"My master, Longxi, although a prince of the Dragon Marsh Kingdom, was an abandoned son. He was once used as a medicinal ingredient by the then-ruler of Dragon Marsh to refine bloodline pills. He barely escaped with his life..., and this is also somewhat related to my master's mother's family. My master's birth mother was a U-Phoenix Bird with the bloodline of a Heavenly Phoenix. The Dragon Marsh ruler wanted to break through to a higher realm and set his sights on the Heavenly Phoenix bloodline within the U-Phoenix's body, which led to the so-called Prince Longxi."
Although the Flame Hoof Beast was unwilling to speak of his master's shameful past, after thousands of years, he grunted a few times and still told Zhang Ling some of his master's past.
After listening, Zhang Ling was slightly surprised. It turned out that the words 'Feng Ling' on the other gold token were the name of the Dragon Phoenix Fairy's birth mother.
Even more astonishing was that the Dragon Phoenix Fairy was not the daughter he imagined, but possessed an extremely special constitution, the Dragon Phoenix Dual Spirit Body. Her gender could be freely changed, and she simultaneously possessed the bloodlines of two true spirits, the True Dragon and the Heavenly Phoenix.
Dragon Phoenix Dual Spirit Body, Zhang Ling had never heard of it, but the Dragon Phoenix Fairy was a half-demon, and such heterogeneities could not be judged by common sense. Perhaps it was because of the existence of two true spirit bloodlines in her body that a mutation occurred.
In fact, there were techniques in the cultivation world that could transform gender. It is said that the Joyful Union Sect had a Yin-Yang Reversal Technique that could allow cultivators to change gender.
There were also some techniques that, before a child was born, could change gender in the womb through secret arts, thus giving birth to some special spiritual bodies.
Such secret techniques were generally very strange and had some hidden dangers, so ordinary cultivators would not practice them.
From this, Zhang Ling also learned that the Dragon Marsh Kingdom, where the Dragon Phoenix Fairy was born, was an extremely powerful existence in the Eastern Region cultivation world, with ambitions to unify the Eastern Region cultivation world.
The Dragon Marsh Kingdom was so powerful, and this was inseparable from its royal family. It was rumored that the royal family of the Dragon Marsh Kingdom were not ordinary cultivators, but a cultivation family that had once obtained the bloodline of a True Dragon, and their strength soared in a certain period, establishing the Immortal Kingdom.
Such a cultivation family with the bloodline of a True Spirit reminded Zhang Ling of something. Previously, after Blue雀 learned about the demon refining techniques from the Flowing Cloud Sea, she said that there was a group of demon cultivators among the human race in the Spirit World.
Among the demon cultivators, some people had, by chance, obtained the bloodline of a True Spirit and used secret methods to propagate the bloodline, thus giving rise to True Spirit Families.
True Spirits were top-tier existences in the Spirit World and the Ancient Demon World. Their strength was at least comparable to the Great Ascension stage, and the powerful ones were no weaker than True Immortals. They traveled through various interfaces, lived freely in the world, and their lifespan was extremely long, calculated in millions of years.
The True Dragon was the top-tier True Spirit. Even the Flood Dragon clan, which possessed a trace of the True Dragon bloodline, could be considered a heaven and earth exotic beast. Their strength was much stronger than ordinary demon clans.
If human cultivators refined the True Spirit bloodline, not to mention anything else, their cultivation aptitude would greatly change, thus giving rise to many strong individuals.
In this way, the royal family of the Dragon Marsh Kingdom might be such a True Spirit Family.
After learning this information, Zhang Ling also exclaimed in surprise. He did not expect that there were True Spirit Families in the human world, which aroused his desire to travel and explore.
Afterwards, the Flame Hoof Beast revealed the incantation to control the gold token. Zhang Ling's hand gestures changed, and he shot out streams of spiritual light into the gold token engraved with 'Feng Ling'.
This gold token emitted a burst of dragon roars and phoenix cries, and a golden light emerged from it, shooting towards the cyan-red restriction on the tall pavilion in front.
Immediately, a gate of light was opened. The Flame Hoof Beast immediately walked in. Zhang Ling released his divine sense to scan and also entered.
This pavilion was the Dragon Phoenix Fairy's cave dwelling.
According to the Flame Hoof, the original cultivation cave dwelling in the Dragon Phoenix Diagram was the magnificent palace complex opposite the Heavenly Pool. However, his master was unwilling to stay there.
Therefore, he moved a pavilion to the center of the water and used it as a cultivation place.
Entering the first floor of the pavilion, the interior was decorated very simply. Apart from some old square tables, screens, and other sundries, there was nothing of value. Then, the second and third floors were the same, seemingly all for storing sundries.
However, upon reaching the fourth floor, Zhang Ling's eyes lit up. The fourth floor of the pavilion had only one large room, which contained many rows of wooden shelves, most of which were filled with books, jade slips, and other items. It looked like a study.
"This is where my master previously collected many cultivation techniques and classics." The Flame Hoof Beast did not care and casually said as he went to the fifth floor.
Zhang Ling smiled and followed, but he was very interested in these cultivation technique jade slips. He would have to carefully check them later.
The fifth floor was bathed in golden light, with many light clusters floating inside. Upon closer inspection, they were many magical treasures and other items. Among them, some were highly spiritual and freely shuttled in the air.
Zhang Ling was naturally more interested. He shook the jade token in his hand, and he easily passed through the golden light. With a wave of his hand, a snake-shaped flying knife fell into his hand.
The flying knife was an inch long, surrounded by a layer of black light. Spiritual power was injected into it, and the light suddenly shone brightly. This treasure transformed into a black snake, quickly shuttling in front of him.
He immediately recognized that this was an ancient treasure, and its power seemed to be quite good.
The Flame Hoof Beast, who was following beside him, snorted disdainfully. "These are all things that my master doesn't like."
"Hehe, is that so." Zhang Ling smiled indifferently and grabbed a white jade hammer, carefully examining it.
After a while, he checked more than a dozen treasures. These were all magical treasures and ancient treasures, totaling seventy or eighty items.
Although some of them were obviously spoils of war, with dim spiritual light and damage, so many magical treasures were still a windfall just to exchange for spirit stones.
Among them, there were several ancient treasures with decent power, and Zhang Ling directly put them into his storage bag.
As for the remaining magical treasures and ordinary ancient treasures, Zhang Ling did not collect them. These were of no great use to him and could only be used to exchange for spirit stones.
Of course, another reason was to leave a good impression on the Flame Hoof Beast and extract more information about the Eastern Region cultivation world from this beast.
Seeing that he had only collected a few treasures, the Flame Hoof Beast's original angry look relaxed a lot.
The sixth floor, which was higher up, also contained many things, but after checking, Zhang Ling found that they were only materials left over from refining tools, with little value.
Finally, the seventh floor was a simple cultivation quiet room. Apart from a spirit gathering formation, there seemed to be nothing else.
The Flame Hoof Beast immediately urged, "We have finished looking at my master's cave dwelling, we should leave this place. There is still a tenth-order demon beast behind us, it won't be easy to leave safely."
Zhang Ling did not reply, and with a flash, he entered the cultivation quiet room and looked at the right side of the wall in front of him.
On this wall was engraved a huge mural, a golden dragon coiled in the clouds, seemingly overlooking all living beings. Below the clouds was a sea area, with many ferocious demon beasts fighting each other.
When he scanned with his divine sense just now, a wisp of divine sense power was swallowed by the mural, this mural was obviously not ordinary.
His gaze fell on the mural and he carefully examined it. Suddenly, Zhang Ling's eyes blurred, and in an instant, he appeared on the sea surface.
Rumbling sounds were loud, a black Flood Dragon and a giant tortoise were fighting in front of him. The giant tortoise was covered in flames, and a piece of firelight spurted out of his mouth, attacking the black Flood Dragon with amazing momentum. The black Flood Dragon jumped out of the water, setting off thousands of giant waves.
Looking to the left, in a flash of lightning, a red giant bird covered in lightning was fighting a strange fish covered in black thorns.
There were also bursts of rumbling sounds coming from all directions. It looked like he was in a dangerous sea area.
Zhang Ling naturally knew that the scene that suddenly appeared in front of him was just an illusion. It was the scene in the mural he had just seen.
At this time, a earth-shattering dragon roar came from the sky.
Zhang Ling couldn't help but look up, the clouds above were churning, and suddenly golden light shone brightly, a golden glow shone on this illusionary sea area.
Immediately, those demon beasts who were fighting seemed to sense something and looked up to the sky.
A coiling and dancing golden dragon probed out from the clouds. A terrifying aura instantly pressed down on the top of his head.
Although Zhang Ling knew that this was an illusion, his body couldn't help but stiffen. The golden light in front of him was dazzling, as if he was in ten thousand golden glows.
Bursts of dragon roars entered his ears, shaking people's souls.
Zhang Ling immediately circulated the Nine Yuan Refining Divine Art to offset this discomfort. Narrowing his eyes slightly, he broke away from the illusion.
"I didn't expect you to break away from the Dragon Viewing Diagram in an instant, it seems that your divine sense power is stronger than a tenth-order great demon." The Flame Hoof Beast's voice was immediately heard in his ear.
Zhang Ling asked with an unchanged expression. "What is the meaning of this diagram."
"Hehe, this Dragon Viewing Diagram is said to have been created by the old ancestor of the Dragon family, where the master is located, who had actually seen a True Dragon, using his own divine sense power. It is said that the Dragon family ancestor's strength had reached the late stage of Divine Transformation and ascended to the Spirit World. Of course, the one in front of you is not the original version. It's just a copy made with a secret method." The Flame Hoof Beast shook his head and said.
Zhang Ling stared at the mural in front of him with flickering eyes, although he no longer fell into the illusion. But the feeling just now was very real, giving him a sense of immersion.
He was actually very familiar with this feeling. He practiced the Nine Yuan Refining Divine Art, and the Refining Divine Diagram in his hand also had similar illusions.
He often used this to exercise his divine sense power, which allowed him to break away from the illusion all at once.
After checking the seven-story pavilion, Zhang Ling retreated and looked at the white jade bamboo forest and said. "Let's go, let's go and see the several medicinal fields just now."
The spiritual energy on this mountaintop was abundant, and when he came up, he sensed that there were still several spiritual medicine fields opened up in the mountain.
The Flame Hoof Beast did not object to this. Crossing the bamboo forest, he saw more than ten acres of medicinal fields, and there were also several bamboo houses next to them.
There was naturally also a layer of white mist restriction here, but fortunately, he had the gold token in his hand, which could easily break the restriction.
There were many rare spiritual medicines in the medicinal field, including several fourth and fifth-grade spiritual medicines that Zhang Ling had not collected.
A fifth-grade crimson flower, Blood Essence Grass, this was an extremely precious spiritual flower for replenishing qi and blood, and could be used to refine Blood Essence Pills. This was a top-grade body refining elixir. It could also be used to refine holy medicine for healing.
Unexpectedly, there were also some poisonous herbs among them. The fourth-grade Monkshood, Red and White Poisonous Mushrooms, and Bi You Vine all had strong toxicity.
However, after checking, Zhang Ling noticed that the age of these rare spiritual medicines was mostly no more than a thousand years.
After inquiring, it turned out that the Flame Hoof Beast would come in and devour them every once in a while. According to this guy, these poisonous herbs were also used by his master in the process of body refining.
When Zhang Ling walked to the most central medicinal field, he found a strange small tree. Next to this small tree was also a black well, which was emitting clusters of golden light.
These golden lights formed a layer of light mist, covering the small tree.
Zhang Ling took a closer look, the small tree was only two zhang high, but it was extremely thick. The whole body was golden and red, the bark was actually in the shape of dragon scales, and the leaves that grew out were also very similar to dragon scales.
Scanning with his divine sense, he could find that among those dragon scale-shaped leaves, there were seven or eight fist-sized fruits hidden. These fruits were also covered with light red scales, which looked very hard.
Searching in his mind for the spiritual medicine knowledge he knew, Zhang Ling actually did not recognize what kind of spiritual fruit this was. He often collected various spiritual medicine classics, and in this respect, he definitely surpassed other cultivators. He actually did not recognize what kind of spiritual fruit covered with scales this was.
The only thing similar was a third-grade Snake Scale Fruit, the Snake Scale Fruit exuded a strong fishy smell, and the color was also jet black. It was extremely dissimilar to the spiritual fruit in front of him.
"What kind of spiritual fruit is this."
The Flame Hoof Beast raised his head and snorted, "This is the Blood Flood Dragon Spirit Fruit cultivated by the Dragon family. This kind of spiritual fruit needs to be watered with the essence and blood of a Flood Dragon to mature, and it is a body refining holy medicine.
The one in front of you has not been watered with the essence and blood of a Flood Dragon for hundreds of years. The last watering was three hundred years ago, when I killed two seventh-order Blue Flood Dragons to ripen it once. But the bloodline of those two Blue Flood Dragons was too poor, and it could not make this Blood Flood Dragon Spirit Fruit mature at all. Now the semi-finished fruits condensed on it have too little medicinal power and are of no great use.
Originally, I have also been searching for demon beasts with the bloodline of a Flood Dragon during this period of time. If there are mature Blood Flood Dragon Spirit Fruits, my strength can be greatly enhanced. I might not have been captured by the tenth-order Black Elephant Demon King, and now I have fallen into your hands again." The Flame Hoof Beast said, becoming angry.
Zhang Ling looked at the scale-covered small tree in front of him, "Blood Flood Dragon Fruit." This kind of spiritual fruit that requires special conditions to mature is mostly a precious variety.
I wonder if my mysterious treasure bead can catalyze this spiritual fruit. He thought in his heart.
After pondering for a moment, Zhang Ling smiled, "Now we should go out, let's talk after we are really safe."
The Flame Hoof Beast naturally would not object. This beast raised his head and let out a cry. The sound was loud and traveled extremely far.
Immediately, the water well next to it, which was emitting golden light, splashed, and a stream of water spurted out, and the golden scale fish swam out of it.
The Flame Hoof Beast cried strangely again, and this weapon spirit immediately circled in the air, releasing a golden light. Strands of golden spiritual energy gathered into a vague golden light gate.
A wisp of Zhang Ling's divine sense swept over, and he immediately sensed the aura of the Black Tortoise outside, obviously the light gate was connected to the outside.
Passing through the light gate, he walked out of this space treasure and arrived outside.
