Do not die

This is the spirit of Bai Zhi.

Because of the private nature of the sea of ​​consciousness, the moment Bai Zhi took the initiative to incorporate a trace of Meng Zhou's soul into the sea of ​​consciousness, it was equivalent to opening herself to the other party without reservation.

Open your heart, nothing more.

When Meng Zhou looked at Bai Zhi, Bai Zhi happened to open her eyes and look at him.

Through those bright eyes, it seems that you can penetrate deep into the other person's heart at once.

Bai Zhi paused for a moment, then quickly looked away.

And her voice sounded directly in Meng Zhou's heart:

"To be honest, this 'painting god' ability is not that special.

It has many similarities with the ability to 'draw shapes'. The biggest difference between the two is that drawing shapes is painting with the body, and the magic power is pen and ink.

The 'Painting God' uses his soul to paint, and his soul power as his pen and ink..."

With that said, Shenhun Baizhi started to demonstrate to Meng Zhou.

She stretched out her fingers and used her soul power as a pen and ink to outline a character that seemed familiar to Meng Zhou.

This is the image of an old woman with white hair.

When Bai Zhi showed Meng Zhou her ability to "draw shapes" for the first time, she used magic power as the pen and ink and the void of the real world as the canvas to outline the appearance of this white-haired old woman.

Eventually, as the image of this old woman merged with Bai Zhi's own flesh and blood body, her body shape changed into that of a white-haired old woman.

Not only the change in appearance, but also the aura of mana, bone age, blood, and even the unique aura of decay exuded by the old man's body...

All the characteristics that can be expressed through the flesh and blood body are perfectly expressed.

Even Meng Zhou, a veteran who claims to be proficient in disguise changes, could not see any flaws.

The only flaw is Bai Zhi's soul.

And as long as her sea of ​​consciousness cannot be invaded, the disguise changes brought about by the "shape drawing" ability have no shortcomings at all.

With these thoughts swirling in Meng Zhou's mind, Shenhun Baizhi had successfully drawn the image of the white-haired old woman using her soul power as the pen and ink.

Then, the image of the white-haired old woman outlined with soul power merged with the soul Bai Zhi.

Meng Zhou suddenly discovered that Bai Zhi, who had been so graceful just a moment ago, had turned into a decrepit white-haired old woman.

Not only has the form of the soul changed completely, but the aura of the soul has also changed drastically, and there is nothing the same anymore.

Although when Shenhun Baizhi started drawing, Meng Zhou had basically expected such a result.

But when he actually saw this scene happening, Meng Zhou was still shocked.

So far, this is the first method that Meng Zhou has seen that can completely reshape the soul.

During many actions, Meng Zhou recorded a large amount of secret inheritance of the Lihen Sect in his mind.

This was the force that he knew that was best at playing with souls, but even so, Meng Zhou had never seen similar methods in the secret method inheritance of the Lihen Sect.

In the concept of the spiritual world, a person's body may be fake, but the soul cannot be fake no matter what.

Bai Zhi's complete reshaping from the level of the soul is not only the ability to perfectly disguise changes.

Because of the characteristics of the divine soul, in the world of cultivation, basically all contracts with strong constraints, strongly directed secrets, or special marking and identification methods are built with the divine soul as the core.

Bai Zhi can disguise herself at will at the soul level. As long as she is willing to let go and play, she can not only be "thousands of people with thousands of faces", but also an "outlaw" who has been among thousands of flowers and never touched her body. Fanatic".

Strongly binding contracts can be concluded and broken at will;

Use items that have been refined by other people's souls and can no longer be used by others;

All the secret techniques that lock the soul can be easily dodged by her;

A dangerous area that only designated personnel can enter, enter at will...

…

Coupled with the ability to ignore any formation restrictions.

It can be said that the biggest obstacle to how far Bai Zhi, who has mastered these methods, can "play" is only her own thoughts, or not wanting to.

And this is not all of the abilities of the "Painting God".

After the soul Bai Zhi returned to her original form from the old woman's form, she consumed her soul power and used the void of the sea of ​​consciousness as a canvas to draw a small flying sword.

After the painting was completed, this flying sword with soul power was like an extension of her soul body, and like a flexible fish, swimming around Bai Zhi's body under the command of her mind.

"This sword can directly attack other people's sea of ​​consciousness souls."

"How powerful is it?" Meng Zhou asked.

Bai Zhi shook her head and said: "I don't know, it should...not be too bad, right?"

Meng Zhou thought for a while and said to Bai Zhi: "Try attacking me with this sword."

"Huh? This...isn't this appropriate?"

Meng Zhou comforted him and said, "It doesn't matter. To put it bluntly, even if you blow yourself up in my sea of ​​consciousness now, it will be difficult for you to cause too much harm to me."

"..." Bai Zhi.

After Meng Zhou's repeated assurances, Bai Zhi finally plucked up the courage and threw the soul power flying sword.

In an instant, Meng Zhou felt a very special feeling.

He immediately knew that his sea of ​​consciousness was being invaded by foreign objects.

However, he also clearly felt that as long as he wanted to, this invading foreign object could not break through the defense of the sea of ​​consciousness.

Not only can it not break through the defense, it can even "clamp" the invading foreign object directly to death.

Meng Zhou's heart moved, and he took the initiative to let go of the defense of the consciousness sea barrier.

In an instant, a small flying sword of soul power appeared in the sea of ​​consciousness.

Then, it pierced straight into the soul pool.

The moment it penetrated the soul pool, the soul power sword exploded with a bang.

A small pit exploded on the surface of the soul pool, and a clear tingling sensation came from the bottom of my heart.

But soon, a faint light appeared in the entire soul pool, and the tingling sensation disappeared in a flash.

As a few ripples passed, the small pit in the soul pool disappeared, and the soul pool returned to the state before the soul power flying sword was pierced.

By trying the method himself, Meng Zhou had a more accurate judgment in his mind.

"Such a soul attack method should be a fatal threat to most monks in the early stages of forming pills."

"Even monks in the middle stage of forming pills can still pose a considerable threat to them."

Of course, the pill-forming monks here specifically refer to the Qingxuan Domain casual cultivators who form pills. If they are disciples of large sects, or have special methods in terms of souls, the threat posed by this kind of soul-power flying sword will be greater. Much smaller.

But in horizontal comparison, among monks at the same level, this is still an extremely powerful and difficult method.

After Shenhun Bai Zhi threw the Soul Power Flying Sword, she nervously paid attention to Meng Zhou's condition. Seeing that his expression remained normal, she didn't know whether to be disappointed or grateful.

"It seems that this kind of soul attack method is not very good."

Bai Zhi's voice sounded again in Meng Zhou's mind.

Meng Zhou quickly comforted him and said, "It's already great."

Then, he immediately changed the topic and asked:

"Since you can use your soul power to draw attack methods, can you also draw defensive methods?"

Bai Zhi thought for a while and said, "I'll try."

It didn't take long for her to draw a piece of soul power gauze and wear it directly on her body.

She sensed it carefully for a while and said happily: "This method can really improve the defense ability."

Compared to the soul attack method, this method of soul defense is more popular with her.

However, after this series of consumption of soul power, Shenhun Baizhi's condition was no longer as good as before, and she looked much darker and weaker to the naked eye.

Bai Zhi stopped trying and started chatting.

Meng Zhou asked: "Can you use this method to directly obtain other people's soul skills?"

Bai Zhi was silent for a while, and then said to Meng Zhou: "Yes, but I don't want to use this ability for the time being."

"Why?" Meng Zhou wondered.

Bai Zhi hesitated for a moment and then said softly:

"You know, there are relatively stringent conditions for mastering other people's abilities through the method of 'drawing shapes', and you can't just draw them just by looking at them.

You must have long-term and close contact with the drawing target.

And if you want to obtain other people's soul skills through the method of 'drawing gods', the conditions are much more stringent. "

Having said this, Bai Zhi said no more words.

Meng Zhou already basically understood what she meant.

The skill of "drawing shapes" occurs in the real world and also acts in the real world. The contact and observation of the goal of drawing shapes also ends in the real world;

However, the skill of "drawing the god" occurs in the soul of the sea of ​​​​consciousness and also acts on the soul of the sea of ​​​​consciousness.

Then, the contact and observation of the painting god's goal naturally requires going deep into the sea of ​​consciousness and soul.

And because of the special nature of the consciousness sea soul, who would open the soul for them to watch and copy?

Even if others promised to allow her to enter, would she really dare to do so?

Therefore, although the "Drawing God" skill theoretically has such ability, it is similar to a "dragon-slaying skill".

Meng Zhou thought in his heart, Bai Zhi's voice sounded in Meng Zhou's mind again.

"I'll get familiar with it for a while first. When I become proficient in it, I'll make you a set of soul power robes."

When Meng Zhou heard this, he was surprised and said:

"Can you still use it for me?"

Bai Zhi nodded.

"Well, it's possible, but because the soul power has nothing to rely on, it can only be made into consumable soul power items.

However, if there is a special spiritual material like Yinhun Jade, the situation should be better. "

Meng Zhou asked: "I don't have the Yin Soul Jade...can I use the Soul Nourishing Wood?"

Bai Zhi was stunned when she heard this, and after a while she nodded quickly:

"Of course. Soul-raising wood is a third-level top-grade spiritual material, right? The effect is not weaker than Yinhun jade."

As soon as she finished speaking, Bai Zhi saw Meng Zhou's soul disappear from her sea of ​​consciousness.

Then, she saw something extra in Meng Zhou's hand and handed it to her.

Bai Zhi looked down and said in surprise: "Do you really have a soul-nurturing tree?"

Meng Zhou handed the soul-nourishing wood collected by Yanzhuang into Bai Zhi's hands and said:

"You don't have to think about me, just use this thing to make yourself a soul defense weapon."

Bai Zhi hesitated for a moment, then put the object away.

After this exchange, Bai Zhi began another retreat.

Meng Zhou's consciousness swept into the special divine soul armor in the spirit gourd space, and he pondered in his heart.

Bai Zhi's method of making the soul power robe made him easily think of this extremely special piece, and there might be a deep pit of soul armor hidden inside.

He had carefully studied this strange object before.

To be honest, his attainments in weapon refining have already reached the third level.

Even if you make a third-level top-grade magic weapon, or even a third-level top-grade magic weapon, you can easily get it.

As long as there are special materials, such as Yinhun Jade, Soul-Nourishing Wood, etc., he can also use the weapon refining method to create a defensive armor with no blind spots from the soul to the physical body.

But this was not the case. He had never seen any traces of weapon refining on this divine soul armor.

Completely invisible.

The more I study it, the more I feel like it is like the Nakong Gourd or the Five Yun Spiritual Gourd, giving people a completely natural feeling.

But Meng Zhou didn't believe that items that were obviously in the style of human clothes would grow naturally.

Previously, this doubt lingered in his mind, and he could not find a way to solve it.

But now, because of Bai Zhi's "painting god" skills, he felt a sudden enlightenment in his heart.

The soul power gauze worn on Shenhun Bai Zhi also has no traces of refining, and it also gives people a natural feeling.

The biggest difference between it and the Divine Soul Armor is probably the different style.

Of course, the defensive capabilities of the two are also very different.

However, this only reflects the quality.

For a moment, Meng Zhou even had the urge to take out the object, let Bai Zhi palm it, and asked her:

"Is this thing also made by the painter with the 'Painting God' ability?"

Fortunately, Meng Zhou restrained the thought of committing suicide before actually taking action.

At that moment, he inexplicably thought of the deaths of Granny Bai and Yaya.

He warned himself in his heart: "Never let Bai Zhi see this thing in the future."

…

In the blink of an eye, it was three months later.

After another retreat, Meng Zhou put eight thousand golden armored spirit insects into the spirit gourd space and asked Bai Zhi: "I want to go out, do you want to come with me?"

Bai Zhi shook her head and said, "Go ahead, I want to retreat."

Meng Zhou nodded, and soon he escaped from the Aurora Cave again.

About an hour later, Meng Zhou came to the sky above a jungle shrouded in black poisonous miasma and infested by massive insect swarms.

This kind of black poisonous miasma that can cause great trouble to Danjie monks and even monsters in other areas of Tianqi Mountain has no hindrance to Meng Zhou. Before those poisonous miasmas come into contact with him, they are always lingering around him. The thin mist around was wiped out.

Yes, it's elimination, not blocking.

When he broke through the pill formation, Meng Zhou completed the innate transformation of almost all the second-level skills, including "Yanluo Miasma".

Even after forming the pill, he almost never used his mind on the poison path, and his natal living poison continued to transform and improve as his strength improved.

But soon, more and more swarms of insects that were not afraid of death rushed toward him.

They, who were not afraid of death, got what they wanted. After gathering near him, they fell like raindrops one after another.

These insect corpses falling like raindrops did not fall to the ground.

Because there is a layer of golden clouds clinging to a few meters above the ground, moving with Meng Zhou's movements.

All insect corpses falling from the sky will soon disappear after falling into this golden cloud.

Except for the soft sound of the spring rain, which was like nibbling mulberry leaves, there was nothing unusual about it.

When Meng Zhou penetrated hundreds of miles into this poisonous jungle, he also ate hundreds of miles of golden clouds along the way, changing from pure gold to dull gold.

Originally, the eight thousand golden armored spirit insects that were so golden that they were almost transparent and glowing all over their bodies had expanded a lot, and each one was almost the size of an adult's head.

Each and every one of them was surrounded by evil spirits, and the poisonous miasma penetrated deep into the blood marrow, making them extremely ferocious.

"Okay, this is it."

Meng Zhou stopped next to a canyon and took out a dark spiritual gourd. A steady stream of heart essence and blood spurted out from the gourd's mouth, forming a huge blood ball in the sky directly above the canyon.

As a strange sweet fragrance spread, the golden beetle cloud boiled instantly.

Then, one by one, they desperately plunged into this huge blood mass.

After all the eight thousand golden armored spirit insects were submerged in the blood mass, Meng Zhou put away the Five Yun Spirit Gourd.

In the huge blood mass, densely packed spiritual insects appeared.

Boiling blood, swarming insects.

The blood mass was slowly getting smaller at a visible speed, but from beginning to end, not a trace of blood was splashed out, and not a single spirit insect was squeezed out.

The blood group decreased rapidly, but the aura of the golden armored spirit insect became stronger and stronger.

In the sky, large tracts of calamity clouds appeared without realizing it.

Because of the appearance of the calamity cloud, the thick black poisonous miasma in the sky was eroded into a huge "hole".

So much heart essence and blood appeared in the void, but it was far more attracted than the swarm of golden-armored spirit insects that were so close at hand.

Further away, a large number of spiritual insects were attracted.

However, when they rushed forward crazily, they couldn't even catch a drop of blood foam except for anxiously watching from the outside.

It is worth mentioning that whether it is the golden armored spirit insects fighting for their lives or the various insect swarms watching from a distance, because of the fatal attraction of the high-quality heart essence blood to them, they completely ignore the rapidly spreading disaster in the sky above their heads. Threats posed by the cloud.

If monster beasts still have basic intelligence, then these insect swarms really have no intelligence at all and only have instinct.

At this moment, the bloodthirsty instinct surpassed the survival instinct.

"The scale of this calamity cloud is almost as big as ten mysterious turtles going through the calamity...tsk tsk..."

Meng Zhou looked at the terrifyingly large calamity clouds in the sky. In order to avoid being affected by them, he retreated further away, but he couldn't help but marvel.

…

As the calamity cloud layer was completely formed and stopped expanding, a huge thunderbolt made a loud noise and slashed down from the sky.

The blood mass that seemed to be still boiling and surging completely dissipated in an instant, leaving only a mass of golden-armored spirit insects tightly packed together.

"boom!"

Huge thunder and lightning struck the spirit insect group, and the spirit insect group that was originally hugging each other tightly was instantly exploded into thousands of points.

Each point represents a golden armored spirit insect.

Every golden-armored spirit insect is surrounded by lightning.

The golden-armored spirit insects that were exploded into thousands of points instantly merged into the dense and diverse swarm of insects around them that were attracted by the presence of heart essence and blood.

"Boom! Boom!"

The thunder and lightning did not stop, slashing down one after another.

However, these lightning bolts dispersed into thousands of strands before they were finally struck. Every golden-armored spirit insect did not escape the net, and were all "strung together" by a bolt of lightning.

Not only the golden-armored spirit insects, but also other spiritual insects with greater numbers were also affected by the lightning.

Instantly, a burning smell filled the air.

Densely packed insect corpses fell downwards like a heavy rain.

However, these insect corpses had not fallen much before they were swallowed up by golden arcs of light that traveled rapidly in the void, and quickly disappeared.

As the first huge thunder and lightning struck down, the "worm ball" composed of massive golden-armored spirit insects was exploded. Thousands of spirit insects merged into more numerous and larger swarms of various insects, which could be clearly seen. , a bit of pure golden color is quickly "diluted".

But as the thunder fell one after another, more and more miscellaneous colors were smashed out by the giant hammer of thunder and lightning.

Before falling, these "various colors" turned around and fed back to the "golden", allowing the "golden" to accelerate its recovery, growth, and strength.

In this process, it is inevitable that "golden" will continue to die and fall under the filtering of thunder and lightning, and become nutrients for other "golden" to further purify and grow.

As thunder and lightning struck down, the size of the insect swarms above the canyon continued to become smaller and their colors continued to purify.

The size of the calamity clouds in the sky also continued to get smaller as the thunder and lightning struck again and again.

When the tribulation clouds in the sky struck out the last thunderbolt, it was powerless and slowly dissipated.

In the sky above the canyon, the insect swarm that was originally blocking the sky turned into an extremely thin dark golden cloud.

There is no trace of other colors.

The dark gold at this moment is fundamentally different from the dark gold that had swallowed up a large number of poisonous insect swarms of various colors before.

The previous dark gold had a "dirty" feel to the naked eye;

But the dark gold at this moment gives people an extremely pure meaning.

Meng Zhou's thoughts changed, and the dark golden clouds drifting slowly over the canyon quickly swept towards the jungle in the distance.

Wherever he passed, all the messy insect swarms disappeared completely.

Meng Zhou's consciousness sank into the transparent moon mirror, and he could see that at the edge of the transparent moon mirror, and also in the outer area of ​​the poisonous miasma jungle, there were several third-order monsters attracted by the calamity cloud.

However, before they could reach this far, they were surrounded and drowned by a massive swarm of insects.

Although the insect swarms that drowned them were all at the first and second level of strength, there were no third level insect swarms, but there were many ants that killed the elephants.

There are already many weak monsters that have become food for the insect swarm.

Others have already fought and retreated, retreating to the edge of the poisonous jungle.

Meng Zhou looked at these from a distance and gained more clarity in his heart.

The reason why he chose to break through the swarm of golden beetles here was to find a sufficient number of "blood bags" for them to make their breakthrough smoother, which was just one aspect.

He also had another purpose, which was to verify his suspicions.

In terms of the scale of the killing, this time he died in his hands, in the hands of a large number of third-order monsters, and in the number of third-order monsters swallowed up by this poisonous jungle...

In terms of the degree of "abnormality", it has exceeded the scale of his "fishing" in previous tribulations.

But so far, it has not aroused the alarm of Tianqi Mountain’s “ecosystem”.

All had been broken through, and thousands of third-level golden-armored spirit insects swept hundreds of miles away like a strong wind sweeping fallen leaves, sweeping away all the insect swarms within the range.

Returning to the edge of the Poisonous Miasma Jungle, Meng Zhou looked back and saw that the originally extremely active Poisonous Miasma Jungle had now become silent.

Meng Zhou looked at the changing dark golden clouds around him.

The number of spiritual insects that make up this dark golden cloud is not too much or too little, just four thousand.

From a normal perspective, these are four thousand individual individuals.

But in the vision of Meng Zhou, who had reached the third-level high-level spirit control master, what he saw was an entire body that controlled four thousand third-level golden armored spirit insects.

There is a strange, spiritual energy that connects four thousand third-order golden armored spirit insects.

This energy, placed on each golden-armored spirit insect, is very thin, so thin that it is almost impossible to sense. It is easy to mix it with the energy of the golden-armored spirit insect itself.

Because the two themselves are more than 90% similar.

This kind of Qi machine did not only appear after the golden armored spirit insects broke through to the third level, but already existed when these spiritual insects were still at the second level.

However, compared to now, this kind of energy is dozens of times thinner.

If Meng Zhou hadn't raised a total of 60,000 golden-armored spirit insects at the most, and was as sensitive to aura as he was, he would have ignored this.

But in the end, he still got some clues.

Now, this Qi mechanism is highly similar to that of the Golden Armored Spirit Insect itself, but it is more spiritual. As the Golden Armored Spirit Insect breaks through from the second level to the third level, it becomes much more obvious.

Although the individuals are still extremely rare, when they are connected as a whole through four thousand golden armored spirit insects, it is difficult for Meng Zhou to ignore them.

Unless you are blind.

Meng Zhou identified the characteristics of this qi mechanism. On the one hand, it is highly similar to the qi mechanism of the golden-armored spirit insect itself. In other words, it combines the "common characteristics" of all golden-armored spirit insects.

Here, you can find the common characteristics of the golden armored spirit insects.

In addition, it is far more spiritual than the individual golden armored spirit insect.

The individual golden-armored spirit insect has not become more intelligent because of its promotion from the second level to the third level.

At the third level, they are the purest killing weapons just like they were at the second level and the first level.

But on the other hand, the strange energy that gathered all the individual spirit insects had undergone such a distinct change.

Coupled with Meng Zhou's verification through this calamity itself, he already had a relatively firm guess in his mind.

"Since an 'ecosystem' covering all the monsters in Tianqi Mountain can appear, it is not weak in spirituality."

"That would work equally well on a smaller, more precise scale."

"Among them, the one most prone to similar phenomena is the insect swarm."

“According to the inheritance of the Ling Yu Sect, although the types of insect swarms are all kinds of strange, generally speaking, they can be divided into two types.

One type has the presence of a king insect female.

The entire insect swarm is composed of them as the core. Under normal circumstances, they are the external brain of the entire group.

The larger the insect swarm is and the higher the grade, the stronger and smarter these king insect females will be.

As for the other insects except the King Insect Mother Insect, they will only improve in terms of strength and will not see any change in intelligence. "

"In addition, there is another kind of insect swarm, but all insects are equal, and there is no king insect or mother insect."

"Theoretically, they don't have a thinking organ."

"But as the size of the insect swarm increases and the level of the insect swarm increases, it is obvious that the entire insect swarm becomes more and more spiritual and knows how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, so as to continue the group's survival." ( End of this chapter)