Mecha Star Wars

Adding more people and going around a little more won't yield anything extra.

In the end, it was Yu Sinian who noticed something different.

“There is a formation!”

At this moment, they were standing on the nine-story tower in the center of the palace and looking down.

"Tsk~" Du Xingyu's voice rang out from the top of the tower, "Do you still need to tell me something so obvious?"

He rolled down from the roof and returned the silver hair ornament that Lin Fan had thrown on it to her. He said mockingly, "The barrier outside and the Nine Dragons Absorbing Water, who can't see that it's a formation? Can you tell me something useful?"

Du Xingyu had no idea what the conflict between him and Yu Sinian was, and he always looked for opportunities to make fun of him, being as childish as a five-year-old child.

In comparison, Yu Sinian was much more mature. He always listened with a calm expression and never refuted, like a parent who indulged his child.

But when it comes to the critical moment, Du Xingyu will not ignore Yu Sinian's safety, and he is even more anxious than others.

There is an inexplicable aura between these two people, which repels and yet blends with each other.

But the brothers and sisters are not familiar enough to delve into the past, so they just keep it to themselves tacitly, treating it as a special way of getting along between two good friends?

Lin Fan took the jewelry and stuffed it in casually, watching Du Xingyu cross his arms with a mocking look on his face, his eyes fixed on Yu Sinian... Isn't this a typical "anti-fan"? The more he hates someone, the more he stares at them.

"That's not what I'm talking about." Yu Sinian really didn't care about Du Xingyu's ridicule. He pointed the handle of his fan at the palace below and pointed out several positions, saying, "This is the arrangement of the spirit gathering array, and there is more than one layer. If I'm not mistaken, the space here is full of water spirits because these eight palaces are equipped with six layers of spirit gathering arrays. The nine dragons outside absorb water, not only for defense and concealment, but also for absorbing and gathering spiritual energy."

Six-layer spirit gathering formation?

As soon as Yu Sinian said this, those who knew about the formation and those who didn't know much about it all stretched their necks to take a closer look. Even Du Xingyu lost interest in finding fault.

"So," Shen Xiuyuan believed Yu Sinian's words without a doubt, and immediately thought, "The reason why the river water here is falling is because the spirit gathering array here keeps absorbing water spirits?"

Water aura is contained in water.

The nine dragons outside the barrier absorb water diagonally in nine different directions. Without being noticeable on the surface, they continuously absorb water into the barrier and convert it into water aura.

And those sediments that piled up into mountains and almost blocked the barrier were just incidental objects that were swept over.

"If those dragon-sucking water has an adsorption function..." Lin Fan held his chin and pondered, "When the water in the river is depleted to a certain extent, it will automatically absorb the water from the nearby land. This seems reasonable. In this way, the land becomes dry, the clouds are free of water, and the river retreats. It is another vicious cycle."

"That's right," Yu Sinian nodded, "From what we can see so far, the drought here should be caused by this palace."

"The reason has been found," Du Xingyu frowned, "How do we solve it?"

The village chief said that these strange phenomena all appeared a year ago. Since they have not always existed, theoretically, if the cause of the strange phenomena is removed, the peace of the past can be restored.

But the problem is, with such a large palace complex, let alone removing it, they haven't even found a way out. They came in by guessing and hoping for luck, and if they want to remove it...

Although this place is different from ordinary secret realms, it can also be considered an open secret realm.

Except for Lin Fan, the others have more or less seen the secret realm, but they have only entered and exited it.

Remove the secret realm? That would require at least a Spirit Severing Realm that has some understanding of the rules of heaven and earth to be able to do that, right?

After a moment of silence, Shen Xiuyuan spoke first.

"But if only the mighty ones in the Spirit Severing Realm can collect the secret realm, then who set up this place? The northwest is dry and water-scarce, so why did this person absorb so many water spirits here? If we really want to get water, wouldn't it be better to go to the south where there are abundant water resources?"

The highest realm of cultivation today is the Spiritual Division. Every one of those great men in the Spiritual Division is a leading soul figure in each of the major sects.

As far as Shen Xiuyuan knew, among the masters with the highest cultivation, the water spirit roots were too mild in nature, and the highest level was only the Nascent Soul Great Perfection. There were no water masters in the Spiritual Severing Realm at all.

So which great master in the realm of distraction would come to this remote and cornered place and leave behind such a secret realm of gathering spirits with extreme means to absorb water spirits?

"Either for myself, or for my relatives, fellow Taoists, or something like that." Yu Sinian obviously thought of this as well, and turned his gaze to Du Xingyu.

Du Xingyu travels around all year round, and he knows the most about all kinds of random and trivial news. If you want to know about this, ask him who knows the most.

Du Xingyu snorted complacently, raised his head, and said, "There are not many people in the Spirit Severing Realm who have a Taoist companion. The only one I know of who has a Taoist companion with water spiritual roots is Yin Liyan from Taixu Palace. But there was no news of his Taoist companion getting into trouble a year ago."

"Is it possible that he is hiding it?" Shen Xiuyuan asked.

"No need." Du Xingyu shook his head. "His Taoist partner is a golden elixir made from medicinal pills. If something really happens, it's just a golden elixir. There are many ways to deal with it. There is no need to hide it. At most, it's a lack of rare treasures, but a year ago, I didn't hear that there was any fluctuation in the market in this area."

Shen Xiuyuan nodded. He himself was a half-step Jindan, and knew that Jindan cultivation was just a trivial thing to the big guys.

If a Nascent Soul elder had a problem, it would be necessary to hide it for the sake of the sect's stability.

Golden elixir? There are a lot of them in the sect. Even if it is a Taoist couple in the Spiritual Severing Realm, there is no need to hide it.

Even because his Taoist partner is in the Spirit Severing Realm, as long as the news spreads, there will be many people who will actively try to please him and offer him elixirs and treasures, so there is no need to hide.

"What about the children?" Mu Jingjing asked, "As parents, it's not surprising that they would do anything for their children, right?"

"Junior sister is right," Du Xingyu said with a smile, "but junior sister probably forgot that when a cultivator embarks on the path of cultivation, he is going against the will of heaven. The higher the cultivation level, the less likely he is to have children. There are still a few great masters in the Spiritual Division who have Taoist partners, but there is not a single one who has children!"

This matter is actually an unspoken secret in the world of immortal cultivation.

There is always a price to pay for high cultivation. With high abilities and a long life, naturally, you can forget about having many children and grandchildren. You can't let one person have all the good things, right?

Therefore, on the long road of cultivating immortals, monks usually raise their disciples as their own children, or form a Taoist couple to accompany them. As for their children, they are well aware of it and never force it.

Which one should I choose between my child and my own cultivation? Of course I would choose my cultivation!

Of course, this is not absolute.

There are people who are lucky, but the chances are very small.

Like the elder of the Youye Sect, who also had an offspring by accident when he was in the initial stage of the Spirit Severing stage, he was in great pain. In order to clean up the mess for that filial son, he directly distributed his cultivation to the Nascent Soul stage... In short, he was a model of a loving father and a filial son, and everyone who heard about it sighed.

Because of this exception, many high-ranking monks also wanted to have children, but only a few succeeded.

It was also because of this successful case that so many people took it for granted when the rumor spread that Lin Fan was Cheng Kong’s illegitimate daughter.

Even if she splits her spirit, she can still have offspring, that's all the kindness of heaven. What's there to be afraid of with five spiritual roots? As long as Cheng Kong, the head of Changtian Sect, is still in power, she can lift up useless people to heaven.

Mu Jingjing was not a gossipy person. She had only vaguely heard about the rumor that a certain big boss had a son and doted on him terribly, but she did not know the details as well as Du Xingyu did.

Lin Fan was puzzled.

"It's impossible for a Taoist companion, and it's impossible for children, so why can't it be for one's own selfish desires? Does a high level of cultivation necessarily mean high morals?"