Fire Monster

Chapter 201: Phantom of the Spirit World
The Second Pioneer City suddenly became quiet.

The evil spirit outside the city is nothing to worry about, and every aspect within the city is running smoothly.

Xiao Chengyun drove a sealed chariot back to Linjiang Prefecture, and then went to the Taoist Palace to exchange for a Class A sealed magical instrument. She took away all 30,000 Taoist Palace contribution points, which was a huge fortune, but it could only be exchanged for one Class A sealed magical instrument.

Liu Yuwei was practicing, and Deng Jiu, Wang Chen, Yu Che, Zhang Qian and others were also seizing the time to hone and train themselves, while also training the new recruits and veterans.

Now you can create energy storage spirit stones as much as you want without any control.

But in fact, for new recruits like Yang Mao and Han Erzi, they can only consume 500 to 600 energy storage spirit stones at most every day.

Only veterans can spend more than a thousand dollars.

I believe that after ten days, both new recruits and veterans will have improved their control over psychic weapons, because the proficiency in controlling this type of weapon is really related to daily training.

Just like a sharpshooter who is fed with bullets, the improvement is really visibly happening.

At the directly affiliated factory, the second-in-command Jia Xian changed his goal again and began to prepare composite armor for the two imperially-sealed chariots.

Ten days later, the number of level three imperial chariots in the second pioneer city will increase to three.

If Xiao Chengyun could successfully exchange it for a Class A sealed magical weapon, it would not be difficult to stop the ninth-level evil demon.

Liu Yuwei is practicing.

Zhao Guanshan was doing nothing.

Because it feels so good to do nothing.

It seemed that from the time his two souls had completely merged until now, in the nearly six months, he had not had a moment to rest and relax.

Either you are working hard, or you are on the way to working hard.

I really dare not relax for a moment.

Now, he finally had some capital and could relax for a few minutes.

Think nothing, do nothing, just sit on the steps of the barracks, watching this city become real and grow bigger little by little, watching everyone have something to do, watching everyone have a home to protect, the scene in the slums will never appear here, hundreds of children big and small will not have to be locked in the room, there will be someone to take care of them, someone to teach them knowledge.

Even though there will never be bright sunshine in the city, cheerful laughter can still illuminate this dark world.

After a long time, Zhao Guanshan stood up and returned to his room. He also wanted to practice.

There is still a lot of urgency.

There is pressure too.

Because it was the first time that Zhao Guanshan heard that the Taoist Palace prohibited Qigong practitioners below level five from visualizing Taoist talismans, entering the spirit world on their own, and condensing their own statues!
To be honest, only he knew how panicked he was at that moment.

He violated every one of the Taoist Palace's prohibitions.

That would be fine, but what is the spiritual world?
It turns out that he is not the only one who can condense his own idol?
Doesn't this mean that as long as Xiao Chengyun and Liu Yuwei cultivate to level five and become level five Qi Refiners, they will immediately find that someone has taken the initiative to condense a divine statue for them?

How will they react then?
Anyway, I won’t be happy to say thank you.

Or does Zhao Guanshan have to restrict them and prevent them from practicing to level five?

These thoughts made him feel a little anxious.

Enter into meditation, enter the world of visualization, and then enter the space of the statue through the world of visualization.

Zhao Guanshan had not paid much attention to this aspect in the past, but now he immediately realized that this was actually a firewall used to protect himself.

"So the visualized world is my firewall, a safe passage paved for me by the Lihuo Daofu, right?"

"If there is no safe passage, I will be exposed immediately and will be in danger immediately?"

Zhao Guanshan was thinking. He was in the statue space at the moment. Here, his consciousness and body were both there, as if he was living in a parallel world. From the current point of view, the inside of the statue space was safe.

It is even safe to return to the real world, because as long as he wants to go back, he can return with just a thought.

"So, only entering this node of the statue space will be very dangerous. Does this node mean the so-called spiritual world?"

Zhao Guanshan looked around and even walked along the winding path that looked like the entrance to the Peach Blossom Spring several times, but there were no new clues.

There was gray fog outside as usual, and a large number of building ruins could be vaguely seen in the gray fog, but only the outlines could be seen, and nothing could be seen further away.

After observing for a while, Zhao Guanshan gave up. Although he was curious, he also knew that curiosity kills the cat, so there was no need to take such a risk.

When I returned to the statue space, five light golden swords immediately swam over, like five small pets.

These are all condensed by Xiao Chengyun's statue in the past few days, but five small swords seem to be the limit.

So, is this a spiritual weapon?
Zhao Guanshan pondered, and with a hook of his right hand, a small golden sword naturally came into his hand, circling continuously, just like a fish swimming in the water, but much better than a fish, because this small golden sword could really do what he wanted.

He can perform various attack movements almost in a moment, and it feels like this is not a weapon at all, but an extension of his consciousness.

What does it feel exactly like? It's like when you are displeased with someone in real life and want to slap him, and the next second, that person really gets slapped.

At this level.

Very magical.

Otherwise, Zhao Guanshan wouldn't have played with it every time he came to the statue space, because it was really fun.

In addition to being fun, this also greatly helps him restore his state of mind, calm down more quickly, and enter a state of cultivation better.

So now he chooses to enter the statue space to practice. The increase in practice is at least 30%. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, because there are exactly three statues here.

For the next two days, Zhao Guanshan practiced in the statue space, used up the last two magic pills in his hand, and successfully cultivated the fifth breath of innate pure yang energy.

At this point, he only had one step left to advance to the second-level Qi Refiner.

In terms of numbers, he also successfully increased his health bar and mana bar to 5 points.

Here are what you can do with these 5 health bars and mana bars.

He can perform the broadsword move a hundred times without taking the Marrow Cleansing Spirit Fluid to replenish it, while the Three Seal Martial Arts Practitioner can only perform it twenty times at most.

Can unleash longsword thrusts fifty times.

Can release heavy shield skills fifty times.

It can rapidly condense a first-order dispel rune within three seconds, and can condense twenty in a row.

It can rapidly condense a first-order Forgotten Rune within five seconds, and can condense fifteen in a row.

It can rapidly condense a first-order explosive rune within nine seconds, and can condense ten in a row.

The rest can be condensed into a fourth-level dispel rune within half an hour.

Able to condense a fourth-order oblivion or a fourth-order misdirection within forty minutes.

Able to condense a third-order explosive rune within an hour.

All in all, it looks pretty good.

At this rate, becoming a Level 5 Qi Refiner isn't far away.

But does a fifth-level Qi Refiner really only need fifteen breaths of innate pure yang energy?
Zhao Guanshan was not from a Taoist academy, so he did not know much about Qi Refiners. However, judging from the aura of the five level five Qi Refiners, it was obviously impossible.

Perhaps the promotion of junior Qi Refiners will have a generational effect.

Even an ordinary first-level Qi Refiner may not be able to match a double-seal martial artist on the battlefield, or even in terms of comprehensive combat power.

Because usually, a first-level Qi Refiner can only comprehend one or two first-level magical powers.

However, after reaching the third and fourth level Qi Refiners, this generational effect will gradually become less applicable.

What’s more, he is a fifth-level Qi Refiner?

If you pick any one of them out, the aura is so strong that Zhao Guanshan feels that the gap between them and him is at least ten times stronger.

In other words, a fifth-level Qi Refiner may need to start with at least thirty breaths of innate pure Yang Qi.

Thinking like this, Zhao Guanshan was about to leave the statue space, when he suddenly felt something in his heart. He looked up and saw that the statue of Xiao Chengyun slowly opened its eyes at this moment.

Then the statue seemed to come alive, jumped off the stone platform and ran straight towards Zhao Guanshan.

For a moment, Zhao Guanshan's scalp was really tingling, and he almost thought that Xiao Chengyun had also entered the spiritual world and discovered her statue.

But the next second, Xiao Chengyun passed through Zhao Guanshan.

This is not the real Xiao Chengyun, just an illusion, because the statue of Xiao Chengyun is still standing on the stone platform.

Zhao Guanshan turned around quickly, only to see a phantom coming out of the statue, worshipping devoutly in a certain direction.

It looked very strange, but Zhao Guanshan immediately realized that in the real world, Xiao Chengyun must be worshiping the statue of the immortal in the temple.

Sure enough, as Xiao Chengyun's phantom finished his worship, a brilliant golden light enveloped it, which was the blessing of the immortals.

And this blessing fell on Xiao Chengyun in reality, and naturally fell on the statue of Xiao Chengyun.

But a golden light lit up like a sunset in the space of the statue. First, a Qianjin Taoist Talisman emerged and rose, as if trying to break free from some kind of restriction. The next moment, a Lihuo Taoist Talisman leaped up and pressed the Qianjin Taoist Talisman underneath. In just a few seconds, the two Taoist talismans turned into Lihuo Taoist Talisman again and sank into the statue of Xiao Chengyun.

Since then, the strange situation has never occurred again.

But Zhao Guanshan frowned as he watched.

There is no doubt that Xiao Chengyun's visit to the temple this time earned her the blessing of the immortals, which greatly increased the power of her Qianjin Taoist Talisman and also gave her the ability to break free.

But in the end, the Lihuo Taoist Talisman was superior and suppressed the Qianjin Taoist Talisman again.

But this is not a solution after all.

Zhao Guanshan was a little worried, but he really had no way to deal with it. At this moment, he suddenly noticed that at the place where Xiao Chengyun's illusion was worshipping, there was a small handful of white ash weighing only a few grams.

Phantom turns to ashes?

He was very surprised and confused.

I didn't even dare to go up and touch it, after all, it was too weird.

But at this moment, he heard Xiao Chengyun's voice coming from outside the room in reality.

"Brother, Brother? Are you still in seclusion?"

Zhao Guanshan was surprised, not because he could hear the sounds of reality in the statue space, but because it had always been like this.

What really surprised him was that if the person outside was Xiao Chengyun, then who was the Xiao Chengyun who had just gone to the temple to worship?

(End of this chapter)