Chapter 911: Neck Feathers

The water waves of the White Pool rippled immediately, and the words 【Feather Transformation】 at the bottom of the pool could be vaguely seen shining. Six streams of light actually leaped up from it, scrambling to fall into his palm, turning into six pure white long feathers.

These feathers were six inches long and pure white throughout. Although they were called feathers, the entire white feather was a single entity, as if cast from silver. The edges were extremely sharp. Under the faint magic power radiance in the cave dwelling, fine scales appeared on the surface of the feather pieces, like rippling water waves.

Early Zifu spiritual resources of the Mansion Water 【Neck Feathers】! Li Xi-ming immediately took out a jade box, happily put the six 【Neck Feathers】 into the box, and picked up a piece of 【Wall Sinking Water】, gently putting it into the box to warm and nourish the Early Zifu spiritual resources.

Strange to say, once the 【Wall Sinking Water】 left the pool, it immediately became clear and transparent, shining on the six feathers in the box, making them flicker even more brilliantly, the water waves floating as if they were living things.

With these six 【Neck Feathers】 in hand, Li Xi-ming felt even more comfortable. Although he did not cultivate Mansion Water, 【Neck Feathers】 were Early Zifu spiritual resources no matter what, and the number of six was definitely not small.

So he lowered his head to look, secretly estimating: "Six white feathers are six hundred years, and the 【Wall Sinking Water】 in the pool occupied seventy percent, which means seventy years, a total of six hundred and seventy years... Six hundred and seventy years ago, the Yuan family fled to Jiangnan, and the Green Pool Sect was just founded... There was actually a cultivator with such profound Mansion Water!"

He crossed this pool and communicated with the array. He heard crisp glass sounds ringing everywhere, and six gorgeous large doors appeared on the smooth walls around the main hall, each facing one direction.

These were the other side halls! Li Xi-ming stepped in. The first place was a long corridor with another world inside. A sweep of spiritual sense revealed a total of sixteen small mansions used to store spiritual objects, all empty and tidy. The first one still had traces of bottles and jars, while the remaining places were closed and spotless. He did not know if there had never been anything put in them, or if they had been moved away early...

Li Xi-ming could only push the door into the first place, sorted it out, and finally only took out two boxes of 【White Partridge Yuan Spring】. This Foundation Establishment level Mansion Water was good at warming and nourishing other things. Back then, Ting Lan's 【Tianyi Chun Yuan】 was preserved with this object. Now it was empty, clearly the things preserved had been taken away.

'The owner of Zhen Tao Mansion seemed to have no disciples or descendants. He would rather turn the warehouse for storing spiritual objects into sixteen rooms, only using one himself, and there was not a single cave dwelling that could be used by low-level cultivators...'

'But now that it has fallen into my family's hands, when manpower comes, we can modify it, take out these sixteen spiritual warehouses, and turn them into cave dwellings for the descendants to use.'

He stepped out and arrived at the side. A burst of heat rushed toward him. It was a place for forging tools with black Brother Xuan stones and bricks. In the center was a tool furnace, various spiritual tools were hung everywhere, and pure black Mansion Water flowed down with a clatter, flowing along the patterns on the ground.

Beside it was another small pool, clearly used for quenching fire. The 【Wall Sinking Water】 in it was different from the one in the center of the cave dwelling main hall, clear and transparent, even with a faint green color.

'It really is the Mansion Water tool forging method. This black one is 【Wushe Spiritual Water】, used by the outside world to cultivate spells, and stored in some spiritual bottles and magic tools to defend against enemies...'

Li Xi-ming did not know much about tool forging, so he naturally could not understand. He scanned it like looking at flowers from horseback, and finally found an ink-colored long saber in the quenching fire on the side.

Li Xi-ming only took this one look, and he understood:

"Ancient magic tool, high probability of being a degraded spiritual embryo."

He put it away and secretly calculated the Mansion Water Early Zifu of Jiangnan. After thinking about it, he soon had an idea: 'Senior Chen Yin cultivates "Mansion Water". Although the lineage is not continued, there are no other Mansion Water Purple Mansions. I must see him!'

He soon turned to the next place, which was the rear hall of the owner of Zhen Tao Mansion.

Compared with the luxury in this main hall, this place appeared plain. Although it was wide, it was only the size of a courtyard. Most of it was just paved with ancient blue bricks, and the things were also very ordinary. There was no bed, more like a study, except for an ordinary ink brush on the desk, padded with a piece of paper.

Li Xi-ming swept his gaze and saw the brushwork turning:

"Poor winter and weak, prosperity and capacity, the image of Mansion Water. Cold Qi and female water are both present, how can Mansion Water not be proven? Only hate that the Yu steals the abyss, the Brother Xuan turtle loses the vastness, from now on the nature is hard to combine!"

This handwriting was pure black, without any radiance. This piece of white paper of unknown material, after receiving such a paragraph, actually became like white jade, and the curled part emitted a halo.

This desk was empty, except for this brush and paper. Directly in front was a jade slip, which had not been locked, but was just a Foundation Establishment method. Li Xi-ming probed with his spiritual sense, and it was familiar to the point of being unable to be more familiar: "Jianghe and Sea One Qi Formula" — Achievement of Immortal Foundation "Vast Sea"! Li Xi-ming looked at the handwriting quietly, silently took out a jade box from his sleeve, picked up the white paper that was almost like a jade board, put it into the jade box, and stared for a long time:

'How can Mansion Water not be proven? Only hate that the Yu steals the abyss, the Brother Xuan turtle loses the vastness, from now on the nature is hard to combine!'

'Vast Sea' was the first Foundation Establishment achieved by the Li family's ancestor, Li Li Tongya. Not to mention Li Xi-ming, every cultivator of the Li family could recite it fluently: 'Kan Water "Vast Sea", anciently called "Jing Dragon King"... I fear this is the vastness!'

'Yu... the Kan Water phase is actually Yu. The book records: In the streams and ridges of Jiangnan, there is a water-shooting inch-bow insect, which attacks people's shadows with Qi, and kills people without treatment, which also fits...'

Kan Water is the water of streams and ruggedness. Li Xi-ming was used to it early on and did not have much doubt. Now looking at it again, he felt something was wrong: 'Why change the name? How can Kan Water be known for vastness? There must be variables. Mansion Water is called lake and marsh. Now the lake and marsh are withered, which corresponds to losing its vastness...'

'It's just that I haven't heard of any obvious strength or weakness restraint between Kan and Mansion. I only heard that the Mansion Mansion is reconciled with Qi Gold, but there is no way to reconcile Kan Water and He Water.'

He only felt secretly shocked. Although his cultivation was not very high, he secretly understood a lot: 'Kan Water stole the vastness of Mansion Water, "Vast Sea"... With the domineering and lonely heart of the dragon attribute, how can it tolerate other lineages calling themselves Vast Sea? If Senior Xiao wants to prove Kan Water, I fear that the dragon attribute is also a trouble!'

His gaze moved slightly, and finally stayed on the jade slip in front of him.

' "Jianghe and Sea One Qi Formula"... Even if it is not related to Lingyu Gate, it is related to the Chen clan of Ning State... It just so happens that Chen Yin also cultivates Mansion Water. Although these two Chen clans are not the same family, they are also matched!'

This matter made him silent. The Xiao family and the Chen clan were ambiguous, and their ancestors had many connections. Everything seemed to have a long-standing origin. He vaguely saw how many setbacks there would be on Xiao Xiao Chuting's path in the future, silently went out from the hall, and turned to the next place quietly.

Of the remaining three places, one was extremely empty, with nothing. On the ground was a ring-shaped altar-like decoration, painted with water wave patterns, which was also empty. Li Xi-ming secretly pondered, and had a guess in his heart: "A spiritual tree was once planted here. The owner of Zhen Tao Mansion should have taken it away before leaving..."

Another was a pavilion of scriptures. Although it was decorated very beautifully, the owner of this cave dwelling was obviously very perfunctory. Not only was the place very small, but the shelves were also empty, not as if they had been taken away, but as if nothing had ever been put on them.

These two places had no gains. Li Xi-ming finally fell to the Brother Xuan gate that was symmetrical to the Tool Forging Hall, and pushed the door in with hope.

Sure enough, it was the Pill Hall! This place was extremely wide, decorated with Mansion Water patterns. In the center was a blue-gold pill furnace that reached to the high place, as high as a pagoda. The six corners all had Brother Xuan turtle roaring images, each three or four times taller than an ordinary person, with their mouths facing the pill furnace, emitting a faint light.

As he stepped in, the surroundings immediately brightened. The lamp bases emitted the light of lake water rising and falling, reflecting each other, illuminating the entire Pill Hall with the light of rippling water waves.

"Good pill furnace!"

Li Xi-ming's eyes lit up immediately. He took a step forward and placed one hand on the pill furnace, sensing it carefully.

'It really is the Mansion Water pill refining method...'

The pill furnace in the center was named 【Wide Lake】. It was not a simple magic tool, but a pill furnace built by forging several parts separately and then stacking and splicing them together. It was connected with the array and became a complex pill array system, embedded here.

And the six-cornered Brother Xuan turtle roaring images were also part of the whole. If Li Xi-ming guessed correctly, once the pill furnace was opened, the six-cornered Brother Xuan turtle roaring images would immediately spit out Mansion Water, connecting to the pill furnace in the center together, assisting in refining.

'If the owner of the cave dwelling used the Mansion Water pill refining technique, I fear this furnace is comparable to the Early Zifu level. As for ordinary fire refining, it is much inferior, but it is still something that the 【Treasure Elephant Furnace】 cannot compare to.'

He turned around quite treasure-like, looking at the form of the 【Wide Lake】 pill array, feeling shocked in his heart: 'Is this cave dwelling not the territory of more than one Early Zifu? If it is not someone who knows from birth, how can anyone have such attainments in both pill and tool paths at the same time!'

So he walked down, satisfied, resisted the urge to open the fire and try the pill furnace, and secretly rejoiced: "Although having this pill furnace is Mansion Water, I fear it is not easy to reconcile with Kan Water, and it is difficult to slaughter Ding Brother Xuan Yangzi two more times, but it will always be useful in the future..."

He returned with a full load, pushed the door out of the Pill Hall, and returned to the main hall. Although the spiritual energy here was not as good as the Sun and Moon Shining Together Heaven, it was extremely luxurious for the descendants of the clan to practice!

Now he arrived in front of the pool with a smile, looking at the rippling 【Feather Transformation Pool】, and pondered for a while.

'【Storing Spirit】 is mysterious, can condense 【Wall Sinking Water】, fill a pool in a hundred years, and turn into Early Zifu spiritual resources 【Neck Feathers】.'

His expression became intriguing. His figure disappeared in place, turned into light and fell into the Tool Hall, and came out in an instant, having already taken out the pool of 【Wall Sinking Water】 used for quenching fire, condensed it into a water ball, and held it in his palm.

Li Xi-ming flicked his finger lightly, and this 【Wall Sinking Water】 immediately sank and was all injected into the 【Feather Transformation Pool】!

'Can I only wait for it to condense? Can't I collect 【Wall Sinking Water】 myself and inject it into the pool!'

Sure enough, as the pool water continued to rise and gradually filled up, the color gradually faded. The transparent and clear 【Wall Sinking Water】 fell into it and immediately turned into a pure white color. The array in the cave dwelling also began to operate rapidly, the foundation of the Brother Xuan Mansion condensed, and various mysteries were emitted, affecting the water in the pool.

According to the feedback of the array, Li Xi-ming estimated slightly that it would only take one year for this portion of 【Neck Feathers】 to be successfully condensed!

He was immediately overjoyed, looking at the pool water under his feet with excitement: "So this is how it is used. If not, who can wait for a hundred years? How many hundred years does a Early Zifu have!"

"This is the real money tree... equivalent to a Early Zifu spiritual tree, which can continuously produce Early Zifu spiritual resources. Even a Early Zifu spiritual tree may not be able to produce a Early Zifu spiritual resource every year! This is the power of this mystery, this is the real usage!"

"It's just that it can't be produced out of thin air. It needs to collect a considerable amount of 【Wall Sinking Water】. Over time, the price will inevitably rise. The main thing is to find the source of mass production... But what a good thing it is to transform low-level spiritual objects into Early Zifu spiritual resources?! As for 【Wall Sinking Water】, I used to think it took up space in the storage bag!"

He looked at it with satisfaction for a while, studied the entire cave dwelling inside and out again, and finally was willing to go out. Before the cave dwelling, the stone gate gradually closed, and only then did he ponder while looking at the three words 【Zhen Tao Mansion】.

'The connection with the Chen clan of Ning State cannot be escaped, but no matter what, Changzhou Island should be stationed with my family's troops.'

After all, this Early Zifu array was set up according to the land and absolutely could not be moved. I fear that even if so many array experts of the Bright Yang lineage joined forces, they could not guarantee that the mystery would still work after changing the place, so they could only send manpower over.

"Not to mention that there is a Sha Lake outside, isolating spiritual energy, which is a natural barrier against the Early Zifu."

He traveled through light, not forgetting the 【Earth Sha Cold Spring】 spring eye in that Sha Lake. He entered the water and sure enough saw thick black ice frozen in the water at the bottom of the Sha Lake. The Kan Water Qi transformed by the 【Testing Kan】 mystery blew on the surface of the black ice like rolling gray wind, transforming the 【Earth Sha Cold Spring】 into 【You Zhong Qian Sha Liquid】.

But just by looking at it, he realized that the so-called Brother Xuan Mansion foundation of the 【Brother Xuan Turtle Zhen Mansion Spiritual Array】 was where the 【Earth Sha Cold Spring】 spring eye was! The water vein, earth vein, and spiritual vein had merged into one. The 【Earth Sha Cold Spring】 and the Sha Lake were also products of this Brother Xuan Mansion foundation! 'It is not because there is a natural Sha Lake here that the array is set up here, but because the mystery of this array caused the birth of this Sha Lake after a hundred years... This Sha Lake barrier without spiritual energy was already in his calculations!'

'Not to mention that the three veins merged into one. Once someone forcibly breaks this array, this cave dwelling will inevitably collapse. Let alone 【Cave Egret Brother Xuan Water】, even the few main halls inside cannot be kept! The array art is truly miraculous!'

Li Xi-ming observed this Brother Xuan Mansion foundation in disbelief, and secretly sighed: 'This is the handwriting of a figure from the heavens! Not to mention others, even if True Person Ziyou, who has the highest cultivation in Jiangnan, came to set up the array, I fear he might not be able to do it so naturally and perfectly!'

So he swept a few glances, swept with spiritual sense, and estimated that there were three or four portions of 【Earth Sha Cold Spring】 under the black ice, but there were no treasures to speak of, so he traveled through the earth veins with light, and traveled out of the earth in a short while.

Outside, the night wind was strong, the sea was pitch black, and there were dots of fire on the island. He was in a great mood, rode the light, and returned all the way.

The excuse for coming out this time was to go to the Southern Border to search for the traces of spiritual fire. Naturally, it was impossible to return to the lake so hastily. There was still plenty of time, so he entered the Great Void, detoured to the southwest, and flew toward the Southern Border.

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