Chapter 171 Former Friends
"???"
It was eerily quiet below the spiritual well, and the four members of the Gongsun family were immediately stunned. If we heard correctly
There was someone there just now.
Hiccups?
Is this because you're full?
"Hiccup~uh~uh~uh~"
This time they could hear it clearly. Lao Liu was addicted to hiccups and began to suffer from intermittent sequelae. The ups and downs of the sounds were perfectly spaced, as if there was a rhythm.
Lin Shan was helpless at this time. Things like hiccups were out of control at all. Too much spiritual energy was flowing up in his meridians. The cyclone in his Dantian was too empty to hold anymore. He had to quickly condense and compress it before he could continue to absorb it.
At this time, several cries of complaint below the spiritual well were like the water of Jiuyou.
"Brother Lin, you are not being kind."
"Even if you are a messenger of the Demon Cult, you can't bully people like this, right?"
"Just eat meat, they won't even give us any soup."
"You won't be afraid of breaking your teeth if you hide and eat alone"
Lin Shan knew that he would be exposed sooner or later, but he didn't expect to be exposed so soon, so he could only say vaguely:
"Aren't I testing the poison on my own behalf for fellow Taoists? Hiccup! Next time I will only take 20%, and I will never take more. Don't worry. Hiccup~"
The four of them gritted their teeth and scolded Lin Shan bloody in their hearts, but they had to hold back for the time being, thinking that the family's planning could only focus on the overall situation, and he would look good in a few months anyway.
In the following spiritual pulse tide, Lin Shan strictly kept his promise and only intercepted 60% of it, without making any more troubles.
After the four members of the Gongsun family tasted the sweetness, they stopped making any noise, because they had no idea how much the total amount was. Even if they didn't believe Lin Shan, they had no choice but to use their own means to snatch the remaining spiritual energy and nectar of heaven and earth.
……
Two months later, Lin Shan kept compressing and condensing the spiritual power in his Dantian.
His current cultivation progress is close to two-thirds of the middle stage of foundation construction, which is still the result of continuous compression and condensation.
And because he really couldn't digest too much, he condensed the huge spiritual mist into spiritual liquid through a formation, and stored it in a magic weapon gourd, so that he could use it again in the future.
The most important thing is the improvement of his qualifications and understanding. After two months of transformation with the "Nectar of Heaven and Earth", his wind spirit root qualification was barely upgraded to "B", and his thunder spirit root qualification reached C. etc. limit.
Now he can be regarded as a real "little genius". With the qualification of "Second Class Alien Spiritual Root", he is a standard true disciple even in the big cultivation sect, and his cultivation speed is even faster.
As for understanding, there is no way to measure it specifically. It needs to be judged through continuous learning and understanding of skills and spells. It can only be left to be slowly observed in the future.
After these two months, the nectar of heaven and earth began to gradually fade away until it no longer appeared. After all, it's just an intermediate spiritual vein, so you can't expect too much from it.
However, the tide of spiritual veins is still there and should remain so for more than half a year.
Lin Shan originally planned to continue practicing and go into seclusion until he reaches the peak of the middle stage of foundation building. How can it be more cost-effective to return to the front line and serve as cannon fodder than to practice fishing in the rear?
But at this time, the conch magic weapon on his body rang. This one-time communication magic weapon was temporarily refined by the Black Skull Demon Lord specially for him. It was originally a pair, and the other pair was in the hands of someone outside.
The next moment, Lin Shan stopped practicing and opened his eyes. He activated the conch magic weapon with his spiritual power, and also added a layer of restriction to isolate the surrounding sound to prevent it from being eavesdropped by the Gongsun family members in the other four spiritual well secret rooms.
Then the voice of the Black Skeleton Demon Lord came from the other side of the conch, and there were also some rustling footsteps and breathing sounds. It seemed that all his men were surrounding him.
"Brother, how are you practicing down there?"
Lin Shan said with a smile in his tone: "Not bad, like a fish in water."
The Black Skull Demon Lord paused, as if he didn't expect that while they had been on tenterhooks up there these past few days, this kid was still content down below.
"I learned through some means of inquiry that the Gongsun family has invited a stranger Jin Dan to be a guest in the past two days. For this reason, the Gongsun family's patriarch and elder have specially left the country."
"What?!"
Lin Shan was suddenly startled. At this juncture, there were suddenly Jindan monks coming to visit, and Jindan masters from the Gongsun family also came out one after another. He couldn't help but worry about whether something had changed in the situation in the Song Dynasty.
"Have you learned about the situation outside recently? How is the frontline battlefield going now? Is it still a stalemate?"
At this time, Old Man Zhong on the opposite side took over: "After we gave the last report to the United Front Work Department half a month ago, we have never been able to contact them again. Recently, the Gongsun family has also started to enforce martial law, and we are trapped in the pavilion. Unable to obtain external information"
Lin Shan frowned: "This is equivalent to a disguised form of house arrest, isn't it? The Demonic Envoy dares to put them under house arrest, how dare the Gongsun family be so bold?"
Old Man Zhong smiled bitterly: "We have also argued with them rationally, but their attitude has suddenly become tougher in the past half month. But at most they don't allow us to roam around in the family. On weekdays, all kinds of hospitality are still polite, so It’s not good for us to disturb your practice.”
Lin Shan's heart sank after hearing this. The Gongsun family's change of attitude in the past half month made him full of doubts. Could something really happen to the outside world?
Now people outside can't inquire about the news, and he is blinded underground. The situation can be described as a dark fog.
"Then do you know who the real Jin Dan is who is visiting today?"
"The Gongsun family seems to call him Zhenren Mang." The other person replied.
"Mang Zhenren"
Lin Shan thought hard for a while, and first of all, he could definitely rule out being a real person from the demonic camp.
Because it is impossible for the demonic visitor to ignore the demonic mission here, he will definitely ask Lin Shan about the whereabouts of the leader of the mission, and the Gongsun family will at least inform them both.
Could it be that they were real people from other nearby cultivating families or neutral sects who came here to visit because of their friendship with the Gongsun family?
Logically speaking, it shouldn't be. This moment is at the critical juncture of the war between good and evil. It's too late for all the forces to retreat. How can you still have leisure time to wander around?
Moreover, the Gongsun Family's spiritual veins are currently surging. They wish they could cut off all contact with the outside world and develop secretly. They are afraid that others will come to know about their family's opportunities, so how can they invite Jindan Masters from other factions to come as guests.
Anyone would want to seize this opportunity like the Spiritual Vein Tide. The Gongsun family did the opposite, probably not voluntarily, but because others came to them. They didn't dare to drive them away, and then they thought that the two Jindans had personally Welcome at exit
"Could it be."
Before he could make a guess, the next sentence from the Black Skeleton Demon Lord opposite was even more bombshell, directly revealing the real reason why they decided to subpoena Lin Shan today.
"Just now, the Gongsun family's clan-protecting formation was activated. Countless light curtains rose into the sky. The entire clan was not allowed to enter or leave. It was completely isolated from the outside world!"
"What?"
Lin Shan felt horrified again. The Clan-Protecting Formation could be said to be a force's life-saving trump card, similar to a sect's Clan-Protecting Formation.
This formation directly covers the entire sphere of influence, covering a huge area of dozens of miles in radius. Every time it is activated and maintained, a large amount of spiritual stones are consumed. On weekdays, it is simply used for display and dust. It will only be used when encountering a powerful enemy. Get out!
But now the Gongsun family opened the door without saying a word, and then contacted the arrival of the strange Jindan monk.
This Lin Shan can be connected with a slight twist of his head. The third party is most likely a monk from the Righteous Sect.
With the power status of the Gongsun family, at the critical juncture of the spiritual tide and the frontline confrontation, except for the large amount of golden elixirs from the good and evil camps, no one else could bring such a movement.
If you look at it this way,
I am afraid that the Gongsun family is not as loyal as Protector Yan said a thousand years ago. After all, several generations have changed in a thousand years, so it is not surprising that their thoughts have changed, not to mention that these families have no position in the first place. If you have to talk about a position, then the family’s position is theirs!
Demonic way? right way? Whoever has the bigger fist will whom I will take refuge in!
In this case, something unknown to the outside world must have happened, which caused the senior officials of the Gongsun family to feel shaken, and even faintly changed their orientation.
Lin Shan suddenly broke out in cold sweat. At this time, no one else could sit still and walked around in the secret room, thinking about it.
"No, we can't stay in the Gongsun family any longer. Although the spiritual tide is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, life is more important!"
What's more, one of his spiritual root qualifications has been upgraded to the second level, and his cultivation has advanced to two-thirds of the middle stage of foundation building. He has also collected more than a dozen gourds of spiritual liquid, which is enough for him to reach the peak of the middle stage of foundation building in the future. It doesn’t matter if the tide of spiritual veins in the next few months doesn’t flow.
"The righteous camp must have prepared a big move, and it is about to enter a critical moment."
There were faint cracks in the conch magic weapon at this time. It was obvious that the communication time was about to come, and the subordinates on the opposite side also impatiently asked questions.
"Sir, what do you think we should do?"
"Should you run away immediately?"
"The Gongsun family is now undergoing a major change. I'm afraid if we wait any longer."
"The outside world has been interrupted now. If we don't leave, we may not be able to leave."
……
Lin Shan didn't have a mother-in-law at the critical moment, so he immediately gave orders to the younger brothers.
"Don't go out now, don't alert others, just stay in the attic and wait for me to come back. Then we can escape together."
"Click, click, click~"
The conch instrument shattered on the ground, completing its mission.
Lin Shan thought for a moment on the spot, removed the surrounding arrays and recycled the materials, but then re-arranged a spirit gathering array and a magic array together with Xiaoxin.
The original spirit-gathering array used the virtual star disk as the eye. Now the spirit-gathering array is just an ordinary flower display, used to confuse the other four Gongsun family youths and create the illusion that the demon sect's envoys are still practicing in the secret room of the spiritual well. .
As for how long this parallel imported spirit gathering array can be kept secret, it is not within his scope of consideration.
After cleaning up, Lin Shan quietly left the Lingjing secret room and walked up the secret passage for about ten miles. He found that the exit of the secret passage ahead was blocked by a formation!
However, this was not a problem for Lin Shan. He used his phantom eye, which was initially effective, to scan, and he already knew the operation of the exit formation, and then
Then he froze in place.
He can see the operation clearly, but he doesn't know how to decipher the formation. With his current level, he is still a little behind, so he can only leave it to the tool spirit Xiaoxin for help.
"Yeah~ Yeah~"
Xiao Xin puffed out her cheeks and snarled, as if she was accusing him of being lazy and not learning the formation properly.
Next, a pair of small hands began to deduce how to break the formation. With her ability as a formation master, she temporarily opened an exit within five breaths and led Lin Shan Shiran out of the secret passage to the underground hall.
The surroundings of this hall are the same as when they came here, with rows of bronze pillars still standing, dark and mysterious, simple and gorgeous.
The secret passage connecting the spiritual well secret room at the rear slowly closed again, and white lights everywhere on the ceiling communicated with the underground formations, maintaining the stability and monitoring of the entire underground spiritual veins of the Gongsun family.
Lin Shan did not stay. He was not interested in studying the Gongsun family's spiritual vein formation. He returned to the surface attic to meet up with the Black Skull Demon Lord and his party. Before the three golden elixir masters currently in the Gongsun family could react, he quietly It's better to slip away without making a sound.
It's just that there is another formation in this underground hall. It may be a shackle added by Gongsun Liu for the sake of safety, but it still can't trap Lin Shan, just when he is about to break through the formation and go to the surface.
The two stone rhinoceros who had been lying motionless in the hall flashed red in their eyes, and the entire underground hall began to shake slightly for a moment, and stones fell down one by one above their heads.
“Moo~~”
Two dull low roars sounded, but due to the formation obstruction in the underground hall, they were limited to echoing in this small space. The echo mixed with reverberation almost deafened Lin Shan's ears.
The roars of these two stone rhinos also have the function of calming souls!
Lin Shan quickly looked around and found that the stone skin on the stone rhinoceros was cracked and peeled off from the wrinkled and rough skin. Four thick and short legs supported the heavy body, and the two sharp horns of the rhinoceros head flashed with white light.
And the pupils in his eyes also exuded a fierceness and violence, like the reincarnation of a real monster, roaring at him.
"Demon puppet!"
Even if there is no Black Skeleton Demon Lord around, Lin Shan is not a rookie who just entered the world of cultivation, and he also understands all basic common sense. These puppets made from the dead bodies of monster beasts are recorded in the Jade Slips of Cultivation, and possess 60 to 80% of their original strength!
However, the conditions for making a demon puppet are relatively demanding: a complete body is required to carve the talisman inscriptions, a complete soul is required to transform and plant the ban, at least 80% of the blood in the body is still circulating, and a unique refining technique is required to turn it into a puppet. , and finally seal and save it.
It is naturally impossible for the Gongsun family to do nothing to protect their own spiritual veins. A large formation alone is obviously not enough, and they must have guards to be qualified.
These two demon puppets are probably a means of preventing outsiders.
Sensing that Lin Shan had broken into this underground space without any family tokens, the two two-horned rhinoceros instantly revived and attacked from the left and right. Their strong and short limbs ran unstoppably, leaving behind a string of huge monsters wherever they passed. Footprints, but still consciously avoided the formation patterns.
Lin Shan didn't panic when he saw this. The storage bracelet hidden in his cuff flashed with green light, and a golden flying sword flew out with a "whoosh".
This Golden Lin Sword came from the old royal foundation builder that he killed in the Bianliang Palace. It is also a high-level magical weapon with three inscriptions. It was hastily sacrificed by Lin Shandonghai during his retreat and replaced the previously destroyed one. Black Iron Sword.
The Golden Lin Sword flew past the eyes of the two double-horned rhinoceros in an instant, but was directly pushed away by the seemingly cumbersome rhinoceros with their rhinoceros horns.
“Ding~”
“Ding~”
There is only a white mark left on the rhinoceros horn, which shows that its material is hard, and it is probably also a good material for refining high-level magic weapons.
Lin Shan frowned. These two horned rhinoceros were huge and flexible. He had no chance of getting close to them. As for long-range methods, they couldn't break the defense. It seemed that it was safer to sway them.
At the moment, I have no idea of fighting with them. After all, there are no intelligent foundation-building demon puppets on either side. They only have 60 to 80% of their original strength. If I want to deal with them, I have many ways to deal with them. If I have to choose, I will choose the most labor-saving method.
With a flick of the summoning flag, the leader of the water bear at the peak of foundation building roared majestically and stepped out of the whirlpool; handfuls of bean soldiers were scattered down, and a bunch of "pea demons", "hypericum demons", "sunflowers" and "chrysanthemum demons" They also stood up with all their teeth and claws.
Lin Shan leisurely moved out a chair, pulled two "sunflowers" to squeeze his shoulders, picked up two handfuls of melon seeds from the storage bracelet, and briefly fried them with the Five Elements Fan in front of his fellow tribesmen, sitting there as if no one else was around. Knocked up in the hall.
Of course I will do it if I have something to do. Why should I take action when I can save the trouble? You may not know what you will face when you go out for a while, so it is the right choice to save your spiritual power and use it to escape.
In the following time, no matter how rough and thick these two double-horned rhinoceros were, they could not withstand the attack of so many summoned creatures. In particular, the water bear leader holds the "Demon Binding Rope" in his left hand as a whip and whips it wildly, and the "Cloud Flag" in his right hand as a bullfighting cloth.
A bear was playing very fancy games with a flag. Lin Shan watched with great interest in the audience and spoke highly of the water bear's hard-working performance. The little girl with the weapon spirit hidden behind him also became a little bolder and put the little girl in front of the audience. The head emerged from behind him, with excitement and curiosity in his eyes.
A quarter of an hour later, the two double-horned rhinoceros demon puppets were beaten into broken sacks. The leader of the water bear was so proud that he couldn't help but relapse into his old habit, tilting his bear head and looking sideways at the forest mountain.
Lin Shan suddenly felt unhappy. What kind of expression do you have on your face all day long? He immediately commanded the tree demons around him to give this guy a good beating, letting him know who was the real boss.
Just as they were dancing wildly in the underground hall, the water suddenly rippled at the exit in front of them. The formation opened a hole as high as one person, and a woman in a silver robe and bamboo hat stepped in.
When she just came in, she couldn't help but be stunned when she saw the scene in front of her.
(End of chapter)