longevity road trip

As for Zhang Tianming, Zhang Shiping couldn't help sighing when he thought of the third Jindan real person in the clan.

When this child was born and measured the two spiritual roots of gold and fire, and he happened to be in the red copper spiritual mountain in the territory of Shuiyueyuan, he took Jiang Si as a mount. When the two met, it was an auspicious event.

At that time, the Zhang family also established a firm foothold in Xuanyuan Sect, the family became more prosperous, and there were few enemies outside.Whether it is the sect or the monks of other families, when dealing with the Zhang family members, they are almost always greeted with a smile, of course, there are many flattering people, or those who have bad intentions.

As for Zhang Tianhong, a younger generation with dual spiritual roots in the Zhang family, he was only in his early twenties when he built his foundation, but he was later complimented by other monks to the point where he was obsessed with pleasure and relaxed in cultivation.

Under the cultivation of the Zhang family and the sect of this person, the superior spiritual root aptitude of the pair of spiritual roots has not even reached the late stage of foundation building. It is really ridiculous, and it really disappoints Zhang Shiping.

In order to prevent this from happening again, he kept Zhang Tianming by his side and personally taught him to practice. This man lived up to his expectations. He had formed pills at the age of more than [-] years, but he had not experienced much in the world, and his heart was too pure.

Even if he forced him to personally destroy the small family of the Bai family, his intention was to let him know that in this world of immortality, even if he was keeping his own feet, it was inevitable that one day the heavens would bring disaster and it would vanish in an instant.

But that hasn't changed much.

Of course, being a good person is not a bad thing to say, but it is difficult for him to be the master of the house, and he cannot cope with the many open and secret winds and swords outside.When one day his lifespan is exhausted, or after he ascends to the spiritual world, no other cultivator will look at him differently because of the kindness and generosity of the Zhang family.

A cultivator family that wants to pass on for a long time, the reputation outside is just a gorgeous robe, which is good-looking, and the sword that is tied around the waist and hidden in the sheath, ready to be released at any time, is the fundamental guarantee.

In front of interests, there is only value or not, should it or not, not simply right and wrong.

In this world, the golden belt of murder and arson, bridges and roads are built without corpses, and it is the majority who ascend from evil.

But fortunately, his lifespan is still sufficient now, if he can cultivate another one in the next 2000 years, the Zhang family will still be prosperous as usual.If not, it will be like a cicada dormant, and one day it will reappear in the eyes of the world.

As for the lord of this prison, if he followed the rules of the house and was strict with people, he would definitely attract resentment from others, but if he didn't care about it at all, it would be difficult for his face.

It is precisely because of this that he does not want to reward and punish the sect head. After all, this authority is of little use to a monk in the middle Nascent Soul.If you have strength, you will naturally be in awe of what others should be in awe of, and you will naturally be able to get what you should get.

Chapter 989

The two talked for a long time on the top of the nameless green hill in the Chongling Mountains, and then Zhang Shiping headed towards the White Ape Palace of Xuanyuanzong, practicing in a quiet room.

He sat cross-legged on the futon, meditated for a moment, waited for his mind to be at peace, and then practiced the "Liujia True Strategies".

Practicing this exercise for hundreds of years has almost become a kind of instinct. I saw that during the cycle of the sky, the gathering spirit formations distributed around the quiet room turned thousands of middle-grade spirit stones into billowing waves. Spiritual energy swarmed towards his physical body, entered through thousands of acupuncture points, then traveled along the meridians, condensed in the dantian, and transformed into strands of pure magic power between the swallowing and breathing of Yuanying.

Although there is no increase, it can grow day by day.

And under the nourishment of mana, the little golden crow spirit that had already been refined in the heart seemed to turn into a ball of flames, emitting a little golden and red aura, feeding back its own vitality. Chambers, limbs and five bodies, three gates and nine orifices, one hundred and eighty shutdowns, 360 joints, etc., all benefit from it.

To this day, he has practiced this noon fire scroll to the body of the acquired fire spirit. To a certain extent, he is no longer a simple mortal body, but more like tangible flesh and blood and an invisible fire spirit. blended together.

With the deepening of this practice, Zhang Shiping has realized that he will hardly have children in the future.

In fact, when a monk cultivates a certain skill to a certain level, in the long run, he will always be affected to a certain extent and become an independent individual.

For example, what Qing He and Du Yu practiced is the method of weak water, and they will gradually lean towards the body of water spirit, and Ji Fengna's "Blood Soul Illustrated Record" also transformed himself into that ordinary magic weapon In short, the blood soul that is difficult to hurt is fundamentally different from the mortal body of ordinary people, and there are some differences between monks who practice the same kind of skills.

Cultivators are immortals, the more they practice, the more difficult it is to have children. It can be said that most of them are due to this change.

There are permanence in the world, and there are trade-offs between gains and losses.But in fact, the vast majority of those who have achieved success in cultivation are not as anxious about the matter of the offspring as ordinary people.After all, spiritual roots are a gift from heaven, and most of the offspring are ordinary people. Occasionally, those with three or four spiritual roots cannot inherit their mantle and help them. Instead of working hard, it is better to use this thought On top of self-cultivation.

Although there are occasionally one or two talented people in the family's ten or even dozens of generations, the blood relationship between them has long been weak, and they are not much different from ordinary clan members.Furthermore, after hundreds or even thousands of years of waiting, with just a few juniors in this area, it is impossible to expect that some of them will definitely have a baby.

People with high cultivation bases can endure hundreds of thousands of years of boring practice, and their rationality is far better than sensibility. Naturally, they have to weigh this, and thus they are more inclined to the approach of "what you say is lucky, and nothing is left to you".

But this is not an absolute thing. Among Mahayana practitioners, such as the Qinglong Aoguang, who has realized the magic of the transformation of heaven and man, and the growth of all things, and reached the state where yin and yang converge, and the dragon and the tiger can help each other, they can break free from the shackles. Therefore, there is a saying that the dragon gave birth to nine sons, and the sons were different.

Of course, this realm is not limited to such trivial matters as reproduction and breeding. Its essence is the way of evolution, and it is the tireless pursuit of true knowledge of practice.

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a few days later.

A teleportation circle that had not been used for a long time in a stone cave at the bottom of an inconspicuous valley in the Baimang Mountains suddenly glowed with a white aura.

As the brilliance flickered, two figures suddenly appeared in it.

Du Yu and Zhang Shiping walked out of it one after another.

"I don't think there is an ancient teleportation circle hidden in a random unnamed valley near the Demon Town." Zhang Shiping looked around and sighed.

"Actually, this was not set up to guard against the Demon Lord, but for the Barbarian Domain. After reading many secret books in the sect, Shiheng must also understand that the Demon Lord is a certain Mahayana from the Linglong Realm. With his The identity of the "Xuanji Kui Fighting Sword Formation" in the "Wan Jiansheng" is self-evident. Even the ancestors of my sect should be extremely cautious when confronting such ancient venerables, let alone me Wait for these humble juniors." Du Yu said.

"It's been almost 200 years since Mingxin Peak first set up the guarding of the barbarian border, so it's almost time for us." Zhang Shiping asked.

"In the beginning, there were two fellow Taoists, Zhongzhiyi and Hongyi in Hongyuelou, and then they went through the three tribes of Zhuo, Jindao, and Jinlang, and the six small tribes, and now they are members of the five surname clans. Rotation, the next one should be Wanjianmen and the Eight Sects, or a certain fellow Taoist who came from casual cultivators, and the last one is our five sects on rotation, a total of 390 years after one round. Why, if you want to replace the sect? It's not impossible for the door to go there ahead of time." Du Yu said.

In the past, there were nine sects in the hinterland of Nanzhou, but in recent years, the Hall of Nine Demons has been removed, leaving only eight sects.

"In recent years, compared with the past, the mana I obtained by refining the spiritual energy has been greatly reduced, and there has been little progress. Instead of this, it is better to go to that barbaric area and take this opportunity to condense the mana into essence. Pure. Although it is a waste, but in the long run, it is quite beneficial to practice." Zhang Shiping nodded and said.

"You should send a direct message to the Wanjianmen and the Mingxinzong and other sect friends about this matter. They will not refuse if you want to come." Du Yu said.

Then he flipped his right hand, and there was an extra folding fan in his hand, he smiled lightly and said:

"Let's go, let's meet up with Yu Rui and the others. Yi Xuedan, who has been thinking about you for this trip, is also here."

"Forget it, I don't have the good fortune to benefit from these four pillars of pure yin body. Once I get infected, I'm afraid I will lose all my energy and my mana will flow back." Zhang Shiping shook his head and said.

"It's hard to say. Now you are the body of the fire spirit, and there is also the phenomenon of yin and yang between water and fire, which may be more wonderful." Du Yu shook lightly to himself, approached and patted Zhang Shiping shoulder.

"This place is as cold as an ice cave. Shaking a fan is more useless than lighting a lamp in the daytime. It's better to put it away." Zhang Shiping glanced at him and said.

"In life, apart from spiritual practice, the word 'demeanor' is the most important word. How can it be said that it is useless to be happy and carefree? It has been more than five hundred years since I saw you. You are wearing black clothes. That's blue, it's just two colors, don't you think it's boring?" Du Yu said calmly.

"Your question is even more boring. Since you are interested in this romantic matter, if Yi Xuedan still has any entanglements during this trip, I will leave it to you. After all, you are now the head of the sect, and you are in the right family." Zhang Shiping said with a smile .

"Okay, stop talking and joking, the four of them should wait." Du Yu's expression was slightly restrained, and he flew out of the cave, and the two of them headed towards Yuran Mountain.

Chapter 990

Not long after the two of them set off, over a thousand feet above Yuran Mountain, four beams of spiritual light flew from all directions one after another and gathered in one place.

Yu Rui, who came last, glanced down after the light disappeared, and couldn't help frowning and said:

"It really deserves to be a death calamity. I remember that this place was originally beautiful and full of aura, but now it has turned into a scorched earth. The spiritual veins have been cut off, and the mountains and rivers have withered. It will be difficult to recover in less than two or three hundred years."

He is practicing the method of wood, and he feels the deepest about it.

At present, although there are still vegetation growing in Yuran Mountain for tens of miles, it has become the pond fish that was affected by the disaster, and its vitality potential was fundamentally cut off by the death of the God Transformation. In addition, even the underground spirit The pulse was also broken.

As he spoke, he turned to look at the other three people and asked, "When you came, did you see the clan or other fellow Taoists here?"

"Perhaps before I arrived, they had already explored here, and now they have long disappeared." Ming Lin said.

When Cao Yu crossed the catastrophe, they were in the ancient ocean, and it has been almost half a year since they returned.

During this period, there must have been many other Nascent Soul monks in Nanzhou. After learning about the strangeness of this place, they set off to investigate. This is unavoidable.

"Where are Du Yu and Shi Heng, didn't they say they would come here too?" asked Yi Xuedan, who had just mastered Misty Valley.

Or because of being the head of the sect, now this person is wearing a gorgeous dress with a skirt and flying hair. He is really charming, like a fairy, and he is no longer as revealing and enchanting as before.

"When I left, they were also preparing to come over, just wait." Yu Rui said.

After finishing speaking, the other three couldn't say anything more.

However, they didn't just wait there, but circled a few times in mid-air, looked down at this place, took in the scene in their eyes, and then landed in the mountain, heading for the place where the aura of silence was strongest. The hill where Cao Yu crossed the robbery.

The top of the mountain has been cut in half, and the earth and rocks are all in the shape of scorched black crystals.

Just as soon as they set foot on the ground, the faces of the four of them suddenly changed drastically, and they flew backwards for more than ten miles in one breath.

At this time, Du Yu and Zhang Shiping's Duan Guang arrived just in time, seeing the four of them with ugly faces.

"Why, looking at the land of the three realms, there is still someone who can make you four suffer at the same time, but something happened to the demon body in the mountain?" Du Yu couldn't help asking with a frown, and at the same time, his heart was full of vigilance.

"Can you see that stone mountain that turned into black crystals? This mountain should be where Cao Yu crossed the catastrophe, and now it has become a place of absolute spirits. As soon as I got close, all my magic power lost control for no reason, and I almost lost control of the Nascent Soul. The original vitality is gone. The two of you should be more careful, and don't get close to this mountain again." Yu Rui said without any concealment.

"Tens of thousands of years ago, the monks used ancient methods to seek a breakthrough to the realm of transforming gods. Although the small world had a catastrophe, it would not directly turn an area into a land of unimaginable spirits." Du Yu said, suddenly thinking What, his face suddenly darkened.

The other five people, including Zhang Shiping, were almost the same.

After all, once the Land of Absolute Spirits is formed, if the majestic spiritual energy is not replenished in time, and the scope expands to the border of the barbaric domain, then there will be gaps in the large formation laid by their five seniors.

At that time, the barbarian domain will surely erode the land of Nanzhou, and the hard work of the five sects from ancient times to the present will also be destroyed.

"The general trend of the world, I wait for Xiaoxiu to have no control. Before Cao Yu crossed the catastrophe, my sect's spies in the vicinity sent back news that a majestic and boundless wave of spiritual energy suddenly erupted from Yuran Mountain, even hundreds of miles away. Yicheng was also affected, and I think this is why he was able to trigger the God Transformation Tribulation suddenly. But right now I don't have to worry about it, and it's useless to think about it. At this moment, the most important thing is still in this Yuran Mountain In the depths, I hope that the demon body of that clone can also be annihilated into ashes along with the death calamity." Yu Rui said in a deep voice.

"The Land of Absolute Spirits should be dealt with for the time being, so as not to cause endless disasters in the future."

As Du Yu said, he took out a storage bag between his hands and threw it away, only to see more than a thousand water-attribute top-grade spirit stones manifest, and the other four masters did the same, each took out gold, High-grade spirit stones of wood, fire, earth and other attributes.

All of a sudden, the spirit stones of the five elements turned into powder, and the spirit energy in them burst out suddenly, turning into five-color spirit tides visible to the naked eye, and submerging into the Land of Absolute Spirits.

There are about 40 to [-] high-grade spirit stones contained in one of the high-grade mineral veins in Nanzhou.

And to make this terrific place with a radius of several miles normal, the total amount of spiritual energy cast is almost the same.

In Nanzhou, except for the five sects, other sects could not be so generous.

After dealing with it, Bai Yuheng said unhurriedly:

"According to what we know before, the Demon Lord is hiding in the deep ice of Yuran Mountain. Let's go, let's go and see what's going on!"

Everyone used the earth-moving escape method, and they disappeared into the earth.

In fact, when the Demon Lord ravages the small world, whether it is their five clans, or the four clans of Baima Temple, Kun, Peng, Jiaolong, and Suanni, if they unite, it is not impossible to stop them.

It's just that this kind of thing is destined to be led by no one, and no one will respond, unless the Demon Venerable clone really wants to sweep the three realms and cut off the inheritance of all parties.

However, the demon king's mysterious soul fusion twice before and after was nothing more than using the secret method to separate 36 demon souls and take away the bodies of monks from various clans, and it didn't really touch the bottom line of each sect.

Although they also understood that the Demon Venerable was plotting something extremely important, but the method of the mysterious art of combining souls has only been fully performed once in 800 years.The time span was extremely long, and all parties were concerned about the strength of the thousand-eyed demon venerable, so they lived in peace for many years.

It's just that it's been only three or four hundred years since the Demon Lord came to the world last time, and they don't want to experience it again right now.

If the demon body shows signs of recovery, it must first be banned and suppressed again.

After a while, a group of people appeared in a huge underground stone cave tunnel located at a depth of several thousand feet. It was more than seven hundred feet high and stretched for dozens of miles.

This place used to be the main body of the ice spirit stone mine vein, but because of the extremely spiritual place, it has been exhausted now, so there is this cave.

With the urging of everyone's spiritual consciousness, they understood the specific situation of this cave in an instant.

"Can you find where that demon body is?" Du Yu asked in a deep voice.

"No, I didn't find anything here, could it be taken away by other fellow Taoists?" Yu Rui shook his head and said.

"Let me first survey this place for dozens of miles, up to the mountains, down to the land of thousands of feet, and check it all again to avoid any omissions. There is no room for chance in the matter of the devil's body. If we can't find it, we will find it." Calling other fellow Taoists in Nanzhou, there must be a result." Du Yu said in a deep voice.

Chapter 991

Just when the five sect masters and Zhang Shiping and the six people had traveled tens of miles around Yuran Mountain, up to the hills and valleys, and down to the land of ten thousand zhang, they almost turned over and were tired from running around.

When the night was approaching, the wind blew in the night sky, and in the hills of the utterly psychic place, suddenly some small stones trembled a few times, turning into insects that ordinary people's little fingers could not cover, they flapped their wings and flew with the wind Flying into the distance, it swayed and landed on the collars of more than a dozen Qi refining monks who were about to return to the Red Clothes City.

While the worm's feet were crawling, they quickly got under the skin and squirmed a few times, leaving only a wound as small as a needle prick, and these monks who were only at the third or fourth level of Qi Refining didn't seem to notice it. , as usual, returned to the courtyard residence in the Red Clothes City.

That night.

More than a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators scattered in the city walked through the sidewalks outside the walls of these residences, quietly put away the zerg, and then these people gathered towards an inconspicuous crafting shop one after another. And went, into the backyard.

"How, is there any news tonight?" A big shirtless man in the courtyard asked while refining several pieces of black iron ore in the furnace under the fire.

"Priest, according to the reaction of the hidden worms, there was a wave of five-element spiritual energy in that land of absolute spirits that was comparable to the explosion of the fourth-order spiritual veins." One of the middle-aged foundation-building monks whispered.He spread out his hands, and in the palm of his hand, there were two small insects that shone with multicolored luster and turned into crystals.

This spirit hermit is a strange insect with a peculiar nature, and it is difficult for a monk to detect it.

In addition, the less active the insect is in the environment where the aura is thinner, the lower its activity will be.When you are in the Land of Absolute Spirits, you are just like the sand and stone, without any vitality. Therefore, even the spiritual consciousness of the Nascent Soul cultivator cannot detect any abnormalities.

And once it has been washed by the majestic and pure spiritual energy, it will turn into spar, showing a luster corresponding to the attribute of spiritual energy.

Hearing this, the big man put aside what he was doing, and appeared in front of this person, and then clawed his five fingers, and took the two insects to him for a closer look.

After a while, a gleam flashed in his eyes, and he said in a deep voice:

"Okay, I have waited for several months in vain, and I can finally give an explanation to all the gods. From today onwards, you will stay here to practice, and you are not allowed to go out for three months, so as not to scare the snake, my lord Go and report it yourself."

As he said that, he flipped his hands and took out more than ten bottles of pills suitable for foundation-building monks to gain mana, and distributed them to everyone.

"Thank you priest." Everyone thanked in a low voice.

In the vast sea and desert, Jindan monks are called priests by local monks, and those Yuanying ancestors are god masters. If there are monks who transform gods, they will be honored as immortal masters.

After giving the order, the big man disappeared in the courtyard, and appeared outside the city not long after, then soared into the sky, turning into a stream of light in the night and flying towards the distance.

Not long after, the light fell on an inconspicuous hill four or five hundred miles away,