The old man smiled and lightly flicked his sleeve to put away the spirit stones, and at the same time, with a flick of his hand, a wooden token appeared in front of Zhang Ling.
"Fellow Daoist, please keep this safe. This is the proof of the convocation order. Only cultivators with this proof can enter and exit the spiritual vein location in two days. Don't lose it."
Zhang Ling just glanced at the wooden token, a flash of spiritual light on his hand, and he held the wooden token in his hand, cupped his hands at the old man, and left.
He went straight to the rented inn, but he did not put the wooden token into the storage bag, but clenched it in his palm.
Before long, he returned to the inn, and Zhang Ling frowned as he looked at the wooden token in his hand.
This was a square red wooden token, with no traces of spiritual patterns on it, and seemed to be just an ordinary token.
But the moment he got the wooden token, he released his divine sense to explore it.
Low-level cultivators could not see the abnormality of the wooden token, but as long as it was a Golden Core stage cultivator, they could find something hidden inside.
His divine sense was stronger than ordinary early-stage Golden Core cultivators, and now his divine sense strength was not weaker than mid-stage Golden Core, so he could see the trick at a glance.
The red wooden block looked like a whole, but under his perception, it was made of two pieces of wood spliced together, with a concave hole inside, containing a flat black pill.
This pill exuded a special and strange aura. Zhang Ling sat in the room and studied it for a while, but could not see what it did.
Judging from his knowledge, this pill was not a poisonous elixir. But being hidden so secretly was definitely not a good thing.
It was easy for Zhang Ling to take out the pill, but in order to successfully sneak into the Yin Sha spiritual vein, he gave up this idea.
After sneaking into the Yin Sha spiritual vein, he would just throw away this wooden token.
Then Zhang Ling did not step out of the inn, and time passed quietly.
Now Shuiguang Island is a mixed bag, gathering a large number of loose cultivators who have come here for the Yin Sha spiritual vein.
As soon as the convocation order was issued, many Foundation Establishment cultivators signed up, but there were also some people who did not participate and always maintained a wait-and-see attitude.
The four major cultivation families also remained vigilant at all times, sending a large number of disciples to maintain order in the market every day.
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In a mountain range on the easternmost side of Shuiguang Island, there is a good spiritual vein. The residences of the four major families are built in it.
At this time, three men and one woman were gathered in a mountain cave, discussing something. The four were the Golden Core ancestors of the four major families.
One of the white-robed middle-aged scholars had a rather unsightly face and was saying something to the gray-haired old man sitting in the main seat.
"Brother Han, do we really want to do this? Will this not arouse the dissatisfaction of the rogue cultivators?"
But the one who answered him was not the old man, but the only female cultivator among the four. This was a middle-aged beautiful woman, who looked the youngest of the group.
"Lin the Third, are you afraid of those low-level cultivators or those few outsiders?" The woman chuckled and said with some teasing.
"Second Sister is joking, Lin is naturally not afraid of these low-level cultivators, as for a few foreign fellow cultivators, our four families have been operating here for nearly a thousand years, we are the local snakes here and there is no need to be too afraid. But..."
The white-clothed scholar suddenly sighed. "Although that's what I say, I'm afraid this matter will have a considerable impact on the reputation of our families."
The brocade-robed man next to him grunted and glanced at the scholar, seemingly very dissatisfied.
"Third Brother, you still care too much about these false names. The four of us have also entered the hidden vein before to explore it. It is rich in many Yin Han(阴寒: cold and dark) spiritual objects. This is a considerable cultivation resource. Even if we can't use it, we can exchange it with other cultivators for the resources we need."
"It's just that there are still a few demon ghosts with considerable strength living inside. It is difficult for us to eliminate these ghosts with our strength alone. Now, as long as we unite with those few people to quickly sweep through it. After dealing with most of the ghosts inside, our four families have enough strength to directly suppress these low-level cultivators."
"At that time, our four families will jointly control the Yin Sha(阴煞: Yin and evil) spiritual vein and set it up as a forbidden area. The spiritual objects produced in it every once in a while will be enough to increase the power of our families by more than half, so why should we be afraid?" The brocade-robed man said a long paragraph in a row, seemingly still a little indignant.
The middle-aged scholar did not answer this, but frowned a few times and looked at the gray-haired old man again.
He was not so optimistic.
Their four families have jointly controlled Shuiguang Island for a thousand years. Every two or three hundred years, the four families can basically cultivate a Golden Core expert.
But the resources on the island are limited to this. For this matter, their four families basically maintain a detached attitude, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
If the cultivation resources on this island are too abundant, it will naturally attract the attention of other forces, and even directly destroy their four families.
This kind of thing has not happened before. A thousand years ago, Shuiguang Island was not controlled by their four families, but was controlled by a small sect.
The ancestors of their four families were originally rogue cultivators in the Golden Core stage, but most of them had limited qualifications. After there was no hope of promotion, they had the idea of creating a family, so they took a fancy to this Shuiguang Island. They even joined forces to destroy that small sect, controlled Shuiguang Island, and founded the cultivation family.
But now a Yin Sha(阴煞: Yin and evil) spiritual vein has been discovered on Shuiguang Island, and the grade is not low, which is both an opportunity and a disaster for their four families.
Their four families closed that hidden vein more than a month ago, but the news was not suppressed for long before it was spread.
This attracted so many cultivators here. Now, if not handled properly, their four families may be wiped out.
In the past month or so, several waves of high-level cultivators have appeared, but most of them acted alone and were expelled by the four of them.
Now it is different. The other five Golden Core stage rogue cultivators on the island have joined forces to put pressure on their four families.
Under pressure, their four families and these people jointly issued a convocation order. For this matter, the middle-aged scholar did not have much resistance.
An undeveloped Yin Sha(阴煞: Yin and evil) spiritual vein, unlike those spiritual veins that have been occupied by cultivators for many years, will produce many spiritual objects. I am afraid that after a while, the high-level cultivators gathered on Shuiguang Island will increase a lot.
At that time, it will not be something that their four families can control.
Now that the convocation order has been issued, on the one hand, to eliminate the ghosts inside, and on the other hand, to leave some room for those high-level cultivators, so as not to attract a large number of high-level cultivators to besiege.
As for always sealing the Yin Sha(阴煞: Yin and evil) spiritual vein, their four families do not have the strength to swallow the entire spiritual vein. Sooner or later, it will lead to disaster.
As long as the spiritual objects in the Yin vein have been plundered on a large scale, then there will not be a large number of high-level cultivators here again. Lest they live in fear every day and attract other high-level cultivators.
In this way, their four families can be invincible.
As for the low-level cultivators, their four families naturally do not care. These threats are still caused by the lack of strength of their four families.
