The group of people moved towards the depths of the cave, and Zhao Lian and other three prisoners were thrown into the spirit beast bag by He Shouxin.
The further you go, the more humid the air becomes, and the cave walls on both sides feel moist, cool and slippery, which are those weird moss that are spread everywhere like ivy.
At the same time, the concentration of spiritual energy was getting larger and larger, mixed with a damp and cold breath, as if it was released from these spiritual moss. However, as his spiritual sense gradually became clearer, Dai Chenghong slowly discovered that these auras came from somewhere deeper in the corridor.
Half a quarter of an hour later, everyone stood still in front of a huge wall.
"The spiritual energy comes from this mountain," Dai Chenghong ordered, "Scrape off all the moss and let's see what's hidden inside."
After giving the order, He Shouxin was the first to respond. His giant palm brought up a strong wind, and large tracts of moss peeled off one after another. Then came the three elders of the Zhao family, and finally Qing Xiaoling also participated enthusiastically.
Only Dai Chenghong, Yang Zhen and Mu Zixue stood motionless.
After a few breaths, all the moss on the entire mountain wall was scraped away, revealing a muddy ground that looked like it had been soaked in excrement. Not only was it pitted and muddy, it also exuded a stench like rotting animal carcasses.
"How strange!" He Shouxin said to himself: "The moss I just scraped away didn't have such an unpleasant smell."
Dai Chenghong was also puzzled and couldn't help but glance at Mu Zixue.
"The spiritual energy contained in the spiritual moss outside is relatively thin, and the erosion of the mountain is not obvious yet." Zixue explained.
"This wall is different from the surrounding cave walls. It is inlaid with a large number of finely divided obsidian to shield the sense of consciousness."
"This peculiar smell is exactly the smell that obsidian emits after being corroded by humus moss."
"There is indeed a big difference in the amount of spiritual energy." Dai Chenghong took out some spiritual moss, looked at it for a moment and said: "This small handful is equivalent to a medium-grade spiritual stone, and the amount of spiritual energy is at least thirty times that of the ones outside. "
She looked at the spiritual moss piled on the ground and sighed: "There are no less than two top-quality spiritual stones in front of me!"
There was no need for her to continue to issue orders. The few people who had just taken out their magical weapons had started digging into the mountain without stopping. This process is very similar to digging mud in a smelly ditch. Although the soil has become soft, every time a hole is dug, it will be filled with the surrounding mud in just a short time and return to its original state.
Moreover, even if Zifu's late-stage magic power was used, he could only make a shallow pit two feet deep on the mountain wall. The further back he dug, the soil gradually became harder, and the hole made became shallower and shallower.
Not long after, Yang Zhen also joined, and then Dai Chenghong, regardless of the image of the hospital master, rolled up his sleeves and participated personally.
Only Zixue stood with her hands tied, looking around the mountain wall, thoughtfully.
The stench is getting weaker and weaker, but the mountain is getting harder and harder. In the end, only Dai Chenghong and Qing Xiaoling could crack a piece of rock and soil with one strike of their swords. Yang Zhen and He Shouxin could only dig out one stone of different sizes each time, while the three members of the Zhao family could only dig out a piece of rock and soil. A hole, just a little gravel bursting out.
He Shouxin couldn't help but look at Yang Zhen with admiration.
At this time, a white light could be seen dimly within the mountain. It was obvious that the target was not far away.
Another quarter of an hour later, as Qing Xiaoling cheered, a stone as big as a human head exploded, revealing a dazzling white mass behind it.
It is like white jade, shiny and smooth, exuding a light fragrance and extremely rich aura.
Dai Chenghong swung his sword and chopped some more stones, expanding the range of white jade to the size of a washbasin. It was extremely difficult to continue to expand.
She thought for a moment, then simply struck at the white jade, only to hear a faint muffled sound. The white jade did not move at all, leaving no trace.
At this time, a large amount of spiritual energy surged outward like waves, and soon condensed into a long string of water columns. However, after a few breaths, the water columns gradually became sparse, and soon turned into gas again, and finally disappeared completely. .
The exposed piece of white jade has suddenly formed a thin mask.
Dai Chenghong snorted softly and slashed several times with his sword. The force became stronger and stronger, but the light shield showed no change.
"What kind of formation is this?" she asked angrily.
"This is a base for the heaven and earth magic circle." A clear female voice came from behind.
Zixue came over slowly, her red lips parted slightly: "This formation has the ability to heal itself. Although we dug a hole and the spiritual energy leaked out, it has healed now."
"Heaven and Earth Magic Array!" Everyone's expressions changed.
According to legend, the heaven and earth magic circle was set up by a group of powerful monks from outside the territory after the great catastrophe three thousand years ago, forming a restriction on the world of Zhenyu Realm. Not only is the upper limit for monks' cultivation to reach Nascent Soul Transformation, but the number of people with spiritual root qualifications is also limited to a ratio of one thousandth.
The monks in the Zhenyu world have mixed praise and criticism for the latter, but they all hate the suppression of the upper limit of cultivation. For thousands of years, countless monks have been trying to find flaws in this formation, but they have only found some nodes that are suspected to be the heaven and earth magic formation, but they have found nothing about the true face of the Lushan formation itself.
Unexpectedly, the true form of the Heaven and Earth Formation is hidden deep underground in this spiritual stone mine!
"Is there a way to solve it?" Dai Chenghong asked eagerly.
Zixue shook her head gently.
Dai Chenghong sighed, not feeling disappointed. If the heaven and earth magic circle was really so easy to break, it wouldn't have been weighing on the heads of the monks in the Jade Realm for thousands of years.
However, now that I have found this place, I will report it to the ancestor of Xiling after returning to the clan. I don’t know if he can do anything about it.
Suddenly, she moved with horror:
"Did someone plant these spirit moss here on purpose?"
Zixue nodded.
"How long does it take to grow into such a large piece?"
"At least three thousand years." Zixue said meaningfully.
…
"The base here has been repaired and the spiritual energy is no longer leaking. These spiritual mosses will become rootless trees and will gradually wither in the future." Zixue said: "Shall we take them all away?"
He Shouxin and others had been waiting for this sentence for a long time. They looked at Dai Chenghong and saw her nodding slightly. They were immediately overjoyed. After a busy day of work, in less than half an hour, miles of moss was dried. Clean.
Someone secretly estimated that the total amount of spiritual energy from all the spiritual moss should be more than 20 million spiritual stones.
This is a huge fortune.
He Shouxin's eyes turned red, and together with several members of the Zhao family, they looked at Dai Chenghong eagerly.
"Will your cultivation level increase greatly after taking this product?" Dai Chenghong doubtfully grabbed a handful and put it into his mouth.
"Wait a minute!" "You can't eat it!"
Two voices sounded at the same time, and Yang Zhen and Zixue couldn't help but smile at each other.
"Huh?" Lingmo stopped at his mouth.
"This substance is poisonous," Zixue said: "If you take it improperly, you will be like that skeleton. Your whole body will be stiff, your flesh and blood will be exhausted, and you will eventually be unable to move and you will have to wait for death!"
Dai Chenghong put down the spirit moss, but looked a little suspicious: "Why don't those criminals have the symptoms you mentioned?"
"Disciple doesn't know." Zixue shook her head.
"Ask them."
The light flashed and Zhao Lian and the other three were thrown to the ground.
"If I tell you, can you let my mother and I live?" Zhao Lian said in a deep voice.
"You tell me first and listen to it." He Shouxin remained calm.
Zhao Lian sneered, turned his head and said nothing.
"Do you really think I don't know how to search for souls?" He Shouxin's expression suddenly changed, he opened his big hand to take Zhao Li over, and took out a talisman with the other hand.
After all, Zhao Lian is the main culprit in this case and cannot be tampered with. Relatively speaking, whether Zhao Li dies or not will have little impact.
Zhao Li was so frightened that he lost his soul and shouted hurriedly: "No, don't search my soul, I don't know anything! Only Zhao Lian knows how to take the spirit moss, it was Ren Changsong who told him!"
"He used this method to control the growth of my and Lao San's cultivation and make us obey his orders!"
"Plop!" Zhao Li fell to the ground, and He Shouxin's fierce eyes stared at Zhao Lian again.
The latter looked at him with one eye and continued bargaining without flinching: "Otherwise, you can let my mother go."
This condition seemed acceptable, and He Shouxin remained silent.
Dai Chenghong was also pondering. She has been trapped in the middle stage of the golden elixir for a hundred years. If this spiritual moss is really so miraculous, she can agree to more conditions, not to mention releasing an accomplice.
Just when she was about to speak, she saw Yang Zhen waving: "Everyone, wait a moment, Xiao Ling, go and ask him."
Qing Xiaolin smiled happily. She couldn't wait for the trial opportunity presented to her.
The little fox loves to show off.
"Is your name Zhao Lian?" she asked with a smile.
Zhao Lian raised his brows, intuiting that the other party was not kind, and he deliberately ignored it, but a voice involuntarily appeared in his mind, comforting him:
Just asking for the name, nothing important, just tell me!
"I am Zhao Lian."
"Hey, turn around, it's not polite to talk like that!"
Yes, how can I, Zhao Lian, be such an rude person? I have listened to my parents since I was a child. I am a good boy in everyone's eyes, not a fatherless and motherless person like Yang!
He turned his head and met Qing Xiaoling's eyes, and then he could no longer break free.
…
"After peeling off the Yin Yang moss (the name Ren Changsong gave this dangerous spirit moss, Zhao Lian copied it) from the cave wall, it was soaked for seven to ten days depending on the amount of spiritual energy. This time must be enough, otherwise it will be toxic. It cannot be eliminated..."
"For the specific time, you need to do more experiments. Use the tip of your tongue to lick the place where the gray and black meet the light white. When there is no longer a sweet and greasy feeling, it is suitable. Remember, you must not continue soaking at this time, otherwise the water will If it invades Yin Yang moss, the toxicity will be doubled!”
Zhao Lian's eyes were blank, and he was confused and recounted what Lieutenant General Ren Changsong had taught him at that time.
The method sounds simple, but finding this method is not easy.
It requires a lot of trial and error.
Ren Changsong is good at alchemy. One of the reasons is that he likes to do a lot of comparative experiments to find the best steps. By continuously improving day after day, the level of alchemy will naturally become higher and higher.
When he fell into this place, he soon discovered the strangeness of Yin Yang Moss.
Unfortunately, after countless tests, the toxin had penetrated deep into his body and could no longer be eliminated.
This is a talent who works seriously. Given the size of the Zhenyu world, there is no shortage of such talent, but whether they can get ahead depends on their own opportunities.
Ren Changsong's character is like some of the men in science and engineering that Yang Zhen knew in her previous life. He is very skilled but very simple in his behavior. He easily trusts others and is eventually framed by others and falls into reincarnation.
…
"These spirit moss can only be effective if taken here."
Just when Dai Chenghong and others were overjoyed, Zhao Lian's next words shocked everyone.
"Why?" Qing Xiaoling asked.
"My teacher once read a classic book," Zhao Lian said in Ren Changsong's tone: "It says that heaven and earth intersect, yin and yang merge, and the moon waxes and wanes, otherwise it will lead to peace and prosperity..."
"There is profit and loss in heaven and earth, and the formation of heaven and earth follows the rules of heaven and earth, and it should be consistent with this reason. Since this formation limits the practice of monks in this world, then the key points of its joints, that is, the node positions of this formation, if we can find its flaws , then not only will it not limit the monks’ practice, it will probably promote it faster, and it is even possible to make rapid progress..."
"Although this spiritual moss is full of spiritual energy, its cultivation speed is so fast, which is still unreasonable. I have stayed in this place for decades, and after repeated calculations, I can be sure that this place must be a node of the heaven and earth magic circle. Even the formation itself is partially damaged..."
Everyone looked at each other.
Zhao Lian did not witness the discovery process of the Heaven and Earth Magic Formation just now. This sentence cannot be made up by him. It must be Ren Changsong's original words.
I didn’t expect that a small Qi-training monk could have such insight!
It's a pity that I accidentally let the heaven and earth magic circle make up for the loopholes on its own. In the future, practicing in this place will not have the same effect as before.
If the cultivation speed cannot be accelerated, these spiritual moss will be equivalent to some pills and spiritual stones containing spiritual energy, and their value will be greatly reduced.
Even worse than ordinary spirit stones.
Just listen to Zhao Lian continue to say:
"These spirit mosses, even if they are taken according to the teacher's method, will still contain a lot of toxins. You must not eat too much. Otherwise, too many toxins will accumulate in the body, and it will be difficult to further your cultivation. Remember, remember!"
"According to what you said, how much is appropriate to eat?" Qing Xiaoling asked curiously.
Zhao Lian's head trembled, as if he had turned from Ren Changsong's role back to himself:
"After I reached the peak of foundation building, I found that the blood in my body gradually felt stagnant, so I didn't dare to take a large amount. If my two younger brothers reach my level in the future, I'm afraid they will also discover this problem. So I thought about it. Now, while their cultivation level is not as good as mine, I have to let them work hard for me. This attack on Zhao Town is the best opportunity..."
I see!
Zhao Li and Nie Xiaochu suddenly realized that they were actually being used by this guy!
hateful!
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"So, this yin and yang moss is like chicken ribs, tasteless to eat, and a pity to throw away!"
After listening to Zhao Lian's story, Dai Chenghong looked disappointed.
"For monks who have never had the opportunity to practice to build a foundation, it is still somewhat useful." Yang Zhen said with a smile.
The third elder of the Zhao family on the side nodded desperately.
However, Dai Chenghong didn't care about their opinions at all and said calmly: "Then collect them all and hand them over to the sect!"
"After returning to the sect, if you are given a reward, I will never forget your hard work today!"
This last sentence finally gave Hall Master He and the Zhao family some comfort.
