plumnovel Chapter 165: The Giant Shadow City Revisited, and the Changes in Crimson Eyes
Chapter 165: The Giant Shadow City Revisited, and the Changes in Crimson Eyes
In the clouds filled with yellow sand.
At that moment, the three Foundation Establishment stage Sand Lizard Demon Clan cultivators suddenly sensed that their divine senses in the surrounding void were being suppressed by a tremendous force.
The divine consciousness that was originally outside the body was as if it had been grabbed by an invisible giant hand and forcefully stuffed into the sea of consciousness.
The consciousness of the three sand lizard demons seemed to have turned into a lump of paste.
Once the magical artifacts in the clouds lost their magical power supply, their light immediately dimmed.
The gale and sand in the air slowly dissipated.
Bang bang bang!
The three sand lizard demons wobbled and crashed to the ground.
A faint white streak of light appeared on the distant flying boat and arrived in front of the three sand lizard demons in the blink of an eye. A little girl dressed in white, who looked no more than eight or nine years old, was revealed from the streak of light.
The girl glanced at the three sand lizard demons lying on the ground, then raised her right hand. Her seemingly slender, white jade-like hand instantly swelled into a ferocious demon claw nearly ten feet wide.
The demonic claw descended, seizing the three Foundation Establishment stage sand lizards in its hand.
Between the scales, which were carved like white jade, wisps of scarlet malevolent energy emanated.
The murderous aura, like smoke, enveloped the three Foundation Establishment stage sand lizards and, after a few breaths, refined them into three Blood Jade Spirit Pills, each the size of a pigeon's egg.
After refining the Blood Pills, Bai Ling'er looked at the color of the three pills in her hand and the blood energy contained within them, then popped them into her mouth and ate them like candy.
"My senior brother's spiritual sense is so powerful."
"With just the power of divine sense, these three Foundation Establishment stage sand lizards were transformed into this state."
At this moment, Bai Ling'er was quite shocked by the power of her senior brother Liu Ya's divine sense.
Although his senior brother's cultivation level was only at the early stage of Core Formation, the cultivation methods they practiced were orthodox Xuanmen cultivation techniques, which were absolutely top-tier in this lower realm.
Within the same realm, the Xuanmen cultivators possess several times more magical power than ordinary cultivators.
Although Bai Ling'er had never met her senior brother and had fought with him along the way, the fact that his divine sense had been revealed was enough to surprise her.
"It feels so much better not to have to hide my true self!"
"It's a pity. Before Master can advance to the Nascent Soul stage, we should still try our best to conceal our true form."
Bai Ling'er casually collected the three second-tier magic artifacts and three storage bags that were floating in place. She also used a spirit-storing talisman to collect all the blood energy that had been dissipated from refining the three Foundation Establishment stage sand lizards.
Immediately, Bai Ling'er used her innate divine power, the water-based escape technique, and in the blink of an eye, she transformed into a streak of light, flying onto the flying boat in just a few breaths.
Inside the cabin at the top of the airship.
Lin Li took the spirit-preserving talisman given to him by his junior sister Bai Ling'er, extracted all the wisps of blood energy from it, and refined them into his body.
[Inclusion successful]
[Second-tier, low-grade bloodline, Sand Sea Spirit-haired Lizard!]
Immediately afterwards, a yellow-scaled sand lizard, nearly two zhang long, appeared on the Reincarnation Plate. Not only were its limbs thick, but it also had a scarlet fleshy fin on its back, resembling that of a fish, with several dark, sharp spines protruding from the end of the fin.
The tips of the spikes gleamed with a cold, metallic sheen.
As for the other few strands of blood energy, after Lin Li refined them as well, no other bloodline figures were revealed.
Those three sand lizards in the Foundation Establishment stage all shared the same fundamental nature and bloodline.
This flying ship, which nominally belonged to the Thousand Waves Chamber of Commerce, did not encounter any calamities along the way.
The spiritual veins in Shazhou are scarce.
Most of them were first-tier spiritual veins scattered in the surrounding oases, while second-tier spiritual veins were extremely rare. The flying boat traveled smoothly and arrived outside Giant Shadow City after a day and a night.
On the flying boat.
Lin Li and Bai Ling'er stood on the deck, looking at the Giant Shadow City more than ten miles away. They activated the concealment talisman that Lin Chuan had left in their sea of consciousness.
After the talisman is activated.
Lin Li and his companion vanished into thin air, then transformed into streaks of light and left the area. As for the disciples of the Zheng Yang Sect on the flying boat, who were filled with murderous aura, they were all refined into several blood pills, which were then consumed by Bai Ling'er.
Although Bai Ling'er possesses extraordinary talent and can devour cultivators in the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages without restraint, she does not indiscriminately kill innocent people.
Those cultivators or evil demons who are covered in a heavy aura of malevolence.
Consuming it will not cause much harm to oneself; in fact, if the cultivator is extremely wicked, he may even be rewarded with a wisp of Heavenly Merit.
After leaving the flying boat, Lin Li easily passed through the third-order array barrier outside Giant Shadow City with Bai Ling'er. With the support of the power of the Myriad Treasures Devouring Spirit, such array restrictions were practically nothing to Lin Li.
Inside the Giant Shadow City.
Lin Li led Bai Ling'er straight to Xuan Ying Mountain in the city.
Decades have passed.
But the layout of the Giant Shadow City remained completely unchanged.
After entering the city.
Lin Li's divine sense, comparable to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator, covered the entire area of Giant Shadow City. On the Xuan Ying Mountain, he sensed the aura of a turtle demon in the early Core Formation stage.
Lin Li activated his innate divine ability, the Yin-Yang Dividing Pupil Technique.
With the help of his divine sense, he saw through the turtle demon's soul and body at a glance.
From the depths of the tortoise demon's soul, a faint, crimson figure of a rat demon could be seen.
But Lin Li only glimpsed it for a moment before withdrawing his gaze. When he saw the soul essence of the scarlet rat demon, Lin Li was convinced that this turtle demon was the spirit body that the Crimson Eyes had prepared for him to possess.
This Crimson Eyes could be said to have completely outmaneuvered all the cultivators in the Thousand Shadows Pavilion.
The two human Core Formation cultivators who were originally in the Thousand Shadows Pavilion both met their end in death. As for the other Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Thousand Shadows Pavilion, countless others have been purged.
For a Core Formation power like Thousand Shadows Pavilion, the loss of Foundation Establishment cultivators is not a big deal.
As long as an olive branch is extended, Foundation Establishment cultivators who want to join Thousand Shadows Pavilion can line up from halfway up Xuan Ying Mountain all the way to the foot of the mountain.
If Lin Li didn't have the ability to reincarnate, then wouldn't the one laughing last be this Crimson-Eyed Old Monster?
The Crimson-Eyed Old Monster successfully dealt with two Core Formation cultivators in the Thousand Shadows Pavilion, and even advanced his possessed body to the early Core Formation stage. He then occupied the land where the Thousand Shadows Pavilion was located.
He could continue to control Qianyinglou for at least several hundred years.
However, this possession technique can only be used once.
...
...
Xuanying Mountain.
mountain top.
The location of the core cave dwelling of the third-order spiritual vein.
The water system is full of spiritual energy.
In the center of this water-based cave system, which covers dozens of acres.
There is a lotus pond covering several acres, where blue lotus flowers, each several meters in diameter, bloom in abundance.
Each one is a second-tier or higher water-type spiritual plant, and at the bottom of these lotus ponds, a layer of water-type spiritual stones is laid on top.
In the water, many spirit fish of different colors swam about during their cultivation period.
On the lotus plate in the water, a middle-aged man wearing a loose blue Taoist robe was sitting quietly. A few steps in front of him, on two other lotus plates, sat a boy and a girl with childlike features, who looked to be only twelve or thirteen years old.
These two disciples are now both disciples with earth-elemental roots, each possessing a single-attribute spiritual root.
The boy had a single earth-elemental spiritual root, while the girl had a single metal-elemental spiritual root.
At this moment, the Crimson-Eyed Old Monster sat cross-legged on the lotus plate, looking at the two junior disciples of their sect with earth spirit roots in front of him, a complex look in his eyes.
The girl's golden-elemental spiritual root aptitude meant she was a direct descendant of his former junior brother Cui. Her aptitude must have been closely related to his junior brother, who was in the Core Formation stage.
"Once my cultivation is stable, I will definitely explore the ruins of Mount Penglai again!"
Then the Crimson-Eyed Old Monster remembered something he had learned from the storage bags of his two junior brothers.
The area connected to the Penglai Mountain ruins is very likely to be outside the territory of the two great cultivation kingdoms of Nanyue and Dongming.
If that's the case, then with my lifespan of several hundred years, there's a sliver of hope that I can advance to the mid- or late-stage Core Formation stage, or even the Nascent Soul stage.
Their junior brother Cui and his group even discovered the remains of a Foundation Establishment cultivator in the ruins of Penglai Mountain. The method of making the robe on the corpse was something they had never seen before.
They are fundamentally different from the weapon refiners within the Southern Yue Kingdom.
The other party's storage bag contained not many spirit stones, but it also contained a considerable number of demon cores with yin attributes.
Yin-attribute demon cores are extremely rare within the Nan Yue Kingdom.
Before his two junior brothers could even use their Yin-attribute demon cores, they met their demise. And after the Crimson-Eyed Old Monster possessed his body...
After possessing this mutated turtle demon with a superior third-tier bloodline, he used the Yin-attribute demon cores in the hands of his junior brother Cui and others to sell them off in several markets in Shazhou and Yunzhou for several consecutive years.
He then purchased several Core Formation spiritual items, and it was precisely with those items that the turtle demon he possessed was able to break through from the Foundation Establishment stage to the early Core Formation stage in a short period of time.
It even condensed the potential of a low-grade true elixir.
Such a high aptitude for a True Core made the few Core Formation forces around them who were eager to attack Thousand Shadows Tower immediately put down their swords.
If the Thousand Shadows Pavilion has a Core Formation stage cultivator in charge and is able to continue its legacy, it will be difficult to deal with.
A turtle demon in the early stage of Core Formation has a lifespan several times that of an ordinary human Core Formation cultivator, and its defensive capabilities are generally the ceiling among cultivators of the same level.
That's why the Core Formation cultivators from several surrounding forces also wanted to find out more about the turtle demon.
Therefore, at present, they are only doing some minor things on the periphery of Qianyinglou's influence.
"Master."
"I have a request."
"I wish to go down the mountain. I have been here for several years now, but I have never been down the mountain."
Among them, the white-robed youth on the lotus plate stood up and bowed to the red-eyed old monster sitting cross-legged in front of him.
His tone carried a hint of pleading.
"Once you reach the seventh level of Qi Refining, I will allow you to descend the mountain once."
"With your current cultivation level, if you were to go down the mountain, you wouldn't even be able to activate a decent second-tier magic weapon. Wouldn't that tarnish the reputation of our Thousand Shadows Pavilion?"
The Crimson-Eyed Old Monster slightly opened his eyes, looked at the white-robed youth Zhou Yuhu, and spoke to him calmly.
"Seventh level of Qi Refining".
Upon hearing what his master said, Zhou Yuhu's pupils contracted. He was only at the fourth level of Qi Refining, and had been focusing on building his foundation and following his master's instructions.
Each step of their advancement in the Qi Refining stage was personally assisted by their master, who helped them refine and purify the spiritual energy within their bodies.
They are usually promoted after being purified twice.
In this way, when they reach the peak of Qi Refining, even without the assistance of any Foundation Establishment Spiritual Objects, their success rate of natural breakthrough can be increased by nearly 20%.
This is a technique for purifying spiritual energy that the Crimson-Eyed Old Monster saw in the jade slip in Junior Brother Cui's storage bag.
This purification technique can only be used by cultivators at the Core Formation stage or above to purify Qi-refining junior disciples. If a Foundation Establishment cultivator were to assist in the purification of a Qi-refining disciple, it would be very easy to make a mistake.
"Yes, Master!"
After bowing respectfully, Zhou Yuhu obediently sat back down in his original spot.
Just now.
The Crimson-Eyed Old Monster's gaze suddenly fell upon the lotus pond above the cave, where two figures in white robes were walking down from the sky, each step seemingly covering a distance of over ten zhang.
In an instant, a glint flashed in the eyes of the Crimson-Eyed Old Monster, his eyes filled with surprise.
How could a cultivator enter his cave without being detected by the formation?
In an instant, the old monster with red eyes felt a chill run down his spine.
quack!
A croaking sound, like muffled thunder, echoed through the cave.
Beside the Crimson-Eyed Old Monster, there appeared a toad demon figure draped in a gray robe. The figure was thin and wielded a wooden staff, and the toad's face was covered with wrinkles.
This Nascent Soul stage toad demon is now considered one of Lin Li's trump cards.
This spirit toad demon was a demon servant that Master Linchuan had subdued for him. As long as he didn't encounter cultivators above the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm outside the sect, he could still ensure his own safety.
"A Nascent Soul cultivator!"
When the Crimson-Eyed Old Ghost suddenly sensed the Toad Demon's aura, which was like a vast ocean, beside him, his heart tightened and he dared not move an inch.
Nascent Soul!
How could this be? Their Thousand Shadows Pavilion is in such a remote and impoverished place, especially since this Giant Shadow City is only a third-tier low-grade spiritual vein.
Could it be because of the ruins of Mount Penglai?
The Crimson-Eyed Old Monster quickly began to think of a countermeasure.
Moreover, he began to recall every detail from the past, as well as the various events that had occurred with this possessed body, constantly wondering if he had really offended a Nascent Soul stage ancestor at some point!
The Crimson-Eyed Old Monster knew that if the other party had truly come for him, there would be absolutely no chance of survival!
The latest chapter is packed with exciting plot twists! Come check out Cola Novels!