I save spiritual roots for the next life.

Chapter 274
The swamp is filled with poisonous mist, and unknown monsters are dormant under the black water. The long journey is already full of dangers. Now, coupled with the raging calamity cultivator, it is really difficult to feel at ease.

Traveling in a group can indeed greatly reduce the chance of being targeted.

Li Jizhou doesn't have much to worry about with his current trump card. Unless the Nascent Soul Master lowers his worth and becomes a tribulation cultivator, there will be no worries.

This situation is basically impossible. True Lord Yuanying looks down on things belonging to monks in the Dan Formation stage.

However, it would be better to avoid exposing Zhenjun Kudie's Nascent Soul aura and not wasting his trump cards.

Glancing at the delicate female cultivator in the late Foundation Establishment stage in front of him, Li Jizhou was slightly dissatisfied. He was now a cultivator with the ancient surname and was in the early stage of true elixir. If he was in the Foundation Establishment stage, he might as well be alone.

Looking at the seven people behind him, one of them made his heart move slightly.

With his divine consciousness at the peak of pill formation, he could easily see through the opponent's disguise technique.

It turned out to be Zhang Ruoyu!

The third-level doctor at Xiaogui Peak of Jinyang Sect back then.

He is now in the middle stage of the Dan Formation, and his magic power is still solid and thick. One glance shows that after entering the Dan Formation stage, his character is still the same as before, and he has laid a solid foundation and has accumulated a lot of experience.

However, at this moment, he was converging his aura and was in the early stages of forming the pill.

"Fellow Taoist, if you want to return to the Yan Kingdom, why not go together!" At this moment, the mid-level Dan-formation monk who seemed to have the highest level of cultivation among the seven people said.

This man is powerful, rough and magnanimous. Not only does he have no hidden state, he also has no disguise.

"I am the elder of the Fire Cloud Cave of the Yan Kingdom, Lei Tianhu, with the Taoist name Lei Hu Zhenren. These are all my junior family members. Don't worry, they are definitely not pretending to be Jie Xiu!" Lei Hu Zhenren said without hesitation.

The reason for this is that many monks who have recently returned to Yan Kingdom have been deceived by Jie Xiu's disguised group.

I thought I had found the organization and would be worry-free when I returned, but who would have thought that after entering the depths of the swamp, I discovered that the entire organization was just a lamb to be slaughtered, and the rest were all cultivators.

This situation is more dangerous than going through it alone.

Li Jizhou smiled slightly and finally refused: "Thank you Master Lei Hu for your kindness. Gu is used to being alone."

If it were just Master Lei Hu and Zhang Ruoyu, Li Jizhou wouldn't want to go with them.

It's just that there are two fake pills in the team, and the four foundation-building descendants of the Thunder Tiger Master clan are lagging behind them.

"Master Gu, the swamp at this time, especially the road leading to the Yan Kingdom, is different from the past. You... Yesterday, a Taoist friend in the middle stage of the Dan Formation was surrounded and killed by Jie Xiu when he went alone!" Master Lei Hu stared at him unabashedly. After Li Jizhou looked at it a few more times, the meaning behind his words was clear at a glance.

"Brother Gu, what my father said is right. Yesterday, the little girl saw with her own eyes that the senior who was in the middle stage of the alchemy process fled in embarrassment, but was still killed by three tribulation cultivators in the end. If that senior had a few helpers along with him, it would not have been so tragic!" Lei Chunying, the female cultivator who initially recruited Li Jizhou and the eldest daughter of Master Lei Hu, said with a smile.

Li Jizhou looked calm and nodded slightly: "Thank you for telling me, Gu has made up his mind."

"You..." Lei Chunying's charming face looked like she was about to cry.

This actually made Li Jizhou pause for a moment. He had never encountered such a superficial and pretentious person in the practice world for more than a hundred years.

"Sister Ying, please stop talking. Some people are just as good-hearted as donkeys and can't be persuaded by good words. It's not worth it to feel sad for such people." A fake young master with a jade-like face next to him hurriedly stepped forward to comfort him.

Li Jizhou's face became strange. He never thought that in this small team, he would meet two top players, one with green tea and the other with dog licking.

"Don't be rude." Master Lei Hu scolded him immediately, and then said to Li Jizhou: "Junior is rude, my fellow Taoist, please forgive me, but this trip is extremely dangerous, so please be more careful. See you later."

"See you later!" Li Jizhou nodded slightly.

Most of the people waiting to form a team here were basically similar to the ones that Master Lei Hu had during his trip. Li Jizhou no longer asked for trouble and flew away, heading straight out of Lone Bamboo City.

"Hmph, it's just the early stage of true elixir formation. What's there to be proud of? I told him that all the masters in the middle stage of elixir formation were besieged and killed. Doesn't he think he is better than others?" Lei Chunying mumbled as she watched Li Jizhou leave Lone Bamboo City. Pouting, he complained softly.

"Yingmei is right, this kind of person thinks very highly of himself and is arrogant about everything. He obviously looks down on us!" The young fake alchemy monk hurriedly agreed.

"Brother Yang is better!" Lei Chunying suddenly smiled like a flower.

Master Lei Hu suddenly stared at Lei Chunying with a gloomy expression.

Then he glanced at the eldest disciple Yang Yang, and finally shook his head helplessly.

One is his precious daughter. She has been sheltered by her elder status in the Fire Cloud Cave since she was a child. She is pampered and pampered, and is highly sought after. However, it is difficult to change her character.

One is his most popular disciple. He originally had high hopes, but ended up being obsessed with the love between a man and a woman, and even obsessed with his own daughter. In the end, he fell in love with himself, and in the end he only achieved fake elixirs, and this is how he will be in this life.

At this moment, another monk flew over, and Lei Chunying hurriedly stepped forward to chat with him.

After the same exchange, they finally reached a consensus that this monk was the master of the Taoyuan Mountain Sect in Yan State, and he was still in the middle stage of elixir formation, similar to Zhenren Lei Hu.

The only thing that is not ideal is that he also brought several juniors from the sect, and they are all in the foundation building stage.

The team now has 17 people.

Among them, Leihu Zhenren is at the peak of the middle stage of pill formation, followed by Taoyuanshan Sect Master in the middle stage of pill formation, and Zhang Ruoyu, a monk in disguise and in the early stage of pill formation, Zhang Fan, is second.

The rest are all the descendants of Master Lei Hu’s disciples, family members and descendants of Taoyuan Mountain.

"In that case, with Taoyuan Mountain Taoist friends joining us, we should be able to set off!" Master Lei Hu raised his arms and shouted.

In the 17-person team, except for the three of them who are real people in forming alchemy, among the others, there are five real people who are fake in alchemy and nine are juniors in foundation building.

Although the overall strength is not good, Lei Hu Zhenren's peak mid-stage pill formation and Zhang Ruoyu's super-mid-stage pill formation strength, coupled with the strength of Taoyuan Mountain Sect Master's mid-stage pill formation, can be regarded as the strongest combat power among the returning team, and there are many people. Xiu bullies the weak and fears the strong, so he may not dare to take action against them.

As everyone in Taoyuan Mountain joined in, Lei Chunying once again found the core disciple of Taoyuan Mountain who had the greatest potential to condense the true elixir and struck up a conversation.

This made Yang Yang on the side look furious, but he could only be helpless and furious.

The group set off soon,

Before entering the swamp, the Foundation Establishment juniors all took poison-avoiding pills, otherwise they would not be able to withstand the poisonous fog of the swamp.

Ten days later, they finally left the outer area of ​​Lone Bamboo City, and what followed was the real area where tribulation cultivators were raging. Master Lei Hu signaled everyone to stay alert.

Not long after, scattered corpse fragments could be seen on the way. Judging from the breath, there were corpses in the middle stage of the Linking Pill.

At the moment I couldn't tell whether it was a calamity cultivator or a returning cultivator.

These scenes made the juniors who were protected by three true elixir monks, including two in the middle stage of elixir formation, feel in their throats.

"It's too tragic!"

Another day later, we saw several fresh corpses.

Some are still emitting spiritual energy, and their blood has not even completely drained out.

"Sister Ying, I'm afraid that Gu Zhenren from before is among them!" Yang Yang saw that Lei Chunying was very close to the core disciples of Taoyuan Mountain and deliberately made a conversation.

"Really? That's such a pity. Hey, I tried my best to persuade him, but he just didn't listen. I should have tried to persuade him more!" Lei Chunying looked sad and even blamed herself.

The core disciples of Taoyuan Mountain heard this and immediately took over.

What made Yang Yang grit his teeth was that he originally wanted to talk to Yingmei, but in the end, Yingmei and the other party had another topic to talk about.

Lei Chunying and the other party began to explain patiently, and thoroughly explained the matter of recruiting Li Jizhou.

"Ha~ This ancient master is really overconfident. My master didn't even dare to return alone in the middle of the pill formation. He is so arrogant in the early stage of the pill formation? Death is not a pity!" After hearing the previous recruitment, the core disciples of Taoyuan Mountain said, He couldn't help but shake his head with disdain.

"Does this need to be said? At first glance, Zhenren Gu is a person who has no experience and is looking for death." Yang Yang couldn't help but hurriedly interjected.

Although he is a fake elixir master and his cultivation level is temporarily higher than that of the other party, the other party is a core disciple who is very promising to condense the real elixir and has a higher future potential than him.

So he can't feel much superiority in front of the other party.

The other party never took him seriously.

As for the discussion among the juniors behind, the three real elixir masters in front were all aware of it and wanted to reprimand them, but the scene in front of them probably was not wrong.

"Gu Taoist friend is finally young!" Master Lei Hu sighed.

Zhang Ruoyu kept looking at his nose, nose and heart. He just paid attention to his surroundings with full vigilance and did not open his mouth to comment.

boom!
Suddenly, there was a loud noise from ahead.

The swamp was filled with poisonous mist, and their spiritual consciousness was limited. Only the three people in front of the group could reach a hundred feet of land with their spiritual consciousness.Others are a little reluctant to be thirty feet tall.

The loud noise in front made everyone's hearts tighten. Master Lei Hu hurriedly summoned everyone to gather together and prepare for the attack.

"Roar!" A loud roar sounded again.

And the sound is approaching rapidly towards this side.

Master Lei Hu was about to lead everyone away, but it was already too late.

I saw a tremor beneath the earth, and the black water of the swamp swept over and gushed out like a huge wave.

"Be alert, monster!"

Seeing that he couldn't escape, Master Lei Hu hurriedly spoke out.

However, at this moment, the monsters were running under the black water, and it was difficult for him to detect specific information with his spiritual consciousness.

Even the strength of the monster's aura cannot be judged.

"I heard that there has not been a mid-level third-level monster or above around here, maybe it's just an early-level third-level monster, so don't be too alarmed." The Taoyuan Mountain Sect Master comforted everyone.

Bang!
Suddenly, there was an explosion.

The black water surged up instantly, hundreds of feet high in an instant.

"Someone is coming out from below!" Everyone saw the scene in front of them, except Yang Yang who shouted out.

The first three Jiedan masters were all shocked by the people rushing out from below.

That turned out to be the ancient master that everyone was discussing just now!

The next moment, Li Jizhou fell from mid-air and looked at everyone.

Ten days ago, Li Jizhou walked out of Guzhu City.

Until three days ago, I met the first batch of robbery cultivators here.

Two pills were formed in the early stage, and three fake pills. Before Li Jizhou could decide whether to release the aura of True Lord Kudie to scare them away, Guagua had already taken action to poison them all.

In the end, Shadow's last touch was enough to harvest a lot of third-level primary materials and several thousand spirit stones.

Most of them should have been obtained by plundering monks who returned to Yan State.

Then, before walking too far, he encountered a late-stage third-order monster that was attracted by the blood.

And this late-level third-level demon actually has an innate characteristic that Li Jizhou is very jealous of - the void escape method.

Although he can only escape a hundred feet each time, he is already very powerful.

In addition, his flowing fur is a good talent for making third-level advanced talisman seals.

So I have been chasing him until now.

Just under the black water of the swamp, I finally killed and skinned him with the help of four puppets and croaking, and took the demon pill.

"Master Gu, nice to meet you!" Master Lei Hu came to his senses, stepped forward and said with a smile.

"Is this the person from before?" The Taoyuan Mountain Sect Master looked Li Jizhou up and down and nodded slightly.

The juniors at the back finally felt relieved.

The monsters that can be killed by Gu Zhenren, a real person in the early stage of pill formation, are probably at the early stage of the third level at most.

It might even be just a second-level monster.

The movement just now was huge, which could only mean that the monster was quite big.

"Master Lei Hu, nice to meet you!" Li Jizhou also clasped his fists slightly.

"I didn't expect to meet here again. From my perspective, I'm afraid we are destined to be together! Hahaha."

"It's fate." Li Jizhou smiled slightly.

"Since we are so destined to meet again, I'm afraid Master Gu has seen too much blood along the way, why not go with us?" Master Lei Hu invited again.

The juniors were not sure about the level of the monsters, but at the moment when Li Jizhou came out of the water, the three demon beasts judged the lowest level of mid-level third-level monsters based on the lingering evil spirit under the black water.

If you look at it this way, the ancient master in front of you either has a super powerful secret magic power, aura secret technique, or he has a super trump card.

This is a big help to them!
In the past, Master Lei Hu in Lone Bamboo City did not try his best to persuade Li Jizhou to stay, mainly because Li Jizhou was in the early stage of forming the pill. But at this moment, he became eager.

Not only him, the master of Taoyuan Mountain also invited him very politely.

He even promised that if Gu Zhenren's return to the master failed, he could come to Taoyuan Mountain to serve as an elder.

Just when Li Jizhou was about to refuse, Zhang Ruoyu stepped forward and asked him to stay very respectfully.

This scene made the juniors behind him speechless.

Especially the master of Taoyuan Mountain actually directly promised the position of elder.

"Is he really the Gu Zhenren you mentioned before?" The core disciples of Taoyuan Mountain looked at Lei Chunying in disbelief and said in a message.

Lei Chunying nodded numbly, and looked at Li Jizhou with a strange look in her eyes.

Yang Yang, the licking dog, was dumbfounded and blushed.

"How can he be so virtuous? He is only in the early stages of forming a pill..."

For a moment, Yang Yang regretted not devoting himself fully to practice.

After looking at Zhang Ruoyu, Li Jizhou finally nodded.

After all, the first life-extending pill was trained on the life-extending fruit provided by Zhang Ruoyu.

And when he was cultivating in the Wulaohui sea area, his name was always mentioned.

On the return journey, it is considered to understand the cause and effect.

In addition, he had just obtained the third-level late-stage demon elixir, and he still needed to gather the power of his soul to slowly refine it. If he was alone, he would be easily attacked by others.

Being mixed in the crowd does have a warning effect.

Upon receiving Li Jizhou's nod, both Master Lei Hu and the Taoyuan Mountain Sect Master were overjoyed and became more confident about their return trip.

Then everyone moved on again.

Along the way, Li Jizhou took the opportunity to chat with Zhang Ruoyu.

After some insinuation, Li Jizhou basically understood the trajectory of his arrival in the swamp.

When the entire Jinyang Sect went to support Yu Ziyu's coalition, Zhang Ruoyu left alone. Now that the war situation in the Yan Kingdom has gradually stabilized, he returned to the Yan Kingdom.

Compared to Zhang Ruoyu, Li Jizhou felt that he was not stable enough, and he even secretly took action against the Demon Sect back then.

But Zhang Ruoyu is truly independent of cause and effect.

If Zhang Ruoyu had a spiritual beast like Guagua that could go out to search for treasures on his own, he probably wouldn't even think about returning to the Yan Kingdom.

Three months later, the group completely left the Lone Bamboo City area and came to the land adjacent to the Yan Kingdom in the Eastern Wasteland.

There were no dangers along the way, and several dangerous cultivators were encountered along the way. In the end, they faced off for a while without taking action.

Once here, Li Jizhou also began to make plans for returning to Donghuang.

At this moment, I don’t know if the Shangguan family’s Nascent Soul Lord has arrived in Lone Bamboo City?

(End of this chapter)