November 13 of the sixth year of Shenwu.

Under Lu Yuan's summons, Zhou Qing and Sun Siwen rushed from Xiangyang for several days and finally arrived at Baling City.

didn't care about resting, as soon as the two arrived in the city, they immediately came to meet Lu Yuan.

"Master!"

"Brother Lu!"

As soon as they met, Zhou Qing and Sun Siwen couldn't help but take two steps forward excitedly and surrounded Lu Yuan.

The relationship between the three is irreversible, they are all fellow villagers who came out of Dayu County, and since then they have been inseparable in Changning County, Wugang County, Shaoyang Mansion and other places.

Lu Yuan has always regarded Zhou Qing as his son and Sun Siwen as his brother, and the two of them also regard him as a father and a younger brother, and they are in the same family.

Although there is now an extra layer of monarch and minister relationship between the three of them, this has not affected the friendship between each other.

And Lu Yuan also deliberately emphasized with the two of them that they should not be called kings in private, but still as usual, called senior and brother.

"Haha, Brother Sun, Xiaoqing!"

I haven't seen each other for two years, and when Lu Yuan saw the two of them at this time, he also laughed and was overjoyed, and hurriedly stepped forward to hold the hands of the two and looked at them carefully.

Two years have passed, and the appearance of the two has changed a lot, and their breath and temperament have also undergone a transformation, and they have undergone earth-shaking changes.

When Lu Yuan went to Xiangyang to guide Zhou Qing, this senior disciple's cultivation was only at the peak of the first-class, and he had not yet broken through the innate level.

Now that he has been born into this, he has washed his muscles and cut the marrow, and the whole person is like a young five or six years old, from the original thirty-five or sixteen, to about thirty now, and he is much more handsome.

And the temperament is introverted, and if you look closely, it is like an abyss, as if there is a scorching sun lurking, but it is covered by darkness, which seems more and more unfathomable and terrifying.

Lu Yuan knew that when the darkness was torn apart by the scorching sun, the light that bloomed when the morning sun rose in the east would definitely attract the attention of the world.

'The Rising Sun in the Abyss, is this Xiaoqing's martial arts body? ’

Lu Yuan retracted his gaze, thinking to himself in his heart, but his face was uncontrollable joy, patted Zhou Qing's shoulder and said, "Okay, good, I haven't seen you for two years, Xiaoqing, you really haven't lived up to my trust, and you have successfully broken through the innate nature."

And look at your breath, the foundation has been solidified.

Next, as long as you continue to accumulate true qi, comprehend heaven and earth, and nurture your divine soul, the day of the innate second realm will be just around the corner. ”

Zhou Qing is worthy of being a person who has no plug-ins, and his cultivation progress can be compared to him.

Even if he only relied on himself, he quickly gained a firm foothold in the innate realm.

And even on this basis, a step forward.

Lu Yuan's worries at the beginning, at this time, seem to be completely overthinking.

Even without his help, with Zhou Qing's ability, as long as the supply of elixir is sufficient, at most twenty years, he can break through the innate second advance.

Even if there are not so many elixirs, after fifty or sixty years of death, there is a chance to step into this realm.

Compared with Lu Yuan, Zhou Qing is a real genius.

"The disciple can have today, this is the grace of Master's teaching and guidance. If it weren't for the fact that the master's father came to Xiangyang that day to guide the disciple to break through the innate and the key points of cultivation after the congenital, the disciple would not have been able to stabilize the realm so quickly. "Zhou Qing is as respectful and humble as ever.

In this regard, Lu Yuan just smiled, nodded, and sighed in his heart.

"It seems that in the future, my Chu country will have another Optimus Pillar. ’

Lu Yuan was overjoyed that his disciple had such a talent, and then looked at Sun Siwen, and couldn't help but be even more joyful: "Brother Sun, too, after two years of not seeing him, the martial arts have become a small success, and he has broken through the second-rate realm, which is gratifying." If it goes on like this, the innate is not far away. ”

Perhaps because of the practice of martial arts, Sun Siwen's body has become much stronger and stronger, his face has become more and more tough, his blood is boiling like a cloud, and his eyes are bright.

A fierce aura, although it was covered by the elegance of his perennial reading, did not become weak, but became more and more unfathomable.

Lu Yuan just looked at it and knew that the other party was already a second-rate martial arts realm.

It's just a realm that has just broken through, so it hasn't been able to completely converge the qi and blood in the body, which has caused this slightly conflicting aura phenomenon.

But with the other party's temperament, and with his own guidance, it doesn't take half a month to think about it, and he should be able to completely consolidate this realm.

"Brother Lu spent the elixir and tried his best to help me practice. In three years, he only reached the second-rate realm, and Sun was already ashamed, and he really didn't dare to praise it. ”

In the face of Lu Yuan's praise, Sun Siwen looked a little embarrassed and didn't dare to respond.

In the past few years of practice, in the first year, Sun Siwen was studying the essence of Chiyang Shengong, learning the meridians and acupoints of the human body, and realizing the Taoist scriptures, which can be regarded as laying a foundation.

Two years later, under the care of Zhou Qing, he officially began to practice martial arts.

Except at the beginning, he spent a month cultivating a trace of internal strength, and after it grew and consolidated.

In the second month, Zhou Qing assisted him in taking the Divine Blood Spirit Pill and began to impact the meridians and break through the realm.

A elixir can help people break through a meridian.

In two years, Sun Siwen took a total of six elixirs, with an average of one pill every four months, which was worthy of breaking through the second-rate realm.

His martial arts qualifications are indeed inferior to Lu Yuan and Zhou Qing, and they are even a little below the average.

If it weren't for the help of the elixir, it would never be so easy to reach the current state.

Fortunately, the qualifications are not enough, and the realm is to make up.

Sun Siwen studied Confucian classics for 40 years, and during this period, under the influence of Lu Yuan, he also studied Taoism and Buddhism, and his mood was already good. He has served as a local official, directly entered the center, and served as the prime minister, and his mind has long been tempered by Hongchen.

Under this powerful state of mind, every time he took the elixir, he could easily control the surging internal force.

It only takes three or four months to turn all the internal forces into one's own use, completely consolidate the surging cultivation, and lay a solid foundation.

Under this step-by-step camp, Sun Siwen seems to be breaking through his cultivation slowly, but in fact, he is entering the realm very quickly.

Because what he is poor is just internal force cultivation.

As long as you take the elixir, you can quickly accumulate internal strength and improve your own cultivation, without worrying about the realm.

Look at the others.

The realm is not enough, even if there is a spirit pill for him to take, he can't control the power beyond his ability.

If you do it by force, not only will you not get benefits, but you may lose control of your power and die directly.

And if you want to increase the realm, it depends on comprehension and accumulation, which cannot be made up for by the power of the elixir.

Especially to break through the innate nature, in addition to needing a large number of spiritual objects, one's own perception of heaven and earth, and the control of one's own state of mind are also essential, or even more important.

Because these feelings of mind are related to the transformation of the warrior's soul.

Only when the divine soul is transformed into the innate can the outer body of the martial arts be constructed, connected with the heavens and the earth, and transformed into the will of the martial arts.

All of this is done by the state of mind.

With Lu Yuan's talent, as well as the assistance of many spiritual objects and golden fingers, it took fifteen years to complete this state of mind cultivation.

Zhou Qing's talent is much better than him, but he doesn't have so many resources, so he spends a little more time, a full eighteen years.

As for Sun Siwen, he has been studying sages since he was a child, and he has been studying diligently, and he has served as a magistrate and even a prime minister.

Until now, at the age of forty-five, it has been forty years since the time of enlightenment for the cultivation of the state of mind.

With such a deep accumulation, with Lu Yuan and Zhou Qing's guidance and experience in the past few years, it is enough to meet the needs of breaking through the innate nature.

He only needs to accumulate enough internal strength and have enough spiritual supplies, so that he can logically complete the transformation of his divine soul and break through the innate nature.

It directly avoids the process of state of mind accumulation.

If it is calculated according to the progress of one meridian in four years now, there will be five years at most, and Sun Siwen will be able to reach the threshold of breaking through the innate nature.

Even if you count the breakthrough innate period, the one-year time accumulation of the martial arts outer body is only six years.

After nine years of martial arts training, he was able to break through the innate one, and the time was one year earlier than Lu Yuan originally expected to be ten years.

This kind of cultivation has been passed on to the realm, and I don't know how many people will envy it.

Therefore, Sun Siwen's shameful statement can really be seen as Versailles.

Of course, Lu Yuan knew that with Sun Siwei's temperament, he didn't have that kind of idea of showing off, and the other party really felt a little ashamed.

Therefore, he didn't care about this, but just smiled: "This expedition to the west, I have repeatedly broken strong enemies, and I have a great understanding of this, and the immortal Dao cultivation has made progress, and now it has been condensed, and it is enough to be ranked with the major immortal sect masters in the world."

And after breaking through the cultivation, my mastery of the immortal qi has also become deeper and deeper.

There are many understandings.

Since Brother Sun feels that his breakthrough is slow, it just so happens that now that I have returned to China, I have a lot of free time.

After some time, you and I will pick a good day, and I will personally extradite the aura for you, cleanse your body and soul, and help you further in your cultivation.

How is it? ”

Lu Yuan said with a smile.

Although there are six more years, Sun Siwen can break through the innate nature.

But as the other side said, this speed is actually a bit slow.

The so-called slow does not mean that he is slow to break through. But for the Chu State, it takes six years to cultivate an innate person, which is too slow.

Qianzhong County, although it is now under the care of Ji Hui.

But this old monk has already understood Lu Yuan thoroughly, with his current physical condition, without any measures, he can only live for two years at most.

Even if you prolong your life with the method of turtle breath nirvana, it can be delayed for five years at most.

And if there is a slight change in the middle, it will only be three or four years.

So in other words, in three or four years, Qianzhong County will not have a congenital seat.

For the problem over there, the solution given by Lu Yuan is to practice a Yellow Turban Lux clone two or three years later, so as to replace Ji Hui and sit in Qianzhong County.

The problem of Qianzhong County can be solved.

But on the side of the imperial court, there are also problems.

Cui Changqing works hard all day long, and his body is not as good as day by day.

Based on Lu Yuan's observations these days, the other party has two or three years to live at most.

In other words, in two or three years, the state of Chu will have no prime minister in charge of government affairs.

At that time, he had to find someone to stand up and take Cui Changqing's place and help him sort out domestic government affairs.

Looking at the whole Chu State, the only person who can replace this position is Sun Siwen, who is absolutely trusted by him and also has enough prestige in the court.

Sun Siwen is the right minister of the central government, although he had to retire in order to practice martial arts in the past two years. But on the head, there is still the position of the right minister.

Moreover, in his early years, he participated in the establishment of Changsha and Chu throughout the whole process, and the government and the opposition were full of protégés and former officials, and he was Cui Changqing's son-in-law, so he could completely take over the political resources of the other party.

After Cui Changqing left, it can be said that it is logical for him to take over the position of right minister, and no one will be dissatisfied.

With his relationship with Lu Yuan, he doesn't have to worry about what the other party will do to play with power.

Therefore, it has become an urgent matter for Sun Siwen to break through the innate as soon as possible.

Just right.

Compared to Lu Yuan's immortal realm now, he can already use the earthy qi cultivated in his body to perfectly pull and urge the immortal qi in the jade tablet, and introduce it into Sun Siwen's body, assisting the other party to quickly refine these spiritual qi.

And as long as the other party finished refining the aura that Lu Yuan originally expected to allocate to him, he would definitely be able to skyrocket his cultivation to a first-class realm in an instant.

And in this realm, you can also open up two or three strange scriptures.

If this effect can be achieved, it can be said that two or three years of hard work can be saved in an instant.

Even with Lu Yuan's help this time, it is impossible to say that Sun Siwen's divine soul can send out some transformations in advance, and carry out preliminary condensation and tempering, making it easier for him to break through the innate nature.

After all, the so-called innate is actually just equivalent to the initial cultivation of mana in the Immortal Dao, and it is not even a beginner.

For example, Anqiu at the beginning, before he condensed the qi of the five elements, he was already comparable to the second realm of martial arts.

Now that Lu Yuan has condensed a Five Elements Qi, the Immortal Dao has officially entered, and his divine powers have been extraordinary since then.

A Yellow Turban wrestler who has been trained casually has the strength of the second realm of martial arts.

With this supernatural ability, it is more than enough to help Sun Siwen, who has accumulated enough to shorten the time to break through the innate by a few years.

And it is also beneficial to let Brother Sun break through the innate as soon as possible. ’

Lu Yuan looked at Sun Siwen, who was surprised after hearing his words in front of him, and thought in his heart.

Breaking through the innate realm not only requires the accumulation of spiritual objects, internal forces, moods, etc., but also has strict age requirements.

If a martial artist can't break through the innate before the age of sixty, then with the exhaustion of the Three Treasures of Essence and Qi and Divine Spirit, there will be no hope for the rest of his life.

That's why.

Many geniuses with sufficient talent can quickly accumulate their state of mind, but they lack the resources to complete the accumulation and transformation, so they have to rely on time to slowly endure and finally miss the deadline of sixty years old.

There are also many people from famous families and martial arts factions, and there is no shortage of all kinds of materials, but their talents are not enough, and the accumulation of their mood is much slower, and they can't achieve enough state of mind until they are sixty years old, so as to break through the congenital.

Not everyone is like Sun Siwen, there is a friend like Lu Yuan who has a friendship, and when he usually reads the books of sages and sages, he can also touch the bypass, follow the Buddhist and Taoist classics, and unconsciously accumulate his state of mind.

Not everyone is like him, with the support of a good friend, who can follow the successive magistrates and sharpen in the red dust. In the end, he even served as the central prime minister, taking charge of the government of a country, and sharpening his mind with millions of people in a country.

It is precisely by relying on these countless strict conditions that are difficult to replicate that Sun Shiwen can achieve such a state of mind accumulation at the age of just forty-five.

For the vast majority of ordinary people, if they want to break through the innate nature, they can only rely on talent to complete the accumulation of mood.

And these ordinary people are all one out of a million, and they are rare in the world.

The Five Poisons Sect has accumulated for thousands of years, and only then has a blue color come out.

Zhou Qing has a blood feud and Lu Yuan's help, so he can achieve innocence in eighteen years.

Lu Yuan himself, most of them rely on various adventures and golden fingers.

The above three people can break through the innate around thirty, no matter which one they are, it is extremely difficult to copy, or even impossible to copy.

As for the heirs of the other major innate forces, most of them are forty or fifty years old when they break through the innate forces, and even most of them are fifty years old.

That's why.

On the side of Baifeng Temple, when Ji Hui was about to die of old age, he would face such an embarrassing situation, and he could not find a qualified heir.

Because in his temple, the people who are in a sufficient state of mind are all old monks over sixty.

These old monks' qi and blood are decaying, their spirit is sluggish, and even if their mood is sufficient, they cannot meet the innate conditions, and there is no hope for this state at all.

And some other young people with enough talent don't have more than ten or twenty years to let them slowly cultivate their state of mind.

The mood is not enough, even if the resources are piled up, it is just a castle in the sand, a tree without roots, and it has no ability to unify and consolidate, and it will completely collapse at the slightest touch, and a force will die violently.

Without Lu Yuan's help, for ordinary people, for those children of the big factions, innately, it is really not so easy to achieve.

From this point of view, Zhou Qing and Sun Siwen, compared to the vast majority of other sentient beings, and even the innate grandmasters, are really extremely lucky.

Zhou Qing was aware of this, so every time he faced Lu Yuan's praise, he would humbly say that this was all the credit of the master.

It's not modesty, it's that he really thinks so.

If it weren't for Lu Yuan's teaching, he would have taught Buddhist and Taoist classics since he was a child, explained the various essences of Chiyang Divine Skill, mentioned the key points and dangers of breaking through the innate time, and provided a large amount of elixir and aura to help him complete the transformation of his body and soul......

Zhou Qing definitely couldn't complete the accumulation of mood and cultivation at such an age, and break through the innate so smoothly.

All of the above can not be erased by a single talent.

If there is no Lu Yuan, even if Zhou Qingtianzi is outstanding, if he only relies on himself, it is enough to be able to break through the first-class, where does it come from.

In the same way, the same is true for Sun Siwen.

But for Lu Yuan, helping the two of them is also helping himself.

Regardless of the friendship.

It is said that Zhou Qing gave him the Chiyang Divine Skill, as well as the treasure house storage of the Guo family in Yuzhong, which is a great credit. Later, he helped him fight in the south and the north, and made countless meritorious contributions.

Sun Siwen also helped Lu Yuan sort out his internal affairs and sit in the rear, so that he could fight abroad without worries and not have to worry about domestic affairs.

The credit of the two is enough for Lu Yuan to pay so much.

The three of them are in a relationship of mutual achievement and mutual growth.

And on top of this relationship, coupled with the friendship behind him, this constitutes the stability of the core layer within the Chu State.

It is precisely because of this that Lu Yuan is so honest with the two of them and is willing to pay so much.

Because the three of them are one.

There is no such thing as whoever gives more will suffer.

Monarchs and ministers get along, master and apprentice are deeply affectionate, they make friends, and when it comes to friendship, the ultimate in the world is nothing more than that.

Lu Yuan thought about this, so he pulled Zhou Qing and Sun Siwen, and said with a happy smile: "This time Xiaoqing is back, so don't be in a hurry to leave." Now that the situation is stable and there is no worry about the war, you don't have to rush back to northern Xinjiang, just stay here for the New Year.

And Brother Sun too.

Since you are back this time, stay in Baling, and I will personally guide you in martial arts.

and He'er and Hao'er, although I grabbed their enlightenment, I didn't have much energy to take care of him.

I also want to ask you to be their teacher, responsible for the enlightenment of He'er and Hao'er.

With Brother Sun's talent, he will definitely be able to teach them well for me, so that there will be two more talented princes in the Chu Kingdom. ”

The rare reunion of the three of them made Lu Yuan's heart happy.

Similarly, the same is true for Sun Siwen and Zhou Qing.

So in the face of Lu Yuan's request, Sun Siwen said happily: "I will live up to Brother Lu's trust." ”