"What?" Mei Shumo asked in shock.
"Old thief Huang!" Hong Gu said through gritted teeth.
"It's none of his business. It was the battle above that woke this thing up." Li Yingshi saw the origin, his face became solemn, he offered the golden gourd he had just given, and said quickly:
"They are the blood puppets of the Golden Spirit Tribe. Be sure not to be possessed by them, otherwise the fairy medicine will be difficult to cure!"
Mei Shumo and the others suddenly became commotion and quickly alerted themselves.
Hearing this, Lu Zhong remembered the origin of the blood puppet.
As the former overlord of this world, the Jinling clan has been dominant for more than 100,000 years. It is not without reason. This clan has made great achievements in the field of puppets. Even when it was invaded by the Immortal Dao, it used the puppets it made to resist tenaciously. For more than a thousand years.
This shows how powerful this clan is!
The blood puppet is a kind of secret puppet created by the Jinling clan, and its strength is equivalent to that of Nascent Soul.
Appeared late in the war.
Reborn from a drop of blood and extremely difficult to eliminate.
Once it invades the enemy's body, it can instantly disintegrate the target's magic power.
Specially designed to hunt down immortal monks.
There have been comments in history books that if the number of blood puppets was not too small and it was extremely difficult to replenish them after consumption, I am afraid that the war 30,000 years ago would have ended with the victory of the Golden Spirit Tribe.
This thing is so powerful that even Lu Zhong dare not underestimate it.
After all, according to records, this thing even severely damaged the Transformation God.
In the dark, he sacrificed the water dragon flag.
Soon, subtle movement came from the distant passage.
At first, it was still rustling.
But in the blink of an eye, the voice came closer, and a changing human-shaped shadow, emitting blood-red light, appeared in front of the six people.
Seeing the blood puppet getting closer and closer.
Li Yingshi immediately slapped the golden gourd, and a beam of light burst out.
There was a loud "Zila" sound.
The smell of burning and fishy smell came over me like a tide.
Lu Zhong hit the blood puppet with several thunderbolts in succession, but found that the effect was very little. Obviously, this object was not restrained by thunder and lightning, so he immediately changed his mind, flicked his finger, and popped out a purple gold extreme fire. This time Sure enough, good results were achieved.
Like a dry fire, the blood puppet was immediately ignited.
"Peng!"
Its body suddenly exploded and turned into countless fragments, flying in all directions.
Even Lu Zhong didn't expect this sudden scene, so he had no time to unfold the fire curtain to protect himself.
As for the others? Just ask for more blessings.
"ah!"
Someone has been tricked.
It was Huang Yan'er, and a piece of debris fell on his arm. He was also very cruel and immediately cut off his left arm with a sword.
The severed arm fell to the ground, squirmed and twisted, and turned into a bloody shadow as big as a palm. The fierce look in his eyes immediately rushed towards Huang Manner.
"Boom!"
Lu Zhong struck a thunderbolt from his palm and blasted the blood shadow into powder.
"Um?"
His eyes were startled and he found that the power of the thunder in his palm suddenly became much stronger.
After thinking about it and analyzing it, I quickly understood the reason.
It should be that after taking over the physical body, the characteristics of the blood puppet have changed, and it no longer has the ability to fear thunder and lightning as before, so it was directly blasted into powder by a palm thunder strike.
The next moment, Lu Zhong fired another palm thunder.
This time it's blood puppet fragments.
As before, almost no effect.
Half a quarter of an hour later, the blood puppet was finally eliminated, and the others were more or less injured.
The only exception is Lu Zhong.
"Fellow Daoist Chen, if I'm not wrong, you've also hidden your cultivation, right?" Li Yingshi bandaged the wound, touched his shoulder where a piece of flesh had been shaved off, and looked at Lu Zhongdao.
Hearing this, other people also cast their gazes.
Especially Mei Shumo's expression was extremely complicated.
He didn't expect that the four people he summoned would all hide their cultivation.
Thanks to his three brothers, they have been kept in the dark.
Regarding Li Yingshi's problem, Lu Zhong chose to "acknowledge" generously.
"Yes, I am actually at the middle stage of Yuanying." As soon as he finished speaking, he deliberately let out his aura, revealing an aura that was close to the peak of the middle stage of Yuanying and vaguely close to the late stage of Yuanying, making him the highest among the people. Li Yingshi's eyes also changed slightly.
"Haha, haha... The three seniors are all Nascent Soul Stage True Lords. What do they see in Mei?" Mei Shumo laughed at himself and looked at Lu Zhong and the others and said.
Li Yingshi thought for a while, organized his words, and explained: "Fellow Taoist Mei, don't get me wrong. This matter is a long story and cannot be explained clearly in a few words. All you need to know is that what I am after is not with you. That’s it. As for why I joined the fellow Taoist team, it’s just to hide my whereabouts.”
"Me too." Hong Gu said expressionlessly.
"As for Chen? The purpose was already mentioned to fellow Taoist Mei before..." Lu Zhongtan said.
Mei Shumo was dubious about the three people's words.
However, despite the help of the three Nascent Souls, he was reluctant to push them away in the end. Risks and opportunities coexisted, and Mei Shumo naturally understood this.
Of course, the most important thing is the Meishan Order, which cannot be something that the Nascent Souls covet.
On the way deep into the Yaksha Wasteland, dangers will inevitably come like a tide. If we can get the help of Lu Zhong and the others, it will definitely be much smoother.
After staying for a while, the team set off again.
But the atmosphere became dull.
Along the Jinling Clan tunnel, the six of them walked in the dark for half a day and ran for more than three hundred miles before finally reaching the exit and appearing in a valley. This is the junction between mountains and hills. If you continue to the southwest, you will reach the edge of the Yasha Wasteland.
However, the house leaked and it rained all night.
As soon as the team walked out of the valley, an underworld army appeared in front of them.
Under the leadership of a Huangquan monk, the Huangquan army numbering 30,000 was plowing the grass valley.
Wherever it passes, it is like a natural disaster passing through, the essence of the vegetation is squeezed out, and all monsters are inevitably spared. After sucking up the essence and blood and devouring the essence, they will continue to use the waste, and infect the mummies with corpse poison to become corpse beasts. Consume the monk's strength.
It is almost visible to the naked eye that the strength of this underworld army is getting stronger.
"There is no point in taking action, and it will only alert the enemy, so my suggestion is to go around." Li Yingshi whispered, looking at the nominal captain Mei Shumo.
"Go around!" Mei Shumo said.
"I don't think it's possible, Huang Quan's army has already discovered us!" At this time, Lu Zhong suddenly spoke and pointed at the tops of the six people's heads. I don't know when a small black spot appeared there.
"Oh, it's the Yellow Spring Eagle!" Li Yingshi sighed.
The Underworld Vulture, a corpse beast domesticated by Underworld Dao, has extremely strong eyesight. It can clearly see every plant and tree on the ground from a thousand feet in the air. It can also communicate with its owner. It is the main scout of the Underworld Army.
"Uuuuuu——"
The piercing sound of the trumpet sounded from the underworld army.
The Deathwing Bat Demon and the Corpse Beast were in the vanguard, followed by the Resent Demon, the Armored Corpse, and the Zombie. The Underworld Army formed several arrows, wrapped in billowing clouds, and rushed towards where the few people were.
"Work together to kill them!" Hong Gu took the lead and rushed out first.
Lu Zhong patted the chocobo and asked it to follow.
The other four people also urged their mounts.
Wherever the team passed, whether they were armored corpses, zombies, or more powerful resentful demons, all of them were incompatible enemies in front of the Nascent Soul magic weapon, and they fell down like grass.
In just one hundred breaths, the underworld's forward was killed.
Seeing the six immortal cultivators coming toward the central army with an unstoppable force, the Huangquan cultivator who was riding on the wolf suddenly smiled "Jiejie" and showed a bloodthirsty smile.
He raised his hand, and a four-armed evil ghost statue appeared.
The blood runes flashed crazily, and the suppressed strength of the Huangquan monk was rapidly recovering. A murmur suddenly came from his mouth, but he was reciting a mantra.
During the charge, Lu Zhong fired thunder from his palms one after another.
"Crack!"
The electric arc flashed past and did not fall into the group of bat demons in the sky. Then it turned into a thunder ball and exploded. Countless death wing bat demons twitched and fell to the ground, and were soon burned to ashes by the thunder and fire on their bodies.
At this moment, a figure was shot so hard that he vomited blood and flew backwards.
But it was Hong Gu who was at the forefront.
The Nascent Soul monk was shot away, and the culprit was a three-foot-tall corpse-turned-mountain demon whose strength during life was similar to that of Ji Zhu. This matter sounds a bit unbelievable. After all, there is a huge gap between the two realms, but when the monk's strength is suppressed, At the moment, it is a completely normal thing.
"Dongdongdong!" Heavy footsteps sounded.
The corpse-turned-mountain demon rushed forward, splattering blood along the way and trampling countless zombies to death. It picked up the blood-stained hammer in its hand and slammed it down on Lu Zhong.
Seeing this, Lu Zhong took out a stream of five elements vitality.
Broken Star pointed out.
With a crack, the giant hammer shattered into pieces.
At this time, Lu Zhong flicked the reins, and Chocobo immediately understood and rushed forward. A green sword slipped from his hand, and he slashed at the corpse-turned-mountain monster's legs, cutting them off without any delay like a knife slicing tofu.
While the mountain demon fell, Lu Zhong struck the head with a sword and cut off its head.
"careful!"
Just when he was relieved, someone suddenly shouted from behind.
When he turned around, he saw a black shadow coming towards him.
Lu Zhong's expression remained unchanged, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly. He had actually discovered a long time ago that the Huangquan monk who commanded the Huangquan Army had sneaked up near him, and there was a curtain of fire immediately.
The black shadow bumped into Zijin Jihuo.
"Ahhhhhh" the screams continued.
The visitor realized something was wrong. The ordinary Nascent Soul's spiritual fire, even if it restrained his Yang Fire, could not have such amazing power and seriously injure him in one go.
You know, he is now protected by a four-armed evil ghost statue.
Under the blessing of the underworld's law, the strength of the underworld monk himself was enough to crush the suppressed Immortal Dao Nascent Soul, but now the result is completely the opposite.
A terrible guess immediately emerged in Brother Huangquan's mind.
He quickly got up and tried to escape.
It's a pity that if he didn't have so many mental activities, he might have been able to escape.
But now, the end result is to be chopped in half.
Lu Zhong reached out and took the evil ghost statue into his bag.
"The four-armed evil ghost statue? The plundered energy must be more."
With such a harvest, he felt much better.
Without the commander-in-chief to take command, the Huangquan Army suddenly became a mass of scattered sand, falling into the chaos of fighting on their own. Naturally, they could no longer stop the six people, and they were quickly killed and fled.
After running for more than ten miles, the fighting behind them not only did not stop, but intensified.
"What happened next?" Mei Shumo asked.
"Either they are monsters, or there are hair-changing tribes living in seclusion in the mountains. They must be residents of the mountains. Seeing that the underworld army is gone, they will naturally not let go of the underworld army."
Li Yingshi knew a lot, told the possible reasons, and answered Mei Shumo's questions.
"Mao clan..." Lu Zhong said this word silently.
It is recorded in the classics that this is a race that practices the way of change. They often live in the mountains and forests. Depending on the concentration of their blood, they can transform into different types of monsters. Due to the persecution of the Jinling Clan in the old days, the powerful bloodlines in the Pi Mao Tribe have long been completely extinct, leaving only the common bloodlines such as bears, tigers and leopards.
When the immortal cultivators invaded this world, the Pi Mao tribe joined the immortal cultivators' camp.
Due to this achievement, the Pi Mao tribe gained the qualification to live in Xizhou.
At this time, it suddenly started to rain.
"I think it's better to find a place to take shelter from the rain, where you can take a rest and heal your injuries?" Hong Gu, who had been traumatized many times, suggested at this time.
Lu Zhong looked at the others and realized that except for himself, the other five people were more or less injured.
Especially Hong Gu, who was unlucky. After she was shot away by the corpse-turned-mountain demon, her injuries that had just stabilized collapsed and worsened again. No wonder she would take the initiative.
So he nodded and said:
"I agree."
The other four people heard this and did not object.
…
There is no hiding place in the hills.
Lu Zhong simply put a little more effort into digging an underground cave as a resting place.
After setting up a concealment restraint, he released the chocobo and took it to the room prepared for it. He carefully applied a few cleaning techniques to remove the dirty blood and meat. After cleaning, he took out the cabbage and other food and fed it. Pick up this furry little guy.
Turn around and come to the temporary quiet room.
Lu Zhong checked the restrictions and took out the four-armed evil ghost statue after confirming it was safe. Like the previous one, this evil ghost statue also broke the seal he had placed with the intention of breaking out.
There's nothing to say, it's just a sword.
plunder!
He immediately felt that the vitality that was originally burned as firewood and consumed a little suddenly increased by a considerable amount, and the number reached a new peak.
By running the Haokong Secret Sutra, the efficiency is greatly increased.
Lu Zhong was happy about this.
As far as he knew, the biggest difficulty in breaking through to the realm of refining the void was to nourish and strengthen Yang Shen with divine energy until he became like me.
This level has stumped many talented people.
In the future, with the killing sword, this level is probably useless to him.
Of course, the premise is to kill enough evil spirits in order to plunder the divine energy.
There is no need to worry about Yang Shen's growth for the time being. Lu Zhong's attention returns to the accumulation of mana. Compared with the steadily growing Yang Shen, his mana has stagnated for a long time and has not made any progress.
"It seems that after taking Xuanyang's treasure, we need to find a safe place to use the accumulated spiritual materials on hand to use the counter-creation formation to refine a batch of elixirs that increase mana. The mana has been stagnant, which is not a good thing. "
With this thought in his mind, he made a plan for the next step.
The rain outside was getting heavier and it didn't stop for a while.
Lu Zhong simply started grilling.
The ingredients were all things he bought casually when he was in the city. He didn't actually know how they tasted, but tasting them was a kind of fun, just like opening a blind box.
Lu Zhong ate ten skewers in a row. Perhaps due to his skill, the taste of the skewers was not bad.
Whether it is meat skewers or vegetable skewers, they are no less than spiritual food.
at this time.
The restrictions outside the cave were triggered.
His expression changed, his eyes moved to the door, and he said calmly:
"Please come in!"
