The sky was slightly bright, and Li Qiao, who was hiding in a temporary cave mansion to cultivate, also opened his eyes at the same time, and then exhaled softly.

The spiritual power is running in the body over and over again, and the progress of the body's spiritualization is negligible, if you want to transform the whole body into spiritual bones at this speed, and reach the level of foundation building, it will take at least a hundred years.

There is that kind of ascetic cultivator in the immortal cultivation world, there is not enough resources and pills to assist, and he can advance to one realm after another in a way that seems to be able to sit on his ass, but even if it is this kind of ascetic, it is not something that anyone can be if they want to, in addition to great perseverance and perseverance, at least there must be a similar cultivation environment.

Otherwise, it is okay to practice qi and build a foundation, but once you reach the Jindan realm, under ordinary circumstances, penance is useless.

It's been ten years since I knew it, and Li Qiao wanted to go back.

But not yet, the accumulated resources are not enough.

If it is just to speed up the cultivation speed of the foundation building period, the resources obtained now are enough, and it can be exchanged for some pills used in the foundation building period, and the cultivation speed of the foundation building period is not as slow as that of ascetics, as long as it is not more than a hundred years, it is generally acceptable to stay in the foundation building period for thirty or forty years, forty or fifty years.

Accumulating resources to the point where you can complete the cultivation of the foundation building period within ten years is not something that a normal family cultivator should do, and it is impossible for the family to give all the minor cultivation pills of the foundation building period to only one family monk, so it can only be said that the resources handed over to the family are more, and there is more inclination in obtaining the pills.

The reason why he still needs to continue to accumulate resources is that in addition to his normal cultivation, Li Qiao also has another option that also requires a lot of resources, and that is to learn the formation.

Because I have a certain understanding of this world of cultivating immortals, and I know that the higher I cultivate, the more difficult it is, and they are all the same cultivators, so why do they stand out from others?

Brave and ruthless? A more powerful means of fighting? It's a little useful, but it's just a little bit, if you want to keep going up, you don't just have to compete with monks of the same level, but you have to compete with many monks who are higher than your own cultivation level and even many immortal cultivation forces.

If he can become a powerful formation mage, it will definitely be a great help for his future cultivation path, and it is precisely because of this ambition for his future cultivation path that Li Qiao will continue to accumulate resources in the dangerous immortal cultivation world, otherwise, with only normal cultivation, Li Qiao will not see much hope of coming out.

Although the reality may not even be that he has much hope of becoming a Jindan monk, since he is prepared, he will take a long-term view, and don't advance to Jindan in the future, as a result, Jindan is the pinnacle of his life's cultivation.

Although the Immortal Cultivation Realm is dangerous, it will be much safer if you only operate in a relatively familiar area, but if you choose this way, you are destined to have a lot fewer opportunities to obtain cultivation resources. Although there are more opportunities for large-scale activities like Li Qiao, the possibility of encountering various crises has also greatly increased.

The danger of cultivating immortals is not something that can be avoided by being careful, Li Qiao has no doubt at all, if he goes on for such a long time, he will die outside sooner or later, but the choice has already been made, how can he give up easily, he is ready to die outside when he comes out.

In fact, Li Qiao can also choose to return to the family now, the cultivation resources in the foundation building period are almost enough, and he has another choice for learning the formation, that is, to have a showdown with the family about his special pupil technique in the formation, in exchange for the opportunity to learn the knowledge of the family formation for free, which may be very promising.

But after thinking about it, Li Qiao still gave up, except for a little worry about the safety of himself and Ah Piao, he wanted to rely on the formation to stand out in the family, instead of making the other formation mages in the family stand out in the end, in that case, his status in the family was still on the margins, and there would not be much improvement.

If you can become the best formation mage in the family, for this kind of special monk, the family will have inclined resources to cultivate, the formation mage is notoriously difficult, if it is a formation mage in the Jindan period, it is a family that will help him improve the probability of being promoted to a Yuanying monk, how is it much easier than a normal Jindan struggle.

You must know that the Li family is only a family of cultivating immortals, although it has a long heritage, it has not reached the level of the sect, so excellent formation mages are indispensable, but if there are more excellent formation mages, they can't afford to support them, if Li Qiao hands over his pupil technique, then he is in the formation

The huge advantage is gone.

After some big distractions flashed in his heart, time passed for a while, and the sky outside was a little brighter, Li Qiao put away the small formation he had arranged, came to the outside of the temporary cave mansion, first made a simple observation, and after making sure that there was no danger, he chose a direction and left quickly.

At this time, he had already been a long distance away from the Immortal City area, surrounded by a desolate landscape, it was difficult to see other immortal cultivators nearby, a few hours later, Li Qiao's flight speed slowed down, and the terrain in front of him changed, it was an endless desert.

After first looking at the surrounding situation, and after finding nothing, Li Qiao began to continuously increase his flight altitude to check the specific situation of this desert, and if he could, he hoped to make a detour.

This kind of desert terrain has an advantage for immortal cultivators, that is, after discovering danger in the distance, as long as they quickly hide their body with the help of some sand dunes, and then find a random place to drill into the sand, as long as they are hidden deeper, it will be difficult to be discovered.

In addition to the advantages, there are also disadvantages, that is, it is difficult to find any cultivation resources, not that there are none, but it is likely to be buried under a deep layer of sand, laborious and difficult to find, and ordinary casual cultivators are reluctant to patronize it.

However, after looking at it, I found that the area of this desert was even larger than what I saw at first, obscuring the entire front.

It's not impossible to walk along the edge of the desert, but in this way, Li Qiao is not sure of his direction, you must know that the immortal cultivation realm is very large, always change direction, and in the end it is possible to lose your way and find your way back.

After only hesitating for a moment, Li Qiao no longer hesitated, but lowered the flight altitude, and then followed the previous route and directly entered the desert.

After entering the desert, Li Qiao was quite comfortable, under normal circumstances, he hurried normally, and when he needed to rest and recover his spiritual power, he drilled into the sand, and later felt the comfort in this desert, and felt that there was no danger at night, and he often hurried at night.

The desert at night changes from scorching heat to cold, but compared with the quiet of the day, the desert at night is a little more vibrant, and some unknown sandworms or scorpions will run out of the sand.

In one area, there was a small rustling sound, some sand and gravel were shaking, and it was obvious that something was about to emerge from the sand, and from the extent that it was the size of a bucket, it didn't look like a sandworm or a scorpion or something like that.

When the sound stopped, a somewhat strange head emerged from the sand first, and after listening for a while, perhaps unaware of any danger, it burrowed its entire body out of the sand.

The creature was not large, only a few feet in size, with an elongated mouth and a body of scales.

After burrowing out of the desert, the creature kept moving, feeding on some sandworms that were active in the desert, and when the slender mouth opened, rows of fine and solid teeth could be seen, which somewhat indicated that this guy was not a good stubble.

Originally, this was its normal feeding activity, but a figure that moved from far to near in the desert brought an accident to the creature's peaceful life.

Li Qiao was in a normal hurry in the desert at night, his consciousness spread out to the surroundings normally, and he checked everything around, and it has been a few days since he entered the desert, but he has not seen the end yet, he can only say that the scope of this desert is really large, and since he entered, there has been no gain, so people just want to leave here quickly.

At a certain moment, a strange guy suddenly appeared within the scope of his divine sense, and his divine sense could not see the situation clearly, but judging from the breath on his body, this was an unknown demon beast, and his breath was not strong, indicating that his strength was very weak.

Originally, Li Qiao didn't care much about this kind of weak demon beast, but the abnormality that appeared when his divine sense swept over this guy made him realize that the leather armor on this demon beast should be a good anti-divine consciousness material.

As the name suggests, anti-divine consciousness materials are materials that can prevent divine consciousness detection, and there are many kinds of materials in the immortal cultivation world that have such characteristics, and most of them are not of high value.

But no matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat, and what if the scale armor of this monster beast is a good material! And this is equivalent to being sent to the eyes, wouldn't it be a pity to let it go?

The next moment he found this demon beast, Li Qiao sacrificed it

Flying swords, rapid strikes.

Don't look at this demon beast is not big, and its strength doesn't seem to be strong, but its alertness is not low at all, when it is shrouded by divine consciousness, it stops moving at the same time, and at the moment before Li Qiao makes a move, it drills into the sand and gravel, and quickly disappears without a trace.

Li Qiao shot a few miles away, and when the flying sword reached the place where the demon beast was, he had already lost the trace of the other party, and the flying sword stabbed into the sand according to the place where the other party disappeared before, and there was nothing to gain.

Although the shot failed, Li Qiao did not give up easily, but changed direction and went straight to the place where the demon beast disappeared just now, and when he arrived at the place, he drilled into the sand with a flying sword and continued to look for the other party's figure.

If the demon beast thought that it was safe to hide in the sand and stop somewhere, Li Qiao would be able to find out quickly, and if it was close, as long as it was found, it would be impossible for the other party to escape.

But after a deep search, the demon beast was not found, but other discoveries were made.

The sand in a normal desert is hundreds or hundreds of zhang deep, but Li Qiao dived to a depth of 20 zhang at most, and he encountered patches of rocks.

Is this desert so shallow? How is it possible, it is not the first day that Li Qiao has come in, and it is not once or twice that he has gone deep into the desert, and he has tried to go to the desert to find out before to see if there is any gain, but the depth of the desert sand made him give up after briefly trying his luck.

In order to answer the doubts in his heart, Li Qiao did not continue to look for the demon beast, but explored along the rocky area he found, and finally flew out again, looked at the nearby terrain, and soon knew what the situation was.

To be precise, under this desert, a mountain range has emerged.

It is said that there were originally mountain ranges, and then they were buried by the desert, and the biggest possibility is that the leylines change, and a small mountain range slowly rises from under the desert, and the desert terrain here is relatively high, and some can be seen some.

It's just a mountain range, buried in the desert, and it's usually just a little more sand on it, Li Qiao didn't care much, and shifted his mind to how to capture the demon beast again.

Resources are collected little by little, and if you feel that the value is not great, you will give up, and without very good luck, it is easy to end up with nothing.

Since this demon beast lives here, it will inevitably come out of the sand in the future, but it has just been frightened, and it may have to wait a little longer, but fortunately, as long as you wait patiently.

Since he had to wait, a safer temporary cave was indispensable, Li Qiao set his sights on this mountain range in the desert, after all, it was much more comfortable to make a cave in the mountains and rocks than in the sand and rocks.

However, if you build a temporary cave in the mountains in the desert, you will inevitably have to drill the sand several times to find a relatively suitable place.

But before Li Qiao could find a suitable place, he noticed that there was a situation under this mountain range, and in a certain mountain range, he actually felt a slight sound of digging, not like the movement of a demon beast, but like a monk secretly digging a mountain range.

After discovering this situation, Li Qiao knew that he had guessed wrong, there should be something in this mountain range, otherwise who would not have thought of digging a large cave in this desolate place?

And the most likely thing is that this is a spiritual vein, and there are monks who are destroying the veins and digging spiritual stones.

With a judgment, it is easy to verify, choose the mountain area located in the center, go deep into it, feel it carefully, and find that the aura environment is slightly higher than outside, which proves that this is indeed a spiritual vein.

The spiritual veins of the immortal cultivation world are not fixed, some spiritual veins are destroyed and disappear between heaven and earth, but after a long time, some mountain ranges may also become new spiritual veins, but this newly formed spiritual vein is very weak and has little value.

Basically, as long as there are large spiritual veins in the immortal cultivation world, they are basically occupied by immortal cultivation forces, and some small spiritual veins that have little value are either occupied by immortal cultivation forces, or they are hollowed out of the mountain and take away the spiritual stones in the spiritual veins.

Spirit stones do not appear out of thin air, they are all from various spiritual veins

and judging from the situation here, it is impossible to be a large spiritual vein, but generally a small spiritual vein can dig out a medium-grade spiritual stone, even if it is good, digging a spiritual vein is not so easy, so it is not found that a small spiritual vein is dug by a monk.

Generally, only small spiritual veins that may appear to be high-grade spirit stones will be excavated by monks, is this what is below?