Invincible Bravery
Chapter 96 095, Ning Feiyan's Encounter!Jun Yujiao's night attack!
Chapter 96 095, Ning Feiyan's Encounter!Jun Yujiao's night attack!
Jiulianxianfang is dozens of miles away.
In a valley.
She was dressed in a black dress, her skin was snow-like, her hair was as long as night, and she was covered in black and white Ning Feiyan, like an ink cloud, slowly flying to the sky above the mountain depression, and slowly landing on the ground.
She raised her eyes to look at the forest on one side, and said lightly:
"Junior Sister Zhao, come out."
"Senior Sister Ning!"
Zhao Xiulin fluttered out of the forest, flew in front of her, bowed to her, and said with a smile:
"I haven't seen you for many years, and the senior sister is getting more and more elegant!"
Seeing Zhao Xiulin, Ning Feiyan couldn't help showing a faint smile in her usually indifferent and cold pupils, and the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, making two shallow dimples appear on her cheeks that lacked expression changes.
Just this little smile made her feel as if the ice and snow had melted, and she instantly became extremely bright, pretty and moving.
"You're fine too. I heard that you have built a first-class Dao foundation and started to practice the derivation technique of Tianyin supernatural power?"
Zhao Xiulin stepped forward with a smile, took Ning Feiyan's arm affectionately, and said with a smile:
"I knew it, senior sister, you have been paying attention to me. Senior sister, you have successfully established the foundation 18 years ago, and you should be at the middle stage of foundation establishment now?"
Ning Feiyan smiled and said softly:
"I'm in the late stage of Foundation Establishment."
"Ah?" Zhao Xiulin was stunned: "The late stage of foundation establishment? It's only 18 years..."
Even if Ning Feiyan was her first genius in the same period, it would be too...
Ning Feiyan said in a low voice:
"When I first came to Chihuang Kingdom, it was indeed only in the middle stage of foundation establishment. From the late stage of foundation establishment, there was a gap of more than 240 drops of original mana. But I got some good luck in Qixingfang, and my cultivation improved by leaps and bounds. The original mana in the middle stage of foundation has been fully cultivated, and even the original mana in the later stage of foundation establishment has condensed more than a hundred drops..."
"Ah! In one night, three or four hundred drops of original mana were condensed, and the cultivation base has crossed a small realm?" Zhao Xiulin's eyes were burning, and she asked curiously: "What kind of good fortune is this? It can help the senior sister save decades. Hard work?"
When she left Qixingfang that day, Rong Susu also asked Ning Feiyan this way, but Ning Feiyan unceremoniously turned her back, and even wanted to fight her to the death if she disagreed with her.
But when Zhao Xiulin asked her, Ning Feiyan said without hesitation:
"I got three kinds of fortune. They are carrion, rotten fruit, and black soup that seem hard to swallow. These three fortunes correspond to the physical body, cultivation base, and soul. The soul is scattered, and the internal organs are turned into ashes.
"I couldn't bear it at all, but for some special reason, I was able to use it safely. My physical body, cultivation base, and spirit have all been greatly improved. In addition, I got an incomplete secret treasure. Although it can only be used once, it can be used in times of crisis. , enough to save my life..."
Zhao Xiulin didn't get to the bottom of it, she said with a smile:
"Senior Sister Ning not only escaped from the weird place that swallowed up so many monks, but also got such a lucky fortune... Senior Sister, you really have great luck."
Ning Feiyan smiled slightly, and reminded seriously:
"Don't even think about going to the Seven Stars Workshop to meet that chance. The Seven Stars Workshop is treacherous and unpredictable, and the ghost market in the workshop is even more terrifying. Senior Sister Xu's cultivation base is so much higher than mine, but she also missed that chance, and instead suffered a heavy loss... If you go, the consequences will be unpredictable."
Zhao Xiulin heard that Ni Kun mentioned the "wedding", so of course she knew that Ning Feiyan was able to get this chance, it must be because she served the ghost workshop owner and successfully completed the wedding.
But Ning Feiyan was appointed as the maid of the master of Guifang Fang, all because she followed the path of pure cultivation, and she was a virgin.
With such an opportunity, the other fellow students who entered the ghost market together did not even have the right to be jealous.
Of course, Zhao Xiulin would not be jealous of Ning Feiyan either.
One is because of her friendship with Ning Feiyan, she will only be happy for Ning Feiyan's situation.
The second reason is that, in her opinion, being able to follow her master Ni Kun is already the greatest opportunity in her life.
At that moment, Zhao Xiulin said with a smile:
"I'm very timid, so I don't dare to take risks in such a weird place. But speaking of Senior Sister Xu... what rules does she have when she comes back this time? How does she plan to deal with me?"
Ning Feiyan said: "As soon as Senior Sister Xu returned to Jiulian Xianfang, she reported the situation of the exploration to Fumiao Mountain with the teleportation array of the workshop master's mansion. The sect quickly responded and sent an elder Yuanying to lead the investigation in person. Team, come to visit Qixingfang. As for you..."
She looked at Zhao Xiulin, with her hands behind her back, her face sullen, and she said in a deep voice:
"You played tricks this time and avoided the recruitment, which made Senior Sister Xu very unhappy. She also suffered a heavy loss. She even lost the talisman that she had cultivated for more than 300 years, and there was an evil fire hidden in her heart. From my point of view, She will punish you severely and vent her anger."
"what?"
Zhao Xiulin patted her chest, hugged Ning Feiyan's arm tightly, raised her face, and said pitifully:
"Senior Sister Yixu's cultivation might not even give my Qinzu face. If she wants to punish me, I, I can only ask Senior Sister for help! Senior Sister Ning, will you help me?"
Looking at Zhao Xiulin's pitiful appearance, Ning Feiyan shook her head, raised her hand and patted Zhao Xiulin's head:
"You, it always makes people worry. Do you know that Senior Sister Xu originally wanted to force me to do it myself to execute your punishment."
Ning Feiyan is tall, with slender legs, a full head taller than Zhao Xiulin, and she can easily touch the top of Zhao Xiulin's head by raising her hand a little.
"Senior sister, don't take pictures. You are already small, and you will be even smaller if you take pictures again." Zhao Xiulin grabbed Ning Feiyan's palm again, blinked her eyes, and said pitifully: "If you really can't escape this punishment, Senior Sister Ning, you can do it!" How about taking it easy?"
Ning Feiyan shook her head:
"You are lucky this time. The elder Yuanying who led the team to Chihuang Kingdom is the elder Wan Ya'er from Yaowang Valley. She is quite fond of me and intends to accept me as her own disciple. With the strength of Elder Wan , I may save you in front of Senior Sister Xu. Otherwise, you will be very unlucky this time."
Zhao Xiulin was suddenly surprised and delighted:
"Hey, Senior Sister, you actually won the favor of Elder Wan. When did it happen?"
Zhao Xiulin had also heard of the name of Elder Wan Ya'er, the manager of Medicine King Valley. It was said that Elder Wan was a mid-Yuanying cultivation base, and he was far more powerful than Han Ziyi, the manager of Lingxiu Peak's Lingzhi Garden.
Ning Feiyan said: "Just half a year after you left Fumiao Mountain, I met Elder Wan by chance when I was collecting medicine in Yaowang Valley."
Zhao Xiulin smiled and said:
"Senior Sister is really lucky, and the opportunity is amazing. I heard that Elder Wan is at the same time as the head of the sect, he is the most powerful arm of the head, and has won the trust of the head. Sister, you can be a personal disciple of Elder Wan, and you will have a bright future in the future. .”
Ning Feiyan said: "It's not that easy to be a direct disciple of Elder Wan. She made an agreement with me that I will be officially included in the door wall after my alchemy becomes a top-grade pill. If I only form a middle-grade golden pill, then I can only be her named disciple."
Zhao Xiulin said with a smile: "With Senior Sister Ning's natural talent and luck, the top-grade golden elixir will definitely not fail you."
Ning Feiyan smiled lightly: "I accept your good words."
But he sighed secretly in his heart, how could it be so easy for a top-grade golden elixir?
The top-grade golden elixir has a lifespan of seven hundred, and the true biography of the golden elixir of the Xianyin School also has the secret method of robbing people's lifespan, and the lifespan is far beyond seven hundred.
But even so, even if the old and the new are added together, there are less than ten top-grade golden elixirs in the Xianyin School.
The same is true for other top sects, even due to longevity, the number of top-grade golden elixirs is not much less than that of the Xianyin sect.
Even though Ning Feiyan is confident in his root talent, he only dares to say that the middle-grade golden elixir is nothing to worry about, and the top-grade golden elixir depends on the fate of the future.
At this time, Zhao Xiulin took her palm again, and said in a coquettish tone:
"By the way, senior sister, I have two subordinates, and I took them along to escape the call this time. Can you protect them as well?"
"Subordinates?" Ning Feiyan said, "Are they all Foundation Establishment?"
Zhao Xiulin nodded:
"That's right, they are all middle-level daoists, and they are my capable men. I know that my senior sister is cold-tempered and doesn't like strangers, so I ordered them to wait in the forest. Would you like to see them, senior sister?"
Ning Feiyan said: "Since they are your people, I will meet them."
"Thank you, Senior Sister, for your face." Zhao Xiulin giggled, and shot a message flying talisman towards the forest.
Soon, two monks, a man and a woman, came out through the forest, flew to stop ten feet in front of Ning Feiyan, bowed to her, and said in unison:
"Loose cultivator Ni Kun [Mei Jingshu], please refer to Fairy Zong Ning!"
"Exemption."
Ning Feiyan said lightly, and his spiritual thoughts swept over the two of them lightly, feeling that the aura was icy cold, and she was a female cultivator who practiced the ice attribute. He nodded slightly, expressing his approval of his cultivation.
As for the male cultivator, his aura is actually the "Aoki Eternal Spring Art"...
To be able to build a middle-level Dao foundation with such weak skills as the Qingmu Changchun Jue, that male cultivator's roots and skills are considered to be very good.
It's just his name, why does it sound familiar?
"I remember……"
Ning Feiyan narrowed her beautiful eyes, and looked at the male cultivator who called himself "Ni Kun". Seeing that he was tall and straight, with handsome features, and a chic temperament, he couldn't help but cast a subtle glance at Zhao Xiulin, and asked via voice transmission:
"The cauldron you used more than ten years ago seems to be called Ni Kun, right?"
Zhao Xiulin sighed softly, with a melancholy tone: "It happens to have the same name."
Ning Feiyan nodded slowly, and said through voice transmission: "You have long been in love...but, after all, he is not the person he used to be..."
Then I scanned it with my divine sense, and found that Ni Kun was actually full of energy and blood, and I couldn't help feeling secretly in my heart:
He actually cherishes the "replacement" of that furnace so much.After ten years of tempering in the Black Death Valley, Junior Sister Zhao behaved completely differently from before, and her disposition became less and less like a fairy-voiced witch.
But having said that, Ning Feiyan herself is not at all like a fairy girl.
When I was feeling emotional, I heard Zhao Xiulin say:
"Senior Sister Ning, my two subordinates not only have good cultivation bases, but also have good skills. Mei Jingshu is proficient in making talismans, and can refine talismans with any function in the Qi Refining Realm and the initial stage of foundation establishment. Ni Kun is good at Zhuang Lingzhi is also an alchemist, able to refine a variety of Qi Refining Realm Spirit Pills, and now he is trying to refine Foundation Establishment Realm Spirit Pills, with a little success."
In fact, Ni Kun has been able to refine the top-grade Chiyan Pill, which is comparable to the "Caixia Pill" of the Xianyin School, and it is still a semi-self-created unique secret recipe.
But as a casual alchemist, being too high-profile will only cause trouble, so I asked Zhao Xiulin to introduce it conservatively.
"Oh? It's actually a talisman master and an alchemist?" Ning Feiyan said: "No wonder you value these two people so much, and you want to take them away from Senior Sister Xu. With such skills, it really can't be ruined in vain. Don't worry, I will help You keep these two."
"Thank you, Senior Sister." Zhao Xiulin held Ning Feiyan's slender hand and smiled sweetly.
Ni Kun and Mei Jingshu also bowed to Ning Feiyan again:
"Thank you Fairy Ning."
Ning Feiyan nodded slightly: "There is no need to be polite."
He took Zhao Xiulin's hand again: "Let's go, go back to Jiulian Xianfang."
As he spoke, he released a flying boat, took Zhao Xiulin on his arm, and boarded the flying boat. Ni Kun and Mei Jingshu also boarded the flying boat consciously.
Ning Feiyan did not recognize Ni Kun.
The reason for this is, firstly, because Ni Kun used the concealment and restraint ability of "Dry Rong Twin Body" to disguise his cultivation and aura, and fine-tuned his appearance.
The second reason is that although the eyebrows, eyes, and facial features of the "Blood Demon" form are similar to the deity, the shape and temperament of the two are completely different.
Ni Kun himself is tall and straight, with a gentle and elegant temperament, but also heroic and tough, just like a handsome young man who is both civil and military.
The blood demon form is slender and thin, pale and feminine, handsome and monstrous, and its aura always gives people a sense of madness and cruelty, which makes people think of bloodthirsty monsters at first sight.
Even if Ni Kun didn't change his face, if he only looked at his appearance, it would be because of the people around him who were very familiar with Ni Kun, and there was no way to immediately link Ni Kun himself with the blood demon.
What's more, Ni Kun also fine-tuned his facial features?
Therefore, even though Ning Feiyan was in the ghost market and accompanied the bride all the time, and was deeply impressed by that weird "new uncle", she did not recognize him at all.
……
After returning to Jiulianxianfang.
Ning Feiyan took Zhao Xiulin to meet Xu Yueqing, while Ni Kun and Mei Jingshu went back to their residences to wait for the news.
Ning Feiyan’s big backer, Elder Wan, is coming soon. With her guarantee, Ni Kun is not worried about Xuyue Qingzhen’s anger at Zhao Yaonv, and he can refine the “Red Flame Pill” leisurely in the upper-class cave where he once lived. .
When he refined five top-grade Chiyan Pills that were not inferior to the "Caizhu Pill" in one go, and was meditating to adjust his breath, a message flying talisman flew in.
After sweeping his divine sense and reading the information in the flying talisman, Ni Kun smiled slightly:
"Sure enough, the thunder is loud, but the raindrops are small..."
This flying talisman was sent by Yaoyao Zhao to report his safety. Ni Kun had expected this, but did not reply to the message. After adjusting his breath for a while, he continued to make alchemy.
He burned more than ten drops of original mana and needed a lot of "Red Flame Pill" to make up for it.
Originally, in the early stage of foundation establishment, he only needed twelve or three red flame pills to condense a drop of original mana.
But after the middle stage of foundation establishment, the mana became more pure and powerful, and the consumption of condensing the original mana increased. For each drop of original mana, fourteen or five red flame pills had to be consumed.
Of course, to refine back the original mana that has been successfully condensed and then consumed, the cost is only [-]% of the initial condensing.
But even so, he had to spend more than sixty or seventy Red Flame Pills to make up for the more than ten drops of original mana, which took more than two months.
He practiced alchemy until midnight, and when Zhao Xiulin came to the cave to give a detailed report, he stopped alchemy.
"Relying on Senior Sister Ning to turn things around, the slaves also obediently admitted their mistakes. Senior Sister Xu really didn't really punish me. She just frightened me with her spiritual thoughts and reprimanded me. The matter of evading conscripting was revealed."
By the misty bath.
Ni Kun was completely naked, lying on the soft couch, enjoying the little demon girl's back massage comfortably.
The little demon girl only wore a hazy and semi-transparent veil skirt, and a pair of small and delicate jade feet were bare. While stepping on her master's back hard, she said in a crisp voice:
"Senior Sister Xu is indeed not as greedy as Senior Sister Jun. Although she has lost a lot of money, including losing her talisman, she has no intention of scraping the land. She just asks me to help her collect some refining materials. Of course, she is interested in the materials. The requirements are very high, and they are all rare and high-quality goods, and it is estimated that if you search the entire Jiulian Xianfang, you will not find many."
Ni Kun squinted his eyes and said lightly:
"In the ghost market, the virtual demon girl used a intact Nascent Soul Realm low-grade flying sword to exchange for a formation-breaking golden saber. It is said that when the golden saber is in full bloom, it can break all the formation restrictions of the transformation god level. But this knife has only a handle left, and it is estimated that there is not much power left. She wants you to collect materials, and it is to repair the golden knife."
Zhao Yaonu giggled and said:
"Senior Sister Xu, could it be that she knows a certain secret realm? But that secret realm is too restrictive, even with her cultivation level, she can't get in, so that's why she deliberately changed that broken golden sword?"
Hearing what she said, Ni Kun's heart moved, recalling the performance of the virtual demon girl when she exchanged treasures in the ghost market, she thought thoughtfully:
"It's really possible..."
At that time, the virtual demon girl had a clear goal, pointing directly at the golden knife that broke the formation.
And there have been countless casual cultivators in the South China Sea since ancient times.Before the fall of Xianting, it was once the territory of the Dragon Clan.
In the islands of the South China Sea, and under the seabed, there are countless secret caves left by the senior overhaul and the real dragon clan.
It is not uncommon for the virtual demon girl to discover a certain secret place by chance.
But with her cultivation base, she can't even break through the restriction of the secret realm, and she has to deliberately exchange for a broken golden knife...
That secret realm is at least at the Nascent Soul level, extremely dangerous.
Seeing that Ni Kun seemed to be pondering, Zhao Yaonv asked:
"Master, are you interested in the possible secret realm? This servant can help you find out."
Ni Kun shook his head:
"That's not necessary. I'm not very interested in exploring the secret realm."
He built a flawless road foundation, until he formed the alchemy, there was no bottleneck, he just made the alchemy step by step.
He does not lack the consumption of pills.
For Lingshi alone, he now has more than 250 million in cash, and he doesn't have to worry about resources until Jindan.
And the "Immortal Grade Golden Elixir" he pursued is not useful just by any chance—even the "Fanjing Temple", a weird place with alchemy treasures, is only heard to have middle-grade and top-grade golden pills. The opportunity of the pill, but I have never heard of the opportunity of the immortal golden pill.
Even the "Fanjing Temple" is so dangerous that even Nascent Soul masters and even Huashen powers can't break into it by force, let alone a Nascent Soul-level secret realm.
As for the secret treasure of crossing the robbery, he has already obtained the red hijab that he personally picked out.
Therefore, even though Ni Kun now has a "resurrection point" and is not afraid of falling into the secret realm, he still has no interest in exploring the secret realm.
Speaking of which, Ni Kun now only has one chance to be resurrected—the resurrection of Ku Rong's twin body, of course, is not an infinite number of times.
Even if the "Dry and Prosperous Twin" has reached the level of perfection, it can only be revived twice in a short period of time.
One life for the dead body and one life for the honored body. After these two lives are lost, only the deity is left with one life.
He lost his withered life in the ghost market, so he can only be resurrected once.
And the lost life cannot be easily regained.
This loss of a life is a mortal catastrophe with natal supernatural powers, and the consumption of crossing the catastrophe can't even make up for the potential points, and can only wait for its natural recovery, which is equivalent to "skill cooling".
And even the dry and glorious twins at the perfect level will take a year to recover a life.
During this year, even though there was a chance of resurrection, Ni Kun didn't want to go out to wander anymore.
He hadn't experienced it seriously before, and he didn't know how uncomfortable death was.
It wasn't until the time in the ghost market that Ni Kun really experienced the feeling of old age and death. Only then did Ni Kun realize that the feeling of death is really difficult. Between life and death, there is indeed a great horror.
In short, he didn't want to die again unless it was a last resort.
At this time, Zhao Yaonv rolled up her skirt, sat on Ni Kun's back, bent down, and gently rubbed Ni Kun's back.
After a while, her cheeks were flushed and her eyes were hazy.
Ni Kun enjoyed it comfortably, and asked:
"What else does the virtual demon girl want?"
Zhao Xiulin's voice fluttered:
"Except for the refining materials, there are no other requirements."
"When will that Elder Gu Wan Ya'er, the king of medicine, come?"
"Although Senior Sister Xu sent the message to the sect for only seven days, with Elder Yuanying's escape speed, even with a team, it may take at most half a month to reach Chihuang Kingdom."
"If Elder Wan goes to explore the ghost market, I'm afraid he will recruit casual cultivators to make consumables... Are you sure you, Senior Sister Ning, can keep Sister Mei?"
Of course Ni Kun himself is not afraid.
Not to mention his ability to save his life, just as the owner of the ghost market, the new son-in-law, as long as he doesn't kill himself, he will definitely not die.Even if Wan Ya'er wanted to use him as currency to exchange for treasures, those monsters in the ghost market might not dare to accept it.
But Mei Jingshu did not have his ability.
"Don't worry, Master... Senior Sister Ning is quite favored by Elder Wan. With the face of Senior Sister Ning, if I say something casually, Elder Wan will definitely not recruit Sister Mei to go to the ghost market."
"That's good……"
While speaking, Ni Kun slapped Zhao Yaonv's buttocks with his backhand. Zhao Yaonv understood and stood up slightly. After Ni Kun turned over and faced him, she sat back on his waist and continued to serve him attentively.
……
Next, Ni Kun resumed his previous practice rhythm.
Refining alchemy and knocking alchemy every day, practicing the Qingdi Sutra, sacrificing natal spiritual weapons, comprehending supernatural powers and spells, and practicing various musical instruments-because Xu Yueqing, the golden elixir demon girl, is in the fairy workshop, and the Nascent Soul Realm is super big. The witch Wan Ya'er might come suddenly at any time, and Ni Kun didn't dare to let Qi Lingyun out to guide her, so she just practiced various instruments by herself.
For several days in a row, it was so leisurely.
This morning.
Ni Kun was concocting alchemy in the alchemy room, and when he was getting better, he suddenly felt unexplainable palpitations, and the fire control seal formula suddenly went wrong, and the fire exploded, and the fragrant medicinal liquid was condensed into a pile Charcoal residue with a sulphurous smell.
Ni Kun frowned, not caring about cleaning the alchemy furnace, and stepped out of the alchemy room, came to the front courtyard of the cave, looked up, and saw a thirty-foot-long boat hovering in the sky like a small mountain. Like a huge towering ship.
That tower boat was shining brightly, majestic, exuding a palpitating tyrannical coercion, like a large magic weapon!
Seeing this magical treasure building boat, Ni Kun suddenly felt:
Wan Yaer, the manager of Medicine King Valley, is here!
At this time, a familiar elegant female voice resounded through the sky:
"Walking in the Foreign Affairs Hall, Xu Yueqing, the true biography of Jindan, and Zhao Xiulin, the owner of Jiulian Xianfang, and Ning Feiyan, Rong Susu and other inner school seniors, welcome Elder Wan!"
When this sound came out, the same familiar divine sense of Xuyao Nu swept across the entire Jiulian Xianfang in an instant.
The monks of Xianfang, what were countless doing, the moment her divine sense swept over them, they all bowed down to the huge ship in the sky in fear.
When everyone bows down.
For a while, the flying boat, intercepting Xu Yueqing, Ning Feiyan, Zhao Xiulin, etc., rose from Fangzhu's mansion and flew towards the skyship.
Ni Kun had taken the "Wanhun Soup", not to mention the Jindan Spiritual Mind, or the Yuanying Spiritual Mind, he couldn't be frightened by it, so he didn't bow down like other people in the market.
But he couldn't just stand in the courtyard with this big thorn and wait and see. If it fell into the eyes of a witch, it would be another trouble, so he immediately went back to the cave and went back to the secret room to continue alchemy.
As for Xu Yueqing and others' meeting with that Elder Wan, Zhao Xiulin will report to him later when she finds an opportunity.
Midnight.
Sure enough, Zhao Xiulin came to the door as scheduled.
This time, there was the boss Yuanying, and Ni Kun didn't let Zhao Yaonv serve him in the bathroom, so he made a few drinks and dishes, ate supper, and listened to Zhao Yaonv's report.
"Master, Elder Wan really likes Senior Sister Ning very much. When we received us, he not only asked Senior Sister Ning to serve her, but also said a few words to me, which encouraged me a lot."
Zhao Yaonv was pouring wine and vegetables for Ni Kun, while talking happily, looking very proud.
Ni Kun took a sip of Xinglanling wine and asked:
"Elder Wan, how many people did you bring on this trip?"
Zhao Yaonv said:
"Bringing three true senior sisters who are Dan Cheng Zhongpin."
Ni Kun shook his head, feeling:
"Three middle-grade golden elixirs...the Xianyin faction is indeed a top sect. Any elder of Yuanying can bring three middle-grade golden elixirs to serve with him when he travels. Tsk, in the casual cultivator world, there is one A low-grade golden elixir can also proclaim itself an ancestor and be enshrined by a whole country."
Zhao Yaonv said: "The true inheritance of the Xianyin school does not have low-grade golden elixirs. If you only form low-grade golden elixirs, you will not be able to obtain the true inheritance of the golden elixir realm, and you will not be able to cultivate magical powers such as wonderful heavenly sounds and searching the sky. You can only do it like my family Qin." Like the ancestors, return to the secular world to enjoy the wealth and honor in the world."
Of course Ni Kun knew this.
The low-grade golden elixir has a lifespan of only [-], and there is no hope for the Nascent Soul, and it is still unable to practice the magical secret art of the Xianyin School to rob others of life. If they continue to stay in Fumiao Mountain, they will have no future.
Only those who have cultivated the golden elixir above the middle grade can hope to cultivate the Nascent Soul and enjoy at least two thousand years of life.
"Elder Wan, is there any regulations for this trip?"
"Elder Wan will set off for Qixingfang early tomorrow morning, and first seal up the entire Chixia Peak formation, and prohibit idlers from entering."
"As expected. What else?"
"On the night of the full moon next year, Elder Wan will personally enter Qixingfang to explore the ghost market. For this reason, after sealing Chixia Peak and before the night of the full moon, she will search Jiulian Mountain and arrest the ghosts hidden in the ghost market. The loose foundations in the mountains, as well as the possible existence of golden core monsters and monks."
In the depths of Jiulian Mountain, there is really a golden core hidden.
Just like in the ghost forest, there is a low-grade golden elixir-level ghost and a mysterious golden elixir at the same time, and even Jun Yujiao fought twice in a row, and finally was captured by the "ghost market" for some reason.
The Ghost Forest is just a small area deep in the Jiulian Mountains.
With nine branches and a radius of millions of miles, there must be other powerful golden core monsters and even golden core monks hidden in the huge Jiulian Mountain.
Of course, the golden core monks who will hide in the Jiulian Mountains are either fugitives who have offended many important people and are completely shady, or they are like the mysterious golden core of the ghost forest, who are not good at walking, and are even not far from being buried. .
"For casual cultivators, there are many forbidden places, dead places, and desperate places in the depths of Jiulian Mountain, and they never dare to set foot in them lightly. But with the cultivation base of that Elder Wan..."
Ni Kun shook his head, feeling:
"Driving that magical treasure ship is probably enough to sweep the Jiulian Mountains, run over all dead places, forbidden places, and jeopardized places, and arrest all the monsters and monks who have been searched by her and are sufficiently eye-catching."
Speaking of this, he suddenly felt a move in his heart, thinking of an acquaintance.
That fellow Heisha seems to be hiding in the Jiulian Mountains...
At any rate, he had two transactions and one cooperation with Heisha, and the exchange was quite pleasant. Ni Kun would never sit back and watch him be caught by Elder Wan. After thinking about it, he said to Zhao Xiulin, "Do you still remember Heisha?"
"Heisha? That killer with a little brain?" Zhao Xiulin giggled, "Of course I remember."
Ni Kun said: "Tomorrow I will try to contact him. Before Elder Wan starts to sweep Jiulian Mountain, I will ask him to serve under your command temporarily, so as to escape this calamity first."
Zhao Xiulin nodded: "No problem, with Senior Sister Ning's face, Elder Wan will not touch my subordinates."
As for the other casual cultivators hiding in Jiulian Mountain, Ni Kun was helpless.
Thinking of the cooperation with Heisha that destroyed the four major families, Ni Kun couldn't help thinking of another person and asked:
"By the way, where's that little girl named Han Jinxiu?"
"That little girl has already left!"
Zhao Xiulin smiled and said:
"After you and Senior Sister Qi left Jiulian Xianfang, and Senior Sister Jun also went to Youhun Forest, she made a fuss about going to the main mainland to worship the Heavenly Sword Sect to learn swordsmanship. I saw that you seem to appreciate her a lot, master, so you didn't Difficult with her, but instead subsidized her a sum of spirit stones, and sent her on board the sea ship to the main continent.
"Calculating the time, she has been gone for more than two years. If everything goes well, she should be in the Tianjianzong area soon, right?"
Ni Kun sighed: "That little girl is really courageous... With her perseverance, heart, and roots, if she didn't die on the way and arrived at the territory of the Heavenly Sword Sect, she might really be able to worship under the Heavenly Sword Sect and become a Righteous swordsman."
……
at the same time.
The distant Profound Handle Continent.
On an unknown hill.
A childish girl who looked to be no more than fourteen or fifteen years old, whose body had just grown, was practicing swordsmanship under the moon.
I saw her making a tactic with both hands, drawing her sword fingers continuously, and a top-grade magic weapon grade flying sword that shone with frosty cold light, followed by her sword tactic, flying up and down within ten feet of her body, like a flying sword Dragon, extremely agile.
Suddenly, the girl's sword formula was introduced, and she pointed at it, and said coquettishly, "Quick!"
Feijian suddenly flashed a cold light, turned into a ten-foot-long rainbow, swished to a distance of thirty feet, and neatly chopped a huge boulder the size of a house into two.
After sending out this sword, the girl seemed to have consumed a lot of spiritual power, her small face turned slightly pale, and a few fine beads of sweat ooze from her forehead.
"Master!"
She retracted the flying sword, wiped off the sweat from her forehead, and looked at a bluestone next to her with piercing eyes:
"How is my sword?"
On the bluestone, sitting cross-legged, was a woman in blue scale armor with neat short hair.
This woman has a cold demeanor and sharp eyes, giving her the feeling of being indifferent to others and rejecting others for thousands of miles. However, her facial features are handsome and her skin is like jade. She is also a very charming beauty.
She looked at the childish girl and said lightly:
"This sword is not bad. Your basic swordsmanship can be regarded as a formal introduction."
The childish girl smiled happily, jumped to the woman's side, and asked:
"Then when can I practice the 'Thunder Tribulation' sword art?"
"Thunder Tribulation Sword Art?"
The short-haired woman in blue scales raised her hand, and tapped lightly on the childish girl's head:
"The Thunder Tribulation Sword Jue is one of the seven supernatural power sword arts of my Heavenly Sword Sect. Even the disciples of the inner sect can only start to practice the lower-level sword arts of the Thunder Jue Sword Jue when they reach the Foundation Establishment Stage. You Girl, you're only at the third level of Qi refining, with this meager level of cultivation, how dare you want to control Thunder Tribulation?"
The childish girl covered her forehead and smiled, then asked:
"I'm just asking casually! Then, master, when can we go to Tianjian Mountain and officially worship in the sect?"
"Soon." The short-haired woman raised her head to look north, and said softly, "Two months later, you will see Tianjian Mountain. At that time, as long as you can pass the test of the 'Taiwan of Asking Hearts', you can become an inner sect disciple. Be my disciple..."
The childish girl clenched her fists and shouted confidently:
"Master, don't worry, I will definitely pass the test of the questioning platform!"
……
Jiulianxianfang.
Ni Kun stood in the courtyard, looking up at the sky with his hands behind his back.
I saw a bright full moon hanging high above the night sky, and before I knew it, it was the time of the full moon again tonight.
Elder Wan's building boat left Jiulian Xianfang half a month ago, went to Chixia Peak first, set up a large formation to seal off the entire Chixia Peak, and then drove the building boat into the depths of Jiulian Mountain, A big sweep began.
In just ten days, countless casual cultivators and monsters hiding in the deep mountains were robbed.
But this has nothing to do with Ni Kun.
Ever since he contacted Heisha, told him about Elder Wan's plan to sweep Jiulian Mountain, and led him into Jiulian Xianfang, and temporarily joined Zhao Xiulin's command, Ni Kun has been living in the cave for half a month, without going out. Hudi devoted himself to practice.
I came out to watch the moon tonight, just because tonight is the night of the full moon, Elder Wan officially entered the ghost city to explore tonight.
I don't know how many monks and monsters she has captured, and how many other supplies she has prepared.
But thinking about it, Elder Wan might gain a lot this time with his preparations.
Of course, for the Nascent Soul boss, the benefits of the ghost market are certainly gratifying, but what attracts them the most is probably the secret of the ghost market.
Ni Kun felt that Elder Wan would pay more attention to discovering the secrets of the ghost market this time.
However, if you dig out the secret, maybe you will provoke some taboos.
I don't know how much confidence the super demon girl in the mid-Yuanying period will have when facing the monsters in the ghost city.
"There are no simple monsters in the ghost city. With Jun Yujiao's level of cultivation, she can only be a little maid like a marionette. Her authority is also limited to Qixingfang, and she can't control ghosts." city……
"Speaking of which, Elder Wan, when he leaves the ghost market early tomorrow morning, he will be like the Void Demoness and the others, clean from top to bottom, leaving only the ghost market's income?"
Ni Kun almost laughed out loud at the thought of the majestic Yuanying boss walking out of the Qixingfang gate naked and ignorant, with items traded in the ghost market left on his body.
Shaking his head and waving away the absurd and interesting thought, Ni Kun leisurely walked back to the secret room of the cave, took out a "Red Flame Pill" and threw it into his mouth, and started today's pill cultivation.
After half an hour.
Ni Kun, who had just refined the spiritual power of the Red Flame Pill and regained a drop of original mana, suddenly felt something was wrong.
It seemed that there was a pair of eyes staring at him intently.
"Someone has sneaked in? Didn't touch the restriction... Jindan Realm Fairy Sound Demon Girl? Xu Yueqing?"
Ni Kun was slightly startled, but he was confident, so naturally he was not afraid. He slowly opened his eyes and followed his feelings.
At this glance, Ni Kun's pupils shrank suddenly, with a look of astonishment:
"why you?"
Standing opposite him, only seven feet away from him, staring at him intently, is a white dress like snow, long hair reaching hips, eyes watery, lovely and pitiful, giving people a sense of innocence, tenderness and fragility, with a petite figure A girl who looks like a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl.
Ni Kun not only recognized her, but also had a close-up photo with her.
This girl who looks like a little girl is exactly Jun Yujiao!
More than two years ago, when Jun Yujiao came to Jiulian Xianfang as an envoy, Ni Kun walked away without meeting her face to face.
I thought she was lost in the ghost forest and would never see her again in this life, but instead of arriving, I saw her in the ghost market of Qixingfang.
At that time, Jun Yujiao was wearing festive little red clothes and double buns that resembled Nezha’s bun. She looked cute and elf. No one would have thought that such a weak and cute little girl was actually a Cheng Dan. For more than 100 years, the great demon girl of the Xianyin School who has been famous in the South China Sea.
Ni Kun originally thought that the intersection between himself and Jun Yujiao had come to an end after the wedding and leaving the ghost market.
As long as you don't go to Qixingfang, you will never see her again.
Unexpectedly, she actually appeared here tonight, in the secret room where he was practicing, and was only seven feet away from him!
Rao Ni Kun is considered used to seeing big scenes nowadays, so she couldn't help being shocked by her at this moment.
"Meet my uncle."
Jun Yujiao giggled, blinked twice, and saluted Ni Kun with her big and pure eyes.
On the night of the wedding, she didn't say a word throughout the whole process. Although she looked cute and elf, she gave people the feeling that she was like a marionette, and she didn't seem to have any self left.
But tonight, she seemed to be back to her former self.
"You..." Although Ni Kun was shocked, he was not afraid. After calming down, he looked at her curiously and asked, "How did you get here?"
Jun Yujiao smiled again, and said in a gentle, slightly childish, clear and sweet voice:
"Back to my aunt, this servant is here to serve my aunt by the order of the owner. The owner has an order. From now on, every full moon night, the servant will come to serve my aunt."
"..." Ni Kun looked astonished: "An order from the master?"
"That's right, the servant girl is the owner's personal maid, and it is also a compensation for marriage. After paying homage, she is the uncle's person." Jun Yujiao smiled, as if it should be taken for granted: "The owner of the workshop is unable to leave due to certain taboos. Ghost market, get together with my uncle. So, I sent my servants to serve my uncle on her behalf."
"..." Ni Kun was speechless for a while, and then said: "But, how did you come to me directly?"
Jun Yujiao said sweetly: "Young Master has a token of the owner of the workshop, no matter where I am, every night when the moon is full, servants and servants can use the token to come directly to my side."
A token?
Ni Kun's heart moved, he reached into his arms, and took out the red hijab that he regarded as a "cuirass" and placed close to his body.
[Seek a monthly pass~! 】
(End of this chapter)
Jiulianxianfang is dozens of miles away.
In a valley.
She was dressed in a black dress, her skin was snow-like, her hair was as long as night, and she was covered in black and white Ning Feiyan, like an ink cloud, slowly flying to the sky above the mountain depression, and slowly landing on the ground.
She raised her eyes to look at the forest on one side, and said lightly:
"Junior Sister Zhao, come out."
"Senior Sister Ning!"
Zhao Xiulin fluttered out of the forest, flew in front of her, bowed to her, and said with a smile:
"I haven't seen you for many years, and the senior sister is getting more and more elegant!"
Seeing Zhao Xiulin, Ning Feiyan couldn't help showing a faint smile in her usually indifferent and cold pupils, and the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, making two shallow dimples appear on her cheeks that lacked expression changes.
Just this little smile made her feel as if the ice and snow had melted, and she instantly became extremely bright, pretty and moving.
"You're fine too. I heard that you have built a first-class Dao foundation and started to practice the derivation technique of Tianyin supernatural power?"
Zhao Xiulin stepped forward with a smile, took Ning Feiyan's arm affectionately, and said with a smile:
"I knew it, senior sister, you have been paying attention to me. Senior sister, you have successfully established the foundation 18 years ago, and you should be at the middle stage of foundation establishment now?"
Ning Feiyan smiled and said softly:
"I'm in the late stage of Foundation Establishment."
"Ah?" Zhao Xiulin was stunned: "The late stage of foundation establishment? It's only 18 years..."
Even if Ning Feiyan was her first genius in the same period, it would be too...
Ning Feiyan said in a low voice:
"When I first came to Chihuang Kingdom, it was indeed only in the middle stage of foundation establishment. From the late stage of foundation establishment, there was a gap of more than 240 drops of original mana. But I got some good luck in Qixingfang, and my cultivation improved by leaps and bounds. The original mana in the middle stage of foundation has been fully cultivated, and even the original mana in the later stage of foundation establishment has condensed more than a hundred drops..."
"Ah! In one night, three or four hundred drops of original mana were condensed, and the cultivation base has crossed a small realm?" Zhao Xiulin's eyes were burning, and she asked curiously: "What kind of good fortune is this? It can help the senior sister save decades. Hard work?"
When she left Qixingfang that day, Rong Susu also asked Ning Feiyan this way, but Ning Feiyan unceremoniously turned her back, and even wanted to fight her to the death if she disagreed with her.
But when Zhao Xiulin asked her, Ning Feiyan said without hesitation:
"I got three kinds of fortune. They are carrion, rotten fruit, and black soup that seem hard to swallow. These three fortunes correspond to the physical body, cultivation base, and soul. The soul is scattered, and the internal organs are turned into ashes.
"I couldn't bear it at all, but for some special reason, I was able to use it safely. My physical body, cultivation base, and spirit have all been greatly improved. In addition, I got an incomplete secret treasure. Although it can only be used once, it can be used in times of crisis. , enough to save my life..."
Zhao Xiulin didn't get to the bottom of it, she said with a smile:
"Senior Sister Ning not only escaped from the weird place that swallowed up so many monks, but also got such a lucky fortune... Senior Sister, you really have great luck."
Ning Feiyan smiled slightly, and reminded seriously:
"Don't even think about going to the Seven Stars Workshop to meet that chance. The Seven Stars Workshop is treacherous and unpredictable, and the ghost market in the workshop is even more terrifying. Senior Sister Xu's cultivation base is so much higher than mine, but she also missed that chance, and instead suffered a heavy loss... If you go, the consequences will be unpredictable."
Zhao Xiulin heard that Ni Kun mentioned the "wedding", so of course she knew that Ning Feiyan was able to get this chance, it must be because she served the ghost workshop owner and successfully completed the wedding.
But Ning Feiyan was appointed as the maid of the master of Guifang Fang, all because she followed the path of pure cultivation, and she was a virgin.
With such an opportunity, the other fellow students who entered the ghost market together did not even have the right to be jealous.
Of course, Zhao Xiulin would not be jealous of Ning Feiyan either.
One is because of her friendship with Ning Feiyan, she will only be happy for Ning Feiyan's situation.
The second reason is that, in her opinion, being able to follow her master Ni Kun is already the greatest opportunity in her life.
At that moment, Zhao Xiulin said with a smile:
"I'm very timid, so I don't dare to take risks in such a weird place. But speaking of Senior Sister Xu... what rules does she have when she comes back this time? How does she plan to deal with me?"
Ning Feiyan said: "As soon as Senior Sister Xu returned to Jiulian Xianfang, she reported the situation of the exploration to Fumiao Mountain with the teleportation array of the workshop master's mansion. The sect quickly responded and sent an elder Yuanying to lead the investigation in person. Team, come to visit Qixingfang. As for you..."
She looked at Zhao Xiulin, with her hands behind her back, her face sullen, and she said in a deep voice:
"You played tricks this time and avoided the recruitment, which made Senior Sister Xu very unhappy. She also suffered a heavy loss. She even lost the talisman that she had cultivated for more than 300 years, and there was an evil fire hidden in her heart. From my point of view, She will punish you severely and vent her anger."
"what?"
Zhao Xiulin patted her chest, hugged Ning Feiyan's arm tightly, raised her face, and said pitifully:
"Senior Sister Yixu's cultivation might not even give my Qinzu face. If she wants to punish me, I, I can only ask Senior Sister for help! Senior Sister Ning, will you help me?"
Looking at Zhao Xiulin's pitiful appearance, Ning Feiyan shook her head, raised her hand and patted Zhao Xiulin's head:
"You, it always makes people worry. Do you know that Senior Sister Xu originally wanted to force me to do it myself to execute your punishment."
Ning Feiyan is tall, with slender legs, a full head taller than Zhao Xiulin, and she can easily touch the top of Zhao Xiulin's head by raising her hand a little.
"Senior sister, don't take pictures. You are already small, and you will be even smaller if you take pictures again." Zhao Xiulin grabbed Ning Feiyan's palm again, blinked her eyes, and said pitifully: "If you really can't escape this punishment, Senior Sister Ning, you can do it!" How about taking it easy?"
Ning Feiyan shook her head:
"You are lucky this time. The elder Yuanying who led the team to Chihuang Kingdom is the elder Wan Ya'er from Yaowang Valley. She is quite fond of me and intends to accept me as her own disciple. With the strength of Elder Wan , I may save you in front of Senior Sister Xu. Otherwise, you will be very unlucky this time."
Zhao Xiulin was suddenly surprised and delighted:
"Hey, Senior Sister, you actually won the favor of Elder Wan. When did it happen?"
Zhao Xiulin had also heard of the name of Elder Wan Ya'er, the manager of Medicine King Valley. It was said that Elder Wan was a mid-Yuanying cultivation base, and he was far more powerful than Han Ziyi, the manager of Lingxiu Peak's Lingzhi Garden.
Ning Feiyan said: "Just half a year after you left Fumiao Mountain, I met Elder Wan by chance when I was collecting medicine in Yaowang Valley."
Zhao Xiulin smiled and said:
"Senior Sister is really lucky, and the opportunity is amazing. I heard that Elder Wan is at the same time as the head of the sect, he is the most powerful arm of the head, and has won the trust of the head. Sister, you can be a personal disciple of Elder Wan, and you will have a bright future in the future. .”
Ning Feiyan said: "It's not that easy to be a direct disciple of Elder Wan. She made an agreement with me that I will be officially included in the door wall after my alchemy becomes a top-grade pill. If I only form a middle-grade golden pill, then I can only be her named disciple."
Zhao Xiulin said with a smile: "With Senior Sister Ning's natural talent and luck, the top-grade golden elixir will definitely not fail you."
Ning Feiyan smiled lightly: "I accept your good words."
But he sighed secretly in his heart, how could it be so easy for a top-grade golden elixir?
The top-grade golden elixir has a lifespan of seven hundred, and the true biography of the golden elixir of the Xianyin School also has the secret method of robbing people's lifespan, and the lifespan is far beyond seven hundred.
But even so, even if the old and the new are added together, there are less than ten top-grade golden elixirs in the Xianyin School.
The same is true for other top sects, even due to longevity, the number of top-grade golden elixirs is not much less than that of the Xianyin sect.
Even though Ning Feiyan is confident in his root talent, he only dares to say that the middle-grade golden elixir is nothing to worry about, and the top-grade golden elixir depends on the fate of the future.
At this time, Zhao Xiulin took her palm again, and said in a coquettish tone:
"By the way, senior sister, I have two subordinates, and I took them along to escape the call this time. Can you protect them as well?"
"Subordinates?" Ning Feiyan said, "Are they all Foundation Establishment?"
Zhao Xiulin nodded:
"That's right, they are all middle-level daoists, and they are my capable men. I know that my senior sister is cold-tempered and doesn't like strangers, so I ordered them to wait in the forest. Would you like to see them, senior sister?"
Ning Feiyan said: "Since they are your people, I will meet them."
"Thank you, Senior Sister, for your face." Zhao Xiulin giggled, and shot a message flying talisman towards the forest.
Soon, two monks, a man and a woman, came out through the forest, flew to stop ten feet in front of Ning Feiyan, bowed to her, and said in unison:
"Loose cultivator Ni Kun [Mei Jingshu], please refer to Fairy Zong Ning!"
"Exemption."
Ning Feiyan said lightly, and his spiritual thoughts swept over the two of them lightly, feeling that the aura was icy cold, and she was a female cultivator who practiced the ice attribute. He nodded slightly, expressing his approval of his cultivation.
As for the male cultivator, his aura is actually the "Aoki Eternal Spring Art"...
To be able to build a middle-level Dao foundation with such weak skills as the Qingmu Changchun Jue, that male cultivator's roots and skills are considered to be very good.
It's just his name, why does it sound familiar?
"I remember……"
Ning Feiyan narrowed her beautiful eyes, and looked at the male cultivator who called himself "Ni Kun". Seeing that he was tall and straight, with handsome features, and a chic temperament, he couldn't help but cast a subtle glance at Zhao Xiulin, and asked via voice transmission:
"The cauldron you used more than ten years ago seems to be called Ni Kun, right?"
Zhao Xiulin sighed softly, with a melancholy tone: "It happens to have the same name."
Ning Feiyan nodded slowly, and said through voice transmission: "You have long been in love...but, after all, he is not the person he used to be..."
Then I scanned it with my divine sense, and found that Ni Kun was actually full of energy and blood, and I couldn't help feeling secretly in my heart:
He actually cherishes the "replacement" of that furnace so much.After ten years of tempering in the Black Death Valley, Junior Sister Zhao behaved completely differently from before, and her disposition became less and less like a fairy-voiced witch.
But having said that, Ning Feiyan herself is not at all like a fairy girl.
When I was feeling emotional, I heard Zhao Xiulin say:
"Senior Sister Ning, my two subordinates not only have good cultivation bases, but also have good skills. Mei Jingshu is proficient in making talismans, and can refine talismans with any function in the Qi Refining Realm and the initial stage of foundation establishment. Ni Kun is good at Zhuang Lingzhi is also an alchemist, able to refine a variety of Qi Refining Realm Spirit Pills, and now he is trying to refine Foundation Establishment Realm Spirit Pills, with a little success."
In fact, Ni Kun has been able to refine the top-grade Chiyan Pill, which is comparable to the "Caixia Pill" of the Xianyin School, and it is still a semi-self-created unique secret recipe.
But as a casual alchemist, being too high-profile will only cause trouble, so I asked Zhao Xiulin to introduce it conservatively.
"Oh? It's actually a talisman master and an alchemist?" Ning Feiyan said: "No wonder you value these two people so much, and you want to take them away from Senior Sister Xu. With such skills, it really can't be ruined in vain. Don't worry, I will help You keep these two."
"Thank you, Senior Sister." Zhao Xiulin held Ning Feiyan's slender hand and smiled sweetly.
Ni Kun and Mei Jingshu also bowed to Ning Feiyan again:
"Thank you Fairy Ning."
Ning Feiyan nodded slightly: "There is no need to be polite."
He took Zhao Xiulin's hand again: "Let's go, go back to Jiulian Xianfang."
As he spoke, he released a flying boat, took Zhao Xiulin on his arm, and boarded the flying boat. Ni Kun and Mei Jingshu also boarded the flying boat consciously.
Ning Feiyan did not recognize Ni Kun.
The reason for this is, firstly, because Ni Kun used the concealment and restraint ability of "Dry Rong Twin Body" to disguise his cultivation and aura, and fine-tuned his appearance.
The second reason is that although the eyebrows, eyes, and facial features of the "Blood Demon" form are similar to the deity, the shape and temperament of the two are completely different.
Ni Kun himself is tall and straight, with a gentle and elegant temperament, but also heroic and tough, just like a handsome young man who is both civil and military.
The blood demon form is slender and thin, pale and feminine, handsome and monstrous, and its aura always gives people a sense of madness and cruelty, which makes people think of bloodthirsty monsters at first sight.
Even if Ni Kun didn't change his face, if he only looked at his appearance, it would be because of the people around him who were very familiar with Ni Kun, and there was no way to immediately link Ni Kun himself with the blood demon.
What's more, Ni Kun also fine-tuned his facial features?
Therefore, even though Ning Feiyan was in the ghost market and accompanied the bride all the time, and was deeply impressed by that weird "new uncle", she did not recognize him at all.
……
After returning to Jiulianxianfang.
Ning Feiyan took Zhao Xiulin to meet Xu Yueqing, while Ni Kun and Mei Jingshu went back to their residences to wait for the news.
Ning Feiyan’s big backer, Elder Wan, is coming soon. With her guarantee, Ni Kun is not worried about Xuyue Qingzhen’s anger at Zhao Yaonv, and he can refine the “Red Flame Pill” leisurely in the upper-class cave where he once lived. .
When he refined five top-grade Chiyan Pills that were not inferior to the "Caizhu Pill" in one go, and was meditating to adjust his breath, a message flying talisman flew in.
After sweeping his divine sense and reading the information in the flying talisman, Ni Kun smiled slightly:
"Sure enough, the thunder is loud, but the raindrops are small..."
This flying talisman was sent by Yaoyao Zhao to report his safety. Ni Kun had expected this, but did not reply to the message. After adjusting his breath for a while, he continued to make alchemy.
He burned more than ten drops of original mana and needed a lot of "Red Flame Pill" to make up for it.
Originally, in the early stage of foundation establishment, he only needed twelve or three red flame pills to condense a drop of original mana.
But after the middle stage of foundation establishment, the mana became more pure and powerful, and the consumption of condensing the original mana increased. For each drop of original mana, fourteen or five red flame pills had to be consumed.
Of course, to refine back the original mana that has been successfully condensed and then consumed, the cost is only [-]% of the initial condensing.
But even so, he had to spend more than sixty or seventy Red Flame Pills to make up for the more than ten drops of original mana, which took more than two months.
He practiced alchemy until midnight, and when Zhao Xiulin came to the cave to give a detailed report, he stopped alchemy.
"Relying on Senior Sister Ning to turn things around, the slaves also obediently admitted their mistakes. Senior Sister Xu really didn't really punish me. She just frightened me with her spiritual thoughts and reprimanded me. The matter of evading conscripting was revealed."
By the misty bath.
Ni Kun was completely naked, lying on the soft couch, enjoying the little demon girl's back massage comfortably.
The little demon girl only wore a hazy and semi-transparent veil skirt, and a pair of small and delicate jade feet were bare. While stepping on her master's back hard, she said in a crisp voice:
"Senior Sister Xu is indeed not as greedy as Senior Sister Jun. Although she has lost a lot of money, including losing her talisman, she has no intention of scraping the land. She just asks me to help her collect some refining materials. Of course, she is interested in the materials. The requirements are very high, and they are all rare and high-quality goods, and it is estimated that if you search the entire Jiulian Xianfang, you will not find many."
Ni Kun squinted his eyes and said lightly:
"In the ghost market, the virtual demon girl used a intact Nascent Soul Realm low-grade flying sword to exchange for a formation-breaking golden saber. It is said that when the golden saber is in full bloom, it can break all the formation restrictions of the transformation god level. But this knife has only a handle left, and it is estimated that there is not much power left. She wants you to collect materials, and it is to repair the golden knife."
Zhao Yaonu giggled and said:
"Senior Sister Xu, could it be that she knows a certain secret realm? But that secret realm is too restrictive, even with her cultivation level, she can't get in, so that's why she deliberately changed that broken golden sword?"
Hearing what she said, Ni Kun's heart moved, recalling the performance of the virtual demon girl when she exchanged treasures in the ghost market, she thought thoughtfully:
"It's really possible..."
At that time, the virtual demon girl had a clear goal, pointing directly at the golden knife that broke the formation.
And there have been countless casual cultivators in the South China Sea since ancient times.Before the fall of Xianting, it was once the territory of the Dragon Clan.
In the islands of the South China Sea, and under the seabed, there are countless secret caves left by the senior overhaul and the real dragon clan.
It is not uncommon for the virtual demon girl to discover a certain secret place by chance.
But with her cultivation base, she can't even break through the restriction of the secret realm, and she has to deliberately exchange for a broken golden knife...
That secret realm is at least at the Nascent Soul level, extremely dangerous.
Seeing that Ni Kun seemed to be pondering, Zhao Yaonv asked:
"Master, are you interested in the possible secret realm? This servant can help you find out."
Ni Kun shook his head:
"That's not necessary. I'm not very interested in exploring the secret realm."
He built a flawless road foundation, until he formed the alchemy, there was no bottleneck, he just made the alchemy step by step.
He does not lack the consumption of pills.
For Lingshi alone, he now has more than 250 million in cash, and he doesn't have to worry about resources until Jindan.
And the "Immortal Grade Golden Elixir" he pursued is not useful just by any chance—even the "Fanjing Temple", a weird place with alchemy treasures, is only heard to have middle-grade and top-grade golden pills. The opportunity of the pill, but I have never heard of the opportunity of the immortal golden pill.
Even the "Fanjing Temple" is so dangerous that even Nascent Soul masters and even Huashen powers can't break into it by force, let alone a Nascent Soul-level secret realm.
As for the secret treasure of crossing the robbery, he has already obtained the red hijab that he personally picked out.
Therefore, even though Ni Kun now has a "resurrection point" and is not afraid of falling into the secret realm, he still has no interest in exploring the secret realm.
Speaking of which, Ni Kun now only has one chance to be resurrected—the resurrection of Ku Rong's twin body, of course, is not an infinite number of times.
Even if the "Dry and Prosperous Twin" has reached the level of perfection, it can only be revived twice in a short period of time.
One life for the dead body and one life for the honored body. After these two lives are lost, only the deity is left with one life.
He lost his withered life in the ghost market, so he can only be resurrected once.
And the lost life cannot be easily regained.
This loss of a life is a mortal catastrophe with natal supernatural powers, and the consumption of crossing the catastrophe can't even make up for the potential points, and can only wait for its natural recovery, which is equivalent to "skill cooling".
And even the dry and glorious twins at the perfect level will take a year to recover a life.
During this year, even though there was a chance of resurrection, Ni Kun didn't want to go out to wander anymore.
He hadn't experienced it seriously before, and he didn't know how uncomfortable death was.
It wasn't until the time in the ghost market that Ni Kun really experienced the feeling of old age and death. Only then did Ni Kun realize that the feeling of death is really difficult. Between life and death, there is indeed a great horror.
In short, he didn't want to die again unless it was a last resort.
At this time, Zhao Yaonv rolled up her skirt, sat on Ni Kun's back, bent down, and gently rubbed Ni Kun's back.
After a while, her cheeks were flushed and her eyes were hazy.
Ni Kun enjoyed it comfortably, and asked:
"What else does the virtual demon girl want?"
Zhao Xiulin's voice fluttered:
"Except for the refining materials, there are no other requirements."
"When will that Elder Gu Wan Ya'er, the king of medicine, come?"
"Although Senior Sister Xu sent the message to the sect for only seven days, with Elder Yuanying's escape speed, even with a team, it may take at most half a month to reach Chihuang Kingdom."
"If Elder Wan goes to explore the ghost market, I'm afraid he will recruit casual cultivators to make consumables... Are you sure you, Senior Sister Ning, can keep Sister Mei?"
Of course Ni Kun himself is not afraid.
Not to mention his ability to save his life, just as the owner of the ghost market, the new son-in-law, as long as he doesn't kill himself, he will definitely not die.Even if Wan Ya'er wanted to use him as currency to exchange for treasures, those monsters in the ghost market might not dare to accept it.
But Mei Jingshu did not have his ability.
"Don't worry, Master... Senior Sister Ning is quite favored by Elder Wan. With the face of Senior Sister Ning, if I say something casually, Elder Wan will definitely not recruit Sister Mei to go to the ghost market."
"That's good……"
While speaking, Ni Kun slapped Zhao Yaonv's buttocks with his backhand. Zhao Yaonv understood and stood up slightly. After Ni Kun turned over and faced him, she sat back on his waist and continued to serve him attentively.
……
Next, Ni Kun resumed his previous practice rhythm.
Refining alchemy and knocking alchemy every day, practicing the Qingdi Sutra, sacrificing natal spiritual weapons, comprehending supernatural powers and spells, and practicing various musical instruments-because Xu Yueqing, the golden elixir demon girl, is in the fairy workshop, and the Nascent Soul Realm is super big. The witch Wan Ya'er might come suddenly at any time, and Ni Kun didn't dare to let Qi Lingyun out to guide her, so she just practiced various instruments by herself.
For several days in a row, it was so leisurely.
This morning.
Ni Kun was concocting alchemy in the alchemy room, and when he was getting better, he suddenly felt unexplainable palpitations, and the fire control seal formula suddenly went wrong, and the fire exploded, and the fragrant medicinal liquid was condensed into a pile Charcoal residue with a sulphurous smell.
Ni Kun frowned, not caring about cleaning the alchemy furnace, and stepped out of the alchemy room, came to the front courtyard of the cave, looked up, and saw a thirty-foot-long boat hovering in the sky like a small mountain. Like a huge towering ship.
That tower boat was shining brightly, majestic, exuding a palpitating tyrannical coercion, like a large magic weapon!
Seeing this magical treasure building boat, Ni Kun suddenly felt:
Wan Yaer, the manager of Medicine King Valley, is here!
At this time, a familiar elegant female voice resounded through the sky:
"Walking in the Foreign Affairs Hall, Xu Yueqing, the true biography of Jindan, and Zhao Xiulin, the owner of Jiulian Xianfang, and Ning Feiyan, Rong Susu and other inner school seniors, welcome Elder Wan!"
When this sound came out, the same familiar divine sense of Xuyao Nu swept across the entire Jiulian Xianfang in an instant.
The monks of Xianfang, what were countless doing, the moment her divine sense swept over them, they all bowed down to the huge ship in the sky in fear.
When everyone bows down.
For a while, the flying boat, intercepting Xu Yueqing, Ning Feiyan, Zhao Xiulin, etc., rose from Fangzhu's mansion and flew towards the skyship.
Ni Kun had taken the "Wanhun Soup", not to mention the Jindan Spiritual Mind, or the Yuanying Spiritual Mind, he couldn't be frightened by it, so he didn't bow down like other people in the market.
But he couldn't just stand in the courtyard with this big thorn and wait and see. If it fell into the eyes of a witch, it would be another trouble, so he immediately went back to the cave and went back to the secret room to continue alchemy.
As for Xu Yueqing and others' meeting with that Elder Wan, Zhao Xiulin will report to him later when she finds an opportunity.
Midnight.
Sure enough, Zhao Xiulin came to the door as scheduled.
This time, there was the boss Yuanying, and Ni Kun didn't let Zhao Yaonv serve him in the bathroom, so he made a few drinks and dishes, ate supper, and listened to Zhao Yaonv's report.
"Master, Elder Wan really likes Senior Sister Ning very much. When we received us, he not only asked Senior Sister Ning to serve her, but also said a few words to me, which encouraged me a lot."
Zhao Yaonv was pouring wine and vegetables for Ni Kun, while talking happily, looking very proud.
Ni Kun took a sip of Xinglanling wine and asked:
"Elder Wan, how many people did you bring on this trip?"
Zhao Yaonv said:
"Bringing three true senior sisters who are Dan Cheng Zhongpin."
Ni Kun shook his head, feeling:
"Three middle-grade golden elixirs...the Xianyin faction is indeed a top sect. Any elder of Yuanying can bring three middle-grade golden elixirs to serve with him when he travels. Tsk, in the casual cultivator world, there is one A low-grade golden elixir can also proclaim itself an ancestor and be enshrined by a whole country."
Zhao Yaonv said: "The true inheritance of the Xianyin school does not have low-grade golden elixirs. If you only form low-grade golden elixirs, you will not be able to obtain the true inheritance of the golden elixir realm, and you will not be able to cultivate magical powers such as wonderful heavenly sounds and searching the sky. You can only do it like my family Qin." Like the ancestors, return to the secular world to enjoy the wealth and honor in the world."
Of course Ni Kun knew this.
The low-grade golden elixir has a lifespan of only [-], and there is no hope for the Nascent Soul, and it is still unable to practice the magical secret art of the Xianyin School to rob others of life. If they continue to stay in Fumiao Mountain, they will have no future.
Only those who have cultivated the golden elixir above the middle grade can hope to cultivate the Nascent Soul and enjoy at least two thousand years of life.
"Elder Wan, is there any regulations for this trip?"
"Elder Wan will set off for Qixingfang early tomorrow morning, and first seal up the entire Chixia Peak formation, and prohibit idlers from entering."
"As expected. What else?"
"On the night of the full moon next year, Elder Wan will personally enter Qixingfang to explore the ghost market. For this reason, after sealing Chixia Peak and before the night of the full moon, she will search Jiulian Mountain and arrest the ghosts hidden in the ghost market. The loose foundations in the mountains, as well as the possible existence of golden core monsters and monks."
In the depths of Jiulian Mountain, there is really a golden core hidden.
Just like in the ghost forest, there is a low-grade golden elixir-level ghost and a mysterious golden elixir at the same time, and even Jun Yujiao fought twice in a row, and finally was captured by the "ghost market" for some reason.
The Ghost Forest is just a small area deep in the Jiulian Mountains.
With nine branches and a radius of millions of miles, there must be other powerful golden core monsters and even golden core monks hidden in the huge Jiulian Mountain.
Of course, the golden core monks who will hide in the Jiulian Mountains are either fugitives who have offended many important people and are completely shady, or they are like the mysterious golden core of the ghost forest, who are not good at walking, and are even not far from being buried. .
"For casual cultivators, there are many forbidden places, dead places, and desperate places in the depths of Jiulian Mountain, and they never dare to set foot in them lightly. But with the cultivation base of that Elder Wan..."
Ni Kun shook his head, feeling:
"Driving that magical treasure ship is probably enough to sweep the Jiulian Mountains, run over all dead places, forbidden places, and jeopardized places, and arrest all the monsters and monks who have been searched by her and are sufficiently eye-catching."
Speaking of this, he suddenly felt a move in his heart, thinking of an acquaintance.
That fellow Heisha seems to be hiding in the Jiulian Mountains...
At any rate, he had two transactions and one cooperation with Heisha, and the exchange was quite pleasant. Ni Kun would never sit back and watch him be caught by Elder Wan. After thinking about it, he said to Zhao Xiulin, "Do you still remember Heisha?"
"Heisha? That killer with a little brain?" Zhao Xiulin giggled, "Of course I remember."
Ni Kun said: "Tomorrow I will try to contact him. Before Elder Wan starts to sweep Jiulian Mountain, I will ask him to serve under your command temporarily, so as to escape this calamity first."
Zhao Xiulin nodded: "No problem, with Senior Sister Ning's face, Elder Wan will not touch my subordinates."
As for the other casual cultivators hiding in Jiulian Mountain, Ni Kun was helpless.
Thinking of the cooperation with Heisha that destroyed the four major families, Ni Kun couldn't help thinking of another person and asked:
"By the way, where's that little girl named Han Jinxiu?"
"That little girl has already left!"
Zhao Xiulin smiled and said:
"After you and Senior Sister Qi left Jiulian Xianfang, and Senior Sister Jun also went to Youhun Forest, she made a fuss about going to the main mainland to worship the Heavenly Sword Sect to learn swordsmanship. I saw that you seem to appreciate her a lot, master, so you didn't Difficult with her, but instead subsidized her a sum of spirit stones, and sent her on board the sea ship to the main continent.
"Calculating the time, she has been gone for more than two years. If everything goes well, she should be in the Tianjianzong area soon, right?"
Ni Kun sighed: "That little girl is really courageous... With her perseverance, heart, and roots, if she didn't die on the way and arrived at the territory of the Heavenly Sword Sect, she might really be able to worship under the Heavenly Sword Sect and become a Righteous swordsman."
……
at the same time.
The distant Profound Handle Continent.
On an unknown hill.
A childish girl who looked to be no more than fourteen or fifteen years old, whose body had just grown, was practicing swordsmanship under the moon.
I saw her making a tactic with both hands, drawing her sword fingers continuously, and a top-grade magic weapon grade flying sword that shone with frosty cold light, followed by her sword tactic, flying up and down within ten feet of her body, like a flying sword Dragon, extremely agile.
Suddenly, the girl's sword formula was introduced, and she pointed at it, and said coquettishly, "Quick!"
Feijian suddenly flashed a cold light, turned into a ten-foot-long rainbow, swished to a distance of thirty feet, and neatly chopped a huge boulder the size of a house into two.
After sending out this sword, the girl seemed to have consumed a lot of spiritual power, her small face turned slightly pale, and a few fine beads of sweat ooze from her forehead.
"Master!"
She retracted the flying sword, wiped off the sweat from her forehead, and looked at a bluestone next to her with piercing eyes:
"How is my sword?"
On the bluestone, sitting cross-legged, was a woman in blue scale armor with neat short hair.
This woman has a cold demeanor and sharp eyes, giving her the feeling of being indifferent to others and rejecting others for thousands of miles. However, her facial features are handsome and her skin is like jade. She is also a very charming beauty.
She looked at the childish girl and said lightly:
"This sword is not bad. Your basic swordsmanship can be regarded as a formal introduction."
The childish girl smiled happily, jumped to the woman's side, and asked:
"Then when can I practice the 'Thunder Tribulation' sword art?"
"Thunder Tribulation Sword Art?"
The short-haired woman in blue scales raised her hand, and tapped lightly on the childish girl's head:
"The Thunder Tribulation Sword Jue is one of the seven supernatural power sword arts of my Heavenly Sword Sect. Even the disciples of the inner sect can only start to practice the lower-level sword arts of the Thunder Jue Sword Jue when they reach the Foundation Establishment Stage. You Girl, you're only at the third level of Qi refining, with this meager level of cultivation, how dare you want to control Thunder Tribulation?"
The childish girl covered her forehead and smiled, then asked:
"I'm just asking casually! Then, master, when can we go to Tianjian Mountain and officially worship in the sect?"
"Soon." The short-haired woman raised her head to look north, and said softly, "Two months later, you will see Tianjian Mountain. At that time, as long as you can pass the test of the 'Taiwan of Asking Hearts', you can become an inner sect disciple. Be my disciple..."
The childish girl clenched her fists and shouted confidently:
"Master, don't worry, I will definitely pass the test of the questioning platform!"
……
Jiulianxianfang.
Ni Kun stood in the courtyard, looking up at the sky with his hands behind his back.
I saw a bright full moon hanging high above the night sky, and before I knew it, it was the time of the full moon again tonight.
Elder Wan's building boat left Jiulian Xianfang half a month ago, went to Chixia Peak first, set up a large formation to seal off the entire Chixia Peak, and then drove the building boat into the depths of Jiulian Mountain, A big sweep began.
In just ten days, countless casual cultivators and monsters hiding in the deep mountains were robbed.
But this has nothing to do with Ni Kun.
Ever since he contacted Heisha, told him about Elder Wan's plan to sweep Jiulian Mountain, and led him into Jiulian Xianfang, and temporarily joined Zhao Xiulin's command, Ni Kun has been living in the cave for half a month, without going out. Hudi devoted himself to practice.
I came out to watch the moon tonight, just because tonight is the night of the full moon, Elder Wan officially entered the ghost city to explore tonight.
I don't know how many monks and monsters she has captured, and how many other supplies she has prepared.
But thinking about it, Elder Wan might gain a lot this time with his preparations.
Of course, for the Nascent Soul boss, the benefits of the ghost market are certainly gratifying, but what attracts them the most is probably the secret of the ghost market.
Ni Kun felt that Elder Wan would pay more attention to discovering the secrets of the ghost market this time.
However, if you dig out the secret, maybe you will provoke some taboos.
I don't know how much confidence the super demon girl in the mid-Yuanying period will have when facing the monsters in the ghost city.
"There are no simple monsters in the ghost city. With Jun Yujiao's level of cultivation, she can only be a little maid like a marionette. Her authority is also limited to Qixingfang, and she can't control ghosts." city……
"Speaking of which, Elder Wan, when he leaves the ghost market early tomorrow morning, he will be like the Void Demoness and the others, clean from top to bottom, leaving only the ghost market's income?"
Ni Kun almost laughed out loud at the thought of the majestic Yuanying boss walking out of the Qixingfang gate naked and ignorant, with items traded in the ghost market left on his body.
Shaking his head and waving away the absurd and interesting thought, Ni Kun leisurely walked back to the secret room of the cave, took out a "Red Flame Pill" and threw it into his mouth, and started today's pill cultivation.
After half an hour.
Ni Kun, who had just refined the spiritual power of the Red Flame Pill and regained a drop of original mana, suddenly felt something was wrong.
It seemed that there was a pair of eyes staring at him intently.
"Someone has sneaked in? Didn't touch the restriction... Jindan Realm Fairy Sound Demon Girl? Xu Yueqing?"
Ni Kun was slightly startled, but he was confident, so naturally he was not afraid. He slowly opened his eyes and followed his feelings.
At this glance, Ni Kun's pupils shrank suddenly, with a look of astonishment:
"why you?"
Standing opposite him, only seven feet away from him, staring at him intently, is a white dress like snow, long hair reaching hips, eyes watery, lovely and pitiful, giving people a sense of innocence, tenderness and fragility, with a petite figure A girl who looks like a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl.
Ni Kun not only recognized her, but also had a close-up photo with her.
This girl who looks like a little girl is exactly Jun Yujiao!
More than two years ago, when Jun Yujiao came to Jiulian Xianfang as an envoy, Ni Kun walked away without meeting her face to face.
I thought she was lost in the ghost forest and would never see her again in this life, but instead of arriving, I saw her in the ghost market of Qixingfang.
At that time, Jun Yujiao was wearing festive little red clothes and double buns that resembled Nezha’s bun. She looked cute and elf. No one would have thought that such a weak and cute little girl was actually a Cheng Dan. For more than 100 years, the great demon girl of the Xianyin School who has been famous in the South China Sea.
Ni Kun originally thought that the intersection between himself and Jun Yujiao had come to an end after the wedding and leaving the ghost market.
As long as you don't go to Qixingfang, you will never see her again.
Unexpectedly, she actually appeared here tonight, in the secret room where he was practicing, and was only seven feet away from him!
Rao Ni Kun is considered used to seeing big scenes nowadays, so she couldn't help being shocked by her at this moment.
"Meet my uncle."
Jun Yujiao giggled, blinked twice, and saluted Ni Kun with her big and pure eyes.
On the night of the wedding, she didn't say a word throughout the whole process. Although she looked cute and elf, she gave people the feeling that she was like a marionette, and she didn't seem to have any self left.
But tonight, she seemed to be back to her former self.
"You..." Although Ni Kun was shocked, he was not afraid. After calming down, he looked at her curiously and asked, "How did you get here?"
Jun Yujiao smiled again, and said in a gentle, slightly childish, clear and sweet voice:
"Back to my aunt, this servant is here to serve my aunt by the order of the owner. The owner has an order. From now on, every full moon night, the servant will come to serve my aunt."
"..." Ni Kun looked astonished: "An order from the master?"
"That's right, the servant girl is the owner's personal maid, and it is also a compensation for marriage. After paying homage, she is the uncle's person." Jun Yujiao smiled, as if it should be taken for granted: "The owner of the workshop is unable to leave due to certain taboos. Ghost market, get together with my uncle. So, I sent my servants to serve my uncle on her behalf."
"..." Ni Kun was speechless for a while, and then said: "But, how did you come to me directly?"
Jun Yujiao said sweetly: "Young Master has a token of the owner of the workshop, no matter where I am, every night when the moon is full, servants and servants can use the token to come directly to my side."
A token?
Ni Kun's heart moved, he reached into his arms, and took out the red hijab that he regarded as a "cuirass" and placed close to his body.
[Seek a monthly pass~! 】
(End of this chapter)
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