Chapter 2: Opening up a Blessed Land

In the past eight years, Liu Yuanchen has encountered this situation every time he has cultivated with the help of plants.

Absorbing the vitality of plants and trees does not help the speed of cultivation, but it has some benefits for the physical body.

Thanks to this, his physical strength has improved rapidly, far exceeding that of ordinary mid-stage cultivators.

The plants and trees whose vitality he has extracted will appear half-dead for a period of time.

As long as the vitality extracted does not exceed half, it can still recover slowly.

The reason why Liu Yuanchen gave up his job in the mountain gate and ran to this desolate mountain, in addition to the suppression of Manager Chen, was because of this method of extracting the vitality of plants and trees.

In the mountain gate, every plant and tree attracted much attention, and he did not dare to attack those spiritual plants at all.

In the remote place of Yujin Mountain, as long as it did not affect the harvest of the spiritual field, no one would care if he plucked the mountain bare.

In the sea of ​​consciousness, after refining the magic power, countless streams of light emerged from the saplings.

These streams of light condensed and did not disperse, outlining a phantom.

In the shadow, you can see a sapling, a piece of black land, and a small pond.

The shadow is very solid and looks like something real.

Especially the shadow of the sapling inside, which is exactly the same as the ginseng fruit sapling.

Liu Yuanchen is no longer surprised. Every time he draws the vitality of plants to practice, this situation will happen in the end.

At the beginning, the shadow was very blurry and he couldn't see its specific appearance at all.

Every time he absorbed the vitality of plants, the shadow would solidify.

It took several years to achieve today's scene.

In the past, when this shadow appeared, it would dissipate in about ten breaths.

But this time it was obviously different. The shadow lasted for more than a hundred breaths and had no intention of dissipating.

Not only that, he also felt a force constantly surging up from the ground.

This force passed through his body and poured into the sea of ​​consciousness between his eyebrows, and was finally absorbed by the shadow derived from the ginseng fruit tree.

Under the nourishment of this force, the shadow expanded rapidly.

The sapling in the shadow did not change, but the surrounding land continued to grow.

After a quarter of an hour, it slowly stopped.

At this time, Liu Yuanchen's face was full of joy.

According to the content of Zhenyuan Daxian's preaching, before opening up the blessed land, you must first evolve a blessed land shadow in your body.

When this shadow can absorb energy from the earth on its own, it is time to open up the blessed land.

To officially open up the blessed land, you must turn this shadow into reality.

In this process, there must be treasures to suppress and stabilize the blessed land.

Liu Yuanchen was very poor, and the only thing he could take out was the ginseng fruit sapling.

In order to open up the blessed land, he had been preparing for several years.

He got up and returned to the cave, and tossed for a long time.

When he walked out of the cave again, he had changed into a common outfit for casual cultivators.

Leaving Yujin Mountain, he went all the way east.

Soon, the afterglow of the sunset disappeared completely, and a thin layer of black fog covered the mountains in the east.

This black fog is also a feature of Wuyunling. Even the name of Wuyunling comes from this black fog.

The black fog spreads from east to west. A thousand miles east of Yujin Mountain is shrouded in black fog all year round.

Within a thousand miles, from east to west, the time of black fog covering is getting shorter and shorter, and the fog is getting thinner and thinner.

West of Yujin Mountain, there is almost no black fog.

The mountain gate of Qingdan Sect is just a few hundred miles west of Yujin Mountain.

Being in the black fog, the five senses and even the consciousness of the cultivators will be suppressed.

In places where the black fog is thick, strange creatures often appear.

When the perception ability is fully suppressed, once a sneak attack occurs, it is either death or injury.

Even near Yujin Mountain, there are records of strange creatures appearing many years ago.

Wuyunling is extremely dangerous at night. Even the desperate people among the casual cultivators dare not enter the mountain at night unless they have no choice.

In order to open up a blessed land, Liu Yuanchen had to enter the mountain at this time.

The blessed land needs to be provided with spiritual power by the spiritual veins and cannot be moved at will.

With Liu Yuanchen's strength, if the location of the blessed land is exposed, it will definitely not be protected.

Only at night, with the cover of black fog, can he avoid everyone's prying and ensure that the location of the blessed land is not leaked.

In the black fog, Liu Yuanchen's eyes can only see things within three meters.

Fortunately, the vegetation in Wuyun Ridge is lush, and for Liu Yuanchen, the vegetation is the best beacon.

Only a little spiritual power is needed to sense the vitality of the vegetation within twenty meters.

If there are non-vegetation creatures passing by nearby, it will block his perception of the vegetation, and naturally it will be exposed.

Under his good use, the ability to sense the vitality of vegetation has a very strong detection effect.

And these black fogs cannot interfere with the special abilities brought by the ginseng fruit tree.

With the help of special abilities, he quickly shuttled through the mountains and forests.

Soon, the time came to midnight, and he was already in Qingshi Mountain, a hundred miles east of Yujin Mountain.

This mountain is Liu Yuanchen's destination.

It is not enough to just find a place to open up a blessed land. The growth of a blessed land requires a huge amount of spiritual energy.

If spiritual stones are used to provide spiritual energy, not to mention the poor Liu Yuanchen, even the Qingdan Sect cannot afford it even if they empty their family.

Therefore, the blessed land opened up must be connected to the spiritual pivot.

The so-called spiritual pivot is the node of the spiritual vein.

Under normal circumstances, the spiritual vein is hidden deep underground, and the spiritual energy only flows in the spiritual vein.

Only where the spiritual pivot is located will the spiritual energy gush out.

Yujin Mountain Spiritual Spring is also a spiritual pivot. Now the spring water is almost dry, and there is only a well with a little spiritual energy left. The spiritual pivot is basically useless.

The spiritual veins in Wuyun Ridge are very large, so there are naturally many spiritual pivots.

And there is a spiritual pivot in Qingshi Mountain.

The most important thing is that this spiritual pivot is in an underground cave.

To open up a blessed land, it is natural to find a hidden place. The spiritual pivot deep underground just meets Liu Yuanchen's needs.

Putting aside the black fog, the entire Wuyun Ridge is not suitable for opening up a blessed land.

Although the scale of the Wuyun Ridge spiritual vein is large, the grade is not high. Currently, there is only a fourth-grade lower grade.

Moreover, the spiritual veins of Wuyun Ridge are unstable, and the spiritual energy generated has been fluctuating.

In the past thousand years, the spiritual energy has experienced two peaks and one trough.

At the peak, the spiritual energy level is comparable to the fifth-grade lower-grade spiritual vein.

And at the lowest time, it is only the third-grade middle-grade level.

At present, the spiritual energy level of Wuyun Ridge is still slowly declining.

The Yujin Mountain Spiritual Spring is almost dry, which is also affected by the fluctuation of the spiritual veins.

But Liu Yuanchen had no choice. There was only one large spiritual vein in the Red Wasteland, Wuyunling.

The Red Wasteland was vast and boundless, and a cultivator in the Yangqi realm could not walk out at all.

Opening up a blessed land in Wuyunling was the only choice.

And Qingshi Mountain was also carefully selected by Liu Yuanchen.

As early as three years ago when he came to Yujin Mountain, he had been preparing to open up a blessed land.

The place to open up a blessed land should not be placed in the territory of Qingdan Sect, nor too far away from Qingdan Sect.

In the territory of Qingdan Sect, there are often sect disciples patrolling, and it is easy to be exposed when entering and leaving the blessed land.

And it is not convenient to take care of it if it is too far away.

After two and a half years of exploration, Qingshi Mountain, a good place, was found.

There is no special output in Qingshi Mountain, and there is a relatively thick black fog at night.

In addition, there may be strange creatures, so it is impossible to station cultivators.

Qingdan Sect is not interested in it, and casual cultivators are unwilling to take it.

Liu Yuanchen came to a pile of rocks at the foot of Qingshi Mountain, pushed aside a stone the size of a millstone, and revealed a stone cave with a diameter of more than two feet.

He went into the cave, and below was a maze-like underground cave.

In these caves, there were vines as thick as chopsticks.

This was left when he explored the cave, used to point the way.

These vines are called Qingsi vines, first-level medium-grade spiritual plants, with extremely strong toughness.

Following the vines, he soon came to a hemispherical stone cave with a diameter of more than ten feet.

In the center of the stone cave, there is a spiritual spring.

However, the amount of water is not large, and only about half a catty of spring water can be gushed out in one breath.

Liu Yuanchen sat cross-legged by the spiritual spring, and all his mind sank into the sea of ​​consciousness.

In the sea of ​​consciousness at this time, the shadow of the blessed land still existed, and it was still emitting light.

He gathered all his spiritual power and pulled the shadow.

The shadow of the blessed land was also very smart, and it ran after the spiritual power pulled it.

A moment later, a phantom of the blessed land with a diameter of about ten feet appeared outside his sea of ​​consciousness.

At this time, the ginseng fruit sapling had already appeared in the phantom of the blessed land.

Together with the black soil and the black gold meteorite, they all left his sea of ​​consciousness.

Liu Yuanchen was a little worried that if the ginseng fruit tree left his sea of ​​consciousness, his immortal seed would be gone.

Just when he was worried, the phantom of the blessed land fell into the spring.

The spring water disappeared instantly, and the phantom of the blessed land continued to fall.

After more than ten breaths, the phantom of the blessed land fell to the bottom of the spring.

Boom~~

A muffled sound sounded in the underground cave.

Then, a spiritual energy vortex formed in the cave.

The spiritual energy, which was not much to begin with, was all sucked into the bottom of the spring in a very short time.

At this time, the phantom of the blessed land had disappeared.

Liu Yuanchen was not panicked at all. He could clearly sense that the sapling was at the bottom of the spring.

A quarter of an hour later, the spiritual energy vortex completely disappeared, and the entire underground cave returned to calm.

Liu Yuanchen understood that the blessed land had merged with the spiritual axis.

All the spiritual energy in the spiritual axis was taken away by the blessed land.

For a long time, the blessed land needs external energy to maintain its growth.

Only after it grows to a certain extent can it give back to the big world.

He just wanted to see the appearance of the blessed land, and the scene in front of him changed dramatically.

The surroundings were no longer dark and humid caves, but a brighter space.

A strong spiritual energy came over, and the concentration of spiritual energy was slightly better than that of the Qingdan Sect Mountain Gate.

The whole space was hemispherical, with a diameter of about three feet.

In the center of this space, there was a puddle with a diameter of about three feet, and water kept bubbling out of it. It should be a spring.

The spring water contained rich spiritual energy, which was far from comparable to the well water in Yujin Mountain.

Next to the pool was a ginseng fruit seedling.

Although there were no sun, moon, and stars in the space, it did not appear dim, probably equivalent to the brightness of a cloudy day outside at noon.

At the edge of this space was a layer of gray film, and outside the film was a dark space.

Liu Yuanchen walked to the edge of the space and reached out to touch the gray film.

This film is soft and tough, and it can be dented with a little force.

But no matter how much force he exerted, he could not pierce it.

Recalling the content of Zhenyuan Daxian's sermon, the edge of the real blessed land should be a rock similar to the mountain.

The appearance of his blessed land is not a real blessed land, at most it is just a prototype of a blessed land.

However, this is also normal.

His own footsteps are not comparable to Zhenyuan Daxian.

It is normal that the blessed land is almost there.

Suddenly, a pure mana appeared in his sea of ​​consciousness.

He was a little surprised and sank all his mind into the sea of ​​consciousness.

With just a little guidance of his spiritual consciousness, the pure mana operated completely according to his mind.

In other words, these mana have been refined and can be completely introduced into the middle dantian in the chest for storage.

And where these mana appeared, there was a green sapling phantom, which was exactly the same as the ginseng fruit sapling in the prototype of the blessed land.

The sapling phantom was hanging alone in the center of the sea of ​​consciousness, and there was no trace of black soil and black gold meteorite around.

Thinking of the opening of the blessed land, there was a sapling phantom in the blessed land phantom.

Now the sapling body has entered the prototype of the blessed land, and the sapling phantom has remained in his sea of ​​consciousness.

In this way, the sapling body and the phantom have exchanged positions.

And he is equivalent to having two immortal seeds, one virtual and one real, but he doesn’t know how fast he can cultivate.

He sat cross-legged beside the sapling, practicing the Qingmu Jue, and streams of wood-attributed spiritual energy flowed into his body through the acupoints.

Although there was only water spiritual energy produced by a spiritual spring in the prototype of the blessed land, the spiritual energy could be transformed into each other.

Water produces wood, and water spiritual energy can transform into wood spiritual energy on its own.

Under the guidance of the technique, these spiritual energies flowed into the sea of ​​consciousness and were absorbed by the sapling's phantom.

After more than ten breaths, emerald green mana surged out of the sapling's phantom.

This sapling's phantom fully possessed the function of refining spiritual energy into mana, but the purity of the mana was a little off.

Liu Yuanchen also breathed a sigh of relief, at least he could still practice normally.

He was a little confused. He had not practiced the technique before, and there was not much spiritual energy entering his body, but a stream of pure mana appeared out of thin air in his sea of ​​consciousness.

It does not need to be refined, and can be used directly. Where does this mana come from?

At this moment, a large stream of pure mana surged out of the sapling's phantom again.

Liu Yuanchen said to himself: "According to the content of Zhenyuan Daxian's teachings, the blessed land of caves and the earthly immortals complement each other.

Opening up the blessed land can speed up the cultivation speed.

Could it be that this pure mana comes from the feedback of the blessed land?"

He stopped practicing the skills and released his spiritual consciousness, taking the entire blessed land prototype into the scope of exploration.

Soon he found that the ginseng fruit seedling was constantly absorbing the spiritual energy from the blessed land prototype, and the spiritual energy accumulated in the seedling was increasing.

After more than a dozen breaths, part of the spiritual energy accumulated in the seedling suddenly disappeared.

At this moment, another pure mana appeared in Liu Yuanchen's sea of ​​consciousness.

He was sure that the mana that increased out of thin air came from the seedling itself.

Before opening up the blessed land, the seedling itself had always been acting as an immortal seed.

It was normal that he could directly use the spiritual energy refined by the seedling itself.

This mana was transmitted to his sea of ​​consciousness through a certain connection between the seedling itself and the phantom.

As for how it was transmitted, Liu Yuanchen did not see any clues.

It's just that every hundred breaths, the sapling body will transmit a stream of pure mana.

This amount of mana is equivalent to one tenth of the spiritual energy contained in a low-grade spirit stone.

Although it doesn't seem much, this mana is free.

It can be obtained once every hundred breaths, and the accumulated mana in one day is equivalent to dozens of low-grade spirit stones.

Even a cultivator in the Qi Hai realm is reluctant to spend so many spirit stones in one day for cultivation.

A prototype of a blessed land has such a powerful ability. How strong should it be to become a real blessed land or even a cave heaven in the future?

PS: Measurement units of this book:

Length unit: one foot = 25 cm, and fen, cun, and zhang are linked to the foot.

The length unit in ancient times has been changing. One foot ranges from 23 cm to more than 30 cm. This book takes one foot as 25 cm, which is different from the current 33.3 cm.

Some book friends like to calculate length and area. When I write, I also like to calculate in my mind. It is easier to calculate this length.

When writing height, seven feet and eight feet are not exaggerated.

Time unit: one breath = 1 second, one cup of tea = 10 minutes, one quarter of an hour = 15 minutes, one hour = 2 hours

Weight unit: one catty = 500 grams = 10 liang = 100 coins