Shi Mu's body shook, he woke up from his coma, and slowly opened his eyes.
The first thing that catches the eye is a shocking picture.
The body of three ferocious pythons, which were more than ten feet in size, was hanging on the sunken and broken mountain wall opposite. The body was shriveled, the necks on the left and right were empty, and the snake head in the middle was already mutilated with flesh and blood. There was a disgusting smell of blood.
Coming to the nose.
The next moment, Shi Mu felt a strong feeling of dizziness. After shaking his head, he felt that his originally heavy head felt a little lighter.
When Shi Mu completely regained consciousness, his heart froze slightly, and he immediately recalled what happened when he was seriously injured and dying.
He suddenly transformed into a giant white ape that resembled the one in his dream, and after a fierce fight, he killed three vicious pythons.
However, at the last moment, White Ape seemed to have been seriously injured.
Thinking of this, he quickly got up from the ground and checked his body, only to find that his whole body was intact, with no signs of damage at all, but all parts of his body were soft and weak, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness.
What shocked him inexplicably was that the true energy in his Dantian and the meridians throughout his body was extremely full, giving him a vague feeling of fullness, as if there were countless ants crawling inside, making him feel indescribably uncomfortable.
In addition, the stomach inside his body is as hot as fire, and streams of true energy are still flowing out of it, flowing towards the eight meridians of the limbs and bones.
Shi Mu was shocked. He vaguely guessed that all this should be related to the white giant ape he transformed into. The hot mass in his body should be the essence and blood of the three ferocious pythons he swallowed at that time.
He couldn't help but think of the scene in his dream where the white giant ape fought with the nine-headed golden dragon and finally devoured its flesh and blood. Even now, he was still extremely shocked.
But unfortunately, I couldn't see clearly the content of the Nine Turns Mysterious Technique, which was of extraordinary origin at first glance.
Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something, sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes and looked inside.
After a while, he frowned and opened his eyes.
The moonlight crystal grains as big as broad beans that had been stored in my mind for a long time were indeed gone.
"Could it be that the transformation into a white ape is related to the moonlight crystal grains that have been accumulated for a long time?"
Shi Mu thought this, but there was no way to verify it at this moment, so he had to give it up for now.
In any case, it was thanks to White Ape that he was able to turn defeat into victory this time. When he thought about the great power he would achieve after his transformation, he felt mixed emotions.
Fortunately, after transforming into a white ape, my strength increased dramatically, and I was able to kill a ferocious beast with mid-level innate strength with my bare hands. What was worrying was that after transforming into a white ape, I couldn't control myself at all, as if my body was no longer my own.
of general.
"By the way, where is Yanluo?"
He vaguely remembered that Yan Luo suddenly appeared in front of him at the last moment and took the fatal blow for him.
What is certain is that he never gave Yan Luo such an order. Under the circumstances at that time, he would not have placed his hopes on a skeleton that only had the early stage of acquired life.
But in the end, it was him who saved him, which made Shi Mu feel quite moved, but also worried about his safety.
Fortunately, the spiritual connection with Yanluo still exists in his consciousness. It seems that nothing major happened to him and he has returned to the realm of the dead.
Shi Mu was puzzled by Yanluo's spontaneous act of protecting his master. He wanted to summon him to find out what happened, but he felt a numbness and discomfort all over his body and couldn't concentrate.
"Oops! I almost forgot about the real thing."
Suddenly Shi Mu slapped his forehead and jumped up.
He went through all kinds of hardships to enter the forbidden area of the warriors and took extraordinary risks to hunt down three ferocious pythons. His ultimate goal was to obtain their beast souls to suppress the curse.
I vaguely remember that it seemed that the white ape pulled out the beast's soul at the last moment and swallowed it.
He felt anxious and quickly closed his eyes again and looked inside.
Finally, he sensed a slowly squirming ball of warm air in the hot ball in his belly, with the faint breath of three pythons coming out of it.
Shi Mu was overjoyed and quickly wanted to take out the beast soul bag and try to suck out the beast soul.
As a result, when he touched his waist, he suddenly discovered that his upper body was naked and without any clothes, and the beast soul bag around his waist was missing.
As soon as he glanced at it, he saw that the meteorite black knife and the original package in his arms were scattered on the surrounding ground. Not far away, in the grass, a blood-red leather bag was lying there softly.
It's the beast soul bag!
Shi Mu was happy at first, and then frowned, with a vague feeling of bad premonition. He quickly walked over in three steps and picked up the beast soul bag. His consciousness swept over it, and his face immediately became extremely ugly.
All the beast souls in his beast soul bag disappeared!
If I remember correctly, there are at least a dozen beast souls in the acquired Dzogchen and later stages, and countless more in the early and middle stages.
He shook his head and threw all thoughts away. The beast souls of the three pythons were the most important to him.
Putting the beast soul bag to his mouth, the true energy in his body was destroyed, the beast soul bag lit up slightly, and an invisible suction force suddenly appeared.
Soon, a ball of black light wrapped in silver light flew out of his body, within which a mini three-headed python could be vaguely seen, still twisting and turning.
Shi Mu increased the injection of true energy, the red light of the beast soul bag became brighter, the suction force increased greatly, and the black ball of silver light suddenly disappeared into the beast soul bag and disappeared.
Seeing this, Shi Mu breathed a sigh of relief, his face finally showed a hint of joy, and he carefully tied the beast soul bag back around his waist.
He picked up the package on the ground, took out a set of clothes and put them on. Then he took the black knife in front of his eyes and looked through it carefully.
He remembered that the meteorite black knife made a soft clicking sound when it was bitten by the three pythons.
Sure enough, he found two small cracks on the back of the sword, but it did not affect its use. It seemed that he could only return to the sect and find Zhao Ping to make it again.
After taking a look at the corpses of three ferocious pythons on the mountain wall not far away, Shi Mu walked over and used a black knife to peel off the python skin with still intact scales. After rolling it up, he wrapped it in a piece of cloth and carried it on his back.
Behind him, he turned around and walked toward the cave occupied by three pythons outside the dense forest.
Soon Shi Mu found an open space where the vicious python once occupied and sat down cross-legged, putting the meteorite black knife aside.
After closing his eyes and reciting the Prajna Celestial Elephant Technique silently once, he immediately took a bone-hardening pill, assumed a posture with five hearts pointing toward the sky, and activated the seventh level Prajna Celestial Elephant Technique.
The fullness and swelling of his Dantian and meridians, as well as the hotness in his abdomen, gave him an urge to practice, so as soon as he entered the cave, he couldn't wait.
What made him overjoyed was that the seventh-level technique had no bottlenecks at all and he was able to practice it directly!
The next step is the eighth level of exercises, which are also done directly in one breath with the still abundant zhenqi in his Dantian veins.
After Shi Mu swallowed a Qingming Fruit and spent a whole day to completely convert the python blood in his belly into true energy, the ninth-level technique was completed as if it came naturally.
At this time, the bone-tempering pills on his body were also consumed.
In just two days, Shi Mu jumped from a mid-term acquired warrior to a late-acquired warrior. The speed was jaw-dropping!
After adding the power of the Three Symbols and receiving the blessing of the Reborn Art, his strength is now close to ten thousand kilograms, which is far beyond that of ordinary early-stage Xiantian warriors.
As long as he takes time and completes the remaining two levels of Prajna and Celestial Phantasms, he can leap into the state of acquired perfection.
Although due to his bloodline, it would be many times more difficult for Shi Mu to advance to the innate level than for ordinary people, he believed that as long as he found a suitable innate technique and supplemented it with three Qingming Fruits, he could still give it a try.
Two days later, deep in the cave.
Shi Mu was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, adjusting his breath, when suddenly, a burst of red light lit up around his waist.
He immediately opened his eyes and took out a shining red jade talisman from his arms. This object was a forbidden talisman given to him along with the beast soul bag before entering the forbidden area.
"It's finally over!"
Shi Mu breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the black knife beside him, and carried the cloth bag wrapped in snake skin on his back.
Immediately, he injected the true energy in his body into the jade talisman.
The red light suddenly emitted, forming a red array half a foot in diameter, wrapping his body.
The next moment, the red light of the magic circle flashed, and Shi Mu's figure disappeared without a trace.
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At the same time, in the valley behind Baima Mountain.
Not far from the circular Stonehenge, eight priests were standing in twos and threes in front of the black altar, looking in the direction of Stonehenge with a somewhat apprehensive look on their faces.
The runes on those rectangular boulders flickered, and large red lights emerged, covering the entire stone formation.
"Time is up!"
On the altar, the high priest stood in front of everyone, still looking frail and old. After saying something with an indifferent expression, he waved his hand like a staff like a dry branch.
Suddenly, the top of the crutch glowed with red light, and a red light shot out from it, disappearing into the center of Stonehenge in a flash.
The red light in the stone formation became violently distorted, and the next moment, the red light seemed to be pouring water, and figures emerged one after another from it.
These people range from tall to short, strong to thin, and through the red light it is vaguely visible that some of them are covered in blood, some are still holding weapons, and some even look like they are panting...
These people are none other than the people who participated in the trial at the Warrior's Gate.
The red light in Stonehenge lasted for a full stick of incense before slowly fading away and stopping, revealing the appearance of everyone inside.
When the priests on the altar saw this scene, instead of being happy, their faces were rather ugly.
There were a hundred people from the eight tribes when they entered the forbidden area, but at this moment, only fifty or sixty people came out. In other words, almost half of them stayed inside forever.
These people are the elites of each tribe, and the death of each one is a great loss to the tribe.
Although there is no explicit order prohibiting warriors from various tribes from fighting to the death in the forbidden area, no matter they are ferocious or ordinary barbarians, they have reached a tacit understanding, that is, they only steal the souls of beasts and do not kill people.
In addition, each tribe is generally familiar with the situation in the forbidden area, so generally speaking, as long as you don't be too greedy for success, your life will not be in danger. In previous trials, the loss rate was only about 20% at most.