"This thing should have some background, but it's a pity that it's damaged. Let's talk about it later." Shi Mu muttered to himself with some pity, carefully folded the green cloak and put it into the dust ring, and looked at the corpse again.
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This time, his expression changed slightly.
It was covered by a cloak just now, so he didn't pay attention. Now when he looked closely, he saw that the corpse was holding a transparent crystal the size of a baby's fist, with a dark red color throughout.
Shi Mu made a move with one hand, and the crystal flew into his hand.
The crystal is in the shape of a cone, with some strange patterns engraved on it. Several trembling red lines can be seen in the center of the crystal moving up and down, like several red lightning bolts, and it does not look like a mortal thing.
However, this crystal did not emit any spiritual energy or mana fluctuations, just like an ordinary red crystal.
Shi Mu turned the crystal over and looked at it carefully for a while, then his eyes narrowed slightly.
On the straight top surface of the cone, an ancient Chinese character "三" is engraved, like a number.
He frowned slightly, checked it several times, and tried to inject mana energy into it, but found nothing special about the cone crystal.
But seeing as this corpse would hold this object tightly in its hands until death, it must be an important thing.
Shi Mu shook his head and didn't think much about it. He simply put away the cone crystal and planned to figure it out slowly when he had time.
Apart from the cloak and the crystal, there was nothing else of note on the corpse.
He looked at the corpse, sighed softly, and planned to bury it on the spot as compensation for taking away the two things on it.
Shi Mu waved his sleeve, and a ray of red light flew out, wrapped around the corpse, and tried to lift it up.
However, the corpse only shook slightly and was not lifted up.
There was a hint of surprise on Shi Mu's face. The corpse looked ordinary in appearance, but now it seemed that it weighed almost four to five hundred kilograms.
He added some more force and finally lifted the body up again.
Shi Mu frowned and looked at the corpse again. After a moment, his expression became serious.
His attention was attracted by the green cloak and dark red crystal before, but he didn't notice anything unusual about the corpse!
Each bone of this corpse appears to be bone white, but upon closer inspection, the bones are very delicate, with a faint metallic sheen.
His fingers tapped lightly on the bones, making a "dong-dong" sound, as if they were beating on a steel plate.
Shi Mu's eyes flickered, and with a flick of his finger, a ray of red light flew out from his fingers, turning into a light blade and hitting a thigh bone.
There was a muffled "clang" sound, and the red light blade shattered into pieces, but the surface of the thigh bone was not damaged at all, not even a mark was left.
Shi Mu's expression changed slightly. Although he had just struck casually, an ordinary iron rod could cut it off, but it was unable to leave a mark on the skeleton.
He pondered for a moment and immediately put the entire skeleton into the storage ring.
This corpse is so strange, maybe something can be found from it.
In the following time, Shi Mu walked around the underground cave, his eyes gradually brightening.
It is deep underground and the space is of a moderate size, making it a suitable place to build a fire room.
In the following time, he cleaned up the corpses of the vine demons in the underground cave and then returned to the surface.
"Stone, why did it take you so long to come up? I thought something happened to you down there, and I almost went down to look for you!" As soon as he left the house, Cai'er immediately fluttered her wings and flew over.
"Oh, aren't you afraid of ghosts down there?" Shi Mu said with a slight curl of the corners of his mouth.
"Well... I thought about it, no matter how powerful this ghost is, I can't beat it, so I can't run away... After all, I have wings to fly. By the way, can ghosts fly?" Cai'er's expression changed when she heard the ghost.
Slightly panicked and somewhat incoherent.
Shi Mu smiled, and immediately stopped teasing the parrot, and briefly talked about what happened below.
"It turns out there is a flower demon hiding down there. I thought there really was a ghost. It really scared me to death." Cai'er breathed a sigh of relief and patted her chest with one wing.
"This place is remote, and generally people with some strength and status will not come here. However, this flower demon has harmed many people, and its strength has improved quite quickly. If no one takes care of it, it is estimated that in another thirty or fifty years, this flower demon may
They can all advance to the earth level." Shi Mu said.
"Quack, let it offend anyone. It offends the stone. It's over now!" Cai'er said.
"The environment here is not bad, and there is an underground cave as a fire room, so there is no need to worry about being noticed," Shi Mu said.
Cai'er nodded repeatedly.
"Now that the place has been chosen, we have to purchase the Fire Gang Stone and exchange the Fire Spirit Stone." Shi Mu said, looking across the courtyard and into the distance.
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In the next nearly half a month, Shi Mu traveled around Rikang City, buying fire stones everywhere, and exchanged other attribute spiritual stones on his body for fire attribute spiritual stones.
The fire attribute spiritual stone is not bad. After all, it is one of the five element spiritual stones. It costs a little handling fee, but it can be exchanged for a lot. The fire stone is not a particularly rare thing, but after all, the required amount is not small, plus
Now that the city is relatively closed, it took a lot of effort to acquire it.
In the end, after some dealings with Tianwu Baoxuan and spending 30% more spiritual stones than the market price, the required amount of Huogang Stones was gathered.
As a result, the tens of thousands of spiritual stones he originally had on his body were running out.
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Outside the city, some monsters were still wandering around under Ao Kui's instructions, causing panic in Rikang City all day long.
Naturally, Shi Mu was too lazy to pay attention to this. He was now stepping up his efforts to arrange the Yinghuo Formation.
In the deepest cave of the underground cave, the ground and walls are densely covered with many dark red stones, which are all Huogang stones.
These fire stones decorated the entire cave in a bright red color, vaguely forming a huge cage that shrouded the entire world in the cave.
On the surface of these fire-gang stones, circles of red lines are painted and carved, forming mysterious patterns.
In the center of the cave is a circular magic circle. In each corner of the magic circle, there are hundreds of fire-attribute spiritual stones.
Shi Mu sat cross-legged in the center of the formation and placed a medium-grade fire attribute spirit stone on the ground.
Buzzing…
A burst of dazzling red light emerged from the magic circle on the ground from the inside to the outside, and it quickly followed all the lines in the cave and then dissipated.
Shi Mu's face showed a hint of joy, the Yinghuo Formation was finally successfully set up.
"This formation is not difficult at all. Even a mediocre formation master like you can complete it by yourself. However, the design of this formation is a bit rough and it actually costs so many spiritual stones. These spiritual stones are enough for me.
It's been a long time." Cai'er stood on a big rock nearby and said.
"Cai'er, how about you design a magic circle to save spiritual stones, and the saved spiritual stones belong to you?" Shi Mu said.
"Haha, I'm just talking, don't take it seriously, Shitou!" Cai'er said angrily.
Shi Mu glared at Cai'er angrily, took a deep breath, waved his hand and hit a magic spell, which fell to the ground.
There was a "buzzing" sound, and the Yinghuo Array immediately began to operate.
The fire-attributed spiritual stones on the ground bloomed with red light, causing the entire underground space to be enveloped in a layer of red light.
The underground space seemed to be instantly transferred to a scorching volcano, and the air was filled with rich fire-attribute aura.
Compared with the previous natural Huoling Mountains, there are still some differences, but not too big.
However, the spiritual energy in the fire attribute spiritual stones on the ground is also slowly weakening. According to this trend, these spiritual stones in the magic circle can only maintain the magic circle for four or five days.
Shi Mu gave a bitter smile and glanced at the ring on his hand. Judging from this speed, the fire attribute spiritual stones he prepared were only enough to replace them four or five times. Next, he needed to find a way to earn some spiritual stones.
Stone will do.
He took a deep breath, closed his eyes and started to chant the Red Ape Fire Sutra.
Bathed in the rich fire-attribute energy, wisps of hot air flowed into his body and penetrated into his meridians.
Shi Mu took out an ordinary Huoyuan Peach Fruit and drank it. The red light around him gathered, and his body was gradually covered with a layer of red clouds.
Time passed little by little, and more than ten days passed like this.
In the center of the cave formation, Shi Mu suddenly opened his eyes. At this time, the true energy in his body had reached its peak.
He turned over his hand and took out the Huoyuan Peach King, pondered for a moment, and swallowed it in several mouthfuls.
After taking the Tao King into his stomach, Shi Mu suddenly felt a wave of heat rolling around his Dantian, and his whole body was quickly covered with a layer of red and purple light.
Wave after wave of true energy began to surge in the meridians very quickly, and became more and more violent, like a furious wave coming in waves.
He felt as if the meridians in his body were being cut with a knife, and there were bursts of severe pain.
Shi Mu took a deep breath, barely managed to calm down the qi and blood in his body, and activated the qi palace in his body according to the ninth level of the Red Ape Fire Sutra.
Within a moment, Shi Mu felt the zhenqi in his dantian growing rapidly, and waves of abundant zhenqi surged out of his dantian like torrents and rushed into his limbs and bones.
As time goes by, the red light in the Yinghuo Formation also flickers on and off.
Shi Mu was sweating like rain, and the skin on his body turned red and purple. The meridians and Dantian in his body were filled with extremely rich zhenqi, which had almost reached a zero level, as if it would burst at any time.
He suddenly opened his eyes, and the red and purple light on his body was so strong that it enveloped his whole body.
After a while, Shi Mu let out a long and hearty roar, which echoed deep underground.
The surrounding magic circle seemed to be affected, and the light shone brightly.
Countless red rays of light poured into Shi Mu's body like a hundred rivers of water, and the pressure emanating from Shi Mu's body continued to increase.
Cai'er stood nearby, and a powerful pressure roared over, knocking it away and letting out a strange scream.
A layer of black light emerged from the top of the underground cave, blocking the fluctuations of spiritual power emitted by Shi Mu.
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This process lasted for three days and three nights, and then the red light in the array slowly dimmed, revealing the figure of Shi Mu inside.
At this moment, Shi Mu looked as if he had just been fished out of the water. He was soaked to the skin, but his face was full of excitement.
The Red Ape Fire Sutra has finally broken through the eighth level and entered the ninth level.
In the Qi Palace within Shi Mu's body at this moment, the Qi was so abundant and dense that it almost condensed into a liquid. Compared with before, it was almost twice as powerful.
This means that he has officially entered the late stage of Xiantian.