Chapter 270 Encountering an Ambush
Chapter 270 Ambush
After basically grasping the characteristics of the skeleton, Jin Ziming stopped entangled and used more force on his hands to crush it.
The gray bead fell to the ground and was sucked into his palm. He played with it carefully and found that its energy was too powerful for a golden elixir monk.
It's mixed with spiritual energy, demonic energy, a wisp of your own soul, and the resentment of ghosts.
Seeing this, a monk from Huayunguan smiled and said:
"The composition of the elixir is too complicated for monks to refine it, but if you take it back, you can exchange it for the sect.
However, beads of this kind from the Golden Elixir stage are not very valuable, and they are only worth collecting unless they are from the Nascent Soul or Fusion stage."
The man nodded and thanked, but still kept the pill bead. After the battle, everyone continued to move forward. Jin Ziming held the bead in his hand while flying.
He operated the "Kunpeng Tongtian Technique" and sent the energy into the "Shengrinding Formation" in the middle Dantian.
Soon, an imperceptible smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and Shenmo expelled the resentment and soul, classifying the spiritual energy and demonic energy and storing them.
What's even more surprising is that a kind of gray-white energy was actually extracted, and it was of a very high grade.
Jin Ziming tried to mix it with bright cyan aura, and after fusing it with the "Shengrinding Formation", he vaguely felt that there was a new characteristic, but because the amount was too small, it was elusive.
This kind of energy is very strange. Once it merges with one's own spiritual energy, it disappears immediately, but it can be sensed that it is still in the body.
As night fell, a team of forty people landed on the ground, meditating and adjusting their breaths on their own. The aura of the small world was rich, and all the cultivators were feasting on it.
The reckless man did not even let go of his demonic energy, and sent it all to the divine mill for purification and fusion.
What disappointed him was that the mysterious gray-white energy did not appear. It seemed that it was condensed in a special way and only existed in the skull's pill beads.
In the early morning, in the silent night sky, the warning sounds of the night watch disciples suddenly rang out. Everyone stopped doing their exercises and noticed that a large group of skeletons was approaching. There were more than 300 people in total.
After careful inspection, they found that there were only thirteen Nascent Souls among them, and they were all relieved.
When Wei Zixiang gave the order, Jin Ziming rushed to the front and grabbed an opponent in the late Nascent Soul stage. With only two moves, he chopped off the skeleton's broken sword and then slashed it on the left arm.
Although only 50% of the mana was used, the power of Hunqin was so powerful that it did not shatter or cut off, only causing bone fractures.
With the next blow, he added 10% of his strength and cut off his upper body with the "back-flower-reverse knife-raising style". The remaining abdomen and lower limbs, driven by Danzhu, continued to attack.
In desperation, the man teleported to the side of the skeleton, picked out the larger pill bead from above, and his lower body suddenly collapsed.
He put away the bead of better quality and casually killed seven or eight low-level skeletons, and the battle ended hastily.
While the team was cleaning the battlefield, Jin Ziming quickly refined the Nascent Soul Pill Pearl. The energy was obviously more powerful, but this was not what he cared about.
He carefully extracted the gray-white spiritual energy, and after processing it with the "Shengrinding Formation", it was not fused with the bright cyan spiritual energy, but was directly injected into an auxiliary vein for storage.
This time, the high-level spiritual energy did not disappear.
After daybreak, the team set off again, ignoring the two groups of skeleton troops and just flying. A large mountain lay ahead and a large number of skeletons gathered, so the joint team was forced to land.
"There are about a thousand enemies in the front mountain. No powerful ones have been found, but there are more than fifty Nascent Souls, and the peak level has reached six." Team leader Wei Zixiang said.
"The clouds and mist on the mountain are weird. They can actually prevent spiritual consciousness from penetrating the mountain or detouring to the back of the mountain." Deputy team leader Li Chi added.
"This is a bit difficult to decide. Should we take a detour or attack this mountain?"
"Look at the top of the mountain. Even if it is obscured by thick fog, there is still precious light overflowing."
"The wind carries the fragrance of medicine. It's probably that the best medicine on the top of the mountain is about to mature." The team members became excited, and no one was willing to give up the opportunity and change directions to leave.
"Okay, then let's sneak up the mountain and carry out a surprise attack." Wei Zixiang finally decided, and the team hid in the forest and set off after dark.
They did not take the mountain path, but silently jumped up and down the cliffs. They encountered the patrolling skeletons and cleverly avoided them.
After passing halfway up the mountain successfully, a dense pine tree grew out of a gap in the cliff, and a tiny skeleton night owl rested inside.
This guy was so silent that he was not discovered by the cultivators. The night owl flapped its wings and flew up, letting out a penetrating scream in the silent night sky, which immediately aroused the vigilance of the skeletons.
In the darkness, countless figures were coming towards us. Now that they were exposed, there was no need to continue sneaking. Wei Zixiang called out, and the team members switched to flying and rushed towards the top of the mountain at high speed.
When they were only fifty feet away from the top of the mountain, they finally saw the scene ahead clearly through the thick fog.
On a dead tree without leaves, there are three solitary white fruits, which are shaped like radishes and emit a strange fragrance and dazzling light. There is no doubt that they are extraordinary.
There was no grass growing all around. It seemed that the nutrients and inspiration were absorbed by the dead trees and provided fruits.
Everyone was overjoyed and rushed forward crazily, engaging in a fierce battle with the first batch of more than a hundred skeletons.
"We form eight five-element formations to form a large circle and push towards the top of the mountain." The leader gave the order.
After Qin Yu's guidance, Jin Ziming, three members of the special forces team, and a disciple of Qianxian Peak formed a formation.
The human cultivators were in a state of overwhelming force. The skeletons' weak combat power was not worthy of the formations of these geniuses.
The Five Elements Formation began to disintegrate one after another, and everyone rushed to the top of the mountain in a swarm, trying to seize the "carrot" first.
Jin Ziming was very cautious. There were very few Nascent Soul skeletons coming, and he was afraid that there might be something fishy among them. He quickly said to Bai Jingyan, who had attained the Dzogchen cultivation level:
"Junior Brother Bai, don't be in a hurry to release the formation. I think something is not good. Everyone should be prepared to evacuate."
"If it's any later, the precious medicine will no longer be available to you and me. Senior Brother Bai, I'll take the first step." Qiu Zheng said anxiously.
Bai Jingyan pondered for a moment, and Qiu Zheng and the Qianxian Peak disciples were like arrows, breaking away from the formation and heading towards the top of the mountain. Seeing this, Bai Jingyan also followed.
Qin Yu was a little undecided and asked hesitantly: "Senior Brother Jin, are we really not going up?"
The sense of crisis in the mangy man's heart became stronger and stronger. He no longer hesitated and shouted: "Everyone, be careful, there may be an ambush."
Then he pulled Qin Yu up and fired down the mountain. The monk in front was stunned and couldn't help but slow down a bit.
The ground on the west side of the dead tree suddenly cracked, revealing a dark hole, and more than thirty high-level skeletons jumped out.
The leader has grown flesh and blood, and his head is intact, with only hair and eyebrows missing. His green eyes are staring at the treasure thief with a playful expression in his eyes.
It was obvious that he had been born with spiritual wisdom, and his aura was astonishing, comparable to the early-stage integration elders in the sect. Wei Zixiang and Li Chi knew that they had been tricked, and hurriedly shouted "Retreat".
As soon as he finished speaking, more than a thousand skeletons emerged from several caves behind the cultivators, including more than a hundred Nascent Souls.
Commanding this team are two skeletons who were born with spiritual wisdom and reborn flesh and blood, respectively in the early stage of integration and the realm of Nascent Soul Dzogchen.
Forty monks were suddenly caught in the middle, and the situation was extremely critical. Jin Ziming and Qin Yu were on the outermost perimeter, and the burden of opening a way out for their teammates fell on them.
They avoided the two leaders and headed for a weaker spot together, where two hundred skeletons gathered. The two of them couldn't tell the difference and began to dig into the formation.
It was invincible at first, but as more and more high-level Nascent Souls arrived, its forward speed gradually slowed down.
Wei Zixiang and Li Chi teamed up to barely block the early stage of integration on the top of the mountain who had not yet fully recovered his sanity.
Several other powerful high-level Nascent Souls entangled those powerful skeletons.
The other cultivators broke out in two directions, and a group of people joined Jin Ziming and Qin Yu, attracting the wise Nascent Soul Dzogchen over.
In the early stage of the integration, they were responsible for blocking another group of breakout monks, and the skeletons gathered towards these two places.
Jin Ziming and others have killed more than a hundred enemies, but there are still nearly 500 blocking the front.
What's even more troublesome is that the fused skeleton cast an unknown spell and was actually banned from flying here, causing all the monks who were escaping to fall down.
Jin Ziming understood that the situation was urgent and could no longer hide his clumsiness, so he waved "Destroy the Illusion" towards the Nascent Soul Dzogchen, which was already partially flesh and blood.
After receiving enlightenment from Master Huai Zhi, he gained a deeper understanding of illusion, ultimate nature and the great truth.
This knife broke through the black staff and body-protecting Gangqi in the enemy's hand, and the sharp single knife cut into the chest, about to cut it into two pieces.
Unexpectedly, a faint gray-white light lit up on the other party's body, as if there was divine power attached to it.
His bones suddenly became extremely tough, blocking Hunqin and making him unable to move forward. Jin Ziming was stunned and had to withdraw his single sword from the original path.
In the midst of the lightning and flint, he suddenly thought, could the light just now be related to the gray-white spiritual energy in the pill bead?
The skeleton has special energy generated from the small world, so it is protected by this world?
He also had it in his body. He blended the gray-white spiritual energy in his auxiliary veins with his own spiritual energy without hesitation, and the strange spiritual energy disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
A sudden enlightenment arises in the man's heart, and he becomes consistent with the world. In critical moments, with this connection, he can even borrow power from the small world.
Jin Ziming was overjoyed and used the magic mill to extract special spiritual energy, which was equivalent to cheating and directly disguised himself as a "native".
While he was stunned, Qin Yu took out his gun and blocked the opponent's counterattack for him.
Jin Ziming circulated his spiritual power and used "Destroy the Illusion" again. Soul Qin struck into the opponent's abdomen, and the skeleton smiled sinisterly, then was stunned.
He communicated with heaven and earth like last time, but did not wait for the mysterious help. It seemed that the master of the small world thought that this was an internal fight between two "natives" and there was no need to take action.
Hunqin split him into two pieces, then sucked out the elixir that glowed with gray light, and Jin Ziming put it away.
After the bandit leader was killed, the monks became energetic and launched frantic attacks. Finally, they broke through the blockade and nearly twenty people fled down the mountain.
The other team that broke through was not so lucky. Four people had been killed by the powerful, and the Nascent Soul villain escaped.
Unable to escape, three of them were killed by skeletons, and only one was saved by his companions.
Chapter completed!