Longevity begins with loose cultivation

Chapter 116 Soul Cultivation Land

The next day, Lu Zhong visited a geomaster.

There was a sound of steady footsteps, like an old man slowly walking towards the other side of the mansion in the garden. The wide Taoist robe is obviously a cassock, his beard and hair are all white, but he has a childlike face.

This is Gao Lian, a well-known geomaster in Yongling City.

It seems that ordinary geologists can't do such a job as finding a spiritual place.

Lu Zhong had little choice.

"Your Excellency is Fellow Daoist Lu, please come here!"

"Fellow Daoist, this garden is really nice. I'm afraid it took a lot of thought to arrange it?" Lu Zhong could tell that every flower and plant here was carefully selected and pruned, not just randomly placed.

You can see the leaves but not the flowers from the previous angle, and you can see the flowers but not the leaves from the next angle.

So every step you take, you can see different beautiful scenery.

"Hahaha, fellow daoist has good eyesight!" Gao Lian laughed loudly.

He usually has no hobbies, but he likes to take care of flowers and plants by himself. Now that someone praises his work, he is naturally delighted. In an elegantly furnished room.

In the air, there is a faint fragrance of incense, which makes people feel calm.

After sitting down at the reception table, the two began to talk about serious matters. Gao Lian poured Lu Zhong a cup of tea and asked, "What kind of spiritual place do fellow Taoists come to Laoshi for?"

Lu Zhong knocked his knuckles on the table to express his gratitude, and then said: "The land for nourishing the soul, I don't know where I can find the land for nourishing the soul!"

"Oh?" Gao Lian froze, put down the teapot and said, "This is not a good place..."

The soul-raising place, as the name suggests, raises the soul.

This kind of place is often haunted by evil things, or ghosts or zombies. It is not impossible to even attract ghosts, and there are usually demon cultivators entrenched.

However, he didn't ask too much, after all, he still had to have professional ethics.

As a geologist, what is important is to ask less and do more.

"Well, let me think about it carefully, it's hard to find this soul-cultivating place..." Slowly sitting on the mahogany armchair, Gao Lian pressed the center of his eyebrows, searching for memories carefully.

The appearance of the spiritual land is not without traces, and there is still a certain pattern.

The same is true for the soul cultivation place.

Its formation must meet three conditions:
One is the land of eternal shade, even if there is no sunlight for a year.

Second, there have been a large number of deaths.

The third is that there are spiritual veins everywhere.

Normally, the first of these three conditions is the easiest to satisfy, but if you want to satisfy the second and third conditions at the same time, the difficulty will increase exponentially, so it is very rare to find a place for soul cultivation.

Even if the conditions are met, it is still unclear whether it can form a soul cultivation place.

The most valuable asset of a geomancy master is not his geomancy skills, but that he has traveled to mountains, rivers and mountains.What Gao Lian is doing now is to list the suspected locations and write them down to Lu Zhong.

Going out to go out with the patron is something only a novice geomaster would do.

"Yes." Gao Lian clapped his hands lightly.

Then he picked up the jade pen on the table and started to write straight on the paper.

After a while, the paper was filled with handwriting.

He handed this piece of paper to Lu Zhong, and said: "This is where I saw the suspected places when I traveled to Lingyue Region with Master in the past. Fellow Taoists, follow the names of the places to find them one by one, and maybe you can find them. A place to nourish the soul."

Lu Zhong took it over and saw that it was full of place names, and thought of the Lingyueyu in the other party's words.

Lingyue Domain refers to a vast land including Yongling, Luoyun, Yanling Mountain and other areas, belonging to the Lingyue Sect of the Nascent Soul Sect, and it is said that the narrowest part is [-] miles wide.

He is just a mere qi refining monk, how dare he set foot in the outside world?

Immediately, a wry smile appeared on his face.

"This soul-cultivating place is what I need, and I ask fellow Taoists to circle a closer place."

"It's because I didn't think carefully." Gao Lian bowed his hands and apologized.

To be honest, he did think that it was someone else who wanted to find a place to raise his soul.

Pick up a jade pen and draw a little bit.

Most of the place names on the paper were deleted, and only thirty-seven places remained in the end.

Lu Zhong looked around and found that there were seven in the Yongling area, five in the Yanling Mountain area in the south, five in the Luoyun area in the northwest, and the remaining fifteen were in the Lanyue area in the southeast.

Lanyue area refers to the location of Wulingmen. It is a vast area no less than that of Yongling, and it is spread over more than a dozen foundation-building sects. After the disintegration of the former Jindan sect, Lanyuezong, this place has not been integrated again. Pass.

"Landing the moon, the general's tomb..."

Seeing this place name, he couldn't help thinking, isn't this the one next to Qingliu Ruins?
Unexpectedly, it is also a suspected soul-raising place.

No, I guess it really is!

When Lu Zhong thought of this, he didn't have the idea of ​​going to explore it in the past. After all, there was a second-level corpse refining there, and his current strength could not be provoked at all.

Putting the place list into the storage bag, he took out a Lingshi bag.

There are one hundred spirit stones in the bag, which is Gao Lian's charging standard, which is neither expensive nor cheap.

……

Coming out of Gao Lian's house, Lu Zhong walked towards the central area without stopping.

Considering the danger of exploring the Soul Cultivation Land, he directly spent nearly a thousand spirit stones for preparations, buying twenty dozen evil spirit talismans, three hundred spirit stones for the blazing sun stone, and five evil spirit talismans.

The evil-breaking talisman is a second-order low-grade spiritual talisman, an upgraded version of the exorcism talisman, and its effect is equivalent to that of the second-order spell Sunrise Spear.

With this talisman, even if he accidentally encounters a second-order evil, Lu Zhong has the power to escape.

Compared with their own safety, it is worth spending more of these spirit stones.

Furthermore, if it really doesn't come in handy, the talisman can be resold and the loss is actually not that big.

After making full preparations, Lu Zhong told Hao Hongfu and his two daughters to continue publishing the script, and then took the spirit mouse out of Yongling City and began to look for a place to nourish the soul.

The first location is the northwest side of Yongling City, which is only a hundred miles away.

Being so close to Yongling City, the result can be imagined.

The second location is the hookah lake at the junction of Yongling City and Luoyunzong.

Similarly, no well-formed soul-cultivating place has been found.

As time passed, Lu Zhong took his breath away during the day, wandering among the mountains and forests, avoiding the monks along the way, as well as the monsters lurking waiting for their prey to come to the door, and searched one by one.

It took a full month to search all over Yongling, but they couldn't find a place to nourish their souls.

In this regard, he was neither discouraged nor surprised.

It is recognized that spiritual places are hard to find.

Otherwise, a forecaster like Gao Lian would have already made a fortune because of the spiritual land. After all, the definition of the spiritual land includes mineral veins, so he would only be a small rich like he is now.

Luoyun and Yanling Mountain were also not found.

Another four months have passed, and there are only three months left before the Helingzong Ranking Tournament is held.

After a lot of hard work, Lu Zhong was not without gains.

Just the elixir collected along the way, and all kinds of monsters killed, the harvest is more than a thousand spirit stones.

Not to mention, the cultivation base has also broken through due to tempering.

Today's Lu Zhong is already a seven-level Qi Refining monk.

At the late stage of Qi refining, the total amount of spiritual power has directly increased by two times, and this is only the beginning of foundation building, and the spiritual power will increase by the same rate in the next two small realms.

At the same time, physical fitness has also improved a lot.

Reflected in the speed, it can reach [-] miles per hour under full sprint.

Although it is only a moment of sprinting, it is enough to be dreadful when used in fighting skills.

……

night.

In the campsite, Lu Zhongsheng set up a bonfire, roasting the freshly hunted monster meat. The fat sizzled and exuded a charming aroma. After sprinkled with seasonings, the aroma was even more mouth-watering.

Next to it, the spirit-seeking mouse, which had grown up again, gritted its teeth and wiped its hands, very excited.

"Here." After roasting the meat, he distributed a bunch of spirit mice as a reward for it.

These days, the spirit-seeking mouse has found quite a few elixir.

While keeping an eye on the situation around the camp, Lu Zhong thought about his next move. Since the ranking battle was about to start, it was impossible for him not to participate in the late stage of Qi refining.

After all, at the seventh level of Qi Refining, the conflict of spiritual power in the body became more and more intense, and taking the Xiahe Lingdan could not suppress it for a long time.

"In another month, if you still can't find a place to raise your soul, you will go back home."

In his heart, he silently set a deadline.

Suddenly the surrounding temperature dropped, Lu Zhong was slightly shocked, thinking that he had encountered something dirty again.

Pinching the road to detect maliciousness, the warning signs are very obvious.

In the past few months, he has encountered a lot of dirty things, most of them are harmless wandering spirits, and only a very small number of ghosts can pose a threat to monks. The most dangerous is the ghost wandering in the forest. .

So much so that when encountering dirty things now, they can immediately judge its strength.

"It should be an ordinary ghost, something that can be solved by an exorcism talisman." Lu Zhong estimated.

In the field of vision of the Qi Wang technique, behind a dead tree in the front left, there is a large cloud of black energy, which vaguely appears in the shape of a human being, greedily watching the stranger by the fire.

He didn't look at it stupidly. Some ghosts have hallucinogenic ability, which can make people fall into hallucinations and cannot extricate themselves. Even monks are trapped for a few breaths, and many things can happen in a few breaths.

Pinch three handprints in succession, and draw an exorcism talisman to fly out.

After a short rest, there was only a muffled "bang", and the exorcism talisman exploded after being activated.

The golden light formed by the manifestation of yang energy penetrated the body of the ghost hiding behind the tree, and then ignited the yin energy on its body, and the whole body immediately became a golden torch.

After a while, there was only a pile of white ash left on the ground.

Lime is a kind of material, called "quiet dust".

A pile like this is worth about five spirit stones.

Along the way, Lu Zhong has collected more than ten piles.

Recalling the encounters along the way, he couldn't help but feel a little strange. It stands to reason that there shouldn't be so many ghosts in the world, and this world is not suitable for their long-term existence. This is the conclusion verified by the Nascent Soul cultivator's research.

But now...

Shaking his head, Lu Zhong didn't continue to think about it.

With his current state, this kind of matter is destined to not get an answer.

……

Early the next morning, Lu Zhong set off early.

After walking through a section of alpine mountain road, we officially entered the Lanyue area.

Not long after I came in, local specialties were delivered to my door.

Wild dog, a depraved wilderness cultivator.

A total of seven people, male and female, were slaughtered by him.

When he stopped, Lu Zhong couldn't help feeling that he was becoming more and more decisive.

If it were the first time I came here, I'm afraid I would have to hesitate for a while, not like now.

"That's right."

After all, if you want to go far in the cultivation world, it is impossible for women to be benevolent. Compassion may be retained, but it is definitely a charity for boring entertainment. Only those who kill decisive people can adapt to the cruel cultivation world.

"Well, it's also cautious." Lu Zhong added in his heart.

Referring to the map, he walked towards a Bijia Peak in front of him. There was a crack in the ground, and there was a possibility of forming a soul cultivation place, so it was necessary to go there and explore.

After a while, he was already standing on the cliff.

Looking down, one can only see dense fog. In the field of view of the qi-gazing technique, the fog is slightly black. Obviously, the concentration of Yin Qi in it is not low, which means that wandering spirits or ghosts are very likely to be encountered below.

He checked the pocket with the exorcism talisman on his body and the evil-breaking talisman in his arms, and after confirming that there was no problem, he performed a light-weight technique, and then he jumped forward and began to fall towards the cliff.

The more it falls, the higher the concentration of the mist.

At the same time, the concentration of Yin Qi is also increasing sharply.

After descending more than three hundred feet, the mist suddenly disappeared, and what Lu Zhong saw was a long and narrow land thousands of feet long and hundreds of feet wide, glowing with phosphorescent light, and there was a pool of water in the central low-lying place.

Falling to the ground lightly, it is sandy soil without fertility.

At this time, it can be seen that what is glowing underneath are some moss clinging to the stones.

Looking around, he saw a lot of skeletons scattered on the ground, and he sensed the aura of a bone demon on these skeletons, presumably they were some low-level ghosts.

Walking slowly towards the water pool he saw just now, Lu Zhong now wants to make sure whether this place is a place for nourishing souls.

The method is very simple, just run the mental cultivation technique.

Pinching the formula and chanting the mantra, Lu Zhong's expression was dull at first, and then ecstatic.

After finally calming down, he let out a long sigh of relief.

"Huh, I finally found it!"

Next, is to scout the situation and clean up potential threats.

The consciousness is related to the soul, and Lu Zhong didn't want to be disturbed by external forces when he performed the soul cultivation technique.

First of all, it is the pool here.

As a place where Yin energy is deposited here, he would never believe that there is nothing in it.

Quietly approaching, with the help of scene backtracking, I successfully knew what was inside.

A zombie, the breath is similar to that of a monk in the late stage of Qi refining.

At the moment, it is sleeping.

This is the usual state of most ghosts.

"Then I'm welcome!"

Lu Zhong released an iron wolf mechanism beast, and then began to fill the wolf's belly with exorcism charms.

Facing the rough-skinned and thick-skinned zombie, he had no intention of fighting it. Since it was still in a dormant state, a sneak attack without martial virtues was the best way.

One dozen...two dozen...five dozen exorcism charms.

In addition, one piece of evil-breaking talisman should also be placed.

Lu Zhong took out the talisman pen and ink again, and drew five quotation marks full of straight lines.

As a talisman maker, he is naturally very clear about how to activate talismans on a large scale. This talisman acts like a bridge, and can detonate dozens of connected talismans at the moment when the evil-breaking talisman is activated.

This is the skill of a talisman maker.

In this way, not only can the power of all the talismans be superimposed, but it can even be used to increase the effect.

If it were an ordinary monk, they would only stack all the talismans together, causing the talismans to be activated at different speeds, which in turn would affect the final explosion, which would result in a loss of power.

As soon as the two rise and fall, the gap comes from this.

After the preparations were completed, the iron wolf puppet dashed out and jumped into the pool with a plop.

After three breaths, a golden beam of light erupted.

(End of this chapter)