longevity road trip

Then he said in a low voice, "Follow me."

Zhang Tianming followed slowly and followed suit.

After walking tens of feet, he said cautiously, "Old Ancestor, I think what Senior Jiang said is also true. Shouldn't it be time for you, old man, to find one, or take some concubines as well."

"Just take care of yourself and practice. If you can't break through to the Nascent Soul Realm, then you will die, and the old man will still be alive and well." Zhang Shiping said without turning his head.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Zhang Tianming didn't dare to say another word.

He once heard Zhang Bixing say that in the past, before the birth of a baby, the ancestors often retreated for 30 to 300 years, and the longest even lasted as long as one Jiazi year.In the case of his own practice speed is extremely fast, the ancestor also practiced hard for [-] years before conceiving a baby. For such a long time, there are no one knows how many generations have been changed in the secular world.

So how can this Nascent Soul realm be achieved so easily?Qualification, opportunity and character are indispensable.

Leaving aside personal aptitude, the vast majority of Golden Core cultivators are unable to do just these hundreds of years of meditation practice.

Even if they are blessed with opportunities and have no shortage of things for practice, they will only retreat for seven or eight years at most, and then go out to relax for a few months to relieve the boredom accumulated in their hearts during practice.

This kind of thing is extremely normal.

Therefore, many Jindan monks usually keep some beautiful maidservants in captivity.

It's just that most of the foundation-building female cultivators in the world of cultivating immortals, unless they have no backing, would not choose to entertain people with sex.What's more, it is difficult for a Golden Core cultivator to provide the spiritual objects needed for a foundation-establishing nun to form a core.

Therefore, most of the beautiful maidservants received by these Jindan real people are only Qi-refining cultivation bases, and their lifespan is limited. Often, their appearance is no longer young before they get along with each other a few times, and then they are eliminated by the latecomers. Batch after batch.

As for the so-called dual cultivation theory, it is between monks of the same level, otherwise it is actually more about collecting yin to supplement yang, or collecting yang to supplement yin.

The way of heaven is fair, if one party benefits, another party must suffer. Almost no real person is willing to give the golden core and pure mana that he has worked so hard to cultivate as a partner for foundation building or qi refining.

There may be such a situation, but often neither side can go too far.In Xiaohuanjie, the couple Zhiyi and Hongyi from Hongyuelou are the best example. The relationship is too deep and the bond is too heavy, and the ending can be imagined.

The reason why there are so many cultivating families in the world of cultivating immortals is mostly because the cultivators themselves have no hope of cultivating, so they want to settle down and focus on other trivial matters.

Of course, both parties are exceptionally talented people.

It's just that many golden core monks will slowly lose their mind to practice because of this, and finally wake up suddenly, but the time left for repentance is not enough for themselves to break through the Nascent Soul.

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The two walked into the hall one after the other.

Zhang Shiping sat at the main seat, Zhang Tianming sat at the bottom, and they sat in turn.

"What happened during the time I was away that made you come to the door so impatiently?" Zhang Shiping said calmly.When he was refining the dragon puppet, he had already sensed with his spiritual sense that in the past three months, the youngest Jindan junior in the clan had come several times one after another.

"Old Ancestor, since you went to the Western Desert Barbarian Territory, there have been many strange noises in the Valley of Resentment in Zhang Guoheng Prefecture. The disciples on duty there said that it seemed to be the muffled cry of some kind of toad monster. At first, half a year ago, there was only one ringing sound, and there was no further movement. They thought they heard it wrong. But in the past three months, the frequency of the toad ringing has become more and more frequent, every seven or eight days or so , there will be one time, besides, the temperature around the valley suddenly rises a lot, the vegetation is all withered, and the place has become a barren mountain now. But the ancestors have said beforehand that it is dangerous, so they dare not enter the battle and sneak into the valley to investigate. Three A few days ago, Senior Brother Zheng and Gaozu had already passed by, but there is no news yet." Zhang Tianming said.The Gao Zu in his mouth refers to Zhang Tianwu.

When Zhang Shiping heard it, he immediately put down the teacup he had just picked up, and asked in a deep voice, "Are you sure it's the sound of toads?"

At that time, in the depths of the magma in the Resentful Huosha Valley, he remembered that it was a fire scorpion. The sound of this fire-type fish and monster was completely different from the sound of a toad.

"Yes, all the disciples heard it." Zhang Tianming replied.

Zhang Shiping tapped the armrest with his index finger, meditated, and then said slowly: "In the small world, the thousand-eyed toad is the most toad-like monster, but since the demon king came down more than a hundred years ago, the thousand-eyed monster has not known The trace should be that he ascended to the spirit world together with the Demon Lord. Since then, there has been no news about the Qianmu Toad clan, and all the demon kings in the clan have gone into hiding."

Zhang Tianming, who is a Golden Core cultivator, is already qualified to know these things, so he didn't avoid them, but simply said them out.

"Does the ancestor think that there is a demon king among the thousand-eyed toad who knows about the Resentful Fire Valley?" Zhang Tianming asked.

"There's a possibility, but it's more likely that there are wild toads with the fire attribute in the valley. Otherwise, with the methods of those toad monsters, it is absolutely impossible to make abnormal noises and reveal clues." Zhang Shiping shook his head and said.

Having said that, with a wave of his hand, a messenger jade in his sleeve was reduced to a red light and disappeared into the distance.

"Man toad?" Zhang Tianming couldn't help feeling chills down his back, feeling extremely apprehensive.

"Could it be that the Mangu aura has already leaked here, and once the Mantoad breaks through the barrier of the formation and the Mangu aura leaks, the surrounding area will be devastated."

"This old man will deal with it on his own. Don't say anything to the outside world. Apart from this, is there anything else?" Zhang Shiping said calmly.

This Valley of Resentment Fire is different from other places where the ancient aura is leaked. Under the secret arrangement of Misty Valley, the spiritual veins of this place are connected with the barbarian domain. Forbidden.

Even he can only lay down formations to suppress it temporarily

And at that time there was already a wild gnat at the bottom of the valley, and now it is even more suspected that there is an extra wild toad.

The savage beasts are insane and very ferocious, and it is impossible for them to coexist peacefully with each other.If this savage toad is indeed under the lava in the valley, then it has probably devoured the fire savage squid.

It can also be inferred from this that Man Chan's strength is much stronger, probably not just in the early stage of Yuanying.

But what Zhang Shiping didn't say was that this monster might also be the companion guardian spirit beast of the false spirit fire, and this was the more troublesome guy.

"Besides that, during the past few months, when I had banquets with several Jindan monks from Shuiyueyuan and Mingxinzong, they seemed to be a little concerned about the affairs of the ancestors. I think this is a bit It's not normal, I'm here to report." Zhang Tianming said in a deep voice.

"They really have a heart. I know about this." Zhang Shiping chuckled lightly.

It seems that the two Nascent Souls of the Bai family, and the four guys Bi Yunquan and Xu Yuanhui are still not giving up.They really think that Mingxin Bieyuan is a good place with ancient inheritance?

It's just that this dangerous place, he thinks it's time to use it.

"If there is nothing else, you can go down first." Zhang Shiping said with a wave.

"I'll leave tomorrow."

"Go, pay attention to those golden cores of Shuiyueyuan and Mingxinzong, your time to form a core is too short, you can't beat them."

Before Zhang Tianming left, Zhang Shiping gave another instruction.

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Half an hour later, Tianfeng arrived at the invitation.

As soon as he came in, he hurriedly asked: "Shiheng, is there really any change in the Valley of Resentment?"

"Why, haven't you received a summons from the spies?" Zhang Shiping said unhurriedly.

As soon as he finished speaking, Tianfeng's face darkened a little, with a murderous look in his eyes, and he said coldly:

"It seems that some guys stretched their hands too far, and dared to confuse me. These dark hall disciples have to clean them up, and see which old guy is messing with them."

"There is me in you, and you in me. Isn't this a normal thing? One of the few disciples in my clan who guards outside the valley has a divine sense of the lower Tao. Luo Shan and the others can't do it." I enslaved these Foundation Establishment cultivators unknowingly. However, the disciples of the Dark Hall should investigate again to find out some little guys who were instigated by other sects or who were enslaved." Zhang Shiping got up and walked to Tianfeng's side, and said in a deep voice.

"I just cleaned up a batch two years ago, and I don't want to come again."

"Which side's chess pieces have been placed the most over the years?"

"The Misty Sect is the most, followed by the Red Moon Tower. Besides, there are quite a few in the White Horse Temple, and there are more or less others."

"It's quite complete, so how many spies we sent out have been cleaned up?"

"Every once in a while, there will always be some loss of manpower. But fortunately, within an acceptable range."

The placement of spies by various forces is something that has been repeatedly prohibited.Zhang Shiping and Tianfeng were not too entangled in the above.After all, it is not a Nascent Soul cultivator who can separate the soul and put it on the disciple who goes out.

However, because the Resentful Flame Valley is related to his own opportunity to advance, Zhang Shiping did not hesitate to separate this soul to ensure that there will be no problems in this regard.

Chapter 878

Although Tianfeng said that it was within the acceptable range, his complexion was not good.

"It seems that these years, the situation is not optimistic. It seems that most of the hidden children planted in the three realms have been cleared out." Zhang Shiping sighed.

"Don't worry, it's not that far yet. Besides, it's just a matter of sending people away. It's just a pity that the three Golden Core cultivators who were placed at the Red Moon Tower and the White Horse Temple were picked out by them. Now there is no more news to send back." Tianfeng said.

Zhang Shiping nodded slightly, and then with a movement of divine sense, a jade box three or four feet long and one foot wide appeared in his hand.

Then he asked, "I wonder if Qiu Cong is free now?"

This jade is extremely transparent, without opening it, one can see a purple rhizome inside, with five branches, the leaves are needle-shaped, and there is a faint golden elixir on the edge.This is one of the eleven precious medicines he obtained.

The growth environment of this kind of spiritual grass is extremely harsh, and it can only grow in the volcano in the deep sea. One branch is branched every thousand years, and the spiritual leaves are dyed with gold for 5000 years. It is a rare fire-attribute medicine in the world.

Of course, Zhang Shiping did not return the seven plants of precious medicine that he borrowed from Jiang Si, otherwise he would still owe one plant.

"Zihua Yandan?" Tianfeng asked.

"That's right. I have two Zihua grass in my hand now. If Qiu Cong is free, I will ask him to open a furnace to make alchemy this time. Hengyun is a monk of Yanlinggen. When he was young, his dantian was severely injured. What I was looking for at that time Although the panacea healed his injury barely, but it took too long after all. He barely established the foundation when he was 60 years old, and now the alchemy has been formed for hundreds of years, and he barely advanced to the middle stage. At this time, if If you don't help him, I'm afraid it will be difficult even in the later stages of this life." Zhang Shiping said with a sigh.

Now Zheng Hengyun is over 30 years old, and he has only been promoted to the middle stage of Golden Core [-] years ago after hundreds of years of hard work. For a Golden Core monk with Yan Linggen and the support of Nascent Soul monks behind him, The speed of practice is considered slow.

"Is it worth it? Such precious medicine is extremely rare." Tianfeng frowned slightly.

"How can everything in the world be judged by its value or not? Don't you think that we have become a little too rational after practicing? He was brought out of the mountain by me, and now he is determined to practice, which is rare. This kind of At the critical moment, if I don't help him, then he really has no hope in this life." Zhang Shiping said calmly.

Tianfeng's words were not unreasonable.Even if Zheng Hengyun has the help of Zihua Dan refined from such a 5000-year-old precious medicine, if he wants to practice to the later stage of Jin Dan, it will take more than a hundred years, at least, and he will be 700 years old by then.

After reaching this age, even Jindan monks will inevitably start to decline, and their potential will be greatly reduced.

Even if Zheng Hengyun was able to advance his mana one step further in the last hundred years and reach the perfection of the golden core, this is already his limit.

At that time, when the time comes to pass through the baby thunder disaster with an old body, the unforeseen dangers will be even greater, and the chance of success may not be even [-]%.

"Since he caught your eye, then I won't say much. However, Qiu just opened the furnace to refine the Qianzhi Lingdan a few days ago, so I'm afraid it won't be so fast. Let's go to the Valley of Resentment and Fire, and wait It should be about the same when you come back." Tianfeng said.

As an outsider, he couldn't say anything.

"Then let's go there earlier, but at this time, the false spiritual fire should not be fully formed. This is just a sign before the birth of the heaven and earth spirits. Wait a moment, I will call that guy Jiang Bi back."

As soon as Zhang Shiping finished speaking, he immediately communicated with the blood contract.

However, it was discovered that this guy had already run more than a hundred miles away, and was escaping into the Yantan of Qinghuogu to steal the Poguang wine.

While it turned back, Zhang Shiping apologized, leaving Tianfeng sitting alone in the living room. He returned to the quiet room, stretched out his hand to wipe the jade belt around his waist, and took out eleven pills containing precious medicines. The jade box was placed properly, and a restriction was set before leaving the quiet room.

These precious medicines are too powerful, and they have to be refined to become pills before they can be taken.If you swallow it forcefully, it will cause a lot of burden to yourself, and [-]% to [-]% of its medicinal properties will be wasted.

Therefore, they are useless when monks fight.

Zhang Shiping is going to go out now, so naturally he won't take all these temporarily unused treasures with him.If there is a chance, then wouldn't it be in vain to benefit the opponent, it is better to stay in your own palace.

Even if something happened to him one day, a small part of these precious medicines would fall into the hands of the few Jindan juniors in the family.

The distance of more than a hundred miles did not take too long for the Nascent Soul cultivator.

Zhang Shiping had just put it away, and when he walked back to the hall, Jiang Ru came back.It's just that it's holding an altar of steaming Poguang wine in its hand, and the word 'Zhang' is engraved on the altar.

Jiang Ru raised his head and drank it all in one gulp, then put the wine jar into the jade belt that Zhang Shiping gave just now, destroying the evidence.

"300 years?" Tianfeng sniffed the scent of wine in the air.

"In 370, I brewed a batch when I was still in Qinghuogu. There were [-] altars in total. Didn't you take all of them?" Zhang Shiping couldn't help narrowing his eyes when he said this.

"No way, I didn't get much this time, only five altars." Jiang Si hurriedly explained.

It's just that Tianfeng at the side transmitted the sound transmission: "Give me two altars evenly."

Jiang Ru nodded gently, and a tacit understanding was reached in an instant.

"Well, this time?" Zhang Shiping caught the point instantly and snorted softly.

"Let's go." Tianfeng interrupted.

When Zhang Shiping heard this, he had no choice but to let Jiang Si go for the time being, and then the two of them, one demon, were surrounded by spiritual light, turning into three startled rainbows, soaring into the sky, and disappearing among the clouds.

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About an hour, over Zhang Guoheng Prefecture, which is more than [-] miles away from Yuanxiao City, three rays of light flashed across the clouds.

Zhang Shiping, Tianfeng, and Jiang Rufei came to the top of the Valley of Resentment and Fire, and looked down.

"In a few years, I'm afraid the Hengzhou county will start to be evacuated." Zhang Shiping said.

Today's Resentful Flame Valley has long been turned into a wasteland. They swept across the sky with their spiritual consciousness tens of miles away, and they could feel a surge of pure fire spiritual power like a volcano.

The magic circle that sealed the ancient atmosphere has begun to run out.

With the Resentment Fire Valley as the center, the mountains and forests in a radius of more than ten miles have all withered. Under the scorching high temperature, the water vapor in the air appears a little distorted, reflecting the sunlight, creating a mirage-like illusion.

They descended slowly and came to Zheng Hengyun, Zhang Tianwu and the three Zhang Family Zhuji who were guarding here.

"Greetings to the ancestors, Tianfeng Zhenjun and Jiang Zhenjun." The five monks of the Zhang family immediately bowed and saluted.

"Heng Yun, Tian Wu, have there been any changes in the past three days? Is the sound of the toad still ringing?" Zhang Shiping asked.

"There was once in the past two days. Last night, the flames flickered for a while, and then they quieted down again." Zheng Hengyun said truthfully.

Zhang Shiping nodded after hearing this, then turned to look at Tianfeng, and asked, "What do you think, can we go in and find out?"

But Tianfeng shook his head and said:

"According to you, if there is really a man toad entrenched, it must at least have the cultivation base of the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. Don't disturb it for the time being. Heng Yun, Tian Wu, you two go to Du Yu and Qiu Cong, let them remember Bring the formation materials for the Nine Nether Xuanshui Great Formation. And the three of you, first evacuate the nearby Hengzhou County City and the more than one million mortals in the vicinity, at least a hundred miles away. This matter must be done within a year Properly."