Zhao Di couldn't just recklessly fly his divine instrument towards Jing Yu Peak.

  Yu Jianzhong repeatedly warned that it was impossible to fly the flying device in the high altitude of the valley for a long time. Firstly, the entire high altitude of the Dragon Valley was covered by a very powerful ban, and if one flew too high and triggered this ban, it would be absolutely fatal. This had already become an iron law bought with countless lives.

  There are many flying creatures and beasts in Ergou Valley. If you're targeted by them in the air, it's almost certain that you'll be in for a disaster rather than good fortune.

  Thirdly, in the valley, there is something even more dangerous than the demonic beasts, that is encountering other cultivators. If flying in the air with an unobstructed view, it's easy to be discovered by nearby cultivators and end up being tracked or ambushed.

  Zhao Di fell back into the dense forest. He wore the scale armor under his gray robe and changed his boots to those hundred-feather boots. As for the black veil cloak, wearing it would only affect his vision, and in this valley, every encounter was a life-and-death struggle, so there was no need to cover up any appearance, Zhao Di naturally wouldn't wear it.

  Next, he suddenly pinched his hands into a strange posture, muttered incantations in his mouth, and then disappeared completely. This is the low-level auxiliary magic "Nixing Technique" commonly used by cultivators. However, at this time, Zhao Di not only disappeared from the original place but also retracted the spiritual energy emanating from his body, making it impossible to detect his whereabouts unless he entered the line of sight of other cultivators.

  This is the "Nirvana Technique" that Zhao had spent a lot of effort to master. Using this technique would consume some spiritual energy, and during this process, one could not mobilize a large amount of spiritual energy within their body, otherwise, they would be unable to control the contraction of their spiritual energy, thus ruining the effect of the Nirvana Technique.

  Zhao Di held a mid-grade blue water-attribute spirit stone in his hand, using the Stealth Technique while occasionally absorbing some spiritual energy from the spirit stone to supplement the small amount of spiritual energy consumed by casting spells. In this treacherous Dragon Descent Valley, it was essential to maintain an abundant supply of spiritual energy at all times.

  Apart from this, Zhao Di also extended his divine sense outward, covering a range of over 100 meters around himself. With these means, he finally dared to boldly advance towards Jing Yu Peak.

  Zhao Di had traveled over twenty miles ahead, leaving the dense forest and arriving at a serene lake. If he wasn't mistaken, according to the records on the Jade Slate, this lake was called Gengxin Lake. In this lake lived a type of first-grade demon beast known as the Xuan Gui. The Xuan Gui had the head of a bird, the body of a turtle, and the tail of a snake, usually appearing in dark red color, extremely strange. This Xuan Gui could only use low-level defensive spells such as "Golden Cage" or "Stone Skin Technique", posing almost no threat to high-level cultivators in the Qi Refining stage. However, it was also thick-skinned and had good defense against various spells, plus its exceptional cowardice made it usually hide at the bottom of the lake, not daring to come out, making it not easy to hunt and kill.

  Zhao Di was still very interested in this Xuan Gui, because many classics mentioned that the turtle shell of the turtle-like demon beast is very suitable for refining into shield-type defensive magic instruments. Many high-quality and top-quality defensive magic instruments were refined from the hard shells of turtle demons. There are even classics that mention that turtle demon shells above level 5 can be refined into defensive magic treasures!

  Zhao Di, lacking a defensive top-grade magic tool, slowed down his pace significantly as he approached the lake.

  As expected, Zhao Di saw from a distance of several miles away that there were seven or eight red turtles of different sizes basking in the sun by a lake.

  By the lake, the terrain is very open and the view is good. Even if he uses both stealth and concealment techniques at the same time, he will likely be discovered by them when approaching within two or three hundred meters of the whirlpool turtles. And once these whirlpool turtles discover themselves, with their timid personality, they will definitely turn back into the lake. After entering the lake, these whirlpool turtles move much faster and are extremely difficult to capture.

  After a moment's thought, Zhao Di had an idea.

  He carefully approached the group of turtles, using some tall grass and sparse trees as cover, until he was about thirty or forty feet away. Then he slapped a yellow "Earth Concealment Talisman" on himself, and with a faint flash of yellow light, Zhao Di vanished into the ground without a trace.

  The spell sealed in this talisman is one of the high-ranking spells of the Refining Qi stage, "Earth Escape Technique", which can travel a distance through the mud without any obstruction until the spiritual power sealed in the talisman is exhausted.

  At this time, Zhao Di was in a place four or five zhang below the ground. He was surrounded by a layer of round yellow light. The mud and rocks around him would automatically disappear and turn into nothingness when they encountered the yellow light on the light screen. After the yellow light passed, they would quickly return to their original state. Therefore, Zhao Di in the yellow light was like walking on flat ground, rapidly approaching the location where Hu Bian's Xuan Gui was located.

  After a moment, Zhao Di's divine sense responded that he was already very close to the whirlpool tortoise, and the yellow light changed direction, shooting upwards and bursting out of the ground.

  Several soft-shelled turtles playing by the lake saw a human figure suddenly emerge from the mud in front of them, and after a moment's pause, they hurriedly crawled into the lake.

  A yellow talisman flew out, and a yellow light flashed in mid-air, transforming into a deep yellow light shield with a diameter of about 20-30 feet, covering three or four larger spiral turtles inside, preventing them from returning to the lake.

  This was a "Earth Prison Emblem" that Zhao Di had thrown out, trapping several larger Spiral Turtles inside. These Spiral Turtles continuously collided with the light screen, but it barely budged. The Spiral Turtles were originally only skilled in some defensive magic, and their attacking strength was extremely poor. Even if they gave these few Spiral Turtles seven or eight more hours, they would still be unable to break open this Earth Prison light screen.

  Zhao Di took out the Yu Shan Yin Fa Qi, and slowly injected his spiritual energy into it. The small seal quickly swelled to the size of a Tu Long Guang Zhao. Zhao Di immediately stopped injecting spiritual energy and manipulated the Yu Shan Yin to fly to the top of the Zhuan Xuan Gui's head.

  After all, it's a spiritual beast, and after feeling the great threat from above its head, several whirligigs made a "crackling" sound, like the strange cry of splitting wood, and then put their bird heads, limbs, and snake tails into the turtle shell.

  A loud crash, the Jade Mountain Seal heavily smashed onto these whirlpool turtles' bodies. Not only was the earth's surface instantly shattered, but even the ground sank four or five feet deep. However, when Zhao Di withdrew the Jade Mountain Seal, he surprisingly discovered that these whirlpool turtles' bodies were all intact, and one of them even shook and stood up, wanting to crawl back into the lake.

  "With a 'zi' sound, a golden light flashed by, and this obviously somewhat dizzy turtle was beheaded by Zhao Di's sword, its limbs thrashed about in disarray before falling still."

  As for the other few tortoises, they were all shocked by Yushan's seal and had their internal organs shattered, long since dead.

  Zhao Di unceremoniously used his work cloth sword to scrape off the shells of these few whirligig beetles and put them all into a storage bag.

  He quickly drilled into a small forest by the lake, found a hidden tree hole, picked up a high-grade spirit stone, and sat down.

  The Jade Mountain Seal's consumption of spiritual energy was beyond his expectations, and with just one strike, it had depleted nearly half of his magical power. He couldn't help but use a high-grade spirit stone to quickly replenish some of it.

  With a high-grade spirit stone, in just half an hour, his spiritual power was fully restored.

  His consciousness has been closely monitoring his surroundings throughout this process, ensuring that he can react in the first time as soon as there is any movement.

  After another two or three hours, at dusk when the sky was about to turn dark, Zhao Di arrived at the foot of Jingyu Peak.

  Zhao Di looked up at the towering mountain peak that was thousands of feet high and sparkling, then looked down at the various semi-transparent stones under his feet, some large and some small, and was left speechless.

  All of these are glittering crystals, and it's hard to pick out the blood essence stones from them. Even with a sweep of divine sense, it can't be judged clearly, and they can only be carefully turned over one by one, which is undoubtedly like searching for a needle in the ocean.

  Some of these crystal stones are as smooth as mirrors and cannot be stepped on at all; some have sharp corners and edges, like knives. All this adds a lot of difficulty to the search for treasure in the crystal stones.

  No wonder this place has the lowest danger coefficient, but in the previous trips to Dragon Valley, few people have found blood jade here to complete the task.

  Anyway, there was still plenty of time, and Zhao Di wasn't in a hurry to rush to other places, so he simply held onto the slender golden spear artifact, using it as a stick to poke around in the pile of rocks.

  What he didn't know was that at this time, there were two or three other cultivators also rushing towards Jingyu Peak. One of them had even traveled six or seven hundred miles, passing by several treasure-hunting spots without entering, and specifically came to Jingyu Peak.

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