Chapter 4: Earth Spirit Beads (2)
As he spoke, countless earth spirits moved away from their positions and gradually gathered near the giant clssel, although it seemed that only the yellow earth was moving, but the invisible pressure transmitted to Yeluyun's body through the river.
"Are they going to besiege?" Xingjinglan's voice was full of worry.
Yeluyun carefully observed the opponent's movements, and the situation was not too bad for the time being, at least the opponent did not take the initiative to attack, and muttered, "I feel like I am protecting something."
"Protection?" both Yuwen Hui and Xing Jinglan exclaimed.
Yeluyun didn't respond, staring closely at the movements of the earth spirits, their huge bodies surrounding a group of giant mussels, like a circle of earth walls that had just been built, and the earth spirits continued to expand their bodies, gradually forming a top, which seemed to him like a yellow mud bowl upside down on the river steps.
"It's strange, those giant mussels don't seem to have anything unusual except for their large size, what are they protecting?
"Great Chief, there may be some treasures, why don't you go and see them!"
Yeluyun frowned, and Zhengse said, "Even if there is a treasure, you can't go, the things that the earth spirits gather to guard must be a treasure that is useful to them, even if I take it, it may not be useful,"
Xing Jinglan was silent for a while, like a little girl who had been taught by her elders, and she didn't speak.
Yeluyun knew that its demonic nature had not changed, and it did not have any concept of good and evil, so he did not take it to heart, but he did not dare to give up the exploration of the bottom of the river, after all, these earth spirits could attack the demons who crossed the river at any time, and only negotiation could solve the problem.
"Crystal Blue, can you talk to them?"
"I can't."
"If you can't communicate in words, you can't negotiate, which is a real headache."
"Brother Yun, why don't you try immortal wine!"
Yeluyun suddenly woke up to the fact that since the earth spirit was born and was the most righteous and pure thing, he must be able to feel the elegant and leisurely charm of the immortal wine, and perhaps it could resonate.
Thinking of this, he raised his gun in his right hand and stabbed it forward, and the immortal wine flowed like a river from the tip of the spear.
For the majestic river, the small immortal wine can't play a big role, and other people may not be able to feel the changes in the river, but the most holy and spiritual things in heaven and earth are by no means idle, but the sensitive earth spirit reacted, and the yellow mud cover suddenly opened, and the gathered earth spirit dispersed into individuals again, as if watching Yeluyun.
Yeluyun wanted to show favor to them, but he didn't know how to speak, worried that these naturally grown earth spirits could not understand human language, and he was also worried that too close would cause the other party to be uneasy, in order to show that he was not hostile, he stuck the Xuanwu spirit spear on his back, and then stood on the back of the wind beast and hugged his fist towards the earth spirit group.
The earth spirits seemed to sense his kindness, and a cloud of yellow mud left their companions and drifted to Yeluyun alone.
"I'm not hostile, and I don't want to do it!"
The round bodies of the earth spirits stopped in front of Yeluyun like balls, and a pair of small beads that looked like eyes and non-eyes floated and disappeared on the surface.
"I know you don't like demons, but the demons on the shore are not hostile, they just want to cross the river, please don't disturb."
The earth spirit suddenly stretched out a clay hand and rushed directly towards Yeluyun.
"Great Chief!" Starcrystal Blue exclaimed.
Yeluyun knew that he must not move now, otherwise it would be easy to cause misunderstanding from the other party, so he sat on the back of the wind beast without moving.
The clay hand reached three inches in front of Yeluyun and stopped, then slid down and landed on the jade hand.
Yeluyun smiled slightly, stretched out his left hand and shook it, and suddenly felt that although the muddy water was ugly, it was warm and soft to the touch, just like a girl's green and jade hands, and couldn't help but be surprised.
A cloud of muddy water suddenly popped up from the Earth Spirit's side, dyeing the water yellow, but it was quickly retracted.
Confirming that the other party was not hostile, Yeluyun let out a long sigh of relief, the pure and honest behavior of the earth spirit gave him a good impression, the only pity was that he couldn't communicate in tone, otherwise he would really want to make friends with this group of clay people.
The earth spirit seemed to sense his thoughts, and suddenly leaned closer and wrapped around Yeluyun's body like a hug.
Although the muddy water made Yeluyun dare not compliment, he still held back and accepted the whole ceremony very politely. When the water was clear again, he suddenly noticed the earth spirits on the river steps rolling around on the ground like balls.
"What a lovely bunch of guys!"
Yu Wenhui floated out of the jade hand, and was also amused by the scene in front of her, laughing and swaying.
The muddy water of the earth spirit stretched out again, and without waiting for Yeluyun's consent, he pulled him towards the earth spirit group.
Yeluyun knew that it was not hostile, so he did not struggle, and smiled and groaned closer and closer to the river steps, until he got closer, and found that the giant clam was extremely large, five zhang in diameter and five zhang high.
As a gesture of kindness, he made immortal sake and cleansed the surrounding seawater.
The earth spirit was stimulated by the fairy energy, and was even more kind to him, rolling around them, as if they were cheering something.
The earth spirit leader who led Yeluyun patted the largest mussel, and the huge mussel slowly opened, and a yellow light immediately shot out.
Ye Luyun knew at a glance that it was a strange treasure, moved to the mouth of the mussel and looked carefully, there was indeed an earthy yellow bead in the center of the pink mussel meat, the volume was not large, only about the size of a fist.
"Baby!" Starcrystal Blue screamed again.
"Crystal Blue, don't hit the beads."
"Humph! I'm thinking about you, I don't want it myself! This bead containing the essence of the earth is of little use to me, and if it is the essence of water, I will not be discouraged."
Speaking of the spirit of water, Yeluyun suddenly remembered the bead of fire on the Xuanwu spirit spear, Xuanwu is water, if you can get a water-based treasure such as the "water spirit", you may be able to greatly increase the power of the Xuanwu spirit spear.
The Earth Spirit Leader's body popped out two pieces of muddy water, gently touching the yellow beads like hands, allowing the light to penetrate the muddy water.
"This is the bead that gives life to the earth spirits, isn't it? Yeluyun said with a smile.
The Earth Spirit leader turned into a human form, and his bulb-like head nodded at him.
Yeluyun was overjoyed, smiled and said, "It turns out that you can really understand our words, so it will be convenient."
The pair of small beads of the earth spirit leader dangled in front of Yeluyun.
"There are a million demons on the shore, they are going to cross the river to the west, I hope you can deal with it peacefully, and we will never do anything to you."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden violent tremor from the river steps, like an earthquake.
Before Yeluyun could react, the earth spirits suddenly panicked, quickly condensed, and condensed into an earth cover outside the giant clam as they had just now, covering the giant clam in it, and the giant clam also closed the clam shell, covering Yeluyun inside.
Suddenly locked in the giant clam , Xing Jinglan and Yu Wenhui looked a little flustered.
"Great Chief, what now?"
"Brother Yun, do you want to rush out?"
"Don't panic, the earth spirit has no ill will towards us, this move is not aimed at us, maybe...... They're in some trouble." Yeluyun looked at the place where the mussel shells were closed, the two giant shells were tightly closed, and the flesh-red mussel flesh was soft like a girl's skin, sealing the small gap between the giant shells.
"Could it be that there are other monsters besides the earth spirits at the bottom of the river?"
Yeluyun couldn't help but raise the pitch-black ravine, perhaps it was not natural, but because of some kind of force.
"Such a big river, the Heavenly Court must have sent someone to inspect it, thinking that there is no threat to Mingyuan Heaven here, so there is no seal, but no threat to the Heavenly Man does not mean that there is no threat to other creatures, the earth spirit is a natural life, even they feel uneasy power, I am afraid the power is not small."
Yu Wenhui floated to the side of the yellow bead, Shui Lingling's big eyes looked at the bead curiously, and muttered, "Is it for this bead?"
"Maybe!" Yeluyun subconsciously glanced at the beads, the beads were not only beautiful, but also revealed a magical light, at a glance, he knew that it was a peerless treasure, but there was no greed in his heart, "The treasure must belong to the destined person", this is the truth he has always believed in, the Xuanwu spirit spear, the reverse Lin Heavenly Scepter, and all the pieces of immortal jade, all of which are natural, not forced, so he will return the dragon capture cover to Que Ning without hesitation.
The space inside the giant clam is not small, and it is illuminated by the light of yellow beads, so it feels not oppressive, and the two layers of covers also isolate the sound, and the space is extremely quiet.
"It's really a good place, if it weren't for the millions of demons who needed my guidance, and Wan Ting who needed me to rescue, it might be a pleasing thing to stay here and refine the immortal jade."
Yu Wenhui's eyes lit up, and she said happily, "That's right! Fan Yi Jade still hasn't been cultivated, so I don't know what miracles it will have, but just because it can shock the Eye of Demon Breath, it shouldn't be a vulgar product."
Yeluyun lowered his head and thought about it, the giant clam was an earth spirit thing, and he couldn't forcibly open the passage, and it seemed that he had nothing to do except practice, so he nodded.
When Xing Jinglan heard the name of the immortal jade, she was quite curious about Yeluyun's cultivation, but a young celestial was cultivating the jade of the immortal realm, which sounded a little suspicious at first glance, but all kinds of strange things on Yeluyun's body made everything reasonable.
After searching around, Yeluyun returned to the mussel in the center, sat cross-legged on the ground about a zhang away from the yellow bead, glanced at the star crystal blue on his shoulder, and Zhengse instructed: "Don't do anything, especially don't touch that bead, the earth spirit can tolerate your existence because we show kindness, if there is any abnormal movement, I can't protect myself."
"Got it!" Starcrystal Blue grinned and crawled obediently on her shoulder.
"Hui'er! Let's get started!"
"Good!"
Refining immortal jade is an extremely cumbersome process, especially the attributes and qualities of immortal jade are completely different, if there is an immortal jade of the same attribute, it can be transformed into jade hands, such as the jade of the flower and the jade of the spiral, if it is a new attribute of the immortal jade, it is another matter, just like the jade of the dragon.
Bengnei didn't see the light of day, and he couldn't feel the rotation of time, and in this environment, he devoted himself to cultivation wholeheartedly, and he had no concept of time at all, Yeluyun and Yuwenhui kept using the jade refining technique on Fanyi Jade like crazy people, hoping to crack the first piece of immortal jade harvested in this heavenly realm.
Although Fan Yiyu was shrinking, it was like a huge mountain to the two of them, heavy and tall, and it could only be shaken with unremitting efforts.
I don't know how long later, there was a sudden violent tremor from the giant mussel, and the two people in the cultivation were also awakened, and when they opened their eyes and looked around, the giant mussel did not change at all, and the aftershocks that kept coming from their feet told them that there was a huge force outside that was impacting the giant mussel.
"It's even something outside, and even the earth spirit isn't afraid?"
Yeluyun shook his head, it was useless to speculate at this time, he was trapped in the mussel at the moment, and there was not much he could do.
"I'm going to have to find a way to help the earth spirits, or I'll be able to get out of here at some point."
He sat down on the ground again, thinking hard about how to deal with it, and naturally he couldn't confront the enemy head-on when he was trapped in the mussel, so the only option was to increase the power of the earth spirit, but it was only separated by a layer of giant mussels, and it was really difficult to transmit the power to the earth spirit.
Xingjing Lan complained: "These earth spirits, isn't it more useful for us to go out, we can't enter here, and we have to be disturbed to practice with peace of mind, it's really annoying."
"Crystal Blue, don't be so excited, look at the orb beside you, if the earth spirits didn't treat us as friends, they would never let us turn in the mussels, they didn't want to imprison us, but to protect us, understand?"
Although Xingjinglan is hundreds of years older than Yeluyun, in Yeluyun's eyes, Xingjinglan is like a little girl who has just become sensible, and it is natural to be coquettish and noisy.
Star Crystal Blue didn't respond, only patted her shoulder lightly with her petals, like a child who had done something wrong and begged for mercy in front of adults.
"Brother Yun, I think it's better to use the immortal bar, the thing of the fairy world, even if it doesn't have attack power, it should have some defensive ability."
It's not that Yeluyun hasn't thought about it, it's just that the immortal wine has the effect of killing demons, and although the earth spirits are born and raised, it is difficult to judge whether the immortal wine will hurt them for a while, so he hesitated for a while, and finally decided not to take the risk.