Winter goes and spring comes, time flies, and there is no time in cultivation. Three years have passed in a flash.
In the east, thousands of miles away from the Wuliang Sect, there is a huge imperial city. This imperial city is hundreds of miles wide and extremely prosperous, with groups of buildings that are grand and sacred.
The most exquisite building and the one that occupies the largest area here is not the imperial palace, but a sword sect in the east of the city, which is full of pavilions, towers and huge palaces.
If you want to walk from the entrance of the Sword Sect to the back of the Sword Sect, you need to ride on the main road for half a day before you can arrive.
The Sword Sect is divided into the Outer Sword Academy and the Inner Sword Pavilion. It is a world-famous place where sword practitioners gather. It has a name in the world - the Ten-Step Academy, and is also one of the four major immortal gates in the Desolate Moon Continent.
At this time, in a huge palace in Shibuyuan, three people were sitting together.
A middle-aged cultivator in green robes, a young monk, and an old Taoist priest in purple robes. Each of them exuded a powerful aura. They were still three Jindan cultivators.
The middle-aged monk in green robes sitting at the top was about forty years old, with a square face, sword-like brows, and a righteous demeanor. There was a slight fluctuation of sword energy on his body, and he had reached the late Jindan stage of cultivation. His eyes were sweeping over the other two people.
"I didn't expect that the people who came to our academy were Master Yiye and Immortal Hanglin. I am a little surprised, haha..."
Upon hearing this, the young monk clasped his hands together and nodded slightly.
"Pure Land Sect Yiye has met Xiaquan Sword King!"
The monk had a clean face, clear eyebrows and eyes, and a pair of black and white eyes. He was of medium build, wearing a green cassock, and had the cultivation level of the middle stage of the golden elixir. However, he did not show any spiritual power fluctuations when he sat there, but looked like an ordinary monk in a temple in the mortal world, with a humble and gentle demeanor.
The old Taoist priest also saluted with one hand when he saw this.
"Xiaquan Sword King, your inner sword actually came forward from your academy, which shows how seriously you take this matter. I came from the Taixuan Sect to assist the Shibu Academy and the Pure Land Sect, but if you give me any instructions, I will fully cooperate."
The old Taoist priest had a skinny figure, with extremely smooth white hair that was faintly silvery and tied in a Taoist knot on top of his head. His face was ruddy, and his eyes were bright and sharp, making him look a bit slick. It turned out that he was also in the late Jindan stage of cultivation.
After hearing this, Master Yiye nodded slightly and chanted a Buddhist name to show his humility.
The middle-aged blue-robed monk from the Ten-Step Courtyard smiled slightly and thought to himself.
"Tai Xuan Sect sent you here just to get more benefits. You are a cunning person, and everyone knows that.
As a famous Taoist family, you don't have the slightest bit of clean and proud spirit. You said you would assist us and cooperate with us fully! I think you are afraid that if something happens, if we investigate it in the future, it will be the responsibility of our Shibuyuan and the Pure Land Sect, right? "
Xiaquan Sword King thought so in his heart, but he laughed.
“We are one branch inside and outside our sect, regardless of strength. I came here only because other brothers were busy.
What Immortal Hanglin said is quite modest. The three sects asked you and me to discuss this matter, which of course represents the intentions of the three sects.
Next year is the fifteen-year secret realm harvest period, but since ancient times, the Wuliang Sect has always used various evil poisons to gain the upper hand. Not only has a small half of the resources been taken by them, but many of our elite foundation-building disciples have also died."
Hearing the middle-aged monk in green robes say this, the skinny Taoist priest's expression became serious.
“Xiaquan Sword King is absolutely right. The Wuliang Sect relied on its special skills to strike at our three sects without mercy, causing a lot of loss to the foundation-building elites that the Shibuyuan and Pure Land Sect had painstakingly cultivated.
Because of our skills, our Taixuan sect prefers the Lotus Platform Pure Fight, and we often fall into their traps, resulting in heavy casualties. This behavior is truly despicable."
When the middle-aged Confucian scholar heard this, he felt disdainful in his heart.
"Your Taixuan Sect's Taoist practice is so upright? Are our Jian Sect and Buddhist Sect not worthy of being on the stage? People in the cultivation world should stop using these to fool people. Who among them is a so-called gentleman?"
Monk Yiye clasped his hands together at this time.
"Amitabha, it is my duty to eliminate demons and defend the Way."
The middle-aged monk in green robes nodded with a smile.
"Then we should start the rest of the year like this..."
Having said this, his lips moved slightly, but no sound could be heard anymore. In this backyard of the Ten-Step Courtyard with many restrictions, he was so careful and used the secret method of transmitting sound.
The monk and the Taoist priest listened and discussed the matter using the sound transmission method.
… …
Li Yan opened his eyes from his practice, with a gleam of light in his eyes.
Over the past three years, he has been practicing hard day and night, and his cultivation has reached the seventh level of Qi Condensation. His progress is really rapid, which is probably due to the special nature of the Guishui Sutra.
In addition, the cultivation resources provided by the sect also benefited him greatly. Every month, he received five more low-level spirit stones than the outer disciples of the same level, and two bottles of "Spiritual Enhancement Pills" were even more helpful to him.
Needless to say, whenever he practiced immortal arts, he would quickly use the spirit stones to replenish the lost magic power, which greatly reduced the time needed to recover through meditation and practice.
What cultivators lack is time. Their lifespan before they build their foundation is no different from that of ordinary people, and they must constantly fight for it.
He would take one Shengling Pill before practicing the Guishui Sutra each time. It would make his magic power much purer after one cycle. This would make it possible to achieve the effect that would originally take two cycles to achieve in one cycle, thus improving the efficacy.
In terms of immortal arts, the "Fireball Technique" and "Wind Blade Technique" have reached the late stage of minor success, the "Quicksand Technique" has been practiced to the great success, and the "Cloud and Rain Technique" and the newly learned "Wind Binding Technique" and "Air Flying Technique" have also been practiced to the middle stage of minor success.
There are twelve kinds of fragmented toxins, and he has mastered the use of each one, but if he wants to use them in combination, he can simply combine three or four of them.
After Li Yan finished his training, he did not stand up. He continued to sit cross-legged and look inward with his spiritual consciousness.
The five spiritual power tanks in the Dantian Purple Mansion have increased five or six times compared to three years ago. Currently, the spiritual energy in the three spiritual power tanks of water, wood and fire is flowing, and the spiritual energy has become a semi-water vapor state.
When everything is finally transformed into liquid like water, that is the day when the foundation is successfully built.
However, the two spiritual energy tanks of earth and gold were still empty. He had actually cultivated to the middle seventh level of the Qi Condensation Stage.
Looking at the spiritual power in the form of water vapor, Li Yan's heart moved, and the five elements of magic power started to work instantly. The spiritual power in the first three tanks began to restrain each other and slowly poured into the earth and gold tanks. This infusion was not a natural generation of spiritual power tanks during cultivation, but a forced generation.
After a moment, Li Yan's aura had dropped from the middle seventh level of Qi Condensation to the early sixth level of Qi Condensation. This was exactly the method of concealing cultivation of the Guishui Sutra.
This method of concealment is not to simply divide the spiritual power of each attribute equally, so that the total power can still be seen at a glance in the eyes of advanced cultivators. After the spiritual power of the Guishui Sutra restrains each other, it can only reveal the part that it has revealed.
Li Yan was very satisfied with this concealment effect. He was not the kind of person who liked to show off.
Although he had the support of the sect's resources, given his mixed spiritual roots, three years to break through to level four was already the limit. Any more would arouse suspicion from others.
If he wasn't afraid of hiding too much and being discovered by the fat master, he would have wanted to suppress it to the early fifth level of the Qi Condensation Stage.
Over the years, Li Yan would occasionally go to the main hall to participate in Xiaozhu Peak's meetings. After all, there were only a few people coming and going from Xiaozhu Peak.
When he tried to hide his cultivation for the first time, no one reacted, including the eldest senior brother who was in the late foundation building stage. Only the fat master looked at Li Yan and said something.
"Your magical power foundation is quite good, much deeper than those of your peers!"
This made Li Yan feel like his concealment skills had been discovered, but after several attempts, he felt that if he tried his best to hide, he could easily deceive a cultivator who was one major realm higher than him.
If the opponent is more than two realms higher than oneself, unless one does not suppress him too harshly, otherwise one will end up making things worse and be exposed.
As for the ancestor in the Nascent Soul stage, he estimated that with his current cultivation strength, there was no possibility of concealing anything.
However, even in a large sect like the Wuliang Sect, there are only a few ancestors in the Nascent Soul stage, and it is common for them not to show up for hundreds of years. Who would care about a little disciple like him
Li Yan looked at the fluctuations of spiritual power in his body and felt very satisfied. Then he released his spiritual sense, which instantly penetrated the training room, then reached the courtyard wall, and finally penetrated into the formation.
In the past few years, in addition to practicing martial arts and magic, Li Yan has been extremely attentive to his fragmented poisonous body. While exploring the effects of the twelve fragmented toxins, he endured the inhuman pain of head splitting and used his spiritual consciousness to stimulate the fragmented poisonous body every day.
As a result, some of the twelve fragments of the toxin seemed to be splitting apart, and it was estimated that the other fragments could be separated in a few months.
Another benefit of torturing himself in this way is that his spiritual consciousness is now comparable to that of a cultivator who has reached the tenth level of the Qi Condensation Stage, and it has reached about thirty or forty feet away from his body.
Now the bamboo courtyard's protective formation could no longer repel his spiritual sense, and his spiritual sense could only penetrate about one foot into the formation. He had consulted many classics before he obtained the level of strength of his spiritual sense.
Li Yan withdrew his consciousness, stood up, straightened his clothes, pushed the door and walked out.
Yesterday, the badge sent a message: "The disciples in the peak will go to the main hall to discuss matters tomorrow morning!"
Li Yan now knows that if there are too few people on a mountain, there will be many disadvantages. That is, when there is something happening in the sect, only some of the main disciples from the other four peaks will participate, and they can arrange the relevant matters after returning.
But although most of the things in Xiaozhu Peak can be handled by the senior brothers and sisters, there are still many things that require the participation of all disciples. Unless you are in seclusion at a critical moment, you will not be allowed to come out.
Someone like Li Yan was only truly qualified to participate in the sect's affairs, big or small, when he reached the foundation-building stage. In the past, he just listened in silence.
However, today he happened to have something to ask several senior brothers because he did not have enough spirit stones.
Although some sects have allocated some resources to him in the past few years, after all, in the eyes of the sect, Li Yan's qualifications are just so-so, so they will not deliberately cultivate him.
As Li Yan's cultivation level improved, eight spirit stones and two bottles of spirit-raising pills a month could no longer meet his cultivation needs. The spirit-raising pills were only enough for him to use for half a month, and the spirit stones were also used sparingly.
Of course, even if he didn't use these, with the rich spiritual energy of Xiaozhu Peak and the power of Guishui Sutra, Li Yan could still practice smoothly. But once a person gets used to a certain speed of practice, it would be extremely difficult for him to adapt to slowing down.
Therefore, Li Yan has to consider more sources of spirit stones. With spirit stones, whether he uses them for cultivation or purchases of additional spirit-enhancing pills, his cultivation will improve rapidly.
If he just waited, he would have to wait until he reached the tenth level of Qi Condensation Stage and the Foundation Establishment Stage.
The sect will increase resource subsidies again for disciples at the tenth level of Qi Condensation, mainly to increase the chances of disciples successfully building their foundation; when disciples reach the Foundation Building stage, the resources will be automatically increased to the equivalent level.
In this case, Li Yan had to find a way on his own. He now knew that other ordinary disciples had already worked hard for cultivation resources, unlike him who were taken care of by the sect.
Li Yan was walking on the path leading to the main hall, thinking about his own things. When he thought about the tall girl who would always come quietly and sit on the edge of the platform on the full moon nights at the end of the year in recent years, he felt something strange in his heart.
Although the two had no agreement, the one who arrived first would always stand under the huge full moon and wait quietly, and then the two would sit on the edge of the platform at the same time.
They chatted with each other, as if they were talking to themselves, until dawn, when they left. Zhao Min never talked much about her own affairs, most of the time it was Li Yan who talked, and she listened...
As Li Yan thought about this, his smile became brighter. After a while, he arrived at the door of the main hall. He stepped in with a familiarity of the way.
"Junior brother is here. Hee, after half a year of not seeing you, your skills have become even more profound. He should have reached the sixth level of the Qi Condensation Stage!"
As soon as Li Yan entered the house, a joyful voice rang out.
Li Yan smiled slightly. The owner of the voice was naturally his seventh senior brother, Lin Daqiao, with whom he got along very well!
Li Yan glanced inside the room. There were already ten people in the room, seven men and three women. The master and his wife had not arrived yet.
Seven people were sitting, while three were standing or walking around pouring tea, all looking very comfortable and relaxed with each other.
Li Yan knew these people. The seven people sitting there were five senior brothers and two beautiful senior sisters.
Senior Brother Li Wuyi was still as handsome and sunny as ever, looking at Li Yan with a gentle smile. His aura was becoming more and more condensed, and he had reached the false elixir realm, and was only a step away from condensing the golden elixir.
Below Li Wuyi was a bear-like burly man, who was staring at Li Yan, his second senior brother Wei Chituo, with a big grin on his face.
Seeing him like this, Li Yan couldn't help but feel speechless. He was very afraid of seeing this second senior brother, who was already a master in the late foundation building stage. When he saw him, he would either challenge him to a competition or enthusiastically pat him on the shoulder with his palm, which was as thick as a bear's paw.
Every time he did this, he would grit his teeth and gasp, but he couldn't dodge it, and would get beaten in a competition.
However, I heard that the second senior brother, the fourth senior sister, and the fifth senior brother have made great progress in their cultivation, and have gradually entered the inner gate in the past few years.