Chapter 348

Ning Zhuo looked up at Mount Wuyin towering between heaven and earth, and then looked at Sun Lingtong, seeing the latter's indifferent attitude, and nodded to the mountain village patrol: "Then I will disturb you."

Although he had Jin Dan level combat power, the Lava Immortal Palace matter had not passed for too long, and the various lessons given to him could be described as vivid in his mind.

Ning Zhuo was cautious by nature.

Since others said it was dangerous in the mountain at night, he would follow the advice, so what was wrong with staying in the mountain village for a night?

"Two distinguished guests, please this way." The patrolling man smiled and took the lead.

Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong followed him into the village.

Not long after, they met the village elder.

The village elder arranged for the two to stay in two guest rooms in the center of the mountain village. Ning Zhuo took twenty spirit stones as room rent and invited the village elder to drink tea at night to talk about Mount Wuyin.

The village elder accepted it very naturally.

This was originally the meaning of what should be.

The patrolling man before saw Ning Zhuo take the initiative to give him a spirit stone as a reward for asking the way, so he changed his mind and invited Sun and Ning to stay in the village.

"Two distinguished guests, this is the Fog-Hidden Tea unique to Mount Wuyin, although it cannot be compared with famous teas, it also has its own characteristics." The village elder hosted them proactively.

Ning Zhuo picked up the teacup and saw that the tea leaves were dark green, but there was a layer of gray-white tea hair on the surface.

A wisp of mist floated from the surface of the tea water, curling and graceful.

At the entrance, the tea soup was bitter at first, lingering on the tip of the tongue like thick fog in the mountain, but this bitterness passed in a flash, leaving a long-lasting sweetness, as if the tranquility and freshness between the mountains after the fog dissipated.

"Self-contained, not bad." Ning Zhuo praised faintly.

On the other side, Sun Lingtong did not open his mouth.

On one hand, he had never had any elegant interest in drinking tea, and for him, drinking tea only had the function of quenching thirst.

On the other hand, Ning Zhuo drank it, so he didn't. After all, they were traveling outside. This was one of the little tacit understandings between him and Ning Zhuo.

The three of them drank tea while communicating.

Sun and Ning gradually had a rough understanding of the Fog-Hidden Mountain village.

This mountain village had about three hundred households, about fifteen hundred people. The highest cultivation in the village was the Foundation Establishment stage, which was the current village head, with a late Foundation Establishment cultivation base. There were six village elders, all of whom had Foundation Establishment cultivation at their peak. Some individuals had suffered serious injuries, and in their later years, their cultivation fell to the Qi Refining stage. But relying on their qualifications and achievements, the villagers respected them.

Talking about the village head, Sun Lingtong asked where he was.

According to reason, Sun and Ning were Foundation Establishment cultivators, and such cultivation was enough for the village head to welcome them personally.

But until now, the village head had not appeared.

The village elder told the two: The village head organized a group of people to deliver grain.

It turned out that eight hundred miles away from Mount Wuyin, there was a Jade Steel Mountain.

This mountain produced a lot of Jade-Moistened Dark Steel, and the Nandou Kingdom opened a mine here, guarded by heavy troops. As time went on, a mountain town developed.

Over the years, there were more and more people in the mountain town, but the Jade Steel Mountain itself was barren of vitality and could not be self-sufficient.

The Nandou Kingdom officials issued instructions, asking the surrounding mountain villages to send people and things, allocate surplus materials, and continuously send them to the town of Jade Steel Mountain.

The mountain villages were all willing to do so.

This was because the materials were sent to Jade Steel Town, where they could be exchanged for a large amount of money and commercial goods. It was not a big profit, but besides a small profit, it could also satisfy the development of the mountain village itself, which was a win-win situation.

The night grew deeper, and Ning Zhuo took the initiative to stop this tea talk.

After the village elder said goodbye, he and Sun Lingtong hid their figures, jumped over the wall, and explored the mountain village at night.

Near where he lived, there were also patrolling personnel.

But mountain villagers, how could they discover Sun and Ning? Sun Lingtong came from the Un-Empty Gate and was best at stealing. Ning Zhuo possessed the Cloud-Hidden Bud, and this kind of strange flower and grass could even deceive Jin Dan levels, so deceiving these patrolling villagers was naturally not a problem.

Sun Lingtong and Ning Zhuo walked shoulder to shoulder, jumping lightly on the roofs of the village houses.

The cool night wind blew on their faces, Sun Lingtong transmitted: "Hehehe, refreshing! Xiao Zhuo, this is the taste of freedom!"

He had long been tired of staying in the Lava Immortal Palace; if it weren't for worrying about his master in the early stage and then worrying about Ning Zhuo, according to his personality, he would have long since left and wandered in the rivers and lakes.

Ning Zhuo also had a smile on his face.

He was born in Fire Persimmon Immortal City, and for fourteen years, he had been racking his brains to plot for the Lava Immortal Palace.

At this moment, the Immortal Palace matter was temporarily over, and he also temporarily put down the huge stone in his heart and the heavy burden on his shoulders, shuttling freely in the night breeze, feeling quite happy.

The two found a high position and stopped instantly.

Sun Lingtong transmitted: "Xiao Zhuo, let's have a competition, how about spiritual sense exploration? I won't take advantage of you, and I will suppress my cultivation to the early Foundation Establishment stage."

Ning Zhuo: "Boss, since you have such refined interests, this younger brother will naturally not spoil the fun."

"Hehehe." Sun Lingtong laughed a few times and immediately scattered his spiritual sense.

Ten feet, thirty feet, sixty feet...

His spiritual sense expanded to two hundred and sixty feet before it stopped.

His spiritual sense covered more than half of the village, and after quietly investigating for a while, he immediately withdrew his spiritual sense.

The speed of withdrawing the spiritual sense was astonishingly fast, and it was all withdrawn in three breaths.

More importantly, the entire process of scattering and recovering the spiritual sense had no momentum leakage, and it was hidden very well. Even if Ning Zhuo was by Sun Lingtong's side, he couldn't feel any fluctuation at all.

It was Ning Zhuo's turn.

He slowly scattered his spiritual sense.

Ten feet, twenty feet, forty feet...

The spiritual sense expanded to one hundred and eighty feet, and it could do nothing, so it had to stop.

The spiritual sense covered a little more than half of the mountain village.

Many villagers were not on guard and were completely unaware, allowing Ning Zhuo to see the various furnishings in the house, as well as the villagers' night activities.

He discovered that many villagers worshipped the Mountain God in their homes. The Mountain God's plaque, portrait, or small shrine, eighty percent were Fox Gods. Only twenty percent had Tiger Gods. And among these twenty percent, most had Fox Gods. That is to say, the Tiger God as the main god was an attachment.

Ning Zhuo was cautious and put away his spiritual sense.

He released his spiritual sense several times slower than Sun Lingtong, and when he put it away, the speed was even slower, dozens of times slower than Sun Lingtong.

Sun Lingtong had been watching Ning Zhuo's performance, and at this moment, he frowned slightly.

"Xiao Zhuo, although you and I have different cultivation levels, you practiced the Three Sects Supreme Method and the Spirit Sea Dantian, so why is your spiritual sense range only one hundred and eighty feet?"

"Don't tell me you are hiding your clumsiness in front of me?"

Ning Zhuo immediately shook his head: "Boss, this is my full strength."

Sun Lingtong was puzzled: "That shouldn't be. One hundred and fifty feet is the average level for Foundation Establishment cultivators, and the Mirror Platform Spirit-Connecting Art is only one hundred and eighty feet? This doesn't make sense."

Ning Zhuo smiled slightly and took the initiative to explain: "Boss, you don't know this. The advantage of the Mirror Platform Spirit-Connecting Art needs to be matched with external objects to appear."

"According to the content of the bell sound transmission, I need to refine sub-mirrors. Each sub-mirror can project my spiritual sense further. Different materials and grades of sub-mirrors have different projection effects."

"If I really have enough sub-mirrors, I can cover the entire Mount Wuyin. However, the spiritual sense after multiple projections of the sub-mirrors is very weak, and it will become very blurry when sensed."

Sun Lingtong smoothed his brows: "So that's how it is."

He was relieved.

The competition just now was also just an excuse for him to help Ning Zhuo better master his spiritual sense. After all, Ning Zhuo had only advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage not long ago, while he, Sun Lingtong, was already at the late Foundation Establishment stage.

Qi Refining cultivators master spiritual thoughts, but relying on themselves, they cannot let spiritual thoughts leave the body to investigate. Even reading a jade slip requires the jade slip to be attached to the brow.

And when they reach the Foundation Establishment stage, spiritual thoughts can condense and sublimate to form spiritual sense. Spiritual sense leaving the body to investigate, in the early Foundation Establishment stage, is generally within a range of one hundred and fifty feet.

Cultivators who specialize in the upper Spirit Sea dantian, when they reach the Foundation Establishment stage, the distance of spiritual sense will exceed one hundred and fifty feet. The more excellent the cultivation method, the more it exceeds.

Sun Lingtong suppressed his cultivation to the early Foundation Establishment stage, and his spiritual sense distance reached two hundred and sixty feet. The Mirror Platform Spirit-Connecting Art came from the Three Sects Supreme Person, yet it was only one hundred and eighty feet, a number much smaller than Sun Lingtong's expectation.

After Ning Zhuo's explanation, he was relieved.

The Mirror Platform Spirit-Connecting Art is different from other cultivation methods; it needs to be matched with external objects to truly exert the advantages of the cultivation method.

Since the development of the cultivation world, countless wonderful cultivation methods have been produced. Some cultivation methods can make spiritual sense ethereal, some can make spiritual sense extremely sharp, and some even develop spiritual sense to act as a means of attack.

The spiritual sense of the Mirror Platform Spirit-Connecting Art needs to be matched with external objects, although it is a bit strange, it also corresponds to the purpose of the Three Sects Supreme Person—after all, it is a mechanical inheritance. Relying on external objects is the characteristic of the Three Sects Supreme Method.

After the investigation, the two quietly returned to the guest room.

No villagers noticed.

Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong lay on their beds, using spiritual thoughts to penetrate the walls, transmitting sound to each other, and secretly communicating the results of the investigation.

When the two talked about the number of Tiger God and Fox God plaques, Sun Lingtong guessed: "The Tiger God and Fox God have already been canonized as main gods by the Nandou Kingdom, enjoying the incense and fire of worship, which can greatly increase their own strength."

"It's just that the Tiger God is too weak. Letting the Fox God scrape incense and fire wantonly, while he remains indifferent, this is not reasonable."

"Don't tell me he was hollowed out by the Fox God?"

In the current cultivation world, humans and gods govern together.

Humans are the main body, and gods are scattered all over the world.

After a cultivation country is established, it will often cut down mountains and break temples within the national borders, suppressing various gods. Some gods are unyielding and are often killed and disintegrated, while some gods submit and are canonized as main gods, receiving the salary and driving of the cultivation court.

A cultivation country itself needs these gods very much to improve the country's ruling power.

Compared with humans, various gods often have simple minds, can endure extreme environments, and can borrow divine power to move clouds and rain, lead water, and open mountains.

And after the gods join the cultivation country, they can absorb incense and fire extensively, communicate with the outside world, and borrow the country's luck to practice.

This is a mutually needed, win-win relationship.