(Thanks to aa112562 for the reward. The chapter exceeded 100 today. It’s not easy. It’s worth remembering.)
"Have you heard... The murderer who killed more than a dozen cultivators has been executed... It seems that he was the ancestor of the Hu family. He took the corpse rot pill to the death and died with that person... However, the Hu family suffered heavy losses. , has now become almost a third-rate force in the Yue Kingdom, and it seems that its relationship with the Ziguang Sect has also been broken..."
In the Ghost Bird Sect, Shuangxiu Hall, several female disciples were talking with their mouths slightly open about this major event that caused a sensation in the Yue Kingdom.
It's just rumors and facts. Such rumors are naturally arranged by Ning Fan.
Ten days have passed since the Battle of Hanyue, but the popularity of this matter has not diminished. Another thing that shocked the Ghost Bird Sect was the disappearance of Wang Yao.
As a disciple of the deacon, Wang Yao left the sect without authorization and did not return for a long time. Many elders considered him a defector. The matter gradually subsided after the ancestor of the Wang family personally came to apologize.
Another thing took its place and became the latest topic of the Ghost Bird Sect.
Ning Fan is in seclusion!
As we all know, Ning Fan went into seclusion this time to compete with Bai Zun. The former is known as the "first person under the golden elixir" of the Yue Kingdom, while the latter is an old monster who has been famous in the Yue Kingdom for a long time. This battle has attracted a lot of attention even in the Yue Kingdom.
However, it is rare to think that Ning Fan will win. Ning Fan has the talent of a monster, but after all, he is too young, and he still practices dual cultivation techniques, and his combat power is slightly inferior to that of the same level... As for the 'White Lord' Bai Feiteng, it is said that he has reached the third level of the "Xuan Bing Jue" In the fourth small realm of the third level, he once swallowed a third-level cold energy by chance.
Bai Feiteng's combat power has few opponents even in the middle stage of Jindan. He even fought for several days with Elder Songfeng, an old monster from the Taixu Sect in the late Golden Core stage, but he couldn't win or lose, which shows that he is very powerful.
In the Dual Cultivation Hall, gradually, the conversation among several female disciples began to turn to Ning Fan. On the side, the egret meditating on the futon frowned from time to time, as if just hearing Ning Fan's name would make her very irritable.
This irritation, after sensing the arrival of a woman in the Shuangxiu Hall, immediately put it away and turned into a trace of calm.
After getting up and gently brushing away the dust on her gauze shirt, Bailu immediately led the female disciples to the outside of the Shuangxiu Hall to greet her.
Since Ning Fan retreated, every day, a woman in blue would come to visit her, always standing silently outside Ning Fan's Stone Pass for a long time.
Young Master Lanmei... a person that even an egret wouldn't dare to neglect!
"I've met the young master..." Bailu Yingying saluted with a somewhat unnatural smile.
"Is he still in seclusion today..." Lan Mei's tone was cold, with a hint of the majesty of a superior.
"Yes." To Ning Fan, Egret seemed unwilling to talk in depth.
"Egret, come with me... I have something to ask you..."
Lan Mei's bright eyes flashed, and her tone could not be refused, while Egret lowered his head slightly and followed Lan Mei into the courtyard where Ning Fan always lived.
But as soon as Fang entered the room, Lan Mei could no longer pretend to be cold and arrogant, and burst into laughter.
Since her recovery, Lan Mei is in a cheerful mood and her smiles are gradually increasing.
"Sister Bai, there's no one here anymore, so you don't need to be so restrained... Teach me some more today..."
"It's over! No more teaching!" Egret stopped pretending to be respectful and said dissatisfied.
"Teach me...you have been with Ning Fan...so many times..." Lan Mei showed a rare hint of pleading.
"I have nothing to do with him. If you say that again, I won't teach you any more!"
"Okay, okay, sister, stop talking... Then sister, please teach me."
Lan Mei's tone was as if she were treating a teacher. Because she likes to learn various techniques to please Ning Fan from Bailu... Now that she is a woman, she will be Ning Fan's wife in the future. There are some things that she has to learn carefully... She didn't have a mother to teach her. So, I came to ask for help from the number one witch in Shuangxiu Palace—Egret!
Egret knows a lot of Acacia and Bed Techniques...and this woman seems to be like Ning Fan in this way, so she is not considered an outsider.
After all, Lanmei is the young master, and Bailu doesn't dare to offend her too much, so he has no choice but to teach him all the skills he knows.
No one knew that Lan Mei, the proud daughter of the Ghost Bird Sect, and Bai Lu, the number one witch, were discussing the secrets of eroticism in Ning Fan's room.
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Ning Fan doesn't know anything about the outside world. This retreat is only half a year, which is a long time for ordinary people. But for monks, it is too short, not enough to do much, and it will pass by.
Sweeping away all distracting thoughts, Ning Fan had only one thought in his mind in the quiet and dark stone pass. Improve your strength!
The battle with Wang Yao made Ning Fan more aware of his shortcomings. It has more than enough offensive power but not enough defense. In terms of experience against enemies, it is far superior to those of the same level, but compared to real bosses, its experience is not even the slightest bit worse.
And the shortcomings of the technique gradually began to be revealed. In the battle with Wang Yao, he just relied on his trump cards to hold on, while Wang Yao had various spells at his fingertips, all of which were extremely powerful.
Casting a spell requires not only mana, but also supporting skills... Although Ning Fan has practiced "Snow Stepping Technique" to the second level, he has not understood it carefully at all, and only learned one Ice Rainbow Escape Technique. None of the ice spells have been practiced.
As for the "Black Demon Art", he has not practiced it at all. The black demon flame he accidentally swallowed may have not been used for a long time. Because he does not know the magic, he cannot exert the true power of the black demon flame.
Without trump cards, Ning Fan's only real means of fighting against the enemy are the two sword auras of "turning swords into fire" and "turning bones like mountains". Moreover, these two sword auras are only comprehension and are far from being able to truly exert their power.
The silver light-transmitting realm of the physical body is stronger than all the body-refining monks at the peak of soul-melting, but Ning Fan has never even practiced a single 'body-refining technique'.
The magical powers cultivated by Dharma cultivators are called spells. What is practiced in physical training is the art of physical training. Strictly speaking, the giant method that Wang Yao performed that day was a type of body refining technique. Among the ancient gods and demons, the power of many body refining techniques was even far greater than that of magic.
Ning Fan had not mastered any spells or body refining techniques. In the chaotic ancient memories, cultivating both the Dharma and the Body to reach the state of 'Unity of the Dharma and the Body' was the way of cultivation for the ancient gods and demons. The Bone Emperor did it, but Ning Fan... No matter it was the Dharma or the Body, he failed in the cultivation. .
As for the Zhanli Sword, it has the soul-burning magical power, but its level is still pitifully low... No, it should be said that the Zhanli Sword has been promoted from the low-level to the high-level in just half a year. It is already very amazing. It is a pity. What's more, Ning Fan's cultivation has improved so fast that low-grade high-level magic weapons are completely useless in today's battles.
The Zhanli Sword must be refined! If the bone emperor's ribs are smelted in, it will definitely increase the power of cutting away, and even add some powerful magical powers!
In this way, the purpose of this retreat is extremely clear.
First of all, one must practice the "Black Demon Art" and "Snow Stepping Art" to the peak of the second level, and master several ice and fire spells.
Secondly, practice a defensive 'body refining technique' to bring out the effects of the body refining realm where silver light penetrates the body.
Finally, the Zhanli Sword was re-sacrificially refined and melted into the bone emperor's ribs.
In addition, there are two spells that Ning Fan must practice carefully.
Recite the false secrets and keep the secrets.
"Nian Shen Jue" has three postures: the first is concealment, the second is defense, and the third is clone. The first technique, the Pseudo Technique, requires taking the God-Refining Grass to practice. Now Ning Fan just happened to get a lot of the God-Refining Grass from Meng Chu.
The second move, chanting and guarding, requires swallowing the magical weapon spirit. Ning Fan also has several magical weapon spirits in his hand.
There are too many things that need to be done, and just six months is too short. But Ning Fan firmly believes that if he concentrates on seclusion for half a year and makes up for all his weaknesses, he will truly become a master after half a year!
Whether you are practicing martial arts or improving your magical powers, you are actually preparing to break through the golden elixir stage.
Even with the ancient inheritance, Ning Fan's success rate of breaking through to the golden elixir stage is still low, and according to his estimation, he will need at least ten years of retreat before he has a chance to break through the golden elixir bottleneck.
But if it fails, ten years of hard work will be ruined in one day!
Monks with lower qualifications only have a 10% success rate in breaking through the golden elixir bottleneck. The success rate of those talented monks in forming pills is never less than 20%. Every golden elixir monk has to hit the bottleneck several times before he succeeds, and those who succeed once are all those with unlucky luck.
In his mind, Ning Fan estimated the success rate of his pill formation. My qualifications are not excellent, but I am not stupid either. I still have a 20% success rate.
"If I take the two girls of Ice Spirit and Moon Spirit to benefit myself at the expense of others, my success rate of forming an elixir will reach 30%..."
Ning Fan looked at the cauldron ring on his left wrist with complicated eyes, and hesitated for the first time whether to take care of the two girls. And in the end, he didn't have the heart to be ruthless... He couldn't do anything to those who were kind to him.
After sighing, he patted the heavenly spirit, and the half-step Nascent Soul aura was separated and separated. This incarnation has a half-step Nascent Soul cultivation level, but it is extremely unstable and cannot exert much combat power at all. It can be used for sneak attacks and delivering a killing blow, but it can still be done.
Due to the condensation of this incarnation, Ning Fan lost half of his soul... This result will reduce the success rate of forming a pill. But the improvement of spiritual consciousness will increase the success rate.
"Because I killed my own soul, the success rate of the golden elixir will be half lower than that of ordinary people. However, the power of my spiritual thoughts is powerful and can also help me resist the inner demon... Therefore, my success rate of forming the elixir has increased instead of decreasing. It should be There will be 40%..."
After saying that, Ning Fan patted the storage bag and took out a blood-red pill. It was only the size of a fingernail, but it contained vast mana. Listening carefully, it seemed that you could hear the beating of a heart coming from the pill. sound.
Upon seeing this elixir, Ning Fan's expression showed a trace of sadness, because this elixir was the cultivation elixir that the ancestor of the Hu family condensed at the cost of his soul after his death. This elixir cultivation was originally planned to be left to Hu Ming, but the appearance of Ning Fan made the Hu family ancestor change his original intention.
"Cultivation elixir...it was after the ancestor of the Hu family took the corpse rot elixir, he used the early stage magic power of the golden elixir to condense... The efficacy of the medicine is slightly inferior to the Dao fruit of the early golden elixir monks, but it is not far different...take this elixir Pill, my success rate of forming the pill can reach 60%!"
Finally, he took out an ancient elixir scroll, which was a gift from Xue Qing.
The elixir scroll records a third-turn elixir named 'Xia Jindan'!
The effect of this pill can increase the success rate of monks forming pills by 10%! It cannot be improved, but who can guarantee that if the elixir formation fails, the success rate will not be reduced by 10%?
And by taking this elixir, even if the elixir formation fails, you can still accumulate mana, lay the foundation for the next breakthrough, and shorten the time required to break through the golden elixir bottleneck next time.
With the addition of this elixir, Ning Fan has a 70% chance of successfully forming the elixir!
If this success rate were to spread, all the old Jindan monsters would be stunned. After all, no monk has ever had such a high success rate. Rather than pursuing the success rate of forming a pill, those old monsters are more willing to use their limited resources in exchange for pills that can improve their cultivation after forming a pill.
They are not short of time and are not afraid of failure, but Ning Fan is short of time the most. Forming pills is a waste of time, and if it fails... Ning Fan doesn't dare to think about the consequences, or the feeling of powerlessness he will feel when facing the Nirvana Emperor a hundred years later.
"The success rate is 70%, which is by no means low, but I want a higher success rate! If I practice both law and body, the success rate can be increased by half a percent. And if I practice the "Black Demon Art" and "Snow Stepping Art" to the third At the third level, the success rate of elixir formation can be increased by another 10%... to 85%. This success rate is the limit I can reach... If elixir formation still fails, everything is God's will..."
Ning Fan smiled helplessly, God's will... God's will, who can go against it?
The old devil was tricked by God and changed from a true immortal to a fused spirit, and then to a useless person without cultivation. If one offends God's will, no matter how strong the master is, he will not end well.
Against the sky...that word "against the heaven" is too difficult.
If possible, Ning Fan would never choose the path that goes against nature for the rest of his life. It would be too difficult, too painful, and too lonely.
But if the success rate of forming an elixir is 85%, but still fails...then Ning Fan will form an elixir even if he goes against the will of heaven!
"Start the retreat! First, learn the two techniques. The more people who practice the technique, the better, and the third technique of "Nian Shen Jue" is just used here. Nian Shen Jue, the art of clones!"
Ning Fan made a secret between his fingers, and immediately, illusory clones emerged from his body one after another. They looked the same as the original body, but had no cultivation.
This kind of clone is a false clone, which is completely different from the incarnation. If you use it for fighting, you will die, but if you use it for enlightenment...
In an instant, Ning Fan separated into more than a hundred clones, which was the limit of what he could separate with half a step of Nascent Soul.
And he immediately gave the first order to the clone.
"You can live for three days. Within three days, I want you to comprehend the "Black Demon Art" and "Snow Stepping Art" together!"
"yes!"
More than a hundred clones responded in unison.
A hundred people can comprehend the technique at the same time, which is a hundred times faster than ordinary people. Although this move puts a huge load on the mind, Ning Fan asked himself whether he could bear the pain.
After half a year of retreat, it is not difficult to comprehend the two techniques to the peak of the second level!
The first transformation was when Ning Fan received the inheritance of the Immortal Emperor and transformed from a mortal to a monk.
In the second transformation, Ning Fan will completely integrate into the identity of a monk and become a truly strong man.
While Ning Fan was in retreat, changes were quietly taking place in Qimei City.
In the city lord's room, in the fragrant boudoir, Zhihe and Si Wuxie were lying in uniform, as if they had been having a deep conversation for a long time last night.
The innocent Zhihe and Si Wuxie who has lost his memory seem to be extremely speculative.
As the morning light entered the window curtains, the paper crane turned over lazily and continued to sleep soundly. But thinking about Wuxie, his whole body suddenly shook slightly as if he was electrocuted.
And immediately, her beautiful eyes opened, as if she was waking up.
It's not waking up from sleep, but the memory sleeping in the body bursts!
"Ning Fan! My sect, I remembered!"
Si Wuxie showed a look of resentment, but immediately, his head hurt and he passed out.
After a long time, Si Wuxie opened her bright eyes again, but she regained her previous innocent look.
"Strange... I had a strange dream just now..."
"Huh? Sisi, what's wrong with you?" Zhihe rubbed his eyes and asked with a yawn.
"It's nothing... I just had a dream. In the dream, I became another me... It's so strange..." Si Wuxie said puzzled.
"You're too worried... By the way, I'm about to break through the soul-melting stage. I'll go get the elixir from Commander Nangong later, and then go into seclusion. Can you help me protect the law?" Zhihe begged with a hint of pleading, and When Si Wuxie heard that the paper crane was about to merge into a spirit, Si Wuxie's little mouth couldn't close in surprise, which was quite cute.
"You have never practiced seriously for a day, and you are about to break through the spirit fusion!"
Although she lost her memory, she vaguely remembered that it should be extremely difficult to break through the soul-melting stage...
Could it be that the silly paper crane is so talented in cultivation? No wonder her master loves her so much.
Speaking of which, how is the master? I miss him so much...
