Chapter 48 The Shadow of the Ghost Sect
An Ying, who had been wandering in the glacier area for more than ten days but still failed to pull out the black ice python, was finally anxious.
It was obviously not a wise idea for a group of thirteen people to gather together to find the Black Ice Python.
Most of the low-level first-level spirit beasts in this glacier area were hunted by them during this period. In the next few days, it was difficult for them to encounter those low-level spirit beasts again.
In order to improve efficiency, An Ying made a bold decision - to search separately.
She, Pan Tao and Zheng Rui, both came from Lingbao Pavilion, and they held signal sticks that could transmit.
Within ten miles, as long as they release signals, everyone else can see them.
Therefore, after discussing with Pan Tao and Zheng Rui, she decided to lead the team to conduct a carpet-style search of the Black Ice Python within a radius of ten miles.
Zheng Rui, the weakest, first selected four team members, while she and Pan Tao led three team members one by one and began to take action separately.
Nie Tian, Jiang Miao, and a young man named Guo Qi, are in the same team as Pan Tao.
Under the leadership of Pan Tao, the four people chose a position and set off on the road with An Ying and Zheng Rui.
As usual, Nie Tian, who carried a lot of spiritual beast meat, followed Pan Tao and the others, ate wildly every day.
When he was resting, he immediately used Qi Refining Art to continue to open up and expand the spiritual sea.
In more than ten days, he jumped from the sixth level of Qi refining to the seventh level, which made him taste the sweetness.
The advancement from the seventh to eighth floors requires the already doubled Spirit Sea and doubled on the existing basis.
This trip, he set a two-month time for himself. He planned to use the flesh of the spirit beast to enter the eighth level of the Qi Refining Realm within two months!
As for the search for the Xuanbing Giant Python, he lacks interest and only cares about his own cultivation every day.
"It's been a day and a half, and we should be seven miles away from An Ying and the others. However, we didn't even encounter a low-level spirit beast."
Pan Tao, who carefully explored a short glacier and every ice cave, held the timekeeping artifact in his hand and looked depressed.
"Brother Tao, maybe there are really no spiritual beasts in our area." Guo Qi said.
"I don't know how Sister An Ying and Brother Zheng are doing." Jiang Miao said softly.
At this moment, the four of them were sitting next to the short glacier. They had not gained anything for a long time and were a little discouraged.
"It should be like us, and we were unable to find the shrinking black ice python. Otherwise, they would have sent out a signal long ago." Pan Tao sighed and shook his head, "We have wasted too much time in this glacier area. Perhaps the other two second-level spirit beasts have been killed in Lingyun Sect and Xuanwu Palace."
"Brother Tao, Yuan Feng and the others from Ashes Valley, we first entered the depths of the glacier. We have been shaking for more than ten days, but we have not met their people. Isn't that a little strange?" Guo Qi said again.
"Nothing is strange." Pan Tao shook his head, "This glacier area is actually very large. If Yuan Feng and his men had always gathered together to search for the black ice python like us before, the chances of our encounter with them are very small. Unless... they also scattered and wandered around a certain range."
"Only in this way, the chances of meeting everyone will be greatly improved."
Guo Qi thought for a moment, nodded, "That's right."
"Nie Tian, do you have any good ideas?" Pan Tao suddenly asked.
Nie Tian, who was sitting aside and eating meat silently, looked up slightly, his mouth was covered with oil stains, "You can't find it, what can I do?" He responded lazily.
When he knew that the flesh of the spirit beast could greatly increase his cultivation speed, he no longer had any interest in searching the Xuan Ice Python.
Pan Tao and the other two saw his laziness and indifferent attitude.
Among the three, Jiang Miao was rescued by him. Pan Tao knew that he was extraordinary, so he didn't say much.
Only Guo Qi has expressed his dissatisfaction several times and asked Pan Tao to take charge of Nie Tian, so that Nie Tian would not be so idle and only know how to eat all day long.
Pan Tao laughed out loud about Guo Qi's request and ignored it.
"You two go over there, I will say a few words to Nie Tian alone." Pan Tao pointed out a direction.
Guo Qi's eyes moved, thinking that Pan Tao wanted to scold Nie Tian privately, he smiled and pulled Jiang Miao away.
After they walked away, Pan Tao came to Nie Tian, smiled bitterly, and said, "Nie Tian, help."
Nie Tian was silent.
"Don't look at me from Lingbao Pavilion, but my life in Lingbao Pavilion is not as easy as you think." Pan Tao cried with a sad face, "In the cabinet, Zheng Rui and I are not welcomed. No matter how hard we work, people say that we rely on the protection of our elders to achieve today's achievements."
"The old guys in the cabinet all admire those who are like An Ying, who grew up step by step from their subordinates and were eventually brought in."
"And I, in fact, have always been despised and looked down upon by them."
Nie Tian was stunned for a moment before saying, "Each person has its own difficulties. You mind being told, but do you know how difficult it is to enter the same place as your Lingyun Sect as your Lingbao Pavilion?"
"Of course I know." Pan Tao nodded, "But your efforts will eventually be recognized and others can see them. And no matter how hard I try, I will be regarded as the help of my ancestors, and I don't think it was achieved by myself."
"The trial of the Qinghuan Realm is very important to me. I must make some achievements to make them look at me with admiration!"
Nie Tian looked helpless, "Tell me, how do you want me to help you?"
Pan Tao's expression was shocked, "You can find the ground lizard deep underground, then you should be able to find the black ice giant python in the same way!"
"In my opinion, the black ice python, like the ground lizard, should also be hidden in the darkness that we cannot see."
"By the eyes, I don't think we can find it. I hope you will search for the black ice python by looking for the Earth Lizard."
"The glacier area is so big that it cannot be roughly determined. It is very difficult for me to find it." Nie Tian smiled bitterly, hesitated for a moment before saying, "Forget it, I'll give you a face and try it. If it really doesn't work, don't blame me."
"Of course!" Pan Tao said hurriedly.
Next, Nie Tian calmed down, adjusted the frequency of his breathing, and tried to dissipate his mental consciousness.
His spiritual consciousness extends around him as the center.
Strands of spiritual consciousness, like invisible tentacles, gradually drifting away, covering the surrounding area within forty meters.
After a while, he opened his eyes tiredly, shook his head at Pan Tao, and said, "Nowhere near you anyway."
"Then let's change the place!" Pan Tao shouted.
"Let me... rest for a while." Nie Tian smiled bitterly.
"Okay! I'll wait for you!" Pan Tao completely obeyed him.
For a while later, Nie Tian followed Pan Tao and the other two and tried to make a difference, and he always perceived the surroundings with his spiritual consciousness.
Every time he consumed his mental consciousness, he was extremely tired, but after a deep sleep, he was able to recover quickly.
Gradually, he found that when he overdraws his mental consciousness, his mental power will often be a little stronger when he recovers next time.
At the beginning, his perception range was limited to within forty meters.
Later, as his mental power increased little by little, the range he could perceive could spread to fifty meters away.
This discovery made him, who was extremely reluctant to help Pan Tao find the Xuanbing Giant Python, relaxed his heart.
He also regards Pan Tao's hard work in finding the Xuanbing Giant Python for cultivation - about the cultivation of mental power.
Guo Qi and Jiang Miao didn't know that Pan Tao had reached a tacit understanding with him. Every time they arrived at a new place, when Pan Tao saw Nie Tian closing his eyes, opening his eyes again after a while, shaking his head at him, Pan Tao immediately gave up the area and then went to search other places.
Guo Qi and Jiang Miao were extremely confused and didn't know what they were doing in secret. After asking Pan Tao, Pan Tao didn't say anything, and told them not to be suspicious.
They all gave up in the end and became less and less confident in the search for the Black Ice Python.
On this day, Nie Tian once again perceived his mental consciousness...
An extremely faint wave of life suddenly came into his heart, and he suddenly opened his eyes.
Pan Tao, who gradually lost confidence, no longer had any fantasies, but when he looked at Nie Tian this time, he found that Nie Tian did not shake his head at him for thousands of years.
"Why? Have you noticed it?" he asked in a trembling voice.
"It's not the Xuan Ice Giant Python, it's something else." Standing up, Nie Tian pointed out a direction, "It should be... a human."
Pan Tao was obviously a little disappointed, but he still followed Nie Tian's guidance and rushed to that position with the three of them.
The strong smell of blood emanated from behind the ice trees. They passed over the ice trees and saw two boys in the Ashes Valley lying on the ice ground with blood all over.
One of them had a short sword inserted on his neck and had long been dead.
The other person was covered with crisscrossing blood marks, and blood could not stop flowing out of the blood marks.
He also foamed blood from his mouth, obviously he was bleeding too much and was about to die.
When Pan Tao arrived, his dull and unconscious eyes seemed to lit up slightly, and then quickly lost all colors.
"He is dead, too." Pan Tao's face was extremely serious.
When he walked forward, he lowered his head and saw that the thumbs of the two of them were chopped off by the sharp blade.
Pan Tao was shocked, as if he was frightened, and his voice was not right, "Ghost Sect! This is the method of Ghost Sect! Damn, how did the people from Ghost Sect enter the Qinghuan Realm?"
Nie Tian looked puzzled, "What's the situation?"
Pan Tao did not answer, but looked around with great care, and then even lowered his voice, "Go back immediately!"
"Oh." Nie Tian was also nervous by him, and followed him gently, and walked away from the road he had come.
Along the way, Pan Tao looked grim, said nothing, and rushed on his own.
After walking for a long time, he ignited the signal rod after he thought it was safe.
The signal rod rushed into the sky and turned into a dark smoke that was straight up to the sky, which did not dissipate for a long time.
Half a day later, An Ying and Zheng Rui rushed over excitedly.
"Pan Tao! Have you found the Black Ice Giant Python?" An Ying shouted from afar with joy.
As they approached, Pan Tao shook his head and his face turned pale, "I didn't meet the Xuan Ice Giant Python, but we found traces of the Ghost Sect!"
"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!" Zheng Rui screamed.
An Ying was shocked, "Pan Tao! Are you kidding? This is the Qinghuan Realm, the private secret realm of our Lingbao Pavilion! And we are in the trial, how could the people from the Ghost Sect come in?"
"I'm not kidding!" Pan Tao shouted.
As soon as these words were spoken, An Ying and Zheng Rui's faces were full of fear.
Chapter completed!