Wilderness.
After a fierce battle, the black fog dissipated, leaving the Scarecrow in a disheveled state, its aura weakened.
The flock of crows that once blotted out the sky now only had a dozen or so left, sparsely perched on its arms, tending to their wounds.
The crows are the embodiment of its power; their miserable state undoubtedly indicates that it suffered a significant loss in the battle just now.
Caw—Caw—
The Golden Skeleton fled, and the furious Dread Lord roared, turning its head to suddenly notice a "meat mountain" not far away with surging vital energy.
The Necromancer sat at the edge of the wilderness, its size quietly swelling to over thirty meters, with a pile of corpses of various low-level ghosts in front of it.
During the time when the Dread Lord and the Golden Skeleton clashed, the Necromancer seized the opportunity to frantically hunt the ghosts that gathered at the foot of the cliff due to the aura of the source crystal.
At this moment, the nutrients absorbed made up for the last gap, and it seemed to be on the verge of breaking through to the National Guardian Realm at any time.
The Dread Lord's expression was gloomy.
That Golden Skeleton bullied me, that's fine, I admit my skills are inferior, there's nothing to say...
But you, a half-step National Guardian demon race?
Want to break through in front of me?
Looking for death!
The black fog spread again, and the sound of crazy laughter echoed through the wilderness.
—Snow Mountain—
This place seems to be in a very remote area, with a group of dazed snow spirits gathered at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain body completely turned into a pure white world by the perennial snow, with no human presence.
Su Huai dug a cave about four or five meters deep on the snow mountain, sitting at the end of the cave, silently refining the smallest piece of the source crystal fragment.
The idle little skeleton was extremely quiet.
Perhaps it was also injured in the battle with the Dread Lord, and the soul fire in its eye sockets was much dimmer.
Most of the time, it stood still, quietly in a daze.
Seeing the pale golden blood continuously dripping from the cracks in its arm, Su Huai thought for a moment, placed a small porcelain bottle under the point where its blood fell, trying to collect the special blood.
The little skeleton didn't care, but instead looked down at the blood in the porcelain bottle accumulating more and more.
When the small porcelain bottle was full, the soul fire in its eye sockets flickered slightly, reached out and picked up the small porcelain bottle, tilted its head and examined it for a while.
Then it walked to Su Huai, presenting a piece of white paper with a purchase list.
Su Huai: ...
"It really is... not very intelligent."
After Su Huai shook his head and refused to sell its blood, the little skeleton walked back to its original position, placed the porcelain bottle back in place, and continued to gaze at the snow mountain in a daze.
[Don't mind it, hurry up and refine the source crystal]
"Okay!"
The legacy of the Realm Lord level is not so easy to refine. Even with the help of the little snake, Su Huai spent two full months to completely refine the source crystal that was slightly larger than a fingernail.
The spiritual power in the body gradually became abundant, and the power also increased day by day, but it always stayed at the half-step National Guardian Realm.
Su Huai sighed, his expression a bit annoyed.
He is not a genius without bottlenecks. Just like now, the accumulation of power in the body is enough, but there is still a final opportunity to break through the barrier of the realm.
After another week of hard cultivation, he found that there was still no feeling of breaking through, and he sighed heavily.
"What the hell..."
[Don't be discouraged]
[The path of cultivation, how can it be so easy?]
[The National Guardian Realm is already a leader of a region, can enjoy vast territories in the divine realm, how can it be so easy to break through?]
[Even those high-ranking domain gods, when breaking through the realm bottleneck, there are many who sit for a hundred or a thousand years, and you are not even eighteen yet, what's the rush?]
"..."
"A hundred years, a thousand years, I don't have that kind of time..."
[Then... I have another way]
"What?"
[Take pills!]
[Breaking through with pills will have some side effects of the realm being unstable, but I happen to know one or two methods that can solve these side effects]
[And you now have dozens of realm coins on your body, which is also enough to squander]
Su Huai frowned and thought for a long time.
He did not reject the method of breaking through by taking pills, which was despised by countless heroes. Most people in the world do not have enough talent and can only use pills to make up for it.
As strong as Xiao Huo Huo, the Emperor of the Flame Continent, he also took pills all the way, right?
Not to mention that he grew up in Chu Siran's medicine pot in his previous life, and most of the pills he took were to cleanse the meridians and improve the quality.
But that kind of medicine that can improve the cultivation level has not been less taken.
Otherwise... No one would really think that he, with a pure waste material constitution, could break through to the ninth-order Zenith Realm by hard cultivation in a few hundred years, right?
Since there is a way to solve the side effects brought by the pills, then taking pills to improve is only left with one disadvantage:
- Expensive!
Xiao Huo Huo of the Flame Continent is himself a high-order alchemist, who can provide for himself, but his alchemy talent... let's not talk about it!
In this life, there seems to be no alchemy talent higher than his cultivation level accompanying him, and if you want to use resources to stack up the cultivation, the cost of resources will be a sky-high price!
The little snake's voice came into his mind.
[Ze]
[I have said, there is no need to worry about resources]
[First break through to the National Guardian Realm, the remaining resources I will find a way, will not lack for you to use]
Su Huai exhaled a breath of turbidity and nodded.
"Then where to go next?"
[First find a big city under your human race]
[Only such places have pills specifically for your own human race for sale]
[Of course, other pills can also be used, but the effect will be greatly reduced]
"Okay..."
Su Huai stood up, stretched his body that had been sitting for a long time, and then cleaned up the snow accumulated at the entrance of the cave.
The little skeleton did not stay outside the cave during these two months and more.
It seems to need to follow some special rules, even if it has made up its mind to rely on Su Huai to complete its performance, it must go out to trade once every three days.
The land around the snow mountain is barren, and there are few human villages, so its recent trading objects are mostly some ghosts or demons living in the ice field.
Su Huai took a look at its harvest during this period under the pretext of buying something.
The box with the source crystal fragments, the little skeleton still does not want to show Su Huai, but the box on the left side of the camel, which was originally scraped by Su Huai, only left a copy of the Night Shadow Demon's technique.
Now I don't know what method was used to replenish the goods, and there is a whole set of Night Shadow Demon's body parts.
Night Demon Cloak, Night Demon Mask... exactly the same!
Su Huai seriously doubts whether the Night Shadow Demon race has offended the Golden Skeleton race and has been raised by them as a wholesale source for merchants...
At the top of the small box, there is also a twisted dark red wooden broken limb.
Su Huai curled his mouth.
There are many people in the Imperial Realm who have not understood the authority.
For example, the weak chicken Emperor Mu Qingxuan of the Medicine King Immortal Dynasty, and the last time I was with the Imperial Li Zhongtian of the Zenith Immortal Dynasty, they all have the status of the Imperial Realm, but they do not have the strength of the Imperial Realm.
But the several Imperial Realms in the Immortal Realm must have more or less their own authority prototypes.
The value of this broken limb is far less than an Imperial Artifact for the people of the Immortal Realm...
"Skeleton Sang."
"I'm leaving here."
The little skeleton looked up at Su Huai, still dull, without any emotional fluctuations.
Su Huai blinked, and for a moment, he wanted to coax the little skeleton to start a "DiDi taxi" business.
But after careful consideration, he gave up.
Whether it's borrowing or insurance, although it has a certain nature of deception, the huge benefits that the little skeleton has obtained are indeed real.
If you deceive it to start some
miscellaneous businesses, and if it is discovered by those normal intelligent Realm Lord level elders in its clan...
It's possible that the next time the skeleton merchant's box will have products like "human skin cloak" and "human skin mask."
Su Huai sighed and embarked on the journey of the divine realm.
The little skeleton is about ten meters away from him, leading a camel, and has been expressionless behind him.
Well, it's different from the first time more than two months ago.
This time, at least there is a companion.
Su Huai retracted the afterglow that looked behind, walked through the snowfield on foot, leaving a line of not deep and not shallow footprints.