Chapter 169: The Third-Level Array Master Puts the Blame on the Demon Cultivator

The energy in the earth ball is continuously poured into the formation, keeping the formation in continuous operation.

This layout was very clever. Shen Lian felt it carefully for a long time before he saw some clues.

Immediately, he slowly withdrew his spiritual thoughts.

He has accumulated a lot of enlightenment points over the years, but he has not used them to improve his formation, but now is the time.

Based on his current knowledge of formations, Shen Lian could only initially determine that the underground formations were serial formations.

With a third-order formation as the core and surrounding Muyang Mountain, a huge formation land was constructed.

Compared with this place, the Huogufang City created by Gong Zhongze was far behind.

"Fellow Taoist, what's wrong?"

Hong Le pushed a jade box full of spiritual energy in front of Shen Lian. He was just talking about everything, but unexpectedly the guest was in a daze.

He was exaggerating.

Or is this third-level crocodile grass bad?

"Shopkeeper Hong, your ancient crocodile herb has less than three hundred years of potency. The surface of the leaves is yellow and withered. It's obvious that you were careless during picking and damaged the roots."

Shen Lian pointed to the elixir in the jade box, "In addition, looking at the roots, there are traces of blackening at the broken parts of the roots, which proves that after picking them, they wanted to nourish them with spiritual things, but because the spiritual energy was not controlled well, they were injured again. Roots."

"Ahem..."

Hong Le coughed twice. His third-level elixir was indeed a bit underheated.

He really wanted to use spiritual energy to stimulate it, but unfortunately he was not good at it and almost ruined the elixir.

"Is fellow Taoist a spiritual planter or an alchemist?"

"I understand a little bit."

Shen Lian smiled and said, "I want this crocodile grass. Please give me a suitable price."

Once someone points out the quality problem, it’s natural that you can’t sell it at a higher price.

By the time Shen Lian came out of Qianqiu Tower, the crocodile grass had already been put into the storage bag.

Don't think that there is a crocodile character, but in fact it is a spiritual grass with dual attributes of water and earth. It can be used to refine the third-level Baoyun Dan, which will help monks understand the practice of monks with dual attributes of water and earth.

Without stopping in Qianqiufang City, Shen Lian flew directly to Qingyufang City and looked for a place to stay.

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【Perception Points-50000】

[Formation: Third level low-grade]

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About a month later, Shen Lian entered Qianqiu Tower again.

This time was different from last time, but he changed his identity and turned into a monk on the seventh floor of the foundation building, coming to buy materials for making talismans.

In the next two months, Shen Lian continued to change his identity, either coming to buy elixirs, talismans or magic weapons, and entered Qianqiu Tower dozens of times.

The magic weapons, talismans, etc. he purchased were not a waste of spiritual stones. Having had the experience of being the mastermind last time, he felt that it was still necessary to keep some spiritual objects refined by outside talisman masters and weapon refiners.

After many explorations, Shen Lian further determined the mystery of the core formation earth ball and found a loophole.

The reason why the monks who arranged this underground chain formation established Qianqiufang City and arranged the core of the formation under Qianqiu Downstairs was because the loophole of this formation was at the core.

After many close inspections, Shen Lian discovered that the earth ball was not a natural spiritual object, but a specially refined third-level earth magic weapon.

After escaping directly from the outside of Qianqiufang City into the underground, Shen Lian carefully bypassed the pre-detected restrictions and reached all the way to the core of the earth ball.

The spiritual thought penetrated the earth and stone and landed on the earth ball.

The earth ball rotates slowly, continuously releasing earth-yellow spiritual light, causing the surrounding formations to prohibit bright disillusionment.

Shen Lian felt the movements of Tu Qiu and waited quietly.

This earth ball, which is the core energy of the formation, will be stagnant for nine breaths every three days.

There is such a pause because there is a deviation in the coordination between the earth ball and the formation.

You need to use these nine breaths to readjust the degree of coordination.

After thoroughly understanding this formation, Shen Lian felt that if he was asked to arrange it, he could make it smooth and seamless.

This is called professionalism.

Under the earth, the khaki aura flickering from the earth ball suddenly dissipated, and the surrounding formation restrictions also dimmed at this moment.

The earthy light on his body flashed, and then the earth spirit puppet got in.

"Um."

When the earth spirit puppet entered, Shen Lian was slightly startled.

It's not that there was an accident, it's that he went in too neatly.

After entering, the earth spirit puppet played a talisman, and then a spiritual thought emerged from the talisman, penetrating the earth and rocks in front of it, and containing all the scenes it sensed within the talisman.

In an instant, before the earth ball had recovered, the earth spirit puppet came back with the detection talisman.

Shen Lian escaped from Qianqiufang City without stopping.

It's not that he is too timid, but because Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce attaches great importance to Dongtian Stone, he has to be cautious.

In the eyes of monks in the world of immortality, a storage ring can be made from a cave stone the size of a grain of rice.

Shen Lian also thinks so.

But because of this, why does the Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce protect the Dongtian Stone so solemnly?

What everyone knows may not necessarily be true, just like Shen Lian himself has the Tianyan Fire Domain, which can transform first- and second-order ores into third-order.

He has the opportunity, but others may not.

The detection talisman is also one of the many talismans he inherited. This kind of talisman was originally developed to detect mineral veins.

However, this kind of talisman is not as flexible as imagined.

This talisman can accurately determine that there are no mineral veins underground, because once there are mineral veins, the unique spiritual power in the spiritual veins will disrupt the accuracy of the detection talisman.

In other words, this talisman can confirm that there is a mine underground, but what kind of ore and the size of the vein cannot be determined.

Even in some special places, such as Tianzhu Mountain, this detection talisman is useless.

If there is a large piece of first-level ore deep in the earth, it may also affect the accuracy of the talisman.

A second-level mid-grade detection talisman finally dug out a piece of low-grade first-grade iron ore, which would cost you your pants.

But no matter how useless the talisman is, it has its place.

Shen Lian used it.

For fear of touching the third-level magic weapon earth ball, Shen Lian did not dare to release all his spiritual thoughts into the mineral veins.

In addition, he did not dare to put the spirit puppet in alone. Once the earth ball re-energized the formation, his spiritual thoughts would inevitably collide with the formation's restrictions.

It is easy to be noticed by others, and it is possible to trap the earth spirit puppet inside.

As for the real person breaking in directly...

What were you doing just now?

Isn't it just to check whether it is safe for real people to go in?

After finding a cave to stay in in the wilderness, Shen Lian took out the detection talisman he had just used and swept his mind inside.

Ghosting, blurring, all snowflakes.

This scene is so familiar.

The power of the rules of heaven and earth cannot be discerned by a small talisman. Shen Lian carefully sensed the blurry scene.

After repeated confirmation, the talismans were full of scenes affected by the rules, proving that this vein of minerals had not been mined.

Once you have a foundation in your heart, you will have a good idea when you run further.

Three days later, Shen Lian returned to the outside of the magic earth ball, surrounded by formations and restrictions that were constantly changing with crystal light.

But while he was in the restriction, he did not touch any of the restrictions, and stood cleverly in the gaps between the restrictions.

When the khaki light on the earth ball dissipated, Shen Lian dived in.

It was really silky smooth and went in right away.

After rushing into the mineral vein, my spiritual thoughts felt greatly restricted. It was not a matter of being suppressed, but that my spiritual thoughts were no longer so clear after they were released.

This situation is at least dozens of times more serious than the previous perception of other mineral veins.

Embedded in the cloud crystal in front of him was a white, translucent cave sky stone the size of a grain of rice.

The cloud crystal stone embedded with cave stone exudes a faint glow.

Shen Lian didn't dare to release the spirit puppet. It would be troublesome if contact was lost.

After some inspection, he determined the size of the dolomite vein. The main body was running north-south, and there were more than a dozen branches of different sizes on both sides.

The overall length is about fifteen miles.

It's like a crystal clear stone dragon embedded deep in the earth.

In the veins of dolomite, there are scattered cave stones the size of rice grains.

These cave stones were unevenly distributed. Shen Lian was not in a hurry to pry them down. He wanted to see if there were any larger cave stones.

However, he jumped up and down in the veins, moving like a monkey, but he did not find any cave stones larger than the size of a grain of rice.

The figure was embedded outside the cloud crystal mine, and Shen Lian frowned slightly.

He began to carefully read through the inheritance of the weapon refiner and the formation master. Currently, both inheritances have reached the third level of low-grade.

In the inheritance, there is a way to create a storage ring, but there are no other uses for the cave stone.

Shen Lian guessed that the reason was that the inheritance level was too low.

The number of cave stones present in this vein exceeds 20,000.

One cave stone can create a storage ring, and the cave stones in this vein alone can create more than 20,000 storage rings.

It is said that Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce controls many mineral veins, and the number of cave stones is absolutely beyond imagination.

Is it possible that Qianqiu Chamber of Commerce has a monopoly on Dongtian Stone for this reason?

Shen Lian scratched his head. The influence of the mineral veins here on spiritual thoughts was dozens of times stronger than the third-level mineral veins he sensed in Red Crystal Mining City.

This also further proves that cave stone is precious and should not only be used as a storage ring.

According to his expectations, he would need to find a cave stone at least the size of a fist in order to open up a stable cave.

Now it seems that we can only use the method of smelting ore to see if it works.

After calming down, Shen Lian began to collect the cave stones. He didn't directly pull the cave stones from the cloud crystal mine.

Needless to say, when people come to mine, looking at the holes, even a fool will know that someone has stolen in.

After looking around, Shen Lian came to the underground of the mineral vein, took out a magical sword in the trophy, and slashed it towards the branch outside the mineral vein.

The branches are free from the main vein and are not so conspicuous after being cut off.

However, after Shen Lian made some selections, he found that there were only more than two thousand cave stones collected together.

This amount is completely insufficient.

But if the mining continues, the main body of the dolomite vein will be touched.

Just as Shen Lian was scratching his head and wondering whether to continue, a restriction suddenly lit up not far away.

There was also movement coming from the other side of the restriction.

"Sapphire vein?"

After some inspection, he discovered that the sapphire vein extending from the sapphire mining city just spread under the domestone vein.

The miners who were mining sapphire ore opposite had already dug under the cloud crystal stone.

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Three days later.

"Buzz!"

At the junction of the green jade vein and the cloud crystal stone vein, the position of the formation restriction that was touched.

Shen Lian took advantage of the nine breaths of the earth ball magic weapon to gently touch this formation.

It was not to tear the formation directly.

Instead, he took this opportunity to wear down the strength of this formation restriction and speed up the process of the formation restriction breaking.

In this way, if someone in the opposite mine touched the formation restriction and opened up the cloud crystal stone vein and the green jade vein at once, then the traces of his stealing the cave stone would be greatly reduced.

After doing all this, Shen Lian waited for another three days, dug out more than half of the cave stone embedded in the cloud crystal stone vein in one breath, and drilled out again when the magic weapon earth ball was stagnant.

Weakening the restriction formation is only the first step, and the next step is to destroy the traces of entering the vein.

After escaping from Qianqiufang City under the earth, Shen Lian did not stop and went all the way to the direction of the green jade mining city.

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One month later, in the mine cave of the green jade vein.

Deep in the earth, miners were waving special magic tools to knock down pieces of green jade ore.

"Damn it, be careful. I told you this is a mine cave. Don't cause trouble for me again."

Deep in the mine cave, in a remote place, the smell of blood was still lingering.

The low voice was full of warning.

"Brother, you are too careful. Who would have thought that you and my brothers would hide here."

A nonchalant voice sounded, and while speaking, it did not stop the action of absorbing blood.

Compared with refining spirit stones, for demon cultivators, the speed and excitement of cultivation will be greatly increased after getting a little blood.

How can I suppress the violent thoughts after hiding in the mine cave for so long?

"Shut up!"

Qi Yousan's face was gloomy and he ignored the words of the figure next to him. Instead, he said gloomily, "If I find you refining miners again, I will kill you first."

"Also, clean up the bloody smell here as soon as possible. Do you think there are only two demon cultivators like us in this mine!"

"Hey..."

Luo Hao lowered his head and a hint of ferocity flashed across his face, but when he raised his head, he had already restrained himself tightly.

"Listen to my brother."

"Brother, it's not that I'm afraid of trouble. Now that Master is in danger of death, you and I, brothers, should be careful or we will be killed."

"Wait a little longer. I believe that the damned old demon Yuanling will not be rampant for long."

"Not to mention the distant past, all the ancestors of the demon sect who have practiced in Tianzhu Mountain for thousands of years, who hunted people of the same level so madly, all died violently."

"Once this bloodthirsty old demon dies, we can go out to find Master's whereabouts. I hope Master can survive from the old demon."

As he spoke, Qi Yousan reached out and patted his brother's shoulder.

Papapapa!

"Brother, the more it is at this time, the more we brothers should stick together. Don't you want the Jindan period skills in Master's hands?"

"Then..."

Just as his brother Luo Hao opened his mouth, he found that his body suddenly stiffened.

"You..."

"Junior brother, I'll take you on your way."

A sinister voice sounded, Qi Yousan's face changed, and his big hand reached out to grab Luo Hao's chest.

"Boom!"

However, a ball of dense demonic energy exploded, the mines around roared, and large pieces of rocks collapsed.

"My good senior brother, you actually want to be open-hearted to your junior brother."

A sharp voice sounded in the mine, and Luo Hao knocked away the collapsed rocks and ran wildly without caring about the direction.

Qi Yousan, who was blown away by the demonic energy, suppressed the demonic energy surging in his body and ran after him.

In this way, the two brothers fought all the way in the mine, and the bursting demonic energy went up through the mine and broke the restriction above at once.

"Boom boom!"

In an instant, under the impact of the violent demonic energy, a large hole was cracked in the formation guarding the Dongtian Stone Mine.

The rolled up energy began to spread, and soon gathered under Qianqiu Tower like a huge wave.

"Not good!"

Hong Le, who was sitting in the building, was taking a nap with the maids and was suddenly awakened.

PS: Sorry for the late update. I went to the hospital and came back late today. I was not in a good mood when I was typing, so I was a little stuck.

I mentioned it in the writer's talk yesterday, and many book friends didn't see it. The author's wife needs to have a minor operation during this period, so the update will fluctuate.

Please forgive me.

In addition, the author said that there is an error in the protagonist data marked in Chapter 146, so it is re-attached at the end.

[Shen Lian: Nineth level of foundation building]

[Five elements spiritual roots: Fire 100 Earth 100 Gold 31 Water 31 Wood 31]

[Magic power: Tianyan Fire Domain, Tianyan Earth Domain]

[Divine mind: 3,860 feet]

[Refining weapon: Third-level lower grade (112/70000) cannot be broken through]

[Formation: Third-level lower grade (811/70000) cannot be broken through]

[Alchemy master: Second-level middle grade (1011/20000) cannot be broken through]

[Talisman master: Second-order upper-grade (3214/50000) cannot be broken through]

[Puppet: Second-order lower-grade (1124/20000) cannot be broken through]

[Beast Tamer: Second-order lower-grade (4123/20000) cannot be broken through]

In Chapter 146, a reader mentioned that there were two formations, one third-order and one second-order upper-grade. I simply and roughly deleted the second-order upper-grade formation. Today, I discovered that the first third-order formation should be in the position of the weapon refiner.