When a terrifying smile suddenly appeared on Qiu's pale face, except for Jiang Qing'e, everyone else's complexion changed drastically and they retreated with rapid footsteps.

  Bai Mengmeng was so frightened that her small face turned pale, and her eyes showed an uncontrollable fear.

  Li Luo also felt a chill on the soles of his feet. Looking at Qiu Bai's appearance, he was probably also seen the eerie smile on the wall in that evil thought realm before. However, he was able to borrow the momentary clarity from the Qingmu card to activate his bipolar power, barely resisting the invasion of the smiling face.

  But apparently, Qiu Bai was unable to withstand it.

  This made Li Luo's back sweat, after all, he knew that Qiu Bai was not a rookie, but a top student in the Sanxing Academy, and his actual strength had just entered the Dark Cave not long ago, and had also stepped into the Earth Stage. Although this was quite different from Jiang Qing'e, it was still an experienced master.

  But even someone as capable as him has fallen for it?

  That eerie smiling face, what kind of abnormal being left it?

  Hiss!

  Qiu Bai's face revealed a strange smile, he opened his mouth wide and let out a shrill cry towards everyone, then suddenly burst into action, charging straight at Li Luo who was closest to him.

  Fierce and violent evil spirits, wrapped in a whirlwind, rushed straight at Li Luo.

  Li Luo saw the situation and without hesitation, snapped his fingers, a water bullet burst from his fingertips, and his figure quickly retreated.

  With his strength, it's impossible to have a hard collision with Qiao Bai, so retreating is the most rational choice.

  A burst of light exploded in front of Bai's face, the intense glare making his eyes sting and tear up constantly, but strangely, he seemed to feel no pain, maintaining an eerie smile even as his eyes turned red. His figure emerged from the light, a flame-tipped spear flashing out in his hand, a fierce gust of wind enveloping Li Luo as he advanced.

  Clang!

  However, at this moment a figure flashed by, a slender sword surrounded by a green glow broke through the air, as if it had transformed into a green light sword shadow, colliding with the fire-tipped spear.

  Two mighty forces clashed head-on, neither able to overcome the other, and in the end both retreated with tails between their legs.

  Li Luo looked at Tian Tian in front of him and quickly said, "Thank you, senior."

  At the moment when Tian Tian stopped Qiu Bai, Jiang Qing'e's offensive also arrived. It was seen that those rays of light and energy seemed like arrows of light falling from the sky, covering the entire range where Qiu Bai was located.

  Rumble!

  Qiao Bai's body was surging with astonishing aura, the fire-tipped spear in his hand seemed to have transformed into a fiery red light screen, colliding with those scattered light arrows.

  However, his scarlet flame curtain was apparently in a suppressed state, and the flame curtain soon became shaky.

  The gap in strength between the two sides is evident.

  But Bai also seemed to have realized that he couldn't match him in strength and turned around to take advantage of the opportunity to escape.

  Whoosh!

  Just then, a ring of light descended from the sky and quickly shrank, wrapping tightly around Bai's body after a few breaths, rendering him completely immobile.

  Qiu Bai struggled with all his might, but he was unable to break free from the shackles of that ring of light.

  Tian Tian saw Qiu Bai being restrained

  Also let out a sigh of relief.

  Bai Mengmeng, Xin Fu walked to Li Luo's side, his face solemn and fearful, asking: "Captain, what's going on?"

  Li Luo first looked at the two of them and asked: "Didn't you see the smiling face on the wall?"

  Both of them shook their heads in dismay, they had also fallen into that so-called illusion just now, but perhaps because they were farther away, they hadn't reached the wall when the illusion was broken by Jiang Qing'e.

  "You guys are quite lucky."

  Jiang Qing'e walked over, her absolutely beautiful face carrying a hint of solemnity, saying: "The illusion realm you entered earlier is called the Evil Thought Illusion Realm. That's a domain that only disaster-level aberrants can construct."

  "We've encountered this kind of evil illusion before, but..."

  She gazed at the wall she had previously destroyed, saying: "I'm also meeting for the first time, just relying on a smile left behind to create an evil illusion that can deceive even someone as strong as Lian Yuzhen."

  "Such a strong anomaly..."

  Jiang Qing'e's expression became increasingly solemn as she said, "I suspect it might be a Heaven-Defying Class mutant."

  "This level of anomaly shouldn't be appearing here."

  Li Luo and the other two swallowed a mouthful of water, their faces shocked. A disaster-level creature was already a second-class existence in the world, but a heavenly disaster-level creature? Wasn't that equivalent to the strength of a Heavenly General? How could such a powerful creature have slipped into this outer area of the dark cave?

  Wasn't there a mentor in the school who did the screening before?

  And in the deeper outer areas, there are also four-star academy students who have formed a defensive line... How did this heavenly disaster-level abnormality appear here?

  "There will always be some fish that slip through the net, and this kind of situation has happened before." Tian Tian sighed and said, "We can only say we're too unlucky."

  "Those outcasts here..." Li Luo seemed to think of something, his facial expression changing slightly.

  "I'm afraid they were all swallowed up by that heavenly disaster-level monster."

  Jiang Qing'ao's slender eyebrows furrowed slightly as she said, "This isn't good news at all. If it continues to devour like this, it will only grow stronger and stronger."

  Li Luo, Bai Mengmeng and Xin Fu looked at each other without a word. Compared to the previous encounters with those inferior alien species, this time was truly a case of "small magic seeing great magic".

  The horror and eeriness of the outcasts finally bared their fangs at them.

  They stared at the bound and gagged Bai, whose face still wore a sinister smile that grew wider by the second, his muscles tearing apart as blood flowed freely, sending chills down their spines.

  Even if someone as powerful as Bai He was reduced to this state at the beginning of Di Sha, if it were one of them who got caught, they would probably end up even more miserable.

  Li Luo subconsciously touched the corner of his mouth, and for a moment, he didn't dare to smile.

  "What about Qiu Bai then?" asked Bai Mengmeng.

  "His condition is fine, the evil intent seeds have burst out. Let's hang him in front of the Purification Tower later and let the purification halo purify him for a while, he should recover."

  "Compared with this burst of evil thoughts, what's even more troublesome is that kind which lies dormant extremely deeply."

  "Evil thoughts are like seeds, because they can cause a huge hidden danger. No one knows if their teammates have been contaminated or not. Once it's at the critical moment of battle, these evil thought seeds suddenly burst..."

  "Then, a cold arrow from behind may make you die with resentment."

  Li Luo's face turned a bit pale, this evil intention seed is too terrifying, because you don't know when your trustworthy teammate will suddenly stab you in the back.

  "Jiang Xuesister, can't you sense it? Earlier, Qiu Bai was stopped by you in advance." Xinsymbol asked with a hoarse voice.

  "That's because he wasn't deeply corrupted, so my Ninth Rank Bright Appearance Method only had some reaction. But once the evil thought seeds take root deep in his heart, I'm afraid even I will have a hard time detecting it for a while." Jiang Qing'e said with a furrowed brow.

  Others looked at each other in dismay, their eyes unable to conceal their horror.

  "Let's purify the pollution of Hakuren first."

  Jiang Qing'e hesitated slightly, then snapped her fingers and the heavy sword in her hand shone with a brilliant light as it pierced through the air, tearing apart Bai's clothes before flying across the sky and landing on top of the Purification Tower.

  Then Li Luo and others saw that the purification halo emitted from the self-purification tower was sweeping over, and the strange smile on Qiu Bai's face also gradually faded away.

  After a few minutes or so, his somewhat eerie gaze also gradually cleared up.

  He first took a look at his own situation, then let out a bitter laugh. Judging from his appearance, he also knew what had happened earlier.

  Qiu Baishen's body twisted and turned, escaping the heavy sword, then fell down.

  "Li Luo, I'm sorry." He covered his mouth, looked at Li Luo and apologized with a bitter smile.

  Li Luo didn't respond, but instead looked at Jiang Qing'e and asked in a low voice, "Is he completely sober now?"

  Jiang Qing's head slightly nodded.

  Li Luo finally felt at ease, and he smiled at Qiu Bai before walking forward. The tip of his finger emitted a healing force that restored the laceration on Qiu Bai's mouth, making him look less terrifying.

  His thoughtful gesture made Bai just want to reveal a grateful smile.

  "Don't laugh." Li Luo hastily reminded him, he was now suddenly a bit oversensitive to smiles.

  Jiao Bai's smile froze, then slowly and with some difficulty, she composed herself.

  "Qiu Bai, you've really lost face for our squad this time. You're supposed to be a strong warrior of the Earthly Fiend stage, but instead, the new squad had no issues while you ran into problems." Tian Tian said with some disappointment.

  Qiao Bai awkwardly said: "I was careless, I didn't expect that such a level of evil thought illusion would appear near the second-level purification tower."

  As he spoke, his eyes narrowed slightly and said: "Captain, in this region, I'm afraid a big trouble has appeared."

  "What's next?"

  Jiang Qing'e gazed into the distance, silent for a moment, before her jade hand beckoned and the heavy sword flew down, landing in her palm, accompanied by a resolute voice.

  "Abort mission, return to base immediately."

  "We need to pass on the intelligence here to the Academy."