Lu Ping looked at the array formation that protected the entire stone platform, but he didn't try to break it.
Although this array barrier was much tougher than the previous one, it wasn't too difficult for Lu Ping to break it. The difficult part was that the teleportation array on the stone platform was deliberately left behind by Fei Ling Sect. It could only allow Early Blood Condensation cultivators to enter. It was originally a special passage for Fei Ling Sect to cultivate their disciples, but it later became the only passage for the sects to enter Fei Ling Mountain.
The formation plate of this teleportation array was set up in a secret place in Fei Ling Mountain. Even though Lu Ping had the purple jade slip, he couldn't make any changes to this teleportation array from outside Fei Ling Mountain. Therefore, Lu Ping couldn't use this stone platform to teleport to Fei Ling Mountain.
Lu Ping continued to dive deeper. When he reached a depth of 60,000 feet, nine layers of protective aura burst out from his body in succession, expanding the Water Moon Repelling Pearl's protective aura that had shrunk to only one foot around his body and expanded it back to about three feet.
At this time, the abyss was getting narrower and narrower. With the Three Pure Eyes, Lu Ping could vaguely see the stone walls of the abyss several miles away.
As he dived deeper, many arrays and restrictions began to appear. As Lu Ping dived deeper, the arrays and restrictions became denser and denser, making it more difficult to break them.
If it weren't for Lu Ping's hundreds of years of preparation, and his mastery of the contents recorded in the purple jade slip, even if Lu Ping's True Essence was strong and pure, it would have been exhausted long ago.
In such a deep seabed abyss, the consumption of true essence in the body would increase exponentially with the use of each incantation.
Four thousand years ago, after Fei Ling Mountain sank to the bottom of the sea, the North Sea sects' Laozu teamed up and went deep into the abyss with a few formation masters. They wanted to find Fei Ling Mountain again, but the countless arrays and restrictions in the abyss exhausted their True Essence. In the end, they had no choice but to retreat to the sea.
In the end, it was only through the calculations of a few formation masters that they set up a traction formation on the stone platform. Every five hundred years, when the formation was weakened, the Blood Condensation Realm disciples from each sect would be able to enter Fei Ling Mountain through the stone platform in search of some superficial benefits.
With the purple jade slip in hand, Lu Ping already knew how to break these arrays and restrictions like the back of his hand. He also had the support of his True Essence, but now he still felt a little tired.
In the blink of an eye, Lu Ping had already reached a depth of nearly seven thousand feet. Back then, when the North Sea Laozu teamed up to reach this point, only five mid Dharma Laozu and three Dharma adepts were left. The rest of the Laozu had used up their True Essence in the process of breaking the restrictions and resisting the water pressure.
Moreover, this was not the only reason why the Laozu stopped. The more important reason was that these arrays and restrictions were left behind by the Fei Ling Sect for thousands of years. After generations of cultivators constantly perfected or added new restrictions, these restrictions intertwined with each other, forming an endless forest of arrays that was connected to the spirit vein of Fei Ling Mountain.
In this forest of arrays, unless one could completely cut off the spirit vein of Fei Ling Mountain in one fell swoop, these arrays and restrictions would slowly recover after a period of time, even if they were broken through various methods.
This meant that even if the Dharma power Laozu forcefully broke through these arrays and reached the deepest part of the mountain, if he did not have any True Essence left in his body, then unless he could break through to the destination in one go, he would still have to face the arrays and restrictions that had already recovered when he returned. Without enough True Essence, even a Dharma adept could only wait for death.
Lu Ping swallowed a Vitality Pill. Although Lu Ping still had more than half of his True Essence left in his body, the deeper he went, the more True Essence he used. Even though Lu Ping had the purple jade slip, he still had to be careful.
At the depth of eighty thousand feet, the remaining five mid Dharma adepts stopped here, and the amount of True Essence that Lu Ping used was equivalent to the total amount of True Essence he had used up in the past ten thousand feet.
Fortunately, the Vitality Pill that Lu Ping refined was made with the Spirit Peach as a medicinal catalyst, and its quality was extremely high. It was quite effective in restoring the True Essence in the body, making up for a part of Lu Ping's True Essence loss.
At the depth of ninety thousand feet, the bottom of the abyss could be seen clearly under the gaze of the Three Pure Eyes. Lu Ping could even see Fei Ling Mountain below through the layers of arrays and restrictions at the bottom.
In the past, three great adepts came here and saw that Fei Ling Mountain was right in front of them. However, because of the layers of protective arrays, they no longer had the energy to break it. In the end, it felt like it was far away. The three great adepts, Laozu, failed at the last step and returned with regret.
Among the three great cultivator ancestors, one of them had expended a lot of energy in breaking the formations and restrictions. On the way back, he was blocked by the formations and restrictions that were gradually recovering. In the end, he had no choice but to use his origin True Essence. However, in the end, because his origin True Essence was exhausted and his body was damaged, he passed away in the Blue Sea Sect not long after he finally escaped from the abyss at the bottom of the sea.
After the destruction of the Flying Spirit Sect, Xuanling Sect, Zhenling Sect, and Canghai Sect benefited the most among the sects in the North Sea. But because the Ancestor died so quickly, Canghai Sect didn't have time to digest these benefits, and the sect's strength was gradually caught up and surpassed by Xuanling Sect and Zhenling Sect.
The other two great adepts were also more or less affected by this trip to the abyss at the bottom of the sea. In the next three hundred years, the two great adepts of Xuan Ling and Zhen Ling sects also died one after another. The entire cultivation world of North Sea suddenly ushered in a period of no great adepts. This was also the reason why the entire cultivation world of North Sea, which was originally backward, even began to be called barren.
In the next four thousand years, no one in North Sea tried to open Fei Ling Mountain again, and the abyss at the bottom of the sea gradually began to be unknown. Only every five hundred years, the late stage Core Forging cultivators of various sects would gather to open the traction array and pull the teleportation stone platform to the sea.
After Lu Ping reached the bottom of the abyss, he didn't immediately start to crack the island's protective array under his feet.
Although the purple jade slip recorded the composition of the island's protective array and the method to crack it, it had been strengthened and condensed by dozens of generations of cultivators in Fei Ling Mountain for tens of thousands of years. Even if Lu Ping was proficient in the restriction inheritance of Fei Ling Sect, he wouldn't be able to crack it from the outside without a few months of painstaking work.
Lu Ping swallowed another Spirit Recovery Pill, carefully savoring the process of the pill fusing into the blood in his abdomen and refining it into qi, and then walked to the stone wall on the left.
Lu Ping fumbled along the stone wall, and occasionally made a gesture to hit on the stone wall. After a flash of light, layers of arrays and restrictions were revealed. Lu Ping looked disappointed and continued to fumble toward the stone wall behind him, continuing to make gestures to test something.
"It shouldn't be, it should be here!"
Lu Ping's voice kept muttering to himself, but he didn't make any gestures.
At the same time, Lu Ping casually cast a hand seal on the stone wall that was also protected by the array formation. The array formation that was supposed to expand outwards to disintegrate the array formation's power suddenly sunk inwards and bounced outwards. Lu Ping's hand seal's power to disintegrate the array formation's power was even more thoroughly disintegrated.
Lu Ping looked happy, "It's here!"
Lu Ping took out a spirit sealing box from the storage magic tool. After thinking about it, he put the box back, and then his hands made 81 gestures in an instant, hitting the restriction on the stone wall.
However, the restriction attached to this stone wall also caved in. Then, the dispelling power of these spells completely collapsed, and then it returned to its original state.
The 81 hand gestures in an instant were the fastest speed that Lu Ping could do while ensuring that the power of each hand gesture was as strong as possible. However, the result made Lu Ping depressed!
Fortunately, only the restriction breaking spell in the purple jade slip could make a dent. After the dent appeared, the items in the spirit sealing box could be used. Otherwise, Lu Ping didn't believe that the Fa Xiang Laozu, who tried to reopen Fei Ling Mountain, would have fewer items than Lu Ping's spirit sealing box.
The secret spell in the purple jade slip was only the key. If he wanted to open the lock, he had to have the strength to open the door. Otherwise, it would be useless. The restriction breaking talisman in the spirit sealing box was the help for Lu Ping to open the door!
Lu Ping took out a five-color restriction breaking talisman from the spirit sealing box. After thinking about it, he changed it to a six-color restriction breaking talisman. This was not the time to be distressed about these treasures.
Lu Ping cast a Fei Ling Sect's seal breaking spell with his right hand, and the seal on the stone wall suddenly caved in. But before the seal could bounce back, a six-colored seal breaking charm appeared in his left hand and smashed onto the dented seal.
Six colorful lights shone on each other, tearing apart the layers of seals on the stone wall. Lu Ping narrowed his eyes and without hesitation, he took out another five-colored talisman from the spirit-sealing box. He infused his Quintessential Energy into the talisman and activated it. Then, he slapped it on the six-colored talisman that was gradually melting away.
The layers of restrictions finally cracked, and a crack that only allowed half a body to fit through completely opened up. Behind the crack was a narrow cave.
Lu Ping leaned to the side and jumped into the crack without hesitation. The crack behind him immediately returned to its original state.
Lu Ping bent his waist and walked all the way into the depths of the cave. After about 800 feet, Lu Ping's eyes lit up. A stone room with a radius of 100 feet appeared in front of Lu Ping. The stone walls were flashing with a strange light. It must be the light of the restrictions on the stone walls.
In the center of the stone room, there was a small teleportation array surrounded by a layer of green and white formation. Lu Ping could even see the teleportation array disk in the center of the teleportation array.
This was a secret teleportation array of Fei Ling Sect. It was one of the escape routes that Fei Ling Sect had prepared!
Unfortunately, this escape route was only known to the three great adepts of Fei Ling Sect. Before Fei Ling Sect was destroyed, the three great adepts had passed the purple jade scroll to Fei Ling Sect's third generation adept, Jiao Yuqiang.
It was a pity that Jiao Yuqiang was besieged by several Dharma adepts. Although he managed to escape, he suffered an incurable injury and died in his own cave abode. This purple jade scroll ended up in the hands of Lu Ziping, who was only at the early Blood Condensation stage at that time!
Lu Ping opened his right palm and a seven-colored talisman appeared in his hand. This time, Lu Ping did not even test it. He directly hit the seven-colored restriction breaking talisman on the teleportation array's protective shield!
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