Chapter 1703 Another Twenty Years
After taking the pills, the master and servant chatted briefly for a few more words before sending them away. At this time, Qingyang finally put his attention back to the outside of the Drunken Immortal Gourd. He had been sitting here for nine years, and he didn't know what was going on outside, and whether those demon corpses were still guarding nearby.
Knowing that there was a half-step demon corpse, Qingyang didn't dare to go out directly, but first separated a trace of divine consciousness to the outside of the Drunken Immortal Gourd to observe the situation nearby. The outside of the Drunken Immortal Gourd was quiet, without any movement, let alone the half-step demon corpse, and there was no other low-level demon corpse.
But think about it, nine years have passed, the demon corpse will definitely not be guarding nearby all the time. This is a forbidden place for demon corpses, and those low-level demon corpses must have been sent away. It is normal not to see the shadow of the demon corpse in such a large space. Maybe they are hiding in a corner.
There were no demon corpses around, so Qingyang became much bolder. He released his divine consciousness completely and expanded the search range. The divine consciousness of a Yuanying cultivator can be extended to two or three thousand feet, and the surrounding situation can be seen at a glance. This range is already very wide, but to Qingyang's surprise, the surroundings are still quiet and there is no movement at all. The demon corpses seem to have disappeared suddenly.
Qingyang couldn't help but wonder, could it be that the demon corpses here have moved to a new place to live? Or were they killed by other cultivators? Otherwise, how could there be no movement at all?
Qingyang couldn't think of the reason, so he simply stopped thinking about it, and flashed out of the Drunken Immortal Gourd. Qingyang carefully felt that the Yinming ghost energy in the underground demon cave was much thinner than before. Looking at the ground, there were still many traces of fighting. At the beginning, Qingyang and others fought with the demon corpses in a few places, but looking at the traces now, it is obviously much larger than before. Could it be that as Qingyang guessed, the demon corpses in this underground demon cave were killed by other cultivators?
Thinking about it, it is still possible. Before Qingyang escaped into the Drunken Immortal Gourd, the Thunder Feather Demon King escaped. Maybe someone else could escape later. If these people are unwilling to give up after escaping death, they will definitely look for helpers to kill back. Whether it is the dwarf demon's demon flute, the Wanling flower harvested here, or the storage bags of Yuanying cultivators such as Zhumo Zhenjun and Ruan Zhenjun who were killed by the demon corpse, they are all priceless good things, which are still very attractive to other cultivators.
Thinking of this, Qingyang became much bolder and walked directly to the center of the underground demon cave, which was the spiritual eye where he picked spiritual medicine before. The original rich spiritual energy had disappeared, and the spiritual pool in the middle had dried up. The spiritual eye was dug up, and no spiritual energy came out. If it weren't for the faint spiritual energy around, Qingyang really thought he had gone to the wrong place.
It seems that Qingyang guessed correctly. There were indeed cultivators who came to kill. Not only did they clear the demon corpses here, but they also uprooted the spiritual eyes, leaving nothing good. Originally, Qingyang was thinking that if the Lingtan was still there, he would practice here for a while. The time for the Wanlinghui was still long, so there was no need to leave in a hurry. Unexpectedly, these people did it so thoroughly that nothing was left. But it was good that way. Without the half-step transformation demon corpse, there was no need to worry about any danger.
Qingyang searched in the underground cave and found nothing. Occasionally, he encountered a few low-level demon corpses, which should be the fish that escaped when the cultivators cleaned up the underground demon cave. With Qingyang's Yuanying stage, these demon corpses did not pose any threat to him at all, and he could deal with them easily. However, Qingyang was too lazy to waste time to clear them out. After finding nothing unusual, he left the underground demon cave.
Back on the ground, Qingyang couldn't help but sigh with emotion. At the beginning, they had a group of thirteen people coming down, and when they left, he was the only one left. This trip to the underground demon cave was really a heavy loss. Qingyang didn't know how many people survived in the end, but he could confirm that there were at least five people who were dead, including Ruan Zhenjun, Wu Zhenjun, Qingshi Shangren, Baigu Madam, Zhumo Zhenjun, etc.
Before joining the Wanling Conference, many people said that there were many dangers in the Wanling Secret Realm, and the most important thing to pay attention to was the spiritual world monks. As a result, the losses were so heavy before encountering the spiritual world monks. I really don’t know what will happen if I encounter the spiritual world monks in the future.
After sighing, Qingyang retracted his thoughts, and then identified a direction to move forward. It was good to be alone. Although he lacked the care of others and encountered more dangerous things, he was free to act and do whatever he wanted without considering other people’s feelings and thoughts.
In the days that followed, Qingyang always acted alone, searching for materials, looking for treasures, exploring monsters, picking spiritual herbs, walking and stopping along the way, looking and searching, the speed of traveling was not very fast, and he could only travel 20,000 to 30,000 miles a month. When he was tired, he would find a hidden place to hide in the Drunken Immortal Gourd for a few days to relax his tense spirit.
The benefits of acting alone are much higher than those of acting in a team, and you don't have to share the things you find with others. However, it is difficult to find things of too high value, because Qingyang is alone. He needs to bear all the risks and do everything by himself. There is no one to share the burden with him. Therefore, Qingyang cannot get things of the same level as Lingying Fruit and Wanling Flower by himself.
Despite this, after Qingyang acted alone, he could harvest various materials and treasures worth more than 200,000 spirit stones every year on average. In the blink of an eye, 20 years had passed, and Qingyang's wealth had increased by 5 million. The harvest of 5 million spirit stones in 20 years would scare people to death. When Qingyang led people to destroy the Lingfu Sect, they only divided more than 3 million spirit stones. The harvest in the 20 years in the Ten Thousand Spirits Secret Realm was far more than that. In the future, even if he only did this, he could make a lot of money. No wonder every cultivator who could get out of the Ten Thousand Spirits Secret Realm alive would eventually have unlimited prospects.
Qingyang had also met other cultivators in these years, but they were very wary of each other, and many of them even had bad intentions. In order to avoid trouble, Qingyang avoided them from a distance. If there was really a head-on collision, Qingyang would leave immediately and never fight, so nothing happened.
Of course, Qingyang's cultivation has not fallen behind in these years. The speed of cultivation in the Myriad Spirits Secret Realm is fast, and Qingyang has no shortage of elixirs. In addition, after taking the Myriad Spirits Bu Tian Pill, he became a cultivator with nine spiritual roots, and the speed of cultivation was even faster. In just twenty years, Qingyang's cultivation reached the peak of the third level of the Nascent Soul, and he was only one step away from the fourth level of the Nascent Soul. Qingyang was not in a hurry to break through the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. It was not that he encountered a bottleneck. It was difficult for a cultivator with nine spiritual roots to encounter a bottleneck even in a large realm, let alone a small realm like the early to middle stage of the Nascent Soul? It was just that Qingyang felt that his cultivation was still lacking some heat and needed to accumulate.