Time passed day by day.
Zhang Ling originally didn't plan to stay in this area for long, but gradually regarded the ring-shaped island as a temporary cave and began to cultivate on the island.
Firstly, the spiritual veins on the island were good, and secondly, there was no hurry to leave. It was a good choice to cultivate here for a while. Another reason was that the Twin-tailed Cat was about to advance again.
His spirit beast had just advanced two or thirty years ago, becoming a sixth-order demon beast.
It was about to advance so quickly again. In addition to feeding it many rare spiritual medicines, the main reason was that the Twin-tailed Cat swallowed the meteor fire that fell out of the space crack.
The Twin-tailed Cat had swallowed heaven and earth spirit fire before, and its own demon fire was a bit stronger than ordinary cultivators' Pill Fire. The meteor fire it swallowed this time was even more violent, and it had fallen into a deep sleep.
The purplish meteor fire he obtained was a extremely yang fire, containing special fire spiritual power.
Every few days, Zhang Ling could sense the fire spiritual power on the Twin-tailed Cat constantly increasing, and it was about to reach the peak state of a sixth-order demon beast. It was thought that after completely refining the meteor fire, the cat's strength would greatly increase.
This little guy had been following him for nearly two hundred years, and it could be said that he had a deep opportunity. He usually fed a lot of rare fire-attribute spiritual medicines and rarely went to battle.
Zhang Ling was now a Nascent Soul cultivator, and a sixth-order demon beast was of little help to him. At most, he would let the little guy assist him in refining pills. If he followed other cultivators, he would not have this kind of treatment.
It was even possible to give up on training it.
Of course, the Twin-tailed Cat had been with him for so long, and he had a deep relationship with it. Zhang Ling would not be stingy with spiritual grass and spiritual medicine in this regard. He had mysterious beads and did not lack these spiritual medicines.
During this period, he used the mysterious beads to germinate another batch of spiritual medicines. The most important of these was the fifth-grade spiritual fruit, Jiang Yun Fruit, obtained from Qionghua Mountain.
The Jiang Yun Pill refined from this spiritual fruit was an extremely precious spiritual pill.
Zhang Ling had already refined this kind of pill, although he had only refined a dozen of them. After taking it, it really increased his cultivation progress a lot.
The Jiang Yun Pill had too strong medicinal power. With his current early-stage Nascent Soul cultivation, he could not take it all the time. Every time he took one, it would take him half a month to refine the medicinal power in the pill.
Basically, taking one Jiang Yun Pill every one or two months, and supplementing it with other pills, was enough for cultivation.
Zhang Ling estimated that with this pill to assist in cultivation, he could at least increase his cultivation speed by one or two times. After six or seventy years of hard work, it was very likely that he would be promoted to the middle stage of Nascent Soul.
It should be known that for cultivators of their level, even with the assistance of pills, it would be difficult to advance to a small realm without hundreds of years of hard work, or even hundreds of years.
Most Nascent Soul cultivators may only linger in the early Nascent Soul realm for the rest of their lives. Increasing cultivation is no longer something that ordinary spiritual objects can assist.
Unknowingly, another year and a half passed.
On this day, Zhang Ling was studying a black-golden grass leaf that was two a unit of length, approximately meters long and several a unit of length, approximately meters wide in the stone building.
The grass leaf was suspended in mid-air, and a magic formula was struck on it. Some golden vein patterns appeared on the leaf, which looked quite mysterious.
Zhang Ling waved his finger, and a blue sword light struck it, making a sound of metal collision, but it was not cut off.
This grass leaf was extremely hard. It was a grass leaf cut from the huge black giant grass in Qionghua Mountain.
The black giant grass, it has not been cleared what this is spiritual plant, only know that it is a metal stone grass, contains the power of gold and stone.
This special spiritual plant is basically not used for pill refining. Instead, it is used to refine magic weapons. However, he does not lack magic weapons. For a time, he did not think of what this thing was useful to him.
After studying for a while, Zhang Ling put away the black-golden grass leaf, planning to ask Lan Que when he had time to see if this senior knew what else this thing could be used for.
Thinking in his heart, Zhang Ling's expression suddenly changed slightly, and then he walked out of the stone building with a strange expression. He walked directly to the cliff wall behind the stone building.
There were many identical stone caves on the cliff wall. These were all cave dwelling where low-level cultivators temporarily resided.
Zhang Ling directly entered one of the stone caves in the bottom row. The original space inside was only more than ten a unit of length, approximately meters in size. But now the interior of this stone cave has been re-planning by him. One wall has become a stone door, which is also covered with a layer of green light.
This is a layer of restriction that has been set up.
A wisp of yellow light hit the green light, and the restriction aura rippled like water, and then disappeared. Pushing open the stone door, it was dark inside. Behind it was a section of rough steps, extending all the way to the ground.
Below is a newly opened spirit insect room, where the earth spirit bees and spirit-devouring insects are arranged to be cultivated.
Just now, he sensed that the earth spirit bees and spirit-devouring insects suddenly became extremely irritable, as if something had changed. Naturally, he had to come down and check it out.
Zhang Ling went down a hundred a unit of length, approximately meters along the steps and arrived at a huge cave.
The overall shape of the cave was circular, and he had opened it up into several sector area. Some areas were illuminated by yellow light, and some areas were illuminated by green light, separated by two different formations.
The two hundred or so spirit-devouring insects in the green light were extremely irritable, making piercing cries. The yellow light area isolated the earth spirit bees, and the number was as high as hundreds of thousands. There was also a buzzing sound, which was also extremely irritable.
What's going on? Why did the two kinds of spirit insects suddenly become like this?
Zhang Ling frowned, and with a wave of his hand, he released two rays of spiritual light, which turned into yellow light hands and grabbed a few earth spirit bees and spirit-devouring insects, pulled them to the front, and carefully checked them.
But after sensing it, the restrictions on the spirit insects were intact, and there was nothing wrong with them. It seemed that the spirit insects were threatened by something, like encountering a natural enemy, and they seemed restless.
Zhang Ling scanned the surroundings, and his powerful divine sense shrouded this newly opened area. But still no other discoveries were made.
In addition to the spirit-devouring insects and earth spirit bees, there were no other living beings here, and the formation restrictions were intact. There was nothing threatening.
Previously, he had asked Xuan Gui to carefully check the ring-shaped island. The spiritual energy on the island was extremely abundant, and the vegetation grew luxuriantly. He also found some spiritual grass and spiritual flowers.
But strangely, there were no living beings on the island, no demon beast, and no ordinary wild beasts. Not even a mosquito.
Zhang Ling also specially checked this situation. He also carefully checked the other nearby islands, and they were all the same.
He even went to the thunder and storm area a few more times, and the islands in the wind团(风团: wind clusters) were also like this, and there were no living beings either. Even in the sea, Xuan Gui went there a few times, and did not encounter any fish, shrimp, or other creatures.
This situation was obviously unusual, but there was nothing else wrong.
Zhang Ling stayed for more than a year, and he did not encounter any danger, and he would also sense any changes in this area.
He guessed that it might be because there was a strong thunder and storm outside that isolated this area.
The power of the thunder and storm was extremely strong. It was not easy for him, a Nascent Soul cultivator, to pass through it. It was also an explanation that there were no living beings in this area.
Since there were no living beings, there was nothing that threatened the spirit-devouring insects and earth spirit bees. Then why were these spirit insects suddenly restless? Zhang Ling could not figure it out for a while.
Sensing the state of the spirit insects, the consciousness they conveyed was extremely uneasy. The consciousness of the spirit insects was weak, and they could not convey accurate feelings.
"Eh, what is that."
As his divine sense continued to scan this spirit insect room, Zhang Ling suddenly seemed to have discovered something. He flashed through the yellow light curtain and entered the earth spirit bee colony.
The densely packed spirit bees flying up and down made people dizzy. Zhang Ling didn't care about these. With a single hand, he grabbed a piece of earth spirit bee wing that was an a unit of length, approximately cm long in his hand.
This section of wing was as thin as a cicada's wing, and it didn't seem to be anything special.
There were more than 100,000 earth spirit bees around him, and more than a dozen huge honeycomb were hanging on the walls on both sides and in the air. So many earth spirit bees were naturally not hatched from one nest, and mutual swallow and fighting often occurred.
However, at this moment, the fracture of this section of wing in his hand was smooth, as if it was caused by a sharp weapon.
Earth spirit bees fight each other, but they will not leave such smooth wounds. Most of them are in a incomplete state.
At this moment, the Echoing Void Bell on Zhang Ling's waist rang without warning. The jingle only rang for half a breath before stopping abruptly.
Zhang Ling heard it clearly, and with a sweep of his divine sense, he locked onto a certain location in another bee colony twenty more than meters away.
That was a group of thousands of earth spirit bees, flying aimlessly. A few earth spirit bees on the edge flickered and disappeared.
It was not swallow by other earth spirit bees, but disappeared out of thin air.
Fortunately, Zhang Ling's divine sense swept over there, and he noticed that the space there rippled a little. It was like a stone falling on the water, rippling.
Space fluctuation!
Zhang Ling frowned and thought to himself. He lowered his head and glanced at the Echoing Void Bell on his waist.
The Echoing Void Bell only rings when it senses space fluctuations. There are no space cracks here, so how can there be space fluctuations.
The trace of ripple that he caught, plus the disappeared earth spirit bees, did seem to be swallow by the suddenly appearing space fluctuations.
Could it be that the space in this area has changed and become unstable? That's why these spirit insects are restless.
Zhang Ling had this thought. With a thought, he threw out a spirit beast bag. Under his control, the bee colony densely surge towards it.
In a moment, the side became empty, and basically all the spirit bees were collected inside. Only a hundred or so earth spirit bees were still flying restlessly.
Zhang Ling stood motionless in place, without any action. As if he was still, he waited like this. He believed that the space fluctuations just now were not accidental. He had to figure out what was going on.
If the space in this area really becomes unstable, then he will have to leave this place to prevent himself from falling into danger.
If a space suddenly becomes unstable, causing a space collapse and setting off a space storm, he will also be difficult to escape.
The space fluctuations he sensed just now were very small, only a few a unit of length, approximately meters in size, and it didn't seem like a sign of a space crack appearing.
However, the power of space is inherently elusive, and who can say for sure.
In the ancient books, there are records of this kind of thing. Occasionally, the space in some areas will become unstable, forming space fluctuations, but they are often fleeting.
Some will form space cracks, and some will cause space collapses. But the probability of encountering this kind of thing is extremely small. Even for thousands of years, no cultivator has been able to see it.
Zhang Ling thought about it left and right, and it was uncertain what kind of situation it was.
Suddenly, the Echoing Void Bell on his waist shook again. He instantly noticed that the movements of the three earth spirit bees flying together behind him stiffened, and two of the earth spirit bees flashed and disappeared.
The body of the remaining earth spirit bee seemed to have been slide over by something. The upper half of the body also disappeared, leaving only half of the tail swaying and falling towards the ground.
Immediately afterwards, next to the tail of the falling earth spirit bee, seven or eight tiny cyan-black tentacle suddenly appeared without warning, grabbing half of the tail at once.
After that, a triangular head the size of a fist suddenly appeared without warning. It was pitch-black. After shaking, it swallow the half of the tail.
It seems to be a strange insect!
Before Zhang Ling could see the whole picture of this thing clearly, the tentacle and the triangular head instantly become virtual and disappeared again.
There are space fluctuations when the strange insect appears. Could it be a strange insect with space supernatural power.
Zhang Ling immediately grasped the key point. At the same time, he swept his divine sense over to the insect room on the side of the spirit-devouring insects. That area was covered in a green formation light curtain, and the spirit-devouring insects were still flying restlessly.
He didn't pay attention to the spirit-devouring insects, and quickly scanned an oval black-green jade stone on the ground. There were many holes on it, and it looked tattered. But this jade stone was the insect nest of the spirit-devouring insects.
"Sure enough, that strange insect egg has hatched," Zhang Ling said to himself.
The two hundred or so spirit-devouring insects he controlled were all hatched from this insect nest.
Previously, when resisting the wild beast tide at Feiyun Gate, he obtained several insect nest of spirit-devouring insects. Only this insect nest contained insect egg of spirit-devouring insects, including an unusual giant insect egg.
The giant insect egg has now disappeared. If he guessed correctly, the strange insect just now may be the thing hatched from this insect egg.
Zhang Ling's thoughts turned sharply, and he carefully sensed the surrounding situation.
This time, he waited for a full cup of tea. Until the space around a few earth spirit bees fluctuated, the strange insect finally appeared here again.
He no longer hesitated, and quickly raised his hand, and a thick yellow light covered this area.
As soon as the strange insect emerged half of its head and a few tentacle, it seemed to be hurt and let out a cry.
The space within half a a unit of length, approximately meters around it shook, rippling a circle of strange pale white light wave, and the body of the strange insect fell out of it.
Zhang Ling could then see the appearance of the strange insect clearly.
This insect was only two a unit of length, approximately meters long. Its head was flat like a flattened triangle, and a dozen pairs of cyan-black tentacle wriggled below, like claws. Several pairs of white compound eyes also grew on both sides of its head.
Behind the head of this strange insect was also a strange gray-purple smog, which seemed to be the body, but the smoke was not substantial, and some starlight could be seen flowing in it.
It looked a bit mysterious, but with the triangular head, it looked a bit strange no matter how you looked at it.
Seeing the image of the strange insect, Zhang Ling's eyes showed a different color.
While he was be in a daze, the strange insect chirp and the circle of light white Halo appeared again. Wherever the light wave passed, the space began to shake.
The Echoing Void Bell on his waist also issued a jingle sound at the same time.
Zhang Ling flicked his finger, squeezing out a drop of blood essence from his fingertip, and imprinted it on the head of the strange insect.
As the blood essence merged into the strange insect's brain, the insect chirped strangely, and as its body twisted, some blood spirit patterns emerged on its triangular head.
Zhang Ling flicked his fingers in quick succession, and then shot out some spiritual light that submerged into the strange insect's body.
After a moment, the strange insect calmed down. The several pairs of compound eyes below its triangular head flickered a few times, and after circling a few times in the air, it swayed and floated over.
Zhang Ling reached out his hand, and the strange insect climbed onto it. Its tentacles were icy cold and without a trace of warmth.
His drop of blood essence could subdue this insect, and it also bore the Control God Restriction he had previously placed. It was clearly hatched from that strange insect egg.
Unexpectedly, the insect egg did not hatch into the Spirit Devouring Insect Queen he had imagined, but rather such a strange insect that seemed to possess spatial divine powers.
