Chapter 28: Stone Bridge Island
Another important reason why Zhao Yingluo purchased this map was that in addition to outlining in detail the geographical trend of the mountains and rivers of the entire Donghu County with the geographical indications commonly used in the entire immortal cultivation world, the previous owner of the map had also made a large number of marks on it that he considered extremely valuable.
On this detailed topography map, Zhao Yingluo has already had a preliminary understanding of Shiqiao Island. The western part of the island is close to the 36-hole arch bridge, and the buildings are relatively dense and the roads are very wide. There are mostly taverns and inns here, and there are occasionally a few shops for cultivating immortal materials, mainly to provide a resting place for ordinary people or immortal cultivators who come from afar.
The eastern part of the island is dominated by rocks, mountain streams, and streams, and among the mountain streams and shallow streams live a second-level demon beast with strong reproductive ability, the spiny turtle. Adult spiny turtles are as large as millstones and rock-like, and their blue-gray spiny shells provide good protection. Although the strength of the demon beast is not strong, the adult only has the cultivation of the second-level demon beast in the later stage, and it also has a single attack method, relying on a brute force and natural power - the art of water arrows to fight the enemy. However, due to its social nature, the number of adult spiny turtles in a group of spiny turtles is generally between three and seven, so although its thick spiny turtle shell is quite useful to low-level immortal cultivators, especially those in the fog stage cultivators, it is not easy for anyone to come to fight the idea of such a group of demon beasts.
According to the topography map, there is also a mysterious species living in the eastern part of Shiqiao Island. This demon beast seems to be unknown in the immortal cultivation world, but it has a rather mysterious romance with the secular world, especially the ordinary people in Donghu County.
In the immortal cultivation world, this adult demon beast is usually a mid-level cultivation, which is only equivalent to the middle stage of the cold dew of a human cultivator. Because its number is relatively scarce, and there are few transformation stage monsters in the group that have cultivated to level 4 or above, it is reasonable to say that this group should not have much intersection with the secular world. But for more than 1,000 years, the story of "snail essence" has been circulating on the shore of East Lake.
The snail beast that lives in the eastern part of Shiqiao Island is a very rare monster beast. When it is cultivated to the second level of demon beasts, the spiral-shaped shell of its body will become stronger than fine iron. At the same time, it will also have a small magical power called Bu Mist, which is very useful when the snail beast is facing enemies or escaping. Once cast, this power shoots out several jets of water from within its spiral, hard shell to attack enemies. When the water column bursts, it will turn into a dense fog that covers a range of several feet, and the snail beast can hide in the thick fog and wait for the opportunity to attack the enemy, or take advantage of the fog to take advantage of the opportunity to escape.
The secular legend about the snail spirit in Donghu County tells the story of a snail beast that has obtained a great opportunity and cultivated to the fourth level of transformation and above. It was more than 1,000 years ago, in a small village on the shore of East Lake, where the villagers lived a day of sunrise and sunset. That year, the wind and rain were smooth, the politics were harmonious, the neighbors did not close their doors at night, and the chickens and dogs smelled each other.
However, since a rainy night with wind and rain, thunder and lightning, a family in the east of the village lost a few ploughing cattle, every rainy night, there will be villagers who lose cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs and other livestock, and this incident has caused everyone in the villagers to be suspicious of each other in the past six months.
Until another stormy night, a villager surnamed Wang saw a tall and burly, ugly-faced strange figure wearing a hat in the dark and rainy night, with a few lightning bolts from the distant sky, in the pouring rain curtain, and in the rumbling thunder, driving the flock of sheep that were frightened and trembling due to the torrential rain and thunder in their sheepfold.
Several men of the Wang family fought with the big men in the rain, and after being knocked over on the hay stacks in the sheepfold one by one, they could only watch their sheep disappear into the rain and fog for each other.
On the second day, after the weather was sunny and rainy, the big man of the hat drove the sheep on a rainy night, and it became the talk of the whole village after tea and dinner. After several respected elders in the village, they sat down together and discussed, and everyone unanimously agreed that this great man was the transformation of the snail beast that lived in the mountain streams and streams in the east of Shiqiao Island after becoming a sperm. The hat worn by the big man was his hard, thick spiral-shaped shell.
After many inquiries and inquiries, the villagers finally learned that the snail beast and the snail spirit were most afraid of flames, so after countless incidents of firewood in the livestock pen on rainy nights, and after being injured by the rockets that were like flying locusts in the thunderstorm, the hat man never appeared in the village again.
It is said that after the incident, there were several immortal cultivators who came and went, and they also made a special trip to the eastern part of Shiqiao Island to investigate, but after no result, the matter was over. But in the secular world, there is such a legend about the snail essence.
The Sichuan Sea Continent, the endless sea in the blue wave palace. Yu Mozheng, the lord of the Sea Clan, sat in the council hall and whispered with a thin archpriest dressed in a dark robe. But when he saw the high priest, he frowned and said, "The trip to Shiqiao Island is not as smooth as imagined. After patrolling the sea guards, it was found that the number of little mermaids living in the East Lake, especially near Shiqiao Island, was extremely rare, and they inherited the existence of the innate supernatural powers of the sea caller family, and there was no one. ”
The eastern part of Shiqiao Island is sheltered by a pile of rubble in the mountains, in a clear, gurgling stream. The five-headed turtle with a spiny back like a millstone is lazily lying on the boulder at the bottom of the stream, greedily enjoying the spring afternoon sun.
Yangguan is very lively, projected on the shallow stream, reflecting the seven-colored light, projected on the earthy yellow shell of these large turtles, exuding a reckless and heavy atmosphere, projected on the ink-colored earrings the size of the little finger of the ornament on the left ear of Yin Mingyue, reflected in Zhao Yingluo's eyes, giving people a feeling like a sea of stars.
Hunting endlessly, this is one of the fundamental principles of Zhao Yingluo's trip.
According to the division of labor that the three of them have agreed upon on the road. Zhao Yingluo took the lead in sacrificing the Qingfeng Flag, and after the small earthy yellow flag rose to the size of a zhang in the wind, a gray-cyan hurricane, under the twist of the magic in his hand, roared out from the flag that was spread out in the wind.
By the time the five spiny turtles reacted, the cold hurricane had swept in with thunder with gravel and ice chips. The largest turtle in the middle bore the brunt, and after it opened its mouth and spat out a water arrow, it was swept into the air by a gray-blue hurricane, and its brute strength and water arrow magic power were empty, but it could only suffer from wind blades and cold in mid-air with the spinning hurricane.
The other four thorn-backed turtles, dragging their heavy bodies, after suffering the damage of gravel and ice chips, before the slowing damage of ice chips disappeared, they were slow to move, and they were again hit hard by Li Qingmao, who was holding a giant skeleton shield. A tall one, on which there is a terrifying skeleton-like pattern of the giant shield, the material is not gold or wood, it seems to be light for Li Qingmao to carry it in his hand at will, but when the shield falls, it will always leave scars of different shades on the thick shell of the spiny turtle.
"Senior brother, don't be too heavy, carefully destroy the turtle shell, these are all excellent spiritual materials. As he spoke, Yin Mingyue also joined the battle group.