() Time passed slowly, while Duan Chen was cultivating the secret technique of blood control, all the monks in the entire castle were methodically carrying out the tasks assigned from above, and half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

In the past half a month, Duan Chen and Li Mubai Gu Ling'er, plus the disciple of Uncle Taichong, Qianyang, the team of four has patrolled twice within a radius of a hundred miles near the castle, but nothing has been found.

It seems that because of the continuous war on the front line, neither the Demon God Society nor the Northern Xia Dynasty have extra troops to be sent out to capture this copper vein.

However, the high-level leaders of the castle, led by Mrs. Jia and other fake Dan monks, did not dare to take this lightly, and still sent Zhuji monks to patrol inside and outside the castle every day, and even arranged a guard formation in the nearby mountains.

On this day, after Duan Chen, Li Mubai and the others inspected the castle for a hundred miles again, Duan Chen did not return to the castle with Li Mubai and the others, but went to the field alone to practice the secret art of blood control.

I saw that in the mountains and forests, a seven-grade desolate beast iron-backed lizard that had grown long crawled out of the nest with its head probed, ready to start a day's hunting.

But not long after it left the nest, a blood shadow needle as thin as a cow's hair flashed out of the air, and then quickly pierced the back of the iron-backed lizard, and the iron-backed lizard let out a painful cry and immediately turned around in a panic and fled back to the nest.

And in mid-air, Duan Chen looked down at this scene, and with a move of his palm, the blood shadow needle flew back to his side, suspended in mid-air and motionless, followed by his understatement of the handle, dozens of blood shadow needles flew out of the mountains and forests in all directions one after another, converged in front of Duan Chen, and then quickly fused together, turning into a blood knife.

"Go!"

Duan Chen saw the blood knife condensed, and let out a low cry in his mouth.

The bloody knife suspended in mid-air suddenly flew out and sank into a forest in front of it.

The next moment, without a sound, all the trees collapsed with a bang, and the incision was incomparably smooth and flat, as if it had been slashed horizontally by a real flying knife magic weapon.

But that's not all, after the blood knife flew through the forest, under the control of Duan Chen's blood control secret technique, it turned into an arrow in mid-air, instantly penetrating a mountain rock in front of it, and then turned into a blood-colored fierce bird and flew into the air, and then burst open with a bang, turning into dozens of blood shadow needles and flying away, and finally flew back by Duan Chen's palm with a move.

At this time, a satisfied smile appeared on Duan Chen's face.

The reason why he didn't follow Li Mubai and them back to the castle was because he wanted to test the effect of cultivating the secret technique of blood control during this time in the wild.

After some experiments, Duan Chen found that although the changes of this blood control secret technique were varied, the requirements for the cultivation degree of the monk's bloodline power were very high, if the blood power in the monk's body was not condensed enough, it would happen when Duan Chen first practiced the blood control secret technique, and the weapon condensed from blood would burst and dissipate by itself.

Therefore, for most of the past half a month, Duan Chen spent most of his time condensing the power of his own bloodline with the help of blood nerves.

In addition, Duan Chen found that the requirements for the power of divine consciousness were also very high when performing the secret technique of blood control.

Fortunately, Duan Chen had been cultivating the Divine Breath Alchemy Technique in the past, and the power of his divine sense had already reached a level that was almost comparable to that of the early stage of the Golden Pill.

So on top of manipulating blood changes, it's simply that

Handy and didn't encounter too many difficulties.

In addition to the secret technique of controlling blood, Duan Chen also cultivated another secret technique during this time, called the Thousands of Qi and Blood Technique.

If the Blood Control Secret Technique is the basic attack secret technique that must be possessed by cultivating a Blood Nerve Cultivator, then the Thousands of Qi and Blood Techniques are one of the strongest secret techniques recorded in the entire Blood Nerve.

This secret technique focuses on how to exert the power of qi and blood in the monk's body to the extreme, and in order to cultivate this secret technique, you must first slowly refine the acupoints in the body one by one into qi and blood tricks.

It is said that once the Qi and Blood Aperture is formed, it will continuously absorb the Qi and blood in the monk's body and be conceived in the Qi and Blood Aperture, and after a long period of gestation, the Qi and Blood Aperture will become more and more powerful, even comparable to the sword qi cultivated by the Jindan Yuan Infant Sword Cultivator.

However, it was not easy to refine the acupoints in his body into qi and blood tricks, Duan Chen spent more than half a month, and he only succeeded in refining one, and if he wanted to achieve the thousands of qi and blood tricks required in the thousands of qi and blood techniques, he didn't know that it would be until the Year of the Monkey.

Fortunately, it is not true that the monk must open up thousands of qi and blood techniques in his body, even if he only opens up one, he can still perform thousands of qi and blood techniques.

It's just that the magnitude of the power is different.

Duan Chen didn't plan to try to perform the Thousands of Qi and Blood Techniques today, after all, the Qi and Blood Technique in his body had just been opened up, and the power of Qi and Blood in it had not yet taken shape, and he still needed to wait for a while before he could support him in performing the Thousands of Qi and Blood Techniques.

Therefore, after Duan Chen practiced the secret technique of controlling blood several times in a row, he returned to the castle and continued to cultivate the Thousands of Qi and Blood Techniques.

In order to be able to open up more qi and blood skills before the battle comes, and improve their own strength as much as possible.

After all, this monk war, which has stirred up the entire North East China region and involves many dynasties, as well as the human race and the demon race, has just begun, and it is conceivable that this war will not end so easily for a long time in the future.

Unless either the human race or the demon race chooses to back down, or one of them is exterminated.

However, as far as Duan Chen knows, it is basically impossible for the Terran side to retreat, after all, this war was caused by the invasion of the Terran Northern Territory by the Demon Clan, and the Northern Xia Dynasty, which is now controlled by the Demon God Society, was originally also the territory of the Terran Race, so before the Northern Xia Dynasty was recaptured, the high-level Terran naturally would not give up.

And the demon clan has been eyeing the territory of the human race for so many years, and now it is not easy to get rid of the shackles of the ancient covenant and control the Northern Xia Dynasty, it is a good time to use the Northern Xia Dynasty as an advance base and send the demon army to attack the entire North East China Domain, how can it be possible to make concessions at this time?

Therefore, this battle, whether it is the Terran side to defend their homeland, or the demon side to occupy more territory for their own development, will inevitably not give up easily, so in a short period of time, this battle is unlikely to end too soon.

As for the specific situation of the war, Duan Chen gradually heard about it when he was communicating with some monks in the castle in the past few days.

It is said that both sides may be waiting for their respective reinforcements to arrive, and the Yuanying monk in charge has not made a move from beginning to end, so the battle on the main battlefield on the front line is still relatively restrained

Cautious stance.

On the contrary, on the flank battlefield, dozens of battles broke out between the two sides in order to attack each other and seize various ore vein resources.

It is said that the number of False Dan Foundation Building and Qi Refining Cultivators who have fallen as a result of the four major dynasties has exceeded tens of thousands, and this number is still increasing.

And the losses of the Demon God Society's side were also quite heavy, so that the smell of gunpowder on the entire side battlefield became stronger and stronger, and even both sides sent small war units and began to fight fiercely on the side battlefield.

The so-called war department is an army of monks who have completed training and carrying out tasks in the manner of the army.

Each war department has undergone at least decades or even hundreds of years of rigorous training, and the tacit understanding and cooperation between the war department monks are not comparable to Duan Chen and the monks stationed in the ore veins.

In addition to the tacit understanding and cooperation between each other, the biggest difference between the army composed of ordinary monks and the monks of the war department lies in the practice of various formations.

It can be said that a well-trained thousand-man war department, under the condition that the cultivation of the two sides is not much different, can easily resist several times the strength of its own side by deploying various formations, and even defeat the latter.

Therefore, after both sides were engaged in the war department, the situation on the entire flank battlefield became more complicated, and the casualties became more heavy.

It is said that many of the ore veins occupied by the four dynasties were attacked by a small army sent by the Demon God Society, some of which were successfully defended, while others were captured and destroyed by the other party, with heavy casualties.

And under such circumstances, near the copper mine that Duan Chen and the others were guarding, there had been some commotion recently, and there were inexplicably more than a few outposts of the Demon God Society.

However, before these outposts could begin to approach the castle, they were discovered in advance by the guard formation arranged by everyone nearby, and forcibly killed them.

So far, all the Demon God Guild outposts who have tried to get close to the castle have not returned, but in the following period, there are still Demon God Guild outposts trying to get close to the castle and probe the situation inside the castle.

There were a few times when they were really almost infiltrated into the castle, but fortunately, they were discovered by the Seven Demon Lords, and then reminded Duan Chen to kill him.

And after the experience of this incident, the security in the castle has become stricter than before, and even the fake Dan monks such as Mrs. Jia have personally joined the patrol monks.

As a result, at this time, the Demon God Society actually stopped sending out outposts, and there was no further action.

But the more this happened, the more uneasy everyone in the castle became, a feeling of mountain rain was coming, enveloping everyone's hearts, and even Duan Chen smelled a hint of danger, so in the following days, he practiced more diligently.

Time flies, and more than half a month has passed in a blink of an eye.

In the past half a month, Duan Chen's main cultivation was still the Thousands of Qi and Blood Techniques, and now the number of Qi and Blood Techniques opened up in his body has reached twelve, which is enough to come in handy in the next battle that may break out at any time.

Speaking of which, since Duan Chen was stationed in the copper vein, although he did not deliberately cultivate the Demon Immortal One Thought Method, his cultivation was still slowly improving, and he was one step closer to breaking through the realm of false pills.

This made Duan Chen happy and surprised in his heart.