Chapter 386 "Oh, It's My Fault"

At the same time, the body of the Jindan who was completely under Meng Zhou's control and sitting cross-legged in the quiet room of the cave gently tapped the beast bag on his waist, and a monster the size of a human was taken out of the beast bag.

This was a long-tailed monkey monster with dark brown long hair all over its body, with a ferocious face and sharp fangs that were particularly eye-catching.

After leaving the beast bag, the monkey monster, which was originally sleeping with its eyes closed, began to roll its eyeballs gently under its eyelids, showing signs of waking up.

Suddenly, a palm pressed on the top of its head, and the power was lightly exhaled, and the monkey monster, which was about to wake up, fell into a deeper sleep.

Then, the palm pressing on the top of the monkey monster's head moved and slapped the monkey monster's heart.

"Puff!"

The sleeping monkey monster suddenly opened his mouth, and a large ball of heart essence flew out, like a blood arrow shot out.

After spurting out this large mouthful of heart essence, the monkey monster became sluggish at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The blood arrow made of the monkey monster's heart essence had just been ejected by it and shot into the void, and then it suddenly disappeared out of thin air, leaving only a slight ripple in the void.

…

Meng Zhou, standing in the gap between the real world and the real world, saw the opportunity and decisively took action, holding a ball of heart essence full of vitality and fierceness in the palm of his right hand.

Holding this ball of heart essence taken from monkey monsters, Meng Zhou truly felt the characteristics that were different from those of human cultivators, as if holding a ball of burning magma, a ball of burning flames.

At this moment, Meng Zhou's right hand held a large ball of monkey monster's heart essence, which, under his deliberate action, almost concentrated the essence of the monster.

And Meng Zhou's left hand held a "primitive version" of Tai Sui's body that had just been taken out and had not yet been transformed.

After taking the monkey monster's heart essence, Meng Zhou raised his right hand and slapped the Tai Sui's body's eyebrows.

Soon, all the blood and essence of the heart were slapped on the forehead of the Tai Sui body.

In an instant, the blood and essence of the heart from the monkey monster seemed to come alive and quickly penetrated into the ownerless Tai Sui body.

Inside the Tai Sui body, the blood color, as hot as magma, spread rapidly.

As the blood color spread, the body tissue originally composed of the Tai Sui body began to change quietly.

Bones, flesh, organs...

It is worth mentioning that the Tai Sui body, which originally had a human outline, was changing its body proportions and shape as it was transformed more and more thoroughly by the monkey monster's blood and essence of the heart.

The farther away from people, the closer to monkeys.

Finally, when all changes stopped, this body of Tai Sui, which was affected by the monkey monster's blood and essence of the heart, no longer looked like a human.

Sharp fangs, dark brown long hair, long tail, fierce breath...

From the image to the breath it exudes, it is exactly the same as the monkey monster in the real world.

Then, Meng Zhou stretched out his right hand again and gently took a picture.

In the real world, the monkey demon who was languishing and sleeping suddenly disappeared and appeared in Meng Zhou's hands.

Meng Zhou clasped his right hand on the monkey demon's head, took a deep breath, and began the most important operation of the whole plan.

Meng Zhou carefully recalled the plan that he had rehearsed countless times in his mind, then exhaled a breath of turbid air and slowly closed his eyes.

In his hands, he was holding two monkey demons that looked exactly the same no matter how you looked at them.

They both closed their eyes tightly, as if they were sleeping.

The biggest difference between them was that one of them was weak and in a weak state.

After closing his eyes, Meng Zhou poured all his heart and energy into his palms.

Wonderful ripples emanated from Meng Zhou's palms and spread into the monkey demon's limbs and bones.

Immediately, the monkey demon's body appeared in Meng Zhou's mind in a brand new form, like a galaxy of brilliant universe.

Every bit of twinkling starlight was a spiritual flash, corresponding to a part of the monkey demon's life.

This was originally a technique for the pharmacist to examine and diagnose patients.

When Meng Zhou sublimated the "spiritual master" on the basis of the professions of "spiritual master", "spiritual medicine master", "spiritual adjustment master", etc., he also incorporated the related professional skills that he had been accustomed to into the system of the "spiritual master" profession.

This inspection technique, which he adjusted, can make the target he inspected appear in his vision in a purely spiritual form.

This allows him to avoid all the details and not be confused by the appearance of the myriad phenomena, so that he can deal with problems in the simplest and purest manner.

For example, at this moment, in Meng Zhou's heart, there is no monkey demon anymore, only the brilliant starry sky where its spirituality manifests.

Facing this "starry sky", Meng Zhou easily found the target he needed.

In a certain area of ​​this "starry sky", the twinkling starlight presents a special rhythm that is different from other places.

And Meng Zhou had already completed the control of the owner of this cave from the beginning.

Therefore, Meng Zhou knew very well that the spiritual rhythm found in the "starry sky" that originally belonged to the monkey monster, which was different from the monkey monster's own spiritual characteristics, originated from this Jindan cultivator.

This was the manifestation of a certain contract he had concluded with the monkey monster, connecting to this "starry sky world".

Whether it was a spirit master, a beast master, or other cultivators using other means, such as contract talismans, beast control rings, or special elixirs...

No matter what the specific method used, in the end, such a special "starry sky" would be formed in the controlled life body.

This is the fundamental reason why cultivators can control and command another life.

All the authority of the monks comes from here.

After finding this ultimate "source", Meng Zhou was determined.

He reached out to the "starry sky".

In this special "starry sky world", Meng Zhou was confident that he could control everything.

When he thought about it, a big hand seemed to emerge from the void and grabbed the "starry sky" area.

He only grabbed this one.

As for the more vast "starry sky world" outside, he did not even look at it and abandoned it all.

This is the specific processing process from the perspective of Meng Zhou's "spiritual master".

All this was manifested in the outside world. Just when Meng Zhou's thoughts were determined and a big hand emerged from the void to grab the target, the monkey demon that was being held in his palm suddenly twisted and changed like plasticine.

First it turned into a squirming ball of meat.

Then, smoke continued to rise and dust drifted.

The squirming ball of meat also slowly became smaller in the process.

Finally, it turned into a red meatball the size of an egg, still slowly wriggling.

Meng Zhou stared at the red meatball that was slowly wriggling in his palm, checked it carefully, and after confirming that it was correct, he flicked it lightly, and the red meatball flew to another monkey demon next to him that was transformed from the body of Tai Sui.

When the red meatball was about to fly into the monkey demon's mouth, Meng Zhou's palm was already on the top of the monkey demon's head.

The monkey demon with his eyes closed suddenly opened his mouth and swallowed the red meatball into his stomach.

After the red meatball entered the body, it melted directly in his mouth and spread into the monkey demon's limbs and bones.

Under the inspection technique, Meng Zhou saw the "starry sky" again.

This "starry sky" was more than 90% similar to the "starry sky" that he had seen not long ago and then destroyed by his own hands.

Seeing this, Meng Zhou understood.

The flesh and blood body transformed from the body of Tai Sui, even if it is similar to the real body, is only similar, not really exactly the same.

As long as there is a difference, even if the difference is so small that it is invisible and difficult to detect, it will be reflected in this "spiritual starry sky".

However, this is not the focus of Meng Zhou's attention at the moment.

Meng Zhou's "sight" moved across the entire "starry sky".

Finally, not long after the red meatballs spread into the limbs and bones of the monkey demon transformed by the body of Tai Sui, Meng Zhou saw the familiar "star field" again in this "spiritual starry sky" that belonged to it.

This "star field" has a special and unique rhythm.

And as this "star field" perfectly integrated into this "spiritual starry sky", the monkey demon transformed by the body of Tai Sui and the owner of this cave established a real contractual connection.

"Done." Meng Zhou's mood suddenly became light.

However, Meng Zhou did not stop immediately.

Looking at this "spiritual starry sky", Meng Zhou recalled another "starry sky" he had just seen in his mind, and used it as a reference to manually fine-tune the "spiritual starry sky" in front of him.

Well, to be exact, it is not manual, but "mind movement" - a matter of mind movement.

"It's a little off here."

"It's a little lacking here."

"This 'star field' should be moved a little closer to this side."

"..."

Soon, the two pieces of "spiritual starry sky" that were originally only about 90% similar reached more than 99% similarity after Meng Zhou's "mind movement" adjustment.

After adjusting to this step, Meng Zhou found that the difficulty increased a lot.

First of all, it is not an easy task to find the difference, and the consumption of mental energy also increased rapidly.

Even with his fourth-level middle-grade "spiritual master" attainments, he gradually felt dizzy.

Meng Zhou stopped decisively and did not continue.

Although the work in his hand has not reached the real perfect state, there is still room for improvement.

But Meng Zhou believes that this is very, very enough at the moment.

"Unless Xingxiu Palace also has a spiritual master, or a spiritual master whose attainments exceed the fourth-level middle grade and reach the fourth-level upper grade!"

"Unless Xingxiu Palace will register all the monsters assigned to the disciples in a detailed file down to the hair!"

Thinking so in his heart, Meng Zhou hit a group of pre-prepared soul clones into the monkey monster's eyebrows.

Then, Meng Zhou threw the monkey monster he had dealt with back.

...

Quiet room.

A monkey monster with closed eyes and sleeping appeared out of thin air.

The figure sitting cross-legged on the stone couch gently patted the beast bag on his waist, and the monkey monster that just appeared in the void was sucked into the beast bag.

...

Meng Zhou used the "time editing" method to erase all abnormal traces.

In particular, the traces of the cultivator summoning the contracted monster and forcing the contracted monster to spray out the essence of the heart and blood were all deleted and replaced with "everything is normal, nothing happened".

After doing all this, Meng Zhou decisively revoked his control over the cultivator here and let him return to freedom.

…

In the quiet room, on the stone couch.

The monk who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, meditating, had his eyes gently moving under his eyelids, showing signs of awakening.

After a while, the monk slowly opened his eyes, looked around, with a little doubt in his eyes.

Then, he carefully checked his condition.

After doing all this, he didn't find any problems, so he first breathed a sigh of relief, then shook his head and smiled bitterly, with a self-deprecating look.

"My spiritual cultivation skills are still not good enough."

He attributed his lack of thoughts just now to his imminent return, and his mind left the cage to play before his body came out of the cage.

Regarding this, apart from secretly warning himself that he needed to work more on cultivating his mind in the future, he did not continue to dwell on the matter.

It can be said that it is very normal for monks to occasionally have irregular thoughts during their practice.

This is like a lazy cancer in people. Everyone knows that this is not a good thing, and they all want to eradicate this disease, but how many of them can really do this?

Therefore, although he reflected on it, he actually did not take it to heart.

From the beginning to the end, he never realized that one of the monsters in his beast bag had been quietly dropped.

In his opinion, all the monsters in the beast bag are well-behaved and stable.

When they need peace and quiet, they never act up and sleep obediently in their animal bags.

Being secretly dropped?

Not to mention the consistency in appearance, temperament, charm, and ability, and more importantly, the contracts he signed with them are all there without any problems.

Under such circumstances, what kind of extraordinary imagination is required to have such an idea.

…

Time flies and it is already half a month later.

At this moment, the monk had left the quiet room and came to stand in the hall in the center of the cave.

At a certain moment, the void not far in front of the monk suddenly rippled, and a middle-aged monk appeared there out of thin air.

Seeing this, the monk was surprised and said: "Brother Zhai, the palace actually arranged for you to take my place?"

The middle-aged monk did not give him a good look and hummed:

"Kou Chong, why don't you act for me? There are only so many people who are qualified to take part in the rotation. Do you dare to say that you really didn't expect it?

If you really care about me, don't apply to the palace!

Now give me the pretense and expect me to accept your favor, ha! "

The monk chuckled twice and defended himself:

"Brother, what can I do alone?

I don’t want to apply. With so many people in the Outer Realm, someone will always apply... Besides, my cultivation level will definitely come when the time comes, so I can’t delay. "

The middle-aged man known as "Senior Brother Zhai" first complained, probably feeling that he was now a firefighting captain. Wherever there was a hole, Xingxiu Palace would fill him in.

Finally, after listening to Kou Chong's reasons, his expression quietly changed.

"Can't delay? Hehe..."

"Can't delay? Haha..."

"Can't delay? Haha..."

"Senior Brother Zhai" repeated this sentence repeatedly, his expression and tone kept changing.

His behavior made Kou Chong next to him feel hairy in his heart, and he thought to himself, "Senior Brother Zhai" must be suffering from some kind of hysteria, right?

"Senior brother? Senior brother?...Senior brother?"

He shouted several times, "Senior Brother Zhai" before he woke up again.

"ah?"

"Senior brother, what happened to you just now? You look a little scary." Kou Chong asked worriedly.

"Senior Brother Zhai" was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said: "It's nothing, I just remembered something."

"It's okay." Kou Chong nodded.

"Senior Brother Zhai" stared at him again and suddenly asked: "You are going back this time to plan a breakthrough to the late stage of pill formation, right?"

"Yes." Kou Chong nodded.

"Senior Brother Zhai" stared at him carefully and said slowly, "Let me give you a suggestion."

"Senior brother, please tell me," Kou Chong said.

"Don't be too busy breaking through. Although you have reached the peak of the sixth level now, you are still a little short of the water-filled state. You can spend more time and continue to polish it." "Senior Brother Zhai" said.

Kou Chong, who originally looked expectant, looked disappointed after hearing this suggestion. He nodded first, then shook his head and said:

"I know my fire level is not quite there yet. I really like it when the water is overflowing, but if it's not reached, I won't force it on purpose."

In the constellation palace where geniuses gather, it is easier for people to see themselves clearly.

Kou Chong was very clear about his position. Although he was a genius, there was still a gap between him and the top people in the palace.

He was already satisfied if he achieved 99 points on a 100-point test paper.

He will not force a perfect answer.

He knew very well that if he wanted to make up for the remaining one point, he might have to pay more than he had to pay to gain the ninety-nine points before!

This is not cost effective.

It's not necessary.

"Senior Brother Zhai" heard this, but he laughed twice with unknown meaning again, and said: "Are you trying to compete for time? Do you want to reach the ninth level of pill formation as soon as possible?"

Kou Chong nodded: "Yes."

As for what to do after reaching the ninth level of elixir formation, for practitioners, does this need to be said?

The ninth level of Danjie is the pinnacle of Danjie. After reaching this height, isn't it natural to consider climbing the higher mountain in front of you?

And a well-known truth is that when trying to hit the big realm, the younger you are, the greater the advantage.

"Senior Brother Zhai" laughed strangely again and asked, "Do you know why I suggested that?"

Kou Chong said: "You want me to accumulate more deeply?"

"Senior Brother Zhai" raised his finger and said:

"Wrong, wrong, wrong!... Is there any difference if the accumulation is deeper or shallower?"

"I just want you to live longer."

Kou Chong was really confused after hearing this.

How can there be no difference in the depth of accumulation?

If so, why would someone choose to play it safe and continue to accumulate when they can clearly break through?

It's because they are greedy for the benefits of deeper accumulation!

As for "living longer", this is true, but it seems strange when it comes from "Senior Brother Zhai". Is this still the "Senior Brother Zhai" who can give up everything for the pursuit of the great way?

"Senior Brother Zhai" saw Kou Chong's confused face and suddenly asked: "Are you the first batch to come here?"

"Yes, yes." Kou Chong nodded.

"Senior Brother Zhai" nodded, showing a look of understanding, and said: "No wonder."

Kou Chong had a bad feeling in his heart. Did I miss something?

"What happened?" Kou Chong asked.

"Senior Brother Zhai" asked: "Do you know 'Xingxiu Tianchi'?"

"Ah? What is that?" Kou Chong looked confused.

"Senior Brother Zhai" stared at him for a while, and asked again: "You broke through to the Jindan stage after the palace closed the mountain, right?"

"Yes, yes." Kou Chong nodded.

"Have you been practicing all the time?" "Brother Zhai" asked again.

"Yes." Kou Chong nodded again.

"Don't you pay attention to anything else?" "Brother Zhai" asked again.

"No time." Kou Chong said.

"Okay."

"Brother Zhai" nodded, changed the subject directly, and said: "I almost forgot about the main business. Give me the formation flag and token."

Kou Chong quickly took out the formation flag that controlled the formation on the mountain and the token for communicating with the other three people on this spiritual vein and handed them to "Brother Zhai".

After completing the handover, he did not forget to ask the question.

"So, what is Xingxiu Tianchi?" Kou Chong asked.

"Brother Zhai" waved his hand:

"Go back and ask for it yourself... Don't worry, this is no longer a secret in the palace. As long as you want, you can find out easily."

He didn't want to face a brother Kou who was like a bereaved, or even dying.

It's not that he was worried about Kou Chong, it was just too troublesome.

So, Kou Chong spent half a day in suspicion and worry.

This half day was also the time that Xingxiu Palace specially reserved for newcomers and those who left to communicate.

Half a day later, Kou Chong, who was standing in the center of the cave hall, suddenly felt that he was caught by a mysterious force and tightly wrapped.

In an instant, he lost all perception of the outside world.

The next moment, he first felt that his body suddenly became heavy, and then suddenly became light.

Then, he found that the power that tightly wrapped him had disappeared, and he regained his perception of the outside world again.

Kou Chong found that the place where he was standing was no longer in the cave hall, but in the center of an island that was not too large.

Kou Chong knew that he had returned to Xingxiu Sea.

A similar experience had been experienced once when he left Xingxiu Sea and descended to the "Juye Wilderness" (that is, the Five Realms), so Kou Chong was not so surprised.

As soon as his vision was restored, he looked around, as if he was looking for something.

He didn't need to look for it deliberately, a white-bearded old man appeared beside him.

The old man waved to him and said, "Come on."

Kou Chong said hurriedly, "Don't rush, I have a question."

Seeing this, the old man looked at Kou Chong with alert eyes, took a step back quietly, and said, "Don't rush, if you have any questions, go through the heart-searching array first!"

Kou Chong said quickly, "It's very simple, I just want to know what the 'Starry Sky Lake' is?"

"Uh..."

The vigilance on the old man's face disappeared.

But his face darkened.

...

Meng Zhou stood in the gap between the real world and the real world, and never moved.

"Accompanied" Kou Chong through his last half month in the Five Realms.

Waiting until the day of handover, Meng Zhou was worried that with the arrival of the power that could easily send people in and out, if he was too close, something unexpected would happen.

Therefore, he deliberately kept a distance.

But even so, he had a complete grasp of everything that happened in the cave.

From the arrival of "Senior Brother Zhai" to Kou Chong's departure, including every word spoken by both sides, every change in expression, he saw it clearly and from multiple angles, and also recorded it in the "Interpretation World".

After Kou Chong left, Meng Zhou closed his eyes again.

He used the body of Tai Sui to test the waters, with the purpose of testing the safety of such a "prison break".

The fourth-level middle-grade "spiritual master" attainment is the fundamental guarantee for the success of stealing and replacing pillars.

But in the final analysis, the monkey demon was transformed from the body of Tai Sui, and some defects are innate.

Whether it is the body of Linglian or the body of Tai Sui, they all have a common shortcoming that his perception of them will be affected by the distance.

The farther the distance, the weaker the perception.

Although the performance of the body of Tai Sui is much better than that of Linglian, the Five Realms is also far away from the Xingxiu Sea where Kou Chong returned.

For this reason, Meng Zhou still stuffed a group of soul clones in.

He would not use this soul clone for other things. Its only function is to let him sense the state of the monkey demon at any time.

When Kou Chong left the cave hall, Meng Zhou immediately found that his induction of the monkey demon in Kou Chong's beast bag was rapidly weakening.

This showed that the distance between the two sides was rapidly increasing.

Finally, when it stabilized again, the induction directly through the monkey demon was already very weak.

He could only sense its existence and state through the soul clone hidden in the monkey demon's body.

However, the "clarity" of the induction is still reduced, not as good as when it was sensed inside the five domains.

"It seems that the soul clone still has a distance limit, but this limit is a bit exaggerated." Meng Zhou thought so in his heart.

And through the information fed back by the soul clone, Meng Zhou knew that his plan had basically been implemented.

It had been several days since Kou Chong left, but the information fed back by the soul clone told Meng Zhou that the monkey demon that had been secretly replaced by him had been sleeping comfortably and steadily in the beast bag.

From beginning to end, there was no disturbance.

At first, Meng Zhou was a little unconvinced.

"No way? How could it be so safe?"

"Could it be that my tricks have been exposed, and the other party is playing tricks on me and waiting for me to fall into the trap?"

This was the first thought that Meng Zhou had in his mind when he first discovered that the situation on the other side was too different from what he had expected.

After a long time, Meng Zhou gradually accepted the fact.

"I thought the difficulty was too high!"

"The problem is not with the other party, but with me!"

"I thought the difficulty of 'prison break' was too high!"

Meng Zhou reflected in his heart.

Put yourself in their shoes, what does Xingxiu Palace need to worry about? Who do they need to guard against?

Xingxiu Palace has never regarded the Five Realms as a threat, not to mention that the measures taken by Xingxiu Palace against the Five Realms are already rigorous enough.

The only thing they didn't consider is that the Five Realms gave birth to such a monster as themselves.

In addition to the long-term dominant position, facing the Five Realms monks, the mentality of Xingxiu Palace monks is generally condescending and very superior.

This is reflected in the behavior, which is collective slackness.

It is that the regulations require them to be strict and serious, but when it comes to specific people and specific things, there is a sense of "following the process in a strict manner".

This is the new feeling that Meng Zhou had after revisiting the handover between "Senior Brother Zhai" and Kou Chong, as well as other handovers that he also recorded in the "Interpretation World".

That is not a task handover, it is clearly a chat!

So, the truth is, this is just an easy mode, but I treated it like a hell mode!

"Oh, my bad."