Gu Sheng, drank dozens of kilograms of Spiritual Spring Water in one gulp.
The cool liquid enters the throat and immediately turns into a surging spiritual energy flowing into the meridians.
Gu Sheng groaned, beads of sweat dripping from his forehead.
Spiritual Spring Water's energy was more violent than he imagined. If his body hadn't reached the ninth level, his meridians would have been directly burst.
"Nine Dragon Qiankun Art!"
Gu Sheng gave a low drink and started to run the technique to guide the circulation of spiritual energy in the body.
The spiritual energy is gradually transformed into pure true energy and merges into the sea of Qi Dantian.
He could feel that his cultivation level was steadily improving and he was getting closer and closer to that threshold.
The sky is getting dark, Setting Sun Like Blood, covering the deserted valley with a strange red color.
Gu Sheng was immersed in cultivation and was completely unaware of the changes in the outside world.
At the same time, outside the valley, a group of warriors advanced cautiously holding torches.
The leader was a middle-aged man with a hideous scar on his face. He held a ghost-headed sword and glanced around fiercely.
"Cheer up my spirits!"
The scar-faced man shouted loudly.
"As long as we find clues about Gu Sheng, there will be a lot of rewards from the divine sect! I heard that the kid also has treasures brought out from Purple Cloud Grotto-Heaven. Any one of them can be enough for us to last a lifetime!"
A dozen warriors in the team were infected by his words, and their eyes became fiery.
A thin man whispered softly.
"Brother Scar, since it's so important, why doesn't the Divine Religion send someone to find it?"
The scarred man's face darkened, and he turned to glare at the speaker.
"Skinny Monkey, are you scared? If you are scared, go back to the city and don't delay my fortune here!"
The thin monkey shrank his neck, but still insisted.
"I'm not afraid. It's just that the people pursued by the divine religion are definitely not something we can deal with. I heard that Gu Sheng killed more than a dozen Seventy-two Divine Sects elders in the depths of southern Xinjiang."
"Fart!"
The scar-faced man interrupted sharply.
"Those are all rumors! How can a young boy be so capable? Besides, we are just looking for clues, not trying to fight him!"
Others in the team echoed.
"That's right, Skinny Monkey, if you don't dare, go back!"
"Don't shake the morale of the army here!"
The thin monkey sighed and whispered.
"I'm here to gain experience, not to die."
The scar-faced man snorted coldly and glanced at everyone.
"Who else wants to leave? Get out of here now and don't cause trouble for me again after entering the mountain!"
"Bah! A bunch of eggless cowards!"
The young warrior spat fiercely on the ground, his eyes full of contempt.
There was a short knife with a green light on his waist, and the red silk wrapped around the handle rustled in the wind.
The thin man took one last look at the team of more than sixty people, silently picked up his own baggage and turned to leave.
The hoarse shouts of the scar-faced man came from behind.
"If you want to leave, leave quickly! Don't be jealous when I get the reward from the cult!"
There was a burst of laughter in the team, mixed with the clang of weapons clashing.
The thin man kept walking, but his heart felt cold.
He remembered what he saw three days ago in the suburbs of Southern Emperor City. The purple-robed monks of Seventy-two Divine Sects were passing through like locusts, and even the land turned dark red wherever they went.
"Lao Zhou, do you really want to leave?"
A middle-aged warrior with a pockmarked face caught up and said in a low voice.
"That's one million High-grade Spirit Stone!"
The thin man shook his head and pointed to an unhealed wound on his left arm.
"Wang Mazi, look at this. Seven days ago at Blackwater Town, I saw with my own eyes that an outer disciple of the Divine Sect casually beheaded three Qi Sea Realm warriors. Do you think we are enough to fill the gaps between people's teeth?"
The pockmarked man trembled when he heard this and touched his neck unconsciously.
Suddenly the scarred man's roar came from the distance.
"What are you waiting for! It will be dark if you don't leave!"
The thin man took one last look at his companions who were blinded by greed, and walked towards the path down the mountain without looking back.
The setting sun stretched his shadow very long, like some kind of ominous omen.
"This is it!"
The tracking warrior squatted on the ground and ran his fingers over a piece of moss with a strange luster.
His nose twitched, and his eyes flashed with excitement.
"You can't be wrong! That person has stayed here before, and his Qi is still very fresh, not more than two hours!"
The scarred man grinned, showing his yellow teeth.
The Nine-Ring Saber tied around his waist jingled, and veins popped out on his thick arms.
"Brothers, here's your chance to make a fortune! The Cult said that if you capture one million spiritual stones alive, you can exchange the corpse for half a million!"
The team suddenly became commotion.
The young warrior squeezed to the front, his short sword already unsheathed.
"Master Scar, what are you waiting for? Just go in!"
"What's the hurry!"
The scar-faced man slapped the young warrior on the back of the head.
"You don't even have hair yet, so you know what's in the cave? What if it's a trap set by Gu Sheng?"
As he spoke, he took out a yellowed talisman from his arms, bit his finger and drew a blood talisman on it.
The paper talisman spontaneously ignited without wind and turned into a sparrow composed of flames that flew into the hole.
After a moment, the scarred man's expression suddenly became strange.
"Strange. No one is in the cave, but"
"But what?"
Everyone craned their necks.
"There is a strong smell of blood."
The scar-faced man put away his smile and looked wary in his eyes.
"Third brother, you take five people to check it out first."
The warrior who was named paled, but under the gaze of everyone, he still had the courage to nod his five companions.
They held torches and unsheathed their weapons, and cautiously entered the cave.
The firelight was gradually swallowed up by darkness, and people outside could only hear their own increasingly heavier heartbeats.
"Ah!"
The shrill scream suddenly exploded, startling the birds in the forest.
The scar-faced man trembled all over, Nine-Ring Saber instantly lying on his chest.
"What's going on?!"
There were chaotic footsteps inside the cave, and of the six people who entered, only three of them rolled and crawled out.
The leader, Lao San, had half his body covered in blood, and his lips were trembling so much that he could not speak.
"There is, there is something"
Another warrior collapsed on the ground, his crotch already wet.
"Lao Zhang and the others suddenly disappeared."
The young warrior grabbed him by the collar.
"Fart! What can eat three air sea realm warriors silently?"
The third child finally regained his breath, and his voice seemed to be squeezed out from between his teeth.
"It's not for eating. It's for pulling. Those vines can move."
Before he finished speaking, a warrior standing on the edge of the crowd suddenly froze.
He looked down at his chest, where a dark green vine tip appeared.
"Save"
As soon as he opened his mouth, his whole body seemed to be pulled into the ground by invisible hands.
In the turbulent soil, countless vines could be seen squirming like giant pythons.
"Be alert!"
The scar-faced man roared angrily, and Nine-Ring Saber glowed with a dazzling red light.
But the second victim had already appeared. A female warrior's ankle was entangled in vines and she was dragged into the nearby bushes in the blink of an eye.
The screams stopped abruptly and were replaced by a bloodcurdling sucking sound.
"Back to back in a circle!"
Cold sweat broke out on the scarred man's forehead.
"Lighting charm! Use the lighting charm quickly!"
More than a dozen talismans lit up at the same time, and the dazzling white light illuminated a hundred meters radius like daylight.
Only then did everyone see clearly that the ground beneath their feet had turned dark green at some point. It was not moss, but densely intertwined vines!
"Blood Blood Demon Vine!"
An experienced old warrior screamed uncontrollably.
"This is the Millennium Blood Demon Vine! Run!"
But it was too late.
Thousands of vines rise up like poisonous snakes, with suckers full of fangs cracked at the top of each one.
The three closest warriors were entangled in vines before they could raise their weapons.
Through the translucent vines, one can clearly see that their bodies are drying up at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Formation! Fire attack!"
The scar-faced man yelled at the top of his lungs, Nine-Ring Saber slashed out a blazing sword energy.
The three vines broke in response, and a foul-smelling purple-black liquid spewed out from the fractures.
But more vines sprouted from the ground, seemingly endlessly.
The young warrior was frightened and was waving his short sword around wildly.
"No, don't come here!"
A vine took the opportunity to wrap around his wrist, its sharp fangs piercing his blood vessels.
He watched helplessly as his arms turned into skin and bones in a few breaths.
"Save me. Master Scar, save me."
The young warrior fell to his knees, the greed in his eyes already replaced by fear.
Just as the scar-faced man was about to step forward, his feet suddenly became weak. Before he knew it, vines had wrapped around his legs.
"Get away!"
The scar-faced man shouted violently, and a dazzling red light erupted from his body.
Nine-Ring Saber spun wildly, cutting off all the surrounding vines.
But just as he gasped for breath, a main vine as thick as an adult's waist broke out of the ground, and the cracked suction cup at the top was big enough to swallow a cow.
"Run! There's something weird about these vines!"
When the scar-faced man shouted loudly, everyone also reacted and realized that the strength of these vines was far beyond their imagination.
However, it was too late, Heavenly Demon Vine had been completely activated, and thousands of pitch-black vines were like awakening giant pythons, strangulating from all directions.
"Ah"
A Heavenly Martial Realm third-level warrior was entangled by three vines as soon as he used his body-protecting energy.
The strong energy that could withstand the sword was like paper in front of the vines, shattering instantly.
The tip of the vine pierced his body, sucking him into a mummy in the blink of an eye.
"What kind of monster is this!"
The scarred man's face turned pale, and he slashed wildly with the long knife in his hand, but could only leave shallow marks on the vines.
Heavenly Demon Vine Although his intelligence is weak, he instinctively knows that these intruders are a great tonic.
Especially after absorbing the aura left by Gu Sheng, it became even more ferocious than before.
The sound of the vines breaking through the air was like the reminder of death, playing the music of death in the night.
"Form up! Form a formation quickly!"
someone shouted.
Seven or eight warriors stood back to back in a circle, each offering their strongest defense.
However, there were so many vines that if one was cut off, ten more would immediately replace it.
Within three or four breaths, the screams rang out one after another, and then quickly fell silent.
The scar-faced man watched in despair as he was surrounded by dozens of vines, and finally understood why Gu Sheng left with peace of mind.
The terror of these vines was far beyond his knowledge, and even a strong person in the sect might not be able to escape unscathed.
"Gu Sheng. You."
Before his consciousness finally dissipated, the scar-faced man saw that his arm quickly shriveled up, and the essence of flesh and blood was greedily devoured by the vines.
After a while, only mummies were left on the ground, and even the bones became fragile.
Heavenly Demon Vine After strangling all the warriors, the vines slowly retracted underground, as if nothing had happened.
The night wind blew by, picking up a few dead leaves and covering up the silent massacre.
At the same time, in a cave ten miles away.
Gu Sheng sits cross-legged, with the true energy flowing around his body like a river.
Nine Dragon Qiankun Art operates to the extreme, with nine dragon-shaped true qi swimming in the meridians. Every time a week is completed, the true qi becomes solidified.
"Now!"
Gu Sheng suddenly opened his eyes, and the true energy in his body exploded.
A pillar of air visible to the naked eye rose into the sky, directly piercing the top of the cave and rushing into the night sky.
"Rumble"
The clouds in the sky were dispersed by this momentum, revealing the bright stars.
Spiritual energy within a hundred miles radius gathered crazily, forming a funnel-shaped whirlpool of spiritual energy, which was continuously poured into Gu Sheng's body.
"Heavenly Martial Realm, broken!"
Gu Sheng roared loudly, and his body slowly floated into the air.
He felt the surging power in his body, and every inch of muscle and every bone was undergoing transformation.
The true energy liquefies, forming a small True Essence lake in the Dantian.
However, Gu Sheng frowned slightly.
"It's strange. These Spiritual Spring Water are supposed to be enough for me to break through to the third level of the Heavenly Martial Realm. Why did it stagnate after I only reached the first level?"
He looked within himself and soon discovered why.
Nine Dragon Qiankun Art's refining of true energy is far better than ordinary exercises. The same spiritual energy, after being transformed by exercises, is of higher quality but less in quantity.
"But."
Gu Sheng clenched his fists and showed a satisfied smile.
"Although I am only at the first level of the Heavenly Martial Realm, my energy is comparable to that of a fifth or sixth level warrior, and my quality is far superior to that of the same level."
He punched lightly, the air exploded, and a deep punch mark appeared on the cave wall.
"Without Source Power, I can fight against an ordinary sect."
Gu Sheng gathered his breath, and the strange phenomena of heaven and earth gradually dissipated.
He quickly packed up his belongings and put Heavenly Demon Vine back into the storage ring.
Just as he was about to leave, his expression suddenly condensed.
"No, the breakthrough was too loud. Someone must have noticed it."
Gu Sheng did not hesitate and rushed out of the cave in a flash.
In the night sky, he could feel several rays of divine consciousness sweeping towards him.
One of them is particularly powerful, at least at the level of the late Zong Realm.
"Must leave as soon as possible."
Gu Sheng, the true energy in the body runs along a specific route.
His figure suddenly became blurry, and the next moment, he appeared hundreds of feet away.
"Ghost Shadow Evasion!"
This is Evasion Technique, which Gu Sheng learned from a top powerhouse in his previous life. It has unparalleled speed within the same realm.
Although he can only scratch the surface with his current cultivation level, it is enough to throw off most of the pursuers.
Shortly after Gu Sheng left, three rays of light fell from the sky and landed in front of the cave.
"This is it."
The leader of the old man had gray hair and a sparkle in his eyes.
He stretched out his hand and grabbed it in the air, catching the remaining breath.
"Such pure Qi. The skills this person practices are by no means simple."
Another middle-aged man inspected the inside of the cave and said in a deep voice.
"We just broke through not long ago, so we shouldn't have gone far yet."
The last one was a young woman. She held a crystal compass in her hand. After the needle shook violently, it pointed to the east.