Volume 1 Chapter 5 Zhang Pa and the Black Bird

Chapter 5 Zhang Pa and the Black Bird ()

The first thing he did when he returned to the hut was to make himself a vest with many small pockets. He put the snake eggs into the pockets one by one and sewed them up. He planned to wear it next to his body. Anyway, this thing is not afraid of pressure, and he can wear it to sleep. The pearl tears belong to the mother snake, so Zhang Pa also sewed the pearl tears on the vest. No matter what, it counts as a reunion of mother and child. Then he sewed soft armor on the outside. After wearing it, it looked bloated, but there was nothing wrong with it.

After everything was done, Zhang Pa, who was free, began to get scared again. He was afraid that the hatched little snakes would eat him, so he wanted to throw away the snake eggs, but he couldn't bear to do it.

He was worried about gains and losses, and the Zhenru Master and Zhentian Daoist arrived. Zhang Pa hurriedly threw away the soft armor in his hand and went out to greet them. The Taoist Zhentian looked a little bad, probably because of saving Zhenyi. He asked Zhang Pa: "Hongwu, did you move the snake corpse?"

Zhang Pa answered honestly: "No."

The Taoist Zhentian asked the head: "Brother, go in and see the monster?" The head of Zhenru thought and said: "No, the restrictions of the beast refining cauldron are all broken. It is better to take out the cauldron and set restrictions again. As for the big snake corpse, with our abilities, it is estimated that we cannot refine it." He shook his head slightly and walked into the Ten Thousand Beasts Cave alone. After a while, he came out again with a four-legged square cauldron in his hand.

The head of Zhenru put the cauldron on the ground and said to the Taoist Zhentian: "Put it away. Wait for the elders to come out of retreat and let them set restrictions again. It's a good opportunity to ask if the snake skin can be refined."

The cauldron became smaller, and the snake corpse in the cauldron also became smaller. The Taoist Zhentian looked at it and found that the snake corpse was not injured. He estimated that the inner elixir was still there. He waved his sleeves and put away the beast refining cauldron according to the head of the sect's instructions.

The head of Zhenru sect turned to look at Zhang Pa. He knew that his cultivation level was still at the middle stage of Qi Refining after a quick look. He was a little disappointed and said casually, "Practice well." Zhang Pa bowed and said yes. The head of Zhenru sect ignored him and flew away with Zhentian Taoist.

Only Zhenyi, Zhenru and Zhentian knew how much it cost to subdue the big snake. In the end, they failed and both sides suffered losses.

What Zhang Pa saw was that the big snake died and the restriction of the beast refining cauldron was broken. What he didn't see was that the Tianluo umbrella was destroyed, the soul-stealing bell and the flying sword were also destroyed, and Zhenyi Taoist's golden elixir exploded.

At that time, the big snake was tied up in the cave. Generally, when the monsters are tied up, they know to cherish their lives. After the spirit is extracted from the beast refining cauldron and refined into a spirit bead, they all choose to obey. The big snake is different. It is a species from the primitive world and the king of all snakes. It has a violent and resolute temperament. It is extremely difficult for such a divine creature to conceive. Once conceived, it will lay more than a hundred eggs. More than a hundred snake eggs are all caused by blood essence, so the power of pregnant female snakes is greatly reduced, and only one in ten is left. Although the big snake lays many eggs, it is not easy to hatch them, and only two or three out of a hundred can be successfully hatched.

Zhenyi and others accidentally caught a pregnant snake with greatly reduced power. Although they were surprised that its power was slightly lower, they only thought it was caused by injury, and did not think it was pregnant. After a year of failure to conclude the heart agreement, he finally made up his mind to refine it. He borrowed the magic weapon Tianluo Umbrella from Zhentian Daoist, borrowed the Dahuan Dan from his fellow disciples, and came to refine the beast with confidence.

After a fight, the big snake was trapped with a ban to refine the control spirit bead. Unexpectedly, the big snake would rather die than obey, and actually split its soul into two. Part of the soul used the soul escape body, and the self-destructed soul died with the enemy. Most of the souls sneaked into the fetal abdomen, overdrawing life to accelerate the early maturity of the snake eggs.

When the snake's Yuanshen was violent, Zhenyi Taoist saw something was wrong and hurriedly hid behind the Tianluo Umbrella. He then condensed the golden elixir to form a body armor for protection. However, the Yuanshen was too powerful and destroyed the Tianluo Umbrella and the body-protecting golden elixir, leaving him with only a life to survive. Zhang Pa knew everything that happened later.

After this incident, Zhang Pa's mind was full of questions. He wondered how the snake was caught, what the snake was, how the snake could lay eggs after it died, how the injury of Master Zhenyi was, how the spiritual power of the snake eggs entered his body, how to hatch the snake eggs, and whether he would still be alive after hatching the snake eggs...

There were too many questions, and he had a headache thinking about them. He simply put them aside and concentrated on practicing. Wouldn't it be a waste if he didn't practice with a lot of spiritual energy? The funny thing is that he only knew that he had a lot of spiritual energy, but he didn't know how much it was. This time, he meditated for a month. When he opened his eyes again, his cultivation level had reached the top level of Qi Refining.

After scanning his surroundings with his spiritual sense, Zhang Pa couldn't believe it. Not only did his meridians widen a lot, but his internal breath also became thick and strong. He couldn't help but laugh up to the sky. He actually jumped directly from the middle stage of Qi Refining to the top stage. It was too easy. Zhang Pa was very happy.

For this result, of course, he had to thank the snake eggs. He took the soft armor to check the snake eggs. They were still white and pulsating, without any other changes.

In the days that followed, he still guarded the Ten Thousand Beasts Cave alone. In addition to practicing, he played with the puppy. He was still timid, afraid of thunder, and even more worried about the hundreds of snake eggs.

A month later, Hongcheng Hongtu came to return the Xintian Yao, and the two seemed very excited. After putting the Controlling Spirit Pearl back to the shrine, he didn't forget to talk. Zhang Pa walked and listened, and got a general idea in a daze.

A few days ago, the Qi Refining Conference of the Orthodox Cultivation World of Yue Kingdom was held every five years. All the masters who had reached the top level of Qi Refining came to participate. Most of these people are suffering from the inability to build a foundation, and want to improve their realm and successfully build a foundation through sparring, exchanging experiences or exchanging magic weapons.

For this conference, Tianlei Taoist Temple actually sent more than 300 people to participate. As expected of the largest cultivation sect in Yue State, there are more than 300 disciples who have reached the top level of Qi Refining Stage.

It is said that there are thousands of people participating in the conference, exchanging skills, exchanging magic weapons, and doing all kinds of things. There is also a private arena. Some sects have more peculiar methods of cultivation, and they have to practice in actual combat.

The conference lasts for seven days and is held at Jinshui Lake. It is rumored that Jinshui Lake is full of spiritual energy, rumored that there are monsters in Jinshui Lake, and rumored that there are immortals living in Jinshui Lake, but these are just rumors, and no one has seen them. However, the seven-day conference held every five years is held here.

Hongcheng obviously gained a lot from the conference. He smiled and walked with the wind, and he wanted to practice with Hongtu. Hongtu ignored him and talked about this and that. He said that the elixir of Lingshan Sect was good, and the talisman of Wanfa Sect was wonderful. Then he talked about the magic weapon armor of Bailian Valley.

Zhang Pa was moved when he heard it. He thought of the big snake with snow-white scales. He really missed it. It’s a pity that it’s not his, otherwise he would definitely use it to refine armor. However, I have snake eggs, and after hatching, I will have snake skin. But, but, do I have to kill the snake after raising it? But, but, but, what if the snake eats me first after hatching? ... Cowards like to think wildly.

He thought about his own grand plan and flew away on the sword. Zhang Pa cursed himself inwardly, why did he think so many useless things? However, he didn't know whether it was useful or not, but he was really worried about being bitten to death by the snake, so he decided not to wear the snake egg soft armor and threw it back into the house, piling it with those broken protective gear.

Since he entered the top level of Qi Refining, Zhang Pa felt that he had endless energy, full of energy, and his senses became more and more sensitive. He was meditating that day, and vaguely heard the roar of beasts from the dense forest below the mountain. Zhang Pa's first reaction was fear. He quickly hid in the room, closed the doors and windows, and then looked out through the window slit.

In fact, there were only two ordinary beasts fighting in the forest. With Zhang Pa's skills, it was very easy to deal with them, but he was afraid. After looking through the window for a long time, he didn't see any trace of the beast, but the roar of the beast gradually subsided. He guessed that it had gone away, so he was relieved, drank a bowl of water to calm down, and planned to rest for a while. But he heard a sneer, and a crisp voice came into his ears: "You are so old, are you still afraid of small animals?"

Zhang Pa's heart, which had just settled down, beat violently again: "Who? Who is talking?" He pulled out a dagger and hid in the corner to look around.

"You are so embarrassing, a cultivator, a top-level master in the Qi Refining Stage, actually used an ordinary dagger to defend himself. If it gets out, all the Taoists in Tianlei Mountain will commit suicide."

"Come out, come out quickly, I saw you!" Zhang Pa shouted hoarsely.

"Well, you saw me, so let me show you." With the sound, a black bird appeared out of thin air, as long as an arm from head to tail, with shiny black feathers all over its body, and a small head full of contempt and disdain. It was too lazy to expose Zhang Pa's lie, and tilted its head to look at Zhang Pa: "You saw me, are you touched?"