The flames burned the wind thorns, but the fire helped the wind, so the speed and power of the wind thorns increased instead of decreased.
The Red Flame Horse was terrified and furious, and tried to block the wind thorns with a wall of fire, but it was in vain.
The wind thorns pierced through the wall of fire, fiercely piercing the body of the Red Flame Horse and nailing it.
Xu Chunniang took the opportunity to cast several lightning spells, which exploded towards the injured part of his body.
In a short period of time, the situation on the battle changed dramatically. Dozens of wounds of varying sizes appeared on the Red Flame Horse's body, and it soon fell to the ground due to exhaustion and excessive bleeding.
Just as he was about to take advantage of the victory, a white light flashed and the Red Flame Horse that was lying on the ground disappeared.
What appeared next was the entrance to the fifth floor.
Xu Chunniang breathed a sigh of relief. This level was actually not that difficult. The test should be on magic.
However, when facing the Red Flame Horse, which is naturally good at fire, due to common sense, most people will use water and ice methods to fight against it, thus falling into a passive position.
If you want to break the impasse, you have to find another way.
Xu Chunniang sat cross-legged with her eyes closed, meditating to restore her spiritual energy. It took her two full days to replenish all the spiritual energy that had been consumed in her body.
She stood up and looked towards the entrance. She had already experienced gold, wood, water and fire. Next, it was the turn of earth.
I wonder what will greet her on the fifth floor
Xu Chunniang stepped in, but the next second, she lost consciousness and fell into endless darkness.
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There was a drizzle in the sky, and in an inconspicuous corner next to the stove, there was a huge stone.
From time to time, people would come here to refine spiritual ores, make fires, and refine weapons, but that huge rock seemed to have nothing to do with this furnace.
Occasionally, when a spiritual weapon becomes dull, someone would polish the dull spiritual weapon on the boulder.
It turns out that the boulder is a grindstone.
After Xu Chunniang regained consciousness, she found herself turned into a whetstone.
To be precise, her soul was imprisoned in this stone.
She tried to release her spiritual consciousness, but found that the sea of consciousness in her soul was empty, without a trace of spiritual consciousness.
During the days when she was trapped on the stone, Xu Chunniang tried various methods but was unable to get out of it.
She couldn't remember what she had been through and why she had fallen to this point.
But at this moment, a voice in her heart told her that all this was just a dream.
As long as she wanted, she could escape from this dream at any time.
Xu Chunniang did not do as she was told. Monks usually sleep little and have no dreams, so she did not believe this was a dream.
It must be some kind of restriction that trapped her soul in the stone.
After turning into stone, her life seemed to become as long as the stone.
Every day, there is nothing to do except listening to the sounds of refining equipment around me, and my consciousness becomes more and more chaotic.
Until one day, a rusty spiritual knife was constantly polishing her body, which made her shudder and regain her consciousness.
A stone sharpens a knife, and a knife sharpens a stone.
It hurt a lot, as if her soul was being cut directly.
The voice in her heart appeared again, telling her that as long as she wanted, she could leave the dream and get rid of the pain immediately.
If she doesn't leave, she will die sooner or later.
Xu Chunniang did not say anything, but endured the pain silently. She regained consciousness in the pain and continued to persevere.
It didn't take long for her to discover that during the process of sharpening the spiritual weapon, the "restriction" seemed to loosen.
But this degree of looseness was very small and her soul could not escape.
The days that followed were an endless cycle. Every time her consciousness became blurred, the spiritual weapon would sharpen the knife, bringing her pain while making her clear-headed.
As the "restriction" was cracked, the voice in her heart became less and less frequent as she persisted.
In the end, it may even disappear for a long time.
As time went by, the originally huge boulder gradually became much smaller.
Until one day, when it was no longer convenient to use and was thrown outside the furnace, exposed to the sun and rain, the sound reappeared.
"Give up, it's just a dream."
“This is not a dream.”
Xu Chunniang responded to the voice in her heart. Although she didn't know why this happened, it was definitely not a dream.
Unfortunately, the "restriction" was almost broken.
It was at this moment that she was thrown out.
"It's meaningless to persist like this. Your consciousness will disappear completely sooner or later."
No point? Maybe.
Then just hold on until the day your consciousness fades away.
Without a spiritual weapon to sharpen her knife, she could only use her original spirit to desperately hit the cracks in the restriction.
Her consciousness became more and more confused day by day, and she even forgot many things. She just mechanically repeated this one thing every day.
The crack became bigger and bigger due to her continuous impact day and night.
The voice in my heart spoke again: "If you don't leave now, you will completely lose consciousness and turn into real stone."
"Really? There's nothing wrong with turning into stone. Rocks are solid, and this is a kind of eternity. But I think I won't be able to experience this kind of eternity for the time being."
She responded to the voice in her heart and rushed towards the growing crack with all her strength.
There was a "crack" sound, like something breaking, and then the rocks cracked open, and Xu Chunniang finally escaped.
Just as she was escaping from the predicament, she remembered that she was in the Seven Star Tower and could not help but look around.
There were no furnaces or stones to be seen anywhere. Only an entrance to the sixth floor slowly appeared.
It turns out that everything that just happened was just an illusion.
It seemed like many years passed in the illusion, but in reality it was only a few days.
Feeling the long-lost freedom, Xu Chunniang felt calm and had some insights.
The primordial spirit has the heart of Tao, and the rocks are like its shell. They protect the primordial spirit while also imprisoning it, making the heart of Tao dependent on it.
The spiritual weapon of sharpening the knife is like a catastrophe, which brings pain and destruction while allowing the heart of Tao to remain calm and clear, so that it can continue to move forward.
Her heart is like a rock and cannot be changed.
Just as Xu Chunniang had this thought, the Taoist platform in her body began to vibrate continuously and actually shrank by three points.
After the Taotai shrank, it stabilized and returned to silence.
Xu Chunniang seemed to be thinking about something. She had seen some records in the Sutra Library.
After building the foundation, one can build a Taoist platform. With each level of improvement in cultivation, the Taoist platform will be higher.
After reaching the great perfection of foundation building, the Dao platform is built high, and then one needs to refine the Dao platform and condense the golden elixir.
When the quality of the Daotai is the same, the larger the Daotai is, the more difficult it is to condense the golden elixir.
On the contrary, the smaller the Dao platform is, the more conducive it is to forming the elixir.
However, the size of the Taoist platform is generally fixed, and only a very few skills can change its size.
Xu Chunniang guessed that the changes in the Taoist platform in her body might be related to her progress in Taoism.
Only when the mind is upright and stable can it be helpful for spiritual practice.
This fifth level of trial tests one’s heart of Tao.
She looked towards the entrance to the sixth floor, walked forward, and soon her figure disappeared into it.
As soon as I entered the sixth floor, I felt the hurricane blowing on my body.