Chapter Seventy-Two: Preparation for the Trial
(Ask for collection)
Of course, Long Xiaoyao would not take the initiative to do anything to kill people and seize treasures, and most of the places in the Immortal Cultivation Realm of the Divine Continent that possessed immortal cultivation resources such as demon beasts and medicinal herbs had been assigned to their spheres of influence by the major immortal cultivation sects, and the places that were not occupied were either barren in immortal cultivation resources, or full of dangers, not that his current strength could easily enter.
Originally, after the immortal cultivator successfully built the foundation, he could join the immortal cultivation sect relatively easily, or enter the immortal cultivation family, so that he could get some offerings every month. However, Long Xiaoyao was worried that other immortal cultivators would discover his secret, and he was not interested in the number of offerings, at most 4 intermediate spirit stones per month, which was far from his requirements.
Moreover, there are many battles in the world of cultivating immortals, and the biggest and most cruel of them is the so-called battle between good and evil. Those who claim to cultivate the righteous path of the immortal world include Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and martial arts, while those who are called evil are ghost cultivators, demon cultivators, and rare witch clans. There are often large-scale conflicts between the good and evil sects, and there are countless immortal cultivators who die in the war every time, and in this kind of war, the main force is the immortal cultivators in the Zhuji and Jindan periods, and the mortality rate is also the highest.
Another main reason for the conflict in the immortal cultivation world is the competition for immortal cultivation resources, whether it is a large sect, or a small and medium-sized sect or family, they all need to occupy immortal cultivation resources to maintain the cultivation needs. However, the resources of cultivating immortals are limited, and the large-scale immortal cultivation sects are relatively stable, and generally no one will easily start a large-scale war, not to mention the result, even if the victory and loss will not be small.
But the wars between small and medium-sized immortal cultivation sects and families for immortal cultivation resources have occurred frequently, although the immortal cultivation resources they occupy are pitifully small, but they are also fat in the eyes of others. And because their strength itself is not strong, their strength may change at any time, and the fall or birth of an immortal cultivator in the Jindan period will be accompanied by a series of battles and the redivision of immortal cultivation resources.
It is precisely because the immortal cultivation world is chaotic and may even be in crisis at any time, that it is even more impossible for Long Xiaoyao to join any sect or family casually. Since he is a casual cultivator, all the resources for cultivating immortals need to work his own.
However, Long Xiaoyao was lucky enough, first of all, he didn't need to worry about the exercises and techniques. Secondly, he could rely on absorbing the energy of the beast soul to improve his own strength, which could not only increase the speed of cultivation and greatly enhance his strength, but also save a lot of pills.
Long Xiaoyao's next plan was to upgrade his cultivation to the advanced level of foundation building within eight years, at least the late stage of the middle level of foundation building. The trial that his parents participated in when he was 7 years old was a trial place for immortal cultivators in the foundation building period that was opened every 20 years in the immortal cultivation world, and like the elixir garden, it was also full of dangers, and his parents fell when they participated in the trial.
Of course, Long Xiaoyao planned to participate, not only as a commemoration of his parents, but also as if he also needed to enter it to kill demon beasts, absorb beast souls, and improve his strength.
But now the spirit stones on Long Xiaoyao's body are simply not enough for him to buy enough pills to cultivate to the high level of foundation building, and moreover, he also needs to find a place where he can cultivate with peace of mind, and he needs to constantly improve his strength through actual combat to avoid bottlenecks in cultivation.
Long Xiaoyao, as a foundation builder, had few targets to choose from, he repeatedly checked the map of immortal cultivation in the Shenzhou Continent, combined with the jade cylinder that recorded the secrets of the immortal cultivation world, and finally chose the evergreen forest on the edge of the Wu clan's sphere of influence.
Evergreen forests are named after the evergreen trees that grow in all seasons, the climate is warm and humid, the aura is abundant, poisonous insects are rampant, and the medicinal herbs are relatively abundant, and some are still unique and rare varieties.
The number of immortal cultivators of the witch clan in the Shenzhou Continent is not very large, and they are divided into poison witches, ghost witches, beast witches, and blood witches according to different cultivation methods. Poison witches mainly use poison and poison insects, ghost witches are wizards who resist ghosts, beast witches are good at controlling beasts, and blood witches use blood as a medium to assist cultivation and warfare.
According to the records of the secrets of the immortal cultivation world, although the evergreen forest is located in the sphere of influence of the Wu clan, there are not many immortal cultivators of the Wu clan in the first place, and due to the large number of low-level poisonous insects there, only some low-level poisonous witches come there. However, due to the strange poisonous witch technique, he is especially good at making poisonous insects and poisons, and he is a little more powerful than other immortal cultivators of the same level in battle.
The reason why Long Xiaoyao chose the Evergreen Forest as his destination was most importantly for the Golden Snake, if the record in the jade tube was correct, there would be no high-level poisonous witches there, and naturally there should be no big threat to him. Moreover, the number of immortal cultivators of the Wu Clan was originally small, and the Evergreen Forest was on the edge of the Wu Clan's power, so it should not be very dangerous. And there are many herbs, so you should be able to get a lot of gains.
Long Xiaoyao did not immediately travel far, but found a secluded place and refined a few magic weapons. In the storage bag given to him by the shopkeeper of Shangguan, there are not only a large number of refining materials, but also a tool ding and a set of refining tools, but they are refining tools inherited by the Shangguan family, and the quality is not bad.
Long Xiaoyao used demon beast materials to refine a wooden surname top-grade spirit weapon animal skin shield, a high-grade spirit weapon green wood cover and a high-grade spirit weapon loess cover, and finally, he refined a set of metal surnamed top-grade spirit weapon Beidou sword, and a fire ring surnamed a fire weapon with a fire surname. The materials of the Wind and Thunder surnames are generally only high-grade materials, and they require at least two true fires to refine the materials, so he can't refine the magic weapons of the Wind and Thunder surnames now.
After the immortal cultivator successfully builds the foundation, he can put the three magic weapons into his body, so that he can not only nourish the magic weapon with true qi at any time and enhance the power of the magic weapon, but also summon the magic weapon as long as his mind moves when needed, which is far more convenient and fast than taking it out of the storage bag.
Long Xiaoyao thought twice and decided to take the Aoki Hood, the Big Dipper Sword, and the Seven Star Sword into his body. Although both kinds of flying swords are composed of 7 handles, no matter how many magic weapons there are, as long as they belong to one set, they only occupy the quota of one magic weapon.
Of course, Long Xiaoyao began to refine a batch of magic weapons with some low-grade materials, so that his refining skills were greatly improved, and then he started refining the magic weapons he wanted. After that, he spent more than a month cultivating and mastering more than ten kinds of magic arrays at the beginning level of foundation building, and then refined the Small Five Elements Array Array, the Phantom Array Array, and the Small Maze Array Disk.
After making all the preparations, the dragon escaped and flew towards the evergreen forest. The evergreen forest was thousands of miles away, but it was nothing to an immortal cultivator who could fly with a weapon. Just to save mana, he didn't go all out to increase his speed, but in just over a day, he flew to the evergreen forest.