Although he has the combat power of Jindan level, the incident of Lava Fairy Palace has not been too long ago, and the lessons he learned are still vivid in his mind.
Ning Zhuo is cautious by nature.
Since others have told him that it is dangerous in the mountains at night, why not just follow their advice? What's wrong with spending a night in the mountain village?
"Dear guests, please come this way." The patrolling man smiled and took the initiative to lead the way.
Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong followed him into the village.
Soon after, they met the village elders.
The village elder arranged the two of them to stay in two guest rooms in the center of the mountain village. Ning Zhuo took out twenty spirit stones as room fees, and invited the village elder to have tea at night and talk about the things in Wuyin Mountain.
The village elder naturally accepted it.
This is as it should be.
The man who was patrolling before changed his mind and invited Sun Ning and the others to stay in the village after seeing Ning Zhuo took the initiative to give him a spirit stone as a reward for asking for directions.
"My two distinguished guests, this is the Wuyin tea that is unique to Wuyin Mountain. Although it cannot be compared with famous teas, it also has its own unique characteristics." The village elder took the initiative to entertain them.
Ning Zhuo picked up the teacup and saw that the tea leaves were dark green, but there was a layer of grayish-white tea hair on the surface.
A mist rose from the surface of the tea, curling up gracefully.
When you take a sip of the tea, it tastes bitter at first, like thick fog in the mountains lingering on the tip of your tongue, but this bitterness is fleeting, leaving behind a lingering sweetness, like the tranquility and freshness among the mountains after the fog has dissipated.
"You have your own style, not bad." Ning Zhuo praised lightly.
On the other side, Sun Lingtong did not move his mouth.
On the one hand, he has never had any elegant interest in drinking tea. For him, drinking tea only serves to quench his thirst.
On the other hand, if Ning Zhuo drank, he would not drink. After all, they were traveling outside. This was one of the little tacit understandings between him and Ning Zhuo.
The three of them chatted while drinking tea.
Sun Ning and the others gradually gained a rough understanding of Wuyin Mountain Village.
This mountain village has about 300 households and about 1,500 people. The highest cultivation level in the village is the foundation-building stage. The current village chief has a cultivation level of the late foundation-building stage. There are six village elders, and they all have foundation-building cultivation at their peak. Some of them were seriously injured, and in their later years, their cultivation level fell to the Qi Refining stage. But with their qualifications and achievements, the villagers also respect them.
Speaking of the village chief, Sun Lingtong asked where he was.
Logically, Sun Ning and the other two are foundation-building cultivators, and their cultivation level is high enough for the village chief to come and welcome them in person.
But until now, the village chief has not appeared.
The village elder then told the two: The village chief had organized a group of people to deliver food.
It turns out that there is a Yugang Mountain eight hundred miles away from Wuyin Mountain.
This mountain is rich in jade-smooth black steel, and the Nandou Kingdom opened a mine here and guarded it heavily. Over time, a mountain town developed.
Over the years, the mountain town has had more and more people, but Yugang Mountain itself is barren and unable to be self-sufficient.
The officials of the Nandou Kingdom issued an order, asking the surrounding mountain villages to provide manpower and materials, and to allocate excess supplies and continuously send them to the town of Yugang Mountain.
The mountain villages are all willing to do it.
This is because, if the materials are sent to Yugang Town, they can be exchanged for a large amount of money and commercial goods there. It is not a big profit, but in addition to a small profit, it can also meet the development of the mountain village itself, which is the best of both worlds.
As the night deepened, Ning Zhuo took the initiative to stop the tea party.
After the village elder said goodbye, he and Sun Lingtong disappeared, jumped over the wall, and explored the mountain village at night.
There were also patrol personnel near his residence.
But how could the country folk find out about Sun Ning and the others? Sun Lingtong was born in Bukong Sect and was the best at stealing. Ning Zhuo had Yunyin Kuabao in his body, and such rare flowers and plants could be hidden even from Jindan level, let alone these patrolling villagers.
Sun Lingtong and Ning Zhuo stood side by side, jumping lightly on the roofs of the village houses.
The cool night breeze blew in her face, and Sun Lingtong whispered, "Haha, so cool! Xiaozhuo, this is the taste of freedom!"
He had long been bored of staying in the Lava Fairy Palace. If he had not been worried about his master in the early days and Ning Zhuo later, according to his personality, he would have left long ago and wandered around the world.
Ning Zhuo also smiled.
He had lived in Huoshi Fairy City since he was born, and for the past fourteen years, he had been working tirelessly to seize the Lava Fairy Palace.
At this moment, the matter of the Fairy Palace came to an end for the time being, and he temporarily put down the huge stone in his heart and the heavy burden on his shoulders. He felt very happy to travel freely in the night breeze.
The two found a high place and stopped instantly.
Sun Lingtong transmitted his voice: "Xiaozhuo, let's compete. How about spiritual sense detection? I won't take advantage of you, and I will suppress my cultivation to the early stage of foundation building."
Ning Zhuo: "Boss, since you have such a refined taste, I will certainly not spoil your fun."
"Hehehe." Sun Lingtong laughed a few times and immediately released his spiritual sense.
Ten feet, thirty feet, sixty feet...
His spiritual consciousness expanded until it reached two hundred and sixty feet before it stopped.
The speed of withdrawing his spiritual consciousness was astonishingly fast, and it was all withdrawn in three breaths.
More importantly, the entire process of emitting and recovering spiritual consciousness was very well hidden without any leakage of momentum. Even though Ning Zhuo was right next to Sun Lingtong, he could not feel any fluctuations at all.
It's Ning Zhuo's turn.
He slowly released his spiritual awareness.
Ten feet, twenty feet, forty feet...
When his spiritual consciousness expanded to 180 feet, he was powerless and had to stop.
The spiritual consciousness covered a little more than half of the mountain village.
Many villagers were not on guard and were unaware, allowing Ning Zhuo to see the furnishings in the house and the villagers' nighttime activities.
He found that many villagers worshipped mountain gods in their homes. Eighty percent of the tablets, portraits or small ancestral halls of mountain gods were fox gods. Only 20% had tiger gods. And among these 20%, most of them had fox gods. In other words, the tiger god, as the main god, was a secondary one.
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Ning Zhuo carefully withdrew his spiritual sense.
When he released his spiritual sense, he was several times slower than Sun Lingtong. When he retracted it, the speed was even slower, dozens of times slower than Sun Lingtong.
Sun Lingtong had been watching Ning Zhuo's performance and frowned slightly at this moment.
"Xiao Zhuo, although you and I have different levels of cultivation, the three sects have cultivated the sea of divine dantian, but the range of their spiritual awareness is only one hundred and eighty feet?"
"You're not going to hide your incompetence in front of me, are you?"
Ning Zhuo immediately shook his head: "Boss, this is my best."
Sun Lingtong was puzzled: "This shouldn't be the case. One hundred and fifty feet is the average level for a foundation-building cultivator, but the Mirror Platform Spiritual Communication Technique is only one hundred and eighty feet? This doesn't make sense."
Ning Zhuo smiled slightly and took the initiative to explain: "Boss, you don't know this. The advantages of the mirror table spiritual art need to be combined with external objects to show up."
"According to the content of the bell transmission, I need to refine mirrors. Each mirror can project my consciousness to a farther distance. The projection effect will be different depending on the material and grade of the mirror."
"If I really had enough mirrors, I could cover the entire Mist Hidden Mountain. However, after multiple projections of mirrors, my spiritual sense is very weak, and the sensing will become very blurry."
Sun Lingtong relaxed her brows: "So that's how it is."
Only then did he feel relieved.
In the previous competition, he just wanted to use this excuse to help Ning Zhuo better master his spiritual consciousness. After all, Ning Zhuo had just been promoted to the foundation-building stage not long ago, while Sun Lingtong had already reached the late stage of foundation-building.
Qi training cultivators mastered the divine consciousness, but they could not use their divine consciousness to leave the body for reconnaissance. Even if they were reading a jade slip, they had to keep the jade slip attached to their forehead.
When it comes to the foundation-building stage, the divine thoughts can be condensed and sublimated to form divine consciousness. In the early stage of foundation-building, divine consciousness can be used for out-of-body reconnaissance, generally within a range of 150 meters away from the body.
For cultivators who specialize in cultivating the Dantian on the Sea of God, when they reach the foundation-building stage, their spiritual awareness distance will exceed 150 feet. The more excellent the technique, the greater the distance.
Sun Lingtong suppressed his cultivation to the early stage of foundation building, and his spiritual awareness distance was as high as 260 feet. The mirror platform spiritual art came from the three sect masters, but it was only 180 feet, which was much smaller than Sun Lingtong expected.
After Ning Zhuo's explanation, he felt relieved.
The Mirror Table Spiritual Communication Technique is different from other techniques in that it needs to be combined with external objects to truly unleash the advantages of the technique.
Since the development of the cultivation world, countless wonderful skills have been produced. Some skills can make the spiritual consciousness become ethereal, some can make the spiritual consciousness extremely sharp, and some can even develop the spiritual consciousness and use it as a means of attack.
The spiritual consciousness of the Jingtai Tongling Jue must be matched with external objects. Although it is a bit strange, it also conforms to the purpose of the Three Sects Master - after all, it is a mechanical inheritance. Relying on external objects is the characteristic of the Three Sects Master.
After completing the reconnaissance, the two quietly returned to the guest room.
None of the villagers noticed.
Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong each lay on their beds, using their spiritual powers to penetrate the walls, communicate with each other, and secretly exchange their findings.
When the two talked about the number of tablets for the Tiger God and the Fox God, Sun Lingtong guessed: "The Tiger God and the Fox God have been canonized as true gods by the Nandou Kingdom. They enjoy the incense offerings and can greatly increase their own strength."
"However, the Tiger God is too weak. It is unreasonable for him to allow the Fox God to collect incense without any action."
"Isn't it that the Fox God has taken over your life?"
In today's world of cultivation, humans and gods rule together.
The human race is the main body, and the gods are scattered all over the world.
After a cultivation nation is established, it will often cut down mountains and destroy temples within its borders to suppress all kinds of gods. Some gods are unyielding and are often killed and disintegrated, while some gods surrender and are canonized as true gods, receiving salaries and instructions from the cultivation court.
A country of cultivation itself really needs these gods to improve the country's ruling power.
Compared to humans, the various gods tend to be simple-minded, able to endure extreme environments, and can use their divine power to control clouds and rain, and to divert water and open mountains.
After the gods join the country of cultivation, they can absorb incense widely, communicate with the outside world, and use the country's fortune to practice.
This is a relationship of mutual need and win-win cooperation.
(End of this chapter)