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Chapter 229 Condensing the Soul...Intelligence?

Sword Blade Peak, Sword Washing Lake.

The mountain peak is like a sword blade rising into the sky, reflected in the lake, just like a sharp sword placed in the water, the waves surge, as if rippling between the sword blades, washing away the filth of the sword blade.

Its name and meaning are both in line with reality.

Chu Mu has arrived at the lakeside, looking at this scene, and then looking around, his eyes moved slightly.

According to Zhao Shuang, the ancient cultivator's cave is hidden at the bottom of the lake, the formation ban still exists, the terrain is hidden, and entering the cave seems to be a test related to alchemy.

But... the secret realm has been plundered for seven years, and the information given by Zhao Shuang is still a few years ago.

Will there be other changes in such a long time?

Chu Mu pondered slightly, and when his eyes moved, occasionally a few rays of light flashed in the sky, which were also clearly visible.

If possible, he really didn't want to conflict with other cultivators. After all, cultivators from major forces basically lived in groups of two or three and relied on each other.

He was a casual cultivator, and also an evil cultivator with a huge bounty on his back. In this environment, if he was not careful, his situation would be extremely difficult.

After observing the environment for a while, Chu Mu looked at the Sword Washing Lake in front of him.

The waters were vast and it was difficult to see the end at a glance.

Although the waves were rippling, they were just moving with the wind. Overall, it seemed extremely calm.

If it was in the outside East Lake, it would be obvious that there would be basically no danger in the water.

After all, the spiritual veins were all occupied, there were countless cultivators, and there was no living space for monsters in the water.

Even if a mortal fell into the water, as long as he was good at water, he would not have to worry too much.

But this law was obviously not applicable in this secret realm.

The extremely rich spiritual energy and the long-term uninhabited and isolated environment undoubtedly became a paradise for monsters to grow wildly.

There are countless monsters in the forest. In the past few days, the number of monsters he encountered and saw is already too numerous to count.

And in this lake, according to the information left by Zhao Shuang, there are also many monsters.

Moreover, encountering monsters on land and encountering monsters in water are obviously two completely different concepts.

He checked his own magic tools, talismans and many other means, and observed the surroundings. Then he grabbed Wangcai, flew into the air with his sword, and flew over the lake.

Finally, after determining an approximate location based on the information given by Zhao Shuang, the flying sword light suddenly stopped.

He led Wangcai to land lightly on the water surface, and finally slowly sank into the lake.

The lake was much deeper than he imagined. He descended hundreds of meters in the water before he could barely touch the bottom of the lake.

And moving forward at the bottom of the lake seemed to be a gentle slope that continued to descend. As he continued to move forward, the water became deeper and deeper, and the vision became darker and darker.

After walking only a hundred meters, he looked up again. With his transformed body function, he could hardly see much light.

Looking around the surrounding waters, the naked eye could only see a few dozen meters away.

When the spiritual sense was released, it was limited by the obstruction of the lake water. Compared with the land, the coverage distance of the spiritual sense was also reduced by more than half.

"The spiritual energy seems to be much richer."

Sensing the spiritual energy at the bottom of the lake, Chu Mu's vigilance became more and more intense.

The spiritual energy in the secret realm is already extremely rich, and at the bottom of the lake, the spiritual energy is even richer. This undoubtedly shows that there is a spiritual vein at the bottom of the lake!

This secret realm is not the outside world of the Great Chu Xiuxian Realm.

In the outside world, the spiritual veins are occupied by major forces. In this secret realm, the place where the spiritual veins are located will only be occupied by powerful monsters.

"Second level?"

Chu Mu's heart was a little nervous. Judging from his experience in the secret realm, first-level monsters are everywhere, and only second-level monsters seem to deserve the word powerful.

When Chu Mu thought of the second-level monster, he could not help but think of the terrifying two-headed giant snake in the valley...

His Qi training skills were almost all above the fire attribute, and in this water, he was severely restricted.

The body training skills were also greatly restricted under the water pressure.

If a second-level water-attributed monster appeared...

Chu Mu stopped and looked at Wangcai who was following him. He raised his hand and touched him, signaling Wangcai to be alert.

After walking about a kilometer, Chu Mu looked up again. There was no light at all, and the surroundings were even darker, while the spiritual energy at the bottom of the lake became more and more dense.

Chu Mu was observing the surrounding environment. Suddenly, there were waves behind him, and an inexplicable feeling of palpitations suddenly emerged.

Boom!

Before Chu Mu made any move, Wangcai suddenly jumped up behind him, the water was surging, and his sharp claws directly pierced through a water snake as thick as an arm that suddenly attacked him. With a bite of his fangs, he directly bit the water snake in two.

A thick bloody smell emerged, and the water immediately turned red.

Chu Mu frowned, thinking that it was not good.

The world of monsters is the law of the jungle.

Wangcai is just a mundane dog. How long has he been following him after he became extraordinary?

But now he has reached the level of Qi training in the late stage of immortal cultivators, and is even approaching perfection.

Why is he growing so fast?

Because he fights again and again, and eats the flesh of immortal cultivators as food. After entering the secret realm, he eats the monsters as food!

This is just like him. Although his spiritual root qualifications are poor, he has sufficient external resources.

And the resources of monsters, apart from some natural treasures, are the law of the jungle.

The smell of blood appears, then what comes next...

Chu Mu looked around, patted Wangcai who was still devouring the remains of the water snake monster, and then walked quickly to the bottom of the lake, and his speed seemed to have increased a lot.

But it seemed a little late.

In this water area, the monsters were more sensitive to blood than Chu Mu expected.

But in just a few moments, several water monsters appeared and attacked one after another.

The scarlet spread in the water with the water flow, and the gloom between Chu Mu's eyebrows became more and more intense.

Boom!

There was another roar, and a fish monster that looked like a shark in the previous life appeared. Before it got close, several water arrows that merged with the lake water attacked.

Chu Mu did not dare to slack off. He swung his giant arm, and the terrifying power directly smashed the head of the giant whale. Then the Minghong knife appeared, and with one knife, it directly beheaded it.

The blood was rolling, and the whole water area seemed to have turned into a weird scarlet.

Feeling the increasingly clear violent auras in the surrounding waters, Chu Mu could no longer care about too much. He kicked out and kicked the giant whale's corpse in the opposite direction.

"Go!"

Without holding back, he dragged Wangcai and ran wildly under the water. After running for only a dozen steps, Chu Mu stopped suddenly and looked at the dozens of monsters that suddenly appeared in front of him. He was speechless.

The only thing to be thankful for was that these monsters were not very powerful. They were all first-level monsters.

The bloody battle reappeared, but this time, although it was crushing, it only lasted for a few dozen breaths. Chu Mu could only lead Wangcai to flee in embarrassment!

Behind him, there were densely packed monsters of all kinds of strange shapes. Some killed each other, some fought for the corpse, and some regarded Chu Mu as prey...

This seemed to be a vicious cycle. The stronger the smell of blood, the more monsters there were. Even if Chu Mu was confident in himself, he obviously did not dare to show off in this vicious cycle.

After fleeing in the water for nearly half an hour, Chu Mu stopped for a while, restrained his breath, and covered himself with the phantom mask to hide the traces as much as possible.

Looking around, Chu Mu tried to identify the traces on the bottom of the lake and compared them with the information of the ancient cultivator's cave left by Zhao Shuang.

At this moment, he had no doubts about what Zhao Shuang said.

After all, the lake was at least hundreds of meters deep. Such a huge water pressure and the existence of the lake restricted almost all aspects for cultivators!

Even for body cultivators, the huge water pressure also restricted them greatly.

In addition, there were endless aquatic monsters and keen blood perception.

The bottom of the lake was simply a forbidden area!

The only thing to be thankful for was that it did not attract the attention of high-level spirit beasts. These first-level monsters had low intelligence and chased him only out of their desire for prey.

When they encountered other better prey targets, their attention was immediately diverted.

Otherwise, it would be a real big trouble.

In such a place, if you don't know the opportunities in it.

Ordinary immortal cultivators obviously won't come here to make trouble.

"It should be on the northeast side of the ancient cultivator's cave, that reef, there is a mark in the jade slip."

Identifying the surrounding environment, Chu Mu moved forward cautiously. The experience just now was too horrifying.

If it happens again, who knows if it will attract a second-level monster.

He dare not gamble.

"Huh?"

After walking a few steps, the strange feeling from the soles of his feet made Chu Mu stop subconsciously.

He took a step back, and the ground where he was originally standing was faintly visible with a little cold light.

"Be alert."

Chu Mu patted Wangcai, then slowly squatted down, brushed off the mud and sand at the bottom of the lake, and what came into view was a piece of... a broken sword?

Chu Mu was stunned for a moment, stretched out his hand to hold the tip of the sword, and gently pulled it out. The mud and sand surged, and the whole broken sword was also pulled out directly and appeared in front of him.

The broken sword was only a few feet long, the formation ban had been damaged, and even the material of the sword body had been corroded by time.

And the hilt...

There seemed to be a steel hand at the hilt, still tightly grasping the hilt.

"...Is it... a puppet?"

Chu Mu frowned slightly and looked at the puppet hand in front of him.

The puppet hand seemed to be cut off directly. Although the joint had been corroded by time, the clues could be seen faintly.

The formation ban pattern, like the broken sword, had long been invalid, and only vague traces could be seen faintly. Even the material of the body was corroded beyond recognition.

Obviously, this incomplete puppet hand and this broken sword must have existed for a very long time.

Otherwise, the array pattern, under the nourishment of spiritual energy, would be naturally damaged after thousands of years, and even if it was damaged, it would not completely destroy all the array patterns.

Not to mention the main material of the broken sword, the spiritual material was originally created by heaven and earth, and smelting and refining made the material itself reach a higher level.

"Could it be..."

Chu Mu made a slight guess, but he was a little bit afraid to confirm.

Then, he searched bit by bit within a few dozen meters around.

In just a few minutes, more than ten kinds of refining artifacts that had been eroded by time were presented in front of him.

Swords, spears, swords, and broken puppet components, such as palms, broken arms, broken legs, and half a head.

"So... there was a big battle in Xijian Lake?"

Chu Mu looked around the dark lake bottom, his eyes moved slightly.

After a moment, he could only suppress this meaningless guess and look at the broken things in front of him.

The forbidden array pattern and the material itself were all corroded. These junks in front of him were obviously meaningless.

After looking at it casually, he was about to throw it away, and then he seemed to notice something, and his eyes were instantly fixed on the broken head of the puppet.

"This is..."

Chu Mu opened the puppet head, and the head was in a mess. The once sophisticated structure had been corroded.

But in the center of the head, a round jade stone the size of an eyeball, black and translucent, was very conspicuous.

"It's... Soul Condensation Stone!"

The puppet inheritance in his mind was flowing rapidly, and soon, this slightly unfamiliar word was fixed in his mind.

Chu Mu's eyes were shining, and he looked at the Soul Condensation Stone with eagerness!

Soul Condensation Stone, a second-level low-grade spiritual material.

A mere second-level low-grade spiritual material does not seem to be rare.

But... Soul Condensation Stone, the two words "Soul Condensation" can undoubtedly explain a lot.

Its soul-condensing effect undoubtedly gives it a value far beyond that of a second-level lower-grade spiritual material, and its rareness.

After all, in this world of immortal cultivation, anything that involves the soul will surely soar in value and be extremely rare.

At least, as far as he knows, all magical instruments involving the soul are indispensable spiritual materials, and that is the Soul-condensing Stone.

The Soul-condensing Stone is not seen on the market at all.

He has not yet touched upon the spiritual instrument level, and is not very clear about it, but since it is a second-level spiritual material, its effect will obviously also work on spiritual instruments.

He does not have much demand for spiritual instruments, after all, the existence of his Soul-condensing Sword is enough to replace any Soul-condensing magical instrument.

But another effect of the Soul-condensing Stone is extremely important to him, to him as an instrument refiner and puppeteer.

It is recorded in the inheritance of puppetry that the Soul-condensing Stone is also an important spiritual material for refining puppets.

The role of the Soul Condensing Stone in the puppet system is to carry the soul and serve as the core of the puppet.

In other words, if it is an ordinary puppet without the Soul Condensing Stone, its control center can only receive some extremely simple commands.

Just like the four bamboo dragonflies he refined, they are basically all controlled by him personally. Even if he lets them investigate, they can only issue some extremely simple commands.

But if the Soul Condensing Stone is used as the basic spiritual material and refined into the puppet control center, it is equivalent to installing an intelligent center for the puppet!

Its significance is equivalent to the mecha in the previous life, with an additional intelligent chip.

It is equivalent to a robot with some logical intelligence!

Its role is obviously self-evident.

Chu Mu took out a jade box as if it were a treasure, and carefully put the half head into the box and sealed it.

When he looked at the dark lake bottom around him again, there was only unspeakable eagerness in his eyes...

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