"Let's talk as we walk!"

Zhang Yuanqing glanced at the team members and took the lead, saying:

"Someone keep track of the time. Before the next five minutes arrive, we need to become wooden figures again. The person in charge of remembering the route, hurry and report the route."

Having issued the simple orders, he then said:

"The dungeon mentions that the power of the evil cultivators has infiltrated the dungeon. So, as long as we figure out what profession the evil cultivators are, we can deduce the source of the crisis and make the correct response."

Tianxia Guihuo suddenly realized:

"The Lord of Mist!"

"Lord of Mist," Baihu Wansui seemed to have thought of something, and brightened up:

"When I was in the outer layer, I collected those brightly colored fungi and fruits. I always felt that the patterns on them looked familiar. Now I understand, those are the patterns of the Eyes of Bewitchment."

This made Zhang Yuanqing pause, realizing why he felt the patterns on the mushrooms looked familiar.

In terms of observation, the scout is indeed an expert… Zhang Yuanqing said:

"That's right, the evil cultivator in the side quest description is the Bewitching Demon. The mushrooms in the outer layer are actually a kind of hint. If we could have figured this out earlier, we wouldn't have had to lose anyone."

"The best way to deal with the Lord of Mist is to stay still and prevent it from observing us."

Hearing this, the official members completely understood.

"As expected of you, Yuanshi Tianzun, you are truly a genius at攻略ing dungeons. From now on, if you tell me to go east, I will never go west," a Fire Controller patted his chest and said boldly.

"Amazing, how did you figure out such a complex thing in such a short time? This is truly god-like intelligence." Jiang Jingwei's eyes sparkled with admiration.

It's not that serious, but being flattered feels pretty good… Zhang Yuanqing touched Jiang Jingwei's head and suddenly understood why Fu Qingyang appreciated him.

Actually, as long as you understand the root of the fog, this level is not difficult. But under normal circumstances, it is difficult to associate the seemingly ordinary fog with the Lord of Mist's abilities.

He was particularly sensitive because he had psychological trauma, which made him react faster than others.

God-like intelligence is too exaggerated. The surrounding team members smiled, and the atmosphere became inexplicably relaxed.

They once again felt the ease of having a master in the team.

Although with the wisdom, abilities, and experience of so many people, they could probably figure out the root of the fog and find a way to deal with it before being wiped out, at the cost of one death every five minutes.

But that would mean losing a lot of people.

Now, they hardly had to think, and Yuanshi Tianzun solved the problem. This is the benefit of following a big shot in a dungeon.

Easy win!

"Four minutes…"

Guan Ya reminded everyone.

She is always so reliable.

The discussion stopped immediately, and the team stopped in place, each stiffening their bodies, standing still like stone statues.

Zhang Yuanqing stopped, used Spirit Travel, his spirit left his body, and he rolled up a leaf from the ground, suspending it in mid-air.

Time passed second by second, and the five minutes came quickly. Zhang Yuanqing (in spirit form), who was silently counting the time, flicked the fallen leaf from his hand, letting it spin out, stirring the gauze-like mist.

"Crack!"

The dry, brittle leaf suddenly shattered into pieces.

At this moment, Zhang Yuanqing saw clearly, a strand of silk, almost invisible to the eye, hung down from the canopy, wrapped around the leaf, and crushed it.

The attacker's means of killing is silk thread? No wonder it can decapitate silently.

Zhang Yuanqing's spirit suddenly rose, drifting towards the canopy.

This time, he saw the attacker clearly. It was a spider, the size of a basin, with a round abdomen, eight legs, and red eyes, condensed from the dense fog. The patterns on its back were twisted and grotesque, precisely the unique runes of the Bewitching Demon.

It was not attached to the canopy, but clinging to the dense fog. The mist, as thin as gauze, was like the web it had woven, allowing it to crawl freely in the fog.

Zhang Yuanqing's telekinesis expanded, reaching out towards the Bewitching Spider, trying to grab it with spirit-object manipulation.

But the moment he touched the spider, its basin-sized body suddenly shattered, turning into a chaotic cloud of mist.

No physical form? Zhang Yuanqing frowned, glanced around, and then lowered his spirit, returning to his body.

In the following time, the team proceeded safely, walking for four minutes and stopping for one minute.

About half an hour later, the sky-covering fog became thinner and thinner. They could already see the shadows of the surrounding trees, and the outlines of their companions, seemingly out of the fog-shrouded area.

After walking for a few more minutes, everyone completely broke away from the dense fog. Looking back, behind them was a solidified fog, like a light veil lingering between the tree trunks, occasionally floating lazily.

Zhang Yuanqing heard a task notification in his ear:

【Ding! You have successfully left the Mist Spider's territory, rewarded 10 points, and obtained a consumable item: Mist Spider's Reward.】

There are rewards?

He opened the item bar and found that there was indeed a spider lurking in the additional grid. Its body was condensed from mist, and its eyes were scarlet red. Zhang Yuanqing took out the spider, placed it in his palm, and checked the item's attributes:

【Name: Mist Spider's Reward】

【Type: Consumable】

【Function: Attack, Dense Fog】

【Introduction: A monster formed by the resentment of a Lord of Mist fused with a spider. It possesses both the strangling ability of a spider and some of the characteristics of the Lord of Mist. It is a terrifying hunter in the jungle.】

【Note 1: Blowing away its body can create a dense fog covering a hundred meters radius, lasting for five minutes. The Mist Spider kills one person every minute.】

【Note 2: Because it is a consumable item, it has no price.】

Zhang Yuanqing was both surprised and delighted. He was pleased that the rewarded consumable was quite powerful, and surprised that the summit team battle would probably be extremely fierce and dangerous.

They can get rewards, and evil professions can too.

Fortunately, there were three teams in the Lawful camp, while there was only one evil profession.

But in this case, the combat power of both sides will be imbalanced. Zhang Yuanqing pondered while looking back at his teammates, and said:

"Did you guys get consumable rewards?"

"No, only 10 points." The colleagues shook their heads.

It seems that the rewards are only given to攻略ers, Zhang Yuanqing nodded slightly.

At this moment, he heard Asano Ryo, who was covered in dirt, shout:

"Sugoi - the evil camp's points are so high..."

Everyone quickly opened the leaderboard to check.

【1: A Yi, Wuhuan Master, Level 3, 170 points】

【2: I Am the Only One, Water Ghost, Level 3, 165 points】

【3: No Taboos, Bewitching Demon, Level 3, 155 points】

【4: Yuanshi Tianzun, Night Wanderer, Level 3, 150 points】

【5: Jiulouyu, Scout, Level 3, 130 points】

【6: Shattered Lingxiao, Witch Gu Master. Scout, 120 points】

【7: Zhao Chenghuang, Night Wanderer, Level 3, 100 points】

【8: Sun Miaomiao, Night Wanderer, Level 3, 93 points】

【9: Jiang Jingwei, Fire Controller, Level 3, 80 points】

【10: My Life is Up to Me, Illusionist, Level 3, 78 points】

The leaderboard has undergone earth-shaking changes. Yuanshi Tianzun dropped from the top to the fourth, and Zhao Chenghuang and Sun Miaomiao fell out of the top five. The official side only accounted for four places in the top ten.

The remaining six were divided by the evil camp and rogue cultivators.

Worse, the top twenty-four list has also undergone tremendous changes, with the evil camp accounting for two-thirds, and the remaining one-third shared by officials and lawful rogue cultivators.

Some of the official members who were previously in the top twenty-four have fallen out of the Saint Realm quota.

Tianxia Guihuo said in a deep voice:

"The evil camp took down the Tree King and the Monkey King."

Obviously, the reason for the evil camp's soaring points must be because they killed the two bosses in the outer layer. The risks and benefits are proportional.

Niu Lushan Xiaoxiannv, who was wearing a bun, frowned and said:

"We must catch up with the points in the second level, or even surpass them. Otherwise, they will definitely hunt a certain number of lawful rogue cultivators, and it will be difficult to make a comeback."

A person like Yuanshi Tianzun, at worst, can stand firm in the top ten, but these people of them, there is probably no hope.

Guan Ya frowned and said, "Have you noticed that many people in the Lawful camp have died in the second level."

Currently, the number of people on the leaderboard is 75, while the total number of people entering the second level was 83.

The eight missing members are all from the Lawful camp.

This shows that the casualties of the other two teams are not optimistic. After walking through the maze, many more people will die.

In this way, the gap in the number of people between the Lawful and Evil camps will be greatly reduced.

The combat power of the Evil practitioners is higher than that of the Lawful ones.

Zhang Yuanqing glanced at his teammates and frowned:

"In the beginning, my points couldn't even get into the top ten, but now? Don't let the temporary points ranking affect your mentality. Until the last moment, the leaderboard has no meaning."

"The evil camp are all paper tigers. When we get to the top of the mountain, I will get you all into the top twenty."

As a leader, drawing big cakes is a skill that must be mastered, which can effectively boost morale.

Sure enough, the team members' faces relaxed and their fighting spirit was restored.

Zhao Chenghuang knocked out the last teammate, left the scattered teammates, and walked straight to the bottom of the tree where the corpse was hanging, raised his sharp claws, and swiped lightly.

The corpse "pattered" and fell, breaking into pieces, breaking bones and tendons.

The corpse was already ulcerated and extremely fragile.

Zhao Chenghuang stood by the corpse, scrutinized it for a while, then squatted down and used his sharp claws to pick out the two scarlet eyeballs from the corpse's eye sockets.

【Ding! You have broken the "Corpse Surrounded by Resentment" and rewarded a consumable item: Bewitching Demon's Eyes.】

After reading the item information, Zhao Chenghuang expressionlessly put it into the item bar and turned to look at Yuan Ting:

"Report the casualties."

"Two dead, four seriously injured, and others have minor injuries, no big problem." Yuan Ting reported the results of the just-completed inspection.

Zhao Chenghuang pondered slightly and said:

"Among the seriously injured, are there any from the Five Elements Alliance?"

"Two!"

Zhao Chenghuang took out a tube of diluted Life Elixir and said, "Inject half a tube for each person."

As for the other two seriously injured rogue cultivators, he defaulted to giving up. In the massacre copy, he did not need to be responsible for the rogue cultivators.

After Yuan Ting injected the Life Elixir, Zhao Chenghuang glanced over Sun Miaomiao and others, and said:

"The evil camp will soon enter the second level. We need to speed up our pace. Even if we sacrifice more people, we can't let the evil camp reach the top of the mountain first."

Otherwise, they will definitely lose.

He, who is always paying attention to the leaderboard, has already noticed the ranking changes.

As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Miaomiao and others received a spiritual environment prompt:

【Ding! The Shangui camp has successfully arrived at the Maze Forest. The positioning function is enabled. Please pay attention to the progress of the opposing camp at all times and reach the Mountain God Temple as soon as possible.】

"So fast?"

Zhang Yuanqing was stunned. According to the prompt, he moved his mind and opened a map that only he could see, just like opening the leaderboard.

The map was an overhead view of a vast forest, covered with intricate routes.

At this time, there were three green cursors distributed in the "left, middle, and right" three areas of the Maze Forest, representing three Lawful teams with different routes.

And a red cursor appeared at the entrance of the mountain road in the middle. Without any notes, Zhang Yuanqing could guess that it represented the evil camp.

Worse, the middle mountain road is the road they are taking.

In other words, the evil camp is behind them.

"They chose the same route as us."

"Are they going to overtake us? Heh, the attackers in the fog will teach them a lesson."

"Let's hurry up and go, don't let those guys catch up."

After reading the map, the team members talked one after another.

Guan Ya raised her eyebrows and said:

"Is there a possibility of ambush?"

She meant that since both sides chose the same path, why not wait for the other side and set up an ambush to directly wipe out the evil camp.