211 Entering the Underground
Chapter 211
With the help of Bai Qiaomo and the temptation of delicious food, Ji Yuan successfully signed a contract with the Scorpion King.
As soon as the contract was successful, the Scorpion King couldn't wait to eat the food. What could Ji Yuan do? He had to satisfy the Scorpion King's request first.
But before eating the food, let the Scorpion King first appease his group of younger brothers, so as not to attract the attention of other people if there are too many scorpions here.
The Scorpion King went out for a while, let his younger brothers go back to the nest first, and then turned back.
Ji Yuan gave the Scorpion King all three things placed in the formation. The Scorpion King swallowed the Silver Moon Fruit first, and then swallowed the Yuan Dan and the Millennium Spirit Milk. He really didn't want to leave any of them behind.
After finishing the meal, the Scorpion King lay still on the ground, absorbing and digesting the energy of the food.
If everything goes well, Ji Yuan will have another level 5 contracted beast.
Feng Ming and the other two waited with Ji Yuan.
Qiu Yi felt embarrassed that Bai Qiaomo and Feng Ming had given up the Scorpion King, and also asked Bai Qiaomo to give up a Silver Moon Fruit.
Feng Ming was chewing on a spiritual fruit. After hearing what Qiu Yi said, he waved his hand and said, "Brother Bai and I don't want to keep this scorpion king. What should we do? Is it lost? Then it's better to let you sign a contract to avoid wasting it."
The little turtle stood on Feng Ming's shoulder and made a "wuwu" sound, echoing the master's words. How could a little scorpion be compared with a turtle like it
? The little snake also wanted to come out and agree. How could an ugly insect like a scorpion be compared with a dragon? The master did not choose the scorpion, even if it was a scorpion, he did the right thing.
Feng Ming added: "The reason why we don't want the Scorpion King is not only because the Scorpion King doesn't look like what we like, but also because it is a big consumer of Yuanjing. If you contract the Scorpion King, you can't just take one scorpion with you. When you leave, you will definitely take a lot of its minions with you. Raising the Scorpion King and its minions requires much more resources than raising other pets. No matter how much Yuanjing you earn, it's not enough to raise them."
He and Bai Qiaomo had the same idea on this point. It was enough for them to have Xirang, a big consumer of Yuanjing.
Compared with the Scorpion King and a group of scorpion minions, Xirang, which can continuously and quickly cultivate various spiritual herbs, is obviously more important.
As long as the demand for spiritual herbs, especially the demand for rare spiritual herbs, continues, no matter how many Yuanjing they earn, it will not be enough for them to spend.
It was for this reason that Bai Qiaomo had no intention of signing a contract with the Scorpion King.
However, the existence of Xirang could not be told to others, otherwise the two of them would probably be hunted down and robbed all over the continent by various forces.
Bai Qiaomo listened and nodded and smiled in agreement. Yes, he had the same idea as Brother Ming.
Qiu Yi thought about it and realized that raising a group of scorpions was indeed expensive. He clenched his fist and said, "I will work hard to refine the pills, and then I will raise scorpions and the Scorpion King with Senior Brother Ji."
But he and Senior Brother Ji will still remember this concession. Neither of them is ignorant.
The Silver Moon Fruit played the biggest role in convincing the Scorpion King to sign the contract.
Feng Ming chuckled, patted Qiu Yi on the shoulder, and said, "I'm rooting for you, keep going!"
Ji Yuan, who was standing by the Scorpion King, heard their conversation and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Before he even started raising scorpions, he already felt that his wallet would continue to shrink.
The four of them stayed in the formation in the second half of the night. At dawn, the Scorpion King still didn't wake up, but his aura continued to rise. The four of them showed joy on their faces, which meant that the Scorpion King was in the process of advancing to a higher level.
The Yuan Qi continued to gather around him, and Ji Yuan also took out the Yuan Crystal and quickly set up the Yuan Gathering Formation next to the Scorpion King to provide sufficient Yuan Qi for the Scorpion King's advancement.
The movement of the advancement was noticed by the surrounding wild beasts and cultivators, but they did not come to check.
For wild beasts, the same kind who are advancing are very scary. They may be short of energy and swallow other wild beasts as supplements. For
cultivators, whether they are wild beasts or cultivators who are advancing, they can never be partners. If they are cultivators from other forces, they are even more enemies.
Taking advantage of the advancement to attack others? Which cultivator will not take good safety precautions when he breaks through to the next level in this situation? He may
even have companions to protect him, so it is not easy to move forward at this time.
However, the news spread. As soon as he entered the secret realm, he didn't know which wild beast or cultivator from which force had broken through to the next level in the ruins of the disciple's cave.
Of course, because of the inconvenience of communication in the secret realm, when this news reaches the ears of others and they come to the ruins to check, they will find that they have arrived too late, and the traces left behind cannot be distinguished from which situation.
This change lasted for a whole hour, and the change of the aura on the Scorpion King finally stopped. The Scorpion King successfully crossed the threshold of the fifth-level wild beast, which is equivalent to the Yuandan realm of human cultivators.
In fact, the Scorpion King’s own accumulation is almost there, but it lacks an opportunity, and the Silver Moon Fruit just fills it. The
Scorpion King has been promoted, and he is proud and excited, and he recklessly releases his aura and the pressure of a fifth-level wild beast.
But then Bai Qiaomo and Ji Yuan's spirit power pressed over, and immediately pressed the Scorpion King to the ground.
Ji Yuan walked over and patted the Scorpion King's head with a smile: "Do you think you can turn things around after you have been promoted? Then forget it, be careful of backlash."
The Scorpion King lowered his head in frustration, and the scorpion tail behind him drooped down. Feng Ming laughed at this.
This contracted beast that was collected halfway was indeed different from the one that was raised since childhood. It wanted to rebel not long after.
Seeing that the Scorpion King had calmed down, Ji Yuan didn't say anything more and patted him twice again: "Lead us to the underground." After
conveying this to the Scorpion King, the Scorpion King knew that he couldn't get rid of this master, so he could only be obedient.
However, the Scorpion King still tried to get more benefits for himself, such as more delicious fruits, more delicious pills, and he would not refuse the thousand-year-old spiritual milk.
Ji Yuan was annoyed and patted him hard a few times, turned around to dismantle the formation, and ignored it.
Qiu Yi ran over and picked out a few pills he brought with him for the Scorpion King.
He didn't have any Yuan Dan with him, who would have thought that he would receive a contracted beast after coming in. He would refine it for the Scorpion King after finding all the materials.
Although the pills he took out were not top-grade, they were not bad either. The Scorpion King wanted to pick and choose, but Ji Yuan gave him a threatening look and the Scorpion King immediately swallowed all the pills into the space in his stomach.
It's better to have some than nothing.
If it had not eaten the top-grade elixir first, it would have accepted any elixir, even the lower-grade one. How could a wild beast know how to make elixirs? It had no other way to get elixirs except by robbing human cultivators.
After the formation was dismantled, the Scorpion King walked in front to lead the way, while Feng Ming and Bai Qiaomo fell behind.
Bai Qiaomo still held the detection array in his hand, observing the surrounding situation. For the time being, he did not find any wild beasts or cultivators approaching from outside, which was a good thing.
The one who was most familiar with this place was the Scorpion King, who occupied the underground as his lair.
After receiving the master's order, the Scorpion King took them to another path that led to the underground. Every time the secret realm was opened, it had never been discovered by human cultivators.
However, a section of the road was blocked, so the Scorpion King called a group of his followers and worked together to clear that section of the road, which was enough for Feng Ming and the other four to enter.
The Scorpion King led his followers and walked in front, Ji Yuan and Qiu Yi followed the Scorpion King, and Bai Qiaomo and Feng Ming fell behind.
After everyone entered the passage, Bai Qiaomo blocked the entrance behind him and covered it with a formation. They didn't want to make things difficult for others.
Stepping on the steps going down, Feng Ming said: "The vitality below is not getting thicker. Did the Scorpion King and its minions really not eat up all the vitality below?"
Ji Yuanle said: "If they had eaten up all of it, the Scorpion King would not have been at the peak of level 4 before we came. I just communicated with the Scorpion King that there is something blocking them underground. That thing is the same as what stopped the Scorpion King from eating delicious food before. Over the years, the Scorpion King and the scorpions have been eating that thing as food. "They are gnawing at us. Maybe it won't take long for them to eat up all the formation."
Feng Ming was surprised: "Then the time we came in was too coincidental. When the next batch of people comes in, not only will the Yuanmai be gone, but there will also be a powerful Scorpion King."
Yes, Ji Yuan also felt that he was lucky. If the Scorpion King was allowed to advance with the help of the Yuanmai, it would not be so easy to subdue him, and the Silver Moon Fruit would not be a delicacy that he had to have.
The air below was really unpleasant, and several people held their breath. During this time, Ji Yuan also asked the Scorpion King to assign his younger brother to do one thing, which was to go to the place where the scorpions excrete and pick the spiritual herbs that grow there.
The spiritual herbs that were picked not only had no fishy smell, but also exuded a light fragrance. Moreover, the whole body of this spiritual herb was white. Well, in Feng Ming's opinion, this might be caused by the lack of light.
The poison in the purple scorpion is very strong, and the excretion of scorpions also carries toxins, so there is a saying that scorpion poop is poisonous.
But in such a place full of poisonous gas, such a spiritual herb that can detoxify can be bred. It has to be said that the world is so big that there are all kinds of wonders.
But it was not to the extent of being poisoned. None of the four wanted to taste the taste of this spiritual herb. When they thought about where it grew, no matter how beautiful it looked, they had no such idea.
Even so, the two alchemists still collected as many of these spiritual herbs as possible, so that they could try to refine them into some kind of detoxification pill.
It didn't take too long to go down all the way to the deep underground, and the four of them saw the sealing formation that was gnawed and pitted.
The next step was the work of the two formation masters, who found a suitable position on the sealing formation to open a small door so that they could enter the Yuanmai inside.
In fact, the Yuanmai and the sealing formation inside were still running, and would release a certain amount of Yuan Qi, but looking at the densely packed scorpions lying outside the sealing formation, you can understand why the Yuan Qi outside is so thin.
Not to mention Feng Ming and his three companions, even Ji Yuan, who had a contract with the Scorpion King, felt his scalp tingling when he saw this scene.
If they hadn't made a contract with the Scorpion King, it would be impossible for the four of them to go deep into the underground and into the Yuanmai.
In order to check the entire blockade formation, Ji Yuan even asked the Scorpion King to drive the group of scorpions away.
The scorpion was a little impatient to execute this order, but still obeyed.
It felt that its master was really troublesome. What's wrong with the scorpion? Look at how magnificent and powerful the group it bred is. There is no wild beast in the world that is more beautiful than the scorpion.