In the empty flat cave on the ghost cave level, there is a camp with nearly a hundred tents and wooden sheds arranged in a circle. There are bonfires everywhere in the camp.
In the simple factory shed built with wooden planks, there are boxes of neatly stacked mustard boxes. This camp is the gathering point opened up by the Withered Bones Gang for mining.
There is a magic circle around the camp, and a semicircular red giant spiritual shield protects the entire camp. It is the rest time of the miners team, and all the miners are sleeping soundly in the animal skin tents.
The camp was quiet, with only a few overseers serving as guards patrolling back and forth around the camp.
Liu Yu was sitting cross-legged in a single tent. In the tent, three fourth-grade "extreme consciousness talismans" were used as the base of the array, and a "hidden breath talisman array" was set up to isolate spiritual consciousness from detection.
A top-grade "yin stone" filled with light gray smoke floats above Liu Yu's head. He is constantly inhaling wisps of light gray gas from the "yin stone" above his head, and is practicing the "Tianshi Mantra·Taohun Heart Sutra".
The mining team has to go out to mine for eight or nine hours every day and only has three or four hours of rest. The same is true for Liu Yu, the mine supervisor.
The free time was not enough for Liu Yu to practice. In addition, the ghost cave was filled with Yin Qi and the Five Elements Spiritual Qi was extremely thin. The effect of practicing the main skill "Golden Earth Society Dao Sutra" was extremely poor.
Therefore, the expansion of Zifu's space has almost stagnated in the past two months. Liu Yu can only maintain basic qi-replenishing practice and absorb the spirit stones in the storage bag to replenish the daily mana consumption in Zifu.
But he insists on practicing "Tianshi Mantra·Tao Soul Heart Sutra" every day, because in this place with strong Yin Qi, the condensation of "Tao Soul Qi" is relatively smooth.
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At nine o'clock, the miners emerged from the square tents in the ten-man room one after another and walked towards the largest wooden shed in the camp. There were several long square wooden tables in the wooden shed.
There are benches on both sides of the wooden table, both of which can accommodate people. This is the camp canteen, where miners line up in front of the stove to receive food.
"Here!" The cook scooped out a large spoonful of white liquid from the pot and poured it into the miner's big bowl. It is a kind of milk that is popular among Northlanders. Then he handed over two pieces of scones. The cake is like Yunzhou's coarse grain lumps, except it is softer, freshly baked and has a fragrant aroma, and the taste is good.
The miners only eat two meals a day, before and after work. The food at the end of work is barbecue and low-quality spiritual wine.
When Liu Yu and other supervisors go out, they can bring a meal, a piece of pancake, a piece of barbecue, and a small pot of inferior spiritual wine. Liu Yu never drank this sour inferior spiritual wine and gave it to his miners.
"Old Heiniu, where are you going today?" After dinner, all the members of Lao Niu's mining team gathered, and the team leader "Ghost Ya" casually asked the mine leader Lao Niu.
"Sir, let's go to the mining area yesterday. There should be some minerals hidden there." The old man from the mine replied hurriedly and respectfully.
"Let's go then!" Gui Ya nodded, then led the Lao Niu mining team out of the camp and headed towards the direction of yesterday's mining place.
At this time, the other mining teams of the Withered Bones Gang also set off in different directions from the camp. The Withered Bones Gang currently has fifteen mining teams. These mines will be centered on the camp and operate within an area of ten miles. They dare not leave. too far.
First, if the mining team is in danger and the camp receives a distress message, it can send personnel to rescue in time.
Secondly, it’s too far away and it’s troublesome to carry the minerals back and forth. Once the ten-mile mining area is fully mined, the camp will be moved to another location and mining will continue.
"Hei Que, stay here, Xuan Kong, come with me!" The mining team came to the mining tunnel area where yesterday's mining was. "Ghost Ya" put on his fist blade and walked towards the dark and empty tunnel ahead. Liu Yu summoned the golden Cun Jian raised his magic shield and followed him.
After the mining team left yesterday, the aura of living people left behind will definitely attract ghosts. Before mining, it needs to be cleaned up.
Without opening his "psychic eye", Liu Yu could detect with just his spiritual sense that this small mining area with crisscrossed tunnels was filled with ghostly energy. The seemingly empty mine tunnels were actually filled with a large number of ghosts floating in the air. .
"Bump, bump!" The gloves on Gui Ya's hands flashed with cold light, and two short blades popped out from each glove, like animal claws. After stimulating the protective aura, they were like A gust of wind rushed out, the fist blade was swung, and the mine tunnel suddenly erupted with black smoke, all of which were the ghosts blasted by the fist blade.
"Sand, sand!" Like a hornet's nest, festering corpses crawled out from the cave floor or from the slag piled aside.
Among them were many green-haired zombies, both in human and animal shapes. In front of Liu Yu was a humanoid zombie. Only when his upper body crawled out of the hole where he was hiding, was he cut in half by a sword energy.
Although there are many ghosts and zombies, they are facing two foundation-building stage ants, Liu Yu and "Ghost Ya". The two of them are like chopping melons and vegetables, cleaning up the ghosts in this small mining area.
Just when it was about to be cleaned up, with a dull beast roar, a beast-shaped bone demon with jagged bones and a ghostly aura rushed out from a corner.
Bone demons are a general term for ghosts that have “will-o’-the-wisps” in their bodies and whose bodies are skeletons. They come in both human and animal forms. The formation of this kind of ghosts is very different from ghosts and zombies.
Ghosts such as ghosts and zombies are all acquired ghosts formed by the residual soul left before death, which was stimulated by Yin Qi and slowly absorbed Yin Qi.
The conditions for the formation of a bone demon are even more stringent. The bones left behind after the death of living creatures are eroded and nourished by a large amount of "primary yin erosion gas" in a place with strong yin energy. Over the years, a wisp of "will-o'-the-wisp" slowly condenses. ", and come back to life, it can be regarded as a semi-acquired ghost.
Because this "will-o'-the-wisp" born in the early Yin erosion energy can be regarded as a special spirit body similar to the soul, also called "soul fire".
At first, this "Soul Fire" was as thin as smoke, but as it continued to absorb the "Primary Yin Erosion Qi" on its own, the "Soul Fire" in the bone demon's body became more and more solid, and finally combined with the "Life Fire" in the Shengling Niwan Palace. "Soul" is no different.
Although the "soul fire" in the body of the bone demon is the condensation of heaven and earth and has nothing to do with its living soul that has long since dissipated after death, the broken bones that protect the "soul fire" are still left behind before death, so it is classified as a semi-acquired ghost. .
Because bone demons are difficult to form, they are relatively uncommon. Only in this underground ghost cave level can you occasionally encounter such ghosts.
Once the bone demon awakens, its combat power will not be low, and this kind of ghost has a special hobby, so that it can collect the bones of various demon beasts, and slowly melt them into its own demon bones through the yin energy, becoming a part of itself.
If you are lucky enough to merge with the spiritual bones of some powerful monsters, it will even give the bone monster itself some special abilities, greatly increasing its combat power.
Therefore, each skull demon's body shape is strange and different. Some have several heads at the same time, some have many hands and feet, and some are covered with bone spurs.
Judging from the general body shape of the skull monster in front of me, it should have been a four-legged beast such as a tiger or a leopard.
Now there is a long tailbone protruding from the ilium behind the back. It can be seen that it was refined later, because it is a scorpion tail, and there is a huge barb at the end. The bone of the barb is sharp and dark, and it is highly poisonous at first glance. .
This skull demon has its high scorpion tail tilted up, and its entire body is filled with traces of black smoke. The originally rotten skeleton is filled with a dignified and realistic black evil spirit.
The skull of the beast is huge, with a pair of white teeth that grind up and down. The sunken and hollow eye sockets are illuminated by two blood-red pupils, which are the soul reflected by the "soul fire" hidden in the skull. mango.
"Bump!" The animal-shaped bone demon suddenly pounced on "Ghost Fang", opened its ferocious skull beast's mouth, and bit into "Ghost Fang". "Ghost Fang" dodged, and the bone demon continued to charge, knocking him away all the way. stones on the ground.
"Blazing Wind Blade Shadow!" Gui Ya followed closely behind the bone demon, channeled his Qi into his acupuncture points, and unleashed a fist blade technique. Nearly a hundred spirit blades with spirit-breaking powers attacked the bone demon like ghost shadows.
These spiritual blades hit the bone demon instantly, but only a small part hit the skeleton. Most of them passed directly through the gaps between the bones, only dissipating some of the bone demon's evil spirit.
The spiritual blade that hit the bones of the bone demon only left shallow white marks on the dark gray bones. The bones of the bone demon have been tempered by Yin Qi for many years, and the hardness of the bones is no weaker than some defensive spiritual weapons. , this blow did not cause any damage to the bone demon.
"Big trouble!" Gui Ya couldn't help but frown. Ghosts like the bone demon have always been extremely difficult to deal with. They are covered in skeletons without skin and flesh, and they don't know pain at all. In addition, the skeletons have been tempered by Yin Qi for many years, and their defenses are extremely strong. Easy to deal with.
Even if a few are cut off, it will be neither painful nor itchy for the bone demon, unless it breaks and collapses most of its bones in a short period of time, or its entire skeleton is shattered and scattered.
But judging from the spiritual energy emitted by this skull demon and the evil aura condensed from its bones, it is equivalent to the monk's foundation-building period. Even if the deputy leader is here, it will take some time to dismantle this skull demon in a short time.
Now we can only try to crush the skull of this bone demon and disperse the "soul fire" hidden in it. This is also the biggest weakness of all bone demons. If it fails, we can only activate the magic talisman and call to the camp. Help came.
"Wind of Shadow!" Gui Ya instantly activated the "Wild Spirit Overlord" state, greatly increasing the speed of his movement, turning into a shadow, flying towards the charging bone demon, dodging a beast claw, and pouring spiritual power into it. The fist blade, the tip of the blade shines with light, is about to stab the skull of the bone monster head.
"Not good!" Suddenly a cold light struck, and Gui Ya secretly thought something was wrong. What struck him was actually the scorpion tail at the tail of the skull demon. Gui Ya immediately stopped his hand, stimulating the protective aura to the strongest level, and at the same time a pair of The fist blades are crossed in front of the body.
"Poof!" Guiya was hit by the scorpion tail, and his body was shot away like a cannonball. He slammed into the thick stone wall behind him. After sliding down, he spit out a mouthful of blood. At this time, the bone demon had opened his mouth. He opened the skull beast's mouth and bit the "Ghost Fang".
"Rock shield, rise!" Liu Yu rushed over at this time, lifted up a rock shield, and blocked it in front of "Ghost Ya". The bone demon made a "bump" sound and hit the rock shield hard, breaking it. There were a lot of bones, but the skull demon didn't know the pain at all. He got up and immediately rushed towards Liu Yu again.
"Rock Shield Explosion!" Liu Yu turned the seals of his hands, and the thick rock shield that had been cracked by the impact exploded instantly, knocking the bone demon away. Then the seals of his hands changed again, and the Zifu Spirit Gate opened, and a large number of "Golden Intentions" appeared. "Earth's true energy" is injected into the ground beneath your feet from your feet.
I saw large and small stones scattered in every corner of the mine tunnel, floating up one after another, and quickly smashed towards the bone demon, and immediately shattered when they hit the bones.
The skeleton of the bone demon was as hard as cold iron. Although it was not afraid of the impact of rocks, there were too many large and small rocks scattered on the ground, flying from all directions. Although the bone demon could not be hurt, it was buried and only one part of the bone demon was exposed. A ferocious huge beast head.
"The poor Taoist can't hold on for long, do it quickly!" Liu Yu poured a large amount of zhenqi into the hill-shaped pile of rocks, firmly pressing the bone demon buried under the pile of rocks until he could not move, and at the same time, he attacked the "Ghost Fang" behind him. ", said.
"Soul-shattering kill!" Gui Ya knew that the opportunity was too good to miss, and immediately jumped up, pouring all the true energy in his body into the fist blade of his right hand, accumulating energy to perform the strongest killing move, the tip of the fist blade pierced the bone demon's forehead and skull, only to Hearing a harsh grinding sound, the fist blade pierced the bone demon's skull.
"Boom!" With a loud noise, the small mountain rock pile exploded together with the bone demon below. Apparently, this fist blade had exploded the bone demon's "soul fire", and the exploded psychic storm swept across all directions instantly. , bones and gravel flew everywhere, and dust filled the entire mining area.
"Gui Ya, are you okay?" When everything calmed down, another mine supervisor "Black Bird" and the rest of the mining team came forward, looking at the mess in front of them, and asked with concern.
"Cough, cough, it's okay!" Guiya took a breath, waved his hand, then walked to Liu Yu and said gratefully: "Thanks to fellow Taoist Xuankong for helping me!"
"You're welcome! The nearby ghosts have been cleared. Pindao will guard the fork on the west side just like yesterday!" Liu Yu replied with a smile.
Guiya nodded, and then said rudely to Old Hei Niu and others: "Stop dawdling, let's get to work!"
Looking at the back of Taoist Xuankong walking away, to be honest, before this, he had looked down upon this Taoist from Zhongzhou who usually walked alone and kept silent. When the gang leader assigned this person to the mining team, he specifically told him to keep an eye on this person.
In the past two months, apart from saying that he was unsociable, Xuankong also obeyed the rules and did not notice any small moves. It has to be said that since this person came, the casualties of the mining team have dropped a lot. This person's skills are indeed Yes, and with the help just now, "Ghost Ya" couldn't help but feel a sense of friendship.
"Niutou, look at that!" Sharp-eyed Liu Zi pointed at a collapsed stone wall not far away and said happily.
"Go and have a look!" Old Hei Niu looked in the direction and saw a stone wall not far away that had collapsed due to the fierce fighting just now, revealing a layer of dark blue and cold rock formations inside, which looked like a layer of cold Iron Ore Rock hurriedly walked over.
"Great, Niutou, it's Hantie Mine!" Liu Zi ran over first and immediately shouted loudly.
Then the Lao Niu mining team got busy. This layer of cold iron ore rock was very deep and rich in mineral deposits. It took most of the day to mine it.
Obviously, the amount of ore mined by Lao Niu Mining Team today will not be low. As expected, after the camel team from Zishi Camp arrived, the "lingji box" was filled with several large boxes.
After returning to the camp, Liu Yu received a dispatch order to escort the transport camel team tomorrow to transport the boxes of ore accumulated in the camp back to the mining village located dozens of miles away in Niuguo Town.
Such transportation is very frequent, occurring every half month, and the escorts are transferred from each mining team in turn. However, Liu Yu has never received an escort mission in the two months since he joined the Withered Bones Gang, and has never been to the Withered Bones Gang. Gang's mining village.
