Fire Monster

Chapter 277: Evil God Observation Log
The black ashes are like snow, floating in the air and looking quite hazy and beautiful.

Zhao Guanshan stood there, watching the ashes falling down. In the end, the black ashes obtained were as much as a large bowl.

Before, he had obtained some black ash, but unfortunately the amount was not much. When lighting up the Forgotten Rune, he mixed it with white ash and threw it in. Since there was no reference, he couldn't see anything special. The only thing that was certain was that it could be used to light up the rune.

Now it can be used to continue testing.

He took out the ash spear and lightly picked up the pile of black ashes. In an instant, the pile of ashes seemed to come alive, rippling like smoke, and circling around the ash spear, as if it was picking and examining. It was quite a drama.

After a few seconds, the pile of black ash spread over it like a spirit snake, and finally swallowed up the entire javelin.

Zhao Guanshan was stunned.

Complete coverage means strengthening once.

This ash javelin, when strengthened to +10, consumes about five cubic meters of white ash.

Furthermore, once the strengthening is successful, it can no longer be strengthened further.

Unexpectedly, this black spiritual ash not only allowed it to continue to strengthen, but the effect was so overbearing that just a bowl of spiritual ash allowed it to break through to strengthening +11.

He even wondered if this was an illusion?
So he took the javelin, which had turned completely black, turned around and stabbed it at Wang Xuan's large shield.

Well, if I remember correctly, Wang Xuan's big shield was strengthened +10 not long ago, but with just a slight blow, a small hole was poked in the so-called +10 big shield. It was extremely sharp.

However, this sharpness does come at a price. If one wants to use mental power to drive the javelin, it will not be as easy as before.

The consumption will increase several times.

With his current total amount of mental energy, it would probably dry up in ten seconds.

Of course, overall, Zhao Guanshan was quite satisfied, and he became even more determined about the bold idea that had just come to his mind.

How dare I refuse this God-given opportunity?

Next, he did not help Wang Xuan and the other three immediately. Anyway, they just looked drowsy and their lives were not in danger. He had to recover the mental energy he had just consumed.

It is worth mentioning that after the spirit body is upgraded, the recovery speed of mental power is constantly improved.

For a first-level spirit, the recovery speed is the initial average value.

Then, for every level up, you will get an additional bonus of about 5%.

Now that Zhao Guanshan has advanced to the sixth-level spiritual body, this extra bonus has become about 25%, which is already a very fast recovery speed.

However, in the visualization world, after lighting up the second-level soul rune, he gained an additional 10% recovery speed. This is the side effect of lighting up the soul skill tree.

However, it is not over yet. Each of the soul armor pieces on his forehead can increase the recovery speed by 5%. There are three of them in total, which is another 15%.

If you add all of them together, his mental power recovery speed will increase by about 50%, which is quite considerable.

Normally speaking, taking Wang Xuan and others as an example, their mental strength can be fully restored in about three hours, while Zhao Guanshan only needs one and a half hours to fully restore it.

Judging from the remaining mental energy Zhao Guanshan has at the moment, it will be fully restored in less than an hour.

This is very important.

The faster you recover, the faster you can get into battle.

Next, Zhao Guanshan waited with a wait-and-see mentality, recovering his mental strength while waiting. As a result, an hour passed, his mental strength was fully recovered, but there was no movement.

"Could it be possible that the evil god was frightened by me?"

"Or maybe that three-headed strange bird can't be deployed on a large scale?"

Thinking this way, Zhao Guanshan would not really continue to wait. After his mental strength was fully restored, he immediately began to dispel the evil spirits for Wang Xuan and the other three, pulling them out of their confused state.

But this time, they were not as energetic as before. Even when they were awake, they felt like they had been sucked dry and turned into drug dregs.

"Fellow Daoist Chengfeng, thank you for saving us again, but I really can't walk anymore. We have to stay here to recuperate for a few days. This evil god is too cunning and vicious. He is treating us like fat pigs!"

Wang Xuan said bitterly, feeling terrible.

"Have you ever hurt the root?"

Zhao Guanshan felt a little bit reluctant in his heart. After all, he was still a kind-hearted and upright Qigong cultivator.

"It won't hurt the root, because in the real world we still have physical bodies. As long as the physical bodies are there, the spirit body can be resurrected after death. What's more, only a part of the spiritual power has been sucked away. I just feel aggrieved! That evil god is too evil."

"Doesn't that mean that we are all safe until you recover?" Zhao Guanshan thought thoughtfully.

"Yes, that's what I mean. Fellow Daoist Chengfeng, thank you for your hard work."

Wang Xuan expressed his gratitude again. Fortunately, he had this fellow Taoist Chengfeng, otherwise he couldn't imagine how miserable their ending would be.

Next, Wang Xuan and the other three took the time to recover, while Zhao Guanshan stood by with a strange look on his face to protect them. Occasionally, he would look up and around, but all he saw was the vast desert. It seemed that the evil god had reached some kind of unspeakable tacit understanding with him.

He wanted to make a nest and the other party wanted to suck blood, but they didn't affect each other.

In addition, this is an evil god that emphasizes sustainable development.

It's not simple. In a flash, three days passed, and during these three days, nothing really happened.

Wang Xuan and the other three finally recovered completely.

But as soon as they recovered, they jumped up again.

"Fellow Daoist Chengfeng, we have to hurry up and leave this place. Run as far as we can, as fast as we can. I have a bad feeling..."

"Stop talking and run!"

Zhao Guanshan calmly left a forgetfulness rune on the spot, then ran forward with Wang Xuan and the other three. But as they ran, Wang Xuan felt something was wrong.

"Fellow Daoist Chengfeng, why didn't you activate the Dao Jade? Without the Dao Jade, we will be lost."

"The Dao Jade is no longer reliable. I guess the last time we were discovered was related to the Dao Jade. The key now is not to get lost, but to escape the encirclement of the evil god first."

"What encirclement?"

Wang Xuan was very puzzled, and Zhao Guanshan did not explain either. He just led the way based on his intuition. Getting lost was inevitable, but what he wanted was the effect of getting lost.

This is the solution he has been racking his brains to come up with in the past few days.

He needed to draw a portrait of the evil god to determine the scope of its capabilities.

In the past few days, he has been maintaining the spiritual world forgotten runes for Wang Xuan and the other three to ensure that they would not be directly connected to the evil god.

Now, he closed the Dao Jade and no longer walked in the original direction.

If the three-headed monster bird sent by the evil god can still find them accurately, it means that it doesn’t matter whether the Jade of Inquiry is activated or not.

Otherwise, it means that his judgment was correct, and the evil god knew that they were heading to the spiritual world stronghold of the Floating Cloud Taoist Palace, so he set up checkpoints to intercept them along the way.

This will also prove that the evil gods in the spiritual world are not as powerful as imagined, and that they can know their locations with just a thought.

All this information is important.

"Stop! Wait here for a moment."

After running for about ten miles in one breath, Zhao Guanshan suddenly stopped, closed his eyes, sensed silently for a moment, then put his hand into the sand, and at the same time a forgotten rune from the spiritual world was placed in it.

This is his advantage.

That is, the Forgotten Rune in the spiritual world is different from the Forgotten Rune in the real world. He can still sense this rune even after being far away.

This is an additional effect that was discovered when we were traveling with Wang Xuan and the others.

Now this thing has become his greatest reliance for verifying direction and avoiding getting lost.

The distance of about ten miles is just the limit for sensing the forgotten runes of the spiritual world.

"go!"

Next, Zhao Guanshan led Wang Xuan and the other three to continue running in a straight line. This direction was the reference when they activated the Dao Jade a few days ago. It might deviate, but the chance of overlapping with the previous direction was very small.

In this way, every time he ran about ten miles, Zhao Guanshan would leave a forgotten rune to determine his direction, so that at least he would not have to worry about going back.

After leaving behind thirty forgotten runes, he ran almost three hundred miles. At this point, he ordered his troops to rest here and not move forward.

He wanted to verify his judgment and see if the evil god had other means to find them?
Although Wang Xuan and the other three were in a hurry to travel, they completely trusted Zhao Guanshan at this time.

In this way, the five people waited here with full alertness for a whole day, but there was no movement.

"Fellow Daoist Chengfeng, how long do we have to wait here? If we continue like this, sooner or later we will be found by that evil god, right?"

Wang Xuan couldn't help but ask.

"Being found by the evil god is certain. Once it targets us, there is no way to avoid it. We cannot change this, but we can change how it finds us."

"As far as we know, there are two ways for this evil god to find us. The first is a direct mapping connection, which can be called a first-level connection, but it has been cut off by me. The second is to patrol with the three-headed monster bird and ambush at a fixed point, which can be called a second-level connection."

"What I want to confirm now is whether the evil god will continue to use the second-level connection to find us, or use the third-level connection?"

"I'm guessing it's the latter."

After hearing Zhao Guanshan's explanation, Wang Xuan nodded, "That seems to be the case. If the three-headed bird could be killed by Fellow Daoist Chengfeng, then if the evil god sends another three-headed bird to connect, wouldn't it become a target for the evil god?"

"But in this case, the three-level connection method must be extremely powerful."

"That's for sure. I guess this three-level connection can cover a number of areas. In other words, if we take the location where we first stayed as the center and draw a circle with a radius of 500 miles, then no matter which direction we flee, we can't escape this circle. Now, the evil god is using this circle to wait for us to get out."

"This time, the evil god is not only targeting you four, but also me who looks more delicious and sweet."

Zhao Guanshan spoke very seriously and his expression was very solemn, but he was very much looking forward to it in his heart.

The reason is simple: everything is developing according to his predictions, which is really wonderful.

(End of this chapter)