A Mortal's Start in the Spirit Beast Mountain

Chapter 23 Wind Spirit Veil

Li Ji felt a chill on his neck, and a bone-chilling cold instantly spread throughout his body. Just as he was about to activate his spiritual power to turn around and defend, the green blade had already cut through his spiritual power defense as easily as cutting tofu.

"Pfft!"

The head rolled off the ground, tumbling twice before landing right next to the head of the cultivator surnamed Yang. Seeing the fear and resentment in the other's eyes, Li Ji was momentarily stunned, forgetting to flee with his soul.

At this moment, Qingying landed, her figure gradually becoming clear. It was a strange beast with a bluish-gray body, resembling a fox, with limbs that seemed to move with the wind. It was the Wind Fox Beast that Luo Ming had raised. It shook the blood off its claws, slowly retracting its sharp, bluish-gray claws. It turned its head to look at Luo Ming and let out a low whimper, as if it were asking for credit.

Looking at his spirit beast's claws, Luo Ming couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine. He marveled at how, although the beast was only equivalent to a mid-level first-tier monster, its ability to hide and launch sneak attacks was stronger than that of a typical top-tier monster.

He then looked down at Li Ji's head. If there were no other cultivators or demonic beasts here, the other party's soul might have been able to transform into a yin spirit on the yin veins of this place, but Luo Ming would not give the other party that chance.

He pointed down at the head below, and the other's soul finally reacted and tried to struggle, but Luo Ming had no time to waste words with it and started interrogating it directly.

"It seems someone from the Qingxu Sect is eyeing the legacy of their ancestor's talismanic arts!" Luo Ming muttered to himself after a while.

From the interrogation just now, we learned that the ancestor of that cultivator surnamed Yang was a Foundation Establishment cultivator at the peak of his cultivation. He was the only Foundation Establishment cultivator among the three talisman masters of the Qingxu Sect. It is rumored that he received some kind of talisman inheritance, which is why he made such rapid progress. Now, someone in the sect has become greedy and wants to deal with that person. His descendants have been caught in the crossfire.

I wondered why that talisman was so powerful; it turned out to be the most explosive mid-level talisman, the Thunderfire Talisman.

Luo Ming first picked all the surviving Blood Spirit Fruits and put them into the jade box. Then he collected the two people's storage bags and magic tools. Next, he came to the Fat Sun Bird. He was originally a little sorry for this spirit bird, but when he probed it with his divine sense, he found that the bird still had spiritual energy fluctuations. It had just fainted temporarily due to the violent impact on its blood and qi.

What a lucky escape!

Since it wasn't dead, the bird escaped being gutted. After all, this bird was a top-tier fire-attribute spirit bird, and he wouldn't let go of the materials on its body.

So Luo Ming placed a restriction on the bird, then put it in his spirit beast bag, intending to train it properly when he got back. If it refused to submit to him as a spirit beast, he would have no choice but to make it eat a bowl of spirit bird soup.

Among demonic beasts, strength and bloodline are the most important factors. The stronger the bloodline of a demonic beast, the harder it is to subdue it, unless your strength is a whole realm higher than its strength. Therefore, if you want to cultivate a loyal spirit beast, it is best to start cultivating it from the moment it is born. If you subdue a highly intelligent demonic beast midway, it is easy for it to turn against you if you do not have strong strength to suppress it.

Finally, with some regret, a few intact pieces of demonic beast materials were found in the ashes: a unicorn horn and a wolf skin. These were the parts of the beast's body with the most abundant spiritual energy, which is why they survived such a violent explosion.

Half an hour later, after Luo Ming cleared out two long-horned demon deer from a cave, he began to check the storage bags of the two people. As disciples of the Qingxu Sect, he figured they should have quite a few talismans.

Talismans are most popular among low-level cultivators, mainly because they are quick to activate and do not consume mana. As long as there are enough powerful talismans, even a Qi Refining cultivator can easily kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator. It's just that the consumption of talismans is too much for ordinary cultivators to afford.

As Luo Ming had expected, their storage bags contained a large number of talismans, but unfortunately, they couldn't find a single mid-level talisman, which disappointed him somewhat.

What he didn't know was that mid-level talismans weren't as common as low-level talismans. Mid-level talismans involved some knowledge of formations, and could be considered a miniature version of formations.

Firstly, you can't learn it without certain qualifications. Secondly, the materials for making intermediate and higher-level talismans are not comparable to those for low-priced talismans. As a result, intermediate and higher-level talismans are very rare on the market. Many have been pre-ordered or are only circulated internally. You can't buy them without connections.

"Is this the talisman-making experience of the Yang family patriarch?"

Luo Ming took out a cyan jade slip from the storage bag of the cultivator surnamed Yang. To his surprise, he found that it contained the inheritance of talismans. As a talisman-making master, the insights and experiences of the Yang family patriarch were absolutely priceless.

Luo Ming planned to carefully study it after returning home to see if he had any talent in this area. Although talisman making was relatively simple among the four arts of cultivation, and many rogue cultivators learned it, they could only draw a few low-level talismans.

After a quick tidying up, he stuffed everything he could use into his storage bag. The most practical items were the pile of talismans, followed by the almost transparent, thin as a cicada's wing magical artifact, the Wind Spirit Veil. Apart from being afraid of fire, this veil had an extremely strong ability to conceal itself. Luo Ming had just tested it; he placed a magical artifact under the Wind Spirit Veil, and even with careful examination using his divine sense, he could hardly detect it, and this was without anyone activating it.

Luo Ming guessed that the reason it had such a strong ability to conceal itself was not only due to its special material, but also because of the concealment array set up on it. It truly deserved to be called a rare treasure.

Now, we are gradually entering the later stages of the trial. The spiritual herb land has been explored to a great extent. Some cultivators who consider themselves strong or groups that have gathered together have begun to have other ideas. The most brutal time in the forbidden area is about to begin. With this hidden treasure, his ability to protect himself has greatly increased.

"Should I find a place to hide and wait for the forbidden area to open?" Luo Ming thought to himself that although he was not weak, that was when he was fighting alone. Now, many sect cultivators were gradually gathering in the central area, but he did not trust the other cultivators in his own sect. Therefore, he had been avoiding the other people in Spirit Beast Mountain, which is why he was still single.

He now possesses a considerable amount of spiritual herbs, and with the herbs from the two Qingxu Sect cultivators, he can now exchange them for nearly three Foundation Establishment Pills. In addition, there is the Blood Spirit Fruit, whose value is no less than that of Foundation Establishment Pills. If people knew about his gains, he would definitely be hunted down by the other cultivators in the forbidden area.

Let's observe the situation first! He composed himself, took out the two maps of the forbidden areas of the Qingxu Sect disciples from his pocket, and spread them out on the bluestone in front of him. Basically, most of the resource points were the same, and they marked where spiritual herbs would grow.

Although there are many places in the central area where medicinal herbs grow, many nearby places have already been searched and are no longer worth visiting.

"Hmm? There seems to be a difference between these two maps in one place!"

Luo Ming had just discovered that the mountains, medicinal herb areas, and monster distribution areas on the two maps were marked almost identically. However, on the map belonging to the cultivator surnamed Yang, there was an extra strange vortex mark in the northeast direction, outlined with cinnabar, and a tiny rune was faintly engraved on the edge, which was almost invisible unless you looked closely.