The low whale roar became sharp and deep, and the water next to the reef at the bottom of the lake suddenly shook violently.
The lake water next to the cultivators seemed to be boiling and became extremely turbulent. The monks' protective auras in the early and middle stages of Qi refining were shattered one after another. The huge pressure at the bottom of Longze Lake added to them. Among the monks whose body protective auras were broken, except for a few The monk who used his magic weapon to open the shield in time, the rest of the cultivators all turned red and had no choice but to shoot towards the lake above.
Guan Mo, who was next to Gu Qing, also had his body-protecting aura shattered and his face turned red. After nodding goodbye to Gu Qing and the others, he hurried towards the waters above.
Glancing at this person, Gu Qing looked thoughtful.
Now he is in the water, and he is practicing Guishui Guiyi Gong. The spiritual power in his body is originally water. He is like a fish in water at the bottom of Longze Lake. The light white body-protecting aura around him is extremely stable. Compared with on land, It's much tougher than that, far from broken.
Thinking of this, his heart moved slightly.
The next moment, his body-protecting spiritual light dimmed a little, and soon shattered as well. He used the spiritual power in his body to force his face to turn red, and his body moved upwards.
Brother and sister Zuo Qingci and Du Gang both looked puzzled.
"This coming person is not a trivial one. Lin is the first to take the lead. If these Taoist friends can trust Lin, please retreat immediately!"
Gu Qing's message rang in the ears of the three of them. After hearing this, brother Zuo Qingci and Du Gang had different expressions.
But don't wait for the three of them to make any decision.
Among the seven tall figures on the giant whale, the leader's huge spiritual consciousness swept across the cultivators and enveloped the entire cave ruins. A look of surprise flashed across his face.
The cultivators felt that a huge spiritual consciousness seemed to have stagnated in the nearby water, including Shen Tianfang and the twelfth-level Qi Refining cultivator who looked like a flat-headed toad, and their expressions changed drastically.
Foundation building!
…
Gu Qing felt a huge spiritual consciousness sweeping over him, and his expression changed, making his already flushed face look a bit funny.
His figure was still slowly moving upwards, and soon the huge spiritual consciousness shrank back, covering the vicinity of the cave ruins, and no longer paid attention to Gu Qing and other cultivators.
After flying upward for more than a thousand feet, Gu Qing's escape speed suddenly accelerated. He grabbed the slow Guan Mo in front of him and broke through the lake surface in less than a quarter of an hour.
The sun was high in the sky, the cold fog on the lake had dispersed, and the crimson golden waves spread out as far as the eye could see.
Gu Qing's expression returned to normal. He stepped on the Lanjiang Flying Sword, which was as thin as a cicada's wing. He raised the sword above his head and flicked it downwards to peel off the wet lake water from his body.
The dust removal technique has a wide range of uses. If you are intentional, you can even use this technique to peel off your own flesh and blood.
He cupped his fists towards Guan Mo, who had a strange look in front of him and was also standing with a sword: "Brother Guan, I don't know what your plans are next? Lin wants to travel around the Beize countries ahead and collect some battlefield information. The remaining soul."
When Guan Mo heard that the person in front of him called 'Brother Guan', his face was a little embarrassed. He thought for a moment:
"Guan is about to go to Xizhao Kingdom. To be honest, Guan's niece has recruited a retainer for my housekeeper in Xizhao Kingdom. I heard that there are wars between Xizhao Kingdom and several surrounding countries. If Brother Lin wants to go west first, Zhao Guo and his party can go the same way as Guan."
"Very wonderful."
Gu Qing chuckled and nodded.
Two rays of light flashed across Longze Lake.
After more than ten breaths, the other monks whose protective spiritual light was shattered under the whale's roar broke through the lake one after another.
"They are the seven heads of Jingtao Village!"
"The head of Jingtao Village was a monk in the foundation-building stage twenty years ago, and his current cultivation level is probably even more terrifying!"
A monk recognized a group of seven people on the giant whale.
"Several waves of fellow Taoists were at odds with each other for more than ten hours and refused to break the formation, nor did they let me wait for the formation to be broken. However, when Senior Foundation Establishment arrived, it was really a joke."
A monk said with an angry expression and sarcasm.
"I wonder if the fellow Taoists left behind can get a share of the pie?"
"You still want a share of the pie? It's good if you can save your life! The master of the foundation building period of Jingtao Village looks down on us and wants to use the remaining guys as cannon fodder to explore the road. It's so obvious that fellow Daoist Wu can't see it? ? Ha, he is really a useless monk from a useless family, with poor qualifications and stupidity..."
The cultivators who broke through the lake made a noise and left together.
…
Xizhao Kingdom, with a radius of more than a thousand miles, is located in the east of Beize.
This country borders Fengyao State, Haichang State and other countries, and wars have been fought on the borders for many years. Even when thousands of miles of ice are frozen, there are still small groups of cavalry rushing into the borders of the bordering countries, burning, killing and looting in order to fight. Raise war.
After Gu Qing came to the border of this country, he no longer walked with Guan Mo, but came to a village on the border.
Naturally, he came here to collect his remaining soul.
Since the border between Xizhao Kingdom and several other countries has been at war for years, he simply stayed at this border for a while, thinking that there would be no problem in gathering thousands of remnant souls.
"The villages here are really weird. Every household lives in a tent." Gu Qing wandered around for a few times, looking for caves buried under weeds. He looked inside with his consciousness and found that a large well had been dug in the cave. There is also a lot of dried meat and other food in stock. "This cave seems to be a shelter dug by the people of this village. The dried meat seems to be well smoked."
Gu Qing entered the cave by himself, took a small piece of dried meat, leaned against the wall, and started chewing on it.
In the cave, there were two big men who looked like guards, but after all, they were only mortals with naked eyes, but they did not notice that there were more people in the cave silently.
"The little girl the clan elder bought a few days ago is really pretty."
"No, it's said that they were bought by a caravan from Ye Country. Zhuzi, do you know where Ye Country is?"
"I heard it's not in Beizawa, it seems to be in the east, right?"
The conversation between the two big men caught Gu Qing's attention.
These two men are said to be big men. Judging from their youthful faces, they are estimated to be fifteen or sixteen years old.
"Hey, Zhuzi, you said it would be great if the clan leader died suddenly. He has harmed so many girls over the years, and he even fooled us into saying that the girls who were sacrificed were all serving the witch god..."
"Ah? Brother Huo, please don't talk nonsense! If the clan leader hears this, he will definitely kick our whole family out!"
The two fell silent.
In the darkness, Gu Qing's eyes flickered.
Witch god?
Legend has it that the source of witchcraft is the witch god. If you want to become a barbarian, you must communicate with this so-called witch god.
Gu Qing was also very curious about this.
What kind of existence is the so-called witch god?
At this time, Gu Qing sensed a strange fluctuation.
He dropped a small piece of silver ingot, and in a flash he was out of the cave. He turned into a ball of white air and quickly passed through the tents, with villagers coming and going sparsely.
In front of the largest tent in the village, Gu Qing stopped, and his consciousness focused on a man with red hair on his face in the tent.
This man is bare-chested, holding a copper pestle with densely toothed blades, and is cutting open his fingertips one by one. In front of this man is a round black altar, on which a bronze sculpture with three heads and six arms is enshrined. The man's chapped bloody lips kept opening and closing, and he dipped his cut fingertips in blood from the pool of blood on the ground to draw something on the black altar.
Next to it, a girl wearing torn blood-colored clothes and exaggerated make-up fell in a pool of blood, with a dagger stuck between her eyebrows, her eyes dull and unrelenting.
The two big men guarding the tent were horrified.
The two of them just saw a cloud of white air floating in the distance. The white air suddenly stopped in front of the tent they were guarding, revealing a figure in black clothes and black boots with long hair like a waterfall. Then their figures I can no longer move an inch.
"who are you?"
Soon Gu Qing's figure attracted the attention of other villagers.
Gu Qing turned around, his indifferent gaze swept over the gathered villagers, and an inexplicable trembling feeling appeared in the hearts of the villagers, as if the person in front of them was a high-ranking god, making them involuntarily want to kneel down and worship. .
Withdrawing his gaze, Gu Qing stepped forward and opened the curtain. He walked to the black altar in a few steps and stretched out his hand to grab the three-headed and six-armed statue. The man with the red hair on his face looked at him blankly for a few times and then turned back. He came to his senses and roared angrily.
Bang!
This person suddenly rushed towards Gu Qing, but was bounced back by a huge force. He flew backwards several feet, fell to the ground, spat out a mouthful of blood, and passed out.
"What formation is this?"
Gu Qing stopped in front of the statue, and he felt an invisible force blocking him. This force was not too strong.
This invisible power comes from two sources, the formation on the black altar, and a small piece on the left chest of the statue. Just now, Gu Qing was waiting outside the tent for this man with red hair to move the formation on the black altar. After finishing the painting, he came in. He took a few glances to memorize the formation on the black altar, and then grabbed the statue regardless of the invisible blocking force.
Click!
The statue immediately fell into pieces, and the invisible power also dissipated. Gu Qing clamped a small fragment on the left chest of the statue with his fingertips, and penetrated it with his spiritual consciousness.
There was a vast darkness with no boundaries. As Gu Qing's consciousness penetrated, the darkness cracked open, and it seemed as if a god comparable to the heaven and earth opened his eyes.
[Small cultivator in the spiritual realm, how dare you spy on the true god? 】
Gu Qing only felt a boundless force coming towards him, slamming his consciousness back. He took a few steps back, his expression already showing a bit of surprise.
Holding this small fragment in his hand, he took out the storage bag in his cuff and put the fragment in.
He glanced at the female corpse on the ground, came to the person with red hair on his face, flicked his fingers to shoot out a golden light, and smashed the person's head with a pop, then took out the Desire Soul Flag to collect the remaining soul, and then looked back Towards the black altar built on the ground, he took out the Lanjiang Flying Sword and directly cut the black altar smoothly, and also put it into the storage bag taken out from the cuff.
By the time Gu Qing walked out of the tent, all the villagers outside the tent had run away, and the two big men guarding the tent had also disappeared. Gu Qing closed his eyes slightly for a moment, then stepped hard on his feet, and his body transformed into a The white escaping light headed towards the direction where the shouts of killing came from the west.
…
In the blink of an eye, three months later, the ice and snow gradually disappeared.
During this period, Gu Qing only did two things every day.
The first thing is to extract the remaining souls from the messy corpses on the battlefield and collect them into the desire soul flags.
The second thing is to explore the border villages.
Gu Qing has traveled across the border of Xizhao Kingdom, and he once again harvested a small fragment of a strange statue.
During this period, he found several small battlefields and successfully gathered many remnant souls. Now the number of remnant souls in the Desire Soul Banner has reached 4,200.
This quantity is already the limit that the Desire Soul Banner, a medium-grade magical weapon, can carry. The light blue soul mist inside the soul banner is densely packed with residual souls. It only takes a few more years to cultivate the Desire Soul Banner. reveal its true power.
It has been more than half a year since he left Tianbei County and came to the Beize Kingdoms. The purpose of Gu Qing's trip was finally achieved.
In a city on the border of Xizhao Kingdom, in a room on the second floor of a common restaurant, Gu Qing was taking a bath in a wooden barrel. Under the white water vapor, he was playing with three jade charms of different colors in his hand.
These three sound-transmitting jade talismans can respectively contact Guo Zifeng, Zhen Jiulong, and the seventh-level Qi refining cultivator of the Yan family who is temporarily living in the Red Feather Formation. Just now, Gu Qing checked these three sound-transmitting jade talismans. Guo Zifeng's side mostly had some pleasantries, and Zhen Jiulong's side was not much different, but these two fellow disciples of Gu Qing both revealed a piece of news.
In response to the request of the Five Northwest Cultivation Alliance, the three schools of Returning to the Wind Valley moved forward ten years.
In other words, in a little more than three years, there will be the next three performances, and Gu Qing has a quota to participate in the three performances personally given by the sect leader.
As for the Yan family, a message was passed to Gu Qing, saying that a monk was trying to sneak into the Red Feather Formation.
"It's time to go back."
Gu Qing stood up in the barrel.
In a flash, he was already on the bed. He put on a black suit haphazardly and tied his long hair behind his head.
Three days ago, Gu Qing took a blood-transforming pill. This blood-transforming pill was really useful for the situation in his body. It had already melted some of the blood in his Shenque point.
"but……"
Gu Qing lightly twisted two fingers to perform the fireball technique. A blazing blood flame the size of a human head, with the heat of distorting the air, was held in his palm.
As the blood accumulated in the Shenque acupoint melted away, the spiritual power and consciousness in Gu Qing's body became a little darker, making it look a little strange.
