Similarly, after the soul cultivator cast some spells on the captured people, he also learned about how they entered this place.
These people were taken in after entering the outskirts of the "Heavenly Demon Grassland" in a piece of water and grass.
At this point, they were even more certain that their secret place must still be in the "Heavenly Demon Grassland".
After thinking about it, the sect gave an order to seal the cultivation of all male practitioners and asked them to do some labor.
It is unknown how many years it has taken for this secret realm to be created. Since it has the five elements of heaven and earth and spiritual energy, some spiritual stone veins have also been born here.
It’s just that I haven’t found the best quality one yet, so it can only be considered good.
In the past, these things had to be mined by our own people. Now that there are foreign monks, it would be a pity to kill them, so it would be better to let them do this kind of thing.
The Soul-Calming Palace had no good feelings towards these monks. They were forced by these people when they were in the outside world, just like mice living in the dark, hiding here and there all day long.
Even when going out to buy the necessary materials for cultivation, he was terrified for fear of causing trouble.
The last time their sect was exposed was because someone went to the market to buy medicinal pills, and was later followed by someone. In desperation, they killed the person in the wild.
However, the abnormality revealed by that disciple when he made his move was also discovered by other monks passing by, which brought about a catastrophic disaster.
Therefore, the disciples of the Zhenhun Palace hated these foreign monks to the extreme and called them "evil spirit monks."
If they were not satisfied with their work, they would be beaten or scolded. Here, they finally had a sense of being in control.
However, the fate of those female cultivators from outside was miserable, as they were used as cauldrons by them.
One is to be used for reproduction, and the other is to absorb yin and replenish yang for cultivation. This also includes those beautiful female demon cultivators who have transformed. Anyway, for cultivators, this kind of thing rarely makes the distinction between different groups.
However, once some foreign female cultivators gain favor, they can also practice soul cultivation techniques under the constraints of soul seals.
Among those who were taken into the "Earthly Realm", there would occasionally be some soul cultivators who were also taken in here accidentally.
After these soul cultivators entered here, they had only one choice at the beginning, which was to join the Soul-Suppressing Palace and share their skills.
Otherwise, they would have been doomed to certain death. It was not until a long time later that the situation changed.
As the years passed, after more and more cultivators entered, the Soul-Calming Palace gradually discovered some patterns. It turned out that the cultivation level of all the cultivators who could enter here did not exceed the Spirit Transformation Realm.
This made them feel that this secret place should have the suppressive effect of the heaven, which made them start to feel happy one by one, and they really regarded this place as their own paradise.
Up to this point, even the leader of the Soul-Suppressing Palace did not realize what consequences this suppression would bring to them.
Because the cultivation of all of them is constantly improving.
Especially the cultivation level of the sect leader. After he had no more worries, the terrifying speed of soul cultivation was revealed.
He made rapid progress all the way, and in just a few hundred years, he reached the middle stage of the Void Refinement Realm, and there were signs that he would continue to break through.
Now that the sect master had become more powerful, he wanted to try to break through the restrictions here again to see if he could get out...
At the same time, the power of the Zhenhun Palace is constantly expanding here, and they are constantly exploring those unknown dangerous areas, which allows them to discover many secrets.
Among them is a dangerous place, which is surrounded by layers of deadly miasma. Even the sect leader who is a Void Refining cultivator can die in it if he is not careful.
For this reason, in order to explore this area, the Soul-Suppressing Palace cannot allow any monks to die.
In the end, it took the sect leader another sixty years to enter the miasma.
In that dangerous place, he discovered that within the miasma, there was actually a series of towering peaks that stretched for tens of thousands of miles.
There are also many rare medicinal herbs growing there, some of which are more than ten thousand years old, and there are also many herbs that they cannot even name.
The spiritual energy here was even one or two times denser than that of their sect. From then on, they established a real sect in the dangerous place.
The monks of Zhenhun Palace also discovered something that was shining with a bluish-white light in this dangerous place. These things exuded spiritual energy and were also some kind of spiritual plants.
They looked like small pieces of translucent crystal. At first, no one knew the function of these spiritual plants.
After careful research, the monks of the Zhenhun Palace unexpectedly discovered that some of these crystal-like things have the power to affect the soul.
This gave them an unexpected surprise, so many monks in the sect who were skilled in alchemy began to try to refine and research it.
Through continuous research, after many years, they actually used this substance as the main material and refined a kind of elixir called "Soul Crystal".
This kind of elixir has a very obvious effect on the cultivation of cultivators below the Spirit Transformation stage.
If one could find the three kinds of auxiliary materials, and then use this five-hundred-year-old spiritual plant to refine it, one could even refine a "soul crystal" that would be effective for those who had attained the state of spiritual transformation.
However, although this kind of recipe for the spirit transformation realm was developed, few people used it later. The reason was that the three auxiliary materials were as precious as "soul crystals" over 500 years old. They named this spiritual plant "soul crystal bud"!
Initially, these "Soul Crystal Buds" grew wild. As the monks of the Soul-Calming Palace continued to pick them and refine them into medicine, these precious spiritual plants soon became scarce.
This made the Zhenhun Palace immediately realize the problem, and they issued a strict ban on random picking.
Instead, they cultivated the remaining "Soul Crystal Buds", but no matter how they cultivated them at first, they failed in the end.
After experiencing one unexpected failure after another, many people began to despair, thinking that this kind of thing might be the protection of some special rules of heaven and earth, and that it is now becoming less and less needed.
But this method is not without a way to save it, which is to plant them in the places where the "Soul Crystal Buds" grow. If the power of the rules of heaven and earth there remains unchanged, they will grow again.
However, among the places where "Soul Crystal Buds" were found to grow, there were only some near the sect.
Compared with the growing number of monks, it is still too small. Even if it is planting, the income is not enough to cover the expenses.
This also made the elders in the sect very anxious. Now many disciples were making rapid progress in their cultivation, and it was with the help of the "Soul Crystal" elixir that they were able to achieve an increasingly prosperous situation.
Moreover, with the in-depth use of the "Soul Crystal Bud", the function of this thing is not as simple as refining medicine. Its more important value is that it can be used to refine storage space magic weapons.
Therefore, they went to other unknown areas to search for more "Soul Crystal Buds", and at the same time, they strictly controlled the use of this thing...
Until one day, an elder, during his continuous attempts, accidentally discovered a strange kind of soil in a place outside the sect.
He brought some back, and after returning to the sect, he planted a "Soul Crystal Bud" in it.
A few days later, a surprising scene appeared. The "Soul Crystal Bud" no longer withered and died within a few days after transplantation as before, but was still full of vitality.
There should be a lot of this kind of land out there, but they just don't know much about it.
He guessed that the reason why the "Soul Crystal Bud" did not appear in other places was probably because the "Soul Crystal Bud" originally grew only in this dangerous place.
Its seeds cannot leave this area at all, so they are restricted to a certain range.
Finally, they called the land containing this soil "Crystal Smoke Land".
In their subsequent research on the Crystal Smoke Land, they discovered more secrets, such as the deeper the land, the more mist it contained.
Of course, there is a limit to this. When you go too deep underground, the mist will gradually weaken or even disappear.
So they took advantage of this and often after discovering a "crystal smoke land", they would block it with a formation.
Then use magic to dig a certain distance underground, and then plant the "Soul Crystal Buds" inside. This will make the "Soul Crystal Buds" grow faster and contain more soul power.
Time passes quickly, year after year, generation after generation...
The number of cultivators in the "Earth True Realm" is constantly increasing, but not all of their offspring have spiritual roots, so mortals appear here.
Since these mortals were descendants of soul cultivators, they were not enslaved. Instead, they formed towns and villages and lived their own lives.
Some soul cultivators also take good care of their mortal descendants, and even refine some elixirs that can prolong their lifespans, or even spiritual tools and magic treasures.
For daily use, you only need to use spirit stones or their specially refined talismans to activate it.
In this way, they can save their lives and continue their bloodline when they encounter ferocious wild beasts or even some low-level monsters.
There is, of course, another purpose for doing this, which is that among the descendants of these mortals, there will be people with spiritual roots again who can embark on the path of cultivating immortals again.
Therefore, the mortals here are not unfamiliar with using immortal things.
After seeing that mortals could do some of the things that low-level cultivators could do, the Soul-Suppressing Palace later came up with other ideas. They refined some magical weapons that could detect the "Crystal Smoke Land" and allowed these mortals to explore this kind of land.
This would save the monks a lot of time, and they would also give certain rewards to those mortals who found the "Crystal Smoke Land". Both sides got the benefits they wanted.
As things developed further, the Soul-Restoring Palace even sold the low-level "Soul Crystal Bud" seedlings to mortals, allowing them to find the "Crystal Smoke Land" and plant them on their own. After they were mature, they could be sold directly to them.
As a result, this gradually became an important source of income for mortals, and they gradually summed up a set of methods to grow "Soul Crystal Buds".
For example, they cannot easily use formations and prohibitions to protect the "Soul Crystal Bud", so they build houses to cover it up to prevent it from being destroyed by wild beasts and protect it.
In this way, the Zhenhun Palace completely ruled the space of "Earth Realm" and continued to grow and develop.
Not only did ordinary people branch out everywhere, but even some disciples in the sect were unable to be reused in the sect, or there were some people who had ambitious disciples.
They also began to go out and establish small sects, or simply formed immortal cultivation families, etc.
At the same time, the Zhenhun Palace explored more dangerous places, and finally they slowly made new discoveries because they found some jade slips and even some fragments of magic weapons.
Although they did not see the skeletons of other cultivators or monsters, after obtaining these jade slips, they used their spiritual sense to explore at the cost of some losses and obtained some clues.