Chapter 174: Cowardly Great Demon
Under Qu Wuming's deliberate acceleration, two days passed quickly.
However, his attempt to cross the Phantom Smoke did not go as smoothly as planned.
He hadn't stepped into the Phantom Smoke for hundreds of years, and Qu Wuming didn't expect that the demon beasts in the Phantom Smoke Ze were actually very different from before.
In the past, in the different areas of the Phantom Smoke Ze, some powerful demon beasts were often divided and ruled, each with its own sphere of influence, and rarely interacted with each other unless there were special circumstances, and even some demon beasts would fight for territory.
Therefore, after entering the Phantom Smoke Ze, experienced people can roughly deduce what the real "master" of this area, the most powerful demon beast that rules this area, is based on the types and distribution of low-level demon beasts and beasts living in an area, and what is the approximate level, so as to make corresponding countermeasures and adjustments.
Qu Wuming had only been to Phantom Yanze once, and it was hundreds of years ago, and at the beginning, he was cautiously exploring in his unruly robe according to the information he had learned before, so as not to intrude into the territory of an overly powerful demon beast without paying attention.
However, after going deep into the Phantom Smoke for several hours, Qu Wuming had to give up this time-consuming and laborious approach.
Without him, the current state of Phantom Yanze seems to be a little different from before.
No matter how careful Qu Wuming was, when he passed through the fog that would rise from time to time in the phantom smoke and covered a large area, even if he was wearing a robe of concealment, the fog stirred by his march would easily reveal his whereabouts.
At first, when he was on the periphery of the phantom smoke, Qu Wuming didn't feel anything.
But more than an hour later, whenever Qu Wuming sneaked over the swamp, he could hear some strange, whispering sounds coming from the nearby fog, in the muddy water beneath his feet, and even in the sparse woods and bushes.
The sounds seem to be absent, and when not noticed, they seem to blend in with the occasional passing wind, and appear strangely in seemingly calm corners. But if you pay attention to it, listen to it, or even use the power of your divine sense to probe carefully, you can't find anything.
If there are only these weird sounds, it will naturally not affect the speed of Qu Wuming.
But the weird thing is that whenever these sounds appear, no matter how Qu Wuming hides his whereabouts, even if he turns his body into almost transparent through his innocent robe, and slowly passes by without any breath, there will be all kinds of strange demon beasts coming out of the trees, from the muddy water, and from the mist, and attacking Qu Wuming without fear of death.
In just two days, Qu Wuming had already killed many low-level demon beasts, and sometimes he had obviously released the coercion of the seventh layer of his god transformation stage, but those low-level demon beasts still attacked him without fear, as if he was facing a powerful creature that could crush him with a touch of a finger, but an enemy who could live and die together.
When things go wrong, there must be demons.
Since you can't hide from these demons, you can only kill them all the way.
Qu Wuming had no way to explore, and he didn't want to explore what the reason behind this abnormality was, so he simply put away his robe, and whenever he encountered a demon beast that came out to attack him, he no longer bothered to intimidate and drive it away, and he quickly killed it with thunder.
In two days, although they have not encountered a big demon above the eighth order, the demon pills obtained by the low-level demon beasts killed have been as many as hundreds.
In line with the principle that no matter how small a mosquito is, it is also meat, these demon pills were all ingested into the space of the Purple Mansion by Qu Wuming, and used as food for the Zijin Electric Light Mouse and the two Xuanyu Demon Toads.
Since these three-headed spirit pets moved into Qu Wuming's Purple Mansion space, although Qu Wuming also provided them with aura, elixir, and meat according to the methods of the Demon Spirit Sect to raise, their growth and cultivation improvement were very limited.
First, the time required for the demon beast to advance was already very long, and secondly, these three spirit beasts were deliberately suppressed by their spiritual intelligence, and they didn't know how to cultivate, but they only knew that they relied on their instincts to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and naturally improved slowly.
However, in the past two days, as hundreds of low-level demon beasts' demon pills were devoured by them like jelly beans, the cultivation of the Purple Gold Electric Light Rat and the Xuanyu Demon Toad, which had not been refined, actually improved rapidly, although the two Xuanyu Demon Toads had only increased by less than half a level, but the Purple Gold Electric Light Rat had already shown signs of breaking through to the next level.
It's just that Qu Wuming doesn't dare to let it break through easily now.
First, when the demon beast is upgraded to the level, it will also attract the heavenly tribulation, and the scale of the heavenly tribulation when the demon beasts of different varieties and levels are upgraded are not the same, and the heavenly tribulation caused by some different demon beasts is not inferior to the thunder tribulation of cultivators of the same level, and even its power is still excessive!
Qu Wuming knew that the purple gold electric light rat was a different kind of demon beast, and it was said that there was a trace of the blood of the ancient alien beast Thunder Beast in his body, so he could have the innate ability to control thunder and lightning. In this case, if the Purple Gold Electric Light Rat breaks through in his own Purple Mansion space and causes a thunder tribulation, maybe his Purple Mansion Space will suffer.
But if it is released, it will be traversed in this illusory smoke that does not know how many dangers lurk around, and once it attracts powerful demon beasts, I am afraid that it will also have unpredictable consequences.
Fortunately, the Zijin Electric Light Mouse was very obedient, and after Qu Wuming stopped its supply of demon pills, it also deliberately suppressed its own cultivation to grow, according to Qu Wuming's speculation, it would not be a problem to postpone its advanced thunder tribulation for at least a month or two.
Burst!
A white light flashed, and before a water python that had just emerged from the water could attack, its huge body had been cut in two with a flick of Qu Wuming's fingers.
Qu Wuming swept over its two bodies without stopping, and the two corpses that should have fallen into the water were suspended in the air, as if two invisible hands had squeezed it from both ends of its body, and the blood in the anaconda's body, and even the undigested food and juice in the intestines and stomachs were all squeezed out.
As these things were squeezed out together, there was also a round pale gray demon pill.
"Third-order demon beasts, it's better than nothing." Qu Wuming flew past without looking back, and the demon pill had already turned into a ray of light and flew into Qu Wuming's storage ring......
————
The demon pill that had just put away the anaconda, and the originally calm swamp water surface under Qu Wuming's feet suddenly swayed more than ten ripples!
"Not good!" Qu Wuming hurriedly stopped the light and flew backwards in an instant, but he was still a step too slow.
I saw that more than ten pitch-black water arrows had been shot under the swamp.
The arrows were arm-thick, more than three feet long, and their sharp tips shimmered in the sunlight.
It's not like a water arrow, it's like a water spear!
More than ten water arrows seem to be intertwined into an arrow net, and they actually seal all the routes of Qu Nameless Dodge, there is no way to dodge, there is no way to dodge!
The power of Qu Nameless's divine consciousness surged out, and before he could condense a tough shield three feet away from his body, those water arrows had already popped on the shield.
I only heard a stinging sound, and a burst of green smoke suddenly rose above the almost transparent divine consciousness shield, and a strong tingling sensation suddenly poured into Qu Wuming's divine consciousness.
"These water arrows are actually poisonous!" Qu Wuming reacted immediately, his body swirled violently in the air, with a gust of wind, and instantly dodged the second round of water arrows that emerged from underwater, the light in the center of his eyebrows flashed, and the huge golden demon pestle had already appeared in his hand.
"Sneaky, let you sneak attack!"
Qu Wuming silently recited the Fa Decision in his heart, held the long handle of the demon slaying pestle with both hands and raised it high above his head, shouted violently, and slammed it down!
A pillar of golden light as thick as a water tank lit up on the Demon Slaying Pestle, and then fell with a bang, smashing into the water.
Rumble!!!
There was a roar from the place where the water arrow was shot before, and it was smashed into a large pit about two feet deep by the golden pillar of light! The duckweed and dead branches and leaves on the water surface rose up with a huge wall of water, scattered and splashed, and in the middle of the big pit, it was so hit that there was no drip, and even the black and foul-smelling silt at the bottom of the pit could be seen clearly!
Wow......
The muddy water that had been smashed up and flew several feet high sprinkled like rain again, and the surrounding swamp water quickly converged to the middle, and in a blink of an eye, the bottoming hole had been refilled.
However, as the water gradually calmed down again, no monsters appeared.
Qu Wuming was quietly suspended above the water, and the power of his divine sense extended out in all directions, carrying the demon slaying pestle in one hand, while vigilantly searching for possible anomalies.
However, after a few breaths of time, there was still no appearance of the demon beast that had just attacked.
Qu Wuming could clearly tell from the breath on those water arrows that it was at least a twelfth-order demon beast that released those water arrows! It is equivalent to the great demon who has cultivated in the middle stage of the god!
Moreover, in this environment full of water, the power of its magic will also be blessed by the environment, becoming more powerful and difficult!
However, although the big demon missed two blows, did he run away without even showing his face?
Qu Wuming would rather believe that it was a cunning demon, and after missing two hits, he chose to sneak in the water where his divine consciousness would be disturbed, waiting for the opportunity to attack again, in order to kill the enemy at the lowest cost, rather than believing that it was a cowardly demon, and he was so frightened that he fled after missing two hits.
"Get out! Hiding his head and showing his tail, don't you feel embarrassed by the face of the demon clan? Qu Wuming said loudly.
"Come out, don't hide, I've found you!"
"I'm just passing by, and I don't intend to disturb your Qingxiu! If you don't come out, I'll be gone! ”
Qu Wuming shouted a few words, and there were not even a single waterfowl around except for the empty water surface.
In the swamp, it was so quiet that only the sound of the breeze was left.
Qu Wuming finally failed to discover the hiding place of the great demon, and seeing that it never appeared, he stopped drying up with it, stepped on the void and turned into a ray of light, and continued to fly forward......