Zhang Liang glanced at the rules of the Hundred Demons Collection, they were very simple. In addition to not being allowed to fight in the Hundred Demons Collection and having to pay demon pills every day, there is also a 10% protection fee required for transactions here, no more.
Zhang Liang swore that this was the simplest town rule he had ever seen. What if there was an assassination? What if it's poisoned? What if it's a robbery?
Well, they are sea monsters after all. They are used to killing in the Immortal Sea. If they can avoid fighting, I am afraid that there are already very strict rules and regulations for them.
Entering from the entrance of the canyon, there are lights guiding you all the way. These lights are things like luminous pearls, and there are also some luminous objects that seem to be cut off from some creatures.
In short, although the light below is still a bit dim, for Zhang Liang and other sea monsters, the visibility is already quite good.
A hundred meters down the canyon, you can see the prototype of a town built on the rock wall. The buildings are very irregular and have no unified style. There are nest-shaped buildings made of seaweed, caves directly cut into the rock wall, and fish bones and Simple buildings made of fish skins cover the cliffs on both sides of the canyon.
The key point is that Zhang Liang saw many sea monsters continuously shuttled among these simple buildings.
Obviously, many of these buildings are shops.
Of course, this does not seem to be the core area of the Hundred Demons Gathering, and there are not many sea monsters seen.
The further down you go, the more buildings you can see in the canyon. It wasn't until Zhang Liang went five hundred meters down the canyon that he saw an eye-shaped street. The most important thing about the street was a huge circular building with various Kraken buildings on both sides.
From time to time, sea monsters would quickly fall to the ground from mid-air. Zhang Liang was tens of meters above the ground. Looking around, he found that the variety of sea monsters here was truly breathtaking.
In addition to the blue-backed stingrays, siren mantises, snake spirits, hermit crabs, and spider crab monsters that we have already seen, there are also unknown species with pimples all over the body, as well as a small number of mushroom people, and a small number of exposed figures. There are also enchanting sea anemone banshees, some female sea monsters covered with pearls, and tall and powerful half-human, half-fish murlocs...
"This is just the Hundred Demons Gathering. I wonder what the Ten Thousand Demons Mansion is like? Its scale and number of species should be dozens of times greater than the Hundred Demons Gathering, right?"
The bottom of the entire canyon is not small, and there are many shops. In the center of the eye is a large open-air building, like a large sports ground.
Zhang Liang glanced around, trying to find a shop or something to wander around, but then he saw a jellyfish floating over.
Not to mention, Zhang Liang hadn’t noticed before that this little jellyfish turned out to be a sea monster in disguise, but its shape was too incomplete. The lower body still had jellyfish tentacles attached to it, but it was a little shorter. There were two tentacles in it. It's thicker and shorter, and it turns out to be two small, lotus-white hands. The main thing is that there are two big eyes and a small mouth growing on the mushroom head, which looks a bit cute.
"Sir, do you need Little Spirit Mother to introduce you to the Hundred Demons Collection?"
"Little Spirit Mother?"
"Ah! Sir, we are soul-absorbing jellyfish! We are just high-level soul-absorbing jellyfish. I am already at the advanced stage of Qi training."
Zhang Liang couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Are you also a sea monster?"
"yes!"
"That side of the soul-absorbing sea..."
The little spirit mother seemed a little distressed, and even frowned: "We, the little spirit mother, are very peace-loving, but those sea monsters like to hunt us, and there is nothing we can do about it! But the strong men of our clan are also powerful It’s not bad, those people can only bully low-level little spirit mothers, if they encounter a strong person from our clan, they will run faster than anyone else.”
Zhang Liang opened his mouth and suddenly said: "You just said you wanted to introduce me to the Hundred Demons Collection?"
The little spirit mother hummed and said: "We little spirit mothers don't like fighting, but if we can have demon pills, we can grow quickly. Therefore, we high-level little spirit mothers will come to the Hundred Demon Gathering to give gifts to the big people who come and go. The demon provides some convenient services. Sir, you rarely come to the Hundred Demon Gathering, right?"
"Can you tell?"
Zhang Liang slowly landed on the ground, and the little spirit mother was floating not far from Zhang Liang's shoulder. She was very small, only a little bigger than Zhang Liang's head, so she was floating when talking to Zhang Liang.
She just heard her say: "I see you don't know where to go, sir. You obviously rarely come here. The Little Spirit Mother is very cheap. You only need one first-grade high-grade demon pill to accompany you for a whole day!"
"oh?"
Zhang Liang immediately threw a first-grade high-grade demon pill at it. The little jellyfish was overjoyed when he saw it. He quickly wrapped the demon pill with his small tentacles and then squeezed it into his body.
The little spirit mother immediately said: "What do you want to know, sir? Where do you want to go, what do you want to buy, or do you want to sell something? Oh, I understand, you must be here to participate in the Hundred Demons Festival, but the Hundred Demons Festival has not started yet. Well, counting the days, there are still two months until the start, sir, you are here early."
"The Gathering of Hundred Demons? What is that?"
"Oh my God, sir, don't you even know about the Hundred Demons Festival? It turns out that this is your first time to come to the Hundred Demons Festival!"
Zhang Liang said with a dark face: "Don't be so surprised. Why are you reacting like that?"
The little spirit mother immediately explained: "I'm sorry, I was rude, sir."
I saw this little guy immediately leaning into Zhang Liang’s ear and whispering: “Sir, this is your first time at the Hundred Demons Gathering, so be careful not to be deceived.”
"Oh? Who would lie to me?"
Little Spirit Mother: "There are a lot of scammers in the Bai Yao Ji. I have been deceived many times. There are always people who want to borrow demon pills from the Spirit Mother, but they don't pay them back, which makes the Spirit Mother mad."
"Uh...why do you want to lend demon pills to others?"
"Well, everyone has borrowed it from you. Our peace-loving spirit mother is always willing to help others!"
Zhang Liang: "..."
"How about you lend me one too? I'm new here, and I'm actually very poor. I don't even have a few demon pills left."
"Ah? Sir, are you so pitiful? Then, then, then...then I..."
I saw this little spirit mother scratching at her, trying to take out the demon pill that had just been stuffed into her body. Zhang Liang was speechless as he looked at her, thinking, can this be done? With this brain, if you are not deceived, who will be?
Zhang Liang immediately waved his hand and said, "Okay, I lied to you."
"Ah? Lie, lie to me? But my lord, what you just said was very realistic..."
Zhang Liang was silent for a moment and said, "Shall I teach you a way to never be cheated?"
"Huh? Is there such a way? Sir, can you tell me? The spirit mother can inform other spirit mothers, and we spirit mothers will thank you, sir."
Zhang Liang: "Every time you earn a demon pill, can't you just eat it?"
"What about the extra ones?"
Zhang Liang rolled his eyes and whispered: "Don't care if there is any extra. Just say you just ate it. If someone wants to borrow it, just ask him to wait for a while and you can pull it out and give it to him."
The little spirit mother looked puzzled: "What's wrong?"
Zhang Liang: "..."
"Forget it, next time there is a demon pill, don't come out to pick up the guests. Come out when you refine the demon pill!"
"Oh? Yes."
Zhang Liang was too lazy to discuss this issue with the little spirit mother. He was even a little doubtful, could he really be a tour guide for him with this intelligence?
Although this little spirit mother speaks very eloquently, her brain... seems to be a bit lacking.
"Wait, do jellyfish have brains? Why do I remember that jellyfish have no brains?"
Zhang Liang couldn't help but look at the little spirit mother suspiciously, thinking, did the jellyfish in the Immortal Sea evolve a brain?
Just listen to Zhang Liang say: "This is my first time coming to the Hundred Demons Festival. If you know anything, please introduce it to me! For example, what is the Hundred Demons Festival you just mentioned?"
"The Hundred Demons Festival? That's awesome. This is a grand gathering held regularly by the Hundred Demons Collection. Every time it is held, a great demon from the Ten Thousand Demons Mansion will personally attend. When the grand gathering begins, all the powerful men from the Hundred Demons Collection will come. . They will fight in the demon fighting arena of the Hundred Demons Gathering, and the winner will receive combat skills, demon elixirs, and even the qualification to practice in the arsenal of the Ten Thousand Demons Mansion."
"Oh? Every year?"
"That's not true. It only happens once every five years, and it's only two months away."
"Where is the arsenal of the Ten Thousand Demons Mansion?"
The little spirit mother thought for a while and said: "I heard that it seems to be the place where the martial arts and combat skills are stored in the Ten Thousand Demons Mansion. It is difficult to enter. Basically, those who can enter the arsenal to practice are either the foundation-building great demons or the geniuses of various races. . Once you are qualified to enter the arsenal to practice, I heard that you can basically become a great demon."
"Oh? How many people can go to the arsenal of the Ten Thousand Demons Mansion through the Hundred Demons Festival every five years?"
"Then there must be...a hundred."
"so much?"
Zhang Liang couldn't help but be speechless. Why did it sound a bit unrealistic? Doesn't this mean that at least one hundred foundation-building great demons can be born every five years in this place called the Hundred Demon Gathering?
Then if five hundred years pass, the one hundred demons who gather to build the foundation will not be able to easily surpass ten thousand?
This should not include the great demons of various races who have established their own foundations. If we include this, there should be more great demons building their own foundations.
The little spirit mother thought for a while and said: "Many of the great foundation-building demons will not come back! Once they have established the foundation, they will stay in the Ten Thousand Demons Mansion."
"oh?"
Zhang Liang thought for a moment and looked around. From the moment he entered the Hundred Demons Gathering, he encountered dozens of great foundation-building demons, which seemed to be quite a few.
Zhang Liang couldn't help but ask: "Spirit Mother, how many foundation-building demons are there in a gathering of hundreds of demons?"
"There are so many! Many of those who can come to the Hundred Demon Gathering are great foundation-building demons. There can be..."
The little spirit mother began to fold her tentacles and seemed to be calculating. After a while, she said: "There can be several thousand. If there is a gathering of hundreds of demons, there may be ten thousand."
"so much?"
"how?"
Zhang Liang raised his eyebrows, isn't this much? So far in our Black Fish Department, and I only have three foundation-building great demons, how come there are so many foundation-building great demons out there?
Zhang Liang: "There are so many foundation-building demons, but none of them can condense into a golden elixir?"
The little spirit mother suddenly made an exaggerated expression: "How difficult it is to get a golden elixir! There are many great demons in the Hundred Demons Gathering who are in the early stage of foundation building. There are a lot less in the middle stage of foundation building, and even fewer in the late stage of foundation building." , and there are only five, six, seven, eight or ninety at the peak of foundation building."
"How many are there?"
Zhang Liang was speechless. What do you mean five, six, seven, eight, ninety? Isn't the difference a bit too big?
"The spirit mother doesn't know either, there are very few anyway."
"Why are there so many in the early stage of foundation building and so few in the later and peak stages?"
"Of course it's because he doesn't have enough to eat! If the Great Foundation Establishment Demon only relies on his own cultivation, it will take decades or even hundreds of years to advance to a small level. Unless there is enough food and demon pills... But the Great Foundation Establishment Demon has a total of There are just so many, and they are all very powerful, how can you eat them every day! If you can’t eat the Great Foundation-Building Demon, how can you advance the other Great Demons? You can’t even advance, let alone condense the golden elixir.”
"oh?"
Zhang Liang understood immediately, as if the truth had always been that simple. After he reached the foundation building stage, even if he refined hundreds of foundation building demon pills, he still could not break through to the middle stage of foundation building.
According to his own estimation, he would have to refine another hundred foundation-building demon pills, and at the same time, he would have to continuously consume the foundation-building sirens in order to advance to the mid-stage foundation-building stage.
Looking at it this way, it seems that it is not easy to reach the middle stage of foundation building.
So, what if you want to advance to the late stage of foundation building in the middle stage of foundation building? Do I need to refine demon elixirs that are in the middle stage of foundation building and above? And there are hundreds of them?
After such a calculation, it seems that it is indeed difficult to condense the golden elixir. When I reach the late stage of foundation establishment, how many great monsters in the late stage of foundation establishment will be eaten by the entire hundred demons?
"The difficulty seems to be quite high indeed!"
Zhang Liang has a big head. According to this algorithm, it will be difficult for him to advance to the late stage of foundation building, let alone condense the golden elixir.
Therefore, the best way is to go to Ten Thousand Demons Mansion. The area of Ten Thousand Demon Mansion spans hundreds of thousands of miles, which is not comparable to that of Hundred Demon Gathering. In such a large territory, there must be more foundation-building demons or second-level ferocious beasts, and there must be more powerful people. This also satisfies the subsequent conditions for the Siren's advancement.
Whether the golden elixir can be condensed is another matter, but it can certainly be achieved in the Ten Thousand Demons Mansion in the later stages of foundation building.
Thinking of this, Zhang Liang even wanted to go directly to the Mansion of Ten Thousand Demons.
Fortunately, reason defeated impulse. The Black Fish Department and the Black Crow Department are still in dire straits due to lack of food. If he goes to the Ten Thousand Demons Mansion, how can he be promoted to the late stage of foundation building without ten or eight years?
Don't wait until you come back decades later. Both movies are almost starved to death.
Therefore, the top priority is to find a way to get the Black Fish Department and the Black Crow Department safely out of the Thousand Miles Coral Reef.
Zhang Liang asked again: "Mother of the Spirits, is the Demon Pill more useful than the Spirit Stone in the Hundred Demons Collection?"
"Of course, we usually use demon pills to buy things! But spiritual stones are also useful. The spiritual stones can be exchanged for demon pills from Wanyao Mansion."
"Oh? Are you saying that the only use of the spirit stone is to exchange demon pills with the Ten Thousand Demons Mansion?"
"Absolutely! There is too little spiritual energy in ordinary spiritual stones. People generally don't exchange good spiritual stones. Only the Wanyao Mansion has more."
"I see."
Zhang Liang couldn't help but think, if the spirit stone is so unpopular in the sea monster world, why does the Ten Thousand Demon Mansion need the spirit stone?
The little spirit mother added: "In the Hundred Demon Collection, ten spirit stones can be exchanged for a first-order low-grade demon pill, a hundred spirit stones can be exchanged for a first-order mid-grade demon pill, and a thousand spirit stones can be exchanged for a first-order high-grade demon pill. . It takes 10,000 pieces to exchange for a second-order low-grade demon pill, and 100,000 pieces to exchange for a second-order mid-grade demon pill. At present, no one can come up with a million spirit stones, so I don’t know if it’s a hundred. Only the Ten Thousand Spirit Stones can be exchanged for the second-order high-grade demon elixir."
Zhang Liang raised his eyebrows. If calculated this way, the value of the spirit stone in the world of sea monsters would be lower than that in the world of human cultivation.
After all, in the world of human immortality, if you really have millions of spirit stones, you can still buy a lot of things.
Zhang Liang thought, since the effectiveness of spiritual stones is so low, there seems to be no need to use the spiritual stones on his body here.
Zhang Liang didn't talk to the little spirit mother anymore, but said: "I want to buy combat skills, travel skills, secret techniques and other items. Where can I buy them?"
"Ah? Sir, combat skills and secrets are very expensive."
"Expensive? How expensive?"
Little Spirit Mother said: "Basically, a good combat skill requires hundreds of first-grade high-grade demon pills. A particularly good combat skill requires thousands of first-grade high-grade demon pills."
"Um?"
Zhang Liang raised his eyebrows, then this is indeed a bit expensive. What is the concept of a thousand first-level high-grade demon elixir? That requires killing thousands of first-level high-grade sea monsters or ferocious beasts to defeat.
If the demon elixir is replaced by spirit stones, wouldn't it take one hundred thousand spirit stones, or even one million spirit stones, to buy a sea monster combat skill?
This combat skill is made of pure gold, so it shouldn't be so outrageous! Could it be that the Kraken's combat skills here are very powerful?
Zhang Liang immediately denied it. He had not seen many powerful combat skills all the way through the fight. They could only be regarded as ordinary. The occasional powerful ones were not too powerful. It's not his boast, one "One Sword" can kill almost all the sea monster combat skills he has seen so far.
"Let me go and take a look."
"Sir, should I go to a big store or a small store?"
"Huh? What's the difference?"
"Big stores have many types of combat skills, while small ones have much less. But if the combat skills that adults need are specific, then the spirit mother can ask her companions to see which store has them, so that she can save demon pills."
Zhang Liang himself didn't know what kind of combat skill he should choose, so he just said: "Go to the big shop! I'll take a look first."
"Sir, please come with me. The largest combat skills and secrets shop in the Hundred Demons Ji is in the circle outside the fighting arena. It contains almost all the secrets of combat skills in the Hundred Demons Ji. There are even many combat skills that were passed down from the Ten Thousand Demons Mansion. Come."
"Oh? Go and have a look."
After a while, Little Spirit Mother led Zhang Liang straight to the Demon Fighting Arena. Along the way, Zhang Liang also saw many little spirit mothers leading all kinds of big monsters through the gathering of hundreds of monsters.
Zhang Liang was a little surprised, because among the ten sea monsters he passed by, there must be at least three great foundation-building demons. This ratio had to shock him. It was true as the little spirit mother said, there were many great foundation-building demons here.
If this is the case, the strength gap between the Black Fish Department and the Black Crow Department is still too big compared to the ordinary sea monster race in the Hundred Demons Collection!
A moment later, when Zhang Liang arrived at the outskirts of the Demon Fighting Arena, there were not many guests here, only a dozen or so.
However, Zhang Liang can generally understand that most of the sea monsters that can come to the Hundred Demons Gathering are not weak. Along the way, the number of tourists and permanent residents in Baiyaoji is not very large. It is much worse than Biyou Island, and can only be compared with a small fairy square on Biyou Island.
Zhang Liang entered the martial arts shop and was immediately greeted by three beautiful female snake spirits. It can be seen that their usual business does not seem to be very good.
However, the little spirit mother immediately stood in front of Zhang Liang: "Look, just take a look first."
I saw a snake spirit, who immediately pushed the little spirit mother aside and said with a smile: "Sister, of course, I will show the guests slowly, you go and stay by the side."
"I……"
I saw that the little spirit mother was suddenly filled with anger, and her anger turned from white to red.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Liang immediately pulled the little spirit mother back, put it on the top, and then said coldly: "Take out all the first-class or above combat skills, secret techniques, and traveling skills in the store, and I will have a look."
"Okay, guest."
"Guest, please come with us."
Zhang Liang was surrounded by three snake spirits and arrived at the counter. He saw several snake spirits quickly finding hundreds of jade slips and placing them in front of Zhang Liang, and they continued to search.
In the end, the three found 312 jade slips and divided them into two parts, one with 283 pieces and the other with 29 pieces.
A snake spirit said: "Sir, all the combat skills, secret techniques and traveling skills above the first level are here. These 29 are all second level."
"It's actually quite a lot?"
Zhang Liang was a little surprised. He asked for those who were above the first level. This eliminated almost 80% of the secret combat skills. There were still more than 300 jade slips. It seemed that the reserve of the secret combat skills of the Hundred Demons Collection was indeed insufficient. few.
The key point is that the second-level combat skills and the Hundred Demons Collection are also sold to the outside world. Unlike the human race's world of immortal cultivation, second-level skills and immortal arts are simply impossible for ordinary people to obtain without special means.
"Sir, what is your body? We can accurately recommend it."
"Sir, your transformation level is almost equivalent to perfect transformation. How about you let me recommend some top combat skills to you?"
"Sir, what price are you going to buy?"
The three snake spirits almost snatched away the demon elixir from Zhang Liang's body.
Zhang Liang said coldly: "I'll see for myself. No introduction is needed. Can you please be quiet?"
"Okay, sir."
The three snake spirits looked at each other and said nothing, but one snake spirit raised its chin slightly, and the other two snake spirits nodded slightly. Apparently they all felt the bloody smell on Zhang Liang's body.
Zhang Liang really wanted to buy the secrets of combat skills. Although he also bought some combat skills from the human race, he felt that maybe the Kraken's stuff was more suitable for the Kraken.
However, after a moment, Zhang Liang frowned tightly. He looked up at the three snake spirits, and then looked down at the jade slips.
"The Secret Technique of Stone Armor" absorbs the free sand and stone from the Immortal Sea to protect the body, which can effectively increase the defense by 20%. The price is 50 first-level high-grade demon pills.
"Bullshit, it's just a method of gathering sand and stone on the body. It can indeed improve the defense of ordinary sea monsters, but if you encounter a truly strong person, it's nothing like bullshit. This is the sea monster's 50 first-level high-grade demon pills. Why? Don’t you want to grab it?”
"Puncture Travel Technique" is a combat-style travel technique, a method of short-distance rampage and impact. It can effectively puncture back and forth eight times within a limited time, which is extremely violent. The price is 56 first-level high-grade demon pills.
"Ha! Who is still a target for you to hit? If you attack in a range, this technique will be defeated without any attack. In front of the iron ball sea urchin, can you show me what you are wearing?"
In "Sword Wave Technique", fish bones are used as swords, and the sword rises in waves. After practicing to the strongest level, the waves carry the meaning of the sword. The price is 128 first-order high-grade demon pills.
"What the hell? Isn't this an upgraded version of the Water Control Technique? In the human world of immortal cultivation, it can only be done with a few hundred spiritual stones, but it requires 128 first-order high-grade demon pills. , they really dare to ask for it.”
Zhang Liang glanced at the jade slips one by one, and his expression did not look good. In comparison, although there are a few fairly good ones, the prices have soared to one to two hundred and one to two hundred and one-level high-grade demon elixirs, and their value is far off.
At this moment, Zhang Liang turned to another jade slip, and when he scanned it with his spiritual consciousness, his face looked a little better.
"Steel Teeth Technique" uses deep-sea spiritual sand to polish teeth. If you practice successfully, or you can cultivate extremely sharp spiritual teeth, your bite force can be increased by 50%. The price is 288 first-level high-quality demon pills.
This technique is not considered a combat technique, nor can it be said to be a secret technique, nor is it a traveling technique.
However, compared to the previous ones, this tooth-refining method is much better.
Although the price of 288 first-grade high-grade demon pills is a bit expensive, this technique is indeed helpful to the black fish spirit. Because among the attacks of black fish, there is biting.
Before he regains the Black Crow Department, if the Black Fish Department masters this method, it cannot be said to crush the Black Crow Department, but it will definitely be stronger than the Black Crow Department.
Soon, Zhang Liang had already looked through nearly half of the secrets of combat skills, but he only selected one "Steel Teeth Technique" and placed it in front of him. The three snake spirits were a little anxious.
One of the snake spirits said: "My lord, after all, we can only see half of these secrets of combat skills. Do you really not want us to explain them to you in more detail?"
"I can make my own judgment on whether it's good or not."
Zhang Liang interrupted the snake spirit and flipped it for a while, but finally reached the second level combat skill.
His spiritual sense swept over the first jade slip. Suddenly, Zhang Liang's eyes lit up and he found a second-level stealth technique called "Nine-Color Stealth Technique".
"It's interesting. You can turn your body into up to nine different colors at the same time. It's especially suitable for octopuses, squids, demon snakes, and other sea monsters that like to swim in the sand. This technique is very useful for the Black Crow Department."
However, when Zhang Liang looked at the price, the price of 1,000 first-grade high-grade demon pills was prohibitive.
Zhang Liang put this technique aside calmly, but on the second jade slip, he saw the breath gathering technique. This technique is worth up to 1800 first-level high-grade demon pills.
Zhang Liang couldn't help but sigh, he didn't expect that the breath gathering technique he got from the blue-backed stingray would be so valuable.
However, since he has learned this technique himself, he can pass it on to the Black Fish Club for free in the future.
Next door.
"Ichthyosaurus" is a swimming skill category, with a total of nine swimming skills. It can be flexibly switched between multiple swimming skills, and the speed is not slow at all. The price is 1800, okay, outrageous.
Next door.
"Eh~"
"Transfiguration?"
(End of chapter)
