Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

The spiritual veins here in the Crimson Nether Mountains have actually reached the threshold of the fourth rank, but they have not advanced to the fourth rank in order to nurture this fourth-rank true fire.

The Earth Flame True Fire is a perfect match for the attributes of his natal magic weapon, the Fire Element Spirit Shield.

His only path to Nascent Soul formation was to integrate the Earth Flame True Fire into the Fire Elemental Shield.

Then, at the instant the Fire Elemental Shield advanced to a fourth-tier magic weapon, he used the spiritual energy of heaven and earth during the advancement to forcefully break through to the Nascent Soul stage using a secret technique.

Although this method of achieving nascent soul formation is the worst possible outcome, he had no other options.

Moreover, even if he obtains this fourth-order Earth Flame True Fire, his success rate in forming his Nascent Soul is only 20%.

He has no regrets about forming his nascent soul; if he fails, he will surely die.

The Yan family patriarch decided to wait until the sect had taken down the Tribulation Cultivation Alliance, then take advantage of the time difference to secretly and forcibly fuse with the Earth Flame True Fire.

If one successfully advances to the Nascent Soul stage, then the matter of secretly using the Earth Flame True Fire will be insignificant.

If he fails, the Fire Elemental Shield will advance into a fourth-tier magic weapon during the fusion of true fire. Even if he dies, a fourth-tier magic weapon offered to the sect can barely save the Yan family.

The key is to be able to defeat the opponent.

That person from the Tribulation Cultivation Alliance is very well hidden. Although he is only at the late stage of Core Formation, his Dharma Domain is extremely strange.

The Yan family patriarch had fought him many times, and he had always been suppressed.

He touched a scar on his chest, a mark left on him by the leader of the Tribulation Cult ten years ago.

"For a hundred years," he has never been able to beat his opponent.

But now that the sect has made a move, he is doomed.

The Yan family patriarch retracted the Fire Elemental Shield into his body and closed his eyes again.

Let the young people do it.

Let them face off against each other, let heroes clash.

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The Azure Lotus Dharma Body has already penetrated deep into the territory of the Tribulation Cultivation Alliance.

The core area of ​​the Robber Alliance was several times larger than the expeditionary force camp.

The twelve mountain peaks are arranged in a ring, and their bodies are dark red.

Between the mountain peaks, the spiritual light of the array flowed endlessly, enveloping the entire core area in a layer of pale red light.

The Tribulation Cultivator Alliance, centered around the Twelve Peaks, commands 200,000 cultivators and is the largest Tribulation Cultivator force within tens of thousands of miles. Some even travel from thousands of miles away to join it.

Many of the expeditionary force's affiliated cultivators also secretly colluded with the Calamity Cultivator. Apart from the sect cultivators who would not leave the expeditionary force, the other affiliated forces were, frankly speaking, only pursuing their own interests.

The expeditionary force fought for twenty years but failed to defeat the enemy, so naturally some of them colluded with the enemy.

Lin Zhao stood under an inconspicuous pile of stones on the outer perimeter, and opened his Eye of Truth.

The depths of his pupils were silver, with a very faint five-colored halo around the edges. Within a hundred miles, the five elements of spiritual energy of all things flowed through his eyes, transforming into a transparent spiritual net.

The array nodes of the twelve peaks, the direction of the spiritual veins, and the location of the spiritual energy fluctuations of the Core Formation cultivators are all clearly visible.

He did a quick calculation.

After killing the two Core Formation cultivators on the other side, there were still fifty-three Core Formation cultivators left, more than he had expected.

However, individually, these cultivators were slightly weaker than the expeditionary force cultivators of the same level—but none of them who could cultivate to the Core Formation stage were truly useless.

Only Core Formation cultivators from established sects can suppress their opponents.

Having ascertained the approximate location and strength distribution, the Azure Lotus clone did not continue to approach.

He withdrew immediately and turned his attention to the entire Crimson Nether Mountain Range.

From the first day he entered this Crimson Nether Mountain Range, he felt that something was wrong.

Hundreds of mountain peaks, large and small, are scattered across a vast area. At first glance, they seem to have no pattern, but he always felt that something was amiss.

Lin Zhao is someone who has comprehended the rules and has an almost instinctive sensitivity to the flow of spiritual energy.

He visited hundreds of mountains one by one, recording the spiritual veins, rocks, vegetation, and location of each mountain with his divine sense and transmitting the information back to his main body in the sect.

The spiritual veins of the Crimson Nether Mountain Range are distributed in a very chaotic manner, and the direction of spiritual energy is constantly changing. Today, there was a second-tier spiritual vein at the foot of this mountain, but its spiritual energy suddenly dissipated a few hours later, leaving not even a single spirit stone behind.

Lin Zhao witnessed firsthand the process of a second-tier spiritual vein drying up beneath his feet, going from abundant spiritual energy to complete depletion in less than half a day.

Inside the sect's cave dwelling, Lin Zhao sat cross-legged on a jade platform.

The Heavenly Heart Dharma Wheel slowly rotated in the sea of ​​consciousness, and the data of the earth vein spiritual energy from thousands of miles away was disassembled, compared, and recombined.

The Falun circulated for several hours, eventually deducing a complete spiritual energy map of the Crimson Nether Mountain Range.

He transmitted the results back to the Blue Lotus Dharma Body.

The Azure Lotus Dharma Body stood on a barren slope, examining the spiritual energy diagram in its sea of ​​consciousness. After a moment of silence, it slowly uttered two words.

"Dojo"

Like Zhaoyang Peak, the Crimson Nether Mountain Range has become a sacred place for Taoist practice.

However, the Daoist temple on Zhaoyang Peak was set up by Lin Zhao. As long as the previous Lingfeng Formation is used, the range is small, stable and controllable.

The Crimson Nether Mountain Range is a natural training ground, buried deep underground, covering an area of ​​thousands of miles, forming a massive spiritual energy cycle underground.

The dojo lies between the realm and the Dharma realm, and is more inclined towards auxiliary abilities.

It doesn't have its own set of rules like the Dharma Realm, nor can it change at will like a domain.

Similar to the special environment formed by the change of environment in the Nascent Soul Dharma Form Space, or by the coincidence of the natural operation of heaven and earth, it is fixed under the natural operation of heaven and earth and becomes a unique landform.

Moreover, it was buried deep underground, extremely hidden, and even he couldn't figure it out for a while.

Such natural Taoist temples can barely maintain stability when spiritual veins are involved, and their core power comes from the natural world or some powerful spiritual entity.

The Daoist temple can nurture treasures—no wonder that third-tier spiritual creatures have been continuously emerging in the Crimson Nether Mountains in recent years.

Moreover, the dojo has an even more crucial characteristic: if a cultivator's cultivation technique is perfectly compatible with the dojo, the dojo can provide him with additional spiritual power to assist him in cultivation and breaking through bottlenecks.

No wonder the Yan family is willing to pay any price to take this place.

With the Crimson Nether Dojo combined with a fourth-tier spiritual artifact and an upcoming fourth-tier spiritual vein, it is indeed possible for a peak Core Formation cultivator to break through to the Nascent Soul realm.

Although Lin Zhao was still unsure of the specifics of that fourth-tier opportunity,

But he had already roughly deduced that the things nurtured by the temple were either of the earth or fire attributes, and the five elements bias of the entire temple was very clear.

He can also use the derived spiritual energy map to find the true core of the dojo, which is the location of the fourth-order spiritual creature.

Following the flow of spiritual energy, Lin Zhao traveled from the twelve main peaks of the Tribulation Cultivation Alliance all the way back, and stopped in a cluster of inconspicuous low peaks not far away.

This low peak is only a little over two hundred feet high, has no spiritual veins at all, and is as ordinary as can be.

He used his escape technique to descend from the shady side of the low peak.

After descending a hundred feet, the view suddenly opens up to reveal a naturally formed cave. Further down, the cave begins to branch out, becoming as numerous as a maze.

After descending several thousand feet, Lin Zhao finally arrived at the location of the spiritual object. Underground was a cave about ten miles in size, with layers of top-grade third-tier formations inside.