The iron piece was inscribed with several complete secret techniques in demonic script, the most extensive of which was a technique called "Profound Female Transformation Spirit Secret Method."
He was currently interested in this secret technique because it seemed to solve a problem he currently had, which was how to control the Xuan Turtle. Zhang Ling read it carefully.
"The valley spirit never dies, the profound female transforms spirit, molds the root of heaven and earth, continuous and unbroken..."
The general outline of this secret technique consisted of only a few lines, and after reading it a few times, Zhang Ling was certain that it was no ordinary secret technique. For the next three or four days, he studied this secret technique.
The more he studied it, the more he realized that this secret technique was not just a common technique used by demon refiners, but a secret technique similar to refining an avatar.
In the cultivation world, there were many secret techniques related to avatars, but most of them were not true avatar techniques. These types of avatar techniques were generally like how he controlled the corpse bear before, using his divine sense to control a puppet as an avatar.
However, the "Profound Female Transformation Spirit Secret Method" in front of him was a true avatar secret technique. The avatar cultivated could communicate with the main soul, share memories, and was a true incarnation.
The biggest feature of this type of secret technique was that if the main body died, the avatar could inherit all the memories of the main soul, equivalent to having an extra life.
This kind of divine power had a simple name in the cultivation world, called the Second Primordial Spirit.
The legendary One Qi Transforms into Three Purities was this type of secret technique, the most supreme divine power of the Xuan Sect. However, it seemed to have been lost in the human realm, but the concept of this type of secret technique was inherited by cultivators.
In the demonic path, there was a top secret technique, the Profound Mother Transforming Infant Great Art, which was this type of Second Primordial Spirit secret technique.
This Second Primordial Spirit secret technique was very mysterious. It was very difficult to cultivate successfully, and it seemed to suffer backlash. But once successful, it could give a cultivator an extra primordial spirit, and this alone was enough to make people unable to refuse.
As for whether the Profound Female Transformation Spirit Secret Method he had now obtained was a genuine secret technique that could cultivate a Second Primordial Spirit, Zhang Ling could not distinguish it.
However, thinking that the iron piece had an extraordinary origin and was recorded with this ancient demonic script, it was likely to be genuine. However, he could not decide whether to cultivate it for a while.
Because although cultivating this secret technique had many wonderful uses, there were also great hidden dangers and risks.
Zhang Ling pondered for a while and put away the iron piece. He then took out two more yellowed ancient jade scrolls and a palm-sized triangular token.
These three items were obtained from the stone tower he discovered when he first entered the poisonous mist swamp on the first level of the Heavenly Abyss. At that time, a monster with the upper body of a human and the lower body of a centipede appeared.
His divine sense scanned the triangular token, but there was no reaction. There were no words or any pattern markings on it, and he could not see any use for it. It seemed to be a token from an ancient sect, which was of no use to him.
Zhang Ling turned his eyes to the two ancient jade scrolls. The information in them was also recorded in an ancient immortal script, but this type of immortal script had appeared in some ancient books, so it was simple to identify.
After spending most of the day, he read all the information in the two jade scrolls. The information recorded on them was a bit strange. It was neither a cultivation technique nor a secret technique, nor was it any ancient secret. It still recorded many events of studying turbid qi.
Turbid qi eroded the cultivator's consciousness and could turn people into monsters. It had always been a hidden danger in the Flowing Cloud Sea, and people had been studying it from ancient times to the present, but there was no accurate answer. The two ancient jade scrolls seemed to be records of a certain sect studying turbid qi.
It said that turbid qi only eroded creatures with autonomous consciousness and did not have much impact on plants, trees, soil, and stones. It believed that this was a special evil energy, a kind of spiritual pollution of evil energy, not the kind of Yin evil energy in the ordinary sense.
The two ancient jade scrolls also had many drawings of demonic beasts and human cultivators eroded by turbid qi imprinted on them.
The centipede monster they fought against was the product of this sect's research on turbid qi and was sealed under the stone tower. They triggered the restriction, which released the centipede monster.
After reading these two jade scrolls, Zhang Ling had a deeper understanding of turbid qi.
He originally thought that turbid qi was just a special kind of spiritual qi. After so many years of understanding and this trip to the Heavenly Abyss, he also felt that the views on the jade scroll were more accurate.
And this time entering the abyss secret realm, it can be said that he encountered many dangers, but it also brought him a lot of gains.
Not only did he get the Earth Spirit Fruit as he wished, but also the Rootless Lotus, Refining God Diagram, Blood Soul Cauldron, the spiritual bone essence blood containing powerful spiritual pressure in the jade box, and several jade scrolls recording ancient immortal scripts.
These were not ordinary things, and each one could cause trouble if taken out.
In addition to these treasure gains, Zhang Ling also had a deeper understanding of the Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm. This Heavenly Abyss can be said to have originally been the battlefield of two powerful creatures fighting, and was formed into a secret realm after being sealed by ancient cultivators.
This is also related to the formation of the entire Flowing Cloud Sea and turbid qi, and he seems to have touched some ancient secrets.
However, these secrets are not complete, and Zhang Ling feels that he only understands a rough outline.
After all, the Heavenly Abyss is said to be divided into seven layers, and this time he reached the Azure Spirit Sea on the fifth layer at the farthest, and encountered the Xuan Turtle comparable to a transformed demon beast. He knew nothing about the deepest two layers.
Moreover, this time the Heavenly Abyss was opened, and many Nascent Soul old monsters and transformed demon beasts such as the Crimson Fire King also came in. The goal of these old monsters may be the deepest two layers.
Zhang Ling thought for a while and stopped thinking about these things. No matter how mysterious these old monsters were, they had nothing to do with him. His own cultivation was the next plan.
In this way, after staying in the water mansion at the bottom of the lake for more than half a month, he once again put the Xuan Turtle into the Yin-Yang gourd and left.
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Time flies, more than two months later.
This day, Zhang Ling stood on a main street in Myriad Manifestation City, looking at the endless stream of people, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Although only a few months had passed, he felt as if a long time had passed. Seeing so many people again made him feel a lot more at ease.
Zhang Ling wandered around the street for a while. In a square with the most people, the green light in his hand flickered, and a fiery red feather appeared. As soon as the feather was taken out, it turned into a firelight, circled in the air for half a circle, and soared into the sky.
The firelight flickered a few times in the air. He flew in a direction and disappeared within a few breaths.
After Zhang Ling watched the crimson feather disappear, he quickly left the spot.
This thing was what the Nascent Soul female cultivator in the ice coffin asked him to bring out when he was trapped in that hidden cave. Now that he had arrived in Myriad Manifestation City, he would naturally not carry this thing with him all the time, so as not to attract other Nascent Soul old monsters.
Moreover, choosing to release this thing in this busy city area was also out of this concern.
There are many people and many cultivators here. Even if something was done on this feather, it would be difficult for other cultivators to track his aura in this complex environment.
Zhang Ling wandered around a few more streets for a while, and soon chose an inn to stay in, planning to stay in Myriad Manifestation City for a few days.
For the sake of the next cultivation progress, he had some things to sell, and he also had to collect several special materials.
In the following time, Zhang Ling first went to several famous libraries in Myriad Manifestation City and checked a lot of books.
He focused on checking some knowledge related to spiritual herbs, and after spending five or six days, he finally found some information about the Seven-Colored Seven-Leaf Flower and the Cloud-Swallowing Stone.
The Seven-Colored Seven-Leaf Flower is listed as a fourth-grade precious spiritual herb, which is said to be able to repair the damaged soul of a cultivator to a certain extent. However, this spiritual herb is not naturally generated, but cultivated the day after tomorrow.
It is cultivated from ordinary Seven-Leaf Flowers. Seven-Leaf Flowers are only second-grade spiritual herbs with a large output and not much value.
However, many people are studying this spiritual herb. Some people use special methods to use various spiritual powers to cultivate ordinary Seven-Leaf Flowers to produce many variants.
There are three-colored Seven-Leaf Flowers, five-colored Seven-Leaf Flowers, and the most supreme is the Seven-Colored Seven-Leaf Flower.
So that's it.
After Zhang Ling read the relevant book introduction, he was quite surprised. He did not expect that the Seven-Colored Seven-Leaf Flower came from this way.
There are many cultivators like this who study spiritual herbs. Many sects in the cultivation world have related research, but this aspect is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the spiritual herbs researched may not be as valuable as the original spiritual herbs, and most of them have corresponding substitutes.
Maybe other lower-level spiritual herbs can replace the new spiritual herbs researched.
After all, there are many types of spiritual herbs in the cultivation world. Many spiritual herbs were originally the same spiritual herb, but mutated in different environments and the medicinal power changed, so they were named new spiritual herbs.
However, these are mostly low-level spiritual herbs. It is indeed rare to be able to research a fourth-grade spiritual herb like the Seven-Colored Seven-Leaf Flower.
As for another material, the Cloud-Swallowing Stone, he looked through many books, but there was no relevant record.
On the contrary, the Seven-Colored Seven-Leaf Flower has been recorded in several books on how to cultivate it. This is not a secret.
However, to cultivate the Seven-Colored Seven-Leaf Flower, you must use at least a hundred and eighty years of Seven-Colored Flowers to have a chance of cultivating it successfully. Moreover, the probability of failure is also very high.
If the age is not reached, you can only cultivate three-colored Seven-Leaf Flowers or five-colored Seven-Leaf Flowers.
The value of this kind of Seven-Leaf Flower is not very high.
This is also why the Seven-Colored Seven-Leaf Flower basically does not appear on the market. It is too troublesome to cultivate, and the waiting time is extremely long.
Maybe forces like the Ten Great Sects have some reserves, after all, the Seven-Colored Seven-Leaf Flower can repair the wounds on the soul, but there will definitely not be too many.
Zhang Ling is not too worried about this. His fingers have a mysterious small pillar to promote the growth of spiritual plants, and the age of herbs is not a big problem for him.
