The waves bloom only for a moment, but they are more beautiful than a thousand-year-old stone.
In this vast fairyland, sometimes it seems that time does not exist. No matter how many thousands of years have passed, the waves are still crashing on the shore and the rocks seem to have remained unchanged.
Five years later.
One day, in front of a reef stall along the coast of Biyou Island, there were thousands of water droplets, half suspended in the air. However, these water droplets gradually turned into needles and suddenly shot towards a reef.
"Whoosh whoosh."
Under the blast of massive water needles, stone debris flew into the air, and the rock was soon riddled with holes and eventually shattered.
"The method of controlling air and controlling spirits seems not too far away from Dacheng. In addition to improving the efficiency of using spiritual energy, it also indirectly increases the number of spiritual insects that can be controlled. With my current strength, I may be able to control 200,000 spiritual insects. . If we break through to the later stage of foundation building, there may be more, but I’m afraid it will be difficult to exceed 300,000 during the foundation building period.”
Zhang Liang held the pulse measuring bead and saw that there were still only eight spiritual threads on it, but there was still a looming thread that seemed not to be completely condensed.
This means that so far, I still have an eighth-level spiritual root, which is still a little short of a ninth-level spiritual root.
"It's so difficult! I thought it would take five years to reach the ninth level of spiritual root, but I didn't expect it would still not be enough."
Zhang Liang sighed, then grabbed the air with one hand, and a ball of high-pressure water gathered under his palm. However, the water ball seemed not to be moving, but in fact it was spinning at high speed. It was just that it was spinning too fast, as if it was not moving.
"Hey~"
As the water ball burst out, it was like a streak of green light, hitting a rock. With a "bang" sound, a large circular hole was suddenly smashed out of the rock, and it was penetrated from front to back.
However, the high-pressure water ball was not completely exhausted. Instead, it crashed into the sea, and then a huge wave surged out of the sea water.
After one wave, there is another wave, and it takes three waves to stop.
After a few more breaths passed, I heard the sound of "click, click, click", and the previous rock was actually covered with cracks.
"In comparison, the Eight Fighting Techniques are a bit simpler. In five years, I have mastered the secrets of Spiral Energy, Explosive Qi Technique, Overlapping Wave Technique, and Water Explosion Technique. As expected, in another five years, the other four techniques will also be mastered. Be able to master it skillfully.”
Zhang Liang finally had some psychological comfort. Although he had a second-level fighting technique, if he hadn't mastered the first level, how could he talk about the second level?
Call it a day after practice.
Zhang Liang took out a demon pill, put it in his mouth, swallowed it, and continued to refine the demon pill.
Although he suppressed his magic power cultivation, he never stopped refining his body, but he did not practice it deliberately. But in the meantime, he had tried to transform into his true body, and it had reached a height of 156 meters. It is estimated that when he reaches the peak of the sixth level of body refining, his body length may be nearly 200 meters.
After a while, Zhang Liang returned to Sunflower Mountain and saw a spiritual book flying towards him.
When he took it and looked at it, he said it was Yang Xue's spiritual book. He said that the five-year period had come and Mu Yue had already advanced to the second level of body refining.
However, Zhang Liang had no intention of going out at all. Instead, he directly replied in the spiritual book: "Pass on "Peach Blossom Yin" and come back when you have reached the first level of Qi training."
Sometimes, suppression is to better explode. With his current perspective, he already knows that it is not a matter of time to practice sooner or later. Morning training is required for physical training, but not for Qi training.
And he believes that physical training is the foundation of everything, and even Qi training can complement each other.
However, this time, only three months passed.
Yang Xue then sent another message saying that Yang Xue had entered the first level of Qi training.
Seeing this, Zhang Liang thought for a while, it was not a problem to keep cultivating his mind, and it was time to relax a little.
Black Wind Insect Farm, the farm owner's mansion.
Zhang Liang's demeanor remains the same, he still looks like a handsome and handsome young man. No one would have guessed that Zhang Liang is already over fifty years old.
At this moment, the 21-year-old Mu Yue has grown from a young girl to a young girl. Due to years of physical training, her legs are slender, soft and curvy, and her graceful figure seems to be on her body. Infused with a touch of elegance and beauty.
Her face is elegant, her eyebrows are clear, her eyes are pure and crystal clear, like a clear spring, and she has a fresh and refined aura of a girl.
Just listen to Zhang Liang say: "Mu Yue, in the past eight years, this mountain master has only taught you the method of body training, but not the method of cultivation. Have you ever complained or been angry?"
Mu Yue was slightly panicked and said: "Mu Yue didn't dare... but, I did think about it."
Zhang Liang nodded slightly: "You are quite sincere. From the beginning when you entered the Black Wind Insect Field, I knew Yang Xue's intention of bringing you here. Now, I will give you two more options. One is the same as Chen Mo. , this young master will send you to Lingxian Palace. With your current foundation, although your spiritual roots are not enough, you can still be taken seriously. Secondly, follow this mountain master and take over Yang Xue’s position, but this will be very lonely, because this mountain master You should know that the Lord is in retreat all year round.”
This time, Mu Yueyi did not hesitate at all as when she first came: "Mu Yue is willing to follow the mountain master and serve everyone in this life."
"Well, that's it, follow me into the house, young master!"
Mu Yue's body trembled slightly, and her heart suddenly pounded.
Half a day later.
Zhang Liang left refreshed and walked out of the venue owner's house, only to see Yang Xue waiting here all the time.
Seeing this, Zhang Liang just said lightly: "From today on, I will slowly hand over the matters in your hands to Mu Yue!"
When Yang Xue heard the words, she suddenly became energetic and her face showed joy: "Yes, the mountain master."
Zhang Liang asked again: "Yang Xun resigned three years ago, what's going on now?"
Yang Xue hurriedly said: "My ancestor is now 109 years old, and he is still in good health. The younger members of the clan take him around the mortal world, but he often talks about the mountain master."
Zhang Liang nodded slightly: "Well, that's fine, you can cultivate to immortality! If you feel that you really can't cultivate, you will eventually end up in the mortal world. Things in the world are often much more exciting than cultivating to immortality."
Yang Xue sighed slightly in her heart, why didn't she know? However, there always needs to be someone in the clan, so that the clan can maintain its prosperity for generations.
Of course, what they want is not glory, but building an orthodox immortal cultivating family. This is a great cause that countless mortals are willing to devote their lives to.
After Zhang Liang left, Yang Xue immediately entered the owner's house and wanted to ask Mu Yue what happened.
However, when she saw Mu Yue on the bed with her spiritual energy dissipated badly, she couldn't help but exclaimed: "How is it possible to practice the fourth level of Qi training? How did the mountain master do it?"
Yang Xue was shocked, her eyes filled with disbelief.
You know, Mu Yue was only at the first level of Qi training a moment ago and was in the stage of entraining Qi.
However, in just half a day, he was promoted to the fourth level of Qi training, which simply overturned Yang Xue's cognition.
Zhang Liang naturally used the method of dual cultivation, because Mu Yue's strength was too low and she had almost no magic power, so even if Zhang Liang used the method of dual cultivation, he would not actually get any gain.
On the contrary, the benefits Mu Yue received were too great. If Zhang Liang exposed himself just a little bit, Mu Yue's magic power would increase by leaps and bounds.
Zhang Liang even discovered. Precisely because Mu Yue's cultivation level is too low, so by practicing with her, she can also transfer all spiritual energy to the past, slightly easing the pain of suppressing her own cultivation level.
At this moment, Mu Yue's face was red with embarrassment: "Aunt Xue, I don't know either. I... I only know that my body is out of control, spiritual energy is pouring in crazily, and breaking through the realm is as easy as drinking water."
Yang Xue couldn't help but feel a little jealous. She thought that her spiritual roots were really inferior. If it weren't for her beauty, it would be difficult for her to get close to Zhang Liang.
If my spiritual roots were a little higher, I might be able to do what Mu Yue did. Just half a day is worth half a lifetime of cultivation for some people.
I only heard Yang Xue sighing leisurely: "It seems that the mountain master knew this, and all this is most likely related to your insistence on physical training. You know, Yang Jian has practiced first-level high-grade skills, and so far he has only practiced the fourth level of Qi. Then Chen Mo's spiritual root is at the eighth level. This year he wrote that he is practicing at the third level of spiritual veins, but he is only at the fifth level of Qi training... Yue'er, you are in great luck! The Mu family is about to rise."
Mu Yue couldn't help but feel a little confused. She came with the heavy task of revitalizing the family. Now, this heavy task was suddenly completed, and she felt a little confused for a moment.
But gradually, Mu Yue's eyes became brighter. Does this mean that from this moment on, she can live for herself?
…
Three more years later.
On this day, Zhang Liang felt that his body had an instinctive breakthrough and finally reached the sixth level of body refining.
In the past eight years, Zhang Liang has never deliberately practiced physical training, otherwise he might have been able to achieve a breakthrough two years in advance.
However, from today on, Zhang Liang knows that within the scope of Lingxian Island, he has become a real strong man. It can be said that as long as the master of Lingxian Palace does not take action, the number of people who can pose a threat to him will not exceed the number of his hands.
Of course, that is without using various complex formations and spiritual talismans, otherwise it would be difficult to say. But the sixth level of body refining is an important milestone for Zhang Liang.
Because once the sixth level of body refining is completed, it will be the pinnacle. Once reaching the peak, it will be a catastrophe, and Zhang Liang is also very worried about this.
One month after his breakthrough in body refining, Zhang Liang was promoted to the ninth level of spiritual root.
This marrow cleansing lasted for eight years and finally reached the ninth level of spiritual root. From today on, Zhang Liang is finally no longer an ordinary cultivator with mediocre qualifications, and may be worthy of the title of "Tianjiao".
Of course, this is only compared to most people. But compared with the core disciples of Lingxian Palace, it is still not enough.
Even the colored glaze in Pinxian Tower has high-grade spiritual roots. It seems that I have nothing to be proud of with my mere ninth-level spiritual roots.
Fortunately, Zhang Liang has not yet felt any signs of peaking in the middle stage of Qi training. This is a good thing. It means that he still has a chance to sprint for Haipin Linggen again.
The so-called ninth level of mortal level is still ordinary level after all. The level of the spiritual root determines the limit of the practitioner's immortal path. Ordinary people, even if they practice to the point of death, they will not be able to transcend the secular world. Even if they practice to the golden elixir or even the Nascent Soul, their strength will still be worse than that of high-level spiritual roots of the same level. And as the strength increases, the gap will become wider and wider.
As for Haipin, the definition of this grade is actually more like a measurement standard.
Regardless of the difference between Haipin and ninth-level spiritual roots, there is only one level difference, but the potential they contain is completely different.
As mentioned before, under the same circumstances, the gap between the ninth-level spiritual roots and the high-level spiritual roots after transcendence will become wider and wider.
If we say that 90% of the creatures in the Immortal Sea have ordinary spiritual roots, then only 10% are those with advanced spiritual roots. And of this 80%, Haipin accounts for 80% to 90%.
It is not difficult to understand the significance of Haipin’s existence. It far exceeds the mortal level, but is significantly lower than the earth-level and heaven-level spiritual roots. He is considered a first-time genius, but not quite a genius.
As for Zhang Liang, what he is trying to do now is to transcend the secular world and strive to become one of the geniuses in the immortal sea, even if he is only the bottom genius.
…
Year 12.
Zhang Liang announced to the public that Zhang Liang was on the verge of turning sixty and had successfully built the foundation, which attracted a lot of congratulations.
Among Zhao Feisu's group, only Zhao Feisu succeeded in building the foundation, while all the others failed. Chen Yin was building the foundation forcibly, but he always stopped at the initial level of foundation building.
Zhang Liang went to Lingxian Island and wanted to tell Rao Yaoyao about this, but Rao Yaoyao was not there. He went to have a drink with Fu Lan, and then found out what mission Rao Yaoyao had gone on and that he had been gone for four or five years.
Zhang Liang thought that in this case, the fact that he had built a foundation was just a lie anyway, and there seemed to be no need to tell others in a hurry, so he returned to Biyou Island.
This year.
Zhang Liang has mastered the art of controlling air and controlling spirits to the extreme. The number of spirit insects he can control exceeds 200,000, and he can control up to 3,000 water beads at the same time.
However, from the moment when he had reached the ultimate level of Qi Controlling and Spirit Controlling, Zhang Liang felt that he had reached the peak of the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, and the Qi Controlling Spirit Controlling Technique already felt a little unbearable.
Feeling this, Zhang Liang immediately started to mess around.
He began to spend a lot of time every day studying the art of refining weapons, setting up formations, and even learned how to make spiritual talismans.
At the same time, he originally had to practice double cultivation with Mu Yue every three years, but now it has been changed to dual cultivation once a year.
Of course, Zhang Liang himself would definitely not be happy with this kind of dual cultivation. He just wanted to relieve the pain of suppressing his cultivation through dual cultivation.
Fifteen years later.
When Mu Yue broke through to the seventh level of Qi training, Zhang Lian found that even practicing with Mu Yue could not relieve the pain of suppressing his cultivation. Only if the cultivation level is really low, will there be a little effect. It can only be said to be better than nothing. Now there is nothing to alleviate it.
Eighteen years later.
Because of a long period of messing around, Zhang Liang was finally promoted from a first-level high-grade weapon refiner to a second-level weapon refiner by using means such as refining weapons and setting up formations to divert his attention.
As for the formations, because occasionally the Tianlei Sect's formation experience and other things surpassed the weapon refining, and now it has reached the second level of mid-grade.
As for making talismans for fun, Zhang Liang only reached the first-level mid-level. Because marrow cleansing often caused irritability, his progress was slow.
At this moment, Zhang Liang was holding a pulse measuring bead with nine spiritual threads on it.
The tenth spiritual thread will not appear on the pulse measuring bead. Once it exceeds the ninth level spiritual root, the pulse measuring bead itself will emit light.
In fact, this pulse measuring bead occasionally shows a faint blue shimmer, but it is not enough. It can only be said that Zhang Liang has worked hard to suppress it so far, and has washed the marrow to the point where it is infinitely close to the Haipin spiritual root, but it is not Haipin yet. .
"I can't hold it anymore."
Zhang Liang was suffering every moment. He could no longer control his energy and spirit control, and his meridians were escaping spiritual energy.
If this continues, within a month, he will definitely break through the middle stage of foundation building. By then, the marrow cleansing will be completed and the spiritual root enhancement will be completely over.
However, how could Zhang Liang be willing to do so?
If he misses this opportunity, where will he go to find the aura of the fairy spirit? In the words of Heizu, it is impossible to find it in the shabby place around the gathering of hundreds of demons.
To be honest, those around the Hundred Demons Gathering, Ten Thousand Demons Mansion, and Yubei Demon City can almost instantly kill the Hidden Dragon Sea in terms of combat power level.
Just one Hundred Demons Gathering can gather nearly ten thousand foundations, can Lingxian Palace do the same?
Even if they can, most of them are the ones that Rao Yaoyao said, who forcefully break through, but end up getting stuck when they first enter the foundation building. Although such people have the name of foundation building, they are actually far behind the real foundation building because they have no room for growth.
Moreover, Zhang Liang estimated that Lingxian Palace could not have nearly 10,000 foundations.
Among the millions of disciples who can reach the peak of Qi training before the age of sixty, a tenth is already a lot. After all, the growth of cultivation realm is mostly based on repeated experiences.
And through experience, how can anyone be immortal? Who can survive and successfully reach the peak of Qi training, who has no strength and no chance?
Moreover, even if most people can reach the peak of Qi training, they will already be old and lack Qi and blood by then, so they are destined to have no hope of building a foundation.
At this point, you may find that there are nearly 100,000 people who can carry out foundation building. But don’t forget, who doesn’t have to study for a long time before building a foundation?
In addition, they also have to get the Foundation Building Pill and the Tongmai Pill. Once they get it, they can't be intercepted.
Even if you go to build the foundation successfully, something unexpected happens and you are stuck in the foundation building state for the first time. Generally, you cannot succeed in all the foundation building.
And the above will not be completed in just one year, but often takes decades to complete. Even when building a foundation, there are various problems such as encounters, experiences, struggles, and depletion of lifespan.
Therefore, although the sect may seem magnificent, in the final analysis, there are very few that can build its foundation.
In an area, the number of strong people is limited, and the upper limit that represents them is also limited. Lingxian Island cannot compare to the Hundred Demons Gathering, and the Hidden Dragon Sea Area cannot compare to the Ten Thousand Demons Mansion.
Therefore, it is almost impossible to even think about finding something like fairy spirit aura in the Hidden Dragon Sea.
Another half month passed in the blink of an eye.
now.
The weather was clear, cloudless, and the sun was high.
Zhang Liang is sitting cross-legged on Sunflower Mountain, holding a golden fruit in his hand, which is the golden jade fruit that Zhang Liang once took.
In fact, the Golden Jade Fruit is a spiritual fruit that assists in body refining. Its main medicinal effect is to strengthen flesh and blood, eliminate impurities, and provide a large amount of energy. However, this effect has its own effect, which is that it can be quenched twice.
Body tempering is systemic, effective on flesh and blood, and naturally effective on spiritual marrow.
What Zhang Liang strives for is the effect of these two body temperings. If he can succeed, he can be promoted to Haipin Spiritual Root, which can greatly increase his growth limit. For example, originally Dingtian could only cultivate to the Golden Core realm, but with the promotion of Haipin spiritual root, the upper limit can be raised to Nascent Soul.
"Bah~"
The spiritual fruit entered his throat, slightly sweet, full of juice, and rich in fragrance. Unfortunately, Zhang Liang didn't have time to experience this.
When he swallows the spiritual fruit, it is the best time for him to sprint.
"The sun burns the sky."
"Hula~"
I saw that Zhang Liang was quickly enveloped in golden light, and the golden light made fire, shining brightly. Accompanied by the terrifying sucking power of the giant beast's divine way, the sun's essence fire surged into the body, burning the spiritual marrow.
Zhang Liang was not burning any impurities. At this point, there were actually no impurities left. Only higher-level spiritual essences continue to replace the past spiritual essences.
The higher-level spiritual marrow needs to be reborn, and there may be a very small amount of high-level spiritual marrow in the newly born spiritual marrow.
An hour.
Zhang Liang's flesh and blood underwent a tempering process, and the effect was good, but only good, comparable to Zhang Liang's use of sun essence fire to cleanse his marrow for a month or two.
Two hours later.
The tempering effect of the Golden Jade Fruit had passed, and just when the effect was about to completely end, Zhang Liang was about to be unable to restrain his breakthrough.
Suddenly, a sharp energy swept through his body.
It's that sword intent. .
Zhang Liang immediately realized that the sword that was on the demon tree had never moved since it was refined by him. Now, he has actually taken the initiative to unleash his sword intent, pulling in infinite power and giving birth to spiritual essence.
Three hours later.
Suddenly, the energy-controlling method collapsed, Zhang Liang's meridians all over his body became unblocked instantly, and the terrifying power accumulated in his body after eighteen years was instantly released.
"Click~"
In less than half a breath, the first layer of bottleneck seemed to be broken easily. And all the spiritual energy quickly gathered towards the dantian. Just when these condensations were about to enter the dantian, they condensed with each other and produced drops of spiritual liquid.
The speed at which this kind of spiritual energy liquefies is incredibly fast.
Originally, in the early stage of foundation building, when the first drop of liquefied spiritual energy was completed, it marked the entry into the middle stage of foundation building, which was the marrow cleansing period.
As a result, Zhang Liang suppressed this period for eighteen years, which was actually blocking the process of spiritual energy liquefaction.
Now, the spiritual energy is no longer blocked, and it is overwhelming. In the blink of an eye, its liquefied spiritual energy fills half of the Dantian.
However, the liquefaction rate continued until half of the dantian was filled with spiritual liquid.
However, Zhang Liang did not immediately feel his own state, but immediately took out the pulse measuring beads.
This time, when he poured spiritual energy into the pulse-measuring bead, he saw that the pulse-measuring bead actually lit up slightly, blooming with light blue light.
"Successful."
Zhang Liang was a little surprised. He thought he would stop at the ninth level of spiritual root. Unexpectedly, the mysterious long sword actually helped him and successfully helped him complete the promotion of spiritual root. This was something he never expected.
after one day.
Zhang Liang's realm quickly consolidated. At the moment when his realm consolidated, he suddenly felt a heartbreaking pain in his body.
Feeling it again, he realized that half of his blood and essence had been pulled away by a wisp of sword intent and swallowed up.
"You're going too far, aren't you? Forcing me to repay you for your help? I have half of my blood, and you don't need any money?"
However, the long sword ignored him at all. After swallowing half of his blood essence, it stopped making any movement.
It took a full month for Zhang Liang to recover with the help of various elixirs.
Although the process was indeed thrilling, Zhang Liang did it and raised his seventh-level spiritual root to a high-level spiritual root in a mere marrow cleansing period.
This is due to the Vulcan Body, the Great Sun Burning Sky Scripture, the Divine Way of the Giant Beast, the air control and spirit control method, and the mysterious sword.
In short, all of this is almost impossible to replicate, and the final success is more like an accident.
Fortunately, the result is perfect.
However, this is not the time for Zhang Liang to be proud.
The improvement of spiritual roots is over, but the improvement of strength still needs to continue. The twenty-year period is very close.
After ten years of body training, although Zhang Liang has not reached the peak of the sixth level of body training, that is only because he did not deliberately train his body. Even now, he will not deliberately refine his body. He hopes to break through to the peak of foundation building before reaching the peak of the sixth level of body refining.
I saw Zhang Liang sitting cross-legged on the top of the mountain as soon as he completed the breakthrough of his spiritual roots.
"The Eight Directions Spirit Ascension Formation, rise."
"The best spiritual stone, it's time to use it."
"Don't be stingy with high-grade spiritual stones. Let's put ten pieces aside first."
"Take out all the heavenly spirit liquid. The amount is enough for one year of practice."
"Buzz~"
The sun's essence fire struck again, and massive amounts of spiritual energy poured out from the top-grade spiritual stones and high-grade spiritual stones.
This time, it is not for marrow cleansing, but for Zhang Liang to try to reach the peak of foundation building in one go.
Three months later, Zhang Liang's Dantian was 60% filled with spiritual liquid. After all, the effect of Tianling Liquid is no joke. With the blessing of the heavenly spirit liquid, three months of practice is comparable to three years.
Half a year later, the Dantian was 70% filled with spiritual liquid.
One year later, the dantian was 90% filled with spiritual liquid.
Sure enough, is it still not enough?
At this point, the Heavenly Spiritual Liquid has been exhausted, but the Dantian has not yet been filled with spiritual liquid, and is still some distance away from the peak of foundation building.
Now, there is still one year left before the twenty-year appointment.
Zhang Liang gritted his teeth and continued practicing. Although there is no Heavenly Spiritual Liquid, the Vulcan Body combined with the Great Sun Burning Sky Sutra is comparable to the Heavenly Spiritual Root practicing at full capacity, and the speed is still very fast.
Finally, half a year later, Zhang Liang's body was filled with spiritual fluid. And in the center of the spiritual liquid, a light golden solid the size of a soybean was born.
"Is this Ningdan here? It's so small?"
At this moment, Zhang Liang was surprised to find that when the little pill appeared, the spiritual liquid gathered into a ball, began to move spontaneously, and began to gradually compress.
"Hey, this doesn't seem to be the pinnacle of foundation building!"
He immediately thought of the experience of forming pills left by Shadu, the original owner of the Bloody Demon Sword, and quickly took it out to take a look, only to realize it belatedly.
It turns out that filling the Dantian with spiritual liquid is only a prerequisite for condensing the elixir.
All the spiritual liquid in the Dantian needs to be compressed into a ball and pressed into the formed Void Pill. The solidification of the virtual core is the complete completion of the core condensation, which corresponds to the peak of foundation building.
This made Zhang Liang dumbfounded. He felt that he thought too much and thought he could sprint directly from the middle stage of foundation building to the peak of foundation building.
At this point, Zhang Liang is no longer ready to practice. If he practices again, it will be too late.
He had to quickly find a protective treasure for himself.
Please note, it’s not that the upgrades have been fast recently, but that the human race is still struggling to develop. Moreover, the entire foundation building period actually has quite a lot of content. I just write more about the Kraken side. There will be a catastrophe for the human race later on as the end of the foundation building period...
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