Chapter 182: Failure as the Ancestor for the First Time

"Ancestor."

The two middle-aged sea clan monks saw Shen Lian rushing into the entrance of the secret realm and hurriedly stood up to salute.

Shen Lian rushed directly to the depths of the secret realm without even looking at him.

The two sea clans stationed sat cross-legged at the entrance again.

"Ancestor left the clan land in a hurry before. I wonder why?"

"You and I can't interfere with Ancestor's affairs."

...

After entering the secret realm, Shen Lian went all the way to the depths of the secret realm. The environment in the entire secret realm was dozens or hundreds of times more prosperous than the secret realm he discovered in the Wanxing Sea Area that year.

The mountains, valleys, and jungles overlapped on the seabed, and all you could see were corals of various colors.

The sea clan monks built their homes with corals, and you could also see lantern fish and small colorful fish swimming among the corals. When Shen Lian passed by, the sea clan monks everywhere saluted.

The entire secret realm is very large, narrow and long, stretching for thousands of miles. In the deepest part of the secret realm, there is an extremely tall black coral mountain, which is shrouded in spiritual light and swallows and spits out bubbles of spiritual energy.

This coral mountain, called the Black Mountain, is the forbidden area of ​​the Shanluo Tribe of the Sea Clan. In the past, except for the ancestor Yuan Jing, the rest of the tribesmen were not allowed to step into it without instructions.

The secret realm is divided into three parts. The first half is the living area of ​​the Shanluo tribe, the middle part is the buffer zone where no one lives, and the back part is the Black Mountain forbidden area.

Shen Lian came all the way to the Black Mountain, and his eyes were filled with sparkling pearls, beautiful jade, corals, and spiritual clams.

The caves in the coral mountain are winding, and the beautiful jade is embedded in the wall. The deep place is the place where the ancestor Yuan Jing practiced.

Compared with the pearls and jade outside, the interior of the cave is paved with pearls, white jade is used as a bed, and clam girls over three feet in size are used as ornaments.

"You know how to enjoy yourself."

Looking at the scene in front of him, Shen Lian nodded.

It's a pity that these decorations in front of him are useless in his eyes. A cave without a third-level formation is useless.

That's not right. There are third-level formations in the entire secret realm. There is a third-level green water tide formation at the entrance. The arrangement is barely good.

The Shanluo tribe of the sea clan is different from the sea clan tribe in the deep sea. This tribe belongs to the remnants.

When the sea clan retreated to the deep sea in a big stride, some unlucky people were left behind. These people were either abandoned or did not leave for various reasons.

After a long period of development, the remaining lost sea clans were reorganized into different tribes, occupying the clan land and secret realm left by the former sea clan tribe as the foundation, and developed little by little.

For example, the Fubo secret realm where the Shanluo tribe is located was the clan land of the Fubo tribe of the sea clan. The spiritual veins in the secret realm are as high as the third-level upper grade.

But when the Fubo tribe retreated, the spiritual veins of the secret realm collapsed directly. After so many years of nurturing, it was barely restored to the third level.

Overall, the Shanluo tribe still has some foundation. It can give birth to a cultivator like Yuan Jing who is at the peak of the early stage of the golden elixir. It also has several magic weapons, including a third-level middle-grade soul defense magic weapon.

In the cave, Shen Lian pinched the lifeless ornament clam girl and found that it was still lifelike and slippery.

Then, he sat cross-legged on the white jade bed of Yuan Jing Zhenren.

The Shanluo sea tribe is not strong, which is why he wants to replace it. After being promoted to the golden elixir, he must try to be someone's ancestor.

Of course, the most important thing at the moment is to consolidate the realm and practice magic.

Throughout the ages, there have been unlucky golden elixirs that fell because of the failure to consolidate the realm.

Who would have thought that he would pretend to be the ancestor of the sea tribe and stay in someone else's forbidden area to consolidate his realm?

...

Three months later.

As the breath on Shen Lian's body rose and fell rhythmically, the mana in his body traversed the Zhoutian meridians, gathered on the five-color golden elixir, and restarted the next round of circulation.

At this moment, he has completely stabilized his early stage of Jindan.

The reason why it took so long was mainly because of the delay in the baptism of Jindan's mana.

Like other cultivators who have advanced to Jindan, after the promotion, Danqi began to nourish the five internal organs, blood and flesh.

But Shen Lian's five-color Danqi contains the power of Tianyan, which is more agile and magical, making his Danqi more ethereal and elusive.

After this period of stabilization, Shen Lian found that his Tianyan power and Jindan have merged into one, and are no longer separate from the mana.

When he was at the foundation-building level, he still needed to mobilize the power of Tianyan on his own, but now the power of Tianyan has become a part of him.

What Shen Lian cares about is that when he attacked Yuan Jing Zhenren with Tianyan's five-element mana before, he did not notice the magic of the five-element mana.

Some people just sighed why his five-element mana is so pure.

"The cultivation methods of the big sects are of higher grade, and the mana cultivated will also be mysterious, which will suppress and impact the cultivators."

"My five-element mana can be used as an excuse for the effect of practicing the method."

Feeling the five-color Dan Qi released continuously from the five-color nine-patterned golden elixir, Shen Lian had an idea in his mind.

"The great way is simple, and the supernatural is hidden."

Muttering softly, Shen Lian smiled.

When he was at the foundation-building level, he still needed to hide carefully, but now he didn't need to.

However, he still had to be careful when facing the old monster of the Nascent Soul.

After that, a light blue golden elixir with a hint of black appeared in his hand.

This golden elixir came from Yuan Jing Zhenren. With his strength at the peak of the early stage of the golden elixir, the pill was two inches in size, and the surface was slightly bumpy and not smooth.

As for the lines on the surface of the pill, there are even fewer.

Shen Lian compared it with his own nine-lined golden pill, and the quality of Yuan Jing Zhenren's golden pill was not good.

Searching Yuan Jing's memory, he learned that when he was promoted to a golden pill, he also encountered six heavenly thunders. Not only him, but also the golden pill cultivators who were on good terms with him in Yuan Jing's memory also encountered six heavenly tribulations.

As for the nine heavenly tribulations, these people have never heard of it.

Yuan Jing Zhenren's six heavenly tribulations, like Shen Lian's previous six heavenly tribulations, were all regular tribulation thunders, and there were no abnormal phenomena such as resentment, blood, and fire.

The heavenly tribulation is a test of the rules of heaven and earth for living beings. After passing the tribulation, you can get the gift of the rules of heaven and earth. The difference in gifts between the six thunder tribulations and the nine thunder tribulations is not small.

Shen Lian secretly took note of the tribulation. He had a feeling that the six thunder tribulations should have been castrated.

But what did the rules of heaven and earth castrate the thunder tribulations for?

…

In the sea of ​​​​sense.

The little man of divine consciousness sat cross-legged on the power of the soul, with his hands on his knees, in the same meditation posture as the original.

Inside the crystal-clear little man, you can see silk threads interweaving like meridians, and streams of spiritual light flowing on the silk threads.

When the spiritual light gathered, wisps of purple air lingered, outlining the scene of a hideous demon holding a knife and fork.

This demon was seven feet tall, and the demonic energy was released as it inhaled and exhaled.

As the demon bared its fangs and claws, a blue shell floated on the side of the little man of divine consciousness, releasing blue ripples and forming a blue armor around the little man.

The shell was exactly the third-level middle-grade soul defense magic weapon Tianshui Tonglingbei inherited by Yuan Jing Zhenren. Soul-related ores are hard to find, so Shen Lian naturally used it first.

With his seven thousand three hundred feet of divine consciousness power, he could just use this magic weapon to its maximum effect, and it was no problem to resist the divine consciousness attack of the late Jindan cultivator.

After refining the Tianshui Tonglingbei, Shen Lian began to re-refined the spells he practiced, such as the Five Elements Forbidden Judgment and the Five Elements Fire Palm.

These spells can still be used after re-refining, but this magic soul spell is a little bit bad, and he needs to find a higher one in the future.

Several months passed quietly in seclusion, and Shen Lian finally re-cultivated the spells to match his current realm.

In addition to the soul and spells, there are magic weapons.

Needless to say, after experiencing nine thunder tribulations, the restrictions in his life magic weapon, the Five Elements Ship, have reached 27 in one fell swoop, and he is only one step away from advancing to the third-level middle grade.

Amid the flashing of colorful spiritual light, a spiritual ship with 81 sails emerged.

Among them, the five sails at the main mast flashed with dazzling lightning, and the remaining sails all flashed with different colors.

Shen Lian's mind sank into the spirit ship, and inside the spirit ship, a small cave world with hazy spiritual energy emerged.

The space of the realm is not large, only more than 400 feet, like an inverted bowl, with soil underneath, and the surrounding borders are shining with colorful colors, and there are dots of silver light like stars on it.

"Dongtian!"

Looking at this scene, Shen Lian smiled.

Although the cave is small, it is not comparable to those storage instruments.

In the future, it only needs to continuously invest in spiritual objects such as cave stones to allow it to continue to expand.

If the secret realm of the cave wants to support, it is better to have spiritual veins to support it. In addition, if there are high-level spiritual trees, it will be even better.

Shen Lian has a third-level spiritual tree, which is the star tree. As for the spiritual vein.

He glanced at the spiritual vein under the coral mountain and shook his head slightly. The method of extracting the spiritual veins of heaven and earth is not advisable.

During this tribulation, the eighth thunder tribulation gave rise to the phantoms of the refined spiritual objects, which also fits the saying that cultivators who cultivate immortals are also thieves of heaven and earth.

Heaven and earth are generous and tolerant, but living beings take them without limit, and even do things that drain the pond for selfish reasons.

For example, in order to repair the spiritual veins in the secret realm, this Yuan Jing Zhenren has been constantly extracting small spiritual veins from the deep sea over the years.

It is not that the spiritual veins can be fully utilized after being extracted. In the process of being fused, at most, they can only have five effects.

Compared with extracting spiritual veins to replenish spiritual veins, another method is to use spiritual stones to nourish spiritual veins with the help of secret methods, but this method is not something that ordinary Jindan forces can afford.

Most of the spiritual stones of Shanluo tribe are held in Yuan Jing's hands, so he naturally doesn't want to invest spiritual stones to nourish spiritual veins.

When building the foundation, he has already helped two spiritual veins, so Shen Lian will naturally not use the method of extracting spiritual veins again.

Otherwise, wouldn't his previous pretentious behavior be in vain?

In Shen Lian's opinion, the best way to cultivate immortals is to take the essence of heaven and earth to cultivate when you are insignificant, and when you have the ability, you will naturally give back to heaven and earth.

This is the only way to allow the entire world of immortal cultivation to continue to develop.

In fact, the world of immortal cultivation has been depleting spiritual energy from ancient times to recent times, from spiritual veins everywhere and caves everywhere to what it is now.

The physical cultivation is even worse, and they are almost extinct.

The previous generation of cultivators would never care about the life and death of the next generation.

If you want to talk about being selfless, Shen Lian is definitely not on the list, but he is afraid of being struck by lightning.

He has a lot of selfishness, but he knows how to pretend.

Anyway, he has pretended twice, so he doesn't care about pretending again.

There were two thunder tribulations this time. In addition to the five elements of spiritual objects derived from the perfection of the five spiritual roots that impacted the golden elixir, it may not be without the credit of repairing the spiritual veins.

I hope that heaven and earth will give him more time to cultivate. It is already difficult to be born with a killing tribulation now, so don't rush to the level of world destruction and restart.

"Fellow Daoist Yuan Jing has repeatedly drained the spirit veins, which is a heinous crime. The three million spirit stones accumulated by your tribe will be confiscated for the purpose of cultivating the spirit veins."

Weighing the Five Elements Ship, Shen Lian's eyes rolled. He had come to pretend to be the ancestor of the Shanluo tribe, so the resources of the tribe naturally belonged to him.

In fact, as the ancestor of the Shanluo tribe, most of the resources of the entire tribe were in Yuan Jing's hands.

The entire tribe was more like a slave raised by Yuan Jing.

After stabilizing his realm and reviewing his spells, Shen Lian began to count the property of Yuan Jing Zhenren.

In the tribal treasury in Yuan Jing's hands, there were more than 3.3 million spirit stones, but there were only a dozen kinds of third-level spirit objects including ores and spirit medicines.

In addition, there were 1,200 medium-grade spirit stones.

As for the cultivation pills, Yuan Jing only had half a bottle of three-striped green spirit pills, which were of very poor quality and barely considered inferior. One of them was still bumpy and covered with black impurities.

This pill is a pill for improving cultivation in the early stage of Jindan, and Yuan Jing has already improved to the peak of the early stage of Jindan.

As the ancestor of a tribe, with three million spirit stones and more than a dozen third-level spiritual objects, Yuan Jing should be able to buy pills of better quality.

However, he only has pills of such poor quality.

It is enough to show that the cultivation environment of Jindan cultivators is one level more difficult than foundation building.

There are many Jindan cultivators on the Tiannan Continent, but the high-quality pills suitable for Jindan cultivators are only controlled by a small group of people.

"Tsk, what should I worry about as an alchemist."

Shen Lian shook the medicine bottle and put it away. He is that small group. It is not the pills that are difficult, but the herbs for refining pills.

There are many pills for improving cultivation in the Jindan stage, but each type requires third-level spiritual medicine as the main medicine, and dozens or hundreds of various second-level spiritual medicines as auxiliary medicines.

Second-level spiritual medicines are easy to say, but third-level spiritual medicines often need more than five hundred years to precipitate suitable medicinal power.

Such spiritual medicines are either found in deep mountains and old forests, secret blessed lands, or in the medicine gardens of various sects.

For Shen Lian, it is too late to plant spiritual medicines for use, so he can only take the path of planting and cultivating while collecting.

…

In the Black Mountain Cave.

Shen Lian sat cross-legged to practice, and pieces of low-grade spiritual stones broke, and spiritual energy was drawn into his body.

After a while, he opened his eyes.

"The low-grade spiritual stones are really no good."

The five elements of Tianyan magic power roamed in his body, seemingly nothing unusual, but the spiritual power in the low-grade spiritual stones could no longer meet the needs of practice.

The corresponding five elements of magic power quality, combined with the power of the soul and the flesh, gave him the confidence to face the late stage of the golden elixir.

Shen Lian licked the corners of his dry mouth, his eyes were bright, but he didn't show off for long, and he collapsed again.

"I don't know if I can find the follow-up of the Five Qis to the Origin Gong."

After being promoted to the golden elixir, practicing the exercises became an urgent matter.

"Forget it, let's refine the soul attack magic weapon and the talisman sword first, otherwise how can the Five Elements Ship work with only a warehouse but no bullets."

...

On the sea, a blurry stream of light came from far away and plunged into the surging water, revealing a kind-looking human figure with blood-red pupils.

"Old Yuan Jing is out to receive guests!"

"I sent you a message but you didn't reply, are you dead!"

...

Shen Lian was awakened by the tribesmen of Shanluo tribe. Shanluo tribe is not big, but the secret realm where it is located is very secretive, and few people know where it is.

The one blocking the door is an old demon of the human race, who has some friendship with Yuan Jing and has done some business together many times.

Of course, the two have also calculated each other a lot, and they have maintained it until now only because of their equal strength.

Once he shows up, he, the fake ancestor of the sea clan, can't hide it.

As for not showing up, with the temperament of the demon cultivators outside, they will definitely break in to take a look, and then judge the situation and decide whether to retreat or kill and run away.

Shen Lian shook his head slightly. He could no longer be the ancestor of the sea clan.

He failed like this the first time he became the ancestor.

He didn't want to be forced to show his power.

"Why do you all like to deliver yourself to others so much?"