From a Zhengyi Taoist Child to a Master of All Laws

Chapter 140: Dark Shadow of Dongting Lake [Long chapter, please subscribe! ]

Seeing these two words, Li Yang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and searched for Xu Xuan's origins: "On Wudang Mountain, there is a famous Kun Daoist in history, Sun Biyun from the early Ming Dynasty, also known as Xu Xuanzi. This body should be hers."

According to calculations, the spiritual energy during the Ming Dynasty was on the verge of drying up. The fact that Sun Biyun could cultivate to the level of half-step cultivation was already an astonishing talent.

Although Sun Biyun is not famous in modern times, she is definitely not a simple person as she was able to leave a few traces in the vast history of China.

"I was very smart when I was young and wanted to learn to be an immortal, so I went to Mount Hua, the western peak, to look for traces of the wok knife and the footsteps of Xi Yi. I lived in rocks and trees, breathed in air to nourish my spirit, and explored the meaning of the Huang-Lao classics, the Book of Changes, and the Confucian and Buddhist books, as well as the historical books of various schools of thought. I have read them all and have been studying them for many years."

Li Yang looked up Sun Biyun's information and discovered that Sun Biyun was a disciple of Chen Xiyi and Zhang Sanfeng. She had been summoned many times by Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang. Apart from those legends about her disappearing into the world, she was already considered a leading figure in the Taoist sect of the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh: "This kind of person still can't escape birth, aging, sickness and death. Is it because the way forward is cut off, or because the strength is not enough to follow the tide?

But this does prove one thing: when the concentration of spiritual energy is depleted, the life span of the monks will also be affected."

When they heard that Li Yang was exploring for spiritual energy and had actually found the Yongle Encyclopedia, a national treasure, the other five teams were stunned.

Especially Qi Qianshu who was in charge of the Kunlun Mountains. The climate was complicated and helicopters could not reach some places. The only way to get there was by car or on foot. In less than a month, Qi Qianshu looked much more haggard.

Qi Ling from other teams, who were following the team, were living in the open air like savages. When they heard Wang Shuhuan following Li Yang and quietly stealing several relics, and then looked at the two magic swords, one silver and one red, that were displayed, their eyes became red.

During this period, any magical weapon or spiritual tool that appeared basically had a name and a surname. Didn’t you see that among the six innate masters now, most of them are poor. People like Chen Xiyan, Gong Qi, Zheng Zhaoyuan, etc., do not have any spiritual weapon and are very miserable.

The Yongle Encyclopedia and Sun Biyun were just a small episode. Several experts went in to search again, but found nothing. Li Yang got the storage ring and put the tokens, altar wood and other things that Wang Shuhuan and the other two had cleaned into the ring.

Li Yang stayed in Wudang Mountain for two days and then continued along the route.

The entire Ezhou exploration lasted less than forty days, which was half a month faster than the expected schedule.

With the preliminary distribution map of the spiritual energy concentration in Ezhou completed, Li Yang and his team entered Xiangzhou (Hunan) on July 13.

To Li Yang's surprise, the level of spiritual energy recovery in Xiangzhou was surprisingly high, and some areas could even be compared to Shuchuan, the center of spiritual energy recovery.

Flying over Xiangzhou, overlooking Orange Island and Danzhushao Mountain, and seeing the statue of the teacher, Li Yang lowered his sword and looked at the men and women and all kinds of tourists around him with a look of reverence.

This land has no shortage of generals, ministers and emperors, such as the Qin Emperor, Han Emperor Wu, Tang Emperor and Song Emperor, but when it comes to talent and elegance, Li Yang always believes that this people's teacher is the best in the 5,000 years of Chinese history.

It is as vast as an epic torrent, and it truly condenses the fortune of China for five thousand years, and has the miraculous achievement of creating the world.

Feeling the surging spiritual energy in this place, Li Yang recorded it carefully, and then turned around and left with the team.

They went straight from Tianmen Mountain into Huaihua, out of Yiyang and then to Yueyang.

Along the way, Li Yang discovered that the water energy in Xiangzhou was much higher than that in other places, especially in Dongting Lake.

When Li Yang, Wang Shuhuan and others arrived at the Dongting Lake area, it was raining heavily and the sky was dark, gloomy and gloomy.

Since the accompanying expert was in weak health, Li Yang decided to go alone to explore the recovery of spiritual energy in the Dongting waters.

Wang Shuhuan insisted on following, and the two of them went all the way to the Dongting Lake area in the heavy rain without an umbrella.

It was raining heavily, and the surface of Dongting Lake was covered with mist. In the twilight, the vast and misty waves were truly magnificent.

Li Yang's expression changed. He walked all the way from Ezhou to Xiangzhou, and in Ezhou he even walked along the Yangtze River, just to see if there were any water-based spiritual creatures.

The real fire captured during sword-refining was a fire-type spiritual object. Although Li Yang only used it to burn the furnace, it was also a powerful weapon against the enemy, and it was very beneficial to the practice of Yangwu's Qi-eating method. It can be said to have endless uses.

Wang Shuhuan saw Li Yang's expression in the rain and asked curiously, "Master Li, have you discovered something new?"

Li Yang looked up at the Dongting Lake area filled with steam under the heavy rain and said, "In Ezhou is a large basin of the Yangtze River where we once traveled. I have been thinking about whether there is any spiritual water or something like that left in the Yangtze River, but unfortunately I found nothing. I didn't expect to see some clues here."

"Master Li, are spiritual water and other things important?"

Li Yang glanced at Wang Shuhuan: "If I remember correctly, your sword pill is of water attribute, right?"

"Let me put it this way. If you can find the right spiritual water to refine your sword pill after you enter the Xiantian realm, your sword pill's power will be at least 30% higher even if it is not refined into a sword.

And if you switch to practicing the "Bixu Yuqi Jue" that comes with the sword pill, it can greatly shorten the time it takes to accumulate energy during your awakening stage."

Wang Shuhuan was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the spiritual water would bring such a great benefit to him.

"Then according to what Master Li said, what are the characteristics of spiritual water? I see that lakes and rivers all flow together, so how can we tell which is spiritual water and which is not?"

Li Yang pondered for a moment, thinking of the real fire he had captured in the crater: "Spiritual water, a rare treasure of heaven and earth, cannot be regarded as ordinary water. You have a sword ball with water attributes, you can release it to try to sense it."

"okay!"

At this time, the turbid waves of Dongting Lake had cleared and there was not a single tourist.

Wang Shuhuan believed in Li Yang almost without thinking, and released the sword ball directly in the rainstorm. Li Yang released the Moon Essence Wheel, flew to the surface of Dongting Lake, and controlled the Moon Essence Wheel to sink into the lake.

Wang Shuhuan followed suit and sank the sword ball into the lake, then carefully sensed in the opposite direction of Li Yang on the shore.

Although Dongting Lake is called a lake, its area is about 3,000 square kilometers. At Li Yang's speed, it would take a lot of time to explore it one by one.

The spiritual energy here is highly revived and the water energy is abundant. When Li Yang walked to a small island, he suddenly felt that the Moon Essence Wheel under the lake was moving unusually.

It doesn't seem like it's sensing the spiritual water, but rather something is hitting the Moon Essence Wheel?
Li Yang stretched out his hand and the Moon Essence Wheel broke out of the lake, bringing out a giant turtle that was half a meter long.

The giant turtle has a golden carapace, a big head and a short tail, a snake head and a dragon neck. Its shell is slightly oval, with a high carapace and a flat plastron. It does not look like an ordinary creature.

The giant tortoise paddled desperately on the lake surface in the direction of the Moon Spirit Wheel with its four paw paddling feet, with a look of surprise in its round eyes.

Li Yang took a quick look and figured out the turtle's identity.

This is called golden turtle, a specialty of Dongting Lake.

The "Baling County Chronicles" of the Qing Dynasty stated: "Junshan produces a turtle with golden patterns on its back. Its back is broken and looks like a clam when broken." It is talking about this kind of turtle.

Li Yang manipulated the Moon Essence Wheel and kept teasing the giant turtle. This golden turtle did not have the smell of ordinary turtles. At the same time, there was a crack on the turtle plate on its abdomen, dividing the turtle plate into two sections in the middle, connected by ligaments at both ends, so it could move freely.

Li Yang watched the golden turtle stretching and shrinking in a funny way, so he knocked on its shell with his lower body. The golden turtle immediately closed its shell in the rain, and its head and feet were all retracted into its shell, leaving only a small gap around it.

After this commotion, Li Yang felt several auras gathering under the water, which turned out to be the same species as the golden turtle.

Li Yang looked at this nest of half-meter-long giant turtles and felt emotional. These guys must have mutated after the revival of spiritual energy. Ordinary golden turtles are only the size of a palm, how could they be as exaggerated as half a meter.

These golden turtles sensed the mystery of the Moon Essence Wheel. The essence of the sun and the moon had a fatal attraction to this foreign object. When Li Yang flew forward on the lake, more than a dozen of them followed behind him.

Li Yang was speechless for a while, and turned to look at the group of turtles following him.
What is this, a glans?
Sensing the spiritual energy on the golden turtle, Li Yang suddenly thought that this golden turtle grew in Dongting Lake and was a water creature, so it was possible that it had come into contact with things like spiritual water.

He turned around on the lake, completely concealing his aura, and put away the Moon Essence Wheel.

The golden turtle could not sense the moon's essence, and it dissipated again in the dusk.

Li Yang spotted the largest golden turtle and followed it all the way, and finally found a fist-sized ball of spiritual water under the riverbed at the confluence of the Lishui River and the Danshui River.

This water could not be dispersed by being cut, and condensed into a transparent sphere the size of a fist in Li Yang's hand. It was of a very high level, even more spiritual than the true fire that Li Yang had found before.

Li Yang was overjoyed. After putting the spiritual water into his storage ring, he happily knocked on the golden turtle's head.

What Li Yang didn't expect was that when the golden turtle saw Li Yang coming, it changed its previous docile nature, and stood in front of Li Yang without even shrinking its head.

Li Yang was surprised. After careful observation, he discovered that in the sand of the riverbed, there was a nest of hundreds of turtle eggs, all of which had some spirituality.

The golden turtle is docile, but it has been alienated after all. Although it cannot be considered a spiritual beast, the hatching of hundreds of turtle eggs at the same time will definitely cause a considerable impact on Dongting Lake.

And judging from the dozen or so giant spirit turtles that just gathered, there must be quite a few that lay eggs like this golden turtle.

After thinking it over, Li Yang decided to inform the authorities first and see how they would handle it.

Li Yang flew back on his sword and found that he had actually walked a long distance with the golden turtle, more than 30 kilometers.

"How can this turtle wander so far? How can it travel so far just to lay eggs?"

Li Yang was puzzled and returned to the shore of Dongting Lake from Yueyang.

The heavy rain was still falling, but there was no sign of Wang Shuhuan. Li Yang followed the direction of Wang Shuhuan and searched for him.

After walking for a few kilometers, Li Yang saw Wang Shuhuan from afar with a pale face and most of his body submerged in the lake water. His face was brimming with veins as he pinched his fingers, as if he was struggling with something in the lake.

He saw Li Yang and shouted in surprise and anxiety:

"Master Li, hurry up, there's a big guy under the water trying to snatch my sword ball! I can't hold on any longer!"

Li Yang looked in the direction of Wang Shuhuan's finger.

The sky was dim and dark, and one could vaguely see dark shadows more than ten meters long swimming and entwining under the lake. Every movement created endless waves that roared towards the shore.

The rainstorm became more severe, the wind was windy and there seemed to be a fishy smell in the air.

Wang Shuhuan looked painful, and suddenly fell backwards, unable to hold on any longer...

(End of this chapter)