Li Ling was woken up by the icy rain, and the weather in the Manggu Forest was very changeable, and the torrential rain would fall as soon as it was poured. The sky was covered with heavy dark clouds of iron gray, and from time to time thunderbolts swept by.

Li Ling's clothes were drenched almost instantly, and the heavy rain reminded him of his previous life when he traveled to Xishuangbanna, Yunnan with his family, and was poured into a large basin by a Dai girl at the Songkran Festival.

The bean-sized rain smashed on his face, so mushy that he couldn't open his eyes, and his soaked body was blown by the wind, freezing his spine and bones.

"The cold ice rain slapped indiscriminately on his face!" Li Ling suddenly sang loudly as if he had a convulsion, and pretended to learn Andy Lau's tone and the not-so-standard Mandarin. Then he smirked twice, took a deep breath, and clenched his fists.

Survived!

There was a throbbing pain at the center of his eyebrows, and Li Ling knew in his heart that it was the consequence of the overuse of Tianmingguan and the overdraft of his divine sense.

After a little bit of strength, Li Ling stood up with the Moyu sword embryo, wiped the rain from his face, and carefully probed the surroundings. The second-order demon beast bloodthirsty spider that had once cornered itself had completely lost its life at this moment, and its hard body was suddenly violently powered, and the little black claw that transformed into a giant beast was slapped into pieces of flesh and blood. A goose-yellow second-order Gengjin demon core was washed away by the rain, and it emitted a soft glow in the pile of minced meat.

"Xuan, how long have I been in a coma?" Li Ling didn't rush to get the demon core, but stood in place and pinched his brows as he asked out loud.

"Eight hours and twenty-three minutes. Xuan replied dutifully through the spiritual link, his tone was like an energetic little secretary, and his state was much better than that of Xi He, who had no spiritual power supply because the Purple Mansion was emptied.

"So long?" Li Ling's expression was a little surprised, more than eight hours, but whenever a demon beast passed by, he should be in a state of being chewed up now.

Fortunately, the area where Li Ling is located is the outer area of the Manggu Forest, and the aura of the second-order bloodthirsty spider is enough to scare off most of the low-level demon beasts, not to mention the mysterious power generated after the small black mutation, which almost makes the birds and beasts disappear within a radius of dozens of miles, so in the more than eight hours that Li Ling was unconscious, no other demon beast dared to approach here.

Recalling Xiao Hei's strange changes before he fell unconscious, Li Ling hurriedly looked around, only to see Xiao Hei still lying motionless on the ground, his eyes closed, and his expression a little painful.

The heavy rain drenched Xiao Hei as well, and seeing that the rain was getting heavier and heavier, Li Ling picked up Xiao Hei and ran towards the stone crevice where he had been hiding before.

Fortunately, Li Ling had stored some extra firewood in the stone crevice, and after igniting the fire with the black jade sword embryo wrapped around the "molten gold" sword momentum, the temperature of the stone crevice space gradually began to rise.

Li Ling put Xiao Hei next to the fire, and he took off his soaked clothes and dried them by the fire.

As his body temperature rises, Blackie's condition is gradually getting better, and his breathing is becoming more and more stable, but he still looks very weak. Li Ling held his chin and looked at Xiao Hei, his head full of questions.

According to the theory of Dong Xuzi's predecessors, the so-called demon beasts are birds and beasts that have evolved in size and ability in the process of adapting to the aura molecules. The spirit veins of the demon beasts are occluded, and they cannot open the veins and embark on the path of cultivation like humans. But the demon beasts have their own unique method of becoming stronger, that is, devouring spirits.

Soul devouring, as the name suggests, is the devouring of spiritual power. Demon beasts can strengthen themselves by ingesting all animistic substances, digesting and absorbing them. For example, devouring naturally formed spirit stones, spirit crystals, heavenly and earthly treasures, cherished minerals and Ganoderma lucidum fairy grass, etc., and even directly devouring the flesh and blood of human monks and other demon beasts to obtain spiritual power.

This primitive devouring instinct drove the demon beasts to attack the human monks and other demon beasts, which was why most of the demon beasts had a ferocious and tyrannical temperament.

Therefore, compared to other demon beasts, Xiao Hei is much more special, after all, there has never been a precedent in the Tianyang Spirit Realm for wild demon beasts to protect humans. If it weren't for Xiao Hei's sudden transformation to kill the bloodthirsty spider, he would have been a dry corpse by now.

Thinking of the demon beast devouring the soul, Li Ling suddenly had an idea, took out the demon core of the echinoderm pig from the storage bag, and carefully placed it in front of Xiao Hei.

Li Ling originally had the mentality of giving it a try, but he didn't expect to find the right way by mistake, although Xiao Hei was now in an unconscious state, but after feeling the abundant spiritual power contained in the second-order demon core, he saw that his mouth was slightly open, and wisps of light cyan spiritual power seeped out of the demon core and merged into Xiao Hei's body.

With such a stable spiritual power supplement as the demon core, the painful expression on Xiao Hei's face gradually faded, and the speed of absorbing the demon core became faster and faster.

Seeing Xiao Hei's state improve, Li Ling finally breathed a sigh of relief. Leaning back against the stone wall, feeling the empty Purple Mansion, and Xi He, who was suspended on the Purple Mansion, the red light was dim, and his expression was sluggish, and a wry smile appeared on his face. After reaching out and filling a Peiyuan Pill in his mouth, Li Ling ran the "Pure Yang Decision" to recover his spiritual power.

After exerting all his strength to perform the "Sword Slashing Red Sky", Li Ling's physical condition was even worse than he thought, and the spiritual veins all over his body seemed to have been cut by a knife, as long as the spiritual power passed through, it was an unbearable severe pain. After barely running the pure yang energy for a week, Li Ling's face was only pale and white, and beads of sweat the size of beans came out finely and densely, dripping down his cheeks. If Tang Tang hadn't tempered his pain-resistant ability with a sword duel, it is estimated that Li Ling would have fainted in pain by this time.

After the spiritual power flowed through the body, the previous feeling of weakness and powerlessness that permeated the whole body subsided. Li Ling didn't forget to feed Xihe a wisp of pure yang energy, and with the replenishment of spiritual power, she also recovered her vitality.

At the same time, the healing abilities that lurked in the hundreds of bones of Li Ling's limbs also began to work, and they wrapped and began to repair those damaged spiritual veins. And this is exactly the effect that Jian Lao spent a lot of money to give him the "Ice Muscle Jade Bone Glass Body" that he had been soaking for several months.

This sky-high medicinal bath can not only speed up the progress of Li Ling's body refining, but also strengthen his healing ability, so the flesh and skin scars on Li Ling's body that were cut by bloodthirsty spiders have almost recovered at this moment.

I'm afraid that Jian Lao had foreseen that Li Ling would toss himself all over his body, so he would insist on taking a medicinal bath.

With the blessing of the dual medicinal power of Pei Yuan Dan and the "Ice Muscle Jade Bone Glass Body", the damaged spiritual veins in Li Ling's body became wider and stronger in the repair. And at this moment, with Xihe's help, the speed of Li Ling's spiritual veins absorbing spiritual energy has risen to a new level. Although it is still a Xuan-level spiritual vein, the cultivation speed is not much lower than that of a ground-level spiritual vein.

All this made the ninth vein gate, which had not been moved before and was tightly closed, actually show signs of loosening. Feeling the abundant power in his body, Li Ling determined that now was the best time to break through the nine veins of Fengchu in one go!

Li Ling suppressed the excitement in his heart, held his breath and concentrated, trying to calm his mood. At the same time, he reached out and took out five high-grade spirit stones from the storage bag and placed them around him. This is a very simple spirit gathering array, almost everyone in the cultivation realm can use the spiritual power contained in the spirit stone to increase the concentration of spiritual energy around it.

However, because the transformation efficiency of spiritual energy is very low, nearly half of the spiritual power in the spirit stone will be wasted, which consumes spirit stones very much, so this kind of spirit gathering array is not commonly used, and it is generally only used when the family is rich or at critical moments.

The concentration of the aura in the stone crack space was instantly raised to a level by the Spirit Gathering Array, and Li Ling's breathing was slow and steady, and he began to greedily absorb the energy from the outside world, in preparation for impacting his own occluded ninth vein.

The pure and peaceful aura was captured by the eight veins, scrambling to burrow into Li Ling's body.

The ninth vein gate is the Kunhai vein gate located in the abdomen, corresponding to the location of the Purple Mansion, once an accident occurs when the Kunhai vein gate is opened, then the Purple Mansion will be injured. Therefore, the Kunhai Pulse Gate is the most difficult of the nine major Pulse Gates to open, and it is also the most dangerous.

As an innate spirit, Xihe was born with the ability to manipulate aura, so Li Ling completely handed over the step of inducing qi into the body to her, and he devoted himself to breaking through the veins.

With Xihe providing a steady supply of spiritual energy, the spiritual power in his body was surging, and Li Ling controlled them as if he was leading his own thousands of troops and horses, and launched a charge against the veins like city walls!

The flow of spiritual power crashed on the veins, like waves crashing against the reef on the shore, again and again, launching attacks one after another. In less than a moment, the five spirit stones beside Li Ling lost their light and turned into powder. So he hurriedly added five more spirit stones to maintain the operation of the Spirit Gathering Array.

After consuming nearly a hundred top-grade spirit stones, cracks finally appeared in the Kunhai Vein Gate, and Li Ling seized the opportunity, and the wave of spiritual power poured out, breaking through the Vein Gate in one fell swoop!

The nine major veins were all opened, and all the spiritual veins in Li Ling's body instantly resonated, like a whole.

Li Ling's eyes opened suddenly, and in the pitch-black pupils, a faint golden light flowed. His mouth opened slightly, and he exhaled a cloudy breath.

After opening his eyes and being stunned for a long time, Li Ling reacted and successfully broke through!

Fengchu Nine Veins Realm!

Clenched his fists, and a sense of full strength made the corners of Li Ling's mouth hook up with a touch of joy.

Now that he is facing the bloodthirsty spider again, he may really be able to kill it alone.

Thinking of this, Li Ling suddenly realized that before the battle with the bloodthirsty spider, the protagonist's aura had issued a mission, so he hurriedly said to Xuan with his mind: "Xuan, call up the protagonist's aura interface." ”

In the next second, the concise interface of the protagonist's aura had already appeared in front of Li Ling's eyes.

The protagonist's value balance has been changed from 0 to 100, which is exactly the reward for the quest [Kill the Bloodthirsty Spider]. Although it was Xiao Hei who killed the bloodthirsty spider in the end, Li Ling, who caused serious injuries to the bloodthirsty spider, was judged by the aura to have completed the task.

100 protagonist points, enough to try the new features of the aura yourself.

"Then let's give it a try. Li Ling rubbed his hands in anticipation and whispered, "Low-level random lottery!"