Chapter 41: Windcore Iron
Behind the smoke is the true face of the valley.
For the valley, Yuanwei Mu Wei has a painful memory, thinking that at the beginning, Qing Tengzi, a powerhouse in the Soul Condensation Realm, pressed them there like a chicken, and forcibly extracted a trace of their chaotic soul. This is also the direct reason why they came to the Nanmeng Wasteland.
Fortunately, the Lingering Valley behind the smoke is completely different from the Shatian Valley, where the two sides of the Shatian Valley are vertically up and down cliffs, while the Lingering Valley is more like a mountainous area, with countless winding paths between the endless mountains, intersecting like cobwebs, and I don't know where it leads.
The air is full of aura, mixed with a variety of different floral scents, which makes people involuntarily excited. After nearly a year of training in the Nanmeng Wasteland, Yuanwei Mu Qi was tormented by the exhaustion of spiritual energy, and every inch of skin on his body was like a dry and cracked earth. And now stepping into the Lingering Valley is like burrowing into a pool of clear spring water, devouring desperately all over the body, making people can't help but shout loudly and comfortably!
The high mountains and valleys are full of all kinds of flowers and plants, which are automatic without wind, and they are spontaneous and jointed, and the pregnant buds bloom and bloom until they bear fruit and decay and wither, and the rotten fruits carry seeds and scatter them in the soil, and then take root and sprout at a speed visible to the naked eye, continuing the endless cycle of life and death.
"These are all ordinary flowers and plants, but there is too much aura here, so they grow faster. A growing process that takes a season to complete in the outside world, it may only take a stick of incense here..."The wood fennel sighed faintly.
"Senior Brother Mu is right, but we can't stay here for too long. This entrance is known to many immortal cultivators, so it is possible to encounter other people here and cause some unnecessary trouble. Xia Heying urged the four of them to leave, this trip back to the valley, she and Xiong Xiangshen had a clear purpose, that is, to go to a certain place in the depths of the valley to collect a mineral material, and then find a cave where no one disturbed to cultivate, until the aura was absorbed to a critical point that she could not bear, and finally left.
"Are there many people who can enter the Valley of Lingering?" Motoo asked.
"It's a lot, otherwise a map only costs a few hundred spirit stones! In fact, when we enter the Spirit Gathering Realm and can't enter the Lingering Valley, we can also make some maps and sell them. But not now, it's really not cost-effective to add a lot of opponents to yourself for just a few hundred spirit stones. Xia Heying explained.
It turned out that although the Lingering Valley was full of spiritual energy, it was not suitable for everyone to come here to cultivate. I don't know what the reason is, only immortal cultivators in the Forging Vein Realm can enter this Lingering Valley, and immortal cultivators in the Gathering Spirit Realm and the realm above it can't enter, which is also the reason why a few Soul Condensing Realm powerhouses wanted to break through the spiritual power dome above the Lingering Valley.
Xiong Xiangshen took the lead and walked in front to open the way, followed by Xia Heying, then Mu Wei and Yuan Wei.
"Two junior brothers, be careful, the most important thing in this haunting isolation is flowers, grasses, insects and beasts, some of which can threaten our lives, so we must be vigilant at all times. Xia Heying reminded.
In the Valley of Lingering, ordinary flowers and plants can grow and die out very quickly, but this way of survival is not suitable for insects and beasts here, because they cannot have such a rapid growth and reproduction ability. Therefore, all the things that are in the Lingering Valley are the spirit insects or spirit beasts that have absorbed the spiritual energy and have a certain amount of spiritual power and spiritual intelligence.
Yuanwei has the ability to sense all beasts, and for this kind of spirit insect spirit beast, the sense of power is stronger. The moment he stepped into the Valley of Lingering, he felt the breath of the beast, but it was not the ferocious, violent, or docile aura that he was familiar with, but an incomprehensible, incommunicative, and mad aura that could erupt at any moment.
"There is abundant spiritual energy here, although those spirit insects and spirit beasts can survive, but they still have a manic temperament due to the rapid inhalation of spiritual energy, so it is speculated that cultivation here must not be rushed. Yuan Wei secretly analyzed in his heart.
After walking a slightly wide road, three forks appeared in front of them, and Xiong Xiangshen chose the leftmost fork in the road without hesitation.
"Has Senior Brother Xiong walked this path?" Mu Hui asked suddenly.
"yes, we walked this path last time, and we ended up encountering a lot of psychedelic butterflies. If luck isn't so bad, maybe we've already collected the core iron..."The bear elephant replied gloomily.
Windcore iron, a legendary metal, has exceptional toughness and hardness. It is said that a sword made of wind core iron can withstand the oppression of endless spiritual power and reach a kind of wind-like sharpness, just like the core of the wind, so it is called wind core iron. Xiong Xiangshen's weapon is a sword, and Xia Heying is a dagger, and sharpness is the biggest advantage of these two weapons. Therefore, the two of them went in and out of the Lingering Valley several times, and a very important purpose was to collect some wind core iron and forge it into their weapons, but unfortunately they had not succeeded in the previous times.
What else does Mu Wei want to ask?
Motoo suddenly felt a little uneasy: "Why do I feel the presence of some flying insects around me, but I can't find them?"
"Psychedelic butterflies!" Xia Heying and Xiong Xiangshen exclaimed in unison.
The psychedelic butterfly is a strange butterfly in the valley that can mimic its surroundings, completely hiding itself in flowers and plants, and when the enemy is within range of its attack, it will suddenly cast a toxin that will give people the illusion that it can easily hunt.
Motowei carefully unleashed a trace of spiritual power, condensing into a faint green dragon shadow, and swooped directly at the location he sensed. As soon as the dragon shadow came, a huge red corolla was smashed into pieces, and at the same time, the huge corolla of two nearby flowers rose into the air, fluttering into two butterflies the size of copper pots, which were obviously in the realm of forging veins for five weeks.
Yuan Wei didn't think about it, the two spiritual powers that were surging in the spiritual veins entered the snake staff almost at the same time, and two light blue dragon shadows condensed and pounced on the huge butterfly in the sky respectively.
In an instant, the two psychedelic butterflies were smashed into powder again. The spirit worm of the Five Weeks Heaven Realm of Forging Veins couldn't resist Yuanwei's blow at all!
"Senior Brother Yuan is so powerful!" Xiong Xiangshen sincerely admired, at this time he had no psychology to underestimate at all.
Motoo's heart moved.
Being able to condense into two dragon shadows at the same time just now was completely what I thought in my heart, a natural reaction of spiritual power, which also benefited from the existence of two different directions of spiritual power in the body.
The actual combat is to hone the exercises, and Yuan Wei has deeply realized this in this lingering valley. At the beginning, Feng Ai passed the Qinglong Recipe to Yuanwei, but he really didn't expect his achievements in this exercise. Not only did the Yuan Tail condense into a green dragon shadow that was close to the substance, but now it has condensed a second dragon shadow.
In fact, this is also because although Yuanwei's cultivation has been forging veins for six weeks, there are few exercises that have been learned, and there are only two kinds of Qinglong Jue and Jiquan Jue. Therefore, he could only carry out his own exertion on these two exercises, and it was this exertion that laid a solid foundation for his future achievements.
After the two psychedelic butterflies were shattered, all the flowers in the vicinity turned into colorful psychedelic butterflies, and they danced around the sky above the four of Yuanwei, covering the sky, and the powdery toxins poured down like heavy winter snow.
Yuanwei raised the snake staff high, and two dragon shadows roared out, one turned into a blue ice shield, cutting off the poisonous powder from contact with them, which was his ice condensation technique, and the other flickered among the psychedelic butterflies, and where they passed, those butterflies turned into invisible, which was his dragon transformation technique.
In less than a pillar of incense, he had cleared out the hundreds of psychedelic butterflies nearby. During this time, the four of them traveled a distance of several hundred zhang on the narrow forked road.
"Senior Brother Yuan, take a rest, the next section of the road will be the flower-eating beast, these spirit shou will be handed over to me to deal with. Seeing Yuanwei showing his magical powers, Xiong Xiangshen didn't want to be compared to others in front of Xia Heying.
The Flower Eater is an even more peculiar spirit animal, with a pointed head that resembles a vole, and behind it is a tortoiseshell-like shell, but it has four long legs and can run at an astonishing speed.
Seeing the arrival of the four Yuanwei, the flower-eating beasts encountered along the way rushed one after another, the bear elephant Shen waved his long sword, leaving a bloody mess everywhere he went; Xia Heying hid behind him, flexible like a swallow, and flew up and down with two daggers, and the bear elephant Shen long sword could not reach the shadow of her dagger.
"Senior Brother Xiong, Senior Sister Xia, you are really a pair made in heaven, the exercises and weapons complement each other, and the two of you together are an impassable barrier. Mu Wei hid behind Yuan Wei and kept patting the two of them on the back.
The bear elephant was happy in his heart, and a heavy sword was infused with spiritual power, wielding it with the power of opening the world. It's a pity that those flower-eating beasts are not afraid of death, even if the flower-eating beasts in front of them are constantly being hit into powder by heavy swords, the flower-eating beasts in the back still pounce on them desperately, so the four of them are still walking slowly.
This went on for a long time, and the narrow and winding path almost completely disappeared into the flowers, and in order to move on, it was necessary to explore the unknown territory yourself.