Ao Shi Fairy City.

The post-war reconstruction work was very fast, and various houses and buildings in the city had been built two days later.

The damaged formation is also being repaired.

In the palace complex in the north of the city, Lu Ya was directing everyone busy at work when a disciple of the Xuanhai Sect came over.

"Elder Lu, Master Qinghai has asked you to go to the main hall."

Lu Ya nodded, "I understand, I'll go right away."

…

Two days later.

Below the Ao Shi Immortal City, the winding spiritual vein crawls on the earth like a long snake, and the branches that branch out are like blood vessels that penetrate in all directions, and the water flows crisscross each other.

In the center of the spiritual vein, a vertical column of spiritual light is embedded in the spiritual vein. Above the column of light is the giant Bixi monument in the central square of Ao Shi Xian City.

Due to the great battle a few days ago, the spiritual energy in the spiritual veins of the city defense formation was severely drained in order to protect the city and reduce further damage.

The spiritual light in the entire spiritual vein has dimmed a lot, and even the flowing spiritual power has decreased. The water flowing along the spiritual vein seems to have entered the dry season, revealing the rock walls covered with brown moss.

In the steep and rugged cave, several figures of foundation-building monks were busy smashing spirit stones and spiritual objects to replenish the power of their exhausted spirit veins.

"The Black Cliff Demon is really rampant. What on earth does he want to do? Is he really here to avenge his past?"

While assisting in integrating the spirit stone into the spirit vein, several fellow foundation-building cultivators also started communicating with each other.

“Who knows, this old demon has never done anything good since his debut.

"Hurry up and do it. The real person has ordered us to restore the spiritual power concentration to 40% as soon as possible, in case the Black Cliff Demon strikes back again and the formation cannot operate at full power."

Several real people were like large-scale converters, sitting cross-legged at various locations of the spirit veins and injecting refined spiritual power into them.

The spiritual veins can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on their own, but that takes a long time.

The spiritual veins of Ao Shi Immortal City were drained too badly because of this great battle. To be on the safe side, they had to use spirit stones to speed up the replenishment of spiritual power.

Among these foundation-building cultivators, Lu Ya happened to be among them.

He picked up the spirit stone and crushed it, mobilizing his own spiritual power to help the spirit vein absorb the spiritual power, looking very focused.

It's just that his eyes inadvertently glanced at the center of the spiritual vein.

At the center of the spiritual vein, a column of spiritual light and water connects the Bixi in the city and the spiritual vein.

Inside the water column is like a small water world. A "spiritual creature" about one foot in size, which looks 70% like a small turtle, with black and yellow all over its body, is swimming downstream.

The little thing can emit a transcendent spiritual vibration, giving people a feeling of nourishing all things.

Ao Ling!

This is a spiritual creature nurtured by the spiritual veins and the earth, and it is also the core of the entire Ao Shi Island.

In the world of immortal cultivation, there are many mountains, rivers, and veins that resemble various mythical beasts such as dragons, phoenixes, tortoises, and tigers, and these places are often occupied by large clans and sects.

The reason for this is that the mountains and rivers do not just resemble some strange beasts, but actually hide earth spirits.

This is why Aoshi Island looks like a turtle.

The earth spirit needs to absorb the power of the mountains, rivers, earth and oceans. It is useless to deliberately summon spiritual objects to cultivate it. In other words, it can only grow naturally, and grow very slowly.

Furthermore, once an earth spirit is born, it will absorb the power of the local spiritual veins, causing the spiritual power of the local area to no longer increase for a long time, or even decrease.

Only some large sects with deep pockets and strength can keep this thing in their sect headquarters.

Only with wealth and power can one have enough time to nurture, and only with strength can one ensure that the earth spirit nurtured is his own.

Otherwise, after thousands of years of nurturing, the harvest would have been picked by others.

Most of those who can do this are from Nascent Soul Sects.

Of course, not all earth spirits that look like strange beasts appear in places where mountains and rivers converge.

It is not a bad thing to have no spiritual veins, we need to look at the problem dialectically.

For example, the Xuanshi Sect in Wanxinghai directly extracted the earth spirits from the spiritual veins of the sect’s headquarters and sold them to the cultivation world in the north.

What spiritual objects from heaven and earth? The Xuanshi Sect regards other spiritual objects as scrap metal except for the rare bones.

Lu Ya didn't look at Ao Ling deliberately, and looked like he was trying hard to recharge Ao Ling.

At the same time, in the other immortal cities controlled by Xuanhai Sect, Haiyi Immortal City and Dongyun Immortal City, there were also cultivators busy replenishing their spiritual veins with spiritual power.

These two immortal cities were also attacked by the Black Cliff Demon.

However, among these two fairy cities, only in the spiritual vein below the Haiyi Fairy City there exists a half-foot-sized earth spirit as big as a bead.

In addition, a great war between demon cultivators also broke out in the southern part of Xuanhai Sect’s territory, close to the sea area near the Sea King Sect’s secret realm.

This demonic chaos, which affected a wide area, was quickly suppressed by the Xuanhai Sect.

…

Ao Shi blessed land and Shigui Cave were also affected.

But Shen Lian had spent money, and the deadline had not yet expired, so he was temporarily arranged to live in a cave that had not been affected by the attack, and some of his spirit stones were reduced.

Several other foundation-building cultivators stationed in Ao Shi blessed land received the same treatment as Shen Lian and were all arranged together.

The Black Cliff Demon was notorious, and the Xuanhai Sect was a large sect that was not easy to mess with. It was already very good that they could give him some compensation, and the few people were very reasonable and did not pursue the matter further.

Having just experienced the rampage of the old demon, the several foundation-building monks who were placed together did not practice anymore.

We are not fools, and being arranged together may be for surveillance.

Xuanhai Sect also wants to capture the remaining disciples of the Black Cliff Old Demon.

Being trapped, Shen Lian had no mood to practice. He just wanted to leave Ao Shi Immortal City once the ten-day deadline was up.

After witnessing the madness of the Black Cliff Demon with his own eyes, he finally understood.

You cannot treat some cultivators with common sense. If you meet such idiots, don't get too close to them, lest you get struck by thunder.

How could Heiya, the dignified Jindan ancestor, be so stupid!

Shen Lian was a little confused.

It's obviously unreasonable to do things without expecting anything in return.

Before the ten-day deadline was up, more news came back.

When Ao Shi Immortal City was attacked by the demonic cultivators, Dongyun and Haiyi Immortal Cities under the Xuanhai Sect, as well as the area near the Haiwang Sect's secret realm, were all hit by demonic waves stirred up by the old demon.

After hearing the news, Shen Lian understood a little.

Heiya is a fucking idiot.

I can’t afford to offend you. I can’t afford to offend you. I’ll just stay away from you from now on. This thing is a nuisance.

Ten days later, after being screened by the Xuanhai Sect, Ao Shi Immortal City was reopened.

But Shen Lian discovered that although Ao Shi Immortal City was open, because the Xuanhai territory was attacked by the Black Cliff Demon, the spiritual ship routes were affected in a short period of time.

Moreover, the spirit ship anchored in Ao Shi Fairy City was also hit and would take a long time to repair.

It will take about a month to restore the route.

Inside the cave, Shen Lian was looking at a sea chart. He was going to find a secluded place outside the city to rest.

…

More than three thousand miles away from Ao Shi Xian City.

Red Light Island.

This is an island with a mortal town, and Qi-cultivating monks occasionally pass by the island.

The island is very large, and the town only occupies a very small part of it, while the rest is covered with dense jungles and mountains.

Black-horned ants were crawling by the foot of an inconspicuous hill.

Deep underground, there is a secluded cave that is half water and half land.

The formation rotates to protect the cave.

"Master, everything has been arranged."

"Yeah." Shen Lian nodded and prepared to calm himself down.

He had been displaced all the way since he came out of Thousand Kings Island, and the Black Cliff Demon was truly his nemesis.

After resting for a few days, my mind became stable again.

Shen Lian dug a new cave next to Dahei and began to nurture the Tianyan Jade Talisman.

The old demon Heiya caused a major incident involving the demon cultivators in the central area of ​​Wanxinghai. According to his previous habits, the next step is to accumulate strength and wait for the next time.

I really admire this old guy. He never gets involved in anything related to humans.

…

Ao Shi Fairy City.

As the days passed before the demon cultivators attacked the Immortal City, everyone was cautious and alert at first, but gradually they relaxed.

The foundation-building monks who replenished their spiritual veins and spiritual energy every day also looked much more relaxed, and their movements no longer had the tense feeling they had at the beginning.

Only one person, Elder Lu Ya, was still focused.

"I heard that the old demon is still making trouble in the secret realm of the Sea King Sect. I think the old demon attacked the Immortal City with a tactic of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west. He wants to enter the secret realm of the Sea King."

"The entrance to the secret realm is guarded by our Xuanhai Sect's Jindan Patriarch and the other sects' ancestors. How could the Black Cliff Demon possibly get in?"

"Besides, aren't you afraid that the power of the fight will be too great and trigger the restrictions in the secret realm, causing even greater restrictions to collapse?"

"This is not something we should worry about. The old demon Heiya really deserves to die. He has brought disaster to my Xuanhai Sect."

"Elder Lu, please take a break. You really treat Ao Shi Xian City as your home."

Several foundation-building cultivators were communicating with each other, and their eyes inadvertently fell on Lu Ya.

"We just have to obey the orders given by the Master." Lu Ya said with a kind smile, "Everyone is right, Heiya is really a piece of shit."

Another foundation-building cultivator spoke up, "It's true that Black Cliff Demon's target might really be the Sea King Secret Realm.

There are so many Jindan ancestors stationed at the entrance of the secret realm, and the cultivators under his control have too much demonic energy to get into the secret realm, so he can only think of this method. "

“Maybe not. Among the demon cultivators controlled by the old demon, there may be foundation-building cultivators hiding very deeply. It may be possible that they can sneak in.”

"Elder Wang means that the Golden Core Ancestor is blind."

“…”

Elder Wang's tone froze, "I was just talking nonsense. The Jindan ancestors have sharp eyes. Even if it is a demon cultivator who hides himself very deeply, it is impossible for him to escape the eyes of the ancestors."

…

"I have finally made up 40% of my spiritual energy. I have been stuck in the dark underground for so many days that moss is growing on my body."

"Elder Lu, why do you still have so many spirit stones in your hand? You haven't rested for a long time."

Lu Ya smiled awkwardly, "I am too old to be compared with you guys, and you guys don't even bother to help me. I guess I will have to stay here for two more days."

"Come on, Senior Lu, you are busy."

Watching the foundation-building cultivators replenishing the spiritual objects in their hands into their spiritual veins one by one and then leaving, Lu Ya shook his head and smiled awkwardly, then lowered his head and continued to work.

The foundation-building cultivators who left also said hello. Elder Lu Ya was well-known in Ao Shi Immortal City. He was a bit pedantic, but he had good intentions.

More than thirty years ago, he injured his dantian while on a sect mission. Later, he asked to come to Ao Shi Immortal City to take care of the sect's affairs.

After all the foundation-building cultivators in the underground cliff had left, Lu Ya breathed a long sigh of relief.

After hiding for so many years, he was finally let in.

On the steep and winding cliffs, spiritual veins flow quietly, and spiritual light flickers in and out of focus.

The dark cliff walls around may seem empty, but they are actually full of restrictions. Even an ordinary Jindan cultivator cannot break through from the outside.

Lu Ya looked at the swimming Aoling quietly.

"Water and soil are the essence of everything. Soil carries all spirits, and water nourishes all things."

Time passed slowly, and as his eyes opened and closed, the shadow of the khaki buds appeared in his pupils again.

"Do it?"

"Do it."

In the darkness, a voice sounded in his sea of ​​consciousness.

…

“Boom!”

Almost simultaneously, rumbling sounds were heard from beneath the ground of Ao Shi Immortal City and Hai Yi Immortal City.

The peaceful earth was rolling like a dragon. Restrictions hidden deep in the earth that imprisoned spiritual veins surged out from the depths of the earth, tearing open cracks in the earth.

The sudden change once again impacted the two immortal cities.

In Ao Shi Immortal City, Master Qinghai immediately started to activate the great formation, which was enough to cover the immortal city in an instant, but at this moment, its operation suddenly stopped.

The spiritual veins and spiritual power deep in the earth cannot gather on the large array disk at all.

Because the formation was built relying on the earth veins, all energy needed to be drawn from the earth veins. Without the earth veins as energy, the formation would collapse directly.

As for Master Yunhai, he did not show up.

He has secretly traveled to the secret realm of the Sea King Sect.

It is reported that the true body of Black Cliff Demon appeared near the Sea King Sect. Xuanhai Sect needs to capture Black Cliff Demon and get the method to upgrade to pseudo-elixir.

By the time Master Qinghai reacted and rushed into the depths of the earth, he found that all the restrictions that the sect had spent a lot of money to set up had collapsed, and the spiritual veins and spiritual energy were rushing towards the earth like boiling water.

In an instant, the ground in the entire Ao Shi Immortal City collapsed, and rich spiritual energy filled the void.

"Ao Ling!"

When he saw the spirit pillar connecting the formation and the spirit vein break and the little turtle nurtured inside disappear, Master Qinghai's expression changed again.

"The old demon's target is the Earth Spirit!"

"not good!"

After he reacted, he quickly took out the jade communication talisman and wanted to inform Haiyi Immortal City, but at the same time he received a message from the real person who was in charge of Haiyi Immortal City.

The earth spirit nurtured by the Haiyi Fairy City is also gone.

Each immortal city was built bit by bit at a great cost to the sect, especially the forbidden formations that sealed and stabilized the earth veins, which took dozens or even hundreds of years to reinforce bit by bit.

The loss of the earth spirit will not lead to the destruction of the city.

However, for a sect at the Jindan level, the Earth Spirit is also a rare third-level spiritual object, which can be used for personal use or in exchange for other spiritual objects.

This is one of the few third-level spiritual objects that Xuanhai Sect can produce on its own.

"wrong!"

After some hesitation, Master Qinghai rushed out from deep underground and headed towards the blessed land in the east of the city.

“Buzz——”

In the center of Ao Shi blessed land, a silver light shot up into the sky, and countless runes were flying around, distorting the void.

The small one-way teleportation array of Ao Shi Immortal City!

Snap!

When Master Qinghai arrived, the silver light on the teleportation array was extinguishing, and a destructive aura suddenly erupted from the array, completely destroying the array.

Looking at the destroyed teleportation array, Master Qinghai looked around in embarrassment.

Finished.

Where can I go to catch up with this?

Three thousand miles radius, random teleportation.

"Black Cliff Old Demon, your mother is also your servant!"

(End of this chapter)