Chapter 70: Three Talents Maze
The group returned to Qingxuan Sect after a long journey. Zhang Hanyan took the head of the fire-horned bull to hand in the task. The group hurried to Zhongxuan Market and exchanged the large amount of monster materials in their hands for spirit stones.
The body of the fire-horned bull was huge. Zhang Zhixuan went to three or four inns just to process the monster meat. Finally, he set up a stall in the market to sell it for a while.
Although the spirit energy of the meat of this monster was not as abundant as that of the flying fire toad, the taste was better.
Compared with the flying fire toad, the blood and flesh of the fire-horned bull were relatively more valuable. The meat on its body exceeded ten thousand catties. Zhang Zhixuan took a lot of effort to drag the monster meat back to the market.
The monster meat weighing tens of thousands of catties was sold for a total of six hundred spirit stones, and the blood essence on the body was also sold for two hundred spirit stones. As for other miscellaneous things such as bones, tendons, etc., they were also sold for two or three hundred spirit stones.
After killing the fire-horned bull, except for the most valuable horns on its head, the materials on its body alone sold for thousands of spirit stones, making the four people's pockets richer.
This time, in addition to using three third-level spirit talismans and a fire thunder bead, the four people almost didn't spend much effort to successfully hunt this monster, and the total cost was only about one thousand spirit stones.
However, after hunting the fire-horned bull, the earth prison gold formation was useless.
They were going to hunt the fire crystal ants next. This group of monster insects was extremely large, and their teeth were sharp. They could easily bite through the fine iron when they rushed up. Even with the blessing of the formation, it only took a short time to drain the magic power of Zhang Menglong, who presided over the formation.
After discussing, several people decided to sell the earth prison gold formation, and then the fourth uncle would prepare a formation to restrain the fire crystal ants.
Unfortunately, the earth prison gold formation has obvious shortcomings and is restrained by water-attribute spells. Once it faces a cultivator with various means, it is almost easy to be cracked, so this formation cannot be sold at a high price in the market.
In the end, Zhang Hanyan handed this formation over to the sect and exchanged it for 200 merits.
A large sect like Qingxuan Sect often faces the invasion of monsters. The means of monsters are relatively simple. Except for water-attribute monsters, this formation is still good for besieging monsters.
A normal third-level low-grade formation has a market price of at least 600 spirit stones in the market. Unfortunately, this formation has too obvious shortcomings and only exchanged for 200 merits, which is worth about 200 low-grade spirit stones.
It has taken half a year to hunt monsters twice in a row. The continuous high-intensity mental tension made the four people a little tired.
They first returned to Hanyan Cave Mansion and visited the fifteenth uncle Zhang Mengchong who was recovering from his injuries.
After several months of recuperation, the fifteenth uncle's face finally looked better.
The magic weapon was destroyed, and the consciousness was backfired. The main damage was to the spirit. After several months of recuperation, his injuries had healed for the most part.
After several people discussed, they planned to rest for half a year at a time. After Uncle Fifteen recovered from his injuries, they prepared the formation and went to the Southern Wilderness again.
The first two successful hunting of foundation-building monsters had earned Zhang Hanyan 3,800 merits. With the 800 merits she had accumulated before, Hanyan already had 4,600 merits.
It takes about 10,000 merits to exchange for a foundation-building pill. The merits in Hanyan's hand can almost exchange for half of the foundation-building pill.
The reward for the fire crystal ant is higher, up to 3,000 merits. This kind of monster that dominates one side must have valuable spiritual objects in its nest. With the private money contributed by everyone, it should be possible to raise 10,000 merits.
While recuperating in Hanyan Cave, everyone frequently went in and out of the market. They still used the relationship from the last time and spent 200 spirit stones to refine the skin of the fire-horned bull monster in their hands into four inner armors.
The skin of the fire-horned bull monster is very tough. It is difficult to break its defense even if a second-level medium-grade magic weapon is used to cut it. Once worn on the body of a cultivator, it can greatly protect the safety of the cultivator.
This second-level upper-grade inner armor is more expensive than ordinary second-level upper-grade magic weapons. Each monster inner armor is worth at least 200 spirit stones in the market.
Wearing this inner armor, unless the third-level queen ant bites directly into the vitals, it is difficult to cause fatal injuries. Low-level fire crystal ants basically cannot bite through the defense of the inner armor. Facing the surging ant tide, everyone is safer.
Fourth uncle Zhang Menglong is a third-level formation master. It is difficult to break through the profession of formation master. Even in the large sect of Qingxuan Sect, his level is considered a talent in the sect.
There are relatively few cultivators who choose the formation profession. In the entire Qingxuan Sect, there are less than seven or eight formation masters above level three.
These seven or eight people are basically cultivators with successful cultivation such as foundation building and purple mansion.
It has been very rare for cultivators to become third-level formation masters in the Qi training period, even in a large sect like Qingxuan Sect, for thousands of years.
By now, Fourth Uncle has been able to refine six third-level formations. Except for the family's Qingguang Bamboo Sea Formation, which uses the earth veins to set up the formation and has the greatest power, the remaining formations are all set up using formation plates.
Although the power of using formation plates to set up formations is relatively small, it is very convenient to carry.
As long as the formation plate is set up in advance and the formation flag is set up, the spiritual energy in the world can be mobilized, and it is very quick to use.
This time, when hunting the fire crystal ants, Fourth Uncle Zhang Menglong thought carefully and finally decided to use the Three Talents Mystery Formation.
In addition to the large number of people, the fire crystal ants have no extraordinary specialties.
The queen ant's spiritual consciousness can be released, and she can use her spiritual consciousness to control the worker ants below.
The Three Talents Maze Formation can create white mist in a ten-mile radius, confusing the five senses of cultivators. Even the spiritual consciousness of a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage can be easily suppressed in the mist, and can only exert two or three tenths of its effect.
The Three Talents Mystery Formation is a large-scale formation, which is more difficult to set up. Just the formation flags need more than 100. Refining this formation requires not only more materials, but also more time.
In the busy schedule, Fourth Uncle spent seven or eight months and exhausted the 800 spirit stones he won last time to successfully refine this set of formations.
At this time, Fifteenth Uncle Zhang Mengchong had been recuperating for almost a year, and finally recovered completely when several people went deep into the Southern Wilderness for the third time.
Because his second-level top-grade magic weapon had been scrapped, everyone gathered 160 spirit stones and bought him a sharp second-level top-grade flying sword.
Along the way, he raced against time to sacrifice this flying sword, and finally before reaching the destination, he was barely able to control the flying sword skillfully.
