Chapter 605 Crystal Lotus, Strange Flying Sword (Complete Chapter)
The cave entrance is less than two feet in diameter and can only accommodate one person. It is pitch black and cannot be seen to the bottom, but the trace of aura coming out of it is faintly stronger than that in the cave.
Song Qingyu was keenly aware of this when he was searching here before, and only then discovered the clues hidden under the stone table.
Song Qingming looked at the bottom of the cave entrance and said with some joy on his face: "The spiritual energy down here is so rich, it should be the real cave where this senior is hiding!"
"I think so. The demon king just now is just a common soul-hunting and treasure-hunting spirit beast. It has been hiding here for so long, and it has been cultivated to the middle stage of golden elixir. It shows that this senior should It's down there, and there are a lot of good things left behind.
There is nothing useful in this cave, so let’s hurry up and take a look! He Mengxin heard the words and nodded slightly in agreement.
Xia Mo, who was on the side, stared at the entrance of the cave carefully for a few times, without saying anything else, and quickly nodded in agreement with He Mengxin's proposal.
In order to prevent any dangerous monsters, forbidden formations, or agency information below, everyone was not in a hurry this time.
Song Qingming tapped the spirit beast bag on his waist, summoned several "golden fantasy butterflies" directly, and then directed them to fly into the cave to explore first.
After about a cup of tea, Song Qingming, who had kept his eyes closed, slowly opened his eyes and said to everyone with a smile: "There is another one bigger than here about two hundred feet away. Space.
I patrolled around and found no living things, and I didn't touch any forbidden circles. There shouldn't be any big danger down there. "
"That's great! Let's get out first!" After Xia Mo finished speaking, a burst of light appeared at his feet, and he jumped into the black hole in front of him, and quickly disappeared from everyone's eyes.
Immediately afterwards, He Mengxin and Song Qingyu jumped down one after another, while Song Qingming fell at the back.
After the four people passed through a passage hundreds of feet away, they soon fell on a very flat bluestone.
After glancing around, Song Qingming and the others immediately showed a bit of joy. The space below and the cave above looked similar on the surface, but the space was slightly larger.
However, there are more spiritual objects placed around it than above. In the middle, there is a huge weapon-refining furnace that has not been used for a long time.
Seeing this weapon refining furnace, everyone immediately understood that the magic weapons and magic weapons they saw above must have been refined here by the master of the cave.
He Mengxin stepped forward and took a look at the restrictions under the furnace, and said with a surprised look on his face:
"There is actually a high-level fire vein in this place. When the cave owner chose to open the cave here, he probably came here for this fire vein.
Fortunately, this person had used a ban to seal the underground fire below before leaving. Otherwise, no one would have been here to guard it for so many years. Once the underground fire spread, all the spiritual creatures in this cave would probably be reduced to ashes. "
When He Mengxin said that there was a high-level fire vein here, Song Qingming and Song Qingyu also showed a hint of surprise.
The so-called fire vein is the favorite place of almost all alchemy and weapon refining masters in the world of immortality.
In such a place, as long as the earth veins are penetrated to draw out the earth fire in the earth veins, and then the formations are arranged to restrict and control these earth fires, they can be used for elixir refining and weapon refining all year round.
Using earthly fire to refine spiritual objects is not only more stable, it can increase the monk's probability of success in refining spiritual objects, and it can also save the monks a lot of spiritual stones in purchasing fire-kindling materials.
It is not difficult to find low-level fire veins. Many immortal cultivating families in the Wei Kingdom who have established a foundation or above have their own fire vein land, which is used for family alchemy and weapon refining.
After so many years of development, the Song family also found a better-quality low-level fire vein on Funiu Mountain, and built a family alchemy pavilion on it, which was barely enough for family monks to refine first- and second-level low-level fire veins. Pills and magic weapons.
Compared with low-level fire veins, mid-level fire veins with better grades are relatively rare. There are not many spiritual mountains in the entire Wei Kingdom, and most of them are in the hands of Xiaoyao Sect.
There is also an intermediate fire vein on Tuoyun Mountain, which was developed by Chen Jinliang back then and was usually used for his own alchemy.
After Chen Jinliang passed away, because there were no alchemists above the third level on Tuoyun Mountain, they had not been able to use the Fire Vein Lin Yutang in recent years, so they simply opened it to all the monks on the mountain.
No matter who wants to spend some spiritual stones to refine elixirs or weapons, they can use that fire vein.
Relying on this Jinyun Pavilion not only attracted many high-level alchemy and weapon refiners to settle in Tuoyun Mountain, but every year Jinyun Pavilion relied on this intermediate fire vein to earn a lot of spiritual stones for Lin Yutang and the others.
After Huang Siyuan advanced to the second-level alchemy master, she basically chose to use the intermediate fire veins in Tuoyun Mountain to refine the second-level elixirs.
As for the more rare high-level fire veins, there is only one on Guyang Mountain in the entire Wei Kingdom, and it is basically controlled by the senior officials of the Xiaoyao Sect. It is difficult for ordinary people to have the opportunity to use it.
Because Song Qingming was not a high-level alchemist or weapon refiner, although he had joined the Xiaoyao Sect and became the elder of the sect's Keqing in recent years, he had never had the opportunity to use the high-level fire vein.
Although the high-level fire vein in front of them is very precious, it is unfortunately something that cannot be taken away. Everyone looked at it with some reluctance, but they could only sigh with regret.
However, although this high-level fire vein cannot be taken away, the third-level weapon refining furnace above can still be removed.
A third-level mid-grade refining furnace can be exchanged for almost 20,000 spiritual stones, which is considered a very good and precious spiritual object.
Song Qingming took matters into his own hands, stepped forward and erased the forbidden runes on the refining furnace, and then directly took down the third-level mid-grade refining furnace.
After putting away the refining furnace, several people left the fire vein and began to search for spiritual objects around the fire vein.
Everyone searched around and found three low-grade, third-level magic weapons that had not yet been refined on a stone table nearby, as well as a piece of equipment that recorded the equipment-refining inheritance of a high-level equipment refiner.
After checking that there were no useful spiritual objects around, Song Qingming and others turned around and came to the other side of the stone chamber.
Compared with the weapon refining place we just searched, this is where the owner of the cave mansion meditates and practices daily.
There was a golden futon that exuded spiritual light in the middle. It looked like it was not ordinary at first glance, and it was quickly put into the storage artifact by He Mengxin.
There are two rows of very conspicuous stone shelves behind the futon. On one side are various books and manuscripts, and on the other side are bottles and jars used to hold spiritual objects and elixirs.
However, compared to the neat appearance of other places in the cave, this area is much messier.
Most of the jade vases and porcelain jars placed on the stone shelves had been opened and were in a mess. Many of them had fallen to the ground and shattered. Even some of the contents inside had deteriorated and turned into ashes.
On the ground next to one of the stone shelves, there was a spirit beast bag that had been bitten with a big hole, and it was already empty.
The squirrel demon king that Song Qingming and the others encountered earlier should have escaped from this bag if nothing unexpected happened.
Looking at the mess on the ground, everyone could guess that this was not done intentionally by the owner of the cave, but was caused by the gray rat demon king after he ran out.
Because too much time had passed, many of the bottles containing spiritual objects on the shelves had basically been opened, devoured or damaged by the gray rat demon king.
The four of them searched around on the shelves and found four or five bottles of ordinary spiritual objects that were of some use. The best of them was a bottle of third-level spiritual water, which could be of some use to the golden elixir monks.
There were books and notebooks on the other side of the shelf. After everyone came forward to open them and check them out, they found that most of them were ordinary low-level exercises in the world of immortality, or books that recorded various anecdotes, elixirs, and spiritual objects. .
There are no high-level skills and secrets in the Golden Elixir stage or Nascent Soul stage as they imagined. For Song Qingming and other Golden Elixir monks, these books and handbooks are not of much use value.
After searching around, to everyone's surprise, no remains of the owner of the cave were found here, nor were there any storage instruments.
It seems that the owner of this cave did not sit here, but left here for some unknown reason and never returned.
Just when everyone was slightly disappointed, Xia Mo on the side turned his eyes to the corner of the stone room and was suddenly attracted by it, and he immediately walked over quickly.
Song Qingming and others took a look and quickly followed. Soon everyone came to a small pool in the corner.
This pool is obviously artificial, with a radius of only three or four feet. There is spring water flowing inside with a touch of dark blue, not the transparent color that is common outside.
There is also a light blue lotus with two halves of leaves in the middle of the pool. It does not look very eye-catching, and the spiritual energy contained in it is not particularly powerful. It seems to be just an ordinary low-level elixir.
"This is the Crystal Lotus. It looks like it's mature!"
Seeing this unattractive light blue lotus, He Mengxin on the side suddenly shouted with joy.
Seeing that He Mengxin was so excited after seeing this thing, Song Qingming was slightly surprised and quickly asked softly:
"I have heard the name Crystal Lotus before. Although I have never seen it with my own eyes, I know that this object is a fourth-level elixir. How can Fellow Daoist He confirm that the spiritual object in this pool is the Crystal Lotus?"
Song Qingming has been cultivating Taoism for more than a hundred years, and has read many books and handbooks describing various high-level elixirs in the world of immortality. Among them, there are records about high-level elixirs such as Crystal Lotus.
This item can be used to refine several high-level elixirs, but it is also very rare and difficult to cultivate and mature. Even the elixir gardens of Yuanying sects such as Xiaoyao Sect do not grow such elixirs. "
When the crystal lotus matures, it is a precious elixir that can reach the fourth level. However, it does not match the appearance of the unattractive blue lotus in front of me.
Seeing that Song Qingming and Song Qingyu were both looking curiously at herself, He Mengxin explained in succession:
"This thing is indeed a crystal lotus. The reason why I recognized this thing is because we happened to cultivate several plants of the same elixir in the Baihua Palace Spiritual Medicine Garden, but they were not fully mature yet.
Once this crystal lotus matures, it can automatically hide its own aura. It is normal for you to misunderstand it. If I had not helped cultivate and take care of this elixir several times in the Zongmen elixir garden, it would be extremely difficult for me to recognize it at a glance. Recognizable.
"Junior sister Liu is right. This crystal lotus has matured but was not eaten by the monster. This should be the reason why."
As soon as Xia Mo finished speaking, a flash of light flashed in his hand, and he used his own magic power to form a giant hand, grabbed the "Crystal Lotus" in the pool, and wanted to pull it out of the pool.
As soon as the giant hand touched the "Crystal Lotus", a blue spiritual light immediately lit up on the petals that were originally plain and ordinary, exuding a very powerful spiritual energy.
"It's really a level four elixir. I never thought we would have this opportunity!"
After feeling the pressure of the aura emanating from the "Crystal Lotus" at this moment, Song Qingming couldn't help but exclaimed when he saw the true appearance of this thing.
Not only Song Qingming, but Song Qingyu and He Mengxin on the side were also excited when they saw this scene.
If third-level elixirs and above are something that can be encountered but cannot be sought, then fourth-level elixirs are really high-level spiritual objects that most ordinary monks will never have the opportunity to see in their lifetime.
Song Qingming had never seen a level four elixir even at a top auction near the Fuyun Mountains such as the Star Conference. It can be seen that the value of level four elixirs can no longer be measured by spiritual stones.
Song Qingming estimated that if this bead "Crystal Lotus" were sold to a large auction house, it would easily fetch a sky-high price of around 100,000 spiritual stones.
During the last trip to the "Babel Tower", Song Qingming only brought out a few third-level low-grade elixirs. He didn't even see a third-level high-grade elixir, let alone a fourth-level or above elixir. .
As the magic power in Xia Mo's hand surged, the blue light on the "Crystal Lotus" became brighter and brighter, and soon the entire cave was illuminated very brightly.
A moment later, the giant hand in front of Xia Mo pulled up the pearl elixir and directly took the "Crystal Lotus" into his hand. The blue light on the elixir immediately went out quickly, leaving only a trace. A faint aura.
Before Song Qingming and others could come forward to take a closer look at the object, a flash of light flashed in Xia Mo's hand, and a black wooden box appeared immediately. He carefully put the precious elixir into it and put it away.
"Elixirs of level four and above can trigger strange phenomena in the world when mature. It seems that our previous judgment was wrong. The colorful glow that appeared nearby was not caused by the monster beast breaking through the realm, but by this Pearl crystal lotus.
When we just collected the medicine, we had already touched the strange phenomena of heaven and earth, which may attract those low-level monsters. To prevent changes, we should not stay here for a long time, seize the time to search for spiritual objects, and leave as soon as possible! "
After hearing Xia Mo's analysis, Song Qingming and others immediately felt that it made sense. They nodded in agreement and began to search the remaining corners of the cave to see if there were any missing spiritual objects.
After getting a fourth-level elixir like a bead of "Crystal Lotus", Song Qingming and others suddenly became excited, and a smile appeared on their faces.
Although the harvest of this trip was average, we did not find the relics of Senior Yuanying that everyone wanted most, but we were able to find a few third-level spiritual objects, plus the "Crystal Lotus", an extremely precious fourth-level elixir, which was very useful to Song Qingming and others. Said it was a worthwhile trip.
However, after finding the "Crystal Lotus" bead, the cave below has almost been searched by everyone, and there is nothing useful in the remaining corners.
After searching nearby and finding nothing, He Mengxin returned to the pool, took out a small jade bottle, stepped forward to fill the bottle with blue liquid in the pool, and then brought it to his nose to smell it.
"It's really ice crystal jade liquid. No wonder it can cultivate mature crystal lotus flowers. It seems that this senior has also spent a lot of thought on these two beads of elixir."
He Mengxin smiled and muttered to herself, took out a dozen jade bottles and began to fill the blue liquid in the pool.
Seeing He Mengxin taking the bottle and filling it with spiritual water, Song Qingming, who also found nothing, came over curiously after walking around for a while.
"Fellow Daoist He, what exactly is this spiritual water, and does it have any magical uses?"
Seeing that Song Qingming seemed to be interested in the spiritual water in the pool, He Mengxin quickly smiled and explained: "This thing is called Ice Crystal Jade Liquid. Although it is not a precious high-level spiritual water, it is also a rare spiritual water in the world.
This ice crystal jade liquid can be used to cultivate elixirs, or it can be used directly to feed low-level spiritual beasts. The previous demon king was able to successfully cultivate to the golden elixir realm, probably because he swallowed a large amount of ice crystal jade liquid.
There is still a lot of spiritual water in this pond. If Fellow Daoist Song is interested, you can take some back. Your Song family has also planted a lot of spiritual medicine, so there is always a chance to use it. "
Hearing what He Mengxin said, Song Qingming also looked happy. He immediately took out several larger clay pots from his body and began to fill the "ice crystal jade liquid" in the pool.
He Mengxin is a second-level top-grade spiritual planter. She naturally wants these "ice crystal jade liquid" so that she can use it to cultivate spiritual medicine in the future.
Song Qingming didn't find anything good. Based on the principle of not wanting to waste it, he wanted to take all the excess spiritual water back.
According to He Mengxin's introduction, no matter whether these "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid" are valuable or not, they are at least quite useful. If you feed them to the Sky Fire Peng at home, you might be able to help it advance to the later stage of foundation building as soon as possible.
Xia Mo, who was on the side, saw the actions of Song Qingming and the others, but did not pay attention to the spiritual water in the pool, and did not urge Song Qingming and the others.
After walking around and not finding any spiritual objects, he walked alone to the center where the earth fire was sealed, and carefully studied the formation above to restrain it.
Song Qingyu ran to the stone shelf again, and was still looking for the bottles and cans that had been searched by everyone.
"Hey! Why is there a magic weapon here!"
Song Qingyu, who was carefully rummaging through the stone shelf, suddenly turned his eyes to a recess in the mountain wall behind the stone shelf, where a flying sword was inserted, and his eyes were immediately attracted.
The entire blade of this flying sword has been submerged into the stone wall, leaving only a small section of the hilt still outside. Judging from the aura still remaining on it, it seems that it is not of high grade and does not look like a third-level magic weapon.
Because the color of the end of the sword hilt is the same as that of the mountain wall, and it is blocked by the stone shelf, it would be difficult to notice it if Song Qingyu hadn't searched this place so relentlessly.
After carefully removing the stone shelf, Song Qingyu wrapped two fingers of his right hand with a layer of mana, clamped them directly on the hilt of the sword, and tried hard to pull the flying sword out of the stone wall.
What was somewhat beyond her expectation was that the flying sword seemed to be inserted a little too deeply into the stone wall. It only moved slightly and was not pulled out directly by Song Qingyu.
Seeing that the flying sword was inserted so tightly, Song Qingyu also felt a little strange.
If it was a magic weapon that was difficult to use with her cultivation level, forget it. It was just an ordinary magic weapon. Even if it was a second-grade high-grade magic weapon, Song Qingyu should be able to pull it out easily.
However, because Song Qingyu was still a little weak at the moment because he had taken the elixir to temporarily increase his magic power, he did not use much of his magic power at first.
Seeing that he couldn't pull it out like this, Song Qingyu was also a little depressed. He immediately increased the magic power in his hand, clamped the hilt of the sword with all his strength and tried to pull it out.
After a while, there was only a sound of friction between the flying sword and the mountain wall. After Song Qingyu's efforts, she finally took the flying sword out of the stone wall.
"What kind of material is this magical weapon made from? Why is it so heavy?"
Song Qingyu, who pulled out the flying sword, took a closer look at the flying sword in his hand with joy, and then a hint of disappointment appeared on his face.
The flying sword in Song Qingyu's hand should be a second-level magic weapon based on its aura, but it seems to be unfinished. Even the blade has not been opened. It is just a semi-finished magic weapon.
"It's really strange. If such a semi-finished magic weapon is not placed in the weapon refining furnace for further crafting, why should it be inserted here?"
Song Qingyu, who was holding the flying sword, thought for a moment, but still couldn't figure it out. He could only shake his head and wanted to put the flying sword away first.
Although this flying sword is a semi-finished product, it is obviously much heavier than other magical weapons when held in the hand. Even the second-grade high-grade flying sword on her body is far from that heavy. If it is refined, it should be a second-grade flying sword. Level magic weapon.
Take it back to Song Yuanfang and the others for study, and maybe it can be modified into a second-level magic weapon. Even if it is directly melted into material, it will be worth some spiritual stones, so there is no need to throw it away directly.
Just when Song Qingyu used the object control technique and wanted to put the flying sword in his hand into the storage bag on his waist, something unexpected happened to Song Qingyu again.
This flying sword had just been enveloped by the magic power released from Song Qingyu's body, and suddenly a white light flew out of it, directly into the space between Song Qingyu's eyebrows. (End of chapter)