Chapter 65: The Hunt
Through Cao Xudong's analysis and his own judgment, Zhang Zongwei sorted out such news for Wang Xian's Huatianzong monk team.
There is a person outside the siege array, seven layers at the end of Qi refining, there are some low-level high-grade runes, and there are attack methods similar to ice storm beads, which are likely to be middle-level mystics with a surname, and it is not ruled out that it is a rune.
When chasing and killing Fengling Sect, he killed an eighth-layer cultivator in the Qi refining stage of the previous party, and it was likely that he captured the Diamond Sky Rat. With a similar method of Ice Storm Beads, kill a third-level wind spirit beast. The Huatianzong team led by this person ambushed in the formation to attack the Ma family monks, the specific number is unknown, and it is estimated that there will be no more than seven people.
Most of the Ma family monks, including more than five monks at the end of Qi refining, were wiped out by the Huatian Sect's team after laying a siege array. There are indications that the remaining small half of the monks soon surrendered after being besieged by Huatianzong and Baishamen. The monks of the Ma family did not break out of the encirclement, and the result was either death or surrender.
In order to intercept and kill such a team as Hua Tianzong in the sphere of influence of Hua Tianzong, it must be secretive, fast, and sure of victory.
Zhang Zongwei sent seven Qi Refining Terminal Stage Cultivators to lend them an earth-based mid-level Xuan Weapon that specialized in ice-breaking for their own use, the Moon Mudstone. Lend them two fourth-level spirit beasts, which are equivalent to the cultivation at the beginning of foundation building, which are the attack-type fourth-level fire spirit beast, the Earth Fire Dragon, and the defensive and speed-type fourth-level wind spirit beast, Chixia Peng. The other five brought their own spirit beasts.
Earth Fire Dragon, lent to the Red Fire Vein Qi Refining Late Stage Cultivator, Luo Cheng, he is another Red Fire Vein monk who often enters the top ten of the Fengling Sect's task list. Chi Xia Peng, lent to Cao Xudong, temporarily by Luo Cheng's imperial envoy, after Luo Cheng and Cao Xudong met near Rongwan City, handed over to Cao Xudong.
These two fourth-level spirit beasts were originally Zhang Zongwei's junior disciples, the domesticated beasts of two early and middle foundation building monks, and he borrowed them for this mission.
Since it was not domesticated by Luo Cheng and Cao Xudong themselves, Zhang Zongwei asked the two junior disciples to hand over the beast taming jade plate. This kind of jade plaque is temporarily injected with 1/3 of the divine consciousness by the beast taming monk and lent to others to use to tame the beast. However, the borrower can only use it for a short period of time and return it when it is used up.
Otherwise, if you lend out a monk who tames the beast, your consciousness will be damaged. And the monk who borrowed the beast would also have a conflict with his own divine consciousness because of the divine consciousness in the jade plate, and gradually could not control the spirit beast until it was allowed to escape.
After escaping, either the spirit beast refound its original beast taming monk, or it was captured by a new foundation building monk. The new monk can use his skills to forcibly expel the old divine consciousness from the mind of the spirit beast, inject his new divine consciousness, and make it recognize the new master. But in that case, the new master's divine consciousness is required to be stronger than the old one, and it will damage the divine consciousness of the spirit beast, so that the spirit beast will only have seventy percent of the original divine consciousness.
Chixia Peng is a thousand miles, but he can fly day and night for ten days without rest. With a wingspan of four zhang and a length of nearly one zhang, it can seat eight people. When flying at high altitude, you can only see a wisp of red smoke passing by, like a clear sky and red glow, hence the name. It can search for enemies with its senses, eyes, and nose.
Fenglingzong is more than 1,400 miles away from Rongwan City, and Huatianzong is about 1,000 miles away from Rongwan City. Wang Xiangang had just captured the Drill Sky Mouse, and before it took a few months to exorcise the old divine consciousness and cultivate the new divine consciousness, he could not use it, so he could only ride a horse or ride a carriage. Horseback riding is generally said to be two hundred hours, and Xiaoxing sleeps overnight. In this way, Chi Xia Peng only needed two days and two nights to catch up with Wang Xian about 600 miles away from Huatianzong.
Luo Cheng took Chi Xia Peng to find the domesticated drill rat cave, so that Chi Xia Peng was familiar with the smell of the drill mouse.
Drilling the Sky Mouse, on the way back from Wang Xian, could only be temporarily stored in the spirit beast bag specially made by Fengling Sect. This kind of spirit beast bag cannot block the divine consciousness of the high-level spirit beasts of the Fengling Sect, and it is a means for the sect to facilitate the tracking of lost disciples and spirit beasts.
When Wang Xian had just set off to leave Rongwan City in the morning, Luo Cheng of Fengling Sect had already prepared overnight and set out on the road an hour ahead of Wang Xian. It didn't take long, and after completing the task, Wang Xian felt relaxed, and he didn't set up a forbidden array on the car to hide his tracks as when he came, but still chose the nearest road and returned from the way he came.
Wang Xian reminisced in the carriage, and last night he roughly counted the consumption and harvest this time. In the Ma family's compound, in thirty-six hours, he consumed low-level and middle-grade low-grade runes worth more than one million spirit stones, and the middle-grade high-grade and middle-grade runes had no price, and he had never sold them, and six or seven were worth at least one million spirit stones.
After a three- or four-day battle, two or three high-grade spirit stones were gone. He couldn't help but sigh, the cultivation realm is fighting for resources.
However, the spirit stones that Wang first copied from the Ma family's warehouse and the spirit stones that he seized from the monks were worth more than forty high-grade spirit stones. The main source of this is the wealth accumulated by the two generations of the Ma family for decades, which is indeed not small.
Some other magic weapons, pills, classics and unknown ancient spiritual objects, Wang Xian has not had time to sort them out, so he took a cursory look, most of them are not of high grade, after all, they are just a small family. It is estimated that compared to Zhu Renzhi's spirit ore and spirit field, the value is much worse.
Wang Xian compared it, since he was in the secret room of South China Peak, the consumption of cultivating Hua Tiangong, six high-grade spirit stones a year, was consumed in a simple spirit gathering array, not counting the elixir. In this way, six or seven years will consume up a small family's top-grade spirit stones, and at most they can only advance two or three times. It's no wonder that the monks of the small family can't cultivate Hua Tiangong at all.
After walking for two days and resting for two nights, the divine consciousness has recovered through pranayama cultivation. Most of the carriage of Wang Xian is the official road, which is the main road often taken by mortal officials and soldiers, there are post stations along the way to change horses to rest, the road condition is better, and most of them are paved with hard stone and hard soil.
A small part of the road is a local trail, and most of them are simply built by the local government to facilitate people's exchanges, which are a bit bumpy and unquiet along the road. But fortunately, the distance is close, and occasionally the official eunuchs, rich gentry, martial arts people and cultivators escorted by the bodyguards.
Early in the morning, as soon as he was on his way, Wang Xian felt a powerful divine sense of a monk in the foundation building period, sweeping towards him from a distance of more than ten miles above.
He was stunned, and it was not that he didn't meet cultivators passing by along the way, but he usually approached, and he ran into it by chance, and he glanced at it hurriedly. When a monk is in a hurry, he usually does not use his divine sense to sweep all the way to a distant place, unless there is a special purpose, or for deterrence, or for finding someone, or for evading pursuit, etc.
When a monk meditates and cultivates to gather and calm his qi, and when he exercises his mind to let go of his divine sense, the scope of investigation of nearby monks is completely different, and the former is only equivalent to half of the latter.
Wang Xian let go of his divine sense with all his might, and he could detect the slight fluctuation of spiritual power within a radius of fifteen miles and the existence of a cultivator. But generally, when the divine sense is not released, it can only passively detect the movement within a range of about two or three miles. The monk's divine sense is limited, and if he keeps scanning on the road, the loss will be obvious, which is not conducive to preserving his strength and strain.
Fortunately, that divine consciousness stayed on Wang Xian's body for a short moment before moving away. It is not a good thing to be targeted by the divine consciousness of the monks in the foundation building period, and it often makes the monks in the Qi refining period feel that they are fish and flesh and artificial swords, and they dare not make any changes, so as not to provoke the high-level monks.
Just after the hour, Wang Xian's carriage was driving on the path, and not far ahead came to a place called Xingxing Gorge.
The place was flanked by steep mountain walls, nearly a hundred feet high, and the road was six or seven feet wide, and the carriage had to travel for an hour at the fastest before it could get out of the canyon. When I pass through the canyon at night, I can't see anything except a line of stars in the sky, and I can't see my fingers.
In the people, there are often thieves here who ambush merchants and kill people and goods. However, in recent years, the government has been effective in suppressing bandits, and there have been many fewer thieves. When Wang Xian was pranayama, the front and side windows were open, and he glanced at the scenery outside the window from time to time.
Through the front window, he saw a mountain dozens of zhang high a mile away, and the road passed through the mountain wall, and Wang Xian knew that he was about to reach Xingxing Gorge. However, seeing this kind of terrain, Wang Xian had a feeling of unease. may have experienced a lot of fighting, and he himself also has the experience of setting up ambushes, and subconsciously feels that this is a good place for ambushes.
He swept over himself with the divine consciousness of the foundation building monk just now, and naturally thought of it, realizing that the situation seemed to be not good, and danger was coming. In order to seek peace of mind, Wang Xian began to exert all his strength, letting go of his divine sense to the limit of investigation. I only felt that more than a thousand zhang above my head was in the distance, and there seemed to be a monk passing by in the foundation building period.
In the past, Wang Xian's divine sense, when he occasionally detected that such a monk passed by above his head, he often quickly retracted his divine consciousness and did not dare to offend. But this time it was different, although Wang Xian stopped probing, he had already noticed that this divine consciousness was a little familiar, quite like the divine consciousness that had just been swept away.