My Optimized Immortal Life

The earth's energy rises, creating an environment for the arrival of the quicksand spirits. After all, these quicksand spirits survive by absorbing the surrounding earth's energy. Now that the earth's energy rises, they will naturally follow out of the abyss.

However, although these quicksand spirits walked out of Xuanyuan, they only wandered within a few miles around and did not move out, which made Xuanming and Houtu breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, although the quicksand spirit absorbs the earth's energy, it has a strong sense of territory. Any living creature that breaks into its vicinity will be regarded as a threat and will be eliminated or killed by it.

If they were allowed to leave Xuanyuan and move around freely, there would be no living creatures within a hundred miles around them, and their Earth King Palace would become the target of public criticism.

However, as long as the upward trend of the earth energy continues, the disciples of their Earth King Palace will be suppressed by the earth energy and will find it difficult to walk around the Earth-Splitting Abyss, let alone collect resources to supply the sect.

Thinking of this, Xuan Ming's face suddenly darkened.

He wanted to enter the Earth-Splitting Abyss to investigate, but when he saw the hundreds of quicksand spirits surrounding it, and looked at Qingya and Chen Qing beside him, he had to give up the idea for the time being.

Now Qingya is injured, and Chen Qing has just entered the Nascent Soul stage, and his cultivation is still shallow. Although he was able to escape from the Xuanyuan unscathed, he must have some means, but he is an outsider after all.

Even if he and Hou Tu could enter the Earth-Splitting Abyss, it would be difficult for them to go deeper. It would be better to wait for a few days to see when the rising earth energy would end before making a decision.

Thinking of this, Xuan Ming spoke.

"Fellow Daoist Qingya, you were injured in this journey into the abyss. It would be best if you could recuperate first. Although Fellow Daoist Luoying was able to escape the Xuanyuan unscathed, I believe he must be exhausted now. It would be better for you to recuperate for a few days. After the rising earth energy has subsided, we can discuss how to deal with it."

When Xuan Ming said this, Chen Qing naturally agreed very much. Qingya was injured and in poor condition. Even though the current situation was unclear, he was powerless and could only agree.

Afterwards, Houtu let the two return to the cave where they had stayed before, and also provided Qingya with some pills for healing.

After returning to the cave, Chen Qing was neither anxious nor impatient, and began to practice in silence.

He has been in the Nascent Soul stage for several decades, so his cultivation has naturally been stable. Although he has been with Xu Lingxin for a long time on Qixia Peak, he has never slacked off in his daily practice. Therefore, he has made a lot of progress in the early stage of the Nascent Soul, and his magic power is more powerful than when he just broke through the mirror.

The progress of cultivation now is slower than when he was in the stage of forming a pill. It often takes several months to make some progress, and several years to achieve some improvement. At the current progress, if there is no help from pills, it will probably take another hundred years to break through to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.

Chen Qing estimated in his mind that he was very aware of his progress in cultivation, but he was not discouraged by it.

Although a hundred years is a long time, I have been cultivating on the island for nearly a hundred years when I was forming the elixir. Now I have become accustomed to it and don’t take it seriously.

What's more, his lifespan is now a full thousand years, but he is not even 200 years old yet. There is no need to worry at all. He just needs to make steady progress and he will be able to improve gradually.

After practicing for nearly a day, Chen Qing stopped practicing when the concentration of spiritual energy in the cave was difficult to recover.

A Nascent Soul cultivator absorbs a massive amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth every time he practices. Although there is a mid-level spiritual vein in the Earth King Palace, Chen Qing's position is not the center. Moreover, even if it is a mid-level spiritual vein, the spiritual energy emitted can only barely meet the needs of a Nascent Soul cultivator's practice.

This is also one of the reasons why Xuanming has a lifespan of a thousand years and has practiced for so long, but his cultivation level still remains at the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.

The cultivators who can break through the Nascent Soul stage have extraordinary qualifications and luck, but at this stage, ordinary opportunities can hardly provide help.

Therefore, most Nascent Soul cultivators, after exhausting their entire lifespan, could only barely break through to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.

Chen Qing has been practicing till now, relying on his innate abilities to help him, and things went smoothly in the early stages, but now he is feeling a little tired.

After all, it would be fine if the cultivation in the Nascent Soul stage did not consume resources, but once it started to consume, the consumption was appalling. The Luoying Sect had accumulated nearly a thousand years of resources. If Chen Qing squandered it, he could only save himself several decades of hard training, and it was hard to say whether he could break through to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.

It is precisely for this reason that there are basically no independent cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage in the entire Central Region. It is difficult for independent cultivators to collect resources, and being able to cultivate to the Core Formation stage is already the limit.

Chen Qing joined the alliance of True Lord Dong Yan, not only to seek protection for the Luoying Sect, but also to use this to provide assistance for his own practice.

After completing his training, Chen Qing also began to think about his current situation.

From the current perspective, staying in the Earth King Palace is naturally extremely safe. With Houtu and Xuanming here, even if the earth's energy is surging, it is difficult to shake the formation where the Nascent Soul cultivator is in charge.

Moreover, the rising earth energy cannot last long. Although the Earth-Splitting Abyss is a rare treasure land that gathers almost all the earth energy within tens of thousands of miles around the Earth King Palace, it also has an upper limit. Although it seems surging now, it will eventually weaken with the passage of time.

However, after this change, precious lands like the Rift Earth Abyss will probably be greatly affected. The rise of so much earth energy will certainly lead to a decrease in the amount of earth energy within it, affecting resource output.

The Earth King Palace will also decline because of this. After all, the Earth-Splitting Abyss is the main source of their cultivation resources. Originally, Xuan Ming had the hope of breaking through to the late Nascent Soul stage with the help of such a precious land, but now it is impossible.

Thinking of this, Chen Qing couldn't help but sigh.

The Earth King Palace is a member of the alliance. Its weakening also means that the strength of the alliance is reduced. The Central Region Competition will be held in more than 60 years. This is not good news for the alliance.

Chen Qing had never participated in the Central Region Competition, but after listening to the introduction of Dong Yan and others, he was naturally very much looking forward to such a grand event.

Especially after the seven sects formed an alliance, if others obtained treasures, they could exchange them for things that were beneficial to themselves, or they could put forward other conditions to satisfy themselves.

This is also extremely beneficial for Chen Qing. After all, he is an outsider cultivator with few connections. Now that he can establish a good cooperative relationship with the seven sects' Nascent Soul cultivators, it is naturally of great benefit.

After staying in the cave for several days, Chen Qing practiced while silently observing the conditions of the earth's energy.

After resting for a few days, Qingya's injuries improved and his breathing gradually calmed down, no longer appearing and disappearing like before.

When Chen Qing asked him why he was injured, he learned that he was besieged by four quicksand spirits and was unable to defeat them and had to retreat.

After learning about this situation, Chen Qing nodded, gave the other party some advice, but fell into deep thought again.

According to Qingya, he was injured by four quicksand spirits. He should not be hiding anything. But when the four quicksand spirits gathered together, why didn't they merge like I did before? Instead, they wanted to cooperate with each other.

After returning to the cave, Chen Qing was puzzled and fell into deep thought.

After he came out of Xuanyuan, he originally wanted to ask Houtu and Xuanming about the fusion of the quicksand spirit, but when he saw Qingya was injured, he thought that it was the injury of the fused spirit, and he encountered the rising earth energy, so he did not speak.

Now when he asked Qingya, he immediately became suspicious.

Qingya is a Nascent Soul cultivator, and his cultivation is even higher than mine. Although his combat power is not as good as mine, his means in all aspects should be richer than mine. Logically speaking, when dealing with the Quicksand Spirit, as long as the latter does not merge, there should be no threat. Why was he injured by the siege?

However, when I met the three quicksand spirits, the situation was completely different. As soon as they saw me, they immediately merged and used their abilities to immediately rise to the fourth level. If I hadn't used the formation to cut off the supply of earth energy, I would have been in a tough fight.

There must be something strange about this difference.