allonlinenovel Chapter 225 Location Exposed
Chapter 225 Location Exposed
As time went by, half a day passed.
The red spiritual liquid in the Blood Spirit Pool decreased by more than half again as it was absorbed by the three-headed demon beast.
Now only a thin layer remains at the bottom of the pool.
The silver-haired white ape scratched its ears and cheeks in a panic, but dared not make a move because of the talisman treasure in front of it that made it feel threatened.
"Woo!"
The Snow Demon Wolf wobbled and leaped onto the blood pool. Like a drunkard, it swayed and staggered a few steps before collapsing to the ground with a 'whoosh' and falling into a deep sleep, emitting soft snores.
Before long, the Wind Crow and the Crimson Centipede absorbed the blood to their saturation and left the Blood Spirit Pool one after another, falling into a deep sleep on the spot.
Lin Changsheng, as the master, was not worried.
He sensed that within the three-headed demon beast, a tremendous transformation was taking place for the better.
Clearly, this soaking in the Blood Spirit Pool was a significant opportunity for the three demonic beasts.
Seeing that the three demonic beasts had absorbed enough red spiritual liquid, the silver-haired white ape showed a hint of human-like heartache in its eyes, and then it couldn't wait to continue entering the Blood Spirit Pool.
"Humph!"
Lin Changsheng snorted coldly, his voice like a thunderclap!
The talisman floated in front of him, his hands swirling with magical power, ready to unleash its power!
"Roar!"
The silver-haired white ape glared angrily and roared in resentment.
As if indicating, the three-headed demonic beast had reached its absorption saturation and could no longer absorb any more.
The next moment, Lin Changsheng took off the fourth spirit beast bag from his waist.
Shake gently.
A stream of clear water gushed out from it.
A plump carp swam out from it.
Although this flower carp is a first-tier demon beast, its innate ability to control water is superb, as if it were born with it.
It always condenses into a water ball about ten feet in size, enveloping itself.
In this way, they can move freely in the air.
As soon as it left the spirit beast pouch, the flower carp instinctively tried to swim over and be affectionate with its new master, Lin Changsheng.
But before it could swim a few strokes, it suddenly seemed to smell something and was instantly attracted by the Blood Spirit Pool.
Hua Li hesitated for a moment in mid-air, but driven by instinct, her chubby body flashed a few times and flew into the Blood Spirit Pool.
Several more hours passed, and the plump body of the carp was enveloped in red spiritual liquid, but the absorption rate visibly slowed down.
Looking down at the half-finger-deep red spiritual liquid, Lin Changsheng ignored the silver-haired white ape's yearning gaze.
Take out the spirit beast pouch again and shake it gently.
A large cloud of bright silver insects swarmed out from it, and under his control, they fell into the Blood Spirit Pool like dumplings, greedily absorbing the contents.
After a day and a half, the Blood Spirit Pool was finally completely absorbed by tens of thousands of Bright Silver Insects.
Lin Changsheng was satisfied and retrieved the four spirit beasts and the thick layer of bright silver worms that had been laid at the bottom of the Blood Spirit Pool.
Without Lin Changsheng's talismanic treasures threatening it, the silver-haired white ape stood in the now-dried-up Blood Spirit Pool, unwillingly pounding its chest and letting out an angry roar.
……
In the following days, the Azure Wood King Butterfly refined the Azure Wood King Cauldron day and night.
Lin Changsheng, however, was not optimistic about this.
He had observed it carefully, and it was said that the demon infant's original aura had already reached the fourth-order quality, and was extremely pure.
However, it was rejected by the cauldron. At the current slow pace, it would take at least several years for the Green Wood King Butterfly to refine the cauldron.
That fourth-tier array master outside won't give her that much time.
But since the other party insisted on doing so, Lin Changsheng did not stop them.
Instead, they took this opportunity to search among the ruins of Huadan Peak.
Over the course of a few days, there were some unexpected gains.
On the first day, Lin Changsheng discovered the ruins of a medicinal garden on a flat area halfway up the mountain.
Unfortunately, over the long years, the spirit-gathering array around the herb garden has become ineffective.
As a result, all kinds of medicinal herbs in this place were eroded by the yin energy and turned into withered trees.
Otherwise, a medicinal garden with such a long history would be priceless just for some of the older medicinal herbs.
After that, Lin Changsheng found some parchment scrolls with text and many jade slips under the ruins of a site that was suspected to be a treasured inheritance of martial arts techniques.
Most of the jade slips used for transmitting skills have lost their ability to preserve spiritual energy due to their age.
On the contrary, the techniques recorded on special paper scrolls were relatively well preserved.
Some of them even involve cultivation techniques at the fourth-order Nascent Soul stage, which would be quite valuable on the market.
Unfortunately, Lin Changsheng is quite satisfied with his current main cultivation technique and has no plans to change it for the time being.
Therefore, these techniques and secret arts were not very useful to Lin Changsheng, but they did expand his reserves.
In addition, Lin Changsheng also found a manual on alchemy and many precious pill formulas under another set of ruins.
And several sets of powerful formations.
These sets of magical artifacts for setting up formations are made by the formation master integrating the power of the formation into the formation flags, making them very convenient to set up.
Even a complete novice who knows nothing about formations can occasionally imitate and set up a finished formation.
However, the crafting of such a complete set of magical artifacts is extremely difficult, time-consuming, labor-intensive, and very expensive.
Over the course of several days, Lin Changsheng had practically turned the entire Huadan Peak upside down.
Overall, we gained a lot.
It seemed that the Green Wood King Butterfly's refining of the treasure cauldron was a long way off.
Lin Changsheng turned his attention to other temples.
On the way here, he silently noted down several mountain ranges that seemed to be quite large.
……
On a mountain peak where many buildings are clearly located.
Lin Changsheng's figure flew out from within.
"It's just the dojo of a fake Core Formation cultivator. What a waste of a barrier-breaking talisman."
Lin Changsheng shook his head, his tone regretful.
Originally, the grand formation of this Daoist temple was still in operation. After breaking into it and searching around, it turned out to be just the Daoist temple of a pseudo-core cultivator.
Even the remains of the original owner of the dojo are among them.
Aside from finding a few secret methods for raising ghosts from the Wanling Sect, no other discoveries were made.
Its overall value is less than that of a single barrier-breaking talisman.
It was a losing proposition.
As Lin Changsheng muttered to himself, he urged the flying boat to leave the place and began to search for the next training ground with his divine sense.
As they passed a barren, low hill, Lin Changsheng suddenly paused, looked up in a certain direction, and seemed to sense something.
"That's... the aura of three Pseudo-Core Formation cultivators!"
Lin Changsheng sensed three human presences.
Within the ruins of the Wanling Sect, which had been sealed off for many years and had been eroded by Yin energy, no plants existed.
Therefore, Lin Changsheng's ability to sense things through plants was greatly limited.
Now, it is only with a divine sense comparable to that of a pseudo-core cultivator that one can detect the anomaly.
"It seems that the fourth-tier array master has broken the seal, and we need to leave this place as soon as possible."
Lin Changsheng's expression turned solemn. He immediately realized the reason and abandoned the search for the surrounding dojos. Instead, he urged the flying boat under his feet to fly towards Huadan Peak.
However, his divine sense, comparable to that of a pseudo-core cultivator, detected the other party, and naturally, he could not escape being detected by the other party as well.
The instant he turned and fled, he sensed three divine senses probing him from different cultivators.
"Huh, he's just a junior in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage? How did he get into this place?"
Not far away, a slightly surprised, aged voice rang out.
“This Foundation Establishment stage kid actually has a spiritual strength that is no weaker than yours or mine. It’s really strange.”
Another pleasant female voice rang out.
"How is this possible? It could actually be him?"
Finally, a surprised voice rang out from behind the first two.
……
"This is bad. This place is too close to Huadan Peak. If we fly directly there, we will definitely be exposed."
Lin Changsheng frowned slightly, not expecting that the three fake Core Formation cultivators behind him would catch up directly.
The three pseudo-core cultivators, when they joined forces, were almost as strong as a true Golden Core cultivator.
Lin Changsheng was unwilling to have a conflict with these people unless absolutely necessary.
If the commotion gets too big, it could attract even more people.
After a moment's thought, Lin Changsheng produced a finely crafted, low-grade third-tier escape talisman.
He activated it and attached it to the flying boat artifact, which suddenly increased his flying speed several times over, instantly widening the distance between him and the three people behind him.
Just to be on the safe side, Lin Changsheng deliberately circled around the area, and when his third-tier escape talisman was about to run out, he quietly returned to Huadan Peak.
“Fellow Daoist Qingmu, I encountered other pseudo-core cultivators nearby earlier. The sealing formation here may have been broken. We need to leave this place as soon as possible.”
Upon returning to Huadan Peak, Lin Changsheng immediately interrupted the Azure Wood King Butterfly, who was refining the treasure cauldron, to explain the current dire situation.
"You mere pseudo-core cultivator, I know you possess quite a few high-level treasures, young Lin. You and Little Monkey only need to rely on the formation to hold them off, buying me some time. Once the Azure Wood Spirit Cauldron is refined, you will reap the rewards."
The light of the demonic infant of the Azure Wood King Butterfly had dimmed considerably, but it seemed to be intoxicated, its tone full of stubbornness and unwillingness.
Lin Changsheng surveyed the refining progress; he had only completed one or two-tenths of the process, far from complete refining.
Just then, another aged voice suddenly rang out.
"Found you! So you were hiding here, little guy."
An elderly man dressed in black robes hovered quietly in the air, piloting a flying magical artifact, his eyes filled with curiosity as he surveyed the area.
"Only one person?"
Upon hearing the voice and looking in that direction, Lin Changsheng immediately recognized the old man in the black robe.
Spirit Control Sect cultivators!
It seems to be one of the three people from before.
"Hmm? There's even a peak second-tier ape-like demon beast. Not bad, not bad."
"Huh, that's... a Nascent Soul!?"
The old man in black robes froze on his face, his eyes widened in disbelief, and he rubbed his eyes, exclaiming in disbelief!
If a normal Golden Core cultivator were to encounter a Nascent Soul cultivator in an open-body state, most would likely risk attempting to capture them.
After all, a Nascent Soul that has lost its physical body is only slightly faster; its power is less than one-tenth of what it once was.
If one can trap it and then use secret techniques to interrogate it, or even search its soul, there is a very high probability of obtaining some of the Nascent Soul's memories.
Even though it's incomplete, it's still a huge treasure trove for Golden Core cultivators.
However, if it's a fake Core cultivator, it's not a proper Golden Core realm anyway.
Even a Nascent Soul cultivator who had left his body was no match for this old man in black robes, and he immediately considered retreating.
Before leaving, he couldn't help but take another look at the tiny, pale green figure, his heart pounding with emotion.
As long as this news is conveyed to the sect, it will surely be a great achievement!
It's likely that the Nascent Soul Ancestor would be extremely interested in this Nascent Soul that has left the body!
"Lin boy, stop this man! We must not let him spread the news!"
Aoki Ocho's cold voice came from beside her ear.
Before he finished speaking, the silver-haired white ape rushed forward, leaping high to grab the magical artifact at the feet of the black-robed old man.
A powerful surge of qi and blood impacted the black-robed fake Core Formation cultivator, causing his expression to change drastically. He swayed precariously and had no choice but to land on the ground.
"boom!"
Upon landing, the black-robed fake cultivator was caught off guard and was blasted away by a punch from the silver-haired white ape.
A mouthful of blood gushed out with a "pfft".
Seeing that the white ape continued to press on relentlessly, the fake Core Formation cultivator immediately released a quasi-third-tier Xuan Snake.
Two enormous beasts, a snake and an ape, were entangled together.
Unfortunately, the silver-haired white ape's physical strength was too terrifying, and it tore off the black serpent's tail in a cruel and violent way.
A sharp set of fangs bit down hard on the black ape's vital spot, and blood instantly stained half of the white ape's body red.
"My Xuan Snake!"
Seeing Xuanse on the verge of death, about to be devoured by the white ape in the blink of an eye, the black-robed fake cultivator was deeply distressed!
We must urge measures to save them.
Taking advantage of the other party's distraction, Lin Changsheng gently patted his storage bag, and a bright yellow talisman appeared in his hand, which he then threw at the other party.
The black-robed fake Core Formation cultivator originally didn't pay much attention to Lin Changsheng, a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator.
By the time he sensed a chilling, sharp aura enveloping him, it was too late.
The light, yellow uniform quickly transformed into a cone-shaped treasure with a golden afterimage, carrying the power of a powerful magic weapon, and shot towards him.
"talisman!"
At this moment, the black-robed fake alchemist's expression changed drastically!
The power of this talisman is clearly far greater than any talisman he has seen before!
In an instant, this golden, sharp luster enveloped and penetrated the black-robed fake cultivator.
As the power of the talisman dissipated, a lifeless black-robed corpse fell to the ground with a thud.
The power of the talisman was enough to annihilate a fake Core Formation cultivator in an instant!
'Whoosh! '
'Whoosh! '
Just then, two more figures, a man and a woman, landed there.
"You brat, how dare you kill a cultivator from my Spirit Control Sect!"
A beautiful woman in her late twenties came from afar, her face filled with a mixture of anger and resentment.
The middle-aged fake alchemist standing beside him was an acquaintance of Lin Changsheng, Nangong Hongzhi!
"Senior Nangong? How come you're with people from the Yuling Sect?"
Upon seeing Nangong Hongzhi, Lin Changsheng showed a look of surprise. He hadn't expected to encounter members of the Nangong family and cultivators from the Yuling Sect together under these circumstances.
This led Lin Changsheng to make several other associations.
"Young friend Lin, we cultivators from both countries, at least at the Pseudo-Core stage, have come here together to keep each other in check. The story is long. But why are you here?"
Nangong Hongzhi looked at Lin Changsheng with a complicated expression.
He saw that scene very clearly.
Lin Changsheng actually used a talisman to instantly kill a fake Core Formation cultivator!
Unexpectedly, this unassuming Lin Fu Master possesses such thunderous abilities!
However, at the same time, these two pseudo-core cultivators also discovered the Azure Wood King Butterfly on Huadan Peak, who was refining the treasure cauldron with all her might.
"That's... the escaped Aoki Demon Butterfly Infant?"
"A fourth-tier transformed demon king!"
Both Nangong Hongzhi and the beautiful woman showed expressions of shock!