Chapter 135: Misty Spirit Light

After arranging this batch of exotic demon women.

Su Ping took out the Storage Spirit Tool from the Foundation Establishment female cultivator.

After thinking for a while, he put the Inheritance Jade Slip related to Arrays and a large number of books inside.

He also took out a large amount of Demon Beast meat and prepared Spirit Rice and Spirit Wine from the storeroom.

Only then did Su Ping take out the specialty catch from the Deep Water Pool fishing spot: the Spirit Light Misty Fish.

This was an oval-shaped fat-headed fish that had no physical body, looked like a mass of phantom, and lacked a sense of reality.

It was about the size of an adult's fist.

Su Ping could not even touch such a fish, and even if he wanted to eat it, he had nowhere to bite.

Su Ping's heart stirred, and he chose to use it.

Suddenly, the fat-headed fish's body paused violently, and then with a *whoosh*, it transformed into a seven-colored bubble with a diameter of over five meters!

This bubble floated in mid-air, swaying slowly and leisurely.

A stream of information also appeared before Su Ping's eyes:

【Misty Illusion Realm has been activated!】

【Remaining time: 24 hours】

Su Ping did not hesitate and immediately stepped into this seven-colored bubble.

Immediately, Su Ping discovered that he had appeared in a blank room with nothing in it.

Then, Su Ping felt that his train of thought was in a state of unprecedented clarity.

No matter what he thought of, it seemed he could immediately perform calculations and vaguely see the final destination of those calculations.

"Is this the effect of improved comprehension?"

After Su Ping felt that he had no discomfort in this state, he took out a large number of Array-related Jade Slips and began to study them.

From easy to difficult, from simple to profound.

Then he simulated the full appearance of the First Tier Arrays he learned in his mind and performed test runs, thereby successfully mastering them completely.

The learning process of the Arrays went as smoothly as if everything was meant to be this way.

And as he learned more and more Array knowledge, Su Ping discovered that he could even draw inferences about other cases, and even improve existing Arrays!

However, Su Ping was still very clear that this ability relied entirely on the Misty Illusion Realm, so he did not spend time researching how to improve Arrays, but chose to continue learning new Array knowledge!

Such a wonderful journey of growth, generally speaking, is unsustainable.

Under normal circumstances, maintaining such a highly efficient learning method would consume a huge amount of a cultivator's Essence, Spirit, and Qi.

So even if there were a month of time, it would be impossible to maintain such high learning efficiency every single moment.

However, Su Ping, who came prepared, was different.

Besides studying, he did not forget to eat and drink large amounts of nutrient-rich items for replenishment.

And once his Essence, Spirit, and Qi were exhausted, and continuing to learn with high efficiency would produce severe side effects.

Su Ping would immediately restore his own state by taking Purification Spirit Medicine and two other types of Spirit Herbs.

Such crazy, bitter cultivation.

Suddenly, with a soft *pop*!

The seven-colored bubble burst and disappeared.

One day had passed in the outside world.

Su Ping, who had spent a month in the Misty Illusion Realm, appeared in the room while maintaining a cross-legged posture.

A warm spring breeze blew gently from all around Zhaoyue Tingfeng Pavilion.

It made Su Ping feel refreshed all over, and he couldn't help but stretch his waist vigorously.

Then, out of habit, he wanted to continue studying the Array knowledge he had just interrupted.

But he suddenly discovered that his train of thought and everything else had vanished all at once.

Looking at the subsequent Array content, Su Ping felt a certain sense of obscurity and obstruction.

"Hoo!"

Su Ping hurriedly closed his eyes to adjust his mindset, then exhaled a long breath of turbid air, exhaling the feeling of loss that had just appeared on him.

The feeling of falling from the clouds from the state of a peerless genius and becoming an ordinary cultivator.

"The comprehension is gone, but fortunately, the knowledge I have already learned will not be forgotten."

"And I can feel that these Arrays I learned with peerless talent are even better when cast than those old Array Masters who have bitterly cultivated for hundreds of years!"

"Some insights and essences regarding Arrays cannot be obtained by those old Array Masters no matter how long they bitterly cultivate without the blessing of peerless comprehension!"

"In this month of bitter cultivation, besides having a comprehensive basic understanding of the Array Compendium, I have mastered twelve types of First Tier Arrays and two types of Second Tier Arrays."

"Placed in the Cultivation World, can I at least be called a Second Tier Array Master now?"

In the Cultivation World, Second Tier skills usually correspond to the Foundation Establishment Stage.

The treatment a Second Tier Array Master can get by running to various Markets is usually no lower than that of a local Foundation Establishment Guest Minister.

However, Su Ping learned Array knowledge mostly intending to use it on himself, and he had no intention of exposing his trump cards for a little bit of petty profit.

After resting for a while in the Pot Heaven, letting the two snake women serve him with bathing and changing clothes, and eating and drinking well.

Only then did Su Ping return to the Jiuye Mountain Market.

And he ascended to the high sky, overlooking the entire Market at a glance!

Although it seemed like only one day had passed.

At this moment, Jiuye Mountain presented a completely different appearance in Su Ping's eyes.

In the eyes of a Second Tier Array Master, the Arrays of Jiuye Mountain did not utilize the heaven and earth energy of this mountain range at all.

They were just forcefully extracting weak Spirit Veins from the mountain range to drive the Array Marks.

This is truly the lowest of the low in arrays!

"Weak! This array is truly too weak!"

"As a genius Array Master, I cannot allow the base to have such an array! Not even if it is only temporary!"

Su Ping flashed over to the storage room.

After taking the materials, and without the people in the Market noticing at all.

Su Ping began his first practical operation after becoming an Array Master!

Relying on the support of his Foundation Establishment cultivation, and the fact that he was not setting it up from scratch.

Su Ping only used one day and one night to complete the improvement of the Nine Leaves Mountain grand array.

It still looked like that First Tier Yunwu Mixuo Zhi Zhen.

For power supply, besides the Qi of the surrounding mountains, rivers, sun, and moon, he also placed three mid-grade Spirit Stones at the core.

This caused the radiation range after the improvement to change from only reaching the foot of the mountain to being able to spread to more than twenty kilometers outside the mountain.

In terms of strength, it also directly increased from First Tier Low Grade to First Tier High Grade.

Even a Foundation Establishment Cultivator would be trapped in this mist array for a while if they were caught off guard.

It can be said to be completely sufficient for dealing with the minor accidents that the Jiuye Mountain Market usually encounters.

Su Ping's first attempt at practice could be considered a complete success; while setting up the array, Su Ping discovered that he actually had a feeling of being handy at it.

The practical operation proved that he really had learned it, rather than his brain knowing it while his hands protested that they didn't understand.

After the array was set up, in the days that followed.

Considering that he had a Nether Ghost Body in his possession.

While starting his daily cultivation, Su Ping made full use of his identity as Baihe Zhenren to inquire about news regarding the Dao of Incense from the surrounding cultivator forces.

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Five days later.

Yunshan Market.

The new session of the Yunshan Exchange Meeting, hosted by Deacon Xiao Mu Zhenren, the nephew of Mu Zhenren, achieved complete success.

Several high-quality high-grade Dharma Artifacts appeared at this exchange meeting, and it was rumored that they all came from certain Ancient Relics.

This drew a scramble from the Qi Refining families present.

Su Ping kept looking at all this with indifference and did not participate in the competition.

He only bought a little Spirit Wine and materials, which counted as supporting this exchange meeting.

Then, from the private exchanges that followed, he sought out Xiao Mu Zhenren to ask for information.

First was the Overseas Islands; the fact that the ruins of the Beidou Qixing Sect had turned into a Secret Realm, leading to the fall of many Foundation Establishment cultivators, was news Su Ping already knew.

However, subsequent accidents occurred.

It is rumored that a Golden Core Elder of the Artifact Heart Sect piloted a Giant Immortal Boat and arrived at that island.

And after taking multiple Foundation Establishment cultivators into the Secret Realm.

They actually fled in a panic from a Space Crack somewhere above the island after only a few hours.

Then they went directly into the Immortal Boat and drove the Immortal Boat back to the Artifact Heart Sect!

This move by the Golden Core Elder frightened the large and small cultivation forces in the vicinity, and their thoughts of treasure hunting vanished directly!

They all turned around and stayed away from that island.

Xiao Mu Zhenren also returned to Yunshan Market because of this.

As for helping Mu Zhenren retrieve the remains or anything like that, it could only be discussed later.

Xiao Mu Zhenren was not very clear about the subsequent situation on that island; he only knew that the sect had announced that the Secret Realm had been too deeply polluted by Evil Spirits.

All members of the sect were forbidden from approaching within a hundred miles without an order!

At the same time, that island was now being blockaded by a fleet sent by the Artifact Heart Sect.

They said that once the arrangements were made, they would set up an array to dispel the evil.

Su Ping had been to that eerie Secret Realm.

While knowing that some great terror was hidden in the depths of the Secret Realm's tomb, it also seemed to have some great opportunity, whether true or false!

After hearing what Xiao Mu Zhenren said, his heart stirred, and he suspected that the Artifact Heart Sect might also be tempted by the things in the depths of the Secret Realm.

That was why they went to blockade the island themselves and prepared to take action personally.

Otherwise, shouldn't they have asked a professional High Monk from the Great Golden Light Temple for help?

"The Overseas Islands, it feels like it's starting to become unsafe too."

Su Ping shook his head slightly and sighed.

He did not think highly of the Artifact Heart Sect's act of hogging the spoils this time, suspecting that the other party would flip their cart.

Hearing this, Xiao Mu Zhenren also revealed a bitter smile:

"Where is there any absolutely safe place now?"

"Actually, the Central Region is still quite good; under the suppression of the Chiyuan Immortal Sect, the monsters and demons are quite few, and at least we have lived peaceful days for so many years."

"In the Nanhuang and Western Desert regions, large and small forces are intertwined; the forces of the Dao of Incense that you were curious about before are rooted there."

"The big ones are fine, as they only use the power of incense as an auxiliary, but those small sects—the harm they cause is far greater than that of Evil Spirits and Demon Beasts!"

"You haven't been there, so you don't know what those lunatics have done for the sake of incense!"

"That is truly where human life is as cheap as grass!"

Xiao Mu Zhenren sighed repeatedly as he said this.

"Next time, there will be three more high-grade Dharma Artifacts appearing at the exchange meeting."

Su Ping looked at the other party and whispered a Secret Language message.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Mu Zhenren slightly cupped his hands, then quietly handed a Jade Slip to Su Ping.

Su Ping did not check it immediately, simply placing it into his sleeve.

After taking his leave and departing, he found a mountain cave on the road back.

Only after returning to the Pot Heaven did he take out the Jade Slip to confirm there was nothing unusual, and then he probed it with his Divine Sense.

This Jade Slip recorded some basic knowledge regarding the Incense Divine Path.

At the same time, it focused on introducing information related to more than ten sects that had established their schools by relying on the Incense Divine Path.

"Interesting, the path of incense truly has many mysteries!"

"It seems that if there is an opportunity in the future, I must make a trip to Nanhuang!"