A Mortal's Start in the Spirit Beast Mountain

Chapter 139 Strange Island

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"It looks like a fire spirit that hasn't fully evolved its sentience yet? Looks like I'll have to make a trip to that sea area!"

Luo Ming was delighted to see the Zhiyang Bird's aura had increased considerably.

The Fat Sun Bird has now reached the peak of level four, but it has been unable to advance further, which makes him wonder if it needs something else besides accumulating magic power.

After all, the Fat Yang Bird is a special existence. It is not born from flesh and blood, but is a fire spirit that needs to be nurtured in a special environment. It belongs to the category of returning to the essence and being born and nurtured by nature.

In his view, the advancement of this Fat Sun Bird likely requires some special environment.

Moreover, since Luo Ming advanced to the Core Formation stage, his progress in the Spirit Fire Forging Technique and the Qianyang Fire Eye has been very slow. He felt that this was likely due to the insufficient level of the spirit fire of the Zhiyang Bird.

Now that he knew of a place that would be beneficial for the advancement of the Fat Sun Bird, he naturally wanted to go and check it out.

Day two.

"If you wish to go to Red Sand Island, you will need one hundred spirit stones," a Foundation Establishment cultivator dressed in Star Palace attire said to Luo Ming with a smile.

At this moment, Luo Ming had changed into the attire of a Confucian scholar, and his cultivation level had been suppressed to the late Foundation Establishment stage. This way, he was neither too high-profile nor too easily looked down upon, which was just right.

The most convenient way to travel from Tianxing City to other places is by taking a teleportation array. The remote sea area where that deserted island is located is less than a month's journey from Red Sand Island, making it the fastest option.

Red Sand Island is one of the twenty-four outer star islands of the Star Palace. It is controlled by the Liu family, a family of weapon refiners. It is said that the Liu family has five Core Formation cultivators, and the Liu family patriarch has even reached the Perfect Core Formation realm.

In addition, the number of rogue cultivators practicing there, especially those at the Core Formation stage, ranks among the top three in the twenty-four outer star islands. Furthermore, the influence of their weapon-refining families means that even the Star Palace treats them with great favor.

He took out one hundred spirit stones and handed them to the other party. After receiving a teleportation talisman, Luo Ming walked onto the teleportation array. After a flash of light, he had arrived at Red Sand Island.

"The fire elemental energy here is plentiful!"

Luo Ming had just been teleported to Red Sand Island when he immediately sensed the rich fire spiritual energy here. If a cultivator who practices fire-attribute techniques were here, their cultivation speed would definitely increase significantly.

Just as he stepped out of the teleportation array and was about to ride away in his escape light, he noticed that the plaza in the distance was bustling with activity, with a large number of low-level cultivators gathered there.

Seeing his somewhat puzzled look, a Foundation Establishment cultivator next to him smiled and cupped his hands to explain to Luo Ming, "Fellow Daoist, this must be your first time visiting Red Sand Island, right? That's the weapon-refining competition that Red Sand Island holds every five years. Everyone, whether from the Liu family or a rogue cultivator, can participate. If you have outstanding weapon-refining talent, you can enter my Liu family's weapon-refining hall."

This Foundation Establishment cultivator looked middle-aged. When he spoke of the Liu family's weapon refining hall, his face was full of pride. Luo Ming guessed that the other party must be a cultivator from the Liu family.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but recall Fairy Liu Su, whom he had met a few days ago during a small gathering at the Golden Green Cave. Through their conversation, he could tell that the Liu family and the Jin family had a close relationship, and it seemed that Liu Su had been invited by the Jin family to refine some kind of magic weapon.

"Oh! I see." Luo Ming nodded slightly, then chatted with the other party for a couple of minutes before transforming into a streak of light and leaving.

If he were still a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he might have made a special trip there to broaden his horizons and see what good magic artifacts the Liu family had to buy. Now, unless it's a powerful magic weapon, it's hard for him to get interested.

However, he still approves of the Liu family's method of holding such a weapon-refining competition to attract weapon-refining geniuses from the rogue cultivators. It is indeed worthy of a weapon-refining family that has been developing for thousands of years.

After leaving Red Sand Island, Luo Ming summoned the Wind-Escape Shuttle and had Liu Shi control it to fly, while he focused on meditating.

Although it doesn't have a wind spirit stone installed and only uses ordinary earth spirit stones, its speed is still quite fast, and it can be used as an ordinary flying magic weapon.

When Liu Shi saw Luo Ming let him control the shuttle, he became excited. In the past few years, Luo Ming had been hunting monsters in the outer sea, but because he was too weak, he couldn't help him at all. This made him feel a sense of crisis. He was afraid that Luo Ming would think that he was too weak and give up on him.

"Your primordial spirit strength has actually increased somewhat compared to before."

Luo Ming stared at the Bloodthirsty Blade with some curiosity, and said calmly that he had just sensed something unusual through the other party's divine sense.

It should be understood that although the primordial spirit can reside in a magical artifact, it will gradually weaken without the continuous nourishment of magical power. Only special magical artifacts made of materials with soul-nourishing effects can have such effects. In his opinion, this Bloodthirsty Blade is only particularly sharp because of its special materials.

"Well, I don't know why, but the blood energy in this blade seems to be able to slowly nourish the primordial spirit. Especially when the master uses this blade to cut the flesh and blood of demonic beasts, he can absorb the essence blood from them..." Liu Shi hurriedly explained.

"Could this blade be a demonic weapon?"

Upon hearing the other party's words, Luo Ming used his divine sense to carefully examine the inside of the blade again. He felt that it was just a special magic weapon. He tried to refine it by activating his magic power, but still failed, which gave him a guess.

He remembered Liu Shi saying that this blade could be activated by consuming a cultivator's essence blood, which reminded him of the Blood Demon Sword in Senior Sister Nangong Wan's hand. However, the Blood Demon Sword seemed to be able to be refined, while he could not refine this blade.

Could it be that the refining method is incorrect?

Or is it that I'm not good enough?

Upon thinking of this, Luo Ming felt somewhat helpless.

In the world of cultivation, there are many things that are hard to understand and comprehend. Often, it's because of insufficient strength and limited perspective. Once you reach a certain level, the truth will naturally become clear and obvious.

"Forget it, there's no point in thinking about it anymore. Let's talk about it later."

Having made up his mind, Luo Ming closed his eyes and began to cultivate.

Although he was interested in this strange thing that could absorb blood essence, he dared not recklessly try it with his own blood essence.

On an unnamed deserted island, a flying shuttle stopped above the island; it was Luo Ming, who had been traveling for a month.

"Master, according to the route recorded in the jade slip, this should be the deserted island."

Liu Shi's respectful voice interrupted Luo Ming's cultivation.

"Why is the spiritual energy here so chaotic? There are even traces of yin energy mixed in with the fire spiritual power. It's really strange."

Luo Ming opened his eyes and carefully scanned the area below with his divine sense, quickly identifying two anomalies.

Ten miles away, there was a low hill with an inconspicuous crack extending inwards on its sunny side. From within the crack, scorching air currents faintly emerged, mixed with pure fire-attribute spiritual energy—the very entrance to the fire vein that Cao Yunfeng had mentioned.

However, what made Luo Ming frown slightly was that he sensed a completely different yet equally rich aura from several crevices in the rocks and underground in the shady area of ​​the low hill—pure and eerie Yin energy! This Yin energy was not the Yin evil left behind by ghosts, but rather seemed to be naturally generated by the earth's veins, forming a stark and eerie contrast with the aura of the fire veins.

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