Chapter 73: Trial Begins
Xiao Lin landed on an island with a diameter of about 40 to 50 miles.
This island is only of medium size among the dozens of islands, and its location is relatively remote. The whole island looks like a volcano, standing in the center of the island. The volcano is also the highest place on the entire island. With the volcano as the center, the height gradually decreases. However, this volcano has obviously not erupted for many years, and the towering ancient trees on the island are often more than a hundred years old.
Xiao Lin landed in front of an open space on the island. He would not foolishly use his flying tool to look for the two-legged anaconda. The two-legged anaconda is a group of monsters. If he rashly breaks into its nest, no matter how powerful he is, it will be dangerous.
As long as ordinary monsters enter the high level, they have a short-term ability to fly in the air. If a cultivator is targeted by a two-legged anaconda in the past, he may be attacked by several two-legged anacondas that suddenly appear when passing through a certain forest. Not many cultivators can survive the sudden attack.
Although there are many cultivators in the late stage of Qi training who come to hunt the two-legged anaconda every year, there are also many who die in the mouth of the two-legged anaconda.
With Xiao Lin's cautious personality, he would not be so reckless. As soon as he arrived on the island, he drove the seven blades to cut down. He released his spiritual consciousness, covering the area of 20 to 30 feet around him, and then performed the light skill of Liuyun Qingshenshu, and flew into the forest.
After flying into the forest for seven or eight miles, Xiao Lin suddenly stopped. He stared at a small valley in front of him with a thoughtful expression on his face. Then, a long and obscure spell sounded, and a faint green light appeared around Xiao Lin. With the sound of the spell, a crystal spirit shield of three and a half feet in size was condensed, surrounding him, appearing and disappearing, erratic.
This was the primary spell that Xiao Lin was practicing, the Void Spirit Shield. Compared to his primary Great Perfection Shining Shield, the Void Spirit Shield was more condensed, and its defense was also greatly improved compared to his Great Perfection Shining Shield.
After activating the Void Spirit Shield, Xiao Lin showed a satisfied look on his face, and then rushed towards the small valley.
As soon as he arrived at the valley entrance, Xiao Lin's face became a little solemn. It turned out that there were three two-legged anacondas lying a few dozen feet in front of him. Each of these three two-legged anacondas was nearly five feet long, with their ferocious heads lying on a white stone, and their two thick calves under their ribs were also facing the sky. The whole thing was in a state of four legs up in the sky, and they were basking in the sun with their belly up, looking very comfortable.
Xiao Lin showed hesitation on his face. This two-legged anaconda was a genuine high-level monster of the mortal level, and was proficient in water magic. The key was that this monster lived in groups. Usually, there were more than three two-legged anacondas in a group, and there were even dozens of them.
It can be said that the three two-legged anacondas in front of him were the smallest group. Xiao Lin did not move, but climbed a big tree, sat between the branches, and began to observe the two-legged anacondas through the dense branches and leaves.
From the introduction given to him by Lan Caier in the [Ancient Artifact Building], he knew that this two-legged anaconda was proficient in the water magic [Water Thorn], which, like his water arrow magic, belonged to the category of water magic, but the power was a basic spell of the Great Perfection level.
Xiao Lin knew very well what the basic spells of the Great Perfection level meant. Once the three seemingly lazy two-legged anacondas in front of him got angry, their water arrows were basically non-stop. What was more important was that demon beasts usually had thick skin and flesh. This feature was not obvious for low-level demon beasts, but the higher the level of the demon beasts, the more obvious their physical strength was. Some true-level demon beasts could even rely on their strong bodies to resist the attacks of some magic weapons.
However, the only thing that comforted Xiao Lin was that these ordinary high-level demon beasts had a strong sense of territory. Usually, there would not be a second group within a few miles of a group of two-legged anacondas, otherwise they would fight each other. The final result was mostly that one group would either succumb to the other group or be killed. Therefore, once the fight started, Xiao Lin did not have to worry about more two-legged anacondas joining in. This was completely different from the ordinary low-level water arrow frogs.
Three days passed quickly, and Xiao Lin was surprised to find that except for crawling into a cave not far away to rest at night, these three two-legged anacondas spent almost all their time basking in the sun during the day. The black scales on their bodies shone with a faint black light in the sun, especially the three palm-sized scales under their necks, which were particularly black and shone with a metallic luster. This kind of monster basically has such scales on the neck, and the monks call such scales reverse scales.
It is a material unique to snake monsters. It is rumored that as the cultivation level of snake monsters improves, if they can reach the emperor level one day, they can evolve into dragons and awaken part of the ancient bloodline. Not only will their bodies be extremely strong, but their magic and magical powers will also undergo earth-shaking changes.
However, in the Tianlu Mountains, such things will definitely not be allowed to happen. Even if there are a few snake monsters that can reach the emperor level, there are many high-level cultivators at the level of Jindan ancestors in the five major sects. They will definitely not allow such a heaven-defying existence at their doorsteps. Moreover, the emperor-level monsters will also threaten the low-level disciples in the five major sects. Moreover, the emperor-level monsters are full of treasures, and even have materials for refining good magic weapons. The Jindan ancestors of the five major sects will naturally not let them go. Therefore, in the entire Tianlu Mountains, there should be quite a few true-level monsters, but emperor-level monsters are definitely rare. Even if there are really any, most of them can only hide and find a way to escape from the Tianlu Mountains to continue to survive. As for the higher-level emperor-level monsters, there will never be any.
Xiao Lin knew that even if he continued to observe, he would not be able to observe anything. These two-legged anacondas did not have any special habits. The probability of them being alone was very small. Moreover, he knew very well that these snake-like monsters could usually survive for more than half a year after eating once. Moreover, after becoming monsters, they were like human cultivators. Most of them absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to support themselves. It was normal for them not to eat for several years.
Xiao Lin naturally had no idea when these three two-legged anacondas had eaten last. It was not a wise move to wait like this. Moreover, the cave trial had only been opened for more than a year, and he did not have much time to waste.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lin slapped the storage bag on his waist, and a small cyan-gold shield shot out from it, surrounding him. Faint golden spots flickered in the misty green light. Xiao Lin didn't have much confidence facing three high-level mortal monsters at once. Although his main purpose was to improve his proficiency in the Void Spirit Shield, Thunder Technique and Fireball Technique, he was not sure whether the Void Spirit Shield he had just learned could withstand the attacks of three two-legged anacondas, so to be on the safe side, he also sacrificed the cyan-gold shield.