one's door

"If you move faster, there is nothing wrong with it. And even if you really can't resist, it is not impossible to temporarily retreat to the lower realm. But the price may be very high. The final victory or defeat still depends on whether you can kill the monsters of the monster clan matrix.

So, can you do it? "

Chapter 450

The more than [-] sprites captured from Xiaojiao Mountain before are all gone.A few days ago Zhang Yan went there again.When he saw a "defense line" connected by stone pillars, he had to spy out that although there was no special construction machinery in this world, the general strength of the physical body and the effect of moving human power always surprised him for a long time.

Those pillars are the "fortifications" that Zhang Yan prepared for Qi Yeguo, which is a kind of semi-magic circle permanent building that he figured out.Using the principle similar to the Bagua array, but it is the yang energy in nature that is drawn, and then converged into these pillars, forming a certain degree of coercion and weakening of the demon clan.

The effect won't be immediate, but fortunately, at the beginning, the demon clan was scared by Zhang Yan's [-] emptying, so they shrank in Xiaojiao Mountain and dared not come out, which gave Qi Yeguo a chance to react.Out of their expectations for Zhang Yan's reputation, they were betting on everything.

When the demon tribe began to test and expand their territory again, these pillars had already accumulated some "savings", and under the continuous yang energy, the demon tribe's combat power dropped by nearly [-]%.

Twenty percent doesn't seem like a lot, but it's obvious when you actually fight.Especially those masters in the army, they knew immediately before the comparison that these changes were the help of these pillars on the defense line.

Afterwards, Qi Yeguo was naturally ecstatic, seeing a glimmer of hope for the future for the first time after the war started.

And this glimmer of hope ran out of control when Zhang Yan came to collect the crops again a few months later, and turned directly into "Tell me, how can I lose this?"

It wasn't that Qi Yeguo was impetuous, and it wasn't that they forgot the pain when their scars healed.It's just because when I saw Zhang Yan flitting in the air with my own eyes, holding a huge umbrella, he took away large pieces of the monsters below like a whale, and behind him was a golden dharma that was more than ten feet high to resist all monsters. family struggle.How shocking is this scene?After reading these, Qi Yeguo really didn't know how he could lose in the future.

On the other hand, the people of Qi Ye Kingdom who witnessed Zhang Yan's prestige with their own eyes felt awkwardly that Zhang Yan seemed to be picking fruit.And they are the gatekeepers in the orchard.

Although this idea sounds ridiculous.But it's not far from the truth.

Of course, Zhang Yan didn't care about other people's opinions.Now he no longer needs to be as cautious as before, for fear that he will cause trouble if he makes a mistake.

Exhausting the liquid aura last time allowed him to break through to the middle stage of the combined state in one fell swoop as he wished.Zhang Yan himself had never imagined this kind of practice speed.He was originally prepared to spend ten to twenty years to fill up the aura needed to break through the mid-term.And who would have thought that the great gift from the Elf Clan would come.

Perhaps if the former ancestors in the Dragon and Tiger Mountain Gate on the earth knew that he had such a cultivation speed, they would definitely jump up in fright?

However, Zhang Yan was not lost because of this rapid practice speed.After all, he didn't start his real practice until he arrived in Huangtianyu, and his special practice speed has been getting faster and faster since the beginning.He didn't even go through the dry life of a monk.So it's really not easy for him to get lost in the rapid growth of strength.Because it's "normal" to him too.

So Zhang Yan stopped after breaking through the middle stage of the Fusion Realm, and instead of continuing to rush upwards, he calmly consolidated the emptiness of the realm left by his rapid and continuous breakthroughs over the past year.

As for the Monster Clan, Zhang Yan didn't think about delaying this matter.Come and harvest when the time comes.After going back, let the "balls" swallow and transform them in batches. "Ball" has gained a lot of weight recently.

But Zhang Yan did not intend to use up the liquid aura he obtained immediately.He made a magic vessel in the shape of a small water tank, which was used to hold these things.

As for the reason.On the one hand, practice should not be rushed.On the other hand, Zhang Yan had a premonition that it was impossible for the demon clan to give him gifts all the time.When it's time to be rude, you have to leave something for the mountain gate, right?

For example, this tank of liquid aura is suitable as one of the foundations of the Dragon and Tiger Gate of the Cliff Mountain, right?

The second time I went to Xiaojiao Mountain, although it was in front of Qi Yeguo's defense, Zhang Yan had no intention of contacting him.First, it was troublesome, and second, he didn't think it was necessary.

After returning to the cliff mountain, after converting the liquid aura and storing it, Zhang Yan sat cross-legged on the Yingtiantai according to his recent routine and sorted out his income during this period of time.Whether it is Heyang or the power of rules, these things need to be carefully summarized by Zhang Yan, and only after they have a thorough understanding can they exert the greatest effect in actual combat.

For example, compared to going to Xiaojiao Mountain for the first time, Zhang Yan used the power of space rules to restrict the actions of the monsters for himself to capture.It was the same when I went there for the second time.But his own feeling is that it is much easier to use the power of space rules for the second time, and it can achieve a more effective effect than the last time without using so much effort.

This kind of gain is not reflected in the improvement of the realm, but it will be deeply felt in actual combat, and it is even an important criterion for judging whether a monk's strength is solid or not.

Zhang Yan attaches great importance to this, and has always regarded strengthening the realm as an indispensable part after breakthrough.

At the same time, Zhang Yan also truly felt the ingenious changes in his soul.It was a feeling similar to being independent.

In the past, the primordial spirit could not be separated from the physical body, and even the ability to resist danger was not strong.

But now Zhang Yan's primordial spirit can be said to be the same as his physical body to some extent.Now his primordial spirit is the real wandering world!

Going up to the sky, you can enter above the clouds, and you can fly thousands of miles away in an instant, and the speed is much faster than that of a lark.Because the primordial spirit has no entity, it is not restricted by many conditions of flight at all.

As for entering the ground, the depth can also reach hundreds of feet, and the feeling of movement is very similar to the escape technique, but it is also smoother.

This may be the difference brought about by the body of pure energy.

However, it was this kind of wonderful experience that made Zhang Yan play for a while. Using Yuanshen alone, he broke into the range of a dead silent road, and saw many ghosts busy in and out.It's just that no matter from the number or individual strength, it can be clearly found that the life of the ghosts in the human realm is not easy.

This is also related to Zhang Yan's distributing ghost-sucking bells. Over the past few years, even the human race country farthest from Nanyuan Kingdom has many ghost-sucking bells, allowing ordinary people to have an effective way to detect and target ghosts. .

In addition, there is also the relationship between the contraction force of the ghost domain.Similar to the School of Martial Arts, the reason is closely related to the situation in the God Realm.

However, this accidental intrusion into the scope of the Dead Silence Road also aroused Zhang Yan's curiosity that he had before.He used to be curious about what the ghost domain where these ghosts were in was like, but he was worried that there would be accidents after entering because of the constraints of the extremely dark place.Now that Yuanshen is united with Yang, the previous worries no longer exist.

"Maybe go to the Ghost Realm first before going to the God Realm?"

Chapter 451

The primordial spirit originates from the soul, and it can even be said that it evolved from the soul.Among them, yin and yang are harmonious, and even in many cases, the yin part occupies most of the soul.

But the most important practice in returning to the gods is to target the primordial spirit.The purpose is to hammer out all the "yin" sides in the primordial spirit through continuous beating, leaving only the "yang" side in the primordial spirit.

Only then will there be "Xianyang" and "Guyang" and finally "Heyang", stepping into the state of integration.

In fact, we can also see the main thread of the monk here. First, he cultivates Qi, then he refines his spirit, and finally the spirit and energy are integrated into the body. It can be said that the potential of the human body has been brought to the extreme.

There is a particularity about the soul, or the primordial spirit.

The monk chose pure yang, so can he choose pure yin?Or yin and yang complement each other?

Can!It is a bit more troublesome to combine yin and yang, and it usually requires two people to cooperate and practice together.According to legend, the Yellow Emperor did this method.It's just too troublesome and harsh, and few monks choose it.

There are also those who choose pure yin.That is an evil cultivation that runs counter to the righteous way.In addition, ghost cultivators can only take the path of pure yin.

Therefore, regardless of the way of yin and yang, most monks are at odds with evil cultivators and ghost cultivators. This is not only a confrontation in behavior and affairs, but also a confrontation in practice.

Even those who cultivate pure yin and those who cultivate pure yang will be restricted in each other's environment, like falling into a quagmire.Sometimes even feel like a cannonball.

Of course, just like the relationship between water and fire, there is a boundary to distinguish between strong and weak.Just like Zhang Yan's primordial state of Heyang at this time, even if he goes to the extremely yin place, it's not that he is restricted, but it can't affect him at all.

Moreover, because of the combination of body and yang, the aura of the original spirit of Jiyang has also changed a lot in the past. It can no longer be announced to the outside, and can be completely restrained inward.This is the complete control over the extreme yang energy.

At night, Yin Qi rises and Yang Qi recedes.This is the law of heaven and earth, even on the cliff mountain.

Occasionally, the neighing of some spirit beasts could be heard in the mountains, and a large part of them still continued their instinct of being beasts, lurking day and night.

But the upper half of Cliff Mountain was quiet.

Zhang Yan sat cross-legged in the secret room of Dengyun Hall.The surrounding magic circles, including the mountain protection circles, have all risen.

Not long after, a phantom above Zhang Yan's head broke away from his body, and after a flash of golden light, it all subsided, like the aura of an ordinary living soul.It's just that the clear appearance on the soul body and the smooth and unwavering fluctuations of the soul power seem to be not simple.

After a while, a hostile and sinister look began to appear on the primordial spirit.This is a trick that Zhang Yan figured out after he decided to go to Huangquan.

He didn't dress up his primordial spirit as a powerful ghost king or general. That would be too conspicuous. The disguise Zhang Yan gave himself was just a reliance for him to go deep into the ghost realm. A ghost whose strength was similar to that of a spirit beast would do. .He actually knows a lot about the common sense and identity-related news in the ghost domain. After all, he helped Nanyuan Kingdom to seal the dead road before, and used Soul Snatching to deal with many ghost generals.

Yuanshen left.Zhang Yan's physical body sits quietly like a stone statue, in a state similar to dormancy, both vitality and breath will be silent.However, it is different from the out-of-body of the soul in the state of returning to the gods. After the state of integration, the out-of-body soul of the soul will not be withdrawn from all the souls at once.There is still a thread of seeds in Zhang Yan's physical body, which can be moved back when encountering any danger.This is why Zhang Yan now feels that Huang Quan is no longer a threat to him.

After a while, Zhang Yan's soul sank into the ground and moved to the nearest dead road in Lianya Mountain. Then he walked quickly into the dead road with a stern face and head covered like a spirit priest.

Zhang Yan's hurrying on the side of Dead Silence Road will not appear abrupt, because most of the ghosts here are like this.It's just that some are leading the soul boy, while some are alone like Zhang Yan with a sad face.

"Hey, you look at the face, who are you with?"

Although the Dead Silence Road is opened together, the ghosts will also be under pressure through the space distortion inside, and they will come in and out in groups to share this pressure.

While waiting to make up a sufficient number, a fat, smiling spirit who stood not far from Zhang Yan took the initiative to strike up a conversation with Zhang Yan.

Generally speaking, all the ghosts entering and exiting the Dead Silence Road in an area are ghosts under the command of the same ghost king. Although not all of them are familiar with each other, they have almost seen them.Zhang Yan's face made the other party curious.

It's just pure curiosity.There is no meaning of defense.After all, for ghosts, they don't have the habit of "preventing" the enemy from sneaking in, which seems impossible to them.

"Same as you, under Lin Shengwang's command. It's just a newcomer, and it's normal that I haven't seen the replacement position before."

Zhang Yan had known these news for a long time, and followed up with a worried face.He looked like he didn't want to talk too much.

Zhang Yan's appearance would not make the other party suspicious at all, and even the ghost generals around him didn't care.Because there are a lot of new spirits like Zhang Yan recently.It is easy to understand Zhang Yan's frowning face, empty-handed, and returning to the sanctuary without a soul boy, he must be wiped out by the human race.After going back, corresponding censures are inevitable.

"Don't worry, the superiors are pressing you hard now, but they also know our difficulties. Those dogs are not as easy to deal with after they have bells. If you don't pay attention, you will capsize in the gutter. So you are not the only one who lost the soul boy. Go back If you ask the Holy King for mercy, you shouldn't be punished too much."

"Ah."

Seeing that Zhang Yan didn't want to talk, the spirit teacher beside him didn't find anything to say.After waiting for about a cup of tea, the number of ghosts was enough, and they stepped into the path of death together.

The essence of dead silence is a passage between a gap in space and normal space.Before Zhang Yan stepped into the Body Fit Realm, this place could still be called dangerous.But now, it was no different to him than any trail in Bluff Mountain.The distortion of traveling through space no longer has any effect on him.

Passing through the dead road, Zhang Yan found himself outside a huge void opening, and when he turned around, he saw a dark opening.This reminded him of the cave where the sprites were thrown on Xiaojiao Mountain. Except that it was much smaller, it was exactly the same.

Moreover, there are many such holes behind Zhang Yan, but they are of different sizes, and some of them can open and close.The same thing is that ghosts come and go in and out of these hollows.Among them, there are also demon spirits and human spirits.

Looking forward, it is a downhill slope, and at the end where the gray and green sky intersects, a super giant city without city walls is connected.

Chapter 452 Monotony

Zhang Yan didn't stop. Although he was merged into the ghostly shadows descending the mountain, his attention was already attracted by everything around him and the huge city-state that he saw in the distance.

Of course, no one cared about Zhang Yan, and no one cared about him, even the ghost that had talked to him before had left in a hurry.

The first is Zhang Yan's feeling.He feels that the difference between this place and the normal space is that the yin energy here is extremely thick, which is closer to "pure yin" than the extremely yin place in the normal space.Even with Zhang Yan's ability at this time, he could only detect a very weak yang energy here.

This is undoubtedly a paradise-like place for ghosts.

And the ground beneath.Stepping on it is harder than the ground in the normal space, there are more stones than soil, and it appears a kind of gray-black.

If you look around, you can't see any green here.But it's not like there are no plants.On the contrary, Zhang Yan saw a cluster of bright red flowers on the side of the road within a few steps after coming out of the dead road.

There are many reds in the distance, and almost half of the mountains are covered by them.It's just that this flower has no fragrance, but it emits a kind of magical energy fluctuation that calms the nerves.A small amount is not easy to detect, but once there is too much, the effect of calming the nerves will be extremely obvious.

When passing by these flowers, Zhang Yan slowed down deliberately, and searched carefully from a large sea of ​​flowers.I found that there are actually other things besides these flowers.For example, some tiny bugs, or some inconspicuous small mushrooms that look like human faces growing in the sea of ​​flowers.

This is actually not a surprise. The tenacity and diversity of life are not only manifested under the sun and rain. They always have their own way of survival in any place.Even these flowers, mushrooms, and those little bugs, Zhang Yan had seen records in the alchemy book, and the names of these things came to his mind one by one, and these names were usually preceded by two words " legend".

After going down the mountain, Zhang Yan followed all the way into the giant city.Along the way, he corroborated many of the information from the soul-snatching process one by one, and saw many more details.

Rather than saying it is a "city", it is actually more appropriate to say that it is the stronghold of two giant forces.

There are two types of ghosts here: those with jobs and those without jobs.

Those who came down from the mountain along the road belonged to the "working" ghosts.The identities of these ghosts are clearly divided into levels, but their affiliation is not complicated. They are responsible to a ghost king at the same time, and there is no middle-level leadership for others.For example, although there is a difference in status between the spirit feeder and the spirit general, they have no affiliation with each other, and both directly obey the ghost king.

Including those living people who are psychic mediums, they also directly obey the ghost king, and they have a different status from the spirit feeder and the spirit general, but they do not belong to each other.

These spirit beasts and spirit generals are all "active" ghosts.Having work means that you can reap benefits, you can devour living souls, and you can increase your strength.

And what about ghosts that don't have a job?

Although these ghosts are also under the command of the ghost king, they are said to be in a state of "not getting ahead".You need to be familiar with all the local conditions and customs in the area that the ghost king you are in charge of, as well as the way of raising the soul boy, as well as the ability to discipline the soul boy and avoid danger or fight at critical moments.

To put it bluntly, these "early" ghosts are reserve soldiers.It has the ability to replace the external spiritual feed at any time.

Under what circumstances can it be replaced?Either there was a problem with the original spiritual food, or the original spiritual food's strength had risen to the level of a spiritual general.In these two situations, it is possible to change the spiritual feed.

It sounds like there are very few opportunities for this kind of replacement spirit feed, and the fact is that it is very rare, so for the ghosts in Huangquan, it takes patience to get ahead.What they still lack most is time.There will always be a chance if you wait for more than ten or 20 years and wait for 30 years at most.

However, in recent years, the replacement of spiritual feeding has been much faster than before.This is also directly related to the great changes in the outside environment.And Zhang Yan is one of the instigators.

The power structure of Huangquan was not the focus of Zhang Yan's attention this time.He had already understood these things long after he had captured so many ghost generals.This time, he came to look for those "unpromising" ghosts who were always described as "monotonous" and "boring" or even "suffering" in the information obtained from Soul Seizing.

Entering the city is considered to have entered the core area of ​​the ghost domain.It's so huge that there's no end in sight.It is said that there is a clear demarcation in the middle area, which is divided into the area of ​​the Human Spirit Race and the area of ​​the Demon Spirit Race.

But on the side of the human spirit race alone, the size of a country can be compared to it.Even comparable to the size of Shang Guo.

But even if the place is large, the city will not appear empty.Because compared with the birth, old age, sickness and death in Yangjian, the passage of time here hardly leaves traces, and the growth rate of the ghosts inside exceeds the speed of their disappearance most of the time.Therefore, although the ghost domain is not crowded, it is definitely not empty.

On the Eldar side, the densest settlement is near the tower.

The tower, whether in the human spirit race or the demon spirit race, is the most direct symbol of power and strength.Although the towers on both sides have different architectural styles.

The largest tower is called the "Great Sage King Tower", and there are only nine towers in the whole ghost domain.

The Great Sage King Pagoda is not the only one, there are ordinary Sage King Pagodas that are much smaller than it.And each tower represents a ghost king or a big ghost king.

There will be a large number of "active" ghosts gathered around the tower, and the ghost generals are the main ones. After all, they don't need to stay in the underworld all the time, and their task is to defend the ghost king and be ready for dispatch at any time. It is logical to gather around the ghost king .

The farther the place is from the tower, the quieter it is, and the more "unknown" ghosts will live there.

After Zhang Yan entered the city following the information in his memory, he moved towards the north side of the only pagoda nearby, because it was said that it was the place where the most unpromising group of "bastards" among the "young" ghosts nearby lived together.

And the bastards, that is to say, even though they have become fierce ghosts, after entering the ghost domain, the hostility in their bodies has subsided, and they have no motivation to become stronger, and they don't want to follow the crowd. They would rather stay in any corner, A ghost that can last more than ten or even hundreds of years in one go.

In fact, the strength division of ghosts in the Taoist scriptures of Longhu Mountain Gate is also necessarily related to the time of their existence.In many cases, "a thousand-year-old ghost" or "a hundred-year-old ghost" will be directly used to describe the strength of the ghost with time.

But in Huangtianyu, in this ghost domain, the only way for ghosts to grow is to "have work".I want to lie flat and hang around, I want to rely on the yin energy here to naturally evolve my strength.Sorry, there is no such condition for them to wait slowly.

Chapter 453

Because Huangtianyu is not a complete world, it has many differences compared with the legendary era on Earth, and it also makes many things here very different from the "historical reference" left by the legendary era on Earth.

In the legendary age of the earth, ghosts had a lot of freedom to choose.They can choose to harm people everywhere, or they can choose to stop their obsession with self-cultivation, and they can also join a ghost mansion to gain a chance to become a ghost fairy.They can even do nothing, allowing themselves to gradually become old over a long period of time, acting as a mirror to reflect the changes in the world.

As long as luck is not too bad, ghosts from the legendary era of the earth can roam the world for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.