SWDnovel Chapter 140 Annual Spirit Object
Chapter 140 Annual Spirit Object
As dusk deepened, the city lights of Qingluo began to illuminate the city.
Zhang Lin returned to the inn, closed the door, took out the Thick Earth Black Jade, and placed it on the table.
The jade tablet glowed with a faint earthy yellow light under the candlelight, like a piece of solidified earth.
He sat down cross-legged and probed the jade tablet with his spiritual sense, carefully sensing the earth-elemental spiritual power within it.
Profound, dense, and steady.
Like the earth, like the mountains, like the thick soil.
This is the quality of a century-old treasure.
But not enough.
The nine spiritual items required for establishing the foundation of the Heavenly Dao should be as old as possible.
A hundred years is merely the threshold for establishing a solid foundation; it takes three hundred, five hundred, or even a thousand years to forge the most perfect foundation of the Heavenly Dao.
Zhang Lin pondered for a moment and then opened the system interface.
[Thick Earth Black Jade Tablet, Condition: Superior, Year: 105]
[Can be enhanced; consumes spirit stones: 100 mid-grade spirit stones to obtain a thousand-year-old essence of earth.]
One hundred mid-grade spirit stones, ten thousand low-grade spirit stones.
This amount is not small, but if it can be exchanged for a thousand-year-old earth-type spiritual item, it will be worth it.
After a brief moment of thought, Zhang Lin made his decision.
"strengthen."
As soon as he finished speaking, one hundred mid-grade spirit stones flew out of the storage bag, turning into specks of spiritual light and disappearing into the Thick Earth Mystic Jade.
The earthen-yellow jade tablet floated in mid-air and began to slowly rotate.
It started slowly, but then it spun faster and faster, accompanied by a deep hum.
The patterns on the surface of the jade tablet lit up, like the surging of earth veins and the undulating of mountains and rivers.
The yellowish-brown light grew stronger and stronger, illuminating the entire quiet room.
Zhang Lin narrowed his eyes, his spiritual sense locked onto the changes in the jade tablet.
Suddenly, the jade tablet stopped spinning.
"Click—"
With a soft sound, a fine crack appeared on the surface of the jade tablet.
Zhang Lin's heart tightened.
But the next moment, a cloud of primordial yellow energy surged out of the crack.
The aura was thick and heavy, like the primordial chaos at the beginning of the earth's creation, pressing down heavily on the void, like an invisible mountain.
The primordial energy slowly spread, enveloping the jade tablet.
The jade tablet began to transform under the influence of the primordial energy.
The earthy yellow surface gradually faded, replaced by a deep, heavy, dark yellow color.
The jade has become more lustrous and delicate, like a thousand-year-old jade. It feels heavy in the hand, several times heavier than before.
The texture on the surface has also changed.
No longer ordinary mountain and river patterns, but profound Dao patterns of heaven and earth, with the power of the earth flowing within them.
When one probes with their spiritual sense, they can feel a powerful and majestic force of the earth, as imposing and majestic as a mountain.
A moment later, the primordial energy slowly receded and disappeared into the jade tablet.
The jade tablet fell from mid-air, and Zhang Lin reached out and caught it.
It felt heavy when he held it, and he almost lost his grip.
"It's so heavy."
This jade tablet is only the size of a palm, but it weighs at least two or three thousand catties.
[Essence of the Earth, Grade: Top Grade, Age: One Thousand Years. Characteristics: Thick soil supports all things, can bear the power of the earth, and can greatly enhance the stability of one's Dao foundation.]
Not only has the name changed, but it has also gained new characteristics, which are characteristics of a thousand-year-old spiritual creature, and ordinary people cannot even refine it.
Zhang Lin stored the essence of the earth in a separate storage bag, placed it in the overlapping space, and then took out the Azure Lotus.
The Azure Lotus is a lotus flower the size of a fist, entirely emerald green, crystal clear, like a piece of fine jade.
The lotus flower has a thin layer of water on its surface, with faint ripples, as if a lake is sealed inside.
[Azure Lotus, Quality: Superior, Age: 410]
[Can be enhanced; consumes spirit stones: 60 mid-grade spirit stones to obtain a thousand-year-old Weak Water Essence.]
The sixty-grade spirit stones are likely older than the Thick Earth Black Jade, thus reducing the enhancement cost.
Without hesitation, Zhang Lin took out sixty mid-grade spirit stones from his storage bag.
The spirit stone transformed into specks of spiritual light, disappearing into the Azure Lotus.
The lotus flower floated up, and a bright green light began to flow around it.
At first, it was gentle, like ripples on a lake, but then it grew brighter and brighter, illuminating the entire quiet room in a verdant green.
Zhang Lin stared intently.
Suddenly, the emerald green light abruptly disappeared.
A thin crack appeared in the center of the lotus flower.
It is not shattering, but blossoming.
A drop of black water seeped from the crack in the lotus flower.
The water droplets were as black as ink, yet they did not appear turbid at all. Instead, they exuded a deep and clear charm, like the Weak Water from the heavens, heavy as a thousand pounds and unfathomably deep.
The black water droplets slowly expanded, enveloping the entire lotus plant.
The emerald green lotus began to transform under the nourishment of the Weak Water.
The color gradually changed from emerald green to dark green, and then from dark green to pitch black.
It's not the kind of deathly black, but a black that contains endless vitality, like the abyss of the deep sea, like the dome of the night sky.
The ripple patterns on the surface of the lotus flower have also changed.
No longer ordinary ripples, but profound patterns of water, faintly conveying the power of the Three Thousand Weak Waters flowing within.
Probing with one's spiritual sense, one can feel a deep and cold water elemental power, as abyss-like and prison-like, calm yet dangerous.
A moment later, the Weak Water slowly receded and disappeared into the lotus flower.
The lotus flower fell from mid-air, and Zhang Lin reached out and caught it.
It felt cool to the touch and was a bit heavier than before, but most surprisingly, the lotus seemed to have come to life.
He could sense that the lotus contained a vast ocean, boundless and profound.
Zhang Lin examined it carefully with his spiritual sense.
[Essence of Weak Water, Grade: Top Grade, Age: One Thousand Years. Characteristics: It contains the power of countless waters and can be integrated into the dantian during Foundation Establishment, greatly enhancing the density and strength of true essence.]
A water-based spiritual creature that has existed for a thousand years has also developed a unique characteristic.
Zhang Lin put the lotus seeds into a storage bag, which was also a separate storage bag.
Thus, both the water-elemental and earth-elemental spirit objects are of millennia-old quality.
It far exceeds what is required for ordinary Heavenly Dao Foundation Building.
The deeper the foundation, the further one can go in the future.
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As night falls, the lights are on.
The hustle and bustle of Qingluo City gradually subsided into the night.
Zhang Lin did not stay at the inn for long.
After strengthening the two spiritual items, he tidied up, erased all traces in the room, and left the city under the moonlight.
It burrowed underground and only emerged from a desolate hill ten miles outside the city.
The night wind howled, and there was no one around.
He took out the Wind Concealment Immortal Boat from his storage bag, checked his body several times with his spiritual sense to make sure that no one had tampered with it, and then jumped onto the immortal boat.
The immortal boat rose silently, passed through the clouds, and flew towards the Danxia Sect.
The boat sails through a sea of clouds, the moonlight as silvery as silver.
Zhang Lin sat cross-legged in the boat, his flying spirits covering an area of five hundred feet in all directions, keeping a watchful eye on everything around him.
After the battle at Liangjie Mountain, the Zhou, Du, and Chen families hated him to the core.
Although he has always acted under the identity of "Lin Mo" and has never revealed his true face in Qingluo City, it is hard to guarantee that he will not be recognized.
Fortunately, Lu Yuanshan had already submitted the evidence of the three families' attempt to intercept him to the Criminal Law Hall. The sect leader personally intervened, and the three families were dismissed from their posts and investigated. They were too busy to take care of themselves in the short term and were unlikely to be able to send anyone to intercept him again.
But it's always better to be safe than sorry.
The Wind Concealer Immortal Ship's "concealment" property was fully activated, and a faint spiritual light covered the surface of the ship, suppressing the ship's spiritual energy fluctuations to the minimum.
Looking down from below, it was just an ordinary cloud, with nothing unusual about it.
Zhang Lin then activated the Breath Concealing Technique, completely concealing his own aura.
Nothing happened along the way.
In the latter half of the night, the Wind-Hidden Immortal Boat entered the territory of the Danxia Sect.
A hundred miles ahead lies the outer perimeter of the sect's grand formation.
Zhang Lin put away the fairy boat and started walking.
The protective array covers an area of 300 li around the Danxia Sect. Any outside immortal ships that attempt to enter without permission will either be blocked by the array or, in more serious cases, trigger the restrictions and be shot down, attracting the attention of the patrolling disciples.
Although he was a direct disciple of Cuiping Peak, he was not authorized by the Immortal Boat, and he still had to abide by the rules.
The cultivation world has never lacked arrogant and disdainful people, and their fates are often not pleasant.
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