Before Lu Ping and others could take action, the nine-clawed scarlet eagle struck again.
It was seen flapping a pair of wide wings, and there were flames flowing on the wings, brewing the fire of red light.
This red fire is its own magical power. Once it is used, it can threaten everyone present.
Huchihuchi.
As it flapped its wings, large flames surged out from the wings and swept towards Lu Ping and the others.
This red fire covered an area so wide that all five of Lu Ping were within the attack range.
[In view of the general environment,
Lu Ping was the first to make a move, displaying the Divine Light of Xutian Five Tribulations, and dodged the attack in an instant.
At the same time, Zhang Tianqun and the four others also showed their magical powers and evaded one after another to resist the burning of the red fire.
The five people started a battle to fight against the nine-clawed red eagle.
The battle continued for more than a hundred rounds. Lu Ping found the right opportunity and wielded the Thousand Stars Demon-Slaying Sword, slashing the monster bird on the head with one strike.
This sword directly severely injured the Nine-clawed Scarlet Eagle, causing a deep gash on the opponent's head and bleeding.
However, as a creature in the Nascent Soul stage, as long as the Nascent Soul is immortal, this injury is nothing to it.
After suffering a dull loss here, the Nine-clawed Red Eagle was sensible and no longer wanted to fight. It flapped its huge wings and pulled away, flying towards the distance.
"Don't chase me. I don't know what's around me yet. It's better to be cautious."
Seeing the nine-clawed red eagle fleeing, Liu Taixuan and Xu Dezhi wanted to pursue it, Zhang Tianqun reached out to stop it and said hello.
"There is a nine-clawed red eagle here, I really didn't expect it."
True Lord Jiuhua sighed and looked at Lu Ping.
"This time, with the help of Fellow Daoist Lu, it is much easier for us to fight against the monster attack. Hahaha, very good, very good!"
"The black-horned silver snake just now seems to have been scared away by the sudden appearance of the nine-clawed red eagle. We don't know much about the surrounding situation yet, but we have to be on guard against any more monster attacks."
Liu Taixuan groaned and shook his body, "My old bones can't withstand such a long time."
"We can't use our spiritual sense to detect the surrounding area. It seems we have to find another way."
"Let me give it a try and find out for you."
Xu Dezhi said, and then took out a puppet from the storage ring.
This puppet was about the size of three fingers and looked like a mouse. After it appeared, it walked up and down on Xu Dezhi's palm, rolling its body and wagging its tail, appearing extremely active.
Obviously, this was a puppet rat, and Lu Ping felt mana fluctuations from its body, which was equivalent to around the late stage of foundation building.
"Let me explore it with this little guy first."
Xu Dezhi smiled faintly, stretched out his hand and released the puppet rat.
After the puppet rat landed on the ground, as it twisted its body from side to side, one after another appeared, as if in an endless stream.
Under Lu Ping's gaze, hundreds of puppet rats appeared in the blink of an eye.
"Go ahead."
Xu Dezhi gave the order, and the hundred puppet rats immediately spread out on their short legs and quickly scattered around.
This kind of detection method would be quite strange in the eyes of foundation building and crystallization monks, but in the eyes of old monsters like Lu Ping in the Nascent Soul stage, it is an extremely common method.
In just a short while, the exploration yielded some results.
Xu Dezhi stretched out his finger and used his magic power to condense a map in the void in front of him; a faint light glowed on his finger, and he began to draw the map here.
Lu Ping looked at it intently, and a vast map gradually took shape, with various building areas marked and the locations of some red dots marked.
At the same time, it can be seen that there are white light spots on the map, spreading towards the periphery of the map.
Sometimes a few of these white light spots would extinguish, as if being swallowed by something.
Obviously, these are the puppet rats, and they are exploring the larger area around this ruins.
Several people knew that there must be monsters lurking around here, and they must not act rashly. They were all waiting patiently.
Soon after, Xu Dezhi frowned, stopped drawing, and couldn't help but let out a surprised sound.
"strangeness."
"What problem did you encounter?"
Zhang Tianqun asked, looking at Xu Dezhi, and then pointed at the map drawn in the sky.
"Why aren't those little guys moving?"
Lu Ping, Liu Taixuan and True Lord Jiuhua all looked around and saw that the small white dots on the map had stopped in place and showed no signs of moving.
"For some unknown reason, those little guys were all killed after entering a foggy area."
Xu Dezhi shook his head with a wry smile.
Mist.
Hearing Xu Dezhi mention this, the puppet rats lost their vitality and died one by one after encountering the fog, which made Lu Ping and others feel confused.
"Can you see what's going on?"
Liu Taixuan asked slowly.
"It's weird, I didn't see anything."
The bitter smile on Xu Dezhi's face became thicker, and he guessed: "I guess that the fog has the power to wipe out living things. Those puppet rats are all at the foundation-building stage, which means that the lethality of the fog is enough to exceed the foundation-building stage, and may even be harmful to Nascent Soul monks. All have a certain impact.”
"Don't worry, aside from that foggy area, isn't there still a large area here that can be explored?"
True Lord Jiuhua said, pointing to the red dots on the map.
"What do these red dots represent? Are they dangerous areas?"
"good."
Xu Dezhi showed a solemn look and said: "These red dot areas were basically discovered after the puppet rats were damaged. Every red dot position is a dangerous area."
Speaking of this, Xu Dezhi pointed at the two small red dots and said, "This is the haunt of the black-horned silver snake before, and this is the nest of the nine-clawed scarlet eagle."
"I have discovered more than sixty areas like this in this secret realm."
"Most of these are monster beasts. Their strength ranges from the Golden Core stage to the Nascent Soul stage. Thirty to four percent are monster beasts below the Golden Core stage."
"Besides, there are some poisonous miasma areas, we can just take a detour to avoid them."
Xu Dezhi introduced it slowly.
After listening to what he said, everyone nodded secretly, realizing that this place was indeed full of dangers, and it was far from being as peaceful as they imagined.
Next, you still have to be extremely careful and be extra vigilant.
The cause of death of those puppet rats is currently unknown, so we won’t explore it for now.
"These red dots are the areas of monsters. We can't easily enter them. We need to take a detour. So have you found any opportunities or treasures?"
Zhang Tianqun asked with a smile: "This is an important goal of our trip."
