Zhang Ling took a deep breath and took out a pre-forged umbrella frame.
This umbrella frame had thirty-six ribs, all lacquered black, with faintly visible dark golden spirit patterns. It was made from a three-thousand-year-old, third-grade spirit wood called Golden Script Wood.
This spirit wood was an excellent material for refining treasures, possessing both metal and earth attributes, and was quite valuable. Fortunately, he had a mystical bead that could stimulate plant growth, so it only took Zhang Ling a little time to cultivate one.
Zhang Ling also took out a storage bag, and several jade boxes appeared on the ground, each containing some auxiliary materials.
Once everything was ready, he flicked his finger, and the umbrella frame made of Golden Script Wood floated in the air, slowly rotating.
Zhang Ling rapidly made hand seals, and a one-inch-long red carving knife appeared in his hand. He injected spiritual power into it, and the carving knife lit up with spiritual light, pointing at a piece of yellow jade crystal in a jade box.
The piece of yellow jade crystal flew out with a shake, and at the same time, he spat out a cloud of yellow mist-like Dan fire to envelop the yellow jade crystal.
With a thought, this object was refined in the Dan fire. Soon, this rare spiritual ore was stretched and transformed, like a soft dough, constantly being pulled.
This scene lasted for several days, until the yellow jade crystal had disappeared, turning into a large mass of fine, hair-like golden threads.
This was the preliminary refining of the yellow jade crystal to form golden silk.
The carving knife danced rapidly in his hand, and the golden silk was wound around the umbrella frame in circles. After some more time, a small yellow umbrella floated in front of Zhang Ling, shining with a thick layer of yellow light.
Looking at the yellow umbrella in front of him, Zhang Ling breathed a sigh of relief and sat directly on the ground to meditate and recover his consumed spiritual power. After recovering his spiritual power, he began to refine the Yellow Luo Umbrella again.
The next step was the most crucial process. Only by engraving the array patterns required for this treasure onto the entire umbrella surface could it be considered a success.
Thus, he stayed in the earth fire room for a long time. It wasn't until more than a month later that he finally refined this ancient treasure.
Overall, the refining was relatively smooth, but the long period of refining treasures left him quite exhausted.
In the following time, Zhang Ling returned to closed-door cultivation.
Until one day, while he was meditating and cultivating in the quiet room, he suddenly opened his eyes as if sensing something.
He saw a storage bag on his waist shaking a few times, and two rays of light flashed inside. Two identical circular tokens flew out.
Both tokens emitted a layer of gray spiritual light, with some flashing iridescent light spots, as if they had been suddenly activated.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling was shocked.
Sky Abyss Token!
The abnormality of the two Sky Abyss Tokens made his mood quite complicated. He felt both a sense of excitement and helplessness. He didn't expect the Sky Abyss Tokens to change at this time.
Could it be that the Sky Abyss was about to open?
The Sky Abyss Secret Realm was an extremely special secret realm in the Flowing Cloud Sea, opening only once every three hundred years.
With a wave of his hand, Zhang Ling grabbed the two Sky Abyss Tokens in his hand. One was the one he had obtained before, and the other was found in those storage bags two years ago. It was the one that Old Man Yangshan had collected in the Ice Fire Jade Mine Cave.
Looking at the two Sky Abyss Tokens, he pondered.
The two Sky Abyss Tokens in front of him were both emitting spiritual light.
His divine sense invaded them. Immediately, some information appeared in Zhang Ling's mind. As he thought, the sudden change of these two Sky Abyss Tokens indicated that the Sky Abyss Secret Realm was about to open.
The information displayed inside even provided a description of the Sky Abyss Token. Like the records in ancient books, they were all refined by ancient cultivators, with a total of more than three hundred pieces.
It roughly introduced the true purpose of the Sky Abyss Token.
Although this token was the key to entering and exiting the Sky Abyss, its original function was not simply an entry and exit permit, but a token used in ancient times to summon human experts to enter the Sky Abyss to hunt high-level desolate beasts.
In ancient times, when the desolate domain's turbid Qi first began to form, many human experts joined forces to suppress it. At first, they really suppressed the turbid Qi for a period of time, but then the turbid Qi erupted and invaded a large area, forming the desolate domain.
The place with the most concentrated turbid Qi in the Flowing Cloud Sea was the Sky Abyss in the desolate domain. After the turbid Qi erupted, it was sealed by a heaven-defying array arranged by human cultivators.
However, every three hundred years or so, the turbid Qi would erupt on a small scale, thus breeding many high-level desolate beasts, which was also a major cause of the desolate beast tide. Therefore, these Sky Abyss Tokens were refined to summon experts to enter the Sky Abyss to hunt high-level desolate beasts.
Of course, this was the original purpose.
After tens of thousands of years of evolution, this purpose seemed to be no longer important.
It was said that when the Sky Abyss was sealed, ancient cultivators directly moved several top-grade spiritual veins, and even moved the spiritual veins of some sects to the Sky Abyss, relying on a large amount of spiritual Qi to seal the turbid Qi.
Thus, the Sky Abyss Secret Realm was formed. The turbid Qi and spiritual Qi were mixed inside, which not only bred high-level desolate beasts, but also grew many rare spiritual medicines. At the same time, there were ancient ruins, which formed the current Sky Abyss Secret Realm.
The purpose of the cultivators entering the Sky Abyss Secret Realm with this token was also to seek opportunities and treasures. As for hunting high-level desolate beasts, it could only be regarded as a side task.
Seeing these secrets of the Sky Abyss Token, Zhang Ling also shook his head. Most cultivators put their own interests first. If there were no benefits, who would provoke high-level desolate beasts for no reason?
Now he had two Sky Abyss Tokens, and the information displayed was exactly the same. In addition to the text information, there was also a simple map.
Zhang Ling flicked his finger, and a wisp of yellow spiritual power entered one of the Sky Abyss Tokens.
Immediately, a flash of spiritual light appeared on it, and some gray-white lines emerged. These lines quickly outlined a huge map. Although the map was simple, after looking at it a few times, he found that the area outlined by the map was extremely wide, basically covering the entire area of the Flowing Cloud Sea.
Most of the map was blurry, covered by a layer of strange mist. Only about one-third of the area could clearly see some patterns of large and small islands, immortal cities, etc.
Zhang Ling glanced at it and found that a green light was constantly flashing, and a yellow route extended from the green light to the southwest direction of the map.
At the center of that area was a slowly rotating vortex, pitch black, with two large red characters marked next to it, which were exactly the words 'Sky Abyss'.
It seemed that was where the Sky Abyss was located.
Seeing these two marks, Zhang Ling immediately understood that the green light might be showing his current location. The yellow line was the route to the Sky Abyss Secret Realm. Then he checked the other Sky Abyss Token, and the map displayed on it was exactly the same.
For a moment, he hesitated. Whether to go or not, Zhang Ling had not yet made up his mind.
