The Goddess of Sandaoshan sat on my small cushioned couch, her hands folded on her belly as usual, her posture dignified, elegant, and majestic.
After patiently listening to Yuanshi Tianzun's story, Sandashan Niangniang lowered her eyes for a few seconds and said thoughtfully, "You entered the spiritual realm because you had no one to turn to for help in this world. I am the only one who can save you in the spiritual realm, but I am currently pursuing the Golden Crow and cannot leave the spiritual realm."
Zhang Yuanqing was immediately disappointed by these words. Shan Niangniang changed the subject and said, "But I can give you the Demon Subduing Pestle. You can bring it to the human world and then perform a summoning ceremony. Then I can use the Demon Subduing Pestle as a medium to incarnate in the human world. At that time, I will block the two main rebels and try to kill them. You can take the opportunity to escape."
The Queen is a top overlord, even if she is an incarnation her combat power is much stronger than that of an ordinary overlord. But it is easy to win but difficult to kill her, after all, the overlord is not a fish on the chopping board.
If you can't beat him, you can always run away. Even if you can't kill him, as long as you break the ban and delay time, I can teleport away.
Zhang Yuanqing felt relieved, thinking that he had saved his life and the money.
"This way I only need to buy time to arrange the ceremony," he thought to himself.
If I return to the human world, the two masters will probably take action immediately and will not give me time to arrange the summoning ceremony.
If I use the Five Elements Spiritual Power Experience Card, I can resist the force but my brain is useless. With a simple control by the master-level illusionist, I become a brainless fire master, shouting that I don't care about life and death, and I will fight you if you don't obey!
It was impossible to calmly arrange the ceremony according to the plan. He was just worrying when he heard the Sandashan Goddess say, "To arrange the materials for the summoning ceremony, we need the original scroll."
The original scroll was the parchment scroll that the thousands-year-old Ji Bangzi and his hundreds-year-old disciples used to lure a ten-year-old boy. The original scroll was needed because the materials in that version were very valuable and could provide spiritual support for the Empress's arrival and help her break through the barriers of the spiritual realm. Later, the simplified version of the summoning scroll could only be used in the spiritual realm.
"The original version of the summoning ritual is indeed more powerful." Zhang Yuanqing's expression suddenly froze, because he realized that he did not have the materials for the summoning ritual.
That scroll is a consumable item. Once it is used up, it will be gone. Why would anyone spend energy and money to stockpile the materials to use it?
He couldn't help but look at Sandaoshanniang.
The old man gave an expression that said, "How could I collect such low-grade materials?"
The two looked at each other in silence. After a few seconds, the old man pondered and said, "I can go to the spiritual realm to collect it. It may take a few hours at the shortest and a day at the longest."
It's not difficult to collect, but it takes a lot of time to travel through the spirit realm. After a few hours, the daylily is cold...
The problem just now was not solved, and now we encounter a more fatal problem.
Zhang Yuanqing realized that resolving this crisis might not be so easy, and he became a little worried.
Princess Yin Yao looked at her master, who was frowning and thinking with a heavy face, and hesitated and carefully asked: "Master, you just said that you have gained anything in your pursuit of the Golden Crow. If you don't gain anything, leave the spiritual realm, otherwise Yuanshi Tianzun, the useless guy, will die."
The Sanda Mountain Goddess probably saw that her disciple had finally understood the truth and did not choose to be deaf. She explained, “I can sense the aura of the Golden Crow. They are all gathered deep in the Spirit Realm, in a certain instance. There are only two ways to enter that instance. One is to wait for the Spirit Realm to open automatically, and two is to find the key.”
Zhang Yuanqing, who was thinking about countermeasures, suddenly looked up when he heard this. The word "key" reminded him of the Bright Compass. According to Xiaoyaozi's research, it can be confirmed that the Bright Compass is the key to unlock the secrets of the spiritual realm, and the Bright Compass is a branch of the sun, so the real meaning of the key is that it can help the holder get closer to the Golden Crow.
As this was about the core of the sun, Zhang Yuanqing stopped thinking for a moment and actively asked, "My lady, the Golden Crow you are talking about is the origin of the sun. How much do you know about it?"
The Lady of Sandaoshan glanced at him and said, "The legend of the Golden Crow should have been passed down to this day. There are descriptions of them in the ancient books collected by the Pure Yang Sect. In the ancient times of Shangling, ten suns suddenly appeared between heaven and earth, burning crops, killing plants and trees, and leaving the people with nothing to eat. Later, the Queen of Wa could not bear to see the people of the world suffer, so she imprisoned ten Golden Crows on the Fusang sacred tree in the East China Sea one by one. The Great Yang Origin is the name given by spiritual realm practitioners. Ancient practitioners called them the Ten Golden Crows."
Isn't the Sun-chaser Kuafu? It turns out to be Wahuang. It seems that the creator of ancient legends is Wahuang. Search on Baidu for the three best novels and read them first every day.
After listening to this, Zhang Yuanqing combined it with what he saw in Takama-ga-hara and believed that the contents recorded in the Pure Yang Sect's scriptures should be true.
Then he looked at Sandaoshan Niangniang, the old man. When the two of them talked about myths and legends, the old man said lightly, "Myths are an alternative history of modern practitioners, and I don't know much about them."
And so he was sent away.
Now she was finally willing to reveal some more inside information to him, which showed that she was becoming more and more important in his heart.
“Also, I sensed a soul aura outside the copy. I don’t know whether it was that the Golden Crow developed self-awareness, or the will of some ancient god remained in the Golden Crow.” A trace of worry flashed between the brows of Niangniang Sandaoshan.
"The Ten-Sun Crow is extremely domineering and cannot tolerate anything in the world. Even spiritual energy of other attributes will be dispersed and purified by it. It stands to reason that no soul can get close to it."
"You mean, the Golden Crow has an owner?" Zhang Yuanqing felt a chill in his heart.
The old man shook his head and said, "I'm not sure. We need to observe further. Don't talk nonsense. You have two choices now. You can stay here temporarily. With your cultivation level, it's no problem for you to go without food or drink for ten days or half a month. There are fine wines and fruits here, which are enough for you to survive for a long time. It's also a place for romantic conversations. I will frequently look for scripts with spiritual realm practitioners to train, and spread the news that you are trapped here. How the government in this world will deal with it will be discussed in the palace at that time."
"I will now collect materials as quickly as possible. You return to the real world and give it a try."
Zhang Yuanqing became conflicted. The main mission was to kill ten Yin creatures. Although there was no time limit, if he stayed here he would be destined to fight the Yin creatures endlessly. If he dared to rest or sleep, he would be ambushed by the dominant Yin creatures.
In fact, there is another way, that is to complete the dungeon and see what kind of props the Demon Lord's character card reward will give. The decisive battle in Chang'an is a dominance-level dungeon, and the corresponding character card reward must be a dominance-level prop.
If it is a powerful offensive prop, then there is hope of breaking the restriction of board game props. If it is an auxiliary prop, then it is completely gg.
It's a gamble with your life. Unless you're desperate, it's best not to put your hopes on it.
Moreover, if there is an illusionist among the enemies, as soon as he shows up, you may be immediately pulled into a dream and killed instantly, so even if you have a dominant-level item, it is not very safe.
"Please let me think about it..."
Zhang Yuanqing quickly started thinking. The key now lies in time and materials. As for the former, he could buy time by making rational use of sliding shoes, but the difficulty lies in materials.
Unless he could conjure summoning materials out of nothing, the second option would not work, and he could only choose the first option and stay in the copy. He was now in the spiritual realm of the copy, isolating the White Tiger Guard gang's warehouse from the warehouse, and could only open the warehouse of the Return of the Dead, so the possibility of asking Fu Qingri for help was zero.
For the gang leader, the gang warehouse is like his own inventory, but outside members cannot open the inventory while the gang leader is in the dungeon.
Wait, out of nothing, Zhang Yuanqing's eyes lit up, "I have a solution"
For humans, the best way to create something out of nothing is to make a wish, and he happened to have a wishing prop.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yuanqing suppressed his excitement and started to analyze the situation quickly.
The matchbox has a limited use, so he has to think about whether his wish can come true.
First of all, the rules for using the matchbox are that you cannot directly solve difficulties beyond your own capabilities, and you cannot exceed the capabilities of the props.
The difficulty of the summoning ritual is to obtain materials in the dungeon, which is beyond his ability, so it does not meet the requirements.
As for other restrictions, the material level of the two matches did not exceed the capabilities of the matchbox.
The ability of rule-based props at the Saint stage is that even dominant-level materials can affect dominant-level materials of average quality.
After all, competition materials and props are two different things, so if we can solve the limitation in Note 1, we can solve the current dilemma.
Zhang Yuanqing thought for a few seconds and said, "Madam, please give me a list of materials."
He immediately found a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and asked Lao Bangzi to write a list of materials. Then, he took out materials of similar quality and quantity from the little red hat according to the list.
He lit a match and a flame as big as a bean rose up. Zhang Yuanqing made a wish to the flame.
I made a wish that the materials in front of me would become the things on the list.
Burn the matchstick and the wish will come true.
The next second, the materials in front of Zhang Yuanqing became the materials required on the list. He used the method of replacing the existing materials and burning money to perfectly bypass the problem and directly solve the current rule restrictions.
The core logic this time is that changing the materials has nothing to do with the summoning ceremony, which is equivalent to erasing the current difficulty of the summoning ceremony.
If the content of the wish is: I need materials for the summoning ritual, then the wish will definitely not be fulfilled.
In addition, replacing the process with equivalent materials also avoids exceeding the capacity.
This limitation means that if there is no material replacement, then the wish cannot be fulfilled because he does not have the ability to travel through the spiritual realm to collect materials.
Lady Sandaoshan stared at the match without blinking.
"This little gadget is quite interesting. It can actually make people's wishes come true. Let me see."
Zhang Yuanqing offered it with both hands and said, "If your Majesty likes it, I'll give it to you."
The Sandaoshan Goddess took the matchbox, examined it, and played with it for a while, then handed it back and said with a smile, "You keep it."
Princess Yin Yao saw it all! She felt that this thief was very scheming and was very good at winning the favor of those in higher positions. Given the master's character, how could he ask for things from a junior? Even if he did, he would definitely give her a more precious magic weapon in return, otherwise it would damage the status of the Queen of Sandaoshan and the Princess.
Yuanshi Tianzun never loses out and can even win the favor of his master.
After the discussion, Zhang Yuanqing paid the price of a matchbox to fulfill a wish from the leader of the Yin Yao group for safety reasons. This was to prevent the enemy from accidentally making a request after returning to the present world, and he would uncontrollably satisfy the other party.
That death would be too unfair. Then, with the protection of the Goddess of Sandashan, he safely eliminated the ten evil creatures and successfully completed the main task.
One of the corpses was refined into a corpse by Lao Bangzi, and made a wish to obtain a teleportation jade talisman on behalf of others.
Three matches completed all of Zhang Yuanqing's preparations.
As he waited expectantly, the spiritual realm reminder sound came on time.
[Ding! Congratulations on completing the single-person border mission - Decisive Battle in Chang'an, difficulty level B, calculating the reward...
[Rewards settlement in progress
Props/Items Obtained: None]
[Bonus Experience 60%)
The character card reward is activated, and the reward item is: the Soul-Destroying Sword.
This is a dominant-level sub-body, and the corresponding item should be a dominant-level item, the Soul-Destroying Sword. It sounds very powerful. In the future, I will also have a close combat weapon.
Zhang Yuanqing was ecstatic.
He expected that the copy did not reward dominant-level items, but the Demon Lord must have dominant-level items, and sure enough, it came.
A nebula symbol appeared on Zhang Yuanqing's forehead, and he felt the familiar power of the stars cleansing his body.
The copy rewarded 60% experience, which instantly brought his experience value to the limit of 100%. Most of the experience was wasted and converted into star power that was deposited in his body.
For a Domination-level copy, allowing a level 6 Saint to increase his experience points by 60% is not much of a reward.
The bottom line is, because Zhang Yuanqing was cheating the whole time, the score given by Lingjing would not be very high.
After the experience value was full, the star gazing, astrology, star escape and star illusion finally reached the peak of the saint stage. The physical body, which had reached the limit of the great saint realm under the tempering of Chunyang Xikalu, actually improved slightly.
Returning to reality thirty seconds later, Zhang Yuanqing wasted no time in taking out his shovel shoes and putting them on. He took off his coat, put the summoning scroll, materials and the demon-subduing pestle in it, and tied the bow.
After taking out Little Red Riding Hood and returning Princess Yin Yao, he had only about ten seconds to open the inventory and check the properties of the dominant-level weapon, the Form and Soul Annihilation Sword.