In those years when I was a mortal and a demon

Lu Yuan wandered around boredly in the golden gourd space because he didn't know what the situation was like outside. He doesn't dare to go out now, let alone open the connection with the sea of ​​consciousness, for fear that Li Huayuan and others are still exploring his sea of ​​consciousness.

Of course, as for how to explain that he was not killed by the old monster Qiong when he woke up later, he had already made preparations in advance.

Just wait a little longer, hoping that Han Li can discover the hints he left so as not to bury himself again.

"Junior Brother Han, my condolences." Xiang Zhili came over and comforted Han Li.

Han Li said nothing, and slowly laid Lu Yuan flat on the ground, tidying up Lu Yuan's messy clothes, hoping that he would leave peacefully.

"Bah!" Lu Yuan's hand fell out of his arms.

Han Li grabbed Lu Yuan's hand and tried to fold it and place it flat on his chest.

Suddenly, Han Li remembered that Lu Yuan had pinched him hard before.

Looking at Lu Yuan's clenched palm, Han Li's heart moved and he quickly opened it.

He saw Lu Yuan holding a talisman that was broken in half in his hand, and Han Li looked at it carefully. He looked around and saw that everyone was waiting for Li Huayuan to calm down. No one was paying attention, and then an imperceptible smile appeared on his face.

After putting Lu Yuan down, Han Li quickly came to Li Huayuan, who was still angry.

When Li Huayuan saw that it was Han Li, his brows relaxed a little. After all, Han Li won the bet for him and would provide him with many benefits in the future.

"Master, I found this in the hands of my junior brother." Han Li handed over the talisman.

Stand-in!

Li Huayuan's eyes lit up and he came to Lu Yuan's side. However, after another investigation, there was still nothing found, but it was discovered that Lu Yuan's vitality had not completely dissipated.

Could it be that the magic of the old monster Qiong was too powerful, causing the avatar to become ineffective?

Or does it take some time to wake up?

"Take it back to the door first, let's wait and see." Li Huayuan thought for a while, and after he had no clue, he simply stopped caring.

After all, Lu Yuan's life and death didn't matter to him. Taking action against the old monster Qiong was just for fear that his Taoist heart would be damaged, and he really couldn't stand up in terms of face.

Next, Li Huayuan asked Han Li his name, and accepted Han Li as a registered disciple amidst the astonished eyes of everyone. Then everyone rode the Silver-armored Horned Python again and returned to Yellow Maple Valley.

Cangyan Ridge, inside the thatched house.

"That old monster Qiong has been domineering in the Yue Kingdom for hundreds of years. He is a "bully" and a "rogue". But this time he was hit and scolded by you, junior brother. It makes me happy just to think about it!" Tian Fei still looked that broken. Dress up and say to Li Huayuan in front of you.

"Haha, this is also an opportunity. After hitting the old monster Qiong, I have a lot of ideas, and there are faint signs of breaking through the bottleneck and entering the middle stage!" Li Huayuan said cheerfully.

"Then I would like to congratulate my junior brother first. After this experience, my Taoist heart will be more stable in the future. It will be much stronger than mine."

As soon as these words came out, Li Huayuan, who was originally cheerful, became a little embarrassed. Tian Fei suffered a huge change that year, his Taoist heart collapsed, and he has been unable to get out. His cultivation has also dropped from the middle stage of pill formation to the current early stage.

Ancestor Linghu had cast spells to help him many times, but they all ended in failure.

"Thank you for the compliment, Senior Brother Tian. It's just that I failed to protect your apprentice properly. Junior Brother is extremely ashamed."

"It's okay. He has a perverse nature and acts immoderately. He deserves this disaster!"

......

On the third day after returning to Yellow Maple Valley, Lu Yuan estimated that the time was almost up and the soul returned to the sea of ​​consciousness.

When he opened his eyes, he saw the familiar thatched roof above. It seemed that Han Li had brought it back to Baicao Garden. Lu Yuan sat up and moved his hands and feet.

"Junior brother, you wake up!"

"This avatar is really magical!" A surprised voice came, and Han Li stayed by his side.

"Ah! Haha." Lu Yuan said haha. The avatar was just a trick to deceive them, otherwise it would be difficult to explain.

Then the two went to another room to visit the unconscious Zhang Tie.

There was another person in the room, Wu Feng, who was hired by Lu Yuan to take care of Zhang Tie. When he saw Lu Yuan wake up, he was also amazed.

Seeing that Zhang Tie was taken care of very well, Lu Yuan was greatly moved and thought that Wu Feng was really a good person.

"Thank you, Senior Brother Wu. I will definitely repay you in the future!" Lu Yuan and Han Li both said sincerely.

After sending Wu Feng away, Lu Yuan transplanted the boulder with the sacred soul grass to the Hundred Medicine Garden, and then Han Li used a small bottle to ripen one of the plants.

More than a month later, Lu Yuan went straight to Ma Laotou's cave with the Soul Grass, which was nearly a thousand years old.

"Are you a human or a ghost!" When Old Man Ma saw Lu Yuan, he was so shocked that he almost dropped his medicine hammer. When Han Li and others came back that day, he made a special trip to see it. It turned out that Lu Yuan was almost freezing, and he regretted that he should not have told Lu Yuan about the Soul Grass.

"Uncle Ma, can't you tell I'm a human? Touch it." Lu Yuan stretched out a hand.

"Is that a fake corpse?" Senior Brother Ma still didn't believe that Lu Yuan could survive.

......

"You are really good at it. You have escaped the pursuit of several sects in the forbidden area. You also saved your life from the famous Qiong Old Monster. If word of this spreads, you will become a celebrity in the world of Yue Kingdom. "Half a day later, after Lu Yuan's spitting explanation, Old Man Ma finally believed it.

"Low-key, low-key." Lu Yuan acted very modestly.

"You still know how to keep a low profile! You provoke this and that all day long!" Old Man Ma scolded angrily with a smile.

"There's nothing I can do about it. I've decided that if I don't build the foundation this time, I will never show up in front of others."

"That's good, let everyone think you are dead, so as not to cause further trouble!"

Next, Lu Yuan took out the ripened soul grass and handed it to Old Man Ma.

"I'm a good boy. The medicine has been used for thousands of years, and you actually got it out!" Old Man Ma couldn't sit still anymore and threw the medicine hammer directly, smashing it into pieces.

He held the Divine Soul Grass carefully with both hands, with a worried look on his face.

"Uncle Ma, don't you ask me how I got it?" Lu Yuan looked at Old Man Ma and asked curiously.

"I don't care how you did it. Now that you have it, I believe what you said that toad gave it to you!" When Senior Brother Ma spoke, his eyes never left the medicinal herb, which shows his enthusiasm.

"Then are these medicinal herbs enough to refine a nourishing pill?"

"Of course, this can all be made in one furnace!" Old Man Ma said with certainty, but soon he looked at Lu Yuan with a solemn look on his face.

"This is a thousand-year-old elixir. To be honest, refining the spirit-nourishing elixir is a bit of a waste. If it is in the hands of the pill-forming monks, better elixirs can be refined. If you offer it to the elders in the sect, then they will definitely I won’t treat you badly, and I might even take action to save Zhang Tie.”

"The possibility of taking action does not mean that he will definitely take action. There is no need to persuade Senior Brother Ma. Just make the Soul-Calming Pill. My brother is still waiting for help!" Lu Yuan rejected Old Man Ma's proposal.

"Please ask Brother Ma for help!"

"Let me make it? Don't you ask Uncle Tian? He is an alchemy monk. He can use alchemy fire to make elixirs, and the effect will be much better."

"He even kicked me out of the house, why are you looking for him! Besides, I believe that Uncle Ma's alchemy skills are definitely not inferior to those of the alchemy monks!" Lu Yuan shook his head repeatedly, thinking that with Tian Fei's virtue, seeing Why don't you pinch half of this divine soul grass and keep it for yourself?

"Since you trust me so much, I won't refuse. I dare not say more, but I am sure that there will be four or five pills in this furnace!" Old Man Ma did not refuse anymore and nodded in assurance.

A few days later, a ray of light came to Baicao Garden. It was Old Man Ma and Lu Yuan who had refined the nourishing pill.

In the hut, Lu Yuan opened Zhang Tie's lips and fed a pill. Then Old Man Ma began to cast spells to help Zhang Tie dissolve the power of the medicine.

It lasted for about several hours, and I fed three nourishing pills in succession. Zhang Tie's eyelids moved and he slowly opened his eyes.

Looking at Lu Yuan and others in front of him, a suspicious and unfamiliar look flashed in Zhang Tie's eyes. He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but fell unconscious again.

"The soul has just woken up, and many memories have not been recovered yet. Just rest for a few months and it will be fine." Old Man Ma told Lu Yuan and the others not to worry.

Lu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. Just now he was worried that Brother Tiezi wouldn't suffer from amnesia again.

"Uncle Ma, thank you for your help this time. Since you can no longer use these two spirit-nourishing pills, please take them, uncle!" Old man Ma refined the divine soul grass into five spirit-nourishing pills, and now there are still two left. pellets.

Lu Yuan naturally wanted to take out this elixir, which was of great use to foundation-building monks, to thank Old Man Ma.

"If you two don't have enough money for each of you, are you willing to give it to me, a bad old man?" Old Man Ma glanced at Lu Yuan and Han Li and said with a playful expression.

"Master Ma is joking. You have taken great care of us since the three of my brothers entered the valley. Not to mention that you spent a lot of mana to heal your junior brother. You should accept it both emotionally and rationally!" Lu Yuan looked sincere. , handed over the elixir again.

Old Man Ma nodded without being pretentious, but he only took one.

"For me, one is enough. This way, when the deadline is approaching in the future, I will have the confidence to give it another try!"

Give it another try? Thinking that Old Man Ma was already in the late stage of foundation building, Lu Yuan was shocked and couldn't help asking: "Did Senior Brother Ma mean to attack the core formation?"

"good."

"This nourishing pill is also useful for promotion pill formation?"

"Yes and no." Old Man Ma said something ambiguous.

Seeing that Lu Yuan and Han Li were confused, Old Man Ma came to sit on the stone bench in the garden and slowly explained.

When monks attack the great realm, in addition to having sufficient mana, the strength of their soul and consciousness is also a key factor.

If the soul is cultivated to the extreme of its current state, it will be easier to break through the bottleneck during cultivation. Similarly, when hitting the next realm, the probability will be increased by 20%.

"The ultimate state of the current state..." Lu Yuan repeated, not quite understanding.

"That is to say, for example, if you are currently in the Qi refining stage, your soul cannot be infinitely strengthened due to the influence of your cultivation and realm. It can be at most one or two times stronger than a monk of the same level, reaching the level of an early-stage monk. ." Old Man Ma explained.

"As for me, because my life span is approaching, my soul has begun to weaken. It is impossible to strengthen it at this time. I can only rely on the nourishing pill to temporarily restore the soul to its peak level when attacking the pill formation. , increasing the probability of success.”

"I left the remaining spirit-nourishing pill for you. I also explored your sea of ​​consciousness when you were unconscious. I found that not only is your magic power weak, but your spiritual consciousness is also very poor. I really don't know what you are doing. How did you practice?"

"I sometimes wonder if your spiritual roots are fake!" Old Man Ma looked at Lu Yuan and kept curling his lips.

"Thank you, Uncle Ma, for reminding me. My nephew has learned a lesson. He has learned a lesson." Lu Yuan could only apologize in embarrassment.

"Have you received the reward in the door?" Old Man Ma finished training Lu Yuan and looked at Han Li again.

"The ten Foundation Establishment Pills were sent here a few days ago, and they are much different from what I expected." Han Li said with a frown. He had inquired in advance that anyone who handed over ten or so elixirs could be exchanged for a foundation-building pill. But this time he took such a big risk and handed in nearly 1,560 pieces, but only got ten.

"Ten is not bad. It seems that Uncle Li is not too much."

"There is an unwritten rule in our sect. If there is a clear master-disciple relationship, the master has the right to take half of the tribute that the apprentice handed over to the master as a thank you gift. But currently, it seems that he only took one third. It's pretty good." Old Man Ma carefully explained to Han Li.

"That's it." Han Li suddenly realized, but didn't react much. Because he remembered that when Lu Yuan became a disciple, he was cheated out of a foundation-building pill.

In addition, they brought a lot of seedlings out this time. As long as Lu Yuan can successfully refine the elixir, they will naturally not take a few seedlings into consideration.

In the following time, Lu Yuan discussed with Han Li and began to make plans for the future.

Lu Yuan pointed out rudely that with Han Li's qualifications, even if he were given ten Foundation Establishment Pills, he might not be able to succeed.

If you don’t believe me, go out and ask around. There are a few people in the world of immortality who have successfully built their pseudo-spiritual roots.

Therefore, it is an imperative plan to ripen the main medicine and collect other auxiliary medicines. The other is to raise the cultivation level to the peak of the Qi refining stage as soon as possible, and at the same time, the Dayan Jue cannot be left behind.

And this series of things may take several years to get everything right.

In this way, time passed month by month.

Two months later, Zhang Tie regained consciousness. When he learned that Lu Yuan participated in the blood ban trial to save him, and was almost killed by an old monster in the late stage of pill formation, he was deeply moved.

After lamenting for a while, the friendship between the three became as solid as a rock.

Three years have passed by in a flash, and all the preparations have finally been completed. The three of them have successively improved their cultivation to the peak of the Qi refining stage.

Now that everything is ready, just wait to go to the underground fire room to start the elixir, and then attack the foundation.

In Yuelu Hall, the three of them walked along the unmarked passage. At the end of the passage, a huge stone door appeared blocking the way. The colorful rays of light on the stone door were flowing continuously. At a glance, it was obvious that an extremely powerful attack had been performed on it. The forbidden law makes people dare not act rashly!

There is another small stone house next to the stone door, and there is an ugly man with pimples in the house.

"you are?"

"Han Li!" The ugly man looked at the three of them, and suddenly his eyes lit up and he said in surprise.

"How do you know me?" Han Li frowned. He thought he was usually a low-key person, so how come someone knew him in such a remote place.

However, the ugly man did not respond to him. Instead, he looked at Lu Yuan with a look of horror.

"Then you, you are a ghost!" The ugly man yelled.