Chapter 118 Acting Alone

Island guarding mission.

There are four people in total, one in each direction of the island, and they need to guard the culverts connecting to the open sea in the water.

If during the encirclement and suppression, a second-level sea-swallowing dragon fish escapes from the culvert in the direction they are responsible for, they will be held responsible.

Shen Lian was assigned to the south of the island.

He landed on the water surface in the south of the island, and watched from a distance as Qian Dai led the remaining cultivators towards the deep pool on the island.

Without stopping, Shen Lian also entered the water.

A hundred feet underwater, he saw that the seabed was densely packed with holes.

These holes were large and small.

You can also see some fish with green forehead fangs, dragon whiskers on the lower jaw, and scales like dragon patterns on their bodies, swimming in the water.

This is the sea-swallowing dragon fish.

Shen Lian sensed that these demon fish were very weak, and there were almost no ones above the third level of Qi training.

It seems that this group of sea-swallowing dragon fish is not small.

The divine consciousness covered and carefully checked these demonic holes. As expected, they all led to the deep pool on the island.

The Five Elements Spirit Puppet flew out from the main body and turned into a transparent spirit body, merging with the surging water.

Shen Lian was not idle either, and began to catch the sea-swallowing dragon fish.

These dragon fish were extremely weak, but they had some dragon energy. It would be good to catch them and give them to Sanqian as spicy snacks.

Of course, he also caught the dragon fish that had entered the demonization stage, otherwise it would be useless.

"Boom!"

There was a roar coming from the sea water in the cave. Obviously, Qian Dai and the others had already started in the deep pool.

As expected, Shen Lian's divine consciousness sensed that there were countless sea-swallowing dragon fish drilling out of the densely packed holes.

Although these first-level sea-swallowing dragon fish had a little dragon blood, their intelligence was not strong. After sensing the crisis, they began to flee in all directions.

Sensing the fluctuations in the cave, Shen Lian quickly found the largest water hole and mobilized the spirit puppet to drill into it.

The stronger the monster is, the larger its physique is. Finding the largest hole will naturally block the largest fish.

However, all the first-level sea-swallowing dragon fish that came out of the hole were first-level sea-swallowing dragon fish. It seems that the second-level ones were blocked in the dark pool.

The water spirit puppet merged with the water and entered the dark pool on the island along the deep cave.

Suddenly, I sensed that the dark pool was covered by a group of dazzling spiritual light, and there were runes intertwined and concluded.

No wonder no second-level dragon fish came out, it should be trapped by the formation.

Through the formation, I can vaguely sense that there are cultivators who are constantly suppressing and killing dragon fish with the help of the formation.

Above the formation, a fat and hazy figure was surrounded by spiritual light and was urging the formation to cover the waters.

"Huh."

"It's not Qian Dai's body."

The spirit puppet walked along the edge of the dark pool and checked the surrounding environment.

Shen Lian came here mainly to obtain the qualification to share the sea-swallowing dragon fish. The monster blood he needed was the least noticeable among monster skin, monster bones, and monster pills.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, he found that Qian Dai, who controlled the formation, was not himself.

Where are the others?

Looked at the depths of the deep pool.

Below?

…

In the depths of the deep pool, corals and seaweeds piled up, and fish scales and bones were spread all over.

Qian Dai's mind swept across the undulating water bottom below, and soon sensed a stream of spiritual inspiration, emerging from the depths of the reef.

For the second-level sea-swallowing dragon fish to build a nest and reproduce here, the existence of spiritual veins is an inevitable condition.

Qian Dai didn't care about spiritual veins.

He needed to find a suitable gold and water vein that could be used to nourish the water spirit corpse.

Since it couldn't be done in the Xuanshi Sect's sea area, he would do it near the territory of the sea clan.

With a light touch of his palm, a black spiritual treasure engraved with strange runes appeared. It was square in shape, and there were some golden dots flashing in the black.

A cold breath emerged from the black spiritual treasure, and the runes seemed to come alive, turning into swimming fish and sinking downwards.

The runes that sank into the underwater reef returned not long after, and the black spiritual treasure emitted a strong black light, suppressing all the golden lights.

Seeing this scene, Qian Dai showed a hint of disappointment.

There are only water spirit veins here, and no mineral veins.

Only when there are spirit veins and mineral veins, can it be a land of gold and water, and can it nurture water spirit corpses.

He re-cast the spell and quickly put the black spiritual treasure away. Qian Dai's fat body trembled violently, and a burning heat burst out of his body.

This made his expression change.

The Xuanyang body was impacted by the cold breath and was touched.

…

After spending a lot of money, Qian Dai suppressed the anger that came out of his body and rushed upwards quickly.

The Xuanyang physique and his Xuanyin soul repelled each other, and it could be suppressed without using this magic weapon.

After dozens of breaths, the water flow surged in the deep of the dim pool, and the spirit puppet and the water flow poured into a cave culvert together.

"Sure enough, it is related to the Xuanshi Sect."

The spirit puppet came out of the pool and returned to Shen Lian's vicinity.

The square black magic weapon that Qian Dai took out from the deep of the pool, the runes that appeared were the same as the ones he sensed in the depths of Haiyuan Island.

Shen Lian did not run away this time.

Qian Dai used the guise of hunting monsters to investigate the underwater spiritual veins, and it had nothing to do with his spiritual stones, but the monsters he hunted had something to do with him.

In this case, it makes sense that Qian Dai took out the square Xuanling Jadeite raw stone before.

They are a family with the Xuanshi Sect, so there is nothing wrong with selling some family things.

When he chose the Xuanling Jadeite, he deliberately didn't choose the square one. I don't know if it's still in Qian Dai's hands.

The spiritual power fluctuations in the deep pool are getting more and more intense, and more and more first-level sea-swallowing dragon fish rush out through the culvert hole.

Shen Lian easily put these first-level ones into the storage bracelet.

With a large formation surrounding the second-level dragon fish, his task of guarding the culvert is not a big problem.

Shen Lian took back the spirit puppet and went to the distant ocean.

This sea area is already far away from the Wanxing Sea, and there may be other gains.

Crash!

Such a large group of sea-swallowing dragon fish needs to consume a huge amount of resources every day.

Even if there are spiritual veins in the depths of the deep pool, the monsters are beasts after all, and sometimes they go out to hunt.

Such a large group of sea-swallowing dragon fish breeding here should not have no enemies.

Unfortunately, under Shen Lian's control, the spirit puppet can only shuttle within a range of fifteen miles. This distance is nothing in the boundless ocean.

Not long after, Shen Lian noticed that the fluctuations transmitted through the culvert weakened, so he summoned the five elements spirit puppet back.

"The hunt is over, fellow Taoists can come back."

A voice came from the communication jade talisman.

At the same time, a mana fluctuation exploded in the north of the deserted island. Fu Jingcheng, who was guarding the north, slashed a brilliant blue light with a magic sword in his hand, and chopped down a ferocious dragon fish that rushed out.

Four people guarded the island around, and Fu Jingcheng won the prize.

When Shen Lian flew up, he met the other two cave watchers and saw that they showed a look of interest in their eyes.

The share was distributed according to the amount of effort, so guarding the door outside naturally did not have much credit.

The half share was given by other fellow Taoists.

Only Shen Lian didn't think so. It was his first time to participate in the monster hunting, so he had to observe it in person and verify it in person.

Besides, a cultivator at the fourth level of foundation building, who is also an alchemist, would be too outrageous if he didn't make pills properly and went out to hunt monsters.

That's right, in the eyes of Qian Dai and his two little maids, he only knew how to make happy pills.

He was an alchemist, but not an alchemist.

The dragon fish that Fu Jingcheng dealt with was about the third level of foundation building, and the others tacitly did not intervene.

Back on the spirit ship, Shen Lian saw the big and fat sea-swallowing dragon fish.

There were seven in total, one in the late second stage, which was three feet in size.

Two in the middle second stage, which were nearly two feet.

Four in the early second stage, which were about one foot.

There were still traces of water, fire, gold, earth and other auras on these monsters, and some of them had holes pierced through them.

"Boom."

While everyone was examining the spoils, the magic sword in Fu Jingcheng's hand flew up and turned into a sword light, and then he opened his mouth and blew violently, and the spiritual power rolled into the sword light.

The three-foot sword light suddenly surged to a size of three feet, and with the rain, it chopped on the forehead of the sea-swallowing dragon fish, cutting its skull in half.

He grabbed the bloody fish corpse, flew in the air and threw it into the spirit boat.

A dozen people looked at the spoils in the spirit boat, and they were all jealous. Shen Lian wanted to get a jar quickly to collect some fish blood.

Fish monsters, unlike other monsters, don’t have much monster blood.

“Fellow Daoist Qian, you finally came out, do you have any targets?”

Qiu Gan’s eyes were bright. With so many monster corpses, he could at least get a second-level mid-stage one with his contribution.

As soon as Qiu Gan said this, the rest of the people looked at Qian Dai.

The victory at the beginning and the harvest made everyone’s mind wild.

Of course, Shen Lian was not wild, and he couldn’t say anything at this time, so he just watched quietly.

Qian Dai pondered for a moment and said, "Let's leave here first and find an island to rest for a while before making plans."

"Everything is up to Master Qian."

The spirit boat turned into a stream of light and disappeared in the ocean, flying three thousand miles away and entering a huge deserted island.

There are still traces of human habitation on the island, but now it is deserted.

After everyone settled down, Qian Dai spoke softly, "Ten thousand miles away, there is a Jinshan Island. This island is a volcanic island. There is a kind of poisonous spider on the island, called the Golden Eye Ring Pattern Demon Spider. It also lives in groups. The number is unknown, but there are at least two second-level late spiders."

After Qian Dai finished speaking, he did not speak, quietly waiting for the cultivators present to consider.

The Golden Eye Ring Pattern Demon Spider has two attributes of fire and poison. For foundation-building cultivators, being infected with this spider poison is also a big trouble.

Shen Lian looked at the jade slip in Qian Dai's hand. When Qian Dai spoke just now, he first glanced at the jade slip.

This means that the jade slip records the information of the golden-eyed ring-patterned demon spider. If there is only information about this demon beast, it would be fine. If it records the distribution map of demon beasts in the nearby sea area, it would be of great value.

Compared with hunting demon beasts in groups, Shen Lian still prefers to do it alone. He has puppets and talismans, so it is worry-free to do it alone, and he doesn't have to worry about backstabs and people spying on him.

"Farther away, there is a group of giant bone snake fish, but there is only one second-level middle-stage small fish king."

Hearing Qian Dai say the specific location of another demon beast, Shen Lian's thoughts were further confirmed.

"Why don't we go to Jinshan Island to have a look?"

"If there is really danger, let's retreat?"

Qiu Gan and others who are at the seventh or eighth level of foundation building are somewhat tempted. In this day and age, even if they are not independent cultivators, the cultivation resources of the family foundation building elders are limited.

The family has a big business, and the clan members need to be cultivated. Several elders in the family are waiting for the second-level resources to be divided, and pool their money to buy foundation-building pills, which don't cost spiritual stones.

I didn’t dare to come to the deep sea by myself, but after finally boarding Daoist Fellow Qian’s boat, several powerful foundation-building monks really didn’t want to miss this opportunity.

Especially for the family elders, wouldn't it be a big loss if they don't get a foundation-building pill spirit stone to go back.

Seeing someone hesitating, Qian Dai squinted his eyes and looked around, "Let's go to Jinshan Island and have a look. If fellow Taoists feel that it is dangerous, they can stay on the spiritual ship and wait.

If there are harvests from the hunt, fellow Taoists who did not participate in the hunt will not participate in the distribution of the spoils. How about that? "

"This method is good."

"agree."

After reaching a unified thought, the spirit boat took off again on the desert island and fled towards the distance.

Jinshan Island, seen from a distance, is shining with golden light on the sea. The island is puffing up thick black smoke, and you can see flames erupting from time to time.

The spirit boat slowly docked on the outskirts of the island. Qian Dai's maid quickly selected a location, opened a temporary cave on the island, and arranged a defensive formation.

Shen Lian took a glance and saw that it was still a third-level formation.

After settling down their retreat, Qiu Qian and his six people, who had built a foundation above the sixth floor, plus Qian Dai and two people who had built a fifth floor, headed towards the island together.

In the cave, only Shen Lian and Qu Yuren, who was on the fourth level of foundation building, were left.

The two looked at each other.

Shen Lian's expression did not change.

"I'm an alchemist, not good at fighting."

When he said this, the two maids who were standing guard also looked at each other, and each saw the teasing look in the other's eyes.

That's what it says.

But Shen Lian had already taken action.

The Five Elements Spirit Puppet drilled into the earth and headed towards Jinshan Island.

The entire Jinshan Island is very large, with mountains rising hundreds of feet high everywhere. Some of them are breathing black smoke, and the air is filled with a rich smell of sulfur.

The mountains are filled with lava flowing down to form black stones, one on top of the other.

Some rocks are covered with holes and wrapped with thick red spider webs, and demonic spiders of all sizes can be seen sleeping.

In some places, you can still see the bones of monster beasts and scattered bones of human monks.

At the foot of the mountain with erupting flames, you can see a giant spider that is completely black, surrounded by circles of gold, and is two to three feet long.

The limbs of the body are as thick as logs, the legs on both sides are covered with dark and sharp barbs, and the closed eyes have dark golden scales.

"Select one first. I will control the formation to isolate the inside and outside. You all work together to fight quickly to avoid causing a siege by the spider swarm."

Qian Dai and his party carefully entered the mountain, and the Five Elements Spirit Puppet also followed behind. Shen Lian needed to determine where Qian Dai and others would take action before he could choose where to take action himself.