In Li Shiming's mind, the rock he had just discovered was actually the ground of a square.
As he dug up more and more silt, the ruins he sensed with his spiritual sense became larger.
It was as if he was seeing the destruction of a mountain gate. The mountain was smashed into pieces by the terrible attack, and countless buildings were reduced to ruins.
In his divine sense, the entire ruins were truly a ruin and seemed to have no value at all.
But he thought of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake'. Where does the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' live?
You have to know that if this kind of ancient spiritual beast did not have a special living environment, it would have disappeared forever like other ancient creatures.
Since the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' is still alive, there must be an environment where the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' can survive.
It was with this idea in mind that he continued to dig the silt, hoping to find the place where the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' lived under the silt.
"Found it!" It was not until the next day that Li Shiming finally made a discovery.
He had been conducting his excavation work with extreme caution, as he was also worried that there might be other 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snakes' or even more dangerous creatures.
Fortunately, everything went well. One 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' was enough to make this place full of danger, and no second one appeared.
What he found was a cave entrance covered by silt, just enough for the body of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' to pass through.
Li Shiming's body couldn't enter straight, but he could still move through.
After a slight hesitation, he decided to go in through the cave entrance and explore.
Since there is still space preserved in the remains of this ancient sect, it is very likely that there are valuable items inside.
Besides, with his physical strength, a small space is the best fighting environment. In terms of strength, defense, and melee attack, he can dominate the Foundation Establishment Stage.
He cleaned the silt at the entrance of the cave, but the silt inside could not be cleaned, so he needed to walk through the silt.
Due to the frequent passage of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake', the silt in the cave has become looser, which has reduced a lot of trouble.
Li Shiming's spiritual sense was constantly released, sensing the situation dozens of meters ahead.
This passage was very long. He felt that it was probably designed as a ventilation hole, or some other passage for communication with the outside world. It was not for people to walk in because it was too narrow.
After traveling for nearly two hundred meters, his mind sensed that the front was empty, and he knew that he had found the inner space.
Just as he guessed, the living environment of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' should be just ahead.
Li Shiming didn't dare to guarantee whether there were other 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snakes' still alive, so he slowed down his pace and released the Nine Palace Sword Formation in front of him, forming a dense sword net. If there was an 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' appearing in front of him, it would be blocked and discovered by the sword net.
The imagined accident did not happen. He came out of the passage and the exit was underwater.
"Spiritual energy!" The water here is fresh water, which is different from the sea water outside, and the water contains rich spiritual energy. The water here can be called a spiritual spring.
Looking up from underwater, there is a light above, but I don’t know what is shining.
He surrounded himself with the Nine Palace Sword Formation to prevent accidental attacks.
In fact, at this point, he no longer had anything to worry about, because the space here was large enough and he could easily use 'Lotus Step by Step'.
Unlike in the narrow passage, 'Lotus Step by Step' cannot be used at all.
His spiritual sense emerged from the water, and when he saw this, his scalp went numb, and the muscles all over his body tensed up, and he almost cried out in surprise.
After a while, his divine sense detected no signs of life, which made him relax.
He stuck his head out of the water and looked at a gigantic 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' that was more than ten feet long on the shore. The light he saw was exactly the light emitted from the eyes of this gigantic 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake'.
When his spiritual sense discovered the gigantic 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake', he almost thought that he was doomed.
Judging from the size of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' he killed before, the strength of that 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' was at the peak of the foundation building stage. Then the strength of this huge 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' is definitely beyond the level of a great demon, and may even be equivalent to the human Nascent Soul level.
If the giant 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' was still alive, Li Shiming's presence would be a snack for the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake'.
Even though he determined that the huge 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' was dead and only a snake corpse was left, Li Shiming still felt the pressure, which was the residual energy left in the body of the powerful being.
After coming out of the water, he did not look anywhere else as he was completely attracted by the snake corpse.
He was already imagining what level of refined corpse could be produced by using such a snake corpse as a sacrifice.
Of course, refining a snake corpse into a refined corpse is many times more difficult than refining a human corpse.
He would not refine it into a refined corpse until he figured out the state of the corpse of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' before it died.
In addition, an analysis must be made to determine whether it is more cost-effective to refine the corpse of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' into a refined corpse or to make it into a magic weapon.
These cannot be accurately judged at his current level, and he has to wait until at least the Jindan stage.
He looked at the huge corpse of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake', and then looked at the small passage he came in. It might be because the passage was too small that the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' was trapped and died here.
His divine consciousness enveloped the corpse of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' and he felt the trembling coming from his divine consciousness. This was the instinctive reaction of his divine consciousness coming into contact with a being that was too powerful.
He did not let his spiritual consciousness come into contact with the corpse of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' for a long time. With a slight movement of his mind, he put the snake corpse into the space ring.
When the corpse of the huge 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' was put away, the pressure that Li Shiming felt with his mind eased, and he had time to look around.
As the corpse of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' was put away, the only source of light in this space disappeared, leaving the space in complete darkness.
Li Shiming took out a high-power LED lamp and hung it on the wall to make the space bright again.
The wall is made of pieces of jade with patterns painted on the surface. Even after countless years, the jade still retains its original luster.
He stretched out his hand to touch the jade on the wall and sensed a faint fluctuation of spiritual power. The patterns contained spiritual power that protected the wall and this space.
He exerted a little force, and the strength in his hands continued to increase, but he was unable to cause even the slightest damage to the wall. The pattern that seemed to have little spiritual power actually hid its power inside.
Finally, he came to the conclusion that the defense of this space was extremely strong. If he wanted to break the jade on the wall, he would need to break the entire space in one blow.
Anyway, with Li Shiming's strength, it is impossible to do it.
In an area on the shore, there is not even a big rock due to the presence of the giant 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake'. It should be caused by being crushed by the giant 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake's' body.
He followed the space inward and saw a jade door in front of him, which was ajar.
Li Shiming's spiritual sense first probed into the interior, which was a half-remaining room.
There is a dry skeleton in the middle of the room, and next to the skeleton is a small magic circle with flashing light. In the center of the small magic circle is a translucent egg.
He looked around and saw that there was no danger, so he walked into the room.
It was unknown how many years had passed since the bones lay there. The clothes and flesh on their bodies had all turned to dust, leaving only the jade-like bones.
Just by looking at the skeleton, one can tell that this withered bone was extremely powerful when it was alive, at least not as powerful as Li Shiming could understand.
Li Shiming's eyes fell on a ring that fell on the ground next to the dry bones. That should be the dry bones' space ring.
His divine sense grabbed the space ring and took it in his hand.
He tried to use his spiritual thoughts to enter the space ring, but since the owner of the space ring had passed away many years ago, the space ring did not prevent his spiritual thoughts from entering.
There are many things stored in the space ring, including some unknown elixirs and spiritual pills. After his divine consciousness came into contact with these elixirs and spiritual pills, he sensed that these elixirs and spiritual pills had long lost their spirituality.
Even though the space ring could slow down the loss of spirituality in the elixirs and pills, the time was simply too long. Even if they were kept in the space ring, the elixirs and pills would still lose their spirituality and become useless objects.
There are two other magic weapons, one is a flying sword and the other is an umbrella-shaped magic weapon. Unfortunately, both have lost their spirituality and need to be placed in an environment rich in spiritual energy for a long time to be nurtured. Perhaps they can recover.
Li Shiming's eyes were on the three ancient jade slips. These ancient jade slips were different from the jade slips used today, and the level of the contents stored inside could not be determined from their appearance.
He took out three ancient jade slips, placed one of them between his eyebrows and sensed it with his spiritual sense.
He showed joy, for this first ancient jade slip contained knowledge of formations. This ancient jade slip contained the 'Five Rhythms Qi Training Art', and it was the complete version of the 'Five Rhymes Qi Training Art'.
From the Qi Refining Stage to the Ascension Stage, this was not the first time that he had obtained this level of martial arts. The 'Sword Intent Soaring to the Sky' practiced by his clone Li Yuanba was a martial arts technique that could be practiced to the point of Ascension.
The most important thing is that he can practice the 'Five Rhythms Qi Training Technique'.
After he read the Qi-refining chapter of the 'Five Rhythms Qi-refining Art', he found that it had great similarities with the 'Five Elements Qi-gathering Art' he practiced during the Qi-refining period.
It seems that the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Art' was modified based on the 'Five Rhythms Qi Training Art'. Perhaps a certain cultivator inherited part of the 'Five Rhythms Qi Training Art'. In order to create a suitable practice for the younger generation with five spiritual roots, he used the 'Five Rhythms Qi Training Art' as a basis and revised the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Art'.
With the five elements spiritual power state in Li Shiming's spiritual lake, he can completely skip the Qi refining chapter of the 'Five Rhythms Qi Refining Art' and directly practice the foundation building chapter.
Moreover, the compatibility of the 'Five Rhythms Qi Training Art' is extremely strong, and it can be practiced at the same time as other attribute techniques without any conflict. His 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art' can still be practiced as the main technique.
After being promoted to the Golden Elixir stage, he would then make the 'Five Rhythms Qi Training Art' his main practice, and the 'Nine Heavens Thunder Strike Art' his secondary practice.
The only trouble is that the situation recorded in the 'Five Rhythms Qi Training Art' is different from the state of the spiritual lake in Li Shiming's body. There is no such phenomenon as the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array' in the spiritual lake.
It seems that Li Shiming accidentally practiced the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique' and developed the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Array' which was composed of the second-grade five-element array spirituality extracted from the second-grade five-element array materials in the Spirit Lake.
No matter what he thought, the situation in his spiritual lake was a fact now. He could only go on with it, practicing according to the 'Five Rhythms Qi Training Technique' while continuing to absorb the spirituality of higher-grade five-element formation materials as he was promoted.
He took out a second ancient jade slip, which contained a secret method called "Jiushao Insect Classic", in which the method of raising the "Jueling Huanxing Snake" was found.
It turns out that the giant 'Absolute Soul Phantom Snake' was the spiritual beast raised by this ancient monk. The ancient monk died first, but in order to protect his remains, he untied the contract of the giant 'Absolute Soul Phantom Snake' before he died.
At the same time, several snake eggs of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' were placed in a magic array that could preserve the spirituality of the snake eggs, and the magic array was arranged at the exit of the spirit vein, in the hope that the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' could continue to perform the guarding mission.
I don't know how this ancient monk was trained. No matter the original giant 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' or the later biological 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake', they have never left this space and have been guarding the remains of the ancient monk.
It was fortunate that Li Shiming came here now. If he had come here when the giant 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' was still alive, he would have been dead for sure.
Even though he had come here now, it was only because of his 'Lotus Step by Step' movement speed that he was able to escape the attacks of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' many times.
"So this is the snake egg of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake'!" Li Shiming carefully looked at the snake egg in the center of the formation, and murmured with joy in his eyes.
There is only one snake egg left in the formation. Only when the previous 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' dies and comes here for the last time to inject the guardian consciousness into the snake egg and then activate the snake egg, will the snake egg hatch.
This is a kind of inheritance, the inheritance of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' to protect its master.
Li Shiming recalled the contents of the 'Nine Shao Insect Scripture' in his mind, took out the third-grade sword base, mobilized the sword intent and deliberately restrained the spiritual power on his skin, and used the third-grade sword base to cut a wound on his arm.
With the defensive power of the Immaculate Taoist body, it would be difficult to break through the defense of his skin if he hadn't done this.
He forced out a drop of blood and smeared it on the snake eggs of the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake', then mobilized his spiritual power to draw a complex contract pattern.
The essence and blood were absorbed by the snake eggs, and the spiritual power contract pattern was also absorbed along with it.
Then he felt that the life inside the snake egg was connected to his soul, and the life inside the snake egg was almost stagnant.
His mind moved, and the stagnant state of the snake egg changed to normal. It began to absorb spiritual energy with all its strength, and there was slight movement inside the snake egg.
It would take quite some time for the 'Absolute Spirit Phantom Snake' to hatch, so he took out the third ancient jade slip.
The 'Great Dao of the Five Elements' recorded in this ancient jade room, if the 'Five Rhythms Qi Training Technique' is a specific practice, then this 'Great Dao of the Five Elements' is the general outline of the five elements. Its profoundness is so profound that he cannot understand much even with the help of IBMz15.