Xiuxian, I have a high martial arts world

Chapter 117: Soul Devouring Root, Second Stage!
One step, two steps...

Lin Chen walked slowly forward, getting closer and closer to the village chief.

"Closer...closer..."

The leader of Cuidao Lake Village kept praying in his heart, and clenched the self-destruct talisman in his hand tighter and tighter.

However, Lin Chen stopped and finally stopped ten feet away from the village chief.

The heart of the Cuidao Lake village chief gradually sank.

"You, who are you? No, you...what kind of monster are you!"

He also tried to delay time.

However, Lin Chen raised his hand without any hesitation.

"Suddenly..."

Thousands of bullets poured out, turning the village chief's broken body into a sieve.

Before he died, the leader of Cuidao Lake Village still had regret and fear in his eyes...

His body twitched a few times on the ground, and finally he died.

"died?"

Lin Chen released his spiritual sense, but could not sense the breath of the Cuidao Lake Village Master.

But he did not act rashly, as he could not guarantee that the village chief had some magic trick to fake his death.

So he had a slight thought in his mind, and the demon-slaying flying knife came out and chopped towards the corpse of the village chief.

The blade slashed through, blood splattered everywhere, and the village chief's head rolled down.

Seeing the body separated, Lin Chen felt relieved and searched the storage bag on him.

Before he had time to investigate carefully, Lin Chen went to chase after the deputy village chief who was at the eighth level of foundation building.

Lin Chen raised his head to look at the sky, only to see that the deputy village chief had already escaped hundreds of feet away on a flying sword.

If we don't chase him, I'm afraid this deputy village chief will really escape.

But Lin Chen was not panicked at all, and whispered:

"Heh, this guy runs really fast!"

"Launch the W-17 nano-homing missile..."

Following Lin Chen's order, a small missile launcher appeared behind the Sky Demon Armor.

Immediately afterwards, the nano-missile whizzed out and hit the deputy village chief hundreds of feet away in less than a second.

The deputy village chief held up his body's true energy and tried to resist.

However, facing the power of this missile that is enough to blow up a mountain, how can the protective true energy of a mere foundation-building cultivator resist it?

The village chief's protective energy lasted for less than a breath before it turned into a pool of blood mist under the high temperature and pressure of the missile explosion, leaving no trace of his body.

Lin Chen stood there and watched for a few seconds, muttering:

"Pity……"

Unfortunately, the storage bag would certainly be damaged under such power.

Otherwise, Lin Chen would save the trouble and just bombard the land with artillery fire and sink the island...

At this point, none of the foundation-building cultivators in Cuidao Lake Water Village survived.

The next step was much simpler. The Qi-refining cultivators on the island were suppressed by the firepower of the Heavenly Demon Armor and had almost no ability to fight back.

In addition, the two martial arts puppets Long Ba and Feng Jiu are helping.

In less than half an hour, all the Qi-refining cultivators on the island were killed.

The whole process was much simpler than the previous attack on Yudai Village...

After killing the people, Lin Chen walked around the island a few times and scanned it with his spiritual sense to make sure there were no survivors.

After that, it's time to count the spoils.

In the entire Cuidao Lake Water Village, there are more than 300 robbers who have plundered for several years and have accumulated considerable wealth.

There were nearly 80,000 spirit stones alone, and all kinds of magic weapons and materials were piled up like mountains.

According to Lin Chen's preliminary estimate, the total value of this batch of materials is probably no less than 300,000 spirit stones.

After cleaning up the battlefield and harvesting the harvest, Lin Chen did not stay long and quickly flew away.

After flying hundreds of miles, he took out a few items only after making sure that no one was chasing him.

A slightly damaged formation plate and twelve formation flags.

"The island protection formation of Cuidao Lake Water Village... It is both a maze and a protective formation. It is more advanced than the formation of Yudai Mountain..."

Lin Chen thought silently that this island protection formation was worth at least several spirit stones, and it could not be easily purchased.

They are all regarded as the foundation by major forces.

For Lin Chen, whether taking it to the high-level martial arts world to the research institute to study the formation, or keeping it for his own use, is a good choice.

In addition to this set of formations, Lin Chen also has a fist-sized crystal bead in his hand.

The whole body is round and contains rich water aura.

——Water-repellent beads!

"This water-repellent bead is not very helpful in combat, but it is very useful in deep water..."

Lin Chen carefully put away the water-repellent beads.

This water-repellent bead is of great value and is also one of the trump cards of the owner of Cuidao Lake Village.

No matter whether it is a cultivator who is refining Qi, building a foundation or even forming a golden core, their strength will be affected to some extent under deep water.

The wonderful use of these water-repellent beads is that they can allow cultivators to fight underwater without being affected, and they even have a certain protective effect against water-based magic.

If Lin Chen had been a step slower, and the village chief had escaped under the water of Cuidao Lake, he would have been in real trouble.

Lin Chen counted the number of spirit stones in his hand.

After destroying Cuidao Lake Water Village, the number of spirit stones in his hands had reached nearly 900,000.

It is only about 100,000 away from the million spirit stones required to advance to the Soul-Devouring Root.

"Alas, we must continue to work hard. As it happens, there is still one last group of robbery cultivators..."

Lin Chen raised his head and looked in a certain direction.

The last of the three groups of robbers is less than a thousand miles away from here.

Now that he had already taken action, Lin Chen naturally had no intention of delaying.

As the news of the destruction of Cuidao Lake Water Village has not yet spread, Lin Chen plans to strike while the iron is hot and wipe out the last group of robbers along the way.

First, artillery fire was used to clear the area, and then a big fire covered up all traces of the battle in the mountain village.

Afterwards, Lin Chen took off his Heavenly Demon Armor, summoned his flying sword, and rushed towards the direction of the last group of cultivators.

……

At the same time, Cuidao Lake Water Village.

Under the traces of artillery fire, the ground squirmed for a while, and then a disheveled figure crawled out from the ground.

"What...what kind of monster is that?"

This man was wearing a scholar's robe, and he was the scholar with jade belt.

But at this moment, he was disheveled, covered in filth and dirt, with his hair scattered behind his head. He didn't look like a foundation-building cultivator at all.

"Are they all...dead?"

The Jade Belt Scholar was still frightened.

He searched the island stealthily for a while and finally confirmed that he was the only living person on the entire island.

It turned out that he had been fleeing for his life since the fall of Yudai Mountain, wanting to join the Cuidao Lake Water Village in an attempt to make a comeback.

After all, he is also a cultivator in the late stage of foundation building, and he should have some status in the Cuidao Lake Water Village.

But he never expected that on the first day of his refuge, he would encounter a pitch-black monster attacking the water fort.

He didn't know whether it was a puppet or a monk.

But he had never seen such a horrible monster, which destroyed the entire water fort by itself in just one hour.

In his opinion, even a Jindan cultivator wouldn't be able to do it, right?
Fortunately, he was not in the hall at that time, but was outside familiarizing himself with the terrain of Cuihu Island.

As soon as the island protection formation was activated, he noticed something was wrong and directly used the earth escape technique to dive into the ground a hundred feet deep.

Because of this earth escape technique, he could vaguely sense what was happening on the ground even if he was a hundred feet underground.

After an hour of fear and trepidation, there was gradually no movement on the ground.

But he still didn't dare to come up. After hiding underground for several hours, he reluctantly dared to come up and take a look.

"monster……"

The Jade Belt Scholar was still frightened, but he didn't dare to stay for long.

He quickly took out his magic weapon and fled in a certain direction.

"Escape, we must escape from this damn place..."

……

After several hours, Lin Chen arrived at the last stronghold of the robbery cultivators.

He did not rush to take action, but as before, he first observed the strength of this robbery cultivator.

Similar to the previous Cuidao Lake Water Village, there are about 300 robbery cultivators in this mountain village.

Even the number of foundation-building cultivators is less than that of Cuidao Lake Water Village.

Although the robber cultivators in the mountain village were also prepared, they were obviously unaware of the destruction of Cuidao Lake Water Village and had not activated the mountain protection formation.

Lin Chen even saved the trouble of disguising himself and directly used the Wood Hiding Technique to conceal his own aura, sneaking into the mountain village under the cover of night.

After putting on the Heavenly Demon Armor, releasing Long Ba and Feng Jiu, and locking onto the positions of several Foundation Establishment cultivators.

What followed was a crushing defeat.

With absolute firepower suppression, Lin Chen quickly killed all the foundation-building cultivators.

Afterwards, with the cooperation of two martial arts puppets, Lin Chen wiped out all the Qi Refining cultivators in the mountain village.

Everything happened overnight.

When the sky was getting light, Lin Chen was already counting the supplies in the mountain village.

Mountains of various materials, magic weapons, and ninety thousand spirit stones.

At this point, Lin Chen is already very close to the million spirit stones mark.

"Tsk tsk, these robbery cultivators are really fat!"

"How much money can you make by robbing casual cultivators? You can earn more by robbing the cultivators' nests..."

Lin Chen thought silently.

After counting the spoils of war, Lin Chen set a fire, burning the entire village to ashes while also covering up all traces of the battle.

As soon as the sky brightened, Lin Chen left the mountain village on his flying sword.

…Long after Lin Chen left, the ground began to move somewhere.

The Jade Belt Scholar carefully crawled out from underground.

Looking at the village that was burned down by the fire, his eyes were filled with fear.

"How could it be... could it be that the monster's goal is to destroy all the robbery forces in Yanlai Realm?"

He looked panic-stricken and his body was shaking slightly.

After the fall of Cuidao Lake Water Village, he rushed all the way to this last mountain village in order to find a place to shelter himself.

But he never expected that he would encounter the black monster again and destroy the village.

Fortunately, he had been hiding underground and had not been discovered.

"What should I do... I may be the only leader of the robbery cultivators left in Yanlai!"

The Jade Belt Scholar suppressed his fear and calmed himself down.

"If I recruit more robbery cultivators and encounter that weirdo... won't I be powerless to fight back?"

At this moment, he had only one thought in his mind.

What kind of robbery repairman?
Run away quickly...

During the years of practicing Tribulation, he had accumulated a lot of spirit stones, enough to complete his foundation building.

"So, where to hide?"

"The most dangerous place is the safest place... Perhaps, we should return to Yudai City to avoid the limelight first?"

The Jade Belt Scholar murmured.

He also has two houses in Yudai City, but few people know about them.

Moreover, monks and mortals live together in Yudai City, and the population is so large that it is not easy to be discovered...

Thinking of this, he fled in panic towards Yudai City.

……

The next morning, Yudai City.

Lin Chen disguised himself as Han Laoliu and moved to an inn to stay temporarily.

He planned to stay in Yudai City for a while.

The remaining gap from one million spirit stones can also be earned in Yudai City.

Moreover, you need to earn more spirit stones to support your own practice.

Nowadays, there are not many places in Yanlai where you can quickly earn spirit stones...

Therefore, in the next few days, Long Ba and Feng Jiu continued to sell elixirs and magic weapons outside.

Ten days later, he finally collected enough spirit stones.

After collecting a million spirit stones, he did not rush to advance to the Soul-Devouring Root, but waited for a few more days.

Until the return countdown is reset...

……

Daxia Kingdom, Martial Arts Palace.

Lin Chen was alone in a lounge. The spirit stones around him were piled up like a hill, almost filling up half of the room.

"Tsk tsk, a full million spirit stones! They will all be used to upgrade my spirit roots..."

Lin Chen still felt a little heartbroken.

But it was only for a moment...

When Lin Chen thought about the progress of his cultivation of the second-level Soul-Devouring Root, his heart became a little hot.

Without much hesitation, he used his secret technique to start devouring the surrounding spirit stones.

With just a thought in his mind, thousands of spirit stones turned into precise energy and poured into Lin Chen's spiritual roots.

During this process, Lin Chen's spiritual roots were also quietly evolving.

In the blink of an eye, the night passed.

By the next morning, the mountains of spirit stones were no longer in the room, but instead there were piles of powder.

Lin Chen sat cross-legged, motionless as a mountain, absorbing the energy of the last few thousand spirit stones...

Finally, the Soul-Devouring Root completely completed its evolution.

In Lin Chen's perception, the spiritual energy generated in the spirit gathering array became particularly agile.

He felt it carefully for a long time before opening his eyes.

"Soul Devouring Root, second stage... finally achieved!"

Taking out a pile of spirit stones, Lin Chen practiced for a while to test his current practice speed.

Another hour later, Lin Chen said happily:
"The speed of cultivation has increased by about two or three times...Now my cultivation speed should be comparable to that of a top-grade earth spirit root, right?"

Lin Chen was in high spirits.

If a cultivator with true spiritual roots is a genius among ten thousand, then a cultivator with earthly spiritual roots is truly one in a million!
Such qualifications are not found in Yanlai or Changchun Sect.

Even in the first sect in Qingzhou, the Dao Sect, he can be called a genius.

"According to the current cultivation speed, it will take at most two months to reach the perfect foundation from the eighth level!"

Lin Chen thought silently.

"In addition to the increased speed of cultivation, the second stage of the Soul Devouring Spirit Root also gave me more powerful true essence!"

He carefully felt the changes in the true energy and magic power in his dantian.

Originally, his true energy and magic power were considered strong. With the blessing of perfect foundation building, the true energy of the eighth level of foundation building was probably comparable to that of a perfect foundation building.

"Although the first stage of the Soul Devouring Spiritual Root can also strengthen the True Essence, the effect is far less than it is now!"

"But the second stage of the Soul Devouring Spiritual Root has at least increased its True Essence by 50%, right?"

Lin Chen's mind was introverted. He could feel that the profound true essence on the flawless foundation-building platform was far greater than before.

"It has not yet reached the total amount of true essence of the false pill realm... but it is far beyond the ordinary foundation building perfection!"

“Perhaps, when the foundation is built to perfection, my true essence will be comparable to that of a cultivator in the False Dan realm?”

Lin Chen made some guesses.

In the next few days, Lin Chen stayed in the Martial Arts Palace to practice peacefully.

Thousands of the new type of Five Thunder Seeds were produced and put into nano bags by Lin Chen.

As the countdown to the time travel reached zero, Lin Chen successfully returned to the world of immortal cultivation.

……

Return to the Yudai City Inn.

Lin Chen counted the remaining spirit stones and resources.

"There is no shortage of magic weapons and elixirs... but spirit stones are becoming scarce again!"

"There are only more than 10,000 left..."

Lin Chen felt a little helpless.

As his Soul Devouring Root reached the second stage, his cultivation speed increased several times.

The amount of spiritual stones consumed in daily practice has reached a terrifying level.

Three hundred spirit stones!

This means that Lin Chen might have to consume tens of thousands of spirit stones in one month of practice.

These ten thousand spirit stones are enough for a Jindan cultivator to practice for a year...

"Alas, in the end, I still need to earn some more spirit stones."

Thinking of this, Lin Chen had no choice but to stay in Yudai City for some more time.

Since we have finally come here, of course we have to squeeze all the value out of this city.

So, for the next half month, Lin Chen stayed in the inn and practiced peacefully.

Just send Long Ba and Feng Jiu out to sell elixirs and magic tools every day.

After half a month, the spirit stones he had accumulated finally reached 30,000.

Enough for his practice in the next hundred days.

At the same time, half a month of practice also allowed Lin Chen's cultivation to advance from the eighth level of foundation building to the ninth level of foundation building.

One more step forward, and the foundation will be complete, and you will be ready to form the elixir...

"The news of the destruction of the three robbery repairmen has spread throughout the markets of Yanlai City."

"It's time to prepare to go back to the sect and trade with Guangyuan Town on the black market..."

Lin Chen thought silently.

As time goes by, the opening of the ancient ruins that Jiang Liqian mentioned is getting closer and closer.

The next morning, Lin Chen left the city and summoned his flying sword to return to Changchun Gate.

After flying for a while, Lin Chen suddenly felt something was wrong.

Looking at the familiar mountains and forests around him, he murmured:
"Why does this place look familiar... I feel like I've just walked past it? Am I... lost?"

Lin Chen frowned. He had an excellent memory and was not a directionally challenged person. With the help of a cultivator's spiritual sense, he should not have gotten lost.

"Something's wrong. Changchun Gate should be in the south-east direction..."

Lin Chen stayed where he was for a moment, re-determined the direction, and continued flying on his sword.

After another half an hour, Lin Chen felt that he had climbed over several mountains and should have traveled hundreds of miles.

But, he returned to the place where he got lost before.

"Are you really lost? No...is this a maze?"

Lin Chen narrowed his eyes. The feeling of spinning in circles could only be explained by a maze...

"My identity was exposed, so I was targeted? Someone set up a maze to kill me?"

Lin Chen looked around, and according to his spiritual sense, he did not see any cultivators looking at him.

So he tried several more times, making basic marks, which took several hours.

After returning to the mountain, Lin Chen frowned slightly:
"I'm afraid I can't go back to Changchun Gate for the time being..."

"However, the scope of this maze is so large? In this case, let's try another direction..."

Lin Chen changed direction and prepared to return to Yudai City first.

However, this time he only flew for a few minutes before he saw Yudai City.

Controlling the flying sword to slowly descend, Lin Chen walked into Yudai City.

Looking at the bustling scene in the city, the passing cultivators, and the mortals who were completely unaware, Lin Chen became even more confused and surprised.

"So, I didn't leave the area of ​​Jade Belt City for the entire day?"

(End of this chapter)