In the past eight years, this happens every time Liu Yuanchen practices with the help of plants.

Absorbing the vitality of vegetation does not help the speed of cultivation, but it has some benefits for the physical body.

Thanks to this, his physical strength has improved rapidly, far exceeding that of ordinary monks in the middle stage of Qi-nurturing.

The plants and trees whose vitality has been extracted by him will appear half-dead for a period of time.

As long as the vitality extracted does not exceed half, it can still be recovered slowly.

The reason why Liu Yuanchen gave up his errand at the mountain gate and ran to this barren mountain was not only suppressed by Manager Chen, but also because of this method of extracting the vitality of vegetation.

Inside the mountain gate, every plant and tree attracted much attention, and he did not dare to attack those spiritual plants.

In a remote place like Yujin Mountain, as long as it does not affect the harvest of the spiritual field, no one will care if the mountain becomes bald.

In the sea of ​​consciousness, after refining the magic power, countless streams of light emerged from the saplings.

These streams of light condense and never disperse, outlining a virtual shadow.

In the shadow, you can see a sapling, a piece of black land, and a small pool.

The virtual shadow is very solid and looks no different from the real thing.

Especially the shadow of the saplings inside is exactly the same as the ginseng fruit saplings.

Liu Yuanchen has become accustomed to this. Every time he extracts the vitality of plants and trees for practice, this situation will eventually happen.

At first, the shadow was very blurry, and it was impossible to see its specific appearance.

Every time he absorbs the vitality of vegetation, the shadow will solidify.

It took several years to achieve what we have today.

Usually when this ghost appears, it will dissipate in about ten breaths.

But this time it was obviously different. The shadow lasted for more than a hundred breaths and had no intention of dissipating.

Not only that, he also felt a force rising up from the ground.

This power passed through his body, poured into the sea of ​​consciousness between the eyebrows, and was finally absorbed by the shadow derived from the ginseng fruit tree.

Under the nourishment of this power, the shadow quickly expanded.

The saplings in the shadow remain unchanged, but the surrounding land continues to grow.

After a quarter of an hour, it slowly stopped.

At this time, Liu Yuanchen's face was filled with joy.

According to the sermons of Immortal Zhenyuan, before opening up the blessed land of Cave Heaven, you must first evolve a virtual shadow of the blessed land in your body.

When this phantom can absorb energy from the earth on its own, it will be time to open up a blessed land.

The official opening of the Cave Heaven Blessed Land is to turn this phantom into reality.

In this process, there must be treasures to suppress and stabilize the blessed land.

Liu Yuanchen was so poor that the only thing he could afford was ginseng fruit saplings.

He has been preparing for several years to open up a blessed land.

I got up and returned to the cave, struggling for a long time.

When he walked out of the cave again, he had already put on an outfit common among casual cultivators.

Leave Yujin Mountain and head east.

Soon, the afterglow of the sunset completely disappeared, and a thin layer of black mist enveloped the mountains to the east.

This black mist is also a characteristic of Wuyun Ridge. Even the name of Wuyun Ridge comes from this black mist.

The black fog spreads from east to west, thousands of miles east of Yujin Mountain, and is shrouded in black fog all year round.

Within a thousand miles, from east to west, the duration of the black fog becomes shorter and shorter, and the fog becomes thinner and thinner.

To the west of Yujin Mountain, there is almost no black fog.

The mountain gate of Qingdan Sect is just a few hundred miles west of Yujin Mountain.

When in the black mist, a monk's five senses and even his spiritual consciousness will be suppressed.

In places with thick black mist, strange creatures often appear.

With the ability to perceive being completely suppressed, if you encounter a sneak attack, you will either die or be injured.

Even near Yujin Mountain, there were records of strange creatures appearing many years ago.

Wuyun Ridge is extremely dangerous at night, and even desperadoes among casual cultivators would not dare to enter the mountain at night unless absolutely necessary.

In order to open up a blessed land, Liu Yuanchen had to enter the mountain at this time.

The blessed land needs spiritual veins to provide spiritual power and cannot be moved casually.

With Liu Yuanchen's strength, if the location of Blessed Land is exposed, he will definitely not be able to protect it.

Only at night, covered by the black mist, can we avoid everyone's prying eyes and ensure that the location of the blessed land is not leaked.

In the black mist, Liu Yuanchen could only see things within three feet.

Fortunately, Wuyunling has lush vegetation. For Liu Yuanchen, vegetation is the best guiding light.

It only takes a very small amount of spiritual power to sense the vitality of vegetation within twenty feet.

If there are non-vegetative creatures passing nearby, it will block his sense of the vegetation and naturally be exposed.

Under his good use, the ability to sense the vitality of vegetation has a strong detection effect.

And this black mist cannot interfere with the special abilities brought by the ginseng fruit tree.

With the help of special abilities, he can quickly shuttle through the mountains and forests.

Soon, the time came to midnight, and he was already in Qingshi Mountain, a hundred miles east of Yujin Mountain.

This mountain is Liu Yuanchen’s destination.

Opening up a blessed land is not just about finding a random place. The growth of a blessed land requires the support of massive spiritual energy.

If they relied on spiritual stones to provide spiritual energy, let alone the extremely poor Liu Yuanchen, even the Qingdan Sect would not be able to sustain it even if they emptied their wealth.

Therefore, the blessed land opened up must be connected to the spiritual hub.

The so-called spiritual pivot is the node of the spiritual vein.

Under normal circumstances, spiritual veins are hidden deep underground, and spiritual energy only flows in the spiritual veins.

Only at the place where the spiritual hub is located can spiritual energy gush out.

Yujin Mountain Lingquan is also a spiritual hub. Now the spring water has almost dried up, leaving only one well with some spiritual energy, and the spiritual hub is basically useless.

The scale of spiritual veins in Wuyun Ridge is huge, and naturally there are also many spiritual hubs.

And there happens to be a spiritual hub in Qingshi Mountain.

The most important thing is that this spiritual hub is in an underground cave.

To open up the Cave Heaven Blessed Land, it is natural to find a hidden place. The spiritual hub deep underground is exactly what Liu Yuanchen needs.

Putting aside the black mist, the entire Wuyun Ridge is not suitable for opening up a blessed land.

Although Wuyunling's spiritual veins are large in scale, their grade is not high. Currently, there are only fourth-grade low-grade ones.

Moreover, Wuyunling's spiritual veins are unstable, and the spiritual energy produced keeps fluctuating.

In the past thousand years, spiritual energy has experienced two peaks and one trough.

At its peak, the spiritual energy level is comparable to the fifth-level low-grade spiritual veins.

At the lowest level, it was only the third-level mid-level level.

Currently, the spiritual energy level in Wuyun Ridge is still slowly declining.

The spiritual spring in Yujin Mountain has almost dried up, which was also affected by the fluctuation of spiritual veins.

But Liu Yuanchen had no choice. There was only one large spiritual vein, Wuyun Ridge, in the Red Wasteland.

The Red Wasteland is so vast that a monk in the Qi Nourishing Realm simply cannot get out.

Opening up a blessed land in Wuyunling is the only choice.

And Qingshi Mountain was carefully selected by Liu Yuanchen.

As early as three years ago when he came to Yujin Mountain, he had been preparing to open up a blessed land.

The place to open up a blessed land cannot be placed within the territory of the Qingdan Sect, nor can it be too far away from the Qingdan Sect.

Within the Qingdan Sect's territory, there are often sect disciples patrolling, and it is easy to be exposed when entering and exiting the blessed land.

And if it is too far away, it is inconvenient for me to take care of it.

After two and a half years of exploration, we found the great place of Qingshi Mountain.

There are no special outputs in Qingshi Mountain, and there is a relatively thick black fog at night, making it impossible to station monks.

The Qingdan Sect has no interest in it, and the casual cultivators are unwilling to pursue it.

Liu Yuanchen came to a pile of rocks at the foot of Qingshi Mountain and struggled to push away a stone the size of a millstone, revealing a stone cave with a diameter of more than two feet.
To be continued...