Do not die

After Cao Bin's hand completely eliminated the last obstacle, Meng Zhou calmed down and didn't do anything extra.

Ten days later.

Meng Zhou had turned into a wolf demon and stayed quietly in a beast bag.

The owner of this beast bag, a monk in the middle stage of the alchemy formation, had already arrived at another nearby spiritual island under the guidance of two alchemy formation masters from the Observation Hall.

After it stands in the designated position, the formation starts.

Starting from the edge of the spirit island, faint ripples of space converge towards the center of the spirit island, where the monks stand in the middle stage of forming the pill.

In the process of gathering, the faint spatial ripples continue to merge with each other, and the spatial ripples become more and more obvious.

Finally, when the space ripple approached the monk in the middle stage of pill formation, it had turned into a space bubble, completely enveloping him in it.

This space bubble enveloped the monk in the middle stage of pill formation and did not stop changing.

Driven by the subsequent space ripples, the space bubble quickly became smaller, and even the mid-stage pill-forming monks wrapped in it seemed to be compressed.

In the process, its traces are becoming increasingly faint.

At a certain moment, when the space bubble surrounding the monk in the middle stage of pill formation became smaller than a fist, its traces became too faint to be detected.

Completely disappeared.

With such changes, subsequent spatial ripples become smaller and smaller.

Finally, the spiritual island regained its calm.

And just half a day later, there were ripples in space on the Spirit Island, which had just been calm for a while.

However, this time the space ripples no longer surge from the edge of the island to the center, but continue to spread in all directions from the center of the island.

As wave after wave of space ripples emerged from the center of Spirit Island, a space bubble appeared in the very center of the space ripples.

Initially, this space bubble was very small and had a very weak sense of existence. The outline of a human figure standing in the center of this small space bubble looked even more faint, like an illusory outline drawn by a light ink outline.

But as the space ripples from the inside out continued to pour out one after another, the space bubble quickly grew in size, and the originally extremely pale and tiny humanoid outline inside also grew in size and quickly became substantial.

When the space bubble disappeared along with the space ripples, a monk looked outside in confusion, as if he hadn't fully adapted yet.

The pill-forming monks in the Observation Hall did not wait for him to adapt slowly, and immediately took him to the Questioning Formation according to the procedure to make sure that this person did not get any "dirty" things on his body while leaving Xingxiu Sea.

…

Meng Zhou, who was inside the beast bag, couldn't feel any space ripples or space bubbles.

He didn't even feel that his body had changed in any way. From the perspective of the observer, as the space bubble rapidly became smaller and changed from solid to virtual, he didn't notice anything special.

Although, he had already known this kind of perspective very clearly through Cao Bin's memory.

As if in just an instant, the surrounding environment had changed drastically, from a spiritual island to a cave hall.

As the "Hitchhiker Master", the mid-stage pill-forming monks, after entering this cave in the third-level spiritual veins somewhere in the flooded wasteland from the Xingxiu Sea, first completed the task handover with the original guarding pill-forming here as usual.

Half a day later, as the original guarding pill disappeared and left, he became the new owner of the cave.

The newly arrived Guarding Pill seemed to be quite curious about this new environment. After roughly turning around the area covered by the formation, he came to the core area of ​​the third-level top-notch guarding formation.

He sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes and took in the experience. After a while, he was about to take out the formation flag that the previous guard Jie Dan gave him when the task was handed over, so as to speed up his familiarity and control of this formation.

This was related to his personal safety during his guard duty, so he couldn't help but ignore it.

What he didn't know was that just when he was about to take out the formation flag, but before he could take it out, his eyes that were originally closed slowly opened.

The eyes are still the same, but the charm contained in them is fundamentally different.

He stretched out his hand and patted the beast bag on his waist, and a sleeping wolf demon flew out of the beast bag.

The moment the "wolf demon" flew out of the beast bag, there was a smooth and silky change, and the wolf demon turned into a human being.

This person is none other than Meng Zhou.

As soon as Meng Zhou thought about it, a wolf demon that had been prepared in the spirit gourd space and had changed exactly like him just now appeared in front of him.

——During the ten-day waiting period, Meng Zhou not only forged a Tai Sui body in the form of a wolf, but also used the heart essence and blood of the original wolf demon to complete the transformation of Tai Sui's flesh and blood in advance.

He had made a "backup" early, and now he called him out immediately when needed.

When a blood-colored meatball that had just come out of Meng Zhou's body and was still squirming slightly was shot into the body of the wolf monster, Meng Zhou's hitchhiking into the wilderness of Hongze came to an end.

Then, Meng Zhou skillfully dealt with all the abnormal time traces left by him during this period, re-editing what should be re-edited, and directly erasing what should be erased.

After clearing away everything, Meng Zhou's figure had skillfully escaped into the interlayer between the real world and the real world, drifting away without any nostalgia for this cave.

…

"This is Hongze Wasteland."

Not long after leaving the cave, Meng Zhou entered a vast body of water.

Meng Zhou's knowledge now is far different from what he had before leaving the "Juye Wilderness".

Not only did he know about the eight wilderness areas in the outer world, but they actually meant eight different wilderness areas.

In addition to the Juye wilderness where he was originally and the Hongze wilderness where he is now, there are six other wilderness areas named "Wansong", "Lingyue", "Tianyun", ", "Refining Furnace", "Ishihara" and "Ancient Cui".

Every wilderness has its own characteristics.

In comparison, the Juye wilderness where he was originally located was one of the many wilderness areas with less outstanding features.

The Hongze Wasteland where he is now is the one with the largest proportion of water among the eight wastelands.

Nearly 80% of the entire flooded wasteland is covered by vast waters, and these large waters are almost connected into one, forming an endless ocean with a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles.

About 20% of the land is dotted in the form of islands on this vast ocean.

In this flooded wilderness, most of the dangerous and desperate places are also in the water.

Because of the fluidity of the waters, many dangerous places are no longer fixed in one place, but move around with the changes in the ocean currents.

For example, the famous third-level evil sea of ​​mist.

It is a land with a radius of tens of thousands of miles and is covered with thick evil mist. Not only is its outline constantly changing, without a fixed form, but its location has also been moving slowly and irregularly.

If it unfortunately approaches a human-inhabited area, a massive migration of families and people will be inevitable.

This natural environment, which is very different from the Juye wilderness, has created a natural ecology and human activities that are very different from the Juye wilderness.

The "human activities" here include not only the spiritual world composed of monks, but also the cornerstone of monks, the secular world of mortals.

Generally speaking, in this vast wilderness, the secular world of mortals and the world of practitioners are not as distinct as in the vast wilderness.

In the Juye Wilderness, when mortals embark on the path of spiritual practice, it basically means saying goodbye to the secular world. Everyone basically lives their own lives without disturbing each other.

But in the wilderness of Hongze, the distinction is not so clear. A large number of middle and low-level monks who are still in the realm of Qi training and foundation building even exist as guardians of mortal settlements.

A large settlement not only has a large number of mortals as its cornerstone, but also a large number of Qi-training and foundation-building monks as its nerves and skeleton, and even powerful and long-lived pill-forming monks as its core.

It is different from both the practicing sects in the Juye wilderness and the mortal kingdom in the Juye wilderness. It is a more complex and diverse "monster".

The practitioners in the Hongze Wasteland take such "careful care" of mortals, not because they are more kind-hearted, but because they have to.

Because the mortals in Hongze Wasteland are very fragile without the protection of practitioners, and their ability to resist risks is almost zero.

Sea monsters, tsunamis, fog, strong winds...

There are too many forces that can destroy them.

But no matter how weak a mortal is, it is still an indispensable cornerstone.

If there were no sufficient number of mortals, the world of spiritual practice would gradually "wither" due to the source being cut off.

Therefore, the closer integration between mortals and practitioners in the wilderness of Hongze has nothing to do with good or evil, but is actually a special creation of the natural environment.

It is precisely for this reason that it is self-evident how important a spiritual island is, a spiritual island with a large enough area and sufficient spiritual energy quality.

Three of the six third-order spiritual veins in Hongze Wasteland are such spiritual islands.

The other three places, although one is also on the sea, are pure waters, with only scattered coral reefs emerging from the water and dotted among them;

The other two places are simply on the bottom of the sea, both of which are unsuitable for mortals to reproduce on a large scale.

Meng Zhou compared the changes brought to the wilderness of Hongze after Xingxiu Palace came out of the mountain, and sighed in his heart:

"The Xingxiu Palace's methods in the Juye Wilderness are really gentle."

From the perspective of the monks in Juye Wilderness, the changes brought about by the arrival of Xingxiu Palace in the Five Realms are simply catastrophic.

During the chaos that lasted for several years and was completely disordered, countless monks died unexpectedly and were disintegrated in the soil of an unknown area. It is impossible to count them specifically.

But if they knew about the changes in Hongze Wasteland, they would know that "disaster" is also a contrast.

Compared with the Hongze Wilderness, the changes in the Juye Wilderness can only be regarded as "scarcely affected".

In the nearly two hundred years since the Xingxiu Palace was closed, the biggest change in the Hongze Wasteland was that the three third-level spiritual islands that were originally guarded by the Xingxiu Palace and were not allowed to enter, suddenly experienced explosive development.

Not only has the number of practitioners practicing Qi, building foundations, and forming elixirs increased rapidly, but also the number of mortals has expanded even faster.

Initially, the number of mortals was not that terrifying.

But just like a green grassland with no natural enemies and extremely rich resources, what will happen when the first nest of rabbits comes here and reproduces for more than ten generations?

The entire grassland will be filled with rabbits until the number of rabbits reaches the limit that the grassland can carry!

When Xingxiu Palace came back here after nearly two hundred years, and when they wanted to bring the three spiritual islands under their control again, what they saw was that they were almost everywhere on the spiritual islands, densely packed like overflowing "rabbits" of mortals.

Faced with this situation, Xingxiu Palace made the same decision as Juye Wilderness.

Perhaps considering that implementing this decision here would require a greater mental burden than in the Juye Wilderness, not only did two Nascent Souls from the Constellation Palace come to the Hongze Wilderness at once, but they were all male cultivators.

Their only "tenderness" was that they did not carry out the eviction immediately, but gave them three more months.

Once the March deadline comes, no resistance, torture, begging for mercy, or curses can stop their determination to take back Spirit Island and drive all non-Star Palace humans into the sea.

Under this ruthless action, how many mortals were buried in the belly of the fish, and how many unspeakable tragedies occurred, only God knows.

Perhaps, Xingxiu Palace also knew that he had committed a huge sin in the wilderness of Hongze.

This information was basically sealed within the Hongze Wasteland by tacit agreement. When Jiedan who guarded this area returned, he would never mention this information.

Therefore, before entering this domain, Meng Zhou had a very vague understanding of all this.

It was not until the real body entered, and in the process of staying away from the third-order spiritual island, that I learned in detail from the settlements I met along the way everything that had happened, as well as the sky-high resentment directed against the Xingxiu Palace.

If resentment can kill people, I'm afraid even the True Monarch Nascent Soul wouldn't be able to withstand it in person.

Another unexpected gain for Meng Zhou was that the existence of the Lihen Sect was not a secret at all in the Hongze Wasteland.

Even the belief in worshiping the three-headed gods of the Lihen Sect is a public activity in many human settlements.

Of course, with the arrival of Xingxiu Palace, this kind of behavior was also severely cracked down by Xingxiu Palace.

For this matter, the Nascent Soul Lord of Xingxiu Palace ended up on the scene several times, fighting fiercely with the three statues in the vast sea.

As a result, Xingxiu Palace has completely become an evil character like a "demon" in the wilderness of Hongze, full of hostility and hatred;

The Lihen Sect has become the patron saint of the Hongze Wasteland, unless Xingxiu Palace is determined to cleanse the humans in the Hongze Wasteland without distinction.

Otherwise, the belief in the Lihen Cult cannot be eradicated at all. On the contrary, it will turn from bright to dark, making it even more difficult to eradicate.

Not to mention whether Xingxiu Palace can achieve such determination, even if it is really determined to do so, can it really be done?

It is true that the power of Xingxiu Palace has a crushing advantage over Hongze Wasteland, but it is not unlimited.

It is even more impossible for Xingxiu Palace to smash all its power into this place.

…

After coming to the Hongze Wasteland, Meng Zhou spent a day understanding all this, and the feeling in his heart was really complicated and difficult to describe.

Meng Zhou was shocked by Xingxiu Palace's determination and ruthlessness in executing the decision to "take back the third-order spiritual veins."

The Lihen Sect's infiltration and even "kidnapping" of the entire human group made Meng Zhou feel ridiculous.

"He actually became a regular employee?!"

This time, in addition to the core plan, Meng Zhou actually had some incidental ideas.

One of them, Meng Zhou, had a beautiful thought.

If you are lucky enough to find traces of Lihen Sect's alchemy monks in this domain, then pack them all up and store them in your own spiritual gourd space.

You must know that the first fourth-level skill you mastered, "Flesh and Flesh Rebirth," was stuck in the realm of Dacheng and was unable to progress further because of the lack of training materials.

Meng Zhou dug out all the Lihen Sect's elixirs in the Juye Wilderness, and only allowed his "flesh and blood rebirth" to reach the stage of great success.

Now, because of the core plan, he had to frequently travel to seven other wilderness areas, and Meng Zhou's mind naturally became full of excitement.

"If you can grab some more Lihen Sect knotted elixirs and store them, you must not miss this opportunity."

But now, after having an in-depth understanding of the "ecology" of Hongze Wasteland, Meng Zhou fell silent.

Many Lihen Sect's elixir formations completely overlap with the identity of the core guardian of a certain human settlement.

If they are captured, the settlement will be severely damaged and may even fall apart immediately.

Even Xingxiu Palace didn’t do this.

They only targeted the act of gathering a crowd to "sacrifice the statue of Lihen". As for whether those pill-forming monks practiced the methods of Lihen, they ignored them as long as they didn't hit their guns head-on.

Thinking of this, Meng Zhou shook his head.

He decided not to dwell on this and get down to business first.

After staying away from the third-level spiritual veins guarding Jiedan in Xingxiu Palace, Meng Zhou entered a sea of ​​mist and chose a hidden place as a place to stay among the sinister third-level evil veins.

Entering the "Lotus Space", sitting cross-legged, and adjusting to the best state, Meng Zhou started his action.

He waved his hand lightly first, and fifty "original" Tai Sui bodies at the peak level of the third-level mid-level appeared in front of him.

Then he stretched out his fingers and flicked, and fifty balls of the huge amount of heart essence and blood stored in the spirit gourd space flew out and shot towards the fifty Tai Sui bodies respectively.

Soon, as these heart essences and blood spread inside the fifty Tai Sui bodies, they quickly completed the transformation of flesh and blood.

Then, Meng Zhou drove the fifty regiment's third-level middle-grade divine soul clones into the eyebrows of the fifty Tai Sui bodies that had completed the transformation of flesh and blood.

——This is also the reason why Meng Zhou chose the third-level mid-level Tai Sui body instead of the third-level high-level body.

If he uses a third-level high-grade Tai Sui body, with his current ability, after completing the transformation of flesh and blood, each of them will have the cultivation level of the ninth level of pill formation.

In this wilderness, with such strength, they can ignore any obstacles and walk sideways.

But to drive them, you need a third-level high-grade soul clone.

With his limited masterless will, Meng Zhou was unable to produce so many soul clones of such quality.

——After clearing out all the Lihen Cult strongholds in the Juye Wilderness, Meng Zhou harvested a total of 250 copies of the Masterless Divine Will. If he refined them into divine soul clones, he could get 50 copies of the third-level top grade, or three One hundred and twenty-five copies of the middle grade.

But this was the number at its peak. During the layout of Lian Ziling, in order to avoid being caught by him, all the flesh and blood of Tai Sui that self-destructed in front of him were not preserved, and the soul clones inside were not preserved, and were destroyed along with the self-destruction.

Just that time in the "Qihuang Sect" home base, more than 20 pieces of Wushu Shenyi were lost.

Therefore, he now simply cannot produce a divine soul clone that can arm fifty third-level high-grade Tai Sui bodies.

Between quality and quantity, Meng Zhou chose quantity.

After the body of Tai Sui, who is at the peak of the third level mid-level, has completed the transformation of flesh and blood, each of them has the cultivation level of the peak of the sixth level of elixir formation. Although they cannot walk sideways in the wilderness of Hongze, as long as they do not deliberately seek death, they basically cannot There are safety concerns.

This is enough.

As the fifty soul clones merged into the eyebrows of these Tai Sui bodies, the fifty Tai Sui bodies that had completed the transformation of flesh and blood came to life one after another.

"They" who "came alive" did not stay for a moment. After leaving the "lotus space", they merged with the surrounding waters.

Only Meng Zhou knew that "they" were quickly dispersing towards No. 8.

Before "them" left, Meng Zhou distributed two hundred high-grade spiritual stones to each of "them".

The purpose is to allow "them" to keep moving like a "perpetual motion machine" before these spiritual stones are consumed.

This time alone, Meng Zhou sent out 10,000 high-grade spiritual stones.

Meng Zhou didn't even blink for such a squandering, but rather felt a sense of lightness that "reduced the burden" on the spirit gourd space.

These fifty bodies of Tai Sui were quickly dispersed throughout the wilderness. There was only one thing they had to do, which was to establish a sufficient number of "vision anchor points" for him in the shortest possible time.

In this regard, Hongze Wasteland has special advantages.

Since nearly 80% of the area is water, all the "view anchor points" he arranged can be built around the "shadowing water mirror".

There is no need to "adapt to local conditions" or special matching design, just push it without thinking.

As long as the mobility is sufficient, the "vision anchors" can quickly spread throughout the wilderness like sowing sesame seeds.

After these Tai Sui bodies dispersed, Meng Zhou turned his attention to the Sea of ​​Consciousness Soul Pond.

The peaceful soul pool suddenly became active.

The dormant life poison is constantly "awakening".

Under Meng Zhou's thoughts, he escaped from the Soul Pond and the Sea of ​​Consciousness, turning into "transparent round mirrors" and a flying sword of natal living poison.

A natal living poison flying sword was inserted into the reserved slot of a "transparent round mirror" and escaped from the "lotus space".

In an instant, a brand new area grew up next to Meng Zhou's original "interpretation world".

This brand new area is basically shrouded in fog.

Only one small dot is lit up because of this "transparent round mirror".

Then, as this "transparent circular mirror" was pulled by the "vision anchor point" arranged by the Tai Sui body that dispersed in advance, it began to move in the flooded wilderness.

A small "bright spot" turned into a slender "bright line".

There are far more "transparent round mirrors" that escape from the "lotus space", disperse into the void of the wild land, and move regularly along a fixed trajectory.

The boiling soul pool is spitting out bit by bit the accumulation that has been accumulated for more than ten years.

"Transparent round mirrors" took shape in front of Meng Zhou, and then disappeared one by one without leaving a trace. They escaped from the "lotus space" and quickly dispersed in all directions in the flooded wasteland.

Wherever they pass, they change from "lines" to a rapidly expanding "surface".

With Meng Zhou's place as the center of the circle, the whole new world of Hongze Wasteland quickly lit up in the "Interpretation World". (End of chapter)