Chapter Forty-Eight: The Shadow of the Ghost Sect
An Ying, who had been wandering in the glacier area for more than ten days, still failed to pull out the Xuanbing Python, finally became anxious.
A group of thirteen people, always gathering together to find the Xuanbing Python, is obviously not a wise idea.
The low-level spirit beasts in this glacier area were also hunted by them for most of this time, and in the next few days, it was already difficult for them to encounter those low-level spirit beasts again.
In order to improve efficiency, An Ying made a bold decision - separate searches.
She, Pan Tao, and Zheng Rui are all from the Lingbao Pavilion, and they hold signal sticks that can transmit messages in their hands.
Within ten miles, as long as they released a signal, everyone else could see it.
Therefore, after discussing with Pan Tao and Zheng Rui, she decided that the three of them would lead their own teams and conduct a carpet search for the Xuanbing Python within ten miles.
Zheng Rui, the weakest, first selected four team members, and she and Pan Tao led three team members by one and began to act separately.
Nie Tian and Jiang Miao, as well as a teenager named Guo Qi, were on a team with Pan Tao.
Under the leadership of Pan Tao, the four of them chose a direction and went on the road with An Ying and Zheng Rui respectively.
As usual, Nie Tian, who was carrying a large amount of spirit beast meat, followed Pan Tao and them, and ate wildly every day.
When it was time to rest, he immediately used the Qi Refining Technique to continue to open up and expand the Spirit Sea.
In ten days, he jumped from the sixth layer of qi refining to the seventh layer realm, which made him taste the sweetness.
The advancement of the seventh to eighth layers requires doubling the spiritual sea that has already been expanded, and doubling it again on the existing basis.
This time, he set himself a time of two months, and he planned to step into the eighth layer of the Qi Refining Realm within two months, with the help of those spirit beast meat!
As for the search for the Xuanbing Python, he lacked interest, and only cared about his own cultivation every day.
"It's been a day and a half, and we should be seven miles away from An Ying and them. However, we didn't even encounter a low-level spirit beast. ”
Pan Tao, who had carefully explored a small glacier and every ice cave, held the timekeeping utensils in his hand and looked depressed.
"Brother Tao, maybe there are really no spirit beasts in our area. Guo Qi said.
"I don't know what happened to Sister An Ying and Brother Zheng. Jiang Miao said softly.
At this moment, the four of them were sitting next to the dwarf glacier, and they were a little deflated after a long time of not harvesting.
"It should be the same as us, but we haven't been able to find the shrunken Ice Python. Otherwise, they would have released the signal a long time ago. Pan Tao sighed and shook his head, "We have wasted too much time in this glacier area, maybe the Lingyun Sect and the Xuanwu Palace have already killed the other two second-level spirit beasts." ”
"Brother Tao, Yuan Feng of Gray Valley, they entered the depths of the glacier one step ahead of us. Isn't it a little strange that we haven't met any of them after we've been shaking for more than ten days?" Guo Qi said again.
"Nothing strange. Pan Tao shook his head, "This glacier area is actually very large. Yuan Feng's people, if they were like us before, they had always gathered together to search for the Xuanbing Python, and the chances of us meeting them were very small. Unless...... They also spread out and wandered separately within a certain range. ”
"Only in this way will the chances of everyone meeting be greatly improved. ”
Guo Qi thought for a moment and nodded, "That's right." ”
"Nie Tian, do you have any good ideas?" Pan Tao asked suddenly.
Nie Tian, who was sitting on the side, eating meat silently by himself, raised his head slightly, the corners of his mouth were full of grease stains, "You can't find it, what can I do?" he responded with a lazy expression.
When he knew that spirit beast meat could greatly increase his cultivation speed, he no longer had the slightest interest in searching for the Xuanbing Giant Python.
His laziness and indifferent attitude were all seen by Pan Tao.
Among the three, Jiang Miao was saved by him, and Pan Tao knew that he was extraordinary, so he didn't say anything.
Only Guo Qi has expressed his dissatisfaction several times, asking Pan Tao to take care of Nie Tian, so that Nie Tian will not be so idle, and only know how to eat all day long.
Guo Qi's request, Pan Tao laughed it off and didn't pay attention to it.
"You two go over there, and Nie Tian and I will have a few words alone. Pan Tao pointed out a direction.
Guo Qi's eyes moved, and he thought that Pan Tao wanted to reprimand Nie Tian in private, so he smiled and pulled Jiang Miao away.
After they walked away, Pan Tao came to Nie Tian's side, smiled bitterly, and then said, "Nie Tian, help." ”
Nie Tian was dumbfounded.
"Don't look at me as if I'm from the Lingbao Pavilion, but my time in the Lingbao Pavilion wasn't as good as you thought. Pan Tao cried with a sad face, "In the cabinet, people like Zheng Rui and I are actually not welcomed." No matter how hard we try, people say that we rely on the protection of our elders to achieve what we have today. ”
"The old guys in the cabinet all appreciate people like An Ying, who grew up step by step from their subordinate families and were finally brought in. ”
"And I, in fact, have always been despised and despised by them. ”
Nie Tianleng paused for a moment before he said, "Each has its own difficulties, you don't mind being told, but we want to enter the Lingyun Sect in the same place as your Lingbao Pavilion, do you know how difficult it is?"
"Nature knows. Pan Tao nodded, "But your efforts will eventually be recognized and others can see it." And I, no matter how hard I try, will be regarded as the help of my ancestors, and I don't think I achieved it myself. ”
"The trials of the Blue Fantasy Realm are very important to me, I must make some achievements to impress them!"
Nie Tian looked helpless, "Say, how do you want me to help you?"
Pan Tao's expression was shocked, "If you can find the Earth Walking Lizard deep underground, then you should be able to find the Xuanbing Python in the same way!"
"In my opinion, the Ice Python, like the Earthwalking Lizard, should also be lurking in the shadows that we can't see. ”
"By eye, I don't think we'll be able to find it. I want you to search for that ice python by looking for the earth-walking lizard. ”
"The glacier area is so big that I can't roughly determine its location, and it's very difficult for me to find it. Nie Tian smiled bitterly and hesitated for a moment before saying, "Forget it, I'll give you a face, try it." If not, don't blame me. ”
"Of course, of course!" Pan Tao hurriedly said.
Next, Nie Tian calmed down, adjusted the rate of breathing, and tried to disperse his spiritual consciousness.
His slightest spiritual consciousness, centered on him, extends to all sides.
Wisps of spiritual consciousness, like invisible tentacles, faded away, covering the surrounding forty meters.
After a while, he opened his eyes tiredly, shook his head at Pan Tao, and said, "Anyway, there is no nearby." ”
"Then let's change places!" Pan Tao shouted.
"Allow me...... Take a break. Nie Tian smiled bitterly.
"Okay! I'll wait for you!" Pan Tao completely relied on him.
After a period of time, Nie Tian followed Pan Tao and the three of them, and they really made a contribution, perceiving the surroundings with spiritual consciousness.
He was exhausted every time he spent his mental consciousness, but after a deep sleep, he was able to recover quickly.
Gradually, he found that when he overdrew his spiritual consciousness, the next time he recovered, his mental power could often be strengthened a little.
Initially, his perceptual range was limited to a range of forty meters.
Later, as his spiritual power increased little by little, the range he could perceive could already spread to fifty meters away.
This discovery made him extremely reluctant to help Pan Tao find the Xuanbing Python, and he also let go of his knot.
He regarded the drudgery of helping Pan Tao find the Xuanbing Python as a cultivation - a cultivation of spiritual power.
Guo Qi and Jiang Miao didn't know that Pan Tao had reached a tacit understanding with him, every time they arrived at a new place, when Pan Tao saw Nie Tian with his eyes closed, reopened his eyes after a while, and shook his head at him, Pan Tao immediately gave up that area, and then went to search other places.
Guo Qi and Jiang Miao were extremely confused, they didn't know what the two were secretly doing, and asked Pan Tao, but Pan Tao didn't say anything, and asked them not to be suspicious.
They all gave up in the end, and they became less and less confident in the search for the Xuanbing Python.
On this day, Nie Tian once again carried out the perception of spiritual consciousness......
An extremely faint fluctuation of life suddenly came to the bottom of his heart, and he opened his eyes suddenly.
Pan Tao, who gradually lost confidence, no longer had illusions, but when he looked at Nie Tian this time, he found that Nie Tian did not shake his head at him unchanged for ten thousand years.
"What's the matter?!" he asked, in a trembling voice.
"It's not the Ice Python, it's something else. Standing up, Nie Tian pointed in a direction, "It should be...... Person. ”
Pan Tao was obviously a little disappointed, but he still followed Nie Tian's guidance and rushed to that position with the three of them.
The strong smell of blood emanated from behind the ice trees, and they crossed the ice trees and saw two teenagers from the gray valley falling to the ice ground covered in blood.
One of them, with a short sword stuck in his neck, was already dead.
The other person was covered with blood stains, and blood could not stop flowing from those blood stains.
Blood was also foaming from his mouth, obviously bleeding too much, and he was about to die.
When Pan Tao arrived, his dull gaze seemed to light up slightly, and then quickly lost all color.
"He's dead, too. Pan Tao's face was extremely solemn.
Walking forward, he lowered his head and saw that the thumbs of the two of them had been chopped off by sharp blades.
Pan Tao was shocked, as if he had been greatly frightened, his voice was wrong, "Ghost Sect! This is the Ghost Sect's means! Damn, the people of the Ghost Sect, how did they enter the Blue Illusion Realm?"
Nie Tian's face was inexplicable, "What's the situation?"
Pan Tao didn't answer, but looked around extremely carefully, and then even lowered his voice, "Go back the same way immediately!"
"Oh. Nie Tian was also nervous by him, followed him, lightly, and walked the way he came.
Along the way, Pan Tao had a grim face, didn't say anything, and hurried by himself.
After walking for a long time, he lit the flare stick when he thought it was safe.
The signal rod rushed into the sky, turning into a pitch-black smoke that went straight up into the sky, and it did not disperse for a long time.
Half a day later, An Ying and Zheng Rui rushed over excitedly.
"Pan Tao, have you found the Xuanbing Python?" An Ying shouted from afar.
After they approached, Pan Tao shook his head, his face turned pale, "I didn't meet the Xuanbing Python, but we found traces of the Ghost Sect!"
"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!" Zheng Rui screamed.
An Ying was shocked, "Pan Tao, are you kidding? This is the Blue Illusion Realm, the private secret realm of our Spirit Treasure Pavilion! And we are in the trial, how could someone from the Ghost Sect come in?"
"I'm not kidding!" Pan Tao shouted.
As soon as these words came out, An Ying and Zheng Rui's faces were full of fear.
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