I became a master of alchemy by picking up trash

The entire corridor was blocked by the huge body of the sand snake, and countless clods of earth fell down. Everyone avoided and followed the tail of the sand snake closely.

"Boom -" there was a loud noise, and the soil seemed to collapse in front, and a large amount of dust squeezed in from the gap between the sand snake's body and the cave wall.Chu Yunyi quickly raised the wind formation to protect everyone inside.

After the dust dispersed, everyone was horrified to find that the Sand Snake was gone, and there was only a dark and empty tunnel in front of them.

Cui Tianxiao walked forward and asked, "Where have you gone?"

Just when he was about to go forward to see what was going on, Chu Yunyi shouted: "Axiao, come back!"

The Sand Snake drilled through another giant tunnel, which was larger than the Sand Snake's body. This formed a space where it could return to the world. At the moment, the Sand Snake was turning around inside.

The orange body of the Sand Snake appeared in the corridor again, but the difference from before was that this time it was the head of the Sand Snake facing them.

The entire head of the sand snake was occupied by a huge mouthpart, wrapped by three valves. At this moment, the three valves opened like an orchid, revealing an abyss-like esophagus and teeth arranged in a ring like a crusher, and bit Cui Tianxiao.

The sudden turn of events left Cui Tianxiao with no time to escape. He could only watch as the sand snake's mouthparts enveloped him.

Just when Cui Tianxiao closed his eyes in despair and waited for death, a rope was thrown out from behind and wrapped around his waist.The next second, Cui Tianxiao was pulled by a strong force and flew backwards, avoiding the abyssal mouth of the sand snake.

Pulling Cui Tianxiao back to the team in time, Li Xing grabbed him by the collar, pushed him forward, and shouted: "Run!"

The four of them ran forward desperately, and Chu Yunyi tried his best to control the airflow and help them increase their speed to the maximum.

Although everyone was already very fast, the Sand Snake had the advantage in size, and with a slight movement forward, the distance between the two could be shortened infinitely.

The sand snake has no eyes or nose, but it relies on touch cells distributed on the soft skin of its head to sense its surroundings.

The more the four of them ran, the louder the movement became, and the more they attracted the Sand Snake's attention.The sand snake's mouth valves opened and closed, and it began to actively swallow four small things that dared to poke its butt.

A huge suction force came from behind. Li Xing turned around and was face to face with the abyssal mouth of the Sand Snake. The hot air hit his face with a strong body odor, which was simply suffocating.

Li Xing frowned in displeasure. She didn't know if this was the only adult sand snake alive. Li Xing didn't harm it because she was unwilling to bear the karma of exterminating the population, but that didn't mean that the sand snake could threaten her safety unscrupulously.

The monks should be decisive in killing the threat. The most effective way to deal with the threat is to eradicate it!
Li Xing no longer showed mercy, and with one move, Sanqianlian appeared behind the four of them with scorching air waves like hell fire, and instantly turned into a wall of fire, blocking the Sand Snake.

"Bah—!"

Feeling the scorching waves of air ahead that burned everything, the Sand Snake stopped in fear.But its simple body structure makes its reflex arc extremely long. The head has stopped, but the tail end is still moving forward.

Under the influence of inertia, Sand Snake's head unexpectedly collapsed, and nearly one-third of it was scorched by Sanqianlian.

Any other star beast would have died long ago from such a serious injury, but the sand snake's simple body structure also makes its vitality extremely strong.Despite this, the sand snake still let out a high-pitched roar, its deformed mouthparts vibrated like chaff, and its crusher teeth grinded loudly.

The three thousand lotuses in Xiao Lu's hand transformed into a fire phoenix, fluttering its wings and hovering in front of the sand snake's head, making a silent mockery of it.

Star beasts all have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Sand Snake has no intention of chasing four humans now. There is only one thing left in his mind, escape!
Sanqianlian saw the Sand Snake's fear and dived towards it playfully. The Sand Snake immediately gave up its plan to retreat.

I saw it raising its head as hard as possible, opening its deformed mouthpart valves, biting the soil on the top of the tunnel and swallowing it, like a shield machine, escaping upward at maximum speed.

Seeing the Sand Snake escape, Ye Qingting's heart dropped. He turned to look at Li Xing, who was holding his shoulders and calmly "manipulating the Yuan Fire".

Ye Qingting sighed, everyone was a Tianjia-level Yuanling, but in terms of ferocity, he really couldn't compare to Li Xing!

How old is Li Xing? She will become stronger and stronger in the future. As a friend and teammate with her, you have to adapt to the feeling of having your self-esteem constantly rubbed.

Everyone waited for 5 minutes before the last tail of the Sand Snake completely entered the tunnel. Li Xing threw out the immortal rope and tied it to the scales of the Sand Snake.After testing the strength of the rope, Li Xing nodded with satisfaction.

"Everyone, follow up. It shouldn't dare to run around this time." After saying that, Li Xing's body was dragged by the Sand Snake into the corridor like taking an elevator.The other three people pulled the rope in turn and hung it below Li Xing.

Three Thousand Lotuses hovered under everyone's feet, not only responsible for lighting, but also to deter sand silkworms and star beasts that tried to attack them.

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Roye Desert.

It was already early morning, and more than eight hours had passed since the four students disappeared.

The desert at this time should be the darkest and quietest of the day. The sun planet beast is having a good dream, and the night planet beast has finished enjoying the feast, licking its hair and getting ready to welcome the dawn.

But today is different from the past. The seventeen temporary camps are brightly lit, aircraft come and go, and the light of the teleportation array pierces the darkness one after another.

Human shouts, slogans, and huge machinery made deafening sounds, completely breaking the tranquility of the desert.The elemental power fluctuations emanating from the powerful Yuanling user made countless low-level star beasts tremble.

As the temporary leader of the rescue team, Wang Shun needs to constantly travel to seventeen exits to convey orders and assign tasks.At this moment, he had joined Chu Baili, and the two of them came to the largest exit No. [-].

Eight hours of intense mental stress was too much for even a Heavenly A-level Yuanling practitioner. Wang Shun's eyebrows showed two deep vertical lines and he had a splitting headache.

Chu Baili put his hands in his sleeves and rubbed them anxiously.

"Wang Shun, is there no news yet?"

Wang Shun shook his head: "Not yet."

"Have you discovered the other sixteen exits?"

"nor."

"Ugh--!"

The wrinkles at the corners of Chu Baili's eyes and eyebrows were much deeper, as if he were ten years older.

The accident at the military academy competition had already been reported back to the Presbytery, and Ji Jingtang sent Chen Luxi and Xiang Wuya to assist Chu Baili in thoroughly investigating the incident.

With the strong participation of the two elders, except for the First Army, the other three legions sent their most powerful interrogators.

After a thorough investigation, it turned out that the Xiyuan competition team was not clean.So far, a total of more than 60 people have been arrested, all of whom are leaders and cadres in important positions. Even the deputy leader of the competition team has been arrested.

The deputy team leader has the highest position among these people and is undoubtedly the key subject of interrogation.

According to his account, a mysterious person started contacting him ten years ago.At first, he was just asked to do some innocuous little favors within the scope of his authority.If he can do it, that person will give him an extremely generous reward, but even if the deputy leader refuses, the person will also give him a thank you gift.

According to the deputy team leader, this man was very measured in his actions, making it impossible for people to feel resentful. Moreover, his method of bribery was very safe, and even professionals could find no clues.Under the temptation of money, the deputy team leader fell.

After he truly became a partner of the mysterious man, the deputy team leader also asked about that person's identity, but he remained tight-lipped and always wore a mask when meeting with the deputy team leader.He rarely gives orders to the deputy team leader, at most three times a year, and they are all low-risk tasks.

In this competition, the person just asked the deputy team leader to deliberately ignore the competition flag area during the final acceptance process.

The deputy team leader thought that since there were no abnormal reports in the previous inspections, it would not matter if the final acceptance was not reviewed, so he agreed.

It wasn't until the incident happened that the deputy team leader was shocked to realize how big a mistake he had made.