With the accumulation of anxiety, Lu Chaoran's consciousness world gradually lost its balance, and his disturbed thoughts and endless memories suddenly poured into a tumbling cloud of smoke. Lu Chaoran was shocked, he was extremely sorry for the clarity and ethereal spirit in the original consciousness world, but now his consciousness world seemed to be even more chaotic and chaotic than the external world. Heavenly fire, strong winds, torrential rains, and earthquakes were constantly raging in Lu Chaoran's consciousness world, and Lu Chaoran felt that his whole body was hot like fire for a while, and cold like ice for a while. At this time, he even sat cross-legged for many days, and did not drink any more water. However, at the moment he does not realize this at all.

He has been trying to use the power of his consciousness to restore the chaos in his conscious world, and he has completely lost his judgment of the time in the outside world. At this time, if an outsider breaks into his retreat and forcibly interrupts his meditation, it is very likely that he will go mad, or at least the results of the previous period of retreat will be lost, or at worst, he will go mad, and all his years of cultivation will be abolished.

Fortunately, in the retreat place of the Xiaoyao Palace, it is very safe and basically will not be attacked by the outside world.

......

More than a year later, one day in early spring, the stone door of the grotto where Lu Chaoran was retreating was slowly opened, and with a few sizzling currents, Lu Chaoran walked out of the grotto. Several arcs of lightning glowing white swirled around him, writhing in the air. After a long period of hard work to restructure his consciousness world, Lu Chaoran finally broke through to the first layer of the Spirit Fortune Realm, and was out of the customs on this day more than a year later!

Since he had been cultivating the "Easy Breeze Introduction" before entering the customs, he already had some foundation for wind attributes. After his True Yuan cultivation was sublimated from the Qi Refining Realm to the Spirit Luck Realm, the corresponding cultivation attributes were also strengthened. Therefore, Lu Chaoran, who had just broken through to the first layer of the Spirit Fortune Realm, had some excess True Yuan Spiritual Qi overflowing from his body and spreading in the air around him in the form of an electric arc.

He paused outside the grotto for a while, readjusting to the light and air outside, and at the same time, the True Yuan aura he exuded everywhere gradually dissipated, and the arc that coiled around him also weakened and disappeared.

Lu Chaoran didn't know how long he had been in retreat, looking at the freshly melted snow in the Spirit Cultivation Valley, and the new green that appeared everywhere,

He thought he had only been in retreat for a winter. When he came out of the valley, he found out from the two black-clothed old men who guarded the Cultivation Spirit Valley that he had been in retreat for thirteen months.

I didn't expect it to take so long, but as long as I successfully became a monk of the Spirit Fortune Realm, I would have no regrets. He walked towards his residence while communicating with Xiaoli through mental induction.

"Xiao Li, I haven't talked to you for a long time, but I didn't expect that more than a year has passed all of a sudden, and I have already broken through to the first stage of the Spirit Luck Realm. Are you okay?"

Xiao Li was still sitting on the floor of the Sword Palace, leaning against a temple pillar with her back to her, and was looking down to think, she looked up at the Hongmeng Void outside the gate of the Sword Palace, smiled slightly, and said, "For me, I don't feel like it's been long. However, I don't need you to say it, I can feel the improvement of your cultivation. Congratulations, brother!"

Back at his residence, Lu Chaoran first told Yun Ruyuan the news of his exit through the purple bamboo stick, and then carefully washed up, changed a set of clothes, and went to find Ke Yinfeng.

However, Ke Yinfeng had already received a notice from the caretaker of the Spirit Cultivation Valley. As the head of the house, although he was busy with affairs, he still asked Lu Chaoran to come to see him.

He was still on the big stone platform outside his cave, looking at the endless sea of clouds and pine waves.

"You're eighteen years old this year, aren't you?" asked Ke Yinfeng with a smile.

"Yes, sir. ”

"It's really good to be able to become a spiritual realm monk at the age of eighteen! Now that you've reached this kind of cultivation, I think you're already qualified to participate in the battle array practice. ”

"Battle array?" Lu Chaoran was stunned, he didn't have much joy in his heart when he heard the news. He knew that the battle formation had to be practiced with other disciples, but he only wanted to be in a group with Ran'er, but now his cultivation was far from Ran'er, and he didn't know if he would have a chance to be in a group.

"Yes, the joint training between our Xiaoyao Palace and the disciples of the four major sects of Kagura Palace, Cuiwei Palace and Wuji Palace has already been carried out twice, and the first time was in our Xiaoyao Palace. The second time was to go to the Wuji Palace. This was last year. At that time, you were still in retreat. So far, the exploration of the battle formation between our four major sects has achieved considerable results. The formation of battle formations between disciples of different sects can indeed exert more powerful strength. Soon, the third joint practice will take place at Kagura Palace. This time, I want you to participate too!"

"Are you going to Kagura Palace?" Lu Chaoran heard the news, and felt a slight strange feeling in his heart. After all, Long Sen's son and Yuan Fei both died at his hands. Kagura Palace, but he's currently a potential enemy in this world.

After seeing Ke Yinfeng, Lu Chaoran returned to his residence, and as soon as he entered the house, someone knocked on his door. When I opened the door, it turned out to be Kong Zhao. Although the two lived close together, they hadn't seen each other for more than a year since they sent them down the mountain together.

"Kong Zhao, I finally see you again!" Lu Chaoran was overjoyed and couldn't help but give him a fierce hug.

Kong Zhao's excitement was also beyond words, and he also punched Lu Chaoran in the chest a few times, and said, "Brother Lu, I didn't expect to see you after such a long time. The year before last, Kongzhu went to Shenmu Island, and I have been busy with the task of cultivating, and every time I go back to Chiming Peak, I will come to you, but you are always there, and then once I stayed on the mountain for a long time, but I still haven't seen your people, and I have been asking around, and I don't know why you went. Later, it was Master Murong Er who was well-informed, and he told me that you had already gone to the Spirit Cultivation Valley for retreat!"

Lu Chaoran said ashamedly: "I should have left a note at your residence to tell you my whereabouts, it was my negligence that made Brother Kong Zhao so worried! Come into the house, our brothers have a good chat!"

I haven't seen him for more than a year, Kong Zhao has grown a lot taller, and his face has taken off some childishness, but he still looks beautiful and weak.

"I have been practicing hard for more than a year, and my cultivation has broken through to the tenth layer of the Qi Refining Realm. Kong Zhao said excitedly, "But compared to Brother Lu, it's still too far behind, I didn't expect that you are already a spirit-level monk now." However, Master Murong Er told me that he is very optimistic about my potential, and he is helping me fight for the cultivation of the secret realm!"