The Flaming Mountains, deep in a cave in the belly of a certain mountain.

Tens of thousands of fire crows rushed into the cave desperately, screaming "Yaya" without fear of death, and spewing flames at Ye Qin. Although Ye Qin used his magic weapon to kill and resist, after all, there was a time when his mana was not continuous, and as a last resort, he gradually retreated to the depths of the cave to gain time to recover his mana.

Fighting, defending, unable to resist, retreating, fighting again, I don't know how long it has been, and I don't know how many fire crows have been killed, and how many fire crows are left, Ye Qin has no intention of thinking so much, he must do his best to protect himself.

Originally, he also left two exits on the back of the mountain as a way to escape, and once he couldn't resist it, he could exit the cave at any time and flee to other places. But he didn't expect that the huge fire crow swarm would actually envelop the entire mountain peak, and all the cave exits were targeted by the fire crow swarm, and the spirit surname of the fire crow was beyond Ye Qin's imagination.

Even if Ye Qin wanted to leave now, it was already impossible. Once out, the ferocious flock of fire ravens was enough to bury him alive. The only way for him to survive is to fight this group of vengeful fire crows in this cave until one side is completely defeated.

Today, most of the caves in the belly of the mountain have been occupied by fire crows. Fortunately, the cave is deep enough and long enough. Even if there were fire ravens everywhere in the cave, he had plenty of time to escape.

In a certain section of the cave, a group of more than a dozen second-order and third-order fire crows let out a strange cry of "yaa" in their mouths, fluttering their fiery red wings and flying quickly over here. Suddenly, a sharp sword light one foot long strangled from the depths of the cave without warning.

Poof!

When these more than ten fire crows saw the enemy attack, they were immediately in chaos, and balls of flame erupted from their mouths, attacking the flying sword. Unfortunately, it was useless, they just let out one or two exclamations, and they were cut down and strangled by the flying sword, and none of them escaped. More than ten balls of flames hit the cave wall one after another, but they exploded a lot of rocks and sediment, and collapsed a small cave.

Ye Qin collected the flying sword, and skillfully swept over the corpse of each fire crow, and found that one of the fire crows had a strong fire aura in his body, and his heart moved, and a white light shot out of his hand, hitting the corpse of that fire crow.

In its body, a red-glowing fire-type demon pill was forced out by this white light, and it tried to fly away, but it was firmly controlled by Ye Qin's mana and flew towards Ye Qin.

Ye Qin smiled faintly, stretched out his fingers, pinched a small Fire Crow Demon Pill, and put this Demon Pill in a bag. He counted the number of demon pills in the bag and muttered.

"With this third-order demon pill, more than thirty Fire Raven Demon Pills have been collected, and it is estimated that the number should be enough to extract a drop of Yuan Jing. ”

At this moment, he heard the sound of a large group of fire crows fluttering from the distant cave, Ye Qin's face changed slightly, at least hundreds of fire crows heard the scream just now and rushed here. He could easily deal with dozens of fire crows, but hundreds were enough to give him a headache.

With a slight tact, he disappeared from the cave.

After a short moment, Ye Qin came to a hidden stone chamber and pushed a heavy boulder to seal the entrance to the cave and cut it off from the outside world.

This stone chamber is the hiding place he dug out in the belly of the mountain earlier, and the left and right exits are blocked with 10,000 catties of boulders, and a phantom array is set up at the exit with array flags, and it is also sprinkled with medicinal powder to cover up the smell.

After battling the fire ravens for so long, he found that he had to use multiple means at the same time to cover up all the clues in order to prevent these shrewd fire ravens from discovering their location.

Then, Ye Qin was relieved, breathed a sigh of relief, and sat down cross-legged in the stone room.

He took out the "Demon Pill Yuan Essence Extraction Secret Technique" from the storage bag, studied it carefully, and his face showed a cautious expression. In fact, he had read this Yuan Refinement Secret Technique many times, and he had already been able to recite it backwards. It's just that this demon pill is too hard to come by, and there are not many of them, so in order to avoid wasting it, he can't be cautious and try to avoid any omissions.

After Ye Qin read it and confirmed that it was correct, he took out a lowest-level demon pill from the bag and began to refine it.

This demon pill, suspended in mid-air, was shrouded in a white mana light.

Ye Qin quickly recited the spell and cast the secret technique, and after a full hour, it emitted steaming heat, and was forced by a powerful mana, gradually dimming and drying up, until it could no longer squeeze out any spiritual energy.

But at the same time, a very dazzling red liquid appeared above it, extremely small, but the aura contained was amazing.

Fire Raven Elemental Spirit!

Ye Qin made a move and used the Dan bottle to collect that little bit of red mango liquid. After the initial attempts were successful, he was relieved. Continue to refine the Yuan Essence of the remaining thirty or so Fire Raven Demon Pills.

After a few days, Ye Qin refined all the demon pills and collected a drop of very pure Fire Crow Yuan Essence.

This drop of Yuan Jing seems to have an extremely strong spirit surname, an unusually strong fierce aura - this Yuan Jing's breath is directly related to the fire crow's original surname, it is the essence refined from dozens of third-order fire crow demon pills, and its fierce aura is naturally extremely strong.

"The third-order Fire Crow Demon Pill, a price of no less than six or seven hundred spirit stones, and more than thirty pieces worth at least tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones, are enough to buy ten low-level ordinary magic weapons. But now, it has all been refined into this drop of Yuan Jing, which is used to refine the Yuan Shen magic weapon, I don't know if it's worth it. ”

Ye Qin took the small pill bottle, whispered a few words to himself, and smiled helplessly. At this point, he had no way out, and he had to refine the Yuan Shen magic weapon so as not to waste the huge amount of effort he had invested in the past few years.

Now the raw materials for sword refining, a piece of purple ore crystal of more than three thousand years, and a drop of the Yuan Essence of a fire-type demon beast, are already available. But there are only more than ten wisps of Blue Flame Earthfire, which is still a little worse.

He needed to raise enough Blue Flame Earth Fire in the Fire Purple Mansion before he could start refining weapons

Just when Ye Qin was in the mountain peak cave, hunting fire crows day and night, obtaining demon pills, and preparing refining weapons. Dozens of miles away, Hou Qianji and Tie Daring, two Red Cloud Coach Qi Stage disciples, were looking forward to Ye Qin being killed by the fire crow as soon as possible, and they had been waiting anxiously for a long time.

In the first few days, they were still excited. But more than ten days later, Hou Qianji and the others looked at the peak, and there were tens of thousands of fire crows hovering on the peak, and they could only howl helplessly.

It's been more than a decade, why hasn't this group of fire crows dispersed yet?

Fire ravens are extremely vindictive, and they will never retreat unless they kill their enemies. Now the flock of fire ravens was still cross-legged on the mountain peak, screaming in anger. Obviously, then, the senior monk is not dead until now. Naturally, they can't pick up what they have left, but they are very reluctant to let them give up.

In the blink of an eye, the mission period for going out on patrol ended, and Hou Qianji and Tie Daring had no choice but to return to the Red Cloud Sect to do errands first.

A month later, they returned to the patrol and returned to the vicinity of the mountain.

Looking at the peaks, their hopes were once again disappointed.

The huge flock of fire crows still hovered over that peak, and the number of fire crows did not decrease significantly, as if they had taken root somewhere, and were reluctant to leave.

With the humble cultivation of the two of them, they didn't dare to go close to the past to explore the situation there. Dozens of third-order fire crows were enough for the two of them, who were only in the middle level of Qi cultivation, to walk around and bury themselves on the mountain peak.

This makes the two of them sad and take advantage of the location to protect themselves, which is not unusual. But after such a long time, that senior's mana should have been exhausted by the fire crow flock. Even if you bring spirit wine, spirit stones, etc., you should have used them up a long time ago.

In this way, nearly a year passed.

Hou Qianji, Tie Daring and the two of them went back and forth to receive more than ten patrol missions. Even the monks of the Red Cloud Sect wondered why they had suddenly become so active and no longer complained.

They were so "diligent", looking forward to the stars and the moon, but they never saw the flock of fire crows leave the mountain, and they couldn't help but feel complete despair in their hearts.

However, they still noticed a noticeable change, at this time, the tens of thousands of fire crows hovering in the sky of the mountain peak have been greatly reduced, only about a thousand remain, and they are still flying around the mountain peak with a mournful roar.

They didn't dare to think about it, they just thought that most of the fire ravens had left on their own. After all, those were tens of thousands of fire crows, who could kill them? Even if the Red Cloud Ancestor came in person, he might not have the ability to do this--not because he didn't have enough strength, but because he couldn't afford it

In the past, Ye Qin lived a cultivation life in almost complete isolation in the belly of a certain peak in the Flame Mountain Range.

He forgot the time, the flock of fire crows outside the mountain peak that never refused to leave, and the grievances of the Northern Qi, the Great Zhou, the Land of Chaos, the Spirit Mist, the Heavenly Dome Plain, and the Wanyue Lake Immortal Cultivation Realm.

Except for the occasional moment when he thought of Huangfu Bing'er of Qingdanmen, who was hundreds of thousands of miles away, and the relatives of Wuguo, there was hardly any thought left in his heart, only peace and tranquility.

Perhaps because of the relationship between the exercises of "Sitting and Forgetting the Sutra", the novella exercise "Returning to the Roots" made Ye Qin's mentality reach a quiet realm of calm and calm, and it was not as extreme as the first exercise.

I don't know when, Ye Qin suddenly opened his dark and bright eyes, and a dazzling light flashed from the depths of his pupils, becoming simple and unpretentious again. His cultivation has obviously improved a lot during the retreat and meditation.

The Blue Flame Earth Fire was enough.

Ye Qin stretched out his hand, and a purple mineral crystal of several inches in size appeared in front of him.

Then, a ray of blue high-temperature flame containing terrifying power appeared in front of Ye Qin's palm out of thin air from the Fire Purple Mansion, and the temperature in the stone chamber suddenly began to soar sharply. Ye Qin immediately flicked his fingers, and the blue flame flame flew out smoothly, enveloping the purple ore crystal.

Ye Qin's hands continued to output mana, increasing the firepower that stimulated the Blue Flame Earth Fire, trying to melt the purple ore crystal.

It's just that if the purple ore crystal wants to melt, it's not that easy.

Purple Ore Crystal, as long as a small point is added to an ordinary fire-based magic weapon, it is enough to increase the power of an ordinary low-level magic weapon. If the entire artifact is made of purple ore crystals and refined into a magic weapon, then it will be a high-level artifact from the beginning. It's certainly not that easy to melt it.

It took a full month, and Ye Qin had almost exhausted half of the Blue Flame Earth Fire, which was before he melted that small piece of purple ore crystal. At this time, the temperature of the stone chamber was almost higher than that of the underground magma river.

Ye Qin was sweating profusely, and he had to activate the protective shield qi to resist the heat, and one by one the refining methods were defeated.

(To be continued)