Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 98 Heaven and Earth One Pill Furnace
Normal souls cannot absorb it, but souls that have cultivated special techniques can absorb a portion of their soul power after death.

This technique is indeed extremely powerful, and its effect on the Mirage Realm is immense.

Training room.

The spiritual energy surged like a tide, transforming into a massive vortex that continuously poured into the spiritual sea of ​​the twin clones.

After absorbing a large amount of spiritual energy, the Gemini Mark gradually lit up.

As Su You's strength increases, the spiritual energy required for each resurrection also increases. Just now, one-tenth of the spiritual energy produced by the spiritual veins each day was consumed in a short period of time.

If there are no higher-level spiritual veins in the future, and you want to revive in a short time, you will have to consume spirit stones or use the spiritual liquid from the energy pool.

After being resurrected, Su You looked at the Mirage Realm again.

Now that a method for development has been found, the development of the mirage world will be simple.

but……

In the early stages, we may have to do some short-sighted things.

His mirage was far too small.

The number of souls it can accommodate is limited, so in the early stages it cannot establish a complete cyclical system like the Mirage Realm of the Mirage Dragon.

“Soul…” Su You pondered for a moment, then his mind stirred.

A talisman floated out of the storage warehouse and landed in his hand.

This is the Soul-Gathering Talisman.

This soul-gathering talisman contains millions of living souls.

Twenty years ago, Su You found this talisman on the body of the third-tier mirage demon after killing it.

He didn't have a good way to deal with this talisman at the time, so it has been passed down to the present day.

When Su You probed the talisman with his spiritual power, he could sense that there were still about 800,000 living souls remaining inside.

More than twenty years have passed, and some of the elderly souls have long since decayed and disappeared.

The remaining souls will probably only have a few decades of lifespan left.

After all, these souls are just ordinary mortals, and the lifespan of a Yin soul is actually about the same as its lifespan in the Yang realm.

However, the souls of cultivators are stronger, allowing them to live longer.

In the mirage realm of the mirage dragon, those Golden Core cultivators and Nascent Soul cultivators have lived there for hundreds of years and their souls are still full of vitality.

Su You took out two thousand living souls from it and stuffed them into the Mirage Realm like squeezing out sponges. The small space was packed full.

This time, he no longer used the method of creating a real illusion.

Instead, they directly used the mirage to arouse the desires in the hearts of these mortals.

In the illusion, one quickly lives out one's entire life.

A great deal of the power of the seven emotions and six desires was squeezed out.

Each time these souls pass through a round of illusion, they shrink and become weaker.

It is estimated that several years of one's lifespan have been lost.

Living beings without physical bodies are trapped in illusions, and because they lack the nourishment of a physical body, their souls will continuously weaken.

Therefore, these mortal souls cannot withstand many rounds of illusion.

However, in a true illusion, just like in the real world, the soul is very small. Mortals living in it can endlessly release the power of their seven emotions and six desires.

The Mirage Realm is too small now. Even if it were to become a real illusion, not many mortals could survive there. It would be better to use this method to exploit it and quickly increase the size of the Mirage Realm.

In just a few hours, two thousand souls were reduced to dust.

Su You calculated that the power of the seven emotions and six desires generated during this period could be converted into power that the Mirage Realm could absorb.

If the height of the mirage remains unchanged, the area of ​​the mirage can be increased by approximately 100 square meters.

This is already a very large space; it can be increased by one-third from the original area.

It is merely the power of the seven emotions and six desires generated by two thousand souls.

Su You still has a full 800,000 souls in his possession.

If it could be completely converted, the area of ​​the space could be expanded to about 150 times its original size.

"If we calculate based on a square space, it's about two hundred meters long and wide. That's not big, but it's not as crowded as before either," Su You concluded after a quick calculation.

It took half a month to complete the transformation of all these souls.

The space is now filled with layers of white clouds, all formed by the combination of the power of the seven emotions and six desires and mirage energy.

"Looks like I'll have to die again." Su You stroked his chin.

Because the stronger one's soul is when practicing this technique, the faster one can cultivate.

He didn't have many cultivator souls in his possession, only about a hundred Qi Refining stage souls and one Foundation Establishment stage soul.

The soul of someone at the Golden Core realm is nonexistent.

However, there were quite a few demonic beast souls.

Previously, in the Valley of the Demon Apes, he had gathered over a thousand demon souls.

Unfortunately, Su You tried it, but the demon soul's intelligence was too low, and it couldn't understand the meaning of the technique, let alone cultivate it.

However, I still have several third-tier demon souls stored in my possession, which I can try to acquire in the future.

Currently, Su You only allows human cultivators' souls to enter the Mirage Realm. Once human cultivators' souls become the majority, he will then throw in the souls of demonic beasts.

Only in this way can constant struggles occur within, releasing the transformed power of the seven emotions and six desires, which the mirage realm can then absorb.

After committing suicide, Su You began his cultivation.

With his powerful mental strength, coupled with the ability to control a large number of clouds to accumulate for his absorption, his cultivation level rapidly improved.

In just a few days, he raised his cultivation level to the Golden Core stage in the Mirage Realm.

"That's about enough. If we increase the speed further, it will be too slow. It's simpler to just expend spiritual energy to recover." Su You estimated that his current cultivation level was sufficient to release a large amount of the power of the seven emotions and six desires.

Moreover, each time the body's power is depleted, it can quickly absorb and recover, so there's no need to continue cultivating.

The power of the seven emotions transformed into vortexes, swirling in the air before dissipating and being absorbed by the mirage.

The entire mirage world is expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Finally, after ten days, the accumulated power of the seven emotions and six desires in the entire Mirage Realm was completely exhausted, and the entire space became seven zhang in length and width, which was a little larger than expected.

"Then we'll need to accumulate experience over time," Su You sighed helplessly.

He no longer possesses the souls of mortals; from now on, he can only rely on slowly collecting the living souls of the dead.

Su You still has his own bottom line and will not kill ordinary people indiscriminately.

Even the souls of the cultivators in his possession were collected by him slowly.

"We could send people to some populous mortal kingdoms to collect souls, especially places where war has broken out, where there are definitely a large number of living souls," Su You thought of a method.

Fortunately, he gradually gathered some subordinates, who could be entrusted with these simple tasks. Next, the twin clones stayed in the Wizard Tower to conduct daily research, while Su You went to the Void Heaven Sect to replace the twin clones.

The Wizard Tower is currently very safe. Su You hasn't provoked any enemies, and there are no powerful beings around.

In addition, there is a teleportation array inside the tower, so even if danger is encountered, one can escape immediately.

Unless a Nascent Soul cultivator intervenes, the Wizard Tower can hold out for a while, giving him time to escape.

Next, at the Void Heaven Sect, regardless of the outcome of this Danling Secret Realm, Su You will need to complete a large number of sect missions to prepare for becoming a true disciple.

The twin clones have now mastered the Mirage Realm talent. If a large number of souls live within it in the future, they will not be able to die at will.

If one dies, the soul in the mirage will also perish.

Even if the twin clones are resurrected using the twin mark, the original souls in the mirage will not be resurrected. The twin mark does not have such a heaven-defying ability to resurrect a group.

For the next few years, Su You stayed in the cave of the Xutian Sect, and every month he would go to Zhao Qing's cave to listen to his lectures.

The twin clones stayed inside the wizard tower, slowly perfecting the mirage and continuing their research on the bloodline experiments left behind by Su You.

The bloodline experiment is a project he must tackle. Whether it takes fifty years or a hundred years, as long as he perfects the bloodline potion, he will never lack low-level subordinates.

As for subordinates equivalent to those at the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stages, there will be no shortage of them.

Of course, when it's almost time to enter the secret realm, Su You and his twin clones will switch back together.

After all, Su You knew nothing about this secret realm, and since it wasn't too dangerous, it was safer for his twin clones to go there, lest his shapeshifting talent be exposed.

……

Void Heaven Sect, Jade Spirit Peak.

A day earlier, Su You received a telepathic message instructing him to go to Jade Spirit Peak and wait in preparation for heading to the Pill Spirit Secret Realm.

After ten years of waiting and learning, I am finally going to the secret realm to test what I have learned.

He still harbored a sliver of hope.

Over the past few years, his alchemy skills have not improved by leaps and bounds, but his foundational knowledge has become more solid.

Elder Zhao Qing has always been teaching them the most basic things: the medicinal properties of spiritual herbs, how to judge them, how to combine them, and more importantly, inspiring their creative thinking.

Over the past few years, each of them has created several new elixirs.

Of course, these elixirs were all improved versions of the original elixir formulas.

But that's still incredibly powerful.

Su You has been holding back a bit lately, showing a mediocre level of creativity.

No matter how well you perform here, it won't matter; you still have to see what you gain from the Danling Secret Realm.

Otherwise, with the help of Tower Spirit Island, Su You could easily crush these geniuses when it comes to creating new pills.

"I hope the assessment in the Danling Secret Realm will be similar..." Su You felt a glimmer of hope in his heart.

If it were an assessment in this area, his off-field support would give him a significant advantage over anyone else.

……

Jade Spirit Peak.

Su You and the other five waited quietly for the arrival of their sect elders.

According to Sun Tang, in addition to Elder Zhao Qing, the sect also sent a Nascent Soul ancestor to protect them this time.

After all, in the Danling Secret Realm, even a single pill is incredibly precious if one can gain something from it.

Not to mention the Daoist alchemy tradition within.

So far, only Zhao Qing has received some basic alchemy knowledge within the sect.

As for the more core inheritance, no sect or force has obtained it so far.

"This contains records of past assessments within the Danling Secret Realm, as well as some taboos to be aware of. You can take a look now." Zhao Qing gently handed each of the six of them a jade slip.

"Of course, these past assessments can only serve as a reference. The assessments will be different each time the Danling Secret Realm opens, so you will still need to rely on your own abilities."

Information about the Danling Secret Realm?
Su You felt a mixture of anticipation and curiosity.

After all, over the years, he had not obtained any relevant information, whether he spent money within the sect or at the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion.

This shows that the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion is not entirely reliable, and some confidential information will not be leaked.

This is the advantage of a monopoly by powerful forces. Even if some smaller forces know about the Danling Secret Realm, or are lucky enough to obtain the qualification to enter, they still have to explore it all over again after entering.

Unlike major powers that have entered countless times over hundreds or thousands of years and left behind incredibly detailed intelligence, you can simply follow their information and you won't encounter any danger inside.

Su You probed the jade slip with his spiritual power and carefully read the information inside, his expression becoming serious.

The Danling Secret Realm is also known as the Danlu Secret Realm.

Actually, it's an alchemy furnace left behind by a great alchemist in ancient times.

Every hundred years, this alchemy furnace will absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a million miles around to nourish the pills, at which point a crack will appear in the furnace.

This is also the only passage into the secret realm.

Inside the alchemy furnace lies a miniature world, also known as the Alchemy Spirit Secret Realm.

Inside, there is the legacy of a great master of alchemy.

Legend has it that only those who inherit the legacy of a master alchemist can control this alchemy furnace.

This alchemy furnace contains a large number of ancient elixirs, which varied in quality when they were first produced.

but!

Every single pill inside is now incredibly precious.

The alchemy furnace absorbs spiritual energy once every hundred years, and this spiritual energy is used to nourish the pills inside the furnace.

Even if the pills inside are of low quality, over millions of years, the worst pills can become precious pills.

No wonder the sect attaches so much importance to this, sending a Nascent Soul ancestor to protect it.

This alchemy furnace is located in Danxin Prefecture, the most prosperous place for alchemy on the entire continent.

The Danling Secret Realm has about 100,000 slots each time it opens, and it's considered pretty good that the Xutian Sect managed to grab six slots.

After all, all the forces on the continent would be vying for this spot. Although the Void Heaven Sect could be considered the overlord of Qingzhou, once outside of Qingzhou, it could only be considered a second-rate force.

Only those forces that possess a Nascent Soul cultivator can be considered first-rate forces.

Of course, the jade slip only provides a brief introduction to the Pill Spirit Secret Realm. It mainly contains information about the assessments conducted in previous Pill Spirit Secret Realms and some taboos that need to be observed.

Although death is rare within the Danling Secret Realm, breaking certain taboos can turn even the safest place into a death trap in an instant.

Su You first looked at the forbidden items.

After all, he didn't want to die inside for the time being, otherwise this identity would be completely useless.

(End of this chapter)