Chapter 760: Rapid Progress

Twenty years, for a cultivator of the Spiritualization Realm, is just a blink of an eye.

But for Xu Hei, it is very rare to be in seclusion for such a long time at one time.

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In the dark and dark cave.

Xu Hei sat cross-legged in the center, his eyes suddenly opened, and two golden beams of light were emitted, punching two large holes in the stone wall in front of him.

At this moment, Xu Hei's momentum was unprecedentedly high, and gusts of sharp wind blew around him, whistling out, blowing the entire cave to tremble, rumbling continuously, as if a major earthquake had occurred.

After a long time, the vibration slowly calmed down.

The light in his eyes also quickly converged and completely returned to calm.

"Huh! After all, I still failed to break through."

Xu Hei exhaled a long breath of turbid air, and his eyes returned to their former depth.

After taking many elixirs left by the Green Emperor, three years ago, Xu Hei's cultivation successfully reached the peak of the middle stage of the Spiritualization Realm and fell into a bottleneck.

It just so happened that he still had two Rong Shen Dan in his hand for the breakthrough.

Xu Hei was anxious for a moment and took one directly to break through the late stage.

As expected, the breakthrough failed.

Rong Shen Dan can greatly increase the success rate of breakthrough, but it is not a sure thing. From the early stage to the middle stage, there is still less than 50%, and from the middle stage to the late stage, it may be only about 20%.

However, the specific success rate still depends on the individual practitioner. Those with high talent and sufficient preparation will naturally have a greatly increased success rate.

Xu Hei's foundation is still too shallow.

He stood up and counted the reserves of pills.

Now, there are only a few pills found in Feiling Garden, and even most of the pills found in Xiong Yan's storage bag have been eaten up by him.

The remaining pills are mostly used to repair the soul, treat injuries, or are urgent items for short-term outbreaks. It is really not suitable to take them during retreat.

"Now, my cultivation has reached the limit of the middle stage of the Spiritualization, and I am only half a step away from the late stage. I am much stronger than I was twenty years ago."

"It's a pity that there is not a single top-grade spirit stone left, and the elixir used for cultivation has also been exhausted. I have really reached the end of my rope."

Xu Hei shook his head secretly. He just wanted to leave this damn place and return to the God Puppet Sect, so that he would not be so poor.

Xu Hei got up and walked into the insect room next to him.

The insect room is very large, and he specially opened it to store insects.

In the insect room, spider webs are everywhere, the walls are crawling with insect swarms, and the corners are full of piled insect eggs.

Bai Zhi was lying in the center of the spider web, wearing a long silk dress, with a lazy posture, graceful curves, eyes slightly closed, in a state of dozing.

Until Xu Hei came in, she slowly opened her eyes and said impatiently: "Dead ghost, where are your spirit stones?"

"No." Xu Hei shook his head.

"No? My family is so poor that we can't even afford to eat. I can't even give birth to a single insect. If this continues... I can't protect you." Bai Zhi rolled her eyes.

Xu Hei was also quite helpless.

He glanced at the insect room.

For a full twenty years, the number of soul-eating ants has only reached 80,000. The number of black needle ants is barely around 10,000.

However, after being released, the soul insects can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on their own, so they won't fall into a deep sleep.

This is already the limit of what can be controlled. If you want more, you have to spend spirit stones. Just breathing alone can't produce any.

Xu Hei continued forward and walked into the second insect room.

In this insect room, there was the Thousand Thunder Centipede that Xu Hei bought. After feeding it some pill powder, this insect miraculously survived.

The Thousand Thunder Centipede can release lightning, which has a strong restraining effect on evil things.

With the help of the Heavenly Silkworm Sutra, Xu Hei can perfectly control the centipede, but unfortunately, the insect's life span is almost over.

Unless we can find some spiritual objects that can prolong life, or let this insect produce eggs, the Thousand Thunder Centipede will probably become extinct.

Xu Hei raised his hand and put it into the spirit beast ring, and then walked into the third insect room.

In this insect room, Xu Hei alone blessed a spirit gathering array, in which a palm-sized insect pupa was stored.

The insect pupa lay in the center of the spirit gathering array, motionless, and its whole body was black, like a stone.

This is exactly what Jiying turned into!

Since Jiying turned into a pupa, he has no reaction. If Xu Hei could not slightly sense that this pupa was breathing on its own, he would have thought that Jiying was dead.

"Jiying cannot be put into the ring for the time being, so it can only be stored here." Xu Hei said darkly.

At this time, Xu Hei suddenly raised his eyebrows and looked outside.

"Swoosh!"

Xu Hei quickly collected the Baizhi and other insects, disappeared on the spot, and left the cave.

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Outside the safe zone.

Two figures, one in front and one behind, were chasing each other madly. Along the way, fires were flying, rocks were collapsing, thunder was running, and the ground was in a mess.

The figure in front was a dark stone man. From its appearance, it was the one that was knocked down by Xu Hei.

At this moment, the stone man was already covered with scars and his body had shrunk.

And the one chasing behind him was also a stone man. This stone man was red all over, and his size was obviously bigger. His legs were as thick as a giant elephant. He walked through the shaking world, and his punches and kicks could tear the earth apart.

"Oli, your O family has come to an end. If you give up resistance obediently, you can avoid torture and reincarnate soon." The red stone man behind him shouted.

Aoli ignored the shouting of his descendants and ran straight to the canyon in front.

And this place was exactly where Xu Hei was in seclusion.

His body melted into the rock and he sprinted underground.

"Hmph, you can't escape!"

The red stone man also melted into the rock and followed closely behind.

The two sides were chasing each other underground, getting closer and closer, and the direction they were rushing towards was Xu Hei's cave.

Suddenly, Auli in front shouted: "Senior, save me!"

"senior?"

The red stone man sneered. He raised his head and stared. Suddenly, thousands of feet ahead, there was a young man in human form, also in the underground rock formation.

"court death!"

The red stone man punched out, and the ground suddenly collapsed, countless rubbles flew around, and the rock formations exploded into an open area with a radius of thousands of feet.

"puff!!"

Auli spit out a large mouthful of gravel and threw it away. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but he happened to fall not far away from Xu Hei.

Xu Hei's face didn't change as he saw the red stone man rushing towards him.

"Rumble, rumble..."

There were constant earthquakes along the way, as if a giant beast from the wild was crashing towards him with a devastating attitude, plowing a deep mark a hundred feet wide in the earth.

Xu Hei didn't want to get involved in the dispute between the two people, but Aoli made it clear that he would attract powerful enemies to him, so he had to step forward, otherwise, the cave would definitely be destroyed.

This made him very unhappy.

"I'm not interested in your fight. Get out of here or I'll kill them all."