Chapter 18: Revisiting the Book of Evil
Three days later. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info Xie Yan left the scope of the Jingshi, and as for the Taishi who was standing behind the third prince, he did not appear until the end, which made Xie Yan, who was originally tense, breathe a sigh of relief. The monk in the middle of the Qi Gathering Period, now he is not an opponent, because of the news transmission, the court's pursuit documents have not arrived here, so Xie Yan did not disguise himself, but just bought a horse and slowly walked towards the east.
On this day, Xie Yan walked near the border mountain, because the sun was setting in the west mountain, so Xie Yan found a place and planned to spend the night.
"Anyone?"
Xie Yan stood in front of a dilapidated temple and knocked lightly on the door.
Squeak......
The door opened on its own.
Xie Yan frowned and walked in.
After walking into the inner courtyard, Xie Yan found that this courtyard was not a big family's house, but a temple, an abandoned temple, judging from the surrounding traces, it is estimated that no one has lived here for a long time, there is dust everywhere, the roof is also tattered, there are holes everywhere, the only thing that is still intact is probably the main hall.
"You can vaguely see the prosperity of the past."
Xie Yan made a circle and found that there are many houses in this temple, in addition to guest rooms and side rooms, there are independent courtyards in the back, and the planning is also very complete, you can imagine the scene of the temple's incense in its heyday.
After making sure that there was no danger, Xie Yan didn't investigate, but just returned to the main hall to rest.
After simply cleaning up a place, Xie Yan took out the dry food from his arms and ate it, he was still only in the Qi Refining Realm, and he still had a certain need for food.
Time passed silently.
Sunset.
The whole world was reflected in the golden afterglow, and after Xie Yan finished eating the dry food, he began to cultivate cross-legged.
No accumulation of steps, no thousands of miles.
Any master is accumulated step by step, which Xie Yan knows very well.
After condensing the true yuan, Xie Yan did not break a day, and he would complete the necessary cultivation every day, just like when he practiced internal strength, and it was precisely because of this that his cultivation would stabilize and gradually show signs of improvement. However, it was a pity that it was obviously not so easy from the early to mid-stage of the Qi Refining Realm. Regarding this point, Xie Yan also found some information recently, these books were all from the inner mansion of the third prince, there are more than a dozen books on the Qi Refining Realm, looking at the handwriting, they should all be written by that Grand Master.
In the Taishi's records, he clearly divided the Qi Refining Realm into nine layers, the first three layers are the early stage of the Qi Refining Realm, the fourth to sixth layers are the middle stage of the Qi Refining Realm, and the seventh to ninth layers are the late stage of the Qi Refining Realm. Of course, it is said that there is a higher level behind the ninth layer, but that is only theoretical, and no one has ever reached it.
"The third to fourth floors should be a hurdle, there are not enough resources, it takes too long to rush through the level by absorbing spiritual energy, which can be seen from the offerings of the Great Yan Imperial Court."
Closing the Taishi's transcript, Xie Yan pondered.
The realm will definitely not be able to rise in a short period of time, you must know that those worshippers in the imperial court, those who have advanced to the middle stage of qi refining, which one is not over a hundred years old, compared to them, Xie Yan is still too young. As for resources, Xie Yan doesn't have a clue at present, this is also inevitable, if the resources are really so easy to find, those offerings in the imperial court will not be so miserable, and the age of 100 years old has only advanced to the middle stage of qi refining, not because of bad qualifications, but because there are no resources.
Since the realm could not be improved, Xie Yan naturally began to think about other ways to improve.
"An attack spell is missing."
Xie Yan began to think about his flaws.
In the previous battle of the Three Princes' Mansion, he basically relied entirely on **, and if he faced the enemy head-on, it would be absolutely impossible to kill the Three Princes, which is also the main reason why the Three Princes did not put Xie Yan in their eyes from beginning to end.
Thinking of this, Xie Yan couldn't help but take out the black evil book.
"It's too profound, I can't understand it right now, otherwise, I can solve this problem."
This book is the evil book that the old ghost gave him that day.
Although it is said to be an evil book of nine deaths and a lifetime, but so far, Xie Yan has not found any abnormalities, on the contrary, after learning the first layer of this exercise, his mind has become clearer and clearer, and when learning ordinary spells, he can see the key at a glance, it only takes a small amount of time to reach a level that others cannot reach in a lifetime, such as the five magic golden body snatched from the great monk.
After all, the Five Methods Golden Body is only a defensive technique for refining the body, even if Xie Yan changes some of the methods of using the Golden Body, there is no way to compare it with the real attack spell, it is good to deal with ordinary ordinary opponents, once you meet a troublesome character like Shadow, this problem will be infinitely magnified, which is also a problem that Xie Yan summed up after this fight.
As for the martial arts used before, it is obviously not enough now, after the monk condenses the true yuan, he is already considered an immortal cultivator, and the martial arts moves basically have no much effect on this level. In fact, this is also inevitable, to give a very simple example, the swordsmanship that attacks the enemy in the martial arts path is basically no different from looking for death in the duel of immortal cultivators. Just imagine, if you abandon the defense of the sword and hit the opponent's throat, if it is a normal martial artist, you will definitely abandon the attack to defend your own vital point, in this way, the move can be indefinitely coherent until the enemy is killed. But if the opponent is an immortal cultivator like Shadow, they can completely ignore your sword moves, and instead attack and kill, in that case, continuing to use sword moves is tantamount to looking for death.
Of course, martial arts are not entirely useless.
At the very least, Xie Yan's intuition and the use of spells have a lot to do with the instinct created by long-term martial arts practice, this instinct can't be seen on weekdays, but once the strength of the two is not much different, this instinct will be reflected.
"I still can't understand it, I guess I won't be able to see the content until I advance to the middle stage of qi refining."
Xie Yan sighed and re-collected the evil book.
The level of the evil book is too high, except for the initial entrance formula, the latter part Xie Yan can't understand at all, just like a young child who goes to read a martial arts cheat, he can't understand it at all.
"It's a pity that that senior only taught me for three days, otherwise, maybe I could understand more."
The old ghost is definitely an earth-shattering person, what he taught Xie Yan in three days can't be described in words at all, it's not so much the Fa as the 'Dao', he didn't give Xie Yan anything substantial, but Xie Yan understood a lot, including his use of true yuan power to condense flames, gather water into ice and other means, all of which he figured out by himself, and the old man was just guiding him.
The Fa cannot be taught by words and deeds, it can only be understood, and this cannot be understood by people at lower levels, but when they reach a higher level, they all do so, such as the ancient sages in myths and legends, the only way they instruct their disciples is to preach, but they never tell them how you should cultivate.
The Tao can only be guided.
After thinking hard to no avail, Xie Yan had to give up temporarily.
His current state has reached a bottleneck, and if he wants to break through, he must seek other resources.
Perhaps the 'Dao Yan Sect' that the Blood Swordsman Shi Feng Nian said was an opportunity.
The Immortal Cultivation Sect is obviously two completely different levels from the secular dynasty, and what cannot be found in the secular dynasty may be found in the Immortal Cultivation Sect. And this time he went out, Xie Yan had another purpose, that is, to find the ghosts of other seniors.
Through the ghost body, this kind of physique has been known to him through the mysterious old man.
Since you have this ability, it would be a waste not to make good use of it.