Chapter 18: The Present

The next 20 days or so were uneventful.

Xin Heng said that the "troubles" provoked by the enemy, Xia Fanxing also quickly understood. It turned out that not long after the battle of annihilation, the alliance sects led by the Nine Lotus Sect began to find trouble with the seven alliance sects everywhere.

And the sects that are attached to the Nine Lotus Sect, in addition to three of the eight ancient sects, many second-rate and third-rate sects below are all allies of the Nine Lotus Sect. The Seven Seas Sect and the Soul Suppression Sect have a lot of subordinate sects. Two days before and after the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony, various sects came with the news that their disciples were being squeezed by the enemy sect when they went out.

The most serious is the Western Pole Sect. A week ago, Venerable Mingli, a disciple of the West Pole Sect, traveled to Lingyin Temple in Jiangnan to discuss Buddhist scriptures with the abbot of Lingyin Temple. When he was about to arrive at Yuhang County, he passed through the territory of the Dongwu Sect, a second-rate sect under the name of the Zhen Soul Sect. It was late at night when I passed. At first, Master Mingli was not intercepted, and when he walked to the outskirts of the wilderness, the five fifth-generation disciples of the Dongwu Sect surrounded him at some point and surrounded him.

They want to take Master Mingli and send him to the Soul Suppression Sect.

The five cultivators are all close to the Dan stage, and they are armed with swords. In the early days of the Jiedan, Master Mingli used an extremely mana and qi consumption of the Origin Sutra in the West Pole Sect, and even burned the essence and blood, before he reluctantly withdrew from the five. But the other party chased after him relentlessly, and he had no choice but to kill one of the other party's monks in the struggle, and he himself was seriously injured. If it weren't for the pre-prepared array disc that could teleport over short distances, he would probably have been captured alive due to physical exhaustion.

In addition, the disciples of the major sects who were away from home were all kidnapped or even assassinated by the Nine Lotus Sect and other sects to a certain extent. Moreover, among the disciples of the Hong Demon Gate, the East Palace, the West Hall and other disciples, there have been people who have been arrested by different sects.

The Yin Demon Sect, which Xia Fanxing cared about the most, also had an incident. The female disciple of the ninth seat of the sixth generation is just one seat lower than Ji Yanliu. Her name is Lin Muxue, and she has been practicing with her master many months ago. Listening to Liu Se's words, this Lin Muxue likes the way of alchemy very much, and she is not afraid to go out to practice. At the time of the accident, they were also around Chang'an, and the disciples of the Nine Lotus Sect and the Shengyang Sect broke into a cave in a barren wilderness at night, where they happened to be alchemizing.

Lin Muxue's master immediately tore up the Hundred Miles Transmission Talisman and asked for help from the sect. Shen Yang Sanren personally set out, taking Li Wuxin and another female elder, all three of them were Yuan Infant Stage monks, and when they arrived, Lin Muxue's master and apprentice were still dealing with each other's close to ten people, and each of them suffered a lot of injuries. Shen Yang Sanren was furious and ordered the two around him to kill all the other party's all, leaving no one behind.

Among the other party, there were four monks who were knotted with Dan, and the rest were all half-step knots. Under the wrath of Shen Yang, all of them died. Before the sect master left, he personally arranged a formation in this cave, so that the two of them could continue to stay here for alchemy. Soon, the next day, the Nine Lotus Sect and the Shengyang Sect immediately had monks come to the door to discuss the explanation.

This Shen Yang Sanren is really a heroine among women, and immediately detained all the monks on the other side, and let people forcibly pour the other party's envoy with a secret medicine of confusion. Then gather the Supreme Elders in the Sect Master's Hall, and watch these great masters go into a delirious state under the effect of the secret medicine, and do the things of the dragon and yang to each other.

The three or five big men hugged each other, although it was a common thing for the disciples of the Shengyang Sect, it was a nightmare for the people of the Nine Lotus Sect. The scene was terrible, and those mature and charming female elders were even more laughing so much that tears were about to come out. After the humiliation was enough, Shen Yang asked Li Wuxin to throw them back outside their respective sects, and told the Qinghua Sect Master and Li Yan Sect Master not to fight the idea of the Yin Sha Sect again.

When Xia Fanxing heard Liu Se talk about this, he felt funny and relieved on the one hand, and he also felt frightened on the other. You guys who humiliate the Nine Lotus Sect are really not afraid of retaliation, but so far, the Nine Lotus Sect really hasn't invaded the Yin Demon Sect again, or gone to Lin Muxue's master and apprentice trouble.

However, even in a place like Yuanshou Mountain, Xia Fanxing heard some bad news from Gongsun Nightshade. Since ancient times, Yuanshou Mountain has been a relatively eight-sided and exquisite existence among the major sects. And there is a lot of communication with the secular world.

Just like the Stargazing Sect that is immersed in the Heavenly Machine Dao Technique, they are the strongest existence in the sect realm in terms of alchemy and medicine, and the Shoumen Secret Method is a kind of longevity magic that was born before the Eight Great Ancient Sects. The longevity of the past dynasties is like a god in the eyes of mortals. Shou Wuqing's cultivation is not more than the middle of the Yuan Infant, but he has lived for eight hundred years, even if he does not cultivate in the future, he still has five hundred years of Yang Shou. His true lifespan is basically higher than that of cultivation of 500 to 800 years. Immortality is the dream of many emperors. The various secret methods of Shoumen have therefore become a very unique existence in the sect world.

The site of Yuanshou Mountain is in the South China Sea, and the demon clans inside and outside the mountains are clustered. In ancient times, the previous life Shoujun gave three spiritual mountains with active leylines outside the mountains to the Yuanshou demons, and they also opened up a second-rate demon clan sect in Lingshan to seal the demon mountain, which is equivalent to the division of Yuanshou Mountain. Now the area of the Sealed Demon Mountain has also expanded a lot. And a few days ago, in the realm of the Demon Mountain, the Soul Suppression Sect's Soul Suppression Sect Master Ru broke in single-handedly, ignoring the warnings and resistance of the disciples of the two mountains.

At that time, the three major mountain lords were not in the sect for the time being, and a twenty-year-old sword vein spirit fruit happened to be produced on the main mountain of the demon mountain. The soul was like hurting dozens of disciples of the two sects, forcibly taking away the spirit fruit, but no one could stop it. Originally, this kind of thing was related to the face of the sect, and Shou Wuqing would definitely come forward to defeat the soul. In the realm of Yuanshou Mountain, he Shou Lao'er is not afraid of souls at all. However, Shoujun did not appear, and Yuan Shoushan's reaction to this was relatively flat.

He couldn't help but think of what Han Ningxue said, she hadn't seen Shoujun show up for a long time.

In the bedroom, Xia Fanxing swallowed his saliva, "That soul is so arrogant, it must be for his apprentice." Lin Ruyan was seriously injured by a loose cultivator of our sect at that time, but the reason for the incident was that Lin Ruyan wanted to kill Senior Brother Yunming's opportunity to enter the cave. The Soul Suppression Sect has been so arrogant and shameless for thousands of years!"

"Alas, that spirit fruit can indeed heal the sword vein injury to a great extent. What kind of forest is like smoke, it is estimated that he can still enter the cave. Nightshade shook her head. Then, the little boy was enthusiastic to help Xia Fanxing look at the dantian. Xia Fanxing couldn't help but think of the seal that night, under the appeasement of Ji Yanliu, the seal was quickly lifted. Although he also knew that he would definitely not be able to see anything with his current attainments, he also smiled and asked him to try again.

And indeed it is. The strange situation in the dantian is still a fog for the two. Xia Fanxing suddenly asked about He Shou Wu. He always felt that the strange-looking man didn't look so simple. Even he was a little suspicious of Han Ningxue and the others going to the martial arts meeting.

"You saw Senior Brother He around Chang'an... I don't know much about what happened to the sect recently. However, Senior Brother He is 60 years old this year, and he is in the early stage of building a foundation... By the way, the contact between the sect and Chang'an often sends Senior Brother He out. He knew a lot of high-ranking officials over there. So it's normal for him to appear on Chang'an's side......"

For the rest of the time, there was no more turmoil. The major alliance sects have already informed their disciples outside that they must bypass the other party's seven alliances and the boundaries of the sub-sects under their names. The best thing is to bypass all sect boundaries. Most of the disciples who were captured by the enemy alliance were redeemed with spirit stone pills. However, several sect masters of the alliance sect decided not to retaliate against each other's behavior for the time being, and everything had to wait for the end of the ancient sword cave heaven in more than twenty days before slowly liquidating.

During these days in the sect, with the help of Senior Sister Hou, Xia Fanxing had been able to refine some pure Seven Killing Star Qi. Later, Senior Brother also came to help guide him on the refining of star energy. In the past twenty days or so, he has roughly been able to control the First Turning Seven Killing Technique. The best disciple to compare should be Zhang Han, the fourth senior brother in the sect. He is now close to the cultivation of the middle stage of foundation building, and he has only mastered all the methods of the Second Transformation and Seven Killing Technique. Therefore, for Xia Fanxing, his own star energy is enough to use. It just takes some time to forge the Star Palace in the Divine Sense.

Another point is that he thinks the problem is more serious. Before entering the foundation building period, he had not systematically studied swordsmanship at all. It is even more impossible to be like Li Yunhan, who formed his own sword vein in the middle stage of condensation at a young age. He was about to set out to conquer the Ancient Sword Cave Heaven, but he did not forge a sword vein. And the swordsmanship he is learning now is only the more basic set of heart-in-heart swordsmanship in the sect. With his learning ability, he has almost been able to comprehend it by now, but he still lacks actual combat.

Except for the problems of kendo, other aspects are still good. Between the early and middle stages of foundation building, there is no clear division of small realms. From the beginning to the middle stage, the most obvious difference is in the consciousness and the intensity of the breath. Xia Fanxing also didn't know how far he was from the middle stage of foundation building. I just feel that through various cultivations, my divine sense has become clearer and clearer, and the seven spirit tripods have become more and more powerful.

Twenty days have not been easy. His schedule is very fulfilling. In addition to the cultivation of the Seven Killing Star Qi and swordsmanship, he naturally did not forget the dual cultivation of Dao and Yi between him and Su Qiao. During this time, she took over the sacrificial Xincang Daoist, the five disciples under him. During this time, they tried again five times, but fortunately, Su Qiao's condition did not recur. In the first two attempts, Xia Fanxing's dantian was blocked again.

However, the lockdown lasted only a day or two this time. And then the next three times, the previous situation did not reappear. It wasn't until the night before leaving for Lingnan Road that Su Qiao finally sensed the faint rudiments of Daoist meaning in his Dan room.

It was a lute.

As the monks grow in cultivation, they fully develop their own Dao intentions in the Yudan period. The rudiments of Dao meaning before this were only a small part of the entire spiritual diagram. What Su Qiao could detect by sensing was a simple and unpretentious pipa. Immerse yourself in the long darkness of the world of consciousness, fleeting.

Neither of them understood what that meant. However, Xinheng was overjoyed. Because it meant that it only took them a little more than a month to be able to overcome the obstacles. After the first step of the Dao and Yi Dual Cultivation is completed, when he returns from the Cave Heaven, the next steps can be continued.

Xia Fanxing was a little surprised. After he returned to the sect, he temporarily hid the concentric ring in the hole. He originally thought that the concentric double cultivation with Ji Yanliu would hinder the progress of the Taoist double cultivation to a certain extent. However, it seems that neither Master nor Su Qiao have noticed the changes in their bodies.

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During this time, Xia Fanxing also officially got acquainted with the indefinite Dao people of the West Narcissus Palace. Listening to what Li Yunhan said, when the monks of the West Hall rushed to support that day, the uncertain tricks quickly made Xia Fanxing think that this person was likely to have cultivated the "Water God Technique".

He went to visit the dwelling of the West Temple. The Ruleless received him alone. Unlike the disdain of Donggong Su Yandao and others, although the two major water source sects knew that Xuan Neng had taken advantage of the fire to rob at the beginning, his uncertain attitude was much better. He knew Xuanneng and knew Xuanneng's chronic illness. He was not particularly surprised that Xuan Neng gave the "Water God Formula" to Xia Fanxing. This made Xia Fanxing suddenly feel something, this Taoist seemed to know a lot about Xuanneng, just like Shoujun.

Wuding asked him to take out the scroll of water bone array. Xia Fanxing hadn't carefully looked at the complex formations on it, and these formations were all built on the basis of water holes and built on himself. His right rib was originally a simple method, and the arrangement of the water holes was already not in line with the formation structure. This is also the reason why he has not paid attention to the contents of this volume. He estimated that it would take at least half a year to a year to completely forge his right rib into a water bone. Next, you can use the array diagram to speed up the transformation of other bones.

However, what the indefinite Daoist said surprised Xia Fanxing. He said that the water bone array has another use, and he doesn't need to care about the water holes that have been forged on the body, and he can use the formation to quickly transform. Xia Fanxing was confused, smiled uncertainly, and took a unique magic weapon.

"Boy, the old man has been cultivating this Water God Technique since the Qi Condensation Period. If you believe me, I can help you get rid of all the previous basics right now. With the current situation of your bone, use the formation diagram. Not... Within ten days, you can become a real water bone. Although the strength is not as high as that of the old man, as your cultivation and refining strength increases, it will also increase a lot. ”

Xia Fanxing nodded. For some reason, he trusts Wuding more. The indefinite person nodded with satisfaction, and the next moment, the breath of the whole body dissipated and was wiped out. Xia Fanxing only felt that it was dark in front of him, and the magic weapon like a crutch waved in front of him, and he lost consciousness.

By the time he woke up, it was already the next morning. Elder Wuding looked at his masterpiece with satisfaction and showed it to Xia Fanxing. Xia Fanxing found that all traces on his right rib had disappeared. The holes that had seemed to be very solid were all gone.

"They didn't disappear completely, but were transferred inside by the old man with the breath of water and darkness. Your bones are now at a very easy stage to structure. Seize the time of these ten days, read this volume carefully, I have already helped you find out the formation diagram you want to cultivate, just follow it, and forge the water hole every night. Come to me on the last day and I'll help you with a long Sunday run. Consolidate the water bones. ”

Xia Fanxing was grateful, and every night he kept facing the formation on the formation map, enduring the pain to create one water hole after another in different directions. However, just one night a few days before he left, he went to find the indefinite man again. Wu Ding entered his body with his own pure water and dark breath, helping Xia Fanxing consolidate the last water bone production.

Only ten water holes were used, but the feeling produced by the water bones was very different from the previous nearly 30 water holes. When the water bone was just generated, Xia Fanxing could hardly sense the existence of his right rib, and when his breath flowed, he would always be hindered here. Fortunately, with the indefinite hand-in-hand teaching, he entered Xia Fanxing's body many times with his own breath and taught him how to sense the existence of water bones. It finally succeeded after a short time. When he carried the Great Zhou Tian, although the aura near his right rib was circulating normally, it was difficult for outsiders to notice.

With his current familiarity with the "Water God Formula", it is impossible to achieve complex and powerful tricks such as vaporizing water and entering qi with water like indefiniteness. Now the biggest benefit that "Water God Technique" has brought him is that he can have a strong breathing ability around the water bones. If he urged the breath at the dantian to flow into his whole body through the water bones with all his might, the range of this shielding aura could be expanded for a further time.

That is to say, if he can completely activate the power of the water bone now, he can make the breath of the small half of his body dissipate completely, so that others cannot detect it. If there are three more levels of water bones at this level, perhaps the whole body will be able to reach the realm of complete breathing. In this way, when Ji Yanliu is not by his side, Xia Fanxing can also achieve the effect of "hiding people's eyes and ears".

"The exercises of the Water God Recipe are complex and changeable, and you need to figure it out more by yourself. When you come back from the cave, you can study according to this scroll of formations. Let me tell you one more thing, there are three sets of formation diagrams in the general recipe, and the grades are different. This volume in your hand, according to your level, the Xuan Neng Immortal Master has taught you the most basic. Don't think that water bones can be forged. The following diagram will teach you how to consolidate and how to improve the strength of the bones in the whole body. Reach the realm of the true water bone fetus!"

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During this time, three more congresses were held. It's mostly about the Trials mode, as well. Moreover, since the Xuan Miao Immortal Master and the Sex Navigation Mage had been observing near the Sword Shrine for a long time in advance, there was also some very important news. The most important thing is the condition of some spiritual energy in the cave sky. According to these circumstances, the Hucang Daoist went to Yuanshou Mountain and prepared various pills for each Daozi. Zheng Xin also sent the news back to the Yin Sha Sect, and for the sake of safety, he also prepared a lot of unique pills for the girls of their family. On the last day of the conference, the Tu Feng Sect prepared a high-level array for each sect, as well as a large number of sound transmission secret orders. It was the kind of copper coin that Xia Fanxing used. In addition, each sect spares no more treasures for its own disciples, and devotes all resources to enable them to achieve the best state before they set off.

Of course, the different resources of different sects, even within the alliance sect, have not yet been circulated. In the past twenty days, Xia Fanxing deliberately got to know many disciples of the Alliance Sect. Even if he was a disciple of the East Palace with prejudices, he had a good relationship for the time being. However, the young monks of the Western Pole Sect were very cold to him, no, to all the disciples of the Alliance Sect. He didn't understand why.

This time inexplicably flies by. It wasn't until the night before leaving for the southeast wilderness that Xia Fanxing came back to his senses. Gathered at the foot of Zhixuan Peak with the disciples of his own sect, he silently watched the faint lights around the various spiritual mountains.

From the southwest wilderness to the southeast wilderness, there are elders of various sects leading the team, speeding up the hurry, and it is expected to reach the destination within five days.

It's December. In the middle of the year, the brand-new Seven Great Alliance Sects finally arrived at the land of the Ancient Sword Shrine in the Southeast Barbarian Wilderness. On this day, a large area of Lingnan Road began to fall with snow.