si-mexico Chapter 214: The Swamp
Chapter 214: The Swamp
About 30,000 feet deep, the underground fire above level three is endless and extremely dangerous.
Chen Yu could clearly sense that he could burn the puppet to ashes even by just getting close, without actually making contact.
And generally speaking, this area is located in a barren area with no spiritual energy or spiritual objects, and has no use other than wasting mana.
Chen Yu casually cast a spell to open up a cave and poured out all the ore in the storage bag.
There are a total of sixteen cubic meters, with no other accompanying spiritual gold mines, and the content is about 0.2%.
The flames in his palm surged, quickly baking the ore into liquid.
The magic power captures the spiritual gold in it, and the slag turns into powder and dissipates into nothingness.
Underground fire is the fire that Chen Yu uses most often now, and it has the most violent momentum.
As one of the important elements between heaven and earth, the seemingly ordinary earth fire has an extremely high growth limit.
In just two hours, a large amount of ore was refined into two pieces of metal material, each one foot square.
The originally green ore actually changed color, and the yellow spiritual gold was tinged with a noble purple.
This third-level spiritual gold is called Ziyang Copper, and is most suitable for refining magical tools such as alchemy furnaces.
Adding a small amount of it to the spiritual weapons used in the Foundation Establishment Period can also greatly enhance the power of the attack and its quality.
Although it is more common than Yi Mu Ling Jin, it is also an extremely rare material.
As for the value, it can be said that no Jindan cultivator is willing to give it up for the sake of spirit stones.
The only example was seventy years ago, when a Qi-refining cultivator offered a piece of purple Yang copper less than half an inch in size.
It was bought by the Foundation Establishment Master of the Fang family for six hundred spirit stones, so it has little reference value.
Chen Yu put the spiritual gold into the storage bag, and when he raised his hand, the cave returned to its original state.
On the southern foot of Luohun Mountain lives the Fang family, a family of immortal cultivators, which has two foundation-building masters.
One is in the middle stage of foundation building, and the other is in the early stage of foundation building.
There are as many as four hundred monks in the clan, and they control thirteen secular dynasties.
Chen Yu came here because the Fang family’s residence was right at the entrance to a small secret realm.
This peak is called Yuying Peak, which is 7,900 feet high and is the highest peak in the southern part of Luohun Mountains.
There is a branch of the spiritual vein underground, which is not small in size.
The natural spiritual formation guarding the secret realm was ranked as upper-grade second-level, and the Fang family's protective formation was also of mid-grade second-level.
It is said that the sect that the ancestor of the Fang family came from is famous for its formation art, and today I see that it is indeed true.
This formation is attached to the natural spirit formation, but due to the spirit stone issue, it is not activated all year round.
There are many differences between natural spirit formations and formations arranged by cultivators. One of the differences is that natural spirit formations use the spiritual energy in the spirit veins as their power source.
However, most array masters cannot do this and can only use the spiritual energy of spirit stones or the array base itself. The more they use, the less they have.
Even if the formation has the effect of gathering spirits, the gathered spiritual energy will only float around in the outside world and cannot be absorbed by the formation base.
As the spirit puppet approached the Fang family's residence, it could see a small number of cultivators coming and going in a hurry.
The number of cultivators who went out to hunt monsters and those who practiced in caves accounted for almost half each.
Cultivation requires the combination of movement and stillness, and when one is extremely still, one will want to move.
Through meditation and hard practice, you can refine the spiritual energy for your own use, and then you can use the increased spiritual power at your will.
Only by hunting monsters and casting spells can one accurately see what is wrong with one's own practice.
The value of what you gain from monster hunting varies from person to person.
The spirit puppet adjusted his cultivation to the early stage of the golden elixir, and then swaggered onto the Fang family's fairy mountain.
At the foot of the mountain there is a market run by the Fang family, which is much smaller than the Yanchi Mountain Market.
Because it is hosted by a single immortal cultivation family, no cultivator would dare to sell precious spiritual objects here, no matter how good its reputation is.
Most of the people who run shops or set up stalls here are small immortal cultivation families that have good relations with the Fang family.
In addition to the cultivators in the late Qi Refining stage in the shops in the market town, the Fang family also dispatched a cultivator in the ninth level of Qi Refining to guard the shops.
But most of the time it is just a decoration, as the foundation-building ancestor is on the top of the mountain.
In case something happens, with the cultivation level of the Foundation Establishment Stage, it would only take a dozen breaths for him to arrive after receiving the message.
The spirit puppet wandered around the market town but gained nothing.
But he had long been accustomed to it and turned into a stream of light and flew to the top of the mountain.
On the mountainside, low-level monks were tending to the spiritual fields.
The cultivation levels of these Fang family disciples are all at the second or third level of Qi Refining, and they do not have enough strength to venture into the mountains and forests.
The spiritual grain grown was of medium quality, first grade, and Chen Yu also collected it in his space.
It was only because he already had the second-level spiritual valleys as test subjects, and these were just randomly thrown into the ordinary area for the monsters to take care of.
The ancestor of the Fang family was drawing a talisman and was unaware of the spirit puppet passing by.
The talisman beads he used were produced inside the mountain and were ranked as the lower second grade.
This talisman bead is the size of a pigeon egg, round and full, and as crystal clear as jade.
The Fang family's ancestor, who was in the middle stage of foundation building, carefully used his true energy to carve runes on it, preparing to seal a Gengjin spell in it.
Chen Yu first came to the Fang family's spiritual medicine garden halfway up the mountain, where a considerable number of spiritual medicines were planted.
However, the herbs that can be grown here are generally common spiritual herbs, which are widely cultivated in the world of immortal cultivation.
The spirit puppet ultimately only found two variants, both of which were mid-grade first-grade spirit plants.
As a foundation-building family, the Fang family has many industries.
Apart from a small market town at the foot of the mountain, the main business is raising various monsters.
Secondly, he is famous for making talismans within a radius of 100,000 miles, and the materials for making talismans are also closely related to the breeding of monsters.
For some low-level talismans, the raw materials for drawing the talismans do not require the essence and blood of monsters.
For example, a first-grade mid-quality talisman can be made with the ordinary blood of a monster in the late stage of Qi Refining.
Although the quality is slightly reduced in this way, the resulting lower price makes the talismans more popular among casual practitioners.
When the spirit puppet passed by, he saw a cultivator carrying a large bunch of plants that were rich in spiritual energy but had not yet reached the highest quality level to feed the monster.
The Fang family is located on a branch of a spiritual vein, and there are many such plants.
To ordinary innate warriors, these monster feeds are comparable to fifty-year-old herbs.
Although it is not a rare treasure, taking it regularly can quickly increase your cultivation.
The spirit puppet stepped into the formation, and before him was a small cave with a radius of seventeen miles.
Because this natural spiritual formation is located on the top of a mountain, its area is not large.
The middle part is prominent and uplifted, 280 feet high.
The energy of Wu Earth in the formation is quite heavy, and those who enter the formation will be subjected to infinite force.
The more spiritual power is used to resist, the more this force increases rapidly, and it can crush a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building to the point of complete destruction of both body and soul.
Even a cultivator in the late foundation-building stage would find it difficult to move in the formation and would have to retreat within a quarter of an hour.
There were no living creatures in the secret realm, only a few skeletons scattered around.
The monks of Fang family regard it as a forbidden area, and only a few monks who have committed serious mistakes will be thrown in.
The skeletons had been here for hundreds of years, but there were only six of them.
However, there are many cultivators practicing outside the formation, and the small amount of earth energy overflowing from the formation is beneficial to improving the strength of the physical body.
Another foundation-building cultivator from the Fang family is also here, with a bone age of 140 years old.
According to the clan ranking, he is still the great-grandson of the ancestor of the Fang family.
The spirit puppet has the strength of a golden elixir and will not be damaged even if a large formation is activated.
However, seeing so many people practicing, he was too lazy to disturb them and did not emit any spiritual energy fluctuations.
There are two earth-based spiritual objects in the secret realm, one of which is the second-grade top-grade Wu Earth Essence. Absorbing it is beneficial to the physical strength of the foundation-building cultivator.
The second is a pecan-sized stone that looks ordinary.
It has only one characteristic, which is hardness.
It is also ranked as the second-class upper grade, but it requires the spirit puppet to use its magic power to crush it.
Apart from that, there are some common first-level spiritual objects that have no collection value.
The spirit puppet came down the mountain two hours later, just in time to see the ancestor of the Fang family finish engraving the talisman.
The talisman bead flashed with light, and the real person who looked like an old man was very happy.
The value of a second-level, lower-grade talisman bead ranged from fifty to seventy spirit stones, and immediately tripled after engraving.
It contains the full-strength attack of an early foundation-building cultivator. Even in a fight between middle-stage foundation-building cultivators, a sudden outburst would be a huge variable.
It took him less than three hours to successfully refine it, and his skills in talisman making were further improved.
The spirit puppet rode on auspicious clouds and flew to another mountain.
After several months, he had searched almost the entire Luohun Mountains from top to bottom.
Although there are no longer any big harvests, new species of spiritual plants can be discovered from time to time.
Finally, even spiritual plants were no longer rare, so Chen Yu traveled northward around the swamp.
After traveling for 600,000 miles, I didn't see any mountain as majestic as Yanchi Mountain. Instead, there were hills of all sizes rising one after another.
There live many human tribes that are still in the barbaric era, practicing simple and rough martial arts.
At the same time, they worship witchcraft and believe in different barbarian gods.
Because the human race is rare, there is only one foundation-building sect within a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles.
The sect is also quite distinctive, with controlling monsters as an important means of cultivation.
There are three people in the sect who have established their foundation, and one of them is the great demon who protects the mountain.
The east bank of Leiyangze is a swampy area, which has always been a restricted area for cultivators.
There is a strange fog everywhere in the swamp, which can make the spiritual consciousness seem to be trapped in the quagmire.
Monks who are not familiar with this place may easily be attacked by the monsters in the swamp if they are not careful.
Because there is very little accurate information about this place, all that is circulated are some groundless legends.
Some monks swore that there was a lair of evil monks in the swamp, who devoured souls and did all kinds of evil.
It is also rumored that the evil cultivators are not only willing to associate with monsters, but also sell themselves as servants in exchange for powerful strength.