"This is it!"
Lu Zhong murmured, then closed his eyes.
Entering the gray fog space and recalling the scene here, the soul power began to be consumed rapidly, and it was quickly located at the corresponding time period, as if he was also here at that time, and saw the scene of that day clearly.
Then he used his spiritual consciousness to interfere with reality, and obtained a lot of information from it.
There were five shadows chasing Su Xuer that day.
Only one of them is alive. He is in the middle stage of foundation building. He is covered in black smoke. He should be practicing some kind of magic skill. He is undoubtedly a demon cultivator.
The rest of the black shadows are all refining corpses, and the aura they exude is equivalent to the early stage of foundation building. However, the refining corpses that Lu Zhong recognized are different. Their bodies are all engraved with bloody incantations. They are different from the obvious refining corpses commonly seen in classics. Instead, they look like The "Witch Corpse" is only found among the barbarians.
That's all.
He noticed that the demon cultivator was using a white bone fork at that time.
This cross is billowing with green flames, and you can tell at a glance that it is not an ordinary thing.
There was a feeling of uneasiness in his heart, so Lu Zhong did not hesitate to spend a lot of soul power to intervene with his spiritual consciousness to check the bone fork, and finally got a result that surprised him beyond measure.
The Bone Fork is actually a magic weapon!
Magic weapons are of the same level as spiritual weapons, but they are more weird and sinister. In terms of lethality, the former is stronger than the latter.
There are a lot of records in the classics that the refining method of magic weapons is harmful to the heaven and earth. Behind every magic weapon is born, a large number of lives are destroyed. Therefore, the sect family has been continuously encircled and exterminated. After a large number of refining, The law gradually disappeared.
For the above reasons, in the world of cultivation, magic weapons are even rarer than spiritual weapons.
Secretly alert, Lu Zhong turned his attention to Su Xu'er.
He was very curious as to why the demon cultivator was chasing this woman.
Since the magic cultivator had a magic weapon in his hand, he thought that his background would not be simple. He would not hesitate to expose his identity, and even break into the dangerous Jiangpuppet Forest to pursue him. It was expected that Su Xuer had obtained something extraordinary. Or maybe he knew the secret of this demon cultivator.
No matter what the reason was, it meant that Lu Zhong had to confront this demon cultivator.
If you really get what you want, you will suffer.
After acquiring Liu Piao Niang's Jade Vein Skill, he solved the problem of difficulty in improving his own cultivation and gained more opportunities to form golden elixirs. Now he must endure the troubles caused by this.
"Fortunately, I have mastered the palm thunder." Lu Zhong thought of this and immediately felt relieved.
Recalling the direction in which Su Xuer escaped, he followed her.
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Deep in the Jiangpuppet Forest, a fighting battle is taking place.
On one side are the bronze puppet warriors holding weapons and armor, firmly occupying the numerical advantage, with a scarlet aura flashing in their eyes. At this moment, a scene unknown to outsiders is displayed. There is no longer the out-of-control appearance of the past, but a well-organized formation. The army is launching a mass charge, like a roaring mountain and a tsunami.
The other side is the group of corpses that form the defense line. They are composed of refined corpses with black air billowing from their bodies and the blood-red curse of civilization that is uncertain of destruction, as well as a large number of foot-tall walking corpses in ragged clothes. Although this side is at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, it can repeatedly attack them. After thwarting the puppet's offensive, the entire line of defense can be said to be impregnable.
Behind the defense line, a dark figure stood in the shadows, holding a white bone fork and taking action from time to time.
Green flames rolled down, and the bronze puppets were covered in green fire. Their movements were sluggish. Their bodies would soon be dyed with layers of green, and then a large amount of debris would fall. After a while, the spiritual patterns inside would be destroyed. The puppet's body could no longer be maintained, and it instantly shattered into pieces.
Seeing that there were fewer zombies filling the battle line, this person would slap the black bag on his waist and release zombies that were obviously made from barbarians to continue to resist the attack of the puppet group.
At this moment, the battlefield was in a mess, with puppet soldiers and zombies spread all over the ground.
Lu Zhong came after him and saw such a scene.
Looking at the spiritual light in his hand, it was condensed by the spiritual medium on Su Xuer's clothes. It was pointing at a tall gray tower behind the group of puppets. This tower was half hidden in the shadow of the night, giving people an eerie feeling, as if There is an evil spirit lurking in the darkness.
"Judging from Ling Guang's instructions, Su Xu'er is obviously hiding in this tower." Lu Zhong was sure in his heart, but he did not move forward rashly. Instead, he found a hidden and safe place and analyzed it carefully.
Just by looking at the performance of the demon cultivator in the distance, one can tell that the high tower may be hiding some mystery. Otherwise, this person does not need to fight with the puppets at all. He can take advantage of the puppet group's attention to be attracted and touch it quietly. Go in.
Demonic cultivators are often masters of stealth, otherwise they would not be able to survive the hunting of the sect family.
Thinking of this, he kneaded his hands and chanted a mantra to use the Qi Watching Technique.
As the first spell that Lu Zhong learned, the Qi Watching Technique is actually not simple at all. With the continuous deepening of the spell's attainments and the increase in the strength of the soul brought by the breakthrough in the realm, the role it can play is also changing. In the past, it was only I could roughly observe the flow of spiritual energy, but now I can observe the spiritual energy in detail.
In the field of vision, the entire gray tower is wrapped by a dark spiritual energy net. This net is bowl-shaped and is inverted in the forest clearing about a square mile away. Seven layers of spiritual energy nodes are distributed on the surface of the large net like a ring.
Abnormalities in these aura nodes cannot be detected by naked eye observation alone.
"This large aura net looks like some kind of composite formation, but it is not a magic array or a killing array. Instead, it seems to be specially designed to supply energy to those aura nodes. Two beast corpses fell on the edge. They are Su Xu'er's. Judging from the injuries on the green-winged lion, most of them came from the bronze swords held by those puppets, but the fatal injury was from some kind of powerful slash."
After analyzing this, Lu Zhong guessed that if someone broke in rashly, they would definitely be attacked by such a slashing attack.
Then he tried it in the gray fog space and found that as long as he got close to the aura network, he would be attacked by the light blade bursting out from the aura node. The light blade was so terrifying that he could be killed instantly with one blow in the simulated scene.
"Even Xingyang Gang can't stop it, I'm afraid it's a blow comparable to the Golden Pill!" Lu Zhong recalled the scene where he was killed just now, his face could not help but pale slightly, but he was thinking again in his heart.
Since the light blade is so sharp, how did Su Xuer get in?
Scene review.
Lu Zhong finally knew the whole story.
It turned out that Su Xuer fled here in a panic and was kidnapped by a silver puppet in the tower. Then the green-winged lion guardian forced his way into the formation outside the tower. He first fought with the puppet warriors, and was then captured by the magic circle outside the tower. After killing Su Xuer, the demon cultivator who was chasing Su Xuer arrived and clashed with the puppet group in order to enter the tower.
"So, how do I get into the tower?"
Su Xu'er was taken away, I'm afraid something bad will happen.
Lu Zhong felt a headache when he thought of this. From his observations just now, it can be seen that the only living gate in the tower formation is where the demon cultivator fought with the puppet group. The demon cultivator probably saw this and chose to be in the living gate. Fight against the group of bronze puppets.
He tried to crack the formation again, but found that the spiritual energy network on the outside was not the formation itself.
If you want to crack it, you must at least get close to the inner three-layer spiritual energy nodes close to the tower.
"There is no other way, it seems that this is the only way..."
A bold idea flashed through Lu Zhong's mind, and he turned his attention to the demon cultivator who was fighting with the puppet. The opponent's defense line composed of corpses was no longer as impregnable as before. Under the attack of the new puppet archer, it seemed On the verge of crumbling.
First, he walked far away and released the effects of the breath-containing and invisible techniques on his body, and then appeared in front of the demon cultivator.
The appearance of Lu Zhong immediately attracted the attention of the demon cultivator.
Just when he was in a dilemma, not knowing whether to give up defense or continue to persist, Lu Zhong took the initiative to suggest:
"What if you and I join forces?"
"Join forces?" A hoarse voice came from under the black gauze mask.
With a tone of surprise and doubt in his tone, Mo Xiu looked at Lu Zhong who suddenly appeared, with various thoughts constantly emerging in his mind, guessing his intentions for saying these words, and they were all directed towards malicious calculations.
Could this be a trap?
Is there something in it that I don't know about?
Thoughts passed by one after another, and the magic cultivator eliminated the wrong answers and came up with an unexpected answer.
"There is no balance between good and evil, but your Excellency is not pedantic at all. You really want to join forces with me, a member of the devil's path!"
"What's the devil's way, what's the righteous way? Since the goal of you and me is to enter the tower, it's better to put aside these illusory moral principles and work together to deal with these puppets first." Lu Zhong walked forward slowly and released Qingyang Jian. He came out and deliberately stimulated the aura of his spiritual weapon to frighten the demonic cultivators on the other side who were constantly moving.
The other party had already turned the bone fork at this time, obviously guarding against him.
Lu Zhong looked at the tower in the distance at this time and added: "We will benefit from cooperation. Otherwise, with your own strength, we will never be able to enter the tower."
Hearing this, the demon cultivator turned the direction of the bone cross and said with a sad smile: "Your Majesty, what you said makes sense, then we will join forces to deal with these puppets first, and we will talk about the rest later!"
As a result, the two actually cooperated and began to deal with the puppet group.
Although they were on guard against each other and no one was willing to show their trump cards, the puppet group still began to retreat steadily.
While Lu Zhong cast spells to condense fireballs and kill the puppet archers attacking the corpses in the distance to prevent the demonic cultivator's defense from being penetrated, he was also secretly thinking about how to deal with the demonic cultivator in the future.
After all, cooperating with a demon cultivator is essentially seeking the skin of a tiger.
The cooperation between the two is not very reliable and may break down at any time.
Lu Zhong didn't believe that the other party was not plotting against him, so he couldn't help but be a little more careful about the demon cultivator.
In the blink of an eye, the defeated puppet group retreated to the tower.
Seeing that there were only a dozen puppets left, they could enter the tower after killing them, but at this time the two of them actually stopped at the same time with a tacit understanding.
"Your spells are sharp, why don't I let you deal with these puppets?" The demon cultivator's voice became sinister.
"No matter how sharp my spell is, it can't compare to your ability to refine corpses. I think it's better to leave it to you." Lu Zhong said calmly.
After hearing this, the demon cultivator just snorted coldly, but did not make any move.
The two of them were in a stalemate.
Lu Zhong was not in a hurry at this time. He had just reviewed the scene and learned about the situation in the tower. Su Xuer's life was not in danger at the moment, but she was imprisoned on a stone tablet.
In this case, there is no harm in slowly spending time with this demonic cultivator.
On the other side, the demon cultivator seemed calm on the surface, but in his heart he was extremely anxious.
He didn't know what was going on in the tower.
The demon cultivator's name is Gu Nan. The purpose of hunting down Su Xu'er this time is for a rare golden ghost flower, so as to make up for the hidden dangers left by practicing magic skills and reduce the possibility of going crazy and losing control.
Once this flower is picked, it must be preserved with Yin Jade, otherwise the medicinal effect will be rapid.
The problem is that Su Xu'er didn't know this and only used an ordinary jade box. That's why Gu Nan was so anxious. After all, as time went by, the potency of the Golden Silk Soul Flower was also passing away rapidly. Now it lasts for two days. As time passes, the medicinal properties of the spirit flower will also be reduced to a critical point.
If it were any later, even if he finally got the golden ghost flower, it would be useless.
"I admire your kindness and kindness! In this case, let me deal with the remaining puppets." After saying this, Gu Nan ordered his subordinates to stop defending and start attacking the remaining puppets again, with a white bone cross on their head. Green flames began to accumulate, and they seemed to be preparing to kill all the puppets in front of them.
Seeing this scene, Lu Zhong's eyes flashed with sarcasm.
How could he not see what the other party was thinking?
It was obvious that he was pretending to attack the puppet, and then unexpectedly attacked himself.
Seeing the green flames rising from the white bones, he suddenly chuckled, took out a magic formula and hit it on the ground.
Suddenly, spiritual light surged on the ground, and the tower formation was activated.
A blade of light quickly appeared, but it did not hit Lu Zhong who activated the magic circle, but Gu Nan who had evil intentions in the distance. A scream was immediately heard, but the latter made no sound anymore.
Lu Zhong smiled secretly, thinking that his efforts were not in vain.
From the moment the two of them joined forces, he was working with the demons Xiu Xu and Wei Snake while secretly cracking the tower formation.
This formation was left by the ancient monks. The idea of setting up the formation can be said to be extremely old. In the eyes of today's formation masters, it is almost full of loopholes. Even if it cannot be completely broken due to low attainments in the formation, when no one is controlling the formation, , it is still possible to make small-scale changes based on these loopholes.
For example, the counterattack locking rule of the formation was changed to locking Yin Qi.
Originally, with Lu Zhong's current formation skills, it would take a very long time to make such a change successfully, but who knew he had the gray mist space to help simulate it.
After spending a lot of time, the changes were finally completed just now.
Looking at the corpse of the demon cultivator that was split into two halves, Lu Zhong carefully examined it and made sure that the other party was dead, and then slowly approached.
He stretched out his hand and was about to take the white bone, when there was a sound of breaking through the air above his head.
The sound of breaking through the air was imperceptible. If Lu Zhong hadn't been alert to his surroundings, he probably wouldn't have been able to notice that there was a ball of light above his head. However, Gu Nan saw that he was going to die and escaped first.
Without thinking, Lu Zhong raised his hand to release palm thunder.
Although the third palm thunder is a minor technique, one blow is enough to defeat the opponent's spirit.
"Peach ghost is immobilized!" A voice came from above.
Lu Zhong screamed inwardly and wanted to do something, but unexpectedly his body couldn't move.
With a sweep of his consciousness, he realized that there were several imp-like things under his feet, imprisoning him tightly. Even if he drew out the spirit fire to burn himself, he could not burn them out instantly.
"I didn't expect that you still have Yang Fire. It's a pity that these peach ghosts are not evil creatures, but natural monsters. Yang Fire can't burn them to death instantly!" Gu Nan laughed proudly, and the ball of light he transformed went straight to the ground. Chong Lu Zhongzhihai.
"Hahaha, I want this body, and everything about you will be mine!"
When the ball of light fell into the sea of consciousness, it was ready to swallow Lu Zhong's soul and seize it.
Gu Nan was extremely confident in this. After all, his soul was innately powerful and would give him many advantages in the battle to seize the body.
Unexpectedly, what he saw was a larger ball of light. The gap between the two was extremely obvious.
"How is it possible that your soul is so powerful!" Gu Nan was horrified.
It was only then that he suddenly realized that he seemed to have missed one condition.
"Humph!" Lu Zhong was too lazy to talk nonsense to him.
After a chase, the big ball of light ate up the small ball of light.
