Fire Monster

Chapter 258 Beacon
Ten years is neither a short nor a long time, but with deliberate guidance, it is enough to bring about earth-shaking changes.

The former high-ranking officials of the Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace, after being plotted against, finally let go of all their pride and chose to embrace destiny. They even created a school of destiny for this purpose. In short, their main goal was to be legitimate.

Of course, ten years is still very short, and all the changes are in the secular world. In the Taoist Palace, there are still a small number of Qi Refiners who choose not to cooperate and not to be involved in the fate and cause and effect.

Some of them broke away from their families and refused to cooperate with the Demon Suppression Division. Even when they went to the Demon Fire Abyss to hunt Twilight Dust Moths, they would deliberately avoid the Demon Suppression Division's front lines for fear of being affected.

Of course, they are no longer responsible for the defense of the front line, and there is no need for them. With the production of the sixth-level sealed chariot, mortals can theoretically hunt twelfth-level demons.

There are actually very few such Qi Refiners, and Xiao Chengyun is the most determined one among them.

She has now become the only outsider in the Taoist Palace.

Ever since she advanced to the fifth-level Qi Refiner eight years ago, she has been meditating and practicing in the Taoist Palace. She neither cooperates with others to hunt Twilight Dust Moths, nor talks to anyone, nor takes over related matters. She focuses on maintaining zero cause and effect with destiny.

Of course, in reality there is no such thing as zero causality.

Because as long as Xiao Chengyun stays in the Taoist Palace, taking shelter here, meditating and practicing, and being protected by it, there will be cause and effect.

It’s just that the magnitude is very small, and unless it accumulates for hundreds of years, it will not be affected.

Of course, this premise is that the destiny microclimate has not yet been formed.

At this moment, Xiao Chengyun suddenly opened his eyes slowly, and a barely perceptible smile flashed across the corner of his mouth.

It wasn’t easy. After ten years, her senior sister Yu Wei finally overcame her personal tribulation, cultivated an innate pure yang body, and advanced to the fifth-level Qi Refiner.

Liu Yuwei was the slowest. In fact, Zhao Guanshan had already overcome his personal tribulation five years ago and advanced to a fifth-level Qi Refiner, but he chose to remain dormant and did not even go to the spirit world.

Because I don’t dare to go. I can go, but I can’t come back.

This was also the inevitable result after the Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace destroyed the five immortal statues, announced a seclusion and locked the palace, and performed the forbidden art of deification.

In this situation, if Zhao Guanshan wants to go to the spiritual world, someone must act as a beacon or a lighthouse for him in the real world so that he can be guided back.

But to be a beacon, one needs the strength of at least a fifth-level Qi Refiner.

This is also the reason why the three of them waited patiently for ten years.

But today the three of them finally met this condition.

Xiao Chengyun stood up slowly, walked out of the Taoist Palace Hall, and floated down. At the same time, he also applied a sixth-level oblivion to himself.

Over the past ten years, the three of them have not only been practicing in seclusion, but have also been concentrating on improving the various magical powers under the core Taoist tradition.

Now, she has already mastered the seventh-level star-shattering, seventh-level Qianjin sword energy, sixth-level marking, sixth-level blood devouring, seventh-level sword escape, third-level sword madness, third-level Qianjin demon suppression, and only lacks the Qianjin five elements to complete her magical powers.

It can be said that this level of mastery of magical powers is unprecedented in the Taoist Palace of Linjiang Prefecture, but it can at least be ranked in the top 20 in combat power.

Other fifth-level Qi Refiners or sixth-level Qi Refiners need to form a team of five to hunt down a twelfth-level Twilight Dust Moth, but Xiao Chengyun can hunt it easily by himself.

It's just that she can't do anything.

In addition, she has now cultivated a third-level spiritual body. Under normal circumstances, she can also explore the spiritual world. Unfortunately, she cannot go because she is in seclusion and under the forbidden technique of conferring the gods.

In a moment, Xiao Chengyun appeared in the former new city, in an old residential area. People were hurrying on the road, many familiar and unfamiliar people, adults and children, but no one noticed her passing by.

The sixth level of oblivion is simply too powerful.

In a very ordinary restaurant, Xiao Chengyun met Zhao Guanshan and Liu Yuwei who were eating there.

They just sat there openly, but still no one noticed them.

Xiao Chengyun didn't say anything, just smiled, and they had a simple meal together. Then they walked through the back door of the restaurant, entered a corridor from its cellar, and finally arrived at a slightly larger Chiyin bunker, which had three rooms and a small living room.

Over the past ten years, Zhao Guanshan and Liu Yuwei have been practicing here and rarely go out each year.

"Senior Sister, congratulations on successfully overcoming your calamity. From this moment on, you have a lifespan of three hundred years."

"Yeah, I didn't expect it to be so smooth. Did other Qi-refining practitioners in the Taoist Palace also break through in this way?" Liu Yuwei was very happy.

"Other Qi Refiners don't have this blessing. Senior Brother, are you ready?" Xiao Chengyun looked at Zhao Guanshan, who had a calm expression, and was actually a little confused.

Well, I finally look a bit like my senior brother.

"I'm ready. I've spent all my family savings." Zhao Guanshan smiled slightly. He really gave it his all for this trip to the spirit world.

In fact, it only took the three of them fifteen spirit stones to advance to the fifth level.

The remaining fifteen spirit stones were used to upgrade their magical power levels.

This is very important in the real world.

The level of magical power is related to combat effectiveness, casting priority, and whether or not one can be swept away by the aftermath of destiny. So while he was upgrading the magical power levels of Xiao Chengyun and Liu Yuwei, he also saved up a lot for himself.

That means he directly activated the eighth level of dispel!
Eighth level! Theoretically, the Fire-Separation magical power can only be mastered by an eighth-level Qi Refiner, but he, a mere fifth-level Qi Refiner, has mastered it.

For this, the price he paid was that other magical powers could only be activated once, and some powerful magical powers were not activated at all, so his combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

Fortunately, his fighting power will not be needed in the next few decades. What he needs to do urgently now is to be able to come back after going to the spirit world.

For him, the spiritual world is a very important resource area, which can be exchanged for spiritual stones from other Taoist palaces. In addition, spiritual ash is also a very important resource. Currently, the three statues in the statue space have cracked hundreds of tiny cracks. In order to suppress these three statues, he has consumed the spiritual ash shield to +7.

The loss is huge, you can imagine.

So he had to go to the spirit world to make a big profit.

At this time, Zhao Guanshan took out his sealed oil lamp, which contained six eighth-level spirit-dispelling talismans. It was truly the result of all his hard work.

Because it takes him a full half a year to condense an eighth-level dispel.

"Sister, Junior Sister, I may stay in the spirit world for two to three years, but it may also be three to five months. In short, we should prepare for the worst."

"One of you must hold this sealed oil lamp at all times and slowly activate it to ensure that it does not go out, and the other one must be responsible for protecting the Dharma. Whether I can come back depends entirely on you."

"Don't worry, senior brother. But you must be careful in the spiritual world. Don't force it. Safety is the most important thing." Xiao Chengyun warned carefully.

Liu Yuwei also nodded to Zhao Guanshan, "We will take care of everything in this world, remember to come back early."

After such a simple farewell, Zhao Guanshan entered into a state of meditation under the gaze of the two women, entered the world of visualization, and then went to the statue space.

Ten years later, the statue space became even more dilapidated. The statues of the three of them were covered with cracks, and even the stone platform below had become dull.

Fortunately, this does not affect the quality of the spiritual weapon.

Now Liu Yuwei and Xiao Chengyun are both third-level Dharmakaya spirit bodies, so the upper limit of spiritual weapons has reached seven.

At the same time, the strength of the initial spiritual weapon has also increased, which is roughly equivalent to the effect of strengthening it by +1 when it is taken out.

Zhao Guanshan was originally at the third level of Dharmakaya spirit body, but now he has reached the fourth level, one level more than Liu Yuwei and Xiao Chengyun. This can be regarded as an extra blessing brought by his taking Xiaohuandan.

Therefore, the upper limit of the spiritual weapons formed by his statue is now eight pieces, and the strength of the initial spiritual weapons is roughly equivalent to enhancement +2, which is better than nothing.

But the total mental power of his fourth-level spirit body is more than five times that of a first-level spirit body, which is a huge advantage.

What's more, he also has the spiritual weapons that have already been strengthened.

However, Zhao Guanshan has a comprehensive new plan.

At this moment, he held his ash shield which had been reduced to +7 strength, hesitated for a moment, and then used the purple fire dagger to slowly peel off the ash on it.

He wants to abolish it.

Well, it's like washing some water.

When the seven layers of spiritual ash covering the entire spiritual ash shield were all peeled off, the shield also dissipated silently. This weak spiritual weapon could not withstand such damage.

Because it was a spiritual weapon condensed from the first-level Dharma image at that time, it was inherently weak.

The ashes peeled off at this time were as much as half a cubic meter.

The loss is about one tenth.

But, it's still worth it.

Because you can re-select better spiritual weapons and strengthen them in a more reasonable way.

The first thing Zhao Guanshan chose at this time was Liu Yuwei's Green Leaf Spirit Soldier, which initially had a +1 enhancement. After using spiritual ash to enhance it to +2, as expected, he could then integrate another Green Leaf Spirit Soldier. This was the huge advantage brought by enhancement in the statue space.

In one breath, he strengthened the Green Leaf Spirit Weapon to +5, using up exactly six Green Leaf Spirit Weapons and less than half of the spiritual ash.

Hang the jade pendant transformed from the green leaf spirit weapon on your chest.

Zhao Guanshan's mind moved, and a purple fire flew over. This was condensed by his statue, and it initially had a +2 enhancement. After thinking about it, he decided to choose the dagger shape. He wanted to rebuild a purple fire dagger, which would not only have better quality, but also increase the upper limit of enhancement.

The maximum enhancement limit of the previous Purple Fire Dagger was only +10, but this time, maybe it can be increased to +12, or +13.
Use the same trick again, strengthen it by one layer, and a purple fire spirit soldier will fly over and merge into it.

Finally, the enhancement level of this Purple Fire Dagger was fixed at +6, but it contained four Purple Fire Spirit Soldiers, so its power should be even stronger, and it even had an additional damage effect.

Deep Burn!

(End of this chapter)