Chapter 66: Condensation and Returning Dan
Confirming that there was nothing wrong with Dugu Takihyun Zheng Yan pulled out his soul, and looked around to see that it was all bare mountains and rocks, and the sun in the east seemed to be covered with a thin veil, shouldn't it snow today? At this time, the true yuan in the sea of qi began to make noise again, it was really strange, since he came out of Luoyang City, he hadn't refined the essence yuan much, where did he get so many true yuan?
After carefully looking inside, Zheng Yan finally determined that he had to settle down and condense the Dan, otherwise he would let Zhenyuan continue to make trouble like this, and now he was only left with himself, not to mention the damage to the Qi Sea and meridians, and it would be troublesome if he encountered any emergencies in the future. After making up his mind, Zheng Yan began to descend the peak, and the clouds were not very thick, and he soon fell under the clouds.
The peak looks like an isolated island with a radius of more than ten zhang, but the bottom is really not small, and gradually the mountain has eased a little, Zheng Yan followed the rugged mountain stone all the way down to the halfway point of the barren grass and pines, and actually found a cave, there is no trace of artificial excavation, it is very old, the size is only three or four zhang, it looks suitable for settling.
After determining that there was no other passage in the cave, Zheng Yan took the barren grass and put a broom on it, roughly cleaned the cave, got a lot of dead branches and barren grass, made a bed that barely rested, and stocked up some firewood, and then found some 180 catties of stones to build the entrance of the cave from the inside, and then began to make a fire to solve the problem of eating and drinking.
In this kind of barren mountains and mountains, if you want to cultivate and break through the realm, you must be as prepared as possible.
After eating and drinking, Zheng Yan disassembled and installed the bow he snatched from the young man in white to the bow frame he had made before, and finally made a composite bow with four or five stones, in fact, the quality of the bow he grabbed was also good, but it was not very suitable for martial arts to use, mainly because the strength and toughness were not enough, Zheng Yan tried it, and it was estimated that it could be pulled off with fifty percent of his strength, and the monks who specialized in cultivating bows and arrows still relied more on secret techniques to launch arrows, and blessed the arrows with some secret techniques of speed and reducing momentum, and also made some special treatment for the arrows, so that they could carry some spiritual power or divine consciousness, as for the requirements for the bow, they were not high。
Because the archers and arrows have more cultivation of the soul and spirit, this also leads to their arm strength always being worse than that of martial arts, and the young man from the Nine Shadows Xuanmen last night is no exception, Zheng Yan wants a strong bow, which is worthy of the heavenly silk given by his grandfather, and the key is that he will not use his divine sense or spiritual power to control the arrows.
After repairing the bow and putting the spear and dagger in a convenient position, Zheng Yan began to sort out the irritable and chaotic True Yuan in the sea of qi.
On another mountain peak more than 100 miles south of the peak where Zheng Yan stood, the five Zheng Yukun who had also flown all night finally stopped, a slightly thin girl got off Zheng Yukun's back, looking a little guilty, a tall young man holding a pine tree with a crooked neck panting and saying helplessly, "Are those guys crazy? Do you need to chase and kill us? Could it be that we have broken some secrets?"
Zheng Yujing stood on a protruding rock and guarded the surroundings, the hand holding the long sword seemed to be a little tight, Zheng Yukun looked at the girl who got off his back, the girl shook her head and said that it was okay, thought about it and said softly, "That valley should be a soul-binding place, but it doesn't seem to have been formed for a long time,
Another thin young man wondered, "How can you see that it has not been formed for a long time? If this is the case, then there must be something wrong with the Nine Shadows Sect."
The girl said with some uncertainty, "The soul-binding land generally does not affect the growth of living beings, but some living creatures with keen senses will be a little uncomfortable, as long as they adapt, they don't feel anything, for example, there are many species in Fengyan Continent, but we haven't even seen a living creature in it for more than half a day."
The thin young man suddenly realized, nodded and said, "I understand, the living creatures that originally lived there fled because they felt uncomfortable in the process of forming the Soul Binding Land, and because of the short time, they haven't adapted to that feeling, so they haven't returned, ha, I'm still quite smart, you didn't understand so quickly",
Zheng Yukun and the tall boy looked at each other and smiled a little helplessly,
"But from the very beginning, they really wanted to send us away, why did they suddenly have a sudden outburst of trouble when they were about to go out?", the thin boy muttered,
The girl took out the dry food from the backpack and shared it with everyone, and said uncertainly, "When we left their sect for a short time, I felt as if there was a battle behind us."
The tall boy frowned and said, "Why didn't you say it at the time? What if it was our people?",
The girl was a little timid and guilty, and said softly, "That old man has been staring at me, I don't dare to extend my perception farther, I'm not sure",
"Okay, there is no need to study this kind of thing in detail, it is said that there should not be anyone slower than us, and it may also be the opponent of the Nine Shadows Xuanmen", Zheng Yukun stopped the conversation of several people, "Find a place to rest first, and then we will calculate the next route, the map given by the clan elders is too brief, I estimate that it will take at least ten days to get to Beifu Mountain",
The thin young man looked helpless, looked at the south and complained, "Who would have thought that the map given by the clan elders to everyone is different, so that we will delay the time to find Zhanghua Mountain, and when we arrive at Shengyang Mountain, it is just in time for people to close the mountain, and I will be revenge, and the young master will be great in the future, go to your mountain every day to pick the sun and warm jade, and pick the best, I will pick a piece and lose a piece, and I will still play in the water",
With the chatter of the young man, the five of them came to a leeward depression, Zheng Yujing began to arrange some spell traps around, the tall boy and the delicate girl cleaned up the resting place, Zheng Yukun and the thin boy left to hunt, and the cooperation for many days had already formed a tacit understanding. Soon after, the aroma of barbecue came from the campfire.
Zheng Yujing, who had been meditating on his knees in silence, suddenly opened his eyes, and the remaining four people looked at it for the first time, the two teenagers had already held the weapons in their hands, Zheng Yujing pinched up a trick, and soon condensed a water mirror in front of him, with the ripples of the mirror, there were five figures appeared in the mirror, as the mirror gradually became clear, the eyebrows and eyes of the five figures were also fully revealed, several people breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly the mirror rippled again, and the five figures became ten, and the appearance also changed, the thin boy picked up the long sword and jumped up, but the other four did not move, or the girl gently pulled his sleeve,
"Jade Mirror, don't rely too much on your round light technique, in the final analysis, it is just to manifest the appearance and light and shadow, and the qualitative things still can't be detected."
A gentle voice came from behind a rock, with a gentle smile, the thin young man's eyes lit up, and he ran over, "Sister Xiaowu, Sister Qian, what a coincidence, why are you also lagging behind?",
The people who came were Zheng Xiaowu and Zheng Qian, and one of them was a handsome young man who separated the guy who came over and sat down with his shoulders crossed. With the addition of the five people, the roasted little goat was not enough, and everyone took out some food from the package, Zheng Yukun looked at Zheng Qian and asked casually, "Have you found anything strange along the way?"
Zheng Qian nodded and said, "There are a lot of strange places, the earliest on a big mountain called "Zhangwu Mountain", we saw more than 300 monsters, most of them are human body and beast heads, and there are also some human-like appearances, but it seems that the spirit is insufficient, it stands to reason that they can transform their bodies to this extent, and the spirit should be opened early, but they look like they have been plucked out by people,
Zheng Yukun nodded, and the thin young man said with a smile, "We have seen a lot of strange-shaped spirits in a big valley, neither like the cultivation transformation nor the appearance we usually see, but a little like the mutation mentioned in the book."
"Can you see your map? our map is different for everyone," Zheng Qian said softly.
After everyone took out the map, they found that there were ten different maps for ten people, and none of them were the same, and everyone was a little speechless for a while, and after a while, Zheng Qian suddenly asked again, "Have you seen Brother Xingye?"
Zheng Yukun nodded and said, "I saw him three days ago, he was alone, and he said that he wanted to walk around and enjoy the scenery of Taihua."
Zheng Xiaowu said with a smile, "He should be finishing the way for us, to see who needs to take care of him, you are so far behind, right?"
The five people here were a little helpless and embarrassed, and they also said about the delay on the road, Zheng Xiaowu smiled and said, "It seems that we are really difficult brothers, it is said that there are Sister Man'e and Brother Shi Lai at the front to open the way, and there is Xinglu Xingtao in the middle, they are in the middle, why don't we two teams work together, right?"
With Zheng Xiaowu's proposal, the two teams soon hit it off, but the clan has a rule that the trial team must not exceed five people, so after discussing and determining the respective activities and northbound routes of the two teams, it is gossip, in this complex and changing Taihua Mountain, it is thrilling and thrilling, and it is monotonous, and the topics that can be said will naturally not be less.
Zheng Yan finally straightened out the true element, and then a surprising scene appeared in the sea of qi, as if forming a funnel, all the true elements floating in the sea of qi began to rotate and converge, and the rotation became more and more urgent, and the true yuan in the veins was like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, all of them poured into the whirlpool of the sea of qi, and Zheng Yan watched the speed of the whirlpool quickly exceed the range of his perception.
Generally speaking, when refining and refining qi breaks through the realm and enters the refining and refining god condensing and returning the pill, the faster the speed of the vortex formed, the higher the quality of the condensed returning pill will be, and the purer the true yuan will be, Zheng Yan has never seen what it looks like when others condense the returning pill, and he doesn't know what the specific standards are, but he is a little panicked when he looks at the increasingly out of control scene in his qi sea,
Ordinary people will always be a little flustered in the face of a situation beyond their control, Zheng Yan is no exception, and the sea of qi that has been violently impacted by the True Yuan in the past few days is not very tough, to be exact, it is still a little injured. Anyway, there is no one around, and there is nothing he can do, but Zheng Yan is relaxed when he thinks about this, and for the things that have happened and he can't change them, he will go with the flow, which is one of Zheng Yan's creeds.
The process of the monk's condensation and returning the pill is actually a quantitative change process of the true element in the body, the solid state is always denser than the gaseous state, and the texture of the condensed return pill is also more condensed, so that the meridians and the sea of qi can accommodate more true yuan, and because the high-speed rotating vortex is not only condensing the true element, but also refining and refining the true element, and will integrate some cultivation perceptions, so it can also be said to be a qualitative change process, if you can see the change of the true element in this process, it is said that it will be of great benefit to future practice, but Zheng Yan is completely unable to see it now, so Zheng Yan is a little lost, and practice is a process of picking up and gathering, the more you pick upIn the end, the higher the cultivation level will be, at least it is a necessary condition.
Zheng Yan tried to see the changes of the true yuan through internal vision in the cave, picking up the slightest hint of seeming and non-existent, naturally he was not aware of the movement of the outside world, and at this time, the sea of clouds in the mountains had completely dispersed, and the mountains were vast. On the mountain where Zheng Yan is located, for some reason, there are many huge crows on the rocks in the forest, and there are crow formations in the air from time to time.
A slender and tall young man with a handsome face suddenly landed on the peak, looking at the crow under the peak a little impatient, rubbing the handle of the knife with his hand seemed to want to make a knife, a dark and shiny and handsome crow flew over, and the next moment turned into a middle-aged man in black and also landed on the peak, glanced at the young man not far away, smiled reluctantly, and said softly, "I didn't expect Feng Gongzi to come, the night spot is polite",
Yutai Feng's brows furrowed, his expression turned a little strange, and he thought for a while and asked, "What is the relationship between your Duchayuan and Zheng Yan?
The man who claimed to be the night spot smiled and said, "Actually, it's not that complicated, His Royal Highness doesn't have a little luck on his body, and he has recently activated the pure yang body to forty percent, so it's easier to provoke evil spirits, we all want to take this opportunity to sort out the demons on this line",
Yu Taifeng smiled slightly, without questioning or affirming,
Night Spot hesitated for a moment and asked softly, "I want to let Feng Gongzi come to guard, I think it's the meaning of the Duke of the Kingdom or the head of the Tantai family, right?"
Yu Taifeng shook his head, looked at the crows flying around in a certain pattern and seemed to be a little admired, thought for a while and said, "The Ye family has been the pillar of the Metropolitan Procuratorate for thousands of years, and you seem to be turning into crows every generation of people who practice the Soul Transformation Technique or the Spiritual Transformation Xuangong, is there any significance in this?
Ye Ban smiled and said, "There is nothing to hide from Feng Gongzi, in fact, our Ye family began to hold some official positions in the Imperial Court in the late Xia Dynasty, in fact, there are a few such inheritance families, it can't be said to be a family, more precisely, it is a school inheritance, at that time it was all family learning, there was no public school or private school, and later the three hundred years of the Yin Dynasty in the last years of the Great Controversy redefined our inheritance, in today's terms, it is the Legalist",
Yu Taifeng nodded, he had vaguely heard some of these things when he was in the family,
"Ordinary people only know the Legalist division, the law, The three schools of power, in fact, are not, Legalism was born from the criminal and canon, and even count the etiquette and etiquette, only after the integration of the way of governing the country and the government can there be a Legalist saying, and we just simply follow the punishment, to the law, and then to the law, so that we go all the way down, so we have a clear boundary, the crow is one of the representatives of the medieval period, probably because it can bring both death and fairness, but also because of the persistence of the school that has been passed down from the beginning, so we turn the spirit into a crow." , Nightspot said very seriously, with a look of faith in his eyes,
Tang Taifeng felt that this might be a bit of a kidnapping, could it be that not being able to turn into a crow was not believing in the school's ideas?
"Under the pig, there are four genera: ox, sheep, black, and deer, and now there are almost five schools of law, and the representative of our night family is the crow," said Nightspot.
Yu Taifeng nodded and said, "I heard that there are reports from the envoys in several places that there are spirits missing in several demon towns under the supervision of the imperial court, has Lord Ye received any news? What is the matter with this Taihua abnormality? I don't know much about these things in the rivers and lakes for a long time, is it convenient to talk about it?",
Nightspot pondered for a moment and said softly, I heard them say that Feng Gongzi came back from the East China Sea and went directly to the post road here, and I didn't receive any news from Tongling, and I didn't know the specific situation of Luoyang, according to the news from Qin Tianjian and Jingtianjian, there were envoys from the upper realm, and the specific party was not very clear, anyway, there was contact with the Taihua demon clan, and the Taihua demon clan also began to have some cooperation with the people of Taiwei Taiyue, and it was from these things that the Taihua demon clan showed obvious cracks, some had to stick to the practice, some wanted to unite and unify, and some had to rely on the upper realm, we came this time to touch the bottom, as for the demon towns in my Great Zhou that had disappeared, may have been recruited by these forces, and there is a little strange thing, it seems that a lot of strange spirits have popped up all of a sudden",
"Strange spirit?", Yutai Feng chewed on this sentence,
Nightspot nodded and said, "It sounds very strange, these spirits that suddenly appear in our eyes are indeed very different from the past, they organize effective obedience to orders very orderly, not to mention the strange appearance, it seems that they can't change like ordinary spirits, but they are a little like the legendary monsters, so far they have not appeared in the places where humans live, it seems that there is really something organizing and leading them."
Yu Taifeng thought a little, and the next moment it flashed, and when he reappeared, he was already standing next to Zheng Yan, and the night spot only followed a little slower, but he didn't enter the cave, and he stood outside with some imperceptible worry on his face.
Zheng Yan woke up slowly, his eyes were dull, and he muttered, "It's smaller than a bean, is it really going to be out of the crowd?"