The only town on the island is at the east end of the island, very close to the port. In the west of the island, there is a small mountain range of more than 20 miles, with two small peaks on it, one about two to three hundred meters high.
The other one is only about a hundred feet long.
Bai Ran saw the mountain peak in the distance in the air, but he still suppressed the excitement in his heart and landed in the middle of the town first.
The arrival of Bai Ran and Qu Hun caused quite a commotion, and immediately an old man who claimed to be the mayor came hurriedly to see Bai Ran.
When Bai Ran handed the jade slip with the golden symbol to the old man for inspection, the mayor immediately expressed that the people in the town were willing to obey all the orders of the Immortal Master.
Of course, Bai Ran would not ask any mortals for help. Instead, he briefly asked about the situation on the island and how much of the spiritual stone consumption the people in the town could afford for the protective formation. This was his biggest concern.
After hearing a number that was so small that it was almost negligible, Bai Ran felt a little depressed.
Doesn’t this mean that all spiritual stone consumption must be paid for by him?
Fortunately, what the middle-aged monk said about collecting some spiritual stones from the residents to make up for part of the losses seems to be just a nice thing to say, and it makes no difference whether he has it or not.
Bai Ran secretly slandered the middle-aged monk, and then comforted the old man with a few words.
Then he briefly estimated the amount of spiritual stones consumed by the formation, and compared it with what the old man told him, and immediately gave the old man one year's worth of formation spiritual stones.
He told the old man that he could go to the cave he built every year to receive the spiritual stones needed for the next year.
Then, Bai Ran ignored the old man's continuous thanks and flew to the west end of the island with Qu Hun.
As soon as he entered the mountain range that the island residents called "Xiaohuan Mountain", Bai Ran felt a faint aura coming to his face, which made him feel slightly happy.
A moment later, Bai Ran stood on Shenfeng Zhoushan and flew several times around two peaks, one high and one short.
Obviously, the concentration of spiritual energy is more abundant in the slightly higher peaks, but the shorter peaks are thicker and seem to be more suitable as caves. And there is an old cave residence left by a former monk on it, which is intact and can almost be used as a cave.
Use it directly.
Bai Ran meditated for a while on the divine wind boat, and with a flash of light in his eyes, he made up his mind.
He first flew into the cave's former ruins on a rough mountain peak, found a very private place in the deepest part of the cave, and then released his magic weapon and struck the ground hard.
Half a day later, an underground passage began to take shape. This passage with a diameter of two to three feet led directly to the bottom of the mountain.
But when Bai Ran waited for the tunnel to be more than ten feet lower than the bottom of the mountain peak, he suddenly changed direction and headed towards another mountain peak only two or three miles away.
Although the magic weapon in Bai Ran's hand was extremely sharp, and with the help of Qu Hun, this big project still took two days to successfully dig through the two peaks.
Later, Bai Ran opened another new cave inside the higher mountain peak according to the pattern of the old Tiannan cave.
Everything in this cave is exactly the same as the one in Taiyue Mountain.
It's just that there is no exit this time. Except for that passage, it is completely semi-enclosed.
This is where Bai Ran truly practices and cultivates spiritual herbs.
In this way, there are two caves, one real and one false, which is much safer.
After opening the cave, Bai Ran took out the earliest set of "Inverted Five Elements Formation" he had obtained and laid it near the exit of the thick and short mountain.
But after Bai Ran flew between the two peaks and hovered in the air for a while, he still felt a little uneasy.
He simply found two more powerful formations from the sets of formation equipment given to him by Xin Rushi, the formation flags named "Heavenly Wind Crazy Formation" and "Huanxing Tianluo Formation"
and array plate.
These two formations are both wide-ranging formations, and after being arranged, they completely cover the two mountain peaks.
Although they are not as magical as the "Inverted Five Elements Formation", monks in the foundation building stage will still be in pain when they see them.
In this way, except for the hard attacks from the monks in the pill-forming stage, Bai Ran's cave is basically foolproof.
In the sky outside the formation, Bai Ran looked at the mountain peaks that were obscured by the milky white mist. With a chuckle, he slowly flew into the mist and disappeared.
After entering the Zhendong Mansion, Bai Ran didn't take a breath of relief and rested, but was still busy.
First, plant some seeds of spiritual herbs in the secret medicinal garden. After all, even if you want to induce birth, you have to wait for the seeds to turn into seedlings!
Then Bai Ran buried the vial that he regarded as life in the corner of the medicine garden, still covered it with the fragment of the magic weapon, and let it condense the green liquid through the pores secretly opened in the cave wall.
Then, he opened dozens of secret rooms of different sizes, and based on the insect breeding experience of Yuling Sect monks, he modified the environment of the secret rooms one by one, put the pair of white spiders and the living strange insects into them, and also
Place restrictions on attachments to prevent them from escaping.
Of course, there is enough insect food, so Bai Ran still sprinkles some on it first.
After doing the most important things, Bai Ran did not take any medicine to meditate and refine his Qi. Instead, he carefully took out the off-white jade slip he got from the Emperor of Yue from his storage bag, which contained many weird secrets.
The "external incarnation" technique that he has been peeping at for a long time is also among them.
Bai Ran put his spiritual consciousness deep into the jade slip and carefully read the method of practicing this technique several times before withdrawing from the jade slip and fell into deep thought.
Although Bai Ran had already made a plan in his mind before, after careful consideration, he still feels that the danger of practicing this technique is really not small!
Because the jade slip states very clearly that once the clone in the sacrifice fails, the consciousness planted in the clone will be destroyed by itself and cannot be taken back.
If a cultivator's spiritual consciousness is not strong enough, his spiritual consciousness will be severely damaged, and he or she may fall into madness for a long time, or in more serious cases, the inner demon may bite back and die.
And even if the sacrifice is successful, this so-called "external incarnation" is nothing more than a high-level puppet that can cultivate on its own and be manipulated freely.
It is completely different from the rumored fairy magic power of one person turning into two people and completely turning into several people!
However, since Bai Ran has the "Five Elements Pill of Blood Condensation" in hand, he has a great chance to make his clone form the "Evil Pill". This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have a puppet guard in the pill formation stage!
Even if he is only a puppet in the early stage of forming the pill, this will give him the ability to protect himself in front of the monks in the early stage of forming the pill.
Moreover, the most critical and difficult prerequisite for cultivating a clone requires a suitable body with spiritual roots but no physical damage. He already has it.
It's Quhun, this soulless corpse.
It stands to reason that extracting the soul of immortal cultivators, especially those of low-level immortal cultivators, will damage the meridians of the physical body due to the overbearing nature of the extraction spells, and basically make it impossible to practice spells. This is also the opinion of so many monks.
The reason why Qu Hun was surprised was that he still had spiritual energy fluctuations as a corpse refiner.
Because although there is a situation where the physical body is safe and sound after extracting the soul of a monk, this is a complete coincidence, something that only one in a hundred has the chance to encounter.
Unfortunately, this secret technique of cultivating the "incarnation outside the body" requires that the body is not only safe and sound after the soul is extracted from the body, but also requires that it must be a low-level immortal cultivator below the sixth level.
This time, it is even harder to find a suitable body.
Although Bai Ran didn't know why he had such a strange request, it probably had something to do with the fact that it was easier to master the body after the distraction was implanted.
Although it is not known how the Quhun was created by Yu Zitong and Doctor Mo in the first place, the Quhun does have all the conditions and is the perfect body for sacrificial clones.
As for the Yue Emperor, he probably had the souls of many low-level monks extracted from him before he happened to have a suitable physical body.
Otherwise, there should be more than one clone for his cultivation.
Bai Ran sat cross-legged on the ground, thought for a long time, and decided to practice the Dayan method to the second level before performing the sacrifice and dismembering the body. Only in this way, it would not be a big deal if the sacrifice failed. Now, for him,
I have a deep understanding of the miraculous effect of the Dayan Method in strengthening spiritual consciousness.
Of course, before practicing the Dayan method, you must first restore your cultivation level during the foundation-building period. Because the secret technique of "external incarnation" can only be practiced by monks after foundation-building.
And when the sacrifice of the clone is completed, regardless of whether the incarnation technique is successful or not, Bai Ran will have to practice the "Three Turns of Rejuvenation Kung Fu".
After all, only this technique and the "Qingyuan Sword Technique" are the keys to whether he can form an elixir and step into the avenue.
After Bai Ran thought about his future practice arrangements, he entered the secret room of the cave and began to take pills to refine his Qi.
Now, he still only takes two low-level pills, "Huanglong Pill" and "Golden Marrow Pill".
The Foundation Establishment Pill is still too strong for him now, so it would be more appropriate to wait until he reaches the seventh level before taking it.
According to his estimation, without the foundation-building bottleneck, we should be able to enter the foundation-building period soon.