Mortal's Purple Sky Cave Heaven

Chapter 99: Finally Appearing on Biling Island

As the light of escape faded, Nie Zhaonan landed on the giant island. He waved one hand towards the open space in front of him, and a spiritual beast about two or three meters in size, covered with pitch-black scales and with an aura of the fourth level, appeared in front of Nie Zhaonan. It was the Earth Armored Dragon.

"Go and find out if there are any high-level spiritual veins hidden in this island." Nie Zhaonan looked at the earth dragon with a naive and honest face, and gave the order through mental communication.

The big round black eyes of the earth dragon turned around, as if it understood the master's order. It immediately used its hard and sharp claws on its limbs to dig with its hands and feet on an open space not far away. In a blink of an eye, only a big hole was left there, and the huge body of the earth dragon disappeared.

Nie Zhaonan nodded upon seeing this. Although this earth armored dragon was of no use on weekdays and only liked to stay in the comfortable spirit beast pen and fall asleep after taking spiritual medicine and spirit feeding pills, it still had some uses.

Not to mention the previous times of searching for spiritual veins, even in the past few years of hunting monsters in the alien sea, relying on his innate magical power to be sensitive to the spiritual objects of heaven and earth, Nie Zhaonan had harvested several precious spiritual herbs and some top-grade water-attributed spiritual materials that could be used to refine magic weapons.

Nie Zhaonan, who was waiting quietly at the spot, suddenly showed a look of great joy. The earth armored dragon deep underground communicated with Nie Zhaonan and conveyed an exciting news to him: the spiritual energy underground is very rich.

Nie Zhaonan took a few steps to the cave dug by the earth dragon. Just as he was about to go deeper into it, a strong spiritual energy rushed towards him. Under the oppression of the extremely strong spiritual pressure, the spiritual energy quickly surged outwards, like a torrent breaking through a dam.

Seeing this, Nie Zhaonan laughed for the first time and said, "Hahaha, I wasn't sure before, but this scene in front of me confirms that the island under my feet is undoubtedly Biling Island." The excitement in his tone was not concealed at all.

Nie Zhaonan calmed down his turbulent mood, flicked the storage bag at his waist with one hand, and a set of flags and plates of the inverted five elements formation appeared in front of him.

With the spiritual light on Nie Zhaonan's fingertips, he tapped the magic formula of the formation equipment in front of him a few times, and the formation flags and formation plates automatically flew to the four sides of the cave and were arranged in a certain order. Then a dozen intermediate spirit stones flew out and were embedded on them. He urged the magic formula at the formation plate, and a huge light curtain immediately concealed the place.

However, there are still wisps of spiritual energy overflowing from the formation, which is unavoidable. Although the Inverted Five Elements Formation is known as the "Small Forbidden Formation", it can conceal the mountain gate and confuse the enemy.

But after all, it is not a special formation for confining spiritual energy. It cannot be like the "Spirit Confining Formation" that can completely confine the spiritual energy without leaking out at all.

However, the leakage of spiritual energy can be solved by restoring it to its original state.

As soon as he walked into the cave entrance, Nie Zhaonan stopped and turned to look at the silver-gray soil around him that had been dug out by the earth dragon.

He put two fingers together in front of him, and saw the spiritual light surging from the two fingers, emitting a dazzling white light. He waved at several piles of soil on the ground, and the spiritual light fell into them. As soon as it came into contact with the soil, it seemed to come alive. Tiny grains of soil rose into the air in groups, flew towards the cave entrance, and piled up on top of the cave entrance, gradually sealing the cave entrance completely without leaving any gap. In a blink of an eye, the cave entrance had been repaired by Nie Zhaonan.

For Nie Zhaonan, who had already formed a golden elixir, casting such a small spell was a piece of cake and there was no difficulty at all.

Even though Nie Zhaonan was in darkness, it did not affect his vision at all, and he could see the newly built earth wall in front of him clearly.

Wisps of light green spiritual energy have been completely blocked inside the cave, with no possibility of leakage. Nie Zhaonan looked at the scene in front of him and nodded, saying, "This way, we don't have to worry about spiritual energy leaking out and attracting the attention of monsters and cultivators, and thus discovering clues about this place."

As soon as he finished speaking, Nie Zhaonan turned around and slowly walked along the tunnel towards the deeper part of the cave.

After a while, after passing through a tunnel that was over a hundred feet deep and two or three feet wide, and turning a ninety-degree corner, an astonishing scene appeared in front of Nie Zhaonan.

In a stalactite cave that is dozens of feet in size, the most eye-catching thing is not the densely packed snow-white stalactites hanging from the ceiling of the cave, which are thick on top and sharp at the bottom, reflecting green light, but the huge spirit stone mine that occupies half of the cave. This pile of spirit stone mine flashes with extremely dazzling green light, illuminating the entire cave brightly, which is very eye-catching.

This pile of spirit stone ore is in the shape of thick strips, which is obviously a tiny part extending from the spirit stone vein of Biling Island, not even the tip of the iceberg.

Even so, there are tens of thousands of spirit stones embedded on the surface of this pile of spirit stone ore alone. At a glance, there are quite a few mid-level spirit stones, and one or two high-level spirit stones can also be seen!

High-level spirit stones are controlled by Nascent Soul cultivators and sects throughout the human world and are regarded as extremely scarce resources. They are used for the arrangement of some special magic arrays or for Nascent Soul cultivators to absorb the spiritual energy in them at critical moments to quickly replenish their mana. They are never used for daily transactions.

I really can’t imagine how many spirit stones I can get if all the spirit stone mines on Biling Island are dug out!
Moreover, there were more than one top-grade spirit stones, and there were countless high-grade spirit stones. Thinking of this, Nie Zhaonan couldn't help but lose his mind.
After being shocked for a while, Nie Zhaonan, whose face gradually regained its composure from ecstasy, stretched out his hand without hesitation and waved it. Suddenly, tens of thousands of silver beetles appeared in the cave.

During the period of hunting monsters in the alien sea, with the continuous cultivation of gold-eating bugs in the spirit beast pen in Zixiao Cave, the colorful grass increased their desire to reproduce and lay eggs, and the gold-eating bugs also devoured the flesh and blood of countless high-level monsters.

In just six years, the gold-eating beetles became furious again, devouring each other and laying eggs.

With this update, the number of gold-eating bugs has skyrocketed, and Nie Zhaonan now owns tens of thousands of gold-eating bugs.

Moreover, the aura of this new generation of gold-eating insects is obviously stronger, their bodies have also expanded, and the silver light around them has become deeper and more evil!

As soon as he closed his five fingers, a gold-eating insect with a huge mouthpart under its head, a pair of forelimbs as sharp as knives, and flashing cold light was caught in Nie Zhaonan's hands.

Nie Zhaonan pinched the round and hard shell on its back, using 30% of his strength, but the silver shell remained motionless and the gold-eating beetle seemed unaware.

He gradually increased the strength in his hands, until Nie Zhaonan had used 50% of his strength, leaving two inconspicuous circular dents on the shell.

You should know that Nie Zhaonan, who has cultivated the fourth level of Ming Wang Jue, can easily destroy a top-level magical weapon with his bare hands. Judging from the performance of the gold-eating insect in his hand, the hardness of its shell defense is not inferior to that of top-level magical weapons, and even slightly exceeds it.

Nie Zhaonan immediately threw the gold-eating bug in his hand away. The gold-eating bug used by Nie Zhaonan for the experiment did not seem to have suffered any harm. Like other flying gold-eating bugs, it flew around in the air, devouring the spiritual energy of the place.

"It seems that, for now, these gold-eating bugs are difficult to be harmed by magic weapons. Even ordinary foundation-building cultivators would find it difficult to resist just one gold-eating bug. Finally, it has some effect."

After expressing his feelings, Nie Zhaonan gave the order to the gold-eating bugs to dig for spirit stones without hesitation. After receiving Nie Zhaonan's instructions in their minds, tens of thousands of silver gold-eating bugs rushed straight towards the spirit stone mine.

The "buzzing" sound of tens of thousands of gold-eating insects flapping their wings vigorously and the "crackling" sound of digging at the hard spirit stone ore with their mouthparts and sharp forelimbs continuously echoed in the cave.

Normally, the extremely weak intelligence unique to gold-eating insects would make it impossible to execute such detailed commands, and it would have to rely on Nie Zhaonan's real-time control with his divine sense.

However, the gold-eating bug had been cultivated in the spirit beast pen for a long time, and its intelligence had been greatly enhanced. Nie Zhaonan commanded it to do something similar to mining, and there would be no problem at all. Looking at the flying spiritual stone ore chips in front of him, the spiritual stones were violently taken away piece by piece.

Suddenly, Nie Zhaonan seemed to have thought of something, and through the connection with the gold-eating bug's divine consciousness, he issued an order: "Do not destroy the spiritual veins on the island."

As for the reason for issuing such an order, that’s a long story.

Generally speaking, spirit stone mines are derivatives and companions of spirit veins.

Where there are spiritual veins, there will often be some spiritual stone mines of varying quality.

And where there are spiritual mines, there is a high probability that there are spiritual veins.

Now the Biling Island under Nie Zhaonan's feet, according to Nie Zhaonan's memory, this place is very likely to have a top-grade spiritual vein.

Even though Nie Zhaonan now possesses a top-grade spiritual vein, it is of little use. He has not established any family or sect and needs to support a large number of people.

However, Nie Zhaonan has the Zixiao Cave Heaven! There is still no spiritual energy in the Zixiao Cave Heaven. If the spiritual veins of the Biling Island are transplanted into the cave heaven, it will surely improve the situation in the Zixiao Cave Heaven.

Of course, Nie Zhaonan does not have the ability to imprison such a huge spiritual vein now, but this does not affect Nie Zhaonan's desire to preserve it intact here.

We should always leave some hope for the future, right?
After giving the order, Nie Zhaonan did not stop and touched the storage bag on his waist. Rays of light shot out from the storage bag in response to Nie Zhaonan's movements, and hundreds of second-level puppets appeared in the stalactite cave.

Nie Zhaonan immediately split into hundreds of souls, entered the puppets, controlled them with his whole mind, and joined the ranks of the mining army.

He waved to the lazy Ankylosaurus beside him, and the Ankylosaurus immediately ran over happily. As its thick and strong limbs touched the ground, it made a loud "bang bang bang" sound, deliberately showing off its contribution.

When it got close to Nie Zhaonan, it looked even more naive and stared at its master with its big eyes.

It seemed to be saying, "Master, please send me home quickly."

The Earth Armor Dragon is now quite intelligent and naturally knows that the master had released it all these days in order to look for spirit stone veins. Now that it has found them, its mission is over and it can stay at home for a long time in the future.

Nie Zhaonan smiled slightly, as if he saw through Tujialong's little thoughts, and he didn't hesitate.

He waved his hand at it, and at the same time communicated with the Zixiao Cave Heaven in his mind, and the huge figure two or three meters in front of him disappeared.

Nie Zhaonan's movements had not yet stopped. Facing the stone wall on the other side of the cave, he waved his sleeves.

A clear sound of swords rang out, and more than a dozen small Gengjin divine thunder swords emerged from the dark black sleeves and slashed straight at the stone wall in front of them.

With a burst of flying and shooting stones, a simple cave was opened up.

Nie Zhaonan carefully controlled the flying sword and practiced in the cave before entering the alchemy room.

During the time when the gold-eating bugs and puppets are mining, Nie Zhaonan does not plan to sit idle and plans to refine a batch of pills first.

Because Nie Zhaonan had previously used spiritual medicine as the main ingredient to refine pills, and had never come across the method of refining pills using demon pills as the main ingredient and spiritual medicine as the auxiliary ingredient.

Moreover, every sixth and seventh level demon pill is extremely important to him now and cannot be wasted.

Therefore, Nie Zhaonan decided to first use the fifth-level demon pill to refine some foundation-building pills, practice and accumulate experience in refining pills with the inner pills of demon beasts, and then start refining the sixth and seventh-level demon pills.

Regardless of whether the main material is demon pill or spiritual medicine, it all involves the art of alchemy. Although there are some differences, there are still some commonalities.

Relying on his previous experience in refining pills, Nie Zhaonan quickly got the hang of it despite being his first time using demon pills. Within half a month, he had become very proficient and had refined more than a hundred bottles of pills for use in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Only then did he begin to refine the sixth and seventh level demon pills into elixirs to increase his magic power. With the previous experience accumulated, refining the sixth and seventh level demon pills went smoothly without any major accidents.

It took Nie Zhaonan a whole year to refine the more than 400 level 6 and 7 demon pills in his hands into pills.

The ability to complete the refining of so many pills so quickly is related to Nie Zhaonan's practice of the Taiyi Divine Thunder Art, which makes his own magic power extremely powerful and pure, able to support the huge mana consumption required for long-term pill refining; the Dragon Roar Body also contributes to the increase in the power of his pill fire, which greatly reduces the time required to refine the demon pill!

Nie Zhaonan's alchemy skills were not bad to begin with, and he was quite talented. Now, he had refined so many Jindan stage elixirs. Nie Zhaonan's alchemy skills could be called a "master", or even higher than a "master". After all, other cultivators did not have as many alchemy materials as Nie Zhaonan to practice.

Standing up, Nie Zhaonan left the alchemy room and came to the stalactite cave outside. The situation in the cave had changed drastically.

The entire grotto has become much more spacious. On the side of the cave that Nie Zhaonan had opened up, there are three piles of emerald green spirit stones of different sizes and grades that have been sorted and stacked.

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