Chapter 47: The Pig Thief
As soon as the sky was bright, a touch of colored light rose from the Spirit Pig Valley and headed straight to the east. Tianjiu and the other eight brothers stood on the mountain bag and watched Xiaomi leave.
"Wan Bao, Xiaomi has returned to the door with my mission, and the spirit pig she raised will be handed over to you in the past two days, you can take care of it more. Tian Jiu withdrew his gaze and turned to Wan Bao and said.
"Boss, no problem! The brothers will help her. You look good today, the problem should be solved, right?" Wan Bao was pleased to find that Tianjiu's spirit was much better, and he didn't have the sad face he had before.
"Well, no problem. Let's all go back to cultivation after raising the pigs!" After speaking, he took the lead and turned around and walked back to the cave.
The people began to get busy again, and after an hour, the Spirit Pig Valley was quiet again, only those white spirit pigs basking in the sun on the grass.
Tian Jiu sat on the stone bed, running the Inner Spirit Heart Sutra, channeling the meridians that had been washed up by the silver-gray particles. It took a whole day to straighten things out completely, and when he was done with all this, he was too tired to do it, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
Early the next morning, Tianjiu was woken up by the sound of slamming the door again.
"Big brother, it's not good, my spirit pig is a hundred missing!" Tiger Ben shouted outside the door.
"What?100 heads?" Tianjiu opened the door of the cave and shouted at the tiger outside the door. "Let's go to the pigsty!"
"Haode, Senior Brother Feng and Brother Wan are now scouting nearby!" Hu Ben said as he walked.
"In addition to the ones you raised, are there any things that are missing?" Tianjiu squinted his eyes, and his worries finally came.
"It's not clear, it's being counted. ”
Coming to the original three pigsties, the inventory has been completed.
I saw Li Tianhua shouting angrily: "Damn! I also have a hundred missing, if I knew who did it, I would have to beat him flat!"
"Big brother, there are no less in the two pigsty in Shanbao, and now there are a total of 200 missing here. Yu Zicong said to Tianjiu.
"Well, got it. I've been busy cultivating for the past few days, and I don't care about the safety here. Originally, they took turns to patrol, but as soon as they cultivated, they were all in chaos, who was on duty these days?" Tianjiu looked at everyone and asked.
Hu Ben hurriedly replied: "Big brother, these days, I, Xiaomi, and Senior Brother Yu, Senior Brother Li, and Senior Brother Li have been cultivating, and it is Brother Wan who is on duty with several other junior brothers. ”
At this time, Wan Bao and Feng Deming came back with black faces, and when they saw Tianjiu, they both shook their heads.
Wan Bao spoke first: "Boss, the fluctuation of spiritual power around is very slight, I only know that it is from the east. ”
"To the east? That is to say, it was Huachen's disciple who did it? The other directions are barren mountains, and ordinary low-level disciples can't get through. ”
"It should be. Boss, I was too careless, I just walked around casually at night, and I didn't stare at it much. Punish me, and I will bear the loss. Wan Bao bit his lip and lowered his head, not daring to look at Tianjiu.
"Well, what are you talking about! I can't blame you all this time, I'm also responsible, it's too comfortable, someone is eyeing here, and I'm still in the dark. I've worked hard these days, and I'll lead a few little tigers to inspect in the next few days. ”
"Boss, I'll take someone to guard it, you take more time to rest, your body is important. Wan Bao said hurriedly.
"Don't worry, this loss is nothing, you also have to cultivate diligently, Xiaohu and Senior Brother Yu have just been promoted, it is appropriate to adjust them appropriately. Every brother here must have equal time to cultivate, and I will not favor one over the other. In fact, the Spirit Pig Valley is so big, usually one person is left to stand on duty at a high place, and other people can also meditate and cultivate on the side as usual, that is to say, in a day, only one brother's cultivation will be delayed, and in this way, the cultivation time should be as good as Huachen's inner disciple. I hope that when Huachen Gate is small, we have three or four people here who can enter the inner door. ”
"Xiaobi?"
Wan Bao was stunned, he had never had the luxury of entering the inner door, so he didn't care about Xiaobi's affairs.
"Yes, here, you, me, and Xiaohu all have the hope of advancing to the eighth layer, among the disciples of Huachen's outer gate, the eighth layer of qi refining should be considered good, this time Xiaobi, the top twenty can enter the inner gate. ”
"But big brother, you have entered the inner gate, what should we do, isn't it very good to cultivate here?" This is also what several other low-level junior disciples are worried about, they have just seen hope, if Tianjiuyi leaves, they will definitely have difficulties again.
"Don't worry, even if I enter the inner gate and return to the sect, I won't abandon you, as long as you regularly ask me to get the spirit pig feed and the elixir for cultivation, I will bring you all into the inner gate one by one. Weishenme enters the inner door? Is this still for me to say, if you don't enter the inner door, you can only rest on your laurels, not in a higher environment, it is impossible to have a chance, Huachen is already backward enough, if Huachen can't enter the inner door, and you meet the disciples of Donglingmen, you can only die. ”
Tianjiu said solemnly, and sighed at the same time: "Alas, it's too early to say these now, you can't enter the eighth layer of qi refining, everything is empty." Let's disperse, everyone should cultivate, and those who should feed the pigs will feed the pigs! I'll go and inspect the surroundings. ”
After Tianjiu finished speaking, he ignored them and flew towards the edge of the Spirit Pig Valley.
"Boss, wait a minute!" Wan Bao jumped over.
"Well, something?"
Tianjiu didn't stop, he kept flying, but Wan Bao's speed was also very fast, and he jumped side by side with Tianjiu in a few clicks.
"Boss, that's the case, don't you think it's strange, as soon as Senior Sister Mi left on the front foot, the thief came on the back foot......"
"Do you suspect it was made by Xiaomi?"
Tianjiu was stunned and stopped.
"That's what I said, I didn't say it in front of everyone, I just looked at your opinion first. ”
"Xiaomi? I don't think so. Although Xiaomi usually looks like she loves money, she won't do this. I suspect thieves have been eyeing this place for a long time. Let's not guess, Xiaomi will be back today, you better go and cultivate with peace of mind, I will catch this thief sooner or later. ”
After speaking, he left Wan Bao again and walked around the Spirit Pig Valley.
Tian Jiu used his divine sense to carefully scan the surroundings along the valley floor, and with his cultivation of the seventh layer of qi refining, the release of his divine consciousness could almost reach three or four hundred zhang away. He found that on the south, west, and north sides, when his divine consciousness was released to about two hundred zhang, it was rebounded by a huge force. He tried to forcibly probe several times, but as soon as he entered Yizhang, a murderous aura rushed to his face, so frightened that he immediately withdrew his divine sense.
Tianjiu guessed that it should be the mountain protection array. These three mountains are all ownerless peaks, and the predecessors of the Dongling Five Gates have long used the Great Array to protect the entire mountain, and before the ban is lifted, it is difficult for monks below the foundation building period to break in.
Then the only thing that can be entered is in the direction of Huachen Gate, there is also a mountain protection array over there, but as long as you hold the jade card of Huachen's disciple status, you can enter and exit freely.
Tian Jiu did scan a trace of unfamiliar spiritual power fluctuations at the southeast foot of Dengxian Peak.
"Could it really be that Huachen's disciple did it?" Tianjiu muttered to himself. Their cave is at the foot of Dengxian Peak, this thief passed by them yesterday, if it wasn't to steal the spirit pig, but to attack them, the situation would be unimaginable. Thinking of this, Tian Jiu couldn't help but feel a stirring spirit all over his body.
At noon, Tian Jiuduan sat on a mountain bag near the side of the cave, meditating with his eyes closed, and at the same time, part of his divine consciousness was also released from his body, guarding a hundred zhang around him. Hu Ben and Li Tianhua sat by the two pigsty and waited.
"Huh?"
Tian Jiu suddenly opened his eyes, and two sword lights shot out from the east one after the other, and in a single breath, they landed on the mountain bag where Tian Jiu was. As soon as the sword light flickered, two masked monks dressed in silver inner disciple robes appeared. One tall and one short, the tall one is slightly fat, and the short one is skinny.
Tianjiu swept people away with his divine sense.
"The black scarf of the ninth layer of qi refining can't be penetrated?!! that masked black scarf actually has the effect of isolating the divine sense!" Tian Jiu was shocked in his heart.
"Why are the two senior brothers good at breaking into the Spirit Pig Valley? and don't dare to show their true colors?" Tianjiu stood up and shouted.
The two of them came so fast that almost as soon as his consciousness swept away, the person was already in front of him. They were all wearing the costumes of Huachen's inner disciples, and Tianjiu did not dare to make a rash mistake.
The short and thin man ignored Tian Jiu, didn't pay attention to him at all, and only stared at the tall and fat man and said, "Hmph, Your Excellency has been following you all the way for so long, don't you really put me in your eyes? You are also a ninth layer of Qi refining, and the victory or defeat between us is really not certain!"
The tall fat man's eyes shot a hint of fierceness: "Yes, judging from your retreat, I really only have a sixty percent chance of winning." But as long as you don't get in my way, I can't fight you to the death. ”
Tian Jiu's eyes narrowed, and he suddenly had a guess in his heart that these two people were not disciples of Huachen Sect, nor were they disciples of the same sect. He quietly took out the mountain hammer and attached a strong talisman to his body, and with a flash of spiritual light, his figure suddenly became taller.
"Oh?"
The two masked men were stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter. In the distance, Tiger Ben and Wan Bao heard the sound and leaped towards them.
"Haha! You'd better not move, for for I'll kill you with a finger of my finger as far as your cultivation goes. Today, the master didn't want to kill, but just came to get a few spirit pigs. Brother, don't you mind if I go get it first?"
The tall man released a spiritual pressure, and then clenched his fists and said to the short man. At the same time, the short man also slammed out a powerful spiritual pressure.
Tian Jiu took a few steps back, and he used the spiritual power in his body to the extreme, so that he could be worthy of his body. Thirty or forty feet away, Wan Bao and a few people accidentally fell to the ground.
"Huh, that's good!" the short man looked at Tian Jiu in surprise and said, "You can actually resist the coercion of the two Qi Refining Ninth Layers, it seems that you are not an ordinary Qi Refining Seventh Layer!
"The two of you are not my disciples of Huachen, and they dare to openly fly away in the Huachen Gate, aren't you afraid of Huachen's pursuit and killing?" Tianjiu said coldly.
"Hehehe, who said that we are not Huachen's disciples, we are all from Tiandu Peak, don't talk nonsense, you kid, or I'll break your mouth!
"Hmph, wordy!" the short man snorted coldly, and shot at the spirit pigsty at the mountain bag.
"How can it be!"
Tianjiu shouted angrily, jumped up, and smashed out the mountain hammer with his right hand, and the mountain hammer went straight to the short one with a whistling sound, if it was smashed, it would definitely become a meat pie.
The short man didn't seem to pay attention to this, but just threw out two palm-sized silver thorns with his backhand, one in front of the other, one shot at the Heaven-Shaking Hammer, and the other went straight to the Heavenly Nine Gate of Heaven.
"Hmph!" Tian Jiu snorted coldly, his body shrank, and he violently injected spiritual power into the Sky Shaking Hammer.
With the blessing of spiritual power, the Sky Shaking Hammer suddenly became more than ten times larger, covering Tianjiu's entire body, just like a hammer shield. But the hammer shield still smashed down with a whistling sound.
"Click!" "Click!" Two crisp sounds came out, and two silver thorns shot at the Sky Shaking Hammer one after another, and two basin-sized sparks burst out, and the Sky Shaking Hammer only paused slightly, and then continued to hit the short man, and the two silver thorns fell to the ground one after another.
"Impossible!"
The short man was startled, turned around suddenly, pulled out a long sword with a strong aura, and the spiritual power was frantically injected into the sword body, and then held the hilt of the sword with both hands to meet the Sky Shaking Hammer, which was only three feet above his head.
"Boom!"
The loud noise was deafening, Tianjiu was wrapped in the Heaven-Shaking Hammer, like a leather ball, it bounced five zhang away, and the short man took a few steps back, and a notch was exposed on the body of the long sword, and a trace of dark gray light appeared on the sword surface, which was obviously damaged.
The tall man sighed lightly, his eyes narrowed, and his eyes looked at Tian Jiu no longer unscrupulously.
And the short man carried the long sword that trembled slightly, and said in a frightened voice: "Boy, you actually destroyed my spirit sword, you are not a disciple of Huachen's outer sect, say, whose disciple are you?"
Tianjiu, who was five zhang away, stood up and fell on the bluestone ground, his face flushed, and the powerful talisman on his back turned into ashes with a "beep", and the body was even more turbulent, and the spiritual power almost collapsed under a shock. He quickly activated the Inner Spiritual Heart Sutra, and finally suppressed the chaotic aura.
"Hmph, why should I tell you?, the rooster and the dog thief, but Er'er!" replied Tianjiu through gritted teeth.
"You-!Okay, good, boy, you have a kind! Don't think it's great to block my sword!" the short man sneered, and injected a large amount of spiritual power into the long sword again, the dark gray qi on the surface of the long sword slowly subsided, and the spiritual energy gradually filled.
Tian Jiu's face was extremely grim, the sky-shaking hammer just now, although he was not injured, but he knew that in terms of the depth of spiritual power alone, there was still some gap between him and the short man, if it weren't for the blessing of the strong talisman, he was very likely to be shocked and flew out. And the strong charm that can be used three times completely fails with just one blow, which shows the power of the short man.
Tianjiu didn't want to be stupid and wait to be beaten, so he hurriedly put away the Sky Shaking Hammer, touched it with his hand, and took out a large handful of talismans, without any hesitation, and injected spiritual power into the talisman. Soon, one by one, the talismans shone with a hint of aura, and Tianjiu threw out all the talismans in his hand with great force, all of which smashed into the short man.
"Hehe, it's interesting! The Fire Cone Talisman, the Burst Talisman, and the Thunder Stone Talisman are all high-grade goods, the talisman of the Wanbao Pavilion!" the tall man shook his head and laughed, staring at the short man as if he was watching a play, without the slightest intention of wanting to make a move.
The short man showed a sore expression, the long sword in his hand had not fully recovered, but he had to interrupt the injection of spiritual power, and hurriedly swung the long sword, striking out dozens of sword flowers, shooting towards the overwhelming talismans.
Then, with a flick of his hand, he also threw out a fiery red talisman, and with a snort, a thick red curtain wall was laid out in front of the short man. This is not over, his left hand took out a black shield again, stood it in front of him, and quickly injected spiritual power into it, and after a breath, the shield was magnificent, expanding to the size of three feet, and surrounded the short man completely.
A foot away, the first wave of collisions began, and the cones of fire in the sky shot on the sword flowers, crackling and extinguishing each other. The second wave of fire burst and tore at the red curtain wall, and after a breath, the curtain wall collapsed and the fire wave dissipated, and at the same time, the third wave of more than 100 thunderbolts slammed down on the black shield.
The short man's eyes finally showed fear, he never thought that a guy with a seventh-level Qi refining would be so difficult to deal with, he made a generous move, and almost consumed hundreds of low-grade spars in an instant, and his eyelids didn't seem to blink, this didn't seem to be the style that a Huachen Sect disciple should have at all, if the other party was an inner disciple of Dongling Sect, he still believed it a little.
Just when the short man was thinking, more than a hundred thunderbolts raged on the black shield, and after a few breaths, the shield was pitted, and the aura was dimmed by half, but fortunately, at this time, the thunder and lightning were also wiped out by half. The short man gritted his teeth and continued to inject spiritual power into the black shield, he didn't want the thunder and lightning to come in, even if it was one, it would be difficult to bear the split.