Deep underground. Six formations of different sizes are located in an unusually wide underground space.

Five formations faintly formed a circle around the city, surrounding a pale golden formation. Special spiritual patterns were looming on the shield of the pale golden formation, which did not seem to be the spiritual patterns used in this era.

A huge purple-black creature is sleeping inside the formation. It is shaped like a scorpion with ferocious patterns on its back, like a struggling evil ghost.

Suddenly, the demon scorpion opened its purple eyes and let out a roar! A violent black energy spread towards the surroundings.

Some black mist surged out of the golden formation, but was blocked by an invisible white light shield.

Outside the formation, an old man with a white beard was studying something on the ground and had no reaction at all. A burly man next to him yelled at the demon scorpion: "Why are you arguing! If I couldn't beat you, I would definitely

I’ll kill you! Are you hungry? If you’re hungry, you’ll be done with eating your own tail pincers!”

The white-bearded old man reacted this time, rolled his eyes, and sighed: "Fellow Daoist Qin, that beast didn't bother me, but it was you who made my head buzz."

The strong man said in a low voice: "It's not too busy. The monster insect hasn't come to the battle for almost three months. I don't know what it is thinking. Other fellow Taoists asked me to follow you again. Let someone else do this job next time."

The old man smiled and said: "My fellow Taoist, the ancient treasure Dingguang Bi, is very powerful and very good at defense. It is old and not good at fighting. It depends on you to protect it."

"..I know, I know, I went to meditate. I really don't understand why you are still so interested in studying this formation all day long."

"You are not a fish, how can you know the joy of fish?"

"You're not a fish!"

"..."

ps: I wrote this on purpose. My understanding is that temperament, IQ and cultivation have little to do with each other, but Yuanying monks have one thing in common, a firm Taoist heart...

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Half an hour later.

At this time, Jiang Yun was hiding in a small cave, sitting facelessly on the ground, his back leaning against the rock wall, his whole body covered in dust and miserable. At this moment, he was not even in the mood to use the dust removal technique, and was very depressed.

A small phantom array was also arranged at the entrance of the cave. To the naked eye, it looked like the entrance of the cave did not exist at all. As for the original owner of the cave, he had become a corpse and was being eaten by several gold-sniffing rats.

Jiang Yun's injured areas, including his fractured right arm, were seen covered in a green aura. He grabbed his right arm with his left hand and straightened the bone with slight force.

Although it hurt a lot, Jiang Yun just frowned slightly and said nothing. With the help of the rejuvenation technique, the wound began to heal quickly.

After a few breaths, the green light dissipated. Jiang Yun waved his right arm, clenched his fist, then took off the damaged robe and put on a new high-grade robe.

"How did they find me!"

"I used the Wind Hidden Technique. If there are high-level demonic insects in the insect swarm, I will also affix the True Hidden Talisman. The demonic insects cannot release their spiritual consciousness, and can only rely on their vision and smell."

"In order to prevent being smelled, I even sprinkled smell-masking powder on my body. What's going on..."

Jiang Yun began to try hard to recall the details of the previous battle.

After a while, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and a look of surprise appeared on his face. He quickly took out a jade slip and put it on his forehead and started to look at it.

When Jiang Yun put down the jade slip, his eyes darkened, and a solemn voice came from his mouth.

"Soul-sucking fireflies are evil monster insects that feed on human souls and souls. They have the innate ability to sense the location of human souls and souls."

"Damn it! Didn't it say on the jade slip that this demonic insect was exterminated by the major sects thousands of years ago? It actually appears here!"

"And according to the jade slips, there were no soul-sucking fireflies in the battles in the previous decades. It's a shame... one of the two escape talismans he gave me was consumed."

Jiang Yun thought of the scattered soul-sucking fireflies among the huge army of demonic insects, and couldn't help but touch his forehead, which gave him a headache.

Jiang Yun put down the jade slip and sighed.

"It seems that some new changes have taken place underground. I just hope the situation won't be too bad."

Underground, Stronghold 44.

Yue Luoling stood on the city wall of the stronghold, looking at the swarms of insects all over the mountains and fields below, and felt very depressed.

At this moment, she wondered in her heart whether her group had been cursed.

After the mission to capture a pair of Golden Thunder King Scorpions failed, everyone was planning to leave directly. However, when they returned to the large stronghold No. 42 and prepared to leave via the teleportation array, they heard a piece of news.

Someone once saw a silver-spotted glow bug at Stronghold No. 44. It is a kind of luck bug. If you can get one or two, the trip will be worthwhile.

Everyone in the Yuling Sect quickly found the guy who announced the news. He was a casual cultivator in the early stages of foundation building. The price offered was a thousand spirit stones. As a demonic sect, the Yuling Sect was naturally very domineering, so they threw away ten pieces.

After giving him the middle-grade spirit stone, he was directly caught in the team and told to leave after finding the silver-spotted glow worm. The guards of the nearby Zijin Kingdom did not dare to stop him and pretended not to see it.

After leaving the stronghold, Old Man Feng first placed a ban on this person, took out a lot of information, and finally directly searched for his soul. After the soul search was completed, he crushed his bones and threw them into ashes.

The final result made everyone in the Yuling Sect very excited. What this person said was actually true, and there were not just one silver-spotted glow worm, but nearly thirty.

The incident happened a month ago, when this person saw a silver-spotted glow bug from a distance. Just as he was about to approach, the spirit bug flew away quickly.

Although this kind of spiritual insect was very special and he could not catch it at all, he was greedy and followed it all the way. Finally, the silver-spotted glow insect flew into a cave. He looked at the cave from a distance and never dared to approach it again.

Because a huge earth fire dragon is sleeping in a wide cave. Judging from the size and cultivation level, it is definitely above level six, maybe even level seven, and there are a group of silver-spotted glow bugs flying around it.

, it seems that the relationship between the two is very unusual.

The casual cultivator was only in the early stage of foundation building, so he didn't dare to disturb the earth fire dragon, so he left quickly. He was going to sell the news to the monks in the alchemy stage, hoping to get a good price.

Everyone in the Yuling Sect was overjoyed, and even the two monks at the Alchemy Stage were beaming with joy. Although the Earth Fire Dragon was precious, it was not indispensable.

Qiling Mountain, the home of the Yuling Sect, is rich in spiritual energy and has many secret realms, so it breeds countless precious spiritual beasts and insects.

Even there are as many as five or six kinds of powerful dragon monsters, some of which are more powerful and rarer than the Earth Fire Dragon.

But thirty silver-spotted glow bugs are different. This item is worth far more than a high-level fire dragon. If it can be brought back to the sect, there will definitely be a huge reward in the sect.

As a sect that has been inherited for tens of thousands of years, the Yuling Sect's understanding of luck beasts and insects is far beyond that of small sects and small sects, and they have already preliminary researched how to use them.

Let’s not talk about the special abilities possessed by the lucky spirit beasts and spirit insects. Their luck alone can be used. It would be best if the lucky spirit beasts and spirit insects can recognize their master. In this way, the luck of their master will be improved.

Enhance.

However, it is extremely difficult to get the luck beasts to recognize you as their master, and you will be unlucky if you are hated by them.

The sect with a long tradition has developed a method of forcibly extracting luck.

With these thirty silver-spotted glow bugs, a special room can be created inside the door, with some kind of magic circle pattern that extracts luck engraved in the room.

Luck is a very mysterious thing. It can enhance your understanding of magic skills, increase the probability of breakthrough, and even increase the success rate of alchemy. In short, it is very magical.

However, the luck of the lower-ranked luck beasts and spirit insects is not too strong. It can only have a certain effect on the Qi training stage and foundation building stage. If you want to have an effect on the pill formation stage or even the Nascent Soul stage, you need a lot of luck.

It's an astonishing amount.

After receiving the luck, the spirit insect needs time to slowly recover.

According to Elder Feng's estimation, if half of the luck of the thirty silver-spotted glow bugs were taken away at once, it would be enough to increase the probability of a monk who has completed the Qi training to break through the foundation building stage by an additional 50 to 60%. If he adds the foundation building pill, he will fail.

Disaster.

The probability of forming a pill for a monk with perfect Foundation Establishment can be increased by about 10%.

If half of the luck is extracted, it will take about forty or fifty years for these spiritual insects to recover their luck.

In addition, regardless of whether the promotion is successful or not, because the luck is forced to be extracted, the monks who have absorbed the luck will be unlucky in the next few decades because the luck will backfire.

But it's not a big problem, it's just unlucky. As long as you stay in seclusion and don't go to dangerous places, no one will die. Compared with increasing the chance of promotion, this side effect is nothing at all.

After all, spiritual elixirs that increase the probability of forming elixirs are so precious and rarely seen in the past.

But extracting their luck is a worthless business.

According to games on Earth, the cooling time is just longer.

Luck Spirit Beasts and Spirit Insects are not disposable items. They all have a long lifespan, without exception. Therefore, they can be used for many, many years.

The emergence of all lucky spirit beasts and spirit insects cannot rely on reproduction, but can only appear through special conditions.

The sentient bird is ranked seventh in the list of luck beasts. This spirit beast must have a small probability of forming in a place with a large population, where people live and work in peace and contentment, and are happy from the bottom of their hearts.

Once the sentient bird is born, it can protect all sentient beings in the place. This kind of protection does not refer to combat. It means that the probability of people getting sick and suffering from natural disasters will be greatly reduced.

In addition, the special ability of the sentient bird can enhance the reproductive ability, so even the fertility rate of the common people can be increased. This ability is equally effective for monks and spiritual beasts and insects.

Therefore, for some people, the seventh-ranked bird may be more important than the first-ranked five-color auspicious spirit deer.

There was once an old Nascent Soul monster who wanted to obtain heirs, but he took in hundreds of concubines, both in the Dan-formation stage and in the Foundation-building stage, but he worked hard for hundreds of years, working hard day and night, and doing all kinds of dual cultivation.

I tried all the exercises but still found nothing.

Later, he exchanged the Bird of All Beings from the hands of a certain Nascent Soul old monster who was nearing his end of life. The price was a promise to protect his sect within the scope of his ability for three hundred years.

The sentient bird is very special among the lucky spirit beasts, because it is a kind of lucky spirit beast that is notoriously afraid of death, so it is easier to identify its owner than other lucky spirit insect beasts.

After the friendly negotiation between the Yuan Ying ancestor and the sentient bird, it agreed to help the Yuan Ying old monster.

As a result, within ten years after getting the Bird of All Living Beings, more than a dozen wives and concubines became pregnant, and most of the children they gave birth to had spiritual roots. This incident also made the Bird of All Living Beings completely famous.

However, it is said that because the energy consumption was too great, the sentient bird slept for more than a hundred years before recovering.

Later, some high-level monks wanted to take the initiative to take care of a city with the intention of giving birth to birds, but no one ever succeeded.

All in all, some places appear prosperous on the surface, with a dense population and magnificent buildings. But on the inside, they are full of oppression, corruption, and the people are full of hostility. There is no way that such a place can give birth to a living being.

Luck spirit beasts generally have a very long lifespan and can be used for a long time after being caught. Unless someone fishes for it, the luck spirit beast will die quickly if the luck is extracted too hard.

Their Yuling Sect originally had five or six scattered luck spirit beasts, which added up to a large number. The sect had used various means to accumulate them over the past countless years.
To be continued...