Daqizong

"Each person has ten spirit jades, and they must leave within one month at the latest. Every month overdue, ten spirit jades will be added. Are you clear?"

Before moving the formation, the disciples defending the formation explained the rules to everyone.

"Understood, I am troublesome fellow Taoist to open the magic circle."

"Okay, you stand firm in the formation."

The magic circle was activated quickly, and Li Wan and the others could only feel that a hazy light enveloped them, and the things they saw suddenly disappeared, as if night had fallen, and everything was hidden in the boundless darkness.

After an unknown amount of time, a beam of light was projected from the sky.

The stars, the vast sky, the endless galaxy, and the distant time and space appear in front of everyone.

Unknowingly, the scene in front of them became more and more profound. Everyone seemed to have an illusion that they were wandering in the universe. Even after thousands of years, it was difficult to stop. drift down.

This vast void, almost boundless, has a kind of despairing vastness.

I don’t know how long it took before everyone’s eyes suddenly appeared a huge and shocking island. It was floating in the sky out of thin air. It was majestic, sacred, stretching across the galaxy, endlessly vast, and could be vaguely seen. There were rivers, continents, and oceans on it. ...

It turned out to be a living world, with a round sky and a place full of immortality.

After another tremor of half-dream and half-awake, everyone suddenly felt down-to-earth, and all illusions disappeared.

"It's here!" Someone said beside the crowd.

Everyone turned their heads to look, but they saw several disciples in green clothes holding swords guarding the formation, guiding the casual practitioners who came here to enter and leave the formation.

Under the feet, the blue bricks and ancient stones form an array and build a high base. Someone is registering the number plate and checking the list. They are all the deacons sent by Chiyangmen here.

"Let's go there, Tunyan Cave is extremely vast, and we have to hurry up and set off later." Shi Haoguang said to everyone.

The destination of their trip was a place called Gale Valley.

There is a rare vermilion fruit that grows there all the year round. This fruit contains a wealth of fire energy. If a cultivator eats it, it will directly increase his skill. Even a newcomer to Qi refining can achieve it overnight and have a normal number of people. Ten years of hard work.

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A group of people spent three full days arriving near Gale Wind Valley.

At this time, the valley where the moving magic circle is located has already disappeared, only the sky and the earth are vast and uninhabited, showing the endless vastness.

Everyone watched the terrain from a high place, marked the map, and finally confirmed several routes to explore the valley. Then, Shi Haoguang, the temporary leader jointly recommended by everyone, led them to take a small path to the location, and it took another day.

What appeared in front of everyone was a vast and boundless Gobi wasteland. Located in the center of the wasteland, there are two long valleys formed by uplifted mountains. Whenever there is a strong wind blowing and passing through here quickly, the narrow The terrain causes the wind to speed up, like a sword cutting through, roaring all over the sky, hence the name Gale Valley.

In the Valley of the Gale, there are no tall trees, but there are many low grasses and various strange spiritual flowers, which grow tenaciously in this wild place.

According to legend, this place is connected to the Lingmai spring, and it is a place with accumulated spiritual energy, so there is vitality.

Shi Haoguang said to the crowd: "With spiritual energy, it is a blessed land, but every treasure of heaven, material and earth must be guarded by dangerous things. In the Gale Valley, there is a particularly ferocious bird called the green-winged snake eagle. This is what we want to see." The reason for walking together is that these birds are ferocious, and some of them have even cultivated into monsters, so we need to be careful."

"Naturally, it's time to act according to plan."

For more than ten days, everyone had already planned all the matters for picking the vermilion fruit, and it was agreed that Li Wan, Shi Haoguang, and Xing Tongfang would jointly attract the attention of the snake eagle, while Xia Quan was in charge of playing by ear, Yan Siqi was good at climbing, and was in charge of climbing. Picking fruits from the cliff, all the proceeds will be shared equally by everyone.

Before leaving, everyone prepared fat sheep for luring snake carvings, hooks, machetes, heavy crossbows, etc. to deal with dangers. He also asked Wang Lin to hire a fast horse to drive to the nearby big city, and bought a Bailian sword worth hundreds of silver. Now he is drawing it out, holding it in his hand, ready to fight at any time.

Since there are snake eagles patrolling the sky during the day, everyone can't take the risk of being attacked by groups to pick vermilion fruits, and they wait until nightfall to act.

At this time, it was already late, and the moon was like a hook, hanging high in the sky.

Relying on the extraordinary eyesight possessed by Qi refining monks, the five of them fumbled to the bottom of a cliff without lighting torches.

Thirty feet away, a cloud of misty light loomed in the twilight, like a firefly.

Everyone didn't speak, they just tied the hook line according to the secret signal agreed in advance, and then the veteran Xia Quan threw it.

I saw the iron hook flying upwards with a chirping sound. The first time, it hit the rock with a bang, but he was not discouraged. He slowly retracted and threw it again, successfully stuck in a bushy rock crevice on the top of the cliff. middle.

Xia Quan pulled hard a few times, and felt stable, so he handed the end of the rope to Yan Siqi.

Yan Siqi nodded, took out a small clay pot from his bosom, removed the cork, poured some powder, picked it up with his nails and sprinkled it on his body.

This is a special realgar powder, which is used to drive away snakes that may be lurking in the crevices of rocks and grass. These are the food of the green-winged snake eagle, but they may also cause trouble for everyone's actions, so it is natural to take precautions.

After finishing, Yan Siqi pulled out a dagger, bit the sheath sideways, grabbed the rope deftly, kicked on the stone wall, and went up slowly.

Thirty feet away, they arrived in a short while, and everyone looked up, holding their breath.

Suddenly, a sudden warning flashed through my heart.

Li Wan and the others reacted completely instinctively. They leaned down close to the ground, and saw a black shadow passing by from a low altitude. The fierce wind flew up with dozens of cut grass poles!

Li Wan came back to his senses, saw the flashing thing clearly by the bright moonlight, and couldn't help but stare his eyes round. A trace of cold air rushed from the soles of the feet along the spine to the Tianling Gai, cooling the whole body in an instant.

It was more than five feet long, its upper body was grayish brown, its white feathers were narrow and long, its head was black, with a pair of fan-shaped crest feathers with white horizontal spots on it, it was the Green Winged Snake Eagle!

The tarsus of this snake sculpture is covered with hard scales, which are closely connected together, like a brush of thick hairs, and the whole body is covered with sharp feathers as hard as iron, which are extremely sharp, like the blade of a sword, and the feathers on the tail are dyed blue. , the wingtip feathers are glowing like gold and iron under the moon, showing the majestic charm everywhere.

"It's grown so big, it's already become a spirit!" Shi Haoguang's voice was full of horror.

Just like human beings, scales hide feathers, reptiles and beasts, various races between heaven and earth can also practice, human beings are called monks, and these alien races are called spirits, or monsters!

Because the physique of alien races is much stronger than that of human beings, and they are often stronger than Qi refining monks when they cultivate into spirits and monsters.

Fortunately, human beings have all kinds of magic formulas, magical weapons and spiritual treasures, and when they cultivate to a high level, they have advantages such as the Nascent Soul Secret Technique, etc., which are still far better than the alien races who drink blood, so they occupy the dominance of the world.

However, Li Wan and the others didn't have any magic weapon at hand, nor did they have any clever skills to use, so it was really hard for them to compete with this flat-haired beast based on strength alone.

"It's coming down again, get out of the way."

Shi Haoguang yelled, took out half of the fat sheep that had been prepared from his wish bag, raised his hands, threw it hard, and then fell to the opposite rock wall.

boom!

There was a heavy sound, and the sheep blood skin sac that had been placed inside exploded, and strong blood came out from it.

The green-winged snake eagle let out a long roar, and immediately shifted its target and flew towards the fat sheep.

At this time, Xing Tongfang and Li Wan also lit the torches according to the plan, held them high, and ran towards the direction of the valley.

They were particular about their positions before. The rock wall they chose was just in the shade, and Li Wan, Shi Haoguang, and Xing Tongfang stood in the direct moonlight. If there is a green-winged snake eagle coming, pay attention They were the ones who arrived, and when they were lit with torches, they looked like stars in the night, attracting the attention of the other snake sculptures at once.

Green Winged Snake Eagles live in groups, but they never act alone when attacking.

Fortunately, it was night now, and only a very small group was dispatched, and there was no one like the leader of the giant eagle just now, and the other snake sculptures were nothing more than big birds of one or two feet.

Li Wan and the others were attacked by the group of vultures, and they had many scars on their bodies, and their clothes were torn, but they were wearing the prepared scale armor and frequently held torches to drive them away, protecting their eyes, throat and other vital points. It's all right.

None of the three of them killed the eagle, because the snake eagle had a strong desire for revenge, and once they killed it, they would never die.

They came here to pick vermilion fruits, they didn't ask for trouble.

After coming and going, when the giant eagle leader flew away with the fat sheep in his mouth, the other snake eagles could not do anything to them, so they could only retreat angrily, leaving behind rags and messy feathers.

"I got it, it's a 50-year vermilion fruit!"

Not long after, good news came. Yan Siqi and Xia Quan took advantage of the time when Li Wan and others were fighting fiercely among the eagles, and stayed in the dark to avoid the attention of the snake eagles. Vermillion fruit.

"Have you picked it? Go, go, it's not suitable to stay here for a long time."

Shi Haoguang hurriedly greeted everyone.

Soon after, everyone came to a shady place and divided Zhu Guo on the spot.

It is not difficult to carve up this treasure, because it is a fruit that can be divided into several petals like an orange. There are ten petals in total, and each person gets two petals, which is just and fair.

After distributing the vermilion fruits, Yan Siqi asked, "What's next?"

Shi Haoguang said: "There is still time, we can find a few more places to pick."

The crowd nodded in agreement.

Their morale is high now, and it is time to go searching again in one go. ;