Chapter 348: Contest of Spiritual Awareness

Ning Zhuo looked up, glanced at the Mist Hidden Mountain towering between heaven and earth, and then looked at Sun Lingtong. Seeing the latter's indifferent attitude, he nodded to the village patrol: "Then excuse me."

Although he has the combat power of the Golden Core level, the Lava Fairy Palace incident has not been over for too long, and the various lessons he has learned are still vivid in his mind.

Ning Zhuo is cautious by nature.

Since others have said that it is dangerous in the mountains at night, he will follow their advice and spend a night in the mountain village.

"Two distinguished guests, please come this way." The patrol man smiled and took the initiative to lead the way.

Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong followed him into the village.

Soon after, they met the village elders.

The village elders arranged the two of them in two guest rooms in the center of the mountain village. Ning Zhuo took out 20 spirit stones as room fees, and asked the village elders to have tea at night and talk about the Mist Hidden Mountain.

The village elders accepted it naturally.

This is what should be done.

The patrolling man changed his mind and invited Sun Ning and the others to stay in the village after seeing Ning Zhuo give him a spiritual stone as a reward for asking for directions.

"My two distinguished guests, this is the Wuyin tea unique to Wuyin Mountain. Although it cannot be compared with famous teas, it is also unique." The village elder took the initiative to entertain.

Ning Zhuo picked up the teacup and saw that the tea leaves were dark green, but there was a layer of grayish-white tea hair on the surface.

A mist floated out from the surface of the tea, curling and graceful.

When it entered the mouth, the tea soup was bitter at first, like the thick fog in the mountains entwined on the tip of the tongue, but this bitterness was fleeting, leaving a long aftertaste, as if the tranquility and freshness between the mountains after the fog dissipated.

"You have your own school, not bad." Ning Zhuo praised lightly.

On the other hand, Sun Lingtong did not move his mouth.

On the one hand, he never had any elegant interest in drinking tea. For him, drinking tea only quenched his thirst.

On the other hand, if Ning Zhuo drank, he would not drink. After all, they were traveling outside. This was one of the small tacit understandings between him and Ning Zhuo.

The three of them drank tea and talked at the same time.

Sun Ning and the others gradually had a rough understanding of Wuyin Mountain Village.

This mountain village has about 300 households and about 1,500 people. The highest cultivation level in the village is the foundation-building period. The current village chief has the cultivation level of the late foundation-building period. There are six village elders, all of whom have the foundation-building cultivation level at their peak. Some of them were seriously injured, and in their later years, their cultivation level fell to the Qi Refining period. But with their qualifications and achievements, the villagers also respect them.

Speaking of the village chief, Sun Lingtong asked him where he was.

According to reason, Sun Ning and the others are foundation-building cultivators, and such cultivation level is enough for the village chief to welcome them in person.

But until now, the village chief has not appeared.

The village elder told the two: The village chief organized a group of people to deliver food.

It turned out that there was a Yugang Mountain 800 miles away from Wuyin Mountain.

This mountain is rich in Yurun Xuangang. The Nandou Kingdom has opened a mine here and heavily guarded it. After a long time, a mountain town was developed.

Over the years, more and more people have come to the mountain town, but Yugang Mountain itself is barren and cannot be self-sufficient.

The official of Nandou Kingdom issued an order to let the surrounding mountain villages provide people and materials, allocate excess materials, and continuously send them to the town of Yugang Mountain.

The mountain villages are willing to do it.

This is because the materials sent to Yugang Town can be exchanged for a large amount of money and commercial goods there. It is not a big profit, but in addition to a small profit, it can also meet the development of the mountain village itself, which is the best of both worlds.

As the night deepened, Ning Zhuo took the initiative to stop the tea talk.

After the village elder said goodbye, he and Sun Lingtong disappeared, jumped over the wall, and explored the mountain village at night.

There were also patrol personnel near his residence.

But how could the mountain country folk find Sun Ning and the others? Sun Lingtong was born in Bukongmen and was best at stealing. Ning Zhuo was carrying Yunyin bud, and such exotic flowers and plants could be hidden even by the Jindan level, so it was no problem to hide them from the patrolling villagers.

Sun Lingtong and Ning Zhuo were side by side, jumping lightly on the roofs of the village houses.

The cool night breeze blew in his face, and Sun Lingtong transmitted: "Hehe, it's great! Xiao Zhuo, this is the taste of freedom!"

He had been tired of staying in the Lava Fairy Palace for a long time. If he hadn't been worried about his master in the early stage and Ning Zhuo later, according to his personality, he would have left long ago and wandered around the world.

Ning Zhuo also smiled.

He had been born in Huoshi Fairy City, and for fourteen years, he had been working hard to obtain the Lava Fairy Palace.

At this moment, the matter of the Fairy Palace came to an end for the time being, and he temporarily put down the huge stone in his heart and the heavy burden on his shoulders, and shuttled freely in the light breeze at night, feeling quite happy.

The two found a high place and stopped instantly.

Sun Lingtong sent a message: "Xiaozhuo, let's compete. How about spiritual awareness exploration? I won't take advantage of you, and I will also suppress my cultivation to the early stage of foundation building."

Ning Zhuo: "Boss, since you have such a refined taste, I will naturally not spoil your fun."

"Hehehe." Sun Lingtong laughed a few times and immediately released his spiritual awareness.

Ten feet, thirty feet, sixty feet...

His spiritual awareness continued to expand to two hundred and sixty feet, and then stopped.

His spiritual awareness covered more than half of the village. After quietly investigating for a while, he immediately retracted his spiritual awareness.

The speed of withdrawing spiritual awareness was amazingly fast, and it was all retracted in three breaths.

More importantly, the entire process of emitting and recovering spiritual awareness was completely hidden without any momentum. Even if Ning Zhuo was right next to Sun Lingtong, he could not feel any fluctuations at all.

It was Ning Zhuo's turn.

He slowly released his spiritual awareness.

Ten feet, twenty feet, forty feet...

When the divine sense expanded to 180 feet, it was powerless and had to stop.

The divine sense covered a little more than half of the mountain village.

Many villagers were not on guard and were unaware, allowing Ning Zhuo to see the various furnishings in the house and the villagers' nighttime activities.

He found that many villagers worshipped mountain gods in their homes. Eighty percent of the tablets, portraits or small ancestral halls of mountain gods were fox gods. Only 20% had tiger gods. And among these 20%, most had fox gods. In other words, the tiger god, as a main god, was an incidental one.

Ning Zhuo carefully put away his divine sense.

He released his divine sense several times slower than Sun Lingtong, and when he put it away, the speed was even slower, dozens of times slower than Sun Lingtong.

Sun Lingtong had been watching Ning Zhuo's performance and frowned slightly at this moment.

"Xiao Zhuo, although you and I have different levels of cultivation, the three sects have cultivated the sea of ​​​​shendantian, but the range of spiritual consciousness is only 180 feet?"

"You are not going to hide your ignorance in front of me, are you?"

Ning Zhuo immediately shook his head: "Boss, this is my full strength."

Sun Lingtong was puzzled: "It shouldn't be. One hundred and fifty feet is the average level of foundation-building cultivators, and the mirror platform spiritual skills are only 180 feet? This doesn't make sense."

Ning Zhuo smiled slightly and took the initiative to explain: "Boss, you don't know this. The advantages of the mirror platform spiritual skills need to be matched with external objects to show up."

"According to the content of the bell sound transmission, I need to refine split mirrors. Each split mirror can project my spiritual consciousness to a farther distance. Different materials and grades of split mirrors have different projection effects."

"If I really have enough split mirrors, I can cover the entire Wuyin Mountain. However, the spiritual consciousness after multiple projections of split mirrors is very weak, and the sensing will become very vague."

Sun Lingtong stretched his brows: "So that's it."

He was relieved.

In the previous competition, he just wanted to use this excuse to help Ning Zhuo better master his spiritual consciousness. After all, Ning Zhuo had just been promoted to the foundation-building stage, and Sun Lingtong had already reached the late stage of the foundation-building stage.

Qi-refining cultivators mastered the spiritual consciousness, but they could not let the spiritual consciousness leave the body for reconnaissance by themselves. Even if they read the jade slip, they had to let the jade slip stick to the center of the eyebrows.

In the foundation-building stage, the spiritual consciousness can be condensed and sublimated to form the spiritual consciousness. In the early stage of the foundation-building stage, the spiritual consciousness out of the body for reconnaissance is generally within the range of 150 feet away from the body.

For cultivators who specialize in the upper dantian of the sea of ​​spirits, when they reach the foundation-building stage, the distance of the spiritual consciousness must exceed 150 feet. The more excellent the technique, the greater the distance.

Sun Lingtong suppressed his cultivation to the early stage of the foundation-building stage, and the distance of the spiritual consciousness was as high as 260 feet. The mirror platform spiritual communication technique came from the three sect masters, but it was only 180 feet, which was much smaller than Sun Lingtong expected.

After Ning Zhuo's explanation, he was relieved.

The Mirror Platform Spiritual Skill is different from other skills. It needs to be matched with external objects to truly bring out the advantages of the skills.

Since the development of the cultivation world, countless wonderful skills have been produced. Some skills can make the spiritual consciousness become ethereal, some can make the spiritual consciousness extremely sharp, and some even develop the spiritual consciousness as a means of attack.

The spiritual consciousness of the Mirror Platform Spiritual Skill must be matched with external objects. Although it is a bit strange, it also conforms to the purpose of the three sects masters-after all, it is a mechanical inheritance. Relying on external objects is the characteristic of the three sects.

After the reconnaissance, the two quietly returned to the guest room.

No one of the villagers noticed.

Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong were lying on their beds, using their spiritual thoughts to penetrate the wall, communicate with each other, and secretly exchange the results of the investigation.

When the two talked about the number of tablets of the Tiger God and the Fox God, Sun Lingtong guessed: "The Tiger God and the Fox God have been canonized as the true gods by the Nandou Kingdom. Enjoying the incense offerings can greatly increase their own strength."

"However, the Tiger God is too weak. It is unreasonable for the Fox God to be indifferent while he is allowed to collect incense."

"Isn't it that the Fox God has been sidelined?"

The current world of cultivation is ruled by humans and gods.

The human race is the main body, and the gods are scattered all over the world.

After a cultivation country is established, it often cuts down mountains and destroys temples within the country to suppress various gods. Some gods are unyielding and are often beaten and disintegrated. Some gods surrender and are canonized as true gods, receiving salaries and drive from the cultivation court.

A cultivation country itself needs these gods to improve the ruling power of the country.

Compared with humans, various gods are often simple-minded, able to endure extreme environments, and can use their divine power to make clouds and rain, and divert water to open mountains.

After the gods join the cultivation kingdom, they can widely absorb incense, exchange what they have with the outside world, and use the kingdom's luck to practice.

This is a relationship of mutual need and win-win cooperation.