Not only has the duration of a retreat become much longer, but the amount of negative energy deposited in the body has also increased by about three times compared to before.

It takes about three times as long to completely release these negative energies and re-empty the body.

The more obvious changes are reflected in the progress of repair.

In the previous retreats, as the cultivation stabilized at the seventh level of the Attainment, one retreat increased by 160 points of cultivation progress.

This time, the increased repair progress is 600 points, which is nearly a fourfold increase.

Although Meng Zhou had long expected that with this cultivation method called the Soul Refining Method, which was actually the integration of "Essence, Qi and Spirit", it would bring a lot of changes to himself after the three-pole cycle was completely completed, but the benefits could not be so great.

In the end, through deeper understanding and combined with previous experience, Meng Zhou clarified the logic behind it.

With the evolution of the three-pole cycle of essence, qi and spirit, the limit of the "negative energy" that he can bear will continue to increase.

In reality, he can retreat for a longer period of time at a time.

And in order to release this more negative energy, it will take longer.

Under this influence, the period of his retreat became longer.

Such a change, in fact, has already happened once.

From being able to practice retreat for only a few hours a day, to being able to practice retreat for several days a month.

And this time, as Meng Zhou filled the last vacancy in the three-level three-pole cycle of essence and spirit, such a change happened again.

From a monthly retreat, to a retreat every three months, i.e. once a quarter.

The duration of a continuous retreat has also become much longer.

Such a change will naturally increase the progress of cultivation accordingly.

But that's not all.

If there is only one change, the progress of the repair will be tripled, and the gain of a retreat will change from 160 points to 480 points, instead of 600 points.

This is because there is another factor at play.

This change has also happened once.

When Meng Zhou comprehended the true skill of the Xuangui Negative Monument and integrated it into the core system of his cultivation, becoming a power core of the three-pole cycle of essence, qi and spirit, the progress of cultivation increased by 1.5 times on the original basis.

After the Xuangui Negative Monument True Skill was promoted to perfection, the gain was further increased, from 1.5 times to 2 times.

And now, as Meng Zhou embedded the last pole of the three poles of the essence and spirit into the appropriate power core, the gain was increased from two times to two and a half times.

This is the reason why he gained 600 cultivation points in this retreat.

[Repair to progress +600, 1250/10,000 on the seventh floor of Yudan]

In addition to the gains in cultivation, Meng Zhou was most concerned about this newly created exercise.

In the corresponding information bar, Meng Zhou unexpectedly saw a series of question marks.

Meng Zhou pondered in his heart what should be the appropriate name for this new exercise.

This is a concept of soul refining, but this is not a simple idea of soul refining.

Although this exercise is still very crude at present, he has achieved his original intention of creating this exercise—to use one exercise to unify the three essences, qi and spirit under one framework.

Not only does it unify the spirit and spirit, but even the more ethereal and uncertain "heart" is also integrated under this system.

In addition, it is also a practice that is both "both on the outside and on the outside".

In the world of the mind, the "inner world" is the world of pure images, and the thoughts, cognitions, experiences, and so on of individuals make up everything in this world.

Now, all of this is integrated under the more concrete image of the "Giant Tortoise on the Day".

In addition, the "deductive world" composed of massive amounts of information also exists in this layer.

The difference is that the "Giant Tortoise of the Sun" is the thought, cognition, and experience itself, and it is the ontology, and unless it is broken and reshaped, it will always exist with such a state of mind.

The "deductive world" is just a huge piece of information, which can be turned on or off freely according to his own thoughts, or to do some more complex operations.

Correspondingly, everything in the sea of consciousness is the "surface world" of the spiritual world.

The giant tortoise carrying the bright moon, and even the entire Soul Pond Knowing the Sea, and all the changes that have occurred in the Soul Pond are the specific presentation of this exercise in the "surface world".

- Of course, this division is not absolute. There is nothing wrong with treating the whole mental world that belongs to the individual as the "inner world" and the real world as the "surface world".

The core foundation of this new practice is undoubtedly the giant tortoise that carries the sun in the "inner world" and the negative moon in the "surface world".

At the beginning, when Meng Zhou created the image of this giant turtle based on the true skill of the Xuan Turtle Negative Monument, he drew inspiration and nutrients from the memories of his previous life.

He even hesitated between the two road maps.

A route is from Xuanwu to Xuanwu, and then from Xuanwu to Zhenwu in the future, with a clear route and a great future.

The five elements of the main water, the god of life, symbolizes longevity and immortality.

These are all very consistent with the path of Meng Zhou.

The second route is from the Xuan Tortoise to the Baxia, and then from the Baxia to the True Dragon in the future, this route is equally clear and the future is equally ambitious.

But after a period of hesitation, Meng Zhou gave up both routes.

Because in actual practice, Meng Zhou realized that for him, it is not much good to establish an overly ambitious goal.

The two routes look beautiful, but in addition to satisfying some of his own inner thoughts, they are just artificially limited and add some unnecessary troubles to himself.

Gradually, a point of view became clear in Meng Zhou's heart:

"As long as it achieves the goal, the simpler the better."

What does he need?

A foundation that can penetrate the two worlds of the outside and the inside, and is strong and stable enough.

That's all.

That being the case, is it really necessary to add so many ornate "decorations"?

"If it's not necessary, don't add entities, which is probably what it means."

Based on this idea, Meng Zhou did not perform any major surgery on the "giant tortoise", and basically took the Xuan tortoise that he had cultivated to the realm of perfection in the "Xuan Turtle Negative Monument True Skill" as the prototype.

This saved Meng Zhou a lot of time and effort.

As it turned out, the results were also good.

But Meng Zhou did not give up all the memories of his previous life.

With the breath of the giant tortoise in the "inner world", it is reflected in the "surface world", which is the deep soul pool, those sea-eye whirlpools around the bright moon.

This is a concrete way to connect the two worlds of the inside and the outside.

These whirlpools exist in the bottomless place of the soul pool, swallowing the soul pool.

It is not only a place where the water of the soul pool gathers, but also a place of annihilation.

It is not only the root of the "surface world", but also connected to the "inner world" of pure imagery.

It is both the place of the end and the place of the beginning.

Meng Zhou called these whirlpools "Returning to the Void" because it was the source of his inspiration.

It is precisely because of the existence of "returning to the void" that it is possible to completely revitalize the soul pool and "turn the pool into the sea".

Usually, the image of "sea" is boundless and vast, which is also a major goal pursued by Meng Zhou.

But if this is the case, but the current soul pool is far from qualified to be called "sea".

But in Meng Zhou's heart, in addition to the boundlessness and vastness, the "sea" also has the image of "the origin of life".

This kind of cognition can be said to be deep-rooted and indestructible in his heart.

And this is highly consistent with Meng Zhou's path, and it is also the ideal development direction in Meng Zhou's heart.

After having these basic cognitions, the complete exercises can be formed.

Only such a "sea" can have the foundation for the birth of cyan lotus pods and cyan lotus seeds.

From beginning to end, the idea of this new exercise is very clear.

From the successful beginning of the third-order Spring Water Sutra to the present, Meng Zhou didn't seem to have invested too much time and energy in this exercise.

However, if the third-order Spring Water Sutra and the Xuangui Negative Monument True Gong are regarded as its preparation period from entry to consummation, then the time and effort consumed by this exercise is undoubtedly the crown of all laws.

Its level of complexity can also be called the crown of all laws.

Although this new practice is still only a sketch, far from the ideal of "melting all his achievements into one furnace" as he expected, the big framework has already been erected.

Even if it has not yet been "melted in one furnace", he has already reserved the interface in advance.

In the future, when this exercise continues to be perfected, it will become richer and more perfect, as he expected.

This is not like creating a new exercise, but rather like creating a new world that looks rough now, but is extremely malleable, and has redefined a set of cultivation rules that are exclusive to him.

"But what's the right name?" Meng Zhou had a difficulty in his heart.

Meng Zhou really wanted to choose only three or five words, and then accurately position this exercise.

But he thought a lot in his heart, but none of them were suitable.

"Carrying the sun and the moon and the sea returning to the void?"

Meng Zhou thought about it for a while, and felt that this name was too crazy, the so-called "sun" and "moon" were all just his own thoughts, and he just said it himself, and he still felt a little "unworthy" of setting it as the name of the exercise.

You know, when the name is decided, it will be "included" in the world archives.

"Let's call it the true picture of Hanhai Mingyue."

In the end, Meng Zhou decided to be simpler, if he couldn't fully generalize, he couldn't fully generalize, anyway, he knew what was going on.

With this thought settled, that series of question marks finally turned into accurate information.

[Hanhai Mingyue True Picture Experience +10,800, Initial 800/20,000]

……

In addition, it is worth mentioning.

Although this retreat lasted for a full ten days, the number of Qinglian Sword Essence that could be harvested was still only sixty drops.

This made Meng Zhou feel a little loss.

In the past, although this retreat at the beginning of the first month of the first month was only more than four or five days, the harvest of the Qinglian Sword Essence also had sixty drops.

It's as if this is really a certain limit that he can reach now, and there is not a drop more.

The only thing that is gratifying is that the Qinglian Sword Marrow harvested now is all of the third-order top-grade quality.

Meng Zhou took the opportunity to take stock of the inventory in the Linghu space.

As of the end of July last year, before Meng Zhou's cultivation broke through to the seventh layer of the Jiedan, Meng Zhou had accumulated a total of 1,780 drops of third-order mid-grade Qinglian Sword Marrow.

Starting in August, the cultivation broke through to the seventh layer of the Dan, and the quality of the Qinglian Sword Essence condensed in the dantian also improved to a higher level, but the quantity became twenty-four drops per month.

Up to now, 180 drops of the third-order top-grade Qinglian sword essence have been accumulated.

After leaving the customs, Meng Zhou did not distract himself, and still devoted all his time and energy to comprehending and sorting out the new technique of "Hanhai Bright Moon True Diagram".

Because there were so many experiences gained during the first retreat, I directly completed the accumulation of the introductory stage and advanced to the state of initial enlightenment, and thus gained more experience and insights.

Meng Zhou needs to take the time to thoroughly understand these gains.

In the blink of an eye, spring was over, early summer was approaching, and Meng Zhou began a new round of retreat.

On the tenth day of the fourth month, late at night.

Meng Zhou ended this retreat and woke up slowly with his eyes open.

Repair to progress +600, 1850/10,000 on the seventh floor of Yudan;

The true picture of Hanhai Mingyue is +10,800, and the initial number is 11,600/20,000.

……

After leaving the customs, it took Meng Zhou a lot of time to absorb all the gains during this retreat.

Then, Meng Zhou began a new attempt.

Meng Zhou's divine consciousness spread out outside his body, and on the surface of his body, he was covered with a thin layer of "gauze clothes".

In the eyes of others, this is the natural emanation of his own breath of life.

Even under the investigation of the divine sense, there is no abnormality to be seen.

Only Meng Zhou himself knows how deadly this thin layer of "gauze clothes" is.

This was the natal poison that Meng Zhou had refined when he built the foundation, and its power had long exceeded the scope that the creator of this secret method could have imagined.

The root of the existence of natal living poison is the person who sacrifices the living poison itself.

From the perspective of natal living poison, the sacrificial cultivator is a huge petri dish, and the exuberance of the cultivator's own qi, blood, physique, and vitality will have a direct impact on the natal living poison.

If the cultivator's cultivation is improved, the natal poison will directly benefit, and they will grow together.

As Meng Zhou's cultivation continued to improve, the power of the natal poison also continued to improve, and as long as he wanted, he could continue to produce and manufacture.

Meng Zhou also found that he didn't know whether it was because his own vitality was too strong, or because the two had been together for too long, for him, the "poisonous" side was slowly disappearing, and the two sides had become a more pure mutual-beneficial and symbiotic relationship.

However, for other beings other than him, its toxicity continues unabated.

But even so, because of the ferocity of this thing itself, in daily contact, Meng Zhou still pays great attention to it, unless it is under the control of his mind, he will not let it enter his body casually.

As for the sea of knowledge, it has always been an absolute forbidden area for this thing.

Now, Meng Zhou took the initiative to ingest the natal poison the size of a needle tip and slowly incorporated it into the sea of knowledge.

Meng Zhou carefully observed Zhihai's reaction.

"There are no anomalies." Meng Zhou breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Then, he injected this bit of natal poison into the soul pool.

At this moment, Meng Zhou's heart was raised high, and the Soul Healing Technique was even more in a state of being ready to be launched at any time.

As soon as anything out of the ordinary happens, he will take action immediately.

As a result, none of this happened.

On the contrary, after this bit of live poison was integrated into the soul pool, it was like a fish out of the water entering the water, showing far more activity than before.

They quickly scattered in the pool of souls, and then, silently, fell silent, as if asleep.

In this process, Meng Zhou clearly felt that these live poisons were slowly being soaked and assimilated by the soul pool. (End of chapter)