The Cloud Sea Sky Realm is located on the 30th floor of the Demon Locking Tower.
According to Senior Sister An, this place should be a sea of clouds, with no sky above and no ground below. The surroundings are foggy and one must maintain the flying posture of the sword at all times.
However, the place where the two were now was solid ground under their feet, and there was clear, deep water up to the knees.
Ling Yunpo looked down and saw that he could clearly see his reflection on the water surface hidden by the fog.
An Zhisu held his hand and looked around vigilantly.
Can't see clearly.
A few steps away, the area was obscured by clouds and mist, and sight was completely out of reach. One could only rely on spiritual sense to investigate.
At the moment, there don't seem to be any living creatures or buildings around the two of them.
If you look closely, you can see that both the water under your feet and the clouds in the sky are flowing and floating slowly in one direction.
The two continued to move forward in the direction of the water flow. Soon, they came to a cocoon forest.
There are a large number of giant white cocoons here, which are almost ten feet long and can easily accommodate an adult lying inside.
The destination of An Zhisu and other Huafu-level disciples' trip to the Demon Locking Tower is this sea of clouds and cocoon forest, but...
"It's really strange." An Zhisu circled around a giant cocoon for a few times and said in amazement, "In the cocoon forests that I know of, the giant cocoons are all supported by a pillar made of very thin silk threads, standing in the air in the sea of clouds."
"I have never seen a giant cocoon like this lying in the water before, nor have I heard anyone else talk about it."
"Using silk pillars to support it in the air?" Ling Yunpo asked curiously, "Shouldn't there be a supporting ground?"
"I don't know." An Zhisu replied, "Many predecessors have tried to fly up, down, forward, backward, left, and right at full speed, but they have never been able to detect the boundary of the Cloud Sea Sky Realm."
"There are some kind of raptor monsters living in the sea of clouds. Anyone outside the cocoon forest will be attacked by these monsters. The farther away from the cocoon forest, the more monsters there are..."
An Zhisu stopped here and exchanged glances with Ling Yunpo.
If this place and the Cloud Sea Sky Realm are the same world, then it must be the lowest level of the Cloud Sea Sky Realm.
All the giant cocoons whose supporting silk pillars are broken fall here. Also, because the altitude here is too low, there is no harassment from birds of prey or monsters.
It is also very simple to verify. Just fly upwards from here and see if you can find the cocoon forest supported by silk pillars.
But according to Senior Sister An, the cocoon forest is extremely vast whether it is upward, downward, or in the east, south, west, or north, and ordinary cultivators cannot detect its end at all.
God knows how far the bottom is from the height of the cocoon forest. If it takes a very long time to fly (such as several days) to get there, it would definitely not be cost-effective just to verify whether this world is a sea of clouds and sky.
Ling Yunpo's gaze fell on the giant cocoon.
What is of vital importance to the cultivators at the Huafu level is this giant cocoon.
According to records, this giant cocoon possesses strange powers of time and space.
A monk trapped in a giant cocoon can fast-forward thirty years while maintaining his practice.
These thirty years are equivalent to practicing day and night without stopping, without any external interference, and concentrating on perfecting the Purple Mansion for thirty years.
Although it consumed thirty years of his life, it was probably equivalent to thirty-four or thirty-five years of normal cultivation. After all, in the outside world, cultivators could not maintain the highest efficiency of cultivation every day, and there would always be a period of time when their condition was not very good.
The two climbed onto the giant cocoon and tentatively placed their feet on the cocoon's opening.
Soon, the cocoon began to wriggle, engulfing Ling Yunpo and An Zhisu's ankles, then their calves, thighs, half of their bodies, and finally the entire person was trapped inside.
Ling Yunpo had a very subtle feeling, as if a warm, omnipresent, rhythmic pressure was coming from all around him, which reminded him of a uterus filled with amniotic fluid.
However, his consciousness soon became groggy, as the speed of time was slowly increasing.
The Southern Dynasties' "Records of Strange Things" once recorded that a woodcutter was felling wood and saw boys playing chess and singing, so he stopped to watch.
He was so engrossed in watching that after the boy finished playing chess, the woodcutter discovered that the wooden handle of his axe had completely rotted away. When he returned home, he found that a hundred years had passed and all the people he knew were gone.
As the speed of time increases, the monk's thoughts will also begin to slow down, just like a woodcutter watching a chess game. In the end, the body can only repeat actions mechanically without any ability to think.
Therefore, Ling Yunpo quickly calmed down and began to stimulate the rotation of the Qi Sea. While breathing in and out to refine the Qi and compress the true Qi into true essence, he tried to use the true essence to warm the inner wall of the Purple Palace and improve the flaws.
As the Qi Sea spun faster and faster, while his consciousness was becoming groggy, a trace of True Essence began to be extracted from the Qi Sea, rotating closely against the inner wall of the Purple Palace. This is what Taoists call "The Interaction of Dragon and Tiger".
"Hmm?" Kunlun Mirror suddenly spoke, "This force of time and space feels like a fragment of my true body..."
Watching Ling Yunpo's consciousness fade away, it knew that the speed of time and space had increased, and this guy could no longer speak.
"However, the fragments of the original body should not be here." Kunlun Mirror continued to talk to himself, "We are just borrowing its power here."
"The only thing that is certain is that my fragments are definitely in the Demon Locking Tower, huh."
"With your current state, it's too early to plan these things."
"Hurry up and get stronger."
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About a quarter of an hour later, Ling Yunpo finally regained consciousness.
He subconsciously used his spiritual sense to look inward, and then was shocked.
Most of the entire Qi Sea has been occupied by True Essence, with only 30% to 40% of the True Essence remaining, slowly floating at the top of the Upper Dantian.
If true Qi is like a mountain stream, then true Yuan is like a big river, and the latter almost crushes the former in quality.
What this brings is a double increase in the power and endurance of sword-controlling techniques, Taoism, magic weapons, etc.
However, Ling Yunpo did not have the time to confirm how much stronger he had become. He just quickly pulled himself out of the giant cocoon and went to find Senior Sister An next to him.
After a while, An Zhisu also crawled out of the giant cocoon with difficulty, then turned over and rolled down, just in time to be caught by Ling Yunpo who had been waiting for a long time.
"Senior Sister." Ling Yunpo was obviously relieved, "Fortunately you are okay."
"How could something go wrong with this giant cocoon?" An Zhisu also made a joke, but judging by her expression, she was touched. "Put me down first."
"Um."
An Zhisu landed on the ground and stood firmly. Then they realized that each other was covered with the mucus from the giant cocoon, which was sticky and uncomfortable.
After washing it briefly with the water on the ground for a while, Ling Yunpo clapped his hands and said with a smile:
"The Golden Mercury Elixir has been in the making for sixty years, and the Cloud Sea Giant Cocoon has been in the making for thirty years. Senior Sister, isn't this equivalent to ninety years of hard training? In this way, isn't it certain that the elixir will be of top quality?"
"If you want to make a third-grade elixir, according to the normal efficiency of cultivation, you need to transform your palace for 200 years to be sure." An Zhisu pondered for a moment and said calmly, "At this rate, if nothing goes wrong, the elixir should be able to reach the third grade."
Ling Yunpo quickly congratulated his senior sister and felt emotional.
It takes two hundred years to form a third-grade golden elixir, and at least four hundred years to form a second-grade golden elixir.
As for the elixir becoming a first-grade elixir, it is inferred that it took at least eight hundred years... There is no record of this in history at all.
Perhaps it is because without reaching the Golden Elixir Realm, human life span is at most two hundred years. Excluding refining Qi and cleansing marrow, it would take at most one hundred and fifty years. How is it possible to transform the body into a palace for two hundred years?
One has to be like me and Senior Sister An, who first joined a famous and upright sect, and then entered various secret realms, relying on one adventure after another to have a chance to achieve the third-grade golden elixir.
As for the second-grade golden elixir, don’t even think about it unless you are an extraordinary genius!
Now as the Shushan Breaking Cloud Sword Immortal, his treatment is roughly the same as that of Senior Sister An. He first obtained the power of the Gold Mercury Danhua Liquid, and then the acceleration of the Cloud Sea Cocoon. It is estimated that he can save ninety years of hard training.
The medicinal power of the golden mercury elixir can only be refined to one spoonful at most, any more will be considered poison.
In the Cloud Sea Cocoon, you can only enter the acceleration mode once at most, otherwise you will become insane.
If you continue to practice according to this step, you will have about 150 years of life left. Excluding the last ten years for forming the elixir, it is equivalent to 230 years for the transformation of the palace, and the third-grade elixir is guaranteed, and there is about 170 years to the second grade.
After the Demon Locking Tower is over, we have to switch to Qiu Changtian and Luo Yan to see if there are any similar secret adventures in Kunlun Taiqing Sect and Penglai Yuqing Temple that can allow us to stack up second-grade golden elixirs!
Seeing Ling Yunpo's expression seemed to be surging with emotions, An Zhisu couldn't help but smile.
If my junior brother and I can both achieve the third-grade elixir, then when Master comes out of seclusion one day, I can say that I have lived up to his expectations and have managed to maintain Qingluo Peak...