Chapter 108: The Verge
A dagger with black gas, a small banner as red as blood and fishy gas, a short gray light flowing, and four vials of different colors and materials. A pile of irregular stones with a grayish-black sheen. In addition, there are three books of different styles.
He Lingfeng tried them one by one, and found that daggers, small flags, and short ges could not be injected with spiritual power, it seemed that there were several magic weapons, and he opened the four bottles one by one, and identified them, and they were also several elixirs for demon cultivation that he had heard of for a long time, as for the pile of gray-black stones, they were similar to spirit stones, and they were magic stones containing yin and evil qi that could only be used by demon cultivators.
As soon as he saw that the magic weapons and pills in front of him were all things that he couldn't use, He Lingfeng's expectations couldn't help but drop a few points, and he looked at these three classics with some interest. The first black jade slip recorded the "Hundred Tricks Imperial Spirit Sutra", the art of the Hundred Beasts Mountain, which became famous, He Lingfeng took a cursory look at it, and found that this technique needs to be based on the Demon Dao Technique to practice, although the way of the spirit is indeed exquisite and abnormal, but he can only use it for reference at most, and it has little effect.
The second book is even more useless, it is the magic skill "Nine Changes of Insect Spirit" cultivated by Wan Tianhao, He Lingfeng lost interest when he saw the name, and he didn't bother to open it at all.
However, when his gaze fell on the palm-sized, smooth and delicate black metal square at the end, he couldn't help but be stunned, a little stunned, and then showed an ecstatic expression.
I saw that the edge of it was inscribed with some strange but delicate patterns in the form of relief, and the three ancient words of "no shadow escape" were engraved vertically in the center.
"This ...... It's really a bit of a daydream, just now I was still worried about the retreat technique, and now I immediately got a mysterious retreat technique, I really did, I actually forgot to use this kind of retreat at the beginning of the battle with Wan Tianhao, if it wasn't for my immortal spirit Tianmu restraint, to see through the traces, just with that powerful ability comparable to the teleportation of a Divine Soul Realm monk, Wan Tianhao would be enough to solve me at the beginning of the battle. ”
He Lingfeng muttered for a while, then he was no longer distracted, and after probing his spiritual sense into this black metal piece, he obtained the entire secret technique of "Shadowless Escape". Then, without saying a word, he sat down and began to study it from beginning to end.
""Shadowless Escape", the eight-grade escape technique of the ground level, is to turn into a shadow, beyond the limit of one's own speed, the extreme, need to meet the realm, can turn into the shadow of nothingness, a hundred miles in an instant...... If you want to practice this retreat technique, you need to cultivate at least the Yuan Infant Realm, and the limit of this realm can be reached in an instant within a radius of twenty zhang......"
In the following time, He Lingfeng spent peacefully in the comprehension technique.
The situation at the border is becoming more tense by the day. And the alliance's judgment was really correct, within a few days, several other teams sent out to carry out sabotage missions behind enemy lines at about the same time as He Lingfeng and others returned one after another, these teams all suffered more or less certain losses, some suffered more than half of the casualties, some damaged the high-ranking monks of the territory, and even two teams lost contact, none of them were able to return, and it is very likely that they have all fallen and died.
Because of this previous series of events, within a month after the battle with Wan Tianhao, the top level of the alliance did not send any sabotage team, but only sent spies from time to time to monitor the movements of the demon cultivators of the Baili Kingdom, and no longer acted rashly.
During this period, He Lingfeng's task also became a greatly less dangerous action of leading a team to patrol the border and several important places around the camp, which could be said to be much easier, and occasionally he could catch one or two demon cultivators.
On the third day when he began to lead the patrol, He Lingfeng finally met the person who helped him improve his actual combat experience, it was the sworn brother he hadn't seen for many years - Feng Wuchen.
In the many years since the Tianyi Sect and the other parted, the name of Feng Wuchen has become more and more loud day by day in the cultivation world near Xuanhe Prefecture, and its strength has now already reached the middle stage of the Yuan Infant, and in the process of the confrontation between the righteous and the demons, it has killed countless demon cultivators, which makes the demon cultivators of the Baili Kingdom want to get rid of it quickly, but it also makes the high-level members of the Righteous Path Alliance appreciate it, and even often follow the sect leader of the Tianyi Sect, Pu Fanzi, the leader of the Righteous Path Alliance, to participate in some major decisions within the alliance.
Let's say that when the two met that day, they inevitably had a conversation about wine. The two of them told each other about their respective experiences over the years, He Lingfeng had been in retreat for several times before and after, but there was not much else to say except for the Qinglan Society and the Xuantian Secret Collection, but after Feng Wuchen cultivated into a Yuanying Child, except for following Tianyi Zhenren to cultivate in a secret place for several years, the rest of the time was wandering alone, even far away from Xuanhe Prefecture, going to some places where He Lingfeng only knew his name, and also experiencing countless battles, which was very exciting, which made He Lingfeng feel excited. In particular, the location of the family mentioned by Feng Wuchen was actually in the Imperial City of Zhongzhou, which was regarded as a holy place by both mortals and monks, which made He Lingfeng even more admired.
And when He Lingfeng mentioned learning the experience of actual combat against the enemy, Feng Wuchen naturally readily agreed, saying that he would teach him everything. So, within a month after the two talked, He Lingfeng received Feng Wuchen's guidance and mutual learning after completing his routine patrol tasks every day, and under mutual learning, he had a further understanding of combat skills and the use of mana, and even had an understanding of the poisonous methods used by some strange demon cultivators.
After Feng Wuchen guided He Lingfeng for a period of time, due to the further deterioration of the border situation, he had to go to perform some important confidential tasks, and he was so busy that he couldn't get out of his body anymore.
During this period, some of the preparations for the decisive battle between the two sides were also completed one after another, not only did the number of monks gathered at the border almost increase by more than half, but also a steady stream of war resources, including a large number of low-level magic weapons, materials and array equipment, various elixirs to restore mana and healing, countless spirit stones and magic stones, etc. There are also many great cultivators whose strength is above Yuanying intermittently on the side of Baili Kingdom, and nearly thirty percent of them are the big devils who have disappeared decades ago, which makes the Righteous Dao Alliance quite vigilant. In addition, it is said that the Five Sects of the Demon Dao also invited some treasures of the town and mountain. The Zhengdao Alliance's side did not dare to slack off, and also prepared countermeasures one by one. However, because the battle between the two sides had not yet progressed to the extent of endangering the inheritance of the sect, and due to the rules set by the higher beings in the cultivation realm in order to maintain a certain order and prevent the living beings from being ruined, the Supreme Elders of the Divine Soul Realm level of the various factions on both sides of the righteous and demonic sides could only sit at the mountain gate and could not act at will, so all the monks gathered at the border on both sides were under the Divine Soul Realm.
It is more than a month of intense preparations, the strategic arrangements of both sides of the positive and the devil are nearing the end, and the previous interception and killing activities have gradually become meaningless, the war is getting closer and closer, and the actions of both sides have changed strangely, and gradually converged, especially in the last few days, the two sides on the border seem to have a tacit understanding and generally stop their hands, waiting for the arrival of the final decisive battle.
What is the timing of Baili Guo and the others, although the Righteous Dao Alliance has never investigated clearly, most of the high-level leaders still think that the other party is waiting for the news of the Heavenly Demon Alliance's attack on Qingyang Prefecture. On the side of the Righteous Dao Alliance, they are waiting for the arrival of their fellow Daoists who come to support from Hanshan Prefecture.
As time passed, the atmosphere in the Frontier Lands became eeriely dull under this sudden calm. And now, the monks on both sides combined with nearly 10,000 people, and such a number of monks gathered, naturally stirring up the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the border land. The evil qi condensed from each other soared into the sky, obscuring the clouds and the sun, and for a while, mixed with this dull calm, the air seemed to become stagnant and abnormal, and the final decisive battle seemed to be about to break out at any time.