noffsinger Chapter 171 Treasures Belong to the Capable: The Small Secret Realm of the Western Continent
Chapter 171 Treasures Belong to the Capable: The Small Secret Realm of the Western Continent
"Oh!"
"Treasures belong to the capable!"
"If you desire the teleportation array, then we'll have to settle this with our skills!"
The toad finished speaking.
The Nascent Soul stage cultivator released his divine sense, and at the same time, the spirit toad raised its hand and a small black bell flew out, hovering above Lin Li and Bai Ling'er's heads, protecting them under the bell.
at the same time.
A fierce glint flashed across the face of Blood Hand, who was in the early Nascent Soul stage, not far away.
"The teleportation array is still intact."
"I've never heard of any teleportation array in the Penglai Mountain Secret Realm before. Now that we've encountered it, we should naturally have a go at it."
"If you can't win, just leave."
"It's practically impossible for two people at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm to kill each other."
now.
Bloodhand's Nascent Soul stage magic power erupted.
His blood-red robes fluttered, and a fist-sized blood jade bead appeared in his palm.
Red smoke billowed from within the pearl, and around it, streaks of red smoke formed blood-red cranes, each over ten feet tall. The cranes cried out in unison, and under the fluctuations of the spiritual energy of the Nascent Soul stage magic weapon, the entire grotto began to tremble.
Pebbles of varying sizes fell from the top of the cave.
"go!"
Bloodhand retreated rapidly.
As he retreated, he formed hand seals, and dozens of enormous blood-red cranes around him spread their wings and swooped down on the spirit toad in front of him, while more than ten others were aimed directly at Lin Li and Bai Ling'er.
Bloodhand knew very well that the person beside this Nascent Soul stage toad demon must be extremely important.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have used magic weapons to protect those two juniors at the beginning.
Her purpose was naturally to distract the toad demon.
The spirit toad was enveloped in gray mist, and its body instantly swelled up, growing from a seemingly small figure to more than ten zhang in size in an instant, with its head touching the top of the cave.
The spirit toad stood firmly in front of Lin Li and Bai Ling'er.
It opened its huge mouth, which was like a black hole, and emitted an extremely powerful suction force, swallowing all the blood-red cranes that were flying towards it.
next moment.
A faint purplish-red light streaked out from between the toad's eyebrows, revealing a lightning ring interwoven with purplish-red colors.
Stimulated by the magical power of the Nascent Soul stage
Immediately, arcs of electricity as thick as an adult's arm erupted from the lightning ring. These arcs intertwined like giant purplish-red pythons, their aura extremely astonishing.
This is a fourth-tier medium-grade magic weapon that Lin Chuan casually gave to Ling Chan. It was picked up casually in the ruins of Fallen Immortal Valley. It should be something left behind by a Xuanmen cultivator who was killed by the spatial turbulence when he went down to the mortal realm.
Even though the magical treasures brought down by cultivators from the Spirit Realm were damaged when they descended to the mortal realm, their power is still comparable to that of ordinary fourth-tier medium-grade magical treasures.
Especially for magic weapons with the lightning attribute, their power is the ceiling among those of the same level.
The spirit toad had been refined for a short time.
It can only be used in a simple way, but even so, it is much more powerful than many low-grade fourth-tier magic weapons.
"A mid-level magic weapon!"
At this moment, when Blood Hand saw the toad demon swallow his Spiritual Crane Shadow, and when the toad demon took out that lightning-type Nascent Soul stage magic weapon, his expression suddenly changed drastically.
"You actually possess a mid-level magic weapon!"
Without a moment's hesitation, Blood Hand transformed into a streak of crimson light and hurriedly turned to leave.
In the blink of an eye, he left the cave in the Penglai Mountain Secret Realm. If the fight continued, Blood Hand would definitely not be able to defeat a fellow Daoist of the same level who possessed a fourth-tier medium-level lightning magic weapon.
The longer the entanglement lasts, the more likely Bloodhand will get injured.
If the opponent has other trump cards up their sleeve, it's uncertain whether Bloodhand can even survive.
In this situation, the best course of action is naturally to leave.
The spirit toad sensed that the Nascent Soul stage magic power within its body was being swallowed up by the lightning magic weapon like water bursting its banks. Then, a thought flashed through its mind and it swallowed the lightning ring back into its mouth.
If we really start fighting, my magical power will be consumed too much.
It's not certain that he'll gain much advantage. If the other party is scared away by his mid-tier fourth-order magic weapon, that's naturally a good thing.
"Let's go."
"Let's get out of here first."
Lin Li gave the instructions to the spirit toad.
"Yes, Master."
"This old servant will take my master away now."
The toad quickly shrank to the shape of a frail old man, then grabbed Lin Li and Bai Ling'er, and transformed into a gray streak of light, leaving the place.
After leaving this Penglai Mountain site.
Under Lin Li's command, they continued to search for other Penglai Mountain secret realms in the surrounding area, and explored several more of them to see if there were any other secret realms with teleportation arrays.
Unfortunately.
The entrances to the other Penglai Mountain secret realms are not very large.
Only the first two Penglai Mountain Secret Realms explored by Lin Li and his group had extremely large entrance nodes, making it possible for teleportation arrays to exist inside. The other Penglai Mountain Secret Realms were different.
Aside from discovering the remains of a Core Formation cultivator unlike those from the two major cultivation worlds of Nan Yue and Dong Ming, they only managed to obtain nearly a hundred Yin-attribute spirit stones and a few damaged Core Formation stage puppets.
The methods used to create puppets were different from those used in the Southern Yue Kingdom. Lin Li also left a few behind to see if they could be repaired and turned into his demon puppets.
After all, this method of creating demon puppets only brings benefits to reincarnated cultivators like Lin Li.
You need to accumulate more experience.
However, since no other teleportation arrays were found in the other Penglai Mountain secret realms, Lin Li felt much more at ease. At least once a teleportation array was used, even if other Nascent Soul stage cultivators caught up with him, they would not be able to use other intact teleportation arrays to teleport away again.
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Half a day later.
Moon stars are rare.
Above the dark sky, a streak of blue light streaked across the night, appearing from the ground like a long blue thread piercing the night sky.
On the flying boat amidst the flowing light, Lin Li sat cross-legged on a futon made of spirit herbs. In front of him were jade slips he had picked up from the corpses in the secret realm, as well as a number of Yin-attribute spirit stones. In the other party's storage bag, there were nearly two hundred Yin-attribute spirit stones, each about the size of a fist and of extremely high quality.
It is at least a third-tier Yin attribute spirit stone.
It can be used by Yin-attribute cultivators in the Core Formation stage for cultivation.
Most of the Yin-attribute spirit stones obtained from the Penglai Mountain Secret Realm were only of the first or second rank, with the first rank being the majority and the second rank being the minority.
Such a third-tier item could only be found in the storage bag on this person's corpse.
For the demonic and unorthodox cultivators of both the Southern and Northern Kingdoms, each of these third-tier Yin-attribute spirit stones is comparable to a top-quality Core Formation spirit item.
Once these spirit stones are put on the market, they can fetch a good price, even at auctions.
However, what Lin Li was most concerned about was the jade slips in the corpse storage bag. Although most of the jade slips were damaged and cracked, the contents recorded inside were destroyed and could not be examined.
But the jade slip in front of Lin Li is the only one that is still relatively intact.
A wisp of divine consciousness slowly probed into it.
The jade slip also has some minor cracks, but the array and restriction patterns recorded inside are still connected to each other. It seems that it can withstand several divine sense probes.
Perhaps we can find some information about the other location of the teleportation array from the jade slip on this outsider.
He probed the jade slip with his divine sense.
In the blink of an eye.
Suddenly, a cultivation technique recorded in the jade slip appeared in Lin Li's sea of consciousness. It seemed to be the technique that the other party practiced. It was a demonic technique called the Spirit-Stealing Demon Ape Technique.
This is a demonic art that focuses on body refinement. When cultivating it, one needs to use the heart blood of a demonic ape as a guide, and then refine the demonic ape's soul and one's own essence into a demonic ape heart pill.
Once the Heart Pill is refined, it is swallowed into the body, and one can use the demonic energy within the Demon Ape Heart Pill to cultivate the physical body and advance to the first level of Qi Refining.
However, relying on the spiritual energy cultivated by the Heart Pill, it is naturally similar to demonic energy, and each time it advances, it needs to consume a higher-level ape-like demon Heart Pill.
Much later.
Lin Li finally withdrew his divine sense from the jade slip and let out a long breath.
A cultivation technique that allows one to advance by devouring demonic apes!
"A demonic cultivator."
Lin Li made a judgment in his mind.
The owner of these remains was a demonic cultivator. This cultivation method was unheard of in both the Southern Yue and Eastern Ming kingdoms. Moreover, according to the cultivation method, cultivators who practiced this method needed the assistance of ape-like heart pills for each advancement.
The Heart Pill is equivalent to the Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object and Core Formation Spiritual Object for their advancement.
However, it is clear that this heart-refining pill is even more difficult to obtain.
The number of ape-like demons between Nan Yue and Dong Ming Kingdom combined is not that many. If several sects' cultivators also practice this technique, it would become extremely difficult for them to advance in their cultivation.
Because the Heart Elixir needed for advancement simply cannot be provided by enough ape-like demon cultivators.
From this perspective, a cultivation country that possesses such a technique must be a place with an extremely large number of demon cultivators.
This kind of cultivation technique simply cannot be passed down within the territory of the Southern Yue Kingdom. Even if it were to be passed down, if it were to be discovered by the ape-like spiritual cultivators, they would personally take action to crush all the human cultivators who practice this technique.
"What a pity, it's just a cultivation technique."
A hint of disappointment flickered in Lin Li's eyes. He had gained something, but it was still too little.
However, this jade slip is enough to prove that there are cultivators cultivating in the cultivation world opposite the teleportation array of Penglai Mountain Secret Realm, which can be considered a way out.
The best course of action now.
All that's left to find is a space-type spirit stone.
Then.
With a thought, Lin Li released the Spirit Toad Old Gray from his high-level spirit pet pouch.
A wisp of gray light flew out from the storage bag and transformed into the figure of a gaunt old man wearing a gray robe and with a wrinkled toad-like head, appearing a few steps in front of Lin Li.
"This old servant greets his master!"
The toad respectfully bowed.
His gaze swept over the ancient jade slip in front of Lin Li, and a hint of curiosity flashed in his eyes.
To be honest, Lingchan was also very curious about the cultivation world opposite the Penglai Mountain Secret Realm.
That is very likely a cultivation world where one can exploit cultivation resources. A Nascent Soul cultivator like Ling Chan would certainly not be a low-level cultivator elsewhere, and Ling Chan is very interested in it.
"Old Grey, do you know where in the Western Regions of Nan Yue can one obtain space-type spirit stones?"
"It could also provide a few suitable places for us to live in seclusion!"
Lin Li asked.
As a veteran Nascent Soul stage demon cultivator, Lingchan certainly knows far more than him.
"In reply to Master, spatial spirit stones are scarce. There are no places in the Southern Yue Kingdom that can stably produce spatial spirit stones, unless some small secret realms collapse, in which case a few spatial spirit stones may appear."
"There is no place in Xizhou where space-type spirit stones are definitely found."
"However, if we're talking about places where there might be space-type spirit stones, this old servant does know one."
"I came to Xizhou once more than a hundred years ago, but that time it was for a fourth-grade spiritual medicine. I even fought with the Tianmen Sword Sect, a Nascent Soul sect in Xizhou, for it."
"That old Nascent Soul sword cultivator from their Heavenly Gate Sword Sect is quite powerful. His Nascent Soul sword energy did indeed injure this old servant quite a bit."
"However, the Tianmen Sword Sect also sacrificed two Core Formation stage disciples and more than ten Foundation Establishment stage disciples."
"From the storage bag of one of the Core Formation stage cultivators, there was a detailed map of the Western Continent. The other party wanted to cultivate a sword technique of the Heavenly Gate Sword Sect, which required space-type spirit stones."
"The other party has devoted decades to studying Xizhou and has finally discovered the location of a small secret realm that is about to collapse. After that small secret realm collapses, it is very likely to generate space-type spirit stones."
"besides…"
"Master, outside Jubao Market in Yunzhou, there is a space that is connected to the Fallen Immortal Valley ruins. There is a place where spiritual veins are generated, and it is very likely that space-type spirit stones will be born there as well."
Ling Chan finished speaking.
Lingchan raised his hand and released a burst of magical power, forming a detailed map of the Western Continent in front of Lin Li. In the northwest corner of the map, there was a glittering location.
At the same time, the spirit toad took out a jade slip and handed it to Lin Li.
"Master, this jade slip is about the location of that small secret realm. There is a second-grade superior spiritual vein in that place, which is occupied by the local Mu Family Immortal Clan and the Mountain Puppet Sect. These two Foundation Establishment forces control that small secret realm of Mu Teng Mountain."
"These two Foundation Establishment forces have been on Mount Muteng for over five hundred years."
"Although the Mountain Puppet Sect and the Mu Family are not on good terms, they maintain a peaceful relationship on the surface."
"The master can choose one of them: live in seclusion there and wait for the Wood Vine Mountain secret realm to collapse so that he can obtain the space-type spirit stone."
"According to the calculations of the Core Formation stage cultivators of the Heavenly Gate Sword Sect, the collapse occurred at most a dozen years ago!"
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