Chapter 36: Yushu
Demon beasts can be described as treasures, in addition to the regular fangs and claws, bone marrow is a good material for neutralizing medicinal properties during alchemy, fur can be used to make soft armor for body protection, and even the animal blood containing aura can also be applied to drawing talismans.
The value of a second-order demon beast, especially a leader like the Bloodthirsty Spider and the Gray Rock Wolf who have awakened the demon pattern, is self-evident.
As soon as the bloodthirsty spider fought, Xiao Hei was inexplicably powerful, and slapped this second-order demon beast to pieces. In addition to the demon core, among the other corpse fragments, the spider-legged short spear has a little bit of use.
However, now an intact gray rock wolf corpse was placed in front of Li Ling's eyes, but unfortunately, he did not have a sharp weapon on his hand to use to cut it.
Moreover, after the demon beast dies, the aura contained in the body will continue to escape to the surroundings, which is a fatal temptation for other demon beasts. Therefore, the experienced demon hunting team will use some special medicinal powder to isolate the smell of blood and breath, and then dissect the corpse to collect materials to avoid attracting more demon beasts.
However, Li Ling didn't have such a professional way to deal with it, and if he delayed it any longer, he might attract stronger demon beasts.
Li Ling stuck the spider-legged short spear upside down on the gray rock wolf's back, tore a hole with the sharp tip of the short spear, and then used the sun binding Luo Gang qi to rip off the back fur of the gray rock wolf.
Li Ling didn't have much interest in other materials, to put it bluntly, it was just that he could exchange for some spirit stones, but the demon pattern on the back fur made him very interested.
After doing all this, Li Ling put all the miscellaneous items into the storage bag, wiped the dirty blood on his hands, and called out Xuan with his mind, he wanted to use the three-dimensional space scanning function of the protagonist's aura to find a new hiding place.
The cave where Li Ling was hiding before was too narrow, and it was a little reluctant to even sit down with his back against the rock wall, let alone accommodate him and Iron Hammer.
Therefore, Li Ling withstood the pressure of exhaustion and used the detection function. At that moment, as if all his spirit had been drained, Li Ling's eyes suddenly went black, and he almost fainted. Fortunately, at the critical moment, the three-grade magic weapon "Purple Dragon Pei" that Zhao Mo gave him protected his mind and began to slowly recover his almost drained divine sense.
Although it consumes a lot of mind, this function is really very useful, and a three-dimensional space map appears in front of Li Ling's eyes. The protagonist's aura even very thoughtfully recommended a hiding place and marked it in light red.
It's a spacious space hidden beneath the waterfall, and the bubbling water can block out most of the scents from their bodies, so they don't have to be on the lookout for sudden attacks from monsters. The only fly in the ointment is that the water of the waterfall is a bit noisy, and the cave is inevitably dark and damp.
However, these are not big problems, after Li Ling lit the fire, the surrounding environment became warm and bright. With support and hope, the state of the hammer has obviously stabilized a lot, although the frowning brow still can't stretch, but at least there will be no more fragile manifestations on the verge of collapse.
"Some of the introductory techniques you've cultivated are too low-end. Li Ling sat cross-legged in front of the hammer, probing his spiritual veins and purple mansion with a trace of gentle pure yang energy. To Li Ling's surprise, although Iron Hammer's talent was not amazing, he was at least a middle-level asset in the cultivation realm, and he was a Xuan-level spiritual vein like himself.
Since there was no problem with Iron Hammer's own spiritual vein quality, the reason for his weak spiritual power could only be that his cultivation was too superficial. Therefore, as long as there are exercises suitable for the iron hammer, supplemented by pills, his cultivation progress will not be too slow.
However, Li Ling only had two Pure Yang Gate inheritance techniques on hand, namely the "Zixia Heart Method" of the Yin attribute and the "Pure Yang Method" created by Dong Xuzi's predecessors.
Although the Pure Yang Sect is quite casual, as a disciple of the Pure Yang Sect, Li Ling is not able to bypass the head of the sect and teach the methods in the door to others privately. Moreover, the iron hammer is a peaceful earth-attribute spiritual vein, and these two exercises with obvious attribute bias are not very suitable for him.
So, what should we do with the cultivation of the iron hammer?
While Li Ling was thinking about it in distress, he suddenly felt an inexplicable dizziness, and then his eyes went dark, as if he was shielded from his five senses, and fell into boundless darkness. Not only could they not see or hear, they could not even make any sound, but even the spiritual imprints on the storage bags were isolated and unusable.
At first, Li Ling thought it was the exhaustion caused by the consumption of his divine consciousness too much, but this feeling as if his soul had been withdrawn from his body did not seem to be the negative impact of his divine consciousness overdraft at all.
He has lost control of his body!
This sudden and strange change made Li Ling subconsciously enter a fighting state, although he was just an ordinary urban white-collar worker before the crossing, and his body was still a little sub-healthy. But after crossing over, especially after coming to the Manggu Forest, after several battles on the edge of life and death, Li Ling had already escaped the novice stage.
It can already be called a true cultivator!
Like muscle memory, the insight pupil technique "Tianming Concept" was instantly opened, the exercises were operational, and the pure yang energy was mobilized from the purple mansion, and in an instant, it spread all over the body, like an army on standby. And the Binding Sun Luo Gang Qi is like a layer of cyan soft armor, which fits Li Ling's skin.
"Xuan!" Li Ling shouted loudly with his mind, but what made people feel desperate was that the machine spirit that was on call in his mind did not reply to him this time.
For the first time since the crossing, Li Ling felt panicked......
Is it the enemy? Is it the group of evil cultivators?!
No...... Unlikely, they don't have such skills......
So what kind of means of reaching the sky can even isolate the protagonist's aura?! The fear of the unknown made Li Ling's back gradually soaked in cold sweat.
Fortunately, this state of deprivation of perception did not last long, and this boundless darkness came and went quickly. The next moment, Li Ling recovered all his senses, but he still couldn't feel Xuan's existence, and the spiritual connection with the protagonist's aura was also intermittent, if there was nothing, it seemed to be blocked and interfered with by something.
But at this time, Li Ling had no time to take care of the spiritual gap between him and the protagonist's aura, he was more concerned about the strange scene that appeared in front of him.
The original waterfall cave has disappeared, and the place where Li Ling is now seems to be at the bottom of an extremely deep valley, and in front of him is a shallow bay as smooth as a mirror, filled with moist water vapor, reflecting the countless stars in the sky overhead.
In the middle of the repulse bay, there is a towering tree that glows with a pale blue fluorescence, its trunk as translucent as white jade, and its leaves as clear as glass.
Under the glazed jade tree, there stood a slender woman with delicate eyes, wrapped in a tulle dress that blended indigo and plain color, ethereal like a fairy in mythology, not contaminated with dust and fireworks.
She seemed to have no weight, standing above the water, and she also stood in the reflection of the galaxy. The watery eyes are rippling, like the surface of the lake wrinkled by the wind in early spring, with a hint of a smile, looking at Li Ling from afar.
"You're here. The woman smiled and spoke, as if she was talking to an old man she hadn't seen for a long time.
For some reason, Li Ling, who was so panicked just now, calmed down at the moment. Although he didn't know the identity of the strange woman in front of him and why all this happened, with such a simple greeting, a soft, hot breath was imprinted on Li Ling's chest.
The gentleness and affinity that the woman quietly conveyed instantly dissolved his suspicions and vigilance, and even made Li Ling have a good impression of her.
However, it is very inexplicable that Li Ling can feel that this kind of good feeling does not come from the woman's own gentle temperament, but seems to have a good impression of her subconsciously in his heart.
Psychological suggestion? Or ...... Is it some kind of mental hypnosis?
"Do you know me?" Li Ling looked at the woman and said thoughtfully.
The woman smiled and did not answer, but beckoned to him, and then turned and walked towards the glazed jade tree in the repulse bay.
This is...... Let me pass?
There are no pontoon bridges or ferries in this repulse bay, can it be said that ......
A flash of realization flashed in Li Ling's eyes, and he tried to stretch out a foot and lightly stepped on the water, as if he was alarmed, and the water mirror rippled with fine ripples.
Although it looked the same as the usual fluctuations in the water surface, he could clearly feel that there seemed to be an invisible force under his feet that lifted him up so that he would not fall into the water.
The woman walked slowly to the glass jade tree, and with a flick of her fingers, the scene and space around her were like living creatures, constantly turning and changing, and tables, chairs, and benches appeared under the originally empty tree.
The woman sat down casually, took out a set of white jade tea sets out of nowhere, and after warming the cup, she took care of the tea and made it herself, and her technique was very skillful.
"Who the hell are you?" Li Ling did not walk directly to the table, but kept a certain distance from the woman, with a somewhat questioning tone.
"Have you finished reading "The True Solution of the Technique"?" the woman did not answer Li Ling's question directly, and raised her head while pouring tea and asked rhetorically.
"How do you know that I have ......" Li Ling hadn't finished speaking, but he had a general answer to the question he wanted to ask.
Those who can know the true solution of the "Shu Gong", except for him and Xuan, there can be no third person......
Unless......
"Are you Long's senior?" Li Ling looked the woman up and down and said his guess.
"Now, you can sit down and have a cup of tea, right?" the woman blinked and smiled at Li Ling.
Li Ling wiped her face a little embarrassed, she seemed to be overreacting, if she was really hostile to herself, she wouldn't have said so much to him softly.
"I'm not really Long, I'm just a remnant of her soul left in 'The True Solution', or rather, a backup mechanism. The woman handed Li Ling a cup of tea, and then her jade finger tapped on the table, as if to accentuate her tone, and said:
"The real Long is dead. ”