The cultivation of immortality by mortals begins with the abandoned children of the river

Zhan Nianchuan let out a desperate roar, shook his arms, and shook off the ghosts all over his body. His body was ablaze with fire, so that many ghosts dared not come forward for a while.

Seeing this scene, the demon cultivator did not hesitate to spit out several mouthfuls of black blood again, dipped the blood in the void to draw talismans, and thousands of ghosts were driven by an unknown force and rushed towards Zhan Nianchuan again.

The demon cultivator's face was as pale as paper. He almost fainted from the large amount of mana consumed by using the secret technique again and controlling the ghosts.

The consumption was a bit high, as long as he killed this kid, everything would be worth it. The demon cultivator looked at Zhan Nianchuan who was about to be drowned by the ghosts and couldn't help laughing.

But his smile soon froze on his face.

Thousands of ghosts pounced in vain, and Zhan Nianchuan disappeared out of thin air. How could this be possible? Wait, it seems that he is not the only one who disappeared?

This thought made him shudder, and he immediately wanted to take back the ghosts and fly away.

A sharp pain came from under his feet, and a long sword seemed to come from hell, cutting off half of his foot.

The demon cultivator screamed in pain, and his magic power was in chaos. The ghosts that originally surrounded him and protected him in the center suddenly scattered.

"Swish!"

Countless flying needles immediately pierced through the ghosts without mercy, fiercely stabbed into the demon cultivator's body, and flew out from the other side, bringing out a large amount of smelly blood.

Zhan Nianchuan emerged from the ground like a demon god, and broke all his bones with a punch.

At this time, thousands of ghosts who had lost control rushed to the culprit who killed them with monstrous resentment, and kept biting him around.

The demon cultivator screamed in inhuman pain, and the ghosts devoured his flesh, bones, internal organs, and soul, leaving only a few objects, emitting bursts of evil spirits.

After devouring the demon cultivator, these ghosts instantly cast their eyes on the blue-robed man on the ground.

Zhan Nianchuan's eyes focused, and he injected magic power into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner. He made a move towards the ghosts in the sky. Although these ghosts were unwilling, they showed their teeth and claws at Zhan Nianchuan, and had to return to the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

A figure jumped out from the ground, with an excited expression on his face. It was Li Xiaoqiang who had disappeared for a long time.

"Well done!" Zhan Nianchuan praised.

Although the timing of Li Xiaoqiang's sword attack just now was not very good, it still achieved the effect. Otherwise, Zhan Nianchuan would have to kill dozens of ghosts to take down the demon cultivator.

Li Xiaoqiang smiled and touched his head. Being able to help Zhan Nianchuan and getting praise from Zhan Nianchuan was the most gratifying thing for him.

"Are you from Xuantian Sect?"

The blue-robed man lying on the ground like a puddle of mud knew that everything was over. The dream of improving his spiritual roots and achieving foundation building had been completely shattered. More than ten years of planning had come to nothing, and everything was cheap for the young man in front of him.

This made him very unwilling, but he had no choice.

The way the demon cultivator died just now made him shudder. Now he just wanted to stop suffering this inhuman torture.

"That's right."

Zhan Nianchuan replied indifferently. He glanced at the blue-robed man who was lying on the ground and stated his request:

"Hand over the list of all the people who have captured children and participated in this incident, and notify the few people in your hands who are responsible for finding and capturing children to come here."

"Okay, I have a list in my storage bag, and the other list should be on the county governor or in his room. You can contact my men with the sound transmission talisman on me, and they will come within five hours."

The blue-robed man agreed at once and seemed to be very cooperative.

Zhan Nianchuan searched the blue-robed man's body, searched out all his belongings, found the list and the sound transmission talisman, and he looked at the list casually, put it in his arms, and activated the sound transmission talisman in his hand, indicating that the blue-robed man should contact.

After sending out all the sound transmission notes, Zhan Nianchuan put away all the items of the demon cultivators and began to ask about the most important thing at the moment:

"Tell us clearly about the causes and consequences of what you did."

The blue-robed man smiled bitterly, with a look of reminiscence on his face, and began to slowly tell this bloody and dark story.

As he told the story, Zhan Nianchuan and Li Xiaoqiang's faces began to change constantly.

The blue-robed man was named Meng Hongyun. He was originally a cultivator of the Qianzhu Sect. He was expelled from the sect because he violated the sect rules. He had no choice but to travel in the rivers and lakes. By chance, he got a secret technique, which turned out to be a method of improving spiritual roots passed down by the ancient demon cultivators!

After hearing this, Zhan Nianchuan, who had expected it, couldn't help breathing heavily, and Li Xiaoqiang next to him was already trembling slightly, with an extremely eager look in his eyes.

Zhan Nianchuan paid special attention to it. Fortunately, his eyes were still clear, so he continued to listen to Meng Hongyun's story.

The specific method is to find hundreds of children who have never practiced but have spiritual roots, extract the spiritual roots from their bodies, and then decompose them. When the number of the same spiritual roots reaches 500, they can be condensed together to become the Five Elements Spirit Beads.

After the cultivator takes it and refines it into the body, the spiritual root qualification can be upgraded by one level. It is effective for both the Condensation Realm and the Foundation Establishment Realm, but it can only be used once. Children without spiritual roots can also become the owners of a single low-grade spiritual root by taking the Five Elements Spirit Beads.

After Meng Hongyun obtained this secret technique, he began to think hard about how to find enough children and demon cultivators who could cooperate with him, but demon cultivators are afraid of light and hide completely in the dark, making it difficult to find. So he took the risk to go to those places of resentment and it took him several years to find it, which is the ghost seven who just died.

The two hit it off and reached an agreement. Meng Hongyun was responsible for finding children with spiritual roots, and Gui Qi was responsible for refining spiritual roots and condensing the five elements elixir.

At this time, they began to investigate the situation of the elders in charge of recruiting disciples in various sects, hoping to find elders who had been in seclusion for a long time or traveled outside and ignored the affairs. As a result, they were pleasantly surprised to find that Tong Dachuan, the head of Lindan Peak of Xuantian Sect, had been recovering from injuries all year round and did not care about the affairs of the sect at all. He only sent a few Qi Condensation Realm disciples to the secular world to recruit disciples each time. This was simply the best opportunity to take action.

Zhan Nianchuan sighed in his heart, thinking that he didn't know what his master would think if he knew about it.

The possibility of spiritual roots appearing among mortals is only one in a thousand, and it is impossible for one person to search for them one by one. This requires a lot of manpower, so Meng Hongyun set his sights on Shi Jian, the county magistrate. Shi Jian was very stubborn at first and refused to work for the demon cultivators. But when he heard that the Five Elements Spiritual Pearl could make mortals grow spiritual roots, he changed his attitude and said he could cooperate, but he wanted two for his grandchildren and forced Meng Hongyun to swear a great oath.

In this way, the three people's evil deeds continued for more than ten years, killing thousands of children, and finally condensed three Five Elements Spiritual Pearls. After Shi Jian knew about it, he wanted to take the Spiritual Pearl and quit. At this time, Gui Qi's transformation method had been practiced, and the contradictions between the three began to erupt. Zhan Nianchuan knew everything that happened next.