One day, in a certain temporary cave dwelling, Zhang Ling was sitting in meditation, cultivating.
A little bit of cyan-green fluorescence floated from his body, and at the same time, a layer of blood light appeared on the surface of his body.
The cyan-green spiritual light and blood light continued to intertwine, turning into strands of special spiritual energy, constantly gathering above his head, and rotating into a hazy spiritual energy vortex.
This scene lasted for an unknown amount of time, when suddenly the spiritual energy vortex condensed into dense, blood-colored runes that rushed into his body. Instantly, a dazzling blood light bloomed from Zhang Ling's body.
Layers of blood light radiated outward like waves. Zhang Ling suddenly opened his eyes, which were also full of blood light, making him look very eerie.
Thumping, thumping, strange sounds came from his body, and Zhang Ling's body swelled up several circles in an instant, as if something inside him was about to burst out.
At this moment, the corner of Zhang Ling's mouth curled up, and dense blood-colored threads floated from his body. His head of black hair also moved without wind, all floating up and transforming into blood red.
Moreover, they grew rapidly. Silently, this cultivation chamber was filled with countless dancing blood hairs.
"The Lapis Lazuli Demon Body has finally made a breakthrough. With the help of the parasitic vines in my body, I can also use the Demon Transformation Secret Technique," Zhang Ling's low voice came out, with a hint of joy in his tone.
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Half a month later, in a certain cloudy sky, a light yellow escape light sped by. In the distance, on the plain, a magnificent giant city could be vaguely seen.
"Blue Night City," Zhang Ling smiled and flew straight towards it.
This immortal city is not as large as the Jade Dragon City and other immortal cities of the Dragon Marsh Kingdom that he had visited before, but it is quite unique, because this city is located in a bizarre black flower bush.
The black flowers are everywhere around, the short ones are three zhang high, and the stout ones are as high as a hundred zhang, covered with many light blue bulges, more like giant trees.
This spiritual plant is called the Half-Moon Flower. It has such a strange name for a special reason: every half month, the Half-Moon Flower blooms at midnight, releasing a dazzling ghostly blue spiritual light. It is said that at that time, the entire immortal city and the surrounding hundred-mile area will be rendered in a blue glow, which can be regarded as a spectacle.
However, every time the Half-Moon Flower blooms, the released spiritual light will carry a weak evil aura. If mortals absorb a little, they will feel dizzy, their bodies will be greatly affected, and they may even fall into madness, with the danger of losing their lives.
It also has a certain impact on low-level cultivators.
For this reason, there are no mortals in Blue Night City. There are no mortals gathered in the surrounding ten thousand miles.
Speaking of which, this place is located in the Earth Spirit Prefecture, one of the seventy-two prefectures of the Dragon Marsh Kingdom, located in the hinterland of the Dragon Marsh Kingdom. The area is small, ranking last, but its reputation is not small.
Blue Night City is where a large number of demonic cultivators gather in the Dragon Marsh Kingdom, because this city is built on a Nether Fiend Earth Vein, and the Half-Moon Flower can grow by being nourished by the Fiend Qi of the earth vein.
Zhang Ling has come here now also for the Fiend Qi. Originally, he did not intend to come here, but plans could not keep up with changes.
Not long ago, his concurrently cultivated Lapis Lazuli Demon Body made a breakthrough, which was originally a happy thing, but then a problem occurred during the cultivation process.
The Fiend Qi on his body became unbalanced. Although it was not very serious, it could not be ignored.
Calculating the time, nearly two years have passed since he left Jade Dragon City.
During this period, Zhang Ling has been traveling in the Dragon Marsh Kingdom, walking through most of it. A year ago, the Flame Hoof Beast consolidated its re-condensed demon core and separated from him.
Every time he went to an immortal city, he would inquire about the news of top-grade wood spirit stones and special cultivation resources. He traveled to many areas and also had a small amount of harvest.
Although the main cultivation technique was slow and there was no major progress.
But during this period, after he refined one of the eighth-order corpse pills he had obtained, the Lapis Lazuli Demon Body had become a small success.
However, what Zhang Ling did not expect was that after refining an eighth-order corpse pill, a rather stubborn corpse fiend qi was still accumulated in his body, which conflicted with the spiritual power he cultivated.
At first, Zhang Ling was startled by this matter. However, after carefully studying the Lapis Lazuli Demon Body technique, he found that this was an inevitable hurdle in the process of cultivating the Lapis Lazuli Demon Body.
This technique requires Fiend Qi to temper the flesh during the cultivation process. If you are steady and step-by-step, the Fiend Qi absorbed during the cultivation process will form a kind of blood fiend with your own Qi and blood, which is controlled by yourself and can also be transformed into several powerful magical powers.
However, he obtained top-notch auxiliary materials such as corpse pills, and absorbed too much corpse fiend qi in a short period of time, and his own blood fiend was too weak, which caused a problem.
With Zhang Ling's current strength, he can directly remove the corpse fiend qi in his body with his own spiritual power. However, doing so, the blood fiend produced by his cultivation of the Lapis Lazuli Demon Body will also be removed by a small half, causing him to lose a lot of vitality.
The best way is to refine the stubborn group of corpse fiend qi in his body by other methods.
Although this matter is a bit troublesome, it is not difficult. He has many Fiend Qi-related techniques, Fiend Demon Art, Lapis Lazuli Demon Body, Pluto Art, and Buddhist Vajra Art. There are solutions in these techniques.
After thinking again and again, Zhang Ling still chose a secret technique in the currently concurrently cultivated Lapis Lazuli Demon Body, Blood Fiend Divine Light.
This secret technique is originally a not weak magical power, and cultivation requires several kinds of Fiend Qi to assist. Corpse Fiend Qi is one of them.
As long as the cultivation is successful, the accumulated corpse fiend qi in the body will naturally be solved, and it can also be transformed into its own use.
Nether Fiend Earth Veins are rare in the world and belong to special spiritual veins. There are not many such places in the Eastern Region cultivation world. The released Nether Fiend Qi belongs to the middle-grade Yin Fiend, which is very suitable for the requirements of cultivating the Blood Fiend Divine Light.
Fortunately, during this period, he was traveling in the adjacent Ten Thousand Mountains Prefecture, which was not far from here. Zhang Ling naturally did not want to delay any longer and came directly to this place, intending to use the Nether Fiend Qi to cultivate. As long as he retreats for two or three months, he will be able to initially cultivate the Blood Fiend Divine Light, which is enough to solve the corpse fiend qi in his body.
After entering Blue Night City, Zhang Ling went straight to the central market in the city. To cultivate the Blood Fiend Divine Light, he also needed some auxiliary materials.
Before, in an immortal city in Ten Thousand Mountains Prefecture, the required materials had basically been collected, and only a few other blood fiend materials were missing.
Blue Night City gathers many demonic cultivators, so it is not difficult to collect these materials.
Walking on the main road of the market, there were not many cultivators coming and going, and they were all in a hurry. At a glance, their cultivation bases were not low, and the lowest were in the late stage of Foundation Establishment.
Quietly releasing his spiritual consciousness, Zhang Ling sensed that most of the high-level cultivators gathered here, and there were also several Nascent Soul cultivators guarding the city.
Blue Night City does not have the Imperial Academy stationed there. It is said that it is actually controlled by a demonic sect, the Moon Night Gate. It is one of the few sect forces in the Dragon Marsh Kingdom.
The entire Earth Spirit Prefecture naturally has an Imperial Academy established to control this area, but it is not established in this immortal city.
The location is not far from Blue Night City, just on White Moon Mountain, a spiritual vein thousands of miles away. It is called the Cold Moon Academy. It is said that there are always twenty Nascent Soul cultivators stationed there.
As he released his spiritual consciousness, after a while, Zhang Ling found the largest merchant in this market, Blue Night Tower.
It was a nine-story pavilion, built entirely of huge black stones. There were also two black and ferocious demon beast statues standing in front of the door. It was very impressive.
In a short period of time, several cultivators with Golden Core strength entered and exited this place. Zhang Ling did not hide his cultivation, but transformed into a pale-faced man and walked in.
As soon as he entered, a beautiful female cultivator in a black dress immediately came over and asked with a smile. "Welcome, Fellow Daoist, I wonder what kind of treasure you need? As long as you can say the name, our Blue Night Tower will definitely satisfy you, Senior."
Zhang Ling glanced at the woman expressionlessly. Her cultivation was at the Foundation Establishment level, her voice was gentle, but her tone had a hint of arrogance.
Before he could answer, another woman's voice came. "Shui'er, don't be rude. I will receive this Senior."
A fragrant wind entered his nose, and a female cultivator in a purple dress came into view. This woman was plump and even more charming. She bowed and apologized. "This girl doesn't know the rules and may offend Senior. The first floor is all low-level items, and there are few things that Senior needs. Can Senior follow me to the upper private room for detailed discussion?"
Zhang Ling's expression did not change at all, he just nodded slightly. He followed the purple-skirted female cultivator to the upper floors.
Only the black-clothed female cultivator was left in place with a somewhat stunned expression. Looking at Zhang Ling's leaving back, she couldn't help shrinking her head.
"Manager Nan is in the late stage of Golden Core cultivation, but she personally greeted him. This person is actually an old monster whose strength has reached the Nascent Soul stage. I almost caused trouble." The woman couldn't help but secretly rejoice in her heart.
The Blue Night Tower is backed by the Moon Night Gate, which is the overlord here. These receptionists are also disciples of the sect. Therefore, they usually do not look at people's faces when they see Golden Core cultivators, and they have a bit of arrogance.
Therefore, the senior who came in just now, she thought he was just an ordinary Golden Core cultivator, so she had a bit of negligence. She did not expect to almost cause a disaster.
If she, a small disciple, offended an old Nascent Soul monster, she would probably not survive today.
At this time, an old man in a black robe came in at the door. Although he looked like he only had Foundation Establishment strength, the black-skirted woman quickly put away her thoughts and respectfully received him without daring to be negligent.
Zhang Ling was directly taken to the seventh floor, a classically decorated elegant room. After taking a seat, the purple-skirted female cultivator personally brewed him a pot of spiritual tea. "Senior, please taste it. This is Bi You Ling Guang, which is a top-grade tea with a lot of flavor. …"
The female cultivator was very talkative and chatted with him, intentionally or unintentionally trying to find out his origin. Zhang Ling was taciturn and casually dealt with a few sentences, then threw out a jade slip.
"The spiritual objects that this seat needs are recorded on it, and spirit stones are not a problem."
"This concubine dares not underestimate Senior's strength, I am only afraid that I cannot meet Senior's needs." The female cultivator knew better and did not talk too much, smilingly took the jade slip and glanced at it.
"The spiritual objects that Senior needs are precious and not easy to find in other places. This concubine here can basically meet Senior's requirements. It's just that Senior needs more than ten pieces of materials like Youguang Stone, and there are only four pieces in the tower."
"It doesn't matter." Zhang Ling snorted expressionlessly.
"Then Senior, please wait a moment, this concubine will go and allocate the materials."
Youguang Stone is a kind of spiritual mineral condensed by Fiend Qi. It should be easy to collect in this city. Unexpectedly, even a large shop could not collect it all at once.
However, there are several other large shops in the city. It should not be difficult to collect them all if he visits a few more.
Not long after, Zhang Ling spent nearly a million spirit stones to buy the things he needed and left Blue Night Tower. In the next half day, he visited several shops in a row.
But what he did not expect was that he still did not collect all the Youguang Stones he needed. In the end, he only collected eight pieces.
From a shop, Zhang Ling learned that the main reason was that a mysterious cultivator came to this city a year ago and took away a large number of Youguang Stones at a high price. This is why Youguang Stones have been in short supply during this period.
He could only smile helplessly at this situation.
However, even if he could not collect them all, it would not have much impact on him. He needed this thing only to set up a Fiend Qi gathering array to assist in cultivation.
Without the array to assist, cultivating the Blood Fiend Divine Light would at most take more time.
What Zhang Ling did not know was that after he left Blue Night Tower, the purple-skirted female cultivator who had received him earlier hurriedly went to the top floor and came to a small stone house to report the situation to a black-faced old man.
"Uncle Master, another Nascent Soul cultivator of unknown origin has come to collect Youguang Stones."
The black-faced old man was sitting cross-legged on a jade platform, closing his eyes to rest. Hearing the report, he narrowed his eyes and snorted. "Don't pay attention to him. He wants to use the Nether Fiend Qi here to cultivate. This person may have mid-Nascent Soul strength. Hehe, including him, there are more than ten old monsters gathered under Black Fiend Peak."
"Then will these cultivators affect the Great Elder's advancement?"
"Hmph, Senior Brother's Black Fiend Magic has extremely strong Fiend Qi attraction power. When the time comes, we will use the sect's formation to temporarily activate the Fiend Qi of Black Fiend Peak, which is enough to increase Senior Brother's chances of advancement. No matter how strong these old monsters are, even if they notice that the Fiend Qi suddenly weakens, they mostly come here to cultivate alone. They cannot interfere with the Nether Fiend Spiritual Vein.
The only thing is that the two Cold Moon Academy elders stationed on the mountain will have to be dealt with."
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After resting in the city for a day, Zhang Ling left Blue Night City and flew south all the way. After an incense stick, he saw a dark mountain peak.
From a distance, it was a solitary peak with very little vegetation and not a trace of green. There was also a layer of gray-black Qi lingering on it. A cloud of Yin Qi gathered at the top of the mountain and never dispersed.
The closer he got, the colder he felt.
This mountain is called Black Fiend Peak, and under the mountain is one of the two main spiritual veins derived from the Nether Fiend Earth Vein.
The other one is in Black Cloud Valley in the north. The earth vein there is stronger, but that is the resident of the Moon Night Gate, so naturally they will not let others enter and exit at will.
But Black Fiend Peak is open to the public.
It is jointly managed by the Moon Night Gate and the Cold Moon Academy. Any cultivator who comes here can enter the Nether Fiend Earth Vein to cultivate as long as they pay some spirit stones.
Just like the caves rented by loose cultivators in immortal cities.
