Immortal Palace Longevity

A peak second-level monster is equivalent to a human cultivator at the peak of foundation building, and its body is strong. It can attack or defend in the cold pond.

With the strength of three people, they can definitely defeat the Yinming Spirit Snake, and there is no problem in defeating or even killing it in the end. But the monster's body is strong, and it is impossible to kill it quickly in a short time. It is hard to say how long this process will take.

The monster has a body that is as strong as a magic weapon, and its vitality is strong and tenacious. The attack of the magic weapon on its body is not as fatal as that of humans. If it is not handled well, it will become a time-consuming and protracted battle.

Don't forget that this is in the branch of Venus where monsters are everywhere. If time drags on for a long time, other monsters may be alarmed, and there may be a golden elixir monster "passing by".

"Don't worry, fellow Taoists. I have already made sufficient preparations for this trip."

"Snake monsters like to eat mice, frogs, insects and other monsters the most, and the Yinming Spirit Snake is no exception. I have prepared bait."

"When the time comes, we can try to lure the Yinming Spirit Snake out of the cold pond, and then we can deal with this beast calmly."

The old Taoist Qingsong explained.

It can be seen that this person has made a lot of preparations for this trip, even considering the habits of the Yinming Spirit Snake.

"It turns out that fellow Taoist Qingsong has already considered it carefully, and I am worrying too much."

"But the distance of 480 miles is still too deep. There are second-level monsters everywhere around, and third-level monsters may pass by at any time."

Hearing this, Liu Yu nodded slowly, and then said.

"It is precisely because of this that we need to fight quickly, so I invited you two Taoist friends. Please don't hide your skills when we start fighting."

"The sooner we kill that beast, the less risk we will face, and the sooner we can get the spiritual information that fellow Taoist Hong and fellow Taoist Cang need."

The old Taoist Qingsong said solemnly, implying that only after he got his things, he would tell the two the information and formula they needed.

The two naturally agreed to this verbally, and as for what they were thinking, only they knew it.

After thirty miles, the traces of the cultivators gradually became scarce, the trees in the forest became taller, and the weeds everywhere were half a foot high.

The cultivators who occasionally met each other had deep vigilance in their eyes.

There is no order here, and Yuanyang Sect will not control all the behaviors of the cultivators in the mountains.

Even if they openly kill people and rob treasures, they will not be held accountable, so many "evil cultivators" have been born.

This is an absolute "lawless place".

Monsters are strong, and hunting them is time-consuming and laborious. There are also various risks in the process. How can it be easier for cultivators to hunt them?

Therefore, some "smart" cultivators enter the mountains not to hunt monsters for treasures, but to target other cultivators.

They often do not target cultivators who have just entered the mountains, but instead focus on those cultivators or teams who have lost some strength after hunting monsters, but may have a lot of gains, maximizing the benefits of each action.

Therefore, when entering the mountains to risk hunting monsters, you must not only guard against monsters, but also be careful of other cultivators.

The Jinxing Market was developed because of the continuous flow of cultivators entering the branch to hunt monsters.

Such behavior, of course, harmed the interests of the market, so the Yuanyang Sect did not take any action, but the spontaneous cleanup organized by the market has never stopped.

It's just that the benefits of no-cost business are too great, and the spiritual stones come too quickly, so the evil cultivators are like weeds. After cutting one crop, another crop will grow quickly, and there are constant cultivators joining in.

Even the cultivators who originally intended to enter the mountains to hunt monsters would sometimes be unable to resist when they saw other cultivators being injured and weakened by hunting monsters.

Therefore, many familiar cultivators would form a team to enter together, so that they could take care of each other and it would be much safer.

But the higher the Tao, the higher the devil, and many evil cultivation groups that specialize in killing people and stealing treasures also came into being.

However, under the attack of Jinxing Market, the number and scale of evil cultivation groups were firmly restricted, and would not have much impact on the development of the market.

Liu Yu and the other two were all above the middle stage of foundation building, so naturally there were no blind cultivators to disturb them. After sensing the cultivation of the three, the cultivators they met would all avoid them from a distance, fearing that they would become prey.

In the first half of the mountain range, Liu Yu and the other two hurried on their way without saying a word, passing through forests, rivers, swamps and other terrains, and tried to choose an inconspicuous position to move forward.

The monsters in the first two hundred miles of the branch basically did not reach the second level, so the three usually moved in a straight line, and occasionally passed through the territory of monsters without deliberately taking a detour.

It is the instinct of living things to seek good fortune and avoid harm, and to bully the weak and fear the strong. Liu Yu and his two companions who have reached the foundation-building stage are undoubtedly high-end "predators" for these first-level monsters.

How dare the skinny wolf challenge the majesty of the giant tiger?

Even if they were directly invaded, most of them did not attack, but only let out fierce roars with unknown meanings.

And those monsters that took the initiative to attack naturally became corpses under the magic weapons and spells.

"Puff"

While running, Liu Yu suddenly waved his hand and threw out a two-foot-long arc-shaped wind blade.

A leopard-like monster with red eyes, black body, and sharp claws was split into two, and its body was separated and completely lost its life breath.

"Mantis arm stopping a chariot"

The spiritual consciousness had already observed everything clearly. Liu Yu looked calmly facing the front, without a trace of ripples in his eyes, and his body only paused slightly.

Although he did not have the spiritual root of wind attribute, after all, his realm was there, and it was still very easy to learn the simplest wind blade technique.

The wind blade casually swung by the foundation-building cultivator was not something that this first-level middle-grade monster could resist.

Monsters have the instinct to seek good fortune and avoid harm, and they also have the instinct to defend their territory.

Some monsters with a strong sense of territory will attack enemies who invade their territory regardless of everything, even if the enemy is much stronger than themselves.

However, these monsters with strong territoriality are only a few after all, and they cannot cause any obstacles to Liu Yu, Qingsong Laodao, and Canglan. It is effortless to solve them.

This place is the territory of monsters. Even though the three are powerful, they are not arrogant. Therefore, they did not fly with flying tools after entering the mountains, and the speed of using wind control techniques to travel was strictly controlled, and they always paid attention to the surrounding situation.

It took nearly an hour to advance a distance of 200 miles.

Two hundred miles into the mountains, foundation-building monsters and monster groups have begun to appear. Liu Yu, Qingsong Laodao and the other two adjusted their strategies in time, no longer simply and rudely passing through the monster territory, but selectively bypassing the territory and continuing to move forward.

At this place, there were basically no cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage, and they were all cultivators or teams in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Even if there were cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, they had to be careful to avoid encountering powerful monsters and getting into danger.

Because they had to bypass the monster territory, and the danger level here was further increased, the three of them slowed down at the same time, and the speed was even slower for the rest of the journey.

Occasionally, they encountered a team of cultivators of three or five people, and they also confronted each other from a distance without any conflict.

Suddenly, Liu Yu stopped and looked at the three cultivators by a river a few miles away with a blank expression.

The other party had one man and two women. The man was a big man with a full beard, and the two women were dressed in revealing and vulgar clothes. The one with the highest cultivation level was the big man with a beard, who was in the late stage of the Foundation Establishment, and the other two women were in the early stage of the Foundation Establishment.

The two sides confronted each other for four or five breaths, and then they staggered away from each other and went their own way.

This situation happened several times, and this time it seemed to be just an insignificant episode. Liu Yu and the other two continued on their way.

…

After changing their strategy, the three no longer took the initiative to kill the monsters to avoid attracting more powerful monsters, and the number of confrontations with monsters dropped sharply.

They turned and detoured many times on the way, and their speed was more than twice slower than before.

Three hours later, the three people who bypassed a small swamp came to a forest, and the Taoist Qingsong, who was leading the way, finally stopped.

"My two Taoist friends, the Black Snake Pond is not far ahead, and the things I want and the Yinming Spirit Snake are in it."

The Taoist Qingsong said solemnly.

Liu Yu nodded slightly when he heard it, and the thick earth umbrella was already in his hand, in a semi-activated state, ready to be used to resist attacks at any time.

Since entering the area with foundation-building monsters, his spiritual consciousness has not been retracted, and he always pays attention to all movements within three miles with himself as the center, even underground.

The innate spells of monsters are all kinds of strange, and there may be some that hide their breath and escape underground, so Liu Yu can't help but be careful.

After a brief discussion on how to deal with the Yinming Spirit Snake, the three continued to move forward.

The temperature gradually dropped, and after walking about three miles, a cold pond came into view.

The pond was about twenty feet wide and thirty feet long. The water was light green, and its depth was unknown. There was a trace of cold air coming out of the water, which made the temperature around it drop a lot.

This was the Black Snake Pond mentioned by Taoist Qingsong.

The three nodded to each other and determined the upwind vent according to the plan discussed in advance. Finally, it was determined that the west of the cold pond was the upwind vent, and the wind here blew from west to east.

When they reached the distance of about four miles to the west of the cold pond, Taoist Qingsong took out nine array plates, buried them in a suitable location, and installed several medium-grade spirit stones, and then placed a bloody monster corpse in the center of the array.

According to Taoist Qingsong, this was the corpse of a second-level purple swamp frog, which he bought at a high price for this operation.

The purple swamp frog contains a lot of spiritual energy, and it is the favorite of snake monsters. The Yinming Spirit Snake will not let it go if it smells it. The west wind will blow the smell to the cold pond. Liu Yu and the other two just need to wait quietly for the monster to appear.

As for the formation, it is a set of second-level medium-grade trapping formation. Although it is impossible to trap the Yinming Spirit Snake with this, it is no problem to trap it for a short period of time.

With the three people restraining it, the Yinming Spirit Snake cannot attack the formation with all its strength.

A small breeze blew, blowing the bloody smell of the purple swamp frog to the cold pond. Liu Yu, Canglan, and Qingsong Laodao each cast a spell to hide in the woods, and restrained their own breath, waiting for the monster to appear.

In this way, the Yinming Spirit Snake will not be able to find their traces unless it searches carefully.

"Is there a problem with this formation?"

Hiding behind a tall tree and casting the invisibility spell to make his figure disappear, Liu Yu, who was motionless, had a question in his heart.

Then this question was quickly rejected. The array plate that Taoist Qingsong took out was indeed very ordinary. Although he was not familiar with arrays, he still understood the basic common sense.

The array relies on the special arrangement of "nodes" to connect with each other, attracting and leveraging the natural power of heaven and earth. Its power depends largely on whether the arrangement of the "nodes" is clever and brilliant, as well as the quality and stability of the "nodes".

The array arranged by the array plate and the array flags plays a part of the "node" role. Although it is simple, convenient and fast, its power depends largely on the quality of the array plate.

The quality of the array is average. Even if the arrangement is clever and brilliant, the power of heaven and earth that can be mobilized is limited, and the power of the array will not be, and cannot be, not high.

So Liu Yu denied the possibility that there is a problem with this array, but his vigilance against Taoist Qingsong did not diminish at all.

The scene in front of him is very similar to the "Appointment to Hunt for Treasures" in "Magic Cultivation Essentials", just like an adapted version, which makes him doubt it.

Moreover, Taoist Qingsong has a certain reputation among casual cultivators. He can invite some familiar casual cultivators. Why did he invite himself and Canglan, who are not familiar with him?

Hong Hao, who was aliased by Liu Yu, and Canglan, who was suspected to be a cultivator of the Yuling Sect, had no foundation in the local area. If they suddenly disappeared, they would not attract attention at all!

Regardless of whether he had a bad intention or not, his own strength was the key to Liu Yu's courage to keep the appointment!

If his "virtue" was not enough, it was possible that he would not be able to get the formula of Canglang Spirit Water today, and he would also have to take over the Dan Spirit Object and his family property.

Everything will be revealed after the Yinming Spirit Snake is killed and repelled.

"But what role does Canglan, who drives spirit beasts and spirit insects, play?"

Liu Yu looked at Canglan's position, and a thought flashed through his mind.

However, he did not use his spiritual sense to observe, because the spiritual sense of cultivators who drive spirit beasts and spirit insects is generally stronger, and their skills in this regard are also more advanced than ordinary cultivators.

At present, Liu Yu has only mastered the basics of the magical method of storing spirits, so it is better to be careful.

A quarter of an hour, half an hour, and an hour passed, and there was still no movement in the light blue pool, but the three people were still waiting motionlessly.

A smart hunter often has enough patience.

The second-level peak monster, located near the depths of the Venus branch, can also be regarded as a hegemon, so there are no other powerful monsters in its territory.

And those weak monsters also know that the cold pool is the residence of the "hegemon", and they dare not approach it because of its majesty.

Therefore, there are no other monsters around the cold pool.

Taoist Qingsong used some tricks to make the bloody smell of the purple swamp frog drift only to the cold pond, and there was no need to worry about other monsters being attracted.

In the woods, the chirping of insects gradually sounded again, and the sound of the sound was high and low, playing a natural melody.

Circles of ripples appeared, and finally after two hours, the situation changed.

"Splash"

In the light blue pond, the ripples became larger and larger, and finally a huge body appeared in a clear sound of breaking water.

This is a giant snake with a gray-black body and blue lines on the surface.

Flat snake head, light blue and cold vertical pupils, huge body.

There are two bulges on its abdomen, and the small part exposed above the water is more than ten feet, and the snake body is much thicker than a bucket.

The power of a top predator is released naturally.

The sound of insects chirping in the woods disappeared in an instant, and silence returned.