Back at the inn, Zhang Ling immediately activated the formation to restrict the room. He sat cross-legged on the wooden bed, and with a flick of his hand, he took out the jade plate wrapped in five elements spiritual power.
On this treasure was the Rootless Lotus, which had become extremely illusory. Only four lotus seeds remained on this spiritual object of heaven and earth.
As for the effect of this item being able to cleanse a cultivator's spiritual roots, which the Azure Fox King had told him about, he could directly swallow these lotus seeds without refining them into any kind of pill.
This kind of spiritual object of heaven and earth itself contained pure spiritual power, and it was difficult for ordinary spiritual herbs to complement it. Directly consuming and refining it could achieve better results.
According to the Azure Fox King, swallowing one or two lotus seeds was enough to cleanse a cultivator's spiritual roots. However, after refining the lotus seeds, it would take nearly a hundred years for the cultivator's spiritual roots to gradually be cleansed.
This was a long process.
Zhang Ling himself had the cultivation aptitude of three spiritual roots: metal, water, and earth. If he cleansed his spiritual roots, although the three spiritual roots would not change, his cultivation speed could be comparable to that of a dual spiritual root aptitude.
Although the effect seemed insignificant and would take a hundred years to gradually manifest, once he could achieve the cultivation speed of dual spiritual roots, and with the help of spiritual herbs nurtured by the mysterious pearl to refine pills, his cultivation speed would definitely be more than half as fast.
The time saved would definitely accumulate to a significant amount.
For any cultivator, time was extremely important. Having more time, whether to cultivate secret techniques or break through realms, the benefits were undoubtedly significant.
Moreover, the Rootless Lotus had many benefits for condensing the Nascent Soul. Although he didn't know exactly how much it could increase the chances of forming a Nascent Soul, obtaining four Rootless Lotus seeds was definitely a great opportunity for him.
In addition to already obtaining the Earth Spirit Fruit, as long as he refined the Nascent Soul Pill, he would have some confidence in condensing the Nascent Soul.
Zhang Ling planned to collect all the missing cultivation resources, then directly enter secluded cultivation to prepare for condensing the Nascent Soul.
Looking at the Rootless Lotus, Zhang Ling pondered his next cultivation progress.
After a moment, he came back to his senses. He opened his mouth, and a flash of blue light emerged, spitting out the Yin-Yang Gourd. The gourd spun around a few times and landed in front of him, transforming into a huge gourd about ten feet in size.
A stream of cyan and white gas flowed out of the gourd's mouth, instantly enveloping his whole body. Zhang Ling's figure swayed, and he directly entered the gourd.
The space inside the gourd was several miles wide. After Zhang Ling entered, he landed directly on a sandy ground.
Underneath his feet was naturally Heavenly Star Sand, but at this moment, a thick layer of frost appeared on the surface of the Heavenly Star Sand, and many sand grains were directly frozen into chunks of ice.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling's mind moved, and the Heavenly Star Sand quickly flowed to dispel the frost on it.
He looked up and could see a huge, pitch-black object in front of him, which was the Xuan Turtle's main body, occupying a large space inside the gourd.
This Xuan Turtle was now just a living dead-like body, lying there quietly motionless. But the icy spiritual power flowing from its body was constantly running.
After putting this beast into the gourd, Zhang Ling also found that driving this natal magic weapon was also affected a lot. It seemed that he had to solve this guy as soon as possible, and could not keep it in the Yin-Yang Gourd all the time.
Of course, he also thought about buying a large spirit beast bag to store the Xuan Turtle, but during this period of time, he went to several large shops, and the highest-level spirit beast bag he had seen could not fit this beast.
If he could control the Xuan Turtle, he could use secret methods to shrink its body. Then he would not have this trouble.
After circling around the Xuan Turtle a few times, and seeing that there were no other abnormalities, Zhang Ling sat cross-legged on the sand. With a slight movement of his divine sense, the sand rolled, revealing a fist-sized stone ball.
The surface of the stone ball was smooth, like an ordinary pebble, but as soon as this object appeared, a cloud of white mist emerged around it. This was spiritual mist manifested from pure spiritual power. Although it was separated from the top-grade spiritual vein, with this spiritual eye stone, the spiritual energy density in a small area was much stronger than that of an ordinary middle-grade spiritual vein.
Before, the Azure Fox King only asked about the Rootless Lotus, and did not ask about the spiritual eye stone. Now this treasure belonged to him. Zhang Ling carefully looked at the spiritual eye stone, and a look of great joy appeared on his face.
He raised one hand, and a ray of spiritual light hit the jade plate in his hand. The Rootless Lotus on it flashed and directly detached from the jade plate and landed on the spiritual eye stone.
The Rootless Lotus also seemed quite excited, and a colorful spiritual light appeared, instantly turning into a colorful little snake, slowly swimming around the spiritual eye stone, looking very spiritual.
Zhang Ling carefully observed it for a while, and found that the colorful little snake was much weaker than before. If it were not for this spiritual eye stone, this spiritual object of heaven and earth would hardly be able to preserve its basic form.
Now with the spiritual eye stone, it instantly transformed again, indeed this object was not comparable to ordinary things. If this object stayed on the spiritual eye stone all the time, it might be able to give birth to a fifth, sixth lotus seed.
Zhang Ling thought to himself. But thinking about it, it would probably take at least hundreds or even thousands of years to give birth to a fifth lotus seed.
He smiled, and turned his gaze to the jade plate he was holding in his hand, this was a spiritual artifact.
The so-called "spiritual artifact" is actually a special kind of magic tool. The important reason that distinguishes it from ordinary magic tools is that spiritual artifacts can be installed with spirit stones as a source of spiritual power.
Sounds pretty good.
But for cultivators, spiritual artifacts are not as easy to use as magic tools. Because most of the power of a spiritual artifact comes from the spirit stones installed on it.
The spiritual energy in the spirit stones has not been refined by the cultivator, so naturally it is not as smooth as the spiritual power obtained through the cultivator's hard work.
If the spirit stones in the spiritual artifact are exhausted or go wrong during a battle, it will be very dangerous. It is said that this probability seems to be quite high. It must be maintained frequently.
Of course, spiritual artifacts also have advantages. They do not require high cultivation to use, and they do not consume much of their own spiritual power, but generally only Qi Refining stage cultivators will use them.
It is said that there are also some spiritual artifacts that mortals can use to exert some of the methods of cultivators.
Speaking of which, he also has several methods for refining spiritual artifacts in his hand, and there are methods for refining spiritual artifacts in the puppet technique he cultivates.
This kind of spiritual artifact is also often used to enhance the strength of puppets. For example, the weapons held by several kinds of humanoid puppets are mostly replaced by this kind of spiritual artifact.
Spiritual artifacts, like magic tools, also have grades.
And top-grade spiritual artifacts and extreme-grade spiritual artifacts are more difficult to refine than magic tools of the same rank, and there is also a type of large spiritual artifact whose power is even no less than that of magic treasures.
Large flying magic tools, such as flying cloud boats and war boats, are mostly spirit stone-driven spiritual artifacts refined by some sects.
There are also some defensive works of sects and immortal cities, such as spiritual power cannons and gravity catapults, which also belong to the ranks of spiritual artifacts. They also play a significant role in the face of enemies.
But these large spiritual artifacts are definitely expensive to build. And they are not convenient to move, and are generally connected to the sect's mountain protection formation and the immortal city's defense formation.
Speaking of which, the source of inspiration for refining spiritual artifacts is the mechanism puppet technique.
Puppet beasts and humanoid armor puppets are actually considered spiritual artifacts. The energy source is all driven by the spirit stones installed on them.
The only difference from ordinary spiritual artifacts is that puppets are more refined and more troublesome to refine. But for cultivators, mechanism puppet beasts are more practical and easier to carry.
If a Qi Refining cultivator has a second-order puppet, it is not difficult to kill a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
The jade plate in front of him is an extreme-grade spiritual artifact, inlaid with five top-grade spirit stones, which can withstand the spiritual power impact of top-grade spirit stones, and its value is definitely no less than that of a magic treasure.
