The world of cultivation, the secret realm of Xiaokunyuan.
There are countless secret realms with different degrees of danger in the world of cultivation, and most secret realms are opened with a fixed pattern, every five, ten, or hundred years.
The Xiaokunyuan Secret Realm is the one with the lowest risk factor in the world of cultivation. The highest level of monsters in it is only level four, and the spiritual grasses are also common at the lowest level. Moreover, because the Secret Realm is opened in a short period, it is most suitable for the trials of disciples in the Qi training period, and
Some of the missing parts were picked up and repaired in the early stages of foundation building.
Tao Ying is a casual cultivator, but she is also at the seventh level of qi training. There are two familiar casual cultivators with her. One is her father's friend who is at the twelfth level of qi training. She is one step short of foundation building because there is no foundation building.
Dan has been trapped on the 12th floor, and the other is a casual cultivator on the 9th floor of Qi training. I have formed teams with her several times before.
In the world of cultivation, the most common thing is to kill people and seize treasures, especially in secret realms, so monks usually go in groups.
The force value of Tao Ying and his team is only above average in the Xiaokun Mountain realm. As long as they don't take the initiative to recruit a team of powerful monks, there is no problem in self-protection.
Monks are divided into four categories: righteous cultivators, demonic cultivators, casual cultivators and some disciples of aristocratic families.
Casual cultivators make up the largest number, with other cultivators accounting for about one-third. They form teams of sects and aristocratic families and are led by high-level disciples to go to the secret realm.
Demonic cultivators have unique cultivation methods. Most of them are angry, belligerent and ruthless. They are one of the main groups of people that all cultivators should guard against.
Most righteous monks and disciples from aristocratic families generally do not take the initiative to attack other monks. Firstly, they care about their face, and secondly, they look down on what casual cultivators have.
There are also casual cultivators. Casual cultivators are extremely short of cultivation resources, so there are many people who specialize in killing people and seizing treasures. Their targets are all cultivators who have done this.
The secret realm will be closed in three days, and everyone inside will be automatically ejected after closing.
But Tao Ying and the other three didn't plan to stay until the last day. The closer to the secret realm, the more people there would be to win the treasure, so they had to go out early to reduce the fight with other people.
There was still half a day before the exit, so the team collected herbs on the roadside while walking.
"Ophiophyllum, there are twenty spiritual stones for each. Older spiritual stones will be doubled." Tao Ying skillfully took out the tools to dig out the herbs.
After digging a few, she suddenly became vigilant, "How come there is such a large area of ophiophyllum without encountering its companion spirit python?!"
The leader of the team, Qian Dajiang, walked around the area. When he heard what Tao Ying said, he pointed to the traces of a fight not far away and said, "Someone should have arrived here first and lured the spirit python away."
The female cultivator Jiang Xiaohong on the side also stopped and walked over to check, "There are only spiritual pythons left by the spiritual pythons here. The people who lured the spiritual pythons away are probably physical cultivators. They left before they could come back to collect the herbs."
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After a monk uses a spell, a few traces of spiritual energy will remain on the spot. The more powerful the spell, the more obvious the remaining spiritual energy will be.
If it is physical training, it is a little special. Physical training trains the body's muscles and bones, especially low-level physical training, which basically relies on brute force to fight and rarely has other techniques, so even if there is a little spiritual energy left, it will dissipate soon.
Tao Ying and the others don't want to make enemies with others, so they can't just take advantage of it.
Qian Dajiang thought for a while and said: "We can take one-third and leave the rest to those who kill the monsters."
Both of them listened to the captain and stopped after digging out a third. This approach is already a very moral behavior in the world of cultivation.
The predecessors killed the treasure-protecting monsters, and there were countless things that allowed the latter to take advantage of them. It is the norm in the world of cultivation to snatch scarce cultivation resources by any means.
Qian Dajiang's consideration was naturally that those who arrived first would act alone, so their cultivation level must be good, and there was no need for them to do anything wrong and make enemies.
As for whether it ends up in the hands of that person after leaving it, they don't need to care.
After gathering the herbs, the three of them continued on their way. It happened that the direction of the exit was not far from the direction in which the spirit python left.
Tong Yan was beating up the boa constrictor here, and she was very angry when she thought about it. Didn't she just pass by its nest and step on the weeds with long thin leaves? Did she chase her so far?
As for that!
With the last hammer blow, the snake's head was completely flattened into a meat pie. The disgusted Tong Yan quickly stood up and took a few steps back. Looking at the body of the python, she couldn't help but worry about Su Mu's safety.
The location she teleported to was the formation triggered by the owner of the storage bag, so this should be the Xiao Kunyuan Secret Realm.
Why was Su Mu not near her when he teleported here with her?
Su Mu doesn't know anything about the situation. How can he protect himself in this dangerous secret realm?
I searched for Sumu nearby for a long time, but no one was found, but I encountered a big python.
Tong Yan turned around to run. After all, a snake as big as a bowl opened its bloody mouth to bite her. If she didn't run, wouldn't it be hard to wait for death?
However, after chasing her here, the spiritual python caught up and bit her thin leg, but its fangs could not pierce her skin, and the venom flowed down her calf.
The snake's body quickly wrapped around him, and his survival instinct made Tong Yan calm down to the extreme. He used his spiritual consciousness to summon the magic weapon in the storage bag to attack the spirit python's eyes.
The spirit python was in pain and quickly let go of Tong Yan. After getting free, Tong Yan picked up the mace and beat the spirit python on the head.
When Qian Dajiang and the others heard the noise and rushed over, what they saw was the spirit python with its head flattened, and Tong Yan standing aside.
Upon noticing someone was coming, Tong Yan immediately looked at them warily.
The two sides looked at each other, but neither of them spoke for a moment.
There were three people, two women and one man. The aura around them was a little different from the people I had seen before. It was the aura of the world that was cultivated by spiritual energy.
It seems that they are monks in the world of cultivation.
Tao Ying and the others could roughly understand some of the information in front of them with just one scan of their consciousness.
The corpse of a third-level early-stage spirit python was killed by Tong Yan, who only had the sixth level of Qi training.
Tao Ying and the others were a little surprised. Although the spirit python did not have many attack methods, only the snake's body entanglement and paralyzing venom, the third level was already a relatively advanced monster in this secret realm.
Without the eighth level of Qi training, most people would not easily be able to fight alone.
"Is this fellow Taoist a physical practitioner?" Qian Dajiang asked politely.
I have practiced Qi cultivation so my attack spells are much worse, but my body is very resistant to being beaten and pitted. Judging from the way the spirit python died, there is no doubt that it was killed by brute force.
"Yes." Tong Yan answered briefly. She knew a little about body cultivation. It was probably the kind of body cultivation with well-developed muscles and limbs, although her own body did not match the shape of body cultivation.
The physical training that can kill a third-level monster alone is not weak. Qian Dajiang said: "I don't know if my fellow Taoist is going to leave the secret realm or wait until the secret realm is completely closed before going out. If you leave now, how about traveling with us."
Tong Yan was stunned for a moment and weighed his own worth and force value in his mind.
In the world of cultivation, body cultivators have always been the poorest representatives, because they need to buy a lot of precious herbs for cultivation. The person in front of her invites her to form a team, and the possibility of making money is slim.
Furthermore, Su Mu was not found around, so she considered going to the secret realm exit and waiting. As long as the secret realm was closed, Sumu would also be ejected.
Tong Yan nodded slowly, "Of course it's feasible, I'll leave the secret realm now."
He doesn't know magic, but his internal strength and swordsmanship are not bad. He should be able to wait until the secret realm is closed safely.
"Okay, I'm Qian Dajiang. The two people next to me are Jiang Xiaohong and Tao Ying. May I ask what my friends call them?" After Tong Yan agreed to join the team, Qian Dajiang introduced his teammates to her.
After Tong Yan glanced at the two female cultivators, he looked away and clasped his fists, "My name is Tong Yan."
Qian Dajiang returned the gift and asked, "Fellow Taoist Tong, should we go to the exit now, or do we need to go back to the snake nest to collect medicine before leaving?"
Tong Yan wondered why he asked her if she wanted to go back and what herbs to collect.
But seeing that their expressions were normal, I guessed it was similar to defeating the boss and losing equipment.
"No need to go back, just go to the exit." She didn't know what equipment the snake dropped, and there was no use going back.
Tao Ying felt it was a pity, as there were at least a hundred ophidium trees there.
After saying that, Tong Yan waited for them to lead the way, but she didn't want these three people to still look at her.
"Aren't you going out? Why don't you move." Tong Yan tensed up. Is there anything wrong with saying that?
Tao Ying pointed to the body of the spirit python and reminded: "Fellow Taoist Tong, aren't you going to ask for the spirit python's snake skin and gallbladder?"
The third-level spiritual python is still very valuable. The snake skin alone is worth twenty spiritual stones. There are also snake blood and snake gallbladders, which are all collected by shops.
It turned out that the snake's body was also one of the trophies. Tong Yan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'll give it to you. I don't like touching snakes."
Loose cultivators are generally those who pluck their hair, and those who don't want anything like Tong Yan are indeed rare.
Tao Ying immediately became happy when she said she was sending them off. Her eyes lit up and she looked at Jiang Xiaohong and Qian Dajiang.
Qian Dajiang whispered: "Go and divide it."
"Thank you Taoist Tong, my name is Tao Ying." Tong Yan's generous gift made Tao Ying feel good in her heart. She ran to search for the corpse while talking to Tong Yan.
"Hello, fellow Taoist Taoist."
"You don't need to call me Taoist fellow Taoist, just call me Tao Ying." Tao Ying said with a smile.
"Fellow Taoist Tong, did you enter the secret realm alone?"
"right."
"Are you really a bodybuilder? The muscles on the bodybuilders I've seen are very exaggerated. You don't have any muscles at all. You're not taller than me. It's hard to imagine that you are a bodybuilder."
Tong Yan said tentatively: "Maybe I haven't been as big as them since I haven't been practicing for a long time."
"Yeah?"
"Definitely."
After Tao Ying and Jiang Xiaohong collected the items, the team of four set out for the exit.
Qian Dajiang took the lead, Jiang Xiaohong was second, and Tong Yan followed Tao Ying, but slowly Tong Yan was left far behind by the three of them. Tao Ying was the first to realize that Tong Yan, who was supposed to be following her, failed to follow.
She stopped Qian Dajiang: "Uncle Qian, fellow Taoist Tong didn't follow me. I'll go take a look."
"Let's go together." Qian Dajiang led the three of them back the way they came to find Tong Yan who was walking step by step.
Jiang Xiaohong asked in surprise: "Fellow Taoist Tong, don't you even need the magic of lightening your body when you're on the road?"
Tao Ying: "It is said that physical training absorbs spiritual energy very slowly. Fellow Taoist Tong probably failed to keep up because he lacked spiritual energy later on."
Physical cultivation is generally five spiritual roots or four spiritual roots. They have poor spiritual roots and poor qualifications. It is difficult to make progress by absorbing spiritual energy and slowly learning spells, so they choose to be physical practitioners.
Jiang Xiaohong murmured in a low voice, "If you don't have spiritual power, you can use the Lighting Talisman. It seems that you are really poor in physical cultivation, and you can't even bear to use the Lighting Talisman."
There is no difference between being poor and asking for snake bile grass and the corpse of a spiritual python, and being a beggar who drops money but says he doesn’t want to pick it up.
Tao Ying patted Jiang Xiaohong on the shoulder and signaled her to stop talking. Then she walked up to Tong Yan, saw her messy dress, and asked, "Friend Tong, are you okay? There are still blood stains on your body, why don't you use the dust-cleansing spell to clean it away?"
?A bloody body can easily attract monsters."
Monks know this kind of common sense spell, but Tong Yan doesn't know it, so she can't say that she doesn't know it yet. It's like you can't know how to dress and eat, or you can't know how much one plus one equals.
"I've run out of spiritual power." Tong Yan could only say this to excuse himself.
Tao Yingdao said very considerately: "The same is true for the physical practitioners I know. Their spiritual power is not used. Then I will help you cast a spell to clean it up and put a light body charm on you."
Tong Yan was a little uncomfortable delaying everyone on their way, and nodded in agreement with Tao Ying's method.
Soon the group of people started on their way again. Apart from encountering a few low-level monsters along the way, they did not encounter any monks who blocked the way.
But just a few steps from the exit, they fell into a trap set by others.
The trapping formation can only trap them in place, but the situation is unfavorable for both the enemy and us. They are trapped here and may be attacked at any time.
Formation is generally one of the monk's minor skills, along with elixirs, talismans, and weapon refining.
But no matter what kind, it is difficult for casual practitioners to achieve success. First, there is no master, second, there is no complete Kung Fu book, third, minor training in these skills requires a lot of time and wealth, and the fourth is the most important reason.
One, talent.
Most casual cultivators find it difficult to even maintain basic cultivation. No matter how talented they are, self-taught side jobs are relatively rare.
However, just because you can't set up a formation doesn't mean you can't break it. To break a formation, you only need to destroy the formation's eyes.
Qian Dajiang was infinitely close to building the foundation. He had rich experience in exploring secret realms for many years, but within a short time a few people found the formation's key point.
When he was about to break the formation, three murderous auras struck him from the darkness.
The ones targeted respectively were Qian Dajiang, Tongyan and Tao Ying, while Jiang Xiaohong was closest to Qian Dajiang.
Qian Dajiang said seriously: "Everyone be careful and don't leave me too far."
After entering the trapped formation, everyone had already been on guard with weapons to prevent people in the dark from taking action. Now that the attackers in the fog took action, the battle was about to begin.
Qian Dajiang faced off against a monk at the eleventh level of Qi training without hesitation, while Jiang Xiaohong helped Tao Ying deal with a man at the ninth level of Qi training.
In times of danger, Tong Yan's existence was obviously ignored by the three teammates.
Tong Yan naturally knew that others were often unreliable at this time, so she was not surprised when he finally faced the enemy alone.
The man was practicing at the eighth level of Qi training. Seeing that Tong Yan could not reach the sixth level of Qi training, he was secretly happy that he had chosen the weakest one.
"Fellow Daoist Sun, I'll go over and help you after I deal with this little girl." He said to the ninth-level Qi-training monk who was dealing with the two of them.
As he spoke, the fireballs with vines and earth thorns attacked Tong Yan one after another. Tong Yan marveled at the wonder of the Creator.
After cutting off the vines wrapped around his legs and narrowly avoiding the fireball, the earth thorns under his feet rushed up and knocked Tong Yan down.
When Tong Yan felt a dull pain in his feet, he quickly got up to deal with another wave of attacks from the male cultivators.
The first time he fought against a monk, if Tong Yan hadn't been rough-skinned and thick-skinned, he would have been killed by the opponent.
The male cultivator wanted to finish the battle quickly, and continuously cast spells to consume a lot of spiritual power, but after failing to do anything to Tong Yan, he became angry and raised his sword to stab Tong Yan.
The sharp sword blade stabbed at her fatal spot, but when it came to sword skills, Tong Yan was never wrong.
The male cultivator who was fighting with swordsmanship was losing ground with every stab and chop at his fingertips.
At this time, there was a scream over there. Tao Ying and the others eliminated the monks at the ninth level of Qi training. Jiang Xiaohong ran to destroy the formation eye. She quickly rushed over to help: "Friend Taoist Tong, let me help you."
She couldn't help but be surprised when she saw that Tong Yan's opponent was two levels higher than her and she was still able to deal with it with ease.
"It's rare, fellow Taoist Tong, that you are not only a physical practitioner but also a sword practitioner?"
You must know that swordsmen are extremely capable in single combat and have huge lethality. It is normal to fight across levels.
It would make sense if Tong Yan was a sword cultivator.
The male cultivator's attack came to him in an instant. Tong Yan had no time to pay attention to what Tao Ying said, but continued to use sword skills to deal with the attack.
Tao Ying quickly controlled the fireball remotely to cooperate with Tong Yan, and the male cultivator was defeated in just a moment.
Tong Yan paused for a moment before stabbing the male cultivator in the chest with his sword. The male cultivator's eyes sharpened and she concentrated her efforts to fight back. When Tao Ying saw this, she quickly struck the final blow and Tong Yan escaped.
After the battle, Tong Yan was stunned when he looked at the corpses that were constantly pouring out blood. After realizing it, he thanked Tao Ying: "Thank you Tao Taoist fellow for your timely action."
"Fellow Taoist Tong, you..." Tao Ying was about to say why she didn't kill him at the last moment, but she stopped talking when she saw Tong Yan's abnormal look.
Over there, Qian Dajiang had already dealt with his opponent.
He said: "They should have planned to set up a formation here to wait for those who came out early, but because we came out early, they only had time to set up a trapping formation."
"Three storage bags, two low-level magic weapons." Jiang Xiaohong handed the trophies obtained from the corpse to Qian Dajiang.
This is also one of the sources of resources for all monks.