Chapter 213: Spirit Control Array
At this point, the number of low-grade spirit stones on Xiao Lin reached an astonishing 80,000. This wealth is probably the same for ordinary Jindan ancestors.
With such a "huge sum of money", Xiao Lin was naturally very excited, but at the same time he also felt guilty and was always paying attention to the people around him, fearing that he would be remembered.
After knowing the price of the Five Elements Spirit Pill, Xiao Lin also secretly reminded himself that he would never sell it unless he urgently needed spirit stones.
Xiao Lin did not stay in the city for a long time, but returned directly to the rented cave.
After closing the cave, Xiao Lin sat cross-legged on the futon, and excitedly took out a white jade slip from his storage bag. It was the jade slip of the magic formula of the Yuling Formation that he bought from Sihaiju.
When Xiao Lin was at Sihaiju, he just roughly browsed the contents of the jade slip and knew that the Soul Controlling Formation recorded the art of driving away insects and controlling beasts. Compared with the Soul Controlling Art, which controlled the spirit insects and spirit beasts and drove them to attack the enemy, the Soul Controlling Formation controlled the spirit insects and spirit beasts to form a unique battle formation and flexibly attacked the enemy.
It can be said that if you don't practice the Soul Controlling Art, even if you get the Soul Controlling Formation Art, it is useless. In a sense, the Soul Controlling Art is like an internal strength method, and the Soul Controlling Formation is a martial arts move. Only when the two are combined can the greatest power of the spirit pet be exerted.
After understanding this, Xiao Lin was extremely excited. When Qi Chang controlled the Soul Devouring Fire Gu to fight with him, he was not flexible enough, so his Qingyan Spiritual Fire froze most of the Soul Devouring Fire Gu.
If Qi Chang practiced the Soul Controlling Formation Art, he could command the Soul Devouring Fire Gu to scatter. In this way, even if the Qingyan Spiritual Fire is the nemesis of the Soul Devouring Fire Gu, it would not be easy to easily kill these Soul Devouring Fire Gu.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lin closed his eyes, and his spiritual consciousness entered the spirit beast bag on his waist.
When Xiao Lin saw the scene in the spirit beast bag, he couldn't help but shudder slightly. It turned out that in the spirit beast bag, the lazy soul-eating fire insects did not continue to evolve and advance to the true level spirit insects as Xiao Lin imagined.
Instead, after reaching the mortal level, they started to lay eggs directly. In the spirit beast bag, thousands of snow-white rice-sized insect eggs were spread everywhere.
Among the dozens of mortal level soul-eating fire insects, a small half of them were lying quietly in the corner of the spirit beast bag, without any movement.
Xiao Lin was slightly stunned, and then his spiritual consciousness approached these soul-eating fire insects that had not moved, and found that these soul-eating fire insects had no breath, and only golden red shells were left.
"Did these soul-eating fire insects die after laying eggs?" Xiao Lin said to himself, and on the other side of the spirit beast bag, there were more than a dozen soul-eating fire insects laying eggs.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Lin was not in a hurry to leave, but quietly observed.
Two days later, Xiao Lin's spiritual consciousness left the spirit beast bag, but his face was full of surprise.
As he guessed, the seventy or eighty soul-devouring fire insects that had reached the peak of the ordinary level began to lay eggs, and died one after another after laying eggs.
However, Xiao Lin did not feel sad at all. Although these seventy or eighty soul-devouring fire insects died, they laid two or three thousand eggs. Moreover, since the seventy or eighty soul-devouring fire insects that laid eggs had been controlled by Xiao Lin using the spirit control technique, even if these eggs hatched, they were completely under Xiao Lin's control and would not be interrupted because of the death of the mother insect.
After understanding all this, Xiao Lin was overjoyed. Ever since he started raising this Soul Devouring Fire Gu, he has always been concerned about the number of these Fire Gu. This kind of ferocious spiritual insect, in terms of single-unit attack power, can be said to be somewhat insignificant. For ordinary foundation-building cultivators, if they encounter one or two of these spiritual insects, even if they have not cultivated the extremely mysterious cold flame, they can still use their own magic power to seal these one or two spiritual insects.
Although the Soul Devouring Fire Gu has the ability to devour souls, it is also limited. One or two is not enough to shake the strong magic power of the foundation-building cultivator.
If there are more, it will be completely different. It can be imagined that if there are thousands of Soul Devouring Fire Gu, they will surround the cultivator and devour their protective spiritual light. I am afraid that in a few breaths, the cultivator will be sucked dry.
I thought that the dozens of Soul Devouring Fire Gu I raised were a bit useless, but after seeing the two or three thousand snow-white insect eggs in the spirit beast bag, Xiao Lin was full of expectations for this Soul Devouring Fire Gu.
Even if this Soul Devouring Fire Gu cannot advance to the true level, as long as there are enough of them, it will be enough for him to easily kill the cultivators of the same level.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lin entered the Spirit Wood Space again, harvested a large amount of Spirit Mist Grass and Rejuvenation Flowers, and threw them into the Spirit Beast Bag. Once so many insect eggs are hatched, they will require a huge amount of food.
However, what Xiao Lin lacks the least is these low-level spiritual herbs. After he entered the foundation-building period, the area of the Spirit Wood Space has increased several times. Now more than half of the area in the Spirit Wood Space has been planted with Spirit Mist Grass and Rejuvenation Flowers.
It is enough to ensure that these two or three thousand insect eggs will hatch smoothly.
In the next few days, Xiao Lin hid in the cave. In addition to practicing, he studied the Soul Control Array Method, which gave him a lot of experience in controlling insects, and a small part of those snow-white insect eggs began to hatch.
The hatched Soul Devouring Fire Gu was light red all over, and a small hard shell began to grow on its big head, but the teeth had not grown out yet, and there were only two small bulges on its back, which looked quite funny.
After hatching, the larvae immediately sensed the direction of the Spirit Mist Grass and the Rejuvenating Flower, then rolled their chubby bodies and crawled towards the spiritual objects.
It wasn't long before the Spirit Mist Grass and Rejuvenation Flower were full of larvae. If someone with trypophobia saw this, they would probably get goose bumps.
Xiao Lin would spend some time every day to observe the Spirit Devouring Fire Gu larvae, and would only withdraw his spiritual consciousness after confirming that they were safe.
In the past few days, Xiao Lin had been thinking about whether he should refine some Spirit Feeding Pills. In the stone hall of Uncle Tao, he had also seen the method of refining Spirit Feeding Pills. The refining of Spirit Feeding Pills was relatively easy, and there were not as many types of spiritual pills as those used by cultivators.
There were no special restrictions on the spiritual herbs needed to refine Spirit Feeding Pills. As long as they were first-level spiritual herbs, they could be used to refine first-level Spirit Feeding Pills, and second-level spiritual herbs could naturally be used to refine second-level Spirit Feeding Pills.
In the final analysis, this Spirit Feeding Pill was just an ordinary spiritual pill containing spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy contained was also relatively mixed and not pure. For cultivators, it was naturally impossible to take it, but for spiritual pets, there was no such concern at all.
After all, compared with spiritual herbs, the effect of the Feeding Spirit Pill will be better, and the refining of the Feeding Spirit Pill can be regarded as the simplest one among the spiritual pills, and there is almost no possibility of failure in refining.
But after thinking about it, Xiao Lin decided not to refine the Feeding Spirit Pill for the time being. First, the large amount of spiritual fog grass and rejuvenation flowers in the spiritual wood space are enough to supply these soul-eating fire poisons to grow to the mortal level. Second, although the refining of the Feeding Spirit Pill is relatively easy, it always takes a lot of time. In Xiao Lin's opinion, this waste of time is completely unnecessary.
In the past few days, Xiao Lin studied the Soul Control Array Technique while practicing, and has adjusted his mana to the best state.
As long as he bids for the Red Rong Pill at the auction, Xiao Lin will start to return to the origin and impact the mid-term bottleneck.
A few days later, Xiao Lin left the cave and headed towards Sihaiju.
Half an hour later, Xiao Lin came to the back door of the shop where Sihaiju was located. The back door was at the deepest part of a street alley. When Xiao Lin came here, he saw two cultivators standing at the door.
The auras of these two people were actually at the foundation-building stage, which surprised Xiao Lin. This Sihaiju was indeed rich and powerful, and even the guards guarding the gate were all foundation-building cultivators.
"Is this Taoist friend here to attend the auction?" One of the two guards waited for Xiao Lin to come to him before speaking.
Xiao Lin nodded and handed over an admission ticket. This admission ticket was given to him by the ancestor ten days ago before he left, saying that he could enter the auction with it.
The man took the admission ticket, and after verifying its authenticity, he opened the entrance and made a "please" gesture to Xiao Lin.
"Thank you." Xiao Lin thanked him and walked into the door. After entering the door, Xiao Lin found himself in a courtyard, and after passing through the stone path in the center of the courtyard, Xiao Lin entered a dark door.
As soon as he entered the door, Xiao Lin found a long and narrow corridor in front of him. The corridor was inlaid with many beads emitting hazy white light on all four sides, making the entire corridor as bright as day.
Xiao Lin walked along the corridor. During this process, Xiao Lin estimated that the venue of the auction should be built in the basement of Sihaiju. After walking for a cup of tea, Xiao Lin's eyes suddenly became clear.
Where Xiao Lin was standing was actually a hall. There were at least dozens of people standing in the hall. After sensing the aura of these people, even Xiao Lin, who was usually calm and composed, changed his face at this moment.
These dozens of people were all foundation-building cultivators, and there were a few of them whose specific realms even Xiao Lin could not sense. From this, it can be seen that those people were at least foundation-building late stage cultivators or even foundation-building great perfection cultivators.
Each of these people was probably not weaker than Liu Mei who was chasing him. Xiao Lin felt uncomfortable and full of bad taste when he was in the same room with these people all of a sudden.
At this time, Xiao Lin also noticed that there was another door on one side of the hall, but this door only had a door shape but no door, and in this door shape, there were faint green ripples.
"Portal?" Xiao Lin exclaimed in his heart, and at the same time he suddenly realized that this hall was not the site of the auction, and when his eyes turned, Xiao Lin saw the figure of the grandmother.
Seeing Xiao Lin coming in, the grandmother smiled slightly and actually walked towards Xiao Lin, but Xiao Lin was not surprised. When he came to Sihaiju to sell materials ten days ago, his face was the same as now, so it was not surprising that the grandmother recognized him at a glance.
"Fellow Daoist Xiao, you are here as expected." Seeing Xiao Lin, the grandmother smiled brightly, and behind her, there were two men in white robes, who looked to be in their forties, but the amazing spiritual pressure on them made Xiao Lin know that Sihaiju had really made some efforts to ensure the safety of this auction.
The aura of these two men in white robes was surprisingly comparable to the one he sensed from Liu Mei, which showed that these two men were undoubtedly at the great perfection stage of foundation building.