A corner of the desert.
The five members of the Blood Sect, headed by Yu Tong, sat quietly on the sand dunes, as if waiting for something.
Yu Tong, dressed in bright red, holds a pottery xun in her slender jade hands, and her plump red lips are playing softly on the pottery xun.
Surprisingly, no sound came from the pottery cun.
Dozens of miles away, Mo Xi from the Ghost Sect was holding a similar pottery xun in his hand. From time to time he would bring the pottery xun to his ear, as if he was listening intently.
He seemed to be discerning the direction through the pottery xun.
After a long time, the other four disciples of the Ghost Sect, under his leadership, came to Yu Tong's meditation place.
At this time, Yu Tong had already stopped playing Tao Xun.
"What was the result of your victory?"
After Mo Xi arrived, he ordered the other four people to find a place to sit down. He walked up to Yu Tong and looked at Yu Tong deeply with wild eyes.
There was an extremely hidden longing hidden deep in his eyes.
"The Lingyun Sect's trialists were in the desert, and they hunted down the Earth-walking Lizard. Before they fought, we killed two of them, and after their battle with the Earth-walking Lizard ended, we killed two more." Yu Tong With an indifferent expression, he said, "There are still six people from Lingyun Sect alive. Originally... we could kill them all."
"There was an accident?" Mo Xi frowned.
"At the critical moment, the people from Lingbao Pavilion arrived." Yu Tong snorted, "Lingbao Pavilion came from the glacier area. It was you who failed to kill them, which made us miss."
"Yu Tong! In the glacier area, we not only met the people from Lingbao Pavilion, but also the guys from Gray Valley!" Du Kun from the Ghost Sect shouted.
If Nie Tian were here, he would recognize Du Kun at a glance as the person pretending to be Hui Gu.
Mo Xi waved his hand to signal Du Kun not to interrupt, and then said: "We killed eight of the ten people in Gray Valley, and only Yuan Feng and his cousin escaped. Over at Lingbao Pavilion, we also killed one person. It's a pity. We spent too much time chasing Yuan Feng and did not have the energy to destroy Lingbao Pavilion in all aspects."
"Oh." Yu Tong responded lukewarmly, "Now that Lingbao Pavilion and Lingyun Sect have merged, I noticed that they have already rushed to the volcanic area."
"There should be people from the Xuanwu Palace hunting in the volcanic area. We have to take action as soon as possible to prevent them from joining the Xuanwu Palace."
Mo Xi thought for a moment and said: "There are six of the Lingyun Sect. If Yuan Feng from Gray Valley joins them, there will be eight. The last time Du Kun saw Lingbao Pavilion, there were thirteen of them, and Du Kun killed them One, and there are twelve of them left.”
"If there are no subsequent casualties in Lingbao Pavilion, plus Lingyun Sect and Huigu, there will be exactly twenty people on the other side."
"There are ten of us on both sides."
When he said this, he grinned ferociously, "Many of those twenty people have no combat experience. As long as we catch up, we should be able to kill them easily."
As he spoke, he rubbed the knuckles on his neck.
Yu Tong took a look and found that the bone chain around his neck seemed to have grown longer.
This means that in the glacier area, he killed several more opponents of the same level as him.
"There is a boy named Nie Tian in Lingbao Pavilion. Do you know his origin?" Yu Tong suddenly asked.
"Nie Tian?" Mo Xi shook his head and asked doubtfully, "I've never heard of him. What, why do you pay special attention to this person?"
"I have been hurt by him." Yu Tong's eyes were cold.
Mo Xi looked at her strangely, "With your strength, even An Ying from Lingbao Pavilion can only be manipulated by you. A mere unknown boy can actually hurt you? Are you? Isn’t that too careless?”
Yu Tong had a cold face and did not answer.
"I have some impression of Nie Tian." At this time, Du Kun spoke softly.
Mo Xi and Yu Tong looked at him together.
"When I wore Gray Valley's clothes and sneaked into Lingbao Pavilion, trying to catch them off guard and kill them one by one, it was Nie Tian who saw something was wrong and took the lead in attacking me. Without his trouble, That time, I can kill at least three boys from Lingbao Pavilion."
Du Kun squinted his eyes with a cruel expression and said viciously.
"That Nie Tian... is a bit interesting." Mo Xi nodded slightly, remembered the name in his heart, and then said to Yu Tong: "When I catch up with them, I will capture that boy named Nie Tian alive and let you refine his blood." Technique, refining his blood for you to vent your anger."
"I will kill the person I want to kill myself without you having to worry about it." Yu Tong didn't appreciate it.
"Hehe! I don't care what you think. Anyway, I have my sights set on Nie Tian. I will capture him before you do. If you don't want to, I will tear him apart." Mo Xi laughed. road.
"Let's go, don't waste time. Stop them before they leave the desert and don't let them join the Xuanwu Palace." Yu Tong said expressionlessly.
…
At this time, Nie Tian, who was also in the desert, started eating and drinking again.
After Yuan Feng and Yun Song arrived, they set out on the road. Two days have passed.
In the past two days, everyone was always on the road, and their rest time was very short.
They wanted to leave the desert as soon as possible and go to the volcanic area to join Zheng Bin and others from Xuanwu Palace.
Since he doesn't have enough time to practice, Nie Tian's plan to reach the eighth level of Qi refining in ten days through the flesh of the Earth-walking Lizard may be difficult to realize.
After finally stopping, Nie Tian naturally didn't want to waste time. He immediately took out the dried meat made from ground lizard meat and ate it as quickly as possible.
After eating dozens of kilograms of meat, he stopped when he felt that his body could no longer bear it.
He immediately ran the Qi Refining Technique.
When he used the Qi Refining Technique to transform the spiritual sea, the energy that could not be integrated into the spiritual sea in a short time overflowed into his flesh and blood.
After a while, his whole body became hot again, and a lot of sweat flowed from his pores.
Similarly, the sweat flowing out of the body is also mixed with turbid dirt.
After a while, he opened his eyes, felt with his mind, and found that the spiritual sea had indeed expanded by nearly 10%.
He spread his mental power again, spreading in all directions with himself as the center, and found that the coverage area of the mental power had increased to about seventy-eight meters.
"It hasn't changed that much."
Frowning, he carefully recalled the details and felt that the energy growing from his abdomen seemed to be a little weaker this time.
"The power contained in the flesh of spirit beasts should be constantly being depleted. The flesh of spirit beasts just after death has the most abundant energy and is also the easiest to absorb."
"After a spiritual beast dies, with the passage of time, the energy in its flesh and blood will dissipate little by little."
"Making spirit beast meat into dry meat also causes some energy loss in the flesh and blood."
“…”
He searched for the reason like a cocoon.
In fact, while he was still in the glacier area, he had already felt that the energy contained in the flesh of the spiritual beast would be lost over time.
However, because the glacier area is extremely cold, the spirit beast meat can always remain fresh, which makes the loss of energy in the spirit beast meat not particularly obvious.
When he arrived in the desert, he clearly felt that the energy loss of the spirit beast meat was accelerating.
When everyone made the spirit beast meat into dried meat one by one, it seemed that the energy loss of the spirit beast meat became faster.
After roughly figuring out the reason, he looked at the hundreds of kilograms of dried ground lizard meat he was carrying, and suddenly felt distressed.
He realized that in order to maximize the use of the ground lizard's meat to increase his strength, he had to eat all the meat as quickly as possible.
Moreover, he needs to stop and practice day and night.
Only in this way could he use the meat of those earth-walking lizards to raise his cultivation level to the eighth level in a short period of time.
The longer he delays, the less benefits he can get from the ground lizard meat.
At this time, the group headed by An Ying and Jiang Lingzhu just wanted to leave the desert as soon as possible and quickly meet up with Xuanwu Palace.
It is impossible for those people to slow down and wait for him for the sake of his cultivation.
Either leave alone and find a remote place in the desert, risk being found by the Ghost Sect and Blood Sect, practice day and night, and break through to the eighth level as soon as possible.
Or, miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and stay with the main force for your own safety.
His expression changed unpredictably, and he pondered for a long time. Then he suddenly stood up and said: "Everyone, I'm sorry, I can't continue to Xuanwu Palace with you."