Xiao Lin has never been an indecisive person. After figuring out the path he wanted to take in the future, he began to think about his own path of spiritual practice and how to go about it.
Now, the second way to join the five major sects has been completely cut off. The only way left is to enter the cave and pick purple spirit flowers. This way is the most dangerous and has the smallest probability of success.
In order to increase the probability of success, in Xiao Lin's opinion, the only way is to improve his own strength.
For the next three days, Xiao Lin stayed in the room. Except for eating once a day, he did not take a step out of the room. In the past few days, he read through the book "Comprehensive Knowledge of Cultivation" carefully.
And after reading some important points explained in it, he would silently recall it again. Fortunately, his memory has always been very good, and I don’t know if it was because of practicing the Dry Water Sutra. Although his memory is not good enough.
Not forgotten, but not too far behind.
In the past few days, he finally figured out a few things. One thing was about the control of weapons. It turned out that after cultivators entered the third level of Qi Refining, they could control low-grade magic weapons to fly in the air, although the speed was not necessarily that high.
Fast, but at least much faster than him using Qinggong. The weapon control method is not uncommon. There are many manuscripts for sale in the market. After all, the weapon control method is an ability that low-level cultivators generally have.
Then there are spells. Spells are a means for cultivators to improve their combat power. Of course, there are many other ways for cultivators to improve their combat power, such as royal magic weapons, the use of some talismans containing spells, and some side paths.
Like traps, poisons and the like.
But there is no doubt that spells are the only method for most low-level cultivators. Spells are divided into basic spells, elementary spells, intermediate spells and advanced spells according to their levels. The spells at each level are based on their proficiency in spells and the speed of spell casting.
It is divided into three levels, namely spell level, silence level and perfection level. When ordinary monks practice a spell, they need to recite the spell to match the mana in the body at the beginning, and then cast the spell. As the number of spells cast increases,
As the number of times you recite the spell increases, you will become more and more proficient in casting spells. Finally, you can cast the spell by reciting the spell silently in your mind. At this time, the speed will be much faster than reciting the spell, and the power will be greater.
Many, by silently reciting spells, once again improve the speed and proficiency of spell casting, and finally have the opportunity to practice to the perfect level. The perfect level spells have only one performance, and that is instantaneous. This instantaneous spell is not only amazingly powerful,
It is also hard to defend against and is one of the most powerful attack methods of monks.
However, it is not easy to practice spells to the perfect level. It requires countless spells to increase proficiency. This process is extremely long, and as the spell level increases, the number of spells required to increase proficiency increases.
, which increases geometrically.
Therefore, most cultivators in the world of cultivation choose one or two spells as their main spells, because for ordinary cultivators in the Qi refining period, it is already very difficult to practice a basic spell to perfection.
After all, casting spells requires the support of mana. The mana of a monk in the Qi Refining Stage can only be used to cast a dozen or so basic spells. Those at a higher level, even if they have reached the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Stage, can only cast a single spell.
Twenty or thirty times, this is already overwhelming. Once a monk's magic power is exhausted, it will take at least half a day to recover. From this, we can see how difficult it is to practice magic to the Dzogchen level.
This has also led to most cultivators, in addition to practicing one or two basic skills, to purchase some magic weapons to improve their combat power. Of course, those with a richer wealth can also purchase some talismans, which contain a seal.
The spells can be cast directly and instantly, but the talismans are also very expensive. Basically, except for some large disciples, few casual cultivators can afford them.
After understanding this, Xiao Lin began to think about his own path of cultivation. On the fourth day, he checked out of the room without hesitation, and then went to Fangshi in the east of the city.
Twenty pieces of low-grade spirit stones were sold to a monk in the Qi refining stage at a very low price. Then he took the twenty pieces of spirit stones to buy a book of weapon-controlling techniques and several basic spells, and also bought some healing techniques.
After using the low-level elixir for detoxifying wounds and the remaining spirit stone, I bought a map of the distribution of monsters around the Hidden Mist City, and then left the city.
There is a volcano three thousand miles south of Wuyin Fairy City. This volcano has not erupted for hundreds of years. However, there are many fire pools around the volcano. These fire pools are like pieces of rubies, dotted around the
Within dozens of miles around the volcano, there are very few fires in these fire pools. They are all dark rocks formed after the cooling of magma. However, there are also some fire pools where the magma has not completely cooled down, and countless fires are still rising from time to time.
spark.
In these fire pools, there lives a kind of monster called the Fire Armored Beast. This monster looks a bit like a pangolin, but it is much larger than an ordinary pangolin, and it has sharp teeth. The most important thing is that it
The fire-armored beast can also cast the primary fire spell - fireball.
Another characteristic of this kind of monster is that it usually lives in groups. Although it is not found in every fire pool, as long as there is such a fire-armored beast in any fire pool, there must be several of them. This kind of fire-armored beast is very important to
For cultivators, the value is not great. Only a piece of white scale armor on their abdomen has some value. It can be used as a material to refine an elementary magic weapon called the white scale robe. The production process of the white scale robe is relatively complicated, and the
A large quantity of this kind of white scale armor is needed, usually more than one hundred pieces of this kind of white scale armor can be made to make a white scale robe. In Wuyin Fairy City, ten pieces of white scale armor can be exchanged for a low-grade spiritual stone, and this kind of white scale armor can be used to make a white scale robe.
Fire-armored beasts are not weak in combat power. Among ordinary-level monsters, their strength cannot be underestimated. Due to these reasons, not many monks come here to hunt fire-armored beasts.
Xiao Lin chose this place for his first trial. The main reason why he chose the fire-armored beast as his opponent was that he practiced water-attribute skills, and several of the spells he purchased were also based on
The main water attribute spells, water overpowering fire, made him finally choose this place.
Xiao Lin was squatting about ten feet away from a fire pool, staring intently at the fire pool. Beside the fire pool, a fire-armored beast as long as an adult's thigh was lying there lazily, looking very sleepy.
Thick look.
Xiao Lin was not naive enough to think that there was only one fire-armored beast in the fire pool. After observing for the past two days, he had determined that there were three fire-armored beasts in the fire pool. The one he saw in front of him was only the last of the three.
weak.
Xiao Lin knew very well that with his level of water archery, which he had just practiced, fighting one fire-armored beast alone would be a disaster. If he faced three fire-armored beasts, he would definitely die, so he had to find a way to set off the fire.
When the armored beast is lured out, he can only hope to win in a one-on-one challenge.
But he observed from morning to night, and found that the fire-armored beast didn't even raise its eyelids, and looked like it couldn't wake up. This gave Xiao Lin a headache, and he was so hungry that he couldn't help it.
, he retreated and returned to a mountain forest under the volcano. There was a small rocky mountain there, and there happened to be a cave. Originally, a brown bear lived in it. When he met Xiao Lin, the brown bear was also in bad luck. Not only his hometown
Occupied by him, he also became Xiao Lin's dry food and was dried and hung in the cave.
In this way, half a month passed quickly. During this period, Xiao Lin went to observe the habits of the fire-armored beasts during the day and returned to the cave to practice the Dry Water Sutra at night. What made him depressed was the Ning of the Low Water Sutra on the third level.
Shui Rujing's cultivation speed is indeed as fast as a turtle crawling. If he didn't still feel a little bit, Xiao Lin would even doubt whether he was practicing or not.
But after this period of observation, he finally discovered a phenomenon that excited him, that is, every half month, around the beginning of each month, the fire-armored beast would leave the fire pool and go to a nearby place.
Drinking water in a valley and nibbling on a plant that emits a faint blue light. At this time, the fire-armored beast is alone, which is also the best time for him to take action.
On this day, Xiao Lin finished his dinner, closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing for an hour, then got up and walked toward the valley where the fire-armored beast drank water. Soon, he came to the valley, and lightly jumped onto a big tree.
Then waited quietly.
I don't know how long it took, but Xiao Lin heard the rustling sound of falling weeds. He perked up and looked down carefully. Sure enough, a fire-armored beast crawled out of the grass with its head peeping out, swaggering.
Climbing towards the river.
A lengthy spell sounded in Xiao Lin's ears. In order not to arouse the fire-armored beast's alertness, he lowered his voice. As the spell sounded, a foot-long water arrow appeared above Xiao Lin's palm.
, the water arrows became more and more condensed with the spell.
The fire-armored beast that was crawling towards the river suddenly stopped. Its eyes the size of soybeans were darting around. It seemed that something was wrong. It turned its head and looked left and right, but did not find any danger. Then it continued to move towards
Climb to the river.
"Boom~" Suddenly, a sound broke through the air, and with Xiao Lin's cold "Go", the water arrow suspended in his palm suddenly turned into a green light and shot out.
The moment the water arrow shot out, the fire-armored beast suddenly felt the danger. He turned his head sharply and saw Xiao Lin on the tree, but what caught his eyes was the flashing green water.
arrow.
"Squeak." Because Xiao Lin was attacking by surprise, the fire-armored beast had no time to dodge. He just turned his body slightly and was hit by a water arrow. Immediately, a bloody gash was opened on the back of the fire-armored beast, and blood flowed down the wound.
As it flowed out, the fire-armored beast raised its head and let out a roar, then opened its mouth wide and shot a fireball the size of a fist towards Xiao Lin.
Xiao Lin was shocked. He didn't expect this fire-armored beast to be so alert. He used Qinggong and jumped up. At the same time, he took out the ebony shield from his arms and threw it out. The ebony shield spun around and formed a side about the size of a foot.
The shield stood in front of him.
At the same time, the incantation sound in his mouth sounded again, and the low incantation sound was particularly strange in this dark and silent night.
"Boom." The fireball hit the tree trunk and exploded immediately. The place where Xiao Lin was originally hiding on the big tree was scorched black. With a "squeak", the tree trunk actually broke and fell down in half.
.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Lin was frightened. If the fireball hit him, he would probably end up no better than that big tree.