#1149 - Chapter 1149: Don't Know Life or Death

Those Red Hawk-Lizards couldn't escape or hide; as they scattered, they were immediately swept away by the sandstorm, offering no resistance.

The Red Hawk-Lizard group was tormented to the point of being neither beast nor anything else, completely losing the domineering aura they had when ambushing Zhang Tie, instead resembling timid dogs.

Ye Kong didn't want to waste any more time, so he leaped into the air, standing shoulder to shoulder with the vultures.

Although the vultures were not trapped by the formation, no matter how hard they flapped their wings, they couldn't get within half an inch of Ye Kong.

The vultures cried out loudly in their anxiety, as if venting their anger.

Hearing the incessant cries of the eagles, Ye Kong frowned, extremely annoyed.

"Ignorant fools!" Ye Kong said with authority.

For some reason, the vultures abruptly stopped their cries, only flapping their wings vigorously, as if venting in a different way.

As the explosive rune flew towards the Red Hawk-Lizard group, the golden light flickered.

"Bang!"

In an instant, yellow sand splashed, and a roar rang out; in that moment, the entire desert seemed to shake violently.

At the same time as the explosion, an unstoppable wave of energy surged outward; the vultures in the sky were affected, with the weaker ones having their wings broken by the vast energy, and the stronger ones being directly annihilated.

The Red Hawk-Lizard group trapped in Ye Kong's formation was even more pitiful; after being hit by this heavy explosion, they were directly reduced to dust, with none escaping.

After resolving everything, Ye Kong flew to the area where the dust and yellow sand were mixed.

Ye Kong casually glanced around and found that there was nothing powerful on the Red Hawk-Lizards; it should have all been turned to dust.

Ye Kong then returned to Zhang Tie's side.

At this time, Zhang Tie's face was haggard, and his mental strength was severely depleted; while Ye Kong was dealing with the alien beasts, Shengge was healing Zhang Tie.

"How is the situation?" Ye Kong asked, seeing Shengge sweating profusely from the treatment, guessing the extent of Zhang Tie's injuries.

Shengge shook her head, her hands continuing to channel spiritual energy for treatment.

"Senior Brother Zhang's Qi Sea is deficient in spiritual energy, but I have transmitted a lot of spiritual energy to him and also stimulated the circulation of spiritual energy in his body, causing it to flow through the meridians to various places, until it penetrates his entire body."

While Ye Kong listened patiently, a flash of light appeared in his eyes, and he used his divine sense to explore Zhang Tie's entire body.

Shengge's slender phoenix eyebrows furrowed, and then she revealed the truth.

"However, there is an extremely strong poison in Senior Brother Zhang's leg; I want to eliminate it from Senior Brother Zhang's body, but the poison seems to have taken root, constantly wandering between Zhang Tie's meridians and releasing toxins."

At this time, Ye Kong also happened to discover the poison in Zhang Tie's body.

"You rest aside for a moment; I'll do it!"

After Ye Kong finished speaking, Shengge stopped the operation in her hands and stood aside.

Ye Kong made a hand seal and started the formation.

A small golden formation disk immediately appeared beside Zhang Tie.

Ye Kong raised one hand, and Zhang Tie floated into the air.

Ye Kong condensed and gathered power with his other hand, and the golden formation disk below Zhang Tie spun rapidly.

Ye Kong moved his mind again, made a hand seal with one hand, and controlled the golden healing formation disk to generate a powerful suction force.

For a time, the surrounding sand and soil were involuntarily sucked away by the huge suction force generated by the golden formation disk.

At the same time, the faint green gas on Zhang Tie's body was also sucked away; that was the poison on Zhang Tie's body.

After some treatment, Zhang Tie had almost recovered; in no time, his mind regained consciousness, and he woke up.

Zhang Tie excitedly expressed his gratitude to Ye Kong and Shengge for saving his life.

Ye Kong told Zhang Tie that they had obtained the last of the Xuanming Four Flowers, the 'Other Shore Flower'.

But when Ye Kong asked about their progress, Zhang Tie lowered his head.

"I was separated from the two of them; later, while searching for them, I encountered the dangerous situation just now; fortunately, you came."

"What happened?" Ye Kong wanted to know the detailed process of how the three of them were separated.

Zhang Tie concisely and quickly explained the process of the three people's separation to Ye Kong.

Ye Kong then only asked one question.

"Where did the two of them disappear?"

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Afterwards, Zhang Tie followed the direction in his memory, bringing Ye Kong and Shengge to the edge of the large sand dune.

"It's here."

Shengge, fearing that Zhang Tie had misremembered the location, asked again.

"Senior Brother Zhang, did you make any kind of mark here? Are you sure this is the place without a doubt?"

Zhang Tie said firmly: "I am certain and sure; I didn't go far at all, and then I ran into that unfortunate event just now; besides, I only encountered this one large sand dune in this desert."

While Shengge and Zhang Tie were talking, Ye Kong was already observing the situation of the sand dune.

"Strange, the sand dunes in this desert are all small hills or ridges formed by wind accumulation; even sandstorms cannot form such a huge sand dune."

The more Ye Kong looked at this sand dune, the stranger it seemed; Ye Kong simply used his divine sense to explore the situation of the sand dune.

But Ye Kong discovered that the interior of this sand dune had the effect of rejecting divine sense; his divine sense could not know the situation inside.

Ye Kong approached the sand dune, wanting to observe it carefully, but suddenly two sand hands stretched out from the rough sand wall, wanting to drag Ye Kong directly in.

But fortunately, Ye Kong's reaction speed was extremely fast, and he instantly darted back, dodging the attack.

Shengge and Zhang Tie saw Ye Kong's abnormality, realized something was wrong, and immediately came to Ye Kong's side.

"Senior Brother Ye, what just happened?" Shengge asked.

"Ye Kong, did you discover something?"

Ye Kong nodded and pointed to the sand wall.

Shengge and Zhang Tie looked in the direction of Ye Kong's finger but didn't find anything.

Shengge wanted to use her divine sense to check the situation, but Ye Kong stopped her.

"It's useless; this sand dune is very strange; it can reject divine sense inside, and you won't discover anything."

"Then what should we do?"

Ye Kong pondered for a while and once again confirmed with Zhang Tie: "Are you sure that the two of them disappeared here?"

Zhang Tie nodded very firmly, "One disappeared at the top of the sand dune, and one disappeared at the position where we are standing."

Ye Kong then continued to say: "It seems that there may be something special inside this sand dune, and the two of them should be inside."

Ye Kong couldn't use his divine sense to detect the situation inside the sand dune and could only make a guess.

Shengge and Zhang Tie looked at each other and didn't refute Ye Kong's guess.

"Then how should we get in?"