After consuming the Mind-Bewildering Fruit, upon awakening, a cultivator's body undergoes a Marrow Cleansing, resulting in a slight increase in cultivation level.
Moreover, a wisp of five-colored spiritual energy will be born within the body, lasting for several years. During this period, cultivation speed will improve rapidly, and it is said that there will be no bottlenecks in cultivation.
Whether cultivating secret techniques or comprehending cultivation methods, progress will be swift. However, each person can only consume one fruit, as consuming more has little additional effect.
Zhang Ling was silent for a moment, then gently raised his hand, and a wisp of yellow light transformed into silk threads, circling around the four ripe Mind-Bewildering Fruits, sweeping them down and floating them before him.
As for the fifth unripe one, he did not touch it.
At the same time, he lightly waved his other hand, and four black wooden boxes appeared. Mind-Bewildering Fruits cannot be stored in jade boxes; only wooden boxes filled with the aura of vegetation can preserve their spirituality.
Even so, the preservation time will not be too long, at most a month, before the medicinal properties dissipate. Therefore, it is best to consume them within a few days.
If not for the fact that this spiritual fruit causes a period of slumber after consumption, he would have liked to consume it immediately.
After storing the four Mind-Bewildering Fruits, Zhang Ling released another burst of spiritual light, enveloping the entire Mind-Bewildering Fruit tree, intending to take the tree as well.
However, with a flash of spiritual light, the Mind-Bewildering Fruit tree trembled but was not uprooted. Only a dozen or so leaves were shaken down.
The emerald-like green leaves that fell changed color in mid-air, as if withered, turning into grayish-yellow leaves in the blink of an eye and falling to the ground.
A gentle breeze blew, and they turned into flying ash.
"This…"
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling was stunned for a moment, recalling something. It is said that some special spiritual herbs cannot be transplanted.
Once separated from their original growing environment, they will wither immediately. It seems that the Mind-Bewildering Fruit belongs to this category.
He glanced at the Mind-Bewildering Fruit tree again and chuckled softly. "Never mind, I was being greedy."
In the end, Zhang Ling stopped looking at the Mind-Bewildering Fruit tree. He was already satisfied with the harvest of four Mind-Bewildering Fruits.
Of course, he would give two of them to the two girls, Dongfang Ya, when he saw them. He didn't feel any heartache about this.
This was something they had discussed before.
Thus, the primary objective of this trip had been achieved.
His gaze swept over other areas, and Zhang Ling looked at the several large jade talismans around the pool, their spiritual patterns flashing constantly, obviously exerting some kind of effect.
He then looked at the pool, which was naturally a spiritual spring. He lightly waved his hand, and a small azure gourd appeared in his hand.
Spiritual power struck it, and the gourd instantly grew larger, forming a suction force, drawing up the spring water with a gurgling sound.
This spiritual spring water also has considerable value.
As for the azure gourd in his hand, it was not the Two-Worlds Gourd but one of the smaller gourds from the gourd vine that had not become Two-Worlds Gourds, lacking the Five Elements Spiritual Light within.
He had many such small gourds, which he used as containers for storing spiritual liquids.
After a moment, he had filled over a dozen gourds with spiritual spring water, and the water level had dropped considerably. Zhang Ling felt it was enough and decided to stop.
At this moment, he suddenly noticed five-colored spiritual light flashing at the bottom of the pool. He probed below with his divine sense and smiled again.
This spiritual spring pool was not deep, and his divine sense swept into the bottom, revealing many colorful stones.
These were all Five Elements Jade produced by the spiritual veins of this place. He had also found many in the illusionary mist, but their quality was mostly low to medium grade.
Zhang Ling's figure flickered, and he immediately entered the spiritual spring pool, instantly reaching the bottom. He grabbed an irregular stone the size of a fist.
This was a dark cyan stone, but it shone with five-colored spiritual light. Judging by its quality, it was a top-grade Five Elements Jade.
There were also two smaller Five Elements Jade stones at his feet, one light red and the other a tricolor of cyan, white, and black. They were also top-grade.
The colors of Five Elements Jade are not fixed; they can be monochrome or multicolored.
Zhang Ling unceremoniously collected them all, and in the blink of an eye, he had collected over a dozen top-grade Five Elements Jade stones. Although none were large, the smallest was only the size of a little finger.
Most spirit testing plates, commonly used to test a cultivator's spiritual roots, are refined using Five Elements Jade. Of course, low-grade Five Elements Jade is sufficient.
The value of top-grade Five Elements Jade is best suited for refining various top-tier array disks.
At the bottom of the water, Zhang Ling suddenly noticed a white jade bowl, the size of two palms, lying quietly in a groove at the bottom of the pool.
The material of this jade bowl was also top-grade Five Elements Jade, but it had been carved into the shape of a jade bowl. Obviously, it was not a natural shape, and some spiritual patterns could be seen engraved on it.
Could it be an ancient treasure refined from Five Elements Jade?
Zhang Ling reached out and wanted to bring the jade bowl into his hand for closer inspection. However, the jade bowl remained motionless, as if embedded in the ground.
Upon closer inspection, he also discovered that the jade bowl contained nearly half a bowl of milky white liquid.
There were many five-colored spiritual lights at the bottom of the spiritual spring pool, and he hadn't seen clearly that there were these liquids in the bowl.
Zhang Ling's interest was immediately piqued. The milky white liquid did not mix with the spiritual spring water, resembling sediment. Could this be some special spiritual liquid?
With a thought, he directly extracted a drop of the milky white liquid from the bowl. This did not encounter any resistance.
The milky white liquid fell into his hand, flowing like a small bubble.
Zhang Ling squeezed it, feeling like some kind of soft gel material. "Could it be…" he murmured, as if remembering something.
Holding the drop of soft, gel-like milky white liquid, Zhang Ling hesitated for a moment, then stuck out his tongue and licked it.
Instantly, his whole body trembled, and he burst out laughing. "Haha, it really is Ten Thousand Year Spiritual Liquid! I didn't expect this place to produce this kind of spiritual liquid!"
His eyes immediately lit up, staring at the milky white spiritual liquid in the jade bowl embedded in the ground. The joy in his eyes grew even more intense.
With a splash, Zhang Ling, holding a ball of milky white liquid in one hand, floated to the surface of the water. The total amount of this Ten Thousand Year Spiritual Liquid was not much, roughly only thirty to forty drops.
But his joy was undiminished. Ten Thousand Year Spiritual Liquid is an extraordinary treasure. A single drop can restore seventy to eighty percent of the spiritual power of a Core Formation stage cultivator in an instant.
He had previously obtained Thousand Year Spiritual Liquid, which had helped him overcome many difficulties during the Golden Core stage. The Core Formation stage is different; there are basically no pills that can allow a Core Formation cultivator to quickly restore consumed spiritual power.
The value of this Ten Thousand Year Spiritual Liquid is unimaginable.
Zhang Ling, holding the Ten Thousand Year Spiritual Liquid in one hand and four top-grade Five Elements Jade stones in the other, was rapidly carving them. In the flicker of spiritual light, the four Five Elements Jade stones were carved into four jade bottles, one large and three small, in just a few breaths.
The Ten Thousand Year Spiritual Liquid was divided into four portions and placed inside. They filled the four jade bottles perfectly.
The largest jade bottle contained seventeen or eighteen drops of spiritual liquid, and the three smaller bottles contained eight or nine drops each.
They were filled to the brim.
In less than half an hour, he had obtained a damaged Nascent Soul level puppet, an ancient treasure, Mind-Bewildering Fruits, top-grade Five Elements Jade, and Ten Thousand Year Spiritual Liquid.
Such a harvest would definitely make many cultivators of the same rank envious to death.
Zhang Ling, in high spirits, searched the vicinity again, but there were no more gains.
Then, he directly sat cross-legged on the jade platform, meditated for a short while, and restored his spiritual power to its peak state.
Only then did he leave this place, as there was still one more thing to do.
He naturally had not forgotten to help the young woman, Ruolan, find the treasure that would aid her in transcending her tribulation.
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At the same time, Dongfang Ya was also on this Divine Light Mountain.
She was walking along the illusionary area on the mountainside that Zhang Ling had previously traversed, heading towards the summit.
Dongfang Ya's expression was not good as she looked at the constantly changing surroundings. Her delicate brows were slightly furrowed, and she constantly held a gray spirit talisman in her hand, as if worried about something.
She was not worried about not being able to escape this illusion.
Although this area was somewhat troublesome, Dongfang Ya had already thought of a solution. As long as she closed off her five senses and contracted her divine sense power, she could greatly reduce the degree of interference.
Then, by using other methods to identify directions, she could spend a little more time to traverse this area and reach the summit.
As for seeing the flaws in this place with her powerful divine sense like Zhang Ling, Dongfang Ya naturally could not do that.
Cultivators generally do not close off their five senses and abandon their divine sense because doing so is equivalent to losing the ability to explore the outside world.
If there were killing arrays in this illusion, it would be very dangerous.
But it was indeed a method.
What she was worried about was not the dangers in the illusion but the powerful Nascent Soul stage ghost she had encountered in the dark stone chamber earlier.
At this time, the gray spirit talisman she was holding in her hand was an extremely rare Hundred Mile Teleportation Talisman.
This was not a teleportation talisman that was paired with a teleportation array and attached to the body to prevent spatial pressure.
Instead, it was a teleportation talisman refined using spatial secret techniques. With this talisman, she could randomly teleport to a place within a hundred-mile radius.
In other words, this was a rare spatial attribute spirit talisman.
In theory, the principle was simple: placing the function of a teleportation array on this small spirit talisman. But everything related to spatial attributes is extremely difficult to master.
Let alone refining this kind of spirit talisman. Spatial spirit talismans had long been lost in the Human Realm.
This was a precious spirit talisman she had obtained a hundred years ago when she accidentally acquired the inheritance of talisman techniques in an ancient cultivator's remains.
With this spirit talisman, she had resolved several crises. When encountering an invincible enemy, she could easily get rid of the enemy's pursuit with this spirit talisman.
Just now, she had used this spirit talisman to teleport to the foot of this main peak.
This was an unexpected surprise, as the use of this talisman was a random teleportation.
Dongfang Ya could not determine where she would be teleported to.
Although she could only teleport within a hundred-mile radius, it was already very rare.
Counting it, this spatial spirit talisman could only be used once or twice more before it would be scrapped.
Taking a long breath, Dongfang Ya's brows relaxed, and she no longer delayed. She immediately closed off her senses and withdrew her divine sense power, intending to quickly pass through this area.
Then, with a flick of her hand, she took out eight spirit talismans of different colors. One after another, magic seals were applied to them, and the eight spirit talismans quickly rotated around her body, turning into strange spiritual lights that were either red, green, or black.
Each spirit talisman was a different color, and it looked as if Dongfang Ya's body was covered with several layers of spiritual light. Dongfang Ya closed her eyes and, relying on a trace of induction, walked forward.
"Eight Directions Secret Talismans."
This was a secret technique from the inheritance she had obtained, using secret talismans to sense location, deducing the direction of travel with the Eight Trigrams.
In this way, the interference of the illusion was greatly reduced.
Dongfang Ya moved forward quickly and soon walked out of the illusion. She also saw the hundreds of stone tablets engraved with cultivation insights.
She was also slightly surprised and copied these cultivation insights. Then, along the sections of heavy pressure steps, she spent a while climbing to the summit.
She saw the dilapidated palace complex.
On the other side, in that mysterious valley, Little Phoenix Fairy was trapped in a thatched hut.
This was the third thatched hut she had entered. The first two thatched huts had nothing unusual, but upon entering this third thatched hut,
A piece of green light shrouded the room, sealing the entire room.
This room only had some ordinary things such as tables, chairs, and benches, and the space was not large. Unexpectedly, there was a powerful restriction.
Little Phoenix Fairy's face was naturally ugly, but she did not have too much panic. The crimson spear in her hand emitted fire and pointed upwards.
Above the tip of the spear, a huge fireball immediately condensed and smashed towards the sky with a loud bang. The entire thatched hut was turned into ashes.
However, the green light did not dissipate, and she was still trapped inside.
Seeing that one strike did not break the restriction, Little Phoenix Fairy's eyes spat fire, and without thinking, she threw out three black orbs.
Spiritual power struck them, and the three orbs lit up with black flames, turning into three huge fireballs, which slammed hard against the green light barrier next to them.
The fireballs slammed into the green light with a series of loud bangs. The thin layer of green light flickered dimly, but it could not be broken through.
Little Phoenix Fairy raised an eyebrow. The black demon fire she cultivated had a very powerful attack, but she did not expect that it could not break through this seemingly thin light.
She snorted, let out a delicate shout, and mobilized the spiritual power throughout her body. The crimson spear in her hand instantly turned pitch black, covered with strands of black flames.
A more terrifying fire spiritual power was released.
"Little girl, stop. You can't break this restriction in a short time without the cultivation of the Nascent Soul stage."
Suddenly, a hoarse voice entered.
Little Phoenix Fairy's face sank, and she immediately stared at something on the ground. "Who is pretending to be a ghost here? Get out here for this grandma."
"Hehe, little girl, why are you so angry? Aren't I right here?" The hoarse voice became much clearer, and a green stone flew up from the ground.
Little Phoenix Fairy remembered this stone. It was something that was placed on the table in the thatched hut just now.
Because she had destroyed this thatched hut, some of the things in the original room were scattered on the ground. This originally inconspicuous stone, now looked at again, had a layer of soul power lingering on it.
Obviously, there was some soul body attached to it.
The stone flew into the air and made a cracking sound, but it did not break. Several cracks appeared, and in a burst of green light, it turned into a gray-black snake.
This snake was very small, only the thickness of a thumb and several feet long.
