Jiang Li isolated a space without Yin Qi in the coffin, so that these new friends could first use the rich spiritual energy in the coffin to recover.

He was in the outside world, but He Jianxiu Shenshan Qiuhua encountered a ten-meter-tall mud monster, which was a powerful individual in the foundation building stage.

However, at present, this mud monster is firmly bound in place by some kind of force and cannot move. It can only throw mud balls at Jiang Li from a distance.

This is obviously the work of the United Competition. They believe that this kind of monster is too out of character. If it is not restricted, the monks in the Qi Refining Stage may not even have a chance to escape.

And if you don't consider a certain cheat, the facts are indeed similar.

Shenshan Qiuhua is already considered to be an extremely outstanding first-tier team among the Qi Refining Stage monks in this competition.

But her water-fire sword technique, which is both offensive and defensive, has completely lost its effect here.

The thickness of the mud covering the surface of the mud monster is unknown, whether it is one meter, two meters, or more.

These seemingly ordinary pieces of mud, under the influence of the monster's power, become extremely defensive and very difficult to deal with.

The exploding fire sword energy hitting it was unable to penetrate the mud layer at all. Instead, the mud layer was like a swamp, swallowing up the sword light and disappearing.

Even if you don't use sword energy and instead use fire spells to dry out the sludge on the surface piece by piece and then shoot it down, in the swamp where mud is everywhere, it can be replenished at any time and endlessly!

Junior sister Qiu Hua, who is known as the Divine Mountain Sword of Water and Fire, fought at the opponent for a long time, but the opponent still stood there calmly. She herself was exhausted first.

Even Shushan sword cultivators cannot easily fight across levels. Their true power comes after they awaken their sword heart talent.

The sword heart that ignores defense, coupled with the terrifying power of the sword technique, is their power to intimidate the heavy mountains. However, in the early stage, they were just a little stronger than others.

Seeing that Shenshan Qiuhua could not be attacked for a long time, Jiang Li also joined the battle.

As always, he is still good at magic.

Nearly endless dark green light bloomed, and the forty-meter-long large wooden dragon fell in the quagmire, stirring up a vicious wind.

The sludge monster and Shenshan Qiuhua were both confused. What was going on with this guy? How could he get angry at the slightest disagreement?

Don’t you want to try again? Don’t you want to come back again?

Looking at the huge wooden dragon, Shenshan Qiuhua still felt a sense of familiarity in Jiang Li.

One of her Fire Sword seniors is like this, he uses big moves, which are incredibly powerful and continuous.

I really envy this kind of battle where there is no need to consider the consumption of spiritual energy.

The sludge monster was restricted by runes and could not move, so it could only watch the wooden dragon rush forward.

Then the bloated mud monster, which was ten meters tall, was entangled tightly as soon as it came face to face.

Through the wooden dragon, Jiang Li could feel that the mud monster's body was sliding downwards in the mud. He probably wanted to achieve the effect of the golden cicada's shelling by discarding the mud shell.

But how could Jiang Li let this guy run away like this?

The wooden dragon's four front and rear claws were deeply embedded in the mud, firmly grasping its body, and then dug into the mud to tear it apart, and finally pulled out an ugly head inside.

The huge body collapsed weakly, and the large sludge lost its support and flowed in all directions, revealing a headless long-haired monster.

This kind of monster seems to have become uglier as it grows larger.

Huh?

"What's this?"

As the silt peeled off, a square wooden box also took shape next to the exposed body of the sludge demon.

It's just that this wooden box is also covered in layers of silt, so it doesn't look like a treasure box, but rather collapsed.

"Junior sister Qiu Hua."

Jiang Li controlled the wooden dragon, grabbed the wooden box with his claws, and then handed the wooden box to the opponent.

Jiang Li didn't need to say much, Shenshan Qiu Hua already understood. As soon as he raised his hand, a stream of water hit the wooden box, quickly washing away the sludge on it.

But what makes Jiang Li a little disappointed is that this wooden box is not a cherished ancestor's treasure, but just a treasure box reward that the sect jointly put here in advance.

He waved his hand and used spiritual energy to open the lid. Placed inside were two tokens that were shining with spiritual light.

After all, they had defeated the monsters in the Foundation Establishment Period, so giving them some trophies wouldn't be too much.

The two tokens do not look any different, and the spiritual energy on them is not very strong. They look like they are just two ordinary tokens, not any special magic weapon.

Jiang Li took one piece and looked at it carefully, then handed the other piece to Qiu Hua.

He looked at the lines on the token and felt a little familiar, and was thinking about where he had seen it before.

However, he found that no one took the token he passed, and Shenshan Qiuhua, who was standing beside him, had no intention of taking it.

"Junior sister, what are you doing?"

Jiang Li asked strangely.

"Senior brother killed that monster with all his strength. The things in this box should be his trophies."

Shenshan Qiuhua's outlook on life is very rigid. Regarding the battle just now, she felt that she had not played any role, so she did not intend to share the spoils.

From now on, if someone wants to pursue her as a Taoist companion, it will be difficult even to give her a gift.

Jiang Li was also somewhat accustomed to her character, so he stretched out his hand and stuffed another token into her arms.

"Junior sister, don't say such things. We just cooperated with each other. Without your attention to attract it, I wouldn't be able to kill it directly."

"This token is the pass token of this maze. As long as you hold it, you will no longer be affected by the fog. However, the effect of taking one token is exactly the same as taking two tokens."

"If you don't take this token, it's useless for me to keep it, so junior sister, just take it."

After looking at the introduction on another piece of paper in the wooden box, he understood the purpose of this thing.

It seems that when the wooden sign at the entrance to the swamp says "the shortest way", it doesn't just mean the distance, but mainly refers to these two tokens.

Jiang Li held the token, and he remembered where he had seen the patterns on it.

This has many similarities with the patterns on the foundation stone he dug out at that time.

But many of the rune techniques on the foundation stone of the formation are very ancient, and the patterns on this token are full of the style of the Dazhong Mountain Immortal Cultivation World that Jiang Li is familiar with.

Obviously, this is a permission token created by formation masters from various major sects based on the formation base runes after cracking the illusion of this misty mountain.

It is equivalent to disassembling the lock and fitting the key according to the lock core.

Jiang Li, who is also a Rune Array Master, knows that the difficulty here is very high, at least he himself is far from reaching this level.

Even if you can barely reach the level, this is still a job that takes a lot of time and energy, and generally speaking, it cannot be done by an array mage.

Otherwise, when he dug out the foundation stone, he would have tried it himself.

Jiang Li walked into a fog with the token. Although his line of sight was still blocked, the weird feeling of being in a confused direction and upside down did not appear again.

He turned around and walked out of the mist steadily. Sure enough, the effect of the maze was blocked.

The little girl from the Shenshan family was also surprised when she saw this. The effects of this maze made all the monks very anxious.

With this token, it means that you can directly take off and fly to the finish line. Doesn't it mean that you have passed the first test?

She hesitated for a moment, and finally took the token at Jiang Li's insistence.

After all, waste is shameful.

Anyway, I have to repay the favor of saving my life, so I can repay him more later, that's all.

She didn't know what she thought of, but a blush appeared on Shenshan Qiuhua's face.

There are still many traps and poisonous miasma on the two mountains in front, but now they no longer need to endure those tests. They only need to take the token and fly to the end.

Shenshan Qiuhua stepped on the flying sword and rose into the sky, and Jiang Li also stepped on the air and climbed higher step by step, submerging into the clouds.

He originally wanted to stay a little longer and try to burn and copy the token himself, but he found that the token's runes had very sophisticated confidentiality measures. His level was still far behind, that is,

I had no choice but to give up.

The speed of flying in the air is naturally much faster than walking on complicated routes.

After breaking through the second mountain, the third and fourth mountains appeared in front of them.

Sai Fang ingeniously used the fog to form a huge maze, covering and connecting the last two mountains.

Contestants need to advance in the maze and face various dangerous traps.

But in this maze, in addition to dangers, there are also many good things, such as magic pills, permission tokens similar to those held by Jiang Li, and many specially configured miasma-removing pills.

That was the elixir prepared to deal with the old poisonous miasma on the fourth mountain.

In this aspect, those wealthy monks took advantage.

Because as long as it is a higher-quality detoxifying pill and a poison-avoiding pill, taking a few more pills can have an effect on the poisonous miasma. They don't need to spend more time to find the obstacle-removing pill.

Buzz~buzz~buzz~

At this moment, the small white whistle hanging on Jiang Li's body suddenly vibrated and trembled slightly.

This little prop, which he had already forgotten about, unexpectedly reacted at this moment.

I silently counted the time for the whistle to tremble, and activated the Guanyin Heart Meridian to increase my hearing and look for the direction from which the sound came.

This is, a fellow disciple is sending out a distress signal!

"I've seen both of you, please hand over that thing obediently. If you wait for me to take action, you won't be so relaxed."

In the maze below, a young man was holding two large dark red walnuts the size of a child's fist in his hand, and he was skillfully rotating them in the palm of his hand.

Opposite him were two disciples from the Buddhist Scripture Valley who looked quite embarrassed.

This man had a strange face and gorgeous clothes. He didn't look like a local monk from Dachhong Mountain. He was fighting one against two but still seemed quite relaxed.

"Impossible, we worked hard to kill monsters. Why should we give it to you?"

The person who spoke was known to Jiang Li. She was a female disciple of the Demon Subduing Hall in the Buddhist Scripture Valley. He could not remember her specific name.

However, her nickname "Iron Thorn Girl" is very appropriate. The iron spike whip in her hand makes the wind rustle very well, and her whole body is like a hedgehog, making it difficult for people to approach easily.
To be continued...