Late at night, Lu Yuan finished adjusting his breath, recovered the energy consumed in today's battle, and walked out of the room.
In the daytime battle, he successfully killed Li Dao, Marquis of Wuyang of Ning State, without much effort, defeated the Ning army's will to resist, and quickly ended the battle, which was very satisfying.
But behind this hearty feeling was the consumption of Lu Yuan’s vast amounts of energy.
In order to suppress Li Dao's outer body and create opportunities for himself to cast spells, Lu Yuan almost used up all his energy in just a few breaths.
The sky and earth were filled with the red sun divine fire transformed from a massive amount of true energy, and only then did he achieve absolute suppression of Lieyang's outer body. He blinded Li Dao's external senses with the endless hot divine fire, and gained the opportunity to kill with one strike using the swordsmanship.
In fact, this method would never be used by ordinary innate masters.
For example, although Lu Yuan suppressed Li Dao, his blazing divine fire was not as effective as Li Dao thought at the beginning against the overlapping flaming sun.
It can only be suppressed, but cannot be directly defeated.
He spent a huge amount of energy and seemed to gain an advantage, but this advantage could not last long.
If he fails to find an opportunity within the short period of time when his advantage is maintained, he can quickly break through Li Dao's defense.
Then after the true energy is exhausted, you will completely lose the ability to fight again.
If you don't want to die by then, you will have no choice but to run away.
Therefore, for a normal innate master, even if he has a realm advantage, if he wants to win in the first realm of the second realm, he can only make careful moves, rely on his powerful innate energy and experience, and slowly accumulate small momentum. The general trend finally defeated the opponent in one fell swoop.
Even if you defeat the opponent, it is very difficult for the second level Xiantian to leave behind a first level person.
Either there are helpers, or the first master is in extremely bad condition, otherwise if he wants to kill the opponent, he can only think about it in his dreams.
With the life-saving ability of innate masters, within the same realm, unless the great masters who have reached the third realm have undergone a qualitative change, the gap between them is not that big.
Compared with the first-level master, the second-level master has stronger true energy and a more perfect outer body. There is no difference in essence, it is just a matter of experience.
It is absolutely impossible to be like Lu Yuan and decide the outcome of life and death with an innate master in just a few breaths.
What he can do is rely on the infuriating energy outside the body and the unparalleled killing skills of the talisman sword.
Spells, this is the means to kill with one blow and have a decisive impact.
The outer body of martial arts is just a tool to cover up the means and create conditions for implementation.
After all, Li Dao was still too young.
Although he comes from a noble family, he is also innate. Even through the cooperation between Ning Guo and Ziyundao, he has a lot of understanding of the magic of the Immortal family.
But this kind of understanding, he only tends to the surface and is based on fantasy.
Regarding the real power of immortal magic and how to prevent it, due to the environment of heaven and earth, it is impossible for those cultivators of Ziyun Dao to waste precious magic power on him to perform exercises.
Therefore, he still knew too little, knew too little, and had no experience at all. In the end, he fell into Lu Yuan's way without any precautions and was easily killed.
However, although he won easily, all of Lu Yuan's energy was completely consumed in today's battle.
In addition, I also paid a little more mana, so the price is not bad.
One point less and one point less mana is used, so there is no need to mention it.
With Lu Yuan's current martial arts foundation, it would take a lot of time to restore the powerful Qi in his body.
After a hearty battle, it took him more than two hours to finally recover all his energy, which was extremely slow.
This is because he has the foundation of immortality, the earth-shaped energy in his body is in control, and his energy recovery is much faster than that of ordinary people.
If it were an ordinary innate master, it would take less than three or four hours for him to recover all his true energy, which would be a delusion.
It takes a few minutes to duel and a long time to recover. The ultimate fighting technique of this innate master consumes a lot of energy.
It is precisely for this reason.
Therefore, few innate masters will go all out to fight with others unless it is necessary or if they cannot be sure of safety.
Even if you are forced to do so, you will leave some escape routes for yourself, keep some energy in your body, and be ready to escape at any time.
Just like Li Dao, when he fought with Lu Yuan today, he kept three or four layers of Qi in his body at all times and was ready to escape.
But he didn't expect that Lu Yuan's killing move would come so fast and be so powerful, and he would be killed before he could use his back move.
He became another one of Lu Yuan's subordinates who refused to die in vain.
"But today this method can be used. It will be promoted and used many times."
Lu Yuan sorted out today's combat experience and couldn't help but be very satisfied with the combat method he had created, which used energy consumption and sneak attacks with magic.
Nowadays, mana is precious. If you use it, you will lose it. It cannot be consumed randomly.
But things like true energy can be replenished at any time as long as the energy and blood can keep up.
The only flaw is that after the energy and blood are consumed, a large amount of food is needed to supplement it, which may cost a lot of money.
But this was nothing to the wealthy Lu Yuan.
As long as he thinks about it, he can get countless delicacies and treasures in Jiuzhou.
Recovering some energy and blood is just a piece of cake.
Exchanging true energy for mana is really the cheapest thing for Lu Yuan.
Moreover, this is only temporary for now.
"When my immortal cultivation level breaks through to the point where I can condense two Qi, there is a high probability that my martial arts cultivation level will be promoted together, and I will break through to the Grand Master realm of the third innate realm.
As long as I become a grand master, my martial arts strength will be comparable to the realm of immortality.
In this way, my conventional force has become the realm of immortality. The realm of the two qi of immortality has become an unconventional force that can be retained. "
Lu Yuan couldn't help but get excited when he thought of this.
The innate grand master who is equivalent to the Immortal One Qi realm has already formed a crushing advantage over the innate first and second realm grandmasters at the level of force.
Like today's battle.
If he had the strength of a grand master, he would not even need to use spells in the end. He could simply use the grand master's martial arts aura and the advantage of borrowing the power of heaven and earth to crush Li Dao.
Yes, after reaching the third realm of Xiantian, the martial arts outer body of the great master transformed into a martial arts aura.
According to Lu Yuan, he knew from the collected classics that the martial arts atmosphere of the great master was described as: "Given by heaven, transformed by the rhythm of Tao, the principles of nature, and the innate atmosphere."
Well, although this description is a bit mysterious, it has clearly explained the nature of the innate grand master.
That is the natural way of heaven and the innate weather.
To put it simply, it is the martial arts outer body that was originally an innate grandmaster and imitated the heaven and earth. After becoming a third-level grandmaster, it transformed into the heaven and earth itself.
From the original physical resemblance, it turned into a spiritual resemblance, completely becoming the atmosphere of heaven and earth.
From acquired nature to innate nature, it became the nature of heaven and earth.
Since the outer body has become the innate atmosphere, when it is exerted, it will naturally become the power of heaven and earth, rather than the outer body imitated by the innate master himself, which is a poor imitation.
One is the weather itself, and the other is inferior imitation. It is already obvious which of the two is better.
Even because it has become an innate weather, and the power of heaven and earth is added when it is used, when the grand master activates the innate weather, his own energy consumption is actually smaller than when he originally used the martial arts outer body.
Because the Grand Master's display of innate weather is essentially to induce the appearance of this weather, which consumes the power of heaven and earth.
His true energy is just the key to actively open and maintain this atmosphere.
This process does not actually consume much energy.
After all, how much energy does it take to insert a key, twist a switch, and keep it on?
On the contrary, ordinary masters, in order to achieve the effect of simulating the world, have to spend a huge amount of energy to maintain it, and what they end up with is just a poor imitation.
Turn yourself into an output source, and you can imagine how much energy will be lost.
Therefore, it is common sense for ordinary innate masters to find it difficult to fight for a long time.
It is precisely because of this gap that when an innate grandmaster fights against an ordinary grandmaster, there is not only a gap in innate aura and martial arts outer body, but also a gap in the use and loss of one's own true energy.
The Grand Master can display his innate aura and maintain it for more than an hour, or even two or three hours.
As for ordinary masters, they can only maintain their martial arts body for a quarter of an hour in the first level, and two quarters of an hour in the second level, which is several times the difference.
This disparity is so great that it is almost not the same level, which is why the Xiantian Grand Master is revered as a land god.
People who can mobilize the power of heaven and earth, to mortals, aren't they like immortals and gods?
certainly.
The innate grand master is already comparable to the realm of Immortal Dao Yiqi, and the innate atmosphere he displays is no different from the magic.
There is no difference between this level of strength and those of immortal cultivators.
It's fair to be called a fairy.
It's just that this immortal is the immortal of the immortal cultivators, not the immortal.
A real immortal in the true conventional sense is a real person who has the five qi rising up, condensing the flower on top, and blooming the Tao Fruit.
That kind of existence, even the lowest level Renhua Zhenren, also commonly known as the Human Immortal Dao Fruit, can easily live for thousands of years.
If the exercises you practice have the effect of extending life, and if you find some rare treasures that can extend your life, you can live for two or three thousand years.
At the higher level, the Earthly Immortal Earth Flower can live for more than ten thousand years. This is a true immortal, a resident Earthly Immortal who can endure the vicissitudes of life and preserve his own immortality.
As for the real person named Tianpo at the top, there are very few descriptions in ancient books.
Because in the entire Kyushu world, the strongest person in ancient times was no more than an Earth Immortal, and no Smallpox Immortal had ever appeared.
The ancient immortals didn't know much about whether this realm existed or what kind of wonderful realm it was.
Only some vague records have been circulated.
"Immortal for all tribulations, live as long as the heavens, move the stars to change battles, the ultimate between heaven and man."
There is very little description, but we can roughly tell something about the skills of Master Tianhua.
First of all, the strength is very high, so it can withstand all calamities without being destroyed.
Secondly, when you reach this state, there is no life limit and you can live as long as heaven.
As for the next two paragraphs, they simply describe the superb skills of the real person Tianhua, who has reached the ultimate level of human beings under the way of heaven.
Lu Yuan is now only in the realm of condensing one qi, and is close to the cultivation level of two qi. He is so far away from such a heavenly realm.
Looking at these descriptions, it is naturally difficult to truly understand the mystery.
Therefore, when I first saw the description of the Three Immortals of Heaven, Earth, Humanity, I just looked at it as anecdotes, purely to store my own knowledge and knowledge, and did not study it too carefully.
However, given his own immortality and endless longevity, I believe he will be able to reach such a mysterious realm one day.
All you have to do is wait for time to pass and everything will come naturally.
Therefore, Lu Yuan was not in a hurry.
Human immortals can live for a thousand years and stand up to the sky for two or three thousand years.
Judging from his own situation, let alone two or three thousand years, even if it is more difficult than the immortal who has no life span limit, it is still unclear which one is more difficult!
Lu Yuan has this self-confidence. As long as he is careful and prudent, he will definitely survive until the end and become the strongest person in the world.
Immortality may not be the limit, but just an important milestone and turning point in a person's life journey.
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After recovering his true energy, Lu Yuan did not end his practice, but continued to communicate with Tianzhu, attracting the spiritual energy of the sky into his body, and refining his magic power.
Now, with the Chu State's successive victories in various battlefields, the three counties of Lingnan, Yuzhang and Jian'an counties, and many prefectures and counties were captured by the Chu army. The territory under Lu Yuan's rule suddenly expanded by nearly half, and the population was also the same. in this way.
In addition, after winning the battle for hegemony and defeating Ning State in the decisive battle, the fate of the entire Yangzhou began to shift towards the Chu State.
The hearts of the people of Kyushu slowly gathered towards him.
After all the increases, the luck gathered in him was nearly twice what it was before the war started.
With such good luck, it is extremely convenient to breathe in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
With just a thought, a mighty spiritual energy was drawn from the depths of the sky, fell from the Tianzhu, was infused into Lu Yuan's body, and was absorbed into his body.
If we say that before, he was always in a weak spiritual state, even if there was a Tianzhu to receive the spiritual energy, he could only use 30 to 40% of the efficiency of his own spiritual energy breathing state.
So now, when he breathes out spiritual energy, he has reached an efficiency of 60 to 70%.
From half-dead to full, he was finally no longer malnourished.
Even for a time, he felt a little at a loss as he breathed out so much spiritual energy.
He had never enjoyed such a rich aura, and he was like a beggar who suddenly got rich, confused and at a loss.
Fortunately, Lu Yuan's state of mind has become extremely firm after these years of practice. He quickly got rid of these distracting thoughts and began to concentrate on practice.
After a long time, he ended his practice today.
"The amount of spiritual energy I am currently swallowing is about 70% of my total limit refining capacity. Although I still have not reached the perfect state, it is much better than before.
And this is only temporary. Now I have only taken over most of Lingnan and a small part of Jiangdong. The occupied territory and population have not reached the limit.
If I can conquer the Song Dynasty later, conquer Dali and Nanzhao in the southwest, and then seize the two counties of Yuzhang and Jian'an, then with this luck, the spiritual energy I can draw will be several hundred percent more than now.
When the time comes to breathe in and out spiritual energy, you will be able to reach your current limit and perfection. "
Lu Yuan thought in his heart.
The above-mentioned territorial luck and the spiritual energy of the sky can satisfy his ultimate consumption of spiritual energy when condensing one energy.
Later, after the two qi are condensed, with the breakthrough in the realm of the skill, the amount and efficiency of the spiritual qi breathed out will be further improved.
But this is not a big problem.
Based on his quiet observation of his own cultivation and his study of the techniques, he can roughly know the limit of how much spiritual energy he can breathe out when condensing two qi.
As long as the entire Yangzhou can be unified, and all the rivers and mountains of 100,000 miles can be controlled, there will be tens of millions of people under the rule. Using this luck to guide the spiritual energy, it will be able to meet the cultivation needs of condensing the two qi.
Therefore, before breaking through and condensing the two qi in the future, Lu Yuan only needs to manage Yangzhou well and cultivate himself deeply. There is no need to passively expand outwards to obtain luck.
This is also the next strategic goal he has set.
After careful calculation, from the 28th year of Yue Longqing to the 11th year of Shenwu, the entire land of Yangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River has been in chaos for a full twenty years.
In twenty years, Taiping Dao, Jinghai Kingdom, Five Poison Sect, Seven Star Sect, Western Shu Kingdom, Zhou people went south, conquered the southwest, Ning civil unrest, opened up river valleys, Northern Expedition to Hanzhong, and now the two major camps, the Five Kingdoms war……
One after another, there are countless wars that Lu Yuan has experienced, witnessed, participated in, and intervened in.
The number of forces destroyed during this period is also incalculable.
How many countries have perished?
The number of soldiers and civilians who died in these wars, as well as the natural and man-made disasters that accompanied the wars, are even more numerous.
Twenty years of broken mountains and rivers, wars and disasters have already made the entire land south of the Yangtze River devastated and dilapidated.
Even though in the later period, several countries experienced stalemate, Chu and Ning were in opposition, and small countries coexisted in a stable situation for ten years.
This peaceful time has not allowed Yangzhou to completely restore its past glory.
Lu Yuan has experienced the last years of Qian Yue, the last period of prosperity.
At that time, although there was chaos at the grassroots level, corrupt officials and gangs were rampant, and there were even bandits and bandits causing chaos.
But the harm and destruction caused by these microscopic sores is far from the bloody chaos of today.
During the Qianyue period, there were only eight counties in the territory, but there were more than 30 million household registrations.
Nowadays, Lu Yuan's territory is almost the same as that of Qian Yue. The territory has almost eight complete counties, but the population is only 15 million, only half of that of Qian Yue at its peak.
Perhaps only after the Ning Kingdom is destroyed and Jiangdong is taken over can the population be comparable to that of the former Yue.
However, it is only the total population reached.
After the unification of Yangzhou, the territory directly under the Chu State was more than half that of the previous Yue. Even though the population was similar to the previous Yue, the local prosperity was still much worse.
To make up for this, it will naturally take a long time to recuperate, accumulate national strength, and slowly wait for the local population to multiply and repair the devastation.
Now the great cause of capturing Yangzhou is progressing smoothly.
If nothing unexpected happens, within this year, we may be able to seize Yuzhang and Jian'an counties and occupy half of the eastern half of the Yangtze River.
Within three to five years, we can conquer Ning State and unify Yangzhou.
This was much smoother and faster than Lu Yuan's original strategy of occupying the south of the Yangtze River for ten years and looking north to Zhongzhou.
And now there is still more than a hundred years of preparation time before the Antarctic poisonous fire breaks out.
Such a long period of time was enough for Lu Yuan to stabilize and cultivate himself after unifying Yangzhou, and slowly accumulate strength in order to look north.
By that time, the Chu State, which had been cultivated for a long time, had regained the prosperity of Jiangnan, and even went one step further, accumulating countless money and food resources.
With just one order, millions of troops can gather in an instant.
Commanding his troops to the north, he would have been forced by the cold wave. How could the exhausted countries fighting for Zhongzhou resist such a lion?
It will be destroyed.
