The bright moonlight shone in through the window, and Xue Yi lay lazily on the bed, holding a lark grass in his mouth, thinking boredly.

After chatting with Zhou Shang for a while, the little boy went to the hall to meet the master and told the family the news of his breakthrough. Now, the canteen is brightly lit, the old man is happy, a feast, all the children surnamed Zhou and their daughters have gone to participate, and jointly congratulate Zhou Shang's little son on breaking through the tenth layer of the foundation on this day. And although he is treated well by the little boy on weekdays, he obviously does not have the slightest qualification to participate in this level of banquet.

Faintly, the laughter and laughter in the back hall drifted with the moonlight, drifting into the ears of Xue Yi, who was alone and couldn't sleep under the moon. Come to think of it, the town of Zhou at this time should also be full of lights. The corners of Xue Yi's mouth couldn't help but smile wryly.

pinching his fingers, it has been five years since he left his grandfather and came to Zhou's mansion to do chores. In the past five years, although he can go home to accompany his grandfather every year during the New Year's holidays, he is still a fifteen-year-old child after all. At this age, most children can still have their parents and family by their side and live a carefree life of learning and playing, but they already need to be on their own and support themselves in the Zhou Mansion, a place as deep as the sea.

Unconsciously, two distant and intimate figures flashed in my mind. It was a vague scene hidden deep in my memory: the spotless courtyard, the afterglow of the setting sun gently sprinkled in the courtyard, casting the shadow of the bamboo forest in the courtyard on the pale cyan courtyard wall, gently swaying with the breeze. A very young child was riding on the back of a man, and the child shouted for a ride, and the man laughed and led him around the yard. On the steps on the other side, a beautiful woman dressed in white, while feeding the birds with the wheat grains in her hand, looked at the two people in the courtyard and smiled faintly.

Everything is so dreamlike, so warm, so intimate, so familiar and yet so far away, that one wants to not only freeze time in this moment, even if it becomes a statue. Xue Yi knew that that child was his childhood self, and those two middle-aged men and women were his parents. However, all of this is just a distant memory for me. I don't know when my parents have lost their whereabouts, and I have begun to rely on each other with my elderly grandfather.

Wiping the corners of his eyes that were somewhat moist, Xue Yi calmed his heart. I asked my grandfather many times where my parents went, but my grandfather sighed every time, looked at him kindly, and said that I will tell you when you grow up, you are still too young, and there seems to be something unspeakable.

"Whew-" With a long sigh of relief, Xue Yi turned over and sat up, shook his head, shook the chaotic memories out of his mind, crossed his legs, calmed down, and entered a state of meditation.

Running the exercises in a way that he was already familiar with in the "Four Elephant Sutras", he felt a warm current gradually flowing through the meridians of his body, Xue Yi opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of turbidity, invisibly, a trace of combat power in the air quietly entered Xue Yi's dantian through his breath.

Combat power, this special intangible and intangible thing, is an indispensable kind of heaven and earth vitality that all cultivators must grab from heaven and earth when cultivating. The combat power is incorporated into the body through breath and stored in the dantian. This process of continuous accumulation and compression is also the process of physical cultivation and progress.

Looking at the cunning moonlight outside the window, Xue Yi couldn't help but recall the scene when Zhou Shang first arrived at Zhou's mansion, facing himself who knew almost nothing about the world, and explained the scene to him in a childish voice.

The continent where they are located is called the "War Continent". This is an almost endless continent, compared to the entire continent, their small Zhou Town, and even the entire Qingyang Mountain Range, can only be counted as a drop in the ocean. There are so many races living on the continent, human races, beast races, demon races, and even countless other magical groups. And the Terrans, without a doubt, are the masters of this continent. The vast human race can naturally cultivate, and building the tenth layer of foundation is the beginning stage that everyone who wants to devote themselves to the cultivation world must go through. However, although everyone can cultivate, building the tenth layer of the foundation not only requires extraordinary talent, but also requires the accumulation of heavenly materials and treasures, and also requires a complete set of systematic cultivation methods. None of these things can be obtained by ordinary people. Therefore, the cultivation of this path is still firmly in the hands of the wealthy families. When he was sent to the Zhou Mansion by his grandfather, he more or less had the idea of being able to embark on the path of cultivation.

And those who have reached the tenth layer of foundation building can open the "natal element" that everyone has. The natal element, this is something that everyone is born with, but the natal element of the average person is hidden in the body. Only a strong person who has cultivated to the tenth level of foundation building can open his natal element through an extremely precious heavenly and earthly treasure called an elemental stone. Everyone's natal element is different. According to the division, all natal elements are divided into nine basic elements, metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, light, and darkness. In awakening the natal element, a person can have one element, or two or even more elements. But there can be no conflict between the elements. For example, it is possible to have the dual elements of gold and water, but just like it has the dual elements of water, fire and fire, it is not possible to have the dual elements of gold. Of course, this kind of person does not not exist, but if he has this kind of physique, it is equivalent to completely sealing his cultivation path. Because this kind of physique cannot be cultivated, once you cultivate again after the foundation of the tenth layer, you will go mad and explode and die.

A person who awakens the natal element can be called a "warrior". Those who have just awakened are called Spirit Rhino Warriors, that is, Spirit Rhino Realm. Next, there is the Earth Mirror, and the Sky Realm. At the level of a Sky Warrior, he has incredible abilities. Flying away, moving mountains and wading through the sea, omnipotent. If you are facing ordinary people, you can often take one as ten thousand.

It is said that the Sky Warrior is not the pinnacle of human beings, and the Sky Realm is up, and there is the legendary realm, which is not something that Xue Yi and Zhou Shang can know now. After all, Zhou Shangcai only broke through the tenth layer of the foundation today, and he was still in front of the threshold of the tenth layer.

However, his cultivation to this point is all about Zhou Shang's brotherhood towards him, although he is not a brother, he is better than a brother. For Zhou Shang, he is a sibling who has grown up together since he was seven years old, not a master-servant relationship in the eyes of the rest of the Zhou Mansion. Zhou Shang was unwilling to be a servant from a poor family and had no conditions to cultivate, so he quietly stole the exercises that were not passed on within the Zhou family from the Zhou Mansion Library to practice for himself. He didn't want to cultivate, and even forced himself, not treating himself as a subordinate at all. Fortunately, maybe it was because he didn't want Zhou Shang to be disappointed and worked hard to cultivate, maybe it was because his talent was really not bad, and after a few years of secret cultivation, he still entered the ninth layer of foundation building by virtue of being three years older than Zhou Shang. Of course, Xiaobi's treasure hunting ability also contributed to the various herbs she found for washing hair and marrow. Otherwise, without the support of natural resources, how can you make rapid progress in these short years?

In fact, Xue Yi can already be proud of this achievement. Zhou Shang broke through the tenth layer of foundation building at the age of twelve, and it is not unreasonable to be called a genius. Because even if they are the direct disciples of the Zhou family, there are very few who break through the tenth layer of foundation building before the age of twenty. When he broke through to the ninth layer of the foundation at the age of fifteen, even if he was put into Zhou Shang's group of brothers, it was very rare. And Xue Yi himself was actually not satisfied. Because for him, since the little boy gave him this opportunity to cultivate, whether it was to live up to the expectations of the little boy, or for himself, he must firmly seize this hard-won opportunity and make a name for himself in cultivating. Zhou Shang had already told him that as long as he cultivated to the tenth layer of foundation building, no matter what method he used, he must also help him open his natal element and truly embark on the path of cultivation.

The "Four Elephant Sutras" that Xue Yi is now practicing is one of the basic exercises that Zhou Shang stole for him from the Library Pavilion. At the beginning, Zhou Shang didn't know what exercises were suitable for Xue Yi, so he simply stole a few exercises for him. This "Four Elephant Sutra" is actually incomplete. According to Zhou Shang, this exercise was originally incomplete in the library pavilion. But for some reason, maybe it was intuition, Xue Yi took a fancy to this exercise at a glance in several exercises, no matter how Zhou Shang persuaded him to change it, he shook his head, and hated Zhou Shang so much that he said that he would not steal this broken exercise book easily. However, at Xue Yi's insistence, Zhou Shang finally chose to compromise.

However, it turns out that although this "Four Elephants Sutra" is incomplete, it is indeed a good exercise. After Xue Yi's cultivation, he felt that his foundation was particularly solid, and the combat power that he ran after absorbing it all over his body had an indescribable sense of heaviness. It's a pity that due to incomplete reasons, it only records the content of the cultivation of the earth realm, and there is no more. Despite this, Xue Yi was also very satisfied. When he first came to the Zhou Mansion, who would have thought that he might one day be able to cultivate to the tenth layer of the foundation? Even if he stayed at this realm, Xue Yi was very satisfied. After all, this realm, whether it is strength, reaction, or agility, is far beyond ordinary people. Even if you leave the Zhou Mansion in the future, you can still support yourself with this good body.

"Seeing the six roads, hearing the eight directions, the poor eyes are extremely far, and the deaf are extremely spiritual. Only then can the world be spent and regarded as their own eyes and ears. ”

Xue Yi silently recited the cultivation method of the tenth layer of foundation building in the "Four Elephant Decision" in his heart, and ran the exercises several times again, and couldn't help frowning. The difference between the "Four Elephant Sutra" and the general exercises is that it has an additional step that other exercises do not have before breaking through the threshold of the tenth layer of the foundation from the ninth layer of the foundation, that is, at this time, you need to use your own dantian to condense the phantom of the four elephants. The condensation of these four elephant phantoms was quite difficult, and it took Xue Yi several months to reluctantly condense the three divine beast phantoms of the Blue Dragon, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu, and the difficulties were only known to Xue Yi himself. And the condensation of this last White Tiger Phantom has become a threshold to prevent Xue Yi from entering the tenth layer of the foundation. This threshold is not easy to cross. Xue Yi has been staying on the ninth floor of the foundation for more than three months. The boundary of the tenth layer is like an invisible film, trapping its entire combat power in the ninth layer. Every time Xue Yi tried to control his mind and condense the White Tiger Phantom, the three phantoms that he had already condensed before would produce a strange resistance, making Xue Yi's every effort fall short.

Perhaps, this is the "Four Elephant Sutra", the extraordinary place, the powerful shackles, enough to discourage many cultivators. Is my instinct really wrong?

Accumulating thick and thin, breaking the shackles, is the only way for every cultivator. The "Four Elephants Sutra" says.

With a light sigh, Xue Yi slowly called it a day. Cultivating this kind of thing, you can't be in a hurry, otherwise there is a possibility that something will go wrong. I heard that in the Zhuang Mansion, which is also one of the four major families in the Qingyang Mountain Range, there is a young master who was in a hurry when he was cultivating and went wrong, and although his life was saved, he was also disabled, and he became a waste, and he could no longer cultivate for the rest of his life. This is undoubtedly a death sentence for the son of a large family.

With the experience of the past, although Xue Yi was a little anxious in his heart, he didn't dare to be too impatient in his cultivation to avoid going wrong.

"Little boy, rest early, don't practice anymore, in three days, I will go to my home with the master to open the natal element secretly, but you have to cultivate your spirit." Faintly, the voice of an old servant came from the gate of the courtyard.

Because Xue Yi is Zhou Shang's personal servant, his residence is naturally in the courtyard of Zhou Shang's residence.

"Got it, you go back, I have my own cultivation rhythm, don't worry about it. Zhou Shang's voice came immediately, and he had already arrived in the courtyard, and the sound was louder with the sound of pushing the door.

"Yes, the old man will go back first, good night little boy. ”

The footsteps gradually faded away, and Zhou Shang walked quickly to push open the door of Xue Yi's residence, his face was full of red light, and he looked like he had just eaten a lot of delicacies from the mountains and seas.

"Hehe, my dad heard that I had broken through, but he was so happy that he couldn't stop laughing. I told the old man in the family to personally accompany me into the secret place of the house three days later and use the elemental stone to open the natal element. I haven't been there yet! I'll explore the way first, and when you break through, I'll take you there secretly.

Xue Yi was not very excited when he heard this, but frowned: "You want to take me to the secret land? This is too dangerous, right? The secret land must be heavily defended, how can it be successful?" Although he also yearns to become stronger, he will never do anything that endangers Zhou Shang.

"It's okay, don't you believe me? I'll go and find a way, if it really doesn't work, then I'll have to find another way. Zhou Shang said that he was a little bottomless in his heart later.

Xue Yi nodded slowly, thinking that if it was really impossible, then it would be fine. If the risk is too great, he won't go anyway.

It was a silent night.

Under the moonlight, the courtyard of the Zhou family was quiet and serene. What Xue Yi didn't know was that there was such a passage on the complete version of the "Four Elephants Sutra": The so-called four elephants, not everyone can condense the four phantoms. Only people with extremely strong or special natal elements can successfully condense this exercise and step into the ten layers of foundation building. And those who have cultivated this practice will surely achieve no limit in the future. If you are a person with weak talents, it is best to give up this exercise as soon as possible.