Chapter 189: Formation Fills the Secret Realm

In a remote valley, a black-horned ant nest several feet in size was embedded in the soil deep in the ground. Dense black-horned ants crawled out of the nest and quickly went to the distance.

At the same time, another black-horned ant crawled in from afar, carrying ores of different colors on its black horns or two large claws, and went to the nest.

The ores piled up in the nest here have accumulated into a small hill of two feet in size, most of which are first-level ores, and there are a few second-level ores scattered around, which are still very small.

At this time, a stream of light flashed, and the ores piled up into a hill were collected.

"Master, I have passed it on, and we are not allowed to collect ores anymore."

The big black ant chased up and landed on Shen Lian's shoulder, and then the man and the beast fled to the distance.

The reason why the black-horned ants were not allowed to collect ores was mainly because the number of monks entering the secret realm increased, and the black-horned ant colony was extremely large. If they continued to collect ores, it would be too conspicuous.

At present, the black-horned ants are multiplying very fast, and are about to cover the mountains, rivers and swamps outside the secret realm, and are moving towards the center of the secret realm little by little.

After Shen Lian's inspection, he determined the general shape of the secret realm, which is an irregular oval, and the area is much larger than the rumored ten thousand miles outside.

The widest part from east to west is nearly five hundred miles, and the longest part from north to south is more than six hundred miles, with a total area of ​​nearly thirty thousand miles.

Moreover, collapsed areas can be seen around the entire secret realm, and some mountains and rivers are trapped in space debris, which is enough to prove that the area of ​​the secret realm was once larger.

The central area of ​​the secret realm is about three thousand miles in radius, and the whole is shrouded in a light blue mist. Shen Lian tried to sense it in the blue mist.

It was found that the light blue mist would suppress the divine sense. After verifying it in several places, it was finally determined that the light blue mist suppressed the divine sense by more than 90%.

His divine sense of nearly forty-four miles, the sensing range in the light blue mist was less than three miles.

However, Shen Lian retreated after sensing it. He did not intend to enter the central area of ​​the secret realm. Even if there were more spiritual objects in the central area, he was not too jealous.

After investigating the outer area, the results were very favorable to him.

In order for the secret realm cave to carry the reproduction of living beings, there must be spiritual veins, and the spiritual veins of the vast sea secret realm are in the shape of center radiating.

Its main spiritual vein is in the blue mist of the core area, from which dense branches like tree roots extend, covering the mountains, fields and rivers around the secret realm.

With these spiritual veins as a support, the arrangement of the formation will have a multiplier effect, and it can save a lot of spiritual stones.

…

In the mountains and fields, after collecting the ore in a black-horned ant nest, Shen Lian fled into the forest and just flew out more than ten miles, and his brows could not help but frowned.

The divine thought symbol inside his robe lit up slightly, and someone was spying on him.

The divine thought that could fall on him so quietly must have surpassed him by a lot.

Shen Lian did not use his divine sense to investigate the source of the spying divine sense. Since he had determined that the divine sense of the person spying was stronger than his, he would be more exposed if he tried to investigate the source of the divine sense.

The divine sense of a cultivator in the middle stage of the Golden Core Stage is between 6,000 and 12,000 feet.

This range fluctuates greatly, mainly because every cultivator who can cultivate to the Golden Core Stage has great and small opportunities, and their spiritual roots and skills are not ordinary.

With this thought, Shen Lian fled towards the depths of the earth with a whoosh.

"Hey, a person in the early stage of the Golden Core Stage can actually escape from the induction of my divine sense?"

The next moment, a black spiritual light flew from afar, and a look of surprise came out. A middle-aged cultivator with thick eyebrows and big eyes appeared in the burst of black light.

Then, his divine sense once again swept across the mountains and forests, and after another investigation, he still found nothing.

The middle-aged cultivator smiled lightly, and turned into a ball of black light again and headed towards the center of the secret realm.

…

“Huh.”

Avoiding the prying eyes of the malicious monks, Shen Lian breathed a sigh of relief.

As the secret realm was opened for longer and longer, the strength of the monks entering the secret realm was also increasing. Although the monk he just met was much stronger than him in terms of spiritual consciousness, he was not afraid of a real fight.

The reason why he did not take action was mainly because Shen Lian felt that it was unnecessary. Taking action continuously would only expose himself. All his thoughts were currently on how to lay out the formation.

As for fighting, let other Taoist friends do it. They have plenty of mana.

All the way to the collapsed part of the edge of the secret realm, the space here is unstable, and the nearby mountains and forests have been hit bare, not to mention any spiritual medicine.

In such a place, except for the fluctuation of space, no one peeked.

He opened up his own cave, arranged the Thousand Mountains and Ten Thousands of Formations as a cover, and arranged several Five Elements formations as protection.

Sitting cross-legged in the cave, Shen Lian took out a jade slip.

The jade slips were his exploration of the direction of the spiritual veins outside the secret realm. He needed to plan carefully how to use the spiritual veins to maximize the efficiency of the formation.

As for the ore for refining the cornerstone of the formation, Shen Lian had no shortage of it.

Especially after he was able to refine the ore, his goal was no longer to focus on the third-level ore, but to collect more first- and second-level ores, so that the first- and second-level ores in the storage ring were piled up like a mountain.

"This place is densely covered with mountains, lakes and swamps, with earth and water as the main attributes, and wood, gold and fire as the auxiliary attributes."

"Refine a main formation plate, which can be used as the opening switch for all formations."

It is easy for a formation master to arrange a formation, but if you want to connect dozens or hundreds of formations, this will test the ability of the formation master.

Coincidentally, Shen Lian's formation inheritance has this aspect of inheritance.

After some consideration, he had a complete layout in his mind.

Officially started.

Shen Lian named the formation as the core chain formation around the secret realm. Since the outer area is too large, it is easier to surround the core area. This way, the formation can be more concentrated.

After these days of investigation, even if there is any conspiracy, it will happen in the central area of ​​the secret realm.

The area shrouded in light blue mist is a perfect match for the conspiracy.

After the formation surrounded the core area, Shen Lian also selected the edge directions of the three outer areas as the layout points of the formation, as a way to break the secret realm and escape.

If the crisis is too great in the end, you can only take a risky move and forcibly blast open the edge of the secret realm and run away.

...

Three months.

Huh!

In the blue mist area at the edge of the core of the secret realm, Shen Lian was like a soil worm, shuttling between the branches of the spirit veins, and driving one formation stone after another into the spirit veins.

Relying on the spirit veins, mountains, lakes, rivers and other terrain, he has arranged 79 formations, covering the entire core area in a chain of formations.

With the blessing of the underground spirit veins, the power of these formations has reached the third-level middle grade, and the endurance is needless to say.

Unless the formation base is forcibly broken, the spirit vein will not dry up and the formation will continue.

As for the safety of the formation base, Shen Lian hid them all in the spirit vein.

"It's still not enough."

Spreading his palms, the five elements of spiritual light flashed, and the jade talismans intertwined with colorful colors.

This is the means of improvement that Shen Lian prepared for the formation base. The five elements cycle talisman formation can enhance the power of the formation base, allowing the power of the third-level middle-grade formation to be raised to a higher level.

Clang!

Just as Shen Lian was about to continue working, a clanging sword sounded in the distant sky, and the golden sword energy in the sky had no intention of hiding at all, sweeping across the mountains and fields below.

Wherever it passed, the mountains and fields, as well as monsters, were all crushed.

Above the sword energy, a golden-robed figure stepped on the sword and rushed straight to the core area.

Feeling the terrifying breath, Shen Lian drilled into the depths of the earth with a whoosh.

"Late Jindan, or perfect Jindan?"

"No, the formation is not enough, stack it again."

...

Deep in the light blue mist, the mountains are vast.

The spiritual energy swirled upward from every corner of the mountains and fields, and the rich spiritual energy made the plants and trees in the mountains and forests full of spiritual energy.

Even ordinary weeds, under the nourishment of spiritual energy, turned into first-level spiritual herbs, enough for Qi training cultivators to take to improve their cultivation.

But in the mountains and forests, there are potholes and pits everywhere, just like they were chewed by dogs, and large areas of spiritual herbs were shattered by the impact of spiritual energy.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that the cultivators who collected the spiritual herbs had no mercy, did not restrain their breath, and trampled on these ordinary low-level spiritual herbs at will.

But the deeper you go into the fog, the weirder the environment becomes. Looking up at the sky, you can see the blue fog gathering in the sky and turning into a blue sky.

On the ground, you can see some traces left after the fight, and there are still traces of various spells.

At the same time, the suppression of the divine mind became stronger and stronger, and later it directly suppressed the divine mind to the fourth or fifth level of foundation building.

In the center of the core area, the blue fog gathered to form a blue vortex. Looking from the bottom up, you can clearly see the hole in the vortex.

A series of harsh buzzing sounds came from the hole.

Indistinctly, a dazzling green flashed inside the vortex.

After the green faded, the hollow inside the vortex fell into darkness again, with occasional white light flashing, forming a twisted state of black and white light interweaving.

In the mountains below the vortex, the mountains collapsed, the smell of blood was everywhere, and some broken arms and limbs could be seen.

Among the rocks around the ruins, a series of eyes intertwined, each exuding a vigilant look, and at the same time looking towards the hollow of the vortex above.

"Buzz!"

The black and white intertwined light flashed, and a harsh buzzing sound was heard again in the hollow of the vortex.

In an instant, the bright green that had disappeared before suddenly appeared, reflecting in the eyes of the surrounding figures like lightning, causing the breathing of the Jindan monks present to stagnate.

"It's coming again!"

Among the collapsed rocks somewhere, a monk looked forward to it, and subconsciously said something.

At the same time, the Jindan monks scattered everywhere moved their magic power and prepared to go.

"Buzz!"

In the vortex, black and white light collided constantly, and a small crystal clear liquid bead slowly emerged amidst the bright green flashes.

Suddenly, a strong spiritual energy wave emanated from the small green liquid bead.

The strong spiritual energy made the Jindan cultivators present feel the surge of mana in their bodies, and the cultivation method started to operate autonomously even from a distance.

Huh!

Huh!

A heavy panting sound was heard, and all the Jindan cultivators stared at the small green liquid bead that appeared.

The Jindan cultivators in the South China Sea have been suffering from high-quality cultivation pills for a long time.

There are currently two types of spiritual liquid beads that fell from the vortex.

One color is light blue, and the medicinal power is equivalent to the third-grade middle-grade spiritual pill of the best quality.

The other color is green, and the medicinal power is even comparable to the third-grade upper-grade spiritual pill.

For a cultivator in the early stage of the Golden Core, even if they swallow a stream of light green spiritual liquid, they may advance to the middle stage of the Golden Core.

For a cultivator in the middle stage of the Golden Core, grabbing two more liquid beads is enough to advance to the late stage of the Golden Core faster, and it can also help increase the probability of forming a baby.

Tick-tock.

The suspended green liquid beads shook, and fell from the sky like ripe fruits.

In an instant, the mana accumulated from all directions erupted like a group of volcanoes.

"Get out of the way, the spiritual liquid is mine."

"The spiritual objects of heaven and earth belong to those with virtue, get out of the way, I am..."

"Get out, this is yours!"

...

In an instant, dozens of mana attacks collided in the air, and an unlucky cultivator twisted his enchanting figure and rushed towards the spiritual liquid beads, and was immediately beaten into a bloody mist by the mana attacks from all directions.

In the sky, the gathered blue mist continued to explode, and the falling mana once again shattered the land that had long been in ruins.

No one could see clearly what the green in the hole was, but for everyone, the dripping spiritual liquid beads were real treasures for cultivation.

If they didn't grab it now, when Yunshang Sect got the news and rushed over, what would they do?

Just as everyone was scrambling for it, a high-pitched sword chant exploded, and the blue mist in the distance was shattered by a piece of golden sword energy, revealing thousands of sword lights.

The sword light flowed, forming a long river of sword energy, which rotated and slashed towards the monks below the vortex hole.

In the middle of the long river of sword energy, a golden long sword was like glazed gold and jade, emitting a sharp edge that frightened everyone.

Even if it didn't lock on anyone, all the monks present felt frightened.

"Yunshang Sect Haoyang Golden Light Sword!"

A monk immediately recognized the sword.

As the overlord of the South China Sea, Yunshang Sect has four third-grade top-grade magic weapons passed down in the sect, and the Haoyang Golden Light Sword is one of them.

It is rumored that this sword is made of the spine of the third-grade perfect monster Jinyang Fiery Beast as the main body, and is made of third-grade top-grade ore. When activated by a late Jindan cultivator, it can exert the combat power of the Jindan Great Perfection.

Coincidentally, the current master of the Haoyang Golden Light Sword is the Jinjian Zhenren of the late Jindan of Yunshang Sect.

At this moment, the Haoyang Golden Light Sword, with thousands of sword qi, rotated and crushed all the mist and magic power, and descended directly below the vortex hole, scaring all the cultivators who were trying to grab it.

Yunshang Sect is here, and the Spirit Liquid Pearl can't be grabbed.

Under the sword qi, no one dared to take this sword qi comparable to the great perfection of the Jindan. Jinjian Zhenren came on the sword qi, waved away dozens of contenders with a sword, grabbed the Spirit Liquid Pearl in his hand, and looked at the cultivators around with a look of disdain.

"Why, you don't accept it?"

The Haoyang Golden Light Sword turned into a three-foot-long sword, hovering around Jin Jian Zhenren like a golden dragon, and the sword energy it emitted made everyone tremble with fear.

"Fellow Daoist Jin Jian, you are too serious. How dare we disobey our master?"

Finally, someone couldn't stand the impact of the sword energy and spoke.

Jin Jian Zhenren ignored the monk who spoke and said lightly, "There are some things you can't grasp, so don't have unreasonable expectations."