longevity road trip

There are clumps of reefs under the cliffs of the island, and thousands of piles of snow are rolled up. The small crabs with square shells clinging to the crevices of the rocks are washed away by the waves. Occasionally, some small old square crabs are unable to grasp the reefs and drift away with the current. , the lucky ones struggled and climbed to other reefs again, clamped the Chlamydomonas growing on the rocks, and stuffed them into the mouths of small crabs one by one as if nothing had happened, while those who were unlucky were caught. Fish swimming nearby are swallowed.

The birds that made their nests on the cliff stretched their necks and fluttered their gray wings. A few feathers were blown out of the nest by the wind. The sea breeze swayed the feathers in the air.

A ray of blue light looked far away, but in a short while, the blue shadow became bigger and bigger, until it was seventy or eighty feet away from the cliff, before the blue light stopped, a sword shadow tens of feet long Flying from a distance, it plunged obliquely into the cliff, and then suddenly descended everything, the earth and rocks crashed down, and the dust flew up.

At this time, the blue light dissipated, and the face of Zhenjun Yu Xing was revealed.It's just that he snorted softly, waved his sleeves, and a blue light rolled up, bringing back a section of the red puppet that was still bleeding.This puppet has only the upper body, and the carving is delicate and slightly warped, which is no different from ordinary people.It's just that this half of the puppet is dripping with blood, carrying a stench.

Zhenjun Yu Xing covered his mouth and nose lightly with his sleeve, frowned slightly, and in the smoke and dust in the distance, a short sword no longer than two palms flew upside down and sank into his wide sleeve.

"So it's this person, but he's a little clever." Zhenjun Yu Xing looked at the puppet that was carved out of the same mold as Jiang Cang, and saw that under the blue light, the puppet slowly turned into ashes, leaving behind a puppet. Fist-sized bluish-red flesh, with a grimace in the flesh, exactly like Jiang Cang.

Zhenjun Yu Xing looked at the thumping meat ball, and the disappointment in his eyes gradually faded. He stretched out his hand and made a move. As soon as the blue-red meat ball touched his palm, it melted into his body like the spring sun melted snow. A mysterious aura lingered around him.Yu Xing's eyes were slightly closed, and he didn't open them until after a cup of tea, with a look of satisfaction on his face.

He chuckled lightly: "The Lihun doll, he has inherited a good life-saving supernatural power, which is not much worse than the "Wan Jiansheng" inherited by the old man, but the old man wants to see how many times you can share it." . Slow step by step, slow step by step, you guys can't escape the palm of this old man!"

Amidst the red clouds in the distance, a round of golden sun broke through, and the golden light shone on the sea, just shining on the face of Patriarch Yuxing.From the beginning to the end, he didn't take Zhang Shiping, the Jindan junior of Zhengyangzong, into his heart, and Zhenjun Du Yu worried for nothing.

Maybe one day, when Zhang Shiping can really become a Nascent Soul, he will be eligible to stand in front of him.It's just that at that time, he is confident that he can go one step further in cultivation, follow in the footsteps of ancestor Wanjian, and break free from the shackles of this broken world.

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In the Chongling Mountain Range in Binhai City, according to Zhang Shiping's order, the members of the Zhang family who lived near the hill had all moved to other places in a short hour after dawn.Now there are only more than a thousand monks in the Zhang family. The Chongling Mountain Range is so big, and some of them are settled in other places.

At this time, Zhang Shiping had already flown back to Green Bamboo Valley for a long time, and what Zhenjun Du Yu told him about Zhenjun Yuxing made him feel a little heavy.

Zhang Shiping wasn't worried about his own safety, the other party, a real monarch who was famous even among the Nascent Soul cultivators, how could he have such a big face to let the other party travel across most of the southern states?

Could it be that this old monster discovered something, something that Changshen Patriarch and the others did.As a result, Zhenjun Yuxing, who has been peaceful for decades, can't sit still?Zhang Shiping thought to himself.

As for Patriarch Changshen, Qiyunzong and Xuanhuomen, two Nascent Souls, now joining forces, no one knows where to look for opportunities.Zhang Shiping didn't know where they were!

It is better to be still than to move. After refraining from miscellaneous thoughts, Zhang Shiping walked slowly from the bamboo forest towards the courtyard in the valley. He walked over the threshold and walked into the hut where he practiced all the year round.Zhang Shiping didn't look at the phantom locusts kept in the worm room.

Now there are still too few second-order phantom locusts, and they are not good enough, so the jade ointment made from the egg liquid is still somewhat useful to him.After being promoted to the second rank from Phantom Locust, Zhang Shiping improved the formula of this insect egg jade paste several times in the past few decades, and the soul poison in it was much more toxic.It's just because of the phantom locust eggs themselves, no matter how strong the toxicity is, that's all.

Zhang Shiping understands that no matter how hard he tries to improve it, the toxicity will not be much stronger.Unless there is a phantom locust that breaks the ban, achieves the demon pill, and is promoted to the third-order zerg.At that time, the soul poison contained in the eggs will surely reach another level of toxicity.

Zhang Shiping can only raise a batch of second-order phantom locusts by raising Gu, and let them fight each other to see if he can really raise a few phantom locusts that are qualified to trigger the catastrophe.Feeding phantom locusts requires a lot of spiritual bones, and requires him to continuously invest in spiritual stones. Day after day, in a short period of time, Zhang Shiping can sustain it, but if it takes decades, it will be a big burden for Zhang Shiping .

If he only relied on the sect's offerings and the spirit stones earned from the family property, it would be a drop in the bucket. If he had no other income, it would definitely affect his own practice.

Zhang Shiping returned to the house, sitting cross-legged on the futon, the incense burner in the room was burning the incense for concentration and meditation, the smoke was very light, and as soon as it wafted out, it dispersed, leaving only the light fragrance like lotus flowers.

After returning from the Tongxuan Secret Realm, Zhang Shiping originally wanted to go to Cangguyang to see if he could find some spiritual objects for his own practice.But on the way, he was ordered by the ancestor of the sect to go around the ruined secret place, and only got an incomplete method of meditation, which is similar to the method in the West Desert, which is not much gain.

If he was allowed to look at the phantom image of the Buddha for a while longer, he might be able to comprehend more things and complete the seven or eight points, which would be of some use.It's just that all of this, because of that black flood dragon, made him go for nothing and be happy for nothing!

Thinking of this, Zhang Shiping felt a little unhappy.However, that old dragon is really powerful, and he can't mess with that spoiled young dragon.

Zhang Shiping took a deep breath and sighed, then he took out a square black stone slab from the storage bag and looked at it carefully.

After half a day, Zhang Shiping finally saw the way.

Chapter 428

The stone slab is made of a strange stone called Mingqiao Stone, which is a strange stone mutated from the Kongming Stone influenced by the ancient atmosphere.

The Kongming stone is the magical material for forging Sumina mustard seeds. The space storage magic weapon that Zhang Shiping has always wanted is made of this strange stone.

Half of the reason why the price of the storage magic weapon remains high is because of the Kongming stone, which is rare and expensive, not to mention the mutated Mingqiao stone.

It’s just that Mingqiao stones are not common in Nanzhou. Most of the Mingqiao stones are found by high-level monks from the barbaric domain. The space there is not as stable as in Nanzhou Ximo and other places, and large and small cracks will appear in the space from time to time. .

At the moment when the space rift is formed, some surrounding ores containing inspiration will be affected by it, and there is a slight possibility that they will transform into space stones.

However, there are also some low-level monks with excellent luck who occasionally get the Kongming Stone in the East China Sea and South China Sea.

Because the fog that suddenly appeared on the Canggu Ocean is partly the ancient aura, if there happens to be a space stone in the place covered by it, there is a chance to generate that stone.

Zhang Shiping lightly touched the black stone slab, the lines on it were slightly convex, and the touch felt a little cold, but because he hadn't cultivated it for a long time, it seemed that he lacked spirituality, no different from a stubborn stone.

He reached out to wipe the storage bag at his waist, and a brocade box of pineapple wood fell silently on the stone table in front of him.

With a sound of "click", Zhang Shiping opened the box, and inside the box was a finger-length long strip of jade slips, stacked in three layers, neatly.Zhang Shiping pointed to them one by one, and finally took out a slightly yellowed jade slip.

These jade slips were treasured by Zhang Shiping over the years, most of them were gifts from the ancestor Changshen, and the rest were his own collection.

He stuck it between his eyebrows, his spiritual thoughts penetrated into the jade slips, and he examined them carefully, comparing them several times.

After a while, Zhang Shiping finally confirmed that the black stone was indeed the Nether Stone.

It's just that it's a pity that this kind of treasure that can be refined into outer alchemy was refined into such a treasure, and this is not a normal storage magic weapon. When the old ghost sacrificed it, he planted all kinds of Mysterious restrictions made this magic weapon only able to store evil things formed by massive remnants of souls, unlike ordinary storage magic weapons, Zhang Shiping sighed.

At the same time, Zhang Shiping also admired the great skill of that Nascent Soul cultivator, because this kind of obscurity is not only made into a magic weapon, but also has other magical functions.

If he could get a Nether Aperture Stone, he would definitely do everything possible to collect the Golden Core Demon Pill with the same attribute as his spiritual root, and refine the Nether Orifice Stone into an outer pill.

This kind of outer elixir is not considered the second golden elixir in the true sense of the monks. Even the best quality outer elixir can only store mana at the level of the golden elixir.

Zhang Shiping looked at the stone slab with lowered eyebrows, and thought to himself: "That's right, if this Nether Aperture Stone can transform into a second Nascent Soul, even if there is only a slight possibility, it won't be refined by that Nascent Soul old ghost to suppress the formation." Storage magic weapon."

However, if there is this magic treasure made of Nether Orifice Stone, which contains a large number of remnant souls and resentful souls, covering up the ghost energy, then everything makes sense.

Because if a spirit tree like Hunhunwu wants to grow into a fourth-order treasure tree, it needs not only aura, but also a large amount of remnant souls and resentful souls. Only in this way can the heart of Hunhunwumu tree have the miraculous effect of nourishing the soul.

Zhang Shiping had never heard that the Chongling Mountain Range used to be a place of ghosts and underworld, the kind of conditions that could nourish the fourth-order mixed soul black treasure tree.

And if someone cultivated it secretly, the ghostly aura that filled the sky would definitely not be able to escape the supervision of Xuanyuanzong.

He put away the brocade box, flipped it over in his hand, and a few pieces of talisman paper with gray silver luster floated down.

As soon as the talisman paper touched the ghost pattern on the stone slab, the talisman turned into wisps of gray and silver streamer, dipping into the stone.

Then Zhang Shiping took out sapphire bottles one after another, the body of the bottle was engraved with dense runes, as soon as the jade bottle was taken out, a thin layer of frost covered Zhang Shiping's palm and covered his forearm.

After he unplugged the flat racket, there was a faint whining sound from the room, Zhang Shiping's expression remained unchanged, the bottle contained the spirit liquid refined from the soul.

The jade bottle was half-tilted, and a silver-gray liquid melted into the black stone silently.

With the incorporation of the spirit liquid, the black stone gradually became agile, and it was no longer lifeless like a stubborn stone.

This magic weapon used by the dignified Yuanying cultivator is not as good as his current Flame Meteor Tower and Qingshuang Sword, which makes Zhang Shiping feel even more emotional.

Nothing in the world is static, whether it is a magic weapon or a family, even if it is the Zhengyang Sect that has been passed down for thousands of years, changes can happen in an instant.

Although he didn't know the name of this Nascent Soul cultivator, and he didn't know why he ended up like this, but now he was burned by his own black flame, and everything disappeared.Zhang Shiping will only keep this matter deep in his heart.

The theory of reincarnation is illusory, and no one knows whether it is true or not.

The monks don't believe in fortune telling, but when they die, most of the monks pin their hopes on the next life.

When he was in the cave, Zhang Shiping wanted to let the Nascent Soul old ghost lose his mind and give him a chance to reincarnate.

Zhang Shiping originally thought that he would take a step back and let the old ghost have a retreat, and he could also save the soul-hunting black treasure tree, which would be beneficial to both of them.

Unexpectedly, the old ghost didn't know what it was for, he would rather be broken than broken, which made Zhang Shiping both admired and annoyed, and at the same time felt a little emotional.

If he has reached this point, is he as courageous as him, or is he begging others to let him live in order to seek the afterlife of nothingness?He doesn't have that free and easy mind, life and death are like drinking sake.

Zhang Shiping shook his head, didn't think much about it, just chuckled, people just like to think too much, in fact there is no need for that at all.

"Dong dong dong..."

Outside the firewood door in the yard, a young man in blue cloth, he tapped a few times, then put down his hand, with a worried expression on his face.The vast aura lingering on the Chongling Mountain Range last night disappeared without a trace even though it was only in a hurry, and the nearby family members hurriedly moved away.

Zhang Tianwu knew that it must be because of the grimace tree in the cave, and he felt a little uneasy.

So after one night, although the ancestor didn't look for him again, after thinking about it, he rushed back to Cuizhu Valley from Chongling Mountain.

After half a cup of tea, Zhang Shiping removed the formation restraint, pushed the door open, and saw Tian Wu outside the courtyard at a glance, with his thoughts written all over his face.

It's just that five or six points of this appearance are just pretending, and Zhang Shiping knows it at a glance.That's fine, the juniors in the clan are too innocent, which is not a good thing.

He walked over calmly, arrived at Zhang Tianwu's side, did not stop, and then walked towards the bamboo forest, the bamboo leaves were rustling, and the breeze was blowing.

"Son, let me take a walk with the old man." Zhang Shiping said softly.

Chapter 429

After hearing Zhang Shiping's words, Zhang Tianwu's expression brightened, and he quickly walked a few steps to follow Zhang Shiping, "Old Ancestor, what happened yesterday..."

"Yesterday you just went home, nothing else." Zhang Shiping said without changing his expression.He didn't want others to know about the Nascent Soul and Old Ghost. No matter what others guessed, he would never admit it.

Besides, he didn't know the identity of the Nascent Soul Old Ghost?Nanzhou is so big, except for those Yuanying ancestors of the Zongmen and those famous Yuanying clans and casual cultivators, the rest don't know how many high-level monks there are.

These people usually act in a low-key manner, and the people they deal with are all monks of the same rank, Zhang Shiping is just a Jindan monk, without the recommendation of his seniors, he can't even meet them.

If someone has an old relationship with this Yuanying old ghost and finds some clues, then he will suffer disaster in all likelihood.

Perhaps Xuan Yuanzong could protect him in Binhai City for the sake of face, but it was only for a while.Besides, these high-level monks want to deal with a person, there are many methods, and the means of beating and killing are too rough, how can low-level monks avoid it?

Zhang Shiping walked slowly, thinking in his heart.

He also knew that he, who was halfway through his entry, would definitely not be able to compare with the direct-inherited golden elixir, and he could tell from the matter of the secret realm alone.

Among the five secret realms of the Xuanyuan Sect, he went to the Xuanyuan Secret Realm once, but to the Tongxuan Secret Realm a few times, and he didn't even know where the remaining three were.

"Yes, I understand." Zhang Tianwu replied in a deep voice, but his voice was a little immature.

Zhang Shiping came back to his senses, paused, then flipped his hands and took out a jade slip from the storage bag, and stuck it between his eyebrows.

After a few breaths, Zhang Shiping turned around and handed the jade slip to Zhang Tianwu, exhorting:

"The golden fruit you ate a few days ago is called the soul puppet fruit, which can strengthen the body, but it is to supplement the soul with the soul, and it is really not worth the loss. This is a method of concentrating your mind, so you have to think about it. Don't go out of the valley during this time , stabilize the foundation, so as not to leave future troubles.”

The Jade Slips contain Zhang Shiping's insights from practicing "Changing Yuanshu" for more than a hundred years. Of course, this is only a small part of the content, which is suitable for monks in the Qi training period.

If the exercises are too advanced, the child will not be able to understand or comprehend them.Moreover, monks do not need to have a deep understanding to practice qi and build a foundation, nor do they need to study some strange methods on their own, just follow the steps.

Low-level monks don't have enough knowledge and accumulation, and they don't even understand themselves, so what ability do they have to start a mountain and become an ancestor?

You must know that the five-element qigong method circulated in Nanzhou today was a low-level method of Xuanyuanzong, Shuiyueyuan, Xuanminggong and other great sects in ancient times. It was only taught among disciples, and generally it was not spread of.

It's just that in the ancient times, the world of spirits experienced great changes, and all the Mahayana monks disappeared without a trace. In the ten thousand years that followed, the aura of the world faded and became thinner, and only a few people broke the mirror and became new Mahayana monks. After a period of time, these newly promoted Mahayanas also left this world, where did they go?

Since then, Taoism in the spiritual world has not flourished, and the atmosphere of wildness has gradually grown, gradually separating Nanzhou, Ximo, and Beijiang. less and less.

Under such circumstances, those great sects relied on the blessings of their ancestors, and with the help of many secret realms, although these sect monks could not break through to become high-level monks, there were still many Yuanying, Huashen, and Dongxu.

But in this situation where the flowers are blooming like brocades and the fire is cooked with oil, those rootless casual practitioners and ordinary people who are as numerous as sand are suffering.

Because of the weak skills and the lack of aura, it is more and more difficult for casual cultivators to break through to the Jindan and Nascent Soul Stages.

Therefore, as long as these casual cultivators have the opportunity to join the sect, even if they are outer disciples, countless people will flock to it.

As for the aptitude of the spiritual root, it is really unsightly. Either he practiced hard in the barren mountains and ridges where the spiritual energy is thin, or he gave up his delusions and went to the world for pleasure.

During that time, in the world of cultivating immortals, one could see that they were all disciples of one sect or another sect.

As time went by, the sects occupied almost all the sacred lands in the world of cultivating immortals, but in this way, the territories of the sects were handed over to each other, and there was no buffer zone, so the friction became more and more intense.

Some people with a clear heart understand that this is not a long-term solution, but they have insufficient hearts, and they are powerless under the pressure of the general situation.

When the conflicts accumulated to a certain extent, there were some people with malicious intentions who secretly fueled the flames for various purposes.

In the beginning, the disciples of the sect fought each other because of personal hatred and public hatred, but when some blood relatives and true disciples died for no reason, those high-ranking ancestors of Dongxu also left the field, but for some reason they played I was so angry that I couldn't hold back.

Under the fighting of these monks, countless low-level monks and mortals suffered disasters, and countless blessed lands in Lingshan were destroyed.

The formerly powerful Nine Bird Sect was also destroyed during those days, and was swallowed up by other sects. The fate of other sects was not much better, and there were not a few who lost their inheritance and extinguished their incense.

But also because of this, the Five Elements Kung Fu Technique, Artifact Formation and many other methods have gradually spread, and there have been a lot of low-level monks in the world of cultivating immortals for a while.

The calamity of the war is gradually extinguished, and the world of cultivating immortals ushers in a new prosperity. Because the inheritance of the sect has been passed down to the world, there are more casual cultivators than before.

It's just that good fortune and misfortune depend on each other. As these low-level monks increase, the number of low-level spiritual objects needed for cultivation also increases, further exacerbating the decline of aura in the world, so that until now, there are no more monks in Dongxu, and there are very few monks in Huashen. .

Zhang Shiping turned around, stepped on the fallen bamboo leaves, and walked slowly along the stone path among the bamboo forests. Zhang Tianwu behind him gave an 'hmm' and fell silent again, followed silently, step by step.

The Emerald Bamboo Valley is very large, and the sea of ​​bamboo is billowing. The two of them are in it, looking past, what they see is one bamboo after another, and because the Emerald Bamboo Valley is full of aura, under the nourishment of the wood attribute aura, they are absolutely beautiful. Most of the bamboo joints are like jasper.

Zhang Shiping clamped a half-rolled bamboo leaf with two fingers, the color was blue and yellow, he held it in front of his eyes and looked at it, then let go, the bamboo leaf swayed to the ground, just as the forest wind picked up again, the bamboo forest creaked and rustled. Fu, there are many more fallen leaves.

On Banpo not far away, at the entrance of an inconspicuous soil cave, two fat bamboo rats poked their heads out and looked at them cleverly for a long time until Zhang Shiping, the two grandparents who had been separated for several generations, walked over. Just ran out quickly.

It took the two of them half an hour to walk along the stone path full of fallen leaves in the forest, and they turned back after a circle.

Zhang Shiping went back to the quiet room, sat cross-legged under the light, and practiced in meditation.As for Zhang Tianwu, holding the jade slip, he sent Zhang Shiping back with a respectful face, before he headed towards his practice place.

The mountains and seas are vast, the sun and the moon rise and fall, and everyone has their own excitement.

But the days in Cuizhu Valley are as calm as the water in the stream and the spring on the rock, flowing quietly and silently.