Do not die

Meng Zhou dived to the bottom of the deep pool, brought up the first boulder dug out when opening the Water Curtain Cave, returned it to its original position, and sealed the entrance of the passage tightly like a plug.

If you didn't take a closer look, you wouldn't have discovered that a temporary cave had been opened here.

Of course, even if someone were to accidentally discover this place by chance, they would only be able to curse and regret it.

Before leaving, he cleaned everything inside. Not to mention valuable items, he also cleaned up the worthless domestic garbage.

Even some obvious personal traces were deliberately removed by him, such as the strange depressions made by the tripod on the floor of the stone room, and some traces left on the walls and floor by occasionally testing the power of some methods.

Then, Meng Zhou went to Xiong Mountain again and hunted several first-level top-grade bear monsters. When they were decomposed, he only picked out the most valuable and essential parts. He didn't turn around until the seven storage bags were full. Go without any nostalgia.

When he left, the bears that had been lucky enough to escape his rounds of harvest seemed to know that he would never come back again, and they roared one after another, as if they were running around to celebrate their remaining lives.

Meng Zhou only stayed here for a total of one and a half months, but in this area, which Nuanyun Valley defaulted to as a "forbidden area", the threat level dropped sharply, and the first-order high-grade bear monsters were basically wiped out by him.

When they were alive, they were his best sparring partners, helping him intuitively understand the meaning of real bears at close range.

After his death, his flesh and blood, which contained the majestic essence, became a sacrifice in his five internal organs temple. This was an important contributor to the White Bear Hanji body being able to advance to perfection so quickly.

Meng Zhou's figure seemed to have little weight, floating over the treetops and branches, the grass and water, or the dangerous cliffs.

A place where there is no path in the eyes of ordinary people is like walking on plain ground to him.

This effect is not the effect of a variety of perfect martial arts or high-quality light body talismans, but a new first-level high-grade spell he cultivated before setting off, the Feihong Technique.

"Introduction to Phenomatsu: 1/30"

Although Feihong Technique is not yet true flying, if it is practiced to a high level, the effect will be similar to that of flying, except that it will be closer to the ground, and you will need to borrow strength from the ground from time to time.

And this has the added benefit of being more flexible.

Even if you encounter an emergency, you can dodge and change direction in time, so as not to fly too high and easily become a target for fire. If your strength is low, it will be difficult to hide.

The reason why I chose to learn a new spell like this was because I was considering that I would have to travel a long way.

All the time has been invested, and by the way, practicing a new related spell can be regarded as hunting rabbits, which is equivalent to making money in vain.

At the beginning, because he was just getting started, his proficiency was still lacking, and his body had not yet fully adapted to this new skill. Meng Zhou still needed to devote a lot of energy to focus on this.

But for him now, he can get +10 experience every hour.

After half a day passed, the experience of Feihong Technique was +30, and he successfully advanced from beginner to beginner. This magic has basically completed the mutual recognition and adaptation with the body.

There is no need for him to do it deliberately to ensure that the effect of this technique will continue.

Meng Zhou also briefly reviewed what he had gained in this month and a half of retreat.

First of all, his original goal of coming here was successfully or even exceeded. He not only created a horizontal training method based on the original Cangxiong horizontal training method that is more suitable for him.

Using "water" as a link, he integrated it with the water nourishing and moisturizing formula, and initially built a larger framework system that is unique to him.

It is not modest to say that this result alone allowed him to obtain the clearance ticket for successful foundation building in advance.

His current thoughts have changed from whether he can succeed in foundation building to how to make the quality of foundation building better.

In addition to this fundamental goal, there are also many other gains.

The improvement of cultivation level, breaking through from the seventh level of Qi training to the eighth level of Qi training, is one step closer to foundation building.

Others include the growth of Bai Ya, the Rope Spirit, the Talisman Maker becoming a Talisman Array Master, the Rope Knotting Techniques advancing from initial stage to small stage, etc.

The consumption is also not small. The biggest consumption is the spiritual materials worth more than 4,000 low-grade spiritual stones fed to Bai Ya.

Secondly, he used the Spirit Gathering Array to practice and consumed as many as 730 low-grade spirit stones.

In addition, in the half month between the completion of Baixiong Hanjishen and the advancement of the rope knot hundred method, the life span was increased twice during daily practice, from 106 to 108 years old.

…

[Name: Meng Zhou]

[Life span: 51/108 years] (+2 years)

[Status: Healthy]

[Realm: Eighth Level of Qi Training: 45/100]

[Exercise:

Master of water nourishing and moisturizing techniques: 1798/2400

White Bear Hanji’s body is perfect]

【Skill:

Martial Arts: Fourteen Perfections (Details omitted)

Spells: Perfection of Breath Condensation Technique, initial completion of Feihong Technique: 1/60, perfection of the Eight Medicine Techniques (details omitted)

Talisman: four perfections (details omitted)

Talisman Array: The Soul Gathering Talisman Array is initially formed at 50/100, and the Earth Power Talisman Array is initially formed at 20/100.

Perfect swordsmanship

A small amount of knotting skills: 5/400]

[Contract Oath: Rope Spirit Level 1: 40/100]

【Profession:

Knot Master Level 1: 24/100

Talisman Master Level 1: 81/100

Pharmacist level one: 100/100]

…

Meng Zhou took a rough inventory of his wealth, especially the spiritual stones.

"Yeah, 3523."

After repeated confirmation many times, even if the value of the middle-grade spiritual stone was included, there was not one extra.

For other monks in the late stages of Qi training, this is undoubtedly a huge sum of money, but it is far from what Meng Zhou expected.

Meng Zhou looked at the seven storage bags on his body and the various items that filled them. He was already thinking about which items he could get rid of.

When he was on the road, Meng Zhou did not pick up the deserted trails, but instead took the initiative to lean on some main roads. He was even hoping that a group of blind people would come out to rob the road.

But it was a pity that until nightfall, when he had found a place to stay overnight and began to practice in seclusion, no fat sheep came to his door.

Not to mention a night of practice.

The next day, morning.

It was almost noon, and as we got closer and closer to the Red Pine Ridge, there were gradually more monks around us.

Before entering the Red Pine Ridge, Meng Zhou even saw three flying boats with the unique logo of the Professionals Association flying out of the Red Pine Ridge and rushing towards Nuanyun Valley.

Seeing them, Meng Zhou, like other monks, just raised his head and watched curiously for a while. After they passed over his head and disappeared into the distance, he continued on his way.

After handing over a low-grade spirit stone and entering Hongsong Ridge, Meng Zhou had a clear goal and went directly to Hongsong Ridge Market.

Entering a hotel and coming to the front of the shopkeeper, Meng Zhou said: "Stay in the hotel."

"My hotel has third-class rooms, which one do you want?"

"Excellent."

"how long?"

"one night."

"Ten low-grade spiritual stones from Chenghui."

After handing over ten low-grade spiritual stones, Meng Zhou entered a guest room.

The aura in the room is similar to that of the stone room after being upgraded to the Zaowang Pavilion, but the price is many times more expensive.

This is not because the other party is cheating, but this is the rule.

At this point, Red Pine Ridge and Nuanyun Valley are the same.

Retreat places such as Zuowang Hall will only provide retreat places for long-term residents and will not receive short-term customers.

This is to facilitate management and reduce many hidden dangers caused by the frequent movement of strange monks.

There is no concept of law in the spiritual world. Whether you follow the rules or not depends entirely on your personal morality.

In this regard, monks have always been very flexible.

As long as there is a gap, even a pure-hearted monk will not mind making a small fortune if he is sure of it.

Therefore, it is the default approach to concentrate all this group of strange mobile monks who pose greater hidden dangers in the market areas with the strictest supervision.

Of course, this is also a result of the game between the forces of all parties.

After entering the room, Meng Zhou lined up the seven storage bags on the table and began to classify the various storage bags inside and carefully count them.

About an hour later, he put the seven readjusted storage bags into his arms again, walked out of the hotel, and headed towards the market.

The primary purpose of his coming here was to purchase a large amount of wood spiritual materials and prepare enough ingredients in advance for Bai Ya who might wake up again at any time.

The reason why he came to Hongsong Ridge instead of Nuanyun Valley, which he was more familiar with, was because Hongsong Ridge was already famous for its abundance of wood-based spiritual materials, and the price of raw materials was much cheaper than that of Nuanyun Valley.

Since he wanted to purchase in bulk, it would be more cost-effective to come to the source of the raw materials.

Secondly, he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to get rid of many things, including various magical weapons provided by Heshengtang Zheng Sheng and others. If these were used in Nuanyun Valley, it would easily cause trouble.

In order to avoid causing trouble, it would be safer to sell these items in Hongsong Ridge.

As for He Shengtang discovering clues about these magical weapons in the future, he didn't care.

Anyway, he had already left the area at that time and let them do whatever they wanted.