"It was one of the monsters that besieged us that day." Mr. Wu's face suddenly darkened.
"Get rid of it quickly, don't attract more monsters." Taoist Jingquan threw the golden iron ball without hesitation.
At the same time, Gu Xiuyun also danced with his right hand, condensing sword energy with his light-refining fingers.
For some reason, his sword energy seemed to be deflected, and one of them landed on the golden iron ball. The sword energy was extremely powerful, and the iron ball hit the towering ancient tree in the distance.
Peng!
The ancient wood shattered, a big hole was blasted out of the tree trunk, and the monster beast that had not even opened the Heavenly Pass had died under Gu Xiuyun's sword.
Taoist Jingquan mobilized his spiritual power to summon the golden iron ball back, but at this moment, the three of them saw cyan light emitting from the trunk of the ancient tree.
"That's...the Wood Spirit Bead?" Wu Lao's eyes suddenly lit up, he walked up quickly and took out the oval green bead from the trunk, "What kind of luck do we have that we can find it even if we smash an ancient tree to pieces? Wood Spirit Pearl?"
Although the value of the Wood Spirit Bead is not as high as that of Purple Qi Ganoderma, it is still a rare treasure. It takes thousands of ancient trees to produce just one Wood Spirit Bead.
"Fellow Daoist Wu, now is not the time to appreciate the spirit beads. Let's hurry up and get on our way!" Gu Xiuyun urged.
"Okay, okay." Mr. Wu smiled.
The three of them continued walking deeper into the dense forest, and this time they did not encounter any monsters again.
But Wu Lao and Taoist Jingquan didn't notice that there was a hint of pride in Gu Xiuyun's eyes.
It was of course the result of Gu Xiuyun's calculation that they happened to encounter the monster next to the ancient tree containing the Wood Spirit Pearl.
There are many monsters in the forest at the moment. Those monsters don't even hide their breath and even roar from time to time. It is not difficult to detect the traces of the monsters. Gu Xiuyun only needs to deliberately control the footsteps of the three people and cooperate with the whereabouts of the monsters to create A chance encounter is not impossible.
Of course, this requires Wu Lao and Taoist Jingquan to completely trust them and let him lead the way. Otherwise, no matter how big the plan is, it will be just empty talk if they are disobedient.
After walking for nearly a stick of incense, everyone arrived at the top of Zhima Cave.
They quickly dug out the tunnel and drilled all the way deep into the ground.
"Hey, we have only been away for an hour, and the number of young mushrooms in the cave has actually decreased by nearly 40%." Seeing the sparse purple young mushrooms on the surrounding stone walls, Mr. Wu showed surprise, "I'm afraid that mushroom has been hidden all this time." Stay nearby and watch our every move.”
"It is said that the wisdom of the Thousand-Year Zhima is no less than that of the human race. It seems true." Taoist Jingquan nodded slightly, "Old Wu, you are good at the secret method of searching for Zhi. Can you find the location of the Thousand-Year Zhima?"
"Fellow Taoist Jingquan is too flattering to me," Wu Laolian shook his head, "In addition to being unable to fight with people, the thousand-year-old Zhima is no less powerful than the Sixth Heavenly Demon in terms of magical power. Want to find it? Unless this Zhima The horse got greedy again and took the initiative to run into my spiritual leaf altar."
The last time, it was Mr. Wu who used the Lingye Altar to attract the Purple Qi Lingzhi, but it ended up attracting the greedy Millennium Zhima, so that most of the Lingzhi in the altar was stolen.
This incident also made Wu Lao regretful. He only regretted that he had not set up a wire mesh trap earlier and allowed the thousand-year-old Zhima to escape.
"Friend Wu Dao, the thousand-year-old Zhima has always been difficult to capture. Even the masters in the Douxiao Realm can't do anything about it. Why should we force it?" Gu Xiuyun smiled lightly and said, "Besides, there are endless treasures in this world. In addition to the thousand-year Zhima, there are many more. Rare and rare treasures, such as the Wooden Spirit Bead that Fellow Daoist Wu just obtained, is not just a treasure, speaking of which, I have never seen a Wooden Spirit Bead."
"What Fellow Daoist Gu said is, Mr. Wu, take out your Wood Spirit Pearl for us to see. I have been practicing for many years and have never seen a Wood Spirit Pearl. I have only seen descriptions of this kind of Spirit Pearl in classics." Taoist Jingquan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he quickly urged Mr. Wu to take out the spirit beads for everyone to appreciate.
Wood Spirit Pearls are rare in the world, and few can be found in the eight cities of Chu County. Therefore, the four people present have never actually seen Wood Spirit Pearls.
Mr. Wu chuckled and said, "As promised in advance, I discovered this orb. I want you to appreciate it and not to snatch it."
"It's just a wood spirit bead. Although it's rare, it's not very useful. Why do you want to steal it?" Taoist Jingquan rolled his eyes. "Don't be stingy. Take it out and let us see."
Mr. Wu took out the spirit bead from his chest, shook it twice, and suddenly put it in Gu Xiuyun's hand, "You want to see it, but I won't let you see it. Fellow Taoist Gu, I'll let you appreciate it first."
As soon as the Wood Spirit Pearl touched Gu Xiuyun's palm, a spiritual light that no one could detect poured into the body. Immediately afterwards, the Life Star Pearl began to repair quickly.
As the fourth life star bead was repaired, weak life force surged out of the star bead and merged into Gu Xiuyun's body.
He gained eight days of longevity.
"It's true. Every time a life star bead is repaired, the life span will be doubled. Calculated in this way, the next life star bead can increase the life span by sixteen days." Gu Xiuyun nodded slightly.
This number is very small, but don’t forget that there are hundreds of Life Star Beads embedded in the soul. If they can be doubled every time, the life span added by the Life Star Beads will be more terrifying as time goes by. As long as twenty , it will reach an incredible number.
"Maybe I'm overthinking it. If the life star chart really has such power, how could it collapse?"
After the fourth Life Star Bead was repaired, it broke away from the shackles of the soul and floated over the sea of consciousness, occupying one side with the other three Life Star Beads.
After adding a life star bead, the starlight in the sea of consciousness became more intense, which made Gu Xiuyun's somewhat stagnant soul transformation speed up a little faster.
Before Gu Xiuyun had time to rejoice, he suddenly felt his heart tremble, and the rules of heaven and earth surged again.
"here we go again!"
Gu Xiuyun looked at the sky. The invisible heavenly sword hung above his head. After a moment of hesitation, it dissipated.
"It seems that I did not violate the taboos of heaven," Gu Xiuyun breathed a sigh of relief, "That's right, I didn't take the initiative to ask Mr. Wu to give me the Wood Spirit Bead. I just said that I had never seen the Wood Spirit Bead before. Between the two , and there is no absolute causal relationship.”
It can be seen from this that the heavenly rules and taboos are not that strict. As long as you violate them without knowing it, God will not punish you.
"I don't know what Peng Zu did back then to make the sky so angry. Not only did it punish him, but it also brought disaster to the Destiny clan for generations to come." Gu Xiuyun couldn't help but tremble in his heart when he thought of the curse of the Destiny clan.
From his test, it seemed that the sky was kind and would not impose punishment as long as he violated the rules of heaven without knowing it. But Peng Zu actually made the sky angry. What taboo did he violate?
After the fourth Life Star Bead was repaired, the fifth Life Star Bead trembled, and a picture was transmitted into the depths of Gu Xiuyun's soul.
It was a fiery red stone, covered with patterns. The stone rose and fell in the magma, giving off luster from time to time.
"Yorishi, this is much easier." Gu Xiuyun breathed a sigh of relief.
