Chapter 607: Crystal Lotus, Strange Flying Sword (Combined Chapter)

This cave entrance is less than two feet in radius, only enough to accommodate one person, and it is pitch black below, but the spiritual energy emanating from it is faintly richer than that in the stone cave.

Before, Song Qingyu also sensed this when searching nearby, and discovered the clues hidden under the stone table.

Song Qingming looked at the bottom of the cave entrance, and said with some joy: "The spiritual energy below is so rich, it should be the location of the real cave dwelling hidden by this predecessor!"

"I think it should be. That monster king just now was just a common spirit-seeking and treasure-hunting spirit beast. It hid below for so long and was actually cultivated to the mid-stage of Jin Dan. It can be seen that this predecessor should have left a lot of good things below.

There is nothing useful in this stone cave, let's hurry down and take a look!" He Mengxin nodded and agreed with He Mengxin's proposal.

Xia Mo on the side stared at the cave entrance for a few times, and did not say anything more, soon nodded and agreed to He Mengxin's proposal.

In order to prevent any powerful monsters below, or prohibition formations, mechanisms, and messages, the crowd did not rush this time.

Song Qingming patted the spirit beast bag at his waist, directly summoned several "Golden Illusion Butterflies," and then commanded them to fly into the cave to investigate first.

After about a cup of tea, Song Qingming, who had been closing his eyes, slowly opened his eyes, smiled, and said to the crowd: "At a distance of about two hundred zhang below, there is a space larger than here.

I patrolled around and did not find any living things, nor did I touch any prohibition formations. There should be no major danger below."

"That's great! Let's go down first!" After Xia Mo finished speaking, an escape light floated under her feet, and she jumped into the black hole in front of her first, and soon disappeared before everyone's eyes.

Following closely, He Mengxin and Song Qingyu jumped down one after another, and Song Qingming was the last one.

After passing through the passage of several hundred zhang, the four soon fell onto a very flat bluestone.

Scanning the surroundings, Song Qingming and the few immediately revealed a look of joy. The space below and the stone cave above looked similar on the surface, just a little larger.

However, there were more spiritual objects placed around than above. In the middle position, there was a huge refining furnace that had not been used for a long time.

Seeing this refining furnace, the crowd immediately understood that the magic tools and magic treasures seen above before should have been refined by the owner of the cave dwelling here.

He Mengxin stepped forward to look at the prohibition under the furnace, and said with surprise:

"There is actually a high-level fire vein here. When the owner of the cave dwelling chose to open a cave dwelling here, I am afraid it was for this fire vein.

Fortunately, this person has already sealed the earth fire below with prohibitions before leaving. Otherwise, with no one guarding here for so many years, once the earth fire spread, all the spiritual objects in this cave dwelling would have been reduced to ashes."

Hearing He Mengxin say that there is a high-level fire vein here, Song Qingming and Song Qingyu also revealed a look of surprise.

The so-called fire vein is the place that almost all alchemists and refiners in the cultivation world like most.

In such a place, as long as you break through the earth vein and introduce the earth fire in the earth vein, and then set up formation prohibitions to control these earth fires, you can use these earth fires for alchemy and refining all year round.

Using earth fire to refine spiritual objects is not only more stable, can improve the success probability of cultivators refining spiritual objects, but also save cultivators a lot of spirit stones for purchasing fire-inducing materials.

Low-level fire veins are not difficult to find. In many cultivation families above Foundation Establishment in the State of Wei, there are their own fire veins, which are used for the family's alchemy and refining.

The Song family has developed for so many years, and also found a low-level fire vein with better quality on Mount Funiu, and built a family alchemy pavilion on it, which can barely be used by family cultivators to refine first and second-tier low-level elixirs and magic tools.

Compared to low-level fire veins, mid-level fire veins with better grades are rare. There are not many such spiritual mountains in the whole State of Wei, and most of them are held in the hands of the Xiaoyao Sect.

There is also a mid-level fire vein on Mount Tuoyun, which was developed by Chen Jinliang back then and is usually used for his own alchemy.

After Chen Jinliang passed away, because there were no alchemists above the third tier on the mountain, Lin Yutang and the others could not use these fire veins much in recent years, so they simply opened them to all cultivators on the mountain.

No matter who it is, if you want to refine elixirs or refine tools, you can use that fire vein by spending some spirit stones.

Relying on this, the Jin Yunge not only won over many high-tier alchemists and refiners to settle on Mount Tuoyun, but also earned a lot of spirit stones for Lin Yutang and the others every year by relying on this mid-level fire vein.

After Huang Siyuan advanced to a second-tier alchemist, she basically chose to use that mid-level fire vein on Mount Tuoyun for refining second-tier elixirs.

As for the rarer high-level fire veins, there is only one on Mount Guyang in the whole State of Wei, which is basically held by the high-level of the Xiaoyao Sect, and ordinary people have very little chance to use it.

Because Song Qingming is not a high-tier alchemist or refiner, although he joined the Xiaoyao Sect and became a guest elder of the sect over the years, he has never had the opportunity to use that high-level fire vein.

The high-level fire vein in front of him, although very precious, is unfortunately something that cannot be taken away. Looking at it, everyone felt somewhat reluctant, but could only sigh with regret.

However, although the high-level fire vein cannot be taken away, the third-tier refining furnace above can be taken down.

A third-tier mid-quality refining furnace can be exchanged for about 20,000 spirit stones, which is also a very good precious spiritual object.

Song Qingming did it himself, erased the prohibition runes on the refining furnace, and took down the third-tier mid-quality refining furnace directly.

After putting away the refining furnace, the group left the location of the fire vein and began to search for spiritual objects around the fire vein.

The crowd searched around and found three third-tier low-quality magic treasures that had not been refined and a refining inheritance recording high-level refiners on a stone table on the side.

After looking at the spiritual objects that were not useful around, Song Qingming and the few turned their direction and came to the other side of the stone room.

Compared to the refining place just searched, this side is obviously the place where the owner of the cave dwelling practiced daily.

In the middle position, there is a golden cushion emitting spiritual light. It doesn't look like an ordinary product at first glance, and it was soon put into the storage magic treasure by He Mengxin.

Behind the cushion, there are two rows of very conspicuous stone shelves. One side is filled with various books and notes, and the other side is filled with bottles and jars used for holding spiritual objects and elixirs.

However, compared to the relatively neat appearance of other places in the cave dwelling, this area is much messier.

Some jade bottles and porcelain jars placed on the stone shelves were basically opened, lying on their sides and in a mess. Many had fallen to the ground and shattered, and even some things inside had deteriorated and turned into ashes.

Beside one of the stone shelves, there was also a spirit beast bag that had been bitten with a big hole, and it was empty inside.

The gray mouse monster king that Song Qingming and the others encountered earlier, if there was no accident, should have run out of this bag and left it here.

Looking at the mess on the ground, the crowd could also guess that this should not be intentional by the owner of the cave dwelling, but caused by that gray mouse monster king after it ran out.

Because too much time had passed, many bottles containing spiritual objects on the shelves had basically been opened, swallowed, or damaged by that gray mouse monster king.

The four searched around the shelves and found four or five bottles of ordinary spiritual objects that were still somewhat useful, the best of which was a bottle of third-tier spiritual water, which could be somewhat useful to Jin Dan cultivators.

The books and notes placed on the other side of the shelves, after the crowd stepped forward to open and check, found that most of them were ordinary low-tier cultivation methods, or books recording various strange stories, elixirs, and spiritual objects.

There were no high-tier cultivation methods or secret techniques of the Jin Dan or Nascent Soul stages that they imagined. For Song Qingming and these Jin Dan cultivators, these books and notes did not have much useful value.

After searching around, what made the crowd somewhat unexpected was that they did not find the remains of the owner of the cave dwelling here, nor did they see any storage magic treasures.

It seems that the owner of this cave dwelling did not pass away here, but for some reason left this place and never returned.

Just when the crowd was slightly disappointed, Xia Mo, who was on the side, suddenly had her eyes attracted when she glanced at a corner of the stone room, and immediately walked over quickly.

Song Qingming and the few saw this and followed up, and soon everyone came to a small water pool by the corner.

This water pool was obviously built artificially, with a size of three or four feet in radius. The spring water flowing inside carried a touch of deep blue, not the transparent color common outside.

In the middle of the water pool, there was a light blue lotus flower with two leaves. It didn't look very eye-catching, and the spiritual energy contained on it was not particularly powerful, as if it were just an ordinary low-tier spiritual medicine.

"This is a crystal lotus, it looks like it has matured!"

Seeing this light blue lotus flower that didn't look eye-catching, He Mengxin on the side shouted with joy.

Seeing He Mengxin so excited after seeing this object, Song Qingming was also slightly surprised, and hurriedly asked softly:

"I have also heard the name of crystal lotus before. Although I have never seen it with my own eyes, I also know that this object is a fourth-tier spiritual medicine. How did Fellow Daoist He confirm that the spiritual object in this pool water is a crystal lotus?"

Song Qingming has practiced the Dao for more than a hundred years, and has also read many books and notes describing various high-tier spiritual medicines in the cultivation world, among which there are records about high-tier spiritual medicines like crystal lotus.

This object can refine several high-tier spiritual elixirs, but it is also very rare and difficult to cultivate to maturity. Even in the spiritual medicine garden of a Nascent Soul large sect like the Xiaoyao Sect, there is no such spiritual medicine planted."

The crystal lotus is a precious fourth-tier spiritual medicine after maturity. No matter how you look at it, this light blue lotus flower that he saw in front of him, which is not eye-catching, is somewhat inconsistent.

Seeing that Song Qingming and Song Qingyu were both looking at themselves with curious eyes, He Mengxin hurriedly explained:

"This object is indeed a crystal lotus. The reason why I recognize this object is also because there are a few similar spiritual medicines being cultivated in our Hundred Flowers Palace's spiritual medicine garden, but they have not yet fully matured.

After this crystal lotus matures, it can automatically hide its own aura. It is very normal for you to misunderstand, and if I hadn't helped to cultivate and take care of this kind of spiritual medicine several times in the sect's spiritual medicine garden, it would be extremely difficult for me to recognize it at a glance."

"Junior Sister Liu is right. This crystal lotus has matured but has not been eaten by that monster, which should also be the reason."

As soon as Xia Mo finished speaking, her spiritual light moved, and she used her own magic power to turn into a giant hand, grabbed the "crystal lotus" in the water pool, and wanted to pull it directly out of the water pool.

The giant hand just touched the "crystal lotus," and the petals that were originally not eye-catching and somewhat too ordinary immediately lit up with a blue spiritual light, emanating a very powerful spiritual power aura.

"It is indeed a fourth-tier spiritual medicine. I didn't expect that we could have such an opportunity!"

After feeling the aura pressure emanating from the "crystal lotus" at this moment, and seeing the true face of this object, Song Qingming also couldn't help but exclaim.

Not only Song Qingming, but Song Qingyu and He Mengxin on the side were also excited when they saw this scene.

If spiritual medicines above the third tier are things that can be met but not sought, then fourth-tier spiritual medicines are truly high-tier spiritual objects that most ordinary cultivators will not have the opportunity to see in their lifetime.

Fourth-tier spiritual medicines, even at top-tier auctions near the Floating Yunshan Range like the Seven Stars Assembly, Song Qingming had never seen such spiritual objects, which shows that the value of fourth-tier spiritual medicines can no longer be measured by spirit stones.

Song Qingming estimated that if this "crystal lotus" were taken to a large auction house, if there were no accidents, it should be able to easily sell for a sky-high price of about 100,000 spirit stones.

During the last trip to the "Heaven-Reaching Tower," Song Qingming only brought out a few third-tier low-quality spiritual medicines from inside, and didn't even see a third-tier top-quality spiritual medicine, let alone fourth-tier or higher spiritual medicines.

As Xia Mo's magic power surged, the blue light on the "crystal lotus" became brighter and brighter, soon illuminating the entire stone cave very brightly.

A moment later, the giant hand in front of Xia Mo pulled up this spiritual medicine, directly took the "crystal lotus" into her hand, and the blue light on the spiritual medicine quickly extinguished after it was in hand, leaving only a layer of faint spiritual light.

Before Song Qingming and the few could step forward to observe this object carefully, Xia Mo's spiritual light moved, and she immediately took out a black wooden box, carefully put this precious spiritual medicine into it, and put it away.

"Spiritual medicines above the fourth tier can trigger heaven and earth anomalies after maturity. It seems that our previous judgment was wrong. The seven-colored ray of light that appeared in this vicinity was not triggered by that monster breaking through the realm, but by this crystal lotus.

Just now when picking the medicine, it has already triggered heaven and earth anomalies, which is afraid to attract those low-tier monsters. To prevent changes, we should not stay here for long, hurry up and search for spiritual objects, and leave quickly!"

Hearing Xia Mo's analysis, Song Qingming and the few felt it made sense, nodded and agreed, and began to search the remaining corners of the cave dwelling to see if there were any missed spiritual objects.

After obtaining a fourth-tier spiritual medicine like "crystal lotus," Song Qingming and the others were somewhat excited, and smiles appeared on their faces.

Although the harvest of this trip was average, and they did not find the relics of the Nascent Soul predecessor that everyone wanted most, being able to find several third-tier spiritual objects, plus the precious fourth-tier spiritual medicine "crystal lotus," was not a wasted trip for Song Qingming and the others.

However, after finding this "crystal lotus," the cave dwelling below had basically been searched by everyone, and there was nothing useful in the remaining corners.

After searching nearby and finding nothing, He Mengxin returned to the water pool, took out a small jade bottle, stepped forward to fill a bottle of the blue liquid in the water pool, and smelled it by her nose.

"It is indeed ice crystal jade liquid, no wonder it can cultivate a mature crystal lotus. It seems that this predecessor also spent a lot of thought on these two spiritual medicines."

He Mengxin said to herself with a smile, took out more than ten jade bottles, and began to fill the blue liquid in the water pool.

Seeing He Mengxin taking bottles to fill the spiritual water inside, Song Qingming, who had also searched around and found nothing, walked over with curiosity.

"Fellow Daoist He, what is this spiritual water, and what is its use?"

Seeing that Song Qingming seemed to be interested in the spiritual

This Ice Crystal Jade Liquid can be used to cultivate spiritual herbs, or it can be fed directly to low-tier spiritual beasts. The fact that the previous demon king was able to successfully cultivate to the Jin Dan realm was likely due to it having swallowed a large amount of Ice Crystal Jade Liquid.

There is still quite a bit of spiritual water in this pool now. If you, Fellow Daoist Song, are interested, you can also take some back. Your Song family also cultivates many spiritual herbs, so there will always be an opportunity to make use of it."

Hearing He Mengxin say this, Song Qingming's face lit up with joy. He immediately took out several relatively large ceramic jars from his person and began to collect the "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid" from the pool.

He Mengxin is a second-tier top-quality spiritual planter; her desire for this "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid" was naturally for the purpose of cultivating spiritual herbs in the future.

Song Qingming, however, had not found anything good, and acting on the principle of not wanting to waste anything, he wanted to take all the excess spiritual water back with him.

According to He Mengxin's introduction, regardless of whether this "Ice Crystal Jade Liquid" is valuable or not, its utility is at least quite significant. Taking it to feed the family's Skyfire Peng might even help it advance to the late-stage of Foundation Establishment sooner.

Xia Mo, standing to the side, saw the actions of Song Qingming and the other, but did not pay any attention to the spiritual water in the pool, nor did he urge Song Qingming and the other.

After circling around and finding no spiritual items, he walked alone to the location in the center where the earth fire was sealed and began to study the formation restrictions above in detail.

Song Qingyu, meanwhile, ran back to the stone shelf area again, still somewhat unwilling to give up, and rummaged through the bottles and jars that everyone had already searched once together.

"Huh! Why is there still a magic tool here!"

Song Qingyu, who was carefully searching the stone shelf, suddenly caught a glimpse of a flying sword stuck in a recessed part of the mountain wall behind the shelf out of the corner of her eye, and her gaze was immediately drawn to it.

The entire blade of this flying sword had been submerged into the stone wall, leaving only a small section of the hilt outside. Judging from the aura still remaining on it, the grade is not high and it does not look like a third-tier magic treasure.

Because the color of the end of the hilt was identical to the mountain wall, and it was blocked by the stone shelf, it would have been very difficult to notice if it weren't for Song Qingyu searching this place so meticulously and unwillingly.

After carefully moving the stone shelf aside, Song Qingyu wrapped two fingers of her right hand in a layer of spiritual power, clamped them directly onto the hilt, and tried with force, wanting to pull the flying sword out of the stone wall.

Somewhat unexpectedly to her, this flying sword seemed to be inserted a bit too deeply into the stone wall; it only moved slightly and was not pulled out directly by Song Qingyu.

Seeing that this flying sword was stuck so tightly, Song Qingyu also felt a bit strange.

If it were a magic treasure that was difficult to drive with her cultivation, that would be one thing, but it is just an ordinary magic tool; even if it were a second-tier top-quality magic tool, Song Qingyu should have been able to pull it out easily.

However, because she had taken pills earlier to temporarily boost her spiritual power, Song Qingyu was still somewhat weak at the moment, and she had not used too much of the spiritual power on her person at the beginning.

Seeing that it could not be pulled out like this, Song Qingyu was also somewhat frustrated; she immediately increased the spiritual power in her hand and clamped the hilt with all her might, pulling with effort.

A moment later, only a sound of friction between the flying sword and the mountain wall was heard. After some effort by Song Qingyu, this flying sword was finally taken out by her from the stone wall.

"What kind of material was used to refine this magic tool, why is it so heavy?"

Song Qingyu, having pulled out the flying sword, took a careful look at the flying sword in her hand with full joy, but then a trace of disappointment appeared on her face again.

The flying sword in Song Qingyu's hand, judging from its aura, should also be a second-tier magic tool, but it seemed to be unfinished; even the blade had not yet been sharpened, and it was just a semi-finished magic tool.

"It really is strange. Why would such a semi-finished magic tool be stuck here instead of being placed in the refining furnace to continue being forged?"

Holding the flying sword, Song Qingyu pondered for a moment, but still could not quite understand it, so she could only shake her head, wanting to put this flying sword away first.

Although this flying sword is a semi-finished product, the weight after holding it in her hand was significantly heavier than other magic tools; even the second-tier top-quality flying sword on her person was far from being this heavy. If it were finished, it should also be a second-tier magic tool.

Taking it back for Song Yuanfang and the others to study might allow it to be modified into a second-tier magic tool, and even if it were melted down directly into materials, it would still be worth some spirit stones; there is no need to discard it directly.

Just as Song Qingyu was casting a spell to use the object-control technique, wanting to store the flying sword in her hand into the storage bag at her waist, a situation that surprised Song Qingyu occurred again.

The moment this flying sword was wrapped by the spiritual power released from Song Qingyu's body, a brilliant light suddenly surged, and a white light flew out from within, submerging directly between Song Qingyu's brows. (End of chapter)