Chapter 73 Three Years
Winter goes and spring comes, time flies, and there is no time for cultivation. Three years have passed in a flash.
In the east, thousands of miles away from the Wuliang Sect, there is a huge imperial city. This imperial city is hundreds of miles wide. It is extremely prosperous, with groups of buildings, grand and sacred. The most exquisite and largest building here is not the imperial palace, but a sword sect in the east of the city. There are pavilions, towers, and huge palaces in the courtyard. If you want to get to the back of the sword sect from the entrance of the sword sect, you need to ride on the main road for half a day to get there. The sword sect is divided into the outer sword courtyard and the inner sword pavilion. It is a place where sword cultivators gather in the world. It has a name in the world called Shibuyuan, and it is also a giant sect of the four mountain immortal gates of the Desolate Moon Continent.
At this time, in a huge palace in Shibuyuan, three people were sitting together. A middle-aged monk in green, a young monk, and an old Taoist priest in purple robes. Each of them has a strong aura, and they are still three Jindan masters.
The middle-aged monk in green robes, about forty years old, with a square face and sword-like eyebrows, was full of righteousness, and there was a slight fluctuation of sharp sword energy on his body. He was sitting at the top, and he was actually in the late Jindan stage. He said, "I didn't expect that Master Yiye and Immortal Hanglin came to our temple. I was a little surprised, haha."
The young monk heard this and clasped his hands together and nodded slightly, "Pure Land Sect Yiye greets Xiaquan Sword King." The monk had a face as clear as water, clear eyebrows and eyes, a pair of black and white eyes, a medium build, and a green cassock. He was already in the middle Jindan stage, but when he sat there, he looked like an ordinary temple monk in the mortal world, with a humble and gentle demeanor.
Seeing this, the old Taoist priest also saluted with one hand and said, "Xiaquan Sword King, your academy actually sent your inner sword to come forward, which shows how much importance you attach to this matter. I came here from the Taixuan Sect to assist the Shibu Academy and the Pure Land Sect, but if you have any instructions, I will fully cooperate." The old Taoist priest was thin, with extremely smooth white hair, faintly shining with silver light, and a Taoist knot on the top of his head. His face was ruddy, and his eyes were shining, which made him look a little smooth. He was also in the late stage of the Golden Elixir.
After hearing this, Master Yiye just nodded slightly, chanted the Buddha's name, and did not say much.
The middle-aged monk in blue robes from Shibuyuan smiled slightly and thought, "Taixuan Sect sent you here just to get more money. You are cunning, everyone knows that. As a famous Taoist, you don't have the slightest bit of clean and proud spirit. You said you would assist and cooperate fully. You are afraid that if the matter is investigated in the future, it will be the responsibility of Shibuyuan and Pure Land Sect, right?" Xiaquan Sword King thought so in his heart, but he laughed, "We are all one branch inside and outside our sect, regardless of strength, it is up to us. Come here, it's just that the other brothers are busy. Hang Linxianchang's statement is quite modest. The three sects asked you and me to discuss this matter, of course, it represents the intention of the three sects. Next year is the fifteen-year search for the picking period, but since ancient times, the Wuliang Sect has always used various evil poisons to take the lead. Not only did they take up a small part of the resources, but also many of our elite disciples in the foundation-building period died. "
Seeing the middle-aged green-shirted monk say this, the skinny Taoist priest's expression became serious and said, "Next King Quanjian is right. The Wuliang Sect relied on its special skills to not hold back on our three sects, causing a lot of losses to the foundation-building elites that Shibuyuan and Jingtu Sect had painstakingly cultivated. And our Taixuan Dao Sect, because of its skills, prefers the lotus platform to fight, and often falls into their traps for four or five times out of ten, and suffers heavy casualties. This behavior is really despicable. "The middle-aged Confucian scholar heard it and disdained in his heart, "You Taixuan learning Taoism is so upright, can our Jianmen and Buddhism is not worthy of being on the stage. The world of immortal cultivation should stop using these to fool people. Who is a gentleman? "
At this time, Monk Yiye clasped his hands and said, "Amitabha, it is the duty of our Buddha to eliminate demons and defend the way."
The middle-aged monk in green clothes nodded with a smile, "Then we should start like this for the rest of the year..." When he said this, he only saw his lips move slightly, but no sound could be heard anymore. In this backyard of the Ten-Step Courtyard with many restrictions, he was so careful and used the method of transmitting sound into the secret.
The monk and the Taoist listened and used the method of transmitting sound to discuss.
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Li Yan opened his eyes from his practice, his eyes were full of brilliance. In the past three years, he has been practicing hard day and night, and his skills have reached the seventh level of the Condensation Stage. He has made rapid progress. This is mostly due to the effectiveness of the special skills of the Guishui Sutra. In addition, the resources of the sect have also benefited him a lot. The five low-level spirit stones and two bottles of "Shengling Pills" per month that are more than the outer disciples of the same level give him a lot of assistance. Needless to say, the spirit stones, every time he practices the immortal art, he quickly uses the spirit stones to replenish the lost spiritual power, which greatly reduces the time for meditation and practice to recover.
Shengling Pills are swallowed before each practice of the Guishui Sutra, which can make his spiritual power much purer after one cycle, so that the effect that originally took two cycles can be achieved in one cycle, which of course greatly improves the effect.
In terms of immortal arts, "Fire Bomb Art" and "Wind Blade Art" have reached the late stage of minor success, "Quick Sand Art" has been practiced to the great success, "Cloud Rain Art" and the newly learned "Wind Binding Art" and "Air Control Art" have also been practiced to the middle stage of minor success.
He has already mastered each of the twelve fragmented bodies, but if it is to be used in combination, he can also simply combine two or three.
After finishing his training, Li Yan did not stand up, but still sat cross-legged. He looked inward with his spiritual consciousness. The five spiritual power tanks in Dantian Zifu had increased by five or six times compared to three years ago. At present, the spiritual energy in the three spiritual power tanks of water, wood, and fire was flowing. These spiritual energy had become semi-water vapor. When they were all liquid, the foundation could be successfully built. However, the two spiritual power tanks of earth and gold were still empty. He was actually at the middle level of the seventh level of the Condensation Stage.
Looking at the spiritual power in the state of water vapor, Li Yan's heart moved, and the five elements of spiritual power were running. The spiritual power in the first three tanks began to restrain each other and slowly poured into the two tanks of earth and gold. This infusion was not naturally generated when the spiritual power tanks were full during training, but was forcibly generated. The purpose was to reduce the highest water spiritual power and change it into other attributes.
After a while, Li Yan's aura had changed from the middle stage of the seventh level of Qi Condensation to the early stage of the sixth level of Qi Condensation. This was the method of concealing cultivation of the Guishui Sutra. This method of concealment was not a simple division of spiritual power, in which case the total spiritual power could still be seen in the eyes of high-level
cultivators, but after the spiritual power was restricted by the Guishui Sutra, only the part that was revealed could be revealed.
Li Yan was very satisfied with this concealment effect. He was not the kind of person who liked to show off. Although he had the support of the sect's resources, with his mixed spiritual roots, it was the limit to break through the fourth level in three years. Moreover, he was already in the middle stage of the seventh level of Qi Condensation. If he was not afraid of hiding too much and being discovered by his master, he would have wanted to suppress it to the early stage of the fifth level of Qi Condensation.
Over the years, he occasionally went to the main hall to attend the meetings of Xiaozhu Peak. After all, there were only a few people in Xiaozhu Peak. After he tried to hide his cultivation, no one, including the senior brother in the late stage of foundation building, reacted. Only the fat master looked at Li Yan and said, "Your spiritual power foundation is still very good, much deeper than those of the same level." This made Li Yan feel that his concealment skills had been discovered, but after several experiments, he felt that when he tried his best to hide, it was completely possible to hide from the cultivators who were one major realm higher than him. If the other party was two major realms higher than him, unless he could not suppress it too harshly, it would only make the other party's spiritual power deeper, otherwise it would backfire and be exposed. As for the Yuanying stage ancestors, he estimated that with his current cultivation, it was impossible to hide anything. However, even in a large sect like the Wuliang Sect, there were only a few Yuanying stage ancestors, and it was common for them not to show up for hundreds of years. Who would care about him as a little disciple?
Li Yan looked at the fluctuation of his spiritual power and was very satisfied. Then he released his spiritual consciousness, which instantly penetrated the training room, then reached the courtyard wall, and finally penetrated into the formation. In addition to practicing martial arts and immortal arts in the past few years, Li Yan has been very attentive to the fragmented poison body. While exploring the effects of the twelve fragmented poisons, he endured the inhuman pain of splitting his head. Every day, he used his spiritual consciousness to stimulate the fragmented poison bodies, so that two of the twelve fragmented poisons have faintly split. It is estimated that in a few months, other fragmented bodies can be separated. Another advantage is that his spiritual consciousness is now comparable to that of a cultivator who has reached the tenth level of the great perfection of the Condensation Stage. It is about thirty or forty feet away from the body. Now the bamboo courtyard protection formation can no longer bounce off his spiritual consciousness. The spiritual consciousness can penetrate about one foot into the formation. He checked a lot of classics to basically determine the strength of his spiritual consciousness.
Li Yan retracted his spiritual consciousness, stood up, straightened his clothes, pushed the door and walked out. Yesterday, the information on the waist badge showed that "disciples in the peak are required to come to the main hall tomorrow morning for discussion." Li Yan now knows that there are too few people on a peak, and there are also disadvantages of having too few people, that is, when there is something going on in the sect, only some of the main personnel from the other four peaks can attend, and they can arrange the relevant matters after returning. Although most of the matters in Xiaozhu Peak can be handled by the senior brothers and sisters, there are still many matters that require the participation of all members, unless the retreat is at a critical moment. Li Yan could have not gone to this matter today. Every time he went to such a meeting, he would just listen to one or two. If he had to stand out, the information would directly indicate it.
It is estimated that only when Li Yan reaches the foundation-building stage will he be truly qualified to participate in the affairs of the sect, but today he has something to ask his senior brother. The reason is that he does not have enough spirit stones. Although the sect has tilted some resources to him in recent years, after all, his qualifications are like that, so it is not the kind of thing that is cultivated vigorously. As his cultivation improved, eight spiritual stones and two bottles of spiritual pills a month could no longer meet his cultivation needs. The spiritual pills would only last for half a month, and the spiritual stones were used up very tightly. Of course, without these, with the rich spiritual energy of Xiaozhu Peak and the help of the Guishui Sutra, he could also practice smoothly, but once a person gets used to a certain speed of cultivation, it would be extremely uncomfortable for him to slow down.
Therefore, Li Yan had to consider the source of spiritual stones. With spiritual stones, he could use them for cultivation or buy additional spiritual pills. Otherwise, if he wanted to wait for the sect to replenish resources again, he had to reach the tenth level of the Condensation Stage and the Foundation Establishment Stage. The sect would increase resource subsidies again at the tenth level of the Condensation Stage, mainly to increase his chances of success in foundation building; when he reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, the resources would be automatically increased to the equivalent level, so he had to find a way on his own. Li Yan now knew that other ordinary disciples had already independently searched for cultivation resources, unlike himself who was taken care of by the sect.
Li Yan walked on the path to the main hall, thinking about his own things, walking slowly, thinking about the tall and slender girl who would always quietly come to the platform on the full moon night of the New Year in the past few years. Although there was no agreement, the one who arrived first always stood quietly waiting under the huge full moon, and then the two sat on the edge of the platform, chatting casually as if talking to themselves, until dawn, each left, but Zhao Min never talked much about herself, mostly Li Yan was talking and she was listening.
Thinking of this, Li Yan's smile became brighter and brighter, and soon he came to the door of the main hall, and he stepped in without stopping.
"Little Junior Brother is here, hee, I haven't seen you for half a year, and your skills have become more profound. This should be the sixth level of the Condensation Stage." As soon as Li Yan entered the house, a joyful voice rang out.
Li Yan smiled slightly, and heard that the voice was naturally the seventh senior brother Lin Daqiao who got along well with him.
Li Yan glanced around the room. There were already ten people in the room, seven men and three women. The master and his mistress had not arrived yet.
Seven of the ten people were sitting, and three were standing or walking around pouring tea. Li Yan knew these people. The seven people sitting were five senior brothers and two beautiful senior sisters.
The eldest senior brother Li Wuyi was still as handsome and sunny as ever. He looked at Li Yan with a gentle smile. His aura was becoming more and more condensed. He was already in the realm of false elixir, and he was just a little bit away from condensing the golden elixir.
Below him was a bear-like figure, grinning and looking at Li Yan. It was the second senior brother Wei Chituo. Seeing him like this, Li Yan couldn't help but feel speechless. He was very afraid of seeing this second senior brother. He was already a master in the late stage of foundation building. He either pulled him to compete or enthusiastically patted his shoulders with his thick hands like bear paws. Every time he made him grin and his mouth was filled with cold air.
However, I heard that the second senior brother, the fourth senior sister, and the fifth senior brother have also entered the inner gate in recent years.