The night in the fourth realm is extremely dark.
Because there are no sun, moon, or stars all year round and there is no natural light source, when night falls in this world, the wild beasts will refrain from hunting.
After working hard for a long time, everyone decided to rest for a night and moved away from the phoenix bone in the Insect Valley.
Because there are many skeletons of Ouyang family explorers scattered around the Phoenix Bone, most people would not be used to having piles of dry bones around them in such a dark night.
Pang Jian didn't care.
Without any lamp or fire, he sat cross-legged next to the phoenix bone that had pierced the beehive.
Luo Hongyan was very tactful. She smiled softly, then turned around and left gracefully.
This is the recent tacit understanding between the two.
Pang Jian, who was sitting on the phoenix bone, saw the people from the Su and He families making a fire and meditating at the other end of the Worm Valley.
In the dark night, everyone's vision was limited. He took off the bamboo basket behind him when he felt that Su Yuntian and He Rong could no longer see him.
After taking a deep breath, he calmed his mind, cleared away all distracting thoughts, and quickly entered a state of practice.
When he entered into meditation this time, he actually had a strange illusion that his perception was greatly enhanced.
He intuitively felt that his Dantian spiritual sea was divided into two layers, just like the world he lived in.
He did not rush to use the spirit stone in his hand, but tried to absorb the mixed spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the Insect Valley. Gradually, he felt the spiritual energy escaping into his body, which was in the upper layer of the spiritual sea in his dantian.
The spiritual energy in the upper layer is like clusters of clouds.
When he practiced the "Hutian Yangqi Jue", he felt that a huge vortex suddenly appeared between the upper and lower layers.
The vortex is funnel-shaped, connecting the upper and lower layers of the Dantian spiritual sea. The vortex rotates gently, slowly absorbing the cloud-like spiritual energy from the upper layer.
As the vortex rotated in circles, the spiritual energy was continuously refined and sank toward the bottom of the funnel, where it was gradually extracted into... spiritual power.
In the lower layer of the Dantian Spiritual Sea, wisps of spiritual energy slowly gathered and gradually formed a small pool of water.
At this moment, Pang Jian's mind moved, and he immediately knew the complete layout of the Dantian Linghai. He also realized that this mysterious little world inside the human body seemed to have two layers.
The reason why it is called Dantian Linghai is because the upper part is Dantian, and the place where spiritual power gathers below is Linghai.
The Dantian and the Linghai are connected by a funnel-shaped vortex. The Dantian washes and purifies the spiritual energy and other energy absorbed from the outside world, and then condenses it into spiritual power and flows it into the Linghai below.
With this realization, Pang Jian absorbed the complex spiritual energy of the fourth realm in the Insect Valley and carefully felt the wonder of the spiritual sea in his dantian.
After a while, he suddenly felt as if there were many mosquitoes, flies, insects and bees buzzing towards him from all directions, as if they wanted to devour him.
Before he was awakened, he saw that those so-called mosquitoes, flies, and insects were all strange powers hidden deep in the spiritual energy.
The tiny lives in the Insect Valley that died because of the phoenix bones and had their blood and flesh essence sucked out, their residual souls and spirits were integrated into the spiritual energy, and were absorbed into his body all at once using the "Hutian Yangqi Jue".
When he used the whirlpool to cleanse the spiritual energy in the Insect Valley, he needed to grind away the mosquitoes, flies and insects first.
This step is called eliminating the dross, which is actually quite time-consuming, and not much spiritual power can be extracted from it.
After hesitating for a moment, he took out two spirit stones that he had looted from Jin Yang, Xu Rui and the masked man.
The two spirit stones are shaped like white jade, one of them has scattered impurities, and the other is extremely pure.
He tried to absorb a spiritual stone with impurities, and immediately felt that the spiritual power absorbed from the spiritual stone in his hand contained a small amount of impure power.
This is not "qi" like clouds and mist, but spiritual power that is consistent with the power within his spiritual sea and is as flowing as water.
However, the spiritual power inside contains some impurities, which need to be purified through the whirlpool connecting the Dantian and the spiritual sea. The impurities must be eliminated.
Even so, the spiritual power he could gain from a spiritual stone like this far exceeded the so-called spiritual energy in the Worm Valley.
The efficiency is more than ten times faster.
Although both sides are contaminated by impurities, spiritual energy and spiritual power are two completely different concepts. It seems that it takes ten times the spiritual energy to refine a strand of spiritual power.
The spiritual power in the spirit stone already exists and he does not need to refine it over and over again. He only needs to remove the impurities.
In the dark night, Pang Jian opened his eyes slightly and looked at the spirit stone with many spots in his hand.
He finally understood why Jinyang and others only carried these spirit stones from the fourth realm in addition to their usual utensils.
With these spirit stones, those people can quickly recover their strength, much faster than absorbing the spiritual energy in the Cenji Mountains.
"What about pure spiritual stones?"
Thinking of this, he looked at another pure and flawless spirit stone.
This spirit stone came from Ning Yao's leather bag. It was a relic of the Blood Moon warrior on the "Wuding Ferry".
He tried to absorb the spiritual power from it, and his eyes suddenly burst into brilliance.
The spiritual stone from the third realm did not contain a trace of impurities. After he took it into his dantian above, it slid directly along the funnel-shaped vortex and merged into his spiritual sea!
No need to quench and wash away impurities, no need to refine again, it will immediately become part of the spiritual sea!
The efficiency and speed of enhancing spiritual power in this way is several times higher than that of practicing with impure spiritual stones!
"No wonder she felt like she had found a treasure after getting this item on Wuding Ferry."
Due to the improvement of perception, Pang Jian was able to intuitively feel the condition of his Dantian Spiritual Sea during this practice. His understanding of Dantian Spiritual Sea was much more thorough than his last time in the Black Water Pond.
He finally understood how valuable spirit stones were to practitioners.
"With these pure spiritual stones, I can gather the spiritual power in the spiritual sea faster."
Since he had pure spirit stones available, he had no intention of saving them and started practicing immediately.
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dark place.
Luo Hongyan, who was some distance away from him, sat cross-legged among the leaves as usual, looking down at Pang Jian condescendingly.
With her level of cultivation attainments and the refinement of her soul, she vaguely saw that when Pang Jian was practicing, the residual souls of many mosquitoes, flies, and insects were also absorbed by Pang Jian into his Dantian spiritual sea.
Suddenly, she looked surprised.
When Pang Jian was practicing the "Hutian Yangqi Jue", many "spiritual demons" like Luo Meng, hidden in the darkness, were actually attracted and wanted to escape into his dantian uncontrollably.
She was startled and hurriedly used her will to intervene, forcing those "evil spirits" to evacuate from the edge of the Insect Valley.
"What a domineering spiritual art! This level of spiritual art should not be a product of the fourth realm."
She became more and more curious about the boy's past.
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Time flies.
As daybreak approached, Pang Jian, who had unknowingly digested two pure spirit stones, was suddenly awakened.
He instinctively tightened his grip on the dragon-patterned spear and looked coldly at He Rong who was approaching.
Seeing Pang Jian suddenly wake up, He Rong immediately stopped and said calmly: "I want to know the details of He Ziren's murder."
"If you have any questions, you can ask Ning Yao, or you can wait until dawn and ask me. Why are you so sneaky?"
Pang Jian said unhappily.
"Because Ziren and she were once engaged, she is somewhat dissatisfied with our He family and has always been cold in her attitude. She will not be willing to cooperate with me." He Rong explained helplessly.
Pang Jian thought for a moment and said, "Among the dark ghosts who attacked us, there was one who wore a golden mask and his identity seemed to be somewhat special."
"Later, he died at the bottom of the Black Water Pond, and his mask was shattered. I saw that his entire face was covered with crisscrossing scars. He was the one who killed the young master of your family."
What impressed Pang Jian the most was the face underneath the mask after it shattered, so he used that person as a shield.
He Rong's face changed slightly after hearing this. He nodded, said thank you and turned back.
In the leaves in the distance, Luo Hongyan, who had been looking at He Rong, changed from sitting to standing, and only retracted the knife-like cold light in his eyes when he returned to Su Yuntian.
In the darkness high above Pang Jian's head, Hong Tai, who had been refined into a "spiritual evil", was floating like a ghost.
After Hong Tai, who was at the Marrow Cleansing Realm level, was refined by her into a "Spiritual Evil", as long as he deliberately hid in the dark, he would not be noticed by the people present.
—Including He Rong and Su Yuntian.
Luo Hongyan stared at He Rong and saw that he just asked about the cause of He Ziren's death and then left with a changed face, so he did not secretly instruct "Lingsha" to take action.
"It's Dong Qianfeng! Dong Qianfeng from the Dong family actually defected to the Dark Ghost!"
He Rong returned to Su Yuntian's side, fear in his eyes, and shouted in a low voice: "It was Dong Qianfeng who killed Ziren!"
"He was tortured by the Lieyang Sect and had his face slashed more than a dozen times, leaving indelible scars. He was then expelled from the Lieyang Sect."
"It was him who wore a mask and colluded with Hong Tai of the Dark Ghost to hunt down people from our seven major families in the Cenji Mountains!"
Su Yuntian couldn't sit still any longer and exclaimed, "It's actually him!"
"Fortunately, he is dead." He Rong said again.
"Although Dong Qianfeng is dead, but..." Su Yuntian touched his chin, his expression gradually becoming heavy, and said: "If Dong Qianfeng became a member of the Dark Ghost, then would his adopted son Dong Tianze also become a member of the Dark Ghost?"
He Rong was shocked: "Impossible?"
"Dad, what are you two talking about in the middle of the night?"
Su Meng woke up in a daze and saw the two people whispering with ugly faces, so she couldn't help but ask.
"nothing."
Su Yuntian wanted to smile and say something to comfort her, but he found that he couldn't smile at all, so he said, "It's almost dawn, you should get up too, we have to prepare to set off again."
"oh."
Su Meng rubbed her eyes and answered.
Amidst the leaves, Luo Hongyan looked at the two of them from afar, with a hint of coldness at the corners of her lips.
She dug out a lot of secrets of the Dark Ghost from Hong Tai, and naturally knew who Dong Tianze was that Su Yuntian and He Rong were talking about.
She also knew that the man was indeed in the Silent Mountains.
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(End of this chapter)