Night.

In a hidden cavern, there was a dim light.

Yuan Ming sat cross-legged in the hole in the ground, in front of him a pebble that had been taken out and sunken, filled with lamp oil made of forest worm grease, and in the lighted firelight, a slight amount of oil smoke came out, exuding a faint sweet and greasy taste.

He was holding a green book in his hand and was looking at it intently.

"No wonder Zhao Tong wants the skin of a human-faced ghost spider, it turns out that this Qianji mask is so easy to use, it can transform thousands of faces, and monks above the Yudan stage can't see through it." Yuan Ming said.

During this period of time, his understanding of cultivation has gradually become clearer, knowing that after the Qi refining period, there is still a foundation building period, and after the foundation building period is the Dan period, and then it is the fairy-like Yuan Infant Period.

However, except for the next few realms except for the Qi Refining Period, he only knew a name, and he still couldn't figure out what the difference was.

After a while, he closed the book "Illustrated Guide to Ordinary Fierce Beasts", silently recalled the situation of the fierce beasts recorded in it, and secretly remembered it in his heart.

"Stuck on the bottleneck of the second layer of Qi refining, I haven't been able to improve for a long time, and I don't know if this thing is useful." Yuan Ming put away the book, held the palm-sized piece of meat Ganoderma lucidum, and muttered to himself.

According to the Herborist Collection, the flesh of Ganoderma lucidum that is more than ten years old can give birth to white bones and remove rotten flesh.

For more than 100 years, it can live the dead, strengthen qi and blood, help cultivation, and combine with Poria cocos, red yellow essence, Wujialing and other medicines to refine Lingzhi Dan, and the effect can be doubled.

The one in his hand, judging by the shape and size, is already a hundred years old, but unfortunately Yuan Ming can't find someone to help him refine the pill, once he takes it out, he is afraid that it will bring disaster to himself.

After all, the puppet is not guilty, but he is guilty.

"It can only be eaten raw, which is better than not eating at all." Yuan Ming sighed and said.

After that, he sat cross-legged, adjusted his breathing, and began to silently run the second-layer exercises of the "Nine Yuan Jue", mobilizing the mana in the dantian and wandering around the heavens.

When the qi and blood around his body were mobilized, Yuan Ming slowly opened his eyes, picked up the meat Ganoderma lucidum, and bit it down.

The touch that felt fleshy to the touch, but after biting down, it was a wood-like fibrous texture, and a bitter taste spread between his lips and teeth, making his eyes widen.

"It's unpalatable." Yuan Ming said silently in his heart, but he didn't spit it out, but endured the discomfort and chewed.

After a while, Yuan Ming swallowed the whole meat lingzhi into his stomach.

After that, he continued to try to run the three-layer exercises of the Nine Yuan Jue, carefully feeling the changes in himself.

But what disappointed him was that as soon as the three-layer exercise of the Nine Yuan Jue was running, the feeling of stagnation and distress struck again, and the mana operation was like encountering a high wall, which was blocked and insurmountable.

"Can't you?" Yuan Ming sighed secretly in his heart.

Sure enough, even the elixir of heaven and earth treasure needs to be refined before it can stimulate its effects.

But at this moment, Yuan Ming suddenly frowned, and pressed his hands on his lower abdomen.

Immediately afterwards, a stream of heat rose from his dantian position, as if a warm stove had been set up in his abdomen.

Yuan Mingzheng was surprised, and suddenly felt the temperature of the heat flow in his lower abdomen suddenly increased significantly, and the warm heat from the beginning became a little scorching.

He only felt that the stove in his lower abdomen had run out of water, and the flames were all overflowing, burning his abdomen with dry pain.

Yuan Ming was a little panicked in his heart, and hurriedly unbuttoned his clothes and opened his chest and abdomen.

But this still couldn't counteract the heat, and the skin on his lower abdomen turned red and began to spread towards his chest and thighs.

Yuan Ming hurriedly removed all the clothes on his body and sat on the ground naked, only to feel a little relieved.

But the soothing sensation didn't last long, and he was swallowed up by the heat again, and the skin all over his body began to turn red, looking like cooked shrimp.

Yuan Ming even blew out the small oil lamp in front of him, but he still felt dry and restless, and his heart was beating like a drum in his chest.

At the same time, he also felt that the mana in the dantian seemed to be a little restless, and began to jump into the meridians uncontrollably, and there was a pinprick-like pain in the meridians all over his body.

When he practiced in the past, he had never been in such a situation, and Yuan Ming couldn't help but panic a little.

However, soon, he forcibly calmed himself down and began to run the "Nine Yuan Jue" exercises, trying to sort out and guide those manas back to the dantian.

After this attempt, he found that his mana was not out of control, and he was still obeying his command, but the speed of operation increased and the momentum became stronger.

As soon as he thought of this, Yuan Ming had a sense of epiphany.

He hurriedly recited the mantra of the third layer of the "Nine Yuan Jue" in his heart, guided the circulation of mana in the meridians according to the method of cultivation, and tried to break through to the third layer of qi refining again.

After a moment, Yuan Ming's eyes suddenly opened, and his eyes lit up.

The bottleneck that could not be broken through before, this time it was easily passed.

In an instant, the mana in his dantian surged, and the speed of mana circulation also accelerated, and the time required to run for a week was also doubled, and the efficiency of his cultivation was greatly improved.

Yuan Ming selflessly ran the exercises, running Zhou Tian over and over again, up and down his body, sweating like rain, and there was a faint white mist above his head, steaming.

With his cultivation, the feeling of heat in his body began to gradually converge, and the reddened skin began to subside, and the mana in his body gradually stabilized, but the mana stored in the dantian increased significantly.

After a few hours, Yuan Ming slowly opened his eyes, and a smile appeared on his face.

Under the impetus of the medicinal power of this hundred-year-old medicinal meat lingzhi, he finally broke through again and advanced to the third layer of the qi refining stage.

After the joy, Yuan Ming did not stop cultivating, but continued to meditate cross-legged, trying to stabilize his realm.

……

Half a month later.

Next to a jungle stream, a figure shuttled quickly through the forest, his body was draped in a white ape animal skin, and he was carrying a bronze ancient sword in his hand, it was Yuan Ming.

At this moment, he did not use the technique of draping, but only ran wildly in the form of a human, and the speed was not slow at all.

Behind him, the trees in the dense forest continued to fall, and the sound of collision was repeated.

In the billowing smoke and dust, a gray-green forest snake that was seven feet long and as thick as a bucket was twisting its body quickly, rushing towards Yuan Ming in the forest.

Its eyes were amber yellow, with a large bloody mouth, revealing two pairs of sharp teeth on top and bottom, from which a scarlet snake spitted out, which was more than six feet long.

Yuan Ming was running wildly, looking back, seeing that the forest snake was getting closer and closer, he suddenly accelerated to help, and then jumped up in the air, jumping out seven or eight feet away at once.

Seeing this, Sen Yu rushed forward with his head, and his body swept straight up, chasing Yuan Ming.

Yuan Mingren was in mid-air, stretched out his hand to grab the vine hanging from an old tree next to him, and pulled it down suddenly, and the traps made of vines on both sides of his side immediately contracted rapidly.

Half of the body of the forest snake burrowed into a rapidly shrinking rope loop, and before it could completely get out, it was tied up by the tightened tree vines, and half of its body was suspended in the air.

It struggled, tugging at the vines and shaking violently with the thick branches above, threatening to break.

But at this time, Yuan Ming, who had already turned back, jumped high, held the herring sword tightly with both hands, and slashed towards the head of the forest snake.

Seeing that the forest snake was about to be killed by one move, its six-foot-long snake letter suddenly rolled up, and tied Yuan Ming again.

The horizontal branches of the old tree could not withstand the weight of the body of the forest worm and collapsed with a bang.

As soon as the long tongue of the forest snake rolled, he dragged Yuan Ming and pulled him into his mouth at once.

Before Yuan Ming could react, his eyes were dark, and the upper half of his body had been swallowed by the forest worm and entered a wet and sticky cavity.

The upper and lower jaws of the forest snake were retracted, and the huge pressure tried to crush Yuan Ming's bones.

Yuan Ming suddenly felt that his sternum and ribs were being pressed by a huge force, and his whole breathing was a little uncomfortable, and the fishy smell in the abdomen of the forest snake continued to surge, making him almost suffocate and faint.

Just as the muscles of the Mori Anacond's mouth were squirming, sending Yuan Ming into his abdomen little by little, a blue-green light suddenly lit up in his lower abdomen, and a sword tip with a cyan luster abruptly pierced the skin of the Mori Analyte and came out of it.

Immediately afterwards, as the muscles of the Mori Python's mouth continued to squirm, Yuan Ming's body slowly penetrated deep into the snake's belly, and the herring sword also cut open the Mori Python's belly, drawing a huge opening.

Yuan Ming was covered in mucus and came out of the wound in the abdomen of the forest snake, holding the herring sword in one hand and a fleshy sac as big as a papaya in the other hand.

It was the snake gall of the forest snake, and it was also the most valuable thing on its body in addition to the blood of the beast, and it was something that Zhao Tong specially mentioned in the hope that Yuan Ming could bring back.

Yuan Ming had already killed three forest snakes before, but every time he finished killing and dissecting their stomachs, he found that the snake gall bladder inside had been shattered, and the dark green bile had corroded the abdominal cavity to a mess.

At first, he thought it was accidentally shattered during the battle, but later found out that it was broken by the forest python when it was on the verge of death, in order not to be taken by the hunters.

In desperation, he chose the method of being swallowed into his stomach by the forest snake and taking the gall from the inside.

The snake gall was removed from the snake gall did not die immediately, the tumbling body writhed, the long tail swept left and right, and wanted to fight before death, but it was useless after all.

After Yuan Ming used the blood storage bag to collect the beast's blood, he came to the bank of the river with a long sword, intending to wash the filth on his body.

He had just come to the water's edge, and before he could lean over, he suddenly saw that his reflection in the water was a little strange, and when he was about to take a closer look, his heart suddenly became excited.

His face, which was reflected in the water, suddenly distorted and turned into a hideous snake face.