Fire Monster

Chapter 369: Crying
"blue!"

Zhao Guanshan did not try to take the green grain of merit sand out of the life fire, although he could indeed do so if he tried.

He sensed and analyzed carefully, and then all the information emerged naturally.

First of all, there is no doubt that this cyan grain of merit sand is of a higher level and has a higher value than the twenty-eight golden grains of merit sand he currently owns.

However, the two do not have the channels to decompose and merge with each other. Gold is gold, and cyan is cyan, but the latter is more rare.

According to Zhao Guanshan’s own understanding, the golden sand of merit can be traded, given, plundered, and consumed.

It is obtained because you have done something specific or have been placed with important expectations.

Just like the four protagonists, the oldest of them is only 500 years old. Where can they get so many golden merit sands? They are given to them by the fallen immortals of a certain camp, and they are asked to kill other fallen immortals. This is their destiny and their mission.

If they fail to complete this mission, they will not be attacked by the golden merit sand, but if you cannot complete what the fallen immortal asks you to do, you will know the consequences just by thinking about it.

From this point of view, the golden merit sand is more like a currency, a karmic currency that was determined and issued by the previous rules of the heavenly palace.

Of course, his understanding may not be accurate, but no matter what, the core contained in the golden sand of merit must be that everything depends on human efforts.

Just like he named the Lihuo Dao Fu, it was because he named it that he got the golden merit sand.

The blue merit sand, on the other hand, is the opposite and may be closer to the meaning of governing by inaction.

Because this kind of merit sand cannot be directly traded, cannot be directly given, and cannot be directly plundered. Note that it cannot be directly. But if Zhao Guanshan falls into the hands of the fallen immortal, then the other party will definitely have the means to snatch it away indirectly.

As for this green merit sand, it seems to have two functions at present.

One is to consume it and immediately gain three thousand years of life.

The other is that, if kept, it can ward off a fatal calamity, including a life-threatening calamity.

That’s right, after a Qi-refining practitioner survives the catastrophe, he or she will become a Mahayana Immortal, and the upper limit of his or her life span will be increased by an additional three thousand years.

Taking into account the tempering of the pure yang body, all in all, a lifespan of five thousand years should be no problem.

For practitioners, this can be considered a small goal in the true sense.

However, what Zhao Guanshan is more concerned about now is how he obtained the green merit sand. He does not think that he obtained it through practice.

Then the only possibility is that one obtained it by practicing in this Skull Mountain, triggering some kind of mysterious resonance. Therefore, this Skull Mountain should be of great significance!

After understanding this, Zhao Guanshan did not greedily ask for more, but kowtowed nine times in the mine to express his sincere gratitude.

Afterwards, he did not continue to dig out spiritual ashes and strengthen the spiritual ash shield. He continued to practice in peace in this rare blessed place and continued to comprehend the Lihuo Dao Talisman.

He knew that there were two teams of demon miners mining frantically on top of Skull Mountain.

It’s not that he didn’t know that in a few decades, this Skull Mountain would become like the other Skull Mountains.

I just think that nothing is more important than practicing.

A year passed, and Zhao Guanshan failed to break through to the ninth level of Qi Refiner, but he successfully comprehended the ninth level of dispersal, as well as the branch magical powers under the dispersal magical power, and mastered them all to the ninth level.

In the second year, he still failed to break through to the ninth level of Qi Refiner, but he comprehended and practiced all the explosive magical powers to the ninth level.

By the third year, he had cultivated all of his demon-suppressing magical powers to the ninth level.

At this point, he had mastered the three types of magical powers under the Lihuo Dao Fu to some extent.

Although the Lihuo Dao Fu contains much more knowledge than these, these three series are undoubtedly the most core and representative.

It feels like, if you learn math, physics and chemistry, you won't be afraid to travel around the world.

And this is indeed the case. Relying on these three sets of magical powers, he can theoretically fight with any other protagonist for three hundred rounds without being at a disadvantage.

This is the blessing of cultivation brought by the blessed land.

Three years of practice here is equivalent to thirty years or even three hundred years of practice outside.

However, on this day, Zhao Guanshan's heart moved again, and a green grain of merit sand appeared in his life fire.

But this time, he didn't have any doubts at all, but just sighed helplessly.

He knew where this grain of green merit sand came from. It was just that those demon miners were frantically digging and exploiting Skull Mountain, and the green merit belonging to the previous generation of immortals inside Skull Mountain was forced away. He was practicing here without any desires or requests, so he became the best carrier of resonance.

"That's enough. I have to go. It's not a good idea to stay here for long."

Zhao Guanshan smiled bitterly, nothing should be overdone.

After that, he hesitated again and again, but still did not mine the spirit ash. He only took the spirit ash shield and the spirit ash armor. He did not need to leave his body. With his current strength, he could control the spirit ash shield with his body for a long time. There was no need to drag the corpse forward.

When he left, he vaguely heard a strange crying sound coming from the Skeleton Mountain behind him. It was faint and extremely sad.

It is Skull Mountain that is crying, but it is not actually Skull Mountain crying, nor is it the immortal who once died here crying. The immortal's body and soul were both dead, and Skull Mountain is not a spirit that is crying out of gratitude for fate.

This is the Tao crying!

In fact, Zhao Guanshan didn’t know either, but he inexplicably felt this way in his heart.

Who said there are no mysterious events in the world of immortal cultivation?
It cannot be explained, it cannot be expressed in words, it cannot be explored.

Zhao Guanshan left without hesitation and went straight over the checkpoint. As expected, there was no more checkpoint.

The so-called pass is integrated with the immortal ban that once covered this Skull Mountain.

Before the immortal ban is lifted, there is no way to sneak through, unless the gatekeeper lets you through on purpose.

But the cost of letting it go is not small.

Previously, Wang Xuan, Jiang Yunbai and other four protagonists had each had about five golden merit sand grains deducted from them here.

The King of Hell is easy to deal with, but the little ghosts are hard to deal with.

It was unlike at this moment, when Zhao Guanshan walked over safely, with no less golden merit sand in his body.

Of course, he himself was also quite puzzled. Could his +17 enhanced ash shield really deceive the fallen immortal?

I always feel like there's something else going on here.

But he also did not regret not continuing to mine ash on Skull Mountain to strengthen the ash shield.

There is still a desert ahead, stretching as far as the eye can see. The mountains, rivers and streams that I once saw now seem like illusions.

However, the good news is that Zhao Guanshan’s current perception range has exceeded one thousand miles. If it really doesn’t work, he can just let his soul leave his body, use his physical body as the origin, and directly draw a circle to explore the way.

In this way, just half a month later, he finally reached the edge of the desert, and the other half of the immortal world that had not been destroyed by the out-of-control sky fire officially appeared before him.

On the edge of the desert is a huge canyon, unfathomable, and hundreds of miles wide.

There is no end to the length, which means it is at least two thousand miles long.

On this side of the canyon is the desert, and on the other side are undulating mountains, all bare and lifeless. Not even wild grass can be seen in the charred soil, let alone human habitation.

Instead, there was a violent aura of fire flowing through this mountain range.

It should be the sequelae left by the out-of-control skyfire.

"Jiang Yunbai was here!"

Soon, Zhao Guanshan sensed a line of large characters written in a flamboyant style on a mountain.

Real fellow countryman, nothing wrong.

Zhao Guanshan smiled slightly, but he did not see the messages from the other three people.

He was not in a hurry to cross the canyon, but sat cross-legged beside the canyon with the large spirit ash shield on his back. The mysterious aura spread out invisibly, drowning all the light and aura projected here, thus perfectly covering Zhao Guanshan's figure.

Previously, when he used his soul to incarnate into a spirit body to control the huge spirit ash shield, he did not have many more delicate sensations.

But now that I use my physical body to control the Ash Shield, it’s really different.

How to say it, the soul holding the big shield of spiritual ash is like a otaku on Earth sitting in front of the computer, looking at the beautiful girl on the wallpaper.

But when his physical body controlled the huge shield of spirit ash, there really was a girl with a sweet breath, gentle and well-behaved, fair skin, smart and cute, acting coquettishly in his arms.

Therefore, along the way, Zhao Guanshan has rarely used the method of leaving his body to control the spirit ash shield.

He controlled it with his physical body. The more he controlled it, the more proficient he became, and the more proficient he became, the deeper he went, almost to the point of resonance.

It was also at this time that he discovered that his +17 enhanced ash shield could be used to simulate the state of a paradise inside Skull Mountain.

That's right, it's just a status, and it doesn't give him the function of obtaining the blessed land buff, but it can better enhance the concealment effect of the Spirit Ash Shield.

I guess even if the Fallen Immortal came in person, he wouldn't be able to directly scan and sense him hiding inside Skull Mountain.

(End of this chapter)