A Mortal's Start in the Spirit Beast Mountain

As Luo Ming observed closely, the little creatures in the spirit beast pouch all expressed their desire to devour it. Although they didn't show the same ferocity as when they saw the essence of the demon-attracting grass, it still made Luo Ming realize that this item would definitely be of great benefit to demon beasts.

Thinking of this, Luo Ming immediately took out a net-shaped magic tool from his storage bag and, while dodging the low-level demonic beasts he encountered from time to time, captured these spirit insects.

As for the requests from several spirit beasts to come out and devour the food themselves, he simply ignored them.

The others obviously realized this as well, and each used their own methods to capture it. After all, this insect was extremely rare. While everyone was chasing the spirit mist insect, they gradually got separated. After a while, they were nowhere to be found. Only the spirit mist insect flying in the air occasionally passed by them.

"How many spirit mist insects are inside such a vast expanse of mist?"

Just then, a baby-like cry rang out, startling Luo Ming and giving him a bad feeling.

"Master, that sound is definitely from the Infant Carp Beast. I never expected that the Spirit Mist Insect could attract such a high-level demon beast." Liu Shi's urgent voice came.

This is an inland sea, where level 5 or higher demonic beasts are rarely seen, as they have been almost entirely killed by human cultivators. Some high-level demonic beasts have fled to the outer sea, while others hide in the deep sea and rarely show themselves.

"Are these spirit mist insects really that attractive to demonic beasts?" Luo Ming thought to himself, and quickly flew away from the direction from which the roar came.

Just then, from the other two sides, the faint roars of high-level demonic beasts could be heard, as if in response to the infant carp beast.

No! The location here is hard to discern. If this continues, we might encounter high-level demonic beasts before we even find the cave.

Luo Ming frowned, then suddenly patted his storage bag and took out the Xuanbo Soul-Trapping Array.

For now, he could only set up this formation here first. This would give him some room to maneuver, whether he encountered high-level demonic beasts or the old man with the golden gu poison again.

"Liu Shi, you will guide the arrangement of this formation."

Luo Ming swiftly issued orders, summoning four spirit beasts and instructing each of them to carry a formation flag to the formation node.

A quarter of an hour later, when intense magical fluctuations came from afar, a blue light screen finally rose up on Luo Ming's side, hiding him and several spirit beasts inside.

Luo Ming immediately sat cross-legged and began to slowly drag the Gu worms away from his meridians using his magic power.

At this moment, the old man with the Golden Gu was fighting with the infant carp beast. The old man took out a small green sword magic weapon, which emitted wisps of green gas and was obviously poisonous.

The small sword transformed into a size of several meters and slashed fiercely at the body of the infant carp beast.

The infant carp beast was enraged upon seeing this. One of its small hands held a golden seashell to block the sword's slash, while the round bead on its other hand shone brightly, condensing into a water arrow more than ten feet long in the air. It shot out with such speed that the old man's expression changed, and he hurriedly dodged.

If this attack were to hit a human cultivator, they would be severely injured even if they didn't die.

"I didn't expect this Infant Carp Beast to be only at the fifth level, yet it already has two natal spirit objects protecting it. It's quite troublesome," the Golden Gu Elder said with a slight frown.

Similar to how human cultivators refine magical artifacts after advancing to the Core Formation stage, level 5 and above demonic beasts also seek out their own "magical artifacts".

Some demonic beasts like to refine certain parts of their bodies. For example, the crab demon's pair of claws are its best weapons. After a hundred years of tempering by infusing demonic energy, they will be comparable to a cultivator's magic weapon.

Some demonic beasts like to search for spiritual objects in the deep sea, and then use their demonic energy to infuse and refine them into companion spiritual objects, just like the golden seashell and round bead in the hands of the Infant Carp Beast. They are sparkling with spiritual light, obviously having been nurtured for a long time and full of spirituality. Their power has reached the level of magic treasures.

Just as he was about to unleash his trump card to quickly subdue the demon, two powerful auras of demonic beasts rapidly approached, causing the old man with the golden gu to finally change his expression drastically.

"How did they get here so quickly?"

"A thunder eel? A golden-armored crab demon?"

The old man with the golden gu narrowed his eyes, looking at the thunder eel with some apprehension at the one whose body was surrounded by blue lightning. Although this demon was only level five, the Kui Water Divine Lightning it emitted was extremely powerful and had a restraining effect on many of his methods.

Add to that the Water Divine Thunder of the Infant Carp Beast and the powerful defense of the Golden Armored Crab Demon, and even a late-stage Core Formation cultivator would have to back down when faced with these three demons.

The old man with the golden gu eye darted around, his figure flashed, and he transformed into a gray shadow, leaving the central area.

When the infant carp saw the human cultivator escape, it originally wanted to give chase. However, when it saw the other two demon beasts coming to compete for the delicious food, it immediately forgot about the human cultivator and began to fight with the thunder eel and the demon crab.

"Hmph! A demon beast is just a demon beast. It's far inferior to a human cultivator. Let you fight to the death first," the Golden Gu Old Man sneered.

However, he narrowed his eyes and realized that the Foundation Establishment cultivators were getting further and further away from him, clearly fleeing the place.

"Hehehe, the cave is just short of a few puppets to do odd jobs." Before the old man finished speaking, he flashed away into the distance.

The compass in the short, stout old man's hand emitted bursts of spiritual light as he continuously cast spells upon it. Seeing that the spiritual needle on it was still unstable, the old man became anxious and spat out a mouthful of blood essence, which finally stabilized the spiritual needle.

"Good! We've finally found the location." The short, stout old man was overjoyed and quickly ran away according to the direction of the spirit needle. However, he hadn't run far when his expression suddenly changed drastically.

"Oh no, that old monster is getting closer at lightning speed. Did he defeat that infant carp beast so quickly?" The old man was shocked. Just as he was about to use a secret technique to speed up his escape, a powerful divine sense suddenly descended.

"where are you going?"

"Please spare me, senior! Ah!"

The old man looked at the short, stout man being controlled by the horsehair worm, nodded slightly, and was just about to head in another direction to chase after the brother and sister when his expression suddenly changed, and he angrily said:

"You little brat, you dare to destroy my Gu worms? You think you can hide from me like this?"

The old man patted his spirit beast pouch, and a blood-red bat flew out. After circling above the old man's head, it flew rapidly in one direction.

That was where Luo Ming was located.

At this moment, Luo Ming slowly breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the Gu worm in his hand that was tightly wrapped by his magic power. A blazing white flame rose up and was burned to ashes in the blink of an eye.

Many Gu worms possess extremely strange abilities. Once they enter a cultivator's body, they become very difficult to deal with, but when they are outside, they become very weak and are very easy to destroy.

"Without this Gu worm, that old fellow probably won't be able to find this place. Once the spirit mist worm disperses, this place will likely return to its original state."

Luo Ming relaxed as he planned what to do next. Although he was also very interested in the things condensed inside the bodies of the spirit mist insects and wanted to get more of them, it was still insignificant compared to his own life.

The Golden Gu Elder landed outside the formation, peering at Luo Ming through the protective barrier. He sneered, "You thought hiding inside the formation would protect you? Since you're not behaving yourself, then leave your life here as nourishment for my Gu worms!"

Before he finished speaking, the magical power gathered in his palm suddenly surged, transforming into a black hand several meters in size, which slammed into the formation with a sound like tearing wind.