Yinma Town

  Hei Hu's eyes fell on the broken sword in Shui Sheng's hand, and he felt the cold aura emanating from it. He seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes suddenly revealed a deep fear. He let out two low growls, and his four limbs pressed against the ground, his massive head nodding slowly, as if truly acknowledging Shui Sheng.

  Shui Sheng didn't expect this black tiger to have such high spiritual intelligence, it could really understand what he was saying. It seemed that just now it was pretending to be stupid. With a burst of anger, the sword's tip pointed flatly, and with one slash, it landed on the black tiger's back. The black tiger fell to the ground, its head lowered, letting out a low growl towards Shui Sheng, as if begging for mercy, its eyes revealing a pitiful expression!

  Shuisheng was still a child, seeing Hei Hu begging for mercy, said: "Hmph, if you dare to be as cunning as before, next time I will definitely kill you with one sword! Forgive you this time because it's your first offense! Get up!" Hei Hu used all his strength on the ground, wanting to get up, but couldn't, his four legs were like they had rickets, stumbling and falling over and over again.

  Wu Mu Dao Ren saw Shui Sheng put on a fierce expression, constantly scolding Hei Hu, and couldn't help but want to laugh, but he restrained himself and said: "Give it a Snow Ginseng Pill, let it recover some of its magical powers!" Shui Sheng took out a Snow Ginseng Pill and threw it into Hei Hu's mouth. Then he walked back to Wu Mu Dao Ren's side, made a face at him, and chuckled.

  Half a time later, the black tiger finally got up from the ground. This time, it did not choose to escape, but instead obediently lay down beside Shuǐshēng, wagging its tail. Shuǐshēng saw that this black tiger was quite intelligent and took out the white jade gourd, saying: "So you also know how to behave? As my spiritual beast, I naturally won't mistreat you. This strand of essence is a gift for our meeting. If in the future you listen like now, any essence I catch will be given to you. But if you don't listen... Hmph!"

  Hei Hu gazed at the White Jade Gourd, and suddenly stood up, his eyes revealing an extremely excited expression. After swallowing the essence of Qing Lin's python, he even began to rub his body back and forth against the water-born double legs.

  Wait for the water to calm down, put the black tiger into the spiritual beast bag, Wu Mu Dao Ren said: "Let's go, now it's our turn to find that green scale worm and get into trouble with it. See if we can subdue it too, as a spiritual beast servant!" Shui Sheng excitedly nodded and followed him to the deep valley.

  Two people came to the edge of the deep ditch, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get the giant centipede out from the ditch. Wu Mu Dao Ren could use his spiritual sense to detect the approximate location of the giant centipede, but it seemed that the giant python was also aware of Wu Mu Dao Ren's abilities and refused to come out of the deep ditch. Wu Mu Dao Ren was skilled in earth escape techniques, but he wasn't good at fighting in water, and this deep ditch twisted and turned underground, with no one knowing where it led, so the giant centipede could escape into the water at any time! As for aquatic creatures, they hadn't even touched the edge of beast-controlling techniques, and having a precious treasure in hand was of no use whatsoever.

  The two had no choice but to leave reluctantly!

  In the high sky of a thousand feet, Shui Jing stood tightly behind Wu Mu Dao Ren, who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed to cultivate his spirit. His foot stepped on a one-zhang-long and four-chi-wide Qian Kun divine sword. He looked around curiously, following Wu Mu Dao Ren's instructions, trying to open and close his divine sense repeatedly, exploring the ups and downs of the mountains on the ground from near to far, feeling the discomfort brought by the sudden surge of his magical power and divine sense!

  This was the first time in his life that Shui had experienced the swiftness of flying with a sword, and he was naturally extremely excited. In his small heart, he also had a strong desire to enter the Golden Dan period.

  Wumeng Daoist got many treasures from Qiankun Old Man, but surprisingly didn't get any flying treasure. This is normal, with Qiankun Old Man's former cultivation, ordinary flying treasures wouldn't have entered his eyes.

  In the nine states, only the Shenbing Gate of the seven major immortal sects can refine high-grade flying treasures. However, the Ice Seal Valley has the most materials for refining flying treasures. Unfortunately, these two major sects are located in the far south and north, respectively, and have been sworn enemies for a long time, resulting in a severe shortage of flying treasures.

  Bingfeng Valley occupies a vast territory of tens of thousands of miles in the Kunlun Mountains, and is also skilled at capturing spiritual beasts. More than half of the Golden Elixir cultivators have their own spiritual birds or beasts as mounts, even if they don't have flying treasures, they can still soar through the skies. In contrast, Golden Elixir cultivators from other sects either don't have spiritual birds, or lack the ability and materials to refine high-grade flying treasures, so they can only fly using magical instruments.

  Jindan period cultivators who use flying artifacts to travel often find that the speed of flight is not as fast as driving their own life-bound artifacts, so few Jindan period cultivators spend effort on refining flying artifacts and instead prefer to add wind spirit force materials to certain artifacts to enhance their escape speed.

  As for the cultivators in the Qi Refining stage, the spiritual power within their bodies cannot support long-term flight with flying artifacts, let alone force the flight of treasure artifacts. They can only use some ordinary flying artifacts, which have the advantage of being able to fly over rugged terrain such as mountains and rivers, but the disadvantage is that the speed of flight is not much faster than a galloping horse on flat ground, and it also consumes a lot of spiritual power. Therefore, only cultivators above the Golden Dan stage can fly quickly in the sky for a long time.

  Although Shuǐshēng has the magical power of a Jīndān period cultivator, he does not have a condensed Jīndān in his body. His spellcasting speed is slower than that of a Jīndān period cultivator, and when using magic treasures, the consumption of magical power is greater than that of a Jīndān period cultivator. As a result, it is impossible for him to fly in the air for a long time like Wūmù Dào Rén. As for the black little tiger, although its movements are quick and agile, Shuǐshēng has not tried whether it can fly in the air for a long time. Moreover, the black little tiger looks slender in build, and it is also uncertain whether it can carry Shuǐshēng on its back.

  Half a day later, Wu Mu Dao arrived at a small hill with no one around, drove the flying sword to land on the ground, put away the flying sword, and said to Chong Sheng: "This is the northwest side of Yu Ding Mountain, still more than 400 miles away from Yu Ding Mountain. They can't find us for such a long time, Mei Ji and Qin Zheng must think we've escaped far away and absolutely wouldn't expect us to dare run so close to Yu Ding Mountain. So now this place is actually very safe. There's a small town called Yin Ma Town about 7 or 8 miles ahead, you stay in the town for a few days first, focus on practicing 'Yu Shou Jue' and 'Kan Yuan Gong', don't run around randomly, wait for me to come find you!"

  After finishing speaking, he took off a yellow jade pendant from his body and handed it to Shui Sheng, saying: "This 'Yu Ling Pendant' is a treasure left by Qian Kun's predecessor. It can be used in conjunction with your 'Kan Yuan Gong' cultivation to conceal your leaked spiritual energy. Even if a Yuanying cultivator were to encounter you, unless they have a special divine thought technique, they would not be able to see through your true spiritual energy and would only think that you are a Qi Refining stage child. This jade pendant has been with me for over a hundred years, and I have set down my own divine thought seal within it. Be careful to keep it safe, and refine it into your body. With this jade pendant, I can find you at any time!"

  "Dao Chang, I want to go with you!" Shui Sheng raised his head, his eyes filled with sincerity. Wu Mu Dao Ren's face turned stern, saying: "Mei Ji and Qin Zheng are thinking of capturing you every day, if they find out you're appearing under Yuding Mountain, I'm afraid Heart Tong won't be saved yet, but you'll fall into their hands first, do you want to go to these two sects to learn from them?"

  Shui Sheng shook his head and said, "I don't want to!"

  Wu Mu Dao Ren's expression eased, and he took out several dozen taels of silver from his sleeve, handing them to Shui Sheng. "Since you don't want to, go buy a few sets of clothes in town, eat your fill, then find an inn and wait quietly for me to bring back Xin Tang and the others!"

  Shui Sheng received the silver and asked, "How does Daozhang plan to rescue them?"

  Wu Mu Dao looked in the direction of Yu Ding Mountain and said, "The last time I searched the souls of the Bing Feng Valley cultivators, I found out that among the three sects' cultivators surrounding Yu Ding Mountain, there were four Yuan Ying period cultivators. Apart from these four people, the others are not worth worrying about. Now, Bai Li Mu has been killed by me, He Lian Qing Chen is injured by your hand and must be in closed-door recovery. That leaves only Mei Ji and Qin Zheng among the two of them. Either one of them would be more than a match for me. However, I can try to capture some of their Jindan period cultivators and use their lives as leverage to exchange for Tie Xin Tang. Mei Ji won't refuse!"

  Having said that, he rushed to remind a few more words and turned into a black light rushing towards the direction of Yutai Mountain. The spiritual consciousness of the Yuan Ying period cultivator is very strong. If you deliberately release all your spiritual consciousness, you can clearly explore any situation within 50-60 miles, and even detect large movements over 100 miles away. Moreover, Qin Zheng is still a mid-term Yuan Ying cultivator, and his spiritual consciousness may be even stronger. At this point, even Wumutao didn't dare to fly with his sword in a big way.

  Shui gazed silently at the figure of Wu Mu disappearing into the distance before turning around and heading towards Yin Ma Town.

  The town is not big, but the shops are very complete. The streets paved with bluestones are crowded with people coming and going. Shuixing walks back and forth alone, looking left and right, feeling that everything is novel and fun. From childhood to adulthood, Shuixing has never strolled around a town alone before. Last time he just arrived at a small town, but before he could take a closer look, he was chased away by Qin Zheng. Now he can finally walk freely wherever he wants, look wherever he wants, and feel very comfortable in his heart.

  Looking at the villagers strolling around, although their clothes are tattered and old, most of them have peaceful and contented smiles on their faces. Thinking back to the cruel and vicious expressions of the three sects' cultivators under Yu Ding Gate, his mind was dazed for a moment!

  Unconsciously walked to a stylish wine building, smelling the wine and meat fragrance coming from inside the wine building, suddenly stirred up the hungry worm in the belly, standing still in front of the wine building for two eyes.

  The waiter in the wine house saw Shui Sheng's tattered clothes and dirty face, and couldn't help but wrinkle his brow. He walked out and waved his hand at Shui Sheng with disgust, scolding: "Little beggar, get lost! Don't block the way here!"

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