At the beginning, I cleaned the Sutra Library and completed the incomplete skills.

From the moment Zhao Shixiong and the other appeared.

They were already noticed by Li Lan's spirit bean soldiers.

He did not disturb them,

but controlled the spirit bean soldiers, silently following behind them.

Li Lan didn't necessarily see them as lab rats.

Having personally witnessed the two of them going deeper and deeper into the Immortal Traces Valley's central area,

and then dying so easily in the hands of the Foundation Establishment stage vines.

He couldn't help but frown slightly.

The fact was just as Li Lan had previously guessed.

Any life that stepped into this place would be attacked by the purple vines.

In the past two months,

he had already seen several such incidents.

These purple vines not only had a high cultivation realm, but were also extremely skilled in the way of hunting.

No matter how good the target was at concealment, they would eventually find it difficult to escape its ruthless hunt.

Whenever he saw this scene.

Li Lan was particularly grateful,

that he hadn't relied on possessing the 《Golden Cicada Molting》 and 《Earth Movement》 two escape techniques, and rashly stepped into this central area.

Otherwise, he would most likely have become a corpse covered in vines at this time.

What gave Li Lan a headache was not only the hunting methods of these purple vines.

In the past two months.

He had also used the spirit bean soldiers to thoroughly investigate the surrounding situation.

The range of distribution of these purple vines seemed to be very wide,

and the closer to the central area, the greater the number.

Li Lan had not yet found a place where the spiritual energy was abundant enough for him to break through safely.

Li Lan pinched his brow.

As usual, he controlled the spirit bean soldiers, and unceremoniously looted everything from Zhao Shixiong and the other's bodies.

Although the biggest goal was not achieved,

he had picked up a lot of similar loopholes.

The palm-sized spirit bean soldier carried a short pickaxe, several times larger than its own size, on its shoulder.

Li Lan sensed this scene, and recalled what Zhao Shixiong had said.

This thing was called a Spirit Dividing Pickaxe, and it was specially used by them to mine spirit stones.

Spirit stones?!

Thinking of this, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind.

Li Lan suddenly remembered,

that the shopkeeper of the shop selling cave dwellings in Jiuhua County City had said.

A cave dwelling covered with spirit stones,

is in no way inferior to a spiritual vein in terms of spiritual energy concentration and cultivation speed.

Since his main body can't enter the depths of the Immortal Traces Valley,

why not mine some spirit stones and cover the cave dwelling on the periphery for cultivation?

The more Li Lan thought about it, the more feasible it seemed.

The entire Immortal Traces Valley covers a considerable area.

For the past two months,

the spirit bean soldier that Li Lan sent to the depths to investigate,

had never been able to find where the spiritual veins were to mine spirit stones.

However, this did not stump Li Lan.

He immediately ordered the spirit bean soldier holding the Treasure Seeking Jade Mirror to stop continuing to pick spiritual plants.

Instead, it headed towards the central area of the Immortal Traces Valley.

This jade mirror only needs to be injected with a small amount of spiritual energy,

to automatically detect the place with the most abundant spiritual energy within a radius of one mile.

With this treasure, it would be much easier to find the spirit stone mine.

......

Two figures shuttled through the depths of the dense forest.

The surrounding trees were tall and dense, like countless silent giants,

completely blocking the sunlight.

The ground underfoot was covered with thick fallen leaves, and every step made a slight 'rustling' sound.

Beneath these fallen leaves,

there were also many intertwined purple-black vines lurking.

If a living thing rashly invaded their territory, it would inevitably be ruthlessly strangled.

But these two figures did not have the slightest sign of life.

Looking closely, it is not difficult to find.

These were two wooden puppets.

One of them held an ancient jade mirror in its hand.

On the smooth mirror surface, a ball of spiritual energy condensed into a dot flickered.

Like a guiding light, it pointed the way for the two puppets to move forward.

It had been four days since Li Lan began consciously searching for the spirit stone mine.

Just today, hard work pays off.

The Treasure Seeking Jade Mirror finally transmitted an unusually strong reaction.

This is enough to show,

that within a mile in front, there must be something with extremely rich spiritual energy.

Li Lan did not hesitate, and immediately controlled the two spirit bean soldiers to rush over.

After walking dozens of steps.

Pushing aside the winding and circling layers of vines overhead.

Suddenly.

An open space appeared in front of him.

Even if it was the first time coming here.

Li Lan still recognized it at a glance.

This must be the former sect site of the Guangji Temple.

The once magnificent mountain gate, now only two crumbling stone pillars remain.

The carvings on it had long been blurred by the erosion of time,

and only some winding lines could be vaguely seen.

Li Lan, who had some research on formations, quickly distinguished it.

The carvings on these stone pillars seemed to be the sect-protecting formation,

but now this formation had already been completely destroyed and could no longer be used.

Continuing to walk deeper,

there were many pools of water of different sizes on the ground.

In each pool, there was a huge purple-black vine coiled.

The surface of the pool was filled with a faint aura of spiritual energy,

slowly rising and blending with the surrounding air, and dissipating in all directions.

This may be the source of the heaven and earth spiritual energy, like a thin mist, that was seen in the forest when coming here.

This place was already not far from the very center of the spiritual vein.

In addition to the heaven and earth spiritual energy becoming more and more concentrated, like substance,

the rocks that could be seen everywhere here also seemed to be full of peculiarities.

Some of the rocks were translucent, and there seemed to be wisps of flames burning inside.

The firelight shone through the texture of the rocks, reflecting gorgeous light and shadow.

This kind of strange scene can only be seen in the hinterland of the spiritual vein.

In the world of cultivation.

Anything that is nourished by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for a long time will produce different changes.

Mortals who absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth can become cultivators.

Flowers, plants, and trees that absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth will become spiritual plants.

And so are these rocks.

Rocks that have absorbed enough spiritual energy from heaven and earth are called spirit stones.

Those that have not been around long enough are this kind of translucent spiritual rock.

Although the heaven and earth spiritual energy contained in this object is not as rich as that of spirit stones,

it can also be used as an auxiliary spiritual material for refining special puppets, refining magic weapons, etc.

Although the spiritual energy fluctuations emitted from these rocks were quite impressive.

But judging from the constantly jumping dots on the mirror surface,

what the Treasure Seeking Jade Mirror sensed was obviously not these spiritual rocks.

Li Lan did not stop.

Continuing to control the spirit bean soldiers to go deeper.

This place was the same as the periphery, and there were also many simple cave dwellings standing.

It seems,

that this was the location of the most expensive, Class A cultivation cave dwellings.

Because of the long time,

many of these simple cave dwellings had collapsed.

The walls of the broken walls and ruins were covered with moss and cracks.

Looking from a distance, it was as if the walls were covered with a mottled green coat.

Following the guidance of the Treasure Seeking Jade Mirror, continuing to walk deeper.

The purple-black vines were becoming more and more numerous,

like a dense seaweed forest, covering the open space.

It had almost reached the point where it was impossible to set foot.

In the center of the ruins, there was a main hall in ruins.

The roof of the main hall had long ceased to exist, and a towering behemoth stood abruptly in it.

It seemed that it was the culprit that topped the main hall.

After seeing clearly what this thing was, Li Lan's pupils couldn't help but shrink suddenly.