Chapter 49: Xizhou Lizard Hunting Nangong Wan Becomes Suspicious and Searches for the Trace

Not wanting to stay in Green Wave Cave any longer, Sun Zecheng set off directly.

After walking out of the gate of the Yellow Maple Valley and turning into the market, Sun Zecheng bought another 1,200 pieces of green talisman paper and 20 bottles of purple talisman ink, spending a total of 1,800 lower-level spirit stones. Including the remaining ones, he now had a total of 1,800 blank pieces of green talisman paper and 31 bottles of purple talisman ink, half of which were used.

He gave the broken and nearly scrapped black iron flying shield to owner Zhang of the equipment refining shop, and arranged for people to forge it with a thousand hammers to recycle the black iron materials. As for what to do with it, he had not yet decided what to do with it. He spent another thirty low-level spirit stones, and had a total of 102 mid-level spirit stones and 370 low-level spirit stones left.

Well, there is nothing to buy. This time we are going to the desert, and there is a lack of water in the desert... Thinking of water, Sun Zecheng suddenly remembered the cave where Han Li built his foundation in the original novel, the Spirit Eye Spring. With an idea, he changed his mind and ran back to the Qilin Pavilion in Huangfeng Valley to rent a "double-eyed mouse" for three days.

"The rental fee is one low-level spirit stone per day," the female disciple in the Qi Refining Stage said crisply.

"Three days, and the rest is yours." He threw five low-level spirit stones to the female disciple in the Qi Refining Stage, making her very happy.

After driving away the double-eyed rats, I successfully found the Spirit Eye Spring. I used three brass bottles to fill them with spiritual spring water. Based on my understanding before the journey, I knew that the thing most lacking in the desert was water. No matter what, I had to prepare some first.

Unfortunately, this brass bottle is only a top-grade magic weapon and cannot hold much. One bottle can only hold about 300 kilograms of water.

After releasing the double-eyed rat, Sun Zecheng flew straight to the center of the Xizhou Desert.

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Besides, after Nangong Wan returned to Yanyue Sect, she broke through the early stage of foundation building and entered the middle stage of foundation building that night. In fact, she was deliberately suppressing her realm in order to participate in the Tianwutai discussion. The essence of her practice and reincarnation is not the same as the upgrade of ordinary people!

After recovering to the middle stage of foundation building, Nangong Wan ended her retreat and the first person she thought of was Sun Zecheng!
The function of the heart-protecting mirror on the stage that instantly fixed her Vermillion Bird Ring was very similar to the Blue Condensation Mirror of the Moon-covering Twins! This instantly reminded Nangong Wan of the trip to the Blood Forbidden Land!
When she first came out of the Blood Forbidden Land, Nangong Wan was in a very bad mood. She let the spirit beast smell the spiritual medicine selflessly and then hid in the Tianyue Divine Boat. She didn't know that Sun Ze had later sold the spiritual medicine. As a result, after Sun Ze became famous in Tianwu Terrace, he was recognized by others. He was the person who had handed over the record-breaking spiritual medicine in the Blood Forbidden Land before!

Nangong Wan was also impressed by the concealment methods of Huang Fenggu and the others! Sun Zecheng exposed himself, otherwise Nangong Wan would not have been able to find out!

He had participated in the Blood Forbidden Land, handed in a record amount of spiritual medicine, possessed superb concealment skills, and was cunning and clever in his fighting methods. It was reported that he had lost the battles between the Yellow Maple Valley, the Spirit Beast Mountain, and the Giant Sword Sect for no apparent reason...

This Sun Zecheng was most likely the person who had accidentally entered the forbidden Mo Jiao Swamp World and taken away the golden treasure chest!

The more Nangong Wan thought about it, the more suspicious she became! That's right! It must be him. Only he has the ability to take things away without anyone noticing!

Nangong Wan immediately decided to sneak into Huangfeng Valley to find Sun Zecheng and get to the bottom of it!

Nangong Wan easily got a set of Huangfeng Valley clothing and sneaked into Huangfeng Valley disguised as a female disciple in the Qi Refining stage. At this time, it was only a few days after the end of the Tianwutai Forum, and everyone in Huangfeng Valley was extremely excited, especially the Qi Refining disciples, who were talking about the heroic deeds of Sun Zecheng and Nie Ying. Nangong Wan didn't even need to ask specifically to easily know that Sun Zecheng was Li Huayuan's disciple and lived in Lu Bo Cave.

Nangong Wan was no stranger to Li Huayuan. She had also been to the Green Wave Cave. When Li Huayuan got married, Nangong Wan, who was also a Jindan cultivator, attended the wedding on behalf of the Yanyue Sect.

Nangong Wan quietly sneaked to the outside of the Green Wave Cave. At this time, Nangong Wan felt that she was a little impulsive. Not to mention that she was only in the middle stage of foundation building, even if she recovered her golden elixir cultivation, what could she do here? She couldn't enter the Green Wave Cave. Was she going to wait here for him to leave? What if he didn't leave for a year or two?
How about a way to trick Sun Zecheng out of Green Wave Cave? Trick him out of Yellow Maple Valley? How?

When Nangong Wan was trying to find a solution but to no avail, a woman in blue clothes and palace makeup came over from a distance. Nangong Wan saw that it was Sun Zecheng's partner in the ring! Nangong Wan looked at the match list and knew that her name was Nie Ying.

Needless to say, Nie Ying was most likely here to look for Sun Zecheng. Nangong Wan immediately perked up! Nie Ying typed in the sound transmission talisman, and soon the gate of the Green Wave Cave opened. Before Nie Ying could go in, the loudmouthed Yu Kun's voice came out: "Junior Sister Nie, are you looking for Junior Brother Sun? Junior Brother Sun was sent by Master to do something! He's been gone for several days."

Hearing that Sun Zecheng was not there, Nie Ying did not plan to go in: "He's not here? Then I'll come back another day."

After hesitating for a moment, he asked again, "How long will Senior Brother Sun be gone? When will he be back?"

"It's hard to say. The master sent him to the Xizhou Desert to catch sand lizards. It's hard to say when he can complete the task!"

"Oh, then I'll go first." Not seeing Senior Brother Sun, Nie Ying went back feeling a little disappointed.

Went to the Xizhou Desert to catch sand lizards? Great, Nangong Wan finally heard the news she wanted, quietly left the Yellow Maple Valley, and headed straight for Xizhou.

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Sun Zecheng went deep into Xizhou for hundreds of miles. In the desert, an abandoned inn stood alone and abruptly in the loess and sand, telling us that there had been traces of people here in the past, but that was all in the past.

Amid the wind and sand, most of the ancient road was buried and covered, appearing intermittent.

This is the hunting base of Fourth Brother Song Meng, but this place is actually still on the outskirts of the desert, less than one-fifth of the distance from the center of the desert.

You can still see some plants and some monsters and animals here.

Flying a few hundred miles further in, there was yellow sand everywhere, like a sea of ​​sand, with endless crescent-shaped sand dunes. Not to mention monsters and animals, there were not even plants, only yellow sand.

Sun Zecheng didn’t know why this state was called Xizhou. Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to call it Shazhou?

Moreover, the further you go, the hotter it gets. Even a foundation-building cultivator can't stand the deep desert! So this desert is also called the Sea of ​​Death.

Fourth Senior Brother Song Meng chose this place as his base for this reason: Monsters also need to eat. There is nothing in the depths, not even plants. What do they eat? Even the foundation-building cultivators can't stand the environment, and monsters can't stand it either.

So Song Meng used this inn as a base and searched for sand lizards within a radius of 200 miles.

I have encountered one occasionally. Although the sand lizard monster looks ferocious, it is actually very alert and timid. It will immediately escape and hide underground at the slightest movement. Senior Brother Song has no earth spiritual roots and cannot hide underground, so he has no way to deal with it.

Activate an ice shield. In this hot desert, whether it is for defense, cooling, or isolating from wind and sand, the ice shield is an indispensable consumable.

Sun Zecheng flew to a place where Song Meng had seen the monster sand lizard before. It was two hundred miles west of the inn, a sand dune with several cacti.

Sun Zecheng took out a brass bottle filled with spiritual spring water and placed it under the cactus. He then carefully chose a downwind position to hide at a distance of more than ten feet. Ever since he was discovered by the black tiger of Spirit Beast Mountain last time, Sun Zecheng paid close attention to the monsters' keen sense of smell. He put on the "nameless veil" on his head and activated a cloaking talisman, instantly turning into a transparent man.
The fisherman uses earthworms to fish and the fish will take the bait. In this desert, if you use spiritual spring water to fish for the monster sand lizard, will it take the bait?

(End of this chapter)