Slowly withdrawing his power, feeling the surging true energy in his body, his face showed joy.
Staying in this deserted ghost place like the Western Territory for a long time will inevitably make people feel depressed. Now I can finally find something good to counteract it, otherwise I will really feel sick.
After breaking through in the middle stage of pill formation, Lu Zhong is now a monk in the late stage of pill formation.
There is only one stage left to reach the false infant realm before hitting the Nascent Soul.
Trying his best to calm down his excitement, he began to compare the changes before and after the breakthrough.
The most obvious thing is that the total amount of true energy has doubled compared to the middle stage of elixir formation. At this moment, the golden elixir in Lu Zhong's belly is emitting surging mana fluctuations. Not only has the total amount of true energy increased, but the purity of the true energy has also increased.
The change in degree is actually even greater.
If you cast the same "Thunder Swamp" at this moment, the amount of real energy required in the later stage of pill formation will be less than half of that in the middle stage of pill formation. At the same time, the power of the thunder method will be stronger than in the middle stage of pill formation.
This also made Lu Zhong want to understand why monks in the middle stage of pill formation often suffered huge defeats when they met in the late stage of pill formation.
There is really a big difference between the total quantity and quality of real energy!
"In terms of spiritual consciousness, the breakthrough has reached 857 feet. The control of magic weapons will be more precise than before, which can also bring about an improvement in combat power." Lu Zhong smiled, but couldn't help but feel excited in his heart.
In the later stage of elixir formation, one can also learn a secret technique.
It's called "Star Forging".
The effect is to increase the starlight affinity of the star source spirit body.
Therefore, there is a prerequisite for learning this technique, that is, you need to transform your physique into a "Star Source Spirit Body" first, so he looked at it with great greed, but he could only put it aside for the time being.
Wait to confirm the changes in yourself brought about by the breakthrough.
Lu Zhong stood up, opened the door, and walked out of the quiet room.
Then along the corridor, we quickly arrived at the cardinal's room.
"How far is it from Ningyunfang?"
The incarnation heard the words and quickly gave an answer.
"It's still half an hour away."
For the sake of caution, to prevent possible accidents.
When the mountain-shaking boat was still a thousand miles away from Ningyunfang, Lu Zhong asked his avatar to stop the mountain-shaking boat, and then personally controlled an avatar and flew towards Ningyunfang's location.
With the mana shield condensed from the main body, the clone can also achieve short-term actions in the dangerous world environment outside.
Half a quarter of an hour later, a stream of light fell into the canyon.
Seeing the large area of skin ulceration caused by the corrosion, Lu Zhong knew that he still underestimated the power of the scarlet aura, and thought that he should incarnate some purple netherworld fire.
Without further ado, he began to explore the ruins in front of him.
Decay covered the surface, and almost no intact buildings could be seen.
Fortunately, the lower buildings of Fangshi were not completely destroyed. Going through a blasted hole in the ground, you can see many traces of fighting. Although they are almost corroded, you can still see the brutality of the war that year.
Soon, Lu Zhong made a discovery.
At the bottom of the ruins, he saw a tunnel, which was dug out with magic tools and led directly to the depths of the ground. Judging from the traces left and the degree of erosion, it seemed that monks had been there several years ago.
This is definitely good news!
This shows that there are probably still monks surviving in the West Extreme Sword Territory.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhong took care of his physical injuries and returned control of his body to the incarnation. He was ready to let him explore to see if there were really any Western monks surviving underneath.
At the same time, the main body is not idle either.
When he was exploring the ruins of Ningyunfang just now, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the spiritual veins here had not completely collapsed. If a spiritual energy transmission line could be laid out, the spiritual energy inside might be activated to transport the spiritual energy to the Shanshan Boat, which was constantly consuming spiritual stones.
Aura.
Otherwise, he really won't be able to hold on anymore.
At present, Lu Zhong has very few spiritual stones, just enough for the return journey.
Get started.
The ruins of Ningyunfang are located in the rift valley. He dug a huge berth on the cliff and parked the mountain-shaking boat in it. Although this could not completely block the erosion of the scarlet spiritual energy, if the mountain-shaking boat was parked in the berth,
, the consumption of spirit stones will be much lower than if you stay outside all the time.
Then, start laying out the spiritual power transmission lines.
Considering the erosion of the scarlet aura, Lu Zhong specially made multiple layers of protection.
After a lot of busy work, it is already three months later.
After confirming that it was correct, Lu Zhong shot a magic spell towards the spirit gathering array. Along with a low "buzzing" sound, the spiritual energy from the deep underground was attracted, and the transmission line emitted bursts of spiritual light. The spiritual energy was purified by the spirit gathering array.
He was transported into the mountain-shaking boat.
The effect is ideal.
The amount of spiritual veins and spiritual energy exceeded his previous expectations. Not only could it meet the needs of the Shanshan Zhou's protective shield, but there was even a lot of margin.
At this moment, the concentration of spiritual energy in the Shanshan Boat gradually increased.
Lu Zhong's mood improved a bit after "soaking" in the Gaoling environment.
On the other side of the incarnation, the path exploration operation went very smoothly. The end of the tunnel was connected to an underground space. There were many forks there, which either intersected or split, extending in all directions. It seemed that there was an underground world. This shows that the original site chosen by the Western monks at Ningyunfang was not
It's a random choice.
After encountering several attacks from underground creatures, he found a newly erected tomb.
A subsequent search centered on this tomb found a group of destroyed buildings.
Judging from the layout, combined with the large number of underground monster corpse pits around it, it should be a resource collection camp, but it was later destroyed by the Zhenyang Sect.
This is not Lu Zhong's guess. There is also the emblem flag of Zhenyangzong left at the scene.
One after another, more campsites were found.
Lu Zhong discovered a hidden message, that is, as we go deeper into the underground world, there are fewer and fewer traces of the camp being destroyed, and more often it seems that it has been voluntarily abandoned. Considering the poor resources of the underground world, this approach is not
impossible.
Based on this information to make inferences, he became more and more certain that there were monks surviving below.
So let the incarnation continue to explore.
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The underground world is far more magnificent than Lu Zhong imagined.
There is a colorful world of glowing moss, an underground lava sea as vast as a river flowing eastward, and even a forest composed of mushrooms and ferns. However, everything that can be eaten and used in the forest will be the same as the incarnation in the afterlife.
Just like the underground world they arrived in, it was collected by the monks from the Western Region who migrated through it.
From this we can see that the monks in the Western Region were not very rich in supplies when they migrated.
It may even be in a state of shortage.
Going deeper and deeper into the ground, roughly more than 10,000 feet deep, but the expected increase in air pressure did not occur. This made Lu Zhong more and more certain of one thing, that is, the entire world of immortality may really be a plane.
Rather than an unimaginably large planet.
Following the traces of migration, the incarnation continues deep underground.
Passing through a quicksand world, the incarnation finally came into contact with the monks.
To be precise, he was ambushed.
There is no way, the incarnation is just an incarnation after all, not a copy of Lu Zhong. Without the original Tianluo Secret Child Technique, it is normal to fall into the trap.
The ambushers were four monks, two men and two women. Their cultivation levels ranged from the middle to late stage of Qi Refining. Their appearance was not much different from the monks on the ground. They wore crudely made robes and the magic tools they used showed serious wear and tear at a glance. They were placed on the surface.
It is estimated that no monk would dare to use it.
Seeing that the four of them had no murderous intention, Lu Zhong simply let the avatar surrender and then said what he had prepared. As expected, no one paid any attention to them.
On the other side, the four people also felt a headache due to their extremely cooperative attitude towards the avatar.
If the monk who was suspected of being a secret agent of Zhenyang chose to resist, they could directly kill him, but now that he surrendered obediently, it suddenly made things difficult to handle.
A black-faced female cultivator turned her head, looked at the horse-faced monk who was the leader of the four, and said through a message: "Fellow Taoist Yu, how should we deal with this person? In my opinion, it is better to kill him directly. After all, this person comes from the surface at first glance.
, the smell of corruption on his body can be said to be stinking to the sky!"
"I don't think it's appropriate." Someone objected.
It was a one-eyed old man. He looked at his three teammates and sneered:
"Zhenyang Secret Agent, this theory has been spread for so many years, but in the past such a long time, which world in the alliance has actually caught the so-called secret agent? I think it is better to keep this person first, maybe we can start from him, so
Be aware of changes in the external environment."
"Mr. Zeng, it's been so long and you still want to return to the ground?" the black-faced nun asked.
The old man glanced at her and said calmly: "What is hometown? Baby, you still don't understand."
"Okay, okay, I think what Mr. Zeng said makes sense, so let's take it to the outpost." Upon seeing this, the horse-faced monk interrupted the conversation between the two to prevent it from escalating into a fight.
"Go back and report it to the alliance. I believe the people in the city will make a decision."
"Huh, what do you expect from those people in the city who are just eating corpses?" The old man heard this and sneered again. But no matter what thoughts he had in his heart, he still followed the horse-faced monk's order and tied the avatar with a spiritual rope.
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Afterwards, they were searched and found what was in the storage bag, which surprised the four of them, especially Mr. Zeng. When he saw the spirit rice animal meat inside, tears welled up in the corners of his eyes.
Not surprisingly, everything was divided among them.
The incarnation was taken hundreds of miles away and came to a small rocky world.
There is a small stone castle in the cave, which is obviously the outpost of the four people. There is a luminous stone hanging on the top of the cave. It is not the moonstone commonly used on the surface, but some unknown mineral.
Lu Zhong, who took over the incarnation, still noticed at this moment.
A hundred or so acres of fields have been opened up in the open space around the outpost, with a variety of mushrooms and ferns of unknown function planted on them. There are several mortals taking care of the fields.
Seeing a person brought back by the patrol, several people cast curious glances.
"Third Grandpa, who is this?" One of the young men couldn't help but ask.
"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask!" the horse-faced monk scolded with a stern look on his face.
But the young man laughed and did not show much fear. He knew that his third grandfather had always been a sharp-tongued man, and the purpose of his reprimand was also for his own good.
The wise man didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he pointed to a field behind him and said proudly: "Third Grandpa, look, I have successfully caused the grain seeds to germinate. Maybe I can actually grow spiritual rice in the future!"
After hearing this, the horse-faced monk said nothing.
Cultivation of spiritual rice is demanding, especially spiritual energy irrigation is required.
The cave where the outpost is currently located has no spiritual veins to provide spiritual energy, so the spiritual energy is so thin that it is almost nonexistent. In this environment, even if the grain seeds really sprout, they will not be able to successfully produce spiritual rice in the end.
It's just some grass planted.
But he didn't point it out.
After all, it's always good to have hope.
In order to convey the message, the black-faced nun released a bat, which quickly disappeared into the darkness.
Half an hour later, a light appeared in the distance.
"The foundation is here? It seems that there is no need to give up this incarnation for the time being. If it is to be executed, there is no need to spend so much time?" Lu Zhongmo thought.
Soon, the escape light fell to the ground.
What came was a wealthy female nun, with traces of gouache and rouge on her face. She was wearing a well-made cassock, and her complexion was quite rosy, without the yellowish look on the faces of everyone at the outpost.
Obviously, no matter where it is.
High-level monks can always live a prosperous life.
After looking at Lu Zhong, the rich female cultivator had seen the storage bag handed over by the horse-faced monk, and she no longer had much doubt about the origin of the person in front of her.
"Okay, let's untie this fellow Taoist and apologize."
Seeing that the four of them were hesitant, her face immediately turned ugly. She let out a trace of the aura of a true cultivator of the Foundation Establishment and said dissatisfied: "Why, you won't listen to what I said?"
"Yes." The horse-faced monk gave Mr. Zeng a wink, and the latter immediately untied Lu Zhong.
However, the four of them pretended not to have heard the rich nun's apology.
In response to this, the female cultivator, although she was very angry in her heart, restrained herself from getting angry. Instead, she cupped her hands towards Lu Zhong and said, "I have made you suffer, Master Yongming. I have already held a banquet in the Black Night City. I hope you will come with me."
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"Yes, I wonder what you call your friend?"
"Li Dong." Lu Zhong picked up a name casually and showed no change of expression to the foundation-building aura emitted by the female cultivator.
Seeing this scene, the wealthy female cultivator couldn't help but feel strange. She secretly used the Dao Wang Qi Technique, only to find that the cultivation level of the person in front of her was indeed in the middle stage of Qi refining.
No more guessing.
After all, her immediate boss, Master Yongming, is still waiting in the Night City.
Taking Lu Zhong with him, he was riding fast all the way.
Along the way, we passed through many small worlds, many of which have been developed, or canals have been dug, large tracts of fertile fields have been opened up, or workshops have been established to produce everything needed for daily use.
The population of mortals is not large, and there are tens of thousands of people seen along the way.
Looking through the pipe, Lu Zhong guessed that the total population of the Night City would most likely not be less than one million. In fact, only such a huge population base could support a Jindan Daoist.
Soon, the Night City appeared in front of us.
It is a fortress located in the big world of Mugu Forest. The city walls are covered with various war instruments. There is even a Hunyuan cannon muzzle protruding from the tower behind it. In terms of force, it may be no less than a mountain-shaking boat.
In front of the fortress, the crowds were even denser.
The houses look like they are, the fertile fields are opened up and the streets are crisscrossed, the central street is constantly crowded with people, and there are a large number of shops on both sides of the street. From Lu Zhong's point of view, it is not much different from the streets on the surface.
Then we landed and entered the city.
From the outside, Night City's defense looks loose, but in fact it uses a strategy of loosening outside and tightening inside.
It can be described as one sentry at five steps and one post at ten steps.
Lu Zhong could clearly feel that there were a lot of eyes on him, whether overtly or covertly. If he dared to make any move, he would probably be immediately devastated.
Exaggerated speculation, it is not impossible to be hit by a Hunyuan Cannon.
