Longevity starts with learning

After nine hours of darkness, almost without a second’s delay, a sun rose high in the sky, blazing in the sky, and scorching heat was rising, also creating a rolling heat wave in this desert sea.

Yellow sand filled the sky, and that piece of land full of vitality seemed to have lost its source of vitality in this endless blood. The exotic flowers and plants, the towering ancient trees, all withered visibly.

And as this withering continued, the boundless tide of sand-tailed scorpions, in just a few breaths, completely submerged this oasis that should not belong to the desolate desert sea.

Until the last trace of vitality was extinguished, it was as if the scene was reappeared. Without the existence of external enemies, each sand-tailed scorpion returned to its original intelligence and returned to the existence of a single creature.

All the madness and dullness were gone.

Among them, two silver-white sand-tailed scorpions flew across the sky, one after the other, heading towards the unknown depths of the desert sea.

However, this abnormality did not cause any ripples in the desert sea, and the fluctuation of will did not react at all.

Several days passed quietly.

On this day, the two silver-white sand-tailed scorpions that had been flying across the sky for several days finally landed on a sand dune one after the other.

Compared with the vast desert sea, this piece of sand dune did not seem to change at all.

In the body of the silver-white sand-tailed scorpion, Chu Mu held a gray-white compass, and his expression was obviously solemn.

In a few days, without the obstruction of the beast tide, the speed was naturally not slow as they hurried on their way with one heart and soul.

In just a few days, the two silver-white sand-tailed scorpions crossed more than ten thousand miles of this desert sea.

And the scenery seen in this more than ten thousand miles of crossing is no different from the original and the scenery in front of me.

Everywhere I look, there is a piece of yellow sand all over the sky.

In the sand sea, the sand-tailed scorpions are still endless, and there is no life other than sand-tailed scorpions.

The whole desert sea is almost everywhere.

The simplest point is, how can the endless sand-tailed scorpions survive in the vast desert sea without any other non-sand-tailed scorpions?

High-level monsters may not need to rely on blood food, and swallowing and exhaling spiritual energy can meet the needs of the monster body, but low-level monsters, if there is no blood food at all, it is obviously difficult to meet the needs of survival by just swallowing and exhaling spiritual energy.

This is no different from the immortal cultivators.

If the immortal cultivators want to completely fast and not eat the essence of grains and meat, they must at least have the cultivation of the foundation-building realm.

Some special beings who rely on blood food to practice, some of them even reach the golden elixir realm, find it difficult to completely fast.

The desert sea is boundless, and the sand-tailed scorpions are endless, most of which are first- and second-order existences.

These sand-tailed scorpions seem to be living beings, but in fact, they are like dead puppets. They do not prey on each other, nor do they have any blood intake. They wander in this vast desert sea, which is weird.

Moreover...

Chu Mu looked down at the gray-white compass in his hand. The compass is similar to the five-element compass that he conceived and designed.

The only difference is that the five-element compass is to detect and monitor spatial fluctuations.

And this compass named "Dingling" is to track the fluctuations of spiritual energy.

Compared with detecting spatial fluctuations, it is only to track the fluctuations of spiritual energy. The difficulty of the two is obviously not at the same level.

After all, spiritual energy is everywhere, and under normal conditions, it is basically impossible for spiritual energy to fluctuate.

Once spiritual energy fluctuates, it is either the natural creation of heaven and earth, such as spiritual veins, mineral veins, and magma sea of ​​fire.

Or it is the practice of cultivators and fighting, which will also produce corresponding spiritual energy fluctuations.

Any slight fluctuation, in this peaceful spiritual world, will inevitably produce a corresponding chain reaction in the spiritual environment, no matter how far away it is.

Through this chain reaction, it is undoubtedly easy to detect the corresponding spiritual fluctuation. If the distance is close, it can even be judged by the degree of spiritual fluctuation and the phenomenon of spiritual fluctuation to determine the cause of the spiritual fluctuation.

As early as when he first arrived in the Hanhai Xiuxian Realm and went out to sea to hunt monsters, he had refined a similar detection treasure. Later, with the improvement of his refining skills, like his phantom face, there were many improvements.

The Five Elements Compass can basically only monitor spatial fluctuations within a radius of several miles, while the monitoring range of this Dingling Compass is expanded to hundreds of miles. If the detection accuracy is not considered, this distance can even be expanded to nearly a thousand miles.

And here, this compass that has been silent in his storage space for a long time has undoubtedly played a role again.

On the light gray compass, it is as crystal clear as a mirror, as if it encompasses the entire desert.

The route that spans thousands of miles is also reflected on the compass.

However, this route is not a straight span, but a winding one, as if it is deliberately bypassing something in the middle.

And the fact is indeed so.

After all, the appearance of Qin Zhaoxue undoubtedly means that this strange sea of ​​sand is definitely not as recorded. Every cultivator who enters this relic cave is a different test level.

This desert sea obviously breaks this rule.

And in the past few days, through this Dingling compass, it seems to have once again confirmed this fact.

At this time, on the crystal clear sea of ​​sand on the compass, the route that spans thousands of miles, every bend is marked with one or several clearly visible black spots.

Each black dot means an abnormal spiritual fluctuation detected by the Dingling Compass.

According to the nature of the spiritual fluctuation detected by the compass, without exception, they are all obviously caused by the sand-tailed scorpion tide. A considerable part of them can even clearly detect the fluctuation of the cultivator's mana.

Obviously, although it is unknown why, there are already quite a few other cultivators who have entered this sand sea trial besides Qin Zhaoxue.

In just a few days, he has detected more than ten of them.

Disguised as a sand-tailed scorpion to deceive the world, once such abnormal fluctuations are detected, they will naturally avoid them as far as possible.

Otherwise, when they get close to a certain distance, what awaits them is probably the manipulation of that will, and they will be unable to control themselves again.

Buzz...

At this moment, the compass suddenly trembled, and then, on the crystal clear compass mirror, just in front of them, another extremely clear black dot appeared.

"The...sixteenth."

Chu Mu frowned slightly, and then he looked ahead. The yellow sand was rolling, and vaguely, he could see that the sand-tailed scorpions moving around were all gathering towards the place where the spiritual energy was fluctuating.

According to his summary of crossing thousands of miles, once an outsider appeared in a certain place, the sand-tailed scorpions moving around at least three or four hundred miles would gather with him.

In the end, an endless tide of beasts was formed, and the fight would not stop until death.

However, even now, he did not understand what the meaning of this desert sea trial was?

Endless tide of beasts?

To destroy the source of the control of the sand-tailed scorpions?

But the problem is that under this endless tide of beasts, any cultivator would probably find it extremely difficult to protect himself, let alone search for the ultimate source.

Even though he had concealed the truth and crossed thousands of miles to this day, he had not found any useful clues.

Looking around, there was nothing but desert, nothing but sand-tailed scorpions, nothing but sand-tailed scorpions, just like copy and paste, endless and boundless.

All the foreign cultivators he met were struggling under the boundless beast tide, hoping for a glimmer of hope.

As for the fluctuation of will, he could sense it clearly, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not get a glimpse of its source.

This desert sea was like a...cage?

Chu Mu seemed to have sensed something and looked up at the sky.

The blazing sun was hanging high in the sky, a big sun, extremely hot, but also extremely illusory.

He cultivated the Great Sun True Fire, and his perception of the Great Sun's existence was keen from the source.

But on this big sun, he could not feel any fluctuation of the Great Sun's breath...