LoserQueen

Chapter 93 Danger

Seeing that her companions watched her with expectation, Dugu Muyou fell into thinking and started to analyze the situation.

Nangong Xun disappeared. It was almost impossible to count on him. Maybe there would be casualties before he showed up.

There was no way out so they couldn't leave the Land of Illusion.

There was nowhere to escape and no helping hands. They completely relied on their own.

Blood Fox, laying on her shoulders, was still not completely healed. Dugu Muyou started to think about why she came here. This fox might be mean but it saved her and Nangong Xun restored her meridians because Blood Fox had chosen her.

Thinking of this, Dugu Muyou felt great responsibilities on her shoulders.

"We won't run. We will kill whatever spiritual animal that comes to attack us. I have made a deal with him to meet here and he will come. As long as we hang on until he comes, we will be rescued. However, this is a passive solution." Dugu Muyou's calm voice appeared, "Think about why you came here."

Everyone pondered for a while and Dugu Ziteng said, "To level up. And the environment here is perfect for our cultivation."

"Yes, I brought you all here to cultivate and to improve yourself!"

Dugu Muyou looked at the blue sky. It was so clear, so beautiful but filled with danger.

"The best way to cultivate is fighting. The stronger your opponents are, the more you will improve. Now, this is a great opportunity. We will be stronger!"

The simplest words delivered in a calm voice were surprisingly comforting. They knew they couldn't defeat the spiritual animals by themselves. But they were determined after hearing Dugu Muyou's voice.

"We'll do as you command, Boss," said Xiaotong.

"Right." Dugu Qi replied, "We will be fine."

Dugu Muyou smiled with satisfaction. Suddenly, the earth quaked and the rock they were standing on cracked. Dugu Muyou almost couldn't stand on her feet. She immediately carried Blood Fox and flew to the air. However, she dared not to fly too high to disturb those spiritual animals that mastered the sky. Everyone else followed suit and flew to the air and watched the ground with a sullen look.

The giant rock they were standing on collapsed into pieces of stones scattered on the ground. Those stones were undergoing some changes. They were like melting ice creams on the ground and then a stone head with faces came out of their body. Then four legs grew out. The rocks on the ground were transformed into thirty or so stone turtles.

Dugu Ying and others looked at Dugu Muyou, who then nodded. They all made up their mind to fight until death and looked at those stone turtles with a cold expression.

The stone turtles seemed like just waking up and moved slowly in a chaotic manner. But a shrill wail came from the middle of the turtles. It was like an order. All the stone turtles raised their head and looked into the sky. Those listless turtles became spirited and were ready to smash their enemies.

Then they heard another wail and all the stone turtles opened their jaws. Dugu Muyou and the others could see clearly their scarlet tongue and sharp teeth.

Dugu Muyou, who was floating in the air felt great pressure. It was like death caught her by her throat. This strange feeling was a warning and it had saved her many times.

"Every three men form a team! We split and surround them from two sides! Now, descend!" Dugu Muyou pointed a direction with each of her hands.

According to her observation, the stone turtles formed a circle to protect a Red-Eyed Stone Turtle. It had a bigger head but besides that, it was no different from all the other turtles. Dugu Muyou saw clearly that it was the one who wailed and ordered the others. The two landing points she pointed to were both thirty feet away from that Red-Eyed Stone Turtle.

Dugu Ziteng and the others formed two teams. One included Dugu Xiuping, Dugu Qi, and Dugu Ziteng. The other Dugu Xiaotong, Dugu Deyuan, and Dugu Ying. They immediately descended and landed on the place where Dugu Muyou pointed. Dugu Muyou herself landed in between the two teams.

The two teams each formed a triangle to cover each other and jumped into the crowds of stone turtles.

Almost at the same time, the first wave of attacks by the crowds of stone turtles was ready. Their mouth was like a cannon that shot air bombs. Their attacks gathered and formed a bigger projectile that shot straight at where Dugu Muyou and the others stayed in the sky!

"Boom!"

The giant air projectile exploded and created a blinding white "sun" in the sky. The light of the "sun" blocked the blue sky for a while.

In the air, a flying spiritual animal, affected by the explosion, lost its control and fell off from the sky. However, it recovered its balance and soon escaped rapidly from this dangerous battlefield.

Dugu Muyou and the others also escaped from the explosion because they descended in advance.

The Red-Eyed Stone Turtle wailed again and the crowd of stone turtles reacted in response. They scattered into three groups, each contained ten of them. Two groups of stone turtles went directly to them, leaving one group protecting their leader.

There was a flow of gold flare, decorated with gleams of silver light, floating around Dugu Muyou's body before she landed on the ground. Yuehua Diamond was protecting her. Countless tiny swords appeared around Dugu Muyou and they stabbed straight downwards like drops of rain! It was a rain of swords.

Those stone turtles were all stabbed by swords. Drops of blood ran down from the wounds and formed several streams of blood. The smell of blood covered the fragrance of the flower.

The Red-Eyed Stone Turtle was also wounded. It was irritated and roared angrily. Those wounded stone turtles received their order and opened their jaws at Dugu Muyou at the same time. The transparent projectile was forming in their mouth.

The second wave of tiny swords was already formed around Dugu Muyou. This time, the swords were bigger and sharper. With a wave of the hand, the swords dropped from the sky. At the same time, she formed a giant hammer, whose handle was as long as seven-meter, in her hands. A three-color light was glowing slowly under the surface of the hammer in a certain pattern and formed several strange icons.

The stone turtles shot the projectiles inside their mouth at the same time towards the rain of swords. After a big noise, the tiny swords were all broken. They turned into sparks of light and vanished. But the pressure from the remaining power of the projectile came straightly at Dugu Muyou from all directions.

Dugu Muyou raised the giant hammer high above her head and frowned. Her fingers trembled under the unbelievable weight. She held the hammer tight and smashed it straightly down on the stone turtles.

Red-Eyed Stone Turtle wailed a few more times and lay on the ground and turned itself into a stone. All the other stone turtles climbed on its back and turned into stones to protect their leader.

A few projectiles hit Dugu Muyou, but she did not even dodge. All her strength was used on waving the giant hammer, leaving Yuehua Diamond to protect her.

At this time, Dugu Muyou heard a scream from her left side and looked over. It was Dugu Qi falling from the sky. The blood bleeding out of her body formed a scarlet line in the sky. Right on the ground, two projectiles went straight at her falling body.

Dugu Muyou's pupil dilated and the gold flare around her body disappeared. The flare was now protecting Dugu Qi and healing her at the same time. Without the protection of Yuehua Diamond, all the projectiles hit her body.

It felt like her body was drilled through by the projectiles. Blood was bleeding down from the corner of her mouth and the wounds were hurting immensely. She stared tightly at the stone turtles that were already turned into stones and continued her attack despite the pain.

The giant hammer had gone through a beautiful arc in the air and smashed down on the stones with great power. A huge explosive sound almost blew everyone's mind and the earth quaked like hell. Blood was streaming under the hammer and formed a little pond. It was like the end of the world.

Dugu Muyou's eyes went blank and fell off from the sky. The shadow of the giant hammer gradually disappeared, and the stone turtles were almost all died.

Under the healing of Dugu Muyou, Dugu Qi, despite being wounded under the attack of two projectiles, started to recover. All the others were more or less wounded too, but they could still fight.

Dugu Ziteng glanced at Dugu Muyou, who could barely sit on the ground. The healing light of Yuehua Diamond reappeared around her body and started to heal her. Blood Fox lay by her feet and swept her gently with its tail.

Losing the leadership of the Red-Eyed Stone Turtle, the rest of the turtles panicked and were unable to form any attack that could hurt them. Dugu Ziteng and the others felt relieved and killed all the remaining stone turtles under a joint effort.

By the time the last stone turtle died, Dugu Muyou recovered. Except for the ragged clothes, there was no sign of serious injury. All six of her companions gathered around her. They just took out healing pills to heal themselves silently. Although speechless, they were now confident in themselves.

Dugu Qi looked at Dugu Muyou apologetically. Just now, Dugu Muyou gave her the golden flare, which saved her life but also left Dugu Muyou unprotected under the attack of projectiles. It was because of her, Dugu Muyou was wounded.

"I'm sorry. I'm so useless..."

"I did it because I knew that the projectiles won't kill me. Don't worry about me." Dugu Muyou said in a soft voice, "Those seriously wounded come to me first. I will heal you all one by one. Now, treasure this time and recover your strength. The smell of blood will attract more spiritual animals."

The six of them looked at each other. Dugu Ying sat in front of Dugu Muyou first. Under the treatment of Dugu Muyou, his wounds were recovering rapidly.

That fight with the crowd of stone turtles was dangerous but they all learned a valuable lesson. Including Dugu Muyou, everyone had better control of their spiritual qi and their strength got stronger after this battle that challenged their limits.

Soon, there was an agonizing wail of birdsong that was like a baby crying. Then the second wail and the third. Gradually, more and more birds gathered and hovered above their heads.

"We'd better leave now."

Dugu Muyou glanced at the sky. After she healed the last person, they all left. Leaving the dead bodies of the stone turtles to the preying spiritual animals hovering in the sky.

The hovering birds saw those men left and then dived down and started to enjoy their feast.

Dugu Muyou stood from a distance and observed the preying bird coldly. She stared at the apparently leading bird and two other especially masculine birds. If their leader died, the successor must be one of the two.

Dugu Muyou made clear which bird to attack first and stood there to wait for the perfect timing.

At first, those birds were nervous about them and glanced at them once in a while. But when they got spirited in their feast. They started to care little about Dugu Muyou and her companions.

When no birds cared about them, Dugu Muyou said softly, "Go!"

All of them moved together. They vanished and reappeared in front of the crowd of preying birds. The head of the birds realized the attack, but it was too late to warn its fellow birds. It had opened its beak and tried to scream but Dugu Muyou and her companions attacked it together with their most powerful moves. The head bird died instantly.