Zhao Ning was shocked, if there was such a technique, how could there be any difference between ordinary people and cultivators in the world.
"It's a pity that there are no complete exercises in this notebook, only fragmentary annotations of a few stages, as well as various unique Taoist methods."
Zhao Ning didn't speak for a while, and her voice was trembling when she spoke again, "Doesn't it mean that uncle is exploring cultivation alone, or even creating his own?"
If Ji Xiu didn't answer, that would be his acquiescence.
Zhao Ning stopped in front of him, feeling very aggrieved for Qin Keyuan, "Even if Master Qin's talent is not outstanding and he cannot deserve the title of Heaven's Proud Son, why should he be allowed to endure the pain of exploring the skills of heaven and man alone? Why bother to go into the abyss? If Zhao Ning guessed right, the sect used senior brothers to explore the way, and if they succeeded, they would let other disciples imitate and practice. Then what happened later, why did the skills disappear? "
"Because they're all dead."
Ji Xiu answered simply. "The elders wanted to use Yu Yu Tianhe's true interpretation to strengthen the sect, and when they could not wait for their senior brothers to form the golden elixir, they secretly handed over the true interpretation to their disciples for practice. It is indeed a heavenly and human practice. Within five years, all practicing disciples have reached the perfection of Qi training. But without exception, they all died when they were promoted to foundation building."
"Greedy, greedy."
Ji Xiu shook his head and walked around Zhao Ning, who followed silently.
So, is this the reason why Ji Xiu said before that it was difficult for Qin Keyuan to form an elixir?
After half a cup of tea, there was no sound. Ji Xiu turned around, with that lazy smile again, raised her fan and tapped Zhao Ning on the head.
"Xiao Zhaoning, are you feeling sorry for your senior brother?"
Zhao Ning had no expression on her face, and she didn't know how Ji Xiu got into her mind.
"Just a little bit."
"Hey, you little fairy turned out to be a little white-eyed wolf!"
Zhao Ning ignored his teasing, "Since my uncle is able to practice and is still safe and sound, it means that my uncle is extremely talented and unique from others. He will definitely be able to turn disaster into good fortune, or be extremely peaceful, cut through illusions, and form a top-grade golden elixir, which will last forever." Enjoy the blessings of immortality and live forever."
Seven or eight congratulatory messages in one sentence, with the meaning added repeatedly, are more like a prayer.
At Chixiaofeng Alchemy Courtyard, the child gatekeeper was dozing off with a tail grass in his mouth. Hearing the sound of footsteps, he jumped up excitedly, spread his arms and said, "Lingxiao Peak and dogs are not allowed to enter!"
"Then let's see if I am Ling Xiaofeng or a dog." Ji Xiu's fan hit the child on the head. The child woke up, scratched the top of his head and smiled sheepishly, and quickly held his hands, "Uncle Ji, Senior Sister Shen."
Ji Xiu fanned in a pretentious manner. He glanced at the words on the stone pier and said, "Go back and take this stone pier away."
"That won't work. Grandmaster Huo Rong said that unless Ling Xiaofeng admits that he is a dog, a hundred years will be a hundred years."
"Cough." Ji Xiu covered his face with a fan, feeling quite a headache.
"Uncle Master Ji, could it be that you are here for this matter?" Zhao Ning looked at him and didn't pay much attention to this matter. "Uncle Master, it's better to go directly to Grandmaster Huo Rong."
"That's right." The kid nodded.
Ji Xiu looked at the plaque on the door of the Danyuan and let out a long sigh. He moved into the Danyuan as if he was generously serving charity, but he didn't want to wander around the Danyuan for a long time without seeing Grandmaster Huo Rong.
"It should be in the alchemy room."
Ji Xiu and Zhao Ning walked to the alchemy room. Yueshuang boy was meditating outside the door. When he saw the two coming, he saluted and conveyed, "The master said, if you have anything to say, just say it outside the door. He listened." , then come out.”
Ji Xiu hesitated. He looked at Zhao Ning, who smiled faintly and was helpless.
Ji Xiu had no choice but to move outside the door, leaning against the door with her ear, listening to a lot of noise, and then bowed and dressed, until all the rituals were completed, she knocked on the door and said, "Uncle Master, See you Ji Xiu."
There was no sound inside, so Ji Xiu pinched his throat again and raised his voice.
"Ji Xiu is here to convey the meaning of the elders. The elders said that the fight over elixirs is just a joke among the disciples and cannot be true. There should be no barriers between the same sects. The sect's heart is still biased towards elixirs. Otherwise, we cannot let the Punishment Hall throw Jia Rui and Tu Heng over the cliff."
There was still no sound inside. Ji Xiu was discouraged and leaned on the door frame to look at the yard. He wanted to ask for help, but he didn't want Zhao Ning to play chess with Yueshuang and ignored him at all.
He simply broke the jar and said, "Grandmaster Huo Rong, I heard that in a few days, the elders will come to you for tea in person."
Ji Xiu was stunned when he heard a loud explosion, and saw the two doors in front of him exploded from both sides. Black smoke billowed in the room, and the spiritual energy covered Ji Xiu's body with a halo, blocking the sound of the black smoke.
"Noisy, noisy, annoying, I'm in trouble again."
Grandmaster Huo Rong stood in the door with a chicken coop on his head, covered with a layer of black face, and wrapped in cloth. He was very impatient. He looked up and down at the glamorous Ji Xiu. He raised his eyebrows and Ji Xiu immediately understood. He flashed his spiritual power without hiding his ears, and let the black smoke paint his face and body in black clothes.
He wiped his face and seemed to turn out from the bottom of the pot, grinning with white teeth and holding his hands.
"Grandmaster Huo Rong, you have figured it out. What my nephew said outside just now..."
"I know, I know, otherwise I won't be able to say it in my heart even if I write it on the stone. Ask those elders and young people to come to me for tea. I am very busy making elixirs. Be careful that I deprive their younger generations of their elixirs."
He is worthy of being Master Huorong. Zhao Ning sighed in her heart, she really did as she pleased.
Ji Xiu said awkwardly, "Well, Grandmaster, there is one more thing."
"If you fart, hurry up!"
Ji Xiu coughed and said, "The sect master asked me to get three foundation-building pills and a god-protecting fruit."
"Oh? Which peak's kid is going to build a foundation?"
But Ji Xiu opened his mouth and didn't know how to start. He lowered his head and said in a low voice, "That's it...ahem...that um...Uncle, what you just said..."
Zhao Ning paused and looked up at Ji Xiu. She realized who she was referring to.
——Jia Rui is going to build a foundation.
"That 'dog'?!" Grandmaster Huo Rong raised his foot to kick him, but Ji Xiu stepped back a few steps aggrievedly, "Don't that kid know how to make the best pills? Let him make the best foundation-building pills on his own. I don't know. null."
As he spoke, he turned around and waved his robe sleeves, and the two door panels that had just been shaken out of nowhere flew back again, clinging tightly to the door, making a tight fit.
Ji Xiu looked at Zhao Ning and tried to get Zhao Ning to help intercede.
Zhao Ning looked cold, "Uncle Ji, I'm afraid you don't know that I sent Jia Rui to Siguo Cliff."
"..."
Ji Xiu looked at the Yueshuang boy again, who cupped his hand and said, "The Grand Master said that the Foundation Establishment Pill must be done according to the rules, otherwise the reputation of the Dan Academy will be lost if you act with privileges."
"..."
Ji Xiu looked at the sky.
"Why am I in such trouble? I'm just a messenger."
Chapter 100
The first round of the sect's competition took a month. During this month, Zhao Ning did not go to watch the competition in the outer sect. She had been practicing in the cave.
Having basically completed the physical training in the Storm Secret Realm to reach the sixth level of Qi training, and with the addition of the best marrow purifying pill, Zhao Ning concentrated on breaking through the small bottleneck in the cave, striving to reach the seventh level of Qi training before the second round of the competition.
Time flies by.
A month later, the spiritual energy in the cave fluctuated, forming invisible waves with Zhao Ning as the center. It seemed as if a certain gap had been broken through, the spiritual energy was flowing, and the cultivation level reached another level.
Zhao Ning opened his eyes, and there was a layer of impurities and filth attached to his body. This was the effect of the breakthrough exercise, and the remaining impurities under the skin seeped out of the body.
Zhao Ning pinched the Dust Cleansing Technique and washed herself with the clear spring. Her whole body was completely renewed, her face was like jade, her skin was like gelatin, and a trace of otherworldly temperament lingered around her body.
She raised her hand and opened it slightly, spiritual energy lingering on her fingertips. If the spiritual energy was just a stream before, it has now widened into a small river.
In the stage of Qi training, the lower level of Qi training is to open the nine orifices and the six internal organs, so as to nourish the soul. The middle level of Qi training is to exercise the body and cleanse the marrow, so as to escape from secular life. At the high level of Qi training, it is the accumulation of real spiritual energy. In the first stage, the spiritual energy needs to be opened at 365 acupoints and incorporated into the twelve main meridians and the eight extraordinary meridians, so as to form a great acquired circulation and open up the sea of qi in the Dantian.
Therefore, the strength in high-level Qi training is completely different from that in low-level Qi training and mid-level Qi training, and it is easy to double the strength.
Zhao Ning sat on the stone table in the cave, drank a cup of tea, and took out two pill bottles in her hands, each containing a pill.
The elixir bottles contained top quality Qi Gathering elixirs, but one was purchased from Qiandanfang in Jinxiu Town, and the other was taken at the Qingxiao Sect Secret Photography Club.
She looked at the two elixir bottles in her hands and took off the corks. The medicinal power slowly spread out, and the fragrance hit her nostrils. But then the two medicinal fragrances intertwined, instantly triggering spiritual chaos in a small area, and even faint violence. feeling.
With a flick of his finger, Zhao Ning crushed the two Qi Gathering Pills into powder. The powders were mixed together, and there was a slight crackling sound.
Obviously, these two Qi Gathering Pills cannot be used at the same time. If they are taken internally, it would be fine if they are taken separately, but if the interval is not long, the spiritual energy and meridians will be damaged if they are taken.
This is not a mistake. Zhao Ning was silent. It seemed that this girl Yanyue had a deep hostility towards the "best" techniques on the market.
With a slight wave of his sleeves, all traces of the moment disappeared instantly.
Zhao Ning took a sip of tea, whether it was Yan Yue or Jia Rui, whether it was because of the mystery of Haoyang or the anger of the best, it had nothing to do with her. Now, she just wanted to improve her cultivation as soon as possible, and not to be swept away by this undercurrent. involved in a volatile situation.
Zhao Ning came out of the cave. Several little demon spirits at the door were still sleeping among the flowers. In a few months, these little demon spirits had grown somewhat human-like. When they saw Zhao Ning, they jumped up and ran away happily. Go to Zhao Ning's feet.
"Little senior sister, little senior sister, come out."
"Little Senior Sister, Little Senior Sister, you are going out again."
"Little Senior Sister, Little Senior Sister, we have taken good care of the flowers and grass."
The little demon spirits pointed their fingers and looked at Zhao Ning with round eyes.
Zhao Ning smiled, patted their little heads one by one, and handed them a few Qi Gathering Pills.
The little demon spirits cheered and got into the flowers.
Zhao Ning left the inner gate, and the sun had just passed over the treetops. Today seemed to be the last day of the first round of the competition, and the final twenty disciples should be competing.
Xiaobi's arena is located in front of the Chuan Gong Hall. The square in front of the hall connects the low-hanging clouds and expands into a cloud platform with a radius of more than a hundred feet. There are ten arenas on the platform. Countless disciples under the arena watch around and cheer from time to time. .
Looking towards the direction of the Chuan Gong Hall, five stewards of the outer gate stood on both sides. Above them, several elders wearing bright yellow Dao pattern robes sat cross-legged on the table, drinking tea and communicating. The highest position was a dark purple Dao pattern. A middle-aged elder in a robe, he closes his eyes and meditates, does not participate in communication, and does not pay attention to the situation in the audience. His cultivation is like a vast ocean, making people afraid to pry. This is Elder Jindan.
Zhao Ning withdrew her attention, looked around the crowd, and saw Guo Ying'er in the crowd.
"Junior Sister Guo?" This is the final competition. Appearing in the crowd of onlookers probably means that she has been eliminated.
Guo Ying'er didn't seem to be depressed. She greeted Zhao Ning happily. Noticing the doubts in Zhao Ning's words, she shrugged, "I picked the senior brother at the top of the mountain. You know him. He was there during the summoning order." I am famous for having a sledgehammer weighing several thousand kilograms. When the hammer presses on my body, it must not crush the person, so I came down very self-aware.”
Zhao Ning nodded and said nothing more.
His eyes turned to the ring. There were two people fighting in the ring. One of them looked familiar. It was Huo Hui who told them about the rules of the competition that day.
Huo Hui's body skills were extremely agile and he easily dodged the opponent's continuous attacks. The opponent was at the eighth level of Qi training and consumed a lot of spiritual energy. His face was very ugly. He lowered his left hand and touched his fingertips on his belt, as if he wanted to quietly He took something out silently, but didn't want it to be empty, which made his movements a little abrupt.
"What do you want, senior brother?" Huo Hui smiled, "But this thing?"
He raised his hand, and it turned out to be an elixir. The elixir was bright yellow, and there was a faint sound of roaring tigers and dragons.
The audience was in an uproar.
"Dragon Tiger Pill? Isn't that a pill that forcibly increases three levels of mana? It can only last for seven breaths. After seven breaths, it will be depleted for seven days. The side effects are too great."
"Why is the focus on the side effects? Shouldn't the focus be that he is cheating?! This pill is a banned drug in Xiaobi! It is not allowed to be taken."
The elders on the platform did not seem to notice the situation here and did not make a decision.
Brother Du immediately argued, "Dragon Tiger Pill? What a joke, do you still need Dragon Tiger Pill to beat your junior brother who is at the seventh level of qi training? Brother, it is really wrong to blame your opponent. I will send you down for my brother's sake!"
