The night in the Fourth Realm is extremely dark.
Because there is no sun, moon, or stars all year round, and there is no natural light source, wild beasts in this world will restrain themselves from hunting after nightfall.
After working hard for a long time, everyone decided to rest for a night and stayed away from the phoenix bone in the Worm Valley.
Because there are many skeletons of Ouyang explorers scattered around the phoenix bones, most people are not used to having piles of dead bones by their side in such a deep night.
Pang Jian didn't care.
Without a lamp or a fire, he sat cross-legged next to the phoenix bone pierced into the honeycomb.
"Ning Yao" was very sensible. She smiled softly, then turned and left gracefully.
This is the recent tacit understanding between the two.
Pang Jian, who was sitting on the phoenix bone, saw people from the Su and He families lighting a fire and meditating at the other end of the insect valley.
In the dark night, everyone's vision was limited. When he felt that Su Yuntian and He Rong couldn't see him, he took off the bamboo basket behind him.
After taking a breath, he calmly eliminated the distracting thoughts in his mind and quickly entered a state of practice.
When he entered concentration this time, he actually had a wonderful illusion that his perception was greatly enhanced.
He intuitively felt that his Dantian spiritual sea was divided into two levels, like the world he was in.
He did not rush to use the spirit stone in his hand, but tried to absorb the mixed spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the insect valley. He gradually felt that the spiritual energy escaping into his body was on the upper level of the spiritual sea in his dantian.
The spiritual energy is like clusters of clouds in the upper level.
When he was running the "Hu Tian Qi Nourishing Technique", he noticed that a huge vortex suddenly appeared between the upper and lower levels.
The vortex takes on a funnel-like shape, connecting the upper and lower layers of the dantian spiritual sea. The vortex rotates gently, slowly absorbing the cloud-like spiritual energy from the upper layer.
As the vortex rotates in circles, the spiritual energy is continuously refined, sinking towards the bottom of the funnel, and gradually extracted into... spiritual power.
At the lower level of the Dantian Linghai, wisps of spiritual power slowly gathered and gradually turned into a small pool.
At this time, Pang Jian's mind moved, and he immediately knew the complete layout of the Dantian Linghai. He also realized that this mysterious little world inside the human body seemed to have two levels.
The reason why it is called the Dantian Linghai is because the Dantian is above and the Linghai is the place where spiritual power gathers below.
The Dantian and the spiritual sea are connected by a funnel-shaped vortex. The Dantian washes and purifies the aura and other energy inhaled from the outside world, and then condenses it into spiritual power and flows it into the spiritual sea below.
With this realization, Pang Jian absorbed the mixed spiritual energy of the fourth realm in the Worm Valley and felt the wonder of the spiritual sea in his Dantian.
After a while, he suddenly felt as if there were many mosquitoes, flies, insects, and bees buzzing at him from all directions, as if they were trying to eat him up.
Before he was awakened, he saw that those so-called mosquitoes, flies, and insects were all supernatural powers hidden deep within the aura.
The tiny lives that died due to phoenix bones in the Insect Valley and had their flesh and blood essence sucked into them, their residual spirits were integrated into the aura, and were inhaled into his body one by one using the "Hutian Qi Nourishing Technique".
When he refines and purifies the aura in the Bug Valley with the whirlpool, he needs to grind away the mosquitoes, flies and insects first.
This step is called removing the dross, and it actually consumes a lot of time, and not much spiritual power can be extracted through it.
After hesitating for a moment, he took out the two spiritual stones he had found from Jin Yang, Xu Rui and the man wearing the mask.
The two spiritual stones are shaped like white jade, one of which has sporadic impurities, while the other is extremely pure.
He tried to absorb a spiritual stone with impurities, and immediately felt that what was absorbed from the spiritual stone in his hand was spiritual power containing a small amount of dirty power.
This is not a cloud-like "qi", but a spiritual power that is consistent with the power in his spiritual sea, like flowing water.
It's just that the spiritual power inside contains some impurities, which need to be purified through the whirlpool connecting the Dantian and the spiritual sea. The impurities must be eliminated and dissolved.
Even so, through such a spiritual stone, the spiritual power he can harvest far exceeds the so-called spiritual energy in the Worm Valley.
The efficiency is more than ten times faster.
Although both sides have impurities and filth, spiritual energy and spiritual power are basically two concepts. It seems that only ten times the spiritual energy can refine a ray of spiritual power.
The spiritual power in the spiritual stone already exists, and he does not need to refine it over and over again. He only needs to remove the impurities in it.
Pang Jian opened his eyes slightly in the dark night and looked at the spiritual stone with many spots in his hand.
He finally understood why Jin Yang and others only carried these fourth realm spiritual stones besides their usual utensils.
With the existence of these spiritual stones, those people can quickly recover their strength, much faster than swallowing the spiritual energy in the Silent Mountains.
"What about pure spiritual stones?"
Thinking like this, he looked at another pure and flawless spiritual stone.
This spiritual stone comes from Ning Yao's leather bag, and it belongs to the legacy of the Blood Moon powerhouse in the "Wuding Ferry".
He tried to absorb the spiritual power, and his eyes suddenly burst into light.
The spiritual stone from the third realm did not contain any impurities. After being absorbed into the Dantian above, it slid directly along the funnel-shaped vortex and merged into his spiritual sea!
There is no need to temper and wash away impurities, no need to refine again, it immediately becomes part of the spiritual sea!
The efficiency and speed of this enhancement of spiritual power are several times higher than those practiced with impure spiritual stones!
"No wonder, after she got this thing on Wuding Ferry, she felt like she had found a treasure."
Due to the improvement of his perception, Pang Jian was able to intuitively feel the condition of the spiritual sea in his dantian during this training. His understanding of the spiritual sea in his dantian was much more thorough than the last time he was in Blackwater Pond.
He finally understood how valuable spirit stones were to practitioners.
"With these pure spiritual stones, I can gather the spiritual power in the spiritual sea faster."
Pang Jian learned through Ning Yao that the Qi Refining Stage is mainly about constantly refining spiritual power, and finally filling the spiritual sea with spiritual power.
Since he had pure spiritual stones available, he had no intention of saving and started practicing immediately.
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dark place.
"Ning Yao", who was some distance away from him, habitually sat cross-legged among the leaves, looking down at Pang Jian.
With her cultivation attainments and the refinement of her soul, she could vaguely see that when Pang Jian was practicing, the remnant souls of many mosquitoes, flies, and insects were also absorbed into the Dantian spiritual sea by Pang Jian.
Suddenly, she looked stunned.
A "spiritual evil spirit" like Luo Meng was hidden in the darkness. When Pang Jian was practicing the "Hu Tian Qi Nourishing Technique", he was actually attracted and wanted to escape into his Dantian uncontrollably.
She was startled, and hurriedly used her will to intervene forcefully, causing those "spiritual evil spirits" to evacuate from the edge of the Worm Valley.
"What a domineering spiritual art. This level of spiritual art should not be a product of the fourth world."
She became more and more curious about the boy's past.
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Time flies.
When it was almost dawn, Pang Jian, who had unknowingly digested two pure spiritual stones, was suddenly awakened.
He instinctively tightened his grip on the dragon-marked spear and looked sternly at He Rong, who was approaching.
Seeing Pang Jian suddenly wake up, He Rong immediately stopped and said calmly: "I want to know the details of He Ziren's murder."
"If you have any doubts, you can ask Ning Yao, or you can wait until dawn before asking me. Why be so sneaky?"
Pang Jian said displeased.
"Because Ziren and her were engaged, she was a little dissatisfied with our He family. Her attitude has always been cold and she would not be willing to cooperate with me." He Rong explained helplessly.
Pang Jian recalled Ning Yao's words, thought for a moment, and said, "Among the dark ghosts who attacked us, there was one wearing a golden mask, and his identity seemed a bit special."
"Later, he died at the bottom of the Blackwater Pond, and his mask was shattered. I saw that his entire face was covered with criss-cross scars. He was the one who killed the young master of your family."
What impressed Pang Jian most deeply was the face underneath the broken mask, so he used that person as a shield.
He Rong's expression changed slightly after hearing this. He nodded, thanked him and turned back.
Among the leaves in the distance, "Ning Yao", who had been looking at He Rong, changed from a sitting position to a standing position. She waited until he returned to Su Yuntian to calm down the cold glare in her eyes.
In the darkness high above Pang Jian's head, Hong Tai, who had been refined into a "spirit evil", floated like a ghost.
After Hong Tai, who was at the Marrow Cleansing Realm level, was refined into a "Spirit Evil" by her, as long as he deliberately concealed himself in the dark, he would not be noticed by everyone present.
——Including He Rong and Su Yuntian.
"Ning Yao" who was staring at He Rong saw that he only asked about the cause of He Ziren's death, then left with a changed expression, so she did not secretly instruct "Lingsha" to do anything.
"It's Dong Qianfeng! Dong Qianfeng of the Dong family actually defected to the dark ghost!"
He Rong returned to Su Yuntian, with fear in his eyes, and shouted: "It was Dong Qianfeng who killed Ziren!"
"He was tortured by the Lieyang Sect. His face was slashed more than a dozen times, leaving indelible scars. He was then expelled from the Lieyang Sect."
"He was the one who wore a mask and colluded with the dark ghost Hong Tai to hunt down members of our seven major families in the Silent Mountains!"
Su Yuntian couldn't sit still anymore and exclaimed: "It's actually him!"
"Fortunately, he is dead." He Rong added.
"Although Dong Qianfeng is dead, but..." Su Yuntian touched his chin, his expression became increasingly heavy, and said: "If Dong Qianfeng becomes a member of the Dark Ghost, will his adopted son Dong Tianze also become a member of the Dark Ghost? member?"
He Rong was shocked: "Isn't it possible?"
"Dad, what are you two talking about in the middle of the night?"
Su Meng woke up in a daze and saw the two people whispering with ugly faces, so she couldn't help but ask.
"nothing."
Su Yuntian wanted to smile and say something comforting, but found that he couldn't laugh, so he said: "It's daybreak, you're getting better, and we're getting ready to go on our way again."
"oh."
Su Meng rubbed her eyes and answered.
Among the leaves, "Ning Yao" looked at the two of them from a distance, with a cold expression on her lightly pursed lips.
She dug out a lot of secrets about dark ghosts from Hong Tai, and naturally knew who Su Yuntian and He Rong were talking about, Dong Tianze.
She also knew that the man was indeed in the Silent Mountains.
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