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Chapter 85 Bathing with a Beauty (Seeking monthly tickets and recommendation votes)

On his search, Li Shizhou still chose to avoid the areas occupied by the Thousand Bamboo Sect as much as possible, as long as he could find a place with decent spiritual energy.

He had taken with him the Spirit Eye Jade that was not yet fully developed in the Chaotic Star Sea before he set off for the ancient sect's treasure vault. With the addition of some more this time, it was enough to support his cultivation.

The group searched along the edge of the far west for about a month.

After crossing countless hills, rivers, and deserts, they arrived at a mountain range hundreds of miles from the sea.

Suddenly, the "Spirit-Seeking Weasel" on Li Shizhou's shoulder began to squeak urgently towards the ground below.

At the same time, the two purple-eyed beasts also began to become unusually excited.

Li Shizhou's eyes lit up. This meant that there was likely an undiscovered spiritual land below, probably underground.

So he instructed Ding Sheng and Wang Li, "You two stay here and wait for news. My wife and I will go down and search."

After speaking, a yellowish-brown light shield appeared around the Level 0 Purple Eye, enveloping Li Shizhou and Yuan Yao, and then it suddenly burrowed into the ground.

After traveling underground for about seven or eight miles, a lava river nearly ten zhang wide appeared before them, and a wave of intense heat immediately hit them.

Orange-yellow magma surged within the underground river, occasionally emitting booming explosions.

Li Shizhou was overjoyed, for this place was a pure yang land with abundant spiritual energy.

He needed such a place to assist him in cultivating the "Pure Yang Technique".

Moreover, this place is extremely suitable for refining pills, magical artifacts, and puppets.

Just then, the opportunity information was updated.

[Daily Opportunity Information]

[Area: Thirty li]

[An: About thirty miles behind you, there is a nine-leaf fire lotus. It is still more than thirty years away from maturity. This plant is an excellent elixir for treating cold poison. If you obtain it, you can use it to refine elixirs in the future.]

Looking at the handwriting, Li Shizhou thought to himself, "Double happiness! Today is truly full of surprises."

With a thought, the purple-eyed beast beneath him turned and flew along the sky above the lava river.

After a short while, the river channel, which was originally only a few thousand feet wide, gradually widened, and the lava flow became much calmer.

After traveling another ten miles or so, it transformed into a lava lake about a mile wide, where a fiery red medicinal herb grew in the very center.

The flower that has grown on it has already unfolded eight petals.

"Husband, what is this?" Yuan Yao asked, pointing to the medicinal herbs in the middle of the lake.

Li Shizhou replied, "This is a nine-leaf fire lotus, which is quite valuable and has the effect of treating cold poison. It will take about thirty years for it to grow the ninth petal, at which time it can be harvested. The spiritual energy here is a bit richer than where we just came down, so let's build our cave dwelling nearby."

Yuan Yao nodded: "I will do whatever my husband says."

Having chosen a place to live in seclusion, Li Shizhou began to make arrangements.

He first set up three sets of formations centered on the lava lake, covering an area of ​​three miles in length and width, which covered both the ground and the underground.

Two of them were obtained from storage bags in the Netherworld. One was a trapping formation, and the other was a defensive formation. As long as one was willing to spend spirit stones, it would be extremely difficult for a Nascent Soul cultivator to escape or break through them.

The last set is the Spirit Binding Array that Li Shizhou refined in the Chaotic Star Sea. Once set up, it can not only conceal one's aura, but also prevent the spiritual energy inside from leaking out.

With the effect of this array in gathering spiritual energy, coupled with the Spirit Eye Jade, the spiritual energy density of the entire cave is so high that even those in the early Nascent Soul stage can barely use it.

After setting up the formation, he began to build a stone chamber for living and cultivation.

The stone chamber is divided into two parts, upper and lower, connected by a small teleportation array.

The lower stone chamber was carved directly from the hard rock wall of the lava lake by Li Shizhou. It was designed for practicality, so the layout was quite simple.

These stone chambers range in size from five or six zhang to nearly ten zhang in width.

This includes a main stone chamber where he usually cultivates.

The three rooms were for the two Purple-Eyed Beasts and the Ink-Leaving Beast. The Soul-Crying Weasel and the Spirit-Seeking Weasel preferred to stay in the Spirit Beast Ring, so no such rooms were prepared for them.

There are also two stone chambers that have been infused with earth fire; one can be used for crafting weapons, and the other for refining pills.

He currently possesses a considerable amount of spiritual herbs, and the inheritance of alchemy techniques is readily available. If Yuan Yao wishes to learn alchemy, she can utilize the alchemy room.

For safety reasons, Li Shizhou also set up two one-way teleportation arrays in the main stone chamber.

At the other end of the teleportation array, one was in a cave in the mountains, and the other was on a small island. Both were more than two thousand miles away from his cave dwelling, and the spiritual energy was so thin that no one would go there.

If things go wrong, he can take Yuan Yao and flee at any time.

Unlike the underground rivers filled with lava, the surface is a completely different scene, with green mountains and clear waters, birds singing and flowers blooming, and numerous caves of varying sizes.

Therefore, Li Shizhou built the stone chamber inside an existing cave, saving the effort of excavation, mainly for Yuan Yao's cultivation and residence.

The interior is decorated quite elegantly, with all the necessary cultivation tools, but there is only one room, and the total size is about four or five acres.

It includes a pond about half an acre in size, with a small courtyard above it and a small waterfall cascading down from it.

Li Shizhou specially used an array to draw the earth fire up, transforming the pool into a hot spring.

Aside from the fact that it doesn't have an open-air viewing platform like the cave dwelling in Tianxing City, where one can enjoy a panoramic view at any time, Li Shizhou was very satisfied with everything else.

The two newly recruited servants were allowed to choose a cave and build their own dwellings.

In just a few days, the entire cave dwelling was set up.

From the outside, this place is nothing more than a remote and desolate wilderness with little spiritual energy.

In fact, the place is rich in spiritual energy, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a blessed land of immortals.

At this moment, Li Shizhou was standing inside the short-distance teleportation array in the lower stone chamber.

Although Yuan Yao calls him "husband," she cannot use her magic power in the Yin-Yang Land because the dual cultivation technique requires her to use it. She has not had any free time since she came out.

Therefore, Li Shizhou and Yuan Yao have not yet consummated their marriage.

Today, everything was finally settled, and after a flash of white light, he appeared in Yuan Yao's stone chamber.

When Yuan Yao saw Li Shizhou appear, a faint smile appeared in her eyes. She lifted the hem of her skirt with one hand and got off the stone bed, saying, "Husband, you've come."

Previously, Yuan Yao always wore magical robes suitable for combat, but now it's different. She's wearing a white floor-length dress, which makes her already excellent figure look even more slender.

A slight smile in her eyes exudes a myriad of charms.

Li Shizhou couldn't help but feel a little flutter in his heart after seeing this. He circled Yuan Yao for a while, then picked her up and carried her towards the hot spring that had just been repaired.

Yuan Yao, who was being carried horizontally, blushed instantly and said sweetly, with her arms wrapped around Li Shizhou's neck, "Husband, I just took a bath and changed clothes."

"Then let's take another bath together."