Chapter 312: Savage Wasteland (1/2)

After dealing with the Asura World's Evil Eye High Priest, Jiang Li, the pitiful Alliance Leader of the Great Mountain Alliance, set off again and flew towards an area he had never stepped foot in.

The current location of the Myriad Slaughter Sect's main force was called the Rock Mountain Range. It was a sealed cultivation world that they had just attacked.

From the rough map of the Eastern Region of the Azure Cloud Continent, the area covered by the Rock Mountain Range was not much smaller than the Great Mountain Region.

It was a special terrain with rocks that was difficult to see.

The straight line distance from the Great Mountain Region was not far, but in the middle were two red areas marked as highly dangerous on the map.

That meant that just flying on it might be life-threatening. If one did not have absolute confidence in their own strength, they would try their best not to touch it.

Jiang Li had just released a group of Asura World creatures to the Nine Provinces Continent.

Although he controlled it very well and did not pose any threat or influence to the continent of the Nine Provinces, the interface did not show any negative status.

However, he had already sensed some changes in himself. His originally fresh mouth suddenly showed signs of foul odor.

This meant that he might have been plagued by negative karma.

His merit blessing could eliminate negative karma, but he did not want to test his luck recently.

It was better to be obedient and take a detour like ordinary cultivators.

After that, this detour took an entire twenty days and nights. Jiang Li, who was sitting on Rayquaza, had been meditating dully all this time. He was about to break through to the Core Formation realm before finally flying to the edge of the target area.

Immediately, the vegetation became sparse. Only when the exposed ground completely turned into bare rocks did he know that he had already entered the Rock Ridge.

Under the scorching sun, the air was roasted until it distorted slightly. The entire place was desolate!

At this moment, an eagle's cry suddenly tore through the sky.

They had just arrived at the new place when this barbaric region welcomed Alliance Leader Jiang in its own way.

The shadow that was covered by the sunlight shot onto Jiang Li, and it actually enveloped him and most of the wooden dragon.

Looking up, a pair of huge and sharp hook claws had already pounced forward.

The Wood Dragon Rayquaza opened its mouth and shot out a Dragon Roar Cannon, directly piercing the wings of the huge bird. The sharp eagle cry immediately turned into a wail.

Without a wing, it was difficult for the bird to fly, so it immediately fell.

After that, the rocky wasteland that Jiang Li originally thought was barren, empty, and desolate suddenly became bustling.

A huge rock deformed without any warning and transformed into a stone-skinned toad. It jumped up from the ground and opened its meat-colored mouth to bite the fallen bird.

However, before the toad could land, the seemingly bare rock ground suddenly split open like a mouth, biting the falling toad in the middle again.

It was not until this guy started moving that Jiang Li discovered that it was a dried stone crocodile with six legs.

After swallowing the prey in two bites, the crocodile shook its head and swayed its tail as it walked into the distance. However, after walking for a while, the terrain beneath its feet suddenly collapsed, and its huge body sank like it had fallen into quicksand.

However, it was not sand. It was a Marching Ant that was ten thousand times more terrifying than sand.

A huge dried stone crocodile fell into the endless army of ants. Its hard skin could not withstand the invincible mouth-parts.

In just a few moments, the tons of meat were completely eaten by the ants. Even the bones were cut off by the mouth-part and the delicious spinal cord inside was emptied.

In a short period of time, Jiang Li had seen a fierce competition between fish and shrimps.

The more barren and desolate a place was, the more extreme the disguise and hunting ability of the local species would be.

Especially after evolving into a demon beast, all kinds of magical methods emerged endlessly.

After the group of ants below finished eating the crocodile and the other two demon beasts in its stomach, they actually placed their gazes on Jiang Li.

Buzzing sounds of wings flapping could be heard. This group of army ants actually had flying soldiers. A group of grayish-brown insects rose into the sky at a rather slow speed and pounced towards Jiang Li.

They were thirsting for any food to reproduce and strengthen their species.

The countless terrifying mouth-parts were enough to make most of the monsters in the wilderness retreat.

Even Jiang Li's Wood Arts would probably only become their food.

Other than insect repellent, the most effective thing against insects should be flames.

He raised his hand and formed a ball of scorching wine fire in his palm. He suddenly slapped it down, and a ball of shocking alcohol spiritual fire spread out, instantly enveloping the swarm of insects.

The power of the Liquor Fire Flame that was enhanced by the Nine Nether spiritual qi was quite powerful.

When the flames dissipated, a large number of charred and tender insect shells fell down.

The smell of burnt meat filled the air. The protein was eight times that of beef.

This fragrance caused the demon beasts in a range of more than five kilometers to riot.

In order to prevent himself from being swept into it, Jiang Li put away the obviously targeted Wood Dragon Rayquaza and rode his flying sword to quickly leave this area.

In such a place, how strong were humans to be able to survive?

However, after flying for a distance, Jiang Li discovered that there was actually a small town in this wasteland.

In such a harsh environment, being able to survive safely without being destroyed was definitely a skill.

There was a sign hanging on the edge of the town. It seemed to be an organization similar to a relay station.

After Jiang Li approached, he politely landed on the ground and walked towards the town.

At this moment, he discovered that there was a tall fungus growing in a circle around the town. It was a thick mushroom with many holes on the surface.

After using appraisal, he learned that the name of this fungus was quite common. It was called the Desolate Poison Mushroom.

This was a poisonous mushroom. When touching the surface, a large number of poisonous spores would spew out from the holes on the surface.

As long as a creature breathed in a certain number of poisonous spores, it would be parasitized and poisoned, slowly absorbing nutrients until it was beyond cure and on the verge of death.

Their fungus spores would also spread underground and occupy a considerable area. These fungus spores also had the same toxic and parasitic characteristics.

Therefore, as long as such a Desolate Poison Mushroom existed, basically no demon beast would take the initiative to approach them.

This was also the way ordinary humans lived in this region.

Of course, this spore would also work on humans, causing ordinary mortals in the region to have an average lifespan of less than 35 years,

However, this was also the only way they could survive in a dangerous wasteland.

It was even to the extent that the humans in this region had already formed a symbiosis with this poisonous mushroom. The poison of the poisonous mushroom protected humans, and after humans died, their corpses would be buried in the ground to grow new poisonous mushrooms.