The other pupils of the two Academies also revealed confusion. The mission information only said that a large canyon had appeared here. During the initial exploration, no yin’sha1 fog appeared.
“This yin’sha should have appeared recently.” Feng Chen looked at the black fog lingering in front and said.
Cheng Zhuo and Mu’rong Jiao, as the leaders of the two Academies, were a little uncertain. For missions issued by the Academy, as long as there was danger, they could retreat, but if they returned just like this, then it’d be a waste of time. It was a problem whether they should leave or remain.
“I have a way to solve this yin’sha.” Yu Qing Qian discovered that after arriving at this canyon, the Spiritual Plant Master mark on her wrist suddenly grew hot again, which should be related to the jade piece.
The pupils of the two Academies still possessed great confidence in Yu Qing Qian’s ability, and were all delighted.
“Since Junior Sister Yu can solve the problem of the yin’sha, then we must go down to explore it.” Cheng Zhuo said with a smile.
Mu’rong Jiao thought for a moment, then looked at Yu Qing Qian and asked: “Do we need to prepare anything?”
“No need, just follow me and stay within ten metres.” After Yu Qing Qian finished speaking, a Nine-Coloured Magic Lotus with a holy radiance appeared in front of everyone.
The Nine-Coloured Magic Lotus exuded a soft, holy moon-white light. Under Yu Qing Qian’s control, the soft, white light formed a halo that enveloped the pupils of the two Academies.
As soon as the halo enveloped them, the pupils of the two Academies felt the sacred aura and their restless hearts actually calmed down.
“Let’s go.”
Yu Qing Qian walked ahead, and the pupils of the two Academies followed closely behind, walking slowly down a slope of the canyon.
As soon as they stepped into the slope of the canyon, the dark yin’sha fog gathered around them, looking ferocious and weird.
Everyone’s hearts tightened, and they all grasped their weapons transformed by spiritual plants.
The dark fog of yin’sha rushed over violently, but when it landed on the moon-white halo, it seemed as if it had encountered a nemesis and all curled back, with human-like fear.
Seeing this, the pupils of the two Academies breathed a sigh of relief and followed closely behind Yu Qing Qian.
The further down they went, the thicker the dark fog of yin’sha became. On both sides of the cliff, which was originally barren, there were now many strange trees with darker colours.
[ROAR!!]
Suddenly, several roars of magical beasts sounded, and more than ten magical beasts at Spirit King cultivation base emerged from behind the trees, their eyes dyed scarlet, fixed on Yu Qing Qian and the others.
Then they rushed up without hesitation, as if they had seen an incomparable delicacy and fought desperately.
However, they were soon killed by Cheng Zhuo and Mu’rong Jiao.
Yu Qing Qian walked to the corpse of a magical beast and squatted down to examine it carefully.
“Junior Sister, did you find anything?” Cheng Zhuo asked, bending down and head lowered.
There were three Healing-class Spiritual Plant Masters among the pupils of the two Academies, but they were much inferior to Yu Qing Qian.
Yu Qing Qian furrowed her brows slightly: “These magical beasts seemed to have lost their minds, but there’s no sign of being controlled by people or things. It should’ve been caused by the yin’sha force here.
“But there’s another strange thing. The skin and flesh of these magical beasts don’t contain yin’sha force. This puzzles me.” She added.
Others also pondered deeply. If the magical beasts were corroded by yin’sha force, then their entire body would be affected—but just losing their minds was really weird.
“Let’s continue down for a look.” Cheng Zhuo thought about it and decided.
Mu’rong Jiao didn’t object either, and the pupils of the two Academies continued to follow Yu Qing Qian’s footsteps down. The attacks of the magical beasts they encountered grew more and more frequent, and the strength of the magical beasts became stronger and stronger.
The same as before, these magical beasts seemed to have lost their minds, but their bodies weren’t eroded by the yin’sha.
1yin’sha, I previously translated it to ‘evil force’. Yin is the yin in ‘yin and yang’, the dark/black side. It can mean shade, gloom, darkness, femininity, the moon, and evil too. ‘sha’ can mean evil, devilish, demon etc. Together it does kind of make sense if it’s translated as evil force, but there’s no real translation that I know of.