Chapter 456 The Monkey King's Problem
There are many blood bat corpses outside the Earth Core Tower, and there are many puppet fragments inside. Anyone can see that someone has been here in advance and knows that important treasures have been robbed by others. If others find out that they are here in advance, facing the temptation of unknown treasures, it is hard to guarantee that they will not be besieged by their trial disciples.
At this time, the Earth Core Cave had just collapsed. Most of the trial disciples hid in the distance and did not dare to approach the edge of the Earth Core Cave, let alone come down directly. Qingyang took this opportunity to quietly touch the edge of the Earth Core Cave, climbed up along the stone wall for a distance, and then found a secluded place and hid in the Drunken Immortal Gourd.
There must be a lot of people outside the Earth Core Cave, and many of them know Qingyang. It is easy to be discovered if you go out now. It is better to hide for a while and wait until everyone leaves here before going out.
At this time, there is still a month and a few days before the trial of Chaos Demon Valley. From the Blood River to the entrance of Chaos Demon Valley, it takes about half a month at the speed of a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator. No one will calculate the time to leave. At most, in a few days, the trial disciples will leave after searching here.
The chain reaction caused by the collapse of the Earth Core Cave has long ended. The nearby trials finally couldn't help but rush to the bottom of the Earth Core Cave. Judging from the number, there are at least more than a hundred people. Fortunately, Qingyang has increased in advance, otherwise he would have been hit head-on by these people.
There are too many people outside, some of whom are his acquaintances. Qingyang dare not expose his existence. He can only hide in the Drunken Immortal Gourd obediently, only occasionally probing a trace of divine consciousness to observe the situation.
The Earth Core Cave is only a few hundred feet in size. With so many trial disciples rushing in, nothing can be hidden. They soon found the Earth Core Tower at the bottom of the pit, the blood bat corpses around the Earth Core Tower, and finally the destroyed puppets in the Earth Core Tower.
Suspicion is certain, but Qingyang had already hidden in the Drunken Immortal Gourd. It is unknown how the group of Lingxu Gongzi escaped from these trial disciples. This place was already deserted. After that, these trial disciples organized themselves and searched the entire Earth Core Cave and the Earth Core Tower countless times. They did not find any traces of other people, but they did find a lot of missed spiritual herbs. Together with the destroyed puppet materials, it was not a complete loss.
Disappointed, most people left here and tried their luck in other places. Of course, some people were unwilling to give up and stayed near the Earth Core Tower, hoping that the people who got the benefits would suddenly appear. Some people got the news later and occasionally came here to take a look. Therefore, there were always people in the Earth Core Cave, and Qingyang did not dare to show his head.
But he was not in a hurry. It was still early for the end of the Chaos Demon Valley Trial. After a while, these people would definitely leave, and it would not be too late for him to go out at that time.
Qingyang lived a very comfortable life during this period. He did not need to go out to take risks. He practiced in the Drunken Immortal Gourd every day and counted his gains by the way.
The value of the Yellow Extreme Smoke and Dust Sand is inestimable. Of course, it is not convenient to expose this thing, so it can only be placed in the Drunken Immortal Gourd together with the Netherworld Fire Stone, and used when needed in the future.
Including the unripe purple-striped fruit, the green long sword, Wei Yufeng's storage talisman and other things that are not convenient to expose, the value is about more than a thousand spirit stones, which need to be slowly processed after returning to the Qingfeng Palace.
Including the spiritual herbs obtained from the small medicine garden, the corpses of the bag beast, various monster materials, spiritual medicines, spiritual materials, spiritual stones and other things without obvious characteristics, the total value reached 14,000 spirit stones, which is much more than his initial estimate. This is because he also found some things without obvious marks in Wei Yufeng's storage talisman.
Qingyang's gains from this trial in the Chaos Demon Valley greatly exceeded his expectations. Whether it is those that are not convenient to expose or those that have no obvious characteristics, the value exceeds tens of thousands of spirit stones. This is a fortune that most foundation-building cultivators cannot reach. Thinking about it makes people unable to sleep.
In the previous battle with Master Lingxu and others, the alcoholic queen bee used her innate skill of pollen maze. Although it was broken in the end, she did not suffer any backlash and she herself was not injured. The six purple-backed alcoholic bees that fought with Jiao Hong and Xi Qiu were also fine. They only lost a few ordinary alcoholic bees, which was not a big deal and would be replenished in a short time.
As for the iron-armed spirit monkey, he was seriously injured. He, a demon beast, withstood the attacks of Lan Yan and the other three. Although the monkey king was very powerful, he was just a demon beast with insufficient intelligence after all. He did not have the help of magic tools and spiritual tools like the cultivators, so it was inevitable to be injured.
However, the injury was not serious and he would be fine after a period of recuperation. What Ling Qingyang was more worried about was the life span of the iron-armed spirit monkey. When he was adopted by Qingyang, the monkey king was not young. Now six or seven years have passed, and the monkey king is old and almost equivalent to the age of a Qi-refining cultivator in his eighties.
Qingyang estimated that the life span of the Iron Arm Monkey was more than ten years, or at least seven or eight years, and it would die due to exhaustion of lifespan. Unless it could break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage during this period, it would have no choice but to die.
However, looking at the current situation of the Iron Arm Monkey, it had just broken through to the ninth level of Qi Refining not long ago, and it was still a long way from Qi Refining Perfection. It was hard to say whether it could improve its cultivation to Qi Refining Perfection in a few years, and as for the Foundation Establishment Stage, it was even more unthinkable.
Since he subdued the Iron Arm Monkey, he has helped him a lot, taking care of the Drunken Immortal Gourd space, and helping to brew Monkey Spirit Wine, which has solved many of Qingyang's worries. He is also an important helper when he encounters danger. After six or seven years of getting along, they have a certain affection for each other. If Qingyang watches him grow old, he really can't bear it.
When Qingyang got the blood lotus root, he considered whether to give some to the Iron Arm Monkey, but after thinking it over again and again, he finally gave up the idea. No matter how important the Iron Arm Monkey is, it is not as important as his master, Taoist Songhe. In the end, he gave all the blood lotus roots to his master.
Qingyang can use the petals and nectar of the Wannianhong to refine the longevity pill, but the Wannianhong in the Drunken Immortal Gourd is too young, and the longevity pill refined is not particularly effective. It is also a drop in the bucket for the Iron Arm Monkey. It seems that he must think of other ways, otherwise he will lose the Monkey King, an important partner.
Thinking of this, Qingyang had already made up his mind. Although the effect of the longevity pill was very ordinary, it was better than nothing. He still had to refine some of it and give it to the iron-armed monkey first. There was another more important thing after returning this time, which was to see if he could find a way to solve the problem of the iron-armed monkey. He would pay a price, as he was not short of spirit stones anyway.