Zi Ling said, raising her slightly immature hands, overlapping them in the air, drawing a circle, and forming a complicated formula.
Before the giant goat-headed beast could say anything, a giant purple vortex appeared behind it again, sucking the giant beast into it.
"You're not Ziling, are you?"
Shi Mu looked at Zi Ling's small figure and slowly asked.
"Gee, Zi Ling is my sister, and I am Zi He. I have been helped by fellow Taoist Shi to take care of my sister along the way. As for these people's Qingshan Order, how about we share it equally?" Upon hearing this, Zi Ling turned around leisurely and faced Shi Mu.
He chuckled lightly, his voice was still crisp, but his tone was obviously not that of an eight or nine-year-old child.
"Since Your Excellency is so polite, it would be disrespectful for me to refuse." Shi Mu was startled after hearing this, but he accepted it calmly without any further excuses.
After a moment, he tapped the last Qingshan Token on his own Qingshan Token. As circles of cyan light lit up, the demon core in the token was transferred into the Shi Mu Token.
"Fellow Daoist Zihe, what are your plans next?" Shi Mu put away the Qingshan Order and asked Ziling in front of him.
The other party is obviously one body and two souls, but he can't ask about Zi Ling anymore.
"I can see that Fellow Daoist Shi still retains a lot of strength in today's battle, but if you want to become a disciple of Qinglan, it is still not an easy task. After all, the number of geniuses participating in this trial is far beyond their imagination.
As for me, since I woke up earlier than scheduled, I naturally have some important things to deal with first, so you and I will go our separate ways here." Zi Ling pondered for a moment and said.
Having said that, the woman ignored Shi Mu's reaction and waved her hand with a wave of colorful flying satin, turning into a streak of colorful rays of light and flying towards the depths of the secret realm.
Shi Mu watched Zi Ling's smaller figure disappear in front, couldn't help but touch his nose and gave a bitter smile.
Although he had already seen that Zi Ling was not simple, he did not expect that its true strength could reach such a tyrannical level. Just relying on the words of the heavenly pet, I am afraid that it is enough to dominate most of the ten directions of heaven and earth.
No matter what, I'd better leave this place first.
With this thought in mind, Shi Mu simply flew into the small valley in front of him, found a relatively secluded place, sat down cross-legged, and prepared to rest and recover for a while.
He held a middle-grade spiritual stone in one hand, took out the Qingshan Token with the other hand, and began to explore it with his eyes closed.
Speaking of which, this was his first time investigating the Qingshan Order.
As the spiritual consciousness invaded, circles of ring-shaped light lit up on the surface of the Qingshan Order, fluctuating slightly for a few times, and then disappeared after a moment.
Shi Mu opened his eyes, his expression gradually becoming serious.
According to the demon core he obtained, his total points are now 36,300 points. Among the more than 30,000 people who participated in the trial, he ranks 3,021st. He can barely squeeze in.
He is in the top tenth, but he is still far away from being selected among the 108 winners.
In addition, in just a few days, almost 23,000 people have either died or given up, and have all withdrawn from this trial.
Although he already had some understanding of the cruelty of this trial, he still couldn't help being shocked when he learned the result.
From this, it can be seen that if I do not hunt more high-level monsters in the next twenty days or so, I am afraid it will be difficult to stand out from the remaining 10,000 people.
As soon as he thought of this, he stood up, threw aside the gray spirit stone in his hand, and after figuring out the direction, he walked towards the interior of the secret realm.
…
Half a day later.
Shi Mu was walking towards the distance when suddenly, Cai'er's voice came to his ears:
"Stone, we are almost out of this lost grassland!"
Immediately afterwards, a golden light in front of Shi Mu's eyes quickly enlarged, and he saw an emerald green "high wall" appearing at the end of a vast prairie, stretching for thousands of miles.
This is the picture that Cai'er sent back through visual sharing. Shi Mu estimated that the distance to the forest was about one or two hundred miles.
Because that forest has separated from the outer Shifang Tiandi area and is closer to the center of the secret realm, the monsters inside are more ferocious, so the number of entrants has always been much smaller than that of the outer areas, and most of them are people from big families or powerful forces.
Very little information has been circulated about there.
Shi Mu currently only knows that it is called "Manggu Forest".
Following Cai'er's instructions, Shi Mu determined the direction and hurried towards the Manggu Forest.
However, when passing through a patch of reed grass that was more than two feet high, a figure suddenly jumped out from it silently, heading towards Shi Mu with a terrifying claw light.
It is a strange monster that is about ten feet tall, looks like a mouse, but can walk upright.
Its body is covered with solid brown scales, and the five fingers of its front paws are separated like five daggers, which are very sharp.
"Tu Yuan Yu!" Seeing this, Shi Mu secretly shouted. This is an earth-level monster. It is the seventh one he has encountered in half a day. To him, it is a monster core that has been delivered to his door.
While thinking about it, his steps stopped, his body dropped just right, and he rolled on the spot.
"Whoa!"
Five rays of cold light flashed through, and a piece of reed grass behind him broke into several knots.
Shi Mu stood up, already holding the black meteorite knife in his hand. With a flip of his wrist, the black knife suddenly thrust upwards, and a black blade of light shot out.
"Zheng!"
There was a clear sound of metal collision, and the Earth Elemental Demon was hit by a huge force and flew over ten feet. Shi Mu also took the opportunity to distance himself from it.
"Ouch..."
The Tu Yuan Yu roared angrily, and there was a white mark under its neck. Although it was not actually hurt, it was obviously uncomfortable.
"Whoop!"
The earthy yellow halo on his body lit up, and his two eyes instantly turned blood red. With the sound of "ka ka", his figure actually swelled several times.
Moreover, on its two front paws, the diamond-shaped scales are turned up layer by layer, standing up like barbs. From a distance, they look like two thick wolf-toothed giant sticks.
The Tu Yuanxu waved his arms and hit Shi Mu.
Shi Mu narrowed his eyes slightly, and the aura on his body suddenly surged. The Red Ape Dharma Appearance came out from behind him, and two fire fists hit Tu Yuanxu's arms.
"boom!"
With a loud noise, Tu Yuanxu's arms seemed to have been hit by a huge hammer, the bones were broken inch by inch, the flesh and blood exploded, and the scales attached to them shot out like flying knives.
Shi Mu put away the dharma picture, raised his knife, walked to the dying Tu Yuanxi, and slashed it down with one blow.
…
On the evening of the second day, it was getting dark.
Shi Mu had no intention of stopping and kept walking through the grassland.
At the end of the day, he immersed himself in driving while killing monster beasts. The monster beasts he encountered along the way were not many, but their strength became stronger and stronger, so that his traveling speed was much slower than he originally expected.
"Shitou, ten miles ahead from your current position, there is an open space. That place is a bit strange. Pay attention when you arrive." At this time, Cai'er's voice suddenly came.
"Oh, is there anything unusual?" Shi Mu asked.
"I can't explain clearly. There is no grass growing there. I can only see some earthen lumps. I didn't see any monsters, but there are many bones of monsters around. But after passing through this open space, there is Manggu behind.
It's a forest." Cai'er replied.
"Okay, Cai'er, you go to the forest and wait for me. I'll be there later." Shi Mu thought for a moment and said.
After a while, Shi Mu arrived at the open space.
The scene in front of me was just as Cai'er described. There was no grass growing on the ground, and there were only eight or nine huge oval-shaped soil bags standing there. There were more than ten white bones of high-level monsters scattered beside them. It looked like a cemetery.
Among the dozen or so white bones on the periphery of the soil bag, some have dried up and broken, while others still have some bright red color on them. They look like they have just died, but their flesh has been gnawed clean by some monster beast.
Shi Mu took one look, raised his eyebrows, and walked in with a black knife in hand.
…
After a while, there was a loud rumbling sound in the sky above this area!
A red fire cloud of twenty to thirty feet in size appeared in mid-air. There was a faint sound of thunder in the fire cloud, and red light flashed continuously.
The open space below was now occupied by densely packed dark green ants, leaving only a few feet of open space in the middle where dozens of ant corpses were piled up.
Shi Mu was standing in this open space, with red flames rolling around his body, and his eyes slowly swept around.
When he was about to cross the open space just now, the surrounding soil suddenly surged, and then hundreds of green ant monsters about the size of a foot poured out densely, surrounding him tightly.
This kind of ant monster has long and thick limbs, two thick and long tentacles like soft whips, half hanging in front of the forehead, mouthparts like a saw, and huge eyes like lamps. They all stare at Shi Mu greedily, ready to rush forward and kill him at any time.
He was tearing it apart, but he was a little afraid of the red flames rolling around Shi Mu.
"fall!"
Shi Mu sneered, and suddenly raised one hand. Behind his head, a silver crescent moon glowed, and a ray of silver light shot out and merged into the fire cloud in mid-air.
The red fire cloud immediately seemed to be boiling, surging violently. The red light inside it kept flashing, and red fireballs the size of millstones flew out from the red cloud, bombarding them like falling meteors like crazy.
Rumble!
Rain of fire poured down from the sky, flooding the area in an instant, and roars like rolling thunder surged out, constantly echoing throughout the fields.
Everywhere those fireballs fell, they crushed several green ants to pieces and collapsed together with the ground.
However, in a moment, the area around Shi Mu turned into a deep pit. Only the place where he stood was not bombarded, like a solitary peak standing in the center.
Shi Mu looked at the remains of hundreds of green ant beasts in the pit, especially the corpses on the ground floor. He couldn't help but smile and jumped down on his toes.