Sword Blade Peak, Xijian Lake.
The mountain peaks are like sword blades rising into the sky, and when reflected in the lake, they are like a sharp sword placed in the water, with waves surging, as if rippling between the sword's edges, washing away the dirt on the sword's edge.
Its name and meaning are consistent with reality.
Chu Mu has arrived at the lake, staring at the scene, then looking around, his eyes moving slightly.
According to Zhao Shuang, the cave of the ancient monks was hidden at the bottom of the lake. The formation prohibition still existed, the terrain was hidden, and entering the cave seemed to be a test related to alchemy.
But... the secret realm has been searched for seven years, and the information Zhao Shuang gave was still a few years ago.
Will there be other changes after such a long time?
Chu Mu pondered slightly, and as his eyes moved, a few rays of light occasionally flickered in the sky, which were clearly visible.
If possible, he really doesn't want to conflict with other immortal cultivators. After all, the immortal cultivators from all major forces are basically in groups of three and two, relying on each other.
He is a casual cultivator, and he is also an evil cultivator with a huge bounty on his back. In this environment, if he is not careful, he will be in an extremely difficult situation.
After observing the environment for a while, Chu Mu looked at the Xijian Lake in front of him.
The water is so vast that it is difficult to see the end at a glance.
Although the water waves are rippling, they are only moving with the wind. Overall, it seems to be extremely calm.
If it were outside the East Lake, it would be obvious that there would be no danger in the water.
After all, the land of spiritual veins is occupied, there are countless immortal cultivators, and there is no living space for monsters in the water.
Even if a mortal falls into the water, as long as he is good at water, there is no need to worry too much.
But this law obviously does not apply in this secret realm.
The extremely rich spiritual energy and the long-term uninhabited and isolated environment have undoubtedly become a paradise for monsters to grow wildly.
There are countless monsters in the mountains and forests. In the past few days, he has encountered and seen countless monsters.
And in this lake, according to the information left by Zhao Shuang, there are many monsters.
Moreover, encountering monsters on land and meeting monsters in water are obviously two completely different concepts.
He checked his magic weapon, talismans, seals and other means, and then looked around, then grabbed Wangcai, took his sword into the air, and flew over the lake.
Finally, after determining a rough location based on the information given by Zhao Shuang, the flying sword light suddenly stopped.
He led Wangcai to the water lightly, and finally slowly submerged into the lake.
The lake was much deeper than he imagined. It took him hundreds of meters of water to reach the bottom of the lake.
Moving forward at the bottom of the lake seems to be a gentle slope that continues to decline. As we continue to move forward, the water becomes deeper and deeper, and the vision becomes darker and darker.
He couldn't walk more than a hundred meters, and when he looked up again, with his now transformed body functions, it was hard to see much light.
Looking around the surrounding waters, what can be seen with the naked eye is only a few dozen meters away.
When the spiritual consciousness is released, it is limited to the obstruction of the lake. Compared with the land, the distance covered by the spiritual consciousness is more than half.
"The spiritual energy seems to be much stronger."
Sensing the spiritual energy at the bottom of the lake, Chu Mu's vigilance became more intense.
The spiritual energy in the secret realm is already extremely rich, but at the bottom of the lake, the richness of the spiritual energy has actually increased. This undoubtedly shows that there is a spiritual vein at the bottom of the lake!
In this secret realm, it is not the Dachu Immortal Realm in the outside world.
In the outside world, spiritual veins are occupied by major forces. In this secret realm, the place where the spiritual veins are located will only be occupied by powerful monsters.
"Second level?"
Chu Mu felt a little nervous. Judging from his experience in the secret realm, first-order monsters were everywhere and could be seen everywhere. Only second-order monsters seemed to be worthy of the word powerful.
When he thought of the second-level monster, Chu Mu could not help but think of the terrifying two-headed giant snake in the valley...
His Qi training skills are almost all above the fire attribute. In this water, he is already severely restricted.
Physical training is also very limited under the influence of water pressure.
If a second-level water attribute monster appears...
Chu Mu stopped and looked at Wangcai who was following him. He raised his hand and touched it to signal Wangcai to be alert.
After walking about another kilometer, Chu Mu looked up again. There was no light at all, and the surrounding area was even darker, while the aura at the bottom of the lake was getting stronger and stronger.
Chu Mu was observing the surrounding environment. Suddenly, there were water waves surging behind him, and an inexplicable feeling of palpitations suddenly emerged.
boom!
Before Chu Mu could make a move, Wangcai surged up behind him, the water surged, and his sharp claws directly penetrated a water snake as thick as an arm that suddenly attacked. With a bite of his fangs, he directly bit the water snake into two pieces.
Thick blood emerged, immediately dyeing the water area red.
Chu Mu frowned, thinking something bad in his heart.
The world of monsters is a place where the weak prey on the strong.
A person who is prosperous is just a secular dog. After transcending the world, how long will he follow him?
At present, it is equivalent to the advanced stage of Qi training of an immortal cultivator, and is even close to perfection.
Why such rapid growth?
Because of fighting again and again, he used the body of the immortal cultivator as food, and after entering the secret realm, he even used the monster beast as food!
This is just like him. Although his spiritual root qualifications are low, his external resources are sufficient.
As for the resources of monsters, except for some natural and earthly treasures, they are the law of the jungle.
The smell of blood appears, then...
Chu Mu looked around, patted Wangcai who was still devouring the remains of the water snake monster, and then walked quickly deeper into the lake bottom, and his forward speed seemed to have increased a lot.
But it seems that it is a little late.
In this water, the sensitivity of monsters to blood was beyond Chu Mu's expectations.
However, within just a few moments, several more water monsters appeared one after another and attacked.
The scarlet color spread in the water with the current, and the gloom between Chu Mu's brows became more intense.
boom!
There was another roar, and a fish monster that looked like a shark from its previous life appeared. Before it could get close, several water arrows that merged with the lake water struck.
Chu Mu did not dare to slack off at all. He swung out the giant god arm, and the terrifying power directly knocked down the giant whale's head. Then the Minghong Sword appeared, and with one fell sword, it directly decapitated the whale.
Rolling blood filled the air, and the entire body of water seemed to have turned into a strange scarlet color.
Feeling the increasingly clear violent aura in the surrounding waters, Chu Mu no longer cared too much and kicked out the giant whale corpse in the opposite direction.
"Walk!"
Without saving any more energy, he pulled Wangcai and ran wildly under the water. He couldn't run more than a dozen steps. Chu Mu stopped suddenly and looked at the dozens of monsters that suddenly appeared in front of him, speechless.
The only good thing seems to be that these monsters are not high in cultivation and are only first-level monsters.
The bloody battle reappeared, but this time, although it was devastating, the destruction only lasted for dozens of breaths, and Chu Mu could only lead Wangcai to escape in embarrassment!
Behind him, there were densely packed monster beasts of all kinds, some were killing each other, some were fighting for the body, and some were looking for Chu Mu as their prey...
This seems to be a vicious cycle. The stronger the smell of blood, the more monsters there are. Even if Chu Mu is more confident in himself, in such a vicious cycle, he obviously does not dare to show off at all.
Yu Shui fled in embarrassment for nearly half an hour, and after confirming that all the monsters had been thrown away, Chu Mu stopped slightly, his breath converged, and he used the mask of the phantom god to hide the traces as much as possible.
Looking around, Chu Mu worked hard to identify the traces on the bottom of the lake and compared them with the information about the ancient monk cave left by Zhao Shuang.
At this moment, he had no doubt about what Zhao Shuang said.
After all, the lake is at least hundreds of meters deep, such a huge water pressure, and the existence of the lake, for immortal cultivators, are restrictive in almost every aspect!
Even for body-refining cultivators, the huge water pressure is extremely restrictive.
Coupled with the endless emergence of aquatic monsters, as well as the keen sense of blood.
The bottom of this lake is simply a forbidden place!
The only good thing was that he did not attract the attention of high-level spiritual beasts. These first-level monsters had low intelligence and were only chasing him out of their desire for prey.
When encountering other targets that are better for preying on, their attention is immediately diverted.
Otherwise, we would really be in big trouble.
In a place like this, if you don't know exactly what opportunities there are.
Ordinary immortal cultivators would obviously not come here to look for trouble.
"It should be on the northeast side of the ancient monk's cave. That reef is marked on the jade slips."
After identifying the surrounding environment, Chu Mu moved forward cautiously. What he had just experienced was really terrifying.
If we do it again, who knows if we will attract the second-level monsters.
He didn't dare to gamble.
"Um?"
After walking a few steps, a strange feeling came from the soles of his feet, but Chu Mu subconsciously stopped.
He took a step back, and a cold glow was faintly visible on the ground where his feet originally stood.
"alert."
Chu Mu patted Wangcai, then slowly squatted down and brushed away the mud and sand at the bottom of the lake. What came into view was... a broken sword?
Chu Mu was stunned for a moment, then reached out to hold the tip of the sword, and pulled it out gently. The sand surged, and the entire sword was pulled out, appearing in front of his eyes.
The broken sword was only a few feet away, the formation had been damaged, and even the body of the sword had been corroded by time.
And the hilt...
At the hilt of the sword, there seemed to be a steel hand, still holding the hilt tightly.
"...Is...a puppet?"
Chu Mu frowned slightly and looked at the palm of the puppet in front of him.
The puppet's palm seems to have been cut off directly. Although the joint has been corroded by time, there are still faint clues.
The formation forbidden weapon pattern, like the broken sword, has long since expired, and only vague traces can be seen, and even the material of the main body has been corroded to the point of disgrace.
Obviously, this incomplete puppet hand and this broken sword must have existed for a long, long time.
Otherwise, under the nourishment of spiritual energy, the array forbidden device tattoos will only be worn out by natural resting for thousands of years. Even if it is damaged, the entire array forbidden device will not be completely destroyed.
Not to mention the main material of this broken sword. The spiritual material is originally created by heaven and earth. Smelting and refining makes the material itself reach a higher level.
"Could it be..."
Chu Mu made some guesses, but was afraid to confirm.
Immediately, he searched bit by bit within a few dozen meters of the surrounding area.
Within a moment, there were more than a dozen various artifacts of various types that had been eroded by time in front of him.
Swords, guns, swords and halberds, as well as broken puppet components, such as palms, broken arms, broken legs, and half a head.
"So... there was a big battle in this Sword-washing Lake?"
Chu Mu looked around at the bottom of the dark lake, his eyes moving slightly.
After a moment, he could only suppress the meaningless speculation and look at the junk in front of him.
The patterns of the forbidden weapon, as well as the material itself, were all corroded, and the junk in front of them obviously had no meaning.
After looking at it casually, he was about to throw it away, but then he seemed to notice something, and his eyes were instantly fixed on the broken head of the puppet.
"This is……"
Chu Mu opened the puppet's head, and found that the inside of the head was in a mess, and the once delicate structure had all been corroded.
But in the center of the head, a round jade stone the size of an eyeball, black and translucent, is very conspicuous.
"It's...a soul-condensing stone!"
The puppet inheritance in my mind circulated rapidly, and soon, this slightly unfamiliar word became fixed in my mind.
Chu Mu's eyes shone brightly, and he looked at the soul-condensing stone with eagerness!
Soul-condensing stone, a second-level low-grade spiritual material.
A mere second-level low-grade spiritual material does not seem to be considered rare.
But... the word "soul condensing stone" can undoubtedly explain a lot.
Its soul-condensing effect undoubtedly gives it a value that far exceeds that of second-order low-grade spiritual materials, as well as its rare rarity.
After all, in this world of immortality, as long as anything involves the soul, its value will definitely soar and it must be extremely rare.
At least, as far as he knew, the indispensable spiritual material for all magic weapons involving the soul was this soul condensing stone.
There are no soul-condensing stones on the market at all.
He has not yet touched upon the level of the spiritual weapon and is not very clear about it, but since it is a second-level spiritual material, its effect will obviously also affect the spiritual weapon.
He didn't have much need for the Concentrating Magical Artifact. After all, the existence of his Divine Soul Sword was enough to replace any Divine Soul Magical Instrument.
But this other effect of the soul condensing stone is extremely important to him, to him as a weapon refiner and puppet master.
It is recorded in the inheritance of puppetry that this soul-condensing stone is also an important spiritual material for refining puppets.
The soul-condensing stone is in the puppet system, and its function is to carry the soul and serve as the core center of the puppet.
In other words, if it is an ordinary puppet without a soul condensing stone, its control center can only receive some extremely simple instructions.
Just like the four bamboo dragonflies he refined, they are basically controlled by him personally. Even if he is allowed to investigate, he can only give some extremely simple instructions.
But if the Soul Condensing Stone is used as the basic spiritual material to refine it into a puppet control center, it is equivalent to installing an intelligent center on the puppet!
Its significance is that the mecha in the previous life has an extra smart chip.
It's equivalent to a robot with some logic and intelligence!
Its function is obviously self-evident.
As if it were a treasure, Chu Mu took out a jade box and carefully put the half head into the box to seal it.
When he looked at the dark bottom of the surrounding lake again, there was only unspeakable enthusiasm in his eyes...
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This chapter is four thousand.
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