Chapter Seventy-Seven: Crossing the Immortal Abyss
There are many types of demon beasts, and they are extremely widely distributed, and they are found in all parts of the state, but the most powerful demon beasts, the monks in the late Jindan period can also be killed. They reproduce quickly and everywhere like rats on the planet. Demon beasts have no intelligence, except for a very few that can be tamed by humans and used as a means of transportation, most of them cannot be domesticated, and some people's animal carts are pulled by tamed low-level demon beasts.
The flesh, skin, bones, and blood of almost all demon beasts have special uses, providing the monks with materials for alchemy, refining tools, and talisman making. Most of the casual cultivators also rely on these demon beasts to survive, hunting demon beasts and obtaining demon crystals, which is the way most casual cultivators obtain cultivation resources. That's it, these monsters are also inexhaustible, and after they reach a certain number, they will attack the human city in a suicidal way. Therefore, it is really not easy for ordinary people to survive in the cultivation realm. Scattered cultivators are still enslaved, and these civilians are even more ant-like beings in the eyes of cultivators.
After the Xiandu Yuan is Qianfeng City, which is a city several times larger than Yutong Pass, less than a thousand miles away from the Gushan Sect, with the speed of the cultivators in the later stage of foundation building, it will arrive in less than an hour.
Xiandu Yuan was hazy, and Chu Lingyu's current cultivation was not yet able to feel the edge with his divine sense, and it looked mysterious and abnormal. The proportion of high-level demon beasts appearing here is relatively high, fifth-level demon beasts are very common, and there are many sixth- and seventh-level ones. As long as they don't encounter groups of sixth- or seventh-level demon beasts, both of them can deal with them.
The cultivation of monks in the Jindan period basically relied on pills and spirit stones, and it was difficult for monks in the foundation building period to deal with demon beasts above level five, so few people came to stay here, and some monks who approached the road also walked by and did not pay much attention.
Many low-level demon beasts ran around in the forest, in groups, and the two of them released their coercion, and these small beasts were far away from them. Chu Lingyu grabbed a second-level demon beast black-winged pheasant and roasted it to eat, which made Zhou Dazui exclaim deliciously.
Along the way, they also killed some high-level demon beasts and obtained some demon beast materials, after all, Ling Tiange needs to develop. Chu Lingyu asked Lao Qian to search for the hidden spiritual veins, how could a continent-level force not have its own spiritual stone minerals in the future?
"Hey, when did it become so miserable, I think back then, not to mention the spirit stones, even the spirit crystals, fairy crystals, and divine crystals were also as many as there were!"
"Lao Qian, I know that my strength is weak now, but don't worry, sooner or later, I will let you eat Xianjing until you vomit!
"I don't mean to look down on you, I'm just reminiscing about the past. Okay, okay, I'm looking for the spirit vein, don't bother me!" Lao Qian ended his nostalgia for the past and began to look for the spirit stone vein.
Now the spiritual veins that are easy to mine in Xiqian Continent are all occupied by the sect, once there is a new discovery, the nearby forces and the immortal cultivation family will be crazy to snatch it, and the participating monks will suffer heavy casualties, and it is still those hired scattered cultivators who rush to the front. Perhaps this is the rule of this world, the brutal killing and fighting, inspiring the monks to keep forging ahead, just to not be trampled under the feet of others, just to protect everything they care about!
The immortal crossing abyss stretched thousands of miles, and Chu Lingyu and the others were not in a hurry to hurry, and slowly marched in it. If they don't encounter high-level demon beasts that take the initiative to provoke them, they won't make a move, Chu Lingyu will only collect them when he sees good spiritual materials and herbs. The sky was getting dark, the two of them were preparing for a camping dinner, Chu Lingyu created a set of fourth-level defensive array plates and formation flags, and after arranging them, the two of them could rest or cultivate in it with peace of mind.
The aroma of barbecued meat wafted out, and the two of them ate with relish. "I said fourth brother, can you bake a little more, I'll put it in the storage ring, and you can take it out and eat it when you want to eat it in the future, it's more enjoyable!"
"Second brother, as the saying goes, it's better to teach you to fish than to teach you to fish, won't I teach you to finish?"
"Can I do it? I can eat it!"
"It's not a difficult thing, come, I'll teach you......" Take out a lot of various demon beast meat, how to marinate it, how to master the heat, Chu Lingyu pointed it out to him one by one. At this moment, a little black dog-like creature quietly came to the side, grabbed a freshly roasted flying cuttlefish with one paw, and fled quickly.
Being able to come and go freely in this fourth-level formation is definitely not a demon beast, could it be that we have encountered a spirit beast? Ordinary spirit beasts can't enter and leave the fourth-level formation at will. The little guy was too fast to see what it was. Spirit beasts exist on all continents, but they are mainly concentrated in Nanxiang Continent, where spirit beasts gather, and humans only have a small sphere of influence in the periphery. The bloodlines of the spirit beasts in other continents are not high, and those spirit beasts of high-level bloodlines and even immortal beasts are basically in Nanxiang Continent.
Spirit beasts are not simply divided by rank, the main thing that determines their status is their bloodline level: all kinds of spirit beasts are the descendants of various ancient divine beasts and fairy beasts, and slowly they combine with each other or with some kind of demon beast or even alien creatures, forming a variety of races with great differences in bloodlines and talents. Spirit beasts generally go through the promotion of the nascent stage, the gestation period, the pupa stage, the transformation period and other periods, the more advanced the spirit beast, the stronger the innate ability, and the later the transformation. Under the right conditions, they can strengthen the bloodline and innate supernatural powers in their bodies, and advance to immortal beasts or divine beasts, closer to their ancestors' bloodlines.
But such spirit beasts are extremely rare, and it is said that there are powerful spirit beast groups such as the Xuanhuo Lion Clan, the Spirit Fox Clan, and the Green Wolf Clan in Nanxiangzhou, all of whom have the bloodlines of ancient divine beasts and even holy beasts. The general spirit beast high-level bloodline inheritance is rare, only some have the ability to cultivate, and they will slowly have wisdom, and their natural supernatural powers and bloodline inheritance are not very strong, although they can transform and have a human body when they cultivate to a very advanced level, but their cultivation is many times slower than that of humans, but God is fair, and it also gives them a long life.
In the case of spirit beasts of their own volition, human beings can enter into a cooperation contract or a life and death contract with them and become partners, so in the Apocalypse Continent, that is, the cultivation realm, cultivators are also trying every means to contract spirit beasts to improve their combat power. There are also some sects that study how to control spirit beasts and forcibly contract spirit beasts, so there are sects such as the Royal Beast Gate and the Royal Spirit Sect. Through some tools, formations, spiritual interference and other means, they forced the spirit beast to be driven by them, causing the relationship between the spirit beast and the human monk to be very tense now.
It is said that more than 100,000 years ago, the relationship between human monks and spirit beasts was relatively harmonious, and the spirit beasts, under the leadership of the king of their own race, fought against the invasion from the outside world together with human monks, and everyone formed close partners and won the victory of defending their territory. But later, because of the greed and eagerness of the human monks, some people began to secretly hunt and kill spirit beasts, and the survival of spirit beasts was threatened.
"This little guy can pass through his fourth-level enchantment at will, which shows that it is not simple. Chu Lingyu thought, "This is definitely not an ordinary spirit beast. ”
Some spirit beasts with less advanced bloodlines are distributed in all continents, but they are not something that can be encountered casually. Many monks want to contract spirit beasts or use spirit beast materials to make medicine or refining tools, trap or deceive spirit beasts, but spirit beasts are not easy to catch, compared to demon beasts, they are more intelligent and cunning, and they also hold grudges, if they offend them, but there is no good fruit to eat. Each spirit beast has a natural bloodline suppression of demon beasts with similar genes, and their own combat power is not strong, but they can command those demon beasts to charge for them. Therefore, if the human monks are not sure, they will not easily offend them.
Of course, this is just to say that those monks who are not highly cultivated, those who are powerful in the primal infancy stage do not have so many scruples, and generally do not have the spirit beasts that have not passed the nascent stage and have not reached the gestation stage have almost no threat to them.
Chu Lingyu's divine sense couldn't track this spirit beast, and he didn't care about it, he was just a greedy little guy, and he didn't mean to arrest him.
Because Zhou Dazui was too edible, Chu Lingyu roasted some more demon beast meat, and after a while, he saw that the little guy came again, wandering outside the enchantment, watching the two people wary of it stealing things, and turned around unwillingly.
"Aren't you quite capable? Come in, I won't arrest you. Chu Lingyu said to it with a smile.
"Hey, what is this? It's interesting," Zhou Dazui asked, "Fourth brother, do you say this is a paparazzi or a wolf cub?"
"You're the paparazzi!" the little guy glared at his round eyes and waved his little paws to show his displeasure, cursing him in his heart.
"Hahaha, you see it seems to understand. What kind of monster is this? Zhou Dazui continued, not knowing at all that he had offended this little bit.
"Second brother, this little guy is a spirit beast, like a fox clan, he should still be in the nascent stage. Chu Lingyu explained.
"Spirit beast, such a cute little guy, can we take it?" Zhou Dazui was interested.
"Forget it, he's too young, and if we take it away, if its parents start a temper, it's not something the two of us can bear. "Chu Lingyu knew very well that spirit beasts were not casually contracted.
The little one really understood what they were saying, and when he mentioned his parents, he burst into tears: "People just can't find a home, and they can't find their parents, what should I do?"
"Oh, look at this little guy, it's more like a poor puppy!" Zhou Dazui saw the appearance of the little guy, and laughed again, not thinking that the barbecue in his hand disappeared in an instant.
"Dare to rob my things, you wait!" said Zhou Dazui chased out, and there was a lot of trouble for a while. After a long time, he finally came back: "This little thing is so cunning, it runs so fast, I can't catch up with it, and when you don't want to chase it, it comes out to tease you again, it's really hateful!"
As long as Chu Lingyu and them barbecued something, this little guy would run out, and seeing that the two of them had no ill will towards him, he quickly snatched the things they baked, and it only grabbed the food in Zhou Dazui's hand, so angry that he screamed.
"Hahaha, you are also a monk in the late stage of foundation building, and you actually let a nascent spirit beast fool you. You ignore it, give, eat enough to cultivate. Chu Lingyu gave him another roasted sheep-like demon beast's hind legs.