Chapter 5: Taking risks into the barren mountains
Time flies, and two months have passed in the blink of an eye.
In the middle of the night, Qingshi finished practicing and stood up to stretch his muscles, with a slight wry smile on his face.
Nowadays, Qingshi uses spiritual stones to practice Qigong. The amount of spiritual energy that a spiritual stone can provide is probably enough to run the Dahuang Gong for three weeks at the current stage. It takes about an hour and a half to run three weeks, but using a spiritual stone only takes Three quarters of an hour.
After the bluestone experiment, I found that the current limit is that I can absorb the spiritual energy of seven spiritual stones in one day, so I absorbed seven spiritual stones every morning to practice, and then naturally inhaled and practiced for nine weeks at night. This practice is more efficient than not using the spiritual stones. The practice of complete inhalation improved three times.
After practicing like this for two months, all the hard-earned Qi still flowed into the bright green soul body.
The Dahuang Gong is so powerful, and the bright green Qi is even more extraordinary. Qingshi's Qi sea and meridians have already been trained to be extremely strong. But the true energy in the sea of qi has always remained at less than one-third, and it has even become less and less. Although it is pure, it is still far from full.
If you want to improve your cultivation to the eighth level of Qi training realm, there is simply no hope. Judging from his cultivation situation, if it were normal, he would definitely have broken through to the ninth level.
After the wry smile, I was still helpless.
These days, Qingshi has less time to practice skills, so he has time to refine alchemy and practice martial arts. Thanks to alchemy, Qingshi no longer lacks spiritual stones, and his alchemy skills are becoming more and more proficient.
In terms of martial arts, it's another story. I don't know why, but there are many martial arts and magic spells from Xiao Lou's memory, they are available at all levels, and most of them are complete. However, there are few martial arts, there are only four, and the content is still a bit incomplete, but the level is frighteningly high, there are actually two heaven-level and two earth-level.
You must know that there are four levels of martial arts in Heaven, Earth, Xuanhuang, and there are only a few Heaven-level martial arts in the entire Tianlong Continent.
Fu Yunhaogui is the heir to the head of one of the three major families in the Yihou Kingdom. Whether it is martial arts or martial arts, the highest he practices is only at the Xuan level.
In fact, it's very strong if you can get a level, even if it's yellow level.
Because the vast majority of cultivators in this world practice martial arts and martial arts that cannot even reach the yellow level, they can only be called unqualified.
For example, Dou Dabiao once learned one exercise and six martial arts, but he was unable to advance to the next level.
These kinds of heaven-level and earth-level martial arts skills require at least Yuan Dan level or even Jin Dan level to try to practice them.
Among the several secret books left by Fu Yunhao, only the third level of the Qinghua Gong method is at the Xuan level, and the others are all at the Yellow level.
Including the alchemy technique Baicao Jing, the martial arts Liuhe Sword Technique, the martial arts technique Nine Arms Fist Technique, and the martial arts technique Liuyun Bu.
It's a pity that the stone cultivation is not enough. Except for the first level of Huang-level Qinghua Kung Fu and alchemy, other martial arts skills have only been scratched.
Stones can't do it, but bluestone can. Not to mention reaching the seventh level of Qi training realm, due to the existence of bright green Qi, the size of bluestone Qi sea, the strength of meridians are far beyond those of the same level, and the purity of Qi. It is also far higher than the same level, so there is no obstacle to practice.
In just two months, all three martial arts skills have been cultivated to the limit allowed by the current cultivation level. This is naturally also due to the strong mental power and super high understanding.
Now Qingshi has fallen into a cultivation bottleneck. Except for the continued improvement of his alchemy skills, he can no longer make any progress in other aspects due to the limitations of his true energy cultivation.
As the saying goes, if you are poor, you will want to change. Qingshi thought for a long time and finally made a decision: to go into the Dahuang Mountain to find spiritual materials to refine the Three-Star True Qi Pill.
Qingshi estimates that if there are enough three-star Qi pills to support him, his speed in cultivating Qi can be more than doubled.
Eighty miles north from Maozhu Town, we arrived at the foot of Dahuang Mountain.
Dahuang Mountain stretches from east to west, two thousand miles long and about three hundred miles wide. It is high in the mountains and densely forested, inaccessible to people, and poisonous insects and ferocious beasts are rampant in it. It is said that there are spiritual beasts in the central area that are comparable to the human Golden Core realm.
Although these deep mountains are dangerous, they also grow some rare spiritual grasses, spiritual plants, and even heavenly materials and earthly treasures, so there are always a few monks who come to take risks.
On this day, the sky was just getting brighter. Qingshi, who had been waiting at the foot of the mountain all night, started to enter the mountain forest according to Shi Shi's memory.
After walking for about three hours, we reached a hillside covered with large bushes. This is the deepest point that the stone has ever entered.
Along the way, Qingshi only picked two kinds of medicinal materials, which were auxiliary materials for refining two-star elixirs. He also saw a few main materials for refining several one-star elixirs, but Qingshi didn't like them.
Qingshi looked around and saw a huge valley not far ahead extending far to the west. The hills on both sides of the valley were higher than the other. The forest was dense and blocked the sky and the sun. The valley did not know how deep it was.
In some places in the valley, mist as soft as white gauze floated gently. It was almost noon, and the mountains under the sun were tall and majestic, but the deep valley looked gloomy and dangerous.
Qingshi naturally knows that it is dangerous, but such a valley is also a good place to breed all kinds of spiritual flowers, spiritual grass, and even natural and earthly treasures.
Qingshi carefully went down to the valley. The forest was deep and there was no path. However, Qingshi was also a monk at the seventh stage of the Qi training realm. He was either climbing on rocks or pulling on vines and grass. It didn't take long before he went down to the valley.
The bottom of the valley is not too narrow. The place where the bluestone comes down is at least seven or eight feet wide. The midday sun can still shine in. The valley is full of green grass and wild flowers. There are several thin waterfalls on the left and right mountain walls. Down below, it is like a fairyland, not at all as dangerous as seen from the outside.
Qingshi didn't dare to let down his guard. He knew that the more such a place was, the more dangers might be hidden.
After traveling west along the valley for more than half an hour, Qingshi had already walked about ten miles. As expected, he found several kinds of medicinal herbs along the way, which were of high quality. Qingshi was not polite and picked all the ripe and usable ones.
Continuing to move forward, I saw from a distance that there seemed to be a rocky cliff with no way to go.
After walking another hundred or so steps, the terrain suddenly sloped downwards and the mountain walls on both sides receded, forming an oval basin with three closed sides and a flat ground.
There are sparse trees in the basin and the ground is covered with flowers, grass and shrubs. There is a large circular pool to the west, about ten feet in diameter. The water in the pool is dark green, and there seems to be a layer of vague mist lingering on the surface of the pool under the sunlight.
The edge of the pond is covered with various low shrubs and wild flowers and weeds. Qingshi took a quick look and found no less than ten kinds of spiritual flowers and herbs. One of the low shrubs had dozens of finger-sized yellow flowers. The fruit is a fifth-level spiritual fruit that can be used as the main material for refining Zhenqi pills. With this mahuang fruit, not to mention three-star Zhenqi pills, four-star Zhenqi pills can also be made.
Qingshi was overjoyed and immediately started picking all the ripe fruits and put them away. Then he discovered that there were three smaller mahuang trees around. Two of them had fruits, and they looked half green and half yellow and were about to mature. .
After picking the spiritual fruits, Qingshi picked all the mature spiritual flowers and grasses around him and put them away. Seeing that the sky was starting to turn westward, Qingshi decided to start the return journey. He definitely couldn't stay in the deep mountains after dark.
Just after taking a few dozen steps back, Qingshi suddenly became alert, and a strong wind hit him from behind. Qingshi had no time to turn around, so he could only use Liuyun Step to rush forward, barely dodging the blow.
With a thought in Qingshi's mind, a long sword flew out from the storage bracelet and was held in his hand. He turned around and used the sword to protect himself.
Taking a closer look, what came from behind was actually a thick branch as long as an arm. The branch failed to hit the bluestone and hit a small tree before falling to the ground. Then, several more stones and branches flew out from the woods and attacked Qingshi. Qingshi quickly separated them one by one with his sword, feeling shocked and confused.
Qingshi turned his sword upside down, clasped his fists towards Lin Zhong, and said loudly: "Excuse me, who is the master here? I didn't mean to disturb you, so please forgive me."
There seemed to be no movement in the forest. Qingshi concentrated on alert. Sure enough, after two breaths, a figure suddenly jumped out of the forest in front of him. Qingshi saw clearly that it was a big yellow monkey.
The monkey bared its teeth and claws and rushed towards Qingshi, yelling, holding a wooden stick and smashing it on the top of Qingshi. Qingshi raised his sword and held it up. With a bang, Qingshi felt his arms go numb, his mouth was about to burst, and he involuntarily stepped back under his feet. , This monkey is indeed no ordinary beast. Judging from its power, it should be at least a first-level spiritual beast.
As soon as Qingshi took two steps back, he felt a strong wind coming from behind. He quickly stepped on the Flowing Cloud Steps to dodge to the right. It turned out that another big monkey was attacking from behind with a wooden stick. In the blink of an eye, the two monkeys were fighting with Qingshi.
Although Qingshi has martial arts and martial arts, he doesn't have much actual combat experience. These two big monkeys are born with great strength and have higher intelligence than ordinary second-level spiritual beasts. Not only can they use weapons, but they also know how to cooperate with each other. They were one after another just now. The back-flank is proof of that.
As a result, Qingshi was forced to scramble and find it difficult to parry. Seeing that he couldn't resist, Qingshi no longer resisted the enemy head-on, feinted with his sword, unfolded his Flowing Cloud Step, turned around and ran away.
Two monkeys were chasing after him. Although this monkey was fast, its running speed could not match the yellow-level footwork of Liuyunbu. After Qingshi rushed out more than ten feet, he had already opened up a distance and was about to reach the edge of the basin.
Suddenly, a hidden weapon came from the front with the sound of howling wind. Qingshi was shocked and couldn't dodge, so he could only catch it with his sword. There was a crisp sound and the long sword blocked the hidden weapon.
It was a dagger more than half a foot long, and the force on the dagger was twice as strong as that of the monkey. Qingshi suddenly started bleeding from the tiger's mouth, and the Qi in his chest stagnated. His arms were so weak that he almost dropped the sword, and he couldn't stop kicking his feet. He took three big steps back in a row.
At this time, the two big monkeys from behind were also approaching, screaming and rushing towards me. Qingshi took a sharp breath, and the stagnation in his chest eased slightly. Seeing the monkey pounce, Qingshi didn't dare to fight, so he turned around and ran towards a small forest under the cliff to the north.
After entering the woods, Qingshi discovered that the grove was not large. There were only two types of trees, both of which were only as thick as the mouth of a bowl and as tall as two people. The trees were arranged in an orderly manner, and they were obviously planted by humans.
Qingshi clashed in the forest, using trees to hide, and the two monkeys were chasing after him. Sometimes Qingshi couldn't run, so he would fight with the two monkeys for a while before looking for an opportunity to escape. But he only walked in circles in the forest and did not run out.
After nearly an hour of chasing and fighting like this, the situation in the forest began to change.
Qingshi's footwork and sword skills began to become easier to use, and his actual combat experience improved rapidly.
Qingshi was secretly happy in his heart, but didn't show it. He just escaped less and fought more.
After fighting two monkeys again, Qingshi began to feel relaxed. The increase in actual combat experience made his swordsmanship more flexible. He no longer had to fight head-on with wooden sticks, and he became more comfortable in using points, stabs, swipes, and picks. The power is greatly increased, and the footwork becomes more agile and changeable.
It became easier to deal with the monkeys, and Qingshi began to look around and think more. The enemy who threw the dagger did not appear, nor did he attack again. Although the two monkeys were pressing closely, they had no intention of fighting for their lives.
Qingshi is wise and tactful, and slowly sees the problem: Judging from the power emitted by the dagger, this should be a monk whose cultivation level is much higher than his own, but there must be some reason why he does not show up to participate in the battle. , otherwise the battle should be resolved quickly as soon as the two monkeys show up.
These trees were artificially planted, but the spiritual flowers and grass beside the pool obviously grew naturally. Even if the two monkeys were not fed by that person, they were certainly driven by that person.
He didn't let himself escape, and let the monkey haunt him and couldn't leave, but he was not in a hurry to defeat him, as if he was stalling for time. why? There must be something weird.
After fighting for a while, Qingshi began to break out of the forest. Nothing happened after fighting in the forest for so long, so this weird thing must not be discovered in the forest.
Qingshi needed to test and explore. After leaving the forest, Qingshi fled in the direction he came from again. This time the monkey was pulled further down. As expected, when he arrived at the place where the dagger struck just now, another dagger flew towards him. Forced Qingshi stopped.
Qingshi didn't dare to charge hard, so he turned to the south and ran away. There were only some shrubs and flowers under the southern cliff. As he got closer, he found that there were indeed traces of artificial planting.
The two monkeys were still in hot pursuit. Qingshi and the monkey circled around for a while, then ran to the west. After a while, they actually made a big circle around the pool.
After going around in such a circle, Qingshi finally discovered some clues, that is, the two monkeys deliberately stayed away from the pool.
Qingshi kept moving his hands to block the monkey's attack, but his eyes were observing the pool more.
At this time, the sun has long since stopped shining on the pool, and the sky is getting darker and darker. The vague layer of fog on the surface of the pool is now very obvious, and it is becoming more dense, and begins to stick to the ground and spread around. .
After briefly sensing the mist, Qingshi suddenly understood. An idea flashed in his mind, and he had a plan to defeat the enemy.
As time went by, the movements of Qingshi's hands became slower, and so did his feet. It seemed that he was too exhausted to run, so he could only fight with his back to the pool and the monkey.
The monkey on the left roared loudly, and raised the huge wooden stick over his head again and smashed it down on Qingshi. This time Qingshi's footwork was obviously a little slow and he couldn't avoid it, so he had to raise his sword to block it.
With a muffled sound, Qingshi was hit and took seven or eight steps back. Then he sat down and slid a few feet on the grass, reaching the edge of the pool.
Qingshi seemed to be a little dazed from being hit. He shook his head and got up. He raised his sword and glared at the monkey. However, the monkey did not pursue him this time. Instead, he took a few steps back and looked at Qingshi with his teeth bared.
Qingshi's feet were unsteady and he stumbled forward a few steps. He fell headlong onto the grass with flowing mist, twitched a few times, and then stopped moving again.
