Chapter 278: Fallen Demon Valley, Considerations for Completing Spiritual Roots
A few days after Ye Changsheng returned to Tiantian City, one day, a young man with an elegant appearance and dressed in white came down from the attic where he was.
This person, who was at the Jindan stage, came to the attic where Ye Changsheng was, looked up, and a trace of awe flashed in his eyes .
"I am Bai Shujun, a disciple of Tianji Sect, and would like to see Senior Ye!" The man shouted loudly while standing downstairs.
"A disciple of Tianji Sect?" When Ye Changsheng heard the voice, an interested look appeared in his eyes.
"Yin Yue, go let him in and see what this man has to say!" Ye Changsheng said to the little fox lying beside him.
Upon hearing this, Yin Yue transformed into a human form and walked down. After a while, she brought in the Tianji Sect disciple.
"Bai Shujun has come to pay his respects to the senior on the orders of my master!" After this person came in, he immediately bowed respectfully and said.
"Who is your master?" Ye Changsheng asked indifferently.
"My master is the elder Xuanjizi of Tianji Sect!"
"It's him!" Ye Changsheng thought to himself, with an ambiguous look in his eyes.
The fact that the elder from Tianji Sect came to see him meant that he and Nanlong Hou should have obtained a jade box from Master Cangkun.
"Tell me, what do you want to see me about?" Ye Changsheng asked calmly.
"My master has something extremely important that he wants to see you for, so he specially asked me to come and see you!" Bai Shujun said very respectfully.
"Oh, if it is such a vital matter, why didn't your master come to me in person, but instead asked you, his disciple, to come?"
"Please forgive me, Senior. My master is not in a good condition to meet guests, so I had no choice but to let this junior come here!"
Hearing this, Ye Changsheng's eyes flickered. It sounded like Xuanjizi was seriously injured. It was unknown what kind of battle they had experienced.
"In that case, I'll go and meet him!" Ye Changsheng said slowly.
Hearing this, the disciple of Xuanjizi immediately showed excitement on his face, and quickly handed over a jade slip, saying:
"My master and another senior will be here tonight!"
Ye Changsheng took the jade slip and looked at the man's departing back with a flickering look in his eyes.
It seems that Xuanjizi and Nanlonghou got one of the jade boxes, otherwise they would not have come to find Ye Changsheng.
I just don’t know who got the other jade box.
At night, Ye Changsheng went to the place recorded in the jade slip as agreed, and met Xuanjizi and Nanlonghou who lived there.
Both of them looked pale, their eyes were dull, and they looked very weak. It was obvious that their vitality was greatly damaged.
Seeing Ye Changsheng appear, the two men showed a hint of joy in their eyes. Then Nanlong Hou smiled bitterly and said, "I'm sorry to make you laugh at our embarrassed appearance, Brother Ye!"
Xuanjizi looked pale and said to Ye Changsheng with a weak breath:
"Please forgive me, Brother Ye. I should have been the one to greet you, but I look so miserable that it's not suitable for me to go out, so I asked you to go and invite Brother Ye!"
Ye Changsheng smiled and said, "It's alright, Daoist Xuanjizi, you don't have to be so polite. But I am very curious, what happened that day that made you two Daoists look like this?"
Hearing his words, Nanlong Hou and Xuanjizi looked at each other and both smiled bitterly. Then Nanlong Hou said, "After Brother Ye left that day..."
After the two people's stories, Ye Changsheng had a general understanding of what happened that day.
After he left, the group quickly fell out.
Madam Tai, the cultivator surnamed You, and the cultivator surnamed Bing were secretly lured over by the old man surnamed Yun when they were on the road to Mulan grassland.
The four of them planned to join forces to deal with Nanlong Hou and Xuanjizi, but their plans were disrupted by Ye Changsheng's sudden appearance.
But after Ye Changsheng left, they still took action against Nanlonghou and his two companions according to their previous agreement.
The old man surnamed Yun is in the middle stage of Nascent Soul and can fight against one of the two men of Nanlonghou.
Although the other three are all in the early Nascent Soul stage, they can still fight against someone in the middle Nascent Soul stage.
In this way, the two sides can barely be said to be evenly matched.
As for the last person, Han Li’s attitude is crucial.
Whichever side he chooses to join will win!
It is impossible to sit on the fence and watch the show. The consequence of sitting on the mountain and watching the fight between tigers is most likely that the two tigers will join forces to eat you first.
So, in such an environment, after a little thought, Han Li immediately joined the camp of the old man surnamed Yun.
Although he had a great hatred with the Ghost Spirit Sect, he still chose this side.
This was because, if he joined forces with Nanlong Hou's group, after driving away the remaining people, he would not be able to deal with two mid-Nascent Soul cultivators alone.
And if they join forces with the old man surnamed Yun, although they will still fall out in the end, the old man surnamed Yun's side is also a mess.
It is obviously much easier to fish in troubled waters than to do so with Nanlong Hou and his two men.
So, after a battle, Nanlong Hou and Xuanjizi were seriously injured and almost died there.
After all, they were facing five Nascent Soul cultivators.
Among them is Han Li, who appears to be in the early stage but whose actual combat power is comparable to that of a mid-stage cultivator.
Although Ye Changsheng could tell from the descriptions of Nanlong Hou and the other man that Han Li had concealed his shortcomings a lot.
However, the fighting power he displayed still left a deep impression on the two of them. They couldn't understand how a cultivator who had just entered the Nascent Soul stage could be so strong.
The final result was that Nanlonghou and his two men took away one of the jade boxes and successfully escaped.
But the price paid was also quite heavy. Xuan Jizi's physical body was almost destroyed, and his entire lower body was cut off by the old man surnamed Yun with a vicious method.
If it weren't for Nanlong Hou's quick eyes and hands to help him, this Tianji Sect elder would probably have to escape by leaving his body.
Now, although the old man surnamed Yun's body was restored by using a holy medicine, his strength was still greatly damaged.
Moreover, his storage bag was snatched away by the old man named Yun from the Guiling Sect.
This resulted in not only many treasures in his storage bag being taken away, causing him to suffer a great loss of strength, but also the portrait of Master Cangkun that he had obtained before entering the attic was snatched away and fell into the hands of the elder of the Ghost Spirit Sect.
However, the two also mentioned that at the critical moment when they were injured and escaping, Han Li suddenly turned against them and snatched a jade box.
And with the help of a lightning escape technique that was close to teleportation, he escaped from the cave almost at the same time as the two of them.
Of the two jade boxes, one fell into the hands of Nanlong Hou and his two companions, and the other fell into Han Li's hands. All the people including the old man surnamed Yun from the Guiling Sect got nothing.
"So, the two fellow Taoists are looking for me because of the jade box I took away?" Ye Changsheng asked indifferently.
"Brother Ye is right. The jade box in my hand happens to contain the route map of Master Cangkun entering the Demon Valley. And what Brother Ye holds in his hand is very likely one of the necessary items to enter the Demon Valley!" Nanlong Hou said with a solemn look in his eyes.
"One of?" Ye Changsheng looked inquiring when he heard this.
Nan Longhou immediately explained: "According to Master Cang Kun's records, if we want to enter the Demon Valley safely, in addition to the route map, we also need a few rare treasures to ensure that we can reach our destination safely!"
"One of them is called the Induction Bell. As long as there is a slight change in the spatial fluctuations where this item is, the bell will automatically ring!"
Xuanjizi said at the side: "Brother Ye must also know that the most dangerous thing in the Fallen Demon Valley is the endless space cracks. If we hit one, even if we are Yuanying cultivators, we will die without a burial place!"
"Without this sensor bell, there is no guarantee that we can reach our destination safely!"
Ye Changsheng looked thoughtful when he heard this, and then asked calmly, "Are there any other rare treasures?"
"The other one is the Yin-Yang Ring..." Nanlong Hou told Ye Changsheng the origin and function of the Yin-Yang Ring.
"If we want to enter the inner valley of the Fallen Demon Valley, we must pass through a place called the Northern Lights. If we don't have the Yin Ring in the Liangyi Ring, we won't be able to pass through safely!"
Xuanjizi sighed and said, "The two rare treasures are placed in the other two jade boxes. I think Brother Ye got one of them!"
"With these two rare treasures and the route map obtained by Brother Nanlong, we can safely reach the treasure hiding place!"
Hearing this, Ye Changsheng sneered in his heart. Master Cangkun really put a lot of thought into allowing people to enter the place where the ancient demon was sealed.
Among the six jade boxes, except for the Moon-gazing Technique obtained by Ye Changsheng from Master Cangkun, which has nothing to do with the Purple Axe Bag, the other four are prepared for entering the Demon Valley.
The route map, the induction bell for sensing space cracks, the Yin-Yang Ring for controlling the Northern Lights, and the Bijiu, one of the ten deadly poisons prepared to deal with the flying purple-striped scorpion.
If any one of these four items is missing, it would be extremely difficult for later generations to enter the place where the ancient demon is sealed.
Ye Changsheng had reason to suspect that the Moon-Gazing Art and the Purple Axe Bag were only added by Master Cangkun in order to cover up his tracks.
In order to prevent those who obtained these treasures from discovering his desire to have them enter the Demon Valley, he was eager for them to do so.
This is to prevent later people from getting the jade box and becoming suspicious, and thus giving up on going to the Demon Valley.
After Ye Changsheng secretly criticized Master Cangkun for a while, he took out the Yin Ring from the Yin-Yang Ring and said, "This is what I got from the jade box!"
"It is indeed the Yin-Yang Ring. In that case, the sensing bell should be on Fellow Daoist Han!" When Master Cangkun saw this thing, he immediately said with great surprise.
"Oh, have you told Han Li about this?" Ye Changsheng asked indifferently.
Nan Longhou smiled bitterly upon hearing this and said, "I haven't contacted Fellow Daoist Han yet. After all, if Brother Ye is not interested in this matter, then even if Fellow Daoist Han is willing to go with us at that time, it will be useless!"
"Fellow Daoist Xuanjizi and I would like to invite Brother Ye to go to the Demon Valley together. What do you think, Brother Ye?" Nanlong Hou said after considering it for a moment.
"The real treasures in the Demon Valley have never been truly obtained by anyone from the barbaric times to the present. If we can get one or two powerful treasures from them, wouldn't our strength be greatly increased?" There was a hint of temptation in Nanlong Hou's voice.
Xuanjizi beside him also said immediately: "Maybe we can get some elixirs left by ancient monks in the Fallen Demon Valley."
"Most of the elixirs left behind by ancient cultivators have miraculous effects. If you get them, breaking through the bottleneck of the Nascent Soul stage is just around the corner. With Brother Ye's talent, if he can enter the late Nascent Soul stage as soon as possible, it is certain that he will break through to the Spiritualization stage in the future!"
There was a hint of flattery and temptation in Xuanjizi's voice.
It seemed that they were eagerly hoping that Ye Changsheng would accept their invitation.
Ye Changsheng chuckled and said calmly: "It seems that you two really want me to join you. The Fallen Demon Valley is full of dangers. I guess there must be other reasons why you are trying so hard to win me over?"
Hearing this, Xuanjizi and Nanlonghou looked at each other with embarrassment on their faces.
Nan Long Hou laughed loudly and said, "I knew I couldn't hide it from Brother Ye. In fact, in addition to the space cracks and the North Pole Yuanguang, there are some other dangers in the Fallen Demon Valley!"
"Some strange beasts have survived from the wild times to the present. Although they are not yet intelligent , they are extremely powerful!"
"Where we are going, there is an ancient fire toad that should have been extinct long ago. This beast has a powerful Heavenly Scale Demonic Fire. Even Master Cangkun back then was immediately poisoned by the fire after a brief fight with it and had to retreat!" Nanlong Hou said solemnly.
Xuanjizi then added: "Where the ancient fire toad beast made its lair, there is the remains of an ancient cultivator. As long as we can kill the beast and obtain the storage bag on the remains, we will surely reap a rich harvest!"
"Master Cangkun's main target back then was the storage bag on the remains, but unfortunately he was blocked by the fire toad. If Brother Ye hadn't joined us, we would not have been sure we could get rid of this monster!" said Nanlong Hou.
Upon hearing this, Ye Changsheng's eyes showed a thoughtful look.
He has dual spiritual roots of gold and wood. If he wants to complete the five elements of spiritual roots in the future, he will need the three attributes of water, fire and earth.
Among them, he already has a target for the water attribute, which is the tenth-level old Suanni of the Suanni clan. Calculating the time, this old guy should have passed away, but according to the habits of these large demon beast clans, the demon pill will be left behind before passing away.
Ye Changsheng had long planned to take the demon pill of this old Suanni in the future and refine the pill spirit root for himself.
In this way, there are only two attributes left: fire and earth.
As for the earth attribute, there is a level ten monster with earth attribute in Kunwu Mountain. When you enter Kunwu Mountain, you can find a way to kill it and get the monster pill.
As for the remaining fire attribute, I had no idea about it before.
However, the demon pill of this ancient fire toad should be able to meet the requirements.
This kind of monster that has lived for tens of thousands of years must have magical powers that are no weaker than those of a tenth-level monster. After all, even Master Cangkun had to retreat when facing it.
However, the shortcoming of this monster is that it is not smart enough and has no intelligence. In the original novel, it was lured out and killed by Han Li and others using a strategy of luring the enemy.
If he could obtain the demon pill of this ancient fire toad, all of his five elements of spiritual roots would be secured.
