Deep underground, there are hollows and darkness, because there used to be a lot of evil spirits here, and these narrow passages look like they are riddled with holes.
If a normal monk were here, there would be no way to pass except by directly opening a passage. But for Li Qiao's small Nascent Soul clone, it is not a problem at all. Occasionally, he can quickly break through narrow places. .
The passages extend in all directions, and there is no clear route. The clone uses his spiritual consciousness to check the surrounding passages, specifically looking for a relatively spacious route to walk.
This choice is not to save trouble, but the wide passage means that the evil spirit that existed before is more intense. If you continue to search in this way, you can easily find the core area of the evil spirit before.
The evil spirit here suddenly disappears, and there is a high probability that something happened in the core area. Although it is not absolute, the probability is very high.
In this way, the small clone walked around in these underground passages. After a few hours, after coming out of one passage, his eyes suddenly opened up.
Compared with the two-foot-long passage behind him that can allow monsters of all sizes to pass, there is a space in front of him that is at least a hundred feet in diameter, and there are many passages like those behind him.
As far as I can see, there are no strange treasures formed, and there are no traces of special creatures running here. Everything seems to be normal.
Just when Li Qiao was thinking about continuing to search around, and if he found nothing, he could only leave, a white figure flew out of the clone and headed straight in a certain direction.
I don’t know why Ah Piao suddenly flew out. Seeing Ah Piao getting farther and farther away from me, far beyond the normal range of movement, the clone quickly chased after him.
This is the first time that Ah Piao has left voluntarily when meeting Ah Piao. Although I know in my heart that Ah Piao may have discovered something, it is inevitable to have a feeling that Ah Piao may leave just like that.
Although there is some connection between each other, it is not strong. It gives Li Qiao the feeling that Ah Piao has just regarded this place as his home. It would not be strange if he leaves one day. This idea has been around for a long time, so seeing him now When you encounter such a situation, you will feel this way immediately.
There are many methods in the world of cultivating immortals. It is very easy to completely control a spirit ghost that looks silly and only hangs around him. There are many methods, but after understanding some situations of spirit ghosts, Li Qiao does not want to do this. Do.
First of all, for an existence like a spirit ghost, complete control also means becoming a zombie-like existence. Secondly, doing so will make the spirit ghost completely lose its intelligence, and it is often more difficult to grow.
Although normal wild spirit ghosts don't seem to have any intelligence, they also know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, otherwise they wouldn't be so hard to find. Although A Piao looks worse than those wild spirit ghosts, and those completely controlled spirits. There is not much difference between ghosts, but in Li Qiao's mind, this should be due to the impact of the True Spirit Tribulation that year, and there may be hope for recovery in the future.
Soon, the clone followed Ah Piao and got into a spacious passage close to the ground. This passage extended downwards and seemed to have no obvious features except that it was wider than other passages.
After following it for a while, the spiritual consciousness released in advance soon discovered something abnormal in front of it. The spiritual consciousness could not penetrate it. It looked like a spiritual plant.
As the distance continued to get closer, the thing also came into view of the clone. Even though it was deep underground and pitch black, for the monks, as long as it was not too far away, the surroundings could be seen clearly.
It was a spiritual plant similar to a lotus growing in the low-lying area of the passage. It had nothing but a supporting rhizome and flowers. The rhizome was black, the edges of the flowers were also black, and the petals were dark red.
There are many kinds of lotus-like spiritual plants in the world of immortality. Although this one is weird, it is nothing.
After so many years, basically some common treasures of heaven, materials and earth have been recorded in the family. Li Qiao can recognize it even if he has never seen it before. However, after looking at the plant in front of him, he did not find any records related to it. Consistent, spiritual plants must not only look at their appearance, but also their growth environment. There are many spiritual plants in the world of immortality that look the same on the outside, but are completely different on the inside.
An unknown spiritual plant has only that much value.
Thinking it is a natural treasure, you just eat it? It is very likely that he will die.
It’s not that the treasures of heaven, materials and earth are bad, but any precious thing has a specific use. Some may only be useful to foundation-building monks, and some may only be useful to Yuanying monks. Then give this treasure of heaven, materials and earth to a When a cultivator eats it, he may just get a taste.
Any unfamiliar elixir-like heavenly materials and earthly treasures can only truly exert their effect through constant trials. Even if the spiritual plant in front of you is a elixir that is useful to monks in the Tribulation Stage, no one knows about it and it is worthless.
Strange elixirs are basically handed over to alchemists for research. First, monks of various cultivation levels are given a small piece to observe the efficacy of the medicine. If they are not sure, the alchemist does not dare to give it to high-level monks to test the medicine.
Facing an unfamiliar elixir, which high-level person would dare to try it easily? Basically, other high-level monks are recruited to try it. After knowing some of the effects of the medicine, they have to try various methods to refine the elixir, and then find monks with different cultivation levels to test the medicine.
In the history of the world of immortality, all well-known elixirs have basically gone through this process.
It's research and medicine testing. A spiritual plant really doesn't have much effect. As for the ruthless people who directly try the spiritual plant, if they are not the kind of helpless casual cultivators, even some powerful monks will do it. Won't try.
There are many legends in the world of cultivating immortals. A certain monk discovered some precious elixir, and after taking it directly, his cultivation level increased greatly, etc. But these are basically false news. Most of them are that the cultivating forces can cultivate them themselves, and let the wild elixirs appear outside. Reduce spread.
As for the really extremely precious elixirs, ordinary monks will not know about them. They will either disguise them as relatively remote elixirs that ordinary monks cannot use but have some value, or they will not release any news about such elixirs at all.
There are basically records of elixirs that can be taken directly in the world of immortality. Taking elixirs directly is the worst way to improve. Another prerequisite is that you need to know this elixir.
Therefore, the spiritual plant in front of him is really of little value to Li Qiao. Even if it is really precious, there is no record of it in the family, which means it is useless.
As for taking this spiritual plant to auction in the world of immortality, it is difficult for my family to recognize it, so it is difficult to sell it at a high level. If a big force who knows the effect of this spiritual plant appears, it will only cause trouble, for example, the other party wants to get more.
So Li Qiao's idea is to collect this spiritual plant and return it to the family to study it for the family's alchemist. As for the problem that one plant is not enough, it doesn't matter. He can study part of it and record it so that other monks in the family will see this kind of plant again in the future. The elixir is studied by the younger generations of monks in the family. This is how the family inheritance is passed down from generation to generation through the family monks.
There is only one exception, that is, taking this spiritual plant can directly increase longevity or something, but this possibility is too small.
As Ah Piao got closer and closer to the spiritual plant, Li Qiao hoped that Ah Piao was not heading towards the spiritual plant, because there might be other discoveries, but things soon turned out as planned, and Ah Piao soon He stopped in front of this spiritual plant and looked at it stupidly.
Seeing this situation, the clone did not rush to take any action to collect the spiritual plant, but stopped aside.
The elixir was a spiritual plant, but the spiritual plant was not necessarily the elixir. Li Qiao didn't think much of the strange spiritual plant. It would be good if this spiritual plant could be useful to Ah Piao.
But I don’t think that a spirit like Piao can do anything to the spiritual plant. I just want to wait for Ah Piao to come back and put the spiritual plant away. I don’t plan to give it to the family. I just keep it by my side when I practice. You can see it when it comes out occasionally.
However, after a long time, Ah Piao made no move. Li Qiao was not impatient about this, but waited quietly.
If there is anything in the world that can make him patient, Ah Piao is it.
At least an hour passed before Ah Piao started to make some moves, but instead of coming back, he slowly approached the spiritual plant while the clone on the side observed it closely.
As Ah Piao kept getting closer, its body began to meet the flower. When it finally stopped, its body had completely wrapped the flower into its body. Because it was a spiritual body, it was a bit illusory. It looked like the flower was growing on the ground. And Ah Piao has grown flowers.
Normally, spirit ghosts are spiritual bodies, similar to a void existence, and should not have any impact on physical existences such as spirit plants. But at this moment, there was something magical about the two people who were originally ordinary.
Some faint flickering lights briefly appeared on the edge of the flowers.
The occurrence of supernatural powers means that one of the two must be extraordinary. The possibility of floating is almost impossible, otherwise there would be no progress over the years.
The occurrence of miraculous phenomena indicates that this spiritual plant is somewhat extraordinary and has truly reached the level of a natural treasure. However, for such uncertain things, Li Qiao is more concerned about Ah Piao's situation.
Fortunately, apart from some flickering lights, there were no other abnormal conditions, so I felt a little relieved.
As time went by, Ah Piao stayed there. Seeing this, Li Qiao began to use the formation materials in the storage bag to arrange some formations around him to hide his aura.
Obviously this is probably an opportunity for Ah Piao. I don’t know how long it will take, so I can only try to make some preparations.
Because the clone is too small, I only carry a storage bag with me. There are not many formation materials, and the formations arranged are not big, but it is better than nothing. There is no thought of going back to get the formation materials. The clone can't carry much in a storage bag at one time, and in case something unexpected happens and disturbs Ah Piao, he can't leave.
If no one had paid attention to the evil spirit here before, then the disappearance of the evil spirit should not have attracted much attention. This heavenly material and earthly treasure did not make any big noise, and it was deep underground, so it was impossible to attract a large number of monks. If it was just If it attracts some spirit ghosts or monsters or spirit insects living underground, the clone thinks it can deal with it.
However, the Nascent Soul Ghost Cultivator whom I saw last time is the most likely to appear. It is obvious that the other party is very familiar with the places where some evil spirits exist in the residual land. If he finds anything abnormal here, he will probably come to check.
The possibility of the other party coming is very high, but I don’t know how long it will take. If it weren’t for Ah Piao growing on the flower, the clone wouldn’t be too worried. But now that it’s staying here, it’s not far from the core area of the evil spirit, so it’s too easy to be discovered. .
I don’t know how long Ah Piao will stay here. It may be very soon or it may be very long. Faced with this situation, Li Qiao's body started to rush here directly, but the long distance would take two months even at the speed of the Yuanying monk and teleporting twice a day.
"I've done everything I can, it depends on your luck." Li Qiao said to Ah Piao regardless of whether he understood it or not.
Seven days later, Ah Piao, who had been motionless, suddenly moved and came straight towards the clone. Just like before, he entered the clone.
In the process, Li Qiao clearly saw that the previous flower, in addition to becoming a bit ethereal, actually seemed to grow on Ah Piao's body and disappeared into the clone body directly with Ah Piao.
It didn't take long, and nothing happened on the way. The situation was pretty good, so the main body didn't have to rush back.
The clone, which didn't feel anything unusual in its body, didn't leave directly. Instead, it quickly started to take action, digging and digging at the place where the mysterious spiritual plant appeared before.
If something like this can appear, who knows if it is affected by other things below? What if I can dig out some treasure? The little clone is busy with all kinds of things at the moment.
But unfortunately, after working for a long time, nothing abnormal happened. Seeing this situation, I could only give up.
After cleaning up the surrounding traces, the clone quickly left, first returning to the formation where the evil energy was converted before, and then using the escape method left before, while leaving all kinds of traces.
I know that I didn't get anything good, but other monks may not believe it. The best way is to stay away from the place of right and wrong.
At the same time, although Li Qiao's body was slower, it was still coming here.
In addition to planning to temporarily pick up the clone and Ah Piao from here, I also feel the need to return to the family.
It turns out that after continuously practicing Lingsha, problems gradually began to arise. The effect of Lingsha was greatly reduced, and it was necessary to go back to the family to verify.
Normally, a Nascent Soul cultivator needs to practice quickly. In addition to the elixir, he also needs to cooperate with a rich spiritual environment. However, after Li Qiao felt that Lingsha could make the Nascent Soul stronger, he did not feel abnormal for a while. He could also practice outside. However, because the aura environment is not good, the speed is much slower.
After I felt that there was no problem if I continued to refine the Nascent Soul, I didn't pay much attention to it. As a result, my cultivation speed had become slower and slower recently, so I suspected that it was related to the refinement of the Nascent Soul. If I wanted to verify it, I had to go back to the family no matter what.
Although there are some spiritual stones on the body, they can only be used as supplements at critical times. They are not enough to deal with situations such as Nascent Soul Refining, which consumes a lot of spiritual energy.
And I'm not sure if anything will happen to the long-flowered Ah Piao again, or it would be safer to take him back to his family temporarily.
Thanks to Erwa’s mother for the 100 high-grade spiritual stones.
(End of chapter)
