Autumn turns to spring, and four months pass in the blink of an eye.
Lu Zhong's life is still peaceful. In addition to practicing martial arts and making talismans every day, he also refines medicine and cultivates yellow jade rats.
After feeding dozens or hundreds of rat training pills, its transformation speed was greatly accelerated. Not only did its size increase at a speed visible to the naked eye, but demonic energy even condensed in its body.
Unlike monks who have to wait until the elixir formation stage to condense the golden elixir, monsters possess inner elixirs at the beginning of their birth.
At the beginning, the demonic beast inner elixir looked more like a flesh and blood organ.
With the unique flesh-and-blood inner elixir of this monster beast, they can swallow spiritual energy anytime and anywhere, or swallow various spiritual objects containing spiritual energy to advance themselves.
According to Lu Zhong's observation, the inner elixir in the Yellow Jade Rat's body is about to condense.
This shows that the day when it completely transforms into a monster is not far away.
"Since we have reached the late stage of transformation, we should increase the dosage of Pei Shu Pills..."
At this moment, a token on his waist trembled slightly.
"Is there anyone visiting?"
Lu Zhong asked Huang Yushu to return to his den, and then walked towards the courtyard gate.
He casually cast a control technique to disperse part of the cloud and fog near the courtyard gate, revealing the visitor, Lin Yunhua from the law enforcement team.
"Lin Yunhua, come here, the reward for Thousand-faced Man should have been received."
Lu Zhong couldn't help but feel a little happy. He controlled the white cloud shield to expand a hole that could allow one person to enter, and welcomed Lin Yunhua into the central hall.
"Fellow Daoist Lu, you are well!" Lin Yunhua held up his hands and smiled, looking at the white cloud array outside and exclaimed: "It seems that fellow Daoist has been doing well recently, he even purchased a magic circle."
"No, no, I just make a living by drawing talismans."
Lu Zhong pretended to smile bitterly, then sighed and said: "Once I was bitten by a snake, I have been afraid of well ropes for ten years. Without this white cloud array, how can I sleep peacefully every night?"
"Yes." Lin Yunhua did not continue the topic, and took out a jingling pouch from his arms, his face full of apology: "The bounty of Qianmian Lang was finally distributed today, but the amount may be a little small, please forgive me, fellow Taoist."
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Eighty-seven spiritual stones.
There are really few of them.
Lu Zhong took a quick look and found that his expression had not changed at all, and he accepted the spirit stone with a smile.
I was sighing in my heart. The bounty of nearly a thousand spirit stones was divided into layers, but I only had eighty-seven in my hand. I don't know how many rats I fed this time.
Even though Lin Yunhua was smiling kindly across from him, he might have eaten a lot of spiritual stones secretly.
"I can't help it, who would let me be a casual cultivator?"
Some small talk.
After sending Lin Yunhua away, Lu Zhong turned around and closed the door.
He no longer dwells on the matter of the bounty being swallowed up. This is just asking for trouble and has no meaning at all. Before his own strength is strong enough for others to take him seriously, it can be expected that this kind of thing will happen again in the future.
Instead of continuing to struggle, it is better to focus more on cultivation and making talismans.
Cultivation is the foundation of a monk's life, and making talismans is a necessary means to achieve this goal.
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Half a month later, the yellow jade rat finally completed its transformation.
After transforming into a ghost rat, it is as big as a domestic pig.
It has long white-gold hair that is half as long as sharp needles, and a pair of front teeth flashing with metallic luster, as if it can bite gold and stone.
Because it had just advanced, the spirit-seeking rat was surrounded by a circle of evil aura, which was particularly terrifying.
The first time it happened, it immediately came back to bite Lu Zhong.
He was not surprised at all by this, as if it should have been the case.
Animal nature is inherently difficult to tame, and monsters with powerful strength are even more unruly. This is why it is generally necessary to sign a contract to raise spiritual beasts.
After some "kind education", the spirit-seeking rat took the initiative to sign a slave contract.
The slave contract is an extremely unequal contract. It is essentially the product of a combination of talismans and magic. Only the distant Middle Earth has the ability to make this object. It is divided into two parts: the slave contract and the master contract.
After signing the slave contract, the soul-seeking rat's life and death depended only on Lu Zhong's thoughts.
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The next day, the wilderness outside Yanlingshanfang City.
A figure passed by, running at high speed.
This man is Lu Zhong. With the blessing of the light body technique and the wind-proof power of his robe, he can run at an astonishing speed, reaching four hundred miles per hour.
In the blink of an eye, the distance of a hundred meters was reached in a blink of an eye.
A patch of low grass appeared in front of him, and Lu Zhong did not stop at all.
Like "flying on grass", he passed here easily.
After running for more than ten miles, Lu Zhong took the initiative to remove the effects of the wind-avoiding magical power and the light-body technique, and instead used the breath-holding technique and the concealment technique.
When you are in the wilderness, you must always be vigilant.
When he came out this time, in addition to testing the wind-shielding magical power of the robe, he was also planning to test the soul-seeking talent of the spirit-seeking rat.
Considering that it is almost impossible for spiritual objects to remain near Fangshi, Lu Zhong plans to go to the edge of Yanling Mountain to look for spiritual objects.
Along the way, we stayed far away from the mortal villages.
After walking for more than thirty miles, until the hilly terrain began to be replaced by steep mountains, he released the spirit-seeking rat from the spirit beast bag.
"Start looking for places with strong spiritual energy."
The spirit-seeking rat squeaked, looked left and right as if to determine its target, and then ran towards the northwest.
Lu Zhong followed closely behind, using his qi-gazing technique non-stop.
At first, a faint light could be seen in the field of vision, indicating that the spiritual energy here was very poor.
After walking more than a hundred feet, a spot of light suddenly appeared in his field of vision, its brightness being several times the aura of the surrounding heaven and earth.
"Hey, who dropped a spiritual stone here?"
Lu Zhong picked up a spirit stone and determined that it was the target of the spirit-seeking rat.
"Are there any other places with strong spiritual energy?"
The spirit-seeking rat shook its head, kept spinning in circles, and made squeaking sounds.
"No? Then let's continue walking to Yanling Mountain."
After Lu Zhong took it several miles away, the spirit-seeking rat reacted again.
I followed it and searched all the way, and found a red-flowered elixir beside a stream.
"It seems to be the Blood Sun Flower, take it away!"
Lu Zhong carefully dug out the flower completely and placed it in a jade box that could slow down the loss of spiritual energy of the elixir, so that the elixir could be sold at a higher price.
Continuing to search for spiritual objects, the spirit-seeking mouse made many more discoveries.
A piece of rusty iron.
Dark unknown rocks.
I don't know who stuffed a golden talisman into a crack in the stone.
Being exposed to wind and rain for a long time has greatly damaged the power of this golden light talisman, and its effect is not even as good as the Qixuan Arrow Avoidance Talisman.
"Am I out to search for spiritual objects, or am I out to pick up trash?" Lu Zhong couldn't laugh or cry about this.
After this experiment, he also had a general understanding of the spirit-seeking talent of the spirit-seeking rat.
What is certain is that the spirit-seeking talent is an enhanced version of the spirit-seeking technique.
With the help of the spirit-seeking talent, the spirit-seeking rat can sense the subtler flow of spiritual energy and can find places with abnormal concentration of spiritual energy, and these places are usually where spiritual objects such as elixirs exist.
The reason why a well-organized search for spiritual objects turns into a garbage-picking trip is because the spirit-seeking rats have not received special training and cannot distinguish the differences between various spiritual objects. They will only run towards places with strong spiritual energy.
This requires Lu Zhong to have the ability to distinguish through subsequent training.