The yellow sand below was affected by the yellow power attached to the black air wall. In an instant, the explosion area was filled with sand and dust, as if the world was stirred by a pair of giant hands.
When the sand and dust quickly dissipated, a huge bottomless pit appeared underground.
As soon as the huge pit appeared, the fine sand around it, like sharks smelling blood, quickly poured into the hourglass-like black hole from all directions.
It caused the sand dunes within a dozen miles to roll like flowing water, making a dull "booming" sound. The earth was shaking continuously with a huge momentum.
Li Yan in mid-air looked at Zhao Min, whose body was glowing with blue light, and planned to help her suppress the poisonous insect king.
Although he didn't know how to perform witchcraft, suppressing the resistance of the poisonous insect would definitely help Zhao Min.
He first released his spiritual sense to scan the surroundings, and three cultivators and several monsters of different levels appeared within a thousand miles.
The three monks and two third-level monsters also felt the strong fluctuation just now, and their spiritual senses came out to explore.
"roll!"
Li Yan's voice was like a rolling thunder, and the aura of the late Jindan period in his body was no longer reserved and poured out.
Two of the three monks formed a team, and the other one was walking alone between heaven and earth.
After they heard Li Yan's scolding, one of the two people in the team immediately came over to transmit the message.
"Your Excellency is so majestic!"
But their spiritual sense also saw the situation here clearly. When they saw that the other side was three Jindan masters fighting a group of crossbow insects, they had already retreated in their hearts.
They don't want to get involved with the crossbow worms, and this is not a fight for treasure.
Then, with a cold snort from that person, the two Jindan retreated their spiritual consciousness and disappeared into the horizon.
The other Jindan retreated even faster. He was alone, and when he saw that the other side had three Jindans, and the pressure they exuded was at least that of a middle-stage Jindan, he dared not say a word and fled away directly.
Then the two third-level monsters roared a few times and also did not come over, but slowly retreated back to their nest.
Li Yan then withdrew the pressure from his body. At this moment, Zhao Min suddenly dodged from the side of Li Yan and flew into the air to avoid the attack from below.
The next moment she appeared more than ten miles away, with beads of sweat still on her face, and she was standing above the Crossbow Insect King.
At this time, yellow liquid flowed out of the crossbow worm king's mouth and eyes. His breath was constantly weakening, and the fierceness in his eyes was quickly fading away.
Zhao Min slapped her waist, and a khaki talisman appeared in her jade palm. The next moment, she slapped the talisman hard with her jade palm.
The arm seemed to extend infinitely, leaving behind a phantom, and Fu Lu was instantly imprinted on the eyes of the Crossbow Insect King.
"puff!"
As soon as Fu Lu touched the body of the Crossbow Worm King, he immediately turned into a red smoke and penetrated directly into his eyes.
Then, the crossbow worm king's body bounced up violently, and after a flutter, it immediately fell softly to the ground.
Zhao Min's spiritual sense swept over and penetrated into the other party's sea of consciousness without any hesitation.
The moment this divine consciousness entered the Crossbow Worm King's sea of consciousness, it saw a talisman floating above his sea of consciousness.
This talisman was already wrapped with thin blood-red lines. Upon seeing this, Zhao Min's spiritual consciousness, without any pause, turned into a brand and imprinted it on the talisman.
Fu Lu trembled slightly and immediately disintegrated. The blood-red lines on the surface of Fu Lu were quickly pulled by the scattered light spots.
The imprint of Zhao Min's consciousness seemed to be stretched, and flew to all directions of the crossbow worm king's sea of consciousness along with these blood-red threads.
After six breaths, those blood-red lines completely disappeared.
It was not until this moment that Zhao Min in the outside world breathed a sigh of relief. In just these ten breaths, she seemed to have experienced a great battle, and fatigue appeared in her eyes.
The ritual of this crossbow worm king has not been truly successful. Later on, she will need to spend an hour every day to slowly communicate with those blood-red threads using her spiritual sense to nurture them.
This process will take eight days to complete.
The next moment, Zhao Min's mind moved, and the eyes of the crossbow worm king, which had been a little dazed, suddenly became clear.
After a moment, it leaped up from the ground and immediately pounced on Zhao Min.
Zhao Min did not dodge or evade, allowing the Crossbow Worm King to pounce on her. The moment the Crossbow Worm King approached Zhao Min, it turned in the air and landed on her shoulder.
As Zhao Min urged it mentally, a hint of hesitation appeared on its face.
Afterwards, the Crossbow Worm King's consciousness dissipated. This was the consequence of failing to completely refine it. Zhao Min could only control it forcibly at present. In the Crossbow Worm King's subconscious, there was still a desire to struggle.
As the Crossbow Worm King's spiritual consciousness spread out, the crossbow worms in the distance immediately stopped their frantic attacks.
What surprised Li Yan and Zi Kun even more was that the crossbow worms that had stopped attacking suddenly opened their mouths again the next moment.
Just when Li Yan and the others thought that there might be a problem with Zhao Min's ritual and these crossbow worms were not being dispatched by the Crossbow Insect King.
Then, large pieces of yellow light attached to the invisible barrier of the "Big Dragon Elephant Formation" suddenly flew up one after another, like long threads being peeled off by someone, and then they were sucked back by the crossbow insects.
"It's still possible?"
Li Yan was really surprised. This situation was not recorded in the jade slip given by Su Hong.
Li Yan has seen many different races, but he has never seen magic power that can be taken back into the body.
Similarly, he also got the answer from Zi Kun's surprised look. Obviously, even Zi Kun, an ancient ferocious beast, had never seen a monster like the crossbow worm in his memory.
"If we can cultivate such a method, wouldn't the consumption of mana be greatly reduced?"
Li Yan thought about it in his heart, but he also knew that this must be difficult, and very, very difficult. Otherwise, with the knowledge of Qingqing Continent cultivators about crossbow worms, they would have studied it long ago. At least he had never heard of such a technique appearing.
As the attacks of these crossbow insects stopped, the yellow sky and earth in front became clear again.
Without Li Yan's instructions, Zi Kun waved his hand and the small purple flag rotating above his head was put away again.
"Okay, you still have to hide for a while. It's very dangerous here. You and Qianji still have to be a trump card."
Zi Kun glanced at Li Yan. He knew that Li Yan was always like this. Although he didn't know where this place was, he still nodded.
The reason why he looked at Li Yan was because he was surprised by the aura that Li Yan had just burst out.
"How did he advance again? This is the Golden Core Stage, not the Qi Condensation or Foundation Building Stage. This... This is too outrageous!"
He entered the middle stage of the Golden Core when I had just woken up. It has only been a few months, how come he has improved again
Is it really as easy for him to improve his realm as eating and drinking? It seems that he needs to practice harder to catch up. "
Zi Kun certainly noticed that Zhao Min's cultivation had also improved, but when the mistress met her before, she felt that she had reached the peak of the middle stage of the Golden Core.
Therefore, he would not be too surprised even if the other party broke through the bottleneck on the second day.
As soon as Zi Kun left, Zhao Min returned to Li Yan's side.
Zhao Min flipped her jade hand and took out the spirit storage bag that Meng Zhiyuan had given her, and then collected the tens of thousands of crossbow worms in front of her.
Afterwards, the Crossbow Worm King also disappeared from her shoulder.
At this time, Zhao Min gently patted the soul storage bag, and a satisfied expression appeared in her eyes. If it weren't for this soul storage bag, she could only take away some second-level crossbow insects.
The space of this soul storage bag is not as large as the space of the other soul storage bags on her combined, not to mention that those soul storage bags are almost full of different kinds of poisonous insects.
"Is this monster also a Gu insect?"
It was not until this time that Li Yan had the chance to ask.
“I wasn’t sure just now, but after repeatedly probing with my spiritual sense, I felt that their souls were very similar to Gu, so I gave it a try.
Fortunately, the Crossbow King we encountered was only a second-level monster. Otherwise, we could only take away a few weaker Crossbows by force. If we try again later, the harvest will be greatly reduced!"
Zhao Min smiled. She was very interested in the crossbow worm's special attack capabilities, especially its talent of reclaiming magic power at the end.
This is an unexpected surprise. If used properly, this thing can even pose a great threat to Jindan cultivators.
"That's good, let's get out of here quickly. Although it was only a short time ago, we have already been noticed."
Li Yan took a look at the dilapidated houses below. It seemed like the residence of a military general.
Because he saw a broken plaque above the dilapidated main gate in front of him, with the words "... Military Mansion" on it, and it should have been engraved with the words "General's Mansion".
Secondly, behind these dilapidated houses, there is a very large open space with some weapon racks scattered around and a faint spiritual energy emanating from it.
That open space looked more like a training ground, and did not look like the cave dwelling of immortal cultivators at all.
Zhao Min naturally had no objection to Li Yan's words. She had also sensed the spiritual sense of a cultivator sweeping over her just now, but was immediately frightened back by Li Yan.
An hour later, Li Yan said to Zhao Min while flying.
“I’m beginning to think that what Su Hong said makes some sense. Everywhere we pass, there are houses similar to the general’s mansion.
It's a mountain stronghold with a 'Juyi Hall' and even a temple... It's very messy.
It really looks like the place where the Xunxian lineage lived, with the smell of grass and green forests everywhere.
Among them there may have been heroes of the outlaws and powerful military generals with great martial arts skills. This is completely different from the orthodox immortal cultivation sects and families.
But it’s a pity that there are no books or jade slips left here, otherwise we could have used this opportunity to deduce a lot of things.”
Li Yan said with some regret that if this place could still remain intact, he really hoped to find more useful information, including clues about the Desolate Moon Continent.
Unfortunately, times have changed and everything useful and useless has been looted.
But even so, hope was still ignited in the hearts of Li Yan and Zhao Min. In this strange place, it is really possible to find the "Hao Han Stone" again.
It’s obvious that the monks here come from mixed backgrounds, and their life experiences are even richer and more exciting.
Although the "Xunxian Lineage" cannot fly before becoming immortals, the places they have visited are definitely no less than a cultivator who has been training outside.
Li Yan and Zhao Min then restrained their aura and concealed themselves again.
The first level of the underground secret cave is an endless dusk, with ruins and yellow sand everywhere as far as the eye can see.
After staying here for a long time, the endless gloomy atmosphere of old age makes people feel decadent.
Just as Li Yan was communicating with Zhao Min, he suddenly let out a light exclamation, then turned his head to look in one direction, and a ruined ancient tower appeared in his consciousness.
It is unknown how many floors the ancient tower originally had. The upper half has disappeared, and the ruined top of the tower is covered with wild grass that soars into the sky. Only three floors are exposed in the yellow sand below.
"There is a scent of spiritual energy fluctuations there!"
Zhao Min also sensed a slight fluctuation of spiritual energy in the tower, which was nothing at all.
Although this is a desert, there are many things with spiritual energy, such as the scattered weapon racks mentioned above.
However, the spiritual energy in the tower was somewhat inconsistent with the direction of the spiritual energy in the surrounding void, and the manifestation was extremely subtle, so it might be overlooked if one was careless.
This seems a little different!