Once a Spirit Convergence Formation is set up in the spirit vein area, it can increase the spiritual energy in some areas in a short period.
However, as time goes on, the spirit veins in this area may be downgraded to low-grade spirit veins, or even directly destroyed, leading to the depletion of spiritual energy.
Therefore, generally, no one would use this kind of formation, and it is not easy to set up. At least a Nascent Soul stage cultivator is required to have the ability to connect with the earth's veins.
It is also for this reason that he does not plan to return to Fire Cloud Island to cultivate. After all, Fire Cloud Island is just a rented cave, and the spirit veins on the island are not something he can easily touch. Once he does, it will definitely attract the attention of Myriad Manifestation City.
But in the Demon Wind Mountain Range, there is no such concern.
Although setting up a Spirit Restricting Formation here will also attract some attention, the Black Tortoise has already explored the area within hundreds of miles, and the strongest demon beasts are only a few high-level ones, all of which have been dealt with. Moreover, there are no other demon cultivators above the Transformation stage, so it will naturally not cause trouble.
After more than half an hour, Zhang Ling returned to the white mist area where he had been standing, dragging five array disks of different colors in his hand.
One of the red beads vibrated and emitted a dazzling red light.
At the same time, somewhere in the mountain, the Black Tortoise stood calmly on a boulder, his body filled with spiritual power. Circles of dark blue, wave-like spiritual light emanated from his feet and continuously poured into the ground.
The spiritual light spread out from him, initially covering only a few feet around him, but after a while, it spread to an area of more than ten miles.
The Black Tortoise flew into the sky and clapped his hands fiercely. With a clear bang, his hands turned into cyan-blue giant claws. A low shout of "Rise" came from his mouth, and the two giant claws grabbed fiercely at the ground below in the void.
With two loud bangs, the spiritual power claws slammed into the ground, directly creating more than a dozen deep cracks on the ground. Each crack was hundreds of feet long, like deep ravines.
Then, the ground began to crack, centered on these ground fissures, and the entire ground shook. Dull rumbling sounds came from underground, and the entire mountain shook a few times, as if there was an earthquake.
In an instant, a layer of strange dust was lifted from the ground. Yellow wind masses quickly swept through, turning into a huge tornado that rolled up large amounts of earth and rocks.
Zhang Ling, who saw this scene on the mountain top, chanted some strange incantations and cast several special magic seals on the red gem. The array disk flashed and flew out, rushing into the tornado.
The Black Tortoise also released powerful spiritual power, constantly controlling the yellow tornado.
After a while, the tornado dissipated, and a huge stone pillar rose from the original ground.
The stone pillar looked only ten feet high, but it was yellow and red, like some kind of rock, and there was a shallow pattern of an earth dragon carved on it. It seemed to come alive, coiling around the boulder.
At the same time, every time the stone pillar trembled, a piece of dust emerged from the ground, forming a thin layer of gray mist.
This was a small array eye in the Spirit Restricting Formation, used to seal the earth's veins. After the small array eye was formed, the Black Tortoise flew to the other side of the mountain and cast the spell again in the same way.
After a while, a total of five Spirit Sealing Stone Pillars were built on the mountain, and the spiritual energy of the entire mountain began to change. The spiritual power that originally spread around began to gather towards the top of the mountain.
The mountain top where Zhang Ling was located was the place with the most concentrated spirit veins. At this moment, he took out a special five-colored array disk, buried it underground, placed the spirit eye stone on it, cast a magic seal on it, and activated the array disk. The entire Spirit Restricting Formation was activated.
Dull rumbling sounds came from under his feet, and most of the mountain shook. It was as if the sky was falling and the earth was splitting apart. Many places on the mountain cracked open with large or small mountain crevices.
For a time, dust and rocks flew everywhere, and the mountain was shrouded in a hazy layer of smoke.
Strangely, a large amount of smoke did not dissipate, but gathered on the five small array eyes, gathering into five earth dragon phantoms that were hundreds of feet long.
These phantoms were misty and unreal, like five huge tornadoes rising into the sky.
Suddenly, a thunderclap rang from the sky. The clouds in the sky also suddenly rolled, as if they sensed something.
This is... a celestial phenomenon.
Zhang Ling looked up at the sky, frowned slightly, and thought to himself that it had indeed caused some celestial phenomena. This method of changing the spiritual energy of the earth's veins mostly causes some phenomena.
The sound of thunder continued to ring from the sky, but fortunately, no lightning fell. But the thunder, resounded throughout the sky for more than ten miles.
Zhang Ling calmed his mind and stopped thinking about it, and fully urged the array disk.
The spirit eye stone on the array disk spun around, emitting some five-colored light spots, forming a small patch of colorful spiritual energy vortex.
At the same time, the earth dragon phantoms formed by the five small array eyes also sensed something and roared silently.
But then, a huge tortoise phantom suddenly appeared in the sky, and a powerful suction force came from its open mouth, instantly swallowing the five dragon shadows into its mouth. With a shake, it disappeared directly.
The Black Tortoise transformed into a black light and came to Zhang Ling, his giant claws trapping five gray dragon shadows. With a few muffled sounds, the five dragon shadows instantly ejected onto the array disk and merged into it.
Zhang Ling also quickly changed the magic seal in his hand, and the colorful spiritual energy emitted by the spirit eye stone turned into strands of spiritual light that continuously wrapped around the five dragon shadows.
After a while, the five earth dragon phantoms turned into a white, misty form and stopped struggling.
"Haha, it's done."
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling chuckled. Another series of magic seals were cast on the array disk, and the array disk, along with the spirit eye stone on it, turned into a ball of spiritual light and disappeared into the ground.
At the same time, the stone pillars made by the small array eyes on the hillside shook and disappeared into the ground, disappearing without a trace.
The rumbling thunder was still ringing in the sky, but after a while, the thunder gradually dissipated. The entire mountain returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.
Then, he and the Black Tortoise drove the escape light and explored the area within hundreds of miles again, and found no demon cultivators and human cultivators in the Transformation stage, and he was really relieved.
After returning to the top of the mountain, Zhang Ling went directly to the place where the array disk was buried, and cast the Earth Escape Technique to enter the belly of the mountain, and directly began to build a cultivation cave in the belly of the mountain.
The Black Tortoise stayed on the top of the mountain, took a set of defensive formations and a set of formations to hide spiritual power, and began to arrange them.
At the same time, the small cloud gathering array that had been refined before was also arranged by the Black Tortoise at the highest point of the mountain to absorb cloud gas and condense cloud swallowing stones.
The cloud gas at the top of this thousand-foot peak is much thicker than the cloud gas on Fire Cloud Island. The speed of condensing cloud swallowing stones can also be faster.
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More than half a day later, the new cave was built and all the formations were arranged. Zhang Ling and the Black Tortoise entered the cultivation quiet room.
The newly built cultivation quiet room is not large, only ten feet in size, but it is filled with a thick white mist, which is a layer of spiritual mist. In the center of the mist is the core array disk of the Spirit Restricting Formation, and the spirit eye stone on it is also slowly rotating.
Sensing the rich spiritual energy around him, Zhang Ling couldn't help but smile. The spiritual energy here is at least three or four times higher than the spiritual energy in his cave on Fire Cloud Island.
This is still when the Spirit Restricting Formation has just started to operate, and the gathered spiritual energy has not reached its peak. In a few days, the Spirit Restricting Formation will gather all the spiritual energy in this mountain around the cave, and the degree of spiritual energy will definitely be much higher.
Even so, the spiritual energy here has not reached the level of a top-grade spiritual vein. But it is almost the same, at least it can reach about 70% of the top-grade spiritual vein, which is already a very good cultivation cave.
Next, Zhang Ling plans to retreat here to cultivate to the peak of the Golden Core stage, and even directly attack the Nascent Soul stage, which is not impossible. He is ready to retreat here for a long time.
Suddenly, a flash of spiritual light appeared on the spirit eye stone, and a one-inch-long colorful snake and a colorful flying fish appeared. They flew around the spirit eye stone, looking very spiritual.
Between the vague, a very transparent and strange lotus flower can be seen, flickering a few times.
"Eh, this thing is absorbing external spiritual energy." Zhang Ling said softly. This is the rootless lotus brought out from Tianyuan, and Qinghu King gave him four lotus seeds.
In the previous retreat, he had already taken two. The second lotus seed was also refined a few years ago.
According to Qinghu King, taking one or two lotus seeds can increase the chance of monks forming a baby, and can also subtly cleanse their own spiritual roots.
In the past few years of cultivation, Zhang Ling has also felt it. He was originally a three-spiritual root qualification. After refining two lotus seeds, the speed of absorbing spiritual energy and refining spiritual energy during normal cultivation is indeed faster than before.
Although it is not very obvious, it also makes Zhang Ling very happy. It proves that the rootless lotus can really change the qualification. Of course, the two lotus seeds that were swallowed were not completely absorbed, and turned into a special spiritual power, constantly changing their own qualifications.
This kind of qualification improvement is subtle and is said to last for hundreds of years.
In this way, after a few decades, Zhang Ling estimates that his spiritual root qualification will definitely reach the dual spiritual root qualification, and may even be much higher.
Looking at the remaining two rootless lotus seeds, Zhang Ling has an impulse to take another lotus seed. But after thinking about it, he suppressed this thought.
He doesn't know much about this kind of heaven and earth spiritual object. If he takes too much, I don't know if there are any hidden dangers. He should wait until he has truly refined the two lotus seeds in his body.
Of course, if the rootless lotus can produce a few more lotus seeds, that would be great.
However, this kind of heaven and earth spiritual object is formed by the gathering of spiritual energy. Although it is also slowly absorbing external spiritual power, it is difficult to breed other lotus seeds without thousands of years or even longer.
Thinking of this, Zhang Ling suddenly turned his hand and took out his biggest secret, the mysterious loess bead. I wonder if the spiritual liquid condensed on it can make the rootless lotus produce more lotus seeds.
He had also thought about experimenting before, but he didn't really practice it. Because the rootless lotus is not a spiritual plant, and the spiritual liquid of the mysterious bead is only useful for spiritual plants, so he has not experimented.
Now that he has settled down temporarily, he can try it. If it really succeeds, that would be great.
Qinghu King said before that if the rootless lotus can breed thirty-six lotus seeds, it will breed immortal spiritual energy and become an immortal spiritual root.
He has never seen the so-called immortal spiritual root, and he doesn't know what magical effect it has. But thinking about the legendary immortal spiritual root, which is only available in the immortal world, it must have many extraordinary things.
Zhang Ling rubbed the mysterious bead in his hand. He had already guessed that this bead might also be a treasure from the immortal world. Otherwise, how could it have such heaven-defying magical powers that can quickly promote spiritual plants?
After thinking for a while, he put away the mysterious bead, and gently flicked his two fingers, a ray of spiritual power turned into a yellow light line, wrapped around a colorful small fish that was constantly changing in the rootless lotus, and pulled it out all at once.
The colorful small fish shook for a while and turned into a colorful spiritual snake, but it disappeared after swimming, turning into a lotus seed emitting colorful light.
The lotus seed flashed and fell directly into the mouth of the Black Tortoise.
Zhang Ling glanced at the Black Tortoise and smiled. "This kind of heaven and earth spiritual object may also help your cultivation." The Black Tortoise sat cross-legged on the ground expressionlessly and began to refine the lotus seed.
He also flashed and sat cross-legged next to him, concentrating his mind and began to practice.
Zhang Ling did not immediately practice the main cultivation method, but instead used the assimilation secret method in the Profound Female Transformation Spirit Secret to constantly assimilate with the second Nascent Soul.
As for the Black Tortoise's body, it is now controlled by a ray of his spiritual thoughts, which makes it appear a little dull.
He uses his spiritual thoughts to control the Black Tortoise's body, at most, he can only exert 30-40% of the Black Tortoise's strength. However, after the Black Tortoise passed the Transformation Thunder Tribulation, his own strength has indeed greatly increased. Even if he only exerts 30% of his strength, he can easily kill any Golden Core cultivator.
And for the same reason, Zhang Ling found that the main Nascent Soul now takes a lot of effort to assimilate the second Nascent Soul. Originally, using the secret method to assimilate the second Nascent Soul would only take one or two days each time.
But now it takes at least half a month.
This can be regarded as a hidden danger of practicing this kind of secret technique. The second Nascent Soul is one level higher than his cultivation level, so assimilation is naturally much more difficult.
This is extremely dangerous. If it is not done well, he may be taken over. Only when his main Nascent Soul truly condenses into a Nascent Soul can he greatly eliminate this hidden danger.
In this way, he and the Black Tortoise began to retreat and practice in this new cave.
Time flies, and twenty-two years have passed in a blink of an eye.
On this day, Zhang Ling walked out of the cave and sat by a pool with a long black bamboo pole, fishing idly.
The breeze was blowing around, and it was a bit cool on the body, but Zhang Ling didn't notice it. He stared at the water motionless, as if immersed in the joy of fishing.
But in fact, this is just a small habit he has developed recently to pass the time.
Suddenly, his expression moved, and he pulled the fishing rod, pulling out a red-scaled fish that was ten feet long from the water. The red fish kept shaking its body, and with a flick of its tail, it broke free from the fishing line, and tumbled in the air, wanting to fall back into the water again.
