Time flies, white clouds and dogs, and the spring and autumn three years pass quietly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is still the ancient green mountains, the pure water that flows endlessly, the dense evergreen forests, the fertile and fertile fields, and the innocent and simple people.

In the past three years, except for thunderstorms on rainy days, there have been no other strange incidents here.

However, in the past, there was very little rain and thunder here, but in the past three years, there have always been hundreds of thunderstorms in heavy rains, and every summer there are individual mountain fires due to thunderstorms.

In addition, Zishang also saw strange lightning on clear evenings several times, and once he witnessed the formation of an orange lightning bolt throughout the whole process.

On that day, in the air about two miles away to the west of Shangying, twenty zhang above the ground, a very small orange "electric ball" appeared, and then there were slight ripples jumping around, and the "electric ball" expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye, and when it was about the size of a small house, a golden lightning bolt suddenly shot out from it, radiating to the southeast, and the lightning and the "electric ball" disappeared in two breaths.

Zishang consulted a large number of documents in the family and found no record of this orange and pan-gold lightning, but he had some vague speculations about the reason for the frequent thunderstorms in Shigu Village in recent years.

Although there have been no more strange incidents that have killed people, there has always been a thin layer of haze in the hearts of the people of Shigu Village, and they are more serious and silent after laughing.

However, because of the oppressive atmosphere, everyone cultivated harder.

Among the martial artists of the older generation, there were three clan elders who broke through to the Nine Realms of Qi Refining. Seven new powerhouses of the high-level Qi Refining Realm have also been added, and the high-end combat power has been greatly enhanced.

Secondly, among the middle-aged disciples of the previous generation, the younger Tianjiao Zili and Zilong broke through to the peak of the Seven Realms of Qi Refining strongly, and as for the other children of the same generation, the strongest was a thirty-nine-year-old middle-aged martial artist who had just entered the Five Realms of Qi Refining.

And the generation of Zishang, the head of the six stars of the year, also reached the late stage of the Nine Realms of Body Refining half a year ago, and the newly cultivated "Ruijin Sword Technique" has also been completed, approaching the peak of fire.

After the Eightfold Realm, he has been competing with the sub-axis alternately to sit on the "head of the six stars", and in the past three years, he has always adhered to the high-intensity training of winter training, and has taken the lead in reaching the peak of the Ninefold Realm of body refining.

Although he only switched to the more advanced sword technique "Confucian Style Brush and Ink" two years ago, with the "Pen and Ink Sword Technique" close to Dacheng's fire and the realm advantage of the peak of the Nine Realms, he defeated the sub-axis many times and completely confirmed the position of the head of the six stars.

That cheap little fat man, Zheng Zhuangzhuang, exceeded everyone's imagination, reached the peak of the eightfold realm of body refining, and the hammer method became more and more skilled and powerful. Zixu has been completely under it.

Two months ago, the Zi Shang who "went out" teamed up with Zizhang, Zixu and others to get Zheng Zhuangzhuang drunk and pried out some information about his mysterious hammer method.

He practiced the "Heaven-shaking Hammer Method", which he dreamed of at night after the "Immortal Cave" incident, whenever he fell asleep, he would always have a dream, and the content of the hammer method constantly flashed in the dream, and he practiced it repeatedly.

And this hammer method seems to be very advanced, Zheng Zhuang has practiced for more than four years before he can be close to Xiaocheng.

He estimated that if this hammer method was to be practiced to a real small level, it would have to reach at least the level of a half-step qi refining realm.

The double knife is empty, and he has not been idle in the past three years, in order to catch up with Zheng Zhuangzhuang, he has practiced hard, but in the past three years, he has challenged Zheng Zhuangzhuang dozens of times, and each time he has failed, and the gap has widened.

However, he also has the strength of the mid-Yae Realm.

The weakest is still Murong Zhixi, who "collapsed" after the qualifying match.

Because I still have the pimple of "snakes soaking in the spiritual spring" in my heart, I haven't used the spiritual spring again in the past three years.

With her high talent and hard work, she has now stepped into the ranks of the Eightfold Realm, and the gap between her and others is getting smaller and smaller.

It is worth mentioning that because of the "early days" she was nourished by the spiritual spring, and the innate aura grew a lot, and in the past three years, she has been groping to control the innate aura, and she has actually practiced a trace of rudimentary true qi by mistake!

However, she was not the first person to practice the Embryonic True Qi, after all, there was a young man who was close to the peak of body refining three years ago.

After the incident of the water monkey and the cat gathering, Zishang could not go out of retreat, and in just four months, he reached the peak of the Nine Realms of Body Refining.

After that, without any obstacles, he directly practiced the "Prototype True Qi" and became a "Half-step Qi Refining Realm" martial artist.

With the standard Qi Refining Realm physical fitness, he had accumulated a lot of rudimentary True Qi in three years.

In the first four months of his frenzied body refining, Yuanhua sent quite a batch of healing herbs, and personally went to treat him twice.

Although after reaching the half-step Qi Refining Realm, he mainly focused his energy on accumulating the Embryonic True Qi, he did not give up refining his body, so the strong smell of herbs still wafted from his courtyard all year round.

During the beginning of the time, Ziyun also often quietly watched Zishang's training from a distance, and it didn't take long to discover the secret of his hidden strength, and after communicating with Yuanhua, although he was shocked that Yuanhua and Zishang were hiding it from him, he didn't say anything.

In addition, although Zishang's training method was extremely cruel, Ziyun saw profundity and calmness in Zishang's eyes.

Ziyun felt that kind of look was like him who had experienced decades of ups and downs, calm and sophisticated.

He couldn't believe that Zishang would have such a mature side at such a young age, based on this situation, Ziyun hesitated again and again, he didn't stop Zishang's almost self-harming "training".

After a series of strange events three years ago, Ziyun always had a bad premonition, and he himself often retreated for months and devoted himself to cultivation. Although he is still at the peak of the Qi Refining Realm, Ziling of the same realm can't hold out fifty moves under him.

After five years of accumulation at most, he planned to try to impact the "God Refining Realm"!

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Two months ago, Zishang officially came out of the customs, claiming that his strength was the peak of the early stage of the Nine Realms of Body Refining.

He has been lonely for too long, after all, he is still young and his mental will is tired, and he can't continue to persevere.

Moreover, he also encountered a bottleneck in swordsmanship, the "Fufeng Sword Technique" of that year, after he fully exerted the strength of the half-step Qi Refining Realm, and practiced frantically for two years, he was already able to skillfully connect the nine-style sword moves, and correspondingly, the Fufeng Sword Technique also had a complete fire.

After exiting the customs, the first thing is to "fight"!

Start with Zheng Zhuangzhuang, because he can't play all his strength, so he fought with him for nearly 100 rounds, this time Zishang was serious for twelve points, so it was a hard-fought strength confrontation, and finally Zheng Zhuangzhuang fell into a dog and gnawed mud and declared a failure.

"Alas~Strong!It's time to lose weight~"

Zishang proudly held the Zhanchen sword and bent down to provoke Zheng Zhuangzhuang.

The second is the sub-axis that retreats to the "second of the six stars".

This time, Zishang once again relied on his fighting consciousness and physical fitness to draw with him, and the onlookers were full of praise and amazement.

Although after beating Zi Axis, Zi Shang also knew that he couldn't beat Zizhang after hiding his strength, but he still had to see his current strength, so the two also fought, only a hundred moves, and Zi Shang was defeated.

"It seems that if I don't hide my strength, I deserve to be the first!" Zishang said with joy in his heart, although the aura of the "head of the six stars" is not small, he has no idea of revealing his strength.

Three years later, his mind is no longer naïve, and he is quite mature in most aspects.

After exiting the customs, Zishang fought another round of fights, and then began to consider continuing to improve his swordsmanship.

He also used his father's relationship to select a very strong swordsmanship secret book "Fragment of the Dark Sword" in the forbidden land of the family.

"Fragment of the Dark Sword": Three hundred years ago, a sword master of the Divine Realm was chased and killed by the extremely powerful [Earth Demon Beast] to a Jedi called "Fallen Sky Cliff" when he was training in the forbidden land of the Qing Netherworld.

But after falling 300 meters from the cliff, he encountered a strong updraft, and after falling for a distance, he found a cave on the cliff wall. He dragged his badly wounded body into the cave, and then saw a corpse with a dusty sword in his hand, and the walls of the cave around him were carved with patterns and words.

It's just that those words are oracle bone inscriptions, and the inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty have been popularized at that time, and this master of the God Refining Realm knows only a limited number of oracle bone inscriptions, but he recognizes the name of this set of swordsmanship: "Dead Sword Codex"

While practicing and pondering according to the patterns, he guessed and discerned the meaning of other words based on some oracle bone inscriptions he knew. It took more than thirty years to successfully practice the improved version of the "Dead Sword Technique", and broke through to the ninefold refinement of the God Realm, and finally fought out of the Qing Netherworld Forbidden Land and became a top sword saint in the land of Shenzhou.

The sword saint carefully compiled the "Dead Sword Spectrum" before he died, and it was lost soon after his death, after more than three hundred years of time washing, the sword spectrum was already in tatters, seventy years ago, a swordsman at the peak of the Qi Refining Realm accidentally obtained the sword spectrum and copied it down, as for the vague part, he made up it in detail according to his own cultivation experience, of course, it was only the part before the Refining God Realm.

In fact, to put it simply, "Fragment of the Dark Sword" is a "third-hand product", an imitation of an imitation.

Zishang practiced for more than a month, and only barely got started, mainly because this sword style is very different from the "Wind Willow Sword Technique" and "Fufeng Sword Technique", because it can't get rid of the habit of using the sword, it will progress slowly.

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On this day, the wind and the sun are beautiful, the flowers are in full bloom, the trees are abundant, and the water is murmuring.

In a dense forest in the "Forty-mile Long Mountain", Yuanhua led his four apprentices and assistants to work tirelessly to take care of the herb field.

At that time, they were bowing their heads and silently weeding the herbs, when suddenly two shouts full of joy sounded, the voices were unfamiliar and strange, and they couldn't help but arouse their alarm.

Shigu Village is isolated from the world, there are no other villages within a radius of forty miles, the nearest town "Shunshan Town" is fifty miles away from the village, plus there is no clear road here, surrounded by mountains, the terrain is rugged, it is simply "difficult to Xiaoshu Road".

This sudden shout made Yuanhua hear the meaning of "the mountains and rivers are doubtful, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village", and he couldn't help but be vigilant.

Moreover, Yuanhua and Ziyun all knew that although Shigu Village was secret, it would inevitably be discovered one day, so they had specially discussed this matter in the two years they had just arrived in Shigu Village.

At this time, he had a hunch that these people were not ordinary people who had no intention of breaking in, and Shigu Village might no longer be hidden because of their arrival.

No matter what, Yuanhua still quietly took his apprentices to the woods on the top of the mountain, hiding behind the trees to observe the comers.

There were four people, three men and one woman, all in their thirties, and the woman looked to be in her early thirties.

Yuanhua held his breath and listened carefully to their conversation.

"Great! Finally found it! It must be here! It must be!" said a man with a black face excitedly.

"Yes, look over there, there are so many dead merchant-style mansions, this is it, yes!" the woman said excitedly.

However, Yuanhua and the others changed their faces greatly......