Cultivation Begins From The Desert

Haoyang Grotto.

After Zhou Yang took over the task of guarding the spiritual veins of Haoyang Grotto from his father Zhou Xuanhao, he immediately entered the spiritual veins to check the situation.

The entire spiritual vein of Haoyang Grotto was almost established by him, and he was naturally very familiar with the environment inside.

Since Zhou Xuanhao activated the "Golden Armor Array" in time to protect the spirit vein, the environment inside the spirit vein has not changed much, but the water level of the underground river is much higher than before.

Zhou Yang's spiritual sense swept over, and he could even sense a stream of pure water-type aura, which was obviously left behind by that third-rank high-grade monster.

"It's really weird. The aura attributes of this Haoyang Grotto are obviously fire and earth. It stands to reason that as a water-type monster, it should be instinctively disgusted and stay away from this kind of place. Why does that monster want to break it? The protective formation at the bottom of the river broke in here?"

There was a flash of doubt in Zhou Yang's eyes, and he was quite puzzled by this.

Monster beasts are extremely picky about their living environment. Even when hunting, they will give priority to finding and killing prey in an environment that is beneficial to them. A fire-type monster will never jump unless it is about to starve to death. Enter the rivers, lakes and seas where the water attribute is full of aura and hunt.

Knowing this, Zhou Yang felt strange and unreasonable.

However, in the absence of sufficient information, even though he had some doubts in his heart, he didn't dare to make random guesses. He could only suppress the doubts in his heart, and began to debug and familiarize himself with the operation of the "Shoutu Jin Ge Formation".

If the monsters come again, this formation will be his greatest reliance against the monsters. After all, he can't go into the water to fight the monsters in water, and it's unlikely that the monsters will leave the dark river and come ashore to fight him.

The "Golden Spear Formation" can be defended and attacked. When guarding, it can gather spiritual energy to form an earth attribute shield to protect one side. With Zhou Yang, a monk in the foundation establishment period presiding over the formation, even if a monk in the late foundation establishment period wants to It also takes half a day to break the shield.

When attacking, the "Golden Spear Formation" can gather spiritual energy and release a "Golden Spear" to counterattack enemies within a kilometer of the formation.

The attack power of the "Earth-Splitting Golden Spear" is also impressive, completely enough to injure late-stage foundation-building monks and third-tier high-grade monsters.

However, this kind of attack cannot be sent out continuously, and the defensive ability of the formation shield will be reduced when attacking, so it cannot be used as an ordinary method.

Zhou Xuanhao was able to scare away the third-rank high-grade monster before, that is, the monster retreated and left after feeling the power emanating from the "Earth-Splitting Golden Spear" when it was activated.

At this time, in order to fully display the power of the formation, and in order not to cause damage to the elixir planted on the spirit veins, after adjusting the formation, Zhou Yang took out hundreds of low-grade spirit stones and buried them in the formation. In the middle of the law, and then patiently waited for the monster to come to the door again.

Never thought that he waited for nearly a month.

One day more than a month later, when Zhou Yang was practicing, he suddenly sensed a powerful aura rising from the dark river.

"Is it finally here?"

There was a flash of light in his eyes, and he quickly got up and released his consciousness to shoot towards the dark river.

With his current spiritual consciousness, the limit distance for his spiritual consciousness to be released has reached seven or eight thousand meters, while for ordinary new Zifu period monks, the distance for his spiritual consciousness to be released is only more than 10,000 meters.

With such a powerful spiritual sense, his ability to detect the enemy's situation is much better than that of ordinary early-stage foundation-building monks.

As soon as the third-rank high-grade monster entered the dark river in the depths of Haoyang Cave, Zhou Yangwai's divine sense could see its whole picture clearly.

I saw that the appearance of this monster was very similar to the giant salamander (salamander) that Zhou Yang had seen in his previous life, but the giant salamander had no scales on its body, but this monster was covered with fish scales except for its head , and the claws on its limbs are sharp and long, which looks very sharp.

The most peculiar thing is that there are two half-foot-long tentacles growing in front of this monster's head. One end of the tentacles is connected to its forehead, and the other end is hung with a fist-sized luminous lens, like two luminous light bulbs. .

When Zhou Yang's spiritual consciousness scanned this monster, the huge monster with a body length of more than seven feet in the dark river seemed to sense something, and then the blue light flashed on the two big "bulbs" in front of its head, It actually directly blocked Zhou Yang's consciousness scan!

At this time, he glanced over with his spiritual sense again, like a stealth fighter on the radar screen, and could no longer see the existence of that monster clearly through his spiritual sense.

"Hey, what kind of supernatural power is this?"

In Haoyang Grotto, Zhou Yang looked at the passageway where the dark river was located with a face full of surprise, and was very surprised at the ability displayed by that monster.

This kind of supernatural power that can shield the cultivator's consciousness from scanning is very rare. Even if ordinary monsters find that the cultivator's consciousness is peeping at them, they will at most mobilize their inner mana to cover their bodies, so that the peeping cultivator can no longer see their appearance clearly.

Only a very small number of monsters who are good at stealth and invisibility can rely on their special hidden powers to prevent immortal cultivators from discovering their own body.

At this time, Zhou Yang was even a little thankful that this monster was an aquatic monster and not a land monster.

If a terrestrial monster of the third rank top-grade also possesses this kind of supernatural power that can block the scanning of the spiritual consciousness of the cultivator, then he can only run as far as he can now.

Without the assistance of divine consciousness, the immortal cultivator will lose his aim no matter if he attacks with magical weapons or spells, and he is no different from a blind man. How can he continue to fight like this?

As for now, even though his consciousness could no longer find the existence of the monster, the monster moved in the water. With its huge size, Zhou Yang could determine its approximate location through the changes in the water flow in the dark river.

Therefore, after he sensed the disappearance of the monster, he immediately mobilized the formation to prepare for the attack.

Oh——

The aura fluctuations caused by Zhou Yang's mobilization of the formation naturally couldn't be hidden from the monster swimming in the dark river, and although it didn't know why Zhou Yang couldn't see itself, it still chose to attack, but it didn't squat there either. See Zhou Yang's reason for casting spells.

So Zhou Yang, who was mobilizing the power of the formation, only heard a cry like a baby crying, which suddenly sounded from the cave on the other side of the dark river, and then the sound of "rumbling" river water filled the entire underground cave .

Rumble!

Driven by the magical powers of monsters, the turbulent dark river rushes like a tidal wave along the passage from Haoyang Grotto to the underground river.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang quickly mobilized the power of the formation to form a shield at the entrance of the passage to intercept it.

However, as soon as he blocked the first wave, the raging river tore the ground at the entrance of the passage and formed several new passages. The cold water of the dark river immediately poured into the cave without hindrance, and soon Most of the caves were submerged under the river.

"Damn beast!"

Zhou Yang watched this scene with a livid face, furious.

The spiritual veins of Haoyang Grotto were built by him alone, and the several elixir gardens that are now submerged under the river were all dug up from Yuquan Peak one by one by him, and then planted seeds one by one. down built.

Now that the elixir garden, which had cost him a lot of effort, was suddenly submerged by the river, how could he not be angry once all his years of hard work were exhausted!

"Die to me!"

Angry in his heart, he immediately withdrew all the protective power, mobilized all the formation power together, and instantly condensed a ten-foot-long "Earth-Splitting Golden Spear" and swept it towards a certain area in the river.

Jin Ge roared towards him, easily splitting all the river water in front of him like a river and sea, and finally landed hard on the monster.

Boo!

Jin Ge added to his body, the monster let out a scream in pain, and a long wound appeared on its body instantly, and the blood flowing from the wound was actually blue like sea water.

It's just that before Zhou Yang can see clearly the injury on this monster, the counterattack from the monster's pain has already fallen in front of him.

Whoosh whoosh!

A burst of sharp arrows pierced the air loudly, poured into the river in Haoyang Grotto, and instantly shot more than a dozen blue water spears towards Zhou Yang.

These blue water spears look inconspicuous, but their penetrating power is stronger than ordinary third-tier flying swords.

Zhou Yang was not within the straight-line attack distance of the water spear, but the water spear easily penetrated tens of meters of mud and rocks, and appeared in front of him in the blink of an eye.

Fortunately, he was in the formation, and he could mobilize the power of the formation to protect his body with a single thought, and immediately mobilized the power of the formation to form a thick wall in front of him to block the piercing of the water spear.

However, just as he blocked this wave of water spear piercing, the second wave of more and stronger water spears appeared in his spiritual sense induction.

"Damn it!"

With a curse in his heart, Zhou Yang decisively chose to retreat.

It's not that he can't stop this wave of attacks, but that there's no need to fight anymore. If he uses mana, he can't fight a third-tier high-grade monster no matter what.

Not to mention him, even if it was a ninth-level foundation-building cultivator, he would definitely not be able to beat any monster of the same level in terms of strong mana.

It's just that Zhou Yang retreated, and Haoyang Cave was completely lost in the boundless river.

Under the control of that third-tier high-grade monster, the turbulent underground river even submerged most of the oasis on the ground of Haoyang Grotto, making that small desert lake instantly become a water area with an area of ​​more than 20 square meters. km of the Great Lakes.

"Good beast, I didn't expect this beast's ability to control water to be so strong. Could it be that it has the blood of a dragon?"

In the sky, Zhou Yang looked at the desert lake with a sudden increase in water area, his eyes were shocked and angry, and his face was very ugly.

The water control ability of water-type monsters is related to their cultivation, but the more important thing is their blood.

The water flow of the underground river at the bottom of Haoyang Grotto is not very large. Ordinary Tier 3 high-grade water system monsters have no ability to let the river water surge up to the ground to form a desert lake as big as Zhou Yang's eyes.

But now, the area of ​​the desert lake in front of Zhou Yang has not decreased at all. It is obvious that the monster relied on its own supernatural powers to forcibly change the water flow of the dark river and divert water from other rivers to this side.

This kind of ability is definitely not something that a third-tier high-grade water-type monster with ordinary blood can possess.

Therefore, Zhou Yang guessed whether this monster would have the blood of a flood dragon.

If it really has the blood of the dragon, then its true strength is definitely not as simple as the third-rank top-rank on the surface.

"It doesn't matter, let's send a message to great-grandfather to let him come back and have a look. If this monster's ability is more than what it is now, maybe we can only invite the cultivators of the Purple Mansion to come over and kill the monster!"

After making this decision with an ugly face, Zhou Yang turned the flying sword at his feet and went straight back to Yuquan Lake Oasis.

Ollie, keep going!