Chapter 4126 Strange Magic Circle

I glanced at the people present and finally made a decision.

There are too many people, and most of them are just suicide missions. To avoid unnecessary sacrifices, I decided to send most of them back first, leaving a few experts to help us deal with that evil cultivator.

I discussed this with Yue Chunlei, and he also felt that we should do it this way. We haven't even met that evil cultivator yet, and we've already lost several people, including several seriously injured ones.

Ultimately, Yue Chunlei decided to let Master Yun Shen and his two fellow disciples stay behind, while Yue Chunlei himself would take two experts from the special investigation team and continue onward with us.

As for the rest of the people, they led the seriously wounded away from Dawanggou and waited outside.

So, our group of ten continued towards the direction where the magic circle was located.

After all this commotion, that evil cultivator must know we've come looking for him. He'll have two choices: the first is to be on high alert and wait for us to arrive.

The second option is to simply run away and avoid a direct confrontation with us.

We don't know what he's thinking, but the slovenly Taoist priest has already locked onto him. It's like he has a tracking device on him now; no matter where he goes, we can find him. There's no way he can escape our grasp.

On their way to the place with the magic array, the slovenly Taoist priest took out his compass again, examined it carefully, and said with a smile, "This guy is quite bold. He hasn't moved an inch, as if he's waiting for us. Let's go and meet him now and see just how capable he really is."

"Don't let your guard down. The fact that he's waiting for us means he's confident he can wipe us all out. There's definitely an ambush ahead. Everyone, be ready to fight at any moment," I called out.

Before long, we arrived at the place with the magic circle that Kasang had mentioned.

I sensed it as soon as I arrived, but strangely, I could feel the magic array but couldn't see any trace of it.

Of all the magic arrays I've seen, some are filled with billowing white mist, while others are shrouded in malevolent energy. But here, everything seems perfectly normal.

The slovenly Taoist priest sensed it too and said to me, "Old Wu, is this magic array not activated? It will only unleash its destructive power after it's activated?"

"It should be activated. Never mind, since we're already here, we'll brave any danger, even if it's a mountain of knives and a sea of ​​fire." With that, I led the way towards the magic array ahead.

He also reminded the slovenly Taoist priest to prepare the Eastern Emperor Bell. In case things got out of hand, they could hide inside the Eastern Emperor Bell. Even if there were any deadly moves in the formation, they wouldn't be able to harm them from inside the bell.

As we were talking, we entered the magic circle. After walking about ten meters forward, I felt something was wrong.

So I stopped and looked back, but everything behind me had become blurry, and I couldn't see anything at all.

What impressive skills! It seems this evil cultivator is also a master at setting up magic arrays.

"It seems like we can't go back," Yue Chunlei said in a somewhat panicked manner.

"Don't be afraid, Wu Laoliu is here. This kind of trickery is no problem for him." The slovenly Taoist priest had a lot of faith in my ability to break the formation.

But now I don't have much confidence in myself, mainly because I've never seen this kind of magic array before.

"Keep going," I called out, urging the people behind me to keep up.

Every time we walked a certain distance, I would look back and find that the path we came from had become completely blurred. This created an invisible pressure, as if we were about to never be able to go back.

As we walked, a strange laugh suddenly came from ahead, making us tense up instantly.

In an instant, everyone took out their magical artifacts.

We walked forward cautiously for another ten meters or so, and suddenly, a large group of paper effigies appeared in front of us.

These paper effigies were bright red and green, with pale faces and pairs of dark eyes staring straight at us.

"What the hell is this? That evil cultivator is too ridiculous, trying to block our way with these paper effigies?" Little Fatty laughed sarcastically.

At this moment, I took a closer look at these paper figures and found that they were different from ordinary paper figures because they were holding real magical implements.

Just as we were staring at these paper effigies, suddenly, a thick aura of blood appeared on their bodies, and they all came to life.

They all let out a sinister laugh and suddenly pounced on us.

"A mere trick! Behold my mighty Heavenly Dragon!" The slovenly Taoist priest saw the paper effigies rushing towards us, and in a flash, he stood in front of us, his lightning-struck wooden sword flashing as it spewed out a large ball of crimson flames that swept towards the paper effigies.

The slovenly Taoist priest was actually quite skilled at it; these fires were specifically designed to subdue paper effigies.

But the next moment, we were all dumbfounded. The flames that shot out from the slovenly Taoist's sword landed on the paper figures without causing any damage. In the blink of an eye, they were in front of us.

There are more than a hundred of these paper figures, each with a different shape. They move very quickly and do not appear stiff at all.

Now that they were right in front of us, we naturally wouldn't sit idly by and wait to die. We all grabbed our ritual implements and rushed towards the paper effigies, attacking them with our weapons.

This exchange once again surprised me greatly. These paper figures seemed to be extremely powerful masters. Even when my Shengxie Sword struck them, it couldn't leave a single scratch.

I really encountered a ghost today.

In an instant, hundreds of paper effigies surrounded us.

At that moment, I remembered the peach wood nails my master had given me, specifically for warding off evil spirits.

It seems that ordinary ritual implements cannot harm these paper effigies; I need to try using other ritual implements.

The peach wood nails were flung out and hit the paper effigies. This time it worked. After the peach wood nails hit the paper effigies, they were all sent flying. But soon, the paper effigies would get up again and continue to pounce on us.

Then, I took out the Heavenly Ruler. With the activation of my spiritual power, the runes on the Heavenly Ruler flashed, and I slapped it down on the heads of those paper effigies.

Each time the Heavenly Ruler could knock those paper effigies away, they would quickly get up again and launch an attack on us, as if these paper effigies were indestructible. Even the powerful Red Lotus Karmic Fire from the slovenly Taoist priest had not caused them any damage.