this strange scene, Ning Yan couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

There was no doubt that the cloud above was the same mist they had seen in the cave.

I originally thought that it was spreading upwards from underground, just like magma flowing underground, with its traces everywhere, but after actually touching it, I found that it was only floating above my head, with a very obvious dividing line between it and the part below, like a man-made barrier.

But who set it up?
Why do you want to do this?
And why was it so easy to break through?

Ning Yan didn't understand, but it seemed unnecessary for him to understand.

In any case, they finally broke through the seemingly hopeless deadlock.

"Fortunately, everyone is fine."

As He Qianyan spoke, he could not help but sit down on the ground, feeling completely exhausted.

Although there is no deep cold fog here and there is no need to continue expending energy, the previous consumption was real.

"I always feel that the remaining bodies of the entire Polar Star Palace seem to be concentrated in here."

Ji Dinghuang looked up at the clouds and said with lingering fear:
"Luckily we rushed in quickly just now. If we hesitated a little longer, we would have no chance of escaping when all the corpses below surrounded us."

"Yes, but now that we have landed here, we should be considered safe, right?"

Qi Ruyue stood up from the ground shakily.

There were several dents on the armor on his body, and no one knew what had happened during the fall.

"Don't worry about being happy too early. We are actually getting into a more difficult situation."

Duan Haishan's face still looked very ugly.

Hearing this, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then immediately knew the reason.

The place where they fell should be an underground cave. The entrance blocked by the clouds above looked to be about a hundred feet in size, but the bottom was funnel-shaped, and the further down you went, the more spacious it became.

Standing at the bottom of this cave, in addition to the clouds above that look extremely mysterious, what is even more terrifying is the complex stone passages around it.

The so-called complexity of the crocodile does not mean that the number of stone paths is too abnormal. In fact, there are only four stone paths of different heights and sizes around.

But the stone paths are extremely similar.

Each stone path seemed to have countless identical rooms connected layer by layer, extending all the way to a distant unknown place.

It was as if the stone path was filled with mirrors, reflecting the scene before one's eyes.

However, whether it was Duan Haishan, Ning Yan, or anyone else, they all knew that it could not possibly be the image reflected by the mirror.

Because there was no reflection of them in those rooms, they were all empty.

This strange scene is particularly frightening.

Ji Dinghuang couldn't help swallowing his saliva and asked:
"What should we do next? Should we go back the same way?"

He Qianyan on the side couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Who would have thought that after finally breaking out of that deadlock, he would end up in this situation.

Although the four stone paths around are strange, it seems impossible to return by the original route.

Not to mention that Ning Yan was the only one who could fly. Even if everyone could fly, the pressure of breaking through upwards would be far beyond what they experienced when they broke through downwards. The countless corpses in the cloud alone would be enough to trap them to death, not to mention their previous weird cognitive dissonance.

If it were so easy to escape, why would they be here now?

After a moment of silence, Qi Ruyue's surprised voice suddenly came from the field:

"No, do you see anyone in that stone path?"

(End of this chapter)