The small hill on the ice wall was shrouded in a layer of white mist. As the group attacked, the white mist surged rapidly, turning into a thick white light shield.
In terms of defense alone, it was a top-notch protective barrier.
However, everyone present was at the Nascent Soul stage, and the power of their attacks was considerable. For a time, there was a continuous series of loud rumbling sounds, causing the white light shield to flicker constantly.
Breaking a formation with brute force seemed troublesome, but once continuous powerful attacks were unleashed, any formation or barrier could be breached.
After only the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, with a loud bang, the white mist shield on the small hill exploded into a cloud of air and dissipated.
The Icefrost Lion King's face lit up with joy, and he immediately transformed into a streak of white light and rushed up.
"Let's go, I'll wait and see what happens before acting," Elder Wang said, glancing at Zhang Ling and the others, and quickly followed.
Zhang Ling and the others naturally didn't delay and flew over together.
This small hill of white mist stood on the ice wall, looking lonely and out of place. It was definitely not naturally formed, but rather seemed like a cultivator had cut off a small hill and placed it here to use as a cave dwelling.
Moreover, after the barrier was broken, the white mist on the small hill did not completely dissipate, but only became a little thinner. However, everyone immediately sensed that the remaining white mist was a dense spiritual mist formed from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
This was clearly a spiritual mountain.
Zhang Ling thought to himself, perhaps he could even see spiritual objects like the Spiritual Eye Divine Tree and Spiritual Eye Spring on it.
Everyone's divine sense was very powerful, even the three demon cultivators were not weaker than them. They easily scanned the entire small hill several times.
The small hill was covered with many plants, but they were not of much value, just some exotic flowers and rare herbs. It looked extremely desolate, as if no cultivator had been here for a long time.
Following an old mountain path, the group quickly flew to the top of the mountain. There, they saw a stone archway more than twenty feet tall, with patterns and characters engraved on it.
Zhang Ling glanced at it and saw clearly that it was written in ancient seal script: "Mitian Cave Dwelling."
"It's actually Mitian Cave Dwelling," Yu Xianzi suddenly exclaimed. She had also noticed the words on the stone archway. Her exclamation attracted the attention of the others.
Even the three demon cultivators glanced over, and the wolf demon's eyes lit up as he asked, "This fellow Daoist recognizes this place? Have you been here before?"
"Hehe, I also remember. So this small hill is a Sumeru cave dwelling," Elder Wang said, stroking his chin as if he had remembered something, and gave a strange laugh.
As he spoke, Elder Wang turned his head and looked around, seemingly more interested in this small hill.
"Sumeru, humph! Are you saying that this small hill is a mustard seed space?" The silver-haired old man also reacted, his eyes lighting up as he spoke.
"That's right, if I'm not mistaken, this mountain is a mustard seed space," Elder Wang nodded.
Upon hearing the words 'mustard seed space,' the expressions of Zhang Ling and the others changed slightly. They all had a thoughtful look on their faces.
Zhang Ling was also surprised in his heart, and like Elder Wang, he looked around.
Mustard seed space, also known as Sumeru space, involves spatial secrets.
Anything involving spatial secrets is extremely difficult to master. Even in ancient times, only a few cultivators proficient in this field could catch a glimpse of it. Now, no one has even heard of such secrets.
The advanced storage bags and teleportation arrays they used all involved spatial secrets, but they only involved extremely superficial spatial methods.
Refining spatial fragments into portable treasures is the Sumeru mustard seed space.
There are indeed descriptions of such treasures in ancient books, but they were extremely rare even in ancient times. It is said that this method cannot be achieved by cultivators in the human realm at all.
Like the Liuyun Sea, the space he had seen among the demon race could also be considered a Sumeru space. However, that space was very large, and Zhang Ling speculated that it could not be carried around at all.
According to the descriptions in the classics, only a few stable spatial fragments can be refined into this kind of mustard seed space to be used as a portable cave dwelling.
These spatial fragments are even rarer, and there may not be many in the entire human realm. Moreover, not every spatial fragment is suitable for refining a spatial cave dwelling.
Some spatial fragments have extremely thin spiritual energy inside the cleaved space, making them unsuitable for refining.
This kind of mustard seed space is also said to have certain risks. Once the spatial fragment is unstable, it will be destroyed immediately.
This kind of spatial treasure is extremely rare and precious, and it is also extremely troublesome to refine, but for ordinary cultivators, its use is quite limited.
At most, it can be used as a temporary cave dwelling, but ordinary cultivators can meet their needs by staying on spiritual veins to cultivate, so they don't need this kind of treasure at all.
However, even so, this kind of treasure is rare to see. Everyone's thoughts also changed.
"Let's go."
The Icefrost Lion King smiled strangely, waved his sleeve, and strode forward.
Passing through the stone archway, behind it was a flat area, with a winding path twisting through the grass and trees. There were also some boulders and stone pillars on both sides, but they seemed to be just ordinary decorations.
At the same time, a fragrance of grass and herbs wafted around.
With a sweep of their divine sense, everyone discovered that several spiritual fields had been opened up in the grass and trees on both sides of the path, and they could see many different colored spiritual herbs growing on them.
Seeing this, everyone was overjoyed and immediately walked over.
Several spiritual fields were shrouded in a layer of white mist that gathered and did not disperse, and there seemed to be formations guarding them. Everyone could see at a glance that these were just simple restrictions dividing the spiritual fields.
Elder Wang waved his hand, and a gust of breeze blew over, dispersing the mist, and everyone could clearly see the spiritual herbs growing on the fields.
"Golden Jade Fruit."
To the left of Elder Wang, about seven or eight feet away, was a half-acre spiritual field with several small trees growing on it, with some black-green leaves and some small golden fruits below.
"Golden Jade Fruit, Hundred Leaf Grass, Thousand Bamboo Flower. There are so many fourth and fifth-grade spiritual herbs, our trip was not in vain."
A glance revealed that there were more than ten acres of spiritual fields, on which grew mostly rare spiritual herbs of the third grade or higher. They seemed to be of many types and ages.
In each acre of spiritual field, several thousand-year-old spiritual herbs could be seen.
This naturally made everyone happy. Ordinary spiritual herbs were not worth mentioning in the eyes of these Nascent Soul stage monsters. But thousand-year-old spiritual herbs of the fourth and fifth grade were treasures for them.
Even the three demon cultivators also showed a gleam in their eyes, revealing a look of greed.
"Haha, I want these ice lotus flowers and this blood frost fruit tree," The Icefrost Lion King, the strongest of them all, looked at a spiritual field covered with frost and laughed arrogantly.
That herb field was the largest, and in the center of it, blocks of giant stones were piled up to form a stone well seven or eight feet in size, with some water bubbling inside and a layer of white mist swirling around it.
It turned out to be an open-air spiritual spring, and the surrounding six spiritual fields were all opened up using it.
At this moment, Zhang Ling also looked at a spiritual field on the right, where many purple flowers were growing. These were purple mist flowers, which were third-grade spiritual herbs. But among these flowers, there were also five or six black spiritual grasses growing, which attracted his attention.
These black spiritual grasses were all very large, and there were some dark golden patterns on them.
Although he didn't know what these spiritual grasses were, he was very familiar with them. Because he had this kind of spiritual grass in his hand.
These black spiritual grasses were exactly the same as the black giant grass he had seen next to the Spiritual Eye Divine Tree on Mount Qionghua in Tianque Palace.
It's just that these few plants didn't seem to be as old as the black-golden giant grass he had seen back then, but they were definitely the same kind of spiritual grass.
Zhang Ling was a little surprised. He had studied this kind of black giant grass with golden dark patterns. It was a kind of gold stone grass containing the power of gold and stone.
Although he had used mysterious beads to catalyze some of it in his hand, this kind of spiritual grass could not be used as medicine, and he had not found a good use for it.
He didn't expect to see this kind of spiritual grass again here. Was this a coincidence?
Zhang Ling denied it in his heart, and he instantly remembered that he had found half a piece of the Blood Moon Token in the golden mist not long ago.
In this way, this place may really have something to do with the cultivators of Liuyun Sea.
"Fellow Daoists, how about we distribute these spiritual herbs first?" While Zhang Ling was thinking, Elder Wang looked at everyone and smiled.
