Longevity starts with choosing Hextech enhancement

Chapter 234: Avoiding the Storm and Getting the Evil Spirit: Crossing the Ash Sea and Encountering a Strange Snake
After organizing the storage ring, Xiao Chen continued to refine his true essence on the island with the help of the Yuan Dan.

Two days passed like this, and the fog blocking the road ahead finally dissipated, revealing the blue sea.

But one problem after another arises.

After walking about 150,000 miles, the clear sky gradually became dim and was covered by continuous dark clouds.

"I can't be so unlucky that I'm caught in another thunderstorm right after I came out, right?"

Xiao Chen looked ahead and saw that the area of ​​thousands of miles ahead was becoming increasingly gloomy as he went deeper into the area.

In fact, thunderstorms themselves are not a big problem for monks.

Generally speaking, if you see any abnormal celestial phenomena, you can avoid them in advance.

Unless it's intentional, few people would take the risk of heading headfirst into a thunderstorm.

Specifically at the moment, Xiao Chen is more worried about the thunderstorm disturbing the high-level marine fish in the surrounding area.

Once faced with such a situation, being surrounded by a large number of Jindan sea fish without a place to stay, or encountering Yuanying sea fish, would be extremely dangerous.

"Going back and waiting isn't a good idea, let's just take a detour."

Xiao Chen didn't want to go back to the island and wait.

Firstly, the duration of a thunderstorm is uncertain and it may move, so the small island behind may not be safe.

Secondly, his escape speed is much faster than that of ordinary Jindan, so taking a detour is faster than staying where he is and waiting.

So Xiao Chen turned around, stuck to the edge of the dark clouds, and headed southeast.

"Boom!"

Huge lightning fell straight from the sky, and the powerful oppressive feeling could be felt from thousands of miles away.

The Eastern Region generally divides thunderstorms into three levels: large, medium and small according to their danger levels.

Xiao Chen estimated that this should be a large-scale thunderstorm of the highest level.

In the face of such might of heaven and earth, Jindan cultivators can only look up, and Yuanying cultivators can only hang around on the periphery.

Perhaps only the legendary incarnation cultivators have the ability to approach and pass through the core area.

"Hey, what is that?"

Xiao Chen suddenly saw that in the distance, amid the purple and white lightning, a huge figure seemed to jump out of the sea.

But it was suppressed by lightning in an instant.

Many guesses suddenly appeared in his mind.

Wow, could it be a divine monster?

It can be seen from such a distance, it must be tens of thousands of feet big, right?
There are not many monsters of such huge size. Could it be the legendary Kunpeng?
"Boom~!"

More lightning flashed, and the interlaced lightning dazzled people's eyes. In addition, the distance was too far, and it was impossible to see what was happening tens of thousands of miles away.

If you want to know the truth, you have to go there.

However, as the ancients said, curiosity kills the cat.

So Xiao Chen honestly withdrew his gaze and walked away in the opposite direction at a faster pace.

We’ll explore the situation over there later.

In the blink of an eye, several days passed.

The distant lightning had long since vanished, and a heavy rain had fallen. Then, the sky was as clear as a cloud for thousands of miles, without a single cloud in sight.

It was the 16th day of the eighth month. The full moon hung in the sky like a white jade plate, casting a silver glow.

"Hiss~, where am I?"

Xiao Chen looked in the direction of the moonlight and saw a misty light fog floating where the sea and sky met in front of him.

When I got a little closer, I realized that it was not a light fog, but a group of purple algae floating on the sea and swaying with the waves.

This algae colony is endless, covering an area of ​​at least a thousand miles.

Faint spots of light lit up at the tips of the algae leaves, like stars falling into the sea, attracting piles of small fish chasing them back and forth.

Xiao Chen silently increased the distance between the flying sword and the sea surface, just in case.

He is not like those small fish. He deeply understands that in the world of cultivating immortals, the more beautiful things are, the more likely they are to bring danger, including people.

So now, when encountering such a strange sight, while admiring it, I actually became a little more vigilant.

After walking about a thousand miles, a weeping willow tree that was six meters high appeared on the sea.

It stretched out tens of thousands of willow branches and stuck into the sea surface.

Under those willow branches, there were densely packed seaweeds, especially those deep in the water, which almost merged into one.

"A willow tree growing on the sea?"

Xiao Chen was a little surprised. Isn't this location a bit strange?

"Wow~!"

Just as he stopped to watch curiously, the sound of water was heard below.

Looking down, I saw that it was a sea fish that was at the late Jindan stage. The front half of its body had been entangled by the willow roots, and it was desperately swinging its tail.

Unfortunately, it didn't take long before it was completely covered by the purple algae and turned into nutrients.

"What a good thing! This must be considered a fourth-level spiritual wood!"

Xiao Chen looked at the willow tree and said seriously that if he could pack up the whole thing and take it away, it should be no problem to sell such a big tree for 18 million spirit stones.

But in a sense, this willow tree should also be considered half a Nascent Soul.

The level of the sea fish just now was not low, but it had no ability to fight back.

It can be seen that this willow tree is quite fierce, and he is not really sure that he can win at the moment.

"Alas, Nascent Soul."

Xiao Chen felt a little regretful. If he had reached the Nascent Soul stage, he could have picked up a spiritual object for free today.

But the problem is that there is none, so I can only note down the approximate location and leave it for later.

He was originally ready to continue on his journey, but just as he was about to leave on his sword, he saw a tree root emerging from the sea.

In an instant, it jumped up hundreds of feet and headed straight towards him.

You know, in order to ensure safety, Xiao Chen was more than three hundred feet away from the sea.

However, the roots were too long, dozens of times longer than the main body of the weeping willow tree.

"boom!"

The Qiongtai Fire Lotus that bloomed in time shook and was directly shattered into pieces across twenty-four layers. A large number of broken flames fell from the sky like rain, igniting many seaweeds.

For a moment, flames rose above the sea, which was a spectacular sight.

However, more tree roots ignored the raging fire, shot up into the sky and surrounded from all directions.

"True Yang Fire Dragon!"

Xiao Chen shouted softly, and a huge fire dragon appeared, blocking the roots that rose one after another below him.

At the same time, he immediately moved upwards, trying to get away from the strange willow tree below.

As if sensing that its prey was about to escape, a branch from the weeping willow suddenly stretched out from the sea and pointed straight into the air.

Its speed is far beyond the limit of Jindan cultivators.

In an instant, it caught up with Xiao Chen and entangled itself on the fire lotus.

Just this one willow branch was enough to stop his movements.

There is no doubt that this is not only a Nascent Soul level weeping willow, but it is very likely that it has reached the late Nascent Soul stage.

But there is good news. The willow tree does not seem to be in consciousness or does not care too much about the battle.
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Perhaps for it, this is just a routine hunting.

For Xiao Chen, this was his chance to break free.

Crossing the open sea in the flesh is extremely dangerous, so it is best to keep the Night's Edge if you can avoid using it.

So he immediately summoned the Wind and Thunder Swords: "Sharp Qi Chasing the Clouds!"

This was thanks to Xiao Chen's nourishment in the Life Pill during this period, as well as the effectiveness of the Tianqing Sword Washing Leaf.

The power of the wind and thunder sword was even greater than that in the previous ruins, and it directly cut off the willow branch from under him.

The half of the willow branch wrapped around it was disconnected and immediately lost its strength and became loose.

But in just a short while, three more layers of the Qiongtai Fire Lotus were shattered.

If Xiao Chen hadn't had a hundred times the strength, he would have been tied up by now.

"Crack~!"

However, the weeping willow did not give up. The severed branch suddenly jumped up again.

But he did not choose to repeat the same trick and continued to tie and entangle.

Instead, it squirmed irregularly, and then a small amount of evil energy spurted out from the middle, heading straight towards Xiao Chen.

Facing the invasion of evil spirit, both the Qiongtai Fire Lotus and the Ghost Face Mysterious Light Shield seemed to have become decorations.

The bright and dazzling mysterious light that protected the body seemed to be non-existent, allowing the evil spirit to penetrate directly.

"Ok?"

Feeling the evil spirit entering his body, Xiao Chen was stunned for a moment. Then, without waiting for the evil spirit to take effect, he skillfully activated the "Xuantian Secret Method of Taking Medicine" to refine it on the spot.

"Hiss~, this feeling is the Yin Wood Evil!"

As the secret technique worked, he immediately identified the type of evil spirit.

His eyes suddenly lit up and he looked at the willow tree below.

This is not enough!

Ordinary cultivators would never dare to seek benefits from the Nascent Soul Tree Demon, but Xiao Chen has Hextech to protect his body.

Although the Night's Edge cannot be used lightly, now is undoubtedly the right time.

With this confidence, he immediately stopped in mid-air. Not only did he not keep his distance to avoid it, but he moved a little closer to the willow branch.

"Chi~!"

A stream of evil energy once again spewed out from the broken willow branch as a means of attacking its prey.

Under normal circumstances, its prey cannot absorb the evil spirit, but will die quickly under the erosion of the evil spirit.

At that time, as long as it is absorbed in time, the used evil energy can be recovered, and there will be almost no loss.

However, this time, it is going to miscalculate.

Not only did Xiao Chen complete the collection in an instant, he even took the initiative to approach again, wanting to obtain more evil energy.

It’s not enough, give me some more!
Noticing that the prey was still moving, Willow hesitated for a moment in a humane way, as if wondering why this prey was different.

Based on previous hunting experience, spraying twice should be enough for a mutant sea fish that has reached the great perfection of the Golden Core.

But it was born at sea after all, and has acted on instinct for thousands of years.

So after a brief hesitation, he still proceeded as planned and spewed out a stream of evil energy, trying to corrode his prey.

"Not enough, still not enough, absolutely not enough!"

A lot of Yin Wood Seals are needed to condense, and doing it in small amounts is too slow.

Xiao Chen simply lunged forward and grabbed the willow branch.

He used all his strength to activate the "Xuantian Secret Method of Taking Medicine" to actively draw out the evil spirit from the willow branches.

"Oh, it feels good!"

A steady stream of evil energy was drawn into the body, and then, under the guidance of the secret technique, fell into the dantian, gradually converging to form the outline of the mark.

"Bang~!"

The willow branches sensed something was amiss and immediately put up a fight. Specifically, they mobilized more willow branches to soar into the air and tie Xiao Chen up like a dumpling.

Then dozens of willow branches were aimed at him at the same time, instantly spewing out dozens of times more evil energy.

Based on past experience, this trick is very useful, enough to pose a threat to the Nascent Soul-level sea fish that occasionally pass by and want to eat trees. It is the Willow Demon's ultimate killer move.

"Okay, okay, let the evil spirit come more violently!"

Xiao Chen's face immediately lit up with joy. He was only afraid of one thing, which was that the total amount of evil energy stored in this weeping willow tree was too little.

With such abundant supply, it only took a dozen breaths of time.

A brand new Yin Wood Seal was successfully condensed in his Dantian.

"It's not easy. I'm a cultivator with wood spiritual roots, and I can be considered to have wood-attributed evil spirit."

This is already the fourth kind of evil spirit that Xiao Chen has collected. From now on, when he practices wood-based spells, he can also double his practice speed.

Moreover, as long as we can find Yang Musha next, it will not only increase the power of the martial arts.

What is more important is that if you get a pair together, you can increase the success rate of forming a baby by half, which is the top priority.

Now that he has Yin Wood Evil and Yin Water Evil, the chance of making a complete pair has doubled.

Of course, the best result would be to collect both pairs, and even collect both the Gold Evil and the Earth Evil.

After all, if one can collect all the Yin-Yang and Five Elements evil spirits, it can also further increase the success rate of the cultivator's formation of a fetus.

"Since it was obtained from the weeping willow on the sea, from now on I'll call you Sea Willow Sha."

Xiao Chen examined it with his spiritual sense with satisfaction, then shouted softly: "Hey!"

At the same time, mobilize the muscles of your whole body and struggle hard.

Unfortunately, Yin Muyin was not responsible for strengthening his body, so naturally he was unable to break free.

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A moment later, Xiao Chen, who was fleeing thousands of miles away, slowed down a little: "Hiss~, it hurts so much."

After failing to struggle, the willow lost its patience and strangled it violently with its branches, almost breaking it into eighteen pieces.

Then Chui Liu realized that the evil energy he had worked so hard to accumulate had disappeared, and he became furious.

In an instant, thousands of feet-high water columns exploded from the sea surface, and the fishy and salty steam rose into the sky, tearing apart the clouds.

The massive treetops trembled violently, nearly a hundred thousand gleaming green willow branches and roots waving simultaneously. The sea surface within a hundred miles surged like a boiling furnace.

Even at this moment, looking back from thousands of miles away, one can still clearly see the restless huge figure.

Xiao Chen waved goodbye and said, "Don't miss me too much. I will come back to see you when the time is right!"

After saying that, he didn't stay any longer, turned around and left without looking back.

Since the Night's Edge was in cooldown, he deliberately slowed down his speed.

He summoned the Ghost Face Mysterious Light Shield ahead of time and cast the Qiongtai Fire Lotus again. At the same time, he mobilized his spiritual sense with all his strength to closely monitor the movements within a radius of sixty-four miles.

Originally, due to his limited qualifications, the range of his spiritual awareness was only sixty miles.

However, after being baptized by starlight some time ago and successfully condensing the star core, his spiritual consciousness has been slowly growing these days.

Especially at night when bathed in starlight, the speed is much faster than during the day.

According to this trend, after another two months when the core of the star is fully exerted, it is expected to grow to about seventy miles.

The range of spiritual awareness actually has some effect on ordinary cultivators.

For example, whether you can get early warning when facing many dangers directly determines whether you have time to react and avoid them.

For example, remotely activate some spells or talismans that have been arranged in advance.

For example, you can use spiritual sense to track the enemy. If the enemy's spiritual sense range is not enough, even if they discover it, they will not be able to lock onto your position.

In a nutshell, the more the better.
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When the autumn wind blew in September, Xiao Chen finally saw the legendary wonders of the Sea of ​​Ashes.

It is said that the east of Kunpeng Sea is Cibei Sea, and the location of Jinhai Sea is the dividing line between the two.

Here, seabed lava continuously emerges all year round, dyeing the entire sea area amber.

The large amount of sea water that evaporated formed a red mist that lasted all year round.

Sometimes, earth dragons would turn over, causing hundreds or thousands of lava columns to erupt, so that the unique sea flavor of sulfur mixed with salty and wet air could be smelled hundreds of miles away.

"We're finally here. This is a bit too far."

Xiao Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

He waited for the Night's Edge to cool down before resuming full speed.

And in the past half month, except for three heavy rains that had little impact on the speed, everything went smoothly.

Even so, it took another full month to finally cross the Kunpeng Sea.

"I should be the first person in history to cross the Sea of ​​Compassion in a Jindan stage body."

Xiao Chen complained, if conditions permit, who would be willing to travel so hard?

Damn Yinshi Sect, I will go back and settle accounts with them after the baby is formed.

When you get close to the Sea of ​​Ashes, you can clearly see that the water in some places is very shallow, only about four or five meters.

If there were no underwater lava, it would actually be possible to build an artificial island here.

Unfortunately, underneath is a cracked earth vein like a tortoise shell, and you can even see dark red liquid flowing inside.

"Hey, there's still spiritual ore?"

Xiao Chen looked closely and saw a fist-sized piece of third-level red sandstone floating on the water.

Due to the frequent confluence of hot and cold water, numerous whirlpools were formed here, constantly shifting positions. Some of the spiritual minerals below were also swept up, occasionally flipping to the surface.

He immediately stretched out his hand and grabbed the red sandstone with his true energy.

"It's of good quality, and should be worth a few hundred spirit stones."

Although for Xiao Chen now, a few hundred spirit stones are just a drop in the bucket.

But picking up money on the street is always a happy thing.

"I've just arrived at the Mercy Sea and it's a good start. What a good omen, what a good omen!"

Xiao Chen put away the red sandstone that represented good luck with satisfaction. It seemed that he would have good luck in the days to come.

From this perspective, it was a perfect decision to go abroad.

I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect or if the Sea of ​​Compassion is indeed different from the outside world.

For the next three days, the weather was sunny and cloudless.

At the same time, Xiao Chen clearly felt that the spiritual energy tide was becoming stronger every morning, and its duration was extended to a full half hour.

So much so that every morning when he was on his way, he would feel a little regretful, because this was such a good time to practice.

But it doesn’t matter. Once he finds a place to stay, he can go into seclusion.

When the time comes, you can practice however you want and for as long as you want.

However, the good times did not last long. On the evening of the fourth day, a large mass of thick white fog appeared in front of him again.

It looks quite similar to the evil spirit disaster we saw in the inland sea before.

"It looks like a new ruin has been opened, but I'm afraid I won't be able to make it this time."

Xiao Chen felt a little regretful as he was forced to take a detour.

Not only was he new here, he didn't even know where to find anyone.

Therefore, it is definitely too late to participate in the new ruins.

However, he only felt regretful for a short while before he cheered up: "If I missed it, I missed it. It doesn't really matter. There are so many secret places and ruins in the world. It's impossible to visit them all."

Things like opportunities can only be encountered if there is destiny. If there is no destiny, it is useless to force it.

Besides, his biggest opportunity is Hextech enhancement, and everything else is just icing on the cake.

After walking about ten thousand miles around the fog that was suspected to be caused by evil spirits, Xiao Chen saw a medium-sized island appear a thousand miles away in the southeast.

From a distance, it looks like 600 miles long and 300 miles wide.

God bless you, he had never seen such a big island in the entire Kunpeng Sea, not even one-tenth of its size.

I had originally wondered if I could come across a hidden Taoist sect, but facts proved that the probability of that happening was too low.

"Great, I finally found a bigger place."

Xiao Chen immediately changed direction and rushed over.

There is a high probability that there will be monks living on such an island, which means that I can finally come into contact with other monks.

You know, he hasn't seen a living person for almost two months.

It's a good opportunity to find someone to talk to on the island and get some relevant information.

"Hey, why can't I see the house?"

However, as they approached the island, Xiao Chen suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

Looking around, there is not only no house on the northwest side of the entire island, there is not even any trace of man-made structures.

Most of the place is barren, with only one or two stubborn weeds growing occasionally in the corners.

"Well, it certainly doesn't look like a suitable place to live."

During the long journey, Xiao Chen saw too many islands that were unsuitable for living, and many of them were barren.

But he still landed down as usual, ready to take a routine rest on the island for one night.

"Since there are weeds here, will there be wild fruits?"

Xiao Chen subconsciously expanded his spiritual sense to search the scene within sixty-seven miles.

"Bah~!"

Just as the spiritual consciousness was spreading, the sound of a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue suddenly sounded around.

Immediately afterwards, more than ten streams of black mist gushed out from the cracks in the rocks ten feet away, instantly enveloping him.

A pungent smell of strong sulfur immediately entered his nose, and at the same time a "sizzling" sound was heard.

That was the corrosive sound caused by the black mist coming into contact with the feather shield of the Hundred Feather Silk Robe that automatically opened.

"What the hell?"

As his spiritual consciousness penetrated deeper into the rock fissure, Xiao Chen suddenly saw a strange snake only seven feet long.

The reason why it is called a strange snake is that it has no scales on its body, revealing a long, flesh-red body, and its abdomen has twenty-seven pairs of hairy, thin legs growing like a centipede.

Extremely disgusting!

There is only one eye on its head, but it is covered with honeycomb-shaped holes. At this moment, it is bending the front half of its body to accumulate strength.

"Bah~!"

With another sound, new black mist immediately gushed out of the holes, joining the previous attack.

The feather shield outside the Baiyuliansi robe immediately began to shake.

"How strange, what kind of monster is this?"

Xiao Chen frowned. It looked like a golden elixir monster, but it felt weird.

He slapped out with his backhand, and the fierce flames immediately burned away the black fog, turning the strange snake into ashes.

"Ah, so weak?"

The black fog clearly poses a threat to ordinary Jindan cultivators, but it itself is ridiculously weak.

"Something's wrong. It's very wrong."

(End of this chapter)