Chapter 213 Vine Transformation
A few days later, deep in the Shiwan Mountains, in a dense forest.
A leopard beast with a body covered with money patterns was terrified, running wildly in the forest, and roaring angrily from time to time.
This leopard was two or three feet long, with a smooth body and a strong breath. Wherever it passed, birds, insects and ants were scared away. It was a level 2 beast.
The leopard had no scars on its body, but blood kept flowing from the corner of its mouth.
No matter how the beast ran and fled, the blood from its mouth kept flowing, and its speed slowed down rapidly. Soon it fell to the ground and stopped moving.
In a patch of grass two hundred feet away, the air trembled slightly, and a green figure slowly emerged. It was Yuan Ming.
He was wearing a gray cloak given by Xiying. The cloak was now green and completely integrated with the surrounding environment.
Yuan Ming walked quickly and soon came to the body of the leopard beast.
This leopard is called the Golden Leopard. It is a second-level lower-level fierce beast, and its combat power is comparable to that of a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building. However, Yuan Ming just controlled the black needle magic weapon from a distance, sneaked into the belly of this beast, pierced through its belly and drilled into its body, and scratched the heart, liver, and lungs of this leopard.
This golden leopard could not even find where the enemy was, and fell here in a daze.
Yuan Ming raised his hand and the black needle magic weapon flew out of the mouth of the golden leopard and fell into his hand.
Looking at this top-grade magic weapon in his hand, which was as thin as a hair, he nodded with satisfaction and put it away.
He spent several days to sacrifice and refine this thing to make it more compatible with himself. After this attempt, it really met his expectations.
Yuan Ming took out the Cold Star Sword and carefully peeled off the skin of the golden leopard.
The golden leopard is a golden beast. This skin contains abundant gold spiritual power. It is extremely strong but thin and soft. It can be used to refine inner armor-type magic weapons and is very valuable.
As for the rest of the leopard's body, it was not very valuable.
Yuan Ming put away the leopard skin and patted another spirit beast bag.
The black toad spirit beast jumped out and sensed the abundant blood of the golden leopard. The black toad showed excitement and immediately shot out several purple and black demon vines, which quickly sucked the golden leopard's body dry.
The demon power contained in the golden leopard's skin and meat was very different from that of the black toad. The black toad's breath did not increase much, and it ran back to Yuan Ming lazily.
Yuan Ming frowned slightly. The black toad spirit beast used to be full of energy and had never been so lazy.
He communicated with it through the beast control rune engraved on the black toad's sea of consciousness, but he did not detect anything, so he ignored it and put it into the spirit beast bag.
Yuan Ming then summoned the Qingyun Crane and flew out of the Ten Thousand Mountains, not continuing to hunt beasts here.
Two days later, Yuan Ming came to the outside of the Snake King Valley.
After the battle of destruction of Biluo Cave, facing powerful cultivators and beast tides, he deeply felt his insignificance, but also further opened his horizons.
Now he is more eager to improve his cultivation, and now he has almost prepared everything. If he can break through the bottleneck in one fell swoop, his cultivation strength will get a qualitative leap.
When he returns to Dajin, he should settle accounts with some people.
It takes a long time to break through the foundation-building period, and he must find a safe and secluded place. He thought about it and thought that among the places he had been to, the underground passage in Snake King Valley was the most quiet and safe, and it was a good place for retreat.
Although the valley is full of dense miasma, it is very thin deep underground, and with the effect of the obstacle-avoiding beads, it will not affect cultivation.
Yuan Ming released three soul crows and thoroughly explored the Snake King Valley. After confirming that no one had been there, he entered the valley and soon came to the underground passage under the Snake King Cave, waving his hand to summon the black toad.
As soon as the black toad landed, excitement immediately appeared in its eyes, and it ran deep into the passage.
Yuan Ming did not call it, and let the black toad disappear in the darkness ahead.
He came here to retreat, not only because it was quiet here, but also because the black toad had greatly improved its strength after absorbing the strange black air in the ancient tomb. He planned to let the black toad continue to absorb it to see how much it could improve.
The black toad was so energetic at the moment, it seemed that there was nothing wrong with it, and its previous laziness should be accidental.
Yuan Ming gathered his mind, took out the four-sided soul-sealing talisman and pasted it on the four stone walls, opened a spiritual power barrier, and completely isolated the thin miasma.
He sat cross-legged, took out a Jinhua Pill and swallowed it, and practiced his skills to refine it.
Time passed, and more than a month passed quickly.
In the underground passage, Yuan Ming's body suddenly became green, and the powerful breath wave rushed in all directions like a tide, and the barrier formed by the four-sided soul-sealing talisman trembled.
He opened his eyes and showed a hint of joy on his face.
After a period of hard training, and with the help of Jinhua Pill, Jiuyuan Jue finally broke through again and reached the thirteenth level of Qi Refining.
There were not many Jinhua Pills left, but now they were completely eaten up, fortunately, they successfully broke through.
The thirteenth level of Qi Refining is very different from the previous twelfth level of Qi Refining. The mana in the Dantian is more powerful and has a tendency to condense into liquid.
The symbol of a cultivator in the foundation-building period is the liquefaction of mana. The cultivation of Jiuyuan Jue to the thirteenth level is indeed very helpful for advancing to the foundation-building stage.
Yuan Ming did not stop, and practiced Jiuyuan Jue to stabilize his realm.
After three days and three nights, the mana in his Dantian was completely stable, and his mind was adjusted to the best state.
Yuan Ming took out a foundation-building pill and swallowed it, and began to practice and refine it.
The foundation-building pill was completely different from the pills he had taken before, and it took a long time to slowly melt.
Not long after, a burning sensation broke out from the lower abdomen, as if a fire was burning in the lower abdomen.
Yuan Ming had already found out how to use the foundation-building pill, and he used the Nine Yuan Jue to transfer this extremely hot medicinal power to the Dantian.
The use of the foundation-building pill is very simple. Just guide the medicinal power into the Dantian. The scorching medicinal power will forge the mana again and again, like a hammer forging ore, until a breakthrough.
This process is very long, and it takes ten days and a half months to get results.
Yuan Ming closed his eyes and operated his mana to cooperate with the medicinal power of the foundation-building pill.
Ten days passed in a flash.
Yuan Ming opened his eyes, stopped practicing, and showed a bitter smile on his face.
This attack on the foundation-building ended in failure. Although the mana was boiling and surging under the effect of the medicinal power of the foundation-building pill, it did not have much tendency to liquefy. Every time it reached the critical threshold of breakthrough, it would retreat.
He was not surprised. His four spiritual roots could make great progress in the cultivation during the Qi Refining Period with the help of the Nine Yuan Jue and the large number of pills he got from various places, but the foundation-building was different. The difficulty increased by more than ten times, and it was not easy to overcome with a foundation-building pill.
"It seems that we need to find some other auxiliary things." Yuan Ming thought to himself.
If he was still full of confidence before, he had a deeper understanding after this attempt. Although he still had two foundation-building pills, he should not try them casually without more than 50% confidence, so as not to waste them.
Of course, this attack was not without gain. The mana in his dantian was thicker and stickier. The next time he broke through the foundation-building period, he would have a greater chance.
After failing to attack the foundation-building period, Yuan Ming had no intention of staying here for long. He communicated with the black toad in his mind and prepared to leave, but he did not receive any response.
Yuan Ming was puzzled and stood up and walked deep into the passage, and soon arrived at the ancient tomb in front.
As before, the demon vine in the black toad spread again, with a larger range than before, almost submerging the entire stone chamber. The purple-black vine flowers were also larger and more than before, and a strange fragrance floated in the air.
The originally dim stone chamber of the ancient tomb now seemed to have become a lush garden.
Yuan Ming admired the strange beauty in front of him and was about to step in when several vines nearby jumped up like poisonous snakes and made an attacking gesture towards him.
Yuan Ming's face suddenly darkened, and he grabbed a vine like lightning and started to use the beast control technique.
Thick black air rolled out, injected into the vine along the vine, and activated the beast control rune.
All the demon vines in the hall danced in pain and quickly retracted.
In a few breaths, except for the one in Yuan Ming's hand, all the demon vines in the hall disappeared, and the figure of the black toad appeared, and its appearance changed dramatically.
The originally plump body of the black toad became extremely shriveled, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe it as skinny. There were protrusions all over its body, which seemed to be meridians at first glance, but Yuan Ming sensed very clearly that these protrusions were purple-black demon vines.
The purple-black demon vine and the black toad originally coexisted, but now the demon vines began to rob the black toad of its vitality!
"Is it because of the absorption of black air?" Yuan Ming recalled that the demon vine dared to attack him just now, and he felt more and more uneasy.
The spirit beast planted with the beast taming rune is not infallible, and there is a possibility of losing control. There have been many precedents of spirit beasts turning against their masters in the history of Biluo Cave.
Yuan Ming originally thought that he could control the demon vine with his powerful soul and beast taming technique. Now it seems that he seems to have underestimated this demon vine!
However, as a major beast taming sect, Biluo Cave naturally has ways to deal with out-of-control spirit beasts.
Yuan Ming held the vine in one hand and continued to activate the beast taming technique. With the other hand, he cut the skin on his fingertips and pinched the fingers in the air.
A stream of blood shot out, and as he pinched the fingers in the air, it quickly formed a rune-like blood pattern.
"Zha!"
Yuan Ming shouted, and the blood rune shone brightly, turning into a blood light that sank into the body of the demon vine and hit its beast soul consciousness.
This rune is called the Blood Spirit Rune. It can not only enhance the power of the beast taming technique, but also severely damage the spirit of the spirit beast, making it dare not act rashly.
The consciousness of the purple black demon vine was severely damaged and became weak. The vine in Yuan Ming's hand drooped like a dead snake.
The black toad also screamed, turned over and fell down, and never moved.
Yuan Ming hurriedly squatted down to check the black toad's situation. The black toad's consciousness also became very weak and fell into a deep sleep.
He was not very proficient in beast taming. In this situation, he didn't know what to do. He could only put the black toad into the spirit beast bag for the time being and observe the situation later.
One afternoon a few days later.
In a restaurant near the main street of Black Rock City, a slightly handsome young man and a sturdy man sat drinking together.
"Brother Wulu, it's such a coincidence! You said you would come to Black Rock City in a few days, but you didn't come early or late. I just stepped into the city and I ran into you right away." The handsome young man said with a smile.
"This is called a meeting of thousands of miles! I also encountered something on the road, and I was delayed after dealing with it. Come, let's toast to our fate!" Wulu laughed, raised his glass and clinked it with Yuan Ming, and drank it all in one gulp.
Yuan Ming naturally had doubts about Wulu's words, but his retreat was a secret, and he came to Black Rock City on a whim after coming out of retreat. Unless the other party was a worm in his stomach, it would be impossible for him to know his itinerary.
"Maybe it's really a coincidence?" Yuan Ming thought so and drank the cup in one gulp.