After the Haoyue Boy and the middle-aged man looked at each other, Haoyue Boy said with a smile,
"Liu, thank you for your hard work in the past few days. But there is an urgent task at the moment, I need to trouble you again. "
"Sure enough!"
Hearing this, Liu Ming secretly thought in his heart, but his face remained calm as he asked.
"What's the task?"
"Here's the thing. Soon, our four ancient sects will join forces to launch a major operation against the Evil Ghost Legion. As for the specific content, you don't need to know it now. But for this operation, we need someone to sneak into the Giant Mountain Fortress of the Evil Ghost Legion and contact an undercover agent that our army has sent into the Evil Ghost Legion to get a piece of crucial information from him. I have discussed with Elder Haoyue, and we think that Liu is the most suitable candidate in the army at present. "The middle-aged man said.
Liu Ming was naturally stunned when he heard this.
He had been in Golden Light City for a while, and he was familiar with the situation here.
The Giant Mountain Fortress of the Evil Ghost Legion was the largest fortress of the Evil Ghost Legion that he knew so far. There were at least tens of thousands of evil ghosts stationed there. Among them, there were at least hundreds of Jin Dan realm evil ghost commanders, and there were even a few Celestial Phenomenon realm ghost commanders. There was even news that the legendary Metaphysic Realm ghost was also stationed there.
The danger of sneaking into this fortress was completely different from the search for the Good Fortune Bowl. Even if he was very confident in his strength, he didn't dare to casually accept such a dangerous task.
"Elders, since it's such an important task, why do you choose me, a newcomer in the Fake Pill Stage? There is more than one senior fellow apprentice in the city who has reached the Jin Dan realm. "Liu Ming was silent for a moment. He didn't directly refuse, but asked back.
"Hehe, sneaking into the Giant Mountain Fortress is not about having a high cultivation. It's better to say that the higher the cultivation, the easier it is to attract the enemy's attention. After all, as long as one is above the Jin Dan realm, it's difficult not to attract the attention of the Evil Ghost Legion. The most ideal situation would be to choose someone with a relatively low cultivation but outstanding strength. Although Liu is only at False Core Stage, his strength is obvious to all, so we feel that you are the most suitable candidate. "The middle-aged man's rigid face revealed a stiff smile as he slowly explained to Liu Ming.
Hearing this, Liu Ming frowned but did not say anything immediately.
"Martial Nephew, you don't have to worry too much. We are naturally aware of the danger of this mission. After careful consideration, we will definitely not let you go there directly. We have specially prepared two things for you. Here is a Thousand Transformations Cloak, a shapeshifting treasure I found in an ancient cultivator's cave. Once worn, you can change your form at will. Even cultivators one stage higher than you won't be able to see through your disguise. I shall give this item to you, Martial Nephew. Wear it and transform into an evil spirit to blend into the Evil Spirit Legion. As long as you don't encounter a Celestial Phenomenon Ghost Marshal head-on, there shouldn't be any problems. " With a flip of his hand, Haoyue Boy took out a pitch-black cloak that shone with a faint light.
"Also, here is a secret technique that can control the transformation of spiritual power. It can temporarily transform one's spiritual power into ghost power. With Elder Haoyue's Thousand Transformations Cloak, it will complement each other even more. In addition, Liu is from the Fallen Serenity Lineage and cultivates Ghost Dao Cultivation Method, so there won't be any problems. "The middle-aged man surnamed Gu said and waved his hand to take out a grey Jade Slips and threw it to Liu Ming.
After Liu Ming received the Jade Slips from the middle-aged man surnamed Gu, he stuck it to his forehead, closed his eyes, and released his Divine Sense to carefully examine it.
Seeing this, Haoyue Boy and the middle-aged man surnamed Gu were not in a hurry. They just looked at Liu Ming and waited quietly.
As time passed, Liu Ming's eyebrows moved a few times.
After a full incense's time, he finally took the Jade Slips off his forehead. Without saying anything, he reached out and took the pitch-black cloak from Haoyue Boy's hand. He squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully.
He saw that the cloak was soft and warm. The surface of the cloak was flowing like water. Divine Sense couldn't penetrate it at all. It was obviously a rare treasure.
"Hehe, as long as Liu can successfully retrieve the information, the Sect also promises a reward of one million contribution points. Of course, you can also exchange it for other things you need of equal value." Seeing this, the middle-aged man surnamed Gu added meaningfully.
Liu Ming was silent for a moment. After a quick thought, he finally cupped his hand and replied,
"Since the two elders feel that I am competent for this task, as a member of Taiqing Sect, I will naturally not refuse. I will accept this task. "
"Good, I know that Liu is righteous! Oh right, this Jade Slips also records the date and location of the meeting with the spy from Giant Mountain Stronghold. This is a serious matter. I will leave everything to Liu. "Haoyue Boy said with a dignified expression.
"I understand." Liu Ming bowed and replied.
Immediately after, Haoyue Boy and the middle-aged man told him a few things that he needed to pay attention to in this kind of task. After that, Liu Ming bid farewell and left the high tower.
He didn't stay in the city. Instead, he immediately returned to the cave residence's secret room and sat down cross-legged. He took out the gray Jade Slips and stuck it on his forehead. He released a wisp of his divine sense and penetrated it. He carefully studied it again.
There was not much content in the Jade Slips. It was mainly about the secret skill of transforming magical power. The content was not obscure. Additionally, Zhang Tie had a deep understanding of ghost cultivation methods. Therefore, it only took him 4 hours to understand most of it.
At the end of the Jade Slips, there was some content about the time and location of the spy from Golden Light City to Giant Mountain Stronghold.
The time was 7 days later. If nothing unexpected happened, it would only take him 5 days from Golden Light City to Giant Mountain Stronghold. Of course, he had more than enough time.
Having said that, Liu Ming didn't waste any time. After thoroughly comprehending the secret method of transforming spiritual power, he spent another day to refine the Thousand Change Cloak. After that, he left Golden Light City silently and headed for the Huge Mountain Fortress.
One hour later, Liu Ming was sitting cross-legged on a black cloud facing the wind. He was flying away from Golden Light City.
He held a Jade Slips in his hand, which was the detailed map that he had obtained from the previous mission reward. The location of Giant Mountain Stronghold of the Evil Ghost Legion was clearly marked on it. In addition, there were some dangerous places along the way, as well as the situation of the indigenous ghost tribes and so on.
After memorizing all the information in his mind, Liu Ming put away the map. Then, he took out the changing cloak from his Sumeru Ring and put it on.
He chanted a few incantations in a low voice. Immediately, bursts of black gas appeared on the cloak. His whole body also gradually expanded. After a while, he turned into a fierce evil ghost cultivator who was more than 3 meters tall and wore a bronze battle armor. There was a black skull pattern embroidered on the chest of the battle armor. The pattern was surrounded by a circle of small black dots. There were a total of 9 of them.
If the military cultivators who often came into contact with the Evil Ghost Legion saw it, they would immediately recognize that this was the symbol of a level nine evil ghost captain.
A level nine evil ghost captain was equivalent to a human cultivator of the later stage of the Crystallization Period, which was similar to Liu Ming's current cultivation.
After doing all this, he stood up in the black cloud and looked up and down his body. A hint of surprise appeared on his green-black ghost face.
The form he transformed could be described as lifelike. It was exactly the same as a real evil ghost captain. With the power of Divine Thought at this moment, he couldn't see the slightest mistake if he wasn't careful.
"It really is a rare treasure …"
Liu Ming murmured a few words in a low voice. He glanced at the black spiritual power of the Tiger Dragon Hell Prison that was emitting from his body, then he silently channeled his spiritual power and cast the mystic art of transforming magical power.
In fact, the ghost qi in the evil ghosts here was very similar to the cultivators of the human realm who absorbed the aura of heaven and earth and transformed it into the true spirit spiritual power in the body. It was transformed by absorbing the yin qi in the Evil Ghost Way and combining it with the cultivation technique.
As Liu Ming chanted an incantation that was difficult to understand, many greyish black inscriptions appeared in his Spirit Sea. They circled around the "Fake Dan" and started to spin in a counter-clockwise manner. The Fa Li that gushed out from the "Fake Dan", under the guidance of the inscriptions, circulated a few times in the opposite direction. Suddenly, it gradually turned into a stream of cold air that flowed into the meridians of his body.
Not long after, the black gas emitted from Liu Ming's body suddenly turned into a gray mist, and at the same time, it exuded a chilly ghost aura.
At this moment, with the chilly ghost qi emitted from his body and the form of the Evil Ghost Commandant, he was completely no different from a real Evil Ghost Commandant. Not to mention a Jin Dan State cultivator, even a Celestial State cultivator might not be able to see through his disguise if they were not careful.
Liu Ming looked at the gray mist wrapped around his arms, nodded with satisfaction, and stopped channeling the mystic art. It didn't take long for the chilly ghost qi around his body to return to the black mist.
However, he didn't stop the Evil Ghost Commandant transformation. He just maintained this form and continued to fly forward.
Seven days later, in a shadowy gray forest outside of the Great Mountain Fortress of the Evil Spirit Legion, a translucent figure shrouded in layers of gray fog was looking in the direction of the fortress from afar.
This figure was naturally Liu Ming, who had trudged all the way here.
On the way to this Giant Mountain Fortress, he was extremely unlucky to encounter a rare large-scale cold storm.
The cold storm was similar to the Corrosive Rain he encountered before, one of the few large-scale natural disasters of the Evil Ghost Realm, but the power of the Corrosive Rain couldn't be mentioned in the same breath.
It was an existence similar to the sandstorms of the mainland, but it contained a terrifying cold flow of Yin Qi, carrying sand and dust all over the sky. Due to the extremely low temperature, everything in its path would be frozen.
Because in an environment rich in Yin Qi, a person's divine sense and sense of direction would be greatly affected, and the magic power in their body would also become chaotic. Coupled with the invasion of cold Qi, cultivators with low cultivation could easily be directly trapped in it, unable to escape until their magic power was exhausted and they died.
With Liu Ming's current magic power, even if he could protect himself in the storm, it would be difficult for him to escape in a short period of time. Therefore, when he discovered the weather anomaly from afar, he made a prompt decision to go in a big circle.
As a result, it took a lot of time, but fortunately, he didn't encounter any other twists and turns along the way, and finally arrived here before the agreed time.
Now that he didn't have much time left, he had to reach the agreed place before dark.
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