Chapter Ninety-Seven: Retreat Advancement
Speaking of his new move, Ouyang Feng was quite proud, and after spitting in the vernacular for a while, he proposed to let Hongsheng, Qingfeng and Mingyue are also practicing, if everyone masters this method, Ouyang Feng can evolve a lot of mental tactics, such as using spells to suppress the enemy, and then move quickly, distance himself from the opponent's melee profession, or encounter a combination of magicians and swordsmen, and when the swordsman rushes over, he quickly rushes forward, and fights with the opponent's magician in close combat, hitting the opponent by surprise.
For Ouyang Feng's thoughts, Mingyue, Qingfeng and Hongshang were very excited and looking forward to it. After dinner, everyone else went back to rest, and Ouyang Feng came to the secret room with a wooden basin full of barbecue, so that the silver-horned tiger, who had been hungry all day and had almost become a vegetarian demonic beast, enjoyed a delicious meal.
When they woke up the next day, after everyone had breakfast, Ouyang Feng handed over the matter of delivering food to the Silver Horned Tiger to Barlow and Bruce, and Hongshang also handed over the spars needed for Pei Di and the rice bucket cultivation to the two of them at one time, because they were about to start preparing for the later stage of the retreat to impact the foundation building.
In yesterday's battle, both Pei Di and Fan Bucket felt that their strength was still very insufficient, so they also planned to work hard to improve their strength, especially Pei Di, who was already on the verge of breaking through, so he was looking forward to the next penance. Barlow and Bruce also have their own ideas, instead of facing monsters and enemies can only hide behind, they want to start from the long-range weapon side to make up for their lack of strength, so the two of them have made several arrow targets, and when they have nothing to do, they plan to practice bows and arrows.
Ouyang Feng and the others did not go to the Silver Horn Tiger again, but gathered together to study and comprehend the auxiliary exercises of the thunder attribute, the content of this exercise is a little obscure, and it is still a little difficult to understand it at Ouyang Feng's level, but fortunately, the three of them are not like Ouyang Feng who does not learn and have no skills, although the progress is slow, but they still understand the method of their cultivation little by little.
Five days have passed, Ouyang Feng and the four of them have already cultivated this thunder system exercise to the beginning, Ouyang Feng directly helped Hongshang and others to preliminarily integrate it with the main exercise, and then that night, Ouyang Feng and the four of them each brought fifty Bigu pills and a large number of spirit stones, pills to promote cultivation, and found a stone room to start retreat, and the 'big plate tooth' became the protector of the four, and went to the door of their stone room without any trouble, and was very conscientious.
One day, two days, three days, ten days passed in the blink of an eye, and the stone room where Ouyang Feng and the four of them retreated did not make a sound, Barlow and Bruce would come over every day after dinner, and Pei Di and Rice Bucket would also come over after each practice.
Time flies, another five days have passed, on this day, Barlow and Bruce came to the door of the stone chamber not far from the door after dinner, and after teasing the 'big tooth' for a while, Barlow said worriedly: "Several masters have been in retreat for half a month, and there is no movement in it, so nothing will happen, right?"
Bruce shook his head and said, "I don't know the way, but I heard Pei Di say that cultivators are not like others, even if they practice in retreat for a year and a half, it is common for them to practice in retreat for a year and a half, and if they are a high-level master, it is normal to retreat for hundreds of years at a time." β
Barlow was surprised and said, "Wouldn't it? Hundreds of years? This is too exaggerated, in that case, the time of the cultivator is not just cultivation, so what fun is there in that?"
Bruce shrugged his shoulders and said, "Who knows if we can live for a hundred years, anyway, we won't be able to live for a hundred years." β
As soon as Bruce's words fell, the stone door where Qingfeng was located suddenly opened, and Qingfeng said to Barlow and Bruce with a smile on his face: "Let me tell you, cultivators and other cultivators are actually the same, and the original purpose of cultivation is not to enhance their own strength, but to pursue the Heavenly Dao to become an immortal and enter the sainthood to obtain eternal life. Do you think it's worth spending hundreds or more years of cultivation compared to eternal life?" Barlow and Bruce nodded repeatedly, eternal life, that is the dream of all living beings.
Barlow Qingfeng was full of smiles, and couldn't help asking, "Second master, have you successfully broken through?"
Qingfeng nodded and said, "Well, it's broken, by the way, what about the senior sister and the two junior brothers?
Bruce shook his head and said, "No, you're the first to come out." β
Qingfeng was a little surprised and said, "I didn't come out, hehe, I really didn't expect me to be the first to break through." Qingfeng had just broken through, and he was in a good mood, and he told Barlow and Bruce about the cultivators, and then asked them to go back to rest, while Qingfeng stayed, waiting for the others to come out, while pondering a good spell he had newly learned, Lightning Strike.
On the second day of Qingfeng's exit, Hongshang successfully broke through, and on the third day, Mingyue went out of the customs, and also broke through to the late stage of foundation building, but Ouyang Feng did not move for a long time.
The three of them had just broken through, and they still needed some time to consolidate it, so the three of them decided to take turns to stay outside Ouyang Feng's quiet room, and the rest of the time was used to consolidate their cultivation.
Time passed little by little, and half a month passed in a blink of an eye, but there was no movement in Ouyang Feng's stone room, and Hongshang and the others were anxious, but they didn't dare to disturb.
What relieved everyone was that that night, the door of the stone room where Ouyang Feng was located was finally pushed open, Ouyang Feng saw the bright moon at the door, and then looked at the stone doors that had opened several stone rooms next to him, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.
Mingyue's heart sank, and she asked with concern, "Senior brother, what's wrong?"
Ouyang Feng smiled and said, "Can I fail?" I am lamenting that this exercise is so difficult, it actually took me so long to break through. By the way, how many days has it been, and when did you come out?"
Mingyue was very happy to see that Ouyang Feng had also successfully broken through to the late stage of foundation building, and while pulling Ouyang Feng to the stone bench in the garden, she said with a smile: "From the beginning of the retreat to now, it has been twenty-three days, Senior Brother Qingfeng was the first to go out on the fifteenth day, Senior Sister was one day at night, and I was out on the seventeenth day, and everyone successfully broke through." β
Ouyang Feng said with some frustration: "Alas, I am so late to you so many days, it seems that my qualifications are really rubbish as the old man said." β
Mingyue patted Ouyang Feng's shoulder and comforted: "What qualifications are not qualified, if it weren't for you, my senior brothers and sisters and I wouldn't have been able to advance to the late stage of foundation building so quickly." Besides, we have been cultivating for more than ten years to achieve today's achievements, but what about you? From the beginning to the present, it has only taken two years to cultivate to the late stage of foundation building, and you calculate, you are much stronger than us. Ouyang Feng thought about it, and his heart was finally balanced, but there was one more thing that made him start to worry, and that was his cultivation speed.
Before, Ouyang Feng hadn't thought about this issue, but just now after Mingyue said this, he felt that the speed of his cultivation into the realm was too fast, if he stayed here all the time, it would be fine, but it was impossible, one day they would return to the alliance to report, at that time, if they had the heart, many people would find that the speed of their cultivation improvement was too incredible, which would attract the attention of many people, if he was really targeted, then the secret of his ability to fuse the exercises would be leaked, and what kind of fate he would be when the time came, Ouyang Feng could guess without thinking about itγ
After receiving the news of Ouyang Feng's exit, Hongshang, Qingfeng and others came to the garden in the garden, and Ouyang Feng did not shy away from Pei Di after accepting some congratulations. Ouyang Feng's words made everyone fall into silence, and after a while, Hongshang said: "Dingzhong is right, this matter is indeed a trouble, not only Dingzhong, in addition to Pei Di and the two of you, in fact, Qingfeng, Mingyue and I are also the same." According to the normal cultivation speed, if there are no adventures, it will take at least decades or even hundreds of years to cultivate from the beginning of the Qi refining period to the late stage of foundation building, but now, everyone's strength has improved so quickly, it is easy for people to discover the secret of Dingzhong. β
Mingyue said worriedly: "Then what should we do? Why don't we slow down our cultivation speed? After ten years have passed, we will say that we have obtained the elixir left by our predecessors, and it just so happens that this cave can hide people's eyes." β
Ouyang Feng shook his head and said, "That may be possible, but I don't think you will be willing in your hearts, right?" Everyone was silent again, after all, who would be willing to give up if they could quickly improve their cultivation?
After a long time, Ouyang Feng sighed and said, "It seems that there is only one way." Hongshang and the others all looked at Ouyang Feng and asked in unison, "What's the solution?"
Ouyang Feng said in a resolute tone: "Looking for secret techniques or exercises with hidden cultivation, it is best to be able to fuse, I think if we fuse a few more of these exercises, in order to increase the number of exercises after fusion, even if we really break through to the Jindan stage one day and enter the intermediate battlefield, those masters of the Transformation Stage may not be able to see it." β
Hongsheng nodded and added, "Well, that's a good idea, but let's keep a low profile, so as not to attract the attention of those big people." β
Qingfeng sighed and said, "But I don't know if that kind of exercise is good to find?"
Ouyang Feng shrugged his shoulders and said: "It depends on the will of heaven, if we really can't find a way to hide our cultivation, we can only think of other ways, it's a big deal not to go back to the alliance, just hide here to cultivate, anyway, before we think of a solution, we won't go back and throw ourselves into the net." β
Hongshang nodded and said, "That's all there is to it now." β
Seeing that the atmosphere was a little depressing, Ouyang Feng changed the topic and asked, "Senior sister, how is your lightning strike spell practiced?"
Qingfeng said a little proudly: "The three of us have almost mastered it, and the rest can only be practiced often to familiarize ourselves, what about you?"