Chapter 315 Feeling Hollowed Out

Chu Ning looked at the ancient knife at this moment, and saw that the blood groove on the knife was dark red.

It was completely different from the empty one before.

"Is it because the power was not released after absorbing the essence and blood, so the essence and blood were not consumed?"

Chu Ning had a vague guess at this time.

A smile immediately appeared on his face.

This is convenient.

You know, his mana is only enough to activate this ancient knife once now.

In this way, there is no need to consume essence and blood every time when facing the enemy.

As for the essence contained in the essence and blood that just spurted out, Chu Ning can make up for it by practicing for a few days.

Chu Ning casually put the ancient knife into his most commonly used storage bag.

Then, he walked to the corpse of the Black Demon.

He took down the opponent's storage bag and carefully checked it again.

After finding nothing else, he directly activated the fireball technique and turned the opponent's body that was split in half into ashes.

At this time, Chu Ning opened the storage bag and poured out everything inside.

The first thing that caught Chu Ning's eye was a jade bottle.

It was the jade bottle that Situ Yan had used to hold a drop of thousand-year-old spiritual milk.

Chu Ning opened it and took a look inside, and his eyes suddenly brightened.

He saw that there was actually half a bottle of thousand-year-old spiritual milk inside, probably nearly fifty drops.

"How could this old demon have so much thousand-year-old spiritual milk?"

Chu Ning's eyes were full of surprise.

You know, once a cultivator collects thousand-year-old spiritual milk, they rarely take it out for trading.

After all, this thing is useful to all cultivators, and it can even be used to save lives in many cases.

For example, Situ Yan just now, if he didn't think that this ancient sword was enough to kill Chu Ning, then he would not have time to take the thousand-year-old spiritual milk when Chu Ning's spiritual sword attacked.

If the opponent had a little time to drink a drop, Chu Ning's attack might have injured the old demon a little.

But it is still a bit difficult to kill him with one blow.

Chu Ning thought for a moment and realized that this might be related to the secret method that the other party used to prolong his life.

Although the other party was at the peak of the late Jindan stage, the strength of the Jindan was not enough at this stage, and the Dan power was probably insufficient.

That's why he collected and prepared so many thousand-year-old spiritual milk for use in the battle.

At this moment, all these spiritual milks naturally belonged to Chu Ning.

Then, Chu Ning continued to search and check among the pile of things.

After all, he was an old demon who had lived for eight or nine hundred years, and there were really a lot of high-quality things.

However, many of the things collected by the other party seemed to be used to refine magic skills and magic weapons, and Chu Ning didn't use them much.

There was a thing called Tianli Water, which was one of the materials for refining the Shuiling Sword.

Naturally, it was also collected by him.

There were also some spiritual stones, and some normal spiritual pills and medicines, which Chu Ning also collected separately.

In addition, there were some jade slips that recorded the skills and spells.

However, Situ Yan practiced the magic skills and spells, and Chu Ning was also not interested in them.

Only one of the jade slips recorded the so-called Phantom Escape Technique was taken out by Chu Ning alone, and he was studying it in his hands at this moment.

In fact, Chu Ning was quite interested in the old demon's secret method of prolonging life.

Although Chu Ning could not use this thing, he also wanted to take a look and study it.

Even if he took it out for trading, it should be very popular with other cultivators.

Unfortunately, Chu Ning searched the entire storage bag and did not find it.

As for this Phantom Escape Technique, Chu Ning guessed that it was the escape technique that Situ Yan had used before.

Chu Ning was still quite impressed by that escape technique, so he took it out to study it at this moment.

Bai Ling watched Chu Ning sorting these things, but did not speak.

Her face was still in deep thought at this moment, and it seemed that she was still thinking about the simulated breath.

The two were thinking about their own things.

At this moment, Chu Ning looked at the contents recorded on the jade slip, and his heart was filled with joy.

"This phantom escape can't be called a magic skill, but a special escape technique that consumes a lot of mana.

The reason why the old demon had purple-black mist before was entirely due to the magic skill he practiced.

This escape technique can be practiced, after all, it is a few points faster than the divine wind escape.

And when this escape technique is performed, it will leave a phantom at the original place. If it is not a cultivator with very strong spiritual awareness, it will not be detected, but it can deceive some attack spells."

Chu Ning's interest increased greatly after seeing it.

Immediately released the two golden thunder eagles and let the two eagles hunt on their own.

And he began to think about the escape technique of the phantom escape.

This thing is just right to practice on this overseas island.

After half a day, Chu Ning put down the jade slip.

I saw Bai Ling looking at me with a happy look on her face.

"Sir, I remember now."

Bai Ling said with a smile:

"In my inherited memory, there is indeed a secret technique that can simulate breath, and can even completely simulate the breath of a tenth-level monster.

It's just that it's a bit difficult to practice, and with my current level of cultivation, I still need the help of a treasure called the Cold Marrow Pearl."

"Cold Marrow Pearl?" Chu Ning raised his eyebrows slightly, "What is that?"

Bai Ling was also stunned at this time.

"Hey, Master, don't you know? When I broke through and advanced to the next level, I didn't have enough spiritual energy. Didn't Master give me a cold marrow bead?"

"Is that the cold marrow bead?"

After Chu Ning heard this, there was a hint of surprise on his face.

No wonder he didn't know what it was at first, but he had never heard of it before.

"I originally learned that the young master of the Phantom Sect was holding it, but I didn't know what it was called."

Bai Ling thought for a moment and said:

“There is an introduction to this thing in my inherited memory.

This cold marrow bead was born in cold jade and can only be possessed in extremely cold places. "

"A place of extreme cold." Chu Ning nodded after hearing this and said:

“This Northern Cold Land should be the place with the most extremely cold places in the entire Tianyan Realm.

I'll keep an eye out for it. "

After saying that, Chu Ning said to Bai Ling:

"Dajin and Xiaojin, I let them go out to find something to eat, you can go and have a look too.

We stay here for a few days, and I can also practice the new escape technique I just learned. "

"Okay, sir."

After responding, Bai Ling returned to his true form, flapped his wings and flew away.

The spiritual energy of the spiritual island here is thin, and it is in the inland sea, so no big monsters will appear.

Chu Ning didn't need to worry too much. After Bai Ling left, he meditated on the spot and recovered his magic power.

When he just tried the ancient sword, nine out of ten of his mana had been exhausted.

At this moment, if you want to practice this phantom escape, which consumes a lot of mana, you need to recover first.

And he was not in a hurry anyway, so naturally he would not waste that thousand-year spiritual milk easily.

After meditating for a long time, I regained my magic power.

Chu Ning began to practice Phantom Escape above the island.

I saw it transform into a blue shadow, flying continuously in the air.

The speed is slow at first and the blue trace is still visible.

But gradually, the speed became faster and faster, but there was no trace of escape at all.

The figure at that moment had just dispersed, and Chu Ning's figure had already appeared at the next point.

Chu Ning practiced for half a day and felt that he had initially mastered the Phantom Escape Queen.

This ended the practice.

Of course, if you want the speed to be faster and the phantom to be more realistic, you need to practice further.

But at this moment, Chu Ning could no longer continue practicing. The reason was very simple. At this moment, he only felt that his body was hollowed out.

The mana cost is too high.

"The performance of Phantom Escape really consumes a lot of mana. During this short half-day, I stopped to recover my mana every time I practiced.

But even so, 90% of the mana was still consumed.

If it were fully used, with the strength of my current mana, I would probably only be able to use it for at most half an hour. "

After Chu Ning muttered softly, she was ready to meditate again to regain her mana.

But at this time, Chu Ning was suddenly stunned again.

Why did Bai Ling and the two golden thunder eagles go away for so long without returning?

I went back and forth, but it took almost a day.

Thinking like this, Chu Ning's consciousness spread out and expanded directly towards the outside.

With the strength of his consciousness, he can already cover the entire island.

But what surprised Chu Ning was that he did not find the three spiritual beasts. Instead, his spiritual consciousness was blocked when it touched an area.

"Huh? Formation?"

Chu Ning's expression changed, and his body turned into a blue shadow and ran straight away.

In just a moment, Chu Ning arrived at the formation.

After feeling it for a while, Chu Ning breathed a sigh of relief.

Although there is a formation here, it is not particularly advanced.

Such a formation shouldn't be able to trap Bai Ling.

Just when Chu Ning was preparing to break through the formation and enter.

There was a flash of white light, and Bai Ling had emerged from the formation.

As soon as the formation came out, Bai Ling turned into a human form.

When he saw Chu Ning, he immediately smiled and asked, "Hey, Master, are you here too?"

"Well, why have you been here so long?"

Chu Ning nodded, and then asked with some confusion:

"Where are Da Jin and Xiao Jin?"

"The two of them are inside the formation." Bai Ling said with a smile at this moment.

"This formation is a phantom formation. I saw that Dajin and Xiaojin seemed quite happy entering it, so I controlled the phantom formation to produce some illusions.

You should be having fun now. "

"You can actually control the formation?" Chu Ning's face changed slightly at this moment.

Bai Ling said with a smile:

"I also tried this formation after seeing it today and found out that as long as it is not too complicated, if I break the restrictions, I can dispel the formation."

"This incredible talent." Chu Ning shook his head and sighed.

Although this array is indeed not too advanced, it looks like a relatively elementary magic array.

But Bai Ling is a monster that can not only break the formation, but can even control it.

This is exactly the same as human monks.

"Could it be that the ancient spiritual beasts, or the demons who have cultivated to a certain stage, actually practice the same as humans?"

Chu Ning had some vague guesses.

After all, he is not from this world, and he has seen a lot of strange and weird things before traveling through time.

There are more ideas.

"Master, why don't you ask me why I stayed in this formation for so long?"

At this time, Bai Ling said with a smile again.

Chu Ning felt moved after hearing this.

"Why, is there some secret in this formation?

That's right, otherwise no one on this small island usually cares about it, so how could anyone set up a position here. "

Bai Ling nodded at this time and said: "Young Master is right, but this formation must have not been here for a long time.

Many places have been damaged by monsters. Looking at the things arranged inside, I'm afraid no one has been here for more than ten years.

You will know if you go with me and have a look. "

With that said, Ling Xiaobai waved his hand and sent out a white light, wrapping Chu Ning and taking Chu Ning directly into the formation.

Chu Ning nodded. Since he was promoted to the fifth level monster after forming the pill, Bai Ling has become more and more free in using spells.

Entering the formation, Chu Ning quickly felt the existence of the illusion.

It's just that such an illusion has no effect at all on Chu Ning, who possesses the magic of magic.

He looked at the two golden thunder eagles playing happily in the illusion, shook his head and said:

"Okay, let's get rid of the illusion. Being trapped in the illusion for a long time will cause some damage to the consciousness."

"Yes, sir!"

Bai Ling used both hands to perform a mysterious technique that Chu Ning had never seen before, and it fell within the constraints of the formation.

The illusion within the formation was lifted, and the two golden thunder eagles suddenly woke up.

At the same time, the two eyes that usually looked very sharp now showed a look of confusion.

Bai Lingjiao laughed and said a few words to the two golden thunder eagles.

"Goo!"

The two golden thunder eagles made a sad sound, and then fluttered their wings and came to Chu Ning.

Chu Ning put the two golden thunder eagles into the storage bag.

Then he said to Bai Ling:

"Come on, take me to see what else there is."

Following Bai Ling into the cave that was obviously opened by man, Chu Ning took a look and found that many places were covered in dust, as if no one had been there for a long time.

But when he continued to follow Bai Ling forward, and was about to go deep into the ground, his heart moved slightly.

"Hey, the spiritual energy here... the hidden spiritual veins?"

Chu Ning suddenly remembered the location of his cave when he was in Thousand Lakes and Thousand Islands.

Bai Ling responded with a smile at this time:

"Young master guessed it right, it is the hidden spiritual vein.

Although the spiritual vein is not very big, the level is not low. Even the cave in the fairy city of Iceland that Mr. Jiao is currently in is not bad either. "

Hearing Bai Ling's words, Chu Ning's eyes suddenly lit up.

Then he quickly walked towards the ground.

Soon they arrived in front of the hidden spiritual veins underground.

"Sure enough, this spiritual vein is probably at the top level of the third level."

Chu Ning nodded with satisfaction. The spiritual energy that this level of spiritual veins could release was indeed no worse than his cave in the fairy city of Iceland.

Bai Ling has been following Chu Ning for a long time and has a good understanding of Chu Ning's thoughts. When he saw Chu Ning's expression, he smiled and asked:

"Young master, do you think this place is suitable for opening a cave?"

Chu Ning nodded slightly.

In fact, he had already had the idea of ​​finding a place to open a cave outside.

Living in the Fairyland of Iceland is easy and convenient, but there are also some inconveniences.

For example, the escape technique he just wanted to practice was inconvenient to practice.

Another example is that he has been thinking about setting up a cloud thunder array and trying to use the power of thunder to temper his body.

But later on, the human-monster clan turned against each other, and Chu Ning had something in her hand that she needed to refine and cultivate in a hurry, so she put the matter aside.

Now that I encountered such a place, it really made Chu Ning want to set up a cave.

Returning to the ground again, Chu Ning thought for a while and said:

"Let's stay on this island for half a year. If the people from this cave don't come back in half a year, I will make use of this hidden spiritual vein.

This half year is just enough time to prepare some things so that you can practice here with peace of mind in the future. "

Although Chu Ning felt that the owner of this cave probably left or died for some reason.

However, after all, this is where someone had set up a cave before.

It's somewhat unjustifiable that he took possession of it as soon as he discovered it.

"Okay." When Bai Ling heard Chu Ning say this, he naturally agreed.

She and the two golden thunder eagles were much freer on the island and no longer had to be trapped in the cave every day.

In the next six months, Chu Ning spent most of his time on this island.

In his usual time, he practices meditation in the hidden spiritual veins underground, and practices phantom escape.

At the same time, he drew some high-level talismans to exchange for some cultivation resources in Shuangyue Pavilion.

In the middle of the journey, Chu Ning also left the island several times.

First, I went to Shuangyue to exchange for things, including setting up formations and refining elixirs.

There is also the ice-condensing jade.

After seeing the power of the Ice Shadow Sword Talisman, Chu Ning naturally felt that the more of these talismans he had in hand, the better.

Before breaking through to the Nascent Soul cultivator, this would be an extremely important killing move in his hand.

In addition, Chu Ning also asked Shuangyue Pavilion about the cold marrow bead.

The news I received is that even in this northern cold land, cold marrow beads are extremely rare even in this northern cold land.

Shuangyue Pavilion is not something you can just take out if you want.

During this period, Chu Ning also went to the Xuefeng Mountains, naturally looking for some natural and earthly treasures.

Compared to the Boundless Sea, there will be fewer attacks on humans by monsters in the Snow Peak Mountains.

This is mainly because monsters are mainly concentrated deep in the mountains, and there are also big monsters in these mountains.

But in terms of area, it is not as large as the Boundless Sea, and the cultivators are also worried that going too deep may attract the big monsters there.

So they generally do not choose to go too deep into the mountains to hunt monsters.

Naturally, the conflict between the human and monster races is not that deep.

Although Chu Ning's magical powers are far different from those of ordinary cultivators, he will not choose to take too many risks.

On the contrary, relying on his excellent spiritual sense, Chu Ning chose to avoid places where there may be monsters above the seventh level.

In this way, coupled with Bai Ling's promotion, he has become more sensitive to various natural treasures, and almost every time he has a lot of gains.

In half a year, naturally some passing cultivators came to this island.

But Chu Ning basically ignored it, unless someone took the initiative to attack and destroy the illusion array, he would come forward to scare them away.

Half a year passed in a flash, and the owner of the cave on this island has not appeared. Chu Ning also decided to officially move out of Iceland Fairy City and build his own cave on this island.

But before that, there are still some things to deal with.

In the Iceland Fairy City, Chu Ning spent more than ten days in the alchemy room to refine pills before leaving the alchemy room.

The island was not bad except for the lack of earth vein fire.

Although some materials of the pills Chu Ning wanted to refine could be refined with pill fire.

But there were still some materials that needed to be refined with earth fire.

Chu Ning could also set up formations and simulate the earth fire alchemy with the help of the earth vein fire he had already refined.

But Chu Ning thought that as long as he could refine pills once, he would not need to refine pills very often in the future, so he was too lazy to waste the earth vein fire.

After refining the pills, Chu Ning came to the medicine garden and began to collect the several spiritual medicines planted here into his storage bag, ready to transplant them to the island.

At this time, Chu Ning's eyes fell on dozens of spiritual plants, and his expression was a little complicated.

Purple source fruit.

This spiritual fruit was the only one that survived among the many spiritual fruits Chu Ning brought out from the Wuling Island.

And it also bore fruit later.

But the surface of this spiritual fruit should have been purple, but now it is blue.

And Chu Ning has been in this Iceland Fairy City for nearly thirty years.

But this fruit has not changed much, but it has grown a little bigger, from the size of a little finger before to the size of a thumb now.

But it is still unknown how long it will take for it to be fully mature.

So later, Chu Ning basically did not ask Bai Ling to ripen it, and even he himself did not use the Xuan Qing Hua technique every time.

After a little hesitation, Chu Ning still chose to transplant these dozens of spiritual plants and carefully put them all into the storage bag.

Although in his opinion, it took a lot of time to cultivate these spiritual plants.

But twenty or thirty years, for some spiritual plants, is not really a long time.

Many of the spiritual medicines in Chu Ning's hands were transplanted from the spiritual domain or other places with sufficient spiritual energy, so it is naturally faster to cultivate and plant.

For example, the Xue Jingzhi has been transplanted for more than three thousand years.

And the Ming Ling Fruit, it is unknown how many years it has been, but it was finally ripened by Chu Ning.

As for the various spiritual fruits of the original power in the Wuling Island, it is unknown how many tens of thousands of years they have grown.

Calculated in this way, the time of these dozens of spiritual plants is really not long.

All the spiritual plants in the cave were put into the storage bag.

Then all the restrictions set by himself were taken away, and Chu Ning walked out of the cave.

Chu Ning came to the outside of Chang Lingshan's cave next to him and sent a message.

Soon, Chang Lingshan quickly led Chu Ning into the cave and said with a smile:

"Fellow Daoist Chu is really a rare guest. We haven't seen our neighbors for more than ten years."

Chu Ning nodded and said with emotion:

"Yes, in the past ten years, I have been in seclusion for the first ten years.

I came out of seclusion half a year ago and went out for a walk.

This time I came to say goodbye to Brother Chang. I plan to go out for a while, and I may not be in Iceland Fairy City for a long time in the future."

"Brother Chu is leaving Iceland Fairy City?" Hearing Chu Ning's words, Chang Lingshan was slightly stunned.

Then he sighed: "Fellow Daoist Wu left before, and now Brother Chu has left too. There are fewer and fewer acquaintances in Bingdao Fairy City."

"Fellow Daoist Wu has also left?" Chu Ning was a little surprised. He didn't know that Wu Rongfeng had also left Bingdao Fairy City.

"It was three years ago. Fellow Daoist Wu went to Shenyin Valley. Before leaving, she came to say goodbye, but Brother Chu was in retreat at that time.

So she didn't bother you."

Chu Ning nodded and was about to say something.

Chang Lingshan continued at this time:

"By the way, Brother Chu, when Fellow Daoist Wu left, he specifically asked me to pass on a message, asking you to go to Shenyin Valley after you come out of retreat."

"Go to Shenyin Valley?" Chu Ning was somewhat surprised.

But since the other party said so, he naturally wouldn't tell Chang Lingshan the specific things, so Chu Ning didn't ask again.

After chatting with Chang Lingshan for a while, Chu Ning left the other party's cave, but he was secretly in his heart.

"Before setting up the cave, I can go to Shenyin Valley first. After the arrangement is completed, I will go into seclusion and start hard training.

But before that, I still have to go to the island first - to practice the art of refining the soul!"

When Chu Ning came out of seclusion at the fourth level of the art of refining the soul half a year ago, he was already facing a breakthrough. Now he finally has the opportunity to break through.