Insufficient balance

  In less than ten minutes, Tang Hao finally got the ten demon coins. Tang Hao was satisfied and put away the demon coins. Compared to these demon coins, Tang Hao's greatest gain was learning how to fight, and he would never be as flustered as when he encountered the sword-toothed tiger again.

  Tang Hao directly concealed his figure, hiding in the tree, and didn't bother with the remaining Blood Wolves either. The wolf pack, unable to find Tang Hao, could only retreat in disarray.

  Tang Hao roughly calculated that there were still forty minutes until noon, so it seemed he had to hurry back.

  Tang Hao was about to set off when he suddenly saw a round ball of flesh rolling towards him, and Tang Hao hastily dodged. Tang Hao took a closer look and found that it was the fat man from the first camp who had departed earlier. The fat man's face was full of embarrassment, as if he had offended someone, but when he also saw Tang Hao, he didn't say anything and continued to rush towards a distant place in a panic.

  Tang Hao didn't know why that fatty was so miserable, but it wasn't his concern either. He smoothed out his hair and thought about heading to the foot of Mount Miao.

  Suddenly, Tang Hao heard a deafening roar that filled the sky, and when he looked up, many ferocious beasts not far away had angry faces, rushing towards him like a tide.

  Beast tide! Tang Hao's first reaction was this word. Tang Hao wasn't a fool either, he quickly turned around, activated the Wind Control Array, and ran towards Pangzi's direction.

  Tang Hao didn't care that he had little spiritual power left, and ran at full speed in the opposite direction. Before long, he saw Rou Ball in front of him. When Tang Hao saw him, his anger flared up, and he gritted his teeth, cursing: "You dead fatso, you clearly knew about the beast tide, yet you didn't say a word, and ran off on your own!"

  Fatso was taken aback, marveling at Tang Hao's speed, but still kept a straight face and said: "Do I have an obligation to tell you?"

  At this time, Tang Hao was stunned. Indeed, the fat man had no such obligation. Tang Hao still looked at this Kunlun star field with the eyes of an earthling, but the mainstream of this star field was everything centered on its own interests and rarely interfered with others. Of course, there were still some who were willing to help others, but they were pitifully few.

  Tang Hao stopped talking and just tried his best to conserve his magical power as he ran forward.

  But what Tang Hao was worried about still happened, a man in blue clothes pulled a girl in purple clothes towards Tang Hao, the man's face was also extremely disheveled, and the woman's face was somewhat pale.

  Tang Hao recognized the two of them, who were ranked first and second. They both looked so wretched, it seemed that the beast tide on their side was not much different from Tang Hao's side.

  Tang Hao didn't know why the beast tide suddenly erupted, but now wasn't the time to think about that. At present, Tang Hao's location was surrounded by a cliff on one side and the beast tide on two sides, with only one side being safe. The four of them didn't say a word, but they all tacitly ran in the remaining direction.

  Tang Hao's spiritual power was almost depleted, and if this continued, he would only become the main course for these demonic beasts. Tang Hao gritted his teeth, pulled out a piece of spirit stone, and began to absorb the spiritual energy within.

  At present, Tang Hao has almost emptied himself out. It's relatively easy to replenish his spiritual energy with spirit stones. This is different from the spiritual energy absorbed through breathing exercises, which requires the dantian to be full before it can expand its storage space for spiritual energy. In this case, absorbing spiritual energy is extremely slow. Now, Tang Hao has plenty of space in his dantian, but no spiritual energy. This means that spiritual energy can enter his body with little resistance, but it won't help his cultivation unless he waits until his dantian is full before absorbing more.

  Although that's what was said, it still caused the envy of the surrounding monks. The Spirit Stone did have a quick replenishment effect on spiritual energy, but no one would be foolish enough to use it like that. Firstly, Spirit Stones were expensive and not every disciple could afford them; secondly, in this situation, the efficiency was extremely low, and the other four attributes of spiritual energy in the Spirit Stone couldn't be absorbed, only being wasted, which was simply a waste.

  Tang Hao wouldn't have used such a showy method if he hadn't been absolutely desperate, but even so, the rate at which Tang Hao's magical energy was being consumed was only just keeping pace with the rate at which he was absorbing it.

  The four of them didn't run for many steps before stopping, because this direction wasn't safe either. The fourth-ranked woman ran over from that direction, and it was clear that there was a beast tide in this direction as well.

  The five men leaned against the cliff wall, relying on each other, ready for a desperate fight.

  The man in blue said, "Fellow Taoists, we are now in a precarious situation and can only rely on each other to survive. I hope our sect can unite and resolve the current crisis first."

  Tang Hao nodded and took the opportunity to recover his strength. Although Blue Robe's words sounded good, relying on the power of five people to escape from such a large formation was still unlikely.

  Although the hope is not great, no one wants to sit and wait for death, and the other three also nodded in agreement.

  The beast tide stopped ten meters away from Tang Hao and the others, but continued to roar at no one, as if there was something here that they feared, or perhaps they were trying to drive No One to a certain place.

  Tang Hao felt inexplicably relieved, but also a little fortunate, just in time to recover some of his magical powers. The other four people saw the spiritual energy dissipating into the air and didn't want to waste it either, so they all absorbed the spiritual energy in the air to restore their spiritual power.

  Tang Hao slowly gained 30% of his spiritual power and was about to continue absorbing when the demonic beasts couldn't hold back anymore. A group of Wild Elephants emerged, each spraying a water column from their noses towards the five people.

  Tang Hao and the other four quickly got up to dodge, but found that these elephants did not intend to attack them. Instead, they struck the water pillar on the ground in front of the five people, as if driving them away.

  Everyone turned around to look at the cliff, but they didn't see any road. What were they driving after all? At this time, the purple-robed woman suddenly said: "It's not right, this cliff seems to be an illusion array, and there seems to be something behind this cliff?"

  The fatty and the woman in yellow exchanged skeptical glances.

  The man in blue said: "My sister is well-versed in the way of formation methods. She says it's an illusionary formation, so it must be correct."

  Tang Hao didn't know what formation method was, but he had to make do with a dead horse as if it were a live one. If these demonic beasts got impatient and all rushed up, they would be dead without even knowing how they died.

  The other two also pinned their hopes on the woman in purple. The woman in purple thought for a moment: "This illusion array should be a seal array, from the meticulous degree, it should be set up by the Yuan Ying cultivator, and from the energy intensity, it has not been replenished with spiritual power for thousands of years, the seal is already very weak, but it's not something we can force our way through."

  The fatty shouted: "Isn't that nonsense? Can't enter and not entering are the same thing?" The woman in yellow clothes gave the fatty a glance, saying: "Continue listening."

  The woman in purple continued, "After all, an array is a lifeless thing. The person who sets up the array will also be afraid that when they can't control the array, it will turn against them. Therefore, they will often leave a subtle path of life in the array, so even if ordinary people know the direction of this path, they can still come and go freely within the array."

  Tang Hao nodded, indeed learned something, and asked: "I don't know where the birth gate is?" The purple-robed woman thought for a moment, pointing to one of the positions on the cliff wall, saying: "It should be here."

  The beast group saw the five people not moving, and began to get impatient. They actually started using their killing moves, one after another, full of aggressive instinctive magic spells crashing towards the five people, this time not hitting the ground.

  Tang Hao saw no choice and also saw that the man in blue was pulling the woman in purple into the house, so he followed them inside.

  Tang Hao entered the formation, and was shocked by the scene in front of him. Before his eyes stood a white gold gate about one zhang high, with three large characters carved on its horizontal beam - White Gold Gate.

  Inside the gate, however, were various grand stone buildings, only no one was taking care of them, many had already collapsed, and weeds grew thick inside.

  Everything inside the buildings was emptied out, of course, with some fallen clothes and ornaments remaining, but as time passed, they had disintegrated, turning to dust at a mere touch.

  "Brother, where is this? How can it be like this?" the purple-robed woman asked. The blue-robed man was also shocked by the scene before him and said: "I didn't expect that in the Xuan Yin mountain range, there really was a sect gate, just looking at the handwriting on this big gate, even if it's the Lin Feng Sect, it can't be compared to this one. This is still considered the outer perimeter of the Xuan Yin mountain range, I really don't know what its main hall looks like."

  The five of them roughly searched around and found that the things left here were all mundane items used by ordinary people, which cultivators would not deign to use. However, the magnificent gate and architecture were not something that ordinary people could create. If one had to explain this phenomenon, it would be more accurate to say that the Xuanyin mountain range was an empire rather than a sect.