This is a barren land, not a single blade of grass grows within tens of thousands of miles, and a gust of wind will blow up dust all over the sky.
One day, a ray of light appeared above this barren land and stopped in the void. A young man stepped out from the twilight. He was dressed in a green shirt, and his jet-black hair was casually tied behind his head, giving him an elegant feeling. This young man is naturally Lu Yu who has been in this secret realm for several months.
Lu Yu looked around the surrounding environment, took out the jade slip from the storage bag, held it in his hand, and compared the map in the jade slip with the surrounding environment.
"Finally we have arrived at the "Desolate Land". It is exactly as described in the Jade Slip, no grass can grow. As long as you pass through this barren land, you will be able to reach Yaoling Mountain." Lu Yu whispered to himself.
Before the words fell, a white light flashed in the void around Lu Yu, and Xia Lao appeared next to Lu Yu with a happy face.
Lu Yu was taken aback by Mr. Xia's sudden appearance, and asked curiously, "Mr. Xia, what did you find?"
Old Xia smiled mysteriously, and replied with his hands behind his back: "Boy Lu, do you know why not a single blade of grass grows here?"
Lu Yu was taken aback when he heard Mr. Xia's question, and replied, "According to the jade slip, there should be nothing abnormal here, it's just a wasteland."
"The person who wrote the jade slip is just an ignorant frog in a well. The reason why there is no grass growing here is because there are soul jades that are more than ten thousand years old in the depths of the ground that are releasing the power of the soul, which makes this area barren of grass." Mr. Xia proudly explained.
As soon as Lu Yu heard the word soul jade, he immediately thought of the soul stone he bought for Mr. Xia, and quickly asked, "Soul jade? What does it have to do with the soul stone?"
"Of course it has something to do with it. The soul stone is produced by absorbing the power of the yin and soul, and the soul jade can indeed release the power of the yin and soul continuously. As for the power of the yin and soul that is released by the soul jade of more than ten thousand years, it is the power of the yin and soul, but the power of the soul. Not only can it nourish the soul, but it can also nourish the consciousness." Xia Lao said with a happy face.
"Nourish the spiritual consciousness? So, is it also useful to me?" Lu Yu said elatedly upon hearing this.
"That's natural. With your current consciousness, you are already equivalent to a monk in the middle stage of Sword Spirit. If you use this soul jade to nourish it, within ten years, your consciousness will reach that of a monk in the late stage of Sword Spirit. Within hundreds of miles." Xia Lao bewitched.
"Old Xia, do you know where this soul jade is? If it takes a lot of time, I think it's better to look for the soul jade when you come back. I wasted half a year in the fantasy forest before, and I came here again. It took several months, and if I spend too long here, I'm afraid I won't have time to enter Yaoling Mountain to collect herbs." Lu Yu said hesitantly.
"I don't know the exact location. However, I should be sure to find out the general location." Elder Xia said with some embarrassment.
Lu Yu weighed the gains and losses in his mind, and finally decided: "Let's limit it to one month. After one month, no matter whether you find this soul jade or not, you must immediately rush to Yaoling Mountain."
"Okay! The approximate location is thirty miles ahead. However, if you use the earth escape technique, you will consume a lot of mana. You'd better stay there and set up a magic circle, so that no one will attack you when your mana is empty." Not good." Xia Lao reminded.
"Well, I am also worried about this. Although this barren land is tens of thousands of miles long, this place is also the only way to Yaoling Mountain. It is hard to guarantee that no one will pass by us. I just use the one I got a few months ago. Let's set up a new phantom formation with the magic wood and the magic wood explosion poison." Lu Yu thought for a moment and decided.
After hearing this, Mr. Xia sized Lu Yu up and down, and jokingly said, "When did you have a new phantom array, why didn't I know?"
"A few months ago, when I was refining the phantom wood explosion poison, I suddenly had this idea. This time, I just came to test how my new phantom array is." Lu Yu smiled mysteriously, and turned towards Xia Lao. Point to the direction to fly.
For a cultivator like Lu Yu, the distance of thirty miles is only a few steps. Lu Yu was suspended in the air, and when he slapped the storage bag, dozens of white lights flew out of the storage bag and landed on the ground, turning into puppets in the shape of little monkeys. Each little monkey held the formation plate in his left hand, held the formation flag in his right hand, and carried a package behind his back, which contained spherical phantom wood explosion poisons. As soon as these little monkeys landed on the ground, they started to get busy, arranging the phantom formation in an orderly manner.
Xia Lao hovered aside, watching the puppets below arrange the phantom array, and would nod from time to time. With his attainments in formations, of course one can see the power of the formations arranged by Lu Yu at a glance.
After about a stick of incense, a large formation was completed. As soon as Lu Yu activated the Jue, the entire formation disappeared without a trace. The place where the magic circle was originally located has become a barren land.
Xia Lao stared at it for a while, then smiled and said: "It seems that your boy's formation talent is really not low. Although in my opinion, this formation is still full of loopholes and slightly less powerful, but you are trained by me, you can see To improve so fast. It makes me as a teacher feel a little ashamed."
It was rare for Mr. Xia to praise Lu Yu once, which made Lu Yu a little at a loss.
Lu Yu hadn't enjoyed the praise of Mr. Xia for long, but the next sentence of Mr. Xia made him very depressed.
"You kid is really a prodigal. There is no one in the magic wood that can be refined into phantom poison, and it is even more difficult to successfully refine the phantom wood explosion poison. How dare you use this magic wood explosion poison What a waste on the phantom formation!" Xia Lao shook his head.
After hearing this, Lu Yu could only smile in embarrassment, and could only change the subject: "Old Xia, don't care about whether it's a waste or not now. The most important thing is to hurry up and find the soul jade."
As soon as Mr. Xia heard about the soul jade, he immediately regained his energy. Each person and one soul used their magical powers to go underground, looking for the location of the soul jade...
In a blink of an eye, more than ten days passed. The "Desolate Land" at this time was still the same as usual, deserted and deserted, except for the sound of wind blowing dust, there was no sound at all.
Of course, no one came to disturb Lu Yu and Xia Lao's underground treasure hunt. On this day, in the phantom array arranged by Lu Yu, two rays of light suddenly appeared from the ground. Two figures flashed out of the light, they were Lu Yu and Xia Lao who had been hunting for treasure underground for a long time. The two looked tired at this moment, but there was a smile on the corner of their mouths. It seems that there must be something harvested under the ground.
Lu Yu took out two stones emitting faint purple light from the storage bag. He said to Mr. Xia with a smile on his face: "It seems that we are really lucky, and we were able to find two pieces of ten thousand year soul jade."
"Yeah, I didn't expect to find the ten-thousand-year soul jade so smoothly. With the nourishment of this thing, the power of my soul will be more solidified." Xia Lao took a piece of ten-thousand-year soul jade from Lu Yu's hand and placed it on the Playing with hands.
"Since this thing is of great use to you, let me give you this piece too." Lu Yu also gave Xia Lao the other Quick Soul Jade in his hand. Although this soul jade has miraculous effects on him, it is obviously more important to Xia Lao. In his mind, Xia Lao has become his relative in the world of cultivating immortals. Without Xia Lao's help, he probably would have fallen a long time ago.
Xia Lao waved his hand and said: "This soul power is not as good as it is, and there is a limit to what I can absorb. I have one piece is enough, and the second piece is only half effective for me. It would be a waste to use it for me."
Lu Yu insisted on giving the second piece of soul jade to Mr. Xia, and said with a smile: "As a master, why should you be polite to your apprentice? Even if it has only a slight effect on you, this ten thousand year soul jade will be more useful to you."
Of course, Mr. Xia knew what Lu Yu meant. After spending so many years together day and night, he had already regarded Lu Yu as his grandson. So there was no delay, with a wave of his sleeve, the two pieces of ten thousand year soul jade disappeared out of thin air.
Just as Xia Lao was about to say something more, he suddenly frowned slightly and turned to look north.
Lu Yu also noticed Lao Xia's anomaly, and looked to the north, but there was nothing in the northern sky, and there was no abnormality.
"Old Xia, what happened?" Lu Yu asked curiously.
Xia Lao looked at Lu Yu with a half-smile, and said, "Thousands of miles away, there are three lights flying towards us, and there is one of your old acquaintances among them?"
"Who?" Lu Yu asked suspiciously.
"Zhou Ping of the Five Poisons Sect." Elder Xia said flatly.
When Lu Yu heard this, he was surprised: "What? He was able to discover my existence thousands of miles away. And he brought two helpers to attack me?"
Mr. Xia shook his head and said, "Of course he can't find you at such a long distance. I think it's just a coincidence. He and another man were chasing and killing a seriously injured woman, and the woman was running in the right direction. is where we are."
Hearing this, Lu Yu thought for a moment, and asked, "How is the other man's cultivation? If possible, I can join forces with that woman to ambush Zhou Ping. I won't have to be on guard against this person's plot."
"The other man's cultivation has reached the mid-stage sword spirit." Xia Lao said lightly.
"In the mid-stage of Sword Spirit, the only one who can achieve mid-stage cultivation in the secret realm this time is Young Master Yue of the Ghost Domain Gate. If it is this person, it will be a bit difficult. This person is known as the number one young master of the magic way, and his strength is naturally very strong. Strong. I'm not sure I can kill this person." Lu Yu was in a dilemma.
Elder Xia nodded in agreement and said, "With your current methods, it should be very difficult to kill these two people. If the woman being chased has the strength to fight, you can try."
"By the way, that woman is one of our righteous people? If so, we might as well try together. Even if we lose, we can escape from this place with this phantom array." Lu Yu said.
Xia Lao shook his head and said: "No, it should be the person from the Magic Sound Sect in terms of the exercises."
Lu Yu lowered his head and pondered for a moment, his eyes flashed coldly, and he decided: "We are on top of this big formation, and wait and see what happens. If there is a chance to sneak attack, I will definitely keep Zhou Ping here forever..."