A moment later, a blood shadow suddenly burst out of the sea of fire.
It's a corpse.
But now, its appearance has changed a lot.
The body size was obviously smaller than before, but the aura it exuded was increasing. After seeing it, Lu Zhong couldn't help but wonder, is this evil corpse going to break through to the second level?
If it succeeds in advancing, everyone present will die!
Thinking of this, Lu Zhong no longer held back.
In the sound of swords, the two swords of Shuo Jin and Jin Shi flew out hand in hand, intertwining a golden and red spiral pattern, and brought out bursts of air explosion sounds that resounded through the eardrums, directly hitting the strongest part of the corpse's body.
At the same time, a handful of Sunstone powder was scattered.
Amidst the sound of pinching and chanting, a golden light gun quickly condensed.
The entropy light gun fell on the evil corpse, immediately igniting a large amount of corpse energy, making it feel frightened and angry, and the rising momentum was temporarily stopped.
Seeing that it was useful, Lu Zhong immediately stepped up his attack and called on everyone to assist.
It seems that after killing a target like the evil corpse, you can get more sect good deeds, so everyone worked very hard, firing fireballs one after another, making it unable to retreat.
During this period, the evil corpse tried to rush forward several times, but was forced back by everyone.
Continuing to consume the corpse energy from the evil corpse, Lu Zhong learned from the previous lesson this time and kept entangled with magic weapons to prevent the evil corpse from hiding in the stronghold again. Then he absorbed the abundant corpse energy inside and broke through to the second level again.
Soon, the evil corpse fell to the ground.
After confirming his death, Lu Zhong walked to the corpse and took out a storage bag.
There was a lot of stuff inside, but he still took it out and divided it. After all, the reason why he was able to kill the evil corpse this time was that the assistance of the junior brothers and sisters was indispensable. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the subsequent clearing mission, the necessary act of winning people's hearts was still To do.
Even so, there are still many benefits for Lu Zhong.
Added up, there are nearly a thousand spirit stones.
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On the third day, the cleanup operation reached a critical point.
After three consecutive days of high-intensity suppression, the Heling Sect successfully expelled all the coalition monks entrenched in the upper waterway at the cost of considerable casualties. Only a small number of people were left hiding in the lower waterway and continuing to linger.
According to the plan, Lu Zhong's next mission is to cleanly and thoroughly wipe out the monster beasts entrenched in the lower waterways, and at the same time strangle the remaining coalition monks.
It is unknown whether it is day or night underground, and the blazing fire dispels the darkness.
On Lu Zhong's side, he led his team members to rest in an underground hall, healing their injuries and meditating to regain their breath. Everyone was busy and was seizing the time to recover.
Lu Zhong, who had always been wary of his surroundings, suddenly felt an inexplicable palpitation in his heart.
"what happened?"
"I suddenly became panicked!"
Not only him, many Heling Sect disciples also felt abnormal.
"Something's wrong!" Lu Zhong's eyes flashed with light. He looked at the entrance and exit to the lower waterway in the hall. He could see that the red light inside was getting stronger and the concentration of the demon spirit energy was increasing rapidly. He said quickly: "Quickly, turn on the gathering wave formation. !”
In the center of the hall, six Heling Sect disciples sitting cross-legged beside the formation flag nodded after hearing this.
Without any hesitation, the six people each shot out the aqua orbs in their hands.
The six-pole formation flags emitted light threads that connected with each other, and soon gathered into a complex formation, and immediately pulled the raging torrent flowing through the underground hall. Soon, a blue water curtain rose, blocking the entrance and exit of the lower waterway.
The other side of the water curtain had turned blood red at some point.
"Bang!" A heavy object hit the steel plate, making a loud noise.
Everyone looked at the sound, and suddenly a huge rotten animal head came out of the strong demonic aura.
If you look closely, you will see that this animal head is obviously the shape of a Yin Sickle Rat. In the rotten and oozing mouth, there are sharp teeth that are as sharp as sickles, which is an extremely distinctive identity feature.
At this moment, its eyes were scarlet and full of madness.
Lu Zhong's expression changed slightly when he sensed the aura emitted by the sickle rat.
The second-order Yin Sishu?
Finely mobilize the spiritual power to improve the accuracy of the gas-gazing technique in distinguishing the concentration of spiritual energy.
"No, its realm has fallen to the first level, just like the first level of perfection!" Lu Zhong was sure of the strength of the Yin Sickle Rat, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but he did not feel underestimated because of this, and immediately ordered All the team members focused on the sinister rat.
At this time, he couldn't help but feel lucky that his master's family was rich and wealthy.
The Gathering Wave Formation is a precious two-way magic formation. When one-way traffic is enabled, it can launch attacks from within the formation and outside the formation, which can come in handy.
The next moment, dozens of fireball bombs exploded.
On the other side of the water curtain, the crazy sickle rat was in pain and kept roaring.
It scratched at the wall randomly, leaving claw marks that were several feet deep, but it soon couldn't withstand the continuous attacks of fireballs, and was reduced to ashes in more than ten breaths.
Before anyone could cheer, there were several violent impacts one after another.
Lu Zhong looked carefully at the entrance and exit and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
Inside, there were densely packed red eyes, and there were a large number of calf-sized sickle rats pouring out of the passage. They were frantically gnawing at the water curtain, constantly consuming the power of the Gathering Wave Array.
Meeting the rats was actually what everyone expected.
After all, rat monsters have always been known for their reproductive speed, which is only slightly inferior to mud-shell pigs.
What everyone didn't expect was that the size of the rat group was so large!
The team members felt their scalps numb, and they all looked at Lu Zhong inquiringly.
Such a large group of rats was no longer something they could handle, so they had to retreat or call for help.
Facing everyone's gaze, Lu Zhong suddenly had an idea.
Turn over your hand and take out the Wutu Ruimu Spirit Ring, pointing the ring face towards the entrance.
A large number of scythe rats are crowded into a narrow passage, which is definitely the perfect target for sharp wood guns.
Quickly injecting spiritual power, the Wutu Ruimu Spirit Ring glowed with green light. After a while, a blue light beam suddenly shot out, sinking into the depths of the blood-like demon spiritual energy.
A series of screams came from the passage.
Lu Zhong didn't know how many Yin Sickles he had killed with this blow. He only knew that the spiritual power in his body was being consumed rapidly. If it weren't for the profound spiritual power brought by the Four Spiritual Skills, he was afraid that this blow would kill him. Squeeze dry.
Taking advantage of the Heling Sect disciples' wave of fireballs to repel the rats, he ordered the formation control disciples to change the Gathering Wave Formation to a two-way traffic.
When I hold my left hand and hold the precepts, I feel an unprecedented sense of heaviness.
The ten-foot-long sharp wooden gun was retracted, and a long string of Yin Sickles hung directly on it.
Throwing them to the ground, Lu Zhong said: "Continue to do what you did just now when you need to hit the last hit!"
When the others heard this, they were stunned for a moment, and then said happily:
"yes!"
A first-level Yin Scythe Rat, even if it is not a high-value monster, can be worth at least thirty or fifty spirit stones if sold.
The group just now consisted of seventeen Yin Sickle Rats.
According to the way Lu Zhong distributed the spoils before, everyone present could pocket at least five spirit stones.
With such generous rewards, how can people not be motivated?
One after another, although there were several accidents during the process, they were all solved by Lu Zhong in time.
At the same time, the piles of dead rat corpses piled up in the underground hall increased at a speed visible to the naked eye. They soon piled up into a hill, and several large vats of animal blood were collected.
Gradually, Lu Zhong also reached his limit.
Spiritual weapons cannot be used by monks in the Qi Refining Stage for a long time, even if they are semi-spiritual weapons, the total amount of spiritual power in his body has dropped to 40% at this moment, which has dropped to the warning line set by Lu Zhong.
As a precaution, he ended the hunting spree.
Looking at the mountains of dead rat corpses and imagining the possible benefits, the team members all had excited smiles on their faces.
At this moment, a Heling Sect team appeared.
The leader is a young man with a jade crown.
Hou Yulin came here after receiving orders from Li Changxuan. Affected by the clearing operation, the Yin Scythe Rats began to counterattack, so some weak positions needed special manpower support. He deliberately slowed down on the road in order to give Lu the trouble. It's a lesson, but I didn't expect to see this scene.
"How did he kill so many Yin Sirats?"
Looking at the corpses of these evil sickle rats, Hou Yulin showed a hint of jealousy in his eyes, but he quickly put it away. But he was immediately thinking in his mind that since Lu Zhong, who was born as a casual cultivator, could do it, and he was from the Jindan family, he might not have the possibility of replicating the success.
The expressions in this scene all fell into Lu Zhong's eyes.
"Lu...Senior Brother Lu, I came here to change defenses on the orders of senior brother." Hou Yulin's heart moved and he slightly modified Li Changxuan's order in order to occupy this "treasure place for making wealth."
"This..." Lu Zhong glanced at his team members and found that most of their faces were tired, and all of them had very little spiritual power left.
He instinctively felt that Hou Yulin was lying.
Just thinking that there would be a lot of monsters to deal with in the future, Lu Zhong decided to pretend to be dumbfounded, which could be used to get rid of the corpses of the Yin Sickle Rat, so as to avoid leaving them for a long time and greatly reducing their value.
"Thank you, Junior Brother Hou, for coming to help. It would be better to obey my orders than to be respectful."
The two teams quickly switched defenses.
Lu Zhong left with his team members loaded with loot.
…
When we got to the ground, merchants had already heard the news and came over.
Looking at the piles of bones and fur, as well as tens of thousands of kilograms of monster meat, one and two of them had their mouths widened, and their expressions looked extremely surprised. This was the first time they had seen so much monster material.
"Hey, Master Lu?" A merchant recognized Lu Zhong.
"It turns out to be shopkeeper Feng!" Lu Zhong responded familiarly.
Shopkeeper Feng was in the acquisitions business, and the purchase price he offered was quite fair. In the past, when the talisman could not be sold, he would choose to deal with it to Shopkeeper Feng. The relationship between the two people became closer after going back and forth.
"I didn't expect that Fellow Daoist Lu would become a disciple of the Immortal Sect!" Shopkeeper Feng sighed for a while, looking at the monster beast materials, and asked carefully: "Are all these monster beasts hunted from below?"
Looking at the surprised or disbelieving looks of these merchants, Lu Zhong chuckled and said, "Of course!"
Immediately afterwards, he said: "If anyone here wants to eat this batch of materials, you can give me a quotation now. In addition, you can all see the quality of the bones and fur. It is definitely a first-class product. Please don’t bid randomly when making quotations.”
"That's right, that's right!" all the merchants responded.
Soon, the first merchant quoted the purchase price, and then the second one.
Since it was shipped in large quantities and the seller was from the Heling Sect, this batch of Yin Scythe Rat corpses was sold at a pretty good price, and those with the least effort could get sixty-three spirit stones.
After sharing the benefits, all the team members were happy from ear to ear, and they were even more convinced of Lu Zhong.
As for Lu Zhong, he directly credited 3,500 spirit stones this time.
It's not a small amount, it can buy one-tenth of a Foundation Establishment Pill.
Compared with spirit stones, his biggest gain is actually soul.
When killing the Yin Scythe Rat, Lu Zhong handed the sacrificial weapon to his team members and asked them to collect the essence. In the end, there were more than a hundred in each hand.
With so many essences, it is a good choice whether it is used to cultivate the spirituality of a spiritual ring or made into a machine soul.
…
The crackdown continues.
Hou Yulin's fake order was soon exposed.
The reason is very simple. He was exposed by his disciples from the Heling Sect.
He faked an order to occupy the defensive area of Lu Zhong's team, but he failed to replicate his record of hunting down a large number of Yin Sickle Rats. Instead, due to the huge defensive pressure, several of his team members were killed by the Rats, which provoked The people below were full of complaints, and there were subsequent reports.
But these have nothing to do with Lu Zhong.
After Hou Yulin was exposed, the team's repairs ended and he was reassigned to the cleanup team. Li Changxuan's order came quickly, and he was still responsible for defending the entrance and exit of a lower waterway.
Relying on the Wutu Ruimu Spirit Ring and the cooperation of his men, Lu Zhong hunted the Yin Sickle Rat easily and happily.
Every day, a large amount of spiritual stones come into the account.
For Lu Zhong, dozens or hundreds of essences were obtained.
Time flies and half a month passes.
After all, the huge swarm of Yin Sickle rats could not stop the monk's butcher knife. The number of counterattacking rats was decreasing day by day, and the day when they entered the lower waterways was coming soon.
Everyone is gearing up, hoping to enter the lower waterway as soon as possible.
In terms of benefits, hunting the Dark Scythe Rat can only be regarded as a small one. The real big one has to be hunting the Moon-Watching Toad.
In view of the scarcity of ice magic weapons in the Southern Barbarians, if the spiritual materials of an entire Moon-Watching Toad are properly preserved, it can be sold for at least three to five hundred spiritual stones, which is ten times as much as that of the Yin Scythe Rat. A sum is not a problem.
But a sudden order poured cold water on everyone.
Cleanup operation cancelled!
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Shuini Cave Mansion.
Under the blooming laurel trees.
When Lu Zhong asked about this in a depressed manner, Master Shui Ni just smiled faintly, put down the teacup in his hand, and asked: "My dear disciple, how do you think Heling Sect is developing now?"
"The three major areas of Yongling, Luoyun, and Yanling Mountain will be unified soon. There may be a chance to achieve the Yuanying Sect in the future." Lu Zhong gave his own judgment. The current Heling Sect can be said to be prosperous, and there is a great possibility Will become the overlord of this area.
By combining the resources of the three sects, it might be possible to cultivate the True Monarch of Nascent Soul.
