Xu Dao sat upright, stretched out his hand to take the mountain and sea flag, and unfolded it. The light and color on the flag surface immediately changed, and the lines in the shape of insects flickered violently.
A tall fang general jumped out of it immediately, with a ferocious look, a ferocious face, and murderous intent.
He is the foundation-building tooth general who was developed not long ago.
Xu Dao released it and looked at it carefully, with a look of satisfaction on his face. Since he broke the Establishment Fang General on the Tianlai Island, this was the first Establishment Fang General he had successfully raised in the West Sea.
Basic tooth general.
Xu Dao turned the fangs in his hands again, and a tighter energy enveloped his body than before.
After developing this Foundation-Building Tooth General, Xu Dao not only has a Foundation-Building subordinate who obeys every word, but also has mountain and sea flags superimposed on it, which can also increase his self-defense methods.
If the situation is critical during the battle, Xu Dao can even release the damage into the banners like a flood, letting the tooth generals and scale soldiers bear the damage on his behalf.
Stroking the worm flag, Xu Dao felt happy in his heart: "With the addition of a Foundation-Building Tooth General, the safety of this trip to the Secret Vault of Fanxing Island is more assured."
He estimated the strength of the qi that enveloped him, and there was no need to consume his mana. A Taoist priest with perfect Ningsha could not break this qi. Even a Taoist in the realm of refining the power, the mountain and sea banner relied on the mysterious mountain and sea runes.
And the tooth generals and scale soldiers inside can also support it for a long time.
Although this artifact has only entered the foundation-building level not long ago, it is already a secret treasure. Of course, the reason why it has such a magical effect is also thanks to the tooth general and scale soldier.
Thinking of this, Xu Dao sighed: "It's a pity that it is easy to cultivate tooth generals and scale soldiers, but it is not easy to raise them."
This difficulty is nothing other than the consumption of resources.
In the past, he was just a Qi Refining Taoist disciple, or just entered the realm of foundation building. Whether it was the original cricket or the later tooth general and scale soldier, their number and strength were not high, and it was not difficult to raise them.
In addition, Xu Dao has a rich net worth, so it is relatively easy to raise him.
However, as Xu Dao's cultivation level increases, if the tooth generals and scale soldiers want to continue to be suitable for use, their number and strength will naturally have to double, and the difficulty of raising them will also increase.
In addition, Xu Dao left the Kingdom of Wu, and there was a lack of spiritual energy in the Western Sea. Moreover, Yajiang Linbing was not a Taoist, and his spiritual intelligence was not enough to practice Taoism. He was a monster.
Monsters are different from people in the cultivator. If a cultivator does not have spiritual energy, they can still meet the most basic needs in daily life by swallowing the essence of the sun and the moon. However, they will "get thinner day by day", their strength will slowly decline, and they cannot fight.
However, except for a small number of monsters, or monsters that have learned Taoism, monsters all live by devouring spiritual energy. They are not only strong because of spiritual energy, but also born from spiritual energy.
If they don't have enough spiritual energy, even if they are constantly devouring soulless blood food, they will still be unable to meet their body's needs and will fall into the state of "starving to death".
And this is a very important reason why ferocious beasts are rampant in the Western Sea.
The spiritual energy in the West Sea is lacking. If the monsters want to survive, they can only swallow the polluted spiritual energy.
In this situation, the Taoists who can swallow the essence of the sun and the moon have chosen to use any means to extract their souls to make money. The situation of the monsters is naturally even more miserable. They are all polluted by the evil spirits in the sea, unable to produce spiritual wisdom, and their ferocity is even more common.
Mortal beasts have become "vicious beasts" devouring each other, and there is not a single spiritual beast in the wild.
If Xu Dao didn't want his fang scale soldiers to turn into ferocious beasts and bite him back, he had to use spiritual food and spiritual water to serve him. And lastly, he had to use the blood spiritual energy in the blood money to supply him.
Otherwise, the Tooth General and Scale Soldiers will either go into self-sleep, consume their essence, and lose their strength step by step, or they will starve to death, or they will attack him crazily.
Therefore, for Xu Dao, although the Tooth General and Scale Soldier is useful and very convenient, it not only consumes spiritual materials when cultivating it, but also consumes a lot of money to raise it on a daily basis.
Especially without the natural replenishment of spiritual energy between heaven and earth, the latter's daily expenses, the huge expenses in martial arts, accumulated over time, are the bulk of the fang general's scale soldiers!
Not only Xu Dao's tooth generals and scale soldiers are like this, but the Dao soldiers in Xihai are also like this.
The Tao soldiers are all living Taoists, or monsters and ghosts with intelligence. They are like raising disciples, and they naturally consume one portion after another.
Therefore, there are only 108 islands in the West Sea that have Taoist soldiers stationed on the islands to protect them all year round.
The reason for this is not only because the skills and secrets are rare and rare, but also because those who are not powerful do not have a steady stream of resources and cannot afford to support them.
Moreover, the number of Dao soldiers under the command of each major island is also constant. Whether it is reduced or increased, it is a matter of caution. It is even more cautious than increasing or decreasing the number of disciples.
Because disciples and disciples can be cultivated on a selective basis, the benefits brought by an elite disciple are far higher than those of ordinary disciples. However, Tao soldiers are different. They win by quantity, and the number must be constant to maintain deterrence.
And compared to ordinary disciples, the only purpose of Dao soldiers is to fight and kill. They usually either train soldiers or act as guards. Compared with disciples, they are even more out of work and are almost pure consumption.
Xu Dao still thought secretly in his heart:
"Regarding Taoist soldiers, the disputes on the islands in the West Sea are just like mortal fights. It is not just about the number of people, but also about the amount of resources. Before the soldiers and horses are moved, the food and grass go first."
He wants to have an army per person, so the consumption is naturally as difficult as supporting an army.
Fortunately, the Tooth General and Scale Soldier are not picky about food and can eat anything with spiritual energy. Otherwise, it will be even more troublesome to raise him. Without the support of one force, the Dao Soldier can only be used as a one-time consumable. .
Thinking about this, Xu Dao sighed a little: "It's all because the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the West Sea is too thin. It's more difficult to raise living things than to raise dead ones."
The "dead objects" he refers to are magical weapons.
Although magic weapons need to be warmed and maintained by spiritual energy at all times, if they lack food and clothing, their spiritual energy will deteriorate and their power will drop. However, only when they are used, magic weapons will consume a lot of spiritual energy.
Compared with Taoist weapons, the daily needs of magical weapons can basically be ignored.
However, magic weapons are mostly used by a single person. When fighting, they consume the user's mana. Unlike Taoist weapons, they increase the user's mana, which is beneficial but not hindering.
Both have their pros and cons, and each has its uses.
If Xu Dao was asked to choose one of the two, he really didn't know how to choose at the same level and could only rely on the situation.
But for the Taoists in Xihai, they don't have this trouble of happiness at all. Because compared to the Taoist weapons, which consume a lot of money, magical weapons are also rare and valuable.
You may occasionally see low-quality Qi-refining instruments, but it is often difficult for Taoist priests to own one of the top-grade Foundation-building instruments, and even those who possess them may find it difficult to use them.
This situation is even more severe than that of the Wu Kingdom.
There is no other reason. The spiritual energy is thin. Taoists and monsters are all in a difficult situation. One is crazy and the other has lost his intelligence. The materials suitable for refining magic weapons are also scarce. The higher the spiritual materials are, the rarer they are.
The ferocious beast materials that can be continuously obtained are unfit for use because they are polluted by evil spirits.
To obtain it, a Taoist must either spend a lot of energy to cultivate it and eliminate the evil spirits bit by bit, or it can only be used to refine evil artifacts, and most of them are supplemented by poisonous smoke and poisonous water, so it is difficult to make them into concrete materials.
After Xu Dao came to Xihai, the Taoist priests he saw also liked to use their monster bodies to fight with people.
This situation is more embarrassing than the mortal tracker not wearing clothes when pulling fiber. It is not that the Taoist priests are reluctant to part with it, but because they don't have it.
Sighing again and again, Xu Dao shook these thoughts out of his head and thought to himself: "But no matter what, the West Sea is a thousand times larger than the world of Wu State, its water is deep and the sea is large, and the total amount of supplies and opportunities are far greater than that of Wu State.
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And he was secretly glad that he had the three secret vaults of Fanxing Island in his hands. Although he did not know for the time being whether the contents could support him in completing the martial arts training stage, it should be enough to protect the tooth generals and scale soldiers he had raised for decades.
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With a determined mind, Xu Dao had even greater expectations for the Secret Treasury of Stars.
So he looked at the general building the foundation teeth for a few times, then waved the flag in his hand and put it into the flag, and also put the foxtail flag into his sleeve.
Swish, the flag of the mountain and sea flag was stuck under his clothes, covering Xu Dao's whole body as much as possible to prevent any accidents.
Immediately, Xu Dao stood up and opened the quiet room, ended his recent retreat practice, and walked towards the Taoist priest Chenmen in the cave.
The other party did not stay in the room, but was waiting in the hall early, sitting cross-legged and meditating Ansheng. Hearing the movement, he immediately opened his eyes.
Xu Dao gave Taoist priest Chenmen a look and cupped his hands.
Taoist priest Chenmen immediately jumped up from the futon and returned the greeting: "I am ready."
Xu Dao replied: "Good!"
He stretched out his hand to invite, and the two of them immediately flashed, stepped out of the cave, and rushed to Dongmianfang City.
The sky was just right, the sun was pouring in, and the market was crowded with people, with Taoist priests of all kinds coming and going, making it extremely lively.
Today is the third day when the sea market is held again. Taoists from the nearby sea area are coming in an endless stream. It seems that the transaction expenses and opportunities are also the days that Xu Tao and the three have agreed to travel.
When they came to a wine room, there was no need to tell the two of them to wait. Zeng Shijian had already been waiting there. The other party sat alone at the wine table by the window, with wine jars the size of a human head set up next to him.
, with a white face, he drank happily one sip after another.
When Xu Dao and the two arrived, Zeng Shijian raised his head and looked at him slightly drunkenly. Immediately, a strong smell of alcohol leaked from his body, and his eyes suddenly became clear: "Here we come."
Zeng Shijian suddenly stood up and patted the wooden box lying across the wine table: "Leave."
The three of them looked at each other, their consciousnesses touched, and they walked together towards Baili Fucha.
After leaving Haishi, the three of them used their own methods and hurried on in the vast sea. After walking towards the north for more than half a day, the sky was dark, and Xu Daofang pretended to take out the "sea chart" from his sleeve.
He held it in his hand and recognized it several times in front of the other two people, but did not let them see clearly.
Xu Dao looked up at the stars in the sky, pinched his fingers, pointed toward the west along the stars, and shouted: "Fellow Taoists, follow me."
In the following time, the three of them did not stop for a quarter of an hour and kept running on the sea. Just because Xu Dao needed to rely on the stars from time to time to correct their position, they would often change the direction of running slightly.
After nearly a month, the three of them finally arrived at the location marked in Xu Dao's memory.
As they approached their destination, they dispersed and checked to see if there was anyone following them or a Taoist priest who accidentally bit them. There was no accident, and Xu Daofang led the two of them to the marked point.
When we arrived at our destination, there was still nothing around, no islands or rocks, just starlight.
Chen Men and Zeng Shijian glanced at Xu Dao, and then unanimously cast their gazes on the empty sea, and used their eyesight to explore underneath.
It is also deep under the sea surface, and there are no reefs or submerged islands.
Xu Dao spoke up at the right time: "My two Taoist friends are right. This cave is located in the sea, but it is not built within the reef."
He didn't explain too much, but called out: "You two, come with me, and we will know when we go down to less than ten feet." Then he jumped from mid-air into the dark sea water.
Chen Men and Zeng Shijian nodded, each cast their water-avoiding spells, and rushed into the sea water just a few steps behind Xu Dao.
After entering the sea surface and descending thirteen feet, Chen Men and Zeng Shijian both looked at each other in surprise: "Is this?"
Undercurrent surges.
The two of them suddenly felt their bodies swaying. Even if they used their magic power, they could barely keep from drifting with the current. But just now they were on the sea, and they didn't see any trace of undercurrents. Such powerful undercurrents are extremely rare in the Western Sea.
Xu Dao walked on the water, his body was rising and falling much more easily than the two of them. He nodded, and his spiritual consciousness came out: "Yes, this place is an eye of the sea. There is a trench thousands of feet deep below, and there is a hole in it.
The water keeps coming in, stirring up the surrounding water flow and causing chaos.”
"But the eye of the sea is not big enough to rise to the surface and cause movement."
After explaining, Xu Dao took the lead and let go of his magic power, allowing himself to be swept up by the surrounding undercurrents and drifting randomly in the sea. He continued to transmit the message: "Please relax and let the undercurrents take you and me to the eye of the sea."
Deep. Otherwise, there is a formation covering it underneath, and you won’t be able to find it if you want to look for it.”
Chen Men, Zeng Shijian, was incompetent, but after taking precautions, he also floated randomly in the sea.
After moving around like this for a long time, the surroundings were dark and the pressure was huge. The three of them just fell into a deep ditch. After a long time, they seemed to have fallen into a natural dark passage, and there was a sudden light in their eyes.
Dots of blue light were in front of them, twinkling like stars, and their breathing was rising and falling. Without much explanation, the other two people knew that they had reached the door, and they cheered up and took the initiative to move closer to the stars.
When they got closer, they discovered that the light spots were a group of spiritual fish swimming tail to tail, with swaying tails, only half the size of a palm, and a transparent belly containing a ball of blue light.
Chen Men and Zeng Shijian both exclaimed: "There is such a spiritual creature in the sea!"
Then an invisible barrier blocked them dozens of steps away from the spirit fish, prohibiting entry and having to break through.