Chapter 166: See the Sawtooth Monster Again
Chapter 166: See the Sawtooth Monster Again
At the entrance of the Buddha Demon Pill, Tian Lin looked inward and saw golden rays of light floating towards his sea of consciousness. Above Tian Lin's small sea of consciousness, the rays of light illuminated the usually closed and dark space.
The Buddhist sound rang out in the sea of consciousness, which was like an explosion in Tian Lin's heart.
Not long after, another ray of light blue light floated towards Tian Lin's sea of consciousness.
The light green light obscured the golden glow, covering Tian Lin's sea of consciousness with a layer of light green, and the golden sea of consciousness also became a little strange and dark.
The devil's sound and the Buddha's sound intertwined, and the sea of consciousness seemed to become a sacred place, and yet turned into a filthy place.
Tian Lin frowned, feeling that his soul was out of control and about to be driven crazy at any time.
He was upset at one moment and relaxed at another. The Qi in his Dantian also showed signs of running wild at any time, depending on his mental state.
Yu'er didn't know Tian Lin's true situation at the moment. She was worried about disturbing Tian Lin, so she tiptoed out of the room and closed the door.
The golden and green light created by the Buddha Demon Pill disappeared from Tian Lin's sea of consciousness only after an hour.
Tian Lin practiced the Buddha and Demon Freedom Skill for an hour, but instead of looking energetic, he looked listless, as if he had a serious illness.
"Are all magical powers so strange, or is it only the Buddha Demon Freedom Technique that has an effect on a person's soul and spirit?"
When Tian Lin was practicing this magical skill just now, he wanted to stand up and kill people countless times, using other people's blood to vent his anger and satisfy his pleasure.
Fortunately, this magical power has both the murderous nature of the devil and the compassion of the Buddha.
“No wonder they say that those who practice the Buddha Demon Freedom Technique are very likely to fall into the devil’s way unless they have great compassion.”
Tian Lin had a certain understanding of this magical power, so he was no longer in a hurry to practice it. Instead, he brewed the Five Elements Spirit Liquid and rested for half an hour before continuing to meditate.
The Buddha and Demon Freedom Art takes a huge toll on a person's mental strength. Tian Lin only practiced it for one night, and he felt a little crazy.
When he went out, he looked much more haggard.
Yu'er looked at Tian Lin with some concern, wanting to persuade Tian Lin not to take the pills blindly, but she heard Tian Lin say:
"I won't have breakfast. Later, you guys can fry some water-flavored rice and make rice cakes for me to take to the sea to eat."
Yu'er asked him, "Where's the food?"
"Use the silver to buy some blue dragon fish and make them into jerky."
Shuiling rice is fine, but Qinglong fish?
Yu'er really felt that Tian Lin didn't need to be so frugal, but when she wanted to say something else, Tian Lin had already left the house.
As soon as he walked out of Xilai Lane, he saw Gao He talking to two people whose clothes were also embroidered with cloud patterns and inlaid with gold edges and pearl buttons.
Gao He is tall and stands out like a crane among chickens when standing on the street.
He also had sharp eyes and could spot Tian Lin walking out of Xilai Lane while chatting with people.
He was seen waving at Tian Lin in the crowd. When Tian Lin passed by, he introduced himself to Tian Lin:
"These few are all the Tong family's priests. This Zhu priest is a spiritual plant husband. Although his Spring Breeze and Rain Art has not yet reached the minor success level, he has already glimpsed the way."
He pointed at a fat man and said something, and the short fat man bowed to Tian Lin.
"This is Rong Gongfeng, a master weapon refiner. If Fellow Daoist Tian needs any magic weapon in the future, you can ask Rong Gongfeng to help you refine it. We are all friends, and the price will definitely be cheaper than that charged by outsiders."
After Tian Lin bowed to the Rong attendant, Gao He introduced Tian Lin to the others:
"This is Fellow Daoist Tian. Although he is very young, he has already reached the initial stage of Five Elements Foundation Establishment."
Everyone didn't pay much attention to Tian Lin at first, but when they heard that Tian Lin was building the foundation of the five elements, they were instantly surprised.
How difficult is it to build the foundation of the five elements?
For people like them, building the water foundation or the fire foundation has also wasted forty or fifty years?
But how old is Tian Lin? He is only in his seventies, in the prime of his life.
"Fellow Daoist Tian is indeed a very promising young man - by the way, what does Fellow Daoist Tian do for a living?"
Tian Lin knew this question would come up, so he simply said:
"Tian is now fishing for a living, but he is not as good as the old guys who have skills and do not have to worry about their livelihood."
"Fishing?"
Rong Gongfeng asked Tian Lin: "How much money can you make from fishing? With just fishing, you can't even afford any of the five elements of magic pills, let alone gold, wood, water, fire and earth."
Gao He also advised Tian Lin: "In my opinion, you should find another way to make a living and stop practicing the Five Elements Golden Elixir Technique.
If we only choose one of the five elements to forge the golden elixir, the required spiritual stones will be greatly reduced. Anyway, people like us don’t expect to have a Nascent Soul. It will be great if we can reach the middle stage of foundation building in the future.”
He was telling the truth. For most people who were not from aristocratic families or disciples of immortal sects, it was already a blessing from heaven if they could practice only one of the five elements and then reach the middle stage of foundation building.
On the contrary, for someone like Tian Lin, who wants to forge a golden elixir with the five elements, the required Golden God Pill, Wood God Pill and other elixirs are a huge expense.
Unless one can enter the immortal gate, or has support from a family.
Otherwise, relying on one person's strength alone, it is impossible to buy so many pills. At the end of the practice, you will only spend a lot of spirit stones, but achieve very little.
"I appreciate the kindness of my fellow Taoists. But it's just that I have worked so hard to build the Five Elements Foundation. It would be a pity if I can't make the Five Elements Golden Pill."
After hearing what Tian Lin said, Rong Gongfeng shook his head and stopped persuading him.
After Tian Lin left, Gao He sneered and said, "Good words can't persuade a damned ghost. This old guy will regret it one day."
Zhu Gongfeng, the spiritual plant husband, said, "It's hard to say. He wants to achieve the Nascent Soul stage. You have to know that except for monsters like sword cultivators, those who want to achieve the Nascent Soul stage after the Golden Core stage must pay attention to the perfection of the five elements."
"Fellow Daoist Zhu, you think too highly of him. If he can achieve the Golden Elixir, I will eat shit in front of you all."
"Fellow Daoist Gao, if you want to get free food and drinks, why don't you wait until Elder Yuechutong summons us? Haha..."
While these people were chatting and laughing, Tian Lin had already arrived at the coast of Chenxiantang.
Zhang Xiaoke was seen standing on the shore, looking at the thick fog in the distant sea with a serious expression.
When he discovered Tian Lin's arrival, he quickly saluted Tian Lin.
Looking at the heaving sea, Tian Lin asked him, "Is the Sanhe Gang not going out to sea now?" Zhang Xiaoke's face was filled with worry again, and he said:
"There are no fish monsters in the near sea, and there is this unknown fog in the far sea. Yesterday, several of our juniors went out to sea, but when they came back, most of them were sick."
Tian Lin was surprised and asked, "Is this fog poisonous?"
Zhang Xiaoke said:
"I don't know if it's poisonous or not, I need to wait for the Tong family's steward to come and take a look. I also hope that the Tong family can exempt this year's mountain and swamp tax because of the poor harvest this year."
Tian Lin didn't know how much mountain and swamp tax the Tong family collected, but from Zhang Xiaoke's sad expression, he could tell that it must be a considerable amount.
There was no way to comfort him at this time, so he summoned a small boat and sailed out to the sea alone.
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Tian Lin continued to follow yesterday's route. When he reached one nautical mile, he could see the two-headed fish appear under the sea.
He suddenly discovered that there seemed to be more two-headed fish today than yesterday, and they were much larger in size.
But Tian Lin was not very happy. He suspected that these two-headed fish were affected by the heavy fog and swam here.
Tian Lin is not afraid of heavy fog, but he hates changes.
When the fog comes, no one knows what will happen to the entire Chenxiantang.
Thinking more deeply, will the fog only spread over the sea, or will it invade Pingyang City?
With a "plop" sound, Tian Lin threw away his worries and jumped into the sea.
He was now very skilled in dealing with two-headed fish, and in just half an hour he caught a two-headed fish as big as a small boat.
Tian Lin was still not satisfied, so he scooped a bowl of water with a thousand-year-old wooden bowl on the boat.
He then took out the kettle he brought from home, used the spirit stone to mix the spirit liquid and drank it.
In just a short moment, Tian Lin's true energy was restored.
This time, his eyes were fixed on a moving hut.
It is called a small house, but in fact it is a black-backed two-headed fish nearly two or three meters long.
The two-headed fish swam very fast. Before Tian Lin could see its shape clearly, it had risen from the bottom of the lake and directly hit the bottom of the boat which had a shallow draft.
Tian Lin's small boat could not withstand the huge force and overturned on the sea in an instant, dumping Tian Lin on the boat along with a set of clothes and a storage bag into the sea.
Fortunately, Tian Lin reacted quickly. He grabbed the storage bag when the wooden boat overturned, stepped on the overturned side of the boat with his toes, and used all his strength to right the overturned wooden boat on the sea.
He threw the storage bag onto the boat, and with a harpoon and wooden sword in his hands, he rushed directly towards the culprit not far away.
The two-headed fish did not dodge or evade. It opened its huge mouth and swallowed a large mouthful of sea water, trying to swallow Tian Lin into its mouth as well.
Tian Lin took advantage of the whirlpool to get close to the two-headed fish, but when he fell into the fish's mouth, he grabbed the two-headed fish's whiskers and stabbed the two-headed fish's eyes directly with a harpoon.
The barbels of the two-headed fish are soft and long, like a fleshy rein.
Tian Lin pulled the "reins" and the two-headed fish carried Tian Lin, diving into the Chenxian Pond and creating waves.
The man and the fish were really angry. When Tian Lin came to his senses, the two-headed fish had already carried Tian Lin into the second layer of the sea below.
In the sea below, Tian Lin saw the Sawtooth Monster.
The sea area where the Sawtooth Demon lives is completely different from the sea area where the Two-Headed Fish lives. Tian Lin’s prompt has changed from [Golden Spirit Foundation Building Pool] to [Water Spirit Foundation Building Pool].
In addition, he also saw a large amount of [Soul-Replenishing Powder].
These soul-replenishing powders were right in front of him, but Tian Lin could not see their existence with his naked eyes.
He frowned slightly and raised his hand to grab the place where the words "Soul-Replenishing Powder" were.
A slight pain arose in Tian Lin's palm, and Tian Lin saw with his naked eyes a wound that ordinary people could not see.
The wound did not expand outward, but deepened inward.
It was as if a very thin needle pierced through the skin of Tian Lin's palm and slowly went to the back of Tian Lin's hand.
The wound was so small that Tian Lin ignored it and let it pierce the palm of his hand.
But soon, Tian Lin frowned.
He discovered that this wound could not heal itself relying on the strength of his own body.
It should be noted that Tian Lin was scratched by Xing Tongtian and his internal organs were almost broken, but he recovered from the injuries thanks to his body's self-healing ability.
In the past, such serious injuries were able to heal on their own, so why can’t this small wound heal on its own now?
Tian Lin circulated his true Qi, causing it to appear at the wound site.
But when the true energy was in the palm of his hand, most of it was blocked by the sea water, and a small part was swallowed up by the invisible wound in the palm of his hand.
Tian Lin couldn't drag the huge two-headed fish in the water, so he simply threw away the body of the two-headed fish and left the water with only a long string of internal organs hanging on it.
The saw-tooth monsters did not make things difficult for Tian Lin, but instead enjoyed the fish carcass as big as a small house that Tian Lin left behind.
After nearly two hours, Tian Lin finally surfaced.
He looked at the healed wound on his palm and couldn't help but marvel:
"The poison caused by this small wound on my hand almost consumed most of my true energy to expel it -
No, it can’t be called poison. If it is venom, I am not afraid of it.”
"Besides, since the entry shows that it is edible, it must be digestible by me. But how do I digest it?"
(End of this chapter)