Longevity starts with learning

Chapter 229 Concentrated Soul...Smart?
Sword Blade Peak, Washing Sword Lake.

The mountain peak is like a sword blade soaring into the sky, and reflected in the lake, it is like a sharp sword placed in the water, and the waves are surging, as if rippling between the sword's edges, washing away the dirt on the sword's edge.

Its name, its meaning, are in line with reality.

Chu Mu had already arrived at the lake, staring at the scene, and then looking around, his eyes moved slightly.

According to what Zhao Shuang said, the ancient monk's cave was hidden at the bottom of the lake, the formation prohibition still exists, the terrain is hidden, and entering the cave seems to have to go through the test of alchemy.

But... the secret realm has been searched for seven years, and the information Zhao Shuang gave was still a few years ago.

Will there be other changes after such a long time?
Chu Mu pondered for a while, and when his eyes shifted, occasionally a few rays of light flickered in the sky, which were also clearly visible.

If possible, he really didn't want to conflict with other immortal cultivators. After all, immortal cultivators from all major forces were basically in groups of twos and threes, relying on each other.

He is a casual cultivator, and he is also an evil cultivator with a huge reward on his back. In this environment, if he is a little careless, he will be in an extremely difficult situation.

After observing the environment for a while, Chu Mu looked at Xijian Lake in front of him.

The waters are vast, and it is difficult to see the end at a glance.

Although the water waves are rippling, they only move with the wind. Looking at it as a whole, it seems to be extremely calm.

If it is in the East Lake outside, then obviously, there is basically no danger in the water.

After all, the land of spiritual veins is occupied, there are countless immortal cultivators, and there is no living space for monsters in the water.

Even if it is a mortal who falls into the water, as long as he is good at water, there is no need to worry too much.

But this law obviously doesn't apply in this secret realm.

The extremely rich aura, the long-term unmanned and isolated environment, undoubtedly became a paradise for the wild growth of monsters.

There are countless monsters in the mountains and forests. In the past few days, the number of monsters he has encountered and seen is already innumerable.

And in this lake, according to the information left by Zhao Shuang, there are quite a few monsters.

Moreover, encountering monsters on land and encountering monsters in water are obviously two completely different concepts.

He checked his magic weapon, talisman and many other means, and observed the surroundings, then grabbed Wangcai, flew his sword into the air, and flew forward over the lake.

In the end, after determining an approximate location based on the information given by Zhao Shuang, the flying sword light stopped suddenly.

He led Wangcai lightly down to the surface of the water, and finally submerged slowly into the lake.

The lake was much deeper than he had imagined, and it was only when he dropped hundreds of meters in the water that he barely touched the bottom of the lake.

Walking on the bottom of the lake seems to be a gentle slope that continues to descend. As the walk continues, the water gets deeper and deeper, and the vision becomes darker and darker.

After walking only a hundred meters, looking up again, it is difficult to see too much light with his now transformed body functions.

Looking around the surrounding waters, as far as the naked eye can see, it is only tens of meters away.

When the spiritual consciousness is released, it is limited to the obstacles of the lake water. Compared with the land, the distance covered by the spiritual consciousness is also reduced by more than half.

"Aura seems to be much stronger."

Sensing the aura at the bottom of the lake, the vigilance in Chu Mu's heart became more and more intense.

The aura in the secret realm is already extremely rich, but at the bottom of the lake, the aura has even increased. This undoubtedly shows that there are spiritual veins at the bottom of the lake!

In this secret realm, it is not the Great Chu Immortal Cultivation Realm outside.

In the outside world, the spiritual veins are all occupied by major forces. In this secret realm, where the spiritual veins are located, they will only be occupied by powerful monsters.

"Second order?"

Chu Mu's heart was beating a bit. Judging from his experience in the secret realm, the first-order monsters walked everywhere and could be seen everywhere. Only the second-order monsters seemed to be worthy of the word powerful.

As soon as he thought of the second-order monster, Chu Mu couldn't help but think of the terrifying double-headed giant snake in the valley...

His qi training is almost all above the fire attribute, and he is severely restricted in this water.

Under the action of water pressure, body training and cultivation are not limited.

If a second-order water attribute monster appears...

Chu Mu stopped, looked at Wangcai who was following him, and raised his hand to touch, signaling Wangcai to be vigilant.

After walking about another kilometer, Chu Mu looked up again, but there was no light at all, and the surrounding area was even darker, but the aura at the bottom of the lake became more and more intense.

Chu Mu was observing the surrounding environment. Suddenly, there was a surge of water behind him, and an inexplicable feeling of heart palpitations suddenly emerged.

boom!
Before Chu Mu could move, Wangcai sprang up behind him, the water was turbulent, and his sharp claws pierced through a water snake that was as thick as an arm that suddenly attacked. When his fangs bit it, he directly bit the water snake in two.

Thick blood flowed out, immediately dyeing the waters red.

Chu Mu frowned, feeling bad in his heart.

In the world of monsters, the weak prey on the strong.

Wangcai is just a mundane dog. How long has it been since he has been with him?
Right now, it is equivalent to the late stage of Qi training of an immortal cultivator, and it is even close to perfection.

Such a rapid growth, because of what?
Because of fighting again and again, they eat the flesh of the immortal cultivator, and after entering the secret realm, they eat their monsters as food!
This is just like him, although the spiritual root aptitude is poor, but the external resources are sufficient.

As for the resources of monsters, except for some natural materials and earthly treasures, they are the jungle of the jungle.

The smell of blood appeared, then...

Chu Mu looked around, patted Wangcai who was still devouring the remnant of the water snake monster, and then quickly walked deeper into the bottom of the lake, his speed seemed to have increased a lot.

But it seems, a little late.

In this water area, the monster's sensitivity to blood is still beyond Chu Mu's expectation.

But in just a quarter of an hour, several water monsters attacked one after another.

The scarlet spread in the water with the current, and the gloom between Chu Mu's brows became more and more intense.

boom!
There was another roar, and a fish monster that looked like a shark in the previous life appeared. Before it got close, several water arrows that merged with the lake water struck.

Chu Mu didn't dare to slacken the slightest bit, and swung out the giant god's arm, and the terrifying power directly knocked down the head of the giant whale, and then Ming Hong's knife appeared, and when the knife fell, it was the owl's head.

Rolling blood filled the air, and the entire water area seemed to have turned into a strange scarlet.

Feeling the increasingly clear tyrannical aura in the surrounding waters, Chu Mu didn't care too much, and kicked out, kicking the giant whale carcass in the opposite direction.

"go!"

Without staying any longer, he pulled Wangcai and rushed to the bottom of the water. After only a dozen steps, Chu Mu stopped suddenly. Looking at the dozens of monsters that appeared in front of him, he was speechless.

The only luck is that these monsters are not high in cultivation, they are all only first-order monsters.

The bloody battle reappeared, but this time, although it was destructive, it only lasted for dozens of breaths, and Chu Mu could only lead Wangcai to flee in embarrassment!

And behind him, there are densely packed monsters of various shapes and shapes, some killing each other, some fighting for corpses, and some taking Chu Mu as their prey...

This seems to be a vicious circle, the stronger the smell of blood, the more monsters, no matter how confident Chu Mu is in himself, in such a vicious circle, he obviously does not dare to be brave.

After fleeing in embarrassment in the water for nearly half an hour, after confirming that the monsters had been thrown away, Chu Mu stopped for a while, restrained his breath, and covered up the phantom mask, trying to hide the traces as much as possible.

Looking around, Chu Mu tried his best to identify the traces at the bottom of the lake, and compared it with the information of the ancient monk's cave left by Zhao Shuang.

Right now, he has no doubts about what Zhao Shuang said.

After all, the lake is at least hundreds of meters deep, with such a huge water pressure, and the existence of the lake, for the cultivators of immortality, almost all aspects are restricted!
Even for body-refining cultivators, the huge water pressure is extremely restrictive.

Coupled with the endless emergence of aquatic monsters, and the keen sense of blood.

This lake bottom is simply a forbidden place!
The only luck is that he didn't attract the attention of high-level spirit beasts. These first-level monsters have low intelligence, and they chased and killed him only out of their desire for prey.

When encountering other targets with better predation, they are immediately diverted.

Otherwise, it would be really a big trouble.

Such a place, without knowing exactly what the opportunities are.

Ordinary cultivators obviously wouldn't run over to make fun of themselves.

"It should be on the northeast side of the ancient monk's cave. The reef is marked in the jade slips."

Identifying the surrounding environment, Chu Mu moved forward cautiously. The experience just now was too terrifying.

If it happens again, the ghost knows if it will attract the second-order monsters.

He didn't dare to gamble.

"Ok?"

After walking a few steps, a strange feeling came from the soles of his feet, but it also made Chu Mu stop subconsciously.

He took a step back, and the place where his feet were originally standing was faintly visible with a little bit of cold light.

"alert."

Chu Mu patted Wangcai, then slowly squatted down, brushed off the sand at the bottom of the lake, and what came into view was... a broken sword?
Chu Mu was stunned, stretched out his hand to hold the tip of the sword, and pulled it out lightly, the mud and sand surged, and the entire severed sword was also pulled out directly, appearing in front of his eyes.

The broken sword was only a few feet away, and the barrier had been damaged. Even the material of the sword body had been corroded by time.

And the hilt...

At the hilt of the sword, there seemed to be a steel palm, still tightly grasping the hilt.

"...is...a puppet?"

Chu Mu frowned slightly, looking at the puppet palm in front of him.

The palm of the puppet seems to have been cut off directly, and although the joints have been corroded by the years, the clues can be seen faintly.

The formation forbidden pattern, like the broken sword, has long since failed, only faint traces can be seen, and even the material of the body has been corroded to a bad shape.

Obviously, this incomplete puppet palm and this broken sword must have existed for a long, long time.

Otherwise, under the nourishment of spiritual energy, the forbidden artifact pattern will only be worn out naturally for thousands of years, and even if it is damaged, it will not completely destroy the entire forbidden formation.

Not to mention the main material of the Broken Sword, the spiritual material is originally created by heaven and earth, and smelting and refining will allow the material itself to reach a new level.

"Could it be..."

Chu Mu speculated a little, but he was a little afraid to confirm it.

Immediately, he searched bit by bit within a range of tens of meters around.

In just a few minutes, before him, there were more than ten pieces of various refining artifacts that had been eroded by time.

Swords, guns, halberds, and broken puppet components, such as palms, broken arms, broken legs, and half heads.

"So... there used to be a big battle in Xijian Lake?"

Chu Mu looked around at the bottom of the dark lake, his eyes moved slightly.

After a while, he could only suppress this meaningless guess and look at the junk in front of him.

The pattern of the forbidden weapon, as well as its own material, have been corroded. These tattered things in front of them are obviously meaningless.

After sizing it up casually, he was about to throw it away, but then he seemed to notice something, and his eyes instantly fixed on the broken head of the puppet.

"This is……"

Chu Mu opened the puppet's head, and the inside of the head was already a mess. The once precise structure had been corroded.

But in the center of the skull, there is an eyeball-sized, black and translucent round jade, which is very conspicuous.

"It's... the Soul Condensation Stone!"

The puppet inheritance in the mind circulated rapidly, and soon, this slightly unfamiliar word was easy to freeze in the mind.

Chu Mu's eyes shone brightly, looking at the Soul Condensing Stone, his eagerness couldn't be concealed!
Soul Condensation Stone, a second-order low-grade spiritual material.

A mere second-tier low-grade spiritual material does not seem to be considered rare.

But... Soul Condensation Stone, the word Condensation Soul can undoubtedly explain a lot.

Its soul-condensing effect undoubtedly endows it with a value far exceeding that of second-tier low-grade spiritual materials, as well as its rare rarity.

After all, in this world of cultivating immortals, as long as the value of anything involves the soul, its value must be soaring, and it must be extremely rare.

At least, as far as he knows, all magic tools involving the soul, the essential spiritual material, are this soul concentrating stone.

In the market, there is no soul stone at all.

He hasn't touched on the level of the spiritual weapon, and he doesn't know much about it, but since it is a second-level spiritual material, its effect will obviously also affect the spiritual weapon.

He doesn't have much demand for the magic weapon of concentration. After all, the existence of his soul knife is enough to replace any magic weapon of the soul.

But another effect of this Soul Condensation Stone is extremely important to him, to him as a craftsman and puppet master.

It is recorded in the inheritance of puppet art that this soul-condensing stone is also an important spiritual material for refining puppet.

The soul-condensing stone is in the puppet system, its function is to carry the soul, and it is the core center of the puppet.

In other words, if it is an ordinary puppet without a soul stone, its control center can only receive some extremely simple instructions.

Just like the four bamboo dragonflies he made, they were basically controlled by him personally, even if they were allowed to investigate, they could only give some extremely simple instructions.

But if the Soul Condensation Stone is used as the basic spiritual material to refine it into a puppet control center, it is equivalent to installing an intelligent center for the puppet!
Its meaning is equivalent to the mecha in the previous life, with an extra smart chip.

It is equivalent to a robot with a part of logic and intelligence!

Its role is obviously self-evident.

Chu Mu took out a jade box like a treasure, and carefully put the half of the head into the box to seal it up.

When he looked at the dark lake bottom around him, there was only unspeakable eagerness in his eyes...

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　This chapter is four thousand.

　　
　
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