Chapter 1361: You Search Yours, I Search Mine

Soul attacks: the damage isn't high, but the insult is extreme.

The Yellow Sand Yaksha turned without hesitation and charged toward Lin Moyu.

That powerful, tyrannical aura locked onto him again, and Lin Moyu began to retreat rapidly.

In the distance, God King Heisha clearly breathed a sigh of relief, quickly following up and preparing to strike at any moment.

The first time working together is always the hardest; as long as they passed this successfully, everything would surely become smoother and more harmonious afterward.

Lin Moyu understood why Bodhisattva Xiao Ming Wang required them to be in groups of two; when facing a boss monster like the Yellow Sand Yaksha in the Yellow Sand Lake, a single person simply couldn't hold it back.

Only by using this tricky method could they hold it off.

However, this method couldn't be dragged out for too long. The attacks would get stronger each time and eventually reach a limit, so one hour was a relatively reasonable timeframe.

A dozen seconds later, the Yellow Sand Yaksha closed in on Lin Moyu again, and God King Heisha acted in time.

His attack was slightly stronger than before, successfully drawing the Yellow Sand Yaksha's attention once more.

The two of them were like kite flyers, pulling the Yellow Sand Yaksha back and forth, playing a game of extreme tug-of-war.

Time ticked by, and amidst the extreme tug-of-war, an hour passed.

The two of them rushed toward the outside of the lake without hesitation, and the Yellow Sand Yaksha gave chase.

It locked firmly onto Lin Moyu, hatred burning in its massive eyes.

Lin Moyu felt a bit helpless. The intensity of his soul attacks was just too high; toward the end, God King Heisha often had to attack two or three times to make the Yellow Sand Yaksha shift its attention.

Lin Moyu rushed out of the lake at high speed, stirring up a hundred-meter column of water.

Splash!

Following him, the Yellow Sand Yaksha also surged out with its massive body.

It gripped its spear and launched an attack at Lin Moyu in mid-air.

A massive phantom of the spear shot out, as if it wanted to tear him to pieces.

Lin Moyu felt his soul being locked onto. With a thought, the Wings of the Undead appeared behind his back.

The Wings of the Undead flapped once, severing the soul lock.

Subsequently, the Light-Speed Lich also appeared on his shoulder. Lin Moyu's body turned into light, traveling ten thousand miles in an instant, and landed on the shore of the lake.

The soul lock failed. The Yellow Sand Yaksha's attack missed, and with an angry roar, it fell back into the lake water.

The lake water rippled wildly, stirring up layers of waves, and it took a long time to return to calm.

Bodhisattva Xiao Ming Wang's slightly approving voice rang out, "Fellow Daoist Lin, impressive methods."

Given his strength, he could naturally see what Lin Moyu had just done.

Severing a soul lock wasn't something just anyone could do.

Especially the soul lock of a Lesser God Venerable; it was even harder to sever, yet Lin Moyu had done it easily.

This also meant that if he were to use a soul lock on Lin Moyu, it would likewise be severed.

In the eyes of Bodhisattva Xiao Ming Wang, Lin Moyu's status involuntarily rose another level.

Lin Moyu sat down on the spot, saying nothing. He looked as if he had just experienced a brush with death and was still a bit shaken.

In reality, Lin Moyu had no ripples in his heart at all; all his expressions were just what he wanted others to see.

Since he began his class change, he had experienced countless great battles along the way and had seen too much life and death.

Many people in the Great World were engaged in bitter cultivation, comprehending laws; in his view, they were like flowers in a greenhouse.

As for him, he hadn't had many days of true bitter cultivation; he had basically grown through combat.

The situation just now was merely child's play for Lin Moyu.

Yet, Lin Moyu put on an appearance of being shaken and having narrowly escaped death, while simultaneously demonstrating his ability to sever soul locks.

First, to tell Bodhisattva Xiao Ming Wang that he possessed this ability and that he couldn't underestimate him.

Second, to tell Bodhisattva Xiao Ming Wang that his combat power was limited and he was no match for the Yellow Sand Yaksha, so there was no need to be overly wary of him.

He could neither be too underestimated nor too feared.

This was the effect Lin Moyu wanted, and it was clear that he had achieved it.

Lin Moyu's soul was incredibly keen, far sharper than any of the others present, and he could sense the changes in their expressions.

He controlled the Skeleton God Warriors with his consciousness once again.

In the past hour, a hundred Skeleton God Warriors had already searched a large area without finding anything.

They were continuing to expand the scope and keep searching.

The central lake was huge, large enough to contain several stars, and couldn't be searched in a short moment.

Lin Moyu was not in a hurry; as long as the passage truly existed, he would find it sooner or later.

An hour later, it was Lin Moyu and God King Heisha's turn to search again, with Bodhisattva Xiao Ming Wang and God King Shitu going to draw the Yellow Sand Yaksha's attention.

While searching, Lin Moyu deployed another hundred Skeleton God Warriors.

Time passed bit by bit, with the four of them taking turns, constantly searching in the central lake.

Three days later, Lin Moyu had finished searching Areas 1 through 8 without any discoveries.

Bodhisattva Xiao Ming Wang and God King Shitu had also finished searching Areas 20 through 27, likewise without any discoveries.

In the most recent search, due to a mistake, God King Shitu was injured.

The search work had to be paused, waiting for God King Shitu's injuries to recover before continuing.

Over the three days, Lin Moyu had realized that the weakest of the four was God King Shitu.

Although he had his own unique secret techniques, when not using them, he was a notch weaker than God King.

The strongest of the four was naturally Bodhisattva Xiao Ming Wang; especially during the time God King Shitu was injured, Bodhisattva Xiao Ming Wang demonstrated his combat power.

He held off the Yellow Sand Yaksha for over ten minutes, which allowed God King Shitu to escape successfully.

The four of them remained separated by a distance, sitting quietly on the yellow sand ground.

There was no distinction between day and night in the yellow sand land; the fireball in the sky always existed.

Lin Moyu was not idle; he manipulated the Skeleton God Warriors to search the lake bottom day and night, looking for the passage.

Now, there were 2,000 Skeleton God Warriors under the lake.

They didn't need to rest and wouldn't attract attacks from monsters, moving unimpeded with ridiculously high efficiency.

In these three days, they had finished searching Areas 70 through 90 and were currently advancing toward higher-numbered areas.

The higher the number, the closer it was to the core.

The Yellow Sand Yaksha was near the core, and Lin Moyu wasn't sure if the Skeleton God Warriors would attract the Yellow Sand Yaksha's attack.

Boss monsters were different from ordinary monsters; it was hard to say.

However, Lin Moyu felt that since they hadn't been attacked for three days, it was ten to one that they wouldn't encounter attacks.

Sure enough, one of the Skeleton God Warriors sent back information that it had seen the Yellow Sand Yaksha.

The Yellow Sand Yaksha dragged its massive body and swam over the heads of the Skeleton God Warriors; it completely ignored the existence of the Skeleton God Warriors.

With this, Lin Moyu was greatly relieved and immediately ordered a hundred Skeleton God Warriors to head to the Core Area.

The other Skeleton God Warriors continued to search along the original route.

Having been to the bottom of the Yellow Sand Lake once, Lin Moyu had suspected from the very beginning if the real passage might be in the Core Area.

Before, because they had to go and draw the Yellow Sand Yaksha's attention every hour, if the Skeleton God Warriors had gone directly to the Core Area, they might have been discovered by Bodhisattva Xiao Ming Wang.

Until now, taking advantage of the time God King Shitu was recovering from his injuries, Lin Moyu had the Skeleton God Warriors quickly rush to the Core Area.

God King Shitu's injuries were not light and would take at least three days to recover.

Three days was enough to search the Core Area thoroughly.

Chapter 1362: Good News and Bad News, Which Do You Want to Hear First

The first feeling the Core Area gave Lin Moyu was that the concentration of laws here was shockingly high.

Pure earth-stone laws and a small amount of Earth Law had become the masters here.

The dense laws gathered together, almost to the point of being clearly visible.

It even gave Lin Moyu an illusion that even the lake water was manifested from laws.

The Skeleton God Warriors walked quickly through the Core Area, searching for clues.

Soon, the skeletons made a discovery, and Lin Moyu connected to their vision accordingly.

In the gray-white world, Lin Moyu saw that great formation again.

In an area in the center of the lake, the yellow sand disappeared, and the ground became solid, like gold.

The great formation was complex, profound, and obscure.

The entire great formation was extremely restrained, not emitting a single bit of power outward.

Lin Moyu had seen the same great formation at the bottom of the Yellow Sand Lake; there was no difference between the two.

Just as he discovered the great formation, it happened to start operating.

Countless yellow sand surged up from the bottom of the lake, gathering with the water flow to form a crystal core in the center of the formation.

Lin Moyu had seen this scene before; after the crystal core condensed, the next step should be the condensation of the body.

Finally, the Soul Fire would be ignited, turning into a dog-headed, fish-bodied monster.

In fact, that was indeed the case. More yellow sand gathered, and the laws within the yellow sand gushed out, using the power of the formation to prepare to condense the monster's body.

At this moment, a fierce water current shot over, turning into a water arrow that shot into the formation, hitting the crystal core just right.

The crystal core was knocked away by the fierce water current, flying to the side.

The Yellow Sand Yaksha flew over, dragging its huge body, and opened its lion-like mouth wide, swallowing the crystal core in one gulp.

After swallowing the crystal core, the Yellow Sand Yaksha showed an extremely enjoyable expression, as if it had eaten a rare delicacy.

However, the enjoyment lasted less than two seconds before the formation suddenly erupted with even more intense light, and many runes that had not lit up before lit up one after another at this moment.

A whip formed from the convergence of laws appeared out of thin air and lashed out at the Yellow Sand Yaksha like lightning.

The Yellow Sand Yaksha let out a strange cry, not daring to confront the whip at all, and turned to flee.

However, this whip still lashed onto its body, shattering its scales and tearing its skin apart.

After one lash, the Yellow Sand Yaksha had already fled far away, and the formation returned to calm.

Seeing this scene, Lin Moyu had to say, "Men die for wealth, birds die for food."

No one expected that besides being able to create God King Rank 9 monsters, the great formation could also launch attacks.

Even less expected was that the Yellow Sand Yaksha would come to snatch the crystal core to eat, even at the cost of being injured.

Lin Moyu left two Skeleton God Warriors by the side of the formation, while the rest of the Skeleton God Warriors continued to search in the Core Area.

Soon, one great formation after another was discovered.

In the Core Area, there were a total of seven great formations.

Six of the formations were exactly the same as the one seen at the bottom of the Yellow Sand Lake and were used to create monsters.

The other formation appeared somewhat special; it was not large in scale, but in the center of the formation, there was a circular depression, which seemed to be used to place something.

The runes carved on this small-scale formation were incredibly complex.

Lin Moyu only looked at it for a while and felt a sense of dizziness.

Lin Moyu dared not look again and instead focused his attention on that circular depression.

A moment later, he already knew what should be placed here.

"What a terrible result," Lin Moyu sighed in his heart.