There are four people in total, one on each side of the island, and they need to guard the culvert in the water that connects to the open sea.

If during the encirclement and suppression, a Level 2 Sea Dragon Fish escapes from the culvert in the direction you are responsible for, you will be held responsible.

Shen Lian was assigned to the south of the island.

He landed on the water in the southern part of the island and watched from afar as Qian Dai led the remaining monks towards the secluded pool on the island.

Without stopping, Shen Lian also fell into the water.

Hundreds of feet underwater, he saw holes densely packed on the seabed.

These holes are big and small.

You can also see some fish with green foreheads and fangs, dragon whiskers on their lower jaws, and scales like dragon patterns all over their bodies, swimming in the water.

This is the sea-swallowing dragon fish.

Shen Lian sensed that these demon fish were very weak, and almost none of them were above the third level of Qi training.

It seems that this group of sea-swallowing dragon fish is quite large.

His divine sense spread out and carefully examined these monster caves, and sure enough, they all led to the dark pools on the island.

The Five Elements Spirit Puppet flew out from its main body and turned into a transparent spirit body, merging into one with the surging water.

Shen Lian used a part of his divine consciousness to control the spirit puppet to investigate, and he also did not sit idle, as he began to capture the sea-swallowing dragon fish.

These dragon fish are extremely weak, but they have some dragon energy. It would be nice to catch them and bring them back to Sanqian to eat as spicy snacks.

Of course, he also caught a dragon fish that had transformed into a demon, otherwise it would be useless.

“Boom!”

There was a roar coming from the sea water in the cave, and it was obvious that Qian Dai and the others had already started fighting in the deep pool.

Sure enough, Shen Lian's divine sense sensed that countless sea-devouring dragon fish were trying to drill out of the densely packed holes.

Although these first-level sea-devouring dragon fish have a little dragon blood, their intelligence is not very strong. After sensing the crisis, they began to flee in all directions.

Sensing the fluctuations in the cave, Shen Lian quickly found the largest water hole and mobilized the spirit puppet to drill in.

The stronger the monster is, the bigger its physique is. If it finds the biggest hole, it can naturally catch the biggest fish.

However, those that came out of the hole were all first-level sea-swallowing dragon fish, and it seemed that the second-level ones were all trapped in the dark pool.

The Water Spirit Puppet merged with the water and followed the deep cave into the deep pool on the island.

Suddenly, he felt himself in a deep pool, enveloped by an incomparably bright spiritual light, with runes intertwined with each other.

No wonder no second-level dragon fish came out, it must have been trapped by the formation.

Through the formation, one could vaguely sense that there were cultivators who were using the formation to suppress and kill the dragons.

Above the formation, a fat, hazy figure with spiritual light all around him was activating the formation to cover the water.

“Huh.”

"It's not Qian Dai's real body."

The spirit puppet moved along the edge of the dark pool, checking the surrounding environment.

Shen Lian came here mainly to obtain the qualification to share the sea-devouring dragon fish. The demon blood he needed was the least noticeable among the demon skin, demon bones and demon pills.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, it was discovered that Qian Dai who controlled the formation was not himself.

What about others?

Take a look into the depths of the pool.

Down there? ...

Deep in the pool, corals and seaweed are piled up, and fish scales and bones are everywhere.

Qian Dai's spiritual thoughts swept across the heaving water below, and he soon sensed a stream of inspiration emerging from deep within the reef.

In order for the second-level sea-swallowing dragon fish to build a nest and reproduce here, the presence of a spiritual vein is a necessary condition.

Qian Dai doesn't care about spiritual veins.

He needed to find a suitable gold and water vein to nurture the water spirit corpse.

Since it is impossible to do it in the Xuanshi Sect’s sea area, let’s do it in the territory close to the sea clan.

With a light touch of his palm, a black magic treasure engraved with strange runes appeared. It was square in shape, with tiny golden dots flashing in the black color.

A chilly aura emerged from the black spiritual treasure, and the runes seemed to come alive, transforming into swimming fish that sank downwards.

The runes that had sunk into the underwater reef returned not long after. The black magic treasure emitted a thick black light, suppressing all the golden lights.

Seeing this scene, Qian Dai showed a hint of disappointment.

There are only water veins here, but no accompanying mineral veins.

Only when there are spiritual veins and mineral veins together can it be a land of gold and water and can it nurture water spirit corpses.

He chanted the spell again and quickly put away the black magic treasure. Qian Dai's fat body trembled violently and a burning sensation burst out from his body.

This made his expression change.

Xuan Yang's body was impacted by the cold and gloomy aura and was touched.

…

After paying a huge price, Qian Dai suppressed the anger in his body and quickly rushed upwards.

His Xuan Yang physique and Xuan Yin soul repel each other, and they can be suppressed without using this magic weapon.

After dozens of breaths, water surged in the deep dark pool, and the spirit puppet and the water flowed into a cave culvert together.

"Sure enough, it is related to the Xuanshi Sect."

The spirit puppet came out of the dark pool and returned to Shen Lian's vicinity.

The square black magic weapon that Qian Dai took out from the depths of the dark pool produced the same runes that he had sensed in the depths of Haiyuan Island.

Shen Lian did not run away this time.

Qian Dai used the guise of hunting monsters to investigate the underwater spiritual veins, but it had nothing to do with any spiritual stones from him. Instead, the monsters he hunted had something to do with him.

In this case, it makes sense why Qian Dai took out that square piece of Xuanling Jadeite stone before.

They are a family with the Xuanshi Sect, so there's nothing wrong with selling some family things.

When he chose the Xuanling Jadeite raw stone before, he deliberately did not choose the square one, and he didn't know if it was still in Qian Dai's hands.

The fluctuations of spiritual energy in the dark pool became more and more violent, and more and more first-level sea-devouring dragon fish rushed out from the culvert holes.

Shen Lian easily stored these first-level items into his storage bracelet.

With a large formation surrounding the second-level dragon fish, his task of guarding the culvert was not a big problem.

Shen Lian took back the spirit puppet and flew it towards the distant ocean.

This sea area is far away from the Wanxing Sea, so there might be other gains there.

Crash! Such a large group of sea-swallowing dragon fish needs to consume a huge amount of resources every day.

Even if there are spiritual veins deep in the pool, monsters are still animals after all, and sometimes they will go out hunting.

With such a large group of sea-devouring dragon fish breeding here, there shouldn't be no enemies.

Unfortunately, under Shen Lian's control, the spirit puppet can only travel within a range of fifteen miles. This distance is nothing compared to the boundless ocean.

Not long after, Shen Lian noticed that the fluctuations coming through the culvert had weakened, so he summoned back the Five Elements Spirit Puppets.

A voice came from the communication jade talisman.

At the same time, a wave of magic power exploded in the north of the deserted island. Fu Jingcheng, who was guarding the north, swung a magic sword in his hand, which emitted a bright blue light and chopped down a ferocious dragon fish that rushed out.

Four people guarded the island around them, and Fu Jingcheng won the prize.

When Shen Lian flew up, he met the other two cave watchers and saw the look of interest in their eyes.

The shares are distributed according to the amount of effort put in, so naturally there is not much credit for just guarding the door outside.

Being able to give half of the share is a kindness from other fellow Taoists.

Only Shen Lian didn't think so. It was his first time participating in a monster hunt, so he had to observe and confirm it with his own eyes first.

Besides, it would be too outrageous for a cultivator at the fourth level of foundation building, who is also an alchemist, to not focus on making pills and go out to hunt monsters.

That’s right, in the eyes of Qian Dai and his two little maids, he only knew how to refine happiness pills.

He is an alchemist, and he is not.

The dragon fish that Fu Jingcheng dealt with was about the third level of foundation building, and the others tacitly did not intervene.

Back on the spirit ship, Shen Lian saw the big-headed and fat sea-swallowing dragon fish.

There are seven in total, one of which is in the late second stage and is three meters in size.

At both ends of the middle stage of the second stage, it is nearly two meters.

In the early stage of the second stage, there are four heads, about ten feet long.

The auras of water, fire, gold, earth and other elements still lingered on these monsters, and some of them even had holes pierced through them.

“Boom.”

While everyone was examining the spoils, the magic sword in Fu Jingcheng's hand flew up and turned into a sword light. Then he opened his mouth and blew hard, and spiritual power rolled into the sword light.

The three-foot sword light suddenly grew to three feet in size, carrying with it rain water and chopped off the forehead of the sea-devouring dragon fish, cutting its skull in half.

He grabbed the bloody fish corpse, flew into the air and threw it into the spirit boat.

A group of more than a dozen people looked at the spoils in the spirit boat with envy in their eyes. Shen Lian even wanted to quickly get a jar to collect some fish blood.

Fish monsters are different from other monsters in that they don’t have much blood.

"Fellow Daoist Qian, you finally came out, do you have any goals?"

Qiu Qian's eyes were shining brightly. With so many corpses of monsters, based on his contribution, he could at least get one mid-stage second-level monster.

After Qiu Qian said this, the rest of the people looked at Qian Dai.

The victory at the start and the rich gains made everyone excited.

Of course, Shen Lian was not wild, so he couldn't say anything at this time, so he just watched quietly.

Qian Dai hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's leave here first and find an island to rest for a while before making plans."

"Everything is up to Master Qian."

The spirit boat turned into a stream of light and disappeared into the vast ocean, flying three thousand miles away and landing on a huge deserted island.

There are still traces of humans living on the island, but it is now deserted.

After everyone settled down, Qian Dai spoke softly, "Ten thousand miles away, there is a Jinshan Island. This island is a volcanic island. There lives a kind of poisonous spider on the island, called the Golden Eye Ring Pattern Demon Spider. They also live in groups. The number is unknown, but there are at least two late-stage second-order spiders."

After Qian Dai finished speaking, he did not say anything else, but waited quietly for the monks present to consider.

The golden-eyed, ring-patterned demon spider has the attributes of fire and poison. For a cultivator who is building a foundation, being contaminated by this spider's venom can be quite a hassle.

Shen Lian looked at the jade slip in Qian Dai's hand. When Qian Dai spoke just now, he took a look at the jade slip first.

This means that the jade slip contains information about the golden-eyed ring-patterned demon spider. If it only contains information about this one demon beast, it would be fine. But if it records the distribution map of demon beasts in the nearby sea areas, then its value would be huge.

Compared to hunting monsters in a group, Shen Lian prefers to do it alone. He has puppets and talismans, so it is worry-free to do it by himself, and he doesn't have to worry about being backstabbed or spied on.

"Further away, there is another group of giant bone snake fish, but there is only one second-stage middle-stage small fish king."

Hearing Qian Dai say the specific location of another monster further confirmed Shen Lian's thoughts.

"How about going to Jinshan Island?"

"If there is real danger, should we retreat?"

Qiu Qian and others who were at the seventh or eighth level of foundation building were somewhat tempted. Nowadays, even if they were not independent cultivators, the cultivation resources of the family's foundation building elders were limited.

With a large family and great wealth, the clan members need to be trained, and several elders in the family are waiting to share the second-level resources. They also need to pool money to buy foundation-building pills, and none of them will cost spirit stones.

I didn't dare to come to the deep sea by myself. I finally got on Brother Daoist Qian's favorable wind boat. Several powerful foundation-building cultivators really didn't want to miss this opportunity.

Especially for the family elders, it would be a huge loss if they didn’t bring back a spirit stone for the foundation-building pill.

Seeing someone hesitate, Qian Dai squinted his eyes and looked around, "How about this, let's go to Jinshan Island and take a look. If you feel it's dangerous, you can stay on the spirit ship and wait.

If there are any spoils from hunting, the Taoist friends who did not participate in the hunting will not participate in the distribution of the spoils, how about that? "

“This is a good method.”

"agree."

After reaching a unified thought, the spirit boat took off again on the deserted island and fled into the distance.

Jinshan Island, viewed from afar, shimmers golden on the sea. Thick black smoke is belching out of the island, and from time to time you can see flames erupting.

The spirit boat slowly docked at the outskirts of the island. Qian Dai's maid quickly selected a location, opened up a temporary cave on the island, and set up a defensive formation.

Shen Lian took a look and saw that it was still a third-order formation.

After settling the retreat, Qiu Qian and his group of six people who were at the sixth level of foundation building, plus Qian Dai and two people at the fifth level of foundation building, headed towards the island together.

In the cave, only Shen Lian and Qu Yuren, who was also at the fourth level of foundation building, were left.

The two looked at each other.

Shen Lian remained calm.

"I am an alchemist, not good at fighting."

When saying this, the two maids who stayed on duty nearby looked at each other, and each saw the mockery in the other's eyes.

That's what I said.

But Shen Lian had already taken action.

The Five Elements Spirit Puppets drilled into the earth and headed towards Jinshan Island.

The entire Jinshan Island is very large, with mountains rising hundreds of feet high everywhere. Some parts of it are spewing black smoke, and the air is filled with a strong smell of sulfur.

The mountains are full of black stones formed by the flow of magma, one layer upon another.

Some of the stones were covered with holes and covered with thick red spider webs, and large and small demon spiders could be seen sleeping.

In some places, you can still see the corpses of monsters and the scattered bones of human monks.

At the foot of the mountain where the flames are erupting, you can see giant spiders that are black in color with circles of gold around them and are two or three meters long.

The limbs of its body were as thick as logs, the legs on both sides were covered with sharp black barbs, and there were dark golden scales on its closed eyes.

"Choose one first. I will control the formation to isolate the inside and outside. Everyone, work together and make a quick decision to avoid attracting a siege from the spider swarm."

Qian Dai and his group carefully entered the mountain, and the Five Elements Spirit Puppets followed behind. Shen Lian needed to confirm where Qian Dai and others took action before he could choose where to take action himself.

(End of this chapter)