This was a solitary peak. The lower half of the mountain was composed of rock, while the middle section and above were covered in low shrubbery. The very top was hidden within a layer of red clouds.
Zhang Ling went directly to the summit and stopped in front of a bare rock face.
He looked around, then took out a crimson token. This was the Fire Cloud Island token. He cast several spells onto it, and the token flashed with spiritual light, shooting a beam of light into the rock face.
With a rumble, the rock face split open, revealing a dark tunnel.
His eyes gleaming, he sent his divine sense along the stone tunnel to investigate.
After a dozen or so breaths, Zhang Ling waved his hand, and two moonstones flew into the tunnel first. He then stepped inside.
Inside the Fire Cloud Island cave dwelling, Zhang Ling observed the facilities. It seemed to be a natural cave.
He passed through a short stone passage and entered the interior. The first thing he saw was a stone pavilion about twenty or thirty zhang wide. As soon as he entered, a rich spiritual energy rushed towards him.
Zhang Ling took a breath and couldn't help but sigh. As expected, the concentration of spiritual energy was incomparable to the previous cave dwellings.
Even the leaked spiritual energy was comparable to a low-grade spiritual vein.
His gaze then fell on a certain spot. There was a deep, clear spring, constantly bubbling with water, looking like a small well.
But at a glance, Zhang Ling knew that this was the source of the spiritual vein in this place. This seemed to be a springhead. Judging by the spiritual energy, could it be a small spiritual spring?
Zhang Ling stretched out his hand, and a stream of water was drawn to his eyes. After carefully sensing it, Zhang Ling shook his head. It seemed that he was really daydreaming.
Although the water in the spiritual spring also contained spiritual power, it was not enough to be called a spiritual spring eye. If it were nurtured for thousands of years, it might become a complete spiritual spring eye.
A 'spiritual spring eye' was not an ordinary thing. This was a spiritual object that could only be nurtured by a medium-grade or higher spiritual vein. It was a companion creature of the spiritual vein.
There was a high-grade spiritual vein in Myriad Manifestation City, located on the giant mountain, and the spiritual vein within nurtured several spiritual spring eyes.
The spiritual energy between heaven and earth was not evenly distributed. Some places were rich, and some places were thin. Over time, in places with heavy spiritual energy, spiritual veins of varying sizes would form.
Spiritual veins varied in size, possibly covering tens of thousands of miles, stretching endlessly.
Like the spiritual vein in Myriad Manifestation City, only the spiritual vein on the giant mountain reached the high-grade level. But it was not small, and its radiation area was not only the giant mountain, but also thousands of miles around it.
Therefore, in addition to the giant mountain, there were more than a dozen places in the central area of Myriad Manifestation City where medium-grade spiritual veins were born.
Small spiritual veins may only be a few miles in size, narrow and pitiful. Like the current cave dwelling, the spiritual vein only covered a few miles in size.
But regardless of size, once a spiritual vein took shape, it would automatically emit spiritual energy, allowing the spiritual energy in a place to circulate endlessly.
Taking the entire spiritual vein as an example, the spiritual energy produced was also different. The densest location was the most suitable for cultivation, and it was also where spiritual spring eyes were mostly born.
The so-called spiritual spring eye was not a spring eye, and its shape was uncertain. The spiritual eyes formed by different spiritual veins were also different, some were invisible and colorless, and some were tangible.
Spiritual spring eyes were the most common spiritual eye objects.
In addition, there were spiritual eye trees, spiritual eye stones, etc. It was said that there were also some special spiritual objects. Their uses were even more different.
However, once spiritual energy became so rich that it produced spiritual eye objects, it represented an excellent place for cultivation.
Spiritual eye objects were very rare. They could only be formed after tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years of evolution.
Cultivating near them definitely had the miraculous effect of accelerating cultivation speed. The best spiritual eye objects could even accelerate cultivation speed by 50 to 60%.
It might not seem like much, but it was continuous. Others would take a hundred years to break through a realm. In a place with sufficient spiritual energy, it would take sixty or seventy years to break through a realm.
There were still thirty or forty years of remaining time, which might be the reason to determine whether a cultivator could break through again.
Time was very important to every cultivator. Cultivators cultivated desperately in order to live longer.
In addition to being rich in spiritual energy, spiritual eye objects could also be taken away by cultivators. Carrying this object with you, no matter where you went, was equivalent to carrying a medium-grade spiritual vein at the lowest.
But this kind of strange object could only be taken away by Nascent Soul level cultivators. It was said that a kind of forbidden technique had to be used to forcibly separate the spiritual eye object and the spiritual vein from the earth vein.
Once this object appeared, it often caused fights among cultivators, driving them crazy! Every time a spiritual eye object appeared, it would cause a bloody storm in the local cultivation world!
This kind of strange object was generally only owned by large forces and sects, and the owners were not small characters, they all had Nascent Soul stage cultivation.
Zhang Ling looked at the spiritual spring in the cave dwelling. Although this spiritual spring was not a real spiritual spring eye, it was better than an ordinary medium-grade spiritual vein.
Apart from being a little small, there were basically no shortcomings. Cultivating here would also allow him to better condense his golden core.
Afterwards, Zhang Ling went to the several stone houses in the cave dwelling and investigated them. Although they were a bit old, they had everything they should have. There was not only a quiet room for cultivation, but also two beast control rooms and half an acre of spiritual medicine field.
It was unknown whether these were opened up by the previous generation of cultivators or by Myriad Star City.
Zhang Ling was very satisfied with the cave dwelling.
But the protection of the cave dwelling was only a simple illusion array, and a small spirit gathering array in the quiet room. These protections were naturally not enough. He still had to solve them himself.
……
On the second night after arriving at Fire Cloud Island.
Zhang Ling stood on the other side of the mountain peak. He released several strands of earth spiritual power, and these spiritual powers sank into the rock wall in front of him, forming a layer of yellow mist on the mountain wall.
Under the action of spiritual power, the rock walls within a range of more than ten zhang nearby were changing. In some places on the mountain wall, rocks of varying sizes protruded, and in other places, they continued to shrink, making the stone wall smooth and bright.
After half an hour, Zhang Ling took a deep breath and stopped casting spells. Under his changes, the hundred-zhang-long stone wall became a bit uneven.
Then Zhang Ling patted his storage bag, and a small gray cloth bag appeared in his hand, which contained some ordinary plant seeds. He scattered these seeds directly on the front stone wall.
After doing this, Zhang Ling sat cross-legged on the spot and began to meditate and cultivate.
Not long after, Zhang Ling suddenly opened his eyes, holding a small earthen yellow bead in his hand.
With a flash of spiritual power in his hand, a layer of thin ice on the small bead instantly turned into some transparent liquid. The liquid floated in Zhang Ling's palm.
This liquid was the biggest secret of the mysterious small bead. Zhang Ling first put away the small bead, and then held the liquid in one hand, and sprinkled it very evenly on the bare mountain wall.
