Chapter 416 Underground Worm Path
Refine the origin blood?
Jiang Li saw an interesting term in appraisal.
There was definitely something wrong with this Origin Blood Ancient Leech.
“Leave quickly!”
Behind him, Guhei Zhuohou shouted and grabbed Jian Mo who had yet to react. He did not hesitate to mobilize his spiritual qi and jump on the black stalagmite to escape, rushing towards the center of the island.
This fellow would actually bring this younger sister along when fleeing and would even take the initiative to remind others, causing Jiang Li to be slightly surprised.
However, Jiang Li had no intention of fleeing with him.
Spiritual light spewed out from his right hand, turning into a wooden sword that landed in his hand. He casually slashed horizontally, instantly beheading the corpse of Guhei Daniu who was rushing over in a strange posture.
“20 times the expenditure of spiritual qi? How terrifying.”
With just a simple wooden sword, the energy consumed was enough to transform into a twenty-meter-tall wooden puppet in the outside world.
If it was an ordinary Golden Core cultivator, they would probably be squeezed dry after three tries.
Eh?
However, Daniu with his head sent flying did not fall to the ground.
A black tentacle formed from hundreds of Origin Blood Ancient Leeches spewed out of his neck and grabbed the flying head.
He actually pulled his head back and put it back on his neck. He stretched it a little and it was no different from before.
At this moment, more and more black maggots crawled out from under the rock ground.
Including the pair of siblings and all the other pirates, they had all lost their vitality and stopped struggling.
Then, more and more of the Origin Blood Ancient Leeches burrowed into their bodies, causing them to stand up again.
Bang! Bang! Bang! After their bodies were controlled by the black maggots, it seemed to have stimulated the potential of their bodies to the limit, causing the muscles of these mortals to swell explosively, and their arms swelled to the size of thighs. After that, they pounced towards Jiang Li together.
“What an interesting thing. It can unleash such power without using spiritual qi.”
A green-black sword light flashed, and all the controlled corpses were cut into more than twenty pieces. However, just like before, such an attack still could not kill them.
Under the pull of the black maggots, the shattered body stuck together again and continued to pounce towards Jiang Li. Under such circumstances where spiritual qi was lost at any time, it was indeed quite troublesome to face such an opponent that was not easy to kill. It was no wonder that Guhei Zhuohou had avoided them and fled without fighting.
“However, insects are insects.”
Jiang Li slapped the ground and used the spiritual qi of the Nine Nether Tree Realm that could be used once to summon vines that were roughly the size of chopsticks to tie up all these fellows.
“No matter what you are, you shouldn’t like this.”
Jiang Li’s aura changed. The power of the Nine Nether Asura had already transformed into a blood-colored chaotic energy.
A blood-colored ball of light slapped into one of the controlled corpses.
The corpse that was originally struggling instantly stopped.
In the next moment, as if they were fleeing for their lives, a large number of Origin Blood Ancient Leeches spewed out of his body, wanting to burrow into the ground and escape.
However, how could Jiang Li let them off?
He took out a crystal bottle.
His right hand was stuck to the bottom of the bottle. Immediately, a suction force emerged from the mouth of the bottle and absorbed the black maggots that fled.
Without a parasitic body, these maggots were quite weak and could not break through the binding of the crystal bottle. They could only crawl uselessly inside.
After that, Jiang Li used the same method again, and he forced out all the remaining corpses.
Soon, there were only broken limbs and remains on the ground. “As expected, the meaning of the existence of these maggots is to absorb the blood of the children of the Dragon Transformation Island’s Dragon Head.”
Jiang Li looked at the more than twenty crystal bottles on the ground.
Three of the worms in the crystal bottles were emitting a faint red light.
The worms in the three crystal bottles were forced out of Guhei Daniu and the twins.
Moreover, these red Origin Blood Ancient Leeches were even more active than the other black maggots.
From the looks of it, they wanted to return somewhere.
It just so happened that Jiang Li was free now, so he could completely send them on their way.
He rummaged through the coffin and found a compass. This was the equipment given to him by the sect when he was learning rune array formations.
Unfortunately, Jiang Li did not need to calculate the earth vein at all. He could just use his eyes to look.
He had never used this compass before.
He reached out and removed the needle on it. He picked out a red Origin Blood Ancient Leech from the bottle and placed it on the compass.
The worm twisted a few times and immediately crawled in a certain direction. However, after being blocked by the edge of the compass and realizing that it could not advance, it began to crawl around the compass irregularly. Was it lost?
No, after observing for a while, he discovered that the worm should be trying to burrow into the ground.
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Li stomped his foot on the ground, and a large hole immediately appeared in the hard rock ground.
Air flowed out of the hole, and there was a tunnel hidden in the rock layer beneath his feet.
There were also a large number of such maggots lying dormant in the tunnel.
Jiang Li directly took out three large wine vats that were the height of a person and aimed the mouth of the vats at the hole. After absorbing all the maggots inside three times in a row, he jumped in. After entering the underground worm path, the red Origin Blood Ancient Leech that was originally crawling everywhere immediately became much quieter. On the compass, it only climbed in one direction.
“Is it in this direction?”
Jiang Li was skilled and bold. Under the guidance of the worm, he walked quickly along the underground tunnel.
In appraisal, this kind of worm had the habit of “binary fission hunting”. In other words, the main body would split into sub-bodies and go out to hunt before returning to feed the main body.
Therefore, this kind of worm had a very strong anti-nesting trait, but it should be similar to insects like ants. They relied on identifying a special pheromone.
The location could not be specified in an accurate direction. It could only return to the underground tunnel to find the way.
Jiang Li really wanted to see what would happen after these Origin Blood Ancient Leeches absorbed the blood. That might be the goal of the Dragon Transformation Island’s Dragon Head, Guhei Tianchou.
He captured the Origin Blood Ancient Leeches as he advanced.
Jiang Li quickly discovered that these underground tunnels were not completely chewed up by maggots. The main body should be an artificial ruin. In some of the wider roads, there were obvious signs of artificial excavation.
However, due to the constant bites of these maggots, this ruin had already been destroyed beyond recognition.
The more complicated worm paths also turned the underground into a complicated underground maze.
It would definitely take a lot of time to completely explore such a complicated underground maze.
However, cultivators could not stay in this space for long. He believed that even the Dragon Transformation Island’s Dragon Head could not walk through every corner of this ruin.
Following the guidance of the red Origin Blood Ancient Leech, after walking for a long time, Jiang Li saw a stone wall that had been tempered by time but was still intact. On it were ancient words.
Jiang Li could not conceal the joy on his face. He had seen these words in King Zhou’s Chaoge Mystic Realm.
This place was related to the Human Emperor, so it was very likely the Xuanyuan Tomb! Touching the ancient words on the wall, a force in Jiang Li’s body was automatically mobilized.
This feeling was very strange. He knew what he should do.
He cut his palm and pressed the blood-stained palm against the stone wall.
The blood that contained the Human Emperor’s Blood Qi and Pure Dragon Blood was absorbed.
Immediately, the words carved on the stone wall seemed to come alive.
The words were clearly carved on the stone, but they could move one by one and automatically climb onto Jiang Li’s skin.
The words on the entire wall covered Jiang Li’s entire body. If not for the fact that these words disappeared soon after, Jiang Li would really be too ashamed to face anyone.
After the large number of ancient words disappeared from his skin, they directly surged into Jiang Li’s consciousness.
He immediately sat down cross-legged and tidied up the information. Even the current him would feel a surge of heavy information.
(Qi Condensation Technique]
These words recorded such a method.
Its function was very simple. It could make the energy in the body become condensed and not dissipate.
Strengthening the power was secondary. The most important thing was to resist the loss of spiritual qi caused by the sudden decline of spiritual qi in the world.
From those words, Jiang Li could sense the hard work and struggles of those ancient mighty figures before the Cultivationless Age descended.
This Qi Condensation Technique should be the technique that the Human Emperor had urgently created back then and imparted to the human cultivators to let them live a few more days.
He slowly exhaled.
At this moment, the large number of words on the wall in front of him had already disappeared. Instead, a door and another sentence appeared in front of him.
“The Qi Condensation Technique has been learned. You can enter.”
Jiang Li smiled as he tested it.
The Human Emperor’s inheritance ground was as considerate as ever compared to other troublesome ruins that were often filled with traps.
This was the responsibility and kindness of the Human Emperor to his descendants.
Jiang Li appreciated his ancestor’s concern.
He closed his eyes again and silently tried to cultivate this Qi Condensation Technique.
Wasn’t the current environment where spiritual qi was lost the best environment to cultivate the Qi Condensation technique?
On the ground, Guhei Zhuohou, who had quickly crossed more than half a distance by consuming spiritual qi, finally could not endure it. His feet softened, and he fell to the ground with Jian Mo.
The closer he got to the center of the island, the faster the spiritual qi dissipated.
The last spirit stone in his hand had already turned to dust. He had run so far just now.
He could sense that his Nascent Soul had already wrinkled and begun to wither.
The outcome of a Nascent Soul shattering was much worse than a Void Core cultivator. It was basically death.
“You have a good subordinate who’s actually willing to block those insects for us.”
He smiled bitterly and shook his head. He looked behind and noticed that Jiang Li did not follow him, so he came up with a reason in his mind.
He could not help but look at his foreign sister in surprise.
It was hard to imagine how a “Nascent Soul cultivator” could do this for a mortal.
“Sir Li Jiang is not my subordinate. He’s my benefactor!”
Hearing Guhei Zhuohou’s words, Jian Mo could not help but tear up. Ever since she was young, besides her mother, only Jiang Li approved of her and treated her the best.
In the beginning, she saved “Sir Li Jiang” from the sea and used the black pearl to treat his injuries, moving this powerful cultivator.
As for “Sir Li Jiang”, he first risked his life to save her on the ship despite his serious injuries.
In order to help her and her mother, not only had they come to the Dragon Transformation Island where their injuries had yet to recover, but they had even used themselves to resist the danger.
They had only known each other for a few days, but she felt that the two sides had already risked their lives several times.
Sir Li Jiang’s kindness completely captured her wandering heart.
In the next half of her life, not to mention offering herself, even if she was a servant, Jian Mo would not hesitate at all.
“Don’t be stunned. He might not be dead yet. If you can pass the trial in time and become the young miss of the Dragon Transformation Island, you can bring people to save him.”
“Now, use these spikes to seal my acupuncture points as I said!”
While Jian Mo’s eyes were blurry, Guhei Zhuohou found a thorn at the side.
After removing the long thorn, he handed it to his sister.
“Sir Li Jiang! You must wait for me! I’ll definitely come back to save you!”
Wiping away her tears, Jian Mo, who had been strong since she was young, grabbed those thorns and aimed at the location that Zhuohou had told her. She ruthlessly stabbed them into the body of the young master.
“Gasp!! You missed it!”
After an unprofessional acupuncture session, Guhei Zhuohou continued to walk towards the center of the island with Jian Mo’s help.
The closer he got to the center, the faster the spiritual qi would flow. As time passed, Zhuohou would quickly lose all his strength and be on the verge of death.
He clearly knew that it was impossible for him to rely on his own strength to reach the Dragon Transformation Pool.
Guhei Zhuohou chose to bring Jian Mo along for this reason. Only mortals who were not affected here could bring him to the end.
Two hours, four hours, six hours. In an underground tunnel, there was a whistling wind. Somewhere in the tunnel, a figure was sitting cross-legged on the ground. He was like an endless spiritual qi spring, spewing out a large amount of spiritual qi. The spiritual qi surged out too quickly. One could even see a ball of spiritual qi that was ten feet tall on his body.
As Jiang Li formed seals with his hand, the flames on his body sometimes spiraled, sometimes contracted, and sometimes spewed out even more exaggeratedly.
Ordinary cultivators would have died countless times if they spat out spiritual qi like this, but Jiang Li’s expression did not change at all from the beginning to the end. After a total of 108 seals, Jiang Li’s Dragon Pearl Golden Core suddenly shook, emitting a force that caused the surrounding spiritual qi to begin to gather and condense.
The spiritual qi around Jiang Li also began to contract and slowly withdrew into his body.
[Successfully used the Qi Condensation Technique. Added Status: Qi Condensation.]
(Qi Condensation: Condenses spiritual qi. Resists 80% of the Spirit Dispersion effect. The power of spiritual qi will be increased by 30%. Duration: 3 seconds] (- +)
Jiang Li’s face lit up. Success!
He had tried for six hours before successfully using the Qi Condensation Technique for the first time.
This Qi Condensation could only last for three seconds and was extremely unstable. If he was distracted or moved, he would immediately return to his original form. It was far from being completed.
However, to him, it was enough.
He pressed the plus button for another five seconds. This (Qi Condensation) status was fixed on his body.
He got up and felt it. Sure enough, although the spiritual qi in his body was still flowing out, the speed had slowed down greatly. It was only about 20% of its original speed.
It was impossible to completely prevent the spiritual qi from dissipating. If he could really do that, the ancient Immortal and Buddha mighty figures would not have disappeared without a trace. Jiang Li pushed forward, and the stone door emitted a heavy friction sound, revealing the passageway behind it.