The violent demon bear's huge body shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye, and almost all of its blood essence was absorbed by the Blood Drinking Sword. A moment later, as the long sword made a happy sword cry, the body of the Blood Drinking Sword was red and bright, the blood groove in the middle became deeper, and the entire spiritual sword became more monstrous.
The blood-drinking sword has officially evolved into a fourth-grade spiritual sword!
Pulling out the sword, Cheng Ling observed carefully. The edge of the blood-drinking sword is sharper, and the sharpness at the tip is even more amazing, and after holding the spirit sword, a lot of information is transmitted.
The evolved blood-drinking sword has a stronger blood-sucking ability, and it also has an additional function, which is to feed back. That is to say, after absorbing the blood essence of the monster, most of the energy is used to upgrade the sword itself, and a small amount is turned into pure energy to supplement the consumption of the sword-wielding monk and accelerate the recovery of spiritual power!
This...this is so surprising! With this kind of feedback ability, your fighting durability will be stronger, and your spiritual energy consumption will be easier to control. Cheng Ling was overjoyed. He was really lucky to get a sword with sustainable growth like the Blood Drinking Sword.
But the surprise didn't stop there. The next moment, ten essences appeared from the violent demon bear's body, as well as a yellow-brown ball of light.
Cheng Ling stretched out his hand to grab the ball of light, and a long list of information poured into his mind.
Golden silk swordsmanship, intermediate swordsmanship!
Cheng Ling beamed with joy. He was worried that the current swordsmanship had limited damage to level four monsters, so he would soon get an intermediate swordsmanship. Moreover, he is also from the gold system. He happened to have comprehended the artistic conception of gold and reached the realm of Xiaocheng.
With this swordsmanship, not to mention the elite fourth-grade monsters, even the fifth-grade monsters would dare to fight!
Feeling excited under the pressure, his eyes turned to Jingyuan. Ten pieces of essence can provide ten thousand kilograms of power. As long as he absorbs them all, he will only be one step away from the fourth level of body refining!
In the early stage of cultivation, body refining is much cheaper than Qi refining, after all, you have to face higher level monsters. Therefore, without any hesitation, Cheng Ling directly ran the intermediate body refining formula to absorb and transform the energy of ten essences.
Feeling the stronger power in his body, Cheng Ling smiled. The strength is even more tyrannical, and it also proves how strong his strength is at this time, which is enough to kill the elite fourth-grade monsters, but it should not be able to fight against the fourth-grade monster king.
Unless Qi refining and body refining reach the fourth level at the same time, you can be certain that these can be improved step by step. The most important thing at the moment is to understand the golden silk sword technique. If you master the middle-grade sword technique, your strength will inevitably become stronger.
Just when he found a secret place and was about to gain enlightenment, the list of mountains and rivers in his mind changed again.
First of all, Zhao Jiuyou's mountain and river points increased again, reaching 60,000 points. Shangguan Yin's mountain and river points remained unchanged. However, Si Kongzhan's mountain and river points suddenly increased by 4,000 points, reaching 60,000 points, surpassing Shangguan Yin and Cheng Ling in one fell swoop. Two.
Immediately afterwards, the mountain and river points of Su Junqing, Qin Zijin, Chu Tianhe, Xu Shaoqing, and Su Nianli also increased significantly, reaching 57,000 points, 56,000 points, 55,000 points, 54,000 points, and 53,000 points respectively. Cheng Ling's ranking has already Dropped to ninth place, just ahead of Chu Yulu.
Not only that, but Guchengfeng, Liu Yuze, Yun Jingshan, Chen Gang and others who were outside the top ten have all caught up.
"The competition in the Mountain and River Ranking is indeed fierce, and I can't lag behind others. In this case, let's kill the monster first, and then return to Mountain and River City at night to learn the swordsmanship!" Cheng Ling said to himself.
His temperament has always been like this, and he will keep a low profile when he should. But now that he is famous, he has no choice but to keep a low profile anymore. Things cannot be changed, so why not let go completely and compete with these geniuses!
Yangjian, a blood-drinking sword upgraded to a fourth-grade spiritual sword, is more lethal to fourth-grade monsters. Cheng Ling's goal is to first obtain ten fourth-level essences. As long as he refines them all, he can enter the fourth level of body refining.
But before he could collect ten essences, his ranking on the mountain and river list changed again. Sikong Zhan continued his efforts and added 4,000 mountain and river points, with a total score of 64,000 points, surpassing Zhao Jiuyou to take the top spot.
The next moment, Su Junqing also increased by 61,000 points, ranking second, Zhao Jiuyou fell to third place, Qin Zijin, Chu Tianhe, Xu Shaoqing, Su Nianli and other four people's mountain and river points also increased.
The list of the top ten is strange and changeable. After the tenth place, Guchengfeng has increased to 54,000 points, and Liu Yuze has increased to 53,000 points. They have replaced Cheng Ling and Chu Yulu and squeezed them out of the top ten.
"What's wrong with Cheng Ling? The mountain and river points haven't increased in the past so long. Could it be that the potential has been exhausted?"
"Falling again! Cheng Ling came out of our Novice Village. I thought he could take the lead and fight for us, but he didn't expect to be squeezed out of the top ten so quickly. It's really boring."
"The rankings of Second Senior Sister and Third Senior Brother have dropped. Come on! Junzi Peak is all supported by you."
"Hmph! I told you that Cheng Ling was unreliable. He refused to join our Aojian Gang at the beginning. It's not a big deal. Why don't we work together and make the top ten by ourselves?"
"..."
The monks were talking a lot, and Cheng Ling looked at the rankings on the list in shock. Are these guys all on blood? Rising mountain and river points seems as easy as eating and drinking!
But soon, he reacted. The rest of the people don't know that Sikong Zhan, Chu Tianhe, Gucheng Feng and others are all disciples of the four major sects, and they must have a group of younger brothers to help them. As long as those monks give them the essence to upgrade first, they can indeed improve quickly in a short period of time.
However, this situation cannot last long. Although it is much easier to advance in the virtual world of mountains and rivers than in reality, it is not unlimited. The farther back Gain goes, the stronger the monster becomes. Together, everyone may be able to kill the fourth-grade monster. If the difference between the realms is too big, no matter how many monks there are, it will be in vain.
Therefore, when they advance quickly, they are equivalent to sacrificing other monks to advance to a higher level. Although it would be much easier to kill monsters with a strong leader, there is a limit. Once you encounter a monster with a disparity in strength, you can only be blinded, and the other monks may die.
After doing this several times in a row, who else is willing to help you hunt monsters and obtain essence?
After thinking about this, Cheng Ling was no longer anxious, but continued to kill the monsters step by step. One after another, fourth-level monsters died under his sword. In less than two hours, he received ten more essences. His body refining skills finally entered the fourth level. His mountain and river points increased, and he regained the tenth position.
However, the monks are still not optimistic. A temporary outburst is nothing, if you have the ability to keep it up!
Cheng Ling did not give any explanation for this, but continued to kill the monster.
Unknowingly, night fell, and the monks who were out killing monsters evacuated the dangerous situation one by one and returned to Shanhe City.
Cheng Ling also returned to Shanhe City. At this time, he still had two fourth-grade essence in his hand.
Ignoring the surprised looks of the monks, he went straight to the restaurant after returning to the city. Entering the restaurant, I found that it was no longer as empty as before. There were also some monks here to dine here. Each of them had reached the level of the third heaven, and their strength and momentum were not weak.
But as soon as Cheng Ling entered the restaurant, everyone who had been talking fell silent. They all turned their heads and looked over, all their eyes falling on Cheng Ling's face.
People who recognized Cheng Ling were surprised.
Cheng Ling became the center of attention and sat down calmly. The waiter also recognized Cheng Ling, because Cheng Ling was the first person to enter the restaurant for consumption. He also bought a lot of fine wine and food in the restaurant, and he was very impressed. .
After a hearty meal, he spent all the two essences, completely ignoring the envious expressions of the monks, and then led by the waiter into the side room to rest.
"Now my body refining level is at the fourth level, and my qi refining level is almost at the late stage of the golden elixir. With more than twenty essences, I will be able to advance to the Nascent Soul. I will seize the opportunity to understand the golden silk sword technique while resting at night, and also You can’t let go even if you understand the artistic conception of water and the artistic conception of wood.”
"All the five elements have been comprehended. Under the influence of the five elements, these two artistic conceptions have reached 20%. In a few days, they will both enter the small realm. By then, when the five elements are balanced, you can try to comprehend the fourth-grade sword skills or higher. High level five sword skills."
After sorting it out for a while, Cheng Ling began to understand.
As an intermediate swordsmanship, the Golden Silk Swordsmanship is much more difficult to master than the primary swordsmanship. Fortunately, Cheng Ling's understanding was his strong point. After continuous study, he discovered that this sword technique requires a high level of control over spiritual power. Blessed by the artistic conception of gold, the swordsmanship is even sharper, and turning the gas into silk requires extremely strong control of the spiritual energy, which is a great challenge to his current cultivation.
After meditating on it all night, I have basically completed my understanding of the swordsmanship, and the two artistic conceptions have also improved. It's just that there is still a lack of refinement in the control of spiritual energy. The main problem is that the current cultivation level is only at the golden elixir stage. Without the support of a huge total amount of spiritual energy, it is difficult to perfect the sword energy into silk.
Seeing that the white fish belly was exposed outside the window, he stopped and walked out of Shanhe City again. This time, he chose the south of Shanhe City. Because there are many mountains and forests in the south, there are also many water sources. It is just right for him to comprehend the artistic conception of wood and water while killing monsters.
The southern area of Shanhe City did not disappoint Cheng Ling. There were a lot of dense forests and water vapor, and there were also many monsters. What he is doing now is to constantly kill monsters and comprehend the artistic conceptions of water and wood.
Because you are preparing to enter the dense forest from the beginning, there should be many places to hide. Therefore, Cheng Ling was fully prepared this time and did not plan to return to the city at night unless necessary.
The competition in the Mountain and River Ranking is still fierce, but in the past night, Zhao Jiuyou's ranking dropped again, only ranking fifth. The first one was replaced by Sikong Zhan, and then Su Junqing, Qin Zijin, and Xu Shaoqing ranked second, third, and fourth respectively.
Zhao Jiuyou, who was still killing monsters in the west, looked at the list in the sky, with a sneer on his lips, and said calmly: "It's not a big deal to win the top spot by such means, just wait and see!"
Time passed slowly, and soon one day passed. Many monks returned to the city, but there were still some arrogant monks left in the wild.
As Cheng Ling expected, on the second day, Sikong Zhan's ranking was replaced by Su Junqing, second place became Qin Zijin, and Zhao Jiuyou returned to third place.
As for Cheng Ling, after three consecutive days of painstaking meditation, all the artistic conceptions of water and wood entered a small level, and his Qi refining cultivation level also advanced to the Nascent Soul stage. The mountain and river points suddenly increased by 10,000 points, and finally reached 70,000 points, and his ranking rose sharply. , from tenth place, directly back to the top!
