Gu Zuo decided to retreat, and there were two reasons that prompted him to make the decision to retreat, one was the smooth implementation of the "piecemeal kraft candy" tactic, which made Nanwu City much safer and the situation was relatively stable, and the other was the pressure brought about by his low realm.

In November last year, the demon beast that killed more than 10 people and injured more than 100 people stormed the city, which dealt a blow to his "prestige" to a certain extent.

They once demanded that Su San, the commander of the former battalion, be held accountable, believing that it was Su San's city defense arrangement that made a mistake that allowed the demon beast to rush to the city wall. Among them, Shen Weiyi's rhetoric was the most intense.

It's just that Nanwu Prefecture is Gu Zuo's, and they all came to take refuge, and Gu Zuo had the strong support of several Jindan from his own side, so he suppressed the matter.

Gu Zuo heard the following small report more than once, saying that Shen Weiyi often referred to himself as "that Qi refining child" in front of his disciples and even outsiders, and his words were full of disdain.

In addition to him, the rest of the Jin Dan who were not from the Southern Wu family also expressed the same attitude to some extent, although it was not as fierce as Shen Weiyi, but the thoughts of contempt were still revealed from time to time. At the beginning, when the emergency coordination committee was deliberating, everyone had very little opposition to Gu Zuo, but since December last year, there has been more opposition during the discussion.

Once, when Zhao Xianglu met with Gu Zuo, he mentioned that Jin Danning did not criticize his "two-peak round battle" strategy below, saying that if it goes on like this, the soldiers will not know the soldiers, the soldiers will not know the generals, and there will be no big war now, if there is a third beast tide rushing to the city, I am afraid there will be a big problem.

Zhao Xianglu's reminder also sounded the alarm for Gu Zuo. When these people first took refuge in Southern Wuzhou, they were unfamiliar with the place, and the monsters outside besieged the city, so they were all willing to obey the dispatch and keep a heart of helping each other in the same boat. Now that four months have passed, the situation is familiar, and the situation in Nanwu City has stabilized, so naturally I have a sense of existence intentionally or unintentionally.

To put it bluntly, the root of the problem still lies in the contempt for Gu Zuo, a qi refiner, even if he has the endorsement of the Chongxuan Administration, even if there are a few Jin Dan who try their best to maintain it, he is still a qi refiner after all.

Therefore, it is imperative to improve one's cultivation, otherwise there may be problems in the future.

Gu Zuo was quietly in retreat, he didn't even convene his confidants to discuss the matter, but used the method of talking one by one, informing a few people such as the butcher, Lingyuan, Shang Deacon, Yuan Daochang, Cheng Shanhu, Su San and Li Gusheng, and designated the general person in charge of his retreat - the butcher.

Then, he returned to the Changshi Academy, closed the door, and began to lie down.

The meaning of consummation is that the sea of qi can no longer hold more true qi, and at this time, it is necessary to repeatedly polish the true qi in the sea of qi to remove the chaff.

For all monks, this is a long process, through non-stop weekly transportation, the true qi in the sea of qi is introduced into the meridians and acupuncture points of the whole body, and the true qi is nourished by the body, so that the true qi can remove the "impurities" that are incompatible with the body in the operation, and truly become a part of the human body. Only in this way can we control things in the air, and can we control magic weapons with divine sense.

Gu Zuo was running the Spirit Searching Technique for a week, holding a spirit stone in his hand, ready to be used to replenish it into the sea of qi after "removing the wu".

The time required for this process also varies from person to person, and is related to natural aptitude and is also influenced by the major exercises.

People with good talent can pick out "impurities" quickly, and replenish true qi just as quickly. The quality of the major exercises is the key to the total amount of these "impurities".

Some people are trapped in this stage for a long time, three or five years is not uncommon, and some people can complete it very quickly, that is, half a year and a year.

After completing the "weeds and retaining the essence", all that remains is to wait for the understanding. As soon as you feel it, you will break through the realm and build a foundation, and if you don't feel it, you will always refine your qi.

What Gu Zuo is doing now is the work of removing the chaff.

Three days later, Gu Zuo got up and adjusted his physical and mental state for a while, and returned to his cultivation.

After another three days, he opened his eyes again in a daze.

For six days, he carried eighteen Great Zhou Tian, and the impurities picked out were only a very slight few, and the spirit stone in his palm still has ninety percent of it.

This didn't mean that it would take him sixty days to consume this spirit stone, but it was very likely that he wouldn't be able to consume this spirit stone even if he practiced in the Consummation Realm for a year.

The butcher spent three and a half years in the foundation building consummation realm, and consumed more than 160 spirit stones before and after. Li Gusheng spent eleven years in the Qi Refining Perfection Realm, and consumed more than 190 spirit stones before and after, what kind of mistake did he make?

After being stunned for a moment, Gu Zuo suddenly slapped his head, he was really stupid!

When the butcher and Li Gusheng joined the Huaixian Pavilion, they were already consummated in their respective realms, and the spirit stones they spent were largely used to transform and refine the original true qi, among them, the butcher also spent a lot of spirit stones to repair the qi sea. Therefore, the data of the two of them cannot provide reference significance to Gu Zuo.

The way to practice the soul search method in the consummation realm still has to be explored by Gu Zuo himself.

In this way, he couldn't continue to cultivate, if it took sixty days to replenish and replace the impurities of a spirit stone, would this be considered that the spirit search true qi had already merged with the body?

Except for this explanation, Gu Zuo couldn't find any other answer for the time being. He couldn't help but feel a little complacent, it turned out that Lao Tzu's soul search technique was so powerful?

So Gu Zuo temporarily ended the retreat and came out of the Changshi Academy again. He plans to try it and see if he can find an opportunity to understand, just like when he was in Xunzhou, he was led to a lot of reverie by the bandit name "Huayue Sanshen Peak".

When he came out of the Dan room and opened the courtyard door, he saw Chen Mianhua about to reach out and knock on the door. Gu Zuo had already sensed that there was someone outside the courtyard gate just now, but he didn't know that it was Chen Mianhua.

"Aren't you in retreat?

"In the past few days, the teacher has asked the disciples to go out of the customs to adjust their minds, saying that it is conducive to breaking through the realm in the future. ”

The amount of true qi that Chen Mianhua fed back or reflected in Gu Zuo's sea of qi had reached almost four-fifths of the spirit stone, and this child had been in retreat for seven months in a row, which was really miserable.

In Gu Zuo's sea of qi, Chen Mianhua formed two mappings, one existed in the form of bright spots, and the true qi could not be seen, compared with others, there was only light and dark, which was the perception of Chen Mianhua's body by the technique of chasing photography, and the other was the true qi that he fed back to Gu Zuo, which could mobilize and perceive the true qi.

The two kinds of induction exist in the sea of qi, which is very mysterious.

"Take two steps. ”

"Huh?"

"Turn around...... Go ahead...... Don't look back...... Come back, turn around, and go again...... Okay, come back. ”

Chen Mianhua walked out for more than twenty feet under Gu Zuojiong's blazing gaze, and then walked back like a wooden man, nervous and awkward along the way, cold sweat broke out, so nervous that she almost forgot how to walk the road, and suddenly tripped and fell.

Twenty zhang, this is the range of Gu Zuo's current Dao Technique, which has expanded several zhang farther than before, in the sea of qi, Chen Mianhua's bright spot walked out from the center, returned to the sea of qi, and came to the center.

The other feedback is not moving, in stark contrast to the bright spots.

Chen Mianhua was twisted, since Gu Zuo didn't accept him as an apprentice, he was worried that this pavilion owner didn't like him, and the frustration in his heart was a little deeper at this moment.

"By the way, what's the matter with me?"

"Ah...... The teacher asked me to look for Uncle Junior, please go to the peak. ”

"What's wrong?"

"There is a big demon wandering under the south main peak, which seems to have the meaning of rushing to the mountain. ”

"Let's go...... Mianhua, how do you speak...... Hey, how can you walk and still walk on crutches? Did you do it before......