Longevity: Starting from the Talent of Infant Growth

"Zhou Ling, how come you have time to treat me to dinner today?"

In the elegant wing of Four Seasons Building, He Zijian asked with a smile as soon as he sat down.

Today, he received a message from Zhou Ling through the sound transmission jade in Xuantingsi.

Inviting him to dinner at Four Seasons Building.

"I have something important to discuss with Brother He!"

Zhou Ling said with a smile.

Soon the maid brought the dishes.

Thinking that this time he was treating, Zhou Ling did not order more, three dishes and one soup.

It was enough for the two of them.

But the cost was not low, just these, six low-grade spirit stones.

"Big thing!"

Looking at Zhou Ling's confident expression, He Zijian immediately became interested.

Zhou Ling was not in a hurry, first picked up the wine pot, poured a glass of wine for He Zijian, and said, "But this matter, but there is a big risk."

"And it involves the foundation-building family!"

"I wonder if Brother He dares?"

"Foundation-building family, you kid won't offend someone again, right?" He Zijian took a sip of wine and glared at him slightly.

"I don't look like the kind of person who causes trouble!" Zhou Ling said innocently and harmlessly.

He picked up the wine pot and added more wine to He Zijian.

He also picked up the beast meat and started eating.

After a while, He Zijian couldn't help but asked curiously, "Who are you going to deal with?"

"Not against anyone." Zhou Ling took a sip of wine, then lowered his voice and said, "Yesterday, Uncle Xu and his team from the medicine-hunting team accidentally discovered a spiritual mine while searching for medicine in the mountains."

"But on the way back, they were attacked by the Li family monks and almost lost their lives."

"Uncle Chu and his team came to me to discuss, hoping to mine this vein."

"When there is such a good thing, I naturally think of you."

"However, considering that once the mine is mined, the Li family will take action to seize the mine, so I discuss it with you."

Hearing Zhou Ling's words, He Zijian couldn't help but widen his eyes and was shocked, "Spirit mine! Li family!"

As the eldest son of the He family, he naturally knew what a spiritual mine meant?

"If you are interested in the spiritual mine, the mining benefits of the spiritual mine will be divided into three parts, one for you, one for me, and one for the remaining medicine-seeking team."

"But before that, we have to think of a way to deal with the Li family!"

Zhou Ling continued.

"Dealing with the Li family is not easy. My He family has a share of this mine. Do they dare to do it?"

He Zijian glanced at Zhou Ling and now understood Zhou Ling's intention.

This kid is worried about the Li family, so he dragged himself into the water.

No wonder the sun came out from the west. It's so good today, and he invited himself to the Four Seasons Building for dinner.

But for a spiritual mine, this price is naturally worth it.

"That's not what I mean." Zhou Ling shook his head and said seriously, "The Li family has made a fatal move this time, and Uncle Xu almost lost his life."

"Although the Li family dare not provoke your He family, they will not take our medicine-seeking team seriously."

"I mean, with the strength of the two of us, can we destroy the Li family!"

At the end, a cold light flashed in Zhou Ling's eyes, and a faint power was revealed.

This is a sharp aura that he often condenses from his actual combat training in the [Illusion Simulation].

Hearing Zhou Ling's words, He Zijian was stunned. Feeling Zhou Ling's aura at this moment, he was also surprised. He originally thought that this kid just loved money.

I didn't expect that he would dare to attack even the foundation-building family when he was ruthless!

He thought, it won't be because he won the first place in the assessment that he became bolder!

"The two of us will deal with the Li family? Can this work?" He Zijian frowned and continued, "The Li family now has two cultivators in the early stage of foundation building."

"And the head of the family, Li Yan, has successfully built a foundation for seven or eight years. Now he is probably at the second level of foundation building, or even the third level!"

"Even if the two of us join forces to exert our full strength, we can't be his opponent!"

Although his sword intent is extremely strong and yang, and he is indomitable.

But he also knows in his heart that there is a huge gap between foundation-building cultivators and Qi training cultivators.

Zhou Ling thought simply, and he probably had never seen the strength of foundation-building cultivators!

"The third level of foundation building!" Zhou Ling's face sank. This kind of strength is indeed not something they can deal with now.

Even if they can't deal with it, they have to find a way.

Otherwise, they can only wait until September to let their parents go to Qingyun Fairy City with them.

It's too dangerous in Lingxia Fairy City.

After thinking for a while, he still said decisively, "Don't you know how to use formations!"

"When the time comes, you will set up a few formations, and I will refine a few second-level one-time attack spiritual weapons. Even if it is the third level of foundation building, we may not be able to deal with it!"

"Second-level spiritual weapon!" Hearing this, He Zijian was even more shocked.

"You can already refine a second-level spiritual weapon?"

"Well, the success rate is not that high!" In order to drag He Zijian into the water, Zhou Ling could only nod confidently.

Although he has not tried to refine a second-level spiritual weapon, he has also repaired the Huogang Sword and the Yuanhe Five Elements Inscription in the last assessment.

He also has some understanding of the second-level inscription, and more of it needs the power of the soul to assist in tempering.

And his soul cultivation is not low, and he has the talent of [Soul as a Knife].

So this is his advantage, and it is also the confidence for him to try to refine the second-level spiritual weapon.

You know, generally only when the soul cultivation reaches the foundation, that is, the second level, can it be released and condensed to a certain soul attack power.

Of course, the cultivators who practice the secret method of soul are excluded.

"A second-level one-time attack spiritual weapon! If it can be refined, and combined with the formation, maybe we can really fight against the foundation-building cultivators!" He Zijian's eyes lit up.

He chose to apply for the Feilong Battle Academy, which focuses on expanding the realm, so he naturally would not be afraid of risks.

The reason why he did not rashly agree to Zhou Ling was because the success rate of dealing with foundation-building cultivators was too low.

If there is a second-level spiritual weapon, plus the consumption of the formation, and the combat power between the two of them.

Then killing a foundation-building cultivator may not be without a chance.

And with his sword intent, it is only in this extreme pressure environment that he can make greater progress.

Just like this assessment and the battle with Jin Sheng, which made his sword intent go further.

After thinking about it, he nodded decisively and said, "Okay, I'll do it!"

Hearing He Zijian's words, Zhou Ling was relieved.

Through [Intermediate Observation] and [Intermediate Analysis], he knew the horror of He Zijian's actual combat power.

In the assessment, it was just the rules of the competition that bound his hands and feet.

In a real life-and-death battle, his strength may be even stronger.

Of course, he also knew in his heart that it would not be so easy to deal with a foundation-building cultivator.

Moreover, it was a fight for a spiritual mine, and Li Yinfeng was crippled by him, so the Li family would definitely kill him and attack crazily.

"Brother He, if someone dies in a fight for a mine like we are, will your Xuanting Division care?"

Zhou Ling drank a sip of wine and asked again.

After all, this kind of fight is not an assessment competition, and it will definitely cause a lot of casualties.

And in his plan, the Li family can be destroyed, and it is best to completely eliminate it.

He doesn't want to be remembered all the time.

Of course, he has a lot of means now, and he has [Crisis Response], so he is not too afraid, but he doesn't want his parents to encounter a crisis.

In a situation like Xu Jiu, he must find a way to prevent it from happening again.

He Zijian lowered his voice and said, "If this kind of thing happens in Lingxia Fairy City, then Xuanting Guards will naturally care!"

"However, if it happens in Heixia Mountain, Xuanting Division will not care so much!"

Zhou Ling poured another glass of wine for He Zijian. What He Zijian meant was that Xuanting Division would not intervene, so he was relieved.

After all, he will have to enter the Taoist Academy and get a full-time job in the Tiangong Division in the future.

If the Xuanting Division investigates because of this matter, it will be troublesome!

"Now the Xuanting Division has limited manpower, and is mainly responsible for the safety of Lingxia Fairy City, clearing out evil cultivators, demon cultivators, monsters, etc."

"As for the competition for resources in the wilderness, such matters are generally not asked."

He Zijian explained to Zhou Ling again.

Zhou Ling's eyes moved and asked again, "Brother He, what is the strongest magic array you have now?"

Since He Zijian said so, there should be no big problems on the Xuanting Division side. The next step is the most critical, how to ensure that the Li family's foundation-building cultivators can be killed?

Like Li Mu, he is confident that he can deal with it.

But for the other two foundation-building cultivators, other means must be used.

"The most powerful array I can set up now is the Three Swords Lightning Array."

"Although this Three Swords Lightning Array is a first-grade upper-grade array, it has the power to deal with cultivators in the early stage of foundation building by condensing three lightning swords!"

"It just takes some time to set up and activate the array!"

He Zijian replied.

Zhou Ling was also delighted when he heard this. As the eldest son of a noble family, He Zijian must have other means.

"Brother He, what is the situation of the two foundation-building cultivators of the Li family?"

Zhou Ling asked He Zijian about the situation of the Li family.

As a member of the Xuanting Guard, He Zijian is mainly responsible for the situation in Xicheng, so he naturally knows about the situation of each family.

The Li family now has three brothers, two of whom are in the foundation building stage. They belong to the newly rising foundation-building family in Lingxia Fairy City.

The eldest brother, Li Yan, is in the early stage of foundation building. He also mainly practices the Black Evil Fist, but has entered the third level and is far more powerful than Li Mu.

The second brother, Li Jin, also has the initial stage of foundation building, but he is not in Lingxia Fairy City, but joins the third-grade sect Huanglong Sect.

The third brother is Li Mu, who is at the ninth level of Qi training.

After roughly understanding the situation of the Li family, the two discussed the strategy of dealing with the enemy.

Of course, the main thing is to occupy the spiritual mine first.

Then, the two decided to go to Heixia Mountain in three days, take the spiritual mine first, and set up the magic circle.

As for the Li family, even if they don't take action, Zhou Ling will find a way to deal with them.

Then, the two left the Four Seasons Building and went back to make preparations.

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After returning home, Zhou Ling took out the "Second-level Basic Inscription" and read it.

Now, to deal with the foundation-building cultivators of the Li family, it is natural to make adequate preparations.

Although he swore to He Zijian that he had a second-level one-time attack spiritual weapon.

But now he only has the Fire Gang Sword in his hand.

And the Thunder Fire Ball is only a first-level middle-grade magic weapon. It is okay to deal with Qi training cultivators, but it is not powerful enough to deal with foundation-building cultivators.

Of course, the large number also has a great killing effect.

But he only has a dozen of them now, and he is going to give them to his father and others.

His spiritual sense quickly scanned the jade slip, and he soon found a good second-level low-grade spiritual weapon, the Explosive Flame Pearl.

This Explosive Flame Pearl is composed of three superimposed inscriptions of twenty-five flames, which is enough to pose a considerable threat to foundation-building cultivators.

"But the time is too short. If Master Lu wants to make the tool, it will take at least ten days."

"And this is a second-level spiritual weapon, Master Lu may not be able to make it!"

Zhou Ling quickly shook his head.

After all, Master Lu is only a first-level weapon refiner, and with his current strength, it is difficult to create a second-level spiritual weapon.

"Perhaps we can only go to Fangshi to buy it first?"

Zhou Ling murmured again.

However, he quickly rejected this idea.

After all, in order to buy the Five-Way Magic Sword a while ago, he visited almost all the shops selling magical weapons in several major markets in Lingxia Fairy City.

There are very few shops selling spiritual weapons.

Such disposable spiritual weapons are even rarer.

Zhou Ling couldn't help frowning, and after thinking for a moment, he couldn't help but have an idea, "Does the Tiangong Division have second-grade utensils? I can get some and bring them back to refine them!"

Now every month, he still receives offerings from the Tiangong Division and has to complete the Tiangong Division's tasks.

Draw a soul mark on Xuanpao.

Thinking of this, he took out the Tiangong Division's utensils and introduced the jade slips.

Divine consciousness is injected into it.

His face soon showed joy, "This cracking flame thunder is just right!"

This cracking flame thunder consists of two inscriptions with twenty-six inscriptions of thunder and fire attributes. Once activated, it can pose a great threat to the foundation-building monks.

"However, now the only people in the Engineering Department who can draw spiritual weapons are Deacon Qin and the other two deputy deacons."

"So in order to receive the spiritual weapon and the Flame-Splitting Thunder Seal, you have to get Deacon Qin's permission!"

Zhou Ling thought to himself.

Then he left home and went to Tiangong Division.

When he came to the side hall, he saw Deacon Qin, dressed in a mysterious robe, sitting on a couch, reading books, with the smoke from the incense burner in front of him.

When he saw Zhou Ling arriving, he put away the books.

After Zhou Ling bowed his hands and saluted, he directly stated his intention.

"You want to refine a spiritual weapon?"

Hearing Zhou Ling's words, Deacon Qin raised his eyebrows slightly, quite surprised.

"Yes, please give me more advice, deacon!"

Zhou Ling looked at Deacon Qin intently.

Naturally, he couldn't let Deacon Qin know that he wanted to use Split Flame Thunder to deal with the Li family.

"You have to know that drawing the second-level imprint is completely different from the first-level imprint."

"In addition to abundant spiritual power, we also need the assistance of pure divine soul power!"

Deacon Qin reminded.

"Deacon, now I can draw the first-level high-grade inscription, and the official examination of the Tiangong Department will be in October."

"So, I want to get ready as soon as possible!"

Zhou Ling said seriously.

Deacon Qin nodded slightly. It will be July in a few days.

October is only three months away.

And Zhou Ling is only at the seventh level of Qi training now. Although he has secret techniques for spiritual cultivation, it is not that easy to pass the examination of the Tiangong Division.

Although he already had a good understanding of Zhou Ling's strength, it was still a bit difficult to ensure that he passed the examination with his current cultivation level.

Looking at Zhou Ling, he showed a serious look on his face, "It is necessary to prepare in advance, but it must be done step by step."

“Don’t rush for success!”

After the words fell, Deacon Qin called for the assistant again, and then said, "Go to the treasure house to get three cracking flame thunder equipment."

The assistant said yes and then left.

Deacon Qin picked up the teacup, took a sip of the spiritual tea, and said, "Brother Ling, your soul power is quite good now. But roughly speaking, the consumption of soul power in the process of drawing the imprint is not the same as spiritual power. Come on, you need to know these things!”

As he spoke, a shallow layer of white light appeared on his body.

As Deacon Qin's thoughts turned, this dense light changed into different forms.

"This is the wonderful use of the power of the soul. As long as you master it properly, you can draw the second-level imprint with ease."

After putting away his soul, he looked at Zhou Ling, "So the first thing you have to do is to gather the power of your own soul through practicing the soul method. Only in this way can you have the minimum foundation for drawing the second-level imprint."

[You are observing the condensation of the divine soul, intermediate observation +1, divine soul +1]

[You are analyzing the Soul Condensation, Intermediate Analysis +1, Soul +1]

"Disciple understands!" Zhou Ling replied respectfully.

Deacon Qin nodded with satisfaction. A burst of white light flashed on the storage ring in his hand, and a jade slip appeared. He said seriously, "Here are some second-level low-grade inscriptions used by the Tiangong Division that I collected."

"There is a cracking fire thunder seal inside, and there are some notes from me. You go back and read it carefully."

"If you don't understand anything, ask me again. There is no need to rush to refine it. After all, this fire-splitting equipment is of great value, and it is also dangerous!"

Zhou Ling was overjoyed, took the jade slip and thanked her respectfully.

He sat down on his futon again.

After a while, the assistant came in holding a jade plate in his hands.

After Zhou Ling affixed his signature, he received the three fire cracking devices.

The cracking fire mine is as big as a fist and is completely black.

Zhou Ling did not receive these three fire cracking equipment for free.

Within half a month, he must successfully refine one, otherwise the contribution value will be deducted.

After putting the fire cracking equipment into the storage bag, Zhou Lingcai respectfully said goodbye to Deacon Qin.

Later, he went to the utility hall to pick up some second-level spiritual ink and spiritual paper.

These are shipped for free.

Otherwise, it would be hard to find second-order spiritual ink outside.

And the quality is not guaranteed.

After receiving four bottles of thunder-fire spiritual ink and thirty-six second-level spiritual papers, Zhou Ling left the Tiangong Division.

Not long after, Zhou Ling returned home, but his parents were not back yet.

After closing the door, he sat down on the wooden bed and took out the jade slips and cracking flame thunder equipment.

[You are observing the cracking flame thunder equipment, intermediate observation +1]

[You are analyzing the Flame-Splitting Thunder Device, Intermediate Analysis +1]

With the operation of the two talents, Zhou Ling quickly understood the material composition and refining method of the Flame-Splitting Thunder.

It is made of Fire-Splitting Stone and a small amount of Thunder Crystal as the main materials, and some Gengjin and other materials are added, and it is tempered with the second-level earth fire.

After understanding the situation of the Fire-Splitting Thunder Device, Zhou Ling's consciousness was put into the second-level inscription jade slip given by Deacon Qin.

He had read some of the "Second-level Basic Inscriptions" given by his master before, and from time to time he asked Deacon Qin about the methods of drawing some of the inscription nodes.

However, since it was not used at ordinary times, Zhou Ling only had a simple understanding.

Among them, dozens of second-level low-grade inscriptions had not been drawn.

With his original sixth-level cultivation, even with the assistance of the Five Elements Spirit Flame, he could not draw a second-level inscription.

His spiritual power and soul cultivation were too low.

After entering the seventh level of Qi training, both mana and soul have been significantly improved.

With the help of talents such as [Soul as a Knife] and [Meticulous] and the Five Elements Spirit Flame, he barely had the foundation to refine the second-level inscription.

However, with the analysis records of Deacon Qin and his own [More Courageous After Frustration] talent, it should not be too difficult to comprehend.

Zhou Ling thought in his heart.

Soon, among the thirty or so inscriptions on the jade slip, he found the pattern of the Fire Thunder Inscription.

The Fire Thunder Inscription is a composite inscription with fire and thunder attributes of twenty-six inscriptions.

It consists of the Fire Thunder Inscription and the Lightning Thunder Inscription, with six nodes connecting them.

The main structure is a balanced blooming structure.

This blooming structure is the most common structure of a disposable treasure.

With the help of the attribute balance between the nodes, the inscriptions of two different attributes, thunder and fire, are connected.

Once activated, the two inscriptions will explode at the same time, activating the powerful attribute power contained in the inscriptions.

On the inscription, there are a series of analytical introductions.

Especially the structure and inscription nodes, which are the biggest difficulties, and the introduction is also the clearest.

Of course, other places are also very detailed.

One seal contains twenty-six inscriptions, and there are detailed instructions for the drawing and connection of almost every inscription.

There are even instructions for the mixing of spiritual ink, the key points of brushwork, etc.

It is extremely detailed.

With the help of [Intermediate Analysis], Zhou Ling read it several times and mastered 90% of it.

He continued to watch it several times and felt that there was no big problem.

He decided to refine it on spiritual paper first.

"Ling'er, it's time to eat!"

At this time, his mother's voice came from outside.

Zhou Ling looked up at the window.

The sky outside the window was already full of red clouds, and it was already dusk without knowing it.

Because he concentrated on studying the fire cracking thunder seal, time passed quickly.

He left the room immediately.

In the main room, his mother had prepared dinner, four dishes and one soup.

"Dad hasn't come back yet?"

Zhou Ling asked without seeing his father.

"I just stewed some animal meat medicinal food, and your father sent it to Uncle Xu!"

Li Ru poured a bowl of meat soup for Zhou Ling and said.

"How is Uncle Xu today?"

Zhou Ling was in a hurry to go back and draw the seal, and did not wait for his father. He picked up the bowl, took a few mouthfuls of rice, and asked.

"Much better, but the spiritual power in my body cannot be used for the time being!"

Li Ru said.

Hearing this, Zhou Ling did not ask any more questions.

A bowl of fragrant spiritual rice was soon finished, and Zhou Ling drank another bowl of meat soup and returned to the room.

"Ling'er, why don't you eat more!"

Li Ru shouted.

"Mom, I'm full!"

Zhou Ling laughed.

"This child is really!" Li Ru murmured.

After closing the door, Zhou Ling sat cross-legged and felt that his mana and soul were extremely abundant.

I immediately took out the spiritual paper, spiritual ink and spiritual pen.

The spiritual pen is the jade pattern pen awarded in this assessment, which is just suitable for drawing the second-level seal.

The second-level composite seal adopts different drawing techniques according to different structures.

For a blooming structure like this, it is necessary to start drawing from the central main node.

In this way, when drawing two independent seals next, they can be drawn separately without affecting the overall structure.

So at the beginning, it is the most difficult to control.

Moreover, during the whole process of connecting the inscriptions, the spiritual ink can be paused appropriately, but the spiritual consciousness cannot be interrupted.

Once the spiritual consciousness is interrupted, the internal connection effect between the inscriptions will be greatly weakened.

In this way, even if it can be drawn into an inscription, the power is limited.

Therefore, the second-level inscription requires extremely high spiritual consciousness. The spiritual consciousness must assist in drawing inscriptions and inscriptions, and outline the mysteries that spiritual power cannot reach in the meantime.

This is also the reason why basic Qi training cultivators cannot draw second-level inscriptions.

The spiritual consciousness is too low.

Before writing, Zhou Ling carefully thought about the situation of the cracked fire thunder inscription to make sure there was nothing missing.

First, condense the five elements of spiritual flames to assist in condensing the nodes, and then start writing.

The nodes are mainly to lock the spiritual power, integrate and stabilize the inscriptions and inscriptions, so they are also the most critical.

With the assistance of the five elements of spiritual flames, Zhou Ling was very handy in drawing.

At the same time, he also opened the [Soul as a Knife] soul power along the spiritual pen, along with the spiritual flames and fell on the spiritual paper.

As the main node of the second-level composite imprint, the amount of spiritual consciousness consumed was still somewhat beyond Zhou Ling's expectations.

But it was several times more than the first-level top-grade imprint node.

Fortunately, [Meticulous] played a role, and the consumption of spiritual consciousness was still within the tolerance range.

But after drawing the six nodes and starting to draw the imprint, green smoke rose from the spiritual paper.

Failed!

Zhou Ling could only stop and calm down a little, then use [Intermediate Analysis] to find out where he went wrong?

He soon found that there was a problem with the brushwork.

When the spiritual power cooperates with the soul, the brushwork needs to be fine-tuned to make the spiritual power and the soul more coordinated when outlining the inscription.

Then, after a rest, Zhou Ling continued to draw after the spiritual power and soul in his body recovered.

After failing two more pictures.

When drawing the third picture, the last inscription flashed and barely condensed successfully!

"Finally succeeded!"

Zhou Ling showed a happy face.

Picking up the first second-level inscription that he successfully drew, Zhou Ling looked at it carefully.

Of course, successfully drawing on spiritual paper is still very different from engraving with tools.

But this has taken the most critical step.

After all, being able to successfully draw on spiritual paper means mastering this inscription.

The rest is just a matter of controlling spiritual power and soul power.

Zhou Ling is already very satisfied with this situation.