Chapter 5: The Dragon's Palace
Shi Xuan successfully helped Du Ruofei forge the armor he requested, and he also fulfilled his promise to give Shi Xuan the third-order demonic beast essence blood he needed.
Du Ruofei, as the senior brother who entered Tianhai Yuan a year ago, has extraordinary talent and strong strength, and now he has already been on the list, he has reached the eighth layer of the Kaiyuan realm, and there are few opponents in this realm, before he found a few like-minded brothers to go into the mountains to hunt spirit beasts and obtain spiritual materials, originally planned to hunt some second-order demonic beasts, but he never thought that he would provoke a third-order Qingfeng wolf, chasing him to flee everywhere, relying on the superb use of the wind element, the speed was extremely fast to introduce the Qingfeng wolf into the territory of another third-order demonic beast, provoking their fight, and finally taking advantage of the Qingfeng wolf's thin injury, several people worked together to kill it, but he also suffered a lot of injuries in this battleใ
Only then did he make up his mind to find someone to forge a pair of armor, and it took a lot of contribution points to gather enough spiritual materials, but it was difficult to find a suitable spirit forging master to help him build it, and the price of some spirit forging masters in the academy was too high for him to bear, Shi Xuan's previous defeat of Lin Feng reached his ears and attracted his attention, and later there was a successful forging of a first-order spirit soldier, which made him want to take the risk of asking Shi Xuan for help.
Now, seeing the spirit armor in his hand, Du Ruofei was very happy, and he was still a little worried before.
Du Ruofei immediately put the spirit armor on his body, and used all his strength to urge the exercises he had learned, and for a while, the wind was everywhere, and countless powerful winds surrounded him, and the whirlpools rolled up where his hurricane-like body passed, and it was almost difficult for ordinary enemies to enter.
Shi Xuan was fascinated by watching from the sidelines, he had never seen a person urging powerful exercises with all his might, seeing Du Ruofei's posture like a rabbit, Shi Xuan was full of emotion, and now that he had all his spiritual materials, he could start practicing the exercises.
Du Ruofei stopped after some tossing, and said to Shi Xuan: "Thank you Senior Brother Shi Xuan for your help, from today onwards, if you encounter something difficult in the academy, report my name, ordinary people dare not make it difficult for you, if that Lin Feng still dares to come to you for trouble, I will help you settle it." โ
Shi Xuan said: "Senior Brother Du is polite, I will rely on Senior Brother to take care of one or two in the future", Shi Xuan returned the courtesy.
After finishing the things here, Shi Xuan excitedly took a lot of spiritual materials and began to prepare to cultivate his Divine Dragon Palace.
As a high-level exercise, its cultivation method is naturally cumbersome, and there are many spiritual materials required, but the most important thing is this bottle of third-order spirit beast essence blood, and the others are only auxiliary medicines.
Shi Xuan carefully comprehended the mystery of the exercise, this exercise needs to use the essence and blood of powerful spirit beasts to continuously transform the physique, and use the powerful spirit beast bloodline power to strengthen its own meridians, so as to make people's fragile physique transform one by one, and combined with its supporting body forging technique, it can improve the power of human bloodlines to an exaggerated level if it continues to be cultivated.
However, every time the physique is improved, the required spirit beast essence blood has to be increased by one order, and the required spiritual materials are also more precious, in addition to these precious spiritual materials are difficult to obtain, when forging the body, it is like dismantling the bones and removing the flesh, washing the meridians and changing the marrow, and the perseverance is difficult for people underground to bear. This exercise requires a lifetime of continuous improvement, unlike other exercises, and can only be effective if it is practiced for a long time.
Shi Xuan felt that the remnants of this exercise were indeed difficult, not to mention other spiritual materials, the essence blood of high-level spirit beasts alone would stump countless people, spirit beasts were generally strong, and the higher the level spirit beasts usually crushed the masters of the human race of the same level, many of the high-level spirit beasts already possessed extremely high spiritual intelligence, they could even speak human words, and some could even transform into human forms, their powerful bloodline talent made it difficult for the human race to fight against the weak power of the bloodline.
The advantage of the human race is that it has a sound set of cultivation methods, has a strong fertility, as long as the talent is high, there are always many high-level masters, and the human race has the highest spiritual intelligence among all species, the more you get to the back, the easier it is for the human race to break through the realm, which makes the top level of the continent The human race occupies the majority, and the powerful bloodline spirit beasts are limited by their own bloodline imprisonment, which may be the law of balance of all things made by this heaven and earth.
Shi Xuan made a lot of spiritual materials into spiritual liquid and poured it into a bath, and began to absorb the elixir, feeling the majestic medicinal power, Shi Xuan hurriedly ran the exercises, and began to urge the elixir in the body to exercise the physique and temper the body.
With the onset of medicinal strength, Shi Xuan felt that great changes were taking place in his whole body, the original fragile physique and meridians were being continuously improved by the elixir, enduring the huge pain of forging his body, Shi Xuan continued to urge, to give full play to the effect of the medicine.
The rich elixir in the medicine pool was becoming thinner under Shi Xuan's Cui Dong, and streams of strong medicinal power continued to enter his body, and as the exercises ran Zhou Tian, the medicinal power flowed all over his body.
"It's at this moment", Shi Xuan opened the bottle of the furious third-order spirit beast essence blood and swallowed it in one gulp, the power of the huge spirit beast bloodline was like a surging flood into his dantian, Shi Xuan used his own spiritual power to suppress this power with all his might, avoiding irreversible damage to himself.
This pure and violent spirit beast bloodline power began to circulate in Shi Xuan's body under Shi Xuan's full strength, and with the foreshadowing and assistance of many previous elixirs, this powerful bloodline was finally perfectly absorbed and utilized in Shi Xuan's body.
With the dissipation of the elixir and essence blood power in his body, Shi Xuan completed the opening chapter of the Divine Dragon Palace. After completing this step, the internal strength is basically completed, and the rest is to combine the external power of the exercise, and the combination of internal and external can be complete.
Walking out of the medicine pool, Shi Xuan changed from the inside out, exuding a wild aura between the forms, like a fierce beast breaking free from the cage, giving people a great sense of oppression, this is estimated to be the influence of the remnants of the spirit beast's essence and blood, at this moment, Shi Xuan seemed to be looking for someone to fight, completely releasing this anger.
After all, the Divine Dragon Imperial belongs to the body forging technique, which can only strengthen the physique and improve the strength, and at this moment, Shi Xuan still lacks a spiritual skill suitable for himself.
In a world where there are so many masters, no one can go on with physique and strength alone, and only by combining their own situation can they exert their strong strength by perfectly matching their skills and spiritual skills. "It's time to earn a contribution and exchange it for spiritual skills," Shi Xuan said to himself.
Now that his spirit forging is basically introduced, the success rate has been greatly improved, and the first-order spirit weapon can be forged, many people have asked him to forge before, but he has refused, and now he asked Liu Ming to release the news that he can forge a first-order spirit weapon at any time.
For a while, the news spread, and the threshold of Shi Xuan's residence was broken, and most of the people who came were some senior brothers who needed to go out to practice, and they heard that Shi Xuan had successfully helped Du Ruofei build spirit armor, and they came here one after another.
For this reason, Shi Xuan had to repeatedly increase the forging price to control the number of people, and he was also busy enough in a few days, even Liu Ming and Song Renjie, who were specially used as assistants for him, were exhausted. Shi Xuan asked the two of them to help him with his work, and forged a spirit soldier for the two of them for free, which can be regarded as thanking the two of them for their help.
"Xuanzi, let's slow down, we've been exhausted these days," Liu Ming complained.
"Although it is hard, the profits are also huge, and your contribution is indispensable," Shi Xuan said to the two of them. "The brothers have worked hard recently, so I invite you to have a big meal today," Shi Xuan continued.
The three of them came to the restaurant of Tianhaiyuan, which can not only meet the basic life of ordinary apprentices, but also provide rich ingredients for some wealthy people. The three of them had a rare luxury, and when they came to the expensive floor, the three of them bought a table of sumptuous food and began to feast.
While the three of them were having a good conversation, some people were saying, "That is the blacksmith who has become famous recently."
"A third-rate level forging master is also worthy of your attention, he is not even worthy of lifting shoes in front of my eldest brother", a very discordant voice came when everyone was discussing.
Shi Xuan and the three of them turned around to look, it turned out that Lin Feng was laughing at them.
"It's really funny that a defeated subordinate is also here to make a lot of nonsense, it's a pity that I didn't cripple you last time", Shi Xuan and the three of them stood up and walked to the front.
Lin Feng smiled grimly: "Joke, I accidentally fell for your trick at that time, so you are also worthy of doing it with me?"
Shi Xuan-for-tat: "Just the appearance of your little belly, you will be out of this in the future, don't dare to face your failure, I dare to fight you again, you still have to lose." โ
Although Shi Xuan never took the initiative to provoke trouble, he was never afraid of things in the face of other people's difficulties, although Lin Feng had broken through to the fifth order of the Kaiyuan Realm again since his failure last time, Shi Xuan had a strong premonition that this time he could blow this guy up with his bare hands.
"It's such a big breath, I will make you regret coming to Tianhai Garden", Lin Feng said viciously.
Shi Xuan asked, "Since you want to gamble, what do you have to pay if you lose?"
"Lose, you, a first-order disciple of the Kaiyuan Realm, also want to go against the sky?" Lin Feng teased.
"If I lose, the first-order spirit weapon is up to you, and I will provide the materials myself to help you forge it for free, but if you lose, you need to give me three hundred contribution points, how about this agreement?" Shi Xuan said.
"This is what you said, but don't say that I bullied you at that time, I'll see you in the martial arts arena in half a month, and I will ask the mentor to be the referee", Lin Feng left after speaking.
"Senior Brother Shi Xuan, why do you bother to bet with him, he is several realms higher than you, this is not fair to you, I heard that you and Senior Brother Du Ruofei befriended him and asked him to come forward, Lin Feng didn't dare to make it difficult for you", a beautiful senior sister said to Shi Xuan.
"This person is extremely disgusted, he tried to bully us and others who have just entered the academy before, forcibly collected our elixir, and were defeated by several of us together, but now he is still disgusted in his heart, making things difficult everywhere, and it is difficult to swallow this breath in my heart if I don't convince him", Shi Xuan said.
"Okay, it's just that I don't want to see you suffer in vain, and besides, I hate this guy too, if you can defeat him, I, Yuan Caiwei, will make you a friend", the pretty senior sister smiled at Shi Xuan.
"Thank you Senior Sister for your righteous words, I will definitely teach this annoying guy a good lesson, so that he can keep to himself in the future", Shi Xuan returned the salute, and then pulled Liu Ming and the others out of the dining building.
"Lin Feng, this guy is really famous for being shameless in the academy, bullying people, flattering powerful people, it's just annoying, if he is defeated by the kid who just came this time, then it will be fun. People talked about it, obviously Lin Feng was like a street rat here, hated by many people.
Lin Feng's ugly face made Shi Xuan feel disgusted, but he had to be careful, the other party blatantly challenged him and must have some means, now Shi Xuan has really begun to step into cultivation, if he can't pass Lin Feng's level, then Shi Xuan's future path will be overshadowed. This is just a microcosm of Shi Xuan's future path, the road to the strong is never a smooth road, your success means the failure of others, you will become a stumbling block on the road of others, there are countless people who want to get rid of it quickly.
If Shi Xuan continued to endure or rely on external forces to settle Lin Feng, he would lose his Dao heart on this road where the world was the enemy, and I am afraid that it would be difficult to reach the peak in the future.
If Shi Xuan could rely on his absolute strength to defeat Lin Feng this time, he would definitely be able to effectively deter some other juniors.
More than a month has passed since the last battle, and now Lin Feng's strength has improved again, and his ranking in the Kaiyuan Realm has now entered the thirty-fifth place, which is also his arrogant capital.
Shi Xuan took advantage of the fact that there was still half a month to go, and he had been consolidating the Divine Dragon Palace, as an exercise for both internal and external cultivation, in addition to the elixir and essence blood forging body, it was also equipped with a complex set of external exercises, and only the combination of internal and external exercises could give full play to the mystery of the entire set of exercises.
The foreign martial arts are different from other spiritual skills, he mainly mobilizes the aura in his body to strengthen his own strength, and relies on his own strong physical strength to fight hand-to-hand combat, the more the dragon is in the end, the physical strength is like a dragon out of the sea is unstoppable, directly crushing the masters of the same level, of course, only by Shi Xuan's arrival of the fragments from that realm is still a world of difference.
In order to speed up the progress of his cultivation, Shi Xuan created a heavy shackle for himself, and carried a hundred catties of weight every day to cooperate with the foreign fist method of the Dragon Palace. The long period of forging and striking iron made Shi Xuan's muscles strong and cocooned, and the brute punch he made with all his strength was hundreds of kilograms, and this kind of strength was unbearable even if a cultivator of the Xuanmai Realm suffered a punch.
In order to match his own set of exercises, Shi Xuan specially forged a pair of powerful and domineering fist gloves out of refined copper to match his powerful strength.
Liu Ming and Song Renjie were completely stunned by this brutal guy, seeing that on the martial arts arena, Shi Xuan was rampage like a giant beast in the wilderness, his whole body was scorching with a wave of fire, and the place where his fists passed was a mess, and many humanoid targets were beaten by him into human shape.
"Is this still the Shi Xuan we know, I feel that this punch will be beaten into a pig's head by him!" Liu Ming said with emotion.
"This time, Shi Xuan must hammer Lin Feng's annoying guy into a pig's head, so that he will never dare to bully the weak again," Song Renjie said. Now the two of them have also opened the dantian treasures back and forth, and they are trying to move towards a higher level. Perhaps under the influence of Shi Xuan, the two of them were also among the best among the hundred and ten apprentices taught by Su Li, after all, a cultivator was by his side, causing them a lot of pressure, and they would move forward only if they were under pressure.
In order to help Shi Xuan improve the exercises as soon as possible, Liu Ming and Song Renjie have become Shi Xuan's human flesh targets in the past few days, and the two of them are miserable, although their strength is not as good as Shi Xuan, but after all, the realm is the same, both of them have cultivated a spiritual skill, and if they cooperate with each other properly, even a person of the first order can deal with it, but they met Shi Xuan, a ruthless guy.
Liu Ming's cultivation of the Spring of Ten Thousand Trees was originally a good control technique among the wood attributes, but as soon as he trapped Shi Xuan, he was broken by the brutal force, if the others were trapped, it would be difficult to get out of the trap for a while, this was not Shi Xuan did not use the spirit of the fire element to restrain his vine shackles.
Song Renjie's hurricane blade hit Shi Xuan many times, he relied on the super long distance to roll up several gangfeng around Shi Xuan, and successfully slowed down Shi Xuan's forward speed many times, one after another sharp Gangfeng blades scratched Shi Xuan's clothes, but only left marks on his flesh, Shi Xuan's defense in this realm can be called terrifying. Whenever the two of them used the aura again, they were successfully caught by Shi Xuan, and they were directly killed with a few punches in a single close-quarter, and they didn't even release the next spell.
Sometimes Shi Xuan couldn't hold his hand, and directly hit the two of them with blue noses and swollen faces, Shi Xuan was also apologetic, and could only promise to invite them to eat delicious food to make up for their debts......
"In the past few days, I feel that your use of exercises has become more mature, and we can't be your sparring partner anymore, and my life will be gone if I accompany you," Liu Ming said fearfully.
"Even so, isn't the cooperation between the two of you also more tacit, and your use of spiritual skills is also more skillful, which will be of great benefit to you in fighting against the enemy in the future", Shi Xuan said embarrassedly, but he did feel that only actual combat can consolidate what he has learned, and only actual combat can stimulate a person's potential. This battle against Lin Feng can also be regarded as the biggest test since his recent hard work.
Liu Ming and the others also felt deeply, they were both of them with average talent, but they relied on themselves to constantly squeeze their potential, and they were going farther and farther on this road.
"It seems that in the future, we will challenge the senior brothers on the leaderboard more, only by constantly fighting can we continue to break through ourselves, and once we are on the list, we will get more contribution points and thus more cultivation resources," Shi Xuan said.
The days flew by, and in the blink of an eye, half a moon had passed, and Shi Xuan's challenge to Lin Feng was finally coming.
In order to prepare for today's battle, Shi Xuan made a lot of preparations, even if it was half a day, he didn't want to waste it, he started meditating early to adjust his body to the best state.
Just as he was meditating, he suddenly entered a wonderful state, at this moment his spiritual perception became extremely clear, taking this opportunity, he concentrated on feeling the meridians and veins of the whole body, and felt the vast and boundless human body secrets, countless meridians were connected to them, and the dense meridians and acupoints in his arms were filled with tremendous energy at this moment.
Since stepping into the Kaiyuan Realm for more than a month, Shi Xuan finally knew how he should choose, he used his full energy to attack the Tianfu Acupoint, the first major acupoint of his arms, as an extremely important acupoint above his arms, once penetrated, it would greatly enhance the function of his arms.
Shi Xuan went all out to attack the first order since the Kaiyuan Realm......
Shi Xuan, who was in a high degree of mental concentration, was in a delicate state at the moment, Liu Ming and the others were in a hurry, the agreed time with Lin Feng was approaching, if Shi Xuan didn't wake up, they could only forcibly wake him up.
Just when the time was almost up, Shi Xuan woke up from this rush promotion, and looking at the anxious two, Shi Xuan hurriedly led them towards the martial arts arena......
On this day, there were many people in the martial arts arena, some of whom entered the academy in the same year as Lin Feng, and there were also new students this year, obviously many people paid attention to this cross-level challenge, and some joined in the fun.
The martial arts arena is extraordinarily huge, as a place dedicated to challenging duels between spirit masters, this has become a place that countless cultivators yearn for, there are many battles happening here every day, and the rankings on the leaderboard will shuffle every once in a while, and some people will continue to rise, and some people will continue to fall off the list. Since Tianhaiyuan recruited apprentices, I don't know how many generations have been haunted here, leaving the honor and disgrace of Titus here, but also carrying countless hopes.
"Look, Lin Feng is here," someone said.
"This bastard actually bullies a newcomer who has just stepped into cultivation, it's really annoying to be so small-hearted," someone said bluntly.
"No, no one forced that kid, he volunteered to die, what does it have to do with my eldest brother", one of Lin Feng's followers said.
A pretty girl is also here to watch the next competition at this time, she is Yuan Caiwei, and she is looking forward to it at the moment. Many people around her cast admiring glances at her, obviously her beautiful appearance attracted the attention of many people, but she didn't care, which disappointed many teenagers.
"It's almost time, that kid doesn't dare to come!" Lin Feng said with a smile next to him, and several other people also echoed.
Just when everyone was anxiously waiting, a man of about fifty years old came here, he was usually in charge of the challenge ranking work among disciples, and he was praised by everyone for his fairness, and people respected him as Xu Lao.
"It's really a big shelf, even when Elder Xu came, he didn't even show up, from now on, he still has the face to help people build spiritual weapons in the academy, just his slight ability, let's be a man with his tail between his legs", Lin Feng sneered.
"Look at your arrogance, I spared your dog's life last time, and I'll see how you step down later", at this time, Shi Xuan and the three of them hurried over.
"I thought you weren't coming?" said Yuan Caiwei.
"Since I promised, I have to do it even if I work hard, otherwise I, Shi Xuan, will not become a treacherous person", Shi Xuan said to Yuan Caiwei.
Yuan Caiwei nodded at him.
"Boy, I'll see how arrogant you are later, don't worry, I'll spare you a small life, just break your two legs", Lin Feng sneered arrogantly.
"My legs are precious, if you want to break it, you should break it!" Shi Xuan said-for-tat.
"Come on, I'm optimistic about you", Yuan Caiwei encouraged.
"Thank you", Shi Xuan nodded.
Some of the senior brothers around felt unhappy, how could this kid have anything to do with this little pepper, which made them very unhappy, and they cursed him for being taught a hard lesson by Lin Feng, and some of the people who were still upset about Shi Xuan just now also changed their attitudes.
Shi Xuan walked to the stage and said to Xu Lao: "Some things just now were delayed for a while and made Xu Lao wait for a long time", Shi Xuan apologized to the referee.
Xu Lao didn't bother with him: "Since you are ready, let's get ready to start, the old man will explain first, remember not to live and die at the end of the competition between the disciples, otherwise don't blame the old man for making a move" The referee said to the two.