A month passed.

In a spiritual cave in Hanchi County, Zhao Lin was dressed in a brown robe and sat cross-legged on a futon.

The evergreen light sprinkled down, and the rich aura surrounded the body, and when you breathed it out, the aura seeped into the body.

After a while, Zhao Lin opened his eyes, stood up, and stretched out his left hand to pinch out a spell.

With the palm up, hook the index finger and little finger together, and the middle finger from between the two fingers, and then press and hold the three fingers with the thumb to pinch out a "frightening mark".

A white ball of light the size of a broad bean quickly condensed at his fingertips, entwined with a few wisps of blue light, like a spirit snake writhing back and forth.

"Thunderblade!"

Zhao Lin snorted lightly, pointed a little, and the ball of light shot out like lightning and hit the cave wall.

With a "poof", a dazzling light flashed, and then quickly disappeared.

This is not because the magic is not powerful enough, but because there is a protective circle in the spirit cave that cancels out the attack of the spell.

"It seems that my realm is too low, and my spiritual power is insufficient, so I can only use it to the level of Xiaocheng."

Zhao Lin sighed slightly.

The Thunder Blade Technique is an armor-piercing weapon, and when encountering a strong defensive spell during the fight, when other spells and magic weapons, even flying swords, are helpless, the Thunder Blade Technique can be broken in one fell swoop.

Zhao Lin's rock armor technique is proficient, extremely strong, and it is not a problem to resist the attack spells of the same level seven or eight times, but when he encounters the thunder blade technique, he has not carried a single move.

Like martial arts, there are quite few people in the immortal cultivation world who have thunder spirit roots, and there is only Zhao Lin in the entire Hanchi County.

Moreover, the spiritual power of Lei Xing is extremely unstable, and it is difficult to make runes, and most of the runes on the market that are crowned with the words thunder, explosion, and boom are actually engraved with fire spells, so Zhao Lin has never been able to find the opportunity to practice thunder spells.

Li Yuanzhi attacked Zhao Lin with a thunder blade technique, and the spiritual cultivation diagram captured this spell. Zhao Lin naturally wouldn't let go of this good opportunity, and after he came back, he used sixty-four spirit stones to cultivate the Thunder Blade Technique to mastery.

But when I practiced it, I encountered a problem: the movement of the spell was too large, and it consumed great spiritual power.

Just at the initial entry level, the spell will make a roaring sound, and after a few casts, the spiritual power in the body will be consumed.

It only takes a few hours to recover your spiritual power and then practice again.

These are the characteristics of thunder spells: powerful, short-lasting, and extremely spiritually demanding.

For the sake of safety, and also to speed up the speed of practice, Zhao Lin exchanged his good skills for the qualification to practice in the spirit cave.

In order to quickly recover spiritual power, practice the Thunder Blade Technique repeatedly.

The spiritual energy in the spiritual cave is rich, and when you are in it, it is as if your whole body is wrapped in spiritual energy, and your spiritual power can be completely restored after half an hour of meditation.

At the beginning, Zhao Lin exchanged for an ordinary spirit cave, and three good deeds were cultivated for twelve hours.

Half a month later, he finally raised his spell attainment to a small level, and then found that he used most of his aura with one move.

He had no choice but to change to a better medium spiritual cave, spending five good deeds in twelve hours.

But after practicing for a few days, I found that although I became more and more proficient in the mastery of spells, the power of spells has always stagnated.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhao Lin finally figured out that he had mastered the mastery-level thunder blade technique, but he was limited to insufficient spiritual power, so he could only exert the power of Xiaocheng.

"Let's stop here, it is estimated that when the cultivation reaches the fourth level of qi refining, it should be a matter of course."

Zhao Lin was relieved in his heart, although the Thunder Blade Technique was only at a small level, the destructive power of a single spell was still far superior to that of other spells.

The spiritual cave still has a few hours of cultivation qualifications, and it can't be wasted, so he continues to sit down and practice.

In the past month, Zhao Lin has broken through two more spiritual apertures, and he has cultivated more than half of the third-level qi refining, and this progress can rank among the top five among the disciples, which is faster than the cultivation speed of many disciples of the high-grade spiritual root.

However, these are all the merits of the spirit of the pipa catfish, allowing him to rush without scruples, plus he has a lot of good deeds, so he can cultivate in the spiritual cave.

"It's already hard to speed up your cultivation, can you find a way to improve your divine sense and spiritual power?"

Zhao Lin pondered silently, although he had mastered a mastery-level spell, it was difficult for him to exert his full power.

Not to mention the short attack distance, after casting a few spells, the spiritual power is exhausted, and it feels like a small horse-drawn cart.

Especially now that I have learned the Thunder Blade Technique, this problem is even more prominent.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

There was a knocking sound outside the cave.

Zhao Lin knew that the time had come, opened the stone door, and strode out of the spiritual cave.

The next day, Zhao Lin took this question and found Elder Chuangong.

Elder Wu patiently listened to Zhao Lin's request and said in a mocking tone, "The greatest benefit brought by realm ascension is to increase divine consciousness and spiritual power. ”

"But you want to have the benefits of a high realm when you are in a low realm, how can there be such a good thing in the world?"

Zhao Lin said seriously: "The disciple doesn't want to take shortcuts, and his cultivation has never fallen behind for a moment, but his qualifications are ordinary, and his realm is difficult to improve for a while. ”

"The disciple went out on a mission this time, and he felt that the attack distance was too close, and he was restrained when fighting the method, so he had this idea."

Elder Wu put away his smile and nodded slightly, "The old man knows your thoughts, you see the problem very accurately, and if you want to expand the scope of your attack, it lies in your spiritual power and divine sense." ”

After a little hesitation, he said, "Let's talk about the two separately." ”

"You are a martial cultivator, with wide meridians and deep spiritual apertures, which can hold more spiritual energy, so your spiritual power is already stronger than that of the same level of law cultivation."

"It's just that you don't compare yourself and don't realize that. As more apertures are opened, the gap will become more and more obvious. ”

"Spiritual power can only be improved through cultivation, and there is no other way."

After hearing this, Zhao Lin was sure in his heart, and after thinking about it, the other party seemed to have something in his words, and hurriedly asked, "Elder, do you mean that there is a way to enhance your divine sense?" ”

Elder Wu didn't speak, he was silent for a while, and then slowly spoke: "There is indeed a technique that can enhance divine consciousness, and it is called the Nine Turns Condensing Divine Skill. ”

"This skill can condense the divine consciousness and expand the sea of knowledge, with a total of nine turns."

"Three turns before the cultivation of the Qi Refining Realm, three turns of cultivation in the Foundation Building Realm, and three turns after the cultivation of the Purple Mansion."

"In the first turn, the divine consciousness increased by thirty zhang."

"In the second turn, the divine consciousness increased by forty zhang."

"In the third turn, the divine consciousness increases by fifty zhang."

"And it also includes the ability to use the Divine Soul to attack, defend, and so on."

Zhao Lin listened to it and was moved.

I thought that if I cultivated to the third turn, my divine consciousness would increase by one hundred and twenty zhang, and the divine consciousness of the Qi Refining Realm would be comparable to or even surpass the early stage of foundation building.

Elder Wu paused for a moment, then said, "However, there are very few people who practice this exercise. ”

Zhao Lin was stunned, "Elder, why are so few people practicing such a good exercise?" ”

Elder Wu stretched out two fingers and said, "Two reasons. ”

"First, the Nine Turns Condensing Divine Skill is a practice, not a spell. Cultivation is like the basic exercises, and it is also a gradual process, and with each increase, it is no less difficult than improving a small realm. ”

"It takes two hours to do the work once."

"Qi Refining Realm cultivators, practicing exercises and practicing spells every day already takes up a lot of time, plus cultivating Dao arts, how can there be extra time to practice such time-consuming and laborious exercises?"

"Therefore, those who practice the Nine Turns of Condensation Divine Skill are all extremely gifted, and ordinary people who practice this skill will only be empty-handed and will not get anything."

Zhao Lin was happy in his heart, he basically didn't have to spend time practicing spells, and he was not in a hurry to learn the formation, and he had much more time than ordinary monks, which was not a problem, so he asked, "What about the second reason?" ”

Seeing that Zhao Lin still hadn't dispelled his thoughts, Elder Wu said indifferently: "The second reason is that the Nine Turns Condensing Divine Skill is a unique technique of the sect, and it must be exchanged with good merit. ”

"And before cultivating, you must make a Taoist oath, and you can't pass it on to others forever, otherwise you will be punished by heaven and die!"

There are many sects in the Xuanyuan Continent, and the Dao law system is also different, but the different paths are the same, such as the wind knife technique, the water arrow technique, these spells, each sect is actually similar, and there is no difference between them.

Only the unique exercises are the foundation of the sect, no wonder it attaches so much importance to it.

As for why important exercises and spells must be exchanged for good deeds, Zhao Lin didn't understand it at first, couldn't he just buy them with spirit stones, why did he have to get a good merit?

When he came back this time, he used his good skills to buy some pills and exchange them for qualifications to cultivate in the Spirit Cave, and gradually realized this.

Using spirit stones to buy exercises, then it is just a transaction, and the monks will not feel that they owe anything to the sect, let alone be grateful, after all, there are many ways to obtain spirit stones.

But the good deeds are different, the monks do things for the sect in exchange for cultivation resources, the relationship between the two sides is closer, and the Taoism is also inherited.

"I don't know how much good merit it will take to redeem the Nine Turns Condensing Divine Skill?"

Zhao Lin thought for a while and asked.

"The first three turns, each turn is 500 good deeds, the middle three turns are 1,000 good deeds per turn, and the last three turns are 2,000 good deeds per turn."

"It's so expensive."

"It's not expensive."

Elder Wu chuckled, "Exercises are rare, and if you want to practice, you naturally have to pay some price. ”

"And this is just the beginning, but all the divine consciousness exercises have a loss of divine consciousness."

"Divine consciousness is not like spiritual power, it can recover quickly on its own, and it must take drugs such as the Divine Pill, the Soul Nourishing Pill, and the Spiritual Pill."

"These pills are not one-time, they need to be taken regularly, and the cost is more than exchanging exercises."

After listening to Elder Wu's words, Zhao Lin was stunned.

I thought that even if I practiced in the Spirit Cave every day, I could persist for a year and a half, but I didn't expect that it would be difficult to cultivate the Nine Turns Condensing Divine Skill.

"Thank you Elder for clarifying the disciple's doubts, and the disciple will think about it again."

Zhao Lin came back to his senses and said.

"Hmm."

Elder Wu waved his hand casually and said, "Since you are here, I just want to ask you something. ”

"Elder, please speak."

"There will be a sect competition in two months, do you want to participate?"

Zhao Lin was stunned, "Elder, the disciple's cultivation is only at the third level of qi refining, so he is not qualified to participate, right?" ”

Elder Wu said with a smile: "The sect is a big competition, and there is no limit to cultivation. Some people know that they are not strong enough but still participate in order to prepare for the future. ”

"That's why the old man asked."

Zhao Lin weighed it for a while and said, "The disciple has self-knowledge, so he won't participate." ”

There are two groups of sect scores, and at Zhao Lin's age, he can only participate in the elite group.

Although he killed Sheng Jinlong, who was at the ninth level of qi refining, Zhao Lin didn't feel that he had the ability to rank in the sect competition.

At that time, there was Wei Shi to help contain it, and there was also the assistance of the magic circle, and even then it was extremely thrilling.

Zhao Lin learned from the senior brother who had participated in the sect's great competition that if he wanted to get a ranking, he had to cultivate at least a Dacheng-level spell.

Not to mention far away, even the disciples of the Spirit Dao Academy, Zhao Lin was not sure to defeat.

There is also a very important point, the fighting method is bound to cast spells, I have just entered the sect for more than a year, and I have used a few proficient-level spells, and then I will be in trouble.

However, three years later, Zhao Lin really wanted to participate in the sect competition.

Elder Wu was not surprised, and nodded, "It's okay, none of our disciples this year participated in the sect competition. ”

"In this case, our Spirit Dao Academy has a small fighting method competition to test the progress of the disciple's spells in the past year or so."

Speaking of this, he raised his eyebrows and said half-jokingly: "But say it in advance, for the sake of fairness, you can't use martial arts, otherwise you won't have to compare." ”

Zhao Lin also smiled when he heard this, and arched his hand and said, "Obey." ”

……

Bidding farewell to the elders, Zhao Lin came to Songyu Peak.

There were no fang markets around Hanchi County, so as not to interfere with the disciples' cultivation.

However, there is a small bazaar on Songyu Peak, and there are more than a dozen shops in the city, which is convenient for the monks in the county to trade and buy cultivation items.

Zhao Lin bought a bottle of Bigu Dan and a bottle of Ning Yuan Dan at the bazaar, and exchanged a thousand spirit coins for a hundred spirit stones.

Buying pills is just to cover up, and the main purpose is to exchange for spirit stones.

After Zhao Lin returned from his mission, he concentrated on practicing the Thunder Blade Technique, and the skeleton at the bottom of the Feituo River had been shelved, and now he could finally free up his hands to study it.

Go back to your lodgings and take the bones out of the lock bag.

The skeleton is very complete, two hundred and six bones, one is not less.

Zhao Lin has practiced martial arts for many years, and he knows the structure of the human body well, and soon arranged these bones into a human shape.

Then he took out the spirit stone from the other lock bag and placed it neatly next to it.

"The first time I traced the bones, I hope I have some luck!"

Zhao Lin took a deep breath, reached out his palm, and pressed it on the top of the bone's head.

The spiritual map immediately gave birth to an induction, and suddenly it lit up.

According to the memories related to the spiritual map, if you want to absorb the essence from the bones, you must consume the spiritual energy, so Zhao Lin stretched out his other hand and pressed it on the spirit stone.

Brush!

The spiritual diagram stretched out countless tentacles, greedily absorbing the spiritual energy, and the spiritual stone quickly turned into a pile of powder.

At the same time, a woman's phantom appeared in Zhao Lin's mind.

The woman is about thirty years old, with clear eyes and a round chin, which is not particularly beautiful, but has a gentle feeling.

Zhao Lin knew that the woman was a Foundation Realm cultivator, and her actual age was definitely more than what she looked so young.

The woman was originally a phantom, and every time she absorbed a spirit stone, the phantom was real.

Unconsciously, there were only a few of the more than a hundred spirit stones left.

After half a cup of tea, the woman's whole person became lifelike.

The devotional diagram also withdrew its tentacles, no longer absorbing the aura, and began to flicker, and the surface was filled with a layer of red light.

"It's done!"

Zhao Lin perked up and stared at the spiritual cultivation map, hoping to "trace" the spell that suited him.

(End of chapter)