Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

With arrangements settled, Ling Yu distributed the pre-prepared detoxification pills to the others, and casually tossed the five Ten-Thousand Poison Pills into the sand and rocks near the stream. The four then each used a Breath Concealment Talisman and hid themselves.

For cultivators, breaking through from the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment stage to Pseudo-Core often requires a long period of accumulation, comprehension, and reliance on certain opportunities or pills to succeed. For妖兽 (monster beasts), apart from consuming certain special spiritual herbs, it mainly depends on the growth of their bloodline, which often means centuries of accumulation.

This Azure-faced Mink King, due to its deep accumulation, was about to break through its cultivation realm. Therefore, it dug its original nest nearly a thousand feet deep into the ground, hiding seven or eight miles below the surface to absorb and release spiritual energy. Except for occasionally going out to find highly poisonous substances and Red Ying fruit, it basically stayed in its underground cave to cultivate.

After the scent of the Ten-Thousand Poison Pills spread, the Azure-faced Mink King quickly smelled it. The smell was familiar, yet different from the highly poisonous substances it usually consumed. Therefore, although it felt puzzled, it couldn't resist the temptation and became restless in its cave.

After an hour, it finally couldn't bear it anymore and scurried up. Reaching the cave entrance, the poisonous smell became even stronger, seemingly emanating from a place near the stream. It immediately became alert, its eyes darting around, and it keenly looked around. Its pink nose twitched rapidly, carefully distinguishing the scents in the air.

After a quarter of an hour, the Azure-faced Mink King shook its round body and extended its slender tongue to lick the red fur on its neck. Then, it lay prone on the ground, staring intently at the sandy area by the stream with its black eyes. Its intelligence, although not comparable to cultivators of the same realm, was not low either. It had already realized that something was wrong, and the seemingly peaceful environment was full of danger.

However, it was at a critical moment of breaking through its cultivation, and it instinctively wanted to devour higher-quality poisons. This desire was impossible to completely suppress. So, it lay at the cave entrance, waiting quietly.

This kind of reaction was naturally within Ling Wu and the others' expectations. They had already activated their breath-concealing techniques, controlling the spread of their aura and scent. With the Breath Concealment Talismans providing cover, blocking the Azure-faced Mink King's detection, they didn't have to worry about being exposed in the short term.

The Azure-faced Mink King lay at the cave entrance, its eyes half-open and half-closed, as if it were asleep. However, the repeatedly twitching nose showed the uncontrollable agitation within its body. It sniffed hard, but never smelled the scent of other living things. Instead, the rich poisonous scent constantly entered its nostrils, making it salivate.

After another half an hour, the Azure-faced Mink King stood up, making sharp "chee-chee-chee" sounds, its red fur standing on end, as if it were about to launch a fierce attack.

This unusual movement immediately made Ling Wu and the other three, who were holding their breath, tense up. They all rapidly circulated their magic power, preparing to burst out and attack.

However, after posing for a surprise attack, the Azure-faced Mink King only maintained it for two breaths before quickly returning to calm and continuing to lie on the ground, motionless.

This sudden change almost made Ling Wu and the others curse out loud. They quickly calmed down their magic power again and continued to lie in ambush.

After another quarter of an hour, the Azure-faced Mink King repeated its trick, and Ling Wu and the others were fooled again, almost exposing themselves. This time, the others were not angry, but became cautious. Because these feints showed that the Azure-faced Mink King had high intelligence and would not easily fall into their trap.

"Junior Brother Lingyan, you go out to lure the enemy. The rest of you don't move and remain hidden in place, waiting for my command!" Ling Wu reacted quickly and immediately thought of a countermeasure.

"Good, Senior Brother, this plan is brilliant!" Lingyan praised.

"It's best to pretend to be too nervous and accidentally expose yourself."

"Hehe, that's exactly what I should do!"

After a while, the Azure-faced Mink King made another attack posture. Just when it thought it would still have no effect, a trace of aura fluctuation was revealed in a space north of the cave entrance. It immediately retreated a few steps, preparing to turn around and escape into the depths of the cave if there was any danger.

However, to its surprise, the movement there was only for a moment before disappearing, returning to nothingness. It narrowed its small eyes and a mocking smile appeared at the corner of its mouth. Then, it opened its sharp mouth and sprayed a cloud of colorless and odorless gas, shrinking it into a small ball, and floated towards that space.

Ling Yu, hidden by the stream, saw it clearly and quickly reminded via voice transmission, "Senior Brother Lingyan, the Azure-faced Mink King's poisonous gas has passed. Don't let it touch you."

Lingyan laughed, "I've been waiting for this opportunity. It's okay!"

In the Azure-faced Mink King's eyes, the cloud of poisonous gas successfully enveloped and invaded that area. A smug look appeared on its face. It bowed its body and stood up, its eyes revealing a cold and cruel light.

Sure enough, as it expected, a wave appeared in that space, and then a pale-faced cultivator revealed his figure, staggering and falling to the ground. This person struggled to get up, wanting to fly away on his sword, but was unable to do so.

At this time, the Azure-faced Mink King, confident of victory, rushed out like lightning. One moment it was still at the cave entrance, and the next moment its red shadow was behind the cultivator, its long mouth about to bite his neck.

This was an important piece of information that Ling Yu had missed, namely that the speed of the Azure-faced Mink King could be described as terrifying, even faster than the divine sense response of cultivators of the same level.

Lingyan was originally luring the enemy and had been prepared, but he was still a step too slow. His double sabers had only just been summoned when the Mink King bit off his neck. Pitifully, a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator with extremely rich combat experience died so uselessly because a junior brother who only knew how to refine pills and was bad at fighting had missed key information.

"Junior Brother Lingyan! Be careful of this beast's speed!"

Ling Wu realized something was wrong the moment the Mink King started, and immediately spoke out, but before he could finish speaking, the Mink King had already swept across more than ten zhang of space and bit Lingyan's neck.

Ling Wu was filled with shock and anger. The double sabers in his hands spun like flying wheels, fiercely slashing at the Mink King.

Ling Yu, from across the stream, summoned a long staff, wielding fierce flames, and struck at the six-foot-long mink. Zhen Que quickly set up the Five Elements Earth-Locking Formation in front of the cave.

The Mink King was startled by the sudden appearance of the three cultivators, and instinctively wanted to escape towards the cave. However, Zhen Que reacted extremely quickly. While setting up the formation, he had already held a low-grade, high-quality Stone Wall Talisman in his hand.

As the Mink King turned around, he decisively activated the talisman, erecting a thick wall composed of spiritual energy one zhang outside the cave entrance. Although the Mink King was fast, it was weak. It crashed headfirst into the spiritual energy stone wall and was immediately bounced back.

At this time, Ling Wu's two sabers and Ling Yu's fire staff had already surrounded it. The Mink King raised its slender tail, made two "chee-chee" sounds, and spun in place, disappearing and dodging the siege of the three spiritual weapons, but pounced towards Ling Yu.

Because it still remembered the aura of this slovenly cultivator, guessing that he must have been injured by it and specifically brought people to seek revenge. While its body was still three zhang away from Ling Yu, it had already spat out a cloud of greenish-blue venom.

Ling Yu specialized in fire techniques and was good at dealing with poison attacks. He immediately raised his hand and released a cloud of dark red flames, burning the flying venom into a cloud of black smoke. At the same time, he summoned a brown wooden shield and held it up to block his head.

In this instant, the Mink King's sharp claws had already struck, just in time to be blocked by the wooden shield. Ling Yu took advantage of the situation to rush forward two steps, using the shield to hold up the Mink King's somewhat bloated body, wanting to interfere with its reaction speed.

The Mink King turned its body around, stepped on the wooden shield with its hind feet, and shot out like an arrow, dodging Ling Wu and Zhen Que's two sabers and two swords in the nick of time. Ling Yu's fire staff, because his divine sense had been transferred to the wooden shield, was temporarily suspended in the air two zhang in front of the Mink King's cave.

At this time, the Stone Wall Talisman released by Zhen Que had already lost its effect. Therefore, the Mink King rushed towards Zhen Que with lightning speed, venom and sharp claws coming out together.

Because the Five Elements Earth-Locking Formation, although set up, had not yet fully connected with the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy due to the short time, its power was limited. Therefore, Zhen Que did not dare to give way and immediately summoned a bronze shield, using force to push it forward, blocking the venom and sharp claws at the same time, and collided with the flying Mink King. The Mink King weighed several thousand kilograms and was fast. This collision immediately cracked the bronze shield, which was only a low-grade spiritual weapon, and shook Zhen Que back several steps, almost retreating into the Five Elements Earth-Locking Formation.

The Mink King was also a little dizzy from the collision. Ling Wu's two short sabers took the opportunity to slash, cutting out two long knife marks on its body, blood flowing straight down. At the same time, two strands of yin and yang spiritual power tried to drill into its body, but were forced out by the abundant poison power within it.

Its physical body was not strong. After two sabers, its injuries were very serious. It immediately gave a low "ao wu" roar, and its body was as fast as lightning. Its target of attack changed to Ling Yu again.

Ling Yu was frightened and once again gave up controlling the fire staff, transferring all his divine sense to the wooden shield, staring intently at the Mink King, whose figure was like an illusion. However, this time the Mink King did not jump out of the stream, but in the place where the Ten-Thousand Poison Pills were placed, it spun around, rolled up the pills with its long tongue, and at the same time turned around and fled, changing to attack Zhen Que.

Zhen Que did not dare to block it head-on, dodged to the side, and slashed with his sword from both sides.

The Mink King directly ignored Ling Wu and Zhen Que's two sabers and two swords, like a ray of light, flashed past the area in front of the cave entrance, and was about to rush into the cave. At this time, suddenly a burst of white mist rose up, covering the area of three or four zhang at the cave entrance, and the Mink King disappeared.

"Trapped?" Ling Wu hurried over and asked Zhen Que loudly.

Zhen Que nodded happily: "Trapped!"

"That's good. I thought it had escaped into the cave. Can it be trapped?"

Zhen Que hesitated for a moment before saying: "Martial Uncle Lingzhuzi said that as long as it's not Pseudo-Core, it can be."

"Oh, it's trapped. Good, this time it's done. Martial Nephew Zhen Que, what do we do after it's trapped? Just wait like this?" Ling Yu also flew over, asking nervously.

"According to Martial Uncle Lingzhuzi, we should first exhaust its strength, and then capture it after it's exhausted," Zhen Que said word by word, fearing that he would say a word wrong.

"How do we exhaust it?"

"Martial Uncle Lingzhuzi said that the Five Elements Earth-Locking Formation, the scenes in the formation are always changing, and the trapped person will be pulled by it, and will continue to escape until its strength is exhausted."

"Oh, that's amazing!"

Ling Wu breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and glanced at Ling Yu, seeing him staring blankly at the white mist, and secretly shook his head.

Then he turned around and walked to Lingyan's corpse, which was as black as ink due to poisoning, picked up his storage bag, and then threw out a fireball, burning the corpse into white ashes, and then rolled it up with magic power and put it into a jade box.