"Boy, let me show you the power of the red shadow staff!"
Lin Mo reluctantly turned sideways to avoid it, but the giant red shadow python suddenly transformed into countless small snakes and entangled him again.
Lin Mo gritted his teeth, raised the skull ring in his hand, and struck the giant python.
A tragic scream was heard, and numerous small cracks appeared on the body of the giant red shadow python. After that, its body swayed and turned into residual blood.
"Asshole, you hurt my magic weapon!" The old Taoist was furious.
Just when Lin Mo and Lao Dao were fighting fiercely, the battle situation took a dramatic turn.
The old Taoist muttered words and quickly formed seals with his hands in front of his chest. Lin Mo felt that the air around him suddenly solidified, and a strong sense of oppression enveloped the entire desert.
"No, something big is going to happen!"
Alarm bells rang in Lin Mo's heart, but it was too late. He only heard the old Taoist laugh evilly and suddenly pressed a button on his waist.
The desert ground rumbled and shook, and countless dark red figures emerged from the sand dunes. They were clearly the monster army summoned by the veteran!
"Go!" the old Taoist shouted loudly.
Those monsters had different shapes, some were like wolves and tigers, some were like snakes and scorpions, and there were also groups of demonic apes with sharp claws and fangs. They roared and quickly surrounded Lin Mo.
"Damn it! Eat my sword!"
Lin Mo swung his blood sword fiercely and chopped down several monsters that were charging forward. But more monsters surged up and quickly surrounded Lin Mo, making it difficult for him to move forward.
"Hahahaha!" The old man laughed wildly in mid-air, "Boy, admit it, you are no match for me!"
Lin Mo's face turned pale. He tried his best, but could only barely resist the attack of these monsters. However, the old Taoist obviously had more men hiding underground, ten times and a hundred times more than Lin Mo.
Under such a disparity in strength, Lin Mo was obviously at a disadvantage.
Lin Mo was besieged by Lao Dao's monster army in the middle of the desert, and fell into a tense confrontation with Lao Dao.
"Surrender, boy, I can spare your life!" the old Taoist said condescendingly in mid-air.
"Get out of here! I would rather be broken into pieces than give in!" Lin Mo shouted and slashed at the monsters in all directions with his sword.
"Okay! See how I torture you!" The old Taoist sneered and waved his hand to order several demon apes to throw sharp blades at Lin Mo.
Lin Mo turned sideways to avoid it, and at the same time jumped up suddenly, sword energy spurted out from the bloody sword.
"Blood Shadow Sword!"
The sword energy formed a huge bloody sword shadow and struck straight at Lao Dao. Lao Dao quickly formed a protective shield to block the blow, but his face became ugly.
"You still have a few moments, but you will soon show your cowardice!" the old Taoist said gloomily.
Before he finished speaking, he used a trick to confuse the mind, trying to attack Lin Mo's spirit. Lin Mo quickly activated his body-protecting energy and barely resisted this mental attack.
"watch out!"
Just when the old man was concentrating, Lin Mo seized the opportunity and suddenly ejected a skull upwards. The skull opened its mouth and sprayed out a stream of black mist.
With a loud "boom", the black mist and Lao Dao's protective shield collided, and both were severely damaged.
Lin Mo and Lao Dao took a few steps back at the same time, and the two fell into a brief draw.
"Boy, where do you come from, with such magic weapons and martial arts?" The old Taoist stared at Lin Mo, with a cold light flashing in his eyes.
"Either you die today or I die, come on!" Lin Mo's eyes were red, he clenched his blood sword and rushed forward.
Neither of them would give in at this moment. The outcome of this life-and-death battle has not yet been decided, but the outcome is obviously a matter of one thought.
...
Lin Mo was walking in a secluded valley when suddenly a flower appeared in front of his eyes and the valley scenery disappeared, replaced by a quiet lake.
"What kind of place is this?" Lin Mo looked around cautiously. He saw that the lake was like a mirror, with the shadows of the trees sparkling, but not a single flaw could be seen.
At this moment, a circle of ripples gently appeared on the water surface, and a vague shadow rose from the bottom of the water. Lin Mo squinted his eyes and looked carefully. It seemed to be the shadow of a fish, swimming leisurely to the shore.
"Golden Little Swordfish!"
Lin Mo clapped his palms, and a golden light shot out from his palms, turning into a small golden fish and shooting towards the shadow in the water.
There was just a pop sound, and it seemed that the goldfish successfully hit the target, causing a splash of water. Just as Lin Mo was about to breathe a sigh of relief, suddenly the shadow in the water appeared again, still swimming leisurely.
"What's going on?" Lin Mo was shocked and confused. He sent out several goldfish to attack again, but the creatures in the water remained the same and were not damaged at all.
"No, this seems to be an illusion!" Lin Mo's heart rang with alarm. He used his spiritual thoughts and struck out with a palm towards the water.
With a loud bang, the entire lake surface burst open, and the water dried up instantly. Instead, there was a huge six-legged mirage, looking at Lin Mo with blood-red eyes.
"So that's it, quick illusion reaction, this is the mirage!" Lin Mo's eyes were cold, ready for a head-on confrontation with this powerful enemy!
After seeing through the illusion of the mirage, Lin Mo decided to use his unique magical powers with his hands to fight against the monster.
Seeing that the illusion was useless, the mirage roared angrily and suddenly sprayed out two streams of white smoke aimed at Lin Mo. Lin Mo jumped up lightly to avoid the fatal blow.
Then Lin Mo was seen stretching his hands, and countless small metal wires were shot out from the gaps in his bones, hitting the mirage directly. The mirage hurriedly rolled to avoid it, but its feet were still strangled by the metal wires.
"Want to escape? Die!"
Lin Mo suddenly pulled his hands, and the metal wire tightened instantly, tearing off the mirage's feet. The mirage howled repeatedly and sprayed out two streams of white mist.
"useless!"
Lin Mo staggered his palms, and the metal wire formed an iron wall, which bounced away all the white mist.
"I'm going to capture your heart!"
Lin Mo shouted loudly, and shot out more metal wires from both hands, quickly wrapping around the mirage and tightly binding its beating heart.
"No, it's impossible..." Fear burst out from the mirage's eyes, and it struggled violently.
But soon, under the tightening of the metal wire, its heart was ripped out.
"Finally got you."
Lin Mo coldly put away his hands and faced the afterglow, with a cold light in his eyes.
Lin Mo finally killed the mirage, but it seemed that the matter was not over yet.
Lin Mo noticed that there was still a strange smell floating in the air. He looked around vigilantly, but could not see any clues.
"Does this mirage have accomplices?" Lin Mo was confused.
At this moment, a vague shadow suddenly shot out from the depths of the woods and went straight to Lin Mo's back!
Lin Mo listened to the wind and discerned shapes, and rolled sideways, narrowly avoiding the fatal blow. The shadow passed by and disappeared into the shadow of the trees.
"So that's it, invisible magical power!" Lin Mo's eyes flashed coldly, and he stretched out his left hand, shooting a golden light from between his fingers.
There was a sound of "Zira", golden light flashed across, and an object fell out of the shadow of the tree. Lin Mo walked forward and found that it was a mature gold-eating insect with broken wings.
"Go, my little friend!" Lin Mo waved his hands, and dozens of gold-eating insects flew out of his body.
These gold-eating insects dispersed quickly, and soon, Lin Mo heard violent crashes and screams coming from deep in the woods.
After a while, the gold-eating bugs returned one after another and formed a ring in mid-air. In the center of the ring was a terrifying charred corpse—obviously the corpse of an invisible mirage.
"Okay! The credit belongs to you." Lin Mo smiled and gave the gold-eating insects a thumbs up.
This time, the crisis was finally resolved.
After destroying the invisible mirage, Lin Mo noticed that his spiritual energy seemed to be greatly consumed.
"What's going on?" Lin Mo was puzzled, "I obviously didn't use any big moves, so why was my spiritual energy so severely depleted?"
Lin Mo carefully thought about the battle just now, and suddenly, he thought of something.
"Could it be...a gold-eating insect?"
That's right, when Lin Mo used the Gold-eating Insect to eliminate the invisible mirage, he felt the rapid loss of his spiritual consciousness. But at that time, he concentrated on fighting the enemy and didn't care.
"Does the use of gold-eating insects really require so much spiritual energy?" Lin Mo thought thoughtfully.
He knew that gold-eating insects were extremely powerful divine beasts, but he did not expect that their attacks would require huge spiritual support.
"I have to figure this out so that I don't suddenly lose my mind at a critical moment."
Lin Mo decided to release a few gold-eating insects again later and carefully observe their consumption effect on his own spiritual energy.
This battle gave him a deeper understanding of the power of gold-eating insects. Next, he needs to further investigate this mysterious creature.
Lin Mo noticed that his mental energy would be greatly consumed when using the Gold-Eating Insect, but the specific consumption amount was difficult to grasp.
"I have to do a test to determine the impact of the gold-eating insect's attack on spiritual thoughts." Lin Mo thought to himself.
He found an empty valley, gathered a certain amount of spiritual energy, and then released two mature gold-eating insects.
He saw two gold-eating insects circling and colliding rapidly in the valley. Their powerful momentum made Lin Mo worried about whether they would hurt himself.
However, what surprised Lin Mo was that after the gold-eating bug attacked for a period of time, he did not feel any obvious loss of spiritual energy.
"What's going on? Did I make a mistake in my previous judgment?" Lin Mo was confused.
He let the gold-eating insects continue to attack, but the consumption rate of his spiritual thoughts was much lower than he expected.
"The power of the gold-eating insect is indeed extremely powerful, but why does it not consume as much spiritual energy as I imagined?"
Lin Mo was deeply puzzled by this. It seems that the mystery of the gold-eating insect needs further exploration.
In order to understand the impact of gold-eating insects on spiritual thoughts, Lin Mo released ten mature gold-eating insects this time.
At the beginning, Lin Mo did not feel any obvious loss of spiritual energy. But as time went by, the increase in the number of gold-eating bugs had a significant impact on the consumption rate of spiritual energy.
Lin Mo felt that the spiritual energy in his body was rapidly declining at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if there was a bottomless pit greedily sucking up his spiritual energy.
"This consumption rate is terrible!"
Lin Mo's expression changed slightly. He quickly mobilized his strength to try to slow down the loss of his spiritual thoughts.
However, the attack of the gold-eating insects continued. They collided and collided with each other, and the energy released had a huge impact on Lin Mo's spiritual thoughts.
Finally, after the gold-eating bug attacked for a certain period of time, Lin Mo felt dizzy and almost fell to the ground.
"I understand...the gold-eating insects will indeed consume a lot of my spiritual energy."
Lin Mo's face was gloomy. This made him a little wary of the powerful power of the gold-eating insect.
After this test of releasing gold-eating bugs, Lin Mo had a clear understanding of the problem of spiritual energy consumption caused by them. He began to seriously think about how to deal with this difficult situation.
Lin Mo realized that gold-eating insects are undoubtedly a powerful secret weapon. Their unimaginable attack power makes it difficult for any enemy to resist. But be careful when using it, otherwise you may fall into an extremely weak state due to the loss of vicious spiritual thoughts.
, but the enemy took advantage of it.
"I must change my strategy and not rely on gold-eating bugs frequently." Lin Mo pondered, "Maybe I can study whether there is a way to reduce their absorption of spiritual thoughts."
Lin Mo tried to control the gold-eating insects with his mind power, hoping to slow down the speed at which they devour spiritual thoughts, but with little success. It seems that the instinct of gold-eating insects to absorb spiritual thoughts is difficult to control.
"At the critical moment, I can still release the gold-eating insects to launch a fatal blow to the enemy." Lin Mo's eyes flashed with a cold light, "But before that, I must preserve sufficient spiritual energy to ensure that I can support the attack of the gold-eating insects.
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Lin Mo decided to use gold-eating insects more carefully in daily practice, considering them as a trump card. At the same time, he should also improve his ability to accumulate and mobilize spiritual thoughts to ensure that he can flexibly respond to various situations in battle.
This experience gave Lin Mo a better understanding of the power of gold-eating insects, and also made him more cautious and meticulous in applying them. Next, he needs to further master how to use this powerful force.
Lin Mo sat under an old tree, closing his eyes and concentrating. He found that just after the gold-eating bug was released, the consumption of spiritual energy was not obvious, but as time went by, the consumption rate would become faster and faster, until the spiritual energy was consumed.
Thoughts are exhausted.
"This is undoubtedly caused by the gold-eating insect's body's instinctive absorption of spiritual thoughts." Lin Mo pondered, "They are too powerful, and my spiritual thoughts cannot support such a huge consumption."
Lin Mo realized that if he relied too much on gold-eating insects in battle, it would most likely end up hurting both sides. When his spiritual consciousness was insufficient, he would fall into an extremely weak state and be injured by the enemy.
"It seems that I must use gold-eating bugs with caution and treat them as a trump card. I will only use them at critical moments to deliver a swift and violent blow to the enemy."
Lin Mo silently wrote down this lesson. The power of the gold-eating bug is amazing, but it also needs to be carefully considered when used. He also needs to enhance his ability to accumulate spiritual thoughts in daily practice to be fully prepared for the release of the gold-eating bug.
In view of the loss of spiritual consciousness, Lin Mo decided to leave here temporarily and find other places to practice.
Here, Lin Mo just experienced two battles. Although he won the victory, his own spiritual consciousness was also damaged a lot.
"I need to find a quiet place to slowly regain my strength." Lin Mo thought.
Lin Mo believed that as long as he meditated for a period of time in a suitable environment and supplemented with elixirs, his spiritual mind could slowly recover.
So Lin Mo chose a secluded cave to meditate there. He constantly monitored the flow of spiritual thoughts in his body. Once he felt a significant recovery, he would get up to practice and exercise the use of spiritual thoughts.
In this small secluded cave, Lin Mo lived an extremely simple life.