Chapter 18: The Ascending Channel
Yuan Ming sighed, and casually put down the cyan incense burner, and it happened that one of the ears of the stove touched the white ape skin around his waist.
The surface of the incense burner flashed with blue light, and a warm air flow escaped from it, quickly blending into the skin of the white ape.
The white ape skin trembled, and a faint golden light appeared on the surface, and then it unfolded with a "hula" and draped itself on Yuan Ming's body.
Before Yuan Ming could understand what was happening, the mana in the dantian suddenly surged wildly and began to flow outward, continuously injecting into the white ape's skin, and the white ape's skin began to merge with its body.
It felt like being urged by Elder Flame for the first time to put the fur on his body.
The skin of the white ape wriggled like a living creature, and the surface swelled with bumps, as if countless rats were drilling in it.
Yuan Ming was taken aback, and without thinking, he tried to stabilize the mana in the dantian and stop it from continuing to gush out, but unfortunately it had no effect.
Not only the mana in his body, but even the heaven and earth aura in the air around him seemed to be attracted by some invisible force, converging towards the white ape's skin.
A scene that stunned Yuan Ming appeared.
As the aura continued to pour into the white ape's skin, the originally gray and dry hair became white and smooth at a speed visible to the naked eye, and some bald hairs regrew white fluff and quickly thickened and lengthened.
At the same time, a white ape phantom appeared in the white ape's skin, covering his body.
"What is this?" Yuan Ming was taken aback, and his hands and feet scratched his ears and cheeks uncontrollably, as if a squeaky ape was echoing in his ears.
Before he could react, a cold aura suddenly rose in his head, causing a sudden pain in his eyebrows, as if a dagger had been inserted into his skull!
Yuan Ming couldn't help but open his mouth wide, but he couldn't make a sound at all, he only felt that the world was spinning, and he almost lost his mind.
Even though his mind had always been firm and he had endured this inhuman torture, his consciousness was almost broken, his ears could not hear any sound, and his eyes could not see a little light.
In a trance, Yuan Ming's mind came to the picture of a tall and burly white ape standing proudly on the giant peak in the wind, beating his chest with his fists with both hands in the storm, and roaring angrily in the sky.
Then he disappeared from the darkness in front of him.
I don't know how long it took, Yuan Ming's consciousness slowly returned, and his five senses gradually recovered.
He shook his somewhat swollen head, and felt that the ape skin on his body had stopped wriggling, and it no longer absorbed his mana, but the dantian was a little empty, and the mana was actually sucked clean.
The original gray ape skin is now white, with a shiny surface that looks as if it has just been peeled off, and there is a hint of gold on it.
"What just happened? Why does this white ape skin seem to be about to come back to life? By the way, that white ape, could it be ......" Yuan Ming frowned, thinking silently in his heart.
Although there was no basis, he subconsciously felt that the white ape that appeared in his mind before was the owner of the ape skin on his body.
"Bang" "Bang" "Bang"
A very powerful heartbeat suddenly sounded in his ears, causing Yuan Ming's heart to shake and wake him up from his chaotic thoughts.
"Ahh
The next moment, he felt a sharp pain coming from the tips of his ten fingers, and the bloody claws of Bai Sensen pierced the flesh and flesh, and drilled out, making him tremble all over, and he fell to the ground and hugged his hands and snorted.
It took a quarter of an hour for the claws to stop growing, and the pain in the heart subsided.
Yuan Ming breathed a sigh of relief, his whole body was almost soaked with sweat, his head rumbled, and he was almost about to pass out.
It's just that the movement he just made was quite big, and I don't know if any beast will hear the movement, so he sits up cross-legged and runs the Nine Yuan Jue to breathe.
Half an hour later, Yuan Ming opened his eyes, his complexion softened slightly, and the mana in his body also recovered a little.
He looked at his hands, and saw that the sharp claws born from the ten fingers were half a foot long, curved like dragon claws, as if cast of steel, and looked indestructible.
"Although I don't know exactly what happened, it seems that due to the mysterious incense burner, some kind of evolution of the white ape skin? This incense burner is a rare treasure! Yuan Ming said secretly.
He cast a spell and put away the incense burner, and with a movement of his arm, he grabbed a handful at random on the wall of the cave in the ground.
The walls of the cave were easily cut into five deep marks, and the solid walls of dirt looked like tofu in front of the claws, with little resistance perceptible.
"So sharp!" Yuan Ming praised in his mouth.
The original white ape is relatively good at arm strength, and can freely shuttle between mountains and forests with its flexible body, compared to jackals, tigers and leopards, it has no advantage in attack, but now with this pair of sharp claws, it is naturally very different.
For example, the armadillo beast that is not afraid of the blue fox's attack at all, with a very tough armor is often invincible, with his current strength Although he is reliable and brute force to win, it will be very difficult, if there is this pair of claws to complement him, he can naturally easily break through the opponent's defense, and get twice the result with half the effort.
"No matter how much your strength improves, as long as you don't get the true antidote to the Rotten Heart Pill for a day, you won't be able to leave this area, and there is no time to return to the Central Plains." Yuan Ming felt a little disheartened at the thought of being poisoned by Biluo Cave.
"Since the incense burner can't be lit for the time being, maybe you can try to get some news from there?" He thought for a moment and looked south.
In the past few months, he had used every opportunity to hand in the blood of the fierce beast to communicate with Elder Huhuo.
Although the other party came and went like the wind every time, he didn't want to say anything, but one of them, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, mentioned that there were a large number of furry beast slaves under the jurisdiction of Biluo Cave, which were put into various areas of the 100,000 Great Mountains, and they were under the management of different elders, and he was responsible for as many as twenty or thirty.
Yuan Ming thinks that these beast slaves can be called "seniors" to himself, and he must know more about Biluo Cave or this 100,000 mountains than himself, maybe he can find and get in touch with it, and he can get some information he needs.
After making up his mind like this, Yuan Ming did not immediately set off to find other beast slaves, there were only two days before the next payment of essence blood, and after handing in the essence blood of this month, it was not too late to set off again.
Two days later, Yuan Ming came to the Giant Stone Boundary Monument with the essence blood that had been prepared long ago.
Elder Huhuo had been waiting there for a long time this time, but Uru didn't show up.
"Elder Huhuo, this month's fierce beast essence blood, please count it." Yuan Ming took out the blood storage bag and handed it over.
"These five essences are similar in color and aura, and they are collected in one day?" Elder Huhuo took the blood storage bag and glanced at it, his brows moved, he looked up at Yuan Ming, and asked.
"The elder's eyes are like torches! The disciple stumbled upon a nest of green fox beasts, and luckily collected five pieces of essence blood in one day. Yuan Ming didn't understand what Elder Huhuo meant by this, but he didn't lie or deceive.
"Kill five green foxes in a row in one day, yes, can your cultivation break through the first level of qi refining?" Elder Huhuo looked at Yuan Ming and asked.
"I had an epiphany a few days ago, and I broke through by luck." Yuan Ming hesitated for a moment and said.
"To be able to break through the first level of qi refining within half a year is not bad, barely qualified." Elder Huhuo bowed.
"I wonder what the elder means by that?" Yuan Ming looked surprised.
"You furry beast slaves are basically the qualifications of the four spirit roots, according to the assessment of the immortal cultivation world, they belong to the "pseudo spirit roots", if you don't have a special chance or a strong heart, it is generally difficult to become a great tool. We Biluo Cave have always loved talents, and the establishment of a furry beast slave is a kind of trial, for those who can break through the first layer of the Qi refining period within half a year, it can provide an upward channel, but whether it succeeds or not, it depends on whether you have the perseverance. Elder Huhuo raised his chin and said with a pleasant face.
"Please also ask the elders to make it clear." Yuan Ming vaguely guessed something, and a trace of excitement passed across his face.
"As long as you can hand in a certain amount of fierce beast essence blood within three years, you can get rid of the identity of the furry beast slave, and be accepted as a registered disciple by my Biluo Cave, and learn the real immortal secret arts." Elder Huhuo seemed to be quite satisfied with Yuan Ming's reaction and continued.
"Worship in Biluo Cave! Is this true? Yuan Ming's expression perked up and blurted out.
"I'm a person of some status in Biluo Cave, when did I say a lie?" Elder Huhuo's face was slightly gloomy.
"The elder forgives his sins, and in the next moment he is agitated, and his words are lost. But I don't know how many pieces of essence blood need to be handed over in three years? Yuan Ming hurriedly apologized, and asked in a changing tone.
"A thousand."
Yuan Ming's eyes widened when he heard this, and he seemed to be a little unable to believe what he heard.
"If you can't even collect a thousand pieces of essence blood, then I advise you to break the idea of cultivating immortals as soon as possible. I see that this kid of yours is quite pleasing to the eye, and I will remind you that if you want to complete the task, it is best to hunt higher-level fierce beasts. According to the regulations, one first-rank mid-rank fierce beast essence blood is equivalent to ten lower-level fierce beast essence blood, and one upper-level fierce beast essence blood is equal to one hundred lower-level fierce beast essence blood. Elder Huhuo glanced at Yuan Ming and said.
"Thank you Elder for mentioning it, I got it now." Yuan Ming's heart sank, and he replied respectfully.
Last month, when this Elder Huhuo was collecting essence blood, he had mentioned this matter to him and Ulu, the so-called first-level and lower-level is the definition of the strength of the first-level fierce beast, and there are two levels above, the middle level and the first level upper-level.
The green fox and armadillo he had encountered before were all first-level and lower-level fierce beasts, and in terms of strength, they were almost equivalent to monks from the first to fourth levels of the Qi refining period, while the first-level and middle-level fierce beasts entrenched in the deeper part of the 100,000 Mountains were equivalent to monks from the fifth to eighth layers of the Qi refining period, and their strength was naturally not the same.
As for the first-level and upper-level fierce beasts, they are even more terrifying, far better than the middle-level fierce beasts, if the strength is not enough, they will be killed in seconds.
Of course, due to the low intelligence of the fierce beasts, even if the ordinary monks are not as good as their real cultivation, they can also try to hunt beyond the level with the help of some means, of course, this cannot be generalized.
In short, with his current Qi refining level cultivation, he didn't have the confidence to be able to retreat in front of a first-level and mid-level fierce beast.
In other words, if you want to gather a thousand copies of the essence blood of the fierce beasts, unless your cultivation can be further improved, you can only continue to honestly hunt a thousand first-level and lower-level fierce beasts.
Just as Yuan Ming wanted to ask Elder Huhuo for the antidote and say goodbye, there was a strange movement in the jungle not far behind him, and there was a faint sound of footsteps approaching.
Yuan Ming turned his head to look at the voice, but saw that it was Ulu limping towards here.