Senior Brother Yang helped Ning Tao pack up the cave, and then took Ning Tao away to Ning Tao's small courtyard, where he helped Ning Tao pack his things and send them to the new cave.
After finishing these tasks, Ning Tao sent Brother Yang away and returned to his new cave. He sat on the stone seat in the main room, lost in thought, not knowing what he was thinking.
Three years later.........
When spring comes again, the spring breeze brings warmth to Tusu.
At this time, two young Taoists stood on a peak with their heads held high, watching the golden light shining on everything.
It was Ning Tao who was seventeen years old. He looked like a handsome young man. He was wearing a blue robe with jade around his waist and a jade hairpin. His skin was as fair as jade, and his figure did not look as strong as that of years of physical training.
However, Ning Tao didn't look like a seventeen-year-old boy at this time, but rather like a young man who was over twenty years old.
The other person was Ning Tao's fifth senior brother Yang Feng. Looking at the rising morning glow, Yang Feng was the first to speak: "Junior brother, what do you think we are cultivating for?"
Ning Tao was slightly startled when he heard this, and looked at his senior brother with some doubts.
Yang Feng raised the gourd in his hand, took a sip of wine, and said with a heavy tone: "Is it immortality? I have been thinking about this question, but what is the purpose of immortality? Immortal cultivators do not have deep six connections, so we chase fate against heaven. , one day, all the relatives and friends around us will turn into withered bones!"
Ning Tao was a little silent when he heard this. Senior Brother Yang recently went down the mountain to visit relatives and saw his parents. After coming back, they became like this.
However, Senior Brother Yang's words seemed to tug at his heartstrings. Thinking about the past few years of his cultivation, he seemed to have become more and more indifferent. I wonder what happened to his father, mother, brother, and sister?
How about your childhood playmates? Maybe some of them are already getting married and having children! I don’t know how I will look when I see them again.
"Heaven is unkind and treats all things as stupid dogs. In the eyes of God, everyone is the same. Practicing does not make you and I become arrogant, but makes us have feelings for all things. Maybe this is the real Tao."
After saying that, he took a long sip of the wine in his hand, put his hands on his back, faced the morning glow, and left by the wind, leaving behind the pensive Ning Tao, whose hearty laughter spread all over the mountain peaks, and sang loudly: "I don't know where I start from, I go deeper. , I hate that I don’t know where to end, and I laugh away. Junior brother, the scenery of freedom is here in the mountains, but cultivating immortals is full of dust. You and I will meet at the top, hahaha..."
Ning Tao, who was lost in thought, couldn't help but ask himself, what is his own way?
The scenery of the floating world has remained the same for hundreds of thousands of years, but the reincarnation of human beings is as fleeting as white dew. I have already stepped on the road of fighting against the sky. Life is natural, and death is also natural. It is better to live like a summer flower and die like a flower. The quiet beauty of autumn leaves, seizing the moment is practice. If you don’t save yourself and only seek external help, then no one can save yourself.
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In the past three years, Ning Tao has settled down near Senior Brother Zhang's cave, and what follows is another seemingly boring and meaningless practice.
In three years, with the accumulation of a large amount of resources, Ning Tao has practiced "Yi Mu Xin Yan Jue" to the twelfth level of perfection, and "Hunyuan Gong" has also successfully pushed it to the twelfth level of perfection.
With the help of his two senior brothers, the alchemist has reached the first level of high-grade equipment, and all his equipment has been replaced by either top-grade or top-grade equipment.
He also took the opportunity to master the Falling Fire style in the Lihuo Sword Technique, and even practiced the Rainbow Transformation Technique and other techniques to a great level.
With the help of the contribution points, he exchanged two magic arts for concealing his true cultivation level and body shape, "The Art of Shrinking the Body" and "The Art of Turtle Breathing".
With these two methods and techniques at his side, ordinary monks cannot easily see through his true cultivation level unless he is a monk with strong spiritual consciousness.
However, the previous 100,000 spirit stones, plus the income in recent years, were consumed by himself, leaving less than 30,000 spirit stones.
Ning Tao, who had just reached the twelfth level of Qi training, made it to the top three in last year's competition.
Yang Song, who has profound cultivation, and Pan Yue, who has weird skills, although they are also very popular, they are defeated one after another, achieving the prestige of Ning Tao's outer sect's number one genius.
In the past few years, with the strong rise of Ning Tao and his disciples, after witnessing the unusual cultivation speed and strength of Ning Tao and others, coupled with the importance the sect attaches to them, together with the sect's newly acquired students the year before, A disciple of Fenglinggen and the genius disciples of the other two sects are regarded by the disciples of the three sects of Shuzhou as the future pillars of the sect in the world of immortality in Shuzhou. Some good people combine their strength and talent to give them names, and together they are called Shu. Three heroes and six heroes from the three sects of the state.
Some of them were even given nicknames. For example, Ning Tao was called Lihuo Sword Ningtao because of his powerful Lihuo Sword Technique.
Among them, the three heroes are Ning Feng, the Golden Sword Immortal with the Golden Spirit Root, who also belongs to the Heavenly Spirit Root, Lao Yang Song, the Wood Spirit Root Xiaoyao, and Shui Xian'er, a Shuiling Root disciple of the Shuiling Sect.
The seven heroes are Li Ruoxue, a female disciple of the Taiyi Sword Sect with a Tonghui Sword Heart, Wen Tianbo, a disciple of the Thunder Spirit Root, Liu Wuxu, a disciple of the Wind Spirit Root, Panyue, a disciple of the Five Poison Saints, and Bing Ling, a disciple of the Poison Spirit Root. Ning Wuyou, the immortal boy with ice soul, Ning Tao, the Lihuo sword.
Among them, Ning Feng, Yang Song, Pan Yue, and Ning Tao are considered the strongest among the Three Heroes and Six Heroes because they started earlier. Except for Ning Tao, the rest are all because of their outstanding talents...
A few days ago, senior brother Zhang Wuji told him that the sect's supreme elder discovered a secret world that opens once every fifty years, and the secret realm of the Ancient Demon Sect is about to open.
After discussing with the remaining two sects and one alliance, they prepared to hold a sect competition and a Shuzhou discussion meeting in advance to select outstanding disciples and go to the secret world to seize the fortune.
The three sects have a sect competition every ten years. The sects will give generous rewards based on their rankings to encourage the sect disciples who have practiced hard in the past ten years, and select outstanding disciples to participate together every ten years. A meeting on Taoism in Shuzhou.
The Shuzhou Forum on Taoism is a grand gathering in Shuzhou organized by the three sects and the Tianxing Alliance. During this period, all the immortal cultivating forces in Shuzhou will travel thousands of miles to attend.
During this period, various rare and exotic treasures and cultivation techniques will be sold, auctioned, and exchanged, covering almost 90% of the cultivation forces in Shuzhou.
Qi-training period disciples and Qi-training casual cultivators from major forces will also compete in Shuzhou martial arts competitions to compete in strength and win generous rewards prepared by the major cultivating forces.
The purpose of the sect is to show off its strength, show off its muscles, and tell its subordinates and external forces that everyone should take a look, our sect has a successor.
In the next few years, I have to pay protection fees and insurance premiums as before, and I should be obedient. The casual cultivators want to be favored by some senior cultivators through martial arts competitions, be included in the door, be ranked high on the list, or be favored by some. The power takes a fancy to him and seeks a good offering.
After Ning Tao, who had reached the peak of the Qi training stage, received the news, he gave up his thoughts on breaking through to the foundation building stage, suppressed his cultivation, polished his magic power, and prepared to enter the Ancient Demon Sect after participating in the sect competition and Shuzhou martial arts competition that had been postponed. Secret realm, seeking some fortune.
The secret realm of the Ancient Demon Sect is the residence of the Ancient Demon Sect in ancient times. In ancient times, the Ancient Demon Sect, as the super sect in Shuzhou, fought against the barbarian witch clans in the south.
When the other states were held back by other neighboring barbarian shaman tribes and unable to rescue them, the ancient demon sect was slightly insufficient in strength against the prepared barbarian tribes in the southern wilderness, and was eventually defeated.
The monks of the Ancient Demon Sect's Transformation Realm resented the severance of their sect's inheritance and detonated the sect's mountain-protecting formation, directly causing the entire sect's secret realm to collapse and burying the entire Barbarian Witch cultivators from all races.
At the same time, the barbaric forces in the south were also severely weakened. The monks in Yuezhou and Chuzhou sought assistance from the immortal cultivating forces in the northern states, crossed the Nu River in the south, and pushed the immortal cultivating forces southward for more than 100,000 miles.
The forces of various barbarian witch clans were severely damaged, and many barbarian witch clans were cut off.
The Barbarian Witch Clan, which failed in the war, could no longer suppress the various forces under its command. The entire southern wilderness became in constant turmoil. In the following countless years, it was unable to invade the north. The old forces were gradually replaced by the emerging barbarian forces.
After many years passed, all things came into being, various immortal cultivating forces in Shuzhou slowly grew up, and the figure of the ancient demon sect completely disappeared in the world of immortal cultivating.
However, many immortal cultivating forces in Shuzhou still have the shadow of the Ancient Demon Sect. Later, the immortal cultivating forces changed from generation to generation, and finally, more than ten thousand years ago, the current situation of three sects dominating Shuzhou was formed.
The barbaric forces in the south are also gradually rising, and once again become the formidable enemy of Shuzhou's immortal world.
However, compared to other states, although Shuzhou is relatively weak, compared to other states, the strongest forces in Shuzhou are the most united and belong to the most united state.
During the tens of thousands of years after the Great War of the Ancient Demon Sect, some people have been trying to excavate the ruins of the Ancient Demon Sect, but countless generations of monks have passed, all in vain.
Tens of thousands of years ago, during a battle involving the Digital Nascent Soul Realm, a tyrannical attack inadvertently tore open a nearby space and opened an entrance to the secret realm.
The Nascent Soul Realm monks who discovered the secret realm put down their fights, but found that they could not enter at all. It was not until after many tests that it was discovered that only Qi Training Stage monks could enter, so this place became the back garden of the major cultivating forces.
To this day, it is still a feast for the immortal cultivating forces in Shuzhou. Some people speculate that the secret space has always existed in the past, but because the entire secret space was severely damaged, it did not reach the level of destruction, so it could not be discovered.
It was not until tens of thousands of years of independent repair of the secret space that it gradually became stable that traces were slowly revealed.
It is even deduced from this that the reason why high-level monks cannot enter is because of what we call the rejection of transplanted organs. The rules of the secret realm have rules for suppressing the realm.
This restriction will continue to repair itself as the secret space continues. Until the entire secret space is completely self-repaired, quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes, and the restrictions on the cultivation of monks who can enter it will gradually be lifted until all monks can enter.
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