I am a mortal who has achieved enlightenment through burning my secrets

Chapter 207 Strategy
In Bloodflame Mountain, there are two types of spirits that cannot awaken their intelligence. These spirits have not yet formed a primordial spirit or essence, so they are extremely docile yet possess a certain degree of spirituality. Furthermore, they can merge with the puppet's body. Therefore, they are used extensively by the Earth Blood Old Monster to refine puppets.

These spirits are simply too adorable! They have no primordial spirit or essence! That means they can be used to mass-produce Dharma bodies. Although their aptitude is mediocre, there's plenty of them—enough to satisfy any appetite!
However, his "power" was limited; after capturing a few Earth Blood Monsters, he was forbidden from capturing any more. Now, he was waiting for his true form to arrive so he could drive away the Earth Blood Monsters and then move Bloodflame Mountain away. His secret techniques weren't so easy to obtain.

To his great regret, the Earth Blood Monster has now also obtained this secret technique, making it much more difficult to completely destroy him. The accumulation of hundreds of thousands of years in Bloodflame Mountain has now been almost completely exhausted.

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It is said that the Abyss has seven layers, each much larger than the one before it. But even so, the first layer is by no means small. At the Silver Dragon King's flying speed, it would take him almost a whole day to reach the second layer.

Moreover, this place can suppress divine sense, so even his divine sense can only explore a distance of a hundred feet.

Fortunately, the Lei Huang Eye was effective enough that my vision was hardly affected.

They encountered monsters along the way, but before they could even get close, Gu Yuena annihilated them with a single breath of dragon fire.

"Master? It seems we've come to the wrong place. Why is this a desert?"

Looking at the path, which was completely different from the one on the map, Gu Yuena raised a question.

"Ignore it and keep moving!"

Xiao Wuji naturally knew the reason for this strange change, but he was too lazy to care. He might even need to use their power to take a stroll in the Forbidden Land of the Mayflies.

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The second level of the Abyss, the Forest of Decaying Leaves!

In the original story, Han Li found several Netherflame Fruits here, so he naturally wouldn't miss such an opportunity.

Although it wouldn't be difficult to keep Bai Bi and Lei Lan by my side, the Flying Spirit Clan's trial only lasts for three months. In order to ensure the independence of the Sky Roc Clan, it's better to send them out as soon as possible.

After spending half a day in the decaying leaf forest, they finally found three Netherflame Fruits, but how to safely send the two back became another problem.

Gu Yuena was very fast, leaving many of the Flying Spirit Clan members behind. This meant that if they went forward, they might be fine, but if they turned back, they would face the Flying Spirit Clan's army of holy sons.

Given their strength, wouldn't that be tantamount to suicide? So we need to send someone to escort them back, but who should we send?

"It's you I've decided on—Ma Xiaotao!"

Ma Xiaotao possesses the Phoenix Martial Soul. Although her bloodline level on the Douluo Continent is pitifully low, she has a pair of wing-like external soul bones. When necessary, she can completely impersonate the Flying Spirit Clan so as not to expose her alien identity in front of other branch holy sons.

Ma Xiaotao inherited the divine positions of the Phoenix God and the Fire God respectively, comprehended the Law of Fire, and her Qi Refining cultivation has reached the late stage of the Myriad Manifestations realm. Her Body Refining cultivation is slightly weaker, but it has still reached the mid-stage of the Myriad Manifestations realm.

If it weren't for the fact that the limits of Douluo Continent are fixed, her strength might even be above his own, after all, she is also a person of hundreds of thousands of years old.

However, being confined by the Douluo Continent, she has no powerful magical treasures to speak of, and she has never even cultivated the supernatural powers of the Eternal World. Now, she only knows some immortal secret techniques and supernatural powers that can be used with just magic power.

In this situation, he might be able to defeat other holy sons in a one-on-one fight, but it wouldn't be so safe against several opponents. And there simply isn't enough time to refine the magical artifact.

"Take this Fire God Banner and use it first. The divine powers on it are enough for you to fight your enemies!" After thinking it over, Xiao Wuji had no choice but to hand over the Fire God Banner to her. She had inherited the position of the Fire God and was naturally familiar with this "divine artifact". She only needed to refine it a little to use it.

The Fire God Banner is sealed with the divine power of the Crimson Emperor's Fire Sovereign, making it far too easy to deal with these holy sons.

In addition, Xiao Wuji gave Lei Lan a portable cave dwelling so that Ma Xiaotao could hide there.

After seeing the three off, Xiao Wuji did not set off immediately. Instead, he left behind a Three Thousand Thunder Illusion Body on this level and also left behind the Five Elements Demon Demon Art, which was refined by the Five Elements Demon Art. With the help of this magic weapon, dealing with those holy sons who were at most at the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm would be a piece of cake.

Having done all that, he began to focus all his efforts on heading deeper into the abyss.

The first two levels of the Abyss were completely devoid of anything that could threaten him, but from the third level onwards, up to the sixth level, each level was guarded by a powerful demon king.

Even without using his divine weapon, he must proceed with extreme caution.

Meanwhile, having left Xiao Wuji, Bai Bi and Lei Lan began their return journey along the same path. Had they not been converted, they might have lingered for some reason. But now that they had been completely converted, they valued Xiao Wuji's instructions more than their own lives, so how could they possibly act half-heartedly?

The two remained silent, focusing solely on moving forward. However, since neither of them had cultivated any eye techniques, their vision was severely impaired in the darkness, slowing them down by more than half compared to their initial pace.

Fortunately, Gu Yuena had already cleared the way they came, so as long as they didn't take a wrong turn, they were unlikely to encounter any unexpected dangers.

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On the other side, Xiao Wuji finally arrived at the third floor.

Compared to the previous two levels, this third level exerts a much stronger suppression on divine sense, and its range is also much wider. Finding the abode of that demon king has become a major problem.

If he remembered correctly, the demon king on this level was named Mu Qing, a manifestation of a wood spirit. Although he, like Ah Yin, was a plant-based being, his path of cultivation was completely different. It seemed that only his primordial spirit manifested, but his physical body remained immobile.

If Xiao Wuji can find this demon king, he can use the Six Desires Furnace to convert her, and then, with the help of the teleportation array she controls, he can directly reach the fifth level of the Abyss. At the same time, he can also gain a sexy beauty with the cultivation level of a Nascent Soul cultivator and a legitimate opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

If he could follow Mu Qing as a hostage deep into the Abyss, probably no one would be too wary of such an "ordinary" Nascent Soul cultivator.

At most, it's just to prevent him from escaping, so we'll leave one or two marks behind.

However, his inability to find him doesn't mean he has no way to lure him out. He believes that as long as he slightly damages a few of the giant spirit flowers used in the "sacrifice," he can easily "fish" Mu Qing out. Then, he only needs to pretend to be weak and use some exorcising divine thunder, and he can easily become Mu Qing's "honored guest."

Thinking of this, Xiao Wuji felt extremely regretful. He had encountered several giant spirit flowers along the way, so why hadn't he thought of this idea? If he had made his move on the second level, he would probably already be in Mu Qing's cave by now.

With his left hand, he formed a hand seal in his sleeve, and stacks of paper flew out from Xiao Wuji's sleeve, landing on the ground and transforming directly into yellow figures that were two or three inches tall.

These paper figures were created by him by combining puppetry techniques with the original paper figure technique. They do not require the separation of souls to reside in them. Instead, they are made from demon souls. Although they have no intelligence, they can understand some simple commands.

He transmitted the image of the Giant Spirit Flower Demon to the paper figures and then directly ordered them to search for it.

(End of this chapter)