Chapter 1189 Underground Cave
Originally, Qingyang planned that one month here would be equivalent to one year outside, and fifty-eight months would be fifty-eight years. In this way, his cultivation would be able to reach the fifth level of the Golden Core. However, fifty-eight months would only be equivalent to thirty years. Without the help of elixirs, it would be unlikely to raise his cultivation to the fifth level of the Golden Core at one time.
However, no matter what, cultivating here is better than taking elixirs, and it can save a lot of time. Since he is here, he must be patient to cultivate here for a while, otherwise, wouldn’t the Cold Pond Order that he spent a lot of energy to acquire be wasted?
After entering the formation, his mind was not restricted. Qingyang quickly found out the situation inside the Cold Pond. The entire Cold Pond was ten miles in radius, with ninety-nine caves evenly distributed. Among them, the caves outside the formation were closed by the formation, and those inside were occupied. Those whose formations were open could enter.
Qingyang walked around inside, and finally found a cave that seemed to be in a good location and walked in. He first walked down diagonally for more than ten feet, and a gate appeared in front of him. Behind the gate was a cave with a radius of more than ten feet, which was divided into several different rooms with various functions, almost meeting the basic needs of a cultivator.
The conditions in the cave are naturally not comparable to those outside, but everyone came here for cultivation, and the conditions are secondary. Feeling the rich spiritual energy around, Qingyang nodded, then closed the formation outside the gate and came to the cultivation room in the cave.
The spiritual energy in the cultivation room seemed to be a little richer than outside the cave. Qingyang could even feel that at the bottom of the room, there seemed to be spiritual energy constantly bubbling out, replenishing the spiritual energy consumption in the entire cold pond, just like there was a spiritual spring underground.
Qingyang had done a lot of homework before coming here. It can be said that things will turn to the opposite when they reach their extremes, or that yin and yang are mutually generated. In short, the world is not only filled with spiritual energy, but also filled with Yin and Ming ghost energy. It's just that some places have more spiritual energy, and some places have more Yin and Ming ghost energy.
In the Immortal Realm, spiritual energy has a great advantage, so Yin and Ming ghost energy is suppressed in some corners. On the contrary, Yin and Ming ghost energy is dominant in the Netherworld, and spiritual energy is suppressed in some small places. It is precisely because of the suppression of Yin and Ming ghost energy that the spiritual energy that bursts out from these places is even richer than many caves and blessed places in the Immortal Realm. It is a good place for immortal cultivators to practice. If Qingyang looks carefully in the Netherworld, he can also find similar spiritual caves outside.
However, this kind of spiritual cave is often very small in area, which can be used by a few casual cultivators, but cannot support the consumption of large immortal cultivation families and sects. In addition, other resources are scarce, and large immortal cultivation families and sects do not look down on it, and it is impossible for them to settle in the Netherworld because of this benefit.
In fact, not all immortals who come to the Netherworld are to avoid enemies, some are also looking for opportunities, such as finding a spiritual cave comparable to a paradise in the Netherworld to retreat for a few years, maybe the bottleneck will be broken. This kind of spiritual cave is not suitable for large forces, but it is most suitable for independent cultivators like Qingyang. If it were not for Yu Mengmiao's involvement, Qingyang would want to do so.
Hantan is such a place. The entire Netherworld Valley is located on a super Yin vein. The surrounding spiritual energy cannot be emitted and is suppressed under the spiritual vein. Finally, it emerges through the spiritual cave of Hantan, creating an extremely rich spiritual energy in this area.
After sighing for a while, Qingyang came to the middle of the quiet room, took out a cushion and spread it on the ground, and began to practice. Soon, the surrounding spiritual energy seemed to be inspired and gathered around Qingyang at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then was absorbed by his meridians, refined into true essence and stored in Qingyang's dantian, and Qingyang's cultivation was constantly improving.
Qingyang could feel that his cultivation speed was much slower than when he used spirit stones in the Fallen Ghost Abyss, but much faster than simply taking pills. Although it was not as fast as a month inside and a year outside, it was comparable to more than half a year outside. At this speed, it would take about six or seven years to improve one level of cultivation. Unfortunately, Qingyang only received 58 Cold Pond Orders this time, and it was very difficult to directly improve his cultivation to the fifth level of the Golden Core.
However, Qingyang didn't care about these. He was lucky to get such an extra opportunity. Why force so much? He would take advantage of this opportunity to improve as much as possible.
From the time of forming the pill to now, only eleven years have passed, and Qingyang's cultivation has broken through to the fourth level of the Golden Core. The reason why he could improve so quickly was that in addition to Qingyang's deep good fortune, Qingyang seized every opportunity and never wasted a bit of time.
Even if it was six or seven years later, it would only be seventeen or eighteen years. If others knew that a Jindan cultivator cultivated to the fifth level of Jindan in only seventeen or eighteen years, they would definitely be shocked. Not to mention other Jindan cultivators, even Guiyun Zhenren and Guixia Zhenren would be jealous and crazy, because this speed is too shocking. Even Guixia Zhenren did not have this treatment.
Jindan cultivators practice in seclusion for decades at any time, and they must be able to endure loneliness. Qingyang is such a person. Since the seclusion, he has been sitting quietly on the futon, constantly practicing the skills to absorb spiritual energy to improve his cultivation, like a sculpture, and almost never got up to move.
Occasionally, Qingyang would take a Juyuan Pill for assistance. In this case, Qingyang's cultivation speed was even faster. When the fifty-eight months were about to end, his cultivation had already reached the peak of the fourth level of the Golden Core. If he had more than a year, he would definitely be able to break through to the fifth level of the Golden Core. However, the time was up and he had to go out.
Qingyang thought about it. He still had a few thousand spirit stones or dark stones on him. Now that nearly five years had passed, the price of the Cold Pond Order that he had hyped up before must have fallen. These spirit stones or dark stones should still be able to buy more than a dozen Cold Pond Orders. If it really didn't work, he would sell some of the things in the Drunken Immortal Gourd and try to raise his cultivation to the fifth level of the Golden Core in one go.
Seeing that the fifty-eight months had expired, Qingyang stood up from the ground, packed up his things, and then opened the formation outside the gate and left the cave. He hadn't come out for nearly five years, and there was no change in the Cold Pond. Among the ninety-nine caves, there were still more than thirty empty, and the remaining cave doors were closed. The spiritual energy in the Cold Pond seemed to have never decreased.
The one in charge of guarding the cold pond was still the Jindan cultivator who had come in when Qingyang first came in. After more than fifty months, he could clearly feel that Qingyang's cultivation had improved significantly, but he could only envy him, because Qingyang was so rich.