This is not how immortals cultivate

Chapter 302 When did Huangquan Road become like this?

The three minor realms are divided into the Qi Refining Stage, the Awakening Stage, and the Foundation Building Stage.

In ancient times, humans were born with innate bodies. They did not need to practice cultivation and could directly cultivate to become immortals. The laws of heaven and earth were within their reach, and there was no such thing as the three minor realms.

Due to the curse of the demon clan, the five elements were obscure, the qi channels were blocked, and he could not directly contact the laws of heaven and earth, so he had to find another way, which was to enter the Tao through martial arts in the third realm, and then return to the origin.

Therefore, when one’s cultivation reaches the innate stage, the mortal body must undergo a transformation.

With the help of the innate Taoist body, cultivators are able to sense and comprehend the laws of heaven and earth, and step into the true door of cultivating immortals.

If you cross the watershed of innateness, you will become an immortal; if you cannot cross it, you will just practice cultivation!
When one reaches the stage of transformation into spirit, the true qi turns into true essence, and the body undergoes another transformation, with the ability to repair and reshape the body to a certain extent. The transformation into spirit here refers to the physical body undergoing a complete transformation, with broken limbs regenerated, like a god.

As for the exclusive magical powers of the God Transformation Stage, such as condensing magic weapons and moving space, different worlds have different versions, and not all people in the God Transformation Stage have these privileges.

When one's cultivation reaches the level of transcendence, the transformation of the physical body is just a by-product; the main thing is the earth-shaking change of the spirit.

The so-called Tongyou means that one's true spirit is immortal, and the primordial spirit can go into the netherworld and dream-walk through the three thousand worlds. A cultivator in this realm can take over another body and be reborn, can reincarnate and cultivate again, can become a ghost cultivator, and has transcended the limits of life and death.

Counting the Tongyou Grandmasters Xiang Yuan had met, only Uncle Hard Drive was honest and taciturn, and left without a chance of coming back. The others, such as Jinse, Chang Xiuming, and Tianqian Sword Master, all had the possibility of coming back and returning to Qianyuan Realm.

The person is dead, but the person is still alive. You never know when you go downstairs to buy cigarettes, you might run into an old friend in the convenience store.

Of course, it is somewhat absolute to insist on saying that two people are one person.

Because they themselves won’t agree!
Jinse and Empress Dugu, Taoist Jiehai and Old Man Tianshe, Ji Boli and Master Kang Kuang, Zuo Lengxie and Taoist Huangquan can only be said to be similar to a certain extent. After all, they are independent individuals belonging to different worlds. They have their own experiences and their own personalities and temperaments.

The events of the Tongyou period involve the three thousand worlds, the entanglement of cause and effect, and the chaos. It is impossible to describe it all in a few words.

"The realm of Tongyou is extremely mysterious. In this realm, the cultivator's soul wanders through the heavens and myriad worlds. Cause and effect are intertwined, and fate is unpredictable..."

Zi Ping looked at the Guan Shen Baoyu and said slowly: "Today I will die, tomorrow I will be reborn, this world will disappear, and the next world will be reborn. This is beyond the control of ordinary life and death, and it is beyond my ability to guess."

"Yes, Ping answered very well, with a solid foundation and full marks in theory. Mr. Xiang is very pleased."

Xiang Yuan stroked his non-existent long beard and nodded, saying, "You are a teachable kid. Since you know everything, I won't add anything. I'll remind you two things here. The path of cultivation is long and arduous. Theory alone is not enough. You also need to be down-to-earth and practice diligently to achieve success."

"Student Ping, remember what the teacher said today. Be modest and don't be arrogant just because you have some common sense and become cocky and proud..."

You are the one who doesn’t understand!
Zi Ping sat cross-legged in meditation, entering a quiet mode and blocking out the flies buzzing around her.

Zi Ping's practice was too diverse, involving the art of formations, alchemy, medicine, divination and other subjects. It's not that she bit off more than she could chew, but being too distracted would definitely have a significant impact on her practice.

Also, because the many subjects are as vast as the ocean, if one wants to truly master them, one must practice the corresponding auxiliary techniques. Otherwise, one will end up learning a lot but not in depth. Therefore, she practiced a large number of auxiliary techniques.

When Zi Ping was young, she relied on her outstanding talent and high energy to know when to stop. When she was in the mood, she would just do whatever technique she wanted, regardless of the skill she picked up.

I can’t sleep during the day and I don’t want to sleep at night. I am as strong as a god of war.

As she got older, Ziping suffered many hidden injuries and gradually became unable to do things. Looking back, she regretted that she was too aggressive when she was young and now she can't do it anymore.

There are two main reasons why Zi Ping cannot break through the Tongyou period. One is the hidden injury caused by the superposition of different skills. This is simple, with the Guanshen Jade pointing out the defect, and Xiang Yuan slitting her neck to let the blood solve the problem.

The second is that the spirit lacks energy.

The transformation of the soul in the Tongyou period depends not only on the cultivator himself, but also requires the simultaneous transformation of the magic weapon used in both body and soul cultivation.

Because Zi Ping learned too many different things, the number of magic weapons she had far exceeded that of the other cultivators at the same level in the Spiritualization Stage. She wanted to transform all of her magic weapons at once...

It's not impossible. Where there is a will, there is a way. If you work hard and patiently, you will achieve success within thirty to fifty years.

Time is too long, Ziping can't wait, so she plans to use the red spider lily to peek into the realm of the Grandmaster of the Tongyou Period, and break through the bottleneck from top to bottom.

Such a method of forcing things to happen will inevitably have the side effect of making things difficult to recover. Zi Ping did not consider this. Please, this is the realm of a grandmaster in the Tongyou period. There are only four people in Jianxinzhai now. Any first-class force in the world would be vying for this.

The upper three realms were never within Zi Ping's consideration. Her life goal was only to reach the Tongyou stage.

Considering that she was only a cultivator at the Spiritualization Stage, and had been stuck for ten years, such a goal was reasonable. It was hard to say whether she would think about taking another step forward when she really reached the Spiritual Path.

After all, human desires are magnified step by step. When there is bad, people want good. When there is good, people want even better.

The process of external replenishment is very simple. Xiang Yuan cut open his wrist with a finger and handed it to Zi Ping. The latter opened her mouth, held it, swallowed the blood medicine, and refined it after entering her body, repairing hidden injuries and making up for the lack of foundation.

Xiang Yuan was well aware of the power of his medicine, and was afraid that Zi Ping would take too much and get a fever, so he put his other hand on her shoulder to help her digest the medicine and send it to her limbs and bones.

Thanks to Xiang Yuan's help, the external reinforcement was soon over.

At this point, the hidden injury that had been weighing down Zi Ping was resolved.

It seems simple and effortless because Xiang Yuan's medicine is too powerful. If other rare treasures were used as tonic, the money spent alone would be so huge that Zi Ping could not earn enough money even if she kidnapped Qin Zhaorong and sent her to work in the Red Mansion of Southern Jin for a hundred years.

After filling in the missing foundation, Ziping released the wrist from her mouth and looked at Xiang Yuan, who was covering his wrist and crying in pain, with a complicated expression.

What a great medicine! Why did you let yourself be blinded by greed and let the person out of Jianxinzhai?

If the money was deducted, there would be hundreds of mouths to feed among the inner disciples in Jianxinzhai alone, and the training resources saved in a year would be an astronomical figure.

Xiao Lingyue is right. Xiang Yuan should stop showing off how great a medicine he is. Which famous and upright family can withstand such a test? If you capture him and keep him as a family heirloom, you will cry later.

"A Ping, there's something wrong with your eyes!"

Xiang Yuan snorted twice and told Zi Ping to hurry up, knowing that she had secretly withheld the red spider lily when she was refining the elixir, so there was no need to hide it.

Zi Ping did not explain. An alchemist's work cannot be called skimping. The furnace, the temperature, the experience and so on will all cause different degrees of loss of raw materials. If there is an overspending, there will naturally be a surplus. The details are too complicated and Xiang Yuan is a layman, so she did not say much.

She took out a bright red petal, put it in her mouth, used herself as a furnace and her true essence as fire to refine the petal into liquid, which she sucked into her body bit by bit.

boom!
In the sea of ​​consciousness, waves were rolling, as if endless power was surging within.

Above the sea of ​​consciousness, there are suspended the Qingxing Sword, the Dandao Formation Diagram, the Jade Taoist Robe, the Baixia Whisk, and the Guantian Pattern Plate, a total of five magic weapons, which rise and fall with the turbulent sea of ​​consciousness.

These five items are the magic weapons that Ziping uses to cultivate both her sex and life. Sex refers to the primordial spirit, which is the spirit; life refers to the vital energy, which is the body. When the five magic weapons are impacted, it means that Ziping's soul and body are also impacted.

The red spider lily can indeed help the cultivators in the God Transformation Stage to peek into the Tongyou Stage, but taking shortcuts is still taking shortcuts, and if you don't follow the usual path, you will naturally have to bear the corresponding risks.

Xiang Yuan was not clear about the changes in Zi Ping's sea of ​​consciousness. He only saw that the body sitting cross-legged suddenly trembled like a sieve, then became hot as a stove, then cold as iron. In addition, the Qi points all over the body opened, and the flow of true energy suddenly stagnated and then reversed.

"Is it okay, Ping? Don't spill blood on me. It will be hard to explain to Jian Xinzhai..."

Xiang Yuan sat cross-legged behind Zi Ping, with his palms on her back, observing the changes from the stage of transformation to the stage of enlightenment at close range.

Zi Ping's soul was in turmoil and confusion, like a lone boat tossing in the waves, sometimes rushing to the top of the waves, sometimes falling into the abyss.

The next second, she stepped into a mysterious portal and entered a vast new world. The laws of heaven and earth were clearly visible, and all living things had their own way. The mysterious realm of the Tongyou period made her linger.

He totally didn't notice that his own soul was crumbling, or that Xiang Yuan was hiding in the corner.

Xiang Yuan, a cultivator in the God Transformation Stage, saw a breakthrough in the bottleneck of the Tongyou Stage for the first time. He thought that the Tongyou in the Tongyou Stage meant the gate of life and death, and that every cultivator in the God Transformation Stage had to go through the gates of hell. He didn't know how dangerous Zi Ping was now. Seeing that her gates were wide open and she was completely defenseless, he rubbed his hands and walked into the sea of ​​consciousness.

Seeing that there are many laws of nature here, I decisively started shopping in the supermarket.

He reached to the far east, looked to the west, fixed his sights on the five magic weapons, checked them one by one, and suddenly found a surprise.

The magic weapons in the Spirit Transformation Stage are the embodiment of the laws of heaven and earth. When you enter this place, you can directly observe the threads of the laws of heaven and earth. Unlike physical magic weapons, they are hidden and difficult to see their true face.

What are you waiting for? Start copying!
Xiang Yuan was enjoying copying, but Zi Ping was in a terrible situation. She felt a pain in her heart and her soul fell out of the door. When she returned to her sea of ​​consciousness, she looked at the window paper that was so close yet so far away, and she felt quite dissatisfied.

It's just a little bit away, just a little more effort.

Zi Ping had too many magic weapons for dual cultivation of body and soul, which seriously hindered her progress. She really wanted to make progress, so she accumulated her spiritual power and recalled the insights she had just gained in the Tongyou period. She vowed to achieve success in one go and would not give up until she broke through the Tongyou period.

It has to be said that Menchuang Sword Master knows his several direct disciples very well.

Shang Qingmeng didn't like worldly affairs and only wanted to pursue the way of swordsmanship. The Sword Master of the Gate Crack taught him the way of being the leader of the sect, which was to "return the great power to oneself". Just let the subordinates take care of the mountain gate. As long as you are the strongest, not only the subordinates, but also the outsiders will not be able to make any big waves.

When evaluating Zi Ping, people say that she has a strong sense of responsibility and is capable of taking on responsibilities, and can be a great general, but she is impulsive and often acts without regard for the consequences.

Look, Ziping is impulsive again.

He rushed too fast and still didn't see Xiang Yuan squatting next to him.

She controlled five magical weapons, her body and life became one, constantly raising her own momentum and breaking through the obscure bottleneck of her realm.

This move is almost identical to Xiang Yuan's attempt to break through the upper bottleneck from top to bottom. However, if Xiang Yuan fails this time, he can always try again next time. Zi Ping failed this time and would inevitably end up with a serious injury to her soul.

Because of risking one's life, the five magical instruments for cultivating both life and death may also be damaged.

Xiang Yuan: ┴┤)
Looking at the sea of ​​consciousness gradually becoming transparent and the soul that seemed to be on the verge of collapse at any time due to the pressure, he, who did not understand the Tongyou period, also realized that there was a big problem with the scene before him.

"Are you really risking your life like this? You shouldn't have a gambler's mentality. No one is chasing you with a sword."

Xiang Yuan frowned, and a large amount of Yuan Shen poured into Zi Ping's sea of ​​consciousness, transforming into a translucent shadow, and pointed his finger at Zi Ping's Yuan Shen vest, communicating directly with Yuan Shen: "A Ping, I will help you with the realm of Dao Sword. Don't blame me if you fail. It's you who was too reckless and cut off your own retreat."

Ziping was horrified and didn't understand where Xiang Yuan came from. The sea of ​​consciousness is the most secretive place for cultivators. Can one enter it casually?

If you don’t know, you would think you are trying to take over someone else’s body!
Also, where did you get the Dao Sword realm? Did the senior sister leak the secret of Jian Xinzhai?
Buzz buzz————

The sound of sword sounds came from Ziping's heart. The Qingxing Sword, which was of the same origin and cultivated both life and death, responded immediately. The five magic weapons of her life vibrated together, and her momentum continued to rise.

The Qingxing Sword rushed out first, soaring into the sky without returning. The remaining four magic weapons followed closely behind, infinitely raising Ziping's momentum, and slammed hard into the bottleneck that blocked the way.

It didn't break. Xiang Yuan was a little embarrassed. The Dao Sword Realm he got by stealing was far less useful than the original one. In anger, he added the sword force of the Tianyun Sword into it.

In an instant, the Green Star Sword shone brightly, the tip of the sword pierced into the bottleneck, and the sword body slowly sank into it.

At first, it was narrow, with only one sword passing through. As the remaining four magic weapons poured in one after another, the invisible barrier was unblocked, and the view suddenly became clear...

Breaking through the bottleneck is too stream-of-consciousness. The above is the picture that Xiang Yuan imagined.

The truth is, he opened his primordial spirit and lent the realm of Dao Sword to Zi Ping to help the latter improve her own momentum. When that didn't work, he then lent her the Tianyun Sword.

Zi Ping's aura surged, and using the Qingxing Sword as a breakthrough point, she violently broke through the bottleneck of the Tongyou period and completed a breakthrough from bottom to top.

……

Silent all night.

The next day dawned with dim morning light.

The earth in the small courtyard was rolling. Xiang Yuan put away the jade body-viewing device, thinking that Zi Ping's breakthrough experience had no reference value and had wasted his entire night.

This is not how you break through realms, and this is not how you cultivate to become an immortal.

Zi Ping didn't say anything. She looked like a saint who had escaped from a goblin's lair. Her face was pale and she leaned against the wall. Her steps were unsteady and she was staggering as she walked.

The reason for the shivering was that his soul had consumed too much energy, and his head felt heavy and his feet felt light-footed. The reason for the pale face was that when he was breaking through, he had to open his soul to Yuan for help, which in a sense completed a dual cultivation.

Now, if Shang Qingmeng targets her again in the future, she really can't say that the senior sister wronged her.

Ziping's head was buzzing. She had forcefully broken through to the Tongyou stage, and her realm was not yet stable. Her aura was fluctuating, and she needed to retreat for a while to calm down.

Seeing Xiang Yuan acting as if nothing had happened, she was furious and gritted her teeth and said, "Who let you in? Look at what you've done. If Senior Sister knew about this..."

"A Ping, you are now a master of the Tongyou stage. Be more confident. It won't be so easy for your senior sister to beat you up now."

"Yeah, she'll have to be serious to beat me up!" Zi Ping replied unhappily.

"Anyway, you're already in the Tongyou period. If I hadn't gone in, you would have been seriously injured if not dead. So, you should thank me!"

Xiang Yuan spread his hands and said, "What do you mean, should I be a slave in this life, or should I be married to you in the next life?"

"..."

Ziping's eyes twitched. Although, it was true. She didn't know how to repay Xiang Yuan for such a great kindness.

The favor was too great, and a great favor would turn into a great hatred. When he thought about the fact that he was a master of the Tongyou period, his eyes immediately became unfriendly.

"We can talk about repaying you later. Cultivating immortals requires a clear mind. Let's settle the grievances we suffered before first..."

Zi Ping's lips curled up into a sinister smile: "Asshole, do you know that I have wanted to beat you up for a while!"

"It's not appropriate. You just made a breakthrough and you can't even stand steadily." Xiang Yuan waved his hands quickly, a little fear on his face.

Ziping wasn't going to listen at all. She raised her hand and took out the Baixia whisk. Thousands of strands of the whisk instantly entangled Xiang Yuan's hands and feet.

Seeing that she succeeded easily, she sneered and sacrificed the alchemy array diagram. A world of array with a strong medicinal fragrance slowly unfolded in the house: "You are in the Spiritualization Stage, what do you know about the Passing Spirit Stage? With my current means, I can deal with you just sitting there."

Xiang Yuan was entangled by the whisk silk and couldn't move. He tried to exert force, but found that the whisk silk was soft but hard. The more he struggled, the tighter it bound him. His face suddenly changed: "Amazing! Is this the magic weapon of the Grandmaster of the Tongyou Stage? It's really terrifying!"

"Haha, let's see how long you can be so arrogant."

The camera turned and Xiang Yuan grabbed Ziping's wrist, twisted it with his backhand, and pressed her on the table.

"It hurts, it hurts, let go, it's going to break."

Zi Ping burst into tears, not because she couldn't beat Xiang Yuan even though she was at the Tongyou stage, but because she knew long ago that Xiang Yuan had the ability to fight against a Grandmaster. She had just entered the Grandmaster stage and had not yet stabilized her realm, so her chances of winning this battle were not great, and it was not surprising that she lost.

What really made her collapse was that this position was too familiar.

Sure enough, just as she raised her butt, the next second, the door was pushed open with a creaky sound.

Shang Qingmeng stood at the door, her pretty face as cold as ice, her eyes growing colder.

She looked coldly at the scene in the house, her eyes swept between Ziping and Xiangyuan, and finally fixed on Ziping's face: "Ziping, how long are you going to lie down?"

"Big sister, I don't want to lie down either. He won't let go..."

"Shut up, you're still making excuses!"

"No, Master..."

"If you break your arm, you can stand up!"

"..."

Zi Ping: (╥﹏╥)
Because Zi Ping refused to change his ways despite repeated admonitions, he was given the job of being the sect leader and stood outside the house dejectedly.

Inside the house, Shang Qingmeng severely punished the Sect Master's wife and said unhappily, "Zi Ping's ability to reach the inner world was your doing?"

"Well, I need an alchemist in the Tongyou stage. Aping is a very suitable person. She is just one step away from reaching the Tongyou stage. I will help her, and she will be grateful for this. From now on, she will have to make whatever elixir I want." Xiang Yuan said as a matter of course.

"Even if I ask for it, the result will be the same. You don't have to do her a big favor!" Shang Qingmeng's face became colder and colder.

"It's okay now, but not in the future. Fairy, you said that we will break up sooner or later. You also told me to face the reality as soon as possible and stop bothering you in the future."

Xiang Yuan shrugged: "Look, I'm just following your instructions to pave the way for our future breakup."

"..."

A boomerang hit her right in the face. Shang Qingmeng was unable to respond. She imagined the scene of Xiang Yuan separating from her and then smoothly transitioning to Zi Ping.

I was so jealous that the more I thought about it, the angrier I got!
"How about it, do you realize that you are moved?"

"No, I don't allow you to get too close to Zi Ping because of Jian Xin Zhai's reputation."

Shang Qingmeng sneered, "No matter what, you have had physical contact with me. From now on, you can find other women, anyone, except the female cultivators of Jianxinzhai!"

Well, the only thing that is tough about him is his mouth.

Xiang Yuan tried it briefly and found it to be sweet, soft and not too hard, just like the taste of a banana.

Just a kiss was not enough to appease Shang Qingmeng, but it did suppress some of her jealousy. Xiang Yuan saw her like that and said, "The end of the year is coming soon. I have to go home to accompany my wife, and then continue to travel around the world. In addition, I have to practice in seclusion. I'm afraid I won't be able to come to see you for a long time."

Shang Qingmeng frowned slightly, and said calmly: "You can't slack off in your practice. I will go home with you."

"What? You want to come over to get to know the way and meet my parents and family?" Xiang Yuanle said.

"I'm not interested. If you insist on introducing me, I can pretend to be kind and virtuous and save some face for you."

"Fairy, don't put yourself in such a difficult position. I don't have any parents at home, only a wife who has not yet married me. If she sees you, she might mistakenly think that I am having an affair outside, which would be bad."

Shang Qingmeng frowned even more tightly when she heard this, with a hint of impatience in her tone: "It's always like this, using a non-existent engagement to irritate me. I've said it so many times that there's no possibility between you and me. With my character, I won't get angry about this."

"Then you're still angry?"

"You did it on purpose, and I followed the flow to satisfy your fantasy of mutual affection."

"..."

You are quite a nice person!
Shang Qingmeng had too many excuses, and Xiang Yuan couldn't argue with her. Before the sword mark was left, he pulled up his trousers and moved away directly.

"Humph!"

Seeing Xiang Yuan leave without saying anything, Shang Qingmeng's face was extremely ugly. After a complex and illogical psychological activity, she gritted her teeth and said without turning her head: "Ziping, come in and help me change clothes!"

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Southern Xinjiang, Huangquan Road.

As the year draws to a close, lights and decorations are hung everywhere, and the Huangquan Dao headquarters is no exception.

Red silk was hung high, lanterns were lined up, and the disciples of the sect were busy shuttling around, some were hanging colorful lanterns, some were setting up altars, and others were busy preparing New Year's goods. Laughter and joy were heard everywhere, and the atmosphere was lively and festive.

"What's going on? Did you go to the wrong door?"

Xiang Yuan was stunned by the scene as soon as he entered the door. He muttered when did Huangquan Road become like this? He put his hands in his pockets and went straight to the Holy Maiden Hall to find Zener, who was his best friend in the world.

Lady Saint, the Left Envoy has just obtained a great treasure, which will be of great benefit to your spiritual practice. I will show it to you so that we can practice the great Dao together.

Looking at Xiang Yuan's hurried back, several Huangquan Dao disciples looked at each other and nodded. One of them put down the work at hand and informed the right Huangquan Dao master Zuo Lengxie of the news that Xiang Wentian, the left Huangquan Dao master, had returned.

New year, new atmosphere. It’s time to get rid of this Left Envoy of Huangquan!

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