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Day after day, the years go by.

Since Meng Xiuyuan went down to Wudang Mountain, it has been more than five years since he came to Kunlun Mountain to cultivate martial arts.

Flowers fall and flowers bloom, and the scenery in this green valley is the same as it was five years ago.

Only the people in the valley have quietly undergone some changes.

"Master, Master!"

By the waterfall, Zhou Zhiruo looked around and shouted Meng Xiuyuan loudly, but she didn't get a response, she could only hear the sound of running water.

After a while, as if thinking of something, Zhou Zhiruo walked straight to the waterhole under the waterfall, rolled up her sleeves, used her true qi, and slapped palm after palm into the waterhole.

After five years of cultivation in the valley, Zhou Zhiruo's internal cultivation has improved greatly. She is already talented, coupled with the help of the "Spirit Fish" and "Spirit Fruit" in this valley, and the practice of Zhang Sanfeng's improved and quick version of "Wudang Jiuyang Gong", which makes her accumulated true qi at this time very strong, no less than those masters who have been famous for a long time in the rivers and lakes.

Reflecting on the outside, her performance in this palm is quite good.

Obviously, he slapped his palms on the water, but at the first time, he only saw some subtle ripples, like leaves falling to the water.

After a while, the sound of "gurgling" was gradually heard underwater, and then the surface of the water began to ripple and even intensify over time.

Zhou Zhi was not surprised to see this, she only smiled and looked at the pool, as if waiting for something to happen.

Sure enough, after another moment, I suddenly heard a "bang", and a figure burst out of the pool.

Its speed was extremely fast, and it leaped out of the water and to a height of more than a zhang before gradually stopping its upward momentum, and then turned and folded in the air, and landed steadily on the ground.

"And to show off your blue palms, I won't teach you if I knew it...... Didn't I say it, find a pebble and throw it and I'll know that I don't need to make such a big fuss."

As soon as Meng Xiuyuan came out of the water, he couldn't help but complain to Zhou Zhiruo.

"Hmph, I'm embarrassed to say ......."

Zhou Zhiruo snorted, completely ignored Meng Xiuyuan's complaints, stared at Meng Xiuyuan angrily and said:

"I've already told you, Xiao Zhao and I are going to make something delicious today, so you don't cultivate too late and come back early for dinner.

You're good, you agreed so easily, but now you can't remember it at all.

We've waited for you for so long, and the food has been heated twice, and we haven't seen you come back."

While speaking, Zhou Zhiruo subconsciously glanced at Meng Xiuyuan, couldn't help frowning suddenly, stopped the words that had fallen out of her mouth, and turned to care:

"Master, why don't you take off your clothes when you go into the water to cultivate?

Look at you, you're soaking wet......

Meng Xiuyuan heard Zhou Zhiruo's concerned tone, but he shook his head and didn't appreciate it, and only turned sideways slightly to avoid her gaze:

"It's not you, such a big person, but you're always shy and frizzy.

Every time I talk to you, I won't listen......

As he spoke, Meng Xiuyuan secretly made a skill, his body shook slightly, and a small mist escaped from him. Immediately, the pure yang true qi was transported to all the big points on the surface of the body, causing the heat around the body to rise, and the clothes gradually dried in the bursts of white smoke.

When Zhou Zhiruo heard Meng Xiuyuan's words, she couldn't help but blush secretly, and she was embarrassed to talk about these things again, so she hurriedly diverted the topic, stepped forward and pulled Meng Xiuyuan's sleeve and said:

"Hmm...... Master. Why is your clothes torn, change them out and I'll make up for you."

Meng Xiu saw Zhou Zhiruo's performance, and he couldn't cry or laugh in his heart.

Perhaps because she has been in this valley for five years and has not seen outsiders, Zhou Zhiruo is more comfortable and lively than before entering the valley, and her personality is much less rigid and restrained.

This should be a good thing, but sometimes some unintentional actions can still cause some embarrassment.

After all, if Zhou Zhiruo is over eighteen years old at this time, she no longer looks like the original half-grown girl, but has already been beautiful and vulgar, as beautiful as Zhilan.

And Meng Xiuyuan is obviously seven years older than Zhou Zhiruo

is eight years old, but due to the practice of "Pure Yang Wuji Gong", she is still about twenty years old in appearance, and she only looks about the same age as her.

Therefore, the two now get along with each other, and they no longer have a natural sense of age distance as before, which makes many things that everyone originally didn't pay much attention to become slightly sensitive.

"You don't need to worry about it, it's better for Xiao Zhao to do this kind of thing like mending clothes."

Meng Xiuyuan pretended to be disgusted and left Zhou Zhiruo behind, and at the same time took a step back imperceptibly.

Zhou Zhiruo was not angry when she heard this, and just wanted to talk back, but she heard Xiao Zhao's voice coming from afar:

"Childe, Sister Zhiruo......

Following the prestige, I saw Xiao Zhao holding a large wooden plate in each of his left and right hands, and a large bowl on top of his head, but he still walked smoothly and walked briskly in the direction of the two.

Seeing this, Zhou Zhiruo hurriedly stepped forward to help take the big bowl of fruit above his head, and asked:

"Didn't you make you wait, how did you find it yourself, and it's a shame that you got so many things."

Xiao Zhao shook his head innocently and explained for himself:

"I don't think you're coming back, thinking that maybe you're busy with something important, and you can't get out.

That's why I brought everything so that you can eat it nearby."

"Xiao Zhao, you have worked hard."

Meng Xiuyuan had also come close at this time, and took a wooden plate in her hand with a smile.

For the girl Xiao Zhao, Meng Xiuyuan has been very satisfied in the past few years.

Obviously, at the age of fifteen, he should still be in the rebellious period of youth, but Xiao Zhao always behaves very maturely, smart, strong, and empathetic.

In addition to the title of "Childe", he is even more obedient than Zhou Zhiruo.

……

Seeing that the food was brought by Xiao Zhao, the three of them did not rush back to the residential area again, but chose to find a flat place nearby and start eating.

On top of two large wooden plates, there are several different dishes in small wooden bowls, such as meatballs, roasted fish, roasted lamb shank, stewed soup, and so on. In the case that the materials in the valley are not abundant, it can be regarded as exhausting the mind.

In fact, according to Meng Xiuyuan himself, he actually doesn't have such high requirements for eating. If he were alone in this valley, he would have survived by just eating wild fruits every day.

It's just that Xiao Zhao, Zhou Zhiruo, and Ah Li always like to study some new dishes, and Meng Xiuyuan followed suit.

"Childe, Sister Zhiruo, how about you taste the soup of my new research?" Xiao Zhao excitedly served a bowl to Meng Xiuyuan and the others first.

"Well, it's delicious." "It's so fragrant, Xiao Zhao is really much better at cooking than me."

When Meng Xiuyuan and Zhou Zhiruo tasted it, their eyes lit up, and they couldn't stop praising Xiao Zhao.

"No, the original recipe for this soup was taught to me by Sister Ah Li, and I just added a little more newly found herbs......

Xiao Zhao was a little shy when he was praised, and the beautiful face inherited from Dai Qisi was flushed, which looked very cute.

"Ah Li...... I don't know how Sister Ah Li is doing now, whether she is doing well outside."

Zhou Zhiruo heard Xiao Zhao mention Ah Li, but she was suddenly a little sentimental. After all, they have lived together in the valley for four years, and they can't help but miss it a little bit after not seeing each other for a while.

If you want to talk about Ah Li, it is actually related to Zhang Wuji.

About a year ago, Zhang Wuji had practiced all four volumes of Jiuyang Divine Skill, and with the help of this Cui Gu, he had already accumulated extremely deep true qi.

Seeing this, Meng Xiu did not delay. took out the Qiankun air bag that had been prepared a long time ago, and with careful assistance, he helped him get through the last hurdle before the Jiuyang Divine Achievement.

With the explosion of Qiankun's air bag, Zhang Wuji's true qi inside and outside was agitated, and dozens of entrances on his body were broken through one by one, and Jiuyang's divine skills were completed.

Taking advantage of this effort, Meng Xiuyuan passed on his kung fu of "The Great Shift of Qiankun", so that he reached a state close to "complete body", and then instructed him some things, so that he could leave the valley in advance.

Ah Li naturally chose to follow Zhang Wuji and left this green valley together.

Since then, only Meng Xiuyuan, Zhou Zhiruo, and Xiao Zhao have been left in the valley.

"That's right, Master. I've never asked, what kind of kung fu are you practicing here, and how long will it take to practice it?"

Zhou Zhiruo groaned, and suddenly raised her head and asked Meng Xiuyuan.

"Why did you suddenly ask this, you are also in a hurry to get out of the valley?" Meng Xiuyuan put down the wooden bowl that had been drunk dry in his hand, and asked Zhou Zhiruo with a smile.

"No, I'm just curious, why do you always have to dive under that waterhole to practice recently......" Zhou Zhiruo hurriedly shook her head when she heard this.

She is indeed not too anxious, the days in this green valley are leisurely, and there is a master by her side every day, she only hopes that such days can pass longer, preferably for another ten or eight years.

When Meng Xiuyuan heard this, he let out a sigh of relief, and his face was a little strange:

"I don't know if it's a success...... Well, strictly speaking, it should still be a little bit worse.

The reason why I practiced under the waterhole was actually to break through that last step."

In fact, after five years of hard cultivation, Meng Xiuyuan thought that he had done almost enough in the field of "strengthening the body".

Compared to five years ago, his body has improved dramatically in many ways.

Especially in terms of the strength and toughness of the meridians, dantians, and internal organs in the body, Meng Xiuyuan has put a lot of effort into it, and he has made enough preparations to deal with the damage caused by the "compressed true qi liquefaction".

But after successfully rehearsing all the contents of the booklet written by Meng Xiuyuan and Zhang Sanfeng, he found that it was really unimaginable how to take the next step.

To use the analogy of liquefied gas, there are now steel liquefied gas tanks for storage, but he has not yet mastered the step of pressurizing the gas so that it is fully liquefied.

During this period, Meng Xiuyuan made many attempts with experience, conjecture and knowledge of his previous life.

What rotates the true qi in the dantian, so that it forms a whirlpool; What luck makes the two true qi hedge in the meridians; What else is there to forcibly extract the true qi in excess and seal it in the body.

In the end, they all failed to succeed for various reasons.

Among them, the most promising is the last one, that is, when the whole body dantian is already full of true qi, forcibly use internal strength to continue to extract true qi.

Meng Xiuyuan can feel that as long as he can really stick to this road, he will definitely succeed in the end.

But every time it reaches a certain point, the acupoints and pores around Meng Xiuyuan's blocked body will be washed open by high pressure, causing the true qi to leak and fall short.

At this time, Meng Xiuyuan began to regret a little, maybe he shouldn't have given the "Qiankun One Air Bag" to Zhang Wuji to use, but should have kept it for himself to break through.

But when I think about it later, I didn't get bothered by this thought for too long.

After all, first, Zhang Wuji's side is related to the major matter of unifying the Ming Sect and leading the resistance to the Yuan, and it is indeed more urgent than Meng Xiuyuan's side.

Second, the "Qiankun One Air Bag" was at most to help Zhang Wuji break through dozens of entrances all over his body, and it was broken at this point, obviously the strength was not enough, and he could not withstand the pressure that Meng Xiuyuan needed to further compress the true qi.

Therefore, it seems that if Meng Xiuyuan wants to practice this kung fu, he still needs some more special opportunities and assistance.

After Meng Xiuyuan pondered for a long time, he still decided to look for it in the natural world.

The waterfall pool in the Green Valley was much smaller than that on Wudang Mountain, so Meng Xiuyuan didn't pay much attention to it at first.

It was only after Meng Xiuyuan really held his breath and sneaked in with the mentality of trying it out, that he found that there was a hole in it.

Although the area of this waterhole is not large, it is nearly 100 meters deep underwater, faintly connected to underground water veins.

Meng Xiu was far away from this 100-meter underwater meditation and qi practice, and the water pressure closed the pores and acupoints around his body, which naturally helped him not to leak his true qi easily, and he only needed to concentrate on refining his true qi.

His days

After trying this several times, the effect was obviously much better than his meditation on the ground.

Unfortunately, perhaps because the water was not deep enough and the water pressure was worse after all, he still hasn't been able to fully succeed.

Meng Xiuyuan briefly explained this to the two girls, although the two of them were smart, they also seemed to understand for a while.

After a while, Xiao Zhao suddenly asked:

"Childe, like you say, even if you liquefy your true qi underwater, when you go ashore and there is no water to suppress the pores of the acupoints around your body, won't these liquefied true qi turn into gaseous again?"

When Meng Xiuyuan heard this, he secretly sighed that Xiao Zhao's comprehension was really high, and he only heard a few words from his side knocks, and he understood the relationship between pressure and the transformation of the form of the object.

After thousands of years, it is a good seedling to learn physics.

However, Meng Xiuyuan didn't worry too much about her question, just shook his head, and said confidently:

"I've thought about it, but it's not a big deal.

Once the True Qi is fully liquefied and I am familiar with its control, I probably won't let it turn back into a gaseous state.

Everything is always difficult at the beginning, and after that hurdle, many things will be solved."

"Oh, Xiao Zhao has been taught, Childe is so powerful." Xiao Zhao couldn't help but smile happily when he heard this, and was sincerely happy for Meng Xiuyuan.

Although Zhou Zhiruo didn't understand as well as Xiao Zhao on the side, she was also thoughtful, and asked after a while:

"So, Master, if you want to go one step further now, you have to go out of the valley and find a deeper lake and waterhole?"

When Meng Xiuyuan heard this, he first nodded, and then shook his head:

"If anything, it's time for us to get out of the valley now.

It's just that it's not just for the sake of practicing."

To continue practicing this "compression of true qi liquefaction", you really need to find a deeper lake pool, or go directly to the bottom of the sea.

But what is more urgent at this time is that Meng Xiuyuan received news a few days ago that the six major factions had set off to besiege Guangming Ding.

He has a reason why he can't be absent from this grand event.