Chapter 100: Exterminate Three Demons

  The second question? It wasn't until then that Wentai remembered that he hadn't yet spoken the answer to the first question he had thought of. However, when Wentai asked this second question, Lingxuan suddenly realized that his own answer to the first question seemed incorrect.

  But what's inexplicable is that Wentai suddenly disappeared before his eyes. Lingxuan looked at the door for a long time and didn't find any mechanism or hidden passage, this isn't David Copperfield's magic, turning people into thin air!!!

  Ji Qi Needle, the experiment first done on Luo Zhen Feng's body, gradually evolved into a unique technique called Jin Zhen Shu. Especially after Wen Tao reached the third level of Xian Tian Wu Zhe, his application of Jin Zhen Shu became even more formidable.

  He can now use dozens of spiritual energy needles, with a power that is many times stronger than before. The effect of using spiritual energy needles and various forbidden needle techniques on cultivators is also very significant. The main reason for the gathering of spiritual energy needles is that the spiritual energy in the mortal world is thin. Since the last battle with Wang Ao, Wang Ao's sword energy technique "Jian Qi Ao Jiu Zhou" inspired Wen Tao to start improving his previous array method to promote spiritual energy condensation.

  Using the same principle, with Lingqi needles amplifying Qi gathering needles, guiding and attracting the surrounding spiritual energy, although still can't compare to Mount Shu, it can also increase the speed of spiritual energy gathering by nearly three times.

  Wen Tao arrived again, and Ling Lan was still cultivating the medicinal power within her fusion body. Under Wen Tao's spiritual investigation, Ling Lan's progress speed surprised even him. At this point, she had already reached the late stage of Yuan Infant, with faint signs of reaching the early stage of Nourishing Spirit.

  Ling Lan had already set up some formations around her before entering a meditative state, mainly concealment formations.

  Ling Lan had already made calculations, calculating the time needed to absorb different elixirs, and then calculated when Wen Tao would arrive. So when Wen Tao arrived not long after, Ling Lan was already awake.

  Wen Tao then adjusted the Gathering Qi Needle according to her physical condition and had Ling Lan continue to refine the medicinal power.

  In the following days, Wentao worked in the clinic during the day and at night, apart from sparring with Luo Zhenfeng and Haitang, he came to check on Linglan's progress. At first, Linglan was making rapid progress, breaking through the late stage of the Yuan Ying period in just two days and entering the Nourishing Spirit period. Then, it took a week to enter the middle stage of the Nourishing Spirit period, after which she lingered in the middle stage for two weeks. Wentao directly gave Linglan an immortal pill to take. Although it was only a low-grade immortal pill, it allowed Linglan to make great strides forward and enter the late stage of the Nourishing Spirit period in one go.

  At this speed, if it gets out, I'm afraid there won't be a third person who believes it.

  However, once entering the later stage of spiritual refinement, Ling Lan's effect on taking elixirs became much smaller. The effect of the Spirit Elixir was weak, and the Immortal Elixir could not help her break through quickly either. It must be known that generally, cultivators who reach the Void Refining stage in less than 800 to 1,000 years are considered to have made rapid progress, even with the help of a sect, immortal elixirs, and spiritual medicines, it would still take several hundred years.

  At this time, Ling Lan's situation was completely relying on the power of the dan medicine to make up for his lost strength. It was fine in the early stages, but as he continued to break through higher levels of barriers, the medicinal properties of the dan medicine didn't change. It was like using a small bucket to scoop water into a bathtub, it would fill up after just a few scoops, and even when it came to a pond, it was still manageable. But when it came to a lake, he had to use an ultra-large water tank, continuously pouring it in.

  But when this container suddenly became a river, the dried-up river was not something that could be filled with just a little water. The amount was too small, and unless there were higher-level elixirs, Wén Tāo only had lower-grade immortal pills on him. However, having reached the later stages of spiritual nourishment, Líng Lán was already completely different from before.

  Ling Lan's spiritual recovery had already reached five tails.

  At this time, she no longer needs to fight against Luo Zhenfeng and Haitian, it has lost all meaning.

  Luo Zhenfeng and Haitao's progress was also rapid, under Wentai's guidance, the two Yuan Ying period masters were already quite skilled in close combat, no way, they didn't have a set of Wentai's fists that weren't polite.

  Only Wén Tāo, after last time borrowing Luo Zhèn Fēng's Small Heavenly Calamity to once again temper his body, reached the peak of a pre-heavenly third-class warrior. Although fighting skills have been constantly improving, they are not suitable for the same type of combat as Luo Zhèn Fēng and Hǎi Bō. Fighting them is mainly about training how to deal with cultivators, on the other hand, it's also about tempering Luo Zhèn Fēng and Hǎi Bō.

  As for the elixir, Wentai had also experimented with it. Originally, with Wentai's current strength, the elixir would have been of great help to him. However, after that mysterious force in his body absorbed 99% of its power, the remaining 1% was like a drop in the bucket for his body, just as ordinary spiritual elixirs were to Linglan at this time.

  Wen Tao was very clear in his heart, it seemed that if he wanted to break through, he had to think of another way.

  These days, Ling Xuan has not come less often. Wén Tāo gave her a total of ten questions. Moreover, he didn't listen to her answers at all, but just let her go back and think about it. Fortunately, later on, Ling Xuan had another competition task. As one of the main players of Kai Zhu Qi She, she will represent Kai Zhu Qi She in the latest season of the Weiqi League Professional Tour.

  There's no time for this nonsense anymore, let's leave Wēn Tāo alone.

  At night, Wentao came to the outside of Hanyang's villa again. During this time, Wentao had not been idle either, and had been paying attention to the situation on Hanyang's side.

  Han Liyang didn't have anyone too powerful under him, and the Qingcheng Sect was also overestimating itself, as even people above the Yuan Ying stage were not sent out in ordinary times. It's even more impossible for there to be experts like those from the Shu Mountain Sword Sect who often come to the mundane world.

  Han Liyang is like a laborer, every few years he sends a batch of people they require to Shu Mountain at fixed intervals, unless something happens, only then will he send out people like the Three Witches. Other sects are mostly the same, not paying much attention to the secular world.

  Heishan Sect combined with some third-rate sects' battles, and it was a sensation in the secular world, as if it were a global war in the Xianxia world.

  But Han Liyang, the Han family has accumulated so many years of relationships in the secular world and among the cultivators' circle, with a vast network of connections. Moreover, the number of cultivators is originally small, and the circle is limited. If they are allowed to investigate further, it will indeed be troublesome.

  "Only this three-headed bird is in the later stage of cultivation, and soon you will collect it. The rest I'll take care of." Wén Tāo wasn't the kind of person who would sit idly by waiting for death. If he really needed to, he could yield or endure, but when he counterattacked, he would be even more ruthless and vicious.

  "Boss, didn't you say that hiding among ordinary people was the best way to hide just a while ago? And this period of time has also proven that it's still very safe. So why bother provoking them?" Ling Lan really couldn't understand what the boss was thinking.

  Ling Lan is extremely intelligent, her words are simple and she never needs to say more. Wen Tao naturally understands that what Ling Lan worries about the most is provoking Han Jinsoo and bringing even bigger trouble.

  Wen Tao smiled and said, "Our previous hiding was to protect ourselves and increase our strength. Now we want to kill, also to gain time, to gain more time, to give ourselves a larger space for activity."

  Ling Lan was somewhat perplexed: "By acting in this way, wouldn't we be leaving behind even more clues and making it easier for them to discover?"

  Wen Tao smiled confidently: "This is the world of ordinary people, and although cultivators have great abilities, they are not all-powerful in this world. Let's not mention anything else, if that Han Jinshuo came now, our safety would be absolutely more guaranteed. Han Liyang has a huge influence in the secular world, and he has a group of various talents under his command. Last time was just luck for us, he didn't take the clue of searching for herbs seriously, otherwise they would have discovered it already. But this kind of luck won't last forever. That Han Jinshuo still has the Qingcheng Sect behind him, which might be very powerful. However, I think at this stage, if they came, it would be safer than this Han Liyang. So, we must kill Han Liyang and his men. And that despicable bird is just the beginning of our counterattack against Han Jinshuo and Qingcheng Sect. In the secular world, it's like regular troops entering the mountains to fight guerrilla warfare - victory isn't guaranteed even with great strength. Here, we are on home turf."

  Another reason why Wén Tāo decided to do this was that Líng Lán's strength had recovered to the late stage of nourishing his spirit, otherwise, just that cheap bird would not have been able to cope.

  A deeper analysis, Wén Tāo didn't tell Líng Lán about it, in his eyes, the way these major sects like Qīng Chéng operate in the secular world has huge loopholes. Of course, they are not unaware of these loopholes and dangers, but they are very confident because no one dares to casually move against them.

  Ordinary people can't move either, and the people of Xiuzhenjie don't bother anyone from the four major sects.

  That's someone else, for Wentai, as long as he has offended himself or the people around him, no matter who it is, he will not let them off.

  This battle was not suspenseful at all. Wentai led Linglan in a surprise attack on the three demons, who were having fun with five women, and they only resisted for two rounds before being killed by Linglan's dragon whip. Han Liyang and his elite subordinates were also beheaded by Wentai without any extra words or dialogue needed. When the three demons and Han Liyang were killed by Linglan and Wentai respectively, they didn't even have time to say a word. Afterwards, Wentai naturally took all of Han Liyang's collected items over the years, including that cheap bird. Unexpectedly, he had quite a few things, which Wentai took without hesitation. As Taizu said, at this point in the battle, we are weak and the enemy is strong, so it's best to use guerrilla warfare to consume the enemy's every last bit of strength. The weapons, equipment, and elixirs obtained from the enemy can greatly enhance our own power.

  Then quickly withdrew, in Wen Tao's words, the battle has just begun, these are only interest, hard training, careful hiding, preparing for a more intense battle with the cultivators later.