Chapter 387 Entering the Xingxiu Sea

May.

It has been several months since Meng Zhou went to Zijin Cliff to ask Kou Chong to return and throw a stone to test the waters.

During these months, Meng Zhou further improved the "jailbreak" method that he had tested on Kou Chong.

At this moment, Meng Zhou came to another third-level spiritual vein, located in Jingyue Lake within the jurisdiction of Hehuan Domain.

After entering Jingyue Lake, Meng Zhou went straight to a spiritual island.

This spiritual island is guarded by a well-arranged and well-defended third-level top-grade formation.

However, this is not even an obstacle for Meng Zhou now. He did not even use any special skills to pass through the third-level top-grade guarding formation and enter the interior of the spiritual island.

The area of ​​this spiritual island is not too large, but it is full of spiritual energy and vitality.

There is a slightly raised hill in the center of the spiritual island, and a cave is located on the hill.

Meng Zhou entered the cave as if no one was around and came to the quiet room.

At this moment, in the quiet room of this cave, there was a female cultivator with a beautiful face and a quiet temperament who was meditating with her eyes closed, refining her qi and breathing.

Meng Zhou, who was in the gap between the real world and the real world, closely investigated the state of the female cultivator and found that her cultivation level was indeed not close to the breakthrough point.

Based on his own experience, Meng Zhou judged that this female cultivator with the seventh level of Jindan cultivation had only completed about 40% of her current state of accumulation, and there was still a long way to go before she could make further progress.

"It should be for some other reason." Meng Zhou thought so in his heart.

Meng Zhou didn't care too much about this.

He was just a hitchhiker, and he didn't care much about what the owner of the car was doing on this trip.

Just one day ago, the female cultivator crushed the red and white half black bead allocated to her by the Xingxiu Palace.

Based on past experience, Meng Zhou knew that the female cultivator would leave in two months.

Meng Zhou, who had just settled down in a third-level evil vein in the Jinding domain, immediately set out to the female cultivator.

Although with his means, there was no need to be so anxious.

Even if he came the day before the female cultivator left, it would be enough for him to take care of everything.

Having had a practical experience, he would be more skilled than the first time.

However, Meng Zhou came to the female cultivator as soon as possible.

This time, the action was no longer "testing the waters", but "testing the law with one's own body".

This time, he really had to risk his life.

In this case, it was not too much to be cautious.

Meng Zhou did not disturb the female cultivator's daily routine and waited quietly.

He reviewed the plan of action in his mind again, and without the female cultivator noticing at all, he studied all the monsters in her beast bag and considered which one was the most suitable.

——If you look into his current plan in depth, it is actually a trick to replace the pillars and get away with it.

However, the specific target has changed from the person guarding the Jindan to the contracted monster guarding the Jindan.

In terms of importance, there is no doubt that the cultivator himself is at the core, and the contracted monster is just a means he has mastered.

It is precisely because of this that Zhenshou Jiedan himself receives the most attention no matter what the circumstances are.

And to use them to complete the trick of stealing and replacing the pillars and getting away with it, the latter is much more difficult than the former.

There is a biggest difference here, which is also the biggest obstacle that the new idea will encounter.

If the target of "stealing and replacing the pillars" is the cultivator himself, then at the moment of completing the "stealing and replacing the pillars", the cultivator is no longer himself, but the implementer of the plan.

As for where the real cultivator went, it may be put into a bag, or it may be processed without leaving any residue. The specific situation is not important. What is important is that he no longer has the right to speak.

But if the target of "stealing and replacing the pillars" becomes the cultivator's contracted monster, then the cultivator himself will change from "not even qualified to speak" to "the most strict reviewer".

If any flaw is revealed, the whole plan will be abandoned.

The most important point of the plan is no longer to complete the "stealing and replacing the pillars" itself, but how to ensure that after all this is done, the practitioner himself will not find any flaws.

This is also the fundamental reason why Meng Zhou wants to advance the "spiritual master" profession to the fourth level before taking action.

This new plan actually has an implicit premise.

That is, it must be ensured that each guardian of the Jindan has a contracted monster, and the more the better.

If this premise is placed in the five domains, it is actually not so easy to achieve.

Even the original five sects did not have the confidence to equip each disciple with one or more guardian monsters.

In this regard, Xingxiu Palace happens to be an exception.

On the one hand, Xingxiu Palace, which has always adhered to the concept of quality over quantity, has a small number of disciples, and Xingxiu Palace will not easily abandon anyone who enters the gate of Xingxiu Palace.

On the other hand, the resources of the fourth-level Xingxiu Sea are too rich, and there are also many monsters living in it.

In the absence of a natural regulation mechanism such as the beast tide, Xingxiu Palace even has to find ways to maintain the ecological balance of Xingxiu Sea.

Because of these reasons, Xingxiu Palace not only encourages its disciples to take the initiative to look for suitable monsters in the Xingxiu Sea, but if the cultivator himself is not good at taming monsters, Xingxiu Palace will even take the initiative to intervene and help conclude a contract.

Therefore, for the cultivators of Xingxiu Palace, it is standard to carry a beast bag with several contracted monsters in it.

This was the case with Yan Zhuang, the first cultivator of Xingxiu Palace that Meng Zhou encountered, and the same was true for those who guarded the Jindan stage.

No exception.

The female cultivator in front of him was no exception.

Soon, Meng Zhou found the most suitable target among the several contracted monsters of the female cultivator.

A spirit turtle named "Earth Charm".

The reason why it got such a strange name "Earth Charm" is that its bloodline gave it the ability of earth escape, which is extremely powerful.

As long as its limbs are still on the ground, it will be like a ghost, hiding when it wants to hide, and hiding when it wants to hide, and it consumes almost no energy. For it, this seems to be as common as eating and drinking water.

One month later.

After all the preparations have been done to the limit, Meng Zhou finally took action.

When the female cultivator once again entered a deep state of meditation and breathed in and out quietly, Meng Zhou seized the opportunity and made a decisive move.

In an instant, before the female cultivator could react, Meng Zhou completely took over all the authority of the female cultivator's body.

Then, he used the female cultivator's hand to summon the sleeping Earth Charm Spirit Turtle from the beast bag.

After taking out the Earth Charm Spirit Turtle, the first thing Meng Zhou did was to force a large amount of heart essence and blood from the body of the Earth Charm Spirit Turtle.

However, after Meng Zhou took the heart essence and blood into his hands, he did not take out a Tai Sui body to absorb and transform.

Moreover, the existing Tai Sui bodies in his hands were also somewhat inappropriate.

——The "Taisui Body" that Meng Zhou improved on the basis of the original method was still based on the "human form" at first, but as he gained more and more control over this skill and gained more and more understanding, he gradually broke free from this bondage.

When the "Taisui Body" is completely perfect, it can no longer be bound by any form, as long as the "genetic material" that can complete the transformation of the "Taisui Body" can be obtained from the target body.

But if it really comes down to it, the original form of "Tai Sui Body" must be redesigned and re-refined.

The greater the gap with the human form, the more time and effort it will take.

Although the number of "Tai Sui Body" accumulated in Meng Zhou's Ling Hu space is very large, these are all accumulated when Meng Zhou was leveling up.

In order to rush this skill to the perfect state as soon as possible, of course, it is as fast as possible, and as much as possible to save Tai Sui's flesh and blood, everything is aimed at maximizing efficiency.

——For Meng Zhou at that time, the Qinglian Sword Marrow that gave birth to Tai Sui's flesh and blood was still quite scarce and could not be wasted casually.

For this reason, the "Tai Sui Body" accumulated by Meng Zhou in the Ling Hu space is all in human form.

Moreover, the higher the level of "Tai Sui Body", the smaller the "human form", and in the end, it is only as big as a two or three-year-old child.

Such a "Tai Sui Body" is inappropriate for use on monsters in most cases.

Kou Chong was lucky that time. He happened to have a small monkey monster in his hand, and the "human form" Tai Sui body he had accumulated was just right for use.

If Kou Chong did not have a monster suitable for the use of the "human form" Tai Sui body, he would have to specially design and refine a more suitable "beast form" Tai Sui body.

This female cultivator did not have a monster suitable for the "human form" Tai Sui body, but this time it was Meng Zhou himself who was responsible for taking the lead, so he did not need to specially design and refine a Tai Sui body in the form of a Earth Charm Spirit Turtle.

Even so, Meng Zhou still took a lot of the heart essence of the Earth Charm Spirit Turtle and warmed it up in the spirit gourd space.

After taking the heart essence, Meng Zhou stretched out his hand and pressed it on the top of the Earth Charm Spirit Turtle's head.

Soon, Meng Zhou saw a brilliant "starry sky" with shining brilliance again.

After finding the spiritual power of the female cultivator and the Earth Charm Turtle in this "starry sky", Meng Zhou took it all into his control and continued to refine and condense it.

The Earth Charm Turtle also lost its original form little by little in the process, and finally turned into a small blood-colored meatball.

Looking at this blood-colored meatball that was full of activity and slowly squirming in his palm, Meng Zhou felt a little nauseous.

His brain even had uncontrollable associations. Meng Zhou thought about the taste after swallowing it...

It will move!

This thing will keep moving!

"Ugh."

The more he thought about it, the more he resisted it. Finally, this blood-colored meatball directly melted in Meng Zhou's palm and quickly sank into his palm.

"Then don't put it in your mouth." Meng Zhou comforted himself in this way.

Although, since this thing entered his body and merged closely with himself, Meng Zhou still felt hairy in his heart, as if a caterpillar was gently crawling everywhere in his body.

"Psychological problem, psychological problem."

Meng Zhou found that being too strong also had problems. At this moment, he had to suppress his body's strong instincts.

Otherwise, if he wasn't careful, the small meatball that had merged into his body would be wiped out by his body as a foreign body.

Apart from this psychological discomfort, there were no other problems.

Meng Zhou also turned into a... Earth Charm Turtle.

Meng Zhou's ability to change and disguise was originally very strong. The change and disguise skills he mastered had already been completed when he was practicing Qi and building the foundation, and then the spirit body, and then the Tao body.

Although Meng Zhou no longer has a change and disguise skill in the skill column, in fact, among the three existing Tao bodies, this is a "original shareholder" with a large share.

In addition, Meng Zhou has many special advantages when he transforms into a turtle monster.

At the moment when his body transformed into a spirit turtle, Meng Zhou sensed the existence of the moon on his back in his sea of ​​consciousness and the giant turtle carrying the sun in the "inner world".

Meng Zhou's heart also felt an indescribable sense of relief because of this "consistent appearance and inner self".

It was like returning home, taking off all the masks and disguises, and being the most authentic self.

For this, Meng Zhou was not happy, but depressed.

"Consistent appearance and inner self? There must be something wrong."

Meng Zhou thought so in his heart.

However, now is not the time to pursue this.

After dealing with everything, "Earth Spirit Turtle Meng Zhou" has fallen asleep in the beast bag.

After lying down in the most comfortable posture, Meng Zhou dispersed the robbery of the female cultivator's sea of ​​consciousness and soul, and returned all the authority to the female cultivator herself.

The female cultivator did not even wake up and continued to meditate in seclusion.

It was not until a few days later that she ended her retreat. Then, she went to the island for a walk and leisurely stroll.

Time passed in a flash, and more than 20 days passed.

This day, it was the 60th day after the female cultivator crushed the communication pearl.

The female cultivator appeared in the hall of the cave and waited quietly.

After a while, there was a ripple in the void, and a cultivator who looked about 30 years old appeared in front of her.

The two communicated very little. The cultivator called "Senior Sister Fan", and the female cultivator named Fan Ling called "Junior Brother Zhang" in return.

Then, she handed a storage bag prepared in advance to the other party and said, "All the things are in it, please check it."

"Junior Brother Zhang" responded, "Okay."

Then he lowered his head to check.

Soon, he finished checking and said, "No problem."

"Yeah." Fan Ling nodded, and then sat down on the futon next to him, continuing to immerse himself in his own world.

Judging from the appearance of "Junior Brother Zhang", he wanted to say a few words to pass the time perfunctorily.

But he looked at Fan Ling twice, and seeing her acting like this, he gave up and sat down beside her.

Time passed quietly in the silence of the two.

Soon, half a day passed.

As a force enveloped Fan Ling and isolated her from the world, her figure disappeared from the room.

During this process, Meng Zhou behaved very quietly.

When the mysterious power appeared and enveloped Fan Ling, he did not take the opportunity to explore his spiritual sense to study it. Instead, he tried his best to suppress his mind and minimize his existence.

Because of the special nature of the Five Elements Spirit Gourd, all five spirit gourds were collected by Meng Zhou in his sea of ​​consciousness.

There was no foreign object on his body, so as long as he did not actively open his spiritual sense, he would not reveal any flaws.

Soon, Meng Zhou directly sensed the connection with the Tai Sui body that was transformed into a monkey demon again.

The originally vague sense of the soul clone buried in the monkey demon became clear again.

Therefore, even if Meng Zhou's spiritual sense was tightly locked in the sea of ​​consciousness, it did not explore at all.

He also knew that he had entered the Xingxiu Sea.

This was also the most critical and dangerous time he had expected, when he was most likely to be exposed.

Logically speaking, Meng Zhou should be very nervous at this time.

If his heart didn't beat to his throat, he would be sorry for the time and effort he had put in to get to this point.

But the truth was that Meng Zhou found himself very calm.

There was not a single wave of emotion.

He was not even curious about what Fan Ling, who had just entered the Xingxiu Sea, was going through.

He just lay quietly and obediently in Fan Ling's beast bag, without any thoughts or waves.

He was just like a real turtle. (End of this chapter)