But hope is hope, but the fact is that it is only noon now, and it is still far from night. Therefore, after eating lunch, Xuejun can only go step by step and start to concentrate on absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and condensing the energy of Dantian.
Because Xuejun knows that the condensed Dantian Qi not only allows him to break through the ranks, but also needs to be used in battle. Therefore, having enough Dantian Qi in stock is also a guarantee for himself.
In normal times, only when there is no battle, the practitioner will use the Dantian Qi accumulated through in-depth practice to break through the ranks.
Therefore, cultivators who fight outside all year round usually lag behind those who avoid the world in terms of combat power level.
However, there are disadvantages and advantages.
Practitioners who often fight outside have experienced many tests of blood and fire, so they have accumulated a lot of experience in fighting and operating martial arts reasonably. This will encourage them to reduce the occurrence of bottlenecks when improving their combat power level. It can even increase the possibility of leaping to a higher level.
For those who stay away from the world, it may be easy to increase their combat power level in the early stage. However, when the combat power level is higher, they will encounter more bottlenecks. After slowly accumulating, it will be difficult to achieve it in the future. High level of combat power.
From this we can see why Zhuge Wuyou, Xuejun's father, came to the Blood Realm to experience the battle with the Blood Empire. This is because the Zhuge family is cultivating Zhuge Wuyou as the future high-ranking member of the family. decision.
After understanding this level, Xuejun's desire to improve his rank and fight has taken a deeper step.
The time for cultivation often passes quickly. Before Xue Jun knew it, night had begun to fall.
On the dining table.
Under the helpless gaze of his mother Xueyu, Xuejun finished the dinner on the table, said hello to Xueyu, and then walked out of the house towards the outside of the village.
Previously, it would take half a stick of incense for the blood horse to run from the village to Waterfall Mountain.
Through the improvement of combat power in the past few months, the blood horse's running speed has accelerated a lot. The time it takes to reach Waterfall Mountain is now shortened by nearly a quarter compared to before.
This is not only related to the improvement of the blood horse's combat power, but also has a greater relationship with the blood horse's gradual activation of the Yang Qi veins.
Because the Yang Qiu Vein originally strengthens the veins in the legs, which can improve the practitioner's speed, agility and other body skills.
Although Xue Jun has only activated half of the Yang Qi Veins now, his body skills have already been greatly improved.
If all the Yang Qiu Veins are activated, its speed and agility will be doubled.
By then, even if the Blood Horse doesn't learn martial arts and increases its speed and dodge skills, his body skills won't be too bad.
In the process of running, Xuejun fully released his senses. Although it has entered the cold winter season, Xuejun can clearly sense the occasional small animals or insects among the trees.
Xuejun feels more and more how important it is for a cultivator to control the spiritual sea.
This kind of improvement and assistance cannot be explained in a few words.
However, through Xuejun's feelings, the power is obvious.
After running to Waterfall Mountain, the blood rushes out of the body, but for him, this can only be regarded as a warm-up.
On Waterfall Mountain, due to the cold winter, some small streams of water have turned into ice, which is crystal clear and really beautiful.
Xue Jun was on the shore and practiced the Tianji Palm Technique again.
While practicing, Xue Jun was thinking.
"When this set of Tianji Palm Technique is used, it is interlocking and has a sense of continuity. Now, I can use my Dantian Qi to strike a palm with all my strength, and I can already leave a deep palm print on the boulder."
"If you combine it with the palm skill Afterimage Strike, you can strike three consecutive overlapping palms at almost the same position. But now, I can use Afterimage Strike for one breath at most, which means I can strike six palms."
"But the palm power of the afterimage strike is only one-half of the power of a full-strength palm strike. However, converted into three palms with one full-strength strike in one breath, it is already considered very powerful. For now, , this palm technique can be regarded as my reliance in close combat."
"Huh~"
After practicing the Tianji Palm Technique, Xuejun prepared to swim in the water and went to a huge stone platform in the middle of the deep pool. This was the place where Xuejun specially found to practice the energy gun three months ago.
The boulder platform is made up of a number of very large boulders. There is a huge waterfall pouring down from the edge of the platform.
The reason why Xuejun chose to practice energy gun here.
One is because the sound of the waterfall can effectively cover the sound made when practicing the energy gun.
The second reason is that the huge stone that was beaten into a sieve is on this huge stone platform in the deep pool. Even if a bloody person comes to the shore of the deep pool, he cannot find it.
However, the prerequisite for these is that the blood horse must be able to swim.
But fortunately, Xueyu has often brought Xuejun here to learn how to swim since he was a child, so Xuejun is quite familiar with this water area.
Xuejun, who was standing by the pool, jumped directly into the deep pool, and then quickly swam to the boulder platform.
After landing, Xuejun did not immediately put on the replacement clothes stored in the storage space, but walked towards the waterfall.
This boulder platform is about two hundred meters long and fifty meters wide. There are some small boulders erected all over the platform, which can be used as shooting targets by Xuejun. Many of them have been turned into sieves. Of course it's Xuejun's masterpiece.
The huge waterfall next to the boulder platform is nearly 400 meters wide, and nearly five meters of it directly hits the boulder platform.
The huge waterfall hit the water surface of the deep pool and the water vapor generated on the boulder platform just covered the entire boulder platform, which became the best cover for Xuejun on this platform.
Blood Horse once tried to resist the pouring water under the waterfall next to the boulder platform to improve his ability to withstand stress.
Among them, the first attempt was the worst.
As soon as Xuejun entered the flowing water, he was forcefully ejected and fell onto his back, almost knocking him unconscious.
However, after learning the first lesson, Xue Jun used some parts of his body to try to fight against Liu Shui.
First the limbs, then the head, and finally the entire body took Xuejun nearly two months.
As the blood horse's combat power increases and the body continues to adapt, the current flowing water still maintains a strong suppression force for the blood horse, but it will no longer hinder the blood horse's entry into it.
Xue Jun came to the waterfall and touched the flowing water with his hand, but he could still feel the biting chill.
"First, sit cross-legged for a stick of incense under this waterfall. It can be regarded as a test to see if my body can endure the pressure for a long time!" Xue Jun thought immediately.
So, Xuejun dived directly into the flowing water of the waterfall, and then quickly sat down cross-legged.
The running water slapped Xuejun's head and shoulders heavily, but Xuejun still stood firm and sat cross-legged under the waterfall, motionless.
Time passed like flowing water. The pain of the waterfall and the biting chill did not shake Xue Jun at all, but the heavy pressure of the waterfall's water gradually made Xue Jun gasp for breath.
"Hold on for a while longer and try to release your senses. Let's see if being in this waterfall will affect your senses." Although he felt a little uncomfortable, Xuejun still wanted to test his exploration ability of senses first. .
As the perception spreads, Xuejun can clearly see everything around him through the feedback from the spiritual sea. Some boulders and fish swimming in the water are all within the range of Xuejun's perception and appear.
"This is?"
With the extension of his perception, Xuejun discovered a huge cave behind the waterfall. The entrance of this cave was estimated to be about ten meters, but it was blocked by the flowing water of the waterfall and could not be seen from outside the waterfall. .
If it hadn't been for today, when Xuejun used the perception of the queen who controlled the spiritual sea to explore, he probably wouldn't have discovered this cave.
"How come there is such a big cave here?" Xuejun thought immediately.
But as the perception continued to go deeper into the cave, Xuejun realized that the exploration he had just made was just the entrance of the cave, because at this time, Xuejun's perception was still exploring deeper into the cave. .
After a while, Xue Jun felt that the extended length of his perception was no longer enough. Therefore, he could only retract the perception that diverged in other directions, and then use his thoughts to communicate with the body of thoughts in the spiritual sea, allowing them to communicate with him. Xiaoying strengthens his sensory output together.
After these two aspects of operation were completed, Xuejun's perception was able to continue extending deeper into the cave.
When the perception arrived, when the cave was about 500 meters away, Xuejun could clearly sense the existence of living entities, the number of which was about 300.
After using his senses to carefully explore the living creatures, Xuejun finally saw clearly that they were bats hiding above the cave. However, these bats were very large, with a body length of about 40 to 50 centimeters. , and among them there is a larger one, about sixty centimeters long, which should be considered the leader among them.
"These bats are so big. Judging from the perceived appearance, they should be blood bats. They seem to be very aggressive." Xue Jun thought.
After skipping these blood bats, the perception continued to extend deeper into the cave. After that, the blood bats no longer sensed the existence of other life forms.
When the blood horse's perception reached the nine hundred meters of the cave, it had reached the limit of the blood horse's current perception.
But at this moment, Xuejun's perception left the cave passage and reached a body of water, which should be the end of the cave.
Through perception, Xuejun saw that there were many blood fruit trees growing around the water area, and the blood fruit trees were filled with many blood fruits.
"There are so many blood fruits. If we can pick them back, we can brew a lot of blood fruit wine for the village chief!" Xuejun thought.
Because, in Xuejun's heart, he always feels that he is indebted to the village chief grandfather. Therefore, since he has discovered that there are so many blood fruits, he must find a way to pick them all. Go back and make wine for the village chief's grandpa.
