Journey to the West: Cultivation Begins at Jindou Mountain

Chapter 35: Black Smoke
"Chief, there's a Moon-Watching Peak four hundred and thirty miles southeast of Jindou Mountain. On the summit of this peak lies a clear pond. Every full-moon night, the pond reflects the full moon in the sky, absorbing the moonlight from the sky and gathering it at the bottom, transforming it into a pool of liquid moonlight."

"Speaking of which, our Moonlight Deer clan accidentally drank the Moonlight Liquid on that full moon night, which is how we gained spiritual intelligence and became the clan we are today."

"When my clan left, there was still a lot of Moonlight Liquid accumulated at the bottom of the pond. However, the clear pool has now been forcibly occupied by a black python spirit. I wonder what the situation is like now."

"That black python is at least as powerful as a late-stage Great Demon. It's ten feet long and can spew black smoke from its mouth to confuse the mind. It's extremely powerful. Leader, please be extremely careful."

"I think this is the Moon-Watching Peak."

Niu Yi was leaning on a green bamboo stick and holding a large gourd, looking at the strange mountain in front of him that was shaped like a crescent moon. He saw that the mountain was covered with strange rocks, towering and difficult to climb, and the top was protruding like the tip of a crescent moon.

After learning about this place from Yuehua Lu, he used the earth escape technique to rush here.

A golden light flashed in Niu Yi's eyes as he looked at the top of the mountain, where a giant black python was coiled and violent evil spirits were rising like black smoke.

"That's the location of the Qingtan that Yuehualu mentioned. Sure enough, there's a python demon lurking there."

Just at this moment, the black python looked up at the sky, and its head with its tongue sticking out seemed to sense something and looked towards Niu Yi.

"Huh? You actually found me, interesting~"

Niu Yi showed a look of surprise, then he used the earth escape technique to head towards the top of the mountain.

He came here not only for the clear pond, but also for the black python, which was his target.

You have to know that half a year has passed since the last time he killed the leopard monster, and his magical power of the Heaven-stealing Hand can now be used again.

At the top of Wangyue Peak, in the cave next to Qingtan.

The black python that was curled up and sleeping in the cave suddenly woke up and opened its eyes instantly. Its huge golden vertical pupils were full of surprise and doubt.

Just now, he felt an extremely terrifying sense of being watched. Under that gaze, he seemed like a small snake that could be easily crushed to death!
"There's a powerful person watching this place! We can't stay here!"

The black python's mind raced, and he made a prompt decision. A puff of black smoke suddenly rose from under his body, dragging up the python's body, and it turned into a black shadow and rushed out of the cave!

But at this moment, the black python only felt a flash of golden light in front of its eyes, and then it completely lost consciousness.

"boom!"

"Huh? It actually smashed the demon soul apart."

Niu Yi stood at the entrance of the cave, holding the Golden Spirit Jade Bamboo, and looked at the python's head that fell to the ground, raising a cloud of dust and completely flattened, and was a little shocked.

He had only refined a little of the Golden Spirit Jade Bamboo, but even so, the demon in the late stage of the Great Demon Realm was directly crushed on the head by his blow, and the gold magic power on it was shattered along with the demon soul.

"I really wonder what kind of power this Golden Spirit Jade Bamboo will possess when it is completely refined into a magical weapon one day."

Niu Yi put away the Golden Spirit Jade Bamboo, put on the green bamboo shell again, and easily pulled the ten-foot-long black python monster corpse with one hand and walked into the cave.

A moment later, a ball of blue light with rising spiritual energy appeared in Niu Yi's hand.

[Black Python Demon Talent Extracted: Bewitching Black Smoke (Blue)]

[Confusing Black Smoke Talent: Can emit large amounts of mind-enchanting black smoke, creating hallucinations and making people lose their resistance.]

Niu Yi looked at the blue light ball in front of him and a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

"It's actually a blue-grade talent."

After all, the Heaven-stealing Hand ability is to randomly seize a magical talent from the opponent's body. The most powerful talent of this black python monster should be the confusing black smoke talent. This time the luck is surprisingly good.

Niu Yi looked at the Black Smoke Talent before him, thought for a moment, and decisively gave up on the idea of ​​integrating it. This Black Smoke Talent looked quite impressive, but for those with higher cultivation than himself, or those with a strong will, or those who had practiced the orthodox Buddhist or Taoist Heart Sutra like him, the effect would inevitably be greatly reduced, or even useless.

"Improve your Xin Ruo Ling Tai talent."

Niu Yi put his five fingers together and crushed the ball of blue light. The ball of light immediately turned into a stream of air and merged with Niu Yi, merging into his demon soul.

[The Black Smoke Talent has been consumed, and the Heart Like a Spiritual Platform Talent has been improved]

[Heart Like a Spiritual Platform (Blue) - Heart Like a Spiritual Platform (Purple)]

[Mind Like a Spiritual Platform: Greatly improves understanding, becoming unburdened by external things. The mind is clear and bright. One can enter the Spiritual Platform state once every twelve hours, and can stay in the Spiritual Platform state for three days each time.]

"Stay for three days?"

Niu Yi felt a burst of fresh air rushing into his mind, and his eyes lit up.

Before, he could only stay in the Lingtai state of mind for one night each night and leave at dawn. After cleaning the Taoist temple every day, he would not have much time left to read the pharmacopoeia and medical books.

Now that he can stay in the spiritual state of mind for three days, he has much more time and can do more things!
Sure enough, using the confusing black smoke to enhance Xin Ruolingtai's talent was definitely the right decision.

After dealing with the black python monster's corpse, Niu Yi walked out of the cave and came to the clear pond not far outside the cave. His eyes shone with light as he looked at the pool of moonlight at the bottom of the pond.

"It seems like this black python has caused a lot of trouble for me."

Niu Yi looked at the pool of moonlight liquid at the bottom of the pond with some regret. It was at least half of what Yuehua Lu had said.

Although he felt a little distressed, the remaining moon essence liquid was enough to refine the Jade Agarwood Incense twenty times with some left over. And since he already knew the origin of the moon essence liquid, he could just send a demon to get it in the future.

Niu Yi took the big green gourd and jumped straight into the pool. He swam to the bottom of the pool and collected all the spiritual liquid that was shining with moonlight at the bottom of the pool into the green gourd. Then he floated up and left.

"Wow--"

Niu Yi jumped out of the pool and stood on the shore. As golden light and magic power surged on his body, all the water on his body turned into steam and dissipated.

Unfortunately, among the five elements of escape, he had only not yet mastered the water and fire escapes, otherwise this time he wouldn't have to go through so much trouble.

He was actually not far from comprehending the water escape technique, but as for the fire escape technique...
Perhaps I can use the Hunyuan Yiqi Fire to gain some insights.

By the time Niu Yi used earth escape to rush back to Jindou Mountain, it was almost night.

"Chief! You're back!"

As soon as Niu Yi came back, he saw Niu Ping in a white robe standing in front of the hut waiting for him. There were four wooden boxes piled at his feet, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

Niu Yi took a look at the four boxes, and his treasure-hunting talent was activated automatically, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Niu Ping, was this box sent by the Earth God?"

"Yes, Chief. The Earth God said that these four boxes of spiritual materials were found by him and the other three Earth Gods."

"He asked me to tell you that after the landowners of Baoquanjian, Luoying Valley, and Yunwu Mountain heard that you needed these spiritual materials, they took the initiative to help and found them."

"okay, I get it."

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