Longevity starts with choosing Hextech enhancement

Chapter 142: Burning Sky Evil: You are clearly possessed by the evil spirit
After leaving Elder Chen's place, Xiao Chen made a detour and went to the Hall of Merit.

"Uncle Xiao, you're still short of ten contribution points."

"Well, let's use spirit stones to make up for it."

Xiao Chen took out twenty spirit stones to make up the difference and successfully exchanged for the "Fire-Absorbing Treasure Scroll".

He also flipped through the exchange book, which, like in the past, recorded a variety of things.

When he first saw this exchange book, he was filled with envy at the various good things.

But most of it seemed too ordinary to him now.

Not to mention the disciples, even the foundation-building cultivators from other sects are obsessed with rare second-level spiritual liquids, specially made top-grade magic weapons, Xuan-level and even Earth-level spells, and so on.

To him, it felt like a waste of time.

Xiao Chen remembered hearing Huang Haoran say once before that he chose to join the Demon Exorcist Temple and worked so hard to complete the mission.

The purpose is to accumulate contribution points as quickly as possible to exchange for a top-grade magical fireproof shield.

The rest of the foundation-building cultivators were similar, either seeking to acquire a top-grade magical weapon for themselves, or to obtain an earth-level spell for their family.

Only Xiao Chen is an exception.

With the help of Grandpa Su, he quickly passed the stage of high-grade magic weapons and obtained two top-grade magic weapons in one go.

By now, he has more top-grade magic weapons than high-grade ones.

He either doesn't value or has no use for these treasures that are seen as treasures by other foundation-building cultivators.

Return to Cuiwei Valley.

Xiao Chen was not in a hurry to practice the newly acquired "Nahuo Baolu", but came to the pavilion in the backyard, looked at the green water and green mountains, and thought about his next plan.

It is said that plans cannot keep up with changes, and he now feels this deeply.

At the beginning of the year, I had already thought about this year's practice arrangements.

As a result, he not only harvested the inner elixir but also obtained the secret method in Xuantian Fairy Palace. Now he has two more important things to do.

It is said that obtaining the inner elixir is complicated, and it is indeed complicated.

The most troublesome thing is that there are obviously people in the Cang Yan Sect who have bad intentions towards him. If he wants to obtain the inner elixir from them, normal channels will definitely not work.

Moreover, the means of taking by force are not advisable.

First of all, Xiao Chen thought that he was not the kind of person who would have no bottom line in order to obtain spiritual objects.

Secondly, doing so is very risky. If you are hit by a Jindan Zhenren, something bad will happen.

But it is simple to say, and it is actually simple.

According to Xiao Chen's current experience, many things can be obtained through resource exchange.

Sects are sects, and families are families.

The Cang Yan Sect is unwilling to sell the demon beast's inner elixir, but the Ji family or the Guo family may not think so.

Of course, there is a necessary prerequisite for doing this, which is that he has to offer a price that the other party cannot refuse.

Xiao Chen had previously learned from Elder Chen that the clouded leopard inner elixir in Hezhou was sold at a high price of 20,000 spirit stones.

“Oh, spirit stones, spirit stones, spirit stones!”

Xiao Chen sighed three times: "Spirit Stones are something I never seem to have enough to spend!"

"How about a windfall?"

In fact, if he was willing to give up two or three top-grade magic weapons, exchanging them for the inner elixir would be a piece of cake.

After all, for each family, the best magic weapon is a good thing that can be passed down from generation to generation, and it is a treasure that can truly suppress the family's fortune.

"Forget it, there's no rush to form a pill for now anyway."

"As for obtaining the inner elixir, let's wait until I have the spirit stones in my hand before discussing it."

Xiao Chen counted on his fingers the things he had not completed one by one.

"Let's put aside the matter of cultivating magic with the Eastern Region Spirit Pearl for now."

"Let's put aside the matter of collecting spiritual herbs to refine the Iron Bone Pill for now."

"There's no rush to research the demon soldiers for now. As for nourishing the spirit beads, I can spend another half an hour every night on it."

After taking stock of it this way, I feel that it’s actually okay. These things are not important and it’s okay to postpone them.

"Then the most important thing right now is to search for the evil spirit first."

Searching for evil spirits is as important as obtaining the inner elixir, because both methods can increase the success rate of forming the elixir.

Xiao Chen determined his target and continued to lean against the pavilion.

He re-sorted out the contents of "Xuantian's Secret Method of Taking Medicine" in his sea of ​​consciousness.

There are many kinds of evil energy on earth, each with its own characteristics.

Since he is only a foundation-building cultivator now, he can only refine the relatively mild evil energy of the five elements.

The evil spirits of the five elements only exist in certain places where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is scarce, but a certain attribute of one of the five elements is particularly strong.

This condition is quite harsh.

If you go out and search directly, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Xiao Chen thought about it, then went to the sect's main hall to pay a visit to Mei Yong and borrowed from him the sect's classics about the mountains, rivers and hydrology of Lizhou.

As one of the three major sects in Lizhou, Lihuo Sect has produced many predecessors who love to travel around the world over the past thousand years.

Their footprints were all over Lizhou, leaving behind fairly comprehensive records of Feng Shui.

With the help of these books, Xiao Chen can directly eliminate most areas and save 99% of his energy.

This seemingly ordinary accumulation and foundation is also one of the advantages of large sects.

Although Mei Yong didn't know what he was going to do, he saw him flipping through the map and gave him a few words of advice: "The direction of these mountains and rivers should not change easily."

"However, some of these records have been around for many years, so there may be slight deviations. If you find any new changes, please bring back the latest information."

"It will also help us identify deficiencies and make corrections in a timely manner to facilitate future generations."

Xiao Chen naturally agreed, it was just a small matter.

Using the sect map, he screened out six places where evil spirits might arise.

In order to make it easier for his successors, the Lord of the Immortal Palace left behind a secret method of observing the earth's evil spirits.

As long as the secret method of observing qi is used, the location and approximate number of all the evil qi in the area within a radius of twenty miles can be detected.

For the next month, he traveled around Lizhou non-stop.

On the way, I stopped at a butcher's house and sensed a bloody and evil aura.

After rushing over to check it out, he actually found a piece of blood jade.

Blood jade is a rare evil spiritual object, and is extremely valuable, especially to some demonic cultivators or cultivators with special needs.

If you can sell it on the black market, you can easily exchange it for several thousand spirit stones.

But apart from the blood jade, he worked hard for a month and got nothing.

I searched all over Lizhou but couldn't find the right five elements evil spirit.

Under normal circumstances, earning several thousand spirit stones a month would naturally be a happy thing.

But now, Xiao Chen is no longer happy.

As the saying goes, it's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.

If there were no evil spirits of the five elements, no matter how mysterious his "Xuantian Secret Method of Taking Medicine" was, it would be useless.

"I didn't expect that the conditions for the appearance of evil spirits would be even more demanding than I imagined."
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After searching the last location, Xiao Chen felt a little worried.

It has actually been recorded in secret techniques a long time ago that evil spirits are hard to find.

But when he actually walked on, he truly felt how outrageous the condition was.

In places where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is scarce, the spiritual power of the five elements is often even scarcer.

Even if there are some places where some five elements spiritual power can be gathered, they have all been consumed by various spiritual herbs, spiritual minerals or casual cultivators.

It can't be accumulated at all, let alone form evil energy.

"This is so difficult. Is there any evil spirit in Lizhou? Is there none at all?"

"I don't know how those demon cultivators found the evil spirit?"

Wait, a demon cultivator?
A sudden idea came to Xiao Chen's mind.

"Oh, right. Lizhou has experienced so many demonic disasters related to evil spirits. Where did the evil spirits of those demons come from?"

This is an extremely important key clue.

Xiao Chen immediately returned to the sect and found Mei Yong again: "Master, does the sect have any detailed records of the demonic disaster?"

Mei Yong was a little confused: "Of course there are, but the most recent demonic disaster was nearly a thousand years ago."

"Those are some old books, and they are quite messy."

"Junior Brother Xiao, what do you want those things for?"

Xiao Chen thought about it and pushed the issue back to the Demon Exorcist Palace affairs: "It's nothing, I've just been investigating demon cultivators recently and I'm quite interested in things related to demonic disasters."

A hint of doubt flashed in Mei Yong's eyes.

According to his understanding, this junior brother didn't seem to care much about the Demon Extermination Hall.

I heard from the disciples below that they can only see each other from a distance at the end of the month when they are required to pay their respects.

I guarantee you won’t encounter it again in the next month.

However, Mei Yong has always adhered to the philosophy of: eat radishes and worry about things, and enjoy peace by ignoring other people's affairs.

Since what Xiao Chen wanted was information about the demonic disaster, not cultivation resources, he was too lazy to delve into it.

He directly handed over the master's token: "These old materials are all on the top floor of the Sutra Library. I have something else to do here. Please go and look for them yourself."

Xiao Chen quickly took the token and said, "Thank you, Master Brother."

Due to the relatively long time intervals between the occurrence of the demonic disasters, even the Lihuo Sect only preserved a portion of the ancient books left by the predecessors.

The demonic disasters related to evil spirits have existed for far longer than the Lihuo Gate.

This naturally adds a lot of difficulty to finding relevant clues.

Fortunately, monks have a good thing called spiritual consciousness, so they don’t need to read carefully page by page.

Xiao Chen used his spiritual sense to scan the collection of books on the top floor and directly selected more than 500 ancient books containing the word "evil spirit".

Then I spent five days reading it through.

Finally, I found a relatively clear record in the vast ocean of books.

"I once set my heart on exploring the mysteries of the world. I traveled over ten thousand miles south and came to a basin. There were hot springs rising and mist swirling around. Then I saw a faint evil spirit lingering within."

Although this sentence is rather vague and does not directly point out the location.

But it not only points out the direction, that is, south of Lizhou, but also gives two key location features, namely the basin and the hot spring.

With these three conditions, finding it will be much easier.

Xiao Chen flipped to the title page and checked the year the travelogue was written: "It looks like this book was left behind at least 20,000 years ago."

"Hopefully, after these 20,000 years, the hot springs will still be there."

A month ago, he discovered that the flow directions of many rivers and streams had changed slightly compared to the records left behind hundreds of years ago.

Fortunately, he flew south on his sword and patiently searched for half a month before finally finding a basin with hot springs.

Xiao Chen hurriedly suppressed the sword light and used the secret method of observing qi to investigate.

I saw a beam of fire rising up in front of me, rushing towards the sky, as if it was going to set the entire sky on fire.

"This feeling is the Burning Sky Evil!"

Xiao Chen breathed a sigh of relief: "Great, I finally found it."

However, he soon realized something was amiss, as the flames were only visible in the southeast corner of the basin. "Eh, isn't the amount of evil spirits a little too small?"

This is a basin that naturally has the ability to gather energy.

After 20,000 years, there should be a basin full of evil energy accumulated here.

"not good!"

Xiao Chen immediately reacted: "There is a thief."

According to the terrain here, even if the amount of evil energy is insufficient, it should be evenly dispersed and not gathered together.

It's obvious that someone has come first and is already extracting the evil spirit.

Unless it is a special evil spirit like the blood jade, which has condensed into a physical object.

The evil energy from the earth, such as the five elements evil energy, is very slow to collect, and it often takes up to half a year or even a year to collect it all.

Xiao Chen quickly used the "Sealing Acupoints and Concealing Qi Technique" to conceal his own cultivation level.

Then he dived into the basin to find out who was competing with him for the evil spirit.

At this time in the basin, an old man was leading another strong man to collect evil spirits through a special gourd.

They did not have the "Xuantian Secret Method of Taking Medicine", so naturally they had no way and dared not absorb the evil spirit directly into their bodies. They had to use special magic tools to contain it.

Because of this, apart from taking turns to maintain the mana supply to the gourd, the two of them either practice or engage in boring chats during the rest of the time.

"Old Wang, I have now finished adding fuel to my Fire Crow. What do you think?"

"Xiao Qian, you are really amazing. At your age, it is not easy to achieve such a level of cultivation. When I was the same age as you, I had just barely reached the limit of cultivation."

"Hey, I'm stuck here all day, with nothing to do. Besides practicing magic, there's nothing else to do to relieve my boredom."

Qian Yong put away the fire crow and walked to the gourd beside him.

According to the task assigned to them by Luo Yunsanren, as long as they fill the gourd, they can go back.

It just so happens that those so-called evil spirits, which seem to fill a whole basin, actually melt instantly when they fall into the gourd.

Only a small amount can be collected in a month.

They have been here for more than a year, and they still need two months to collect a full gourd of evil spirits.

Qian Yong couldn't help but move closer to the gourd again to see how long it would take for it to be full.

"Be careful! You must not be exposed to this evil spirit. If you are even slightly infected, no one can save you."

Old Wang was not worried that Qian Yong would be infected by evil spirits, but he was worried that if Qian Yong died here, there would be no one to take his place.

Then he will have to do this hard job alone.

"Oh no, someone is coming!"

Old Wang's expression suddenly changed, and he felt that the magic mark left on his body was triggered.

Qian Yong was shocked when he heard this, and immediately used his spiritual sense to explore.

He heaved a sigh of relief immediately: "Oh, I thought it was nothing, just a Qi training cultivator who strayed into this place."

"It's a good opportunity to catch one and play with it, which can also help relieve boredom."

As he said that, he took out his flying sword and walked out.

"Confused!"

But Old Wang shouted loudly, stood up with a serious face, and stopped collecting evil energy.

He reached out and put the gourd away: "How can anyone who can come here be an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator?"

"There must be something wrong with this person. Let's go together."
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"Why should we be so cautious? Even if someone comes in the late stage of foundation building, what will happen?"

Qian Yong muttered, feeling very dissatisfied. With his abilities, ordinary cultivators in the late Foundation Establishment stage were no match for him.

If a real Jindan master really comes, he will just admit defeat.

The act of collecting evil spirits can be paused midway.

But if we want to get together again, we will have to waste more time, and we will have to stay in this damn place for another day.

In his opinion, this was nothing more than an excuse for Mr. Wang to be lazy.

This old guy is so cunning. Next time there is such a long-term mission, I must never go out with him.

Elder Wang consoled him, saying, "The Holy Religion's affairs are of great importance. I am doing this just for the sake of safety."

"Let's go together. Don't let him get away."

As they were talking, the two of them came to the outskirts of the basin. Relying on their perception of the magic mark, they surrounded Xiao Chen from the front and the back.

Maybe it's because I haven't seen other people for too long.

Qian Yong did not take action immediately. Instead, he took the initiative to show up and shouted, "Stop!"

Then he took a closer look and said with a grin, "Oh, he's still a pretty boy."

"That's right. You knew I was bored, so you came to my door to cheer me up."

While he was speaking, Old Wang on the other side had already taken his position. He first took out a magic shield and then set up a water curtain for himself as a defense.

After Xiao Chen realized that he had been discovered, he stopped pretending.

After scanning the area with his spiritual sense, he calmly asked, "Who are you? Who ordered you to come here to collect evil spirits?"

"Somewhat courageous."

Qian Yong looked at Xiao Chen, whose face was calm and showed no sign of panic, and his expression became serious: "Luo Tian True Fire!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a thousand black fire crows spread their wings and flew out from behind him.

In an instant, a super fire crow formation was formed.

Hey?
Luo Tianxuan Fire Crow?
Xiao Chen was a little surprised when he saw this. If he remembered correctly, even if the Black Fire Crow cultivated to perfection, it could only summon a hundred fire crows at most.

It was also because of the bonus of Hextech that he was able to break the limit and own a thousand fire crows.

What's going on on the other side?
But seeing the opponent's Luo Tianzhen Fire erupting, he had no time to think and directly released the Fire Treasure Gourd.

"receive!"

With his order, the surging Luo Tian True Fire was all collected into the magic gourd.

"What, this is impossible!"

Qian Yong's expression changed. He never expected that the Luo Tian Zhen Fire, which he was proud of, was instantly absorbed by the other party's magic weapon.

For the past thirty years, he has devoted almost all of his energy to practicing the Luotian Xuanhuo Crow technique.

Now that the fire attack is ineffective, it means that half of his methods are useless.

"Be careful of his gourd. It can not only absorb flames, but also spit them out again to attack the enemy."

Mr. Wang in the back suddenly spoke up to remind Qian Yong.

Then he looked at Xiao Chen with a puzzled look on his face: "This is the Su family's top-grade magical weapon, the Fire-hiding Gourd. Who are you to the Su family?"

Oh?
There is actually someone here who knows about the Fire Treasure Gourd.

Xiao Chen turned his head to look at Old Wang curiously. The man's hair and beard were all white, and he had begun to show obvious signs of aging.
This means that the other person is at least 180 years old.

He must be from the same era as Mr. Su. If that's the case, it's not surprising that he was recognized.

In fact, Mr. Wang had suffered a loss from the Fire Treasure Gourd when he was young, so he still remembers it vividly.

Seeing this top-grade magic weapon again at this time, I already had some hesitation in my heart.

But thinking of the instructions given by Luo Yunsan before he came, he hardened his heart and took out a three-inch long sword.

"Qian Yong, this kid is from an unusual background. Attack with all your strength and don't give him the chance to use his trump card!"

After saying that, Old Wang took the lead in spraying a mouthful of blood onto the small sword.

The bloody little sword, which was originally only three inches long, was shortened to just one inch.

Then it turned into a streak of blood and rushed straight to Xiao Chen's chest.

Qian Yong was dumbfounded when he heard the words "top-grade magic weapon" before. Now seeing Old Wang using his desperate trick, he did not dare to be negligent.

He immediately pulled out a specially made jade talisman from his bosom and threw it out. While chanting the incantation, he raised three fingers and pointed at something in the distance: "Change!"

The jade talisman immediately turned into a python as thick as a water tank and ten feet long.

Lingkong opened his bloody mouth and pounced towards Xiao Chen.

To be honest, although both are in the late stage of foundation building, their attack methods are far inferior to Lu Wuqiang.

Xiao Chen flipped his hands, took out a jade bowl with one hand and threw it backwards to block the small sword.

With one hand, he threw a tasseled handkerchief forward to stop the python.

This wave of attack was easily resolved.

Then he slapped his storage bag and took out his newly acquired Lotus Jade Ruyi and offered it up.

He stretched out his hand and pointed forward: "Go!"

Qian Yong never expected that Xiao Chen would start with two top-grade defensive magic weapons.

He was too arrogant before and thought that he could defeat Xiao Chen with just Luo Tian Zhen Fire.

Therefore, the defensive spell was not cast in time.

At this moment, he hurriedly recited the incantation, but it was already too late.

The jade ruyi hit his temple directly, and Qian Yong's brain burst on the spot, and he was deader than dead.

Then Xiao Chen took out the colorful golden bead, but he was not in a hurry to act.

Instead, he turned to look at Elder Wang behind him and said, "You are from the Luotian Sect, right?"

Without waiting for the other party to answer, he directly asked: "I ask again, who ordered you to come here to collect evil spirits?"

"If you tell me, I might let you go. If you don't, you'll end up like him."

Old Wang pretended not to hear and actually took out another identical small sword in his hand.

But this time, he took out the gourd containing the evil spirit first.

He quickly dipped the front half of the sword into the gourd, and then decisively spat out another mouthful of blood.

Xiao Chen had an idea, and the brocade handkerchief behind him flew out, blocking the small sword.

However, this time, the small sword was blocked.

But half of the invisible sword energy directly penetrated the heavy defenses in front of Xiao Chen and directly entered his dantian.

Xiao Chen immediately felt as if a raging fire rushed into his dantian, trying to burn away all his magic power and cultivation.

This symptom is obviously caused by evil spirit entering the body.

When Mr. Wang saw that he had succeeded, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Qian Yong, that loser, died too quickly. If this trick doesn't work anymore, he'll really have to run away.

Fortunately, since Xiao Chen was infected by the evil spirit, he no longer posed a threat.

"Seven Star Sword Technique - Kaiyang!"

A majestic and powerful sword light appeared.

Wang Lao's face turned pale at that moment: "You are clearly possessed by evil spirits, how come..."

Before he could finish, the sword flashed and split him in half.

Xiao Chen stepped forward, picked up the gourd and took a look: "It is indeed the Burning Sky Demon."

"These magical methods are really strange. Fortunately, I am more skilled than them."

Thanks to the protection of "Xuantian Secret Method of Taking Medicine", he was able to suppress the burning evil spirit in an instant.

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