Zhang Ling had cultivated the Fiend Transformation Art and had a lot of research on the techniques of demon cultivators. Many demon cultivators enhance their strength by grafting parts of demon beasts onto themselves, and they also use many spiritual objects to enhance their physical bodies.
This method puts a great burden on oneself. There are many rejections between the human body and the demon body, which will make one's meridians and aura very unstable.
This is also an important reason why very few people who practice demon cultivator techniques can reach the ranks of high-level cultivators.
Speaking of which, all cultivation techniques and secret arts absorb spiritual power and transform it into one's own use, thereby enhancing one's strength. Meditation to absorb external spiritual power is the simplest method, and taking pills is also the same.
But directly refining spiritual mines and integrating them into oneself is quite domineering.
Spiritual mines are generally very hard things, and they have many impurities. Refining and absorbing them is naturally not as gentle as taking pills and other methods.
This method is actually equivalent to refining the physical body as a magical weapon. If it is not done well, it may even block the meridians.
Pills will have some toxicity, let alone spiritual ore. The hidden dangers also come from this.
After all, whether it is a demon beast or a human, the physical body is extremely important. The physical body after birth is also the most compatible with oneself.
Even if some cultivators encounter great disasters and are forced to seize the bodies of other cultivators, it is extremely difficult to fully integrate with the seized body, and some hidden dangers will remain.
After a cultivator seizes a body, it is not easy to restore their original cultivation level. It will definitely be even more difficult to go further.
There were many body refiners in ancient times, but now there are very few body refiners, and the body refining lineage has declined.
In addition to the great changes in the world's spiritual energy, it is also naturally related to the difficulty of cultivating in the body refining lineage. There are great hidden dangers in training the physical body.
Looking at the Xuan Turtle constantly refining the Heavenly Astral Silver, Zhang Ling pondered in his heart.
Fortunately, the Xuan Turtle belongs to the turtle family and has scales and armor. Integrating the special spiritual power refined from the spiritual mine into the turtle shell, claws, and other bone armor outside the body will naturally minimize the burden on the physical body.
There are also some demon beasts that specialize in devouring metal and stone, which are most suitable for cultivating this secret method.
And choosing which kind of spiritual mine to absorb is also a difficult problem. There are many types of spiritual mines, and not all are suitable for the Xuan Turtle.
After this period of closed-door cultivation, Zhang Ling repeatedly considered it and let the Xuan Turtle begin to refine and absorb the Heavenly Astral Silver. This material is a top-grade silver essence, whether it is used to refine flying swords, sabers, or defensive magic weapons, it is a top-grade material.
Moreover, after testing, the Xuan Turtle's physical body does not have much rejection to this material. Furthermore, he does not have to worry about the consumption of Heavenly Astral Silver.
The Xuan Turtle cultivates the Gluttonous Devouring Spirit Art, and it takes several years to absorb a fist-sized piece of Heavenly Astral Silver.
He has a large piece of Heavenly Astral Silver, which he obtained from one of the insect nests when he resisted the Spirit Devouring Insect swarm on Flying Cloud Island. It is enough to supply the Xuan Turtle's cultivation for hundreds of years.
It is worth mentioning that the Spirit Devouring Insect eggs obtained from another insect nest exuding strong wood-attribute spiritual power have basically all hatched.
Only the special insect egg with black and white spiritual patterns has not yet hatched. However, its vitality is getting stronger and stronger, and it seems that it is not far from hatching.
There are about two hundred Spirit Devouring Insects that have hatched. Although the number is not large, they are quite difficult to control. In Zhang Ling's perception, the divine sense power consumed to control just two hundred Spirit Devouring Insect larvae is equivalent to controlling one or two magic weapons.
Although these fierce insects are difficult to control, they can devour all kinds of spiritual power. Zhang Ling still intends to continue to nurture them, and maybe they can play a role at some point.
In the next month or so, he refined another batch of top-grade pills with high-level demon pills, and then closed the cave again and began to cultivate in seclusion.
This retreat was also different from usual, and he planned to enter a life-or-death retreat to condense the Nascent Soul.
As Zhang Ling retreated again, the mountains and forests returned to calm, the sun rose and set, day and night flowed, spring, summer, autumn and winter, and time passed quietly.
Thus, another six years passed.
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One day six years later, the sky in a certain part of the mountain forest was dark, and not a trace of sunlight could be seen. Thick clouds were silently falling with white snowflakes.
The snowflakes were crystal clear, like butterflies fluttering their wings, which was very beautiful. The nearby large area of mountain forest was dyed into a solemn color. The grass and trees on the ground were also bare and turned snow-white, and even the stream water in the mountain stream was mostly frozen. Winter had arrived.
A layer of snowflakes was piled up on a bare tree trunk, and suddenly a certain position moved.
If you look closely, you will find that there is a white flying bird about half a zhang in size hidden. This bird is snow-white, but its eyes are glowing with golden light. It is staring at a certain snowdrift on the ground. This is a second-order Snow Monkey Hawk.
Suddenly, the Snow Monkey Hawk flapped its wings a few times and flew into the high sky. After a long cry, it swooped down and landed on a snowdrift. Then it flapped its wings and flew into the air again.
Its two dark and shiny iron claws were holding a black-scaled snake about the thickness of an arm and two zhang long. This is also a first-order demon beast, and it was instantly killed.
The Snow Monkey Hawk chirped a few times, its voice was clear and loud. Obviously, it was extremely excited to catch its prey.
But strangely, this second-order Snow Monkey Hawk only flew a short distance into the sky, and its whole body suddenly trembled, as if it was out of control. It whimpered and stiffly fell from the sky, and slammed into a snowdrift with a whoosh, and there was no movement for a while.
At the same time, a series of strange sounds echoed in the mountains and forests. The whistling of the wind, the sound of flowing water, and the sound of the clouds moving in the sky were all clearly audible.
These sounds originally existed in the world, but at this moment they were magnified countless times, making them even clearer to hear.
And in addition to these sounds of the world, the surroundings seemed to fall into a strange calm. The many demon beasts that existed in the mountain forest were all without breath at the same moment.
If there were cultivators here, they would find that the demon beasts within a hundred miles of the area were all trembling, as if they had encountered a natural enemy.
Low-level demon beasts were even stiff all over, and it was difficult to control their bodies. Only a few high-level demon beasts seemed to sense something and looked up in one direction. Their eyes were all focused on a snow-covered thousand-zhang peak.
A strange aura spread nearby, and then the spiritual energy in this area suddenly became violent, showing colorful spiritual lights.
Countless spiritual lights were intertwined, turning into strands of colored light. Some spiritual lights gathered like starlight, forming spiritual light cyclones.
Countless spiritual lights and spiritual energy vortexes flowed, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, and gathered towards the thousand-zhang peak, as if they were summoned by something.
The rumbling of thunder, the whistling of the wind, and the strange sounds of the world spread throughout the entire mountain forest. For a time, various colored light spots flew all over the sky, which was extremely dazzling.
After a while, countless spiritual lights all gathered above the thousand-zhang peak where Zhang Ling was cultivating in seclusion, forming a colorful cloud, and bursting out with powerful spiritual energy fluctuations.
"The celestial phenomenon of condensing the Nascent Soul is indeed extraordinary. Although it will not form a thunder tribulation, the movement is not small at all." The Xuan Turtle, transformed into a black-robed man, appeared on a nearby矮山, frowning slightly as he watched all of this.
He had stopped cultivating in seclusion seven days ago, walked out of the cave, and came to this矮山 to monitor everything nearby at all times.
The reason was naturally that the main soul had recently touched the opportunity to condense the Nascent Soul. At this moment, the appearance of this kind of heaven and earth phenomenon indicates that the main soul has taken this step and is condensing the Nascent Soul.
This hurdle has stopped many Golden Core cultivators. According to the description of some books, condensing the Nascent Soul can be roughly divided into two steps.
The first step is to mobilize the Golden Core in the body to do a large Zhoutian cycle. After reaching a certain level, reverse the spiritual energy, break the Golden Core, and condense the Nascent Soul.
The second step is the inner demon tribulation that appears after the Nascent Soul is successfully condensed. Once trapped in the inner demon, the newly condensed Nascent Soul will be extremely unstable. If you can't see through the inner demon, the Nascent Soul will collapse. Then the Nascent Soul will fail.
If it is not successful, the Golden Core has been shattered, the strength will immediately drop sharply, or even die directly.
At this moment, the appearance of the Nascent Soul condensing celestial phenomenon means that the reversal of the Golden Core has been successful, and the main soul's Golden Core has been broken. This step is very dangerous.
Then, it is to integrate the gathered heaven and earth spiritual power into the body, combined with one's own essence, energy, and spirit, into a chaotic state, so as to condense the Nascent Soul.
A loud bang came into my ears, like thunder, which seemed very ordinary in the celestial phenomenon at this moment.
The Xuan Turtle stared at the direction where the main soul was cultivating in seclusion. He sensed that this sound was the vibration caused by the main soul mobilizing all its spiritual power.
Then, banging loud noises continued to come from the belly of the mountain, and the entire thousand-zhang peak vibrated rapidly.
This kind of sound did not last long, and a bright yellow spiritual light appeared from the belly of the mountain, shining on the entire top of the mountain, like ten thousand golden rays of light, turning the white snow in the mountain forest into golden yellow.
This layer of spiritual light contained a huge amount of spiritual power, turning into strands of yellow light, and in an instant, it formed a cyclone like a wind mass and rotated.
As it rotated, the yellow light cyclone quickly spread to the surroundings, and the pure heaven and earth spiritual power, under the illumination of the yellow light, seemed to be tamed, and all merged into it, turning into a bright yellow spiritual light.
At the same time, the collision of various spiritual lights emitted a strange wind and thunder sound.
I don't know how long the strange phenomenon lasted. The heaven and earth spiritual energy gathered above the mountain peak all turned into a thick yellow light, forming circles of wave-like cyclones, like a yellow vortex.
The Xuan Turtle could sense that the spiritual power fluctuations coming from the vortex were extremely strong, and were no weaker than the icy spiritual energy in his body.
At this moment, the entire mountain peak shook again, and a huge spiritual light pillar shot out from the mountain body again. The spiritual light flashed and turned into a vague human-shaped phantom, and suddenly disappeared into the spiritual power vortex.
The yellow vortex shrank by one zhang and began to shrink violently. After a few breaths, it turned into a yellow light ball and rushed into the mountain body and disappeared.
At the same time, the heaven and earth spiritual energy within a hundred miles of the area instantly lost its summoning, and the spiritual light and the sound of wind and thunder that the spiritual energy manifested also disappeared without a trace.
The mountain forest returned to calm again.
"The Nascent Soul has been successfully condensed, and the next step is the most dangerous inner demon." The Xuan Turtle whispered. The main soul's Golden Core was stable, and the divine soul was full. It was expected that it could successfully condense the Nascent Soul. But the inner demon is the most dangerous.
Many cultivators who failed to break through fell in the inner demon pass.
At this moment, in the cave in the belly of the mountain, Zhang Ling sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, surrounded by thick earth-attribute spiritual light, like a golden statue.
The spiritual power fluctuations all over his body have increased several times compared to before, and the sounds of dragon roar and tiger roar came from his body. The spiritual power on his body was flickering, and strands of pure spiritual power were all compressed into his body.
Then he opened his eyes, but his eyes burst out with dazzling golden light, making it impossible to look directly at him.
Zhang Ling just stared blankly ahead, as if he was lost in thought. At the same time, he was whispering some inaudible words. It looked extremely strange.
And in Zhang Ling's consciousness, he was in a strange space at this time. This space was gray, and there seemed to be nothing in the chaos above, below, left, and right.
After wandering around in this space for a few laps, he still didn't find anything. He directly sat cross-legged on the ground and meditated.
He clearly knew that he was now condensing the Nascent Soul and was at the critical point of breakthrough. It was quite dangerous to reverse the spiritual power all over his body, break the Golden Core, and condense the Nascent Soul just now.
When the Core broke, the spiritual power all over his body almost lost control, and the meridians were extremely painful, as if they were all broken.
Fortunately, with the willpower of many years of hard work, he barely survived. At this moment, he has absorbed endless heaven and earth spiritual power. It stands to reason that the Nascent Soul has been successfully condensed now.
But now he couldn't see the condensed Nascent Soul, and he suddenly appeared in this space. Then the most likely thing is that he has fallen into the inner demon tribulation.
It is rumored that the inner demon tribulation when condensing the Nascent Soul will trigger the cultivator's original heart. Many illusions will appear. These illusions are bizarre. Some are desires in the heart, some are the most feared fears, and there are various thoughts and miscellaneous thoughts.
Only by keeping the mind calm and seeing through these illusions in time can one pass this level. In this way, Zhang Ling kept his mind calm and meditated, constantly abandoning distracting thoughts like usual cultivation.
Time passed little by little. In his feeling, it didn't take long for a day to pass. There was no change in the surroundings, and he still maintained a meditating state, without the slightest rash movement.
The following days were still the same. Except for being trapped in this space, there were no illusions. Zhang Ling also raised some thoughts in his heart, but he could still keep his mind calm.
In this way, I don't know how long it took. In his subconscious feeling, at least several months have passed. This space still has not changed, as if it is eternal.
If it were normal times, this kind of long-term meditation would naturally be nothing.
But Zhang Ling knew in his heart that he was in retreat to break through. This strange situation could not help but make him feel a trace of unease.
And from this moment on, for a long time to come, nothing happened.
The trace of unease in Zhang Ling's heart became stronger and stronger.
