Chapter 191: Own Strength

Zhang Zhiwen was meditating in the room. Half a month had passed, but it seemed like a dream. The fight between the Zhao and He families was extremely fierce, beyond everyone's imagination. Both sides were injured in the end. It was said that several elders of the Zhao family died, and even more of their children died and were injured. The clan leader was also seriously injured. The entire Zhao family suffered an unprecedented heavy blow. Of course, the He family was not much better, but the He family left with hatred, which was better than the Zhao family overall. In the end, the He family returned to Yizifei safely. Xiancheng, or one of the three major families in Yizi Feixiancheng, but the Zhao family was not so lucky. The other three families in Jiamao Feixiancheng secretly united with an alchemy family, which was an alchemy family in Jiachen Feixiancheng, and then ruthlessly drove the Zhao family out of Jiamao Feixiancheng. The vacant family position in Jiachen Feixiancheng was replaced by the Feixiancheng family behind. In this way, the Zhao family became a dog without a home, and no Feixiancheng wanted them to intervene, becoming a so-called loose cultivation family.

The Zhao family's mansion was divided up by other families in Jiamao Feixian City, and all resources were plundered. During their escape, the Zhao family encountered many ambushes from independent cultivators, which was a good opportunity to hit the drowning dog. Therefore, after escaping Feixian City, the Zhao family suffered heavy losses again and again. In the end, the clan leader was killed, the chief elder was killed, and only one of the elders was left barely alive. The remaining children were killed and injured in countless numbers. At this point, the Zhao family was removed from the list of large families, and was even worse than the independent cultivators who occupied the mountains in the Tianshui area.

This incident naturally caused a big stir, but the strange thing is that the major immortal gates almost ignored it and let the Zhao family decline. It is not difficult to see from this that the major immortal gates actually don’t care about the big families, especially when it comes to the grievances between the big families. It doesn’t matter. If the Zhao family is gone, there is still the Li family. If the Li family is gone, there is still the Chen family. Anyway, the big families are not lacking. The He family is relatively lucky. In the end, they knew how to advance and retreat and retreated to Yizi Feixian City. In addition, the Wang family and the Zheng family have a good relationship with them, which is how they preserved their status as a big family. But Zhang Zhiwen thinks that the He family is not simple. They dare to fight with the Zhao family. They must have discussed it with the Wang family and the Zheng family early on, and the Wang family and the Zheng family obviously supported them secretly.

But the Zhao family is different. They have been arrogant for a long time. Even in the previous Xiaoxuanguandan Arena Competition, the Zhao family seemed very domineering. This made the Lin family, the Li family and the Chen family unhappy. It is not difficult to see from the pursuit of Zhang Zhiwen that the other three big families are not very concerned, and the Zhao family is still ignorant and insists on their own way. Even this exchange meeting has made such arrogant behavior, so that the other three big families do not agree with Zhao's approach. Then they secretly united with the alchemy family, which is obviously much better than Zhao. At least in terms of interests, it is definitely in line with the interests of the three big families. So it is normal for Zhao to be expelled and eventually decline and die.

Therefore, everything is about interests first. The Zhao family is not as powerful as imagined. The alchemy technique is not even better than the He family. In addition, they have long regarded themselves as the strongest family and occupied too many interests in Jiamao Feixian City. Then the appearance of Zhang Zhiwen only accelerated his decline, not a decisive factor. Zhang Zhiwen is also very clear about this, but he finally got rid of his anger.

Now that things have calmed down, Zhang Zhiwen can naturally calmly refine pills to improve his cultivation. This time, he has obtained a whole year's worth of alchemy resources from the He family, but these resources are not as much as Zhang Zhiwen imagined. He Yu had given him ten portions of materials for refining Xuanling Pills before. Now, in the storage bag given by He Yu, apart from the various elixirs, the materials for refining Xuanling Pills only add up to about one hundred portions. These one hundred portions of alchemy materials will only produce about two hundred Xuanling Pills. For a large family like the He family, two One hundred Xuanling Pills are their resources for the whole year. It is not much to say, but it can be seen from the fact that the speed of improving the cultivation of the children of the big family slows down after they advance to the high-level Qi Refining cultivators that Xuanling Pills are indeed a scarce resource. Zhang Zhiwen estimates that even if the children of the big family have good spiritual roots, it will probably take about ten years to improve their cultivation to the ninth level of Qi Refining or even the Great Perfection of Qi Refining. That is already considered an exceptionally outstanding child. It is quite good for the whole big family to have one or two masters like this every year.

Therefore, Zhang Zhiwen is also looking forward to it. If he takes all these Xuanling Pills, what kind of cultivation can he achieve, and how much time will it take to achieve such a cultivation.

However, the Zhao family has perished, and Lin Mingyue has not sent any news to Zhang Zhiwen. Zhang Zhiwen guessed that Lin Mingyue should be in seclusion. After all, after the last incident with Yu Lingchan, Lin Mingyue has become a core child, and after the exchange meeting, she should be in the stage of seclusion and hard cultivation.

Zhang Zhiwen didn't know what to say to Lin Mingyue, so he didn't send any message to Lin Mingyue. He thought that instead of wasting time on this matter, it would be better to improve his cultivation. As for the future, let's talk about it later. Anyway, after ten years, Lin Mingyue should also improve her cultivation to the ninth level of Qi Refining or even the Great Perfection of Qi Refining. Zhang Zhiwen was still optimistic about Lin Mingyue, because Lin Mingyue's spiritual roots were quite good, and she was also one of the best beast taming talents in the clan, so let's just wait for the agreement ten years later.

In this way, Zhang Zhiwen basically had no other concerns, and he began to concentrate on practicing to improve his cultivation. The first thing he did was to refine all the Xuanling Pills.

Time passed unnoticed, Zhang Zhiwen's speed of refining pills was still very fast. It only took him a few days to make 100 sets of alchemy materials. Therefore, he got about 200 exclusive Xuanling Pills. Then he began to prepare to go all out to improve his cultivation, so he took the first Xuanling Pill.

As soon as this exclusive Xuanling Pill entered Zhang Zhiwen's body, spiritual power surged, and a large amount of spiritual power began to quickly travel through Zhang Zhiwen's limbs and bones, and then returned to the sea of ​​qi with the circulation of a small circle. This Xuanling Pill was enough to allow Zhang Zhiwen to improve his cultivation by nearly one-tenth from the initial threshold of the seventh stage of Qi Refining. However, compared with Lingqi Powder and Peiling Pill, it was much worse. In other words, Zhang Zhiwen needed at least ten exclusive Xuanling Pills to go from the seventh stage of Qi Refining to the eighth stage of Qi Refining. This was an exclusive Xuanling Pill. If it was an ordinary Xuanling Pill, it would probably take more than twenty. No wonder it was not so easy for even the core children of a big family to improve their cultivation. However, their spiritual roots were definitely much better than Zhang Zhiwen's. Zhang Zhiwen's spiritual roots were really too ordinary. It was not bad to say that they were very bad, but they were not much better.

This time, the cultivation level improvement not only required a larger number of pills, but also took longer time. It took Zhang Zhiwen almost three or four days to completely absorb one Xuanling Pill, so Zhang Zhiwen estimated that it would take about two years to completely absorb and digest these two hundred Xuanling Pills.

This is the case of taking a large number of pills directly. If Zhang Zhiwen relied on meditation and hard practice, he felt that he could not reach the ninth level of Qi Refining in a hundred years. The disadvantage of weak spiritual roots is that the efficiency of absorbing pills is relatively low. Fortunately, Zhang Zhiwen has a unique Xuanling Pill, otherwise the efficiency will be even worse, and I am afraid that more pills and time will be spent. Zhang Zhiwen is not sure what kind of cultivation level Zhang Zhiwen can achieve with two hundred Xuanling Pills. He can only do his best.

As the saying goes, there is no time in the mountains. Zhang Zhiwen just sat alone in the house and meditated quietly to absorb the power of medicine to improve his cultivation. As time passed, the house began to be covered with dust and many spider webs. Zhang Zhiwen took advantage of the gap to clean up, then made some food to eat, and paid the rent to the landlord. For most of the remaining time, Zhang Zhiwen practiced without stopping.

In this way, spring and autumn came, and two years passed quickly. Zhang Zhiwen also grew from a fourteen-year-old boy to a sixteen-year-old young man. Now he has completely lost the childishness of a boy, and his face has become quite calm and mature.

In the past two years, Zhang Zhiwen has not received any news from Lin Mingyue, and he has not sent any news to Lin Mingyue. It seems that the two of them are very tacit, and they are working hard silently, looking forward to meeting one day ten years later. As for the rest, it doesn’t matter.

Zhang Zhiwen already had a deeper understanding of cultivation, because he had consumed almost all of the 200 Xuanling Pills, and only had a few left to come out of retreat. But in fact, Zhang Zhiwen did not expect that his physical body would have a huge impact on his cultivation during this process.

For example, he spent thirteen Xuanling Pills to advance from Qi Refining Stage 7 to Qi Refining Stage 8. Logically speaking, this consumption is very reasonable, and Zhang Zhiwen is quite satisfied, because he guessed that it would take at most twice as many Xuanling Pills to advance from Qi Refining Stage 8 to Qi Refining Stage 9. Even if it doubles or triples, it would only take less than fifty or sixty Xuanling Pills. However, this is not the case. When he reached Qi Refining Stage 8, taking Xuanling Pills could not improve his cultivation. It was not that Xuanling Pills were ineffective, but that all the medicinal power of Xuanling Pills was absorbed by the body. Zhang Zhiwen felt this process very carefully and clearly, because Xuanling Pills did not improve his cultivation after entering the body, but were absorbed by Xuanyin Jade Embryo. Xuanyin Jade Embryo absorbed it and fed back to the body, and Xuanyin Jade Embryo was constantly improving and getting stronger, because Xuanyin Jade Embryo absorbed the Jade Marrow Cicada.

Simply put, from the eighth stage of Qi Refining, Zhang Zhiwen spent a lot of Xuanling Pills to improve his physical body, because if his physical body did not improve, his cultivation would stagnate, which was something Zhang Zhiwen had never expected. Similarly, his physical body became stronger step by step, and finally Zhang Zhiwen could feel that the strength of his physical body had reached the eighth stage of Qi Refining, and this process actually consumed a full thirty Xuanling Pills. Later, Zhang Zhiwen took Xuanling Pills, and his cultivation began to improve again, and his cultivation only took about twenty Xuanling Pills to break through to the ninth stage of Qi Refining!

From this, it can be seen that Zhang Zhiwen's physical consumption was much greater than his cultivation consumption. Later, because Zhang Zhiwen still had Xuanling Pills in his hand, he naturally continued to improve his own strength, and this own strength naturally had two aspects, one was physical body improvement, and the other was cultivation improvement.

Although Zhang Zhiwen didn't know the situation of other people, he could roughly conclude that other cultivators hardly needed to improve the strength of their physical bodies, but he just needed to do so. Therefore, this Xuanyin Jade Embryo had both advantages and disadvantages. The advantages were needless to say, as it made Zhang Zhiwen's physical body stronger, which could also greatly improve his strength. But the disadvantage was that the difficulty of improvement increased exponentially, especially when he reached the ninth level of Qi Refining. Zhang Zhiwen had spent nearly eighty Xuanling Pills before he could bring his physical body strength close to the great perfection of Qi Refining. And because his physical body was close to the great perfection of Qi Refining, his cultivation began to improve.