Chapter 437: The Long-bodied and Yungang Clan
Ten years later, at the foot of a mountain in the Luoyue Mountains outside Yubi City, bursts of fierce fighting sounds were heard.
Precious light was shining everywhere, magical weapons of various colors were flying in the sky, brilliant light was blooming, and all kinds of terrifying magical powers were emitting astonishing fluctuations.
Several figures stood in the midst of the brilliant lights, commanding magic weapons to kill groups of ferocious beasts that were charging towards them.
One of them had a purple mirror floating above his head. The mirror was floating up and down, emitting hazy purple light from time to time.
In this purple light, countless complex and mysterious runes surged and flew. Every time the mirror shone on a ferocious beast, the beast would immediately become unable to move.
Then, the figure would immediately use the bronze short spear in his hand to draw a blade of light, instantly killing the immobilized ferocious beast.
When there are too many ferocious beasts rushing towards him, this person will take out a five-colored fan from his arms, fan out a large flame, and burn and kill these not very strong ferocious beasts that are rushing towards him.
Next to this person was a man with completely silver eyes. He waved his hand and shot out hundreds of silver flying needles. These flying needles crisscrossed back and forth in the sky. Every flash would take the life of a ferocious beast.
The two people who appeared here were Ye Changsheng and Yuan Lie.
Next to them, there were two other figures.
One of them looked quite strange, completely like a stone man, his whole body made of gray-brown rocks , with a pair of light green eyes. He held a huge stone stick in his hand, and every time he swung it, he would smash a group of ferocious beasts to death.
The aura on his body was also very powerful, and he was already a cultivator in the middle stage of the Void Refinement Realm.
On the other side, there was a man who looked quite similar to a human, but his body proportions were quite exaggerated.
This person's head and legs are the size of a normal human, but his upper body is more than ten feet long. Combined with the two pairs of arms growing between his ribs, it is obvious that he is not a human.
This six-armed man is weaker than the man whose body is made of stone, but he is also in the early stage of refining emptiness.
Among the four people who were resisting these ferocious beasts here, three of them were in the Nascent Soul stage, and only Ye Changsheng was a cultivator in the late Spirit Transformation stage.
When the stone man saw Ye Changsheng use the Zhoutian Star Mirror to freeze a ferocious beast in the realm of emptiness, and then kill it with the Tianmo Spear, he couldn't help but sigh.
He said in a dull voice: "I have never heard of the human race that Brother Ye came from before. Could it be that he is the same as Brother Yuan's Tianji tribe, and belongs to some secret tribe?"
"Brother Yan, you're joking. The human race is not a secret race at all. It's just an unknown small race on the Fengyuan Continent!" Ye Changsheng smiled softly and shook his head.
"A small clan? It's rare for a small clan to cultivate a figure like Brother Ye!" The tall man with six arms couldn't help but say.
"Hehe, Brother Hou is right. Our Yungang tribe and the Changshen tribe where Brother Hou comes from are both considered to be top-ranked middle-class tribes on the Fengyuan Continent. The two of us are also considered to be extraordinary people in our respective tribes. It is difficult to find rivals among people of the same level!"
“But seeing Brother Ye’s strength today, the two of us seem to be nothing. If Brother Ye advances to the realm of refining emptiness, I’m afraid even if we join forces we may not be your opponent!” said the stone man in a dull voice.
"Haha, you two Taoist brothers are exaggerating. I am not that powerful!"
"If I can really advance to the realm of refining emptiness and hold out against the two Taoist friends, I will be able to brag about it in the future!" Ye Changsheng laughed and said quickly.
"Brother Ye is too modest. In my opinion, if you advance to the Refining Void stage, even I, Yuan Lie, won't be your match!" Yuan Lie of the Tianji clan said with some fear as he looked at Ye Changsheng's magic weapon.
"Brother Yuan , even you are making fun of me! My magic weapon can only deal with a ferocious beast with low intelligence. It is powerless against a cultivator with normal intelligence, let alone people like you, Brother Yuan!" Ye Changsheng shook his head repeatedly.
At this moment, the four people who appeared here were the ones Yuan Lie gathered together and wanted to enter the White Fox Ruins.
Except for Ye Changsheng, the other two came from a medium-sized ethnic group called the Yungang tribe. What is quite peculiar about this ethnic group is that their entire bodies are made up of various types of stones, which is a very rare kind of life.
The cultivators of the Yungang clan often have strong and incorruptible bodies and immense strength, and are very unique in the cultivation of their physical bodies.
What is even more peculiar is that after the death of the people of this clan, if their bodies are not destroyed, they will become an excellent material for refining weapons.
In this tribe, there is a tradition that they will refine the bodies of their ancestors into their own bodies or weapons to increase their power.
In their view, this is also a way to mourn their ancestors, allowing their ancestors to exist forever in their bodies in another way.
The man named Yanxin is the young master of the Huiyan Tribe, the largest tribe of the Yungang Clan. No one knows how many remains of his ancestors have been refined into his body.
Moreover, because his stone stick was refined with the bodies of many ancestors, it became extremely powerful and few spiritual treasures could compare to it.
This Yan Xin is also a person with a promising future. With the blessing of his ancestors, it will not be a problem for him to enter the fusion stage in the future.
Because this person also longed for the Tianxin Liquid which was very beneficial for body refining, he accepted Yuan Lie's invitation and joined this expedition.
The other person is Hou Ming, who is from the Tall Clan, which is also a medium-sized ethnic group. The most outstanding thing about this ethnic group is that they can store much more mana in their bodies than the cultivators of the same level of other races.
Moreover, the people of the Tall Clan are generally proficient in various powerful spells, which, combined with their powerful magic power, can often exert very strong combat effectiveness.
The Tall-Body Clan has no advantages in physical cultivation, but the Tall-Body man named Hou Ming invited by Yuan Lie this time is one of the few people in the Tall-Body Clan who can cultivate his body.
This person obviously also came for the Tianxin Liquid, hoping that this legendary holy body-refining object of the Tianji clan could help him improve in body refining.
At first, the two Nascent Soul cultivators were quite puzzled when they saw that Yuan Lie invited a Spirit Transformation cultivator, who was from the human race, a small tribe that they had never heard of.
They wondered if they would suffer a great loss along the way by bringing Ye Changsheng along.
But in the past few days, in the process of helping Yubi City to clear out the ferocious beasts, they gradually witnessed Ye Changsheng's strength and couldn't help but be amazed.
They even secretly thought that even though they were one realm higher than this human cultivator, they might not be his opponent if they really fought against him.
As a result, he developed a certain respect for Ye Changsheng.
With four people like them here, they don't have to be afraid as long as they don't encounter any combined-level ferocious beasts.
Not long after, the group of ferocious beasts here were cleared out by Ye Changsheng and others.
Yuan Lie retracted the silver needle, gazed into the distance, and then sighed: "The beasts outside Luoyue Mountain have been almost cleared out. If we go deeper, we may encounter a fusion-level beast!"
"That's not something we can solve!" Yanxin, a man from the Yungang tribe, said sullenly.
"According to previous records, Yubi City will not offend the ferocious beasts in the mountains too harshly. They probably don't dare to deal with the combined-level beasts on a large scale. This clearing operation is almost over!" said the man from the Tall Clan.
"It seems like we are about to get the Wind-Fixing Bead!" Yuan Lie muttered to himself, with a burning look in his eyes.
This group of people work for Yubi City here just for the Dingfengzhu that Yubi City controls.
Without this item, no one would be able to pass through the terrible gale outside the White Fox Ruins and enter inside.
"Let's go to the next location. I think the Wind-Fixing Beads will be distributed soon!" Yuan Lie smiled softly, and then the four of them cleaned up the battlefield and left quickly.
A year later, in Yubi City, Ye Changsheng and others finally received a Wind-Fixing Pearl as a reward from Yubi City for killing many ferocious beasts.
"May I ask, fellow Taoist, how many people have received the Wind-Fixing Beads this time?" In a hall in Yubi City, after Yuan Lie received a Wind-Fixing Bead, he suddenly asked the person from Yubi City who distributed the Wind-Fixing Beads.
The monk from Yubi City didn't want to answer, but after taking a closer look at Yuan Lie, his expression suddenly changed, and he bowed and said:
"So you are a fellow Taoist from the Tianji Clan. Nice to meet you. Not many people have obtained the Wind-Fixing Pearl this time, only a few hundred!"
Upon hearing this, Yuan Lie, Ye Changsheng and others looked at each other, and their expressions became solemn.
Although this person said it was not a lot, the number of several hundred people was still a lot in their eyes.
"Then these hundreds of people wouldn't all be cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage?" Ye Changsheng suddenly asked in a deep voice.
The cultivator from Yubi City took a look at him, thought for a moment, and replied, "It's mainly Void Refining cultivators. The number of Spiritual Transformation cultivators is less than 10%!"
"In that case, there are still hundreds of people in the Nascent Soul stage entering. It seems we have to be careful!" Yuan Lie said with a frown.
The four of them walked out of the stone hall, and Yan Xin of the Yungang tribe said in a dull voice: "I heard that the Mayfly tribe directly sent more than a dozen powerful refining masters to Yubi City this time. I think they must be coming for the White Fox Ruins!"
"Not only the Mayfly Tribe, but also people from the Ancient Li Tribe, the Giant Hand Tribe, and others have come. If we encounter them in the ruins, the situation will be very bad with just the people of us!" Hou Ming of the Tall Body Tribe said with a sigh.
He named several famous clans on Fengyuan Continent one after another, feeling a little worried.
It's no wonder that he is like this. People who come from these big clans are generally more powerful than those from small and medium-sized clans.
Only Yuan Lie, who is from the same big family, can be compared with these people.
Moreover, big tribes like the Mayfly Tribe and the Guli Tribe sent out more than a dozen people here at once. Each of them is an elite and is definitely not that easy to deal with.
Yuan Lie saw that the two men looked a little worried, and quickly comforted them: "Don't worry too much about this matter. The place we are going to may not conflict with the people of these tribes!"
"We take our chances, and they look for what they want. Just don't interfere with each other!"
"Having said that... Alas!" Hou Ming of the Tall-Slim Clan couldn't help but sigh again.
"Brother Ye, what do you think?" Yuan Lie looked at Ye Changsheng again and asked.
"Since you have decided to go, you can't back down at this time. Just act according to circumstances after you go in!" Ye Changsheng said lightly.
"Haha, Brother Ye is right. Even if we meet those people after we go in, the worst that can happen is that we can just run away. We don't have to fight them head-on!"
"They entered the White Fox Ruins not to kill many monks of other races, but to look for opportunities. They will not spend too much time and energy on us!" Yuan Lie said with a faint smile.
Hearing this, the two people from the Changshen tribe and the Yungang tribe nodded, but looking at their expressions, they were obviously still worried.
Although both of them are quite powerful, they are not top-notch among the hundreds of people who are about to enter the White Fox Ruins.
After entering, they were not sure they would be able to come out alive.
But for the sake of Tianxin Liquid, the two still decided to take a gamble.
The path of spiritual practice is like this. Except for those who are truly blessed, no one can have a smooth journey without encountering any dangers.
These people have already hovered on the brink of life and death countless times.
If I didn't even dare to take this little risk, I would never have been able to cultivate to this level today and would have passed away long ago.
This is a common phenomenon in the world of cultivating immortals. On the one hand, almost everyone is afraid of death and values their own life very much.
But on the other hand, their desire for the path to immortality makes them willing to pursue it even at the risk of their lives.
If a person is asked to choose between living a peaceful and stable life without any disasters until he dies or taking great risks in pursuit of a chance of immortality, almost all high-level monks will choose the latter.
If they don't have the awareness to make such a choice, they won't be able to cultivate to a high level.
Of course, in reality, if there were no death warrant like the great calamity, most cultivators would immediately lose all their enterprising spirit after breaking through the realm of refining emptiness.
He would stay peacefully in his own nest all his life, and would not take any risks even if his cultivation level did not improve at all.
It is precisely because of the great calamity that this group of people are forced to constantly pursue higher realms and take risks to seek various opportunities.
"Fellow Taoists, let's get ready and set off next month. The time it takes for the strong winds in the core of the mountain to decay is only about a year, so we can't waste too much time!" Yuan Lie said.
Ye Changsheng nodded: "Then let's meet again in a month. I'll take my leave first!"
After saying that, he put away the wind-fixing bead and flew away.
Seeing this, the two people from the Yungang tribe and the Changshen tribe also said goodbye to Yuan Lie and left.
After seeing the three people leave, Yuan Lie narrowed his eyes slightly, turned his head to look at the mountains, and murmured: "I hope everything goes well on this trip!"
