Cold Spirit City, Spirit Mine Mountain Mine Camp

After returning to the camp for seven nights, after eating his hard-earned day's rations, he lay down on the damp straw mat early and sank into the spiritual realm....

Qiye carefully took out a bronze wind scroll from the Void Secret Realm, "Shadow Step", solemnly and slowly opened it, and began his own practice after becoming a spiritual cultivator.

Gaze: Shadow Step, Grade: Unknown, Cultivation Level: Beginner... Seven Nights pondered the information recorded on the scroll, and muttered thoughtfully:

Shizun once said that this scroll was obtained from the hands of a fallen demon king in the Millennium War, why is this scroll's cultivation level so low, and the grade is also unknown, is this scroll also a fragment? Or is this scroll itself such a low-level body method? If so, why is it carried by the demon king?...... All kinds of doubts flashed through Qiye's mind.

Ahh......hhh The Seven Nights Spirit rubbed his messy head. After being troubled for a while, he simply threw away all his distracting thoughts and began to concentrate on cultivation.

Looking at it again, the sixteen-character cultivation mantra vividly appeared on the scroll:

The body is as fast as the wind, the slight steps are like a shadow, without a trace, without a shadow!

In an instant, Qiye slowly closed his eyes with understanding, and silently recited the true recipe over and over again. There is silence in the spiritual realm, and the spirits of the seven nights are quietly suspended in the void, closing their eyes and thinking... After a while, Qiye opened his eyes, and after calming down his true breath, he leaned forward slightly, tapped his toes twice, and his body flashed, and the whole person slid forward half a meter.

The first attempt, although it did not achieve the desired effect of being as fast as the wind as imagined. But Qiye was extremely excited: because he was able to practice this body! This is the thing that makes Qiye the happiest, and being able to confirm that he can currently practice "Shadow Step" is the focus of Qiye's greatest attention.

As for the result, Qiye doesn't care too much: it may be because his strength is too low or his comprehension ability is a little biased so that he can't play it well, and it is very likely that he has not really comprehended it yet. But none of this matters, the most important thing is that you have a body method that can be cultivated to save your life!

"Shadow Step" is divided into seven sections according to the cultivation stage: Ling Bu, Chasing the Wind, Afterimage, Invisible, Swift Sky, Stepping on the Moon, and Void Crossing.

Each stage is divided into four percent according to the level of cultivation: beginner - small success - proficiency - great success - reaching the peak; it is rumored that when the cultivation reaches the "void crossing", it only takes a slight step to step out of 100,000 miles.....

Thinking of this, Qiye couldn't help but be even more excited. After the excitement slowly subsided, Qiye carefully analyzed the whole process just now, although it was full of loopholes and poor footwork, it was not without effect:

Again, again, again......

So for the whole night, Seven Nights practiced tirelessly and repeatedly over and over again in the Mixed Yuan Refining Territory, and it continued like this all night. At present, the strength of the Seven Nights "Primary Stage", the length of the timeline in the Mixed Yuan Refining Realm is 1.1 times that of the real outside world. Therefore, cultivating in the Mixed Yuan Refining Realm for one night for seven nights would take about an hour more than cultivating outside. With the improvement of strength in the future, the timeline of the Mixed Yuan Refining Realm will continue to extend.

The next day, after a whole night of footwork practice, Qiye still hasn't touched the threshold of the first stage: "Lingbu - Entry", but the coming day is long, and Qiye is not in a hurry.

After a night of rest and adjustment, Qiye's mental outlook has been greatly improved: the whole body is refreshed and the temperament is refreshed. Get up and stretch your muscles and bones, there is no pain and discomfort in your body, your body has become more relaxed than ever, and seeing your current physical state, Qiye smiled heartily.

Walked out of the tent with ease and joy and began another day's work, and at this moment Qiye was already a little impatient. The carrying ore spirit stone that used to make me feel the most difficult is no longer so painful, as long as I have any progress, the joy in the suffering is enough to make people happy.

In this way, he avoided the eyes and ears of the mine supervisors during the seven nights and days, waiting for an opportunity to absorb the aura. At night, I practiced "Shadow Walk" all night without stopping. The so-called practice has no years, and time passes imperceptibly in the full diligence.

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Autumn goes to winter, and three months pass. Under the improvement of absorbing a large number of mineral spirit stones, the strength of Seven Nights has been promoted from the initial "primary first stage" to the "primary second stage": in the spirit realm, the number of spirit stars has increased to 300, and the spirit space has also expanded to 280 squares, and at the same time, the equatorial position of the mixed yuan refining realm, the time inscription has also been separated from one to two, and the time axis has been extended to 1.2 times. Not only that, but the speed at which Qiye felt the Chaos Cyclone absorbing aura had also increased a lot.

Feeling the strength of his whole body to a higher level, Qiye smiled. However, what makes Qiye the happiest is that the practice of "Shadow Step" has officially stepped into "Ling Bu - Entry". The first sentence of the preliminary comprehension formula: the body is as fast as the wind, although the footwork speed is not fast, and it can only slide out a few meters away, but for the results that have been achieved, Qiye is very grateful.

After three months of hard practice, I was finally able to see a glimmer of hope. And now in the "Primary Second Stage", the spiritual realm has doubled, and now if you want to advance again, you need more aura. This also gave Qiye a headache: the aura of each frame of mineral spirit stones was already scarce, and if he absorbed it on a large scale, it would definitely cause awareness. Hey, I didn't expect that the improvement of my strength would require so much spiritual power.

In winter, there is heavy snow in the mountains. The frosty and snowy pavement, the unbridled cold wind of the valley, the slave porters walking among the foothills shivered with cold, revealing thin cloth and sackcloth, muddy and bare straw sandals, and feet that were red and purple from the cold, and pus-soaked and festering. The ravages of hunger and cold made a large number of slaves seriously ill and unable to recover, and every year there were always some slaves who could not survive the cruel winter.

Although he has become a junior spiritual practice, Qiye did not urge the spiritual power to protect the body during the journey, but chose to endure it directly. On the way, from time to time, some people fall down and can no longer get up, and some people fall into a deep valley in a trance. Seeing all this, Qiye was unbearable but helpless, it was still difficult for him to survive, what could he do to help others?

Continuing to move towards the deep mountains, more and more slave bearers fell along the way, and along the way, the soldiers of the prison army pushed the slaves who died on the plank road directly down the cliff to clear the barricades and keep the plank road clear. When every slave's life is squeezed dry to the last moment and kicked out without hesitation. Seeing all this, Qiye had tears in his eyes:

Is it true that our lives are as low as grass in this world, and has fate abandoned us?

Every time the silence comes, the desire for Seven Nights to get out of this hellish situation grows stronger. Looking up, the snow is thick, and the tears of the seven nights are harvested. I lamented that I am now in a difficult place, and only by constantly improving my own strength can I hope to break through this cruel situation and control my fate. Seven nights, who continue to strengthen their self-belief, move forward silently, enduring the erosion of frost and frost on the ground.

The winter nights in the valley are long and deadly. Many slaves who had worked hard all day, fearing that they would never be able to get up early the next day after going to sleep, were in despair: they had survived the hard days, but not the long winter nights.

The biting cold wind that howled in made people curl up and shiver and make it difficult to sleep. However, Qiye still sank into the realm of mixed yuan refining step by step to continue his cultivation. By the next day, Nanaya's body had become extremely stiff, all intuition had become numb, and the thin and small body had been covered with a thin layer of frost. Moving his hands and feet, struggling to get up, there was a "whoosh" ice slag falling off.

Even though it is so dangerous to sleep on a winter night, when immersed in the spirit realm, the Mixed Yuan Refining Realm will maintain the minimum vital signs of the Seven Nights body without freezing to death. Seven nights stretched his stiff bones, looking around the tent, the once crowded tent camp in the summer, now there are many empty shops. The cold winter has not completely passed, and I don't know how many people will survive to the end.

In the center of the mine camp, a huge white tent. A general in silver armor, wearing a two-moon scimitar at his waist, and wearing a brocade mink fur, walked out of the camp. Looking at the mountains and valleys, his eyes were fascinated, and this person was the wolf guard in charge of the entire slave mine camp.

"General, what are you worried about?" a lieutenant beside him asked respectfully after seeing the wolf guard so contemplative.

"When will the prisoners of war be delivered this winter?" said Wolf Guard lightly.

"General Hui, I received a reply from the city lord yesterday: This winter, prisoners of war have been transferred to southern Xinjiang to build city defenses, so for the time being, no prisoners of war will be sent to the mine this winter. The adjutant general looked at the wolf guard and said cautiously.

"Is there another war in Southern Xinjiang?" the wolf guards stroked their swords in their hands, their eyes moving slightly.

"Yes, according to the report of the spies, the Southern Xinjiang Water Ghost City is mobilizing troops and horses to prepare to seize the annexed territory of my Cold Spirit City, and at present, the city lord has sent heavy troops to garrison Xiaochi Town on the front line of Southern Xinjiang. The lieutenant replied slowly.

"Who is the one who leads the troops?" asked the wolf guard, his eyes blazing.

"It's General Xiahou Feng"

"Hmph, in such a war, the city lord didn't send Ben General to fight. Ben will stay in this place where the bird does not pull to death all year round, and the knife does not taste blood, and it is almost rusty. The wolf guard finally pulled out his blade uncontrollably, the cold light reflected the snow, and his eyes were murderous.

Seeing this scene, the deputy general hurriedly enlightened: "General, please calm your anger, the mine is the lifeblood of the resources of Hanling City, and the general is responsible for it, which shows that the city lord attaches great importance to the general, so he entrusts him with great trust." The general's meritorious service is even better than the battlefield!"

After listening to the adjutant general's remarks, the wolf guards gradually dissipated their anger. Then he turned his mind and asked, "How many prisoners are killed or wounded in the mine camp now?"

"General Hui, now more than 2,000 prisoners in the mine camp have frozen to death, and there are still about 40,000 people, but this winter is unusually cold for some reason, and it is expected that the next year... Possible... There are only 30,000 left. After a slight hesitation, the adjutant replied truthfully.

"Now that the war is imminent, we must not affect ore mining, understand?" the wolf guard ordered lightly.

"Yes! General.... There is one more thing, please decide: this winter is more severe than before, now the slaves are seriously frostbitten, the progress of the operation is slow, and the slaves this winter will no longer be replenished, if the slaves freeze to death in large numbers like this, the mining may be affected, do you think we want to prepare some ......things for them?" The lieutenant general looked up at the look of the wolf guard, and cautiously admonished.

"It's just useless waste, and if it's dead, it's dead, and if you catch it, you can catch it again. Do you care about ants frozen to death by the heavy snow?" the wolf guard glanced at the lieutenant general beside him, and then turned and entered the tent.

The harsh winter has covered the mountains in a pale. The snow weighs on the sky, and the wind destroys the rotten wood. On the plank road, a long line of people is moving slowly and zigzagly. Everyone had a thick layer of snow on their bodies, and their frozen and festering feet left stains of water and blood on the plank road. Qiye followed the team silently, his face was completely white, although the surface of his body was cold and frozen, but in the spirit world, the slightest spiritual power continued to warm Qiye's heart so that it would not be completely cold.