The whole person turned into a yellowish-brown, misty light, looming between the mountains.

"What a fast movement."

Shen Lian, who had chased out from the Nine-Layered Immortal City, had a hint of surprise in his eyes.

This hazy earth-colored light did not alarm the monks passing by nearby. Even in his spiritual perception, it was just a blurry afterimage.

"It's still the five spiritual roots."

There was a glimpse of beauty after the formation was triggered. Although the breath leaked for only a moment, Shen Lian had already confirmed the magic power cultivated by the cultivator. The breath was almost in the middle stage of the Golden Core, but it was not very stable.

Then, his figure slowly sank into the earth, and a ball of ochre-colored spiritual light emanated from his body, merging with the earth and rocks.

Shen Lian was not in a hurry to chase him. In his divine sense, the cultivator who had fled far away was always under his control, and...

…

Qiushan rode the yellow sand across mountains and ridges. His body was surrounded by small particles. There were runes flashing on the surface of each small particle, which not only blocked his breath, but also had the ability to break through the mountains and wilderness.

"I didn't catch up."

After rushing out of the Nine-Layered Immortal City and covering an area of ​​a hundred miles, he sensed with his divine sense that there were no cultivators chasing him, but he did not breathe a sigh of relief.

More ochre-colored particles were released from his body, densely adhering to his flesh, and the distance of a hundred miles was widened in a breath.

Shen Lian, who was following closely behind, looked at the figure possessed by the yellow sand. A formation plate appeared in his hand, and he was ready to activate the formation hidden outside to block the person inside.

He has been in control of the Nine-Layered Immortal City for some time, so it is naturally impossible for him to have only deployed measures in the city.

The entire Nine-Layered Immortal City, including mountains, rivers, lakes and fields, has his backup plans.

Chasing in a farther direction, there are also.

However, when Shen Lian was about to take action, he saw a green light flashing on the body of the cultivator who was fleeing in front of him. The yellow sand attached to his body formed a pair of shapes similar to green wings, which made this person faster.

In addition, this cultivator also took out a dark green array plate.

Are there any formations?

Seeing this, Shen Lian put away his formation plate and wanted to see what this person could do.

In the entire wilderness, there cannot be anyone more sinister than him.

…

His divine sense swept around and confirmed once again that no one was following him. Then Master Qiushan injected the five elements of magic power into the green array plate in his hand.

The formation plate, which was originally green with a hint of black, was hit by the magic power and the green skin on its surface cracked into pieces, revealing the original five colors of red, white, green, black and yellow.

All five elements are complete.

The array disk rotated gently, rolling up circles of halos, drawing Master Qiushan into it, and then it whooshed and crashed into an ordinary hill not far ahead.

Beneath the hill, the soil and rocks are solid.

At this moment, a small crack appeared in the center of the earth and rock, revealing a cave inside.

Master Qiushan plunged into the cave, and the small crack healed slowly. Sensing from the outside, there was no sign that there was a cave hidden among the earth and rocks.

"call!"

After entering the cave, Qiu Shan let out a long breath, took off the hat on his head, and frowned tightly.

Although no cultivators came after him, his aura was still leaked when he sneaked into the immortal city this time.

He had prepared this cave more than a hundred years ago, but he didn't expect to use it today.

"If I had known earlier, I should have brought the precious medicine with me."

At this moment, Qiu Shan felt extremely regretful, but then he began to hope for the best.

"The new city lord should be a mid-stage Jindan cultivator. With his strength, he should not be able to discover my arrangement."

"Even if they find out, I'm not afraid. I have reserved a fourth-level restriction passed down from my ancestors, which cannot be broken by a Jindan cultivator."

"But this person is careful enough. He even built a formation underground."

Although he kept repeating this to himself, Qiu Shan was still somewhat worried. He felt that the longer the night went, the more trouble he would have, so he had to act as soon as possible to retrieve the precious medicine.

We can't stay in this wilderness for long.

There were so many Five Elements Divine Gold fragments and residues in the Yuanying Basin, which obviously meant that a Five Elements magic weapon had been destroyed.

A Nascent Soul cultivator took action, but what he crushed were the fragments of a third-tier magic weapon.

A third-level magic weapon cannot belong to a Nascent Soul ancestor, so there is only one explanation, that the third-level magic weapon belongs to a Jindan cultivator.

Even the magic weapon was turned into powder. One can imagine the fate of the Jindan cultivator.

Based on the clues after the incident, Qiushan speculated and reconstructed what happened at the scene.

A fight between a Nascent Soul cultivator and a Golden Core cultivator.

The Jindan cultivator still has five spiritual roots.

The result was that the magic weapon of the cultivator with five spiritual roots was destroyed, and his life or death was unknown.

This speculation made Qiushan shudder. After so many years, he seemed to have returned to the time when he was being hunted.

"call!"

Sitting cross-legged in the cave, Qiushan's chest heaved and did not calm down for a long time.

“Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!”

"Get the precious medicine back as soon as possible and leave here."

Qiushan made a decision in his heart.

He had run to the corners of the world of immortal cultivation, but was still mentally tortured by that group of people.

The entire world of cultivating immortals is truly not peaceful at all. There are fights and battles everywhere, people desperately trying to gain resources, and there are conspiracies and schemes everywhere.

The precious medicine was crucial to repairing his injuries, and he had searched for it in the depths of the wilderness for hundreds of years before finding it.

"I should have left earlier."

Although he had made up his mind, the feeling of worrying about gains and losses lingered in his heart, making Qiushan very irritable.

It's easy to leave, but where can you find the precious medicine after leaving?

The Desolate Territory looks like an island, but in fact it is very large, comparable to one-tenth of the Tiannan Continent.

Since the fall of the Middle Ages, this area has been deserted and has become a place for many cultivators to collect herbs. He came all the way to the wilderness just to collect herbs.

Now he has found the 5,000-year-old Hualong Buyuan Ganoderma and collected three auxiliary herbs. He will soon be able to gather all the herbs for Hualong Buyuan Pill.

This pill is of the third-grade top grade, and the refining process is complicated. Most third-grade top-grade alchemy masters dare not try it.

The main ingredient, the Dragon-Transforming Yuanzhi, is also very delicate. It needs to be placed in a transformation spiritual vein to maintain its spirituality. That is why he placed the precious medicine in the Nine-Layered Immortal City spiritual vein for nourishment.

There are many spiritual veins, but not many of them are in a transformed state.

Several decades ago, he had thought about leaving once, and it was the incident that allowed him to take advantage of the war between the three sects to fake his death, thus getting rid of his identity as the city lord.

The incident that time was that a magical weapon made of five-colored stones appeared in the city.

Originally, Qiushan himself, as the city lord, did not come here to collect taxes, but mainly to hide and collect elixirs and precious medicines, so he used a fake pill substitute as a sign.

It was just a second-level magic weapon, he didn't even look at it.

However, the magic weapon was repeatedly unsold at auctions and became a topic of conversation on the streets of the city.

The auction in the city was originally organized by his subordinates. When the Five Elements Magical Instruments could not be auctioned off, the news came to the fake Dan substitute.

It just happened to be a coincidence that when he came back from the depths of the wilderness, he took a look at this five-element magic weapon.

You don’t know until you see it, and you’ll be shocked when you see it.

Others may not recognize it, but how could Qiushan not recognize it?

How could a piece of five-colored stone end up in the Nine-Layered Immortal City? The probability of such a thing being accidentally lost was almost zero, and Qiu Shan had anticipated that someone was secretly plotting.

This kind of thing was very common even when he was in Central Continent. Not to mention that the cultivation paths of cultivators of all races in today's immortal cultivation world have long since changed. Seeing that the spiritual essence of heaven and earth is scarce, they have begun to come up with evil ideas.

If he was still the young master back then, and his clan's Nascent Soul was still there, he might have been able to intervene.

But he was killed and his family was destroyed, so he fled to the wilderness in a panic. When he encountered this thing, he naturally threw it as far as he could.

Fortunately, this item was later sold to someone.

It was at that time that Qiu Shan had the idea of ​​leaving, but unfortunately the spiritual veins for transformation were hard to find, and he still had some spiritual medicines to collect, so he took advantage of the war between the three sects to find a way to escape.

The precious medicine is still hidden deep in the spiritual vein and guarded by a fourth-level spiritual prisoner, while he transforms himself into an ordinary cultivator and hangs around the Nine-Layered Immortal City.

But once again, a fight at the Nascent Soul level suddenly popped up, and there were also lost fragments of the Five Elements Divine Gold, which made Qiushan feel the urgency again.

He had enjoyed this treatment once before: sending out Nascent Soul cultivators to hunt down Five Spiritual Root cultivators.

Troublemakers in the world of cultivating immortals are indeed everywhere, even in the smallest corners.

There was a murderous gleam in Qiu Shan's eyes, but unfortunately he soon lost his temper. His strength was too weak. Even if he advanced to the Nascent Soul stage in this life, he would not have the strength to take revenge.

Hide.

…

On the other side, Shen Lian's eyes widened after noticing that the intruder had entered a hidden cave.

Oh my, I finally met a good friend.

The safe cave he had set up was very mysterious. After checking it several times, he finally discovered a small gap between the soil and rocks.

The whole thing is covered with a breath-concealing talisman.

Even with his divine sense of thirty thousand feet, he could only see some clues.

Since he was not sure of breaking through the defense, Shen Lian thought about it and decided to do this fellow Taoist a favor and give him an extra layer of protection.

As we are all seeking to cultivate ourselves, we should give each other our all.

“Buzz!”

In a casual manner, the Ga Ying combination formation was arranged.

In addition, he also added a third-order Thousand Mountains and Myriad Images Formation. The function of this formation is to conceal and isolate, so that even if the cultivators passing by use their spiritual senses, they will only see the mountains, fields and plants in this area, and cannot discover anything else.

When setting up the formation, Shen Lian also thoughtfully placed the shadow beads in various places of the formation, and thoughtfully used the third-level five-element talisman formation to protect the shadow beads.

After doing all this, he left Dahei to keep watch and returned to the Jiuchong Immortal City.

The deputy soul found something in the deepest part of the fairy city, and he wanted to go back to take a look.

…

When Shen Lian returned to the location of the underground spiritual vein, he found that a dazzling rune appeared on the tiger head, tiger heart, and four claws of the Crouching Tiger Spiritual Vein.

In addition, densely packed smaller runes appeared in other directions of the spirit vein.

These runes wandered around the spirit veins and soon dimmed.

He scanned the spiritual vein with his divine sense again, and these runes seemed to have disappeared, with no trace of them at all.

"Fourth-level Extinguishing Rune."

You can recognize the type of rune at a glance. This rune is very powerful. It can block the perception of divine thoughts. Without special means, it is like an extinguished candle that cannot be detected again.

Since Shen Lian can recognize runes, he naturally has the means to activate them.

He stretched out his right hand and rubbed it, then touched the tiger's head, and deftly tapped a few positions with his fingers.

I saw a few small spots of light on the spirit vein, and then the large rune that had dimmed before suddenly lit up again.

The rune lit up, but it would take some time to see what was hidden behind it.

Of course, Shen Lian also has another way, which is to take out the fourth-level small sword given to him by Zi Yang and stab it hard. The consequence is that the entire Nine-Layered Immortal City may explode.

"It seems that this friend came here for the forbidden spiritual object behind."

"Seek the mountain."

After thinking for a moment, Shen Lian guessed this person's identity.

It is impossible not to arouse curiosity about a fake alchemy monk who loves to practice in seclusion and does not like to have fun with fellow Taoists of both sexes.

If this person is really Qiushan, then it would be interesting. A five-spiritual-root golden elixir cultivator is hiding in a place like the wilderness, pretending to be a fake elixir.

Avoid vendetta?

Avoid being hunted down?

Avoid...

Shen Lian thought of a very difficult guess.

With the fourth-level extinguishing talisman, the things have been avoided from his detection, so they are almost safe here.

Why did Qiu Shan come back to get it? What was he faking his death for?

"So what treasure is inside?"

After hesitating for a moment, Shen Lian still wanted to take a look.

He couldn't open the entire extinguishing talisman, but he thought it was still possible to poke a small hole and take a look.

Shen Lian took a sip of the liquid and a thin silver needle flew out of his mouth.

His magic weapon, the Silver Hair, has not been used for a long time. It depends on whether he can stab or not.

…

Hidden in the cave.

After resting for a day, Qiushan reopened the entrance to the cave, rushed out with a flash of earthy yellow light on his body.

Boom! However, just as he emerged from the dirt and rocks, he crashed into an invisible barrier.

Suddenly, ripples appeared on the barrier, and five kinds of divine colors, red, green, white, black, and yellow, lit up at once, and shot up like fireworks, forming an inverted colorful bowl-shaped formation space, sealing Qiushan inside.

"A third-level, superior-grade inverted five-element formation!"

After seeing the formation, Qiu Shan was shocked.

He was unexpectedly blocked at home without any notice.

The cultivator who recently occupied the Nine-Layered Immortal City was not in the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm.

Colorful streams of light rose from all directions and gathered in the colorful spirit lake at the top of the formation, forming the appearance of gurgling water.

Qiu Shan did not act rashly. Although he was not a formation master, he was knowledgeable. The third-grade top-quality Five Elements Reversal Formation was very powerful. More importantly, this formation could serve as an auxiliary formation for other formations of the same level.

A third-grade, top-grade formation is terrifying, and it would be even more terrifying if other formations were superimposed on it.

“Buzz!”

As Qiushan was pondering, a splashing sound of water was heard in the colorful spiritual light. The black water in the sky suddenly rose into the air and gathered under the colorful spiritual lake, turning into an incomparably huge giant Kun.

It is indeed a stacked formation.

Qiu Shan's brows frowned and he slapped his forehead hard.

A ray of ochre light lit up, and a half-broken tortoise shell flew out, hovering above his head and slowly opened, ready for defense.

(End of this chapter)