longevity road trip

Zhang Shiping looked at the two of them indifferently, with scrutiny in his eyes, and suddenly a faint blue aura flashed in his eyes, and he performed the 'Dream Inducing Technique'.

This dream-inducing technique is a type of spirit-soul magic, much softer than the soul-searching technique.Usually the cultivator who casts the spell is much stronger than the soul of the opponent, otherwise the cultivator receiving the spell will easily break free.

When the two saw each other, their expressions suddenly became numb.

"What's unusual about this place recently?" Zhang Shiping asked.

"Nothing unusual." The two mechanically shook their heads and said.

Then Zhang Shiping asked some questions about the situation. Neither of them showed any other situation, and the answers they gave were all normal.

It's just that the doubts in Zhang Shiping's heart did not disappear. Since he heard about the Sun Jinghuo from Yi Xuedan, he immediately thought of this, so he came to confirm it in person.

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As for why he came here, Zhang Shiping used the dream-attracting technique on Zhang Wenting and Zhang Wenyi. He just wanted to determine whether the younger generations of these two clans had been secretly tricked by someone.

After all, the Misty Valley also knows about this valley of resentment.

Moreover, Zhang Shiping did not rule out that the reason why Yi Xuedan spoke out about Sun Jinghuo in front of him was that he had other purposes, such as deliberately attracting him here, setting up an ambush, or using him as a precursor, and then seeking to obtain this road with him. The true spirit is related to the fire of the false spirit.

In short, sometimes some specious news seems more real to others.

Of course, this may also be Yi Xuedan's unintentional move. There is nothing else here at all, and everything is Zhang Shiping's own overthinking.

Besides, if they were really planning something here, it would be almost impossible for the two foundation-builders of the Zhang family to find out.

But even so, Zhang Shiping didn't want to be reckless.

After questioning the two of them again, he searched around carefully for a long time, and finally withdrew the dream-inducing technique when there was nothing abnormal.

Then he used the earth travel technique, sneaked among the earth and rocks, went down for two or three hundred feet, turned around and went deeper than ten miles, and appeared in the underground cave.

The roof of Zhang Shiping's cave fell slowly, looking at the lava river with a width of more than twenty feet below, he saw the ancient gas on the river surface condensed into gray mist, flowing on the surface of the lava, and turning into tornadoes from time to time , Floating up into the stone wall.

He frowned, and floated down on the black square stone platform with a radius of several feet in the lava river.

At this moment, the copper coffin used by Misty Valley Yixuan to store the fire corpses is still there, but the coffin lid has been overturned to the side, and the coffin is already empty.

Zhang Shiping activated his divine sense again, and inspected every brick and stone on the stone platform, even the slightest grain on the surface of the stone platform.

After half an hour passed like this, he didn't notice anything unusual, and finally set his sights on the bronze coffin again.

Suddenly he kicked heavily towards the coffin, but only heard a muffled 'bang', and the copper coffin remained motionless.

Seeing this, he flicked his sleeves again, and several cyan sword lights collided with the coffin body. The clanging sound immediately echoed throughout the underground cave.

It's just that the bronze coffin was not cut into pieces as he expected. Instead, there were several sword lights on it, leaving only a few very shallow marks.

Seeing this, Zhang Shiping was surprised, and immediately turned his hand and showed a green frost sword. With a buzzing sound, the flying sword split into more than ten blue light sword threads, and under the lingering shadow of the sword, he cut the coffin into dozens of pieces. Fragments of different sizes were scattered.

Then he made another move, and with a flash of inspiration, the Qingshuang Sword suddenly fell into his hands.

Zhang Shiping saw that there were no visions around him, so he thought to himself: "It seems that this coffin is not where the formation is located, am I overthinking it?"

With a wave of his sleeve, he collected all the large and small pieces of copper on the ground.

After all, it can withstand several sword slashes from a Nascent Soul cultivator. These copper blocks can be regarded as a very good refining material, which can reach the level of the fourth level. He has no habit of wasting.

Then Zhang Shiping carried his hands on his back, held the long sword behind his back, looked around indifferently, looked at the stone wall, and looked at the lava river.

After contemplating for a while, with a thought in his mind, a scarlet pagoda flew out of his body.

This Flamefall Myriad Spirit Pagoda, which has undergone decades of sacrificial offerings, is now brightly aura, and there are hundreds of simple patterns of various spirit beasts on the body of the tower, which are connected to each other to form thin chains, entangled and superior.

Once this treasure manifested, there was no need for Zhang Shiping to use any formulas to activate it. With the connection of minds, the thin chains on the tower body began to rotate, and wisps of black flames emerged from the tower body, instantly turning into a layer of flames. its caged.

Then he swung his sword just now, and a ray of sword light swept forward, breaking through the gray mist formed by the ancient spirit on the lava river.

After finishing these, Zhang Shiping plunged into the lava.

The light black fire cover easily separated the crimson lava. After Zhang Shiping sank more than a hundred feet deep, all his eyes saw was red light. In such an environment, the naked eye is useless.

Moreover, although the lava is in a molten state, like a river, it is actually made of stones and various ores, and it is not as light as river water. The monks' spiritual thoughts are also greatly restricted in it.

Even with Zhang Shiping's consciousness of the mid-Yuanying period, he can only sense the surrounding area for a few miles.

It's just enough for this tens of feet wide lava.

Ignoring the scorching heat and the constant pressure from all around, he carefully explored the surroundings with his spiritual sense.Urging his spiritual consciousness to explore the surroundings carefully.

Until he found nothing, he dived another hundred feet, and did as before, not letting go of any strangeness.

Repeatedly, it took less than half an hour.

At this moment, Zhang Shiping is already in the underground lava that is more than a thousand feet away. He perceives the surroundings with his spiritual sense, and now the miles around where his spiritual sense reaches are all hot magma, and the mana consumed to maintain the fire cover at the moment is It intensified more and more.

Amid the raging fire, he casually collected a few pieces of fire-attribute spirit items. Although the grade was only second or third, it was still a small gain.

"Looks like it's not here." Zhang Shiping sighed.

But suddenly, he turned his head and saw one side. At this moment, a crimson molten pillar came from nowhere and hit the fire shield heavily.

Then the surrounding lava suddenly crowded in, as if a big hand wanted to crush it to burst.

Zhang Shiping's complexion changed suddenly, and he didn't know what could escape his spiritual perception.Immediately, he raised one hand, tapped a few times to one side, issued several sword lights, and fought with the thing hidden in the lava, and then the mana all over his body was stimulated, he broke free from the restraint, and immediately went up .

Suddenly, he felt strange vibrations coming from the lava below, as if something was chasing him.

Zhang Shiping no longer cared about his mana, and used the method of fire escape, and went up towards the lava, within half a stick of incense, he rushed out, jumped up, and looked at the lava river below.

Less than ten breaths after he came out, the magma exploded suddenly, and a fire beast that looked a bit like a fish and a bit like a bird jumped out of it, with its mouth full of fangs, and slapped Zhang Shiping in midair. Bite.

There are several pairs of wings on the back of this strange fish, and the scales grow on the tips of the wings. After a bite, it dives into the lava, and the buzzing sound resounds in the cave.

"Huoman octopus, how come there are monsters in the Nascent Soul stage here? Aren't these things all in the barbarian domain?" Zhang Shiping's eyes darkened.

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The beast dived into the magma and disappeared, but it shot out hot magma columns from the molten river from time to time, and it didn't take long for the entire cave to be riddled with holes.

However, Zhang Shiping wandered around like a leisurely stroll in this molten pillar like a dense rain, and didn't touch any magma.

He tried to lure it a few more times, and then drove the Qingshuang Sword to leave several wounds several feet long on the monster.

If this type of injury was placed on a human monk, it would be life-threatening, but this fire savage carp didn't care. Every time it was injured, it would dive into the lava, and after a few breaths, it would viciously jump. Pounce on Zhang Shiping.

When the monster missed a hit, it immediately hid itself and went away.

When Zhang Shiping saw the Huoman squid jumping out, as soon as it came into contact with the ancient gray mist on the surface of the lava river, the wound on the monster's body healed quickly again, and the aura was a bit stronger than it was at the beginning.

But at this moment, the Mangu gray mist was getting thicker and thicker under the urging of the Huoman squid, gradually rising up, and it seemed that it was about to completely fill the entire cave, and there was a tendency to erupt.

Seeing this, he sighed, no longer staying here, turned around and sank into the earth and rocks above the cave, and fled away.

The fireman squid already occupies an advantageous location in this magma, and it is a savage beast of the Yuanying stage. It will not leave this magma river to go to the outside world, and Zhang Shiping does not want to take the risk to fight it again.

What's more, Zhang Shiping himself was unable to control the aura of heaven and earth outside due to the barbaric aura, and the power of both magic weapons and spells was greatly weakened.In this case, he naturally wanted to withdraw and leave.

After coming to the outside world, Zhang Shiping took out more than a dozen flags of their respective formations, and spent half an hour around the valley to arrange the magic formations to suppress the barbaric spirit.

Then his figure appeared in front of his two juniors in a flash, his mana turned into aura and swept him up, and he flew away in an instant.

"Old Ancestor, what happened?" Zhang Wenting asked.

"There is a barbaric spirit in the depths of the ground here that is about to erupt, and you two don't need to practice here anymore, among the Hui people." Zhang Shiping said.

"Of course." The two said in unison.

Zhang Shiping didn't say anything more, and took the two of them more than two hundred miles away in one breath, picked a place at random and put them down, then he turned around and left.

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Outside Yuanxiao Binhai City, in a green hill not far away.

The three people in Misty Valley, who were resting with their eyes closed, suddenly opened their eyes. They looked at each other, and Yi Xuedan said unhurriedly: "There has been a change in the Resentment Huo Sha Cave. The demon quickly calmed down again. It seems that fellow Daoist Shiheng passed by and left after seeing something bad."

"The fire of the false spirit is still being conceived, and it may take a hundred years before the fire spirit is fully condensed. If we can sacrifice this Shiheng Daoist Huoxing Yuanying, we may be able to draw it out in advance. But now that the bait has been Let it go, we just wait." said the old man in yellow robe and white eyebrows.

"I'm afraid it's because the bait is not conspicuous. The ancestor used our brother and sister as bait for more than a hundred years, but failed. Why don't I explain it clearly with Shiheng, maybe Xuanyuanzong will A few fellow Taoists will also go, and it would be better if we secretly cast a spell to lure out the fire toad?" Yi Xuedan said with a laugh.

"You don't want to make any decisions on this matter, otherwise you will be self-defeating. In the past, with the cultivation base of Senior Brother Yi's late Yuan Ying, he couldn't kill the ancient fire toad beast in the center of the earth. What can you and I do? The Fire Toad guards us, and the fire of the pseudo-spirit cannot fall into our hands. However, if this fellow Daoist Shiheng can kill those fire-attribute beasts in the early stage of the Nascent Soul, and go straight into the center of the earth, he will naturally find the fire of the pseudo-spirit At that time, you and I will see if we can be fishermen. If this is impossible, we will pretend that this has never happened. After all, our Misty Valley is weak right now, and Hongyue Tower is threatening us. The Xuanyuan Sect is an enemy. If the ten thousand year inheritance of the sect is destroyed in our hands, then we will be eternal sinners." The old man shook his head and said.

"Sinners through the ages? Don't talk about the ages. If we die one day, who will remember us in a few years?" Yi Xuedan said.

"Yin Shang, Xue Dan, there is no need to talk about such meaningless things. The most important thing now is to wait for Zuoqiu and Wen Shui to come back and see if Shui Yueyuan and Xuanming Palace's fellow Taoists are What do you mean. If we have their help, let’s take Piaomiao City back first, otherwise you and I won’t even have a cultivation cave.” The burly Han Zhenjun Minghai said lightly at the side.

Today, most of the fourth-order Lingshan blessed land near Misty City is occupied by Hongyuelou Nascent Soul monks.

If there is no suitable fourth-level practice cave, then a monk in the early stage of Yuanying who only relies on spiritual stones will consume at least two or three high-grade spiritual stones every day.

Over time, over several years or even hundreds of years, the required spirit stones can be piled up into a mountain.

So in the final analysis, why the Nascent Soul monks in Misty Valley are so obsessed with regaining the foundation of the sect is actually just for their own practice.

"Then what if they don't want to?" Yi Xuedan said, she naturally pointed to the Nascent Soul cultivator of Hongyue Tower.

It is related to one's own practice path, which cannot be achieved through simple verbal negotiations, otherwise, in Nanzhou, every few hundred years, some Nascent Soul cultivator will not have any news for no reason.I don't know where these people died. I'm afraid that even the corpses were used up by other monks.

Every Nascent Soul cultivator still has a Nascent Soul in his physical body, and he has undergone countless spiritual refinements, so he can be said to be a first-class treasure in the world.

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On the other side, Zhang Shiping let go of the two foundation-building juniors in the clan, and he turned back again, lurking secretly around the valley of resentment for more than ten days.One is to see if the fire savage squid will break through the magic circle and come to the outside world, and the other is to see if the monks of Misty Valley will come here.

But his plan naturally came to nothing, neither the Huo Mandao nor the Nascent Soul Daoist friends from Misty Valley showed up.

After confirming that nothing happened, he just turned around and left, returned to Yuanxiao City, and headed towards Tianfeng Mountain.

At this moment, Tianfeng was under an old pine tree in the mountain, holding an ancient book in his hand, watching quietly.

When Zhang Shiping flew down, he put down his book, and asked with a smile: "I'm back, Shiheng must have found out where the false spiritual fire is during this trip, right? Did you gain anything?"

Zhang Shiping sat down cross-legged generously, and asked with a smile: "Are you so sure that I went out this time for the sake of false spiritual fire?"

"Not sure, but isn't it?" Tianfeng said.

"Four thousand miles away from the city, in my Guoheng Prefecture, there is a valley of resentment, and there is a fourth-level spiritual land in it. Once in Misty Valley, Yi Yu used to refine fire corpses there. Yi Xuedan was also there at that time. Maybe it will be the place where the fire spirit was born. But now the wild ancient atmosphere gathers here, and there are wild beasts lurking in the lava in the center of the earth, and I have already deployed formations outside to suppress them." Zhang Shiping said unhurriedly.

"So, this fellow Daoist Yi deliberately leaked information." Tianfeng said.

"Looking at the current situation, that should be the case. They think they haven't got this false spirit fire yet. But it's not a good thing. If even Yi Kui doesn't get this fire, it's just that the fire hasn't been fully conceived yet. Otherwise, it would be guarded by ancient beasts," Zhang Shiping said.Since he doesn't have the ability to get it right now, it's better to ask Tianfeng to cooperate, which is also safer.

Chapter 784 Speculation and hidden dangers

Then Zhang Shiping told about the situation when he and Patriarch Qinghe met Misty Gu Yixuan.

Tianfeng pondered for a while after hearing this, but shook his head lightly and said:

"Shiheng, I don't know if you have thought about it, or the false spiritual fire that Yi Xuedan mentioned doesn't exist, or they just want to lead you and me into danger, and take the opportunity to weaken our Xuanyuanzong. Do you remember that more than two hundred years ago, many lands in Nanzhou exploded at the same time, but all of them disappeared suddenly. You said that in the cave in the mountain of the Valley of Resentment in Zhang State Dozens of years ago, there was a lingering ancient spirit, and now you have gone deep into it again, and you met the fire-man squid in the melting heart thousands of meters underground. Don’t you think it’s a bit strange to see all the things here?”

The antiquity trend that Tianfeng mentioned happened not long after Zhang Shiping formed the alchemy.

At that time, in a short period of time, the various sects of Nanzhou sealed off more than [-] ground vein well points where the ancient energy broke out in the land of Nanzhou.But after dealing with these matters, when many Nascent Soul monks in the Zongmen wanted to find out the reason, they found nothing.

In this way, the matter will be over.

Zhang Shiping only participated in one or two of the suppression matters due to the relationship with the ancestor of Qinghe, and spent most of the rest of the time concentrating on cultivation, so he didn't think of this matter for a while.

Now when he heard Tianfeng talk about it, he immediately recalled it.

"You mean what happened at that time. Could it be that Misty Valley was playing tricks behind it? Don't they understand the pros and cons?" Zhang Shiping said in a deep voice, with an angry look on his face.

Man ancient energy is in conflict with spiritual energy, and only those monks whose lifespan is approaching but have no hope of breaking through will venture deep into the barbaric realm.

Once these monks have refined their ancient energy and fully refined their mana, although their lifespan will be extended, they will slowly become savage beasts with no sense of consciousness.

It is recorded in the classics collected by Xuanyuanzong that it is rumored that the ancient beasts in Cangguyang that have lived for tens of thousands or even millions of years were originally savage beasts transformed by monks of various races, and it is difficult for them to live naturally. die eventually.According to this, the Mahayana monks of the Zongmen at that time speculated that these ancient beasts were left over from a more distant era, and there were monks from the previous generation who were searching for the road to longevity.

The longevity method of this one or a group of monks has reached the ultimate in the body, but the spirit and soul retaliated and died.

And these ancient beasts are the witnesses left by the spirit world.

It's just that even if they are Mahayana monks of Xuanyuanzong, they were only promoted more than a hundred thousand years ago. Regarding these ancient beasts that have survived for an unknown time, they can only find a few words from some ruins and think that's all.

As for the Barbarian Territory at the junction of Nanzhou, Ximo, and Beijiang, it was formed much later than the barbaric tide that erupted from time to time on the Canggu Ocean, and it was formed hundreds of thousands of years ago. when.

And it was this explosion of barbaric ancient energy that separated the three realms, that is, during this period of time, the Mahayana monks in the spirit world left one after another and disappeared.