The Immortal Family: Starting from Spreading Branches and Leaves

"According to my recent observations, there should be one or two second-order monsters in the mountain col!"

Meng Ping continued.

"Can we explore the mountain col and the surrounding terrain?" Chen Ling looked at Meng Ping and asked.

Meng Ping immediately took out a few jade slips and said in a deep voice, "Master, this is the map I have drawn these days of this mountainous area and the surrounding five miles. It also contains the general trend of the spiritual veins."

"But the evil spirit in the mountain col is still relatively strong. I can only draw an approximate picture of the mountain col, and there may be slight deviations!"

On the one hand, sometimes the evil spirit is too strong, and on the other hand, there may be second-order monsters in the mountain col, so he does not dare to go too deep into it rashly.

Chen Ling nodded and took the jade slip.

His spiritual sense penetrated and he quickly learned the contents.

This mountain col is about ten miles south of the Heihe Col.

The entire mountain col is divided by mountains on both sides, forming a "human" shape as a whole.

The area noted in Meng Ping's jade slips is less than 20% of the entire mountain col.

Other areas were shrouded in a large amount of evil mist.

Moreover, there may also be second-level monsters among them.

The overall risk is not small either.

"Husband, there is no need to worry too much!"

"With Meng Ping's cultivation, he was able to explore deep into this mountain col, which proves that even if there are second-order monsters in the mountain col, they are at most mid-level second-order monsters."

"If there is a late-level second-order monster, Meng Ping has been killed long ago, and it is impossible to let him enter its territory multiple times!"

Seeing Chen Ling frowning slightly, Li Yourong, who was experienced in the wilderness, smiled softly. He didn't care about the risks in this mountain col.

With her cultivation in the early stage of foundation building, and having already refined 40% of the Pure Yang Spirit Sword, she was confident that she would be able to fight as long as she did not encounter a late second-level monster.

As for the late second-level monsters, their combat power is no less than the peak of Foundation Establishment. This wasteland that has been included in the Star Sword Sect area is probably not available.

Otherwise, Meng Ping and others would not have been able to survive for so long in this Heihe Au and still be in peace.

Chen Ling thought about it and immediately handed the jade slips to Li Yourong and Shen Zhen respectively.

He said in a deep voice, "Fellow Daoist Meng, today you will lead some of the tribesmen to set up an evil formation at the entrance of this mountain col. Tomorrow we will start burning the wasteland."

The main purpose of land reclamation is to remove the evil spirits and monsters in the wasteland.

The best way to remove evil spirits is to lay out evil arrays, cover a certain area, compress the evil spirits, and then burn the evil grass in the array to remove evil spirits.

Only by advancing step by step can the evil spirit be completely removed.

Otherwise, as long as the evil spirit exists, it may invade the monk's body at any time.

Chen Ling fully understands the pain of this kind of evil spirit invasion!

Meng Ping clasped his fists in response, and then he and Qin Tong, each carrying five middle-stage Qi-training clansmen, leapt towards the south.

Then, Shen Zhen arranged for other tribesmen to start building temporary shelters.

After more than three months of development, Heihe'ao looks like a well-organized and well-proportioned small village.

Stone, wood, everything.

The clan members set it up quickly.

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Chen Ling, Li Yourong and Qingtang went directly to a spacious stone house.

The house is filled with a faint scent of sandalwood.

Wooden beds, tables, wooden chairs, etc., all daily necessities in the room are neatly placed.

It was obviously tidied up deliberately.

Chen Ling was satisfied with the situation in the mine.

Meng Ping is not only talented in exploring mineral veins.

The business aspect is no less than Shen Zhen.

Among the Meng family members, he has a very high prestige and is very courageous in doing things.

Dare to fight and break through.

Of course, he is not as sophisticated as Shen Zhen when it comes to dealing with people.

But in a short period of time, the mine can be managed in an orderly manner.

Chen Ling asked himself, he couldn't do this.

It can be said that he knows nothing about these common affairs.

Of course, as the head of a family, what is more important is one's overall strength and knowing how to make good use of people.

Instead of doing everything by yourself and exhausting yourself, he also knows this.

Besides, he is not a person who is obsessed with power and pays attention to personal authority. He is quite generous to the Qin family and the Meng family, and basically delegates power as much as he can.

Fortunately, clan members showed that Meng Ping's sense of family belonging had risen to 83%, which gave him no worries.

Although Meng Ping joined the Chen family for less than half a year, the improvement in the strength of the Chen family during this period is clearly visible to the naked eye.

Inside the house, Qingtang used his cleaning skills, briefly cleaned the room, and made Chen Ling's bed.

Li Yourong took out a jar of spiritual wine and dried animal meat, poured Chen Ling a glass, and then drank by himself.

Chen Ling picked up the spirit wine and drank a few sips. Looking at the white clouds outside, he was not as nervous as he was before setting off.

Outside, Shen Zhen, led by Chu Xiong, inspected the mineral veins.

At dusk, Meng Ping and others returned to the mine.

A total of four evil-removing formations were arranged, which could remove the evil spirits within two miles in one day.

If everything goes well, this mountain col will be able to completely remove the evil spirit within ten days.

In the evening, Chen Ling gathered with Meng Ping, Shen Zhen and others to discuss the next thing.

Shen Zhen believed that it would be best to extend the area from Heihe Col to Lingmai Mountain Col for dozens of miles to the southeast to directly remove all evil spirits from this area.

From now on, the territory of the Chen family will be completely connected with the territory that the Star Sword Sect has developed.

Meng Ping's idea is to open up the Lingmai Mountain Col, focus on developing this area first, and then slowly develop the surrounding areas.

Both of their ideas have merits. Shen Zhen came from a business perspective. After all, the Chen family is still based on weapon refining.

Transportation around the family is inconvenient, which is also a problem.

Meng Ping emphasized playing steadily, taking advantage of the spiritual veins first, and then continuing to develop.

For Chen Ling, for the time being, he can only eat food and take possession of his spiritual veins.

Return to the stone house.

Li Yourong and Qingtang had already fallen asleep.

Thinking that he would open up wasteland tomorrow, Chen Ling didn't dare to mess around.

Fell on the bed and sleep quietly!

the next day!

Yunzhou landed on a vast and gentle slope, surrounded by a forest. This slope was cleared by Meng Ping and others in advance.

Tens of meters in front of the slope is the Lingmai Mountain Col, shrouded in a faint mist.

The sunlight shines on the mysterious mountain col, and the vegetation and rocks inside seem to be dyed with a dark color, which makes people feel a little scared.

Without removing the evil mist inside, this place is not suitable for monks to live at all.

With his powerful spiritual consciousness, Chen Ling was able to catch a tiny trace of spiritual energy in the evil mist, which might be emanating from the underground spiritual veins.

In this evil mist, even though Chen Ling's spiritual consciousness was powerful, he still felt extremely obscure and uncomfortable.

It could originally extend to three hundred feet, but now it is less than two hundred feet away.

He found that there were only a dozen first-order monsters within this distance, and there was no aura of second-order monsters.

He took back his consciousness.

"Activate the evil-removing formation!" Chen Ling ordered calmly.

Meng Ping and Qin Tong nodded at the same time, and the four formation disks for removing evil formations were in their hands.

I saw the two of them each chanting and activating the magic spell.

then.

Buzzing sound.

The entire col was shaken.

On the outside of the mountain col, four yellow rays of light exploded, instantly covering an area of ​​hundreds of feet.

The next second, the evil mist shrouding the yellow formation was compressed by the yellow light mist in a very powerful way, and quickly rushed towards the center of the formation's eye.

The yellow light mist is like a turbulent wave, constantly pushing the evil mist to gather at the center of the formation.

As the evil mist gathered more and more, Meng Ping and Qin Tong pointed their fingers towards the formation disk, and spiritual energy was injected into the formation disk again.

Then, a raging flame swept out from each of the four formation eyes, burning the black evil mist condensed in the air.

At the same time, in the foggy jungle, dozens of monster beasts seemed to sense the dangerous aura. They rushed out of the forest without any scruples, baring their teeth and claws to pounce in the direction of Chen Ling and others.

Among them are giant pythons, blood apes, black wind tigers and other first-order monsters of different shapes.

Seeing more than a dozen monster beasts flying towards him, Chen Ling's eyes narrowed slightly, and he waved his hand towards the tribesmen behind him who were already waiting for him, "Shoot!"

Suddenly, there was only a "pop" and "pop" sound, and twenty or thirty flame thunder beads blasted into the monster beast.

As it exploded, the monsters exploded, their flesh and blood scattered.

In front of a large number of flame thunder beads, these first-order monsters had no power to fight back.

After half a stick of incense, the yellow light mist in the four magic circles gradually connected into one, and the rich black evil spirit in them was all compressed to the flame of the eye of the formation.

After another half stick of incense, the black evil spirit in the magic circle was completely eliminated.

Afterwards, Meng Ping and Qin Tong put away their formations, each led ten tribesmen to quickly move forward, and continued to set up the evil formation in front.

Other tribesmen inspired low-level runes used for construction, earth armor warriors.

More than twenty earth-armored warriors lined up, like giant bulldozers, uprooting the trees in the mountain col. In less than a quarter of an hour, a large flat area was cleared.

In just one day, the edge of the col advanced several miles.

It was much faster than Chen Ling expected.

In the evening, the Chen family members built a tent in the reclaimed mountain col and repaired it on the spot.

Two tribesmen in the late stage of Qi training led a team to patrol the surrounding area in shifts.

The remaining tribesmen built their residences on a gentle slope next to the hillside and set up a magic array, a four-image array.

In the next few days, the evil spirits were removed in an orderly manner, and half of the entire col was cleared.

During the whole process, I didn't encounter a single second-level monster.

Chen Ling and Li Yourong didn't need to take action at all.

Chen Ling himself was a little surprised that everything went well.

Later, he directly ordered the tribesmen to use magic arrows if no late-stage first-order monsters appeared, so as not to waste the flame thunder beads.

"Husband, don't be careless. Based on my experience, there must be second-order monsters in this mountain col. Otherwise, there would be no way there would be such a large number of first-order monsters, and they would still be in peace."

"It means that this monster is either very powerful, or it has activated its spiritual intelligence and can subdue other monsters!"

At night, Chen Ling's consciousness first scanned the surrounding area of ​​several hundred feet to make sure that there was no danger around him. Then he relaxed and told Li Yourong with a relaxed expression that there were probably no second-order monsters in this mountain col.

But Li Yourong still warned cautiously.

Chen Ling thought about it and decided not to be careless!

After all, Li Yourong's experience in surviving in the wilderness was far greater than his.

These experiences are all bloody lessons, and generally you can’t go wrong!

Suddenly, his consciousness moved and he quickly swept out of the camp.

At the same time, he shouted, "Everyone, watch your head!"

The sound of warning sounded outside the camp.

Although the land reclamation is progressing smoothly, both the Meng family and the Qin family have just experienced a lot of hardships, so they are not careless at all.

From beginning to end of the night patrol, a high degree of vigilance was maintained.

Following Chen Ling's reminder, streaks of flame light shot into the night sky.

Chen Ling jumped out of the tent, followed closely by Li Yourong and Qingtang.

The tribesmen in other camps also jumped out quickly.

Everyone looked towards the night sky.

In the dark sky, two huge birds were seen swooping down from high altitude.

Although it was in the darkness, with Chen Ling's current consciousness, he could naturally see clearly.

These two giant birds were over ten feet tall, with a pair of huge black wings covered with cold thorns, and a mouth full of sharp teeth. They looked extremely ferocious.

And on the back of a giant bird in front, stood a firebird with flaming red feathers.

The firebird looks only about one and a half meters long, but its body is shining with flames, which is particularly dazzling in the night.

His eyes were slightly narrowed, his pointed beak was slightly opened, and wisps of hot red gas occasionally escaped from the fiery red feathers.

The next scene made Chen Ling and others look shocked, as if they had seen an unbelievable scene.

"What crime should you human beings be guilty of trespassing on our Lingyang Valley?"

The two giant birds swooping down temporarily stopped and hovered in the air.

The firebird opened its mouth, and an angry voice came out.

"It's actually a second-level monster with spiritual intelligence activated? I'm afraid it has the bloodline of a spirit monster!"

Li Yourong said with some emotion, and the Pure Yang Sword appeared silently in his hand.

"The spirit demon bloodline?"

Chen Ling's eyes narrowed slightly.

After traveling through many years, he also knew that the strength of the demon clan was not inferior to that of the human race at the level of cultivation.

They are divided according to their bloodline, including mortal demons, spirit demons, earth demons, celestial demons, etc...

Thinking about it, this firebird can activate its spiritual intelligence at the second level, so its bloodline must be quite high.

And to be able to make the black-thorned giant bird, which is also the second level, surrender, it is probably because of bloodline suppression.

Three second-order early-stage monsters appear at once, which is not easy to deal with.

There is also a demonic beast that has turned on its spiritual intelligence. It seems to have already known the power of the flame thunder beads in the hands of the Chen family and is not in a hurry to attack.

In the air, the attack launched by the Qi Practitioner from the ground poses only limited threat!

"Your Spiritual Valley? This will be the territory of my Chen family from now on. Nianqin has opened his spiritual wisdom. It is not easy to practice. Get out of here and save your life!"

Li Yourong sneered.

Then he said to Chen Ling, "Husband, leave this second-level monster to me to deal with!"

Chen Ling nodded. The only ones who could pose a threat to the three monsters in the sky were Li Yourong and Qingtang who were in the foundation building stage.

"Yellow-haired girl, your tone is not small! You have angered me."

"However, as long as you give me the spiritual sword in your hand, I can spare your life!"

The Fire Bird stood on the back of the giant bird, looking at the Pure Yang Spirit Sword in Li Yourong's hand, greed flashing in his pupils, and he kept swallowing his throat.

Immediately afterwards, it flapped its wings of fire, and a violent flame rose into the sky.

Like the sun in the dark night.

The pressure is amazing!

Behind Chen Ling, some clan members who were in the early and middle stages of Qi training couldn't help but tremble under this terrifying pressure.

"What a monster!"

Li Yourong snorted coldly, "The fire lotus blooms!"

Spiritual energy was injected into the Pure Yang Spirit Sword, and immediately, the scorching flames bloomed from the Pure Yang Spirit Sword.

In the rising flames, a flaming fire lotus slowly condensed, and the sword energy roared on the three flaming red lotus leaves, exuding an astonishing sharp energy.