In the room, Pei Huoyu carefully put the colorful balls into a jade box, and took out a talisman to seal the outside of the jade box.
He patted the storage bag gently, and a jade box smelling of blood appeared in his hand.
Pei Huoyu opened the jade box, and inside were blood-red pills filled with a violent demonic aura.
He took out a pill and put it in his mouth, chewing it hard.
His eyes fell on the jade box that had just been sealed. Whether he could find the Five Elements Mountain depended on it.
Even if it means looking for a needle in a haystack, he will find the monk who took away the Five Elements Mountain.
Since he traveled north from the wilderness, every time he arrived at a place, he would expend his energy and magic power to condense the 'Five Elements Dao Seed'.
However, this method causes considerable loss to the basic source of Tao. Even if all kinds of elixirs are prepared for each condensation, it will take at least half a year of recuperation to make up for it.
If this goes on, even if he is a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building, he will not be able to bear it.
But this was the only way, as the Five Elements Dao Seed was a magical power that came with the Five Elements Dao Jue that he practiced.
All causal relationships are due to the five-colored stones.
Back then, he was discovered in the mortal world by Patriarch Zi Yang, who bestowed upon him the cultivation method of the Golden Core Stage. He broke through to the Foundation Establishment Stage and became one of the nourished people of the Five-Colored Stone.
Because the five-colored stones have been nurtured in the Dantian for decades, there is a faint connection between him and the five-colored stones.
As long as he activates the 'Five Elements Dao Seed', he will be able to sense the whereabouts of the Five Elements Mountain within a thousand miles.
However, the preservation time of Dao Seeds is limited, at most half a year, so Pei Huoyu had to condense a Dao Seed every once in a while and then rest for half a year.
He followed the route all the way from the wilderness, and whenever he came to a prosperous island city, he would stop to investigate.
The method is a bit stupid.
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Black Rock Island.
“Pululululul…”
Xiao Sanqian was blowing bubbles on the water, and his nimble tail was slapping the sea water.
Soon, a group of fish, shrimps and crabs emerged from the water.
Dahei, who was lying on Shen Lian’s shoulder, saw this scene and his eyes lit up. Seafood buffet.
It jumped into the sea in a flash, waving its two big claws.
Not only is Sanqian smarter than Dahei, but he's also very agile. As soon as Dahei fell into the water, Sanqian hit him on the head with his tail.
Shen Lian ignored the fight between the two spirit beasts and took out the sea chart to check it.
During the more than half a year in Black Whale City, he selected thirteen locations around it to hide and use for breakthroughs in foundation building.
He also learned that there were high-level caves in Black Whale City that could be used by cultivators to build their foundations.
Therefore, when choosing a place to build your foundation, you don’t have to choose one from outside.
Through inquiries from various sources, it was found that during the hundreds of years that the Hailing Sect had been stationed in Black Whale City, hundreds of cultivators had chosen to build their foundations in the city.
Shen Lian was not sure about the success rate, it should be not high, but that was not the fault of the Hailing Sect, but the fault of the cultivator himself.
All these prove that the stability of building a foundation in Black Whale City is very high.
As long as you can afford the spirit stones, the fairy sister will personally invite you to stay in the cave full of spiritual energy.
The Black Rock Island at your feet is nice, with black sea fir trees all over the island and rolling hills stretching for three hundred miles.
There is not enough spiritual energy here, so it is not suitable for building a foundation, but it is a good cave to hide in.
“Gurgle…”
Sanqian emerged from the water. It was currently at the third level of Qi training. Its spirituality was sufficient, but it was still unable to transmit sound through its spiritual thoughts.
After Shen Lian concentrated and looked at Sanqian for a while, he also jumped into the water.
Under the water, Sanqian dived quickly downwards and entered a pile of black rocks.
Deep among the rocks, there is a dark water cave.
They walked along the water cave, turned several times and entered a wide body of water. Then Sanqian led Shen Lian upstream.
Crash.
Shen Lian had already released his spiritual sense, and discovered that there was a cave on the water surface, and also a broken formation with a dim light on the water surface.
There is also a dried skeleton of a monk in the cave.
After throwing Dahei out, the formation did not counterattack.
After sensing that Dahei had crawled around in the cave and did not detect any fluctuations in his spiritual thoughts, Shen Lian emerged from the water.
The cave is hundreds of feet in size, but the water surface at the entrance is only a few feet in size.
After an inspection, Shen Lian discovered that this cave should be located on the Black Rock Island, more than 500 feet from the ground, or below the sea level.
As for why the river water did not flood the cave, it was due to the formation on the water surface.
Shen Lian examined the withered bones and was a little disappointed. He was not a foundation-building cultivator, but a Qi-cultivating guy like him.
There were deep sword marks on the back of the dry bones, which had penetrated to the chest.
There are scattered medicine bottles in front of him.
This monk fled here, apparently to heal his wounds, but unfortunately he died from his injuries.
With a flick of his finger, a fireball fell and burned the dry bones into ashes.
This place is good. It can be renovated and used as your own backup cave.
I first checked the formation on the water surface and found that the spirit stones had been used up and the formation was fine.
After replenishing the spirit stones, white mist appeared on the water surface. This was a formation that could conceal one's breath and hide one's body, and its grade was only one level higher than the upper grade.
After setting up the second-order Hunyuan formation, Shen Lian took out the talisman.
During these days in Black Whale City, he was not idle. Besides practicing, he was also making pills and drawing talismans.
Black Whale City is indeed a big city, and it is much easier to obtain second-level materials.
As a result, he currently has a stockpile of more than fifty second-level talismans of various types, covering attack, escape, invisibility, divine consciousness, traps, breath suppression, and poison talismans.
Shen Lian mixed the Bailing Poison he had refined before with Ling Mo again, and launched his own unique second-grade lower-grade Bailing Poison Talisman.
In addition, the Bailing poison was further strengthened, and he also bought some poisons in Black Whale City and melted them into it.
Because it was too far from the ground, Shen Lian released Dahei and let it take its people to the island to build a nest and breed some ordinary, non-demonized black-horned ants.
Using these ant nests as nodes, Shen Lian built a retreat route from the cave directly to the ground of Black Rock Island without passing through the water. At that time, he only needed to use the earth escape talisman to get all the way to Black Rock Island.
After doing all this, he took out the second-level demon fish he obtained from the exchange meeting.
Glancing at Dahei and Sanqian who were staring eagerly at him on the water, Shen Lian felt that spiritual beasts could be trained at any time, and the most important thing for their masters was to improve their spiritual thoughts.
Shen Lian first stuffed the two spirit beasts' mouths with spirit-feeding pills, then let them play aside and turned his attention to the golden sword-scale fish.
Feeling the change in Shen Lian's aura, the big black creature in the water shuddered, and its two big pincers quickly touched each other, then it came close to Sanqian and hissed loudly.
"Master...I'm going to eat you..."
"Pulululul..." Sanqian was blowing bubbles, his eyes full of cuteness.
…
The second-level golden sword-scale fish is five feet in size, and the demonic aura it emits is not strong.
But when Shen Lian's big hand fell on the demon fish, the strong demonic aura suddenly caused the spiritual energy in his body to vibrate.
After stabilizing his spiritual power again, Shen Lian started to practice the secret method of refining blood and generating soul, and began to absorb the blood and flesh power from the demon fish.
A strong smell of blood enveloped his palm and quickly spread over his body.
Before long, Shen Lian's eyes turned blood red.
There was a flickering spiritual light all around him, and five pure and clear jades of different shapes lit up with spiritual light, enveloping him.
During the days in Black Whale City, he also completed the collection of the Qingxin Jade, making the five pieces of gold, wood, water, fire and earth complete.
After the strong smell of blood entered his body, the first drop of blood began to appear at the position of Shen Lian's heart.
Although this monster has just entered the second level not long ago, the blood and energy in its body has undergone a qualitative change compared to when it was in the first level.
Shen Lian felt this deeply. After refining for half an hour, he stopped temporarily, his eyes red as blood.
The big black creature lurking nearby was so frightened that it disappeared with a whoosh.
After resting for a whole day and suppressing his bloodthirsty urge, Shen Lian began to continue refining.
It was precisely because of this bloody smell that he did not dare to take action in Black Whale City, so as not to accidentally attract other people's attention.
Just like that, a month passed in the blink of an eye.
Shen Lian sat cross-legged in the cave, and in his mind, a ferocious image of a demon emerged.
This demon has a green face and fangs, and holds a steel fork in his hand. He looks as illusory as green smoke, which can be blown away by a breeze.
"The Soul Binding Seal can devour the soul and memory of a cultivator."
Shen Lian's eyes flashed with brilliance. According to the secret method of soul-deriving that he practiced, as his spiritual power grew stronger, he could generate the image of a purple-robed demon.
I didn't expect that his spiritual consciousness was only over 190 feet long, but he had already begun to develop the image of a ghost or demon, and he didn't give his fellow Taoists a chance to experiment and see if he could search the soul or take away the spirit.
With a slight flick of his hand, a green light appeared on the water surface, and Three Thousand fell into Shen Lian's hands.
Dahei happened to come back again, with his head raised and his big eyes shining with black light.
“Hiss—”
Shen Lian casually threw Sanqian back into the water. He thought it would be better not to bother with him any more. Sanqian's soul was too weak and Dahei could not withstand it either.
The three thousand spirit stones did not come from the wind.
Dahei is also a hero.
The remaining demon fish were chopped into pieces and some were thrown to Dahei and Sanqian. The two demons made whimpering sounds and began to eat them voraciously.
Rubbing his head gently, Shen Lian felt that he needed to calm down for a while before he could continue to refine the monster's flesh and blood.
I didn't expect that a second-level monster would have such a good effect. I had refined so many first-level monsters before, but there was no such effect. The divine consciousness increased by more than forty feet in one go.
After resting for three days, Shen Lian left Dahei and Sanqian behind and returned to Black Whale Island.
After being away for more than a month, I have become a little incompetent as the shopkeeper.
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Black Whale City.
The days of being a shopkeeper are boring and monotonous.
In the blink of an eye, Shen Lian became the shopkeeper for two and a half years.
Black Whale City is so peaceful.
[Mind wandering outside, mind enlightenment point +1]
[Mind wandering outside, mind enlightenment point +1]
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[Calm down, insight points +2]
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Please continue reading.
Let's talk about the exercises. Some book friends said that the exercises were said to be so difficult to obtain in the beginning, so why did so many golden elixir and foundation-building exercises appear later on?
The protagonist's martial arts comes from the ancestor Lianzhen, and Pei Huoyu's martial arts comes from the ancestor Yuanying.
For low-level cultivators, the skills are indeed difficult to obtain, but for high-level cultivators, it is not difficult.
Just like key high schools, large numbers of people are admitted to 211/985 every year, while only a few can be admitted to ordinary high schools every year, and the resources are concentrated in the hands of the upper class.
There are also many mentions of the five elements spiritual roots. The protagonist is the five elements spiritual roots. Because he accidentally obtained the spiritual object, the Five Elements Mountain, he is self-centered and needs to understand whether the relevant five elements spiritual roots will have any impact on himself.
After all, the novel is written around the protagonist.
It’s not that other spiritual roots are bad. Every kind of spiritual root has the opportunity to become an immortal. In addition to spiritual roots, luck is also a part of cultivation.
Don’t think that the reason there are so many cultivators with the five elements spiritual roots is because of the survivor bias. The protagonist is the five elements spiritual roots, so the focus is naturally on the five elements spiritual roots.
There are countless ordinary people in the world of immortal cultivation. Even if the birth of spiritual root cultivators is rare, for people in the ordinary world, a generation is born every ten years, so there is no shortage of spiritual root cultivators.
Among them, there are various spiritual roots, not just five.
*There is also the issue of the protagonist’s spiritual consciousness. The author really didn’t consider it enough before. The difference in spiritual consciousness between the Qi-training cultivators and the foundation-building cultivators is too small.
I will think about how to modify this. If the previous text has been changed significantly, I may not change the previous text and will make amends later.
(End of this chapter)