After leaving Qingyuan Mountain, Gao Yuan and Zheng Song separated in an area outside the wild forest.
One went north, the other went south, flying towards their respective goals.
Under the dual effects of the Light Body Talisman and the Wind Technique, it took only ten minutes for Gao Yuan to cross dozens of miles and return to the underground secret room of his home.
Although not a day had passed since he went out, he felt as if he was in another world when he sat on the stone chair covered with animal skins again.
In less than a day, he faced more dangers than he had in the past decades, and he encountered life-threatening situations several times.
I didn't feel it when my mind was tense before, but after I relaxed my mind, the tiredness and pain accumulated in my body took this opportunity to burst out!
He took out a piece of bacon from the jade pendant space and placed it on the stone brazier to heat it. He stood there and carefully inspected his body.
Speaking of which, this was the first time he had been physically injured since he came to this world, and he had been injured multiple times in a short period of time.
There are three main types of wounds:
The first wound was on the back. This wound was caused by the aftermath of the silver light burst from the opponent's seal during the fierce battle with the four-armed monster. Although the wound was not deep, the area was large.
The second wound was on the abdomen. It was scratched by the shattered transparent material on the stone platform when Zheng Song was lying on it in order to save him.
The last wound was on the left shoulder, which was caused by being bombarded by the last monster while resisting the attacks of several ant-shaped monsters.
These wounds were quite serious at the beginning, but fortunately he had the help of a master-level healing talisman. Most of these wounds had healed by now, so he didn't have to worry about leaving any hidden dangers.
He ate some roasted dried meat with hot water. After eating and drinking enough, Gao Yuan lay down on the bed for the first time and had a good sleep.
Today, his physical strength and energy were both exhausted. He could no longer recover quickly by simply meditating. What he needed now was a sound sleep!
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He slept for an extremely long time, and when he woke up and ran to the ground, he saw that a waning moon was already high in the night sky.
Gao Yuan returned to the underground secret room in high spirits, sat on the stone chair, and took out the two items from the jade pendant space that he had gained from this trip to the ruins.
They are the dark oval stone tablet and the oval-shaped transparent crystal stone that is suspected to be the essence stone.
He activated a moonlight talisman and slapped it on the stone table in front of him. Bright fluorescence immediately spread in the secret room.
Before entering the ruins, Zheng Song purchased two hundred moonlight charms, half of which were given to Gao Yuan.
But this trip to the ruins was much shorter than the two expected. After a lot of consumption, there were still 86 cards left.
With the bright white light emitted by the moonlight talisman, Gao Yuan carefully looked at the transparent crystal shaped like an goose egg in his hand.
The latter is like crystal, emitting overlapping light and shadow under the fluorescent light.
A wisp of gray mist-like energy floated slowly inside the crystal like a swimming fish.
What's even more amazing is that when his hand touched the crystal, he felt a wonderful sense of connection like when touching a masterless magic weapon. It seemed that as long as he injected a little inner energy, he could refine it!
But he doesn't dare yet because he hasn't reached the ninth level of Qi training yet.
If what is sealed inside this crystal is really a wisp of innate essence, even if he rashly refines the crystal and extrapolates it into his body, he will not be able to implant it into his body, and can only waste this hard-won crystal in vain.
stone.
However, Fatty Zheng has now reached the ninth level of Qi training, and is probably trying to refine it now. If I ask him in a few days, I should be able to get a definite answer!
Thinking of this, he waved his hand and put the crystal into the space of the jade pendant solemnly. Gao Yuan turned his attention to the oval stone tablet standing quietly on the ground in front of him.
This strange stone tablet, which was hard-wired into an enhanced version of Pyroblast and remained unscathed, was the same as the blue-gray stone slab in the ruins. It was the strongest and most solid object he had encountered since coming to this world.
The more important point is that this stone tablet is a kind of existence similar to a magic weapon, which can be controlled by some means!
Same as the magic weapon, when Gao Yuan pressed his hand on the surface of the stone tablet, that wonderful sense of connection clearly emerged in his mind again.
Recalling his previous experience of inputting 70% of the inner energy, but the other party had no reaction at all, Gao Yuan thought about it, took out a bottle of Heqi Pill from the space of the jade pendant, took out one and clasped it between his teeth.
Then he reached out his right hand, pressed it firmly against the dark and smooth surface of the stone monument, and mobilized his inner energy to slowly inject it into the stone monument.
After feeling that the internal energy consumption had exceeded 30%, he swallowed the Aiki Pill held between his teeth in one gulp, and the internal energy input continued.
After a while, Gao Yuan let go of his right hand with some dejection. After some attempts, he had less than 10% of his inner energy left.
Including the recovery of the Heqi Pill during this process, he has injected more than 120% of the inner energy into this stone tablet!
But what makes people speechless is that the stone tablet behaved very calmly from beginning to end, without any reaction at all!
Thinking of the blood flowing freely like lava on the surface of the stone tablet under the control of the four-armed monster, Gao Yuan thought hard while swallowing a Heqi Pill to replenish his nearly exhausted inner energy.
What exactly is the problem?
At this time, if Gao Yuan simply competes in the total amount of inner energy and the degree of condensation, he is already as good as the average late-stage monks!
If even his inner Qi cannot refine this stone tablet, then it is estimated that not many monks in the entire Qi training period can refine it.
Could it be that this stone tablet was not refined by internal energy?
A flash of inspiration flashed in Gao Yuan's heart, and he suddenly remembered the chests of the monsters he had killed at the ruins before.
Inside its chest, there is a black base inlaid with oval-shaped stones as black as jade, which seems to be the energy core of the puppet monster!
The underground square was clearly a production line for various puppet monsters, and the stone room where he and Zheng Song encountered the strange vines should be where those dark stones were stored...
Thinking of this, Gao Yuan once again took out the transparent crystal from the jade pendant. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that its appearance was exactly the same as the black stone installed in the puppet's chest!
If what is sealed inside this transparent crystal is a ray of innate essence, and this transparent crystal is the essence stone, the black stone embedded in the chest of the puppet is actually the specially processed essence stone...
Then everything makes sense!
Thinking of this, Gao Yuan subconsciously placed the transparent crystal on top of the oval stone tablet, thinking secretly in his heart, does this stone tablet require innate energy to move?
Gazing across the surface of the stone stele inadvertently, Gao Yuan suddenly discovered that after the transparent crystal approached the oval stone stele that had no response at first, at the position closest to the crystal, an extremely dim red light was faintly gleaming on the surface of the mysterious runes inscribed on it.
Flashing!
Um?
The red light was so dim that Gao Yuan almost thought he had seen it wrong. He concentrated on comparing it for a long time before confirming it.
This stone tablet, which had consumed more than 120% of its internal energy without any reaction, actually had a subtle reaction after the transparent crystal came close to it!