After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the Xuan Turtle had explored these stone houses, and apart from spirit stones, there were no other valuable gains.
With a sway of its body, the Xuan Turtle transformed into a black light and stood on a huge stone pillar stuck in the lava, a dozen or so feet away.
This stone pillar was engraved with dense spiritual patterns, looking like a formation eye for setting up an array. Releasing his divine sense to scan the surroundings, there were several other such stone pillars in other areas as well.
Obviously, these were all set up by the Ye family cultivators, or the Ye family's old ancestor, as formation eyes for the Wind and Fire Grand Array.
But regardless of whether this set of grand arrays had any other power, now the Ye family was in great chaos, and no one was presiding over it. Ordinary Core Formation cultivators might be able to break in.
The Xuan Turtle was even less worried, and unscrupulously, right under the Wind and Fire Eye, he began to explore other places again.
A quarter of an hour later!
At the wellhead of the Wind and Fire Eye, with a 'poof' sound, a large piece of flame splashed up, and a black shadow flew out from it.
With a flash of black light, the Xuan Turtle landed beside Zhang Ling, holding a storage bag in his hand. He shook the bag mouth downwards, and a pile of cyan-red stones spewed out, interspersed with many scarlet spirit stones and some bright cyan spirit stones.
In the blink of an eye, it piled up into a three-zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length, approx. meters) high pile of stones.
"As expected, some wind and fire rocks have been nurtured below, but the quantity seems to be a bit small." Zhang Ling looked at the cyan-red stones, revealing a trace of a smile.
This is wind and fire stone, a good kind of spiritual ore. After refining, it can also be used to refine several wind and fire attribute magical treasures. This kind of spiritual vein condensed by the power of wind and fire often gives birth to this kind of spiritual ore.
These were all found by the Xuan Turtle after entering the lava below. However, only a few hundred wind and fire stones were found, enough to refine two or three wind and fire magic weapons at most.
As for those scarlet spirit stones and cyan spirit stones, they were all low-grade fire spirit stones and wind spirit stones, with tens of thousands of each. But there were only twenty or thirty middle-grade spirit stones, and not a single high-grade spirit stone.
This was far from what he had expected. Zhang Ling thought for a moment and understood.
This Wind and Fire Eye has been under the control of the Ye family for hundreds of years, and the nurturing of wind and fire stones within it is not a secret. Presumably, the Ye family cultivators also collect them from time to time. It's not bad to have this little harvest.
With a wave of his hand, he collected the wind and fire stones and spirit stones. Zhang Ling sat directly on the ground and began to meditate. At the same time, the Xuan Turtle flashed and hid again.
On this day, the Wind and Fire Mountain where the Ye family was located experienced turmoil, and a great fire burned for dozens of miles, until the afternoon when the fire was extinguished.
That night, two elders from the Ye family came forward and, together with the remaining Core Formation cultivators in the city, reassured the city. They said that the Ye family had suffered a great disaster and would shrink their forces in the near future, appeasing a large number of mortals and cultivators in the city.
After another two days, the cultivators in Dafeng City discovered that the Wind and Fire Mountain where the Ye family was located had gradually fallen into silence, and they rarely saw Ye family disciples anymore. Some people also found that many Ye family disciples in the city had disappeared one after another.
At the same time, some bold cultivators entered the Wind and Fire Mountain to investigate, but found that it was already empty. Apart from a few empty defensive formations left in the mountain, the Ye family's many cultivators had disappeared overnight.
Since then, many rumors have spread.
Some say that the Ye family had another internal strife, and died out overnight. Some say that the Ye family's ancestor was missing, some say he had passed away(坐化: a buddhist term for the death of a monk), and others say that the Ye family's ancestor was killed by a mysterious Nascent Soul cultivator, and even the entire Ye family was destroyed.
A commotion spread in Dafeng City. After a while, several Core Formation cultivators joined together to move into Wind and Fire Mountain, announcing that Dafeng City would be under their jurisdiction from now on.
After all, Wind and Fire Mountain is also a middle to high-grade spiritual vein, especially for cultivators who practice wind and fire spiritual power.
But then troubles continued, and the news of the Ye family's disappearance attracted more cultivators. Dafeng City, Wind and Fire Mountain was chaotic for a long time again.
Many high-level cultivators were killed and injured in this process, and many forces participated in it, wanting to occupy that area. In the end, a mysterious Nascent Soul cultivator moved into Wind and Fire Mountain again, and this storm gradually disappeared.
These have nothing to do with Zhang Ling anymore, he has already returned to Fire Cloud Island.
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Zhang Ling had only been back to Fire Cloud Island for two days when two deacon elders from Wanxiang City came to question him about the previous defense against the wild beast tide. After some haggling, the matter was dropped after giving the two some benefits.
Of course, this was because he did not expose his Nascent Soul cultivation, and had always maintained the strength of the late stage of Core Formation to outsiders. Zhang Ling also went to the Wanxiang City's market several times and used millions of spirit stones to collect several pieces of Ice Soul Jade, and some other auxiliary materials.
With the Ice Soul Jade, plus Ice Serpent Grass and other Yin-cold spiritual herbs, after being promote growth by the mysterious pearl, the Xuan Turtle condense this cold poison in his body according to the Ice Soul Poison condense method left by the Ye family's ancestor.
The Xuan Turtle's condense of this cold poison was indeed extremely smooth, and the Ice Soul Poison was also a great tonic for the Xuan Turtle, no less than a fourth-grade spiritual medicine. He could unbridled condense this cold poison and also assist in cultivation, which could be described as killing two birds with one stone.
In this way, Zhang Ling retreated and cultivated on Fire Cloud Island for a period of time, while thoroughly consolidating his cultivation base, while cultivating several supernatural powers and secret techniques, and adapting to the cultivation base of the Nascent Soul stage.
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In the cultivation quiet room, Zhang Ling was meditating. He narrowed his eyes slightly, his whole body wrapped in strands of bright yellow fluorescence, as if he was cultivating some secret technique.
After a while, a flash of yellow light appeared on the top of his head, and a yellow infant the size of an inch appeared, climbing around on his head for a circle, and then floating in the air with congealed eyes, patting his two fleshy little hands.
Zhang Ling's flesh flickered with blue light, and the Two Instruments Gourd was summoned. The Nascent Soul holding this treasure, bursting out with strong spiritual power fluctuations, and then hit several magic formulas on the gourd.
The gourd turned around, and sprayed out seven green sword lights, which turned into seven deep green flying swords with a shake, rotating around the body.
In an instant, the seven flying swords superimposed into a blue rainbow, very spiritual flying incessantly, a sword sound passed the air, bursting out bursts the sound of cutting through the wind.
The blue light was only half a zhang long, but the power was several times stronger than the sword light fused by the previous flying sword, and the power was also much higher.
Suddenly, Zhang Ling's Nascent Soul shook, and the Two Instruments Gourd released a large piece of blue and white gas again, carrying countless yellow gravel swept out, instantly covering a large area of space above his head. Under the rapid flow of Tianxing Sand, it congealed into a sand and stone giant dragon more than twenty zhang long.
"Now my Nascent Soul is completely stable, and it is no different from using my flesh to cast spells, magic weapons, and cast them from the body. And it is more handy to operate." Zhang Ling's Nascent Soul smiled, throwing the Two Instruments Gourd in his hand, and the blue light formed by the flying sword flashed and disappeared into it.
The Tianxing Sand also again turned into a quicksand state, again flowed into it.
Finally, the Nascent Soul and the gourd flashed together and merged into the flesh, and Zhang Ling also opened his eyes and stood up, moved his body.
After this period of cultivation, the Nascent Soul left the body, and there was no discomfort at all. Zhang Ling also tried the teleport technique of the Nascent Soul many times. This is the life-saving supernatural power of the Nascent Soul, so naturally it must be thoroughly mastered.
With the supernatural power of teleport, with a thought, the Nascent Soul can reach dozens of zhang away. Faster than any escape speed. Of course, this is a life-saving supernatural power and cannot be used casually.
Once the Nascent Soul leaves the body, the flesh becomes a husk. Of course, with a part of the divine sense, it can still control the flesh, but it can only do some simple protection at most, which is very dangerous.
At the same time, the teleport术 consumes its own vitality. Without the protection of the flesh, the Nascent Soul is a tree without roots. If it loses too much vitality, the Nascent Soul may fall into an unstable state.
Unless life is worry, and the flesh is destroyed, few Nascent Soul cultivators will directly release their Nascent Soul to perform their means in battle.
After all, the cultivator's Nascent Soul is different from the flesh. Once it leaves the body, there are many risks to pay attention to.
Zhang Ling has a deeper understanding of the strength of the Nascent Soul stage in his cultivation. In addition to his own insights, the most important thing is the experience jade slip left by the old ancestor of the Ye family.
Among them, there are not only some cognition of the Nascent Soul realm, but also a lot of guidance for the Golden Core stage, and some low-level cultivator's cultivation.
Zhang Ling and his own cultivation verification each other, which also made him have a lot of understanding about many unclear points in the cultivation process. Speaking of which, this experience jade slip is the biggest help to him among the many treasures he has obtained.
When he left Ye's Wind and Fire Mountain, he also copied a copy of this jade slip, and also left a copy of the several ordinary magic weapons and those cultivation techniques and secret arts left by the old ancestor of the Ye family to the Ye family.
Although he has never seen Ye's Feng Huo old ancestor, it is considered to have become the kindness of this old ancestor to obtain these treasures. Ye's family has suffered a great disaster again, and he does not lack these ordinary resources, so it is nothing to leave these behind.
As for that Qing Tong Ge Gu treasure, and some rare materials, Zhang Ling naturally will not take it out again, and will accept it with peace of mind.
In the following time, he spent a lot of time practicing supernatural powers and advanced spells. At the same time, many of the materials he had accumulated were also consumed a lot, and most of them were used by him to refine puppets.
The previously obtained Tianji Puppet Art recorded many kinds of puppet refining methods.
Zhang Ling has been able to skilled refine first and second-order puppets. It's just that these puppets are no longer of much use to him.
Even if he controls hundreds of second-order puppets with the strength of the early and mid-stage of foundation building to attack together, it will not have any effect on Nascent Soul cultivator at all.
This time, he mainly wanted to study high-level puppets. One kind of iron lion puppet and another kind of giant turtle puppet beast recorded above are both high-level puppets whose strength can reach the strength of a Golden Core cultivator.
It's just that the Soul Fusion Stone required for high-level puppets has not been found.
For this reason, Zhang Ling also went to the ghost market of Wanxiang City several times to inquire about the news of the Soul Fusion Stone, but there was still no news, and no one knew what kind of material this was.
I only heard that in addition to some forces retaining a few high-level puppets handed down from ancient times, I have never heard of anyone who can refine them.
In addition, the Tianji Puppet Art also recorded several kinds of third-order puppets, which he easily refined.
Under the crazy refining at the expense of consuming materials, he also refined fifty or sixty third-order puppets. Can form a certain combat power.
The strength of the third-order puppets is actually not weak, equivalent to the level of the late stage of Foundation Establishment cultivator. Releasing attacks together can also be equivalent to the combat power of two or three Golden Core stages.
This day, in the Earth Fire Room. Zhang Ling cross-legged on the ground, with miscellaneous materials placed beside him. The number is large and the types are also many.
There are spiritual woods of varying thicknesses, spiritual mines of different colors, and some scattered puppet heads, chests, claws, and other parts.
In the corner are also placed more than a dozen refined puppet beasts, and there are also several forms. There are puppet beasts like giant snakes, fire tiger-like puppets, cyan birds, and many humanoid armored puppets. Standing there motionless as if they were statues.
At this moment, Zhang Ling looked at a three- zhang, a unit of length, approx. meters high giant turtle in front of him, touching his chin thinking about something.
This giant turtle is refined lifelike, the whole body is cyan-blue, and the whole body is covered with a layer of faint frost. At first glance, it is thought that the Xuan turtle has shown its body.
But there is no vitality on it. This is just a puppet beast. The shape is indeed seven or eight points similar to the Xuan Turtle's body.
After thinking for a while, Zhang Ling suddenly took out the Yin Soul Banner, and at the same time took out a palm-sized piece of top-quality Yin-cold jade. This thing is cyan-black, and has been refined by him into a puppet core, which is engraved with dense spiritual patterns.
Several magic formulas hit the Yin Soul Banner, and a gray demon soul was drawn out from it, and merged into the Yin Cold Jade.
At first, there was nothing unusual. After a while, the Yin Cold Jade trembled violently and was very unstable. The sound of crackling came, and the Yin Cold Jade seemed unable to withstand the force, and cracked a crack.
"See if it still doesn't work."
Zhang Ling sighed, and with a magic formula, he put the released demon soul back into the Yin Soul Banner. With a wave of his hand, the Yin Cold Jade also fell into his hand, but this thing has been scrapped and can no longer be used.
Such a top-quality Yin-cold jade is enough to exchange for several top-quality magic weapons, and he also feels a little pity. During this period of time, refining puppets has consumed a lot of materials, that is, he has a lot of savings, and he can't help but feel a little aching.
He has tried several kinds of materials suitable for refining puppet cores, but still can't merged high-level demon souls.
The giant turtle puppet in front of him is a high-level puppet beast. After the refining is successful, it will be equivalent to having one more Golden Core-level combat power.
This kind of giant turtle puppet is also a puppet that is good at ice and water spiritual power attacks. The material used is a kind of cold iron. Just refining such a puppet body consumes the materials of four or five magic weapons.
Now the puppet body has been refined, only the puppet core is missing.
The giant turtle puppet also has two puppet cores, one is the spiritual power core required for driving, and the other is the control core refined with the Soul Fusion Stone.
The spiritual power core is easy to handle. Zhang Ling used a fifth-order ice attribute demon pill and had already refined it successfully and installed it on the puppet.
Only the control core is missing.
Therefore, in the past few days, he has been trying various materials, wanting to merged high-level demon souls and refined into a control core, but they have all failed.
Zhang Ling smiled wryly, and sat cross-legged on the ground again, taking out Tianji Puppet Art to study.
