That night, the silver moon hung in the sky, the breeze struck, and the cicadas chirped and frogs chirped.

In the guest room of the Blood Mist Mansion, Tang Xiao sat quietly cross-legged on the soft big bed, his hands formed the handprints of the Taixu Thunder Gang, and the thunder and lightning all over his body were like leaping over the dragon gate, appearing and disappearing from time to time.

In the fierce thunder light, a light brown desolate power also sprang out from time to time, which was the earth elemental desolate power that Tang Xiao came from in the Fighting Holy Vein.

Although Tang Xiao has not practiced the earth system now, the earth system desolate power in Tang Xiao's body is extremely rare. But scarcity does not mean weakness, when every earth system desolate power flashed in Tang Xiao's body, it was like a light brown swimming fish swimming in the blue thunder and lightning waves, without a trace of hindrance, extremely flexible and free.

In the middle of the breath, a mouthful of turbid breath exhaled from Tang Xiao's mouth, and the pure desolate power washed Tang Xiao's meridians over and over again.

And between the palms of Tang Xiao's hands, there was a milky white ball, faint as a mist, exuding a strange fluctuation, as Tang Xiao's desolate power flowed again and again, the milky white in the ball was also taken away by the desolate force little by little, and flowed into Tang Xiao's meridians along the desolate force.

It is the soul fragment of the Fighting Holy Ape!

The soul fragment that Tang Xiao obtained in the ruins in the Chiyan Mountain Range back then, according to what Baliang said, after absorbing this soul fragment, it can definitely help him to enhance his cultivation.

For a long time, when the desolate power in Tang Xiao's body was filled to a certain extent, and the milky white mist in the soul fragment in Tang Xiao's hand was just absorbed by Tang Xiao.

Tang Xiao finally gradually stopped his cultivation, slowly retracted his strength, took back all the thunder and lightning that covered his body, calmed his breath, and then opened his eyes, a purple thunder light flashed in his eyes, and he looked particularly enchanting in this dark night.

"Hey......" Qingxiu's eyebrows furrowed slightly, Tang Xiao's face was slightly dissatisfied, he sighed slightly, and said: "It is worthy of being the last layer of the Desolate Vein Realm, it has been spied on the bottleneck for a long time, but it can't be broken through no matter what." ”

Sensing the desolate power in his body, he still stayed at the position of the ninefold peak of the desolate vein, in the past few days in the Blood Mist Mansion, Tang Xiao had nothing to do, just meditating every day, but there was no progress in the slightest, which made Tang Xiao's heart a little irritable.

You must know that Tang Xiao's strength has begun to improve by leaps and bounds since he met Baliang, and in just over half a year, he has reached the realm of the Eight Layers of the Desolate Veins, but he has stayed at the level of the Eight Layers of the Desolate Veins to the Nine Levels of the Desolate Veins for nine months, which is already several months longer than Tang Xiao's entire cultivation experience.

And now Tang Xiao's cultivation has once again reached a more difficult bottleneck, the barrier between the nine layers of the desolate vein and the ten layers of the desolate veins is like an insurmountable towering mountain, giving Tang Xiao a feeling of being unshakable in the sky, no matter how hard he tries, he can't defeat it.

Casually sent the soul fragments that had been completely dim back to the space ring, that day Tang Xiao was in the ruins, except for one soul fragment of the Human Xuan Realm, the others were all Desolate Vein Realm, and now Tang Xiao was cultivating, and he felt more and more that the soul fragment of the Desolate Vein Realm was almost completely useless to himself due to the low energy it was rich in.

But if it weren't for the assistance of external forces, Tang Xiao knew that at a normal speed, if he wanted to cultivate to the point where he could fight against the Nian Beast Clan and the Chaos Palace, it would probably be impossible for him to do so without ten thousand years.

Thinking of this, Tang Xiao, who was originally anxious about his strength, became even more anxious.

"It seems that you still don't know why your cultivation is progressing so slowly!"

Just when Tang Xiao was sad, Qi Qi's voice came out.

Then a silver light flashed, and Qi Qi's figure swirled around Tang Xiao happily, dancing.

"Oh, isn't it because the higher the cultivation, the more difficult it is to advance?" Hearing Qi Qi's words, Tang Xiao couldn't help but question.

In the cultivation world, the higher the cultivation, the more difficult it is to break through, and this is a problem that every martial artist is bound to face. But hearing Qi Qi's words, it seems that behind Tang Xiao's slow progress, there is another reason.

So Tang Xiao hurriedly calmed down his mentality, put the anxiety just now, and listened to Qi Qi's explanation.

"Although the higher your cultivation, the more difficult it is to break through, this is a truth that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, but with the talent given to you by your Nian Beast bloodline, coupled with your hard work, a bottleneck with ten layers of desolate veins should definitely not be able to limit you, but you have already touched the bottleneck, after so many days of cultivation, there is still no progress at all, don't you think it's strange?"

Hearing Qi Qi's question, Tang Xiao's doubts that had always existed in his mind seemed to be set off a mystery.

Before, his desire for strength seemed to be a little too strong, so that Tang Xiao just blindly meditated on the exercises every day, desperately cultivating martial arts, and after not making the slightest progress, he began to be irritable and anxious. And I forgot to think about why such an abnormal phenomenon occurred, but I just thought that it was because of the high cultivation and the difficulty of breaking through.

And now when he heard Qiqi's analysis, Tang Xiao suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Indeed, as Qi Qi said, he has the blood of a young beast, and he can also be described as desperate in terms of cultivation, how can a bottleneck with ten barren veins make it difficult for him to move an inch?

Finding the problem, Tang Xiao hurriedly rushed to Qi Qi, hoping that Qi Qi could give him a reasonable explanation.

Seeing Tang Xiao's longing eyes, Qi Qi stopped teasing Tang Xiao and continued to explain: "Do you remember, when did your cultivation start to progress slowly, or even stagnate?"

Tang Xiao frowned, recalling every stage of cultivation from beginning to end, and after carefully examining himself for a long time, he said affirmatively: "It should be from the time when you enter the ruins and start to fuse the Fighting Saint Vein!"

Tang Xiao said That's right, after fusing the Fighting Sacred Vein, Tang Xiao's cultivation was stuck in the Eightfold Peak of the Desolate Vein for nine months, and finally he was able to break through by relying on the residual energy of the Earth Sect Pill.

Tang Xiao, on the other hand, attributed the reason for the slow progress of this cultivation to the fact that he was busy fusing the Fighting Divine Vein and had no time to make a breakthrough in cultivation, which would cause the stagnation of the wasted power.

But now that he thought about it, Tang Xiao suddenly felt a hint of something wrong.

"You mean......" Tang Xiao looked at Qi Qi and asked with some suspicion, "The reason is because of the Fighting Sacred Vein?"

"Yes, yes!"

Seeing that Tang Xiao had finally come to his senses, Qi Qi looked like a teachable child, nodded, and said, "It is precisely because of the Fighting Holy Vein. ”

"What the Fighting Sacred Vein gives you is earth-based desolate power, while your Taixu Thunder Gang cultivates thunder-based desolate power, and you can't enhance the earth-based desolate power at all, but because you have both thunder and earth energy in your body, you have to wait until both energies reach the breakthrough standard before you can break through, and you are only meeting the breakthrough standard of thunder desolate power now. So, that's the root cause of your inability to progress at all!"

"And you were promoted from the Eightfold of the Desolate Vein to the Ninth of the Desolate Vein, not all because of the Earth Breath Pill, but a larger part of it was because the owner of the ruins gave you the benefits after successfully accepting the inheritance, otherwise you would still be a Badmai Eightfold guy now. ”

After listening to Qi Qi's explanation, Tang Xiao suddenly realized, he didn't expect the ultimate reason to appear here.

At this time, Tang Xiao couldn't help but be glad, fortunately there was Qiqi by his side, otherwise now he was asleep, and he didn't have a master, I'm afraid that even if he wanted to break his head, he wouldn't find out the real problem.

"So...... I need to practice an earth-based technique to make up for my shortcomings?" Tang Xiao confirmed to Qi Qi again.

Kiki nodded undeniably.

"Well, okay, then I'll go out and look for it tomorrow and see if I can find a more advanced earth-based exercise. Tang Xiao made a decision immediately.

These days, the stagnation of strength seems to have made Tang Xiao return to the original state of being bullied by others, and no matter how hard he tries, he can't get rid of the shackles of fate. This feeling is definitely a nightmare for Tang Xiao.

And after all, now Tang Xiao is in the imperial city, the most powerful and developed city in the Heavenly Spirit Empire, there is no one.

So here, Tang Xiao felt that if he was lucky, he should be able to find a relatively advanced exercise.

Tang Xiao didn't dare to hope for the ground-level exercises, but there were still some possibilities for the high-level Xuan-level.

However, as the problem of stagnation in cultivation was resolved, another new problem resurfaced in Tang Xiao's mind.

"Qi Qi, you said that if I choose an earth-based exercise to start cultivating, wouldn't it be that I have to cultivate the earth-based technique from the first level of the desolate vein to the peak of the ninth level of the desolate vein, and be on par with the thunder system desolate power before I can make a breakthrough?

Thinking of this question, Tang Xiao suddenly frowned, if this was really the case, according to his previous cultivation experience, even if Tang Xiao's earth-based cultivation was as rapid as when he cultivated the thunder-based exercises, it would take more than half a year to cultivate to the level of the thunder-based exercises.

"Of course not!"

Seeing Tang Xiao's bitter look, Qi Qi gloated and laughed twice, and said in a coquettish voice.

"Oh, what do you say?" Tang Xiao suddenly came to his senses when he heard Qi Qi's words, and immediately looked at Qi Qi with bright eyes, trying to find a suitable solution.

"First, the speed of cultivation progress depends on the exercises, if you find a relatively advanced exercise, the progress will naturally be fast, second, you have the previous cultivation experience, the meridians have expanded, so the progress will be fast, and third, don't you have the soul fragments of the Fighting Holy Ape? Anyway, it won't affect the foundation, why don't you use it?" Qi Qi quickly explained the solution in a simple and clear way.

"Soul fragments, but the level I obtained from soul fragments is only in the Desolate Vein Realm, and in the later stage, it basically has no effect," Tang Xiao asked again.

"Hee-hee, who said that, did you forget about this!" Kiki smiled, and then a silver light was thrown out of Kiki's light.

Tang Xiao subconsciously stretched out his hand to take it, and suddenly a cold feeling came into his palm, and when he opened it, he saw that a ring that exuded spatial fluctuations was lying quietly in his palm.