Gu Changsheng took out a small spirit sparrow from his spirit beast bag, relying on this little thing to find a place near Poisonous Lake where spiritual energy gathered slightly.
The little sparrow flew for a long time, and finally found a hole in the ground on a hill on the outermost edge of the poisonous swamp and stopped.
Continuing more than two hundred miles west from here, you will enter the territory of the Pengyue Kingdom. There, a vassal state of the Aolong Empire, at the end of the Longyun Mountains, there is a ghost cultivating sect called "Ghost Roaring Valley", which forms an east-west confrontation with the Jiuxiao Sect.
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More than five hundred miles to the north is the junction of the Tang Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom. There is the territory of Baijian Pavilion and the largest ally of Jiuxiao Sect.
This place is the leader of the Yunlong Mountains. Therefore, the mountains here are densely covered. When you climb up and look out, you will see endless peaks in front of you. This 'Hundred Poison Swamp' occupies more than one-third of the entire leader.
The formation of such a large area of poisonous swamps in this water source area has both human factors and natural basic conditions.
The mountains and rivers here are poor, and although it is a dragon's head, there is also a low-lying land. Moreover, the ground fire here is dense, and all kinds of poisonous miasma are erupted all year round.
There were several considerations why Gu Changsheng chose to open a cave here.
First, this place is located in a relatively desolate area of the Yunlong Mountains. Due to the barrier of the 'Hundred Poison Swamp', cultivators from the Aolong Empire and Baijian Pavilion will not risk coming here. In this way, he can practice with peace of mind and get rid of the disease as soon as possible.
His cultivation level has been raised to the peak stage of foundation building.
Secondly, this place is not far from the ‘Immortal Devouring Valley’. If you encounter an enemy who sends an alchemy monk to plot against you, you can lead him into the valley and lure the ‘Immortal Devouring’ to eat him!
Third, although this place is inaccessible, there is a small spiritual vein. Although the main vein of the spiritual vein is in the 'Immortal Devouring Valley' and has been destroyed, the branch veins extend here and can provide enough spiritual energy for his practice.
Moreover, here you can easily collect various poisonous weeds, open many caves, and refine poison pills without attracting the attention of outsiders.
After all, the stench emitted by refining poison pills caused great disturbance. In ordinary sects, disciples are not allowed to refine poisons privately.
With these thoughts in mind, Gu Changsheng chose this hill with decent spiritual energy to build his own cave. Unlike other foundation-building disciples, who competed for the place with the strongest spiritual energy and settled quietly under the noses of the ancestors.
Drilling into the cave, Gu Changsheng found that this cave was not simple. As he went deeper into it, he came to the edge of an abyss.
Looking at the bottomless darkness below and the endless stone walls around me, I felt dazed for a while!
The golden light talisman he threw disappeared after flying a long distance in the abyss. This shows that there may be unknown risks lurking at the bottom of the abyss.
For safety reasons, Gu Changsheng decided to abandon this location.
After nearly half a day of hard searching, the little bird finally found a small grotto at the bottom of a mountain peak. The grotto was not big or deep, but a steady stream of spiritual energy came out of it.
Gu Changsheng was curious about what spiritual source it contained that could have such an effect. His curiosity aroused, and he immediately patted the storage bag, and the green snake scythe appeared in Gu Changsheng's hand.
Injecting mana into the scythe, a burst of green light flashed, and the scythe was like the wind. In the blink of an eye, it was like chopping melons and vegetables, turning the small cave in front of it into a passage that people could enter.
After digging for more than an hour, he finally saw the spiritual source. In a crack as thick as an arm, a clear spring gushes out and flows into another crack in the rock wall. A rich spiritual energy flows from there.
Rushing towards your face from the spring.
This is the connection point between the main veins and branch veins of the spiritual veins. Powerful spiritual energy converges and flows out here. Although it cannot be regarded as a spiritual spring, it is also a good spiritual eye.
Seeing this, Gu Changsheng was overjoyed and began to swing the scythe vigorously, expanding the space to both sides until a stone hall several feet in size was formed.
This will be his place of cultivation, and for the alchemy room for refining poison, he plans to open a more conspicuous cave on the mountain wall. He will try to make it look like a normal cave to hide it from others.
If someone breaks through the formation and breaks in, he will be attracted to the alchemy room where he refines the poison pills. Once he accidentally touches the mechanism inside, the entire cave will be flooded with poisonous mist, making the intruder certain to die.
Inside this alchemy room, there are also storage rooms, insect breeding rooms, mixing rooms, and alchemy testing rooms...
Gu Changsheng then picked up the scythe and busily opened up stone chambers one after another.
These stone chambers were of different sizes and had different functions. Gu Changsheng had already become extremely proficient in them, and there was no need to think about them in detail. A few hours later, a brand new small alchemy room was opened in this stone wall.
When he saw that the cave and alchemy room were ready, Gu Changsheng showed a bit of relief.
Then he took out some formation flags.
I got busy on the hill near the cave and set up several psychedelic formations.
Although these magic formations cannot hide from the spiritual consciousness of the monks at the core-building stage, they can prevent the monks at the foundation-building stage from quickly discovering the secrets of this place.
This is enough for the time being for Gu Changsheng's current situation.
Even if a monk at the pill-forming stage comes here, his biggest reliance is not on this temporarily opened cave or the poison pill in his hand, but on the 'Immortal Devouring Valley' not far ahead.
Moreover, this cave is only for temporary use now. When he avenges the poisoning of the foundation, Gu Changsheng will leave Jiuxiao Sect and return to Gushan to enter the secret cave to practice.
At that time, it will be protected by the Eight Desolations and Liuhe Formation, and even the Nascent Soul stage monks will not be able to break into it.
Only in this way can he ensure that he can successfully form the elixir. Only in the elixir-forming stage can he have the basic ability to protect himself in the human world. Today's foundation-building stage is still too weak!
After the magic circle was set up, Gu Changsheng had no intention of stopping and resting. He wanted to place the red and purple demon fire alchemy furnace in the alchemy room, and carefully placed several powerful restrictions in the alchemy room.
This is the core resource for refining poison pills. Using this powerful demon fire can get twice the result with half the effort when purifying poison pills.
After completing these things, Gu Changsheng did not start meditating and practicing immediately. After seeing the 'Devouring Immortal', he thought of an important matter, which he had to deal with first at this time.
That is to use the golden light of merit in his body to strengthen a magic weapon in his hand.
It is rare for the 'Eater Immortal' to transform into a 'Ghost Kabuto' and then evolve into a 'Hundred Mandrill' under normal circumstances. However, the cultivation world is already in chaos at this time. It is inevitable that someone will want to take advantage of this monster and encounter the 'Hundred Mandrill' in this place.
Mandrill's chances are high.
With his current foundation-building stage cultivation, it is still a bit difficult to eliminate the ‘Hundred Mandrills’.
Unless the Golden Yang True Fire in his body can be strengthened, any attack on 'Hundred Mandrill' will be easily resolved by it.
The so-called 'hundred mandrills' have hundreds of transformations and more than a hundred lives, and they also have a physique that absorbs spiritual energy. Ordinary magic weapons are very weak against them.
Now the only stupid way is to use merit to repel ghosts, using merit as a medium to forcefully separate Tao ghosts from "Ghost Kabuto", and then the rest will be easy to handle.
The 'Ghost Kabuto' that has lost its Dao ghost is like a zombie that has lost its head and can only run around blindly. To deal with this strange combination that looks like both a ghost and a zombie, you can use fire bombs to kill it.
Just be aware that when it explodes, a large number of ghosts will pour out of its body. If you get too close, you will be affected by the ghost energy.
However, it is not easy to attach merit to a certain magical weapon. Now that he has settled down, he plans to add merit to the Thunder Whip Talisman as soon as possible.