Fire Monster

Chapter 230 Ghost Face Crisis
"This spiritual world must have an extremely glorious history, and extremely powerful life once thrived here. Unfortunately, now only a ruin is left."

Zhao Guanshan sighed in his heart, then he glanced at the skull-like mountain and lay dormant without saying a word. He certainly couldn't move forward, but it was not his habit to take a detour.

What's more, he suspected that this was the center of the desert. If he left here, no matter where he went, there would only be endless desert. He could not leave until he gained enough experience and became strong enough.

Fortunately, now that he has the Ash Suit + Ash Shield, he has no pressure to lurk, so he can stay here and observe the situation.

For the next ten days, Zhao Guanshan stayed in the same place without moving, which allowed him to successfully collect a lot of detailed intelligence.

For example, he roughly determined that the location of Skull Mountain should have been occupied by a creature similar to an evil spirit.

Now this evil spirit is in the deepest part of Skull Mountain.

This evil general should have two or three types of soldiers under his command.

One is the puppet nine-headed bird, and the other is the mummy balloon that controls the nine-headed bird.

But Zhao Guanshan couldn't be sure of the last one. After all, it was too far away. He only judged it based on the movement pattern of the puppet nine-headed bird.

As for the number of those puppet nine-headed birds, it is currently unknown.

The only thing that is certain is that ten to twenty nine-headed birds fly out every day and patrol the surroundings in a radial pattern.

Then five to ten nine-headed birds return every day.

But it was not apparent what loot the returning nine-headed bird carried.

Occasionally a group of nine-headed birds would fly in a certain direction.

It seems that in this desert, there are other targets besides Zhao Guanshan who can cause damage to the Nine-headed Bird.

"Could it be a demon hunter from another Taoist temple?"

Zhao Guanshan was a little excited and even wanted to follow a team of nine-headed birds to check it out. Maybe he could encounter them by chance?

But in the end he chose to remain dormant, because he always felt that the pattern and number of these nine-headed birds' movements were a bit too stupid!
Indeed, the combat effectiveness of each one is not weak.

Perhaps the evil spirit in Skull Mountain only sends out one nine-headed bird for reconnaissance each time in order to save energy, but compared to being killed, it is actually better for two or three nine-headed birds to cooperate with each other.

For example, they can stand one in front and one behind, keeping a distance of 500 meters between each other. The former can trigger a battle, and then the latter can use the highway to rush over.

This is the simplest tactic, which can completely make people like Zhao Guanshan suffer great losses.

So why not do it?

Do good things?

Zhao Guanshan didn't believe it at all.

In this spiritual world, it is another battlefield where humans and evil demons fight each other, so everything that happens and develops must have a purpose.

In particular, the traditions and knowledge left by the immortals of the human race are all here.

“So can this be understood as playing the long game to catch a big fish?”

"By continuously releasing lone nine-headed birds, we can lure the human witchers to kill them, and then continuously determine the witchers' bases and areas they frequent in a certain direction?"

"Wait until the time is right, then launch a massive attack and strangle the enemy with one strike?"

Thinking of this, Zhao Guanshan began to move slowly, circling around the entire Skull Mountain.

He needs more detailed intelligence data.

But this movement is very slow.

Especially since Skull Mountain is very large, covering an area of ​​dozens of miles, and Zhao Guanshan did not dare to move quickly, so he moved very slowly.

It took another twenty days to circle Skull Mountain.

At this point he was basically certain.

Skull Mountain is truly the center of this strange desert, because it is surrounded by desert all around.

And in Skull Mountain, the number of nine-headed birds released every day was not less than twenty as he had initially estimated, but about thirty to fifty per day.

Moreover, the route and direction of the deployment are regular. If Skull Mountain is taken as the center and the surrounding area is compared to a circle, then this route and direction can be roughly divided into between forty and fifty parts on this circle.

After determining the routes, by calculating the number of nine-headed birds that fly back along these routes every day, you can roughly determine in which direction there are enemies.

Just to confirm this, Zhao Guanshan had spent forty or fifty days.

Then, he re-made a safe attack plan for himself, attacking the Nine-headed Bird from some safer routes.

And once they succeed, they will immediately move to the next route and never stay in one place.

In this way, he actually killed eleven nine-headed birds and a mummy balloon in succession.

It can only be said that sharpening the knife does not delay the chopping of wood. These eleven kills also allowed him to successfully obtain eleven pieces of spiritual ashes.

In this regard, he always prioritized strengthening the Spirit Ash Shield, which had already been strengthened twice with Spirit Ash, and now he strengthened it twice more in one go. But it is worth mentioning that the more times it is strengthened, the more Spirit Ash is needed.

For example, for the first enhancement, only the ashes of a nine-headed bird are needed, the second enhancement requires the ashes of a mummy balloon, and for the third enhancement, two nine-headed birds + two mummy balloons are needed.

The fourth enhancement is the ashes of four nine-headed birds + four mummy balloons.

In short, according to Zhao Guanshan himself, the current Ash Shield is equivalent to a +4 enhancement.

The whole thing became heavier, almost three times its original weight.

However, this feeling of heaviness was not an increase in physical weight, because Zhao Guanshan still swung it effortlessly, but the feeling of heaviness was indeed real.

This feeling is so amazing.

If I have to use clichéd words to describe it, it would be that the unreinforced big shield is a five-point woman, and the reinforced big shield is a seven-point beauty.

Both are women, but the feelings they give you are definitely different.

Of the remaining five portions of spirit ash, four were used by Zhao Guanshan to strengthen the spirit ash suit, the helmet, half-body armor, combat boots, and flame inner armor, which is equivalent to strengthening all of them by +2.
He used the last bit of spiritual ash to strengthen the dagger that evolved from the purple fire spiritual weapon.

As for the effect, we don’t know yet. Anyway, everything needs to be explored.

However, before that, we must survive until the end of time, this is our unchanging purpose.

Therefore, after killing eleven nine-headed birds, Zhao Guanshan stopped hunting and instead carefully selected a relatively safe route and direction, and then lay dormant again a few kilometers away from Skull Mountain.

He must be on guard against the evil spirit in Skull Mountain, who may have a counselor-like presence around him. What if his little tricks are discovered?
Therefore, lying down, increasing the difficulty of the other party's deduction, and increasing the randomness of the development of things is his duty.

In this way, Zhao Guanshan remained dormant for almost half a month, and he would not move unless he was told to do so.

Then, he finally waited for new changes.

On this day, he was lying quietly and dormant as usual, calculating various magical runes in his mind, reviewing the old and learning the new, when suddenly a strange howl was heard from the Skull Mountain.

It's like a thousand-year-old ghost that has been tortured madly by countless tortures in the past thousand years, making it taste the most extreme despair, feel the most tragic sorrow, and be toyed with again and again, giving it the most powerful resentment.

After thousands of years of being unable to vent, it was finally released today. At this time, what it hated was no longer the existence that tortured it, but why the world was not destroyed!

Everything should be destroyed, nothing should exist!
To be honest, when Zhao Guanshan heard the howl, he knew he guessed wrong!
The other party had no moral principles and he wasted several months of his time in vain, because if there was an evil spirit in Skull Mountain, the other party's counterattack would be absolutely unstoppable.

Yes!

Because at this moment, Zhao Guanshan watched helplessly as strange patterns began to appear on his ash shield, and then one ghost face after another appeared.

It was one of those mummy balloons. It wasn't actually killed, but a part of it remained in the ashes. When the thousand-year-old ghost-like howling sounded, these mummy balloons began to revive and come back to life.

Maybe they can't cause too much trouble to Zhao Guanshan, but the problem is that they can still tip off!
Because at this moment, in Skull Mountain, accompanied by the incessant howling of evil spirits, countless strange black mists are rapidly emerging and forming extremely depressing black clouds in the sky. In these black clouds, there are countless nine-headed cows and countless mummy balloons. This will be a feast of counterattack!

At this critical moment, Zhao Guanshan had no other choice but to try the Purple Fire Spirit Weapon, because this kind of spiritual weapon has always been the most direct and effective in killing mummy balloons.

At this time, as a bunch of ghost faces appeared on the spirit ash shield, he directly controlled the purple fire spirit soldiers with his mind, suppressing one as it appeared.

"Ka!"

"Stab!"

"Ka!"

In a short period of time, all nine ghost faces on the ash shield were pressed to death by him, and even their screams were not complete.

Then there are the ghost faces on the other ash sets, click them one by one.

It went very smoothly.

In less than three seconds, all twenty ghost faces were destroyed and could no longer jump.

However, the price was also huge. This purple fire spirit weapon became dim and shaky. Before Zhao Guanshan could do anything, it went out and dissipated.

Obviously, spiritual weapons are not omnipotent and have a limited durability.

If you don't pay attention to maintenance and strengthening, it can be easily exhausted.

But at this time, Zhao Guanshan didn't care about the pain, and hurriedly hid with the big shield of spirit ash in his hand, because the howling like evil spirits in Skull Mountain became more and more intense, and the dark clouds erupting from the entire Skull Mountain became more and more, until they covered an area of ​​dozens of miles.

There are countless nine-headed birds, mummy balloons, and other kinds of evil monsters here. If he is discovered, the only thing he may need to consider is how to write his will.

However, with such a large-scale evil spirit army, the one in Skull Mountain is definitely not the evil spirit general, but perhaps a king-level BOSS.

But the problem is, the witcher force that can fight against such an evil force should be very powerful.

I wonder which Taoist temple it is from?

Can you hold on?
Unfortunately, he couldn't help at all.

(End of this chapter)