The two middle-aged sea cultivators looked at Shen Lian rushing into the entrance of the secret realm and quickly stood up and saluted.

Shen Lian rushed straight into the depths of the secret realm without even looking.

The two sea creatures stationed there sat cross-legged at the entrance again.

"The ancestor left the clan land in a hurry before. I wonder why?"

"How can you and I interfere in the affairs of our ancestors?"

…

After entering the secret realm, Shen Lian went all the way towards the depths of the secret realm. The environment within the entire secret realm was dozens or hundreds of times more prosperous than the secret realm he discovered in the Wanxing Sea that year.

The underwater mountains, valleys and jungles overlap, and corals of various colors are everywhere as far as the eye can see.

The sea clan monks built their homes with coral reefs. Lantern fish and small colorful fish could be seen swimming among the corals. When Shen Lian passed by, the sea clan monks from all over saluted.

The entire secret realm is very large, long and narrow, stretching for thousands of miles. At the deepest part of the secret realm is an extremely tall black coral mountain, shrouded in spiritual light and emitting gurgling bubbles of spiritual energy.

This coral mountain, known as the Black Mountain, is the forbidden area of ​​the Shanluo tribe of the sea clan. In the past, except for the ancestor Yuan Jing, other members of the tribe were not allowed to set foot in without permission.

The secret realm is divided into three parts. The first half is the residential area of ​​the Shanluo tribe, the middle part is an uninhabited buffer zone, and the back part is the Black Mountain forbidden area.

Shen Lian walked all the way to the top of the Black Mountain, where his eyes were filled with sparkling pearls, jade, corals, and magical clams.

The caves in the Coral Mountain are winding and beautiful jade is embedded in the walls. Deep inside is the place where ancestor Yuan Jing practiced.

Compared to the pearls and jades outside, the interior of the cave is paved with pearls, the bed is made of white jade, and clam girls over three feet in size are used as ornaments.

“I quite enjoy it.”

Looking at the scene in front of him, Shen Lian nodded.

Unfortunately, these decorations in front of him were useless in his opinion. The cave was useless without the third-level formation.

That's not right. There is a third-level formation in the entire secret realm, and a third-level green water tide formation at the entrance, which is arranged just barely.

The Shanluo tribe of the sea tribe is different from the sea tribe in the deep sea. This tribe belongs to the remnants.

When the sea people retreated towards the deep sea in great strides, some unlucky people were left behind. These people were either abandoned or did not leave for various reasons.

After a long period of development, the remaining lost sea tribes were reintegrated into different tribes. They occupied the clan lands and secret realms left behind by the former large sea tribes as their foundation, and developed little by little.

The Fubo Secret Realm where the Rushanluo Tribe is located was once the clan territory of the Fubo Tribe of the Sea Clan. The spiritual veins in the secret realm are of up to the third-grade upper grade.

But when the Fubo tribe retreated, the secret realm's spiritual vein collapsed directly. After so many years of nurturing, it was barely restored to the third level.

In general, the Shanluo tribe still has some foundation. It was able to give birth to Yuan Jing, a cultivator at the peak of the early Jindan stage, and it also has several magic weapons, even including a third-level mid-grade magic weapon for soul defense.

Inside the cave, Shen Lian pinched the lifeless clam girl ornament and found that it was still lifelike and slippery.

Then, he sat cross-legged on Master Yuan Jing's white jade bed.

The Shanluohai tribe is not very powerful, which is why he wants to replace it. After being promoted to the Golden Core stage, he must try to become someone's ancestor.

Of course, the most important thing right now is to consolidate your realm and practice magic.

Throughout the ages, there have been unlucky golden elixirs that fell because they failed to consolidate their realm.

Who could have thought that he would pretend to be the ancestor of the sea clan and stay in other people's forbidden areas to consolidate his realm?

…

Three months later.

As Shen Lian's breath rose and fell rhythmically, the magic power in his body flowed across his meridians, gathered on the five-colored golden elixir, and started the next round of circulation again.

At this moment, he has completely consolidated his early Jindan realm.

The reason why it took so long was mainly due to the delay in the baptism of the golden elixir on magic power.

Just like other cultivators who have been promoted to the Golden Elixir stage, after the promotion, the elixir energy begins to continuously nourish the five internal organs, blood and flesh.

However, Shen Lian's five-colored Dan Qi contained the power of heaven. This aura was more agile and mysterious, making his Dan Qi even more ethereal and elusive.

After this period of stabilization, Shen Lian discovered that his Tian Yan power and golden elixir had merged into one, and were no longer separate from his magic power.

When he was at the foundation-building stage, he still needed to mobilize the power of Tian Yan on his own, but now the power of Tian Yan had become a part of him.

What Shen Lian was concerned about was that when he had previously attacked Yuan Jing Zhenren with the Tianyan Five Elements power, Yuan Jing did not notice the magic of the Five Elements power.

Some of them just marveled at why his five elements magic power was so pure.

"The cultivation methods of the big sects are of higher grade, and the mana they cultivate will also be mysterious, which will have a suppressive and impacting effect on the cultivators."

"My five-element power can be used as an excuse to practice the effects of the technique."

Feeling the five-colored elixir energy continuously released from the five-colored nine-line golden elixir, Shen Lian had an idea in his mind.

"The truth is simple, and the wonders are hidden."

Whispering softly, Shen Lian revealed a smile.

When he was at the foundation-building stage, he needed to hide carefully, but now he doesn’t need to do that.

However, you still have to be careful when facing a Yuanying monster.

Then, a light blue golden elixir with a black tint appeared in his hand.

This golden elixir came from Yuan Jing Zhenren. With the strength of the peak of the early stage of the golden elixir, the pill is two inches in size, and the surface is slightly bumpy and not smooth.

As for the lines on the surface of the pill, they are even less visible.

Shen Lian compared it with his own nine-patterned golden elixir, and found that the quality of Yuan Jing Zhenren's golden elixir was not good.

After searching Yuan Jing's memory, it was learned that when he was promoted to the Jindan stage, he was also greeted by the six heavenly thunders. Not only him, but also the Jindan cultivators who were on good terms with Yuan Jing in his memory, also encountered the six heavenly thunders.

As for the nine heavenly tribulations, these people had never heard of them.

Zhenren Yuan Jing's six heavenly tribulations were the same as Shen Lian's previous six heavenly tribulations. They were all regular tribulations of thunder, without any strange phenomena such as resentment, blood, fire, etc.

The heavenly tribulation is a test of living beings by the rules of heaven and earth. After passing the tribulation, one can obtain the gift of the rules of heaven and earth. The difference in gifts between six thunder tribulations and nine thunder tribulations is not small.

Shen Lian secretly took note of the matter of transcending the tribulation. He had a feeling that the six thunder tribulations should have been castrated.

But why would the rules of heaven and earth castrate the thunder tribulation? ...

In the sea of ​​divine thoughts.

The little man of divine consciousness sits cross-legged on the power of the divine soul, with his hands placed on his knees, in the same meditation posture as the original deity.

Inside the crystal clear little man, you can see silk threads interwoven like meridians, with streams of spiritual light flowing on the threads.

When the spiritual light gathered, wisps of purple air lingered out, outlining the image of a hideous-looking demon holding a knife and fork in its hands.

This demon is seven zhang tall, releasing demonic energy as it breathes.

As the demons bared their fangs and claws, a blue shell floated on the side of the spiritual figure, releasing blue ripples that formed a blue armor around the figure.

The shell was exactly the Tianshui Lingling Shell, a third-grade, intermediate-grade soul defense magic weapon inherited by Yuan Jing Zhenren. Soul-related ores were hard to find, so Shen Lian naturally used it first.

With his spiritual power of seven thousand three hundred feet, he can just bring out the maximum effect of this magic weapon and easily resist the spiritual attack of a late Jindan cultivator.

After refining the Tianshui Spiritual Shell, Shen Lian began to refine his own spells such as the Five Elements Forbidden Judgment and Five Elements Fire Palm.

These spells can still be used after re-refining, but this magic soul spell is a bit useless, and I will need to find a higher level spell in the future.

Several months passed quietly in seclusion, and Shen Lian finally revised his spells to match his current level.

In addition to the soul and magic, there are also magic weapons.

Needless to say, after experiencing nine thunder tribulations, the number of restrictions within his life-saving magic weapon, the Five Elements Ship, had increased to twenty-seven, and he was only one step away from advancing to the third-level intermediate grade.

Amidst the flashing colorful spiritual lights, a spiritual ship with eighty-one sails emerged.

Among them, the five sails at the main mast were flashing with dazzling lightning, and the remaining sails were all shining with different colors.

The space of the realm is not large, only about four hundred feet, and it is like an inverted bowl with soil underneath. The surrounding borders are sparkling with colorful lights, and there are dots of silver light like stars.

"Dongtian!"

Looking at this scene, a smile appeared on Shen Lian's lips.

Although the cave is small, it is incomparable to those storage magic tools.

In the future, you only need to continuously invest spiritual objects such as cave stones to make it continue to extend and expand.

If the secret realm of the cave wants to be supported, it would be best if there were spiritual veins to support it. In addition, it would be even better if there were high-level spiritual trees.

Shen Lian does have a third-level spiritual tree, which is the star tree, as for the spiritual vein.

He glanced at the spiritual vein under the Coral Mountain and shook his head slightly. The method of extracting the spiritual veins of heaven and earth was not advisable.

During this tribulation, the eighth thunder tribulation gave rise to the phantoms of refined spiritual creatures, which also fits the saying that cultivators who cultivate immortality are also thieves of heaven and earth.

Heaven and earth are generous and supportive of all things, but living beings take without limit, and even do things like draining the pond to catch more fish for selfish reasons.

For example, this Taoist master Yuan Jing has been continuously drawing away small spiritual veins from the deep sea over the years in order to repair the spiritual veins in the secret realm.

Even if the spiritual vein is extracted, it does not mean that it can be fully utilized. During the fusion process, it can only have 50% effect at most.

Compared to draining spirit veins to replenish them, another method is to use spirit stones with the help of secret methods to nourish the spirit veins, but this method is not something that ordinary Jindan forces can afford.

Most of the spirit stones of the Shanluo tribe were held in Yuan Jing's hands, so he was naturally reluctant to invest the spirit stones to nourish the spirit veins.

When he was building his foundation, he had already helped two spiritual veins, so Shen Lian naturally would not draw on them again.

Otherwise, all his previous pretentious actions would have been in vain.

In Shen Lian's opinion, the best way to cultivate immortality is to draw spiritual essence from heaven and earth to practice when one is insignificant, and when one has the ability, one will naturally give back to heaven and earth.

Only in this way can the entire world of immortal cultivation continue to develop.

In reality, the spiritual energy in the world of immortal cultivation has been drying up from ancient times to modern times, and the land has changed from being full of spiritual veins and caves to what it is today.

The physical cultivators are even worse off, they are almost extinct.

The monks of the previous generation would not care about the life and death of the next generation.

When it comes to being righteous and selfless, Shen Lian would definitely not be ranked, but he is afraid of being struck by lightning.

He has a lot of selfish motives, but he is good at pretending.

Anyway, I have already installed it twice, so I don’t mind installing it again.

There were two thunder tribulations this time. In addition to the five elements of spiritual objects derived from the perfection of the five spiritual roots that impacted the golden elixir, it may also have the merit of repairing the spiritual veins.

I hope that heaven and earth will give him more time to practice. It is already very difficult to deal with the natural killing calamity now, so he must not rush into the level of world destruction and restart.

"Fellow Daoist Yuan Jing has repeatedly drained spirit veins, which is a heinous crime. I will confiscate the three million spirit stones accumulated by your tribe to be used for cultivating spirit veins."

Weighing the Five Elements Warship, Shen Lian's eyes rolled around. He had come here to pretend to be the ancestor of the Shanluo tribe, so the resources of the tribe naturally belonged to him.

In fact, as the ancestor of the Shanluo tribe, most of the resources of the entire tribe are in Yuan Jing's hands.

The entire tribe is more like slaves raised by Yuan Jing.

After stabilizing his state of mind and reviewing his magic skills, Shen Lian began to count Yuan Jing Zhenren's belongings.

In the tribal treasury in Yuan Jing's hands, there are a total of more than 3.3 million spirit stones, but there are only a dozen or so third-level spiritual objects including ores and spiritual medicines.

There are also 1,200 medium-grade spirit stones.

As for the elixir for cultivation, Yuan Jing only had half a bottle of Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill in his hand. The quality was very poor, barely considered to be of lower quality. One of the pills was full of potholes and covered with black impurities.

This pill is a elixir for improving cultivation in the early stage of the Golden Elixir, and Yuan Jing has already advanced to the peak of the early stage of the Golden Elixir.

As the ancestor of a tribe, with three million spirit stones and more than a dozen third-level spiritual objects in hand, Yuan Jing should be fully capable of purchasing elixirs of better quality.

However, he only had pills of such poor quality in his hands.

This is enough to show that the cultivation environment of Jindan realm cultivators is one level more difficult than that of foundation building.

There are many Jindan monks on the Tiannan Continent, but the high-quality elixirs suitable for the practice of Jindan monks are only controlled by a small group of people.

"Tsk, why should I, a pill master, worry about this?"

Shen Lian shook the medicine bottle and put it away. He just had that small handful of medicine. It was not the elixir, but the herbs for making the elixir.

There are many elixirs that can improve cultivation in the Jindan stage, but each type requires a third-level spiritual medicine as the main ingredient, supplemented by dozens or hundreds of various second-level spiritual medicines.

It is easy to make second-level spiritual medicine, but third-level spiritual medicine may take more than five hundred years to precipitate the appropriate medicinal properties.

These kinds of elixirs are either found in deep mountains and forests, secret places and blessed lands, or in the medicine gardens of various sects.

For Shen Lian, it was too late to plant the spiritual herbs for use, so he could only plant, cultivate and collect them at the same time.

…

Inside the Black Mountain Cave.

Shen Lian sat cross-legged and practiced, as pieces of low-grade spirit stones shattered and spiritual energy was drawn into his body.

After a moment, he opened his eyes.

"The low-grade spirit stones are really no good."

The five elements of magical power from heaven were flowing through his body, and seemingly nothing was unusual, but the spiritual power in the inferior spirit stone could no longer meet the needs of his practice.

The corresponding quality of the five elements' magic power, combined with the strength of his soul and body, gave him the confidence to face the late stage of the Golden Core.

Shen Lian licked the corners of his dry lips, his eyes bright, but he didn't show off for long before he collapsed again.

“I wonder if I can find the follow-up to the Five Qis to the Origin Technique.”

After being promoted to the Golden Elixir stage, practicing martial arts became an urgent matter.

"Forget it, let's refine the soul attack magic weapon and the talisman sword first, otherwise the Five Elements Ship will be useless with only a warehouse but no ammunition."

…

On the sea, a blurry stream of light came from far away and plunged into the surging water, revealing a human figure with kind eyes but bloodshot pupils.

"Old man Yuan Jing is out to receive guests!"

"I sent you a message but you didn't reply. Are you dead?"

…

Shen Lian was awakened by the members of the Shanluo tribe. The Shanluo tribe is not big, but the secret place where it is located is very secretive and few people know its location.

The person blocking the door was an old demon from the human race. He had some friendship with Yuan Jing and they had done some business together many times.

Of course, the two have schemed against each other a lot, and it is only because of their equal strength that they have been able to maintain their relationship to this day.

Once he shows up, this fake ancestor of the sea clan will no longer be able to hide his true identity.

As for not showing up, given the temperament of the demon cultivators outside, they will definitely break in to take a look, and then judge the situation and decide whether to retreat, or start a massacre and run away.

Shen Lian shook his head slightly, he could no longer be the ancestor of the sea clan.

I failed miserably the first time I tried to be an ancestor.

He didn't want to be forced to show his divine power at all.

"Why do you like to deliver things to my door so much?"

(End of this chapter)