Compared with the past few days, not only the number of monsters has decreased a lot, but the number of mercenary organizations on the road has also dropped sharply.
The impact of the beast tide is not over yet.
Along the way, the two brothers Li Kaigu and Li Gukai took Su You and Jiang Nuer and walked down the cliff smoothly. They even rushed all the way to the ruins of Xihuang City without encountering any danger. Such a quiet surrounding environment was actually It was difficult for a group of four to get used to it.
"It seems that the influence of the beast tide is really great. Herds of monster beasts that were originally seen everywhere in the desert can now be seen near the ruins of Xihuang City. Even the cliffs where monster beasts gather are much deserted."
After looking around carefully, Li Kaigu then turned to Su You and said, "Master Su, we two brothers can only send you here. Next, you will have to follow the map's guidance on the way from the ruins of Xihuang City to Yangshu City. After all, we have to go back to take care of the children and the village. It’s a long way to Yangshu City, and I’m afraid it won’t be possible to get back to the village in a short time.”
Su You shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter. According to the agreement, you two brothers have completed this transaction. According to the previous agreement, I have to give you spiritual stones as reward."
As soon as he finished speaking, Su You took out exactly one hundred high-grade spiritual stones from his storage bag and forced them into Li Kaigu's hands, and then urged the two brothers to return to the village to take care of the two children who were guarding him at home.
Li Kaigu, who knew that the other party would not take the spirit stone back if he took it back, did not hesitate. He and Li Gukai said goodbye to the two of them and then turned around and walked towards the cliff, preparing to return to Lijia Village.
After the two brothers Li Kaigu left, Su You took Jiang Nuer along the road to the ruins of Xihuang City that he had wanted to visit a few days ago.
Just as the rumors say.
Even though it has now become a ruin, the original grandeur of Xihuang City can still be seen from the scale of the ruins, and the monsters entrenched in it add a bit of danger to it.
But it is precisely because there are a large number of monsters entrenched among the ruins that the ruins of Xihuang City have always been the most ideal place for cultivators in the desert to hunt monsters, and are even more popular than those hunting grounds.
However, as more and more monsters gathered in the ruins of Xihuang City, the cultivators who realized that the danger of hunting monsters here was rising sharply finally temporarily gave up on this natural hunting ground and went to other places to hunt. Monster.
On the contrary, now that the beast tide has receded, even the demon kings like the Nine-tailed Poisonous Scorpion have been seriously injured and defeated, which has affected the ruins of Xihuang City and greatly reduced the number of demon beasts entrenched here. It does seem to be much safer than before.
So before going to Yangshu City, Su You planned to wander around the ruins of Xihuang City and see if he could hunt monsters to hone his strength and improve his cultivation level.
Go deep into the ruins of Xihuang City.
Soon he encountered three or two monster beasts whose cultivation realm was near the fourth level of the Soul Realm. With Jiang Nuer plundering the formation, Su You immediately rushed forward with his spiritual sword in hand, using his own strength to Fighting three monster beasts from the fourth level of the Soul Realm.
With the three sources of divine fire, the Extreme Yin Yang Yuan Dan and the Chaos Dao Heart, Su You can even do dual-purpose, triple-purpose or even multi-purpose. When faced with the siege of three divine soul realm monsters, Su You He did not fall behind at all, but appeared to be calm and at ease in the fight.
As time went by, the three demonic beasts with the numerical superiority were burned unbearably by the fire spirit power released from the Extreme Yin Yang Yuan Dan. They all wanted to retreat, but Su You seized the opportunity to use it. The Demon Lock Divine Sword defeated them one by one.
After using the spirit sword to cut off the demonic beast's flesh and blood, and digging out three demonic beast cores, Su You, who felt comfortable all over, immediately got up and took Jiang Nuer to the deeper parts of the ruins to search for other demonic beasts.
In this way, he kept looking for monsters in the ruins, hunting monsters until dusk.
"Let you run away again! I finally caught you now."
"Wait... this taste is..."
Chasing an extremely fast monster, I ran into a dark and deep cave. I finally dug out the monster's core and put it into a storage bag. I was thinking about going out and continuing to hunt monsters with Jiang Nuer. However, Su You's attention was attracted by the faint smell of blood emanating from the depths of the cave.
When he turned to look deeper into the cave, he immediately noticed drops of golden blood scattered on the ground and some armor-like shell fragments.
"This is..." At this time, Jiang Nuer followed Su You's traces and came to the cave. When she also saw these traces on the ground, she immediately frowned and whispered to Su You: "If I hadn't seen it, If I'm wrong, these traces should be left by the Demon King Nine-tailed Poisonous Scorpion that appeared when the beast tide broke out before, because this kind of golden monster blood is usually evolved by the demon king level monsters during their transformation and evolution. , and these carapace-like fragments should be the shell that fell off from the nine-tailed poisonous scorpion. When this kind of monster transforms and evolves, it will indeed shed off the aging layer of its shell, allowing its new The body can become bigger, taller and stronger."
"It's just that the nine-tailed poisonous scorpion has just completed its transformation. Logically speaking, it will take at least a year and a half for the next transformation. How can it be possible to transform again in just a few days."
Jiang Nuer, who realized something was wrong, took a closer look at the blood on the ground, and then said in a serious voice: "But I have heard that monsters like the nine-tailed poisonous scorpion usually travel together with a male and a female. , and when the beast tide broke out last time, there was only one nine-tailed poisonous scorpion...could it be said that what is deep in the cave now is actually another nine-tailed poisonous scorpion? And it is also at the level of a demon king?"
"No! This place is extremely dangerous! We have to get out of here quickly."
Suddenly, Jiang Nuer, who had already made a guess in his mind, felt something bad. He deduced that the noise Su You made when he was hunting the monster and the smell of blood from the corpse of the monster must have caused the nine-tailed poisonous scorpion deep in the cave. Attention, so he quickly called Su You to leave here with him.
But that's it.
"hiss···"
From the deep and dark cave came bursts of neighing sounds that were very familiar to both of them. What if they weren't the sounds of the nine-tailed poisonous scorpion.
Now they realized that Jiang Nuer's previous speculation was correct. The two of them didn't care that the corpse of the monster was still in the cave. They gathered their breath and ran out of the cave as quickly as possible.
Just as they ran out of the cave, the two felt a chill behind them.
He hurriedly turned his head and looked around, and saw that the cave was shattered and collapsed by a huge figure. A nine-tailed poisonous scorpion with all nine tail stings broken slowly crawled out from the sand and rocks on the ground. And at this moment, the nine-tailed scorpion crawled out. The broken tail spine was still dripping with golden blood.
Isn't this the nine-tailed poisonous scorpion demon king that appeared in the border town when the beast tide broke out before?
Although the old man from the border town Cang Ran tried his best to cut off the nine tail thorns and was seriously injured, the demon king is a demon king after all. Even though he was seriously injured and has not recovered, he still maintains the strong strength of the Nirvana realm. It is not Su You and Jiang Nuer is an existence that two people can compete with.
So the two of them started to escape without saying a word, not wanting to be targeted by the nine-tailed poisonous scorpion.
However, the severely injured Nine-Tailed Poisonous Scorpion was still faster than the two of them. When it flicked its tail sting, it actually used the blood from its tail sting wound to draw a corroded and sunken mark on the ground. Traces, a smelly mist floated out from inside.
At the same time, the nine-tailed poisonous scorpion rushed forward with its six strong legs, and was about to catch up with the two.
"I'm here to delay, you hurry up and run out first!" Jiang Nuer, who released the cold poisonous aura in his dantian and was shaken by extremely cold spiritual power, held the spiritual sword in his hand and stopped in front of Su You, facing the nine-tailed poisonous scorpion. Head on.
"Human cultivators... are seeking death!"
Seeing that only Jiang Nuer, who had reached the seventh level of the Immaculate Realm, dared to fight him head-on, the Nine-tailed Scorpion, as the demon king, felt as if he had been insulted, and immediately swung his tail stinger and hit Jiang Nuer directly.
Even though the tail spines are not sharp, they are highly poisonous. If they are accidentally contaminated with poisonous blood, there will definitely be no bones left.
But Jiang Nuer was not afraid. The cold air filled her whole body, and even the remaining water vapor in the air was frozen.
She held the sword across her chest, opened her eyes that turned as white as ice until the tail sting came close to her, and swung the sword fiercely.
The cold poisonous aura mixed with the spiritual power exploded instantly, condensing the land and even the space within a few miles into ice crystals, and constantly compressing the space for the tail spine to rush forward, hoping to use this to block Jiu. Attack of the Tail Venomous Scorpion.
However, the nine-tailed poisonous scorpion is the demon king after all, a strong man in the Nirvana realm.
When he realized that Jiang Nuer wanted to use the method of freezing space to block the attack of his tail spines, he had no intention of retreating. Instead, he swung up nine tail spines and stabbed forward at the same time.
This time, the nine tail thorns that merged into one again broke through the constraints of space and turned into a golden flash of light.
"boom!"
"ah!"
There was a violent crash followed by a tragic scream.
Without the blessing of spiritual power, unable to continue to freeze the space and dissipating the cold poisonous atmosphere, Jiang Nuer's spiritual sword broke in her hand, she opened her mouth and spit out a large mouthful of blood, and her face instantly turned pale.
Although she clenched her teeth and used her broken spiritual sword to block the attack of the nine-tailed poisonous scorpion, at this moment she could not even stand still. The spiritual power in her body was disordered, and the cold poisonous breath in her dantian was rushing around in various meridians. , eroding her body again.
"Uh...wow!"
Under the erosion of the cold poisonous breath, Jiang Nuer, who couldn't bear the severe pain in her body, vomited out another mouthful of blood.
But this time, the spitted blood was actually exuding bursts of cold air. It turned out that the cold poison breath began to spread to all parts of her body through the blood through the meridians, and it was more violent than every cold poison outbreak in the past.
"Jiejiejiejie..."
The Nine-Tailed Poisonous Scorpion looked at Jiang Nuer who was struggling to support and Su You who was being protected behind him, and sneered: "I am worried that I can't get revenge on that old guy, but I didn't expect that a guy who overestimates his capabilities will come to my door. Come on, I will swallow you two guys first without any courtesy!"
The words fell.
The nine tail thorns rolled up the strong wind venom and stabbed straight at Jiang Nuer, who was almost unable to stand, let alone kneel, and fell down due to the burst of cold poisonous aura.
The murderous intention suddenly appeared, and Jiang Nuer was about to die from the tail sting of the nine-tailed poisonous scorpion.
