Mortal's Purple Sky Cave Heaven

Chapter 165: Spiritual Transformation
Bu Xu, who had just flown more than ten feet, was struck directly by a silver lightning in the deep red sky. He screamed immediately, and his body turned into ashes and disappeared without a trace.

Two objects fell from mid-air and landed in the grass nearby without any sound.

Somewhere along the lava road, a gorgeous woman in her thirties, wearing a light gauze with a brilliant blue glow, was looking hesitantly at the lava river in front of her.

There was nothing else except a square stone pillar about a foot wide that stretched across the Chihuo River, which was more than 40 feet wide.

The beautiful woman endured the burning sensation under her feet, gritted her teeth, and slowly moved along the stone pillar towards the other side, with an extremely cautious look on her face.

At the beginning, everything went very smoothly, allowing her to walk through half of the bridge safely. However, when she was approaching the center of the stone pillar bridge, a low rumbling sound suddenly came from the distance.

The beautiful woman was stunned and couldn't help but look up towards the upstream of the river.

As a result, his face turned pale and he suddenly became panic-stricken!
An extremely strong hurricane was rushing down the river from top to bottom and turned into a huge gray dragon. With its fangs and claws bared, it arrived in front of the stone pillar in the blink of an eye and wrapped up the female cultivator who had just flown into the air.

A sharp cry of despair was heard and the female cultivator disappeared without a trace.

A moment later, something on the lava below the stone pillar flashed blue and then sank to the bottom.

Half a day later, Nie Zhaonan arrived at an endless black desert.

The black sand and black sand dunes look weird and abnormal!
During this period of time, he had been using the light skill 'Treading on Snow Without Leaking', and he passed through a strange grassland very easily. Not only was the grassland extremely hot, but the leaves were like red sharp blades.

However, he has now practiced the Ming Wang Jue to the fifth level, and these sharp blades cannot even cut his skin.

Later, he passed through an extremely dangerous lava swamp. The seemingly solid place was actually full of hidden pits. Even Nie Zhaonan had to be very careful when passing through the lava swamp.

At this time, Nie Zhaonan was standing on a small mound on the edge of the black desert, with white light flashing in his eyes. He looked into the depths of the desert, as if observing something.

Thousands of feet away from Nie Zhaonan, a big man with a square face and a yellow face was walking very fast in the desert, step by step without stopping. Suddenly, the black sand nearby floated up for no reason.

They were suspended in mid-air, and instantly surrounded the man, emitting a dark light, silently and strangely.

The big man was also an experienced person. He immediately raised the jade bowl in his hand to the sky. A large amount of white light flew out from the bowl, adding a layer of protection for it.

At this moment, the black sand particles instantly turned into countless black winged insects, which rushed towards the horrified yellow-faced man.

"Iron Fire Ant!"

The big man roared angrily, recognizing the origin of these flying insects. Feeling sad, he poured all his magic power into the jade bowl, hoping to gain a chance of survival.

Suddenly, after a burst of white light, countless palm-sized ice shields appeared around him, and then spun at a high speed, forming a white hurricane that wrapped him up.

After completing the defense, he didn't have time to move quickly and escape from here.

There were tens of thousands of fire ants around, which rushed up like a black torrent and submerged him.

"Crunch."

Continuous and extremely noisy biting sounds were heard.

After a while, a series of shrill screams were heard from the fire ant colony. In just a moment, the sound became weaker and weaker, and finally there was no sound at all.

On the other side, after Nie Zhaonan saw the iron fire ant appear, he used his lightness skills and quickly rushed towards it.

His purpose was naturally not to save the yellow-faced man, but to come for the fire ants.

After the iron ants eat iron ore every day, they repeatedly swallow and spit it out in their stomachs, forming a rare material called "refined crystal".

This is the best auxiliary material to strengthen the magic weapon.

This is because as long as some refined crystals are added to any magic weapon, not only will its power be greatly enhanced, the strength of the magic weapon itself will immediately be increased to an unimaginable level, and it will be difficult to be easily cut off or destroyed by anything.

However, Nie Zhaonan would not integrate the refining crystals into his two sets of natal flying swords, but would use them as refining materials for refining other items.

In his opinion, mixing materials with other properties into magic weapons is a completely short-sighted act, which will greatly affect the subsequent growth of the magic weapons.

The Taiyi Divine Thunder Sword and the Gengjin Divine Thunder Sword belong to the attributes of wood and gold respectively. Only by keeping the attributes of the two sets of flying swords consistent and not being mixed with things of other attributes, will it be easier to refine them to the point of spiritualization and transformation.

By then, the power of the flying sword that has been transformed into a spiritual form will be absolutely terrifyingly strong, which is absolutely incomparable to that of the one that is mixed with some reinforced materials.

Moreover, the Gengjin Divine Thunder Sword was already mixed with the sharp gold treasure 'Geng Jing', which was already extremely strong and sharp, so there was no need to add anything superfluous.

After a while, the flying ants suddenly flew into the air, returned to their original place and fell down, becoming the same as the grains of sand again.

The place where the big man fell was empty, completely devoured by ants.

Just when peace had just returned to the place, Nie Zhaonan arrived here.

Then, without hesitation, he flicked his sleeves towards the void in front of him, and silently, tens of thousands of gold-eating insects appeared out of thin air.

Without exception, these gold-eating insects are gold and silver in color, but if you look closely, you can still find differences.

Among them, the thousands of gold-eating bugs that Nie Zhaonan carried with him and had been cultivating in the spirit beast pen had almost transformed into a golden color, with only a few inconspicuous silver spots the size of a pinhole on their bodies. Their size was also several times larger than that of the tens of thousands of gold-eating bugs, and their aura was much stronger.

However, these thousands of gold-eating bugs still have a long way to go before they can fully evolve into mature gold-eating bugs. Even with the training of spirit beast pens and other resources, the progress of these gold-eating bugs is still very slow.

According to Nie Zhaonan's estimation, it would take at least three to five hundred years of cultivation for these gold-eating insects to fully advance into mature forms.

An immature gold-eating worm and a mature gold-eating worm are two completely different concepts. A mature gold-eating worm has a body as hard as iron, and its shell is almost indestructible. It can easily fight against a Nascent Soul cultivator.

The fatal weakness of a mature gold-eating beetle is that its spirit is relatively weak. If a cultivator uses a powerful secret technique to directly attack its spirit, it may severely injure the gold-eating beetle or even kill it.

However, the gold-eating bug in Nie Zhaonan's hand obviously does not have this shortcoming. The gold-eating bug that has been cultivated in the spirit beast pen is now very intelligent and its soul is not weak either.

It can be said that as long as the gold-eating bug in your hand is cultivated to full maturity, it can become an immortal being in this world.

Following Nie Zhaonan's instructions, the gold-eating insects in the sky suddenly started to make loud noises, and turned into golden and silver clouds, covering the lurking group of "iron fire ants" like an overwhelming force.

But before they landed on the ground, a black cloud of insects suddenly flew into the sky and met the army of gold-eating insects.

At the moment the two clouds of insects came into contact, a black light suddenly flashed between them, and a large piece of dark flame spurted out from the ant colony, unceremoniously sweeping up the gold-eating insects.

If other species of spirit insects were roasted by this strange flame, even if they were not completely annihilated, they would probably suffer heavy losses. However, the gold-eating insects were in the black flames as if nothing had happened. Instead, they swallowed up the black flames completely and then rushed towards the ant colony with a buzzing sound.

The two torrents collided fiercely, then intertwined and bit each other, making a sharp scream.

Nie Zhaonan watched carefully from the side. Once the fire ants bit the gold-eating insect's strange shell, they could only leave a faint white mark at most, and had no other effect.

The sharp teeth of the gold-eating beetle can penetrate the body of the fire ant and kill it with one blow.

The difference between the two is obvious; they are not even in the same league.

The gold-eating insect swarm instantly gained the upper hand.

Large numbers of black insect corpses rolled down from the sky. Without exception, all of these insect corpses were the corpses of fire ants, without a single gold-eating insect.

Moreover, the bodies of the fallen fire ants were all intact. Apart from the obvious wounds and flowing black blood, there were very few with missing limbs or being eaten by gold-eating bugs.

This was naturally an order issued by Nie Zhaonan, not to allow the gold-eating bugs to devour the fire ants, but to kill them.

The reason for doing this is, of course, that if a gold-eating beetle devours the queen fire ant, it will turn into a gold, silver and black gold-eating beetle. Although its strength will be greatly enhanced, it will completely lose the possibility of advancing to a mature form.

This kind of change can be said to be picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons. Nie Zhaonan naturally would not do such a losing business.

Nie Zhaonan sucked in the body of a fire ant that fell from the sky, and brought it in front of him, suspending it in the air. Then he opened his mouth and spit out a stream of dark white flames that spurted out of his mouth and fell on the insect corpse, completely wrapping it and slowly refining it.

In the blink of an eye, the dark insect corpse in the air disappeared without a trace, leaving only a crystalline object several times smaller than a grain of rice, flashing a mysterious black light.

It is indeed refined crystal, but its size is pitifully small. However, it can be made up for in quantity.

The fight between the swarms of insects in the air is still going on, but now the gold-eating insects are ready to annihilate the enemy completely.

The fire ants also sensed something was wrong. After the remaining defeated soldiers made faint chirping sounds, they suddenly gathered together and turned into a black arrow.

Then, without hesitation, he rushed out of the interception of the gold-eating insect swarm and was about to escape.

But at this moment, a dazzling white lightning shot out from the sky and hit the arrow shaft in a flash.

After a violent tremor, the arrow stopped in place. With a 'bang', the arrow exploded and the shape of the iron fire ant reappeared.

Although it was just a lightning spell attack launched by Nie Zhaonan, its power was not something that the arrows transformed from black fire ants could resist or block.

Now, the gold-eating insects swarmed in and immediately submerged the black fire ants in a sea of ​​gold and silver.

When the swarm of insects slowly dispersed, the air was empty and there was not a single black fire ant to be seen.

At this time, Nie Zhaonan slowly walked over.

Looking at the thick layer of insect corpses fallen on the ground, he used several spells of different colors in his hands to gather them all together.

Then he collected them, planning to extract the crystals from them in the future.

Next, Nie Zhaonan led the swarm of gold-eating insects deeper into the black desert.

Half a day later, Nie Zhaonan was in the depths of the desert, staring at the sky expressionlessly, with his hands behind his back, motionless.

In the sky, a large-scale battle between insect swarms is taking place.

More than 100,000 black fire ants and tens of thousands of gold-eating bugs were fighting desperately in the low sky not far ahead.

Although the black fire ants have an absolute advantage in numbers, no matter how large their numbers are, they cannot penetrate the defenses of the gold-eating beetles and cause effective damage to them.

Large pieces of black insect corpses fell from the sky like a violent storm, densely covering the ground.

It's shocking to watch!

This one-sided massacre did not last long, only a cup of tea.

Later, the fire ants that wanted to escape were stopped by Nie Zhaonan's magic, and then killed by the gold-eating bugs.

After picking up the corpses of black fire ants on the ground, Nie Zhaonan continued to move forward.

During this period, almost every time he walked a certain distance, he would encounter a group of fire ants.

Their number is not fixed, ranging from two or three thousand to more than ten thousand.

The super-large group of "fire ants" encountered this time numbered more than 100,000.

However, no matter how many fire ants blocked his way, they would undoubtedly become Nie Zhaonan's spoils in the end, which brought him a considerable gain.

This is an extremely simple stone hall, with an area of ​​fifty to sixty feet wide and a height of about seventy to eighty feet. In addition to a teleportation array in the middle, there are huge bluestone doors several feet high on each of the four sides.

At this time, the door was closed, turning this place into a large prison cell, full of oppressive atmosphere.

There were dozens of stone tables and benches of various shapes and sizes in the stone hall, and on these benches sat five or six monks with different expressions.

Madam Wen, the old man in Confucian robes, and Wan Tianming were all present. The rest of the cultivators seemed to be in the late Jindan stage. There was not a single weaker cultivator.

These people were the first cultivators to come out of the Ice and Fire Path. The Black Desert and the Blood Ice Forest naturally posed no threat to Nascent Soul cultivators like Wan Tianming, but for cultivators in the late Jindan stage, they still had to suffer a lot before they could escape.

As for those cultivators with weaker cultivation, they will be in great danger.

So much so that there are only these few people now!

These three Nascent Soul cultivators naturally knew about the changes in the Ice and Fire Dao, which must be related to the Star Palace Elder who has not yet appeared.

Among them, Wan Tianming was so angry that he gritted his teeth and was full of bitterness.

Their original plan to seek help from some Jindan cultivators was ruined, and they had to make changes.

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