After the compressed five elements spiritual power reached its limit, it rushed in all directions, and severe pain emerged in the dantian.

Shen Lian's expression remained unchanged. He tried his best to practice the Five Qis Converging to the Origin Technique to control the five elements of spiritual power that was in a turbulent state and expand the Dantian sea bit by bit.

The surging spiritual energy rushed into the meridians and acupoints, further expanding these locations.

By the time the spiritual power had stabilized again, the Dantian sea had expanded by more than twice, and the five elements of spiritual power had begun to circulate in the body again.

The fourth level of foundation building!

Thanks to the spiritual power in the shell, Shen Lian was promoted to the fourth level of foundation building without taking many pills.

It's just that the speed of breakthrough and promotion was delayed because of drawing the talisman.

After more than ten years of breaking through the foundation-building stage, he has broken through four small realms one after another.

This cultivation speed is not fast, but of course not slow either. Looking at the entire world of cultivation, it is at the upper level.

“Buzz!”

The five elements of spiritual power form a circulation cycle in the newly expanded Dantian sea. After the spiritual power travels through the body, the essence, energy and spirit in the flesh and blood are also nourished and gather in the sea of ​​​​spiritual consciousness to transform into new spiritual power.

One thousand two hundred feet... one thousand three hundred feet...

…

His divine consciousness extended out like ripples, and the undulating earth outside the cave and the chaotic collapsed mines beneath the surface were all within his perception.

After it spread to one thousand five hundred and eighty feet, Shen Lian realized the end of his divine consciousness.

Just like when he was promoted to the third level of foundation building, his divine consciousness expanded by more than three hundred feet.

After slowly withdrawing his spiritual thoughts, Shen Lian began to regulate his breathing.

The shell spiritual object he obtained from Ao Shi Fairy City allowed him to break through two small realms.

The greatest opportunity was allowing his five elements spirit puppets to be upgraded to the sixth level of foundation building, and when combined they even reached the eighth level of foundation building, making them even more powerful than their master.

He still hasn't figured out what this spiritual object is.

The old demon Heiya took great pains to snatch such a thing from Ao Shi Immortal City, but this thing cannot be directly refined by immortal cultivators.

Either that old devil isn't a human being.

Or the old demon has a magical treasure similar to the Five Elements Spirit Puppets.

"Not a human being."

Shen Lian murmured to himself, and thinking of the way the old demon controlled the cultivators, he was somewhat inclined to believe that the old demon was not a human being.

Overall, it was a good experience hiding in this abandoned mining island.

In addition to the realm promotion, two No. 2 Tianyan Jade Talismans have been nurtured, and each No. 3 talisman array has a surplus.

Even the new Xuanling Jadeite raw stone has not been found.

The mineral vein area on the island is very large. Since the focus before was on practicing and nurturing the jade talisman, only the surface part has been checked so far.

Now, there is time to further explore the mine.

…

"Seven or eight more sea creatures have come to the Master Island, and one of them has been to the island before."

A storage bag was hung on the big black horn, and it crawled into the cave with a clang.

"How's your strength?"

"The strongest one is only at the seventh level of Qi training."

"Pay attention to their movements, and if nothing unexpected happens, let them leave on their own."

Several Qi-cultivating monks came to the island, most likely to look for some opportunity, and Shen Lian was too lazy to pay attention to them.

"By the way, the monk who went to the island before seemed to be seriously injured and was escorted to the island."

"Didn't you say a few months ago that the sea creatures who came to the island earlier picked up a broken second-level magic weapon?"

After a little thought, Shen Lian understood what was going on.

Hearing about the broken magic weapon, Dahei suddenly reacted. The storage bag hanging on his horn lit up, and two pieces of ore flew out.

"Master, I found ore too!"

A piece of pitch-black inkstone and a piece of red gold ore, both are second-level ores.

As for the size, it’s about the size of a finger, or one-tenth the size of a finger.

He placed the ore in front of Shen Lian, and the big black horns on Dahei's head swung back, almost piercing his back, and the two big pincers were placed back on his waist.

But it made it look very proud.

Looking at the two shabby second-level ores, Shen Lian didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He still took out the Soul Feeding Pill and stuffed it into Dahei's mouth, and touched its big black horn.

"...Master, the Soul-Feeding Pill has no effect after you take it."

Shen Lian glanced at Dahei and suddenly realized that he had forgotten to refine new Soul-Feeding Pills for Dahei and Sanqian in the past few years. No wonder these two guys improved so slowly.

"Well, when the master gathers enough spiritual medicine, he will refine new pills for you two."

Then, Shen Lian avoided the topic and asked, "How is the investigation on the island going?"

"The miners dug it too cleanly. These two pieces of ore were found in other corners of the island."

Speaking of this, Dahei has something to say.

All of its descendants are common black-horned ants. The rocks in many places on the island are very hard, so the black-horned ants can only crawl along the cracks in the ground.

However, because a fight had once taken place in the mine, seawater had flooded back into it, and in many places the mines, which were hundreds of feet underground, were now filled with seawater.

It can still investigate these places, but the black-horned ants under its command do not have this ability.

And since it is responsible for observing the movements everywhere on the island, it naturally cannot go underwater.

Shen Lian nodded. How could the mining be unclean? The Xuanshi Sect used new energy.

Dahei didn't find anything on the surface, and Sanqian found nothing underwater. While he was practicing, he also found nothing when he used the Five Elements Spirit Puppets.

Next, we need to look deeper.

After a hundred years of excavation by the Xuanshi Sect, the depth of this mineral vein has exceeded expectations. However, due to the fighting, the collapse below occurred severely.

After the collapse, the mine was flooded by water and a new structure was formed.

There is pressure at the depths of the surging water. The deeper you go, the greater the pressure becomes. Even a cultivator who has established his foundation cannot bear it.

However, among the human race, there are water-repellent beads refined by hunting sea creatures, which can form a waterproof light shield in the water, allowing people to walk on the water as if it were flat ground.

Different levels of water-repellent beads can penetrate to different depths underwater.

"Continue to monitor the sea creatures on the island and report back if anything happens."

After sending Dahei out, Shen Lian began to think. There were three things he needed to do next: find the original stone of Xuanling Jadeite, assist the Five Elements Spirit Puppet in practicing magic, and draw puppet talismans.

There is no need to rush to do these three things; you can do them alternately while practicing.

…

The mine is six hundred feet deep.

The water was dark, with black dust floating in it. These dust particles floated to the surface of the water and were the source of the poisonous gas on the island.

The source of the black dust is deep in the mine below.

On a piece of stone, Shen Lian sealed his pores with his spiritual power. The Water Spirit Puppet led the Five Elements Spirit Puppets and fell towards the depths below.

This area is the limit that Sanqian can reach.

The Five Elements Spirit Puppet merged with the water, and its body surface was also absorbed by black dust. Fortunately, every time the spiritual power was circulated, the dust could be dispersed.

The spirit puppet traveled through the water, exploring the collapsed and broken mines. Some abandoned corpse puppets could also be seen, but there were no ore.

Since he had just been promoted to the fourth level of foundation building, his newly-generated spiritual consciousness needed to be forged using the silk condensing method inherited from the Immortal Puppet Technique in order to reach the best condition on the Five Elements Spirit Puppet.

This secret method is one that cannot be interrupted. It needs to be practiced every day and maintained year after year.

Even so, Shen Lian was six hundred feet underwater and could still explore an area of ​​one thousand eight hundred feet in radius by controlling the puppet.

After investigation, it was discovered that the mineral vein was still unknown how deep it was after 1,800 feet below.

Shen Lian was not in a hurry. He first checked the area that could be explored at present.

Three days later, the Five Elements Spirit Puppet returned to its body from the deep water for the sixteenth time, and Shen Lian merged into the water and returned to the surface.

Controlling the spirit puppet requires consuming spiritual power, and there is mineral poison deep underwater. To be on the safe side, you cannot stay there for too long at a time.

Fortunately, in this situation, it also has a great effect on honing the control of the Five Elements Spirit Puppets.

In this way, every time Shen Lian went down to search for a few days, he would come back to remove poison, practice, and make talismans.

After enough rest, I went down into the mine again to continue searching.

…

Three months later.

Thousands of feet underwater.

At a depth of six hundred feet, they realized that they had not found the Xuanling Jade Marrow, but they also searched the nearby area and found nothing dangerous.

Therefore, Shen Lian set the sinking depth to a thousand feet.

It’s not that the sinking depth cannot be increased. When he was at 600 feet, the deepest place that the spirit puppet could spy on was already 2,800 feet below the mine.

At this depth, one can already see the countless poisonous waters gushing out from deep below the water like black mushroom clouds.

The thick black water was so thick that even the Five Elements Spirit Puppets could hardly bear it, let alone a true foundation-building cultivator.

I’m afraid that even if fake pills come, they will be eroded.

After taking a quick look at the gushing black water, Shen Lian set his sights on searching for the raw stone of Xuanling Jadeite.

…

"Um."

On this day, when Shen Lian was searching, he suddenly felt the spirit beast contract tremble. He then took back the spirit puppet and turned around to head upwards.

Dahei is the chief of the lookout on the island, so no one would call him unless there was nothing wrong.

"Master, it's bad. The few sea monks who came to the island were eaten by the mine."

When Shen Lian appeared in Cave No. 5, Dahei immediately came up to report the situation.

A quarter of an hour later.

Deep in a mine that had not yet been flooded by water, there was an extremely dark hole, spewing out thick black water that flowed into the depths of the mine.

A ray of ochre light flickered among the ore, and a vague shadow emerged, looking towards the black water.

The hole was about ten feet in size, and the black water that gushed out was similar to the gurgling black water at a depth of nearly three thousand feet under the water.

The thick black water also contained a rotten smell of corpses.

“Plop.”

The black water shook, and a pile of rotten bones rolled out and fell into the mine.

"Could it be that this mine is directly connected to a depth of three thousand feet underwater?"

In the spare cave No. 23, a thousand feet away from the mine, Shen Lian frowned.

The dry bones that the mine just spat out were not only the Qi-cultivating sea creatures that had been swallowed before, but also a broken arm with a dark golden color.

Soon, the severed arm appeared in front of Shen Lian.

After an inspection, it was discovered that the severed arm was only a few inches long.

Both ends are broken, and the broken parts are not smooth, which means they were not cut with a magic tool.

It's more like interrupting with brute force.

"There are three types of corpse puppets in Xuanshi Sect: iron puppets, bronze puppets, and gold puppets. The gold puppet corresponds to the golden elixir."

Shen Lian's expression froze, as he looked at what seemed to be the broken arm of the Jindan corpse puppet.

I haven't heard that any Jindan Zhenren died in the battle with Xuanshi Sect, but there is no news about the related corpse puppets.

However, this arm looks like a forearm, which means that part of the palm is also broken off.

The integrity of the corpse puppet has a lot to do with its combat effectiveness.

Doesn’t this mean that one of the corpse puppets in the Xuanshi Sect has become disabled?

After observing for a while, Shen Lian asked the spirit puppet to use its spiritual power to lift up the broken arm, and threw it into the deep mine.

He came here to look for the Xuanling Jade Sui. What's the use of looking for a piece of the Jindan Corpse Puppet's arm?

Besides, this thing has too much corpse energy. What if I sell it and get targeted by the Xuanshi Sect?

It's just right to go back to where you came from.

Let’s continue looking for the Xuanling Jadeite.

However, if a few sea creatures in the Qi training stage encounter a black hole, they still have to observe this place.

Leaving a puppet to guard the vicinity of the mine and arranging for the assistance of demonized black-horned ants, Shen Lian once again plunged into the search.

…

One month later.

Under the deep-water mine cave, the Five Elements Spirit Puppet dug out a piece of Xuanling Jadeite raw stone wrapped in a thick stone skin from a pile of rocks under the water.

This piece of rough stone...it's square, as big as someone's head, as if it had been cut.

Inside the cave, Shen Lian looked at the raw stone and fell into deep thought.

The stone skin on the surface of the original stone is a layer of black gravel and soil stuck to the outside, which was compacted underwater.

After Shen Lian cleaned it, he found that the original stone became more square.

It's been cut.

Such a large piece of Xuanling Jadeite raw stone, when cut out, you can still see that the chalcedony and the semi-jade stone are in a unified state.

At the same time, you can also see strands of winding black lines penetrating the chalcedony.

Shen Lian felt a little regretful. How could he use the contaminated chalcedony? The fire spiritual power was so explosive that it would explode on the spot when it came into contact with the cold and gloomy aura.

He used his spiritual power as a knife and cut it in the middle.

I divided the raw stone into four pieces and breathed a sigh of relief when I saw the crystal clear surface inside.

Fortunately, it was not completely soaked and the inner two-thirds was still usable.

Fortunately, fortunately.

After putting away the chalcedony stone, Shen Lian first recovered his consumed spiritual power, and then began to help the spirit puppet dispel the infiltrating black air.

After everything recovered, it sank again into the depths of the mine.

With previous experience, Shen Lian set his sights on the rocks under the black water, looking for square black stones.

The cut raw stone can only be made by the monks of Xuanshi Sect.

Sure enough, after more than half a month of searching, Shen Lian found five square ores of different sizes, including a piece of Xuanling Jadeite.

…

Under the surging black water, streams of black water gushed out like springs.

Among the piles of rocks, there was a huge black coffin about ten feet in size, embedded in the ground.

There are large and small square grooves inside and outside the giant coffin, but they are all empty.

The huge stone coffin was covered with dense runes, and faint blood-red halos were visible in the black water.

When the Five Elements Spirit Puppet passed through the black fog and its divine consciousness enveloped it, it rushed back with a whoosh.

Shen Lian, who was staying thousands of feet underwater, used all four limbs to paddle the water back like a rabbit.

“Go, go, go!”

"We can't stay in this place anymore."

Let me talk about the previous setting problem. Regarding the previous issue of the lifespan of the Nascent Soul, let’s unify it and say that the lifespan of the Nascent Soul is 3,000 years. The unclear and erroneous descriptions in the previous part have been revised.

There is another chapter at the end, which has not been coded yet. If you want to read it, please wait.

(End of this chapter)