The distance between islands 7 to 10 is relatively close, unlike the previous islands which are far apart.

  With the speed of a cultivator in the early stages of Jiedan, flying east for several months would be enough to travel from Island Seven to Island Eight.

  The distribution of sea monsters in the waters near these islands is also roughly the same, with mostly sixth-level sea monsters, except for Island Ten which has a lot more seventh-level sea monsters.

  It is said that this is because the tenth island, far to the east, is an excellent place for high-level demon beasts to cross the tribulation of transformation, so these high-level demon beasts all unconsciously gather here. Once their cultivation has progressed to a sufficient level and they need to pass the tribulation, they will go to this place.

  Flying over the sea area where level 6 and 7 demonic beasts are rampant for a long time is an extremely dangerous move, even for a cultivator in the Congealing Dan stage. If there is a slight shortage of spiritual energy supply, and just happens to be ambushed by a hidden demonic beast under the sea, the possibility of falling is extremely high. This is also one of the reasons why human cultivators have densely built four strongholds from Island 7 to Island 10.

  After arriving at the eighth island, Zhao Di bought a precise sea map and monster data, then transformed into a blue light and flew northwest. If his spiritual power was slightly insufficient, he would find an uninhabited small island, set up a hidden array, and use high-grade spirit stones to quickly recover his spiritual power before flying north again, basically without any delay.

  At the beginning of the month, it was common to encounter cultivators in the Condensation stage flying with colorful lights on the road, but they became fewer and fewer. After several months, he had not encountered other cultivators for almost a month.

  He flew tens of thousands of miles again, and Zhao Di stopped on a small island that was only dozens of miles in size. This small island even had a low-grade spiritual vein, and under Zhao Di's divine sense detection, there were extremely few low-ranking demon beasts living on the island, as well as several ordinary spiritual herbs.

  Zhao Di instructed Yu Rou in a low voice, and the latter quickly set up several arrays on this small island. The Tian Xiang Huan Qing array was among them! There were also two high-level spiritual stone-driven defensive arrays, both of which had been improved by Yu Rou, making the array's power much stronger.

  These two sets of formations are the insights gained by You Ruo after studying the ancient formation classics in her spare time. This classic is profound and difficult to understand, although she has a talent for it, but only understood less than a quarter of it.

  Even with just this little bit, her level on the path of array techniques is much higher than Zhao Da's, and she has also selected a few sets from Zhao Da's existing arrays, slightly improved them, replaced them with high-grade spirit stones to set up the array, and greatly enhanced the power of the array.

  Of course, such a simple improvement cannot bring out the true power of high-grade spirit stones. Some ancient arrays rumored to be laid down by high-grade spirit stones are also far beyond the reach of today's array masters!

  Zhao Di believed that if he gave You Ruo more time to comprehend and practice the Array Formation Way, he could definitely cultivate her into an existence similar to an Array Master. At that time, with You Ruo's high-level array formations and his own "infinite" high-level spirit stones, it was possible for Zhao Di to grasp some extremely powerful arrays. With such a high-level array formation assisting him, even if he were outnumbered, it wasn't impossible!

  Not long after the Tianxiang Huanqing Array was activated, a sixth-grade demon beast wrapped in a cyan cloud rushed onto the small island.

  Before the monster could reveal its true form, Yu Rou timely activated the Heavenly Thunder Earth Fire Array, trapping it within. This array was one of Yu Rou's improved arrays, powered by two high-grade Thunder Spirit Stones and Fire Spirit Stones, making it extremely powerful. With just a single strike of white lightning, the cloud mass enveloping the monster was easily dispersed, revealing a several-zhang-long, blue-green giant crayfish with rolling eyes and a bewildered expression.

  "Qingyun Xia!" This is one of the easiest to capture and kill among the sixth-level demon beasts, just right for a try. Zhao Di smiled slightly, and with a flick of his sleeve, thirty puppets fell neatly in front of him, some attacking, some defending, in an orderly arrangement.

  The giant shrimp's long tail flicked, and its entire body shot out like a meteor, transforming into a strong cyan light that heavily smashed onto the light shield triggered by the Heavenly Fire Array. However, the latter only shook slightly and did not show any signs of shattering or destruction. On the other hand, after colliding with the giant shrimp once again revealed its figure, two small eyes compared to its body shape rolled around wildly, revealing a frightened expression.

  After all, it was a sixth-level demon beast. Although its spiritual intelligence was far inferior to that of humans, it had clearly sensed the danger it was in and instinctively wanted to escape the control of this formation.

  Zhao didn't give it any more chances, and with a single order, the puppet troops launched a frenzied attack on the giant shrimp in an orderly manner. Fire pillars, blue light, green swords, giant stones, golden blades, and other spiritual energy attacks poured down on the giant shrimp like a dense, unending storm, each one reaching the level of a Foundation Establishment cultivator!

  Although the giant shrimp was extremely agile and its cyan cloud defense was not bad, the two huge cyan claws were hard and fearless of attack. However, the puppet's attack was really wide in range and coordinated tacitly, continuous and uninterrupted. In a few breaths, the giant shrimp was pierced through the abdomen and other soft parts of the body under the dense attack, and it died instantly.

  Zhao Di, who had been hiding and directing the puppet from the side, finally came to the front of the giant shrimp's corpse, felt around for a while, and found the sixth-grade Yao Dan in its head.

  This demon pill was the size of a walnut, with bright and beautiful colors, semi-transparent, very good-looking. Zhao Di satisfiedly put it into a light green wooden box, then took down the useful parts from the demon beast's body.

  Of course, the six-level demon soul that is useful to Erniu Da, Zhao Di will not let go. Compared with the five-level demon beast, the soul of this six-level demon beast is still a green light group, but it is much larger in size and the mini shrimp wrapped inside is also more detailed and clear.

  After that, Zhao Di incinerated the remaining corpses with fireballs, turning them into ashes.

  The materials for the demon beast were placed in a storage ring on his wrist.

  Storage rings and storage bags are both spatial treasures of the storage category, but the materials required to refine storage rings are much more expensive, and their prices far exceed those of storage bags.

  The storage ring in Zhao Di's hand was bought with 10,000 spirit stones. Not only is it convenient to use, but its capacity is also incomparable to that of a storage bag. More importantly, no matter how many treasures are stored inside the ring, its shape will not change, making it impossible for others to notice anything unusual. Unlike storage bags, if they are filled with too many things, they will bulge and inevitably attract the attention of greedy people.

  Like storage bags, storage rings still do not have the function of recognizing their owners. However, it is rumored that in ancient times, there was a secret technique that could be used to mark the storage ring, making it impossible for others to open it. If someone tried to force it open, they would only end up destroying the storage ring and all the treasures inside.

  For some reason, this mysterious skill has been lost for a long time and only exists in legend.

  If not, every cultivator with a storage ring would seal their own storage ring with this secret technique, and other cultivators would not be able to covet the treasures inside. As a result, there might be fewer cases of cultivators killing each other for treasure.

  Several hours later, another sixth-level demon beast voluntarily landed on the small island where Zhao Di was located. One person, two ghosts and a group of puppets were busy again!

  "Cheng Daoyou, is that ink-colored snake escaping in this direction? The three of us have been searching for several hours and still haven't seen any trace!" In a certain area of the sea above the more distant 8th island, three cultivators with different attire were whispering to each other. The one speaking was an elderly Daoist in the later stage of forming his elixir, holding a feather duster, with a clear and refined face.

  "Hey, Qing Daozhang, don't you trust my judgment? I specialize in the renowned 'Yonglong Jue' of the Demon Gate Sect, and I'm extremely sensitive to the aura of aquatic demons. The aura here indicates that the ink-scale python was hiding here for a long time, but somehow it escaped elsewhere! This middle-aged man puffed out his chest, his short and stout body exuding confidence. His cultivation is slightly inferior to the old man's, being a mid-stage Golden Elixir cultivator."

  "Yes, I also believe Brother Cheng's words! After all, Brother Cheng's judgment has been very accurate many times before." A plump and beautiful woman in her late 20s, who was also at the middle stage of foundation building, nodded in agreement with the middle-aged man's opinion. With a gentle voice, she said: "The three of us approached from the west, south, and east sides, but none of us saw any signs of this ink python. It seems that this demon may have escaped to the north!"

  "Luoxianzi also said that, this matter should not be delayed, we three will immediately chase in this direction!" Virtual Qing Lao Dao spoke while transforming into a blue light and flying out. At the same time, he shook his hand with the dusting brush, drawing out a blue halo of light, enveloping both the middle-aged man and the young woman within it.

  The two of them did not resist at all, but instead transformed into a blue light and flew northward.

  Three blue lights converged instantly and flew away at a faster speed.

  Although the three people practiced different kung fu, they had known each other for a long time. More than 100 years ago, they often formed teams to hunt and kill monsters, go on adventures and search for treasure, and many times they worked together to fight against enemies. As a result, they gradually developed some secret techniques that combined the three people's kung fu, such as this method of combining their qian guang (a type of martial arts movement) into one, greatly increasing its power.

  Half an hour later, the three of them stopped their escape in mid-air above a small island. On this tiny island, which was only a few miles in size, there was a young man with a slender figure and purple clothes, who had his hands behind his back and looked up at the three of them. His cultivation was that of an initial-stage Golden Elixir cultivator. Next to the youth lay a massive black python over ten zhang long, its entire body covered in glossy black scales, with several chi-long dark horns on its head.

  This was the Ink Dragon that the three of them had been searching for, but at this moment, it was motionless and lifeless, clearly already dead. It didn't take much guessing to almost confirm that it was the purple-robed youth in front of them who had killed it!

  "The other side is just one person, we three people outnumber them, shall we take action?" The young woman transmitted her voice to the other two first.

  "But he actually single-handedly killed the Ink Horned Snake, which is a sixth-level demon of the snake clan, even more difficult to deal with than ordinary seventh-level demons! Even if we three people work together in perfect harmony and launch a simultaneous attack, it would still take us a lot of effort to achieve!" The short and stout middle-aged man had a hint of fear, while the purple-robed young man below him, who was only at the initial stage of foundation building, gave off an aura that was somewhat unfathomable. Especially when he looked at them with eyes that didn't show any fear, it seemed as if everything was under his control!

  Both of them cast their eyes on the old immortal, after all, this old man was the one with the highest cultivation among the three, and whether to kill or seize the treasure would ultimately be decided by him!

  The old man's eyes narrowed, revealing a sinister and ferocious expression. He transmitted his voice, saying: "People die for wealth, how can we lightly give up on the sixth-grade Jiao class?! Moreover, since they can afford to use storage rings, their family won't be in a difficult situation! Take action!"

  The three of them instantly fell onto the small island, forming a triangle, each about 100-110 meters apart, perfectly surrounding the purple-robed youth and the dead body of the Ink Horned Viper.

  This young man in purple clothes was naturally Zhao Di.

  At this time, he had been in the waters of Island 8 for seven or eight years, hunting and killing hundreds of various sixth- and seventh-grade demon beasts, with extremely great gains.

  In this sea area, there are also a small number of low-level demon beasts below level 5 that have been attracted into the formation by the Tianxiang Huanqing Formation. After they entered the formation, Zhao Di no longer took action against these low-level demon beasts that were insignificant to him, but instead used the restrictions in the formation to directly drive them out of the formation.

  In these years, Zhao Di's harvest was indeed great, but the high-grade spirit stones on his body were almost depleted in this process. Compared to their value, the value of the high-grade spirit stones he lost far exceeded that of these demon pills and materials! Moreover, the loss of puppets and spell arrays was not small, and even Zhao Di himself fell into danger many times. If it weren't for the help of You Lan, You Ruo, Bing Feng, and his fearless puppet guards, he might have found it difficult to return safely! Despite this, he still suffered several minor injuries, but fortunately, for cultivators, using some recovery talismans or meditating for a while could recover from them.

  Hundreds of high-grade elixirs and materials, enough for Zhao Di to use for a while, so Zhao Di didn't stay in this sea area for long, but flew back towards the location of Island No. 8.

  Along the way, they would occasionally encounter one or two high-ranking demonic beasts that had been separated from their groups. Zhao Di would not hesitate to temporarily stop and lay down a spell array to annihilate them with ease!

  Especially an hour ago, he actually saw a sixth-level ink horned snake! In the waters of Island No. 8, this type of python is also rare, and Zhao Di has only hunted a few, but the inner elixir of this python is very beneficial for cultivating the Ice Wind Python, so Zhao Di did not intend to let it go. He immediately set up several arrays, including the Heavenly Fragrance Illusion Array, on a nearby small island, lured the ink horned snake into the array, and then quickly killed it!

  However, just as Zhao Di was about to dispose of the corpse of this dragon-like monster, these two men and one woman who seemed to be up to no good flew over and surrounded him.

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