one's door

He Xianghong was quite calm about this.After all, although he was born as a bandit, he has seen some things in the world and heard about some strong people's deeds.So he comforted the Zhang family and said: "Master, don't worry. The stronger the strength, the more difficult it is for the strong to break through, and the more time it takes. The warriors in the Duan Mountain Realm even take longer than this to break through the realm. The strength of the master The Duan Mountain Realm is stronger, so it's normal to not be able to break through for the time being..."

But an abnormal situation soon appeared in the sky above Langyuan City.

Another two days passed.It was raining heavily that day, and it was as gloomy as evening outside even near noon.But Zhang Yan's retreat in the backyard of Zhang's house is still closed, and no one can get close.

The Zhang family thought they would have to wait another day, but they suddenly felt a ray of light coming down from the backyard, as golden as a sunny day after rain, but when they looked up, they only saw an opening in the middle of the rain clouds above their heads. .The sun was just coming down.At this time, the entire Langyuan City is still raining heavily except for the "golden window" on Zhang's head...

Chapter 356

From the first day of retreat, Zhang Yan has been exhaling spiritual energy with all his strength, and this time is different from the past. In addition to merit spiritual energy and natural breathing, as well as spiritual stones, Zhang Yan also has the Peiyuan Pill. new means.The speed of ingesting spiritual energy is naturally faster.

On the afternoon of the sixth day after the retreat, Zhang Yan felt that the barrier in the middle stage of returning to the gods was in front of him, and he could really touch it, so he formally launched a breakthrough after accumulating strength.

But this breakthrough made Zhang Yan quickly discover that it was different from the past.

In the past, including the early stage of returning to the gods, the breakthrough of the realm was the spiritual energy first, and then entered the "Tao" comprehension test, and then the breakthrough was successful if the two passes were passed, otherwise it was a failure.

But this time, there is a new hurdle behind the comprehension of "Tao": the tempering of the primordial spirit.

This process does not require Zhang Yan to do it on his own. When he officially broke through, there is a force in the dark that pulls his primordial spirit to beat according to a mysterious trajectory.And the actual effect of the beating actually came from himself, or in other words, the yang energy in his body was used as a hammer head, hammering on his primordial spirit time and time again.

It seems that he is hammering himself, but the initiative is not in his own hands.Instead, it is drawn by the "Tao".The test is the foundation of the primordial spirit and the degree of comprehension of the "Tao". If there is a slight difference, this kind of beating will cause mistakes, and the direct consequence will be to hurt the primordial spirit. Happening.

No wonder the Daoist book said that after returning to the realm of gods, every step of the way is dangerous.Tests from heaven and earth are indeed everywhere.It even penetrated to the key point of realm breakthrough, making it difficult to avoid.

Zhang Yan was a little nervous at first, but he soon regained his composure, because he found that the help from Huang Tianyu's world was still sufficient and timely. "Truth" was poured into his consciousness and engraved.

Although everything is like climbing a cliff, a little mistake can be fatal, but it is just right, Zhang Yan didn't even feel the slightest twists and turns.

Maybe this kind of breakthrough method of myself is foolproof?Zhang Yan thought so.After that, I fell into the comprehension of those "reasons" that were newly poured into my consciousness.

In the absence of hunger, coupled with the fact that his mind was immersed in understanding the "truth", Zhang Yan lost his sense of time for the first time.Whether it is a day or a month, to him in such a state, it doesn't seem to make any difference, it even seems to be just a moment.

Until suddenly the primordial spirit trembled, the beating was no longer only his own yang energy, but a force of the most yang rushed down from the top of his head without warning, followed by smashing blows in the interval of beating, and the force was stronger than The previous thrashing was much bigger.

This surprise brought Zhang Yan back to his senses, but he still didn't panic because Zhang Yan's soul at this time was different from before.

There is a saying that "thousands of tempering".Beating with yang energy, the direct effect is to hammer the emptiness of the primordial spirit into a firmer and tighter body.Second, with every beating, a trace of yang energy will penetrate into the primordial spirit along with the force of the beating.Accumulated over and over again, Zhang Yan's primordial spirit has undergone great changes in the end through the two-pronged approach.

So when the inexplicable extreme yang energy fell, although Zhang Yan felt as if he was hit by a fireball, his soul was not damaged, but there was a kind of scorching heat in the high temperature.On the contrary, these smashing blows can make his primordial spirit more tightly, and more yang energy can penetrate into it.

At this time, Zhang Yan could no longer comprehend anything calmly, because although the conjoined body of Yuanshen could bear it, the taste was also very uncomfortable.Especially the burning sensation, which is radiating from the deepest part, and there is no way to suppress it.

Fortunately, this kind of extreme yang attack from the outside didn't last long.It's almost time for a cup of tea.Just after the surface of Zhang Yan's primordial spirit was covered with a golden yang skin, as if coated with a layer of golden yang energy, this kind of smashing completely disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, a burst of enlightenment rose from Zhang Yan's heart.

Yuanshen manifests Yang!The middle stage of returning to God is over!

Zhang Yan's whole body was shaken, a mighty aura spread in all directions, and a clear whistle came from his mouth, expressing the joy in his heart.

After a while, Zhang Yan sat down cross-legged again, took out a spirit stone and held it in his hand, and continued to practice to tamp it down until he broke through and was relatively empty.

Afterwards, the passage of time returned to Zhang Yan's awareness, and the past time was also remembered by him, and he knew that he had spent a tossing one and a half months in retreat this time.

After half a month passed, Zhang Yan completely stabilized the state of vanity, and then he could slowly return to the normal pace of practice.So he got up and walked out of the quiet room where he had been staying for more than two months.

"Yan'er! You've come out!"

The Zhang family, headed by Wang Lanping, rushed over immediately, with concern on their faces.After all, in their perception, two months is not a short time, and it is unimaginable not to eat or drink, and it is not easy to practice, so they are very worried that something will happen to Zhang Yan during the period.

"Congratulations, master, for making great progress in cultivation!" He Xianghong's kneeling congratulations let the people in the room know that Zhang Yan not only came out of this retreat smoothly, but also completed the promotion of cultivation.

In fact, He Xianghong's feelings are rather vague.After all, he is a cultivator of martial arts, and he can only feel Zhang Yan's strength from his spiritual sense.Comparing Zhang Yan before and after the retreat, He Xianghong's strengths and weaknesses are clear at a glance, and he naturally knows that Zhang Yan must have made a big leap in the realm.

The ones who really felt the clearest were Wang Nian's three children. Although they were difficult to look up to Zhang Yan, but they were monks of the same origin, and they could still feel the great progress of their own teachers.

"Teacher, what state are you in now?" Wang Nian has always been curious about this question, and he didn't dare to ask it before, but this time because Zhang Yan had retreated for too long, and thinking of that miraculous vision, he couldn't help it. He gritted his teeth thinking that at most he would be beaten up and asked.

"The middle stage of returning to the gods." Zhang Yan smiled and did not shy away from this.But this is also the first time he talked about his cultivation realm in the presence of others.

The three children were thoughtful when they heard the words.It is estimated that from their point of view, entraining qi, profound veins, and Dao Dan are all about returning to the gods.It seems that it is not far away from myself.Maybe he is already calculating how long it will take for him to step into Zhang Yan's current realm according to his current practice speed.Especially Liu Rui, her big eyes are full of expectations for the future.

Zhang Yan took a few glances but didn't say anything. How could practice be so simple?Especially for monks without the help of Huang Tianyu, the difficulty is estimated to be only slowly experienced by themselves.

Chapter 357 Progress

If you really want to talk about Zhang Yan's feelings after entering the middle stage of returning to the gods, you can only use the word "solid" to describe it.

The solidity here does not refer to the solid foundation of the realm after the breakthrough, but to the solidity of his primordial spirit level or soul level.

There is an old saying about spiritual practice on the earth, which says "the body is a boat, carrying the soul to cross the sea of ​​suffering".What I'm talking about is actually the relationship between the three essences of practice.All three are important and no one can do without the other.

Zhang Yan, as a practitioner of both technique and divine way, naturally has a far worse physical body than physical cultivation, but he will also increase his physical body every time his realm rises.Just like the previous "spraying manure through the pores", every time the state changes, many impurities in the physical body can be discharged, so as to improve the overall strength of the physical body.

Taking care of both the body and the soul is the main direction of attack.

So after becoming Yuanshen, Zhang Yan understood that his soul had made a huge leap in life level.Even the essence of the soul has changed.

But this time when entering the middle stage of returning to the gods, although the changes in the primordial spirit are not as great as when they first formed, they are not far behind.

The biggest change lies in the golden yang skin on the surface of Yuanshen.

This is not as simple as "wearing a piece of clothing", but "skin", which is born on the primordial spirit, or in other words, the primordial spirit was born into this appearance.

This is "Xianyang".It means that the primordial spirit shows obvious yang essence.

The soul originally belongs to yin, but now it is yang, this is the way of practice.Retrograde is the way of life and death of life, walking the avenue that should not be walked by living beings.

At this time, Zhang Yan's soul is strong and has a yang skin, even in the bright sun, his soul can come out of his body, and he can even sneak into the ground.At this time, the influence of Yin Qi on his primordial spirit was also mostly offset.Although it is not enough to go to the ghost domain, ordinary ghosts have no ability to resist even if they are facing Zhang Yan's out-of-body soul.Because at this time, Zhang Yan's primordial spirit is like a miniature sun in the eyes of ghosts.

The gains brought about by the enhancement of the primordial spirit are all-round.From the speed of aura exhalation to the power of magical means, and the door to open new means, etc.Of course, there is another extremely important aspect: the comprehension of Tao.

With a move of the left hand, a white floc the size of a goose feather appeared in the palm of the hand out of thin air.In fact, Zhang Yan knew that this was actually a small cloud.

With one move of the right hand, there are also clouds of the same size in the palm.

With a thought, the two clouds began to turn from white to black, and became black in the blink of an eye, and slowly drifted closer to each other.

"Crack!"

A few inches of small lightning flashed between the clouds between the two hands, followed by the sound of thunder, which was subtle but audible.

Then the two clouds merged into one and began to rain down with a rush.Even in terms of the size of these two clouds, it can be said to be a "storm".

However, the rainwater froze quickly during the falling process, and when it fell on Zhang Yan's palm, a thin piece had already been spread.

It seems that the five elements are involved in it, including water, wood, and wind.But in fact, this is not a magic technique. Although it is also related to the five elements, there is no trace of magic technique in essence.It was Zhang Yan who used his own understanding of "Tao" to search for "clues and horses and horses", and thus "empty-handed" stirred up the five elements of heaven and earth to form wind, rain, thunder and lightning.

But Zhang Yan is just playing with the palm of his hand, just for show.His "Tao" is far from allowing him to easily arrange a storm, thunder and lightning of a normal scale.However, signs are already visible.

"Perhaps the legendary burning of rivers and seas never relied on magical means?" Zhang Yan had a new understanding in his heart.

After leaving the customs, Zhang Yan's life resumed as before.Lecture Martial Arts Academy, School of Miscellaneous Studies, home, and a trip to the cliff mountain once every two months.

When you are free, you will not be really idle, but will spend the rest of your time on the study of alchemy, refining tools, and magic circles.

Weapons that are exchanged for money are not often made.Because what Zhang Yan made casually now is also the lowest-grade magic weapon, and the one that landed in the wild world is the "magic weapon".A handful is enough to be worth a rainstorm of "rich and rich" money.If there are too many, the price will drop.Besides, he is not short of money at all now.

The demand for ghost-killing bells is still high, but the main delivery direction has changed from the Nanyuan National Special Case Department to the demon species, accounting for almost [-]%.

Compared with the demand of the Special Case Department of Nanyuan Nation for the Ghost-Storing Bell, the demand of other countries in the human race will be ten times or even dozens of times that of Nanyuan Nation.

The result of this is that Zhang Yan's reputation quickly became full in other human race countries along with the ghost-killing bell.In the past, it was just "hearing", but now there is "practice".

There are also a lot of medicinal materials.And the longevity stone that was given to Zhang Yan as a gift.

The longevity stones that can be used as gifts are naturally not ordinary longevity stones, but larger and purer rare grades, which are the "extreme" or "top-grade" spiritual stones mentioned in Taoism books.

And the gift giver is the royal family of the human race country who was shocked by the ghost bell from all walks of life.For a country, what are these longevity stones?It's good to remember a name in Zhang Yan's heart, that's the thing that makes a lot of money.Among them are the Beiwu Kingdom that Zhang Yan is relatively familiar with, and the Huayue Kingdom that Zhang Yan has put together.

Basically these are good things.But when there are too many good things, storage becomes a big problem.You can't continue to use more stone buildings as warehouses in the martial arts academy, can you?Not suitable either.And there is no such condition for building a warehouse at home.

Then there are only two options left in front of Zhang Yan.Either start building on the cliff mountain as soon as possible, the place there is big enough, if you start building inside the mountain, you can easily put the things gathered a hundred times more.

Another way is to refine the magic weapon for storage.However, rings, purses, bracelets and other magic storage objects that have been handed down the most are too difficult, and Zhang Yan is still unable to engrave the complex magic circle of spatial nature on the surface of such a small object.The storage capacity of the same space magic circle on such utensils is also much lower.This kind of magic weapon is famous because they are more convenient to carry and more stylish.

Think about it, with a flip of your hand, you can take something from the void, and the mysterious effect will be full immediately.

But in fact, the magical instruments for storing things are more practical than "style".For example, a large box for storage, or even a large bag or jar.This kind of magic weapon for storing things is the most common, and it is also the magic weapon for storing things that most monks can use and afford.

Zhang Yan's current cultivation base is enough to use the space magic circle and the basic materials for refining storage.But it has only reached the threshold. To succeed, in addition to collecting the refining materials needed to store the magic weapon, there is also the need to practice more inscriptions on the magic circle.Just like the way he used to refine the magic weapon for body protection.

Two ways, Zhang Yan is ready to go hand in hand.But he didn't want to pretend to be someone else in the matter of repairing the mountain gate.First, it's troublesome, and second, it's not as strong as him doing it himself.When it comes to mobilizing earth and rocks in the wild world, who can compare to Zhang Yan, a monk who is proficient in the five elements of earth attributes?

Chapter 358 Marriage

Many people in their twenties are still single, let alone wives, and they don't even have a match.

And some people are so young that their wives are already chained to their bodies.

Who?

Who else?Naturally, it was Yang Rui, Zhang Yan's second disciple.

As a prince, Yang Rui has just arrived at the age of eight.Although she was young, she was born in the royal family, and she is much more sensible than most children, and her mind is also mature.In addition, after following Zhang Yan, he has almost experienced life and death, and mentally, he cannot be treated as an ordinary child.But even so, it is rare to get engaged at this age.It's not about marrying with your fingertips. Even the royal family mostly don't talk about marriage until they are 12 years old.

But Yang Rui is not only the child of an unusual family, but also the only one in the royal family.Because he is not only the prince, but also one of the only three disciples under Zhang Yan's sect.

Disciple of Zhang Yan.Although this identity is dazzling if it is pushed forward for half a year, it is far less dazzling than it is now.

You can fly to the sky and escape from the ground, you can wrestle with the big ghost king and still win, you can take out the baby bone strengthening pill that greatly increases the speed of warrior cultivation, and the medicine bath method that strengthens the skin and flesh, and you can also refine magic weapons and magical bells for the spirit race .Adding these methods together, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are the pillars of the human race, right?

Nanyuan Country is the most vivid example.Originally, the north, east and southwest were all stared at by tigers, and the situation was sad.But now?Relying on Zhang Yan's ability, he forcibly blazed a trail.Even if one wants to cross the border of Nanyuan Kingdom to commit crimes, one has to weigh it first, whether it will cause Zhang Yan's displeasure.At that time, regardless of whether Zhang Yan will rush to the army, just cutting off the rotation of the bells of various countries will make the countries feel very uncomfortable.It is really to the point of desperately fighting, it is like a poisonous thorn, no one can tell whether it can be avoided or pulled out.

This is deterrence.There is no need for Zhang Yan to say anything, as long as he is in Nanyuan Country, he can oppress others.

What can be done in the face of deterrence?

Fortunately, the strength of Nanyuan Kingdom itself is not strong, and after the previous fight with the monster clan, it has become weak for the time being.Self-protection is still reluctant, and the possibility of taking the initiative to find trouble is extremely low.In this case, other countries have multiple options for how to deal with it.Especially for a country like Huayue that has always had contacts with Nanyuan Country and is close to it.

Of course, Beiwu is also adjacent to Nanyuan Kingdom, but the Liangzi on both sides have deep roots, and it is absolutely impossible to dissolve them with just a few words.Even Beiwu had to be careful, instead of always provoking outside Tonghu Pass as before, he became more honest.

Huayue Kingdom is a superior country, and its overall strength belongs to crushing Nanyuan Country, but once the national war breaks out, the crushing side will also bear huge losses.What's more, in the face of Huayue's persecution, Beiwu will definitely attack Huayue when Nanyuan Kingdom is really going to be irresistible.Both Bei Wu and Nan Yuan knew the reason why the lips were dead and the teeth were cold. This is also the reason why they have always been angry with each other but tried their best to restrain each other.It was also the reason why the emperor of Nanyuan Kingdom retreated the Eastern Army to Changhu County to replace the Forbidden Army, so that there was emptiness behind the Tonghu Pass in the north, but Beiwu did not take advantage of the fire to loot.

In the past, Huayue wanted to disintegrate the elites in Nanyuan Kingdom from the will, and then use threats to force the internal chaos first. This is like cutting flesh with a soft knife, and can avoid the cooperation from Beiwu.

But now, whether it is a soft knife or a fast knife, it can't cut it anymore.Even Huayue's high-level executives were unwilling but had to admit that their strategy against Nanyuan Kingdom had completely failed for so many years.Not to mention that all previous efforts were in vain, as long as Zhang Yan continues to sit in Nanyuan Kingdom, he will never have another chance.

Although Huayue lost a good game, compared to the deep-rooted enmity with Nanyuan Nation, Huayue still has room to ease or even change relations with Nanyuan Nation.

In order to erode the confidence of the upper structure of Nanyuan Nation, the "combat marriage" that forced Nanyuan Nation to carry out has now become a rare bond.Because no matter what, there is indeed a real marriage between Huayue and Nanyuan.It stands to reason that it should belong to the "Friends".

Therefore, this time Huayue came out to reverse the relationship between himself and Nanyuan Kingdom, and thoroughly implement the word "friendship", so as to alleviate the possible unstable situation, and the proposed method was to marry again.

Didn't Princess Qingling win once before?After that, Huayue continued to lose after "passing three passes", and finally denied that he owed a princess of Nanyuan Kingdom.With this matter in front of it, it will be easier for Huayue Kingdom to operate.

And Yang Rui naturally became the designated object of Huayue Kingdom's marriage.

Conversely, for such an important person as Yang Rui, why did the royal family of Nanyuan Kingdom make an exception and agree to this marriage?

The reason is simple, four words: the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

On the one hand, the relationship with Huayue can also be eased, so that a lot of troops and energy will not be drawn away.Secondly, they can get many opening conveniences from Huayue Guo, and the trade between the two sides will increase greatly, which is beneficial to Nanyuan Kingdom.The third is to get the help of Huayue Kingdom, and under the premise of Zhang Yan's disciple, that is, Yang Rui, as the confidence, Nanyuan Kingdom also hopes to try the feeling of gradually overpowering Beiwu Kingdom in the future.If one day regains the lost land and regains the glory of the Qiande Dynasty, wouldn't that be a great cause for all generations?

As for Yang Rui, the emperor of Nanyuan Kingdom didn't give much consideration to his opinion.As a prince, marriage is an extremely important tool, how can he trust his free will?Naturally, the interests of the royal family and Nanyuan Kingdom are the most important.

What's more, in order to reconcile with Nanyuan Kingdom, Huayue spent all his money and was very sincere this time. He made an exception in the royal family and got the title, the emperor's youngest and favorite princess, Princess Huayue, and betrothed to Yang Rui.

Huayue, Huayue.The country's name and title can be seen the status of the princess in Huayue.It also gave Nanyuan Kingdom and Zhang Yan enough face.

So when a marriage letter came into Yang Rui's hands, the child turned to look at Zhang Yan curiously, and asked, "Teacher, do you have a wife?" In her heart, she knew something about getting married, but she didn't know much about it. , with a high mind, but after all, not an adult knows everything.What's more, he didn't know how to answer Zhang Yan's question directly with such a sentence.

On the other hand, Wang Nian was very envious.It means that Yang Rui is called a daughter-in-law by someone!It's a great thing to ask for a daughter-in-law in their village.He also said that when he became stronger in the future, he wanted to find a beautiful daughter-in-law.Words are full of expectations.

Zhang Yan didn't get an answer, but Wang Nian's envy made Yang Rui laugh.But Xiaowaer himself couldn't put into Wang Nian's mood that "begging for a wife is a great thing", and he didn't even take the marriage certificate in his heart at all.Put it in your arms.Then, with Zhang Yan in his hand, he typed back the sketch of the construction of the cliff mountain that he revised for them, and they started to get together again and talk about each other...

Chapter 359 Revisiting

After Wang Nian found out about Yang Rui's daughter-in-law, it spread the word naturally.

The members of the Zhang family were the first to know, and Wang Lanping, who was so exhausted by taking care of her grandson, suddenly remembered that there was still a son's marriage at home that had not been settled. Zhang Yan was caught and scolded. The second is one, because her nearest neighbors are all big families, and the daughters in the family are very beautiful, she thinks that her second son should be satisfied.

As a result, Zhang Yan managed to find an excuse that "it is not suitable to be distracted during the critical period of practice", which made Wang Lanping temporarily dismiss this idea in doubt.

Zhang Yan also knew that her mother's biggest wish now was to let the three siblings get married as soon as possible.The eldest brother Zhang Shun has already settled down, and the younger sister seems to be flirting with Zeng Hao now, but his second line is still in vain.

How to do?Although Zhang Yan had some headaches, there was nothing he could do.The big deal is to use some means at that time to make Wang Lanping understand that ordinary women can't accompany him on the road he is walking now.It is better to treat it normally with a cautious attitude than a hundred years later.The road to practice is long, and love is nothing but a trivial matter after all. Only the short life span of a mortal can believe in the longevity of heaven and earth.

In addition to the Zhang family, Wang Nian's big mouth also spread the news of Yang Rui's getting a wife to the School of Miscellaneous Studies.After all, these two places are where Wang Nian has stayed the longest, and he has long been familiar with the students who are much older than him in the Academy of Miscellaneous Studies.