"Fellow Daoist Lin invited me."
Xuanyunzi narrowed his eyes and smiled.
His plump face, with somewhat unclear eyes, glanced at the Lu brothers beside him.
As Gu Qing and the Lu brothers joined the group, the number of monks in this wave reached eleven, and the eleven were divided into four small waves, each of them on guard at a distance.
Stepping through the black mud, the group of people walked loosely into the darkness, covering a hundred miles in less than half a day.
Due to the strange darkness of the ruins, the cultivators were unable to fly with their swords, or even fly close to the ground. They could only walk on foot to reach the formation.
Therefore, it was unexpected for Gu Qing to go so slowly.
He thought for a moment.
After previously taking action to clean up the Han worms, he had some idea of his current strength.
Compared with before when he could only perform the first two moves of the Five Qi Sword Technique, now he can already perform the third move of the Five Qi Sword Technique, and his strength has undoubtedly improved greatly.
There are six moves in the Five Qi Sword Techniques, all of which are sword moves without names. Starting from the first move, five flying swords are needed to coordinate. In the previous few stages of the road, Gu Qing failed to collect five middle-grade magic weapons belonging to the five elements. Flying Sword, so his practice of Five Qi Sword Techniques has always been at the entry level.
During this period of his journey, although he had collected five medium-grade flying swords belonging to the five elements seven years ago, he had been practicing in seclusion before and thought that he had a talisman, so he did not pay too much attention to the Five Qi Sword Techniques. Live your heart.
It wasn't until he killed many Han Earthworm beasts half a day ago that his Five Qi Sword Technique seemed to be on the verge of reaching a small level of success.
The golden light spot the size of a grain of rice is the third form of the Five-Qi Sword Art. Only by practicing this Five-Qi Sword Art to a small degree can it be used casually. Gu Qing now uses the first and third forms of the Five-Qi Sword Art in sequence. The second form can also lead to the third form, but it is undoubtedly a lot more troublesome.
"Using spiritual talismans to fight against the enemy is no different than throwing spiritual stones at the enemy. We still need to return to using magic weapons to fight against the enemy."
Gu Qing's heart ached.
He recalled the previous battle with several monks from the Jinyang Gate outside the ruins.
In that battle, he threw in two second-level middle-grade spiritual talismans. If these two second-order middle-grade spiritual talismans were sold and exchanged for spiritual stones, they would be more than enough for one Jiangzhen Pill.
Gu Qing glanced at Lu Gao beside him with the corner of his eye.
The pair of Lu brothers followed closely behind him.
These two people seemed a little uneasy.
They seemed to be escorting some treasure to the formation to join other monks from their family.
But according to Gu Qing's observation.
At this time, most of the anxiety of the two people came from this matter. Why were they worried about this matter? What kind of treasure are they escorting?
Gu Qing felt a little curious.
He glanced around.
At this time, there was a dense forest of strange trees beside them, and a low hill in front of them. Among the eleven monks on this trip, except for the Lu family brothers who were clustered around him, among the other eight people, the bald The cultivator at the eleventh level of Qi refining walked side by side with the cultivator at the tenth level of Qi refining, who was covered in dark red tattoos. The other three cultivators at the eighth level of Qi refining gathered together as if they were in a group to keep warm.
The remaining two female cultivators on the sixth level of Qi Refining followed the fat monk Xuanyunzi on the twelfth level of Qi Refining. Their beautiful faces were rosy, and they were pulled into the arms of the fat monk Xuanyunzi from time to time. He raised and lowered his hands as if no one else was around.
"People traveling together who have nothing to do with each other can kill each other to the death for just a small amount of profit."
Gu Qing felt a little amused.
There was a cracked corner, and there were several formations that could leak the aura of the elixir. He was not very interested.
How could a mere monk in the Qi refining stage be involved in such a major event that could affect the entire ruins? Only monks at the foundation-building stage are qualified to intervene.
His purpose is to fish in troubled waters.
In this situation, you should try your best to seize cultivation resources.
Whether it was intercepting other monks or exploring other opportunities in the ruins, within half a month, he would leave the ruins and return to the Xianhe Sect.
Just as he climbed the low hill, Gu Qing suddenly turned his head.
He looked at Naluchi.
For an ordinary late-stage Qi-refining monk, a slight fluctuation in the soul spread out from Lu Qi, a fifth-level Qi-refining cultivator with an innocent look on his face.
"Lin...Brother Lin, what's wrong?"
Lu Qi asked nervously, looking around a few times.
"Nothing, just now Gu thought his induction was wrong. He actually sensed a strange fluctuation of soul in the body of fellow Taoist Lu Qi." A light smile broke out on Gu Qing's face.
He turned his head and continued to move forward.
Lu Qi's body was frozen in place.
His face was pale.
He never thought that Lin Changqing would see through the secret technique of the soul. He turned to look at his brother Lu Gao.
"Brother, what's wrong?" Lu Gao on the side noticed something strange about his brother, stopped and asked.
Lu Qi raised his eyes to look at his brother Lu Gao, and quietly glanced at Gu Qing in front of him in the black mud, dressed in black clothes with gold threads, and walking with his hands behind his hands.
"Brother, I just contacted the family using the secret method of the soul, and the family agreed not to pursue us for using that thing without authorization. Don't worry."
Lu Qi gritted his teeth and sent a message back to Lu Gao.
"Really?" Lu Gao looked happy, and then he thought of what Gu Qing said just now, his eyes suddenly dawned, and he nodded to his brother with a smile, "Just now, Fellow Daoist Lin said that the fluctuations in the soul that he sensed were the ones you contacted with the family. Secret method."
With that said, Lu Gao came to Gu Qing's side.
"Fellow Daoist Lin, the fluctuation of the soul that you sensed just now is the secret method of the soul used by my brother and I to connect our families." Lu Gao, who looked slightly mature, cupped his fists at Gu Qing and said, "Fellow Daoist Lin, there is no need to be suspicious. .”
"I see."
Gu Qing looked deeply at Lu Gao.
Without stopping, he climbed to the top of the hill.
This is a wide platform, and the colorful miasma billowing a few feet in front of it completely blocks the way forward.
Everyone looked to both sides.
I saw the colorful miasma spreading out. Both sides of the mountain were covered with endless colorful colors. There was no end in sight. The cultivators suddenly looked at each other.
"This multicolored miasma is so heavy that trying to move it is almost like moving a mountain. And the multicolored miasma that is blocking us at the moment stretches for an unknown number of miles..."
Xuanyunzi no longer thought about moving his hands up and down the two female cultivators. He looked at the colorful miasma in front of him and felt worried.
"Is it feasible to dig a tunnel and move forward?"
The three monks at the eighth level of Qi Refining on the side looked at each other for a few times, and then the tall and thin man among them spoke.
"Ha..." The tenth-level Qi-refining cultivator covered in blood-colored tattoos sneered, "If you dig tunnels in the ruins, you will soon be attacked by overwhelming cold earthworms and beasts. Monks who are not at the foundation-building stage will be attacked. , under the siege of thousands of cold earthworms, the only way to go is to drink hatred and die. If you want to seek death, you might as well try it. Since there is no way forward, we might as well break up and look for opportunities."
With that said, he turned and left. The bald monk at the eleventh level of Qi Refining beside him wanted to follow him.
"Two fellow Taoists, please be patient."
Xuan Yunzi said in a deep voice: "It is indeed difficult to get rid of this five-color miasma, but fellow Taoists, please take a look at this thing."
Saying that, Xuan Yunzi took out a purple aura.
All the cultivators looked at it.
Gu Qing also looked at the purple aura with interest.
In the purple light, there is a rusty curved blade. The shape of this curved blade is extremely weird, as if it is made from the claws of some monster or spiritual beast.
"The grade of this magic weapon is probably the best!"
"Fellow Taoist Xuanyunzi, if you have something to say, you might as well say it directly."
The cultivators in the field spoke one after another.
Gu Qing's eyes were focused on the curved blade, but he was filled with surprise and uncertainty. On the curved blade, he could actually sense a trace of the breath of the spiritual weapon. However, the breath of this spiritual weapon was deliberately hidden and became a bit... Incomprehensible.
He retreated quietly.
Arriving silently at the edge of the platform on the hill, Gu Qing glanced at the bulge below.
His eyes narrowed again.
At this moment, he found this hill to be very strange.
But what is strange is that it is also paradoxical.
This strange feeling lingered in Gu Qing's heart, and he turned his attention to Xuan Yunzi again.
"All the fellow Taoists have stayed away so far. Is it possible that they are worried that a certain Xuanyunzi will suddenly attack?"
Xuanyunzi's expression seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and he glanced at the cultivators who were scattered far away like Gu Qing at this moment.
"Fellow Taoist Xuanyunzi is worrying too much!"
"How could I think so?"
When the cultivators heard the words, they each opened their mouths to respond.
"Please also ask Fellow Taoist Xuan Yunzi to quickly tell me your clever trick to evade the colorful miasma, so that we can save some time!" Gu Qing said expressionlessly.
Xuanyunzi's face trembled on his fat cheeks.
"That's fine."
He gently threw the curved blade shrouded in purple aura upwards, and the curved blade was like a purple sun, emitting extremely dazzling aura.
"This curved blade is a middle-grade spiritual weapon, part of the Purple Phoenix Claw. Wherever the purple light shines, all human and beast souls will be dispersed." He spoke in a strange tone, "I'd like to trouble all fellow Taoists to sacrifice their lives. With the help of a certain Xuanyunzi, it is as easy as turning the palm of your hand to break this multicolored miasma."
Before Xuanyunzi finished speaking, purple spiritual light shone all around.
"not good!"
The bald man at the eleventh level of Qi Refining reacted and retreated violently.
Gu Qing had already taken advantage of the situation and jumped down to the bulge of the hill below. The Lanjiang Flying Sword formed a curtain of water in front of him.
As for the rest of the cultivators on the open platform on the hill, most of them had suddenly dull eyes. They were attacked all at once without being able to resist. The tenth-level Qi Refining cultivator with bloody tattoos on his body showed a look of struggle on his face, but he could no longer resist. Controlling his body shape, the look in his eyes quickly froze.
How fast does the light shine?
The water curtain formed by Gu Qing was instantly eliminated by the purple spiritual light, but his figure was no longer visible behind the water curtain.
The bald cultivator at the eleventh level of Qi Refining had just escaped a few feet away and held out a dark black spurge. Light gray spiritual power filled the whole body. The black spurt grew in the wind and turned into A few feet in size blocks purple light.
The spiritual light on the dark black spurge quickly disappeared, bursts of white energy emerged, and the bald cultivator at the eleventh level of Qi refining brushed his hand over the storage bag, intending to use another method.
puff!
A purple light emerged from his head, and soon the bald cultivator's brain flowed out of the purple light.
"He actually ran away that person named Lin Changqing? This person ran so fast, could it be that he... activated some spiritual talisman such as the teleportation talisman?" Xuanyunzi said to himself.
At this time, Xuanyunzi's face turned pale.
With a thought in his mind, he recalled the curved blade emitting purple light and put it away, and looked at the eight people with dull eyes, including two female cultivators at the sixth level of Qi Refining who had played with him all the way.
"With so many intact 'vessels', if you sell them to the Corpse Ghost Sect, you will probably get a lot of spiritual stones."
Xuan Yunzi was thinking in his mind.
He glanced with some pity at the eleventh-level Qi Refining cultivator with a shiny bald head, half of his head cut off.
…
In the space of the stone monument, Gu Qing's figure was revealed.
"The purple light of the curved blade shone, and it actually gave me a trembling feeling. If that purple light swept by, there would be no way to escape. Is it part of the middle-grade spiritual weapon Purple Phoenix Claw..." Gu Qing felt a little relieved. He took a deep breath, sat down on the futon in front of the black stone tablet, closed his eyes and felt it.
The outside world was calm, as if nothing had happened.
"It seems that the remaining people on this trip died without any resistance." Gu Qing's expression was a little solemn.
He calmed down.
Fishing in troubled waters requires sufficient strength. The cultivator who calls himself Xuanyunzi is no match for him at this time. Apart from anything else, he cannot resist the weird purple light.
Gu Qing took out a Cold Jade Pill and swallowed it.
He planned to stay in the stele space for a few days before going out. By then, Xuanyunzi must have left as well.
Xuan Yunzi should not be able to detect spatial fluctuations through this practice.
