Yunlu Temple in the Yuexi Mountains.

Cui Ning is sitting in the wing room at the moment, eating snacks while reading "Kaiyuan Continental Chronicles" with relish, which is a comprehensive book introducing the history, geography, culture, and military of the Kaiyuan Continent.

If you want to understand a world, you have to start with its history, so Cui Ning's favorite thing is to read the history books of this world.

Cui Ning knew that most of these so-called "official histories" were written by the victors, but there were still many events that could objectively reflect the situation at that time.

In order to see these books in Yunlu Temple, Cui Ning asked the housekeeper of the palace to make a bookshelf in the wing room of the temple, and then took all the books in the palace and placed them on the bookshelf for him to read.

Just as Cui Ning was wandering in the sea of books, a hurried and joyful voice came from outside the side room: "Little boy, little boy!"

Hearing someone calling for him, Cui Ning also withdrew his thoughts from the book, looked at the person from afar, and said busily:

"What's wrong? Little plum, speak slowly. ”

It turned out that the person outside the wing room was an escort assigned by the palace to Cui Ning.

"Little boy, just now there was a letter from the palace, and the prince is back." Xiao Lizi took a few breaths and said.

"What? My father has returned? Fast! Hurry up and have someone send me back! When Cui Ning heard this, he hurriedly threw down the book in his hand and shouted at Xiao Lizi, at this moment, his heart had already flown to the palace.

When Cui Ning came to the palace, he was told that the prince had already retreated, so he had no choice but to go to the princess.

Cui Ning has always had a sense of indebtedness to the "mother" of this world, because since giving birth to Cui Ning, the princess's body has fallen ill, and she can only stay in bed in the boudoir for a long time to recuperate.

"The queen mother is above, Ning'er asks the queen mother to say goodbye!" Cui Ning knelt outside the princess's boudoir and solemnly knelt down to greet the princess.

"Quick, ahem. Come in, Ning'er. ”

The princess's weak voice came from the room, Cui Ning's heart jumped, and she quickly got up and entered the princess's room.

There was a faint smell of medicine in the princess's boudoir, and the whole room was tightly covered, although it was not cold, but there was always a brazier dyed with fire in the room, and a maidservant added firewood to it from time to time.

When the princess saw her child, her face was so happy that even her pale face became a little ruddy, and she quickly asked someone to help her up and lean on the bed.

Not long after the small talk, the natural topic turned to King Cui.

"By the way, the queen mother, why did my father go out for so long this time. And as soon as I came back, I went into retreat, and I didn't even see my father's face. Cui Ning's tone seemed to have a complaining meaning.

After hearing this, the princess looked at Cui Ning with a gentle face and said, "Ning'er, don't complain, your father is also looking for a breakthrough opportunity this time."

"Heaven forbid, finally let him find it. The retreat is only to impact the highest great master realm of the martial arts, and once it is successful, it can be ......."

As she spoke, the princess began to sob, as if thinking of her eldest son, who was still under house arrest in the capital.

"Queen Mother's ......"

Cui Ning didn't know how to comfort her.

"By the way, Ning'er, your father also left you some things before the retreat, so that you can have a good understanding, and I will have someone bring them to you later.

"Your father told you that those books are what you like to read, and the most important thing is the porcelain vase, which is an immortal elixir that has great benefits for the dantian tendons, you must absorb it well and step into the martial arts as soon as possible.

"I don't expect you to kill the enemy on the battlefield in the future, but I hope that you can protect yourself and be safe after you have achieved cultivation......

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When he came back from the palace, Cui Ning's eyes kept staring at a burden handed over to him by the princess.

Sitting in the wing room of Yunlu Temple, Cui Ning looked at the burden on the table, his face full of excitement. Can you finally touch the mysterious martial arts of this world?

Cui Ning slowly unwrapped the baggage, revealing a dagger, a porcelain vase, and a book in front of him.

Cui Ning took the dagger first, only to see that the dagger grip was black all over, and there was a pattern similar to a python in the previous life engraved on it, the dagger was cyan, and the cold light was cold, almost stinging Cui Ning's eyes.

"I heard the queen mother say that these are all obtained by my father from the immortal cave mansion in the desert."

Cui Ning looked at the dagger and said:

"Sure enough, it's used by immortals, it's amazing" Then he picked up the small porcelain vase, remembering what his mother said, this is an elixir that can expose him to martial arts.

Cui Ning pressed the idea of wanting to open the porcelain vase and immediately swallow the elixir, and set his eyes on the last item in the baggage, an immortal book called "Chang Hao's Essays".

As Cui Ning slowly opened this "Changhao Essay", a picture scroll of the world of cultivating immortals that was even wider than Cui Ning imagined unfolded in front of his eyes.

Immortal cultivators are also known as qi practitioners, which are the general term for cultivators who refine the aura of heaven and earth, go against the sky, and pursue immortality.

Immortal cultivators can travel with swords and take human heads for thousands of miles; You can also draw talismans for alchemy, and you have a long life; There are also immortal cultivators who can move mountains and reclaim the sea, calling for wind and rain.

Due to the arduous pursuit of immortal cultivators and the need for long-term retreat and cultivation, they have long disappeared in the eyes of ordinary people on this continent, and occasionally there are immortal traces, which are just that immortal cultivators accidentally fall behind when they go out to seek opportunities.

Cultivating immortals is divided into eight stages: Qi refining, foundation building, Jindan, Yuanying, Transforming Gods, refining void, merging, and Mahayana.

Among them, the Qi training period is divided into thirteen layers, the first to fourth layers are the early stage, the fifth to eighth layers are the middle stage, the ninth to twelfth layers are the late stage, and the thirteenth layer is the Great Perfection.

From the foundation building period, it is simply divided into the middle and late stages, and as long as the bottleneck is broken, you can enter the next stage.

In the essay, it is recorded that the following period of the god transformation is still heard in the Kaiyuan Continent, and the higher realm is a saying handed down from ancient times, and the owner of the essay has never heard of it.

The owner of the note calls himself Changhao Daoren, and he is a deacon of the Lin Sect in the eastern part of the Kaiyuan Continent. Even during the foundation building period, they have a lifespan of about 200 years.

"It's really the darling of heaven and earth."

Seeing that immortal cultivators not only had a long lifespan but also possessed various magical powers, Cui Ning couldn't help but be envious.

Cui Ning picked up the cyan dagger on the table again, it turned out that this was the Xuan-level weapon of the Immortal Cultivation Realm, the Ink Snake Dagger.

The book also records the level of weapons, corresponding to the cultivation level, the weapon is divided into four levels of heaven and earth Xuanhuang, corresponding to Qi refining, building the foundation, Jindan, and Yuanying, and then it is the spiritual weapon, and the people of Changhao Dao have only heard of it and have not seen the appearance of the magic weapon itself.

Cui Ning played with the ink snake dagger and continued to look at it.

The essay also recorded the cultivation experience of Changhao Daoist, the sect's experience and some rumors in the immortal cultivation world, etc.

In the last part of the essay, he also wrote that he went to the West Desert to chase down the whereabouts of a traitor in the Qi Refining Period because he received a mission from the sect, but the traitor did not chase and kill, but fell into the traitor's trap, and hid in an underground cave in the West Desert with serious injuries.

"Hey, people who cultivate immortals seem to be free, but they are also dangerous, if they don't move forward cautiously, there will be a moment when they die."

Cui Ning sighed and said. Then he picked up the small porcelain vase.

"It turns out that this is the Foundation Building Dan, which can make the Qi Refining Period complete and have a 20% chance of breaking through to the Foundation Building Period, if you simply learn martial arts, you can break through a big realm. Of course, it's good to break through the foundation building period, and I will laugh at this pill that was originally given to your son and nephew. ”

Cui Ningyou solemnly put away the pill, and at this time, his mind was no longer cultivating martial arts but cultivating into an immortal and attaining immortal life.