In those years when I was a mortal and a demon

Lu Yuan was leaning against a boulder, with his legs crossed and a bamboo pole about ten feet long in his hand. An almost transparent silk thread was tied to the other end of the bamboo pole, and it quietly sank into a pool of water in front of it.

The pool is about tens of feet wide and is not very deep. The water is so clear and transparent that you can see fish swimming around one after another.

These fish are colorful, basically in five colors: green, red, yellow, brown, and white.

Most of them are mainly three or four-color koi, while a few have two colors, single colors and five colors, and even fewer.

Not far from Lu Yuan, Brother Tiezi was sitting cross-legged on the ground, with a large number of jade slips of different colors in front of him. He took out a piece from it from time to time, and after thinking for a while, he raised his hand and drove the first dozen flags of different colors to fly high into the sky.

More than a hundred feet above his head, a huge hole seemed to be torn open in the sky, filled with densely packed restrictions.

As soon as the formation flag came into contact with the restrictions, after a burst of explosions, no residue was left behind.

"Brother Zhang, don't try, you'll scare away all my fish." Lu Yuan said lazily.

"I'll take you down. You haven't caught one in two months. Do you blame me?" Brother Tiezi sighed as he looked at the restriction in the sky.

Then he stood up and walked to Lu Yuan, looking at the fish in the pool.

"I even suspect that the pool and the fish are fake. You are wasting your efforts."

"Think of it as a way to cultivate my character and hone my patience and perseverance." Lu Yuan rolled his eyes.

"How much patience do you have? Senior brother, let's make a bet. I'll open a stall that pays ten per one. I bet you can't survive today and will hit this pool again." Brother Tiezi sneered and raised a hand.

The corner of Lu Yuan's mouth twitched, but he did not dare to high-five Brother Tiezi after all.

Brother Tiezi curled his lips and stopped teasing Lu Yuan. He turned back to the pile of jade slips and continued to study them.

They came to Shengong Mountain a year ago and were very cautious at first. After observing from the outside for more than a month, Brother Tiezi tried to find a place where he thought the formation was weak.

But even with his weak points, Brother Tiezi still defeated the strength of nine cows and two tigers. With the help of various formations and talismans, he managed to tear a hole and enter the Shengong Mountain.

Fortunately, after entering, there are also many ancient prohibitions in the creation places of the ancestors in Shengong Mountain. But with Brother Tiezi's knowledge of formations, most of them were easily broken open, and many ancient formation masters' insights were found in them. Unfortunately, there was no record of the Demon Suppression Monument.

The two discussed it and decided that the Demon Suppressing Monument was made in ancient times. If they wanted to find it, they could only dig the caves of the ancestors of the Shenmiao Sect even further back.

Thinking that the most powerful thing about Shengong Mountain should be the outer formation, they also let down their guard. After breaking through a few more caves, we arrived here unknowingly.

But I didn't expect that as soon as I entered, the place suddenly changed, and countless mysterious and mysterious ancient restrictions were inexplicably opened, so that even Brother Tiezi felt dizzy when he saw it.

Lu Yuan once tried to fight with brute force, but not only was it ineffective, the restraint also bounced his attack back with several times the force, making Lu Yuan moan in agony.

I have been trapped for most of the year.

During this period, they tried many methods, but all of them were of no use. After repeated setbacks, Brother Tiezi decided to study the ancient formation master's experience found in Shengong Mountain to see if it could be effective.

Although Lu Yuan knew nothing about battle tactics, he was not idle either. Through his observation and exploration, he really discovered something that dumbfounded the two of them.

The restrictions here seem to be only for them, but the birds and animals in the mountains and forests can come and go as they please.

Lu Yuan, who sensed something was wrong, wanted to catch a few to have a look, but those birds and beasts were all very clever and never came close to the two of them. In addition, the restriction here severely suppresses Lu Yuan's spells. He can only cast them within a few feet in radius and cannot catch them at all.

There are no restrictions on the magic weapon, but once it is sacrificed, the birds and beasts will be beaten into ashes, let alone alive.

The only good news is that there is a pool in this basin, and there are a lot of fish in it. But there was also bad news. After trying it, Lu Yuan found that neither magic nor body could enter the pool.

Only those commonplace things that have no spirituality are not blocked.

However, Lu and Yuan could not find anything mundane on their bodies. They could only wipe out the aura inside some extremely precious materials. For example, the fishing rod used by Lu Yuan for fishing was made by refining all the evil-fighting divine thunder in the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo.

Boom! Another blast.

"Go to hell, the temporary formation flags I refined are almost used up. If this continues, I can only take the risk with the innate five elements flag!" Brother Tiezi lost more than ten formation flags. No matter how good his temper was, I couldn't help but start cursing my mother.

On the other side, I saw the fish near the hook being frightened away again. Lu Yuan was also furious. He swung his fishing rod and raised his hand towards the pool to blast out a pale golden fist shadow.

boom!

The runes on the surface of the water pool blocked the shadow of the fist, and then bounced towards Lu Yuan.

The shadow of the fist that rebounded towards Lu Yuan has changed from the original light gold to dark gold, and its power has increased several times.

Lu Yuan had long been used to it, and golden scales appeared on his body, and he withstood the blow forcefully. Then he sulked and paced back and forth by the pool.

After a while, the frightened fish swam back. Some even floated to the surface and bubbled.

"Look at their little eyes, can they be fake?" Lu Yuan's face immediately turned ugly, feeling that these fish were obviously mocking him.

"Indeed, I feel like they are trying to catch you..." Brother Tiezi came over with a look of gloating on his face.

"Yeah!" Lu Yuan's voice dropped and he glared at Brother Tiezi.

"Senior brother, don't get angry. What I mean is that although there are no top-level spiritual veins here, the abundance of spiritual energy is not weaker than those at the mountain gate where Nascent Soul monks are stationed. Under years of nourishment, the animals here have developed some spiritual intelligence. Not surprising." Brother Tiezi covered his mouth and snickered.

"Grow spiritual intelligence?" Lu Yuan's angry eyes suddenly lit up and he patted his head.

"Yes!" After saying that, he took out a few pills that were completely white and exuded a little glow from the storage bag.

As the pills appeared, a strange smell spread that could not be described as pleasant or bad, but it was very impressive.

"What is this? What a weird smell!" Brother Tiezi frowned.

"The demon-inducing pill is refined with six-hundred-year-old Neon Grass. Just wait and see the show." Lu Yuan chuckled.

Now that they have some intelligence, they can be temporarily classified as monsters, although they may still be far from the first-level low-level monsters. But the nature of flocking to neon grass is definitely not that different!

Sure enough, within a short while, the entire pool was boiling, and countless fishes rushed out of the water in excitement, greedily breathing in the smell.