In mid-air, five black griffons were spreading their wings and hovering in the wind.
Each of these griffins is two to three feet in size. The body and sharp claws of the two hind legs are like lions, but the head, front paws and wings are like eagles. The black feathers are as thick and dense as if they were made of iron. , the sharp eyes were slightly glowing red.
What is particularly special is that each griffon wears a black helmet on its head, with a fist-sized, blood-red crystal inlaid in the middle of the helmet.
The crystal is extremely smooth, emitting a faint blood light, like a mirror, reflecting everything below it.
The auras emitted by these five griffins have reached the innate level. Their eyes are clear, different from ordinary monsters, and they obviously have high intelligence.
At this moment, the crystal between the helmet of the largest griffon suddenly flashed a flash of blood. As if it had received some order, the griffin opened its mouth and let out a hoarse and unpleasant cry.
Several other griffons around heard the sound and responded with hisses.
After communicating for a moment, the five griffons dispersed and flew towards different places. One of the black-winged griffons happened to pass over the mountain peak where Shi Mu was located.
When Shi Mu saw this, his face was overjoyed, and he waved his hand and took out the Sky-Breaking Bow.
There was a flash of blue light, and the sky-breaking bow expanded to the size of half a man.
He turned over his hand and took out three wind-chasing arrows, placed them on the bowstring, and at the same time muttered something in his mouth, three white chains emerged and wrapped around the wind-chasing arrows.
In mid-air, the black-winged gryphon was suddenly startled. The monster's instinct made it feel a little trembling, as if it was being stared at by something.
It was about to explore its surroundings when, at this moment, a colorful figure appeared nearby and flew over from the side at a very fast speed.
The griffon looked over and saw that it was a colorful parrot with two white and red feathers on its head, which was particularly eye-catching.
"Quack, big guy, how dare you lowly servants of the Demon Sect wander around our sacred Xixia Kingdom openly. I am the noble guardian bird of the Ming Yue Sect. Today, I am here to destroy you on behalf of the Lord of the Underworld!" The parrot issued a series of words. Yell.
Finally, a burst of red light flashed across the parrot's body, and it opened its mouth, spitting out a small ball of flame and hitting the black-winged griffon.
Although the black-winged griffon possesses some intelligence, it has not yet reached the level of a human being and does not seem to understand the meaning of the parrot's words.
It glanced at Cai'er with some contempt. The flame was so weak that it might not even be able to light a fire.
The black-winged griffon waved its wings, and a strong wind swept out, immediately extinguishing the little flame, and at the same time swept the noisy parrot away.
At this moment, a sharp whistle came, tearing the air apart.
Three cyan arrows flew towards him in the shape of a Zigzag. They were extremely fast, like three cyan lightning bolts. They reached several feet in front of him in the blink of an eye. The targets were clearly the wings and chest of the griffon.
Below the arrow, a figure was held up by white clouds and was approaching quickly.
The black-winged griffon was startled. It suddenly waved its wings and flexibly turned its body in one direction in mid-air. It changed from galloping forward to diving. Three cyan arrows immediately flew past its body, but all of them failed.
In the white cloud below, the corners of Shi Mu's mouth curved and he pointed with one hand.
At the moment when the arrow and the griffon passed by, three white chains flew out from the arrow, as if controlled by someone, and wrapped around the black-winged griffin with great flexibility.
The black-winged griffon screamed in surprise, and the black light on its body shone brightly, condensing into a black protective light curtain on its body surface.
Although the three white chains squirmed and tightened, they were temporarily blocked by the black light curtain.
But even so, the black-winged griffon's flight was greatly affected, and its body slid downwards.
Whoosh whoosh!
Seven or eight fireballs the size of a washbasin appeared next to Shi Mu, spinning towards the black-winged griffon, letting out a roar that cut through the air.
At the same time, Shi Mu once again bent his bow and drew an arrow.
Three cyan arrows flew, streaking three cyan traces in the air, aiming directly at the black-winged gryphon.
The black-winged griffon was shocked. At this moment, it couldn't even fly, let alone dodge.
It opened its mouth wide and spit out a pillar of hot black flames, which collided with seven or eight fireballs.
There was a rumble, and the fireball turned into billowing waves of fire and dissipated, but the black fire pillar finally dissipated.
Three cyan arrows flew like meteors and hit the black protective light curtain on the gryphon.
Snap! The black light curtain shattered!
The white chain tightened instantly, binding one of the griffon's wings tightly.
Without its wings to balance its body, the griffon's body fell down like a stone.
Shi Mu's face was filled with joy, and with a wave of one hand, a ray of golden light shot out, intersecting with the falling body of the black-winged griffon.
The blood suddenly appears!
The huge head of the black-winged griffon flew out of the body.
Shi Mu waved his hand to recall the money sword, and his body fell downwards.
quack!
Not far away in the sky, several other black-winged griffons also noticed the situation here. Under the leadership of the leading griffon, they immediately swooped over.
However, because Shi Mu's entire hunting process was as smooth as clouds and water, and the battle was over in just three or four breaths, no matter how fast these black-winged griffins returned to help, it was already too late.
Several gryphons hovered in the air for a while, but did not swoop down to attack Shi Mu.
Shi Mu landed on the ground, glanced at the gryphons in the air, smiled, turned around and walked towards the gryphon corpses not far away.
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Late at night two days later.
Dongcheng District, Quyang City, Xikuang Street, Tianwu Weapon Shop.
"Haha, I didn't expect that Fellow Daoist Mu was so capable that he managed to get a whole black-winged griffon so quickly." In a side hall, Xu Luzi looked at Shi Mu in front of him and said with a smile.
"I'll leave the rest to Master Xu. I'll pick it up on time in ten days." Shi Mu stood up and said with his hands in hand.
…
Half an hour later, in a certain room of the post house.
Shi Mu looked at the pile of messy items in the room, touched his chin, and showed a thoughtful look on his face.
These things are all in the storage ring.
Most of them here are various ores and materials from some monster beasts. They are basically the relics of the fat Taoist people of the Tongtian Sect.
After paying the refining fee for the meteorite sword and stick, he only had more than a thousand spirit stones on him, so he was going to sort out the things in his hands and exchange all the unused items for spirit stones.
At this moment, a burst of black smoke appeared out of thin air in the room, and Yanluo's figure emerged.
As before, the whole body is covered in white armor, and the head is covered by a mask. Except for the two purple soul fires in the eyes, the rest of the body is sealed.
Shi Mu was slightly startled when he saw this. Before he could speak, Yan Luo suddenly raised one hand and handed over a green flower in his hand. At the same time, a sweet girl's voice also sounded in Shi Mu's mind:
"Lend me your stick."
"That stick is not with me now. I have sent it to the blacksmith for refinement. It will take about ten days to get it. How about you come and get it then?" Shi Mu looked at the green flower and thought in his heart
Overjoyed, he immediately explained to Yanluo with his spiritual consciousness.
"Okay." Yanluo said.
"Can you give me this flower first?" Shi Mu asked tentatively.
"Okay." Yanluo said with a flash of soul fire in his eyes.
Just as Shi Mu reached out to take the green flower, Yan Luo seemed to have discovered something. He flashed and appeared next to a pile of messy items.
It leaned down and directly picked up a blood-colored token that was slightly glowing with blood. It was the Ming Yue Token of the Deacon Quan of Pi City at that time.
"Lend me this thing..." Yanluo looked at the token repeatedly and suddenly said to Shi Mu through his spiritual mind.
"It's okay to give it to you." Before Yanluo could finish speaking, Shi Mu replied directly through his spiritual thoughts.
Yan Luo's eyes flashed with soul fire. He glanced at Shi Mu and said nothing. With a flash of gray energy on his hand, the blood token was put into the space ring.
The next moment, black smoke filled its body and disappeared directly into the void.
Shi Mu looked at the remaining wisps of black smoke that gradually dissipated in the air and shook his head.
For some unknown reason, he felt nostalgic for the nights when he had Yan Luo practice with him on the way back to the Black Demon Sect, as well as those experiences when he pulled Yan Luo to share his thoughts in the Black Demon Sect's cave.
At that time, although Yanluo had just begun to develop his spiritual wisdom and could just express the simplest meaning, he was much closer to himself than he is now.
According to what he has learned in the past few days about the way to cultivate the pets of Mingyue Sect soul masters, it will take several years, or even more than ten years, for an undead creature to advance to even a small realm.
, but Yanluo has jumped from a little skeleton with only the strength of a martial artist to where he is today in less than ten years. The speed has reached an incredible level.
The key is that from the beginning to the present, I have never taken the initiative to care about Yan Luo's cultivation. Yan Luo's current strength should be entirely due to himself.
Although Shi Mu was very curious, he knew Yanluo would never tell him.
"I don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse to allow its strength to increase like this." Shi Mu muttered to himself with some self-deprecation.
He put aside this idea for the time being, first put the green flowers in his hands into the dust ring, and then began to reclassify and organize the things in the house.
Soon, he put the items he was going to sell into the golden ring, while other things he thought were useful were put into the dust ring.
After doing all this, Shi Mu returned to the wooden bed, sat cross-legged, and took out the green flower again.
He carefully picked off a petal, which immediately shattered into a cold green mist, wrapped up his right hand, and slowly penetrated into his body...
Half an hour later, a strong wave of mana surged out of Shi Mu's body, forming an invisible whirlpool of mana around him.
After a moment, the whirlpool of mana sank into his body like a whale sucking water, and he opened his eyes with joy on his face.
After absorbing the entire green flower, the mana in his body increased a lot again, and Yun Shen Shu finally succeeded in breaking through the twelfth level and entering the thirteenth level.
In the cloud of consciousness in his mind, the third star finally lit up.