The Path to Immortality: Starting with an Analysis of Basic Concepts

Chapter 466 The Bizarre and Extraordinary Ghostly Veins and Beasts Born from the Dead Sea (Please Subscribe)

"That's clearly a real lair of monsters..."

Recalling her previous experience, Zhu Yu still felt lingering fear.

Upon entering the trench, they encountered a series of mindless monsters, mostly in groups of hundreds or thousands, including many "blood realm" monsters.

The bizarre and wonderful tricks left Zhu Yu and the others in a very sorry state.

Fortunately, there is the magical artifact "Ten Thousand Souls Banner".

As it refined millions of monsters, it has transformed into a mid-grade spiritual weapon, with its power increasing by more than one or two times compared to before, and it has even more wonderful uses.

With its assistance.

Although the group faced dangers repeatedly, they managed to overcome them all.

And it took no more than half a day.

The monster crystals they harvested were worth several times more than those outside. Moreover, as they went deeper, the number of monsters increased abnormally instead of decreasing. Furthermore, it wasn't just them hunting monsters; the monsters were also preying on each other.

In particular, the number of "Blood Realm" monsters is increasing, and they are all in groups.

And it was here that personnel were lost.

The gluttonous fat fish Xiao Qing, while chasing a rare lantern ghost, encounters a group of fish that look like "piranhas".

But the "Blood Realm" monster has even more ferocious teeth.

By the time she realized it, it was too late to escape.

When Zhu Yu and his men arrived, all that remained was a pool of blood, and the group of "piranhas" had vanished.

Fortunately, Xiaoqing only lost a portion of her spirit, and with her powerful "Naga Serpent" bloodline, she was able to recover quickly.

Xiaoqing's distraction and loss made everyone more cautious.

Not greedy, but only hunting small groups of monsters, as time goes by, the rich spoils are almost surpassing the gains of the "homeland" in the "martial arts world".

The price paid was the departure of "Xiang Sui", "Yao Ye", and "Blood Slave".

Seeing that the harvest was enough for the "main body" to thoroughly digest, Zhu Yu prepared to leave and find a place to hide the "altar".

But just as they were about to leave...

"Dream" captures a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a fish. Thinking it is just an ordinary monster, it prepares to kill it and take the monster crystal, and feed the remaining broken soul and body to "Ten Thousand Soul Banner".

Unexpectedly, the bull-fish monster actually spoke.

His words dissuaded Zhu Yu from returning, which resulted in the deaths of Hong Youfu and the others, and Zhu Yu himself almost failed to escape.

And the place that caused this result.

It is a sea area located 10,000 meters below the ocean trench, completely different from the outside world.

Zhu Yu named it "Dead Sea".

Led by the bullfish monster, the group passed through a layer of water hundreds of feet thick, like sand and mist, and suddenly their vision opened up, as if they had appeared in another world.

The Dead Sea is calm, with no undercurrents or rapids.

Countless bioluminescent organisms and enormous bioluminescent plants live within it, illuminating the Dead Sea as if it were daytime.

It's more like the human world than the outside world.

At the same time, the eerie atmosphere here is thick and terrifying, with countless strange and bizarre creatures that can be seen everywhere.

Faced with such lavish feasts, how could Zhu Yu resist?

He immediately joined forces with Hong Youfu and others to hunt and kill them indiscriminately. At first, he did not notice anything amiss during the killing, but when he saw the usually docile Xiaobai suddenly explode with a "Blood Wanderer" monster and perish together.

It was only then that he suddenly realized something was wrong, and then he discovered that Hong Youfu and the others were also acting strangely. They were increasingly targeting monsters without any intelligence, and not only did they pick on the toughest ones, but they also seemed to have lost their minds, fighting desperately without any attempt to dodge.

And it was at this moment.

Their rampage of hunting down monsters, along with the stench of blood and the fluctuations of magical battle, attracted a huge creature.

A terrifying monster that looks like a centipede.

In just one encounter, Hong Youfu and the others were completely corroded by the green water it sprayed. Although he had dodged in advance, the green water still swept down to his lower body and dissolved into water.

Just before the centipede looked over.

In this critical moment, Zhu Yu directly activated his last life-saving measure: the supernatural talisman of "Qingji Xiaozu".

Then, not daring to look, she desperately fled.

"Unfortunately, I was so focused on killing monsters that I forgot to check for any spirits—"

Coming to her senses, Zhu Yu couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

The Dead Sea is filled with eerie and terrifying energy, and it must contain a lot of strange creatures. Otherwise, so many strange creatures, like fish and shrimp, could not survive, and it would be difficult to cultivate such a large creature as the centipede.

of course.

It's a pity, but if you ask him to go back, he definitely won't.

Well, at least until he obtains another "supernatural talisman," he will not enter the "Dead Sea" again.

Losing focus doesn't matter; you can just reinvest.

The "Banner of Ten Thousand Souls" is lost, and it's truly lost—

Zhu Yu suppressed the distracting thoughts in his mind, glanced around, and then rode the escape light to land on the seabed. His body transformed into black smoke and he burrowed into the depths of the earth.

They continued deeper, about several hundred feet, and confirmed that even "Netherworld-level" monsters would have difficulty finding them. They quickly carved out a stone house.

The Ghost Realm is activated, and the "Altar" is retrieved.

Instead of activating the "altar," Zhu Yu used the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner" to gather evil energy, closed his eyes, concentrated, and refined it to repair his damaged body.

For three whole days.

He has just repaired his torso, but this is only a preliminary repair. To return to his prime, he will need time to slowly recover.

"The 'main body' can't wait any longer, let's teleport the spoils back first—"

Fearing that things might change if he waited too long, Zhu Yu waved his hand and injected a strange force into the altar, activating it. Then, using the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner" as the array's core, he set up a simple spirit-gathering array to provide energy for the altar.

When the vortex manifests.

Zhu Yu immediately took out the harvest of the past half month. In the Ghost Domain Storage Room, the stone chamber was filled with countless ghost crystals.

He only knew the general outline and hadn't counted the details. He scanned it with his divine sense when the teleportation channel was established.

All the gains floated into my mind.

The largest quantity is Black-grade Mysterious Crystal, with nearly one million of Wandering-grade, nearly two million of Wrath-grade, and nearly one million of Fiend-grade.

One hundred Black-level Mystic Crystals can be refined into one "Spiritual Ruins Origin", while Black-level Resentment Crystals can be extracted into two, and Black-level Fiend Crystals can be extracted into three.

All the Dark Realm Crystals can be refined to yield approximately 80,000 strands of "Spiritual Ruins Origin".

Besides that, there is the "Blood Realm" Mysterious Crystal.

The number is not large, with nearly two hundred in the "Blood Wandering" realm, more than eighty in the "Blood Resentment" realm, and only seven in the "Blood Fiend" realm.

This is because they were hunted in the Dead Sea; otherwise, their numbers would be even fewer.

A single "Blood Wanderer" realm crystal can be refined into ten "Spiritual Ruins Origins", a "Blood Vengeance" realm crystal can be refined into twenty, and a "Blood Fiend" realm crystal can be refined into thirty.

Although it may seem like a small amount, the true value of the "Blood Realm" Mysterious Crystal lies not in the "Spiritual Ruins Origin" it contains, but in the Mysterious Domain Dao Patterns on the crystal and the fact that it is itself a second-tier "Origin Spiritual Material".

It is a top-grade spiritual material for refining weapons or cultivating Dao soldiers.

It is of great value.

"This is truly a windfall!"

Zhu Yu smiled and waved his sleeve, causing the strange crystals on the ground to turn into a river and flow into the teleportation vortex.

He immediately closed his eyes and concentrated, waiting for the transmission to complete.

Immortal Tomb and Spirit Ruins.

The Green Lotus Tower, the Underworld, the Upside-Down Tower, and the Second-Level Space.

A vortex surged above the "altar," with specks of dark, eerie crystals emerging from it like grains of sand. This continued for a moment before finally stopping.

"Truly a treasure land!"

Zhu Yu couldn't stop the joy from flowing across his face. He waved his sleeve and revealed the "Bronze Gate," sending all the millions of "Black-grade" ghost crystals into the "Life Spirit Ruins."

He then put the remaining "Blood Realm" ghost crystals into the beast pouch in his sleeve, stepped into the "Bronze Gate," and arrived at the "Native Spirit Ruins."

Looking at the strange crystals floating in the sky.

A thought subtly stirred within me.

The "Benming Lingxu" was like a millstone, with an invisible and powerful force acting on the strange crystal. In just an instant, it turned into dust.

The dust turned into specks of firefly light, scattering across the earth.

In Zhu Yu's perception, as soon as the dust formed from the strange crystal fell to the ground, countless tiny and invisible "ghost veins" were instantly born, which merged into one.

In just a few breaths.

A "ghost vein" eight zhang long, resembling a dragon or a snake, was born.

A sense of satisfaction and fulfillment welled up in Zhu Yu's heart. He had a vague understanding of what was going on and reached out to grab something.

A magnificent tiger, ten feet long, and a lizard with earthen scales and a head and tail nearly three feet long, were drawn to him with mournful cries. They were the spirit beasts he had nurtured using the essence blood of the "Flower Ghost," a magnificent tiger from the "Insect Realm," and the "Broken Tail," a giant earth lizard.

Both are of low-grade spirit beast bloodline.

Although it appears valuable, its worth is not as great as that of the "Flame Crystal Earth Dragon" and "Insect Man" with top-tier mortal bloodlines.

Ignoring its wails, Zhu Yu lightly tapped his finger, and two clumps of blood, one red and one yellow, gushed from its mouth. He then waved his hand and sent it to the second floor of the "Upside-Down Tower" to keep the "Flame Crystal Earth Dragon" company.

With a wave of his hand, two clumps of essence blood exploded and scattered on the ground, merging into the underground ghost veins.

Under his gaze.

The black energy of the ghost vein surged, accompanied by roars, and one after another, "ghost beasts" resembling tigers and giant lizards leaped out, came to the ground, and roared to the sky, as if announcing their birth.

Zhu Yu glanced at it only once and then ignored it, focusing his attention on his "natal spirit ruins".

Along with the emergence of "ghost veins," "native creatures" were born.

In his perception, compared to before, his "Native Spiritual Ruins" was like a baby learning to breathe. With each breath, the "Native Spiritual Ruins" was subtly adjusting itself to become more rational.

It can be said.

"Benming Lingxu" has truly come to life.

From now on, there's no need for Zhu Yu to make any special adjustments. Just throw the resources into the "Benming Lingxu," and it will instinctively place the resources in appropriate locations to improve and strengthen itself as much as possible.

"This is the true path of cultivation for the 'Lord of the Spirit Ruins'—"

Zhu Yu's mind returned to normal, and a smile spread across his face.

Although "Benming Lingxu" is him, it's like a person who is born knowing how to eat, but doesn't know how to treat themselves when they catch a cold.

He was the same.

He only knew how to brutally consume "Spiritual Ruins Origin," "Five Elements Essence," and all sorts of spiritual objects to strengthen himself, but he didn't know how to rationally allocate these resources to make himself stronger in a more efficient, comprehensive, and safe way.

It wasn't possible before, but it is now.

There's no need to interfere with your "natal spirit realm"; your instincts will guide it to develop in the safest, most efficient, and most comprehensive way.

For example, right now.

Millions of strange crystals were crushed, and more than 80,000 "Spiritual Ruins Origins" were extracted.

In the past...

He must have directly refined it, giving rise to the "Native Spirit Ruins".

But now it's different. Zhu Yu didn't make any deliberate arrangements. The two "Natal Spirit Ruins" devoured the "Spirit Ruins Origin," the "Five Elements Essence," and various resources extracted from the "Source Sea" bit by bit—

It expands outward at a steady and determined pace.

After a moment of observation, Zhu Yu nodded in satisfaction, confirming that his instincts were far better than what he could do himself, and then stopped interfering.

He paused for a moment to ponder.

With a wave of his hand, he took out 5,500 strands of "Spiritual Ruins Origin", divided them into eleven portions, and sent them into the "Source Pool" with a flick of his sleeve.

He parted his lips slightly and smiled, "Well done, I hope you will continue your efforts—"

Hong Youfu and the others, who were busy extracting black water, heard Zhu Yu's telepathic message and before they could understand what was going on, a ball of black light appeared out of thin air in front of them.

Sensing the fluctuations of "Spiritual Ruins Origin" emanating from it, they were all stunned, then somewhat incredulous. When they sensed the number of "Spiritual Ruins Origin," their faces lit up with wild joy. "Five hundred 'Spiritual Ruins Origin'! Has the Palace Master gone mad?!"

A thought flashed through the minds of Hong Youfu and the others.

They then thought of the possible origin of "Lingxu Origin".

"The Realm of Ghosts".

"How is that possible—"

"What a huge thing we did! The Lord of the Manor actually gave us so many 'Spiritual Ruins Origins'!"

While everyone was excited, they were also somewhat bewildered.

Because the transmission had only lasted for half a month, they only received news that the "divine soul" had taken over the body of the monster and was killing monsters with the "Lord of the Palace". As the "divine souls" quickly perished, no other news was sent back.

But regardless.

Five hundred strands of "Spiritual Ruins Origin" have fallen into their hands!

"We've chosen the right person to follow; the Lord of the Manor is indeed never stingy—"

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After the initial excitement, when everyone looked at the pool full of black water again, they no longer felt terrified or scared; instead, they were full of energy.

With such a generous lord by my side, what future could I possibly have to worry about!

"Wow, so many 'Spiritual Ruins Origins'!"

As for the demon beasts like Xiaoqing and Xiaobai, as well as the whale, blood slave, and dream, they didn't think so much. They simply accepted what their master gave them, chatted away, and happily continued refining the black water.

When I'm tired, I go out to play, go shopping and buy food and clothes. When I'm in a bad mood, I go to "Daze Lingxu" to vent my anger. Every day is wonderful.

Sensing the reactions of the crowd, Zhu Yu was very satisfied. They hadn't been with him for long, but after a few more decades of training, they would be of one mind.

He then looked thoughtful, pondering what to do next.

First, there are the "supernatural talismans" needed to distract the mind.

Forget about "Qingji Xiaozu". He's storing his "supernatural powers" in his own body, and he might not have recovered yet. Buying from him again, whether you succeed or not, would be a bad idea.

I thought about it.

The idea of ​​purchasing "supernatural talismans" can only be applied to the avatars of the "Insect Realm" and the "Twelve Heavenly Immortal Alliance".

But he wasn't in a hurry.

The Dead Sea is right there; it can't be moved.

Passing information to a distraction.

Zhu Yu thought of the "Blood Realm" Mysterious Crystal, and since he now had a sufficient amount of "Spiritual Ruins Origin" and his "Natal Spiritual Ruins" needed time to digest, he might as well borrow some to cultivate some valuable monsters such as "Flame Crystal Earth Dragon" and "Insect Man" to sell.

He also has a prized possession that he owns.

There's no worry about not having someone destined to come to your door.

There are also spiritual foods from the "Insect Realm," magical crops from the "Spirit Realm," strange creatures from the "Ghost Realm," and unique spiritual items from the "Twelve Celestial Alliances," all of which can be sold—

Although the latter may not be very useful, it's novel!

As long as the price isn't too high, there's no worry about not people trying it out.

"Then let's open two shops."

One shop sells demonic pets, and the other sells miscellaneous items.

"The name will be—"

"With a Demonic Pet, The House of All Things" —

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