The vast Gobi Desert is endless, scorching under the scorching sun, eroded by wind and sand, and everywhere is desolate with no birds and no trace of people.
Jiang Yue covered her face with a white cloth, leaving only a pair of distinct black and white eyes exposed. She walked alone on the Gobi Desert, facing the flying sand and rocks.
Under the gravel, bones were half buried, and a scorpion crawled out of the skull's eye socket.
Jiang Yuebai shook off the yellow sand on his head, narrowed his eyes slightly, and the spiritual energy quickly condensed and compressed between his eyebrows.
whoosh!
Wind blades flew, skeletons exploded, and scorpions fled in fright.
[You use the Thousand Leaves Hand to activate the Blade Flow Wind Kill, but the speed is slow and the effect is poor. It is not as good as the Wind Blade Technique. Thousand Leaves Hand proficiency +3, Blade Flow Wind Kill proficiency +1]
Jiang Yuebai ignored the mockery on the panel and continued walking alone in the Gobi Desert. She used talismans to suppress her cultivation to the harmless initial stage of Qi training, attracted low-level beasts along the way, and continued to practice casting spells with her spiritual consciousness.
In addition to the high-level spell "Blade Flow Wind Kill", there is also the high-level thunder spell "Five Thunders Orthodoxy" that she exchanged in Tianyan Sect, which contains the five thunders of gold, wood, water, fire and earth.
The journey was heading northwest, and in five or six days they would reach the Gobi market inside the Great Wall. That was the last supply station outside the Great Wall of the Liusha Region. She was not in a hurry to travel, and it was fine to practice magic while walking.
[You cast the Fire Thunder with the Thousand Leaves Hand. Smoke is coming out of your head. The spell failed.]
[You use the Thousand Leaves Hand to cast the Earth Mine again. With the advantage of the terrain, the spell is cast successfully. The proficiency of the Thousand Leaves Hand is +3, and the proficiency of the Five Thunders is +1]
[You failed to cast the spell as...]
[You failed to cast the spell as...]
…
[Congratulations, you have successfully entered the "Five Thunders Law" and entered the first level]
[Congratulations, you have successfully broken through to the second level of "Thousand Leaves Hand of All Things". Girl, you are going to have grass growing in your head.]
After walking for three days, Jiang Yuebai found a shady place in the dry river to rest. He took out the Xuanbing Wine he bought in Chaotian Territory and took a sip to cool down.
She is not afraid of the heat, but she feels a little irritated by it.
Jiang Yuebai's consciousness sank into her sea of consciousness, and she found that the Yunzhi grass in her sea of consciousness had indeed sprouted new buds, and was about to have two more tender leaves.
Jiang Yuebai was looking forward to it. With an extra pair of spiritual leaf hands, he would be able to cast spells quickly and alternately.
After she becomes more familiar with casting spells with her spiritual consciousness, she can continue to practice casting spells with a single leaf hand. In the future, she can learn the "Spiritual and Soul-generating Method". The four leaf hands will cast four completely different spells at the same time. That scene will definitely be spectacular.
The hard work of more than a month has finally paid off. Now, I can use my spiritual sense to mobilize the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to cast spells directly, which is much faster. However, the power of the spells is only half of what it was before when I mobilized the spiritual energy from my own body.
"In the next few days, I will consolidate my knowledge and practice using the five elements' energy from the five elements lotus to cast spells. This way, I won't be at a disadvantage when I encounter a strong enemy."
The lotus platform is separate from her body, which is equivalent to an external water tank. It allows her to mobilize the five elements to cast spells without going through the meridians in her body. Moreover, the lotus platform's own ability to accelerate spellcasting also has an effect on spellcasting with spiritual consciousness.
The only problem now is that if her spiritual consciousness casts spells more than thirty times, she will feel dizzy and mentally weak, and need to meditate and rest before she can continue. She thinks it is because her soul is not strong enough.
"The power of Yunzhi grass is hidden in the soul. To increase the strength of the soul, we can only plunder the essence of the spiritual grass. However... I am half human and half grass, so perhaps I can also use human methods to increase the strength of the soul."
After resting for an hour, Jiang Yuebai continued on his journey, hunting low-level monsters and practicing magic along the way.
On the evening of the next day, when passing Huangsha Gorge, they were suddenly besieged by a group of ninth-level golden-eyed eagles. Jiang Yuebai did not fight back with magic weapons, but kept dodging the claws of the golden-eyed eagles and took the opportunity to practice "Blade Flow Wind Kill".
Camel bells jingled as a camel caravan slowly approached from a distance. The flag of the Mingsha Chamber of Commerce fluttered in the wind.
"Look at that female cultivator. She's so stupid. She couldn't kill a few golden-eyed eagles after so long."
"Her magic is too bad. After fighting for a long time, she only knocked down a few feathers."
"Hahaha."
Several late-stage Qi training monks who were escorting them sat on camels, mocking and joking, their laughter echoing in the silent Gobi Desert.
Jiang Yuebai's sea of consciousness tightened, his soul weakened, and he stood still immediately. A dozen golden-eyed eagles around him immediately waved their claws and pounced on him.
Buzz!
A dark red ring of fire silently spread out from Jiang Yuebai's body, and the golden-eyed eagle was instantly burned to ashes.
"Foundation-building monk!"
The Chamber of Commerce's late-stage Qi training manager hurriedly got off the camel and greeted him respectfully.
"My name is Shi Tong, nice to meet you, Senior."
Jiang Yuebai nodded and glanced at the monks who were huddled like quails behind the camel caravan.
"Excuse me, how far is the market from here?"
"It's not far. We will arrive in one day if we walk in that direction. If you use a flying magic weapon, you can arrive in one or two hours. However, it is the windy and sandy season recently, so you need to fly as low as possible when using a flying magic weapon."
"Thank you very much."
Jiang Yuebai thanked him and prepared to leave, but Shi Tong hurriedly tried to keep him.
"Is this your first time to come to the Flowing Sand Region to train? The Flowing Sand Region has been in turmoil since the destruction of the Prajna Temple a hundred years ago. The sects here are unmanaged and there are both good and evil forces."
"Recently, the Scarlet Sun Palace and the Yellow Sand Sect are fighting outside the Great Wall. If you don't know the way, you might as well follow our Chamber of Commerce to avoid accidentally entering the battlefield between the two factions and being implicated."
Jiang Yuebai thought about it for a moment and then agreed. Mingsha Chamber of Commerce was quite famous in the Liusha Region, so he could just go and find out some things.
Shi Tong was overjoyed. The young master of their Mingsha Chamber of Commerce was recently hunting monsters outside the Great Wall and had transferred all his people away, so that the Chamber of Commerce had no foundation-building monks to guard the camel caravan.
The closer he got to the battlefield between the two factions, the more uneasy he became. Meeting Jiang Yuebai at this moment solved his urgent problem.
"Thank you, senior. I have a humble request. If I encounter disciples from the two sects who intend to rob me on the road, I hope you can deter them. When we reach the market, I will definitely give them a great gift."
Jiang Yuebai said bluntly: "If there is a big trouble, I will leave by myself, don't blame me for not telling you in advance."
"No, there won't be any trouble under normal circumstances. There are only two sects of Qi training disciples nearby who are taking advantage of the situation to rob people. It is rare to see cultivators above the foundation building stage."
Shi Tong gave his camel to Jiang Yuebai and arranged for a female cultivator from the Chamber of Commerce to accompany him.
The camel caravan was back on the road. The female nun was young and very enthusiastic.
"My name is Qin Yao. If you have anything you want to know, you can ask me."
Jiang Yuebai tightened the cloth on his face and said, "Before I came to the Flowing Sand Region, I heard that a magical object of heaven and earth appeared here. What's going on?"
Qin Yao nodded, "Yes, it was in the Prajna Temple. The Prajna Temple was destroyed because of this magical object."
"Tell me more specifically."
"About 120 years ago, the Liusha Region was not a chaotic place yet. There were some Buddhist and Taoist sects as well as martial arts sects. Like other regions, the Liusha Region was governed by the Prajna Temple. It was not particularly peaceful, but it was not as chaotic as it is now."
"Later, a spiritual creature was born in the Prajna Temple. It is said that on that day, the sand in the entire Flowing Sand Region floated up from the ground, shining with golden light, truly covering the sky and the sun. It was so powerful that even the cultivators in the Baipu and Muyun regions were alarmed. Only a dozen years later, the major sects in the Flowing Sand Region suddenly united and destroyed the Prajna Temple with thunder."
"By the time the Central Plains Immortal Alliance reacted, the Prajna Temple had already become a ruin. No one was alive, and the magical object was nowhere to be found. Over the years, there have been constant battles of varying sizes in the Flowing Sand Region, and most of the fights between the various sects were caused by that magical object."
"I see." Jiang Yuebai seemed to be thinking, "Then the Red Sun Palace and the Yellow Sand Sect that Shi Tong mentioned just now also fought over this?"
Qin Yao said, "They are fighting for the territory of Fengshi City. There is a small secret realm there. Previously, it was controlled by the Holy Water Palace. The three factions checked and balanced each other. Half a year ago, the Holy Water Palace was destroyed. Now, the Red Sun Palace and the Yellow Sand Sect are unwilling to submit to each other, so they started fighting."
Jiang Yuebai knew that the Quicksand Region was in chaos, but he didn't expect it to be this chaotic.
"Tell me about the current forces in the Quicksand Region."
"Okay, there are still more Buddhist sects in the Liusha Region..."
Qin Yao talked freely as the camel caravan moved forward.
The sun was setting in the west. At dusk, Shi Tong, the leader, suddenly stopped. Jiang Yuebai jumped off the camel and went to check ahead.
On the ruined earthen wall, two burly foreign monks were facing a monk in red, and the atmosphere was tense.
(End of this chapter)