Standing in the center of the former Shilitai Town, on a small vantage point made up of various building debris, lofty spiritual consciousness radiated out in all directions.
In an instant, all the details of the ruins of Shilitai Town emerged in his mind.
According to his perception, there was almost no well-preserved building in the entire dilapidated city.
Some of them were as if they had suffered an earthquake, with the whole piece collapsing from top to bottom. However, more parts were filled with traces of man-made demolition.
At this thought, Gao Yuan subconsciously thought of the gathering place with a large number of casual cultivators not far outside the city.
Obviously, in the eight years since Shilitai Town was destroyed, many casual cultivators have visited here.
All valuable items in the city have been plundered by these casual cultivators.
Gao Yuan came here this time not because he wanted to make some dead money here.
He just wanted to try to find the clues left on the third-order snake demon in this ruins.
Even if it was a little scale peeled off from the latter's body when he was moving, or a little feces discharged here, he could use this to combine with a tracking secret method he had collected before, and try to locate where the snake demon was currently.
The approximate location of.
However, after scanning the surroundings several times with the help of his spiritual consciousness, he found nothing useful.
Eight years is neither long nor short, but it is enough to bury most of the traces of that year.
Coupled with the wandering cultivators around, it must have been that even if the scales peeled off from the snake demon fell here, they would have been discovered and taken away by those passing by later.
"Hey, if there are no items containing bloodline information, the secret tracking technique will be useless. As a result, there will be no way to find this snake demon in a short time."
"The only plan now is to kill the giant ape and the tiger demon first. When we become stronger later and can freely walk through the wilderness and no man's land, we can then try to search in the surrounding areas."
As his mind turned, Gaoyuan glanced at the surrounding ruins again.
Then he floated up and quickly flew away in the direction of the Mirage Mountains in the distance.
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After a stick of incense.
Gao Yuan flew all the way, quickly crossing the endless clouds and mists of the Mirage Mountains.
At this time, he was standing hundreds of meters above the ground, looking into the distance.
What you see is a deserted land with no end in sight.
Although there is vegetation above the surface, it is far less prosperous and tall than in the wild forest, nor is it as flat and fertile as the northern land.
This is a mysterious and dangerous no man's land!
Only those who have reached the Hunyuan realm and above can have a certain ability to protect themselves here.
Gao Yuan flew all the way, and soon followed the map's guidance and arrived at an unnamed mountain range less than two hundred miles away from where the giant ape monster was.
As soon as he landed on the top of a hill less than a hundred meters high, his consciousness radiated to one side with a huge shock force.
In an instant, he enveloped a second-order giant bear monster that was seeking death and charging toward him, and forcefully shook its soul away.
Then he didn't rush forward to take care of the body of the giant bear monster, but quickly explored the area around the hilltop with his spiritual consciousness.
After confirming that there was nothing abnormal, with a thought, a blue spherical object about a foot in size and a jade-white disk appeared in front of him.
Under the guidance of his spiritual consciousness, the surface of this jade-white disc buzzed, and a layer of luster suddenly emerged.
Along with a burst of obscure energy fluctuations, the blue sphere several feet in size on the side suddenly shook.
Its round body was like liquid, and it squirmed quickly for a moment, then spread and enlarged in all directions, turning into a humanoid puppet with a height of several meters and a weird shape.
The surface of the latter shone with complicated spiritual patterns, wrapped in waves of surging energy fluctuations, and quietly suspended in mid-air.
It paused on the spot for a moment, then suddenly turned into a blue light and shadow, and flew away in the direction of the mountain range where the giant ape monster was located as marked on the map.
Gao Yuan glanced around casually, then tapped his hand towards a slightly empty area, and a wooden armchair appeared in the direction of his finger.
He walked forward calmly and slowly sat in the chair.
And the jade-white disc spontaneously followed his figure, floating above his head step by step.
At this time, with the help of the connection between his spiritual consciousness and this jade-white disk, Gao Yuan had a completely different vision image in his mind, which was refreshing in a certain direction at high speed.
Astonishingly, it was the humanoid puppet that escaped just now, and the perception picture was synchronized with the help of the divine consciousness resonance talisman array!
Driven by the eighth-level wind escape talisman formation, this humanoid puppet's escape speed is extremely fast, even compared to Gao Yuan's own full flight speed, which is not far behind.
In less than thirty breaths, he was far away from the nameless mountain range where he was currently located, and gradually approached the outskirts of the mountain range where the giant ape monster was located as marked on the map.
At the same time, the special energy perception vision synchronized through the puppet.
A stream of dark purple demonic energy, like wolf smoke, was directly reflected in Gao Yuan's mind.
"With such an exaggerated scale of demonic energy, there really is a third-level demonic beast entrenched here!"
Gao Yuan saw this and whispered secretly in his heart.
Then he controlled the humanoid puppet and rushed towards the source of this huge demonic energy.
"Hoo~~!"
Under his unabashed control, in the center of the mountain range opposite, a huge monster as tall as a mountain suddenly poked its head out. He immediately noticed the invasion of the puppet, and then let out a menacing roar.
At the same time, with the help of the pictures synchronized back by the puppet, the appearance of this behemoth has also appeared in Gao Yuan's mind.
This is a huge ape-like creature that is fifty or sixty meters tall just sitting on the ground.
Its specific shape is quite special, generally between chimpanzees and silverback gorillas. On both sides of its cheeks, there is a huge sarcoma like a cattail fan.
At this time, it was leaning against a hill less than a hundred meters high, with a pair of huge copper bell-like eyes staring closely at the puppet in the distance.
Its mouth was wide open, showing four large and sharp teeth, and at the same time, it kept letting out warning roars.
"Tsk, after all, it is a primate monster. When it encounters an invasion, its reaction is to be more cowardly than a beast-type monster. I have already knocked on the door, and I am still screaming over there!"
Looking at the roaring giant ape monster below, Gao Yuan muttered to himself, and then gave instructions skillfully.
Almost instantly, several hums of different shapes suddenly came from different locations inside the puppet that was a hundred miles away.
Then, with a surging wave of energy, it rushed towards the giant ape monster below at high speed.
Seeing this, the giant ape below suddenly stood up, and its body shape suddenly increased by more than ten meters on the original basis.
"Oh~oh~oh~oh!"
I saw this giant ape monster pouting its mouth and letting out a series of rapid roars.
"Pah~pah~pah~pah!"
Its pair of huge arms covered with thick black hair constantly slapped its chest alternately, making thunderous roars.
At the same time, a rich golden halo suddenly lit up in the area that looked slightly white on its back.
The latter was like water waves, flowing on the back of the giant ape, and finally concentrated on its hands.
Each of them erupted into a ball of bright golden light and shot towards the puppet controlled by Gao Yuan.
During this period, the latter's size had once again increased in size compared to before. Although it was far from being comparable to this giant ape monster, it still reached a height of two feet.
I saw this puppet flashing in a 'Z' shape very quickly and easily dodging the attack from the giant ape monster.
Everywhere around it, there was a shocking wave of energy.
With the four eighth-level frost talisman formations operating at full power, four dazzling frost-white light pillars suddenly shot out from the surface of the puppet's limbs, shining towards the giant ape below.
"Ho~!"
When the latter saw this, he suddenly let out a sharp scream.
I saw golden light flowing around its body, covering its whole body almost instantly, as if it had turned into a golden statue.
In an instant, after spreading, these giant light pillars with a diameter of more than ten feet suddenly collided with the giant ape monster.
"Ke~ke~ke..."
Amidst the sound of dense ice cubes squeezing, wherever the four light pillars illuminated, countless blue-light flowing ice emerged out of thin air, freezing everything under the ice layer.
The body of this giant ape is no exception. The light emitted by the four eighth-level frost talismans are all focused on various parts of its body.
While its surface is covered with a thick layer of blue ice, the latter also greatly limits the giant ape's ability to move.
In the area that these four light beams cannot reach, countless layers of blue ice are like water waves, spreading quickly towards all parts of the body along the body of the giant ape.
Looking at that posture, it only takes about ten breaths at most to freeze the giant ape monster in place!
"Ouch!"
Feeling the four terrifyingly powerful light beams emitted from this inconspicuous puppet, a look of panic suddenly flashed across the huge face of the giant ape monster, and then it struggled violently with a shrill roar.
stand up.
Then I saw strong golden halos suddenly bursting out all over his body.
In an instant, countless sharp golden spikes more than ten feet long emerged from the golden halo.
Almost instantly, the giant ape monster was transformed into a hedgehog covered with golden spikes.
"Bang~bang~bang..."
As these golden spikes exploded, apart from the areas shrouded by the four frost-white light pillars, cracks suddenly appeared on the blue ice covering other areas of the giant ape's body.
Come.
Affected by this, the giant ape's mobility has recovered to more than 80%.
It was seen that with an agility speed that was extremely disproportionate to its huge size, it had already arrived seven or eight miles away with just a few consecutive jumps.
Even though Gao Yuan subconsciously controlled the puppet to pursue him, he was still able to escape from the scope of the frost beam.
"Tsk, the power of the eighth-level frost talisman is indeed impressive. Once it is illuminated, even third-level monsters can be frozen."
"It's just that when I was refining the puppet before, I didn't fully consider the nearly 100-meter-large body of the third-order monster. When the frost beam cannot cover the whole body at the same time, the freezing efficiency will have a big flaw!"
As his mind turned, Gao Yuan reached out and patted the storage bag on his waist, and three blue spherical puppets that were exactly the same as the one before appeared in front of him.
Under the guidance of the jade-white disc, each turned into a blue light and shadow, flying towards the giant ape a hundred miles away.
At the same time, Gao Yuan's mind changed slightly, and he once again gave the command to the puppet in the distance to continue the attack.
I saw a slight buzzing sound inside the puppet, and more than a dozen pairs of tentacle-like arms suddenly protruded from various parts of its huge body.
I saw that between these pairs of arms, each had a jade-white token-like object, and with the cooperation of each other, they quickly moved.
In the blink of an eye, more than ten earth-shaking majestic auras shot up into the sky, each turning into an invisible binding force that emerged out of thin air and suddenly acted on the giant ape monster that was looking this way in confusion.
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The latter only felt his whole body tighten and was instantly covered by these binding forces.
Under its entanglement, it was difficult to even blink his eyes, let alone activate the demonic power in his body to gather magic to fight back!
In his pupils, which were dilated several times due to fear, the frost-white light beam that had been restrained by him before was regenerated again.
All focused on the giant ape that was locked by more than a dozen third-level talismans and unable to move at all.
In less than ten breaths, the latter was frozen in place again, turning into a giant ice sculpture with blue light.
Ten more breaths later, the previous third-level talismans were finally unsealed and entered the stage of preparation.
But this giant ape made no further movements, and showed no reaction from the beginning to the end, as if it had really turned into an ice sculpture.
"Well, it seems that even though the third-level monster is extremely large, it still cannot resist the locking power of fifteen third-level talismans!"
"I just don't know if we can achieve the same control effect without relying on talisman locking and only using the eighth-level control talisman array?"
On the top of a hill a hundred miles away, Gao Yuan looked at the giant ape monster that was controlled by various methods and tightly bound and frozen in place, and analyzed it secretly in his heart.
If possible, he really didn't want to use the third-level talisman.
Even though the latter has been promoted to the third level through deduction, its performance in all aspects has been improved several times compared to the second level best talisman.
But in contrast, its refining method has also undergone huge changes.
Even the material for refining the talisman is no longer the 'Five Spiritual Jade' from the second-order period, but has been replaced by a brand-new material that is smelted from several third-order spiritual ores.
Although this brand-new material enhances the power of the talisman, it also increases the refining cost by nearly thirty times compared to before!
More importantly, the third-level spiritual ore involved in its refining process is quite rare, and sometimes even flower spirit stones may not be available for purchase.
This makes the output of third-level talismans very unstable, which makes the single production cost of third-level talismans approaching one million intermediate spiritual stones. It is destined that they cannot be produced in batches like second-level talismans.
use.
It can only be used as a backup backup, and can only be used for emergency use in more critical situations.
Just as Gao Yuan was commenting in his mind, the three puppets he sent later also rushed to the fighting area under his control.
Seeing this, his heart moved, and he guided the first puppet to withdraw the activation of the talisman. He only used the output of four level 8 frost talisman arrays to maintain control of the giant ape monster.
A few more breaths passed like this, and suddenly, the originally silent 'giant ape ice sculpture' suddenly erupted into several bright golden lights in an area far away from the light beams of the frost talisman array.
After the latter broke out, it was immediately destructive, shattering all the blue ice in the surrounding area, and spreading all the way towards the area illuminated by the frost talisman array light beam.
"Ho~!"
Accompanied by a hasty roar, the giant ape monster that was frozen in place struggled violently for a moment, and in an instant, just like at the beginning, it forcibly broke free from the countless blue ice.
He used his hands and feet to peel off the remaining ice on his body, while rolling and crawling, and fled towards the outskirts of the mountain range without looking back. However, he happened to bump into three other puppets waiting in ambush not far away.
"Ho~!"
Amidst the horrified screams of the giant ape monster, these three puppets, together with the original one, each erupted with several frost-white energy beams, instantly freezing the giant ape monster that had just jumped up in mid-air.
middle.
"I feel like this third-level monster is a lot better than I expected!"
"As a result, I never dared to think about hunting until I reached the fourth level of Hunyuan Realm..."
Hundreds of miles away, Gao Yuan looked at the giant ape monster that was frozen in place again, and Gao Yuan muttered a few words to himself with some emotion.
He used the puppet's exploratory vision to observe carefully for a moment.
After confirming that this giant ape monster really has no resistance at all.
He didn't waste any more time, put away the armchair on the ground, and quickly rushed towards the scene of the battle with the jade-white disk floating above his head.