Chapter 8: Alien Nakshatras

Then a group of five people bowed to the two seniors and left the stone hall where the teleportation array was located. After walking out of the stone hall, there is a square market more than ten zhang wide and more than ten miles long in front of you. The monks walked in twos and threes, and when they looked around, almost all of them were monks in the middle and late stages of foundation building, none of them in the Qi training period, and the monks in the Jindan period saw another one!

In a short period of time, Zhou Moyang saw several Jindan monks in a row, which shocked him! When did the Jindan monks become so numerous? Zhou Moyang couldn't help but think in his heart that one day he could also become a Jindan monk.

"On the ten islands connected by the alien constellation and the teleportation array, there are such markets." The Sympathetic Star Fairy explained to Zhou Moyang, "The Twenty-Eight Island Fang City of the Inner Star Constellation is controlled by the Scattered Cultivation Alliance, while the entire Fang City of the Outer Star Constellation is controlled by the Helian Business Alliance, and it does not belong to or be managed by the Scattered Cultivation Alliance. Including the security maintenance of the ten islands connected to the teleportation array, the inner and outer sea teleportation arrays and the shops on the island, they were all developed and monopolized by the Helian Business Alliance. ”

"Although this market is not big, it is also very convenient, mainly to buy and sell all kinds of monster materials and demon pills, as well as shops that sell topographic maps of the nearby sea area and jade slips of monster materials, as well as some spiritual weapons, formations, talismans and other items. Sparrows are small but have everything. For the sake of convenience, many monks directly sell the unused demon beast materials to the Helian Merchant Alliance store in Fang City, and the people of the Helian Merchant Alliance will sell these materials at a slightly higher price in the inner stars, so that they can earn a lot of price difference. ”

As the Pity Star Fairy was talking, Zhang Ning had already come to a shop and asked a fellow, "I want a map of the nearby sea area and detailed information about the demon beasts." This guy is actually also a monk in the foundation building period, and he replied quickly: "The brief sea area map costs fifty spirit stones, the detailed one requires two hundred spirit stones, and the demon beast information needs one hundred spirit stones." ”

It's not cheap! Zhou Moyang thought secretly in his heart when he heard this. Zhang Ning didn't care at all, and happily took out three hundred spirit stones, and bought two jade slips that recorded a fine sea area map and a demon beast information. After walking to a place where there were few people, he took out a few blank jade slips, copied the information on them into several copies, and handed one to each person.

Then all five of them immersed their divine consciousness in the jade slip and read the graphic information in it. Half an hour later, several people had heavy looks on their faces. Zhang Ning opened his mouth and said, "I didn't expect that the rumored demon beast tide is becoming more and more real. The information above shows that in the past two or three years, the number of demon beasts in the vicinity has increased a lot. ”

"Beast tide? What's going on? Zhou Moyang asked puzzled. The reproductive ability of demon beasts far exceeds that of humans, although many demon beasts are hunted and killed by monks every year, but more demon beasts are born and grown, and they can't be killed at all! Especially the middle and low-level demon beasts. Every tens or hundreds of years, in order to survive in space, middle and low-level demon beasts will migrate on a large scale. Every thousand years, the monsters can't move, and after there is no living space, the so-called monster tide will break out. At that time, there will be an astonishing number of demon beasts, appearing in groups in various seas of the outer stars. According to the records of the previous beast tides, hordes of demon beasts would take the initiative to attack the islands occupied by the human monks, and the human monks could only be forced to retreat to the inner star sea. In the past, there were monks who were unwilling to retreat, gathered on the island of the alien star to defend, and were slaughtered by demon beasts in the beast tide, and the largest number of monks who fell at one time was thousands. Recently, it has been rumored that the beast tide once in a thousand years is as short as a few decades or as long as a hundred years before it will explode! At that time, the monks of the outer constellation only wanted to protect themselves, retreated to the inner constellation, and resolutely did not dare to go out to hunt demon beasts! Because even the predecessors of the Jindan Period, if they were besieged by hundreds of sixth-level demon beasts, they would only have to fall! Only by patiently waiting for three or five years will the beast tide gradually calm down. The Pity Star Fairy said with a solemn face.

"I don't know if the prediction of this monster tide is accurate, but in recent years, the number and density of monsters have increased significantly, which is an indisputable fact. In this way, it will be easier for us to find demon beasts, and as for the possibility of encountering high-level demon beasts, just be careful and stay away. Zhang Ning said.

"Not bad! The eldest brother has a point. It's all here, can't you go back empty-handed! Qi Hongming agreed. Kill! Wei Xiuhui only said one word, which clearly showed his attitude.

There was a hint of hesitation on her face, and for a moment she agreed with several people. Zhou Moyang naturally did not object, but he was secretly vigilant in his heart. Seeing this, Zhang Ning said: "Let's go, let's go to the periphery of the island first, there are very few fifth-level demon beasts there, and when a few of us are proficient in cooperation, we will go all the way to the deep sea to find fifth-level demon beasts." ”

Then Zhang Ning took out an arc-shaped quadrangular shield and sacrificed it horizontally in the air, turning into three or four zhang in size. Judging from the spiritual power emitted by this spiritual weapon, Zhou Moyang should be a superb defensive spiritual weapon. Zhang Ning took the lead in jumping on the shield and beckoned: "Come on, although the flight speed of this defensive spirit weapon is not as fast as the imperial sword, it can protect me from being attacked by the demon beasts in the sea." ”

Zhou Moyang and several others also flew to the shield. The curved shield inspires a pale golden shield of light, encircling several of them. The flight speed of this defensive spirit weapon was really not fast, and the group slowly flew towards the northwest like this. The five of them took turns injecting spiritual power into the shield, maintaining a pale golden defensive light shield. If you see a deserted island with no people, you will stop and meditate for a while to replenish the lost spiritual power.

Half a month later, on a reef island with a radius of hundreds of zhang, the five of them found a swirling turtle a large size, which was gnawing on a stone covered with red moss. Judging from the spiritual power emanating from its body, it should be a fourth-level spiral turtle.

"This is a fourth-level demon beast, the Spiral Turtle Beast, except for being able to use the Water Gang Technique to spit out water arrows, its attack power and flexibility are very average. However, the turtle shell is very strong, and it is an excellent material for armor, and it is difficult to destroy the best spiritual weapons. Second brother, fourth sister, you quietly detour behind the tortoise, beware of it being defeated and fleeing. Third brother, when you find an opportunity, you will insert Fang Tianhalberd into the skull of the spiral turtle, so that its exposed head will be difficult to retract. With the material of Fang Tianhalberd, it will not be damaged by this whirling turtle. Fifth brother, once the head of the whirling turtle was stuck and difficult to retract, he immediately stabbed the head of the whirling turtle with a flying sword. I'm in charge of striking the tortoise head-on and attracting its attention. Zhang Ning was very familiar with this demon, and assigned everyone's responsibilities very smoothly.

Several people nodded when they heard this. Wei Xiuhui and Lianxing flew away from the left and right sides respectively, quietly cutting off the retreat of the whirling turtle. The spiritual intelligence of the fourth-level demon beast is not much higher than that of ordinary birds, beasts, insects and fish, and the two fist-sized eyeballs of this whirling turtle, although they have seen several human monks a hundred zhang away, do not know the danger, but continue to enjoy the food.

It wasn't until the five of them slowly approached, forming an encirclement of more than 20 zhang and surrounding it, that it stopped eating, and its two big eyes looked around vigilantly. "Do it!" Zhang Ning snorted lightly, waved his hands suddenly, and a meteor hammer with golden light, about a zhang long, and a hammer head covered with long spikes, struck towards the whirling turtle with the fierce wind.

Qi Hongming's blue halberd was not far behind, turning into a blue light and slashing down fiercely. Wei Xiuhui had an extra crimson long stick in his hand, and Lian Xing also sacrificed a pale cyan jade bracelet, cutting off the retreat of the tortoise. Zhou Moyang's sleeves flicked, and the dragon head sword flew towards the whirling turtle quickly.

The tortoise was startled, making a "moo" like a cow's cry, and a stream of water arrows sprayed out at Zhang Ning, and at the same time, the head and limbs shrank, and the turtle shell protected the whole body in it, not revealing a flaw. With a crisp sound of "ding", the jade bracelet of Pixing hit the turtle shell, only to hit a white mark on the turtle shell, and it was in vain.

Immediately afterwards, the meteor hammer, the blue halberd, the long stick and the flying sword all hit the turtle shell, but they failed to destroy the turtle shell's defense, but the power of the meteor hammer was too great, making the tortoise scream "moo" again. Although everyone sacrificed their defensive spirit weapons to protect themselves, they were not afraid of the water arrows spewed out by the whirling turtle at all, but the figure of the whirling turtle was covered by the mist in the sky, and it was not clear to see.

Zhang Ning manipulated the meteor hammer and struck another hard blow, and actually smashed the turtle shell into a shallow pit that was an inch in size. The spinning turtle was in pain, and slightly poked his head out of the turtle shell, Qi Hongming, who had been prepared, immediately seized this opportunity and stuck Fang Tianhalberd in the head and shell of the spinning turtle, so that it could not be retracted.

Zhou Moyang naturally wouldn't waste such a good opportunity, and a golden light swept through the head of the spinning turtle. The tortoise let out a scream like a cow moo, and was instantly killed. "Very good, the timing of the fifth brother's shot is just right!" Zhang Ning said approvingly, and slowly landed beside the corpse of the whirling turtle. Skillfully took out a silver-white demon pill of an inch size from the body of the whirling turtle, put it into a jade box, and then unloaded the tortoise shell of the whirling turtle. Then he used the trick to shrink the turtle shell, put it into a jade box, and put it in a storage bag.

"The carapace of this turtle demon beast is hard, and the defense of other fourth-level demon beasts is not so strong." Qi Hongming on the side muttered self-deprecation.

Zhang Ning took out a three-inch-long jet-black vial, pointed the mouth of the bottle to the head of the tortoise's corpse, pinched a strange magic trick in his hand, and began to chant a spell in a low voice with words in his mouth.

This spell is not only very long, but to Zhou Moyang's ears, this spell is quite weird and gloomy, and even gives him a chilling feeling. After Zhang Ning recited the mantra of half a pillar of incense time, a few beads of sweat the size of beans had already appeared on his face, and on the fingertips of the strange spell, an inch-sized and extremely bewitching white light cluster condensed.

He punched the white light into the body of the whirling turtle, and then continued to output spiritual power and change gestures, as if he wanted to pull something out of the corpse of the demon beast. A moment later, a white ball of light wrapped around a smaller yellow dot of light flew out of the tortoise's body. The yellow dot struggled desperately to avoid the white light's control, but was unable to escape. Eventually, under the pull of the white light cluster, the yellow light spot was pulled into the jet-black vial.

"It's spiritualism! That yellow point of light is the soul of this whirling turtle! Seeing Zhou Moyang's puzzled expression, Lian Xing explained. This spell is extremely difficult to master, and the requirements for divine consciousness are particularly high, although it can be learned and used by monks in the foundation building period, but generally only the divine soul power of monks in the later stage of foundation building can meet the basic requirements for using this technique. The big man Qi Hongming also added.

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