Episode 126

  After several days of practicing qigong by the lake, I felt my whole body recovering and my energy greatly increased.

  "What a strange place this is! However, the heavenly and earthly spiritual energy is dense here, it's actually a good place for cultivation."

  He stood up and looked around. The lake and mountains in front of him were strange, with a dark blue glow that seemed deep and mysterious. The grass and trees were not the usual green color, but instead shone with a blue light. The lake was only tens of miles in size, yet it was eerily quiet, without even the sound of birds or beasts, as if it lacked vitality. In the distance, the mist grew thicker, blocking his line of sight, and there was nothing to be seen. Turning back, he looked again at the mountain where the strange creature had condensed its body, towering high, with a dense black aura that seemed to capture people's souls.

  "Huh? It seems that there is something strange separating from the top of the mountain and returning to its original form! This is not good! The mountain is collapsing, isn't it going to be another thousand monsters coming to suppress a certain family again?! What can be done about this?"

  Insufficient to shock and awe, he gazed up at several strange creatures slowly flying towards him. Without hanging his head in despair, he let out a deep sigh about the misfortune of his journey. Seeing several meters large, ape-like creatures approaching him, he suddenly became enraged:

  "You dare to come and cheat our family again and again like a beast!"

  He then summoned the divine consciousness to welcome this thing. However, when his divine consciousness flew out, it was not enough to open his eyes, and that mouth was also wide open, shocked and stunned on the spot, unable to move a step! It turned out that the small person, about half the size of an adult, sat upright on the five-colored sacred lotus, with a large image of the sun's shadow covering its body. The sacred lotus was several feet in diameter, with half-open petals, and the sun was several meters away, surrounded by a halo of sacred flames. On the surface of the sun, a circle of mysterious symbols slowly rotated. In the center of the sun, the divine consciousness had an expression as if it were insufficient, its eyes tightly closed, hands clasped together in a seal, not moving at all.

  "What kind of spirit is this? Oh heaven! Although it looks like a human, it's not a human! Ah ya! Spit spit spit! What nonsense! It's simply a god! Haha haha......"

  After being insufficiently surprised and boastful, I suddenly discovered that the strange object that was gradually approaching had stopped halfway and wasn't coming any closer!

  "Hum! You're all scared too! I'll see how you deal with me this time!"

  Insufficient Zhang mouthed a sound:

  "Destroy him! Kill!"

  As soon as the thought arose in his mind, his consciousness suddenly disappeared and reappeared at those several strange creatures. However, it was only a matter of counting breaths, for the objects were all burned up by the great sun's firelight, leaving nothing but countless dust particles floating and drifting down!

  "It turns out that the countless monsters were actually formed by gathering spiritual dust! No wonder they wouldn't die when struck, and felt as heavy as real objects under pressure. Hmph! If you hadn't come to provoke me, I would have let it go, but since you want to kill me, my family will slaughter all of you!"

  Insufficient to express his hatred, he turned his head and gazed at the giant mountain. Before he could even finish his thought, his consciousness had already landed on the summit of the mountain. The mountain body suddenly shook violently, as if a massive earthquake was brewing. From the summit, his consciousness shot out countless rays of golden light, illuminating the sky in all directions, making it bright like a sunset on a cloudy day, although not dazzlingly bright, everything was clearly visible. In an instant, the mountain body trembled with fear, shaking and unstable. And its color suddenly began to fade slowly. The summit where his consciousness resided gradually transformed from black to gray stone color, just like the color of rocks in the outside world! Truly marvelous! However, the transformation of its color was extremely slow, and it would likely take many years for this mountain to completely transform.

  After sitting in stillness for several days, I pondered the mysteries within. I vaguely knew that the dark energy of this mountain was the essence of spiritual objects, condensed from the dust and dirt, although it had a spiritual body, but not a living being. At first, when I suddenly appeared here, those numerous spiritual objects smelled the breath of life, came to swallow my vital energy and blood, and then formed their own lives. However, they did not expect that my physical body was so strong, all sorts of evil objects could not move me, but later on, more and more evil objects accumulated, eventually forming a suppressing force. Now that I have achieved great spiritual awareness, I have become the tool to control these objects! I suppressed the evil object that had transformed into this mountain, and extracted its numerous evil spirits one by one, destroying this strange object, leaving only the physical body of the stone mountain behind!

  "It's probably like that, waiting for a certain trip to leave this place and return with Chang'er, and then investigate further, there must be gains! However, the current recognition of the divine swallowing is too slow, and some can't wait for too long! This place is so strange, maybe there are treasures or not! Since coming, it's better to explore a bit. After all, my elixir is almost gone, if I don't find one or two branches of spiritual grass, I'm afraid the cultivation will be hindered and progress will slow down!"

  After thinking for a long time, he got up and went towards the inner chamber.

  On the mountain, the divine light is like a spirit, emitting millions of rays, illuminating the surrounding area for hundreds of miles, making it seem like daytime. The dark and mysterious aura on the mountain has turned gray, revealing the rugged peaks of the mountains, and soon this place will reveal a brand new mountain range.

  At this time, he was trapped in a large illusion array. Since obtaining the Earth Emperor's Spiritual Mushroom several months ago, he had been searching everywhere with great enthusiasm. Unexpectedly, he fell into the illusion array without realizing it. By now, it had already been over a month. He carefully examined the array, lying on the ground day after day, exploring every inch of it. Although he managed to decipher several key nodes in the array, none of them were the core of the array, and they didn't have much effect on breaking the array.

  "Hmph! Let's not mention other families, but breaking arrays and refining elixirs have been my family's usual homework since childhood. To be blocked by your trivial illusions, wouldn't that make outsiders laugh?"

  Patience has always been insufficient. Three months later, through the advancement of each base array, the insufficient finally discovered the location of the large array's core. Upon arriving at the core's location, I was almost frightened to death! A single Soul-Devouring Flower gently swayed, and on its petals, a small object quietly rested - a bright, sparkling jade bead about the size of a fist. This object was the core of the array!

  "Heavens! Is this not trying to get someone killed?!"

  The Devouring Flower devours all spirits, especially fond of the essence and blood of living things, as well as the spiritual energy of cultivators. Even if it's a magic tool, a spirit tool, or an immortal tool, it will still devour without mistake! According to ancient records, this is a divine tool that can also be devoured! It stands foolishly for a long time, not daring to move. Within several meters around the flower, there are many small flowers swaying gently, all smiling like beautiful women and silly men.

  "How dare you! This stinky flower, it's blocking our family's path and yet it dares to laugh at me!"

  He glanced around, picked up a stone with his hand, and threw it at the flower bud with his inner energy. The stone flew quickly, but unexpectedly passed through the flower without damaging it!

  "Hmm!"

  After a moment of contemplation, he picked up another stone and threw it with all his might in the opposite direction. The stone seemed to follow a curved trajectory, hitting the pistil precisely. As soon as it reached the pistil, a petal suddenly stretched out from within, its speed so fast that it was almost invisible. The stone stopped abruptly, sticking to the petal like a magnet, shattering into pieces and eventually turning into dust that scattered everywhere. Suddenly, a massive force burst forth like a raging storm, lifting his body as light as a feather, sending him tumbling far away, crashing to the ground with a thud, leaving him dazed and confused, with blood flowing from the corner of his mouth. When he looked up again, the illusionary array reappeared, with thick smoke swirling around, making it impossible to distinguish reality from fantasy, just like before.

  "Mother! It's bitter! This formation is mysterious and wonderful, but it can be solved! However, the core of this illusion formation is not an illusion, but a fierce object that has been made for it, and there is no solution!"

  In another half month, the insufficient broken array will reach the nucleus. Looking at the stamen of the Ling flower, it is still swaying gently, completely fearless! Insufficient to sit outside the flower stand and carefully observe its stamens. The 32 tentacles in the stamen are all like light shaking of branches, with a blue-colored pollen-like object on top, three of which hold a jade bead.

  "If one petal blocks one object, then a certain family only needs thirty-two stones to break this formation!"

  Insufficient thought, after a long time, picked up a stone in his hand, lightly weighed it, and secretly operated the necessary killing technique within his divine power. He threw out the stone, directly hitting the center of the Ling Flower's stamen. The stone had just reached the stamen when it suddenly shattered into thirty-two pieces, striking thirty-two stamens. The stamens suddenly protruded, blocking the incoming attack, but in doing so, they rolled the jade bead onto the petals. When the stones were all destroyed like dust, the three central stamens once again picked up the jade bead. At this time, the large array suddenly reappeared with great force, and a violent wind blew, blowing Insufficient away like a defeated leaf, spinning and falling to the ground, causing him to cough blood. The array reappeared, and the illusion was reborn. However, Insufficient was overjoyed.

  "It seems that this method is feasible! As long as you can get a powerful force to strike the jade bead and make it fly out of its core, it will be fine!"

  Ten days later, he arrived at the Hui Ling flower and picked up a stone. He casually threw it out, flying straight towards the center of the flower. When it hit the center, the stone shattered into 33 pieces. 32 of them struck the 32 petals, while one larger piece flew directly towards Yu Zhu'er. With a "ding dang" sound, Yu Zhu'er flew out over ten zhang and rolled into a blue grass thicket, disappearing from view.

  "Boom!"

  "Boom!"

  "Boom!"

  The sound of explosions rang out one after another. Dust and debris flew everywhere, and rocks were shattered all around. After half an hour, it finally stopped! Insufficient withdrew the protective divine light, looked around, and found that there were only two small hills with a small stream in between, nothing else was left. The Devouring Spirit Flower in front of him was now hundreds of feet away! Insufficient chuckled to himself:

  "As expected, this formation is hundreds of feet away from me! If I didn't have enough strength at that time, how could I break through this formation?"

  Then she turned around and went to look for the jade pearl.