After leaving Cuiwei Palace, Lu Chaoran was still struggling about how to deal with the relationship between Xiaoli and Ran'er, and after thinking all the way, he didn't have a clue.

Back at Chiming Peak, he could only put this matter aside for the time being and prepare for the retreat with all his might. He went to find Kong Zhao and found that Kong Zhao was not on the mountain again. As an immortal cultivator, in order to cultivate, he actually spends most of his time on the run, and the time he spends not staying on the mountain is actually not too much. He then went to the Falcon Hall, received the bounty for the task in Ningcheng Beishan, and then gave all the wind attribute demon cores he collected to Dan Bo, and according to Dan Bo's requirements, he purchased a lot of medicinal materials, because there were many wind attribute demon cores, the amount of medicinal materials that matched them was naturally very large, and soon, most of the bounty for his mission was actually spent.

Lu Chaoran smiled bitterly, this is also the life of an immortal cultivator, it is difficult to save money in the early stage, only in the later stage, after starting to do high-bounty tasks, and having the opportunity to travel around the world and find precious materials, will there be no such great financial pressure.

Xiaoyao Palace is located in a canyon called Xiuling Gorge not far from Chiming Peak, which is a place specially prepared for those who practice in retreat. Disciples of Chiming Peak can apply. Of course, no one will come here for retreat until the stage of turning into a spirit. Ordinary retreats are tantamount to a waste of time for busy immortal cultivators.

It stands to reason that when a disciple of Chiming Peak breaks through to the high level of the Qi Refining Realm and is considered by the top level of the sect to have potential, he will appoint a special master to carry out special cultivation in the form of one belt and one, or one belt two, or one belt three. However, Lu Chaoran's cultivation improvement during this period of time was unusual, and even the head of the sect, Ke Yinfeng, did not expect it, so he had not had time to arrange a potential test for Lu Chaoran, let alone appoint a master for him, he was still like those low-level and middle-level disciples of the Qi Refining Realm, coming and going freely without anyone to manage him.

Therefore, he still reported the matter directly to Ke Yinfeng through Tonglian. Even Ke Yinfeng was a little surprised when he heard the news, Lu Chaoran's progress during this period of time was completely beyond his expectations. Fortunately, the management of the secret realm of the Xiaoyao Palace is through the Council of Elders, not Ke Yinfeng's monopoly of power, and one person has the final say, otherwise, there will definitely be people who suspect that he is biased towards Lu Chaoran, and privately give the resources of the Xiaoyao Palace to Lu Chaoran for his own use. However, even then, with the results given by Lu Chaoran, it can completely block the mouths of those people. In the future, it is also possible to tilt towards Lu Chaoran in terms of resources.

"Could it be that it is the credit of the domineering Soul Snatching Sword Casting Method?" Of course, Ke Yinfeng would not have heard of Meng Haigong's incident, of course, it was only rumors, the first person who asked Meng Haigong to use the domineering Soul Snatching Sword Casting Method, Chi Yanzi, Ke Yinfeng had never seen it, it was all rumors.

Ke Yinfeng thought about it in his cave mansion and decided that no matter what, let Lu Chaoran retreat and cultivate first, and then he would slowly discuss with the elders how to cultivate this disciple in the future. Therefore, he immediately ordered Tonglian to give Lu Chaoran a pass pass to go to the Spiritual Cultivation Gorge for retreat. In the future, he will record Lu Chaoran's cultivation progress through the Council of Elders.

After Lu Chaoran got the pass token, he put all the things worth bringing into the Qiankun Tooth, and then came to Xiuling Gorge, where two old men in black were in charge of Xiuling Gorge, and their duty was to ensure that the people who retreated in the canyon were not disturbed by the outside world.

On a stone wall in the canyon, there are countless artificially excavated caves, which are not large, like a very small bedroom, but there is no furniture, only a stone pipe leads some mountain springs into a stone jar, and then there is a stone pier for retreat and meditation. The caves have thick stone gates, and when you enter, you close the stone gates, basically cutting them off from the outside world. Retreats can stay in it for as long as they want. Of course, I really can't stand the loneliness in the middle, or I want to eat something delicious, and it's okay to come out and rest for a few days before going in, but in this way, it's not good for epiphany. As an immortal cultivator, he has cultivated to such a point that there are very few people who are so unresolute in their will.

Lu Chaoran entered a cave, closed the stone door, sat down satisfied, and began his life of retreat.

In the first few days, he still had some chaotic thoughts in his head. For a while, he thought that his qi attribute cultivation was still in the most rudimentary stage, and he would have to work harder in the future, and for a while, he thought that the Nine Swords of Worry-free should practice more diligently, otherwise he would not be rusty after leaving the customs, and sometimes he would think of Dye'er. When chatting with Dye'er that day, Dye'er smiled silently in the end, extremely charming, extremely moving, as for what Dye'er was thinking at the time, he didn't know at all. More often than not, he would think about Xiao Li, and after he told her about the retreat and cultivation, he never communicated with her again. But Xiao Lijian was by his side, so when he felt lonely, he always wanted to talk to Xiao Li immediately.

For those in retreat, these are distractions. If we do not get rid of distracting thoughts, we will not be able to deeply perceive ourselves, and turning qi into spirit will never be an unattainable goal. Fortunately, a few days later, Lu Chaoran began to clear these distracting thoughts out of his mind one by one, and from then on, his mind was clear and empty. Lu Chaoran allowed his consciousness to float in this empty clarity, fully experiencing the feeling of freedom.

In this way, every once in a while, he would stop and take a few sips of the mountain spring to replenish his water. Then continue meditating. In fact, when he stopped to drink water, his consciousness was still in a meditative state.

I don't know how many days passed, but in meditation, he suddenly felt as if his previous life had been erased, and there was nothing else, as if it had been in this state since he was born.

With this awareness, in fact, he has come out of the stage of "nothingness" in meditation, and has begun to be guided by consciousness to begin to perceive himself. He seemed to see himself meditating in a cave since he was a child, day after day, year after year, never stopping, and he firmly believed that this was his life. So, he began to observe himself meditating and practicing with relish, as if he himself was suddenly observing his daily actions from the perspective of an external self, from the perspective of the air.

Day after day, year after year, I don't know how long it will take. Lu Chaoran suddenly felt that the world he was observing every day was beginning to be precarious, and it began to become very unstable, and various voices came from outside this world from time to time, which were complicated. The purity of this world seemed to be broken, and from time to time he felt his heart filled with fear.

This made him extremely anxious.