The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

Xu Zhiyu was walking in the penultimate row of the team, holding the Dinghuo Dinghuo Yan Thorn Sword and surrounded by shields and magic weapons.

Side by side with him was Zhu Bingyu, with a white Ruyi magical weapon surrounding her. She had a cautious look on her face, but showed a calm and elegant attitude. She also lowered her head slightly, not knowing what she was thinking.

Both of them were in the early stage of Zifu, so Fang Chao arranged the two of them in this position where they were relatively less vulnerable to attack. Of course, he also understood that the reason for this arrangement was mainly due to Zhao Zhenren, a late-stage Jindan cultivator. In terms of face, he is purely borrowing money.

Looking at Fang Chao, who is walking at the front, he is even more impressive. He is wearing a light blue high-end robe, which seems to be invisible in the sea water. There is a gossip pattern on the back of the robe that attracts other people's attention. It is also filled with the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, the Four Symbols and the Five Elements, and there is a magical rhythm contained in it. If any formation master sees it, he will understand the greatness of this robe. It is simply a robe that can be carried with you and can be used at any time. Third level formation.

According to the previous agreement, the eight people scanned a direction with their spiritual consciousness and walked cautiously in the coral forest.

This seemingly endless coral forest has many branch roads and is extremely quiet. Apart from various plankton, there are basically no other sea animals. Compared to forests on land, this place is much quieter. It’s also a lot less interesting.

At this time, when they were unable to determine the road, they could only try to choose those corals with relatively large gaps to shuttle through. This resulted in their speed not being too fast, and sometimes being surrounded by various small fish that were only inch long, until they It emits pressure fluctuations similar to those of high-level sea beasts, which will frighten them away.

However, as they gradually deepened here, some first-level and high-grade sea beasts slowly appeared and began to sneak attack on them, but without exception, they were killed casually, and the smell of blood often attracted more sea beasts. Devouring corpses, but that happened after they were far away.

This also creates a phenomenon, that is, the low-level monsters on the seabed often follow Xu Zhiyu and his group from a distance based on their special ability to track in the water, ready to devour those they kill at any time. The corpses of the same kind of unfortunate eggs.

The group of people didn't know these things clearly. In fact, even if they knew, they wouldn't care. They are currently encountering a new situation.

As they went deeper and deeper into the coral forest, their sense of direction became weaker and weaker, and the surrounding environment and reference objects were basically the same, so after walking for more than ten miles, they found that they seemed to be lost.

Looking at the familiar wide sandy land and the extremely obvious six-foot-long coral tree at the fork in the road, Fang Chao first went upstream several dozen feet to observe the situation, but he did not find the correct route and had to fall down first.

"Everyone, it seems that we are lost now. I swam up to take a look just now. The branches of the coral tree were intertwined with each other, and I couldn't see anything at all. And as I got deeper here, I found that these corals have a strong influence on spiritual consciousness. The influence is getting bigger and bigger, even if I am at the ninth level of Zi Mansion, my spiritual consciousness will only cover about five miles when extended, so the situation is very unfavorable to us."

"Senior Brother Fang, it is indeed more complicated and difficult to navigate here, but we may not be lost. In my opinion, we might as well make a mark on the coral tree in front of us, and then move forward. If we come back here later, If we keep walking and don't find this mark, it means we are not lost, and we can move forward boldly!"

Cheng Hong looked at the surrounding environment and felt that although this place was similar to the ones she had encountered before, her intuition told her that this place might not be the same place they had been to before, so she came up with an effective solution.

This proposal was unanimously approved by everyone, and after making the mark, they embarked on the journey again.

Perhaps due to the blessing of Master Lezhen, who was hundreds of thousands of miles away, they walked forward for half an hour, and the distance was more than a hundred miles, but in the end they did not encounter that unusually eye-catching mark again.

Everyone who discovered this situation was of course overjoyed. To be honest, getting lost in such a strange environment was a terrible thing. Fortunately, this situation did not happen.

After they swam forward for about an hour, they came to a wide flat land that they had never reached before. In the center of the place, on the top of a giant purple coral tree, there was a several-foot-long vermilion coral. It was extremely bright, dazzling, and emitted bursts of strange fragrance. Even if they were nearly a mile away, they could still smell it clearly, and there were several strong spiritual haloes floating around it, surrounding it in circles.

"Treasures from heaven and earth!"

The people present, who were not well-informed people, directly exclaimed about their origins, and Xu Zhiyu was certainly no exception. With the growth of his cultivation and experience, he was no longer the novice in the world of immortality. Although I have never seen the genius treasures recorded in the secret book with my own eyes, I have long been familiar with their descriptions, so I recognized them directly when I saw them today.

The several-foot-tall vermillion-purple coral was extremely conspicuous by the ordinary coral tree that was more than ten feet high under it. It looked like antlers and was as thick as the mouth of a bowl. The other branches were as big as an arm, and the smaller ones were as thick as an arm. It is about the thickness of a thumb, and all exudes a charming purple color. It looks particularly attractive, and people can't help but want to take it as their own.

Among these corals, the oldest one is already ten thousand years old, and the remaining ones are estimated to be around a thousand years old.

At this time, they stayed quietly on the top of the purple coral, standing out like a flock of chickens.

Although the treasure was touching people's hearts, none of Xu Zhiyu and the others rushed forward, because there were a lot of skeletons piled up under the coral tree, mostly of sea animals, but occasionally human skeletons could also be seen. Covered by gravel.

And if you look carefully, you can see that there is a cave with a radius of about ten feet on the left side of the coral tree and in front of it. The entrance of the cave is facing diagonally upward towards the purple coral. Looking down from a high position, you can see that it is pitch black inside. Nothing can be seen in one piece, but if you use your spiritual consciousness to sweep it away, you will find that there are some sea beasts exuding powerful auras, which should be the guardian monsters of this ten thousand-year-old coral king.

"I have heard before that there are countless treasures in the sea. I thought it was an exaggeration before, but now it seems to be true. I have only been in the sea for less than a day. I first encountered valuable sea oyster beads, and then I encountered this ordinary Ten-thousand-year-old corals are rare to see at auctions. Hehe, I’m really lucky. I just don’t know what the name of this vermillion-purple coral, which looks so precious, is what it can be used for.”

As if hearing what he was thinking, Zhu Bingyu, who was standing in front of him, spoke to the crowd and said:

"This is ten thousand year old purple coral, also known as the king of staghorn coral."

After hearing her words, everyone's eyes lit up, and they hurriedly focused their attention on the purple coral, staring at it without blinking. As the great disciple of Le Zhenren, Fang Chao was very familiar with all kinds of sea creatures. The rare treasures produced were so numerous that he immediately informed everyone about them:

"The Antler Coral King contains abundant energy and blood, which can be used to feed precious young spirit beasts. It can strengthen the spirit beast's heritage, improve its qualifications, and enable it to break the shackles of its own blood. It also helps the spirit beast shorten its training time. , Promote breakthroughs in cultivation.

The most important point is that this kind of ten thousand-year-old coral has the effect of helping monks form elixirs. Although it has less than a 10% chance, it is also the best for those Zifu monks who cannot obtain gold-forming elixirs or golden elixir jade liquid. Choice, so as long as this kind of heavenly material and earthly treasure is put up for auction, it is impossible to get it without 20,000 medium-grade spiritual stones.

If you meet a late-stage cultivator from Zifu who has a short lifespan and is rich in wealth, you can exchange it for at least 30,000 mid-grade spiritual stones. This does not include the few thousand-year-old corals. If you count them all, the total value should be 40,000 mid-grade spiritual stones. Around the spirit stone. "After listening to his introduction, everyone was extremely excited. They were eager to try the magic weapon in their hands and were ready to step forward to seize it. However, Fang Chao pointed to the cave and said:

"Did you see it? There should be a sea beast guarding this natural treasure in that cave. From the skeleton under the purple coral tree, we can infer that the sea beast inside must not be simple, so if we want to take the Coral King into our bag, We must get rid of this animal first, otherwise it will be in vain."

After hearing this, everyone calmed down a little, and then locked their consciousness into the black cave. They wanted to explore the situation again, but all they could see were skeletons and bottomless gravel passages.

The place where they were standing at this time was about three miles away from the Staghorn Coral King, and the cave was less than a hundred feet away from the Coral King, so the idea of ​​a sudden attack was in vain. Now it seemed that the only option was to fight with the guardian monster. field and then picked.

"Fellow Taoists, there is no reason to miss the elixir-forming spiritual creature. Now everyone listen to my command and follow the order we just advanced, step by step. If the monster comes out, how about we get rid of it together? Do you want to do it or not?”

"Of course I have to do it, it's a pill-forming spiritual thing!"

"That's right. Now that we have encountered it, how can we let it go so easily? Besides, the eight of us are more than enough to deal with a guardian monster."

Everyone agreed with Fang Chao's proposal. There was no other way, the golden elixir was too attractive to the monks.

Then they saw everyone slowly approaching the purple coral tree according to the previous one-two-two-one formation. During this process, Xu Zhiyu did not forget to look at the white bones scattered on the ground. There were basically no spiritual energy fluctuations on them. , coupled with the incompleteness, it is impossible to judge what kind of cultivation they had during their lifetime. However, just looking at the size of these animal bones, it can be roughly speculated that the bones buried here should be at least second-level monsters or above.

It can also be seen from this that many sea beasts have discovered and wanted to devour the Coral King, but without exception they were killed by the guardian monsters. In the end, not only did the Coral King not get it, but they also left their own lives behind. Coming here, this also reflects that the guardian monster that has not yet appeared is absolutely powerful.

But then I thought about it, if the power of the guardian monsters was low, the Coral King would have ceased to exist long ago, and it would not be their turn to make decisions.

In fact, the reason why this kind of ten thousand-year-old coral is precious is that it is almost impossible to cultivate it artificially. Strictly speaking, coral is not a plant, so it cannot be transplanted or what. They only exist in such deep seas and form It also requires various factors, which can be encountered but cannot be sought, so it becomes more precious.

After looking at the people in front and behind him, Xu Zhiyu knew that he had a low chance of getting the ten thousand-year-old coral, but he decided to take action anyway, just in case he could miss it.

When they came within a hundred feet of the ten thousand year coral, their steps became even slower. They approached there cautiously, while their eyes were constantly scanning the fluctuations around the cave.

In the deep sea, the movement speed of sea beasts can be said to be much faster than that of them. At this distance, the sea beasts' attacks were coming in an instant, and they had no choice but to be prepared.

This distance was not too close for the Zifu monks. Seeing that there was still no movement in the cave at this time, Fang Chao, the leader, not only did not relax his vigilance, but became more cautious.

He flicked his right hand, and a ray of blue light shot out, and it suddenly turned into a blue water knife several feet long. It seemed invisible in the sea, attacking towards the Staghorn Coral King, and the target was extremely clear. Directly to uproot the rise.

"Zheng!" A crisp sound of gold and stone colliding came.

Originally, everyone thought that it would be easy for the ninth-level cultivator of the Purple Mansion to deal with a coral that was not famous for its defense. However, what was unexpected was that the blue water knife not only failed to penetrate the roots of the coral, but even shook it. Neither of them did it, and they just disappeared into the sea water.

However, after considering that this was a natural treasure, everyone felt that it was not impossible to mutate and have extremely strong defense power, and they were relieved at that time.

"Elder brother, what should we do now?" asked a rather impatient monk, who almost wanted to do it himself.

"Don't worry, look at me."

After Fang Chao finished speaking, he straightened his face and took out a small black sword with sharp serrations from his storage bag. After injecting mana into it, it slowly grew in size until it was about a foot long. Under control, he quickly headed towards the Antler Coral King.

The small sword landed impartially on the root of the Coral King, and then under Fang Chao's remote control, it began to rub back and forth like sawing a tree.

Each cut will cause water ripples to disperse around, and some powder will appear from the roots of the coral, and then float to the surroundings with the flowing sea water.

At first, everyone was very happy to see that the progress was going smoothly, thinking that they could take away the Coral King without any effort. However, Yang Li, who had been specially responsible for keeping an eye on the cave, changed his expression and shouted loudly:

"Everyone, be careful, there is movement in the cave."

Following his reminder, everyone calmed down, and sure enough, they heard some rustling footsteps and some sharp strange screams coming from the cave, which were quickly heading towards the entrance of the cave. The sound sounded like it was here There is not just one monster living there, but a group of them.

Everyone's expressions gradually became tense. They each held the magic weapon tightly, ready to take action at any time. Fang Chao's movements suddenly accelerated and he began to cut the roots of the Coral King frantically. (End of chapter)