Chapter 299 - Yunzhou State Capital
As time passed.
He Song had more and more spirit stones on him.
The distance between him and the Cloud Prefecture State Capital also began to rapidly shorten.
Until one day.
He Song, who had been maneuvering his spirit boat towards the Cloud State Capital, suddenly spotted a giant city in the sky.
This huge city, stretching for an unknown distance, from a distance, the incomparably tall city wall was like an underground dragon, occupying the sky.
As the distance between He Song's spirit boat and the giant city got closer and closer, the giant city in front of He Song's eyes soon revealed its original appearance.
It was a huge city that could not be seen at a glance.
Inside the tall city wall, all kinds of houses were lined up, and when He Song looked far away, he could see densely packed silhouettes of people casually shuttling through the streets of the city.
Looking into the distance, He Song even found that in the middle of this giant city, there were also high mountains standing, lakes dotted, reflecting the whole giant city as if it was a worldly place.
"What a giant city, there are even mountains and lakes in the city."
"But I just don't know if the mountains and lakes were already there or if they were pulled."
Standing on top of the spirit boat, He Song's mind flashed through a series of guesses, but in the end, he couldn't guess anything.
He had heard that a Jindan real person had the ability to move mountains and overturn the sea, but he had no chance to see it.
Even the two True Lords of the Thick Earth Sect, Fa Xuan and Yan Shan, had never moved in front of He Song.
Naturally, he had no way of knowing whether these rumors were true or not.
It was only after seeing the mountains, rivers and lakes in this huge city that the rumors he had heard earlier flashed through his mind.
After guessing.
He Song swept his gaze around, but realized that he was in the sky above a quiet valley.
Seeing this situation, He Song pondered slightly and immediately maneuvered the spirit boat to start descending and soon fell into the valley.
After scanning the valley with his divine sense and realizing that there was nothing strange about it, He Song let out a sigh of relief, and the whole person disappeared into the ground.
Underground.
With He Song's cultivation at the late stage of Foundation Establishment, he was able to escape hundreds of meters into the ground by performing the Lianshan Transportation Technique.
In such a deep underground, as long as it wasn't a Foundation Establishment Great Perfection or a Jindan True Lord's Divine Awareness specializing in surveying the underground, basically it wouldn't be discovered.
However, even though he was already hundreds of meters underground, He Song still didn't stop.
When he reached the limit of the Lianshan Transportation Technique's ability to disappear into the ground, He Song casually waved his hand, and the soil and rocks around his body were immediately included in He Song's storage bag.
At that moment, He Song's body was empty, and opened up a not too big and not too small hole in the ground.
After doing all this, He Song casually put the soil and rocks under his feet into his storage bag.
Then, he took out the soil and rocks that he had previously put into the storage bag, and completely filled the hole above his head.
So repeatedly.
On one side, the soil and rocks a few meters below his feet were put into the storage bag, allowing himself to continue to fall downwards.
On the one hand, he took out the soil and rocks from his storage bag and filled up the hole above his head.
Soon, He Song's figure had appeared at a depth of a thousand meters from the ground.
However, after having reached a depth of a thousand meters, He Song still didn't stop, instead, he continued downwards and began to continuously probe downwards.
In this way.
It was only after reaching a depth of about two thousand meters below the ground that He Song nodded his head in satisfaction and stopped the act of continuing downward.
Previously, when he was opening up a hidden cave for himself, the depth was controlled to be around one thousand meters underground.
However, now that he was in a different place, the depth naturally had to change as well.
Hidden caves were located in all sorts of hidden places that would basically go unnoticed, not to mention the fact that no one would specialize in going there and surveying the ground with their divine sense.
In this way, a depth of a thousand meters would already be enough for He Song to hide.
Nowadays, the place where He Song is located is outside the state capital of Yunzhou.
The distance from the Yunzhou state capital, according to He Song's estimation, was feared to be no more than hundreds of miles.
At such a close distance, no one dared to be sure that the Jindan True Lords guarding the Yunzhou state capital would not have a whim to use their divine sense to investigate the ground.
If such a thing did occur and He Song's masterpiece was discovered.
I'm afraid that it would be another trouble at that time.
Therefore, He Song still decided after thinking about it that he would build a place of refuge here with a depth of at least around two thousand meters to prevent any mishaps from occurring during his trip.
This place of refuge was located at a depth of 2,000 meters, and even if a Jindan True Lord used his divine sense to investigate the ground, he was afraid that he would not be able to reach this depth.
In addition, after completing the place of refuge, He Song would also lay down formations in this place, so as to avoid this place being discovered.
Therefore, a depth of two thousand meters should be enough.
After reaching a depth of two thousand meters, He Song's mind moved, and the Black Tiger Seal immediately flew out from his body, spinning in front of him.
The reason why he didn't take out the Spirit Snake Bone Seal, as well as the Vajra Shield, the two extremely high-grade magic weapons that He Song had just gotten his hands on.
It was because these two extremely high-grade magic weapons had yet to be refined.
In the middle of his journey towards the Yunzhou state capital while maneuvering the spirit boat, He Song had already continuously tried to refine them.
Now that he had arrived outside the Yunzhou state capital, after a month and a half of traveling, He Song was only just able to manipulate the refining of these two extremely high-grade magic weapons.
If he really wanted to manipulate these two extremely high-grade magic weapons to meet the enemy at will, he was afraid that it would still take a year before he could do so.
According to He Song's estimation, half a year would be enough for him to completely refine an extremely high-grade magic weapon, and for two extremely high-grade magic weapons, a year would be about right.
At that time, the two extremely high-grade magic weapons on He Song's body would naturally be like arms.
However, today, He Song can only offer up the Black Tiger Seal, which has long been refined and used as an arm, to fight against the enemy.
Compared to other late Foundation Establishment cultivators, the combat power is quite low.
But it does not hurt, He Song's all combat power, not all in the magic weapon.
The Black Tiger Seal, as well as the Aqua Turtle Armor Shield, these two top-grade magic weapons, at this moment can still be able to top for a while.
After He Song had completely refined an extremely high-grade magic weapon, he would be able to replace one of the top-grade magic weapons.
When the real replacement was completed, He Song would naturally rise to the occasion and violently increase his combat power.
With a thought.
The Black Tiger Seal instantly began to grow larger.
Bigger and bigger.
Bigger and bigger.
Until the Black Tiger Seal filled up all the space of this place and forcibly opened up the surrounding soil and rocks, opening up a huge space, only then did He Song nod his head in satisfaction and took it back into his dantian.
Retrieving the Black Tiger Seal, He Song swept his gaze across the surroundings.
Here, a huge space had appeared, and since it was the Black Tiger Seal that held it open, the soil and rocks had become incredibly sturdy under the crush of the Black Tiger Seal.
At least there was no need to worry about it collapsing the next moment.
Next, He Song cast another spell to reinforce the soil of the surrounding mountains and rocks, and then opened up some more rooms around him.
Only after the rooms had been sufficient for his own use did He Song stop his movements, and with that, a formation disk appeared in his hand, as well as several formation flags.
First.
He Song laid down a Luo Smoke Formation in this place.
Then, he set up a Sea Fixing Chao Yuan Formation.
After thinking about it, he ended up laying down another Small Spirit Gathering Formation, as well as a Seven Killings Heavenly Flame Formation.
After all four formations were laid, He Song's place of refuge that he had opened up in this place was all but complete.
If he encountered any crisis within the Yunzhou state capital, or was caught up in some inexplicable crisis, this place would become He Song's place of refuge.
It was thought that this hidden cave, built hundreds of miles outside of the Yunzhou state capital and located two thousand meters deep in the ground, would provide He Song with near-perfect protection.
After doing all this, a stone in He Song's heart also fell to the ground.
As the saying goes, if you have food in your hand, you won't panic in your heart.
And in He Song's heart, with a retreat and a place of refuge, only then was there really no panic.
After creating a place of refuge, He Song once again checked to make sure that this place would not collapse due to being under the ground.
He also left the tracking mark of the Seven Incense Tracking Technique within the cave.
As long as the mark existed, he would be able to perform the Seven Incense Tracking Technique at any time and return to this place again.
Only after doing so did He Song quickly return to the secluded valley as he had come.
Within the valley.
He Song revealed his cultivation at the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, and then transformed into an aquamarine colored recluse, heading towards the distant state capital of Yunzhou.
Although it was the first time that He Song had come to the Yunzhou State Capital, Meng Guan had already stayed here for many years, and had described the sights of the Yunzhou State Capital to He Song many times during his monthly exchanges with him.
Even when He Song had rushed to Yunzhou Prefecture, he had already communicated with Meng Guan, and Meng Guan knew that He Song would come to Yunzhou Prefecture in the near future.
Therefore, when He Song had just stepped into the Cloud State Capital, Meng Guan's figure had already appeared in front of him.
He Song had not seen him for many years.
Meng Guan's appearance remained unchanged.
The same was true for He Song.
However, the place where the two of them met now was vastly different from before.
"Fellow Daoist, how are you? I've been looking forward to this for a long time."
At the time of their meeting, Meng Guan looked towards He Song, and a color of delight flickered in his eyes.
It was a great joy to meet a friend from another country.
Although He Song was not a permanent resident here, the two of them had not seen each other for a long time, and their hearts had missed each other quite a bit.
"I'm sorry that old Meng missed it, fortunately I rushed all the way and didn't encounter any crises, which allowed me to arrive in time."
Arching his hand towards Meng Guan, He Song opened his mouth and returned.
But before he could say anything else, Meng Guan had already smiled and shook his head, interrupting his next words.
Pointing at the crowded scene at the city gates, he then pointed remotely at the interior of the state capital.
Turning to him, he reached out his hand to signal He Song to follow.
Seeing this situation, He Song suddenly realized.
This place was not a place to talk, so he should leave first, and then whether he went to the inn or Meng Guan's residence, he could continue to talk freely.
After nodding his head, He Song immediately followed Meng Guan's footsteps.
The two of them quickly left the state capital city gates, one after the other.
Soon, their figures appeared in a teahouse.
Sitting down in a window seat on the second floor, Meng Guan exchanged pleasantries with He Song, and then there was spiritual tea on the table, which was fragrant.
He Song's heart stirred when he smelled it.
With a sudden movement of his mind, mana surged out and poured a cup for both himself and Meng Guan.
With a cup of spiritual tea into the stomach, He Song only felt a spiritual shock, the fatigue of rushing for days, all completely dissipated at this moment.
Noticing that a cup of spiritual tea had such an effect, He Song was about to praise it, but he saw Meng Guan pointing around with a smile and said.
"The spirit tea here is very wonderful, I know that you are a tea lover, so after entering this Yunzhou state capital, the first stop is to bring you here to taste the tea."
"What do you think, fellow Daoist?"
(End of chapter)