"Are you okay?" Pu Zheng turned around and asked.
"It doesn't matter. This big guy is so powerful!" Zhou Yang said helplessly.
"If you don't have the best magic weapon, it will be difficult to hurt it. This animal's leather armor is too hard, and it is difficult for ordinary magic weapons to break through, let alone your weapon." Pu Zheng comforted Zhou Yang.
"Exactly, but Captain Pu is more than capable of dealing with it."
"It's not easy. Okay, let's go find a safe place quickly. They will arrive tomorrow."
"good."
Pu Zheng was in front, with Zhou Yang following closely behind. The two of them moved forward cautiously and gradually entered the depths of the dense forest.
About half an hour later, the two came to a small hill.
The hill is about three feet high, surrounded by dense trees and wild grass. The north wind blows and all of them fall to the southeast.
Pu Zheng made a gesture and asked Zhou Yang to wait where he was while he rode the green wolf up the hill. After a little exploration, he continued forward and disappeared after a while.
After making an appointment for tea, Pu Zheng reappeared in Qiu Xiang and waved to Zhou Yang. Zhou Yang urged Qinglang to go up the hill.
The dwarf trees and weeds on the hill were even thicker, and there were many small stones that had been blown down by the wind.
Standing on the mound, you can see a dense forest covering a radius of ten miles. There are many small mounds like this in the forest, and there is one not far to the north of here.
These large and small mounds make the entire dense forest look undulating and uneven.
Pu Zheng took Zhou Yang downhill to the north. The slope is very gentle, about thirty feet from top to bottom, and extends to the bottom of another small mound.
There were many short trees blocking the road along the way. Zhou Yang raised his sword and wanted to cut them down, but was stopped by Pu Zheng. Then the two of them avoided the short trees and cautiously headed downward.
After walking about half way down, there was a thick dwarf tree in front of me with lush branches and leaves. The wild grass under the tree was as tall as a person and was connected to the drooping branches and leaves of the dwarf tree.
Pu Zheng got off the Green Wolf and used a long knife to push away the weeds under the tree, and a cave entrance suddenly appeared. The entrance of the cave is four or five feet high and six or seven feet wide, and can accommodate one person bowing down to enter.
Pu Zheng led the green wolf and entered the cave first. Zhou Yang followed closely, holding the sword in one hand and holding the wolf in the other.
It was pitch dark inside the cave. Pu Zheng took out something from his arms, and a hazy light suddenly appeared around him.
Zhou Yang knew that it was the luminous stone.
However, a piece of luminous stone can only illuminate a small area. Pu Zheng used a long knife to dig several small holes in the cave wall and put pieces of luminous stone into the cave, and then it gradually became brighter.
The cave is quite spacious, you can stand upright, and there is even a futon woven with wild grass. It was obvious that someone had stayed here.
Pu Zheng took out some animal meat, threw it to the two green wolves, and said to Zhou Yang: "Eight years ago, I discovered this cave when I came here for training. I have never used it since. I am the only one who knows this place. It is very safe, so we can Spend the night in this cave.”
"It's a nice place, it's very suitable for hiding, and it's not easy to be discovered." Zhou Yang praised.
"Um."
Pu Zheng did not sit on the futon in the cave, but took out a futon and sat on it with his eyes closed to adjust his breath.
Zhou Yang was not polite, sat down on the grass futon, and began to practice the Wood Breathing Technique.
The two green wolves finished eating the meat and stood quietly at the entrance of the cave.
Zhou Yang practiced the Wood Breathing Technique again. The pain was much less than yesterday and was now bearable. The fluctuations in the acupuncture points absorbing spiritual energy became smaller and smaller.
Most of the night passed, but nothing happened. Except for a few beast roars in the distance, the surroundings were quiet.
Zhou Yang was entering meditation when he suddenly felt a noise at the entrance of the cave. He immediately opened his eyes and saw that Pu Zheng had arrived outside the cave. Zhou Yang also stood up and followed Pu Zheng out.
After exiting the cave, it was still dark outside, and there was still about an hour before sunrise. Since they didn't know when the Xuanfu Sect disciples would arrive, they had to lurk in advance and wait slowly.
The two have already discussed the specific action plan, and Pu Zheng will mainly implement it. After the disciples dispersed for training, they would contact familiar and reliable people, and Zhou Yang would be responsible for taking care of them.
The green wolf was not very fast, so the two of them walked back along the way they came. When the outline of the red sun appeared on the horizon, they arrived at the edge of the dense forest.
"We need to lurk and wait here. The farthest point they have experienced is the range of this dense forest. They will not go too deep, otherwise they will encounter level 5 monsters. Even level 4 high-level monsters like the crocodile lizard Beast, three or four mid-level Lingtai disciples may not be opponents." Pu Zheng instructed.
"Oh. On the way to Cang Beast Mountain when I was kidnapped, a level five monster appeared thousands of miles west of the city." Zhou Yang said.
"Monsters above level five don't like to move in low woods."
"I understand." Zhou Yang said calmly.
The two of them placed the green wolf properly and hid themselves under a short tree.
Nearly an hour later, no trace of any cultivator was found.
Zhou Yang was a little impatient in waiting, and tried his best to use his spiritual consciousness to check, but there was still no movement, so he went to Pu Zheng, took out two pieces of dried meat and a pot and handed it over. Pu Zheng shook his head and did not accept the wine or meat.
Zhou Yang felt bored and returned to his seat to eat and drink by himself.
Until noon, no one was seen. Zhou Yang became even more impatient and whispered: "Captain Pu, is there an error in the message?"
"Probably not. After your summons, we also inquired through other channels, and there is no doubt that it must be today. Moreover, several disciples under the young lady's command also confirmed that there was indeed an experience recently. However, the information we received is, The first batch was not five hundred, but a thousand.”
"Twice as much! Are the two batches combined into one?" Zhou Yang was surprised, and at the same time he was very dissatisfied. He secretly thought that you just told this matter now. Are you still wary of me?
"I don't know the details of the situation, but in five days there will be a thousand people entering the wasteland to experience." This is another amazing news.
Zhou Yang tried his best to inquire around, but he didn't know much about Pu Zheng, and he felt extremely depressed.
"If there are too many people, will our actions be hindered?" Zhou Yang frowned and thought for a moment. The number of people had increased so much that he felt unsure.
"The wilderness of experience stretches thousands of miles, and it covers tens to millions of miles. It doesn't matter if two thousand people enter it."
"Oh, that's right."
"Just wait patiently. Since this is an experience, maybe they will come on foot. If so, they will not arrive today." Pu Zheng said again.
Zhou Yang was in a bad mood and did not answer the call.
"They won't come today. How can they really walk on foot?" Zhou Yang frowned as it was about to set.
"That's not right. It takes them three days to hike thousands of miles at their fastest speed. If we go back and take another three days, then there won't be much real experience. If we use giant lizards and other spiritual beasts to carry us, we set off this morning and it will be dark. It won’t arrive before now, Qinglang is just about the same.”
"The several hundred miles north of the city are not suitable for those cultivators above the middle stage of the Spirit Platform to practice. There are only some low-level monsters there. It is estimated that they will first ride the spirit beast to five hundred miles, and then practice on foot, and finally reach the thousand miles, and even further. If this is the case, it will be impossible to arrive before dark." Pu Zheng analyzed.
"Then what do we do?"
"Go back to the cave first and talk about it tomorrow."
Zhou Yang nodded.
The two called back the green wolf and headed towards the mound.
After entering the cave, Pu Zheng took the initiative to bring out wine and meat to eat and drink with Zhou Yang. Although Zhou Yang still had a grudge in his heart, he couldn't refute Puzheng's face, so he accepted it.
After a conversation, the relationship between the two eased. Zhou Yang asked some questions about cultivation, and Pu Zheng answered them one by one. There are some things that he doesn't know very well, such as specific cultivation issues in the Tianyuan realm.
But Puzheng also knew a lot about the situation of Tianyuan Mirror, because he was also facing the hurdle of breaking through Tianyuan, so he naturally collected a lot of relevant information on breaking through the bottleneck.
The magic power of Tianyuan cultivators is much stronger than that of Lingluo in the Lingtai realm. Not only can they fly with weapons and kill people with aura, they can also form a body-protecting aura, which is stronger than the protective ability of an intermediate magic shield.
Zhou Yang was very interested in this point. He had never seen a Tianyuan cultivator cast a protective spiritual light, so he had been asking about this issue for a long time.
Pu Zheng also learned from relevant books and the mouths of other Tianyuan masters, and his understanding was not profound. Zhou Yang also had a partial understanding of what he heard, but he yearned for the magical power of flying weapons and protecting the body. Just listening to it was quite miraculous. If It would be great if you could cultivate it yourself.
In fact, there is one thing that Pu Zheng has not explained clearly, and that is the magical power of sound transmission within ten miles.
Because the sea of consciousness of Tianyuan cultivators has already been formed, their spiritual consciousness is much stronger than that of Lingtai cultivators, and their perception range is much larger. They can use their spiritual consciousness to communicate with other cultivators within ten miles.
Under normal circumstances, when you reach the later stage of Lingtai, you can develop the magical power of sound transmission. However, due to the limitation of your spiritual consciousness, the sound transmission distance is not very far. However, cultivators below the late stage of Lingtai do not have this magical power, but they can receive transmissions from cultivators in the late stage and above.
The magical power of sound transmission also evolved from spiritual consciousness. It is a kind of communication of spiritual consciousness. It is to use spiritual consciousness to convey one's spiritual thoughts to a specific object, but a third party cannot detect it. Therefore, this kind of magical power is also called the transmission of sound into secrets.
At the peak of the Lingtai, the detection distance of spiritual consciousness can reach a thousand feet or even further, so the sound transmission distance can also reach more than a thousand feet.
The so-called ten-mile sound transmission means that the sound transmission of ordinary Tianyuan cultivators can reach ten miles away. Some advanced Tianyuan cultivators can transmit sounds over dozens of miles.
When you reach the Golden Core Realm, the distance of sound transmission is even longer, and can form sound transmission of hundreds of miles, or even sound transmission of thousands of miles.
These things sound very far away from Zhou Yang, but in fact they are far away and close at the same time.
He is currently in the middle stage of Lingtai, and has to go through two levels: late stage and peak stage. Although the advancement becomes slower the further you go, this situation varies from person to person.
Some people may not be able to break through to the Tianyuan realm in their lifetime, but some people will make great progress all the way and will break through one level after another until they break through the Tianyuan realm and even aspire to the Golden Elixir.
The further you go, the more important the cultivator's qualifications and understanding become. It is not like Kaiyuan and Lingtai, where you can break through after accumulating enough.
For ordinary cultivators, it would take three or four years to go from the middle stage to the late stage of Lingtai without any obstacles. From the late stage to the peak, no breakthrough can be achieved within five or six years. If you are a practitioner with poor qualifications and understanding, this time will be extended indefinitely.
Just like Iron Tiger, it was difficult to even break through the spiritual platform. If it weren't for the help of the Fire Spirit Pill, I might have to stay in the Kaiyuan realm in the future.
And from the peak of Lingtai to Tianyuan, there is no fixed time. It may be very fast, maybe ten or eight years, or maybe not in a lifetime.
