Looking closely, the terrain on the map is complex, with dense tunnels and caves crisscrossing each other. Without a map in hand, it is indeed easy to lose your bearings.
There are more than ten places marked with red dots on the map, indicating that there are many spirits there and there is a certain degree of danger.
If it were other practitioners who entered the spiritual cave, they would definitely not want to stay away from these places.
But Lin Shen was different.
In addition to practicing, he entered the spiritual cave for the purpose of hunting down souls to collect spiritual dust, and to use his talent of proving the Tao through killing to increase his strength.
Therefore, these dangerous places on the map that others were afraid of avoiding were, to Lin Shen, monster spots for 'gaining experience' and 'exploding materials'.
"Let's go check out these places first. It will be easier if we can find a secluded place suitable for practicing along the way."
After looking at it for a few more times, Lin Shen put away the map and flew towards the nearest gathering point of monsters marked on the map.
After flying for about half an hour, Lin Shen estimated that he was almost reaching his destination. Just as he was about to summon his clones to search for traces of the spirits, he suddenly heard a low roar in his ears.
Turning around to look around, I saw a mist appearing a hundred meters ahead. It was a vast expanse of white, and I could faintly see several black shadows flashing inside.
Lin Shen immediately focused his true energy on his eyes, and quickly saw the true faces of the black figures in the mist.
But it is a spirit that is all gray and white, looks somewhat similar to a stone lion, but has a hideous and ugly evil head!
"Earth Soul!"
Lin Shen's eyes suddenly lit up.
The appearance of these monsters in front of him was exactly the same as the description of the earth spirits he saw in the jade tube. They were obviously the rumored earth spirits.
Lin Shen didn't expect that he was so lucky. He met the real owner not long after entering the spiritual cave. He drew his sword and rushed forward without hesitation.
Di Po has an irritable and ferocious temperament. When he saw his prey actually daring to rush towards him, he became furious and immediately roared and rushed out of the mist to kill it.
For the purpose of improving Yunlong Law and Shenyang Nine Swords, Lin Shen did not use any spells or other martial arts, and only relied on his new body and light skills and sword skills to deal with the enemy.
Even so, with the eighth-level cultivation of Mingqiao and the astonishing power of the Pure Yang Talisman Sword, he still gained the upper hand effortlessly.
The strength of the four-headed earth spirits is not very strong, approximately equivalent to the middle stage of Tongxuan Realm.
The fight lasted only half a quarter of an hour, and Lin Shen killed all four of them.
After falling to the ground and dying, the bodies of the four earth souls quickly turned into clouds and drifted away, leaving only a small amount of light cyan powder in place.
Lin Shen picked up a handful and looked at it for a moment, with a smile on his lips.
This is the spiritual dust he is looking for on this trip!
Lin Shen carefully put the spirit dust into the prepared jade bottle and continued to move forward.
There were not many opportunities to enter the spiritual cave, so he wanted to take this opportunity to collect as much spiritual dust as possible so that he could refine the spiritual elixir when he returned.
As we go deeper, more and more earth souls appear along the way, and their strength becomes stronger and stronger. The earth souls in the late Tongxuan realm begin to appear gradually.
But it made no difference to Lin Shen, it just took a little more effort to kill.
After walking for a while, Lin Shen found a relatively secluded cave, so he simply summoned his clones and asked them to stay in the cave to take turns guarding and practicing.
And he and his avatar of Killing Demonstration Dao used the cave as the midpoint to search in different directions, hunting down souls along the way.
After being promoted to the seventh level of Mingqiao, the consumption-free radius of the clone's materialization has increased to about 1,500 meters.
This distance is nothing in the vast spiritual cave.
But the good thing about the spirit point is that the spiritual energy is active and abundant. Even if the true energy is on the verge of being exhausted, Lin Shen can replenish most of it by just running the Nine Yang Heart Sutra for a moment, and there is no need to worry about the consumption of the clone.
In this case, it doesn't matter even if he and his clone are further apart.
While practicing, he hunted earth souls to collect spirit dust. Lin Shen was immersed in training and fighting, and ten days passed before he knew it.
The vast area he was in was indeed a dangerous place marked on the map, with an unexpectedly large number of earthly beings.
After ten days, five or six hundred earth spirits died under his and his clones' hands.
It was only then that Lin Shen clearly felt that the earth spirits in this area began to become sparse.
Returning to the cave where the clone was practicing, Lin Shen called out the panel and looked at it intently, with a smile of joy from the bottom of his heart appearing on his face.
These ten days were extremely fruitful.
Not only has the cultivation level successfully reached the eighth level of Mingqiao, Yunlong Law and Shenyang Nine Swords have also made great progress.
[Name: Lin Shen]
[Talent: Prove the Tao through killing]
[Realm: 45% of the eighth level of Mingqiao]
[Kung Fu: Nine Yang Heart Sutra (perfection), Melting Arms (Zhenwu), Forbidden Golden Armor (Zhenwu), Yunlong Law (85% of entering the Dao), Nine Swords of Shenyang (50% of entering the Dao). 】
[Spells: Seven Secrets Sword Qi (fourth level 92%), Palm Thunder (fourth level 56%), Paper Man Transporting Technique (third level 83%), Immobilization Spell (third level 25%), Royal
Wind Technique (74% on the third level), Water Mirror Technique (55% on the first level)]
[Number of clones 7 (22%)]
"No wonder so many practitioners are flocking to the spiritual cave. This is indeed a treasured place for cultivation!"
Lin Shen couldn't help but sigh.
In just ten days, I have broken through a realm, and there are still twenty days left, which is more than enough to reach 100% of the ninth level of Mingqiao.
Although he improved so quickly because of his clone.
But it shouldn’t be a problem for ordinary practitioners to break through a realm in just one month.
The benefits of this spiritual point to practitioners are truly amazing!
"Yunlong Law is still short of three perfect body movements and light skills. We should be able to break through in three or four days."
Lin Shen pondered slightly and looked outside the cave.
"However, I have almost eliminated all the earth spirits within a radius of three thousand meters. It's time to move to another place."
Lin Shen took out the map, glanced around, and quickly found the second location with many spirits.
It's about seven or eight kilometers away from here.
"Just go here!"
Lin Shen made a decisive decision immediately, took back his clone and left the cave, used the wind control technique and rushed towards the destination.
Halfway there, Lin Shen suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure from the corner of his eye. When he turned around, his eyes couldn't help but pause.
A dead body was lying on a rock pillar a hundred meters away!
When he got closer, he saw that his face looked similar, but it was one of the disciples from the lower courtyard who entered the spiritual cave with him.
Lin Shen's eyes immediately narrowed, and he looked around cautiously. After finding nothing unusual, he cautiously approached the dead body.
The corpse's complexion was pale, without any blood, as if all the blood had been drained from the body, and there was still a look of horror on the face.
Lin Shen looked at it for a moment, thought about it, took out a guiding talisman, stirred it up and threw it on the dead body. Sure enough, he found the residual evil energy on it.
Seeing this, Lin Shen's expression became more solemn.
The spirits in the spiritual cave are naturally raised and are not evil.
If this disciple of the Lower Court died at the hands of a spirit, there would be no possibility of any evil spirit remaining on the body.
It is impossible for monsters and other creatures to exist in such a spiritually-rich place.
Then, the answer is ready to come out.
This dead body is man-made!
But what Lin Shen couldn't figure out was who would use evil magic to kill this disciple of the Lower Court?
Peng Junqin?
No, impossible!
Even if Peng Junqin was dissatisfied with Xie Jingsheng, he would not be able to anger other Taoist disciples.
Not to mention losing his mind and doing something with such serious consequences.
What's more, Peng Junqin came from a prominent family and was a Taoist disciple with a good foundation. Logically speaking, he shouldn't be able to do sorcery.
But if not, who did it?
Anyone besides them and Peng Junqin?
With this thought, Lin Shen shook his head again.
They were the first batch of disciples to enter the spiritual cave. If there were others in the spiritual cave, why did the sect hide it from them?
And why did he kill his own people?
The doubts in his heart only increased, so Lin Shen simply stopped worrying and stood up.
In any case, something must have happened to the Taoist disciples who entered the spiritual cave.
After all, he is a member of the Taoist Academy, and he must not stay out of the situation at this time.
Taking out the talisman given by Xie Jingsheng from the storage ring, Lin Shen concentrated on sensing it and his expression quickly changed.
"It's not far away, just around here."
Without any delay, Lin Shen's figure flashed and flew in the direction of the sensing.
Not long after, there was a sudden movement in the distance.
Lin Shen's eyes flashed and he quickly speeded up.
As we got closer, the sound gradually became clearer, but it was the sounds of fighting, mixed with the sounds of a man and a woman talking.
After turning around a rock wall, the sound suddenly became clearer, and the scene of the battle came into Lin Shen's eyes.
In a slightly sunken open space, Ai Jingting was struggling to stand, her beautiful face pale, and her snow-white dress stained with blood.
At her feet, there was a man lying.
Judging from his face and attire, he was also one of the disciples from the lower courtyard who came in together.
But at this time, he was motionless and silent, and he had probably died.
Ai Jingting was holding a half-meter-high green tree with lush branches and leaves.
There are numerous fruits in the crown of the tree, each one is as big as a thumb, and they look colorful and colorful.
The dense green light escaped from the green tree and turned into a light shield with a radius of two meters, covering Ai Jingting and the lower courtyard disciples on the ground.
The light mask seemed thin, but it was extremely strong. No matter how the two people in front of me attacked, it remained standing.
The two people who attacked the mask were a man and a woman, both around 24 or 25 years old.
The man had a thin face, wore a black robe, and had a pair of narrow eyes that looked as cold as a poisonous snake, constantly wandering around Ai Jingting's body.
The woman wore a revealing skirt, revealing her snow-white belly and limbs, her bulging breasts, her charming face, her graceful figure, and her whole body exuding a seductive aura.
The seductive woman was holding a long bloody whip, swiping the whip towards the mask of light while giggling.
"I advise you to surrender as soon as possible. All your companions are dead and no one can save you. Why struggle to the death? If you surrender obediently, you will suffer less!"
The man nodded with deep understanding and said with a sinister smile:
"Although this treasure of yours is powerful, you only have the cultivation level of Long Breath Realm. You will not be able to sustain it for another quarter of an hour at most. By then, you will also end up in a disastrous defeat. You might as well just obey me. Not only will I not kill you,
It can also make you experience unprecedented bliss!”
While speaking, the man's eyes couldn't stop wandering around Ai Jingting's graceful body, with a greedy light shining in his eyes.
Hearing the covetous tone in the man's words, the charming woman immediately frowned in dissatisfaction.
"Senior brother, we agreed that these two people would be forged into blood for me, but you want to go back on your word?"
The man smiled coquettishly and said: "Junior sister, the person on the ground belongs to you, but this woman is very beautiful. It would be a pity to use it to refine blood. Just let senior brother give her to me for a while."
The charming woman snorted coldly, and when she was about to refuse, she suddenly rolled her eyes, pointed at the green tree in Ai Jingting's hand and said:
"Okay, you can have her, but the treasure belongs to me!"
The man's expression suddenly froze.
The power of this green tree is obvious to all. It can withstand the joint attack of their brothers and sisters for nearly half an hour. At the very least, it is a middle-grade mysterious weapon.
Beauty is certainly precious, but how can it be compared to such a treasure.
He would never give up the green tree in exchange for Ai Jingting!
Thinking of this, the man smiled and stopped mentioning the matter of asking the charming woman to hand over Ai Jingting to him.
The charming woman looked in her eyes and curled her lips in disdain.
On the other side, watching the two people discussing how to deal with herself as if no one else was watching, Ai Jingting felt filled with bitterness.
Just as the man guessed, although the treasure given by the master in her hand was powerful, her cultivation level was too weak after all. Normally, two quarters of an hour would be her limit.
If it weren't for the abundant spiritual energy here, she would have been unable to hold on long ago.
But even so, she could already feel waves of weakness coming from her body at this time, and it was obvious that her true energy could not hold on for much longer.
Once she loses the protection of the treasure tree, an extremely miserable end awaits her!
Thinking of this, Ai Jingting couldn't help but feel despair in her heart.
At this time, the man and the charming woman also saw the end of Ai Jingting's efforts, and immediately stopped holding back.
The blood vessels flashed, and a bloody figure separated from both of them at the same time.
The two figures were fluttering and flickering, their bodies looming, showing a translucent and illusory texture, like ghosts.
After leaving the body, the two blood shadows paused for a moment in the air, and then rushed towards Ai Jingting.
Blood Shadow uses his bare hands and his attack method is extremely simple, using only a pair of palms with sharp claws to claw and claw.
However, the attack contained traces of cold blood, and when it touched the light shield, it immediately made a oozing sizzling sound.
Under the crazy attack of the two blood shadows, the light shield dimmed visibly to the naked eye in the blink of an eye.
Seeing this scene, Ai Jingting's face became even paler.
The men and the charming women were full of arrogance and looked proud.
But at this moment, a sharp and short sound of breaking through the air suddenly came from the void.
The charming woman felt a chill in her heart, a strong sense of crisis suddenly surged deep in her heart, and her whole body felt numb.
At the critical moment, a jade pendant around her neck suddenly burst into dazzling blue light, covering her whole body in the blink of an eye.
The next second, four invisible sword energy bombarded her with unparalleled strength.
The green light on the charming woman's body flashed suddenly, and then shattered.
However, only two of the four invisible sword energies dissipated, and the remaining two continued to attack her.
But taking advantage of this moment, the charming woman had already reacted. She twisted her waist and turned sideways, successfully avoiding the vital point. However, a snow-white arm was crushed into a bloody mist by the invisible sword energy, and her shoulder
The side fracture instantly gushed out with blood!
The enchanting woman screamed miserably, but did not bother to take a breath, leaving one hand to endure the pain. The blood shadow that was attacking the light shield immediately turned around and rushed towards the direction of the sword energy.
At the same time, the man also sensed the danger coming.
A hundred-meter-long red giant palm appeared in the sky above the cave at some point. It descended from the sky with a domineering momentum that crushed all things, and hit him hard!
Before the attack came, the terrifying oppressive feeling of mountains collapsing and the sky sinking almost made him suffocate.
The fear of death instantly enveloped his heart, and the man's face was almost distorted. He gave a sharp shout, and a blood shadow separated from his body again, and he rushed towards the giant red palm.
At the same time, the black light on his Taoist robe shone brightly, and a thick shadow of the mountains appeared out of thin air, covering him.
It's a pity that all this is just a futile struggle in front of the real martial arts warriors.
As soon as the blood shadow touched the giant red palm, it was like an ice cube falling into magma. It was completely melted in an instant and turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared.
The giant red palm hit the man with a loud bang, sending him and the phantom of the mountain into the ground.
When the giant red palm dissipated, only a piece of scorched earth was left. Where was the figure of the man?
Catching this scene from the corner of her eye, the charming woman was so frightened that she didn't even bother to see who was attacking her. She screamed and turned around and ran away into the distance.
But before she could escape far, a huge blue monument flew towards her like a meteor, crashing into her with a rumble, causing her to vomit blood and fly out. She fell to the ground half dead, unable to move.
Looking at the blood shadow that flew out earlier, it has disappeared and has been dealt with long ago.
The figure flashed, and Lin Shen appeared in front of the charming woman like a ghost, walking towards her expressionlessly.
The charming woman looked up and said in a panic: "No, don't kill me. I will agree to whatever you want me to do."
In the middle of her words, Lin Shen pierced her heart with a sword, spitting out his true energy, instantly crushing her heart into a ball of meat paste.
As soon as the charming woman died, the cave immediately returned to silence.
Ai Jingting looked at the slender figure not far away with a dull expression. She was completely stunned on the spot, still unable to come back to her senses.
I thought I was going to die here today. I was filled with despair and almost wanted to commit suicide. Who would have thought that the next moment Lin Shen would fall from the sky and kill two monsters like a beast!
The scene before her eyes made Ai Jingting feel as if she was in a dream!
"Are you OK?"
It wasn't until Lin Shen came closer and asked, that Ai Jingting suddenly woke up and shook her head quickly.
"No, it's okay. Why are you here?"
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, Ai Jingting's face turned red and she realized that she had asked a stupid question.
Lin Shen had the talisman in his hand, so it was not surprising that he could find her.
Fortunately, Lin Shen didn't pay attention and asked instead: "Who were those two people just now?"
Mentioning this, Ai Jingting's face suddenly turned pale, became extra solemn, and said solemnly: