Chapter 117 Swallowing the Spirit Root, the second stage!
One step, two steps...
Lin Chen stepped forward slowly, getting closer and closer to the village owner.
"Come closer...come closer..."
The leader of Cuidao Lake Village kept praying in his heart, and the self-destruction talisman in his hand became tighter and tighter.
However, Lin Chen stopped and finally stopped ten feet away from the village leader.
The heart of the leader of Cuidao Lake Village gradually sank.
"You, who are you? No, what kind of monster are you...?"
He also tried to delay time.
However, Lin Chen directly raised his hand without any ink marks.
"Thud, tug, tug..."
Thousands of bullets poured out, sweeping the village leader's broken body into a sieve.
Before he died, the leader of Cuidao Lake still had regret and fear in his eyes...
His body twitched on the ground a few times, and finally lost his voice.
“Dead?”
Lin Chen released his spiritual consciousness and could not sense the aura of the leader of Cuidao Lake Village.
But he didn’t act rashly. There was no guarantee that the leader of the village didn’t have any tricks to fake death.
Then his heart moved slightly, and the demon-slaying flying knife came out in response, and struck towards the corpse of the village leader.
The blade of the sword slashed across, blood spattered everywhere, and the village leader’s head rolled off.
Seeing the bodies separated, Lin Chen felt relieved and plundered the storage bag from him.
Before he could investigate in detail, Lin Chen went to chase the deputy village leader who was building the eighth floor of the foundation.
Lin Chen looked up at the sky and saw that the deputy village leader had escaped hundreds of feet away with a flying sword.
If I don’t pursue him, I’m afraid this deputy village leader will really escape.
But Lin Chen didn’t panic at all and said in a low voice:
“Oh, this guy runs really fast!”
"Launch W-17 nano-tracking missile..."
Following Lin Chen's order, a small missile launcher appeared behind the demon armor.
Immediately afterwards, the nano-missile roared out, hitting the deputy village leader hundreds of feet away in less than a second.
The deputy village leader held up his body-protecting essence and wanted to resist.
However, in the face of the power of a missile that is enough to blow up a mountain, how can the body-protecting essence of a mere foundation-building monk resist?
The deputy village leader's body-protecting essence only lasted less than a breath before it turned into a pool of blood mist under the high temperature and pressure of the missile explosion, and no bones remained.
Lin Chen stopped and watched for a few seconds, then murmured:
"What a pity..."
It's a pity that the storage bag will definitely be damaged under such power.
Otherwise, Lin Chen would have spared no effort and would have just washed away the land and sunk the island with artillery fire...
At this point, none of the foundation-building cultivators in Cuidao Lake Village survived.
The next step was much simpler. The Qi Refining Tribulation cultivators on the island were suppressed by the firepower of the Demon Armor and had almost no power to fight back.
In addition, two martial arts puppets, Long Ba and Feng Jiu, are assisting.
In less than half an hour, all the Qi Refining Tribulation Cultivators on the island were killed.
The whole process is much simpler than the previous capture of Yudai Village...
After killing the people, Lin Chen walked around the island a few times, scanning with his spiritual consciousness to make sure there were no survivors.
After that, it’s time to count the loot.
The entire Cuidao Lake Village was built with more than three hundred robberies and looted for several years, and the wealth accumulated was considerable.
There are nearly 80,000 spiritual stones alone, and various magic weapons and materials are piled up like mountains.
Based on Lin Chen's initial estimate, the total value of this batch of materials is probably no less than 300,000 spirit stones.
After cleaning up the battlefield and harvesting, Lin Chen did not stay long and quickly left with his weapon.
After flying hundreds of miles, he took out a few items after making sure no one was chasing him.
A slightly damaged array plate and twelve array flags.
“The island protection formation of Cuidao Lake Water Village... takes into account both the maze formation and the protective formation, but it is more advanced than the formation of Yudai Mountain...”
Lin Chen thought silently He said, this island protection formation is worth at least several spiritual stones, and it cannot be bought easily.
They are all existences that are regarded as foundations by the big forces.
For Lin Chen, whether it is to take it to Gaowu World to the research institute to study the formation, or Lin Chen keeps it for his own use, it is a good choice.
In addition to this formation, Lin Chen also had a fist-sized crystal bead in his hand.
The whole body is round and contains rich water aura.
——Avoid water beads!
"This water-repellent bead is not very helpful in fighting, but it is very useful in deep water..."
Lin Chen carefully put away the water-repellent bead.
This water-avoiding bead is valuable, and it is also one of the trump cards of the village leader of Cuidao Lake.
Whether it is Qi refining, foundation building or even a pill-forming monk, one's strength will be affected somewhat under deep water.
The magical effect of this water-repellent bead is that it allows monks to fight underwater without being affected, and it even has a certain protective effect against water spells.
If Lin Chen had been half a step slower and the leader of the village had escaped to the water of Cuidao Lake, he would have been in real trouble.
Lin Chen counted the number of spirit stones in his hand.
After destroying Cuidaohu Water Village, the number of spiritual stones in his hands has reached nearly 900,000.
It is only about 100,000 short of the million spiritual stones required to advance to the Spirit Swallowing Root.
"Alas, we have to keep working hard. Just in time, there is still the last path of robbery cultivator forces..."
Lin Chen raised his head and looked in a certain direction.
The last of the three tribulations is less than a thousand miles away from here.
Now that he has taken action, Lin Chen does not intend to delay.
While the news of the destruction of Cuidaohu Water Village has not yet spread, Lin Chen plans to strike while the iron is hot and wipe out the last tribulation cultivators along the way.
First, artillery fire washed the ground, and a large fire was added to cover up the traces of the battle in the cottage.
Afterwards, Lin Chen lifted off the demon armor, summoned the flying sword, and rushed towards the final path of robbery.
……
At the same time, Cuidao Lake Water Village.
Under the traces of gunfire, the ground squirmed, and an embarrassed figure emerged from the ground.
"Then...what kind of monster is that?"
This person was wearing a scholar's robe, and he was clearly the scholar with the jade belt.
But at this moment, he is unkempt, covered in filth and dirt, his hair is scattered on the back of his head, and there is no trace of him looking like a Foundation Establishment monk.
“Are all...all dead?”
The scholar with the jade belt was still frightened.
He searched furtively on the island for a while, and finally determined that he was the only living person left on the entire island.
It turned out that since the destruction of Yudai Mountain, he had fled all the way and wanted to join the Cuidao Lake Village in order to make a comeback.
After all, he is also a late-stage foundation-building monk, so he should have some status in the Cuidao Lake Village.
But he never expected that on the first day he took refuge, he would encounter a dark monster attacking the water village.
He didn’t know if it was a puppet or a monk.
But he has never seen such a terrifying monster. With his own power, he destroyed the entire water village in just one hour.
In his opinion, even a pill-forming monk can't do it, right?
Fortunately, he was not in the hall at the time, but was outside familiar with the terrain of Green Lake Island.
As soon as the island protection formation was activated, he noticed something was wrong, and directly used the earth escape technique to sneak into the ground a hundred feet deep.
Due to this earth escape technique, he can vaguely sense what is happening on the ground even when he is hundreds of feet deep underground.
After an hour of panic, there was gradually no movement on the ground.
But he still didn't dare to come up. After hiding underground for several hours, he reluctantly dared to come up and take a look.
"Monster..."
The Jade Belt Scholar was still frightened, but he did not dare to stay long.
He quickly took out his magic weapon and fled in a certain direction.
"Escape, you must escape from this ghost place..."
...
A few hours later, Lin Chen arrived at the last Jie Xiu stronghold.
He did not rush to take action, but as before, he first observed the strength of this robbery cultivator.
Similar to the previous Cuidaohu Water Village, there are about 300 robbery cultivators in this village.
Even the number of Foundation Building Tribulation Cultivators is not as good as Cuidao Lake Water Village.
Although the robbery cultivators in the village were also on guard, it was obvious that they did not know the news of the destruction of Cuidaohu Water Village and did not activate the mountain protection formation.
Lin Chen even saved the effort of disguising himself and directly used Mu Yin Jue to hide his aura, and took advantage of the night to sneak into the village.
Put on the demon armor, release Long Ba and Feng Jiu, and lock the positions of several foundation-building tribulation cultivators.
The next step is a crushing match.
Using absolute firepower to suppress them, Lin Chen quickly killed all the foundation-building tribulation cultivators.
After that, with the help of two martial arts puppets, Lin Chen destroyed all the Qi Refining Stage Tribulation Cultivators in the village.
Everything happened overnight.
When it was dark, Lin Chen was already counting the supplies in the village.
There are mountains of various materials, magic weapons, and 90,000 spiritual stones.
At this point, Lin Chen was very close to reaching the one million spirit stone mark.
"Tsk, tsk, these robbery cultivators are really fat!"
"What kind of money can you make by robbing casual cultivators? It's better to make more money by stabbing the robber cultivators in their lair..."
Lin Chen thought silently road.
After counting the harvest, Lin Chen set a fire, burning the village to the ground and covering up the traces of the battle.
As soon as it got dark, Lin Chen left the village with his flying sword.
...Long after Lin Chen left, the ground somewhere squirmed.
The scholar with the jade belt carefully emerged from the ground.
Looking at the cottage that had been burned to the ground by the fire, his eyes were extremely horrified.
"How could it be...could it be that the purpose of that monster is to destroy all the Tribulation Cultivators in Yan Lai Realm?"
He looked terrified and his body was shaking slightly.
After the destruction of Cuidao Lake Water Village, he came all the way to this last village to find a place to protect himself.
But he never expected that he would encounter the black monster again and destroy the village.
Fortunately, he has been hiding underground and has not been discovered.
"What should I do... Now I may be the only leader of the robbery cultivators in Yan Lai territory!"
The Jade Belt Scholar suppressed his fear and calmed himself down.
"If I recruit Jie Xiu again and encounter that weirdo... wouldn't I be powerless to fight back?"
At this moment, he only had one thought in his mind.
Being a hammer cultivator?
Run away quickly...
Over the years as a Jie cultivator, he had also accumulated a lot of spiritual stones, enough to complete the foundation building process.
“So, where should we hide?”
“The most dangerous place is the safest place... Maybe, first return to Yudai City to avoid the limelight?”
The jade belt scholar murmured.
He also has two houses in Yudai City, which few people know about.
Moreover, monks and mortals lived together in Yudai City, so the population was large and difficult to be discovered...
Thinking of this, he fled towards Yudai City in fear.
……
Early the next morning, Yudai City.
Lin Chen disguised himself as Han Laoliu and moved to an inn to stay temporarily.
He plans to live in Yudai City for a while longer.
With a distance of one million spirit stones, the remaining gap can be earned in Jade Belt City.
And you need to earn more spiritual stones to support your own practice.
Nowadays, there are not many places in Yanlai where you can quickly earn spiritual stones...
So, in the next few days, Long Ba and Feng Jiu continued to sell elixirs outside. ,magic weapon.
Ten days later, he finally collected one million spiritual stones.
After collecting one million spirit stones, he did not rush to advance to the swallowing spirit root, but waited for a few more days.
Until the countdown to return is reset...
...
Daxia Kingdom, Martial Arts Palace.
Lin Chen was alone in a lounge. The spiritual stones around him were piled up like a hill, almost filling half of the room.
"Tsk, tsk, a whole million spiritual stones! They will all be used to advance the spiritual roots..."
Lin Chen was still a little heartbroken.
But it was only for a moment...
When he thought about the progress of the second-level swallowing spirit root, Lin Chen felt a little hot in his heart.
Without much hesitation, he activated his secret method and began to devour the surrounding spiritual stones.
With just a movement in his heart, thousands of spiritual stones turned into precise energy and poured into Lin Chen's spiritual roots.
During this process, Lin Chen’s spiritual roots were also quietly evolving.
In the blink of an eye, the night passed.
By the next morning, the mountains of spiritual stones in the room were no longer there, but instead there were piles of powder.
Lin Chen sat cross-legged, motionless as a mountain, and absorbed the energy of the last few thousand spirit stones...
Finally, the swallowing spirit root completely completed its evolution.
Under Lin Chen's induction, the aura generated in the spirit gathering array became particularly agile.
He thought about it carefully for a long time before opening his eyes.
“Swallowing Spiritual Roots, the second stage...is finally achieved!”
Taking out a pile of spirit stones, Lin Chen practiced for a while to test his current cultivation speed.
Another hour later, Lin Chen said happily:
“The speed of my cultivation has increased by about two or three times... My cultivation speed now should be comparable to the best earth spiritual roots. Right? "
Lin Chen was in high spirits.
If the True Spiritual Root cultivator is one in a million geniuses, then the Earthly Spiritual Root cultivator is truly one in a million!
Such qualifications are not to mention found in Yanlai territory and Changchun gate.
Even the number one sect in Qingzhou, the Taoist sect, can be called a genius.
"According to the current speed of cultivation, it will take at most two months to complete the foundation construction from the eighth level to the foundation construction!"
Lin Chen thought silently.
“In addition to the increase in my cultivation speed, the second stage of swallowing spirit roots also gave me a stronger true energy!”
He carefully experienced the changes in the true energy and mana in his Dantian.
Originally, his true energy mana was considered to be strong. With the blessing of perfect foundation building, the eight-level true energy was probably comparable to a perfect foundation building.
“Although the first stage of swallowing spirit roots can also strengthen the true essence, the effect is far from as good as it is now!”
“But the second stage of swallowing spirit roots, at least Strengthened the true energy by 50%, right?"
Lin Chen was restrained. He could feel that the perfect true energy on the foundation-building alchemy platform was far stronger than before.
"It has not yet reached the total amount of true energy in the fake elixir realm... but it is far beyond the ordinary foundation-building perfection!"
"Perhaps, when the foundation-building is complete, my true energy will be comparable to that of the fake elixir realm..." Alchemy monk?"
Lin Chen speculated a little.
In the next few days, Lin Chen stayed peacefully in the Martial Arts Palace to practice.
Thousands of new Wuleizi were produced and put into nano bags by Lin Chen.
As the countdown to time travel cleared, Lin Chen successfully returned to the world of immortality.
......
Return to the Yudai City Inn.
Lin Chen took stock of the remaining spirit stones and resources.
"There is no shortage of magic weapons and elixirs...but there is a shortage of spiritual stones again!"
"There are only more than 10,000 pieces left..."
Lin Chen felt helpless.
As he reached the second stage of swallowing spiritual roots, his cultivation speed increased several times.
The amount of spiritual stones consumed in daily practice has reached a terrifying level -
Three hundred spiritual stones!
This means that Lin Chen may have to consume tens of thousands of spiritual stones for one month of practice.
These ten thousand spirit stones are enough for a pill-forming monk to practice for a year...
"Alas, in the final analysis, we still have to earn more spirit stones."
Thinking At this point, Lin Chen had no choice but to stay in Jade Belt City for a while longer.
After finally making this trip, I naturally want to squeeze out all the value of this city.
So, for the next half month, Lin Chen stayed in the inn to practice peacefully.
Just send out Long Ba and Feng Jiu to sell elixirs and magic weapons every day.
After half a month, his accumulated spiritual stones finally reached 30,000.
Enough for his practice for the next hundred days.
At the same time, half a month of practice also allowed Lin Chen to advance from the eighth level of foundation building to the ninth level of foundation building.
One step further, the foundation building is complete, and we are ready to prepare the elixir...
"The news of the destruction of the Three-Road Tribulation Cultivator has spread throughout Yanlai City and Xiaofang City."
"It's time to prepare to return to the sect and do some more trading in the black market and Guangyuan Town..."
Lin Chen thought silently.
As time goes by, the opening of the ancient ruins mentioned by Jiang Liqian is getting closer and closer.
Early the next morning, Lin Chen left the city, summoned the flying sword and prepared to return to Changchun Gate.
After flying for a while, Lin Chen suddenly felt something was wrong.
Looking at the familiar mountains and woods around him, he murmured:
"Why does this place look familiar... It seems like I just walked through it? Am I... lost?"< br>
Lin Chen frowned. He had an excellent memory, and he was not a road fool. With the monk's spiritual sense, he shouldn't have gotten lost anyway.
"Something's wrong, the Changchun Gate should be in the south-east direction..."
Lin Chen stayed on the spot for a moment, then re-determined the direction and continued flying with his sword.
After another half an hour, Lin Chen felt that he had climbed several mountains and had traveled hundreds of miles.
However, he returned to the place where he was lost before.
"Really lost? No...is this a maze?"
Lin Chen narrowed his eyes. The feeling of spinning in circles could only be explained by the maze...
"Is my identity exposed, so I am being targeted? I set up a maze to attack. Kill me?"
Lin Chen looked around, and no monks were looking at him with his spiritual consciousness.
So, he tried several more times, made basic marks, and spent several hours.
Until he returned to the mountain, Lin Chen frowned slightly:
"I'm afraid I won't be able to go back to Changchun Gate for the time being..."
"But, the range of this maze is so large? In this case, try changing the direction..."
Lin Chen changed direction and prepared to return to Jade Belt City first.
However, this time he only flew for a few minutes before he saw Yudai City.
Controlling the flying sword to land slowly, Lin Chen walked into the Jade Belt City.
Seeing the lively scene in the city, the monks passing by, and the unaware mortals, Lin Chen felt even more shocked and confused.
“So, I didn’t leave the Jade Belt City for a whole day?”
(End of this chapter)