Thundercloud Secret Realm, Demon Wind Mountain Range.
Hearing these two places, Zhang Ling's expression changed slightly.
The Thundercloud Secret Realm is a secret realm solely controlled by the Thundercloud Sect, producing materials needed by high-level cultivators. Only Thundercloud Sect cultivators can enter; outsiders cannot.
The Demon Wind Mountain Range is even more dangerous, being a region controlled by the demon race.
He had stayed here for over a century. Although he had entered and exited the Wasteland Domain several times, he had never entered the demon territory.
The demon territory is called the Demon Domain, and the area it controls is smaller than the area controlled by the human race.
The locations of Myriad Manifestation City and Hidden Demon Valley are very special, essentially being on the border between the human and demon territories. Tens of thousands of miles south of Myriad Manifestation City lies the demon territory.
That is the outer edge of the Demon Wind Mountain Range.
Of course, there are also several human immortal cities on the periphery of the Demon Wind Mountain Range, where many human cultivators go to hunt demons. These immortal cities are also a defensive line against the demons.
However, the core area of the Demon Wind Mountain Range is home to many high-level demons and transformed demons. It is said that the transformed demon kings gathered in Hidden Demon Valley are only a part of the entire demon race's power.
Some demons are extremely hostile to humans and are unwilling to join Hidden Demon Valley. The Demon Wind Mountain Range is the main base of the entire demon race.
Conflicts between the two races often erupt in the Demon Wind Mountain Range, and even battles between transformed demons and human Nascent Soul cultivators have occurred several times.
As for the last place, Flying Cloud Island, Zhang Ling had no impression of it. He immediately asked about the island's location. The female cultivator shrouded in black mist on the opposite side introduced it to him, knowing everything and saying everything.
Flying Cloud Island is a medium-sized island located tens of thousands of miles south of Myriad Manifestation City, also near the Demon Wind Mountain Range.
There is a ten-thousand-foot-high cloud mountain on this island. The summit is shrouded in clouds, and Cloud Devouring Stones are produced every so often. However, this is the place with the least Cloud Devouring Stone production among the three places.
After understanding this information, Zhang Ling planned to bid farewell and leave, but he heard the female cultivator's voice again. "Fellow Daoist, don't rush. Cloud Devouring Stones are very special, and there is some other information I need to tell you."
"Oh? Could it be that there are other places that produce this material?" Zhang Ling couldn't help but ask.
The female cultivator shrouded in black mist shook her head, though her face could not be seen, and said leisurely, "Since Fellow Daoist spent spirit stones at our Immortal Inquiry Pavilion to purchase information, I will naturally tell you all the other information about Cloud Devouring Stones. Although there are no other places in the Flowing Cloud Sea that produce this material, it can also be refined by secret methods…"
A quarter of an hour later, Zhang Ling walked out of the Immortal Inquiry Pavilion.
He felt that the news he bought here for 50,000 spirit stones was quite worthwhile. Cloud Devouring Stones are special materials formed by the condensation of cloud Qi, but they can be refined by secret methods.
This secret method is called Cloud Gathering Art, a secret art that is not passed down outside of the Flying Cloud Sect. The Flying Cloud Sect is the only immortal cultivation sect on Flying Cloud Island, controlling the entire Flying Cloud Island.
It seems that I have to make a trip to Flying Cloud Island, Zhang Ling murmured. With the aid of Mind Soothing Powder, the cultivation of the Nine Yuan Soul Refining Art will also be faster. And a strong divine soul will naturally have many benefits for condensing a Nascent Soul.
It would be even better if he could obtain the Cloud Gathering Art for refining Cloud Devouring Stones.
After all, he needs quite a few Cloud Devouring Stones to assist in cultivation with the Mind Soothing Powder.
After leaving the Ghost Market, Zhang Ling stayed in Myriad Manifestation City for most of the day, then directly flew towards Flying Cloud Island.
The beast tide is about to erupt, and he must arrive before the beast tide erupts to obtain the Cloud Devouring Stones. If the time is delayed too long, when the beast tide erupts, he may not be in the mood to consider this matter.
After all, by then, the Ten Great Sects and Myriad Manifestation City will definitely issue a summons, and it will be difficult for Golden Core cultivators like him to avoid being summoned.
Of course, he can also find an extremely secret place to hide and come out after the beast tide passes, which is undoubtedly the safest.
However, Zhang Ling does not intend to do so. Of course, he is not a compassionate cultivator. Facing this kind of situation with a potential life-and-death crisis, it is best to avoid it if possible.
But he also has to consider condensing a Nascent Soul. Although he has the Earth Spirit Fruit to refine the Nascent Soul Pill, and he has cultivated the Thunder Yuan Spirit Nurturing Art, Soul Refining Art, and other auxiliary secret arts, and he is also collecting other auxiliary spiritual objects, but he has not gained much.
In addition, by consulting some related classics, if he can have the assistance of a high-grade spiritual vein, he can also increase the chances.
High-grade spiritual veins are certainly rare, and most of them are occupied by powerful sects and large immortal cities like Myriad Manifestation City. Even the high-grade spiritual veins of Myriad Manifestation City are not open to the public, and Golden Core cultivators can only rent medium-grade spiritual veins.
But now there is an opportunity. Every time a beast tide erupts, the entire human race's forces will mobilize to organize cultivators to resist the beast tide. And if you want to unite the entire human race's cultivators, benefits are naturally the most important.
These forces will take out some spiritual objects as rewards, and even Nascent Soul Pills may appear.
If he can establish some merits in this beast tide, he can use this to request a cultivation cave in a high-grade spiritual vein.
He plans to return to Myriad Manifestation City after going to Flying Cloud Island to obtain the Cloud Devouring Stones. Once the beast tide erupts, he will resist the beast tide in Myriad Manifestation City.
With his current strength, even without using the Black Tortoise, he is not afraid of any Golden Core cultivator. It is not difficult to establish merits and exchange them for a high-grade spiritual vein cave.
Zhang Ling flew towards Flying Cloud Island, thinking about his cultivation plan all the way. At his flying speed, he could reach Flying Cloud Island in seven or eight days.
……
This day at noon, Zhang Ling was flying in the sky when he suddenly sensed something and touched a spirit beast bag on his waist.
A strand of divine sense probed into it. There were many ice-attribute spirit stones in the spirit beast bag. At this moment, there were two chubby things wriggling in the pile of spirit stones, making strange hissing noises.
These were his two Ice Spirit Silkworms, each two zhang in size. At this time, they were restless, as if something had happened.
Zhang Ling's expression was filled with joy. Through divine sense, he discovered that the two spirit insects were about to advance. He quickly comforted the two spirit insects with his divine sense. Then he waved his hand and took out a map to check it.
Then he changed direction and flew north. Half an hour later, he saw a deserted island.
This island was only a hundred miles wide, and it was covered with many blue bamboos. This is a low-level spiritual plant with little value.
Zhang Ling first circled the entire island, explored it with his divine sense, and after finding no danger, he came directly to the bottom of a cliff and arranged a secret formation.
He also opened up a stone cave of more than ten zhang in size on the stone mountain, and laid a floor of ice spirit stones inside, and also placed many medium-grade spirit stones.
He patted the spirit beast bag, released the restless two Ice Spirit Silkworms, and also took out a cyan porcelain bottle, poured out some drops of black spiritual liquid, and let the two Ice Spirit Silkworms swallow them.
He comforted the Ice Spirit Silkworms and let them advance with peace of mind.
Zhang Ling sat at the entrance of the cave, and at the same time released the Twin-tailed Cat and the Black Tortoise to guard the two spirit insects' advancement.
The black spiritual liquid that he let the Ice Spirit Silkworms swallow was the Frost Liquid, which was prepared with a fourth-grade Ice Snow Flower and other materials, which could well assist the Ice Spirit Silkworms in their advancement.
