The light is beginning to appear, in the dark forest.

Liu Zhi hid in a big tree with lush foliage, next to him was Shu Yue holding a black bow, Xiao Fuyao stayed quietly in the backpack behind him, although his eyes were looking around curiously, he didn't make a sound at all, as if he also understood that something was wrong.

Below the big tree, what caught Liu Zhi's line of sight was a dark red frenzy, some on all fours, some jumping up and down, and some hurrying, dyeing the originally purple-gray dense forest into blood red, with at least more than 10,000 heads.

Liu Zhi's eyelids jumped slightly, in the past seven days, he has been hunting this kind of red humanoid monster, and the total number of them should be no less than hundred, but he has never seen such a big battle, dense, like locusts crossing the border.

He had seen more than twenty of them at most, and he didn't alarm them, for fear that he would accidentally attract more monsters, and if he fell into a heavy siege, with his and Shu Yue's current combat strength, he might not be able to escape.

He originally thought that even if these red demons were highly socialized intelligent creatures, the population would not exceed a few thousand, but now it seems that this estimate is still too conservative, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, which should be the true number of red demons.

If the seven or eight red demons he had encountered before were scouts or hunting squads in the population, then the red tide below was undoubtedly the army, an organized, disciplined, and hierarchical army. I just don't know, what are they going out for on such a huge scale?

Liu Zhi was very curious, and wanted to follow up to see what was going on, but in the end, reason prevailed over everything, his understanding of these red demons was limited after all, and he didn't dare to take risks easily, in case he encountered a guy with a very strong perception, he and Shu Yue still had a little fuyao, but they were afraid that they would be gnawed to the point that there was no scum left.

After the Red Demon Army had passed, Liu Zhi waited for a few more minutes to confirm that there would be no second wave of troops, and then led a man and a bird through quickly, heading deeper into the dense forest.

It was extremely quiet along the way, and the birds and beasts didn't see half of them, Liu Zhi felt that it was likely that they were all frightened away by the Red Demon Army, even if it was a demon beast that was as strong as seven or eight levels, in front of so many Red Demons, it was estimated that they would only run away.

After walking forward for more than ten minutes, Liu Zhi suddenly heard a roar coming from the distance, which was terrible and urgent, continuous, he turned his head and looked, where the sound came, it was exactly the direction of the Red Demon army, but this sound was obviously different from the Red Demon.

"It seems that it was sent out by the demon beast that was crusaded by the Red Demon, and it sounds like a lot of it, I don't know what the strength is?"

I thought so, but Liu Zhi didn't plan to really take a look, so he stopped for a while and continued to move forward.

After walking for about half an hour, Liu Zhi's heart suddenly tightened, and he subconsciously stopped.

"Click!"

A series of bones sounded, so that the highly concentrated Liu Zhi quickly turned his head, at the end of his sight, a gray figure emerged from behind the big tree, nearly three meters tall, without half a body of flesh and blood, wearing a silver-white double-horned helmet on his head, wearing rough leather armor, hanging an iron crotch skirt around his waist, holding a delicate long knife more than two meters long, the ghostly light in his eye sockets flashed, there were no eyeballs, and it was a gray-white humanoid skeleton.

Shu Yue also turned her head at the same time, as early as three days ago, she had been successfully promoted to the peak of the Xuan Body, and her body had also been strengthened plus 3, and her perception was not weaker than Liu Zhi.

Originally, she wanted to break directly to the Condensation Yuan Period, but was stopped by Liu Zhi, who was worried that the stability of the Yuan Qi she absorbed was not stable enough, so let her spend more time consolidating it, it is best to be close to perfection in all aspects, and then make a breakthrough naturally, so that the effect is the best, and it will not leave any hidden dangers for subsequent cultivation.

Between the peak of the Xuan Body and the Condensation Yuan Period, there is naturally a bottleneck, but it is not difficult to break through, one is that it needs to be cultivated sufficiently, the other is that there must be the Condensation Yuan Period exercises, and the third and most important point is that the meridians and dantian can withstand the operation of the vitality after the breakthrough.

Condensing Yuan Condensing Yuan, as the name suggests, naturally compresses the Yuan Qi to the extreme and condenses it into a more high-order energy.

These three points Shu Yue has reached the standard, but there is still a lot of dross in the vitality, however, she finally accepted Liu Zhi's suggestion, of course, accept and accept, every time she has free time, she will still ponder the possibility of a temporary breakthrough, and there are a lot of gains, what is missing is only actual operation.

She knew that Liu Zhi was for her good, and she was thinking about it in the long run, and the reason why she did this was just to be able to provide more help to Liu Zhi in the event of a crisis.

"Dou Shen Jue" Liu Zhi has already taught her, which records many more profound Yuan Qi application skills, such as Yuan Qi release, Yuan Qi protection, Yuan Qi explosion, etc., but without the cultivation of the Condensation Yuan Period, these skills cannot be used at all, and Shu Yue can only simulate them in his mind, so that after reaching the Condensation Yuan Period, he can immediately show considerable combat power.

"Chief, this skeleton ......" Shu Yue stopped talking, as if looking for the right wording, after staying in the Wailing Abyss for nearly a month, she had seen a lot of undead creatures, like those powerful yin spirits in the void, among which there were skeletons, but most of them were beast-type skeletons, and the bones were stained with carrion and fur, as if carrion corpses were more skeletons.

And the head in front of it, not only is it not carrion, it is clean, and it is faintly shiny, it is still a human skeleton, and more importantly, the knife in its hand, the helmet on its head, and the armor on its body are obviously the products of civilized society!

Liu Zhi saw that the skeleton was behind him, he first looked here for a while, and then rushed over with a long knife, his movements were swift and sharp, without delay, and he calmly analyzed: "This should be a skeleton formed by some kind of humanoid creature after death, I can't feel the strength of the spiritual energy, but judging from the size, agility, and weapons, the combat power should not be weak, be careful." ”

Shu Yue was surprised: "Doesn't that mean that there used to be a group of giants who were nearly three meters tall here?" ”

As she spoke, she raised her black bow and wound her arrow, aiming at the galloping humanoid skeleton.

"It shouldn't have been." Liu Zhi squinted and said, "Maybe they are still alive here." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the skeleton had already run within a hundred meters, and with a bang, the bowstring shook, and a white mark that was difficult to see with the naked eye flashed like lightning, and the skeleton reacted very quickly, and the front foot just landed, and the waist stiffened, and kicked hard, with its terrifyingly powerful power, it was actually forced to jump out sideways.

However, no matter how fast he was, it was no faster than an arrow like lightning, and with a clang, a large hole was pierced through the bones of his left arm, and the forward rush was abruptly stopped, and he even took half a step back, and his body was also greatly shaken, and the bones crackled.

At the moment of stagnation, it glanced at Liu Zhi and the others again, as if sensing that something was wrong, and turned around and fled directly.

What was even more surprising was that when it turned around, its bones changed dramatically, from a humanoid skeleton to a beast-shaped skeleton on all fours in the blink of an eye, with a long knife in its mouth, and rushed away on all fours.