Tianyun Seeking the Tao Chapter 18 Refining Clouds and Building a Foundation
Han Nuo, who was rushing to the forefront, was holding a mid-rank spirit stone in one hand. The rune treasure that Elder Naliu gave him just now caused him to lose forty percent of his spiritual power. In order to cope with the unknowns ahead, he must keep himself in top shape at all times.
The monks behind gradually caught up, and they formed an offensive and defensive formation according to the plan discussed earlier. This may be the most united time the trialists of this ancient battlefield relic have ever been.
Just as everyone was killing the oncoming demon birds and monsters, and at the same time retreating in the direction of Bald Mountain with all their might, a familiar whistling sound suddenly came from behind. Han Nuo immediately stopped and turned to look in the direction where the giant python was, only to find that the giant python was swimming towards everyone at a fast speed.
Everyone immediately took a defensive stance, and all the magic weapons that could be used were used. I saw that the giant python opened its mouth while swimming towards everyone.
"Not good! Everyone is ready to attack the spell! Han Nuo shouted at everyone.
It was too late, but it was too soon, and as soon as the giant python rushed in front of everyone, it began to devour the heavens and the earth. I saw that the surrounding plants, trees, beasts and birds were sucked by the giant python and flew towards it. Everyone immediately exerted their body protection aura, and they barely were immediately sucked away.
While everyone was still trying their best to stabilize their figures, a large number of spells appeared above the giant python's head, and ice pick techniques, fireball techniques, flying sword techniques, thunder and lightning techniques, and wooden thorn techniques appeared at the same time. In an instant, those spells rained down like rain and went straight to the python's eyes. The instantaneous roar was loud, and the suction in the python's mouth was much weaker.
And the one who used these many talismans to cast so many spells at the same time like ten thousand sword tricks was Han Nuo. After releasing so many talismans in one go, he felt that the spiritual power in his body had gone by two percent. Fortunately, he used a mid-rank spirit stone to supplement some of his spiritual power just now, and now he still has half of his spiritual power left.
Seeing this, everyone also took out magic weapons, talismans, and all the means that could be used to attack, only to see countless rays of light flying towards the giant python, and finally smashed on the giant python's head. The giant python screamed, and the suction in its mouth increased instead of weak, sucking everyone towards it.
A group of people were horrified, desperately using all their spells to keep smashing at the giant python, and they couldn't even care about the direction of the attack, some smashed on the python's head, and some smashed into the python's mouth.
While everyone was panicking, Han Nuo always remained calm. Years of being single have allowed him to clear countless single-player games, so he knows what to do at this time.
He mobilized the remaining spiritual power in his body and summoned tens of thousands of spirit swords above the giant python's head. Although this Ten Thousand Sword Technique was flashy, it was indeed the only attack spell he could use now. So he decided to make a desperate gamble and use all his remaining spiritual power to deliver the final blow to the python.
I saw that those spirit swords became denser and denser, and the gaps between the swords gradually blurred, and finally melted into one. A huge lightsaber took shape above the giant python, only to hear Han Nuo's "Poke!" The sword slammed down, piercing through the top of the python's head, pinning it to the ground.
The giant python screamed, and the suction in its mouth disappeared instantly. Han Nuo, on the other hand, spat out a mouthful of blood and fell weakly to the spot.
At that time, everyone fell down with the same strength as Han Nuo. Everyone tried their best to get their last trace of spiritual power out of the mouth of this giant python and came back. Everyone was rejoicing in their hearts, but they couldn't move their hands and feet.
Soon, however, the crowd was not happy. Because near them, another group of Meng Huai demon beasts appeared. Although there were not many of them, it was enough to make these Qi Refiners who had exhausted their spiritual energy fall short.
Just when everyone thought that there was no way to return to the sky, a series of lightsabers appeared out of thin air, and these lightsabers scattered out in all directions, accurately penetrating the heads of those demon beasts. Everyone was overjoyed, and looked in the direction of Han Nuo, and found that Han Nuo was holding a spirit stone in his left hand, and his right hand was pointing at the exercises.
After a short period of recuperation, the team set off again, and everyone took out spirit stones to replenish their spiritual power. Han Nuo said something that made everyone feel very reasonable: "Life is gone, what's the use of keeping money?" ”
But in fact, what made everyone feel that they should recover more spiritual power was not Han Nuo's words, but when Han Nuo jumped up and down to decompose the giant python just now, everyone could only watch. He stuffed the python into several pieces into a storage bag that he got out of nowhere, and he alone got all the loot, including a demon beast Neidan.
However, everyone didn't know why Han Nuo's spiritual power had recovered so quickly, the spiritual power recovered by the others could barely support the journey, and Han Nuo still had the strength to deal with the waves of demon birds. But fortunately, those demon birds saw that the team was large, and they didn't attack very often.
By the time the team reached the foot of the bald mountain, it was already dusk. Han Nuo asked everyone to take one last rest, so that they could ride the flying magic weapon to the top of the mountain in one go. And he himself, with the meridians and middle-rank spirit stones that were thicker than everyone else, had already recovered two percent of his spiritual power.
Flying up the bald mountain did not experience much danger, and except for a few Luo Luo birds, everyone did not encounter any obstacles. It's just that when she was about to fly to the top of the mountain, the greedy female cultivator's spiritual power was a little lacking and she almost fell, but fortunately, Han Nuo helped her and took her to the top of the mountain.
After coming to the top of the mountain, everyone found the elders of their own sects. The elders took great pains to count the number of people and expressed their condolences to the monks who had died.
It turned out that the total number of people who participated in the trial this time was one hundred and seventeen, but the number of people who returned was only nineteen, one of them did not return, and two of the sects returned three people.
When all the processes were completed and the elders began to say goodbye to each other, Han Nuo suddenly stood up. "The junior accidentally obtained some items in the trial ground, which may be related to the various sects present." As he spoke, he poured out a large number of disciple jade plaques from the storage bag.
When those elders saw this, they couldn't help but be stunned, and the expressions on their faces became solemn. They all ordered the disciples of their own sects to select the jade plaques with the patterns of their respective sects, and the jade plaques of the disciples of the Tianyun Sect had already been placed together by Han Nuo alone.
"Elder Yang, this is our Tianyun Sect's seniors." Han Nuo knelt down on one knee in front of Elder Yang and raised the storage bag containing the jade plate of his sect's disciple above his head.
Elder Yang took the storage bag with a sad look on his face, probed into it with his divine sense, looked through it for a while, and then put it away.
The group of Tianyunmen was the penultimate group to leave, and the last one to leave was the elder of the sect who had no survivors, Yu Wanyu of the Haoran Alliance.
Han Nuo and Senior Brother Feng followed Elder Yang back to the sect, speechless all the way. Elder Yang took the two of them to the main hall of the sect, where they settled the trial task. Han Nuo and Senior Brother Feng each received a Zhuji Dan and said goodbye to the elders.
As soon as Han Nuo stepped out of the main hall of the sect, Elder Yang chased after him. Elder Yang pulled him to the cloud refining platform and asked him, "What is the relationship between you and Senior Sister Liu Yan?" ”
"Senior sister?" Han Nuo was stunned for a moment, then replied, "Elder Yu, here is Elder Liu's registered disciple. ”
"It's no wonder." Elder Yang let out a long sigh, "You should hand over this thing to Senior Sister Liu with your own hands." With that, he handed a disciple jade plate to Han Nuo, and then floated away.
Han Nuo took the disciple's jade plate and sniffed it, and sure enough, it was one of the jade plates he brought out from the trial ground. He didn't know what this jade plate had to do with Elder Liu, but since Elder Yang said so, he had no choice but to make this trip.
When he arrived at Feiyun Pavilion, it was already three o'clock, and Senior Uncle Zeng, who was guarding Feiyun Pavilion, was already busy. Han Nuo said hello to him, then went inside and meditated in the cliffside tower to rest for a while, until the sun rose, and then took the 'elevator' down to the refining room.
As soon as he arrived, Han Nuo found Elder Liu waiting for him at the door. "Why are you coming down now?" Elder Liu asked Han Nuo.
"I'm afraid of disturbing the master's rest." Han Nuo respectfully bowed to Elder Liu.
"But it's going well?" Elder Liu smiled faintly.
"If it doesn't go well, I'm afraid Shizun will have to find someone to clean the refining room again." Han Nuo smiled and took out a disciple jade plaque from his sleeve. "Elder Yang asked me to give this thing to Shizun."
When Elder Liu saw the disciple jade plate, he took it without speaking, glanced at it slightly, and asked in surprise, "Where did this thing come from?" ”
"Master Venerable, it was obtained by the disciple from a python nest in the land of trials."
"You also entered the python nest?" Elder Liu was shocked, she wanted to ask something more, but she stopped. "Alright, you can step aside."
"Yes, Master." Han Nuo arched his hand and said, ready to leave.
"Wait!" Elder Liu called out to Han Nuo and handed him a jade plaque. "Take this to enter my cave, and if you need a secluded place to build your foundation, you can go here."
"But, in this way, won't it disturb the master?" Han Nuo took the jade card and asked.
"How many days of the year do you see I'm not here?" Elder Liu shook his head and smiled.
Han Nuo thought that this was indeed the case, so he was no longer polite, and after saying goodbye to Elder Liu, he went straight back to his residence. He packed up some pills and things that might be used to build the foundation, and really went to Elder Liu's cave mansion.
Just like when he first entered the sect to find his own residence, Han Nuo injected spiritual power into the jade tablet, and then a puff of green smoke took Han Nuo all the way towards Elder Liu's cave mansion. Han Nuo followed the green smoke all the way over the Cloud Refining Platform, bypassing the main hall of the sect, and actually came to the stone bridge he had seen outside the mountain before.
Han Nuo glanced across the stone bridge at the small pavilion opposite, called Yiye Pavilion. The green smoke began to float towards Tianyun Peak here, and Han Nuo followed the green smoke around Tianyun Peak and flew upwards about a hundred feet, and suddenly saw a person floating out not far in front of him.
The person who came was Liu Ruoyun, the alchemy elder he had seen when Han Nuo first entered the sect, and when he saw Han Nuo, he was stunned at first, and then smiled, "It seems that you have returned from the ruins of the ancient battlefield?" ”
"Disciple Han Nuo, I've seen Elder Liu." Han Nuo stood with his hands in an extremely respectful manner.
"Did Liu Yan tell you about the Benxian Fruit?" Elder Liu asked with a grin.
"Back to Elder Liu, Master did talk about this matter. But forgive the younger generation for being incompetent, the younger generation has never seen a single fairy grass in that place of trial. Han Nuo replied truthfully, but he muttered in his heart, if he had really spent five days in the Land of Trials, and then handed over the Benxian Fruit prepared in advance to Elder Liu, would it expose anything?
"Oh? That must be my intellect is wrong. I saw Elder Liu's eyes roll, with a look that seemed to be smiling but not smiling. Have you ever completed the trial quest and obtained Tsukidan? ”
"Elder Hongfu has already obtained it, and now he is preparing to find a secluded place to try to build a foundation." Han Nuo nodded.
"Liu Yan is very interested in your disciple, and he is a gift, and he is borrowing the cave to build a foundation for you, don't forget your good master in the future." Elder Liu nodded, then suddenly turned his head again, "Are you a body of five spirits?" ”
"Exactly." Han Nuo was already worried about what Elder Liu was thinking.
"I have two Five Elements Zhuji Dan here, which are more suitable for people with all five spirits, do you want them?" Elder Liu stretched out his hand, and in his hand were two pills with five-colored patterns.
When Han Nuo saw this elixir, he was stunned and took it from Elder Liu's hand. "Elder Xie gave Dan."
"You've seen this before, haven't you?" Elder Liu asked, staring at Han Nuo's eyes.
"Elder, there is indeed a senior of Tianyunmen who once gave a pill of this pill to the junior, but it is a pity that it was wasted by the junior, and the foundation was not built but the cultivation fell." Han Nuo nodded and said bluntly.
"Sure enough." Elder Liu said meaningfully, he glanced at Han Nuo again, and then drifted away.
Han Nuo breathed a sigh of relief when he saw him leave. He put away the pill given by Elder Liu and continued to fly towards Tianyun Peak. After searching for about 200 zhang, I found the master's cave in a place that seemed to be a cliff.
He injected spiritual power to urge the jade plate, and soon the cliff revealed its true face, it was actually a platform protruding from the mountain wall, and the birds and flowers on the platform were fragrant, like the kind of fairyland on earth written in the book. Han Nuo floated down to the platform and went straight into the cave. And the interior of this cave mansion made Han Nuo even more surprised.
It turns out that there is a waterfall in the cave house, and below the waterfall, there is a pool more than a foot wide, and there is a lotus plant in the pool. On the left side of the pool, there are two quiet rooms, one of which has a jade bed, and the other is a study with many books neatly stacked. On the right side of the pool, there are two other quiet rooms, one with a Dan furnace and the other with a small cyan ding.
Han Nuo glanced at the cave house repeatedly, and his heart was extremely satisfied. He meditated and rested for a while on the stone platform in the center of the cave, and suddenly his eyes opened, and he packed up his belongings and left. There is no other reason, just a bout of inexplicable heart palpitations.
It didn't take long for Han Nuo to appear on the cloud refining platform. It was as empty as ever, except for the occasional person flying over it. Han Nuo sat down in the center of the Cloud Refining Platform and began to meditate and cultivate.
Just like when he first came to the Cloud Refining Platform, multicolored clouds and mist appeared around him again. And this time, he also sat for three days.
At the same time, in a cave mansion somewhere in Tianyun Peak, a purple-robed Taoist and three green-robed elders were sitting around a stone table. "Yan'er, your apprentice is acting a little unusual." The purple-robed Taoist said.
"Master Venerable, this son does have some extraordinary chances, and he is also quite talented in refining weapons. The most special thing is that his comprehension is particularly against the sky, not to mention that he can learn several refining runes in one day, and he can master the method of cultivating the five spirits by himself alone, which is very remarkable. Elder Liu stared at the Illusory Cloud Mirror in the center of the stone table a little distracted, and said seriously.
"And to be able to comprehend and use the cultivation of the Qi refining period to comprehend and use the Ten Thousand Swords to Normalize, such a talent is also rare in the world." Elder Zhao on the side also agreed.
"Do you really think it's his talent, not because he has a treasure?" Elder Liu interjected.
"But since the beginning of this son, several of us have been paying attention to him at all times, and we really haven't seen anything unusual about him." The purple-robed Taoist said casually.
"What Master Zun said is extremely true, and the disciple thinks that the reason why Han Nuo can be where he is today may really have a lot to do with his accidental devouring of the Benxian Fruit. After all, his spiritual power is five times that of ordinary people, and he has great similarities with He Yuanqing's predecessors who created the Spirit Washing Pulse Recipe back then, so he can use Qi refining and cultivation to forcibly drive the Vermilion Bird Feather Fu Treasure, and cast ten thousand swords that can only be used by ordinary people after building a foundation. Elder Liu continued to defend Han Nuo.
"Elder Deng, there is something unclear below, since you are a Yuanying Cultivator, it is extremely easy to search for the soul of this junior, why do you have to go to great lengths to find evidence?" Elder Liu saw that the other two Jin Dan elders were protecting Han Nuo, and his heart was a little unhappy.
"Although our Tianyun Sect does not lack low-level cultivators in the Qi refining period, it is rare to see people who can swallow the Ben Immortal Fruit with their mortal bodies without exploding their bodies, but instead get a blessing in disguise. Since Heaven has given this son a chance, he should have his own creation. The purple-robed elder surnamed Deng stroked his long beard.
"But in this case, we really passed by that big opportunity!" Elder Liu continued.
"According to Elder Liu, as long as we see a disciple with a strange treasure, we can take it for ourselves. Then this day Cloud Gate is still recruiting disciples, why don't we all go around and grab it! Elder Deng continued, "The old man has lived for eight hundred years, and there are no one or two hundred years to live, and you Liu Ruoyun have been cultivating in Jindan for about four hundred years, so why do you have to compete with the juniors for opportunities!" Elder Deng began to get a little tired of Elder Liu's attitude, and his tone became tougher.
At this time, Han Nuo didn't know anything about what was happening on Tianyun Peak, he just used the colorful clouds and mist as a barrier to build the foundation of the five spirits. The reason why he did this was just to stumble upon the fact that this cloud mist could actually isolate the divine sense, and although he was cultivating on the cloud refining platform in the open, it was more secretive than anywhere else. It was precisely because of this that he was able to take more than thirty grains of the Five Elements Zhuji Dan without being known to outsiders.
And the so-called outsiders include Mingjue, who was secretly observing Han Nuo in the direction of Yunshu Pavilion at this time.