Hidden moth

Chapter 241: Deep Cold Needles in Fengyun Mountain

Xiaomeng probably means the Xiaoyaoke Alliance.

In ancient times, independent cultivators called themselves Xiaoyaoke, but these people were not independent cultivators in the strict sense. They were originally a group formed by a group of high-level sorcerers who had left the art sect.

The rebellion between Yinniang and the woodcutter lasted for nearly a hundred years. Finally, with the efforts of Master Lei Dunzi and others, the sect was reintegrated and the clan hall was established.

This is also a kind of historical inevitability. The seven major magic sects and the ancestral hall are all in Fengwei Township. They are naturally integrated into one place and cannot be moved.

At that time, there was a group of high-level sorcerers with different positions who broke away from the magic sect and called themselves Xiaomeng. Among them were masters above level six, so even without the secondary inheritance ceremony of each major cave heaven, they could still preserve the complete inheritance of the seven major magic sects.

It's just a difference in ideas, there's no need to kill them all, so Master Lei Dunzi and others told them not to interfere in the affairs of the sect in the future and to forget about each other.

Under the communication and transportation conditions of the ancient times, once these people left, they would often disappear forever. It was also impossible for them to openly use the banner of the Xiao League to cause trouble for the Shu Sect.

For the vast majority of disciples of the Shu sect, the so-called Xiaomeng is like the Yin Moth, a legend that has appeared and disappeared over the past thousand years. If it still exists, no one knows what it would look like today.

In the past few decades, the East has been peaceful, and transportation and communication conditions have improved greatly. Disciples of the sect are spread all over the world, and there are also many independent cultivators in the martial arts world. Occasionally, fragmentary news about the Xiao League is heard.

I heard that Xiaomeng is still there, or there is an organization that still uses the name of the ancient Xiaomeng. Its main activities are overseas, but it also comes to the territory of the East Country from time to time to contact some disciples of the magic sects and wandering cultivators.

No one would leave a mark on their forehead, and even if there was contact, the disciples of the sect would not know the other party's identity. If Fabre came from the so-called Xiaomeng in modern times, then their motives would be very intriguing.

Why does it pop up at this time?
The cave summoning mechanism is a serious problem for this kind of organization. They have been trying their best to discredit it, claiming that the magic sect has terrifying abilities that can monitor every move of every warlock and even track everyone.

This was originally a rumor spread by the Xiao Alliance, and the Shu Sect ignored it. But now that the Shu Sect may really have this ability, they are the first to break through the defense...

This was the conclusion He Kao had come up with. As for whether it was accurate or not, it was pretty reliable. So what was He Kao supposed to do in this situation? Nothing!
It's time to eat, eat; it's time to practice; it's time to play snowballs; it's time to soak in the hot springs. Just because of the fear and slander of people like Fabre, will he just live his own life and stop practicing?
He Kao has been cautious since childhood and a typical people-pleasing person. He is always careful and afraid of being hurt, but he has never thought about hurting anyone.

Now, as he has started practicing and his cultivation has improved day by day, and he has encountered so many things, his personality has changed a lot, but he still doesn't want to hurt anyone, he just doesn't want to deliberately put himself in a difficult position anymore.

However, during the next period of time, the cultivation method needs to be appropriately adjusted.

The total land area of the world is about 150 million square kilometers. The area of the heart disk that He Kao has condensed along with his footsteps in the way of "lighting mosquito coils" roughly accounts for one-tenth of it.

His footprints had basically covered the entire territory of the East Country, including many areas of the countries bordering the East Country. This coverage was not comprehensive, but rather a parallel line distribution of about 50 kilometers.

It is impossible for He Kao to visit every place in the East Country in such a short time. Not to mention two months, it would be difficult to do it even if he was given twenty years. There is no need to do so because it is impossible to teleport in densely populated areas.

So far, He Kao's way of lighting up the map is to try to avoid crowded areas and patrol late at night.

But theoretically, as long as he is within this range, no matter where he wants to go, he basically has a way to get to a place about fifty miles away from that location and then rush over.

For example, although He Kao had never been to the South Base Camp of Mount Everest, he was able to send Li Xiuyuan to the vicinity.

If he continues in this way, one day he will be able to cover all the continents on the planet, and may only miss some small islands far away from the mainland... But He Kao does not plan to do so for the time being.

His range of influence is now large enough to basically do whatever he wants, and this range will also exceed the traditional distribution area of the magic sect.

The more places he traveled, the more unexpected situations he might encounter. If he suddenly encountered a master like Fabre and was locked by the other party with his spiritual sense, it would be difficult for him to escape even if he was a hidden moth.

The second and more important reason was that it was difficult for him to improve his cultivation through this method alone. Over the past two months, the maximum distance his spiritual sense could reach had increased from one kilometer to 1.5 kilometers, and then had basically stagnated.

This is like sharpening a knife. At first, it does become sharper the more you sharpen it, but after sharpening to a certain degree, it becomes too much. If you want it to be sharper, you have to improve the tool material and the specifications of the grinding tool.

It is rare for a fourth-level sorcerer to reach his current level. If he wants to continue to improve his cultivation, he needs a breakthrough in his internal training. This would be best achieved with the assistance of a panacea and the most suitable environment for training.

He Kao had a cave for cultivation, and at this moment he thought of the awakening incense.

There are two dimensions to cultivating spiritual consciousness: strength and subtlety. Some time ago, every time He Kao sat in meditation to cultivate, he would light three incense sticks to awaken his mind, which was very helpful in strengthening his spiritual consciousness.

The two tubes of awakening incense bought by Tolin Qingshuang had been used up long ago. After the awakening incense left by Ku Cha in the secret base was distributed to Ye Liangchen and Lan Jiuwan, the ones in He Kao's hands were now almost gone.

This stuff is expensive. He Kao once asked Lin Qingshuang to buy two tubes of 200 incense sticks, which cost him one million yuan, which works out to 5,000 yuan per stick, and that was at a friendly price. A 5,000 yuan item is affordable for the average working class, equivalent to a decent phone. However, incense isn't a durable good, it's a consumable item.

Based on He Kao's cultivation progress, if he burned three incense sticks every day, each worth 5,000 yuan, he would earn 5 million yuan a year. After investing his entire 6 million yuan in Huishi Mingpin, he had little spare money left.

In reality, there were very few sorcerers who practiced like him. Three sticks of awakening incense a day? That was too extravagant! The main ingredients of the awakening incense could be processed into other things, and it was impossible to use them all to refine the awakening incense.

Even if he earns a good monthly salary, it is still a drop in the bucket if he wants to invest it in cultivation resources... So what to do? He has to meet the needs himself.

Elder Li Xiuyuan passed on to him a recipe for a remedy from the Shu sect, including an introduction to various spiritual materials and medicines as well as methods of collecting and preparing them. Among them was the incense for awakening the mind, and detailed instructions on how to use it were given.

Only then did He Kao realize that his previous method of using the awakening incense was a bit of a waste.

When using the awakening incense to assist in spiritual practice, it needs to be ignited with spiritual consciousness using the method of controlling the instrument. This way, there will be no visible smoke or flame, only pure white ash left. It can help to deepen and prolong the state of concentration and nourish the lost soul.

He Kao had previously used ordinary fire to light the fire, which was effective but also wasted a lot of energy. At his third-level cultivation level, this was his only option; as long as it worked, it was fine.

Why didn't Lin Qingshuang tell him? Because Senior Lin didn't expect that he would be able to break through to the fourth level so quickly. At that time, even Lin Qingshuang himself was only a third-level cultivator.

Now that he had broken through to the fourth level, He Kao could no longer waste his energy. As long as he gathered all the necessary materials, he could refine it himself. There were two main ingredients for refining the Awakening Incense: Cold Needle Jade and Heavenly Palace Curtain.

What a coincidence! There is no need to look for them elsewhere, they are all in Yine Cave.

Last time, several elders took him to a place called Xianhu Palace in the cave. It was actually a natural cave in the mountain wall. The entrance was blocked by a strange vine, which was called Tiangong Curtain.

Tiangong Curtain is a rare spiritual plant that naturally has the effect of obscuring spiritual consciousness, but this effect is only possessed by living vines and will disappear after withering and dying.

He Kao had also seen materials that could block spiritual consciousness. It was the strange mineral that Ku Cha used to build the underground secret room. It came from the mine that his cleaner Gao Chenshu usually guarded.

The effect of that kind of mineral material is obviously better. Using it to build a secret room can make it blend into the surrounding environment. If he had not secretly observed Ye Liangchen's movements, he would not have discovered the secret room at the beginning.

The Heavenly Palace Curtain grows on the cliff wall and can only block the spiritual consciousness. Sometimes it not only has no camouflage effect, but can make the place more conspicuous, because the spiritual consciousness will detect something wrong when it scans over it.

But this effect is very suitable in certain occasions. For example, hanging it at the entrance of a cave is equivalent to a door curtain. Ordinary door curtains block the sight of others, while heavenly palace curtains can block the prying of spiritual consciousness.

In the mountains and fields near Piaocai Dongtian Xianhu Palace, there are many Tiangong curtains growing, many of which are century-old vines. Their fibers can be used to refine and process refreshing incense, which should be quite effective.

Another main ingredient in refining the refreshing incense, cold needle green, is actually a special kind of pine needle that comes from a spiritual plant, Pinus frostbite.

Most people cannot tell the difference between this pine and other pines; it may be a unique variant. This pine has five needles per leaf, and after a hundred years, the middle needle of a few of these leaves turns emerald green.

Such pine needles will gradually turn yellow after falling to the ground, just like other pine needles. However, if they are mixed with pine needles and buried underground, they will become emerald green and transparent after a hundred years. This is the cold needle green.

The easiest way to collect it is, of course, to find hundreds of years old or older cold-tailed pines in the mountains and search the soil beneath them. However, this variant of pine needles is very rare, so the amount that can be collected in one location is naturally limited.

The main growth area of Pinus frostbite is the temperate monsoon zone, on mountains between 2,000 and 3,000 meters above sea level, where the weather is unpredictable, and the temperature and humidity vary greatly.

Fengwei Township is located on the southern slope of Mount Zhongnan, where the Hanwei pine grows. Some areas of the surrounding Taihang Mountains, Daba Mountains, and Qilian Mountains are also home to Hanzhen Cui.

Cold Needle Jade is a naturally occurring spiritual material that supposedly costs nothing to obtain, requiring only the exploration of the mountains and wilderness. However, it is difficult to find and requires considerable effort to gather, making it quite valuable.

He Kao collected cold needle jade in Piaocai Cave, and unexpectedly found the fun of digging wild ginseng on the border of Maoluo Kingdom.

Judging by the time, the Wulong River basin is almost frozen over, right? I can go a few more times if I want. I don't need to dig for wild ginseng, but if I can find a few more Snow Light Han ginseng, that would be great.

He Kao also went to the original river valley some time ago. It was a matter of a moment for the hidden moth, but the water level there was very high and the current was very fast during the flood season, so there was no way to start. It seems that if you want to find Xue Guanghan, it is best to wait until the ice freezes.

He Kao felt that he had evolved into a treasure hunter...

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