Chapter Twenty-One: Strategies to Eliminate Demons
Qingping Mountain Oasis.
Since the old patriarch Zhou Minghan adopted Zhou Yang's strategy and started to implement it, in order to prevent the third-level [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] from retaliating, a dozen of the Zhou family's late-stage Qi-training monks retreated to this oasis.
The spiritual veins on the Qingping Mountain Oasis only have second-level low-grade spiritual energy. The spiritual energy produced every day can only supply one late-stage Qi-training monk and seven or eight early-stage and mid-stage Qi-training monks. Now more than a dozen late-stage Qi-training monks gather here.
The spiritual energy of the spiritual veins was suddenly not enough.
There is no doubt about the importance of spiritual veins and spiritual energy to immortal cultivators.
If a cultivator wants to improve his cultivation level normally, he must practice on the spiritual vein corresponding to his own cultivation level.
Take the immortal cultivator in the Qi training period as an example. If he does not practice on the second-level spiritual veins like Qingping Mountain, but only in the oasis or desert wilderness outside, then his cultivation speed will be reduced ten times. On the contrary, if he practices in the oasis or desert wilderness,
When cultivating on a third-level mid-grade spiritual vein like Yuquan Peak, the speed of cultivation will increase slightly from the normal level.
For those who are cultivating immortals at the foundation-building stage or above, it is simply a dream to make further progress in their cultivation without spiritual veins and the thin spiritual energy content of heaven and earth in the outside world.
Therefore, in the world of immortal cultivation, any immortal cultivator who still wants to improve his or her cultivation realm will try every means to occupy a spiritual vein for cultivation.
There is also a limit to the amount of spiritual energy a spiritual vein can produce each day based on its level. Once there are too many monks on the spiritual vein and the daily spiritual energy consumed exceeds this limit, the spiritual vein may fall down the level or even dry up and dissipate.
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Qingping Mountain's spiritual veins are spiritual veins that the family spent a huge amount of spiritual stones to cultivate. Of course, the monks of the Zhou family would not do the stupid thing of drinking poison to quench their thirst.
Therefore, after everyone discussed it, they unanimously decided to give up the spiritual veins to Zhou Yang, the future hope of the Zhou family. The remaining people, including his parents, retreated to the oasis outside the mountain to refine the spiritual energy in the spiritual stones.
Come to practice.
Lingshi is a spiritual object formed by the highly condensed and concentrated spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The total amount of spiritual energy contained in a low-grade spiritual stone is comparable to the spiritual energy required by a foundation-building monk in one day, which is enough for a seventh-level Qi practitioner.
Used by monks for ten days of practice.
Therefore, many low-level casual cultivators who cannot occupy spiritual veins for cultivation can only absorb the spiritual energy from spiritual stones to practice every day in order to improve their cultivation.
Doing this naturally consumes spiritual stones, and few casual cultivators are wealthy enough to be able to use this method all year round to improve their cultivation.
The biggest reason why low-level casual cultivators have lower cultivation levels and poorer pockets than other sects and family cultivators of the same age is actually still here.
The Zhou family's late-stage qi-training monks are not too poor in wealth. Refining spirit stones in a short period of time is just a trivial matter for them, but no one will have any objections to it.
Zhou Yang also knew how heavy the responsibility he now shouldered, and he silently accepted the kindness of his elders without making any pretentious excuses.
On the other side, after Zhou Yang and others left, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan flew to the sky above the sand slope and started a fire.
There is no need to kill a chicken with a butcher's knife. He just burns some ordinary desert plants. Zhou Minghan does not need to waste mana to release the foundation-building true fire. He only needs to release a simple second-level high-level spell "Fire Sea" plus a small second-level low-level spell.
Using the "Gale Wind" spell, fires burst into the sky up and down the sandy slopes.
Crackling!
The fire spread everywhere, and the furs of some desert animals hiding on the sandy slopes were instantly ignited, making a popping sound like exploding beans and the smell of meat.
For a time, all kinds of beasts roared, snakes hissed, and birds chirped together. The sound was extremely miserable and full of despair.
Zhou Minghan stood hundreds of meters in the air and looked down. He could see desert animals running wildly with flames everywhere. At this time, the thick fur of these animals, which was used to withstand the severe cold at night and high temperature during the day, actually became adults.
A life-threatening spell.
Except for a few animals such as gerbils and sand foxes that can burrow very quickly, they dug into the thick yellow sand in time and relied on the sand to extinguish the flames on their bodies. Seven to eighty percent of the desert animals were reduced to charcoal in the blazing flames.
Even those poisonous fire scorpions hiding in the sand were burned alive by the fire that reached the sky.
This sudden change on the sand slope quickly alarmed the third-level monster [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] who was practicing in the cave deep underground on the sand slope.
After hearing the "hiss" screams of its kin, this third-level monster quickly rushed out of the cave where it was hiding. The raging fire on the sandy slope was nothing to its powerful monster body.
There is no threat.
Hiss!
As soon as the dark red giant scorpion, which was as big as a calf, appeared, it danced a pair of huge scorpion pincers and roared angrily at Zhou Minghan in the sky. The powerful aura emanating from Zhou Minghan made this already very intelligent creature
The monster felt extremely threatened.
However, Zhou Minghan didn't bother to pay attention to it. He just released a shining third-level flying sword and harvested the low-level poisonous fire scorpions in front of it.
This provocative behavior greatly angered the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], and it suddenly hit the ground with its pincers, causing the entire sandy slope to shake and a huge sandstorm instantly set off.
Yellow sand was flying all over the sky, not only blocking Zhou Minghan's sight in the sky, but also quickly extinguishing most of the spreading fire.
Just like the difference between the foundation building stage and the Qi training stage, the strength gap between the third-order monster beast and the second-order monster beast is also huge.
Every move of a third-level monster can collapse mountains and crack the ground, triggering a small-scale natural disaster. If there are no immortal cultivators of the same level to fight against it, a third-level monster can destroy a small oasis like the Qingping Mountain Oasis.
At this time, when he saw [Poison Fire Scorpion King] getting angry and taking action, although Zhou Minghan was not afraid of the opponent, he did not rush into a fight with him. Instead, he quickly withdrew his flying sword and evacuated the battlefield with his sword.
Unlike cultivators, monsters can learn to fly with swords as long as they reach the foundation building stage. Except for bird monsters and a few monsters with special magical powers, most land monsters and water monsters cannot fly at the fourth level.
Mastered the ability to fly before.
Therefore, when cultivators in the foundation-building stage face a third-level land monster like [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], as long as the battle does not start in the opponent's underground lair, they can easily take the initiative on the battlefield.
Of course, the opposite is also true. Although [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] cannot fly, if it wants to burrow into the ground and leave, it will be difficult for the foundation-building immortal cultivators to set up formations to block it in advance, otherwise it will be difficult to keep it on the ground.
On the sandy slope, [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] found Zhou Minghan leaving, thinking that the other party was frightened by the power it showed. It neighed triumphantly and waved two large scorpion pincers to show off to its younger brothers.
, he extended his claws towards a nearby first-order poisonous fire scorpion that was half burned to death.
This poor poisonous fire scorpion managed to escape from the fire, but before it could rejoice, it was completely eaten as dinner by its "king".
After eating an injured tribesman, [Poison Fire Scorpion King] glanced at the other trembling ordinary Poison Fire Scorpions with a fierce look in his eyes, screamed a few commands in his mouth, and returned to the underground cave to sleep.
After the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] left, the entire Poisonous Fire Scorpion group immediately ushered in a carnival. The desert animals that were burned to death by Zhou Minghan were the main course of this carnival, including even those who died.
The fallen poisonous fire scorpion corpse.
All the Poisonous Fire Scorpions, including the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], did not realize how much harm the destruction of the desert flora around the sandy slope would bring to their own tribe.
In the eyes of these monsters, today's battle is no different from when the scorpion group encountered powerful monster attacks in the past. Although the intruders killed some members of the scorpion group, they were still driven away by their powerful "king"
Well, as for the dead members of the same race, as long as the scorpion group still exists, new members will be born and join them soon.
It wasn't until half a month later that [Poison Fire Scorpion King] woke up from his deep sleep and found that the number of scorpions was greatly reduced and they were killing each other due to lack of food, did he realize the viciousness of that fire.
However, the evil consequences have already appeared at this time. Although the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] is powerful, it is impossible to conjure a large amount of food out of thin air to save the scorpions.
As a last resort, [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] could only take the initiative to clear out the old, weak, sick and weak among the scorpions for the healthy ones to eat, and then drive all the surviving Poisonous Fire Scorpions out of the underground cave and let them go there on their own.
Hunting for food deep in the desert.
However, the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] did not expect that as soon as it drove the scorpions out of the underground cave, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, who had been monitoring the situation on Shatupo, immediately seized the opportunity to kill these poisonous fire scorpions that had left the nest.
There were dozens of them, and before it heard the call for help and came over, the extremely elegant Yu Jian flew away from the scene.
After this lesson, [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] still didn’t understand that he and the scorpions were being targeted. He was also an intelligent monster, so he immediately changed his order and told the scorpions not to move on the ground when they left their nests to hunt.
Then he secretly followed the group of scorpions leaving their nests to hunt, waiting for an opportunity to make a sneak attack.
The Poisonous Fire Scorpion was burrowing and moving under the sand, and it was not easy for Zhou Minghan to discover it. The sneak attack of the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] almost made him overturn.
After trying this attack several times, Zhou Minghan found that he could no longer take advantage and finally turned around and returned to the Qingping Mountain Oasis.