Although he had squeezed the juice out of the Five Elements Towering Tree, the cultivators outside were not aware of it. Besides, his cheap senior brother was still missing, so he had no time to investigate the remains of the God Transformation.
"That's right, you are a very thoughtful person and always feel that someone wants to harm you." Heiya looked as if he understood.
"I'm leaving now. See you later."
Watching the black cliff turn into black smoke and suddenly crash into the earth and disappear, Shen Lian's figure shook and disappeared without a trace.
Jingyang City.
The city was covered with heavy snow, and it was all wrapped in silver.
In the tavern in the city, soup is bubbling, and through the windows you can see the rolling hills outside.
Shen Lian's appetite was almost gone. It was just a habit for him to go to the small restaurants in the city, and think about the causes and consequences of things while eating.
Through the information obtained from squeezing the Five Elements Towering Wood this time, one thing is certain, that is, as a person with five spiritual roots, he can be easily controlled by others once he enters the Five Elements Immortal Palace.
Would the so-called trialists from the upper realm communicate with him in a friendly manner? This was unlikely.
Another point is that the bright and flickering light on the top of the Five Elements Immortal Tree in the Immortal Palace should be what the trial-takers need.
And this thing can only be picked by those with five spiritual roots.
Nowadays, it has become a trend to take over the bodies of cultivators with five spiritual roots. Some of these cultivators with five spiritual roots do so to continue their spiritual path, while others may just become pawns of the trial-takers.
Were the trial participants pushing the five spiritual roots to take over the body?
Shen Lian shook his head slightly. This possibility should be small. After all, if a cultivator with five spiritual roots of high scale value has sufficient resources, he can practice independently to the Nascent Soul or even the God Transformation realm.
These cultivators with five spiritual roots who have not had their bodies possessed can also enter the Five Elements Immortal Palace.
The main reason should be the scarcity of resources. Monks who do not have five spiritual roots cannot obtain the spiritual essence to replenish their five spiritual roots, which has led these people to take the path of possessing another body.
As for the trial-takers in the Immortal Palace, whether they are normal cultivators with five spiritual roots or cultivators with five spiritual roots acquired through taking over another's body, it has little impact on them, as they all have five spiritual roots anyway.
After thinking this through, Shen Lian continued to make assumptions.
It is assumed that the interruption of the path to ascension is related to the trial-takers in the Five Elements Immortal Palace.
What is there in the Immortal Palace that needs to cut off the path to ascension? Thinking of the colorful light ball above the Five Elements Giant Tree, it is as big as the sky and as bright as the sun.
"Seal off a realm...keep it secret."
Shen Lian uttered slowly. Based on this judgment, if he went to the Five Elements Immortal Palace, could he still save his life?
Although this inference is untenable without actual evidence, he still feels that he should pay attention to it.
"call."
After letting out a long breath of hot air, Shen Lian was no longer in the mood to continue eating the hot pot.
The information we know now is still limited, but there is a pattern to everything once it is done.
In addition, he noticed another interesting point.
The covenant of the immortal giants in the upper realm prohibits possession of bodies, but possession of bodies is a common practice in the lower realm. Is there anyone who has come from above to possess bodies? It can avoid the agreement of the giants and complete possession of bodies.
Although there is no evidence, there is a saying that goes, make bold assumptions and carefully argue.
His guesses today are all assumptions, and he will slowly search for evidence in the future.
Take precautions first to avoid being too surprised if you encounter it in the future.
Leaving behind a few spirit stones, Shen Lian disappeared into the tavern.
Since we have come to the outside of the Western Continent, I still have to look for my cheap senior brother. Whether I find him or not, it will be an explanation to myself.
Previously, there were two corpses hanging on the branches of the Five Elements Towering Tree. One of them was from the Xuanyou Clan. He should be the Xuanyou Clan’s True Lord Xuanmiao who was in charge of the void outside the Western Continent.
The other one is a human, whose identity is unknown.
Both corpses were infiltrated by Heiya, so he did not argue with Heiya anymore. Anyway, the entire Five Elements Towering Wood was in his pocket.
…
One month later.
In the void outside the Western Continent, lightning flashed and thunder roared. In the strong wind, streams of rain as hot as hot soup hit the spirit boat with crackling sounds.
Colorful spiritual light flickered on the spirit boat, and the magic power of the merit clone was immersed in the spirit boat, controlling the stability of the spirit boat.
Drops of boiling hot water continuously corroded the defensive energy as they hit the spirit boat's defenses.
The tumbling energy continued to impact the flying boat, and it seemed that there was a danger of capsizing with every breath.
This scene made Shen Lian, who was practicing in the cave, come out.
The violent natural phenomena hit the spirit boat. The falling thunder and rolling rain seemed to be endless, trying to tear the spirit boat into pieces from all directions.
"Master, what a terrifying celestial phenomenon! I feel like if I can't hold out for even half a breath, I'll be torn to pieces."
The flying boat burst into a brilliant spiritual light, transformed into a spirit ship, cut a path ahead, and rushed out, crushing the rolling thunder and rain.
Half an incense stick later, the flying boat stopped in mid-air, and Shen Lian looked back at the thunderstorm area he had just rushed out of.
From a distance, it looked like a huge monster of lightning, rushing forward rapidly in the void, devouring all the flying rocks it could encounter. Its speed was much faster than that of an ordinary late Nascent Soul cultivator.
"It's really terrifying. It took us three days to escape. The master is really amazing. If it were any other cultivator, they would definitely be trapped inside."
Dahei sighed and said that he was frightened by such a celestial phenomenon.
This astronomical phenomenon appeared out of nowhere. The flying boat was flying when it was suddenly covered by a thunderstorm. No matter how hard it tried to fly, it could not get out.
The crackling thunderstorm was comparable to an ordinary mid-stage Nascent Soul attack, and it was continuous and endless. Even a great Nascent Soul cultivator would feel uncomfortable being hit on the head like this, and might even be killed in it if he wasn't careful.
Shen Lian looked at the rolling thunderstorm area for a few breaths before turning back, and then suddenly disappeared on the spirit boat.
The Merit Clone continued on his journey to search for clues, and he was busy.
Therefore, the task of finding clues about the cheap senior brother naturally fell to the Merit Clone.
…
In the cave of Fuku.
"Master, this job of pulling out silk from a cocoon is not suitable for me. I am more suitable for guarding."
Dahei used a pair of large pliers to pull a thin black hair out from the remains of the Five Elements Towering Tree.
Not only it, Erwan and Sanqian are also busy.
The method of making talisman paper is to ferment the materials, and then go through dozens of processes such as kneading, drying in the shade, etc.
However, the towering trees can be used to produce silk, so the silk can be woven into yarn, and the yarn can be used as the material for talisman paper.
After the silk is removed, the remaining part is used to make talisman paper using traditional methods.
"Work hard. How can you be a black ant if you can't even spit silk?"
"Master, the ones who can spin silk are spiders, and I am a black-horned ant."
"Master, you can give us another spider brother, so that it can spin silk and weave cloth."
"The spider is so ugly, how about getting a silkworm?"
"It's better to raise a snake demon. It can shed its skin. If it sheds one skin a year, the master won't be short of talisman paper. And if it spits out some blood, the master will even have the materials for spiritual ink."
"Now that the master has the snake skin and blood, he won't always think about bleeding us."
"Brother Hei is right."
"Master, when those eyes were staring at me before, it made me a little creepy. I almost peed myself."
…
Shen Lian didn't care about the three little demons whispering, because they were telling the truth. He had thought about killing these three guys before.
There’s nothing I can do, I’m too poor.
Another half month passed.
Shen Lian, who had refined the juice of the towering tree into his body, suddenly woke up and moved into the Bu Tian Pearl.
Then I saw an ancient bracelet appear on the teleportation platform in the Bu Tianzhu Cave.
This was sent by Tianyuan Sect.
His divine consciousness sank into the bracelet, and suddenly a cave stretching for a thousand miles appeared, with traces left by spiritual beasts inside.
This is a spirit beast cave, but at this moment it is filled with densely packed resentful souls.
Shen Lian had previously stipulated that only ten thousand complete resentful souls could be exchanged for one Heaven-Repairing Point.
The exchange rate is very low, and we do not intend for Butian church members to obtain Butian points through this.
Instead, gathering resentful souls is a prerequisite. Only when enough resentful souls are gathered can one be eligible to exchange for spiritual objects of a certain grade or to issue tasks.
At this moment, the number of resentful souls in this bracelet has reached 40 million, and they are densely packed in several layers in the bracelet's cave.
That’s not all, each of these resentful souls seems to be sleeping.
This made Shen Lian squint his eyes. After careful calculation, he found that the number of resentful souls sent by Tianyuan Sect exceeded 50 million, which was enough to make the entire Merit Cave Heaven operate at overload for a long time.
The only place in Tiannan that can have so many resentful souls at once is the Desolate Land.
He had previously suspected that the Tianyuan Sect had some connection with the Wilderness from the Tianluo Three Treasures, and now he had one more piece of evidence.
Forty million resentful souls were sent up at once, which was enough to launch a fourth-level task according to the rules set before.
The teleportation array inside the Bu Tianzhu lit up again.
Three spiritual objects emitting a strong aura of death were teleported over in succession.
A pitch-black lotus, as black as ink, with a hint of blood red in the lotus core, evolving into a beautiful face.
The Black Lotus Ghost Face Flower is born from the resentment of billions of living beings and has two changes.
One is a beautiful black face. When the yin energy gathers to the extreme, it will change from yin to yang, turn into white, and evolve into a face similar to that of a masculine man.
A Kui pattern lightning spear covered with cracks, emitting a cold aura.
"A broken fifth-level spiritual treasure."
Shen Lian looked at the next spiritual object, a ring that was engraved with patterns of mountains and rivers, but it had some cracks.
Another broken fifth-rank spiritual treasure!
The difference between the fifth-level and fourth-level spiritual treasures is the first and second spiritual tribulations. Only after passing the second spiritual tribulation can the spiritual treasure be promoted from the fourth level to the fifth level.
In other words, even if the two spiritual treasures in front of them were broken and their spirits were destroyed, their spirits had already survived the second spirit thunder tribulation.
The first one is a black beauty face lotus, which is as valuable as a quasi-fifth-level spiritual object.
These three spiritual objects exude the aura of death and do not look like the treasures of the Tianyuan Sect.
What is Tianyuan Sect doing? After a moment, Shen Lian came back to his senses and began to transform into a spirit to appraise the value of the three spiritual objects and put them into the treasury.
…
"Venerable Spirit, I am issuing an alchemy mission."
"Please ask the Grand Master of Alchemy to refine the Yin-Yang and Tian-Melting Pills!"
(End of this chapter)