Chapter 186: Evil Seeker and Falling Starry Sky Flame (1/2)
In the deep mountains and dense forests, Li Yan flew close to the treetops of tall trees.
He flew too high before, and was a little too arrogant, which directly attracted several waves of flying beasts to attack.
Although these beasts could not even break Li Yan's defense, too many of them were also troublesome, and Li Yan had never been a person who liked trouble.
He took the initiative to lower the flying altitude and fly close to the treetops. If there were flying beasts to attack him, he could immediately hide in the dense forest and get rid of these annoying flat-haired beasts.
"According to the information of [Bai Xiao Pavilion], in the past ten years, someone has found traces of the Five Elements Dragon Teng Sha Qi at Longxing Peak in the southwest of Shiwan Mountain."
"Unfortunately, this evil seeker was also unlucky. He died unexpectedly before he had time to pass on the specific location."
"I hope everything goes well this time and find the Five Elements Dragon Teng Sha Qi as soon as possible."
As Li Yan hurried on his way, he was thinking about how to find the target - [Five Elements Dragon Teng Sha Qi] after arriving at [Longxing Peak].
The Hundred Thousand Mountains are very big. It is said that most of them are still in the Tianwu Dynasty. The Hundred Thousand Mountains in the borders of Da Zhou, Dayue and other countries are just branches of the real Hundred Thousand Mountains.
Li Yan has read the description of the real Hundred Thousand Mountains in some biographies of predecessors.
According to the book, in the real Hundred Thousand Mountains, there are strange beasts everywhere, spiritual beasts can be seen everywhere, and even demon beasts are not uncommon. There are several demon beasts entrenched on each mountain peak.
And the depths of the real Hundred Thousand Mountains are a paradise for demon beasts. The strong among the demon beasts call themselves demons, and they established the Demon Clan Dynasty there to compete with the Tianwu Dynasty.
One of the biggest concerns of the Tianwu Dynasty is this Demon Clan Dynasty.
In the real Hundred Thousand Mountains, the lowest peak of each mountain is no less than 5,000 feet, and some peaks are higher than 10,000 feet.
Among these 10,000-foot peaks, some are particularly rich in resources, and the peaks contain spiritual veins, which are called heroic peaks.
Li Yan knew from the book that whether it was a warrior or a spirit beast or a demon beast, practicing in a spirit vein would achieve twice the result with half the effort.
The higher the level of the spirit vein, the better the effect.
Li Yan had never enjoyed the treatment of practicing in a spirit vein, but it did not prevent him from imagining that scene, which must be very cool.
There are really 108 such peaks in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
In addition to the peaks, there are also the more majestic 36 main peaks, nine Tianfeng and one Yaohuang Peak.
Speaking of this peak, perhaps some people think of the peak outside the Nanshan City of Shannan Daodao City - Lanyue Peak.
In fact, the so-called peak is only more than 4,000 feet. Although it is much higher than the surrounding peaks, it is not even qualified to be an ordinary peak compared to the real Hundred Thousand Mountains.
Therefore, Lanyue Peak, as the name of a peak, will only be recognized in the Great Zhou Kingdom.
There are a total of five peaks that are only recognized in the Great Zhou Kingdom, all of which have been developed by the people of the Great Zhou.
Other countries also have such peaks, and they are only recognized in their own countries.
And the funny thing is that they all call their own country's peak one of the 108 peaks.
This leads to the fact that if someone conducts a survey on the peaks of dozens of kingdoms and affiliated kingdoms within the territory of the Tianwu Dynasty.
It can be found that there are nearly a thousand peaks that are called 108.
Of course, countries will only touch these peaks, and the main peaks and Tianfeng cannot be touched.
In the past, the royal family of a kingdom was very proud and directly blew a developed mountain near their royal city into one of the main peaks of the Ten Thousand Mountains.
And the name is actually the same as the real main peak of the Ten Thousand Mountains.
Later, I don't know how, this news spread to a group of monsters living on this main peak.
So, they sent several powerful monsters to directly destroy the royal city of this kingdom.
This naturally violated the taboo of the human race, so the Tianwu Dynasty fought with this monster dynasty for three years.
After that, the Tianwu Dynasty issued an edict to all kingdoms, forbidding them to fabricate non-existent main peaks at will.
The [Longxing Peak] that Li Yan was going to now was not the real peak of the Ten Thousand Mountains, but the peak in the territory of the Great Barbarian Kingdom.
As a big country, the Great Barbarian Kingdom has thirteen peaks developed in its territory, and [Longxing Peak] was developed only in recent decades.
That is why it not only attracted many people in the Great Barbarian Kingdom to go there to pan for gold, but also people from other countries smuggled in to pan for gold.
The evil-seeker was one of the people who went there to pan for gold.
The profession of the evil-seeker is a niche profession, usually passed down from generation to generation, without accepting apprentices, only passed on to future generations.
There is a saying in the circle of evil-seekers: teach the apprentice and kill the master.
The reason for this saying is that the evil-seekers have learned from many painful lessons.
Seeking evil is not looking for other things, but a precious resource that is necessary for innate warriors to advance to the condensed evil realm warriors, the evil spirit.
Evil spirit is a more powerful energy than spiritual energy, but it is also much more violent than spiritual energy.
When an innate warrior is promoted to a warrior in the Condensed Evil Realm, he must introduce this violent evil spirit into his body and use this energy to compress the gaseous true qi in his body.
Compress the gaseous true qi into liquid true qi.
After all, it is impossible to compress the gaseous true qi into liquid true qi just by relying on the pressure in the human body.
Therefore, the ancient great powers thought of using external forces to use more advanced energy to force the true qi to change.
Once the liquid Qi is formed, it will surpass the evil Qi in terms of energy level.
At this time, the liquid Qi can be driven to devour the evil Qi, so that the Qi has the property of not dispersing for a long time after the evil Qi leaves the body.
This is something that Qi cannot do, even liquid Qi cannot do, but the evil Qi can do it easily.
And this is also the most important reason why warriors in the Condensed Evil Realm can use spells.
Some spells can last for several months or even years in the human body.
The evil Qi is so important that naturally there will be many forces to control the output and circulation of the evil Qi in order to prevent more warriors in the Condensed Evil Realm from sharing the cake with them.
But the birth of each kind of evil Qi requires a suitable environment and a long time.
This makes the evil Qi a more precious treasure.
Therefore, when a piece of evil Qi appears at an auction, it is a treasure that all warriors in the Condensed Evil Realm will compete for.
Think about it, if a demon hunter finds such a piece of evil spirit, how much wealth can he get, enough to establish a third-rate family in Xuanfeng King City.
Even some evil spirits have not been discovered for tens of thousands of years, and have already grown to more than one or two pieces. How amazing is this wealth.
Driven by such huge interests, how can the master-disciple relationship maintain the crazy greed and desire in the heart.
Therefore, many apprentices who are usually respectful and filial to their masters and have a good reputation often stab their masters in the back as soon as they find the evil spirit.
Of course, even the father-son relationship is difficult to restrain this desire, so the demon hunter often only keeps one son by his side.
If there are many sons, they will be sent far away from childhood, but it doesn’t matter for daughters.
In this way, there are few cases of sons killing their fathers or being killed by their fathers.
Because his father has only one heir, everything will be his after his father’s death, so the son has no reason to kill his father who raised him since childhood for something that will come sooner or later.
Let's talk about Li Yan's goal, [Five Elements Dragon Rising Evil Qi].
There are many types of evil qi, and even every few years, new types of evil qi will be discovered.
There are three aspects to judge the type of evil qi, the attributes of evil qi, the characteristics of evil qi and the place where evil qi is produced.
The attributes of evil qi refer to the five elements of evil qi, such as fire evil, water evil, thunder evil, metal and wood evil, wind and fire evil, five elements evil, and yin and yang evil.
The attributes of evil qi are very important for warriors. Warriors who practice what kind of true qi need what kind of evil qi.
If a warrior who practices fire true qi uses water evil, when the evil qi enters the body, the collision between water and fire will directly blow the person into pieces.
This is why Li Yan traveled thousands of miles to find the five elements of evil qi.
If the Ji family could find a piece of five elements of evil qi hundreds of years ago, the Ji family member who practiced [Five Elements Five Directions Reincarnation Gong] to the peak would probably be able to break through to the Condensed Evil Realm.
Perhaps, the present Great Zhou would also be a great country.
But there is no if in the world.
The second characteristic of evil spirit refers to the characteristics of evil spirit, that is, the ability of evil spirit.
The characteristics of general fire evil spirit are mostly burning, bursting, etc. After combining with true qi, true qi will bring the same characteristics, increasing the attack power of true qi.
If such true qi is used to cast explosion spells such as fireball, it will definitely exert the power of one plus one greater than two.
The last place where evil spirit is produced hides the most valuable knowledge of evil spirit seekers.
After knowing what evil spirit is born in what environment, you can find evil spirit in a targeted manner.
Of course, this environment contains a lot of knowledge.
Just like everyone knows that fire evil spirits are basically born in places with high temperatures, such as volcanoes.
However, few people can really find fire evil spirits in these places, but evil spirit seekers can find them accurately.
It is because other people will look for them randomly, while evil spirit seekers will look for them purposefully based on the knowledge passed down, so the efficiency is naturally very different.
But this also caused a problem. The single-inheritance evil spirit seekers are often only proficient in finding one kind of evil spirit.
If you are lucky, you can find several evil spirits in your lifetime; if you are unlucky, you may not even find one evil spirit in your lifetime.
Only when the three elements of the evil spirit are consistent can it be judged as the same kind of evil spirit.
Otherwise, it is impossible to tell the difference based on the appearance of the evil spirit.
No matter what kind of evil spirit it is, it is a colorless energy body.
They are like earthbound spirits, and they can never leave the place where they were born. Without special methods, they can never be seen, let alone collected.
The [Five Elements Dragon Evil Spirit] that Li Yan needs is also in this state, so after arriving at [Longxing Peak], the first thing he has to do is to purchase equipment for finding and collecting evil spirits.
Li Yan rushed all the way for half a day, and the distance he traveled was more than a thousand miles, but he did not encounter a flying spirit beast on the road, but there were quite a lot of flying strange beasts.
But the strange beasts are no longer of any value to him. After killing them, Li Yan did not collect the bodies of the other party.
Suddenly, Li Yan's eyes revealed a hint of joy.
"I didn't expect that there was such a treasure in the stone ball."
His sight came to the Snow Mountain clone.
After the Hundred Thousand Mountains clone sent the stone ball to him through [Transfer Space], he began to study the stone ball.
The stone ball was very hard. With the strength that he could crush a hundred-forged iron block into pieces, he could not cause any harm to the stone ball while holding it.
Then, he began to turn the stone ball over and over to study it. He studied the surface of the stone ball for a long time, but in the end he found nothing.
In desperation, Li Yan decided to violently open the box to see what was inside the stone ball.
Anyway, it's just something I picked up. If it breaks, there's nothing to feel bad about. The main thing is to satisfy my curiosity.
Because the hardness of the stone ball had been confirmed earlier, Li Yan was prepared to use more violent methods to break the stone ball's defense.
First, his hand was attached with the sharpest metal energy among the five elements. Using his hand as a knife, he chopped down the stone ball without any damage.
After another dozen or so blows, it was still the same, so Li Yan replaced the Jin Xing Zhen Qi with the Five Elements Zhen Qi.
After continuing to chop for more than a dozen times, Li Yan found that this time it was effective, scraping off some debris on the surface of the stone ball.
But after hundreds of chops, he could no longer scrape, and the effect was minimal.
"So damn strong."
After so many attacks, even the Thousand-Year Black Iron, which is famous for its strength, will be scarred, indicating that this stone ball is harder than the Thousand-Year Black Iron.
Then, Li Yan began to use the spiritual weapon, a newly obtained second-grade medium spiritual sword named [Po Feng].
[Breaking Edge Knife] not only has excellent conductivity of true energy, but also because a small amount of [Spirit-enhancing Iron] is added during casting, [Breaking Edge Knife] can increase the true energy injected into the blade by about 10%, making it more lethal. The improvement can be 30%.
The same method as used before, first input the gold element zhenqi into [Breaking Blade]. If you can't break the defense, change it to five elements zhenqi.
The amount of infuriating energy input also gradually increases, eventually reaching the limit of the blade.
In this way, after Li Yan experimented with the controlled variable method for a long time, he finally carefully split the stone ball with a knife.
"This is, how could it be this thing."
After opening the stone ball, Li Yan was extremely surprised. After the surprise, there was a surprise.
"Who would have thought that there is actually a spiritual fire hidden inside."
Yes, only the outer ring of the stone ball is solid, and the innermost part is hollow. In this hollow part, a star-blue spiritual fire is burning quietly.
"If it's a spiritual fire, it can be explained clearly why this stone ball is able to swallow spiritual energy. It's just that the spiritual fire is a little weak."
Spiritual fires are all aggregates of spiritual energy. When they are born, they can instinctively breathe in and out spiritual energy to strengthen themselves.
However, if the spiritual energy from the outside world is insufficient, the spiritual fire will regress to the same level as the surrounding spiritual energy concentration environment.
This was obviously the case with the spiritual fire in front of him, so it gave Li Yan a feeling of weakness.
"I haven't paid much attention to the information about the spiritual fire before. It seems that I need to find out what the origin of this spiritual fire is."
Li Yan thought like this and acted like this.
Library on the third floor of Danmeng Branch of Xuanfeng King City.
This place and the alchemy room are the two places where alchemists often stay.
Therefore, most of the books here are free for everyone to check. Only some important information, such as the recipe for spiritual elixirs, will be charged for elixir alliance mission points or spiritual beads.
Li Yan's Dan Alliance clone was sitting comfortably on a chair in the library, flipping through books introducing spiritual fire.
After watching for a while, a maid with a slightly charming look in her eyes came to Li Yan dragging a stack of books.
She glanced at Li Yan, who was reading seriously, and gently put the book in her hand on the desk. Then she quietly came behind Li Yan and stood there quietly, waiting for Li Yan's next instruction.
It can be said that all the books about spiritual fire in the entire library, except those that have been borrowed, have been placed in front of Li Yan.
With Li Yan's current mental strength, he can read a book at a speed of one breath.
In the time it takes a cup of tea, he can read a book with hundreds of pages.
Although other alchemists are not as exaggerated as him, they can still see ten elements at a glance.
Of course, they only read at such a fast speed when checking information.
If they hold a book on alchemy techniques in their hands, the alchemists' reading speed will be extremely slow because they have to think, understand and simulate it in their minds.
After reading for half an hour, Li Yan stopped turning the pages.
"Found it."
Li Yan chuckled softly, his tone full of surprise and exclamation.
Xiao Cui, who had been standing behind him for almost two quarters of an hour, leaned forward curiously after hearing Li Yan's words.
Then she saw a color picture and a text introduction.
[The Starry Sky Flame is a low-grade spiritual fire on earth. It is a spiritual fire that was born by accident under the violent friction between the meteorite and the Nine Heavens Gang Wind]
[The chance of its birth is extremely small. According to statistics, it has been more than 30,000 years since the Death Star Sky Flame was first discovered. About one Death Star Sky Flame is discovered every thousand years, and only one Death Star Sky Flame can be observed every year. The number of meteorites dropped is no less than a thousand]
[It is said that the power of this spiritual fire is extremely powerful. When it is cast, it is like a starry sky hanging down, vast and suffocating. The specific characteristics are unknown]