longevity road trip

Along the way, he recalled the details of the steps he used to perform Earth Dungeon, and tried to use it flawlessly next time. Zhang Shiping sat on the flying boat and reflected.In fact, in the final analysis, spells still depend on the cultivator's mana cultivation base and the strength of his soul.

Now with Zhang Shiping's strength of spiritual consciousness, how does it compare with the monks in the middle stage of foundation establishment?If possible, he would also like to directly strengthen his soul and increase his consciousness all at once, but a large part of the strength of a monk's soul is also restricted by his own cultivation.

Mana cultivation base and soul strength are complementary to each other. Generally, the strength of the foundation cultivator's soul is weaker than his own mana cultivation base.After all, a cultivator only needs to use his skills to absorb spiritual energy and turn it into his own mana. Before reaching the bottleneck, he can always improve, it's just a matter of speed.

But the soul is different. There are no geniuses, treasures, precious medicines, and soul skills, etc., so the monk can only slowly accumulate the soul.However, there are also those who specialize in the practice of the ghost way. They don’t pay attention to the body, but focus on the soul. This kind of cultivation method is already a slant of the sword. If you accidentally go crazy, you may directly turn into a fierce ghost, and your mind will be chaotic.

There are also such fierce ghosts who are enlightened again, but they are not the same as before, they are new creatures.

The progress of Zhang Shiping's cultivation base is just like that. In the past few months, his cultivation base has moved closer to the third foundation building level, much faster than ordinary foundation building monks, but after all, he has not yet reached the third foundation building level.

And later on, when it is close to the limit of mana cultivation, the speed at which it can be improved becomes slower and slower.

In addition, his cultivation level cannot be improved overnight, so Zhang Shiping's soul has gradually stabilized, probably two or three points stronger than before.

As soon as he returned to the cave, after turning on the guardian formation, Zhang Shiping returned to the quiet room, and immediately took out the bronze lamp. Under the bronze lamp, the consciousness was continuously depleted and recovered under Zhang Shiping's special control.Although the improvement is slow now, it can improve a little over time.

During this time and time again, his soul gradually became tougher and stronger. Although it was a slight increase, Zhang Shiping was already very satisfied.How can ordinary foundation-building monks cultivate so frantically, regardless of whether their spiritual consciousness is exhausted or not.

It wasn't until Zhang Shiping was too tense after half a year of self-cultivation that he wanted to relax, and the right way was to relax.

The Zongmen has the task of asking the monks who established the foundation to explain the spells to the disciples of Qi training. This is a long-term task that can earn Zongmen merit points.

This kind of preaching class has always been based on the mood of the foundation cultivator, and he can do whatever he wants. The sect has no special requirements and assessments, and of course there are not many merit points.

Of course, the foundation-building monks who can take on this kind of task will usually come up with some things, and they have a few brushes, otherwise they will not dare to be a teacher, and they will lose face, and be heard by other foundation-building monks. The laughing stock of others.

After Zhang Shiping accepted the task of guarding the ice spirit stone vein, he estimated the time he had agreed with them and left some spare time. The disciple gave a lecture, and he also had some understanding of magic.

Chapter 126 Lectures in the Great Hall

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On the preaching mountain, Zhang Shiping drove the flying magic weapon, he looked at the sky, and now the main hall of the preaching mountain is just around the corner.Here, qi training monks cannot fly with the imperial weapon, but there is no such rule for foundation building monks. It can be regarded as a privilege for foundation building monks to show the difference.

Moreover, there is more than one such preaching mountain in the sect. They are distributed in various places of the sect. There are a total of four preaching mountains for disciples from all over the sect to attend classes.Zhang Shiping accepted the task of teaching on a preaching mountain in the south.

Now that so many years have passed, it feels really strange to be replaced by him to teach spells to new disciples, Zhang Shiping chuckled.

Looking at the mountain road, there are several disciples in the qi training stage walking, Zhang Shiping drives the flying magic weapon, and flies past.As soon as the disciples below saw the blue boat flying towards the main hall, they immediately became anxious and rushed one by one as hard as they could. Some disciples who were relatively wealthy took out the magic amulet from the storage bag and pasted it on their legs. He got up quickly and surpassed other people on the mountain road.

The teaching time of the Foundation Establishment cultivator is not fixed, and Zhang Shiping suffered a lot from it when he was in the Qi training period.At that time, he got up early in the morning and rushed to the main hall of Chuan Dao Mountain, but he often encountered Master Zhuji who came late and waited for a long time in vain.

But there is no way, his cultivation base at that time was only in the Qi training period, and the things taught by those masters who established the foundation were of great help to him.He usually comes very early and waits in the main hall. He is not afraid of coming early, but he is afraid of missing it. After all, there is only one chance in ten days. No matter how long he waits, he still has to wait.

Now that Zhang Shiping has become a foundation-building monk, and it is his first lecture, he feels that he should be more serious and come to the hall earlier, so that these younger generations will not suffer from such helplessness. A monk's time is very precious.

However, after the Qingling ancient boat landed and he removed the aura shield, Zhang Shiping, who was still smiling at the corner of his mouth, immediately changed his face, and his face became serious in an instant.

"Hello, uncle."

"Cheng Ping greets Master Uncle."

"Wei Tong has met Master Uncle."

After seeing Zhang Shiping, the nearby Qi training disciples saluted one after another, so disrespectful!

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In the main hall, the qi cultivators who were sitting cross-legged on the futons and waiting, saw Zhang Shiping, the foundation master uncle, coming from the door, and got up one by one.

Some of the noble ones just said hello dryly.Some monks in the qi training period, who were more clever, came up to them, greeted them respectfully, and did not forget to report their names, just hoping that Zhang Shiping could remember them.

In case Zhang Shiping, the foundation-building uncle, wants to accept disciples, then they will embrace the sect, and someone will talk to them.Otherwise, why Zhang Shiping was able to practice with peace of mind in the Zongmen during his qi training period, even if he accepted the task, no other monks came to make things difficult, and it was not because his uncle Chen Wenguang called him in advance.

Even if the other foundation-building monks didn't pay attention to Chen Wenguang, who was only at the early stage of foundation-building at that time, they still had to look at the face of Ye Yuanwei, the master of the Palace of Foreign Affairs. monks.

In the Zongmen, Yuanying Patriarch may not come out for decades or hundreds of years, and he has personally managed the Zongmen.There are only a few Golden Core cultivators, and Ye Yuanwei, a cultivator in the late stage of Foundation Establishment, still has a lot of face in the sect.

But it's a pity that Zhang Shiping never had such a plan, he can't even take care of himself now, how can he have time to train his disciples, and he is not the kind of person who accepts disciples just to find a few coolies.

Entering from the gate, along the way, the disciples sitting on the left and right stood up to say hello, Zhang Shiping walked to the futon in the middle, and sat down cross-legged, "You all sit down too."

Watching hundreds of qi training disciples sit down one after another, Zhang Shiping seemed to see that he was one of them in the past, and this scene seemed familiar.

Zhang Shiping was sitting on the futon in the main hall, and seeing a few disciples rushing in outside the main hall, he waited for a while, and after about half a cup of tea, he began to give lectures. He didn't force them to go.

"The most commonly used methods among qi-training monks are nothing more than a few, such as the sharp metal technique, the vine technique, the weak water technique, the fireball technique, and the swamp technique. These five basic five-element exercises." Zhang Shiping palm three A crimson fireball rose from within an inch, and under his control, it slowly rose to the middle of the hall, allowing hundreds of Qi practitioners to see clearly, "Let me explain the most basic fire attribute spells, which are also Many of you disciples who practice fire attribute techniques are the first spells that come into contact with it."

Zhang Shiping controlled the fireball at a distance of eight or nine feet, "When casting this basic spell, you must pay attention to two points. It’s not too late to go to study after two o’clock.”

Zhang Shiping started by talking about how to mobilize the mana in his dantian when performing the fireball technique, and then how to circulate the meridians in the body to cast the spell at the fastest speed.

This kind of spellcasting experience is not recorded in many kung fu jade slips. Zhang Shiping selectively picked out a part of his experience in fire attribute kung fu that he had practiced for many years.Of course, he can't tell all of them, and this is not passing on his mantle to his disciples. Sometimes even masters and apprentices can defend themselves.

There are already many disciples who have kept what Zhang Shiping said in their hearts, and their eyes are shining. Few foundation-building monks can explain the spells in such detail, even down to the meridians in the body.Of course, this may be because other foundation-building monks Laide have explained it in such detail, and it would be too time-consuming to do it a little bit.

Among them, there were disciples in the qi training period who came a little later. After listening for a while, while trying to listen and memorize, their stomachs were green with regret.They saw that there were familiar friends in the main hall, and they thought that they would have to ask about the contents of the previous lecture by Master Zhuji.

Zhang Shiping divided the "fast" and "stable" fireball techniques into two parts, and slowly analyzed them. He spent a whole morning talking about the meridian movement of the exercises alone.

As time passed, Zhang Shiping didn't stop to rest for a while at noon, and when he talked about the third quarter of Shen Shi, he saw a person waiting outside the hall. , called Zhuang He.

Zhang Shiping also felt that he had finished his speech, so he stopped, let the hundreds of disciples in the main hall disperse, and went straight out of the main hall.

Many disciples wanted to come here to ask Zhang Shiping for advice, but seeing that he walked out of the hall, he had no intention of staying, so no one dared to disturb Zhang Shiping.

Zhuang He outside the main hall saw Zhang Shiping coming out, saluted very respectfully, and took out a jade slip, held it with both hands, and presented it to Zhang Shiping, "Senior, this is the jade slip sent by Uncle Su, please have a look at it, senior."

Chapter 127 Peach Blossom Forest

Zhang Shiping took the jade slips and checked them with his spiritual sense. It turned out that Chen Qi and Su Shuang wanted to go to the Bingling Stone Mine early, get acquainted with the surrounding area first, and asked him if they would be together tomorrow. When Zhang Shiping didn't come, they just went there without waiting.

The time and place were written on the jade slips they sent, leaving Zhang Shiping the place of Yifeng Building in Taohuafang City, where they can be contacted, Zhang Shiping held the jade slips and thought about it.

Maybe it's not bad to go there first. He learned most of the information about the Bingling Stone Mine through his uncle Chen Wenguang. He didn't see it with his own eyes, so there will always be some deviations.And this duty will last three years, so what if you don't prepare well.

Zhang Shiping thought for a while, put away the jade slips, and walked down the nine white jade steps of the main hall.

However, he needs to make clear arrangements for the affairs of Yekun Mountain, and he will also send a letter to the family by the way. It won't be here for a few more days.

It would take him two or three days to arrange all these big and small things. From Yekun Mountain to the Bingling Stone Mine, it would also take nearly three days to fly with all the strength of the foundation-building monks.If you don't hurry and choose to travel day and night, it will take about five or six days.

Calculated like this, it will be a long time before I arrive at the ice spirit stone mine, but it is still [-] days before the task handover period, Zhang Shiping has plenty of time.

"Come up." Outside the main hall, after reading the jade slips, Zhang Shiping turned his hand and took out the ancient Qingling boat. Seeing the wind, it grew into a sapphire-colored flying boat. .

After finishing speaking, Zhang Shiping stepped on the flying boat floating in the air, Zhuang He also stepped on the flying boat, "Thank you, senior." After speaking, he respectfully retreated to the stern of the flying boat, far away from Zhang Shiping who was standing on the bow of the flying boat.

When Zhang Shiping cast the spell, the flying boat first flew towards the sky slowly, then turned into a blue rainbow and flew towards Ye Kunshan.Based on Zhang Shiping's cultivation during the foundation period, although he is not like Yun Qi, a monk of the Jindan sect, who can drive the black boat, which can carry hundreds of people at once, and can fly like a streamer, but it is not a problem for the boat to carry one more person. of.

The speed of the Qingling ancient boat never slowed down, and the blue light was rampant all the way. Zhuang He watched the scenery on both sides retreating rapidly, and he was horrified in his heart, and he was a little dazed all of a sudden.Afterwards, his envious eyes slowly turned into firmness.

Zhang Shiping, who is now standing on the bow of the spaceship, doesn't know, he is now thinking about how to arrange things reasonably.And the letter he wants to send to his family, what should be written on it.

When the Qingling ancient boat passed a small mountain, Zhang Shiping landed the flying boat and put Zhuang He down. Amidst his thanks, Zhang Shiping calmly drove the flying boat again, and flew over several first-level spiritual mountains, and Kunshan was right in front of him.

Yuran Mountain is a long and slender mountain, which looks like a half-floating fish. Most of its body is submerged in the water, and only half of its back is exposed.

On the hillside of Lingwei, there are dozens of miles of peach blossom forests. The peach blossoms bloom in the spring breeze, and the falling flowers are colorful. After March and April, the dark reddish-brown peach trees bear small fruits on their branches. After two or three months, When the peaches the size of a baby's fist were still emerald green, low-level monks and ordinary people living in the nearby Peach Blossom Town would come to pick them and make a kind of fruit wine called Green Peach Wine.

But the monks who came here to pick peaches were actually looking for spirit peaches.The strange thing about this peach grove is that the peach trees that are not spirit trees here will grow spirit peaches whose utility is comparable to that of the first-order middle grade.

These spirit peaches do not necessarily grow on a fixed spirit tree. They grow very randomly, and their shape is the same as other green peaches. From the outside, there is no difference at all. In addition, their spiritual medicinal power is completely sealed by the peel. They are monks. Scanned with the divine sense, but couldn't find anything.

Only after picking it off, rest assured in the clear water and watch the ups and downs. The real spirit peach has a characteristic, it sinks directly to the bottom of the peach, and then freezes the water in a moment.

Of course, the weirdest thing here is not this, but the age of the peach trees here, at most only a hundred years old, I don’t know why, whenever the peach trees here are older, about 200 years old, the whole peach The tree will disappear without a trace, leaving only a newly germinated peach tree sapling in place, as if time went back in time.

In the past, many monks felt that they were cut down and taken away. After all, peach trees that have been around for hundreds of years, although they are ordinary trees, have not been struck by lightning, and their masculinity is not so strong, but they can also be made into peach wood swords, which can be placed on secular Taoists In the hands, you can do some rituals and restrain some resentful souls.If it is a monk, they spend some effort to engrave a few formations, the power can be even greater, and it is normal for monks to cut down.

But since more than a thousand years ago, a Peach Blossom Loose Man passed through the Yuran Mountain Peach Forest and heard the rumors that this kind of peach tree disappeared inexplicably.

In those few decades, that Sanren Peach Blossom has seen this kind of thing dozens of times. Even though he locked the peach tree with his own consciousness of Jindan cultivator, they are still under the eyes of the Sanren Peach Blossom, a Jindan cultivator. Disappear.

After a while, the Peach Blossom Loose Man disappeared, perhaps because he lost interest, or because he didn't want to stay in one place for too long.

But then I don't know where it came from. There are many mysterious and mysterious sayings. There is an old peach tree that has survived for tens of thousands of years in the peach forest. The monks will be caught by the tree demon when they enter, and the essence is extracted. What is the peach forest? In fact, it is an illusion, and the people who enter it are actually the living dead, but I don't know it yet, so I guess.

I don't know where these legends began to spread, which made many people horrified.Then these legends circulated for hundreds of years, during which time more strange anecdotes were derived.

But the longer it was spread, during this period there were many casual cultivators or mortals who went to pick spirit peaches, and nothing happened. Later, people became less concerned and worried. When drinking, they took these legends as a It's just food and drink, used for teasing when you're bored.

When Zhang Shiping drove the Qingling ancient boat to fly over, he saw that there were peach trees on the halfway up the mountain below, and there were many stone peaks on the top of the mountain, so he knew that he had arrived at Yuran Mountain.

It's just that where is the Taohuafang City that the jade slips of the two of them mentioned?Zhang Shiping stood on the Qingling Ancient Boat and watched, with a flash of light in his eyes, he used the Celestial Eye Technique to look around, wanting to see where there is a market hidden by the formation.

But he walked around for a long time, but he didn't see where the so-called Taohuafang City was.

Chapter 128 Oriole

Looking at the stone pillars and peaks of different heights on the top of the mountain, it is quite strange. Could it be hidden in the middle?Zhang Shiping looked at the stone pillars and peaks on the mountain, with a thoughtful look in his eyes, some places in the world of cultivating immortals have natural formations.

For this reason, Zhang Shiping drove the Qingling ancient boat down, walked through the stone forest for a cup of tea, but found no trace of formation, he frowned, it seemed that he must have guessed wrong.

"Huh!" Zhang Shiping suddenly disappeared in place, and after a few breaths, Zhang Shiping's figure appeared outside the stone forest, without stopping, he walked towards the mountainside.

In the peach grove of Yuran Mountain, a man was covered in yellow clothes, and even his face was tied with a mask, revealing only a pair of naked eyes. He was wearing a yellow-gray mask, squatting. On the ground, the hands kept moving.

A man in black fell on the ground, his entire face was scorched black, and his facial features could not be seen. Blood was rushing from her chest, which had already soaked the nearby ground. The man in yellow kept his hands on the man in black. Constantly groping.

The man in yellow kept moving his hands. He brushed the man's hair, opened his mouth, and touched the inside and outside of the clothes to see if there was anything hidden inside.

The man in yellow didn't let go of anything, and took everything on his body, even the few low-level talismans hidden in his hair, especially the golden storage in the man's arms. The bag looked very extraordinary. After he got it, joy flashed in his eyes. It was because of this that he became murderous, and then he immediately put it in his arms.

However, he took a look at the contents of the storage bag, and most of the joy on his face disappeared.

This woman is a casual cultivator nearby. When Ke Xizeng was in Fangshi, he accidentally saw this nun take out this storage bag. It is golden in color, and it looks much better than the storage bags sold in Tongbao Building. .

Seeing this, he was fascinated, and he tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. After waiting for more than ten days, he finally waited for the opportunity, and now he was finally able to go back and sleep peacefully for a while.

Ke Xizeng wiped the blood from his hands on the nun's clothes, and at the feet of the man in yellow, there was a small yellow Yingying knife with blood on the blade. After drying his hands, he picked up the knife and used it with the man Wipe off the blood on the clothes.

"Ah." Ke Xizeng stood up and did not forget to give her a mouthful.

"Hiss..." He touched the wound on his back just now. Just now his thick soil cover was smashed by Huang Yingying's knife, and he was slashed on the back. Just now he was fighting with pain, but now he has lost the strength just now , the pain makes the scalp numb.

He controlled the muscles on his back, clamped them tightly, and stopped the bleeding, but suddenly a strange itching emerged. He reached out and groped behind his back, but he couldn't feel it, it was really itchy.

His heart sank, and he quickly took out a bottle of elixir, poured out a yellow-green Baicao Jiedu Pill, and swallowed it. He didn't know if it was due to psychological reasons. The itching has improved a lot.

"Can I ask you something?" A cold voice came, and Ke Xizeng turned around immediately. Before the person behind him could see clearly, he had already thrown a piece of soil gun talisman hidden in his sleeve go out.

Before the black-gray soil gun flew a few feet away, it was pierced by a burst of red light, turned red and black, melted into a slurry, dripped to the ground, and billows of black smoke rose.

After the red light melted the black and gray soil gun, it didn't stop at all. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a matchlock and was tied to the blue shield that Ke Xizeng hastily erected.

Lan Yingying's water-attribute shield was bundled with red light, and a white mist of water vapor suddenly appeared.The hastily casted water-attribute barrier only blocked the fire rope turned into red light for one breath, and the fire rope strangled the barrier.

When the fire rope was about to touch Ke Xizeng, he already felt the scorching heat. When he felt that his life was not long, the fire rope made of violent fire aura bound him tightly like a normal hemp rope , did not reduce him to ashes.

"Senior, please forgive me." Ke Xizeng looked forward with surprise and anger in his heart. There was a vast expanse of water vapor in front of him, and he couldn't see the appearance of this senior clearly. However, he did not just stay where he was, but squeezed out a sentence A plea from the bottom of my heart.

In this situation, he didn't dare to shout too loudly, for fear of offending this senior who suddenly made trouble.Since this senior didn't kill directly, he still has a chance to survive. He waited with a drum in his heart. It's really uncomfortable to have one's life at the thought of others.

A gust of wind blew, and after the white mist cleared, he saw the person who came, it was a middle-aged man in black brocade clothes, holding a blue folding fan, looking at him expressionlessly, he couldn't see the other person clearly. Cultivation, because this senior's mana fluctuations all over his body have been completely restrained, at first glance he looks like a son of an aristocratic family who is out to play.

He didn't think it was an ordinary mortal who had such means. Just when Ke Xizeng was about to kneel down, his body just moved. The matchlock, which was meant to be an ordinary hemp rope, immediately became hot, scorching his clothes and skin. Several black marks appeared on his body, causing him to grin his teeth in pain.

Zhang Shiping waved his fan unceremoniously, and a few bluish-red auras transformed into round beads in the air, and fell on Ke Xizeng's body. The strange aura entered his body, making his body feel astringent, and the flow of mana between the meridians was completely blocked. Cut off, there is mana in the dantian hollow, but it can't be used anymore.After the ban, the aura turned into a matchlock slowly dissipated.

"You're really slow to deal with it." Zhang Shiping walked over with a look of disgust on his face. The man actually stripped a female cultivator clean. Low-level talismans are no match.This is not a big deal, the main reason is that after the search of this person, it seems that in order to save a fireball, he didn't even clean up the body. This is what Zhang Shiping can't see. manage?

Looking at this qi cultivator whose whole body mana has been sealed by him, since he was touching the corpse and taking off his pants just now, he has rushed from the top of the mountain to the peach forest, "But the technique is quite skilled, and the life in his hand should not Less?"

Ke Xizeng looked at Zhang Shiping who was approaching step by step. He was dripping with cold sweat. After a few bluish-red spiritual energy beads entered his body, he found that he could no longer mobilize even a single bit of magic power. Hearing the senior's emotionless words, he felt Lamenting that he was unlucky, "Senior misunderstood, it was she who attacked the junior first, and I was forced to fight back. You see such a big hole in my back, I almost died. I hope the senior will learn from you, little girl!" People are really helpless.”

Chapter 129 Disciple of Ke Family

Ke Xizeng's tone was extremely resolute. If people who don't know the origin of the matter heard what he said, they might have preconceived beliefs in their hearts.

However, Zhang Shiping didn't come here to meet the injustice, he just came to ask for directions, and within the range of his spiritual consciousness of nearly twenty miles, these two Qi refining period monks were the closest.

Even though these two Qi Refining Stage cultivators were fighting with each other, Zhang Shiping, a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator, naturally did not take them seriously.If the opponent is a foundation-building cultivator, then Zhang Shiping has to consider whether to get involved.

Zhang Shiping glanced at him, "Is there a place called Taohuafang City nearby?" Zhang Shiping ignored him, and asked himself. He came here to ask where Taohuafang City is.

"Yes, yes." Ke Xizeng nodded again and again, "Senior, I have a jade slip of the map here in my storage bag, please remove my restriction so that I can find the jade slip for senior."

"No need, you can throw it here yourself." Zhang Shiping said calmly, pointing to the gray cloth storage bag on his waist, "By the way, the golden storage bag in your arms doesn't seem to be yours, right? .”