Chapter 264 Breaking into the Territory
At Mao hour, the sky is dark and bright.
Lin Shan, together with the ancestor of the Yang family, the great elder of the Zhenyue Sect, and the master of the Xuchan Cave, stood on the edge of the Jiangning City wall, looking at the undulating black silhouette of the Swallowing Star Mountain Range in the distance.
This time, only the four of them set out together. They brought a group of Lujiang League oil bottles with them when they came, so they went into the mountain on their own and left to their fate.
"Brother Yang, when will we set off?"
The great elder of the Zhenyue Sect had a twitching nose. He had a straightforward personality and seemed a bit impatient.
Lin Shan and Xu Chan Cave Master also looked over.
The ancestor of the Yang family stood there quietly, motionless, as if still waiting for something.
After a long time, the morning light shines brightly.
"Oh~ forget it, it seems we can't wait any longer, let's go!"
He shook his head and sighed, looked somewhere in the city, got up and rode the yellow rainbow light towards the sky.
The three people in Lin Shan also glanced slightly behind them. After guessing the reason, they all secretly complained and drove away in the rainbow.
In the south of Jiangning City, in an inn.
Shan Yangzi and Cheng Longzi stood by the window, and they both breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the four rainbow lights disappear.
"Finally left. I thought they were going to keep blocking us!"
Shan Yangzi was filled with resentment, cursing the ancestor of the Yang family for his pettiness, and at the same time he was even more worried about the future.
"Looking at this situation, I'm afraid they won't let us go inside. Going here is like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth"
Cheng Longzi is relatively calm, but he is also very depressed about the Yang family ancestor's behavior that harms others and does not benefit himself.
"Last night at midnight, most of the Golden Core monks in the city had already set off. The ancestor of the Yang family didn't catch up with him and delayed his trip until now. Isn't he afraid of lagging behind?"
"It doesn't matter that he has delayed us for so long. He also blocked us in the city and couldn't get out. Now it's great, everyone is at the tail end!"
"But it doesn't matter. Anyway, the main goal of our trip is to capture the shining aurora. It won't hurt if we go slowly, just to avoid those people."
Shan Yangzi has no independent opinion and has always been more convinced of Cheng Longzi's arrangements.
"Brother Taoist, when do you think it's appropriate for us to set off?"
Cheng Longzi thought for a while, returned to the room, sat down, and drank tea leisurely.
"There's no rush, let's wait a few more days. The ancestor of the Yang family can't afford to wait anyway, so we'll just waste it. Who's afraid of whom?"
……
Cheng Longzi expected it to be good.
The ancestor of the Yang family, an old scumbag, specially dragged Lin Shan and the other two people to lie in wait for a long time at the entrance of the Swallowing Star Mountain Range. It turned out that he had left Jiangning City just to lure the enemy.
However, he waited and waited, but the fish never took the bait. He knew that he could not wait any longer.
The other three people had been hanging around with him for so long, and it was already interesting enough. If they were to drag it out any longer, it would really be unreasonable.
"I forgive you all, but I am also afraid that if something goes wrong during this trip, the Yang family's strength will plummet, and Shan Yangzi and Cheng Longzi will come looking for it afterwards, so I want to eliminate the hidden dangers in advance and take precautions before they happen."< br>
"Since we couldn't stop them, we won't waste everyone's time anymore. Let's set off now. With our ability, it's still too late to catch up."
The ancestors of the Yang family confessed their crimes one by one, with a sincere attitude.
Although the three people in Lin Shan were a little impatient, they could understand the concerns of the ancestor of the Yang family. They all expressed their opinions generously and said with a smile that it was okay.
"What are you talking about, Alliance Leader? These two are our sworn enemies in the Lujiang Alliance. I should stand by your side. There is no harm in waiting for two more days."
"Brother Yang, why are you so polite? I have been waiting for our friendship for hundreds of years, how can I not even wait for half a day? These two are such thieves, I guess they are destined to be lucky!"
"That's right, just because you can't wait this time doesn't mean you won't encounter them after you go in. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future. Just two mid-stage Jindan cultivators can't make any big waves even if they think about it!"
The ancestor of the Yang family was moved and nodded repeatedly.
Only then did everyone put aside their foreign affairs and concentrate on heading towards the Swallowing Star Mountains.
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The Swallowing Star Mountain Range is a primitive mountain forest that spans the junction of the three countries. It is vast in area and contains countless barren mountains and dangerous waters.
It breeds countless birds and beasts, as well as flowers, plants and poisonous insects. It can be called a paradise for the demon clan.
Since ancient times, there have been many monks of all levels who have attempted to go to the mountains and forests in search of opportunities and adventures. Some of them returned with great rewards after a desperate attempt, while the vast majority of them became unknown piles of withered bones.
However, history is mostly written by those who succeed. Coupled with the survivor's bias, there are always people who rush in one after another in an attempt to get rich overnight.
Ancient books also record that from time to time some monsters would come down the mountain and attack human towns and villages, causing all kinds of irreparable massacres. Over time, the surrounding villages became empty and desolate.
It is said that there was also a great demon who took form and sneaked into the human world, learned writing and etiquette, took official exams, and then entered the court to become king and prime minister!
In the end, he was discovered by the human race's great supernatural power, and his attempts to subdue the demon failed. Instead, they fought together, causing the land to sink and the earth to crack, the mountains to roar and the tsunami to cause heavy casualties in the mortal world. Millions of corpses were buried and blood was shed for thousands of miles.
Many past events have become a thing of the past.
Time flies and the world changes.
The Swallowing Star Mountain Range is still like a hotbed, nurturing and breeding endless monster beasts, hiding countless treasures of heaven and earth, and secret opportunities waiting to be excavated by later generations.
The four of them in Linshan went all the way deep, rushing and rushing in order to recover the half-day they were behind.
When other monks came in, they were sneaking around on the ground at night, for fear of flying in the air and becoming the target of public criticism, not only being discovered by birds in the sky, but also afraid of being discovered by the golden elixir stage monsters on the ground.
Generally, most monsters have territorial awareness, and if they find strangers intruding, they will most likely give them a head-on attack.
If they find that they are human monks, some of them will be like seeing Tang Monk's meat, and they will be even less polite for the sake of delicious food.
The flesh and blood essence of human monks, including the golden elixir in their bodies, is also a great tonic for certain species of monsters, and the delicious dishes served will be eaten in vain.
But for Lin Shan's team, these are not problems.
Because there are three late-stage Jindan monks in the team, as soon as the huge spiritual pressure disperses, all the passing monsters tremble. Who dares to come up and stroke the tiger's beard?
As for the demon kings in the Nascent Soul stage, each of them has a name. Deep in the Swallowing Star Mountains, on the top of Tiger Roaring Mountain, some with outstanding intelligence even opened a mansion and recruited a group of little demons to serve as their minions. Dominate the territory and never appear on the periphery.
When these three golden elixirs got together in the later stage, Lin Shan didn't need to worry too much. They simply crushed them all the way.
During this period, we passed dozens of groups of monsters. The local snakes below were all hiding and crawling without any reaction. Later, we encountered two groups of birds in the sky, and after seeing them, they turned around and ran away.
Of course, it's not a fool's errand on the road. Certain large groups still have to avoid detours. It's not very difficult for people in high positions like the ancestors of the Yang family to get this information.
Lin Shan followed them all the way, also frightened, always feeling a little too crazy.
This is the territory of monster beasts, aren't you afraid of capsizing in the ditch?
Later, after the three elder brothers explained it, he gradually understood the reason.
The world of cultivation is actually more or less connected with the mortal world.
Not all monsters like to be enemies with humans, and some may not bother to care about humans when they see them. Demonic beasts are also divided into carnivores and vegetarians. Only when the demon elixir is condensed in the body at the golden elixir stage, can the ignorant spiritual wisdom and bloodline inheritance be initially opened, and the demon elixir in the body can be used to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon to practice.
Just like in the animal world, most of the thousands of groups are vegetarians.
Generally, the number of carnivorous groups ranges from a few to dozens, and it is rare to see more than a hundred. This is the normal state of the biosphere and is also suppressed by the laws of nature.
Just like a wolf pack, there are usually seven wolves gathered together. The number may range from a dozen to thirty or fifty. Some of them leave to make a living when they reach adulthood.
Large wild carnivorous monsters living in groups cannot maintain a large population, because a single diet and food sources suppress the expansion of the population and can only maintain a small population.
The presence of thousands of tigers, leopards and wolves in those strange stories is purely the storyteller’s imagination.
As far as they know, the Nascent Soul Stage Demon King in the Swallowing Star Mountains can only raise less than a thousand little demons in his village, so food sources are a big problem.
Of course, how many demon soldiers and generals can be raised and how many demon beasts the demon king can summon are two different concepts.
After all, most of the Jindan stage demon beasts in the surrounding mountains are bowing down.
At the beginning, there was a demon king who aroused the beast tide. It is said that he mobilized the seventy-two cave demon generals at once, and tens of thousands of demon beasts rushed out of the mountains and bloodbathed the human cities. This left the impression to the world of cultivation that the demon king raised many demon beasts under his command. .
In fact, they have a system of enfeoffment here, where they claim vassal status and pay tribute.
"We will not have any contact with the Nascent Soul Demon King during this trip. As long as we follow the map and cross five thousand miles of mountains and rivers, we will be able to see the Aurora Sea outside the cliff forbidden area."
The ancestor of the Yang family distributed jade slips on the map and explained to the other three the places that needed attention. They avoided all dangers one by one, and they simply forced their way in if they couldn't avoid them.
For example, directly ahead is a purple forest swamp.
This is a tropical rainforest, located in a vast lake. There are swamps and silt everywhere, trees and water plants are luxuriant, and amphibious creatures thrive. There is no way around it.
The largest among them are the plant and tree spirits in the purple forest, as well as various wading birds such as egrets, pond herons, cattle egrets, yellow-billed herons, and medium egrets.
Those vegetation and monsters ignored the human monks flying in the sky.
But a group of birds couldn't bear it any longer, and each one flapped its wings and rushed forward.
"啾啾啾~~~"
“Puff, la, la, la~~~”
“Lililili~~~”
At the beginning, hundreds of them rushed up, but they were wiped out by four people in a few blows. The bird feathers flew around and the corpses fell. This kind of bird, which is equivalent to the Qi training stage of humans, poses no threat to Jindan Master at all. .
Then they seemed to have stabbed a big basket, and thousands of birds began to swarm in densely.
The ancestors of the Yang family and others still looked calm and responded with the least consumption. They held the magic aura in their hands, relaxed and freehand, and used it with ease.
Lin Shan was in the forest of birds in the sky and used the simple "hurricane technique". The moment he performed it, it was different from before. With the support of the powerful soul power of the Soul Pill stage, an ordinary mid-level spell actually turned out to be a banana fan. The effect!
"Hula~"
"哕哕哕哕~~~"
All the birds around him were blown around by the hurricane, their feathers were messed up, and their wings were not in control. Then they were swept into the distant sky and turned into small dots.
"I'll send you away, thousands of miles away."
When Lin Shan saw this scene, he thought of a strange tune for no reason.
Then look at the other three places.
The ancestor of the Yang family was covered with earthy yellow light, and countless flying sand and rocks appeared out of thin air, smashing all the birds in front of him into a sieve. This was just an ordinary "quicksand technique". Under the magic power of the golden elixir stage, it turned decay into magic. .
The great elder of the Zhenyue Sect circulated his skills. Once activated, white light emerged. He was wrapped in a layer of white rocks and rushed forward regardless of the situation. The demon birds flying along the way were knocked to pieces with their muscles and bones broken, and their beaks pecked them. It broke his mouth when he went up to it. This kind of magic was also recognized by Lin Shan, the "Stone Skin Technique" that was the favorite of low-level monks.
The master of the Xuchan Cave opened and closed, with fiery red hair flying on the top of his head. A strand of hair was like a sharp sword. Countless sword rains protected his whole body. The demon birds that came and went were cut into pieces cleanly. This I don’t know the origin of the broken hand.
The four of them secretly observed each other, hoping to see some truth and falsehood, but after finding that they were hiding their clumsiness, they had no choice but to move forward.
As we went deeper, the Purple Forest Swamp also ushered in the excitement that it had not seen for a long time. More and more demon birds joined in. They had limited intelligence and saw countless similar people surrounding them one after another. They thought there was some benefit coming. They all followed the trend and flew into the sky.
The four of them were all hiding, using only a small amount of mana to maintain the spell. They decided not to spend too much on the road, as long as they could get through here.
However, the area here is so wide, and there are always golden elixir stage monsters surviving. I haven't seen such arrogant outsiders in so many years, and they can't help but join the siege one by one.
For a moment, the loud heron call suddenly started, and the surrounding demon birds responded one after another, gradually forming a sound wave.
"Come!!!~~~"
"Come!!!~~~"
"Come!!!~~~"
This sound has formed a sonic attack, which directly penetrates the soul, not to mention spreads indiscriminately. The fish in the shallow layer of the lake below were shocked to death, and floated to the surface of the water with their belly turned over.
Lin Shan's spiritual consciousness is powerful and he majors in soul elixirs. He swallows soul power back and forth one by one, wrapping the Niwan Palace layer by layer without being greatly affected.
The three ancestors of the Yang family are all late-stage Jindan monks. Their spiritual consciousness is not weak, and each of them has good means, so they all resisted.
At the same time, feeling the evil wind blowing from the front, four or five golden elixir stage demonic beasts turned into a white line and hid among the birds in the sky to make a sneak attack. Their speed was as fast as a startling rainbow!
"Dang Dang Dang Dang Dang~~~"
Under the stress, several people couldn't help but react as quickly as possible, activating their magic weapons to resist.
The magic weapon can independently defend against enemies much faster than casting spells.
The small aqua blue sword was flying in front of Lin Shan. It was this sword that had just struck away the egret demon bird. It was worthy of being a golden elixir stage demon beast. Its sharp beak had long since transformed into an extremely hard beak, comparable to the material of a magic weapon.
The blow of the Broken Water Sword just now couldn't even leave a white mark on someone's mouth.
The ancestor of the Yang family was carrying a jade seal with a yellow dragon carved on it. There was a faint halo of light that spread all over the body. Even outsiders who looked over felt an instant weight and were burdened with great pressure.
This Fang Yuxi is expected to be extremely powerful, and its gravity appears to be a realm of its own.
The great elder of the Zhenyue Sect took out a stone stick, which was as pale as quartzite. You could see circles of halo changing over and over again from top to bottom of the stick.
When the stick rolled around, everyone who was hit had broken muscles and bones. Even the golden elixir stage demon bird that attacked him on the opposite side was beaten so dizzy that he couldn't find his way.
The Xuchan Cave Master was smiling with a big belly at this time, holding a treasure vase in his hand, from which balls of real fire flew out from time to time, turning into flame weapons to defend him against the enemy. The swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, axes, hooks and forks looked the most extraordinary.
The two monster birds that attacked him were all charred, black, and gray, and they screamed at him. They were a little afraid, and for a while they didn't dare to step forward again.
The four of them looked at each other in silence, looking at the things in each other's hands.
That day in the Lotus Garden in Jiangning City, none of them brought any magic weapons with them on their promised trip. They all placed their hopes on each other. How should we explain this now?
(End of chapter)