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Chapter 323: Several divine beasts emerged from the inner perimeter, along with a fire that could tr
The giant black python let out a miserable roar, and with a mighty thrust, it slammed towards the direction from which the sound came.
Even if it dies, it will still smash to death this cultivator who wants to use its entire body as material.
It was Zhong Chun who spoke. Facing the struggling black python, he unceremoniously swung his palm, sending it flying back in front of his friends.
Huanhuan struck the black python on the head with a claw, shattering its spirit.
Peach blossoms and pear blossoms, along with a group of little peach blossoms and pear blossoms, happily came up to peel and butcher them.
Zhong Lingxin was concerned about the giant black python's cave, so she quickly came out to take a closer look.
The giant black python's den is very large, with a courtyard in front and a cave in the back, and a huge courtyard in the middle, planted with many aquatic plants unique to the Blackwater River.
She thoroughly searched the black python's den, throwing the tables and chairs in the front, the huge warm jade bed in the back, and the jade stones on the ground into the Nine-Story Pagoda.
Then they searched through the storage rings left by the immortals that the black python had eaten over the years, as well as two small space rings.
The children were also very happy and noisily searched through the items together.
Once inside the secret realm, they finally had a decent harvest.
Many kinds of magical treasures were found.
Finally, everyone was fully equipped and had decent gear.
Zhong Chun directed Little Peach Blossom and Little Pear Blossom to plant all the aquatic plants in the courtyard of the Great Black Python into the Nine-Story Pagoda, not even letting go of a small waterweed.
In response, Zhong Chun explained: "The Immortal Realm is not like the Spirit Realm. The Spirit Realm is full of wide, wavy rivers, as well as the South Sea, the North Sea, and the Ice Sea."
There are very few seas in the Immortal Realm, and not many rivers either; the most famous is the Heavenly River.
However, the Milky Way is under the jurisdiction of the Celestial Emperor, and all the immortal plants within it belong to the Celestial Emperor, so the lesser immortals rarely get to obtain them.
Most immortals drink celestial dew in the morning and fine wine in the evening. Each immortal city has more or less immortal springs, enough for the immortals of the city to use.
Therefore, there are not many aquatic immortal plants in the immortal realm, and any immortal pills that require aquatic immortal plants to refine are extremely expensive.
From now on, whenever we see the Fairy River, we'll take as much of its resources as we can, let them grow, and use them slowly.
The group of friends perked up as soon as they heard that.
They've been poor for decades and are terrified of it.
Upon hearing that the aquatic plants and minerals were worth a lot of immortal stones, they all clamored to turn the Blackwater River upside down and plunder all the immortal herbs and minerals inside.
Zhong Lingxin smiled and shook her head: "That won't be necessary. Here's what we'll do: now that the Blackwater River is free of the Great Black Python, the other immortal beasts are no match for us. We'll just travel downstream for a few days. I didn't bring much river water into the Nine-Fold Pagoda a few days ago, so we'll collect it generously these next few days, and also bring in more immortal plants and ore. Just be careful not to deplete it."
Zhong Chun nodded: "That's a good idea. Now that we have a river, all sorts of immortal plants can grow in it. Xin Xin, most of the secret realms have large rivers. Let's go into more secret realms in the future and make a few rivers for each level of the Nine-Layered Pagoda."
Peach Blossom and Pear Blossom were the first to agree: "That's great. With the Immortal River, it will be much easier for us to rain on the immortal plants. Oh, and we also need the Immortal Spring. The Immortal Spring is truly a wonderful thing. Just that one Immortal Spring has made the immortal plants in the Nine-Story Pagoda grow much faster."
Speaking of how fast the immortal plants had grown, Zhong Lingxin thought of the time array again.
She still hadn't mastered the principles of time and space that she had memorized by rote in the Immortal Spirit Continent, but she had gained a little understanding of time and space formations.
However, her level was not high, and when she was in the Immortal Realm, she rarely entered the Nine-Fold Tower. She would only occasionally immerse herself in the tower to check on the situation inside, and she never had the opportunity to learn the space-time formation.
It seems I need to find an opportunity to properly learn about spacetime arrays. Even increasing the time ratio by 10 times would be extremely beneficial to her.
With this in mind, Zhong Lingxin decided that after her friends had a few days of fun in the Blackwater River, she would return to the giant black python's cave to learn the Time Array.
In the middle and upper reaches of the Blackwater River, at the place where the Red Jade Tree disappeared, more and more immortals vented their anger on the river, cursing and swearing, and various magical treasures caused the river to surge with countless waves.
All the immortals unanimously agreed that it was the giant black python that ate the red jade tree right under their noses.
Now, the giant black python must have returned to its lair to absorb the immortal essence of the Red Jade Tree.
For the time being, they knew that the giant black python was too preoccupied to attack them.
Unable to defeat the giant black python, they turned to collecting the magical plants from the Blackwater River.
While collecting things downstream, Zhong Lingxin and her friends encountered immortals several times.
Zhong Lingxin and her friends didn't want to cause trouble, so they all quietly avoided the situation.
Half a month later, a decent-looking river appeared on the fifth floor of Zhong Lingxin's nine-story pagoda.
My friend has been having a wild time for the past two weeks and refuses to go back to the Nine-Story Tower no matter what.
After discussing it, they decided that Zhong Chun would stay with Zhong Lingxin in the black python's lair to learn the time array, while they themselves would go into the inner area to have some fun.
Zhong Lingxin originally wanted to send Zhong Chun with them, but all her friends shook their heads and refused.
They are undergoing trials, and they will be Xin Xin's helpers.
Right now, they're all too weak to be of much help to Xin Xin.
Helpless, Zhong Lingxin had no choice but to equip each of her companions with a large number of pills, talismans, artifacts, and arrays before letting them go out to train on their own.
Zhong Chun stayed behind to accompany Zhong Lingxin and protect her.
Watching her friends happily swim to the other side, Zhong Lingxin led Zhong Chun back to the giant black python's lair and slipped into the Nine-Story Pagoda.
With a foundation in formations and guidance from Zhong Chun, she learned extremely quickly. In just one year, she mastered a simple time formation and personally set up a formation with a flow rate of 10:1.
That is, one year outside is equivalent to ten years inside the formation.
With her current cultivation level as a Celestial Immortal, this is already the limit of what she can set up.
Peach Blossom and Pear Blossom were overjoyed and moved a large number of immortal plants into the time array to plant them.
Zhong Lingxin breathed a sigh of relief and set up a cultivation formation that would give her friends ten times the cultivation time, so they could use it after they left the secret realm.
Next, she swam across the Blackwater River and entered the inner area.
The inner perimeter is the destination for all immortals who enter the secret realm.
At this time, more than a year had passed since they entered the secret realm, and most of the immortals had entered the inner circle.
Not wanting to get into trouble, Zhong Lingxin put on invisibility and concealment talismans and slowly walked towards the inner center.
Although it's called the inner perimeter, it covers half the area of the entire secret realm.
Therefore, although many immortals entered the inner circle, they rarely met.
If you happen to run into someone, you try to avoid it as much as possible.
At this point, it was still the early stage of entering the secret realm. Everyone was busy cultivating and collecting resources. Each person had not collected many resources, so it was not yet time to kill and plunder.
But Zhong Lingxin still carefully avoided it, afraid that some fool might try to contract her.
As she traveled, she occasionally overheard the immortals' conversations.
Several divine beasts emerged from the inner perimeter, along with a magical fire that would often appear silently in the void, burning many immortals to death.