If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 253: Finding the Pulse and Qi
Li Xianzhi was not moved at all when he saw Xiaoyu disappear as soon as she stepped into the Yin Qi pool.

He had seen similar scenes too many times and had experienced them several times himself.

The "Ghostbusters" just entered the blessed land of King Fu and the "Seven Hells Yin Pond" this morning, but it is obvious that the "Seven Hells Yin Pond" was not just dug out today.

At this time, hundreds of "heroes of the world" were bathing in the Yin pool together, but a few days ago, Li Xianzhi was bathing alone.

"Master Shuilong, I'm afraid two days won't be enough for them to fully adapt to the Yinchi environment."

Fairy Yuchen smiled and said, "It depends on how the prince defines 'adaptation'. Our goal is just to help them find the right direction so that they don't encounter any unexpected events during the battle with the Ghost Kingdom at Guaizi Mountain and not know where to escape.

As long as they can ensure that they do not get lost in the Yin Pool, they can return to the human world with the help of the soul-guiding talisman.

And it’s a skill they’ll use throughout their lives.”

The art of war says: If you want to think about the benefits, you must also consider the harm; if you want to think about success, you must also consider the failure.

Li Xianzhi and several "immortals" certainly hope to decide the outcome of the battle in one go and to sweep away the Eight Kings Heavenly Palace in one wave, but as a rational commander, they must consider the possibility of failure before going out, as well as how to preserve their manpower to the greatest extent after encountering an accident.

To preserve the manpower is to let the defeated army withdraw back to the world of the living.

To retreat from the underworld to the world of the living, you must at least find the right direction and not run around randomly.

"The Yin Pond is in chaos. It's difficult to move freely even if we just find the right direction." Li Xianzhi looked at Taoist Shuilong and asked tentatively, "Is there any secret method that can help us get out of the Yin Pond directly and quickly?"

Taoist Shuilong shook his head and said, "'Seven Hells Pond' is itself a secret magical power, specially used to train the spirits to travel through the underworld.

This training method is like ordinary people learning to swim.

What's the secret to learning how to swim?
Isn't it just soaking in the water and slowly getting used to it?

Of course, everyone has the talent for swimming. As long as the time is long enough and you choke on water a few times, you will always learn to dive.

It takes extremely high talent to travel to the underworld.

If one is not gifted, it will be useless even if one soaks in the Yin Pond for eight or ten years."

Having said that, Taoist Shuilong looked at Li Xianzhi meaningfully.

Li Xianzhi soaked in the Yin Pool for a long time, if not seven or eight years, then at least seven or eight days.

Since the decision to hold the Shudong Heroes Conference was made at the end of August, the "Seven Hells Yin Pool" was dug as soon as possible.

Li Xianzhi lived in Qinghe Villa, where he was close to the water and had the best view of the moon. He would go in and soak in the water for a few hours every few days.

But until today, Li Xianzhi is only proficient in identifying the direction, and it is difficult for him to jump out of the Yin Pool in the first time.

The key is to disengage quickly.

The Yin Qi in the Yin Pool boils and rolls. If the time is long enough, you will always encounter a violently upward "rapid current". If you find the right direction, you can use the force of the rapid current to rush out of the Yin Pool.

However, in actual combat, it is impossible for the enemy to stand by and watch you try slowly.

Fairy Yuchen understood Li Xianzhi's concerns and said with a smile, "Sir, the Seven Hells Yin Pond simulates the worst environment in the underworld. It does not mean that we will fall into a situation similar to the Yin Pond after entering Guaizi Mountain.

Look at this Yin Pond. It took a lot of effort to open it up by chiseling a hole in the blessed land.

To turn the entire Eight Kings Palace of Guaizi Mountain into a Yinchi environment is equivalent to completely destroying the blessed land of Guaizi Mountain and turning it into chaos.

Even if we join forces with the Eight Ghost Kings, it will be difficult to do so."

Li Xianzhi pondered and said, "It is definitely impossible to destroy the entire Guaizi Mountain, but if a corner of Guaizi Mountain collapses or a big hole is broken during the fierce battle..."

Taoist Shuilong said: “I estimate that the ground veins of the Eight Kings Palace are only slightly inferior to those of the Fuwang Palace.

Guaizi Mountain can open up at least nine levels of hell!
If we punch a hole in the nine-layered blessed land, people near the hole won’t have to worry about the Yinchi environment, as they won’t be able to survive at all.”

Li Xianzhi felt relieved and asked curiously, "Master, have you mastered the technique to escape from the Yin Pond instantly?"

Taoist Shuilong smiled slightly, "Within three breaths, I can jump out of the Yin Pond at will."

——Three breaths is not a long time, but it is much longer than an “instant”.

Li Xianzhi muttered to himself, with a curious look on his face, "What level is this among the immortals who travel to the underworld?"

Taoist Shuilong said modestly: "It's very ordinary. I can barely travel freely in the underworld in the form of a Yin spirit."

Bikongzi, who had been resting with his eyes closed, opened his eyes and sneered, "If you are considered ordinary, how are others supposed to live?"

Fairy Yuchen said to Li Xianzhi: "The Seven Hells Pond was opened by Taoist Shuilong himself, and you still doubt his ability?
If he dares to say that he is the best in the world, someone will definitely spit on him.

But if he said that Xisha domain name was among the top 50, the earthly immortals who were listed in front of him would think he was too modest. "

He can actually compete with the Earthly Immortals and is ranked in the top fifty.
Li Xianzhi's body shook violently, and his gaze towards Shuilong Taoist became extremely...

"Swoosh~~" A cloud of black smoke exploded from the calm pool of Yin energy, and a slender but agile figure jumped out, just in time to block Li Xianzhi's awed gaze directed at Taoist Shuilong.

He was stunned, "Xiao Fengxian, you——"

"Prince, don't you need to soak in the Yin Pool?"

Xiao Yu couldn't hide her joy on her face, and said with a smile: "This Seven Hells Pond is really a treasure land. It would be a pity to miss it."

"How did you jump out?" asked Taoist Shuilong.

"Find the right direction, and then jump." Xiao Yu said with emotion: "Finding the direction is relatively simple, but it is a bit difficult to jump out. It took me a long time to barely adapt to the chaotic Yin Qi torrent."

She did not take jumping out of the Yin Pond seriously, and answered Shuilong Taoist's question casually, and then expressed her doubts, "After I entered the Yin Pond, I found that there seemed to be ten layers of time and space inside. Could it be the ten layers of hell?
But the space-time barriers at different levels are not obvious, and there is a strange feeling of both chaos and order. "

Taoist Shuilong said: "The fact that you can feel the ten levels of hell means that you have adapted to the environment of the Yin Chi." "Does this count as adaptation?" Xiaoyu widened his eyes in suspicion.

Taoist Shuilong said in a positive tone: "No matter what happens in the battle of Guaizi Mountain, you will not lose your way now.

You can tell which direction leads deeper into Hades and which direction leads out of Hades."

Xiao Yu looked up at the low gray "sky" above the Fuwang Palace, "I have a feeling that I can cut through the "time and space" with a sword, directly leave the Fuwang Palace, enter the ghost road near the Fuwang Tomb, and then return to the world of the living."

Li Xianzhi, the old fairy Yuchen, Bikongzi and the others all looked surprised and suspicious.

Taoist Shuilong was also stunned for a moment, then he said with a complicated expression: "It seems that you don't need to carry the 'Soul-Guiding Talisman'."

Then he couldn't help but be curious and asked, "How long did it take from the time you decided to leave the Yin Pond to the time you finally jumped out of the Yin Pond?"

"It took me a long time to figure out how to draw power from the torrent of Yin energy." Xiaoyu said with emotion.

"I'm not asking how long it will take you to figure out the method of leveraging force. I'm asking, using your method of leveraging force, how many breaths of time will it take to jump out of the Yin Pool?" asked Taoist Shuilong.

Xiao Yu said in distress: "I still need to continue practicing. It will take at least seven or eight breaths to jump out from the bottom now."

"Seven or eight breaths——"

Taoist Shuilong was shocked. He glanced at Li Xianzhi and said quietly, "This is the talent I mentioned - wait a minute, where did you jump out from?"

His expression suddenly changed, and he turned to Xiaoyu again, looking at her nervously.

Xiaoyu was a little puzzled, "From the bottom?"

Taoist Shuilong widened his eyes and shouted, "From the tenth level of purgatory all the way through the tenth level of hell? In just seven or eight breaths?! Are you kidding us?"

Li Xianzhi was also shocked and shouted, "Xiao Fengxian, you used seven or eight breaths to cross the ten layers of hell. If you jump out from the first layer, wouldn't it only take one tenth of seven or eight breaths, less than one breath?"

"No, jumping out directly from the first layer is much less complicated than crossing one tenth of the ten layers of hell." Bikongzi pointed at the Yin Qi Pool and said in a deep voice: "Yu Fengxian, try again, this time jump out directly from the first layer."

Xiaoyu understood that she had deposited a large sum of money without realizing it.

She shook her head and said, "If I jump down again, I will have to sink several floors first, which will waste a lot of time.

It's just a matter of how fast you jump out of the Yin Pond, there's no need to be too serious about it, right?"

"You can quickly escape from the Yin Pool, which means you can quickly escape from the Guaizi Mountain battlefield and return to the world of the living without being stopped by outsiders." said the old fairy Yuchen.

Xiao Yu said with a smile: "If there is no one to stop us, what difference does it make if we go faster or slower?"

Taoist Shuilong said seriously: "Even if there are outsiders blocking you, it is easier for you to escape from the underworld and force your way back to the world of the living than anyone else."

Xiao Yu shook his head and said, "How can I compare with those immortals? The same enemy, the same attack, it's just a tickle to you, but it can kill me."

——We didn’t compare you to ourselves at all! No matter what happens, the chances of you mortals surviving are not comparable to those of us immortals.

Several "immortals" had similar thoughts in their minds.

"Xiao Fengxian, you've only been down there for more than half an hour, how did you manage to escape from the first level of hell in an instant?" Li Xianzhi asked in surprise.

Xiao Yu frowned and said, "I treated the Yin Qi rapids as a stream of water, and the Yin Pool as a river, and then I jumped out."

Before they made a fuss about it, she hadn't considered "quickly escaping from the Yin Pond" a big deal at all.

Otherwise, she would definitely use this skill as a trump card in the "Battle to Suppress Ghosts in Guaizi Mountain".

Taoist Shuilong glanced at her and said with a bleak look: "This is talent!"

All the "immortals" were silent, and Li Xianzhi was silent too.

Xiao Yu's doubts were not answered yet, so she couldn't help but break the silence and asked, "What's going on with the multi-layered hell structure in the Seven Hells Yin Pond and the chaotic Yin Qi torrents that are like turbulent currents in a river?"

Taoist Shuilong asked, "Now that you have seen the blessed land and the Yin Pond, do you have any new ideas about the underworld and the Eighteen Layers of Hell?"

Xiao Yu said: “When I was still a mortal, I thought the underworld was equal to the netherworld, and the netherworld was equal to the underworld.

Now I understand that the underworld is probably the largest blessed land in the netherworld.

Eighteen levels of hell. Could it be that the better the blessed land, the thicker the veins of the underworld, and the more levels of hell that can be opened up?"

Taoist Shuilong gave her an appreciative look and whispered, "It should be that the thicker the veins in the underworld, the better the blessed land that can be opened up, and the more suitable it is for a cemetery.

In the mortal world, it is a so-called Feng Shui treasure land."

Xiao Yu smiled and said, "I was able to walk the ghost path before, and now I have mastered the technique of 'sinking' into the underworld from the ghost path.

In this way, I can also be a Feng Shui master?"

"If you think so, you are underestimating the art of 'finding the pulse and observing the qi'."

Taoist Shuilong pointed to the ground and said, "Take this Fuwang Palace for example. Before His Royal Highness Fuwang opened up the blessed land, this place was barren. Can you tell how thick the ground veins are?
If you just run around on the ghost path, you will never find this place.

Standing on the ghost path, you can’t see the ground veins inside the back mountain of Qinghe Villa.”

"That's right. The Seven Hells Yin Pool is not natural. If I don't go into the Yin Pool to measure it, I won't be able to tell it by just looking at it." Xiao Yu nodded slightly and at the same time began to wonder whether he should take some time to study the art of finding pulses and observing qi.

It’s not for strength and realm.

It is purely an interest in studying the world and understanding the nature of things.

The unorthodox studies in this world cannot lead to immortality or make one become an immortal, but they are really interesting!

(End of this chapter)