Chapter Seventy-Two: Cultivation
Ji Chen walked around, their three battle camps in Fa County were very large, and after walking for at least half an hour, Ji Chen didn't see the boundaries of the battle camps. The situation in this camp is also very complicated, in addition to a place for everyone to rest and an open space for everyone to gather and practice, there is also a forest in front of the clearing. Ji Chen heard others say that walking through this forest is the front line. To the left of the clearing is a mountain, and the people here call that place the back mountain. On the right side of the clearing is a simple town, I heard that it is left in Donghuang City, through that town, it is Donghuang City, but there are heavy troops specially arranged by Donghuang City to guard.
The three battle battalions, to be precise, the basic situation of the support base of the three war battalions, Ji Chen already knew a little, according to what Long Hao said, all they needed to do was to cultivate here, become stronger, and then go to the battlefield when the front line needed them. Ji Chen knew that the legion needed them very much, but he didn't pay attention to them at all. It's better to say that it's because the war is too intense, and ordinary soldiers die quickly on the battlefield, so it's not worth bothering too much to cultivate, but it's not good to say, in fact, they are cannon fodder, which is a disposable item, and it is useless except for exchanging a life for a life on the battlefield.
If you want to live for a long time, the premise is that you must become strong quickly!
Thinking of this, Ji Chen glanced at the back mountain, the entire three battle camps, only there could allow him to cultivate without attracting the attention of others.
Twisting his neck, Ji Chen walked towards the back mountain.
Zhao Lansheng suddenly patted Ji Chen from behind: "Hey, where are you going?"
Ji Chen glanced at him with a headache, "You can recognize me with so many people wearing the same armor?"
Zhao Lansheng said proudly: "With a package on your back, I can find you at a glance." ”
Ji Chen touched the package on his back and sighed: "What are you looking for me?"
"Of course it's cultivating together!"
"It's okay for you to cultivate on your own, why do you have to come with me. ”
Zhao Lansheng scratched his neck, "You don't know, I heard that the camp is quite chaotic, and I'm a little scared alone, so if something happens to you, maybe you can protect me." ”
Ji Chen smiled: "Please, you are already in the angry period, higher than my cultivation, how can I protect you." ”
"Don't pretend, even Zhao Hongying in the late stage of anger has become a waste, do you know, Zhao Hongying can be regarded as a genius in our entire Chiba City!" Zhao Lansheng glared.
Ji Chen shook his head and did not reply.
Zhao Lansheng prayed again: "You just take me, I won't get in your way, I know that you are afraid that others will know the secret of your strange fire, but I already know it, so you don't have to avoid me." ”
When Ji Chen heard this, he sighed and said, "Okay, if you want to follow, you can follow." ”
After speaking, Ji Chen walked towards the back mountain, and Zhao Lansheng hurriedly followed behind him happily.
When you first enter the back mountain, you can see many people meditating on the spring or on the big rocks, and if you go a little deeper, you can see some people practicing spiritual skills, and from time to time they make a blasting sound. Ji Chen couldn't help but scratch his head when he heard these voices, it wasn't enough, this place was not secret enough.
So Ji Chen wandered around the back mountain, drilling wherever it seemed remote, and they didn't stop until Zhao Lansheng was a little tired.
"Brother Chen, don't go any further, I heard that this back mountain is not a good place, it can be connected to the Red Moon Forest in the First War Zone!" Zhao Lansheng gasped and said.
"Oh? ”
"I heard from an old soldier that the Red Moon Forest is located at the junction of Dongzhou and Mobei, which is much more mysterious than the primeval forest outside our Chiba City, and the situation inside is extremely complicated, you may encounter soldiers from District 1, the thousand-year-old demon clan, and other demon beasts, and even the boneless dragon clan. Every year, a large number of newcomers are missing or their bodies are found here, but the legion doesn't care at all, because the above can better hone the newcomers, and occasionally there are some newcomers who encounter adventures here, and it is rumored that the general in the first war zone is called, I remember that he said that he also wanted to call the north falling sky because of what treasure he got here, and he became famous in the last battle, and finally sat in the position of general. But let's not think about this kind of thing, or life is more important. ”
Ji Chen touched his chin, he didn't expect this back mountain to be so interesting, this border was much more complicated than he thought.
"Alright, we're not going forward, just here. Ji Chen looked at the clearing in the woods and said.
As he spoke, Ji Chen's spirit gave birth to a flame, burning all the weeds and branches in the clearing.
"I'll be cultivating here, you can find a random place to cultivate. Ji Chen explained, and sat directly in place.
Zhao Lansheng answered, and sat down at the edge of the clearing to start Naling.
As soon as Ji Chen's buttocks hit the ground, he suddenly remembered that Patriarch Fan Sai gave him a spiritual skill when he was leaving, so he quickly took it out and took a look.
This book is called the Thousand Strikes of Fire Waves, and the spiritual skill is thinner than the Flame Fight, and there are not many fonts on it, and there is a sentence written on the first page: The sea of fire is vast, and the four elephants are incinerated.
"Sounds amazing!" Ji Chen raised his eyebrows. "I don't know what the effect is. ”
Ji Chen read it all roughly according to the old method, of course, he couldn't understand the deep meaning, but Ji Chen knew that this was a large-scale group attack spirit skill, I don't know if it was a coincidence or if the mortal patriarch specially found it for him, if this spirit skill was really used on the battlefield, it couldn't be more suitable.
So Ji Chen began to cultivate this spiritual skill without saying a word, according to the book, in order to practice the fire wave thousand strikes, you must practice your ability to perceive the aura around you, and finally reach the point where you can communicate with each other, which is related to the ultimate power, scope and duration of the spiritual skill.
Ji Chen, who was sitting on the ground, didn't know what the meaning or state of human spirit connection was, he sat on the ground and tried to start accepting the spirit, starting from this aspect, to perceive the spiritual power around him.
Ji Chen, who was in a state of Naling, looked very terrifying from the outside, and the aura around him was frantically sucked into his body, which Ji Chen couldn't control himself.
Zhao Lansheng, who was on the side, was still obediently Na Ling, but he suddenly felt that all the aura around him began to be sucked away, and even the aura in his body was about to move, Zhao Lansheng immediately woke up from the Na Ling state, and saw that the aura in the air turned into a streamer visible to the naked eye, and then merged into a point in a whirlpool, and that was where Ji Chen was.
Zhao Lansheng was so frightened that he retreated again and again, just about to wake up Ji Chen, but when he saw the calm and comfortable expression on Ji Chen's face, he dispelled this thought, and then hid away from the side.
Ji Chen, who was immersed in the state of Naling, only knew that the aura around him was rapidly converging into his body, and he didn't know how terrifying it looked from the outside. Therefore, Ji Chen still knew nothing about trying to feel the aura around him.
At first, Ji Chen's mind was like a swimmer swimming in a flood in this aura whirlpool, he wanted to observe carefully and feel every trace of aura, but these auras did not stop at all, but Ji Chen's mind was a little tired.
But slowly, Ji Chen had a bold idea, that is, to disperse his mind from the surrounding area of his body against the aura vortex, and then withdraw it together in the easy-going aura vortex, so that maybe on the way to retract the aura can be in the same direction as the aura that merges into the body, but this is very nerve-wracking, and the cultivation time is difficult to last.
However, Ji Chen, who had no other way, could only give it a try, he tried his best to center his mind on himself, spreading out to the surroundings, and covering the range of Ji Chen's body about a foot under the impact of the aura, and then Ji Chen felt a little powerless. Ji Chen's brows furrowed slightly, and he began to shrink rapidly, and sure enough, his mind was in the same direction as Zhou Lingqi, and his state began to look clearer and more real.
It's just that when Ji Chen retracted his mind, the speed seemed to be much faster than the speed at which the aura fused into his body.
So Ji Chen tried again, this time he tried to slow down the speed of regaining his mind as much as possible, but the final result was that this time it was much slower.
Unconvinced, Ji Chen kept trying, again and again, after repeated failures, and finally after a dozen times, Ji Chen finally grasped the speed of retracting his mind and the speed at which the surrounding aura was converging. In that time, Ji Chen felt as if his mind had merged with the surrounding aura, and even Ji Chen's mind could change the form and speed of the aura vortex, although the effect was not obvious, but it was a big improvement.
At this time, Ji Chen's mind was already very tired, he felt that his head was very heavy, and his consciousness was a little depressed, so he withdrew from the cultivation state, shook his head, and glanced around.
Sure enough, as Ji Chen expected, the trees around it were all dead, black and yellow.
Ji Chen bit his lip, and suddenly remembered Zhao Lansheng, so he quickly glanced around, but found that he was not seen at all.
"Zhao Lansheng!" Ji Chen shouted eagerly.
"You've finally woken up, I'm here!" Zhao Lansheng came out of the bushes far away.
Ji Chen asked angrily, "What are you hiding there for!"
"You're embarrassed to say it, as soon as you cultivate, you can't wait to drain the aura of everything around you, if I don't hide away, I guess I will burp a long time ago!" Zhao Lansheng hugged his hands and said aggrievedly.
Ji Chen remembered this and patted Zhao Lansheng's shoulder embarrassedly.
Suddenly, a grunting sound came from Ji Chen's stomach, and Ji Chen touched his stomach: "I'm hungry." ”
"Of course I'm hungry! I've been starving to death, we've been here for three days! ”
"Three days!" Ji Chen exclaimed incredulously.
"Yes! Three days. You never woke up as soon as you got into that state, and I didn't dare to disturb you casually. ”
Ji Chen scratched the back of his head in embarrassment: "When you cultivate, time really flies." ”
"Okay, okay, stop talking nonsense, let's go back quickly. Zhao Lansheng shook off a sentence and swaggered away.
Ji Chen stretched his body and followed behind.
When they came out of the back mountain, there were still many people cultivating on the periphery of the back mountain, and Ji Chen and Zhao Lansheng attracted a lot of people's attention along the way when they came out of the depths of the back mountain.
When he came to the Column Factory, Zhao Lansheng casually grabbed a person and asked where there was a place to eat, and the person replied that there was a place to distribute dry food in the rest area of the barracks every day, but there was only one time a day, and this time point had been missed, and if you still wanted to eat, you could only go to the small town on the right side of the Column Yard to buy it.
"How to buy?" Ji Chen asked Zhao Lansheng.
"Of course it's a spirit stone. ”
Ji Chen suddenly remembered that in this world, spirit stones are currency.
"What's the matter, you didn't bring any spirit stones when you came out?" Zhao Lansheng saw Ji Chen's difficulty.
"My situation is quite special, I don't even know what a spirit stone looks like. Ji Chen crossed his hands on his waist.
Zhao Lansheng said in disbelief: "You haven't even seen a spirit stone, how is it possible!"
"It's all said that my situation is special. ”
"What's the situation?"
Ji Chen sighed: "I'll talk to you about this later." ”
"Okay. Zhao Lansheng didn't ask any more, he took out two crystal-clear, warm as jade, and faintly glowing white walnut-sized stones from his arms and quietly handed them to Ji Chen, and whispered: "No, this is the spirit stone, which is both a currency and a consumable for cultivation, which is extremely precious." One hundred lower-grade spirit stones is equal to one medium-grade spirit stone, one ....... ”
"I see, a hundred medium-grade spirit stones are equal to one high-grade spirit stone, right? Ji Chen said impatiently.
"Wrong! A thousand medium-grade spirit stones are equal to a high-grade spirit stone, and in the same way, a thousand high-grade spirit stones are only a high-grade spirit stone. Zhao Lansheng denied.
"Why?, the exchange rate of the medium-grade spirit stone has increased tenfold!" Ji Chen was a little stunned.
"Because, high-grade spirit stones and high-grade spirit stones are not a little rarer than medium-grade spirit stones, and high-grade spirit stones and medium-grade spirit stones are not only currency and cultivation in themselves, but also important materials for practice, and can even be used as medicinal materials. Zhao Lansheng said proudly.
"Then how are spirit stones used for cultivation?"
Zhao Lansheng looked at Ji Chen like a fool, "Because the spirit stone is a gem excavated from the spiritual veins between heaven and earth, it contains a large amount of heaven and earth aura, which can be said to be the essence of aura, when you hold it in your hand, you can absorb the aura of heaven and earth while also absorbing the aura in the spirit stone, so that you can achieve the effect of increasing the cultivation speed, and the more advanced the spirit stone, the more rich and pure the spiritual power, and the higher the quality of the aura in the body after absorption." This is why the princes and princesses of the princes and nobles have such a fast cultivation speed and strong strength, like the vast majority of our ordinary people, they will not be able to cultivate in the Heavenly Chosen Period in their lives. ”
Ji Chen sighed, it seems that no matter where you go, having money is equal to having privileges.