Mortal's Purple Sky Cave Heaven

Chapter 236 Nine Yang Sword Grass
"Master, please tell me what you want to exchange. If it's not too excessive, and I happen to have something that you like, I would be happy to make a deal." Nie Zhaonan expressed his wish clearly in a voice transmission.

Although he also has the secret technique of the second Yuanying, the "Xuanmu Dafa" is a veritable magic technique. The consequences of practicing this secret technique are extremely serious. If the second Yuanying is accidentally lost, there is a risk of being backfired by it.

For him, the righteous secret technique of 'One Qi Transforms into Three Purities' is obviously more applicable.

"Fellow Daoist, just give me one of the things I need." Master Zhiyang paused before continuing to transmit: "Tianyang Flower"

Nie Zhaonan, who had extremely rich knowledge about spiritual medicines, knew as soon as he heard it that what Master Zhiyang was talking about were all extremely strong and yang spiritual herbs and flowers. Needless to say, they were extremely precious. Many of them had long been extinct in the human world.

It doesn't take much to figure out that Master Zhiyang wants to find one and refine it into some kind of elixir to break through the current bottleneck.

Nie Zhaonan just happened to have a spiritual medicine in his hand that met Master Zhiyang's requirements, but the medicine was too old and its value was obviously far greater than the incomplete secret technique.

Thinking of this, Nie Zhaonan's mind moved, and he used the connection between his mind and spirit to transmit a few words to Tujialong.

The Earth Armor Dragon in the Zixiao Cave Heaven woke up from its deep sleep upon hearing the faint voice in its mind, stood up on a dark yellow bird's nest-shaped bed, and then turned into a yellow light and flew towards the spiritual field.

When flying out of its pen, it did not forget to grab a rare earth-attributed elixir and stuffed it into its mouth, looking like a big foodie.

As an earth-attributed spiritual beast, the Earth Armor Dragon is naturally very fond of spiritual medicines that match its own attributes. No matter whether they are spiritual flowers, spiritual fruits, or spiritual trees and spiritual bamboos, as long as Nie Zhaonan owns them, no matter what the grade is, he will plant them one by one around his residence, without missing a single one.

At this moment, the spirit beast pen belonging to it was filled with dark yellow spiritual energy, which blocked the view like fog, as if it was in a sea of ​​sand.

However, the Earth Ankylosaurus was like a fish in water in the sand sea. In the blink of an eye, it flew out of the sand sea, came to an exquisite attic, and entered it without hesitation.

This attic stands next to the spiritual field. It was built by Nie Zhaonan using several precious materials. Its function is to store various spiritual medicine seeds. It is named "Spirit Seed Pavilion".

Of course, for spiritual plants that have no seeds, such as the Xuantian Immortal Vine, Golden Thunder Bamboo, and Soul-Nourishing Wood, Nie Zhaonan did not go to the trouble of removing some rhizomes and storing them in the Spirit Seed Pavilion. Instead, he planned several spiritual fields and planted the plants on them.

After a while, the earth dragon roared out from the attic, and with a move of its figure, it scattered a grain of gold powder into the spiritual field.

This powdery substance is as fine as pollen, but the tiny pollen is sparkling with dazzling golden light, and you can tell at a glance that it is extraordinary.

Then the Earth Armor Dragon waved its claws, and a large pile of colorful spirit stones appeared out of thin air in the air and fell down.

The spiritual energy in the cave is now extremely abundant, and the spiritual field can also absorb the spiritual energy to ripen the spiritual medicine on its own. However, the speed of ripening the spiritual medicine is far less amazing than ripening it directly with spiritual stones. Now that time is pressing, spiritual stones are needed to ripen it.

Just as the Earth Armored Dragon was placing the spirit stone, a small snow-white creature shuttled through the various spiritual medicines on the spirit field, and jumped towards the Earth Armored Dragon. Finally, it bent its powerful rabbit legs violently, bounced several meters high, and landed on the fingernail-sized scale on the Earth Armored Dragon's shoulder.

If the Earth Armor Dragon had not shrunk several times like the Blood Jade Spider when it advanced to the eighth level, the white rabbit transformed by the Nine-bend Spirit Ginseng would never have been able to jump onto the Earth Armor Dragon's shoulder and sit on it so easily.

Now the scales of the earth dragon are no longer as wide and heavy as before, but have become thinner and smaller, flashing with fluorescent yellow light, very delicate! These changes have not only not affected the hardness of the scales, but have greatly enhanced the defense of the earth dragon.

But for the Nine-bend Spiritual Ginseng, the scales on the Earth Armor Dragon's body are the most comfortable place for it besides the spiritual field.

However, its attention was now completely attracted by the spirit stone in the Earth Armor Dragon's hand. Its body did not move, and its pair of red eyes just stared at it without blinking.

"Little guy, after I ripen this spiritual medicine and hand it over to its master, I will give you more spiritual stones." Tujialong placed the last spiritual stone in his hand, turned around and said comfortingly to the Jiuqu Lingshen.

Its words seemed unusually mature, but its voice was like that of a young child, which was a bit strange.

This is very normal for a monster. The current age of the Earth Armor Dragon is still young compared to its long lifespan, not to mention that it has also undergone a bloodline evolution.

Jiuqu Lingshen pricked up his ears for a while, then nodded as if he understood.

"Nine-bend spiritual ginseng is not an ordinary spiritual medicine after all! The Nine-bend spiritual ginseng that can transform into a spiritual body can be said to be half a life. It has gained the ability to move and open up its wisdom and intelligence. In disguise, it has also lost the ability of other spiritual plants to be easily ripened and grown by spiritual fields. Otherwise, in just a matter of days, the Nine-bend spiritual ginseng can grow into a behemoth, an existence whose cultivation level even I can only look up to."

"However, the Nine-bend Spiritual Ginseng has not yet fully transformed, so taking root in the spiritual field will still be of great help to it. I believe that it will not be long before it can fully transform with the help of the spiritual field."

"But by then, the spiritual field will be of no use to it, and it can only practice little by little like us."

There was a gleam of wisdom in the eyes of the Earth Armor Dragon. He didn't care whether the Nine-bend Spirit Ginseng could understand him or not. He just kept saying a lot of things in a row, like a steady wise man, completely different from his previous image of a foodie.

While speaking, Tujialong did not forget the important matter at hand. He took out a jade box, opened the lid, and placed the spiritual medicine that had grown in the spiritual field into it.

After he finished doing all this, the jade box in his hand disappeared silently.

There was no sign of anything strange on the Earth Armor Dragon's face. He continued to talk to himself with a tone of instruction in his words. He walked towards the spiritual field where the Nine-bend Spiritual Ginseng was located.

In the hall, everyone saw Nie Zhaonan looking thoughtful, but he came back to his senses after just a moment and nodded slightly, as if he had made a decision.

As Master Zhiyang looked slightly excited, Nie Zhaonan stretched out his hand and lightly shook his sleeves. An exquisite jade box flew out from his sleeves. The jade box had a clear target and slowly floated towards Master Zhiyang.

"Does fellow Daoist really have what I need?" Seeing the scene in front of him, Master Zhiyang's eyes were filled with disbelief.

Even his heart, which had been practicing for hundreds of years and had long been as still as an ancient tree, began to beat violently at this moment.

"Master, you will know at a glance that this thing is something I only obtained by chance. Its value is comparable to the secret technique of 'One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones'." Nie Zhaonan retracted his outstretched arm and said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Master Zhiyang's gaze, which had never left the jade box, suddenly trembled, and a deep regret that could not be concealed was revealed.

However, he had not seen the elixir in the box with his own eyes, and there was still a glimmer of hope in his heart. He was unwilling to open the lid of the box a little, and then something strange happened. Strands of light golden light shot out from the gap, scattering around like slender spiritual swords. The strange scene was very terrifying.

"'Nine Yang Sword Grass!' It's a pity that it only grew seven leaves!" Master Zhiyang's tone was filled with shock and regret, indescribably complicated.

Hehuan Old Demon and others had been watching the transaction between the two with calm expressions. They didn't make any sound, not even the sound of breathing. The atmosphere seemed heavy no matter how you looked at it. It was not until Zhiyang finished speaking that the depressing atmosphere was broken and returned to normal.

Everyone present here has a high level of cultivation and extraordinary knowledge, so they naturally have some understanding of rare spiritual medicines.

'Nine Yang Sword Grass' is an extremely special spiritual grass. Its growth environment is extremely special. It needs a completely natural place. Under the soil where it takes root, there are often top-quality natural treasures that complement its properties hidden, providing nutrients for its growth. It can only grow normally under such harsh conditions.

Its growth cycle is also extremely long. It takes 500 years for the first leaf to unfold, and 4,500 years to fully mature. It can be said that one less plant is used. The most recent record of the 'Nine Yang Sword Grass' appearing in ancient books was more than 8,000 years ago.

It is said that a casual cultivator who had mastered a top-level Zhiyang skill relied on a plant of "Nine Yang Sword Grass" with nine leaves spread out like a sword umbrella to break through the bottleneck and enter the Spiritual Transformation Stage.

As for what other benefits there are from taking the Nine Yang Sword Grass, they have no way of knowing because it happened so long ago.

However, what is certain is that the 'Nine Yang Sword Grass', which only has seven leaves and is 3,500 years old, has greatly reduced its medicinal efficacy. The chance of Master Zhiyang using this elixir to refine an elixir and thereby break through to the God Transformation stage is so small that there is not even a half chance.

"Ah, it seems that I am destined to never get a glimpse of a higher realm!" Master Zhiyang shook his head and sighed slightly.

He flipped his hand and put the jade box away. At the same time, he flicked his sleeve and a tattered golden ancient book flew towards Nie Zhaonan.

Although Master Zhiyang said this, he had already made up his mind that in order to gain a chance of survival at the critical moment, he would take the risk of exploding and dying, and take the Nine Yang Sword Grass alive, forcibly refining its violent medicinal power to increase the chance of a breakthrough.

Taking the ancient book in his hand, he found that the writing was very rough, and the ups and downs of the lines had no regularity at all, and it looked like tree bark. However, Nie Zhaonan did not feel uncomfortable at all after seeing it. The five big characters "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones" on the right side of the book seemed to be natural.

"It is indeed extraordinary!" Nie Zhaonan sighed slightly in his heart.

He opened the book without hesitation and started browsing the contents. He read ten lines at a glance and finished turning the pages in just a few breaths. A clear break appeared at the end.

This ancient book is badly damaged, with less than one-third of its content remaining. The part recording subsequent techniques has long since disappeared.

Thinking of this, Nie Zhaonan felt a little regretful. A light flashed in his hand, and the ancient book disappeared.

Just like that, under the watchful eyes of the other three people, Nie Zhaonan and Master Zhiyang successfully completed the transaction.

Next, Wei Wuya and Long Han followed the previous steps and talked about their own insights on cultivation. Although they also made witty remarks, they seemed insignificant compared to the shock brought by Master Zhiyang.

Finally, Nie Zhaonan also calmly recounted some of his experiences in practicing thunder magic, even though he did not reveal even a bit about the 'Taiyi Divine Thunder Art' that he was practicing.

The content of the story was a top-notch thunder-attributed martial arts technique that was found in the storage bag of some unlucky guy. Nie Zhaonan's extremely profound understanding of it even surprised other people who had not practiced thunder-attributed martial arts.

This small gathering of top-level monks from the southern part of the Tian Dynasty lasted for a long time, until sunset, when everyone dispersed.

The day of decisive battle is approaching in the blink of an eye!
Early in the morning of that day, the rumbling sound of war drums and the piercing sound of bells seemed to have been made by appointment. At almost the same time, they rang out in the camps of the mages and monks respectively.

Teams of mages leisurely flew out of the camp, driving their magic weapons towards the center of the border.

In the southern part of Tiannan, monks from various sects had already been gathering their strength for a long time. Countless rainbows of different colors suddenly rose into the sky and fled towards the same place in an overwhelming manner.

For a moment, various colors of spiritual light and rosy clouds filled the sky, and soft sounds and long whistles rose and fell. In the other direction, an aggressive army of magicians came together.

The two sides were like two huge waves about to collide with each other, but when they were more than ten miles apart, they stopped abruptly.

Both the monks and the mages stopped their escape and looked at each other from afar with gazes full of love.

The two sides had not yet started to fight, but the terrifying murderous aura had already spread between the two camps.

One side has no way to retreat, and the only way is to move forward and fight with one's back against the wall to carve out a way of survival for the entire ethnic group.

One side defends its homeland and does not allow foreign invasion, and its morale is also high.

At the moment when the atmosphere was frozen to the extreme, there was a commotion in the opposite army of mages, and three people flew out from them.

The skinny old man, the dwarf and the middle-aged scholar were none other than Mulan’s three great masters.

As for the cultivators, the three great cultivators from Tiannan, Master Zhiyang, Wei Wuya and Old Demon Hehuan, flew out after a flash of rainbow.

When the two sides were several dozen feet apart, they stopped in tacit understanding.

The final conversation before the battle begins.
At this time, Nie Zhaonan was standing in the air above a team of a hundred monks, looking at the situation in the field with a calm expression.

At a glance, there were patches of rosy clouds on the opposite side, and in each patch of rosy clouds there were hundreds of mages gathered together, and these rosy clouds spread over a distance of more than ten miles.

But what attracted the most attention in the army of mages were the dozen or so extremely huge wild beasts in the army.

(End of this chapter)