Outside of Ruohai Straits, there were many scattered troops of Yunxia Mountain scattered on the plains and roads.
However, Zong Shou was too lazy to bother about them. The 5 thousand cavalry that followed didn't bother about them either. Each of them had 3 horses, protecting the hundreds of carriages as they continued to gallop towards Gantian Mountain.
The only change was that Zong Gang took over command. He had been through many battles and was also Zong Weiran's personal general.
The food and lodging arrangements along the way as well as the arrangement of formations were much better than Tan Tao's. They protected Zong Yuan tightly.
Zong Yuan once again hid in a cloud crossing carriage. He took 2 earth energy pills as well as the 2 lightning attribute spiritual veins that Zong Shou captured to try to break through in these few days.
As for Xiong Kui, he followed. Who knows where he found a few Windrider foals. Unexpectedly, his expression didn't change at all as he gracefully followed the convoy, eating and drinking as if he was an honored guest. He was totally unable to tell that before this he was beaten up by Zong Shou. Even Chu Xue and Hu Zhongyuan admired how shameless this person was.
Zong Shou also spent the entire day in the carriage. Apart from occasionally stopping to set up camp to rest, he pretty much didn't show his face.
For 2 consecutive days, he stayed in the carriage, going all out to study the emperor flame spiritual art. Not only did he perfect it, but he also merged the core essence into his world shocking spiritual art.
Unfortunately, there were too few things that he could learn from. On the morning of the 3rd day, Zong Shou felt a neither strong nor weak spiritual energy fluctuation from the carriage behind him.
Without needing to look, he knew that it was Zong Yuan who had broken through and merged with the 5th spiritual vein.
Zong Shou couldn't help but laugh awkwardly while praising the effects of the earth energy pill. As expected, it was really amazing. At the same time, he sighed for himself.
Actually, the lightning phoenix essence in his body was far better than the earth energy pill. His body constitution was already comparable to some of the weaker Martial Arts Grandmasters after being tempered in the pool. Compared to Zong Yuan, his attainments in martial arts were countless times better.
However, because of the World Shocking Spiritual Art and the spiral energy, he was unable to complete the Earth Chakra level content. He could only be stuck at the early Connate Meridian stage, unable to move. They could only watch as Zong Yuan's cultivation soared.
Even Chuxue and his 2 spiritual beasts, with the help of the earth energy pill, would probably only need a few days to catch up to him.
After this day, Zong Shou decided to temporarily put aside the matter of perfecting the World Shocking Spirit Art. Turning around, he picked up the spirit master secret manuals he got from Xuan Mountain City and started to comprehend them. He actually had some gains. With Shi Dan, a Return to Sun realm spirit master, by his side, he could ask for advice at any time. Many of his questions were answered and he also learned some tricks.
Even though there were still some reservations in his words. When Zong Shou cultivated soul power and formed the True Spiritual Charms, he was still 30% faster than before.
Feeling excited, Zong Shou started to draw talismans.
Actually, when he was in Jiefu City, he had bought many talismans and they were all top quality. This time, just the spirit masters that he had personally killed numbered 40, and they were all at the Night Wandering Realm. The talismans that he obtained could be said to be an ocean amount, greatly filling up his inventory.
However, based on what Shi Dan taught him, when a spirit master drew talismans, not only could they deepen their understanding of the laws and the heavens, it was also a cultivation method. It was a form of cultivation in itself, and it was very beneficial for condensing True Talismans. Even if the true spiritual talisman was formed, after each successful talisman drawing, it could make it stronger and thicker, causing these spiritual charms to become clearer in the soul ocean.
Not only could it shorten the time needed to cast spells, but it could also increase one's sensitivity to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Even if one was a sword cultivator, this was also a cultivation method that couldn't be lacking.
At first, Zong Shou didn't fully believe it, but after a day of drawing talismans, he felt a bitter taste in his mouth.
As expected, the secret techniques of spirit masters were passed down from generation to generation, and they were really tight. Such a shallow trick, even in the future where information was so advanced, there weren't any records of this.
If he wasn't a Talisman Path Grandmaster, he would have had an unstable foundation at the first step of a Spirit Master's cultivation.
At this moment, he could only grit his teeth and make up for what he had missed. Starting from the first lightning word talisman, then water, fire, gold. Every morning, each word would be drawn with a full hundred of the same element spells.
The grade also went from low to high. When Zong Shou started to craft grade 4 talismans, he felt that his soul ocean whirlpool was showing signs of expanding once more. His connection with the god talisman seeds outside of the whirlpool was getting tighter and tighter.
He suddenly comprehended and knew that he only needed to draw grade 5 talismans. Most probably, he would be able to totally merge with these god talisman seeds. Not only would his soul power greatly increase, but he would also be able to use a portion of grade 7 and above god talisman spells.
With such a bright future, Zong Shou was naturally fully focused.
Drawing talismans every day was the most boring. At the start, there was Chu Xue and Ruoshui accompanying him to chat with the 2 of them. That exquisite technique also gave Shi Dan a violent shock. However, as time went on, not only did Chu Xue run away early in the morning, but Ruoshui also pretended to sleep. Even Shi Dan lost interest and stopped looking on.
Since Zong Shou was bored, he decided to find some fun for himself. Every day, apart from drawing talismans, he would draw tens of luck talismans. Then, he would let Ruoshui silently stick onto Xiong Kui's body.
Then, from time to time, he would observe this person's movements for fun, soothing his mind.
His current soul power was close to a hundred times stronger than when he was at the bottom of Pill Spirit Mountain. The luck talismans that he drew were naturally much stronger.
Not only did the time last, but it was also much longer. Even the effects seemed to have increased by a lot.
In a full two days, Xiong Kui had made a huge mistake over ten times. Not only were the 3 Windrider foals all damaged, unable to ride and gallop in a short time, but he himself was also dizzy from the fall.
With his close to Xuanwu ancestor cultivation, he could easily avoid it. However, each time he tried to jump up or dodge, there were all sorts of accidents that happened. There were even 2 times where it was so dangerous that he nearly lost his life.
However, maybe because he wasn't in a busy city and was in the wilderness, or maybe because his luck was too bad, Xiong Kui only picked up a few bags at the start. Who knows whether or not it was left by the defeated Yunxia and Blazing Flame City soldiers, but his gains were not small. On the 5th day, he totally missed the escape route of those defeated soldiers and generals, so he didn't gain any more gold.
However, along the way, he found many wild spiritual herbs and ores. There was once when he fell from the horse, he actually knocked out a pile of grade 3 mind stone ores.
Even his own martial path had 2 comprehensions, improving by a lot.
This caused Xiong Kui to be surprised. His eyes were filled with a fierce glow as he stared at the 2 cloud crossing carriages that Zong Shou sat in.
However, in the end, he sighed. Who knows if it was because he recalled the storm-like spear attacks that day, but after a moment of fear appeared on his face, he retracted his gaze.
At the start, Zong Shou still had the mood of testing and playing around. However, after the 6th day, his expression slowly turned serious.
Each time he drew that luck word god talisman, he paid more and more attention. Every day, he took out a large portion of his time to focus on observing Xiong Kui.
However, after these few days, not only did Xiong Kui feel that something wasn't right, but he also became more careful. From morning till night, he was nervous and on guard. Even Chu Xue slowly noticed that something wasn't right. She asked around from Ruoshui and recalled the situation when she was in Xiaoyuan City. It was similar to the current Xiong Kui. She instantly saw through Zong Shou's evil actions.
Following which, she was naturally filled with killing intent as she found Zong Shou who was drawing the talisman.
"Young master, that day in Xiaoyuan City, you did something good right?"
Zong Shou was startled. Then, he held the brush in one hand and continued to act like he was drawing on the talisman paper. He was thinking to himself that this little kitten was able to notice so quickly this time. Did she really become smart?
He couldn't help but raise his eyes, only to see two balls of flames burning in Chuxue's eyes. Zong Shou's heart instantly thumped, and even the hand holding the brush trembled slightly. That perfectly straight vertical line actually slanted to the side a great distance away.
He could only helplessly crush this broken talisman paper into a ball and toss it out of the window. He acted like he didn't understand, "What good thing? What happened in Xiaoyuan City that day? Xue, why can't I understand what you are saying? "
Chu Xue scoffed, flipping her palm and sending an unused luck talisman to Zong Shou. Her tone was firm, "You still want to deny it! Do you see this, this is evidence! I got it from sister Ruoshui. I remember that young master you drew the same talisman right? If it wasn't for you how would Xue fall for no reason! "
Zong Shoxin grumbled in his heart, glancing at Ruoshui who was lying on the soft bed. He saw that the latter was lazily lying on her side like she had already fallen asleep. Only her eyelids trembled slightly, opening a slit as she peeked over. However, when Zong Shou looked over, she hurriedly closed her eyes. Her breathing was even like she had really fallen asleep.
Zong Shou couldn't help but have a headache, deciding to continue denying it, shaking his head, "Xue don't malign me, what kind of evidence is this? Just because I wanted Ruoshui to stick it on Xiong Kui's body? As for the talisman I drew that day, I have long lost it. Xue you accidentally fell, you can't blame it on others. Your young master doesn't have such ability. "
Chu Xue bit her lips with her pearly white teeth, directly interrupting, "I have counted, Xiong Kui fell off the horse 14 times in these 3 days. One time he injured his bones and tendons while training, 3 times he choked to death when drinking water. He picked up 60 grade 4 beast crystals, 25 grade 3 mind stones, 2 grade 2 spiritual artifacts and 30 odd spiritual herbs. When I was in Xiaoyuan City it was the same, falling 4 times and picking up 11 thousand silver and 2 night pearls. I was smashed by a potted plant in exchange for a thousand year lightning apricot seed … " If you like this work, you are welcome to come to qidian.com to vote for me. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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