Under a red volcano, Qian Dai whispered something, and an ochre-colored light glowed on his fat body, sweeping in all directions like ripples.

The ochre-colored ripples rushed into the surrounding rocks and turned into a large ochre-colored formation.

"Set up the formation instantly."

Shen Lian, who was observing quietly from behind, showed a hint of surprise.

Most formations take a long time to set up, but in just a few breaths he managed to easily set up a second-order, top-grade, breath-concealing formation. Qian Dai really has something.

Most likely, the formation has been refined into a portable formation disk.

Shen Lian, who was already a formation master, knew very well that if one wanted to refine a portable formation, a formation master alone did not have the ability to do so and needed the cooperation of a weapon refiner.

This kind of portable formation is very difficult to refine, and the success rate is not high. It requires a high degree of cooperation between the formation master and the refiner, so it is very rare.

Of course, if the mage is both proficient in formation and refining, things would be much simpler.

But Wan Xinghai does not have such talent.

Soon, Qian Dai, who had set up the formation, left behind a figure and fled into the distance.

It seems that he is looking for the earth veins again.

Xuanshi Sect...looking for earth veins...the great battle on Haiyuan Island back then...was not necessarily just a fight for mineral veins.

In a flash, Shen Lian analyzed a clue in his mind.

After figuring out the direction Qian Dai left, the spirit puppet turned around and headed in the opposite direction.

"Five Elements Escape Technique, Earth Escape!"

In a temporary cave.

Shen Lian narrowed his eyes, praying that the spirit puppet could find a suitable golden-eyed ring-patterned demon spider within the range of his spiritual control.

The landform on Jinshan Island is very strange. It is obviously very hot, but in addition to solidified lava, there are also muddy swamps in the mountains, emitting a strong fishy smell.

Spider monsters are naturally poisonous, and the golden-eyed ring-patterned spider is no exception.

The spirit puppets constantly changed their attributes and escaped among the earth, rocks and flames. Most of the demon spiders were dormant, their fat bellies slowly rising and falling, absorbing the surrounding fire into their bodies.

Soon, in a depression where magma was flowing, Ling Kui discovered a group of crawling golden-eyed ring-patterned demon spiders. There were nine of them, each shaped like a small mountain.

The one in the center was several times larger than the other spiders, with red and black hairs interwoven all over its body, each of which was like a thorn, and its back was covered with golden lines.

The remaining eight heads were also about ten feet in size, but their aura was very weak, only in the late first stage.

Thick black-green mucus floats on the flowing magma, emitting a fishy and unpleasant smell.

After carefully sensing its aura, I found that the one in the middle was in the late second stage, and the remaining eight were at the first stage and were not to be feared.

The Five Elements Spirit Puppet flashed with spiritual light, and pieces of talisman paper flew out, transforming into five men and women of different appearances and sizes on the left and right.

Looking closely, the figures of these men and women are blurry, with only the general appearance of humans.

The talisman paper cracked in mid-air, and an illusory figure walked out of it and landed above the largest demon spider.

The golden-eyed ring-patterned demon spider has a poor vision but good perception. After noticing the fluctuations around it, it instantly wakes up from its rest and strands of red spider thread fly out.

As the spider thread flew out, balls of red-green mist rolled up from under the spider.

Five puppet figures of different appearances were swaying their bodies and muttering to themselves, with five kinds of spiritual light of gold, wood, water, fire and earth emanating from their bodies.

Five elements forbidden!

A colorful halo dominated by red formed in the air and immediately hit the spider's head.

But the demon spider was so powerful that it broke out of the forbidden spell in just one breath, and raised its ferocious spider legs to shatter the colorful spiritual light above its head.

The spirit puppet that had been hiding in the earth and rocks appeared, and with one palm strike, a burning heat rose up, the five elements evolved inside, and a five-element fire palm with red-gold flames lingering outside emerged.

When the air became ten feet in size, it was covered with a puff.

Snap!

The spider's raised legs were broken into several pieces by the fire palm in mid-air, and then imprinted on the spider's head, leaving a deep, colorful, flame-embedded large handprint on its head.

This blow directly knocked most of the spider's body into the magma below. Several of its legs broke into pieces because it was not retracted in time as its body fell, and a sharp crackling sound was made as it merged with the magma.

After being hit hard by the Spirit Puppet's Five Elements Fire Palm, this late second-order demon spider was severely injured, and flames and poisonous gas exploded from its body.

"roar."

An angry roar came out from its fang-filled mouth. The fangs clashed with each other and spewed out countless red spider silks, which pierced through the figures it could sense around it.

The five puppet talisman men swayed their bodies, not avoiding the attacking spider silk. The five elements of sword energy flashed in their hands and rushed straight towards the monster.

Puff, puff, puff! The demon spider roared in pain, and the red spider silk intertwined in the air like a knife, locking the puppet man and pulling him into his open mouth.

The moment one of the puppet talisman figures was pulled to his mouth, the puppet talisman figure began to emit colorful spiritual light.

The Five Elements Spirit Puppet appeared on the puppet man, with colorful hands intertwined in his hands, and a red-gold fire snake gathered in his arms, which tore through the intertwined spider webs and slammed into the big mouth of the demon spider.

The fire snake hummed, rolled over and tore open the spider's mouth, splitting its entire skull.

Boom! The intertwined red spider webs and gushing fire burst into the air as the spider demon, which was as big as a hill, fell to the ground and lost its support at the same time.

The five puppet talisman men stretched out the spider silk that wrapped them and rushed towards the other demon spiders around them.

The Five Elements Spirit Puppets also split into five and quickly fought on the battlefield.

Soon, after clearing out the first-level demon spiders around them, the five puppet talisman men swayed in the air and spontaneously combusted. The burnt ashes were collected into the storage bag by the Five Elements Spirit Puppet with a wave of its hand.

After doing all this, the fire spirit on the spirit puppet transformed into earth spirit in one go and disappeared into the soil.

…

In the temporary cave.

Shen Lian's head shook and he felt a little dizzy.

The consumption of spiritual power is quite large.

He felt relieved only after he had brought the Spirit Puppet Palm to the vicinity of the cave, but a question also popped up in his mind.

This is the first time that the puppet talisman man has taken action, and it is still a bit difficult to control him.

In addition, it is a bit too wasteful to use the puppet talisman figure every time it is consumed. After all, drawing a puppet talisman consumes a lot of energy.

We should think about transforming the puppet talisman into a recyclable one, and it would be best if it could also be recharged.

Also, in the future, I will buy some broken magic weapons that are contaminated with the aura of other cultivators, and let the puppet talisman man nourish them, so that they can be used as post-war camouflage.

The puppet man's spells come from the copied template of the Five Elements Spirit Puppet, so it is inevitably lacking in attack power, so it will have to be equipped with poison dispersion and poisonous smoke in the future.

…

The place where the crime occurred.

Qian Dai flew out from the depths of the island, looked at a large pool of collapsed magma in front of him, and then looked in other directions.

"Could there be other monks coming to the island to hunt the Golden Eyed Ring Patterned Demon Spider?"

This is not impossible.

The ocean is so vast and the monsters have no owner, so whoever hunts them owns them.

In his hand was a monster map with the locations of deep-sea monsters marked on it. It came from the leader of the Xuanshi Sect, who was also his master. As for how his master found out, he didn't need to ask.

After checking around and finding nothing else, Qian Dai quickly headed towards the formation.

The formation trapped two late-stage second-order demon spiders, one male and one female. This was also done deliberately by Qian Dai.

With the strength of Qiu Qian and others, if the demon spiders in the circle are too weak, they can kill them in a moment. He will have no time to explore the veins deep in the island.

Inside the formation.

Qiu Qian and others have killed a female demon spider, causing the remaining male spider to become crazy. Its eyes have become red and violent, and its spider silk is like lightning, constantly piercing through the void.

The monk was unable to dodge and had part of his body pierced by the spider silk.

Fortunately, we are not a wild group, so we have our guard up, and Qian Dai is watching outside. When they see a fellow Taoist in danger, others will help to rescue him.

The male spider's whole body was glowing with golden light. Its big mouth full of fangs opened and spit out spider silk that pierced through the surrounding stones. Its body slid out along the spider silk, and its long legs covered with barbs cut through the splashing spiritual light like a sword.

The second-stage late demon spider was 30% faster than usual in its enraged state. Fu Jingcheng was unable to dodge and saw the long spider claws slashing towards him.

In the crisis, he opened his mouth and spit out a black shell.

The shell suddenly grew to three feet in size, blocking his body in front of it.

Snap!

As the male spider's sharp claws slapped down, a spiritual light bloomed on the black shell. The surging force caused the shell to shatter, and Fu Jingcheng flew out, vomiting blood.

After knocking one person flying, the male spider suddenly bent its long legs downwards, and its mountain-like body leaped up at once, as fast as the wind, which startled the cultivators in the formation.

“Buzz!”

At this moment, there was a loud buzzing sound from the khaki formation, and a stream of khaki light fell down, piercing the male spider's back like a sharp sword.

The male spider screamed and hissed continuously, and its whole body rolled over and crashed down like it was struck by lightning.

There was a huge bloody hole on his back, from which blood was gushing out like a fountain.

Its huge head turned a circle, its body flashed with blood, and it was about to spit out spider silk.

In an instant, all kinds of spells flew up from all directions, turning into sword lights and water spells that bombarded the male spider together.

The male spider let out an angry roar, then kicked its eight legs and fell to the ground, dead.

"Rescue fellow Taoists and collect the demon corpse."

Qian Dai's voice sounded, "I just found that there are other monks on the island. Everyone, please move faster."

…

In the temporary cave.

The formation slowly opened, and a strong smell of evil and blood rushed over. Shen Lian and the others who were sitting cross-legged quickly stood up.

“I’m back.”

All the monks who returned were present in good condition, and no one was killed, but their condition was not very good.

Only three people seemed to be uninjured, and the other two looked weak, with black wounds visible through their torn hair robes.

"My fellow Taoists, do you have an antidote?"

Shen Lian reached into his storage ring and took out a jade bottle.

"This is the antidote I prepared earlier. I don't know if it will work against the spider poison."

"Thank you very much."

The injured people took the antidote and took turns taking it orally and applying it externally.

"So Brother Lu can also make an antidote?"

Qian Dai, who walked in last, squinted his eyes and glanced at Shen Lian.

"Ahem...erysipelas are inseparable. I studied them for a while when I had nothing to do."

Shen Lian had a calm expression.

"Friend Lu turned out to be an alchemist."

Only then did the monks in the cave react.

No wonder he came to participate in this monster hunting event. He didn't take action personally after coming here. It seems that he wanted to get the opportunity to divide the share of the monster.

If he is an alchemist, then this makes sense.

"What level of alchemist is Fellow Daoist Lu?"

"Second level, lower grade."

Several cultivators at the seventh foundation building stage showed a hint of disappointment in their eyes, but they concealed it well, and the disappointment disappeared in a flash.

Who says that the lower grade of the second level cannot be promoted to the middle grade of the second level?

"Fellow Daoist Qian, do you think there are other monks on the island who hunt demon spiders?"

"Yes, when we were hunting the pair of demon spiders, we heard the sound of fighting on the island. Although the fluctuations were small, I still noticed it."

Qian Dai asked softly, "Should we stay or leave?"

"Let's go, we've gained a lot this time."

In order to hunt down the pair of demon spiders, although some of the dozen people were not injured, they all suffered heavy losses.

Now that he has more than ten second-level monsters with him, everyone is starting to feel cautious.

"Then let's go."

…

After two days of rest, the injured stabilized their injuries and the spider venom in their bodies was initially suppressed, and everyone set out on their journey home.

This hunting trip was a complete success.

On the spirit boat, Shen Lian looked at the cultivators sitting cross-legged around him. Even the injured ones couldn't help but smile.

That’s right, the monster hunting team on this ship is simply a breath of fresh air in the world of immortal cultivation.

Not only did they return with a full load, but no one died.

The key is that everyone achieved their goals.

Everyone is happy.

A total of eleven monsters were hunted this time.

Three-headed golden-eyed spider.

Two are in the late second stage, and one is in the early second stage.

Eight-headed sea-swallowing fish.

One of the late second stage was three meters long.

There are two in the middle of the second stage, and five in the early of the second stage.

Among them, only three had intact skins, all of which were sea-swallowing dragon fish.

The three-headed demon spider had destroyed the most terrible thing.

When it came to the final division stage, everyone became excited.

Everyone first calculated the price of the monster skins, bones, blood, elixirs, scales, etc., and then divided them according to the ratio of spirit stones.

According to the amount of spirit stones each person gets, they can then exchange them for the monsters they want.

Of course, if you don’t want the monster, you can sell it directly to Qian Dai.

As the initiator of this monster hunt, Qian Dai, who was also responsible for searching, traveling, and guarding the formation, accounted for 40% of the share.

No one objects to this.

Qiu Qian and nine other monks received 55%.

Shen Lian and Qu Yuren, who were tasked with guarding the gate in the sea, and fellow Daoist Bian Yichang, who was at the fifth level of foundation building and actively participated but did not make much contribution, shared a half-tenth share.

Shen Lian had no objection to the three of them splitting the profit in half.

He did almost no work, so it was good enough if he was given some scraps.

On the other hand, Fellow Daoist Bian Yichang looked somewhat depressed.

Everyone gained something, but he was the only one who actively participated, and participation is what matters.

(End of this chapter)