Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

When Zhang Yuanjing landed, the Flame Beast under the Dragon Binding Vine was already lifeless, having been suffocated to death.

Zhang Jun was extremely surprised. He approached and carefully observed, finally discovering that the Flame Beast had only two small nostrils, located beneath a half-inch-long horn on its mouth, in an area surrounded by a hard shell. This was the softest part of its body and its only weakness.

When the Dragon Binding Vine bound the Flame Beast, it happened to completely block these air passages, and its mouth could not open or close, naturally causing it to suffocate to death.

This also indicated that the beast's strength lay in its physical body and natural gifts, lacking the internal energy of a cultivator. Otherwise, even with its mouth and nostrils sealed, it could have sustained its life force for a longer period.

According to the Fire Dragon Pill formula, the beast's bones and blood could be used in medicine, and if the essence of its flesh was extracted, it could also be used to refine pills that strengthened the physical body. If it possessed a demon core, its inner core could be used as the main ingredient to refine top-grade Fire Dragon Pills, helping Core Formation cultivators greatly enhance their cultivation.

This beast's body was enormous and could not be placed into a storage bag. Fortunately, he had two storage bracelets, one obtained from Feng Wujiu and the other given as a benefit of being a true disciple of the Earth Sect. Both were mid-grade storage bracelets, each with an eight-zhang square space, easily accommodating dozens of Flame Beasts.

Therefore, after some processing, he stored it in the storage bracelet and then flew his sword over the ring mountain, preparing to hunt the next Flame Beast.

However, when he looked into the Fire Abyss, all the Flame Beasts had disappeared.

He was taken aback and immediately cast his divine sense,勉力 penetrating a distance of more than ten zhang, but still found no Flame Beasts.

At this point, he confirmed that the four Flame Beasts had returned to the depths of the Fire Abyss. This meant that the nine Firestorm Pills he had scattered earlier had only yielded one Flame Beast.

Zhang Yuanjing shook his head, smiled wryly, and took out another bottle of Firestorm Pills. This time, however, he only pinched one and threw it into the Fire Abyss.

A quarter of an hour passed, and there was no movement in the Fire Abyss, no unusual activity like the previous flame surge. Another quarter of an hour passed, and still nothing changed.

"Could it be that they were incinerated by the earth fire and didn't reach the Flame Beast's mouth?"

The first batch of nine Firestorm Pills only lured out five Flame Beasts, indicating that some pills were either not eaten by the Flame Beasts, or some Flame Beasts ate more than one.

After thinking about it, Zhang Yuanjing threw down another pill. Half an hour passed, and still no Flame Beasts appeared. He gritted his teeth, poured five Firestorm Pills from the bottle, and scattered them into the Fire Abyss.

This time, there was a reaction very quickly. Two places of flames rolled, and two huge bodies gradually emerged from the Fire Abyss, frolicking on the upper part of the earth fire. Judging from their aura, one was in the mid-stage of the Savage Blood Realm, and the other was in the early stage of the Spirit Awakening Realm.

This time, Zhang Yuanjing first selected the Flame Beast in the mid-stage of the Savage Blood Realm, attacking it with the Yin Wind Saber to lure it to the edge of the earth abyss. Repeating his previous trick, he once again bound it with the Dragon Binding Vine, and without much thought, directly put it into the storage bracelet, then skirmished with the Spirit Awakening Realm Flame Beast that was rushing towards him. Only after the Flame Beast in the storage bracelet had completely died did he deal with the other one. In this way, he captured and killed these two Flame Beasts in just half an hour.

After this, he used five Firestorm Pills at a time, scattering fifty pills in ten batches, luring out a total of thirty-six Flame Beasts and successfully capturing and killing twenty-two of them. Including the previous three, he had a total of twenty-five, fifteen in the Savage Blood Realm and ten in the Spirit Awakening Realm.

In this way, the Flame Beast corpses he had collected, just those in the Savage Blood Realm, were enough for the Zhang family to refine tens of thousands of Flame Qi Essences, enough to last for at least several decades.

At this point, nearly a day had passed from the surprise attack on the Guo family to the capture and killing of the Flame Beasts.

From the most conservative perspective, assuming that the Core Formation cultivator guarding the Guo family received the news of their surprise attack and was on his way back, then at this time, that person was almost nearby.

Zhang Yuanjing captured and killed ten Flame Beasts in the Spirit Awakening stage, seven in the early stage, three in the middle stage, and one in the later stage.

Therefore, he decided to throw down all the remaining fifteen Firestorm Pills to see if he could lure out another late-stage Flame Beast.

"Susu Susu..." With a series of fine sounds, all fifteen Firestorm Pills disappeared into the earth fire.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the earth fire in the Fire Abyss began to shake, first gently, then swaying left and right, then rapidly jumping, and finally, it was almost like boiling water, with flames constantly splashing around.

This kind of movement was completely different from the previous situation. Zhang Yuanjing realized something was wrong and quickly retreated more than ten zhang, standing on the earthen mountain, nervously watching the changes in the Fire Abyss.

After about a dozen breaths, the earth fire in the Fire Abyss suddenly spewed upward, forming a large fire column of a hundred zhang in radius, rising into the sky. When it reached a height of hundreds of zhang, it lost momentum and fell. The earth fire in the Fire Abyss surged like a tide.

"Roar——"

A long roar, as if mixed with the sound of a dragon's cry, made Zhang Yuanjing instinctively feel a sense of fear.

Immediately, a dark shadow more than ten zhang long and about four zhang wide rose from the fire. This was a Flame Beast that surpassed the Spirit Awakening Realm!

Its back was towering, covered with red scales, and it had three horns on its head. The two on the sides were relatively long, about a foot long, and were dark green, while the horn covering the nostrils was shorter, only three inches long, but it was golden all over, very dazzling.

Its four feet were very thick, and each of the five toes had sharp barbs. The tail was thick and long, and the tip of the tail had a large fleshy sac wrapped in hard armor, which also had barbs.

This beast's aura had not yet reached the Demon Core Realm, but it was already extremely close. It had obviously reached the peak of the Pseudo-Core stage, and its accumulation was sufficient. It only needed the last step to shed its mortal body and become a true demon in the Demon Core Realm.

Generally speaking, monsters below the Spirit Awakening Realm cannot fly unless they have natural abilities. Only when they reach the Demon Core Realm can they control their Qi to fly into the sky, and even learn the sword control techniques of cultivators, using flying swords to fly.

Facing monsters below the Spirit Awakening Realm, cultivators usually have the initiative. Whether to fight or leave is not restricted, but when facing monsters above the Demon Core Realm, it is not so easy. If their strength is not enough, they are usually in danger of falling.

This giant beast had probably eaten a lot of Firestorm Pills and was in a state of extreme excitement. Its large mouth kept opening and closing, repeatedly drawing five elements of spiritual power from the outside air to harmonize the overly exuberant fire spiritual power in its body. Its expression was the same as those of the Spirit Awakening Flame Beasts, both painful and enjoyable.

After coming out of the Fire Abyss, this beast only glanced at Zhang Yuanjing with cold eyes and ignored him. To it, this weak little guy was no threat at all. And it was at a critical moment of breakthrough, so naturally it had no intention of chasing him.

Zhang Yuanjing did not dare to move rashly. Although the Pseudo-Core stage demon beast could not fly, its attack speed and intensity were already ten or even dozens of times that of a Spirit Awakening stage demon beast. Now, he was less than twenty zhang away from this beast. If he angered it because of reckless action, the consequences would be unimaginable.

He thought to himself that this beast was about to break through, and once it entered the moment of breaking through, it would not take the initiative to attack. It would be foolproof to leave then.

Of course, in his heart, he also had a greedy thought, that is, if an accident occurred when this beast broke through, he could pick up a big bargain—although the probability of this was pitifully low, it was still possible.

This was because he lacked experience. No monster would allow other alien species to be around when it was breaking through. The reason why this Flame Beast did not attack him or drive him away was entirely because it had swallowed too many Firestorm Pills and was about to absorb a large amount of heaven and earth spiritual power to alleviate the pain caused by the overly exuberant fire spiritual power. If Zhang Yuanjing took the initiative to leave, this beast would be happy to do so.

After about two hours, this Flame Beast seemed to have refined the fire spiritual power in its body. It roared loudly and opened its mouth to suddenly suck a mouthful of pure fire spiritual power from the earth abyss. Immediately, the scales all over its body opened, and countless fire spiritual power, like a tide, rushed into its body. A vortex of fire spiritual power with a radius of dozens of zhang appeared under it, driving the earth fire in the Fire Abyss to spin rapidly.

When Zhang Yuanjing saw such a movement, he seemed to wake up from a dream. He looked warily at the Flame Beast, which was in pain but full of excitement, and quickly turned around and jumped off the earthen mountain, disappearing from the Flame Beast's sight.

Just as he was preparing to offer his flying sword and leave this place quickly, a sword flew from the sky, like lightning flashing past, arriving in front of him in an instant. Then, a sinister voice said: "Is it you, junior, disturbing my cultivation and messing up my schedule?"

This was a tall old man, wearing a cyan Taoist robe, with a wooden hairpin in his hair, white hair like snow, and a long, gaunt face, looking weak and deficient. His eyes were like knives, staring coldly at Zhang Yuanjing's face, his expression extremely displeased.

This was a Core Formation cultivator!

"Hmm, such strong fire spiritual power fluctuations?" The old man suddenly raised his sparse white eyebrows in surprise, raised the flying sword more than ten zhang, and then looked over the earthen mountain, saw the scene in the Fire Dragon Abyss, and immediately revealed a look of ecstasy. "It's actually a Flame Beast forming its core, it's actually a Flame Beast forming its core! Hahaha, good luck has finally come to Hao!"

This person was the Core Formation cultivator, Hao Taichang, stationed at the Fire Dragon Hall of the Qianyang Sect. His cultivation was in the early stage of Core Formation, and he had reached great perfection, but because he had suffered a serious injury in his early years, which led to a loss of vitality, he had been stuck at the bottleneck for nearly fifty years, and he had never been able to break through to the middle stage of Core Formation.

Later, Guo Yuqing reported to the Qianyang Sect Master that the Fire Dragon Pill refined with the inner core of a Demon Core stage Flame Beast could replenish vitality and cultivate the foundation. The Qianyang Sect Master sent Hao Taichang to the Fire Dragon Hall to monitor the Fire Dragon Abyss day and night, looking for an opportunity to capture and kill a Demon Core stage Flame Beast.

It's just that this person was unlucky. For more than thirty years, he had never seen a Demon Core stage Flame Beast appear.

Hao Taichang had a hobby of traveling in the mortal world and visiting friends everywhere. If it weren't for breaking through the realm, where would he be willing to nest in the Fire Dragon Hall and be a watchman? However, even so, every three to five years, he had to go out for a trip, look around, for as long as ten days and a half months, and as short as three to five days.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to collect precious spirit gold to create a super flying magic weapon, which was four or five times faster than the flying swords used by cultivators in the same realm in long-distance flight.

Yesterday, he traveled more than 30,000 miles in the middle of the night and entered a mortal country. In the evening, he sped more than 20,000 miles to visit a friend's cave. He also lingered there the next day.

Therefore, after Guo Pingjian escaped, he transmitted messages in many ways, and finally contacted a Guo family disciple in the mortal country that Hao Taichang had visited. This Guo family disciple also had a mid-grade transmission spirit jade, and he immediately tried to contact Hao Taichang and reported the situation of the Fire Dragon Hall being attacked.

Hearing this, Hao Taichang was furious and immediately flew at full speed. In just over half a day, he rushed back to the Fire Dragon Abyss and caught Zhang Yuanjing, who was about to leave.

Of course, from Hao Taichang's point of view, Zhang Yuanjing was not even a scallion compared to a Demon Core stage Flame Beast.