Chapter 165: Psychic Transformation
Bu Xu, who had just flown more than ten feet away, was struck directly by a silver lightning in the crimson sky. He screamed and his body immediately turned into ashes and disappeared. Without a trace.
Two things fell from mid-air and landed in the grass beside them, making no sound at all.
Somewhere on the lava road, a gorgeous woman in her thirties, wearing a blue gauze, was hesitantly looking at the lava river in front of her.
Except for a square stone pillar about a foot wide lying across the Red Fire River, which is more than forty feet wide, there is nothing else.
The gorgeous woman endured the burning under her feet, bit her silver teeth, and then slowly moved along the stone pillar to the other side, with an extremely cautious look on her face.
It went very smoothly at first, allowing her to walk less than half of the way safely, but when she was approaching the center of the Stone Pillar Bridge, suddenly a low rumble came from a distance.
The gorgeous woman was stunned and couldn't help but raise her head and look up the river.
As a result, his face turned extremely pale, and he suddenly became panicked!
A very strong hurricane was rushing from top to bottom along the river, turning into a giant gray dragon. , with teeth and claws showing, he arrived in front of the stone pillar in the blink of an eye, and wrapped the female cultivator who had just taken off into the air into it.
A sharp sound of despair was heard and the figure of the female cultivator disappeared without a trace.
A moment later, something flashed blue on the lava below the stone pillar, and then sank to the bottom.
Half a day later, Nie Zhaonan came to an endless black desert.
The black sand grains and black dunes look weird and abnormal!
He has been using the light skill 'Stepping on the Snow without Traces' during this period, and he passed through a strange grassland very easily. Not only was the grass extremely hot, but the grass blades were like a handful of bright red blades. .
However, he has now reached the fifth level of Mingwang Jue, and these sharp blades cannot even scratch his skin.
Later, he passed through an extremely dangerous lava swamp, but what seemed like a real place was actually filled with dark pits. Even Nie Zhaonan was cautious before passing through the lava swamp.
At this time, Nie Zhaonan was standing on a small mound on the edge of the black desert, with white light flashing in his eyes, looking into the depths of the desert, seeming to be observing something.
Thousands of feet away from Nie Zhaonan, a tall, yellow-faced man with a square face was traveling at high speed in the desert. He kept walking step after step. Suddenly, the black sand nearby floated for no reason.
They were suspended in mid-air and surrounded the man in an instant. They were emitting black light and were silent and strange.
The big man was also an experienced man. He immediately offered the jade bowl in his hand to the sky, and a large piece of white light flew out from the bowl, adding a layer of protection to it.
At this moment, those black sand grains instantly turned into countless black winged insects, overwhelmingly rushing towards the frightened yellow-faced man.
"Iron fire ants!"
The big man roared angrily, recognizing the origin of these flying insects. While feeling desolate in his heart, he poured all his magic power into the jade bowl, hoping to win a glimmer of hope. .
After a sudden burst of white light, countless palm-sized ice shields appeared all around, and then spun rapidly, forming a white hurricane that enveloped him.
After finishing the defense, he just didn't have time to move quickly and escape from this place.
There were tens of thousands of iron fire ants around him. Like a black torrent, they rushed up and drowned him.
"Crunch, crunch."
A continuous, unusually noisy biting sound sounded.
After a while, shrill screams came from the iron fire ant colony. In just a moment, the sound became weaker and weaker, and even disappeared at the back.
On the other side, after Nie Zhaonan saw the iron fire ant appearing, he used his Qinggong skills and quickly rushed towards it.
His purpose was naturally not to save the yellow-faced man, but to save the iron fire ants.
After iron fire ants eat iron ore every day, after repeatedly swallowing it in their abdomen, a rare material called 'crystal' will be formed.
This is the best auxiliary material to strengthen the magic weapon.
Because as long as some crystals are mixed into any magic weapon, not only will the power be greatly enhanced, but the solidity of the magic weapon itself will also be immediately increased to an unimaginable level, making it difficult to be easily cut by anything. Break, destroy.
However, Nie Zhaonan would not integrate the refining crystal into his two sets of natal flying swords, but would use it as a refining material for refining other items.
In his opinion, adding materials with other properties into the magic weapon is completely short-sighted and will greatly affect the subsequent growth of the magic weapon.
The Taiyi Divine Thunder Sword and the Gengjin Divine Thunder Sword belong to two attributes: wood and metal. Only by keeping the attributes of the two sets of flying swords consistent and not being mixed with other attributes will it be easier to sacrifice. Refined to the point of spiritual transformation.
At that time, the power of the psychically transformed flying sword will definitely be terrifying, and it cannot be compared with the addition of some strengthening materials.
Furthermore, the Gengjin Divine Thunder Sword is already mixed with the sharp gold treasure ‘Gengjing’, which is extremely strong and sharp, so there is no need to add any extraneous details.
After a while, the swarm of flying ants suddenly took to the air, returned to its original place and landed, becoming the same as those grains of sand again.
The place where the big man fell was empty, swallowed up completely by ants.
Just when the place had just returned to calm, Nie Zhaonan came here.
Then without any hesitation, he flicked his sleeves into the void in front of him, and tens of thousands of gold-eating insects appeared out of thin air without any sound.
Without exception, these gold-eating bugs are all in gold and silver, but if you look carefully, you can still find differences.
Thousands of them were carried by Nie Zhaonan. The gold-eating bugs that had been cultivated in the spirit beast pen had almost transformed into a golden color, with only a few inconspicuous silver spots the size of pinholes on their bodies. Their size was also larger than that of Nie Zhaonan. Tens of thousands of gold-eating insects are much larger, and their aura is much more powerful.
However, these thousands of gold-eating bugs still have a long way to go before they can completely evolve into mature gold-eating bugs. Even with the cultivation of spirit animal stables and other resources, these gold-eating bugs The entry is still very slow.
According to Nie Zhaonan's estimation, it will take at least three to five hundred years of cultivation before these gold-eating bugs can fully advance into mature bodies.
Immature gold-eating bugs and mature gold-eating bugs are completely different concepts. A mature gold-eating bug has a body as hard as iron, and its carapace’s defense is almost indestructible. Can fight against a Nascent Soul cultivator.
The fatal weakness of the mature gold-eating insect is that its soul is relatively weak. If a monk uses a powerful secret technique that directly attacks its soul, the gold-eating insect may be seriously injured or even killed.
However, the gold-eating bugs in Nie Zhaonan's hands obviously do not have this shortcoming. The gold-eating bugs that have been cultivated in the spirit animal stable are now very intelligent and their souls are not weak.
It can be said that as long as the gold-eating bug in your hand is cultivated until it is fully mature, it can become an immortal existence in this world.
Following Nie Zhaonan's instructions, the gold-eating insects in the sky suddenly chirped loudly and turned into gold and silver clouds, covering the lurking 'iron fire ants' swarm under an overwhelming cover.
But before they landed on the ground, the black insect cloud suddenly flew into the sky and met the gold-eating insect army.
At the moment when the two insect clouds came into contact, a black light suddenly flashed between them, and a large piece of dark flame shot out from the ant colony, unceremoniously sweeping the gold-eating insects into it. .
If other types of spiritual insects were roasted by this strange flame like this, even if the entire army was not wiped out, they would probably suffer heavy losses. But the gold-eating insects did nothing in the black flames. Instead, they swallowed them clean, and then rushed towards the ant colony with a roar.
The two torrents collided fiercely, and then intertwined and bitten, making a harsh scream.
Nie Zhaonan watched carefully from the side. Once those iron fire ants bite the monster carapace of the gold-eating insect, they can only leave a faint white mark at most and have no other effect.
The sharp teeth of the gold-eating insect can penetrate the body of the iron fire ant and kill it.
The judgment between the two is not on the same level at all.
The gold-eating insect swarm instantly gained the upper hand.
A large number of black insect corpses rolled down from the sky. Without exception, these insect corpses were all the corpses of iron fire ants, not even a gold-eating insect.
And the fallen iron fire ant corpses are all complete. Apart from the eye-catching wounds and the black blood flowing out, there are few missing arms and legs that have been devoured by gold-eating insects.
This is naturally an order given by Nie Zhaonan, not to let the gold-eating insects eat the iron fire ants, but to kill them.
The reason for this is naturally that if the gold-eating insect devours the iron fire ant queen, it will become a gold-eating insect with three colors: gold, silver and black. Although its strength will be greatly enhanced, it will also completely lose the possibility of advancing to a mature body. .
This kind of change can be said to be picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons. Naturally, Nie Zhaonan cannot engage in such a loss-making business.
Nie Zhaonan inhaled the body of a fire ant that fell in the air, and then photographed it suspended in the air in front of him. Then he opened his mouth and spit it out, and a stream of forest-white flames spurted out from his mouth. It fell on the insect corpse, completely wrapping it and slowly refining it.
In the blink of an eye, the dark insect corpses in the sky disappeared without a trace, leaving only a crystalline object that was several times smaller than a grain of rice, shining with a mysterious black light.
It is exactly the refined crystal, but its small size is a bit pitiful, but it can be made up for by quantity.
The fighting among the swarms of insects in the air is still going on, but now the gold-eating insects are on the verge of annihilating each other.
The iron fire ants also noticed something was wrong. After the remaining defeated soldiers made a faint chirping sound, they suddenly gathered together and turned into a black arrow.
Then without hesitation, he rushed out of the interception of the gold-eating insect swarm and ran away.
But at this moment, a dazzling white thunder shot out from the sky and hit the arrow shaft in a flash.
After the arrow trembled violently, it stopped in place, and the arrow exploded with a 'bang' sound, reappearing in the shape of the iron fire ant.
Although it was just a lightning spell attack from Nie Zhaonan, its power was not something that the arrows formed by the black fire ants could withstand and block.
Suddenly, the gold-eating insects swarmed up, drowning the black fire ants in a sea of gold and silver.
When the swarm slowly dispersed, the sky was empty, and not a single black fire ant was visible.
At this time, Nie Zhaonan slowly walked over.
Looking at a large piece of thick insect corpses falling on the ground, he used several spells of different colors in his hand to gather them all together.
Then he put it away, planning to extract the crystals from it together in the future.
Next, Nie Zhaonan led the gold-eating insect swarm deeper into the black desert.
Half a day later, Nie Zhaonan was deep in the desert, staring at the sky with an expressionless face, his hands behind his back, his body motionless.
In the sky, a large-scale insect swarm war is taking place.
More than a hundred thousand black fire ants and tens of thousands of gold-eating insects were fighting desperately at a low altitude not far ahead.
Although the number of black fire ants has an absolute upper hand, no matter how large the number is, they cannot penetrate the defense of the gold-eating insects and cause effective damage to the gold-eating insects.
Large swaths of black insect corpses fell from high altitudes like a gust of wind and rain, and were densely spread on the ground.
Everyone is shocked to see it!
This one-sided massacre did not last long, only the time of a cup of tea.
At the back, the iron fire ants who wanted to escape were also stopped by Nie Zhaonan's spell, and then they were all killed by the gold-eating insects.
After collecting the black fire ant corpses on the ground, Nie Zhaonan continued to move forward.
During this period, almost every distance he walked, he would encounter a swarm of iron fire ants.
The number is not fixed, ranging from two or three thousand to more than ten thousand.
The extremely large group of ‘iron fire ants’ encountered this time numbered more than 100,000.
However, no matter how many iron fire ants block the road, they will undoubtedly become Nie Zhaonan’s trophy in the end, which brings him a lot of gains.
This is an extremely simple stone palace, with an area of 50 to 60 feet and a height of about 7 to 8 feet. In addition to a teleportation array in the middle, there are huge bluestone gates several feet high on each side.
The door was closed tightly at this time, sealing the place into a large prison-like existence, full of depressive atmosphere.
In the stone hall, there are also a large number of stone tables and benches of various kinds, no one of which is the same, there are dozens of them. On these stone benches, there are five or six people sitting sparsely with different expressions. Strange monk.
Mrs. Wen, the old man in Confucian robes, and Wan Tianming were all present. The other monks were all in the late stages of pill formation, and there was not a single weak monk.
These people are the first monks to come out of the Ice and Fire Dao. The Black Desert and the Blood Ice Forest naturally pose no threat to Wan Tianming and other Nascent Soul stage monks, but for the monks in the late stage of pill formation, they are still a threat. It took a lot of pain to get out.
As for the monks who are weaker in cultivation, the chances are worse.
So much so that there are only a few of them now!
These three Nascent Soul monks naturally know that the changes in the Ice and Fire Dao must have something to do with the Star Palace Elder who has not yet appeared.
One of them, Wan Tianming, gritted his teeth with hatred and felt bitter.
Their original plan to use some alchemy monks was ruined and they had to make changes.
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