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From the moment she entered this crack in the ground, Bai Zhi's heart was full of doubts.

At this moment, she couldn't suppress the curiosity in her heart and asked, "What are we doing here?"

This dark space deep underground made her instinctively feel panicked.

If Meng Zhou hadn't been by her side, she would never have come to a place like this.

Meng Zhou smiled and said, "You will know soon."

Just when Bai Zhi wanted to say something, Meng Zhou said: "Wait a minute, I have to deal with this place first."

The next moment, Meng Zhou had disappeared from the wolf belly space.

"..." Bai Zhi.

Bai Zhi originally had a lot to say, but now she just wanted to say, "This is not what I want."

…

From Song Yang's memory, Meng Zhou knew that this hidden third-level spiritual land was the information dug out by Mingxin Pavilion from a foundation-building family with hundreds of years of inheritance.

Since then, Mingxin Pavilion has organized core members to explore the place several times, and even discussed the possibility of operating the place as a secret headquarters.

However, the concealment of this third-level spiritual land is only for humans, but for those water monsters, it is quite a transportation hub.

The underground water areas extending in all directions allow many aquatic monsters to regard this place as an ideal resting place, breeding place, and place for the hatching and growth of their young.

In order to build this place into a suitable secret headquarters, it is not only necessary to eliminate all threatening monsters living in this area, but also to block all the underground underwater passages that extend in all directions and can come and go freely.

In such an environment, spiritual energy and evil spirits collide and compete all year round, and the detection function of spiritual consciousness is almost completely abolished.

Not to mention blocking all underwater passages, it is extremely difficult to completely understand and sort out the underwater secret passages in such a large area.

Neither of these two things can be accomplished by Mingxin Pavilion.

Therefore, Mingxin Pavilion temporarily put aside this tempting idea, and just organized some manpower to come here regularly to hunt and obtain some special monster resources.

Meng Zhou discovered that these two completely unsolvable problems for Mingxin Pavilion could be easily solved for him.

In the bright moon mirror, under the dark waters, the crisscrossing passages extending in all directions were all clearly presented to him.

What Meng Zhou had to do was to come to the entrance of these passages and put his hands on the rocks nearby.

These rocks, which were originally extremely hard and difficult for ordinary first- and second-level magic weapons to cause much damage, became like soft mud dough as he pressed it with both hands, changing their shapes easily.

Those undercurrent channels hidden deep in the earth and between rock cracks closed so quietly.

In this way, the hidden undercurrent channels were blocked one by one.

——The entire passage is blocked, rather than just reshaping the rock structure in a small area to form natural gates.

In the future, if another underwater monster swims here based on the path in their memory, with their limited brain capacity, they will only wonder why the place has changed, and they will not be able to tell that there is still a passage.

However, Meng Zhou did not seal all the underwater secret passages. He still retained the largest water inlet and outlet to ensure that this underground water area would not become a pool of stagnant water.

However, Meng Zhou also made special arrangements for the two water inlets and outlets.

It turns into a crisscross network structure, water can enter and exit freely, and creatures with a volume of less than one meter can enter and exit freely. Those exceeding this limit will be intercepted.

This is only preliminary processing. In the future, Meng Zhou plans to arrange two special formations for more careful "filtering".

Although things were easy, the workload was still considerable. It took Meng Zhou two days to completely seal and reshape all the underwater passages.

Completely take this secret "underwater monster distribution hub" as your own.

Not only were the "walls" built, but also the gates were installed.

Not only was the gate installed, but a lock was also added to the gate.

Then, it is time to clean up the monsters in the area.

To be honest, after preliminary investigation, Meng Zhou was still a little surprised by the large number and high density of monsters in this area.

The space above the water is only a narrow area more than fifty miles long and several miles wide.

But the underwater space that is thousands of meters deep is much larger. At the bottom of the water, the length reaches more than seventy miles, and the width is more than ten miles.

In the vast dark water, Meng Zhou suddenly discovered that there were four big demons of the third level alone.

Three of them live in the middle and lower layers of this dark water all year round.

Only one, the weakest one, lives in the upper waters, and occasionally rests on rocky islands.

This is also the only third-order monster here that appears in Mingxin Pavilion’s exploration records. As for the other three, Mingxin Pavilion has not discovered their existence at all, because their exploration has never penetrated into this dark water. Under a hundred meters.

These third-order monsters are strong and weak, and the strongest among them already possesses the strength of the third-order mid-level monster.

Their common feature is that they are very large, far larger than the giant pythons and giant birds seen before.

Each one has its own ugly appearance. After seeing their full appearance, Meng Zhou's first feeling was no longer "ugly", but "disgustingly ugly".

Every bit of them seems to be deliberately challenging the limits of human aesthetics.

In comparison, those dark green giant pythons that live in groups in the jungle are extremely handsome.

In addition, there are hundreds of second-level monsters and thousands of first-order aquatic monsters in groups.

Meng Zhou already had a rough idea of ​​​​cleaning up the problem in his mind. As for these four third-order aquatic monsters, they may be a very troublesome and even difficult to completely solve for other monks in the early and middle stages of forming pills.

But for Meng Zhou, mentioning more about his battle with them would be suspicious of hydrology.

Because from beginning to end, there has never been a so-called battle.

When he came to them, these third-order monsters, which were supposed to have extremely thick health bars and extremely tenacious vitality, had quietly turned into either limp or upright piles of flesh and blood corpses.

Because of their large size and ugly appearance, Meng Zhou did not even put them into the spirit gourd space, but only used the water as a rope to lift them from the bottom of the water to the rugged stone island.

Examining the four huge piles of meat, and just about to continue taking action, Meng Zhou felt the call of Bai Zhi through the natal connection in the Moon Palace of Consciousness Sea.

With a thought in his mind, the green wolf hovering in mid-air not far away appeared in front of him.

Meng Zhou reached out and moved the Green Wolf Spirit Puppet into the spirit gourd space, and Bai Zhi's figure appeared next to Meng Zhou.

Suddenly exposed to this deep dark space, Bai Zhi subconsciously leaned closer to Meng Zhou. Bai Zhi, who was already ready to accept the violent wave of evil energy, suddenly made a sound of surprise:

"Hey, it's spiritual energy, and the quality is so high?!"

Meng Zhouxiao asked: "What do you think of the environment here?"

Bai Zhi looked at him with a look of disbelief on her face and said, "Don't you want to run this place into a training ground?"

Meng Zhou nodded and said with a smile: "With this plan, I have been busy working on it for the past two days."

"This this……"

In the past two days in Qinglang's belly, Bai Zhi had not done anything. Although the detection ability of her spiritual consciousness was greatly restricted, she could also see all kinds of ugly aquatic monsters that caused her psychological discomfort. No less than dozens of species.

When she heard this, the first thing she thought of was not the safety issue, but the thought that if she had to be with these ugly things every day in the future, she would be so scared that she would stutter.

Although Bai Zhi didn't say it explicitly, Meng Zhou seemed to know Bai Zhi's concerns and comforted him:

"Don't worry, don't look at it. The situation here seems to be very bad, but that's only now. Soon, the situation will get better."

"Okay...okay..."

Seeing that the four third-order monsters exuding a tyrannical aura had silently turned into fish meat on the chopping board, Bai Zhi no longer had any worries about safety and instead asked:

"What can I do?"

Meng Zhou originally wanted to say, no need, if you are really bored, just cheer for me from the side, but when the words came to his mouth, he turned into:

"There are still too many second-level monsters in this water area. Please help me clean them up... Give all the monsters you hunt to me. I need them."

"Okay." Bai Zhi responded, with a look of eagerness on her face.

However, when she looked towards the dark area in the distance, she hesitated.

In terms of strength, Bai Zhi, who has developed sound attack skills to an artistic level, is not weak at all.

But the hesitation she showed at this moment cannot be solved by strength.

Meng Zhou didn't point it out, but released the two mysterious turtles that were kept in the animal bag.

With two "pops", two mysterious turtles that were only the size of a millstone fell into the dark waters.

Suddenly entering such an area, their behavior was completely opposite to that of Bai Zhi. The two Xuanling turtles, which were originally only the size of a millstone, rapidly expanded and became larger like a balloon.

Soon, the two mysterious turtles turned into behemoths with a diameter of more than thirty meters on their backs alone.

The huge head shook left and right, with a look of surprise that could not be hidden, and the water surface made loud splashing noises as it fiddled with its limbs and tail.

Even though they have grown to the second peak level and have many and powerful talents, the only water environment they have come into contact with so far is the small pond in the courtyard of Zhuangtianzhuang.

Meng Zhou used the art of controlling spirits and channeling spirits to explain to the two mysterious turtles, and then said to Bai Zhi: "I have arranged two deputies for you. You can act together."

Two extremely intelligent Xuanling turtles had already leaned towards Bai Zhi, showing an inviting expression. Bai Zhi looked around and casually stepped on the turtle's back.

Soon, the two turtles disappeared into the dark waters.

Meng Zhou continued to look at the huge bodies of the four newly captured third-order aquatic monsters.

But he had no idea of ​​refining them into spirit puppets.

After gaining a comprehensive understanding of their own characteristics, as well as the spiritual characteristics hidden in their skin, blood, and bones, an idea that was originally relatively vague in my mind quickly became clear.

Meng Zhou's spiritual consciousness penetrated into the spirit gourd space, and soon, he took out a lot of "messy" things.

Among these "mess" things, there are not many pure spiritual materials, and the quality is very low. They are all first- and second-level quality spiritual materials.

Because all the third-level quality spiritual materials had been used by Meng Zhou before this departure.

The parts with the highest quality and smaller quantity were turned into high-quality flying swords and robes, and were armed on the red flame fire lotus spiritual body.

The parts with lower quality and the largest quantity were all smashed on the two spiritual puppets of Mountain Ape and Green Wolf.

The remaining spiritual materials are all of first- and second-level quality.

These spiritual materials have been accumulated for various reasons, and more of them were obtained from hundreds of Lihen Sect foundation building, fake pills and even knots during the previous "whack-a-mole" operation against the Lihen Sect. The harvest gained from Monk Dan.

In that operation, the harvest of various spiritual materials was only a small part of the total harvest. There were also many magic weapons, elixirs, talismans and other items, all of which were still in Meng Zhou's hands and have not been dealt with yet.

Apart from these, the harvest that Meng Zhou valued most was the array of formation flags and formation bases that were numerous in number and variety.

Among them, there are many third-level quality formation flags and formation bases, and the number of second-level quality formations is even greater.

The earliest batch, when they had just formed the core, they acted together with Ding Ning and obtained a complete set of third-level formations covering a large range in the lair of the Lihen Sect's mountain.

These "messy" items have not been dealt with so far, and with the rapid improvement of his strength, Meng Zhou often even forgets their existence.

"In another three to five years, it may be disposed of as garbage."

Meng Zhou thought so in his heart.

Now, he has a clear idea and can fully utilize them.

He first completed the decomposition of the four third-order monsters that looked like four hills. While decomposing them, he also completed the purification and refinement based on his current familiarity with spirituality.

Skin, membranes, tendons, bones, blood, flesh, eyes, teeth, whips, internal organs, intestines and stomach, special glands, bags...

Although they all look weird and ugly, as third-order monsters, there is not a single part of their bodies that is superfluous.

After refining and purifying these materials, Meng Zhou began to deal with the "messy" materials.

In his eyes, whether it is spiritual materials of first or second level quality, magical weapons, magic weapons, or formation flags and bases of different qualities, they are all spiritual materials.

Even the elixirs and finished talismans are just spiritual materials with relatively complex and special spiritual qualities.

Either refining and purifying, or dismantling and simplifying, or further integrating and adding...

It took about a day for Meng Zhou to decompose, refine, and purify the "messy" things into hundreds of special raw materials with different spiritualities.

There are powders, granules, clear or viscous liquids...

At this moment, Bai Zhi stepped on Gui Er's back and returned with the first batch of prey.

She handed the two full storage bags into Meng Zhou's hands, and without stopping for a moment, she submerged into the depths of the dark waters again.

Meng Zhou once again dealt with the hunting of these monster beasts.

The qualities of these aquatic monsters vary, including second-level medium and high-quality ones, as well as second-level top-quality ones.

There seems to be no pattern.

But when Meng Zhou's consciousness swept over the bodies of all the monster beasts, he couldn't help but laugh.

These monster beasts have different types and strengths, but they have one thing in common, that is, they are all incredibly ugly.

There were a lot of these monsters, but they were easier to deal with. It only took a few hours for Meng Zhou to break down and purify them into categories.

Then, Meng Zhou began his performance.

He stored various processed raw materials into a temporarily emptied spiritual gourd space.

Different materials are in different positions.

And clear out the central area of ​​the Linghu space.

Then, Meng Zhou had an idea, and no less than ten kinds of materials poured into the central area one after another, and began to stir and rotate rapidly.

These materials include not only the special raw materials he made from those "messy" things, but also a large amount of monster blood, bone meal, and other spiritual materials taken from the bodies of monster beasts.

Most of the materials are of first- and second-level quality, but there are also some third-level demon blood, bone meal, and other substances mixed into them.

After the stirring is completed, after thorough mixing, it turns into a special rune ink that exudes a unique spiritual brilliance.

At this moment, Meng Zhou had arrived at the specially reserved underwater passage. A dark five-yun spirit gourd hung in front of Meng Zhou, and the prepared talisman and ink sprayed out from the mouth of the gourd at an extremely fast speed.

The talisman ink turns into special talisman array structures. They appear in the water, but they do not blend in with the surrounding water environment.

Three-dimensional talisman structures were spray-painted on the underwater rock wall so quickly, and quickly penetrated into the rock mass.

When Meng Zhou completed the spray painting of the surrounding rock walls, it appeared that the surrounding rock walls had not changed at all.

But the underground undercurrent that originally flowed from the entrance of this passage and was rich in evil spirits suddenly became clean and clear.

In addition, the hardness of the surrounding rock walls has also risen to a new level.

Then, Meng Zhou ducked to the side of the water outlet, and a steady stream of special talisman ink liquid was sprayed out through the spiritual gourd, turning into talisman array structures and blending into the rock mass.

After that, Meng Zhou's figure wandered everywhere.

Either above the water or below the water.

Each talisman structure was quickly spray-painted on the mountain rock walls in different areas.

The Fu Mo Spiritual Liquid was being continuously consumed, and new Fu Mo Spiritual Liquid was being continuously prepared by him.

It has been processed into hundreds of spiritual materials, many of which have spiritual properties that go beyond the category of "spiritual materials". Even if other monks follow the formula, they will basically be in perfect harmony, but Meng Zhou is able to make use of these materials. , flexible deployment according to your own needs.

…

When Bai Zhi handed several filled storage bags to Meng Zhou's hands for the third time, her eyes were no longer filled with doubts, but full of motivation and excitement.

Although it had only been a few days, she could already clearly feel the changes in the entire space.

Not only is the quality of the spiritual energy getting higher and higher, it is also becoming more and more pure.

The evil spirit in the waters is quickly fading away at a visible speed.

At the same time, the originally dark space underwent magical changes.

On the dome rock wall that covers the entire underground space, there are spots of light of different colors and mottled colors.

The light that naturally emanates from the rock wall is not bright, but rather dim. The colors also appear varied and varied due to the complexity of the materials.

Moreover, this layer of talisman barrier that covers the entire space, filters evil spirits, and purifies spiritual energy also manifests the struggle between spiritual energy and evil spirits in the form of color changes.

Not only are the colors everywhere changing all the time, but when all the colors are blended together, they form strands of flowing and changing light strips in the space.

They appear above the dark water, not only illuminating the dark space bit by bit, but also reflected by the mirror of the water, making it difficult to tell where is the sky and where is the water, as if you are in a special galaxy illusion.

The first time she saw a dream-like aurora river condensing and swimming in the void above the water, Bai Zhi screamed excitedly.

She said that as a painter who works with lines and colors every day, she had never thought that pure color changes and interweaving could be so varied and dreamlike.

While Meng Zhou was multitasking, processing the large number of monster corpses brought back by Bai Zhi into different spiritual materials, he raised his head and looked at the aurora belt above his head that was freely flowing and changing in the void.

His control over color is that of a complete layman, let alone comparable to that of Bai Zhi.

The reason why he can present such an effect does not come from his control of colors, but from his familiarity with spiritual changes.

This effect now is completely the result of letting nature take its course.

When he was spray-painting these talismans, he just wanted to show all the strange spiritual characteristics of various materials as much as possible, each showing its talents.

While achieving this goal, he inadvertently achieved such a dream-like vision and wonder.

"Perhaps, this is also another sense of reaching the same destination through different paths."

"Human beings' ability to appreciate 'beauty' may be a special innate intuition."

"Human beings cannot intuitively see the distance from the avenue, but they can intuitively judge whether something is beautiful or not."

“The closer something is to Tao, the more beautiful it is in human intuitive perception.”

"On the other hand, the more beautiful something is, the closer it is to a manifestation of Tao."

"So, pursuing the feeling of beauty is equivalent to pursuing the avenue."

Meng Zhou couldn't help but have a new interpretation of "music" and "painting", which are more idealistic, more sensory and more artistic.

After processing this batch of monster materials, a lot of spiritual materials were added to the spirit gourd space.

Meng Zhou continued to start his own "creation".

He may be an amateur when it comes to "color", but when it comes to "line" talent, Meng Zhou thinks he is no worse than Bai Zhi.

However, in Bai Zhi's eyes, all lines may be fragments of a world.

In Meng Zhou's eyes, any line can be simplified into a rope.

When he saw those aurora belts that naturally changed and fell as spirituality and evil spirits clashed, Meng Zhou had more ideas in his mind.

“There are too many types of materials and they are too complex. Although I tried my best to bring out their full performance, they still seemed too scattered and lacked a real unifying core.

Moreover, the quality of the materials is still a bit low. The amount of real third-level spiritual materials is too small, and most of them are second-level materials. "

"This talisman system that is spread throughout the entire dome rock wall and water requires a real core to control everything.

And it is best to have the function of further purification and refining. "

Originally, although I had ideas, I had no concrete ideas.

But when he saw the changing and wandering aurora belt in the void of the dome and the mirror image on the water surface, Meng Zhou's thoughts suddenly became clear.

"Silk threads and rattan can be made into knots, mana, energy and blood can be made into knots, and spiritual consciousness can be made into knots, so why can't aurora be made into knots?"

As the ideas became clearer, the space named "Aurora Cave" became more dreamy and confusing.

In the blink of an eye, the time has come to the end of December.

Meng Zhou suspended the "decoration" work and told Bai Zhi: "I want to be in seclusion for some time. How do you arrange it?"

Bai Zhi was not surprised at all by this.

Meng Zhou would go into seclusion for several days every once in a while. This had long been a fixed rule.

Bai Zhi raised her head and looked at the several gorgeous aurora swimming in the sky, and said: "I will continue to clean up the monsters."

Meng Zhou nodded in agreement.

With the help of two mysterious turtles, Bai Zhi was not slow at all in hunting monsters.

But compared with Meng Zhou's consumption speed, it was still much slower. If there were no other materials to support these days, he would have to consider whether to arrange for the two spiritual puppets, Mountain Ape and Green Wolf, to participate.

Meng Zhou came to the largest stone island in the center of the space, took out the set of third-level high-grade formation flags obtained from Yanzhuang, and drove the formation flags into various places on the stone island.

Soon, the spiritual energy, which was already purer than that in Sanchuan Yuan Cave Mansion, reached a higher level again.

Meng Zhou stepped into it.

At the same time, three faint shadows spread out from Meng Zhou's body.

One group of shadows showed a light fiery red color, another group of shadows showed a light earthy yellow, and the last group showed a light cyan color.

After they appeared, they circled twice around Meng Zhou. The red color representing the red flame fire lotus clone and the cyan color representing the green wolf quickly disappeared into the void and disappeared silently.

The earthy yellow color representing the mountain ape is integrated into the stone island below.

Meng Zhou believed that with their protection, both himself and Bai Zhi would be safe.

No matter how bad it is, you can still wake yourself up from your deep trance.

After making these arrangements, Meng Zhou was finally able to enter meditation deep in Tianqi Mountain.

At this moment, it is December 30th, late at night.

And just when Meng Zhou's consciousness was hanging in the sky of the "other world" like the way of heaven, time in the real world also turned a new page.

The spiritual energy between heaven and earth seems to have been reset and refreshed, becoming more active, and the vitality contained in it has become more abundant.

Meng Zhou quickly gathered all his thoughts and immersed himself in the three-pole cycle of energy, energy and spirit.

…

The fifth day of the first lunar month, afternoon.

Sixty-five-year-old Meng Zhou ended this round of retreat.

Cultivation progress +300, fourth level of elixir formation 6220/10,000;

Third level Spring Water Sutra +3000, Master 81,000/120,000;

Black Turtle Bearing Monument True Skill +3000, Master 69,300/120,000;

…

There was no change in the progress of cultivation or the experience gained from the Qi and Body Refining Methods, but Meng Zhou had confirmed his suspicion through this training.

That is to say, my practice in Sanchuan Plain has reached the ceiling.

The reason lies in the changes in Qinglian Sword Marrow's income.

In the first month of last year, Meng Zhou's cultivation level was also at the fourth level of pill formation, and the level of Chun Shui Sutra was also at the master level, which was no different from this year.

But during this retreat last year, the number of Green Lotus Sword Marrow I harvested was 32 drops, which is equivalent to four times the income from retreats at other times.

But this time, other conditions remained unchanged, except for the change in the practice environment, but the income from the Green Lotus Sword Marrow increased to 48 drops, from a four-fold gain to a six-fold gain.

The changes are so obvious.

Apart from the explanation that he had reached the ceiling of Mikawahara, Meng Zhou could not find any other more reasonable explanation.

However, this "top" has not affected my daily practice for the time being, but my retreat practice in the first month of every year has definitely been affected.

In the future, as his cultivation level gets higher and higher, this situation will become more and more serious.

Meng Zhou removed the formation on the stone island, looked up at the space, and thought to himself:

"It seems that this place really needs to be run with care."

Thinking like this, Meng Zhou flew out a golden spirit gourd and a continuous golden cloud from the gourd's mouth, quickly spreading out in the void in his field of vision.

There are a total of 60,000 golden-armored spirit insects, each of which has reached the second-level extreme level in strength.

Because they had not eaten blood for several years, they looked a little sluggish and weak when they appeared.

However, when Meng Zhou took out several huge balls of heart essence and blood from his body, broke them into 30,000 points and evenly poured them into the swarm of golden beetles, the bloodthirsty desire deep in their bodies quickly awakened.

In an instant, they were fighting for these 30,000 tiny points of heart essence and blood.

The golden beetle cloud that originally covered a large area of ​​void instantly boiled.

When the golden beetle cloud became calm again, the size of the insect cloud became half smaller.

The golden-armored spirit insect that won the battle for food not only consumed that small drop of heart essence blood, which was of a quality as high as third-level mid-grade.

Even the bodies of the defeated companions were swallowed by them without any waste.

Although their number has been reduced by half, the ferocious power they exude has clearly increased, becoming more breathtaking.

Meng Zhou did not continue to feed them the heart essence and blood, but took out the excess heart essence and blood in his body and stored it in a spiritual gourd space.

Here, after several years of continuous accumulation, the amount of essence and blood in the heart has reached an incredible level.

Its own extraordinary quality is coupled with the five-yun spiritual gourd's own warming effect on spiritual materials.

These special reserves are absolutely irresistible to all monsters.

Not long after Meng Zhou came out of seclusion, Bai Zhi estimated the time and returned once, and handed over a large number of second-level monsters that he had hunted in the past few days to Meng Zhou.

Then, without any pause, he followed the two mysterious turtles into the vigorous "ugliness removal" operation.

Yes, this is now the biggest motivation that supports her to clean this vast body of water.

It is not the threat of these aquatic monsters, but their presence that lowers the "beauty" of this aurora cave.

However, Meng Zhou did not immediately deal with the large amount of monster materials in his hand. Instead, he stretched out his hand to collect the red flame fire lotus clone that merged into the void and the mountain ape spirit puppet that merged into the stone island beneath him into the spiritual gourd.

The next moment, Meng Zhou stepped out of this hidden underground space.

Not long after, Meng Zhouyu used his lightless spaceship to arrive at another third-level spiritual land that was closer to the outskirts of Tianqi Mountain and more than two thousand miles away from the Aurora Cave.

Compared with Aurora Cave, this third-level spiritual land is smaller in area and lower in quality. It is located on the surface of a river valley landform area.

Meng Zhou just looked at it for a moment, and with a thought, he called Yaya out of the sea of ​​consciousness.

At this moment, Yaya is still in the shape of a small grasshopper.

As soon as she came out, she was jumping around excitedly, "Uncle, you are finally willing to let me get promoted!"

After having fun for a while, she quietly came to Meng Zhou again.

"are you ready?"

Yaya's pair of slender long beards are constantly swinging back and forth, like a chicken pecking at rice.

"I was ready ten years ago!"

"Okay, I delayed you."

As he spoke, a lot of third-level materials appeared in Meng Zhou's hands.

——These third-level materials are all waste products that failed to be made before Meng Zhou learned how to make third-level spirit puppets.

Meng Zhou took out these materials and threw them into the air. Yaya, who was still in the form of a grasshopper, flashed.

In an instant, every lump of waste material looked like a tiny grasshopper lying on its back.

The pair of slender long beards on the top of the grasshopper's head curved and touched the surface of these waste materials.

The spirituality contained in these materials poured into the grasshopper's body like flowing water along the long beard.

The material that had lost its spirituality quickly decayed, turning into puffs of smoke and dissipating before it even hit the ground.

After absorbing these third-order spiritualities, it is like a primer, or like a spark that ignites a pile of dry firewood.

Yaya's aura transformed rapidly in an instant.

In the personal information column, Meng Zhou clearly saw that the Rope Spirit, which was still at [Second Level 1000/1000], had quietly broken through the shackles of the Second Level and advanced to the Third Level, and its values ​​were still increasing rapidly.

And in the sky above Grasshopper Yaya's head, the fiery red calamity cloud has appeared and spread rapidly.

Almost at the moment when the calamity cloud appeared, Meng Zhou clearly felt that the jungle around him, which was originally full of vitality and vitality, suddenly became silent.

All the first and second level monsters operating in this area have done their best to reduce their presence.

On the contrary, a huge roar came from one direction, and the unique tyrannical aura of the third-order demon struck.

Meng Zhou ignored these, as two statues of Lihen appeared in his hands.

A statue of Lihen is the first level;

A statue of Lihen is the second level.

Above these two statues of Lihen, there is a strong and substantive sense of the Lordless spirit lingering on them.

This is because all the other first- and second-level Lihen statues were dismantled by Meng Zhou and used as raw materials for "decorating" the Aurora Cave.

If it weren't for these ownerless divine wills that must be attached to the statues of Lihen of corresponding grades, these last two statues of Lihen would have already become spiritual materials.

Meng Zhou stripped off all the ownerless divine thoughts lingering on the two Lihen statues and fed them to Yaya.

After Yaya devoured all these ownerless spirits, Meng Zhou fed the few remaining second-level skills to Yaya through his natal connection.

The true form of the Purifying Futon skill, the true form of the Giant Bear Spirit Puppet skill, the true form of the Black Turtle Spirit Puppet skill...

These were all the skills that were left behind when Meng Zhou formed the elixir, but could not be absorbed by his body when the portal of life opened.

For Meng Zhou, even if the true form of these skills is gone, it will not affect his mastery of related skills at all.

But for Yaya, this is a great supplement.

In the sky, the fiery red clouds became darker and darker, and the burning breath spread everywhere;

Then purple appeared again, and strands of electric snakes appeared from scratch, growing from small to large, wandering freely in the sky.

"Yaya, that's all uncle can help you. From now on, you have to rely on yourself."

While Meng Zhou was transmitting a message to Yaya, he retreated to a distance to prevent his presence from interfering with Jie Yun's judgment and affecting Yaya's calamity.

"Uncle, don't worry."

Yaya has no doubts about this breakthrough, she is 100% confident.

Meng Zhou, who retreated to a distance, saw Yaya, who was still in the form of a grasshopper, leaping into the twin clouds of thunder and fire.

It was also Meng Zhou's suggestion to let her stay in the form of a grasshopper and go through the tribulation, just to make her breakthrough appear more reasonable.

Of course, the most important thing is that her doing so will not affect the display of her strength.

Meng Zhou looked at the roiling clouds in the sky in the distance, thinking about Yaya's state inside at the moment. He couldn't interfere, and he could only suppress his worried emotions and wait quietly.

At this moment, another huge roar sounded.

Compared to the last time, the roar this time was louder. Meng Zhou looked up and saw a giant gray elephant with a pair of wild white tusks approaching quickly from a distance.

The sound of the elephant's cry resounded throughout the land, containing angry and violent emotions, as if it was warning this creature that dared to "act recklessly" within its territory.

Elephants are known for their large size and are known as "the best on land". This giant gray elephant with third-level middle-grade bloodline strength is even more outstanding.

The four huge elephant legs are like four giant pillars, dragging its burly body that is more than 70 meters high and more than 100 meters long, rushing from a distance at extremely high speeds.

Everything along the way, everything that stood in front of it, was smashed into powder by it.

Every time the elephant's feet hit the ground, it was like a giant hammer beating the giant drum of the earth crazily.

Meng Zhou looked at this crazy, seemingly unstoppable gray elephant. He would not allow it to ruin Yaya's calamity.

Meng Zhou's figure flashed forward, and the next moment, he was standing on top of the giant gray elephant.

The giant gray elephant, which was charging forward crazily just a moment ago and seemed unstoppable, suddenly lost its forelimbs at the same time and fell to its knees.

The forward momentum of the huge body caused it to fall down, and its body rolled completely uncontrollably.

Compared to the giant gray elephant, Meng Zhou was as small as a mosquito. When his feet landed on the giant elephant's head, in the perception of the giant gray elephant, it was as if a huge mountain fell from the sky and suppressed it.

This was Meng Zhou's use of the "All Phenomenon Technique" to fully mobilize the power of the surrounding earth. As he stepped on it with both feet, it hit the giant elephant's head in an instant.

After falling to the ground this time, the gray elephant never got up again.

It struggled hard, but except for the even more terrifying suppression power, it had no additional effect.

From the elephant skin, which is tougher than a third-level mid-level magic robe, to the giant elephant skeleton, which is harder than a third-level mid-level magic weapon, dense wounds and cracks quickly appeared under its violent struggle.

Finally, the gray giant elephant's eyes completely lost all luster, and its last struggle also dissipated in an instant.

Meng Zhou put the giant elephant into the spirit gourd space.

If the starting point was just to kill this giant elephant, Meng Zhou had a sharper and faster choice.

Each method is quieter and more efficient than the current method.

The reason why he chose this method was just to try out the power of the "Wanxiang Method", to have a head-on confrontation with the gray-white giant elephant that was known for its strength and manipulation of the earth's force, and to defeat it from the front.

Not long after he put the body of the giant gray elephant into the spirit gourd space, Meng Zhou glanced to one side into the void.

His figure flashed and disappeared from where he was.

The next moment, a bloody giant bat with a wingspan of more than 80 meters appeared and fell from the sky.

However, before it fell to the ground, the giant bat, whose strength was only at the peak level of the third-level low-grade, had higher intelligence and was trying to pick up the missing, disappeared and entered the spirit gourd space, lying side by side with the gray-white giant elephant.

When a small grasshopper rushed out of the clouds in the sky and appeared on Meng Zhou's shoulder, three monster corpses were already lying side by side in the spirit gourd space.

When he summoned the lightless spaceship and prepared to return to the Aurora Cave, Meng Zhou, who knew the situation within a radius of five hundred miles through the transparent moon mirror, drove the spacecraft in a circle.

When he returned to Aurora Cave, six corpses of third-order monsters were already lying side by side in the spirit gourd space.

Among them, four of them are at the lower level of the third level, and the strongest one has the same combat power as the mountain ape green wolf, reaching the peak of the middle level of the third level.

In fact, within the scope of the transparent moon mirror, there are more third-order great demons gathered in a radius of 500 miles due to being attracted by the calamity cloud.

The reason why Meng Zhou did not continue to expand the hunting range was because he felt an agitated atmosphere spreading.

Although the entire hunting process was concealed and swift, he controlled his aura very well and did not leak any of his power. Coupled with Jie Yun's intimidation and suppression, other third-level demons were unable to confirm that the shooter was a human monk.

However, in such a short period of time, the six-headed third-order big demons "disappeared" in such a small area, and a huge power vacuum instantly appeared. Under the chain reaction, it was enough to make other third-order big demons instinctively feel fearful and uneasy.

This has reached a critical point. Before this critical point, the monsters who feel instinctively uneasy will choose to put their lives first, be cautious and act cautiously.

But once this critical point is crossed and they feel that they are in dire straits, it will be the other extreme.

The so-called dog jumps over the wall when it is anxious, a rabbit bites when it is anxious, a cornered animal still fights, and a desperate situation goes crazy.

Therefore, Meng Zhou chose to stop in time and not break the invisible string.

If the killing continues, it is very likely to cause huge chaos that will affect the entire Tianqi Mountain.

Once such a change occurs, it will not only bring disaster to the monks who are practicing in Tianqi Mountain, but it will also inevitably affect the nearby spiritual places outside Tianqi Mountain.

Even so, this short outing was quite rewarding.

[Level 3 Rope Spirit: 3000/10,000]

Just after breaking through, Yaya's strength has already reached the peak level of the third-order low-grade.

And according to what Yaya said, this is far from the limit that it can grow to at the moment.

Having devoured a large amount of first- and second-order masterless divine will, she still has huge room for growth.

The only thing missing is absorbing enough high-quality spiritual essence.

For Yaya now, the problem is much easier to solve than it was in the first and second levels.

At the first and second levels, Yaya relied on "feeding" to grow and eat spiritual essence, and Meng Zhou needed to prepare the "food" for her first.

But now, according to Yaya's description, she no longer needs Meng Zhou's feeding. She already has the ability to actively look for food on her own.

"This is a new ability added after this upgrade." Yaya told Meng Zhou.

Meng Zhou thought to himself that after breaking through the third level, she gained such an ability to "actively forage" because she was probably afraid of being hungry and wanted to be self-reliant.

After Yaya's description, Meng Zhou felt that its "active foraging" ability would be more appropriately described as a "treasure hunting" skill.

She has become a "treasure hunt rope", and Yaya can perfectly integrate the rope body into the rocks and soil, and can swim freely under the earth like a fish.

And just like a camel in the desert can identify the direction of water sources, she can more accurately capture the direction of "food" by integrating into the earth.

The "food" that can be absorbed by her to grow is actually various third-level quality spiritual materials and minerals.

It should also be mentioned that after this promotion, Yaya's "recipe" range has become much wider, and she has basically overcome her "picky and anorexic" problem.

At the first level, Yaya could only absorb the spiritual essence from wood spiritual materials.

At the second level, the scope of the "recipe" expanded, from the single wood system at the first level to the second civil system at the second level.

Now, the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth spiritual materials are within Yaya's consumption range.

The nature of her rope body has also changed from a single wood element at the first level, to a second element of earth and wood at the second level, and now it can combine the characteristics of five elements into one body at the same time.

Not only that, Yaya can also eat all kinds of spiritual materials such as ice, wind, thunder, light, and darkness, but only edible.

"If she wants to incorporate all the characteristics of various systems into her body, she probably needs to go one step further and upgrade to the fourth level."

…

After entering the ground fissure entrance, which did not look huge on the surface, Meng Zhou did not return to the bottom immediately. Instead, he carefully observed the changes in the surrounding rock mass through the transparent moon mirror.

After careful observation, Meng Zhou took action.

Although, this ground fissure is a structure that is small at the top and large at the bottom, getting bigger as you go down.

But within a kilometer from the surface, the changes were not too exaggerated, which made it easier for Meng Zhou to move.

He came to the rock wall of the dome, which was more than a thousand meters deep from the surface, and placed his hands on the rock wall.

In the Five Elements Vientiane Body, the ability to control the earth's power and shape materials at will is fully activated.

In an instant, where the hand touched, the rock that was originally extremely hard became as soft as dough.

In the water below, Bai Zhi, who was hunting for "ugliness removal", noticed the change above her head, paused her actions, and looked up at the sky in surprise.

Because Yaya's breakthrough efficiency was very high, Meng Zhou's absence was not too long, and Bai Zhi had no idea that Meng Zhou had left briefly.

When she flew near the Dome of Change, she saw a scene that stunned her and made her almost speechless in surprise.

Meng Zhou was seen pressing his hands on the rock wall above his head, as if driving away a wave, pushing the rock mass within two hundred meters on the left and right sides forward.

These hard rock masses were as soft as sticky mud and strong dough under his palms. In this way, he "drove" huge amounts of rock mass closer to the surface.

When he stopped "driving", the rock mass that was originally as soft as ooze became extremely hard again, and the originally huge crack became much smaller.

In this way, Meng Zhou "pushed" the rock mass further down to the top again and again.

Eventually, the area one thousand meters down from the surface was filled with hard rock and turned into a solid entity.

And because such a mountain is filled with miscellaneous evil spirits, even if there is a Danjie monk standing directly above, if he cannot personally penetrate the thousand-meter rock formation, he will not be able to explore this open underground space.

While completely sealing the entrance and exit above his head, Meng Zhou also reshaped the entire dome space.

Make the entire dome more suitable for inkjet printing of rune arrays.

After dealing with all this, Meng Zhou landed on the central stone island again and smiled at Bai Zhi who was following the landing next to him:

"From now on, this will be our own Aurora Cave."

Bai Zhi looked at Meng Zhou for a while, then raised her head to look at the small world that had been completely reshaped by the man in front of her in a short period of time, her eyes filled with a strange look.

"You admire me very much?" Meng Zhou smiled.

Bai Zhi did not deny it, and nodded simply:

"Yes, what cultivator can see such an ability that is close to changing the world and change the world without feeling admiration?"

Seeing her answer so simply, Meng Zhou couldn't help but wave his hand and said modestly:

"It's far from it. With my little means, I'm still far from changing the world."

Bai Zhi was shocked when she heard that he was so humble.

The word "change the world" in her mouth was an adjective, but the man in front of her seemed to regard it as an objective description.

However, Bai Zhi had no intention of paying attention to this at the moment. Instead, she calmed down and asked:

"Are we going back to Sanchuan Plain in the future?"

She now naturally understands that the man God has appointed for her is so miraculous that it has surpassed the conventional wisdom in the spiritual world. While she feels that she has really won a big prize, she has no intention of immediately getting to the bottom of it.

On the contrary, she really liked the feeling of peeling an onion, deciphering the secrets layer by layer, but letting nature take its course.

Faced with Bai Zhi's question, Meng Zhou gave an affirmative answer:

"Of course, after setting up this place, we can go back at any time."

As he spoke, Meng Zhou looked Bai Zhi up and down.

He knew that the main reason why Bai Zhi asked this question at this moment was not out of nostalgia for Mikawa Yuan or Zhu Qian as a student.

"Has the barrier from foundation building to pill formation disappeared?" Meng Zhou asked.

Bai Zhi nodded slightly and said:

"Well, not long ago, the bottleneck that had been bothering me for many years disappeared without any warning.

Now, I have the confidence to complete the elixir formation without resorting to any external resources. "

When Meng Zhou heard this, he nodded slightly and was not surprised.

He immediately let Yaya break through, and when helping Yaya break through and improve, he also deliberately avoided Bai Zhi's sight, because he had known for a long time that Yaya's improvement would probably affect Bai Zhi.

Meng Zhou didn't want Bai Zhi to think of the connection between himself and Yaya, so he deliberately avoided its sight.

"So, do you plan to go back to Sanchuan Plain to form pills?"

Bai Zhi nodded and said: "Although there is also a third-level spiritual land here, the quality is better than that of Sanchuan Plain, but after the tribulation in Tianqi Mountain, the movement is still too loud."

Meng Zhou nodded, "Do you want to go back to Sanchuan Plain to form pills just for safety reasons?"

Bai Zhi was stunned for a moment and asked with a puzzled look on her face: "What do you mean?"

Meng Zhou said:

"I think you should be very clear about the rules when it comes to forming pills in the Sanchuan Plain.

Your real body is a black man without any records. If you want to form an elixir in Sanchuan Plain.

The most appropriate way is to use the identity of spiritual planter ‘Zhou Nan’.

Otherwise, even if you successfully form an elixir with your true body under my operation, you will definitely receive great attention from the Qingxuan Sect and the monks from all walks of life. "

After saying that, Meng Zhou paused and emphasized: "Not only are the rules of Sanchuan Plain like this, but the rules of Cuiyu Lake are also like this."

Bai Zhi frowned after listening to Meng Zhou's analysis.

Since leaving Jade Lake, she has never shown her true self to others.

The reason she gave herself was that her real appearance was too stunning and inhuman, and she was also a "remnant of the Yan family", which could easily bring trouble to her.

Therefore, even when she is alone in the quiet room, she maintains a large degree of disguise.

Thinking that if she formed an elixir with her true body and would be exposed to the attention of the entire Qingxuan Realm, she felt a strong feeling of rejection in her heart.

Using the identity of "Spiritual Planter Zhou Nan" to pass through the barrier and form the elixir, this plan actually made her more accepting.

But it was only "some". Thinking that once she formed a true elixir in this capacity, she would inevitably have more contacts with other elixir-forming monks, including Qingxuan Sect's elixir-forming monks, she felt repulsive and uncomfortable in her heart.

In this regard, she also found a reason to convince herself.

Although the "shape drawing" ability she mastered was very miraculous, she never dared to think that she could dominate the world with such a method.

If this disguise was seen through by the monks of Qingxuan Sect, not only would she be in great trouble, but it would also implicate Meng Zhou, putting him in a whirlpool of trouble.

After thinking for a while, Bai Zhi couldn't help but sigh:

"Hey, it would be great if we could form elixirs in Tianqi Mountain."

Meng Zhou raised his eyebrows, "Are you sure?"

For him, he actually prefers Bai Zhi to secretly form elixirs and not take advantage of the spiritual resources of Sanchuan Plateau or Cuiyu Lake.

Compared with exposing Angelica dahurica to more people's view, this small convenience cannot offset the huge risks it adds.

But once Bai Zhi makes this choice, it means that she will become a complete "black house".

He can only live under his own "shadow" and can no longer appear in the practice circle of Qingxuan Domain as a pill-forming person.

This reduced his troubles, but at the expense of Bai Zhi's loss of freedom.

Therefore, although he had such an idea in his heart, he was somewhat unable to open his mouth.

Now that Bai Zhi herself has revealed this tendency, there couldn't be a better situation.