Claw Frog Island, the smallest island in the South China Sea archipelago, the first large island to be breached, ushered in the first batch of garrison landing. Although some people betrayed the intelligence of the pioneer army through secret channels, the indigenous coalition forces were still unable to hold the island and were forced to retreat to Ray Island.

Due to the haste of the retreat, the coalition's fleet of sea monsters was limited in number, and they could only take a small number of high-ranking city-states such as gods, priests, and nobles, leaving behind a large number of ordinary natives who had lost their homes, and the coalition generals ordered them to break them into pieces, retreat into dense jungle swamps, and continue the fight.

However, the loss of a stable and safe place to live can barely endure in the short term, and sleeping in the wilderness for a long time will not be able to endure even the natives who are familiar with the geographical environment. Just to get food, they attack each other, even at the expense of swords.

On the other hand, the pioneer army that came one after another, by planting the flag of the Han Empire, guided the branches of the humanitarian torrent to enter the claw frog island, quickly cleansed the indigenous remnants on this island, established a rudimentary legal network system, and avoided the blind spot where the Taoist soldiers were useless.

Experienced Taoists will first destroy the religious structures of the indigenous gods, such as temples, statues, and altars, and eradicate any additional factors that may lead to the emergence of variables.

Secondly, there is a fire within the control range, which burns the indigenous city-state to a blank slate, ensuring that the traps that may be laid in advance are exposed in the flames and completely destroyed in the first place.

Finally, according to the feng shui concept of Middle-earth, the pioneer army built another new city in a suitable place, giving priority to the feng shui treasure land with slightly higher ground and rivers passing through, and if there were natural veins underground, it would be the best.

Because you can invite cultivators from all the veins of the Dao Sect to settle in, whether it is to open up the blessed land cave and enter it as a suppression, or to establish a large array to protect against spying and attacks from the shadows, the enterprising qi refiners can be competent.

However, Claw Frog Island is one of the few islands in the South China Sea, and the indigenous people cannot afford to lose it. Although the earth's vein aura can be predictably extremely abundant, at the key node, there must be a large amount of spirit stone precipitation, and even the existence of complete spirit stone veins is not impossible.

It is precisely because of this that the indigenous coalition forces that have suffered great losses, and even the gods behind them, will definitely make a comeback and hit Claw Frog Island again.

After understanding the pros and cons, it is understandable that no Daomen monk took the initiative to apply for a long time, and they were all worried that before they could gain a firm foothold, they would be tied up by the pioneer army, facing the crazy counterattack of the indigenous coalition army and the indigenous gods, and they might fall on this island before they became enlightened.

At this critical moment, after the Han clan relatives, the senior scattered cultivators, Liu Qi and Liu Baigui, stepped forward and were willing to watch each other with the pioneer army to completely conquer this island.

After the news spread, many Daomen monks who were watching were a little puzzled, thinking that Liu Qi was about to go crazy because he wanted to become enlightened, and he was willing to take such a big risk. Of course, there are also some people with ulterior motives who secretly laugh, thinking that Liu Baigui is in a hurry to send him to death.

In any case, Claw Frog Island, which was newly incorporated under the rule of the Pioneer Army, has a genuine Qi Refiner stationed. Liu Qi and Liu Baigui also lived up to expectations, and on the first day of landing on the island, he followed the direction of the earth's leylines and found the cave where the spiritual energy was precipitated into spiritual stones.

This is a natural cave adjacent to a dormant volcano, with winding corridors inside, and the earth is like an unusually complex labyrinth, but under the guidance of the palm-sized magic weapon "guide car" and the Taoist map, the maze can be broken overnight.

Liu Qi and Liu Baigui only took half an hour to draw a map of the cave containing spirit stones, focusing on depicting several points where there are spirit stones, and then naturally some people will take risks and enter the cave ** mining.

It didn't take long for someone to carry the spirit stones out on their shoulders, all of which were the closest points to the entrance of the cave, and the spirit stones excavated were all obsidian with rising fire, and the water color was pure and flawless.

Liu Qi took out a fist-sized spirit stone from it, weighed the aura contained in it, and nodded with satisfaction: "At least it can replenish the mana of the Yin God Consummation monk three times, but the aura in it is biased towards the Yang Earth Fire, except for the Fire Virtue Qi Refiner, the other Dao Sect Vein cultivators, they draw too much from it, I am afraid it will hinder the Dao Foundation." It can be said that there are pros and cons!"

As the human doppelganger of the Heavenly Court Emperor Ye Zhiqiu, Liu Qi's vision was naturally very high, and he found that these spirit stones had more important uses, such as using the extremely high concentration of fire spiritual energy in them to try the Taoist version of the industrial revolution, replacing coal, a fossil fuel that needs to be precipitated for tens of millions of years, and becoming an indispensable source of energy.

Just when Liu Qi weighed the pros and cons, there was a heart-rending exclamation from the cave, and his eyes immediately shifted to the Dao map, and suddenly found that there were more than a dozen black and red points of light, which suddenly appeared in the Yongdao, and the miners closest to them, the white dots that symbolized life on the map, quietly extinguished on the spot.

"It's careless! There must be a monster guarding the Spirit Stone Cave, Fang didn't appear, he must have been frightened by the guide car, and now he smelled the smell of people, so he immediately appeared...... How can it be justified to take the lives of two more people of the empire!"

Liu Qi scolded resentfully, and immediately spread out a roll of bamboo slips, no more than one foot eight minutes in length, with a total of thirty-six bamboo pieces, which were connected by unknown animal tendons between each other, and each bamboo piece was a charm, which was actually a complete set of charms that Liu Qi had learned.

I saw his gaze signal, and the "Jiama Divine Spell" suddenly burst out with a white spiritual light, and the limbs of his hands and feet were entwined with spells connected from end to end, and the loose gossip robe suddenly tightened up, turning into a close-fitting short fight, and an invisible force descended, doubling his strength and making his body lighter.

"If you go to the poor road, you will come!"

Liu Qi turned his head and explained to the pioneer army, but as soon as the words fell, the whole person screamed and disappeared on the spot.

That is, the team was sharp-eyed, and saw clearly that this loose cultivator turned his head back, his body squatted slightly, his legs stepped on with force, and he rushed into the cave without looking back. This series of actions is completed in an instant, so it looks very fast, but the eyes of ordinary people can't keep up.

Liu Qi rushed into the dark cave, his eyes had already switched to the white eyes of "white in the void", and he was able to see normally in a dim and lightless environment, but he thought a little too much, when the miners entered before, they were already on the way, and every ten steps, a burning torch was inserted, all of which were wrapped in thick cloths soaked in grease, which looked like a mallet for laundry.

The tunnel of the cave sloped down a little, and the more Liu Qi ran forward, the lighter the feeling of stuffiness became, and suddenly he felt the sound of the wind whistling in his ears, and the surrounding scenery quickly disappeared behind him.

Since the blessing of the Jiama Divine Mantra, his speed is at least five times that of ordinary people, and it is because he deliberately slows down the pace and alternates the rhythm, otherwise his body reaction will not be able to keep up, and it will be easy to hit the wall in the winding corridor and hit the angular cave wall. Even if there is an invisible mage armor to protect him, his nose and face are still slightly swollen, and it may not be impossible for his head to break and bleed on the spot.

Closer, closer. Liu Qi even smelled the smell of impending danger, although he didn't really smell it through his nose, but only felt it by his overly powerful spiritual sense, and he continued to rush forward.

On the Dao map, the black and red points of light, the true face of the monster guarding the cave, appeared in Liu Qi's field of vision in a blink of an eye.

It is a pile of volcanic rock full of pores, connected by the flowing magma, condensing into humanoid beast-like monsters, mostly beasts crawling on the ground, and killing miners.

Under the light of the dancing torches, Liu Qi clearly saw that the blood of his compatriots stained a corner of the monster's body red, and he suddenly shouted angrily, shook off the bamboo slip with both hands, and inserted it into his belt with a broad back, showing the fighting posture of a practical qi refiner.

In the narrow cave, in the face of more than a dozen magma monsters, of course, the Jiama Divine Spell could not be stopped, and Liu Qi collected a lot of spells for battle, all of which were obtained through reasonable and legal means.

"Wind and fire, thunder and lightning soldiers, urgent as a law!"