Chapter 161: Alchemist Red-eyed Golden Beetle

Chapter 161: Alchemist Red-eyed Golden Beetle

Zhang Yun is a casual cultivator. A loose cultivator who doesn't mix well in the cultivation realm. He was originally a mortal, but when he was twelve years old, he was playing with his friends and found a fragmented volume of the Xiuzhen classic "Dan Dao Commentary" in the hollow of a dead ancient tree. Because of his curiosity and yearning for the art of immortals, Zhang Yun simply began to practice according to the mental method of the face.

Maybe he does have some fate for cultivating immortals, and his roots are also very good, and without the guidance of others, he actually passed the level of induction aura that most people can't step through in their lives, and cultivated to the stage of inducing qi into the body. Cultivating to this point, you can absorb the aura of heaven and earth into your body, condense into true yuan, and cast some elementary spells.

However, the path of cultivation is not a smooth road, but full of thorns. If you don't have peerless talent or the guidance of your predecessors, it is very difficult to take a step forward if you don't have enough resources. Fortunately, although there are no advanced spells and peerless pills in the "Dan Dao Commentary", there are many primary cultivation, making zuò talismans, and refining pills, which are like classics for junior disciples of a certain sect to cultivate, which is just suitable for casual cultivation like Zhang Yun.

Zhang Yun used the skills he learned from the "Dan Dao Commentary" to ensure his own safety. Enter the deep mountains and Daze to pick some herbs, jade, and minerals, and if you are lucky, you can also find some ordinary genius earth treasures that are not guarded by demon beasts (Zhang Yun's cultivation is too low, and he doesn't know a few attack spells, and a rudimentary-level demon beast can beat him to the ground. But fortunately, the aura of heaven and earth at this time is strong, and the number of genius earth treasures is a hundred times that of later generations, so some ordinary genius earth treasures don't even bother to guard low-level demon beasts).

Relying on his talent for alchemy, he often took these herbs and the pills refined by low-grade heavenly and earth treasures, and practiced diligently, and after decades, Zhang Yun still stumbled and cultivated to the middle stage of qi induction.

But when he cultivated to this point, the "Dan Dao Commentary" didn't help him so much, because after all, this was only a primary cultivation book, and there weren't many attack spells in it, and the exercises for practicing qi were also very ordinary. And if he wants to improve his cultivation, in addition to slowly absorbing the aura of heaven and earth and improving his skills step by step, he can only take pills that can speed up his cultivation.

However, limited to the lack of attack spells, Zhang Yun was not good at fighting, so he couldn't pick up those heavenly treasures guarded by demon beasts, forming a vicious circle. Just when Zhang Yun was secretly annoyed by the stagnation of his cultivation, he suddenly learned from some connected loose cultivators that Taiyuan was recruiting cultivators, no matter what their cultivation was, they could go to the draft, as long as they were selected, they would have a lot of treatment.

A cultivator with powerful support. The treatment you can enjoy is much stronger than that of casual cultivation, at least in cultivation, with the guidance of the teacher, you can avoid many detours. Zhang Yun had already endured the hardships of not having the guidance of his teacher and the lack of cultivation materials, so he naturally longed for it. "Anyway, I've been cultivating for decades, and I already have a mid-stage cultivation that induces qi into the body, maybe I'll be selected, and then I don't have to be a helpless casual cultivator. With a hint of luck, Zhang Yun stepped on the road to Taiyuan.

I have to say that the news of Taiyuan cloth is still very attractive to scattered cultivators, and there are thousands of cultivators that Zhan Yun saw in Taiyuan alone. Of course, most of them are casual cultivators like him.

If you want to be selected, you must have certain qualifications, and the people who are responsible for recruiting are the disciples of several large and medium-sized sects nearby, such as the Daming Temple Branch, Qingfeng Temple, Holy Fire Gate, Yuping Gate and other sects, as the standard points for recruitment: qualifications, hearts, merits, cultivation, understanding, and miraculous skills and miscellaneous arts (specialties). Zhang Yun's cultivation, understanding, and merits are all ordinary, but his heart is judged by the monks of Daming Temple to be quite pure and good at alchemy, so he also meets the criteria for recruitment. After receiving a famous offering token, he was also assigned to his own cultivation cave.

Consecrate. As the name suggests, you usually have to work for people when you need to provide for them. Zhang Yun served as an immortal master, and did something that only cultivators could do. Because he is not good at fighting and is only good at alchemy, he only needs to help Taiyuan refine pills from time to time, instead of participating in battles with hostile cultivators like other cultivators.

Although the area of the cultivation cave is not large, the concentration of spiritual energy is not low, at least it is much stronger than Zhang Yun's "kennel" before. As an immortal master of Taiyuan, you can be gifted by Taiyuan to a low-level magic weapon refined by the refining master, and ten pieces of spirit jade will be provided for cultivation every month. Spiritual jade refers to ordinary jade that has absorbed a large amount of heaven and earth aura, and it is very useful to cultivators. The moisture of jade can eliminate the impetuous heart, the color of jade can delight the boring heart, the purity of jade can purify the dirty heart, and the structure of jade is naturally suitable for absorbing the aura of heaven and earth.

Therefore, since ancient times, jade has been loved by people, mortals will wear it for a long time, they will get the aura to nourish and strengthen the body, and prolong life;

This kind of benefit made Zhang Yun sigh that Taiyuan was too generous, you must know that the aura attracted by using the spirit jade to arrange the formation and the duration are ten times stronger than ordinary jade! Usually, when he cultivates and arranges the spirit gathering array, he uses ordinary jade statues, this kind of spirit jade is only used to break through the bottleneck of cultivation, and he is usually reluctant to use it.

And. Because Zhang Yun is good at alchemy, he will also regularly receive a batch of heavenly treasures from Taiyuan for alchemy. Of course, most of the pills that were refined had to be paid, but Zhang Yun could accept one percent as a hardship fee. This kind of generous treatment also made Zhang Yun make up his mind, and he will follow Taiyuan in this life. After all, the days of casual meditation are too hard.

In fact, these steps are all Yunlong's memories of Yunlong's later generations planned for Liu He, although he has no experience as a business wizard, but those modern recruitment methods and benefits are much more advanced than in ancient times, and they are slightly modified to recruit cultivators like Zhang Yun who have no ambitions, and it is really easy to expand his power for Taiyuan. Of course, the premise is that the resources that Yunlong and Taiyuan possess are sufficient to afford these cultivators.

After cultivating for decades, in a retreat, with the help of a large number of spirit pills and the abundant heaven and earth spiritual qi attracted by the spirit gathering array arranged by the spirit stones, Zhang Yun finally broke through the realm of qi induction into the body and purchased the realm of practicing qi and transforming gods. This kind of achievement can also be regarded as an elder in some intermediate sects.

After exiting customs. In the congratulatory voices of others, Zhang Yun also learned that the territory of Taiyuan at this time had expanded nearly tenfold, occupying the Central Plains, and the emperor Taizu of the Great Song Dynasty was actually not Liu He, but a young man named Zhao Kuangyin. Zhang Yun was naturally very surprised by this.

Under the guidance of the guards who heard the news, Zhang Yun came to the Prime Minister's Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty and met Liu He. (The masters of the Transformation Group are already qualified to contact the leader). Liu He first congratulated Zhang Yunshun on his advanced transformation stage. Then Zhang Yun's face gave him a task in a modest voice. Bring a batch of military supplies to Zhao Kuangyin, who was attacking the Southern Tang Dynasty. These military supplies were loaded in a Qiankun bag, obviously not for mortal use, but for the use of cultivators accompanying the army.

Zhang Yun was very puzzled, this kind of simple enough to escort materials was enough to shoot ordinary soldiers or cultivators who were in the body stage, why did he let him, a master of the incarnation stage, go?

Under Zhang Yun's question, Liu He smiled bitterly and told him the reason. It turned out that since the war between the Song and Tang dynasties, the Great Song Dynasty was victorious, and the Southern Tang Dynasty was defeated and retreated, until it reached Jinling, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, which was stalemate. It's not because the combat effectiveness of the army in the Southern Tang Dynasty has suddenly become stronger (the political situation in the Southern Tang Dynasty, the military is lax, and the combat effectiveness of the army is extremely low), but because the sects that supported the Southern Tang Dynasty joined forces to set up a formation in the open space in front of Jinling City.

They don't hurt ordinary people, they just inform the cultivators of the Great Song Dynasty, "Although the Southern Tang army was defeated, our Xiuzhen sect has not yet failed, and it is enough to fight with you." But we are also not willing to go against the emperor of heaven and man, and besides, heaven has the virtue of good life, mortals kill too much, and as a participant, we also have detrimental merit. Today, a formation is placed here, as long as you can break the formation, we will admit defeat and cooperate with the Great Song Dynasty to persuade the Southern Tang Dynasty; if we win, we will not ask much, and we will still help the Great Song Dynasty to persuade the Southern Tang Dynasty, but the Great Song Dynasty will issue a decree to ensure the current status of our several sects. ”

The Great Song side is naturally not to be outdone, and everyone has been fighting for a long time, and they are indeed unwilling to kill many people, and deciding the outcome by fighting the formation is also in line with the identity of the cultivator, and it is really good to reduce the killing. So after obtaining Zhao Kuangyin's consent. The cultivators under the temporary rest of the two armies began to fight.

However, the sects of the Southern Tang Dynasty are indeed extraordinary, and most of them are Buddhists, and although the formation they jointly arranged, although the lethality is not strong, but the defensive power and recovery power are very perverted;

Cultivators also consume them, they consume heavenly materials, earth treasures, spiritual energy, jade, and after selecting Kaifeng as the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, Taiyuan became a logistics base, responsible for attacking the army's materials. But in the end, there are always some strange things, and I don't know who always attacks the cultivators who send supplies to the cultivators in the army. Liu He had already sent two groups of Qi into his body in a row, but his cultivators had disappeared.

According to the cultivators in Taiyuan City, it is inferred that they can continuously attack the cultivators who induce qi into their bodies, but they do not dare to attack a large army, and the cultivators of the attackers will not pass the middle stage of transforming into gods.

If the masters of the late stage of the transformation of gods, or even the grandmasters of the Returning to the Void Period, they don't have to be sneaky, they can directly occupy a side and start a sect. To deal with the masters of the Transformation Period, only the same masters of the Transformation Magic can fight against them. However, there are not many masters in the city who are in the god transformation stage, and they all have their own tasks, and they are also responsible for the defense of the city, which is really inseparable. Liu He was in a hurry and decided to send a large number of Qi Channeling Stage cultivators to transport this batch of materials together.

It happened that Zhang Yun had also advanced to the god transformation stage, which made Liu He, who was short of manpower, overjoyed, and after a brief understanding of Zhang Yun's situation, he immediately handed over this task to him after determining that he could be trusted, and promised that if he completed the task, he would be rewarded.

Zhang Yun naturally would not refuse. He simply packed up, put away the Qiankun bag, and flew towards Jinling in a retreat.

Halfway through, Zhang Yun suddenly felt a golden light flickering in front of him, and then a buzzing sound sounded, and countless golden points of light hit him. When I looked closely, I couldn't help but gasp, what kind of golden light was there, but tens of millions of golden flying insects!

These golden flying insects were the size of a palm, almost all golden, with teeth on their heads, a red spot on their abdomen, red eyes, and a murderous, bloodthirsty light, and the wings on their backs flickered and turned into a cloud of insects, rushing towards Zhang Yun.

"Red-eyed golden beetle! I can't beat it. In addition to the alchemy technique, Zhang Yun also mentioned some demon beast materials that could be used as alchemy materials, including this "red-eyed golden beetle", so he could recognize it at once.

The original form of the red-eyed golden beetle ant is a crypt ant, which grows in the gold ore vein by chance, builds a nest in it, and is born and mutated into the red-eyed golden beetle ant after long-term absorption and gnawing on the energy of the gold essence and the aura of the leyline. Cruel and bloodthirsty, the shell absorbs the qi of gold essence, hard as King Kong, lifespan, body size, and strength are hundreds of times that of ordinary ants, and they also grow wings and inherit the habit of unity and cooperation of ants, which is very difficult.

The red-eyed golden beetle ant likes to eat metal and aura things, and the higher the quality, the more they like it, including jade and cultivators! Therefore, the adult red-eyed golden beetle ant contains a large amount of aura in its body, which is very suitable for alchemy materials, and can also refine the best metal materials, which have always been "loved" by the majority of alchemy and refining tools. Under the capture of many parties, it is rare to see such a large group of red-eyed golden-beetle ants in ordinary places.

Seeing this large group of "red-eyed golden beetles", Zhang Yun immediately knew why the first two groups of cultivators had disappeared. It turned out that such a group of red-eyed golden beetles had recently appeared on this supply line, and they were very sensitive to the aura possessed by the cultivators and the cultivation materials they carried, so they attacked them.

The cultivators who induce qi into the body have weak mana and low true element, and the quality of the true element is not high, and they can't learn the art of flying, and they don't move fast using the Five Elements Escape Technique, and most of them can only walk on the ground. These red-eyed golden beetles were originally mutated from crypt ants, and they were naturally proficient in the art of burrowing and lurking, and cultivators below the incarnation stage could not appear at all.

They were lying in ambush underground, and when the cultivators above their heads passed by, they suddenly appeared, and the surrounded Qi Extraction Stage cultivators didn't even have time to react, and if they didn't have powerful magic weapons or special spells, they couldn't break through their encirclement, they could only be bitten to death and devoured alive, and they could be used as a tonic for the red-eyed golden beetle. This sneak attack technique is instinctive, so they are extremely skilled.

Fortunately, Zhang Yun's retreat to the god transformation stage was able to move in the air, so he avoided the ambush of the red-eyed golden beetle. After all, the red-eyed golden beetle ant is just a worm, even if it is mutated, its intelligence is very low, and it will only act according to instinct if it does not understand.

When they saw that the "food" in their hands was about to fly away, they didn't care about hiding it underground, and they rushed out one after another, and the degree of flight was actually able to chase Zhang Yun's escape.

Zhang Yun saw that there was a cloud of insects blocking the road in front of him, and if he moved in other directions, he would lose his light because of the sudden turn, and he would be chased by the red-eyed golden beetle, and he would not be able to complete the transportation task because of this. He shook his teeth and struggled.

Zhang Yun squeezed a few weird hands on his chest, and shouted: "Gengjin Divine Wind Escapes and Differentiates the Light!" His figure suddenly blurred, and then turned into a colorless and invisible wind, and then divided into several air currents of different sizes, exhaled, and exhaled through the insect clouds in front of him, and gathered together fifty meters away from the insect clouds, revealing Zhang Yun's body again, and then he continued to fly towards Jinling without looking back.

The large swarm of red-eyed golden-beetle ants were stunned for a moment and stopped in place. Their simple minds couldn't figure out how Zhang Yun had just passed through their encirclement. But simple thinking also has the advantage of being simple, they were only stunned for a moment, followed their instincts, turned around, and continued to chase Zhang Yun.

"Whew. Zhang Yun's face was a little pale, and half of his mana had been consumed just now, and he couldn't use it a second time. He estimated that he would fly for another three hours to arrive at Jinling, and he would come down safely when he saw the large army.

He just made the escape method have a name called "Gengjin Shen Dun". He had learned it from a broken jade slip that had emerged from a ruined temple.

This method of retreat evolved from the Five Elements Retreat Technique. Absorb the Gengjin Qi between heaven and earth, and transform it into a formless, colorless, and the most sturdy, and indestructible Gengjin Divine Wind with a special method, as long as it is used to escape with a spell that is not mutually restrictive, it is a first-class effect. Zhang Yun is not good at attacking and defending spells, but he has a soft spot for this kind of escape method.

His character is soft, and his offensive spells are not in line with his character; defensive spells are not in line with his temperament; he is surrounded, and no matter how strong his defense is, when his mana is exhausted, he will be slaughtered by others; only when the spell of escape is practiced well, can no one be hurt in an instant.

Zhang Yun's friends were speechless about his thoughts, but Zhang Yun's identity was an alchemist, and he was not a combatant in the first place, so it was up to him. Unexpectedly, Zhang Yun's approach saved his life today.

After Zhang Yun was chased by the insect cloud for three hours, his mana almost bottomed out, but he finally saw the Jinling City in front of him, the golden array, and the military camp a few miles away from the array.

"Finally saved. Zhang Yun took a deep breath and shouted loudly regardless of his face facing the front: "Fellow Daoists, save ~life~ah~!"

(I've been thinking about it for a long time today, and I've made some changes to the way I write, so let's see if it's okay, and I'll continue to change it.) ）

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