The mountains are high and the forests are dense, with ravines and ravines. From time to time, the roar of monsters can be heard. In the dense forest, Long Chen is riding on Xiao Xue's back, his face is very ugly.
"Old bastard, old calf, old cheater"
Long Chen kept cursing Tu Fang. He was tricked this time. When he took out the map Tu Fang gave him, he almost fainted.
On the one-foot-square map, Long Chen saw the location of the Xuantian Dao Sect at a glance, but after searching for it three times, he saw a spot in the corner the size of a mosquito's leg, marked with the Fengming Empire.
Long Chen was dumbfounded at the time. He found another empire next door, silently measured the distance between the two, and then compared the distance with Xuantian Dao Sect.
He was shocked to find that he was over 200,000 miles away from Xuantian Courtyard, and this was a straight-line distance.
There are several mountain ranges marked on the middle map, where high-level monsters will appear. In other words, as long as Long Chen doesn't want to feed them, he needs to take a detour.
Long Chen was so angry that he cursed loudly. The old man Tu Fang looked serious, but in fact he was a scammer. If he let a boy in the blood coagulation realm cross such a long distance, wasn't he looking for death?
What Long Chen didn't know was that Xuantian Courtyard had strict rules and was extremely strict in the selection of disciples.
Originally, Long Chen had no spiritual roots and was not qualified to participate in the assessment. Tu Fang made an exception by doing this.
In order to be able to give an explanation to other courtyards, letting Long Chen travel alone through more than 200,000 miles of borderland was considered the price for him to get the quota, and others would not accuse him of being partial.
Long Chen calculated that he now had to travel at least eight thousand miles every day to reach Xuantian Villa within a month.
If you were just running on a flat road, it would be nothing at Xiaoxue's current speed. But running in this wilderness with high mountains and dense forests would not be a good road, and you have to be prepared for attacks by monsters.
After only seven days of marching, Long Chen experienced several battles. There were many monsters blocking the road along the way, and they were all killed by Long Chen.
In seven days, they traveled more than 30,000 miles, but the speed was far less than expected. This made Long Chen angry and angry, but there was nothing he could do.
"Crackling"
The fire kept roaring. In the wilderness, the flames were more than ten feet high, lighting up the surrounding space.
Next to the fire, a giant snake that was more than ten feet long was skinned and placed on a tree trunk. It squeaked as it was being roasted, and the aroma of the meat overflowed.
Long Chen and Xiaoxue were lying on the tree trunks, eating as hard as they could. Long Chen didn't eat much at first, but eating more seemed to relieve the depression in his heart, so he let go and gnawed.
Xiaoxue also started eating crazily on the side. Its speed was much faster than Long Chen. Long Chen only ate more than ten kilograms, and all the remaining meat went into Xiaoxue's belly.
Originally, it was very dangerous to light a fire and eat barbecue in the wild, as it would attract ferocious monsters.
But Long Chen can't care about that much now. He is pressed for time and needs to use all his time to travel. He travels during the day and practices at night.
As a magical beast, Xiaoxue has a powerful body. Even if it keeps running for days and nights, it will be no problem. Moreover, it does not need to practice, as long as it has meat to eat.
Anyway, there are blind monsters everywhere on the road, so just choose any one to make dinner. After eating, Long Chen started to practice, and Xiaoxue also had a full stomach, and stayed beside Long Chen and began to take a nap.
Xiaoxue ate very well every day. What surprised Long Chen was that Xiaoxue's body grew bigger every day.
Xiaoxue is now 1.5 feet long, almost as tall as Long Chen, and looks even more majestic.
Moreover, Xiaoxue's strength and speed were increasing with each passing day, which surprised Long Chen and made him excited at the same time.
Xiaoxue itself is a third-level monster. It is still in the growth stage and is getting stronger every day. At the current speed, it may be a little behind.
But as Xiaoxue grows up, the speed becomes faster and faster. It should be no problem to reach Xuantian Villa within a month.
While he was excited, Long Chen was also full of gratitude to Meng Qi. Sending Xiaoxue here was a huge help to him.
With Xiaoxue guarding him, and relying on his sensitive sense of smell, no magical beast can even think of approaching quietly, so Long Chen can practice with peace of mind.
Long Chen slowly closed his eyes. In just a few breaths, Long Chen's mind entered a state of emptiness. At this time, he could enter concentration and forget both things and me.
A hundred-foot divine ring emerged behind him, like a huge whirlpool, greedily sucking the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and pouring it into Long Chen's body.
After the spiritual energy entered the Fengfu Star, the Fengfu Star slowly rotated. After being compressed by the Fengfu Star, the spiritual energy of the heaven and earth became more pure, slowly integrated into Long Chen's body, and finally penetrated into the blood.
When the spiritual energy entered the blood, the blood that was originally flowing slowly began to flow rapidly, like a mountain torrent, and actually made a roaring sound.
As the spiritual energy penetrates, the impurities in the blood are constantly forced out of the body, turning into sweat-like mucus with a slight odor.
This is blood coagulation, condensing blood essence, forcing impurities out of the body, making the blood purer. Using such blood to nourish the physical body will make the physical body as if it has been reborn and become stronger.
"boom"
There was a roar in Long Chen's body, and the blood vessels in his body became much thinner. A smile appeared on Long Chen's face, he exhaled the turbid air in his chest, and opened his eyes.
At this time, the white color of fish belly has appeared in the east. I wiped the jade pendant in my arms and felt a touch of warmth in my heart.
This is the only item left to him by his parents. This piece of jade is very magical. It can quickly eliminate distracting thoughts and enter a state of concentration, doubling the efficiency of his cultivation.
It was almost impossible to feel the flow of time, as if it was dawn as soon as he closed his eyes, but Long Chen felt the changes in his body.
"call"
A punch was thrown out, the space shook, and the wind howled, hitting the big tree ten feet away.
"boom"
The big tree, as thick as a bucket, broke in response to the sound.
"The power of the physical body is powerful again. It can have such a terrifying effect without any combat skills. The blood coagulation realm is really unbelievable." Long Chen clenched his fists tightly, his heart burning.
Now the blood in his body has been purified four times, and the strength of his body has skyrocketed, to the point where even he was shocked.
However, the Blood Coagulation Realm is different from other Qi Gathering Realms. After condensing blood once, the body needs to continue to produce blood, fill up the blood that was originally refined, and allow the blood vessels to return to their original level before condensing the next time.
Usually this takes about half a month, but Long Chen didn't have this worry. I wonder if it was the effect of the Nine-Star Hegemon Body Technique. When he coagulated blood for the first time, it only took a few hours for his blood to be full.
.
The second time, it took one day, the third time, it took two days, and now it's the fourth time. Long Chen estimated that it might take four days to enter the next coagulation stage.
But no matter what, Long Chen is now a strong man at the fourth level of blood coagulation.
"Ouch"
Suddenly Xiaoxue called out, and Long Chen quickly put away his smile and said: "Okay, let's get on the road right away."
It turned out that it was Xiaoxue who saw Long Chen giggling all the time and started urging him to hurry up. Xiaoxue kicked off her hind legs and ran straight ahead like a stream of white light.
"Haha, Xiaoxue, your speed is one step faster than yesterday," Long Chen shouted excitedly. Xiaoxue's speed has increased again, and he won't have to rush as hard as his butt in the future.
"Ouch"
"What, you said that as long as you have enough meat, you can continue to improve? Okay, let's try today to see if we can kill a third-level monster and give you a toothpaste," Long Chen laughed.
Continuing forward, when the dense forest in front disappears, a desert appears, with thousands of miles of yellow sand, endless as far as the eye can see, full of desolation.
Long Chen hurriedly unfolded the map and looked at it. He nodded and realized that his route was not wrong. This desert was his only way.
I looked at the map carefully, found a grass stalk as a scale, and measured the distance in this desert, and couldn't help but take a breath of air.
"Xiaoxue, this desert is between 35,000 and 37,000 miles long, and for a certain distance, it's a desert without a drop of water. We can't run fast on the sand. It may take us four or five days to walk. You
Can you hold on?" Long Chen was a little worried.
In the desert, the sand is too soft, and the speed of light snow will be greatly reduced, while the consumption will be greater, which is very disadvantageous for them.
"Ouch"
"No, no, it should be fine, but it's absolutely not possible. It must be absolutely foolproof. We won't do anything we're not sure about."
Xiaoxue said it should be okay, but Long Chen didn't dare to take risks. Normally, it would be okay to go without food or drink for three to five days, but running wildly in the desert for three to five days, still being exposed to the sun, and having no water to replenish, would be very serious.
It's so dangerous that even the body of a monster can't stand it.
Long Chen thought for a while and returned to the dense forest. He originally wanted to cut down a few big trees, dig out the heart of the big trees, and make a few buckets.
However, Long Chen was very lucky. He actually saw a bamboo forest. He didn't know what kind it was. It grew extremely tall, as thick as a person's waist, and each section was more than three feet long. It was like a ready-made bucket.
Long Chen cut more than forty sections in one go, found a clear pond nearby, filled the bamboo with water, and put it into the space ring.
Fortunately, the space in the space ring is static, so there is no need to worry about bumps on the road spilling them out.
After preparing these, Long Chen felt much more at ease. With water, they could last a long time even if they had no food.
Running towards the front, as expected, the vegetation on the desert became less and less, and in the end there was no grass growing, just a piece of yellow sand.
The terrifying heat wave hits, and the temperature is basically the same as that of a real flame. Faced with such a heat wave, for alchemists who deal with flames, they can basically ignore it.
"Xiaoxue, are you okay?" Long Chen asked.
Xiaoxue didn't answer, she yelled and galloped away into the depths of the desert.
Sure enough, as Long Chen expected, Xiaoxue's speed in the desert was greatly restricted, only about 70% to 80% in the forest.
Moreover, the soft sand made Xiaoxue consume more energy. Until dark, he had only traveled more than 5,000 miles. This also includes part of the journey on the desert ground. Tomorrow will be all desert, and it will definitely not be possible.
Go further than today.
The desert at night was bitingly cold, and dripping water turned into ice. It was completely different from the daytime. What made Long Chen most helpless was that in the desert, the amount of spiritual energy he could absorb was so minimal that he simply didn't bother to practice and just lay down on Xiaoxue to sleep.
"Ouch"
Sleeping until midnight, Xiaoxue suddenly roared, waking up Long Chen.