Chapter 402 165: Qing Lian's Return

Of course, Wu Gui hadn't charged straight out. He was still in a deeper part of the area, tangled in some chains.

So Xu Lei didn't dwell on it, quickly joining Bai Ling to deal with the Mummy Monsters swarming them.

Bai Ling's junior sister and her partner were already injured, so they could only hide off to the side without joining the fight.

Xu Lei and Bai Ling naturally repeated their previous strategy. Just like before, they took out the Mummy Monsters one by one, blowing them to bits and seizing their Energy Cores.

They killed eleven and got eleven cores!

Xu Lei and Bai Ling couldn't help but smile.

A single one of these Energy Cores was comparable to a Demon Core.

It was usually difficult to find even one Spirit Monster, yet now they had eleven of these cores!

This was a truly great haul, enough to support their Cultivation for many years!

Of course, if the two of them split the cores, it would probably support their Cultivation for more than a decade.

"Zhi Guang... he's actually this strong?"

"Senior Sister Bai Ling's Dao Companion is terrifyingly strong! Even with so many monsters, they're still no match for him!"

At that moment, Bai Ling's junior sister and her Dao Companion could only watch from behind, utterly dumbfounded.

Xu Lei and Bai Ling then turned back to check on the injuries of the other two.

The junior sister's injuries were relatively minor, but her Dao Companion was not so lucky; his wounds were serious.

Those Mummy Monsters were, in fact, quite powerful. If not for Xu Lei's Explosive Packages, they would have been incredibly difficult to handle.

Even if they could have been killed by other means, the Magical Power consumption would have been immense. Killing so many would have been even more difficult.

But now, of course, that wasn't an issue.

Neither Xu Lei nor Bai Ling mentioned sharing the Energy Cores they had obtained with the other two.

After all, they had already saved their lives, which was more than enough. There was no reason to split the spoils as well.

Of course, the junior sister and her partner weren't expecting a share of the Energy Cores either.

"That person... that thing roaring in there, what is it?"

"How are we going to get out of here?"

They asked one question after another.

After all, they were injured; escaping this place and reaching safety was their top priority.

"Do we have to go deeper inside to get out?" Bai Ling asked.

"I'll go in and take a look," Xu Lei said. "Ling'er, you wait here with these two. I want to avoid you getting caught if there's any danger. It should be safe out here, but I can't say for sure what's deeper inside."

Bai Ling nodded in agreement.

After all, if there were any real danger, Xu Lei could be reborn through reincarnation, but Bai Ling could not.

As for the junior sister and her partner, they certainly didn't insist on tagging along. They were both injured; if they went in and ran into danger, they would only be a burden.

Xu Lei handed some of the Energy Cores they had acquired to Bai Ling for safekeeping, then turned and headed deeper inside.

'It's been hundreds of years. To see Senior Brother Wu Gui here again... it must be fate,' Xu Lei thought.

Xu Lei certainly couldn't just stand by and do nothing. He had to find out what had happened to Wu Gui.

He knew he could use the large quantity of explosives in his Storage Bracelet to blast through the confines of this small dimension and escape, but that was a crude method.

If a better way to leave existed, Xu Lei would prefer not to resort to such a tactic.

After all, if he blew this small dimension to the point of collapse, it was hard to say if he would escape unscathed.

And so, Xu Lei proceeded cautiously, inching his way deeper. To his surprise, however, he encountered no danger and soon found himself standing before Wu Gui.

The ancient city was completely dilapidated. Aside from the Mummy Monsters he'd already dealt with and Wu Gui up ahead, he detected no other signs of life.

Naturally, Xu Lei didn't get too close to Wu Gui, stopping at a safe distance.

Wu Gui appeared to have lost his mind. His eyes were shot with red, the veins on his face bulged, and his expression was savage. Chains were wrapped around his body, and Demonic Qi swirled all around him.

"Martial Uncle Wu Gui! I am the disciple of your junior martial brother, Wu Tan!"

Xu Lei shouted at Wu Gui, "Martial Uncle, snap out of it! Wake up!"

That was right. Xu Lei didn't claim to be Wu Tan himself, as he didn't want Wu Gui to know about his ability to reincarnate. Given Wu Gui's current state, it was best to be cautious.

But Wu Gui remained unresponsive, continuing to roar like a wild animal. He seemed to look at Xu Lei with the same hunger a beast has for flesh and blood, and he lunged forward to attack.

But the chains binding him held fast. He charged again and again, pulling the chains taut with each desperate lunge.

'What in the world is going on?' Xu Lei couldn't understand it. But he stopped wasting his breath; Wu Gui clearly couldn't understand him.

After a moment's thought, Xu Lei decided to first circle the area, looking to see if any special treasures had been left behind in the ruined city.

But after searching for a good while, he found nothing.

So, Xu Lei returned to where Wu Gui was.

This time, Xu Lei noticed that the area around Wu Gui was littered with the skeletal remains of humans and beasts.

Xu Lei guessed that other living beings must have wandered in here, only to be captured and wounded by the Mummy Monsters and brought before Wu Gui.

Next, Xu Lei took a shotgun out of his Space Bracelet. He leveled it at Wu Gui and began to fire, pulling the trigger again and again.

As expected, the bullets couldn't kill Wu Gui.

However, they did force him to continuously draw upon his Magic Power to block them.