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After hearing this, Han Changlin finally understood that this method of exchanging soul cards filled with monster souls in exchange for caves was actually a way to encourage immortal cultivators to kill as many monsters as possible.
Of course, he sneered at what the beautiful woman said about the good intentions of Yushui Palace. What he said about opening up territories for the human race was just perfunctory words. The real purpose of Yushui Palace was naturally to expand itself. Controlled sea area.
In addition, through this method, more immortal cultivators will be attracted to this Thunder Stone Immortal City. Through Thunder Stone Immortal City, they can go to the depths of the endless sea to experience and kill monsters. As the number of immortal cultivators increases, it will naturally bring about the influence of Thunder Stone Immortal City. Prosperity, the taxation alone would probably make the senior officials of the Water Control Palace smile with joy.
However, Han Changlin really admired the Water Control Palace's method of attracting people's hearts. Thinking that he was planning to go to the Endless Sea for a trial, he had no choice but to take on this task. Even if he failed to complete it, he would only make up for it after the ten years. Just the previous offer.
Thinking of this, Han Changlin naturally chose the second method. After receiving a crystal clear turquoise token from the hand of a beautiful woman, Han Changlin also chose a somewhat remote island as his training place.
After paying 18,000 low-grade spiritual stones, the beautiful woman gave Han Changlin a silver token. Only with this silver token can he pass the restrictions on the island.
After completing the formalities, Han Changlin took Jiang Yingxue and left "Xianfuju" and walked towards the outside of Leishixian City.
Han Changlin did not stay longer in Leishixian City, but quickly left the city gate with Jiang Yingxue. Han Changlin wrapped Jiang Yingxue in the escape light and flew towards the northeast.
After drinking some tea, Han Changlin looked at an island in the distance with a smile on his face. He pressed the escape light and landed directly in front of a pier on the island.
On these islands, there are small towns with mortals. Although the island chosen by Han Changlin is somewhat remote, it is also home to a large town with two to three hundred households and nearly a thousand people.
As soon as Han Changlin landed on the dock, five or six strong men surrounded an old man in his fifties and hurriedly walked towards Han Changlin.
Han Changlin glanced at a few people with his spiritual thoughts and realized that these people were ordinary mortals, and several of the strong men were body refiners who had practiced body refining. However, they were all the first-level body refiners. Ordinary first-level primary and intermediate monsters may be okay.
But if they encounter a first-level or higher level monster, these people will be in great danger.
"Chen Pengnian, the mayor of Qianhu Town in Qinghudao, pays homage to the immortal master."
Before Han Changlin could speak, the old man and several strong men took the lead in bowing to Han Changlin.
"Is the immortal master going to practice on Qinghu Island?"
After the old man paid his respects, he spoke again.
At this time, Han Changlin also noticed that the island was really like a green gourd, thin in the middle and thick on both sides, and the thick sides were also different, one large and one small, corresponding to the two connected peaks.
"I have rented the cave here and will practice here for a while."
Han Changlin nodded and said lightly.
"In this case, the old man will tell the residents of the town that they will never enter Calabash Mountain and disturb the immortal master's cultivation."
Upon hearing this, Chen Pengnian's old face actually showed a bit of joy.
Seeing the old man's expression, Han Changlin naturally knew what he was thinking. The endless outer sea was several times more dangerous than the inland sea. Especially for mortals like them who lived in the outer sea, they were always faced with the dangers of monsters in the sea. threaten.
Although there is a spiritual restriction guarded by the Thunder Stone Immortal City on Qinghu Island, it is only powerful against those second-level monsters and above. However, for the large number of low-level monsters, the restriction of the Thunder Stone Immortal City is not enough. It cannot be cut off one by one.
Therefore, almost every year, some low-level monsters would flow to the nearby islands, rush into mortal villages and towns, and devour them mortals.
The body refiners in the town are all at the elementary level. They can deal with a small number of first-level elementary and intermediate monsters, but if they encounter a large number of low-level monsters or first-order advanced monsters or above, then the refiners will have to deal with them. It is also a high probability that the body scholar will die from this.
But if there are immortal masters on the island, it will be different. Normally, the immortal masters will not care about the life and death of mortals, but if the villagers in the town offer some spiritual stones every year, most of these immortal masters will still be willing to protect them. of.
Moreover, immortal masters have a long lifespan. As long as they live on the island, they usually live for more than ten years or even decades. For them, they can enjoy a long and peaceful life.
"The little old man has a heartless request. Do you still hope that the immortal master can accept it?"
After promising to restrain the mortals in the town not to disturb Han Changlin, the old man immediately made his request.
Han Changlin was naturally able to guess a lot. He smiled warmly and said:
"Mayor, please speak."
After a slight hesitation, Chen Pengnian said:
"Although we in Qianhu Town have trained more than a dozen body refiners, we can still cope with a small number of first-level elementary and intermediate monsters, but if we encounter higher-level monsters, there will be many casualties. , so the little old man begged the Immortal Master, within the scope of his ability, to protect Qianhu Town when we are attacked by monsters. Of course, our Qianhu Town will offer five hundred low-grade spiritual stones every year. , Honor the Immortal Master."
When Han Changlin heard this, he realized that the secret passage was indeed what he thought. He had also encountered such a scene when he first came to the Eastern Territory.
If there were no soul-eating insects in captivity, Han Changlin might not necessarily agree. After all, once she went to sea to practice and left Jiang Yingxue alone, she would not be able to deal with those monsters.
However, with the Soul-Eating Insects, as long as there are no third-order monsters, the Soul-Eating Insects can basically easily kill them, and within a thousand miles of Thunder Stone Fairy City, it is almost impossible for a third-order monster to appear.
Thinking of this, Han Changlin naturally agreed readily, and the mayor wisely chose to leave after thanking him profusely.
After the mayor and others left, a blue-red escape light appeared on Han Changlin's body, and he flew towards the back mountain with Jiang Yingxue.
After flying for twenty or thirty miles, the two came to the foot of a mountain. In front of them was a mountain peak hundreds of feet high. Most of the mountain top was covered with dark brown rocks, and the rest was covered with lush flowers, plants and trees. covered.
Looking at the small forest shrouded in white mist in front of him, Han Changlin smiled slightly and took out the silver token. The moment he took out the token, the woods in front of them immediately disappeared without a trace, and the white mist also dissipated. A clearing surrounded by a fence was revealed.
At the end of the clearing, near the foot of the mountain, there is a dark cave against the rock wall.
Four ancient seal characters "Qinghu Cave Mansion" are engraved on the top of the cave.
Han Changlin's spiritual thoughts penetrated deeply into the cave, and he could clearly feel the entire cave in an instant. The cave was more than twenty feet deep, and it was divided into a small living room, a training room, a rest room, and a weapon refining room. The room is simple and tidy inside, and it also exudes a faint fragrance of dragon tongue.
Han Changlin has also seen this kind of spice. Some female monks like to place a piece of dragon tongue incense in their caves to drive away poisonous insects and keep the caves dry.
As a male cultivator, Han Changlin never cared about this, but after thinking about it for a while, he found that this ready-made cave was really suitable for Jiang Yingxue.
"Yingxue."
"master."
When she heard Han Changlin calling her, Jiang Yingxue hurriedly withdrew her eyes that were looking around, and trotted to Han Changlin.
"From today on, this cave is yours. You must work hard and don't slack off."
Han Changlin pointed to the cave in front of him and said.
"What about you, master?"
"Me? I'm going to open another cave over there for my master. During this period, my master will go to Thunder Stone Immortal City to have a look. You can study hard in the cave. If you don't understand anything, you can come to me at any time as long as your master comes back. Be a teacher."
After saying that, Han Changlin walked towards a stone forest nearby. After passing through the stone forest of more than ten feet, Han Changlin discovered that behind the stone forest was a small valley dozens of feet in size. At the end of the valley, there were two towering ancient trees. There are several people who can hug each other.
Not far between the two ancient trees, there was also a cave. However, after Han Changlin's spiritual exploration, he discovered that this cave was only a few feet deep and was filled with withered grass and feathers.
Han Changlin glanced at the area where a piece of bark had been worn away on the trunk of one of the ancient trees, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
The emotions here are where the captive spiritual beasts of the previous cultivator were.
Now that the man has left, the spirit beast naturally followed him, leaving behind this cave.
The location of this cave was good, and it was suitable for him to open a cave. Thinking of this, Han Changlin opened his mouth slightly, and shot out a green flame sword, which then turned into a long blue-red sword energy and shot into the cave. .....
After spending most of a day's effort, Han Changlin took back the green flame sword with satisfaction. The original cave was enlarged a lot, and of course the more important thing was the inside.
Within tens of feet of the cave, Han Changlin opened up five stone chambers. These five stone chambers are connected to each other by portals, and these five stone chambers are prepared by Han Changlin for cultivation, rest, elixir refining, weapon refining, and... Used for raising spiritual animals.
After entering the cave, Han Changlin looked around with a look of satisfaction on his face. However, when he entered the spirit beast room, his face showed a look of surprise.
It turned out that a faint white mist filled the spirit beast room, and after feeling that the white mist turned out to be condensed spiritual energy, Han Changlin first pondered, and then showed an expression of joy on his face.
He searched carefully around the spirit beast room. After half an hour, Han Changlin stopped in a corner of the spirit beast room. After thinking for a while, he opened his mouth and spit out a green flame sword and pointed it in front of him. Cut away the cracks in the rock.
An hour later, Han Changlin looked at a several-foot-sized pool filled with white gas in front of him, with a puzzled expression on his face.
In the center of the pool, stands a pure white transparent pillar about a foot thick. The pillar is only four or five feet high. A faint white mist exudes from the top of the white pillar and sinks towards the pool.
"Is this the legendary root of spiritual veins?"
The confusion on Han Changlin's face turned into surprise, and then he showed an expression of surprise.
The spring root of the spiritual vein is the outlet for the spiritual energy of the spiritual vein to vent. Normally, as long as there is a spiritual vein, there will be a spiritual spring root, but 99% of the spiritual veins have their spiritual spring roots in the spiritual vein. Above, it is located thousands of feet deep underground. For cultivators, it is already deep into the lava deep underground. Even if the spiritual energy is rich, it is not suitable for cultivation.
Moreover, once the spiritual veins are opened to the body, the dissipation speed of the spiritual energy will be accelerated by dozens or even hundreds of times. Even if it can be used to practice, it will not last long, and in this way, the damage to the spiritual veins will be permanent. So the chicken was killed to get the eggs.
In the world of cultivating immortals, no sect would do something like this to annihilate its own inheritance. And if it did this to other sects, it would be like destroying the inheritance of others, and it would lead to endless vendettas.
But there are also a small part of the spiritual veins that extend close to the surface, forming a vent for spiritual energy in a small area. This kind of place is called the root of the spiritual spring, and the spiritual energy will continuously flow through the spiritual spring. The roots spread out and formed a holy place for cultivating immortals.
As long as the root of the spiritual spring is not too big and the dissipated spiritual energy is within the range of the spiritual veins, it can exist for a long time. For immortal cultivators, if the root of the spiritual spring can be found in the cave, the speed of cultivation will definitely be faster than others. More than twice that of cultivators.
Han Changlin really didn't expect that an unintentional move to open a cave would actually open up a cave with the root of the spiritual spring. This was a stroke of luck.
Han Changlin came to the spiritual pool and felt the liquefied spiritual energy in the pool. He couldn't help but take a deep breath. This breath of almost pure spiritual energy entered his body and instantly made him energetic.
"Huh?"
Han Changlin's expression suddenly changed. He patted the spirit beast bag on his waist, and with a flash of inspiration, a mottled stone egg appeared in Han Changlin's palm.
At this moment, the surface of the stone egg was emitting a faint white spiritual light. Although it was not obvious, Han Changlin could easily catch the mottled spots on the stone egg that were slowly falling off under the white light.
In the blink of an eye, all the spots on the surface of the stone egg fell away, revealing a snow-white animal egg inside.
"Is it really a fairy egg?"
Seeing this scene, Han Changlin showed an excited expression on his face. Huang Shang once told himself that this was a fairy egg, but Han Changlin always thought that Huang Shang was exaggerating after seeing this stone egg.
Seeing the changes that had taken place in this stone egg now made Han Changlin a little more hopeful.
The excitement on Han Changlin's face turned into surprise again, and then he showed an expression of horror. The white spiritual energy in the spiritual pool seemed to be drawn by the stone eggs, forming long strips and rushing towards the stone eggs.
"Is it possible that Fairy Yeyue was unable to hatch this stone egg because there was insufficient spiritual energy in the Nirvana Spiritual Palace?"
Han Changlin thought of a possibility. Thinking of this, he hesitated slightly, stepped forward gently, and reached the sky above the spiritual pool, next to the root of the spiritual spring.
Han Changlin gently placed the stone egg on the root of the spiritual spring. The root of the spiritual spring emitted white mist, directly wrapping the stone egg, and the stone egg began to absorb the spiritual energy.
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