As those giant lizards drew ever closer, Qiqi was getting closer and closer to Liu Zixuan as well.
A formidable enemy, even if a Life and Death Realm expert stood before her, Qiqi had never been afraid, but now, she couldn't see those giant lizards, and this unknown threat made her extremely uneasy.
Liu Zixuan was also puzzled; why could these giant lizards only be seen under the X-ray Vision, but Qiqi couldn't see them?
At this moment, he couldn't afford to think, gently stroked Qiqi's back: "Don't be afraid, I'm here!"
"Mm!" Qiqi nodded silently, her expression extremely serious.
"Hiss hiss~"
The giant lizards emitted probing sounds before attacking, and the ones leading on the left and right suddenly leaped forward, heading straight for Liu Zixuan and Qiqi.
Liu Zixuan's brow arched, and the Nameless Sword abruptly appeared in his hand.
The sword blade flashed, and two lines of Sword Intent swept away, instantly repelling the attacking giant lizards.
"Damn it!"
Upon seeing that they were only repelled without causing substantial harm, Liu Zixuan cursed aloud.
"What's wrong, brother?" Qiqi asked.
"Around us is a group of giant lizards, but they don't seem to be the kind I imagined, since my Sword Intent attacks are ineffective against them, only able to repel them without even wounding!" Liu Zixuan muttered.
"Invisible, and unable to harm them?" Qiqi frowned: "Could it be..."
"Could it be what?"
"An Illusion Realm?" Qiqi raised her head.
Liu Zixuan shook his head: "No, there's a clear sense of touch, it's not an Illusion Realm."
"If it's not an Illusion Realm, and can't be seen with the eyes, yet can't be harmed." Qiqi pondered for a moment: "Could it be the legendary phantom lizards?"
"Phantom lizards? I've never heard of them."
Qiqi explained: "There are records in the family ancient books; in Ancient Times, humans didn't completely dominate the world, many alien beasts existed back then. These alien beasts are divided into many types, the ones with large or powerful species were included in the Earth Book, while those with very small or extremely rare and mysterious species are barely recorded."
"These phantom lizards are one of those rarely recorded, rumored to originate from the Ghost Realm, capturing adult giant lizards, draining their blood and flesh, making them into something like specimens, then injecting them with cold and vicious Inner Strength, forming these phantom lizards."
Qiqi paused and added: "In the records, phantom lizards feed on human Inner Strength, the more Inner Strength you release, the stronger they become."
"Then wouldn't it mean they could just consume us?" Liu Zixuan smiled wryly.
"It's only because I didn't completely remember how to kill them when I was young, only memorized how to avoid them." Qiqi said self-deprecatingly.
"Avoiding works too!" Liu Zixuan urgently asked: "What method?"
"Without using Inner Strength, repel them with brute force, looking for the moment before their attack to pass through this passage!" Qiqi replied.
Liu Zixuan grinned: "But the problem is, we haven't figured out how to get inside yet."
"Alright, I'll hold them off for a while, brother you think about how to resolve it." As soon as Qiqi finished speaking, she slowly closed her eyes, formed a hand sign with two fingers, and suddenly a silver lotus appeared from between her fingers, growing infinitely large to envelop Liu Zixuan and Qiqi.
"You..."
"This Silver Lotus isn't formed by Inner Strength, but it only lasts for five minutes." Qiqi said solemnly.
"Okay!"
Liu Zixuan gritted his teeth while defending against the phantom lizards and continued pondering.
The Eight Trigrams refer to Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, and Dui, each corresponding to Heaven and Earth, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Mountain, Marsh eight things.
They entered through the Qian Kun Door, the direction of that door was the Eight Trigrams' true south, although they've walked two circles, reaching the connection point between the second and third circle, computed according to a circle, they've already walked two and a half circles.
So, at this moment they should be at the Xun position, which corresponds to the fire position.
Fire?
Upon thinking of this, Liu Zixuan suddenly laughed: "Phantom lizards are formed from cold and vicious things, belonging to water in the Five Elements, responding to fire. Water and fire are opposites, so we can't find the way forward because the natural array of the Five Elements is formed by water and fire! We just need to break one, then we can step into the next circle!"
"Brother, you've found a way to resolve it?" Qiqi asked happily.
"Yes, but fire refers to our position, if we want to break it, we need to kill these phantom lizards."
"But we don't know how to kill them!"
"Not able to kill, we can just trap them!" Liu Zixuan said with a slight smile.
"Trap them? But they're phantom lizards, not to mention how to trap, catching even one is extremely difficult." Qiqi was initially excited, but after hearing Liu Zixuan's method, she was disappointed.
Because this method is very hard to achieve!
Yet Liu Zixuan seemed completely confident.
Without waiting for Qiqi to speak, he stepped forward and walked out of the silver lotus.
"Brother, you're crazy!" Qiqi yelled urgently.
"Take care of yourself!"
Liu Zixuan left a sentence behind, then withdrew the Nameless Sword from his hand, and a pearl suddenly appeared in his palm, undoubtedly the Relic Pearl.
Sometimes having treasures can really be advantageous.
The natural array of the Five Elements formed by water and fire must be broken on one side, but the method is only to break it, not necessarily to kill these phantom lizards.
Just separate them, not letting them be together!
Therefore, Liu Zixuan's method was to swallow these phantom lizards into the Relic Mini World.
The Relic Pearl in his hand suddenly radiated light, then Liu Zixuan was about to break his finger to let a drop of blood containing the Power of the Dragon Veins dripping onto the Relic Pearl.
Whether phantom lizards or real lizards, ultimately they're beasts, the blood has a huge attraction to them, plus it's blood containing the Power of the Dragon Veins, which will make the phantom lizards go crazy!
Sure enough, after releasing a blood mist containing Power of the Dragon Veins, those phantom lizards all turned their focus here.
Their green eyes shrank, followed by a burst of light, they all leaped towards the Relic Pearl.
At this moment, Liu Zixuan moved his mind, opened the Relic Mini World, and instantly swallowed the ones in front.
With the same action, he turned to Qiqi's back, swallowing those phantom lizards behind her into the Relic Mini World as well!
This scene left Qiqi, who was standing with fingers pinched, wide-eyed.
She really didn't expect Liu Zixuan had such a move.
So many ancient phantom lizards, just now they were baring their fangs wanting to devour them. But in such a short time, they became Liu Zixuan's pets, raised in the Relic Mini World...
If encountering strong enemies later, releasing these phantom lizards, the scene... is simply indescribable!
Crunch... rumble.
Just when she was wide-mouth agape in astonishment, the originally closed passage showed an opening to pass through...