Zhang Ling's powerful divine sense instantly enveloped Yun Hu. With a thought, Yun Hu's eyes became dull, his expression stiff and somewhat foolish, but he began to speak.
After about a quarter of an hour, Yun Hu collapsed to the ground, his whole body icy cold. He was covered in cold sweat, his eyes filled with fear and unease.
Zhang Ling glanced at Yun Hu. He had just used a type of illusionary spell on him, a soul-capturing technique, to ask about his purpose.
If he were a Nascent Soul cultivator now, he might have used the Soul Searching Great Art to directly find the answer from this person's soul.
The Soul Searching Great Art is a secret technique of the demonic path, very vicious to use. Once someone is soul-searched, there is a high probability they will become an idiot. Moreover, the greater the difference in the strength of the souls of the caster and the one being cast upon, the higher the probability of success.
But a Golden Core cultivator cannot use this secret technique, so Zhang Ling had to settle for the soul-capturing technique to confuse this person's mind.
However, this person's purpose was not much different from what he had guessed. It really was for something in the storage bag.
Zhang Ling flicked the storage bag a few times, and with a flash of light, a cyan jade bottle flew out.
The cyan jade bottle popped open, and three round, milky-white pills flew out, hovering in the air, emitting an enticing medicinal fragrance.
"These White Bloom Pills, that's your purpose, right? It is said that this kind of spiritual pill can increase the chance of forming a Golden Core by half, which is not bad. I didn't expect there to be three. It seems that the Chen family also has some foundation." Zhang Ling chuckled.
Yun Hu's face was pale. He just glanced at the pills, his eyes somewhat fiery, but when he thought of the methods this senior had used on him, he couldn't help but smile awkwardly, and the fire in his eyes was immediately extinguished.
Zhang Ling couldn't help but find this person's expression amusing.
For a moment, he remembered that he had also spent a lot of effort to condense his Golden Core, either squatting in the market to find Golden Core spiritual objects or participating in some secret trading meetings.
The Golden Core stage is already considered a master in the world of cultivation. Some declining cultivation sects may not even have such a master to guard them.
Many Foundation Establishment cultivators spend their entire fortune on it. If it weren't for the mysterious little pearl, he would have had difficulty reaching his current realm. Zhang Ling couldn't help but sigh. With a flick of his finger, a milky-white pill flew to Yun Hu.
Yun Hu looked at the pill in front of him in disbelief. He glanced at Zhang Ling again, and saw that Zhang Ling had a smile on his face, and didn't seem to be pretending.
The fire that had disappeared in Yun Hu's eyes brightened again.
"This time I have gained a lot, this pill is considered revenge, goodbye."
As Yun Hu bowed and thanked him, a flash of light appeared on Zhang Ling's body, and he turned into a yellow light, soaring into the sky and disappearing in an instant.
At the same moment, several gray-white threads emerged from Yun Hu's chest. These threads spontaneously combusted in the air with a puff, turning into wisps of smoke and dissipating.
Yun Hu reacted at this moment, but there was no trace of Zhang Ling in front of him. After a moment of stunned silence, he first touched his chest, and then happily collected the pill.
Zhang Ling had already flown out of the Red Wind Bird's nest, turning into a yellow light and shooting towards the distance.
This time, he had gained a lot and was in a good mood. Giving Yun Hu a White Bloom Pill was nothing. These gains were all thanks to this person's information.
Zhang Ling looked at the endless mountains and landforms in front of him, thinking about quickly returning to his cave to retreat and cultivate.
He had been out for more than half a year this time. Although this time was not long, he had experienced many dangers and faced life-and-death crises several times.
He had a deeper understanding of his own strength.
A cultivator's life is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. Without strength, you don't know when you will be killed by a cultivator stronger than you.
With such an urgent desire to become stronger, Zhang Ling flew all the way.
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Two months later, on a certain street in Myriad Manifestation City, Zhang Ling looked at the bustling scene of people coming and going. He hadn't seen so many pedestrians in a long time, and sighed in his heart.
Half an hour ago, he had returned to Myriad Manifestation City through a teleportation array on an outer island.
Zhang Ling strolled around the street for a while, then directly flew into the air towards his cave.
Soon after, he returned to his cave, which was still the same as when he left. The formation outside the cave had not been disturbed in the slightest.
After returning to the cave, Zhang Ling first took a bath and then lay on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.
It had been seven or eight months since he set off. During this time, he had either experienced danger or traveled all the way. He also felt some fatigue.
He woke up three days later, feeling refreshed.
Zhang Ling walked out of the cave in high spirits, first checked several medicine fields and planted some of the required spiritual herbs.
Then he placed the earth spirit bees in a special insect breeding room. This time, he only took away the mature spirit bees, and the immature earth spirit bees were not taken away.
After checking, the immature spirit insects were also in good condition, and stayed obediently in the insect breeding room.
Spirit insects have very tenacious vitality, and will not have major problems even if they are left alone for several years. Many spirit insects are also kept in storage bags, and nothing will happen. At most, they will be a little listless or fall into dormancy.
Zhang Ling brought more than 6,000 mature earth spirit bees this time, and the number lost in only two uses was close to 2,000. He couldn't help but feel distressed.
It took a lot of effort to cultivate these earth spirit bees. They can pose some threat to ordinary early-stage Golden Core cultivators. But when encountering powerful cultivators, I am afraid they will not be of much use.
However, the honey produced by the earth spirit bees is still of great use, and Zhang Ling still intends to cultivate them carefully.
Not only for cultivation needs, but if the number of mature earth spirit bees reaches tens of thousands, it can also become a considerable help.
Then Zhang Ling returned to the cave. He first came to a quiet room, unfastened a leather bag from his waist, and with a flash of light, a red giant cocoon about ten feet in size fell to the ground.
Inside was his spirit beast, the twin-tailed cat. This spirit beast is now in a state of evolution again. This is because the twin-tailed cat devoured the Profound Yang Fire Seed.
At that time, in the mountain belly below the Red Wind Bird's nest, he soon discovered the Profound Yang Fire, which was a ball of spiritual fire only the size of a palm, very spiritual. As soon as it encountered that wisp of Profound Yang Fire, this wisp of heaven and earth spiritual fire transformed into various animal shapes and launched an attack on him.
Zhang Ling deliberately tried to test the power of the Profound Yang Fire, which was indeed not weak, even stronger than the pill fire he had condensed.
After using means to control the fire seed, he was originally casting a spell to temporarily seal the Profound Yang Fire.
But then an abnormality occurred in the spirit beast bag, and the twin-tailed cat jumped out directly and swallowed the Profound Yang Fire in one gulp. Then the twin-tailed cat turned into an orange cat about ten feet in size, and then turned into this giant cocoon. It looked like it was about to advance again.
Zhang Ling looked at the red giant cocoon in front of him and released his divine sense to carefully sense it for a while. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, he was relieved.
The spiritual fire of heaven and earth is itself a spiritual object formed by the embodiment of the spiritual power of heaven and earth. The Profound Yang Fire is also known as the three Yang spiritual fire, which is the fire of Yang evil. Zhang Ling, he has no fire spiritual root and the compatibility of fire attribute spiritual energy is pitifully low.
Of course, as a Golden Core cultivator, if he wants to refine it, he can also forcibly refine it, but it is quite troublesome and time-consuming.
Now that it has been swallowed by the twin-tailed cat, although it is an accident, Zhang Ling is still quite looking forward to the strength of this spirit beast after it advances. After all, the twin-tailed cat itself is a fire attribute spirit beast and is quite compatible with the Profound Yang Fire.
It is also common for demon beasts to devour spiritual objects of heaven and earth. If the Profound Yang Fire was born in a demon beast nest, I am afraid it would have been swallowed by other demon beasts long ago.
But the wild beasts in the wilderness have confused intelligence and no ability to think. Even the Red Wind Bird, a sixth-order fire attribute wild beast, only instinctively nests in the mountain where the spiritual fire is located.
This is how this wisp of Profound Yang Fire can be preserved.
After checking the twin-tailed cat's advancement progress, Zhang Ling speculated that the spirit beast would not be able to refine the Profound Yang Fire in a short time, so he put the flame giant cocoon into a spirit pet room and paved the ground with spirit stones.
That's all he can do. The spirit beast's advancement can only rely on the twin-tailed cat itself. The extent to which he can help is limited.
Afterwards, Zhang Ling entered the quiet room for cultivation and took stock of all the gains this time.
In addition to the most direct financial gains, there are also those special treasures that can be used as trump cards. But Zhang Ling just briefly took stock of these and then put them back into his storage bag.
Then Zhang Ling specially took out a black storage bag. This storage bag was obtained from the broken corpse on the teleportation array, and it contained the most important exercises and classics to him. Now he has to carefully select the exercises that are suitable for him.
With a wave of his hand, Zhang Ling took out all the things inside.
Three huge boxes about ten feet in size, one of which was filled with jade bottles. Originally, they were all some rare pills, but after the passage of time, they all turned into dust and had no value at all.
The other big box contained a lot of medium-grade spirit stones, but they were all solidified together.
The remaining big box contained several jade boxes of different sizes. He had roughly checked them before, and two of the jade boxes contained exercises, secret books, and other classics.
In total, there were fifty or sixty jade slips and ten books, all of which were well preserved. He also found several earth attribute exercises among them. Now that he has returned to the cave and there is no danger, he naturally has to study them carefully.
Of course, there is no rush now. Zhang Ling plans to open the remaining jade boxes and see what things are placed inside.
There are three remaining jade boxes, all of which are protected by spirit talismans. He first opens a long, white jade box, which only contains a long scroll.
The scroll emits a trace of spiritual light and is not an ordinary item. Zhang Ling picked up the scroll and unfolded it, and his face showed a strange color. It was empty and nothing was written on it, presenting a blank state.
Zhang Ling came back to his senses, and the scroll floated directly in the air, and with a whoosh, it unfolded all at once. Only then did he see a few golden characters at the top of the scroll.
The four ancient characters "Kunshan Register" came into view, and Zhang Ling suddenly realized that the scroll was actually a special magic weapon for the sect to record the names of monks, no wonder it was empty.
This kind of special magic weapon is generally only qualified to check the information inside by the elders or the head of a sect. The materials used for this scroll are also very particular, no less than the level of ordinary magic weapons, but it is of no use in his hands.
Zhang Ling put away the scroll and put it back in the jade box. However, these few also confirmed to him that the broken corpse was a monk of the Kunshan Sect, an ancient sect.
Then Zhang Ling also understood why the things in this storage bag were so special, with a large number of jade slips.
This situation will only happen when the sect suffers a great disaster, relocates its residence, or is destroyed, so that some elders and other disciples can bring the inheritance items and hide and escape.
Among these inheritance items, the most important are the sect's secret methods and classics.
Zhang Ling then took out another jade box. After opening it, it also contained only one thing, which was an ancient and simple token, the whole was cyan and black in color, and the material felt a bit like wood.
After careful inspection, he was surprised to find that this token was actually carved from thousand-year iron wood. Thousand-year iron wood is enough to be used as the main material for magic weapons. Obviously, it is also a special item.
This kind of thing similar to a sect token is of no use to him, after all, this sect is an ancient sect ten thousand years ago. Even if they had previously explored that this was really Zizhong's station, the Kunshan Sect would have long been submerged in the river of history.
Zhang Ling couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Two things that were useless to him were of no use to him.
Then he set his sights on the last jade box. This was a black jade box, also the largest jade box in the big box. Several fourth-order sealing talismans were affixed to it, and it seemed that the most precious things were sealed inside.
Zhang Ling inexplicably looked forward to it, carefully using spiritual power to uncover the sealing talismans and open the jade box. With a click, the jade box was opened by him, and it only contained a piece of black jade stone.
Zhang Ling carefully looked at it twice and recognized that it was a shadow recording stone. Under the shadow recording stone was also a piece of colorful brocade, which seemed to be just the bottom lining.
How could it be a shadow recording stone?
Zhang Ling was puzzled and a little disappointed. Although the shadow recording stone can record pictures and sounds, most of what it records are scene-like pictures. And most of them are intelligence-like information.
Even if the original record has very valuable information, after all, the ancient things are already ten thousand years apart from the present, and it can basically be determined that it has no value.
Zhang Ling was puzzled in his heart, but he still summoned, and the shadow recording stone spun around and stopped in mid-air. A wisp of spiritual power hit it, and suddenly a flash of spiritual light appeared on the shadow recording stone, releasing a puff of cyan smoke.
This situation made Zhang Ling stunned, thinking that something had happened, his figure quickly retreated a few feet away, and at the same time, the body protection spiritual light on his body was also opened.
But seeing the constantly rotating shadow recording stone releasing a large amount of cyan smoke that condensed and did not disperse, it filled the entire quiet room in a short time.
Could this thing be broken, Zhang Ling couldn't help but slander in his heart. However, after a few breaths of time, the cyan smoke rolled and turned into a picture.
Many of the pictures that appeared were floating in mid-air, covering the entire quiet room.
