In late autumn, the temperature is already quite cold.
A gust of cold wind blew by, making him shiver slightly, and goosebumps appeared on his skin.
After refining the marrow, Chen Li felt that his whole body was completely new. His skin felt like a baby just delivered from a warm womb, becoming 'delicate' and 'sensitive'
This is not a weakening.
Instead, his body has become more sensitive and can receive more subtle information. A slight chill will make his body keenly feel it and react spontaneously.
He felt happy and checked the game panel.
"Basic Sword Master: 0/3200"
In addition, life expectancy has also increased by two years, reaching 142 years.
"I don't know how long it will take to reach the top of my master level training!" he thought to himself.
After taking one look, he turned off the game panel, put away his sword, and started to return.
It's a little awkward to walk. I'm used to a 'high-latency' body. Faced with this kind of 'low-latency', I can't get used to it in a short time.
My feet are always a little uncoordinated when I walk. Often my back feet start to move forward impatiently before my front feet are firmly planted on the ground. Even the natural swing of my arms when I walk is no longer natural.
If it were not for a high level of physical control, an ordinary person would probably have stumbled a lot.
Chen Li walked slowly along the way, while adapting to this strange body, while carefully experiencing this wonderful feeling after refining the marrow.
After the fire burned, the forest was scorched black, and some charred wooden piles were still emitting thick green smoke. Sparks flickered and crackled in the dark night, and they could ignite again at any time.
What he sees with his eyes, what he hears with his ears, what he smells with his nose, what he feels on his skin... no matter how ordinary the scenery is, it all becomes vivid in his eyes at this moment.
Everything is extremely new and wonderful.
Until returning to the temporary cabin.
…
night.
afterwards!
afterwards!
afterwards!
Chen Li turned over and lay on the bed, staring blankly at the beams above his head.
"What's wrong? It's nothing!" Zhou Hong raised her arms and pushed Chen Li in a funny way: "Maybe I'm too tired, hehe!"
How tired is this?
"It'll be fine after a while. I'll make you look good then." Chen Li said in a muffled voice.
Zhou Hong coaxed like a child: "I know you are powerful."
"Alas!" Chen Li felt annoyed: "Go to bed and have to get up early tomorrow."
I didn't expect that marrow refining would have such drawbacks.
My body is too sensitive.
Don’t know when you will adapt?
When Chen Lili came here, he sighed again.
…
In the following days, as Chen Li refined every day, his body became more and more sensitive.
He even had a vague sense of the objects around him. There was no image or light, but he seemed to have a strong intuition that allowed him to know what was around him and to understand the general shape and even texture.
For example, he could feel how many people there were within a few meters, and clearly knew whether they were men or women. He could feel a small insect seeming to be constantly wriggling in the ground a foot deep under his feet.
In the end, it was proved that this ‘super intuition’ was never wrong.
Chen Li suspected that this was Ji Ji's spiritual consciousness.
Basic swordsmanship is not only a body-refining art, but also has the effect of conscious tempering. From consciously refining the flesh, refining the internal organs, to now refining the marrow, in addition to the brain, the body has been almost completely refined.
His soul consciousness has long been trained to be extremely powerful, far beyond that of ordinary ninth-level Qi practitioners.
It took Chen Li half a month to get used to and adapt to this body again.
…
"Is this a tree demon?" Zhou Hong said in surprise.
"It's so big!" Zhang Shuniang said.
A towering tree in the distance was shaking violently, as if it wanted to escape before the flames burned here.
This giant tree is more than 20 meters thick according to visual inspection. The tree body is as black as iron and full of cracks. It has an ancient and vast atmosphere. It is like a giant pillar supporting the sky. It seems to be connected to the sky and the earth, hanging down.
The huge umbrella canopy covers the space for miles around.
At this moment, the twisted tree roots like angry dragons are rising from the ground at an extremely slow speed, and the whole land is rolling. Even if the crowd is ten miles away from the giant tree, they still feel
The ground was shaken for a while.
This is the first time Chen Li has seen a plant turn into a monster.
It's extremely shocking and at the same time, it feels a little weak.
It's shocking because both its size and strength are incredible. A slight movement can make the earth shake. Its weakness is the obvious and fatal weakness of this tree demon. It is not only afraid of fire, but also moves very slowly.
Looking at this posture, there is no way to avoid the fate of being burned to death.
"There are a lot of bugs up there," Chen Li said.
As the line of fire gradually approached, countless small dots were seen flying out from the huge tree demon, densely packed and countless, looking like a gray cloud flying up.
Immediately afterwards, these small dots spread over the line of fire and rushed this way.
The buzzing sound gradually began to sound. It was barely audible at first, but soon became eardrum-piercing, and it seemed as if there was only one sound left in the whole world.
The female cultivator surnamed Bai noticed something was wrong and shouted loudly: "Be careful, this is a stinging gray wasp, please be careful."
Only then did the crowd react, and they immediately became panicked, and hurriedly threw themselves into defense.
Chen Li and others also quickly took pictures of themselves with golden amulets.
The gray bees, like smoke clouds, soon got closer and closer, gradually filling the world, covering half of the sky, and even the light dimmed.
"Hiss! Too many!" Chen Li gasped.
The female cultivator surnamed Bai quickly played a flame talisman, and the talisman instantly turned into a flame in mid-air, clearing a small area in an instant. It was unknown how many stinger gray wasps were killed, but the empty space was quickly filled again: "Use the range
attack!"
only……
This female cultivator surnamed Bai is obviously used to cultivating in the sect Qing Dynasty. She lacks understanding of non-commercial cultivators and has a high opinion of non-commercial cultivators.
For most casual cultivators, a magical weapon for self-defense and a few self-defense talismans are already standard equipment. There are so many various attack methods, except for a few people who have special magical weapons and have their own range.
In addition to harming the others, they can only use magic weapons to make blind gestures.
"Bang bang bang bang..."
Finally, the poisonous stings shot out like raindrops, hitting the golden body shield and then being bounced away by the golden body shield.
These stinging gray wasps are only about the size of a thumb, and the stings fired by them are not very powerful. Not to mention the golden light body shield, even the ordinary body shield is enough to defend against it. But there are too many of them.
Densely packed.
"Stand behind me." Chen Li said to Zhou Hong and Zhang Shuniang.
"Oh! Uncle, be careful." Zhang Shuniang insisted.
Chen Li nodded. At this time, he didn't care about hiding his clumsiness and began to use the ice technique.
The first level of ice spell is level seven.
Although Ice Technique is rarely practiced, it does have mastery levels.
After a while.
He pointed.
A pale ice ray shot out from the finger in an instant. After hitting a gray bee queen, it exploded into an extremely cold mist of light and spread around. Countless gray bees were frozen instantly and rustled down.
Chen Li cast spells continuously and soon cleared a large area.
Upon seeing this, many smart casual cultivators nearby moved closer to Chen Li.
But the gray bees kept going, one after another, and for a moment there was a sense of infinity.
Even Chen Li became a little anxious.
He took out a bottle of Qi-nourishing pills and swallowed a few pills to restore his spiritual power.
"ah!"
Not long after, screams started to sound one after another.
One after another, the protective shields of the casual cultivators were broken. The next moment, their bodies were densely covered with countless poisonous stings. After struggling for a few times, they foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground. They were obviously no longer alive.
"Don't panic!" The female cultivator surnamed Bai shouted coldly, stopping the fighting spirit of those who were weak-minded and tending to collapse. Seeing the casualties increasing, she couldn't care less at this time: "Everyone cover their ears.
.”
As soon as she finished speaking, she threw out the bell magic weapon. The magic weapon swelled up in the wind and turned into a big bell, standing in the air.
"when!"
…
"when!"
…
"when!"
…
In mid-air, circles like real ripples spread out. Wherever they passed, all the gray bees were instantly smashed to pieces, and a large area was cleared.
At the same time, the crowd was also shaken by the sound wave, and some even fainted. Only a few people such as Chen Li could barely stand. This also relied on the golden amulet's good ability to control the sound wave.
defense.
"What level of magic weapon is this? It's so powerful." Chen Li was secretly shocked.
Next, the bee swarm no longer regained the momentum of the previous dark clouds, and became much sparser. After another moment, it finally completely retreated.
"Are you okay?" Chen Li asked Zhou Hong.
"I'm just a little dizzy and nauseous. I'll be fine if I take it slow."
"Where's Shuniang!" Chen Li looked at Zhang Shuniang. She was even weaker, and her face was as pale as paper, without any blood. It was obvious that she was seriously injured by the sound wave just now.
"I..." Zhang Shuniang said weakly. Before she could finish speaking, she retched repeatedly.
Zhang Yan quickly stepped forward to support his daughter, took out the kettle, and said distressedly: "Drink some water!"
"Dad, I...it's okay!"
When Chen Li saw that the few people were basically fine, he felt relieved and looked around.
Wherever you look, you can see corpses everywhere. A quick count reveals that there are more than ten people. Counting the casualties that have occurred in the past two months, the mortality rate this time has exceeded 10%.
"Alas, human life is like a piece of grass!" Chen Li sighed secretly.
People in the Huanzhen Sect don't care about the death of casual cultivators, not even the casual cultivators themselves. They are just glad that it is others who die, not themselves. They have long been accustomed to the death around them.
Next, these corpses were hastily buried after their relics were confiscated by the people who returned to the Zhen sect, leaving behind crude graves.
Although those relics from the Zhen sect will be returned to the family members of the deceased, most of the casual cultivators are alone. One person has enough to eat and the whole family has no worries, so how can they find any family members.
The tree demon in the distance struggled in the fire for several hours, and finally became silent.
The female cultivator surnamed Bai stepped forward, looked at it for a while, and then took out a small green sword. She was so powerful that she cut off the big tree in a few strokes.
As soon as the tree fell, she raised her palms, gathered her magic power, and struck and planed at the tree stump continuously, making a roaring sound and exploding sawdust. She also used magic weapons in the process, with no dignity at all, and she worked for a long time.
Only then did he finally take out a green crystal from the tree stump, which was glowing faintly.
Looking at the things in his hands, a smile appeared on his usually indifferent face.
"It must be a good thing!" Zhang Yan whispered.
"You don't need to tell me, I know it!" Chen Li was speechless.
"This is a tree heart, similar to the demon pill. This is a second-level tree demon." Zhou Hong said aside. She used to be an adventurer and knew more about this aspect: "Because the tree heart is rare and rare, it is said that the price is
Several times the amount of demon elixir!"
"Hiss!" Zhang Yan took a breath of cold air: "That's not worth hundreds of middle-grade spiritual stones. Alas, we pity the casual cultivators. Not only do we contribute effort, money, but also our lives!"
In the past two months, he had gained nothing except a few elixir plants and a few smoked animal skins, and the losses were much higher. He only used five amulets and one golden amulet.
, the instrument is also slightly worn.
This trip was completely beyond our means.
"Just say less!" Chen Li was speechless.
"What is there to say? She is far away from here!" Zhang Yan had already healed his scar and forgot about the pain. He whispered disapprovingly: "Who can bear such a corvee once a year in the future?"
"This is impossible!" Chen Li thought for a while.
With this casualty ratio.
Even if casual cultivators are used as consumables, they are not consumed in this way.
"Just keep an eye on it, there will definitely be more next year. Zhenzong has just moved here, so there are a lot of things to do." Zhang Yan said, sighing deeply.
"I heard that Huanzhen Sect has a long-standing practice regarding corvee service!" A casual cultivator nearby joined in and said, "You only have to do corvee service for half a month every year. If you don't have it that year, it will be added to the next year.
Sometimes I would do corvee service only once every few years."
"Then why should I serve for three months as soon as I serve?" Zhang Yan looked at the visitor and asked.
"Who told us we were from the Immortality Realm before?"
After introducing himself, the casual cultivator's surname was Zhao Changer. Seeing how powerful Chen Li had shown earlier, he thought of coming over to make some friends.
He is short in stature, with a hunched back, low eyebrows and drooping eyes. He wears a green robe. When he speaks, his face always shows a fawning smile that has been beaten by society.
In fact, his cultivation is not weak.
After asking about it, I found out that it was already in the late stage of Qi training, but the specific levels were not revealed.
Zhao Changer looked at Zhang Yan, and the more he looked at him, the more familiar he felt: "Have we met before somewhere? Why do I feel that you are kind-hearted?"
Zhang Yan's face turned red and he hesitated: "Well... I have been selling talismans at a stall in the market. Maybe fellow Taoists have seen me."
"That's not right!" Zhao Changer stared at Zhang Yan for a while, slapped his thigh fiercely, and said in a loud voice: "I asked you why you are so kind-hearted, aren't you the one..."
Chen Li saw that Zhang Yan couldn't bear to lose face, so he quickly interrupted: "Okay, fellow Taoist, it's okay if you know, don't mention it."
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Don't be offended, fellow Daoist Zhang, look at my bad mouth, don't take it to heart." Zhao Changer quickly said with a smile.
This person was really annoying. Zhang Yan felt depressed and forced a smile: "No wonder, no wonder. How can I take this little thing to heart? In fact, it doesn't matter if I say it out loud, haha!"
"That's good, that's good. To be honest, Taoist fellow Taoist, you were really bold at that time. You dared to criticize the foundation-building monks. I'm going to sweat for you." Zhao Changer said with excitement on his face.
Zhang Yan looked embarrassed and fidgeted when he heard this. He neither laughed nor scolded.
This guy is a bit stupid! Chen Li thought to himself.