Let's talk about Zhang Ling. After returning to his cave, he did not enter a state of cultivation.
Instead, he took out some collected alchemy recipes, jade slips, and spiritual medicine atlases to study.
The You Sha earth vein here suddenly weakened. The Sha Qi(煞气: evil energy) at this moment is only about 30 to 40 percent of what it used to be. Although the old man in linen clothes said that this was a natural weakening of the spiritual vein and would recover soon.
Zhang Ling didn't know if this was true or false, but the Sha Qi(煞气: evil energy) here has become very unstable now.
The Blood Sha Divine Light he has been practicing these past few days is also at a critical juncture of coagulation. This situation is no longer suitable for blind cultivation.
Cultivating secret techniques is not something to rush in these few days.
It's better to wait for a while until the Sha Qi(煞气: evil energy) recovers to its original level before cultivating.
Moreover, in the past two years, he traveled extensively in the vast Longze Kingdom. He has traveled through more than a dozen state and prefecture regions. Whenever he arrives at a medium or large-scale immortal city, he collects some special spiritual objects from the Eastern Region cultivation world.
Especially specialty spiritual medicines and some alchemy recipes.
The Eastern Region cultivation world is prosperous. Some places even grow spiritual medicines that have become extinct in the Northern Plains cultivation world and the Flowing Cloud Sea. Among them, there are several that are rare holy medicines for Nascent Soul cultivators.
If there is a chance to collect them, it will be of great benefit to future cultivation.
In addition, the alchemy techniques here also have many unique insights. Moreover, Water Method Alchemy is also prevalent.
The so-called Water Method Alchemy is a relatively gentle alchemy technique. The alchemy steps are more complicated than ordinary methods using earth fire and the cultivator's true fire. The use of spiritual medicine materials is also more meticulous.
The elixirs refined by the Water Method have very few impurities and the quality of the elixirs is higher. Using this method, some cultivators have refined elixirs without any impurities.
The value of this kind of elixir can cross ranks, and the medicinal power is pure. It is extremely easy to absorb, and the medicinal power is powerful.
Even a first-grade elixir without impurities is worth as much as a third-grade elixir.
In the Eastern Region cultivation world, Foundation Establishment Pills are also the best elixirs for Qi Refining cultivators to break through bottlenecks.
More than a dozen alchemy recipes for Foundation Establishment Pills have been researched here. Among them, there is a Water Method refined Foundation Establishment Pill, which is said to give Qi Refining cultivators an 80 to 90 percent chance of successfully breaking through.
One pill can sell for 100,000 spiritual stones.
Zhang Ling asked himself that his alchemy skills were not bad. He had refined countless elixirs, but he had never refined this kind of spiritual elixir without any impurities.
Using earth fire and true fire to refine elixirs can also produce this kind of elixir, but the probability is lower.
He took the time to study Water Method Alchemy, not because he really wanted to improve his alchemy skills to a higher level, but to plan for his own cultivation.
During his travels, he also collected more than a dozen medicinal recipes circulating in the Eastern Region that assist Nascent Soul mid-stage cultivator in condensing spiritual power. He also collected a lot of corresponding spiritual medicine and spiritual grass materials.
Among them, there are two fifth-grade elixirs, Earth Yellow Pill and Golden Jade Pill. He has collected all the necessary materials and they are very suitable to assist his cultivation.
These two kinds of elixirs are very valuable and it is difficult to buy even a few in large markets.
Once these high-level elixirs hit the market, they are basically snatched up by Nascent Soul cultivators in an instant. Even if he is not short of spiritual stones, he cannot buy a few.
What's more, he is alone here without any power. Some intelligence on the news is inevitably lagging.
One of the purposes of his trip to the Eastern Region cultivation world was because he encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation and came here to find a breakthrough opportunity.
It has been more than thirty years since he broke through to the Nascent Soul mid-stage, and the elixirs he used for cultivation before now have more or less discounts in medicinal power and have developed a certain drug resistance.
These newly collected elixirs have naturally become the focus of refining.
The Earth Yellow Pill is fine, it can be refined with true fire. Zhang Ling can already refine it.
The Golden Jade Pill has a better effect, but it must be refined with Water Method Alchemy.
Therefore, Zhang Ling has been focusing on studying Water Method Alchemy recently whenever he has time.
So it was.
After waiting for a full half month, the You Sha spiritual vein under Black Sha Peak gradually returned to its original level.
Zhang Ling continued to enter a state of cultivation to condense the Blood Sha Divine Light.
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Two months later, in a stone cave, Zhang Ling was talking with one of the Nascent Soul cultivators guarding this place, the high-crowned cultivator surnamed Tao.
"Fellow Daoist Zhang, you have come out of seclusion so quickly. It seems that your cultivation is going quite smoothly."
"I am here only to need Sha Qi(煞气: evil energy) to assist in cultivating a small spell, it won't take long."
"I see."
Tao Zhang seemed to have expected Zhang Ling to say this and responded casually. This person took a sip of the spiritual tea on the table and then said, "Fellow Daoist came to find Tao, it seems that you plan to leave this place."
Zhang Ling smiled, "I do plan to leave. However, I heard earlier that this place also produces a kind of You Sha Stone. I am somewhat interested, I wonder if it can be sold to outsiders."
Hearing this, Tao Zhang's expression was startled. "Deep in the Sha Qi(煞气: evil energy) spiritual vein here, You Sha Stones have indeed been produced. But it can hardly be said to be abundant. Only one piece is produced every six or seven hundred years. Although You Sha Stone is a spiritual eye treasure similar to spiritual eye stones and spiritual eye jade. Wearing it on the body is like a small Sha Qi(煞气: evil energy) spring.
But Fellow Daoist also knows that Sha Qi(煞气: evil energy) is not ordinary spiritual Qi. Once it leaves this environment, it will quickly consume the Sha Qi(煞气: evil energy) on it. Taking a You Sha Stone to the outside world, the Sha Qi(煞气: evil energy) on it will be exhausted in as little as sixty or seventy years, and at most a hundred years. Fellow Daoist needs this thing, it is better to continue to stay here to cultivate."
Hearing this explanation, Zhang Ling's expression did not change in the slightest, and his tone was calm. "I need this thing for other purposes, not for cultivation."
Tao Zhang naturally would not easily believe this statement, but he did not mean to investigate it. His mind raced, and his eyes flashed as he said, "Fellow Daoist Zhang is interested in You Sha Stone. This thing is not impossible to sell, but this treasure is also of considerable value. As for the price..."
Before he could finish speaking, Zhang Ling interjected, "I happen to have a lot of spiritual stones with me, and it should not be a problem to exchange them for a few You Sha Stones."
A hint of joy flashed in Tao Zhang's eyes, and he immediately waved his hand and stood up. "Haha, since Fellow Daoist has said so. I have also guarded this place for many years, and I also have a few You Sha Stones that are useless to keep. It is also possible to exchange them with Fellow Daoist."
This person got up and said again that Zhang Ling should wait a moment, and then hurriedly left the stone room. It seems that he went to get the You Sha Stones.
Only Zhang Ling was left in the room. In these few months, he has initially successfully cultivated the Blood Sha Divine Light. He has no intention of staying here any longer.
And he wants to collect a few You Sha Stones, or to continue the role of cultivating the Blood Sha Divine Light later. As for whether he can cultivate the Blood Sha Divine Light to great success, Zhang Ling does not care too much.
Before long, Tao Zhang returned and took out three You Sha Stones.
You Sha Stones also have grades. Among the three that this person took out, one small fist-sized one is of high grade, and the other two can only be considered of medium grade.
Carrying a small high-grade You Sha Stone is equivalent to 60 to 70 percent of the Sha Qi(煞气: evil energy) concentration of the cave he rented here. The medium grade ones are barely satisfactory and not of great value.
According to this person, the best You Sha Stone is truly comparable to the spiritual eye stone produced by a top-grade spiritual vein.
And only two best You Sha Stones have been produced in this entire You Sha spiritual vein, and they are both enshrined on the main spiritual vein of the Moon Night Sect. It is the treasure of the Moon Night Sect.
Even so, one high-grade You Sha Stone and two medium-grade ones are still more valuable than Zhang Ling expected.
He spent three thousand-year-old fourth-grade spiritual herbs, plus more than two million spiritual stones, one of which was two thousand years old, to exchange for them.
But it can also be considered that each gets what he needs.
This person surnamed Tao was in a great mood, and with an attitude of regretting that they had not met sooner, he also pulled Zhang Ling to exchange cultivation insights for a while before reluctantly sending him out of Black Sha Peak in person.
"Brother Zhang, where are you planning to go next? I see that brother does not seem to be a Longze Kingdom cultivator. This old brother also traveled for a while in his early years and knows a few places that are rare spectacles for Nascent Soul cultivators like us..."
Walking along, Tao Zhang talked eloquently, introducing some special scenery of Longze Kingdom to Zhang Ling with great interest.
Outside the mountain, Zhang Ling glanced around, only to see a round of red sun slowly rising in the east, and thousands of golden rays dispelled part of the black Qi(黑气: black energy) from the Black Sha Seal here.
The time, it seems, is the time of sunrise.
Zhang Ling was about to say goodbye when he suddenly sensed a powerful divine sense sweeping over. His face sank, and his eyes looked to the southeast.
Tao Zhang, who was beside him, also seemed to sense something, and the words in his mouth also stopped abruptly.
After a while, the two saw a team of more than a dozen cultivators flying from there.
Those were more than a dozen cultivators wearing cyan-blue armor, holding pitch-black spears, like generals. These people were all late-stage Golden Core cultivators, and they were guarding a white jade flying car pulled by two huge Jiaolong/ flood dragon.
From a distance, they looked like heavenly soldiers descending to earth.
Seeing the decorations of those cultivators, Tao Zhang muttered in a solemn voice, " Zhenhai King, why is this person..."
His voice was very low, but Zhang Ling heard it clearly, and his eyes also shrank.
