698: wood cloud crystal

Chapter 701: Wood Cloud Crystal

On the towering cliffs, clouds and mist swirled.

Loose stones tumbled down, and for a long time, no sound echoed back.

Lin Shimo and Lin Houshou arrived here, at the very nest of the Mystic Wood Hawk Demon King.

The nest was carved out extensively, like a concave valley in the cliff face; ordinary Yao Beasts couldn't even reach this place.

Even if a bird-like creature flew in, it would be instantly torn to shreds by the diving Mystic Wood Hawks.

The interior of the nest was wide enough to accommodate dozens of giant Mystic Wood Hawks side-by-side, truly immeasurably vast.

Upon entering, the width did not diminish; instead, it grew even wider, resembling a massive plaza. Within the plaza, more than a dozen bird nests were placed.

These nests varied in size; the largest was big enough to house a small palace. Inside, there were currently two Mystic Wood Hawks that had just grown feathers.

Their aura was not weak, having reached the Middle Stage of the third rank. To be at the Middle Stage of the third rank right after birth was already quite impressive.

Coupled with the many Spirit Beast eggs in the other nests, both of them were naturally delighted.

Setting aside other gains, the harvest from these younglings alone was already substantial.

“Second Uncle, you can pick these Mystic Wood Hawks first!” Lin Shimo looked at Lin Houshou.

“They are useless to me. I already have an Ice Bird, and he is a fifth-rank Demon King. Any more Spirit Beasts would be pointless. However, they will be good for the Family later!” Lin Houshou originally wanted to offer them to Lin Shimo, but he remembered that Lin Shimo was already expending a great deal of mental energy cultivating his Five Elements Heavenly Armored Corpse.

He also didn't need any Spirit Beasts.

After all, the Five Elements Heavenly Armored Corpse required constant addition of Materials to enhance the strength of the Spirit Corpse, and at the same time, it required frequent expenditure of time to repeatedly enthrall the Five Elements Heavenly Armored Corpse.

This was to prevent these Spirit Corpses from developing new consciousnesses.

Upon reaching the fifth rank, many Spirit Corpses would spontaneously develop wisdom and consciousness.

Such beings would naturally be unwilling to be controlled.

“Indeed, the Family is lacking in many Spirit Beasts, but there are quite a few Geniuses. We can reward some to them!” Lin Shimo also spoke, a rare occurrence.

After all, this Ten Thousand Demon Island was conquered openly, so whatever Spirit Beast younglings the Lin Family acquired were no longer uncommon. In fact, many Cultivators would come to the Lin Family to buy spirit beast meat, Yao Beast inner cores, and Yao Beast Materials.

As the Cloud Realm became increasingly chaotic, for most Cultivators, the most important thing was to improve their strength.

“It’s a pity this Spiritual Vein isn’t a pure Spiritual Vein.” Lin Houshou glanced at it, then inspected the main hall of the nest.

They had already sensed that the fire-attribute Spiritual Vein and thunder-attribute Spiritual Vein above were both pure Spiritual Veins. Although this place had the intensity of a High Grade fifth-rank Spiritual Vein, it was not pure.

For smaller forces, a mixed Spiritual Vein was better, but for the current Lin Family, he already lacked nothing. At this point, a pure Spiritual Vein was naturally better.

“There’s Wood Cloud Crystal here! This is excellent for wood-attribute Cultivators at the fifth rank. For the Lin Family’s wood Cultivators, it’s an incredibly rare treasure!” Suddenly, one of Lin Shimo’s wood corpses uncovered a significant amount of soil, and he exclaimed in surprise.

Lin Houshou looked at Lin Shimo, only to see him now standing before the opening. Green light emanated from it, like flowing jade, pulsating with light.

The Spiritual Plants in those nests served as the perfect camouflage for this jade.

He then discovered that beneath those Spiritual Plant nests lay Wood Cloud Crystal, suitable for wood-attribute Cultivators to Cultivate. It was said that even a small piece could significantly boost a Cultivator’s cultivation.

“It’s not just for wood Cultivators to Cultivate. With so much Wood Cloud Crystal here, we could aggregate it to form a wood-attribute Secret Realm. Simply moving the Wood Cloud Crystal away, as we did before, would be meaningless,” Lin Houshou said at this point.

In fact, many of the Lin Family’s buildings didn’t have too many intricate features; their primary characteristic was their special Materials.

For example, the Jiaolong Nest was made of golden dragon fruit trees, the Sword Pavilion contained Sword Intent from sword carving stones, and the Spirit Talisman Pavilion held the Xu Family’s former Talisman Legacy, which also belonged to a Formation.

The Taihan Secret Realm and Heavenly Thunder Secret Realm were boundary realms themselves.

“But this relocation…” Lin Shimo hesitated.

Relocating this Spiritual Vein was already difficult, let alone a Spiritual Vein connected to such a large nest.

“Don’t forget what I’ve been researching all these years. Once I cleave this nest out with a single sword strike, I’ll take the entire nest with it, and then simply recreate that Formation on Shuangmu Island,” Lin Houshou said confidently.

Over the years, he had participated in the construction of the Jiaolong Nest, Ziyang Palace, Sword Pavilion, Illusion Heart Pavilion, and Lingfu Dongtian (Spirit Talisman Grotto-heaven), making him extremely adept at this type of construction.

Furthermore, he had researched this Wood Cloud Crystal and roughly understood its arrangement. As long as the Materials were fully prepared, he was confident he could replicate it.

“Alright, I’ll cut it!” Lin Shimo said, then instructed his earth-attribute Tianjia corpse to instantly move to the innermost part of the nest, where the Wood Cloud Crystal gradually ended.

The entire corpse directly broke through the earth.

Separating the massive nest, along with the mountain body and the Wood Cloud Crystal Spirit Mine, all at once.

Seeing this, Lin Houshou took out a jade box and cast a specific spirit art, collecting everything into it.

“Let’s go. Before we leave, let’s kill some more wood-attribute Yao Beasts. I wonder if Shiming will be able to gather enough this time!” Lin Houshou couldn’t help but say.

Lin Houshou’s Myriad Beast Banner already contained over two thousand wood-attribute Demon Souls before they arrived.

If he could acquire seven thousand Demon Souls here, he would be almost ready to perform the Ten Thousand Beasts Nascent Transformation Secret Method.

At the same time, Lin Shiming would gain an additional method for temporary Nascent Soul transformation.

Of course, this method might not be very useful anymore, as Lin Shiming was very close to breaking through to the Nascent Soul Stage.

He only needed to wait for Lin Shitao to emerge from seclusion and re-refine Spirit Pills… Besides the main Cultivators of the Lin Family acquiring treasures, the entire Ten Thousand Demon Mountain was now occupied by Lin Family members.

All the treasures within were being plundered.

In a dense valley, Lin Yanxing walked in. The next moment, his face also showed extreme joy, as a large patch of Jade Emperor Grass appeared before him.

This Jade Emperor Grass was a fourth-rank Spiritual Plant, useful even for Purple Mansion Late Stage Cultivators.

The Lin Family’s core strength had now shifted from Foundation Establishment to Purple Mansion.

This Jade Emperor Grass would be of great use… In a secluded mountain hall, Lin Zehong stepped inside.

She held several Spirit Talismans and several jade talismans in her hand.

Upon entering and seeing no danger, Lin Zehong finally relaxed.

Although Ten Thousand Demon Island had been defeated, there might still be surviving Yao Beasts.

For her, caution was naturally necessary.

“This seems to be a Legacy hall!” Lin Zehong took out another investigative Spirit Talisman.

Although she was only in the Early Violet Palace Stage, she was already close to mastering fifth-rank Spirit Talismans.

Investigating a mysterious mountain hall was extremely easy.

Soon, she found that among the few existing memorial tablets, one was not a tablet but a spatial Magical Artifact.

Inside, similar to a Storage Pouch, it contained treasures.

Lin Zehong stepped forward and took it, also greatly delighted.