Chapter 182: Leading Beasts

Time flies, and more than half a month has passed.

Yuan Ming's cultivation has advanced by leaps and bounds, and he has finally reached the tenth level of Qi Refining.

This means that he is already qualified to build a foundation.

However, Yuan Ming did not take the hard-earned foundation pill immediately.

Ordinary Biluo Cave cultivators can only reach the tenth level of Qi Refining and build a foundation by relying on Biluo Gong, but if he continues to practice "Nine Yuan Jue-Part 1", he can reach the rumored thirteenth level of Qi Refining.

Although Yuan Ming does not know yet that the difference of three levels will have a far-reaching impact on his future cultivation, he also understands that a more solid foundation for cultivation will be more beneficial to him.

Compared with the rapid progress of "Nine Yuan Jue", Yuan Ming's practice speed of "Mingyue Jue" is much slower.

After advancing to the second level, his practice speed in soul cultivation has obviously slowed down.

Even though he lit the Yangshen Incense to nourish the soul, the speed of cultivation did not increase significantly, so Yuan Ming temporarily stopped practicing "Mingyue Jue" and devoted himself to practicing "Jiuyuan Jue".

At the same time, every few days, Yuan Ming would stop practicing to test his newly prepared incense.

Speaking of which, this was also inspired by the "Xuanhua Zhenren" he met by chance in the Black Rock Market. Qingxuan Incense and Yangshen Incense are indeed quite mysterious and can help with cultivation. If I can study them, it will be of great help to my future practice.

Three kinds of spiritual materials were added to the incense that was lit this time. The most important one was a spiritual material called "Wu Hemerocallis", which is usually used as the main material for refining Huanling Pills.

The reason for choosing this spiritual material is that it has a certain hallucinogenic effect. The Huanling Pill made from it can also make people enter a fantasy for a short time, which also acts on the soul to a certain extent.

Yuan Ming inserted the long incense into the incense burner. Before lighting it, he took out a detoxification pill and held it in his mouth.

The reason for being so cautious was that he accidentally added a poisonous spiritual herb in a previous incense test. As a result, after it was ignited, its colorless and odorless toxicity was amplified by the incense burner.

However, within a few breaths, Yuan Ming already felt weak in his limbs and dizzy in his head.

At the same time, his vision began to blur, and for a moment he didn't know whether he was going to be possessed or poisoned to death?

Fortunately, at the last moment, Yuan Ming communicated with the storage ring and took out the Cold Star Sword in time. He used his magic power to activate the sword to release the cold air from the sword body, and then extinguished the incense and interrupted this attempt.

Yuan Ming failed to possess the body in this chaotic state, but he didn't get better immediately. Instead, he lay there with weak hands and feet for a full cup of tea before he finally woke up.

Because of this incident, it also reminded Yuan Ming that the attempt to make incense with various materials is also risky.

Although the accident this time was relatively minor, it was stopped in time, but he might not be so lucky next time.

After that, he made preparations for poison prevention. When the Tai Chi pattern was extinguished, he tried to light the poison incense he had made before with the incense burner again. As a result, he found that the effect of the poison incense was still significantly enhanced.

The first-level intermediate beast that he caught for the experiment fell to the ground before it lasted three breaths.

However, this kind of poison incense is more of a stun effect, and it will not kill directly.

Moreover, the diffusion range of the poison incense is limited, basically only covering a distance of 100 feet around. If there is no incense burner to bless it, the coverage range will basically be reduced by half.

After inhaling a whole stick of incense, the beast fell asleep for at least half an hour.

After this incident, Yuan Ming decided that while trying to imitate the black incense of possession, he should also make some spiritual incense with different functions. With the blessing of the incense burner, there are also unexpected effects.

This time, Yuan Ming tried to make incense directly without the incense ash, which is the key element that triggers the possession of spirits. He simply wanted to try and explore more possibilities for making incense.

After he lit the long incense, a wisp of white smoke slowly rose, the color was thick and white, slightly different from the past.

Yuan Ming subconsciously glanced at the blue wolf on the tree next to him, whose four hooves were tied by him.

The latter's eyes were full of fear and struggled.

After waiting for a while, the blue wolf continued to struggle, but did not faint, and his eyes did not change. There was no obvious poisoning or hallucination reaction.

"It seems nothing special..." Yuan Ming was stunned before he finished speaking.

He didn't know when a thick white fog enveloped him, making him feel like he was back in the Snake King Valley.

But what was different was that the fog was thicker, milky white, and the blocking effect on vision was more obvious.

Almost five steps away, the thick fog covered everything and he couldn't see anything clearly.

Yuan Ming picked up the incense burner and climbed up a tens of feet high ancient tree next to him. He came to the top of the tree and looked down. He saw that the area within a radius of ten miles below was actually covered by thick fog.

As he carried the incense burner to the top of the tree, white mist began to condense in the air around him.

He thought and tried to release his spiritual sense to sense the surroundings.

This time, he found that the thick fog not only blocked his vision, but also blocked his spiritual power.

For high-level cultivators, it is unknown what the effect is. For him now, the range of his spiritual sense has been reduced to only a few feet, which is almost the same as the visual distance. At this moment, spiritual sense is basically useless.

Surprised, Yuan Ming returned to the tree and stared at the incense burner in his hand. The fog around him did not dissipate until it went out.

It disappeared completely after a cup of tea.

Yuan Ming tied up the incense made in the same batch, took out a white paper strip and tied it up again, and finally wrote "fog incense" on it and put it together with the previous "poison incense".

This was the second special spiritual incense he tried.

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Time passed as he practiced hard and tried to make incense. Another month passed.

Yuan Ming was always worried that there would be side effects if he continued to use Peiyuan Dan and Qingxuanxiang to catalyze his practice.

But the result was that the side effects did not appear, but Qingxuanxiang consumed most of it, and his Peiyuan Dan was also eaten up.

The effect of using a large amount of pills and Qingxuanxiang was also very obvious. Yuan Ming's cultivation level was further improved and he was already at the eleventh level of Qi Refining.

However, he also found that in the later stage, the increase that Peiyuan Dan and Qingxuanxiang could bring had declined significantly.

In addition, the previous several attempts to make incense used a lot of materials, but the results were not very ideal. Whether it was imitating black incense or refining special spiritual incense, there was no progress for the time being.

However, today, Yuan Ming came to a secluded valley in the Shiwan Mountains, and the materials he used were one of the ones he had high hopes for.

Those were the three black fruits he had bought in the ghost market in the market before. According to the stall owner, the slightest smell of this fruit would attract the surrounding beasts to compete for food.

If Yuan Ming had any spiritual materials that could make incense with extraordinary effects, it would be this one.

After a busy period, he used a fruit and added other spiritual materials to make three dark black incense sticks.

Yuan Ming also chose to use the incense burner to do the experiment before the Tai Chi pattern was lit.

When the black incense was lit, a faint fragrance suddenly emanated from it.

The moment Yuan Ming smelled this smell, he was also slightly stunned.

This fragrance is really special, and it is different from any fragrance he has smelled before. It exudes a unique spiritual power fluctuation.

At first, Yuan Ming didn't think there was anything wrong, but after a while, he felt something unusual.

He just felt a sense of heat in his body, and subconsciously wanted to get closer to the incense and smell the unique fragrance.

"This effect?" Yuan Ming was very surprised.

He immediately activated the "Underworld Moon Art" and mobilized the power of his soul to suppress this thought.

Fortunately, such thoughts were not strong. As long as the will was firm and the power of the soul was slightly adjusted, he could resist it.

But at this moment, a series of "booming" sounds began to come from all directions.

Yuan Ming jumped up and climbed to the top of the ancient tree next to him, looking around.

In the surrounding mountains and forests, smoke and dust rolled, and the sound of hooves rumbled. In the gaps covered by the trees, you can see a group of fierce beasts of different sizes and appearances gathering towards him.

"The power of this black fruit incense is too great." Yuan Ming was secretly surprised.

At first glance, the number was more than hundreds or thousands. In addition to various ferocious beasts, there were also more ordinary beasts, with bloodshot eyes, as if they were crazy.

"What kind of incense are you testing again? The beasts are all crazy." At this time, a pleasant voice suddenly came from under the tree.

Yuan Ming saw that it was Xiying who came here at some point, and he jumped down quickly.

"Extinguish the incense, put the incense burner..."

Before Xiying finished speaking, Yuan Ming had already done it the moment he landed.

At this moment, he was sure that the fragrance of the new incense made with black fruit was a huge temptation for the beasts.

"Leave here first." Xiying saw this and said.

"It's too late, the ferocious beasts have surrounded us." Yuan Ming shook his head and said.

"What is this made of? It's so powerful. Tell me! It's amazing." Xiying was both excited and curious, and said excitedly.

"Don't worry, don't worry, deal with these beasts first." Yuan Ming smiled, without any nervousness on his face.

As he spoke, he took out the incense burner again, took out another black incense stick and inserted it into it, twisted the incense head with two fingers, and lit it. Under Yuan Ming's guidance, the curling smoke formed a circle and quickly spread out.

Immediately afterwards, he took out two detoxification pills, ate one himself, and gave the other to Xiying.

At this time, the sounds around became louder and louder, and the ferocious beasts and ordinary wild beasts also showed their figures, one by one with red eyes and drooling mouths, rushing towards this side frantically.