Immortal Road.

Chapter 553: Tianhe Water Bucket, Swallowing Star Spy

Tianfu Mountain, back mountain.

"Is this the soul-tempering method of Hades Water? It's really powerful!"

A training pool with a radius of thirty-three meters.

It was filled with water from the River Styx taken from the murky swamps of the Larch Mountains. White spots appeared in the sunlight, adding a touch of mystery to the dark blue color.

Lin Shan sat cross-legged in the pool with his bare chest, the water level just covering his abdomen, and the water around him surged towards the center from all directions like a tide.

Every time it passed over his body, his skin turned pale instantly, and then the blood rose up and turned it deep red. Wisps of white smoke that looked like steam but was actually cold air floated out from the top of his head.

If you listen carefully, you can hear a subtle crisp sound of "crackling".

Lin Shan was enduring unspeakable pain.

It felt as if my entire body was being boned with knives and as if countless tiny needles were pricking me.

As he gritted his teeth and endured it, his whole body trembled, and he actually felt a little sour!
"The Art of Tempering the Body with Dark Water" is a secret technique of the demon race to strengthen their bodies. It is very rough for humans and the process is extremely painful.

However, once you can get through it, you will feel that your bones and flesh are being repeatedly washed, and are tightly reorganized in a strange arrangement, becoming tough.

This secret body-building technique has a total of four levels, corresponding to the demon race's Qi training stage, foundation building stage, golden elixir stage, and Nascent Soul stage.

The first two levels were very easy to practice, because Lin Shan already had the foundation of the three Dharma bodies and golden bodies, so he could advance quickly. He completed all of them in less than three months.

But when it comes to the third level, the difficulty suddenly increases.

After practicing for half a year, he knew he had to slow down.

As the saying goes, more haste, less speed.

Physical training is inherently a process that hurts the body. It requires a gradual approach to improving physical strength by destroying your body and overdrawing your potential.

If necessary, take medicated food to neutralize, regulate and relieve relaxation.

Otherwise, if you use the Nether Water for flushing for a long time, the Nether Cold Energy will accumulate and cause illness, leaving hidden injuries in every hidden corner, which will be very troublesome to expel in the future.

Brother Ji perfected the third level by slowly taking time and accumulating it bit by bit over a period of thirty years.

As for the fourth level, it not only requires the water of the Styx of level five or above, but also requires corresponding cultivation support, which is not something that can be controlled by the Jindan stage.

The Styx water they collected from the Murky Swamp was overly diluted and only at the level of fourth-grade spiritual fluid. Its limit was that it was effective for secret arts within the third level.

Now that Lin Shan has initially mastered the third level, he can only stop for the time being and wait for the long haul.

For him, body training is just another means, not the main task at this stage.

Because just by training the body, it is impossible to train the body to the level where it can withstand magic weapons.

Under the same circumstances, half of the factors in a physical head-on confrontation are the density between the two objects!
How great is the density of a magic weapon? How great is the density of the human body?
Even among the demon race, I have never heard of any Jindan stage cultivator being able to resist magic weapons. This is simply unrealistic.

However, the benefits of body training are reflected in all aspects, not only toughness and durability, but also spell resistance, gravity resistance, poison resistance, recovery speed and so on.

Sometimes a tiny advantage is enough to help secure victory or even save a life!

High-level monks have long lifespans, and if they can develop in all aspects, everyone would want to become a hexagonal warrior to make up for all their shortcomings.

End of body training.

Lin Shan stood up, put on his clothes, came to the side of the training pool, took out another magic weapon and began to practice.

This is the spoils obtained from the Ming Snake Demon King.

【Tianhe Bucket】

Quality: Magical weapon

Introduction: Made of the fifth-level spiritual material black true water iron, it contains thirty-six levels of magic prohibitions, which can lock, cut off, and collect the enemy's magic weapons. It contains the water source of the twelfth branch and the 7,370th tributary of the Celestial River in the Immortal Realm, which can gather water spirit energy to create the water of the Celestial River.

Enhancement required: 64 points

The Ming Snake Demon King relied on this ancient treasure to almost take away Lin Shan and Zhong Shenxiu's top magic weapons and control and block the entire scene. It should be the most precious thing in his collection.

Among them is a 'water source'.

Similar to the evil seeds of evil spirits, the demon seeds of demonic energy, the spiritual eyes of spiritual springs, etc., they can gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and transform it into corresponding temporary liquids.

Water from the Milky Way!

Tianhe, it is said, hangs high above the ninth heaven of the fairy world.

It is vast and boundless.

In the heavenly court, there is even a powerful organization called 'Tianhe Navy', and every heavenly soldier and general in it is the elite among the elite.

The water source in Lin Shan's hands has been diluted into countless tributaries. It is far from having the charm of the water from the Milky Way, but it is also rare enough in the mortal world.

This ancient treasure is Lin Shan’s fourth ancient treasure besides the Dingsha Five Elements Bell, Fengbo Pavilion, and twelve complete sets of Ming Snake Tushita Flags!

While ordinary Jindan stage cultivators were still struggling for magic weapons, he was already using ancient treasures. The gap was extremely huge!
"I think it should be enough to go to Yuxing Secret Treasure to fight with my good brother for the inheritance!"

He knew that as the second generation of the demon, Young Master Jiuyou must have a lot of good stuff on him, but after so much improvement, he would not be far behind in being fully armed.

After the Tianhe water bucket is completely refined and can be released freely.

He also took out the two Ming Snake Tushita flags that Sailor Moon had returned to him.

This set of treasures now finally has twelve flags complete, which can be said to be a complete set of top-level magic weapons!
Because it is made from the body of the Ming Snake Demon King, it is not an exaggeration to call it an ancient treasure.

The same sacrifice was made by Yu Xin, and it was put together with the other ten flags, and finally it was completed.

The complete version of the Ming Snake Demon Formation can finally be used!

When thinking of the Ming Snake Demon King, there was one thing he had to mention, which gave him a headache.

That is the infant of the Ming Snake Demon King. Originally, they brought it back with the intention of interrogating it first to find out where the wealth that the python leader of its hometown had not had time to transfer is.

But before he could do anything, he was taken away by the Demon King of the Insect who came to look for him.

It seems that I can only say sorry to Zhong Shenxiu and Shui Bingyue in the future. They will not have the chance to get this unexpected fortune.

Fortunately, he received compensation from the Insect Demon King in the form of a pass token and an insect nest.

Take out the Melt Nest.

Nine months ago, he placed a large number of black beetle and rhinoceros beetle eggs into it, hoping to experience what kind of surprises this insect nest could bring him.

The space inside the insect nest is very large and is divided into many sections.

After all, it is the treasure that the Insect Demon King uses to carry the Zerg army with him, and there is even a special transformation room for the Insect King in the center!
There is also a small pool inside, filled with sparkling liquid.

Lin Shan used the enhanced panel to identify it as a rare high-level insect breeding spirit liquid, something he had never even heard of!

It is very likely that the Insect King had not used up all of them, so the Insect Demon King directly packed them all up and gave them to himself.

He didn't dare let Xiaodie in, for fear that this little ancestor would cause all the trouble in one breath.

The eggs in the other compartments have all hatched, and densely packed black beetles are eating insect food, on the road to self-reproduction and evolution.

The number of rhinoceros beetles is slightly smaller, but their progress is much more advanced. Some have already started fighting with each other and devouring their own kind!

Among them, there were a few large ones with purple spots on their golden shells. Lin Shan didn’t know whether this was a mutation.

However, it is still very weak and is far from being able to provide any help to myself.

Lin Shan didn't care. He just needed to keep it and let fate decide how it turned out. He didn't need it for the time being.

As for the stone egg brought back by the three Black Skull Demon Lords, it was still lying quietly in a corner, motionless and lifeless. Lin Shan had no time to think about it.

He waved his hand and a sound transmission note flew over.

The voice inside was that of Li Yuanjie, the head of the Intelligence Department under his command.

"Master, there are changes in Guodi, Jin State!"

Lin Shan suddenly stood up, sealed off the place with a formation, and left the back mountain.

Qianshan, Information Hall.

"Tell me, how many people are there on your trip, and how long is the deadline given to you!"

Li Yuanjie is interrogating several spies who were recently captured.

These spies were all native people of Lu.

They take money from others and do things for them, and they have no idea who the financial backers of the tasks are. They just get the business on the black market anyway.

There is only one mission: Investigate the recent whereabouts of the ancient leader Lin Shan!

But no matter how much you investigate, there will always be mistakes.

Not to mention that the Lujiang River Basin can be said to be Lin Shan’s home turf. If we investigate him, there is a chance that we will be discovered, and then the people from the Intelligence Hall will track him down and capture him.

"Senior, there are eight of us in total. Except for Wu Lao Er who ran away, the others are all here! What they want is your leader's whereabouts in the past six months!"

The prisoners answered truthfully, trembling with fear and begging for mercy.

He only took jobs on the black market in order to survive, and he did not have the courage to go against the Xun Gu Sect.

"Did you find anything?"

Lin Shan walked in from outside, and a large part of the sunlight at the door was blocked.

Li Yuanjie signaled the disciples around him to take the captives away, and only reported to Lin Shan after everyone had left.

"Master, this is the fifth group of people to be arrested recently!"

"Three months ago, a new secret mission appeared on the black market to investigate your recent whereabouts. We didn't take it seriously at first, because there have always been many forces that want to investigate your recent situation."

"They don't dare to expose themselves, so they can only post a reward on the black market and ask locals in the Lujiang River Basin to search for intelligence."

"Our Intelligence Department has always introduced anti-reconnaissance measures, which is to deliberately accept missions and then provide false information to receive rewards, so as to slowly get closer to revealing who is the mastermind behind the scenes."

"The problem is that while we were pretending to infiltrate, we actually got the elixirs and magic tools from the Jin Kingdom from the sponsor who issued the mission!"

Li Yuanjie was born in Guo State, a vassal state of Jin State. He was very familiar with the things there. When he saw the items from his hometown, he couldn't help but become suspicious.

There are many forces investigating the leader, they could be merchants in northwest Shandong, big forces outside the Lujiang River basin in western Shandong, or even the Shangyang Academy, but why would someone come from the Demonic Path?

He repeatedly sent people to play the role of others, get close to them, sell false information and gain their trust. Finally, by chance, the spy heard some words about the origins of this group of people.

It actually came from the evil sect of Jin State!

In order to better relieve the leader's worries, Li Yuanjie decisively led a large number of disciples from the Intelligence Hall, rushed into the black market and wiped out those guys.

In general, large-scale fights are not allowed in cultivation markets or immortal cities.

Unless the local managers can't handle it.

Wangyue City was destroyed by the ancestor of the Dai family in the past. If it weren’t for the ancestor of the Yang family taking the lead, they wouldn’t have said a word!
The fierce battle between Chixiao City and Happy Forest was also because the local local leaders did not have the strength to maintain order and could only become a springboard for foreign forces.

Xun Gu Sect is now in its heyday. Which force in the Lujiang River Basin dares not to give face? They can only accept it with a pinch of their noses, and they have to take the initiative to conceal it for them, fearing that it will affect the reputation of their own market.

Unfortunately, the cleanup ended in failure.

Not a single one was caught alive.

Because all those who lurked in from the Demonic Kingdom were death warriors. When they saw the situation was not good, they committed suicide decisively to avoid falling into the hands of the enemy and being tortured or having their souls searched.

Later, Li Yuanjie carefully analyzed these people and the storage space and recognized that they should be the assassins of his old enemy, the Star-Swallowing Sect!
If it were someone else, the clues might have been cut off, but Li Yuanjie knew so much about the Star-Swallowing Sect that he was able to find some clues.

There is more than one wave of people from the Star-Swallowing Sect sent to the State of Lu!
The other routes are also very hidden. They are basically not connected to each other and act independently to avoid being implicated in the same incident.

After further investigation, it was discovered that several more espionage activities had surfaced, and they were also hiding behind the scenes and using local stand-ins to gather intelligence.

"You mean, the Star Devouring Gate noticed me?"

Lin Shan was a little bit surprised.

He had always secretly asked Li Yuanjie to pay attention to the Star-Swallowing Gate and had never exposed himself, but how did they know him?
Could it be that Li Yuanjie was exposed?
"I have changed my ways since I came to Lu. Even if they come to Xun Gu Sect, they will definitely not recognize me. There must be another reason."

Lin Shan nodded and didn't dwell on it.

If Li Yuanjie's identity had not been exposed, then there was another possibility, that it was the work of his good brother, Young Master Jiuyou.

But what puzzled him was, how did Young Master Jiuyou know that he also coveted Yuxing's secret treasure?
"What is the main purpose of their investigation?"

Li Yuanjie could only utter four words, with uncertainty in his tone.

"It seems to be a celestial body?"

"The Zhoutian Star Body has finally been found!"

Night falls on a stone cave platform in the middle of a cliff on the mountainside.

An old man with purple hair and a pouty mouth looked up at the full moon and countless stars in the sky. He couldn't help feeling happy, and his heart was filled with a long-lost excitement.

His body was translucent, floating lightly above the ground. At first glance, he looked like a wild ghost in the mountains.

Those two greedy little guys from the Star-Swallowing Sect actually found a clue for themselves!
He has been waiting for this moment for too long!

Because it is a spirit weapon, it cannot be exposed to the outside world and can only hide in the deep mountains and forests, waiting for the secret treasure of Yuxing to be opened so that it can deal with humans breaking in from the outside world.

Hard work pays off. As long as it can take over the Zhoutian star body, then it can truly become a human being!
"Try every possible means to trick the Zhoutian Star Body into the Yuxing Secret Treasure. I will never treat you unfairly."

A sound transmission note disappeared in an instant, along with a roll of oil paper wrapped in something.

(End of this chapter)