Despite all the changes in the outside world, Xiaozhu Peak remained calm, but the person in charge was now replaced by the real person in charge, Wei Zhongran.
After Li Wuyi condensed the golden elixir, in addition to consolidating and comprehending the new realm, he also had to practice many immortal arts that he had never encountered before.
Wei Chituo also seemed to be stimulated by Li Wuyi and Gong Chenying. After returning to seclusion for half a year, he also broke through to the realm of false elixirs. After coming out of seclusion, he looked at the courtyard where Li Wuyi lived. For a long time, he seemed to fall asleep. After making some decision, he went to Yunchun to go to the courtyard. The two talked in the courtyard for a long time, but they didn't know what they said. After that, Wei Chituo went to Laojun Peak with Yunchun who had broken through to the late stage of foundation building. The main mission hall took over a dozen missions in one go. They didn’t know what the purpose was. For each mission, they chose an extremely difficult level. Such missions are almost a narrow escape. The two of them took it like this. It was just a matter of watching. The deacon of the mission hall was frightened and thought that the two men had been stimulated and went to commit suicide.
The two of them would often go away for several months, and when they came back, they would always have a strong smell of blood on their bodies, which was disgusting to hear. Moreover, once, both of them came back seriously injured. When they returned to the sect, Wei Chituo carried Yun Chun, who had fainted, on his back, and managed to escape from coma the moment he landed on Xiaozhu Peak. In the end, it was Wei Zhongran himself who rescued the two of them. Later, it was said in the sect that Wei and Yun took over Among the missions, one of them was to hunt down a fake elixir monk. Unexpectedly, the person being chased had already condensed the golden elixir more than a month before the two of them arrived. This caused serious problems in the intelligence of the two. They made a mistake and fell directly into a life-and-death situation. However, they were both resolute people. How could they be manipulated by others? The two of them unleashed their full potential and unleashed their magical powers. In the end, they paid a heavy price at the expense of burning their essence and blood. After paying the price, they actually joined forces to kill the unstable golden elixir master, and the two of them were seriously injured and almost died. However, due to the final result of this mission, the two of them only had this one thing after returning to the sect. The mission was in exchange for 50,000 spiritual stones, which was both dangerous and rewarding.
Wei Chituo and Yun Chun went to recover from their injuries for more than four months, but it would still take at least a few years for the blood essence and blood burned in the war to recover as before. However, after they recovered from their injuries, they started to go crazy again. I took on the mission, and it was a very dangerous mission. Everyone in the sect gasped. These were clearly two lunatics who were desperate for their lives. Wei Zhongran didn't agree with the actions of the two of them, and he didn't care at all.
But what is unexpected is that Wen Xinliang, who is also a disciple of Xiaozhu Peak, and took Lin Daqiao to practice in Shiwanda Mountain for two months, actually chose to start taking on tasks, whether from the sect or from various disciplines. Feng's, they all swept the mission hall without any scruples, but they only accepted two kinds of missions, assassination and assassination.
Their methods are completely different from Wei Chituo's. They often follow their opponents for days or even months before committing murders, often with one blow. Their escape routes are also premeditated, and almost every time they end up killing someone. Gone without a trace. At the same time, they are not fond of fighting. If they miss a hit, they will quickly travel thousands of miles, and then lurk again, waiting for opportunities until the target is dead.
Assassination uses traps, poisoning, spreading poison, spreading poison, and even formations. Often the opponent is completely unprepared and turns into a puddle of pus, and the two of them can transform into anything. An ordinary monk may appear in the market and pass by each other, or pass by the neighboring table in a tea restaurant, and soon afterwards those people will evaporate completely from this world.
The four of them, Xiaozhufeng, were busy taking on tasks within the sect. Gradually, the name of Xiaozhufeng, which had been silent for a long time, reappeared in the ears of the disciples. A notorious person died, and the names of these fallen people all appeared in the tasks taken by the four people, including people from the other three sects. The names of these four people became more and more popular within the sect. The louder it got, the more it became known as the "Four Evils of Xiaozhu".
Wei Zhongran ignored all this and just sorted out Xiaozhufeng's things with Miao Wangyan.
Gong Chenying has been staying in the spiritual plant garden. Apart from management, she is practicing hard and not going out at all. Only Gong Chenying herself knows the reasons why she does not go out. First, Qiongqi Purgatory Technique has almost reached the third level in its early stage. The late stage is a critical moment for cultivation. Although it cannot be interrupted like Qi Refining Retreat, it cannot be separated for too long. In addition, after Li Yan sent the message a year ago, it seemed that she had completely cut off contact with the outside world. The ancestral precepts of Gong Chenyingtian's Li clan engraved in her bones prevented her from having too much contact with other men at all, and she The only one she knew well, Zhao Min, also entered a long-term retreat, which made her unable to leave home.
In another space thousands of miles away from the Demon Sect, Li Yan was sitting cross-legged in the secret room. At this moment, his eyes were slightly closed and he was breathing long. The aura outside his body had turned into a rich black color, covering his entire body. Among them, as he was shrinking and opening regularly with his every breath, these black auras were extremely rich, but they were still flowing out continuously from the pores of Li Yan's body as he breathed, as if Endless.
The black energy at this moment is so strong that it can directly push the golden earth spirit energy here several feet away, forming a hollow area, a bit like drawing the ground as a prison.
On one side of the secret room, in the surging golden spiritual energy, a huge face was staring at the black energy outside Li Yan, muttering to himself, "The spiritual energy turns into luster. This is a sign that the Guishui Qi refining has reached its extreme and is about to become liquid. It’s almost time to build the foundation.”
The huge face was transformed by a ray of consciousness from Pingtu. Li Yan has not gone out since he came here a year ago. Before coming, he went to Laojun Peak to buy a large amount of pills to strengthen the foundation and strengthen the yuan. , and also received a "Foundation Building Pill" of his own from Wei Zhongran. When Wei Zhongran saw Li Yan coming to receive the "Foundation Building Pill", he was also shocked. Although he knew that Li Yan had reached Qi Condensation Ten after returning from the secret realm. layer, but he always thought that apart from the rich and outrageous spiritual energy in the secret realm, Li Yan must have had other adventures in the wheel of life and death. However, he did not expect that Li Yan would come to receive " Foundation Establishment Pill", he worriedly asked Li Yan to disperse all his cultivation bases. After confirming that Li Yan had reached the late stage of the tenth level of Qi Condensation, he couldn't help but secretly admire the Fragmentary Poison Body, the three major poisonous bodies of the sect, for how it could make him A Zalinggen disciple has become in no way inferior to those talented disciples.
After Wei Zhongran thought about it for a while, he still gave the "Foundation Building Pill" to Li Yan. Normally, a sect disciple only had one chance to receive the "Foundation Building Pill" for free in his life, and it had to be when the disciple had reached the tenth level of Qi Condensation. You can only collect it when you are in Dzogchen, to prevent you from using it indiscriminately and wasting the elixir. Once this "Foundation Building Pill" fails to build a foundation successfully after being used, you must buy the elixir you need when building a foundation again in the future. It’s just that the price is frighteningly expensive. It often takes an ordinary Qi Condensing cultivator to save for twenty or thirty years before he can afford to buy one. In terms of the lifespan of a Qi Condensing cultivator, after the first foundation building failure, there will basically be another one at most. He had the opportunity to buy elixirs to build the foundation. Li Yan's move was obviously against the sect's rules, but Wei Zhongran knew that Li Yan had the same idea as a very few disciples in the sect, that is, he rushed from the late tenth level of Qi Condensation to the big sect in one go. Perfect, and then take advantage of the situation to continue attacking the foundation. However, this behavior seems to be taking advantage of the victory, but in fact there are still great hidden dangers. However, there are also successful people, such as himself, who does this.
Through Li Yan's performance in the past few years, Wei Zhongran already knows Li Yan's character. He is the kind of extremely cautious person who thinks carefully about things. He is the person with the most stable character in Xiaozhu Peak except Li Wuyi. Yun Chunqu and Gong Chenying were both taciturn and seemingly very stable, but in fact, one was extremely fierce and the other extremely stubborn and lacked the spirit of understanding. Therefore, in the end, Wei Zhongran gave Li Yan the "Foundation Building Pill" after consideration, and told him the timing of swallowing the pill, precautions, etc., and explained the time for half a stick of incense to Li Yan, which made Li Yan Once again, he felt the importance of his master. If Wei Zhongran hadn't said anything, he would have inevitably made some subtle mistakes due to his negligence. Of course, Pingtu would have given him guidance at that time, but he didn't know if it would be in time at the critical moment. .
In the end, Wei Zhongran still said apologetically to Li Yan, "Except for you, all the other disciples have been given guidance on their practice. Only your technique is special. As a teacher, I can only generally tell you what I have learned and what you know, including immortal arts and so on." I never gave you any guidance, but you figured it out on your own. If you don’t understand something in the future, you can look to me as a teacher.”
When he said these words, Li Yan was also moved in his heart. Most of the immortal cultivators were ruthless and unrighteous people. Someone like Wei Zhongran who spoke to his disciples with an apology should be a different kind. Li Yan had already accepted Wei Zhongran and Xiao Zhufeng into his heart. He recognized this master and bowed seriously. Then, after Wei Zhongran emphasized the matters needed in building the foundation, Li Yan said goodbye and left, but he didn't realize that When he left, Wei Zhongran looked at him with a different expression, as if he still had no words to say.
After Li Yan prepared various elixirs, he hung a sign for retreat outside the bamboo courtyard, took out the round diamond crystal and teleported it directly to the secret room of the secret realm. He decided not to leave the retreat unless he succeeded in building the foundation this time.
After arriving in the secret room, he began a single and boring practice. The Qiongqi Purgatory Technique consumed all his spiritual power, so he practiced the Guishui Sutra to restore his spiritual power. When his spiritual power was restored, he performed the Qiongqi Purgatory Technique again... …
Day after day, month after month, two months later, he reached the tenth level of Qi Condensation. Four months later, Qiongqi Purgatory Technique also had faint signs of breaking through to the second level. At this point, he He began to do his best to stabilize his spiritual power. This sitting lasted for ten months. These ten months seemed to be very long, but in fact it was not. You must know that Lin Daqiao once stayed in the Qi Condensation Stage for several years. Finally, he succeeded in breaking through the foundation building in one fell swoop.
Looking at the rich aura outside Li Yan that seemed to be condensing into water, the transformed face in the secret room became more and more solemn. Although the Five Immortal Sect's techniques can greatly increase the chance of building a foundation, there is still a huge risk. The probability of failure is that once the first foundation building fails, the difficulty of trying to build the foundation the second time will be at least ten times more than the first time, and the further back, the harder it will be.
Foundation building is the first step for a cultivator to truly embark on the path to immortality. The Qi Condensation period is just to lay a solid foundation for all of this. It uses the spiritual power of heaven and earth to change one's body constitution, wash away impurities in the body, and allow the physical body to reach the minimum standard of becoming an immortal. At the same time, The spiritual power in the body will also continue to change as the body strengthens, starting from thin and becoming thicker and thicker, until finally the Dantian is filled with rich spiritual power, and the flow becomes extremely slow. They are squeezing each other, A larger space is needed, and the spiritual power will continue to be compressed with practice. At this time, a major change is required in the monk's body. The Dantian and spiritual consciousness will expand, the muscles and veins will be wider, the power of flesh and blood will be stronger, and the spiritual energy in the body will be completely When Qi turns into water, the foundation for cultivating immortality is truly established.
Of course, the final expansion of each person's Dantian will be different, depending on their cultivation techniques, physical constitution and other factors. This also results in some strong and weak monks at the same level.
But at this moment, Li Yan was about to face a crisis. This was something Pingtu didn't expect. The fragmented poisonous body actually began to split at this time.
