"Roar!"
At this moment, Che Huan let out a low roar. After his body flashed, it turned into a little green light and dissipated. Finally, it turned into a green light that flew into Liu Ming's shoulder and disappeared.
Liu Ming's face was startled, and then he smiled bitterly.
In less than a quarter of an hour, Che Huan's clone dissipated on its own.
The spiritual power in his body also continued to be consumed in this short period of time, and now there was less than 30% left.
One had to know that the spiritual power in Liu Ming's body had been refined several times by the "Prison Cage", and his spiritual power was several times stronger than the average cultivator of the same level.
"Forget it, although the time is a little short, let's just treat it as a one-time attack. If I really want to use it against the enemy, I'm afraid I have to wait until I advance to Jin Dan. "Liu Ming muttered to himself to comfort himself.
Then he sat down cross-legged on the ground. After taking a medicinal pill to restore spiritual power, he took out two upper grade spirit stones and held one in each hand to restore spiritual power.
After half a day, he felt that the spiritual power in his body had almost recovered, and he immediately stood up.
Now that Che Huan's totem had advanced to perfection, he naturally did not intend to continue to stay here. He turned his hand and took out the map Jade Slips given by the middle-aged man in a green robe and explored it with his Divine Thought.
After a quarter of an hour, Liu Ming's figure swayed out of the cave, then he turned into a black escape light and flew toward a certain direction in the depths of the Jueming Valley. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared into the sky.
According to the map drawn by Qing Lan, it took Liu Ming a few days to cross the Jueming Valley.
During this period of time, he had encountered several eruptions of Netherworld Extinction Energy. Fortunately, his previous prediction was correct. The Netherworld Extinction Energy would only have a slight effect on him, and would not cause him to lose all of his magic power like the legendary Fiends and Ghosts.
After leaving the Jueming Valley, there was an endless hilly area in front of him. According to the map, after passing through this hilly area, he could reach the destination of his trip, the Styx River basin.
Liu Ming suppressed the excitement in his heart and spread out his divine sense, covering an area of dozens of miles.
These hills could be considered to be within the boundaries of the Netherworld River. According to the information he had gathered, there were a large number of powerful Lunar Beasts living near the Netherworld River. It could also be considered to be a dangerous place in the Netherworld Realm that was rarely visited by humans.
Actually, the Netherworld River in the Ninth Hell was equivalent to the underground spirit veins in the Mortal Dimension, and it was the source of Yin Energy in the Ninth Hell. Most of the Netherworld River was hidden deep underground, and only a small portion was exposed on the surface.
Liu Ming had yet to reach the River Styx, but he could already sense that the Yin Qi in the surrounding void had gradually become denser and more violent.
It was very difficult for the Fiends to use such violent nether Qi directly. Therefore, even though the Nether River region was rich in nether Qi, the Fiends hadn't chosen to build their cities in it. For this reason, most of the Nether River regions were located in remote areas.
Only some Lunar Beasts, whose fleshly bodies were far stronger than those of the Fiends, could endure such violent and pure nether Qi.
However, for this reason, although the Lunar Beasts that lived in the Nether River region weren't weak, their intelligence was relatively low, and they were extremely violent and bloodthirsty.
Liu Ming cautiously flew at a low altitude for a few more days. After killing a few Lunar Beasts along the way, a black river appeared in his field of vision.
After confirming that there were no abnormalities in the vicinity, he spurred on a streak of light and flew forward.
...
At this moment, Liu Ming was hovering in the air above the rolling black river, his eyes narrowed as he stared at the black river below him, his expression somewhat uncertain.
Although the Nether River was called a river, it was like a vast ocean. At first glance, it was impossible to see the other side, and one could only roughly judge the direction of its veins by the direction it flowed.
The river looked as black as ink. Even with Liu Ming's divine sense, he could only probe a few dozen meters into it. He discovered that although the river looked calm on the surface, there were actually undercurrents surging underneath.
Aside from that, he could also see more than a dozen whirlpools of different sizes. The largest ones were around fifty to sixty meters wide, while the smallest ones were around twenty to thirty meters wide. They rotated at an extremely slow speed, making the black river water look incomparably viscous.
Liu Ming flew in the direction the Nether River was flowing, and discovered that the situation in the Nether River region was almost the same. In some regions, there were even more whirlpools.
He found a region with relatively fewer whirlpools, and after waiting for a short while, he discovered that nothing was out of the ordinary. Then, he flicked his sleeve, and a gray talisman appeared in his hand. He tore the talisman into pieces, and a faint layer of cyan light enveloped him.
Then, with a light sway, he turned into a streak of cyan light and descended.
When he was ten meters away from the Nether River below, he stopped.
A piercing chill swept from all directions, and Liu Ming felt his body sinking at the same time. It seemed that in the dark river below, there was an invisible suction pulling him down. Even the cyan shield that protected him became distorted. There were faint traces of black water vapor constantly pouring into the shield through the small gaps on the shield.
Seeing this, Liu Ming's heart shuddered. He hurriedly changed gestures with both hands, and the rolling black mist gushed out from the surface of his body, filling the entire shield. With his powerful spiritual power, he forcefully suppressed the fluctuating black water vapor around him.
After the time it took for a stick of incense to burn, Liu Ming gradually adapted to this environment.
"It really is the water of the Nether River. It's extremely mysterious."
After Liu Ming muttered a few words secretly, he closed his eyes and began to recall the Thousand Condensation Water Method's formula in his mind.
He silently recited the formula several times. After confirming that there were no omissions, he opened his eyes again, raised his arms high, and chanted.
Whoosh!
With him as the center, nine water columns slowly rose from the Nether River below. They intertwined in the void above his head and turned into a black water mass about ten meters in size.
Immediately after that, Liu Ming moved his hand and pointed to the sky, launching a cyan light at the black water mass. The black water mass suddenly rotated slowly in the void.
Wisps of transparent water vapor, along with the rotation of the black water mass, dissipated in all directions. The black water mass also continued to become smaller, but the yin qi emitted from it became purer.
After more than ten days, the black water mass that was originally ten meters in size had now become a bean-sized black water droplet.
Liu Ming changed the gesture in his hand, and he pointed up at the black water droplet.
The entire black water droplet trembled slightly in the void.
Then there was a "poof"!
The surface of the water droplet was covered with a layer of black water mist like an eggshell. In the hazy mist, a black water droplet the size of a mung bean stopped in the void.
Fortunately, Liu Ming's spiritual power was extremely pure. If it were someone else or someone with a lower cultivation, it would be impossible to refine the heavy water so quickly.
Liu Ming waved with one hand, and the black water droplet suddenly accelerated in the void and fell into his hand.
At the next moment, he only felt that his hand was heavy, and his whole arm trembled unconsciously.
The heavy water condensed from the Nether River's water was really incomparable to ordinary heavy water. Just from the weight alone, it was several times heavier than the heavy water of Liu Ming's original Heavy Water Droplet.
He put this drop of heavy water in front of him and looked at it carefully. As a result, he found that there were tiny black spots evenly distributed on the surface of the Nether River's heavy water, and they were faintly flashing.
When he released his Divine Thought to explore it, he also found that the density was much thicker than the heavy water that he obtained previously. The dense water vapor intertwined into a tiny net, firmly woven together, and it was still faintly flowing.
When Liu Ming touched the heavy water gently with his finger, a bone-piercing chill penetrated into his body through his fingertips. He couldn't help but shiver.
He hurriedly retracted his finger. After nodding, he flipped his hand and took out a jade box that he had prepared long ago. He kept the drop of Nether River's heavy water in it.
Then, he continued to refine it in the same way.
In the blink of an eye, a month had passed.
Liu Ming looked at the small drop of Nether River's heavy water that was the size of three mung beans lying quietly in the jade box in his hand. There was a trace of joy in his eyes.
According to some of the secret techniques of condensing heavy water that he found in the Sutra Pavilion of Taiqing Gate, with his current cultivation, it would take at least seven to eight years to be able to condense one drop.
But now, he refined a total of three drops in less than a month!
The speed of refining this Nether River's heavy water was really beyond the expectation of Liu Ming, and he was overjoyed!
Just as Liu Ming put the jade box into the Sumeru Ring and planned to continue to condense more heavy water, a sudden change occurred!
The originally calm dark river under his feet suddenly shook violently. Immediately afterward, a huge whirlpool of hundreds of meters appeared out of thin air. Pieces of black light suddenly rose from it and swept toward Liu Ming.
The surrounding void suddenly tightened, and a powerful spiritual pressure surged from all directions.
Liu Ming reacted extremely quickly. He immediately made a gesture, and his figure flickered at the same time. He rose up rapidly and dodged the black light.
The black light below quickly dissipated, and a large amount of Nether River's water surged up quickly.
A deafening roar resounded!
A giant beast with a size of more than a thousand meters emerged from the surging river.
When Liu Ming glanced down, he was shocked!
The beast was black and shiny like a huge hippopotamus. It was covered with thick scales, but the pair of horns on its head were like antlers. Its eyes were green yellow, and it was staring at Liu Ming fiercely.
Liu Ming flicked his sleeves without saying a word. With a clear sound, a gray light flashed out. After hovering in the air, it turned into a gray flying sword.
But when he was about to use the flying sword to slash down, the beast suddenly opened its mouth and rolled up an air whirlpool.
Liu Ming only felt the surrounding space suddenly distort. An abnormally strong suction force came over, and a light gray airflow firmly wrapped around him. It was like a chain wrapped around his body, binding him and pulling him toward the beast's mouth.
He made a sword gesture in his hand, and the dark patterns on the small gray sword shone. It turned into a gray light that kept attacking the gray air wall around him.
"Peng Peng" sounds came one after another!
This vortex-like air wall was extremely tough. It couldn't be penetrated in a short time!
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