Chapter 79: The Secret Land Belongs, Linghua Builds Foundation

Chapter 79: The Secret Land Belongs, Linghua Builds Foundation

Chapter 79: The Secret Land Belongs, Linghua Builds Foundation

A month later, Wei Zhong picked up the bright red wine and shook his head.

"The color is wrong, and the potency is far from perfect."

Looking at the red spirit wine brewed by Jin Mei, Wei Zhong felt extremely annoyed.

'The logic of brewing this kind of spiritual wine is beyond my many years of winemaking experience.

Just as Xu Xuan said, this wine was the product of the games of monsters and goblins, and was different from the brewing method of cultivators.

Moreover, the spiritual fruits and spiritual medicines used are too diverse.'

Wei Zhong still doesn't understand how these seemingly unrelated things can be pieced together to create such a soul-nourishing medicinal effect.

Although he had no idea what to do, Wei Zhong did not give up.

'The effect of this wine in enhancing spiritual awareness is of great significance to me. A strong spiritual awareness means faster and more accurate execution of spells. The spiritual awareness secret technique of Shocking Soul Stab will also become more powerful, and my own strength will be further increased.

Moreover, a strong spiritual consciousness also has a miraculous effect on realm breakthroughs, especially the next bottleneck of forming pills. A strong spiritual consciousness can effectively help oneself form pills and greatly reduce the probability of failure.'

'This wine must be brewed successfully!'

So in the following year, in addition to his daily practice, Wei Zhong put all his attention into brewing this wine.

Finally, one year later, Wei Zhong successfully reproduced the wine.

Looking at the two bowls of red wine of the same color and similar medicinal effects, Wei Zhong smiled with joy.

"Finally succeeded. The wine is bright red and brings a refreshing feeling after drinking it. Let's call it Falling Moon Red!"

The spirit wine was brewed successfully, and Jin Mei also came over, staring at the spirit wine in Wei Zhong's hand curiously.

"Here, I'll give you a bowl."

Since taming Jinmei, Wei Zhong has opened the wine-making workshop in the cave to it.

Such a wine storage paradise naturally makes him very happy.

Wei Zhong once worried that Jin Mei would mess up the wine-making workshop.

Fortunately, Jin Mei is quite intelligent and knows the rules. She would never touch the spiritual wine unless it was a reward from Wei Zhong.

Not only that, it can occasionally help Wei Zhong when he is brewing wine. Afterwards, Wei Zhong will usually reward it with a portion of the finished wine, which makes it work harder.

At the same time, Jin Mei also took on part of the brewing work of Luoyuehong, which reduced Wei Zhong's burden and allowed him to spend more time practicing.

"This cave is a bit small, I'm sorry to have put you in such a difficult position," Wei Zhong said, stroking the monkey's head.

Most of this cave was planted with various spiritual herbs by Wei Zhong, but there were few trees. Jin Mei suddenly came to this place from the mountains and forests. Wei Zhong was a little worried that she would not be able to adapt, so he thought of transplanting a few rare spiritual trees in later.

But the other party shook his head while holding the jade bowl, indicating that it would not be a grievance as long as there was spirit wine.

"What a drunkard."

It is said that ever since Wei Zhong subdued Jin Mei, the other party has shown no signs of rebellion. It is not known whether it is because the effect of "True Seal Treasure Technique" is too good, or the various spiritual wines are too tempting.

Anyway, the other party had no dignity of a third-level monster and truly became Wei Zhong's diligent spirit beast.

After leaving the cave, Wei Zhong said hello to Xie Linghua and left the island.

After changing his clothes and appearance, Wei Zhong wore a wine gourd on his waist and carried a fiery red flying sword, now dressed as "Song Zhong".

This trip is at the invitation of Lan Fangyi.

It was the same magical island in the lake as last time. Wei Zhong landed on the island and saw Lan Fangyi, Tan Bo and Shang Mengchun, so he asked:

"Why can't I see Daoist Fellow Mou?"

Lan Fangyi sighed and said, "Since we parted ways last time, I have been unable to contact Daoist Fellow Mou."

Then he turned to look at Wei Zhong: "Does Fellow Daoist Song know where Fellow Daoist Mou is?"

Wei Zhong naturally would not tell anyone that he had tried to ambush him but was killed instead.

He just shook his head slightly: "I don't know. I have always been a loner and only contacted Friend Lan. How can I know his whereabouts?"

Shang Mengchun beside Lan Fangyi also nodded, thinking: "Song Zhong's origins are mysterious, and he only cooperates with us occasionally. We have no chance to meet him at other times."

"In that case, let's ignore Brother Mou. The reason we have gathered everyone here is because something unexpected happened in that secret place last time," said Lan Fangyi.

Tan Bo was somewhat suspicious: "What happened? Could it be that someone else discovered the ruins?"

Shang Mengchun shook his head: "No, it's that the third-level spirit monkey is missing."

Wei Zhong probed the golden eyebrows in the cave with his spiritual sense, and thought to himself: "Lan Fangyi and Shang Mengchun are really too well-informed.

It had only been a year since he subdued Jin Mei, but the other party had already known about his disappearance. One year was not enough time for a foundation-building cultivator like Wei Zhong to go into seclusion once.

Could it be that the other party has specially planted spies in Qiufenglin?

"Is what Brother Shang said true? This third-level monster will not easily leave its sacred place." Wei Zhong asked.

Lan Fang said, "Don't worry, Fellow Daoist Song, the golden-browed red monkey has indeed disappeared. Although we don't know the specific reason for its disappearance, it is not critical.

As long as we get rid of this magical monkey, we can start to exploit that magical medicine garden again.

Without the threat of the third-level spirit monkeys, the remaining group of spirit monkeys pose little threat to cultivators like us who have many means.

A direct confrontation may not be possible, but it is still possible to avoid the monkeys and break through the formation to obtain the elixir."

"Brother Lan has called us together this time. Could it be that he has already found a way to deal with the formation? You should know that the remaining formation is not as dilapidated as it was when we collected the Xuanming Spiritual Grass last time."

Shang Mengchun took out a set of formation chess pieces: "This is a third-level formation flag that I spent all my money to find someone to refine. Although it is a bit difficult to deal with that formation, if it can be combined with Fellow Daoist Wei's third-level formation-breaking cone..."

Before he could finish, Wei Zhong spread his hands and said, "If you, Daoist Shang, place your hopes on me, you are making a wrong decision.

The third-order array-breaking cone I used to break the array last time was my last treasure, so how could I have more for this one?"

Then he glanced at Shang Mengchun's third-order formation flag and said, "Besides, with Daoist friend's current formation skills, this third-order formation flag can't exert much of its power."

As soon as these words were spoken, Shang Mengchun blushed.

A second-level formation master is still a second-level master after all. His level is not good enough. It is wishful thinking for him to want to break a fourth-level formation with a third-level formation flag.

Even if there are only some remaining formations, they cannot be defeated by it.

“I hope that Fellow Daoist Shang can think it through. That formation won’t be easily broken like we did last time.

If we accidentally trigger the formation's counterattack, with our small bodies as foundation-building cultivators, I'm afraid not even a drop of dust will be left.

Fellow Daoists, please do not sacrifice your life for the spirit creatures in it in vain."

Hearing Wei Zhong's words, Shang Mengchun was instantly awakened, and his red face turned pale instantly.

"If you have no other means, can I leave now?" Wei Zhong said.

Seeing that the three men remained silent, Wei Zhong bowed and left on the flaming magic sword.

Then Tan Bo also stood up:

"My two fellow Taoists, I cannot break this fourth-level formation, so I will leave now."

Shang Mengchun wanted to speak up to persuade him to stay, but was stopped by Lan Fangyi.

Tan Bo turned into a beam of light and followed the departing Wei Zhong.

"Fellow Daoist Song, wait a minute."

Tan Bo's voice came from behind, Wei Zhong turned around and stopped, saying:
"I don't want to get involved in this mess. If you are here to lobby, please go back."

"Fellow Daoist, you have misunderstood. I know the horror of the fourth-level formation, and I know my own mediocre skills inside out.

Like Fellow Daoist Song, I have no intention of going to the secret realm to break this formation."

"Oh? Then why did you catch up with me?"

"Has Brother Song met Brother Mou since we separated more than ten years ago?" Tan Bo asked.

Wei Zhong frowned: "No, I don't know what you mean?"

Tan Bo saw that Wei Zhong seemed angry and said, "Fellow Daoist Song, please don't misunderstand me. When you left, I found a man in a black robe following you. I suspect that he is Fellow Daoist Mou."

Wei Zhong then pretended to change his expression:

"what?
When I left, I did find someone following me. Fortunately, I had a good way of escaping, so I was able to get rid of that person.

So that person is Daoyou Mu?"

"Don't panic, my friend. These are just my guesses.

Moreover, Fellow Daoist Mou has lost contact, and it is possible that he has fallen into that secret realm, which is a common occurrence for independent cultivators like us.

If you meet him in the future, just be careful."

"Friend Tan's words make sense."

The two talked for a while and then parted ways and left.

Tan Bo was confused and after some testing, he was still unable to confirm that it was "Song Zhong" who had attacked Mou Yuanfeng.

"Forget it. Why should I care about this matter? Mou Yuanfeng and Song Zhong are not simple people. Just try to have less contact with them in the future."

On the other side, Wei Zhong did not take Tan Bo's words to heart.

'Mou Yuanfeng has been crushed to ashes by me, how could he have the nerve to cause trouble to me.

And no one knew that it was him who did it. Tan Bo just had some doubts after knowing that Mou Yuanfeng had lost contact.'

Wei Zhong shook his head and walked away.

An island in the lake,

As Wei Zhong and Tan Bo left, Lan Fangyi finally said to Shang Mengchun:

"Friend Shang, you have seen that these people are indeed unreliable."

Shang Mengchun looked unwilling, and it was obvious that he had not given up on that secret place.

"What do you think of what I said, fellow Taoist?

As long as we offer the location of this secret place to the newly promoted Jindan Master Ling, with our abilities, we might be able to get some benefits from this matter.

You know, with our strength, there is no possibility of breaking the formation."

Shang Mengchun struggled a bit, but finally sighed: "Just Brother Yilan."

Wei Zhong would never have thought that the secret place that several people could not reach would be leaked by the two of them and fall into the hands of the Ling family.

At this moment, Wei Zhong had just arrived in Yuelan City. In addition to taking back the Thousand Spirit Water Stones that he had exchanged from various cultivators using his contribution points, he also planned to purchase a few more third-level inheritances.

The third-level formation and the third-level weapon refining method. Wei Zhong has been practicing for so long that he has already noticed the many inconveniences of not understanding the formation.

Not only did he have to rely on spirit stones to purchase the defensive formation, but he could only stare blankly at the opportunity to slip away when he encountered the opportunity covered by the formation. Therefore, he decided to learn the formation.

There is also refining equipment, which is prepared for refining the seven-colored golden bamboo umbrella.

Although the jade slip has clearly written the refining process, Wei Zhong is not so naive as to think that he, a layman, can easily refine this treasure. Therefore, he still needs to lay a good foundation for refining.

"These are the ten Thousand Spirit Water Stones that I collected during this period. Fellow Daoist, keep them."

Wei Zhong took the Thousand Spirit Water Stone from Xu Xuan, looked at the contribution points on his token which were almost zero, and sighed.

"Haha, fellow Daoist has been spending a lot of money recently, but are you feeling sorry for these contribution points?"

Wei Zhong nodded and sighed, "The cost of the Thousand Spiritual Water Stones is really too high. But since it is related to my cultivation, I have no choice but to do so."

Wei Zhong now has 326 Thousand Spirit Water Stones in his hand, of which about 200 were all exchanged for contribution points, and dozens of others were purchased and collected by Wei Zhong through spirit stones.

"You have collected about 300 of them now, fellow Daoist. According to previous records, a thousand-pound water spirit body would require between 240 and 360 pieces.

Fellow Daoist, are you planning to start forging a powerful spiritual body?"

Wei Zhong shook his head: "This matter is of great importance. I plan to wait for some time."

"Haha, fellow Daoist is really a cautious person. But there is nothing wrong with being cautious, it is much better than dying unjustly," Xu Xuan poured out a cup of spiritual tea, "Come and taste the spiritual tea that I have worked so hard to cultivate."

Wei Zhong took a sip from the cup, and a scent of tea rushed into his mouth and nose along with the spiritual energy. He couldn't help but exclaimed:

"Such a rich spiritual energy, it actually has some effect of warming the body!"

Xu Xuan nodded, and said with some regret: "Second-level spiritual tea, unfortunately it is still a lot worse than the second-level Qingluo Zui."

Thanks to Shan Qin's confidentiality, Xu Xuan did not know that Wei Zhong was the creator of the second-level Qingluozui mentioned in his words.

"You are being unfair to spiritual tea by comparing it to spiritual wine. After all, spiritual wine is brewed from a mixture of many spiritual things, while spiritual tea is unique."

"You are right, come, have another drink."

After the two of them had a cup of tea and a conversation, Wei Zhong flew away from Yuelan City on his sword.

After returning to Ling Island, Wei Zhong took out the two inheritances he had bought and examined them carefully.

Then, through practice, I mastered both.

As for the art of formations, Wei Zhong did not seek to be able to set up various large formations. He only ensured that he could understand the functions of various formations and find their weaknesses in order to achieve the goal of breaking the formations.

Wei Zhong learned this method in order to break the formation and try his best to ensure that he would not die in some strange formation.

After practicing another weapon refining technique for a period of time, Wei Zhong was able to make an ordinary first-grade low-grade magic sword.

Although it is still far from being a rare treasure like the Seven-Colored Golden Bamboo Umbrella, it is also a good start.

While learning new skills, Wei Zhong did not neglect his cultivation.

A year later, Wei Zhong came out of his training with some surprise.

[Spring and Autumn Water Refining Technique - Grandmaster (1%)]

After practicing this method for nearly seventy years, Wei Zhong finally mastered it from the entry level to the master level.

He closed his eyes and practiced the magic spell, and the spiritual energy around him suddenly rushed towards Wei Zhong even faster.

"This time, the improvement of my technique has actually increased my cultivation speed by 40%.

In this way, with sufficient supply of other cultivation resources, it would only take him eight years to advance from the seventh level of foundation building to the eighth level of foundation building.

According to a rough estimate, in less than thirty years, I will be able to reach the state of perfect foundation building and begin preparing to form the elixir.

If you are brave enough, you can even try to form a pill without spending money to save your life."

Wei Zhong shook his head when he thought of this.

'Not right, not right. The Dan must be in a perfect state. With only a few years left to live, the person is old and weak, and the probability of successfully forming a Dan will not be very high.'

After calming down a little from the joy of reaching the grandmaster level, Wei Zhong immersed himself in cultivation once again.

Five years later, as planned, Wei Zhong broke through to the eighth level of foundation building, and then krypton leveled up in exchange for twenty-five years of life.

In the autumn of the same year, Ling Ziwei came to invite Wei Zhong to explore the secret realm, but Wei Zhong refused.

"It's not a good idea for Brother Wei to just practice hard. Why don't you explore a few secret places with me? Maybe we can find some opportunities..."

In his conversation, he repeatedly hinted that he had his brother with him and there was no need to worry about safety.

Wei Zhong still refused with a smile.

Seeing that persuasion was fruitless, Ling Ziwei sighed and took out a storage bag.

Wei Zhong probed into it with his spiritual sense and discovered that it contained various spiritual objects needed to refine the Haoyuan Pill.

He looked at Ling Ziwei with some surprise: "I didn't expect that your brother could collect so many rare spiritual objects so quickly."

Ling Ziwei explained: "It's just that I found a secret place recently. So Brother Wei has changed his mind."

Wei Zhong still shook his head: "I am practicing a secret method diligently, I am afraid it will be difficult to fulfill the fairy's wish."

But in his heart he was thinking: 'Could it be that the Ling family has found a spiritual medicine garden left by their ancestors? '

Ling Ziwei said helplessly: "Since this is the case, I will not force you. If you change your mind in the future, you can tell me again."

Wei Zhong just pretended to nod: "Fairy Ling can come here to get the elixir in a month."

As his alchemy skills continued to improve, Wei Zhong's proficiency in the Haoyuan Pill was also increasing. His success rate had risen to 60%, making him a leader among the third-level alchemists.

"Thank you, fellow Taoist," he then turned to look at Xie Linghua beside Wei Zhong and asked with a smile, "Sister Ling'er is also about to reach the time to build a foundation, right?"

The latter nodded: "My cultivation has reached the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining, but the master advised me to polish my body and spiritual consciousness more and not to rush to start building the foundation."

“Fellow Daoist Wei is right. The more solid the foundation, the greater the possibility of success in building the foundation.

I believe that Fellow Daoist Wei has prepared various spiritual objects for you, so I won’t embarrass myself in the process.

This piece of Menglisha is given to Sister Ling'er as a gift to wish you a successful foundation building."

Wei Zhong could tell at a glance that this gauze was a second-level magic weapon, and it was a light gauze magic weapon that was very suitable for female monks to use.

"this······"

Xie Linghua was at a loss as to what to do with such a precious treasure and turned to Wei Zhong for help.

"Since it's your sister Ling who gave it to you, just accept it. Don't let your sister Ling down for her hard work."

After hearing this, Xie Linghua took the magic weapon from Ling Ziwei.

"Sister Ling'er, why don't you try it on and see?"

Without waiting for Xie Linghua's consent, Ling Ziwei draped the veil over her.

“This magic weapon was replaced after I used it in my early years.

When driven by the spiritual power injected into the monk, its material can become very tough, and ordinary magic swords cannot penetrate this treasure at all. It can be regarded as a defensive magic weapon."

Following Ling Ziwei's instructions, Xie Linghua injected spiritual energy into it, and immediately the translucent gauze on her body turned transparent.

To the naked eye, it is almost impossible to notice that he is wearing this thing.

Only through spiritual observation can some clues be discovered.

"Fairy Ling, is this thing made of some kind of spiritual silk?" Wei Zhong asked curiously.

Ling Ziwei nodded: "Indeed, but this thing is made of hundred-year-old spiritual silk, which is still a long way from the heavenly silk that Fellow Daoist Wei needs."

From one of Wei Zhong's questions, Ling Ziwei knew what Wei Zhong was thinking.

Wei Zhong sighed.

'I have searched the exchange list listed by the Yunji Chamber of Commerce, but I have not seen any magical items like "Heavenly Silk".'

I thought about using contribution points to issue task bounties, but all the contribution points I earned recently were used to exchange for Thousand Spirit Water Stones, so I couldn't make any money.

Moreover, according to the description in the refining jade slips, Heavenly Silk is a well-deserved high-level spiritual material, on the same level as the Ten Thousand Year Golden Thunder Bamboo.

The contribution points required are certainly not a small number. Wei Zhong plans to collect enough Thousand Spirit Water Stones before starting to look for various precious spiritual materials needed to refine the Seven-Colored Golden Bamboo Umbrella.

After the two girls talked for a few words, Ling Ziwei left.

Wei Zhong looked at Xie Linghua and asked, "How are Luoyuehong and Qingluo drinking?"

Wei Zhong had given the second-level Qingluozui to Xie Linghua several years ago in order to strengthen her physique.

The recently developed Luoyuehong was also given as a gift to this kind of spiritual wine, striving to enhance its spiritual strength and increase its foundation.

The combination of these two kinds of spiritual wines enabled him to almost cross the halfway mark of physical and spiritual foundation building.

As for the remaining spiritual power, there probably won’t be much of a problem in the second-grade superior spiritual land.

The only thing that worries Wei Zhong is the other party's mind. Xie Linghua's family was destroyed when she was young.

Although he had experienced hardships for a period of time, since following Wei Zhong, he had been under the protection of Wei Zhong, a foundation-building cultivator, and had not experienced much wind and rain for decades. He certainly did not have the heart to pursue the Tao.

The state of mind is not easy to overcome.

"Ling'er has been taking the two kinds of spiritual wine given by the master recently, and the effect is very good. These few years have been the period when Ling'er has improved the most rapidly."

Wei Zhong nodded: "Then polish it for a while. When you plan to build your foundation, let me know and I will protect you."

"Thank you, sir!"

After Wei Zhong said this, he did not say much and entered the cave to start refining the Haoyuan Pill that Ling Hua needed.

A month later, Ling Ziwei came to pick up the elixir.

At the same time, Xie Linghua also told Wei Zhong that she was ready and planned to start building the foundation.

Wei Zhong gave up the best training room on Yunxia Island, and Xie Linghua took two foundation-building pills and went in to officially start building her foundation.

One top-grade one was given by Wei Zhong, and the other mid-grade one was purchased with the spirit stones that the other party had accumulated over the years.

Wei Zhong did not stop his behavior. Instead, he was very happy to see that the other party was considering his own interests.

What Wei Zhong hopes is not that the other party becomes his appendage, but that he truly becomes a cultivator with his own thoughts and self-consideration.

After this incident, Wei Zhong became more confident that he would succeed in building his foundation.

One day, a cyclone of spiritual energy arose above Yunxia Island. The servants all over the island were envious when they saw this scene.

(End of this chapter)