Chapter Seventy-Three: Izumo Valley

Shi Xuan's senior brothers stood at the shooting range and watched the scene of razing to the ground, and were very satisfied with the enhanced version of the arcane ** refined by Shi Xuan, such a terrifying power was enough to seriously injure many powerhouses of the Ning Yuan Realm and even the Heavenly Vein Realm, if it could be produced in large quantities, even if it was to eliminate a super force, it would not be a problem.

"Senior brother, the power of secondary objects is huge, but the spirit core is extremely precious and rare, only hunting spirit beasts can obtain it, a spirit core on the market is already a very high price, it seems that only a few can be refined for self-defense", Du Qifeng commented.

"Those arcane ** are enough to deal with ordinary soldiers, these special ones are used to deal with spirit masters, how many spirit masters are there in the Danyang Empire and the Moon Worship Sect? We only need to make a small batch", Shi Xuan said.

"It's too extravagant, not to mention other people, we powerful spirit masters don't have a few spirit cores, this is still ready to be exchanged for other things, but it's a little reluctant to make it **", Zhao Zhuo sighed.

"Now the spirit cores that are useful to us must be at least the third-order peak or above the fourth-order spirit cores, and the other low-level spirit cores are almost useless and can be used to make spirit cores**, in order to deal with the Danyang Empire, we are ready to go out", Shi Xuan had a new idea.

"In that case, I also informed General Zhao to ask him to collect a batch of spirit cores for us to refine spirit cores**, how many counts," Du Qifeng said.

"I've heard that there are quite a few powerful spirit beasts in the Izumo Mountain Range three hundred miles away from Yecheng, why don't we go on a hunt, I think the harvest may satisfy us," Shi Xuan said.

"You want to hunt spirit beasts?" Zhao Zhuo asked.

"Not bad".

"Then I'll go with you, my fire dragon is about to rust after so long," Zhao Zhuo said.

"Okay, let's go together", Shi Xuan was happy.

"I won't go, now someone has to be in charge here, I'll stay and take care of it, you go to the Izumo Mountain Range to be careful yourself, you must be careful of the hunting team sent by Night City", Senior Brother Du instructed.

"We'll be careful", Shi Xuan and Zhao Zhuo prepared to ride a dragon horse towards the Izumo Mountain Range in the distance, and the two of them quickly left a series of footprints on the deep snow, and the snow splashed.

Along the way, the two passed through many villages, but found that almost all the civilians in these places had become refugees and displaced, and only some lonely people were left in the vast land, struggling to survive in the village relying on wild vegetables and tree roots.

"Sooner or later, the Danyang Empire will have to pay a heavy price for their crimes", Zhao Zhuo could not imagine that the once rich land had become the current desolate.

"This world has always been dominated by the strong, and Jiang Bingkun's Danyang Empire is just the reincarnation of history, his fate has long been doomed, but it has only suffered these people," Shi Xuan said.

The two walked all the way to each other without saying a word, these places are too desolate, the so-called prosperous times are just jokes written by literati, and history is always written by the victors.

The Izumo Mountains are also considered to be huge mountains in the Yecheng generation, the mountains and rivers stretch for hundreds of miles, and many peaks are towering into the clouds, and at this moment the whole mountain is covered with a thick snow coat, and thousands of trees and pear blossoms are a true portrayal.

It is easier to hunt for spirit animals during this season, and their footprints are very visible in the snow.

The two walked into the mountains, found a safe place to place the horses, and then entered the mountain, the strength of the two is not bad, even if they encounter a spirit beast that is difficult to deal with, they have a few means to escape, the art masters are bold, they go directly into the country without hesitation.

"Pay attention to the footprints, we can judge their strength by their footprints", Shi Xuan carefully examined some of the spirit beast footprints on the hillside.

"Shi Xuan, you really look like a hunter, looking at your hunting skills quite skillfully," Zhao Zhuo said.

"I'm the son of Orion, and I've been exposed to it since I was a child," Shi Xuan said.

"This footprint in front of us is so huge, could it be the footprint of the Purple Winged Madly Lion?" Zhao Zhuo asked.

"Yes, at least you have to be above the third order, if you hunt it, it will not be in vain", Shi Xuan observed the whereabouts, and the two of them followed the footprints along the snow-covered deep mountains.

The footprints disappeared in front of a cave, "Be careful, this should be its lair", Shi Xuan observed the entrance of the cave.

"Kill it," Zhao Zhuo said, and he took out his weapon.

The two of them entered the crooked cavern, and suddenly, a deafening beast roar was heard.

"It senses our footsteps and prepares to fight," Shi Xuan and the two began to run the exercises.

An open cavern appeared in front of him, and a huge purple-winged lion appeared in front of him, where the two cubs next to him were rolling happily, and the cubs were already able to walk.

"This beast has reached the fourth order, be careful, the male lion must have gone out to forage for food, and the battle will be solved quickly," Shi Xuan said.

At this moment, the purple-winged lion was fiercely vigilant against the two, and the two cubs were also fierce and fierce, roaring at the two of them with their teeth and claws.

The mad lion took the initiative to attack, and when he opened his mouth, a purple tongue of fire erupted, and the two quickly avoided it, and the tongue of fire burned to the wall, and a large stone was corroded by its poisonous fire and turned into powder.

"It's a poisonous flame, it's a little interesting, Shi Xuan handed it over to me, you sweep the formation on the side, I will just know it", Zhao Zhuo summoned the fire shield, holding the fire dragon and killing the past, Shi Xuan paid attention to the situation at the entrance of the cave at any time, so as not to come back and raid.

At this moment, the temperature in the cave skyrocketed, Zhao Zhuo shot with all his strength, and set up pieces of fire tornadoes to wrap the Purple Winged Wild Lion, and the Purple Winged Wild Lion flew over many times, and the huge claws hit the wind, and smashed the huge stubborn stone as soon as he grabbed it.

Zhao Zhuo used his killer weapon to fight it in close combat, Shi Xuan also felt that Zhao Zhuo's progress was huge, his melee skills were much more proficient, even in the face of terrifying opponents, he was at ease.

The Purple Winged Wild Lion was fast, powerful, and extremely lethal with flames, and Zhao Zhuo shuttled through the battlefield as nimble as a cunning rabbit, his unpredictable body avoided a large sea of purple fire, and his heavy blow was extremely powerful.

Just then there was a huge throat outside, and the lion came back to find that someone had broken in.

"You fight quickly, I'll block the lion outside", Shi Xuan quickly killed with his sword.

A huge purple-winged male lion was staring at Shi Xuan angrily at the moment, eager to break him into pieces.

"The big guy has such a short temper, seeing that I accepted you, it's not bad for me to be a mount with your figure", Shi Xuan commented.

Seeing that Shi Xuan was not afraid of it at all, as if he was still despising it, it made it even more angry, and quickly pounced over, and smashed the giant tree behind Shi Xuan with one grab, and a large cloud of snowflakes was scattered, which was spectacular.

Shi Xuan was as nimble as a rabbit, its strength was helpless, and Shi Xuan played with it like a dog again and again.

Whew, the terrifying roar of terror, the mad lion was furious, he had not been bullied for so many years, the terrifying mad lion roared towards Shi Xuan like a hurricane, the terrifying flame mixed with the sound wave spread forward at once, Shi Xuan's three-sided fire shield instantly collapsed, and he fell into the snow all of a sudden, and more than a dozen big trees behind him were instantly shattered, snowflakes splashed, and the mad lion roared, with terrifying power.

At this moment, Shi Xuan's ears were buzzing, his chest was full of pain, he was ready to get up and fight seriously, but how could the wild lion give him a chance, he jumped down with a terrifying leap and stomped on Shi Xuan's body fiercely, if it weren't for Shi Xuan's amazing spirit armor defense, he estimated that he would have been collected.

At this time, Zhao Zhuo happened to come out of the cave and saw the embarrassed Shi Xuan being trampled under the feet of the male lion.

"Shi Xuan, shouldn't you, who are you?" Zhao Zhuo was speechless.

"Mistake, mistake, I just teased it, I didn't expect it to have such a big temper", Shi Xuan instantly erupted with a terrifying shockwave that overturned it and climbed up, he shook his body and removed the snowflakes.

"You solved the lioness?"

"It's almost, I'm waiting for you, do you want me to help?"

"Go on the side", Shi Xuan was no longer careless this time, and almost capsized in the gutter.

Once he became serious, the Wild Lion quickly fell into disadvantage, and in front of his terrifying melee strength, his chest was shattered by Shi Xuan's heavy sword, and blood flowed all over the ground, and its purple flames melted a large area of snow without hurting Shi Xuan at all.

Looking at the wild lion who was a little flinching, Shi Xuan pressed forward step by step, "Big guy make me a mount and I will spare your life, otherwise you will die."

Whoa, another roar.

"Okay, so you refused, look at the move" Shi Xuan beat him again.

The mad lion's body trembled a little, but he was still wary of Shi Xuan, "It seems that I have to use some means", Shi Xuan remembered the beast tamer that Beicang had met, and he also wanted to subdue this big guy.

"Shi Xuan, do you also want to be a beast tamer?" Zhao Zhuo asked.

"Try it", Shi Xuan once again urged the soul to suppress the mad lion, although the power of the mad lion was strong, but the soul of the spirit beast was much weaker than that of the human race, and he trembled in front of Shi Xuan's terrifying soul coercion.

"Surrender to me, or die", Shi Xuan used his soul to communicate with it, and finally this behemoth lowered its head and accepted Shi Xuan's soul contract, and it followed Shi Xuan's side.

"This, the big guy is too spineless, I knew that I would have subdued the one inside", Zhao Zhuo looked at the pug-like wild lion beside Shi Xuan in disbelief.

"You still have a chance, the two cubs in it have been cultivated since childhood, and within two years, a powerful purple-winged mad lion will be able to be used as a mount," Shi Xuan said.

"We still have to hunt and wear it with us," Zhao Zhuo said.

"I have a Naling, I can put two little ones in it, don't worry," Shi Xuan said.

"Na Ling is a fourth-order spirit forging artifact, how can you have it?"

"Secret, when I reach the fourth order, I will also forge one for you," Shi Xuan said.

The female lioness had been killed by Zhao Zhuo, he took out the spirit core and collected the two cubs and handed them to Shi Xuan, and the male lion looked at the two cubs with heartache.

"Don't worry, I won't kill them, I'll raise them for us as mounts", Shi Xuan patted the lion.

"It's injured now, so obedient, will it hurt you if it heals in the future?"

"No, don't underestimate the power of the soul contract, unless I take the initiative to cancel the soul contract, it will restrict its life", Shi Xuan also had the knowledge of soul beasts.

"Then let's move on, hoping to harvest more spirit cores," Zhao Zhuo said.

The two of them walked all the way along the snow, but they also sold a lot of spirit cores, most of them were second-order and third-order spirit cores, and they didn't encounter them again once in the fourth order.

"It seems that this purple-winged mad lion can be regarded as the king here," Zhao Zhuo said.

"After the Purple Winged Madness Lion breaks through to the fifth order, it can grow purple wings, and it can initially fly, and it will be a good mount at that time", Shi Xuan has read the records of ancient books.

"Then when will the cubs I harvested grow to the fifth order," Zhao Zhuo asked.

"Three or five years, depending on the qualifications and bloodline, the strength of the Purple Winged Madness Lion is also bound by the bloodline," Shi Xuan said.

"When the time comes, I can fly myself, so what's the use of them?" Zhao Zhuo said.

"It's good to have one more powerful spirit beast to fight with and one more partner around you, do you still want to directly enslave a sixth-order spirit beast?" Shi Xuan asked.

"That's right, isn't the array spirit that we have subdued in the Great Secret Realm a powerful sixth-order spirit beast?" Zhao Zhuo remembered the Sect Protector Holy Beast.

"You must know that after the spirit beast exceeds the fifth order, its strength will skyrocket, far surpassing the human race of the same level, and when the time comes, there will be a powerful helper by your side, how good it is." Shi Xuan said.

"That makes sense," Zhao said.

"Let's move on, hunt more, and when the time comes, all of them will be made into spirit cores**, so that the spirit masters of the Moon Worship Sect and the Danyang Empire can taste our native products," Shi Xuan said.

"Shi Xuan, look at the deep valley on that side", Zhao Zhuo pointed to the deep canyon in the distance, which was shrouded in clouds and mist at the moment, like a fairyland.

"This kind of valley is estimated to be quite dangerous, so we should be careful," Shi Xuan said.

"Maybe there will be a lot of gains", Zhao Zhuo wanted to investigate.

"Okay, since you're not afraid, I'll go with you," Shi Xuan said.

The two of them explored the mountain path towards the distant canyon, which was very hidden between the mountains of Izumo Mountain, and if it was not for the stray, it was extremely difficult to find, and the towering mountain wall was likely to be shattered if it fell.

It took a long time for the two of them to discover an entrance into the valley, and when they looked inside from the entrance, it was surrounded by a quiet mist, which was not very clear.

"Shi Xuan's aura here is very full, and there is a quiet atmosphere in the air, this place must be extraordinary", Zhao Zhuo felt the unique environment here at the entrance.

"Such a cold environment has suppressed the strength of the two of us, so it's better to be careful", Shi Xuan was a little worried.

The two of them walked through the misty valley and explored inside, "The environment here is so primitive, no one should have come in for a long time", Zhao Zhuo looked around carefully.

"The cold and biting breath, it's really strange, the two of us are both fire spirit masters, and we actually feel the biting cold here", Shi Xuan subconsciously made a mistake, breathing cold air in his mouth.

In the depths of the canyon, a small stream flows through the valley, and the water is quiet and spiritual.

"Shi Xuan, how about taking a look at this water?" Zhao Zhuo walked to the bank of the stream that was somewhat frozen, picked up some water and tasted it.

"It's so sweet water, it's just too cold", Zhao Zhuo exhaled a cool breath.

"Could it be that there is any treasure in the place where the water source is not successful?" Shi Xuan also took a sip of the stream water, which was indeed sweet and delicious, and the cold was overwhelming.

"Let's go inside and take a look," the two of them walked towards the depths.

The trees in the canyon are covered with thick ice crystals, which is very beautiful, and both of them are deeply attracted by the beautiful scenery here.

"The more I walk, the colder my heart becomes, and the temperature inside is too low", Zhao Zhuo's eyebrows were covered with ice crystals, and he exhaled into ice.

"I guess there is something extremely cold in front of me, and the environment here has been changed by it", Shi Xuan guessed, he looked around, and suddenly found a few elixirs with a strong aura under a few big trees.

"Look," Shi Xuan pointed to a few spirit grasses.

"Spirit grass", Zhao Zhuo also found out, and the two walked over.

"To be able to grow in such a cold environment, there must be a good effect, so let's pick them," Zhao said.

"Do you know what kind of spirit grass these are?" Shi Xuan was a little puzzled.

"I've never seen it either, but it's so aura, it's not ordinary," Zhao Zhuo quickly dug up the spirit grass.

"Let's go, let's move on", Shi Xuan and Zhao Zhuo dug up the spirit grass.

A few hiss, hissing sounds suddenly came, what spirit beast was approaching, "Be careful, there is danger ahead", Shi Xuan took out his sword and prepared to defend the embankment, and the purple-winged mad lion following behind him was subconsciously frightened and retreated.

"It's a Nine Nether Python, it's coming", Zhao Zhuo pointed to the huge python that was crawling quickly.

"Prepare for battle, this beast doesn't even dare to approach the Purple Winged Wild Lion, let's be careful", the two faced the Nine Nether Python.

The huge python suddenly raised its huge head, looked down at the two people in front of him, the huge snake letter came out, the giant python's whole body was crystal clear, the cold was pressing, it spit out towards the two, a terrifying cold air floated over, the two quickly dodged, the wild lion behind him slowed down, and was instantly frozen into an ice sculpture by the cold.

The giant python missed with one blow, rolled up its huge tail and swept through the thousands of troops, and Zhao Zhuo summoned shields to block, and was immediately knocked away by the huge force and smashed into the snow.

Wherever the tail passed, all the trees were cut off at the waist, and snowflakes splashed.

"What a ruthless guy, be careful that it's going to go berserk", Shi Xuan quickly moved around the field to dodge its attack.

Huge ice rings shot from the front of the python, constantly expanding, and instantly formed ice spikes more than a zhang high on the wide field, Shi Xuan and Zhao Zhuo quickly cut off a large number of ice spikes with their weapons, and were almost stabbed by the ice ring.

The giant python's tail swept up a large number of ice spikes, and threw them at the two of them with a forceful flick, countless ice spikes formed a flying sword in the sky, and the two of them pushed the shield to the extreme, while constantly blocking the flying ice spikes.

Several ice spikes managed to hit them, and the terrifying force caused them a sharp pain in their chests, and even the flame shield almost dissipated.

With the breath of ice, a huge cold breath blew over, Shi Xuan and Zhao Zhuo's whole bodies froze rapidly, and their bodies slowly stiffened, almost freezing into ice sculptures.

The two frantically mobilized the flames to fight, and after a long time, the flames burned out this terrifying breath of ice.

"It's almost an ice sculpture, it's so dangerous", Zhao Zhuo was shocked.

"It seems that the spirit grass we dug up is its exclusive item, and we can be regarded as completely annoying it," Shi Xuan said.

"I have to fight in close quarters to be powerful, you cover me," Zhao Zhuo said.

"Understood, go ahead", Shi Xuan kicked him in the ass, allowing him to quickly approach the python.

"I'll rub it, you're so ruthless", Zhao Zhuo almost threw himself on the street in front of the python.

Seeing Zhao Zhuo who was close to him, the giant python was about to attack him, Shi Xuan smashed down a bunch of terrifying fire meteors in the distance, and smashed it on its body, it sprayed several ice rings towards Shi Xuan in a row, and the ice rings spread rapidly, Shi Xuan flexibly dodged in the distance, attracting the attention of the python.

After Zhou Zhuo got close, he frantically used the fire dragon to start a hand-to-hand fight, and the terrifying force made sparks splash, and the body of the giant python was trembling by him.

It exhaled angrily at him with a cold breath, and Zhao Zhuo instantly froze again and turned into an ice sculpture, "Help, save me", Zhao Zhuo didn't even have a chance to react.

After Shi Xuan dodged the ice ring, a flame meteor smashed on Zhao Zhuo's ice sculpture, and he was rescued, and the giant python whipped him away with its tail and fell into the distance, even the fire dragon gong fell to the ground.

Shi Xuan released more than a dozen walls of fire one after another, successfully blocking the ice thorns that the giant python cast at Zhao Zhuo, and the two attacked again.

"Are you okay?" Shi Xuan looked at Zhao Zhuo who was getting up.

"It's so strong, it's good that the spirit armor is strong enough, otherwise it will be dangerous," Zhao Zhuo said.

"Our flame is a lot weaker here, and it's been strengthened a lot here," Shi Xuan said.

"If this continues, even if we kill it, we will suffer a lot of consumption," Zhao Zhuo said.

"It's okay, this time you come to cover me, I'll deal with it", Shi Xuan quickly swept across the sea of fire and killed the giant python, breaking through the air and slashing seven times, the earth-shattering sword qi roared by, and one after another sword qi draped fiercely on its hard scale armor, and several pieces of scale armor fell off in an instant.

Burst Flame Angry Slash, another round of terrifying sword qi directly cut off several pieces of scale armor, the giant python moved quickly in pain, dodging Shi Xuan's pursuit, bursting into flames, Shi Xuan broke out again with an astonishing chasing speed, and shot one after another.

Zhao Zhuo was in the distance with a whirlwind of flames blocking the giant python's figure, and Shi Xuan was attacking again.

The giant python smashed over with its tail, and Shi Xuan blocked the big sword in front of his chest and was suddenly whipped away by it, but he did not fall, he stood firm from a distance, and met again to kill. The thorns of the ice ring spread outward on the field, and Shi Xuan threw out a big sword, using the flame shackles to pull and turn around, cutting off all the ice spikes.

The predecessor of the giant python has been cut down many spirit armors in a row, Shi Xuan aimed at this place, and made many raids, and many of the giant python's methods have been resolved by the two of them in close cooperation.

The python knew that it would be difficult to stop the attack of the two and was ready to retreat, and its tail swept down a large number of trees, blocking the front of the two, and it quickly fled into the distance.

"Chase, don't let it escape", Shi Xuan's three sword qi instantly unfolded the trees in front of him, and the flames burst into flames and rushed towards the fleeing giant python.

Stopped it all at once, the giant python stood up again, the two sides fought again, Shi Xuan didn't give it a chance to escape this time, he took out a spirit core from Na Ling** and instantly threw it on the part where the spirit armor fell off, and the terrifying explosion instantly exploded the giant python into two, and the two bodies rolled in the snow in pain.

"It's a pity to waste a spirit core," Shi Xuan said.

"That ** is the second-order spirit core, and this python is also a fourth-order one, so you won't lose money", Zhao Zhuo came over and took out the giant python and took out the spirit core.