Chapter 311 Book of Souls
In the Cold Soul Valley, a bone-chilling cold air blew out of the valley, making people outside shudder.
"Go ahead."
An elder in the early stage of Golden Core raised his palm to open the forbidden area, frowned and said: "Remember, the biggest opportunity in the Cold Soul Valley is the Ice Soul Divine Stone, but you must not be greedy, your cultivation is too low, don't If you go too deep into the forbidden area, just search for the Ice Soul Divine Stone in the Linghan Mountains. If you go too deep, no one can save you!"
"Yes, uncle, please rest assured!"
All the disciples nodded in unison and immediately faced the cold wind and entered the Cold Soul Valley.
Ning Daoran was also mixed in the crowd, keeping a very low profile, showing a somewhat unbearable expression of pain, and released the aura of the True Yang Furnace Technique to protect himself.
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Soon after, the figures of the disciples disappeared into the cold wind and snowflakes. The elder Jindan looked indifferently. Even though he knew that all these people would definitely not come back from this trip, he was indifferent. He had seen too many outer disciples. It is just a consumable to the sect!
And not only the outer sect disciples, but also most of the inner sect disciples will enter the Cold Soul Valley every few years. The range they can explore is larger, and the ice soul divine stones they bring back are naturally more.
As for the Ice Soul Divine Stone, it is naturally for the palace master, deputy palace master, elder protector, true disciple and the like. These people will never step into the Cold Soul Valley. Staying in that kind of cold place is very harmful to the Nine Yang Furnace God. The loss of Jue cultivation is huge.
This is probably why even Nascent Souls like Feng Yinghai are reluctant to step into the Cold Soul Valley.
In the valley, the cold wind howled.
A group of outer disciples walked forward against the cold wind. Soon some of them could no longer hold on. With a low cry, they activated the Nine Yang Furnace Divine Technique and turned their bodies into a furnace to resist the cold wind.
Soon after, almost all the disciples had used the Divine Furnace Technique. Their figures turned into candles in the gray cold wind, swaying continuously, and their faces were all filled with pain.
"I have to persevere...My mother is still waiting, waiting for me to become an immortal with a hundred refinements, and to honor my ancestors..."
"I will never let others look down on my Zhou family again. This Hanpo Valley is my only chance..."
"Master said, it doesn't matter whether you can get the Ice Soul Divine Stone or not. Don't risk your own life. Otherwise... I'll hide at the entrance of the valley for a long time and then return safe and sound?"
The disciples had different expressions and thoughts, but none of them noticed that in the darkness, a figure had separated from the group.
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Ning Daoran was too lazy to go forward with everyone, he planned to be brave and diligent, because the disciple who obtained the most ice soul stones in this trial would have the opportunity to enter the third floor of the library pavilion once!
There are only three floors in the library in Lieyang Dao Palace. Normally, only the palace master and the true disciples can enter the three floors. This time, probably because there is a shortage of Ice Soul Divine Stones in the Dao Palace, all three floors of the library are actually used as a library. rewarded.
The library of the top immortal sect is naturally not comparable to that of the Chaos Sect. What if there is a spell that suits you?
So, he grinned and disappeared into the night in the valley.
Linghan Mountains.
Ning Daoran released his golden elixir consciousness and quickly discovered that there were gems with extremely strong ice-attribute aura scattered scattered in the mountain. They were the so-called Ice Soul Divine Stones. In addition, there were also auras of monsters appearing in the mountain.
They are a type of ice ape that just ran down the mountain after smelling the breath of a stranger. Although these ice apes are only as tall as a person, they are extremely powerful and have a strong demonic aura. It is definitely not a problem to kill them in the Qi refining stage with one punch.
“Oh oh oh~~~”
Not far away, an ice ape rushed over with its chest hammered, full of evil energy, opened its bloody mouth, and punched Ning Daoran in the face with great speed.
A monster at the early stage of the second level would probably die if it had been another disciple!
It's a pity that it met Ning Daoran.
Ning Daoran's punch was so fast that it was almost impossible to catch it with the naked eye. After a "peng" sound, the entire arm of the ice ape turned into blood rain in the cold wind, and in the blink of an eye it condensed into streaks of ice shavings. Shocked and just about to turn around, a golden flying sword penetrated the back of the head, killing him on the spot!
Ning Daoran didn't bother to look at it at all, so he picked up a piece of ice soul stone about the size of a fingernail. It was very small, but he still put it in a storage bag prepared in advance.
After that, he continued to move forward, continuously collecting ice soul stones in the Linghan Mountains, and at the same time killing the monsters that appeared one after another.
Just two hours later, dozens of second-order monsters were killed wherever Ning Daoran passed by, and the strongest among them had even reached the mid-second-order level!
This kind of area where monster beasts are infested is comparable to the combat power of monks in the late stage of human race foundation building, but the disciples in the late stage of Qi refining are allowed to search for the Ice Soul Divine Stone. The decision-makers in Lieyang Dao Palace are indeed ruthless enough and do not treat the outer disciples at all. human life as one thing.
Soon after, when Ning Daoran climbed up a hillside, he saw several "statues" standing in front of him.
He frowned. In fact, it was not a statue, but the remains of several outer sect disciples who were frozen to death in the wind and snow. The Linghan Mountains were too cold. These disciples had little magic power and low cultivation, as if the charcoal had been burnt out. Just like the stove, the fire went out, and he was frozen to death in the depths of the Linghan Mountains.
But ahead, there are still a few stars, and some disciples who have gone deeper into the Cold Soul Valley in order to find more Ice Soul Divine Stones.
Ning Daoran was a little helpless, most of these people would not be able to come back.
If you don't know how to act within your ability, there will be only a dead end.
Sure enough, not long after, the roar of monsters came from the distance, and then in Ning Daoran's field of vision, the more than ten disciples were like fireflies in the cold wind, extinguished one by one, and finally none of them died. Couldn't come back.
...Half an hour later, Ning Daoran realized that he had obtained enough Ice Soul Divine Stones, so he returned to the mouth of the valley and waited near the mouth of the valley.
After a few hours, the training time ended.
Disciples continued to return in an endless stream, but the conditions were not very good. Some had their hands and feet lost due to the cold, while others had large areas of frostbite all over their bodies. They all looked tired and no longer as energetic as before.
In the end, after Elder Jindan counted, there were only more than sixty people who came back.
Almost half of the people stayed in the Cold Valley forever, and even their bodies could not be recovered. There was a high probability that those people would become the flesh and blood of the monsters in the forbidden area.
"So many people have been lost..."
The elder frowned and said, "Has everyone come out?"
"They're all out."
"Okay, take out your Ice Soul Divine Stone and let your uncle see it!"
"Yes, Uncle Master!"
A group of disciples took out their harvests, which varied in number. Some took out more than a dozen large and small Ice Soul Divine Stones, and some took out a small piece the size of a fingernail. Some disciples were even unlucky and got a Ice Soul Divine Stone. Can't take it out.
The moment Ning Daoran shook his storage bag, the eyes of the early Jindan elder lit up.
There are actually more than 30 pieces, which together are about the size of two fists!
"Your name is Ning Cheng?"
Elder Jindan scanned his identity jade talisman with his spiritual consciousness. He turned out to be the disciple guarding the medicine garden. He couldn't help but be suspicious and asked: "How did you get so many ice soul stones?"
Ning Daoran said: "Uncle Qi, I originally didn't have any, but then I accidentally broke into a monster's lair. It was probably because the brothers entered the Linghan Mountains, and all the monsters in the lair left. The disciple found so many Ice Soul Divine Stones. The disciple was also afraid, so he hid at the exit for a long time, and finally waited until the restriction was reopened..."
"You... are very good!"
Elder Jindan looked at him, suppressed the words "You are so lucky," and said: "Ning Cheng, you have obtained the most Ice Soul Stones from this experience. This is the token for the third floor of the Library Pavilion. You can enter the third floor of the Library Pavilion once with the token, but don’t be greedy. Many of the techniques inside conflict with the Nine Yang Furnace Divine Art, so don’t practice it randomly.”
"Yes, thank you, uncle!"
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Late at night, Lieyang Dao Palace Library Pavilion.
Ning Daoran held the token in his hand and went to the third floor under the guidance of an inner disciple guarding the library pavilion.
"Are you Ning Cheng?"
The person guarding the third floor of the library is an old monk with white hair and a middle-level cultivation of Jindan. He can't see through Ning Daoran's soul disguise at a glance, and he can't even see through the tempered body of the Dragon Demon Heart Sutra. ,road:" I heard that you poked a monster nest and got a lot of ice soul stones for no reason. You are really lucky. Put down the token and go. You can study on the third floor for half an hour."
"Thank you, uncle!"
Ning Daoran put down the token and cursed in his heart for being stingy.
It can only be watched for half an hour. If it were an ordinary Qi-refining stage disciple, he would be destined to gain nothing. The memory ability of the Qi-Refining stage is far inferior to that of the Golden Core stage. Besides, many advanced techniques are difficult to understand and cannot be remembered by rote memorization. If you live there, ordinary disciples will most likely come back empty-handed, just like a primary school student walking around in a top astronomy library.
However, this half hour was enough for Ning Daoran!
He quickly began to read through various classics, handbooks, and secrets one by one. Most of them were various opinions, and there were not too many truly serious techniques and secrets.
Soon, Ning Daoran discovered a technique that he could use.
It's actually an upgraded version of sound absorption, called...
Great sound absorption!
This technique has a better sound-absorbing effect. Once it is in operation, it can silence dozens of feet. It is a high-grade Xuan-level technique and is not even a bit better than Huang-level sound-absorbing technique!
Afterwards, Ning Daoran quickly searched around and found another book that he could include.
Great virtual expansion technique!
As soon as the name of this technique sounds, it is quite powerful. It is an enhanced version of the invisibility technique, and it is actually a low-grade earth-level technique. When you practice it to a high level, you can completely hide your body in the void and escape directly. This technique The method is extremely powerful, but unfortunately it is very difficult to practice. All the big guys in Lieyang Dao Palace have probably practiced it, but they thought it was too useless, so they put it on the shelf.
Ning Daoran calmly entered it into his own skill library.
Then I continued to search and found a lot of them, but most of them were useless and there was no need to practice.
Finally, just as half an hour was approaching, Ning Daoran's eyes were attracted by a rather broken notebook. The notebook was very old and was as thick as a finger. There were three words written crookedly on the cover. Word——
Soul Book.
(End of chapter)