Everyone knows that refining qi to advance to foundation building is a bottleneck. Some people may not be able to do it in their lifetime, while some people can achieve it in one go. But for Jiuzhou, which has been passed down for more than four million years, the former basically does not exist. They have hundreds of kinds. Pills and various secret techniques can forcefully cross the bottleneck, but it's just a matter of resources.
After all, the Fuye Liang family was once a large family in Daze, Pingyang, and they still had this background. For Liang Xuandi, who placed the hope of the whole family, the entire family's resources were concentrated on him.
However, everything went against expectations. For ten years, most of the resources were consumed. Liang Xuandi's bottleneck was like an insurmountable chasm. Even the Cangyuan Sect sent people to look at it, and finally came to the conclusion that Liang Xuandi's Dantian could not be gathered. The spiritual energy that is enough to support the foundation building is hopeless in this life.
As a result, the line between the Fuye Liang family and the Cangyuan sect was finally broken.
The originally high-spirited young man has disappeared all day long. Finally, he is seen again, and his whole person exudes a negative and frustrated mood.
Every time Liang Ji thought of the prophecy of the old Taoist priest and the words "irresolvable", his heart bleeds. He drank wine over and over again. He was so drunk that he could drink it even in the realm of golden elixir. He turned around and went to Yisu. Yard run.
Howling vaguely, "Xiao Zhao Ning, my Liang family depends on you. Why haven't the fate of Taoist priest arrived yet..."
He tried to open the door, trying to tell Zhao Ning, "Don't forget the kindness you gave me in raising you. When you get rich in the future, you must give back to the Liang family..."
However, even though the door was unlocked and no one was behind to support it, the door could not be opened.
Zhao Ning was like a bystander, quietly watching the farce of these thirteen years.
Thirteen years later, the elders of the Liang family no longer tolerated it. Afterwards, the clan meeting deprived Liang Ji of his power, and instead promoted Liang Yi from another lineage. Although Liang Yi's lineage was not outstanding, his wife Fang Ji was. Liang Xuanlang, a descendant of the family of a member of the Pingyang Daze sect, built the foundation three years ago, and was the first among the younger generation to do so.
In the early morning of this day, Zhao Ning was soaking in the ground essence dew in the back mountain forest. This was the first drop of dew condensed by the earth essence grass in the morning. It has no roots and no fate. It is the most fragrant when used to make spiritual tea, and the earth essence grass has the effect of nourishing the mind and accumulating the spirit.
When the sun was rising, I had only half of the jade bottle in it. I was about to go down the mountain when I saw a young man sitting cross-legged on the protruding cliff and practicing. After a while, he suddenly became discouraged. He lay down straight back and roared in collapse. .
Sixteen-year-old Zhao Ning was startled and poked her head in the forest, "Big brother?"
Twenty-two-year-old Liang Xuandi was still paralyzed on the ground.
As soon as Zhao Ningfu approached, Liang Xuandi murmured, "It failed again. This is the three hundred and ninety-ninth time."
Zhao Ning didn't answer, but he stood up and sat cross-legged on the ground, "Zhao Ning, do you think this is God playing tricks on me again? He clearly... made me so unique, and then he did this to me again!"
unique? Are you talking about your previous talent as a genius? Does not look like. Zhao Ning thought, he didn't care much about his qualifications before.
Zhao Ning knelt down and comforted, "Brother, don't be discouraged. All good things come in hard times. Didn't my father always say that when you were a child, an old Taoist priest told your fortune? This is a small calamity in your life. Once you survive it, you will become a world-shaking power." .”
"That old Taoist priest seems to be a magic stick!" Liang Xuandi said angrily, "He also said that he was destined to you and would accept you as his disciple in the future. You can't even practice cultivation and you are weak and sick, and he didn't come to save you."
As soon as Liang Xuandi blurted out the words, he realized that what he said was wrong and immediately apologized in a panic, "I'm sorry, Xiao Zhao Ning, look at the big brother's mouth."
He was about to slap himself when Zhao Ning stopped him and smiled lightly, "It doesn't matter. Brother is telling the truth. I don't care."
Liang Xuandi looked at her. Under the morning sun, the sixteen-year-old Zhao Ning was quiet and clear. The red leaves between her eyebrows added to her beauty. She didn't look like a mortal girl with a miserable fate, but more like a little fairy who looked down on everything in this world. .
As a result, Liang Xuandi stared blankly, then he suddenly shook his head and slapped himself again.
Zhao Ning was stunned, realizing that Liang Xuandi was getting more and more crazy recently. She took out a spiritual fruit from her sleeve pocket and gave it to him.
Liang Xuandi didn't want it, "Brother is fasting. If you're not hungry, you can eat it yourself."
Zhao Ning kept the gesture of handing it over and said with a smile, "Brother, eat it. Today is your birthday. If you taste the spiritual fruit, you will get what you wish for."
Liang Xuandi was startled and took the spiritual fruit in a daze, "This is the first time I heard this statement... Time flies so fast, it has been twenty-two years."
He took a bite, and the juice overflowed. It was sweet and delicious. The sweetness took away the lingering bitterness in his heart. He took a big bite and said vaguely, "I haven't eaten this spiritual fruit before. It's really good. Where is it?" Picked."
Zhao Ning shook his head, "It was given by the deer in the mountains."
Liang Xuandi was speechless again. In fact, his fourth sister, who had no blood relationship and suddenly appeared, did not have a miserable fate. After all, there were weird things around her. They were the kind of weird people who were very lucky. It would clear up when they went out, and it would clear up when they entered the mountains. There was no mist, small animals would give her spiritual fruits when she was hungry, and deer would wander out to carry her on her back when she was tired...
"Let's go. I'll take you back." Liang Xuandi stood up and led the way, with Zhao Ning following behind.
Liang Xuandi was not as high-spirited as before. When he walked, his back was slightly bowed, his head was slightly hung, and his eyes were not looking at the ground.
He stopped talking, and the irritability in his heart rose again.
"Xiao Zhao Ning, tell me, if I jump off this mountain, will I break through? Isn't that to put myself to death and survive? With such a stimulus, will the bottleneck be broken without attacking?"
Zhao Ning thought carefully for a while and answered him, "Brother, the height of the back mountain is only forty feet. With the physical strength of your Qi-training Dzogchen, you cannot fall to death. At most, your legs will be broken, so it won't be possible." Put him to death'."
Liang Xuandi became even more depressed after hearing this, and walked forward with his head down.
So when he arrived at Liang's house, he bumped into several unruly peers and didn't even have time to avoid them.
The other party's sarcastic voice came to his ears, "Hey, isn't this the 'Tianjiao' Young Master Xuandi? Why did he come back with such a sad face? Maybe he failed to break through the foundation building again. Oh, this is the first time, I'm afraid. A thousand and eight hundred times, haha..."
Liang Xuandi clenched his fists and refrained from speaking.
The speaker was Liang Xuanhai, the youngest son of Liang Yi's lineage. He was nineteen years old and had just completed his Qi practice.
The side brothers beside him also echoed and sarcastically said, "I haven't been able to build the foundation for hundreds of times, so I'd better give up. Anyway, you can't even think about the title of Jiuzhou Tianjiao. You don't deserve the title of Xianzhou Tianjiao. Why don't we call you Dilongyuan?" Be proud of it."
Dilong Courtyard is the courtyard where Liang Xuandi lives. The name was specially changed by Liang Ji after the old Taoist priest told fortunes. He probably wanted to boast that his son was a dragon among men, but now it has become a casual ridicule.
There were only Liang Xuandi and a few maids and boys in the courtyard. The meaning of these words was self-evident. Liang Xuandi was furious and couldn't bear it anymore. He stepped forward and directly picked up the front collar of the side branch.
"You are just a waste at the seventh level of qi training, and you still dare to ridicule me. You don't want to live anymore, right -"
The rest of the people also gathered up.
Zhao Ning looked calm and only took a step forward. Without waiting for a word, the group of people across from him relaxed. They were a little afraid. It was not because they were afraid of Zhao Ning's lack of cultivation, but because the clan elders had warned him not to provoke Zhao Ning. , Those who know understand that it is the matter of the old Taoist priest, and those who do not know will not casually involve a sister from the family.
Liang Xuanhai snorted, "Liang Xuandi, this is the fact. Anyone can criticize you. You don't have a few good days left. Next month, Ansui Island's once-in-a-decade registration competition will begin. If your family cannot enter the top ten, I have heard that all your training resources will be taken away and you will be sent to Shannan to run a business."
Before he left, he passed by Liang Xuandi's left side and said, "Young master, do your best."
"you--"
Liang Xuandi pointed angrily, but he was already gone.
"Hey!" Liang Xuandi tossed his sleeves angrily and strode towards the family.
Zhao Ning fell behind leisurely. Liang Xuandi walked most of the corridor, suddenly stopped, turned around and said to Zhao Ning, "What does the proud son of Jiuzhou and the proud son of Xianzhou have to do with me? My father back then A joke has now become a poisonous needle for me. I am now practicing Qi Dzogchen, but I am not without any cultivation..."
He suddenly stopped talking, howled irritably again, turned his head and strode forward.
Zhao Ning followed behind and whispered, "Whether it is a name or a cultivation level, there is never a final conclusion. Those who are greedy for fame love their name, those who are hidden are afraid of their fame, those who have no cultivation level want to go to heaven and earth, and those who have cultivation level want to be ordinary. After a lifetime, in the final analysis, a cup of loess is all vain."
Liang Xuandi paused again, turned around and looked at Zhao Ning like a monster, "You...what were you talking about just now?"
Zhao Ning innocently raised her hand and pointed to a house outside the corridor. Through the hanging window, she saw a painting hanging on it. In the painting, there was loess and sky, with an inscription in the middle - Floating life is few, the road is nowhere to be found, a cup of loess, It ends up being empty.
That should be the pen of the ancestors of the Liang family. The ancestors created the Liang family in Fuye, but they were never promoted. When they were dying, they painted and inscribed. The Liang family felt that the meaning was not good, so they kept it, but somehow it was hung up.
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Zhao Ning's life was still peaceful. He collected dew in the morning, made tea at midnight, took a nap at noon, read at midnight, and went to bed at midnight. Liang Xuandi always said that Zhao Ning was boring when he came here. A few years ago, he kept saying that he would take Zhao Ning out. He walked away, but later on his troubles affected his mood more and more, so he let it go.
On this day, Zhao Ning took out a book.
Wanjiang Yu is a travel diary. I heard it was written by a senior Nascent Soul. It records the mountains, rivers and lakes he traveled through when he became a mortal.
It took this senior 500 years to become a mortal and travel across all nine continents. Zhao Ning accidentally found this book in the library and followed the words in the book to travel all over nine continents.
Jiuzhou, officially named Yu Yu Jiuzhongtian, is said to have been created by Taoist Yu Yu thousands of years ago.
After a long period of time, Taoist Yu Yu ascended to the void and left, causing violent turmoil in Yu Yu Jiuchong Heaven. After stabilization, he experienced a catastrophe more than four million years ago, and the order of Yu Yu Jiuchong Heaven was reshaped. The sky has entered the Jiuzhou era.
To this day, no one can know what that catastrophe was. They only know that this catastrophe almost made Yu Yu Jiuchongtian completely non-existent.
Jiuzhou has eight continents, Xianzhou, Suizhou, Congzhou, Gengzhou, Chengzhou, Xianzhou, Shenzhou and Kuozhou. The rest of the land is covered by ocean.
Taking the Xianzhou continent as a reference point, Congzhou is to the west, a wild Gobi land; Gengzhou is to the south, a continent with a radius of only 30,000 miles and the smallest of the eight continents; Chengzhou is still further south, a strange place The ice and fire region...
And Suizhou is in the extreme north and east, in the ice sheet area...
To the east, you have to cross millions of miles of sea to reach Shenzhou. Shenzhou is the boundary of the islands that are gathered together. It is also called the Xingluo Islands. Some people even say that the islands of Shenzhou should be divided into two. Dividing two continents, these are nine continents. It is more reasonable to call Yu Yu Jiuchongtian Jiuzhou, but this statement was rejected.
Further east of Shenzhou is Kuozhou. The landform of Kuozhou is like a falling dragon. The continent spreads vertically, connecting the extreme north and the extreme south. The ridges are high and spiritual energy is lacking, so it is sparsely populated.
Just below Shenzhou is Xianzhou, which is a very hot area.
The author of Wanjiangyu came from Shenzhou and went all the way north. He experienced the weird climate of Chengzhou and met the mysterious ethnic group of Gengzhou. Until he stepped into Xianzhou Daze, he sighed, "Xianzhou is really rich. place."
This wealth refers to the abundance of spiritual resources. The landscape of the outer mountains and the inner swamp forms a natural barrier. The development of the inner swamp does not need to worry about the invasion or harassment of evil cultivators from the continent. The overflow of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth blocked by the mountains to a certain extent makes the heaven and earth within the swamp The spiritual energy is three times or more rich than outside the mainland. It also makes Xianzhou less likely to have harsh weather. Although it rains a lot, most of the elixirs and spiritual trees grow better. As for the islands in the big swamp, they naturally contain With a large amount of spiritual minerals...
Even the author who traveled around Jiuzhou couldn't help but stay in Xianzhou for a longer time. Broken and complex.
The Liang family is located in the Futai Mountain area in the east of Xianzhou, adjacent to Pingyang Daze, which is also Pingyang Mansion.
Zhao Ning turned over a page and saw that the author mentioned Pingyang Daze a thousand years ago. At that time, there were many sects in Daze and geniuses emerged in large numbers. Geniuses often practiced on the river. The great power above God either walks in the sky or rides a magical mount to the cave to participate in the grand meeting.
The first half of the book was here, and Zhao Ning was still not finished. Just as the newly brewed tea was boiling, she poured a cup, thought about it, poured another cup and put it next to it.
This practice happened from time to time. Sometimes Mo Lan and the others would ask about it, and Zhao Ning would just smile and say nothing. Sometimes Liang Xuandi would barge in dejectedly without thinking about drinking the tea in one gulp, so Mo Lan and others thought that this cup of tea had been prepared for Liang Xuandi.
But only Zhao Ning knew that this tea was for the immortal who had been protecting her.
Although...she no longer remembers what the god looks like, she knows that he has always been by her side.
Zhao Ning sat in front of the desk, freeing her mind and looking outside through the window. There was a red maple tree in the courtyard. Liang Ji transplanted it specially when he saw the red leaves between Zhao Ning's eyebrows. This red maple tree, which is nearly a century old, She is old and especially red, but she loves falling leaves. The breeze blows and the red leaves are whirling.
She withdrew her gaze, unfolded a piece of white paper, polished the ink, and drew a red maple. However, the red maple tree was grown, but the tree was empty. For a moment, she didn't know how to write.
After a long time, a scream suddenly came from outside the door, "Fourth girl, something happened, something happened to Master Xuandi!"
Zhao Ning moved her fingertips, and ink dripped from the tip of the pen, causing ink dots to appear under the tree. The painting was invalid. She had no time to clean up, so she followed Mo Lan to the ancestral hall.
Outside the ancestral hall, Xuandi was being forced to kneel on the ground. Several clan elders were standing aside with cold expressions. The head of the family, Liang Yi, was holding the magic whip, intending to use family methods.
Mrs. Liang Ji held Liang Xuandi in her arms and cried, "What does it have to do with my son if the elixir is stolen from the warehouse? Four members of the Ji-building tribe are guarding it. My son can only practice Qi to perfection, how can he get it?! You don't interrogate the guards? , but instead gave my son the expert advice, how ridiculous!"
Liang Ji hasn't come yet, he's probably drunk again.
Liang Ji is now nearly 400 years old. He has a low-grade golden elixir. He has no false soul in this life. He got married early and had a son. However, he had three children, all of whom died in infancy except Liang Xuandi.
Zhao Ning saw the annoyance on Liang Xuandi's face and lowered her eyes, thinking that this matter had something to do with Liang Xuandi.
So, when Mo Lan urged "Four girls to speak to the eldest young master," she remained silent.
One of the clan elders threw a jade plaque on the ground, which was the hanging ornament on Liang Xuandi's waist.
Mrs. Liang Ji was startled. Liang Xuandi's witness items were put out. She straightened her back and said, "Yes, I took them. It was just some Huang Ganoderma and Qi Condensing Fruit. I just took them. Anyway, I took them." Come to make elixirs."
Liang Yi laughed angrily, "Huang Lingzhi, Qi Condensing Fruit, my nephew originally wanted to build a foundation, so when you took these, did you burn most of the warehouse?"
"You are so slanderous!" Liang Xuandi retorted, "Why should I burn down the warehouse? Am I crazy?"
"Who knows, maybe some people know that they will be exiled in the near future, and want to steal more elixirs, and use the pretense of a fire in the warehouse to hide it." Liang Xuanhai said strangely.
"No, the warehouse is blessed with formations, and the fire cannot be ignited easily." Mrs. Liang Ji defended.
"Normally, it can't be lit, but the Dragon's Beard Crimson Fruit can!" Liang Yi said coldly, "The Dragon's Beard Crimson Fruit in the underground forbidden room happened to be missing, and they said you didn't steal it!"
Huang Ganoderma and Qi Condensing Fruit are only elixirs in the Qi training stage, so they are nothing to the Liang family, but Dragon Beard Vermilion Fruit is an elixir in the Golden Elixir stage, which can help break through the bottleneck of the Golden Elixir, and is very precious.
