Chapter 299 Harvest
After a while, Yuan Ming opened his eyes, released his consciousness to scan himself, and nodded slightly.
After a period of mana nurturing, the runes on the golden inner armor were slightly more stable than before, so he was relieved. When he returned to his residence in the future, he would spend some time every day to slowly nurture it.
Then he took out Sha Hao's storage ring and raised it with a finger gesture.
A white light flashed on the ground, and a pile of things appeared, most of which were spiritual stones, piled up to a height of several feet.
In addition to spiritual stones, there were several magic tools, three jade boxes, a yellow gourd more than one person tall, two jade bottles, and two jade slips, one gray and one white.
Yuan Ming first counted the spiritual stones carefully, and there were nearly 100,000 of them, which made him happy.
Although he had opened a spiritual incense shop in Xiaohu City during this period of time, he basically spent thousands of spiritual stones every month on cultivation resources, and the elixir and Xuanxiang never stopped, so he reached his current cultivation level, but he still failed to break through to the middle stage.
There are reasons for qualifications, and there are also reasons for not having the financial resources to buy better elixirs. If you really want to let go of your hands and feet to practice, I believe the progress will be faster, but the spiritual stones invested will be more than doubled.
For example, at the Tianxiang auction before, I saw a set of spirit gathering arrays that can greatly improve the effect of practice. The starting price alone was 10,000 spiritual stones, and it was finally auctioned as high as 17,000 spiritual stones. It is said that each activation will consume at least several medium-grade spiritual stones, which is extremely luxurious and daunting for him before.
In addition, although most of his energy has been invested in practice, he still needs to take time out from time to time to make incense in exchange for spiritual stones, and he can't really retreat with all his heart.
This time, in order to deal with Sha Hao, he almost spent all the spiritual stones. I am afraid that even the previous conditions for practice cannot be achieved in a short time. Now that he has such a large amount of spiritual stones, he can finally retreat for a real time.
Yuan Ming happily put away the spiritual stones and cast his eyes on those magic tools.
There are nine magic tools in total, among which five command flags should be a set of array flags of the same magic array.
The five flags were red, yellow, blue, green, and gold, and they were exactly the same in size and shape. The yellow flag he had used to open the cave door was among them.
He had seen five flags in Sha Hao's memory, which were the five flags that controlled the magic array around the cave.
This magic array was called the "Five Elements Illusion Array", which was quite exquisite and far beyond the Thousand Machine Water Rope Array or the Bronze Thunder Pattern Array.
It was said that the Five Elements Illusion Array was not only an illusion array, but also contained a rather complicated way of five elements evolution. Due to its exquisite design, ordinary cultivators could activate its illusion prohibition, trapping rash intruders in it, and it was very difficult for ordinary foundation-building cultivators to escape, so it was also called the Small Trapped Immortal Array.
If you can master certain five-element techniques, you can also easily control this array to evolve some corresponding attribute changes, so that illusion and five elements complement each other, transform virtuality and reality, and reach a higher level of power.
As soon as Yuan Ming thought of this, he raised the array flag and tried to activate the magic array.
Soon, the cave was surrounded by red, yellow, blue, green, and gold lights, which then turned into flames, flowing water, giant trees, rocks, golden knives, and other phantoms, which flickered and flickered, and sometimes turned into real objects, but seemed a bit chaotic and disordered.
He had almost no experience in formations, and he was a beginner and unfamiliar with the techniques. After repeated practice, he mastered them.
And because the Nine Yuan Jue he practiced was the best among the wood-attributed techniques, he also mastered several wood-attribute changes in the five elements after another attempt.
But whether it is to truly master the changes of the wood attribute and use them in battle, or to continue to comprehend the changes of other attributes, it will take some time to figure out and practice.
Although the Five Elements Illusion Formation is powerful, it also consumes a lot of energy. Each time it is set up, it costs more than a thousand spirit stones, which is not affordable for ordinary cultivators.
Yuan Ming put away the five flags and continued to check the remaining four magic tools, which were a black short sword, a green flying boat, a white round bead, and a blue round mirror.
He had seen the black short sword and the blue flying boat. The former was a top-grade magic weapon with good attack power, while the latter was an ordinary flying magic weapon.
The white round bead, named "Soul Locking Bead", was a top-grade soul cultivation magic weapon that could lock on to the soul aura of others and track them from a distance.
As long as the range did not exceed 100 miles, the Soul Locking Bead could accurately sense the opponent's position. In the previous fight between him and Sha Hao, Sha Hao relied on this magic weapon to firmly lock his position and almost forced him into a desperate situation.
The Soul Locking Bead could not only lock on the enemy from a distance, but was also extremely hidden, and even a Jindan stage cultivator might not be able to detect it.
The only drawback of this bead was that it had a time limit. Each time it locked on a target, it could only last for three days. After three days, the soul aura in the bead would dissipate and it would need to be locked again.
As for the blue round mirror, it was called "Water Viewing Mirror", a medium-grade water attribute magic weapon with a certain detection effect. It could detect a range of hundreds of feet in places with abundant water vapor.
But once there was no water around, the effect of the Water Viewing Mirror would be greatly reduced, and it would even be worse than ordinary magic weapons.
Sha Hao took a different approach and used the Water Viewing Mirror and the Five Elements Illusion Array together. This mirror can be used to explore the 300-foot area around the array.
These two magic tools are good things. If used well, they can work wonders.
Yuan Ming put away all the magic tools, took the three jade boxes and opened them. Inside were a shiny black iron block, a green crystal stone, and a yellowish-brown round bead.
He recognized these three things. They were named Black Black Iron, Green Water Amber, and Mountain Soul Bead. They were all precious materials that could be used to refine top-grade magic tools, but he couldn't use them for the time being.
Yuan Ming then checked the yellow gourd again and found that it was filled with a kind of snow-white jade pill, nearly a thousand of them.
He took out a pill, and there was a cool touch of holding a snowball in his palm. The medicinal smell was very strong. He knew at a glance that it was a spiritual pill for strengthening the foundation and nourishing the essence, which was better than the pill he was currently taking.
"Isn't this Xue Jing Dan?"
Xue Jing Dan is already one of the best pills for strengthening the foundation and nourishing the essence in the foundation-building period. Unfortunately, the price is quite high. With Yuan Ming's current wealth, he can't take it for a long time. I didn't expect Sha Hao to have so many here.
Yuan Ming was secretly happy. With so many Xue Jing Dan, plus the large amount of spiritual stones he got before, he wouldn't have to worry about pills for a long time in the future. These pills are enough to support him to practice to the late stage of foundation-building.
As for the other two jade bottles, one is filled with detoxification pills and the other is healing pills, both of which are top-grade.
Yuan Ming finally picked up two jade slips to check. The gray jade slips recorded a technique called "Xuan Yu Gong" and a soul cultivation technique called "Huan Xin Jue".
He currently has many techniques, and he doesn't care about "Xuan Yu Gong". His mind is on "Huan Xin Jue".
This is the first time he has come into contact with soul cultivation techniques other than "Ming Yue Jue". He is quite curious, so he immediately comprehends it carefully and finishes it quickly.
"Huan Xin Jue" is also a sophisticated soul cultivation technique, but it is still far behind "Ming Yue Jue". However, this "Huan Xin Jue" is quite unique in cleansing the mind and eliminating emotional distractions.
According to the jade slips, this technique can kill all seven emotions and six desires when it is cultivated to a high level, and even reach the "four nothing" realm of "no heart", "no knowledge", "no consciousness" and "no pain".
"It's really an evil technique." Yuan Ming couldn't help but sigh. If he really cultivated to that level, his mind would indeed be as still as a mountain, but he would probably become a being without thoughts. This should be the side effect of "Huanxin Jue".
Fortunately, his "Mingyue Jue" did not have a similar price.
Yuan Ming picked up the white jade slip again and immersed his consciousness into it.
He suddenly showed a look of surprise and doubt on his face. The white jade slip actually devoured his consciousness, but soon released it.
"What's going on?" Yuan Ming was surprised and released his consciousness again to explore the white jade slip.
This time there was no accident, and his consciousness entered the white jade slip smoothly.
He was silent for a while, temporarily ignoring the strangeness just now, and concentrating on reading the contents of the jade slip.
The white jade slip recorded the elder's soul cultivation experience. Although most of them were related to "Huanxin Jue", they were also quite valuable for reference.
The jade slip also recorded many soul cultivation secrets at the end, which made his eyes light up.
Among them, what Yuan Ming cares most about is a soul-splitting technique, a soul-shaking secret technique, and a dream butterfly illusion technique.
The soul-splitting technique can split the soul into two, and after the split, it can still maintain the soul's ability to transform, but it will be much weaker.
When the elder killed the clan in Biluo Cave, he used this technique to split his blood bats into hundreds, almost reversing the entire battle situation.
However, using this technique consumes a lot of soul power, and the soul may be exhausted if you are not careful, which is very dangerous.
The soul-shaking secret technique, as the name suggests, is a spell that can shake the soul, specifically targeting illusions, and can help people save themselves from illusions.
Yuan Ming felt a little bit of enlightenment. No wonder Sha Hao could easily get rid of his illusion in the battle in Yunluo Mountain Range.
After mastering this secret technique and using it skillfully, you don't need to use the soul-shaking technique when you fall into an illusion in the future.
As for the Dream Butterfly Illusion, it is a powerful illusion that can make people fall into an illusion without knowing it, and can also use the illusion to consume the enemy's soul power and hurt people invisibly.
This is not the same level as the illusion Yuan Ming used before, and Sha Hao used this illusion on him before.
The Dream Butterfly Illusion is profound and mysterious, divided into four realms: Mirror Flower, Mirage, Fantasy Dream, and Void, which is very difficult to practice.
Sha Hao only practiced to the first level of Mirror Flower, which is considered to be a glimpse of the door, but his soul is transformed into a blood bat, which can spit out blood-colored soul waves with strong penetrating power. Only in the previous battle can he not be affected by the mist and white fog, and can easily penetrate into the depths of the soul, so that he can achieve twice the result with half the effort when performing illusions.
Sha Hao combined the Dream Butterfly Illusion with his Blood Bat Soul Wave, and the power was extremely strong. From Southern Xinjiang to Central Plains, no low-level cultivator could escape his illusion. If Yuan Ming had not had a flash of inspiration and used his soul-collision secret technique to collide with his own soul to save himself, he would probably have been defeated today.