All night, Chen Dengming did not practice and maintained twelve points of vigilance.

Fortunately, the mad spider demon beast that had lost a hundred sons and thousands of grandchildren did not attack the Gu Refining Field, nor did it attack the gathering place, but after venting for a while, its figure disappeared into the distant mountain forest.

Faintly, more similar roars could be heard from the depths of the forest.

Hearing that similar roar, Chen Dengming was glad that he just set a fire and ran away, feeling refreshed and excited, but he didn't take much risk, otherwise he was afraid that he would be ambushed by the demon beast.

Before, I yelled at something, 'one knife for three thousand miles, can clear the demon sea', and after the roar, I will temporarily see that it will be settled.

At present, the strength is humble, how much can you eat and how big a bowl of rice, you can't eat 3,000 miles with a knife, and it's still okay to burn 3,000 little spiders with a fire.

He immediately returned to the valley with peace of mind.

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The next morning, it was not yet dawn.

Chen Dengming endured the nausea one by one and drank the rice porridge cooked by Lingmi.

Seeing the plump grains of spiritual rice swirling in the bowl, he couldn't help but think of the little spiders that wriggled between the flesh and fat last night, and he was sick to his stomach.

But if you don't eat, you can't do it, and you have to eat to recover quickly if you have to eat your physical strength and aura.

At this time, Jiang Qiang, who had never returned, crept back safely, judging from his cautious performance, it was obvious that he had seen the grand occasion of last night.

When he learned that the person who set off the fire to draw out the demon beast was Chen Dengming, Jiang Qiang was shocked and stunned, and after a while, he could only give a thumbs up and say that it has to be me Brother Chen.

"It's not like I went out to look for you, thinking you were eaten by a demon beast."

Chen Dengming rolled his eyes, and after repeating yesterday's situation, he asked if he could ask for help from Luojiashan City or Zhujiashan City in this situation now.

As expected, this kind of proposal made Jiang Qiang laugh, and then laughed, gradually laughing out of sad tears, and waved his hand to tell Chen Dengming not to say anything, it was too naïve.

The world of cultivating immortals is the place that pays the most attention to reality, interests, and resources.

It's not that there are no chivalrous immortal sects or immortal cultivators at all.

Such as the famous Wuyun Sect, the World Pavilion, the Hundred Flowers Sect, etc.

However, none of these sects or vassal forces are within the scope of the Southern Regions.

For the Luo family and the Zhu family, it is the scattered cultivation of the gathering place that needs to depend on them to survive.

For example, they gave some resource points that the families in the nearby sphere of influence couldn't take care of by hand, and handed them over to the casual cultivators to take care of.

Most of the resource profits generated were handed over to them, and the rest was enough for the cultivators to grin.

The life and death of the scattered cultivators in the gathering place cannot be said to have nothing to do with the two major families.

It can only be said that when the matter is not serious enough to a certain extent, some monks and mortals die, and the people of the two major families will not be moved and interfere at all.

Even once the two sides pinched up, just like this time, the scattered cultivators became cannon fodder, but no one from the two immortal cultivation families died.

Every year, there are many casual cultivators and innate mortals, migrating from more barren and dangerous places.

There are too many people, and the resources in the gathering places are not enough.

Every winter, a group of people die to satisfy the hunger of the demon beast, and after the demon beast is a little stronger, the two major families will send high-level monks to surround and kill it, and the precious spiritual wealth on the demon beast can be sold for a better price......

Wouldn't this be a good balance and circulation, even if the money was bloody and stained with countless lives......

Chen Dengming was puzzled at first, and then quickly thought about everything clearly, and couldn't help but feel even more depressed and disappointed in this indifferent to cold-blooded world of cultivating immortals.

"In this world, it is said that demon beasts eat people, but it is better to say that people eat people!"

He once again strengthened his ambition to become stronger and live longer, but he resolutely could not abandon the bottom line and emotions that people should stick to in order to live long enough and become stronger.

Otherwise, even if the future is immortal, what is the difference between it and a completely ruthless and cold four-dimensional creature?

After people become stronger and live longer, they must also be flesh and blood and emotional.

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After Jiang Qiang came back, Chen Dengming was also a lot more relieved.

From the other side, I learned that because of the truce outside, the gathering place also returned to calm.

Even the Zhu family had already spoken out and began to recall a large number of scattered mortals and the Shang Alliance and other neutral forces that had left, and re-enlivened the gathering place to its former activity.

Obviously, they also need to revive the economy of the agglomeration, and they also need the manpower to start quickly developing the many resources that have just been regained.

Chen Dengming didn't join in the fun, he cultivated in the valley, and was a little scornful of the Zhu family's attitude.

Before fighting, drive everyone out, whether they live or die, or even use them as cannon fodder.

After the fight, he said that it was for your safety before, and he was afraid that he would hurt the innocent when he beat it, but now that he is safe, he can go back.

Many mortals and even casual cultivators have to pinch their noses and admit that the wild is more dangerous and more difficult to survive, so they can only accept their fate and go back, which is not sad.

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In the blink of an eye, another half a month has passed.

It's late winter, and spring is about to begin.

It's still cold in the valley, and the thawing mountain spring water, carrying pieces of ice floe, drifts down from the cracks in the mountains.

Suddenly, a golden aura flashed.

The flowing mountain spring ice floe suddenly solidified, and it actually directly condensed into a cold and hard luster like brilliant metal, and then smashed on the spring channel with the water flow.

'Squeak', 'Squeak'!

Chen Dengming stepped on the ice floe and approached, picked up this piece of 'ice floe', and looked at the ice floe that had been condensed into gold by the alchemy spell.

You can feel that it is full of gold aura.

It was the strangeness of these aura combined with the Dao method that condensed ice into gold, and the specific principle was something he couldn't understand now.

However, as long as the gold aura in it is depleted, the ice floe will still recover.

Chen Dengming bowed slightly, and then pinched the trick to cast a spell.

After a moment's breath, he casually pointed to the rock in front of him.

"Condensation!"

The rock instantly crossed a layer of metallic luster, and changed to gold with Chen Dengming's mind, looking golden, no different from real gold, but it was full of golden aura.

"This bit of alchemy is really interesting, but after practicing it so much, after so many years of practice, this technique is performed on different substances, and the aura consumed is also different."

Chen Dengming bowed slightly, grabbed the metal ice floe and absorbed it.

Soon, the golden aura in the metal water flow was sucked away by him, and after the ice floe partially recovered, it turned into water and fell to the ground.

During this period of time, in addition to cultivating the Three-Element Gathering Spirit Skill, most of his time was spent practicing the first-order and fourth-level alchemy technique.

This technique is easy to learn and difficult to master, and it consumes a lot of aura, especially when it is performed on monks, it is quite consuming and will be resisted by the opponent's aura.

However, after the spell is successfully cast, it can turn part of the opponent's body or the entire person into a metal sculpture, which is difficult to move, and even faints and dies directly if it hits the heart, brain and other vital points.

After learning this method, his longevity limit has also been increased by five years, and now the longevity limit has reached 282 years.

However, after cultivating to this day, the spirit stones in his hands have been consumed again.

The cultivation of the Three-Element Gathering Spirit Gong has reached nearly a quarter of the progress, and it is hopeless to break through to the fifth level of Qi cultivation in a short period of time.

Chen Dengming was already planning to leave the valley and go out to have a look, looking for opportunities to obtain more cultivation resources.

At this time, Jiang Qiang, who had gone out to listen to the news, happened to return in a hurry, his face was both excited and ugly, and he brought back a piece of news that shocked Chen Dengming's heart.

"Brother Chen, Qian Yuan is dead, I heard that he was killed by Xu Ning and Lin Hu, and the body is now hanging outside the gathering place, Xu Ning is really ruthless, haha, ruthless! Qian Yuan, damn it! ”

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