Gu Zuo lifted the quilt again, and when he pushed open the door, there was a cold wind blowing in his face, and there was already a thick layer of snow outside.

Stepping on the snow, the sound of crunching snow sounded in the garden, and then looked at the willow tree, there was already a crystal ice hanging between the branches.

Such heavy snow is rare in Lingnan, and Gu Zuo built a snowman with great interest.

The housekeeper and the servant, dressed in thick clothes, waited outside the door as promised, and the snow did not have to be cleared, but only the house was tidyed, which saved a lot of trouble. But today's dinner was not delivered, and the butler walked up to Gu Zuo and sent an invitation: "Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, my host invites your guests to the front yard to have a New Year's dinner and keep the New Year together, I wonder if your guests have time?"

It's the New Year.

After thinking about it, Gu Zuo took out a hundred wen and poured it to the housekeeper: "Then it's disrespectful, and ask the housekeeper to buy more ingredients, which is a little bit of Gu Zuo's heart." ”

The snow in Lingnan came suddenly and melted quickly, Gu Zuo hurried out of the garden through the back door, came to the river, enjoyed the river scenery after the snow, and when it was almost dark, he moved to the front yard.

In the main hall of the main house in the front yard, a large table has been set up, and various dishes are stacked on top of each other, which is three floors. A few high candles were planted around the hall, and there was a stove burning beside it, and a copper kettle was set up on the fire, and the spout of the pot was steaming. The red Spring Festival couplets and blessing pairs have been pasted, and they are lively and festive.

Gu Zuo looked at everything in front of him, a little hesitant and didn't dare to step in, he hadn't celebrated the New Year for so long, he was not very used to this lively atmosphere, for fear that after he walked in, he would look out of place and ruin the master's interest.

The host got up from the table, said a blessing to Gu Zuo, and invited him to take a seat: "The distinguished guest has been here for half a year, but the little woman has never visited her, which is really rude." Today, we invite your guests to a banquet, one to keep the New Year, the other to make amends, and also invite your guests to Haihan. ”

Gu Zuo was stunned, it turned out that he had rented the garden for half a year, and the owner's family turned out to be a woman, and she was a young and beautiful woman. In addition to the hostess, there was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old maid next to her, plus the housekeeper and the servant, who were all the people in this house.

After taking a seat, the host pointed to the housekeeper and others and explained: "Although I am the master and servant with them, we are actually family members, and we are enjoying the New Year's dinner together today, I wonder if the guests mind?"

Of course, Gu Zuo didn't mind, so he sat down and dined with the host.

While drinking and talking, Gu Zuo only said that he was from Huiji County and was going to Nanzhao to do some business, but he didn't mention the matter of cultivation. Although I didn't say much, but in the past six months, the host is quite satisfied with Gu Zuo, gives money generously, and never makes messy requests, where can I find such a tenant?

The hostess also did not hide it, and generously revealed her life experience, but she used to be a prostitute in Chang'an, and after saving enough family wealth, she redeemed herself and moved to distant Lingnan to start a new life. During the banquet, he also improvised a few pipa tunes and sang a few poems that were popular in Beijing.

Everyone chatted without a word, toasted each other, said New Year's greetings, and had a Chinese New Year's Eve that was neither lively nor deserted.

Gu Zuo only remembered that the housekeeper called the master "Honggu".

After having a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with the host's family, the days returned to before, and Gu Zuo continued to bury himself in penance and forge ahead.

The monks of other sects absorb about two spirit stones per month, and Gu Zuo is more than eight, excluding half of the useless consumption, its speed is twice as fast, if you don't count the consumption of spirit stones, it is actually quite fast. The main reason is that when practicing the spirit search technique, you can rotate continuously, and others can't do this.

Gu Zuo worked hard to make up for the lessons, immersed in endless cultivation, and the days passed day by day.

Winter went to spring, and soon it was the end of spring, and in the blink of an eye, a year had passed, and Gu Zuo had already consumed one hundred and ten spirit stones, which was calculated by half, which was equivalent to fifty-five fast absorption by others. At this point, the total number of spirit stones he has absorbed has reached two hundred, which is equivalent to one hundred of others!

The disciples of the Yunmeng Sect are seventy-six, the disciples of the Nanhua Sect are ninety-six, and the disciples of the Dinghu Sect are one hundred and eight.

In terms of spiritual power absorption alone, he has already exceeded the average of the three factions, why is there still no sign of a breakthrough?

Gu Zuo spent a day thinking quietly in the garden, and at the same time flipped through the various exercises copied from the storage fingers, specifically inspecting the Lingfei Sutra, the Miao Su Dan Sutra, the Dayan Artifact Method, the Qianyuan Formation, and the Yin and Yang Harmony Technique, and the content of the advanced cultivation of the exercises.

After studying, Gu Zuo believed that the different data of the disciples of the three sects absorbing the spirit stones should be the difference in the fusion power of the exercises, not the difference in the total amount of absorption.

If, in the basic stage of cultivation, the total amount of spiritual power absorbed by the disciples of the Yunmeng Sect was less than that of the Nanhua Sect and the Dinghu Sect, then what else did they talk about about the twelve authentic sects in the world? The reason why they were less was because they had a high fusion power, and they wasted less spiritual power when absorbing them, and the amount of true qi they converted with their spiritual power should be purer and more.

Compared to the Yunmeng Sect, the spiritual power that Gu Zuo had absorbed and the amount of true qi that he had transformed had far exceeded, so why was there no movement in the sea of qi?

Sou Ling Jue's description of the cultivation to the late stage of qi refining is, "True Yuan is like honey", that is to say, in the sea of qi, when the state of true qi is like honey, it is the late stage of Qi refining.

But Gu Zuo has not seen this sign so far, is it really as Elder Xing and Elder Mo of the Yunmeng Sect said, the spirit search recipe is not worth cultivating?

After thinking about it, he didn't come up with any good way, so he could only go one way to the dark and continue to absorb spirit stones.

So Gu Zuo continued to work hard, and after another three months of cultivation, the total number of spirit stones absorbed exceeded 227......

In the following three months, the total number of spirit stones absorbed exceeded 254......

Disciples of other sects, after the true yuan reaches a certain amount, they are usually unable to absorb half a point, and then they will either break through the late stage of the realm, or stay put, and waste their lives.

Gu Zuoqi's true yuan in the sea continued to accumulate and store, perhaps seventy percent more than the disciples of the Yunmeng Sect, and eighty percent more than the disciples of the Nanhua Sect and the Dinghu Sect, but he still did not see any signs of a breakthrough, but he did not stop.

Maybe I'll become the most powerful early stage Qi refining cultivator in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, right?

Gu Zuo was a little desperate.

Of the total of two hundred and fifty-four spirit stones, one hundred and sixty-four of them were consumed by this cultivation, and there were still three hundred and eighty pieces left in the storage wrench, and I didn't know how long it would last.

Seeing that the sea of qi was absorbing spiritual power like a bottomless pit, Gu Zuo gritted his teeth, and insisted for another three months, if it still didn't work, just end the retreat and leave here, go to Nanzhao or Nanjiang, and see if there is a chance to solve the problem of his breakthrough.

Two hundred and eighty-one! This is Gu Zuo's total result after three months, but there is still no breakthrough in cultivation.

After going around the Yushui River, Gu Zuo thought about leaving, but he was unwilling to think about it, he really wanted to know the answer, almost like obsessive-compulsive disorder.

When he got back to the garden, he clenched his fists and decided to give himself another month.

Two hundred and ninety!

Obsessive-compulsive disorder strikes again - why don't you fix it to 300 yuan?

Another month......