Chapter 54 Can it be called a weird creature if it’s not weird?

According to Zhao Hong's instructions, the middle-aged monk took the three masters and apprentices to a small courtyard more than ten miles south of Jin'ao Lake.

Liu Yuanchen was a little worried: "This elder doesn't even have a defensive formation outside the small courtyard.

Once the evil cultivators make a sneak attack, wouldn't they suffer heavy losses?"

The middle-aged monk smiled and said: "There is a defensive formation outside this place, but it is daytime now, and the disciples of the sect need to patrol nearby.

Many people have to come in and out, so the outermost defensive formation is not activated, and only one layer of warning formation is activated."

"At night, all the disciples will come back, and then the outermost defensive formation will be activated."

Hearing this, Liu Yuanchen nodded slightly.

It's good to have a defensive formation at night. If you are sleeping comfortably and are suddenly killed by an enemy on the bedside, it won't be a good feeling.

……

After the three masters and disciples moved in, the elder said goodbye and left.

Liu Yuanchen still has some understanding of his master's temperament, and he will definitely go out to cause trouble tonight.

After checking into the small courtyard, I immediately went to the east wing, sat cross-legged and meditated, and entered a state of trance.

As for Meng Tieshan, his sensitivity in this regard is obviously insufficient.

When he arrived at the new place, he patrolled around the courtyard to see if there was any place suitable for establishing a spiritual field.

After he cultivated Gang Qi, his appetite became more and more terrifying.

Without Lingtian and Linggu around him, he felt insecure.

It is getting late, and black mist spreads from the mountains and forests in the east.

The Qingdan Sect disciples who were out on patrol also returned one after another.

Several idle elders came out to count the number of disciples.

If everyone has returned, the outer defensive formation will be activated, and no one will be able to enter or exit by then.

At this moment, Zhao Hong walked out of the main room of the courtyard: "Yuanchen, Tieshan, it's time for us to go out and do things."

Liu Yuanchen, who was meditating cross-legged, heard the sound and immediately got up and came to the courtyard.

After waiting for dozens of breaths, Meng Tieshan still did not come back.

Liu Yuanchen was a little strange: "Where did junior brother go?"

Zhao Hong closed his eyes and sensed for a moment, then pointed due east: "I'm helping people work over there."

The master and apprentice left the small courtyard and headed east.

After walking two or three miles away, I saw Meng Tieshan busy in a medicinal field.

This medicine field looks very ordinary. Although the surrounding spiritual energy is rich, the soil is relatively poor, which is the level of first-order mid-grade. It should have been newly developed.

Next to the medicine field, there is an old monk, smiling and watching him work.

When the old monk saw Zhao Hong and Liu Yuanchen approaching, he quickly stepped forward and saluted: "Disciple, see Deputy Hall Master Zhao."

Zhao Hong nodded and said nothing.

Meng Tieshan, who was busy in the medicine field, heard the commotion and ran over to salute.

Seeing that his body was covered with mud, Zhao Hong shook his head helplessly: "We have to go out to do things tonight. If you don't have a good rest at your residence, why are you running out?"

Meng Tieshan smiled honestly: "I couldn't sleep, and there was no point in staying at my residence, so I just went out for a walk.

This senior is old and it is inconvenient to take care of Lingtian, so I will help him."

Zhao Hong sighed lightly, accepting such a talented but simple-minded disciple, he didn't even know that he was being used as a coolie.

"You haven't rested all day, so you should go back to your residence and take a nap first. Yuan Chen and I can just go out."

Meng Tieshan didn't care at all: "This can't be done. I said before that I want to go out with you, Master, and I can't break my promise.

I’m very energetic now, so it’s not a big deal if I don’t sleep for a day.”

Seeing his persistence, Zhao Hong said nothing more.

Zhao Hong turned around and was about to leave. Liu Yuanchen looked at the old monk and said coldly: "My junior brother is simple-minded, but he is not someone who can be bullied.

If there is a next time, even if Master doesn't say anything, I will kill you."

Someone is plotting against his junior brother. Due to his status, the master is not able to get along with these little people.

But as my eldest disciple, I can’t just watch my junior brother suffer.

Hearing this, the old man looked horrified: "Deputy Hall Master Zhao, this disciple has absolutely no such intention.

I wanted to spend some spiritual stones, and it was Meng Xiaoyou who took the initiative to help me."

After that, he took out four or five more spiritual stones: "This is Meng Xiaoyou's reward for helping his disciples."

Meng Tieshan still wanted to refuse, but Liu Yuanchen casually took the spirit stone and stuffed it into his arms.

……

The three masters and disciples left the area covered by the formation and walked due east along Wuyun Ridge.

The black fog became thicker and thicker, and Liu Yuanchen felt that his five senses were suppressed, and his eyes could not see even one foot away.

As a last resort, he had to release a ray of spiritual consciousness to sense the vitality of the surrounding vegetation.

Meng Tieshan, on the other hand, was a little panicked at this time: "Master, you can't see anything here, how can you walk?"

Zhao Hong looked at the two of them: "I was negligent. You two haven't developed spiritual awareness yet, so you can't see anything in the black mist.

The things in this black mist are extremely complex, the five senses will be suppressed, and even the detection distance of the divine consciousness will be reduced dozens of times.

Follow me closely and don’t get lost.”

Then, he deliberately slowed down.

But even so, Liu Yuanchen had to trot to keep up.

Meng Tieshan was in a worse situation. Although he was fast enough, he couldn't see the road at all.

I was stumbling while running, either bumping into rocks or big trees.

The vegetation along the way was severely damaged by him.

Fortunately, his body is strong enough that even a century-old tree cannot hit him.

Liu Yuanchen couldn't stand it anymore, so he grabbed one of his hands and led him forward.

Zhao Hong soon discovered something was wrong: "Yuan Chen, you can walk freely in this black fog?

The black mist here is enough to suppress the consciousness of the Qi Sea Realm to about one foot.

Could it be that you can see things in the black fog?"

Liu Yuanchen shook his head: "My five senses have also been completely suppressed. Being able to walk freely in the black mist depends not on my consciousness and five senses, but on the vegetation.

I can see the road with the help of vegetation, and the black fog does not affect this."

He dared to say this because he had seen many such records in classics.

The special ability to communicate with plants and trees, or to use plants and trees to spy on distant situations, is not common, but it is not unprecedented.

Zhao Hong nodded slightly: "Boss and trees hearing and hearing? This thing is not something that can be cultivated, but is the special ability of some immortal species.

I remember that your immortal species is of the plant type, so it’s not surprising that you can awaken this special ability.

With this ability, you can be reused under the Great Xia Dynasty."

Liu Yuanchen was a little curious about the "spiritual sense" that the master mentioned before. This kind of thing seems to be able to ignore the influence of the black mist.

"Master, what is spiritual awareness?"

Zhao Hong slowed down and explained patiently: "Spiritual awareness is a unique method inherited from the earthly immortal way from the physical way.

This is because physical monks do not cultivate souls, but some special demon clans are born with strong souls and even have magical powers to attack souls.

In order to avoid being suppressed by these monsters, the ancestors of the Flesh Way integrated their souls and bodies.

In this way, as long as the physical body is intact, any means of attacking the soul will have no effect at all."

"However, integrating the soul into the body also has a big flaw, that is, the detection ability is greatly weakened.

The monks rely on their spiritual consciousness to explore the surrounding situation.

Once the soul is completely integrated into the body, it is difficult for the spiritual consciousness to play its role. To detect the situation in the distance, you can only rely on your eyes and ears.

When encountering complex terrain or noisy environments, physical monks are helpless."

"In order to make up for this, the ancestors studied the spiritual cultivation methods with reference to the inheritance of some demon clans.

Even ordinary people who have not practiced cultivation will have some premonitions, or intuitions, before encountering a life or death crisis.

Spiritual perception is to combine this premonition ability with the exploration ability of spiritual consciousness.

In terms of function, spiritual awareness and spiritual consciousness have great similarities.
To be continued...