Chapter 598: Arrive first and find a clear path
A few days later.
Young Master Jiuyou came here with a group of people, covered with dust.
I found that the valley here was quiet, and the large group of cellars below were mostly empty.
The rest are dead!
"What. What's going on?"
Ancestor Hongdong couldn’t believe that someone had already climbed there first!
Impossible!
They hurriedly and slowly flew here. Master Zhi Lian and Taoist An Chun couldn't possibly be faster than him. Judging from this posture, they had clearly moved away for several days!
Young Master Jiuyou looked ugly.
He didn't expect that someone would cut off his beard early, and he would be a step late!
"Young Master, we just went down to check. The body died three days ago. All the other mortals are missing. We guess it was carried away by magic weapons."
The bird protector came to him and reported softly.
"Magical weapon? What kind of flying magical weapon can carry hundreds of thousands of people?"
The boat under the seat of Young Master Jiuyou, as a high-end flying magic weapon, is the vehicle of Lord Kurong. Currently, under the stimulation of his magic power, its maximum carrying capacity is only a few hundred people, and it can support thousands of people to death.
What kind of magical weapon is it that can transport hundreds of thousands of people away without anyone noticing?
How big does that have to be?
Flying over the Star Swallowing Mountains, being so arrogant is not seeking death.
"Young Master, is it possible that the other party will bring an entire fleet of flying magic weapons?"
Even if it is a flying fleet, the target is too big. It will definitely expose its whereabouts, fail to attract the attention of interested people, and will also be targeted by some demon bird groups.
Unless the other party is moving in all directions one by one, slowly transporting them away in batches at staggered peaks, breaking them into pieces.
This is still possible!
However, the disadvantage of this is also obvious, that is, there must be enough masters, that is, monks above the foundation-building stage to guard and escort them to prevent accidents along the way.
Not only did they have to transport so many mortals away, they also had to gather them in the same place again!
How difficult it is!
"It seems like it should be a well-disciplined and powerful organization"
Young Master Jiuyou looked solemn. If this was the case, it couldn't be his second brother.
Because Lin Shan was on the side of the Demonic Jin Kingdom and was unfamiliar with the place, he simply did not have so much power at his disposal.
If that wasn't the second brother, who could it be?
Young Master Jiuyou boasts that he has been in the Jin Kingdom for a few years and has a general understanding of the powerful forces of local snakes.
If he wanted to rebuild the Nine Pylon Gate, he would naturally need to collect surrounding information.
To be able to dispatch so many monks at once, and even dispatch a fleet of flying magic weapons, is definitely not an ordinary force!
"Check! Send me someone to check! I want to know who it is, who dares to intercept Young Master Hu Ben, etc."
Young Master Jiuyou thought that time was running out now, and it was the time to hire people. In addition, there was no news about the Yin Protector, and the Eagle Protector was even more inseparable from his side.
"You just need to send a message and ask the Iron Guardian who stayed in Jin to investigate the matter secretly."
"The young master"
Protector Wu, I think it's wrong. I'll wait until the other side slowly investigates and find out. When will it be?
Young Master Jiuyou stopped paying attention to this place and turned around to look back at where he came from.
"I can't wait any longer. Since someone has already taken the lead, let's follow the original plan and use star power to break through the three lines of defense and penetrate directly into the Yuxing Cave!"
Ancestor Hongdong and Guardian Bird were shocked!
The young master of Jiuyou is decisive and decisive, and uses his massive star power without any hesitation.
Only by not caring about gains and losses can we achieve great things!
At this time, the bird protector suddenly saw something was wrong in the forest.
"Who? Come here!"
He opened his hand and sucked, and several little demon figures were instantly pulled onto the boat.
"Hey, you seem to be the disciples of that guy An Chun?"
Ancestor Hongdong next to him recognized him based on his clothing and aura.
"Under the command of Taoist An Chun? What are you doing here?"
Just as Guardian Ya was about to interrogate him, he immediately thought that Taoist An Chun might have leaked this place to the Xun Gu Cult Leader.
These little guys answered tremblingly:
"We were ordered by the ancient leader and ancestor to come here to investigate the situation and report back the news afterwards."
"How many of you are the only ones?"
The bird guardian's eyes kept scanning below, suspecting that there were some accomplices, but he couldn't find them.
"It is true that we are not the only ones, there are several groups of people behind us, but they are all looking for information."
"Isn't Master Xungu here?"
"We don't know this, we are just minions."
"Young Master."
Young Master Jiuyou stepped forward directly, put his hands on a few minions, and started searching for souls!
After a while, several people fell to the ground and died.
"They are right. My second brother didn't come over. He just sent people to investigate. It seems that he was not the one who kidnapped the creatures here, but someone else."
Lin Shan's suspicion was eliminated. Young Master Jiuyou turned around and asked Patriarch Hongdong:
"Except for the other two, who else knows about your hiding place."
"This seems to be gone."
Ancestor Hongdong thought hard and couldn't remember who else knew about it. Even if an outsider knew it, it was not him who leaked the secret.
Young Master Jiuyou didn't force it. I was lucky to get it, but I lost my life. He just wanted to save some star power.
Since you can’t save money in this province, you can use it and enjoy it as soon as possible.
"Let's set off, return to the original entrance, and prepare to break through Yuxing Cave!"
The news from Lin Shan's side was delayed for three days before they learned that hundreds of thousands of mortals had been evacuated.
The first wave of spies were wiped out, but the following waves of spies were fine, and even received a message from Young Master Jiuyou.
"Even my eldest brother is a step late. Who is he who can cut off his beard just right?"
Lin Shan thought for a while, but he didn't expect that the Swallowing Star Sect had been busy for so many years in vain, but it turned out that it had long been targeted by mysterious forces, and ended up being used as a wedding dress!
Taoist An Chun outside and Master Zhi Lian inside the pot were also shocked!
Only then did they realize that they had been working for others.
Even without Lin Shan and Young Master Jiuyou, their ending would not be any better than now.
Lin Shan is quite open-minded.
Because these days, he is preparing another method.
It’s soul sacrifice!
He has roughly understood the principle of soul sacrifice recently. Although he does not have that many souls, he has a large number of 'soul essence fragments'!
‘Soul Essence Fragments’ themselves are the condensed essence of the soul body, which can be taken directly to increase the strength of the soul, or used as a soul sacrifice.
Back in the dark swamp of the Skeleton Crocodile Demon King in the Luosong Mountains, he obtained a large number of demon soul fragments, which were all high-quality essences. They should be put to use now.
Following the directions given by Master Zhi Lian, he found a relatively secret entrance to the Yuxing Cave.
And I personally found the teleportation altar and tried it, and found that it really works!
The only regret is that
not enough!
Although the amount of his soul essence fragments is large, it is still not enough!
Lin Shan, together with Master Zhi Lian and Taoist An Chun, calculated that if they want to open the second layer of transmission channel, there is still about one-sixth left.
If you want to penetrate the third layer smoothly, you must double the number!
"Sir, in my opinion, it is better to go back to Guo Kingdom, slaughter ten of his cities, and then run away!"
Master Zhi Lian is making bad ideas again. After all, he is a member of the devil's path and doesn't care whether he kills or not, or how many people he kills.
"It's not necessary." Lin Shan thought to himself that as long as he could get through the second level, it would be enough. There was no need to rely on soul sacrifices for the third level star array. He had the virtual star disk and could completely pass through the star array!
This is equivalent to saving a lot of expenses.
In other words, just adding one sixth more is enough.
Lin Shan immediately ordered Li Yuanjie to coordinate the two waves of people from the Ancient Sect and the Swallowing Star Sect, and go out in batches to go to various large and small demon cities and demon villages in the Jin Kingdom to collect and buy souls.
In the Demonic Kingdom, there is a lot of trading of human souls and corpses. Although it is invisible to the public, it is very popular in the dark.
Unlike the Righteous Kingdom, there is no market at all, so there is no need to bother the Lu Kingdom’s base camp.
As for himself, he was looking for demon clans in the Swallowing Star Mountains, hunting demon souls to replenish what he needed.
In order to improve efficiency, he even temporarily released the guy Zhi Lian Zhenren.
Because in the future, when traveling to the interior of Yuxing Cave Mansion, Young Master Jiuyou will have Ancestor Hongdong to lead the way, and he will also need Master Zhi Lian to lead the way.
Master Zhi Lian finally came out of the soul-locking pot and pounced on his body!
"Whoosh!"
He opened his eyes, raised his hands and looked at them. He was intoxicated by the long-lost feeling of having a physical body and returning to the harbor.
Only when you lose can you learn to cherish.
Suddenly he shook and almost fell over!
A wave of weakness hit him out of nowhere, and he felt cold all over.
"It's normal to be cold just after coming out of the ice coffin."
Lin Shan comforted him with kind words.
"No, I mean, my golden elixir."
"Oh yes."
A golden elixir was taken out from the box, and Master Zhi Lian hurriedly swallowed it. Although he was shivering from the cold, the mana surged out after the golden elixir entered his abdomen, turning into a stream of warm currents throughout his body.
He finally recovered.
It's just that the breath has fallen miserably, and it has fallen from the middle stage of the golden elixir to the early stage of the golden elixir.
There is nothing we can do about it.
Although Master Zhi Lian was depressed to death, he did not seek life and death, because it was true that it would take a lot of time to practice to get back after the realm fell, but the bottleneck had been broken through, so it was equivalent to nothing.
When he refills the pool in the early stage of the golden elixir, it will be a matter of course to restore the middle stage of the golden elixir.
Lin Shan didn't give him much time to rest. He also let him eat insect eggs and evil pills. After ensuring that he could control them, he led the two of them to hunt together in the Swallowing Star Mountains.
Three months later.
"Sir, are you sure this is enough? Why do I feel like there is still a lot missing?"
In front of a three-story altar that was more than ten feet high and eight feet wide, a group of people gathered around and sacrificed all the souls they had obtained.
Most of them were demon souls. The human souls that Li Yuanjie led to search for were in the minority, far less than those hunted by Lin Shan's three golden elixir monks.
Even because of his recent crazy hunting of monsters, he attracted the attention of many cave masters and monster generals, including some powerful characters, which made him act more cautiously.
Fortunately, we are heading to Yuxing Cave Mansion soon, so we don’t have to worry too much about what’s ahead and behind us.
Master Zhi Lian feels that these souls are not enough. It should be more than enough to get through the second level, but the third level is still far behind.
However, Lin Shan insisted on starting now, and he couldn't help but try to dissuade him again and again, so he could only let it go.
When the time comes to be stuck outside the third floor, looking at the ocean and sighing, it can only be blamed on his stubbornness.
Anyway, if the waiting period comes in the end, the cave will automatically open and you can enter, it's not a big deal.
The only thing that worries him is whether he can survive in Yuxing's secret this time.
Most of the other forces have also secretly made preparations. I am afraid they will meet inside when the time comes, and the situation will become increasingly complicated.
"Are you ready?"
"Leader, everything is ready."
"Then let's begin."
Following Lin Shan's order, the entire altar began to shake slightly, with the frequency and amplitude of the shaking getting larger and larger.
After reaching a critical point.
“Buzz~~~”
The surrounding woods suddenly stopped, all the leaves were broken, leaving only bare tree trunks standing around.
Invisible ultrasonic waves echoed in everyone's ears, and the long-lasting whisper was like a dream, half-real but not real, half-true but not false. If you listen carefully, it's not real. If you don't listen carefully, it seems to be in front of you again.
In the center of the altar, a bottomless hole slowly opened.
A deep blue transmission channel was revealed.
This passage was hazy at first, but then gradually became more real and condensed, until it was very solid even when you stepped on it.
"You two, come on!"
Lin Shan ordered the two of them with an expressionless face. Master Zhi Lian and Taoist An Chun had nothing to do. They knew that Lin Shan was worried about them.
If he walks in front and fires his bow without turning back, once the teleportation is activated, he will naturally be unable to turn back. The two people behind him can turn around and run away without following.
Lin Shan would never make this kind of mistake.
There was no way, Master Zhi Lian took the lead, Taoist An Chun was protected in the middle, and Lin Shan was behind.
The three people stepped into the flowing light channel one after the other.
"You don't have to stay here anymore. You can go back to the State of Lu to find the ancient religion, or you can go to the Kun State of Chu to help with the work. I don't know how long it will take to go there, and I can't decide at all."
Li Yuanjie nodded, turned around and led the team away.
The group of people from Swallowing Star Sect also consciously joined Li Yuanjie's command and never looked at their ancestor again.
The transmission channel shuttled quickly, and Lin Shan and others only spent a short time in the mud soil before stepping into the hot world of the Milky Way.
The transmission channel is full of star projections outside, making it a good place to learn scriptures and observe.
Watching thousands of stars passing by him, he just admired them silently without making a sound.
Half an hour.
The second floor went to the bottom, and the third floor only made a creaking sound after the impact of the transmission channel.
The three of them looked at the gate in front of them. This was the only way to Yuxing Cave Mansion.
He slowly stepped forward and touched the virtual star disk in his arms.
Another boundary,
At this time, a blood-soaking blood sacrifice was being held. The blood on the altar was flowing down the altar, and it looked like it was a crooked trick.
"Chengli!"
One of the Jindan monks shouted and quickly called the other person to come over and take a look. A deep and invisible hole was exposed underneath, just to attract people to go there.
This is what they achieved by sacrificing countless lives.
"Let's go without further ado, let's fight!"
They also calmed down before leaving and stepped into the transmission channel resolutely.
Another side.
"It is worth noting that we secretly plotted and provoked, and colluded with the armies of the two countries to fight on the border battlefield, so that we could collect so many fresh corpses and collect and refine so many corpses."
"Everything is ready now. All we need is the east wind. Yuxing Cave is right ahead!"
"Rush!"
(End of chapter)