NOVEL WEB Chapter 296: Cactus
Li Qian and Senior Brother Xiao He left the Luoyuan Taoist School and arrived at the Liwei Immortal City via the Transmission Array.
The Secret Realm that the Senior Brother wanted to enter was located here.
The entrance to the Secret Realm is immovable.
Therefore, Arrays are often set up, and disciples are stationed there.
Moreover, Secret Realms have the characteristic of clustering; discovering one Secret Realm in a location often allows one to find a group of Secret Realms.
It is precisely because of this that clustered Secret Realms are easier to manage.
Otherwise, with one in the east and one in the west... the management cost would skyrocket.
Xingjiang Secret Realm.
This is the name of the Secret Realm they're entering.
It's said that within the Secret Realm, there is a species of spiritual beasts called Xingjiang Generals... they resemble gorillas but are born with a thick armor, with amazing defensive power, hence the name.
The Xingjiang General spiritual beasts in this Secret Realm have also become an important resource of this place.
Because the armor on the Xingjiang General spiritual beasts is an excellent Artifact Refining material.
For defensive Spiritual Artifacts like Spirit Armor, the armor on Xingjiang Generals can be used as the main material.
However, considering sustainable development, the number of Xingjiang General spiritual beasts in the Secret Realm has sharply decreased, so it is strictly prohibited to hunt them randomly... during each open period of the Secret Realm, there is a quota for hunting Xingjiang Generals.
Once the hunting number reaches a certain value, no more hunting is allowed.
The two paid ten Immortal Crystals.
Five points each.
This entry fee is quite expensive.
For servant disciples, five Immortal Crystals are not cheap.
Entering the Secret Realm, though whatever is obtained can belong to oneself, in such a low-level Secret Realm, with creatures like the Xingjiang Generals being restricted in hunting, the opportunities and benefits in other areas are not particularly abundant.
Maybe after going in once and scavenging a bit, one might even incur a loss.
Unless luck is extraordinarily good.
Like Senior Brother Xiao He, whose luck was not bad and found a location with Earth Spirit Pearls.
Unfortunately, his strength was insufficient to acquire the Earth Spirit Pearls....
The Earth Spirit Pearls are quite valuable, considered the top treasure in such a low-level Secret Realm like the Xingjiang Secret Realm.... they have a certain boosting effect on breakthroughs at the Earth Immortal Realm level.
Although not as good as the Jade Immortal Spirit Pill, they are worth about three to five hundred Immortal Crystals at least.
After the two entered the Xingjiang Secret Realm, they flew directly towards the place where the Earth Spirit Pearls were present.
The entire Secret Realm is not large, estimated to be about tens of thousands of square kilometers, which would be larger than a province in the previous life.
But such an area of labyrinths is considered small in the Cultivation World.
The larger the Secret Realm, the higher the level it generally is.
Those top-grade Secret Realms are almost no less than the Longevity Realm.
In such a small Secret Realm, there are generally no intelligent beings like humans living in it.
Unless the Secret Realm is special, such as the Cangwu Secret Realm, which is used for planting Spiritual Medicine, and a large number of mortals and Spirit Plant Masters are relocated there.
The two arrived at the place where the Earth Spirit Pearls appeared.
It turned out to be in the Cave World's underground.
The entire cave space is estimated to be several hundred square kilometers, forming an independent underground world, with unique luminescent plants growing on the cave walls, so the light was not dim.
Senior Brother Xiao He found this place by accident.
After all, the entrance to the underground cave is just an inconspicuous little cave.
But the passageway is winding and twisting.
He only entered the underground Cave World by pursuing a Spiritual Treasure Rat.
"Junior Brother, it's just ahead, guarding the Earth Spirit Pearl is also a Xingjiang General. But this Xingjiang General looks unusual. The other Xingjiang Generals are yellow, grey, purple, green, and so on.... This Xingjiang General is entirely pitch black and much larger in size.... I reckon it should already be a level two high-grade spiritual beast."
Senior Brother Xiao He said.
The levels of spiritual beasts are mainly divided into four levels and three grades, level one corresponds to Void Immortals among Cultivators, level two corresponds to Earth Immortals, level three to Heavenly Immortals, and level four to Profound Immortals.
As for those comparable to Immortal Golden Immortal Level.... they are not considered spiritual beasts and are known as Immortal Beasts.
Li Qian has always been puzzled by the level divisions in the Cultivation World.
Clearly cultivating Spiritual Power, not immortal power, why are there distinctions like Void Immortal, Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, and Profound Immortal?
He pondered whether this realm's cultivation levels were perhaps overstated?
Li Qian and Senior Brother Xiao He perched on a giant stalagmite, and their immortal senses probed ahead, only to see a bright yellow peculiar pearl floating amidst a forest of stalagmites, emitting a faint glow.
The formation conditions for the Earth Spirit Pearl are very stringent, requiring a specific natural environment, coupled with dense earth energy and Immortal Spirit Qi, taking hundreds or even thousands of years of nourishment to eventually form.
Li Qian looked at the Xingjiang General spiritual beast, entirely pitch black, lying next to the Earth Spirit Pearl.
He immediately understood that the reason this Xingjiang General is stronger than ordinary Xingjiang Generals must be related to this Earth Spirit Pearl.
Because during the gestation of the Earth Spirit Pearl, it can absorb Immortal Spirit Qi from the world.
Though the world is dominated by Spiritual Energy, Immortal Spirit Qi is very thin, and ordinary Cultivators can hardly sense, capture, or absorb it.
However, some special spiritual beasts, Spiritual Medicines, or special treasures can gather this thin Immortal Spirit Qi.
The Earth Spirit Pearl is one of those types.
Furthermore, the so-called Immortal Spirit Qi is merely a generic term; in reality, it can be subdivided into thousands of types.
Just like Spiritual Energy, apart from the most basic non-attribute Spiritual Energy, there are various types like Fire Spiritual Energy, Water Spiritual Energy, Thunder Spirit Qi, etc.