Under the starless and moonless night.
The cold sea breeze blew and the waves rolled on the sea.
Two rays of light came from afar, piercing the sky one after another, and suddenly they were close. For a while, the sea breeze blowing nearby calmed down strangely, and the two rays of light fell on a mountain with a radius of only a few miles. When it was over the desert island, it stopped suddenly without warning, and the light gradually dispersed, revealing two figures standing opposite each other.
The two figures standing opposite each other, one of them is an old man in a Taoist robe with gray hair, and the other is a handsome young man in black. They are the old Taoist Chang Deng and Gu Qing who hurriedly left Changming Island.
At this time, it had been more than a moment since the two of them left Changming Island. Although both of them had reservations, they had already traveled more than three thousand miles without flying at full strength!
The two seemed to be confronting each other, and the atmosphere became slightly tense.
The old Taoist Chang Deng's eyes were slightly lowered with a sense of vicissitudes and helplessness, and the loose Taoist robes on his body rustled in the sea breeze.
He raised his hand and smoothed his beard that was flying wildly in the wind. He glanced at a certain location under the night in the distance, and then turned his gaze to Gu Qing. There was a flash of light in his eyes, and his expression seemed a little strange.
A faint feeling of locking always lingered in the heart of Chang Deng Lao Dao. He knew that it was Gu Qing who was always wary of him.
He shook his head and smiled, and hugged Gu Qing from a distance: "Fellow Daoist Gu, I have some important things to do, so I'll say goodbye here."
"Take care of yourself."
In the darkness, Gu Qing quickly clasped his fists in return.
He looked calm and had a slight smile on his face.
The old Taoist Chang Deng took a deep look at Gu Qing, and turned into an escaping light again. After half a breath, the escaping light disappeared into the distant night and disappeared without a trace.
The chuckle on Gu Qing's face gradually subsided.
'This old Taoist Chang Deng doesn't seem to have any objections to me? His eyes flashed slightly, and he retracted his gaze towards the direction where Chang Deng Lao Dao left under the night sky. He casually glanced at the desert island below, then turned around and flew towards a different direction from Chang Deng Lao Dao. Leave.
call out!
The five-color aura around Gu Qing circulated endlessly, causing him to burst out with an escape speed that was more than 50% faster than before. In the blink of an eye, he had escaped a hundred miles away. After flying again for about a moment, a group of small islands appeared. , appeared in his field of vision.
'Wanhua Island Group... Gu Qing recalled the records in the sea map and recognized this small island group as the Wanhua Island Group 8,700 miles away from Changming Island.
The Wanhua Island Group is Wanhua Island, which is composed of hundreds of small islands dotted around the central Wanhua Island. This island group, like the Qingxia Islands that Gu Qing once visited, belongs to Changming Island rules, but the difference is that there is a small force located on Wanhua Island, the core island of this island group.
Gu Qing's escape light disappeared, and his figure quietly landed on the shoal of a small island. He turned over his hand and took out the compass of the sea map.
'Wanhua Sect...
'Since this sect controls a second-grade spiritual vein on Wanhua Island, there should also be foundation-building monks. Gu Qing's consciousness focused on the compass of the sea map, looked at the markings, and with a thought, he released his consciousness, and his consciousness spread on the island.
Soon, he took back his consciousness.
'On an island with a radius of about twenty-three or four miles, the strongest person is only a fifth-level monk in Qi Refining. His consciousness swept through the simple houses on this small island with a radius of more than 20 miles, and found three monks who were not young in the most magnificent house.
The three of them each held the young beauty in their arms and were sleeping soundly. The one with the highest cultivation level was an old man with sagging skin. This person's cultivation level was at the fifth level of Qi refining, but his Qi and blood were declining, and his spiritual power was exhausted. The fluctuations are very frivolous, and it is obvious that he has not practiced for an unknown amount of time.
This old man at the fifth level of Qi Refining is also the only middle-stage Qi Refining monk on this small island. The remaining two people are all in the early stage of Qi Refining, one is at the second level of Qi Refining and the other is at the first level.
Gu Qing's eyes
The light is dim.
He put away the compass of the sea map and reached forward to grab it. Suddenly, countless amounts of gravel were picked up by an invisible force and scattered to the sea. Above the shoal, there was a deep pit with a radius of several feet. , there is turbid seawater inside, seeping out from the surrounding moist sand, flooding the sand pit.
Gu Qing frowned slightly.
Five colored auras circulated around him, and finally only an earthy yellow aura remained. These earthy auras fell into the sand pit like quicksand, seeming to be integrated with the surrounding gravel.
"Points." Gu Qing's mind moved and he whispered to himself.
The khaki aura immediately split into two halves, and the gravel below was also separated, creating a deep ravine. This time, however, there was no turbid sea water, pouring back from the surrounding moist sand, and just followed Gu Qing's body. Infused with earth-yellow aura, the ravine became deeper and deeper. After a while, the rock layer originally buried deep under the gravel could be seen.
Gu Qing's body swayed and he ducked in front of the rock layer. He took out a flying sword and slashed repeatedly. He took out a stone chamber with a radius of several feet, entered it in a flash, blocked the stone chamber with the big stone he took out earlier, and then took back the previous stone chamber. The earth element spiritual power radiated out smoothed the shoal with spiritual consciousness.
After all this was done, Gu Qing withdrew his consciousness and sat in the dark stone room. The red light on his body was shining brightly, and the spiritual power around him turned into the fire attribute, emitting astonishing heat and light like a big sun. The uneven walls of this stone chamber are so hot that they seem to melt!
After Gu Qing withdrew the red light emanating from his body, the originally uneven walls of this spacious stone chamber had become much smoother, and the large stone he used to block the stone chamber had also melted a small part. After solidifying, it completely integrated with the stone chamber.
'If one could perform the Earth Escape Technique without restraint, why would it be so troublesome? Gu Qing sighed secretly, took out a futon from the storage ring and stuffed it under his butt. He also took out a formation plate, embedded a middle-grade spiritual stone in it, and placed it in the center of the stone room.
Like a gauze water curtain, it spread out from the formation plate, passing over his figure, covering the entire stone chamber, isolating the movement inside and outside.
"call……"
Gu Qing's legs were crossed, his heart was in the sky, and he breathed a long sigh of relief - he had been in danger many times since entering the Zichen Secret Realm, and it was only at this moment that his tense heart relaxed slightly.
Feeling the wonderful magic of the Five Elements Condensation in his body, Gu Qing closed his eyes, and sat motionless like a piece of dead wood for two or three hours. Then he opened his eyes and took off his little finger The storage ring I'm wearing.
He finally began to count the gains of Zichen Secret Realm and his party.
'In Ye A's storage ring, this beautiful woman's jade phase and this purple flying sword should be the most precious things. Gu Qing first took out a jade phase and a purple flying sword from the storage ring - this purple flying sword, he guessed it was a magic weapon when he was in the Zichen Secret Realm.
After some investigation, he confirmed his guess.
This purple flying sword is really a damaged magic weapon!
'The biggest difference between a magic weapon and a spiritual weapon is the huge difference in power. The obvious difference in power creates very different fluctuations between the magic weapon and the spiritual weapon... This sword does not have the fluctuation of a spiritual weapon. There is no doubt that it is a magic weapon, but most likely it is just a low-grade magic weapon.
Gu Qing held this purple flying sword and concentrated on it.
He did not sense the existence of the weapon spirit in the purple flying sword.
'Is this sword a magic weapon that has lost its spirituality due to damage and the spirit of the weapon dissipated? Gu Qing was slightly disappointed and held the purple flying sword in front of his eyes.
I saw that the sword was four feet and three minutes long and two and a half fingers wide. There was a cold light on both sides of the blade. The hilt was simple and simple. There were no patterns engraved on it. It was extremely cold in the hand, like thousands of needles pricking it, and it felt slightly heavy. .
'Sure enough, it's different from a spiritual weapon. No matter how much I search for it, I can't find even half of a spiritual pattern on this sword. Gu Qing looked at it for a few times, then put the purple flying sword into his storage ring.
and look back
Qing looked at the jade statue that looked like a beautiful woman - the material of this jade statue was unknown, and it was always emitting a soft light, illuminating the stone room with a radius of several feet. Under this soft white light, Gu Qing's heart was clear. , very comfortable, feeling like bathing in the moonlight.
"Idols..." Gu Qing remembered the statues he had found in Beize. He stretched out his hand and carefully touched the corner of the jade phase. He released a trace of consciousness that could be cut at any time and went towards the jade phase to explore.
His spiritual consciousness, by touching the hand on the corner of the jade phase, easily penetrated into the interior of the jade phase that looked like a beautiful woman.
About three or four breaths passed.
Gu Qing took back this trace of consciousness.
He looked at this jade phase with a slightly thoughtful look.
This jade-connected body is made of the same milky white material. Except for that material, nothing seems to exist inside. His consciousness turned around in it, and there was a kind of wandering in the boundless world. The endless soft white light creates a feeling of being in the middle of the vast sea.
'Most of them are treasures to assist in cultivation. Gu Qing put away the woman's jade form, and took out three formation disks, three sets of formation flags, and a stack of seven talismans from Ye A's storage ring.
'These three formations will be studied in the future. Gu Qing first put away the three array disks and three sets of array flags, and checked the seven talismans.
From Gu Qing's perspective, the seven talismans were all upper-level second-grade ones. According to his experience, they should be talismans used on the road.
'The Encyclopedia of Zhoulu of Tiancai Dibao also records several kinds of talismans used for traveling, but this kind of talisman is not recorded. Gu Qing waved his hand and put these seven talismans into the storage ring.
Immediately, he took out the remaining thirteen elixirs sealed in jade boxes from Ye A's storage ring, as well as various spiritual liquids with various attributes, various tokens, jade slips and other miscellaneous items. things.
'The elixirs are not very rare, they are all unique elixirs in the Zichen Secret Realm. Just doing a simple inventory, Gu Qing sealed the thirteen elixirs back into the jade box, put away the five bottles of elixir, and then destroyed the tokens and a few jade slips that only recorded miscellaneous things.
'The space inside this storage ring is about two hundred feet, and it should be able to be exchanged for a large amount of spiritual stones. Gu Qing took off Ye A's storage ring, weighed it in his hand, and put it aside.
Counting this woman’s storage rings is just an appetizer.
Gu Qing grabbed it in front of him, and more than twenty storage rings with slightly different colors and formats were taken out and held in his hand.
'With so many storage rings, even if it is just to break the ban, it will probably take more than two months... Gu Qing said that these storage rings were put aside first, and then he took out a storage bag that was on the verge of damage.
He moved very quickly, and as soon as he took out the storage bag that was on the verge of damage, he took out all the contents in one go.
Gu Qing's eyes quickly passed over the debris and looked at the two corpses among them - when Yu Lingkong diverted the disaster to the east, he took decisive action and killed the two Qiu family monks who were chasing Yu Lingkong, and casually killed the two corpses. The body of the Qiu family monk was put into the storage bag.
'Only one of these two people has a storage ring. Gu Qing searched the bodies of the two people and took out three storage bags from one of them. From the other's body, he took out a storage ring, a storage bag, and a similar thing to a beast-controlling one. Bell ball.
Then Gu Qing temporarily removed the gauze-like water curtain around him and waited quietly. The corpses of the two brothers and sisters were scattered to the world - the space in the storage bag was stagnant. Therefore, although the two men died, their cultivation remained. They have not dispersed back to heaven and earth, and at this time, because the cultivation base of these two people is not high, their cultivation base has scattered back to heaven and earth, and it has not caused much commotion.
The three monks on the island are all not very high in cultivation. They should not be awakened by this movement. Even if they are awakened and come to investigate, there will be no results based on the cultivation of those three people.
After the movement on the two corpses subsided, Gu Qing activated the formation disk again, spreading out a gauze-like water curtain to cover the surroundings, then threw the two corpses into the spirit beast bag, and put the mutated red-tailed demon bee into one of them. location
In that space, the other body was fed to the black tiger monster.
The current flying speed of the black tiger monster is still too slow.
If it could be improved to the level of a human foundation-building monk, its wing-flapping speed would surely be greatly increased.
Of course, Gu Qing could only do it, feed the black tiger monster some blood food from time to time, and not waste too much energy on this matter.
Gu Qing took a casual look at the four storage bags that the Qiu family had obtained from them, as well as the small ball-shaped beast-controlling treasure.
'Three low-grade spiritual weapons...
'A total of more than 700 middle-grade spiritual stones...
'A strange monster with a triangular head that can be compared to a monk at the tenth level of Qi Refining...huh? What kind of monster is this? Gu Qing casually put away the four emptied storage bags, then waved his hand to put away the mountains of spiritual stones in the stone room, leaving only the small ball in his hand.
This small ball seems to be made of gold and iron. It feels warm to the touch. There is a space of thirty feet in diameter. Locked inside is a huge monster with a triangular head. This monster looks very clumsy. The level of demonic energy around him is probably comparable to the tenth level of Qi refining of a human monk.
'Let's check again later.
Gu Qing glanced at the stone chamber, which was not big enough to accommodate this monster beast. He suppressed some curiosity in his heart and collected the small ball.
Gu Qing randomly picked up a storage ring, held it in his hand, and explored it with his spiritual consciousness. He felt that a slightly illusory black restriction layer appeared in front of his eyes, blocking his spiritual consciousness.
'Is water a restricted layer composed of restrictions?
'The original owner must have been dead for a long time, and the forbidden layer inside has dimmed to such an extent... Gu Qing seemed to sigh.
He threw the storage ring into the air, and then a flash of inspiration appeared in one hand, and a high-grade spiritual stone appeared. In the other hand, the finger movements changed, and the prohibition was condensed - it was still the five elements prohibition.
Gu Qing has become more and more proficient in condensing the Five Elements Forbidden.
That's it.
In the Wanhua Island Group, under the shoal of an unknown island, in the hard rock layer, in a deep stone chamber with a radius of several feet, Gu Qing used the Five Elements Taboo to break through the forbidden layers of storage rings one by one. Bit by bit, more than fifty days passed in the blink of an eye.
More than fifty days and nights, nearly two months, is not a short period of time for most living beings in this world.
"Finally, I will break all the storage rings." In the dark stone room, Gu Qing muttered to himself, put down the last storage ring, and a high-grade spiritual stone in his hand turned into fly ash and fell to the ground.
After continuously condensing the restriction for two months, even Gu Qing felt that his mental strength was almost exhausted, and there were stabbing pains in his head. He frowned, and a top-quality spiritual stone quietly appeared in his hand.
'There is still 70% spiritual power left in the body...
'More than half of the power of the soul has been consumed...
'Although there are five golden lotus seeds shining all over the body, which makes the technique continue to operate, breaking the ban for the past two months is really tiring.
Gu Qing felt the consumption of his body.
He endured the stinging pain in his head, straightened his body, and took out a smooth milky white pill bottle, which was the Lotus Heart Jade Dew Pill.
He raised his head and drank a lotus heart and jade dew pill, put away the milky white pill bottle, held the top grade spiritual stone, and closed his eyes.
As soon as the Lotus Heart Jade Dew Pill was taken into his mouth, it turned into a cool and gentle medicinal power that spread all over Gu Qing's body. He, who had been exhausted mentally, felt a little warmth coming out of his heart and rippling around his body. This warmth was in harmony with the cooling medicinal power, but it did not If there was even the slightest conflict, the water and the water melted together, making him feel like he was in the clouds.
His extremely tired mind almost unreservedly sank into the practice of the Great Five Elements Condensation Method. The breathing between his mouth and nose gradually became extremely smooth and long, and finally was unnoticeable, as if it did not exist. Generally, five-color spirit
Power flowed out from his body, and his whole body seemed to transform into a five-color lotus platform.
The five-color lotus platform was like a millstone, rotating around Gu Qing at a slow speed. The five-color stream of light it emitted filled the entire stone room and swept over the storage rings beside Gu Qing.
One day...two days...three days...
Time passes by in a hurry like running water.
at some point.
There seems to be wind, forming in the stone chamber.
A vortex of spiritual energy appeared around Gu Qing, causing the gauze-like water curtain emanating from the array on the side to sink inwards.
The spiritual stone embedded on the array plate quickly became dim, but after more than ten breaths passed, it actually fell into pieces, bursting out a ball of spiritual energy, and submerged into the spiritual energy vortex around Gu Qing.
As the middle-grade spiritual stone embedded in the array exploded, the gauze-like water curtain that was already concave around him immediately dissipated, and the thin spiritual energy from the surrounding heaven and earth gathered together and poured into Gu Qing's body.
On the island.
In a beautifully built house.
The old monk at the fifth level of Qi Refining suddenly raised his head, his eyes full of panic, and even the pen in his hand fell on the document.
"Sir, what's going on?"
The plump woman in a red dress who was grinding aside saw the sudden appearance of the old monk at the fifth level of Qi Refining, so she asked aloud.
The plump woman in the red dress was a little panicked deep down. She had never seen this old monk behave like this before!
She has served this old monk for seven years. Although she did not volunteer at first, after seven years of extravagant life, she does not want to be as poor as before. What's more, although the old monk is a bit older, he has always been good in that regard. The dragon is fierce and the tiger is fierce, and he is really good to her. On weekdays, he doesn't have the slightest air of being a fairy.
"nothing."
The old monk at the fifth level of Qi Refining had already taken out a communication talisman and was about to do something. However, after hearing the words of the plump woman in red dress, he sighed deeply and put away the communication talisman.
He was indeed aware of the fluctuations in spiritual energy around him.
Within a hundred miles of this small island, only he, a monk with spiritual consciousness in the middle stage of Qi refining, could sense the fluctuations of the surrounding spiritual energy. He should send a message to the sect and then rush to investigate.
but……
The long days of peace made him nostalgic.
If they really send a message to the sect and rush to investigate, but nothing is found, and the sect blames it, if they really find out something... Hey, he is a fifth-level Qi refining person who has not meditated for many years and has empty spiritual power. If you don't want to repair it, you will be wiped off by others!
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth poured in and submerged into Gu Qing's body.
Gu Qing has noticed the changes around him.
But he did not forcibly interrupt his practice.
Although the spiritual energy of heaven and earth nearby is very thin, and the spiritual energy provided to Gu Qing is not as good as one-tenth of the spiritual energy provided to him by the top-quality spiritual stone in his hand, it can be considered a help to some extent.
At present, he has broken all the more than twenty storage rings, and the purpose of this retreat has basically been achieved. Even if other monks come here to investigate, the most they can do is to let him interrupt his practice. In this case, he Why bother to care about how much noise is caused now?
Gu Qing naturally didn't know.
The commotion caused by his practice has made the only mid-stage Qi-refining monk on the island panic and go through a lot of psychological struggle.
The medicinal power of this Lotus Heart Jade Dew Pill is somewhat similar to the unique Life and Creation Pill in the Creation Cave area in the Zichen Secret Realm. Both of them can strengthen the soul while improving spiritual power.
However, the medicinal power of the former is far greater than that of the latter, especially in terms of strengthening the soul. It is infinitely stronger than the latter.
Cultivation has no time, it has been thousands of years in the blink of an eye.
Most of the monks who said this sentence did not spend thousands of years in a retreat, but it was more of a feeling.
The monks are in deep cultivation, forgetting everything around them, and often several days have passed in a trance.
Just like Gu Qing at this time.
