Fire Monster

Chapter 228 The Lonely Old Bird
In the statue space, Zhao Guanshan looked at the six golden swords, five purple flames, and five green leaves in front of him. This was his reliance on entering the spiritual world.

According to those Qi Refiners, this is called a spiritual weapon, but in fact he doesn't know much about it and relies entirely on trial and error to learn it.

At this moment, as his thoughts changed, six golden swords were silently attached to his two arms.

Of the five green leaves, two are attached to the heart, and three are attached to the top of the head.

As for the five purple flames, they fell on the shoulders.

"Let's give it a try!"

Zhao Guanshan took out the ash and threw it forward with force.

The next second, the small ball of ash flew a distance of three or four meters, leaving an arc-shaped trajectory. Finally, at the point where the parabola landed, the ash was successfully activated and spread out a palm-sized ripple on the spot.

Yes, it’s just this big.

You have to know that when he entered the spirit world through the ashes before, he was able to create a crack that was big enough for a person to pass through.

At this time, Zhao Guanshan did not dare to delay. He took a step forward and crashed into the palm-sized gap in the ripples.

If he can pass, he's halfway won.

If you can't pass, there's nothing you can do.

Fortunately, this did not affect anything. The moment he crashed into it, his entire consciousness was overturned and he successfully entered the spiritual world.

However, his consciousness also entered a long blank state.

It's like I know who I am, I know what I am doing, but I can't think of anything, I can only wait quietly like a stone.

This state had never occurred during his previous two entries into the spirit world.

Random teleportation is indeed unreliable.

I don’t know how much time has passed, maybe a minute, maybe an hour, Zhao Guanshan can’t be sure, the only thing that is certain is that he is still alive and he has not been attacked for the time being.

Then, suddenly, as if a vampire who had been sleeping for thousands of years finally woke up, he recovered, but his entire consciousness was as dry as an old tree in the cold winter, so dry that he couldn't even utter a word of complaint.

Fortunately, my perception is recovering, my thinking is recovering, and my understanding of the surrounding environment is deepening.

"Wait, what the hell is this place?"

What I saw before my eyes was a grayish-white desert. There was no reference point and no end in sight. The sky was filled with gray fog and the ground was covered with grayish-white gravel.

It's a complete dead zone!
At this moment, Zhao Guanshan suddenly saw two withered and yellow leaves falling silently on his forehead. Before they hit the ground, they had already turned into ashes.

He was surprised.

At the same time, he also realized that he should have died twice just now, and it was only thanks to the two green leaf spiritual soldiers condensed by the Liu Yuwei statue that saved his life.

He quickly checked the other spiritual soldiers.

First, there are three green leaves at the heart. Currently, two of them are as green as before, but the edge of the third one is withered, and even some pinhole-sized yellow spots have appeared inside.

"Oh no! If the Green Leaf Spirit Soldier is used to restore health, doesn't that mean my health is draining away?"

Zhao Guanshan was startled, but did not dare to delay. With a thought, a purple flame flew out, and under his will, it transformed into a set of close-fitting clothing, shoes and socks. In the process of evolution, he even borrowed a little bit of the second-level control. He didn't know if it had any effect, but at least it felt much better.

Because before this, his body was naked.

However, using his mind to evolve a spirit weapon made Zhao Guanshan's brain feel like it was cut by a knife, causing him extreme pain. This was because he had consumed too much mental energy.

Next, he didn't dare to evolve spiritual weapons or think anymore. He just lay in the desert, curled up as much as possible, protected his head and abdomen, closed his eyes, and waited for recovery.

There is no other way.

He didn't even dare to take one more step.

He has no combat capability as he cannot evolve spiritual weapons.

If his mental strength is exhausted, then once he dies, his soul will definitely not be able to return to reality.

Fortunately, there are no spiritual fog demon soldiers or other evil spirits here. The only thing that can really threaten him is the environment here.

After about an hour, Zhao Guanshan's mental strength recovered partially.

He immediately summoned a small golden sword and transformed it into a large shield.

Afterwards, he covered himself with a large shield to provide defense first. The golden sword could also provide a certain amount of attack power. Within three meters, he could attack by consuming mental power.

However, the most cost-effective one is definitely to evolve it into a long sword and attack manually.

At this time, Zhao Guanshan checked the third yellowing leaf on his heart again. In the past hour, the yellow spots inside had become six, but the yellowing on the edges had not improved.

That is to say, under such protection, one yellow spot will be added almost every hour.

Next, Zhao Guanshan continued to wait patiently for his mental strength to recover, and about half an hour later, a lonely strange bird suddenly flew in the gray sky.

It looked about the same size as a vulture, with a normal body and wings, except for its head.

So it looks particularly lonely and flies very slowly, flapping its wings about once every half a minute, like a staggering old bird taking a walk.

However, Zhao Guanshan did not dare to be careless. He held his breath and dared not move.

Because in this strange spiritual world, everything unknown could be extremely dangerous. A few minutes passed before the old bird slowly flew over. It was really too slow.

Of course, this may be a disguise, a very cost-effective way of hunting, just like a camel in the desert, you have to learn to slow down.

Anyway, the prey is there and you can’t run away, right?

All of a sudden, Zhao Guanshan understood why he had not encountered any attacks from spiritual creatures for so long. It should be because the number of spiritual creatures per unit area was extremely small.

But because of this, he also knew that he could not escape this time. After all, his current condition was too conspicuous.

Sure enough, when the old bird flew to a place five hundred meters away from Zhao Guanshan, a human head suddenly popped out of its body. It was very pale, thin, and shriveled, like the head of a mummy from the spirit world.

"Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!"

This mummy-like head was surprisingly excited, making sharp cries and shaking continuously. Although it was so thin that it didn't even have a pound of flesh left, Zhao Guanshan actually saw a kind of flattering look in it.

It looks like a ghost!

Immediately afterwards, the old bird's wings began to change with a crackling sound, as if it were a Transformers bird.

But in fact, it was not, but a bunch of strange gray-white ribs popped out from its shriveled body. These bones were covered with strange textures, and there were also a lot of things that looked like human skin. After combining, they turned into a pair of even larger bone wings with a wingspan of more than 20 meters.

When this thing was fanned hard, a strong wind actually appeared, and it came over the distance of 500 meters in a flash!
What a great speed!

What a horrible way of hunting!

What can Zhao Guanshan do?
The rabbit kicks the eagle.

He held on to the shield tightly and tried to curl up his body under it. Almost in the next second, a huge gravity hit him and the shield made a harsh sound, as if it would be torn in the next second.

But it was finally carried over, because this lonely old bird was actually not very heavy. With such a large wingspan and such a big size, it must be less than 50 kilograms at most.

The huge force just now was also generated by the dive at high speed.

So, Zhao Guanshan had an idea in his mind.

But just as he was about to do so, he heard a "plop" sound, and the big shield was pecked by a sharp bird's beak, leaving a thumb-sized hole.

What a sharp beak.

Wait, where does the beak come from?

Before Zhao Guanshan could react, he heard the sounds of "puff, puff, puff" and "bang, bang, bang". In the blink of an eye, dozens of holes were pecked in the big shield.

Moreover, this is not just one bird head, but nine of them, but they are very small, only the size of broad beans.

Through these holes, it seems that the nine bird heads are growing on one neck.

As for the mummy-like human head, it was floating in the air like a balloon, grinning and laughing strangely, and it was just short of dancing, if it had any.

So it is really the accomplice of this nine-headed bird?
At this time, Zhao Guanshan was trying hard to support the big shield while waiting for an opportunity.

From the current perspective, the nine-headed bird’s method of attack is its nine sharp bird heads, but the mental strength he has recovered now can only barely evolve into a spiritual weapon.

But the evolved spiritual weapons could not exert their power at this moment.

So - take the risk!
At this moment, Zhao Guanshan's mind moved, and he used his mental power to drive a small golden sword to fly out from his arm. At the moment when a bird's head pecked through the large shield, he slashed across silently and swiftly, cutting off the bird's head.

This one strike consumed almost one-third of the mental power that Zhao Guanshan had finally recovered.

How is this possible?

There is a nine-headed bird on the opposite side.

Zhao Guanshan gritted his teeth and immediately controlled the golden sword, going through the hole in the severed head, straight up, and passing through the neck.

No other tactics mattered. He concentrated all his mental strength on this. No matter what, he just controlled the golden sword and stabbed it to death!
Win or lose in one fell swoop!
"Chirp! Chirp!"

The mummy's head screamed violently, and the other eight bird heads also panicked and tried desperately to escape.

But Zhao Guanshan summoned up his remaining strength, forcibly controlling the golden sword while pushing the big shield with all his strength, knocking the nine-headed bird over on the spot, and then pressed forward with the shield.

The nine-headed bird struggled frantically for a while, and finally let out a series of shrill screams and stopped moving.

At this moment, Zhao Guanshan's eyes went dark and he almost fainted.

But his mental strength is almost exhausted.

But the next second, the yellow leaf on his heart withered instantly and turned into ashes.

At the same time, like a stream of clear spring flowing past, his mental strength directly recovered by one third.

It was also at this moment that Zhao Guanshan suddenly realized that even though he was always in the spiritual world with a real body, in fact, it was all transformed by his mental power.

There is no such thing as a health bar.

It's all mental power, or his soul and thoughts.

It looked like his body was injured, but in fact it was his mental strength that was damaged.

And he finally figured out the function of the Green Leaf Spirit Soldier.

(End of this chapter)