Chapter 1268 Cold Pond in the Cave
Others don't know, but Hun Su knows very well that this is the corpse-eating worm feeding the corpse-eating mother worm. When the corpse-eating mother worm is extremely hungry but dares not eat Hun Su, it will adopt this way to eat. When the corpse-eating mother worm is full, it will produce many new corpse-eating worms. During the whole process, Hun Su can't move and can only watch the whole corpse-eating worm group grow.
Under the rotation supply of the corpse-eating worm group, after more than an hour, the corpse-eating mother worm seems to have eaten enough, so it stops eating and starts to produce. Small corpse-eating worms are born one by one, leaving Hun Su's Nascent Soul and entering the ranks of the corpse-eating worm group. The whole production process lasted for more than half an hour before it ended. The ranks of the corpse-eating worm group increased by at least a thousand.
After giving birth, the corpse-eating mother worm seemed to have entered a weak period. Feeling that the crisis on Hun Su's side had been resolved, the corpse-eating mother worm became silent in his Nascent Soul. Then the whole corpse-eating worm group began to exit the cave one after another, and soon the corpse-eating worms in the cave disappeared completely.
Let's not talk about Hun Su for now. Before the swarm of corpse-eating insects came in, Qingyang and Iron Arm Spirit Monkey ran to the location of the cold pond that Hun Su mentioned. As soon as they entered this range, the rich spiritual energy rushed towards them, and the corpse-eating insects behind them did not dare to chase them anymore.
This cold pond is much smaller than the one in the Ghost Valley. Because it is underground, the entire cold pond is only a few dozen feet in radius, but for Qingyang and Iron Arm Spirit Monkey, this size is enough. The concentration of spiritual energy in the cold pond is more than a little stronger than that in the Ghost Valley, and there is constant cold spiritual energy coming out from the ground, replenishing consumption at any time.
Of course, the temperature of this cold pond is also much lower than that of the Ghost Valley. The reason why the entire cold cave is so cold is also because of this cold pond. At first, Qingyang used the Wind and Fire Order to resist, but soon he put it away because it was more effective without the Wind and Fire Order.
The extremely low temperature here requires the cultivator to constantly use the true essence to form a true essence shield outside the body to resist. In this way, the true essence in the body is consumed faster, but practicing here is to replenish the true essence. While constantly consuming, a large amount of replenishment is also carried out at the same time. The efficiency of practice will be higher than usual, and the speed of cultivation will be faster.
However, this also has a disadvantage, that is, staying in this low temperature environment for a long time is prone to problems, so you have to get up and move around every once in a while to adjust your state, otherwise the whole person will be frozen. However, this does not delay too much time. Generally speaking, if you practice here, the speed is still much faster than the cold pond in the Ghost Valley.
After seeing the cold pond, Qingyang did not practice immediately, but walked through the entire underground cave with the Iron Arm Monkey separately. Since they planned to stay here for a long time, safety needs to be guaranteed. The bottom of the cold cave is not complicated. The two spent less than a day to walk all the places and found nothing abnormal. It seems that Hun Su is right.
After confirming that there was no problem, Qingyang and the Iron-armed Monkey returned to the cold pond and began to try to practice. Sitting in the cold pond, absorbing and refining the cold spiritual energy coming out of the ground, Qingyang's mind was particularly clear, and there was no need to worry about the risk of going astray.
However, the extremely low temperature of the spiritual energy was also a great test for Qingyang's tolerance. At first, he could still bear it, but as time went on, a large amount of cold air concentrated in his body, and Qingyang's body gradually became dull, and the circulation of blood in his body seemed to slow down.
Originally, the entire ruins were filled with this violent aura, which had a great impact on the cultivators, and the higher the strength of the cultivators, the more affected they were. The cultivators above the Nascent Soul stage could not bear it, which was also the reason why Youmu Zhenjun did not personally go out. But now Qingyang's blood and qi are suppressed by the cold air, and the activity is greatly reduced. The influence of the violent aura outside on him is getting smaller and smaller, and he almost does not need to be distracted to deal with it. In the past, Hun Su was able to stay in this ruins for a long time with the cultivation of the late Nascent Soul stage. In addition to his body being eaten up by the corpse-eating mother insect, and there was little blood and flesh left, it is estimated that there is also this reason.
The cold air accumulated in the body could not be vented, and gradually affected Qingyang. At first, the speed of blood circulation slowed down, and then the perception seemed to become dull. Later, it seemed that the whole person had signs of being frozen. Qingyang knew that he could not go on like this, so he quickly stood up from the ground, drank two sips of spiritual wine, took some blood-activating and cold-dispelling medicines, and moved around for a while. When his body was almost recovered, he sat down again and continued to practice.
The situation of the iron-armed spirit monkey was slightly different from Qingyang. The monster had thick skin and flesh, and its anti-freeze ability seemed to be much higher. He sat in another corner of the cold pond, absorbing and refining the cold spiritual energy from the outside world. It seemed that he was not affected by the surrounding cold air at all, which made Qingyang look sideways.
The current cultivation level of the iron-armed spirit monkey was even higher than Qingyang, which was approximately equivalent to the fifth level of the golden elixir. This was mainly due to the ninth-level monster that Qingyang hunted with the talisman in the Yinfeng Extreme Fire Cave. Now, almost twenty years have passed. The inner elixir and blood essence of the demon beast have long been consumed by the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey. Recently, the speed of its strength improvement has begun to slow down. With this cold pond, it is no longer a problem.
Not only the two of them, Qingyang also released the alcoholic bees, letting them try to absorb the spiritual energy in the cold pond. However, there are many alcoholic bees and their strengths are uneven. The low-level alcoholic bees cannot withstand the low temperature outside and fell down one after another after being frozen. Qingyang could only take them back and leave only those alcoholic bees with higher levels outside. At the same time, he ordered the alcoholic bee queen to take good care of the alcoholic bees below to avoid losses during cultivation.
The efficiency of practicing in the cold pond is still very good. Qingyang tried it for two days. Although it takes a lot of time to get up and move around, the effect of these two days is enough to compare with the three days in the cold pond of Ghost Valley, which is more than twice the effect of simply taking the Juyuan Pill. At this rate, it only takes four years to improve one level of cultivation, and twenty years can improve four or five levels of cultivation.
Of course, this is only in theory. Cultivation is not a simple accumulation of time. Other factors must also be considered, such as the impact of bottlenecks, the experience of the state of mind, the speed of replenishing spiritual energy in the cold pond, etc. The actual effect of cultivation may be greatly reduced, but even so, it takes decades to improve Qingyang's cultivation to the perfection of the golden elixir.
After trying for a while, Qingyang felt that the corpse-eating insect swarm had left, and he returned from the cold pond to the cave where Hun Su was. He had received such a great favor from the other party before, so he naturally couldn't forget what he promised, and couldn't let Hun Su feel that he was ignored.