Chapter 307: Escape to the Northern Desert
Yuan Ming was in a good mood at the moment. In the previous battle, almost all of his magic weapons were destroyed by Zuo Qinghui. If he got these two top-grade magic weapons, it would make up for the loss.
However, Zuo Qinghui was a cultivator from Changchun Temple. It was unlikely that he would spend so much effort to refine such a vicious magic weapon. The blood-colored jade slip and the two magic weapons might be captured by him when he killed some unorthodox cultivator.
Yuan Ming collected the two magic weapons, the two jade slips, and Zuo Qinghui's body, and then waved his hand to emit a green light, which quickly turned around in the cave and rolled up all the magic weapons destroyed in the battle just now.
He looked at these abandoned magic weapons with some regret, and suddenly raised his eyebrows. He picked up the inner armor pierced by the Golden Sun Ruler and secretly called out that he was lucky.
Although the inner armor seemed to be pierced, the spiritual power on it did not dissipate, but was weakened a lot, and the four runes inside were still intact.
Yuan Ming's weapon-refining skills have reached a certain level. He knows that the golden inner armor can be repaired as long as the appropriate spiritual materials are integrated into it.
Among the three top-grade spiritual materials in Zuo Qinghui's storage bag, there happens to be a piece of gold ore. He can find an opportunity to try to repair the inner armor later.
Yuan Ming put away the golden inner armor and was about to put away the other broken magic tools. Suddenly he stopped and took a green broken sword, which was a part of the green poison sword.
The poison sword was cut into two pieces by the Golden Sun Ruler. The runes had completely collapsed and the spiritual power in the material had dissipated. The broken sword itself was worthless.
Yuan Ming's eyes were fixed on the cut of the broken sword and he knocked it on the ground a few times.
With a light "click", a purple jade piece about an inch square fell down. There was no fluctuation of magic power, but there was a faint green light flashing.
Moreover, as soon as the dark green jade piece fell to the ground, the ground nearby turned purple-black at a speed visible to the naked eye. It seemed that something was spreading from the dark green jade piece and eroding the ground.
Yuan Ming raised his hand and used the magic of driving away things. The purple jade piece floated up from the ground, and the corrosion of the ground stopped quickly.
"It seems that the source of the poison of the green poison sword is on this purple jade piece. I wonder where this thing came from?" He looked at the purple jade piece carefully and thought to himself.
There was a small scorpion pattern on the other side of the jade piece, which was lifelike and seemed to be some kind of mark.
Yuan Ming studied it for a while and found nothing else, so he took out a white jade box and carefully placed the purple jade piece in it.
The jade material is condensed and warm, which can effectively resist the erosion of poisonous things. This box is made of white water jade, which is particularly good at warding off poison. It should be able to effectively limit the spread of the poison on the purple jade piece.
Sure enough, the poison on the purple jade piece was difficult to corrode the white water jade box, and it took a long time to corrode a little purple shallow mark.
Yuan Ming was worried, so he took out a larger jade box and put the white water jade box in it, and then he put it away with peace of mind.
After dealing with these trivial matters, he sat down and considered what to do next.
Zuo Qinghui could find Wangyue City, but there was no guarantee that other people from Changchun Temple would not come looking for him. Now that he had killed Zuo Qinghui, no matter what, the feud with Changchun Temple had become serious.
Before, it could be said that it was an open duel with a life-and-death agreement. Due to various factors, Changchun Temple was not willing to trouble him openly, but now that he had killed Zuo Qinghui, there was no such reason.
Obviously, he could not stay here any longer.
It was just a pity to waste such a secluded and safe cave.
Yuan Ming quickly wandered around the cave and collected the Five Elements Illusion Array and the Bronze Thunder Pattern Array. He then collected the foundry furnace, the spiritual herbs and medicines in the medicine garden, and the black branch soaked in the water tank.
He had studied this black branch several times in the past five years, but still could not find its origin and purpose.
Yuan Ming took King Kong, Huazhi and Lei Yu and left the cave to Wangyue City.
Instead of entering the city, he wrote a letter to Hu Tu, asking them to close the incense shop and leave as soon as possible. The incense and a few spiritual stones in the shop would belong to them.
Yuan Ming then summoned the thunderstorm, sat cross-legged on its back, and flew north.
He had already thought about where to go next.
Yuan Ming flipped his hand and took out a wooden box, which contained more than 20 jade slips of various colors.
He took out one of them, which was a jade slip of the map of Zhao State and the surrounding areas.
There is a vast desert in the northwest of Zhao State. Because black storms blow in the desert, it is called the Black Wind Desert. It is located between Zhao State, Qin State in the west, and the extreme northern desert.
Although it is a boundless desert, it is not barren. There are many spiritual material veins buried underground, and there are many strange monsters living in the desert, which attracts the sect forces of Zhao State, Qin State, and the northern desert, as well as many casual cultivators to come here to explore treasures and mine.
The Black Wind Desert is located in the middle of three forces. Zhao, Qin, and Beimo have been fighting for hundreds of years, and no one can completely overwhelm the other two. Instead, they have consumed a lot of combat power because of the fighting.
The three parties later reached a truce agreement and no longer engaged in large-scale direct conflicts, changing the open struggle to a secret struggle.
Without the deterrence of large-scale battles, the casual cultivators began to be active, mining and searching for treasures to enrich their pockets.
More than 90% of the mineral resources in the Black Wind Desert are occupied by the three major forces, but the resources here are really rich, and the sporadic benefits that are missed are enough to fatten a large number of casual cultivators, not to mention that there are countless monsters to hunt here.
The reputation of the rich Black Wind Desert gradually spread, attracting more casual cultivators to flock here.
Where there are people, fighting is inevitable, and murder and robbery are endless.
The sects of Zhao, Qin, and Beimo came here to make money. The Black Wind Desert does not belong to their territory. They turned a blind eye to the fighting between independent cultivators and ignored it in most cases.
Seeing that the Black Wind Desert was unmanaged, bandits, sect traitors, and evil cultivators with bounties in the three places also came here, making it more turbulent.
Today, the Black Wind Desert has completely become a synonym for chaos and blood. No one knows how many cultivators are hiding here. Even the three major forces that dominate this place can barely figure out their own territories.
Yuan Ming is going to the Black Wind Desert at this moment.
Changchun Temple and the Black Wind Desert are separated by the entire Zhao State. Even if they stretch their hands farther, they can't reach here.
As for the dangers in the Black Wind Desert, Yuan Ming didn't take it seriously. His Dark Moon Art had reached the fourth level, and his illusion skills were amazing. With powerful magic weapons such as the Soul-Destroying Sword, he had no problem protecting himself when encountering ordinary cultivators below the early stage of the Jindan stage.
Yuan Ming put the map jade slip back into the wooden box and took another white jade slip.
This was a jade slip obtained from Sha Hao, which contained the experience of the great elder in practicing the Dream Butterfly Illusion.
In the previous battle, the Dream Butterfly Illusion played a significant role, but its power was still not enough and needed to be further improved.
He used his consciousness and immersed it in the jade slip.
Boom!
A suction force suddenly came out from the jade slip, swallowing his consciousness.
Yuan Ming was surprised. When he first explored this jade slip, it also swallowed his consciousness, but it didn't happen again in the past five years. Now the old phenomenon reappeared, there must be a reason.
His mind turned quickly, and he didn't take back his consciousness, but let the jade slip swallow it. The jade slip also showed a trace of white light and quickly became bright.
Yuan Ming suppressed his excitement and sent his consciousness into the jade slip.
After a few breaths, the white jade slip stopped absorbing consciousness, and the white light on the surface also dissipated.
Yuan Ming hurriedly checked, and the jade slip was indeed different from the past. In the end, many new contents emerged, which were also left by the great elder.
The new content began with a detailed description of the reason for the change of the jade slip, which was due to the secret technique being covered up by it. It must be revealed when there is a strong enough consciousness injected.
Yuan Ming suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the white jade slip had returned to calm after slightly devouring his consciousness. It turned out that his consciousness was not strong enough back then. Now that the Dark Moon Art has broken through the fourth level, it has met the requirements.
He concentrated on the new content. Xi Cangqiong spent so much effort to hide it, it must be important information.
As he looked at it, Yuan Ming's expression gradually changed, revealing an irrepressible joy, and finally laughed out loud.
These new contents are a secret method of soul cultivation, called the "Soul Pill" technique. The specific content is to condense the power of the soul and soul to form a soul pill similar to the golden pill.
According to the secret technique, the soul pill has the effect of assisting in breaking through the bottleneck of the Jindan stage, and the auxiliary effect is extremely great, which can increase the chance of Jindan by half.
Since Yuan Ming entered the world of immortal cultivation, all immortal cultivators have been looking forward to Jindan, not only because Jindan cultivators have far more powerful strength than foundation-building cultivators, but also because their life span can be greatly increased after Jindan.
The life span of a foundation-building cultivator is no more than two hundred years at most, but once a golden pill is formed, the life span can be more than doubled to more than five hundred years.
However, the step of condensing the golden pill is too difficult, which makes countless immortal cultivators sigh.
If you say that breaking through the foundation-building stage depends on spiritual medicines such as foundation-building pills, as long as you have good qualifications and a firm mind, there is still a certain chance to cross it, but advancing to Jindan is more than a hundred times more difficult.
It can be said that at this point, the influence of qualifications and mind is negligible. Even a cultivator with a natural spiritual root is not sure that he can cross this level. Whether he can form a pill depends almost entirely on fate and opportunity.
There are nearly a thousand disciples in Biluo Cave, but only a few of them are in the Jindan stage. Even in the Central Plains sects such as Shengye Sect and Changchun Temple, the number of disciples is more than ten times that of Biluo Cave, but the existence of Jindan is still rare.
Yuan Ming has four spiritual roots, and is the worst in the world of immortal cultivation. He broke through the foundation-building stage by relying on the foundation-building pill, the foundation-building incense, and the assistance of the Heaven-stealing Cauldron.
He had no confidence in the formation of the pill.
Now he has obtained a secret technique that can increase the chance of forming the pill by half, how can he not be ecstatic!
The reason why the condensed soul pill can assist the formation of the pill is that the soul pill condensed by soul power and the golden pill condensed by mana are essentially the same.
The so-called golden pill is not just the condensation of mana, but also the introverted fusion of essence, qi, spirit, and intention. It is polished into a pill, shining golden, round, difficult to be affected, and even more difficult to be destroyed. This is the meaning of the pill.
Mana condensing into a golden elixir can produce elixir meaning, and soul power condensing into a soul elixir can also do the same. If you can form a soul elixir and comprehend the elixir meaning, it will be much easier for mana to form an elixir.
According to the contents of the jade slip, after forming a soul elixir, it is necessary to introduce it into the dantian, and use the elixir meaning of the soul elixir to attract mana to condense and form a fake elixir.
With such double assistance, the probability of forming an elixir will be greatly increased. Xi Cangqiong relied on this soul elixir technique to break through the elixir formation stage.