After the ascent failed

Chapter 168 Soul Lake
More than a month later.

Outside of a small-scale city in the southern border of Yan Kingdom, a young man in black was riding the light and landed slowly.

There are 740 six kingdoms in the Northern Territory, among which there are many forces in the world of cultivating immortals, but apart from the six sects, there are only peerless families like the Shen family of the Yuanzhao Kingdom who can really rank high in the Northern Territory.

Yan Kingdom is a relatively prosperous country among all the countries. In addition to the dense population of mortals, there are not a few people who cultivate immortals.

"Hey, I didn't expect that the current world of cultivating immortals has degenerated and mixed with mortals. Before this king fell, mortals were like ants in our eyes, and they couldn't touch our world of cultivating immortals at all."

A low laugh sounded from the side of the young man, but strangely, there was no one beside him.

"Ordinary people are also human beings, and they can also be used by immortal cultivators in some ways. The map we need right now can be found here."

The young man replied lightly, as if talking to himself.

"Also, if you don't want to cause more trouble, you'd better use your spiritual thoughts to communicate with me in the future. Otherwise, if you are caught and turned into a spirit beast, I will definitely stand by and watch."

This young man is Ye Chunyang.

At this time, there was an imaginary little snake wrapped around his arm, and that little snake was actually uttering words.

Such a dialogue that is different from ordinary people can only be reflected between him and King Nanxuan.

"Hey, all those who wanted to capture this king as spirit beasts have been destroyed by this king. If anyone doesn't want to die, just come up and try?" King Nanxuan said disdainfully, but obediently hid in Ye Chunyang's sleeve, Using the sound transmission of divine sense.

Ye Chunyang sneered and remained silent.

The relationship between him and King Nanxuan is not trustworthy, but it can be regarded as mutual cooperation.

However, during the period from Yinyue Kingdom to Yan Kingdom, there was some tacit understanding between them.

After condensing for a moment outside the city, Ye Chunyang released his spiritual thoughts to explore, and found that there are many monks coming and going here, and there are some auras above Dao base level.

"King Nanxuan, are you sure that Soul Lake is indeed nearby?"

After detecting the situation in the city, Ye Chunyang asked via voice transmission.

"It's been too long, and this king can't remember clearly. When I came here to travel, there was no Yan Kingdom, but judging from the terrain, it is vaguely here. I need to go to the city to find some maps for details. refer to."

King Nanxuan was silent for a moment, and then replied.

Ye Chunyang nodded and walked towards the city.

According to what King Nanxuan said, there used to be a lake of souls condensed with soul crystals in the southern border of the Yan Kingdom, which had the effect of nourishing the soul and cultivating soul art, making countless soul cultivators yearn for it.

Soul crystal is a special crystal mine formed between heaven and earth. It is extremely rare. Ye Chunyang has also seen records in ancient books, but it seems that it has disappeared in the Northern Territory, and no one has appeared for tens of thousands of years.

And the soul lake that King Nanxuan said was condensed by countless soul crystals, how could he not be moved.

It's just that this old demon was a demon cultivator tens of thousands of years ago. Now that time has passed, the location of that lake of souls has become difficult to find. You must combine the current geographical location to find it. After many inquiries, I know that there are often activities of immortal cultivators in this city , Ye Chunyang came here to inquire.

As Ye Chunyang has seen in the past, the shops of immortal cultivators and ordinary people's shops are mixed together in the city. Not only immortal cultivators will purchase some daily necessities in ordinary people's shops, but ordinary people who want to ask immortals will also go to and from the spiritual material shops of immortal cultivators. .

Thinking back to when I was in the human world, the situation was similar to what King Nanxuan said. Ordinary people rarely have the opportunity to come into contact with the world of cultivating immortals, and immortal cultivators look down on mortals, except for some limited aptitudes, knowing that they will live forever. Only hopeless monks will be greedy for the rich and powerful in the world, and masters who are dedicated to seeking the Tao will never be contaminated with the vulgarity of the mortal world, so as not to affect their Taoism.

However, in the world of demon gods, mortals and immortal cultivators live on equal terms.

Wandering around in the street, suddenly a spiritual material shop for cultivators caught Ye Chunyang's attention.

He paused, looked up, with a strange expression on his face, and muttered to himself, "Yunbao Building? I didn't expect Fatty Qian's business to come here."

The signboard of the shop in front of him was impressively written with the words "Yunbao Building", which reminded Ye Chunyang of Fatty Qian in Lindu City. He didn't know if this was his property, or just the same name?

Ye Chunyang smiled lightly, and walked into this Yunbao building.

The shopkeeper is an old man at the fifth level of Qi refining. Judging from his age and cultivation base, it is estimated that he will not be able to cultivate the Dao Foundation in his entire life and obtain a longer lifespan.

"This shop has everything this fellow Taoist needs." The old man welcomed Ye Chunyang in very kindly.

The old man's cultivation base is too low to see Ye Chunyang's true realm, and from his surface there is an aura of about the third level of refining Qi, and he thinks he can talk to his peers.

Ye Chunyang didn't care about this, and after looking at the store for a while, he said straight to the point: "Give me a detailed map of the southern border of Yan Kingdom."

"map?"

"This is a trivial matter. Fellow Daoist, stay here for a while, and I will fetch it for you immediately."

The old man walked towards the counter with a smile.

However, just as he stepped out with his front foot, as if he suddenly remembered something, he looked back at Ye Chunyang with a strange look on his face.

Ye Chunyang frowned slightly, and didn't pay attention to the old man.

But after looking at him for a few times, the old man suddenly pulled out a painting from the counter, stared at the painting, then looked at Ye Chunyang again, suddenly shocked.

"Dare to ask where you come from?" The old man suppressed the shock in his heart and asked Ye Chunyang with a strange face.

"Why, do you still have the rule of self-reporting your background when purchasing here?" Ye Chunyang's face turned cold.

The old man's expression froze, and he quickly shook his head and smiled apologetically: "Fellow Daoist, don't misunderstand, but I feel that Fellow Daoist is somewhat similar to an old friend of mine in Yunbao Building, so I am curious, and I hope you don't mind if I ask more questions."

"I'm from Silver Moon Country, do you have any questions?" Ye Chunyang replied impatiently.

"Silver Moon Country?"

"Then you are Master Ye from Lindu City?"

The old man was startled.

Ye Chunyang glanced at the old man and nodded lightly.

"It turned out that it was Master Ye who came here. The old man has blind eyes and does not know the true face of the master. Please forgive me." The old man was so frightened that he almost dropped the painting in his hand, and saluted quickly.

"How do you know that I belong to Master Ye." Ye Chunyang frowned.

"Master is famous all over the world. The owner of Yunbao Building has already spread your portraits in various branches, and told us that whenever Master Ye comes here, we can provide any materials for free." The portrait is handed over.

Ye Chunyang took a look and saw that the painting on it was indeed himself.

"That guy, Fatty Qian, has a heart." Ye Chunyang nodded slightly, waved his hand and said, "Go get the map!"

"Yes, Master Ye, wait a moment."

The old man suddenly became awed.

Even in Yan Country, he has heard a little about the legends about this person, and he can refine the Foundation Establishment Pill and Bailing Pill, such alchemy techniques are really amazing.

After fiddling around the counter a few times, the old man quickly brought out a pair of maps with a smile on his face, and placed them respectfully in front of Ye Chunyang.

"This is the most detailed map in the southern border of Yan Kingdom. You will never find a second copy in other spiritual material shops. Master Ye, you can refer to it." The old man flattered.

"Ok!"

Ye Chunyang glanced at the map, and found that there were indeed many geographical distributions marked on it, some of which he had seen along the way, and some of which he had never been to.

Moreover, the nearby cultivator forces are marked in detail on the map, regardless of the cave of casual cultivators or the regional sect, they can be seen at a glance.

"King Nanxuan, can you see the location of Soul Lake from this map?" Ye Chunyang said to King Nanxuan.

"Don't worry, wait for this king to take a closer look. Although this picture is marked in detail, it is indeed different from what this king saw back then. It will take time for this king to distinguish it." King Nanxuan said lazily.

Ye Chunyang did not urge him, and waited quietly for the other party to review.

Seeing that Ye Chunyang was silent, the old man didn't dare to make a sound for a while, and he was right next to him.

"what?"

After watching for about half an hour, King Nanxuan let out a sound of surprise.

"How, have you found anything?" Ye Chunyang's heart moved.

"Ye Daoyou, look at the mountain range [-] miles away from this city. According to my judgment, this place is very likely to be where the Soul Lake was." King Nanxuan suddenly said excitedly.

Ye Chunyang's expression was slightly condensed, and he followed what King Nanxuan pointed out. The mountain range on the map was in the shape of a dragon's head, crawling among five high mountains, and it was very imposing.

"It does look a little unusual here, but according to the notes on the map, this mountain seems to be occupied by a small sect?"

Ye Chunyang's eyes showed suspicion.

"From the point of view of the terrain, there is a great possibility that this place is the Soul Lake back then, but whether this Soul Lake still exists, we need to go there to find out before we can make a conclusion." King Nanxuan said.

"Alright."

Ye Chunyang thought for a moment, nodded and said.

If you can find the soul lake that King Nanxuan mentioned, it will be more effective than absorbing the vitality of the spirit tree to cultivate the soul, but you will not give up any chance.

Ye Chunyang said to the old man: "I want this map, please make a price."

"Master Ye is really old. The presence of the master has made the small shop flourish, so how dare you charge for it again. Besides, the shopkeeper Qian has told you about this matter. I dare not go against it." The old man looked terrified.

"In that case, thank you very much."

Ye Chunyang was also polite, put away the map and prepared to leave.

At this moment, a palm was pressed on the table, making him freeze the action of collecting the picture.

"Yun Bao Lou is very generous. Give away the treasure as soon as you say it. I have also taken a fancy to this map. Please give it to fellow Taoists!"

A voice sounded from the side, it sounded polite, but it was clearly ridiculed and targeted.

Ye Chunyang frowned.

The old man next to him was also stunned for a while, and looked up at a figure that suddenly appeared in the store, his expression froze.

"Mr. Xu, why are you here? If you need any materials, just let the next generation get them. Master Ye has already asked for this map. I hope Mr. Xu will not make things difficult for me."

The old man's expression changed, and he smiled kindly at the person who came.

This person has a lot of background, he absolutely cannot afford to provoke him.

(End of this chapter)