Fire Monster

Chapter 233 Escape
It's funny to say.

Buried under countless rocks, Zhao Guanshan actually felt a sense of security.

At the same time, a strong sense of joy surged in his heart, because he once again sensed his own statue space very clearly and realistically.

It's really the kind that can return with just a thought.

He had been wandering in the spirit world for nearly a year and really wanted to go back.

But in the end, he still firmly suppressed this idea.

This was not his first time in the spirit world. Even though no one had told him, he knew that to log off in the spirit world, he needed an environment that was at least relatively safe.

This not only affects his state the next time he comes to the spiritual world, but also whether his statue space will be tracked in reverse?

Therefore, unless he can build a place for himself or find a safe hiding place, he will never return.

This place is obviously not a safe place. When the evil spirit returns with his army, he will definitely dig deep into the ground to find the culprit.

Do you really think he is safe hiding among the rocks?

He had to run away quickly.

So there is nothing much to say, just dig a passage first.

Fortunately, this is not an unbearable thing, it can even be considered a happy thing.

The collapse of Skull Mountain naturally resulted in a lot of small pieces of rock debris. The place where Zhao Guanshan was at the moment was a relatively intact structure. Behind him was half a huge rock and above him was a large shield of spirit ash, which helped him to withstand a lot of damage.

The place where he lived was a triangular space, which allowed him to move around a little.

After a rough observation, Zhao Guanshan began to work, starting by clearing out a space from one side.

During this friction process, he used the purple fire dagger to catch the falling ashes.

Of course, he also tried to use the Purple Fire Dagger to cut rocks, and the effect was indeed better, but this kind of cutting would also cause the enhanced spiritual ash on the Purple Fire Dagger to fall off.

So it's obviously inappropriate.

The best way is to use small pieces of rock fragments to grind large pieces of rock.

Zhao Guanshan ground very quickly. In less than half an hour, he had ground off two rocks as big as basketballs and six fist-sized rock fragments.

But with so much spiritual ash, the Purple Fire Dagger only covered once, which was equivalent to strengthening it by +8.
It really becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Then he continued to grind the stone. Zhao Guanshan also carefully paid attention to the structure between the rocks above and the forces exerted on each other. He created small-scale collapses at the right time and ensured the stability of the ash shield.

Pushing forward a little bit, digging a little bit, after another two hours, he had cleared out about two cubic meters of space.

But so much spiritual ashes could only enhance his Purple Fire Dagger by +9.

I don't know how sharp the purple fire dagger is at this moment, I only know that when I hold it in my hand, I can clearly sense his statue space.

"almost."

Zhao Guanshan did not try to strengthen the Purple Fire Dagger again.

Instead, he summoned a small golden sword and expended his mental energy to evolve it into a short spear.

It is the kind that can be held in the hand as a long sword for stabbing, and can also be used for throwing attacks.

The reason for this is that in the spiritual world, his magical runes cannot be used, so the evolved sword cannot form sword energy.

After considering his own shortcomings, he chose this kind of medium- and long-range attack weapon that can be thrown.

It is easy to strengthen this short spear. For the first strengthening with spiritual ash, only a small handful is needed to achieve full coverage.

This kind of high-quality spiritual ash here can be strengthened to +5 in one go, and then the amount of spiritual ash required will increase suddenly.

After Zhao Guanshan spent several hours creating a space of about four or five cubic meters on this side, he also strengthened the short spear to +9.
At the same time, he was ready. He retracted under the spirit ash shield, held the shield in his hand, supported it with his body, then used one hand holding the short spear to pry hard at a certain point outside. With a loud bang, several large rocks fell and blocked the dug space. It seemed that he had worked in vain, but he successfully relieved the pressure on Zhao Guanshan's spirit ash shield.

So he changed direction and went to the other side this time and repeated the same trick.

As the space was too small, he could only use the Purple Fire Dagger to collect the ground ash. In one breath, he cleared out nearly five cubic meters of space, and experienced several small landslides in the middle. Zhao Guanshan successfully strengthened the Purple Fire Dagger to +10!

At this moment, holding this purple fire dagger, he even felt that he could kill the rotten giant.

However, that was the limit, because after being covered with ten layers of spiritual ash, if more spiritual ash fell, the Purple Fire Dagger would no longer be able to fuse. In other words, due to some reasons, it could only be strengthened to +10.
Zhao Guanshan did not demand too much. He retracted into the big shield again and used the short spear to pry the rocks, creating a new small landslide. After two landslides, his spirit ash shield was finally loosened. However, on both sides of the shield, through his unremitting efforts, several huge rocks were smashed into these two positions, providing strong support for him at this point.

Next, he only needed to use the large shield as a solid baffle and the solid rocks as a fulcrum to continuously create small-scale landslides upwards, so that he could not continue to climb upwards until he could escape.

Of course, there was too much spirit ash in this process, just like a mouse falling into a rice jar. The precious spirit ash that was usually hard to obtain was now in wide supply. Short spear enhancement +10!

Large shield enhancement +10!

Helmet enhancement +5, half armor enhancement +5, flame soft armor enhancement +5, combat boots enhancement +5.

It really became rich overnight.

In fact, Zhao Guanshan had considered materializing the remaining three purple fire spirit weapons. The main reason was that mental power could not be consumed indiscriminately. In addition, too many spirit weapons would also increase the burden.

The reason why he did not strengthen his helmet, half-body armor, flame soft armor, and combat boots to +10 was that he suddenly realized and vaguely sensed that his spiritual body would most likely not be able to hold on.

It's like a child who insists on wearing heavy armor and wielding a Green Dragon Crescent Blade. It's beyond the limit.

Therefore, the fundamental way to make yourself stronger is to improve the level of your spiritual body.

But sorry, he has no idea how to improve?

Even Xiao Chengyun didn't know about this.

By the way, the first two times he came to the spirit world he had a cloak to wear, but this third time he came to the spirit world, he didn’t even have a novice cloak.

In this way, a lot of ashes are even completely wasted.

But Zhao Guanshan was no longer moved by this, and he would not return to the statue space just to transport the ashes.

Mistakes of principle must never be made.

About a day later, Zhao Guanshan successfully dug himself out of the collapsed rocks.

Then, he took only two rocks, one as big as a basketball and the other as big as two fists, and left without hesitation. He had to leave.

And the direction he left was not the direction of the evil spirit's expeditionary army.

After walking more than twenty miles in one breath, he looked back and saw that Skull Mountain had turned into a one-eyed dragon.

I don’t know what the evil spirit will feel when the Lord comes back?
Zhao Guanshan laughed in his heart and stopped moving. Instead, he lay dormant where he was, covering himself with the +10 Spirit Ash Shield. He wanted to wait for the expeditionary army led by the evil spirit general to return.

After waiting for another four or five days, I finally heard the familiar howling of the evil spirit coming from a distance, followed by large groups of dark clouds floating back.

When we went there, the dark clouds were still connected, covering an area of ​​dozens of miles. Now they have become dozens of pieces of different sizes, which shows that the battle is quite tragic.

But Zhao Guanshan was not sure whether the witcher's stronghold on the opposite side was destroyed.

The only thing he could be sure of was that the sound, which was like the howling of an evil ghost, suddenly rose another eighteen degrees from the original level!
Then a strange blood shadow flashed by and sank into the Skull Mountain which had collapsed by one third. The next second, the blood shadow came out again, soaring into the sky, with a shrill and terrifying cry.

Afterwards, at least tens of thousands of nine-headed birds rushed up with cackling noises, and quickly moved the collapsed rocks away. After a while, a blood-red strange spirit flag emerged at the collapsed site!
There are probably tens of thousands of eyes densely packed on this blood-colored spirit banner. They stare at all directions with evil and viciousness.

Then it actually let out a shrill howl.

Amid the howling, those vicious eyes suddenly exploded and turned into blood-colored threads that floated densely into the distance.

Looking in this direction, it was the direction where the rotten giant left.

At the same time, a part of the blood-colored thread shot up into the sky, but then fell down again.

There were even dozens of blood-colored threads floating towards Zhao Guanshan's position.

He was so frightened that his scalp went numb. He had never seen or heard of such evil magic.

Therefore, if he had not been able to resist and returned to his own statue space before, at this moment, the situation would probably be like this - the evil spirit general sent out an army of 100,000 to attack day and night, and Master Zhao's luck would be running out, and he would be forced to commit suicide.

Maybe even the Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace will be affected by him!

The spirit world is indeed too dangerous.

At this time, dozens of blood-colored threads came rapidly, bypassing Zhao Guanshan's spirit ash shield and directly entangled the two stones he had hidden.

Wow, you can even find clues like this!
Zhao Guanshan acted decisively, took out the purple fire dagger, and with a quick flick, the dozens of blood-colored threads immediately floated away helplessly like headless flies.

He was quite worried about this, but at this time, the tens of thousands of blood lines on the blood-colored spirit banner were mainly targeting the rotten giant, and other directions were just routine searches.

Seeing that the blood shadow howled again and mobilized the army, vowing to capture the rotten giant, Zhao Guanshan began to quietly retreat, made a big circle, and then ran in one direction.

This is the direction where the evil spirit leader is leading his army on an expedition. If nothing unexpected happens, they should be able to encounter a witcher stronghold belonging to another Taoist palace, or the ruins of this stronghold.

(End of this chapter)