The Ruin Lord, who had gone through such a long span of time, was enough to make all those who knew this fact in awe. It's not about strength, it's simply about reverence for time.

"The Lord of the Ruins is worthy of the title of the god of the world." Ning Yuan sighed softly.

After confirming that the Nino Continent was a world that evolved based on the stars of the peak Qi cultivation era, the similarities between the Nino Continent and the historical records of the stars were compared. Ning Yuan already had a certain eyebrow for the confusion of his current situation when he discovered the similarities between the two. And the silent observation of more than a month, as well as the changes that have occurred in the "unknown lamp", are enough to confirm Ning Yuan's speculation.

If Ning Yuan was not mistaken, this dark space was the "Realm of Eternal Night" created by mirages as mentioned in the ancient book. Even if it is not, it must be a similar existence.

"And it," Ning Yuan looked at the lamp in his hand, which had been completely changed, "It should be the yang lamp in the Yin Yang Soul Suppression Lantern on the shoulders of the Twins recorded in ancient books." Then the other 49 'unknown lamps' in the Kun bag should be yin lamps. ”

"However, although it is almost certain that there is a mutual connection between the 'Yin Yang Soul Lamp' and the 'Eternal Night Realm' reflected by the mirage of the legendary twin clan's companion spirit beast 'Yin Yang Mirage'. Yin Yang Soul Lamp', oh, yes. On the continent of Nino, it is called the 'Twin Soul Lamp'. ”

"Oh, 'twin' twin. The Lord of the Ruins gave a hint without concealing it at all. As long as you have a little understanding of the ancient Qi cultivation era, you can basically guess something based on the murals and the twin yang lanterns in your hands. ”

However, if Ning Yuan had not obtained the "Preliminary Understanding of Learning (Complete Version)" and had not fully understood the basic knowledge of all aspects of the Nino Continent, it would be difficult for him to connect the twins on the mural with the twins in the real legend.

"Then isn't the Ning Ice Clan the legendary 'Cold Water Lanling Clan'?" Ning Yuan looked at the "Source of Ice" in Kunbao and muttered to himself, and then thought of the race with four arms on the mural, "Is that four-armed clan the legendary 'Lang Evil Clan' or 'Cana Clan'?" ”

While thinking about it, every time he passed the place where an "unknown lamp" was placed, Ning Yuan would stop and check it.

It was found that except for the "unknown lamp" in his hand, which had been the first to produce mutations, had been refined and restored to its original appearance and attributes, the other 37 "unknown lamps" were still in a state of purification.

After returning to the place where he had first woken up from the madness, Ning Yuan took the "Twin Soul Lamp (Yang)" back to Kunbao, and then sat down cross-legged and continued to think.

"Although the nature of darkness has been guessed, I have also obtained key game-breaking items. But what should be done to crack this dark space that is suspected to be the 'Realm of Eternal Night', it still feels like something is missing. ”

"After all the 49 'unknown lamps' are refined, they can automatically lift the dark space? This seems a bit too simplistic. ”

"Or do you need to sacrifice all 49 'Twin Soul Lamps (Yang) to be the correct way to open this dark space?"

"But how do you sacrifice it?"

Ning Yuan thought about it as he recalled the information in his mind.

"And I don't seem to have fully understood the true meaning of this test until now."

Ning Yuan originally guessed that this space was a pure test of willpower. But after going through it, Ning Yuan was sure that even if he was the most adaptable to the darkness and had a strong will among the stars at the moment, it would be impossible for him to resist the invasion of those negative emotions and thoughts in the darkness of this suspected 'Eternal Night Realm'.

When seeing the mutation of the "unknown lamp", Ning Yuan guessed that in addition to willpower, it also tested the player's observation, logical reasoning ability and "luck". But Ning Yuan was originally a little skeptical of this guess, but after carefully recalling it, he felt that his guess was correct. It's just that I'm stupid.

The first thing people think when they step into the darkness is to light the lamp. And he had been given the lamp before, but he was completely unaware of its connection to the darkness. Isn't this stupid?

But this can't be all blamed on Ning Yuan. Ning Yuan was completely frightened by the fact that he had harvested so many Bigu Pills and a Reincarnation Pill at once. He was also confused by the confusion of the five senses and negative emotions and distracting thoughts in the dark, and even the ethereal state of the "Meditation" skill did not break him back.

This may be a kind of alternative "black under the lamp".

Willpower, observation, and logical reasoning ability are the tests that Ning Yuan understands now.

But is that all?

Probably not.

As for what else?

Ning Yuan didn't know either.

However, now that you know the key to breaking the game, you can wait for the "unknown lamp" to complete the refining and then make plans depending on the situation.

After placing the remaining 11 unrefined lamps in the dark, Ning Yuan began to read "The Initial Solution of Learning (Complete Version)" to improve the skill level of "knowledge", daily "meditation" to improve spiritual resistance, and put himself in the dark to perceive and exercise willpower, "meditate", read and study the "Nine Refining Qi Turning Heart Sutra (Fragments)", and observe the regular life of the twin yang lamps that have been recycled and refined.

During this period, Ning Yuan tried to log on to the forum to learn about the situation in the outside world, but undoubtedly failed.

Time advanced to about two months later.

After retrieving the last purified twin yang lamp, Ning Yuan once again stood in the darkness unobstructed. He didn't wait for the new changes. Although all the "unknown lamps" absorbed the darkness and completed the refining and restored their original appearance, the pure darkness that was originally deeper than ink no longer seemed so terrifying. The surging negative emotions can no longer affect the reason in a short period of time, and the feeling of confusion is not as strong as it once was. But these were not the results that Ning Yuan wanted to wait for.

There is no doubt that the twin sun lamps are the key to breaking through this darkness that is suspected to be the 'realm of eternal night'. But how to crack Ning Yuan completely lost his direction.

Moreover, all the twin yang lamps would be extinguished at the same time after the refining was completed, which was completely beyond Ning Yuan's expectations. Fortunately, in the past two months, the results of unremitting efforts and cultivation in order not to fall behind too many ordinary players in the outside world have allowed Ning Yuan to ensure that he is safe in a short period of time.

"Nine refinements (one refining and one layer): refining the mind. Grade: days. Description of the Mental Method: 'Qi refining nine turns, pure as one; Nine turns and nine refinements, just like nine powers'. Effect 1: Turn on the gas refining attribute, and the initial gas refining attribute is 100. The value of each additional layer of Qi Refining attribute is increased by 9 times the initial value of the previous layer. Effect 2: For every 100 Qi Refining Attributes, passively increase character attributes (including class attributes) by 10%. Effect 3: Each floor opens a character's body trait, and increases the effect of the enabled body trait. Enabled trait 'Self-Healing': Increases wound healing by 5%. Effect 4: Each layer passively increases the human's object sense attribute by 5%, and all abnormal resistances by 5%. Effect 5: Each level passively increases the effect of all vitality skills by 10%. Cultivation progress: 20% of one level of refinement. ”

"Nine Refinements" can be said to be Ning Yuan's biggest harvest in the past two months, and there is no one. Everyone is not mistaken, the grade of the "Nine Refining" is not the ground level of the "Nine Refining Qi Turning Heart Sutra (Fragment)" itself, but the highest grade of the heavenly level currently known.

It's a pity that the "Nine Refining Qi Turning Heart Sutra (Fragment)" is only a fragment after all, and the "Nine Refining" mental method that Ning Yuan can deduce is only the first three refining and nine turns. In terms of the highest power that can actually be achieved, it is equivalent to the ground-level mental method.

But even so, Ning Yuan couldn't be more satisfied. After all, with the foundation of the Incomplete Heaven-level Heart Method, after obtaining the complete "Nine Refining Qi Turning Heart Sutra" in the future, Ning Yuan will be able to obtain the complete Heaven-level Heart Method. And the more advanced the mental method, the earlier it is always better to cultivate. Moreover, the incomplete Heaven-level Mind Method can reach the power of the complete Earth-level Mind Method, which is enough to prove the strength of the Heaven-level Mind Method.

It is rumored that although the cultivators of the Age of Mythology, the Age of Legends, and the Age of Cultivation were all cultivators of Heaven and Earth Vitality, it is still the cultivators of the Cultivation Era who want to say that the pinnacle of the development and utilization of Heaven and Earth Vitality is the cultivators of the Cultivation Era.

The stars of the mythical era had a strong vitality to the point of transforming into their own spirits, so that time was the era of gods and demons dancing wildly. At that time, the gods and demons and monks (we called it the acquired divine cultivation), the cultivation of the vitality was basically from the rich heaven and earth vitality at that time, such as the legendary Tianji vitality, Shangqing vitality, etc., all the cultivation was carried out around these special vitality, and all the skills and research were also aimed at how to maximize the power of these special vitality.

These special Yuan Qi were basically the upper and core Yuan Qi in the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi of the Stars at that time, and their power was much greater than that of the Yuan Qi of the Legendary Era and the Cultivation Era in later generations. However, according to the speculation of the star scholars, it is precisely because the gods and demons of the mythological era and the acquired divine cultivators excessively extracted these high-level vitality and core vitality and destroyed the internal balance of the heaven and earth vitality of the stars, so it will lead to the arrival of the first Tianyuan change of the stars. It is precisely because almost all the monks are cultivating special vitality that the first cultivation civilization will be destroyed due to the depletion and disappearance of special vitality in the first Tian Yuan Change.

The second cultivation civilization is also the qi cultivation civilization of the legendary era, and it has learned the lessons of the divine cultivation civilization in the mythological era. No longer absorbs a specific Yuan Qi cultivation, but absorbs all Yuan Qi cultivation of the same type. Moreover, the type of vitality absorbed is also different according to the cultivation of the mind, so that the balance of heaven and earth vitality is indeed ensured as a whole.

But the monks of the Qi Cultivation era made another mistake, that is, Qi cultivation was to devour Yuan Qi cultivation. Under the endless devouring of all Qi cultivators, although the balance of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi of the Stars was not destroyed again, the speed at which the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi was generated was far less than the speed at which it was devoured, and the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi of the Stars reached a certain critical point in just 20,000 years, and the Second Heavenly Yuan Change came.

After the Second Tian Yuan Change, the concentration of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi of the stars was already low enough to support the Qi Cultivation Devouring, so the Qi Cultivation Civilization of the Second Legendary Era was inevitably destroyed.

And because the Third Cultivation Era itself was created when the concentration of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi was already very low, and there were the lessons learned from the destruction of the previous two eras, the cultivation of the cultivators in the Cultivation Era could be said to be very gentle. The cultivator absorbs all the Yuan Qi regardless of the type, and after circulating in the body, only a very small amount of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi as a fire is left in the body, and the other Yuan Qi above the ninth layer is returned to the Heaven and Earth. Then use all the heavenly and earthly treasures containing the vitality of the stars, alien beasts and rare birds, etc., to refine them to strengthen the vitality fire in the body, and then imprint the refining and strengthening vitality on their own will, and finally disperse these vitality containing the personal will of the cultivator into the heaven and earth to assimilate more heaven and earth vitality. Only use the refining vitality when it is necessary to fight the method, of course, the first to use the vitality that is always assimilated, and then the vitality of oneself.

This cultivation method can be said to have slowed down the consumption of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi of the Stars to a great extent, and even more so, because the Yuan Qi of the cultivators' cultivation and growth was dispersed into the Heaven and Earth, the overall Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi of the Stars has rebounded. It can be said that if it weren't for the accident, the cultivator could be regarded as having found a truly sustainable cultivation path.

However, the unexpected came.

In a great battle that affected all the cultivators of the stars, the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi of the Stars, which had been declining at a slow and invisible rate, was destroyed because of the large amount of assimilation vitality consumed by the Great War of Cultivators, and the large amount of refining qi that could not completely return to the Heaven and Earth as long as the cultivators did not die. At a certain point, the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi of the Stars finally fell rapidly at an avalanche-like speed, and the Third Heavenly Yuan Transformation of the Stars arrived.

After the Third Tian Yuan Change, the concentration of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi of the stars fell to the bottom, and the entire stars entered the era of the end of the law. The remnants of the Cultivation Civilization began to restart the civilization in the ashes.

The path of cultivation is correct to some extent, so after the restart of civilization, the star beings developed the martial arts civilization and the current cultivation technology civilization from the embers of the cultivation civilization.

It had previously been determined that the Nino Continent was a world that evolved based on the stars of the cultivation civilization period, so Ning Yuan was not surprised that the mental method secret book of cultivation civilization appeared in this world. If Ning Yuan didn't guess wrong, the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi of the Nino Continent was probably the same as that of the stars.

However, the concentration of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi in the Nino Continent should be much thicker than that of the stars. And with Ning Yuan's senses after cultivating the "Nine Refinings", this is indeed the case. And Ning Yuan also quickly understood why there was such a heaven and earth vitality setting in the game world of this new race testing ground that was inconsistent with the real world.

According to the research of the Academy of Stars and the Academy of Astrophysics in recent years and the prophecies of some existence, in the past hundred years or so, the Heaven and Earth Vitality of the Stars, which had already bottomed out, began to show signs of recovery. Recent studies have shown that this real-world Xiaoice natural disaster is one of the signs of the recovery of heaven and earth. And there are inferences that after the end of this glacial period, the heaven and earth vitality of the stars will begin to grow explosively.

Ning Yuan guessed that only in the environment of the recovery of the vitality of heaven and earth would the government of the stars dare to let go of this regeneration experiment of the new race or the extinction race of the stars. Moreover, as a strange treasure artifact spirit that is extremely sensitive to the vitality of heaven and earth, the support of the Lord of the Ruins for this experiment also shows that the vitality of the stars and heaven and earth has indeed begun to rise.

"Then the stars in the future are likely to be the real world where technology and cultivation coexist."

While thinking like this, Ning Yuan's mind was shocked, and he thought of a certain possibility: "Then is it possible to cultivate in reality when the 'Nine Refining' is a top qi refining heart method?" I'm afraid that the cultivation exercises in the Nino Continent are all real in the cultivation era, right? ”

Then he frowned again: "Is it really possible for a machine spirit that has been sleeping for many years to have so many inheritance heritage inherited from the cultivation era?" ”

The moment this thought flashed, Ning Yuan inexplicably felt a certain depression. After shaking his head vigorously to remove this thought from his mind, the suppressed feeling disappeared.

Ning Yuan knew that this was not an illusion, he was really warned by the Lord of the Ruins just because of a seemingly nonsensical thought.

After removing all the thoughts that should not be in his mind, Ning Yuan stopped thinking about it.

"Fire Control Technique (Human Level): Fire Qi Refining Technique. Grade: Yellow grade. Can control Mortal Fire. Cultivation Progress: Beginner Practice. ”

"Water Manipulation Technique (Human Level): Water System Qi Refining Technique. Grade: Yellow grade. Can control all water. Cultivation Progress: Beginner Practice. ”

The cultivation of technical skills is divided into five stages: beginner practice, practice makes perfect, handy, single-minded, and read.

Beginner practice refers to the stage of just learning, practice makes perfect refers to the stage of proficient operation, the stage of being able to use the fingers flexibly, the stage of being able to use the fingers flexibly at any time, and the stage after the instinct of the skills as the name suggests.

Ning Yuan only deduced and comprehended the skills of water and fire in the "Nine Refining Qi Turning Heart Sutra (Fragments)" for the time being, and he couldn't comprehend any of the basic skills of magic. Now in this situation, Ning Yuan doesn't know if these two skills are counted in the attributes of the Nine Refining Qi Transformation Heart Sutra (Fragments), and he can learn two or three basic Five Elements Qi refining techniques.

After all, these two skills really can't be regarded as five element spells, although they can be used to produce the effect of spells if they are well controlled, but in the final analysis, these two skills are just the technical means of envoy water and fire.

As for why these two skills came out, Ning Yuan can only attribute them to the characteristics of knowledge points and skills.

Speaking of features, Ning Yuan couldn't help but think of the murals he saw before entering this dark test that was suspected to be the "Realm of Eternal Night". Those murals are distinctive. Although the method of etching was used, Ning Yuan could not guess how the author of the murals had etched the murals into the interior of the walls.

Yes. The murals are all etched into the walls, and there are no signs of etching on the surface of the walls.

Not only is the etching method of the mural very distinctive, but the part of the mural content about the sacrifices of various ethnic groups is also very distinctive. Almost all of the sacrificial scenes are like some kind of unknown formation, full of mystery and rhythm.

Ning Yuan was stunned for a moment when he thought of this, and then subconsciously used the "Yesterday Dusk" ability to carefully recall the sacrifice scene of the twins. When the lantern used as a sacrificial vessel for the twin clans in the mural came to mind, Ning Yuan's whole person unconsciously became excited.

He finally found a way to break the game.

After groping and forming all the forty-nine twin yang lanterns that had been refined according to the sacrificial scene in his mind, Ning Yuan slashed his fingers with a short sword, and accurately dripped the blood from his fingertips on the black eyeballs of the twin yang lantern wick yin yang fish that was the core in the center of the formation.

As the owner of the "Yesterday Dusk" ability, Ning Yuan said that he still has the ability to completely copy the formation on the mural and the ability to accurately find targets in complete darkness without moving.

Of course, everything had to be completely immobile.