Soul Burial Mountain, Black Mist Valley. Not only is the valley filled with black fog, the visibility is very low, but the black fog also has a hallucinogenic effect. If you are not careful, you will fall into hallucinations.
At the same time, there is not only one valley in this valley, but an unknown number of valley roads crisscrossing it, like a huge maze, making it difficult to distinguish the direction.
Moreover, the mist in the valley is black, the rocks on the cliffs on both sides of the valley are also black, the soil on the ground is also black soil, and even the vegetation growing here is mostly black in color. It's pitch black everywhere, and if it's nighttime, it's even harder to see things clearly.
After Xiao Ding and Senior Sister entered the depths of the valley, they were walking forward when they suddenly heard a scream of "ah" coming from far ahead.
The senior sister only said, "Let's go over and have a look!" and then ran forward.
However, when Xiao Ding caught up and saw a body lying in the middle of the road, there was no trace of the senior sister.
Xiaoding called out to Senior Sister several times, but there was still no response.
He couldn't guess where the elder sister had gone, so he lowered his head to check the body lying on the ground.
I saw that the man was one of the disciples of the Thunder Sword Sect whom I met outside the mouth of the valley before.
This disciple of the Thunder Sword Sect, his face and skin were pale, and there was still a little bit of residual warmth in his body. At first glance, he looked like he had just died. There was a scar on his neck, which looked like a bite mark from an animal. There were not many blood traces left on the ground, only a few drops of blood dripping from the wound on the neck.
Xiao Ding speculated that this man should have died after his blood was sucked dry by some animal.
Thinking that this man died after his blood was sucked dry, Xiao Ding immediately thought of the ghost cultivator from the Netherworld he met the night before.
I heard from the senior sister that monks from the ghost clan rely on sucking human blood to ensure that they are not afraid of the sun during the day. Could it be that the person in front of me encountered a ghost cultivator?
Seeing that this man was already dead, Xiao Ding no longer cared about him. He reached out and rummaged through the man's body and found a storage bag embroidered with the words "Lei Sword Sect", which was the same as the one he had before. On Chuanyun Mountain, the storage bags dug out from the two tomb robbers were exactly the same.
Xiao Ding didn't care about anything else, he directly activated his skills and broke through the restrictions on the storage bag. Then he penetrated the storage bag with his spiritual consciousness and found that in addition to the introductory skills and weapons of the Thunder Sword Sect, there were also More than a hundred pieces of low-grade white spiritual stones and several spiritual plants. Three medicinal herbs that looked like Ganoderma attracted Xiao Ding's attention.
He directly took out these three spiritual plants, held them in his hand and observed them carefully, and couldn't help but feel overjoyed. He has recognized that these three spiritual plants are exactly the Red Fire Purple Ganoderma lucidum, which is one of the materials for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill that the senior sister is looking for. It is a spiritual plant with the attribute of fire.
This is really "you can't find anything even if you wear iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get there"!
It seems that the six or seven people from the Thunder Sword Sect who entered Soul Burial Mountain also came here for the foundation-building pill material. It turned out that they had already obtained the fire-attribute Red Fire Purple Ganoderma first. I don't know how many they got in total. This person alone had three plants on his body, so they must have gotten a lot.
Xiao Ding only put the spirit stone and three red fire and purple lingzhi into his jade pendant space. He didn't ask for any other items, and still stuffed the storage bag into the man's arms.
I waited for the senior sister for a while, but she didn't come back. Xiao Ding was still a little worried.
First, he was worried about the safety of the senior sister. He didn’t know where the senior sister had just been. Why wasn’t he waiting for him at the corpse?
The second is that I am worried about myself. Without the support of my senior sister, it is simply not enough to survive in the Soul Burial Mountain with just my fourth level of Qi training! What's more, the pair of shadowless ice silkworms that he had been relying on to save his life were currently sleeping. If he encountered any danger, he couldn't count on them at all.
After waiting for a long time, the senior sister still did not return. Xiaoding had no choice but to walk forward along the valley road.
There was no daylight in this valley, and there was black mist everywhere, making it difficult to discern the direction. Xiao Ding had no choice but to make marks as he walked. This was a habit he had developed when he was a soldier on Earth.
As the sky gradually darkened, Xiao Ding guessed that it was already evening, and his stomach began to growl. Then I remembered that I didn’t seem to have lunch at noon.
In the mysterious valley, shrouded in black mist, it was so dark that it was impossible to tell the specific time of day. It was normal to miss lunch.
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Xiao Ding began to look for a place to stay tonight.
But in this valley, there are black rock walls everywhere, but not a single cave can be found.
There was no other way, so Xiao Ding had to find a leeward place, took out a tent from the jade pendant space, and propped it up against the rock wall on one side. Then, he took out the pots and pans, collected some dry grass and dead branches in the valley, and cooked some rice for dinner.
After dinner, Xiao Ding used the fresh water stored in the space to clean the pots and pans, and then got into the tent.
He sat cross-legged on the bed in the tent, took out two spiritual stones, held them in his hands and began to practice.
During the day in the valley, he had been running the Qingxin Technique in his body to resist the hallucinogenic effect of the black mist. Therefore, the spiritual energy in the body consumes a lot, and it is necessary to practice in time to replenish the spiritual energy in the body.
And using spiritual stones to practice and absorbing the energy contained in the spiritual stones will have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.
After practicing until midnight, Xiao Ding felt that the spiritual power in his body had returned to perfection again. Only then did he throw away the low-grade spiritual stone that had no energy in his hand. Just as he was about to lie down on the bed and go to sleep, suddenly, a familiar chill hit him again.
Xiao Ding was shocked. He quickly opened his consciousness and explored the surroundings. Immediately, he discovered that there was a person running in a hurry in the direction of his tent, and the person chasing after him was the person that Xiao Ding and his senior sister met at the foot of Qingluan Peak the night before. A tall ghost pawn.
Why did it come here? Xiao Ding was confused.
However, he knew that this ghost soldier would suck human blood, and that person was coming in his direction. If he got close, he might be implicated.
But tonight, I don't have a senior sister with advanced skills beside me. Naturally, I can't defeat the ghost soldier just by relying on my cultivation at the early stage of the fourth level of Qi training.
Thinking of this, Xiao Ding immediately took out the lightning-stiffened wooden sword from the space, and then used the invisibility technique to make his body and wooden sword invisible, and hid behind the tent door.
Soon, the man being chased ran outside Xiao Ding's tent. However, at this time, he was exhausted and was grabbed by the back of the neck by the ghost soldier behind him.
Then the ghost soldier opened his fangs and mouth, aimed at the man's neck, and bit him.
The man screamed miserably and tried to struggle a few times, but was firmly held down by the ghost soldier's two big hands. It didn't take a moment for the man to collapse. The ghost soldier didn't let go of his big mouth until he sucked up the man's blood, spit out his blood-red tongue, let go and threw the man to the ground.
Xiao Ding was frightened to the core by what happened inside and outside the tent. At this time, he could see clearly that the person whose blood was drained was still one of the Lei Jian Sect's group.
According to the senior sister, the cultivation level of their group is around the seventh or eighth level of Qi training, which is much higher than that of Xiao Ding. However, they don't even have the ability to resist in front of the ghost soldier.
However, Xiao Ding also guessed that the man might have been affected by the fog in the valley and was so hallucinated that he was delirious. Otherwise, he would have fought back anyway.
After the ghost soldier drained the blood of the Thunder Sword Sect disciples, it also discovered Xiao Ding's tent. Its intuition told it that there must be humans in this tent. So, after it dropped the body, it moved towards the tent step by step. Subsequently, the cold air became more intense as the ghost soldiers approached.
The Qingxin and Invisibility techniques were running in Xiao Ding's body. In order to prevent accidents, he also used the Diamond Technique to protect his body. Holding the wooden sword in his hand, he would immediately attack the ghost soldier as soon as he entered the door.
However, what Xiao Ding didn't expect was that when the ghost soldier walked four or five steps away from the tent door, he suddenly stopped. It stretched out its nose without a nose, sniffing here and there, and then stretched out its nose. The blood-red tongue, which was more than a foot long, swallowed dozens of times like a poisonous snake, and then suddenly jumped forward and pounced directly behind the door where Xiao Ding was hiding.
There was a crisp sound of "crash", and the sturdy canvas tent was directly scratched by the ghost soldier. Xiao Ding was unable to guard against it. Even though he was invisible, his neck was caught by the ghost soldier.
Next, the ghost soldier put his ghost head to Xiao Ding's neck and opened his mouth to suck blood.
At this critical moment, how can Xiaoding remain calm? He was not the kind of person who just waited to be killed. Seeing that he was about to be bitten in the neck by the ghost soldier, he struggled to stab the wooden sword in his hand into the ghost soldier's chest.
There was just a "pop" sound, and the wooden sword passed directly through the chest. The ghost soldier howled miserably, the sound was shrill and terrifying, and his hands instantly let go of Xiao Ding's neck.
Seeing that the sneak attack was successful, Xiao Ding clenched the wooden sword with both hands and swung it down hard, directly disemboweling the ghost soldier.
After the ghost soldier howled miserably, he fell to the ground on his back. Xiao Ding looked around and saw that the ghost soldier's body, from the wound cut by the wooden sword, gradually turned into fly ash and flew away with the wind. .
It didn't take long for the ghost soldier's entire body to turn into ashes and scatter in the wind, leaving only the tattered clothes the ghost soldier had worn before and a storage bag on the ground.
Xiao Ding calmed down and thought to himself, how dangerous it is!
He would never have thought that the invisibility technique he used could not hide his figure, and he was still discovered by the other party. Moreover, he touched his neck again, and there were traces of scratches from the ghost soldier's nails. His own diamond art still couldn't guard against the ghost soldier.
This made Xiao Ding once again realize that in the face of absolute strength, the little magic he had learned was not worth mentioning at all. Their high-level spells can completely break your low-level spells.
Moreover, the opponent is only a third-level ghost soldier, which is equivalent to the state of human Qi training.
From the first time he came to Tiankun Star Continent, on Chuanyun Mountain, when his own Diamond Technique was broken by two tomb robbers, to today when the ghost soldier saw through the invisibility technique and broke the Diamond Technique, Xiao Ding once again felt deeply, If you don't improve your cultivation as soon as possible, you will become a prey to others sooner or later.
After taking a few deep breaths, Xiao Ding calmed his mind, then walked over and picked up the storage bag among the pile of tattered clothes.
Xiao Ding's hand touched the storage bag and immediately felt an icy chill. He was a little confused. Originally, as the body of the ghost soldier turned into ashes and dispersed, most of the chill caused by the ghost soldier had already disappeared. But why does this storage bag have such a strong cold air?
After using the running technique to break through the restrictions on the storage bag, Xiao Ding used his spiritual consciousness to explore into the storage bag. What was stored inside surprised Xiao Ding...
