The Wanxing Sea is dotted with islands of varying sizes. Some places have rich spiritual energy, while others have thin spiritual energy.

The island with thin spiritual energy is the mortal world, the foundation of the immortal world.

Qianwang Island is such a place.

The island is located on the western border of the Wanxing Sea, and the nearby islands, large and small, are mostly barren places without any spiritual energy.

It is said that there are hundreds of millions of ordinary creatures living here, and every once in a while, the surrounding immortal sects will go to Thousand Kings Island to test their spiritual roots.

As the living place of creatures in the mortal world, Thousand Kings Island is not on the spirit ship's route, so Shen Lian needs to travel the second half of the journey by himself.

The reason for choosing this route is that there is an island where spiritual ships are anchored, called Yushan Island.

Thirty thousand miles southeast of this island, there is a place called Black Dragon Abyss, where the water depth is as low as thirty thousand feet.

Friends who have disposed of corpses know that if you want to hide it deeply, you have to choose the right place.

Shen Lian was preparing to throw the Five Elements Mountain into the Black Dragon Abyss. There were few islands in this area and few cultivators passing by.

The Five Elements Mountain is nice, but your life is what’s important.

When you become a weapon refiner, the worst that can happen is that you can find good spiritual materials to refine your own magical weapon.

When he cultivates to the Nascent Soul stage, how could he be short of a piece of five-colored stone?

It wasn't a loss at all. Two thousand spirit stones leveraged resources worth at least four hundred thousand spirit stones, so he could be considered to have made a big profit.

It takes more than two months to get from Black Whale Island to Yushan Island.

It’s not that the spirit ship flies slowly, but that the spirit ship needs to stop at various islands, and it takes a lot of time to stop at each place.

Shen Lian had thought about flying there by himself, but after thinking about it, he decided not to do so because it would be too dangerous to fly there by himself.

There is no fake Dan Zhenren guarding safety.

Spirit ship, inside the room.

Shen Lian sat cross-legged on a cushion. Under the lining of his robe, there was a Yanling Divine Mind Talisman, and on his legs and insteps, there were Wanli Divine Travel Talismans.

Every twelve hours, a divine thought would sweep over the spirit ship, and he would passively sense the fluctuations in the divine thought.

This is the divine thought of the fake Dan Zhenren who is in charge of the spirit ship.

The high-level spirit ships that travel back and forth across the Ten Thousand Star Sea are almost all manned by fake Dan Zhenren.

As for the Jindan Zhenren, they don’t have the time to deal with these trivial matters. They need to practice in seclusion.

Fake Dan monks are the main thugs of the major Jindan-level forces when they go out.

While Shen Lian was refining the spirit stones, he was counting the various spiritual items he had purchased in his storage bag.

Before leaving, the nearly 100,000 low-grade spirit stones earned in Black Whale City were left in Black Whale City.

There were only more than two thousand spirit stones left in the storage bracelet.

That's it, there are still many things that have not been purchased.

For example, the second-level spiritual beast was excluded from the list of must-buys because Pei Huoyu had dozens of blood pills.

For alchemy materials, I mainly bought two types of pills: Soul Gathering Pills and True Essence Pills, which are used to improve strength.

Both types of elixirs require a second-level spiritual medicine as the main ingredient, combined with a dozen first-level spiritual medicines.

The average price of one package of materials is around 2,300 spirit stones.

Unlike first-level elixirs, a furnace of second-level elixirs cannot produce so many pills. The number is mostly less than ten, and this number includes both good and bad pills.

The selling price of a low-quality Spirit Gathering Pill is around four hundred and fifty spirit stones.

In the pill shop, each pill is sold in one bottle.

Of course, the reason why elixirs are so popular is that they are worth the money.

The spiritual power generated by refining a Spirit Gathering Pill is equivalent to practicing for two or three months using spirit stones or in a place with abundant spirit stones.

Who among the cultivators who hope to achieve the Golden Elixir and pursue the Nascent Soul would honestly absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth?

It is still within the limit of one's own body's endurance. One should speed up the accumulation of spiritual power as much as possible, break through the small bottlenecks in the foundation-building process, and save time to polish the bottleneck of the golden elixir.

Shen Lian asked for eight portions of each of the materials for the two kinds of pills.

It would take five to ten days to refine a pill slowly. After refining, it would also need to settle for a few days to completely transform the medicinal power into spiritual power.

The reason for this is that it is impossible for a monk to practice all the time every day, as his body would not be able to bear it.

No cultivator can continue to refine elixirs without the need for sedimentation.

Assuming it takes ten days to refine one pill, plus the time for the medicinal power to settle and transform, and subtracting the remaining time for making talismans, refining pills, and practicing spells, it takes twenty days to consume one pill.

Eighteen pills are needed in a year.

Shen Lian didn't want to aim too high. Assuming that one furnace could produce eight pills, that would be 128 Soul Gathering Pills and True Essence Pills.

Theoretically, it is enough for him to practice in the mortal world for seven or eight years.

As for what to do if he runs out of elixirs after seven or eight years, that's too long a time, and he needs to decide based on the circumstances. Maybe he will stay for three to five years and then move again.

The reason I asked for two kinds of medicinal materials was to alternate between them to prevent drug resistance from developing in the body.

In addition to the elixirs used for cultivation, there are also materials for the Soul-Replenishing Pill to replenish spiritual energy. As for replenishing spiritual power, the corresponding herbs were not purchased.

The rest are the materials for making talismans.

Xuanling Jadeite was asked for three pieces to make jade talismans that could increase power. Each piece was worth five thousand spirit stones.

In addition to being used as jade talismans, this thing has a wide range of uses. It can be used to print talismans, and it can help foundation-building monks to cultivate spiritual power and reduce the bottleneck in breaking through from the sixth level to the seventh level.

In addition, he also requested a bottle of second-grade high-quality spiritual ink, which was worth three thousand six hundred spirit stones and could only be used five times.

At that time, Shen Lian thought that he should raise Dahei and Sanqian until they were fat and white, bleed them and make spiritual ink to sell them.

Since I couldn't buy the Heavenly Thunder Liquid to draw the Nine-Nine Heavenly Thunder Talisman Array, I could only continue to draw the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Evil Thunder and Fire Talisman Array.

A second-rank low-grade talisman master, he has inherited many talisman formations, and the Nine-Nine Heavenly Thunder and Heavenly Gang Thunder and Fire are the two with the strongest attack power.

This time, Shen Lian also bought a large amount of poisons in Black Whale City, and there were some leftovers from the Yunmeng Market.

He planned to see if he could make a full poison talisman array, which could directly grind bones to ashes and turn dirty blood into powder, preferably one that did not require any restraint.

The spirit ship was very fast. After leaving, it headed northwest of Black Whale City. Its first stop was Yuanshan Island, where it stayed for three days.

An hour before the spirit ship was about to set off, Shen Lian quickly got off the spirit ship and distributed some happiness pills.

The spirit ship set sail, and he returned to the spirit ship with 4,300 spirit stones.

After the spirit ship flew to the sky and stabilized, he sat down cross-legged, took out a jade slip and pressed it on his forehead.

This is the practice method of "Five Elements Forbidden".

He was quite envious of the method that Pei Huoyu practiced.

This method requires the Five Elements as its foundation, and uses the circulating force to suppress the opponent, causing the opponent's spiritual power to stagnate and interrupt the casting of spells.

When monks fight, the circulation of spiritual energy stagnates and spells are interrupted. If the monk is slow to react, it is equivalent to sending his head to his opponent.

Two months later, the spirit ship landed on Yushan Island.

A few days later, a black spirit boat was seen floating on the dark sea surface.

The wind and waves in this sea area are very low, giving people a very depressing feeling.

Shen Lian stood on the spirit boat holding the Five Elements Mountain in his hand. He had already erased his own aura.

“Pululu.”

Sanqian jumped out of the water and spit out a few bubbles.

"Remember this place?"

Seeing Sanqian nod, Shen Lian put Sanqian into the spirit beast bracelet.

“Plop…”

He flipped his palm lightly, and the Five Elements Mountain fell into the surging black water.

"well……"

This place is sparsely populated and the water is deep, so he was thinking about whether there would be a chance to fish it out again in the future.

It is a treasure after all. If it weren’t for the Yuanying ancestor holding his hand, he really wouldn’t be willing to throw it away.

Bian Qingyun could even get such a rare spiritual insect as the Soul Borrowing Gu Worm. How could the five-colored stone that the Ziyang Patriarch had worked so hard to get be easily taken away by a foundation-building person? After such a long time of sacrifice and refining, Shen Lian did not feel anything unusual from the five-colored stone except for the spirituality.

But before Pei Huoyu was seriously injured, no problems were found in his body, right?

An old monster in the Nascent Soul stage, with a lifespan of three thousand years, can only appear once among many immortal cultivators. His head is filled with cultivation experience. No matter if he is trying to scare yourself or not, you must not take chances.

What if what Pei Huoyu wants to do is what old monster Zi Yang wants to do!

Some things can't be recalled at all.

As long as there is a safety panel, everything else can be thrown away.

…

The spirit boat splashed on the water and disappeared into the distance.

This flying boat was selected from the spoils of war. It is similar to the wooden flying boat commonly used in the Qi training period, and is also a flying boat commonly used in the foundation building period.

Otherwise, Shen Lian would not have used it.

Even so, he drew a second-order water purification talisman to cleanse the aura of the spirit boat, refurbished it, and made it look old.

After throwing away the Five Elements Mountain, we returned to Yishan Island and started to travel westward.

As we went west, the spiritual energy in the air gradually became thinner, and we encountered fewer and fewer cultivators, and their strength became weaker and weaker.

Even the fish and shrimp under the sea have become much smaller.

On the islands we encountered along the way, there were more and more towns built by mortals.

There is an unwritten rule in the world of immortal cultivation that cultivators are not allowed to slaughter mortals without reason.

Even if some monastic families were to fight against each other, the victorious family would not annihilate all of their mortal members after killing the monastics of the enemy family. Instead, they would only eliminate the powerful ones among the mortal members.

The bold ones would directly absorb the other side's mortal tribesmen into their own mortal tribesmen. After decades of assimilation, they would have a new group of tribesmen.

Those who are worried will confine them and send a few monks with no future in the tribe to monitor them for decades, and secretly strangle a group of immortal seedlings with spiritual roots. After a few decades, when people in the same batch have grown old and died, the hatred will be over.

In short, large-scale massacres of mortals were mostly committed by demonic cultivators.

Shen Lian also visited some islands and made some records, which might be useful in the future.

More than twenty days later.

The outline of an extremely large island came into Shen Lian's eyes.

We have arrived at Thousand Kings Island.

The outline of the island is like an endless mountain range stretching across the vast ocean, with both sides merging into one where the water and the sky interweave.

There are more small Fujian ships and fishing boats on the sea.

"Immortal."

"Immortal."

When Shen Lian drove the spirit boat over, the figures on the distant boats knelt down one by one.

Shen Lian did not stop either. He noticed that although these mortals were kneeling, they did not feel surprised by his appearance.

In other words, mortals on Qianwang Island often see immortal cultivators.

…

One day later.

Pengzhou City.

Shen Lian was squatting in a private room of a restaurant, drinking.

After a drink, he got a clear picture of the situation on Thousand Kings Island.

The Thousand Kings Island is divided up among several major immortal cultivation sects, and each area has immortal officials stationed there from different sects.

Pengzhou City is the capital of Peng State, and there is an immortal official who has reached the seventh level of Qi training stationed here.

A magnificent palace was built specially for him in the capital, which was even more magnificent than the royal palace. Every now and then, batches of beautiful women were sent to the palace for the immortal officials to enjoy.

Wine and meat, singing and dancing, bridegroom every night, envy...

The spiritual energy on the island is exhausted, and there are no famous mountains or rivers.

Shen Lian finally chose Huayang Prefecture, which was under the jurisdiction of Peng State, as the place for his retreat. This prefecture had many mountains and few people.

…

Jiuhua Mountain.

Safe Peak.

In fact, it is an inconspicuous hill in the mountain range, surrounded by mountains on all sides.

This hill was chosen because there is a hollow cave underneath it, which is more than two hundred feet deep underground and is a natural and safe cave.

Dahei led the black-horned ants to dig in the cave, dividing the cave into areas for training, talisman making, alchemy, spirit beast room and so on.

I also dug a small puddle for Sanqian.

According to the previous rules, Shen Lian set up the formation and talismans.

The new house is finally built.

Black-horned ants also began to dig holes, build ant nests around the caves, and disperse to establish reconnaissance posts.

After finishing everything, Shen Lian's reclusive life officially began.

The goal of this seclusion is to improve various craft skills and strive to become a foundation-building cultivator with comprehensive development in both attack and defense.

One day later.

Shen Lian, who was sitting cross-legged in the training room, opened his eyes and a flash of inspiration appeared.

[Shen Lian: First level of foundation building]

[Five Elements Spiritual Roots: Fire 100 Earth 31 Metal 31 Wood 31 Water 31]

[Fire Magical Power: Heavenly Fire Domain]

[Divine Thought: 610 feet]

[Alchemist: First-class upper grade (1/10000) cannot be broken through]

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【Insights: 17826】

【Divine Enlightenment Points: 0】

In a flash, tens of thousands of perception points disappeared, and waves appeared in Shen Lian's sea of ​​consciousness, just like ripples on a calm lake caused by a breeze.

In the darkness, tiny bits of sparkling dust emerged from the sea of ​​divine consciousness, transformed into the mysteries of alchemy, and then materialized into specific words.

"The Mysterious Condensation Pill Method... The Pure Void Transformation Pill... The Crimson Cloud Pill..."

"The Wanjing Pill can help monsters purify their blood."

"Puyu Pill... Jiuhuan Pill, can help condense spiritual power."

…

"Gold Yuan Pill, Wood Yuan Pill, Water Yuan Pill..."

…

“Soul-nourishing pills…Face-fixing pills…Demon spirit pills…”

(End of this chapter)