Chapter 78 Conquering the Spirit Monkey, the Ling Family's Dilemma
Wei Zhong did not act in a hurry, but practiced again for a year, consolidated his cultivation, and then left secretly without the knowledge of others. go.
This trip to capture the golden-browed red monkey is top secret, and Wei Zhong does not want to reveal any trace of himself.
After adjusting his face and cultivation aura, Wei Zhong stepped into the secret realm of Dongting again and headed straight towards the Autumn Maple Forest.
Looking at the red maple leaves in the forest, Wei Zhong's consciousness spread out, looking for the location of the golden-browed red monkey.
The strange thing is that after searching the entire maple forest, no one found him. Instead, he saw many first- and second-level monkeys.
"Have these third-level monkeys left this place? Or..."
Wei Zhong came to the stone forest and followed the route in his memory through the mountain. , climbed up the long stone steps, and finally saw the golden-browed red monkey among the ruins.
The other party was sitting in front of the formation in the Spiritual Medicine Garden, scratching his head.
Suddenly he discovered that Wei Zhong, a stranger, had broken into his territory and immediately roared. The roar alarmed a large number of first- and second-level monkeys, who surrounded Wei Zhong.
Wei Zhong stared at the third-level monkey with a smile on his face.
Already using the Taoism of the years at the same time, the cultivation level continues to rise, from the late stage of foundation building to the early stage of pill formation, and then to the middle stage of pill formation.
“Let’s test your quality first with your cultivation in the middle stage of pill formation.”
Wei Zhong stepped lightly on the air with his toes, already standing out from the surrounding monkeys, and his figure disappeared in a flash. trace.
The golden-browed red monkey was alert, and suddenly found that the sky was covered with dark clouds, and it was going to rain in the blink of an eye.
But why did it suddenly rain in the secret realm? Or did it just cover an area above his head.
"Drop, drop!"
One or two drops of rain fell and hit the arm of a second-level monkey, causing the opponent to stumble immediately. He lost his balance as if he had been struck by a huge object.
There was a crash. The subsequent heavy downpour fell, covering the Golden-browed Red Monkey and its surroundings.
The other monkeys managed to escape with all their strength, but no matter how the golden-browed red monkey among them escaped, dark clouds were always above its head and heavy rain kept wrapping it.
Knowing that this was a trick of the human monks, the golden-browed red monkey hammered his chest and roared, and the red hair on his body instantly ignited with fire.
The blazing flames evaporated the falling raindrops, and water smoke emerged, giving them a moment of respite.
Suddenly, a loud explosion was heard in the air.
It was not thunder, but the explosion produced when the black ball in Wei Zhong's hand was activated.
【Flying Throwing Technique】
The golden-browed red monkey seemed to be aware of the danger of this attack. With a roar, the flames on his body became more dazzling, and he crossed his arms in front of him, with a flame shield condensed outside his arms.
However, all this was in vain. The black ball seemed to have smashed a fragile glass, directly passing through the fire shield and hitting his arms.
"Crack!"
The sound was like a bone breaking, and soon there was a violent explosion. The masonry below was hit by the flying throwing technique, throwing up gravel and Flying dust.
A red figure jumped out, it was the embarrassed golden-browed red monkey.
Wei Zhong looked at the other person in the cloud, and suddenly found a circle of green vines wrapped around his arms.
Under this buffer, the flying throwing technique did not completely break his arms, but only caused some fractures.
Searching for the black ball, it was discovered that the trajectory of the black ball had deviated, as if it had been ejected by the golden-browed red monkey in a force-relieving manner.
Just when Wei Zhong stood behind the dark clouds and looked at the monkey, the golden-browed red monkey discovered Wei Zhong's location at the same time.
Regardless of his injuries, he let out another roar, stepped heavily on his feet and jumped towards Wei Zhong.
"At such a height, what can you do to reach me."
Wei Zhonggang said this, and suddenly saw the flames on the monkey's body emerge again when it was exhausted, forming two lines under its feet. The tail flame carried the opponent and continued to fly towards him.
Suddenly Wei Zhong was surprised: "Is this a newly learned trick because we failed in our hands last time because we couldn't fly? It is indeed a third-level spiritual beast, it is really smart."
Despite this, there was no trace of panic in Wei Zhong's eyes.
This is because the speed of the opponent's move is too slow, much slower than the flying speed of Foundation Establishment, not to mention that he is facing Wei Zhong, who is a pill-forming monk at the moment.
In Wei Zhong's eyes, this little trick is like a child's boxing dance.
Wei Zhong raised his arm and hit the Golden-browed Red Monkey on the leg with a flying throw. Instantly, the opponent's center of gravity was unstable and he fell directly from the air.
"Time is tight, let's fight quickly."
Wei Zhong took out the black epee, and the black water spirit clothes attached to the body surface, forming a nine-foot-tall black water giant.
This is a small application method of the Black Water Spirit Clothes invented by Wei Zhong inspired by Ling Hua's magic.
The black water giant is holding a heavy sword, like an adult wielding a dagger, which looks a bit funny.
Wei Zhong shook his head, and the black water clung to the heavy sword again, wrapping around the heavy sword in the blink of an eye, forming a huge sword with the black sword as the bone and the black water spiritual power as the flesh.
The Black Water Giant stepped lightly on the soles of his feet, already waving the heavy sword in his hand, and rushed towards the monkey.
If you want to subdue this kind of spiritual beast, you have to defeat it.
Seeing that Wei Zhong dared to get close to him, the golden-browed red monkey took the sword without hesitation.
"Bang!"
The heavy sword pressed on the monkey's head, and a huge force suddenly broke out, forcing the opponent to kneel on one knee.
“Submit, I will spare your life.”
Wei Zhong’s spiritual consciousness transmitted to the monkey, but he was thinking in his heart: ‘With the spiritual intelligence of the third-level monkey, he can probably understand himself. Just say it. ’
Hearing this, the golden-browed red monkey immediately raised its head, staring at the black water giant above its head with its eyes burning with flames, and roared unwillingly.
Wei Zhong was overjoyed, knowing that the monkey understood what he was saying, but with the arrogance of a third-level spirit beast, the other party had no intention of surrendering at the moment.
“Hmph, quite stubborn!”
A black ball flew out of Wei Zhong’s body and landed on the epee. It is the natal magic weapon Yuan Shuizhu that has already advanced to the third level.
Wei Zhong injected spiritual power into it, and instantly the weight of the Yuan Shui Bead increased greatly, simultaneously exerting pressure on the heavy sword.
For a time, this huge force increased several times, and the spirit beast that resisted under the sword fell to its knees in an instant, and its outstretched arms were pressed close to its head.
The monkey suddenly panicked and made a squeaking sound.
Wei Zhong couldn't understand the animal language, but he also understood that the other party was probably begging for mercy.
Without being in a hurry to remove the heavy sword, Wei Zhong's consciousness condensed into a true seal and floated towards the monkey's head.
Under the crisis of rebirth, the true seal was successfully imprinted into his sea of consciousness without spending much time and effort.
At this moment, Wei Zhong was cultivating the pill formation, and his spiritual consciousness was much stronger than when he was establishing the foundation. However, the number of condensed true seals had not increased, and was still seven.
But the intensity of each one is much stronger than before.
A true seal was successfully engraved, and Wei Zhong was instantly aware that he had an indescribable special connection with it.
Wei Zhong can probably understand what the other party means.
"Master, please have mercy on me, Master, please have mercy on me."
The words express it more clearly than Jiucai and Dajin. This is the difference between third-order and second-order spiritual beasts. ?
Wei Zhong withdrew the Yuan Shui Bead and the heavy sword, and the Golden Eyebrow Spiritual Beast collapsed in relief and sat on the ground, sticking out his tongue non-stop, obviously exhausted.
After burning a true seal, Wei Zhong had no intention of giving up, and condensed four true seals one after another into his sea of consciousness.
It is recorded in the "True Seal Treasure" that multiple levels of contracted spirit beasts are required to achieve this.
Wei Zhong's current cultivation level of pill formation will last for more than half an hour at most, and then he will return to his cultivation level in the later stage of foundation construction.
At that time, the strength of the true seals would also decrease. In order to ensure that the golden-browed red monkey would no longer rebel, Wei Zhong used all the true seals that could be condensed except for the nine colors and the big gold ones. Use it on him.
After confirming that this third-level spirit beast had become his contracted spirit beast, Wei Zhong took off his black water spirit clothes and carefully looked at the spirit monkey in front of him.
“It looks no different from the ordinary white-browed red monkey, except that it is stronger, its eyebrows have changed from white to gold, and the red hair on its body is more colorful.”
Just now. While Wei Zhong was examining it, there was a creaking sound coming from the surrounding area. It turned out that the other monkeys that had just escaped saw the situation subsided and surrounded him again.
Wei Zhong looked at the group of monkeys and grandsons and asked the red-browed monkey: "Will you come with me?"
The monkey understood what Wei Zhong said and was a little troubled. He grabbed a handful of fiery red hair on his head, then looked at the nearby group of monkeys and roared.
The monkeys responded with squeaks, and the golden-browed red monkey turned back to look at Wei Zhong and squeaked twice.
Wei Zhong also roughly understood the meaning. It probably meant that after he left, a new king would appear in the tribe, and he was willing to follow him.
Wei Zhong chuckled, raised his hand and threw a jar of spiritual wine at the spiritual monkey. It was the second-level Qingluo Zui.
The golden-browed red monkey twitched its nose, and joy instantly appeared on its face. After catching the wine jar, he opened the wine seal and started drinking.
The medicinal power of the spirit wine soaked into his body, and the injuries he suffered from the fight with Wei Zhong were instantly relieved.
A jar of spiritual wine fell into his belly within a few dozen breaths.
Licking the wine jar with some unfinished thoughts, he looked at Wei Zhong with a bit of hope.
"There is still spirit wine, but you have to exchange it for something."
Wei Zhong took out the red spirit wine taken from his lair and said: "Teach me how to brew this spirit wine." I’ll give you the wine.”
As he spoke, Wei Zhong took out another jar of green radish and shook it, then waved his sleeves and put the jar back into the cave.
Seeing the fine wine but not getting it, the golden-browed red monkey instantly became a little anxious. He pulled Wei Zhong and rushed towards the ruins here.
Wei Zhong saw another red wine pool under his leadership.
What is different from last time is that the spirit wine in the wine pool is still light red, and there are various spiritual fruits and elixirs placed beside the pool. It is obvious that this brewing is only half done.
The golden-browed red monkey grabbed the spirit fruit and began to demonstrate it to Wei Zhong. Unfortunately, humans and monkeys are different after all. Wei Zhong could only barely understand most of its meaning, and was still somewhat vague about the refining process.
However, I know all the raw materials needed to refine this kind of spiritual wine. I will try it myself in the future and it will not take long to reproduce it.
"Yes, the spiritual wine is yours."
Wei Zhong waved his hand and threw out a jar of spiritual wine. The golden-browed red monkey happily took it, drank another drink, and then all the jar of spiritual wine was destroyed by it. .
‘Even for a third-level monkey, drinking second-level green radish drunk like this is still a bit shocking. These two jars are enough for me to consume for several months. ’
The corner of Wei Zhong’s mouth twitched a little. Fortunately, after the golden-browed red monkey drank the spirit wine from the jar, he didn’t ask for it again.
I held my stomach and burped, pointed at the wine pool and asked:
"Master, Master, do you need to take away these spiritual wines?" After his demonstration, Wei Zhong already understood that the spiritual wine in the wine pool was almost complete and only needed the last few processes to complete it.
Without politeness, Wei Zhong waved his sleeves and accepted all the great spiritual liquid together with the spiritual fruit and elixir beside it, and then walked out of the ruins.
The monkey group on the outside waited for a long time. When they saw Wei Zhong and the golden-browed red monkey appearing, they immediately let out one after another squeaking sounds.
Wei Zhong looked to his side, and the golden-browed red monkey explained: "They call you the king and ask for rewards from you."
Wei Zhong smiled, he had no interest in becoming the monkey king.
‘Did these monkeys see that they had rewarded this golden-browed red monkey with a second-order green dill? What a bunch of drunkards. ’
Wei Zhong waved his sleeves, and more than a dozen jars of spiritual wine flew out.
The spiritual wine this time is not the second-level Qingluo Zui, but the first-level Qingluo Zui I brewed in my spare time. The potency of the medicine is much worse, but it should also be used for this group of first- and second-level spiritual monkeys. Enough.
More than a dozen wine jars flew out, and the monkeys immediately started a frenzy to grab them.
Seeing a jar of spiritual wine being broken in the fight, the golden-browed red monkey let out a roar.
The monkey group immediately stopped trying to grab the wine, and a few yellow-browed monkeys took all the spirit wine into their hands, and then went on to share the rewards.
‘With this third-level monkey around, you are still very disciplined. '
Wei Zhong looked at the golden-browed red monkey, thought for a moment and then said: "From now on, you will be called Jinmei."
Wei Zhong gave it a name at random, and the latter jumped with joy. He stood up, then pulled Wei Zhong's robe and pointed to the elixir garden surrounded by formations.
"There are treasures inside."
It seems that the monkey is also keeping an eye on the treasures in the sect's ruins, otherwise it would not move its nest to these ruins.
Wei Zhong knocked Jinmei's head: "Come back to get it later."
Then he put Jinmei into the cave and left with the magic sword.
When the monkeys below saw Wei Zhong leaving, they all immediately put their knees to the ground and raised their hands in the air.
"I don't know where this group of monkeys learned this kind of action, but this group of monkeys is indeed much smarter than other groups."
Wei Zhong sighed, and the imperial envoy flew his sword towards Go through the exit and immediately leave the cave.
At the entrance to the secret realm, a ray of light was drawn and flew into the distance, and then returned to Yunxia Island silently.
Seeing Ling Ziwei coming to visit, Wei Zhong pretended to have just left seclusion.
“I’ve been neglecting Fairy Ling’s visit.”
Regarding Wei Zhong's behavior, Ling Ziwei rolled her eyes and pulled Xie Linghua beside her to start chattering.
Wei Zhong was not angry, but lay on a wicker chair nearby, took out the spiritual fruit and spiritual wine and drank it himself.
Listening to the conversation between the two women, Wei Zhong's eyes had drifted and focused on the panel.
[Name: Wei Zhong]
[Cultivation: Seventh level of foundation building (9%)]
[Exercise: Spring and Autumn Water Refining Technique·Master (97%); Health-preserving Skill·Master (53%)]
[Lifespan: 276/305]
After decades of practice, Finally, he has cultivated the "Spring and Autumn Water Refining Technique" to almost the master level. Wei Zhong estimates that it will take another two years to reach the next stage of master status.
‘I don’t know how much my cultivation speed will be improved by then. ’
The "Spring and Autumn Water Refining Technique" is about to be promoted, which makes Wei Zhong feel happy, but the life span makes Wei Zhong a little sad.
In order to subdue Jinmei, he performed the Dao of Time twice and raised his cultivation level to the middle stage of pill formation, which took a total of forty-eight years of his life.
The wealthy Shouyuan was in danger in the blink of an eye, with only twenty-nine years left.
This little lifespan is not enough to cast the Taoist method of time twice. It seems that it is necessary to perform krypton level again in exchange for longevity.
"Retreat from the seventh level of foundation building to the sixth level of foundation building in exchange for twenty-five years of longevity."
'In the early stage of foundation building, one level is exchanged for eighteen years, and in the later stage of foundation building, it is two years. Fifteen years, not much improvement! ’
'But there is no need to rush to the Krypton level. Now that I have subdued Jinmei, I am protected by a third-level monkey, so there is no problem with my safety.
It is better to practice slowly, the worst is to stay in this late stage of foundation building for decades. ’
This was the case when Wei Zhong was refining his qi, so he was considered to have rich experience.
“Master, Master!”
Xie Linghua’s voice brought Wei Zhong back to the real world.
"What's wrong?"
Wei Zhong opened his eyes and asked with some confusion.
"Sister Ling has something to do with the master."
Wei Zhong then turned his attention to Ling Ziwei, and saw that the other party puffed up his cheeks in anger.
"I'm sorry, Fairy Ling. I was a little distracted just now. I wonder what the fairy has to do?"
The latter then breathed out and said: "Does Fellow Daoist Wei still have Haoyuan Pill in his hand?"
Wei Zhong nodded: "But Brother Ling needs it?"
"Exactly, Fellow Daoist Wei The bottle of Haoyuan Pill given to me had been consumed by my brother a year ago.
Although I bought a few pills in the market, they were almost exhausted, so I came to find Fellow Daoist Wei. , want to buy a few more bottles."
Wei Zhong frowned, a little confused: "Is Brother Ling's demand for Haoyuan Pills so high? If you consume ten pills in two years, that's ten thousand. Many spiritual stones.”
Ling Ziwei looked a little embarrassed:
"The main reason is that the level of the spiritual land in the clan is not enough, which drags down my brother, which makes him have to use this kind of elixir to practice."
Wei Zhong suddenly realized that the Ling family's spiritual land was only at the second level, which was indeed not enough for the elixir-forming Ling Hua.
“In three years, with the ability of fellow Taoist Ling Hua, you still haven’t found a third-level spiritual land?”
Ling Ziwei felt a little bitter:
"Third-level spiritual lands are not that easy.
Although Luohe Mansion is rich in resources, third-level spiritual lands are not always available. Most of them are controlled by various pill-forming families or sects. In hand.
Although there is a third-level spiritual land that can be rented in the Chamber of Commerce, my Ling family has almost exhausted the family's financial resources in order to help my brother survive the calamity of the pill formation.
< br>And I, the Ling family, have so many people that we really can’t afford such a spiritual land price.”
Wei Zhong then realized that he had always been a rogue cultivator and could only carry one or two people.
Every time I look for a spiritual place, there is no size requirement, so it is relatively cheap.
But the Ling family is different. From top to bottom, the Ling family includes all monks and mortals, at least tens of thousands of people. The spiritual land they need is not a small island like theirs.
But it is truly a vast area, with levels as high as the third level, as low as the first level, and even a piece of mortal land.
This is enough for the entire Ling family to cultivate and thrive.
The price of this kind of spiritual land is naturally not something that the current Ling family can afford. In comparison, a Haoyuan Dan worth more than a thousand spiritual stones is much more affordable.
After Wei Zhong figured this out, he took out two bottles of elixirs and pushed them into Ling Ziwei's hands:
"If Brother Ling is short of elixirs, feel free to come to Pindao."
Below. Although his cultivation level is not good, he does have some attainments in alchemy.
Ling Ziwei looked at the two bottles of elixirs and was stunned, then took out three Thousand Spirit Water Stones and a storage bag:
"This is the Thousand Spirits collected recently by the Ling family. Shui Shi, and there are 25,000 spirit stones in this storage bag. Fellow Daoist Wei will count them.”
Wei Zhong reached out to take it, and with his spiritual consciousness, he looked into the storage bag and glanced at the three Thousand Spirit Water Stones.
Wei Zhong has exchanged more than 300 Thousand Spirit Water Stones from the Yunji Chamber of Commerce by issuing tasks in the past three years, and has no plans to stop collecting.
At one time Baijun Heavy Water Spirit himself consumed more than two hundred Bailing Water Stones. There is no guarantee at all how much Qianjun himself would consume.
Therefore, based on the principle of safety, the gap in Wei Zhong's Qianling Water Stone is still very large.
After accepting the three Thousand Spirit Water Stones and the storage bag containing the spirit stones, Wei Zhong looked at Ling Ziwei and said:
"If the Ling family can collect the elixir needed to refine Haoyuan Dan, they can also come to me to refine the elixir. This way the price will be much cheaper.
And it doesn't matter even if the Ling family is financially strapped, some elixirs , you can also give it to Brother Ling. I believe Brother Yi Ling will not forget these two spiritual stones.”
“Then thank you Daoist Wei,” Ling Ziwei bowed.
“Our Ling family is not going to be in debt to our Taoist friends for the elixir. If that day comes,” Ling Ziwei approached Wei Zhong and whispered in his ear, “... "
Then Wei Zhong saw the opponent's face flushed red, threw the flying sword casually, grabbed the air and left.
While Wei Zhong was still stunned, the other party turned into a ray of light and disappeared without a trace.
With a chuckle, Wei Zhong put his hands behind his head and gently rocked the wicker chair.
Xie Linghua approached Wei Zhong's ear with some curiosity and asked curiously: "Master, what did Sister Ling just say? Why is her face so red?"
Wei Zhong stretched out his hand. He grabbed Xie Linghua's cheek: "Ling'er asked questions knowingly! As a roundworm in your sister Ling's belly, how could Ling'er not know about it."
"Haha, sir, don't pull it."
"Just pull, just pull." During the play, Wei Zhong's other hand reached towards Wei Zhong's waist dishonestly.
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After a little enjoyment, Wei Zhong returned to the cave, still recalling Ling Ziwei's words in his mind.
“This girl is really brave.”
Wei Zhong sighed and calmed down his restless heart.
‘I have too many secrets, and it’s not convenient for me to have close relationships with other people at this time. If you want to respond to the other party, you must at least have the ability to keep your own secrets. ’
After thinking for a moment, Wei Zhongchang let out a breath.
Then he took out various spiritual fruits and elixirs, which are the raw materials needed to brew the red spiritual wine mentioned by Jin Mei.
Recalling the steps he taught, Wei Zhong followed the spirit wine brewing process step by step.
The first time failed, the second time failed·······
Even though he knew all the steps, the difficulty of brewing this wine was still beyond Wei Zhong's expectation.
(End of this chapter)