Chapter 493: Ray of the Cloud, Qian Chen's Means, Middle-Grade Heavenly Heavenly Linggen

The sea area two hundred miles east of the Zhoushan Archipelago is a fishing ground where sea demons appear, and the water race under the Dragon Palace will appear here to graze sea beasts.

Human practitioners and even rangers in the East Sea will come here to hunt demons!

Today, strong winds are blowing on the sea, mixed with heavy rain, and huge waves nearly a zhang high are rising on the sea.

At this time, a wave hit, and a huge Ray of the Cloud rushed out from under the water surface, flapping its wide pectoral fins, lightning entangled on its body, and the dense and fine thunder light was stirred up between its flat body and the sea surface. The updraft on the sea surface allowed it to rise with the wind...

At this time, a fisherman covered in sea beast fur held a harpoon high, and jumped down from the air in horror. The steel fork, made of refined steel and wrapped in purple electric sea beaver fur that can isolate lightning, deeply sank into the back of the Ray of the Cloud.

The huge ray let out a mournful cry, and its body burst into violent thunder light.

The fisherman took out a talisman paper from his arms, twisted it in front of his chest, and the talisman paper burned into a fireball, covering him with a layer of golden light.

But in the sea area below, many 'water ghosts' were turned over by electricity!

Many 'water ghosts' in the sea surface exposed their upper bodies. They were wrapped in black leather water suits, holding harpoons connected to ropes, desperately approaching within thirty steps of the ray, and then threw the harpoons one after another!

Several harpoons pierced the pectoral fins of the ray, and everyone shouted numbers, pulling the ray under the sea surface.

The first fisherman who hit the ray roared, jumped onto the ray, inserted the harpoon from the crack in its chest, and pierced its heart.

The ray turned over and floated weakly on the sea surface.

The leading fisherman hurriedly tied its tail, threw the rope up, and a fish falcon grabbed the rope and brought it to a thirty-zhang-long large ship made of black iron wood not far away.

The fishermen and water ghosts below roared excitedly, climbed onto the ship against the wind and waves, shouted numbers, and pulled the Ray of the Cloud onto the ship. Someone excitedly said to the leading fisherman: "Head! It's not in vain that we chased this Ray of the Cloud for three months, only to wait for this rainstorm today! He Xiaoxianshi was really right, this beast will sink when it is frightened on weekdays, only on a windy and rainy day will it rush upward!"

"Ray of the Cloud, Ray of the Cloud! The reason our ancestors gave this name is because this kind of ray can rise with the wind, take advantage of the wind and rain on the sea to reproduce offspring, and then lay fish eggs in the dark clouds, accompanying the rainstorm, sprinkling half of the sea!"

This fisherman, known as the 'Head,' has thick eyebrows and deep eyes. Although his face is rough from the erosion of the sea wind and has deep wrinkles, it can be seen that he is not very old.

He took the handkerchief handed by others, wiped his face, turned back and said: "Is anyone hurt this time!"

The fishermen who were scorched by the ray's electricity didn't speak, but looked at an old fisherman. The old fisherman took off his water suit, revealing a white-haired head, and said in a low voice: "Head! Sanlang's rubber suit is broken!"

The fisherman went up to see, and a corpse that had been soaked in water and was somewhat pale was carried to the deck by the crowd.

He opened the corpse and saw that the water suit on his back was indeed torn with a big mouth.

These water suits sewn with sea beast fur were covered with lightning-avoiding glue produced in the South Sea. The fishermen also carried green fish stones in their mouths that could provide breath for a short time, including those steel forks bought from the sea market, made of underwater cold iron ore from the Mermaid Sea Kingdom, which could pierce the skin of demon beasts, and even several emergency talisman papers on their bodies. These were all necessary things for fishing families to hunt demons in the East Sea.

The fisherman head sighed helplessly: "This is the life of our Shi family!"

"Head, now we can hunt rays! Sooner or later, we can support a real immortal master! At that time, the Shi family's life will be better!" A young fisherman said indignantly.

"Immortal master..."

Shi Yutou looked towards the far distance of the sea, sighed helplessly, and his voice was full of something that others did not understand.

"Return to the city! This ray is sold, and we can live a good life for a few years!" Shi Yutou turned back to the bow and began to steer towards the Zhoushan Archipelago.

He Qilang stepped on the flying fish wings, passed through the vast water curtain, and came to a slightly larger island.

Many fishing boats were moored here. Although the place was wide, the spiritual energy was thin. Shi Yutou was waiting for him on his boat. Seeing He Qilang's figure, Shi Yutou bowed respectfully: "He Xianshi!"

"How is it? How are the news and secret medicines I gave you?" He Qilang glanced at the blood on the ship and said coldly.

Shi Yutou said in a low voice: "Returning to Xianshi, a Ray of the Cloud has been caught today! This ray really flies upward on a rainy day, and the Xianshi's secret medicine is really easy to use, which can lure the ray to the upper sea surface!"

"Shi Heilong, according to the agreement, five percent of your harvest should be offered to me. But today you have a chance, and you don't need to offer it from now on!" He Qilang was only fourteen or fifteen years old, but he was very oppressive in his words.

Shi Heilong hurriedly lowered his head and said: "Heilong dare not! Without Xianshi's protection, my Shi family would be fish and meat on others' boards!"

"This ray is more precious than you think. I have been staring at this fish for several months, just to confirm that it has already conceived a spiritual object in its belly. I intended to wait for you to hunt this fish, and then secretly dissect and take this thing..."

He Qilang stared at the corpse of the ray and said calmly: "But your luck has come! Shi Heilong, don't you always want to be a cultivator?"

Shi Heilong suppressed the excitement and fear in his heart, not knowing what this little He Xianshi intended to do.

He Qilang was not prepared to listen to his answer, but just talked to himself: "Recently, a Central Lands immortal master came to the archipelago, claiming to have the means to plant spiritual roots! Earth is spiritual, so people are outstanding. Your Shi family is a boat people, living by the sea, without stable earth Qi nourishment, the cultivation aptitude of future generations must be poor!"

"You Shi Heilong have practiced martial arts for more than ten years, and have Qi and blood nourished by demon beast flesh and blood, but so far you are only hovering at the door of practicing Qi. Without spiritual roots, your Shi family has absolutely no possibility of entering the Dao!"

He Qilang raised his head, looked at Shi Heilong and said in a low voice: "So, this may be the only chance for your Shi family. The premise is that I am willing to show mercy and lend the spiritual object in the ray's belly to you, so that you can plant spiritual roots!"

Shi Heilong knelt down with a thud and kowtowed: "If He Xianshi shows mercy, my Shi family is willing to be a cow and a horse for Xianshi for generations!"

"Humph!" He Qilang flicked his sleeves and stared at the ray hanging not far away. He did not deceive Shi Heilong, because the spiritual object in the ray's belly was raised by him bit by bit, but in order to avoid Feng Xianzi's eyes and ears, he used Shi Heilong and them to find a source for this spiritual object.

But he also knew that although he pretended to be a genius on the surface, his aptitude was actually very poor.

If there were no spiritual roots, the hope of forming a Golden Core in this life would be extremely slim—even with the help of 'that thing'!

Rather than taking away the spiritual object from Shi Heilong's side, it is better to take the opportunity to test the means of that Central Lands Heavenly Heavenly Linggen Master.

After all, even if he hid his cultivation base, compared to that person's amazing sword technique that opened the sea surface for several miles, it was still much worse! He has confidence in being able to check and balance his master Feng Xianzi, but he may not be able to deal with that person.

And the secret on his body is really too heavy!

The black iron wood ship set sail again and sailed towards the cave dwelling where Qian Chen was. He Qilang stood on the deck until he saw a reef island vaguely appearing in the wind and rain ahead. Even on the reef, one could vaguely see a figure casting a rod in the wind and rain.

He Qilang saw the figure futilely put away the fishing rod, pick off the seaweed and coral hanging on the fishing line, and cast the rod again with difficulty!

"I spent so much effort, just to deal with this unlucky guy? Is it a bit of a fuss?"

He Qilang couldn't help but sigh. This person's cultivation base is not bad, and his sword technique is truly amazing, but his actions are quite unreliable!

I don't know if it is a blessing or a curse to entrust my spiritual roots to such a person?

Fortunately, I can test it with Shi Heilong first!

Qian Chen swayed in the wind and rain, holding the fishing rod, chanting words in his mouth: "Fish in the wind, fish in the waves, fish fresh after thunder and rain! The red dragon grouper hasn't bitten the bait yet, it must be that the Grain-Grain Bigu Pill I refined has a problem! No, the fishing guy will never be empty! Bring my Green Spirit Five Poison Pill!"

The Golden and Silver Boys were just about to follow the instructions, when they saw someone flying towards the reef island in the distance.

"Senior!" He Qilang called out in the wind and rain: "Senior, I spread the news the day before yesterday, and today someone brought a ship to ask the senior to plant spiritual roots!"

Qian Chen put away the fishing rod as if nothing had happened, and said to He Qilang: "Bring him up!"

The Golden and Silver Boys lowered the Flying Cloud Cloak and brought He Qilang and Shi Heilong into the hall of the cave dwelling. Shi Heilong looked at the two little demons who had just reached his knees with some helplessness, and watched the Jin Jin Yin Tongzi with unparalleled strength, rawly lifting the huge ray.

"Is this used as compensation?"

Qian Chen glanced at the ray and said: "The spiritual object in the belly can indeed be used as a spiritual root, but the quality is too low! Originally, I don't do this kind of small business, but since it's the first one to come to the door, I'll open it!"

The Golden and Silver Boys brought out a gold basin. This was a gold vessel that Qian Chen scraped from the Left Treasury of the Great Tang. It was a dharma seal of the dew-bearing sun essence that could only be used by those above the first rank, and it was a thing of pure gold and jade!

Every day, it gathers the sun's brilliance, and a little shallow sun dew gathers in the gold basin.

Now it is full of spiritual spring water, and the golden sun brilliance is like broken gold, floating on the water surface.

He Qilang caught a glimpse of these gold and silver vessels, and his pupils couldn't help but shrink, and a stormy sea rose in his heart.

Qian Chen noticed his inner restlessness, frowned slightly, and had some guesses: "It seems I guessed right. The pure spiritual energy in his flesh and blood is really the essence of the sun and moon. It is the breath that only exists after often taking the sun's ear food and the emperor's moon flow pulp!"

Using a short knife to burn with true fire, Qian Chen cut open the ray's belly and took out a gelatinous substance that emitted a faint spiritual light.

"This kind of spiritual object is rare! This is the bone of a deep-sea cuttlefish. After the ray swallowed it, it gradually softened. When it was refined by the ray's lightning, because the ray took some rare spiritual medicine, the medicinal property was adsorbed by the cuttlefish bone, thus refining a prototype of an inner pill!"

"If this fish is not hunted by you, after a long time, it can gradually swallow and spit this thing, absorb the essence of the sun and moon, and it is not impossible to condense into a demon pill after a hundred years!"

"This can be refined into a water-attribute spiritual root, mixed with a little thunder attribute."

"Middle-grade spiritual root, probably eight parts water, two parts thunder... This size can be refined into three parts. Two of them are the price for my shot!" Qian Chen raised his head and asked Shi Heilong: "What do you think?"

"Everything is according to Xianshi's words!" Shi Heilong said with excitement and fear.

It was He Qilang next to him who secretly clenched his fists: "Middle-grade water spiritual root, and two parts thunder spiritual root mixed in!"

Water and thunder generate each other. Thunder spiritual roots are rare heterogeneous spiritual roots. Those with thunder spiritual roots have several times the effect when practicing thunder methods!

The environment faced by overseas practitioners is biased towards water-attribute spiritual energy. In terms of it, water spiritual roots are the most convenient among the five-element spiritual roots, and thunder spiritual roots are notoriously powerful. The thunder methods practiced are far superior to their peers! And although the aptitude of middle-grade spiritual roots is not too high, it is countless times stronger than He Qilang's current aptitude.

He even had the urge to temporarily go back on his word and plant this spiritual root for himself!

But He Qilang still held back!

For this inferior aptitude, he endured countless times, so why be in a hurry?

"If this person's means are really extraordinary, I have my own way to plant a better spiritual root!" He Qilang thought excitedly.

Seeing Shi Heilong decisively agree, Qian Chen took action.

He took out a short knife, burned it with true fire, and suddenly inserted it into Shi Heilong's chest. Before the two reacted, he cut off a piece of his rib cartilage and took it out.

The translucent cartilage with bloodshot was repaired to the size of a finger joint under Qian Chen's knife.

Then, with the residual plasma in the ray's cartilage sac, and its essence blood, matched with various spiritual medicines, and even used the seaweed fished today, these things were mixed into the spiritual spring water containing sun dew in the gold basin, and refined by Qian Chen into a light green spiritual liquid covered with fine bloodshot, and then the piece of cartilage was put into the spiritual liquid.

Immediately after, Qian Chen intercepted one-third of the gelatinous spiritual object and pointed it into the cartilage.

As the spiritual object gradually fused with the cartilage, the spiritual liquid and the mixed ray essence blood and plasma were slowly absorbed by the cartilage...

"This time, I used the bone-changing method!"

"The immortal bone spiritual root I planted for you, as long as you constantly irrigate the immortal bone with your own true Qi, you can gradually grow spiritual roots, and at the same time, you can inherit a natural magic spell from the bloodline of this thunder ray."

Qian Chen carefully observed the cartilage for a while, shook his head and said: "It should be the wind-calling technique! It's useless..."

Shi Heilong was very excited on the side: "Useful, useful! For my fishing family, it couldn't be more useful!"

"The spiritual root should be completely generated within a year. If you are willing to spend more money, taking some heavenly materials and earthly treasures can also speed up the generation of spiritual roots! This piece of cartilage is planted in your body. After the spiritual root is generated, you don't have to worry about it, but before it is generated, if this piece of immortal bone breaks, it will make your spiritual root incomplete, remember to protect it!"

Qian Chen took out the cartilage in the basin.

At this time, Shi Heilong could no longer recognize that this was the bone taken from his body. In the translucent cartilage, wisps of thunder light flickered, and fine bloodshot covered it.

He couldn't see more, only He Qilang next to him could feel the active spiritual machine and vitality in it.

Qian Chen asked Shi Heilong to lie down and planted the cartilage into his first vertebra. Shi Heilong felt a numbness spreading from that bone. When the true Qi ran there, there was a faint itch, and the true Qi would also be slightly refined.

Shi Heilong jumped up from the stone bed and was about to worship Qian Chen.

"Just a little effort! If someone can find a top-grade spiritual plant, I will personally take action to plant a top-grade spiritual root for him..."

Qian Chen put the remaining ray spiritual glue into a jade bottle and kept it well. He Qilang stepped forward to compliment: "Senior's hand is so wonderful, he will surely be famous in Zhoushan in the future!"

Qian Chen looked at him and said: "If you want to ask me to plant spiritual roots for you, remember to prepare the materials. In the future, I will not take action for this kind of middle-grade spiritual root!"

He Qilang felt a little nervous, so he left with Shi Heilong!

On the way, he felt uneasy in his heart: "Did that senior notice anything?" ===== CHAPTER 494 =====