Gao Yuan stood quietly in the void, took out a 'Five Spiritual Pill' and swallowed it.
As the medicine dissipates, a different kind of cool feeling emerges out of thin air in the chest, quickly flowing into the sea of innate air following the movement of the technique.
Surrounded by an inexplicable sense of chill, he could faintly feel that the innate essence spurting out from the innate sea seemed to have a strange nature compared to usual.
His heart moved, and he opened and closed his lips to silently recite an obscure mantra. His hands moved in harmony with the rhythm of the mantra, and he continued to condense the seals.
A moment later, a layer of rich golden halo surged around his body, fluctuating rapidly.
It didn't take long for the 'golden light spell' to be successfully condensed.
Driven by his thoughts, the dazzling golden light moved as fast as water waves, and in the blink of an eye it condensed into a golden spear that was more than ten feet long, floating quietly in front of him.
"The swing before casting the spell has not changed... Well, this is normal, after all, the spell and handprints used to cast the spell have not changed at all."
"However, the formation speed of the spell has increased a lot, the increase is almost... about 40%!"
"The root of the change is still the somewhat alienated innate essence, which caused the subsequent formation of true energy to also change, becoming much more lively than normal!"
"Therefore, when the true essence is transformed into metal, it can be ordered and prohibited without any delay."
Pointing at the ground below, the golden spear suddenly turned into a golden light and shot out. After piercing several towering giant pine trees, it was completely buried in the soil.
"Well, the power of the spell has also increased a bit, which should be due to the increased concentration of true energy!"
Turning his head to look at the aftermath of the Golden Light Spell on the ground, Gao Yuan recalled the release process just now and commented in his heart.
At this moment, an idea flashed in his heart, and under the stimulation of the 'Heart Spell' mode, a golden halo suddenly surged around his body, and the color was much darker than before.
A moment later, a golden spear similar in shape to before appeared in front of him out of thin air.
"Sure enough, the unique mechanism of action of the 'Five Spiritual Pills' is also applicable to spells cast in the 'Heart Spell' mode."
"With the increased speed of transformation of the power of true energy, the 'Heart Spell' mode is one step closer to a true zero-delay instant!"
Muttering to himself in a low voice, Gao Yuan kept moving his hands, trying to cast the various Five Elements spells he had mastered one by one.
In an instant, light flowed around his body, and the halo of various spells kept changing.
One after another, the spells, either the 'curse seal' or the 'heart curse', were constantly activated, until he cast the 'Wind Breath Curse' with some difficulty.
"Well, compared to the spells with attributes of the five elements, after taking the 'Five Spiritual Pill', when casting spells with attributes other than the five elements, the response speed of the true power is nearly half slower!"
"It seems that this is a side effect of the 'Five Spiritual Pill'. While it improves the affinity of the five elements of the user, it will also passively reduce the affinity of other attributes. This is a problem that needs attention!"
"After all, the 'Wind Curse' is the only escape method I currently have, and its wind attribute is outside the Five Elements."
"Affected by the side effects of the 'Five Spiritual Pill', the response speed of the real energy when it is cast will also be reduced accordingly, which will directly affect my efficiency in pursuit and escape!"
After muttering a few words in a low voice, Gao Yuan reached out and took out a 'Jin Yuan Dan' and put it straight into his mouth.
The elixir melted in his mouth, and a somewhat scorching energy emerged out of thin air in his abdomen, swarming into the innate sea of air.
The latter was stimulated and immediately started running at high speed spontaneously.
A large amount of innate essence spurted out, and following the movement of the technique, it was quickly transformed into strands of true energy.
It quickly made up for the consumption of real energy that had been depleted due to high-intensity continuous casting.
"The top-quality 'Jin Yuan Dan' is indeed very powerful, and cannot be compared to the low-grade 'Gui Yuan Dan'."
"Not only has the recovery speed of true energy been increased by nearly three times, but the duration of the drug's effect has also been extended a lot. When the two phases are superimposed, the final total amount of true energy recovered is almost ten times more than the lower-grade 'Guiyuan Pill'!
"
Feeling that the empty true energy in the body was restored to fullness in just a few minutes.
However, the heat current shrouded in the innate sea of air still showed no sign of dissipating. Gao Yuan suddenly praised with excitement.
"In this way, with the powerful medicinal power of the top-grade 'Jin Yuan Dan', both my cultivation speed and combat endurance have been greatly enhanced!"
Feeling the power of true energy that was still surging after the body was restored to fullness, Gao Yuan whispered to himself, while quickly using the air on the opposite side as an imaginary enemy, he quickly cast spells to bombard him.
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A day flies by quickly.
Early the next morning.
After Gao Yuan had breakfast, he set out feeling refreshed.
After flying all the way, before Si Shi, he had arrived at a place less than thirty miles away from Laiyuan Town.
At this time, he was standing in mid-air thousands of meters away from the ground, quietly looking at the building complex in the distance, which was smaller than the original Qingyuan Town.
In his mind, various information about this market town quickly emerged.
Laiyuan Town is one of the many market towns under the jurisdiction of Yifeng City.
Located six hundred miles southeast of Yifeng City, with Qifeng Mountains to the east and Sunset Forest to the south, the surrounding market town is rich in monster resources.
Therefore, the trade in Laiyuan Town is quite prosperous. Among the thirty-seven market towns under the jurisdiction of Yifeng City, it is also a wealthy market town that ranks high.
There are seven major Kaiyuan families in the town: Kuang, Song, Chen, Yu, Liang, Qin, and Zhao. Among them, the Kuang family is a branch of the Kuang family, a large Hunyuan family in Yifeng City, so it is also the main family in Laiyuan Town.
Thinking of this, Gao Yuan's brows frowned slightly.
If nothing else, the target of his trip, Yu Ke, is the Kaiyuan realm member of the Yu family, one of the seven families in Yuan Town.
The only difference from the previous mission is that there are seven Kaiyuan realm families in this town.
Among them, the three families of Kuang, Song, and Chen have more than one Kaiyuan realm. If they come directly to kill people, they might end up being besieged by more than a dozen of them!
Even though he is quite confident in his own strength now, he is not so arrogant that he can easily challenge a dozen people of the same level, not to mention that it involves people from the Hunyuan Realm family.
What's more, the person in charge of the Kuang family in Laiyuan Town is quite powerful. I heard that he is the great-great-grandson of the ancestor of the Kuang family in Yifeng City.
Direct descendants like this who go out to set up their own business usually carry various magical communication tools with them so that they can easily communicate with the main city at any time.
If we start a fight with him, if the other party sends a contact message and attracts the attention of the ancestor of the Kuang family behind him, it will be great fun!
"The risk of killing him head-on is too great, so the only way to do it is to sneak up on him and assassinate him!"
"Using the breath-containing spell that strengthens the direction of concealment, coupled with the concealment effect of the 'Whipman's Cloak', if you are careful, it shouldn't be too difficult to reach the target."
"And with my current strength, if I attack suddenly, I'm pretty sure I can instantly kill someone at the ninth level of the Kaiyuan Realm."
"Even if there is some movement when I do it, I can escape thousands of miles before others react!"
After thinking briefly for a while, Gao Yuan quickly made a decision.
"Of course, before that, we should arrest a few local people and understand the situation in detail!"
As his mind turned, his figure blurred slightly, and instantly turned into a line of light and shadow, flying away in the direction of Laiyuan Town.
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After circling briefly on the gravel road from Laiyuan Town to Yifeng City, Gao Yuan quickly found his target.
It was a thin, middle-aged man wearing a dark blue robe, who was running alone along the gravel road outside Laiyuan Town towards Yifeng City.
Judging from his clothes, he should be a deacon from a certain Kaiyuan realm family in Laiyuan Town.
After determining the target, Gao Yuan silently landed on the ground several miles away from him, and reached out with his hand to find an earthy yellow token.
After probing out the thread of spiritual thought and activating it briefly, the surface of the latter suddenly emitted a misty earth-yellow halo, turning into a layer of light and dark aura that enveloped his whole body.
At the same time, the ground under his feet that was in contact with the khaki air mask trembled slightly, revealing circles of ripples like water waves.
Gao Yuan had already expected this, because the abnormal shape on the ground was exactly affected by this 'Escape Order'.
The latter is a second-level functional magic weapon that he bought in the exclusive trading area for 1,200 intermediate spiritual stones.
As its name suggests, the main function of this magical weapon is to give the user an effect similar to the "Earth Escape Technique", allowing the user to travel freely underground.
With a thought, Gao Yuan slightly increased the true energy transmission efficiency of the thread of spiritual thought. In a moment, the yellow halo projected in the 'Escape Order' became more solid, and the range of the gas shield it transformed also increased.
It has expanded by about one-third.
Then he didn't waste any more time, and with a sway, he quickly merged into the soil under his feet as if he had jumped into the water.
Unlike the mountain rat's nails, which are similar to digging tunnels, using the 'Escape Order' to escape underground will not physically change the structure of the surrounding soil.
It feels like the surrounding soil, under the influence of the yellow air mask, has really turned into some kind of liquid with very little resistance. The feeling of traveling through it is very similar to swimming on waves.
Therefore, using the "Escape Order" to travel underground is much more efficient than using the nails of the mountain rat.
After a small amount of activity underground for a while, Gao Yuan stopped delaying. Under the guidance of his spiritual thoughts, he fled straight towards the target he had just determined, and soon arrived at the feet of the middle-aged man.
He floated up slightly, and after showing his head, he reached out and grabbed the opponent's ankle, and with a gentle tug, he pulled the opponent into the range of the yellow gas mask, just like lifting a chicken.
"ah……"
The thin middle-aged man was horrified when he saw this, and subconsciously wanted to scream, but before his exclamation could be heard, an invisible spiritual shock enveloped his body.
Under the shock of his mind, the thin middle-aged man's vision went dark and he lost consciousness in an instant.
Gao Yuan kept moving like this, activating the 'Escape Order' to shuttle quickly underground, and soon came to a miniature pit dozens of meters deep underground that he had just used the nails of the Mountain Crater to temporarily dig.
He casually drew a moonlight talisman and used the disguise technique to make slight changes, and in the blink of an eye he transformed into a short, fat middle-aged man less than 1.7 meters tall.
Using the power of his spiritual mind to 'take a look' at his new look, he nodded with satisfaction.
Then he casually cast a mind-clearing technique, and the thin middle-aged man's originally closed eyelids closed and slowly opened.
…
"Bicentenary birthday?"
Gao Yuan murmured something in his heart, and the thread of spiritual thought wrapped around the lean middle-aged man's body trembled slightly. The latter's vision went dark and he fainted again.
He turned around and walked to the side and sat down on a stone chair. Thinking back to what the thin middle-aged man named Li Fu had just said, his brows subconsciously frowned.
As he had expected, the head of the Yu family, one of the seven families in Laiyuan Town, was exactly the target of his mission, Yu Ke.
It is said that this person was loyal to the Kuang family in Yifeng City 120 years ago. During this period, it only took him 20 years to accumulate enough merits to exchange for Yuan Jingshi, and successfully entered the Kaiyuan realm.
Later, he worked for the Kuang family for thirty years. Seventy years ago, he followed the current head of the Kuang family in Laiyuan Town to establish a family in the newly built Laiyuan Town.
In fact, not only Yu Ke, but also the heads of the Song and Chen families in Laiyuan Town have been working with the Kuang family for many years, and most of the younger generations of these three families have accumulated meritorious service in the Kuang family in Yifeng City.
This Yu Ke is obviously a peripheral retainer of the Kuang family in Yifeng City, but somehow he got involved with the people of 'Ember', and even got involved with the 'whip bearer' in the name of 'defector Xuan-level exile'
Bounty hunt list.
As soon as he thought about this, Gao Yuan suddenly felt a little troubled.
From this point of view, the four heads of the Kuang, Song, Chen, and Yu families have been friends for almost hundreds of years. If they were to kill Yu Ke in front of several other people, these people would definitely not sit back and watch.
.
The most important thing is that tomorrow is Yu Ke's 200th birthday. According to Li Fu, the Yu family has arranged a lot of pomp this time, obviously planning to make a grand event.
But this is normal. Three hundred years old is a big hurdle for Kaiyuan Realm monks. Except for those disciples of big forces, very few ordinary Kaiyuan Realm monks can live to be three hundred years old.
It is actually human nature to hold a big show while you are two hundred years old.
"It's just that it's a bit too coincidental. The 'Whipman' has just released a bounty hunting mission, and he's already holding a birthday party."
Gao Yuan murmured to himself, vaguely feeling that something was wrong. Frankly speaking, he had some shadows about the word 'birthday'.
What happened in Qingyuan Town three years ago is still vivid in my mind. Didn’t that drastic change happen on the 400th birthday of the ancestor of the Chen family?
"Forget it, it's useless to think too much. Let's arrest a few more people and ask them to see if there is anything special."
While his mind was spinning, Gao Yuan looked back at Li Fu, who was still sleeping on the ground beside him, and used his spiritual thoughts to strengthen the seal on the other person's consciousness.
Then he activated the 'Escape Order' and quickly escaped towards the surface.
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More than an hour later.
In a temporary pit underground.
With a thought in Gao Yuan's mind, the thread of spiritual thought wrapped around the power of his true energy, causing an invisible shock and falling towards the skinny man with a cowering expression in front of him. The latter immediately fell on his back without even making a sound.
land.
During this period of time, he arrested four more residents of Laiyuan Town one after another. After some questioning, it was basically the same as Li Fu's confession just now.
Nothing unusual has happened in Yuan Town during this period, including the date of Yu Ke's birthday. The Yu family has held many birthday banquets of varying sizes over the years.
"Is it just a coincidence?"
Sitting on the stone chair, Gao Yuan quickly compared the confessions of these people in his mind, but still found nothing unusual.
"In that case, let's go to the town and observe it on the spot."
"Tomorrow is the date of the celebration, and I'm afraid there will be many monks of the same rank as Yu Ke coming to watch the ceremony."
"Let's take a look at the situation tonight. If there's a chance, we'll take action directly. If that doesn't work, we can only wait for two more days!"
As his thoughts turned, Gao Yuan quickly made a decision. He used his spiritual thoughts to strengthen the consciousness seals of Li Fu and others, and then quickly rushed towards Laiyuan Town.