Martial Arts and Longevity: Starting from the Spiritual Beast Picture

Yinfeng Realm, somewhere in the south.

Zhao Lin, Wei Shi, and Li Zing walk through a fern forest. There are many giant ferns growing here, covering the sky and the earth, making people feel like they are in ancient times.

The environment here has a strong shielding effect on the consciousness, which is conducive to hiding the whereabouts.

As long as you spend seven or eight hours safely, you can go to Zhongyin Mountain and return to the outside world.

Zhao Lin has already made up his mind, and when he leaves the Yinfeng Realm, he will find a way to find out the roots of the fat monk. If this person is still entangled, he will find a chance to teach him a lesson sooner or later.

As long as one breaks through to the fourth level of Qi Refining, one can master Dacheng-level spells, and one can use Perfection-level spells after reaching the fifth level of Qi Refining.

At that time, unless they meet a master of magic like Miao Kefa, most of the monks in the late stage of Qi refining will not be their opponents.

"Cultivator Zhao, I have something to say to you alone."

Li Zing suddenly said.

"What's the matter, can't you say it in front of Brother Wei?"

Zhao Lin said calmly, he was also curious, but he couldn't agree directly in front of Wei Shi, lest there would be suspicion.

"Hey, it's okay, you guys are chatting. I'll go over there and see if there is any Yinfeng grass."

Wei Shi let out a haha, and found a reason to leave.

Li Zhe waited for Wei Shi to go far away, and said in a low voice, "I know where there are star peony grasses."

Zhao Lin was slightly taken aback, "Didn't you say you didn't come here? How did you know there is Xingshaocao?"

Li Zhe calmly explained: "I haven't been here before. This is the site of another thousand-year-old ghost. We can communicate with spiritual consciousness, and it told me."

"Where is it?"

Zhao Lin looked around, remembering that Yinhun's spiritual consciousness can reach thousands of feet, and he must have been hiding long ago, so he asked again: "What does it say?"

"It asked me what I was doing here, and I said it was just passing by, so it doesn't have to worry."

"I know you want to collect Yinfeng grass and Star peony grass, so I asked it if there are these two kinds of spiritual herbs here. It told me a place, saying that there are many Star peony grasses there."

"Many Star Paeoniae?"

Zhao Lin's heart moved when he heard the words, and he stroked his chin and began to think.

Star peony grass can be worth ten spirit stones and five good deeds, which is much more valuable than Yinfeng grass.

I originally planned to leave the small world tomorrow, and I was somewhat unwilling, but if I could collect the star peony grass, then this mission would really be worthwhile.

Zhao Lin thought for a while and asked, "Is it credible?"

Li Zing grabbed the umbrella cover with his tentacles, and said, "It should be credible, Yinhun doesn't need Xingshaocao, and lying to me won't do it any good."

"However... it told me that there is a soul eater where the star peony grass is."

All things generate and restrain each other, and ghosts are not without natural enemies in the Yinfeng Realm.

The soul-eating soul is a kind of monster in the Yin and Wind Realm. It feeds on corpses, and it likes to eat ghosts the most. Even a thousand-year-old ghost would not dare to provoke it.

Soul-eating is the nemesis of Yinhun, but it is nothing to human monks, it is just an ordinary middle-grade monster.

"You told me this because you are afraid that Wei Shi will also get a share of the pie?"

"Correct!"

"I didn't expect you to have such thoughts, but there is no need."

Zhao Lin smiled, thinking that since Wei Shi had been rescued, he should be more open and aboveboard, and go find Xing Shaocao together.

From the current point of view, Wei Shi is worthy of deep friendship. If he is left alone, if he encounters the big fat monk on the way back to Zhongyin Mountain, he will not even have a helper.

Zhao Lin still had some doubts about Li Zing.

This ghost is very different. Except for wanting to absorb his own soul at the beginning, everything he does afterwards is helping himself, which is very puzzling.

If it harbors resentment, it will be very troublesome to reveal its whereabouts to the big fat monk by any means.

"Brother Wei, let me tell you something."

Zhao Lin found Wei Shi and told about Xing Shaocao.

"There is such a good thing!"

Wei Shi glanced at Li Zing in surprise, and said: "It happens that there is still time, so we went to pick the Xingshao grass. But it was agreed in advance that Wei will not take any of the Xing Shao grass that we got, and it will all belong to Brother Zhao. "

Zhao Lin waved his hand and said: "That's not necessary, the rule in the world of cultivating immortals is that those who see have a share."

Then he turned his gaze to Li Zhe, "Then Daoist Li will help you lead the way."

"Good good."

Li Zhe seemed to be very happy with this title, and his tentacles fluttered with excitement.

In this way, Li Zhe led the way, Zhao Lin and Wei Shi followed behind, out of the fern forest, and walked to a "big belly mountain" not far away.

"It's right here."

Going around to a hillside on the west side of Dadu Mountain, Li Zing floated for a while, and suddenly shouted: "Here!"

Zhao Lin and Wei Shi stepped forward quickly and saw a hidden cave.

The entrance of the cave is almost completely covered by vines and shrubs, so you can't find it unless you look carefully.

Zhao Lin opened the vines with an iron ruler and released ultrasonic waves into the hole.

Li Zhi and Wei Shi didn't know why, but they both kept silent and waited quietly.

The cave was very deep, and the ultrasonic waves entered it, but did not turn back for a long time.

After more than ten breaths, Zhao Lin had a general understanding of the situation in the cave.

The space inside the cave is quite open, there is a spherical cave not far from the entrance, and there is another passage, which seems to be a bigger cave.

The shape of the whole hole is like a gourd.

"Let's go!"

Zhao Lin stepped into the cave, followed by Li Zhe and Wei Shi.

I thought the cave was pitch black, but unexpectedly, there are many palm-sized stones emitting light blue phosphorescence on the cave wall, and the light is brighter and more transparent than the outside.

After walking a hundred steps, the eyes suddenly opened up, and they walked into a cave with a radius of several tens of feet.

Directly opposite the cave, there is a conspicuous pear-shaped cave.

Zhao Lin probed again and found that the end of the cave inside could not be detected until the ultrasonic wave decayed to the end. It is estimated that the size of the cave would not be less than a hundred feet.

"Did that ghost tell you the exact location of Xingshaocao in the cave?"

Hearing Zhao Lin's words, Li Zhen raised a tentacle and pointed forward, "It told me to go through the first cave, and I'm in a bigger cave inside."

"Then we're not wasting time here."

"Okay, let's go!"

After discussing with Wei Shi, Zhao Lin and Wei Shi quickly walked towards the pear-shaped cave.

When I came to the cave, I heard footsteps, and a monster jumped out of it.

This monster is shaped like an old ape, with withered and yellow hair, a big mouth, and green eyes shining.

It was the Soul Eater mentioned by Li Zing earlier.

Both Zhao Lin and Wei Shi stood still, but Li Zing backed away several feet in fright.

"Squeak!"

The soul-eating soul bared its teeth and waved its claws twice, then suddenly turned around and ran away, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Zhao Lin and Wei Shi were not surprised. The higher the level of the monster, the more aware of the benefits and disadvantages of human monks.

The pear-shaped cave is like a corridor, only less than ten feet long. Passing through the corridor, a huge ring-shaped cave appears in front of you.

This cave is even bigger, with a radius of four to five hundred feet. What's even more peculiar is that there are countless pillar-shaped boulders standing on the ground.

Some of these boulders are several feet high, and some are more than ten feet high. Looking around, it seems to have entered a forest of stones.

Zhao Lin and Wei Shi didn't say anything, and both looked at Li Zing.

Searching for spirit herbs in such a large place, if you don't know the exact location, I'm afraid it will take a lot of time.

Li Zhen understood and said: "Go left for four hundred knots, and then go forward for one thousand knots."

"What festival?"

Both Zhao Lin and Wei Shi looked puzzled.

Li Zhi quickly explained: "Our ghosts feed on the juice of Canghuan Bamboo, so we often use Canghuan Bamboo as an example when communicating."

"The section I'm talking about is the length of the Canghuanzhu's section."

As he spoke, he stretched out two tentacles and made a gesture, "One section is about this long."

"It's almost two feet, which is basically the same as my stride length."

Zhao Lin nodded and said with a smile: "Then go left for four hundred steps, and then go forward for a thousand steps."

After speaking, he raised his head and looked around, and saw a boulder more than ten feet high beside him, so he quickly ran a few steps, jumped onto the boulder, and looked down from a high place.

After inspecting for a while and finding nothing unusual, he jumped down and led Wei Shi and Li Zing to the left.

"Be careful, everyone, don't go out of sight."

The boulder stood quietly, like a tall and silent giant. Zhao Lin felt a little hairy inexplicably, and couldn't help reminding him.

"Indeed, these stones are all similar in appearance, and it is difficult for spiritual sense to penetrate."

Wei Shi also agreed.

After about a cup of tea, walk four hundred steps to the left, one thousand steps forward, and the footsteps are measured.

"If the news is accurate, it should be nearby, let's split up..."

Just when Zhao Lin was halfway through his words, he suddenly realized that it was inappropriate to do so, so he immediately changed his words: "Let's stay together, it's safer."

In a strange place, it’s best to be careful. Maybe I’m overthinking it, and I always feel that these stones look a little weird.

Zhao Lin climbed up a tall rock again, and Wei Shi and Li Zing also followed.

The stone forest is high and low, and there are many places out of sight. Zhao Lin changed a few big stones and finally found something.

"Look, there really is Star Paeoniae Grass!"

Zhao Lin and Wei Shi saw at the same time that in a depression ten feet away, there were patches of star peony growing, there were as many as one or two hundred plants, and there were almost no weeds.

Wei Shi looked happy, and said sincerely: "Brother Zhao, you have made a lot of money with so many star peony grasses!"

Zhao Lin smiled slightly, "No, we made the money."

After speaking, he jumped off the rock, and brought Wei Shi and Li Zing to the depression.

"Let me come, pick faster."

Li Zing raised his tentacles and volunteered.

"Thank you."

Zhao Lin thanked him, looked at the Xingshao grass on the ground, and suddenly frowned, feeling that something was wrong.

Why are these star peony grasses so neat?

It doesn't look like it grows naturally, but it looks like it was planted by someone.

Thinking of this, my heart skipped a beat, and I said quickly, "Li Zing, don't move!"

"how?"

Li Zing paused and asked in surprise.

Wei Shi was also puzzled: "Brother Zhao, what's wrong?"

At this moment, there was a sudden bang, and there was a burst of mana fluctuations around!
"There is a magic circle!"

Zhao Lin's complexion changed, and his first reaction was that the ghost Li Zing was playing tricks, but he immediately overturned this idea. To control the magic circle, you need a disk and a flag, and ghosts can't do this kind of thing.

Wei Shi and Li Zing also felt it, and they panicked for a moment.

"How to do?"

"Where to go?"

Zhao Lin shouted in a deep voice: "Go back along the way you came!"

"I want to leave, but it's too late!"

In a corner of the stone forest, a scruffy-dressed monk hiding behind a boulder said with a sinister smile.

This person is not tall, wearing a tattered Taoist robe, with long hair covering his face. If you look closely, you will find that his face is pale, his eyes are empty, and he looks lifeless.

The slovenly monk flipped his palm, and a blue formation flag appeared in his hand. He chanted a few spells in a low voice, pointed the flag forward, and a blue light flew out, blending into the formation.

In an instant, the scene before Zhao Lin's eyes changed, Wei Shi and Li Zing were gone!
Instead, there are majestic and towering mountains all around, and a bottomless abyss at the feet.

"Phantom array?"

The Taoist skill that Zhao Lin practiced was formations. Although he did not practice for a long time, he still had a little understanding of the basic principles of formations.

Obviously, I am in a magic circle, and it is a phantom circle.

"Is it a natural magic circle?"

A thought flashed in Zhao Lin's mind.

The arrangement of the magic circle must follow the principles of yin and yang, five elements, and eight trigrams, which are mostly set by people.

But the creation of the heaven and the earth is miraculous, and some terrains just fit the rules of the law formation and become a natural law formation.

Just like a natural stone, it may be more exquisite than a vessel carefully carved by a craftsman. This is the uncanny workmanship of heaven and earth.

But soon, Zhao Lin shook his head.

"If it's a natural magic circle, there must be fluctuations in spiritual power. But when we came here just now, we didn't feel any fluctuations at all."

"That is to say, there is a magic circle here, but it has not been activated. When we stepped into it, it suddenly activated!"

So there's only one explanation, and it's artificial!
Thinking of this, Zhao Lin's heart sank.

This is a small world, monks generally don't stay here for more than a month, who would set up a magic circle here?
The more I think about this matter, the more strange it becomes, but now is not the time to get to the bottom of it, and finding a way out is the top priority.

"By the way, there are spiritual training pictures."

Zhao Lin quickly looked inside his mind, and saw five words appear in the sixth grid of the spiritual cultivation map: Sanyin Illusory Killing Formation!
Sanyin, Phantom Kill?

Although I have never heard of this formation, but I can tell a little clue from the name.

Sanyin refers to air, earth, and stone in the formation, and it is a formation that is set according to the right time and place.

The cave is full of yin, the terrain is peculiar, and there are many strange rocks, which just meet this condition.

The word phantom kill is easier to understand, it is to cooperate with illusion to trap and kill the enemy in the formation.

While thinking about it, the scene in front of him changed again.

The sky darkened, the wind suddenly picked up, ghosts cried and wolves howled, and the surrounding mountains fell over like a drunk.

Suddenly a huge pressure hit the body.

Zhao Lin knew that this was the pressure exerted by the magic circle and coincided with the illusion, so he gritted his teeth and forced himself to calm down.

The first step of the illusion formation is to create an illusion. The real killing move is hidden in the illusion. The more panicked you are, the more dangerous it is.

The mountain fell more and more violently, and the pressure on Zhao Lin was also increasing, so he had to fight against it with luck.

In order to save his spiritual power, he didn't use spells. At the critical moment, Wu Dao helped a lot.

The sloppy monk outside the formation frowned, unfurled the formation flag in his hand, and injected another spiritual force into the formation. (end of this chapter)