The simplified version of the Gathering Cloud Array is much simpler. Although it has many flaws, the speed of condensing the Devouring Cloud Stone is completely incomparable to the complete version, but he can refine it now.
Zhang Ling clapped his hands, and a long, rectangular white jade box appeared in his hand, containing three Devouring Cloud Stones and a palm-sized, colorful circular jade stone.
This colorful jade stone is the main material for refining the simple Gathering Cloud Array, called Colorful Light Jade. This is a five-element material, and just one piece of it is worth millions of spiritual stones.
The three Devouring Cloud Stones and Colorful Light Jade were a reward that the second primordial spirit had promised Huang Yun Zhenren [Huang Yun Zhenren: Real Person Huang Yun] for jointly resisting the Devouring Spirit Insect swarm.
These were all specifically requested by the second primordial spirit. Although Huang Yun Zhenren [Huang Yun Zhenren: Real Person Huang Yun] was very unwilling at the time, the situation at Feiyunmen [Feiyunmen: Flying Cloud Gate] was not good at that time. Not only was there the threat of the insect nest, but there was also the trouble of the Xuan Turtle. In the end, this Yuanying [Yuanying: Nascent Soul] old monster could only pinch his nose and agree.
Now it's just cheap for Zhang Ling to refine Colorful Light Jade into the core of the formation, and then cooperate with a Feiyun [Feiyun: Flying Cloud] flag to reach the minimum requirements for condensing the Devouring Cloud Stone. Of course, it is best to have three Feiyun [Feiyun: Flying Cloud] flags, so that the full power of this simple Gathering Cloud Array can be exerted.
Zhang Ling has a ready-made Feiyun [Feiyun: Flying Cloud] flag in his hand, plus the three Devouring Cloud Stones he wants, and the Devouring Cloud Stones collected by the Hu family before, which is enough to refine two more Feiyun [Feiyun: Flying Cloud] flags.
A few days later, he left the deserted island and flew towards the direction of Wanxiang [Wanxiang: Myriad Manifestations] City.
It is still in the stage of the beast tide outbreak, and there are still many dangers lurking outside, so he still plans to go to Wanxiang [Wanxiang: Myriad Manifestations] City. I don't know what the situation is like in Wanxiang [Wanxiang: Myriad Manifestations] City now.
More than ten days later, Zhang Ling arrived at the three-thousand-mile area where Wanxiang [Wanxiang: Myriad Manifestations] City was located, covered in dust.
This road was not peaceful. He encountered at least a dozen Turbid Mist Storms every day, and also ran into several large groups of demon birds. Fortunately, he deliberately lowered his escape speed and concealed his aura, so that he could safely return to the vicinity of Wanxiang [Wanxiang: Myriad Manifestations] City.
Zhang Ling hid in a cloud of clouds, looked at Wanxiang [Wanxiang: Myriad Manifestations] City, did not go there immediately, but flew towards his own Huoyun [Huoyun: Fire Cloud] Island.
Before long, he saw Huoyun [Huoyun: Fire Cloud] Island, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of returning home. Gugu's strange cries came into his ears, and he saw a large group of flame flying birds flying in the sky above Huoyun [Huoyun: Fire Cloud] Island from a distance.
Divine sense swept towards that side, Zhang Ling could see clearly, that was a group of second and third-tier demon bird desolate beasts, the number also had thousands, covering the sky above the island.
Zhang Ling snorted, his aura condensed, and three black-cyan flying swords appeared beside him, circling around him a few times, turning into three long blue lights and rushing into the flock of flying birds.
Suddenly a burst of shrill howls came from there, and in half a cup of tea time, the group of red flying birds was solved.
Just as he was about to land on the island, Qingming [Qingming: clear cry] came out of the ground fire rock mountain on Feiyun [Feiyun: Flying Cloud] Island again, and more than a dozen flame flying birds flew out. The two leading flying birds were huge in size, and they were actually two high-level demon birds. One has fifth-order strength, one has sixth-order.
Zhang Ling smiled indifferently, pointed a few times at the three flying swords, and the three flying swords turned into three light swords, quickly overlapping together.
At the same time as the flying birds arrived, the three flying swords had been recombined into a light sword the size of several feet. With a thought, the light sword flashed and slashed out, like a blue light stretched across the sky.
The two high-level flame flying birds were cut into two pieces in an instant by the sword light, and a piece of blood was sprinkled.
At the same time, the huge sword light was divided into three flying swords again, and under a quick chop, all the dozen or so third- and fourth-tier flying birds that had just flown over were killed.
Zhang Ling himself flashed to the side of the corpses of the two high-level flying birds and put them away between his hands.
As his cultivation level increased, the power of the huge sword light condensed with flying swords became stronger and stronger, and the speed of casting spells was also extremely fast. Even if all seven flying swords were released and overlapped, it could be completed quickly within a few breaths.
After entering Huoyun [Huoyun: Fire Cloud] Island, Zhang Ling released his divine sense and searched the entire island. Except for seeing more than a dozen low-level flame birds, he did not encounter any other desolate beasts.
This group of flame birds seemed to have taken a fancy to the piece of ground fire rock on Huoyun [Huoyun: Fire Cloud] Mountain, and it seemed that they had been there for a while. Fortunately, his cave was protected by a formation and was not destroyed by this group of desolate beasts.
Before entering the cave, Zhang Ling found two transmission talismans trapped in the guardian formation outside the cave. This made him feel a little surprised, but after checking with his divine sense, he understood the information inside.
It turned out that it was a summoning order issued by the Elder Council of Wanxiang [Wanxiang: Myriad Manifestations] City, summoning all monks to fight against the beast tide. The time when these two transmission talismans were sent was more than two months ago and one month ago. It happened to be after he left Wanxiang [Wanxiang: Myriad Manifestations] City.
At the same time, Zhang Ling carefully checked the formation and found traces of other people coming, but they did not enter inside. It seems that the people from Wanxiang [Wanxiang: Myriad Manifestations] City have been here, but they left a transmission talisman after finding that he was not there.
Zhang Ling smiled and didn't care about these things. He went directly into the cave. He first went to the cultivation quiet room and meditated for a few hours to recover the consumption of rushing on the road during this period.
By the next day, he had fully recovered his energy.
Then he went to a ground fire room opened up on the ground volcano and began to refine a simple Gathering Cloud Array. Since he had Devouring Cloud Stones and Colorful Light Jade in his hand, it would be best to refine this formation as soon as possible.
One day a month later, a team of more than thirty monks flew from a hundred miles away from Huoyun [Huoyun: Fire Cloud] Island. The leaders were a male and a female Jindan [Jindan: Golden Core] monk, and the others were all in the middle and late stages of the Foundation Establishment.
This team was very fast. Before long, they approached Huoyun [Huoyun: Fire Cloud] Island. They flew directly over Huoyun [Huoyun: Fire Cloud] Island, looking like they were just passing by, and flew all the way to the south of Huoyun [Huoyun: Fire Cloud] Island.
But just as they flew over Feiyun [Feiyun: Flying Cloud] Island, the Jindan [Jindan: Golden Core] male cultivator among them suddenly stopped, looked at Huoyun [Huoyun: Fire Cloud] Island below, and took out a token.
"Jiang Shixiong [Jiang Shixiong: Senior Brother Jiang], why did you stop?" The Jindan [Jindan: Golden Core] female cultivator in a light yellow dress next to him asked suspiciously.
"It's nothing, hehe, it's just that the owner of the island below seems to be back. I'll go down and take a look later. If the owner of this island returns, we can pull this person in, and we can have one more powerful helper."
"Oh, that's it."
The yellow-skirted female cultivator also chuckled and followed the man to land on Huoyun [Huoyun: Fire Cloud] Island. The Foundation Establishment monks behind them naturally wouldn't say anything and followed them to Huoyun [Huoyun: Fire Cloud] Island.
The male cultivator led the crowd in a familiar manner, accurately landed outside Zhang Ling's cave, and then sent out a transmission talisman and waited in front of the cave.
At the same time, Zhang Ling was still in the ground fire room in the ground fire rock mountain.
A ball of dark red flame was constantly burning in front of him, and a small flag wrapped in white mist was slowly rotating inside, and wisps of pure spiritual power emanated from it.
At this time, Zhang Ling was not idle either. His hands danced, and as his ten fingers flicked, wisps of bright yellow Dan fire were shot out and added to the flames, making the flames burn even more fiercely.
At the same time, the fire spiritual power on the two-tailed cat's body condensed, and it also opened its mouth wide and spewed out a ball of crimson demon fire to assist him in refining treasures.
After a while, the magic formula in his hand changed, and runes condensed from spiritual power were shot into the flames. These flames condensed into fire snakes with great spirituality, and drilled into the burning white mist small flag inside.
The small flag instantly turned crimson. Zhang Ling raised his hand, and a black round bead flew out. After merging into the flames, it exploded with a bang, turning into black spiritual light and all merged into it. The small flag immediately turned ink black again. After careful induction, you can feel that it contains a powerful water spiritual power.
"Haha, it's done."
Zhang Ling chuckled in a low voice, and a few more magic formulas hit it. The black small flag spun around a few times, and flew out of the flames with a whoosh, suspended in front of him.
He stretched out his right hand, grabbed the small flag, shook it gently, and the treasure turned into a half-person-high banner under the infusion of spiritual power. A cloud of white water mist emerged from the flag surface, covering the entire ground fire room.
This is a water attribute Feiyun [Feiyun: Flying Cloud] flag, which has just been successfully refined. After testing, the power of the Feiyun [Feiyun: Flying Cloud] flag is indeed much stronger than ordinary magic weapons.
Zhang Ling played with it for a while and then withdrew his spiritual power. This treasure turned into the size of a foot again. He clapped his hands and took out a square jade box, which also contained two Feiyun [Feiyun: Flying Cloud] flags, one crimson and one cyan.
At the same time, there was also a colorful jade plate and twelve different colored beads.
Both of these things are densely covered with many spiritual patterns. These are the formation tools he refined according to the Juyun [Juyun: Gathering Cloud] technique of Feiyunmen [Feiyunmen: Flying Cloud Gate].
The colorful jade plate is the core formation plate refined from Colorful Light Jade. The twelve beads are also auxiliary tools refined from fifth-order demon pills. This set of simple Gathering Cloud Array, plus three Feiyun [Feiyun: Flying Cloud] flags, can exert the full power of this formation.
However, to condense the Devouring Cloud Stone, it is best to arrange this formation in a place with rich cloud energy.
Of course, it can also be done in ordinary places. As long as this formation is activated, it can collect the cloud energy between heaven and earth, but the cloud energy gathered in ordinary places is very small, and the time required to condense a Devouring Cloud Stone is very long.
If it is arranged on Huoyun [Huoyun: Fire Cloud] Island, it may take ten years to condense a fist-sized Devouring Cloud Stone. It sounds very slow, but this is just the effect of the formation running automatically to absorb cloud energy.
Speaking of which, the Gathering Cloud Array is actually just an auxiliary formation. It needs to cooperate with monks to exert its greatest effect. With his cultivation in the late Jindan [Jindan: Golden Core] stage, sitting in it and fully operating the formation, he can condense one in more than a year.
However, Zhang Ling does not intend to do this, spending time on condensing the Devouring Cloud Stone, his own cultivation will definitely be delayed.
He worked hard to refine this set of simple Gathering Cloud Array, and the ultimate goal is to strengthen his own cultivation. It is to refine Yishen [Yishen: Benefit Spirit] Powder with Devouring Cloud Stone to assist in the cultivation of the Nine Yuan Refining Spirit Technique. Naturally, he will not put the cart before the horse and waste too much time on this matter.
Fortunately, the Devouring Cloud Stone required for refining Yishen [Yishen: Benefit Spirit] Powder is only an auxiliary material, and the amount is not much. The main material is Yanghun [Yanghun: Nourishing Soul] Wood.
A fist-sized Devouring Cloud Stone is enough to refine more than ten kilograms of Yishen [Yishen: Benefit Spirit] Powder. Zhang Ling estimated that this amount is enough to assist in the cultivation of the Nine Yuan Refining Spirit Technique for eight or nine years.
Moreover, the cultivation of refining spirit techniques is special. It is not necessary to practice every day. After each period of cultivation, you must temporarily stop to relieve the load and fatigue generated during the exercise of spiritual consciousness.
Therefore, although he needs a large number of Devouring Cloud Stones, he does not need a large number in a short period of time. Therefore, as long as this set of Gathering Cloud Array is set up, even if it takes more than ten years to condense a Devouring Cloud Stone, it is basically enough for him.
Zhang Ling considered his next cultivation plan and put away the jade box. At the same time, he took out a smaller jade box, which contained a small Devouring Cloud Stone.
With a wave of his hand, a colorful spiritual flower floated out in front of him, and a black wooden branch the thickness of a finger and an inch long.
Upon closer inspection, this spiritual flower has seven leaves, each leaf has a different color, exuding bursts of fragrance. This is the cultivated Seven-Colored Seven-Leaf Flower. As for the unremarkable black tree branch, it is the more precious Yanghun [Yanghun: Nourishing Soul] Wood.
These three materials are mixed in a certain proportion, and the refined sandalwood is Yishen [Yishen: Benefit Spirit] Powder.
Zhang Ling moved his finger, and the spiritual power turned into wisps of silk threads, and he planned to refine Yishen [Yishen: Benefit Spirit] Powder now. This step is very simple and can be refined successfully in a day or two.
At this moment, he frowned and suddenly stopped the movement in his hand. A transparent bead appeared in his hand.
At this moment, the bead was trembling slightly. A spiritual power hit it, and the bead suddenly turned pitch black, and a scene appeared inside. It showed a place outside his cave, where more than thirty monks actually appeared.
After seeing one of the middle-aged men, Zhang Ling said in a low voice, why are these people here. Saying that, he quickly put away the beads and Yanghun [Yanghun: Nourishing Soul] Wood and other materials, directly closed the ground fire, and walked out of the ground fire room. When he got outside, he immediately drove the escape light and flew towards his cave.
At this time, among the more than thirty monks outside his cave, the two leading Jindan [Jindan: Golden Core] men and women were talking about something.
"Jiang Shixiong [Jiang Shixiong: Senior Brother Jiang], could it be wrong? You have already sent a transmission talisman, but there is no movement inside. Could it be that the owner of this place has not returned?"
"It can't be wrong. I have met the owner of this cave once. He is a late-stage Jindan [Jindan: Golden Core] powerhouse. Before the beast tide broke out, I came here to convey the summoning order of Wanxiang [Wanxiang: Myriad Manifestations] City. Although I didn't enter this cave at the time, our elders of Wanxiang [Wanxiang: Myriad Manifestations] City have a secret method to sense the situation inside. There was no popularity inside at that time, and that person was indeed not there. But just now when we flew over from the sky, I sensed it again. A monk has indeed been here on this island."
""That's right, but we can't delay too much time, otherwise the task may be delayed."
"Su Shimei [Su Shimei: Junior Sister Su], don't worry... Huh, that person is here." The middle-aged man suddenly looked up at the sky. The woman in yellow also turned her head and glanced at that side, and a smile appeared on her face.
Zhang Ling turned into a yellow light and landed on the ground, looking at these people who suddenly appeared in front of the cave. The leading middle-aged male cultivator smiled and cupped his hands at him. "Jiang Mou [Jiang Mou: Jiang, myself] has met Zhang Daoyou [Zhang Daoyou: Fellow Daoist Zhang]."
"So it's Jiang Daoyou [Jiang Daoyou: Fellow Daoist Jiang], I haven't seen you for many years, Daoyou [Daoyou: Fellow Daoist] has also broken through to the late stage of Jindan [Jindan: Golden Core]."
"It was just a fluke that I just broke through a few years ago. It can't compare to Zhang Daoyou [Zhang Daoyou: Fellow Daoist Zhang]." The middle-aged man laughed when he heard this, looking very high-spirited.
