Wonderland

Chapter 21 Trial Penance
Xiao Lin has never been an indecisive person. After he figured out the path he wants to take in the future, he began to think about his own cultivation path and how to go.

Now, the second way to join the five major sects has also been completely cut off. The only way left is to enter the burrow and pick purple spirit flowers. This way is the most dangerous and the probability of success is the smallest.

In order to increase the probability of success, in Xiao Lin's view, the only way is to improve his own strength.

For the next three days, Xiao Lin stayed in the room. He didn't take half a step out of the room except to come out for a meal every day. In the past few days, he read the book [Comprehensive Common Sense of Cultivation] carefully. And after reading some important points explained in it, he will silently recall it again. Fortunately, his memory has always been very good, and I don't know if it is because of the practice of the Dry Water Sutra, although his memory is still not enough. Don't forget, but it's not far off.

In the past few days, he finally figured out a few things. One thing is about the imperial weapon. It turns out that after entering the third level of Qi refining, the cultivator can use the low-grade magic weapon to fly in the air, although the speed is not necessarily much. Fast, but at least much faster than his use of light work, and the art of imperial artifact is not uncommon, there are many manuscripts for sale in the market, after all, art of imperial artifact is an ability that low-level cultivators generally have.

Then there are spells. Spells are a means for cultivators to improve their combat power. Of course, there are many other means for cultivators to improve their combat power, such as envoys, through the use of some talismans containing spells, and some side paths. Like traps, poisons, etc.

But there is no doubt that spells are the only way for most low-level practitioners, and spells are divided into basic spells, primary spells, intermediate spells, and advanced spells according to their levels. Each level of spells is based on the proficiency of spells and the speed of casting spells. It is divided into three levels, namely spell level, silence level and perfection level. Ordinary monks practice a spell. At the beginning, they need to recite the spell to fit the mana in the body, and then cast the spell. As the number of spells cast increases, The more times you recite the spell, the more proficient you are at casting spells, and finally you can cast the spell by reciting the incantation in your heart. At this time, the speed will be much faster than that of reciting the spell, and the power will also be greater. Many, by reciting the incantation, once again improve the speed and proficiency of casting spells, and finally have the opportunity to cultivate to the perfection level. There is only one manifestation of the perfection-level spell, and that is instant casting. This instant casting spell is not only powerful, but also powerful. And it is hard to guard against, it is one of the most powerful attack methods for monks.

However, it is not an easy task to cultivate spells to the perfect level. It takes countless times to cast spells to improve proficiency. This process is extremely long, and as the spell level increases, the number of spells required to increase proficiency increases. , which increases geometrically.

Therefore, most cultivators in the realm of self-cultivation choose one or two spells as their main spells, because for ordinary qi-refining cultivators, it is not easy to cultivate a basic spell to the Great Perfection. After all, casting spells requires the support of mana. The mana of a qi-refining cultivator can only cast a dozen basic spells. For those with a higher realm, even if they reach the perfect qi-refining stage, they can only cast one. Twenty or thirty times, this is already the sky. Once the mana of the monk is exhausted, it will take at least half a day to recover. From this, we can see how difficult it is to cultivate spells to the Great Perfection level.

This has also led to most cultivators, in addition to cultivating one or two basic exercises, most of them improve their combat power by purchasing some magic weapons. Of course, those with a lot of wealth can also buy some talismans, which are all sealed inside. Sect spells can be cast instantly, but the price of talismans is also quite expensive. Basically, apart from some major disciples, loose cultivators are rarely able to use them.

After learning about this, Xiao Lin began to think about his own path of cultivation. On the fourth day, he checked out of the room without hesitation, and then went to Fangshi in the east of the city, and with some distress, bought the Spirit Mist Grass with The extremely low price of 20 yuan of low-grade spirit stones was sold to a monk in the Qi refining period, and then with the 20 yuan of spirit stones, he went to buy a book of imperial weapon formulas and a few basic spells, as well as some healing and detoxification books. The low-level elixir and the remaining Lingshi bought a map of the distribution of monsters around the Wuyin Immortal City, and then left the city.

There is a volcano three thousand miles south of Wuyin Xiancheng. This volcano has not erupted for hundreds of years. However, around the volcano, there are many fire pools. These fire pools are like pieces of ruby, dotted in the There are few fires in these fire pools in a radius of dozens of miles around the volcano. They are all dark rocks formed by the cooling of some magma. However, there are also some magma in the fire pools that have not completely cooled down, and countless fires are still rising from time to time. spark.

In these fire pools, there is a monster called the Fire Armored Beast. This monster looks a bit like a pangolin, but it is much larger than ordinary pangolins, and has sharp teeth. The most important thing is this The fire armored beast can also cast the primary fire spell - fireball.

There is another characteristic of this kind of monsters, they usually live in groups. Although not every fire pool has this kind of fire armored beast, as long as there are such fire armored beasts in any fire pool, there must be several of them. For cultivators, the value is not too great, only a piece of white scale armor on their abdomen is of some value, which can be used as a material for refining a basic magic weapon called the white scale robe. The production process of the white scale robe is relatively complicated, and the A large number of this kind of white scale armor is needed. Usually, more than 100 yuan of this kind of white scale armor can be used to make a white scale robe. The Armored Beast is not weak in combat power, and its strength should not be underestimated among the mortal monsters. For these reasons, there are not many monks who come here to hunt the Fire Armored Beast.

Xiao Lin chose this place for his first trial. The main reason why he chose the fire armored beast as his opponent was that he practiced water attribute exercises, and several spells he purchased were also Water attribute spells are the main, water overcomes fire, so he finally chose this place.

Xiao Lin was squatting ten feet away from a fire pool at the moment, staring intently at the fire pool. Beside the fire pool, an adult thigh-length fire-armored beast was lying there lazily, with a drowsy look. Thick look.

Xiao Lin wouldn't naively think that there was only one fire-armored beast in this fire pool. After two days of observation, he had determined that there were three fire-armored beasts in this fire pool. weak.

Xiao Lin knew very well that, given his level of water archery, it would be more fortunate if he singled out a fire-armored beast. A beast is drawn out, and only by one-on-one can he have hope of victory.

But he observed from early to night, but found that the fire armored beast didn't even lift its eyelids, it looked like it couldn't wake up, which made Xiao Lin have a headache, and he was hungry and dizzy, and there was nothing he could do. , he retreated and returned to a forest under the volcano, where there was a small rocky mountain, and there was a cave. Originally, there lived a brown bear. When he met Xiao Lin, this brown bear was also bad luck, not only in his hometown Being occupied by him, he even became Xiao Lin's dry food, which was dried and hung in the cave.

In this way, half a month passed quickly. During this time, Xiao Lin went to observe the habits of fire armored beasts during the day, and returned to the cave at night to practice the dry water scriptures. What made him depressed was the dry water scriptures on the third floor. Shui Rujing's cultivation speed is as fast as a turtle crawling. If he hadn't felt a little bit, Xiao Lin would even suspect that it was the same whether he cultivated or not.

But after this period of observation, he finally discovered a phenomenon that excites him, that is, the fire armored beast will leave the fire pool once every half a month, around the beginning of each month, and go not far away. Drinking water in a valley, while eating a plant that emits a faint blue light, at this time, it is just when the fire armored beast is alone, and it is also the best time to take action.

On this day, Xiao Lin finished his dinner, closed his eyes and adjusted his breath for an hour, then got up and touched the valley where the fire armored beasts were drinking water. Soon, he came to the valley and gently jumped up a big tree. Then wait quietly.

I don't know how long it took, Xiao Lin heard the rustling of weeds falling down in his ears. He was refreshed and looked down carefully. Sure enough, a fire-armored beast crawled out of the grass with a probing head, swaying. crawled towards the river.

The lengthy incantation sounded in Xiao Lin's ears. In order not to arouse the alertness of the fire armored beast, he lowered his voice. Following the sound of the incantation, a water arrow about a foot long appeared above Xiao Lin's palm. , The water arrow becomes more and more condensed with the incantation.

The fire armored beast that was crawling towards the river suddenly stopped, and a pair of soybean-sized eyes rolled around, as if feeling something was wrong. Climb to the river.

"Hey~" Suddenly, the sound of breaking the air sounded, and with Xiao Lin's cold "Go", the water arrow suspended in his palm suddenly turned into a green light and shot out.

At the moment when the water arrow shot out, the fire armored beast suddenly felt the danger. With a sudden turn of his head, he saw Xiao Lin on the tree, but what caught his eyes was the water with green light. arrow.

"Squeak." Since Xiao Lin was a sneak attack, the Fire Armored Beast had no time to dodge at all. He just tilted his body slightly and was hit by a water arrow. Immediately, a bloody hole was opened on the Fire Armored Beast's back, and blood ran down the wound. Outflowing, the fire armored beast raised its head and let out a roar, and then opened a mouthful, a fist-sized fireball shot towards Xiao Lin.

Xiao Lin was taken aback. He didn't expect this fire-armored beast to be so alert. He performed light work and jumped up. At the same time, he took out an ebony shield from his arms and threw it out. A shield stood in front of him.

At the same time, the sound of the incantation in his mouth sounded again, and the low-pitched incantation sound was extraordinarily strange in this dark and silent night.

"Boom." The fireball hit the tree trunk and burst open. The place on the tree where Xiao Lin was hiding was charred black, and with a "squeak" sound, the tree trunk broke open and collapsed. .

Xiao Lin was terrified when he saw this scene. If the fireball hit him, I'm afraid his end would be no better than that big tree.

(End of this chapter)