A thin layer of twilight snow covered the vast land, and the bleak cold wind whistled across the land, rolling up countless snowflakes as if raising a layer of white mist.
Lu Ping stood in the wilderness and took a deep breath. A piercing chill rose from his nose straight to his brain, making Lu Ping's spirit suddenly become extremely light.
Is this the winter in Middle Earth?
Lu Ping gazed into the distance. The vast wilderness stretched as far as the eye could see, but there was no trace of human beings. He had been here for seven days, and he had explored more than a hundred miles around the teleportation array. However, within a hundred miles, Lu Ping did not find any trace of human gathering. Instead, there were many traces of beasts and even demonic cultivators.
He had never seen such a vast land. In the North Sea, the largest island was said to be Xuan Ling Sect's Xuan Ling Island, which was only eight hundred miles in circumference, while Zhenling's True Spirit Island was only seven hundred miles in circumference. Although Lu Ping had only carefully explored the area of a hundred miles, he could still see the vast land, wilderness, and mountains hundreds of miles away.
If it were overseas, this area would have already exceeded the rarely seen giant islands, and the giant islands Lu Ping himself had seen were only the sunken Fei Ling Island and the East Sea Northern Alliance's Qianyuan Island and a few other islands.
After another fruitless search, Lu Ping turned around and fled in the opposite direction.
A hundred miles south of this vast wilderness was a continuous mountain range. Lu Ping had also explored the mountain range, but he only went a hundred miles deep before he found traces of high-grade demonic cultivators. Lu Ping did not want to alert the enemy, so he returned to the border between the mountain range and the wilderness.
Not far into the mountain range, Lu Ping's escape light fell straight into a canyon with a mountain stream of unknown origin.
The escape light went against the direction of the canyon until it came to a cliff with towering mountains on both sides, as if it had been split by a giant axe.
The mountain stream surged and slapped against the cliff, making a sizzling sound. When the mountain stream receded a little, the escape light went directly into the bottom of the cliff and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
At the bottom of the cliff was a wide underground cave, and on the periphery of the cave was a large piece of rock hanging down from the top, just covering the cave. No one would have thought that there would be such a secret place at the bottom of the flowing water of the cliff.
The escape light dissipated after entering the cave. Lu Ping strode deeper into the cave. When he came to a stone wall at the bottom of the cave, Lu Ping made a few hand seals and disappeared into the stone wall.
After passing through the stone wall, Lu Ping entered a vast underground stone hall of nearly a hundred feet. The fluorescent stones inlaid on the surrounding stone walls exuded a misty white light, illuminating the stone hall as if it was daytime. The rich aura filled the entire stone hall. It seemed that there was at least a medium-sized spiritual vein under this cave stone hall.
At the edge of the stone hall, there were several stone rooms. There were stone tables and stone chairs in the stone rooms. At this time, Samling, Dabao, Lu Qin-er, and Lu Dagui, the six monster pets, each occupied a stone room. In front of each of them were a few jade slips and a few sets of paper books. They were either holding the jade slips to check the information in them, or flipping through the paper books, scratching their ears and scratching their cheeks to figure out something.
Seeing Lu Ping coming in, everyone cheered like a swarm of bees. The jade slips and books in their hands were thrown aside and ran towards Lu Ping. Even Lu Dagui, who had always been honest and obedient, also had a relieved expression after seeing Lu Ping return.
Lu Ping said with a fierce face, "What, do you understand all these things?"
All the monster pets retreated in embarrassment. Lu Ping snorted coldly and said, "Before you all advanced to the Core Forging Stage, you were still in the form of a monster. Although you had spiritual wisdom, you didn't understand the ways of the world. Now that you have advanced to the Transformation Stage, what's the difference between you and the human race?"
Lu Ping paused. Seeing that all the monsters lowered their heads and had learned expressions, his face did not relax in the slightest. He still said in a deep voice, "Books can increase wisdom. The demon race is born with a tyrannical body and a longer lifespan than the human race. Even the swallowing of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi is an instinct. Why can the human race stand side by side with the demon race? Even the wilderness of the Central Plains is occupied by the human race, while the demon race can only stand in such a harsh place as the mountains and swamps? The fundamental reason lies in the wisdom of the human race, but where does wisdom come from? Other than innate wisdom, it comes from these inherited ancient books. "
Lu Ping saw that all the monsters began to listen to his heart. His tone relaxed a little, but he still solemnly said, "These ancient books should have been brought out by Qingjian Laozu from the Ying Tian Sect's dojo after the destruction of the Ying Tian Sect. Although it is not a drop in the ocean of the Ying Tian Sect's inheritance, for any cultivator, it is a precious treasure. I will bring these ancient books back to the sect in the future. You all should take this opportunity to study them. It will be of great benefit to your future cultivation. "
All the monster pets obediently returned to their respective stone rooms. They picked up the jade slips or books again and began to study the ancient books of the Ying Tian Sect left behind by Qingjian Laozu.
At the other end of the stone hall was the largest stone room. This was Lu Ping's temporary secret cultivation room. The medium spirit vein in the stone hall was also imprisoned under this stone room.
In the center of the stone room was an ultra-long distance teleportation array. Seven days ago, after Lu Ping left the teleportation array of the Qingjian Cave Abode, he reappeared in this stone room.
Lu Ping sat cross-legged on the stone bed in the stone room. On a stone table beside the stone bed, there was a small incense burner fixed on the stone table. This small stone incense burner was the imprisonment magic treasure of the medium spirit vein under the stone room. It was also the core of a concealment array in the stone hall.
This was obviously a secret cave abode operated by Qingjian Laozu in the Middle Earth. From the harvest in the cave abode, the dojo of the Ying Tian Sect must be hidden in the area near this secret cave abode. However, in the past seven days, Lu Ping had searched the area within a hundred miles of the cave abode but found nothing.
Lu Ping originally thought that Qingjian Laozu must know the location of the hidden dojo of the Ying Tian Sect. In that case, the teleportation array built in the cave abode that led to the Middle Earth must not be too far from the hidden dojo of the Ying Tian Sect. It might even lead directly to the dojo.
In reality, from the harvest Lu Ping obtained in this cave abode, the dojo of the Ying Tian Sect could indeed be hidden nearby. However, with Lu Ping's current cultivation and divine power, he obviously could not find the location of the dojo.
Thinking about it, it made sense. The Ying Tian Sect had been destroyed for thousands of years, and the dojo was hidden in the void. In these thousands of years, it must have attracted countless cultivators from the Middle Earth to search for it. However, no one had found the location of the dojo. From this, it could be seen how mysterious the Ying Tian Sect's Void Concealment Array was.
Tian Xue Laozu once said that the Ying Tian Sect's protective array did not specialize in defense, but in concealment. Its level of profoundness was comparable to the North Sea's Seven Stars Cave Abode. From the looks of it, it was true.
After thinking about it, Lu Ping could only place his hopes on the ancient records of the Ying Tian Sect that he found in the cave abode. He hoped that he could find some clues about the dojo of the Ying Tian Sect from these ancient records.
However, even though there were not many ancient records in the cave abode, the content was extremely vast. Without a choice, Lu Ping released all six of his spiritual pets and allowed them to study these ancient records. At the same time, he searched for any records related to the Ying Tian Sect's dojo. As for Lu Ping, he would occasionally go out to investigate the surroundings of the cave abode. Even though he knew that the chances of finding anything were slim, Lu Ping still persisted in investigating the surrounding hundred kilometers.
Lu Ping's divine will entered his storage artifact. First, he took out four Spirit-Gathering Pearls, one big and three small. These were the small Spirit-Gathering Pearls that Lu Ping had found in the mid-sized spirit vein of the cave abode by Dabao the moment he arrived at the cave abode.
After that, Lu Ping took out three purple jade scrolls that were glowing with spiritual light from his storage ring. His hands formed a few Spirit-Dispersing Arts, and after dispelling the restrictions on the jade scrolls, Lu Ping's divine will entered them and began to investigate the contents of the jade scrolls.
These three jade scrolls recorded three sets of inherited techniques from the Ying Tian Sect. These three sets of inherited techniques recorded the entire process of training from the Blood Condensation Realm to the late Dharma stage.
As of now, there were only six complete sets of inherited techniques in the Zhenling Sect. Furthermore, one of them was not even considered a true inherited technique.
The rules of the Zhenling Sect were rather unique. For a set of techniques to be on the same level as a technique that could not be passed down, the practitioner had to train this set of techniques to the late Dharma stage.
This was also why, when Sage Liang Xuanfeng had obtained the Linhai Wave Listening Technique from the Zhongxuan Cave Abode in the East Sea and perfected Liu Tianling's and Laozu's training technique, the Linhai Wave Listening Technique was still unable to become the sixth true inherited technique of the Zhenling Sect.
Even so, if Lu Ping brought these three sets of techniques back to the Zhenling Sect, they would definitely be stored away by the Laozu Sect. Then, they would begin to select the most outstanding Blood Condensation Stage adepts from the sect to train with them.
A complete set of training techniques would always be the foundation of a sect's legacy. The legacy of the Zhenling Sect had been passed down for tens of thousands of years, but there were only five complete sets of true inherited techniques up to the late Dharma stage. This was one of the main reasons that restricted the growth of the Zhenling Sect.
Legend had it that a truly large sect would establish a complete set of inherited techniques. The complete set of inherited techniques had to cover all seven bloodlines and seven elements. There had to be at least forty-nine complete sets of complete inherited techniques up to the late Dharma stage. This meant that no matter what bloodline or element the disciple had, they would be able to find the best training technique that was suitable for them.
Although the large sects could not be as perfect as the large sects, at the very least, they had to cover all seven bloodlines and seven attributes at the same time. Even if they were not suitable, they had to make sure that their disciples had at least one or two complete legacy cultivation techniques as a reference.
Compared to the Zhenling Sect, the five complete sets of inherited techniques seemed unusually shabby. However, with these three sets of inherited techniques, in addition to Liu Tianling's complete Linhai Wave Listening Technique, the Zhenling Sect would have at least nine complete sets of inherited techniques. Although it still would not be able to cover all seven elements and seven bloodlines, it was at least one step closer to the standard of a large sect.
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