longevity road trip

On the surface of the sea not far away, there is a light blue streamer flying towards Xiaofeng City.In the light blue aura, two foundation-building cultivators, a man and a woman, are driving a blue jade boat. The male cultivator in brocade clothes has slightly white temples, and looks like a middle-aged man, while the female cultivator is younger and has a graceful temperament .The two stood side by side at the bow of the boat, looking ahead, Nanxiu took the left hand of the woman next to him, put it on his palm, looked at each other and smiled.

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About two days later, after the white jade chariot flew over Xiaofeng Island, and after Zhang Shiping said goodbye to Fairy Nishang, he floated down in front of the city gate.Dozens of people were lined up in front of the city gate, and there were streamers flying towards them in the distance, and the flow of people was endless.Most of these monks are in the foundation building stage, and only a few are in the late stage of Qi refining.

These people were dressed in different clothes and seemed to come from all over the southern state.Seeing someone floating down, they quickly looked away after seeing Zhang Shiping clearly, watching Zhang Shiping get into the animal cart called by the monks defending the city and rumble away.There was just a trace of envy in their eyes.

"My monks should be like this!" A bronze-skinned monk sighed softly.This person's cultivation in the early stage of foundation establishment, he looks a little old because of the wind and sun all year round, but in fact he has only just turned forty.

Which one of the monks present is not blind, his sigh has been heard by everyone.However, most of these people looked travel-stained and quite embarrassed. Obviously they had just returned from hunting and were very tired, so they had no intention of provoking a Foundation Establishment cultivator for no reason.

"Xu Su, you'd better think about where we're going to have a drink later, that's the real thing." A person behind him patted his shoulder and said old-fashioned.

The implication of this person is to let them, such casual cultivators like duckweed, stop wishing for extravagance.

"What's the point of thinking about it? Didn't there be jars of good wine buried under the tree in brother Tang's house last time?" Xu Su took off the yellow wine gourd on his waist, raised his head and took a sip, then turned around and said.

This yellow skin wine gourd is shiny and shiny, and looks extremely well maintained.It's just that the monk's surname is Xu, and the word 'Zhang' is engraved on the gourd.The monk surnamed Tang behind him happened to see the words on the gourd in Xu Su's hand, and suddenly a look of amazement flashed in his eyes, and he said in a low voice: "By the way, do you know who the senior who went in just now is? It's Elder Zhang of Xuanyuan Sect, could the wine gourd in your hand come from..."

"Perhaps!" Xu Su narrowed his eyes, a little surprised.He turned around and looked inside the city gate, the animal cart that Zhang Shiping was riding in had already gone away.

Xiaofeng Island is several points smaller than Nanming Island, and the layout of the two islands is also inconsistent.On Nanming Island, there is only Nanming Island, a huge city that covers more than half of the island, while Xiaofeng Island has several cities, among which Xiaocheng located at the north and south ends of the island is the most.

As for the convenience of distinguishing between the two cities, the monks directly called them South Xiao and Bei Xiao for easy distinction.

In the past, Zhang Shiping followed the sect. When he first came to Xiaofeng Island, he came to Nanxiao City. He hunted sea beasts together with others for several years, but there were some twists and turns at that time. Hunting and killing one seemed to be popular. The sea beast valued by the Kui Niu clan, he suffered some injuries in order to remove the blood curse on his body, and since then he has stopped going out, and instead accepted the task and went to practice alchemy safely.

And I don't know if it's the fate in the dark, he is also in Nanxiao City now.However, a alchemy cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Stage at that time is now in the Middle Golden Core Stage, which is not the same.

The avenues in the city are wide, with distinct lanes and lanes, and these roads have been leveled and reinforced by earth magic. Zhang Shiping in the car didn't feel any shaking along the way.

After half a stick of incense time, the animal cart stopped slowly in front of a white light curtain in a courtyard.

"Elder, we've arrived." The coachman said softly.

He immediately got out of the car, holding a small stool in his hand, put it on the ground, and when he wanted to lift up the curtain, Zhang Shiping had already walked out of the car. After he got off the car, he handed the driver a Lingshi.The coachman didn't have any excuses, he quickly thanked, and took down the spirit stone with a smile on his face.

The Jindan Elder of Xuanyuanzong didn't need a spirit stone to ride a car, but Zhang Shiping didn't like to take advantage of this, so he gave a spirit stone.

Of course, this spirit stone must have fallen into the hands of the handyman driving the car.

Zhang Shiping stood in front of the courtyard, raised his hand and pointed forward, a little red light was submerged in the white light curtain, and then only the red light spread out in the light curtain, separating a door about Zhang Xu long and wide.

After Zhang Shiping stepped in, the door closed in an instant, hiding Zhang Shiping's figure.

After about ten breaths, another layer of red light rose from a quiet room in the courtyard.

Zhang Shiping took out several storage bags from the jade belt around his waist one after another, with a flash of blue light, there were many more utensils in the quiet room, he frowned and scanned.

His eyes fell on the Huijiu feathers, and a jade box, which was filled with the Wanguangxing Silver Sand that was obtained from the Huijiu's belly, but Zhang Shiping's eyes did not linger too long on it. Long.

Then a two-inch long golden sword slowly flew up from the ground and landed in Zhang Shiping's hands. He still cared deeply about that fellow Daoist Cao. This magic weapon of the flying sword was one of the weapons Zhang Shiping exchanged with him.

Following his thoughts, a cloud of faint black flames rose from Zhang Shiping's palm, enveloping the small golden sword.

Zhang Shiping's eyes were closed tightly, after a long time, he dispelled the black flame in his hand and shook his head.He is extremely confident in his black flame supernatural powers, and during the hundred years of cultivating, Hei Yan has already waved his fingers as he wished, so he didn't damage the spirituality of the flying sword just now.

Chapter 481

When he was in Guihai Pavilion, Zhang Shiping exchanged several things from Cao Qi, besides this flying sword made of golden light and wooden heart, there were also two pieces of sea beast inner alchemy, and a small piece of Gengjin.

Regardless of whether it is a human being or a demon, all practices are similar, and when the spirit and mana are kept together, there is no essential difference in the pills formed, it is nothing more than the difference between the strength of the spirit and the pureness of the mana.

The newly formed golden core is very fragile, so no matter how well Zhang Shiping's black flame rotates, but just in case, so as not to accidentally destroy the two demon cores, he gave up the black flame and turned to activate the divine core. Consciousness, slowly sinking into it, and perceiving it carefully.The demon pill is precious, no matter it is alchemy, weapon refining, or talisman, formation, immortal planting and many other cultivation skills, there are some wonderful methods that require the use of demon pills!

After three or four hours, Zhang Shiping had a thorough look at the two demon pills inside and out, and finally he closed the brocade box, feeling a little fortunate that there was nothing wrong with the two demon pills.

However, the last thing he exchanged from that fellow Daoist Cao, that is, the knuckle-sized piece of Gengjin, after Zhang Shiping pondered for a while, he directly closed the lid, put it on the shelf in the quiet room, and put it away.

He knew that with his current means, it would be difficult for him to do anything with Gengjin, a material that is hard and impenetrable to mana and consciousness.If there is a universe in it, I probably won't be able to notice it.Zhang Shiping is not that arrogant, he is just a monk in the mid-stage of Jindan, how many wonderful methods have he seen just now?

But it doesn't matter, it's that fellow Daoist Cao left some means in the Gengjin, once Gengjin is put into the formation and tempered with real fire, there is no reason to escape.It's just that Zhang Shiping is in charge of Nanxiao Island's elixir matters, and it took a long time to refine Gengjin, so it's impossible for him not to show up for ten days and a half months.

Therefore, after thinking about it again and again, Zhang Shiping directly put it in the courtyard of Nanxiao City in order to be safer. In this way, some future troubles can also be temporarily avoided.

As for the small awl covered with purple flame patterns placed on the farthest side, and the two black Thunder Orbs, he looked at them solemnly for a moment, and then hummed the extremely complicated spells in his mouth, Accompanying the ten fingers to knead one after another hand formula, there are many phantoms for a while, and the spiritual energy in the quiet room gathers and surges endlessly.

It took a full incense stick of time to cast the spell, and the thunder fire awl was as he expected, and there was nothing wrong with it, even as Zhenjun Yuji said, this magic weapon was indeed just refined, and the owner had not yet been recognized. It made Zhang Shiping feel like he was being too careful.

After all, the other party is a majestic Nascent Soul True Monarch, could it be that he is using the heart of a villain to cross the belly of a gentleman?

As for the two Thunderbolt Beads, Zhang Shiping inspected them with his divine sense extremely carefully, and then quickly took out two Spirit Sealing Talismans and sealed them in the box.At that time, Zhenjun Yuji said that it was refined by him by intercepting the sky thunder, but something went wrong, and he could only exert the power of a golden core cultivator's blow, which was too far from what he expected, and his tone was as if he had abandoned it.

But he sensed it, and the power of thunder and fire contained in it faintly startled him. He tried all kinds of methods, and the power was nothing more than that.

"Oh!" A slight sigh sounded in the quiet room.

In fact, Zhang Shiping also knew in his heart, if that Zhenjun Yuji really wanted to do something, how would he be able to detect it?

But at that time, the ancestor Qingyu was there, right under the eyes of the ancestor, so these two things shouldn't be a big problem.Besides, Zhenjun Yuji has a plan in his heart, unless he hides deep in the secret territory of the sect, no matter where he is, he will not escape his schemes, Zhang Shiping can only comfort himself like this.

In fact, the safest way is to simply not use them.But in Zhang Shiping's heart, he was reluctant after all. People die for money, birds die for food, and the truth remains unchanged through the ages.

That golden lightsaber is a magic weapon of the wood attribute, its power is average, it doesn't make any difference to him whether it is there or not, but the purple fire cone looks like an extremely high-quality magic weapon, and it only needs a little sacrifice, and it will help him a lot , and the Huo Leizhu is so powerful that it can catch people by surprise, and even save his life in some critical moments. How can he give up completely because of his little doubts?

After Zhang Shiping finished dealing with these matters, it was already late, the sun was setting, and night fell soon.

Above the clear wind and floating clouds, there is a crescent moon hanging high, and the stars light up the sky, condensing into the Milky Way, which rises with the waves, and seems to fall in the sea, the waves are sparkling, and they are actually small silver-scaled fish.

"Chirp chirp... chirp chirp..." There were a few crisp chirps in the wind.

Dozens of white dolphins are driving the school of fish, devouring the single silver pike with great agility, and when they are full, the white dolphins jump out of the sea, splashing water everywhere!

Zhang Shiping in the quiet room had already taken out thousands of crimson spirit stones and put them in the spirit gathering array. Then he sat cross-legged on the futon as before, meditating quietly in the faint yellow light of the lamp, and sorted out his heart. His thoughts were chaotic, and after his mind became clear, he began to run the "Fire Crow Jue".

As he breathed out, spiritual energy surged toward him.

A night without words is fleeting!

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The sky was dim, after Zhang Shiping put away his exercises, he didn't get up, but quietly looked at the bronze lamp in the shape of a lady in dark clothes sitting on her knees and holding a lamp.He took out a small bamboo branch and flicked the lamp lightly. In the flames, the lamp core was as pure and white as it was more than two hundred years ago.

Soon the flames ignited the bamboo branch and burned it up. Zhang Shiping twirled his fingers and extinguished the small bamboo fire.

He put down the half-burned bamboo branch, and put his finger into the bronze lamp.It's just that the lamp wick seems to be an illusion, and fingers can easily pass through it.But Zhang Shiping didn't show the slightest surprise on his face, as if he was used to it.

Zhang Shiping originally thought that this bronze lamp was a rare treasure that was refined by those great masters for the sake of such inferior disciples in the heyday of the world of cultivating immortals in ancient times, but as he read more and more classics, However, nothing similar was found.

It stands to reason that the Xuanyuan Sect is considered to be one of the sects with the longest inheritance and the most complete records in Nanzhou. In ancient times, there were even Mahayana monks, so there should be such artifacts like bronze lamps preserved. If No, at least it should be recorded.But since there were none, Zhang Shiping would not be curious to ask more questions.

In fact, over the years, he has tried to capture first- and second-order sea beast monsters alive, and he has also captured a few monks without long eyes, and placed them near the bronze lamp, watching them practice slowly, but their speed of practice is still the same. So, no change.Then Zhang Shiping had some thoughts in his mind, could it be that there were powerful monks from their Zhang family ancestors, and this copper lamp is their inheritance, it must have the blood of their Zhang family to show the magic?Together with this thought, Zhang Shiping called a few children in the family who had just refined Qi, and tried it, but it was still in vain.

As for the strangeness of the wick, Zhang Shiping had discovered it as early as when Zhengyangzong was also practicing in Kunshan.Anyone who has seen the wick has burned for 200 years without any change in color will feel strange.When the flame of the bronze lamp is lit, the wick becomes unreal, and when it is extinguished, it becomes touchable again.

Chapter 482 Linggen Guessing and Miscellaneous Work

Zhang Shiping took his fingers out of the flames, rolled up his sleeves, and slashed lightly on his forearm with a finger knife, creating a wound less than half an inch.

A trace of blood like lead and mercury just came out of the wound, and then he immediately picked up the brocade handkerchief and wiped away the blood, so how can there be any wound?

In just one or two breaths of time, the wound was completely healed, and the wound was completely invisible. Of course, this was also related to the small wound.In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the lamp didn't respond to any external objects, Zhang Shiping wouldn't have experimented with his own body.

After ignoring the miraculous effect of the bronze lamp on wound healing, its most important thing is to greatly increase the speed of Zhang Shiping's absorption of refining spiritual energy and help him practice.As for the speed of a monk's practice, regardless of external spiritual energy, medicine pills and other foreign objects, it almost depends on his own spiritual root aptitude.

Therefore, Zhang Shiping felt in his heart that the wick was very likely to be the so-called spiritual root, and this was only his speculation.

In the world of cultivating immortals, Zhang Shiping has never heard of anyone seeing the spiritual root with his own eyes, and even in ancient books, there is no actual record of it.

As for spiritual roots, there are more endless debates, that is, in ancient times, when the world of cultivating immortals was at its peak, and great powers emerged in large numbers, everyone had their own opinions, and there was no final conclusion.

But when Zhang Shiping read many ancient books of Xuanyuanzong, he once read an anecdote.What is recorded above is the life of a famous blood demon at that time. The man once said that "the soul is in harmony, and the one is inseparable", which makes Zhang Shiping especially fond of memory.

This 'yingpo' means 'soul'.In ancient and modern times, this kind of small word meaning change is nothing more than normal.Some of the names of the medicines written in the ancient prescriptions have never been heard of by monks today, but it is very likely that they have just changed their names not because the elixir is extinct.

However, if the meaning of the word is slightly different, it will be lost by thousands of miles. Therefore, if the monks have obtained some ancient cultivation method, they will practice it after studying it thoroughly. Therefore, those who are reckless and vulgar, lacking in knowledge, and only know how to fight and kill, are in the world. There is no long way to go on the road of longevity.

Zhang Shiping read it carefully, and it can be seen from the lines that the senior Xuanyuanzong who recorded this matter obviously agrees with what the blood demon said.Then the senior of the sect speculated that the reason why the blood demon made such a statement may be because it has something to do with ghost cultivation and seizing the house.

Because if a monk encounters unexpected events and his physical body is destroyed, but his spirit and soul are lucky enough to survive, then he can turn to ghost cultivation in the future, or he can take his body and be reborn.

It's just that no matter how you choose, the practice of these monks has almost become extremely difficult, and it is difficult to make any progress in the realm.

Therefore, the blood demon deduced that the spiritual root is a kind of connection between the soul and the soul, and it is a thing of reality, life and death, and disillusionment.Both ghost cultivation and seizing the house, the "soul" remains unchanged, but the "spirit" is lacking, which damages the spiritual root, so that the practice will be slow in the future, and the realm will be difficult to rise.

In fact, the first half of the statement is quite normal in the world of cultivating immortals, and there is no suspicion of deviant.However, the second half of the words recorded next opened Zhang Shiping's eyes, saying that this person's thinking is really unconstrained.

This person imagined that if he used his own soul and blood as a guide, he could avoid the mystery of the womb with secret methods, regain the mystery of giving birth to a living being, and then embrace everything without separation, then he would be able to recreate himself and divide into thousands.

According to the Gorefiend, this avatar is exactly the same as the deity in terms of spiritual roots, personality, and memory, and there is no hidden danger of turning away from others, so that one can achieve a different kind of longevity without becoming a fairy, which is the secret of immortality.

At that time, this person was called a blood demon because he used all means to complete this method and provoked the anger and resentment of the heaven and earth in the world of cultivating immortals at that time.In the end, it was recorded that this person did not know what he did, which caused the true spirit phoenix to be furious. Since then, the whereabouts of this blood demon have been unknown.

After reading the records in the classics, Zhang Shiping saw that this person could be called a blood demon. He must have been a giant in the world of cultivating immortals at that time, and his actions should be extremely arrogant, but these are extremely ancient things. What was written about "angry with the sky and people with resentment" and "do all kinds of evil" were just a few cold words after all.

Zhang Shiping didn't want to be a sympathetic person. Instead, he subconsciously wondered whether this person has completed the magic of longevity in the end, because even if they are exactly the same person, they have different life experiences, and the heights they can reach are naturally different. .If he can become a Mahayana in this life, how can he guarantee that he will have the same cultivation level in the next life?

This method of longevity in seconds is still very early for Zhang Shiping today, he himself has not even condensed the Nascent Soul,

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While he was meditating, the sky became a little brighter.

In the distance, the sun has jumped out of the gray sea, the morning glow is purple, and the sun is gradually golden.

In the quiet room, Zhang Shiping felt the yang energy rising between the heaven and the earth. He put away the bronze lamp, left the mansion, and flew towards the 'Yangxin Garden'. After a cup of tea, he fell slowly in front of the garden.

"Greetings to the elder." There were already five Jianji stewards waiting in front of the door, and when they saw Zhang Shiping flying down, they quickly saluted and said hello.

"Come in." Zhang Shiping passed the five people.

After so many years, these stewards also understood the temper of the elder in front of them, and the five immediately followed him in.

Zhang Shiping sat down on the main seat, and said lightly: "You all sit down too. What's the matter these days when I'm not here? Boxu, tell me first."

A middle-aged foundation-building monk with a sallow complexion stood up immediately. He didn't say much flattery and superfluous words, but succinctly told what happened after he left, and various panacea number.

Nothing happened in the past few days, and everything was still in order. Zhang Shiping nodded after hearing this, motioning him to sit down.

After this person finished speaking, it was the turn of the steward who was in charge of dispatching the raw materials of the prescription. This person was surnamed Chen, and he presented a jade slip. There were too many types of medicinal materials in the warehouse, and it would take too long to report them one by one. So this steward Chen directly recorded all these in the jade slips, and it was quicker to scan them with his spiritual sense.

After Zhang Shiping took it, his consciousness swept away, and after a few breaths, he looked at Guanshi Chen and said, "The three elixirs of jade sea grass, golden vine root, and black snake fruit are missing, so prepare more."

The medicinal material that was originally blindly named 'Jade Sea Grass' is now more than half in stock, and this material is an important auxiliary drug for refining Chunfenghuashengdan.

"Back to the elders, I informed the Alliance treasury the day before yesterday that the golden vine root and black snake fruit are being transported, but there is a shortage of jade seaweed, so I am afraid they cannot be supplied."

"I remember that jade seagrass is the most common, why is there a shortage? Is it because they deliberately made things difficult for them, or is there some other reason?" Zhang Shiping felt a little strange after hearing the words, and asked.

This kind of jade seaweed grows on the reef where the tide fluctuates, and it is nothing more than a little sensitive to water quality and temperature. Compared with others, this is a kind of sea spirit grass that is easy to nourish.

Moreover, this kind of low-level spirit grass is not formed by the magic of heaven and earth spirit energy. Many cultivating families on the islands in the South China Sea are cultivating it, so how can there be a shortage?

"I don't know why, in the past six months, more and more jade sea grass has withered, and the potency of this batch of jade sea grass that has been harvested in a hurry has weakened by three to four quarters. It takes more weight to refine the panacea. , so it wears out faster." Chen Guanshi said with a look of embarrassment.

Zhang Shiping looked thoughtful, and after pondering for a while, he said, "What about seaweed?"

In the refining of many healing elixirs, the spiritual materials of Jade Seaweed and Seaweed can be substituted for each other without compromising their properties.It's just that seaweed is more expensive than jade seaweed.

"The production of seaweed has also been greatly reduced." Chen Guanshi lowered his head and responded.

Chapter 483 errands

Chen Guanshi was a little hesitant, but then suddenly thought of something, and quickly added: "Not only jade seaweed, seaweed, but also other sea spirit grasses such as dragon fibrous root and dark brown leaf."

"Nearby islands..." Zhang Shiping tapped the table a few times, paused and asked with a frown.

"It's all the same." Chen Guanshi quickly nodded in response, seeing Zhang Shiping frowning slightly, he felt uneasy.

"Understood, this matter is true or not, I will ask you Wang Daoyou later and then I will know, sit down!" Zhang Shiping nodded, he wanted to ask again, but suddenly thought of something, and asked Chen Guanshi sit down.

Hearing this, Chen Guanshi was overjoyed and sat upright.

Zhang Shiping looked at the three stewards at the back, they got up one after another, and explained what had happened in recent days, everything was pretty good, so it wouldn't upset Zhang Shiping.

One of the five stewards is the Zhang family Zhuji, if the steward Chen just now was a disciple of his Zhang family, Zhang Shiping would not be able to treat him lightly like this, at least he would have to scold him a few times to convince the crowd.