Ball Ball Cultivation

Chapter 359: Tiankeng Sea Eye

The main reason is that the new monarch is not interested in these Taoists, and most of those nominal Taoists who change their minds according to the situation have run away.

The young man and woman who followed Huang Junyou down the mountain that day were the most promising successors of the Taoist temple.

After a full meal, Qiuqiu and Lan Li explained their new discoveries of the past few days. Jin Jingyun and Huang Junyou asked their two apprentices to bring over various previous documents and records, which was considered an information exchange.

The city lord followed Lan Li closely and refused to leave no matter how Jin Jingyun hinted or indicated. Seeing that Qiuqiu and the others didn't say anything, he just agreed that he was here to listen.

Qiuqiu took a sip of hot tea, which tasted refreshing. “Let me first look at your records and verify them with my inferences. That way, we can make it more accurate.”

Jin Jingyun glanced at Huang Junyou who agreed. They both looked old, both in their seventies or eighties. He didn't want to die so soon. Qiuqiu's arrival gave them hope of leaving here alive.

There was a thick stack of handwritten notes, but there was little valuable information. The only thing that caught my eye was the tide level diagram pressed in the corner.

What’s rare is that it also contains the exact time when the water level drops to a certain level.

Qiuqiu calculated for another two hours before slowly looking up and asking the female disciple next to him, "Does this Lin Mang have any other manuscripts?"

Huang Junyou had been observing Qiuqiu, so he quickly walked over, thought for a moment, and then shook his head in rejection.

Qiuqiu was not giving up and asked, "Why is there no record of his death time? Look, there is only a record of his disappearance."

Jin Jingyun explained, "I know a little about this: he landed here with his fiancée, but three years later, she married the King Xiaoyao of Wei. From then on, he and his fiancée became strangers, and he's been living in a stone house near the sea eye of the tiankeng ever since. It was the Taoist boy who discovered he was missing while delivering food."

Qiuqiu frowned and asked seriously, "When did you go missing?"

Jin Jingyun pulled out a small notebook from his pocket, flipped to a page, and reported a set of data: "Fifty-nine years ago and two months."

Qiuqiu knocked on the table, "If he is lucky enough and has reached the third level of body refinement, he may have returned to the world of cultivation."

Lan Li heard that someone had already left the place, and his depressed mood suddenly lifted: "Fellow Daoist Yuanchu, what happened?"

Qiuqiu naturally gave Lan Li this face and explained carefully: "Actually, it's quite simple. In the passage between the Demon Realm and the Spirit Realm, the spiritual energy and demonic energy are both in a violent state, and fusion is rare. A strong collision will cause energy tides."

He picked up a simple hand-drawn map and pointed to the place called Shenwu Continent: "This Shenwu Continent should be a large fragment of the former Xianmo Continent! After tens of thousands of years, it slowly evolved into a small independent interface.

To survive between the spiritually-dominated Everest Continent and the demonic-infested Immortal Demon Continent, if we want to leave, we must find that balance."

"What balance point?" Lan Li was dumbfounded. He didn't understand what he heard.

Qiuqiu didn't even want to look at him and continued to explain: "The balance point that can allow the Shenwu Continent to exist independently.

You can think of the tiankeng sea eye as the intersection where two forces collide.

It erupts every sixty years. We were unlucky enough to fall during high tide and be brought here by the hurricane.

The tide will go out in a year. If we are physically strong, we can jump into the tiankeng sea eye and use the receding tide to return to the mainland of Mount Everest.

However, you cannot set up a spiritual shield to protect yourself near the sea eye of the tiankeng. If you want to leave through the passage, you can only withstand it with your own body.

The main body is not strong enough and can be easily torn into pieces.

Based on the pattern of water level drops, I infer that physical strength must be at least level three to withstand the raging energy in the channel."

Lan Li exclaimed, "The third level of body refinement is the physical strength corresponding to the Golden Core stage! Brother Jin, you have already reached the peak of the Golden Core stage. Have you ever practiced body refinement before?"

Huang Junyou said excitedly, "Even without physical training, a Jindan cultivator's body, nourished by spiritual energy, can reach the strength of the second stage. If a sword cultivator's physical strength is even comparable to that of a physical cultivator of the same level, then we all have hope of leaving this place?"

Qiuqiu started to pour cold water on them: "The problem is that your bodies are not strong enough. Your bodies haven't been nourished by spiritual energy for over sixty years. Who knows what kind of strength they can achieve now?!"

Huang Junyou was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly his face became a little ferocious and he said: "Even if I die, I will go back."

He walked out of the teahouse in a panic. Qiuqiu said innocently, "We still have almost a year to prepare. We can train our bodies. There are still many medicinal herbs with good medicinal effects in Cangmang Mountain."

Jin Jingyun felt somewhat desperate: "It's useless. These ordinary medicines can only refine the body to the physical strength of a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage, which is already the limit."

Qiuqiu nodded helplessly and murmured, "It would be great if there was an interstellar lifeboat."

Huang Junyou, who had just returned, heard Qiuqiu's murmur and, like grasping at a lifeline, asked, "What lifeboat?"

Qiuqiu casually drew a diagram of the lifeboat, briefly explained its purpose, and finally explained:

"The metal smelting technology here isn't strong enough to withstand the impact. Besides, in a completely enclosed space without any spiritual energy, holding your breath for half an hour will kill you. Finally, you can't control the direction of the lifeboat."

Lan Li suggested: "We can both try our best to control the drifting direction, pass through the sea eye, and use spiritual energy after finding the passage.

I suspect that the appearance of the forbidden spirit stone here is the main reason for the forbidden spirits in the Shenwu Continent.

Unfortunately, only at low tide can one or two Forbidden Spirit Stones appear occasionally."

Qiuqiu didn't want to stand by and watch them die, so he drew a detailed blueprint of the lifeboat based on his memory and gave it to Huang Junyou, giving them some hope. He explained:

"I don't know how to refine weapons, so I can't be of much help. This is also a lifeboat from another world. As long as the living people inside can survive until they are out of the control range of the Soul Absorbing Stone and can use their spiritual power, we can all leave here alive."

Qiuqiu did not live in the room arranged by Huang Junyou and others, but moved into the stone house next to the sea eye of the tiankeng. Two disciples from the Royal Dojo and the city lord also went with him to protect Qiuqiu and also to monitor him.

Since then, Qiuqiu has gone to the tiankeng sea eye three to five times a day to observe the specific location of the water level rise and fall.

Most of the time during the day, I would go to the Taoist temple library to read.

At night, she used the power of the stars to practice the Star Body Refining Technique. She found that in this plane without spiritual energy, the power of the stars was purer and easier to absorb and use.

Lan Li was in a miserable situation. In half a month, Qiuqiu calculated that the wind strength two hundred meters away from the sea eye of the tiankeng was very conducive to Lan Li's body tempering.

Qiuqiu also gave Lan Li ten bottles of external healing medicine to prevent him from dying from excessive blood loss despite being bleeding profusely every day.