Very deep underground. Six formations of different sizes are located in an unusually wide underground space.
Five formations faintly formed a circle around the city, surrounding a pale golden formation. Special spiritual patterns are looming on the shield of the pale golden formation. It seems that they are not the spiritual patterns used in this era.
A huge purple-black creature is sleeping inside the formation. It is shaped like a scorpion and has a ferocious pattern on its back, like a struggling evil ghost.
Suddenly, the demon scorpion opened its purple eyes and let out a roar! A violent black energy spread towards the surroundings.
Some black mist surged out of the golden formation, but was blocked by an invisible white light shield.
Outside the formation, an old man with a white beard was studying something on the ground. He didn't react at all. A burly man next to him yelled at the demon scorpion: "Why are you arguing! If I couldn't beat you, I would definitely I’ll kill you! Are you hungry? If you’re hungry, you’ll be done with eating your own tail pincers!”
The white-bearded old man reacted this time, rolled his eyes, and sighed: "Fellow Daoist Qin, that beast didn't bother me, but you made my head buzz."
The strong man said in a low voice: "It's not too busy. The monster insect hasn't come to the battle for almost three months. I don't know what it is thinking. Other fellow Taoists asked me to follow you again. Let's let someone else do this job next time."
The old man smiled and said: "My fellow Taoist, the ancient treasure Dingguang Bi, is powerful and very good at defense. It is old and not good at fighting. It depends on you to protect it."
"..I know, I know, I went to meditate. I really don't understand why you are still so interested in studying this formation all day long."
"You are not a fish, how can you know the joy of fish?"
"You're not a fish!"
"..."
ps: I wrote this on purpose. My understanding is that temperament, IQ and cultivation have little to do with each other, but Yuanying monks have one thing in common, a firm Taoist heart. .
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Half an hour later.
At this time, Jiang Yun was hiding in a small cave, sitting facelessly on the ground, his back leaning against the rock wall, his whole body covered in dust and looking miserable. At this moment, he was not even in the mood to use the dust removal technique, and was very depressed.
A small phantom array was also arranged at the entrance of the cave. To the naked eye, it looked like the entrance did not exist at all. As for the original owner of the cave, he had become a corpse and was being eaten by several gold-sniffing rats.
Jiang Yun's injured areas, including his broken right arm, were covered in a green aura. He grabbed his right arm with his left hand and straightened the bone with slight force.
Although it hurt, Jiang Yun just frowned slightly and did not make a sound. With the help of the rejuvenation technique, the wound began to heal quickly.
After a few breaths, the green light dissipated. Jiang Yun waved his right arm, clenched his fist, then took off the damaged robe and put on a new high-grade robe.
"How did they find me!"
"I used the Wind Hidden Technique. If there are high-level demonic insects in the insect swarm, I will also affix the True Hidden Talisman. The demonic insects cannot release their spiritual consciousness, and they can only rely on their sense of sight and smell."
"In order to prevent being smelled, I even sprinkled smell-masking powder on my body. What's going on..."
Jiang Yun began to try hard to recall the details of the previous battle.
After a while, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and there was a look of surprise and uncertainty on his face. He quickly took out a jade slip, placed it on his forehead and started looking at it.
When Jiang Yun put down the jade slip, his eyes darkened, and a solemn voice came from his mouth.
"Soul-sucking fireflies are evil monster insects that feed on human souls and souls. They have the innate ability to sense the location of human souls and souls."
"Damn it! Didn't it say on the jade slip that this monster insect was exterminated by the major sects thousands of years ago? It actually appears here!"
"And according to the jade slips, there were no soul-sucking fireflies in the previous decades of battles. It's a shame... one of the two escape talismans he gave me was consumed."
Jiang Yun thought of the scattered soul-sucking fireflies in the huge team of monster insects, and couldn't help but touch his forehead, feeling very headache.
Jiang Yun put down the jade slip and sighed.
"It seems that some new changes have taken place underground. I just hope the situation won't be too bad."
Underground, Stronghold 44.
Yue Luoling stood on the city wall of the stronghold, looking at the swarms of insects all over the mountains and fields below, feeling very depressed.
At this moment, she wondered in her heart whether her group was cursed.
After the mission to capture a pair of Golden Thunder Land King Scorpions failed, everyone was ready to leave directly. However, when they returned to the large stronghold No. 42 and prepared to leave in the teleportation array, they heard a piece of news.
Someone once saw a silver-spotted glow bug at Stronghold No. 44. It was a kind of luck bug. If you could get one or two, it would be a worthwhile trip.
Everyone in the Yuling Sect quickly found the guy who announced the news. That person was a casual cultivator in the early stage of foundation building. The price offered was a thousand spirit stones. As a demonic sect, the Yuling Sect was naturally very overbearing, so they threw away ten pieces. After giving him the middle-grade spirit stone, he was directly caught in the team and told to leave after finding the silver-spotted glow worm. The guards of the nearby Zijin Kingdom did not dare to stop him and pretended not to see it.
After leaving the stronghold, Old Man Feng first placed a ban on this person, took out a lot of information, and finally directly searched for his soul. After the soul search was completed, he crushed his bones and ashes.
The final result made everyone in the Yuling Sect very excited. What this person said was actually true, and there were not just one silver-spotted glow worm, but nearly thirty.
The incident happened a month ago, when this person saw a silver-spotted glow bug from a distance. Just as he was about to approach, the spirit bug flew away quickly.
Although this kind of spiritual insect was very special and he couldn't catch it at all, he was greedy and followed it all the way. Finally, the silver-spotted glow insect flew into a cave. He looked at the cave from a distance and never dared to approach it again.
Because a huge earth fire dragon is sleeping in a wide cave. Judging from the size and cultivation level, it is definitely above level six, maybe even level seven, and there are a group of silver-spotted glow bugs flying around it. , it seems that the relationship between the two is very unusual.
The casual cultivator was only in the early stage of Foundation Establishment, so he didn't dare to disturb the earth fire dragon, so he left quickly. He was going to sell the news to the monks in the Core Formation stage, hoping to get a good price.
Everyone in the Yuling Sect was overjoyed, and even the two monks at the Alchemy Stage were beaming with joy. Although the Earth Fire Dragon was precious, it was not indispensable.
Qiling Mountain, the home of Yuling Sect, is rich in spiritual energy and has many secret realms, so it breeds countless precious spiritual beasts and insects.
Even there are as many as five or six kinds of powerful dragon monsters, some of which are more powerful and rarer than the Earth Fire Dragon.
But thirty silver-spotted glow bugs are different. This item is worth far more than a high-level fire dragon. If it can be brought back to the sect, there will definitely be a huge reward in the sect.
As a sect that has been inherited for tens of thousands of years, the Yuling Sect's understanding of luck beasts and insects is far beyond that of small sects and small sects, and they have already preliminary researched how to use them.
Let’s not talk about the special abilities possessed by the lucky spirit beasts and spirit insects. Their luck alone can be used. It would be best if the lucky spirit beasts and spirit insects can recognize their master. In this way, the luck of their master will be improved. Enhance.
However, it is extremely difficult for a lucky spirit beast to recognize its owner, and it will be unlucky if they hate it.
The sect with a long tradition has developed a method to forcefully extract luck.
With these thirty silver-spotted glow bugs, a special room can be created inside the door, with some kind of magic circle spiritual pattern for extracting luck engraved in the room.
Luck is a very mysterious thing. It can enhance the understanding of magic skills, increase the probability of breakthrough, and even increase the success rate of alchemy. In short, it is very magical.
However, the luck of the lower-ranked luck beasts and spirit insects is not too strong. It can only have a certain effect on the Qi training stage and foundation building stage. If you want to have an effect on the pill formation stage or even the Nascent Soul stage, you need a lot of luck. It's an astonishing amount.
After receiving the luck, the spirit insect needs time to slowly recover.
According to Elder Feng's estimation, if half of the luck of the thirty silver-spotted glow bugs were taken away at once, it would be enough to increase the probability of a monk who has completed the Qi training to break through the foundation building stage by an additional 50 to 60%. If he adds the foundation building pill, he will fail. Disaster.
The probability of forming a pill for a monk who has perfected the Foundation Establishment can be increased by about 10%.
Extracting half of their luck, it would take about forty or fifty years for these spiritual insects to recover their luck.
In addition, regardless of whether the promotion is successful or not, because the luck is forced to be extracted, the monks who have absorbed the luck will be unlucky in the next few decades because the luck will bite back.
But it's not a big problem, it's just unlucky. As long as you stay in seclusion and don't go to dangerous places, no one will die. Compared with increasing the chance of promotion, this side effect is nothing at all.
After all, spiritual elixirs that increase the probability of forming elixirs are so precious and rarely seen in the past.
But extracting their luck is a costless business.
According to games on Earth, the cooling time is just longer.
Luck spirit beasts and spirit insects are not disposable items. They all have a long lifespan, without exception. So it can be used for many, many years.
The emergence of all lucky spirit beasts and spirit insects cannot rely on reproduction, but can only appear through special conditions.
The sentient bird is ranked seventh in the list of luck beasts. This spirit beast must have a small probability of being formed in a place where the population is large, and people live and work in peace and contentment, and are happy from the bottom of their hearts.
Once the sentient bird is born, it can protect all sentient beings in the place. This kind of protection does not refer to combat. But the probability of people getting sick and suffering from natural disasters will be greatly reduced.
In addition, the special ability of sentient birds can enhance their reproductive ability, so even the fertility rate of ordinary people can be increased. This ability is equally effective on monks and spiritual beasts and insects.
Therefore, for some people, the seventh-ranked bird may be more important than the first-ranked five-color auspicious deer.
There was once an old Nascent Soul monster who wanted to obtain heirs, but he took in hundreds of concubines, both in the Dan Formation Stage and the Foundation Establishment Stage. However, he worked hard for hundreds of years, working hard day and night, and achieved various dual cultivations. I tried all the exercises but still found nothing.
Later, he exchanged the Bird of All Living Beings from the hands of a certain Nascent Soul old monster who was nearing his end of life. The price was a promise to protect his sect within the scope of his ability for three hundred years.
The sentient bird is very special among the lucky spirit beasts, because it is a kind of lucky spirit beast that is notoriously afraid of death, so it is easier to identify its owner than other lucky spirit insect beasts.
After the friendly negotiation between the Yuanying ancestor and the sentient bird, it agreed to help the Yuanying old monster.
As a result, within ten years after getting the Bird of All Living Beings, more than a dozen wives and concubines became pregnant, and most of the children they gave birth to had spiritual roots. This incident also made Zhongshengniao completely famous.
However, it is said that because the energy consumption was so great, the sentient bird slept for more than a hundred years before recovering.
Later, some high-level monks wanted to take the initiative to take care of a city with the intention of giving birth to birds, but no one ever succeeded.
All in all, some areas are prosperous on the surface, densely populated, and splendid in architecture. But the internal situation is full of oppression, corruption, and the people are full of hostility. There is no way a place like this could give birth to a living being.
Luck spirit beasts generally have extremely long lifespans and can be used for a long time after being caught. Unless someone tries to catch the fish, the luck spirit beast will die quickly if the luck is extracted too hard.
Their Yuling Sect originally had five or six scattered luck spirit beasts, which added up to a large number. The sect had used various means to accumulate them over the past countless years.
As a result, two hundred years ago, an ancestor who was at the peak of the mid-stage Nascent Soul, in order to increase the probability of advancing to the late stage of the Nascent Soul, frantically extracted their luck. In the end, most of the luck beasts died, and the few who survived were injured because of their origins. He hasn't recovered yet, and even if he recovers, he will probably hate the Yuling Sect to death.
Originally, because of their good treatment and the fact that their luck was not too bad, they thought their lives were okay. As a result, after what happened...
It would be fine if the Nascent Soul Ancestor succeeded in advancing, but the most abominable thing was that the Ancestor failed to advance.
Later, the ancestor's soul lamp went out within less than ten years of traveling. No one knows how he died.
To this day, this matter is still one of the topics of discussion among other sects, and it is still a joke. Even after two hundred years, this topic is still brought up from time to time.
The saying on earth is that after many years, it is still in the top ten hot searches.
In short, if they can bring these silver-spotted glow bugs back, they will all be great contributors. Their Yuling Sect is really short of luck and spiritual beasts.
Moreover, this special ability exclusive to spirit insects is also very useful to the insect idiots of the Yuling Sect, so they are determined to win it.
But it is a pity that everyone in the Yuling Sect has been searching for nearly two years and still has not found the earth fire dragon that this person mentioned, let alone the silver-spotted glow worm.
Just when everyone was about to give up and go to the large stronghold to take the teleportation array to leave, a large group of monster insects surrounded the medium-sized stronghold No. 44 where they were currently, and they were unable to leave at all.
You must know that only large strongholds have teleportation arrays, and among the nearly 200 strongholds underground, there are only single digits in large strongholds.
The leaders of the insect swarm are six high-level demonic insects, and the stronghold, including the Yuling Sect's team, only has four monks at the pill formation stage. Fortunately, although the stronghold is not large, the defensive formation is powerful enough, and it is still possible for the time being. Can hold it.
"Sigh... When I return to the sect, I'm afraid I won't want to come out again for a long time."
Looking at the sea of insects in front of her, Yue Luoling sighed.
Return to Jiang Yun.
After being discovered before, Jiang Yun changed the way he moved.
Previously, relying on the Wind Hidden Technique and the True Hidden Talisman, Jiang Yun felt that not to mention level 1 to 4 monster insects, even level 5 monster insects could not detect him, so he was not too worried about safety issues.
Therefore, Jiang Yun basically walks in naturally generated underground cave spaces, although the number of spiritual insects he encounters will be larger this way.
But now due to the emergence of soul-sucking fireflies, Jiang Yun no longer walks through the naturally generated underground space. Instead, he chooses to let the gold-sniffing rats dig holes and travel while using his spiritual pupils to try to avoid places where spiritual power gathers.
In this way, the probability of encountering monster insects will be greatly reduced.
"If you can spot me through the thick rock and soil, then you are not a soul-sucking firefly, but a radar!" Jiang Yun thought through gritted teeth.
This made it much harder to sniff the golden rats. When Jiang Yun was tired of digging, he took them back into his belt and rewarded them well. After that, he used the earth spirit power to open a small space and set up a formation to isolate the breath. After entering, he closed the hole closed.
A ball of light formed by a point light technique is enough to illuminate a small, enclosed space.
If you feel really depressed, ask the spirit insects to take care of the Blue Sky Orb, then go into the green garden to relax and drink a cup of the flower tea newly made by Queen Bee.
Although the Blue Sky Orb has the function of concealing magical objects, Jiang Yun still did not dare to stay in it for too long and came out after drinking two drinks.
In this way, days passed, and Jiang Yun was getting further and further away from the underground stronghold. Although the number of monster insects he encountered was still large, it was generally becoming less and less.
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Eight thousand words tomorrow.
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