The night shrouded the Changling Mausoleum, the stars were shining, and hoarfrost began to form in the mountains, as if the hoarfrost was condensed by the falling starlight.
Ding Ning was lying on a simple hammock made of rattan, but he didn't feel cold at all.
On weekdays, the wind and snow he experienced in Wutongluo wine shop was colder than the cold air in late autumn.
He has a certain understanding of many cultivation methods of Han, Zhao, and Wei, but he also doesn't know much about the cultivation methods and pills of some non-mainstream and small sects with different paths.
However, the Huang Ting Golden Pill from a small sect that Nangong picked today gave him a great surprise.
He closed his eyes tightly, contemplating inwardly, constantly refining the medicinal power filling his body.
From the flesh and blood in his body, countless small silkworms also seemed to quietly drill out, slowly devouring the miscellaneous ingredients in the medicinal power that are extremely harmful to practitioners.
Because the devouring was extremely slow and gentle, his whole body was completely quiet.
Even the miscellaneous ingredients in the true energy that have been integrated into the flesh and blood are slowly swallowed up.
As time slowly passed, the remaining medicinal power in Ding Ning's body became more and more pure, even to a level of purity that even the top-grade pills of the strongest Nanyang Danzong in the past could not achieve.
The extremely pure medicine qi and the extremely pure true qi slowly merged, and the true qi in his sea of qi became thicker and heavier.
The strands of true energy that flowed out from his sea of energy penetrated many fascias in his body that were impenetrable before, and continuously seeped into his bones.
This is the middle-grade Bone Cutting of the Second Qi Refining Realm.
What Nangong Caishu said was correct, this Huangting Golden Pill was indeed enough for a low-level qi refining practitioner to break through to the mid-level qi refining cultivation base, but at this moment, Ding Ning's cultivation base still did not stop.
After being devoured by countless "little silkworms" in his body, some of the beneficial medicinal effects that were tightly combined with the miscellaneous and unfavorable medicinal effects were also washed out, and the medicinal effects of this Huang Ting Jin Dan were utilized to the maximum.
At this moment, there is still a lot of extremely pure medicinal energy in his body.
So he continued refining.
The zhenqi that has become more condensed and heavy has penetrated deeper, infiltrating and nourishing the places that even consciousness could not reach before.
The night gradually passed.
When the first morning light fell on the top of the mountain, the last medicinal power in his body also disappeared, and the consciousness stayed in front of the marrow river inside the bone that the practitioner said.
It is only a little distance away from the second level of top-rank marrow replacement.
Ding Ning opened his eyes, faced the rising sun, and took a deep breath of fresh air.
He is very satisfied with the progress of his cultivation, or he is very satisfied with the progress of the cultivation under his control.
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According to the rules, you can start your journey in the middle of the night, but this is not the third day to decide the outcome. It is meaningless to rush forward for a while, and in the dark night, there is no one knows how many murderous intentions are hidden in this magic circle.
Therefore, all the students who still have the qualifications to continue the trial chose to act after sunrise.
A disciple of the Ivy Sword Academy was roasting a skylark, and there were some shriveled wild oranges beside him. These were obviously breakfasts he had prepared for himself.
However, at this moment, his body suddenly stiffened, and he quickly stood up, his right hand falling on the long sword at his waist.
"I advise you not to draw your sword."
With this cold voice, Su Qin's figure slowly pierced through the mist on one side.
"Especially when I don't necessarily want to use my sword against you."
He looked at the disciple of the Ivy Sword Academy, and slowly added: "If I remember correctly, you should be called Shixia, and you are also the latest disciple from Changshan County. You use the Qingshuang Sword. The cultivation base of Qi Zhongpin. You can get here and spend this long night, and your performance is considered good, but you can't be my opponent."
The fear and shock in the eyes of this young Ivy Sword Academy disciple who seemed to be slightly taller than Ding Ning was even stronger.
He is just the most common disciple in the Ivy Sword Academy. It is unexpected that ordinary people in Baiyang Cave can notice his existence and remember his name, but Su Qin not only remembers his name, but also He clearly remembered his background and cultivation realm, and Su Qin's extensive knowledge was firmly memorized, which was exactly the same as the one in the legend.
"I'm Shixia." He swallowed hard, trying to calm himself down: "But I don't understand what it means that Senior Brother Su Qin appeared in front of me and didn't want to use his sword against me. It's Senior Brother Su Qin who thinks my cultivation is , isn't it worth your sword?"
Su Qin smiled slightly, shook his head, and said, "I mean you may have a better choice."
Tokia looked at the skylark whose side was charred black because it hadn't been turned over, and asked, "What choice?"
"According to the rules of the sword sacrifice trial, there must be more than one battle every day. You should not have experienced any battle today." Su Qin said lightly: "The choice I give you is to fight with me or fight with me. Fight against Ding Ning who is not too far from here. You should understand that he has just refined his Qi, and you are very likely to defeat him. I can even guarantee that you will be able to approach him smoothly."
Shi Xia was taken aback, looked up at Su Qin in disbelief, and said in astonishment: "Why..."
"There are many reasons for wanting a person to quit, but I don't think I need to explain too much to you." Su Qin glanced at him and said, "You just need to make your choice, and the choice will be defeated by my sword immediately. Or defeat him and get more trial time. Because disciples like you, the meaning of participating in this kind of trial is to gain more experience."
"What exactly does Su Qin want to do?"
Xie Changsheng, who was still a little sleepy, looked at the situation in the Jianjian Canyon, blinked hard, and asked in a cold voice.
"This is the way to chase the beast."
Xie Rou glanced at him, frowned and explained softly: "Some hunters in Berkshire hunt and often catch prey that exceeds their strength by several times. They just surround some hills or river valleys and drive some wild beasts. Some are ferocious. The wild beasts are forced to meet each other, and they will kill each other. Su Qin was restrained by Zhang Yi, unable to make a move, so he chose to restrain Zhang Yi, and then forced others to fight with Ding Ning."
Xie Changsheng's face suddenly changed, and he couldn't help cursing: "This person is really shameless."
"Soldiers are cunning, and the fittest survive." Xu Heshan beside him said solemnly: "In addition to strength, this kind of trial itself is also a competition of tactics. Although Su Qin is a bit shameless, he is indeed the same as the legendary Same, quick wit, quick change.”
Seeing Shixia getting closer to Ding Ning, Xie Rou frowned more and more tightly, but for some reason, Ding Ning today gave her a very different taste from yesterday.
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Ding Ning was also chewing a few slices of orange petals.
There are many wild orange trees in this mountain forest, and it is not too far from the season when these wild oranges mature. Although many oranges are a little dry on the skin, they are all hanging on the branches, and it is very easy to pick some.
It's just that this kind of wild orange in the mountains doesn't taste very good, especially in this early morning, when it's chewed and drunk as water, it's even more sour.
When Ding Ning was so sore that his teeth were a little weak, he saw Shixia walking with his head slightly down.
He felt that Tokika's expression was a bit strange, so he stroked his cheeks, watching Tokika walking slowly, he was not the first to make a sound.
"My name is Tokia, and I am a student who entered the Ivy Sword Academy last year." Tokia stopped a few feet away from him and said, "I am here to fight with you...but this time, I am defeated by you!" Brother Su Qin from Baiyang Cave forced us here."
Ding Ning was startled for a moment.
Shixia went on to say: "I know this is not very good, but I want to have more opportunities to practice, so I want to be able to fight more people in this trial and stay for a longer time... So I have nothing else to do. choose."
Ding Ning smiled and said sincerely: "It should be, if it were me, I would make the same choice."
Shixia glanced at Ding Ning with some gratitude, and then said: "I heard that Junior Brother Ding Ning has a good understanding of the sword scriptures, but he just happened to refine his Qi before coming to the sword sacrifice trial, so when we fight next time, I will try to control my strength as much as possible. Low-grade gas refining."
Ding Ning found this Ivy Sword Academy student more and more interesting, and he laughed again, "It's not necessary, but if you think so, I think you may get more opportunities to practice."
Tokia felt that he didn't understand what Ding Ning said.
But he had already finished what he wanted to say, so he didn't say anything more, bowed to Ding Ning, and then started to draw his sword.
His sword is blue in color and is a kind of hard jade, with some seemingly messy and fine runes on it.
As his true energy continued to surge, the sword body of the sword began to exude a biting chill, and layers of cyan frost began to condense.
Ding Ning smiled slightly, and he also slowly drew out the sword. Many small white flowers like jasmine gradually bloomed on the sword, which looked the same as yesterday.