Chapter 45: A snake cannot be too honest

One Snake and One Dog quickly left the inn, left Linjiang City, and came to a secluded place by the river. There was no human habitation within ten miles.

After that, the two sides had a pleasant round of sharing the spoils and strictly implemented the 50-50 plan.

Heihuang took out a lot of pills and monster meat, which were all beneficial to Xu Hei's cultivation. They were worth hundreds of spirit stones and were enough for Xu Hei to eat for half a year.

He also said that he would never hide his secrets again in the future.

Xu Hei didn't believe every word of this. This old dog was suddenly so powerful, so he might have hidden many good things.

However, Xu Hei still took out three of Zhao Yiduo's treasures.

A broken copper bell, a pair of silver soft armor, and a pile of metal materials for refining a puppet.

"This is Zhao Yiduo's explosive equipment. I burned all the storage bags, and this is all that's left." Xu Hei said.

Heihuang picked up the bronze bell. There were three scratches on it, which almost cut the bell off. It turned out that the scales were the reason.

The silver soft armor is Zhao Yiduo's personal inner armor.

"It's actually a low-grade spiritual treasure! What a good thing!" Heihuang picked up the soft armor and looked surprised.

Lingbao is the magic weapon used by foundation-building monks. Low-grade Lingbao means that this armor can defend against attacks in the early stages of foundation-building.

It was just that Zhao Yiduo's cultivation was insufficient, so the armor could not cover his whole body, and was burned to ashes by Xu Hei's blind-angle attack.

Xu Hei thought for a while and said, "Can you modify it so that I can wear it?"

Heihuang glanced at Xu Hei and said with a smile: "When you reach the Great Perfection of the psychic stage and can still barely use this thing, forget it now."

As he said this, he put it on himself, the inner armor flashed with silver light, and it fit tightly against his body.

"What the hell..."

Xu Hei almost couldn't help but rush up and bite someone.

Heihuang hurriedly took out a lot of puppet machine beasts and said: "I'll give these puppets to you, that's all!"

Xu Hei took a look and saw that these mechanical beasts included lizards, toads, and birds, all of which were used by Yu Qiang. As for the effects, you can experience them yourself.

"I will use this black gold stone to refine an ultimate puppet for you, and all the puppets will be strengthened for you. As compensation, is that enough?"

Heihuang pointed at the pile of metal materials again and said.

Xu Hei gritted his teeth and reluctantly nodded in agreement.

Heihuang also took out the confiscated treasures, and after wrangling them for a long time, Xu Hei simply cashed them all in and received forty-six spiritual stones.

This time the division of the spoils was successfully completed.

In fact, Xu Hei kept one thing but didn't take it out, which was the black jade stone as big as a fingernail.

Xu Hei felt that this should be the most valuable thing in Zhao Yiduo's body, and he wanted to study it himself.

"This old dog is so bad. He must be hiding something. Damn it, I have to learn from him and not be too honest." Xu Hei thought to himself.

This time, with Zhao Yiduo's sail, they could go back by building a bamboo raft without taking a boat.

During their trip to Linjiang City, they obtained sufficient resources that allowed them to practice for more than half a year, enough for Xu Hei to break through to the late psychic stage.

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At this moment, far away from Qin State, in the center of the extremely distant continent.

A middle-aged man was sitting in front of a thatched hut. He had an ordinary temperament, just like a mortal. From the appearance alone, this man was very similar to Zhao Yiduo, but he looked slightly older.

Suddenly, his eyes were stunned, and a strange light flashed in his eyes.

"The external incarnation that I experienced outside has fallen again."

The middle-aged man lowered his head and counted with his fingers. Scenes appeared in front of him, flashing by like a revolving lantern.

This scene was what he saw before his incarnation.

The death of an incarnation is nothing, but he will sum up the lessons learned before death every time and be more cautious next time so as not to make the same mistake.

"I didn't even see the appearance of the murderer, which is strange."

The middle-aged man frowned. In his opinion, there was nothing wrong with the behavior of this incarnation, but he still died.

And after death, the opponent's attacks will continue until the remaining consciousness completely disappears.

He himself is a cautious person. In order to be more cautious, he did not hesitate to create a large number of incarnations to go out to experience and sum up the death experience again and again.

When he met today, there was someone more cautious than him. He actually admired the murderer behind the scenes.

There is a feeling of being in the same camp.

Suddenly, the middle-aged man's eyes narrowed, and three strange black gold scales appeared in the picture he saw.

It was these scales that penetrated the indestructible defense during the foundation building period.

"This is?"

The middle-aged man's pupils suddenly shrank.

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One day later.

Heihuang found a suitable place for long-term cultivation in the forest on the north bank of Yanluo River.

This is an abandoned spiritual mineral vein that was mined out as early as five hundred years ago, and no one has visited it for hundreds of years.

"I've seen it. This is the place with the most spiritual energy within a radius of fifty miles. I will practice here for the time being."

The black and yellow dog's paw dug into the hole and dug out a medium-sized cave.

Xu Hei entered the cave and his spiritual consciousness came out. Deep underground, he vaguely discovered some traces left behind - a mine cart that was about to turn into ashes, human bones that were about to become fossilized, and some hoe tools.

Although all the spiritual stones have been mined, the spiritual energy is still stronger than in other places.

Xu Hei took out a large vat, filled it with water, and then sprinkled in some red medicinal powder.

After a while, the water in the large tank turned red, with a faint sign of boiling.

"Shaoyang Powder, a top-grade elixir, is used to polish the body and temper the tibia. It is an extremely rare body-tempering elixir. Just this little bit is worth twenty spirit stones."

Xu Hei took a deep breath, jumped into the vat.

His skin immediately turned red, and his muscles throbbed. This intense pain was even stronger than when he was hundreds of meters underground.

In order to achieve better results, Xu Hei used ten times more than humans.

"The first body tempering is the best one. Don't faint." Hei Huang laughed on the side.

Of course Xu Hei would not faint. His willpower is a hundred times stronger than that of ordinary people!

Not long after, a layer of old snake skin shed off from Xu Hei's body and turned into ash in the potion. He didn't shed his skin last time he broke through, but he made up for it this time.

Xu Hei could clearly feel that his physical strength was getting stronger and stronger, equal to his cultivation, and it was still increasing.

Bone growth, meridians toughness, muscles expelling impurities, every inch of flesh and blood was rapidly strengthened.

This body tempering lasted for a full week.

A week later.

The water in the big vat had evaporated, leaving only a pile of black sludge, all of which were impurities discharged by Xu Hei.

His body shape finally changed compared to before, and became longer again, reaching three and a half meters.

Although his body became longer, Xu Hei had a feeling that he could shrink at any time as long as he wanted.

"Small!"

His mind moved, and there was a crackling sound from the bones in his body. His body length shrank by one third, returning to the original two meters again.

"Continue!"

Xu Hei continued to shrink, and his body length was reduced to one meter, which was his limit.

He exhaled and returned to three meters long.

He crawled twice in the cave, at a very fast speed, and the sound of breaking wind continued to ring, blowing up dust.

"Controlling the body at will, the strength and speed are more than three times stronger than before!" Xu Hei stopped his body and said in his heart.

His cultivation has not changed, and he is still at the peak of the sixth level of the spiritual period, but his strength is incomparable.

The black and gold scales on the tail have grown to thirty pieces, gradually spreading towards the torso, no longer limited to the tail.

Xu Hei guessed that when his body reached the great perfection of the spiritual period, would the scales cover his whole body?

Then how would his strength change?

At least if others wanted to hurt him, they had to break his scales first.

Xu Hei took out a mouthful of monster meat and swallowed it, looking around, his consciousness spread out, and he didn't find the figure of the old dog.

His eyes flashed, and he took out the black jade and looked at it carefully.

The color of the jade was deep, as if it could swallow the light, and the surroundings were dim. This was Zhao Yidu's relic, and intuitively, it was a treasure.

Xu Hei probed his consciousness into it, and even his consciousness was sucked in.

"This is..."

Xu Hei was shocked, stepped back a few meters, staring at the jade, and hesitated.

After a moment, Xu Hei mustered up the courage and continued to probe into his consciousness.

As his spiritual sense continued to go deeper, the jade was like a bottomless pit, extending infinitely and without end, which surprised Xu Hei secretly.

Finally, when Xu Hei's spiritual sense penetrated a hundred meters, he finally encountered a barrier.

He couldn't go any further, and Xu Hei's spiritual sense was only a hundred meters long at most.

Xu Hei's spiritual sense changed direction and found that it was not only a hundred meters forward, but also upward or downward.

"Could it be..."

Xu Hei took a breath and had a bold guess in his mind, "Is this a huge storage space with a length, width, and height of a hundred meters?"