This is a strange place like a garden. Not only are there a large area of unnamed exotic flowers and plants growing nearby, but there are also seven or eight exquisitely carved pavilions scattered among them.
The area of the garden is not small, with a radius of three to four hundred feet. The surrounding edges seem to be protected by an invisible barrier, forming an independent safe area. Outside the barrier, everything is filled with surging ghost mist.
Now, only about twenty or thirty people have successfully arrived here through the ghost mist. Needless to say for the Nascent Soul stage monks, such a test is really nothing. They are all extremely relaxed. They are separated by the two paths of good and evil, and each has occupied A pavilion chatted from time to time.
The rest of the monks were in desperate condition. They were either pale or stained with blood. It was obvious that they had gone through a hard battle before they got here. Naturally, they were excited, but they didn't dare to waste time, and they all chose their positions to recover quickly.
Xu Qingcheng was also here, choosing a quiet place to sit cross-legged.
She didn't look around. She knew very well that this difficulty was not a problem for that guy at all, and he would come out sooner or later. On the contrary, Han Li, who was only at the early stage of pill formation, didn't know whether he would be in danger.
This was also where she was confused. She knew that her apprentice had just formed a pill and was naturally not strong enough, but she still insisted on taking him on an adventure. She really couldn't figure out why that guy did this?
She also asked about it, but unfortunately, the other person just smiled and said nothing, without explaining at all.
"Forget it, we are his apprentice anyway, so why should I worry unfoundedly?" She shook her head secretly in her heart, and was too lazy to think about it any more. She turned to glance at a certain figure in another place.
"Huh?" In a certain pavilion, the extremely yin old monster was communicating with other Nascent Soul channels, but his heart was inexplicably shuddering, and there was a vague feeling of discomfort. He quickly turned around and looked around, but unfortunately he didn't notice anything.
"Brother Wu, what's wrong?" The old man in Confucian clothing asked with some confusion.
"It's okay." The old monster Jiyin shook his head slightly, but his eyes stayed on the two elders of Xinggong in the corner for a moment, then he frowned slightly and said through the voice,
"Brother Qing, do you think that the two people from Xing Gong behaved a little strangely this time?"
"Why do you see it?" The old man in Confucian clothing was stunned, and he didn't understand what the other party meant.
"I remember that the last time I came to Xutian Palace, in order to prevent the conflict between good and evil, the people in the Star Palace would deliberately choose the central location to achieve an isolation effect. This time it was different, it seemed that they didn't care at all. mean."
"Brother Wu is too suspicious. Didn't we already promulgate rules and give warnings when we were in the main hall?" The old man in Confucian clothing shook his head slightly, obviously not agreeing with it.
"I hope so." The old weirdo Ji Yin thought for a while, maybe he really thought too much and stopped worrying about this matter. After a pause, he immediately changed the topic and said,
"I heard that in the past few years, the disciples of Wanfa Sect were looking for the Golden Silk Cicada, but there was no news later, and I don't know if they have found it. If this strange insect really helps, the chance of finally obtaining the Xutian Cauldron will be greatly improved. I don't know. What do you two fellow Taoists think?"
"It's not just Wan Tianming, I'm afraid Jiyin yourself is having the same idea, right? Otherwise, why would you bother going to Lihuo Island to capture some kind of alien fire python?" Manbeard sneered, unceremoniously. Reveal the truth.
After hearing this, the old monster Ji Yin's expression suddenly changed slightly, but quickly returned to his normal expression. However, he couldn't help but curse secretly in his heart.
Obviously, there must be something wrong with a confidant around him, and important secrets must be leaked, and this will be spread to the other party's ears.
Even though both parties belong to the demonic forces, he and Barbarian Beard are not friends, but have quite a contradiction. The other party may not have good intentions when he comes this time, and may very well have the purpose of monitoring him.
Although he was upset in his heart, his expression remained unchanged, and he said solemnly:
"What Brother Man said is absolutely true. Wu Mou did have some ideas when he came here this time. However, my two alien fire pythons are too shallow, and the chance of success is not high. Therefore, I just plan to give it a try, and forget it. My wish. After all, Wu is not young anymore. The next start will be three hundred years later. I don’t know if I can catch up again.”
These words are not perfunctory. The extremely sinister old monster is better. The old man dressed in Confucianism and the bearded man are really short of life. It is impossible to participate in the next opening of Xutian Temple.
Therefore, the two people who heard this suddenly became silent, obviously feeling a little bad.
After a long time, the old man in Confucian clothing said again:
"Brother Wu, what do you think?"
"Ideas?" Jiyin old weirdo smiled helplessly and continued, "Wu doesn't have any other intentions. Since he is here, he would not want to give it a try. What's more, this Xutian Temple is too mysterious, and there are many other things. Naturally, we need to search for places that we have never explored before, just in case there is an unexpected harvest.
In addition, we also have to guard against Wan Tianming. If he succeeds in taking the tripod, the righteous side will definitely increase in strength, which is not a good thing for us. "
"You mean, destroy it..." Barbarian Beard suddenly understood. With these few of them, they are not sure about collecting the treasure tripod, but if it is just pure trouble, it should not be too simple.
"Brother Man really saw it clearly. This is exactly Wu's suggestion. Of course, it is just a suggestion. It is entirely up to you two whether you want to go or not. There is no need to force it."
"Go, why not go." Manbeard immediately made a decision, causing trouble is just one of them. More importantly, there are many treasures in the inner hall, and he might even find some special opportunities.
It’s hard to come here, why not? At least with his strength, there wasn't much danger inside. Only those with low strength would choose to stop in the outer hall and wait for the end of the trip.
The old man in Confucian clothing also had the same idea. He was not young anymore, so it was only right to take some risks and enter the inner palace to look for opportunities. Staying here and waiting with the low-level disciples would be a waste of this rare opportunity.
Of course, the inner palace is far from simple as imagined. If you are just one person, the risk is not small. Only when a few people can cooperate can it be truly foolproof.
"What do you think, Mrs. Wen?" The old weirdo Ji Yin looked at the beautiful woman again and actively invited her.
"The inner temple is too dangerous. I'd better not go there. I'll just collect some elixirs outside." The beautiful woman shook her head slightly and directly chose to refuse.
"Madam, you are a little too cautious. There is indeed a risk in entering the inner palace, but as long as the four of us and I work together, there will be no problem. What's more, our trip is just to search for some opportunities, and we don't intend to confront the right path head-on. It's true. Don’t worry.” The old man in Confucian clothing explained a few words again. After all, the other party was also a Nascent Soul monk and had a special status, so it would be great to be able to act together.
"This..." The beautiful woman was startled. She would be lying if she said she was not moved. Unlike the outer hall where you can only pick some elixirs, the inner hall has countless opportunities. If you enter it, you will definitely not come back empty-handed.
Although she was known as Mrs. Liudao, she had never accepted any favors from the other party. Of course, the other party was even more cold-blooded, and he had long forgotten about her since that incident.
Being able to get to where I am today is all due to my own hard work and has nothing to do with the other party.
Baibi Mountain is not rich, and it is even more hungry for resources. As the owner of the mountain, she will not give up easily if she has the opportunity.
If four people join forces and do not plan to fight with the righteous way, the risk can indeed be minimized.
After some weighing, he asked again,
"Are you sure you don't want to go to war with the righteous way?"
"Some friction is unavoidable, but please rest assured, madam, we are only planning to cause some trouble for them to prevent them from collecting the Xutian Cauldron, and we will not take any big action. What's more, there is no need for madam to participate in this matter. I The three of them will be enough to contain each other." Seeing that the beautiful woman was a little moved, the extremely sinister old man quickly added. As he said, three Nascent Soul stage monks are enough for this matter, but the other party has a special status. As the wife of the Six Paths, dragging her down will definitely do more good than harm. At least if the righteous party really wants to take action, they will have a lot of scruples.
Furthermore, the chance of collecting the Xutian Cauldron this time is really low, and there is no need to worry about the issue of dividing the treasure. Instead, there is an extra helper to share the risk. Why not?
"Okay, I'll go with you." The beautiful woman weighed it for a long time and finally made a decision. If Mo Juren were to learn about this, he would definitely be extremely surprised, because the existence of his butterfly still had a certain influence after all.
While the two high-level officials, good and evil, were chatting, some more monks gradually walked out of the ghost mist. Some were more lucky and only suffered minor bumps, while others were unlucky and came out with bruises all over their bodies, obviously seriously injured.
Fairy Biyue is considered the latter. Her strength is not low, but her luck is really bad. Not long after she entered the ghost mist, she broke into the ghost king's lair. After a hard fight, not only the mana in her dantian was exhausted, but also due to self-destruction. His vitality was severely damaged by the sword in his heart. If Mo Juren hadn't come to save him, he would have died by now.
The journey after that finally got better. Although we still encountered several waves of ghosts, with the recovery of nearly half of the mana and the peak strength of the late-stage pill formation, it was not too difficult.
However, after successfully walking out of the ghost fog, she did not dare to delay at all, and immediately found a remote corner to practice. Although the Blood Essence Pill is extremely effective, it does have side effects, especially during the period of weakness after the mana is exhausted.
She had to react quickly to get through the next month. Otherwise, once you leave Xutian Palace and happen to be in a period of weakness, you may be in danger.
The first thing to do now is to actively remove the remaining blood essence pill mana from the body, and the second thing is to swallow other normal pills and practice them as quickly as possible to replenish them.
Before doing this, she searched the garden several times, but unfortunately, she did not see a familiar figure. In this way, she stopped delaying and started busy immediately.
…
"boom……"
"Damn it, who are you..."
In an unknown area in the ghost mist, Mo Juren's hand was filled with golden light and he directly grabbed a black ball that came towards him.
With the sudden force of his palm, the round bead magic weapon was directly crushed into pieces.
This scene almost made the Ghost King's eyes pop out. This round bead is called the 'Tian Xie Bead', and it is not an ordinary magic weapon. It was originally left by a demonic monk in the past. After being obtained by him, after more than a thousand years of tempering by the mysterious ghost energy, it has become magical. Incomparable.
It was just that he had just sacrificed this bead, and had not really exerted its true power, when he was suddenly caught in the hand of the opponent who was facing him and refused to dodge.
This is nothing. The black bead contains a huge amount of evil energy. As long as he continues to control it, once it explodes, it will inevitably corrode the opponent's physical body and even his soul.
However, he never expected that the other party would use a method that caught him off guard and crush the orb directly!
Crushed! It wasn't broken with a magic weapon, it was crushed with just one pair of hands!
His brain was a little unable to react. Although defense was not the advantage of Tianxie Pearl, it wasn't so fragile, right?
What he couldn't accept even more was that after the black bead was broken, the strong evil energy that erupted was directly blocked by a layer of golden divine light on the surface of the opponent's body. Then he flashed out of the evil energy range with ease.
What kind of perversion is this? Could it be a monster in human skin?
It was too late to say anything now, and he could not allow him to continue to think too much. After crushing the black bead, the other party did not want to answer his temptation at all, but flickered again.
"Damn it!" The Ghost King cursed secretly and quickly flew back, widening the distance between the two sides. Fortunately, as a ghost, he is illusory and unstable, and his escape speed is much faster than the opponent. Even if you are powerful, you can't do anything to yourself.
It's a pity that without the Tianxie Pearl, his strength is greatly reduced and he is no match for the opponent. As for other magic weapons, there are naturally some, but they are far inferior to the Heavenly Evil Pearl. Coupled with the opponent's terrifying power, he really doesn't know how to deal with it. He can only rely on his speed advantage to fight with the opponent.
At the same time, more than a hundred fierce ghosts around him began to besiege under his command. He still doesn't believe it, so many ghosts can't do anything to him? Even if they consume each other, they will consume the other party to death.
Speaking of which, Mo Juren was a little surprised that the Ghost King was able to escape the sneak attack. The secret technique of condensing energy that I practiced originally came from the mysterious animal skin of the past. It is a top secret technique called the 'Wind Concealment Technique'.
The use of this technique has always been unfavorable, and there were no problems in the lairs of several ghost kings before, but I didn't expect that the one in front of me was an exception.
The opponent seemed to have extremely strong perception ability, which made his first sneak attack go awry. It is precisely because of this that the current situation has just been led to.
However, the opponent made a mistake after all. The most powerful treasure was destroyed by his tyrannical body, which was considered a heavy loss. As for the black bead, it had already been refined into a ghost object and could not be used at all. He was too lazy to seal it and seize it.
The current situation is a bit troublesome, not that he is afraid of anything. Although these ghosts are not low in strength, they can't even break his skin. What he was struggling with was how to get the ghost king that was constantly avoiding him in mid-air.
He believed that as long as he released the evil-destroying divine light, it could be turned into nothing in an instant. However, it was obviously not possible. In that case, how could he refine the Xuanyin Liquid?
However, this ghost king is illusory and uncertain, and he cannot catch up with the opponent based on his own speed.
what to do? You can't just keep spending it like this, right?
He didn't have that much time, and he still wanted to pick up a few more ghost nests, and then hurried to the garden to meet up. There are only about two days left before the second level opens, so there is no room for delay.
The ghost king seemed to have noticed his confusion, and was immediately ecstatic. A black scepter appeared in his hand again. When he waved it, the black light filled the air, causing the ghost mist to billow around him.
The next moment, bursts of ghostly cries and screams sounded from everywhere, and then countless dense gray-white ghosts were seen condensing together and sweeping forward.
"No matter what kind of monster you are, just try this king's 'Ten Thousand Ghost Soul-Eating Technique'!" Ghost King Jiejie smiled strangely, and the ultimate coldness flashed in his pale green eyes.
However, before he could be happy for a long time, an accident happened. He saw a layer of blood floating around the other party, and disappeared in the next moment.
"This..." The Ghost King was dumbfounded again. He was born with a special soul and had a strong talent in perception. Later, he fell here and embarked on the path of ghost cultivation, but he still inherited his original talent.
Not only that, because of ghost cultivation, the soul talent has become more powerful. As long as it is within the range of its perception, everything is invisible.
The man's secret technique of gathering energy before was indeed extraordinary, but he still couldn't escape his induction. However, something unexpected happened this time.
He could be sure that the other party never left, but he just disappeared, as if he disappeared out of thin air. Even if he magnified his consciousness to the extreme, he could not find any trace.
This strange situation immediately made him extremely vigilant. He knew very well that it would be very bad for him if he did not find a way to deal with it and chose to continue delaying it.
"No, we must leave!" In an instant, he made a decision in his heart. If the Ghost Nest is destroyed, it will be destroyed. Those subordinates don't care, their own safety is the most important.
Thinking of this, he didn't dare to hesitate at all. His whole body instantly lit up with a rich gray light and he was about to run away.
But at this moment, the crisis came instantly, and the strange bloody light appeared again, but it appeared behind him. Before he could react, an arm inserted into his ghost body like lightning.
He was not afraid of such a change. Ghost bodies gather and disperse without being visible, and it is difficult to cause harm to them without special means. However, as a deep voice sounded, huge terror suddenly hit my heart.
Sure enough, his perception was correct. In just an instant, as some unstoppable mysterious force emerged out of thin air, he lost consciousness in an instant before he even had time to think of resistance.
The blood light disappeared, and Mo Juren's figure reappeared.
At this time, he did not immediately deal with the kid below, but carefully checked his own situation.
What was used just now was a special secret technique, which was the jade slip obtained from the Demon Lord in the past. It contained all the true stories of the Demon Lord of Six Desires, especially the 'Blood Hidden Technique', which had extremely miraculous effects. .
The only drawback is that using this technique requires a drop of effort, which is quite a drain on one's own vitality.
However, the effect of this method is really powerful, and it is a method that can save lives at critical moments. Naturally, he is eager to use it. Therefore, I took the time to learn it later.
After trying it, he found that the situation was somewhat different from what he expected.
Spending a drop of your hard work will certainly damage your vitality. However, he was referring to an ordinary monk, and he was completely different. His origin was so powerful that it was terrifying, and just a drop of hard work was nothing. Even two or three drops won't be a big problem, and you can recover quickly afterwards.
Of course, you can't really have no scruples. After all, it is the blood of your heart, the essence of the essence. There is still a great risk in consuming too much.
In short, after trying it once, he decided to use it as his trump card and would never use it until the critical moment.
There was no good way just now, so I just used it once. Saving time and fearless trouble, and finally getting a special Ghost King is well worth the money.
He didn't dwell on the matter anymore, and immediately turned into a white light and rushed below. Dozens of fierce ghosts finally reacted at this moment. How dare they resist? They were all frightened and fled in all directions.
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Time passed slowly, and after experiencing the episode just now, it became smoother and smoother.
After all, there is only one Ghost King with an innate soul mutation, and the others cannot detect his approach at all, and are basically killed instantly with one move.
With this push all the way, the number of evil ghosts that had accumulated for countless years in the entire ghost mist began to decrease sharply. Even the sounds of ghosts crying and screaming that lingered inside became much less frequent.
Such changes naturally attracted the attention of some monks, but no one took it to heart. Instead, they accelerated towards the safe area.
Relatively speaking, the Nascent Soul stage monks in the garden faintly noticed something unusual.
Especially the two elders of Xing Gong couldn't help looking at each other as they looked at the crowd gradually gathering around them.
"The number of monks who have passed the first level this time seems to be quite large, right?"
