Chapter 12 Joining Forces to Defend Against the Enemy!

Just as the temple collapsed, the ground beneath Lu Chen and the others also began to rumble.

In just a split second, the star-filled sky and moon were entirely blocked by the violent wind and sand. However, while this sandstorm almost enveloped the entire Yinghuo Ancient Planet, it left only the area between the location where Lu Chen and the others were and the five-colored altar uncovered by the sandstorm.

As for the three students who had been dazed earlier, terror was now plastered across all of their faces, and then their bodies fell straight down.

Students who were standing close by had already seen that at the back of the heads of these three individuals, there was a thumb-sized bloody hole, with brain matter mixed with blood gushing out.

This scene instantly terrified everyone.

Everyone no longer dared to hesitate in the slightest, desperately running in the direction of the five-colored altar.

Just like that, apart from those three people, all the remaining people safely ran back within the range of the five-colored altar.

The five students left behind here saw Lu Chen and the others running back frantically, and the fear on their faces instantly diminished quite a bit.

Although they did not know what had happened, just the sky-covering sandstorm surrounding them was already terrifying enough.

Lu Chen swept his gaze across the surrounding group of students who were panting heavily, and said in a clear voice:

"The light barrier around this altar can temporarily block the monsters' attacks. Students who didn't get a Magical Artifact just now, honestly go stay inside the bronze ancient coffin."

"Students with Magical Artifacts, disperse and garrison at the edge of the light barrier, and kill the monsters with all your might!"

Hearing Lu Chen's words, a female student named Wang Yan standing beside Liu Yunzhi immediately spoke up in rebuttal:

"Since this light barrier can block the monsters, wouldn't it be fine if we just hide inside directly? Why take the risk?"

After Wang Yan spoke, a few timid students also chimed in in agreement.

"If you don't want to stay on this Mars forever, then obediently do as I say!"

Lu Chen's voice grew slightly cold, and he said in a deep voice:

"The reason why the bronze ancient coffin crashed here is obviously because it lacks enough energy to navigate. Only by killing enough monsters can we recharge this five-colored altar and let the bronze ancient coffin set sail again."

Hearing Lu Chen's explanation, everyone present instantly shut their mouths.

With Mars's conditions being so harsh, naturally no one wanted to stay here.

Although everyone was also unclear about where the bronze ancient coffin would take them, it was still better than starving to death here.

Afterwards, under Lu Chen's instruction, the crowd guarded the edge of the light barrier in a semi-circular formation.

Among them, Lu Chen even lent the half of the wooden fish he had found to Zhang Ziling, who had a relatively good relationship with him back in school, which could be considered adding another combat force.

"Lu Chen, do you know what these monsters actually are?"

After organizing the crowd, Lin Jia, who had completely taken Lu Chen as her backbone, asked.

"I have read related records in some ancient books. Legend has it that many vicious monsters are suppressed beneath the Dalei Yin Temple, and the Crocodile Ancestor is imprisoned on the first layer."

Lu Chen said slowly.

"I have also read related records."

After Lu Chen spoke, Ye Fan and Zhou Yi also chimed in.

Right at this moment, the crowd suddenly felt the light barrier in front of them tremble for a moment, and then they saw a creature about the thickness of a finger, ten centimeters long, covered in pitch-black scales and resembling a crocodile, slam straight into the light barrier surrounding the altar.

Pang Bo, who was the closest, immediately swung the plaque in his hand and heavily smashed it onto this little divine crocodile.

Accompanied by a miserable shriek, this little divine crocodile lay on the ground without any movement.

However, before everyone could even rejoice, they saw countless dense little divine crocodiles ahead swarming toward their direction.

Under the impact of these little divine crocodiles, the light barrier around the altar immediately became somewhat precarious.

Lu Chen immediately raised his hand and offered up the alms bowl in his hand, and a streak of golden light poured out from within the bowl.

Wherever the golden light passed, the little divine crocodiles dropped dead on the spot one after another.

At this time, Ye Fan also waved the Buddha lamp in his hand, and a streak of flames soared into the sky, burning numerous little divine crocodiles to death.

Pang Bo brandished the plaque in his hand so fiercely that it whistled with the wind, sending countless little divine crocodiles flying away with slaps.

The other students also offered up the Magical Artifacts in their respective hands at this time. For a moment, the sounds of Buddha chanted endlessly, and the Buddha light shone brilliantly; not a single little divine crocodile was able to break through the light barrier.

Just when everyone thought they could slaughter all of these little divine crocodiles, a blood-curdling roar suddenly came from the direction of the distant Dalei Yin Temple.

After this roar, another large batch of little divine crocodiles unexpectedly flew and lunged toward this side from afar.

At the same time, a terrifying vibration simultaneously came from the ruins of the Dalei Yin Temple, and a pair of blood-colored eyes the size of lanterns rose several zhang high. It was very obvious that something wanted to break free from the constraints of the underground palace and was impacting the surface.

Seeing this terrifying scene, quite a few students felt despair well up in their hearts.

"I… We aren't going to die here, are we?"

One of the female students said with a crying tone.

"Push a bit harder, the energy accumulated by this altar is almost enough."

Seeing that everyone had lost their morale, Ye Fan hurriedly spoke up to comfort them at this moment.

At this time, beneath the feet of Lu Chen and the others, a large amount of blood from the little divine crocodiles flowed into the five-colored altar, and the entire altar began to flash with five-colored brilliance.

The brilliance entwined and rose into the air, slowly converging into the shapes of runes.

Seeing this situation, a bit of hope was suddenly reborn within the hearts of everyone who had been nearly in despair.

Soon, the divine crocodile horde in the distance had already arrived close by.

And just as these little divine crocodiles rushed close to the light barrier, Lu Chen took out the bronze Buddha statue from the storage ring at an extremely fast speed, waved it forward, and then quickly put it back into the storage ring. The entire process was not noticed by anyone at all.

Everyone only saw that a dazzling divine light suddenly bloomed from the location where Lu Chen was. The divine light spread out like a ripple, and wherever it passed, those little divine crocodiles dropped to the ground like dumplings falling into a pot, losing all movement one after another.

Then the five-colored altar beneath everyone's feet suddenly began to shake, and the five-colored brilliance in the sky condensed into ancient runes one by one, shining like stars.

The Taiji Eight Trigrams Diagram surfaced once again, which was precisely the omen that the starry ancient road was about to open.

Taking advantage of everyone's attention being attracted by the altar, Lu Chen seized the opportunity to collect many corpses of the little divine crocodiles.

Inside the bodies of these little divine crocodiles contained a trace of the Crocodile Ancestor's essential blood. This was Great Saint-Grade essential blood; even if there was only a thin trace of it, for the early stages of Cultivate, it definitely belonged to top-tier Cultivation resources.

Anyway, the five-colored altar had already accumulated enough energy, and leaving these little divine crocodile corpses here would just be a waste; it would be foolish not to take them for free.

It's just a pity that the space of the storage ring given by Xiao Yan was too small. After Lu Chen filled the storage ring to capacity, there was still a large amount of divine crocodile corpses left on the ground.

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