Chapter 418: Opening up the Cave

There are nearly a thousand islands around the Falling Star Islands, of which at least three or four hundred are not guarded by immortal masters. These three or four hundred small islands are slaughtered by monsters almost every few decades.

This is why the village chief showed a happy expression on his face when he heard that Xiao Lin chose their Qingxi Island as a place for cultivation.

And Xiao Lin also understood why Qingxi Village, although there were five body cultivators, still could not do anything to those iron-backed bees. Although the body of the body cultivator was as hard as gold and iron, and had infinite strength, they were still mortals in essence.

Without cultivating the soul and condensing the magic power, it is impossible to travel across the sky and hide in the ground like the immortal cultivators. If they encounter those low-level monsters with infinite strength, they can naturally fight against them, but facing the flying monster insects like the iron-backed bees, they are a little bit willing but not strong enough.

After learning about this, Xiao Lin naturally agreed. A few iron-backed bees would not take up too much of his time. Moreover, although the annual reward of two hundred low-grade spirit stones was not much, it was also a very stable income.

Moreover, there was a restriction on the peak of the mountain behind Qingxi Mountain, which was set up by the people of Yushui Palace. It also consumed dozens of low-grade spirit stones every year. With the villagers' offerings, it could at least offset the loss of this restriction.

After getting Xiao Lin's affirmative answer, the village chief was naturally grateful, and the two strong men behind him also showed an unusually surprised expression. For them, with the immortal master stationed on the island, they could live and work in peace from then on.

Moreover, without the invasion of iron-backed bees, the old, weak, women and children in the village would not have to live in fear all day long. In addition, due to the fishing grounds around the island, it would not take long for Qingxi Village to grow again.

After learning about the general situation of Qingxi Village, Xiao Lin said goodbye to the village chief and turned to walk behind the mountain.

He still needed to get familiar with the environment of the back mountain, so he did not fly with the flying tool. Two hours later, Xiao Lin arrived in front of a forest halfway up the mountain.

There is indeed a small spiritual vein under this Qingxi Island, which makes the trees on the entire island unusually vigorous. After Xiao Lin's induction, the place with the most abundant spiritual energy on the entire mountain is the forest in front of him.

And this forest is now covered by a group of white clouds and mist. It seems that you can't see that there is a small forest here unless you get close.

Xiao Lin smiled slightly and took out a black token from his storage bag. Xiao Lin casually sacrificed the token, and a faint green spiritual light spread out from the token.

In the blink of an eye, the white clouds in front of him dispersed, revealing a long and secluded path in front of the forest. Xiao Lin walked through the winding path and walked a distance of dozens of feet. He came to a cliff. On the cliff was a dark cave about ten feet high.

A faint white mist was emitted from the cave entrance, looming. Xiao Lin understood that this cave should be left by the immortal cultivators who practiced here before. Thinking of this, Xiao Lin went straight into the cave.

The cave was not deep, only about a dozen feet deep, and there were only two stone chambers in it, one of which had a stone bed, and the other had only a nearly rotten cushion.

Apparently no one had come here for a long time. After a little contemplation, Xiao Lin sacrificed the jade hook and continued to dig in the center of the stone chamber.

Xiao Lin was not used to living in the cave left by others, so he had to do it himself and open up another cave.

After a day and night, Xiao Lin looked at the four stone chambers in front of him, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face. He was now in a position that was already 180 feet deep into the belly of the mountain, and he had also dug 20 to 30 feet deeper.

At this moment, the spiritual energy in the cave was not much inferior to that in his cave in Dancao Mountain, which made him very satisfied with the cave he had opened up. The only drawback was that the flag of his inverted five elements soul-locking formation was destroyed in the Dutian Xiaohan Realm.

Without the protection of the inverted five elements soul-locking formation, relying on the illusion formation outside, it was okay to defend against the villagers down the mountain. If he encountered an immortal cultivator coming to attack, he would not even have time to prepare.

However, there was no other way. Xiao Lin did not understand the formation, and it was not realistic for him to set up the ban himself. It seemed that he could only wait until he went to the market on Black Stone Island in the future to see if he could buy some formation flags and formation plates.

After the cave was built, Xiao Lin did not start practicing, but returned to the cave entrance, looking at the mountains and forests in front of the cave entrance, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

After a while, Xiao Lin gently patted the spirit beast bag on his waist, and hundreds of true-level soul-devouring fire insects flew out. These soul-devouring fire insects turned into a basin-sized fire cloud, floating in front of Xiao Lin.

With a thought, Xiao Lin gave orders to these soul-devouring fire insects, and the fire cloud split into two. About two-thirds of the fire cloud dispersed and entered the woods.

One by one, they dispersed and found a secret place to lie down, while the remaining one-third flew out of the forest and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Because there was no formation to protect him, Xiao Lin scattered two-thirds of the hundreds of soul-devouring fire insects into the forest. Once an enemy came, he would know it at the first time. Xiao Lin also gave these soul-devouring fire insects a death order, and if someone broke into his cave, he would attack directly.

As for the remaining one-third that were sent out, they went to find the iron-backed bees on the island. In front of these true soul-devouring fire insects, those iron-backed bees, in Xiao Lin's opinion, should not see tomorrow's sunrise.

After doing all this, Xiao Lin returned to the cave with peace of mind. He sat on the cushion in the practice room and began to think about the path of practice in the future.

His current realm has fallen to the late stage of foundation building. It is impossible to directly form a pill. Xiao Lin thought of the small fortune pill in his storage bag. He learned the function of this small fortune pill from Lin Xueying.

It can actually improve the realm of cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage by one level. This effect can be called heaven-defying. No wonder it can be called the word fortune. In the process of being entangled with Lin Xueying, he also deliberately inquired about it and knew that this small fortune pill can improve the realm.

But it is not absolute. For cultivators in the foundation building stage, as long as they take this small fortune pill, they can 100% improve one level of realm. There is no doubt about this. Of course, if they take it in the realm of great perfection of foundation building, they cannot advance to the Golden Pill stage, and can only waste this small fortune pill in vain.

For Jindan cultivators, if they take this small fortune pill, there is a certain probability that they can be promoted to a higher realm. If it is taken by an early Jindan cultivator, there is at least a 90% probability of direct advancement.

For each realm promoted, the probability of direct advancement decreases by 30%. If a Jindan late cultivator takes this small fortune pill, there is a 30% probability of direct advancement to Jindan Daquan.

After understanding this, Xiao Lin finally understood why Gu Changqing asked Lin Xueying to enter Dutian Xiaohan Realm to find the small fortune pill.

The probability of 30% may not seem much, but for a Jindan late cultivator, it is already very amazing to increase the probability of 30% when breaking through the bottleneck. If the news that he has a small fortune pill is leaked.

Xiao Lin believed without a doubt that a group of Jindan cultivators would come to hunt him down.

If Xiao Lin took this small fortune pill at this moment, he would be able to directly return to the realm of foundation building Daquan, and it would not take long before he could start trying to form a pill.

But after thinking about it, Xiao Lin still controlled his impulse. Although his realm has fallen, the bottleneck of the late stage of foundation building no longer exists. As long as he retreats and practices hard for a few years, he can still recover.

This small fortune pill can be regarded as meritorious, but for a cultivator, he can only take one pill in his lifetime. After thinking about it, Xiao Lin decided to take it after entering the Jindan stage, and take it immediately as long as he enters the early stage of Jindan.

In this way, he can directly advance to the middle stage of Jindan, and the realm of the middle stage of Jindan is enough to crush 60% to 70% of Jindan cultivators.

It is extremely difficult to break through each level of the Jindan realm. Among the cultivators in the Jindan realm, at least 60% to 70% will be trapped in the early stage of Jindan and cannot break through in their entire lives.

From this point, we can also imagine the preciousness of this small fortune pill.

Since he has decided to take this small fortune pill after the formation of the pill, Xiao Lin put his mind at ease and began to think about whether to retreat and start practicing directly.

There were only a few Yuxuan pills left on him. In two or three months at most, he would face the embarrassing situation of having no pills to take. Without the elixir, it was not that he could not practice.

But relying on the spiritual energy in this cave, if he wanted to practice to the great perfection of foundation building again, even if there was no bottleneck, Xiao Lin estimated that it would take at least 20 years.

Thinking of this, Xiao Lin's heart moved, and he gently patted the storage bag on his waist. A flash of light flashed, and seven white jade slips appeared in front of him.

These jade slips were exactly what Xiao Lin got from the "Dan" stone chamber in the secret palace. He had not had time to check them since the closure of the Dutian Xiaohan Realm.

Since these jade slips were in the "Dan" stone chamber, they would not be some cultivation methods. They should probably be some pill recipes. However, Xiao Lin was not sure whether there were any third-level pill recipes among these pill recipes.

After a little contemplation, Xiao Lin picked up a jade slip and placed it in his palm. He slowly closed his eyes and immersed his mind in it, and browsed it carefully.

After more than half an hour, Xiao Lin opened his eyes and showed a thoughtful expression on his face.

The jade slip recorded the recipe of a third-level elixir, which was called Blood Refining Pill. After seeing the two main ingredients of this elixir, Xiao Lin was really surprised.

It turned out that the two main ingredients needed to refine this Blood Refining Pill were Blood Ganoderma Fruit and the blood essence of the emperor-level monster.

The effect of this Blood Refining Pill was also simple and crude, that is, it could temper the internal organs, skin, flesh, tendons and bones of the cultivator, and could greatly improve the physical strength of the cultivator.