A huge vortex formed in the void, and waves of astonishing pressure emanated from it, with lightning and thunder erupting from the vortex.

After the thunder was generated, the spiritual energy from all directions was swept away and sank into the vortex, with its power growing stronger and stronger.

This scene attracted the attention of many cultivators, and they all looked at the fight in the air with horror on their faces.

At the moment when the thunder vortex fell, two colored light shields, one black and one gold, floated in the air.

“Boom!”

When the two spiritual powers collided, extremely thick arcs of electricity struck the black-gold light shield, and bounced back with even finer and denser electric lights.

But this situation only lasted for a few breaths, and a giant thunder python more than ten feet in size suddenly emerged from the vortex of lightning.

The thunder python, wrapped in extremely powerful electric light, suddenly hit the black and gold light shield.

Click.

The light shield collapsed, and the lightning and black gold spiritual power gathered to form a spiritual power storm, sweeping across the surging waters in the ocean. The huge waves caused the ships anchored outside the city to become turbulent.

Many treasure ships lit up their spiritual prohibitions in an attempt to withstand the turbulent sea water, and the items in the cabins were thrown all over the place.

“Shuiyun, I still can’t see you after not seeing you for a hundred years.”

A cold laugh sounded in the lightning, "Then I'll send you off today."

An embarrassed figure appeared in the shattered black-gold light shield, barely holding up the defense. He stretched out his hand and a black spiritual sword inlaid with gold patterns appeared in his hand.

"Thunder Hurricane, it's still unclear who will die!"

Master Shuiyun held his natal sword in both hands and chopped fiercely at the hurricane of lightning that remained around him.

The lightning in the sky was torn into pieces by the golden and water sword energy.

But just as he had cleared the aftermath of the lightning, a green lightning ball hit his head head-on.

“Buzz!”

Just when the thunder ball was about to explode, it was frozen in mid-air by an invisible force. Sensing the abnormality, Master Shuiyun retreated hundreds of feet in fear, showing a look of relief at having survived the calamity.

"No life-and-death fights are allowed outside of Nanya Immortal City."

"hold head high--"

A faint voice was heard, along with a faint dragon roar.

This caused the expressions of the cultivators, both big and small, inside and outside the city to change.

Seeing that he was about to kill his old rival, Lei Hurricane was about to lose his temper with anger in his eyes, but after hearing the dragon's roar, the aura in his body suddenly dissipated.

Master Yunlong!

…

Inside the Immortal City, Shen Lian stood on the roof of the second floor, looking at the overwhelming lightning on the sea. The power of the thunder magic was indeed extraordinary and could break the law in the first-class way.

Recently, more than a dozen Jindan have arrived at Nanya Immortal City, and their escape light can still be seen. There have also been three corresponding battles between the Jindan.

If the Jindan Zhenren has nothing to do, he usually hides in the spirit veins to practice. This time, a third-level alchemy master has finally appeared, and they all want to join in the fun.

This also reflects how rare third-level elixirs are.

Even the Jindan cultivators have taken action, and the number of battles between the foundation-building cultivators outside is also increasing.

Returning to the second floor from the rooftop, Shen Lian stood in front of the window, watching the monks coming and going on Huaha Street.

Before the trade fair was announced, the traffic on this street was lukewarm. When things were good, there were two to three hundred people coming and going, and when things were bad, there were only about a hundred or so.

And now, there are more than a thousand monks walking on the streets.

Apart from anything else, the shipment volume of his Happy Pills has increased six or seven times compared to the past, and the sales volume of other pills has also doubled.

The influence of a third-level great alchemist is really like a magnet, attracting cultivators from all over the surrounding areas.

“People from the surrounding area are attracted here.”

Shen Lian gently closed the window, his eyes lit up and he began to think.

…

Early the next morning.

The Benxin Dan Shop was not open.

In the following few days, the shop was closed, which disappointed the shopkeeper, Old Huang, who came to ask for elixir.

…

To the north of Nanya Fairy City, there is the small town of Danyang.

The smell of the mainland is completely different from that of the sea. Without the salty and humid smell, there is a thick and vast atmosphere between the mountains, rivers and land.

After taking a break in the small town of Danyang, Shen Lian set off again.

Ahead is the destination of this trip, the Thousand Pillar Mountains.

Qianzhu Mountain is a small branch of the Tianzhu Mountain Range in the southern part of the Tiannan Continent. All the mountains, large and small, on the entire southern continent are branches of the Tianzhu Mountain, or branches of branches.

In other words, there was a fifth-level spiritual vein in the Tianzhu Mountains a long time ago.

Among its branch mountain ranges, the fourth-order spiritual veins were occupied by the Yuanying Sect, the third-order spiritual veins were occupied by the Jindan Sect, and the second-order spiritual veins became the residences of the foundation-building families, large and small markets, and towns.

The Thousand Pillars Mountain Range is a third-tier mountain range.

The spiritual veins are not just dragon-shaped. Some of them are divergent, like river branches. In some places, the rivers are wider and deeper, and in other places, a lake appears.

The wider and deeper places, as well as the lakes, have more spiritual energy and higher quality, while the weaker parts of the tributaries have less spiritual energy.

The Thousand Pillars Mountain Range has a complex topography and scattered spiritual veins. There are only seven or eight places that meet the third-level spiritual energy standards, but most of these places are not durable. If you want to build them into a sect base, you need to invest a large amount of spirit stones and find a formation master to nourish the spiritual veins.

Therefore, it became a place where independent cultivators fought for.

The sect looks down on it, but independent cultivators don't care. Having a third-level standard spiritual cave is equivalent to enormous wealth.

As for how many years one can cultivate in a spiritual land, the casual cultivators don't care. If they can cultivate for ten years, then that's it. At worst they can just change to another place.

If you don't clean it up immediately and someone else takes it away, you will suffer a great loss.

There had been an auction in Nanya Immortal City before, and what Shen Lian wanted mainly was the Moon Spirit Essence. Now that he had obtained the Moon Spirit Essence, and seeing so many cultivators gathering in the Immortal City, he felt that this was an opportunity to go to the Thousand Pillar Mountains.

Since everyone went to Xiancheng to attend the auction, he did the opposite and went into the mountains to look for the Earth Dragon Root.

…

On the boundless and vast land, mountain ranges like huge pillars stand tall on the earth, and thick and vast jungles cover the entire mountain range.

Seen from mid-air, the entire mountain range looks like a series of pillars scattered on the ground, and under each pillar there is a different undulating mountain range.

There are low mountains connecting the Zhuzi Mountains.

At a glance, the continuous Pillar Mountain stretches as far as the eye can see.

In some places such as Pillar Mountains and valleys, you can still see floating spiritual energy, but this spiritual energy does not gather together. There are some here and some there, and although there seem to be a lot of them, they are not very significant.

It was as if it was cut off deliberately.

Just as Shen Lian expected, he wandered around several towns outside the mountain and found that the most discussed topic among the cultivators was the auction of Nanya Immortal City.

I don’t know how many monks envy the third-level Fire Lamp Master.

In the exchanges between the monks, it was mentioned more than once that many monks who were hiding and practicing in Qianzhu Mountain all heard the news and headed for Nanya Immortal City.

After learning about the situation outside, Shen Lian entered the Thousand Pillar Mountains.

But when Shen Lian found the vicinity of Wangyue Peak, he was stunned.

The grass and trees in this place have just started to grow, and they look very immature compared to the twisted and tangled trees nearby.

The entire Wangyue Peak area must have experienced a melee not long ago, and some spiritual energy is still lingering among the broken rocks and mountains.

The earth dragon root grows in a place where larks gather. The larks here refer to some plants. To put it simply, the spiritual energy of this place must be abundant.

In Qianzhu Mountain, there are too many places where this scattered spiritual energy gathers.

Fortunately, Shen Lian had already prepared for this.

He had five spirit beast bracelets on his body. Except for the one that Dahei, Sanqian and Erwan lived in, the remaining four had become breeding grounds for black-horned ants.

To cultivate common black-horned ants, all you have to do is throw some food at them.

The number of black-horned ants in the four spirit beast bracelets has reached more than one billion, and each ant nest is more than ten feet high.

What’s the Thousand Pillar Mountains? Shen Lian’s goal is to get these black-horned ants to kill their way into the Tianzhu Mountain mining area.

What’s the point of tens of billions? We will have to increase our training efforts in the future and capture all the mining areas in Tianzhu Mountain for reconnaissance.

He had already told Dahei about the appearance of the earth dragon root, and asked Dahei to pass on the relevant information to ordinary black-horned ants.

So, Shen Lian, who entered the Thousand Pillar Mountains, kept appearing in every outer area with spiritual energy. He laid a nest in each place and threw out tens of millions of ordinary black-horned ants.

Dahei, who was standing on Shen Lian's shoulder, waved two large pincers with dark gold lines, looking very arrogant.

As for the cultivation of black-horned ants, Shen Lian only cultivated Dahei. The previous black-horned demon ants that had been demonized were just kept in the spirit beast bracelets and left to practice on their own.

Now, he values ​​the abilities of ordinary black-horned ants more. Not entering the demonic state means they are insignificant, and even a Jindan cultivator would not care.

The fact that they have not been transformed into monsters also means that they are not very intelligent. If they want to communicate, they must use the unique communication method of the black-horned ant colony.

Even with Shen Lian's powerful spiritual power, he still couldn't understand this method.

Maybe the information obtained is sometimes not true, and still requires guesswork, but it can be guaranteed that the secret of his existence will not be revealed.

Just think about it, who would care if two ants touched antennae under their feet?

On the contrary, once the black-horned ants are transformed into demons, their intelligence will increase and they will be able to think independently. Once they are caught, they may leak information.

The Thousand Pillar Mountains are very large. It took Shen Lian more than half a month to spread hundreds of millions of black-horned ants into the mountains. These black-horned ants will continue to reproduce and then compete with the local ants for territory.

…

South Yue Peak.

This is one of the most sacred places in the Thousand Pillar Mountains.

Unlike other spiritual places that claim to dry up in thirty to fifty years and require a long time to nourish, this one has not dried up for more than three hundred years.

The occupant of this spiritual land, Zhenren Nanyue, established a small sect here and took the route of elite disciples.

Over the past two hundred years, the number of disciples, servants, and family members in the sect has reached thousands.

It is called a sect, but in fact it is just a small workshop. All the cultivators in the sect are vassals of Master Nan Yue.

It is said that this Master Nan Yue was a descendant of a royal family in the mortal world. He was accustomed to a life of luxury before he embarked on the journey of cultivating immortals. He did not get rid of this bad habit after he became an immortal. He took in hundreds of concubines and more than a dozen of them were in the stage of building their foundation.

Under the cover of night, a ball of evil energy floated towards Nan Yuefeng, close to the ground. As it passed through the jungle, it also crushed several black-horned ants to death.

When they arrived at Nanyue Peak, two phantoms appeared in the rolling demonic energy and gradually solidified.

"The Earth-Shaking Turtle Mountain Formation, even the formation has been activated. It seems that old guy Nan Yue is really not here."

Among the two demonic shadows, there was a broken voice, which made people feel very uncomfortable just by listening to it.

"This old guy has several concubines at the foundation-building level. I am really envious of him."

After a brief conversation, the two demonic shadows disappeared again in the demonic energy and floated towards the direction of Nanyue Peak.

…

A day later, Shen Lian's figure appeared like a ghost in the depths of the jungle opposite Nanyue Peak, watching the thick smoke and demonic energy rising from the opposite mountain.

Since the Thousand Pillar Mountains are very large, even with the help of spirit puppets, it is not easy to control the scattered black-horned ants.

Dahei was only in the early second stage. In order to speed up the communication, he personally took Dahei to various places in the mountains.

When we arrived at this area, we saw such a tragic scene.

"Master, the boys said they saw two groups of black clouds floating and went there."

Dahei flew over from a distance, pointing his pliers in the direction of the smoke and demonic energy.

Seeing this situation, Shen Lian was helpless. He could think of doing the opposite. The demon cultivator also thought of it, which was... stealing the house.

This place seems to be the home of a Jindan Zhenren, or a Zhenren who came from a casual cultivator.

Under the influence of divine consciousness, the mountain protection formation had collapsed, the intact formation flags had been taken away, the houses built on the mountain collapsed, covered with blood, and the complete corpses had disappeared.

There were a few monks who were cautiously breaking in, ready to pick up the bargains.

"Dahei, if we encounter Moxiu doing something bad, do you think we should help him?"

Shen Lian patted Dahei on the shoulder and asked.

Now Dahei was a little stunned.

This question, why do you ask me?

Isn't this making things difficult for me, the black ant?

In the past few decades, have you ever saved anyone? Besides, it's not up to me to decide whether to save someone or not. Are you the master or am I the master?

"Tell your people to search the ground quickly. Whether we find it or not, we should leave as soon as possible."

…

"Hehehe... Jindan Zhenren's concubine is really moist... It's a pity that I can't taste her."

Somewhere in the Thousand Pillar Mountains, in an underground cave, demonic energy was surging and the air was filled with the smell of blood.

"You can have a taste of it, and I promise not to tell the master."

"I'll give it to Master after I've tasted it, and then I'll use it to refine my magic. I think you want me to die so that you can inherit my legacy."

Two figures sat cross-legged in the blood and collected the female Foundation Establishment cultivators they had hunted down into the same storage magic tool.

Unlike the orthodox sects, there has never been any gratitude between the master and the disciple in the magic sects. The master controls the disciple by controlling a wisp of the disciple's spiritual thoughts.

The master can crush his disciple to death with just a thought.

Unless the disciple has a great opportunity and turns around to kill the master, he will be a slave for the rest of his life.

This time they took the opportunity to attack Jindan Zhenren's concubine, not because they were tired of living, but because there were too few female foundation-building cultivators among the independent cultivators, so they could only target those who had families.

Besides, it’s Nan Yue Zhenren’s fault that he is not at home now and is attending some barter fair.

By the time they returned from Nanya Fairy City, they had already returned to their old nest.

…

"Master, I found it."

(End of this chapter)