Zhang Ling sat cross-legged, his hands clasped in front of his chest, the Purple-Gold Bottle slowly rotating between them. After a stick of incense's time, he opened his eyes, and with a flick of his hand, several streams of spiritual energy struck the Purple-Gold Bottle.
The treasure transformed into a beam of golden light, flying to a spot ten zhang away. Amidst the flashing golden light, it shot out several clumps of black-gold water balls.
With a series of 'popping' sounds, all the water balls exploded, transforming into countless tiny water droplets, covering the vicinity.
With a slight thought, Zhang Ling caused these water droplets to emit a dazzling golden light, transforming into strands of black lines tinged with gold. Instantly, countless fine black-gold threads intertwined, forming a black-gold light curtain that enveloped a large area.
He also flashed into the light curtain, closed his eyes, and sensed it. He discovered that the treasure was indeed as the Azure Fox King had said, capable of isolating the spiritual energy within a certain range.
Within the area covered by the light curtain, the spiritual energy rapidly dissipated. After a few breaths, not even a trace of spiritual energy fluctuation could be sensed.
Even the spiritual energy within Zhang Ling himself dissipated somewhat. Startled, he flicked his hand, and with a flash of black-gold light, everything transformed back into water droplets, which he then collected into the Purple-Gold Bottle.
"Hehe, truly a good treasure."
Looking at the Purple-Gold Bottle in his hand, Zhang Ling smiled with satisfaction.
This treasure could also be used as a top-tier auxiliary treasure, but the released light curtain did not have any enemy-trapping effect. If it could be combined with other methods to trap enemies within it, it would definitely provide a great advantage in battle.
Whether a cultivator uses any means, they must use their own spiritual energy. Once spiritual energy is lost too quickly, the power of the spells and magical treasures they cast will be greatly reduced.
After refining this treasure, Zhang Ling scanned the vicinity with his divine sense and discovered that the Azure Fox King had not yet returned.
Zhang Ling pondered for a moment, left his original position, and wandered around the area.
Soon after, he stopped in a rocky area. With a flip of his hand, he took out more than a dozen array flags and several array disks, and began to set up an array nearby.
Then, he went to a forest several miles away, and similarly took out array disks and array flags, setting up another array.
"It seems that the Azure Fox King does not intend to harm me, but it is better to be careful. The Yellow Spirit Stone Array, plus the Forest Wood Array. With these two arrays, even if I encounter any danger, I will be prepared."
Zhang Ling muttered to himself, then returned to the place where he had refined the treasure and sat down cross-legged to meditate.
Before long, he opened his eyes and looked in one direction, seeing a faint black light speeding towards his location. The black light was very fast, and in a moment it arrived before him, transforming into a hazy fox phantom.
The eyes of this demonic beast phantom flickered with a blue light, and the voice of the Azure Fox King came from it. "This king has already used a secret method to discover that the Rootless Lotus is still in this mountain. Follow me." After speaking, the phantom spun around and once again transformed into a black light, speeding away into the distance.
Zhang Ling nodded and also transformed into a遁光, closely following behind.
Before long, they arrived at the mountainside of Tianheng Mountain. The fox phantom circled around the area and shot directly towards a bare cliff face, disappearing in a flash.
Zhang Ling followed closely and landed below the cliff face, seeing the black fox possessed by the Azure Fox King standing in front of a stone cave.
He also glanced at the stone cave, seeing a yellow boulder next to the cave with the three ancient characters 'Qi Huang Cave' written on it.
"Has the Purple-Gold Bottle been refined?"
"Reporting to Senior, I can now unleash the full power of the Purple-Gold Bottle."
"That's good."
The black fox nodded, its body flashed with black light and flew into the air, its two claws reaching out towards the front, transforming into two giant black claws that slammed heavily towards the cave entrance.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling felt puzzled. He did not see any restrictions on the stone cave.
But as the two black claws struck the front of the stone cave, a layer of yellow smoke suddenly rose up, transforming into a thick light curtain that blocked the Azure Fox King's attack.
The black fox snorted lightly, its entire body spinning, transforming into a black light several zhang long that crashed directly into the light curtain with a loud boom.
For a time, yellow light and black light intertwined, and popping sounds were heard.
After a dozen breaths of time, with a few cracking sounds, the light curtain was directly shattered into pieces by the Azure Fox King.
"This place has the protection formed by ancient cultivators drawing on the earth's spiritual veins. If it were in the outside world, with the support of a high-grade spiritual vein, it would be impossible to break through. But this place is located in the central area of Tianyuan, and most of the spiritual energy of the several high-grade spiritual veins here is used to suppress the turbid air below. These remaining arrays can only exert up to 30% of their power."
The black-haired fox chuckled and entered the stone cave. Zhang Ling did not dare to neglect and also followed inside.
The inside of the passage was dark, the walls were pitted and uneven, like natural formations, without many traces of artificial construction.
However, every ten zhang or so, a fist-sized moonstone was inlaid in the stone wall, illuminating a certain area.
The ground was also covered with a thin layer of mist. As they entered, the mist quickly flowed.
Zhang Ling instantly sensed that this mist was not real mist, but rather spiritual mist formed by the condensation of rich spiritual energy. As soon as he entered this place, a surge of abundant spiritual energy rushed towards him, making him feel warm all over, as if he were soaking in a hot spring.
This spiritual energy intensity was at least five times richer than the spiritual energy emitted by a medium-grade spiritual vein. Is this a high-grade spiritual vein? If one could cultivate in this place, it would definitely accelerate one's cultivation speed.
Speaking of which, this was the first time he had entered a high-grade spiritual vein. In the outside world, apart from the Ten Great Sects and Wanxiang City each having a high-grade spiritual vein, he had never heard of any other places having them.
This stone cave was very long. The deeper they went, the fewer traces of human activity there were. After walking a distance, the surrounding stone walls had turned into stalactites. There were also some jade stones mixed in, flashing with light.
Looking at these jade stones, Zhang Ling's eyes lit up, discovering that these were all spirit stones, with all five elements.
Turning a corner, there was an even larger cyan jade stone several zhang high. This was a huge wind-attribute spirit stone. If it were divided into ordinary spirit stone sizes, there would be tens of thousands of them.
As they continued to go deeper, the number of spirit stones in the surrounding soil and rocks increased.
Zhang Ling's heart became a little excited. Although he had only seen low-grade spirit stones along the way, there were at least millions of them. Occasionally, he could also see some medium-grade spirit stones.
This place had clearly given birth to a spirit stone mine.
Spirit stone mines are also divided by attributes, such as fire-attribute spirit stone mines, earth-attribute spirit stone mines, etc. As well as black oil ice, wind, thunder and other different attribute spirit stone mines.
Fire-attribute spirit mines produce a large number of fire-attribute spirit stones and a small number of earth-attribute spirit stones. Earth-attribute spirit mines can produce earth-attribute spirit stones and gold-attribute spirit mines.
Of course, it is also possible to discover spirit stones of other attributes, but the number is extremely small.
