Do not die

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In the past, Meng Zhou had speculated that there was a high probability that Yan Zhuang's unused soul power remained in this divine soul armor.

But nothing was found.

This time, with the help of the repeated cleaning of the great power of life during the birth of life, the disguise on the surface was finally completely washed away, revealing the true content inside, allowing Meng Zhou to see the existence of these remaining soul powers.

But this is not all of this strange, consciousness-like sea space.

At first, Meng Zhou's attention was attracted by the most conspicuous power of the soul, which was like thick clouds and rain, so he didn't pay attention.

When he moved his mind away from the "clouds and rain" and began to explore elsewhere, he discovered that there were three tiny spots deep in this sea-like space.

If you look closely, they are not spots, but more like tiny holes poked in this space by a thin needle.

It is precisely because of their existence that they suddenly destroyed the stability and unity of this sea-like space.

It was like a perfect painting without any flaws, except for three holes that had been maliciously burned with cigarettes.

Through these holes, traces of a hidden world hidden deeper in the surface painting are revealed.

There is no doubt that these three small holes were not caused by cigarette butts, but were "washed" by the secret method of "Bead Body Washing Spirit".

This divine soul armor actually has two layers of disguise. Meng Zhou has long known about the most superficial layer, but he just can't see through it.

But behind the surface, there is a deeper disguise.

This is not only a kind of protection for the "inner layer", but also a fatal trap.

Immediately after the Divine Soul Armor was unsealed, a strong and vicious aura emitted, which directly caused serious distortions in the rapidly developing big demon cub that was closely integrated with it.

The reason is that this power that was originally tightly isolated in the "inner layer" "leaked" due to the appearance of these three pores.

Meng Zhou's consciousness peered in through a small hole.

Just after taking a look, there was a slight tingling sensation at the level of the soul.

Fortunately, Meng Zhou was prepared for this. This spiritual consciousness had been abandoned by him long before he penetrated it, and he regarded it as a pebble asking for directions.

Meng Zhou saw that the moment this discarded subtle consciousness penetrated the pore, it was like a flammable lamp grass, instantly turning into a pile of ashes.

This violent reaction caused Meng Zhou, who was watching, to feel a phantom pain from the level of his soul.

But he was completely unmoved, his consciousness completely immersed in the strong shock brought by that quick glance.

This is a much larger space like the sea of ​​consciousness.

This space is filled with thick clouds and rain like thick ink, and black raindrops may drip down at any time, like a black ocean floating in the void.

What is accumulated here is also the power of the soul.

No matter the quality or quantity, it far exceeds the remaining group in Yanzhuang.

But that's not the biggest difference.

The essential difference between the two "clouds and rain groups" is that the power of the soul is packed in this space, which is filled with a sense of death and decay.

Looking at them, Meng Zhou immediately had a thought in his mind: "Does the storage of divine soul power still have a shelf life? Are these some kind of deterioration and qualitative change due to expired storage?"

Soon, Meng Zhou shook his head in his heart.

This is just a joke. To draw a real conclusion, this discovery is not enough.

Meng Zhou was not in a hurry.

He believes that no matter how many secrets are hidden here, under the erosion of the great power of life, the original shape will eventually be revealed bit by bit.

Those hidden dangers that are extremely dangerous to him now will also be eliminated bit by bit in this process.

After the sacrifice of several third-level demons, the secret technique of Pearl Embryo Cleansing Spirits completed the accumulation of the minor stage and advanced to the realm of Dacheng.

Deep in the space of the Divine Soul Armor Class Consciousness Sea, the "spots" that originally existed only sparsely became more and more numerous as one after another of the great demon pups deformed into sarcomas during their development. Each "spot" "The size is also getting bigger little by little.

This sea-like space seems to be stained with more and more stains.

At this moment, Meng Zhou paused and returned to Sanchuan Plain. After several days of retreat, he returned to Wumenghai again.

No matter what, practice cannot be delayed.

He also considered finding a suitable spiritual place in Wumenghai to use as a temporary retreat, but after only thinking about it for a moment, he gave up.

At his speed, even if Wumenghai and Sanchuanyuan are hundreds of thousands of miles apart, it won't take much time.

Finding a suitable spiritual place nearby may seem easy, but setting it up as a temporary cave that suits his needs will only consume more time and energy.

Moreover, Wumenghai is not peaceful now.

He could often see scenes of the Spirit Controlling Army teaming up with the Qingxuan Sect to form pills and fight fiercely against the third-order monster.

"It's better not to create any complications."

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The end of the year has arrived in a blink of an eye.

After the sacrifice of one big monster after another, and the continuous distortion of one big monster baby after another, the sea-like space of consciousness that stores the remaining power of Yanzhuang's soul has been "washed" out of two huge "holes" ".

The "inner" space that was originally hidden, but Yanzhuang never found any clue of it throughout his life, has been completely revealed.

The color of the huge cloud and rain group that was originally thick and ink seemed to be dripping out of ink anytime and anywhere. The color in the two hole areas has obviously become lighter.

It's really not easy.

Seeing that the end of the year was approaching, Meng Zhou once again ended his "birthing" life that lasted for more than twenty days and returned to Aurora Cave for the most important retreat of the year.

After several days of retreat, the seventy-year-old Meng Zhou left Tianqi Mountain, but did not go to Wumenghai again, but to Kurosawahara.

It's not that he doesn't want to continue his activities in Wumenghai, it's just that after several months of "disaster" caused by him, there are fewer and fewer suitable targets for the big demon.

Unless he lowers his standards and devotes more time to finding a new great demon mother body, moving from Wumenghai to Kurosawahara is a choice he has to make.

It's not that the third-order monsters that Wumenghai used as the mother body for "birth" have been destroyed by him, but that their density is rapidly decreasing.

If he wants to find a suitable "birthing" matrix, he must spend more time searching.

As time went by, his understanding of "Pearl Fetus Cleansing Spirits" became more and more profound, and his mastery level became more and more profound. However, the time he actually spent on "inducing birth" became less and less, and he devoted himself to searching for More and more time is spent on it.

In this case, switching to Kurosawahara is the best choice.

In terms of area, Kurosawahara is the largest among the three third-level evil vessels.

Although the same area of ​​wasteland has less potential to accumulate life than the sea, Kurosawahara is larger in scope. Secondly, the wasteland is only a part of Kurosawahara. It is also filled with a large number of huge swamps, deep pools, poisonous canyons, and continuous Mountains, etc., the number of third-order monsters living here is no less than that of Wumenghai.

In addition, the monsters that live here are mostly animals and birds, so the restrictions are much less than those in Wumenghai, and the threat to practitioners is also greater.

Such characteristics have even shaped the practice pattern of the entire Qingxuan Domain.

Overall, the north and east directions of Qingxuan Territory are more desolate and less developed than the west and south directions, and there are fewer practitioners' activities. The biggest reason is that in the north of Tianqi Mountain, Kurosawa Plain In the east.

After the outbreak of the beast tide, when it comes to the struggle between the alchemy monks and the third-order monsters, the situation in Tianqi Mountain is the most optimistic, while the situation in Wumenghai and Kurosawahara is similar.

In terms of Qi training and foundation building and first- and second-level monsters, Wumenghai's situation is the most optimistic, followed by Tianqi Mountain, and finally Kurosawahara.

From the lowest level of competition to the top level of wrestling, Kurosawahara's situation is the most pessimistic.

Even, in order to weaken the impact of the beast tide in the direction of Kurosawa as much as possible, under the overall coordination of Qingxuan Sect, the practice community voluntarily abandoned some areas and used the method of increasing the spatial distance to dilute the impact of the beast tide as much as possible.

Compared with the monsters in Tianqi Mountain and Wumenghai, many of the monsters in Kurosawahara have a peculiar attribute - nausea.

Especially those monster beasts born in swamp areas are not only ugly, but also often have some special talents, or they can release a stench that lasts for a long time, or they can turn a good piece of land into A pool of black cakes splashed and danced.

The third level big demon can even control it to make it surge like a wave.

On the other hand, compared to other types of monsters, the Spirit Controlling Army has obviously done much less research on this type of monsters, and has a huge lack of experience.

If they are regarded as materials, their utilization rate is much lower than that of other types of monsters.

The success rate of refining into spirit puppets and corpse puppets is also lower.

Even if they are refined, their combat effectiveness is lower than other types of monsters of the same level.

All in all, the price/performance ratio is extremely poor.

From the perspective of conversion efficiency, at this time of tight military strength, it is obviously not cost-effective to focus here.

Because of these reasons, compared to the raging battles in other areas, the response to the beast tide around Kurosawahara seemed a bit perfunctory.

Among them, the first- and second-level monsters born in swamp areas and the third-order monsters are the most "nourishing".

Unless they are forced to kill them, no one is interested in spending their limited combat power and physical strength on them.

For Meng Zhou, these are not problems.

The harsh environment in the swamp area that is most unbearable for monks has no hindrance to him.

With the Five Elements Escape, he can jump between the real world and the real world at will.

Real-world swamp areas can be disgusting and can make people feel all sorts of uncomfortable if they stay there for too long.

But from the perspective of the real world, it doesn't matter whether there is a swamp or not. Everything in the real world is integrated.

The "Ling Yu Army" and Qing Xuan Sect's "retention" of this type of big demon also created better conditions for him.

From his point of view, the big demon in the swamp area is what suits him best.

——Because they tend to be larger in size and have more vitality, as "birth-promoting mothers", they can insist on giving birth to more "sarcomas" at the same level.

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Wumenghai.

Meng Zhou left quietly, just as he came quietly.

But the waves he caused had just begun.

As early as the end of last year, Qingxuanzong Jiedan, who was on the front line between the Yuling Army and Qingxuanzong, vaguely discovered something fishy.

The specific manifestation of this strangeness is that the frequency of their encounters with third-order monsters is slowly changing.

Originally, the encounter would occur once in about three days, but gradually it became an encounter only once in three and a half days, or even four days.

At the same time, the number of third-order monsters was slowly decreasing every time they encountered them.

Although this change is also very small, when it first starts to show signs, it is just a difference of one or two ends.

Not much has changed.

But for those who have been dealing with them all year round and whose heartstrings are tense all the time, any slight change can attract their attention.

However, when this clue first emerged, it had not been long enough. It might be a random change caused by some unknown factors. Everyone was not sure yet, but just kept this change pattern in their hearts.

As the new year passed, this change not only did not disappear, but became more obvious. The monks who were active on the front line finally no longer hesitated.

Hidden Island.

Ever since he obtained the new Spirit Controlling Master inheritance from the Professionals Association last time, Patriarch Mingnan dropped everything and devoted himself to enlightenment.

On this day, he had to withdraw from this immersive state. He looked at the group of monks waiting at the door, frowned and said:

"What happened?"

After he came back last time, he specifically told him not to call him when nothing happened, but to try his best to solve it by himself even if something happened.

To be able to reach this point, he has long understood a simple truth: practice always comes first.

Whether it was the previous Spirit Controlling Sect or the current Spirit Controlling Army, their purpose of existence was to make his practice easier, not the other way around.

When one of them said it was related to the beast tide, his displeasure was directly visible on his face.

If he is willing to cooperate with the Spirit Control Army, the efficiency of killing the third-order monster will undoubtedly be greatly improved.

If he was willing to devote all his time to this aspect in the past few years, maybe the situation in Wumenghai would have been reversed long ago.

Instead of maintaining it as good or bad as it is now.

But will he do this?

——Look at the Qingxuan Sect. From the outbreak of the beast tide to the present, the five elders of Qingxuan have not even shown their faces. Because the spirit control army has filled the hole, many of the Qingxuan Sect's alchemy formations have also been leisurely retreating in the mountain gate. Practice and be indifferent to changes in the outside world.

Don’t they know that as long as the family works hard, the situation will change drastically?

Not to mention the five elders of Qingxuan, the same is true for "Qihuangzi".

Thinking of this, he felt a little uncomfortable.

But soon, this unhappiness was replaced by another emotion.

He looked at the Qingxuanzong Danjie next to him and said in shock: "Did you send some other tasks to wipe out the big demons, and you secretly completed them without telling us?"

The man smiled bitterly and said:

"Uncle Master, how is this possible!

What's more, even if there is such a mission, there will always be news, right?

We move around Wumenghai every day, and if there is any movement, it cannot be hidden from our eyes! "(End of chapter)