Cultivation starts from crossing three years

Zhang Qingyuan's gaze towards Wang Yuenian moved slightly, and an idea flashed in his mind.

Then he showed a wry smile:

"Brother, I don't know, this time almost cost me half my life..."

said,

Zhang Qingyuan took out the spirit beads from the heads of the strange fishes he had killed, and showed them to Wang Yuenian. At the same time, he broke into five underground aquatic fishes in the late Lingyuan period. After a lot of hard work, he finally repelled them. experience spoke out.

Of course, the specific experience has been concealed and changed.

For example, if you fought to the death, you spent a few precious talismans, precious one-time props, etc., in order to be able to kill the opponent by chance, but at the same time escaped the last one.

Zhang Qingyuan will naturally not tell the story completely according to the facts and experiences.

This includes Zhang Qingyuan's own considerations.

While hiding part of his own strength, he is also selling a wave of misery to see if he can get some compensation.

The Wang Yuenian in front of him obviously has a refined and easy-going personality. If he succeeds in selling badly, he might be able to get more mission rewards.

Of course, if the other party is a cold-faced and cold-faced brother, then you have to find another way.

Hearing Zhang Qingyuan's misery,

Wang Yuenian turned his head, looking at the Lingzhu in Zhang Qingyuan's hand, he was really surprised.

It's just that the look he looked at Zhang Qingyuan afterwards was a little funny and a little helpless.

Shaking my head in my heart.

With his eyesight, how could he not see the sword intent still dissipating in the flowing water?

This junior brother seems to be calm, but his strength must be higher than that of the underground monster clan of the same level. That battle is definitely not as tragic as Zhang Qingyuan said.

Of course, it is inevitable to lose a lot.

The underground aquariums in the late Lingyuan period appeared together, which is not very possible at all.

Most of them appeared one by one, and then he, his junior, used many methods to forcibly kill them again and again.

If it was true as the other party said, a group of five late-stage Lingyuan underground monster fish attacked, and what I saw when I came here might not be intact juniors, but pieces of flesh and blood relics.

This is Wang Yuenian's guess.

After all, if you want to fight against five, two of them are still one level higher than yourself, and you can win in the end. Even Wang Yuenian couldn't do it when he was in the eighth level of Lingyuan.

Of course, no matter what, his junior brother in front of him stopped and killed so many underground water tribes, and he just made a great contribution.

"Well, I've worked hard this time, Junior Brother."

"This task is not enough to reward the brother's credit based on the human level, so I will make the decision for the brother, and add some extra rewards."

As he spoke, he glanced at Zhang Qingyuan.

"I see, Junior Brother, that you are practicing the One-Yuan Guishui Sutra, and you have a good control over the spirit essence. If you practice using the Guishui Pill refined from the Guishui essence, you can absorb the spiritual power of the Guishui essence more easily. Brother Shi, I have an alchemy foundation in my hand, what do you think, brother?"

Wang Yuenian took out a jade slip from the storage bag and handed it to Zhang Qingyuan.

The foundation of alchemy is important and important, and it is not important if it is not important.

But the way to obtain it is somewhat troublesome.

For example, inner sect disciples like Zhang Qingyuan, if they want to obtain the foundation of alchemy, they can only get a foundation of alchemy unless they are lucky enough to get it in some task rewards, or they can only work honestly in the alchemy hall for three years.

If it is outside, learning under the alchemy master, it is more strict to get a foundation of alchemy inheritance.

And to despair,

If you want to become an alchemist successfully, you still need to spend a lot of spiritual material krypton gold to upgrade before you can achieve something.

alchemist,

It's not that simple either.

However, Zhang Qingyuan, who has a proficiency panel, may have another advantage in alchemy.

"Thank you, brother."

Accepting the jade slip happily, Zhang Qingyuan was still a little happy in his heart.

Regardless of whether he will practice this alchemy in depth in the future, it is always good to have one more skill.

Next, Zhang Qingyuan followed Wang Yuenian and returned to Xuanyuan Cave from the underground river.

During this period, Zhang Qingyuan also made sidelines about the underground aquarium.

It's just that although Wang Yuenian has a refined and easy-going personality, he just told Zhang Qingyuan that those strange fish are a specialty of Xuanshuifeng's lineage, and the spirit beads taken out can be used for alchemy or for refining weapons.

As for where the underground aquariums came from, what was the formation hidden in the Xuanshui dark river, and what was the reason for the shock this time, Wang Yuenian didn't reveal anything at all.

Zhang Qingyuan wisely did not continue to ask about this.

Retrieving the token from the gatekeeper disciples, followed Wang Yuenian to the Internal Affairs Hall, and recorded Zhang Qingyuan's experience of a human-level mission.

At the same time, Zhang Qingyuan also received 13000 Zongmen contribution points.

About 130 spirit stones.

It was a surprise.

According to the regulations of the inner sect, new inner sect disciples need to accept and complete at least one mission of Zongmen rank or higher every year after three years.

That is to say, now Zhang Qingyuan has completed the task of the fourth year ahead of schedule.

Because of some monks' breakthroughs in retreat or travel, they may not be able to return to the sect for a year or two.

Therefore, the number of times the inner disciples complete the task can be delayed or accumulated in advance.

As a result,

Zhang Qingyuan gained a lot from the accident that happened in Xuanshui Dark River this time.

Not only did he get a few corpses of strange fish, more than ten spirit beads and spiritual sacs, but he also got the alchemy foundation, [-] sect contribution points, and an extra year of stable practice time from Senior Brother Wang Yuenian.

All in all, it's not a loss.

Calculating gains and losses in his heart, Zhang Qingyuan returned to his inner cave.

While resting in the next few days, Zhang Qingyuan also began to comprehend the foundation of alchemy in his hands during his spare time.

Although I haven't practiced it yet, Zhang Qingyuan basically understands the basic theory by heart.

Soon afterwards,

Accompanied by a message talisman coming from outside the cave, Zhang Qingyuan walked out of the cave, and went to meet Zhao Yuanyang and other inner disciples as agreed.

Chapter 132 Little Gathering

"Junior Brother Zhang is here, come here, please take a seat."

By Panyang Lake, when Zhang Qingyuan arrived, Zhao Yuanyang was warmly entertaining a group of new inner disciples who kept coming and going.

After a while, more than 20 people gathered.

"This one is Lin Yan from Lieyang Peak..."

"This one is Meng Chong from Wan Leifeng..."

Zhao Yuanyang wandered among the gathering crowd, introduced their identities to everyone around them, and got to know each other.

Zhang Qingyuan also followed the crowd, and after getting to know each other politely, he sat down in the arena.

"Brother Shen, long time no see!"

Sitting next to Zhang Qingyuan was Shen Hongzhou who also came out of the [-]th courtyard. It had been half a year since he entered the inner sect at this time, and the other party's cultivation base had also reached the middle stage of the eighth stage.

However, sensing the fluctuation of the opponent's spiritual energy, it should not be long after breaking through.

Faced with Zhang Qingyuan's greetings, Shen Hongzhou showed a wry smile on his face.

"Zhang Daoyou was joking, you and I entered the inner sect together, and our cultivation base and strength are higher than mine, so I can't be your senior brother. If you don't dislike it, you can call him a fellow daoist in the future."

Shen Hongzhou looked at Zhang Qingyuan deep in his eyes, revealing a trace of envy.

Half a year ago,

My own seven-level spiritual energy is perfect, and the opponent is also perfect at the seventh level of spiritual energy, and I can still fight back and forth.

As a result, more than half a year passed, and the opponent showed that he was the first to break through to the eighth level of Lingyuan, and then made rapid progress all the way, blooming his own light in the outer sect competition.

Although it also stopped in the semi-finals of the outer gate competition.

But Shen Hongzhou knew that he only entered the semi-finals by luck.

Compared with Zhang Qingyuan, who has comprehended sword intent and is invincible at the same level at the eighth level of Lingyuan, and can even defeat at the beginning of the ninth level of Lingyuan, the gap is so big that it is hard to compare.

During the period of time when he entered the inner sect, Shen Hongzhou thought that he had worked very hard in his cultivation.

Therefore, in just half a year, he broke through a small level and was promoted to the middle stage of the eighth level of Lingyuan.

just to meet again,

The other party also advanced to the late stage of the eighth level of Lingyuan.

Moreover, Shen Hongzhou, who is next to Zhang Qingyuan and possesses the perception of the family's secret art, can feel it even more.

Zhang Qingyuan's strength at this time has taken another big step forward, and the gap between them has widened a lot compared to before entering the inner gate.

If they fought with each other, Shen Hongzhou felt that he might be taken down and killed by the opponent within ten moves.

"Hey, Zhang Qingyuan's perseverance is far behind me."

Shen Hongzhou sighed inwardly.

Since being defeated by the opponent for the first time more than half a year ago, Shen Hongzhou had become interested in Zhang Qingyuan and learned about the opponent's past.

A distant concubine of a small middle-level cultivator family, barely passed the examination of the outer sect of the sect, and entered the seventeenth courtyard.

After that, during the two years in the other courtyard, he practiced steadily and conscientiously. Apart from going out to accept various farming tasks such as farming, harvesting, and taking care of elixir to obtain training resources, the extra free time was basically spent on training. among.

Then it took more than two years to improve his cultivation all the way, from the peak of the third level of Lingyuan to the seventh level and even the eighth level of Lingyuan.

On this road, he chased fellow students one by one bit by bit, and finally left them behind, walking further and further away.

I still remember the first time he showed his minions in the other courtyard of the same school, it was the battle with Yao Ping shortly after breaking through the seventh level of Lingyuan.

Just how long has it been since that battle?

But a mere year,

The other party has already become a disciple of the inner sect, and Yao Ping is still struggling in the seventh level of Lingyuan in the seventeenth courtyard. If after three years, he cannot enter the inner sect through the outer sect competition, then From then on, he could basically only sink among the [-] disciples of the outer sect, and the chance of entering the inner sect became extremely slim.

Comparing the two, no matter in terms of strength or status, there is a huge difference in just one year.

This feeling of others catching up little by little, and then catching up, is really not very pleasant.

It was also stimulated by Zhang Qingyuan that Shen Hongzhou became more diligent in his cultivation, and made breakthroughs one after another in just over half a year, raising his cultivation level to the mid-eighth stage.

It's a pity that when they met again, the other party had already gone further.

But for this,

Shen Hongzhou didn't have much jealousy, only admiration.

He knew that Zhang Qingyuan's aptitude in cultivation was not that of a genius child, but at most it was above average.

The reason why he was able to improve so quickly was entirely because of the other party's diligence.

In the more than two years of practice in the outer sect, Zhang Qingyuan spent three times or even four times as much in a day as others.

Years are like a day.

Two years of hard work is equivalent to seven or eight years of hard work by others. How can it be unpleasant to advance to the realm of cultivation?

It was also after being defeated by Zhang Qingyuan that Shen Hongzhou calmed down and practiced hard like Zhang Qingyuan, only then did he realize that this kind of persistence is really not easy, and until now he can only barely achieve half of Zhang Qingyuan's effort.

This also made him admire Zhang Qingyuan's perseverance even more.

Zhang Qingyuan naturally didn't know Shen Hongzhou's inner thoughts beside him.

Naturally, he didn't know that he had unintentionally gained a fan.

Everyone exchanged and introduced each other, and the banquet began.

This gathering is a group gathering initiated by Zhao Yuanyang with him as the link. The people are basically inner disciples of this session, and their cultivation realms are all in the eighth or ninth level of Lingyuan.