Bone Cave.
Since Lu Zhong captured this place, he changed its name to "Baidao Immortal City".
Compared with Luoxia Cave, the ninth-grade immortal veins in Baidao Immortal City are indeed much better. The immortal spiritual energy is extremely abundant, enough for him to speed up his cultivation a hundred times the time.
"It would be even better if it were an eighth-grade immortal vein."
Lu Zhong thought with some dissatisfaction.
However, he also understands that this is difficult to achieve.
Even in a remote place like the Bright Moon, a small place that is looked down upon by the outside world, the eighth-grade immortal veins everywhere are controlled by big forces. They often have more than one true immortal, and they have been passed down for tens of thousands of years. And there is at least one Fourth Realm monk whose overall strength far exceeds that of the Bone Cave Master and Tao Niangzi.
If you want to seize food from the tiger's mouth, you must have equal strength.
"Now that we have the ideal dojo, the next step is to do our best to improve our cultivation."
Lu Zhong added oil to the lamp and slowly entered the state.
...
Twilight Realm.
The fairy city above the clouds.
After a big battle, it was rare for this place to calm down.
At this moment, dozens of rays of light fell from the sky. It could be seen from the monks' clothes that the people who came were all disciples of Yinlou Dao, and the incarnation of Lord Qu was also among them.
Although the war in the fairy world is cruel, it is not without death.
Theoretically, as long as they are not targeted by high-level beings, low-level monks can still survive with a high probability of relying on their own life-preserving secrets.
For example, now, with the help of the "fixed astrolabe" and the guidance of an illusory gray light, Qu Jun quickly discovered a recruiting monk who was not dead yet.
This person was in a deep coma at the moment, and his physical body had completely collapsed. Only his soul, which had been chewed a few times, was able to escape with his life.
Part of the reason for being comatose is that the soul was damaged.
The other part used the mysterious burning method.
"Middle stage of divine transformation..."
With the help of the fixed astrolabe, Qu Jun easily identified this person's cultivation level.
In a situation like this, even if the injury seems to have a chance, it is very simple to deal with.
Feeding a soul pill, thanks to the astonishing power inside, the damaged soul will soon be repaired. After that, with a little cultivation, it is not impossible for the soul to return to normal.
"Thank you, senior, for saving your life!"
The rescued monk woke up and kept repeating these words.
In a similar way, Qu Jun can be said to have heard his ears getting calloused.
Since the beginning of the war, because he had mastered the void elixir method, he was assigned to the position of alchemist accompanying the army. In addition to refining various auxiliary elixirs, he was also responsible for healing injuries and rescuing people.
Compared to those fellow disciples who were arranged to work with the True Immortal Master, or to control the grafting monks.
Although the position of alchemist accompanying the army is not easy, it is better than being safe enough.
At least for now, among the disciples who entered the same group back then, excluding those who were eliminated, there are only three left alive today, and he is one of the three.
Among them, his status as a military alchemist is undoubtedly the greatest guarantee for his survival to this day.
"Uncle Master Qu, there is another one here!"
The junior disciple greeted excitedly at this time.
That's right, since the Lord of Yinlou Dao left seclusion, Yinlou Dao Palace has returned to its previous state, as if the past had never happened. It has begun to recruit many disciples, and the scale is quite astonishing.
It is not difficult to guess that it is all for the purpose of breaking the war.
Naturally, Qu Jun became the uncle of the younger generation.
He nodded and came to a mountain of corpses.
It can be clearly seen that the survivor underneath is very powerful. Before he fell, he killed many opponents, at least three to five hundred, among whom the majority were fusion monks, many of whom had reached Mahayana cultivation. For monks in this period, without exception, all their opponents were killed in one blow.
Precise and ruthless!
It is quite different from ordinary monks in the immortal world.
With this thought in his mind, Qu Jun asked his lower-level disciples to carry out the survivors.
"Uncle Master, this seems to be a mercenary from the Dusk Path..."
Sensing something was wrong, the disciples' expressions gradually changed.
From the excitement at the beginning to the ice-cold feeling in my heart, it took less than a breath to pass.
Lying about intelligence is a serious crime.
"You are mistaken."
Qu Jun waved his hand expressionlessly, pulled out the bloody man who was only breathing, and "groped" on his body for a few times, and soon "found" it as a proof of the recruitment of monks for the Corridor Palace.
In this way, the doubts of the disciples were dispelled.
Little did he know that this identification was just made by him.
"It's actually the Master of Zhenyang Cave..."
Qu Jun never expected that my old acquaintance would appear here.
Still in this state.
Qu Jun glanced at the chest of Zhenyang Cave Master, where there was a hideous wound that was still glowing with gray light: "No wonder there was a mountain of corpses. It turned out that Zhenyang was hit by the Yinlou seal of the Dao Palace Celestial Immortal, and his life was already at the point of collapse. The siege by hundreds of people is the last straw that breaks the camel's back."
Too lazy to think too much, he decided to save his life first.
I must be very interested in this.
...
Once the war ceases, it will last for decades.
For mortals, these are long days.
Even for a low-level monk, it takes a long time.
But for the Dao Palace Golden Immortal at the top, it was just a blink of an eye, and the decades-long truce was more like an intermission for such beings.
Used to adjust strategic direction and summarize battle gains and losses.
Qu Jun is naturally happy to see this happen.
If possible, he would also like to practice in the cave all day like this deity.
It's a pity that it's the time of the war. If you enter the gate and wall of the Incorridor Palace, you have to pay blood and loyalty for it. It will be obvious that you will not be able to escape for a while.
Fortunately, in my free time, I still have the Master of Zhenyang Cave to chat with me.
The Master of Zhenyang Cave woke up eleven years ago. He lost his memory at first. Fortunately, as his soul and cultivation level recovered, he was quickly found.
In order to prevent his identity from being exposed, he simply pretended to join the Yinlou Road party.
"What happens after ascension?"
When the Master of Zhenyang Cave heard Qu Jun ask about this matter, his eyes couldn't help but become a little gloomy.
He originally thought that the fairy world was a place of freedom and eternal life.
Unexpectedly, it was the beginning of disaster.
"After passing through the Ascension Formation, I was greeted by the Qingxu Sect in the Twilight Realm. At first, I thought that after entering the Taoist Sect, I would be able to continue to pursue a higher realm, and that no matter what happened, I would be able to live happily ever after."
In his opinion, an ascended monk like himself would be valued by the sect.
"did not expect......"
Zhenyang Cave Master shook his head, sighed and said:
"To transform into an immortal, you must take the Transforming Tribulation Pill. Otherwise, you will have to endure a heavenly tribulation every hundred years until you become an immortal. Until the breath of the lower world is cleansed. So, I chose to take the Transforming Tribulation Pill. Who knew it would be troublesome? The beginning. In order to repay the cost of the Tribulation Pill, I need to mine for the Qingxu Sect for ten thousand years."
When he thought of this, he explained.
"Yunxian Iron, I guess fellow Taoists have never heard of it. This is a rare spiritual material that can be used to refine immortal treasures. Because it is extremely hard and the environment it is in is extremely harsh, it requires at least the Fusion Stage cultivation level. Only then can mining be possible, and the Mahayana period is the most efficient, so it is most suitable for mining.”
"Mining?"
When Qu Jun heard this, he couldn't help but look surprised.
"That's right, it's mining!"
The master of Zhenyang Cave also did not expect that he would be exploited to dig for others after borrowing the formation to ascend to the fairyland of his dreams, and this digging would last for thousands of years.
"If this battle hadn't started, I would have been digging in the mine until the ten thousand years expired."
"Speaking of which, I would also like to thank my fellow Taoist for saving my life."
When the Master of Zhenyang Cave thought of his previous state of confusion, he was filled with fear.
At that time, he was exhausted. Even a monk at the stage of becoming a god could easily take away the life of a Mahayana monk like him, which shows how weak he was.
If it weren't for Mr. Qu, he would have concealed the past in time.
I'm afraid that the fate of his Zhenyang Cave Master will be to lose his cultivation after hundreds of thousands of years.
Having said this, Zhenyang Cave Master also felt a little regretful.
"If I had chosen to overcome the tribulation and ascend instead of taking advantage of the formation, how much better would it be now?"
However, the wood is finished.
"After the Broken War began, I was selected by the Qingxu Sect to replace the Qingxu monks and served in the Twilight Immortal Army. Just as I expected when I came, the army was also corrupt and decadent. Even the Mahayana monks , there is no use for them at all, and they are ostracized everywhere.”
Recalling these memories, the face of Zhenyang Cave Master also became ugly.
But soon, it returned to its original state.
"That's all, don't mention the old things again."
After hearing what he said, Qu Jun had to give up his plan to ask further.
Based on the information obtained so far, it can be determined that the monks who ascend through the formation are equal to labor force in the eyes of various sects and are the targets of exploitation.
...
"Is there such a thing?"
Lu Zhong, who had just come out of seclusion, looked surprised when he received the news from Qu Jun.
"I didn't expect that the dignified Supreme Being from the lower world would be squeezed into mining when he arrived in the fairy world!"
In the past, he would have never believed it.
But now facts speak louder than words.
"This is a 'disguised' benefit."
Presumably this news spread to Linghuan in the lower world, which was enough for many monks to change their minds and choose to join the fairyland version of Luofu, which is now Luoxia.
Speaking of Luoxia Immortal City, it has not been without its troubles recently.
The reason why Lu Zhong came out of seclusion this time is also related to this point.
Not long ago, an out-of-control fairy puppet entered Luoxia.
Immortal puppets naturally have true immortal-level combat power, comparable to first-level immortals in their heyday.
Originally, special monks would recycle things of this level.
But this out-of-control fairy puppet had already been abandoned by the Corridor Palace because it was extremely damaged. Incarnation Qu Jun even saw it on the abandoned list.
Because of this, Lu Zhongcai had to leave seclusion.
As soon as the figure disappeared, he soon appeared above a dense forest.
This was a transmission he accurately positioned based on the real-time information provided by Brother Luoxia. It was transmitted impartially to the face of the out-of-control immortal puppet.
At this moment, right in front of Lu Zhong, less than ten thousand feet away, there was a figure suspended in mid-air.
The clothes are in tatters and the metal skin has many leaks.
It can be seen from the details that the manufacturing skills of the Immortal Puppet are by no means comparable to the puppets from the lower world. The latter is at best the splicing of building blocks, while the former is a highly sophisticated technology. The level of precision is far higher than that of his previous life, and there is no trace of splicing on the whole.
At this moment, the astonishing immortal spiritual energy leaking out of its body caused astonishing damage along the way.
The destructive power is roughly equivalent to a full-strength attack by a cultivator.
However, what concerned him most was that the immortal puppet had a broken sword stuck in its chest.
Lu Zhong could tell at a glance that there was a strange power residing in the broken sword. The source was not the Twilight Immortal Palace, but more like the inheritance of the legendary Golden Dao Palace - the Way of Cause and Effect.
He made a little confirmation and quickly analyzed the effect.
Cause and effect - whoever draws the sword dies!
"No wonder it was abandoned..."
Lu Zhong thought to himself that even he didn't have the strength to just draw his sword without hurting the puppet.
Perhaps the gain outweighed the loss, which made Brother Yinlou choose to give up this immortal puppet.
"It's difficult!"
In the past, he could try to use the gray fog space to explore the possibility of not dying by drawing a sword.
But now - the gray mist space has condensed into a spiritual ring.
Limited by his own weak strength, Lu Zhong did not dare to bet on the results of activating the Dao Ring. Regardless of the result, good or bad, the ring would probably not belong to him.
Can it only be destroyed?
Soon, he thought of a way.
The difficulty in pulling out the sword is that the being who has the strength to pull out the sword is worth more than the Broken Immortal Puppet.
In the final analysis, it is still a matter of choice.
Coincidentally, Lu Zhong's external incarnation can use the power of his own body to increase his strength in a short period of time and gain the ability to pull out the broken sword from the immortal puppet.
There is only one difficulty in doing this.
That is, whether the death of the sword-drawing incarnation will hurt the original deity.
Later, Lu Zhong realized that he was worrying too much.
The power of cause and effect in the broken sword is single and pure, without any "impurities", so it can destroy an immortal puppet and make the corridor monks give up recycling it.
It can be deduced from this that the avatar drawing the sword will not endanger the true form.
"so......"
Lu Zhong made a decision quickly.
That is to let others do it.
Soon, the right person was found.
But it was the previously captured disciple of the White Bone Cave Master, Gu Shisan, a Mahayana man who had been famous for a long time. With the blessing of the secret method and the supplementary incarnation, he had the possibility of pulling out the broken sword.
In exchange for drawing the sword, he would be free.
Lu Zhong, on the other hand, obtained a broken immortal puppet.
A rare win-win deal.
Of course, the premise is that Bone Thirteen can succeed.
After several years of preparation, Lu Zhong and Gu Shisan appeared on the ground where the immortal puppet must pass before moving forward.
"Thank you, senior, for this opportunity!"
After Gu Shisan bowed and thanked him, he activated the secret technique without hesitation. His aura began to increase at an alarming speed. At the same time, a bright light shot out from his body. It was the incarnation that Lu Zhong had refined for him.
As soon as the avatar appeared, he went straight to the immortal puppet.
The result was indeed as Lu Zhong expected. The power on the remaining sword was too pure and would only affect the person who drew the sword.
So in an instant, the incarnation disintegrated into spiritual energy.
"Is this the power of cause and effect? The Golden Dao Palace..."
Lu Zhong secretly thought to himself that although the cause and effect is not as intuitive as the two paths of time and space, its power is exactly the same and quite strange.
Which one is better and which one is worse, it’s really hard to tell for a while.
As promised, Gu Shisan was let go, and he ducked in front of the immortal puppet.
When the sword was drawn just now, it was pulled out with its core. Therefore, the immortal puppet is now paralyzed unless a suitable core can be found to replace it.
Lu Zhong is not helpless about this.
By transforming into Lord Qu, you can redeem the Immortal Puppet Core. You only need to repair the body of the fairy puppet and then put it into the core of the complete fairy puppet, and you can get a fairy puppet with power comparable to that of a true fairy.
It just takes a lot of time.
However, this is the icing on the cake for Lu Zhong.
It is enough to be able to solve the trouble caused by the immortal puppet and prevent Luoxia from being overly damaged.
Getting a fairy puppet is more like an unexpected surprise.
