The white clouds on the mountains are rolling back and forth, and the bright moon is coming back in the sky.
In a blink of an eye, another month has passed.
Many important things happened in this month.
First of all, after many battles among the dozen or so forces in the gathering area, only three forces close to the Zhu family were left, namely Tielintang, Huayumen, and Jinzifang, who rebelled with Xu Ning.
Even the two larger forces, the Merchant Alliance and the Yulin Hall, which remained neutral, were expelled. The gathering place, including many surrounding resource points, completely became the territory of the Zhu family.
The fall of the gathering place seemed to symbolize the first stage of the game between the two immortal cultivating families, Zhu and Luo, which ended with the Luo family's defeat.
Many casual cultivators who had been close to the Luo family were hunted down and liquidated. Only by switching to the Zhu family could they have a way to survive.
Just when the Zhu family was about to take a step further and force the Luo family to hand over the secret copper mining area, a piece of news came that temporarily stopped the regional monk war.
The news comes from the Miaoyin Sect, mentioning that Luo Bing has successfully broken through the tenth level of Qi training and has officially begun to participate in the sect's trials to compete for the Foundation Building Pill.
This news undoubtedly boosted the morale of the Luo family, and also made the Zhu family dare not act rashly for the time being.
The reason why the Luo family has been retreating uncharacteristically these days is mainly because they do not want to lose the family's power due to temporary disputes. The victims are basically casual cultivators outside the family, and none of their own cultivators died.
As for the seemingly arrogant Zhu family and the pressing Luo family, the Luo family only needs to ignore it and wait for Luo Bing to break through the foundation building period, and all the troubles and conflicts will be solved.
On the contrary, it would be unwise for the Luo family to get involved in a war with the Zhu family. Not only would it damage the family's power, the Luo family would also probably get involved and kick the dog in the water.
The Zhu family naturally anticipated the Luo family's plan, so they pressed forward step by step and quickly regained many of the resource points they had lost in the past, and even more.
Currently, the three Immortal Cultivation Families are waiting for a result - whether Luo Bing can successfully obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Even with this result, the Luo family has already started to interfere.
The only cruel thing is that not a single monk from the three cultivating families has shed blood yet, and a large number of mortals and casual cultivators have been reduced to withered bones, becoming the food of winter monsters.
...
at this time.
Among the houses in the valley...
"Ling'er, help me practice quickly!"
"Slave, I'll come here at most three more times, and then I'll have a rest..."
"Are you a bad learner now? Now that you are familiar with me, you have started to bargain?"
Chen Dengming posed in an exaggerated posture with his legs in a straight line, and the golden sword of the horse was practiced at both ends of the two beams in the room.
Under the beam.
The aura of the array plate flashed, and the little array spirit looked like a fairy. Bathed in the light and rain, it danced gracefully and vigorously. A large amount of white gold aura gathered and rushed towards Chen Dengming, muttering in his mouth.
"Fellow Taoist, your cultivation speed has been very fast..."
"Not enough, not fast enough..."
Chen Dengming's whole body was highly concentrated, white smoke was steaming from the top of his head, and sweat like bird's claws flowed from his forehead and face.
After all the gold spiritual energy has been absorbed.
The dancing posture of the small formation spirit changed, and various wonderful scenes appeared. All the wood spirit energy outside the formation was absorbed, assisting Chen Dengming in his practice.
The spiritual stones inlaid in the six corners were all severely damaged, and they suddenly shattered with a loud 'pop' sound.
"It's all used up again. This is the tenth round, right? Sixty low-grade spiritual stones were just used up."
Chen Dengming woke up from his training, looked down at the broken spiritual stone below, shook his head, turned over and jumped off the beam. The faint and oppressive spiritual power exuded from his body was much more powerful than a month ago.
As early as eleven days ago, he had already broken through to the fourth level of Qi training, and finally entered the middle stage of Qi training.
Now that I have continued to consolidate for more than ten days, my cultivation has become more and more profound.
After a large number of spirit stones were smashed down crazily, and with the help of small formation spirits, even if he practiced outside the gathering place, his cultivation speed was only 20% slower than inside Luojiashan.
At this time, he calmed down and took a look at the current state of "Three Yuan Spirit Gathering Technique".
"Fourth level Qi training monk [Chen Dengming]
Life span: 163/277
Spiritual root: gold, wood (medium grade 50/100)
Martial Arts: "General Guide to Chen's Martial Arts" (Dzogchen)
Taoism: "Gu Refining Chapter" (Master 27/100), "Three Yuan Spirit Gathering Technique" (fourth level 44/400), "Chen's Taoism Chapter" (Mastery 31/100), "Destroying Life and Pulling Out Seedlings" (Level 37/100), "The Art of Controlling the Weapon" (Master 9/100)"
Since his strength broke through to the fourth level of Qi training, his lifespan has been increased by another fifteen years.
In addition, the first-level and third-level "Diamond Shield Technique" has also been practiced to a proficient level during this period, and his life span has continued to increase by five years. His current life span is as high as 277 years.
If he now spends all his life to practice "The Art of Pulling Out Seedlings at the Detriment of Life", his spiritual root qualifications can also be improved to the top level.
"After I learn the first-level and fourth-level alchemy skills that I received at the Immortality Conference, I can continue to practice the art of destroying lives and removing seedlings..."
Chen Dengming secretly made plans in his heart.
After temporarily finishing the practice of "Three Yuan Spirit Gathering Kung Fu", he prepared to take a bath in the fragrant soup, and then began to practice the Golden Touch.
At this time, the little formation spirit was already exhausted and had already shrunk into the formation disk. It massaged its little arms and legs in self-pity and grunted to express its dissatisfaction.
After getting along with each other these days, she is no longer so timid.
She knew that Chen Dengming looked like a big villain and often exploited and oppressed her, but in fact he didn't have a bad heart.
Moreover, what touched her the most was that Chen Dengming seemed to be very concerned about her past life status. He often asked about her and mentioned that if the world outside was not chaotic and there were many monsters, he would go and see the cave where she was found.
When Xiao Zhenling thought about it, it was a rare favor for this cultivator to be willing to waste part of his time on her, and she was quite flattered.
"By the way, Ling'er, has that fellow Daoist Jiang outside not come back yet?"
Chen Dengming asked while putting on the cotton-padded jacket sewn by Xu Wei, his brows gradually raised.
Jiang Qiang just broke through the third level of Qi training a week ago, and after consolidating for a few days, he left the valley yesterday.
According to what he said, he was going to another residence to get some empty array disks, and also to inquire about the situation outside.
Chen Dengming took into account his strength in the third level of Qi training and his alertness and ability to escape. He often went out to inquire about information before, so he allowed him to leave the valley.
However, one day has passed and Jiang Qiang has not come back yet...
"Fellow Daoist Jiang has not returned..."
The formation spirit responded.
Chen Dengming frowned and pushed open the door.
The fresh wind outside roared towards him like a frozen devil, rolling up the white hair on his temples, and the sand particles flying up hit his face like a knife.
“This damn weather, it’s clear that winter is almost over in January, but it’s getting colder and colder.”
Chen Dengming cursed lowly and felt the cold wind blowing into his hair and neck collar, and immediately pulled up his collar.
But there was still a lot of snow left in the valley outside.
Chen Dengming looked at Jiang Qiang's house and shook his head. He first picked up a shovel and shoveled a large basin of snow. He quickly heated it with fireball and firewood, then sat in the iron pot to stew himself and took a comfortable hot bath. .
Then he fed the two Gu with the dried spirit fish meat caught from the valley, while he sat aside and shaved off his beard with an ice spirit knife.
After a lot of busy work, I saw that the sky above my head had dimmed again, as if it was going to be dark.
Chen Dengming frowned.
"Why doesn't Qiangzi come back? Could something have happened?"
He pondered for a moment, picked up the Ice Spirit Sword, and decided to go out and take a look.
I originally expected Jiang Qiang to come back with good information, but now Jiang Qiang has never returned, and Chen Dengming is also a little confused.
The resources he has now are almost exhausted.
With the strength of the fourth level of Qi training, he can apply to live in Luojiashan City and become a guest minister, which is more relaxed than hanging around in the gathering place in the past.
However, considering the trouble caused by the Luo family offending the Luo family, Chen Dengming still stayed away.
If he had the choice and ability, he would rather go to Jingxiufang, which is further away, to look for opportunities.
Put on a hat.
Chen Deng summoned two spirit Gu who were disgusted with the spirit fish meat and flew out of the valley quickly with the light of his sword.
...
After a cup of tea.
Chen Dengming stayed on the mountain path not far outside the valley with a solemn expression. He frowned and looked at the suspected traces of fighting and the many holes that had been broken into the rock. He was quite suspicious.
"Judging from the traces, it seems that there are traces of monks fighting monsters here, and it looks like the spider monster. Could it be Hadron...?"
