As you continue to move forward along the map, the aura you can feel becomes more and more intense. By taking advantage of the training time, these monsters can practice some practice, and their strength can be improved a little bit. Of course, Li Xiuping did not dare to waste too much time. After all, it took about three months to open the Penglai Immortal Boat, and they had already spent five days, and they had only just completed the place marked on the map.
Li Xiuping didn't want to stay in the Penglai Immortal Boat like everyone else, waiting for the next hundred years before going out.
After staying like this for a while, Li Xiuping suddenly frowned and looked to the side.
At the end of the line of sight, someone was running towards this side at this moment, and from time to time they would attack the rear. It was obvious that they had encountered some danger.
Those monsters obviously felt the changes there, and they all looked in that direction at this moment, as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
Because of the distance, it was not clear how many people there were, but the number was not very large, probably no more than ten.
Li Xiuping's spiritual perception is not weak, so although he can't see the specific number of people, he can feel that the strength of these people is not very strong, and they are in the foundation building period.
In other words, these people should be monks from the human side, that is, the sect disciples who entered the Penglai Immortal Boat this time.
Li Xiuping couldn't help but be a little curious, because he felt that the monks on the human side should be together. Why are there so few people now?
Did no one else come in, or did the team of human monks get separated due to some change?
In the midst of doubts, those people were already approaching. They were all in extremely embarrassed condition, and many of them were still injured.
There are seven monks in total, and they all wear different clothes. They are obviously from different sects.
In fact, after the selection at the Immortal Ascension Conference, the people who entered the Penglai Immortal Boat were rarely from the same sect. Even those hidden sects rarely entered the Penglai Immortal Boat together.
First of all, the disciples recruited by the Hidden World Sect are all geniuses among geniuses. Most of them have already formed elixirs early and do not have the conditions to enter the Penglai Immortal Boat. Some of the foundation-building disciples are too young because their elders are too young. If you don't trust them to enter the Penglai Immortal Boat, it will be difficult to select suitable candidates just in your own sect, let alone pass the screening of the Immortal Ascension Conference.
After seeing Li Xiuping and others, these people seemed to have seen a life-saving straw, and their speed suddenly accelerated a lot.
Li Xiuping's face looked heavy at this moment, because behind these people was something that Li Xiuping had never seen before.
Not only had Li Xiuping never seen it, he couldn't even feel the breath of this thing. In other words, it couldn't be regarded as a living existence at all. It was like a piece of clothing being held up by something and then blown here by the wind. .
But that thing happened to be real, and it was obviously offensive.
Li Xiuping never expected to encounter such a situation, but it was too late to say anything at this moment. Those human monks had already arrived, and the unknown thing chasing them had also arrived, and directly Attack them.
Li Xiuping's attention had been staring at the thing. At this moment, he saw the thing's two sleeves suddenly floating up, and then two majestic forces flew directly out of his sleeves.
Although this thing launched an attack, it had no clear target and seemed to attack randomly.
Li Xiuping could feel that the attack of this thing was not weak, and ordinary monks in the foundation-building stage could not resist it at all. The reason why these people were able to escape all the way here was probably related to this thing's aimless attack.
Li Xiuping put aside all his thoughts and took a step forward. The hatchet appeared directly in his hand. Then he concentrated his sword intent on the hatchet and swung forward twice to neutralize the attack of that thing. Then Without any pause, he rushed directly towards that thing.
Judging from the previous aura and the attack from this thing, this thing only has the strength of the Golden Core stage at most, so it should not pose any danger to him.
Although Li Xiuping doesn't even know what this thing is now, he has no choice but to kill it.
As Li Xiuping continued to get closer to the thing, it seemed that the thing didn't know the danger was approaching. It still stood still, just like before, and launched two attacks from its sleeves. The strength of the attacks was also the same as before. two.
Li Xiuping still used the hatchet to easily neutralize the attack of the thing. Then he speeded up and approached the thing. He poured his sword intent into the hatchet and slashed at the thing with one strike.
As Li Xiuping slashed down with his sword, his sword force instantly pressed the thing to the ground, and then it exploded as if it couldn't bear the pressure of the sword force.
After this thing exploded, a strange aura rushed out directly to the surroundings, with an aura that made Li Xiuping feel dangerous.
Li Xiuping did not dare to be careless and quickly retreated backwards to avoid being affected by the aura.
After dodging the impact of the aura, Li Xiuping landed on the ground, staring at the dust in front of him, not daring to be careless.
As the dust slowly fell, there was nothing on the ground except broken strips of cloth.
Li Xiuping frowned and checked with his spiritual sense. After confirming that nothing existed, he focused on those monks.
At this moment, the human monks all looked shocked, as if they didn't expect that this young man could easily kill the monster.
Li Xiuping asked directly: "What is this?"
Li Xiuping's question brought everyone back to their senses. One of the monks shook his head and said, "We didn't know that not long after entering the Penglai Immortal Boat, we encountered these things and the team separated."
Li Xiuping frowned and said, "Are there many such things?"
The monk nodded and replied: "There must be hundreds."
Li Xiuping nodded, lost in thought, and asked after a while: "Where did you get separated?"
He didn't know how to find Xu Bansheng and Chen Wanrong before. Now that he met these human monks, it meant that he could meet Xu Bansheng and Chen Wanrong.
The same monk replied: "We can't remember clearly. After we got separated from the team, we were chased here by this thing, and we didn't pay attention to the road."
At this time, a female cultivator suddenly asked: "Are you that Li Xiuping?"
Li Xiuping glanced at her and nodded.
When Li Xiuping saw this female cultivator, she suddenly felt a little shy, but she still smiled and said, "That's amazing!"
Li Xiuping smiled slightly, then looked at the monk who had spoken before, and asked, "Do you know a man named Chen Wanrong and a man named Xu Bansheng?"
Unexpectedly, the monk shook his head.
At this time, the female cultivator spoke again: "Is Chen Wanrong the one who is going to Kunlun Mountain to practice?"
Li Xiuping looked at her again and nodded.
The female cultivator did not show any shy expression this time and said: "There should be no danger if they follow the senior brother from Kunlun Mountain."
Li Xiuping breathed a sigh of relief, but not much.
The threat of the thing before was not small, at least it had the strength of the Golden Core stage, but the strongest ones who entered the Penglai Immortal Boat this time were only at the Void Core stage. If you really encounter this kind of thing, you may not be able to win. The key is that these people also said that there are a lot of such things.
Li Xiuping glanced at these human monks again, and then said: "I plan to go find them, what are your plans?"
These human monks were stunned for a moment, and then looked at each other.
They have seen the terror of those monsters, and now they have managed to get rid of them, but they want them to go back. If they say they are not afraid, they must be lying.
But now that they are separated from the team, dangers that they cannot deal with may appear in Penglai Immortal Boat at any time. Following a person as powerful as Li Xiuping can indeed get a lot of guarantees, not to mention that there is such a person beside Li Xiuping. Many demon monks.
The monk who spoke earlier said: "Although we can't remember the specific location, we still remember the general direction. If Mr. Li doesn't mind, we can lead the way, but we can't guarantee whether we can find them."
To follow Li Xiuping and be protected by Li Xiuping and these monsters, they must show their value, and now their only value is to lead the way.
Li Xiuping nodded and said, "It doesn't matter, as long as you can remember the general direction."
Although the Penglai Immortal Boat is very big, as long as you know the specific direction and look for it all the way, you will be able to find it sooner or later.
The situation on the Penglai Immortal Boat is far more complicated than previously imagined, so finding Xu Bansheng and Chen Wanrong as soon as possible will help Li Xiuping feel at ease as soon as possible.
The monk nodded and said, "Then shall we leave now?"
Li Xiuping glanced at these people again and said, "There's no rush, you should take care of your wounds first, and we'll be on our way again tomorrow morning."
These human monks didn't seem to expect that Li Xiuping would care about their injuries. They saluted and thanked them. Then without saying anything more, they directly found a place to sit down. Each of them took out some healing elixirs. After swallowing them, they began to close their eyes and regulate their breathing.
After all these people sat down, Li Xiuping waved to the monsters, indicating them to continue practicing, and then he walked forward.
There, there were some torn strips of cloth on the ground. Li Xiuping wanted to confirm again what those things were just now.
As Li Xiuping walked to the place where he killed the thing before, after searching for a while, he still found nothing. It was as if nothing had appeared, and those strips of cloth seemed to be here. .
Confused, Li Xiuping bent down and picked up a piece of cloth.
The strip of cloth is very old and has obviously been around for a long time, so it has become a bit rotten. As long as you twist it with your fingers a little harder, it will break.
The cloth strip is just an ordinary cloth strip, but the material should be from a certain sect, but unfortunately there is no aura left on it.
Li Xiuping brought the cloth to his nose and sniffed it, but there was nothing else except a smell of decay.
Li Xiuping threw away the piece of cloth, turned around and walked back. Then he found a place to sit down, took out the previous set of sword techniques, and continued to study.
There was no talking all night until dawn.
Early the next morning, under the leadership of those human monks, Li Xiuping and countless monsters headed directly to the north.
It should be because the monks had walked this road before, so there was no danger.
Li Xiuping was really curious, so he asked, "Have you ever seen similar records of what chased you last night in the sect's classics?"
All the monks were stunned for a moment, then looked at each other, and then one monk replied: "It looks like a resentful spirit recorded in the classics, but it is different from a resentful spirit, so we don't know what it is."
The female cultivator said at this time: "It should be a resentful spirit, but it is different from a real resentful spirit. It seems that something has corroded their body, but the soul left behind is not even the memory of the soul." Also pulled away..."
She paused and continued: "It's like a puppet without thinking, but it's not a body, but a puppet of the soul."
Li Xiuping frowned slightly. This was the first time he heard this statement, so he looked at the Ming female cultivator and asked, "What do you mean?"
The female cultivator hesitated for a moment and continued: "My master said before that there is a kind of evil magic in the devil's path that can drive people's souls, and the driven souls are similar to the ones we encountered before."
"Devil?" Li Xiuping frowned deeper.
As for the word "devil", it is not unfamiliar to the world of spiritual practice, but it is not very familiar either, at least not to Li Xiuping.
Generally speaking, anyone who is evil or not recognized by the righteous way will be called a demon. This kind of statement is the most common in Taoism and Buddhism, among which there is the theory of inner demons.
Li Xiuping had been living in a small place like Qingyang County before, learning all kinds of sword-making knowledge from Mr. Ou Ye every day. He had almost no contact with the outside world, let alone the cultivation world. Although Mr. Ou Ye had said a lot about outsiders. Some things about the world and the practice world, but it only briefly talks about those sects and the so-called practice realm.
In addition to hearing some outside deeds from Mr. Ouye, even when he occasionally went to the city to buy things, Li Xiuping would also sneak into some restaurants with storytellers. He heard that the storytellers told about the outside world and the flying people. The deeds of immortals who come and go.
Although he later entered the Night Travel Division, he dealt with monsters and the people of the Night Walk Division every day. What he saw every day was death, and even if he had occasional conversations, the subjects he talked to were all related to monsters.
Later, I left Qingyang County and went to Huayang Sect to practice. I was exposed to many new things in the world of cultivation, but I really didn't have any contact with demons. There was no record of it even in the Huayang Sect's classics. .
The female cultivator nodded at this time and said: "I heard that the devil was eradicated by Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism as early as three thousand years ago. Some records related to the devil were also destroyed. That's why we have today's peaceful and prosperous age."
Li Xiuping nodded and said, "Is that so?"
He continued: "According to your opinion, are there people of the devil's way in this Penglai Immortal Boat?"
Some people died, but not completely...
