After counting Jiang Gongpeng's relics, Zhang Zhixuan and the others activated their magic skills and prepared to leave the Southern Wilderness Jungle immediately.
After all, this place is the territory of demon beasts, and human Nascent Soul activities are not welcome. If the demon saint is alerted, even if he can barely escape, it will definitely be very troublesome.
After killing the tree demon, he got the storage bags of several monks. Several maps were left in them. Zhang Zhixuan also knew the locations of these monks clearly.
Sure enough, it didn't go beyond his expectation. This time the three of them arrived near Yanhuo State.
Yanhuo Prefecture and Nanya Prefecture are almost a continent, separated only by a strait thousands of miles wide.
At the junction of the two states, there is a vast expanse of wild jungle.
This vast territory is collectively called Southern Wilderness, and those who rule this vast territory are the seven Yuan Shen Demon Cultivators.
This vast primitive jungle is the base camp of Yuanyang Realm demon cultivators. In the past tens of thousands of years, few Yuanying cultivators have dared to set foot there.
On the contrary, some Zifu and Jindan who were not well-educated, because their movements were relatively small, once passed through the Southern Wasteland from Yanhuo State and spent decades to enter South Yazhou, which was considered a temporary anecdote.
The three of them walked for two months and covered tens of millions of miles. According to the location on the map, they finally reached the edge of the Southern Wilderness. Because they were very careful along the way, they did not alert the Demon Saint deep in the Southern Wilderness.
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Gradually walking out of the Southern Wasteland, Zhang Zhixuan discovered many abandoned markets along the way. Some of them had been abandoned for a long time, even two or three thousand years ago, while some of the abandoned markets were relatively short, only a few hundred years old.
And as he gets closer and closer to the Yanhuo State Sect, Zhang Zhixuan has discovered many monster activities in recent days.
They even met the demon king at the early stage of the sixth level. The demon king actually had slave soldiers composed of human monks under his command.
This was not the first time that Zhang Zhixuan had seen monks who took refuge in monsters. After they broke through the Poison Dragon Pond, they captured some low-level monks. Some of these people had already refined golden elixirs and were considered to be high-level human monks.
Since monks can tame monsters? Of course, monster cultivators can also capture and control humans? In a place like Yanhuo State, this kind of situation is quite common.
Carefully avoiding the sixth-order demon king? The closer you get to the monk's territory, the more frequent the activities of the demon beast become.
Although the environment is unfamiliar in the depths, Zhang Zhixuan and the other two are all experienced people. They have also fought large-scale battles with the monsters of the Southern Wilderness.
From what they saw along the way, the three of them already knew that this was a large-scale invasion of monsters.
But is there any Yuanshen demon cultivator involved later? It’s still unclear.
How many people are constantly using the magic technique? The spiritual consciousness is released carefully, and suddenly a light flashes in Qingchan's eyes, and he whispers: "There is a small city eight hundred miles southwest. Do you want to go and have a look?"
"Is there anyone alive in the city?"
Qingchan shook his head and said: "This city has been abandoned? No monks have survived? There are still some mortals in some nearby towns, but without the protection of the monks, it is difficult for these mortals to survive?"
Qingchan's spiritual consciousness is very advanced, and can already travel 1,600 miles, which is equivalent to 70 to 80% of the Yuan Shen monks.
How many people dispersed to investigate for a while? With this small city as the center, there are five or six groups of monsters operating in groups within tens of thousands of miles nearby? This army of monsters has fifth-level monsters as the core.
The fifth-level monsters are already quite smart, and can they control the chaotic monster population below and prevent them from spreading around.
Finding mortals nearby, Zhang Zhixuan knew that they were very close to the monks from Yanhuo State.
"Let's go over and have a look!"
How many people changed directions and quickly fled to the city ahead? In the blink of an eye, the situation in the city had fallen into their consciousness.
The scale of this village is relatively small, and it has some similarities with the Jiaohe Village that Qingxuanzong used to run.
Fangshi is just a fourth-level spiritual vessel. It is estimated that the people stationed there are only some foundation buildings and Zifu, and there are no powerful high-level officials.
Several people scanned the area with their spiritual consciousness and discovered that the formation in Fangshi had been breached by the army of monsters. There were no surviving human monks in Fangshi.
Even the army of monsters that broke through Fang City doesn’t know where it migrated. Or is it the nearby army of monsters?
There are only some scattered low-level monsters active in the market. It seems that the army of monsters that attacked this place has moved elsewhere.
There are only a few scattered monks in the area around Fang City, which is thousands of miles away, and the nearby villages, large and small, have been completely destroyed.
Without the protection of monks, occasionally some scattered first- and second-level monsters can break into the towns near Fangshi and hunt down a large number of mortals. Faced with the attacks of monsters, the resistance of ordinary people is completely useless.
Upon discovering this scene, Zhang Zhixuan immediately frowned and whispered to Qing Chan and Qing Chan: "We can help as much as we can."
The three people's escape was extremely fast, and it took almost no effort to kill monsters below the sixth level. In less than half an hour, all the low-level monsters near Fang City had been cleared away.
After clearing away the low-level monsters nearby, Zhang Zhixuan and the other two escaped with a flash of light and arrived inside Fang City.
The formation was broken through by an army of monsters from the outside, and most of the buildings in the city collapsed.
In these ruins, you can occasionally see a lot of blood stains, but there are no remains of the monks. It seems that they were all swallowed by monsters.
There are a large number of spiritual objects in the market, such as elixirs, spiritual minerals, etc., but very few are preserved. Instead, they are magic weapons, spiritual talismans and the like, which are thrown aside at will because the monsters cannot use them.
"It seems that this place was lost for no more than three days."
Although this place is a low-level city, there are probably more than a thousand monks in total.
There are more than a hundred shops in the market. Taking into account the accumulated goods, the total value is about hundreds of thousands of spirit stones. Even for the Nascent Soul monk, it can be regarded as a small fortune.
Anyway, it didn't take long, and there were a lot of storage bags left in the market. Zhang Zhixuan and the others worked hard for most of the day to put all these things into the storage bags.
Although low-level spiritual objects are of no use to them, the things picked up for free can also be used to reward disciples and serve as gifts for low-level monks.
Moreover, a lot of jade slips of some martial arts techniques were also found in circulation, and these things were considered to be the foundation of a sect.
After collecting the low-level spiritual objects scattered in Fangshi, Zhang Zhixuan and the others arrived near Fangshi's teleportation array.
"It seems that the one who broke through Fang City should be a golden elixir stage monster. If it is a sixth-level demon king, he should have some human slaves under his command, and he will clean up all the spiritual creatures in Fang City."
This city has built two teleportation arrays. One is a short-distance teleportation array, which is relatively small and can only teleport about two or three people at a time.
Qingchan carefully inspected the teleportation array and found that except for the spiritual stones being used up, the teleportation array was not damaged and could still be used. However, they were not familiar with the place and did not know where they would be teleported to.
The situation is unknown, so Zhang Zhixuan and the other three will naturally not teleport easily.
The other teleportation array is a mid-range teleportation array, which can teleport seven monks at a time. Unfortunately, the teleportation array's platform has been damaged. If you want to use it, you need a high-level array master to repair the array, which will cost about hundreds of thousands of spiritual stones.
Qing Chanyu waved his hand, took out several high-grade spiritual stones from the storage bag, and placed them in the spiritual stone slots of the short-distance teleportation array.
Before the three of them could make the next move, the teleportation array emitted a powerful light, and three monks, one man and two women, staggered out.
The cultivation level of these three people is not very high, they just opened the Zi Mansion. They were wearing uniform Taoist robes, and they seemed to be from the same sect. The leader, a female cultivator, was disheveled, with bloodstains on her shoulders, and the wounds looked like
Corroded by venom, this person should be the leader of the three.
This person seems to be very old, and his cultivation has reached the ninth level of the Purple Mansion. It seems that he is a Dzogchen cultivator of the Purple Mansion who has broken through the golden elixir.
Upon looking at this kind of wound, according to Zhang Zhixuan's experience, it was immediately clear that this kind of wound must come from a bloodthirsty spider.
The bloodthirsty spider is a common monster in the Southern Wilderness. It is only a fourth-level low-grade monster. However, this kind of monster is accustomed to living in groups. There are often dozens or hundreds of them in the lair. Even the golden elixir monks do not dare to confront it.
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When they saw Zhang Zhixuan and the others, the three of them were immediately frightened and released their defensive weapons one after another. However, after realizing that Zhang Zhixuan and the others were human monks, the leading female cultivator breathed a sigh of relief.
"Who are you? Which sect are you from?" This person asked, while he released his spiritual consciousness to sweep over Zhang Zhixuan and the others. After discovering that the mud cow of their spiritual consciousness had entered the sea, the three of them were surprised and happy. They immediately knew that Zhang Zhixuan and the others were Yuan Ying and others.
A high-ranking person.
It's a pity that the three Zifu monks asked the same questions as Zhang Zhixuan and the others did not know the Yanhuo Prefecture language.
After practicing Taoism for more than 800 years, Zhang Zhixuan has learned more than ten languages and dozens of scripts. They understand the languages of Qinglihai, Xiyaozhou, Nanyazhou, and Zhongchizhou.
It's a pity that the three of them have never been to Yanhuo Prefecture. Even the most knowledgeable and experienced Qingchan can't understand the language of Yanhuo Prefecture, and she doesn't understand the characters of this prefecture.
If you want to learn a language, even if the three of them become Yuanying and their wisdom far exceeds that of ordinary people, it will probably take ten and a half days.
However, this matter was no longer a problem for Qing Chan. A blue light emitted from the center of her eyebrows and she actually used the divine communication spell directly.
Spiritual consciousness communication is a very high-level spell. Once you learn this spell, as long as you are within the range of the monk's spiritual consciousness, you can convey your meaning to others with just a movement of your spiritual consciousness.
This spell takes a lot of time to practice, and monks with insufficient understanding will spend more than a hundred years. Among the eleven Nascent Souls of the Ziyang Sect, only Qingchan and Chen Yunfeng perfected this spell.
Able to convey one's thoughts to others through spiritual consciousness.
"In the chaos of monsters and beasts that broke out nearby, did any of the Yuanshen Demon Saints intervene?"
Zhang Zhixuan knew that there were seven Demon Saints in the Southern Wilderness. The one closest to Nanya State was the Demon Saint Tianlang, and the ones closest to Yanhuo State were the two Demon Saints, Taurus and White Elephant.
According to Zhang Zhixuan's experience, a large-scale invasion of monsters must be supported by a demon king. A sixth-level demon king would not dare to easily provoke a war unless there is a demon saint behind it.
For example, the Heavenly Wolf Demon Saint hundreds of years ago, because he did not sign a contract with the Yuanshen of Nanyazhou, the demon king under his command continued to provoke wars.
After Demon Saint Tianlang signed a contract with Qingyunzi and Taoist Yu, peace was restored to the entire hundred sects of the Southern Wilderness.
The conflict between human monks and monster beasts is only controlled within a very small area. Monks above the Golden Core and demon cultivators above the fifth level will almost never cross the border defined by the two sides.
Although Zhang Zhixuan and the others were not known to each other, the leading female cultivator was suddenly surprised when she saw the human Nascent Soul.
This girl's name is He Qingyue, and she comes from the Sun and Moon Sect. This sect is also considered a medium-sized sect in Yanhuo State. It originally had six Nascent Soul Masters.
In the past two to three hundred years, the Golden Bull Demon Saint has continuously mobilized his subordinates to attack the Yanhuo State Sect.
Yanhuo Prefecture originally had two Yuanshen, one of whom was named Yu Hong, who was cultivated to the second level of Yuanshen. This Yuanshen ancestor came from Ciyun Sect.
It's a pity that Patriarch Yu's path was not smooth. Although he has the same surname as Yu, his supernatural powers are far inferior to that of Taoist Yu from Nanya Prefecture. He died at the hands of the Patriarch of Ten Thousand Tribulations three thousand years ago, and even his physical body was transformed into an incarnation by demons.
Another Patriarch Bai of the Medicine King Sect has a slightly higher level of cultivation, reaching the fourth level of Yuanshen. This Patriarch Bai is the only seventh-level alchemist in the Yuanyang Realm, but his magical power in fighting is not that great.
The two ancestors of the Yuan Shen have not cultivated enough, and the life of the monks in Yanhuo State has naturally been difficult in recent years. Not only are there large-scale activities of demon cultivators in this state, but there are also frequent invasions of monsters in the Southern Wilderness and Qingli Sea.
Three thousand years after the death of Patriarch Yu Hong, almost a quarter of the sects in Yanhuo State were wiped out, and a third of the territory was eroded by demon cultivators.
The demonic monks in the Wangyou Sea, who practice whatever magical powers they have, also like to cause trouble in the Yanhuo State, causing countless horrific tragedies.
Almost all the monks and mortals in this state are in the heat of water, which is roughly the same as the Nanya state before Qingyunzi became a soul.
In the past few thousand years, Yanhuo State has relied entirely on Ancestor Bai for support.
The Alchemy Alliance, a well-known alchemist force in the world of immortality, is actually controlled by Patriarch Bai from behind.
Over the years, Yanhuo State has managed to maintain its situation by cultivating alchemists, using high-grade elixirs to forge countless favors, and inviting foreign aid from other continents.
For this reason, even though He Qingyue's cultivation was low, she did not show any surprise when she saw Nascent Soul from another state.
Finding that Zhang Zhixuan and the others could not understand the Yanhuozhou accent, He Qingyue immediately chose to communicate through words.
Yuanyang Realm covers a vast area and has a wide variety of languages and characters. Some major sects even have special cipher texts. When outsiders see this cipher text, they will naturally not be able to understand it.
For example, the Chinese characters that Zhang Zhixuan learned in his previous life can be regarded as a kind of secret text within the Ziyang Sect. Because it involves the Huangting Taoist Scripture, only a few core Nascent Souls in the entire sect can understand Chinese characters.
Compared with the messy accents in Yuanyang Realm, immortal cultivators have a common writing style.
This kind of writing is called eclipse writing, and it comes from Liang Yousheng, the first monk in the Yuanyang world to become an immortal.
Each word in Eclipse has a thousand meanings, and it becomes even more difficult to understand when it is written into a sentence. It is very difficult to decipher it.
Only talented people like Zhang Zhixuan and Qing Chan have been immersed in the eclipse path for many years and are good at deducing the techniques. Their understanding of this Tao is no less than that of Yuanshen. Otherwise, even if they capture the techniques in the enemy's hands, if
The exercises are written in eclipse script, which even most low-level monks cannot understand.