They sat in the pavilion until dusk and watched the lake turned orange by the sunset for a while before they prepared to leave.

Just when he got up, the catfish said to Good News: "Sir, I have a bead I picked up at the bottom of the lake. I have kept it on my body for decades. I just don't know what it is used for. I just feel that it should be very precious."

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I give it to you today, thank you for your enlightenment, and I will definitely follow your teachings in the future."

It was only after it returned to the bottom of the water that it thought about whether to give a gift. After all, the other party was not related to him, so he gave him a hint. Although the other party said that they were destined, it would be better to give him a gift in return.

Another one is that the other person is a powerful person at first glance. If you have more connections, maybe we can meet again in the future.

It's just that it has never left Bailian Lake, has little wealth, and doesn't know what to give as a gift.

After digging around for a long time, I saw this bead rolled into a corner and covered in mud.

Although it can't see what it is, it has an intuition that it is a good thing. It's just that the treasure has been obscured by itself, and maybe it has no fate with it, so it remains a pearl covered in dust.

Jiayin's spiritual consciousness reached over again, looked at the beads held on its fins, and raised his eyebrows.

The smell on this thing was so familiar, but she couldn't remember what it was for the moment.

It was first collected into the space of the Boundary Breaking Pearl. It should be a really good thing. Without letting the opponent suffer, I directly used the spirit stones to set up a spirit gathering array for it under the body.

All high-grade spiritual stones are used. Even if Green Cloud City cannot gather any spiritual energy, these few spiritual stones can still sustain it for some time.

When passing by the City Lord's Mansion, Jiayin paused.

She seemed to feel a breath that made her uncomfortable, and after sensing it carefully again, it turned out to be demonic energy!

Jiayin directly penetrated the city lord's palace with his spiritual consciousness. This time, there was no obstacle and he entered smoothly.

I saw servants coming and going in the mansion, as if they were holding a banquet and were decorating the hall.

The front yard was full of servants, and I saw no one who looked like the master's family, so I went to the back yard to find out the news.

The courtyard at the back is the guest courtyard. The layout inside is somewhat like the large courtyard in the town, which is also composed of small courtyards.

Most of them were empty, and there was only one person in the courtyard. She had seen this person before, it was Wang Chen who was with the son of the city lord that day.

The other party was meditating and practicing. Jiayin looked at his body and found that there was no demonic energy, so it didn't come from him.

Jiayin continued to explore further, and when he entered the courtyard for the fourth time, he found that his spiritual consciousness had been blocked!

It was not blocked by the previous monks in the transformation stage, but an isolation formation.

She observed the formation and found that it was of a very high level and could not be set up by ordinary people.

Formations are also divided into elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Levels one to three are elementary, levels four to six are intermediate, and levels seven to nine are advanced.

The highest level in this world is level nine. Taking the trapping formation as an example, level nine can trap monks in the tribulation stage!

This is also the pinnacle of the formations here. If you go further up, there will be fairy formations, but there are none here.

The formation in front of him must be at least level six, otherwise it would not be able to block Jiayin's spiritual consciousness.

Since there is this isolation formation, where did the demonic energy just come from?

If it is within the formation, it cannot be leaked out at all.

Soon, this question was answered. The person who arranged the formation seemed to be fighting something and had no time to maintain the operation of the formation, making the formation very unstable.

From time to time, some breath will leak out from inside, sometimes it's spiritual energy, sometimes it's evil energy, sometimes it's demonic energy...

"Sister Jiayin, what's wrong?"

Xu Jiaojiao and Yao Qing walked and chatted for a while, and suddenly felt that something was missing. When they turned around, they saw Jiayin standing there with Tongtong in her arms, and Jin Yuanbao squatting next to her and looking at her.

The two of them stepped back and shouted a few times. When they saw that Jiayin was motionless, they pushed her arm and raised the volume.

Only then did Jiayin come back to her senses and smiled sheepishly, "I was just thinking about something and fell into a trance. Let's go."

She just took advantage of the instability of the formation to poke her consciousness in. She was too shocked for a moment, so she didn't pay attention to the movement around her and didn't hear Xu Jiaojiao's voice.

Xu Jiaojiao and Yao Qing looked at each other. Although they were very curious about what Jiayin was thinking, they did not ask any further questions.

The three of them continued walking forward, went to the restaurant where they had eaten yesterday, and then went directly back to the inn to rest.

Jiayin waited until it was late at night and set up a formation in the room. Whenever someone knocked on the door or tried to enter, she would be the first to sense it and then teleport away.

As soon as she disappeared into the room, Tongtong and Jin Yuanbao opened their eyes.

"What are you doing, boss?" Jin Yuanbao tilted his big head and asked in confusion.

Tongtong stood up and squatted on the bed, and said solemnly: "It should be related to the city lord's palace. The monk in the transformation stage is there. The boss stopped there when he passed by before."

Jin Yuanbao's big paw pushed Qingzhu, which was lying next to the pillow, "Qingzhu, do you know what the boss is doing?"

Qingzhu raised his eyelids, glanced at them lazily, and said, "There is demonic energy in the city lord's palace. My sister must have felt it. Go over and see what happens."

"Demon energy! How come there is demonic energy in the City Lord's Mansion? It can't be the same person as the one who hurt Tongtong, right? No! Isn't that person in the out-of-body stage?" Jin Yuanbao guessed as he walked up and down on the bed.

It doesn't dare to get out of bed because it doesn't know how to wash its paws. The boss said that it is not allowed to go to bed until it washes its feet.

Tongtong shook her head, "It's not the same person, otherwise the other party wouldn't be able to recognize me, and my voice and breath are completely different."

"That's such a coincidence. Why are there demon cultivators everywhere? Could it be that the demon cultivators are going to attack the Zhengdao sect on a large scale?

Then which side will our monster beasts stand on? Will the Demonic Cultivator be prepared to destroy the monster beasts together..."

Jin Yuanbao kept making random guesses.

Seeing them guessing, Qingzhu didn't bother to pay any attention to them, so he closed his eyes and rested again.

As for Jiayin, she teleported directly to the city lord's palace.

At this moment, I am standing in the fourth courtyard. The previous formation is still there, but it has not been activated. There should be nothing that needs to be isolated.

She entered the third courtyard in the courtyard with ease. It was very quiet at this time, as if there was nothing inside, just an empty courtyard.

Jiayin pushed open the door on the right and felt a strong gust of wind blowing towards her door!

Jiayin didn't even try to hide, he stretched out his hand to catch it, and heard a "dang" sound, like two pieces of metal colliding together.

"Are you a physical practitioner?"

A hoarse voice sounded not far away.

Jiayin curled her lips and did not answer the other party's question. Instead, she asked: "Do you want to get rid of the demonic energy in your body?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the candle spontaneously ignited without fire, and the room lit up instantly.

There was a white-haired old man sitting cross-legged on the bed, looking at her with bright eyes.

"Can you help me? What are your conditions?"

The old man narrowed his eyes and asked.

There is no doubt about Jiayin's ability. Considering that she can come here silently and knows that he has demonic energy, she is not an ordinary person.

The most important thing is that the other party is upright and has some merits and virtues to protect his body. He should be someone who takes it as his duty to eliminate demons and protect the Tao.

When one has reached a certain level of cultivation, he or she will be able to observe some Qi techniques, especially those who have meritorious deeds. The bright golden light cannot be ignored even if they want to.

Demonic energy belongs to evil energy, and if there is a way, evil cannot defeat good. This golden light of merit should also have a suppressive effect on evil energy.

He really guessed wrong. Of course Jiayin was ready to take action because it would be beneficial to help him.

Not to mention that she had other ways to get rid of the evil spirit, even if she didn't, she would be reluctant to use the golden light of merit.

How could she give it to others if she still lacks it herself?

"I can help you get rid of the evil spirit. Just give me the bead on your body."

Jiayin stated her request.

"How do you know I have a bead? Can you tell me what the bead is?"

He did have a bead on his body, which he got accidentally at Fengqi Lake in Daliang. At that time, he felt that the bead was extraordinary, but he couldn't see why.

"That's the inner elixir of the monster. If my monster hurts the inner elixir, I can use it to repair it."

The good news is not a lie, this is indeed an inner elixir, but it is not a monster, it should be a spiritual beast.

She used her spiritual sense to probe in. In addition to seeing the old man fighting against the demonic energy in his body, she also saw a familiar aura on him.

Then, under the jade pendant around his waist, I saw the beads he used to tie his tassels.

The aura of that bead was very similar to the bead that Catfish gave her before. She thought about it for a while before she realized that it was the aura of the spiritual beast's inner elixir!

Spiritual beasts are different from demonic beasts. Most demonic beasts rely on acquired cultivation, rising level by level.

Spiritual beasts are inherited by blood. They have their own innate magical powers when they are born, and their abilities will increase with age without practicing.

Above spiritual beasts are fairy beasts, and above that are divine beasts. Of course, whether they are spiritual beasts, fairy beasts or divine beasts, there are differences between races.

Just like the same mythical beasts, the dragon and phoenix tribes are considered the top level, and there are many races below, such as Qilin, Kunpeng and so on...

What shocked Jiayin at that time was that the inner elixir was still alive!

Yes, it is still alive, and even took the initiative to ask for help after feeling the breath of Jiayin.

If the inner elixir is alive, it means that the main body is not dead yet and can return to the main body at any time.

This is another difference between spiritual beasts and monster beasts. Monster beasts will definitely die if their inner elixir is mined, but spiritual beasts will not. They will just become weak and their cultivation will regress, and they will not be able to use their innate magical powers.
To be continued...