Uncle Nine: Scattering beans to create soldiers? I'm using plants and trees to create soldiers.

It was late at night when we returned to the mortuary.

The surroundings were quiet; even the lights in the distant villages had been turned off.

Uncle Nine and Lin Xuan passed through the white mist outside the formation and stepped into the spirit field, where a rich water spiritual energy rushed towards them.

On the prayer mat beside the field ridge, Maoshan Ming, Qiusheng, and Wencai were still sitting cross-legged, their eyes closed, breathing out faint Daoist energy.

Hearing the footsteps approaching, the three of them stopped their practice and opened their eyes to look over.

"Master! Eldest Brother! You're finally back!"

Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai jumped up and quickly surrounded them.

Mao Shanming finished his practice and stood up. His gaze swept over the two men, and seeing that their robes were intact and their auras had not changed, he was relieved. "Senior brother, how did it go? Did you find those Li family water seeds?"

Uncle Nine stroked his beard and nodded calmly. "Found them. Following the clues, we found quite a few members of the Li family, and then we wiped out one of their branches."

Just casually... took it all?!

Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai looked at each other, dumbfounded.

Before you left, didn't you say you were just going to intercept and kill three water creatures? So, in the time it took you two to go for a stroll, you even wiped out their entire lair in the mountains!

Uncle Nine turned to the side, looked at Lin Xuan beside him, and smiled. "Xuan, let your Uncle Ming and the others open their eyes and see the spoils we've collected tonight."

"Okay, Master."

Lin Xuan grinned, raised his right arm, and flung his wide, dark blue Taoist robe at the large open space in front of the spirit field.

Hey, hey, hey.

One after another, heavy corpses crashed to the ground, neatly stacked in a row, numbering more than twenty. At the very front were the headless Fourth Elder and three Water Spirits covered in bluish-black scales.

Immediately afterwards, a dark wooden coffin covered with blue water talismans crashed to the ground.

Before the three could react, a series of crisp sounds rang out, and dozens of water spirit stones shimmering with a deep blue light piled up into a small mountain. Next to them were a dark blue-green clay statue of a dragon with a tortoise's body, seven dark red water-suppressing stones, and a palm-sized piece of dragon scales with fine golden veins.

Under the moonlight, the glowing spirit stones and the crimson bloodstones shimmered and dazzled the eyes.

All three people present stared wide-eyed, their mouths agape, wide enough to fit an egg.

Qiu Sheng swallowed hard, pointing at the things on the ground, his fingers trembling. "My goodness... Master, Senior Brother, you call this 'investigating the situation'? You've practically stripped someone naked!"

Wen Cai squatted down, drool practically dripping from his mouth, and reached out to touch the water spirit stone. "Good heavens, Senior Brother, your raiding skills are getting more and more ruthless! Last time at the Mud Immortal Sect, you wiped out their entire stronghold, and this time at the Li family, you probably even scraped the land back for them, right?"

With a snap.

Lin Xuan slapped away Wen Cai's groping hand and glared at him angrily. "What do you mean by 'confiscating a house'? I've already told you, this is called eliminating demons and protecting the righteous path, confiscating stolen goods! Look at your pathetic self, you're practically drooling over spirit stones!"

Mao Shanming stood to the side, his gaze fixed on the serpent's reverse scales and the water spirit stones scattered on the ground. His chest heaved violently. "These are... the scales of a great demon?! And so many water spirit stones and magical artifacts! Senior brother, Xiao Lin, your harvest this time is equivalent to the entire wealth of a small sect for a generation!"

Qiu Sheng's eyes lit up, and he shamelessly approached Lin Xuan, grinning broadly. "Senior Brother, with so many good things, does this mean we'll be able to cultivate a large number of top-grade spiritual plants again?!"

Just as Lin Xuan was about to speak, a sudden change occurred in the spirit field.

With a buzzing sound.

Not far away, the statue of the Well God, standing in the center of the Spirit Field Array, seemed to sense something and burst out with a fierce red light without warning.

A blinding crimson light shot into the sky, illuminating the entire spirit field in a fiery red.

The newly released bishi statue began to tremble violently, its surface emitting a harsh friction sound.

A crisp snapping sound.

A crack spread across the tortoise shell, and a dazzling red light emanated from the crack.

Immediately afterwards, thick, dark red essence blood was forcibly drawn out, turning into a dense blood mist that spread out like rivers flowing into the sea, drawn by an invisible force to the area around the Well God statue.

Lin Xuan's heart skipped a beat, and his breathing became rapid.

coming!

He went to great lengths to bring these things back, waiting for this very moment!

Uncle Nine, Qiu Sheng, and Wen Cai had already witnessed the Well God statue absorbing the blood of the Dragon Blood Jade before, so they remained relatively calm, simply taking a half step back to observe quietly.

But Maoshanming had never seen such a scene before.

Seeing a righteous deity statue devouring the blood mist, his eyes widened in shock. He instinctively reached for the magical artifact at his waist. "This... why is this statue sucking up living blood? Could it be possessed by evil spirits?!"

Uncle Nine raised his hand and pressed down on his shoulder, calmly saying, "Junior Brother, don't panic, this is a normal reaction from the statue."

Mao Shanming's lips twitched as he looked at the eerie red light, thinking to himself that this was nothing like normal.

At the same time, the seven dragon blood water-suppressing stones on the ground, the more than twenty corpses of the Li family members, and even the dark wood coffin all trembled slightly at this moment.

A soft snap.

A dragon blood-suppressing stone cracked first, and streams of essence blood power were forcibly drawn out as red threads, rapidly converging towards the statue of the Well God.

The corpses of the Li family members on the ground were visibly shriveling up.

The bluish-black scales on their bodies rustled, and the strange blood within them turned into a large cloud of blood mist that was continuously drawn to the area around the statue of the Well God.

Even the cracks in the dark wooden coffin were filled with wisps of blood mist, which merged into the sea of ​​blood.

All the blood mist converged into one place, transforming into a huge blood-red vortex that frantically poured into the statue of the Well God, causing it to emit a bright red light.

Lin Xuan immediately opened the panel of the Well God statue.

Above the panel, the deep blue color on the originally green name surface was becoming increasingly intense, spreading rapidly and gradually covering all the words.

Lin Xuan's heart was beating faster and faster, and his fists clenched involuntarily.

He knew very well that this was a sign that the quality was about to leapfrog a level, and the Well God statue was about to be promoted to blue quality.

Just then, the dragon's reverse scale, which had been lying quietly on the ground, suddenly trembled violently.

Immediately afterwards, the Reverse Scale floated up on its own, transforming into a streak of dark blue light that flew straight toward the statue of the Well God and hovered above the statue's head.

A snapping sound came from behind.

A series of cracking noises came from the side.

Lin Xuan looked up and saw that the green-quality Bishi statue had completely collapsed. The last trace of essence blood inside had been completely drained, and the divine aura on the statue had vanished, turning it into a pile of waste mud.

At the same time, the seven dragon blood water-suppressing stones shattered into lifeless rubble, all their internal power drained away.

Looking at the twenty-odd Li family members on the ground, their originally robust bodies rapidly emaciated, turning into skin and bones in the blink of an eye, along with the three water creatures that had turned into dried corpses.

At the same time, the dragon-snake's reverse scale, suspended in mid-air, trembled slightly, and strands of exceptionally pure, golden-glowing essence blood power emanated from the reverse scale, slowly drifting towards the well god statue below.

Seeing this, Lin Xuan couldn't help but feel nervous, his brows furrowing tightly.

Not right.

The Well God statue is currently only of green quality, so how can it forcibly absorb the energy of blue items?

If you ruin the reverse scale by absorbing it, wouldn't that be a huge loss?

After all, blue-quality items are extremely rare, and they even have the "Scale Armor Technique" inscription on them. If you keep them to enhance a spiritual plant, you can at least reliably obtain a blue-quality protective plant.

Wen Cai, watching from the side, shrank back and muttered to himself.

"Senior Brother, this statue has quite the appetite! It even wants to eat that precious scale?"

Lin Xuan remained silent, staring intently at the Reverse Scale in mid-air, his mind racing.

The statue's name was almost completely blue; now it was time to devour the essence blood of the blue reverse scale...

If the Well God statue absorbs this serpent's reverse scale and breaks through its limits with this immense power, wouldn't it have the potential to grow into a purple-quality item in the future?

If we could cultivate a purple statue that could control all the spirit fields and water veins, then this investment would be well worth it.

Thinking of this, Lin Xuan's breathing instantly became heavy, his heart pounded like a drum, and his eyes were filled with burning anticipation.

But before he could get excited for long, another unexpected event occurred.

As the domineering and unparalleled power of the dragon blood within the Reverse Scale continued to pour in, the blood mist inside the Well God statue completely filled it. The statue began to tremble violently, and the red and blue light on its surface intertwined and collided wildly, as if it were about to burst at any moment.

The next second, with a crisp crack, a glaring crack appeared on the statue.