Chapter 509: The Culprit
It's dusk.
Fang Liang and his party stopped to find a suitable place to rest as usual, but today was still a little different from the past.
"I'm going to practice now, so you don't have to pay attention to me later. Fang Liang said to Lu Kaitao after everyone found a suitable place to rest.
"Do you want to go now?" Lu Kaitao was slightly stunned, why did this master suddenly change his habits?
Yun Liange and the others also showed a little surprise on their faces, whether it was in the forest or in Gu Tiancheng for more than half a month, Fang Liang's pattern of cultivating at night had never changed, why did he suddenly change this habit today?
"Well, go now, and when you get the prey, you can use it for yourself, and ignore me. Fang Liang nodded slightly.
"Understood. ”
After Lu Kaitao and the others nodded one after another, Fang Liang also nodded slightly, and walked to find a place not far from everyone's resting place that could hide people's vision.
After a stick of incense, Fang Liang found a place with a lot of bushes, Fang Liang first explored the four directions with his divine soul, and then the silver light in his hand flashed, and then the sound of soldiers entering the flesh was heard not far away.
Fang Liang's figure swayed slightly, and after a few steps, he reached a bush more than ten zhang away, and he reached out and pulled out the silver spear that seemed to be nailed to the ground motionless, and when the tip of the spear came out of the bushes, he could vaguely see a few drops of blood dripping from it.
Fang Liang was not surprised by this situation, Fang Liang went straight back to the place after pulling out the silver spear, he looked at the silver spear in his hand thoughtfully.
After a while, Fang Liang was no longer willing to think about it, and another empty palm appeared in his hand as soon as he grabbed a fist-sized rough stone out of thin air, and then put the silver spear aside.
Obviously, Fang Liang was planning to condense a spirit stone again.
Even though the spirit stone before was only half of the spiritual energy that still existed, it was still enough for Fang Liang, who was now only at the peak of the acquired realm, to use it for ten days and half a month, and this was because Fang Liang had such a god-defying kung fu and the speed of absorbing and refining spiritual energy was rare in the world.
If it is usually the peak of the day after tomorrow, it is extremely normal to have such a medium-grade spirit stone for ten days and half a month, and it is extremely normal to use it for several months.
This is Fang Liang's rebellion against the sky, or the rebellion of the perverted exercises left by his ancestors.
However, even with such an anti-heaven exercise, Fang Liang's entry is still very slow, yes, it is slow, although he is now less than eleven and is only one step away from the innate realm, but it is still slow.
Why is it so slow? That is because of the disadvantages of Fang Liang's Xuanyin body, not to mention that he can only cultivate at night in a day, and the true qi obtained from refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has to be condensed into only a wisp by that little chill when it is incorporated into the dantian, so that even if Fang Liang has such an anti-heaven exercise, his cultivation speed is not much faster.
Straight to the point.
Since the spirit stone in Fang Liang's hand can still be used by Fang Liang for ten days and half a month, then Fang Liang still wants to continue to condense the spirit stone today? is it for future reserves? No, Fang Liang just wants to purely confirm the reason why the spiritual energy in the spirit stone will be reduced for no reason.
After Fang Liang put the silver spear aside, he put both palms on the original stone, and after perceiving it with his divine soul, Fang Liang's ten fingers began to move one by one, slowly clicking on the original stone.
After that, the ten fingers of the square beam moved together, knocking on the rough stone like a storm, and the rough stone began to shake violently and emitted a little mixed white mist, just like the last time.
About half a burnt incense passed, Fang Liang's speed of pointing out the afterimage of his ten fingers finally slowed down, sometimes fast and sometimes slow to tap on the original stone.
And the mixed white mist emitted from the rough stone has not become as much as before, and it no longer gives people the feeling of mixed mist, it looks like a cloud of white mist.
After a quarter of an hour, the white mist that floated out of the rough stone became ethereal, and Fang Liang's ten fingers were so slow that even a three-year-old child could see them clearly.
After another quarter of an hour, Fang Liang's hands suddenly slapped the rough stone from two directions, compared to the last time, the angle was not so weird and weird, but the effect was still not far away, and the next moment there was a thick white mist directly a foot away.
"Well, that's all for a rough stone of this size. Fang Liang played with the spirit stone in his hand and watched it for a while, and thought to himself.
"That's the next thing. Fang Liang played with the spirit stone in his hand for a moment, and then turned his gaze to the silver spear on his side, "Whether you will see it today or not!"
Fang Liang's eyes flashed, he stretched out his hand to grab the silver spear, and once again began to remove and peel off the outer stone skin of the spirit stone with the tip of the silver spear, this time Fang Liang not only sensed the proportion between the stone skin and the spirit stone under it with his divine soul, but also separated part of the divine soul perception and put it on the silver spear in his hand.
The grasp of peeling off the stone skin from the spirit stone for a while was wonderful, and it did not hurt the spirit stone under the stone skin at all.
However, this did not satisfy Fang Liang, because his main purpose had not yet been achieved, and under the perception of his divine soul, he still did not notice any change in the silver spear.
After about a dozen breaths, Fang Liang peeled off the stone skin outside the palm-sized spirit stone in his hand, so that the jade covered by the stone skin exuded a somewhat dazzling brilliance in the setting sun.
Fang Liang didn't have the slightest interest in appreciating some of the magnificent scenery, he calmly put all his divine soul perception on the silver spear.
"Since there is no problem in removing the stone skin, then there is only a possibility that there will be a problem when cutting the spirit stone in the future!" This was the thought in Fang Liang's heart.
By the way, the reason why Fang Liang chose such a small piece of spirit stone was because the spiritual energy contained in this spirit stone was less, and even if he lost half of it, it would not make Fang Liang feel very distressed.
Fang Liang's heart was tense as if he was facing a great enemy, staring at the silver spear in his hand, he slowly placed the head of the silver spear on the spirit stone, and then carefully observed it for a moment, but there was no movement.
Immediately, Fang Liang slowly made efforts to let the spear blade sink into the spirit stone for a few minutes, and Fang Liang stopped again to observe intently, but there was still no movement.
After that, Fang Liang would stop and observe every time he let the spear blade go a few minutes deeper, but until the end, Fang Liang cut the entire spirit stone in half, and he still didn't notice any change in his soul perception and vision.
"Isn't it because of this silver spear??!" Fang Liang was shocked in his heart, this time there was really no longer a clue.
After thinking about it for a long time to no avail, Fang Liang temporarily put this problem behind him, and slowly bent down to pick up the spirit stone on the ground that he had divided into two pieces.
Fang Liang just grabbed the two spirit stones in his hand, his expression changed, before he was all focused on the silver spear and didn't pay attention to the spirit stones, at this time, he grabbed these two spirit stones in his hand, he was stunned to find that the spiritual energy contained in these two spirit stones was less than half, no more, no less, just half.
"Ah~ha! Sure enough, it's you!" Fang Liang suddenly looked at the silver spear in his hand, and there was a strange flash in his eyes.
Fang Liang's words naturally did not cause any reaction, and Fang Liang patted his head in annoyance: "I'm here again, what are you talking to a gun?!"
This reminded Fang Liang of the past that he felt a little ashamed and stupid when he thought about it now, he never expected that it would not be long before he did something stupid again.
Fang Liang's spirit suddenly swept in all directions, and after probing the surroundings clearly, the embarrassment on his face faded slightly, and he looked at the silver spear in his hand again, his eyes flashing with doubt.
"But just now, I tried my best to open my soul sense, and my eyes were firmly fixed on it, but I still didn't notice the slightest movement! If it was, then how did it do it?"
Thinking of this, Fang Liang once again fell into a puzzled situation, thinking for a while, his head hurt a little, but he still didn't have the slightest clue.
"Then again, I haven't caught any clues, is it really because of this silver spear that the spiritual energy in the spirit stone has been lost?" Fang Liang muttered to himself.
"That's it, I'll just confirm tomorrow. ”
Fang Liang suddenly felt that the heavens and the earth were dark, it turned out that the sunset had all set on the West Mountain, and the night was already visible in the sky, so in order not to delay his cultivation, Fang Liang stopped thinking about it.
A little more than three minutes later, Fang Liang had already finished his cultivation not far away and returned to the resting place of everyone.
"Master!"
"Square beams. ”
Lu Kaitao and Han Gong greeted Fang Liang one after another.
"Grandpa Han, can you lend me your sword for a while?" Fang Liang said to Han Gong after nodding slightly to the two of them.
"Master, the little one is willing to give you the sword. Lu Kaitao immediately spoke up after hearing this.
"No need, you are better than Grandpa Han, if something happens, you have to deal with Granny Yun, and your weapon should not be left in your hand. Fang Liang glanced at Lu Kaitao and then shook his head slightly.
Seeing this, Lu Kaitao could only give up.
"It can be okay anyway and I don't need to fight or anything, Senior Yun and Lu Kaitao will solve it whenever something happens, but what do you want my sword for?"
Han Gong nodded lightly and agreed to the matter, but he finally couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart and asked.
"Uh...... What ...... about this?"
Fang Liang couldn't help but hesitate a little when he heard this, if he explained this question clearly, it would definitely involve the existence of the spirit stone, and now he didn't want to expose the existence of the spirit stone, lest someone who knew it chop up and cause any unnecessary incidents.
"Well, if it's inconvenient to say, forget it, I'm just asking casually, and if you don't know, you don't know. Seeing this, Han Gong waved his hand again and again, gave up this question very understandingly, and then handed the sword at his waist to Fang Liang.
"Thank you, Grandpa Han. Fang Liang smiled happily and nodded to Han Gong repeatedly.
"It's okay, it's just a trivial matter, you're tired of cultivating, rest early, and you'll have to continue on your way in a month or two. Han Gong waved his hand again and said with a smile.
Fang Liang was obedient, and went to find a tree to rest against as he said.
Lu Kaitao and Han Gong looked at each other, and they both saw some doubts in each other's eyes, but they didn't regard this matter as a big deal, and they ignored it after thinking about it for a while and still couldn't figure it out.
After more than an hour, a ray of morning light shone on the earth, and Fang Liang and his party got up and continued on their way.
During this hurry, Yun Liange and the others successively discovered that Fang Liang's state seemed to be a little wrong, and when asked him, he would respond slowly, or sometimes he would simply not respond as if he hadn't heard.
Fang Liang's state made Deyun Liange and the others a little surprised, Gu Tiancheng's matter was over, could Fang Liang still have anything on his mind?
Lu Kaitao and Han Gong looked at each other and thought of Fang Liang's night incident, Han Gong said loudly: "Fang Liang borrowed a sword from me yesterday, which may have something to do with this matter. ”
"Borrow a sword?" Yun Liange and Ma Zong, two uninformed people, couldn't help but be stunned when they heard this.
Han Gong nodded slightly.
"What is Fang Liang borrowing the sword for?" Ma Zong asked in some surprise.
"If you ask me, it's better to ask Fang Liang, but he should have something unspeakable, I asked this question yesterday, but Fang Liang was embarrassed at the time, so I just did it. Han Gong said.
When Yun Liange and Ma Zong heard this, they dispelled the idea of asking Fang Liang a few words, and could only rely on themselves to think about it.
But how can they come up with the slightest idea by thinking about it on their own, after all, they have no clues, they can only guess out of thin air, oh no, there are clues about Fang Liang borrowing the sword, but this clue is really pitiful.
Therefore, Yun Liange and Ma Zong gave up after thinking for a while.
Since Fang Liang seemed to be thinking about something, Yun Liange and the others didn't want to disturb Fang Liang by making a sound, so they tried their best to control it and not make any sound except for some movements that would be caused when they encountered some fierce beasts.
Yun Liange and the others didn't say anything all the way, and it was unusually quiet all the way.
When it was dusk, seeing that Fang Liang was still contemplative and wanted to continue his journey, Yun Liange said, "Fang Liang!
As soon as Fang Liang heard this, he immediately came back to his senses and hurriedly stopped, and after Yun Liange and the others found a place to stay, Fang Liang turned his head and said to Yun Liange and the others: "Just like yesterday, don't pay attention to me." ”