novelhk Chapter 167: Setting up the Spirit Gathering Array
Chapter 167: Setting up the Spirit Gathering Array
The Qi-cleansing fruit is of little use to humans, but it is an extremely valuable treasure to spirit beasts. If eaten directly, the effect is far less effective than if it is refined into a pill.
Zhang Liang counted them and found that there were twelve cleansing fruits here. Unfortunately, only five of them were second-level, which could purify the body and blood of second-level spirit beasts; the remaining seven were just ordinary first-level spirit fruits.
The Ximai Fruit is a growth-type spiritual fruit. The longer it grows and the more abundant the spiritual energy in the environment, the stronger its effect. For a general primary-level spiritual beast with spiritual intelligence, if it consumes a second-level Ximai Fruit, it will be almost no problem to be promoted to a second-level spiritual beast. It only needs to continuously absorb spiritual energy. Similarly, a third-level Ximai Fruit can help a spiritual beast be promoted to the third level.
The Ximai Fruit that Zhang Liang used to make the elixir before was of the second grade.
“It would be great if there were third-grade cleansing fruits.” Zhang Liang couldn’t help but sigh, but he also understood that the spirit deer in this valley had probably already eaten second-grade cleansing fruits. If there were third-grade ones, they would have probably been eaten by these spirit deer long ago and would not have survived until now.
Zhang Liang did not directly harvest the Ximai Fruit, but after carefully studying the surrounding environment, he began to set up a formation.
No matter what kind of spiritual medicine or spiritual fruit, the more abundant the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is in the place where it is located, the faster they will grow.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth deep in the cave was already quite abundant, but in Zhang Liang's opinion, it was not enough. He took out twelve array talismans from the storage space and skillfully set up a gathering array next to the Qi-cleansing fruit. Suddenly, boundless spiritual energy gathered, increasing the concentration of spiritual energy around the Qi-cleansing fruit by more than double.
In this way, the growth rate of the Ximai Fruit will at least double in the future, and the number of spiritual deer in this valley will definitely increase in the future! Zhang Liang smiled slightly and said to himself.
Including the white deer, there are only nine spirit deer in this valley. However, in this land of Baiyue, there are countless wild deer, and the spirit deer in the valley can reproduce themselves, so why are there still so few in number?
Apart from fighting to death with other spirits, more often they died of old age due to being unable to break through their own realm.
Although spirit beasts live longer than humans, there is a limit to their lifespan. Once they reach the limit of their lifespan and cannot be promoted, the consequences are predictable.
Now with the formation set up by Zhang Liang, the Ximai Fruit here will grow faster and produce more abundant fruits, and naturally more spirit deer will be able to survive.
Zhang Liang was very satisfied with the formation. When he was about to pick the Qi-washing fruit, he found that the white deer had quietly walked behind him.
"Thank you, human." Bai Lu expressed his gratitude to him through telepathy.
Zhang Liang smiled slightly. Possessing the memories passed down by Taixuan Immortal Venerable, he had a more peaceful attitude towards spirit beasts. Unlike many people in this world who always believed that spirit beasts were just animals that were lucky enough to get a chance.
In the world of cultivation, there are hundreds of millions of different races, and the human race is just one of them. Many other races are smarter than humans, and many have talents that surpass humans. Therefore, Zhang Liang's view of the spirit beasts in this world, especially the powerful and intelligent spirit beasts like the white deer, is no different from his view of humans.
The white deer observed for a while and then left on its own, not minding Zhang Liang taking away a few of the vein-washing fruits.
However, Zhang Liang was not greedy. He only took two second-level Ximai Fruits and set up a furnace in the valley to refine pills. The two Ximai Fruits were used to refine two furnaces of spirit beast pills, each furnace had more than a dozen pills. Zhang Liang directly distributed these spirit beast pills to several second-level spirit deer in the valley, one each.
However, at this time, Zhang Liang was surprised to find that the Taoist Bei Mingzi and the third-level spotted deer had disappeared and were not in the valley.
Zhang Liang didn't care. After all, Bei Mingzi was very powerful. In this world, there were only a few who could threaten his life. Even if it was the extremely powerful white deer, if Bei Mingzi was determined to escape, he would probably have a chance.
Since he didn't meet Bei Mingzi, Zhang Liang decided to settle down in the valley. He practiced diligently every day, and teased the spirit deer in the valley in his spare time. He looked like an immortal cultivator.
However, the longer he stayed in the valley, the more he felt that this place was extraordinary and full of mystery.
If we say that in the world of cultivation there are hundreds of millions of races competing for hegemony, and that some races have established civilizations that are even more brilliant and glorious than that of humans, then in this world, it seems that only humans have a civilized society, and humans have become the masters of the world.
But in the valley, Zhang Liang felt that these spirit deer seemed to have some kind of inheritance. Every morning, the white deer would lead all the spirit deer to practice and absorb spiritual energy, just like a family or sect.
Every spirit deer here has the wisdom of a seven or eight-year-old child. The white deer gives Zhang Liang the feeling of a wise man among humans, as if it can see through everything in the world.
"Could it be that in this world, a long time ago, there was a situation where all races competed for supremacy? And this group of spirit deer may be a branch handed down from ancient times?" Zhang Liang thought, and shook his head, thinking that this guess was too absurd. Since he came to this world, he has read a lot of ancient books since he was a child, but he has never found similar records in history books.
"Maybe this is just a special case. This white deer may have lived for thousands of years. The accumulation of wisdom and experience makes it behave similarly to humans and do such things!" Zhang Liang temporarily put aside his doubts and continued to practice sword in the valley with concentration.
Finally, after seven days, Taoist Bei Mingzi returned to the valley, and this time he miraculously came back riding the third-level spotted deer. It seemed that he had successfully tamed it as his mount.