Half a month later, Zhang Ling returned to Fire Cloud Island to prepare for seclusion.
First, he planted all the spiritual herbs he obtained from the Heavenly Abyss Secret Realm in the medicine field and began to use the mysterious little bead to催生 (promote growth).
In particular, the fifth-grade Earth Spirit Fruit Tree was planted in a separate medicine field, and many restrictions were set up to protect it.
Of course, he had collected all the auxiliary spiritual herbs needed to refine the Nascent Soul Pill, several of which were fourth-grade spiritual herbs.
In addition, there were some rare third-grade elixirs that were rarely seen outside.
Especially one of them, the Purple Heart Stone, which is a kind of nut that looks like a chestnut, can be used to refine Blood Essence Pills, which are top-quality blood energy pills, even more valuable than ordinary fourth-grade spiritual herbs.
In addition, another elixir called Baihao Dan is also very suitable for his current cultivation progress.
In this way, Zhang Ling entered a state of semi-seclusion, cultivating spiritual herbs while spending a lot of time studying the Profound Female Transformation Spirit Secret Technique.
If he could use this secret technique to control the Xuan Turtle, his strength would increase exponentially.
There was another important reason why he was eager to cultivate this secret technique. When Zhang Ling talked with Tu Fei, this person revealed that the turbid Qi was about to erupt.
This is a major natural disaster in Liuyun Sea. Once the turbid Qi erupts, the turbid Qi in the wilderness will spread rapidly, and may even sweep the entire Liuyun Sea. It is also accompanied by a beast tide attack.
This kind of natural disaster occurs every few hundred years. It is not surprising that thousands of wild beasts attack, and even Nascent Soul-level wild spirits appear. Super immortal cities like Vientiane City may be breached.
It is said that the last turbid Qi eruption was more than 300 years ago. At that time, many medium-sized islands in the human race area were destroyed, and several Nascent Soul old monsters were damaged. Even more low-level cultivators died.
The eruption of turbid Qi also has rules to follow and is inseparable from Tianyuan. The Tianyuan Secret Realm is the source of turbid Qi. A large amount of pure turbid Qi is sealed in the secret realm. When the turbid Qi reaches a certain level, it will break through the seal and begin to spread.
When the turbid Qi erupts, the entire cultivation world of Liuyun Sea will be shaken. Vientiane City and the Ten Great Sects will summon all cultivators to resist the turbid mist and the beast tide.
No one can stay out of it. From Qi refining cultivators to Nascent Soul old monsters, they must rush to the front line to resist, and the monster race is no exception.
Because this is related to the survival of the human race and the monster race in the entire Liuyun Sea. Mortals and low-level monsters cannot resist the erosion of turbid Qi.
Once a large amount of turbid Qi spreads, mortals and low-level monsters will be transformed into wild beasts in a short period of time, which is the most terrifying thing.
The entire Liuyun Sea area is floating in the sky. It was originally a whole continent, which was formed due to changes in ancient times.
At that time, turbid Qi eroded a large area, and the central area of the continent formed the current wilderness. The human race and the monster race were squeezed to the edge instead.
After that, Liuyun Sea floated strangely in the sky.
The area of the wilderness is actually much larger than the area of the human race and the monster race, accounting for 70% of the entire Liuyun Sea area, roughly maintaining the original continental form.
The areas occupied by the human race and the monster race are more divided, forming islands of various sizes. Therefore, once the turbid Qi erupts, it will spread outward with the Tianyuan Secret Realm as the center.
Moreover, according to Tu Fei, this turbid Qi eruption may be more violent than in the past. This news comes from the Qinghu King. This time in the Tianyuan Secret Realm, several old monsters seem to have touched some ancient restrictions, causing the turbid Qi to be more violent than usual.
This kind of natural disaster is the most impermanent. Even golden core cultivators like them can hardly protect themselves. Therefore, only by rapidly increasing their strength can they survive better.
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Time flies, and half a year has passed in a blink of an eye. The spiritual herbs needed for the Nascent Soul Pill have basically been ripened to the required age by him with mysterious beads.
However, Zhang Ling did not refine the Nascent Soul Pill immediately, because his current cultivation level was not enough. At the current cultivation progress, it would take at least thirty to forty years of hard work to cultivate to the Great Perfection of the Golden Core stage.
It is not too late to refine the Nascent Soul Pill at that time.
On this day, in the cultivation quiet room in the cave, Zhang Ling sat cross-legged. After sitting in meditation for several hours without moving, he suddenly opened his eyes, and the Two Instruments Gourd appeared in his hand.
The gourd flashed with green light, and a wisp of green and white gas spewed out. This wisp of green and white gas was only as thick as a hair, entwined with a fingernail-sized colorful fish.
Stretching out two fingers, he instantly pinched the colorful fish. After a burst of illusion, the small fish turned into a layer of colorful fluorescence, in which a colorful bean the size of a broad bean appeared.
This is a lotus seed of the Rootless Lotus. This treasure is white and bright, like a very small aura point, but it is quite hard in the hand.
Zhang Ling used his spiritual sense to constantly examine this lotus seed.
More than a dozen colorful silk threads appear on the surface of this object, like some kind of spiritual pattern, but they are changing rapidly, sometimes changing into the shape of flowing water, sometimes changing into the shape of mountains and rocks. Like some kind of colored painting.
His nose moved slightly a few times, and Zhang Ling smelled a faint fragrance. The fragrance was not very strong, but it made people feel refreshed.
With a flick of his hand, he threw the lotus seed into his mouth. After the lotus seed entered his mouth, there was not much change. It was still quite hard, like swallowing a stone.
I can feel a few strands of pure spiritual power emanating from it, like swallowing a pill. However, these strands of spiritual power do not feel as strong as the spiritual power of the pills he usually takes during cultivation.
Zhang Ling closed his eyes and began to run his exercises to mobilize the spiritual power of his whole body, wrapped the lotus seed and began to refine it.
It was not until more than ten days later that the lotus seed in his mouth turned into strands of colorful aura, which was carried by spiritual power to the dantian.
In the dantian qi sea, next to the golden core he condensed, a very small colored spot of light appeared, which was the lotus seed of the Rootless Lotus.
This lotus seed is still spinning around, emitting circles of colorful ripples, and the escaping colorful aura turns into very small spots of light, flashing and flashing to fill the entire dantian, constantly washing his body.
Zhang Ling didn't feel much change in his body, and the speed of meditation and absorbing external spiritual power didn't seem to increase.
Moreover, whether it is cultivating secret techniques, taking pills, or directly sitting in meditation to absorb external spiritual power, the lotus seed in the dantian remains unmoved, as if it does not exist.
Because of this, he felt a little suspicious, but he could only patiently refine this lotus seed. This process is very long, and it gradually changes his own qualifications.
In the following time, Zhang Ling closed the cave and began to retreat and practice. After retreating, he did not sit in meditation to increase his cultivation, but began to practice secret techniques.
The first secret technique he cultivated was the "Substitute Puppet", this demonic secret technique. When dealing with the Xuan Turtle's demon soul before, the Substitute Puppet blocked a fatal crisis for him, and it had been consumed.
It took him more than a month to re-refine a Substitute Puppet with the vine roots on his body and a split of his spiritual soul.
But if you want to block a fatal crisis, the puppet must be hidden in the body and constantly cultivated with essence, qi, and spirit. It will take at least seventy to eighty years to cultivate it to play a role.
This is another long process, but there is naturally no clever way to use this kind of life-saving secret technique.
Afterwards, Zhang Ling began to practice the Thunder Essence Spirit Raising Technique. This technique can refine the spiritual power in the body, which is of great benefit to condensing the Nascent Soul.
He has practiced this secret technique for a long time. The Yin-attribute Thunder Light Curse condensed with Water Astral Divine Thunder and the Yang-attribute Thunder Light Curse condensed with collected Heavenly Thunder have been integrated together. In the process of usual cultivation, it can already play a role in refining its own spiritual power.
This time in the White Wind Desert of the Tianyuan Secret Realm, he saw a giant beast transcending the tribulation. At that time, he searched for some broken giant beast bodies and obtained some extremely pure Heavenly Thunder from them.
He plans to integrate these pure Heavenly Thunders into the Thunder Light Curse. With these pure Heavenly Thunders, the quality of the Thunder Light Curse can definitely be higher.
In the process of cultivation, Zhang Ling originally thought that with the experience of cultivating the Thunder Light Curse, it would be easy to integrate these pure Heavenly Thunders. In actual cultivation, he found that these pure Heavenly Thunders were extremely violent and difficult to integrate.
It took him more than half a year to integrate a small part of the Heavenly Thunder, and his body had already reached its limit. If he integrated the remaining pure Heavenly Thunder, the Thunder Light Curse in his body might explode directly.
Therefore, he did not integrate the remaining half of the Heavenly Thunder into the Thunder Light Curse. The Thunder Light Curse, which had been integrated with half of the pure Heavenly Thunder, improved a lot in quality. Just the speed of refining his own spiritual power has more than doubled.
Zhang Ling was overjoyed. This means that his golden elixir can compress spiritual power to a higher level and compress more spiritual power.
The Earth Element True Spirit Art he is now practicing is a top-notch technique. The spiritual power cultivated is already purer than that of ordinary cultivators. If he refines the spiritual power again, although his cultivation will not change much, the spiritual power in his body will definitely be much stronger than that of cultivators of the same rank.
And all this is to prepare for condensing the Nascent Soul.
At the same time, he also spent a lot of time studying the Nine Yuan Refining Spirit Art, and obtained a total of three layers of spirit refining techniques from the spirit refining diagram. With his spiritual consciousness strength, he can directly practice the third layer of techniques.
He still followed the steps and practiced according to the first layer of technique formulas. In just half a year, he completed the first layer of the Nine Yuan Refining Spirit Art.
After completing the first layer of cultivation, it only made his spiritual consciousness more tenacious, and the intensity of his spiritual consciousness only increased by ten feet. With his current spiritual consciousness covering a range of more than thirty miles, this increase can be ignored.
Zhang Ling guessed that it might be because he had practiced the incomplete spirit refining technique before, and his spiritual consciousness intensity was beyond that of cultivators of the same rank.
Then, practicing the second layer of techniques became much more difficult.
Judging from the progress of cultivation, it may take more than ten years to complete the second layer of cultivation, but the more difficult it is to cultivate, the more it proves that this spirit refining technique is definitely not comparable to the previous nameless spirit refining technique.
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Ten years passed quickly.
On this day, Zhang Ling walked out of the cave with a pale face. He sat on a boulder next to him. After resting for a while, he took out a dark blue demon core.
After returning to the cave, he prepared many rare spiritual liquids for washing away turbid qi, constantly soaking this Xuan Turtle demon core, and it took more than three years to wash away the turbid qi inside.
This eighth-order demon core is no different from the demon cores condensed in ordinary monsters.
After washing the demon core, Zhang Ling began to practice the Xuan Female Spirit Transformation Secret Technique.
First, according to the records on this secret technique, he erased the intelligence of the seventh-order Green Water Turtle that he exchanged with the black-robed man.
Then he absorbed the unconscious Green Water Turtle demon soul into the Yuanshen and began to assimilate it.
This step is somewhat similar to the techniques of the demon refiner. Once the demon refiner reaches the Foundation Establishment realm, he can melt the demon soul into the body and practice the demon transformation secret technique.
However, the natal demon soul that the demon refiner melts must be one level lower than himself at the beginning, so it is easier to succeed.
If a demon refiner in the late stage of Foundation Establishment melts a fourth-order monster demon soul with comparable strength, the backlash of the demon soul will be extremely strong and it is easy to fail, causing spiritual damage to himself.
This step is very dangerous, so not all demon refiners will use the demon transformation secret technique.
The Xuan Female Spirit Transformation Secret Technique he is now practicing has many similarities with the demon transformation secret technique of the demon refiner. It also uses this kind of method to assimilate the demon soul integrated into the body.
However, unlike the demon transformation secret technique, the demon refiner will merge the demon soul with his own Yuanshen in order to use the demon transformation secret technique to increase his strength.
The Xuan Female Spirit Transformation Secret Technique does not completely merge the demon soul with the Yuanshen, it is just assimilation. After success, the secondary Yuanshen will have the same memory and thinking as the main Yuanshen.
Of course, there are some flaws and taboos in cultivating the second Yuanshen. The second Yuanshen can practice on its own and has complete consciousness and thinking. It is a true incarnation outside the body.
But it doesn't mean that you can sit back and relax.
The second Yuanshen, in the final analysis, is to refine another self. You must always be careful of being backlashed by it. Therefore, the second Yuanshen cannot leave the main body for too long, and must be constantly assimilated with the main Yuanshen through secret techniques.
Once the second Yuanshen leaves the main body for too long, its autonomy will become higher and higher. The longer the time it leaves, the greater the probability of backlash.
After all, it is another self. Leaving the main body, the things, emotions, and other factors experienced by the two are quietly changing, and gradually differences will arise.
This will give rise to very strong demons, making it extremely easy to resist the main body. Of course, if its strength is too high above the main body, it may directly turn against the guest and even devour the main Yuanshen.
Therefore, the second Yuanshen must be assimilated every once in a while to strengthen control.
