In the middle of the bluestone road in the stele forest, after Ning Yuan practiced cross-legged for two hours, he found that his body seemed to have adapted to the current pressure, so he used the impurities that had been discharged from his body to disperse with internal qi, got up and walked forward again.

After three steps, Ning Yuan's brows furrowed. The noises in my consciousness that I had only felt a slight sense of irritability suddenly increased dramatically.

Ning Yuan twisted his brows to endure the feeling that his mind was about to explode, and sat down cross-legged again.

But if you want to concentrate on your cultivation, it's a lot more difficult. Countless noises echoed in his mind, and Ning Yuan could only concentrate his will and spirit with difficult thoughts, trying to block these sounds.

In the time he was trying to concentrate, in order to avoid going mad, Ning Yuan didn't dare to let go of his internal qi and cultivate the Nine Locks of Body.

I don't know if it's because of a change in the rules or what, but the noise that could have been slightly discarded has no way to isolate it this time. On the contrary, the more you try to block it, the more noise you will have in your consciousness.

How do you describe these noises? It's like there are countless whispers that sound directly in your consciousness, but you can't hear anything concrete. To put it simply, there are countless flies ringing in your ears, but you can't see these flies, and you can't deal with them if you want to. As a result, the whole person becomes more and more irritable and even crazy.

Ning Yuan feels like this now. The mood is restless and frenzied. But there is nothing to be done.

In the memory of the boundary line, "Ning Yuan" at that time only felt that someone was whispering softly by his side, although he couldn't hear clearly, he could directly "understand" the meaning expressed by the whisper, and then subconsciously responded, and then cleared the customs. It should be regarded as a "customs clearance". At least at that time, "Ning Yuan" was a "whisper" that he "heard" at the bottom of the steps, and after subconsciously responding, the "whisper" disappeared, and it didn't sound again. Then "Ning Yuan" stepped on the platform and got the B-level city knot. In fact, now that I think about it, "Ning Yuan", which is on another realm, seems quite inexplicable.

"Is it the wrong way to open over there?" Ning Yuan thought so, "Then how do I open it here?" This isn't necessarily the 'right' way to open it now, is it? ”

In his mind, he tried to recall the information given by Fan Xiu, but found that there was no clue at all.

"Hey, master. You're already 'lonely', at least you should give me a hint. It's hard for me to do this. Ning Yuan was irritable and unable to complain in his consciousness.

Just when Ning Yuan was neither left nor right, and was a little overwhelmed, his body suddenly felt a little heavier.

"What's going on?!" Ning Yuan was taken aback, obviously in order to resist the invisible pressure outside, he had already covered the surface of his body with internal qi, why did he still feel that the pressure was getting heavier and heavier?

"Isn't it?!" Ning Yuan's eyes flashed, he glanced back behind him, and tried to recall the number of steps he had taken.

"Did the rules completely change after the halfway point?" Ning Yuan tried to straighten his body as he thought, "Starting from the eighty-second step?" ”

In order to verify, Ning Yuan struggled to get up and took a step back.

One step, the noise in my head and the pressure on my body have really been reduced a lot.

Ning Yuan tried back and forth a few times, turned on "Sunset" and "Yanyan" and began to analyze. After deducing it over and over again, Ning Yuan found that it seemed that from here on, the double pressure of each step would be three percent stronger than the previous one, and once it exceeded a certain time, the pressure would rise again.

"It's a little bit bad." Ning Yuan's eyebrows furrowed, "In this case, neither the body nor the will may be able to hold it in the back." But if it stagnates, the longer it lasts, the more terrifying the pressure will be, and it will also be unbearable. ”

"What kind of question is this 'conscience'? I don't know what the meaning of the word 'noise' is. ”

Ning Yuan, who couldn't figure it out, could only retreat to the place where he had originally cultivated after trying out the interval where the pressure would increase.

Letting go of the internal qi, feeling the physical body on his body that had barely been able to adapt to the pressure after the initial refining of the "Refining Nine Lock Bodies", a thought suddenly turned in his mind.

"Is it true that this path of inquiry itself is set up for the opportunity winner to improve his strength? Only if you meet a certain requirement can you move forward? ”

"So, in that case, am I not ready to move forward?"

Ning Yuan's eyes flashed, and after several deductions in his consciousness, he found that it might really be like this.

In the first ten steps, Ning Yuan could only feel a slight physical pressure, and in terms of will, he didn't feel it at all.

Then, from the eleventh step to the fortyth step, the physical body began to feel the invisible pressure more clearly, just like walking in calm water and feeling some kind of resistance. The spiritual consciousness also felt a little blown by the breeze.

From the forty-first step, the pressure felt by the physical body begins to become apparent, and the "breeze" in consciousness becomes a "noise" that makes people a little irritated.

"Assuming that every certain number of steps corresponds to the corresponding strength stage, then the first ten steps should be mortals who have just begun to cultivate and have no internal qi, the eleventh to forty steps should correspond to the early stage of the military level that has condensed the qi species, and then the forty-first step to the eighty-first step corresponds to the middle stage of the military level that has opened up the sea of qi."

"If this is assumed, then at the forty-first step, the mid-level cultivator should not feel too obvious pressure, but I feel obvious pressure."

"Is it because I transitioned too quickly and the foundation is unstable?"

Ning Yuan looked back at the road again, thought about it, and turned around and walked back to the beginning of the "Asking Heart Road".

"Originally, I walked into this 'conscience' path by directly maintaining the operation of internal qi, if it is as I guess, maybe the right thing to do here is not to use internal qi, but to walk only by the physical body?"

Thinking like this, Ning Yuan directly locked his internal qi and re-embarked on the "Path of Inquiry".

When he took the first step with his physical body alone, Ning Yuan felt it carefully, and it seemed that he had a feeling of wearing an extra piece of clothing on his body, which was much slighter than the feeling of suddenly tying a legging sandbag when he was running his internal qi.

Transporting the internal qi, sure enough, the feeling of tying up the small sandbag came again, although this feeling could only be regarded as a slight pressure for the cultivators who operated the internal qi.

"Sure enough, it was opened in the wrong way in the first place." Ning Yuan's eyes flashed, and he suddenly felt a sudden feeling.

Re-locked the internal qi, and the pressure on the body became vague again.

Ning Yuan took the second step, and an invisible "voice" suddenly appeared in Ning Yuan's consciousness, this "voice" shook slightly, Ning Yuan seemed to "hear" something, and it seemed that he didn't "hear" anything, but it seemed that a certain thought belonging to himself in his consciousness subconsciously "responded", and what "responded" to Ning Yuan was also unclear. Even luck "sunset" has no idea how to express it.

To put it simply, it seemed to be a "voice" and "question", and then Ning Yuan's consciousness unconsciously "answered". But what is asked? What is the answer can only be understood but not spoken, and cannot be explained.

When he took the third step, the "clothes" on Ning Yuan's body increased again, and then another "voice" suddenly came, and it was negligent when Ning Yuan was awake.

In this way, when Ning Yuan walked to the ninth step, his physical body finally felt the feeling of his whole body entering the calm river again.

At the tenth step, the sluggish feeling became obvious, and then an emotionless whisper really appeared in Ning Yuan's consciousness.

"Why?"

Ning Yuan was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously replied, "Chance." ”

The voice disappeared after hearing the answer, but Ning Yuan suddenly felt that the originally relaxed spiritual will seemed to be covered with a light veil, and it was faintly blurred for a moment.

"Is this the real 'conscience'?" Ning Yuan was a little puzzled, "Is that 'what' just now a question about the purpose of coming here?" ”

Ning Yuan, who had thought for a while and had no idea, shook his head and took a step forward.

One step, Ning Yuan's body sank slightly, and there seemed to be a force that pushed his body back.

If there is a calm stagnant water in front of him, then what Ning Yuan stepped into this step was a flowing stream, and Ning Yuan was "going against the current".

Ning Yuan felt it carefully, and found that if he didn't use the internal qi, his body seemed to be blown by a strong wind, and some "dust" seemed to be "blown off" on his body.

When this thought flashed through his consciousness, Ning Yuan was stunned for a moment, and when he looked inside, he found that at this moment, even if he did not operate his internal qi, his body was in a state of "purification". Originally, after opening up the sea of qi, the body was indeed under the washing and refining of the vitality all the time. But if you don't run the internal qi, that feeling is minimal.

At this moment, under the pressure of this "countercurrent", Ning Yuan clearly felt the feeling that his body was being "refined" when he was running his internal qi.

"Really?" Ning Yuan muttered in his consciousness.

In the next ten steps, Ning Yuan's feelings became more and more obvious, some subtle impurities in his body were naturally removed, and his spiritual will seemed to be blown away a little dust in the whispers that came and went negligently, and his thinking became active and clear, but it was also more obvious to feel some kind of heavier and heavier shackles covered by consciousness. A contradictory feeling of lightness and heaviness.

But when he took the thirtieth step, Ning Yuan's body began to feel a slight tingling pain.

Ning Yuan frowned and stopped, not choosing to use the internal qi, but just feeling it so calmly.

In the stinging sensation, Ning Yuan clearly felt that more and more impurities in his body were being "forced" out, although it was not like running the "Refining Nine Lock Bodies" that were refined out in large quantities to form gray-black stains, but he could also see a slight amount of dirt floating on his body.

"Is my health so bad?" Ning Yuan muttered a little speechlessly.

When he first started cultivating, Ning Yuan could clearly feel that his body had become stronger and more powerful, and his various senses were also improving, and after he had condensed the "Qi Seed", this feeling began to decline, and it was not until he opened up the "Qi Sea" that his body was once again comprehensively improved, and at the same time, it was also the first time that the black impurities and dirt were forced out.

Originally, Ning Yuan thought that after that time, the impurities in the middle of the military level had been almost discharged, but whether it was the previous "Refining Nine Locked Bodies" or the invisible "Wind" under the current pressure, Ning Yuan understood that his physical body was far from reaching the state that he should have in the middle of the military level, and he had not even reached the physical limit of the "Qi Species" stage. One can imagine how bad Ning Yuan's original physical foundation was.

The funny thing is that even such a bad physical foundation is formed with a body with the average quality of the Star Terran and taking White Bone Grass.

"Is it true that human potential is limitless? It's just that if you don't go through this experience, most ordinary people may not know, right? ”

"Thinking about it this way, some of the original inferences may need to be refuted." Ning Yuan thought with some concern, "Players, at least at the beginning of this period of time, should be mainly based on realm improvement, I'm afraid few people will think about breaking through after reaching the extreme in the realm." Even if those who choose to polish their internal qi and consolidate their foundation before breaking through will occupy the majority, I am afraid that they will never think that their physical bodies have not been completely consolidated. ”

"Just like when I broke through."

The time it took for Ning Yuan to start cultivating to condensing the "Qi Species" and then to opening up the "Qi Sea" could be said to be extremely short. Even so, by chance, Ning Yuan's internal qi foundation is extremely strong, and the quality of internal qi is probably better than those among the aborigines who have been polishing their internal qi foundation for a long time.

And then it's just the internal qi.

Originally, in Ning Yuan's cognition, although the human level was said to be the stage of cultivation and polishing the physical body, it was just a function that was automatically attached when cultivating internal qi, and there was no need to pay special attention to it. As long as you practice step by step, when your internal qi reaches the rank of captain, you will naturally be able to create a "perfect" physical body.

Why is there such a perception? Because that's what the book says. This is the description of the realm and cultivation in the "Three-Edged Gun Technique".

If you think about it carefully, it's not actually misleading about the description of the exercises, it can only be said that the player has some deviations from the aborigines in some common sense.

Players have been in the era of the end of the law for a long time in reality, and with the prevalence of the game world of the Void Zone, more and more people are staying at home, although with the development of medical technology, the health and basic physical fitness of living beings do not need to worry too much, but it has to be said that compared to before the discovery of the virtual world, the basic physical fitness of living beings has indeed declined slightly.

Oh, in the past, those imaginary game worlds were all built by the consortium of stars and the like from the ruin master, so the imaginary world that evolved from the ruin lord was completely two different things.

Although they are all claimed to be virtual worlds, the game world built by the consortium can only be regarded as a puppet world, and the ruins are transformed into a soul world.

So far, there are only two imaginary zones set by the ruin master himself. One is the void area of the Neno continent where Ning Yuan is now located, called "Regeneration", and the other is the "Creed" void area that determined the status of the countries in the Stars Coalition Government thirty years ago. Ning Yuan's father was one of the Zhuxia players who were selected to enter that void area.

The popularity of the virtual zone game has indeed reduced many disputes in reality, but it has also made modern people become squatting at home as long as they are not paying attention.

And that's exactly what happened.

Both work and study can be carried out in the virtual world, and transactions can be completed in the virtual area in addition to the distribution of physical objects, so many people in the reality of many stars may not really go out for a few months. Ning Yuan once had the experience of staying at home without leaving the house for a whole year.

The lack of practical exercise, the general decline in physical fitness, is not difficult to understand.

But how to say it? The floor of the basic physical fitness of the star-like beings is still very thick, so this decline has not reached the point of worry.

Ning Yuan also didn't pay the slightest attention until he really realized it. But now, Ning Yuan was shocked by the weakness of the physical foundation of the Star players.

This is quite different from that of the aborigines.

The continent of Nino is a world where cultivation civilization and technological civilization merge, and it is also a world full of war and danger.

The simultaneous existence of war and extraordinary strength, coupled with the abundant resources of the Nino Continent, makes the actual physical fitness of the aborigines much better than that of the player, and even if they have not become a cultivator, the body trained by the city-state military training and other activities is not comparable to the player's actual weak body.

Therefore, the description of human-level cultivation in the exercises is not misleading, and it is not written because this is common knowledge in the Neno Continent, and it is strange to write it.

After thinking about it, Ning Yuan could only silently mourn for the player. Originally, it was inferred that with the player's cultivation speed, the competition with the aborigines in the same realm should have the upper hand, but now it seems that it may not be.

"Maybe we should publish this finding after we get the hukou activation player forum." Ning Yuan thought silently.

"But now that the coalition government has made it clear that everyone is in competition with future bargaining chips, will anyone believe in such a thing that obviously requires slowing down the pace of cultivation?"

"But it has to be done."

Shaking his head, Ning Yuan stopped his somewhat divergent thoughts.

There is no doubt that this "Heart-Asking Tablet Forest" is not only the final test of the secret realm, but also a reward for cultivation. He will greatly consolidate Ningyuan's foundation and consolidate Ningyuan's foundation.

"Cultivation is the sea of suffering, the physical body is the boat that crosses the sea of suffering, and the primordial spirit (soul) is the oarsman on the boat. Only a sturdy boat can be ferried by the oarsman in the sea of suffering. ”

The stele forest in front of Ning Yuan is an excellent place to consolidate the physical body, the "bitter sea boat", and not only the physical body, but also the foundation of the spiritual will is also a great opportunity here.

With such an association, Ning Yuan found that if he really wanted to say something, perhaps the biggest effect of the "Asking Heart Potential" existing in this "Asking Heart Stone Forest" was to consolidate the foundation of the inheritor's spirit and spirit.

After thinking about it, Ning Yuan found that the tingling sensation in his body began to weaken, and after sensing it, he understood that the evolution of his body's strength could no longer be satisfied. So I moved forward again.

In this way, after about half a month or so, Ning Yuan finally reached the distance of eighty-one steps purely by virtue of his physical body.

At this time, although Ning Yuan's appearance had not changed too significantly, the luster of his skin was very different from before. To put it simply, Ning Yuan's skin was as smooth as jade at this time, with a feeling of tightness and firmness, and a sense of luster of porcelain. The muscles in the body become stronger, and it naturally gives people a feeling of being lean. The eyes also naturally become clear and sharp. However, this is mainly the effect of "asking the heart" murmuring.

Ning Yuan found that every time the whispers that appeared directly in his consciousness disappeared, his thinking would become a little faster, and it seemed that the distracting thoughts and impurities in his spiritual will were also taken away when the whispers disappeared.

If the spiritual will attribute is expressed as a numerical value, then the original Ning Yuan was only 50, but after the baptism of "whispering in the heart", it is now almost 55 points. It can be said that the effect is very obvious.

However, with the purification of the spiritual will, the pressure that directly acted on the spiritual will became more and more intense, and at this time, Ning Yuan obviously felt the slowdown in his thinking speed.

Obviously perceiving the purification of spiritual will and the improvement of thinking ability, but under the invisible pressure, he felt the stagnation of thinking, and this contradictory feeling made Ning Yuan very uncomfortable.

Before taking the eighty-second step, Ning Yuan re-transported the internal qi, and obviously felt that the speed of the internal qi had increased a lot.

Ning Yuan, who filled his whole body with internal qi, cautiously took the eighty-second step.

With one step, the pressure suddenly doubled, Ning Yuan's body sank suddenly, and the whisper without any emotion in his consciousness sounded again: "What is it?" ”

"Practice." Ning Yuan replied subconsciously in his consciousness.

The whisper disappeared, but Ning Yuan's consciousness suddenly sank, and the suffocating spiritual pressure came. All of Ning Yuan's spiritual wills naturally "coiled" together to resist this drowning pressure.

Although Ning Yuan, who was concentrating all his energy on resisting the mental pressure, didn't know why his answer was "cultivation", there was no doubt that his truest purpose now was indeed to consolidate his foundation with the double pressure of "the power of asking the heart".

Through the eighty-one steps ahead, Ning Yuan could feel that his physical body had reached the limit of the middle stage of the military rank. But it's not enough, he wants to become stronger, he wants to use this pressure and the secret method of "Refining Nine Locked Bodies" to completely make up for his lack of "fitness" talent.

Ning Yuan, who was slowly running the Nine Locks of Refining Body, could feel that the physical body that had already felt that it had reached the limit had begun to strengthen again, and not only the physical body, but also the Nine Refining Internal Qi operating in the body had also begun to purify under this invisible pressure.

Feeling the changes in his body, Ning Yuan's thoughts, who resisted stubbornly under the weight of his drowning spirit, relaxed a little and became more tenacious.

Just when Ning Yuan was "in pain and happy" in the stele forest, the "Torture Eye" station in Coca City ushered in two distinguished guests.

Soon after being respectfully greeted by Xu Yong into the station, a small floating boat for cultivators rose from the square of the station, and then turned around and flew towards the Longshou Mountain Range. The three people standing on the boat were Xu Yong and the two luxuriously dressed distinguished guests.

At the same time, in the palace of the city lord of Coca City, who received the news, the city lord Ziger, who was rumored to have been in retreat and broke through, made a rare exit and convened a staff meeting.

Ziger is a middle-aged man with a strong body and a resolute face, and unlike the sturdy (that is, fat and strong) that of "Scar" Tan Xiong, Ziger is the kind of well-proportioned and strong, giving people a feeling of being tall and strong.

With the power to kill and kill the entire city of Coca, Ziger had a majestic and majestic momentum of his own, and just sitting on the throne of the city lord naturally caused a pressure on those who watched him.

After browsing the report on the recent situation in Coca City, Ziger sat up straight, a powerful aura spread, and everyone in the staff group below hurriedly sat upright, looking down at the table slightly, waiting for the city lord's question.

"Say it. What kind of moth has Xu Yong's demon come out of recently? Seeing that everyone was sitting precariously, Ziger retracted his momentum, rested his right hand on the table to support his chin, and asked in an indifferent tone.

The people below glanced at each other and looked at their own boss, the young Confucian who was sitting first on the left hand of the city lord.

With a thin figure and an elegant and warm face, the young man in a cyan dress gives people a sense of harmlessness to humans and animals. He is Ziger's chief strategist and intelligence officer He Yu.

He Yu was just about to get up, when he saw Ziger wave his hand and said, "Just sit down and say it." ”

Hearing this, the corners of He Yu's mouth raised slightly, and he sat down again and looked at Ziger and said: "Just half an hour ago, Yu Chong, the first general under Xue Qitian, one of the three 'punishment heads' of the 'Torture Eye', and his most proud eldest son Xue Hanfeng entered Xu Yong's demon station, and after a quarter of an hour of secret talking, they flew out of the city on Xue Hanfeng's Qingyun boat. The direction is near the Longshou Mountains at the junction of the Longsen and Fulong Mountains. ”