Chapter 347: Ice and Fire Fairy City
Ice and Fire Fairy City is located in the northwest of the Southern Territory, in the Tianhan Mountains. It is adjacent to the endless Black Sea in the west and a huge mountain range that runs through tens of thousands of miles in the north, the Fulong Mountains.
Ice and Fire Fairy City radiates an area of hundreds of thousands of miles around, running through the three states of Qing, Xuan and Han in the Southern Territory. The cultivation resources are extremely rich, and the Black Sea is known as the paradise of cultivators.
The Black Sea is called a sea, but it is actually just a huge inland lake. At the bottom of this huge lake, there is an extremely rare large ice-attributed spiritual stone vein, which also makes the entire Black Sea extremely rich in spiritual energy.
But except for a few large islands in the sea, which are occupied by several small sects, most of the places are endless water, and because of the rich spiritual energy, countless monsters were born in the Black Sea.
There are even many emperor-level monsters in the demon pill period, and as for ordinary and true monsters, there are even more countless.
The monster resources of the entire Black Lake Sea can be said to have raised the cultivation strength of the entire Southern Territory to a higher level. Otherwise, it would be impossible to give birth to six huge sects like the Ancient Xuan Sect.
Speaking of the monster cultivation resources in the Black Lake Sea, I am afraid that only the Wan Yao Sea on the edge of the Eastern Territory can be compared with it.
As for the Tianhan Mountains, because of the Black Lake Sea, there are a large number of low- and medium-level monsters, providing an excellent trial place for those cultivators in the Qi Refining and Foundation Building stages.
As the residence of human cultivators, Binghuo Xiancheng has become one of the three major immortal cities in the Southern Territory after tens of thousands of years of development, and because Binghuo Xiancheng is close to Xiaohan Temple.
Although most of the cultivators in the entire immortal city are still independent cultivators, at least 30% to 40% of the cultivators are disciples from major sects in the Southern Territory.
What's more important is that in the Ice and Fire Fairy City, various cultivation resources are extremely abundant. There are not only stalls for low-level Qi Refining cultivators to buy items, but also a market where even Foundation Building cultivators often go to browse and want to find some treasures.
Therefore, in addition to a large number of Qi Refining cultivators, Foundation Building cultivators are also not uncommon in the Ice and Fire Fairy City. Even the probability of encountering Golden Core cultivators in the city is very high. Some large chambers of commerce basically have shops in the Ice and Fire Fairy City.
Moreover, the materials and items sold in these shops almost cover the needs of cultivators in the three realms of Qi Refining, Foundation Building, and Golden Core. It can be said to be a shopping paradise for cultivators.
Every day, there are a large number of cultivators coming and going in the Ice and Fire Fairy City. Some have returned from the Black Sea Trial and are happily preparing to process the harvested materials. Some also leave the Ice and Fire Fairy City in groups and go to the Tianhan Mountains or the Black Sea to start the trial.
It is precisely because of the large number of cultivators that the Ice and Fire Fairy City is so prosperous. The prosperity of the Ice and Fire Fairy City has also brought in a lot of income. However, according to rumors, the owner behind the scenes of the Ice and Fire Fairy City is none other than the Hanmu Master of Xiaohan Temple.
With the income from spiritual stones brought by a city, it is conceivable how rich one's wealth is.
Xiao Lin is now standing in a long queue outside the city. Outside the Ice and Fire Fairy City, not only Qi Refining cultivators need to queue up, but even Foundation Establishment cultivators also need to queue up.
At the gate of the city, there are four gate guards in the late Foundation Establishment period. Each of them is wearing a turquoise robe with an ancient seal character "Alliance" embroidered on the chest.
Xiao Lin's face showed a look of realization. Before coming to the Ice and Fire Fairy City, he had met a team of people who were undergoing trials in the Tianhan Mountains. Under their cordial invitation, Xiao Lin finally agreed to join their team.
It's not that Xiao Lin forgot the pain after the wound healed. He still remembered the betrayal by his teammates. If it was another time and place, Xiao Lin would have refused no matter what. But it was different in the Tianhan Mountains.
Along the way, Xiao Lin encountered several waves of monster attacks. He was originally driving the Bingluan Sword and flying towards the direction of the Ice Phoenix Valley, but he was suddenly attacked by several cold doves halfway.
These cold doves are genuine mid-level monsters. As soon as these cold doves appeared, they shot a blanket of icy thorns at Xiao Lin, making Xiao Lin flustered.
After killing these cold doves with great effort, more than a dozen iron-backed flying centipedes flew out from the mountains below. This scared Xiao Lin a lot. Killing a few cold doves had already caused him to lose most of his mana.
This time, more than a dozen iron-backed flying centipedes, which were also mid-level monsters, came. Xiao Lin couldn't stand it even if he was made of iron, so he had to flee.
Fortunately, Xiao Lin still had a lot of secret techniques for escaping. Under the urging of the wind escape technique, the dozen iron-backed flying centipedes gnashed their teeth behind him, but they were still helpless. However, the more Xiao Lin escaped, the more iron-backed flying centipedes flew up from the mountains below.
In the end, it was already a dark mass, which made Xiao Lin's scalp numb. As a last resort, Xiao Lin used the burning magic technique, and his speed suddenly increased several times. In a cup of tea, he threw away those hundreds of iron-backed flying centipedes without a trace.
Xiao Lin then pressed the escape light, found a relatively hidden cave, closed his eyes and meditated, and recovered the lost mana.
Through this incident, Xiao Lin also understood that the Tianhan Mountains were not like the Tianlu Mountains. The monsters in the Tianlu Mountains were far inferior to those in the Tianhan Mountains in terms of both quantity and level.
It is not a wise thing to fly in the Tianhan Mountains. Although the Burning Magic Secret Art can increase his speed several times, it consumes a lot of mana. With Xiao Lin's current cultivation, he can only fly for about an hour at most by using the Burning Magic Secret Art.
After an hour, his mana was almost consumed. What worries Xiao Lin is that since there are so many true-level monsters in the Tianhan Mountains, it is not uncommon for a small number of emperor-level monsters to survive.
If he flies over the Tianhan Mountains blatantly, it would be very bad if he is spotted by an emperor-level monster.
Therefore, after Xiao Lin's mana recovered, he did not choose to fly again, but released his spiritual consciousness, performed the Wind Escape Art, and flew carefully towards the direction of the Ice Phoenix Valley.
A few days later, Xiao Lin met the trial team. From them, Xiao Lin learned about the existence of the Ice and Fire Fairy City and that there were indeed a large number of emperor-level monsters living in the Tianhan Mountains.
However, these trial teams would buy some trial maps from the Ice and Fire Fairy City. The locations where the emperor-level monsters might exist would be marked in dark red on the maps. They would never dare to go to those places.
Of course, although the trial maps purchased by the cultivators were generally updated recently, there would sometimes be unexpected situations. After all, it was not uncommon for an emperor-level monster to suddenly appear in a certain location.
At this time, if a trial team happened to pass by here, then in all likelihood, the team would be wiped out.
This was a common occurrence in the Tianhan Mountains. In Xiao Lin's opinion, it was normal. They hunted monsters to obtain the refining materials on them, and the monsters could naturally hunt cultivators and devour their flesh and blood.
In order to avoid entering the lair of a certain emperor-level monster without knowing what was going on, Xiao Lin, after careful consideration, accepted the invitation of this team and became a member of it.
A month later, when the team that Xiao Lin belonged to was conducting a trial thousands of miles away from the Ice and Fire Fairy City, Xiao Lin chose to leave. There were not many high-level monsters in this distance of thousands of miles, and Xiao Lin's purpose was not to refine the materials.
So he chose to leave, and what surprised Xiao Lin was that before he left, those people readily distributed his trial materials to him, which surprised Xiao Lin, who was not going to speak.
However, after a little thought, Xiao Lin understood that there were not a few monster hunting teams like them in the Ice and Fire Fairy City. Many teams have been cooperating for many years, and they are even very good friends in private.
If there really was a situation of hitting someone in the back and taking the prey for oneself, I am afraid that he would not be able to mix in the monster hunting circle, so in these monster hunting teams, it is still rare to harm teammates in the back.
Of course, the main reason is that the temptation is not enough. If they really pick a full-year third-level spiritual herb in the Tianhan Mountains, I am afraid that these cultivators who usually call each other brothers will be on guard against each other in an instant.
After Xiao Lin left the team, he went to Binghuo Xiancheng without stopping. There are still nearly three years before the opening of Dutian Xiaohan Realm. During this time, he still needs to find a place to stay.
He also thought about whether to build a temporary cave directly in the Tianhan Mountains, but after thinking for a long time, he gave up. Since he knew the existence of a large fairy city like Binghuo Xiancheng, he had to go there to see it anyway.
Moreover, in the past few years in Huai County, he also studied the recipe of the Huohan Pill obtained from Wu Daozi for a long time. He was speechless to find that refining this spiritual pill actually requires two main medicines, namely Jiyin Grass and Bingpo Lotus Seed.
This Jiyin Grass is not bad. I think as long as I wander around in a few fairy cities, even if I can't buy full-year Jiyin Grass, it should not be difficult to buy a few seeds or seedlings.
The Ice Soul Lotus Seeds gave him a headache. Not to mention the scarcity of the Ice Soul Lotus Seeds, their growth environment was extremely harsh, and they had to grow on the Ice Soul.
Ice Soul itself is a third-level material that can be used to refine magic weapons with ice attributes. It is expensive, and a small piece can be auctioned at a sky-high price, not to mention that it is used to grow Ice Soul Lotus Seeds. This is simply an impossible task in his opinion.
This made Xiao Lin depressed for a long time, and he secretly criticized the old man Wu Daozi. After Xiao Lin understood this, he figured out why the old man Wu Daozi was so easy to talk to at that time, and finally he patiently explained some of his experience in alchemy to him.
This old man obviously felt embarrassed, so he compensated himself with some experience in alchemy.
After understanding this, Xiao Lin began to regret not choosing the recipe of Hunyuan Pill at that time. I wonder if I can go to Wu Daozi to exchange it now? But after a little thought, Xiao Lin knew that this way would not work.
If I don't pay enough, a stingy person like Wu Daozi will never let me get any advantage.