After leaving Old Chen's smithing shop, Lu Ping teleported back to Xuan Qi Island through the teleportation array. From there, he flew back to Huang Li Island.
Along the way, Lu Ping flew as fast as lightning. The low-grade flying boat beneath his feet was unleashed to its maximum speed, allowing Lu Ping to experience what it felt like to be a Blood Condensation Realm expert.
Lu Ping sat in the cultivation room. After a series of exchanges, he already had a plan for his Blood Condensation Realm cultivation. Of course, he still had to prepare for the upcoming war between the two sects. Although Lu Ping had been preparing for it all this time, he still had to prepare for it.
First, he had to open up his cave abode. Initially, Lu Ping wanted to go to the Green Sea Snake's lair to plunder as Lu Ping had used up almost all of his Blood Refining Realm savings. However, after considering the current situation and the fact that the lair was located in Xuan Ling Sect's territory, Lu Ping decided to go there at night to avoid attracting unwanted attention.
Lu Ping's decision to open up his cultivation room underground was mainly due to the influence of Sheng Tao's cave abode and Master Immortal Liu's words. Lu Ping arrived at the hillside of Huang Li Island. The two freshwater rivers on the island both originated from this hillside, one in the northeast and the other in the southeast. In the middle of the two rivers, which was the back of the hillside, was a steep cliff that was more than a hundred feet high. Lu Ping decided to build his cave abode here.
Actually, Lu Ping also wanted to see if the two rivers on the island had the same source. After all, he cultivated a water-type cultivation technique. Cultivating next to water was always comfortable.
Lu Ping released Dabao. For the past few months, Dabao had been kept in Lu Ping's spirit beast pouch and rarely saw the light of day. On the other hand, Lu Ping fed Dabao all the low-grade Blood Refining Realm pills he refined before. When Dabao came out of the spirit beast pouch, it excitedly circled around Lu Ping. However, no matter how one looked at it, it looked like a big meatball rolling around. Dabao had gained weight again, to the point that his legs could no longer be seen. However, his cultivation had advanced to the Third Level of the Blood Condensation Realm. He could be considered an expert among the Spirit Seeking Mice.
Summoning the flying sword, the Flying Swallow Sword nimbly drew a flower and immediately displayed a set of sword techniques in the air. This was one of the eight techniques that came with the "Art of Listening to Waves from the Sea". It was known as one of the "Eight Techniques of Listening to Waves", and its name was "Stone Piercing Sky Sword Technique".
This was the first time Lu Ping had displayed this sword technique. In the past, he was only able to familiarize himself with it. However, Lu Ping had already comprehended the "Force" realm of the water-type cultivation technique. In just a short while, he had already grasped the essence of the sword technique. The Flying Swallow Sword instantly turned into a white wave that reflected the sunlight and rushed towards the cliff. It was like a raging wave crashing against the shore, wanting to dig a big hole in the cliff by the shore.
In just a short while, a large hole that was big enough for one person to enter and exit had been opened on the cliff. At this time, Dabao, who was following behind Lu Ping, suddenly ran to the front and began to squeak. Lu Ping's face lit up. It seemed like there really was a place where spiritual energy gathered here.
Normally, the source of a river was a place with spiritual energy that was favored by the heavens and earth. It would often become a place where spiritual energy gathered, and some would even form a spiritual vein. Therefore, it was said that the great sects of the land's cultivation world would often station their sects at the source of the river.
The Flying Swallow Sword opened up a path of about ten feet diagonally downwards. The Flying Swallow Sword pierced through empty air. The belly of the mountain was originally empty. The belly of the mountain was about a hundred feet in circumference and four to five feet in height. On the ground, there was a clear spring that burst out from the cracks in the rocks and flowed to both sides. Presumably, this was the source of the two rivers on the island. However, the amount of water was so small. Presumably, when it flowed through the cracks in the rocks on both sides, there would be other tributaries to replenish it.
The belly of the mountain was surrounded by stone walls. Although there was water flowing on the ground, it did not seem humid and suffocating, making it an ideal living environment.
The place where the clear spring burst out from the ground was where the spiritual energy gathered. Dabao had already drunk a bellyful of water and was lying on the stone platform on the side, too lazy to move.
Lu Ping was very satisfied with this place, but it could only be used as a cultivation room. Lu Ping returned to the opened path and used the Flying Swallow Sword to open up a hall on both sides of the cave as a guest room. Then, he returned to the belly of the mountain and opened up an alchemy room and a study room on both sides of the stone walls. He also opened up a spirit beast room as Dabao's room. Then, he opened up a half mu wide spiritual herb garden on both sides of the clear spring. He was prepared to move the spiritual vein from Sheng Tao's spiritual herb garden over here and transplant the spiritual herbs there.
After completing the construction of the cave, Lu Ping started to set up the Ice River Killing Array around the cave. He placed the array disc into the belly of the mountain and placed eight mid-grade spirit stones in the center of the array disc. Then, he placed a few ice and water attribute spiritual materials at specific locations around the cave. After returning to the belly of the mountain, Lu Ping activated the array. Immediately, the area within a radius of a hundred zhang around the cave was bitterly cold. If a Blood Condensation cultivator tried to barge into the cave, they would be greeted by icicles. Lu Ping stepped into the hailstones and tried to sense them. He only lasted for two hours before his arcane energy depleted. No wonder Multi-Treasure Pavilion's Manager Jia said that even a Late Blood Condensation Realm cultivator would be trapped in the hailstones.
The arrangement of the array formation was based on the position of the array disc, which was determined by Lu Ping himself. Even the array formation master who crafted the array disc would have to first determine the position and placement of the array disc in order to decipher the array formation. Otherwise, he would have to start from scratch. This way, the cultivators could purchase the array disc without worries and set up the array formation in their cave-dwelling.
There was a small illusion array around the array. It could prevent mortals from entering by mistake, but it was useless against cultivators.
Lu Ping changed the array disc to an automatic mode. This way, the array could be hidden during normal times. When an enemy entered the range of the array, the array would suddenly activate and catch them off guard.
Lu Ping looked at the eight mid-grade spirit stones on the array disc, then looked at the 36 types of spiritual materials buried around it. He was probably the Blood Condensation cultivator with the least amount of spirit stones. Lu Ping only had 29 low-grade spirit stones in his storage bag.
Originally, there were three ways to activate the array disc. The first way was to use 60 low-grade spirit stones. This way, the power of the array would not be maximized and the duration of activation would be the shortest. The second way was to use 4 mid-grade spirit stones and 32 low-grade spirit stones. This way, the power of the array could be maximized and the duration of activation would be slightly longer. The third way was to use 8 mid-grade spirit stones to maximize the power of the array.
Lu Ping was a person who would make do with anything if he didn't have it. If he did have it, he would want the best of everything. Since he had enough spirit stones, why should he be stingy? Moreover, Lu Ping had a lot of good stuff on him. He could turn them into spirit stones at any time.
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