Chapter 587 The Fire Phoenix Clan (Please subscribe and vote monthly)
Chapter 587 The Fire Phoenix Clan (Please subscribe and vote monthly)
"Fellow Taoists, do you have any good ideas?"
At the central seat, Liu Yu looked around and said.
In this world, the left is the most respected person. To his left are Gao Jianhan and Mu Yunyan, and to his right are Zhuo Mengzhen.
Although everyone is well aware of the relationship between the two of them, they usually rank them according to their strength.
Liu Yu would not break the rules because of this trivial matter, and it was not necessary.
Hearing this, several people looked at each other, you looked at me, I looked at you, and silently shook their heads.
The formulation of any strategy is inseparable from the most critical information. At present, I know only a little about the demon clan forces in the Xinghuo Mountains, so naturally I can't think of any good strategies.
In other words, I dare not make random plans.
After all, once something goes wrong, lives will inevitably be endangered. In the past fifteen years, several people have suffered in this regard.
If Liu Yu hadn't turned the tide at the critical moment, the team would have been wiped out long ago.
Although he had expected it, Liu Yu was still a little disappointed when he saw this scene. He shook his head slightly and said:
"In this case, as usual, we will first collect information on this area for a period of time, and then formulate a plan."
After he finished speaking, he stood up and walked out first to collect information about the monsters.
Gao Jianhan, Mu Yunyan, and Zhuo Mengzhen also stood up one after another and activated the magic weapon "Qinghunsha" to follow behind.
As we travel further back through the Hengduan Mountains, the Seven Nations provide less information, or there may be no records at all.
It was naturally impossible for Liu Yu and the four of them to go on a rampage and just rush over without knowing any information.
Therefore, it has become commonplace to spend a period of time collecting information, figuring out the patterns of the appearance of monsters and cultivators, and then formulating a travel plan.
Several people are already very skilled at this.
Of course, even if you understand the information and formulate a more appropriate plan, various surprises will inevitably occur along the way.
In the past fifteen years, several people have encountered emergencies several times, and they only managed to survive through many dangers and stumble before reaching the Xinghuo Mountains.
The dangers involved are really hard to describe in words.
It was several life-and-death crises and constant wandering on the edge of death that made the firm-hearted Jindan Master shake his faith.
After all, demon cultivators are not monsters. They also have advanced intelligence and know how to think. After discovering the existence of Liu Yu and the others, they made various plans to surround and trap them.
Under the system of the "Royal Court", orders are passed down layer by layer, and the demon cultivators at each blockade can be mobilized, making it difficult for a few people to move forward.
So far, Liu Yu and the others have passed through thirty-six blockades, and the difficulty becomes more and more difficult the further they go.
Because the level of attention paid to the demon clan is constantly increasing.
Maybe for some of the blockades ahead, even if the "Royal Court" orders it, the demon cultivator will not pay enough attention to the news for one reason or another, giving the four people an opportunity to take advantage of it.
But as the four of them got closer and closer to the "Annan Protectorate", the demon cultivator paid more and more attention to it and began to deal with it seriously.
Between some blockades, monster groups that were originally hostile to each other even began to cooperate.
The time required to collect information may vary.
Some of the blockade demon cultivators are not strong, so the few people have less worries, and the possibility of being discovered decreases drastically.
If you are discovered, you can even force your way in, or directly "kill the demon and silence it", just like what happened in the Red Blood Swamp.
Some blockades are so powerful that a few people have to worry a lot, and the possibility of being discovered when they go out will skyrocket.
Moreover, the speed of collecting information will also drop a lot.
As a result, you will stay in one place for a long time and face a lot of troubles.
However, you should not act hastily or act recklessly just because you are impatient.
After suffering in this regard, several people have "grown up" a lot and have enough patience.
"Huh~~"
After leaving the "Ice Soul Xuanguang Array" and coming to the ground, a hot wind with a volcanic smell immediately blew.
The hot wind blew past her face, blowing Liu Yu's long hair to the back of her head, revealing an indifferent and determined face, with eyes as bright as stars.
Although I had shaved my beard not long ago, my work and rest had been irregular, and a short beard still appeared on my chin.
It makes the whole person look mature and has gone through many vicissitudes of life.
The hot wind blew by, but Liu Yu frowned slightly.
Just because there is a smell of sulfur in the air, even with the physique of the Golden elixir monk, it will not have any impact.
But I'm still not used to this taste.
"etc"
Looking at the red crater in the night sky, he suddenly thought of a question and raised his hand to stop the three people who were about to go out.
"Um?!"
Gao Jianhan, Mu Yunyan, and Zhuo Mengzhen paused in their steps, immediately stopped their next actions, and did not act rashly.
Along the way, Liu Yu's judgments rarely made mistakes, and he was the most powerful, so the three of them were very convinced by what he said.
Upon hearing this, he immediately stopped moving, knowing that there would be an explanation next.
Sure enough, at the next moment, Liu Yu spoke:
"The Fire Phoenix clan has the most top-notch spirit demon bloodline, and each Fire Phoenix's talent may be extraordinary."
"Perhaps there are talents related to spiritual eyes, or specialties in spiritual consciousness, which can see through the cover of the "Green Soul Veil"."
"So the three fellow Taoists should stay in the Ice Soul Xuanguang Formation."
"To be on the safe side, just let Liu go out."
He slowly explained the reason, and his tone was neither urgent nor slow, making people involuntarily feel a sense of belief.
Perhaps for "mortal demon bloodline" or ordinary "spiritual demon bloodline", demon cultivators with spiritual eye talents and spiritual consciousness are as rare as a rarity.
But for the top level spirit demon bloodline, this may not be the case.
Because of the excellence of their bloodline, to a certain extent, any member of the Fire Phoenix Clan is a "genius" who is one in a million.
In this way, no matter how ordinary you are, you are no longer ordinary, and the chance of having outstanding talents is naturally very high.
Therefore, the demon clan has always respected blood, and there is indeed nothing wrong with that.
One is that the upper limit is higher, and the other is that the strength at the same level is stronger.
There are very few demon cultivators who break the two iron rules above. Even if they take high-level spiritual objects by mistake, the upper limit will only be raised once or twice at most.
After all, it is impossible to have such good luck every time and just have the right heaven-defying spiritual object, unless it is really "luck".
"When I understand, I will wait in the cave for good news from fellow Taoist Qingyang."
Hearing the reason, the three of them nodded one after another, and then walked back to the temporary cave.
But they are not in a good mood. Only one person collects information, which means the speed is slower and they have to stay here longer.
Nearly thirty years have passed, and the spiritual stones and elixirs in the hands of the three of them have been almost exhausted, and they are close to the point of "running out of ammunition and food".
The most important thing is that the progress of cultivation is slow, and I can only watch time passing by in vain, without feeling the pleasure of improving cultivation, and the days are like years.
Seeing the three people returning, Liu Yu silently looked away.
With the "Wall of Divine Consciousness" surrounding him, he rose into the air and flew close to the ground, approaching the Starfire Mountains in the distance.
I plan to get closer and take a closer look to see if I can find a relatively safe road.
Combining the advantages of the "Shen Shen Miao Method" and the "Youmeng Heart Sutra", Liu Yu learned from each other's strengths and weaknesses according to the actual situation and optimized the techniques for building the "Wall of Spiritual Consciousness".
Not only does it shield the ability to detect spiritual consciousness, which is slightly improved compared to before, but it can also be combined with the "invisibility technique" to hide one's body shape.
In this way, the concealment ability has been greatly improved again.
As long as you don't encounter a fourth-level demon cultivator, or a demon cultivator with top-notch talents, it is basically impossible to reveal your existence.
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He flew carefully all the way, but because he wanted to reduce the fluctuations in mana, his speed was not very fast.
A quarter of an hour later, Liu Yu approached the Xinghuo Mountains, about a hundred miles away.
After reaching this distance, he stopped and fell behind a rock, not daring to get closer.
The Fire Phoenix Clan has been passed down from ancient times, and its demon cultivators are like clouds. It is equivalent to the human race having spiritual treasures to suppress all directions, and is a world-famous "Holy Land".
Although Liu Yu had many methods, he did not dare to be careless in the slightest.
After all, as long as the demon cultivator in disguise or the Nascent Soul cultivator scans carefully, it will not be difficult to find his traces.
According to records, the number of transformed demon cultivators of the Fire Phoenix Clan has always been in the double digits.
Hiding behind the bare rocks, Liu Yu seemed to find a sense of security.
He waited for a few breaths and found that there was no movement around him, then his eyes lit up with azure light, and he looked through the rocks towards the endless volcanoes.
Eyes of the stars!
Twenty years have passed, and Liu Yu's cultivation in Qi refining, body refining, and divine refining has all improved slightly.
The diameter of the spiritual consciousness has increased from ninety-nine miles to one hundred and two miles, completely surpassing the peak of the ordinary golden elixir.
In this regard, it becomes more difficult to improve the later you go.
Even if the gap is only one mile, the difference in the degree of concentration of spiritual consciousness, that is, the "strength of spiritual consciousness" in the general sense, is not small.
In fact, Liu Yu's spiritual consciousness had already reached a hundred miles when he set out from the Black Dragon Mountains.
But fifteen years later, it has only improved by two miles, which shows how difficult it is.
However, when facing the Fire Phoenix Clan, he was worried that the observation with his spiritual sense would trigger his spiritual sense, so he did not choose to use his spiritual sense to scan, but instead used his sense of stars to observe the situation, supplemented by the fuzzy induction of his spiritual sense.
Through the rock, Liu Yu's eyes were unobstructed and she looked into the distance.
The sky and the earth in the distance were all reddish-brown. Due to the volcanic environment, the closer to the Xinghuo Mountains, the rarer the green plants.
A hundred miles away from where he was, there were sparse green weeds, but once he entered ninety miles, the ground became empty.
The smell of sulfur is getting stronger and stronger in the air.
On the reddish-brown bare ground, there are often a few strange-shaped trees separated by a long distance.
However, the tree body is red or brown. I don't know if it has mutated to adapt to the environment, or if it has always been that way.
Even some of the wild beasts that breed here, or low-level monsters, have red or brown fur.
Most monsters are of fire attribute, and a few are of earth attribute.
"Maybe it's more appropriate to call it "rock attribute"?"
After clearly observing the distance of the Xinghuo Mountains and looking at the low-level monsters, Liu Yu flashed this idea.
In the classification of immortal cultivators, the "rock attribute" of magma does not yet exist, or it is considered to be a branch of the fire attribute and is not recognized by the mainstream.
However, when comparing the monsters that grow in the Spark Mountains with ordinary fire-attribute monsters, the difference is quite obvious.
Its character is more aggressive, and its innate spells often have attributes such as explosion, and its power is about 10% higher than that of ordinary fire-attribute spells.
With his eyes quickly passing over the fighting low-level monsters, Liu Yu turned his gaze and looked towards the main body of the Spark Mountains.
The main body of this mountain range is composed of volcanoes.
Most volcanoes are active. The tops of the mountain peaks are dark or light red, and magma gushes out from time to time.
Even after a long distance, it is still clearly visible and is the most conspicuous road sign.
Moreover, the composition of spiritual energy has also undergone great changes between volcanoes.
Fire attribute auras account for a very high proportion, while other attributes auras are extremely rare.
In such an environment, fire attribute monks or demon cultivators can exert stronger strength.
As for other attributes, they will be weakened by about half.
At a glance, Liu Yu saw towering volcanoes reaching into the sky. There were as many as a dozen volcanoes that were taller than the sect's "Tongtian Peak".
Needless to say, the spiritual veins on it definitely reach the fourth level.
It was not surprising that the tallest volcano in the center had a fifth-level spiritual vein, which really opened his eyes.
"As expected of a race that can directly confront the "Holy Land", the spiritual level of the habitat is actually so high."
"To the Fire Phoenix Clan, these Xinghuo Mountains are no different than the Paradise of Cave Heaven."
Seeing this, a trace of envy flashed in Liu Yu's eyes.
"Qingyang Kung Fu" has a fire attribute, while "Star True Body"'s scorching sun stage has a "yang attribute", both of which are very suitable for practicing in such an environment.
If you can occupy a fourth-level volcano, you can increase your cultivation speed by about 20% in terms of energy refining and body refining even without taking elixirs.
By then, the demand for elixirs and other resources will be greatly reduced, and there will be no need to regularly refine elixirs to earn spiritual stones.
Because he wanted to observe the environment first, Liu Yu glanced at the demon cultivator at the first moment, and first stared at the volcanoes.
After seeing almost everything, he looked at the demon cultivators and monster beasts among the mountains.
I saw among the distant mountains, a kind of demon bird that was somewhat similar to the phoenix, and it undoubtedly became the absolute protagonist.
Wherever they pass, even monsters with higher cultivation levels have to give way.
He seems to be a born king, naturally carrying a certain noble temperament!
Its body is like a crane, but its feathers are as red as fire, with flame-like lines on them, and its neck is slender and more graceful than that of a swan.
The feet are very high, pale red in color, and have hard and sharp curved claws.
Its pupils flash with fire, and its tail is proportionally longer. If it spreads its wings and soars, it will look more majestic and powerful.
This is the Fire Phoenix Clan!
When they fly, they often only need to sing softly to attract a group of monsters to follow them.
In fact, compared to the countless monsters in the Xinghuo Mountains, the Fire Phoenix Clan is not large, but appears to be "sparsely populated".
But that kind of temperament that seems to be a born king is so different that people can identify it at a glance.
"The first-order fire phoenix is orange-red, the second-order is orange-red, and the third-order is deep red."
"Looking at it this way, it seems that the higher the cultivation level, the darker the color of its feathers."
After just a quick glance, Liu Yu looked away, recalling what he had just seen and summarizing it in his mind.
His keen sense of spirituality allowed him to vaguely sense the spiritual pressure and the strength of his breath even if he was more than a hundred miles away.
In addition, the darker the color, the more monsters are following the fire phoenix, so we draw a preliminary conclusion.
"This kind of bloodline is truly enviable."
"With the posture of a superior bloodline, one is born to be able to control a group of monsters."
"You don't need to work hard. As soon as you reach the age, you can automatically advance to a certain level, and your strength will far exceed that of the same level."
Using the "Eye of the Stars" to quickly scan again, Liu Yu felt envious when he saw the scene of the group of monsters following him and the scene of spiritual veins occupying a realm far beyond his own.