A life of idleness in the world of demons

Chapter 84, Section 83: Breaking Through to the Fourth Rank and Giving Birth to Offspring (8.1K words - Long Chapter, Please Subscribe)
Half a month later
early morning.

Ning Family Garden.

Snapped.

popping.

boom!
A scarlet figure flew backward, its strength dissipating in mid-air. As it flipped and twisted, its legs moved in a series of rapid kicks, like two pythons striking at the same time, heading straight for the man not far away.

The man put his left hand behind his back and raised his right hand to meet the attack; his palm collided with the lightning-fast toe of the foot.

The scarlet figure let out a sharp cry, her long legs lashing out like snakes, wrapping around the arms, her toes continuing forward as if a spear were aimed at the throat.

However, halfway there, his leg felt like it had been stung by a scorpion and became stiff and immobile.

The man stepped forward and gently touched the figure's throat with his palm.

The outcome has been decided.

This is Ning Xuan and his wife doing their morning exercise.

Lu Xuezhi stepped back, recalling the fight just now. After a long while, she shook her head and said, "I still don't understand how you can control your strength at will? Even if you suppress your realm and only use the snake and scorpion forces, I would still be no match for you even with just one hand."

Ning Xuan said, "The five poisonous energies of the Five Poisons Sect are one. When they are connected, all the forces are no longer rigid. It's actually very simple to learn. Once you understand it, it becomes much easier. I'll teach you."

He had been tormented in nightmares for hundreds of years, but after waking up, he successfully cultivated in just a few days.

He succeeded, and so can others. It just involves a few exquisite details. As long as you pay attention to all the details during cultivation and maintain this, without making a single mistake, you will achieve minor success in a few days, and major success in a few more days. It's very simple.

He patiently hugged Lu Xuezhi from behind, holding her hands in his own, and taught her the tricks of the trade little by little.

However, the process was not smooth. Some things that he took for granted required his wife to adjust to and accept for a very long time.

"That's all for today."

"Hmm!" Lu Xuezhi's beautiful eyes widened, her gaze towards him now filled with adoration, sparkling with admiration, and the corners of her mouth turned up in a smile.

"Things are finally settled at home, I'm going fishing," Ning Xuan said.

"You've only just settled down and you're already going fishing? What's so fun about that? Or... I'll go with you." Lu Xuezhi became a little clingy.

"The ship is only so big, where do you practice martial arts?"

"Then come back after dinner, otherwise everyone will ask you where you went and why you didn't keep me company." Thinking of this, Lu Xuezhi couldn't help but burst out laughing, her face stunningly beautiful.

In the Ning family, everyone treated her very well, even better than they treated Ning Xuan.

Lu Xuezhi even felt that all those people were helping her to supervise Ning Xuan. If Ning Xuan did something wrong, there would always be an elder who would jump out and tell Ning Xuan what to do.

Even at dinner, if she was slow to pick up food with her chopsticks, her mother-in-law would say, "Xuan'er, you are the husband, you should serve Xuezhi some food."
Sometimes, when her mother-in-law found Ning Xuan dull, she would get up and serve him food, then angrily look away from him, as if blaming him for being so inconsiderate.

On another occasion, she overheard her brother-in-law earnestly telling Ning Xuan, "Second brother, the Chenxiang Pavilion has been renovated, but all the women in that pavilion are no match for a single hair of your wife. So go there less often, cough cough. It's best not to go at all."

There are too many things to list.

She was truly pampered in this family; everyone treated her very well.

She felt even more comfortable there than at the governor's mansion.

In the governor's mansion, she was a high and mighty princess, and no one dared to disobey her. She could have whatever she wanted, and even her childhood dream of martial arts was fulfilled by having Elder Lan Yu as her master. However, the companionship of her parents, which she desired most, was something she never had.

She doesn't blame her parents.

Because she knew her parents were very busy, had many things to do, and faced danger.

However, she understood, yet she was also lonely.

But now, the lack of family affection has been inexplicably made up for here.

Ning Xuan wasn't surprised by this.

My wife is the kind of woman who seems perfect unless you get to know her well.

She's cool and beautiful, famous, has a powerful background, and a strong presence that can command attention in any setting. Wherever she appears, she's bound to be the center of attention.

Aside from that, she had no temper and no trouble. At most, she was a bit cold, but that coldness was within anyone's acceptable range. In fact, some people thought that a woman like her should be cold and arrogant.

Of course, that's assuming you don't know her.

If she had seen her secretly release Madam Zhao, thus directly exposing her identity, she would have been foolishly poisoned in the oasis and almost become a follower of demons. After being ignored by the Five Poisons Sect, she became like a little woman. In the battle royale after leaving the Five Poisons Sect, she behaved worse than a pig.
You'll realize that you can't judge a book by its cover.

In short, Lu Xuezhi's arrival brought joy to everyone in the Ning family, especially the elderly couple, who couldn't stop smiling every day.

As for the eldest brother, he also benefited from the "perks".

My elder brother took office as the prefect. Although it was in familiar territory, it was a fresh start. He needed to coordinate with the surrounding areas and, in particular, communicate with his superiors.

But now everyone knows that "Ugly Slave" Ning Gang has a younger brother and sister-in-law, who is Lu Xuezhi, the daughter of Lu Da, the military governor of Suizhou.

Things went much more smoothly for my older brother after that.

This made the continuation of the Ning family and the transfer of power extremely smooth.

Lu Xuezhi is a treasure of a girl who will be fine as long as you don't take her out as a teammate.

A fishing boat swaying gently.

The lake surface shimmered with golden light.

The wind blows, the boat moves, and people are in the cabin.

Ning Xuan sat in the cabin.

The claustrophobic environment made him feel comfortable, and the characteristics of a claustrophobic ghost allowed his spirit to slowly improve in such an environment.

He leaned out of the window, fishing rod dangling from his arm.

He leaned back against the bulkhead, drifting with the current and carried away by the wind.

Despite this apparent reality, he was actually practicing the "Sensing Heaven and Earth, Transforming Reality into Illusion" technique, a third-grade martial arts skill, in the most relaxed way.

The difficulty in practicing this method lies in "discretion".

This is a cultivation method that is more dangerous than ever before. In ordinary cultivation, if you don't practice properly, you might at most sprain a muscle or break a bone. But if you make a mistake in this cultivation, you might go crazy or even die.

Why?

Now listen to the story.

Humans are born into this world, their bodies exist within heaven and earth, and their souls reside within their bodies.

Therefore, this soul cannot actually come into contact with heaven and earth.

The only time you can have contact with someone is when they die.

When the body dies, the Dao dissipates; the soul flies away and the spirit scatters.
The soul is meant to fly away; it cannot be kept.

It is clear that this world is not what it appears to the naked eye.

What the naked eye sees is only the surface.

What the soul touches is the deeper aspect.

"To feel the heavens and respond to the earth, to transform reality into illusion" means to let you experience this aspect of the universe in advance, to let you see things that normal people can only see when they die.

Otherwise, how could this step be described as the "separation between immortals and mortals"?

In this vast天地 (heaven and earth), what can the divine soul see?
simply say
Under the sunlight, it's a sea of ​​fire; under the moonlight, it's a sea of ​​ice.

The spirit or soul is either burned and ascends, or frozen and immobilized by the ice. When the weather clears up the next day, it is burned again, the spirit dissipates, and the soul flies away.

This is the balance that needs to be maintained in cultivation.

You have to take it slow.
You can't try it yourself. You can't ask me to check how fierce the fire outside is or if it can speed up your sensing speed. That would only set your soul on fire.

Therefore, the safest approach is to patiently wait until everything is absolutely safe, then carefully draw in a wisp of yang energy before taking it a step further.

The third rank is very time-consuming for this reason.

However, the third rank is alright, because at this rank, the soul does not fly out, but rather opens some "windows of the body" to come into contact with the yang energy outside.

Only those at the fourth rank need to fly outside to form a Yang Soul body.

Without foolproof preparation, who would dare to try?
Ning Xuan dared.

Because, in this world, where is there a martial artist who cultivates both body and spirit?
Ning Xuan, however, did cultivate.

His spirit is very strong; it even contains a claustrophobic spirit.

Therefore, he didn't need to hide carefully inside the "body" at all.

So at this moment, he seemed to be leisurely lying down fishing, but in fact his soul had left his body and was floating outside, suspended above his body.

He saw the fishing line taut, creaking and trembling. The fish under the boat swayed left and right, pulling the line back and forth. Soon, the fish took the bait and escaped the hook.

He watched for a while, sitting in the sea of ​​fire under the sunlight for a while, and then began to practice the "Heaven and Earth in Harmony" method, so that his soul could draw yang energy from the sea of ​​fire under the bright sunlight.

Others need to be cautious and spend a long time gathering before daring to absorb a trace of yang energy, for fear of igniting their souls; but he has no need to be afraid at all, he can absorb it directly and take it directly.

Instantly, wisps of flame surged from all directions, drilling into his seven orifices—eyes, ears, nose, and mouth—flowing like snakes, and then into his blood and qi, nourishing his body. He felt completely relaxed, and his physique was rapidly improving.

The connection formed by the Five Poisons Force was like a sapling being watered, giving him a mysterious sense of growth.

This made him feel like he was getting stronger.

In this kind of spiritual cultivation, time passes extremely quickly.

Ning Xuan felt as if he had only drunk a glass of water when the sky darkened.

What was a sea of ​​fire just moments ago has turned into ice and frost in an instant.
Ning Xuan's soul returned to his body.

one look.

His physical condition actually changed from "21.4" to "21.8".

Because of his improved physique, the speed of his dual cultivation with Lu Xuezhi slowed down again. What used to be a 0.1 increase in physique after three days of diligent dual cultivation now takes six or seven days to increase by 0.1.

But now, after just one day of cultivation, his physique has improved by 0.4.

A feeling of comfort arose in Ning Xuan's heart.

The thought that everything is fine now makes me feel even better.

He yawned, slowly raised his long bamboo pole, rowed the fishing boat to the shore, tied it up, and then carried the fish basket home. When he passed the fish market, he suddenly remembered something, so he bought a big, fat fish and threw it into the fish basket.

Ningfu
The room was brightly lit, with many lanterns hanging inside.

Normally, the Ning family wouldn't be so wasteful, but ever since Lu Xuezhi arrived, they've been doing it every day.
The First Madam was smiling and talking to Lu Xuezhi.

The table is a round table.

Eating together at the same table is a tradition of the Ning family, except that men and women eat separately, except for the host.

When Lu Xuezhi arrived, she originally planned to set up separate tables, with each person having their own table to enjoy the food, but Ning Xuan rejected this idea.

It looks better now.

"Why are you only just getting back?" Now that the First Madam has a wife, she's starting to find fault with her son.

Ning Xuan said, "Mother, I'm going fishing."

The First Madam said, "Then we can take the fish to the kitchen and have Chef Wang process it and make a fish soup for Xuezhi to nourish her body."

Ning Xuan's fish basket.

Inside the basket, a large, fat fish was jumping around.

"What a big fish! Quick, take it down, braise half and make soup with the other half."

The First Madam's eyes shone.

Ning Xuan had never seen such a "full of energy" look in his mother's eyes in the past seventeen years.

Lu Xuezhi chuckled, patted her side, and gave him a "come here quickly" look.

Ning Xuan sat down.

His father was beside him, his older brother was next to his father, and his sister-in-law was next to his older brother.

There weren't many people at the main table, only six in total.

Ning Xuan was relieved, but "Ugly Slave" Ning Gang was full of troubles.

So Ning Xuan took the initiative to ask, "What's wrong, brother?"

Ning Gang laughed and said, "It's nothing, just a small matter. Let's eat."

Yun Yi, standing beside Ning Gang, looked at him with concern and said, "This is no small matter. There are too many refugees, all from Leizhou. The demonic calamity in Leizhou is unimaginable. Brother Gang is worried every day. On one hand, he worries about settling the refugees and whether the newly planted spring wheat is growing well. Just today, officials from outside came to see Brother Gang, saying they want to expand the planting area and increase the planting area, but they are worried about demons. On the other hand, Brother Gang is also worried that the demonic calamity in Leizhou will spread to us."

Lu Xuezhi chimed in, "Leizhou, the Demon Station. My husband and I were originally planning to go there when we were in Hanzhou, but we didn't go because we went to the desert. However, the situation there is indeed very serious. In the desert, those mountains..."

Seeing his wife's earnest discussion, Ning Xuan knew she was trying to integrate into the environment.

However, he still stuffed a piece of meat into her mouth, preventing her from saying the words "Shanmo Sect" again.

Looking again, sure enough, my parents had stopped eating and were looking over with great concern.

Ning Xuan continued, "There are many demons in the mountains of the desert, but so what? The previous Frozen Hell was so terrifying, but it was still resolved just like that, wasn't it?"

After saying that, he filled his glass with wine, then filled his white-haired father's glass as well, and said with a smile, "Father, our dynasty is not that weak. Even if the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up. Nothing will happen."

Meanwhile, Ning Gang glared at Yun Yi, clearly not wanting to bring these matters up.

My mother said from the side, "But you and Xuezhi are both seriously injured."

As she spoke, she suddenly became somewhat saddened and asked, "Is your injury any better?"

After finishing the meat in her mouth, Lu Xuezhi said, "Mother, my husband and I are fine."

The old woman grasped Lu Xuezhi's hand and said, "Look how wonderful Xuezhi is."

As she spoke, tears streamed down her face.

She was too worried about her son and daughter-in-law.

Although Chou Nu was not her biological son, she treated him as her own.

She was worried about her eldest son's path to becoming a prefect, and also about her younger son's recovery from his injuries. These days she burned incense every day and copied scriptures every night, hoping that all the gods and Buddhas in the heavens would open their eyes and bless her two sons.

Ning Xuan and Ning Gang exchanged a glance.

Ning Gang laughed and said, "Yun Yi doesn't understand, Mother. Please don't take it to heart. It's not that serious. They're just everyday little things. Isn't this what people like me have to worry about?"

Ning Xuan also laughed and said, "If it were really serious, how would Xue Zhi and I, two ready-made generals, have the opportunity to recuperate at home? Doesn't that make sense?"

The two brothers took turns talking and singing, which finally cheered their mother up, and then the whole family happily started eating again.

into the night.

The Ning brothers walked together.

"Brother, are there any signs of demons invading from Leizhou?"

"No."

"Where is the Demon Station?"

"nor."

"Is it suppressed?" "It should be," Ning Gang hesitated, pondered, and then said, "After all, there are many demons in Leizhou now, but there are also many Celestial Masters and Demon Plague Warriors. There are too many. The number of experts gathered in Leizhou is probably more than the entire Suizhou Dao."

He paused for a moment, then said, "With so many experts, it's enough to seal off the demon station."

Ning Xuan did not express his opinion.

What my brother said was all superficial.

He didn't know what was really going on inside, but he knew it couldn't be that simple.

After thinking for a moment, he suddenly asked, "Is there any progress on Your Majesty's plan to create divine generals?"

Ning Gang pondered for a long time before looking at him and saying, "You should take good care of your injuries."

Ning Xuan chuckled and said, "Brother, are you afraid I can't accept it?"

Ning Gang smiled and said, "There really is."

Ning Xuan asked curiously, "Who is it?"

Ning Gang said, "It's settled then. Don't overthink it. It's just a piece of news."

Ning Xuan laughed and said, "When did you become so fussy?"

Ning Gang then said seriously, "I don't know who he was in the past, but now he is the famous 'Heavenly Martial King' Shi Yantang."

The First Divine General was unparalleled in his glory. His Majesty not only betrothed a princess to him, but also specially established the Demon Slaying Division for him, making him the Grand Master of the Division.

The Demon Slayer Division holds a position equal to that of the Zixia Temple. Celestial Masters from all over the country belong to the Zixia Temple, while generals and demon-infested warriors from all over the country must be affiliated with the Demon Slayer Division.

The Zixia Temple offers Taoist cultivation points, while the Demon-Slaying Division offers martial arts points; both can be exchanged for substantial resources.

Ning Xuan asked, "How did he rise to power?"

Ning Gang said, "I know that. He got his luck through the Leizhou Demon Station. As the saying goes, heroes emerge in troubled times, and he is probably one of them."

As for the process, I don't know the details, but he must have come from an ordinary background. However, by devouring demon cores, he rapidly improved step by step, reaching the mid-stage of the fourth rank in a short period of time, and becoming a chosen one.

There must be many people like him, but the vast majority of them failed and turned into demons, demons who rarely had even a moment of lucidity each day, but he succeeded.

You could say it's luck, that he was able to consume so many demon cores without turning into a human-demon. You could say it's not luck, that it's because others can't, but he can.
But regardless, he is now the Heavenly Martial King.

As he spoke, he paid attention to his younger brother's expression. Seeing that he was not truly disappointed, he felt a little relieved.

Ning Xuan suddenly asked, "What does the Demon Slaying Division do? Is it just responsible for dispatching martial artists to slay demons everywhere?"

Ning Gang said, "It was only established not long ago, so I didn't know. Since you're so concerned, I'll keep an eye on it. We'll continue our conversation tonight if there's any news. Your most important task right now is to recover well."

Ning Xuan smiled and said, "Big brother, you also have a mission."

Ning Gang asked curiously, "What kind of mission?"

Ning Xuan said, "May you have a son soon."

Ning Gang laughed and said, "You too, then the two kids will have each other to keep each other company, unlike you and me."

The next day.

Ning Xuan went fishing as usual from his fishing boat.

His elder brother's words from yesterday still echoed in his ears.

Demon Slayer Bureau?
Qiping Zixia Temple?
Has the Demon Station in Leizhou been brought under control?

He squinted, but didn't make any judgments easily.

Zigu observed it, Zigu waited for it.

A mirage rises from the vast sea, a high platform is turned upside down, the play continues, the wind and clouds change in an instant, the world is turned upside down in a moment!

Immediately, Ning Xuan began to circulate the "Sensing Heaven and Earth, Responding to Reality, and Transforming Reality into Illusion" technique, just as he had done the day before.

In the blink of an eye, it got dark, and his physical condition changed from "21.8" to "22.2".

That night
He went back inside.

After their usual routine, the two lay in bed, entwined and sticky.

Lu Xuezhi suddenly said, "You've heard about the First Divine General, haven't you?"

Ning Xuan asked, "Did your sister-in-law tell you this?"

Lu Xuezhi nodded.

Ning Xuan was not surprised.

My sister-in-law seems well-educated and reasonable, and a bit introverted, but she's actually quite gossipy at heart. She's the type who won't talk to you if you're not familiar with her, but once you get to know her, she'll chatter on and on.
Lu Xuezhi said, "I'm really not reconciled. What makes Shi Yantang the number one general? What makes him the chief of the Demon Slayer Division?"

Ning Xuan said, "He is at the mid-stage of the fourth rank."

Lu Xuezhi said dismissively, "They just got lucky by eating their way up. Or maybe..."

She rolled her beautiful eyes and said, "There must be a treasure."

Hearing this, she became even more convinced and said, "It must be so. He must have some kind of extraordinary treasure, and he was able to improve to this level by relying on this external object."

He rose to prominence in Leizhou, a place rife with demons. I suspect this treasure might have been given to him by demons, allowing him to infiltrate the imperial court as a high-ranking spy.

Ning Xuan listened to his wife's words.

The more he listened, the more familiar it sounded.

Upon closer reflection, wasn't this how the villains in the novels he had read in his previous life spoke?

In the darkness, an uncontrollable laugh could be heard.

Lu Xuezhi pulled her leg away from him, giving her knee a sharp twitch before doing so. Then she rolled over to the other side and said, "What are you laughing at? I'm ignoring you."

After a while, she turned over again, muttering, "Husband, the more I think about it, the more unwilling I am. Are we worse than him? Are we inferior to him?"

Ning Xuan remained silent.

Lu Xuezhi said, "Fine, I admit I'm not as good as him."

But what about you?
"My lord, how could someone as talented as you be overshadowed by someone like him? What right does he have to sit in that position? The position of Grand Chief of the Demon Slayer Division should clearly belong to you!"

Ning Xuan remained silent.

Lu Xuezhi said, "I don't care, we're not injured. Husband, let's go and make a name for ourselves. We need to prove to everyone that you are the most suitable person to be the Grand Master!"

Ning Xuan asked, "What if His Majesty wants me to marry the princess?"

Lu Xuezhi said cheerfully, "I'm not a jealous woman, it's just a small matter, no problem!"

After saying that, she unusually started to whine like a little girl, "Husband, you must have a way. I'm really not willing to accept this. Why should that Shi Yantang be above us? Why?"

"I won't accept this. Go fight him and show him what a true god-general is. I'll even get my parents here; they'll both support you."

Ning Xuan suddenly said, "Wife, let's have a child? When the child is about the same age as my elder brother's, he can have a sibling from birth."

He wanted to use having a child to suppress his foolish wife's restless heart and stop her from having wild thoughts. This was also the task of his mysterious mother-in-law, and at the same time, his own mother's expectation.

Lu Xuezhi looked bewildered and stammered, "Have children?"

Ning Xuan continued to coax her, saying, "That Shi Yantang is at the mid-stage of the fourth rank. Even if he reached that level by eating a demon core, he's still someone I can't deal with right now, is he?"
"You have to give me some time to grow, right?"

"But... having a baby?" Lu Xuezhi's heart suddenly started racing.

She seemed to be thinking about something in her little head, muttering, "Have a baby, have a baby."

Ning Xuan said, "It just so happens that we're not busy, and my elder brother and sister-in-law are also trying to conceive. This child will definitely have many people to accompany him/her from the moment he/she is born, as well as peers. This child will be very happy."

"We are all martial artists. If we don't have children now, what if we get busy later?"

Lu Xuezhi immediately forgot about "King Tianwu Shi Yantang" from before.
Ning Xuan's words touched the softest spot in her heart.

What she cannot have, she always hopes her child will have.

She thought about the current situation again, and it seemed that it was indeed very suitable for her to have children.

Suddenly
Lu Xuezhi made her decision. With a graceful leap, she bounded up, tossing her long hair like a wild, fiery steed, and looked down at the sky, declaring, "Come!!!"

Ning Xuan followed suit.

Lu Xuezhi suddenly stopped and said, "It's a promise, you have to grow up quickly, you have to defeat Shi Yantang!"
He must have risen to power through external means, through treasures; he is no match for you.

"I'm pregnant, so I can't practice martial arts anymore. You'll have to practice my share too."

Ning Xuan began to worry about the intelligence of his yet-to-be-born child.

However, he still began to soar to the clouds, and then draw water from the heavens to irrigate the fertile land of the human world.
Ning Xuan's physique began to improve rapidly.

22.6
23.0
23.4
Nineteen days after starting to try to conceive
Ning Xuan's physique has reached 29.9.

At this point, even with the addition of the Heavenly Demon Talisman of [Gong Sizhi], his stats were still only 29.9.

This realm has reached the bottleneck of the fourth rank.

Ning Xuan might not know how to break through to the fourth rank of Taiyin Ghost, but he already had the Five Poisons Sect's inheritance, plus the cultivation notes left by that expert named A Sui, so he still knew how to break through to the fourth rank.

The third rank, which resonates with Heaven and Earth, requires and can only be cultivated in a normal environment.

However, he could no longer attain the fourth rank.

The sea of ​​fire in the world during the daytime is not all the same. In some places the fire is fierce, and in others the fire is gentle. Fire in a normal environment is gentle.

However, Ning Xuan was prepared. In the past few days, while he was cultivating, he had been actively looking for new places to cultivate.

The preferred option is an underground volcano.

But there aren't any nearby.

Secondly, there's the blacksmith shop.

There are many blacksmith shops.

Even the Ning family could temporarily build one.

Ning Xuan chose this one.

He opened a blacksmith shop at home under the guise of hammering weapons and healing injuries.

He found a blacksmith master and learned the craft of forging swords and knives, and then began hammering iron.

The high temperature of forging was sealed behind the curtain. When the soul reappeared, it could already feel that this cramped little world was filled with a raging sea of ​​fire, and the yang energy contained in these fires was even stronger.

Ning Xuan sat cross-legged in meditation.

His soul left his body and hovered above his head.

The yang energy in the fire flowed in from all directions.

He mobilized the yang energy he had cultivated through physical and mental cultivation to create a distant resonance.

The Five Poisons are five kinds of energy linked together as a whole, radiating yang energy.

This yang energy was enveloped by the yang energy of heaven and earth, like a seed entering the mother's womb.

But, at the end of the day...
failure
Ning Xuan also did not know where he had been defeated.

That evening, I continued working.

The next day, instead of continuing his breakthrough, he went out to help his elder brother kill a small demon that dared to eat people near the canal, and then used the demon's blood to enter the nightmare to comprehend it.

After more than a decade of enlightenment, he understood. He clearly knew what he should do, and his cultivation would proceed without making any mistakes or taking any detours.

That night, I worked tirelessly.

On the third day, amidst the flames of the blacksmith's shop.

Ning Xuan restarted his cultivation technique, unleashing his own yang energy, and re-entered the sea of ​​fire in the heavens and earth.

Slowly.
The seeds formed by this practice of internal strength began to take root in the yang energy of heaven and earth.

The yang energy of heaven and earth transformed into amniotic fluid, which began to promote the growth of this seed.

A little over a month later, Lu Xuezhi began to experience a strange feeling of nausea. The doctor examined her and said, "Congratulations."

Lu Xuezhi then stopped practicing martial arts.

A few days later, Yunyi also had one.

By the fourth month, Lu Xuezhi's belly was noticeably protruding, and she always had a smile on her face, gently stroking her lower abdomen from time to time.

After she stopped practicing martial arts, her mother and sister-in-law started dragging her to pray and burn incense.

Since it's our own Buddhist shrine, there's nothing to worry about.

On this day, in the blacksmith's shop, Ning Xuan suddenly exhaled a long breath of turbid air.

A breath of foul air seemed to stir up a whirlwind, and a red heat wave formed a fiery snake that spun endlessly in the shop.

Ning Xuan opened his mouth and spat out a fiery red spider.

The spider landed, no bigger than the palm of a hand, with eight legs. Four of these legs each had a mysterious white-gold flame pattern, and it was these four white-gold flame patterns that made these four legs stronger than the other four.

Ning Xuan understood immediately after thinking about it.

The five energies combine into one, with one energy as the dominant one, transforming into a Yang soul body. The other four energies merge and reside in the four feet.

As soon as the spider landed, it swelled up at will, soon reaching his height, and in another instant it was more than ten feet tall, standing behind him before quickly disappearing again.

Ning Xuan tried it again and then he understood completely.

一
The strength of the Yang Soul Body is related to the quantity of its energy.

The more energy you fuse at the second rank, the stronger your Yang Soul Body will be.

Imagine that when he was at the second rank, he could defeat Gong Sizhi, who was at the third rank, by relying on the Five Forces in a Chain. So when he reached the fourth rank of Yang Soul Body, the difference was like heaven and earth.

The gap between a powerful early-stage fourth rank and a weak early-stage fourth rank is probably even greater than the gap between someone who hasn't entered a rank and someone who is only third rank.

two.
At the early stage of the fourth-grade Life Establishment Realm, his yang energy was insufficient to sustain his yang soul body outside for a long time.

At this stage, the Yang Soul Body is like an assassin, or a trump card, used in a swift and unexpected manner, without seeking longevity.

However, this point will undergo a qualitative change when one reaches the middle stage of the Life Establishment Realm.

He remembered the battle between Old Man Lan Yu and his mother-in-law.

Old Man Lan Yu's vital energy had long since deteriorated, but even so, he still managed to spit out the Yang Soul Body of the One-Horned Flood Dragon. The Flood Dragon even soared into the sky and remained there for a long time before disappearing.

Ning Xuan sat cross-legged in the blacksmith's shop for a long time.

Now that he knows the power of the Yang Soul Body is related to the number of fusion forces, what is he waiting for?

There are many demons on this land. They may not be strong, but their innate demonic arts contain a special kind of power, such as the Mountain-Striking Bear and the Golden Claw Wolf.

For others, it might be impossible to combine unrelated forces.

But for Ning Xuan...
If one can endure hundreds or thousands of years of solitude, there will always be a chance for successful integration.

He has to give it a try.

(End of this chapter)