In an empty and flat cave on the ghost cave level, there is a camp with nearly a hundred tents and wooden sheds arranged in a circle. There are bonfires everywhere in the camp.
In the simple factory shed built with wooden planks, there are boxes of neatly stacked mustard boxes. This camp is the gathering point opened up by the Withered Bones Gang for mining.
There is a magic circle around the camp, and a giant semicircular red spiritual shield protects the entire camp. It is the rest time of the miners team, and all the miners are sleeping soundly in the animal skin tents.
The camp was quiet, with only a few supervisors serving as guards patrolling back and forth around the camp.
Liu Yu was sitting cross-legged in a single-room tent. The tent had three fourth-grade "extreme consciousness talismans" as the base of the array, supplemented by six "hidden breath talismans", and set up a "extreme breath talisman array" that isolated the exploration of spiritual consciousness.
A top-grade "yin stone" filled with light gray smoke floats above Liu Yu's head. He is constantly inhaling wisps of light gray gas from the "yin stone" above his head, and is practicing "Tianshi Mantra·Taohun Heart Sutra".
The mining team has to go out to mine for eight or nine hours every day, with only three or four hours of rest. The same goes for Liu Yu, the mine supervisor.
For Liu Yu, the free time is simply not enough to practice. In addition, the ghost cave is filled with Yin Qi and the Five Elements Spiritual Qi is extremely thin. The effect of practicing the main skill "Golden Earth Society Dao Jing" is extremely poor.
Therefore, the expansion of Zifu's space has almost stagnated in the past two months. Liu Yu can only maintain basic Qi-replenishing practice and absorb the spirit stones in the storage bag to replenish the daily mana consumption in Zifu.
But he insists on practicing "Tianshi Mantra·Tao Soul Heart Sutra" every day, because in this place with strong Yin Qi, the condensation of "Tao Soul Qi" is relatively smooth.
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At nine o'clock, the miners emerged from the square tents in the ten-person room one after another and walked towards the largest wooden shed in the camp, which was equipped with several long square wooden tables.
There are benches on both sides of the wooden table, both of which can accommodate people. This is the camp canteen, where miners line up in front of the stove to receive food.
"Here!" the cook scooped out a large spoonful of white liquid from the pot and poured it into the miner's big bowl. It is a kind of milk that is popular among Northlanders. Then he handed over two pieces of scones.
The cake is like Yunzhou's coarse grain lumps, but it is softer, freshly baked and has a fragrant aroma, which tastes good.
The miners only eat two meals a day, before and after work. The food at the end of work is barbecue and low-quality spiritual wine.
When Liu Yu and other supervisors go out, they can bring a meal, a piece of pancake, a piece of barbecue, and a small pot of inferior spiritual wine. Liu Yu never drank this sour inferior spiritual wine and gave it to his miners. "Old Hei Niu, where are you going today?" After dinner, all members of Lao Niu's mining team gathered together, and the team leader "Ghost Ya" casually asked the mine leader Lao Niu.
"Sir, let's go to the mining area yesterday. There should be some minerals hidden there." The old man from the mine replied hurriedly and respectfully.
"Let's go then!" Gui Ya nodded, then led the Lao Niu mining team out of the camp and headed towards the direction of yesterday's mining place.
At this time, the other mining teams of the Withered Bones Gang also set off in different directions from the camp. The Withered Bones Gang currently has fifteen mining teams. These mining teams will center on the camp and operate within ten miles of the area. They dare not Too far away.
First, if the mining team is in danger and the camp receives a distress message, it can send personnel to rescue in time.
Secondly, it is too far away, and it is troublesome to carry the minerals back and forth. Once the ten-mile mining area is fully mined, the camp will be moved to another place, and mining will continue.
"Hei Que, stay here, Xuan Kong, come with me!" The mining team came to the mining tunnel area where yesterday's mining was. "Ghost Ya" put on his fist blade and walked towards the dark and empty tunnel ahead. Liu Yu summoned the golden Cun Jian raised his magic shield and followed.
After the mining team left yesterday, the aura of living people left behind will definitely attract ghosts. Before mining, it needs to be cleaned up.
Without opening his "psychic eye", Liu Yu could detect with just his spiritual sense that this small mining area with crisscrossed tunnels was filled with ghostly energy. The seemingly empty mine tunnels were actually filled with a large number of ghosts floating in the air. .
"Bang, bang!" The gloves on Gui Ya's hands flashed with cold light, and two short blades popped out from each glove, like animal claws. After stimulating the protective aura, it was like A gust of wind rushed out, the fist blade was swung, and the mine tunnel suddenly burst into black smoke, all of which were the ghosts that were blasted by the fist blade.
"Sand, sand!" Like a hornet's nest, festering corpses crawled out from the cave floor or from the slag piled aside.
Among them were many green-haired zombies, both in human and animal shapes. There was a zombie in front of Liu Yu. His upper body climbed out from the hole where he was hiding, and was cut in half by a sword energy.
Although there are many ghosts and zombies, they are facing two foundation-building stage ants, Liu Yu and "Ghost Ya". The two of them are like chopping melons and vegetables, cleaning up the ghosts in this small mining area.
Just when it was about to be cleaned up, with a dull beast roar, a beast-shaped bone demon with jagged bones and a ghostly aura rushed out from a corner.
Bone demons are "wisps of fire" born from the body, with bones and evil spirits as their bodies. They are the collective name for this type of ghosts. They have both human and animal forms. The formation of this type of ghosts is very different from ghosts and zombies.
Ghosts, zombies and other ghosts are acquired ghosts formed by the residual soul left before death, stimulated by Yin energy, and then slowly absorbing Yin energy.
The conditions for the formation of a bone demon are even more stringent. The bones left behind after the death of living creatures are eroded and nourished by a large amount of "Primary Yin Erosion Qi" in a place rich in Yin Qi. Over the years, a wisp of "will-o'-the-wisp" slowly condenses. ", and come back to life, it can be regarded as a semi-acquired ghost.
Because this "will-o'-the-wisp" born in the primordial yin gas can be regarded as a special spirit similar to the soul, also called "soul fire".
At first, this "Soul Fire" was as thin as smoke, but as it continued to absorb the "Primary Yin Erosion Qi" on its own, the "Soul Fire" in the bone demon's body became more and more solid, and finally combined with the "Life Fire" in the Shengling Niwan Palace.
"Soul" is no different.
Although the "soul fire" in the bone demon's body is the condensation of heaven and earth and has nothing to do with its living soul that has long since dissipated after death, the broken bones that protect the "soul fire" are still left behind before death, so it is classified as a semi-acquired ghost.
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Because bone demons are difficult to form, they are relatively uncommon. Only in this underground ghost cave level can you occasionally encounter such ghosts.
Once the bone demon awakens, its combat power will not be low, and this kind of ghost has a special hobby, which is to collect the bones of various demon beasts, and slowly smelt them into its own demon bones through the yin energy, becoming a part of itself.
If you are lucky enough to integrate the spiritual bones of some powerful monsters, the bone monsters will even be given some special abilities, greatly increasing their combat power.
Therefore, the body shape of each skull demon is strange and different. Some have several heads at the same time, some have many hands and feet, and some are covered with bone spurs.
Judging from the rough size of the skull demon in front of you, it should have been a four-legged beast such as a tiger or a leopard.
Now there is a long tailbone protruding from the ilium behind the back. It can be seen that it was refined later, because it is a scorpion tail, and there is a huge barb at the end. The bone of the barb is sharp and dark black, and it is highly poisonous at first glance.
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This skull monster has its high scorpion tail tilted up, and its bones are filled with traces of black smoke. The originally rotten skeleton is filled with a dignified and realistic black evil spirit.
The skull of the beast is huge, with a pair of white teeth that grind up and down. The sunken and hollow eye sockets shine with two bloody red pupils, which are the soul reflected by the "soul fire" hidden in the skull.
Mang.
"Bump!" The animal-shaped bone demon rushed towards "Ghost Fang", opened its ferocious skull beast's mouth, and bit into "Ghost Fang". "Ghost Fang" dodged, and the bone demon continued to charge, knocking him away all the way.
stones on the ground.
"Blazing Wind Blade Shadow!" Gui Ya followed closely behind the bone demon, channeled his Qi into his acupoints, and unleashed a fist-blade technique. Nearly a hundred spirit blades with soul-breaking powers attacked the bone demon like ghost shadows.
I saw that these spiritual blades hit the bone demon instantly, but only a small part hit the skeleton, and most of them passed directly through the gaps between the bones, only dissipating some of the evil spirit of the bone demon.
The spiritual blade that hit the bone demon's bones only left shallow white marks on the dark gray bones. The bones of the bone demon have been tempered by Yin Qi for many years, and the hardness of the bones is no weaker than some defensive spiritual weapons.
, this blow did not cause any damage to the bone demon.
"We're in big trouble!" Gui Ya couldn't help but frown. Ghosts like the bone demon have always been extremely difficult to deal with. They are covered in skeletons with no skin and flesh, and they don't know pain at all. In addition, the skeletons have been tempered by yin energy for many years, and their defenses are extremely strong.
Easy to deal with.
Even if a few dead bones are cut off, it will not hurt the bone demon unless most of its bones are broken or collapsed within a short period of time, or its entire skeleton is shattered and scattered.
But judging from the spiritual energy emitted by this skull demon and the evil spirit condensed from its bones, it is equivalent to the foundation-building period of a monk. Even if the deputy leader is here, it will take some time to dismantle this skull demon in a short time.
Now we can only try to crush the skull of this bone demon and disperse the "soul fire" hidden in it. This is also the biggest weakness of all bone demons. If it fails, we can only activate the magic talisman and call to the camp.
Help is here.
"Wind of Shadow!" Guiya instantly activated the "Wild Spirit Overlord" state, greatly increasing the speed of his movement, turning into a shadow, flying towards the charging bone demon, dodging a beast claw, and pouring spiritual power into it.
The fist blade, the tip of the blade shines brightly, and it is about to stab the skull of the bone monster head.
"Not good!" Suddenly a cold light struck, and Gui Ya secretly thought something was wrong. What struck him was actually the scorpion tail at the tail of the skull demon. Gui Ya immediately stopped his hand, stimulating the protective aura to the strongest level, and at the same time a pair of
The fist blades are crossed in front of the body.
"Poof!" Guiya was hit by the scorpion tail, and his body was shot away like a cannonball. He slammed into the thick stone wall behind him. After sliding down, he spit out a mouthful of blood. At this time, the bone demon had opened his mouth.
He opened the skull's mouth and bit the "Ghost Fang".
"Rock shield, rise!" Liu Yu rushed over at this time, lifted up a rock shield, and blocked it in front of "Ghost Ya". The bone demon made a "bump" sound and hit the rock shield hard, breaking it.
There were a lot of bones, but the skull demon didn't know the pain at all. He got up and immediately rushed towards Liu Yu again.
"Rock Shield Explosion!" Liu Yu turned the seals of his hands, and the thick rock shield that had been cracked by the impact exploded instantly, knocking the bone demon away. Then the seals of his hands changed again, and the Zifu Spirit Gate opened, with a large number of "Golden Intentions"
"Earth's true energy" is injected into the ground beneath your feet from your feet.
I saw large and small stones scattered in every corner of the mine tunnel, floating up one after another, and quickly smashed towards the bone demon, and immediately shattered when they hit the bones.
The skeleton of the bone demon is as hard as cold iron. Although it is not afraid of the impact of stones, there are too many large and small stones scattered on the ground, flying from all directions. Although the bone demon cannot be hurt, it is buried and only one part of the bone demon is exposed.
A ferocious huge beast head.
"The poor Taoist can't hold on for long, do it quickly!" Liu Yu poured a large amount of zhenqi into the hill-shaped stone pile, firmly pressing the bone demon buried under the stone pile so that he could not move, and at the same time, he attacked the "Ghost Fang" behind him.
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"Soul-shattering kill!" Gui Ya knew that the opportunity was too good to miss, and immediately jumped up, infusing all the true energy in his body into the fist blade of his right hand, accumulating energy to perform the strongest killing move, the tip of the fist blade pierced the bone demon's forehead and skull, only to
Hearing a harsh grinding sound, the fist blade pierced the bone demon's skull.
With a loud "Boom!", the hill pile of rocks exploded together with the bone demon below. Apparently, this fist blade had exploded the bone demon's "soul fire", and the exploded psychic storm swept across all directions instantly.
, bones and gravel flew everywhere, and dust filled the entire mining area.
"Gui Ya, are you okay?" When everything calmed down, another mine supervisor "Black Bird" and the rest of the mining team came forward, looking at the mess in front of them, and asked with concern.
"Cough, cough, it's okay!" Guiya took a breath, waved his hand, then walked to Liu Yu and said gratefully: "Thanks to fellow Taoist Xuankong for helping me!"
"No need to be polite! The nearby ghosts have been cleared. Pindao will guard the fork on the west side just like yesterday!" Liu Yu smiled in return.
Guiya nodded, and then said rudely to Old Heiniu and others: "Stop dawdling, let's get started!"
Looking at the back of Taoist Xuankong walking away, to be honest, before this, he had looked down upon this Taoist from Zhongzhou who usually walked alone and kept silent. In addition, this Taoist was an outsider who was invited.
When the gang leader assigned this person to the mining team, he also specifically told him to keep an eye on this person.
In the past two months, Xuan Kong, apart from being unsocial, has always followed the rules and has not noticed any small moves. It has to be said that since this person came, the casualties of the mining team have dropped a lot. This person's skills are indeed
Yes, and with the help just now, "Ghost Ya" couldn't help but feel a sense of friendship.
"Niutou, look at that!" Sharp-eyed Liu Zi pointed at a collapsed stone wall not far away and said happily.
"Go and have a look!" Old Hei Niu looked in the direction and saw a stone wall not far away that had collapsed due to the fierce fighting just now, revealing a layer of dark blue and cold rock formations inside, which looked like a cold layer.
Iron Ore Rock, hurriedly walked over.
"Great, Niutou, it's cold iron ore!" Liuzi ran over first and immediately shouted loudly.
Then the Laoniu mining team got busy in full swing. This layer of cold iron ore rock is very deep and rich in mineral deposits. It took most of the day to mine it.
Obviously, the amount of ore mined by the Lao Niu mining team today will not be low. As expected, after the camel team from the Zishi camp arrived, the "lingji box" was filled with several large boxes.
After returning to the camp, Liu Yu received a dispatch order to escort the transport camel team tomorrow to transport the boxes of ore accumulated in the camp back to the mining village located dozens of miles away in Niuguo Town.
Such transportation is very frequent, occurring once every half month, and the escorts are transferred from each mining team in turn. However, Liu Yu has never received an escort mission in the two months since he joined the Withered Bones Gang, and has never been to the Withered Bones Gang.