longevity road trip

After hearing that, the man heaved a sigh of relief, and handed over a copy of the jade slip, "Fellow Daoist Zhang, I have a copy of the method of making the Qinghao brush. I will add ten more spirit stones to exchange for the blue eye in the hands of fellow daoist."

"Can you let me take a look first?" Zhang Shiping asked the other party. He had never heard of the first-grade Qinghao brush in the jade slips. The Zhang family handed down a production method called the golden light pen.

The opponent's palm flicked across the jade slip, and set up a small restriction to hide the content of the second half of the jade slip, so Zhang Shiping could only see a small part of the front.Zhang Shiping naturally knows this kind of trick, and it's not difficult to crack it, it mainly depends on the subtlety of the other party's arrangement. Zhang Shiping only needs a stick of incense time to crack this kind of rough restriction that has been arranged in a hurry.

Obviously it can't be done at this time.

Zhang Shiping stuck the jade slip between his eyebrows honestly, and returned the jade slip to him after a few breaths, with a smile on his face. A small handful is most suitable.

In the future, the neck hair will be the tip of the pen, and the pen holder will not be too particular. You can use white jade and green bamboo. If you want to use it for a longer time, you can forge it with red spirit copper.Zhang Shiping only saw a small part, which was the new formation pattern.

The man saw that Zhang Shiping agreed, so he untied the small restraint on the jade slip, took out ten pieces of spirit stones of different colors, and pushed them over together. Using his spiritual sense to read the content below the jade slip, he felt relieved after seeing that there was nothing missing in the formation.

Zhang Shiping's formation method is very superficial, and it is too difficult for him to verify the calculation of the entire formation method for a while.

The remaining few people each had something they liked, discussed it, and exchanged it. Zhang Shiping also exchanged some medicinal materials for making cinnabar. .

At the small exchange meeting, not everyone could get what they wanted. After the end, Zhang Shiping drove the magic weapon away, and Lin Qing went to other places with other monks for something.

He was very close to the hill where he lived. After flying for a while, he landed in his courtyard. After returning to his house, he activated the array that had been arranged. He took out the bronze lamp to see that the wick hadn't burned at all after several months. damage.

He added kerosene to light the oil lamp. Over the past few months, he had developed a habit. Under the light, his own mana would grow slowly, and once he practiced the cultivation method, it would grow even faster.

He took out the bottle containing monkey blood and the medicinal materials he exchanged, made bright red cinnabar from the half box of cinnabar, took out the yellow talisman and drew a dozen or so talismans.

It was already dark outside, an oil lamp was always on in the room, people were shaking, and there was an indescribable silence. Zhang Shiping liked this feeling very much. Changing Yuanshu", the spiritual consciousness skills above are very profound, and he carefully studied every word, and then he started to practice.

At the beginning of this spiritual consciousness exercise, it was the same as ordinary exercises, and there was nothing special about it. However, in the second half of the night, when the first layer was about to be successfully cultivated, Zhang Shiping felt like a needle was being pricked in his head. He gritted his teeth and insisted on the normal phenomenon recorded in Yuanshu, and the pain lasted for half a cup of tea.

After the first level was successful, Zhang Shiping was already sweating profusely and his face was pale. Only then did he know that the so-called spiritual consciousness technique is to first damage the spiritual consciousness and then temper it, just like a sword that has been forged a thousand times.

He didn't practice the second level again, and it was recorded in "Chang Yuan Shu" that after each practice, he had to wait three to five days to cultivate his spiritual consciousness.Zhang Shiping ran "Qingxuan Yuhuo Jue" in the middle of the night to absorb spiritual energy and refine mana.

Time passed day by day. Zhang Shiping had already practiced "Changing Yuanshu" to the fourth level in one and a half months. Without alleviating the pain, Zhang Shiping managed to successfully cultivate the fourth level. It was very painful. , but there is no feeling of soul tearing like the brother in the Tibetan scripture pavilion said.

……

And in the distant Baiyuan Mountain, in the cave, Zhang Tong'an has polished his body and mana to the best of his abilities in the past few months.

He issued two sound-transmitting talismans, which turned into two flames and disappeared outside the cave, and then opened all the formation restrictions in the cave, officially starting to break through the foundation-building period.

The head of the Zhang family and the great elder who practiced on the White Ape Mountain rushed over immediately after receiving the sound transmission talisman, and found that the cave had been restricted, so they sent a middle-aged monk in the Zhang family who was a third-level qi practitioner to wait by. All you can do is sit and wait.

It is said that my fate is up to me, but sometimes I can only resign myself to fate!

After the two left, the White Ape Mountain was still quiet, fishes were swimming, birds were singing, sika deer were chewing grass, everything in the world would not stop because of one person.

Chapter 13 Middle Grade Spirit Stone

After Zhang Shiping practiced "Changing Yuanshu" to the fourth level, he could not continue to practice because of the incompleteness of his skills.A few days later, he went to his uncle Chen Wenguang's cave, and was told by the guard boy that the master had been away for more than a month, and he didn't say when he would come back.

He originally wanted to ask about the fire room, but he had no choice but to give up when he was away. After Zhang Shiping went back, he asked some old disciples of the sect who had been in the sect for a long time.

It turns out that the ground fire room is under the fire peak. There are three fire peaks in Zhengyang Sect, which are scattered in different places of the sect. The one in the northwest is called Chili Peak, the one in the south is called Gunan Mountain, and the one in the southeast is called Qingyue Mountain. .

Zhang Shiping inquired about it from an old man with a gray shirt and a yellow face. He has been in the house for more than [-] years, and he is now in his seventies. He is on duty in a herb garden and is very good at taking care of herbs. Talk about the past.

Thinking about how it was at the beginning, Zhang Shiping responded with a smile, "um, ah, um", and waited for the old man to say that his mouth was dry, and then handed over the already brewed tea. The only bud picked after the drizzle has an excellent taste in the mouth. The old man said that Zhang Shiping drank tea like a cow drinking water, and wasted his best tea in vain.

Zhang Shiping laughed, looking skinny and shameless.

Maybe the old man liked Zhang Shiping more, plus he was alone in the sect, he had no son but a daughter, no spiritual roots, the old man found a good family in the secular world, betrothed his daughter to someone else, and lived a good life. One son and two daughters, the old man said that he was very happy when he received the letter at that time.

Unfortunately, his grandson doesn't have spiritual roots either. The old man was a little depressed when he talked about these things. Zhang Shiping wanted to comfort him, but the old man smiled and said that he had already seen it. More than ten years ago, when I practiced the ninth level of Qi, I was afraid of death, so I didn't dare to build a foundation. Now that I am old and my body is declining, it is even more impossible to build a foundation.

The old man heard that Zhang Shiping wanted to go to the ground fire room, as if he was looking at a desperate fool, "The ground fire room is tens of feet below the fire peak, and the underground fire lava is brought up. Don't think that there is a high-level formation there." The guardian of the law can sit back and relax, there was a problem with the Huofeng of Qingyue Mountain more than [-] years ago, fortunately the news spread in time, Wang Patriarch took action to re-strengthen the formation."

The old man felt palpitations when he said it, the reason was that he had accepted the mission of the sect to be on duty in the fire room, and he was the one who passed on the news.

Zongmen rewarded him with a sum of spirit stones, and then he applied elsewhere, and then came to this Baicao Garden, and it took almost 30 years to do it.

"It's hard to say about the formation, and no one can say for sure. The terrible thing about the underground fire room is the fire poison. Even if there is a Bingxin Dan every month, the fire poison will still penetrate into the bone marrow over time." The old man stared at Zhang Shiping, " Otherwise, why do you think that the disciples guarding Earth Fire will be changed every year?"

After talking for a while, Zhang Shiping had a basic understanding of the fire room in his heart. Under the watchful eyes of the old man, Zhang Shiping drove the flying magic weapon away.

……

Zhang Shiping flew towards the Zongmen Foreign Affairs Hall in mid-air, and landed on the side of a mountain called Qianyue Mountain. There is no air-forbidden formation on this mountain. Zhang Shiping saw many disciples of the outer sect who used flying magic weapons stay here. He also followed down.

Here is a circular stone platform with about half an acre of land. There are two huge stone pillars standing on the edge of the stone platform, each carved with a dragon with teeth and claws, coiled on the pillars.

Zhang Shiping walked through the carved dragon pillars and walked all the way to the end. In front of him was a large courtyard. Two parallel rows of tall trees were planted on the square in front of him. Stairs, two vermilion doors nearly three feet high have been opened.

After Zhang Shiping went in, he turned around along the corridor, and asked several people in the middle, making himself dizzy, and finally found the steward in charge of the tasks of the outer disciples in a room.

There are quite a few people in the Zhengyang Sect. Apart from the servant disciples, the outer sect disciples account for a large part. The daily work is extremely complicated. The sect has twelve outer sect stewards, and several of them are old foundation-building monks. There are also senior Qi training nine-level monks.

That person is a middle-aged monk with a square face who has practiced Qi at the ninth level. Sitting there, he has a feeling of calmness and prestige. Hearing that Xiuxian was a prince in the secular world, the education he received is naturally unusual. Zhang Shiping is ranked eighth. Behind the person, the square-faced monk handled things neatly, and it was Zhang Shiping's turn after a while.

Zhang Shiping handed over the outer disciple's token, explaining that he wanted to ground the fire room, any fire peak would do.

The square-faced monk took the token and checked Zhang Shiping's information. He saw that he had been in the field for less than half a year, and he was applying for the task of the underground fire chamber. After a few glances, his application was approved and the information was recorded on the token.

He gave Zhang Shiping a jade slip, and returned the token to Zhang Shiping, and told him to come to the Foreign Affairs Hall to find him in half a month.

……

Zhengyang Peak, this fourth-level spiritual mountain, is the place where high-ranking monks of the Zongmen discuss matters.

Chang Younian, a slender figure, looks about thirty, looks very bookish, he is 360 years old this year, has been the head of the Zhengyang Sect for 57 years, the entire Zhengyang Sect He only takes care of things in an orderly manner, and he also coordinates the relationship between all peaks and veins well, without bias.

A few days ago, he sent ten foundation-building monks to investigate the appearance of spirit stones in the cloud iron mine. Today, two foundation-building monks from the sect rushed back to the sect together, and they took out the piece he was playing with. Snow white Lingshi.

He has already summoned other Jindan monks from the sect to come to the main hall. A middle-grade ice-type spirit stone is worthless, but if there is a medium-grade ice-type spirit stone vein, it will definitely attract the coveted eyes of various sects.

Chen Wenguang and other ten disciples opened the formation as soon as they passed, and sent miners to dig deep for three days. They dug forty feet under a cloud iron mine, found a small piece of spirit stone mine, and obtained more than a dozen There are middle-grade spirit stones of ice attribute and hundreds of low-grade spirit stones.They didn't know how much of the previous news had been leaked, so the ten of them discussed together and sent three monks who were good at escapism in the middle and late stages of foundation building.

The three separated and hurried on their way in the middle of the night. After a few days, they didn't want to be the only two who returned to Zhengyangzong.

When Chang Younian was thinking about this matter, four people entered the hall one after another.The first one was a short, fat man with a big belly and a beard. The second one was a nine-foot tall man with dark complexion and short hair. It was the Jindan monk named Ma Hua that Zhang Shiping had seen at the Ascension Fair.

The two people who came in from behind, one was wearing a colorful fairy skirt, a beautiful female nun who looked twenty-eight years old, and the other was a hunchbacked old man with gray hair, leaning on a bare wooden stick, falling on the ground. Last.

Chapter 14 Discussion

In the middle of the main hall is a three-legged statue furnace with a cylinder-like body and a slightly protruding mouth, echoing the raised string patterns on the body, emitting light smoke and a faint sandalwood fragrance.

The short and fat monk who came in first was called Xu Youdan, and he sat down on the futon. Ma Hua chose a futon and sat down cross-legged. He straightened his waist, and was different from Xu Youdan's loose appearance. He usually has a free and easy temper, but on this occasion it will be more formal .

Xu Youdan, the Jindan cultivator, picked up the spiritual fruit in front of him and swallowed it, and then asked, "What's the matter with the sect master calling the brothers in such a hurry?"

"Senior brother, what's the matter?" The Jindan female cultivator named Xie Ping who came in wearing a colorful fairy dress, sat down gracefully and asked softly.The monk on crutches who fell at the back sat down and didn't speak, looking at Chang Younian, who was sitting at the top.

There are still two Jindan period monks of Zhengyangzong, but one of them is refining a furnace of alchemy in retreat, and the other is guarding a vein of spiritual stone in the sect, and they never leave easily.

After everyone was seated, he said, "Brothers, please take a look, this is an ice-attribute spirit stone dug out of the Yuntie vein."

With Chang Younian's magic power, he pinched the medium-grade ice-attribute spirit stone in his hand, and the misty white ice mist burst like a silver bottle. A layer of frost condensed in Chang Younian's hand, and the temperature in the hall suddenly dropped a lot.

But the Jindan cultivators in the field have already experienced the refining of evil spirits in the foundation building period, and they are not invaded by cold and heat.

There was ice-type aura in this bit of cold air, and the few Jindan cultivators present breathed it lightly, and there was not even a bit of ice aura left.

"This is a middle-grade ice spirit stone." Xie Ping, the golden elixir nun wearing a flowing fairy dress, said in surprise.She is an ice-attribute spirit root, and majoring in ice-attribute exercises has always had a great demand for ice spirit stones. In the past, when there were not enough spirit stones of this kind of alien attribute, she could only make do with other spirit stones and refine them. The aura in the spirit stone, and then turn the aura into its own mana.

Since it is not the same kind of aura, she has to spend a lot of effort when refining her mana.

The different spirit root is the spirit root outside the five elements, and the three kinds of wind, thunder and ice are the most common.

Chang Younian specially called this junior sister because she is an ice-type Golden Core cultivator. After guarding this ice-type spirit stone mine, she will benefit the most, so naturally she has to make a move.

……

They discussed two cups of tea together, set the tone of the matter, and stopped procrastinating. The Jindan female cultivator was ordered by the head, and disappeared into the distance as soon as she left the hall. After a while, she returned The Lingshan where his own cave is located.

With a wave of her bare hand, a ball of fire rose in the air, exploded in mid-air, and turned into 27 streamers of light. Many foundation-building monks near the mountain peak received the sound transmission amulet. No one dared to be negligent, and immediately put down what they were doing , driving the flying magic weapon to come, the mana in the foundation building period is not much thicker than Zhang Shiping, the speed of driving the flying magic weapon is much faster, and it will arrive soon.

"Thank you, uncle."

There are foundation-building monks, men and women, young and old. Some of the flying instruments are in the shape of leaves, some are small boats, and some are green leather gourds the size of a person. Ping saluted and said hello.

After all the 27 foundation-building monks arrived, Jindan sister Xie Ping slapped it in her storage bag, and a seven-foot-wide silver ribbon changed from three feet long to nearly twenty feet long, with a dusty glow. The spiritual light rolled up the crowd, soared into the sky, and disappeared into the sky in a blink of an eye.

……

For a newcomer disciple like Zhang Shiping, he must not know the movements of the Patriarch Jindan of the Zongmen, he practiced day after day.

Half a month passed in a blink of an eye, so he went out once to listen to the lectures of the Foundation Establishment cultivator. This time, he was lucky. The person who came was a Foundation Establishment cultivator who was proficient in fire magic. marvel.

Half a month later, on that day, Zhang Shiping drove the flying magic weapon out early in the morning, went straight to the Foreign Affairs Hall, and found the square-faced steward.

He was writing big characters with a pen, and Zhang Shiping didn't dare to disturb him. Zhang Shiping didn't go over until he finished writing. With a little smile.

The square-faced monk took out a light red jade tablet with a mountain peak engraved on the front and the word 'Chili' written on the back from the storage bag. Zhang Shiping felt that the jade tablet was warm and moist, and it was made of high-quality warm jade.

There is also a snow-white elixir in a jade bottle called Bing Xin Dan.

"Junior Brother Zhang, this is Chili Peak's token. Later, the deacon of the sect will take you there to hand over the work of guarding the ground fire room." The square-faced deacon called over a disciple who was in the middle of Qi training, and asked him to take Zhang Shiping, "Remember to come to me every month to receive a Bing Xin Dan."

As soon as the deacon disciple in the mid-stage of Qi training came out of the Foreign Affairs Hall, the two of them drove the flying magic weapon and flew in midair. Chili Peak was in the northwest direction. At first, the deacon didn't have much to say. Start asking questions.

What he asked was not something personal, but Zhang Shiping babbled along the way, and Zhang Shiping endured it, and in the end he could only go in the left ear and out the right ear.

After the two arrived at Chili Peak, the deacon disciple was very familiar with the road here, and he took Zhang Shiping to run in the forest. Zhang Shiping thought that Chili Peak was a crimson stone peak, after all, it was also called Huofeng.

The two of them stopped in a bamboo forest and shot an orange fireball. It was a formation that appeared in front of the bamboo forest and wiped out the fireball.There is a two-story bamboo building inside, built in front of the cliff and stone wall, with two black stone doors that have been opened wide.

In the bamboo building, an old man who was holding a rattan medicinal material rushed out angrily. When he saw this deacon, he immediately opened the formation and scolded his head and face: "You son of a bitch, you can't use the sound transmission talisman when you come here!" , I have to bombard you with a fireball, let’s see if I don’t kill you.” As he spoke, he threw the cane at him.

The deacon yelled, "I'm the grandson of a turtle, so you're an old turtle."

The old man hit him ten or so times, maybe he saw Zhang Shiping waiting at the side, and he was afraid of making his family scandal public, so he stopped.

The deacon touched the outside of his whipped thigh and said a few words to the old man, and then introduced to Zhang Shiping, "This old man is the mountain guard of Chili Peak, if you find any problems in the ground fire room, you can send him a voice transmission. "

"Meet the seniors."

Zhang Shiping also thought that since Chili Peak already had a mountain guard in the foundation building period, why did he recruit a qi training disciple like himself to guard the ground fire chamber formation.Turning around and thinking again, which foundation cultivator is willing to guard the formation underground all the time.

The deacon swaggered into the bamboo building, and the old man led Zhang Shiping into the black gate, Zhang Shiping felt a wave of enthusiasm as soon as he entered.

Behind the stone gate is a downward-sloping cave stone path, the old man led Zhang Shiping straight down, in front of a stone gate, the old man took out an ancient token and read the formula silently, a black light shot out like a flying arrow, and the stone gate burst open.

The old man stepped in without hesitation, and Zhang Shiping followed closely behind. Inside was a huge space excavated manually. In the middle was a black stone path that could be driven by four horses side by side. There were eighteen stone chambers on each side.

Zhang Shiping looked all the way and found that most of the stone gates were open, and only a few were closed and guarded by formations.Along the way, three or four qi training disciples came forward to pay respects when they saw the old man.

In the end, after the old man left Zhang Shiping in the last stone room, a middle-aged man had already packed up his things. After the handover, he rushed out of the ground like a wild horse.

Chapter 15

Zhang Shiping followed the old man into the stone room. The walls and the ground of the stone room are made of black stones. This black stone is a kind of ore mixed with various metals mined from the lava underground when Zhengyangzong opened up the fire peak. It is dark brown.

The entire room is about three quarters in size, and in the middle is the formation core of the entire Chili Peak. The lines in the floating light of the round arch appear and disappear from time to time, and there are constantly red streamers emerging. The earth fire lava is constantly bubbling and rising under the stone well with a radius of three feet.

From here, the ground fire was diverted by the formation, leading to the 36 stone chambers.

Zhang Shiping stretched out his hand to lightly touch the black stone, but it was only slightly hot. He was very surprised. One foot below was the lava ground fire. The flame on the lava was pale, and the temperature was unknown.

"Don't touch the formation casually, and notify me in time if you have any problems." The old man said lightly.

In the ground fire room, there are handy disciples who bring meals every day, and Zhang Shiping successfully entered the sixth level of Qi training after half a month in the stone room.

The Chili Peak formation has been relatively stable for a year, and Zhang Shiping's luck is not that bad.

Spring goes to autumn, and almost a year has passed without knowing it.Except for two days at the end of each month, he went to the Foreign Affairs Hall to collect Lingshi and Bingxin Dan, and went to the market to buy enough lamp oil for two or three years, and he spent the rest of his time practicing.

Two of the four on-duty disciples outside have been replaced, and two newcomers have arrived.

The four of them also talked about Zhang Shiping when they were bored. They still don't know what Zhang Shiping's name is.

If it hadn't been for an uncle from the Foundation Establishment Stage who came to the ground fire room to look for someone last month, they would have thought this person was dumb.

Chen Wenguang came over to persuade him to leave the ground fire room early, and he would go to the Foreign Affairs Hall and send someone to replace him.

Zhang Shiping didn't agree, Chili Peak is full of fire-type aura here, with the help of the bronze lamp, he is now only a little short of the seventh level of Qi training, and he still feels that within the range of the bronze lamp's flame, the fire poison in his body The amount accumulated over the years is very small, and only one Bing Xin Dan can clean up the fire poison in his body for three months.

Chen Wenguang's coming here to persuade him is one of them, the main thing is to bring him good news, his father Zhang Tong'an succeeded in building the foundation.

At the last moment of foundation establishment, Zhang Tong'an tried his best to build the foundation with all his might, and succeeded in building the foundation dangerously. three years.

Zhang Tong'an didn't mention this matter to Zhang Shiping in the jade slips, and Chen Wenguang naturally didn't reveal anything about it. After Zhang Shiping read the content on the jade slips, the boulder that had been hanging on his heart for a long time also fell to the ground.