Fire Monster

Chapter 372: First Encounter with the Fallen Immortal

"This fallen immortal is quite capable. He can even maintain a slight balance."

This is Zhao Guanshan’s evaluation.

And the secret of this fallen immortal to maintain balance is to let ordinary mortals live a stable and peaceful life, without picking up things on the road, with simple folk customs, and no natural disasters or man-made calamities. It is such a simple and perfect life that does not give people the opportunity to do evil.

But mortals have to pay their debts after they die.

Yes, when a mortal dies, normally the soul and spirit will dissipate, but here, the spirits of the dead are forcibly conscripted into the army, and those are the human-faced maggots.

This is a disguised way of saving the market, similar to digging reservoirs and building roads.

They are all forcibly creating a huge market.

And the stability in the mortal world is the market.

Because mortals have a happy life, they will continue to have children, and continue to live a perfect life. In this process, the karmic debt will be diluted. Even if the karmic debt that can be diluted by each mortal is almost negligible, as long as the base is large enough, it will not be a problem.

For example, this remote and marginal mountain village was originally a barren land, but it has good weather, is self-sufficient, and can feed five or six hundred people. This is really interesting.

As for the filth hidden underneath, out of sight, out of mind.

Zhao Guanshan went away quickly. He did not intend to expose himself here because through the conversations between those fallen immortal cultivators, it was not difficult to see that some fallen immortals were still killed, but the best result for the protagonist to kill the fallen immortals was to die together.

This is also the purpose and expectation of cultivating the protagonist's fallen immortal.

Therefore, as long as he is not exposed, he will not embark on this path in a hurry.

Fighting is just a means, not an end.

Of course, he also had to thank those fallen cultivators for making him realize that even a +17 enhanced Spirit Ash Shield could not be completely safe. The cultivation world here had already become very distorted, and the best way was not to stay in one place for too long.

As expected, he saw many mortal villages and towns along the way. Each small village had a population of at least five to six hundred or seven to eight hundred.

A town is considered a small town when it has a population of over a thousand, while larger towns have a population of three to five thousand.

But there are basically no county towns.

Villages and towns can communicate with each other, but the farthest distance is no more than a hundred miles, and villages and towns can basically maintain autonomy.

The villagers work from sunrise to sunset and rest from sunset to sunrise. They have heard of the imperial court, fairy mountains and demons, but no one has ever seen them. They do not have to pay taxes and do not have to do labor. The weather is good and there is good harvest. Every household has five or six fat boys and girls. The only flaw is that there are very few long-lived people.

There is almost no one over the age of 55, except for the old temple owner and the old village head who presides over justice in the village.

But even they can only live to sixty years old.

By expanding the mortal population and then harvesting their lifespans in advance, they can enjoy a peaceful life while alive and repay their debts after death. This is a really clever idea.

No wonder it is called the Field of Merit.

Zhao Guanshan walked and looked all the way until he had walked five thousand miles in one breath. The road ahead turned into a Grand Canyon, as if he had returned to the starting point, because here he saw the familiar stone tablet again.

This time, he looked at the stone tablet, on which there were a few lines of words as usual.

"How's it going? After walking around, you don't find any reason to kill me, right?"

"Then go ahead!"

Zhao Guanshan was silent for a moment. This time he really had no reason to continue walking, even though the canyon was still very long and might never have an end. But there was no doubt that the fallen immortals who could hide in this canyon and use mortals to create merit were all fallen immortals whose reason was greater than madness, or in other words, fallen immortals whose karmic debts could be maintained.

In any case, it is not impossible to kill them, but the price would probably be that hundreds of millions of mortals would be buried with them.

That’s right, during his journey, he had nurtured at least 500 million mortals in this field of merit.

Climbing up the cliff again and reaching the top of the canyon, he found that he seemed to be still in the same place, because the message from the old man Genshan was still there. Looking at the deep, bottomless canyon, Zhao Guanshan walked forward. Passing by the place where the old man Genshan had carved his name on the stone, he found an extra line of words on the back.

He frowned when he saw this. This place clearly wasn't there a few months ago.

"There is a trap ahead, listen to my advice and take a detour!"

Zhao Guanshan felt extremely shocked at this moment.

Do you call this a reminder? It's clearly a test of my rebellious psychology index.

Sighing, Zhao Guanshan felt that he was being targeted.

It could be that the fallen immortal in the canyon leaked it, or it could be some other reason, but it doesn’t matter anymore, so let’s prepare for battle.

He sat down with his back against the huge rock and took out three small and exquisite boxes from his package.

This was what he prepared for himself before jumping out of the abyss of demonic fire.

The first box contained three daggers.

After opening the second box, there was a pile of delicate and small parts, the largest of which was no bigger than a fingernail. But without exception, they were all high-level materials of the Destiny 3080 level.

Zhao Guanshan assembled the equipment skillfully. In a short time, he had assembled a fist-sized mechanical sparrow, a slightly larger mechanical crow, and a miniature aerospace mothership the size of a human head...

Of course, it's not that exaggerated.

That is to say, it can only carry Zhao Guanshan for flight. When spread out, it is just a flight pedal.

In addition, it can also perform remote control combat and so on.

There is nothing special about these machines, provided that they are not endowed with mechanical Taoist talismans.

But once it is endowed with a mechanical talisman, it will be a different matter.

At this time, Zhao Guanshan installed the three short swords in the first box, opened the third box, and took out a fist-sized, fully assembled miniature eight-level spirit-supplying tower...

There were also twenty perfect-grade fifteenth-level magic pills in there that he had prepared long ago.

Come on, hurt each other,

Anyway, it is impossible to force him to reveal his true form and expose himself completely.

After assembling the miniature eighth-level spirit-offering tower onto the miniature aerospace mothership, Zhao Guanshan placed it in his hands. With a thought, the mechanical talisman was activated, forming a perfect resonance with his body. At this moment, a bright spiritual light lit up, and the mechanical sparrow, mechanical crow, and the miniature aerospace mothership became his three natal magic weapons.

Yes, he can have three.

With another thought, the mechanical sparrow flapped its wings a few times and flew out. It looked inconspicuous, but in fact it could support reconnaissance and combat capabilities within a radius of up to 300 kilometers.

It can conduct relay reconnaissance with mechanical crows. In addition, it can also use ninth-order dispel, ninth-order oblivion, and ninth-order misleading runes. Well, these three runes are engraved on its wings in advance, and it has very powerful stealth capabilities and the ability to resist battlefield radiation pollution.

Even if it is really locked, it can still instantly release thirty small wings to mislead the enemy.

You can also get long-range support from mechanical crows.

Compared to the mechanical sparrow, the mechanical crow is a pure fighter. Due to its larger size, it can carry more magical units, including but not limited to two ninth-level dispels, one ninth-level oblivion, one ninth-level misdirection, three ninth-level explosions, one ninth-level demon suppression, and one ninth-level fire escape.

Anyway, relying on the mechanical talisman, Zhao Guanshan has armed it to the teeth.

At this time, as the mechanical sparrow took off, the mechanical crow also started up. Relying on his powerful soul, Zhao Guanshan could completely control it remotely and seamlessly.

Of course, at the same time, he also changed his position and no longer stayed on the big rock where Brother Genshan left the message.

It is worth mentioning that he always maintains invisibility with the ash shield. He does not exist to the outside world. Even if someone already knows that he must exist, they cannot lock his position.

However, as long as the mechanical sparrows and mechanical crows fly out of the coverage area of ​​the ash shield, they will be exposed in a sense.

Suppose there really is a trap ahead.

Sure enough, just thirty seconds later, when the mechanical sparrow flew less than three kilometers away, the huge rock used to leave the message suddenly exploded, and a monster with black flames burning all over its body jumped out of it. It did not chase the mechanical sparrow and the mechanical crow, but without saying a word, it spewed a black mucus in all directions.

This thing is like foam. It grows when there is wind and drills into any cracks, covering an area of ​​thousands of meters in one go.

Then it corroded madly, and soon a huge pit with an extremely foul smell was corroded out of this place.

If Zhao Guanshan was still there, even if he was unharmed, he would still reveal some flaws.

But at this moment, he was already five hundred miles away.

Yes, he didn't use any magical powers. He just stepped on the miniature aerospace mothership and covered himself with a large shield of ash, and maneuvered so quickly.

Almost at the same time, the mechanical sparrows and mechanical crows were also accelerating. Although they were only equipped with miniature level-five spirit supply towers, with increased power, a dozen times the speed of sound would be a piece of cake.

But this is like stirring up a hornet's nest.

Suddenly, a huge roar was heard, and the entire mountain range came alive. Countless monsters came out of it and chased and intercepted the mechanical sparrows and mechanical crows.

Nine strange talismans fell from the sky, landing in nine directions. With a flash of light, a large net was formed, covering an area of ​​300 miles in radius with the huge rock as the origin.

The person who made the move was actually at the level of a Fallen Immortal.

There is no chance for development at all.

That's right, they all know that they are here to kill them, so how can these fallen immortals pretend not to see them? If they don't use their ultimate moves to destroy them from the very beginning, what are they waiting for?

Are you acting here?
At this moment, even Zhao Guanshan’s mechanical sparrow and mechanical crow could not escape.

But, this is exactly what he expected.

At this moment, the mechanical crow and the mechanical sparrow suddenly merged together and transformed into a killing machine. Although they were surrounded, they were not at all weak.

As for Zhao Guanshan himself, he also stopped eight hundred miles away. He needed to know himself and his enemy.

(End of this chapter)