Chapter 143: Gathering Soul Refining Pill (Part 3)

"It's really amazing! Fortunately, Grandpa's body is protected by the elite of Kuishui, otherwise, he would have been crushed into a meat pie."

Zhou Qing's teeth chattered, and his body trembled slightly. The huge pressure came from all directions and penetrated everywhere. The light golden true essence shield made a series of crackling sounds, and there was a tendency to break. This time Zhou Qing was secretly defeated. The Canglang Water Palace was thousands of feet deep in the sea, and the water pressure was unmatched. With Zhou Qing's current physical power and true essence, he would certainly suffer a great loss without the help of magic weapons.

Seeing this, Fairy Yunxia flew out of her hand and split apart. Hundreds of thousands of Taixu magic needles were added to the true essence shield. The two of them joined forces, and the situation improved a lot. Even so, it was quite strenuous. The Qingni Sword attacked and defended at the same time, and it was very powerful. However, under this pervasive pressure, the clear light interwoven by the Taixu magic needles was suppressed and dimmed, but the light golden true essence shield was much more stable.

Zhou Qing tasted it and did not dare to be arrogant. The Nine-Day Golden Crow robe fluttered, and the golden flames flowed and rushed. Although it was underwater, the power of the flames was not reduced at all. Nine three-clawed golden crows flapped their wings on the light golden true energy shield, and the sea water was forced away. This ancient spiritual bird was known to burn mountains and boil seas. Although it was not a real object, it was a feather illusion, and its power was also extraordinary. The pressure on the two people was reduced, and the true energy was connected.

Zhou Qing still felt unsafe, so he raised his hand and twelve iron-backed centipedes flashed with purple and silver light. Each of them grew to the thickness of a bucket, more than ten feet long, with fangs and claws, talismans flowing, circling outside the true energy shield, forming a large formation, trapping the two people in the middle, and the abundant spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the sea water swarmed in and was sucked into the bodies of the twelve centipedes to resist the pressure of the sea water.

Seeing Zhou Qing so powerful, the old Taoist Xuanwu, the Three Saints of Tianshui and others were all amazed, especially the twelve giant centipedes, which were connected head to tail and covered several acres of land, like twelve underwater dragons, with great momentum. Several large deep-sea fish and jellyfish were attracted by the light and rushed forward. A giant squid was about to release ink and coiled up with eight legs, obviously catching food, but it was knocked over by the centipede's tail, and then rolled over on the spot. Hundreds of sharp claws directly tore it apart. In less than a minute, the blood of this giant squid was sucked out by the iron back.

With this abundant blood nourishment, the silver and purple light on the iron back centipede became brighter, and the dancing of its fingers and feet became more flexible, and the water pressure from the deep sea was also reduced a bit.

Zhou Qing also had a sudden impulse to absorb the blood essence of the squid. Anyway, the original body of the iron-backed centipede also nourishes its flesh by sucking the blood essence of animals to survive.

The twelve iron-backed centipedes are Zhou Qing's soul clones. Zhou Qing knows the changes in the centipede's body very well. Originally, under the huge pressure, the centipede controlled by the soul was not as lively as before. Who knew that after absorbing the blood essence, the centipede's flesh body quickly merged with the life essence of the squid under the pressure of the sea water, becoming a little stronger, but it was also a big anomaly.

Undersea animals, without human harassment, have a long lifespan except when they are killed by natural enemies. Over the years, the spiritual essence accumulated in their bodies is of course a lot, but it is a bargain for the iron-backed centipede that specializes in blood essence.

Zhou Qing understood this situation and was overjoyed. He repeatedly commanded these twelve fierce and violent insects to kill the giant sea monster fish attracted by the light, and was very busy for a while.

The iron-backed centipede originally had a hard shell and was not afraid of being cut by swords and knives. After Zhou Qing tempered it with the purple dragon silver stone, it could fight evenly against the top-grade flying swords. However, it could not fight against powerful flying sword magic weapons. For example, the Qingni sword that Zhou Qing gave to Fairy Yu Yunxia could easily break the shell, and the purple palace thunder of the old Qianji could not resist it. Facing the masters of the Return to Void level, Zhou Qing could only control the centipede to interweave the formation and win by skill.

Among Zhou Qing's magic weapons, these twelve centipedes are the most handy. The other powerful magic weapons, such as the Immortal Binding Rope and the Divine Whip, cannot exert their power, and they also consume a lot of true essence and spiritual thoughts.

Now that there is an opportunity to help the centipede improve its strength, Zhou Qing will certainly not let it go. As long as he keeps absorbing the abundant life essence of the sea creatures and uses it all to temper the centipede's body under the pressure of sea water, Zhou Qing believes that his twelve centipedes will definitely be able to fight any magic weapon in the near future.

Skills are important, but tyrannical strength is always the dominant factor.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou really broadened our horizons. He actually has such a skill to control insects. This centipede seems to be the so-called Iron Back in the inland mountains and forests. It is incredible that he has been able to refine it to this level."

The old Taoist Xuanwu was amazed, and all the disciples nodded. Seeing these centipedes bite dozens of huge sea fish and jellyfish in an instant, the old Taoist Xuanwu frowned and advised: "These are all creatures in the seabed. It is better for you to practice Buddhist skills less and commit less sins." The old Taoist Xuanwu had a sharp eye and saw at a glance that these centipedes were sucking the blood of animals to improve their strength.

"This time, we only want to capture the blood demon seaweed so that we can refine the golden elixir. Under the sea of ​​2,000 feet, although we have good Taoism and rare treasures to protect us, we are afraid that there will still be some troubles, especially the blood demon seaweed that comes and goes like lightning and is very vicious. Big things are ahead. We are all cultivators, so we don't have to be afraid of such small things. As long as we refine the golden elixir to save our lives, the heavenly calamity brought by the small killing is not worth mentioning!" Zhou Qingyu was so excited about killing the centipedes that he was unwilling to stop.

If the centipedes had not formed a large formation to absorb spiritual energy to offset the pressure, Zhou Qing would have wanted to command them to go their separate ways and kill them specifically. However, these centipedes that left the formation were probably crushed to death by the water pressure in less than a quarter of an hour.

The old Taoist Xuanwu was not a pedantic person. He just reminded Zhou Qing out of habit. Hearing what Zhou Qing said, he also found some truth. He stopped blocking him. The purple flame of the Eight Scenery Palace Lantern in his hand was shining brightly, and all his disciples were wrapped in it. The eight disciples were not relaxed either. They all took out their magic weapons and added the five-color light array to the purple flame light shield to help the old Taoist Xuanwu relieve the pressure.

This trip to the sea was of great importance. We could not consume too much true essence and mana. Every bit of it was saved. The old Taoist Xuanwu was the main force and could not consume too much true essence.

Relatively speaking, the three saints of Tianshui were the most relaxed. A true water shield was propped up, emitting a faint white light, separating the red-haired ancestor from the sea water within a radius of ten feet from Qingshen. The water shield made of Tianyi True Water was a magic weapon specially made by the three saints to resist the heavenly calamity and go to the sea to collect medicinal materials. The three of them spent hundreds of years together to refine it, which was of course extraordinary.

The ape was outside the water shield, swimming in the seawater, with its long, soft white hair standing upright. It didn't shake at all when swimming, and it was obviously infused with all its true energy and magic power.

"As expected of the descendants of the ancient ape! This monkey can move at the bottom of the sea with its flesh alone." A dozen people urged their magic power and continued to dive. Zhou Qing just commanded a centipede to strangle and devour a two-meter-long sea fish, and then saw the ape jumping left and right, collecting all the medicinal herbs growing in the sea. These medicinal herbs are also rare, and they are also top-grade goods for refining elixirs. Of course, the ape will not let them go.

The surroundings were already pitch black, but the magic weapons emitted by the crowd were so bright that the entire four or five miles of the sea area was clearly visible. The deeper they dived, the greater the pressure was, and the fewer creatures and fish were gradually seen. Occasionally, one or two would swim by, and they were all flat and long, with small eyes that were completely disproportionate to their bodies. Some had no eyes at all, and their bodies were all light, with no heads to be distinguished, like a long and flat piece of cloth, all in dark black.

Every time these creatures swam by, Zhou Qing would of course command the centipedes to strangle and devour them one by one. What surprised Zhou Qing was that these creatures did not look very good, but their blood and essence were ten times more abundant than the fish and jellyfish on the upper sea surface, but their numbers were rare, far from enough for these centipedes to share.

Having devoured the blood of many creatures along the way, Zhou Qing was delighted to find that the bodies of these centipedes were more than twice as strong as before, and their communication with spiritual energy was more flexible. Although the pressure was getting greater and greater, Zhou Qing was very relaxed due to the evolution of the centipedes. Fairy Yunxia also flew out a colorful light. Whenever she encountered a creature, she would roll over and let the centipedes share the food. The two cooperated closely and seamlessly.

After the ape collected a lot of medicinal materials, it finally couldn't withstand the water pressure and drilled into the Tianyi water cover. As the pressure increased, the purple flame of Doushita in the hands of the old Taoist Xuanwu gradually became brighter and brighter, not losing the wind at all.

Use fire to overcome water! It is unheard of to use a little bean-sized light to counter the pressure of the entire ocean in the thick water elemental force. Zhou Qing admires the magic of Doushuai purple flame.

There are few creatures, but the seaweed is gradually increasing. There are often large patches, stretching for more than ten miles. The leaves of the seaweed are thick and even fat. Under the shining of the treasure light, they show a green color. If everyone wants to dive down, they have to go through these layers of dense seaweed, but this seaweed is extremely tough, like a living thing, connected into a dense piece.

Seeing this, Zhou Qing urged his true essence to control the water flow. A huge stream of water hit the green seaweed group. The seaweed group just shook, without any force, and there was no damage at all.

"What a soft and tough seaweed!" Zhou Qing sighed secretly, and the nine Tianlong Fumo swords rushed out and chopped at the seaweed. The silver light was shining. The nine Tianlong Fumo swords were so sharp that although the seaweed was tough, it couldn't stand the cutting of the sharp blade and broke one after another. In a moment, Zhou Qing chopped out a dark hole with a radius of several acres.

Just as he was about to get in and continue diving, the old Taoist Xuanwu stopped him quickly: "Fellow Daoist Zhou, wait a minute!"