Nine months later, in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, inside the city of Changle.

Xia Qi was dressed in gray and black clothes, wearing a hat, carrying a faded quaint umbrella, and walked slowly on the bustling and lively streets.

His expression was indifferent, and his steps seemed ordinary, but there was a hidden mysterious trajectory, and he effortlessly cut through the crowd and walked into a shop.

After a while, Xia Qi walked out of it with his usual face, but there was an iron brand in his hand that didn't look special.

After Xia Qi came out, he changed his direction again and again, and finally turned into a remote alley, raised the Luo umbrella in his hand and stretched it out, revealing the umbrella bones made of various alien beast leg bones and the umbrella surface paved with phoenix feathers, which was the magic weapon he had obtained from the black nest - the mixed yuan flag.

At this time, the fading Luo umbrella showed a chaotic color, and many obscure Dao pattern seal characters loomed on it, and a dark light shrouded Xia Qi, making it like a water stain that had been wiped off the mirror, and disappeared into the alley silently.

After moving out of the city, Xia Qi put away the Luo umbrella, showed his figure in a no-man's place beside the road, and after changing the clothes on his body into a green shirt, he found an inn at random, asked the shopkeeper for a relatively clean guest room, and lived in.

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After Xia Qi lived in Zhang He's house for half a year, he said goodbye to them according to the contract.

At that time, he had already accumulated his energy, and condensed several tricks related to his eyes, he could be called a ninth-rate master, plus a palm technique that had already begun to gain true intentions, even an ordinary master who was two or three knots higher than him was not his enemy.

Thinking that he didn't use magic weapons and didn't have to worry about protecting himself, he set off from Gezhou alone and traveled all the way, planning to go to the Pure Yang Sect to meet the second person in the world's heavenly list, Chong and Zhenren, to see if he could get the approval of the leader of the immortal traces, join the "immortal traces", and then move on to the next step.

However, this journey was not as smooth as Xia Qi imagined.

Along the way, he encountered several dangers, mainly thieves and horse bandits who robbed and killed people, and boatmen who murdered people for money, although these were finally resolved by his own caution and martial arts.

But what he didn't expect was that just after he left Gezhou last month, he ran into a Zuo Dao strongman who was wanted by the Great Zhou government and fled to the Western Regions in an inn.

The other party is a supreme master of the six-fold heavenly cultivation on the outside, because of the special exercises he practiced, he discovered the special features on Xia Qi's bones, so he had the idea of forcibly kidnapping him, but in the process of doing it, not only did he not break through Xia Qi's defense, but instead caused Xia Qi's divine soldiers to automatically revive the protector, and finally he used his divine weapons to give a sword to the head.

Because the divine soldier will have a breath leak when he wakes up, it attracts the exterior masters who sense this abnormal aura within a hundred miles of the vicinity to rush to investigate.

In order to avoid exposing himself again, after putting away the other party's corpse and mustard seed ring, Xia Qi chose to use the awakened divine weapon to break through the void and teleport randomly, and as a result, he went to the vicinity of Changle, which was tens of thousands of miles away.

Because of this incident, Xia Qi also temporarily changed his plan, planning to stay in this Great Zhou Capital for a period of time first, slowly sell the useless things he obtained from this evil cultivator, exchange them for silver taels and resources for cultivation, and wait for the reincarnation that is about to begin.

And after exposing his peculiarity because of carelessness that time, Xia Qi now carries the magic weapon of the Mixed Yuan Banner with him when he goes to the gray area of Changle to ship, so as to hide his body and breath, and at the same time shake off the tails that follow him.

Unlike other magic weapons, the Mixed Yuan Banner itself has a concealment function, so it will not leak out of the breath when urged, and it is not very eye-catching when held in the hand, and it looks like it is just an old-looking Luo umbrella.

In general, although the experience of this trip was not good, it also greatly increased Xia Qi's eyesight, not only saw a lot of sinister rivers and lakes, but also basically understood ordinary sneak attacks, poisoning, plotting and other means.

Now that Xia Qi has gone through this experience, he can barely be called half of the rivers and lakes.

At the same time, in addition to the dangers encountered along the way, Xia Qi also saw several waves of displaced people who fled from the north with their families at the border of Gezhou.

After helping them, Xia Qi inquired about the reason, and learned from these refugees that the current Great Zhou was at war with the grassland.

And these people are the poor people who survived the burning and looting of the grassland tribes after the local city was broken, and they were placed by the government to reclaim the famine here in Gezhou.

This tragic scene touched the hearts of Xia Qi, who was born in a peaceful era and had never really seen this scene, and couldn't help but feel heavy in his heart, reminiscent of the battle between good and evil that broke out twelve years later in the original work.

At that time, the grassland army will go south, knocking on the customs with the demon clan, and there will be nine demons in the major cities to take advantage of the fire to rob.

As for the Great Zhou martial arts families in the original book, they basically had no responsibility when facing the southward movement of the grassland, and most of them secretly served the opposite side, acting as the grass on the wall, without caring about the life and death of the people under their rule.

In the end, it was the Heavenly Bang Dharma Body Chong in the righteous path who blocked the opposite Dharma Body by sacrificing himself, and successfully prevented the grassland united demon clan from entering the customs, causing the tragedy of human suffering.

And if you want to change this outcome, you can only have the ability to turn the situation around if you successfully advance to the Dharma Body before this happens, and it is best to have the characteristics of the "ubiquitous" Legendary Realm.

"Do you have to cultivate the Dharma Body in about twelve years... But now my strength has just opened my eyes, and there is still a distance from my ears, even if I can really ascend to the sky and enter the exterior scene in one step within three years, then I have to have a year in the remaining nine years to have a chance to be promoted to the Law Body before this battle, and I am afraid that even the protagonist Meng Qi can't do it. ”

"However, if you can enter those fragments of Heavenly Light that have a fast flow of time, it is equivalent to extending your cultivation time in disguise, so it is not without opportunities."

"Thinking about it this way, it is really imperative for me to enter the six realms of reincarnation."

Xia Qi stopped his thoughts, closed the doors and windows, lit the oil lamp, and after taking the commonly used cultivation elixir "Void Form Yihua Dan" during the enlightenment period, he meditated cross-legged and condensed the remaining points in his ears.

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Changle School Palace.

Xia Qi was dressed as a scholar at this time, wearing a green shirt and a scarf, and after coming here, he first showed the iron brand, and then was let go.

After arriving at the Academy, he did not communicate with the other disciples of the Academy, and went straight to a spectacular nine-story study building next to the Academy.

During this period of time in Changle, in addition to the shipment, he lived in a simple place on weekdays, meditated on cultivation and waited for the pull of the six paths, and bought some books and publications in the study as a pastime when he had nothing to do, among which there were also Taoist scriptures and Buddhist scrolls and the doctrines handed down by the ancient sages.

Xia Qi had a clear understanding in his heart that when he had comprehended the Six Seals of the Yuan Shi before, he had relied too much on his existing comprehension and qualifications, and instead ignored the accumulation of his own lack of some basic principles, which caused him to feel more and more difficult when he deeply comprehended these Dharma Body moves.

Finding that he could better comprehend the principles of moves by reading more of those sages, in order to read more books with high-quality content, he also spent some money and property to find the head snake here to operate a "Changle Academy" to audit the disciples, and he had the qualifications to enter and exit this library, in addition to being able to audit some semi-public lectures in the palace.

Changle School Palace is the place where the founders of the hundred schools of thought such as the heart saint preached in the Middle Ages, and there were small words and great meanings left in this place, and then with the time to come to the Middle Ages, it gradually developed into a holy place for learning headed by the heart saint doctrine, and it is also the place with the largest collection of books in the Great Zhou Dynasty now.

In this library, Xia Qi did come into contact with many rare and rare books on the market, including some true scholars who left their experiences and concepts to explore the relationship between heaven and man.

Flipping through these books has a touching effect on him, so that he can comprehend the more core mystical principles of those exterior scenes and Dharma body moves.

"The man with the heart, the master of the body, the handsome of the gods. Stillness gives birth to wisdom, and movement leads to darkness. In the psychedelic realm, the only thing to say is..."

"If he who speaks of truth, his mind has no truth, and everything is what he sees in his own heart..."

"There is no good and no disgusting body, there is good and evil action..."

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As the sky gradually darkened and the study building of the Academy Palace was also closed, Xia Qi returned to the inn room where he was staying, and was about to start today's cultivation when an indifferent and ruthless voice suddenly sounded in his ears:

"This rookie reincarnation team is about to start, and the candidates are currently being pulled: Jiang Zhiwei, Zhang Yuanshan, Qingjing, Qi Zhengyan, Zhending......"

It's finally time for this day... Xia Qi exhaled lightly, got up and tidied up his outfits, and a green and smooth talisman appeared in his palm, which was the reincarnation talisman that Lu Jian Daojun had given him before.

He crossed his true qi into the reincarnation talisman, enveloping himself with a ray of light, and his figure suddenly disappeared into the room.