longevity road trip

"Hey, after traveling for [-] years, I forgot such important events as my ancestor's [-]th birthday. I really shouldn't!" Zhang Shangqin couldn't help laughing bitterly.

"Brother Shangqin, this is not a joke! However, there are more than [-] miles between Qianyuan City and Yuanxiao City. Even if I rush back day and night, it will take three to four months. I don't know if I can do it." It's too late for Zhenjun Shiheng's birthday!" A man with thick eyebrows, big eyes and a broad face said.

This person is a foundation-building disciple of Xuanyuanzong, but he is not from a big family, but recruited from the secular world.

Usually, the foundation-building cultivator's imperial weapon can fly for more than three thousand miles in one day and one night.However, if you want to escape a distance of 40 to [-] miles within three to four months, you need the cooperation of multiple people to activate the flying magic weapon in turn, so as not to run out of mana.

If a person is traveling alone, maintaining this flying speed will be safe in a short period of time, but once the time is long, the consumption of mana will not keep up. Usually, it takes three or four days for flying to escape. If it is about half a day, it is necessary to stop and rest for half a day, so as to avoid unexpected emergencies and unexpected accidents!

However, Xuanyuanzong disciples generally travel abroad. If they are not very confident in their own cultivation and choose to go alone, then most of the remaining monks will mostly be with the same clan, or with the same clan, and rarely with outsiders. Those rogue cultivators go together, so as not to encounter any treasures and chances, but be plotted behind the scenes and lose their lives!

The few people who are with Zhang Shangqin now are all disciples of Xuanyuan Sect, and they all know each other well.

As for the travel, they have reported to the sect, and the monks of the family have also mentioned it to the elders of the Jindan family.

If a few people go out, but not all come back in the end, then the remaining monks will have to be questioned by various methods from the sect.

Once it was found out that they were killing each other, or other people refused to save them, the fate of these monks who came back would not be much better.

"Brother Zitong, don't worry, the ancestor's birthday is not a celebration of the clan, the elders of the clan are just calling the clan to build the foundation back. But I have never heard of the ancestor's birthday before, and I have never thought that it will be so sudden this time. Now the time limit is less than half a month, no matter what, we can’t make it back!” Zhang Shangqin said with a sigh, taking the purple pearl in his hand.

Because of the long lifespan, Yuanying Zhenjun's birthday depends on everyone's preference, or it is bounded by Jiazi, or it is limited to a hundred years, and generally it will not live every year like ordinary people.However, since Zhang Shiping hadn't celebrated his birthday half a time in the hundreds of years since he formed the alchemy, the later foundation-building monks in the family like Zhang Shangqin didn't expect this for a while!

"It's just the clan association. It's really a pity that we couldn't see the real king's face! But Brother Shangqin, even if we don't have enough time now, we should set off immediately to return to the clan." The middle-aged monk Yu Zitong said.

Others responded one after another. After all, it is one thing not to be able to go back, but they acted as if they didn't know if it would be possible!

Furthermore, they have been away for 30 to [-] years, and they have returned home.

"Thank you for your understanding!" Zhang Shangqin said, cupping his hands.

Then he looked at the pretty female cultivator and said with a smile: "Xiuqing, when we go back this time, we will go to the sect to register and confirm our status, and welcome you in. I wonder if you agree?"

When everyone heard it, smiles appeared on their faces, and they expressed their joy repeatedly.

The female cultivator nodded slightly, but she was a little embarrassed!

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And when Zhang's family set off to go back after building foundations outside, Zhang Renche also explained the matter in a warm pavilion on the west side of the Hall of Mental Cultivation in Zhang Guohuang City, leaving only the emperor's nephew alone.

The attendants in the warm pavilion had been sent away long ago, and the room was so quiet that only the breathing of the emperor remained.

After a long time, he suddenly waved his hand and swept away the teacups, melons and fruits on the soft table, with a sullen expression on his face, he said in a deep voice: "How unfair is the ancestor, the main cultivator is a member of the tribe, and we branch cultivators Isn't it?"

After learning that he lost his backer, there was unavoidable resentment in his tone.

There are no monks in a country, once the forces in the thirteen prefectures get the news, they will definitely be ready to move.

At first, there will be no troubles, but the future situation can be foreseen!

The servants outside heard the commotion inside, and they stood upright like a log, as if they couldn't hear or see. They didn't know why the person inside was so angry, and they were worried that they would be angered and lose their lives.After all, with the emperor's imperial decree, everyone in the Quartet will bow their heads, let alone people like them!

After the emperor got angry again, he leaned on the soft back of the couch and asked in a somewhat disappointed tone: "Big companion, can't you live forever if you don't have spiritual roots in this world?"

As soon as the words were finished, an old eunuch with chicken skin and white hair quietly walked out from behind a screen in a corner of the Nuan Pavilion.

"Everyone, the spiritual root is the bridge to connect the spiritual energy of the heaven and the earth. Without the spiritual root, one cannot enter into practice." The old eunuch bowed his head and said softly.

The servants in Zhang Guo's imperial city are all servants of the emperor alone, and they can only be called "everyone" rather than "ministers".

"You have cultivated both internally and externally, and you have already cultivated both to the innate state, so you still can't achieve Qi into your body?" The emperor frowned, and he asked with a light pinch between his brows.

"External power is the method of exercising the body, tempering the skin membrane, tempering the muscles and bones, thereby nourishing the internal organs and concentrating the mind; while the method of internal energy is just to make the order crazy, nourish the internal organs with medicinal baths, true qi, etc. Besides, the two lead to the same goal by different routes, and in the end both are innate realms. Lao Nu once consulted several immortal masters, such as Lao Nu, who are secular innate people, or monks who are capable of rivaling qi refining, but the two are not the same." The old eunuch explained.

"Didn't my third uncle say that Wu Zhixian can also practice? Could it be that he is lying to me?"

"Although the congenital realm can feel the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, but the refinement is too slow. The old slave cultivated to the congenital realm 20 years ago, but he has not taken another step. He is already old and weak, and his blood is decaying." The old eunuch Replied.

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For more than ten days, on the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, it was approaching the severe cold season.

In Yuanxiao City Chongling Mountain, a huge white boat with a length of 48 feet and a width of [-] feet flew from the mountain and headed towards Bihu Island in the South China Sea.

Chapter 847

Some monks in the square city near Chongling Mountain looked at the huge boat, some showed extremely envious eyes, and some remained calm, as if they had nothing to do with themselves.

A burly man with a simple and honest face looked away, walked along the street, came to an unremarkable shop, exchanged greetings with the shopkeeper, and left a jade slip before leaving.

Not long after, the shopkeeper in this shop explained to his apprentice a few times, and then he went out and left Yuanxiao City. After leaving the city gate, he raised his imperial weapon and quickly disappeared among the clouds.

About five or six hours later, the shopkeeper flew down more than a hundred miles away from Yuanxiao City, on an inconspicuous hill in the secular dynasty. Using the earth-walking escape method, the whole person was submerged in the earth and rocks, and sneaked almost a thousand feet underground. In a deep place, came to a cave.

"Old Huangtou, why did you come here before the appointed day?" There was an echo in the cave, and an old man with a dove face in black suddenly appeared.

"Of course it's important to come here. For more than ten days, there have been foundation-builder cultivators returning from the Zhang family's side. In addition, there are many white ape buildings in Yuanxiao City Fang City, and the foundation-builder cultivators are not there. At the moment of today, there is a huge boat flying from Chongling Mountain, heading towards the South China Sea. It seems that the old fellow of the Zhang family should have left the customs. Could it be that he has made a breakthrough and the whole family celebrates it, otherwise how could there be such a big boat? Movement?" The shopkeeper said.

"Probably not. How can it be so easy to break through the Nascent Soul stage? Counting the days, the Zhang family is only [-] years old now, so it shouldn't be so fast." The old man with the dove face thought for a while and said in a hoarse voice .

"That's not necessarily true. It's a matter of Yuanying, so it's better to report to the Ming sect." Shopkeeper Huang said, looking at the dove-faced old man.

Then he reached out and took out a gray cloth storage bag from his bosom, passed it over, and continued:

"Also, this is the information collected by the Zongmen spies in the past two months. I also sent it this time. You can send it back to the Zongmen later, but the Supreme Elder very concerned about this.”

"Understood." The right hand of the dove-faced old man, as dry as a tree root, took the storage bag with five fingers forming claws.

"Okay, then I won't stay here anymore. But there is one more thing to ask you. My grandson has been refining Qi for many years, and there is a new Foundation Establishment Pill in the sect. I would like to trouble you to contribute to it." Shopkeeper Huang Said.

"Don't worry, you have been here in Yuanxiao City for many years, and you have contributed a lot. When I went back last time, I heard that Uncle Jiang was opening a furnace to make alchemy, and there were two from your Huang family." The old man with a dove face said.

"Really?" Shopkeeper Huang said happily.

The Uncle Jiang mentioned by the old man is precisely that Jiang Ruoliu, who is the most valued descendant of Mingxinzong Bi Yunquan, the true emperor of Yuanying.This person is now at the late stage of Jindan, and he is the best among the more than thirty Jindan real people in the Ming Xinzong.She also made a big name in Nanzhou. She once beheaded a casual cultivator in the late stage of Jindan, and there were three big monsters, known as the master of both pills and swords.

Of course, this kind of name is just passed on among the golden cores, and at most it will let other Nascent Soul monks take a look at it.

"What are you pretending to me here, the old man doesn't believe that you didn't receive a letter from your grandson?" the old man with a dove face laughed hoarsely.

Shopkeeper Huang was confronted by the old man, without any embarrassment on his face, he still said unhurriedly:

"Except for Shao'er who has great potential in my Huang family, no one else has the possibility to build a foundation. Of course, I should pay more attention. It's just that I'm in Yuanxiao City all the year round, not in the sect. There are so many people staring at the Foundation Establishment Pill. I'm really worried. If I can't get it this time, it may take another ten or twenty years before the next furnace is opened. This can't be delayed. You and I are both in our fifties, so we should understand the foundation The sooner the better. I have to trouble you about this matter, and I will treat you to a drink next time."

"The Huang family, the Huang family, why do you keep mentioning this? Shao'er is also my grandson, and I care more about his affairs than you. I will immediately set off to return to the clan and report this matter to others, so that no one else can steal Shao'er. That one." said the dove-faced old man.

"The Zongmen and Yuanxiao City are separated by more than [-] miles. It takes about a month or so for us foundation cultivators to go back and forth. If the Zongmen has a teleportation circle here, that would be great, and there is no need to be so troublesome. If something important happens, we can send the news back immediately." Shopkeeper Huang said.

"Don't think too much about such things. I heard that when the monster race invaded Yuanxiao City more than a hundred years ago, they destroyed several ancient teleportation formations. Now I am afraid that even the five sects that have been inherited from ancient times cannot Then set up a new teleportation circle." said the old man with a dove face.The teleportation array involves the way of space. Even if there is an array master who knows the method of arranging the array, but his cultivation level is not enough, he can only watch it.

"I'm just thinking about it. Since the last battle, the Xuanyuanzong and the Jiaolong clan lost a few true kings. Over the years, there have been many disputes between our human monks and the monster clan. Every few years, During the auction in the city, there were quite a lot of materials for the corpse of the great demon." Shopkeeper Huang said that he had been in Yuanxiao City for decades, and because he was a monk in the middle stage of foundation establishment, he had heard a lot of news.

"Then you didn't get some great demon spirit materials, or foundation building pills? It doesn't mean that Xuanyuanzong, Bixiao Palace, and Hongyue Tower will refine a batch of foundation building pills every ten years or so, There will be 34 flowing outside to supply casual cultivators, why didn't you buy a few?" said the old man with dove face.

When Shopkeeper Huang heard this, he couldn't help squinting his eyes, looked at the old man with a dove face, the in-laws, and said angrily:

"How dare I fight for this kind of thing, because I'm afraid that I won't die fast enough? Of those loose cultivators who are eligible to be auctioned and bought, which one is not inextricably related, and has nothing to do with it? Among Dan's casual cultivators, at least seven or eight of them died. You really think that those Dazong are kind people. You want me to die so that Shao'er can change his surname? The old man has seen through you for a long time, Duan It's insidious, no wonder it looks like this! My daughter-in-law doesn't look alike at all, so it's not your own, right?"

"Your son is not as fat as you, and I don't know where he picked it up!" The old man with a dove face said displeasedly.

As soon as he finished speaking, he didn't care about the shopkeeper Huang, and threw himself into the dark river not far away, using the water escape method, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Of course, apart from Mingxinzong, other forces have more or less spies in Yuanxiao City.Although these spies could not go to a high position, or gain the trust of those Nascent Soul monsters, what they mainly did was to pass some important news back to their respective sects.

And from these clues, we may be able to understand some of the situation of those Nascent Soul monsters and Jindan monks in Yuanxiao City, such as whether their cultivation base has improved, or whether they have practiced any new secret techniques.

Although this kind of news is difficult to find out, if there is any gain, it will be a great achievement.

And the Nascent Soul cultivator behind them may be able to rely on this little information to gain a slight advantage when fighting against them.

Xuanyuanzong naturally has many such methods.

In the past at the Horrible Palace of Suffering in the Western Desert, both Xuanyuanzong and the Yan family even placed Anzi in the upper echelon of Jindan, so that Zhang Shiping and the others easily entered the other's secret realm and seized the other's huge foundation. .

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On the other side, the Zhang family's giant boat flew thousands of miles over the South China Sea, and landed on Bihu Island several hours ago.

Xu Su, who was practicing on the island, was already waiting. Zheng Hengyun, Zhang Tianwu, Zhang Bixing, and Zhang Tianming came down from the giant boat first. After meeting, the two sides greeted each other.

Eighty Foundation Establishment monks followed one by one, including men, women, and children, and the last one was more than two hundred Qi Refining Late Stage monks under the age of 30.

It was the first time for these young people to come to Bihu Island, although their demeanor was quite stable, they could still see the joy in their eyes.

Chapter 848 Admonition

After all, not all members of the Nascent Soul Cultivation Family have seen their ancestors with their own eyes.

In the eyes of ordinary people, practitioners are all immortal masters.But those who have embarked on this road have the best experience of the difficulties of cultivation.Qi refining to foundation building is a hurdle. Even though the Zhang family now has more than 87 clan members, there are only [-] foundation building monks who have died or newly promoted over the years. Not to mention Jindan monks.

And the Nascent Soul cultivator who is going upward can be said to be the lifelong pursuit of all practitioners.

The life span is two or three thousand years, sitting and watching all living beings in the world with cold eyes, or Feng Xu is riding the wind, traveling tens of thousands of miles from day to day, gloomy like a fairy.

But when they reached their level, they no longer cared about the eyes of the world, and apart from the matter of cultivation, there were no other distracting thoughts in their hearts.

As for the low-level monks who believed that the Nascent Soul monk had the means to move mountains and fill the sea, in fact, it was not impossible.

It's just that they have already mastered their own magic power to the smallest detail. Even if they fight for some extremely rare spiritual creature, it is very simple, rather than a scene that shakes the world and overflows with magic power.

After all, some powerful secret methods are not so fast when they are cast, and the Nascent Soul cultivator's escape method is extremely fast.

Once you realize that the opponent's means are threatening your own life and death, you must avoid the edge first, or run away.No matter how precious the treasure is, how can it be more important than yourself? Besides, the future will be long, how can you show your ego and fight for half a moment?

As for the face, it has to be alive to talk about it!

Xu Su and the four Golden Core cultivators of the Zhang family who were waiting here summoned the family's foundation building, and took the two hundred or so qi refining cultivators to a small mountain not far away to live temporarily, waiting to meet Zhang Shiping tomorrow morning This Nascent Soul Patriarch.

They walked together and talked about some interesting things that happened recently.

Soon dusk turned to night, and under the starry sky, the five of them listened to the tide by the sea.

When the sky was slightly bright and the red sun was shining on the sea, they got up and turned back, leading the people into the magic circle of the cave where Zhang Shiping was, and stopped and waited quietly.

But before the group saw Zhang Shiping, they saw a strange yellow wind blowing suddenly from the sky, from which came a word that sounded quite calm.

"I haven't been to Chongling Mountain for some years, but there are a lot more little guys in the clan."

After the wind dissipated, Jiang seemed to manifest and appeared in front of everyone.

With a wave of its hand, a pale white and crystal clear sea beast fell from the sky out of thin air.

This monster is more than ten feet in size, with a slender body, bound by countless colorful auras.Although he still bared his teeth and had a fierce look on his face, he couldn't move even a little mana, so there was no danger at all.

"Since this year, many large caravan ships have capsized for no reason at sea, presumably this glazed beast did it." Zheng Hengyun said.

"Exactly, I don't know which uninhabited area in the South China Sea was lucky enough to get promoted to the rank. This glazed beast has formed a core, but it is restless. The master asked me to capture it, so as not to cause any trouble again, this is just a congratulatory gift." Jiang Ru said with a smile.

These days, Jiang Ru has been lurking on a merchant ship in the Zongmen, mostly driving back and forth in the waters where this glazed beast is infested, and waited patiently for a long time before luring it here.

At this moment, the stone gate of the cave in front of everyone burst open, and Zhang Shiping, wearing a green shirt, walked out slowly.He glanced at the monster on the ground, and said unhurriedly: "It turns out that you, the glazed beast, are doing the trick. Are you willing to surrender to my lord?"

Jiang Ru pointed lightly at the glazed beast, loosening some restrictions on its head so that it could speak back.

However, this monster seemed to be unable to understand human words, it only hissed and roared.

Zhang Shiping urged his divine sense, and felt that the glazed beast's soul was extremely disordered, so he shook his head, and said softly to Jiang Si:

"This monster should have suffered damage to its soul when it crossed the catastrophe. But it's okay, its mind is not open, so naturally it won't be too strong, and it will seek its own death. The blood of the glazed beast can strengthen the body of low-level monks, Xu Su and you guys Take it back later, and keep it in Youbo Lake for the time being, and take part of its spiritual blood every three months or so for the use of the younger generations in the clan. From now on, Youbo Lake will be your cultivation cave."

"Yes." Xu Su clasped his hands and readily agreed.What he practices is the method of water spirit, but whether it is Yuanxiao City or in many sea areas of the South China Sea, although there are many third-level water palaces, most of them are Jindan real people who major in water movement skills. This suitable third-level water palace is not enough use?

Youbo Lake is a third-tier water mansion located dozens of miles away from Cuizhu Valley.When Zhang Shiping was cultivating in Cuizhu Valley, this water mansion was originally owned by a Jindan casual cultivator named You Bo Zhenren.

However, shortly after Zhang Shiping conceived a baby, this casual cultivator sat in the water mansion due to the exhaustion of his lifespan.

Not long after that, a Daoist Jindan from the sect took over.

But now, suddenly another 300 years have passed, and this Golden Core cultivator is also at the end of his life.

A few days ago, after the clansmen of this Golden Core cultivator packed up their belongings in the cave mansion, they moved to another second-level spiritual mountain, and this third-level water mansion became vacant.

The steward of the Xuanyuan Sect who was in charge of the leasing of the Dongfu in Yuanxiao City immediately reported the news to several Yuanying patriarchs in the sect.

After Zhang Shiping learned about it, he asked for the water mansion.

After giving these instructions, he began to look at the more than [-] juniors in the clan who had built foundations and refined Qi in front of him.