Chapter 397: Refining Furnace Wasteland

As if responding to their thirst, when the golden armored spirit insects that had been dormant for many years woke up again and showed extreme thirst for blood, a crimson mist appeared from the center of the golden armored spirit insects.

Then, this crimson mist spread rapidly, covering the entire "golden cloud".

These crimson blood mists, which were formed by the purest blood essence that had been nurtured in the spirit gourd space for many years, carried an irresistible temptation for the golden armored spirit insects.

In an instant, the "golden cloud" seemed to be boiling completely.

The "buzzing" trembling that went straight into the depths of Meng Zhou's heart seemed to convey an excitement that was almost crazy.

Before these golden armored spirit insects fell asleep, Meng Zhou was only at the seventh level of Jindan.

At that time, the heart essence and blood accumulated in the spirit gourd space were mostly at the third-level middle-grade level, and there were actually not many essences and blood that really reached the third-level upper-grade level.

After these golden armored spirit insects "drank" these heart essences, their strength broke through from the third-level middle grade to the third-level upper grade, and they passed the last major hurdle of the third-level level.

But they were only at the level of the first-level third-level upper grade, and they were still a long way from the peak of the third-level upper grade.

Now, most of the heart essences and bloods that were nurtured in the spirit gourd space were accumulated after Meng Zhou's cultivation reached the ninth level of Jindan, and the others were basically all accumulated when he was at the eighth level of Jindan.

Its quality is far from comparable to the last time.

As the golden armored spirit insects madly and greedily absorbed the crimson blood mist around them into their bodies, the high-quality blood mist they absorbed into their bodies became their own foundation with amazing conversion efficiency.

The aura of each golden armored spirit insect was rapidly rising, and they were like springs that were compressed to the limit.

Now, it was time for them to rebound at a very fast speed.

Originally, the individual golden armored spirit insects were only at the level of the first-level third-level upper grade, and their auras quickly became deep and condensed.

Of course, at this moment of "thousands of insects competing for show", there are always some that perform relatively poorly.

Their bloodline potential cannot support them to go further.

Gradually, they cannot keep up with the overall growth rate of the "golden beetle group".

For these spirit insects, Meng Zhou not only did not give them more preferential treatment, but implanted them in a more dangerous growth environment.

They can no longer easily obtain the nourishment of the blood mist. Before each time they obtain the nourishment of the blood mist, they must first compete with another for life and death.

The winner devours the loser, and the loser's accumulation is all transformed into the winner's food. Under this kind of life or death coercion, the shackles of "bloodline potential" are broken again and again.

At the same time, new golden armor spirit insects with higher bloodline potential will be born.

They are also growing rapidly under the nourishment of this blood mist.

If you focus your vision on a specific individual, you can find that almost no golden armor spirit insect can complete the whole journey.

Some go a little further, some go a little closer, and some don't even have the opportunity to transform from golden beetle eggs into larvae.

In the end, they will all become stepping stones for the new generation to climb higher.

But if you expand your vision to the entire "golden clouds" and the entire golden beetle swarm, you will find that the strength of the swarm is slowly and steadily improving.

In order to reduce the consumption of blood essence, the size of the swarm has been slowly decreasing compared to the beginning.

But this decline will never affect the extent of the bloodline continuation of the swarm.

Although, with sufficient blood essence supply, the growth and reproduction speed of the golden armor spirit insects are very exaggerated.

But it still takes time.

When the strength of the golden beetle swarm as a whole increases at a relatively stable rate, everything becomes stable.

From the supply of blood essence to the response methods for different golden armor spirit insects, fixed rules have been formed.

Meng Zhou's time has become abundant again.

He first looked at the update of this area corresponding to the Hongze Wasteland in the "Interpretation World", and also paid attention to the situation of the current fog sea.

Afterwards, Meng Zhou waited for the transformation of the golden beetle swarm while using his spare time to cultivate the "Wanxiang Pearl" so that it began to slowly accumulate in the master realm.

About a month later.

The fifty Tai Sui bodies that were scattered in various places in the Hongze Wasteland returned one after another.

There is strength in numbers. Fifty Tai Sui bodies work together for a month with clear division of labor, and the efficiency is higher than that of one Tai Sui body working for fifty months.

The "visual anchor points" arranged by "they" with the Qianying Water Mirror as the core are enough for 180 "transparent round mirrors" to cover the entire "Hongze Wasteland".

Under "their" conscious avoidance, "they", each of whom has the peak strength of the sixth level of Jindan, did not encounter any accidents.

The process of "they" arranging the "visual anchor points" was also carried out quietly, without alarming anyone.

With the complete deployment of these "visual anchor points", the operating rules of the 180 "transparent round mirrors" were finally established.

After a month of "trial operation", a large amount of valuable first-hand information was accumulated, which was enough for Meng Zhou to formulate a most suitable and optimized operation plan for the Hongze Wasteland.

After this was done, it was reasonable to finish the matter, and Meng Zhou could focus more on the cultivation of the "Wanxiang Pearl".

But the reality was not so.

Meng Zhou put more energy on the research of the "interpretation world" corresponding to the Hongze Wasteland, and the cultivation of the "Wanxiang Pearl" became a kind of "pastime".

The daily experience gained dropped from an average of more than 1,000 points to less than 1,000 points.

More than ten days passed.

On October 22, the crimson blood mist in front of Meng Zhou was becoming increasingly faint.

Because Meng Zhou did not provide new heart essence and blood.

When the golden armored spirit insects, which seemed to be never full, had sucked up the last trace of blood mist and sent him the emotion of "wanting more", Meng Zhou did not satisfy them. Instead, he used his absolute authority over these golden armored spirit insects to force them into a dormant state and put them into the spirit gourd space.

——Insect control is a branch of beast control, and beast control is only a part of spirit control, and spirit control is completely included in the path of "spiritual master".

With Meng Zhou's four-level middle-grade spiritual master attainments, plus the golden beetle group, who knew not how many generations ago, used the heart essence and blood provided by him as the cornerstone of survival, reproduction and advancement.

In this process, the blood of these golden armored spirit insects had been reshaped silently countless times.

Every time he reshaped them, his control over them became deeper.

By now, Meng Zhou's control over these golden armor spirit insects was no longer limited to any skills or situations.

Meng Zhou felt that his control over these golden armor spirit insects was no less than that of the life-bearing poisons assimilated by the soul pool.

The reason why they could not complete the assimilation of the soul pool like the life-bearing poisons had nothing to do with the control, but because the life form of the golden armor spirit insects was more complicated than that of the life-bearing poisons, which exceeded the limit that the soul pool could handle now.

…

After putting all these golden armor spirit insects into the spirit gourd space, Meng Zhou cleaned up all the abnormal traces left here.

Only then did he leave the foggy sea without stopping and fled in a certain direction.

About 200,000 miles away from the direction he chose, there was a third-level spirit vein with only sporadic coral reefs protruding from the water surface, and the rest of the area was a swamp.

On that third-level spirit vein, there were four Xingxiu Palace Jindan guarding it.

Three days later, one of the guards would return to Xingxiu Sea after Jindan.

This was decided two months ago.

Walking in the gap between the real world and the real world, Meng Zhou easily passed through the barrier of the third-level top-grade protective array, and without triggering any warning, he came to the cave where the Dan was guarded.

The things that came after the Dan were familiar to Meng Zhou.

It took him less than an hour to finish all the things that should be done.

Because there were more than two days before his return, Meng Zhou was not even in a hurry to transform into a beast and enter the beast bag.

Instead, he continued to stay in the gap between the real world and the real world, and practiced the "Wanxiang Pearl" for another two days, gaining 5,000 experience points.

When Meng Zhou put the newly made "Wanxiang Pearl" into the spirit gourd space, calmly ended this practice of the "Wanxiang Pearl", transformed into a beast, and entered the beast bag to quietly hibernate.

[Master Wanxiangzhu 58,000/1.6 million]

Just half a day after Meng Zhou entered the beast bag, the owner of the beast bag was wrapped by an invisible huge force on time and left the Hongze wilderness.

When he appeared again, he had returned to the spiritual island where the teleportation array was arranged in Xingxiu Sea.

Because he had a deep understanding of Xingxiu Sea and Xingxiu Palace, Meng Zhou was not as cautious as he was when he first sneaked in with Fan Ling.

A day later, after confirming that the monk who brought him back had left the spiritual island where the Observation Hall was located and returned to his own spiritual island, Meng Zhou did not continue to hide in the beast bag.

After a slight hint, all the contracted monsters in the beast bag came out of the beast bag, woke up from their slumber, and soon scattered.

Meng Zhou also took the opportunity to free himself from the identity of the contracted monster, leaving behind a big monster transformed from the body of Tai Sui, which was exactly the same as the "original" in all aspects.

After escaping, Meng Zhou did not go anywhere else, and hid in the sea near the spiritual island where the Observation Hall was located again.

By "contacting" with the deputy hall master Cao Bin at close range, through the contract connection, Meng Zhou quickly grasped the information of all the returnees in the next two months and the monks who would be arranged to go to various wastelands to replace them.

"It is now October 25th, and the nearest rotation will be seven days later, that is, November 2nd, to Lingyue Wasteland."

Meng Zhou also discovered that in two months, at the end of December, this wasteland will happen to have a Jindan from the Observation Hall arranged to go there to exchange with the monk who has guarded the longest.

In this way, the round-trip schedule is clear, and the time is about two months, just right.

"It's you..."

Meng Zhou was about to make a choice, but suddenly paused.

His eyes looked at another return application.

That was an application arrangement about half a month later. On November 9th, the Observation Hall would arrange a monk to go to the Lianluo Wasteland to replace one of the guarding Jindan.

This is also the only transmission exchange in the Lianluo Wasteland within two months.

The reason why Meng Zhou paused was that in the next regular rotation of the Observation Hall, the turn would be to the Lianluo Wasteland.

At that time, another monk from the Observation Hall who has been confirmed will go to the Refining Furnace Wasteland to exchange positions with one of the guards of the Core Formation.

The specific rotation time is at the end of February next year.

Compared with the choice of Lingyue Wasteland, this opportunity to go to the Refining Furnace Wasteland does not look good at first glance.

If it is based on the standards set in my mind, it is equivalent to wasting two months of time.

But is it really wasted?

He chose Lingyue Wilderness and returned before the end of the year.

After returning, the first thing he had to do was to find a place in Xingxiu Sea for retreat and cultivation.

He would spend the entire first month of the year on retreat and cultivation.

Whether in Xingxiu Sea or somewhere else.

As far as he was concerned, choosing Xingxiu Sea as a place for daily retreat was a last resort.

For him, there was no truly safe place in Xingxiu Sea.

Therefore, not returning to Xingxiu Sea at the end of the year, staying outside, and finding a suitable place for retreat and cultivation, would be more in line with his wishes and make him feel more at ease.

Another thing is that this trip to Hongze Wilderness took 45 days, and Meng Zhou felt that the time was still too short.

To complete his plan, he had to go to Hongze Wilderness at least once more.

Risks would accumulate as the number of trips increased.

Therefore, the fewer trips, the better.

"If I choose the Refining Furnace Wasteland, I will have 80 days of activity time, except for the time of retreat and cultivation.

I may try to complete the task that originally required two trips in one trip."

Meng Zhou thought so in his heart, gave up the Lingyue Wasteland, and decided to go to the Refining Furnace Wasteland for the next trip.

...

Half a month later.

Meng Zhou successfully entered the Refining Furnace Wasteland.

"It really deserves the name of 'Refining Furnace'."

As soon as he entered this area, Meng Zhou felt its "enthusiasm" which was very different from the Giant Wilderness and the Hongze Wasteland.

Even he felt this way, so you can imagine how bad the environment of the Refining Furnace Wasteland is.

The sky seemed to have ten suns shining on the earth at the same time. Looking far away, everything in sight seemed to be twisting because of the rising heat wave.

The mountains were twisting, the earth was twisting...the real world here seemed to be twisting irregularly and constantly.

Such a world is a bit too much for practitioners, let alone ordinary people.

Mortals can't survive in such a world.

But the reality is that the life activity in the Refining Furnace Wasteland is not inferior to that in the Giant Wilderness and the Flooding Wilderness.

However, Meng Zhou had no intention to explore these things at the moment.

After leaving the cave guarding the Dan in the Xingxiu Palace and the third-level spiritual vein where the cave was located, Meng Zhou found a suitable hiding place as quickly as possible.

Then, he repeated what he had done in the Flooding Wilderness.

First, fifty Tai Sui bodies scattered to various places in the Refining Furnace Wasteland, and then, one after another, "transparent round mirrors" flew out, lighting up a new area in the "interpretation world". (End of this chapter)