Chapter 294: The River Oasis
Chapter 294 - River Origin Oasis
Three figures showed their silhouettes in the sand and fog, cutting off Lu Chang'an's path.
They were:
A black-skinned iron tower of a man clad in heavy armor, about eight feet tall.
A long-braided young man in a sable cloak with a thin body.
And a female alien with a delicate appearance and a human face and a scaly tail.
Puh-rah!
An elegant middle-aged man in a green shirt, his body shook and fell towards the ground desert.
"Quick battle!"
Ada Maru's eyes were dark, his hands were clenched, and he gave orders.
The black-skinned iron man's figure rumbled and rose to a height of one and a half feet, his entire body hair was reddish-black, and his hair stood up like steel needles.
In the wind and sand, his shadow swept past, and in a few breaths, he entered Lu Changan's range of dozens of feet.
Not waiting to get close to him, his mill-like black iron fist expanded in the field of vision, exuding a horrific pressure of qi and blood.
A thunderous explosion!
In the area where Lu Chang'an was located in the distance, a big charred black pit with a circle of five or six feet was formed, lifting up yellow sand from the sky.
"This is the end?"
Ada Maru was bored, the opponent's strength was weak, which meant the gain would not be too high.
However, it was normal, a false dan external cultivator, with a third-order poison, naturally couldn't block a thunderous strike from a physical cultivator of the same rank.
The black-skinned giant man as a real body cultivator, not only is his physical body strong, but also has a body refining miracle, and can threaten Dharma cultivators in the middle distance.
The difference between the body cultivator's magic ability and the method of cultivation is different.
In Feng Yuan Kingdom, there was once a strong body cultivator of quasi-fourth level who unleashed his supernatural power and with a loud roar, shattered the heart of a Pillar Cultivator several miles away and died.
"A true body cultivator is indeed different."
In the wind and sand, the vision blurred and flashed, the figure of the green-shirted middle-aged man appeared strangely on the back side of the black-skinned giant man.
A fierce air-breaking wind sounded in his ears at the same time, and a large palm covered with golden striped round pieces slapped horizontally at the back of the black-skinned giant man.
"This kind of speed? Third-order body refining!"
The black-skinned giant man's scalp was numb, it was already too late to dodge, he could only use his force energy to resist it, and was solidly hit on the back by that palm.
"With a click, the heavy armor cracked, followed by a series of bone crunching sounds.
The black-skinned giant man's forehead veins bulged and he spat out a mouthful of blood, his body flew out backwards and plunged into the desert.
"A third-order body refining external cultivator?"
Ada Maru in the distance was slightly surprised, but did not panic.
At the same time.
The eerie sound of a woman's voice echoes.
A phantom shadow of uncertain reality flashed to Lu Changan's side.
"Cluck......"
The eyes of the human-faced Jiao woman lit up with a hazy light, causing an inexplicable sense of distortion in the area around Lu Chang'an, and the speed of her body was slightly stagnant.
Snap!
Lu Changan raised his arm and collided with the phantom-like sweeping Jiao tail, feeling an unreal slippery feeling.
The human-faced Jiao woman let out a muffled grunt and was knocked out by the huge force, but did not suffer any obvious injuries.
"This is a...... third-order puppet?"
Only then did Lu Changan realize that the human-faced Jiao woman wasn't a living being, but a living, breathing puppet.
Its spirit, charisma, and skin appearance had all reached the point where it could be mistaken for the real thing.
The boy with long braids was a third-ranked puppet master, exceeding Lu Chang'an in terms of puppet refinement and some of his fields.
The strength of the Sphinx Jiao puppet was slightly better than a great demon of the early third stage!
Combined with the third-stage poison, such a powerful lineup, an ordinary True Dan cultivator would have to drink in the desert.
Unfortunately, he met Lu Changan.
The Evergreen Kung Fu's Poison Transformation, The Golden Luo Hegemony Body's resistance to negative effects, and a body refining physical body that was nearly at the middle of the third rank, completely overcame such a combination.
Lu Changan suddenly understood why he got Xiao Ji's trigrams.
"Ah! Lord Ada save......"
The voice of the black-skinned body cultivator, who was plunged into the desert, suddenly ended abruptly as he was swallowed hard by a huge vortex of sand flow!
Lu Changan smiled faintly, so what if the body cultivation is divine? In the absolute strength of the realm of the crush, is also no resistance. Physical cultivation cultivation bitter tired, eat talent also eat resources, frontal hard fighting, survival defense is really strong.
But in the open environment, facing the same level of cultivation, there is no obvious advantage.
"Earth system great demon......"
Ada Maru's face changed greatly, his pupils condensed, finally showing panic.
If Lu Chang'an was simply a third-stage Refined Body or an early stage of True Dan, he would still have a chance of winning by virtue of his numerical advantage.
The other party was also harboring a terrifying earth demon, and destroying his powerful body cultivator's men was beyond the scope of confrontation.
"Real Xu, please be merciful! Scorpion Wasteland City's deputy city lord, Adarshi, is my father......"
Seeing that the situation was not good, Ada Maru moved out of the background heel and manipulated the puppet back to the defense, preparing to retreat.
In order to show his strength and let Lu Chang'an know to retreat, he offered up two more quasi third-order beast puppets, one on the left and one on the right, to protect his body in front of him.
With this formation, even if the powerful True Dan wanted to kill him, he could still stall for a while, and the noise of the fight was enough to startle the surrounding tribal cultivators.
However, the next scene made Ada Maru horrified.
Swish swish swish!
Only to see Lu Chang'an gently raise his hand, five archers puppets in leather armor appeared in front of him.
The spirit pressure emanating from the bow and arrow cohesion is all at the False Dan level or above.
Two True Dan level puppets and three False Dan level puppets.
"This, how is it possible! It's both a third-order body refining and a third-order puppet master......"
Ada Maru's voice trembled, simply skeptical of life, the eyeballs in the sunken sockets, almost fell out.
Third-order body refining powerhouse, with a team of high-grade puppets, this is a damn lineup for attacking immortal cities and sects.
"Shoot me!"
Lu Chang'an waved his hand, and the five True Human Grade archers fired two rounds in a row.
Swoosh swoosh!
The numerous arrows of the magic treasure level turned into a dazzling rainbow of arrows, tearing through the sandy and foggy void.
"Senior spare your life, have mercy!"
"Quickly, quickly block--"
Ada Maru roared in despair, letting the puppet block in front of him, and offering up magic treasures for defense, affixing defensive talismans.
Pom-pom snort!
Just the first round of dazzling arrows destroyed all the quasi third stage puppets, magic treasures and talismans in front of him.
The only third-ranked puppet, the human-faced Jiao woman, was entangled in the spiraling sandstone tentacles extending out from the desert and could not get out.
Shoo shoo shoo!
In the latter round of shooting, locked by the many arrows, Ada Maru's pupils were bloodshot and his eyes were wide open, but he was already powerless to return to the heavens.
Although he is a third-order puppet master, he is only a pseudo-dan stage Dharma cultivator.
The third-ranked body refining powerhouse not only bullied the small, but also initiated a group fight, looking at the huge desert city, there is no such shameless person.
"Fu...... Fu Ta!?"
The green-shirted man that he was staring at dead on, his face blurred openly and transformed into a familiar face.
Fu Ta!
Before his death, Adamaru was stunned, shocked beyond belief, and let out a final question and hiss.
Why did he intercept Lu Changan?
The cause was Futa's spreading gossip about Realist Xu within the city, suspecting that the latter had brought in a large amount of pills and spiritual herbs from the outside world.
Of course, the fact that Ada Maru was building special puppets and was in desperate need of spirit stone supplies, and was preparing to rob the fat sheep of the outer cultivators was the root cause.
This is the tradition of the clans of the Wind Elemental Kingdom.
Swoosh poof poof--
Ada Maru's body was pierced through, but his shocked hiss before he died, which Lu Changan did not isolate, traveled out a long way.
After Ada Maru's death, the struggle of the female puppet of Sphinx Jiao was reduced by half, but it still had the instinct to survive.
Lu Changan couldn't help but be amazed, can't it be that Ada Maru had injected this female puppet with an independent personality consciousness?
He utilized his Puppet Control Technique, and together with the Earth Rock Mouse, he bound and sealed this strange puppet, and put it into his storage bag.
In a few breaths of time, he quickly cleared the battlefield, obtained the trophies, and recovered the puppet arrows.
"Go!"
Lu Chang'an changed his attire to take on the face image of Futa and flew towards the outside of the Scorpion Desolate City's sphere of influence.
Ada Maru's identity is extraordinary, he's an important person of the Scorpion Tribe's direct lineage, and he'll most likely alert the top management of Desolate City after he's killed. "Ah! Deputy Inspector Futa?"
Leaving the surrounding area, Lu Chang'an encountered tribal cultivators who were too scared to hide and in awe.
Lu Chang'an didn't have Futa's blood, but he had made physical contact with the other party during their first meeting, and collected a wisp of each other's scent.
This kind of superficial identity disguise is not realistic enough, but in the desert flying sand cover, but did not reveal cracks.
Lu Chang'an knew that this pot of Fouta may not be able to afford it.
But the unfavorable news about himself and Ada Maru's actions are all related to this man.
Lu Chang'an intentionally muddied the water to confuse the public and disgusted Futa before he left.
......
"Hm? Who's calling me?"
A few dozen miles away from the place of the incident, Futa flew out quietly from the Scorpion Wastelands, and at that moment looked around in bewilderment and suspicion.
The voice seemed to be an illusion, and was not actually heard.
As the vice general of the city's patrols, Lord Adamaru's covert actions fell into his eyes.
Futa's intention was to use Adamaru's hand to test Lu Chang'an's background. If the latter's strength is not good enough, it will be used as a tool to kill others.
Futa followed him out by mistake, with the intention of watching the fun and taking advantage of the situation.
He didn't know Ada Maru's real puppet master attainments, and that Xu Zhenzhen felt that it wasn't simple, so perhaps there would be a lose-lose situation.
At the critical moment, if he could help Ada Maru and get the appreciation of the powerful and noble son of the tribe, it would be very helpful to his future.
"Strange, the fighting movement suddenly disappeared from this place......"
Futa in the surrounding search for a long time, nothing, face puzzled, feel strange.
On the way back to the deserted city.
The sound of breaking air came to his face, a familiar and strong aura, making Futa's heart jump.
He tried to avoid it but the other party sensed it keenly.
"Futa, what are you doing sneaking around there?"
Between the clouds, the Vice City Lord's loud voice was filled with anger.
"Ah! Futa greets the Vice City Lord."
Futa winced, unaware of what was going on, and bowed respectfully.
Vice City Lord Adasi, a mid-third stage physical cultivator, is none other than Adamaru's real father.
That night.
The news of Ada Maru's death, and the news that the Deputy City Inspector of Fouta had been imprisoned in the dungeon, spread throughout the Scorpion Wasteland City.
There were many rumors among the people.
One of them is highly agreeable:
It is said that Futa secretly urged Ada Maru to intercept and kill the foreign cultivator's pandan real person, taking advantage of the fact that both sides were defeated, so as to take advantage of the situation.
......
Half a day later.
Lu Changan flew out of the Scorpion Desolate City's sphere of influence, the road was barren as far as the naked eye could see, the oasis was getting fewer and fewer, and the spirit veins were almost extinct.
The civilization of Feng Yuan Kingdom originated from the Snowy Mountain Sacred Land, with the major desert cities as the important branches, spreading their branches and leaves.
Far away from the deserted cities, there are fewer and fewer people, the spiritual veins are barren, and natural disasters occur frequently.
At this time, Lu Chang'an did not know that the smooth, simple and crude graft brought what kind of fate to the Fu Ta Vice Patrol City.
After he left the area of influence of the Deserted City, he made a slight projection, but only got a rough trigram.
The higher-ups of Scorpion Desolate City actually didn't track him down and wanted him.
In Lu Chang'an's opinion, the strength of Fu Ta was not enough to fully carry the pot, and being able to confuse the line of sight and take on some of the firepower achieved the desired effect.
On second thought, Lu Chang'an realized that Scorpion Wasteland City had no reasonable excuse to explicitly want him.
For one thing, there was no evidence to prove that Lu Chang'an had killed someone, especially with the biggest suspect in the open.
Secondly, even if the truth was found out and it was discovered that it was Ada Maru who robbed Lu Chang'an and ended up being killed in return, it would be a matter of blame and would not account for moral justice.
If it was leaked out, it would cause the Scorpion Tribe to lose face.
The tribes of the Feng Yuan Kingdom emphasize on the survival of the fittest and the survival of the fittest. Looting is a traditional craft and is commonplace.
The tribes would not be so keen to kill each other because of looting.
Even so, Lu Chang'an utilized the art of divination to cover up this matter slightly, making it more difficult to divine.
This kind of concealment tactic is obviously effective against diviners whose skills are inferior to his own. In the country of Feng Yuan, except for the celestial masters of the Snow Mountain Sacred Land, the individual tribes are relatively backward in the art of divination.
Lu Changan estimated that it was hard to say whether the strongest diviner of the Scorpion Tribe had reached the Third Order.
On the way, he had already destroyed the suspicious things in Ada Maru's storage bag.
At night, Lu Chang'an landed in a sand cave and counted the loot.
"No wonder it came out to rob."
Ada Maru was much poorer than Lu Chang'an had imagined, with only one or two thousand spirit stones in his storage pouch.
Most of this person's financial resources are used for research and building puppets.
Especially the female puppet with a human face.
Lu Chang'an found some interesting information from Ada Maru's jade slip, the records of his experiments.
Ada Maru had obtained a lost puppet technique called the "Transformation Spirit Alien Puppet Record".
This puppet technique can infuse puppets with independent spiritual intelligence, but the technique is sinister and requires the refinement of the souls of living beings.
In it, there is also a record of puppet varieties that mimic the forms and abilities of ancient spirits, but the method of construction is only a theoretical guess.
This kind of puppet that imitates the form, even if it only has its shape, can create a "foreign spirit puppet" that contains extraordinary aptitude and outstanding strength.
The cost of a foreign spirit puppet is expensive, two to three times that of a puppet of the same rank.
The human-faced Jiao woman is only a defective product, with some faults, it can't last for a long time to fight.
With Lu Chang'an's YuanYing eyesight assessment, this kind of puppet building that imitates the true spirit of ancient divine beasts is a pit that draws a big cake.
No one in Tianyan Continent has ever witnessed a full-bodied True Spirit, at most they have seen ancient records and observed certain species with their thin bloodlines.
The "Puppet Records of Transforming Spirits" recorded six theories and conjectures on the creation of puppets that mimic the forms of True Spirits, including the Human-Faced Jiao, the Five-Colored Peacock, the Xuanwu Turtle, and so on.
The most core refining material requires the key parts of rare birds and beasts of true spirit bloodline.
Ada Maru is a genius, believed in the theoretical conjecture, in-depth research for many years, to get a lot of alternative fit materials, reduce the requirements, to create a castrated version of the remnants.
In order to increase the success rate, he refined the soul consciousness of his half-sister and injected it into the puppet.
Adamaru was in love with his half-sister, who had an inferior spirit root, and after receiving a promise from her, he merged her with his life's wisdom before she reached the end of her lifespan.
"There is only a thin line between genius and madness."
Lu Chang'an had to admit that Ada Maru's puppetry skills were beyond his own in terms of innovation and depth of delving.
Getting Ada Maru's puppet skills and insights was Lu Changan's biggest gain this time.
The unreliable "Spirit Transformation and Otherworldly Puppet Record" was obtained by Ada Maru many years ago when he killed a traitor of the Thousand Mechanisms Sect.
"The Thousand Mechanisms Sect, the holy land and originator of the Great Green Earth Realm's Puppetry Sect......."
Lu Changan, as a third-ranked puppet master, had a longing for this.
It is said that the Thousand Chance Sect has the ability to create Yuan Ying level 4th rank puppets.
In the entire Great Qing, the puppet inheritance in other places is only below the fourth rank.
The Thousand Chance Sect is the only major force that possesses a complete fourth-order puppet inheritance and is able to successfully build it.
Lu Chang'an's skill talent in this life is the highest in puppetry, and he also has an advantage in divine sense.
Although the "Spiritualized Puppet Record" was a pit, it inspired Lu Changan.
"Is it possible to temporarily infuse the soul shadows of the second and fourth lives into a high-level puppet?"
"Using a powerful puppet as a physical body carrier, if the fourth life YuanYing realm is successfully possessed, I wonder how powerful it can be......"
......
Two months later.
Lu Chang'an passed through the sphere of influence of two more Desolate City tribes and crossed a large desert area, finally arriving at the Outer Sect Alliance on the south eastern side of the Wind Elemental Kingdom.
During this period, he didn't enter any other desert cities, and sold and purchased some materials in some oases and water.
The originally shrunken spirit stones have returned to a wave of blood, reaching 150,000 to 160,000 yuan.
Entering the outer sect alliance's sphere of influence, on the way, there are more oases and livable land.
During the flight, he came across camels, sand animal carts, small and medium-sized spirit ships, including some traveling merchants and casual practitioners. Lu Changan felt the atmosphere of free trade.
In every oasis and marketplace he visited, there were no longer cold and xenophobic gazes in the transactions, and there was no lack of enthusiastic reception from the cultivators.
There are no real natives in the Outer Sect Alliance, and cultivators from all over the neighborhood live and develop here.
In the eight desert cities, a few tribal cultivators have moved to the territory of the Outer Sect Alliance for various reasons.
Sects, clans, chambers of commerce, and casual cultivators are spread out in oases, spiritual veins, and immortal cities of all sizes.
A few more days of flying.
A large oasis covering an area of several hundred miles in circumference came into Lu Chang'an's sight.
From the air, one can see the towering mountains on the oasis, and a large river that crosses the oasis' mountains and forests.
From far away, Lu Chang'an could sense the rich spiritual qi emanating from a medium to large third-order spiritual vein.
"River Source Oasis! Rich in water resources, planted with large tracts of forest vegetation, wood aura is relatively active......."
This is one of the oases suitable for diving cultivation in Lu Chang'an's plan.
Relevant information, from the fourth life of the Divine Flame Lord, is a suitable place for refuge and quiet cultivation.
The River Source Oasis has no powerful sects, nor is it dominated by a single family.
The important resources of the oasis are held by a few Immortal Cultivation clans and a few powerful practitioners.
Thousands of miles away from the River Source Oasis, there is also a high-level immortal city, controlled by the forces led by the Xuanji Building, which is convenient for trading and purchasing.
Xuanji House is the giant of the Outer Sect Alliance.
It is said to be a force established by the defectors of the Thousand Chance Sect in the Wind Elemental Kingdom, mainly dealing in the puppet business.
Lu Chang'an came to Feng Yuan Country to take refuge and cultivate to the middle to late stage of JieDan.
The Immortal City is not a suitable place for large forces and is crowded with people.
The River Origin Oasis, where the wood aura is relatively active, is the target of his investigation.
......
Half an hour later.
Lu Chang'an arrived at a bustling marketplace on the eastern side of the River Origin Oasis.
After learning about it, the spirit vein dojo on the oasis that is rented out to the public is limited to the top grade of the second order.
Lu Changan is not in a hurry, with his excellent skills, he is not afraid of not being able to find a third-order spirit vein power to rely on.
Without realizing it, he strolled to the street where the stalls were set up, learning about the prices of the local resources on the way, and slowly asking for information.
At this moment, Lu Changan felt a faint sense of bonding.
Similar to when Li Erqing passed away and disappeared into reincarnation, but this tie is much weaker.
His gaze turned and landed on a stall not far away.
The owner of the stall is a brother and sister, selling talismans, magic weapons, books, antiques, and other hodgepodge.
The elder brother was dressed in a strong suit, about twenty-something years old, with hard features, thick eyebrows and big eyes, giving people a sense of generosity and kindness.
The younger sister is wearing a blue pleated dress, about 17 or 18 years old, with a pink face and lips, and a bell bracelet on her slender white wrist.
Ding!
The bells on her wrists are ringing.
The blue-skirted girl's heart was happy, her eyes and eyebrows smiled as she looked at the green-shirted, elegant middle-aged man who approached her.
"Seniors need what, my daughter can introduce you."
Whenever the bell of the bracelet rings, it always brings her good luck and earns her more spirit stones.
Most of this chapter was coded on a cell phone, my eyes are so tired, not as comfortable as the big screen...
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