Chapter 32: Elixir Wonderland
Long Xiaoyao packed everything, quickly put away the golden snake, and returned to the small city. He went straight back to the inn's room, and only then did he open the storage bag he had obtained from the three cultivators and inspect the loot this time.
Those scattered cultivators had already intercepted and killed several immortal cultivators, and they were all fat sheep who participated in the immortal cultivation conference, so Long Xiaoyao had gained a lot this time, which was a bit unexpected to him.
There are not a lot of spirit stones, only more than 300, but the high-grade Qi Raising Pill has harvested more than 300 in total, mainly those targets were discovered by this group of loose cultivators when they bought the pills of the Lotus Danmen; there are a number of magic weapons, however, Long Xiaoyao is only interested in that inner armor; there are more than 20 jade tubes, most of which record exercises and techniques, and the highest level is only the intermediate level of the Xuan Rank, and there are also medicinal herbs, material encyclopedia and immortal cultivation maps. However, one of the jade cylinders of the level 9 casual cultivation aroused his interest.
The jade cylinder recorded the experience of the 9th level of casual cultivation, among which, what interested Long Xiaoyao the most was that he recorded some relevant information about the trial ground of the Immortal Cultivation Realm: Elixir Garden.
It turned out that in order to get the foundation building pill and prepare to build the foundation, the level 9 casual cultivator specially collected some information related to the elixir garden. As a casual cultivator, if you want to get the rare Zhuji Dan in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, I am afraid that the only way to do this is to enter the Elixir Garden to pick the elixir in exchange, which is the most direct and effective way.
Just like the monk of Chaoyang Sect said, the elixir garden appears every ten years, and it is said that it is an opportunity for immortal cultivators in the upper realm to stay in the human world. Usually it is hidden, only when it expires, there will be a mirage-like pagoda on the top of the Yellow Mountain, and the immortal cultivators who enter the pagoda during the Qi training period will be automatically and randomly teleported to the elixir garden, and the high-level immortal cultivators will not only not be teleported into the elixir garden, but will also be attacked by the magic circle in the pagoda.
The elixir garden has a radius of two or three hundred miles, the spiritual energy is abundant, the demon beasts are raging, and the spiritual grass in it is also very rare, especially there are ten kinds of spiritual grass, which are not only the main materials for refining several high-grade pills, but also cannot be found in the outside world at all. Moreover, because these spiritual grasses require a growing environment with abundant spiritual energy, after transplanting to the outside world, they will soon wither due to the thinning of spiritual energy.
The Elixir Garden is open for a hundred days at a time, and each immortal cultivator is randomly teleported to a different location, and when the time comes, the immortal cultivators in the Elixir Garden, no matter where they stay, will be automatically teleported back to Huangshan.
There are many spirit grasses in the elixir garden, but the ten most rare spirit grasses are basically located in the center of the elixir garden. Due to the more abundant spiritual energy in the central area, there are relatively more demon beasts and poisonous insects, and almost all the demon beasts are guarding the vicinity of the spirit grass, and the highest level has reached level 4.
Moreover, in the Elixir Garden, it is not uncommon for immortal cultivators to kill each other, and it is easier to kill people and seize treasures than to compete with those high-level demon beasts for spirit grass. Especially in the last ten days of the trial, the killing of immortal cultivators will reach a peak, and the immortal cultivators who enter the elixir garden generally reach level 8 or 9, if the disciples of some sects can be together, it will be a mortal threat to others, and in the first ten days of entering the elixir garden, it is generally the time for everyone to search and kill the disciples of the sect.
There is no restriction on entering the Elixir Garden, all Qi cultivation period cultivators can enter, and those who enter it are generally the outer disciples of the scattered cultivators and sects and families who are facing the foundation building, while the real inner disciples and personal disciples rarely participate.
The main reason for this is that the mortality rate of immortal cultivators participating in the trial is amazing, under the torture and killing of demon beasts and other immortal cultivators, most of the immortal cultivators who enter the elixir garden will fall in it forever, as long as there is the possibility of obtaining the Tsukidan, no one will enter it and take risks.
In fact, there are ten such trial places in the immortal cultivation world, and it is said that they are all opportunities left by immortal cultivators in the upper realm to immortal cultivators in the human realm, and all of them have spiritual grasses or materials that are extinct in the outside world. However, different trial sites have different requirements for the level of immortal cultivators that can enter, and Long Xiaoyao's parents fell because they entered a foundation building stage trial ground.
Although Long Xiaoyao is only at level 6 in the Qi cultivation period now, he also needs to consider the issue of Zhuji Dan, and now he can't join the Immortal Cultivation Sect, I'm afraid that he can only enter the Elixir Garden to pick spiritual grass in exchange for Zhuji Dan, which is more realistic for him.
However, those are all things in the future, now what Long Xiaoyao needs to consider is to find a safe cultivation environment, when he heard that when he was promoted to level 7 of the Qi training period, he was likely to encounter a cultivation bottleneck, and he needed to break through the bottleneck through actual combat trials, so he decided to still choose a place with low-level demon beasts as a cultivation place in the future.
Moreover, the golden snake needs a large amount of demon beast supplements, and Long Xiaoyao also needs to improve his strength through actual combat to prepare for participating in the elixir garden trial. Moreover, the demon beast materials and medicinal herbs can also be exchanged for spirit stones, and these benefits made him decide on the next plan, to go to the primeval forest nearly 100 miles away from Huangshan: the Wild Python Forest.
Originally, the Yellow Mountain was full of spiritual energy, and there were many demon beasts entrenched in the range of the 72 peaks of the Yellow Mountain. It's just that Huangshan has gathered a large number of immortal cultivators, and among them, the six major factions have divided three of the [***] peaks as their sect station, and divided the thirty-six small peaks into their own sphere of influence as a testing ground for their disciples.
Although there are also casual cultivators who enter it to pan for gold, they will get into trouble when they encounter disciples of the six major sects. Long Xiaoyao was reluctant to wade into this muddy water, so he chose the Python Forest.
The wild python forest is dominated by poisonous insects and snake python monsters, and the monster beasts are single, and because they are poisonous, the danger is greater. However, with the golden snake by his side and the assistance of the array disk, these are not a problem for the dragon to be free, and even for the golden snake, it is still the best choice.
Long Xiaoyao prepared a large amount of dry food and drinking water, and according to the map of Xiuxian, it was easy to reach the Python Forest by hiring a carriage. In the following days, he plunged headlong into the interior of the Python Forest. Along the way, the poisonous insects encountered were all shot by the golden snake, and when he encountered pythons and demon beasts, he did it himself.
In the Wild Python Forest, demon beasts are still relatively rare, and the level is only level 1 or 2, and there are not many immortal herbs. However, perhaps it is the danger and relative barrenness that make this place inhabited, but it is the most suitable place for Long Xiaoyao to cultivate.
Long Xiaoyao now has a large number of high-grade Qi Boosting Pills, and he has been taking pills in the forest for nine consecutive days to cultivate, taking one pill every day. After that, he wandered in the forest for a day, searching for demon beasts and medicinal herbs, and then absorbing the aura of heaven and earth for a day of cultivation.
I don't know if it was because of the trial with the demon beasts, or because of Long Yaoyao's cultivation of the Ten Thousand Beasts Immortal Sutra, he didn't encounter any bottlenecks, and it only took half a year to advance to level 7 in the Qi training period.