One year later.
In the quiet room of Chaosheng Cave.
Lu Zhong stared forward, looking at a blue jade slip, and was silent.
During this period, in addition to meditating every day to refine his Qi and continuing to improve his Broken Star Finger, he focused on collecting elixir formulas to increase his cultivation.
Compared with the early stage of Yuanying, the prescriptions suitable for the middle stage of Yuanying suddenly became scarce.
Regarding this kind of elixir, Lu Zhong didn't have any at his disposal. After obtaining the inheritance of Changchun Valley, there are three kinds of elixirs suitable for the middle stage of Nascent Soul cultivation.
The jade slip he was holding at this time was the prescription of "Huangji Tianchen Pill".
"If you want to refine this elixir, you still need a lot of yellow jade..." Thinking of this, Lu Zhong couldn't help but frown.
But it's because this elixir grows naturally and there are no seeds for cultivation. Therefore, he now has no recipe for the elixir, but cannot refine it.
Under such circumstances, Lu Zhong had actually expected that such a day would come.
As one's cultivation level increases, the elixirs used will inevitably become more precious. Especially when one reaches the Nascent Soul stage, there are even fewer elixirs to choose from. After millions of years, as one elixir after another became extinct, the alternatives to elixirs became increasingly rare.
Lu Zhong had encountered similar problems when he was in the early stage of Nascent Soul.
But at that time, he avoided this problem by choosing a prescription that did not require the elixir of heaven and earth. I never thought that it would now become an obstacle to continuing to improve my cultivation.
"It is estimated that the elixirs I can find are basically inseparable from the need for the elixirs of heaven and earth. Those elixirs that do not require the elixirs of heaven and earth may exist, but they are definitely the secrets of the big forces and can only be mastered by immortals. Otherwise, it cannot be explained why the Immortal Sect can stably realize the replacement of gods."
The possibility for Lu Zhong to obtain this kind of elixir is almost non-existent.
Now he has three choices:
One is to start traveling around this world like traditional monks, or to explore ancient dangerous places, or to go deep into foreign lands, to seek breakthroughs in life and death battles, or to obtain treasures from heaven and earth, so as to Get an opportunity to improve your cultivation.
This approach is equivalent to trying your luck. After millions of years of development of immortality, the success rate has become very slim, but it is not impossible.
The second is to accelerate research on spiritual energy transformation technology.
The current "Secret Formation of Creation" can only convert demon pills into the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Due to problems with the conversion rate and efficiency, it cannot yet be applied to alchemy; at the same time, in terms of converting elixirs, it is actually only effective. To solve the problem of lack of elixirs in old age, it is still not possible to transform the medicinal aura at will.
Unless there is a major breakthrough in the Western Region...
But in technological research, does it mean that breakthroughs can be achieved?
The reality is often that a huge amount of resources are invested in it, but it seems to be wasted and only a sound can be heard.
As for the last option, it is to continue to search for a suitable recipe.
In this regard, Lu Zhong did not have much hope.
After thinking about it, he decided that he had sufficient resources and decided to flood the area with floods.
On the one hand, they will continue to increase their investment in the Western Region and help them solve external disasters in order to achieve an early breakthrough in spiritual energy transformation technology. At the same time, I hope to get lucky to see if I can get a suitable elixir, or if I am very lucky, I can get the elixir of heaven and earth to refine the elixir.
Before that, you can only continue to take the original elixir.
Although the speed of cultivation in this way is slow and not as good as taking appropriate elixirs, compared with those Nascent Soul monks whose cultivation is stagnant due to the lack of elixirs, it is more than a star and a half better.
…
At this moment, Lu Zhong frowned.
He got up and walked out of the quiet room and came outside the cave.
Moving to the Bihai Palace, I saw a silver-haired old man waiting inside the palace. Standing there, this person seemed to be in harmony with the surrounding environment, as if he was supposed to be there.
Lu Zhong immediately understood the identity of the visitor.
"It's the God of Transformation!"
Shocked in his heart, he resisted the idea of retreating. While his expression remained unchanged, he was also thinking about the reason why the other party suddenly appeared.
The only good news at the moment is that this transformed god is not Kun Xiu.
"If it's not Gui Miao, then his origin is..."
Taoist transformation gods can also be excluded.
Lu Zhong didn't think that he, who had successfully survived the catastrophe, would choose not to step through the gate of ascension and go to the spiritual world where hundreds of millions of monks dream.
"It seems that the only ones that can be transformed into gods are the North Sect and the East Sect."
Since the other party chose to show up instead of using force, his attitude was quite friendly. It was obvious that he wanted something else, and maybe he wanted to make a deal.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhong calmed down.
Opposite him, the silver-haired god saw the change in Lu Zhong's expression, fearing that he might have guessed everything he was thinking. At this time, he smiled slightly and said leisurely to Lu Zhong:
"Little friend Lu, do you know who I am?"
"Senior, please make it clear!" Lu Zhong didn't know, so he had to bow his hand respectfully.
"I didn't expect that after thousands of years of seclusion, the world would no longer recognize my identity... That's all, I am the current headmaster of Tianyuan Tiangong, Cangmingzi." The silver-haired old man muttered to himself for a while, reported his identity, and then said: "I came to see Lu Xiaoyou today because I wanted to make a deal with you."
Cangmingzi said, handing out a jade slip.
"What is recorded in it is an unknown spiritual liquid formula. Although it is a fourth-level spiritual liquid, I think there should be no problem for Xiaoyou Lu to refine it. I wonder if I am right about this?"
"... Let this junior have a look." Lu Zhong looked at the jade slips and found that it really recorded an unknown spiritual liquid. Although he was not low on this, he still couldn't finish what he said and replied: "If senior can continue to do this, Given enough time, there shouldn’t be many problems if you want to refine it.”
"Okay, since you agreed to help, I can't help but express my gratitude." Cangmingzi chuckled.
Immediately afterwards, he turned over his hand and took out a document.
Without looking at it, he handed it to Lu Zhong.
"This is a guarantee document. It was drawn up by me and Luo Ying and is supervised by Heaven. Within a thousand years, as long as Lu Xiaoyou does not annex the four sects of Nanman Huayiguan, Yanzhen Sect, Tiandao Sect, and Xuanyang Sect, that is, It can guarantee safety and worry-free. If Gui Miao Sect violates the contract and takes action during this period, I, Tianyuan Immortal Palace, will be responsible for stopping it."
After a pause, Cang Mingzi added: "Of course, it is only to stop fellow Taoist Luoying. As for the Yuanying Great Monk breaking the contract, I still need to find a way."
Guarantee document?
He didn't expect that such a thing would happen.
Lu Zhong couldn't help but secretly think that this was Cang Mingzi's true purpose of coming. He should have been entrusted by the Gui Miao Immortal Sect to come to Nanman specifically.
But then again.
Is it disrespectful to the Immortal Sect to do this in Guimiao?
Unless...it's absolutely necessary.
Lu Zhong soon thought of possible reasons to return to the Miao Xian Sect and extend an olive branch. I am afraid that the soul-losing syndrome that caused the chaos in Middle-earth has taken a new turn.
Only in this way can it be explained.
"Sign or not?"
Lu Zhong made a decision quickly.
For now, what he needs most is stable development.
As for the annexation of Hua Yiguan and other four sects, Lu Zhong has always shown little interest in this. Even if he really annexed them and obtained massive resources at once, it would not be of much significance.
After all, in the Nascent Soul stage, spiritual objects are more valuable than essence.
Compared with annexation, a thousand years of peace is more important.
So after carefully reading the terms of the document and confirming that there were no traps and that the document was indeed genuine, he left his soul aura on it.
"I just don't know what the purpose behind Guimiao Immortal Sect is willing to pay such a price to prevent me from annexing Hua Yiguan and other four sects?"
Lu Zhong thought about it and thought it could only be because of resources.
On the Nanman side, although various disasters have always been frequent, they were even narrowly avoided by a drought. But fortunately, after the incident at the Temple of Ten Thousand Witches, the Great Wall of Spiritual Energy was completely repaired, and with the arrival of the Ascension Spiritual Tide, the Southern Barbarians' spiritual output quickly recovered or even exceeded before the dry tide came.
"I didn't expect that the situation could be so serious." Lu Zhong murmured.
The reason why the Gui Miao Immortal Sect is in urgent need of Nanman spiritual objects is most likely the expansion of the Aphansia disaster. Otherwise they wouldn't have made such an abnormal move.
Obviously, compared with Lu Zhong's "ringworm disease".
It is more important to protect your base.
"Little friend Lu, these are the materials needed to refine the spiritual liquid. However, most of the basic spiritual materials are still missing. They are common elixirs of low vintages and are inconvenient to obtain in China, so you need to make up for it yourself. Regarding the delivery time, I hope you can refine seven portions of the nameless spiritual liquid within ten years... As for how to take it away, you only need to give it to the Gui Miaozong monks, and they will have their own way to bring it back to China."
Cang Mingzi handed over a storage bag and left after explaining it.
He only took a few steps and then suddenly disappeared.
"The method of transforming gods is indeed unparalleled by Yuanying." Lu Zhong sighed, looking at the storage bag in his hand. After some inspection, he found that it was indeed as Cangmingzi said, it only contained the ingredients needed to refine the spiritual liquid. Materials, other auxiliary materials and other elixirs are all the same and there are no other auxiliary materials.
As for...
Is it possible that when we reach the stage of transformation into gods, there are still people who are greedy for petty advantages?
Lu Zhong vaguely felt that it was not impossible.
Afterwards, he contacted the avatar sitting at the mountain gate of Bihai Sect and drew up a list of the spiritual materials that the spiritual liquid lacked, asking him to prepare and deliver them as soon as possible.
The reason for being so eager is mainly because the nameless spiritual liquid is not difficult to refine, but the process is extremely complicated and time-consuming. If preparations are not made early, ten years may not be enough.
…
The days passed.
Xu Shi learned that the "ferocious beast" was locked in a cage. The Taoist side, which had been in fear, and the Xuanyang Sect who once belonged to the Changchun Valley camp, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Under the false appearance of peace, the Southern Barbarians prospered day by day due to the spiritual tide.
In a blink of an eye, it’s the Lantern Festival again.
In the past six years, Lu Zhong has successively refined the nameless spiritual liquid. During this period, I also tried to use the real recollections of the gray fog space to experiment with the true effects of these spiritual liquids. However, after spending a lot of energy in the end, I could only draw a conclusion that was slightly helpful to my cultivation.
Obviously, it can't be this kind of thing that can make the cultivator of the gods care.
In addition to refining spiritual liquid, he has made progress in other aspects.
Whether it is the advancement of cultivation, the further improvement of the Broken Star Finger, or the acquisition of suitable elixir recipes, the gains are very little.
But no matter what, we can get a peaceful development environment.
Lu Zhong had long been satisfied with this.
The annual Lantern Festival is always a major festival that cannot be ignored in Nanman.
Over at Bihai Fairy City, the city is already filled with lanterns.
Chaosheng Cave is naturally no exception.
The maids had already hung lanterns made by famous masters all over the treetops, turning the place into a sea of lanterns.
But just like most of the time.
Lu Zhong, Yu Feng'er, and Shui Ni never came out of seclusion together at the same time.
Therefore, he spent this year's Lantern Festival alone again.
…
Three years later.
Lu Zhong finally finished refining the nameless spiritual liquid.
While he breathed a long sigh of relief, he remembered the information Cang Mingzi had previously revealed, and he couldn't help but become curious. I wonder what method the Miao Xian Sect will use to transport the spiritual objects they need back to China when the East China Sea route is interrupted.
So he made a special trip to Nanman and found that the teleportation array was used.
After careful observation, Lu Zhong discovered that this teleportation array was not simple. It was actually an ultra-long-range teleportation array. It was unknown which array giant was created by it, but it was possible to refine such a large teleportation array into an array disk. Although it can only achieve one-way transmission, it is still an incredible achievement.
Naturally, he cannot replicate such attainments in formations.
Lu Zhong returned to Chaosheng Cave disappointed.
After finishing refining the spiritual liquid, his life returned to calm.
In addition to practicing every day, I also improve my secret skills.
In addition, the true ancestral blood of the black dragon was also extracted bit by bit by Lu Zhong.
After taking the ancestral blood and refining it, he gained a deeper understanding of the transformation of dragons. After all the blood was refined, he could even transform into the form of a dragon. Although the dragon transformed in this way is only in shape and has little strength to speak of, it is still an incredible improvement.
"call……"
Lu Zhong exhaled a dragon-like turbid air and slowly opened his eyes.
"Now that the work at hand has been completed, and at the same time, there is no possibility of a breakthrough in the research on spiritual energy transformation technology in the Western Region for a while, it is time for me to take action."
After a period of information collection, although a suitable elixir recipe has not yet been found, the whereabouts of Huangji Lingjie, the main ingredient for refining Huangji Tianchen Dan, was accidentally discovered in the Western Region.
As an elixir that is only nourished by the spiritual energy of the earth, it is not surprising that Huangji Lingjie appears deep underground.
Lu Zhong is planning to go to the Western Region.
...
It took some more time to replenish the lost incarnations.
Then some things were arranged.
Early the next morning, Lu Zhong turned into a rainbow and soared into the sky, and soon turned into a meteor, flying towards the Bihai Fairy City. Then it flew straight towards the north without stopping along the way.
Entering the northern Great Forest Sea range.
To maintain secrecy, he descended to the ground.
Concentrate your breath and hide your cultivation to the core. The journey felt like a tourist trip, but when Lu Zhong arrived at the Teleportation Position Palace, it had only just reached noon.
After checking that there was no abnormality in the underground palace, Lu Zhong stepped onto the teleportation array.
