Although Qingshu Island is located in the center of the Linyu Sea Area, and even the Linyu Sea Area Loose Cultivator Alliance is located here, it is not a large island.
Strictly speaking, this is just a medium-sized island.
Its area is approximately 3670 miles in radius.
On the periphery of the island, there are many shops selling various elixirs, talismans and other items. In addition, there are also stalls scattered here and there. On the intricate and calm roads, the flow of people coming and going is very dense.
As we get closer to the center of the island, the number of shops and various stalls drops sharply, replaced by scattered monk caves, as well as branches and headquarters of large and small forces in the Linyu Sea area - for example, Gu Qing once visited Passed by Linyu Sea Area Loose Cultivators Alliance Headquarters.
Gu Qing's face was calm, his eyes were deep, without any disturbance. He was surrounded by a group of monks who were in the middle and late stages of foundation building. He walked through Qingshu Island shrouded in darkness, and passed two passes guarded by monks. After that, there were no shops, stalls, monk caves, or offices of any force around him.
Several steep mountains with a height of about a thousand feet, not covered by the island's tidal darkness, appeared in front of him.
These steep mountains are intertwined and overlapped with each other. They are unique places filled with light in the vast darkness that shrouds the island.
Except for Gu Qing and the team of monks who brought him here, there was no trace of any other monks within a few dozen miles of the mountains. Some of the mountains themselves were covered with ice and snow, while others were full of ice and snow. Gu Qing glanced at the green mountains from a distance, and his eyes immediately focused on the green mountains.
Halfway up the green mountain, there is a relatively flat grassland, about a few miles in radius. The small fenced courtyard where the middle-aged man in blue shirt was sitting that day is located on this flat grassland, but this is At that time, the small courtyard was empty, and the middle-aged man in blue shirt was not seen.
"Fellow Taoist, please go to the mountain to meet him." The tall and heroic late-stage foundation-building monk cupped his fist slightly at Gu Qing.
Immediately, he led the group of monks and left quickly.
In the blink of an eye, Gu Qing was the only one left in front of these bright mountains. A slight breeze seemed to be blowing into the black robe around him. He tightened his clothes, glanced at the group of monks leaving, and stepped forward.
'The aura of this place is so abundant that I have never seen it in my life.
'Even in the stone monument space, when the spiritual mist was at its strongest, the spiritual energy was far less abundant than near these mountain peaks... Just taking a few steps, there seemed to be thousands of cool air currents, permeating Gu Qing's body, making his body The speed of the exercise is three points faster.
'Why is it that such a rich spiritual energy has not formed a spiritual mist? Gu Qing felt the clear feeling of body and mind as if soaked in a spiritual spring. He raised his head and glanced upward, his pupils shrinking.
'This chain...
He seemed to have seen a huge chain in the sky!
And the moment he saw the huge chain, Gu Qing's eyes suddenly flashed. He was shocked to realize that all the spiritual power and the body of the ancient demon in his body could no longer be used. The body had a strange feeling of being infinitely stretched. Waiting for it to be like this The feeling disappeared, and an empty darkness appeared before his eyes.
In the empty darkness, a sliver of cyan light condensed and took shape in an instant, turning into a tall woman wearing gorgeous purple clothes and a golden feather crown - the energy around this tall woman was extremely terrifying, and she was suppressed after just a hint of it was revealed. The spiritual power and ancient demon body in Gu Qing's body were revealed!
Her face could not be seen clearly. She stood in the middle of two strangely shaped slender raised mountains, with a pair of white eyes overlooking Gu Qing.
Gu Qing's heart was shaken, but he remained calm at all. He did not panic because all the power in his body was suppressed. He lowered his eyes, cupped his fists and raised his hands: "Junior Gu Qing, I have seen this fairy. Where is Senior Shen? How many months ago was Shen? The senior asked the junior to rush to the Zichen Secret Realm together with Brother Lin Yan and Lin, but now, the junior has returned and is here to resume his duties."
The woman was silent for a while, then spoke in an ethereal voice.
"My master left Yunhan Ancient Star a few months ago. This is the Qingyun Order left by his old man. You should keep it. You can go to the Qingyun Immortal Land outside the territory and participate in the introduction of the Qingyun Immortal Sect.
Assessment. "
As the woman spoke, a ray of green light broke away from her figure, streaked across the empty darkness, and fell towards Gu Qing. Gu Qing looked at it intently and saw that this ball of blue light was wrapped in just a simple face. The purple-green token reached out to catch it.
Snapped!
The green light dissipated, and the ancient token fell into Gu Qing's palm. Only then did Gu Qing realize that the token was extremely heavy. He stumbled and fell to the ground. The hand that caught the ancient token fell to the ground. It was crushed to pieces with a click, and the torn flesh and blood of the palm was mixed with the crushed bones!
boom!
The sound that can only be made when an extremely heavy object falls to the ground sounded after this ancient token hit the hard ground.
Gu Qing lay on the ground.
His face was slightly distorted, and big beads of sweat fell like rain. The severe pain of the bones in his palms being brutally crushed swept through his body, but it only made his expression look a little surprised.
"The Qingyun Order weighs one hundred and twenty-five thousand kilograms, which coincides with the number of one calamity, but I suddenly forgot about it." The woman seemed to blink, and then looked away, suppressing the trace of aura that leaked out.
Gu Qing's spiritual power resumed operation and he regained control over the ancient demon's body. He merged the ancient demon's body with his real body without any scruples. The crushed palm quickly recovered, holding the heavy ancient token. He stood up again and looked at the woman in purple wearing a golden feather crown.
The figure of the woman condensed by the cyan light dispersed and disappeared, leaving only a few ethereal voices, echoing throughout the surroundings: "Since you have been favored by the master and have been given the Qingyun Order, you should encourage your practice." , don’t slack off, gather the golden elixir early, and rush to Qingyun Immortal Land..."
Rushing to Qingyun Fairyland...
Qingyun Immortal Land...
Immortal land...
The woman's voice echoed in the empty darkness. For a moment, Gu Qing's eyes blurred. After the feeling of his body being infinitely stretched, he was back in front of several bright mountains.
throat!
Because Gu Qing was holding the ancient token, his extremely heavy body instantly lost his balance after stepping on the earth and rocks. His feet fell into a hole, and one of his legs fell into the earth and rocks. With a thought, he stored the ancient token in his storage. Material Ring - This simple token is not big, but just putting it into the storage ring, Gu Qing's eyebrows jumped several times in a row because the soul power was consumed too much in a short period of time.
The ground seemed to shake for a moment, and then cracked open. Gu Qing pulled out his fallen leg from the earth and rocks and took a few steps back.
He looked at the bright mountains in front of him, raised his head and glanced above, but did not see the huge chain again. He took a deep look at the mountains again, especially the flat hills halfway up the green mountains. On the grass, I saw the middle-aged man in blue shirt in the small fenced courtyard. He paused and turned around to leave.
After turning around, Gu Qing lowered his eyes and suppressed the shock in his heart.
Just now.
In that empty darkness, he vaguely saw an extremely huge dragon-shaped black shadow, locked in mid-air by a huge chain, and this huge dragon-shaped black shadow, behind the huge dragon head Above, the two dragon horns are those two strangely shaped peaks!
'That's... the big demon locked here?
'Qingyun Immortal Sect...Qingyun Order...
While walking, Gu Qing recalled the middle-aged man in blue shirt who was sitting in the small fenced yard that day with a mysterious smile on his face: "This man claims to be the leader of this sea area, but is he actually from the Qingyun Immortal Sect?" How does the Qingyun Immortal Sect compare to the Dao Yizong?
'Since this woman calls that person her master, does that mean she is also a member of the Qingyun Immortal Sect? Since I received the Qingyun Order from that man, will I be able to seek shelter from this woman if I encounter any danger in the future?
'What kind of monk is this woman?
Just as Gu Qing's thoughts were rising and dying, he had already left the vicinity of several bright peaks on Qingshu Island, and scattered monks could be seen around him.
The cultivation aura of these monks is generally in the middle and late stages of foundation building, and some Gu Qing can't even see it.
Existences of outstanding cultivation, such as the young man in yellow robe with a kind smile in front of him.
"Senior Sun."
"Senior Sun..."
Just when Gu Qing looked at the young man in yellow robe, two monks who were walking together and whose cultivation aura was at the sixth level of foundation building quickly walked out of the corner on one side. They suddenly noticed the presence of the young man in yellow robe and hurriedly clasped their fists. He saluted and addressed himself as "senior" with a look of respect on his face.
The young man in yellow robe nodded imperceptibly without any further reaction. However, the two sixth-level Foundation Establishment monks walked past Gu Qing at extremely fast speeds and walked away into the distance as if they had been granted amnesty.
'Copyright monk?
Gu Qing felt awe-struck and slowed down his pace slightly. When he passed by the young man in yellow robe, he paused and said, "Senior Sun."
He also imitated the previous two cultivators of the Sixth Level of Foundation Establishment, and bowed to the young man in yellow robe with his fists clasped, and then left.
"My little friend, please stay here for now." The young man in yellow robe spoke softly, his voice was elegant, his tone was calm, but his eyes were so intense that Gu Qing instantly broke out in a cold sweat, "The island owner summoned my little friend, I don't know why? Sun is really curious."
Stared at by the young man in yellow robe, Gu Qing seemed to be caught by some terrifying existence. His body was tense, as if he was imprisoned and stayed in place. His eyes were slightly focused, and he felt that his soul was shaking, and his consciousness seemed to be trapped in a In the green bamboos blown by the breeze, there are rustling sounds everywhere.
"Island Master has an order in advance, I forgive this junior for not being able to reveal it." Gu Qing forced himself to calm down his restless mind, responded to the young man in yellow robe, and walked past the young man in yellow robe with stiff steps.
The young man in yellow robe looked at Gu Qing's back with interest, until a voice message rang in his ears. He looked away, the smile on his face gradually faded, and he left the place with a sway.
All the way to the outer area of Qingshu Island.
Gu Qing's tense figure relaxed slightly.
'This person……
Gu Qing's brows furrowed.
He was extremely wary of the young man in yellow robe who was suspected to be a pill-forming monk. Although he didn't know the cultivation level of the young man in yellow robe and how many times he had formed pills, if he was targeted, it would undoubtedly be a big deal for him. **bother! If not handled well, lives can easily be lost.
Gu Qing's expression changed for a while, and he calmed down.
In the next two hours, he wandered around the outer area of Qingshu Island as if aimlessly. Occasionally he would stop one or two monks in the late stages of Qi Refining to inquire about the situation on Changming Island.
The late-stage Qi-refining monks who were stopped by him were often very impatient at first, but after realizing that the Foundation-building monks were in trouble, they became respectful, as if they knew everything and said everything.
From the mouths of these late-stage Qi refining monks, Gu Qing roughly understood the current situation on Changming Island - just as he had originally speculated, Changming Island had indeed been attacked by evil cultivators and suffered heavy losses.
But what he didn't expect was...
This evil cultivator's attack was all planned by Master Xu Wang!
'Zhenren Xuwang actually has the strength to kill the Danjie monks! He used the auction at Yao Yue Tower to induce a long-time enemy to make a plan. He used his plan to save the world at the critical moment. He used the formation on Changming Island to turn a pill-forming statue into a second-turn cultivator. Kill!
'Master Xuwang, although he has the name of a real person, he is still a monk in the fake elixir realm. He is still within the scope of the Foundation Establishment stage, and he can actually kill a second-level Foundation Establishment monk! This is really amazing! In addition, I wonder if the monks who participated in the auction held by Yaoyue Tower are in danger...
"You go ahead." Gu Qing nodded slightly, took out two middle-grade spiritual stones and handed them to the fat monk in front of him.
This fat monk's cultivation is at the eleventh level of Qi Refining. Among the dozen monks Gu Qing has asked in the past two hours, he is the one who has provided the most and richest information about Changming Island - this person is The monks who came from Changming Island after the incident on Changming Island two months ago.
"Thank you, senior, for the generous gift." The fat monk was overjoyed and took the two middle-grade spiritual stones. He had a pair of small eyes on his big face.
Light flashes.
Gu Qinggang was about to turn around and leave, but his eyes flickered and he glanced at the fat monk for a few times. He looked at the fat monk until he was helpless and frightened, and then he asked: "Little friend, do you know what is happening on Qingshu Island?" Come on, which cave rented by a shop is the most suitable for retreat?"
The fat monk was startled when he heard this.
Then his mind suddenly changed and he responded: "Senior, since you want to retreat, it is best to rent a cave that is clean enough, undisturbed, and full of spiritual energy. It should take into account these two points at the same time, and the price is relatively low." , Seniors can go to the Hezhen Chamber of Commerce to find it."
'Hezhen Chamber of Commerce is one of the largest chambers of commerce in Qingshu Island. The cave it rents on Qingshu Island is divided into four grades, with grade one being the highest and grade four being the lowest. The younger generation is lucky enough to have broken through the refining process. In the late stage of Qi, under the arrangement of the clan, he entered a fourth-grade cave house for retreat.
'The junior also rented other caves later, but I still feel that the cave of the Hezhen Chamber of Commerce is the most suitable for retreat... In addition, if the senior wants to make alchemy, the rented caves of the third grade and above of the Hezhen Chamber of Commerce are all equipped with alchemy furnaces With spiritual fire. As he spoke, the fat monk lowered his head and carefully observed the changes in Gu Qing's expression with the corner of his eyes.
It's a pity that Gu Qing's face remains expressionless.
"Oh? Then let's go to the Hezhen Chamber of Commerce." Gu Qing turned around and said to the fat monk, "This little friend, can you lead the way?"
"This is an honor for this junior."
The fat monk responded.
How dare he refuse?
He didn't want to refuse at all! Being able to work for a generous foundation-building senior was something he could only dream of! So, he immediately agreed and led the way like a dog-legger.
Hezhen Chamber of Commerce is located in the middle area of Qingshu Island.
Leaving the outer area of Qingshu Island, walking through the middle area for a while, and then turning into a long alleyway filled with chaotic spiritual plants, you can see a huge one-piece house hanging seven or eight feet in the air.
There is a vertical plaque hanging on the top of the two iron-gray doors of the house, with the word "He Zhen" engraved on it. Two young monks in the late stage of Qi refining stood on both sides of the door of the Chamber of Commerce.
When Gu Qing arrived with the fat monk, two early-stage foundation-building monks walked out of two open iron-gray doors.
"You two, although this cave is located on the outermost edge of Qingshu Island, it is right at the intersection of the two formations on the island. It has abundant spiritual energy, and there is no need to worry about being broken in by other monks. It is really a fine cave. ! How about you two think about it again..." Chasing these two early-stage foundation-building monks, an old-man-looking monk who was in the realm of Qi Refining and Perfection said in a frothy voice.
"No need, who doesn't know that these caves located on the outermost edge of the island may be abandoned at any time due to the shifting of formations? If you want to deceive us, you have to find a better excuse!" Those two The monks in the early stage of foundation building seemed to be a couple. The male cultivator responded coldly.
When the old monk heard this, he immediately looked sad, but when he raised his eyes and saw Gu Qing and the fat monk, his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Isn't this the boy from the Han family? I wonder if the senior is..." The monk who looked like an old man immediately left the Taoist couple in the early stages of foundation building and came to Gu Qing and the fat monk, and spoke warmly.
"Lin Shibo."
After the fat monk saw this old-looking monk, his face turned a little dark. He gritted his teeth and nodded, saying, "This senior wants to rent a cave for retreat."
"Oh? Retreat?! Senior, please come in quickly!" The old-looking monk's eyes lit up, and he nodded and bowed to welcome Gu Qing to the Hezhen Chamber of Commerce.
The interior of Hezhen Chamber of Commerce is a series of sealed stone chambers.
On the outside of these stone chambers, a large number of spiritual patterns and ravines are crisscrossed, outlining a light curtain, shrouding each stone chamber beneath it.
Gu Qing glanced at these stone chambers in amazement. From the outside, the interior space of these stone chambers should be quite cramped. He really didn’t know what they were used for. He and the fat monk next to him just followed the old-looking monk through the sealed stone chambers. In the long corridor left, there are twists and turns
After walking for a while, we came to a hall.
After the old monk came to the hall, he walked a few steps quickly, pulled out a chessboard-like object that shone with light from the recess of the stone wall on one side, and handed it to Gu Qing.
"Senior, please look..." The old monk pointed to the bright spots on the chessboard, "This is the island of Qingshu Island. The caves of our Hezhen Chamber of Commerce are spread across the entire Qingshu Island, with a total of 560 There are as many as two, and now there are one hundred and thirty-three left.”
"Among the remaining one hundred and thirty-three caves, the fourth-grade caves with the thinnest spiritual energy have the largest number, with ninety, followed by the third-grade caves with slightly richer spiritual energy, with twenty, and the second-grade caves with spiritual energy that turn into mist. There are eight caves, and there are five first-grade caves with spiritual energy transformed into liquid..."
"Spiritual energy turns into mist?" Gu Qing raised his eyebrows, "I went to the core of Qingshu Island first. The spiritual energy near the bright mountains there is so rich that it has not turned into spiritual mist. Why?"
"This... Senior really asked the right person! There are not many monks on the island who know the answer to this question. The little old man has been on the island for more than a hundred years. Although his cultivation is low, he knows the answer to this question. One of the monks!" The old-looking monk stroked his beard.
"Six hundred years ago, the Dragon of Yin and Turbidity descended from the sky, the stars fell, and the world was in chaos. The Shangzong sent an expert to come, suppress the Dragon of Yin and Turbidity, and seal it on Qingshu Island... That is why the Dragon of Yin and Turbidity opened up. With the strange magical powers of "when the eyes are bright and when the sky is dark", Qingshu Island has been shrouded in darkness since just six hundred years ago! It is also the power of the Dragon of Yin that causes the aura on the island to lose its change."
"If there is no formation to cover it, no matter how strong the spiritual energy is, it will not turn into mist under the influence of this turbid dragon."
The old monk spoke eloquently.
"Dragon of turbidity? It's dawn when you open your eyes, and it's twilight when you close your eyes?" Gu Qing looked at the deep darkness outside the Hezhen Chamber of Commerce. There was no record of this turbid dragon in the book "Three Hundred Years of Scenery in the Vast Sea". , a little puzzled, but soon he understood that it was nothing more than the low-priced Hanhai Three Hundred Years of Scenery. Although it had a rather loud tone, it was essentially just a book that was pieced together based on hearsay. .
"How many spiritual stones are needed to rent a second-grade cave for ten years?"
Gu Qing withdrew his gaze and looked at the old monk.
The old monk was overjoyed and responded quickly: "To rent a second-grade cave for one year, you will generally need about two hundred middle-grade spiritual stones. If you rent it for ten years, eight to nine thousand mid-grade spiritual stones will be enough..."
Gu Qing nodded lightly and looked at the bright locations on the island. The luster of these bright locations were slightly different. Therefore, combined with what the old monk said before, it was not difficult to distinguish which caves were of the second grade. Soon, his His eyes were fixed, looking somewhere near the outer edge of the island.
The cave here is far away from the other caves on the island. If Gu Qing's analysis is correct, it is not far from the location where he clicked on Dunguang when he came to Qingshu Island. The environment there is elegant. , and the most important thing is that it is not shrouded in the darkness of the island!
"How to price this cave?" Gu Qing's eyes flashed, pointing at the cave, and turned to look at the old monk.
The old monk looked secretly happy.
"Senior has good eyesight!"
"Due to its special location, this cave is at the intersection of the two spirit gathering formations arranged on the island. The amount of spiritual energy in it is even better than other caves! In addition, this cave is located in a secluded place, so it is difficult to find people there. Entering to disturb is really the best choice for seniors to retreat!"
"Senior, if you rent this cave for ten years... I will hand over six thousand middle-grade spiritual stones!" The old monk said, his expression pretending to be entangled. After a while, he finally gave a price.
Gu Qing handed the island plate back without comment.
He turned around and said, "Take so-and-so to have a look first."
