The cave is actually myself

Chapter 188 Loyalty
"Okay, okay, I'm already such an adult, I'm still embarrassed."

Long Hong put down Long Liu, whose face was burned into a monkey's ass, and greeted the many villagers of Lantern Village surrounding him one by one.

Long Liu quickly got behind everyone, trying to reduce his presence as much as possible.

Everyone happily took Long Hong back to Lantern Village.

Along the way, all the changes in Lantern Village over the past few years were revealed to Long Hong.

Compared with when he first went out, the formations have been enhanced a lot. The coverage area is wider, the formations are of higher grade, and the living area is superimposed with several formations, even if there are several high-level Qi-training monks. The siege was difficult to break even for a while.

As Long Hong walked forward, he asked the villagers of Lantern Village around him.

We learned from their mouths that there are now more and more villagers practicing Shibi Sword Intent in Lantern Village and studying Lecture Hall exercises.

The living conditions and cultivation conditions in the entire Lantern Village are much better than before.

With three meals of monster flesh and blood, the villagers' bodies are much stronger than before with the sufficient supply of monster flesh and blood.

"Now we can often practice with spiritual herbs and elixirs, and sometimes we can even have the luxury of taking those elixirs that only powerful monks are qualified to swallow."

A villager from Lantern Village couldn't help but said to Long Hong with a proud look on his face.

"And there are pills to assist in cultivation?" Long Hong was secretly surprised. Even in Tianjian Sect, an outer disciple like him couldn't use pills to assist cultivation all the time.

So, he finally sneaked into the sect, but in the end his life was worse than that of his fellow villagers?

He couldn't help but have this kind of doubt in his heart.

"Where did the elixir come from? There are no negative effects after taking it, right?" he asked the villager.

"The mysterious paper man in the secret realm often gives us the task of handling spiritual herbs and elixirs. In return, he sometimes gives us some first-grade elixirs."

"I see."

Long Hong nodded slowly.

"By the way, what exactly is the Life Soul Lantern you just mentioned? Is it really much better than the lanterns we made ourselves?"

"It's also a masterpiece of the paper figurine in the secret realm. When we asked him for help, he made a rare treasure like the soul lantern, so that ordinary villagers can have power without worrying about being attacked by the strange things inside the lantern."

A villager explained to Long Hong and led him to a house with a life soul lantern.

Long Hong entered the room and cast a calming spell to put a five or six-year-old child into a deep sleep. Then, he came to the wall.

There is a gray-white lantern hanging on the wall. The shape is not much different from the one they made before, except that the light spikes under the base are unusually thick.

Long Hong's spiritual consciousness carefully extended out and slowly penetrated into the gray-white lantern.

I only saw a pure black candle burning silently under the lampshade. There were no other strange and inexplicable resentful souls on the body of the candle. There was only a very clear face at the top, as if sleeping, letting the white candlelight indulge. Burning roasts itself.

Long Hong's spiritual consciousness withdrew from the Life Soul Lantern and opened his eyes, just in time to see many villagers in Lantern Village who looked uneasy.

Although they believed [-]% to [-]% of what the little paper man said, they were still a little doubtful. Now that they had the confirmation from Long Hong, who had led them out of danger, everyone was instantly relieved.

"Compared with the previous lanterns in our village, this Life Soul Lantern is indeed much better, especially in terms of safety."

"With my spiritual perception, I found that the blood-red spikes on the base of the lantern have a special function. When the black candle shows a little bit of weirdness, the spikes will wake up and kill that weirdness in their infancy."

"The tentacles under the base will swallow them up completely, and the remaining residue will accumulate in the base of the lamp spike. Just clean them up on time."

Everyone suddenly realized what Long Hong said.

Looking at the villagers with smiles on their faces, Long Hong felt relaxed, and his inner recognition of the cave became even higher.

When he received the mission from Lu Yuan and went to hide in the Tianjian Sect, apart from repaying Lu Yuan's kindness and going out to see the world, he was most worried about the villagers himself.

So he asked the little paper man to take good care of the villagers in Lantern Village.

Unexpectedly, this kind of care has far exceeded his inner expectations.

Better formations help protect Lantern Village, allow more villagers to learn swordsmanship and exercises, provide villagers with precious elixirs, and even help solve the hidden danger of the mysterious loss of lanterns...

Thinking of this, his loyalty to the secret realm and the paper man naturally increased by two levels.

Not long after he entered Lantern Village, after getting to know the villagers a little bit, he rushed straight to the secret realm without stopping.

The two were not far apart. Soon, Long Hong arrived outside the restriction and activated the piece of paper left by the little paper man. The restriction aura appeared in front of him, and a crack that could only allow one person to pass quickly formed. Long Hong entered the core of the cave without hesitation. area.

After entering, Long Hong strolled inside the cave, waiting for the little paper man to come and look for him.

Inside the secret realm, the spiritual energy is rich, which is almost the same as the concentration of spiritual energy outside his residence in Tianjian Sect, but this makes people feel surprised. After all, one is a blessed land of the sect and the other is a wilderness secret realm. It is difficult to compare the two together.

Along the way, Long Hong observed casually and soon noticed that the secret realm had undergone earth-shaking changes compared to when he first left.

On the top of the mountain not far away, bursts of thunder flashed across the sky from time to time. Long Hong's spiritual consciousness swept across the top of the mountain and found a rare fourth-grade spiritual plant, Thunder Beard Grass, on it.

Surrounded by many second-grade elixirs, a spiritual plant shaped like a dragon stands out from the crowd, fully demonstrating its identity as a fourth-grade ginseng.

In the small lake, a small mountain-like demonic beast floated quietly on the water. Next to it, there was a muddy jade lizard jumping in the lake water, reluctantly washing away the dirty mud on its body.

Fourth-rank monsters, rotten jade lizards, fifth-rank monsters, rock-shell turtles...

As he watched, Long Hong gradually felt numb inside.

Through a thick white mist, a spiritual plant with branches like glass appeared in front of him, with several crystal clear tea leaves on the top. The tea leaves were surrounded by spiritual energy and the fragrance was compelling. Long Hong smelled it from a distance and felt the sea of ​​consciousness. In the middle of the day, there was a lot of clarity in the moment.

Fifth grade spiritual plant, exquisite glazed tea.

Just when Long Hong was still deeply shocked by the discovery of Qingmiao Glazed Tea, suddenly, a small dragon more than half a foot long came out from behind Qingmiao Glazed Tea.

The dragon's body is covered with thin fiery red scales, its heat is amazing, its head and feet are majestic, and it is full of strangeness.

The fifth-grade monster, Lihuo Jiao...

and many more!

Lihuo Jiao's infancy...the secret realm...Cangxing City...

Several words appeared in his mind, as if a bolt of lightning struck in the sky in Long Hong's sea of ​​consciousness, locking him in place.

(End of this chapter)