Obviously, rootless lotus, a natural treasure born within spiritual veins, can grow by devouring the spiritual energy of spiritual eye treasures.
That's why Zhang Ling collected spiritual eye jade when it appeared at the Dayan Mountain auction.
This kind of natural treasure is inherently special. If it continuously devours spiritual power, what kind of changes will occur is unknown to him.
However, the lotus seeds of the rootless lotus have the magical effect of purifying spiritual roots and assisting cultivators in advancing to the Nascent Soul stage. This alone makes it a rare treasure.
Now that he had made this discovery, Zhang Ling planned to collect more spiritual eye treasures to cultivate the rootless lotus.
Thinking to himself, Zhang Ling placed the five-colored keyboard, along with the two spiritual eye stones, in the center of the spirit gathering array.
Without his control, the spirit gathering array immediately took effect. Gradually, a layer of faint white spiritual mist rose from the surroundings, with some colorful spiritual light spots flashing within, making it quite beautiful.
The spirit gathering array can gather the spiritual power of heaven and earth. Using a large number of mid-grade and high-grade spirit stones to set up the spirit gathering array, the effect is naturally very obvious.
After a moment, the spiritual energy concentration in the stone house became three times richer.
After doing all this, Zhang Ling did not leave, but sat cross-legged in the corner, meditating and cultivating.
After all, this was just his idea. Cultivating the rootless lotus would not be a short-term task. The time it would take would definitely be longer than he imagined.
The spiritual energy gathered by the spirit gathering array also had some amplifying effect on his own cultivation, so naturally, it could not be wasted.
In the following period, Zhang Ling focused on cultivating several demonic secret techniques. Thus, two years passed.
For Nascent Soul cultivators, two years is not a long time. It can only be considered a small retreat.
Some old monsters, when facing life-or-death situations or cultivating powerful secret techniques, often spend decades or even centuries.
Originally, he had planned to continue his closed-door cultivation for a few more years, but plans could not keep up with changes.
Two years later, one day, Zhang Ling hurriedly left this temporary cave he was staying in. He flew quickly in the sky, his face not looking good, with a few hints of solemnity.
The sudden end to his closed-door cultivation was because something had happened to his spirit beast, the Twin-Tailed Cat.
Two days ago, the Twin-Tailed Cat awakened, seemingly having refined the Meteorite Fire it obtained in a certain independent space within the Heavenly Palace, and its strength advanced to the seventh-order demon beast.
Originally, it was a happy thing, but after awakening, the Twin-Tailed Cat, in addition to its greatly increased strength, its physical body actually showed abnormal changes.
The Twin-Tailed Cat could not control the fire spiritual power within its body, and it was in a runaway state.
During the flight, a wisp of Zhang Ling's mind was constantly comforting the Twin-Tailed Cat in the spirit beast bag.
The Xuan Turtle was also inside the spirit beast bag where the Twin-Tailed Cat was. The Xuan Turtle manifested its main body, and was opening its mouth wide, holding a translucent black ice block of several feet in size.
A ball of firelight was constantly flashing in the ice block, and the Twin-Tailed Cat was curled up in the ice block, looking like it was frozen.
But this was actually the Xuan Turtle using its own icy spiritual power to suppress the Twin-Tailed Cat's violent fire spiritual power.
"Senior, do you have a solution?"
At the same time, Zhang Ling was also communicating with Blue Sparrow, discussing how to resolve the situation of the Twin-Tailed Cat.
He could only temporarily suppress the fire spiritual power on the Twin-Tailed Cat, but this was definitely not a long-term solution.
"Your spirit beast is quite strange, is it a mutated spirit beast?" Blue Sparrow's calm voice entered his ears, and she said leisurely.
"Mutated spirit beasts are very different from ordinary spirit beasts. They all have some unpredictable characteristics. Mutated spirit beasts are generally divided into two types. One type is that the mutated strength is not as good as the original race. Most of these cannot survive and will be abandoned by the race. The other type is that after mutation, they break through the bloodline limitations, their potential greatly increases, so they can advance to a higher level, and may even master some incredible innate supernatural powers."
"And this mutated spirit beast of yours, in addition to being sensitive to fire spiritual power, doesn't seem to have any other characteristics. But there is a virtual spirit hidden in its body, do you know that?"
"Virtual spirit, are you talking about the phantom that the Twin-Tailed Cat can split out?" Zhang Ling thought for a moment, then nodded.
When the Twin-Tailed Cat had just advanced to the second-order demon beast, it once used one of the tails on its back to transform into a phantom similar to a clone.
Zhang Ling had also called out the Twin-Tailed Cat to assist in battles a few times, but had never seen this little guy use that phantom.
Zhang Ling naturally remembered this matter, but because the Twin-Tailed Cat's advancement was not fast and could not keep up with his cultivation, it had not been of much use, so he didn't care about this matter.
At this time, Blue Sparrow reminded him, and he realized this point, which was indeed a bit strange.
"There is also a demon spirit on this little guy, which is the virtual spirit. If it can mutate, it is most likely related to this virtual spirit on its body.
In my opinion, before your cat was conceived in the womb, it may have unconsciously swallowed another unformed cub demon spirit, which caused the mutation and became a mutated demon beast. Although it was successfully conceived, it did not completely assimilate this remnant demon spirit, which caused hidden dangers."
"Oh, is that so?" Zhang Ling frowned slightly and pondered. Blue Sparrow's guess made sense, but this didn't seem to have much to do with his own fire spiritual power riot.
"In this case, although the probability is small, in the spirit world among your human race. Some people will specially use the method of raising Gu to cultivate demon beasts, or some flesh puppets. They often use extremely cruel methods to make demon beasts mutate in extreme environments, so as to obtain some demon beasts with good qualifications. Often some incompletely mutated demon beasts will appear, and your cat's situation is similar to this."
"Some people will also buy these incompletely mutated demon beasts for new research. Although most of them will die, occasionally some powerful demon beasts can be cultivated."
The way Blue Sparrow said to cultivate spirit beasts is not a special case, it does exist.
Zhang Ling seemed to have seen in which ancient book that there was a sect called the Ancient Blood Beast Sect, which used this method to cultivate some powerful spirit beasts for driving.
It is said that the treasure hunting rat with extremely sensitive sense of smell was cultivated by the Blood Beast Sect in ancient times.
There are also some demon beasts with special supernatural powers such as the Three-Eyed Leopard, the Zhiyang Bird, and the Two-Headed Black Python, which are said to be spirit beasts cultivated by some sects using special methods.
Some existing Beast Control Sects often use this method.
"The environment and spiritual objects used to cultivate mutated demon beasts are different, and they may even mutate into two completely different demon beast groups. This cat swallowed the Meteorite Fire containing Zhiyang spiritual power, and I am afraid that it has indigestion and has not completely refined this spiritual fire, which is why the current situation has occurred.
In my opinion, there are two ways to solve it. The first way is for you to use your own spiritual power to draw the Meteorite Fire out of the kitten's body, which can get it out of danger."
"Another method." The first method Blue Sparrow said was indeed feasible, but the Twin-Tailed Cat had used more than ten years to devour the Meteorite Fire. This spiritual fire was already connected to the Twin-Tailed Cat's own breath.
If it is drawn out, the Twin-Tailed Cat's strength will definitely drop greatly, and even directly fall into a low-level demon beast.
This is the most brutal method, and it is very simple for Zhang Ling to do it with his current strength, but the damage to the Twin-Tailed Cat is not small.
"The second method is naturally to find a way to balance the fire spiritual power in the kitten's body." Blue Sparrow said another method directly without selling off.
These words made Zhang Ling frown. He had naturally thought about balancing the fire spiritual power in the Twin-Tailed Cat's body that this guy said.
Now Xuan Turtle in the spirit beast bag is doing this, using its own ice cold demon power to balance the violent fire spiritual power in the Twin-Tailed Cat's body.
But I don't know how long it will take to do this. He can't just do nothing and let Xuan Turtle keep balancing the Twin-Tailed Cat's fire spiritual power, right?
Blue Sparrow glanced at Zhang Ling, seemed to know what he was thinking, and gave a disdainful sound. "Balancing the fire spiritual power without hurting this little guy, there are many ways. The easiest way is for you to find a Yin spirit fire that is not much different from the Meteorite Fire, and then use the sealing method to let this little guy slowly devour and refine it, which can not only solve the hidden dangers, but also increase its strength."
"Yin attribute spirit fire" Zhang Ling whispered, this is a good way.
The spiritual power of heaven and earth is changeable, and although the fire attribute is Zhiyang spiritual power, some Yin attribute spirit fires will indeed be born in some special environments, such as bone yin fire, ice fire, etc.
Although this kind of ice cold spirit fire is rare, it is not difficult to find some with Zhang Ling's current strength.
The only trouble is that it is not easy to find a Yin fire containing powerful spiritual power like the Meteorite Fire.
Because the Meteorite Fire is not an ordinary spirit fire, it is much more powerful than the Xuan Yang Fire that the Twin-Tailed Cat devoured before.
But other than that, other methods to solve the trouble on the Twin-Tailed Cat will sometimes take too long, and the hidden dangers are too great.
"Okay, the suggestion has been told to you, you decide how to choose. By the way, don't forget the top-grade spirit stones you promised to collect for me, there is still no sign of it." Blue Sparrow snorted again, then took back the power of her spiritual sense and said no more.
"I will keep the matter of collecting top-grade spirit stones in mind." Zhang Ling nodded expressionlessly, then comforted the Twin-Tailed Cat, and took out a map, identified the direction, and flew towards the nearest square city, intending to search in Fangshi first to see if he could get news of Yin fire.
He is still in the territory of the alien demons, and he is flying all the way to the Twelve Immortal Cities, in fact, he has just left the northwest area not long ago. On the contrary, it is closer to the hinterland of the alien demons.
However, it may be easier to search for Yin fire in the alien demons. Many magic methods of cultivation often require Yin cold attribute materials.
In the following period of time, Zhang Ling was still heading in the direction of the Twelve Immortal Cities of the human race.
But he would occasionally stop at the medium and large square cities he encountered along the way, and the immortal cities established by the alien demon tribe forces, paying attention to the news of Yin attribute spirit fire.
……
Three months later, in a medium-sized square city called Black Moon Square City, Zhang Ling, wearing a black robe, hurriedly walked into an inn and rented a room.
As soon as he entered the room, Zhang Ling quickly threw out a few righteousness flags and arranged a small hidden formation.
Then he released the Twin-Tailed Cat. As soon as the Twin-Tailed Cat came out, it meowed anxiously around him.
"You little thing, hurry up and sit down." Zhang Ling smiled helplessly and touched the Twin-Tailed Cat's head.
The Twin-Tailed Cat meowed a few more times, then sat upright on the ground, looking at him eagerly.
With a wave of Zhang Ling's hand, a black wooden stake appeared in front of him. The wooden stake was a foot in diameter and two feet long, and one end was thick and the other end was thin. The thick end was covered with dense vines.
It looked like a section of tree root. However, the fracture was neat and was cut off by a sharp weapon. It could also be noted that there were many blue tree tumors of different sizes on the wooden stake, flashing with faint blue spiritual light.
This is a section of third-grade spiritual wood, Youhuai wood. A kind of Yin attribute spiritual wood that only grows in Yin evil places. This is also more than two thousand years old. Although it has some value, it is actually not in Zhang Ling's eyes.
But this section of Youhuai tree is sealed with a group of ghost fire.
This was a spiritual fire that was exchanged for 100,000 magic stones from a late Jindan stage cultivator in a secret trade fair in the square city just now.
With a wave of Zhang Ling's hand, a flash of cyan sword light flashed past, and the Youhuai wood tree was split in half, and immediately there was a crackling sound of flames jumping.
Strands of blue and white flames flew out, and the Youhuai wood also burned strangely.
What is different from ordinary flame burning is that the locust wood in the blue and white flames actually melted like a drop of gray liquid fell down.
As soon as these liquids fell, they formed a ground of frost.
"It seems that the power of this group of ghost fire is good, although it is not as good as the Meteorite Fire, but it is not weaker than the Xuan Yang Fire that the little guy devoured before." Zhang Ling said to himself.
Meow~ Meow~
The Twin-Tailed Cat seemed quite excited when it saw the blue and white flames, and it called out anxiously again.
Zhang Ling pushed the formula in his hand and released a group of heavy Yuan Xuan light, which turned into a yellow light shield, covering the blue and white flames.
Between the flicking of his fingers, he extracted all the ghost fire sealed in the Youhuai tree, and gathered it into a grinding disc-sized fire group in the air.
The flame kept jumping in mid-air, emitting bursts of Yin cold wind. The entire room also quickly condensed into a layer of frost.
Zhang Ling didn't care about these, he lowered his head and glanced at the Twin-Tailed Cat, and with a thought, the Twin-Tailed Cat called out again, and understood his meaning, and quickly lay on the ground obediently.
He threw out another string of yellow light, covering the Twin-Tailed Cat. Then he began to cast spells.
The blue and white flames flowed between Zhang Ling's fingertips and turned into strange runes, which were punched into the Twin-Tailed Cat's body by him.
The Twin-Tailed Cat's body also turned purple-red, its whole body's fur exploded, and the two tails on its back were about to swing wildly. The powerful fire ability in its body was also stimulated, forming a layer of purple-red Zhiyang flame on the surface of its body.
The Twin-Tailed Cat was also trembling all over, seemingly enduring some kind of pain, and making a low howl. But the Twin-Tailed Cat's intelligence was not low, and it did not take any other actions.
Zhiyang spirit fire and this group of ghost fire belonging to the Yin attribute spirit fire are mutually restrained, and it is naturally not easy to appear on the Twin-Tailed Cat at the same time.
Fortunately, he used spiritual power to suppress it, and the fire spiritual power in the Twin-Tailed Cat's body was suppressed.
After a full two hours, Zhang Ling finished casting the spell. He sealed the ghost fire in the Twin-Tailed Cat's body.
