On the Xuan Turtle's side, the group was still moving forward rapidly, having already passed through the thundercloud and entered a cloud of white mist.
Everywhere was a vast expanse of white, the mist obscuring vision, but within it flickered some bright white spots. Upon entering, they immediately sensed that this was a mass of substantial spiritual mist.
"Such pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth is several times more concentrated than that emitted by a high-grade spiritual vein. It's rare indeed. Why don't we wait a moment to compress this spiritual energy into spiritual liquid and collect some?"
The Dragon Crocodile laughed loudly, clapping his hands together and shooting out a black light, which spun rapidly like a vortex, creating a suction force. The surrounding spiritual mist was instantly attracted, all rushing towards it.
"Fellow Daoist Long's idea is good. This concubine also happens to want to collect some pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth." The plump Madam Yan flashed red light and flew dozens of feet away, also casting a crimson spiritual light, attracting the surrounding spiritual energy.
"Since that's the case, we're not short on this bit of time. It won't hurt to delay for a while," Jin Yu said, glancing at the others before transforming into lightning and heading to another side.
Old Man Wan, the masked Moon Fairy, Xuan Turtle, and the others also scattered, each finding an area to collect the spiritual energy.
In a short while, the Xuan Turtle was more than ten miles away, his divine sense detecting that this spiritual energy area was not large, only covering about a hundred miles around. Moreover, the edge was rapidly shrinking. Even if they didn't collect it, the spiritual energy would likely dissipate on its own in less than a quarter of an hour.
As others compressed the spiritual energy, the sound of rushing air currents could be heard, and the spiritual mist flowed rapidly, gradually forming several spiritual energy vortexes.
The Xuan Turtle didn't delay either. With a flip of his hand, a white jade jar about ten feet in size appeared. He cast a spell, and the jar lit up with a ghostly blue light, also emitting a huge suction force. The nearby spiritual energy of heaven and earth seemed to have found an outlet and rushed towards it.
The spiritual energy was continuously compressed, and streaks of colorful light appeared before their eyes, which was quite beautiful.
Finally, these rays of light intertwined and twisted, turning into a liquid, transforming into drops of transparent water like raindrops, tinkling as they all flowed into the jar.
This kind of spiritual liquid formed from pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth had many uses. It could be taken directly or used to refine pills and weapons. After the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the surrounding white mist had thinned by more than half, and the quality of the spiritual energy had decreased by seventy to eighty percent.
After all, everyone was a Nascent Soul cultivator, and they compressed the spiritual energy in this area extremely quickly. Before long, they gathered together again and continued forward.
After leaving the spiritual energy area, they entered a scorching hot wind zone. Before them was a sea of fire clouds, with continuous booming sounds coming from it.
Countless fire wind clusters gathered within, and faintly visible were fire tornadoes connecting heaven and earth, like heavenly fire descending, with terrifying momentum.
In this area, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was chaotic. This strange environment was unavoidable. Subsequently, with Madam Yan taking the lead, releasing a layer of flame light罩, they traveled through the fire clouds at a considerable speed.
Over the next hour, the group traveled through bizarre environments. After passing through a dozen special environments, a strange cloud of mist appeared ahead.
It was a gray sea of clouds, flowing rapidly, and occasionally, explosions and low鸣sounds could be heard from within, like ghosts wailing, making people feel uncomfortable.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth was even more chaotic here. Divine sense probing into it would be scattered in an instant. Even with the Nascent Soul stage strength of the group, they could only roughly explore a few miles around them.
Reaching this point, the group slightly slowed their escape, and everyone's speed decreased by more than half.
"Fellow Daoists, ahead is the Gang Wind Layer. Passing through this strong wind zone will lead us to the Heavenly Palace. The strong winds are not much, and our strength is enough to resist them, but the next part of the journey has unstable space cracks. Fellow Daoist Wan, we'll have to rely on you next," Jin Yu said, glancing at the others with a serious expression.
Everyone's expression became serious. They all knew that the wandering space cracks were extremely dangerous. Some space cracks were extremely small, like sword light, appearing suddenly and disappearing just as quickly.
If one was unlucky enough to collide with them, even for great demons and Nascent Soul cultivators like them, they could lose limbs or be directly cut into pieces by the space cracks, resulting in death and the dissipation of their souls.
There was also a type of space crack that was extremely hidden, making it impossible to defend against. Therefore, when traveling in this area, the escape speed must not be too fast.
These hidden space cracks were difficult for even the divine sense of cultivators to detect.
"Fellow Daoists, rest assured, this old man has a Yuan Magnetic Jade and a Yuan Spirit Compass refined with Void Spirit Stones, which can quickly sense the subtle changes in the surrounding spiritual energy."
"Although it's not as good as those exotic treasures used by ancient cultivators to sense spatial fluctuations, when most space cracks appear or disappear, in addition to spatial fluctuations, the surrounding spiritual energy will also undergo drastic changes. By using this to determine the location of wandering space cracks, we can greatly avoid danger. However, after entering, our speed cannot be too fast. For safety, I believe fellow Daoists will not begrudge this bit of time." Old Man Wan flew in front of the group, looking at the gray mist before him. As he spoke, he took out a black and white disc.
The disc was only the size of a palm, engraved with many strange runes, and had a central recess with a round gray bead placed on it. A spell was cast on it, and the bead on the disc spun around, finally emitting a layer of strange black and white light from the entire disc.
At the same time, everyone took out a belt, and flying insects the thickness of fingers flew out, releasing hundreds of flying insects at once, emitting a hissing sound.
Upon closer inspection, these flying insects were all black and red flying ants. This was a low-level spiritual insect. Each person had more than a thousand flying ants, which Jin Yu had prepared in advance.
The appearance of space cracks in an area indicates that the space in this area is unstable. Generally speaking, even if space cracks appear in other places, they will disappear on their own in a short period of time.
In the cultivation world of the Flowing Cloud Sea, only the depths of the Abyss of Heaven and this secret realm of the Heavenly Palace have space cracks that persist for a long time.
This is a special phenomenon, otherwise, if there were space cracks everywhere, the entire human realm would have collapsed long ago. The probability of wandering and unscattered space cracks appearing is extremely small. Although unstable space cracks are dangerous, there are still many ways to avoid them.
