It is located 2,980 miles east of Changchun Fairy City.
In order to refine the spirit liquid of creation as soon as possible, after taking pictures of this island, Lu Zhong brought all the materials for building an alchemy room and rushed here in a flying boat.
View from the flying boat.
You can see that Ganquan Island is in the shape of a crescent, more than 300 miles long from north to south and more than 100 miles wide from east to west. There is a mountain range standing in the center. The main peak is named "Ganquan Peak" because of the spiritual spring on the mountain. It towers into the clouds for thousands of feet.
The peak is where the spiritual vein node of Ganquan Island is located.
Opposite Ganquan Peak is a natural deep-water port.
This kind of terrain is perfect for building a commercial port.
Landing directly on the platform at the top of Ganquan Peak, Lu Zhong saw the traces of life left by the exploration monks. There were all kinds of pots and pans, and there were a lot of caked feces on them. It was obvious that the food residues had attracted foraging birds and beasts.
There are also suspected traces of monsters in it.
Following the traces of life, he found a cave that sloped downwards and led directly to the center of the mountain.
The cave was carved with magical tools, presumably to search for possible minerals on Ganquan Island. However, judging from the introduction of the Changchun Valley deacon at the spiritual land auction that day, Ganquan Island apparently had only one second-order spiritual vein.
There are no other valuable resources.
"Moo!!!"
A long roar came from the sea to the east.
After hearing this, Lu Zhong thought that this place was indeed the outer sea, and a sea beast that was rare to see in the inner sea. On his first day here, he actually encountered it.
Leviathan is the abbreviation of sea monster.
Unlike terrestrial monsters, sea monsters not only have a wide variety of types, but are generally not weak in strength, especially the famous sea monsters on the Sea King list. When monks are not used to water and their strength is weakened, the sea monsters on the list can often transcend ranks.
Killing people, so there are so many shipwrecks in the East China Sea route every year.
But these have nothing to do with Lu Zhong, he just wants to find a place to refine elixirs.
In the second half of every year, when the "tide period" of restless sea beasts arrives, the spirit veins are sealed and returned to the fairy city of Changchun for refuge.
Soon, a rock wall appeared ahead.
There are several sealing charms posted on the rock wall, which were left by the previous exploration monks. They can temporarily seal the spiritual veins and spiritual energy. Lu Zhong plans to replace them with the small Xumi magic circle he brought.
The Small Sumeru Array is produced by the Xumi Sect, a major sect of the Middle Earth Formation. It is a third-level micro auxiliary array. It has a very strong effect of sealing spiritual veins and spiritual energy. It can contain 99% of the spiritual energy in the array. It is usually the same as the second-level array.
The spirit-locking formation is used together to ensure that the amount of spiritual energy intercepted by the spiritual veins is maximized.
In order to buy it, Lu Zhong spent a total of fifty thousand spiritual stones.
It is equivalent to half a spiritual weapon.
After forming several simple layers of restrictions, Lu Zhong held Zhuanghong and broke open the rock wall blocking the passage. Suddenly, a strong aura rushed to his face, and at the same time, a huge cave appeared in front of him.
The cave is nearly a thousand feet in diameter, and it can be seen that it is naturally formed.
In the center of the cave, there is a bright and crystal clear multi-colored crystal. It breaks through the rock layer from the ground and is constantly leaking out extremely pure spiritual energy.
And this is the Ganquan Island spiritual vein.
There are many types of spiritual veins, including mineral spiritual veins like the one before Lu Zhong, and spiritual veins with spiritual eyes as the core. It is said that the central node of the third-order super giant spiritual vein in Changchun Valley is a tree growing
The tree of spiritual eyes that has lasted for a long time.
With the spiritual vein node as the center, Lu Zhong arranged the small Xumi formation.
Immediately, most of the spiritual energy that overflowed from the spiritual veins was locked in the Xiao Xumi Formation, and then he used the Spirit Locking Formation to wrap up the entire cave.
It is also necessary to set up a small Sumeru array. After all, the concentration of spiritual energy in the array has an upper limit. If the spiritual energy exceeds the limit, the spiritual energy will stop flowing out. Therefore, it must be allowed to discharge the excess spiritual energy into the spirit locking array before it reaches the limit.
, Lu Zhong later planned to open a spiritual field in the cave to absorb the excess spiritual energy.
Once the magic formula is played, the Xiao Xumi Formation is set up.
In this way, the work of sealing the spiritual veins of Ganquan Island can be regarded as basically completed.
"Rustling, rustling..."
The sound of scales rubbing against the rock wall came from outside.
Lu Zhong looked out his consciousness and frowned.
He had just leaked a little spiritual energy, but to his surprise, he directly attracted a second-level sea beast. It seemed that the number of sea beasts in the outer sea was far beyond his expectation.
"It's just the right time, let's just practice."
Lu Zhong was learning the art of holding stars and had an idea, but was worried that he would not be able to practice it.
However, practicing hands is a matter of practicing hands, and the spiritual veins cannot be destroyed because of this.
Raising his hand to cast several spells, the Small Sumeru Array is in operation. It can block the flow of spiritual energy internally, and its external defense is not weak, not much worse than the second-level defensive array.
As for the Soul Locking Array, it is just a simple Soul Locking Array, and its defensive power is negligible.
After a while, a ferocious python's head poked into the hole.
It is about ten feet wide and about nine feet high. The python's head is as long and narrow as a shuttle, covered with arrow-shaped blue-gray scales, with many old barnacles attached to it, emitting a pungent salty smell.
Seeing the crystalline mineral vein, the cold snake boy glowed with unusual light.
Almost at the same time, a red light came in an instant.
With Zhuang Hong, Lu Zhong had not had time to raise the sword. This was purely an ordinary blow from the spiritual weapon. However, with the repulsion bonus of the Star Pulling Technique, Zhuang Hong's flying speed was astonishingly fast.
Before the python's head could react, Zhuanghong popped into the snake's head.
Splashes of blood turned the rock wall red.
Immediately afterwards, the red makeup penetrated from the lower jaw of the snake's skull.
After another round of circling, it fell into Lu Zhong's hands again.
Looking at the sea beast that was severely injured by him in one blow, he was extremely shocked at the moment.
Although this blow was a sneak attack, the sea beast was unprepared, and it pierced the skull with one blow, causing important brain damage, and it was seriously injured and on the verge of death.
In addition, Zhuanghong itself is a spiritual weapon, and its sharpness cannot be compared to that of a magical weapon.
But the role of the Star-pulling Technique cannot be underestimated.
Without it to accelerate, I'm afraid Zhuanghong would get stuck in the sea beast's body.
If you are unlucky, you might be taken away by a sea monster and lose a spiritual weapon in vain.
Without thinking much, Lu Zhong struck while the iron was hot.
Continue to hit the sea monster with last hits, and kill this second-level sea monster in a few or two strokes.
Stopping, he suddenly felt a little dizzy.
poisonous!
I thought to myself that it was not good, and quickly took out the detoxifying pill that I brought with me and drank it. The discomfort gradually subsided.
Looking at the unknown sea beast in front of him, Lu Zhong decided to wait until he returned to Changchun Fairy City to read the sea beast illustrated book and related classics to avoid something like today happening again.
To defeat a sea monster, but die due to its poison due to carelessness, that would really be a death in peace!
Only when the sea beast was dragged out with brute force did Lu Zhong realize how big it was.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is at least thirty feet long.
Standing in front of such a giant python, even if it is completely dead, still gives people a strong and oppressive feeling.
"With so much meat, how long will it take to finish it?" He was thinking about how much the ingredients could sell for, and how he should cook it so that the taste would not be monotonous.
Without his concubine to accompany him, Lu Zhong's only pastime was eating.
At this time, the snake's body was still twitching, showing its amazing vitality.
Release the spirit puppet and let it peel off the snake's scales.
He himself came to the entrance of the cave and installed a bronze door.
I didn't forget to add a plaque. It was written by Lu Zhong himself. His calligraphy for making talismans all year round is quite good. He wrote the three characters "Ganquan Cave" on it.
He also set up a concealment formation next to it to hide the entrance of the cave, making it integrated with the rock wall next to it.
Enter the cave and start laying out trap passages.
Layers of restrictions are laid down, and the entire passage can be described as murderous at every step.
If another foreign enemy invades, these traps alone can cause a lot of damage. At the same time, we have not forgotten to add a second-level golden spirit lock rock array to the cave where the spiritual veins are located to prevent something from digging through the mountain and running directly into the spiritual vein nodes.
Come.
This arrangement took Lu Zhong half a month of effort.
During this period, I would deal with the snake carcasses whenever I had free time.
Snake scales as big as a washbasin were piled directly into a hill. Although not all snake scales could be used as weapon refining materials, they were still a huge income, worth at least a thousand spiritual stones.
That snakeskin in perfect condition can also be sold for a good price.
In addition, there is also its demon pill.
The demon elixir is as big as a head, glows with a clear blue light, and feels soft but not solid to the touch. It gathers most of the demonic power of the second-level sea beast, and looks like a red sun when viewed directly with the qi-gazing technique. It is the most valuable material on the sea beast.
Its effect is not small, and it is the best supplement for the advancement of various python monsters.
If this second-level demon elixir were to be put up for auction, it would not be a problem to sell nearly ten thousand spirit stones due to its perfect appearance and no loss of demonic aura contained in it.
It is said that in the East China Sea, in order to solve the shortage of elixirs, the technology of refining elixirs with demon elixirs has been developed. Lu Zhong does not know whether this is true or not. If this demon elixir refining technology really exists, then the price of demon elixirs
This will surely lead to a surge in growth.
After all, for now, the price of demon pills is still low.
Compared with demon elixirs, other items such as poison sacs, snake blood, and snake gallbladders are much less valuable.
The only exception is snake meat. Although most of it is poisonous, only one spine is not poisonous.
But the poisonous part cannot be held, which weighs hundreds of thousands of kilograms. Even if it can only be disposed of to those beast control villages, the price is as low as one talisman per kilogram, and five or six thousand spiritual stones can be sold.
In total, killing such a sea beast will bring about more than 20,000 spiritual stones. Compared with hunting a second-level monster, the revenue will be much higher. The main reason is that the sea beast is huge and will bring spiritual materials.
As their numbers increase, hunting sea beasts will also increase a lot of risks.
After all, such a big sea beast would not be able to survive unless the terrain was special.
It is really not easy for ordinary monks to kill it. It usually requires the cooperation of a small team to have a chance. The seemingly huge benefits are divided by several people, but compared with the risk of life that needs to be paid, it suddenly becomes
It became unremarkable.
Therefore, many monks would rather go south to hunt monsters than fight with sea beasts.
I took some time and tasted the charcoal grilled snake ridge.
I have to say, it tastes really good!
It tastes crispy but not rotten, with a lot of meat juice spilling out in one bite. Sprinkle a handful of seaweed salt on top, and the taste is even more delicious than before.
The only drawback is that after eating, the blood will rise and must be digested with energy.
…
Meditate and practice Qigong all night.
The next day, Lu Zhong visited Ganquan Island for a week.
We have a general understanding of the situation on the island. Mountains and hills account for most of the island, and the rest are grassy plains, scattered with many rivers and streams, and several lakes of different sizes.
There were only some rabbits and small birds among the birds and animals. I guess the big ones were all eaten up by sea beasts.
Traces of marine animal activity can be seen everywhere.
Looking south in mid-air, you can also see a piece of Mohu land.
Ganquan Island is not the largest of the Ganquan Islands. There are more than a hundred large and small islands in the archipelago, and countless reefs. The largest is the Qingquan Island in the south, which is thousands of miles in diameter. However, there is no spiritual vein on it, and the spiritual energy is extremely barren.
, not suitable for monks to live.
Looking away, Lu Zhong returned to Ganquan Cave.
To refine elixirs, it is not appropriate to refine them directly at the spiritual vein nodes. Although the spiritual veins are not fragile, he has plans to cultivate them into third-level spiritual veins. At that time, he will not only need to make major construction work, but also arrange the spiritual vein enhancement array.
, it is not suitable to locate the alchemy room there.
So a special cave was opened in the rock wall.
The cave is not big, only about ten feet in length. It can be dug out quickly by cutting the stones with makeup red.
In the process, he also discovered a vein of iron ore.
It doesn't make much sense. Although there is a word difference between mortal iron and spiritual iron, they are not the same thing at all, and there is no possibility that mortal iron can produce anything good together.
Turn a blind eye and continue arranging.
Spirit-gathering array, spirit-guiding array, and various auxiliary arrays.
Then install the Guishui Phoenix Wing Stove on the base.
An alchemy room begins to take shape.
Then, Lu Zhong also needs to set up a spirit-guiding array at the spiritual vein node to guide the spiritual energy accumulated in the small sumeru array into the alchemy room. The workload is no less than opening an alchemy room.
In the process, constraints and restrictions are laid out, and pipelines are drawn.
It took him a long time to finish it.
Give it a try. As soon as the alchemy room's spiritual formation is opened, a steady stream of spiritual energy will flow out.
"Phew, the preparations are finally done!"
Lu Zhong looked at the deserted alchemy room and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
When I was in Lintao Pavilion, people would greet me from time to time, but I wasn't as lonely as I am now.
He couldn't help but feel a little melancholy in his heart, but he quickly adjusted his mood. After all, it was useless to think too much, it was better to focus on the present.
Put the Jinyang Chonghuo into the furnace of the Guishui Phoenix Wing Furnace and start refining the elixir prepared in advance.
The process of refining the spirit liquid is similar to that of elixir refining.
The first two steps are processing, purification, and fusion and transformation.
The difference lies in the third stage, which is different from the spirit-injection elixir of elixir refining. When refining the creation spirit liquid, the spirit-infusion step is particularly critical. If enough spiritual energy cannot be integrated into the elixir, then the refining will be considered a failure.
The spiritual liquid that has reached the predetermined concentration of spiritual energy has almost no effect when taken as an elixir.
This step should be called "Injecting Spiritual Liquid".
In this refining process, in order to save elixirs, Lu Zhong planned to refine Huangya Dan first, using the method of creating spirit liquid. The finished product can also be called "Huangya Medicine Liquid".
Soon, the first two steps will be over.
After all, he has refined high-grade Huangya Dan before, and is no longer a novice alchemist.
The probability of failure is low.
Next, is the most important step of injecting spirit liquid.
In this regard, Lu Zhong, who was trying it for the first time, actually didn't have much confidence.