Do not die

The three third-order monsters approaching quickly from the depths of the lake must be a family.

They have snake-like, long and winding bodies, but they also have features such as gills, fins, and scales.

There is a faint blue electric light lingering between the fish scales.

The three-headed third-order monsters emerged from the depths of the lake in the distance and quickly approached the location of the two mysterious turtles, forming a sharp arrow formation.

Among them, the one at the forefront of the arrow is not only the largest in size, but also exudes the most powerful aura.

Judging from the aura alone, it is no less powerful than the Mountain Ape Spirit Puppet and the Blue Wolf Spirit Puppet when they were alive, not to mention that this is still its home court.

As it progresses, the surrounding lake waters with strong evil spirits seem to be automatically clearing the way for it.

Behind it, there are two third-order monsters of the same size, one on the left and one on the right. Not only are they much smaller in size, but the aura they exude is also much thinner.

The one on the left is slightly stronger, and is right above the third-level low-grade and third-level mid-grade levels.

The one on the right is the weakest. It seems that it has just been promoted to the third level. It can be seen from the changes in its breath that its control of its third level power is still very immature.

The actions of the two Xuanling Turtles have left no room for change in the conflict between the two parties.

The three big demons were fierce and murderous and were about to charge forward to punish them, and they would fight back the "provocation" of the two mysterious turtles in the most ferocious way.

But just when they were still some distance away from the calamity area of ​​the two Xuanling Turtles, they didn't even see the face of the real master.

Starting from the weakest monster, its momentum became weaker at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if it had fallen into a weird, extremely sticky quagmire.

Then, it simply stayed in the water and never moved at all.

Following the weakest third-level demon, the third-level demon whose strength ranged from low-level to mid-level also showed similar symptoms.

The time it took to be completely "imprisoned" in this water was not much slower than the first, weakest big monster.

The third-order monster who was charging at the front and the strongest felt the "betrayal" of the surrounding waters.

The water environment that originally provided him with the most safe shelter suddenly became perilous.

However, its powerful physique and bloodline abilities are ultimately not comparable to those of the other two third-order monsters.

Its body suddenly expanded for no reason, and then became extremely hard.

The faint blue electric light that was originally flowing around him suddenly became more than a hundred times stronger.

In an instant, the surrounding waters were filled with intense blue electric light, and its tall body whipped its powerful body towards the surrounding waters like a steel whip.

"Bang!"

It was still nearly a hundred meters under the water, but a huge hole suddenly exploded around it.

In the generally calm water surface, a deep pit with a radius of several hundred meters and a depth of several hundred meters suddenly appeared.

The faint blue electric light spreads from the center of the pit to the surroundings as if it has substance.

But the big demon who exerted his strongest strength to break free from this "trap" did not feel any joy at all.

Because just when it broke out regardless of the limit and violently broke the pressure from the external waters, a strange force invaded its body.

Then, this powerful third-level creature found in despair that all the blood in the powerful body and the various liquids existing in the flesh and blood organs were no longer under its control.

They seemed to have a mind of their own and were no longer under its control.

Either it rotates clockwise, or it forms a counterclockwise vortex, one layer inside another.

It was supposed to be the owner of this monster body, but now it became an irrelevant existence.

Just when its intelligence, which was no less than that of ordinary humans, was frantically searching for a way to break the situation, it discovered that the world was spinning and the space was changing.

When he wakes up again, the water environment has disappeared, but he is in a void with no sky and no ground, neither up nor down.

…

With the help of the small magical power "Wanxiang Law", Meng Zhou showed off his control over the vortex force.

However, when Meng Zhou put the three monster corpses into the spirit gourd space, he couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

Not to mention the one with the weakest strength, he knelt down decisively before he even formally exerted his strength.

The one with the middle strength only allowed him to exert nearly two percent of his control over the vortex force.

As for the one he had high hopes for and who was also the strongest, he only used about 50% of his control over the vortex force, which made him feel quite unsatisfied.

However, this was also because he habitually used some simple techniques when "colliding" with this big demon.

He didn't go head-to-head, but instead used a feint to trick the opponent out of his most powerful move.

Then he took advantage of the fluctuations in his energy and suddenly exerted force at the node where he was weakest in strain.

"However, even if it is completely head-on, it can only withstand at most six of my vortex forces."

…

The three big demons were easily eliminated, and the boiling aura around the two mysterious turtles finally reached its peak.

It was as if after one or two levels of continuous accumulation, they finally reached the highest point they could reach at this moment.

It was also at this moment that the calamity clouds above the heads of the two turtles stopped spreading and began to suppress and descend towards the two mysterious turtles little by little.

And just when the two turtles were exhausted, there was no more strength in their bodies to support them to continue climbing.

Two large and small balls of spiritual liquid were thrown out by Meng Zhou, crossing the void and landing on the heads of the two mysterious turtles.

Then, it quickly submerged into it and disappeared.

With the integration of these two groups of spiritual liquid, the two mysterious turtles seemed to have received two groups of refueling packages.

They were already exhausted, but now have new strength from their bodies to their blood.

The sky had stopped changing, and the calamity clouds that were about to land had new changes again.

The scale continues to expand, and the aura it emits becomes more and more frightening.

The two Xuanling Turtles, who received such huge help, watched the scene happening inside their bodies and in the sky above them at the same time.

They were not surprised at all, but suddenly became panicked.

Originally, they were 100% sure of the success of this breakthrough.

This is also true.

If Meng Zhou's bloodline talent had been developed to the extreme by Meng Zhou, and even the mysterious turtles like the two brothers could not break the shackles of life and advance to a new level, then there would be no wild third-level mysterious turtles in this world.

But now, as Meng Zhou gave them a huge "surprise" at the most critical moment and gave them a hard push from behind, they no longer had 100% confidence in success.

“There’s only so much I can help you with.

Next, it's up to you. "

Meng Zhou, who pushed the two Xuanling Turtles hard from behind, returned the message with serious instructions.

…

Thank you very much, Master.

…

Guida and Gui Er, who were originally very sure of success and whose mentality was very stable and even a little too calm, looked at the calamity clouds above them that were getting bigger and bigger and their aura became more and more powerful. After a brief panic, they quickly Become determined.

Not only that, the bloody and ferocious nature hidden deep in the bodies of the two mysterious turtles that were forced to the edge of the cliff was completely aroused.

Seeing this change, Meng Zhou nodded gently and nodded with satisfaction.

This was exactly the effect he wanted.

…

The two large and small groups of spiritual fluid he threw at Gui Da and Gui Er were actually White Lotus Spiritual Essence and Green Lotus Sword Essence.

What Guida got was a full three hundred drops of White Lotus Spiritual Essence.

What Gui Er got was thirty drops of the third-level low-grade Green Lotus Sword Essence.

Although there is a huge difference in quantity, judging from the conversion ratio between the White Lotus Life Essence and the Green Lotus Sword Essence, the overall value of the two is equivalent, and there is no problem of who takes advantage and who suffers.

The reason why he wanted to feed Gui Datou with White Lotus Spiritual Essence and to use Green Lotus Sword Essence with Gui Er was because he hoped that the two brothers could find different paths ahead.

In the distant sky, the calamity clouds covering Gui Da and Gui Er finally stabilized again.

Facing the calamity clouds suppressing the sky, the two mysterious turtles did not take the initiative to greet them. Instead, they remained like two small islands, with most of their backs floating on the water, quietly waiting for the calamity clouds. baptism.

"Boom——"

Two purple thunderbolts brewing from the depths of the Tribulation Cloud struck down almost in no particular order, hitting the turtle shells of Gui Da and Gui Er at the same time.

After being bombarded by the thunder, the two mysterious turtles had not shown any special changes, but the waters around the two turtles had already stirred up turbulent waves.

Threads of purple electricity emitted from the bodies of the two turtles and were introduced into the surrounding waters.

"boom--"

Then came the second thunderbolt.

"Stable."

The two mysterious turtles looked like wooden piles, passively withstanding the bombardment of thunder.

But Meng Zhou had already seen that they seemed to be passively enduring without any change, but in fact, there were powerful yet subtle changes in power from the time the thunder and lightning touched the turtle's back.

Meng Zhou has basically judged that based on the current scale of the calamity cloud, it will only make two Xuanling turtles "embarrassed" at most.

Their success is unstoppable and a certainty.

"If I had known this, I should have given them more help."

Meng Zhou thought so in his heart.

In the spirit gourd space, before assisting Gui Da and Gui Er to break through this time, the various spiritual marrow reserves were as follows:

White Lotus Spirit Essence: 371 drops;

Third-level low-grade Qinglian Sword Marrow: 443 drops;

Third-level mid-grade Qinglian Sword Marrow: 424 drops.

Now, after this consumption, there are still 71 drops of White Lotus Spiritual Essence, and there are still 413 drops of the third-level low-grade Green Lotus Sword Essence.

At this moment, Meng Zhou's heart moved and he looked in a certain direction in the sky.

"Another fish has taken the bait."

Naturally, Meng Zhou had no intention of letting go of such a "big fish" that came to his door.

He headed towards the direction where the "big fish" was coming and took the initiative to greet it.

When the calamity clouds covering Gui Da and Gui Er struck out the last thunder and lightning, which could no longer be sustained and slowly dissipated in the void, Meng Zhou's spirit gourd space had once again contained seven third-level bodies. The corpse of the great demon.

Through the transparent moon mirror, Meng Zhou clearly "saw" that there were many third-order monsters lurking. He was not greedy, but after feeling the strange atmosphere again, Meng Zhou wisely chose to stop.

It was a very mysterious feeling, as if the entire Tianqi Mountain had once again become an ever-tightening string.

This feeling is very wonderful, but if all the monsters within a radius of five hundred miles are brought into view through the transparent moon mirror, the "wonderful feeling" will be even more intuitive.

All monsters are becoming more and more restless.

The wildness, bestiality, and ferocity are gradually covering up and submerging their little intelligence.

Meng Zhou knew that if he did not choose to stop, but continued to hunt down the eighth level three demon and put it into his spiritual gourd space.

The string that is stretched to the limit will break, and all the monsters in sight will turn into complete "chaos".

"Is this the core cause of the beast tide?"

At this moment, Meng Zhou had already embarked on his return journey.

The green wolf turned into a strong wind, and Meng Zhou, Bai Zhi, and Gui Da and Gui Er, who were all in tatters and with cracks everywhere, stayed quietly in the space of the wolf's belly.

Guida and Guier are quiet because they are working hard to recover.

They have successfully gone through the calamity and completed the second to third-level transformation, but their current condition is not good. Naturally, they have no intention of distracting others.

Bai Zhi's quietness is trying hard to digest this harvest and accumulate resources for her own breakthrough.

Meng Zhou was quiet, but he was thinking about something.

In the traditional concept of the spiritual world, the occurrence of beast tides can basically be attributed to two reasons.

One of the more common reasons is that there are too many monsters in the evil veins, or the number of monsters exceeds the upper limit of the evil veins.

So, there was a tide of beasts.

Most of the beast tides that occurred in the Qingxuan Territory were due to this reason.

The beast tide is a manifestation of the evil pulse releasing "pressure" from time to time.

In order to avoid the formation of this kind of beast tide, practitioners are organized to carry out large-scale and planned hunting and eradication of the evil beasts in the evil veins.

Artificially controlling the number of monsters is a very necessary and effective solution.

The other is relatively rare, that is, when practitioners carry out large-scale and organized extermination of monsters in a certain area, the emotion of fear and despair is so strong that some kind of qualitative change occurs.

It spreads through the connection at the bloodline level, thus triggering all the monster beasts to make the most intense and crazy counterattack.

At this time, all the monsters seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood and transformed into madness.

Each and every one of them has become fearless of death. Even if they know that there is a cliff ahead of them, they will jump down without hesitation.

Even if they know that there is a strong person ahead of them that they cannot deal with at all, they will rush forward like moths to a flame.

At this time, the most basic "survival" instinct of life seems to have completely disappeared.

This situation is very rare, and it is also the most feared by the spiritual world.

Among them, the most famous one occurred more than fifty years ago.

That beast wave directly caused Qingxuan Sect to adjust its strategic direction.

Qingxuan Sect, who originally wanted to develop more spiritual veins in the outer ring area, chose to terminate this plan, run Qinglin Fang, and continue to practice basic skills.

At this moment, Meng Zhou recalled these in his mind, coupled with the gains from his two personal experiences and some concepts from his previous life, some understandings that were unique to him arose in Meng Zhou's mind.

In the traditional concepts of practitioners, monsters with ignorant and low intelligence almost represent killing and chaos.

Meng Zhou didn't see it that way. If he only saw different monster beasts in his eyes, that might be the case.

But if you broaden your field of view, for example, you can view all the monsters in the third-level evil Tianqi Mountain as a whole.

Then, after careful observation, you can find that behind the chaotic appearance of countless monster beasts killing each other, there is an extremely stable order that is not inferior to the practice world.

Individual monsters may continue to die, monsters will continue to be hunted and killed, becoming food for other monsters, and new monsters will continue to be born.

But from a macro perspective, the group of monsters in Tianqi Mountain is very stable.

After thinking of these, Meng Zhou naturally thought of some words.

Ecosystem, food chain, ecological niche…

"All the monsters in Tianqi Mountain also form a complete ecosystem."

"In this ecosystem, all monsters have their own place."

“This position is not fixed, but is in a state of change all the time.

Monsters are constantly dying and monsters are being born. The ecological niche is changing and updating in real time, but the entire ecosystem is stable. "

"Perhaps, this ecosystem that exists in the evil veins and consists of a large number of monsters has some kind of strange 'spirituality' in itself.

Once there are too 'abnormal' changes, such as the death of a large number of first- and second-order monsters in a short period of time, or the death of a large number of third-order monsters in a short period of time... there will be a large number of vacancies in the ecological niche in a short period of time.

From a macro perspective, it covers the ecosystem of all monsters in the area, so it changes from 'balanced' to 'imbalanced'. "

"Ecosystems are capable of self-stabilization and self-regulation."

"It will transmit the signal of this imbalance to all monsters in all ecosystems, and use the power of these monsters to adjust this 'imbalance' and restore it to 'balance' again."

"It is precisely for this reason that I can no longer carry out large-scale hunting of the third-order monsters in Tianqi Mountain in a short period of time."

"Because this will quickly lead to an imbalance in the entire ecosystem throughout the Tianqi Mountains, requiring regulatory intervention."

“But on the other hand, as long as I pay attention to control, I can control this ‘imbalance’ within the critical range.

Then, the self-regulation and stability of the ecosystem will appear in another form. "

…

"Let all the monsters in the area stabilize and adjust themselves in the most decisive and violent way, just like the Seven Injury Fist. It is a last resort method that can injure the enemy a thousand times and damage yourself eight hundred.

Therefore, as long as this critical point is not passed, the ecosystem will not forcefully solve the problem in this way. "

"As long as it's not excessive, it also tends to resolve the imbalance in a slow, gentle way."

"In other words, as long as I control the intensity, cut day by day, and accumulate over time, I can continue to reduce the size and number of monsters in the area, and I will not cause an intense crisis in the ecosystem due to overly drastic actions. Bounce.”

"It seems like this ecosystem may have spirituality, but not much."