Given his serious injuries, it was best not to use his spiritual power. For safety, he released those two.
The Corpse Bear had mid-Foundation Establishment strength, and the orange cat also had late-Qi Refining strength. With them, he would have some self-protection.
Zhang Ling then chose a direction to explore. He didn't encounter any danger along the way.
After more than half an hour, he had explored the area within a hundred miles. For this, he even flew into the air on his magical artifact and circled around in several directions. All around were large dense forests.
It seemed he couldn't get out for a while. During the exploration, he didn't find any traces of human activity, but he did see two low-level demonic beasts.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling could only find a place here to recover from his injuries first. Soon after, he carved out a cave of more than ten feet in size on a cliff.
Then, he patted his storage bag and took out a hexagonal array plate and some array flags of various colors.
This was his Six甲 Bewildering God Array. Fortunately, he had brought this set of array flags with him when he went out before. Now it came in handy.
Zhang Ling condensed some spiritual power in his hand and cast several spells on the array plate, setting up the array around the cave. With this array, his safety was greatly enhanced.
After Bai Xin Yao's enhancements, the power of this array was even greater than before, and Foundation Establishment cultivators would not be able to detect it.
Zhang Ling took out a white porcelain bottle and poured out two round, brown pills. As soon as the pills appeared, the lazy double-tailed orange cat beside him perked up its tail, its green eyes staring at the pills with a longing look.
"Hmph, this fellow only puts in effort when there's food." Zhang Ling smiled, tossed his hand, and threw the two pills into the air.
Meow meow!
The orange cat cried out twice, its chubby body leaping up, its speed not slow, and it swallowed the two pills in one gulp.
"Hu Zi, guard the entrance."
Zhang Ling stroked the orange cat's head and said a few words to it. The orange cat meowed at him and lay down at the entrance, wagging its tail.
Seeing this, Zhang Ling ignored it.
For several years, he had rarely let this spiritual beast fight. The fat cat spent most of its time sleeping, only becoming active when he fed it spirit beast feed pills.
Over the years, the double-tailed orange cat had become comparable to a late-Qi Refining cultivator, and its intelligence was not low. It could understand his orders.
It was said that spiritual beasts that stayed with humans for a long time would grow faster in intelligence than wild demonic beasts. Now it was time for it to play its role.
While Zhang Ling was thinking about these things, with a thought, the Corpse Bear next to him flashed and stood upright on the other side of the cave entrance.
Then, he sat cross-legged on the ground, circulating the spiritual power around his body, and a trace of earthy yellow light surrounded him.
A full quarter of an hour later, he reopened his eyes, but his face was even more gloomy, and the veins on his forehead were bulging.
After carefully examining the condition of his body, most of the meridians throughout his body were damaged and strained to varying degrees, making the originally smooth operation of the cultivation technique obstructed and difficult.
For Foundation Establishment cultivators, it was to continuously expand the originally small dantian through exercising their cultivation technique, so that it could accommodate enough spiritual power.
Now that the operation of the cultivation technique was slow, not to mention casting spells and fighting, even meditating was several times more difficult.
It was equivalent to the spiritual energy that originally took an hour to convert, now taking several times longer to complete, and this was not the most desperate thing. The damage to the meridians would further damage the meridians throughout the body when absorbing spiritual energy.
In other words, the top priority now was to repair the meridian damage, and it was not advisable to cultivate during this time. It was best not to fight with other cultivators, so as not to aggravate the injury.
After another moment, Zhang Ling calmed down and took out several jade bottles from his storage bag, which looked like various kinds of pills. These were all healing pills he had refined.
Then, he swallowed these pills, trying to repair the meridians, but the effect was minimal. Zhang Ling had expected this and no longer had any wishful thinking.
Afterward, he took out several books and several jade slips, flipping through the information inside. It was not until two hours later that Zhang Ling raised his head.
"Spirit Continuation Pill"
"Jade Bone Pill"
After searching, he finally found several kinds of spiritual pills specifically for healing in these books, and what he used were these two kinds of pills.
Neither of these two kinds of pills were ordinary pills. The "Spirit Continuation Pill" was a rare third-grade pill, while the "Jade Bone Pill" did not have a detailed grade introduction.
Because this was an ancient pill, although its use was known, no one could refine it now.
Zhang Ling often collected some pill formulas. He had not collected many pill formulas so far, mostly some useless ancient pill formulas.
Don't think that ancient pill formulas are precious. Many spiritual herbs in the current cultivation world have become extinct, and the value of these pill formulas is basically useless.
Only cultivators like him who studied alchemy would collect some. Although he found these two kinds of pills that could restore his injuries.
He only had the pill formula for the "Jade Bone Pill", which he happened to collect in the Immortal City from an ancient pill formula.
He did not have the pill formula for the "Spirit Continuation Pill", which was what he was troubled about.
Zhang Ling touched a small sachet on his waist, which contained his biggest secret, the mysterious yellow round bead, which could be used to catalyze spiritual herbs.
To refine pills, he had to rely on this treasure to catalyze the spiritual herbs. Zhang Ling took out the pill formula for the Jade Bone Pill and studied it.
Soon, he frowned and sighed. This ancient pill formula required more than a dozen spiritual herbs to refine.
But the main herb was a third-grade spiritual herb, "White Jade Ganoderma", which had become extinct. Third-grade spiritual herbs seemed to have little value, but this was a wrong feeling.
Whether it was spiritual pills, spiritual talismans, or other things, once they exceeded the third grade, they were mostly high-level things, and such items were rare to see in large markets.
Especially this kind of special healing pill, it was even more valuable. And cultivators generally did not pay much attention to this kind of healing spiritual pill, mostly snatching some pills to break through their cultivation.
Fights often occurred in the cultivation world, especially now that his meridians were severely damaged. Only when injured would cultivators pay attention to this kind of pill.
After carefully checking the pill formula for the Jade Bone Pill several times, Zhang Ling put away the jade slip and books. It was useless to have a pill formula without finding the spiritual herbs. It seemed he could only think of other ways.
In addition to his own injuries, there was another urgent matter now, which was to find out where he was. To explore and find out where this was.
Maybe he could find a way to repair his meridians from some markets where cultivators gathered.
