Chapter 192: Entering the Dragon Palace again and seeing the salamander, resting the spirit and soul in the lotus pond Some restricted areas have some very conspicuous signs marked on their edges. But some restricted areas are completely blank. It seems to indicate that people who have been there before did not explore it much or were unable to explore it due to other force majeure. In this simulation, she will take the initiative to move towards these restricted areas. Three days flew by. Before leaving, Ruan Xing finally got his jade sign, which was no different from the one he got three years ago. She quietly asked Zhou Miaoyu again. Zhou Miaoyu thought she was worried about a conflict with other fellow disciples in the secret realm, so she comforted her, "The Lotus Pond Secret Realm is not open to outsiders, and everyone who enters is a fellow disciple. We all know each other every day, so how could there be a fight to the death? There are still normal exchanges, but most fellow disciples will choose to split the gains equally in order to save time to explore more places." She thought for a moment and added, "You look young and have never been in the sect, so you are not very familiar with other people. If you meet someone who is difficult to talk to, just give in. Those with bad tempers are those who have elders in the sect to rely on, so it is best not to provoke them, otherwise you will be in big trouble."
Thanking Zhou Miaoyu for her patient and instructive teaching, Ruan Xing nodded thoughtfully. The place she was going to was a restricted area, so she didn't think she would meet anyone else. After successfully entering the secret realm, Ruan Xing fell in a different place from Zhou Miaoyu. She pushed aside the lotus leaves in front of her, and the cold moon in the sky was reflected in the cold water. As Ruan Xing swam, the reflection was shattered into pieces. After summoning the Shuttle Spirit Boat, Ruan Xing sat at the bow and extended his spiritual sense outward. In just a moment, he had scanned the area within a few miles nearby. Perhaps the other disciples had already dived into the water, so they didn't see anyone. But she did find the towering stone peak in the middle of the lotus pond. This was good news; she could now locate herself on the map. After taking a look at the map, she saw that there were not many restricted areas, only five. The one closest to Shi Feng happened to be in her direction, not far away. Turning the boat around, Ruan Xing controlled the shuttle boat to move quickly towards the place, and it arrived in just a few minutes. After putting the shuttle spirit boat into the storage bag, Ruan Xing put on a water-repellent talisman and dived into the water. The cold pool water clung to her skin through a thin film formed by the water-repellent talisman, and it was refreshing. But fortunately, her spiritual power is inherently cold and yin. Recalling the location on the map again, Ruan Xing swam towards deeper places. There were a lot of messy things underwater, including all kinds of corals that Ruan Xing couldn't name and rocks of strange colors. On top of them, there were clusters of inky water plants dancing with the water flow. Some fish and shrimps swam past Ruan Xing and rushed towards her as if they couldn't see her. These are not monsters, but ordinary fish. There is plenty of spiritual energy in the secret realm. Maybe if they grow in the secret realm for another ten or twenty years, they will be lucky enough to open their spiritual intelligence. This place is marked on the map. The marker written on it is the spine of a huge unknown creature, half buried in the mud and sand underground. A senior brother who encountered this forbidden area left a painful warning on the marker. If you accidentally enter the forbidden area, you can only step on the exposed white spine and not anywhere else, otherwise you will sink deeply into the mud and sand and cannot move. That's why he lost his two shoes in the mud and sand, and sat on his spine waiting for the secret realm to end and get out. There is nothing special in this secret place except the backbones of giant creatures and mud with extremely strong adhesion.
Ruan Xing's gaze moved over and she saw the huge white spine. With a slight movement of his arms, his body moved towards the direction of the spine. As soon as he entered the range of the spine, Ruan Xing felt his body sinking, and swimming became much more difficult and strenuous. It’s as if... the gravity here is dozens of times stronger than other places. She instinctively mobilized her spiritual power to resist the force of gravity, but the more she resisted, the more excited it seemed to become. She had no choice but to slowly land with her feet on the white spine. The entire spine is two to three hundred meters long. The bones are solid and firm. There is no shaking when you step on it. It curves gracefully all the way downward, and even the joints do not show any signs of fragility. She walked along the spine for a while and roughly understood the scope of this forbidden area. It’s about 700 to 800 square meters. It's like a small playground. The entire place was in full view, and there was indeed no object containing any spiritual energy. However, sometimes the absence of spiritual energy is even more strange. The entire lotus pond is full of spiritual energy, and the small fish swimming around have traces of spiritual energy on their bodies. In a few years, they will be expected to become monsters. Why is there nothing near the spine of this giant beast? She boldly wanted to try the same thing as her senior brother who had written down his experience on the sign, so she slowly stepped her feet onto the mud and sand. The ground was as soft as cheese and her feet sank into it. She pulled hard, but she sank deeper. Ruan Xing held the protruding bone under his spine and pulled his feet out. His shoes were left in the mud and sand. He couldn't help but frown. This kind of ground-sinking force... inexplicably gives me a sense of déjà vu. It doesn't seem like some kind of spiritual power or magic, nor does it seem like a mechanical device. There is no trace of any spiritual power. On the contrary, it's like her magical powers whose origins are unknown. But the two are definitely not the same thing, just somewhat similar, because Ruan Xing has no way of using his magical powers to create a sinkhole force in such a large area of mud and sand. With her fingers gently grasping, she tried to use her magical power to get the shoes back. Without any hindrance, the pair of shoes returned to her hands. Even stranger. Ruan Xing frowned and thought about it. He realized that there would be no gain if he continued to stay there. At most, he would be like the fellow disciple who was once trapped here and leave after the secret realm ended. She decided to go all out, so she put on her shoes, lay down, and sank into the mud and sand. As she slowly sank, mud and sand covered her face. Holding his breath, Ruan Xing felt his entire body being pushed downward by the mud and sand. As a Nascent Soul cultivator, she could be fine without breathing for several days and nights. Moreover, this was still a simulation, so she was not afraid of encountering any danger. The squeezing force became stronger and stronger, and Ruan Xing felt like her body was being kneaded and flattened like plasticine. The spiritual power in her body couldn't help but become restless. Out of the instinct to protect her master and save herself, a layer of spiritual power formed on the surface of her body, but it seemed to have no effect on this force, and the spiritual power cover was also soft in the invisible big hand of that power. The Nascent Soul figure in the Dantian began to tremble. The spiritual consciousness and soul, which had not made any progress for a long time, had become more integrated with the Nascent Soul. Ruan Xing was stunned for a moment, then ecstatic! What she was most worried about was that her soul could not merge and she could not break through to the Spirit Transformation Stage.
Not having any martial arts skills was not a big deal, at least she had a goal and direction to work towards. But the inability of her soul to merge made her helpless, and she had no idea what method to use. I don’t know if she was lucky or what, but she successfully found the clue she wanted in the Lotus Pond Secret Realm again. The squeezing force continued, Ruan Xing no longer resisted, but obeyed this force, recalling the memory left to her by Immortal Lord Guangyou, and practicing the Record of Nourishing the Spirit. Since she reached the Nascent Soul stage, the spiritual consciousness in her sea of consciousness has become extremely powerful. The dense network formed when unfolded can cover an area of two or three miles in radius. At this time, these strands of spiritual consciousness seemed to have grown small tentacles and drilled into the body of the Nascent Soul figurine in the Dantian. The Nascent Soul figure trembled and passively merged in the beginning, but in the later stage it actively opened its little hands and grabbed the spiritual consciousness beside it and couldn't wait to take it into its own body. The spiritual consciousness is densely connected inside and around the Nascent Soul like a spider web. The Yuanying figure, which was originally a mixture of milky white and ice blue, had a somewhat illusory body which was gradually filled with spiritual consciousness and became solid. It was as if her soul flew up to the sky, enjoying supreme pleasure. Ruan Xing sighed comfortably. The cold and sticky mud squeezing her body no longer made her feel uncomfortable. It seemed as if there was a sound of "bo" beside my ear—— The whole world became distant. It's like being freed from some kind of shackles. Ruan Xing gently opened his eyes and looked around him in surprise. Under a dense spider web, the barely visible tentacles clung tightly to her body, and then quickly merged into her milky white and ice blue body. Her soul entered the Nascent Soul! What about her physical body? Ruan Xing was suddenly startled, and then he felt the existence of his physical body and breathed a sigh of relief. It was only because of the pressure of external forces that her soul temporarily entered the Nascent Soul stage, and she experienced the feeling of the fusion of body and soul in advance. This gave her a deeper understanding of some of the insights in the Record of Nourishing the Spirit. This was a rare opportunity. Ruan Xing stretched out her hands to grab those spiritual consciousnesses and began to absorb them eagerly. She continued to strengthen her soul according to the cultivation methods in the Record of Nourishing the Spirit. At this rate, she would be able to completely fuse her spirit and soul in three months at most and would have the basic conditions to advance to the stage of spiritual transformation! I don’t know how long I have been practicing. When Ruan Xing woke up again, she had already left the mud. The effect of the water-repellent talisman on his body had long disappeared, but he was not stained with any dirt. She put another water-repellent charm on herself and then looked up at this strange new place. The surroundings are filled with glittering colored glass products, the thin and colorful gauze curtains dance lightly in the water, and the layered walls seem real and illusory. She stood up. The place where she had just been lying was a huge clam shell. As she left, the pale pink clam shell slowly closed. "What is this place?" Ruan Xing was full of doubts. The chubby Nascent Soul figure in his Dantian was lying there. The progress of the fusion of spiritual consciousness had reached halfway.
However, without the compression of the strange mud and sand, the speed of her soul fusion slowed down again. She walked out carefully, and after about dozens of meters, she came to a place that looked like a door. Outside was a thick dragon pillar, and the four-clawed dragon carved on it was lifelike, and even its eyes seemed to be following her movements and watching her. Outside, it was a place that looked like an underwater canyon. "I've been here before." Ruan Xing muttered to himself, "This is where I got the second key." But at that time, she felt the dangerous aura in the Dragon Palace that seemed to come from monsters, so she just took the key and left without entering the Dragon Palace to take a closer look. But now that breath is gone. She walked around the Dragon Palace openly, but did not see any other creature that could communicate. After looking around, Ruan Xing was about to go back into the Dragon Palace to look for other clues, but suddenly he stopped. His eyes turned to the dragon pillar at the door. The four-clawed glazed dragon above...seems to have changed its posture. This discovery made Ruan Xing shudder. She took a step back, turned her wrist, and shouted, "Ah Jiao!" "Here I come!" Cai Jiao's lively voice rang out. A thin sword as white as jade suddenly appeared in her hand, pointing at the dragon pillar. The four-clawed glazed dragon's eyes flashed, and a faint sigh came from its ears. It swam down from the dragon pillar where it was perched. Its slender body is only about one meter long, with four claws with sharp tips and scales on its body shining brightly. His eyes kept wandering over the body of the four-clawed glazed dragon, and Ruan Xing suppressed the shock in his eyes, "There really is a dragon..." The monsters in this world are not strong, and there are not even any powerful big monsters. The fact that big monsters in the transformation period can transform into human form is something passed down from ancient times. In fact, apart from bullying lower-level mortals and cultivators, monsters are mostly used as props to train disciples, or as delicacies on the table. Occasionally, if they are lucky, they will become a means of transportation or a pet. If legendary creatures like dragons really existed in this world, how could the status of monsters be so poor? Moreover, Ruan Xing could not sense any particularly powerful or dangerous smell from the four-clawed glazed dragon. "I'm not a dragon." The four-clawed glass dragon spoke and said lightly: "I'm a salamander." Ruan Xing was even more shocked. This monster, oh no, this dragon can actually speak! It was obvious that he had not established a mental connection with her, nor had he reached the transformation stage! A look of helplessness flashed across Salamander Liuli's eyes, "Salamander is my form in the Record of Nourishing the Spirits. To be more precise, I should be an insect reader." It’s just a simulation anyway, Ruan Xing quietly comforted herself in her heart. Moreover, having experienced the information explosion in modern society, she could see all kinds of multi-model exploding creatures in various AI videos, so even though she was surprised, she was able to calm down and remain composed. Looking closely, the salamander's head was indeed very different from the mythical dragons she knew. The salamander's head is oval in shape, it has no horns on its head, and its mouth is blunt. Ruan Xing calmed down and asked, "What is insect identification?"
Since the salamander showed its friendly and kind side and was willing to communicate with her, it would be nice to have a good chat with it. After all, she now had too many questions in her mind waiting for Salamander to explain and answer. "This story starts a long time ago..." Salamander looked at Ruan Xing and said softly. Thanks to book friend 20240520102516496 for your monthly ticket~ Thanks to book friend 151017183156333 for your monthly ticket~ Thanks to GunGunDaww for the monthly ticket~