Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

Initially, Zhang Yuanjing didn't notice anything unusual about the middle-aged cultivator "Lin Huan."

Later, when the Yin-Yang Creation Furnace (replica) refined four strange insects and he stored it in his storage bracelet, it suddenly became restless.

He initially thought there were other strange insects hidden here, but after careful investigation, he found nothing unusual. Moreover, under the cover of the Yang Refining Umbrella, he didn't believe any strange insects could escape its spiritual sense.

At this time, he also recalled the previous incident where this middle-aged cultivator had an unusual fear of the Creation Furnace. Only then did he begin to suspect that this person was no longer the same, but was controlled by a strange insect.

This wasn't just a random guess, but rather inspired by the old story of Yin Tianfu eating a strange insect egg and entrusting his soul to the body of the hatched insect.

Since a cultivator's soul could be entrusted to a strange insect, the insect could naturally control the cultivator's soul, depending on who was stronger.

This strange insect seemed to have a grand scheme, not devouring Lin Huan's soul, but keeping it, using it to act like a cultivator, without arousing suspicion.

He even guessed that this person traded strange insects to other Heavenly Devil Abyss cultivators, also hiding sinister means within, possibly using them to control other cultivators.

At this moment, Ape Thirteen suddenly transmitted a thought: "Yuanjing, cultivators are coming, two Foundation Establishment cultivators. Should we kill them?"

Zhang Yuanjing pondered for a moment and replied, "Capture them first, don't kill them."

He took a few steps forward, removed the middle-aged cultivator's storage bracelet, quickly broke the divine sense and mana marks, and looked inside. Most of it was filled with various jade bottles, with all kinds of patterns engraved on the bottles.

He took out a bottle, wrapped it in mana, and gently removed the stopper. A jet-black smoke billowed out, and before he could smell it, he already felt its foulness. This was likely some kind of poisonous gas.

He casually counted them and found as many as a thousand such jade bottles, and couldn't help but click his tongue. This person was indeed good at raising poisonous insects, collecting so much poisonous gas alone. However, this person didn't have a spirit beast pouch, perhaps he was raising them in these thatched huts.

Secondly, there were various insect eggs, at least two hundred. If strange and powerful insect beasts like these had a strong reproductive ability, they would eventually become a scourge. The Yin-Yang Creation Furnace specialized in dealing with these insects, perhaps involving some secrets. This speculation made Zhang Yuanjing's heart heavier.

In addition, there were many jade slips. Zhang Yuanjing casually flipped through a few, all of which were methods for taming demon insects, as well as identification texts for identifying demon insects, which were diverse and profound.

As for spirit stones, pills, and spirit herbs, the quantity was very small, barely worth mentioning. There were two magic weapons, but their quality was not high.

As for the golden book the middle-aged cultivator mentioned, there was none at all. Clearly, it was a temporary lie. If Zhang Yuanjing allowed him to take something from his storage bracelet, what he would present would probably be dozens of bottles of poisonous gas or liquid.

He carefully searched and found a jade牌牌, holding it in his hand, he walked forward a few steps, to the front of the middle thatched hut's door.

Sure enough, the formation power that was originally filling this place retreated on its own, leaving the doorway empty.

He reached out and pushed, opening the wooden door. The interior was empty, without even a bench. However, the ground was black, like wriggling mud.

It was a ground full of poisonous insects!

He swept his divine sense towards the two side rooms, and it was the same, only the poisonous insects seemed to be larger.

After a little identification, the poisonous insects in the middle thatched hut were mostly at the Savage Blood Realm, while the two side rooms were all at the Spirit Awakening Realm, and there were even a few that had reached the Spirit Awakening Realm Great Perfection.

These poisonous insects seemed to be bound by some kind of force, only scurrying around on the floor, biting and devouring each other, not climbing on the walls, nor coming towards the doorway.

Zhang Yuanjing carefully checked and found no missing strange insects, then retreated, allowing the formation power to fill in, sealing the thatched hut.

He had the Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast guard in the bamboo forest, replaced Ape Thirteen, and then cleaned up the middle-aged cultivator's corpse, the bloodstains on the ground, and the traces of the battle.

"Yuanjing, it's these two. Don't worry, I just knocked them out, they're not dead!" Ape Thirteen carried two cultivators over, grinning.

Zhang Yuanjing first woke one of them up, asking how they discovered the movement here, and the deployment in the mountain.

This person only said that he was stationed on the side mountain peak, and when he heard Elder Lin shouting below, he came over to check. Fortunately, this person didn't report it upwards. As for the deployment in the mountain, this person only knew that there were indeed many Golden Core Realm elders here, but the specific number was unclear.

When asked about Lin Huan's identity, he said that he was a newly joined Golden Core cultivator, good at raising insect beasts, with a strange personality, and Foundation Establishment cultivators didn't dare to approach his residence, fearing being injured by poisonous insects. As for the sound transmission formation, this person couldn't say at all.

Asking the other person again, what he said was roughly the same.

Zhang Yuanjing fell into thought. He successively killed Han Rangyuan and "Lin Huan", both of whom had some status among the Heavenly Devil Abyss Golden Cores, which would definitely arouse the vigilance of the person in charge of the Heavenly Devil Abyss.

Especially "Lin Huan", who was responsible for taming and driving those tens of thousands of demon birds, someone might come to call him at any time, which couldn't be concealed at all. Therefore, he must find out the location of the sound transmission formation as soon as possible. At that time, even if the stronghold was heavily guarded, he only needed to seize the sound transmission formation to complete True Man Tong's instructions.

He thought for a while and had one of these two Foundation Establishment cultivators send a message to the mountain peak where he was stationed, saying that "Lin Huan's" thatched hut was tightly closed, Elder Lin was crying out in pain in the house, but he didn't open the door or say what happened, and asked to report to the mountain as soon as possible and send a Golden Core elder to investigate.

The duty captain on the stationed side was very cautious, repeatedly asking for details. Zhang Yuanjing naturally made up a story and had this Foundation Establishment cultivator reply accordingly.

After a while, the duty captain sent a message, saying that he had already reported to Elder Xue, and asked the two Foundation Establishments to guard outside Lin Huan's thatched hut, and report any situation at any time.

This Elder Xue, named Xue Dingluan, was an executive elder here, with considerable power. In the past, this person had always contacted Lin Huan.

Zhang Yuanjing put the two spirit beasts into the spirit beast pouch, held the two Foundation Establishment cultivators hostage, and hid in the bamboo forest.

After waiting for a quarter of an hour, the duty captain sent another message, saying that Elder Xue had already arrived, and asked the two to prepare to greet him.

Zhang Yuanjing knocked the two unconscious and threw them directly on the open space in front of the thatched hut.

Then he used the earth escape technique, hiding more than a hundred feet below the ground, only attaching a wisp of divine sense to the lotus leaf in the pond.

Before long, he heard the sound of cultivators flying through the air through that wisp of divine sense. With a soft sound, someone landed in front of the thatched hut.

This person spoke, shouting: "Elder Lin, I am Xue Dingluan, here to pay a visit. Are you in the house? Please open the defense formation."

He shouted several times in succession, but there was no response, so he stopped shouting.

Zhang Yuanjing slowly tunneled towards the ground, his divine sense gradually approaching the cultivator. When he reached thirty feet, he was finally discovered by this person.

"What kind of rat, actually hiding in the ground to ambush!"

A flying sword, carrying a strong storm, broke through the soil and killed him.

Zhang Yuanjing didn't want to get entangled with him, using the Source Stone to protect his body, forcibly separating the soil, crashing open the flying sword, rushing out of the ground, and crashing towards this person.

Xue Dingluan had already drawn out a golden shovel, holding it with both hands, waving it to directly slap the Source Stone.

"Bang!"

The two objects collided, each retreating.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Yuanjing suddenly released the Yang Refining Umbrella, directly fixing Xue Dingluan on the spot.

Immediately, he flew out of the Source Stone, sacrificed the Jade Spirit Snake, tied this person up, restrained his meridians, and carried him in his hand, then flew towards the back of the mountain.