Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

When Zhang Yuanjing entered the underground cave at the bottom of the lake, the inside was already a scene of chaos and filled with a pungent, bloody smell. Ape Thirteen had gone on a killing spree, slaughtering a Core Formation cultivator and dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Zhang Yuanjing didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He could only blame himself for not making himself clear. How could Ape Thirteen understand the meaning of 'clean up'? He had no choice but to order the golden-haired monkey to collect the corpses of the cultivators and bury them somewhere by the lake.

After these people dug, the underground cave went down another thousand feet. The speed of excavation was much faster than that of the original Fire Dragon King and Water Dragon King! This was probably due to Cai Fengjin. This person was proficient in geography and must have explored this kind of terrain impacted by Void Sky Meteorites, knowing its reality.

He told the Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast to guard the entrance of the underground cave, while he went to the bottom of the cave. A cavern of more than ten feet in diameter had been dug out here. On the inner side, there were still tunnels being excavated, all filled with stone blocks that looked like withered tree roots.

He softly called out, "Zhang Shi, come out."

A moment later, a round, black stone flew out of his mouth and landed beside him, transforming into a young man in his twenties. His appearance was quite similar to Zhang Yuanjing's, but his body was still made of stone.

"Zhang Shi greets Master, please give your instructions!"

Zhang Shi slowly turned his head, as if familiarizing himself with the operating mechanism of the human body, or as if observing the surrounding environment.

Zhang Yuanjing looked at it carefully for a few moments and laughed, "Seeing you like this, I suddenly remembered that the Thick Earth Sect also has a Stone Puppet Technique. If they could create stone men like you, no, not exactly the same, but as long as they had a portion of your spirituality, that would be incredible!"

Zhang Shi rolled the stone beads in his eye sockets and said, "That depends on what materials Master is willing to use. If you use the same Source Stone as Zhang Shi, the stone puppets created will not be exactly the same as Zhang Shi, but at least they will be five or six tenths similar. If you use strange stones that have nurtured spirituality but have not yet become spirits, they can also be one or two tenths similar. As for ordinary stones, you can only rely on the stone core and the formation, which will have no spirituality at all."

"Well, strange stones that have not yet become spirits? Perhaps we can find some of those. Don't even think about Source Stones, at least not in this realm." Zhang Yuanjing shook his head. "Let's not talk about this for now. Go down and explore to see if there are meteorites that have fallen from the sky in the ground."

"Yes, Master!"

Zhang Shi jumped up, transformed into a stone the size of a dragon's eye, and burrowed into the dead stones.

Zhang Yuanjing's mind was connected to it, and what it saw was also what he could see. In the first three hundred feet, the dead stones were still in chunks and all were more than a foot in size. After three hundred feet, the stone blocks gradually decreased, and grayish-white clods of earth increased. Below six hundred feet, there was only powdery stuff.

After another five hundred feet, a powerful repulsive force appeared in the ground. Something as full of spiritual energy as Zhang Shi could not continue to approach.

"Master, there is a large stone below, its aura is obscure and unclear, it is not pure spiritual power. Zhang Shi can't go down."

Zhang Yuanjing borrowed its spiritual sense to roughly "see" the situation below and called it back.

There was indeed a huge stone there, about ten feet in diameter, dark all over, with an extremely mixed power flowing on the surface. There was spiritual power, and there was also turbid power opposite to spiritual power, but these two powers were only a part. There were also several other powers that were not similar to spiritual power or turbid power, but completely different powers.

In the center of the boulder, there was a strange aura hidden, which was one or two tenths similar to the spiritual energy refined from spiritual power, but there was a big difference. According to Zhang San, that aura was of a much higher level than spiritual energy. Void Sky Stones also had it, but in small amounts.

In this way, it could at least be judged that the boulder in the ground was something similar to a Void Sky Stone, or perhaps the Void Sky Stone was detached from this boulder.

This was good news. If he could get the stone below, the Void Sky Stone matter would be solved. Next, he would find a suitable place with a large spiritual acupoint and start breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm.

However, the place where the boulder was hidden was more than a thousand feet below the bottom of the cave. Counting the depth of the cave, it was more than four thousand feet. Going so deep into the ground, the earth's power was terrifying. Not to mention the Great Perfection of the Core Formation realm, even the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul realm probably couldn't withstand it.

Not only that, but there was also the repulsive force, and it was unknown how to resolve it.

If that didn't work, he could only report back to True Man Tong and use the power of the sect to clear the dead stones and dust below. However, in that case, his whereabouts would be exposed. If the Seven Cities Alliance of the Hengduan Mountains sent an order to the sect, in order to avoid embarrassing True Man Tong, he would have to go to the First Demon Suppression City to participate in the war.

"Master, are you worried about how to go down and get the stone? Zhang Shi has a way." Seeing Zhang Yuanjing looking at the dead stone at his feet and seemed a little worried, Zhang Shi took the initiative to say.

"Oh, you have a way? What way?" Zhang Yuanjing asked.

"Master can use the Earth Splitting Spell to tear a crack in the ground and go down," Zhang Shi said as a matter of course.

"You know the Earth Splitting Spell?" Zhang Yuanjing asked in surprise.

The Source Stone was an inherited item of the Thick Earth Sect, which could be used to assist in the use of small spells, and could also help him understand the essentials of small spells. He knew this. But it also inherited the Eight Earth Techniques, which surprised him a bit.

Zhang Shi nodded and said, "Of course I know. The inheritance of the Thick Earth Sect, all the spirituality of the Source Stone has a copy imprinted on it, including the Eight Earth Techniques, of course."

Zhang Yuanjing nodded, thinking that the Source Stone had been upgraded to the fourth level, and its level might be equivalent to the Nascent Soul realm. In this realm, whether it was a demon beast or a spirit, it had the ability to transform, and its wisdom was equivalent to that of a cultivator in the same realm. Originally, below the third level, it might only be able to passively help him understand small spells, but now it had the ability to actively solve doubts.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but laugh at himself. He was probably used to the Source Stone being hidden in his dantian to assist in the use of small spells, and he had ignored the great changes after it was upgraded to the fourth level. When it was first upgraded to the fourth level, Zhang Shi's words were obviously much more, and his wisdom had also greatly improved, but he didn't pay attention to it at that time, and later he rarely talked to it. On the contrary, he let this supreme spirit of heaven and earth be covered in dust, and still like usual, he was bored in the dantian as a stone all day long, far less used than Zhang San. If this continues, it will inevitably affect the growth of its spirituality.

So he asked: "Of the Eight Earth Techniques, I have some understanding, some gains, and some uses for the Stone Driving, Sand Rolling, Earth Dividing, Object Swallowing, Shape Condensing, Mountain Moving, and Sky Supporting Techniques, but I have not yet grasped the essentials of the Earth Splitting Technique. What is the reason for this?"

Zhang Shi said: "The order of the Eight Techniques is determined according to the difficulty of learning and understanding them. The Earth Splitting Technique is only ranked sixth, which means that it is not as difficult as Mountain Moving and Sky Supporting, but Master has understood the latter two techniques, but has no clue about this technique. This can only mean one thing, that is, the opportunity has not yet arrived."

"The opportunity has not yet arrived? Does understanding the merit law require an opportunity?" Zhang Yuanjing asked Zhang Shi back, already understanding something in his heart.

Zhang Shi said: "Of course it requires an opportunity. For example, Master understood the Sky Supporting Technique, which is related to obtaining that strange bone, and understanding the Mountain Moving Technique is related to dealing with the crisis of that golden stone. The reason why the Earth Splitting Technique has not made progress is because the corresponding opportunity has not appeared. Now, this place is where Master can understand the Earth Splitting Technique!"