"Roar!!"

In the inner area of the Barbarian Bone Mountain Range, in a stronghold under Jiang Yan's command, under the high wall, a group of more than a dozen red-skinned saber-toothed lions with sharp blades extending out of their lips half a foot outside their lips were roaring loudly, launching a collective charge against the stronghold.

"Fight them off!"

On the wall, several humans on duty said loudly, and next to them, two transformation warriors wearing uniform black martial arts uniforms and a metal armor engraved with runes on the outside waved their hands expressionlessly, spilling out pieces of ice-blue aura, not to mention hundreds of frost sharp spears shot towards the saber-toothed lions, like a blue curtain densely covering the entire sky above the saber-toothed lions.

The strength of this group of red-skinned saber-toothed lions was on average between the second, third, and fifth orders, but in the face of the fierce shot of the frost spear, more than half of them fell in one shot. After all, this is an average strength, at least with the full strength of a second-level and sixth-order transformation warrior.

The remaining two or three elite saber-toothed lions that had survived from a round of frost sharp spears also quickly pounced on the streets after the follow-up targeted swords of the transformed warriors.

A transformation warrior flew to his feet, jumped off the wall, and walked up to one of the strongest saber-toothed lions of the second and fifth order in the lion group, his eyes cold as a blade looking down at it as it was pinned to its limbs by several frost spears.

A contract for the network protocol came straight into its mind: "Surrender or die?"

Feeling the cold aura of the other party, the saber-toothed lion almost wanted to cry without tears, it was just because it failed to fight with other alien beast races, and had to take its own people to leave its original habitat, so it looked for the flow of vitality and wanted to find a suitable place to settle down, and then after seeing this stronghold surrounded by a wall and the humans on the wall, several saber-toothed lions were greedy because they had tasted the flesh and blood of human warriors, and could sense that the concentration of vitality in this stronghold was much higher than that of other places。

I didn't expect to kick the iron plate so simply!

On the wall, a human guard watched with interest as the transformation warriors below threatened the saber-toothed lions, and chuckled: "This kind of thing has become less and less common recently, and the wild beasts in the vicinity have almost all learned the power of our stronghold, even if they know that the concentration of vitality in this place is higher and more conducive to their lives, they will rarely approach here again." It seems that these saber-toothed lions are new here. ”

"The Gathering Array in the stronghold reacts obviously to the interference of the flow of Yuan Qi in the environment, and it is normal to be attracted. The other guard shrugged his shoulders and said, turned his head to look at the transformation warrior next to him, and said with some envy: "It's really good, this janissary, as long as you join, you can immediately have at least the strength of the innate return to the Yuan Realm, which is like us, and you have to slowly cultivate by yourself." ”

"Come on, if you're interested, why don't you apply to the top, with your qualifications, you will definitely be able to reach the realm of transcendence compared to becoming a Praetorian Guard!" said the first guard.

"That's anyway, I don't want to lose my life, and after joining the Praetorian Guard, no matter what happened before, I will give up most of my feelings and selfish desires, which can be called absolute abstinence! That way there will be a lot less fun in being a person, except for some cultivators and people with strong attachments, not many normal people will choose this way of life. ”

As more and more transformed soldiers under Jiang Yan's command used their abilities to quickly promote repairs by software installation methods, they gradually developed their own organization and were named Praetorian Guards.

In order to ensure the maximum combat effectiveness, the members of the Praetorian Guard will basically carry out soul digitization transformation, but because of the side effects of transformation, most of the new members are transformed from some captives and prisoners, but as more and more normal humans join under Jiang Yan's command, there will also be a small number of crazy people who are extremely power-seeking will voluntarily choose to accept the transformation and join the ranks of the Praetorian Guard.

For this group of people who voluntarily accept the transformation, Jiang Yan will give some preferential treatment, and only carry out a minimum of semi-digital transformation of the soul, although the ability is worse than that of the person who is completely digitally transformed, but it is also stronger than ordinary people, and can retain the next part of the emotion.

"If you want to gain power more quickly, how can you not pay the price! It's good here, at least it's a safe way......"

The two guards talked casually, although it was a little distracting for the guard, but there were more rational and cold guards next to them, and there was no need to worry about things going wrong.

These Janissaries will not be negligent, will not be mentally fatigued, will be meticulous in their assigned tasks, will be carried out with 100% seriousness, and will be more dead than dead soldiers.

On the one hand, the number of Praetorian Guard members under Jiang Yan's command is limited, and they are not fully qualified for all the guards after being apportioned, and on the other hand, it is a matter of Jiang Yan's personal preference.

The guards who have been transformed by soul data and are equivalent to humanoid intelligent brains are easy to use, but basically they are all cold and not human, so Jiang Yan will always feel less popular if he stays in such a group of people for a long time.

......

In the center of the stronghold, in a wide forbidden room, Jiang Yan sat cross-legged on an octagonal altar, and the altar under him was carved with dense rune formations, extending from the base of the altar, all over the entire forbidden room, forming a looming array aura reflected in the forbidden room, Jiang Yan was located in the center of the formation, and his body was shrouded in a layer of magnificent aura visible to the naked eye.

In the air, wisps of subtle Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi were pulled and gathered, and the closer to Jiang Yan's location, the higher the concentration of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, and eventually it would condense into a grain of light visible to the naked eye, gather around Jiang Yan, and then be absorbed by his body.

With the help of the formation, infused with a large amount of vitality, the true qi in Jiang Yan's body finally accumulated beyond a certain limit, and the true qi in the meridians around his body converged into one, condensed in the dantian, and then poured into a meridian outside the dantian towards the dantian, and after sneaking for a while, he suddenly turned around and poured into a small branch vein from the main vein.

The 12 meridians here are actually the 12 main meridians in the human body, which are the main meridians in the human body, and the main road for the meridians in the human body, and the hub that connects all the meridians.

In addition to the main vein, there are countless small branch veins in the human body, the strength of these branch veins is much more fragile than the main vein, and the difficulty of opening up is also greater, so usually only congenital-level martial artists, whose physical fitness has been greatly improved by the blessing of true qi, and the amount of true qi and control have also increased significantly, can they have the ability to develop.

Otherwise, when the ability of the acquired martial artist is insufficient, he rashly develops the branch vein, but there is a high possibility that the branch vein will be destroyed.

Just like when he developed the main vein the day after tomorrow, as well as when he was promoted to the innate martial arts and opened up the dantian qi sea for the first time, this trick point also produced a similar pain when it was forcibly opened, as if he was tearing his own flesh and bones, but it was still no pressure on Jiang Yan.

These pain perceptions or something, he can block them with abilities.

A large amount of true qi was precisely controlled by Jiang Yan without a trace of chaos, all of them were twisted into a sharp cone and pierced into this branch vein accurately, without harming the inner walls of the surrounding meridians, and after passing steadily for a while, it finally reached the outside of the pores on the body surface along the flow of the branch veins, and connected with the body protection true qi that was instinctively maintained on the body surface.

In an instant, Jiang Yan felt that his control over the true qi of the body surface was slightly smoother.

This is not the end of it, Jiang Yan continued to carry the true qi, and then developed another branch. Each main vein is linked by a large number of branch veins, the number of which is at least dozens, and the number of branch veins attached to the twelve main veins adds up to more than hundreds.

There are countless branches, and the location and trajectory of the branches are no more hidden than the twelve main veins that have been explored and perfected by countless ancestors. The exercises practiced by martial artists are a guide that indicates the location of the branches, and the grades of the exercises are high and low, which will naturally cause certain differences in the development of the branches of different martial artists.

Of course, for Jiang Yan, this point can be ignored, even if he goes to practice the lowest level of exercises, Jiang Yan, who has the ability to scan ability, has the most perfect grasp of his own condition, and he is clear about the shape and position of the meridian system composed of all the main veins and branch veins in his body, and there will not be a single deviation.

For normal martial artists, the more branch veins they develop, the more perfect their control over the true qi outside the body will be, and the most important cultivation direction for martial artists in the realm of the sea is to develop these branch veins.

The development of the meridians is undoubtedly very large in terms of the consumption of true qi.

"Hoo ......"

After developing like this for a while, Jiang Yan opened his eyes, took out a handful of blood crystals from the black ring and stuffed it into his mouth, swallowed it one after another, and swallowed several high-grade pills of the inner pills of the high-level alien beasts and the high-grade pills refined by the children of the alchemy group for cultivation aids, and then continued to settle down.

With blood crystals, beast pills, and pills inside, and the forbidden room formation altar that gathers environmental vitality outside, Jiang Yan's true qi consumption recovered with extremely high efficiency, and he was able to continue to devote himself to the work of developing branch veins.

Jiang Yan intuitively experienced the difference in the concentration of vitality in the environment of the inner area of the Barbarian Bone Mountain Range compared to the peripheral area, if it was in the peripheral area, the amount of vitality gathered by this Gathering Yuan Formation could not be compared to the energy provided by the blood crystal and pill.

The Juyuan Formation depicted in the forbidden room where Jiang Yan is located was carefully designed by Gao Quan and the subordinates of the sub-machine of a dry refining group, the Juyuan Array in the forbidden room is only the 'inner array', and there is also an 'outer array' outside, and the buildings in the entire stronghold area are designed according to a larger Juyuan array, and the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi near the large array gathering stronghold is introduced into the inner array of the forbidden room, and then the inner array is sent into Jiang Yan's body through the altar, layer by layer.

In terms of the concentration of vitality, the environment of this cultivation forbidden room is estimated to be even higher than the average level of the core area of the Barbarian Bone Mountain Range.

This kind of forbidden room for cultivation with the supporting facilities of the Juyuan Array, Jiang Yan's command has set up one in every stronghold in the Barbarian Bone Mountain Range, so that he can get the best cultivation environment no matter which stronghold he is in.

Even if Jiang Yan is not in the cultivation forbidden rooms of other strongholds, the formations will still be open and running at all times, continuously gathering free vitality energy, and the concentration of vitality in some forbidden rooms that have been idle for a long time will even show the degree of atomization.

When his savings are enough, Jiang Yan will go over to harvest a wave, cultivate in the forbidden room for a while and consume the large amount of vitality he has accumulated.

In addition, it should be said that when Jiang Yan's subordinates choose the location of the stronghold, they usually choose the nodes where the natural vitality flows, and these nodes, just like the hub locations on the transportation line, the concentration of the vitality is usually higher than that of other places, and it is more convenient for means such as the Yuan Gathering Array to exert their effect to gather the vitality.

Therefore, when they didn't know the power of the stronghold at first, the alien beasts living nearby would always be attracted by the high concentration of the vitality environment and want to occupy the stronghold, until they were severely taught a lesson by the power in the stronghold, and this situation subsided.

In the forbidden room, a large amount of vitality was absorbed into Jiang Yan's body, refined into his own true qi, and opened one branch vein after another in his body.

After half an hour passed, the aura of vitality shrouded around Jiang Yan had been almost completely absorbed, and although the follow-up aura was still replenished under the effect of the Gathering Yuan Formation, it was far inferior to the concentration that was visible to the naked eye at the beginning.

This also means that Jiang Yan's cultivation in this forbidden room is over.

He glanced at the meridian development in his body.

"The twelve main veins are all connected, and the branch veins are ...... The overall development degree is about 56%. 』

The spirit sank into the sea of knowledge, a large number of mysterious rune phantoms floated and sunk in it, and in the center of the sea of knowledge, there were six true runes composed of multiple real runes, which flashed and exuded a mysterious brilliance.

Each Dao Fu True Seed is a complete Dao Technique template, and these six Dao Fu True Seeds in the Sea of Knowledge represent Jiang Yan's ability to silently pronounce the Sixfold Dao Technique in an instant.

The power difference in this is not a simple addition arithmetic, but should be based on multiplication. Instantaneous six-fold spells, these spells can also be interlocked, amplify each other, like the most superficial 'fire borrowing the wind' phenomenon, multiple spells can be combined with each other, can exert a power far greater than 1+1.

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Name of this machine: Jiang Yan

Version level: Level 2

Realm: Martial Arts (Innate Dual, Qi Sea Realm), Daoist (Taoist Sixfold)

attribute

Jing 18, Qi 18, Shen 8.0

Program Software: Omitted

Network: Omitted

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A look of joy appeared in Jiang Yan's eyes: "Very good, going to other strongholds to absorb the Yuan Qi in the Juyuan cultivation room a few more times will be enough for me to break through the bottleneck of the Qi Sea Realm and be promoted to the Returning Yuan Realm, so as to open up the trick points and refine the essence of the flesh body! ’

Jiang Yan looked through the information collected by Zhi Brain through the Internet, and a piece of news made his eyes light up.

'Oh, the thing I asked Takaizumi to work on, he finally developed the finished product?'