Natural fairy species

"There is a high probability that there is not even one top-quality spiritual stone in the entire Qingfeng Sect... Master Ge may have one, but even if he does, it will only be one or two at most."

Bai Zichen was holding this top-grade fire spirit stone, his expression was as usual, but he couldn't stop feeling happy.

One top-quality spiritual stone can be exchanged for two hundred high-grade spiritual stones, which is equivalent to four million low-grade spiritual stones.

The sum total of all his wealth, excluding the Ziwei Thunder Sword Embryo, is not as good as this top-quality spiritual stone that seems to be beating with flames.

The best spiritual stone can almost be regarded as the foundation of a Nascent Soul Sect.

For example, in the dark ages when the Holy Lord Nascent Soul was not in charge, the Holy Lotus Sect relied on its reserves of top-quality spiritual stones to fully unleash the power of the fourth-level formation in order to fend off the powerful enemies of the Nascent Soul level.

Usually the best spiritual stones only appear in high-end barter exchange meetings, and no Nascent Soul Lord is willing to use them to pay for normal items.

It is true that top-grade spiritual stones are rare in the world of immortality. Even if a large-scale spiritual stone vein is excavated, a top-grade spiritual stone may not emerge.

Bai Zichen was able to encounter this top-quality spiritual stone in the lava, which can only be said to be a blessing.

"It should be a top-grade spiritual stone that took tens of thousands of years to condense under the volcano. It floated out and was picked up by me... There is indeed something weird underneath. The second-level spiritual veins lasted for hundreds of thousands of years, not to mention tens of thousands of years. It’s also impossible to sublimate the best spiritual stone.”

I originally planned to find out what happened after forming the pill, but it seemed that it would be best to have a late-stage cultivation of the pill.

If the depths of the volcano really lead straight to the center of the earth, it would not be surprising to find a top-quality spiritual stone.

But then, the risks involved will increase a hundred times.

Connected to the lungs of the earth, it is the most filthy and evil. When the real poisonous fire from the center of the earth is erupted, it will spread thousands of miles around.

Even if Yuanying Zhenjun encounters this kind of thing, he will find it very difficult.

"Forget it, it's better to be careful. The poisonous fire in the center of the earth has really been triggered. A large area deep in the Black Mountain has become a Jedi uninhabitable. I'm afraid it will trigger a beast tide... Even Feiyue Lake is within the scope of influence. . In one fell swoop, most of the foundation that the sect has finally established in Black Mountain will be destroyed."

Bai Zichen gave himself a wake-up call. Fortunately, he had some spare energy when doing things, and he stopped immediately when he realized that he was approaching the limit of Nishang Yuyi.

The liquid mana cultivated by the Fire Dragon Guiyuan Sutra has increased in strength under such circumstances. If Nishang Yuyi is forcibly activated, Chi Lian Shao said he can go down another hundred feet.

If you really want to do that, the risk will be great.

"A top-quality fire spirit stone can completely replace the effect of the Tiangang Spirit Gathering Formation and be used when impacting the core formation, but I can't use it... I shouldn't be able to use such a precious spirit stone in a short time. It would be too difficult to trade it. It’s the kid walking across the street holding gold, attracting covetous people.”

Bai Zichen suddenly discovered that the best spiritual stone was good, but it had no effect before he formed the elixir.

"Perhaps we can directly absorb the pure fire spiritual power in the best spiritual stones. Anyway, if we use some of it, we can slowly absorb it and recover on our own in the future."

I found a jade box and solemnly put away this top-grade fire spiritual stone.

A small piece can be worth four million low-grade spiritual stones. No matter how high the standard is, it cannot be exaggerated.

I found a jade slip and recorded the location of the volcano and the strangeness of the lava underneath. After returning to the sect, I passed it to the Chuan Gong Hall.

If he doesn't come, he has to warn other monks in the sect to avoid this volcano.

In the following days, Bai Zichen went to an ice cave and a giant tree of 100 feet.

There are countless branching passages in the ice cave, and the spiritual consciousness is limited. An inadvertent foundation-building monk may indeed fall into it.

He carefully left a mark of his spiritual consciousness at every fork in the road. With the strength of his spiritual consciousness that was far superior to that of the monks who completed the Foundation Establishment, he spent a month walking around the ice cave. He did see a few white bones, but they were dead. All are hundreds of years old.

The relics left behind are all ordinary magic weapons. After such a long time, they were eroded by time and wind and frost, and they shattered on the ground when touched.

The Baizhang Giant Tree is an ancient tree that has become a spirit, and it is clearly recorded in the Chuan Gong Hall that it has reached the third level standard.

However, the ancient tree only has a very weak spiritual intelligence. It usually takes root deeply in the ground to absorb spiritual energy. Unless it breaks into its territory, it will never take the initiative to hurt anyone.

For such third-level vegetation monsters that can be considered harmless to humans and animals, Qingfeng Sect has not included them as targets of conquest in previous land reclamation wars.

Of course, another very important point is that destroying the ancient trees has no additional benefits other than harvesting a large number of third-level spiritual trees.

Unlike other third-level demon kings, they all occupy third-level spiritual veins as their own territory.

As a rare plant spirit, ancient trees do not seem to have high requirements for the level of spiritual land. They can absorb enough spiritual energy with just countless underground rhizomes that are thousands of feet long.

After comprehensive consideration, the Baizhang Ancient Tree became the last target in all Qingfengmen's land reclamation war plans.

Bai Zichen transformed into sword light and used the speed of his sword to circle around the edge of the ancient tree, but still did not see Su Li.

According to past experience, there were cases where sect elders were trapped by ancient tree branches for several months and were finally released.

That's why Zhou Suqing listed this place as one of the places where Suli might fall.

"There is one last location left. If there is no more, I will have no choice but to turn around and go back to Feiyue Lake..."

Bai Zichen took a simple map and checked the directions.

He has spent nearly three months searching for Su Li. As a fellow disciple who is not a life-or-death acquaintance, he has done his utmost to be kind and righteous.

Although he had harvested a top-quality spiritual stone during his search, his original intention was to save people, not to repay him.

The last location is a mysterious valley, where a sect elder clearly disappeared a hundred years ago.

However, rescue workers were subsequently dispatched. After staying in the mysterious valley for more than a month, no clues were found, so the matter had to be left alone.

Zhou Suqing was well-read and had read almost all the miscellaneous notes in the sect before he knew the story of this mysterious valley.

It was already night when Bai Zichen flew near the valley, so he found a dry place to sit cross-legged and meditate all night.

When the sky was dark, he picked up his sword and stepped into the valley.

The valley is long and narrow, and you can see the end at a glance. There are only a few first-order monsters running on the hills on both sides.

It only took an hour to measure the valley with both feet.

"It doesn't look like there's anything abnormal. How could a foundation-building monk disappear for no reason... Little guy, he's out to work."

Bai Zichen acted like a dead horse and released Gungun from the spirit beast bag.

After returning to the outside world from the environment in the spirit beast bag, Gungun felt a little dizzy. He turned around twice before barking at his owner.

The complex meaning conveyed can be understood as that it does not like the environment in the spirit beast bag and does not want to stay in it in the future.

"Okay, okay, I'll try to let you stay outside from now on...or I can find a way to buy a high-grade spirit beast bag when I go to Ten Thousand Beasts Workshop next time."

Bai Zichen is wearing a middle-grade spirit beast bag, which is already the best in the market.

The space inside is barely enough to roll around and jump around twice. No spirit beast would like to be confined to such a cramped space.

The space of a high-grade spirit beast bag can be several times larger, at least equivalent to a small yard, which is much more comfortable.

But only the Ten Thousand Beast Sect has spirit beast bags of this level for sale, which are worth a lot of money.

Gungun jumped twice, received the master's request, and started running happily in and out of the valley.

The four short legs were shaking one after another, and they even took a few bites of wild flowers along the way. I really didn’t know whether they were having fun or working.

About half an hour later, Gungun ran back to him and bumped into him hard.

"Did you really notice something strange?"

Fang Gungun came out just to do his best, but he didn't expect that the little guy has made great achievements recently.

It’s unclear whether it has something to do with Suli, but at least it found the mystery hidden beneath the surface calm of the mysterious valley.

"You mean there's something wrong behind this wall?"

Bai Zichen glanced at the rolling stone wall that was roaring crazily. His consciousness was like a mud cow entering the sea, and he could only sense the thick stone wall.

Normally, he might have ignored it, but now that Gungun sensed a special aura, it seemed extremely abrupt.

Gungun's sensing ability is different from the monk's spiritual consciousness. It is an ability deeply rooted in the blood.

Regardless of the holy beast essence and blood hidden deep in the ground in the Bai family ancestral hall, or the thick stone wall at this moment, spiritual consciousness cannot penetrate it, but it can tell the owner what it has discovered through the breath it senses.

"It has a strong aura, but not as strong as mine... Gungun's ability to express himself is quite clear."

The sword light flew, peeling off the stone wall layer by layer like cutting tofu, and soon opened the stone wall to reveal the dark space inside.

But without the barrier of the stone wall, the situation inside could be seen with a single glance.

"Junior Brother Su?"

Bai Zichen saw Su Li whose whole body was wrapped in a cicada pupa, with his face pressed against the wall of the cicada, revealing a ferocious and frightened face.

Su Li must have lost consciousness. The cicada pupa bulged and shrank with a specific rhythm, as if it was trying to digest the human inside.

Bai Zichen did not immediately step forward to save the person when he saw the target. Instead, he swung his sword horizontally and spread his consciousness to the maximum.

It is impossible for Su Li to trap himself in a cicada. Either a monk did it, or there are insect monsters hiding in the dark.

His spiritual consciousness swept back and forth, but no clues could be found. Thinking of the vague message passed by Gungun, Fu Ling's sword light turned and struck towards the broken stone wall again.

"Got it! Got it!"

There was a series of sharp and urgent cicada chirping, and a half green and half gray cicada flew out. The sword light was about to fall and cut it into two pieces, but it slowed down inexplicably.

Bai Zichen knew very well that he definitely did not slow down the sword light, but in reality the sword light seemed to be slowing down, moving forward scene by scene in the form of stop-motion animation.

This somewhat familiar feeling of dislocation made his chest feel tight and he felt like vomiting.

The cicada chirped and flapped its wings as it flew into the sky.

"Spring and Autumn Cicada!"

Bai Zichen was shocked and blurted out.

Half of the insect's body is green and bright, full of life.

The other half of the insect's body is gray and withered, like a piece of dead wood.

Combined with the slowness of his sword light, the inexplicable changes in speed are consistent with a famous strange insect in the world of immortality, the Spring and Autumn Cicada!