Chapter 185: Li Gou becomes a robbery cultivator, and the Demon Cult loses face
After carefully examining the Qingsha Pills handed in by Li An, Gu Xuanting frowned.
The second-grade Qingsha Pills were only of medium quality and were not considered good.
However, although Jindan cultivators preferred the third-grade Qingsha Pills, the second-grade Qingsha Pills actually had a certain effect, so the second-grade Qingsha Pills were also strategic materials and could be exchanged for contributions.
The Qingsha Pills handed in by Li An were just enough to ensure that he could continue to stay.
Gu Xuanting hesitated for a moment. In fact, if Li An was just a second-grade alchemist, he could still get Li An out.
After all, as an envoy, he had a lot of room to operate. He could just go back and tell Lord Baishan that Li An had made no contribution, so he could be expelled.
But Li An was different. Although his contribution was low and he was not considered a strong man under Lord Baishan, he was not very impressive, but he had a good relationship with Miss Xiaoying.
This made it impossible for him to operate in secret. "It is indeed a contribution." Gu Xuanting said lightly, "It just meets the standard to stay, you don't have to leave." "But!" He suddenly spoke again, his words solemn: "You have too few contribution points, so you don't have the priority to choose the spiritual vein. You have to wait for others to choose before it's your turn-" As he said, he turned to look at the three cultivators behind him and said, "Three, you can choose the spiritual vein of Lingyun Mountain first-" The three of them smiled and were very happy. They were two men and one woman, and their cultivation was only at the initial stage of Zhendan. In fact, their contribution was not very good, but they seized the opportunity to curry favor with Zhou Libai, who had just gained power, and became Zhou Libai's confidant. Zhou Libai arranged them to come here because, first, the Ding-level spiritual vein here is better than other Ding-level spiritual veins, and second, Baihua Valley has had spiritual roses born twice. Although the evil vein of Baihua Valley has exploded now, who knows if there will be good things in the future? They must let their own people go. The three of them immediately chose Lingdong Peak, Lingjing Peak, and Lingyuan Peak.
Li An frowned when he heard this and said, "Fellow Daoist Gu, in this case, I can only go to Lingsha Peak... I can't practice there!"
Gu Xuanting smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist, there is no way. I am just following the rules. If it doesn't work, you can also choose the other people's Ding-level spiritual veins, or leave?"
He was quite happy in his heart. In this way, even if Li An found Miss Xiaoying, he would have no problem, and at the same time, he could complete the tasks assigned by Zhou Libai.
After going to Lingsha Peak, even if Li An was a second-grade alchemist, he could not withstand the invasion of evil spirits.
Li An pondered for a long time and gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll go to Lingsha Peak!"
Then, he went directly back to Lingjing Peak, packed up his things, and when he walked out, he said hatefully, "Lin will definitely come back!"
He went straight to Lingsha Peak.
Seeing this, several people laughed.
"He really doesn't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is. Does he think that he can survive in Lingsha Peak without the second-grade Qingsha Pill?"
"That's good, so we don't have to worry."
"He deserves it for offending fellow Daoist Zhou."
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Lingsha Peak is a little far from Lingyuan Peak and other three peaks, about ten miles away.
Li An quickly landed on Lingsha Peak. Compared with the other three peaks, it was desolate here, with very little vegetation, giving it a feeling of desert Gobi.
Under such heavy evil spirit, it was difficult for plants to grow.
But Li An took a deep breath, and the abundant evil spirit made him very happy.
Only when he really settled here did he find that the ratio of spiritual energy to evil spirit was close to one to one!
Every breath of spiritual energy absorbed was accompanied by a breath of evil spirit.
It was very beneficial for him to practice magic.
He set up a mountain protection formation and opened up a cave in a secluded and hidden place. The cave was deep and deep. It took two days to dig before he touched the place where the evil vein was leaking.
He practiced here.
"Fortunately, you are not afraid of evil spirits..."
He touched the little red bird on his shoulder, and the little red bird rubbed him affectionately.
In fact, this blue flame bird was born in the Wanzhang Abyss, where evil spirits were also rampant. Later, it continued to absorb the breath of Li An's life, and now it has the same immunity to evil spirits and poisons as Li An!
After arriving at Lingsha Peak, there was another three years of breathing opportunity.
...
Next, Li An went into seclusion and did not go out.
The spiritual energy and evil spirits here are very abundant, and there is no shortage of spiritual stones, so his progress is very fast.
At the same time, he also practiced the lungs of Jinzang Jue, and he had accumulated a lot of third-level metals in his hands, and the Immortal Demon Armor was constantly improving.
Of course, there is also alchemy!
Now he began to try to refine another kind of elixir-Qinghun Dan!
Qinghun Dan is similar to Qingsha Dan, both of which are used to prevent the invasion of evil spirits, but Qinghun Dan is mainly aimed at the soul!
Few people can make this kind of pill, mainly for two reasons: First, most cultivators will not fall to the point of having evil spirits in their souls. For example, Xiang Yuntian, although he was already infected with evil spirits, was dying before the soul evil spirits were generated. Second, it is not easy to make the Soul-Clearing Pill, and the general Soul-Clearing Pill is not very effective against soul evil spirits, unless you can make the best quality!
The market is small and the difficulty is high.
Even a third-level alchemist like Madam She probably has no interest in this.
Li An's goal of refining the Ci Pill is to inherit the fourth-level talisman!
There is a fourth-level talisman master under the command of Master Jie Shan. From Wang Zhongxian's memory, Li An already knows that the fourth-level talisman master has soul evil spirits in his body, so he has been in seclusion and did not even participate in the last battle.
Li An started with the second-level Soul-Clearing Pill.
In addition, he also plans to go to Baihua Valley again later. Although Jiang Ribai has been killed, Li An will cultivate another rose. Of course, the newly cultivated rose will have less spirituality, but more evil spirit.
The three people will definitely go to explore. If they get this rose, Li An's suspicion will be completely wiped out.
After all, after Jiang Ribai's death, there was no spiritual rose in Baihua Valley. What if Zhou Libai associates it with something?
This rose can mislead Zhou Libai and let her understand that the appearance of spiritual roses is objective, and the reason why there is no spiritual rose later is because of the outbreak of evil spirit.
When Li An does things, he must strive to be watertight!
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Time flies.
In the blink of an eye, three years have passed.
In three years, Li An has never gone out.
He has also gained a lot!
The life-nourishing immortal art has steadily improved, and his cultivation has improved a lot.
In another three years, Li An will be able to complete the early stage of the golden elixir and thus impact the middle stage of the golden elixir.
The magic power has begun to take effect. The magic energy resonates with the lungs, and the level of the immortal demon armor that is stimulated has completely reached the third-level level.
This is equivalent to him having a permanent protective gear.
Li An tried it, and the general third-level attack magic weapon could not break the defense!
His second-grade alchemy level is also close to perfection. Just half a month ago, he finally refined a second-grade top-grade soul-clearing pill!
This was achieved at the cost of wasting many furnaces of elixirs in the past three years.
In addition, Li An came out of retreat three times.
It was mainly to see Miss Xiaoying, and each time he gave her precious spirit stones and asked Xiaohong to play with her.
Xiaoying is a demon beast incarnation, with low emotional intelligence and little scheming. Like a little girl, she always plays happily with Xiaohong, but she also says every time that Li An is too weak and can't give Xiaohong a good life.
This hurt Li An very much. ...
On this day, a new round of assessments came again. Li An handed in the Qingsha Pill as usual to keep his qualification to stay.
Gu Xuanting looked at Li An and found that there was a faint evil spirit in Li An's eyes.
Obviously, Li An began to be possessed by the evil spirit!
However, it was not that serious yet.
He didn't say anything, but Chen Yi, a female cultivator living in Lingjing Peak, sneered and said: "Mr. Envoy, Lin An has begun to be possessed by the evil spirit. If this continues, he will definitely go crazy. Then, won't the three of us be in danger?"
"Can you drive him out?"
Chen Yi was very direct.
The other two male cultivators also agreed.
But Gu Xuanting still said lightly: "It's against the rules."
He also wanted to.
But according to the information he got, although Li An was a useless person, the spirit beast he raised was liked by Miss Xiaoying.
People are honored by birds.
...
Li An didn't take Chen Yi and the other two seriously at all, but turned around and went to Tiansha City.
After observing for more than ten days, he participated in a trade fair.
"I sell a furnace of three-grade Qingsha Pills, a total of two pills, and ten second-grade Qinghun Pills and one second-grade top-grade Qinghun Pill!"
Li An said calmly.
All of a sudden, everyone participating in the trade fair was surprised and offered to buy.
The third-grade Qingsha Pill was Li An's harvest from the battle that year. There were four left, and he sold them in two batches.
The reason for doing this is to maintain his personality!
Let others know that he is a third-grade alchemist.
Hide his own strength at any time.
Two third-grade Qingsha Pills were sold quickly, but no one wanted the second-grade Qinghun Pill.
"Daoyou, how much do you sell this top-grade Qinghun Pill?"
At this time, a middle-aged cultivator asked.
Li An said, "This item does not accept spiritual stones. I want to exchange it for a third-grade Qingling grass."
The third-grade Qingling grass is a must for refining the third-grade Qinghun Pill.
Everyone was silent after hearing this.
Qingling grass is a rare spiritual grass. Ordinary people would not collect it at all.
"Daoyou, how do you think about this? I want all your second-grade Qinghun Pills. I will go back and look for them. I will trade your top-grade Qinghun Pills next time. Is that okay?"
But the middle-aged cultivator pondered for a moment and continued to speak.
Others were also quite looking forward to it. Third-grade alchemists like Li An were very rare in any trade fair.
Li An thought for a while and nodded, "Okay!"
"What's your name? I'm Lu Tong."
The middle-aged cultivator handed Li An a bag of spiritual stones and introduced himself with a smile.
"Mu Shi." Li An made up a name casually. At this kind of trade fair, people generally don't use their real names.
"Okay, fellow Taoist Mushi, how about the next trade fair be held in half a year? I will find you what you want then."
...
Leave the trade fair.
Li An changed into another appearance and bought many spiritual medicines in several spiritual medicine shops in Tiansha City.
Return to Lingsha Peak.
"I hope you won't let me down..."
He narrowed his eyes slightly.
Lu Tong is a cultivator under the command of Master Jie Shan.
He must know about the soul evil in the body of the fourth-level talisman master, and Li An's appearance will definitely attract attention.
Li An is not in a hurry. He is ready to lay out for more than ten or twenty years, and make it look like he has been searching for third-grade spiritual medicines and preparing to refine third-grade soul-clearing pills.
He will be noticed by the other party now, but he will refine the third-grade soul-clearing pills decades later. By then, all the other party's doubts will definitely disappear...
The best time to lay out a plan is a hundred years ago, and the second best time is now.
Don't be in a hurry, take your time. Half a year later, Li An participated in the trade fair again, but Lu Tong told Li An that he still hadn't found the third-grade Qingling grass.
Li An knew that the other party was testing him, but he didn't care and didn't show it.
...
While Li An was practicing silently, the eastern part of the Tiansha Mountains was not peaceful.
Zhou Libai, who replaced Jiang Ribai, was also actively planning the transformation of Tai Xi.
Many times, people were organized to excavate ruins, look for demon-transforming flowers, etc.
...
In the blink of an eye, another seven years passed.
"The initial stage of the golden elixir is complete! You can prepare to impact the middle stage of the golden elixir..."
Li An slowly opened his eyes. In fact, he had already completed the initial stage of the golden elixir four years ago, but he still stopped practicing for another three years.
Nothing else, to prepare for the Nascent Soul!
Li An had impacted the Nascent Soul in his previous life and had quite a lot of experience.
The more solid the foundation of cultivation, the fewer flaws, and the greater the hope of success in the end.
To reach the Nascent Soul stage, aptitude, elixir, foundation, spiritual veins, etc. are all very important, and perfection is required in all aspects.
Although Li An is only at the early stage of the Golden Core, his strength is not afraid of other mid-stage Golden Core cultivators.
And the Divine Bird had already broken into the mid-stage Golden Core three years ago. Li An still doesn't know how strong its combat power is.
Li An, the Divine Bird, plus a puppet Wang Zhongxian at the middle stage of the True Core, plus thousands of third-level talismans, five or six sets of third-level magic arrays on his body... Li An felt that even if he met a late-stage True Core cultivator head-on, he would not be able to do anything to him!
Full sense of security!
Just checking the cultivation resources, Li An sighed.
When he left Jiang's, he brought a lot of resources with him, and later he got the three great True Core cultivators... It was already very rich.
But now, he is close to being poor again.
Two fourth-grade spiritual medicines, this one cannot be moved, it must be kept.
All the second-grade and third-grade spiritual medicines are used up.
He used up all the second- and third-level refining materials, and even a few magic weapons he rarely used, as raw materials for his lungs. Of course, the results should not be underestimated. The lungs of Jinzang Jue were finally perfected. Now it was extremely difficult for third-level magic weapons to hurt him.
There were only about 50,000 middle-grade spirit stones left, which could only support his expenses for about two years.
The main reason was that he was learning the third-grade alchemy, which consumed a lot of resources. Although ten years had passed, he still had not officially become a third-grade alchemist!
This hurdle was not easy to overcome.
In fact, Li An's progress in the alchemy was very fast, far beyond that of ordinary people. It took only 20 to 30 years from becoming a first-grade alchemist to becoming a third-grade alchemist.
The various raw materials of Qingsha Pill and Qinghun Pill were very valuable, especially Qinghun Pill. He refined a lot of second-grade ones, but he couldn't sell them at all. It could be said that it was a pure loss-making investment.
In addition to the spiritual stones paid to the mountain master every year, etc.
The consumption of Dan-level cultivators is already high, and Li An's expenditure is different from that of ordinary people...
Poor!
"Lin An receives the order--"
Outside the peak, Chen Yi's voice came.
Li An immediately pretended to be in the presence of evil spirits and walked out.
"The mountain master has ordered that in order to protect the Taixi Yaozi's successful transformation into a demon, all cultivators must immediately follow the order and go to the designated location to guard, and there must be no mistakes--"
As she said, she directly shot a jade card at Li An.
Li An took the jade card and read the information in it.
After ten years of Zhou Libai's efforts, the items for the Taixi Yaozi's transformation into a demon were finally gathered again.
Having learned from the last lesson, this time the defense was extremely strict, and all the cultivators under the Baishan Lord had tasks.
Li An's task was to defend "Longyu Gorge".
"Got the order."
Li An spoke. This was an order from the Baishan Lord himself, so naturally he could not refuse.
...
After studying Lord Baishan's territory, Li An understood that Lord Baishan had shrunk his defenses this time!
Last time, the formation was too wide, with the Demon Pond as the center, and the center of the formation even fell on Lingyun Mountain. But it was precisely because the battle line was too long that Lord Jie's men concentrated together to attack fiercely, resulting in someone breaking through the defenses and reaching the Demon Pond in the end.
It is safer to concentrate troops and horses to deploy defenses near the Demon Pond.
Longyu Gorge, as the name suggests, is a winding canyon located downstream of the Demon Pond. The surging river in the canyon
Water, flowing through the demon pool, rushes down.
Arriving here, Li An is slightly relieved.
Based on the overall situation, the enemy should not choose this place as an assault point.
As long as Longyu Gorge sets up a magic circle, it can be used against a hundred. If the enemy attacks and detonates the evil spirit in Longyu Gorge, even the Yuanying cultivators will have to retreat.
Li An couldn't help but smile. This is the difference between Zhou Libai and Jiang Ribai.
When Jiang Ribai encounters such a thing, he will think of taking the opportunity to kill the dissidents, such as Xiang Yuntian. It can be said that Jiang Ribai has an aggressive personality.
But Zhou Libai, on the contrary, doesn't trust Li An, so she puts Li An in this place where no one is, so as not to interfere with her plan. It can be said that she has a defensive personality.
When facing major events, the details of these personalities will also be magnified.
In addition to Li An, there are two other Zhendan early stage cultivators who jointly defend this place with Li An. Obviously, both of them are not valued.
The three of them set up the formations given by their superiors and waited on a cliff in the canyon.
Li An was thinking about the possibility of this war.
In his opinion, there should be a traitor in the last Jiang Ribai incident!
If the traitor is still alive, what should we do this time?
If the plan of Lord Baishan is not leaked, it can probably be blocked.
What if it is leaked? Lord Baishan will probably still suffer a big loss!
But from this perspective, there are too many possibilities. After all, with such a large battle, if Lord Jieshan attacks, he will definitely go all out. Lord Baishan is not an ordinary person. The impact of an traitor may not necessarily affect the victory or defeat of the entire battle.
There are too many variables, and Li An found that he could not get effective information.
"Who wins or loses has nothing to do with me. I just need to understand how the loser will escape!"
Li An's goal is on the losing side.
He wants to rob the losing side!
After all, he was short of resources now. If he continued like this, he would be in dire straits in two years, and his cultivation would stagnate.
He only had talismans left to sell. Thousands of third-level talismans could certainly sell for a lot of spirit stones.
But talismans were an important source of Li An's sense of security. It was better not to move them if possible.
Li An kept thinking about the map around the Demon Pond.
"If Lord Bai's people were defeated, how would they escape? If Lord Jie's people were defeated, how would they escape?"
After thinking for a long time, Li An came up with three principles:
"First, you can't run into a large fleeing force or a large pursuing force. That's not robbing, it's going to die!"
"Second, stay far enough away from others to avoid causing too much fluctuations during the battle and being noticed."
"Third, I have to be able to return in time."
Thinking about it this way, there weren't many places that met his requirements...
"Tianlangtan."
He whispered.
Tianlangtan is about 30 miles away from Longyu Gorge. From a geographical point of view, no matter which side is defeated or fleeing, it is unlikely to choose Tianlangtan to escape.
At most, there will be a few people escaping from there.
This kind of place is the safest and most reliable for Li An.
After thinking it through, he said hello to the other two people and opened a cave in the canyon of Longyu Gorge, saying that it was to suppress the evil spirit in his body and asked the two not to disturb him.
The two people could also see that he was surrounded by evil spirit, so they didn't care much.
After Li An entered the cave, he quickly set up a method array to prevent anyone from approaching and exploring, and then released the puppet kings first.
Using the evil spirit and his life breath as a disguise, Li An dug a tunnel from the cave, connected to the surging river, and sneaked out from the river.
Late at night, Li An restrained his breath and sneaked slowly, and arrived at Tianlangtan in the second half of the night.
But when he got here, Li An was a little dumbfounded. Who would come to this place!
This place is too evil, and no one would come here on weekdays. Not even a piece of bird shit can be seen.
Li An had a premonition that if he set up a formation and a net here, he would probably end up in vain...
In fact, this was mainly because Li An did not know the terrain well enough, and he was too cautious!
If he had been bolder and set his target somewhere else, it would definitely not be like this...
But for other possible escape routes, there is a high probability that there are more than one or two deserters, and more than one or two pursuers.
The probability of a successful attack and safe withdrawal is only 60 to 70 percent at most, which is zero percent if rounded up.
Moreover, there will be Yuanying-level monsters mixed in the battlefield, and Li An himself will also have a risk of 7 to 8 percent, which is 100 percent if rounded up.
If safety is not absolute, it is not safe, so it cannot be done.
After thinking about it, Li An decided to set up a formation here.
If there is, there is, if there is not, forget it.
Safety first.
"I'm really eye-opening... I finally became a calamity cultivator, but I have to be so cowardly?? @￥％..."
Shangguan Xiaoxiao was filled with emotion. After so many years in the spirit world, she had never seen such a person who cherished his life to the extreme... I really hadn't seen anyone else who was born with a demon body.
If it were any other natural demon body, if they didn't kill people in such a battle and cause bloodshed and misery everywhere, would they still be called natural demon bodies?
"Li Gou is a calamity cultivator, and a natural demon body is so embarrassed... Fortunately, you are not a member of my demon sect, otherwise..."
She couldn't bear to watch it.
There is a reason why Li Gou can live to this day!
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