Chapter 553: Tianhe Bucket, Swallowing Stars
Tianfu Mountain, back mountain.
"Is this the Dark Water Tempering Body? It's really exciting!"
A training pool with a radius of three feet and three feet.
It is filled with Styx water obtained from the dark swamps of the Larch Mountains, and there are white spots in the sun, adding a little mystery to the dark blue.
Lin Shan was sitting cross-legged in the pool, shirtless, with the horizontal line just covering his abdomen. The surrounding pool water was like a tide coming from all directions towards the center point.
Every time it passed over his body, his skin instantly turned white, and then the blood turned crimson again, and traces of white smoke that looked like steam but were actually cold air floated out from above his head.
If you listen carefully, you can also hear a subtle "bang bang" sound.
Lin Shan was enduring unspeakable pain.
It was as if his whole body was being deboned with knives, and countless small needles were pricking him here and there.
While he gritted his teeth and endured it, his whole body trembled, and he actually felt a little sore!
"Dark Water Body Tempering Technique" is a secret body-building technique of the demon clan. It is very rough for humans, and the process is extremely painful.
But once you can get through it, you will feel that your bones and flesh are being washed away repeatedly, tightly reorganizing in a strange arrangement, and becoming tougher.
This body-building secret technique has four levels in total, corresponding to the demon clan's Qi training stage, foundation building stage, golden elixir stage, and Yuan Ying stage.
The first two levels are very easy to practice, because Linshan already has the foundation of three kinds of legal bodies and golden bodies, which can advance quickly. It only took less than three months to complete them all.
But when you get to the third level, the difficulty suddenly rises.
After practicing for half a year, he knew he had to slow down.
As the saying goes, haste makes waste.
Physical training is inherently a process that damages the body. By destroying your body and overdrawing your potential to improve physical strength, you need to do it step by step.
If necessary, add medicinal foods to neutralize and regulate relaxation.
Otherwise, if you use the dark water to wash it for a long time, the cold air will accumulate and become a disease, leaving hidden wounds in every hidden corner, which will be very troublesome to expel in the future.
Brother Ji has perfected the third level by slowly taking time and accumulating bit by bit over thirty years.
As for the fourth level, it not only requires the water of the Styx above the fifth level, but also needs the corresponding cultivation support, which is not something that can be controlled by the golden elixir stage.
The Styx water they collected in the Dark Swamp was overly diluted to the level of fourth-level spiritual liquid. The limit was that it was effective for secret techniques within the third level.
Now that Lin Shan has initially mastered the third level, he can only stop for the time being and wait for the long hard work.
For him, body refining is just another means, not the main task at this stage.
Because it is impossible to reach the level where the physical body can withstand magic weapons by just training the body.
Under the same circumstances, in a physical head-to-head confrontation, half of the factors depend on the density between the two objects!
How dense is the magic weapon, and how dense is the human body?
Even the demon clan has never heard that any golden elixir stage can resist magic weapons. This is simply unrealistic.
However, the benefits of body refining are reflected in all aspects, not only toughness and durability, but also spell resistance, gravity resistance, poison resistance, recovery speed, etc.
Sometimes a small advantage is enough to help secure a victory or save a life!
High-level monks have a long life span. If they can develop in all aspects, everyone would want to become a hexagonal warrior and make up for all their shortcomings.
End the exercise.
Lin Shan got up and put on his clothes, came to the edge of the training pool, took out another magic weapon and started to practice it.
This is a trophy obtained from the Snake Demon King.
【Tianhe Bucket】
Quality: Magic Weapon
Introduction: Refined from the fifth-level spiritual material Black True Water Iron, it contains thirty-six levels of magic prohibitions and has the effects of trapping, cutting off, and collecting enemy magic weapons. It contains the water source of the twelfth branch of the Tianhe River in the Immortal Realm and the 7370th tributary, which can gather water spiritual energy to create the water of the Tianhe River.
Strengthening requirements: 64 points
With this ancient treasure, the Snake Demon King almost took away the top magic weapons of Lin Shan and Zhong Shenxiu and controlled and sealed off the entire place. It must be the most precious thing in its collection.
There is a 'water source' in it.
Similar to the evil seeds of evil spirits, the demon seeds of evil spirits, the spiritual eyes of spiritual springs, etc., they can gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and transform it into the corresponding temporary liquid.
The water of Tianhe!
Tianhe is rumored to hang high in the ninth heaven of the immortal world.
The vast water is boundless.
In the Heavenly Court, there is even a powerful establishment called the 'Tianhe Navy', and every heavenly soldier and general in it is the best among the best.
The water source in Lin Shan's hands has been bred in tributaries that have been diluted to unknown extent. It is far from the charm of the water of the Tianhe River, but it is rare enough in the mortal world.
This ancient treasure is the fourth ancient treasure in Linshan, besides the Dingsha Five Elements Bell, the Fengbo Pavilion, and the twelve complete sets of the Snake Tushita Flag!
While the ordinary Golden Core Stage cultivator is still running for the magic weapon, he has already used the ancient treasure. The difference is not as big as that!
"Thinking about it, it should be enough to go to the Yuxing Secret Treasures to compete with my good brother for inheritance!"
He knew that Young Master Jiuyou, as the second generation demon, must have a lot of good things, but after being promoted for so long, he was not bad at being fully equipped.
After the Tianhe bucket is completely refined and can be retracted and released freely.
He took out the two Snake Tushita Flags that Shui Bingyue gave back to him.
This set of treasures has finally been assembled with twelve flags. It can be said to be a complete set of top-notch magic weapons!
Because it was made using the demonic body of the Snake Demon King, it is not an exaggeration to call it an ancient treasure level.
The same sacrifice was made by the heart, and it was put together with the other ten flags, and finally it was done.
The complete version of the Snake Demon Formation can finally be displayed!
Thinking of the Snake Demon King, there was one thing that had to be said, which gave him a headache.
That was the demon baby of the Snake Demon King. He originally brought it back with the intention of interrogating him to find out where his wealth was that the python leader from his hometown had not had time to transfer.
But before he could do anything, he was taken away by the Demon King Chong who came looking for him.
It seems that I can only apologize to Zhong Shenxiu and Shui Bingyue in the future. They will not be able to get this unexpected fortune.
Fortunately, he was compensated by the Insect Demon King and gave him a passage token and an insect nest.
Take out the worm nest.
Nine months ago, he put a large number of black beetle and rhinoceros eggs into it separately, wanting to experience what kind of surprise this insect nest could bring to him.
The space in the insect nest is very large and is subdivided into many sections.
After all, it is a treasure used by the Insect Demon King to carry the Zerg army with him. There is even a special Insect King transformation room in the center!
There was also a small pool inside, filled with sparkling liquid.
Lin Shan used an enhanced panel to identify it, and it turned out to be a rare high-level insect breeding liquid. I had never heard of it!
It's very possible that the Insect King didn't use up all of it originally, so the Insect Demon King directly packed it all up and gave it to himself.
He didn't dare to let Xiaodie in. I'm afraid that this little ancestor will be in trouble all at once.
All the insect eggs in other small compartments have hatched, and densely packed black beetles are eating insect food and are on the road to self-reproduction and evolution.
The number of rhinoceroses is slightly smaller, but the progress is ahead of schedule. Some of them have already begun to fight with the poison and devour the same kind!
Among them, there were a few large ones with purple spots on their golden carapace. Lin Shan didn't know if this was a mutation.
However, it is still very weak and far from being able to provide much help to itself.
Lin Shan doesn't care, he just needs to keep it anyway. Whatever it develops into, he won't be able to use it for the time being.
As for the stone egg brought back by the three Black Skull Demon Lords, it was still lying quietly in a corner, motionless and lifeless. Lin Shan had no time to think about it.
After waving, a transmission note flew over.
Inside was the voice of Li Yuanjie, the leader of the intelligence hall under his command.
"Leader, there are changes in the land of Jin and Guo!"
Lin Shan stood up suddenly, blocked the place with a formation, and left the back mountain.
Qianshan, Information Hall.
"Tell me how many people are on your trip and what is the deadline given to you by the higher authorities!"
Li Yuanjie is interrogating several recent arrests.
These spies were all natives of Lu.
They take people's money and do things for them. They don't even know who is behind the task. Anyway, it is business received from the black market.
There is only one mission: to investigate the recent whereabouts of Xun Gu Cult Master Lin Shan!
But investigation is investigation, and there will always be mistakes.
Not to mention that in the Lujiang River Basin, which can be said to be Lin Shan's home field, there is a chance that he will be discovered during the investigation, and then people from the Intelligence Hall will track him down and arrest him.
"Senior, there are eight of us in our group. Except for Wu Laoer who ran away, the others are all here! What they want is the whereabouts of your leader in the last six months!"
The prisoners answered truthfully, trembling with fear, and begging for mercy to let them go.
Just to survive, that's why he took the job on the black market, and he didn't have the courage to go against the Xun Gu Sect.
"Did you find anything?"
Lin Shan walked in from the outside, and the sunlight at the door was blocked.
Li Yuanjie signaled to the disciples around him to take the prisoners down, and only reported to Lin Shan after everyone was gone.
"Leader, this is the fifth batch of people who have been arrested recently!"
"Since three months ago, a new secret mission appeared on the black market to investigate your recent whereabouts. We didn't take it seriously at first, because there are always a few forces who want to investigate your recent whereabouts."
"They don't dare to expose themselves, so they can only post rewards on the black market and invite locals in the Lujiang Basin to search for information."
"Our Intelligence Hall has always introduced counter-reconnaissance measures, that is, deliberately accepting missions and then providing false information to receive rewards, so as to slowly get closer to revealing who is the mastermind behind it."
"The problem is that we pretended to infiltrate, and actually got the elixirs and magic weapons from Jin from the sponsor who issued the mission!"
Li Yuanjie was originally from the Guo State, a subsidiary of the Jin State, and he knew everything there. He suddenly saw the items in his hometown and couldn't help but become suspicious.
There are many forces investigating the leader, including merchants in northwest Shandong, large forces outside the Lujiang River Basin in western Shandong, and even Shangyang Academy. But why are there people from the Demonic Dao?
He kept sending people to cross paths, approach, sell false information, and gain trust. Finally, by chance, the spies heard a few words about the origins of this group of people.
It actually comes from the Demonic Way of Jin!
In order to better share the worries of the leader, Li Yuanjie decisively led the disciples of the Information Hall to rush into the black market and kill those guys.
Generally, large-scale fights are not allowed in Xiuzhenfang City and Immortal City.
Unless the local managers can't help it.
Wangyue City was destroyed by the ancestors of the Dai family. If the ancestors of the Yang family hadn't taken the lead, they wouldn't have even farted!
Chixiao City and Happy Forest are fighting fiercely, also because the local local snakes do not have the strength to maintain order and can only become a springboard for external forces.
Xun Gu Sect is now at its peak. Which force in the Lujiang River Valley dares not to give face to it? I could only hold my nose and admit it, and I had to take the initiative to conceal it for them, for fear of affecting the reputation of my own market.
Unfortunately, that campaign ended in failure.
No one was caught alive.
Because these lurking people from the Demonic Kingdom are all dead soldiers, they will commit suicide decisively when the situation is not good to avoid falling into the hands of the enemy and being forced to confess or search for their souls.
Later, Li Yuanjie carefully analyzed these people and the storage space, and recognized that they should be the dead soldiers of his old enemy, the Star Swallowing Sect!
If it were anyone else, the clues might have been lost, but Li Yuanjie knew too much about the Star Swallowing Sect, and he still found some clues.
This is not the only group of people sent by the Swallowing Star Sect to the Lu Kingdom!
Other roads are also very hidden, and there is basically no contact at all. They work on their own to avoid being implicated.
Subsequent intensive investigation revealed that several more signs of spying had surfaced, and they were also hiding behind the scenes, using local stand-ins to gather intelligence.
"You mean, Galactus Gate has noticed me?"
Lin Shan was a bit incredible.
He had only secretly asked Li Yuanjie to pay attention to the Star Swallowing Gate, and had never exposed himself, but how did the other side know about him?
Could it be that Li Yuanjie was exposed?
"Since I came to the State of Lu, my subordinates have changed their appearance. Even if the other party came to Xun Gu Sect, they would never recognize me. There must be another reason."
Lin Shan nodded and did not dwell on this point.
If Li Yuanjie's identity had not been exposed, then there is another possibility that it was the work of his good eldest brother, Young Master Jiuyou.
But what puzzled him was how did Young Master Jiuyou know that he also coveted the Yuxing secret treasure?
"What is the main purpose of their investigation?"
Li Yuanjie could only say four words, with uncertainty in his tone.
"It seems to be a celestial body?"
"The celestial body has finally been found!"
Night falls, on a cave platform in the middle of a mountainside cliff.
An old man with purple hair and a pouty mouth looked at the full moon and countless stars in the sky. He couldn't help but feel happy, and his heart felt boiling that he hadn't seen for a long time.
His body is translucent and floats lightly on the ground. At first glance, he looks like a wild ghost in a deserted mountain.
Those two greedy little guys from Swallowing Star Gate actually found clues for themselves!
He has been waiting for this moment for too long!
Because it is a weapon spirit, it cannot be exposed to the outside world. It can only hide in the deep mountains and old forests, waiting for the secret of Yuxing to be opened, so as to deal with the humans who break in from the outside world.
Hard work pays off, as long as it can seize the surrounding stars, then it can truly become a human being!
"I'll try my best to trick Zhou Tianxing into the Yuxing secret store. I will never treat you badly."
A transmission note disappeared in an instant, and at the same time there was something wrapped in a roll of oil paper.
(End of chapter)