Lu Qingshan and Zang Xiaojian flew across Tianya Island at lightning speed.
The strange thing is that although the two of them were escaping at an astonishing speed, not a single sound was heard.
Lu Qingshan was there because of Fuyao's magic, as for Cang Xiaojian...
"Hongmao was made by swordsmith Feng Piaoxu. It has the sharpness of a sword and is as light as a feather. I have melted it into my flesh and blood." Zang Xiaojian explained.
Unlike Fuyao, Hongmao's lightness only applies to the sword itself. It is not completely invisible and silent, and it is even less likely to conceal the movements of the sword's owner.
But with the blessing of the magical power of hiding the weapon, Cang Xiaojian has the characteristic of being as light as a feather.
It was with the help of this sword that she was able to follow Lu Qingshan silently, and even took action at the critical moment to stop the Taoist second-step Hedao cultivator from escaping - although that was because Zang Xiaojian had just arrived at that time.
The two headed straight towards the Taoist clan’s second mine.
Tianya Island is a vast area, and even with the speed of the two people, it still took about half an hour to reach the destination.
Looking from afar, you can see a large and magnificent building in front of you.
That was a Taoist temple established by the Taoist tribe in the mining area.
This scene was far from comparable to the first mine that Lu Qingshan had destroyed previously.
Because this mining area is the largest and most precious of all the mining areas of the Taoist clan.
Over thousands of years, this mineral vein has supported the resource consumption of Taoist monks and helped them cultivate one powerful person after another.
The importance of this mining area is self-evident; it can even be said to be the lifeblood of the Taoist people.
Therefore, the Taoist tribe specially set up a Taoist temple here, so that Taoist masters can preach and practice Taoism while also being in charge of the mining area.
…
Lu Qingshan stopped here.
After carefully sensing it, he whispered, "There are so many people, so we definitely can't resolve the battle as quickly as we did just now. We can only try to speed up."
Because there is a Taoist temple, the number of monks in this mining area far exceeds the number that a mining area should have.
This was different from what Lu Qingshan had expected, but it did not require a change of strategy.
He took a deep breath, and under Zang Xiaojian's eyes that were flickering with surprise, he formed a mysterious seal with his hands, and finally outlined a magical Taoist pattern on the palm of his right hand.
Lu Qingshan clapped his palms downwards, and extremely strange waves spread out from his palms and spread to the entire earth.
Boom! Boom!
Afterwards, Zang Xiaojian saw that this vast land was becoming desolate at a speed visible to the naked eye.
And beneath the wasteland, the ground in the mining area shook slightly and rapidly, and waves of terrifying energy gathered majestically and mightily towards the center of the wasteland, into Lu Qingshan's body.
"So that's how it is." Zang Xiaojian murmured.
When she arrived at the mine earlier, Lu Qingshan had already used the power of mountains and seas.
So she only saw the barren and cracked earth at that time. Although she knew it was Lu Qingshan's doing, she didn't know what exactly happened.
Now I have seen it with my own eyes.
Witnessing the changes in the earth around her and feeling the tremendous energy surging like a torrent from Lu Qingshan, the surprise in her heart was indescribable.
The power of mountains and seas is destined to be a Taoist method that is enough to surprise everyone.
After briefly transforming the vitality of the earth into his own strength, Lu Qingshan's body was filled with surging Yuanli, becoming extremely powerful.
Such a huge movement that swept across the entire mineral vein suddenly alarmed all the monks in the Taoist temple and they rushed out.
"What's going on?!" They were furious, horrified, and terrified.
The huge mine was instantly desolate and dilapidated right before their eyes. They couldn't imagine how they would face the questioning from the elders of the tribe next.
Just hope there is no problem in the deep mine!
"Are there only these few people?" Lu Qingshan said with his eyes shining as he looked at the Taoist monks who rushed out.
There are six ninth-level cultivators, one of whom is at the third step to the Dao, two are at the second step to the Dao, and the remaining four are at the first step to the Dao. This is the number and strength of the high-level cultivators of the Taoist clan in this Taoist temple.
In addition, there are dozens of eighth-level cultivators following behind the ninth-level cultivators of the Taoist Clan.
For an eighth-realm cultivator to speak such words to six ninth-realm cultivators was extremely frivolous no matter how you looked at it, but none of the ninth-realm cultivators of the Taoist Clan laughed. They just looked at Lu Qingshan with cold faces, their eyes showing both vigilance and horror.
"It's you, Lu Qingshan!" One of the One-Step Hedao cultivators stared in astonishment and recognized Lu Qingshan's identity.
He was a Taoist monk who was previously stationed in Tianhe City. After Dao Wuya took them away from Tianhe City, he was transferred to this Taoist temple.
"Who is he?" The leading Three-Step Daoist frowned and couldn't help asking.
"The leader of the human race's sword sect is extremely powerful. Although his cultivation is only at the eighth level, he once fought a soul battle with Dao Yuanzi in Tianhe City. Dao Yuanzi was not even his match!" He hurriedly reminded, fearing that his companions would underestimate the enemy.
However, Lu Qingshan did not give them time to exchange information and communicate tactics.
The night is long and dreams are many. He did not want to delay too long, which would result in the arrival of the Taoist support and something unexpected happening.
boom!
His figure rushed forward, leaving a long rainbow in the low sky. The already barren land suddenly collapsed, and the rubble was swept up like a tornado.
He was clearly just an eighth-realm cultivator, but he was too powerful. Facing six ninth-realm cultivators alone, he still looked down on them and took the initiative to attack.
"Capture him and bring him to the clan to ask for forgiveness!" The leading Three-Step Hedao cultivator shouted without caring about anything else.
"How dare you, destroying my tribe's mineral veins and taking the initiative to attack us!" He gritted his teeth, and the anger in his heart burst out completely like a ferocious beast.
The monks in the local temple all took action.
Lu Qingshan was fearless. The sword domain unfolded, the sword world moved in response, and sword energy filled the sky, protecting his body like a forest of swords.
The faint light transformed by the dust-free room had already covered his entire body.
Since he dared to take action, he must be confident.
The sword in Lu Qingshan's hand was emitting a deep purple glow.
Crack!
A huge silver snake streaked across the sky, and blazing lightning fell from the sky.
This is not an ordinary lightning cast by a cultivator, but a fifty-nine-day calamity caused by Lieque's magical power [Guinan].
"ah!!!"
An eighth-level cultivator became the target of this thunder tribulation. After letting out a scream, his entire body was charred by the blow and turned into ashes, a death beyond death.
Such a thunder tribulation is far beyond what an ordinary eighth-level cultivator can endure.
It can be imagined that if one day Lu Qingshan overcomes the nine-nine heavenly tribulations and advances to the nine-tribulation realm, the power of the thunder tribulation brought by Lieque alone will be enough to make the cultivators of the ninth realm try to avoid it as much as possible.
Zang Xiaojian followed Lu Qingshan and attacked together.
She knew that she was no match for Lu Qingshan, so she had a clear goal and chose to attack the eighth-level cultivators in the Taoist temple.
She has the combat power to fight ten or even more enemies at the same time, helping Lu Qingshan share some of the pressure and speed up the clearing process.
…
Lu Qingshan knew the importance of time, so he did not hold back.
Not only did he use the power of mountains and seas to bless himself, he also performed the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top of the Head and the Law of Heaven and Earth at the same time.
The power of the calamity realm soul and the power of the sword realm merged into his body.
With the blessing of these three, Lu Qingshan's energy and spirit were boiling, like a revived war immortal, and his vitality was so high that it was about to overflow from his body.
boom!
Lie Que slashed forward, causing the space to rumble.
A great war thus began.
The magnificent temple collapsed, and buildings fell down one after another due to the impact of the aftermath.
The blood kept splattering, which was shocking.
But not a drop of that blood came from Lu Qingshan, all of it came from the enemy.
Now, with the blessing of the power of mountains and seas, his Yuanli foundation has reached the level of a third-step Hedao cultivator.
In addition, his combat power is extraordinary, far beyond that of his peers. Even the fourth-step Hedao cultivators are no match for him, let alone dealing with several weak ninth-level cultivators of the Dao clan.
puff!
The expression on the face of a monk who had reached the first step of the Dao was frozen.
Lieque passed through his chest.
Then the sword energy scattered and shattered his body.
Lieque's ancient calamity power completely destroyed his soul.
One strong man has already died, and the faces of the other monks turned pale.
Is this still an eighth-level cultivator? Facing the six of them alone, he actually killed a companion so easily.
"You are going too far. You have destroyed my Dao clan's sacred mine and killed my Dao clan's masters. The clan leader will make sure you die a miserable death!"
The leading monk said unwillingly and angrily, he was so angry that he was shaking all over and his teeth were about to break.
But just as he finished speaking, there was a loud roar from heaven and earth, and two bolts of lightning struck down with lightning speed, straight towards him.
As a cultivator of the third step of Hedao, no matter how weak he was, he would not be killed by two fifty-nine heavenly tribulations. But he could not ignore them, and the energy in his body could not help but shake.
Lu Qingshan sneered, "If someone offends me, I will offend them. You are allowed to provoke me, but you are not allowed to come to your house to seek justice?"
Immediately, he attacked again, a strange pattern flashed in his eyes, and his mind became clear.
In Lu Qingshan's eyes, the movements of the enemy in front of him suddenly became traceable and could be grasped.
【Heart feeling】
Combat intuition is enhanced, and it is possible to locate the enemy's weaknesses and foresee the enemy's future attacks and invisible cause and effect lines.
Whether it is a one-on-one fight or a group attack, it is an extremely terrifying auxiliary magic.
Once this miraculous act occurred, the outcome of the battle was decided.
Lu Qingshan was like a terrible ghost, shuttling between the enemy's attacks, constantly attacking while wandering, hitting the vital points.
The Taoist nine-level monks died one after another, but they never retreated.
As Lu Qingshan frowned in surprise, his attack became more and more fierce.
"How could this be!!" After dozens of breaths, six ninth-level cultivators fell one after another, their souls dissipated and they completely perished. The third-step Hedao cultivator could only let out an extremely unwilling roar and died miserably.
After killing all the Ninth Realm cultivators, the remaining Taoist cultivators were like fish in front of Lu Qingshan, at the mercy of others.
With the extremely powerful attacking power, Lu Qingshan could kill these eighth-level cultivators with one sword, faster than cutting leeks.
In the end, the dojo was completely reduced to ruins, with blood all over the ground, which was a shocking sight.
"Lu Qingshan, there are something unusual here!" Zang Xiaojian, who had just experienced a fierce battle but was not red in the face or out of breath, said anxiously to Lu Qingshan before he even took a breath.
"You noticed it too." Lu Qingshan nodded in agreement.
When the victory was obvious, the Taoist monk still fought to the death.
What other reason could there be other than the existence of important treasures here?
This is a very simple conclusion.
"It should be deep in the mine. What kind of treasure could it be?" Zang Xiaojian said again.
This is a mineral vein. If there is any treasure here, this is the most likely possibility.
Lu Qingshan thought it made sense, and immediately released his spiritual sense to search the mineral vein carefully.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, he was startled and discovered an unusual existence.
Then, Lu Qingshan retracted his spiritual sense, and his figure flashed as he flew towards the depths of the mine. After a few breaths, he appeared again, but with an unusual thing in his hand.
It was a strange stone, showing a clear golden color. There were wisps of mist flowing and overflowing on the surface, like fairy air. It was clearly faint, but it made people feel strange.
This precious material is extraordinary!
Lu Qingshan made a judgment with great certainty.
Because of his power of mountains and seas, this mineral vein became barren, and the essence of the corresponding ore was extracted, turning it into waste rock.
Only this stone was not affected at all, which was extremely mysterious.
In fact, it was its mysteriousness that allowed Lu Qingshan to discover it.
This stone is hidden deep in the vein, surrounded by many ores, and is not large in size. If the other ores had not lost their spirituality due to the power of mountains and seas, making it stand out from the crowd, it would have been difficult for Lu Qingshan to find it.
“This is…” Zang Xiaojian carefully examined the stone, and then, as if he had thought of something, his eyes suddenly widened, “Mother’s Qi!”
She excitedly grabbed Lu Qingshan's arm, "Lu Qingshan, it's the mother stone!"
"Mother stone?" Every profession has its specialties. Sword cultivators specialize in swordsmanship and do not practice a variety of arts. However, Lu Qingshan, a sword cultivator, had never heard of the mother stone.
"This is immortal gold, a rare precious material born in ancient times, and it is rare in the world."
"If you want to achieve a Taoist weapon in the future, the magic weapon must be made of immortal gold."
Immortal gold is a general term for precious materials that have reached a sufficiently powerful level.
Hedao Jade is a kind of fairy gold.
"The mother stone is the most exotic type of immortal gold. It is like a treasure pot. If people in the world get it, they will definitely not be willing to use it to refine magic tools..."
Zang Xiaojian took a deep breath and continued, "Because it will continuously absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and transform it into mother energy."
"And these mother energies can cleanse the surrounding land, transforming the most common stones into precious ores and forming mineral veins."
"This is the cloud pattern vein, so it is the cloud pattern fairy gold, the cloud pattern mother stone. Having it is equivalent to having a cloud pattern vein that will never run dry."
Hearing this, even Lu Qingshan, who never valued external things, became eager at this moment.
It is true that sword cultivators cannot refine weapons, but the cloud-patterned mother stone represents an endless source of wealth and is like the foundation of the sect.
More importantly...
If...if Lingye Island was really packed up and taken away, Lu Qingshan had some ideas about the swordsmiths on Lingye Island.
The swordsmith is good at forging swords.
A famous general needs a wise ruler, and the same is true for a famous sword.
If the Sword Sect could recruit the swordsmith from Lingye Island as its official swordsmith, how powerful would the Sword Sect become?
Now that this idea has been put forward, a gift for the meeting will be indispensable.
For a swordsmith, what other gift could be better than fairy gold?
In this era, immortal gold has long been exhausted and it is almost impossible to find any piece.
It was also at this moment that small fiery words flashed before Lu Qingshan's eyes.
"The Sixth Tribulation Realm advanced mission [Strike a single blow to prevent a hundred blows] has been completed!"
When he pacified the Taoist clan's first mine, the advancement mission remained unchanged.
This shows that according to Deep Blue's evaluation criteria, such a blow is nothing to the Dao Clan and does not reach the level of punishment.
At that time, Lu Qingshan was still worried about what to do if the mission was still not completed after the five mines were leveled?
We can't really let him go to the Taoist ancestral city alone, right?
Now, his worries finally dissipated.
The loss of the Cloud Pattern Immortal Gold is too painful for the Taoist Clan!
"Not good!" The joy did not make Lu Qingshan lose his mind. In a flash, Lu Qingshan suddenly reacted, "Let's go!"
The Taoist people must attach great importance to such a divine object.
This can be seen from the fact that they specially set up a temple here, and also from the fact that the ninth-level monks in the temple would rather die than retreat.
It is conceivable that the destruction of the cloud pattern mineral vein is bound to make the Taoist clan completely enraged, and they are determined to take back the cloud pattern mother stone at all costs.
Lu Qingshan knew that if he didn’t leave now, it might be dangerous and he might be intercepted!