Natural Fairy Species

Chapter 386 The monster tests the sword

Judging from the scale of this Geng gold vein on Jinguang Mountain, it is estimated to be worth at least one million spiritual stones.

The rules of the Qingfeng Sect are that the veins discovered by the sect’s disciples are turned over to the sect for digging.

 Based on the mining cost, the discoverer will be given varying share ratios, up to half and half, but basically hovering around 30%.

The Geng Gold Mine discovered by Patriarch Bai, the General Affairs Hall and the Lingkuang Mine Hall were so courageous that they did not dare to withhold the share on the grounds of operating costs.

 Judging from the small spirit stone vein discovered by Zhou Suqing a few years ago, the ancestor of Jiedan always agreed to receive the maximum 50% dividend.

Hundreds of thousands of spiritual stones are nothing to Bai Zichen, mainly because he doesn’t have many places to use the spiritual stones at the moment.

 The Gengjin essence deep in the core of the mine is what he values ​​the most.

As long as he has five or six kilograms of Geng Gold Essence, it will be enough to sacrifice all the third-level flying swords on his body.

It may have little effect on flying swords such as the Great Sun Heavenly Furnace Sword, which are already at the top of the third level. The Leiyin Sword and Qingfeng Sword can increase the lethality by at least 20%.

He has no use for these third-level flying swords at the moment, but when he deploys the Galaxy Sword Formation in the future, the quality of the flying swords will directly affect the power of the sword formation.

 As the number of flying swords increases, the consumption of real energy increases exponentially.

 Similarly, the lethality of each flying sword in the sword array will eventually be accumulated and multiplied.

 Every single cent will cause a huge deviation in the formed sword formation.

After Bai Zichen returned, he handed over the matter of Jinguang Mountain to Ma Ruoxi and asked her to inform Tong Huan to arrange for the sect monks to take over the spiritual veins.

The main thing is to keep an eye on the Geng Gold veins. Every grain of Geng Gold essence must not be left behind. All must be collected and kept for Ancestor Bai.

Three months later, Bai Zichen used the Sound Bamboo Sword to kill the third-level low-grade monster, the Demonic Shark.

Even though it dived to the bottom of the lake and tried to escape using the water's advantage, it was still caught up by Bai Zichen.

The Ghost Faced Shark was nailed to the bluestone at the bottom of the lake, leaving behind a clear spiritual bead. Pure water vapor gathered towards the spiritual bead, producing gurgling spiritual water.

"There is no demon pill in the body, but a spiritual bead instead... It's really eye-opening. There are all kinds of strange things in the world of immortality. It's normal to encounter any kind of demon beast."

Bai Zichen shook the water-based spirit bead the size of a castanopsis in his hand. There was a miniature ghost-faced shark at its core.

“No wonder he didn’t even capture the essence of the monster beast, but it actually merged with the spirit bead, becoming like a monk’s spirit…”

Originally, the plan was to absorb the essence of all the third-order monsters that were killed with blank flags and transfer them to Zhou Suqing.

 She is studying a new battle formation and has a certain idea.

  But it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. If there are not enough spiritual materials on hand to refine the formation flags, formation disks, and formation diagrams, no matter how good the design is, it will be useless.

I heard that for this purpose, Zhou Suqing picked up the art of weapon refining.

 The battle formation is a complex and dark special formation involving multiple people working together, and the equipment involved is extremely sophisticated.

 A slight deviation will completely deviate from the original intention of the original designer.

  It was very difficult to communicate with both formation masters before. How can a weapon refiner fully and truthfully understand the design intention of the formation master?

In order to achieve more perfect results, Zhou Suqing decided to work part-time as a weapon refiner.

  Anyway, refining these formation flags, formation disks, and formation diagrams can be done with the skills of a second-level high-grade weapon refiner.

 For her, it is not a difficult peak to reach. She can achieve it in a few years.

However, the formation flag is designed to provide a clear carrier for the mana gathered by the monks in the battle formation, making it more flexible and operable.

The method chosen by Zhou Suqing is to use the spirit of monsters as the core, which can make the newly created battle formation reach the level of the late foundation building stage and no longer be so dull and slow.

 This point was inspired by the third-order ghost king restrained in the ghost formation of the ghost spirit gate.

 The formation flag is easy to refine, but the core monster spirit is hard to find.

 The second-level monster spirit cannot have the expected effect at all, and will greatly reduce the power of the battle formation.

 And within a few years, the souls of the second-order monster beasts will be scattered, and the formation flag will return to blank.

Only third-level monster spirits can maintain their spirits for hundreds or thousands of years through the spirit restraints copied from the Ten Thousand Ghosts and Spirit Formation.

 It's just that neither Zhou Suqing nor Wei Dao has the strength to deal with the third-order monsters steadily.

The number of essences required to refine the formation flag is not one or two. The number of Qi refining disciples currently in Qingfeng Sect is enough to support dozens of hundred-man battle formations.

Since Ge Cang was in seclusion, the important task of collecting monster essences naturally fell on Bai Zichen.

This spirit bead is a fusion of demon elixir and essence. It seems that it is a special ethnic group and is different from ordinary demon beasts.

 Bai Zichen carefully put it away. It may come in handy on some occasions in the future.

Lengcuo Lake where the Ghost Faced Shark lives appears to be only a few hundred acres on the surface, but there are underground rapids at the bottom of the lake. He only discovered it after pursuing it all the way.

The underground undercurrent is winding and winding, at least for dozens of miles, and has also formed several natural caves, with the tops covered with stalactites.

There are no special products near Lengcuo Lake. There are several kinds of second-level spiritual grass growing around the lake, which can be opened up as a spiritual planting yard.

 In addition, the land irrigated by the lake water can develop at least thousands of acres of second-level spiritual fields.

But in the cave at the bottom of the lake, Bai Zichen had other gains.

One of them is cool and comfortable, without the oppressive heat of the undercurrent at the bottom of the lake. There is even a cool breeze blowing on your face when you walk in. “Xiaoliangzhu!”

Bai Zichen looked at the stalactites above his head. There were at least a hundred pearls embedded in them.

 In the second cave, it was dry and refreshing, without a trace of moisture.

Hundreds of water-proof beads are embedded among the stalactites.

Further behind, there are a hundred night-light pearls, a hundred dust-proof pearls, a hundred nine-curved pearls...

The value of each pearl is not very high, but the quantity changes qualitatively, and when added together, it is not a small number.

And in the hands of monks who want to collect orbs and refine unique magic weapons, the value of these orbs can go up to a higher level.

Bai Zichen left Lengcuo Lake and headed home, leaving behind dozens of water beasts floating on the lake.

All the demonic bodies are intact, no scars can be seen, and they are lying quietly on the lake, very strange and quiet.

In March, the beauty snake in Jackdaw Gorge let out a shrill scream, broke off a piece of its tail, and fled in panic.

The upper body of this snake beast already has a hint of human shape, with arms on its ribs and a full chest, but its body is still covered with blue scales.

When a monster transforms into a monster, it usually has to enter the fourth level. Only when it reaches the same realm as the human Nascent Soul Lord can it begin to slowly transform.

There will also be two special situations.

 First, like the fourth-level Qingluan on the Flame Mountain, it has the bloodline of a divine beast and its powerful bloodline actually delays its transformation time.

  The bloodline of the divine beast in the body is deeply rooted, and its effect is too obvious. It cannot truly transform into another form before it is completely refined and absorbed.

  Secondly, there is another form of special bloodline. Basically, they have swallowed strange flowers and herbs during the growth process, and can partially manifest the human form before the fourth level.

Of course, compared with the real fourth-level transformed monster, this kind of transformation is quite rough, and it still retains a lot of monster characteristics.

But as long as this kind of monster can step onto the fourth level, the transformation process will be smoother than that of other fourth-level monsters. It will not take long to complete this transformation path that is regarded as a nightmare journey by all fourth-level monsters who have just broken through. .

“The first-level flying sword is still too brittle, and it broke five times in one battle... Fortunately, the Black Bamboo Sword can be easily refined into a dozen, so it doesn’t matter.”

Bai Zichen dropped the broken sword on the ground, watching the beauty snake fleeing away but did not start to pursue it.

 Instead, he closed his eyes and concentrated, feeling the sword-handling experience from the previous battle.

He is not short of a third-level low-grade monster as a trophy. In comparison, as long as there is a slight improvement in swordsmanship, it is a good deal.

This kind of insight before battle, sometimes if you miss it, you will never be able to capture it again.

During the battle, he tried his best to protect the Black Bamboo Sword, but the first-level flying sword was too far behind against the third-level monster.

Even though the swordsmanship is exquisite and perfect, the beauty snake is not a monster known for its physical strength.

However, the gap between a third-order monster beast and a first-order flying sword is such that even if it is rubbed by the demonic force, the sword will sway and the sword body will be damaged.

There is still real energy that protects the sword body, otherwise the small body of the Black Bamboo Sword would have been broken into two pieces.

Only by waving the sword light like crazy, avoiding all the attacks of the beauty snake, and using false sword light to guide the opponent's offensive, can the enemy be sustained for a moment.

The lethality of the first-level flying sword is also a big problem. Even if it turns into a sword wire and stabs the beauty snake, it will only cause superficial wounds, far from being fatal in one blow.

 “Hoo!”

Bai Zichen exhaled like a sword. Under this extreme situation created by himself, his control over the subtleties of the flying sword rose to another level.

If you want to break through before the battle, but you don't have a suitable opponent, you can only sharpen your sword skills in this way.

After figuring out a few tips for the changes in sword light, I was suddenly enlightened about the Nine Illusions Sword Techniques in my mind, and truly entered the realm.

Looking at the direction in which the beauty snake escaped, the blood trail disappeared a hundred feet away.

 In the scope of spiritual consciousness, the beauty snake has long been gone.

Bai Zichen was not anxious and walked around the Jackdaw Gorge first.

 This place originally had a nest of third-order jackdaws, hence its name.

The jackdaws moved somewhere behind, and another beautiful snake swam to occupy the third-level spiritual veins. Thousands of snake beasts gathered in the canyon.

They are all normal snake monsters, and none of them have a certain human shape like the beauty snake.

A bold and fearless second-level anaconda rushed towards him, but no one raised his hand. With a roll of green sword wire, the anaconda broke into two pieces and fell to the ground with a clatter.

 Except for picking up a few pieces of thousand-year-old cold iron, which can be used as spiritual materials for sword refining, there is nothing else that can be seen.

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, Bai Zichen turned around and cut a big hole in the land in front of him with his sword.

The ten-foot-deep pit appeared instantly, revealing the remains of three skeletal birds and beasts inside.

　　His spiritual consciousness discovered that the softness of the soil underground was inconsistent with that of the surrounding areas, so he started digging. Unexpectedly, he found no treasures, but instead dug out the skeletons of three birds and beasts.

"They are the corpses of the third-level jackdaws, all of which were killed by a sword that penetrated the skull..."

Bai Zichen inspected the bones of birds and animals, and the look on his face became more solemn.

 (End of this chapter)