The rat demon kept walking angrily outside the formation, and when it had nowhere to vent its anger, there was another strange noise outside the cave.
He immediately ducked out of the cave.
Shika Koi had a hunch that the death of this rat demon... must have come.
Sure enough, not long after the rat demon came out of the cave, the formation in the cave disappeared, and all the cultivators in the formation also recovered their spiritual power.
Everyone thought that Elder Xuanmo saved everyone, but when they came outside the cave, apart from the corpse of the rat demon, there was only...Song Nianfeng.
Cheng Qian ran over immediately, "Master! Did you save us?"
Song Nianfeng smiled sarcastically, "How can I... have that ability! He was a senior. It was inconvenient for him to show up. He killed the rat demon and left immediately."
Lu Xiaojing followed, "Didn't you run away? Why are you back again?"
Song Nianfeng felt no shame, "Let's try our best to master and disciple. Even if we can't save you, we still have to come back and collect your bodies."
Cheng Qian: "..."
If there is no hope, there will be no disappointment.
Song Nianfeng risked his life to come back to collect their bodies, which was beyond Lu Xiaojing's expectations. "You go back first, I have to go to Shimen City."
…
Lu Xiaojing stayed at the market for more than ten days and only managed to grab 30 red daylilies.
After returning to the sect, she began to practice alchemy in seclusion.
This time, she did not waste a single red daylily. She made three furnaces of elixirs, and the refining success rate reached 100%.
She digested all 30 cultivation pills, and her cultivation successfully broke through to the ninth level.
"In the next heaven, you will have established your foundation. This Resurrection Pill is a foundation-building gift given to you in advance."
Lu Xiaojing looked at the person behind him, stunned for a moment, and his eyes began to turn red.
The eight-year period has arrived.
Xuan Ying is going to abandon her.
Although he usually spoke very little and was just a ball of air most of the time, but now that he was about to leave, she actually felt a little reluctant to leave.
Xuan Ying continued: "Resurrection Pill, taken when dying, has the effect of instantly restoring spiritual power."
Lu Xiaojing endured the soreness in his nose and said, "Thank you."
Xuan Ying seemed more verbose than before, "Try to keep a low profile from now on. There are mountains beyond the mountains. You must always keep it in mind."
Lu Xiaojing choked and said, "Don't leave yet!" There was no reply from behind her.
After a long time, she turned around and looked behind her, staring at the place where Xuan Ying was standing before. She couldn't come back to her senses for a long time.
From now on, she can only rely on herself.
…
Xuan Ying's departure didn't seem to have much impact on Lu Xiaojing.
She should still eat and sleep every day, and she would think of him occasionally, but the sadness would only be fleeting.
"Are you still angry with Master?"
Lu Xiaojing has been practicing swordsmanship in the back mountain for the past month. Even when he sees his master and brothers, there is probably no smile on his face.
Song Nianfeng felt that she was still angry with him about the previous experience of going down the mountain.
"That day, after you and your senior brother were captured by the rat demon, I went back to find you along the way. However, I was a step too late and someone rescued you first."
Lu Xiaojing sat back on the tree, looking at the clear blue sky through the sparse branches, and his mood was as calm as water.
"When I was seven years old, he came to me and promised to protect me for eight years. Now, the eight-year promise has come...
There is no such thing as a feast that lasts forever, and it is better to rely on yourself than to rely on others. Now that I have the skills to help me, I can still run away if I can't defeat you. If I can't run away, it can only mean that my doom has come. "
Song Nianfeng looked around, "He's really gone?"
Lu Xiaojing is so smart, "Just say what you want to say."
Before, when Xuan Ying had not left, Song Nianfeng might have had some scruples, but now, he was naturally unscrupulous.
"When dealing with that rat demon, the technique he used was the technique of the netherworld!"
Lu Xiaojing was just suspicious at first, but after listening to Song Nianfeng's words, she was almost certain that Xuan Ying came from the underworld.
Song Nianfeng: "He approaches you..."
Lu Xiaojing: "I was only seven years old when he came to me. If it weren't for his protection, I wouldn't be alive today. No matter what his identity is, he is my benefactor here."
Song Nianfeng sighed softly, "The world of cultivation and the underworld have always been incompatible, that's all... The sect leader is looking for you, please remember to take the time to visit the Chaoyang Palace."
…
In Chaoyang Hall, Wang Chongyuan was discussing important matters with several elders.
"Last night, someone broke into Fuling Mountain again. I fought with him a few times, and the opponent's skills were like those of the underworld."
"It's the underworld again."
"What exactly is on Fuling Mountain? Why do these people always care about it!"
"I don't know exactly what it is, but the things in the mountains are definitely things related to the life and death of our sect!"
Lu Xiaojing waited outside Chaoyang Hall for a while. After all the elders left, he was summoned to the main hall by Wang Chongyuan.
"You come with me to Fuling Mountain."
There are many formations on Fuling Mountain.
Wang Chongyuan could only break through the formation on the outside, but the formation in the center of the mountain could not be broken no matter what.
"For thousands of years, no one has been able to break the formation here. Even the masters with extremely high cultivation levels were unable to break the restrictions here while they were still alive."
"Then the sect leader brought me here..."
Lu Xiaojing doesn't think she has the ability to break formations. Even if she has a little knowledge, with her current cultivation level, she can only break some low-level small formations.
Wang Chongyuan actually didn't have high hopes for going up the mountain this time, but he still wanted Lu Xiaojing to give it a try.
What if it can be broken?
"For decades, you are the only Qi Refining Realm disciple who entered the Opportunity Tower and came out alive. Not only that, you also got some opportunities. I think you are destined to be with the Peach Blossom Sect, maybe..."
"But I don't know how to break the formation."
Lu Xiaojing felt that Sect Leader Wang was just having some wild whims, but he would not give up until he achieved his goal.
"Let me teach you that formations are divided into three categories: attack formations, auxiliary formations, and defensive formations. The formation in front of us is the defensive formation, which consists of formation eyes, formation walls, and formation gates. !
To break the formation from the inside, just break the formation's eye; to break the formation from the outside, you need to find the formation gate first and attack the formation gate before you can break it. "
Lu Xiaojing has also read books on formations.
"Breaking the formation requires sufficient cultivation."
The implication is, don't waste your efforts, how could a formation that could not be broken for thousands of years be broken on the body of a small Qi Refining Realm disciple of hers.
Wang Chongyuan seemed to have been possessed by an evil spirit and would not give up until he got a result.
"Thieves often enter the sect, and there are many cultivators with the realm of caves and voids among them, but they are unable to do anything about this formation. And I once asked the gods in the pagoda how to break this formation, and six words appeared in the air: You need to meet a destiny man of."
Lu Xiaojing was a little curious, "What exactly is in this formation? So many people covet it!"
"The sect has a rule that the secret of Fuling Mountain cannot be told to anyone except the previous sect masters. If you are really a destined person, you will know when the formation is lifted."
Wang Chongyuan had already made his words very clear, and Lu Xiaojing wisely stopped asking further questions.
She carried out the formation-breaking method given to her by the Patriarch, exactly.
There was no movement at all in the mountain-protecting formation.
