There were two people whose marks were left by the Shadow Pearl before, in addition to the demon cultivator there was also a cultivator . The reason why Shen Lian chose the demon cultivator was mainly because attacking the demon cultivator was the right choice in the world of immortal cultivation.

It is normal for a demon cultivator to commit many evil deeds and be killed by others, and it is something that everyone is happy about.

Another reason is that demonic cultivators are easy to find.

Just as he came out of seclusion and wandered through three mining cities, he found news about the demon cultivator in the Image Pearl from the minds of some helpful fellow Taoists.

This demon's name is Tian Wenjing! Tian Wenjing is very famous in the nearby mining area, and his hands are stained with the blood of many Jindan cultivators.

This demon was extremely cunning. He easily evaded the Jindan Sect's encirclement and suppression several times. Even at the slightest disturbance, this demon would hide in the corners deep in the mountains.

The Abyss Demon Sect's disaster lasted for decades, and many demon cultivators in Tianzhu Mountain were dragged into the Abyss Demon Sect. However, this Tian Mo avoided the disaster, hid for decades, and only came out again after the demon chaos was quelled.

The information Shen Lian obtained in the mining city was all about how this evil cultivator killed people cruelly, and there was not the slightest mention of his identity as a member of the Exiled Immortal Tower.

Until now, he is still not very clear about the internal organizational structure of the Exiled Immortal Tower.

Qian Dai did say that there would be Exiled Immortal Envoys patrolling every area of ​​the Exiled Immortal Tower, and the strength of the Exiled Immortal Envoys were mostly at the fourth-order Nascent Soul stage.

The one who had entered the Yunshang Sect and snatched away the cultivator with five spiritual roots was in the early Nascent Soul stage.

But this does not mean that all the banished immortals are in the early Nascent Soul stage. It can only be said that the level of immortal cultivation in the area near the South China Sea is too low, so the Banished Immortal Tower sent Nascent Soul cultivators of the corresponding level.

Based on this inference, the two Jindan-level cultivators he discovered should be the peripheral forces controlled by the exiled immortal envoy.

He quietly founded the Butian Sect with just a small golden elixir, so it was normal for the Yuanying ancestor to recruit a few golden elixir workers.

Half a month later.

Shen Lian found news about the magic cultivator Tian Wenjing near a mining city called Fengya.

This demon recently made a big deal. A batch of ore that was being escorted back to the Jindan Yu family near Fengya Mining City was robbed by this demon, and nearly a hundred members of the Yu family, including the fake Dan cultivator, were killed.

A light breeze swept over the hills, and deep in the dense mountain jungle, Shen Lian's figure slowly appeared in the dim shade of the trees, and he took a look at the surrounding environment.

Looking down from where he stood, he could see the collapsing mountains and the burning marks left by the spells.

Shen Lian rubbed his fingers, and a talisman with an outline of a little man appeared in his hand.

Then the talisman spontaneously combusted. After burning, the pattern of the little man on it swayed in the air, stretched and hooked its back, and turned into a puppet. It jumped to a distant tree branch in three or two steps, lowered its head and sniffed fiercely.

“Buzz!”

Shen Lian threw out six puppet figures in succession.

The seven little men turned into seven streams of light and rushed down the mountains. They clasped their hands together, muttered something, and wandered back and forth in the area.

Half an incense stick later, the seven people returned to Shen Lian, each holding a wisp of demonic energy in their hands, which gathered on one of the little men.

"go."

Shen Lian pointed to the distance, and the little man with evil spirit rushed into the distance. The other six little men followed closely behind him, as if they were having fun, constantly running around and sniffing everywhere.

The new talisman that combined the tracking talisman and the puppet talisman was also used in actual combat for the first time.

Shen Lian followed the puppet tracking talisman man into the deep mountains. The seven little men would take turns holding up the magic energy they had collected before after running for a while, and the remaining six searched along the way.

One day later, in a valley, seven puppets tracked the little talisman man holding the evil spirit and started circling in the valley, running around like headless flies, and could not get out of the valley.

Shen Lian checked the surroundings and found that this area was not the hiding place of the evil cultivators.

The puppet was tracking the little talisman man in circles because it had lost the aura of the demon cultivator. Either the demonic energy had dissipated or it had been eliminated in advance.

The seven puppet men were spinning around in a panic. They formed a formation under Shen Lian's guidance and suspended the evil spirit they had collected before in the air. The seven men gathered together while burning on the spot, and a burst of talisman fire immediately ignited the evil spirit in the air.

"go!"

When the evil energy was ignited, a puppet talisman appeared in Shen Lian's hand, which transformed into a black snake-like creature. It suddenly flew into the air and moved close to the ignited evil energy.

This snake-like black puppet spirit, with an aura that reached the middle third stage, hovered around the burning demonic energy, spitting out snake-like energy, and finally flew away into the distance.

Shen Lian's figure flashed and he followed the black snake.

At the same time, five puppet men jumped out of his body and landed on the place where the puppet man was burning before.

Some held shovels, some held brooms. After cleaning up and burning the residue, they each put their tools behind their waists, took out a big Pushan, and started fanning wildly.

Finally, he buried some small gadgets here as a small opportunity for those who came later, and then he jumped and turned into a stream of light to catch up with Shen Lian.

…

"call."

In the underground cracks deep in the mountains, blood-colored spiritual bans appeared and locked the blood energy in the space inside the cracks.

If you listen quietly, you can hear the sound of water flowing in the cracks, but if you go deeper, you will find that the water here is bright red, with pieces of flesh and blood floating on it.

The rushing blood gathered into the cave deep in the crack, forming a blood lake.

The water surface was rippling, and occasionally there would be a sudden explosion of waves, and a strange fish with fangs would jump out and swallow the floating flesh and blood in one gulp.

Under the crimson water surface, a group of hideous-looking fish were wagging their tails.

Suddenly, a large net of light fell down and caught several fat strange fish, and then dragged them to the depths of the cave with a whoosh.

Tian Wenjing's big hand grabbed a strange fish from the fishing net. He put his five fingers into the fish scales. Streams of blood flowed out of the strange fish's mouth and he swallowed it in big gulps.

After all the blood and energy on the strange fish were sucked out, he smashed the strange fish against a distant rock wall, and the spiritual light emitted by the spiritual ban crushed it into pieces.

After swallowing the blood of several strange fish in succession, he still couldn't calm down.

A round jade talisman with a round bead embedded in it appeared in his hand.

He has already reported the news of his discovery of the five elements' spiritual power. As usual, a new decree will come down, asking him to continue tracking down the cultivator who still has the remaining five elements' magic power.

But it has been several months and there is still no news from above.

The reason why he intercepted Lu Yangshan was because of the rules set by the exiled immortal envoy. Regardless of the means and process, whoever can discover a high-level cultivator with five spiritual roots will be rewarded greatly.

For this reason, Lu Yangshan is still looking for him and has caused him considerable injuries.

…

at the same time.

In a hall in a secret place, a female cultivator was sitting cross-legged on the bed practicing. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around.

"Is the master not back yet?"

"Madam, the master has not returned yet."

After nodding, the female cultivator slowly walked down from the bed.

Then, she looked at the jade communication talisman hanging on the screen in the distance.

"Which one lit up just now?"

The maid guarding near the screen spoke up, "It's the same person who said he found the trace of the Five Spiritual Roots cultivator. He just sent another message. He must have wanted to ask again because the lady ignored him."

The female cultivator walked out of the hall and entered the hot spring without even taking a look.

“My Lord has brought back a high-level five-spiritual-rooted female cultivator from the Southern Continent. She has already made a great contribution. She will most likely be transferred away from that remote place in the Southern Continent.

" You said that if I report this now, will the Lord intervene or not? If he intervenes, won't it embarrass the new Southern Continent Exiled Immortal Envoy? The Lord is about to be transferred away from the Southern Continent. Now is a happy time. Don't bother the Lord with these trivial matters."

"Besides, these cultivators are quick to believe anything they hear. If they find a trace of a five-spiritual root, they will blow it up. How many times can they accomplish anything?"

…

Tianzhu Mountain, inside the cave.

Tian Wenjing looked at the jade talisman with a dim light, and a gloomy look flashed in his eyes.

"Damn it."

At this moment, he wished he could crush the jade talisman.

Half a day later.

Tian Wenjing, who was sitting cross-legged, was shocked, and then a brilliant demonic aura burst out from his body.

The spiritual restrictions imprinted on the rock walls of the cave turned into a torrent and rushed towards him, forming a blood-colored protective armor.

In an instant, he had already prepared all his defenses.

Seeing that the demon cultivator had made full defenses and Shen Lian had broken through the restrictions and entered the cave, the divine power in his sea of ​​​​consciousness quickly gathered towards the divine man.

A black, slightly curved soul spear appeared.

This was what he looked like in the past when he used his spiritual power to attack.

However, this time, after the black curved soul spear appeared, another slightly shorter black spear with a larger curve appeared next to it.

The two spears were fused together at the ends.

But from this perspective, it is not a spear at all, but more like the two claws of a sharp claw. The black spear head is the nail of the claw, and the curved arc is just a joint that has not been fully revealed.

The branches of the two sharp claws were over a hundred feet in size, with clusters of soul energy lingering on them, giving off a terrifying aura that wanted to tear everything apart.

"Ah...you are not Lu Yangshan."

Tian Wenjing trembled. At this moment, his soul was hiding in a soul armor that was completely woven by soul shadows. He felt the two sharp claws that directly tore open his sea of ​​consciousness, and he trembled involuntarily.

"No……"

The sharp claws fell and scratched lightly.

Tian Wenjing let out a scream of agony that pierced his soul. His armor, which was strong enough to withstand the attacks of the soul of a late Jindan cultivator, broke into two pieces. The terrifying force even cut his soul figurine in half, leaving only a tiny bit of soul sticking together.

Seeing that the soul of the late Jindan demon cultivator was about to be cut in half, Shen Lian immediately withdrew his magical powers. His two claws shook and dissipated. If he really swept across, he would not even have a chance to search his soul.

Even so, it's too late.

The shattered soul of Tian Wenjing swayed violently, and with a "puff" sound it completely broke apart and turned into broken soul power.

Shen Lian quickly calmed down his collapsing soul power and began to search his memories.

This time the soul attack transformed from a spear into sharp claws, which was beyond Shen Lian's expectations and the power was beyond imagination. Considering that the purity of his soul had doubled, he deliberately compressed the attack power to 50% when launching the attack.

But unexpectedly, even the old demon in the late Jindan stage could not withstand this mere half of the attack power.

Half an incense stick later, a wisp of soul smoke emerged from the top of Tian Wen's lens, but before it could fly up, it was struck into nothingness by a ball of lightning.

As for the old demon, please don’t occupy the reincarnation space and leave it to other fellow Taoists with clean backgrounds.

Shen Lian opened his hands, and several streams of light flew from various places in the cave to his palms, and then he rushed out of the cave in a flash.

Boom! Soon, a dull roar was heard in the mountains. The ground collapsed and sank, covering the cracks in the ground. There were also wisps of blood and energy emanating from everywhere.

This time, because of the direct use of divine consciousness attack, not much breath was left behind. However, Shen Lian was still worried, so he deliberately made a bigger noise here.

I believe that with the habits of the monks making a living in Tianzhu Mountain, they will soon turn this place upside down.

Then, he headed north without stopping.

…

While escaping, Shen Lian was looking through Tian Wenjing's memory fragments.

But the news he got made him frown.

At best, this demon cultivator can only be regarded as a helper recruited by the banished immortal envoy. Not to mention the core, he can barely even be considered a peripheral.

He had only met the banished immortal once, and he watched him from afar.

In addition, Shen Lian also found out that the trap he had set before was snatched away by Tian Wenjing. Unfortunately, after reporting it for several months, there has been no movement.

This result was something he had not expected before.

I can only say that being a migrant worker is also hard.

In addition, he also found the communication jade talisman and the beads for absorbing the five elements' magical power. After carefully examining them, Shen Lian directly burned them to ashes.

According to Tian Wenjing's memory, the exiled immortal envoy had gathered a lot of Jindan helpers, and the relationship between them was more like employment.

They help the banished immortal envoy to track down the monks with five spiritual roots. Once they have found out the whereabouts, they will no longer be needed and they will be rewarded with some cultivation resources.

From this, it can be seen that killing this evil cultivator this time will most likely not arouse suspicion from the cultivators in the Exiled Immortal Tower.

After all, the evil cultivators have done so many immoral things, so it is normal for one of them to die.

Despite this, Shen Lian did not stop and started heading towards Zhonglu.

Next, he needed to figure out the problem with his supernatural powers, and figure it out as soon as possible so that he could advance to the late Jindan stage.

Although there was something wrong inside his body, it was actually a good thing. It allowed him to dress up as a cultivator with thunder spiritual roots and blast out the real Kuishui Divine Thunder and Gengjin Divine Thunder.

Without the help of Lei Bao, no one would believe that he did not have the thunder spirit root.

…

Central Continent, the fairy city in the clouds.

One year later.

In the north of Taixuan Territory, a huge mountain like a natural moat stretches between heaven and earth.

This mountain is the place where the Taixuan Region of the Tiannan South Continent and the Zhongnan Region of the Tiannan Central Continent meet.

On the top of the mountain, clouds and mist rolled, and streams of light came from the east, south, west and north, rushing into the fairy city in the clouds on the top of the mountain.

(End of this chapter)