Chapter 15: The Valley of the Soul
Ji Lao was leisurely drinking tea, Qi Guofeng suddenly ran over in a hurry and whispered in Ji Lao's ear for a while. Ji Lao's eyes narrowed slightly, and then he took care of him: "You go to Lingjiapu once and help me get a senior membership card." In addition, I have been going there at least once a day recently, and I must let a little more people see you appear in Ling's shop. During this period of Zixuan's absence, don't let others move the Ling family. ”
Looking at Guo Feng, who immediately got up and rushed to the Ling family's shop, Ji Lao smiled and stroked his beard, which had completely turned white. and let this stinky boy owe himself a favor.
The "Soul Valley" is on the westernmost side of Mangya Prefecture in the Three Prefectures of the East China Sea, and Ling Zixuan and Ji Lingshan, who came from Donghai City, appeared in a hotel with luxurious facilities in Mangya City. The carriage for three whole days also made the two of them a little tired. Especially considering that Ji Lingshan is still a girl, she always has to find a hotel for her to wash up and rest.
Ling Zixuan, as always, was accustomed to recovering his strength by meditating and cultivating. Although he was busy these days, he didn't let go of his cultivation at all, but faintly felt like he was about to break through.
In order to refine those dozen or so Restoration Pills, Ling Zixuan also exhausted his spiritual power many times. On the contrary, after the withered dantian recovers its spiritual power, it will be improved compared to before. Judging from the current situation, in about ten days at most, he can break through to the consummation of the Qi Cultivation Realm, and it seems that the Quenching Body Realm is just around the corner. If he hadn't wanted to use the spirit stones he had obtained from Ji Lao and Wan Li to arrange the formation, he might have been able to absorb them into the quenching realm immediately, but the resources were still too lacking!
There was a knock on the door, and when Ling Zixuan opened the door, he saw a smile that amazed him. Ji Lingshan, who had finished grooming, was as delicate as a hibiscus out of water, and Ling Zixuan, who was watching it, was stunned for a moment.
"Fool, let me in." After waking up in Ji Lingshan's silver bell-like voice, Ling Zixuan sighed that his cultivation had fallen so badly that he couldn't resist Ji Lingshan's beauty. Looking at Ling Zixuan's clean mattress, Ji Lingshan knew that he was meditating and cultivating again.
"Zixuan, I feel that in the past few days with you, my martial arts cultivation has improved rapidly, and I have reached the peak of my internal strength, and I am about to break through to transform my strength. Isn't it a great help to me to cultivate with you? ”
Ji Lingshan obviously felt that the true qi in her body these days was much more condensed than before, and it operated regularly, unlike the previous appearance of the true qi scattered and difficult to order.
In the past two days, as long as you calm down and meditate, you can clearly feel that the true qi in your body is running in your body in an orderly manner under your control.
Ling Zixuan smiled and said nothing, Ji Lingshan saw him pretending again, and puffed angrily, "Hmph!" "For a moment.
"Actually, the exercises I practice can absorb the energy of heaven and earth, which is what you think is the aura of heaven and earth, so if you are by my side for a long time, you will also be impregnated with aura, isn't it great?" Ling Zixuan explained.
"In addition, the spirit crystal pendant I gave you also has the effect of helping you stabilize your breath, and the spirit crystal itself will emit a faint aura, so that you can wear it close to your body to absorb spiritual energy with the help of spirit crystals."
After listening to Ling Zixuan's explanation, Ji Lingshan suddenly became enlightened. She decided to cultivate hard and break through to the Martial Arts Grandmaster as soon as possible, otherwise she would not be able to keep up with Ling Zixuan's progress.
The two of them unconsciously felt empty in their stomachs as they talked, so they went downstairs together to find something to eat.
Although it was already time to eat, there were just a few vacant seats downstairs, so Ling Zixuan asked Xiao Er to help them recommend a few local specialties, and then ordered a pot of wine, and warmed it up and had a few drinks with Ji Lingshan.
"Have you heard, Lin Ruiyang, the master of Linjiang City, went to the Soul Separation Valley a few days ago, saying that he was going to get the soul grass, but it has been several days, and there is no news at all, I guess...
Another diner responded, "Isn't it, there have been several teams of people entering the valley recently, all in search of the Dementor Grass, but unfortunately there are many people who go in and few who come out." The main thing is that it's the season again ... ”
The two of them were drinking wine and eating food, when they heard the surrounding diners talking about some things in the Valley of the Soul. Ling Xixuan asked curiously, "This brother, did you say that the Soul Separation Valley would become very special before this season?" ”
"Little brother, at first glance, you are an outsider, starting from late autumn every year, the Soul Valley is the season when the Dementor Grass appears the most, but this season the Soul Valley will be covered by fog for a long time, and it is difficult for people who enter the valley to distinguish the direction, so it is easy to get lost. However, the temptation of the Dementor Grass is too great, so there are always people who are not afraid of death to try their luck. ”
After Ling Zixuan heard this, he had a better understanding of the Soul Leaving Valley. However, he was not worried, there were no places in the many planetary continents in the Northern Regions that he Ling Zixuan did not dare to go. It's just that you have to be careful to protect Ji Lingshan, and you can't let this girl make a mistake. He decided to process Ji Lingshan's spirit crystal pendant at night, so that she could have more ability to save her life.
Holding the pendant with Ji Lingshan's residual warmth in his hand, Ling Zixuan couldn't help but think about it again. Then he took out the lightning stone, used his fingers to control a trace of spiritual power, slowly went deep into the lightning stone, and absorbed the power of thunder and lightning hidden in the lightning stone in his fingertips, and then quickly made a fingerprint with his left hand, sealing the power of thunder and lightning in the pendant.
It seemed like a few simple steps, but Ling Zixuan was already sweating profusely. After all, the current strength is still too weak, and there can be no mistake in controlling the spiritual power to lead the thunder into the formation, and if you are not careful, it will attract the thunder, although it will not do anything to him, but this hotel, and even Ji Lingshan next door will inevitably suffer a lot of damage.
For a whole night, Ling Zixuan only succeeded in drawing out three thunderbolts and lightning powers, which were integrated into Ji Lingshan's pendant, but it was enough for Ji Lingshan to use, which was equivalent to giving her the means to save her life three times.
Looking at the unchanged pendant in her hand, Ji Lingshan looked at Ling Zixuan with a haggard face in a daze. "What earth-shattering things did you do this night, how did you make this person look like a ghost?"
"I did something for my daughter-in-law, haha!" Ling Zixuan joked.
This obscure words provoked Ji Lingshan's slam again, looking at Ji Lingshan's angry and slightly shy face, Ling Zixuan was very arrogant.
The name of Mangya Prefecture comes from the Mangya Mountain Range, which runs east-west for hundreds of miles, and belongs to the eastern branch of the Hundred Beast Mountain Range, the largest mountain range in Lizhou, and extends to the East China Sea, and the Soul Leaving Valley is on the west side of this Mangya Mountain Range.
Ling Zixuan and Ji Lingshan came to the town at the entrance of the Soul Valley, this town had no name, and over time it was called a nameless town. Everyone who enters the Valley of the Soul will stay in the nameless town for one night, making supplies is a trivial matter, and the Valley of the Leaving Soul at the main night is even more sinister, there are often ghosts crying wolves, ghost-like sounds, so no one dares to enter the valley at night.
Ling Zixuan and the others were no exception, and they planned to stay in the only hotel in the town for one night.
As soon as I entered the hotel, I saw a girl about fifteen years old, with long black and bright hair, draped in a snow-white robe all over her body, although her face was beautiful, but it was extremely pale, with a layer of blood missing, obviously revealing a sickness. And beside her sat four adult men plus an old man.
After several people saw Ling Zixuan and Ji Lingshan come in, they all looked at them, their faces slightly nervous. Only after the girl saw Ji Lingshan's beauty, she smiled and said, "My sister is so beautiful!" ”
After Ji Lingshan smiled and thanked her, she and Ling Zixuan went to the counter to ask for two guest rooms, and then, like the group of people, sat in the hall and ordered something to eat.
"That girl must be suffering from some serious illness, look at her pale face and slightly purple lips, so pitiful." Ji Lingshan glanced at the girl again and sighed.
"It's not a disease, it's possessed by a ghost." Ling Zixuan knew the girl's problem at a glance.
Ji Lingshan's face changed, it was the first time she had heard this kind of ghost possession. Ling Zixuan didn't want to explain, so he asked Ji Lingshan not to say anything more and stop being nosy. After the two of them ate something casually, they directly took the key to the guest room, entered the room to rest, and prepared to enter the valley early the next morning. And from the beginning to the end, no one spoke except for the girl who said a word to Ji Lingshan.
The Valley of the Soul is steep on three sides, and only a few tens of meters wide of the valley mouth is exposed, and a thick mist spreads out from the valley mouth, making the entire valley even more mysterious and weird. Ling Zixuan and the others looked at Taniguchi and walked in without hesitation. And not far behind them, the group of people with the maiden also followed into the valley.
Although the valley was filled with dense fog, it did not affect Ling Zixuan's vision in the slightest. As a cultivator, his sense of sight and hearing was much better than that of mortals, and if he hadn't taken care of Ji Lingshan, he would have flown into the depths of the valley long ago. However, Ji Lingshan is also a person at the peak of internal strength after all, under the leadership of Ling Zixuan, he quickly adapted to the environment in the valley, and the two slowly went deep into the valley.
Along the way, Ling Zixuan had been focusing on the breath and movement of the red python, and he didn't care about any spirit grass such as soul grass, but Ji Lingshan looked around, and pocketed all the herbs that Ling Zixuan had missed, and was ridiculed by Ling Zixuan as a little daughter-in-law of the Gu family. As soon as he finished laughing at Ji Lingshan, he saw a black shadow attacking Ji Lingshan at a rapid speed, Ling Zixuan waved his right hand and struck at the black shadow with a palm. After a scream, a squirrel-like beast appeared on the ground, and Ji Lingshan was startled. She didn't even react to being attacked by the beast.
Ling Zixuan looked at the beast corpse on the ground, and then said to Ji Lingshan: "This should belong to a low-level demon beast, you see." I saw Ling Zixuan grab the demon beast with his right hand, and under the stimulation of the spiritual power in Ling Zixuan's palm, it suddenly emitted a yin soul qi, and then dissipated.
Ji Lingshan felt a chill on her back, and it seemed that this Yin Soul Qi had a great impact on her. At the moment when she felt the Yin Soul enter her body, a warm heat suddenly came out from the pendant on her chest, directly dispelling the Yin Soul Qi that had invaded her body just now. Only then did Ji Lingshan understand how magical the pendant Ling Zixuan gave her was, and couldn't help but look at Ling Zixuan.
"You follow me, don't leave me half a step, since there are already demon beasts here, your little martial arts may not be enough." After speaking, Ling Zixuan naturally grabbed Ji Lingshan's soft and boneless little hand and continued to move forward.
Ji Lingshan was startled by his sudden movement, she broke free for a while, her face turned red, and she simply let Ling Zixuan take her little hand and walk deeper into the valley.