Chapter 1013: Second Heart Tribulation
The rebellion in southern Xinjiang came and went quickly, because there was no incident of fire souls flowing through the entire grassland, so the losses of this riot were limited to the first part of the Ministry of Summoning Wind, as well as those who participated in the small competition in southern Xinjiang.
The biggest sufferer, there is no doubt that the Ministry of Summoning the Wind, not only lost the corpse demons of the clan protectors, but also lost nearly 100,000 clansmen in this riot.
Other tribes have different degrees of casualties, and those who can come to participate in the small competition in southern Xinjiang are all elites of various tribes, and if they are killed or injured, it will naturally make the strength of the major tribes suffer greatly.
The Evil Sheep Department is one of the few major departments with smaller losses, which makes the old diehards of the Evil Sheep Department feel very lucky, and their attitude towards Xian Yuchun and Tamu is much better in an instant. And the Tamubu deservedly became the biggest winner of the riot.
The first laurel in southern Xinjiang finally fell on the head of the Tamu Department at the bottom of the 10,000-year-old because of Ning Fan's outstanding performance!
It's a pity that because of the riots, the entire southern Xinjiang small competition process is incomplete, according to the process, after the results of the cultural and martial arts test are summarized, the tribe that won the first will also receive a reward, and the reward received is the fire crystal hunted by each department in the martial arts test, and three percent of it will be rewarded to the first tribe.
The Holy Envoy Corpse Demon who was in charge of Xiaobi in Southern Xinjiang that day had already died, so naturally no one presided over the reward.
Six days after the riots, a new person in charge came to southern Xinjiang to deal with the reward of the Tamu Ministry. What he had to do was first to go to the reference departments, take the thirty percent of the fire crystals that each department had hunted in the martial arts, and then reward these fire crystals to the Tamu department.
The person in charge who came this time was not the Holy Mountain Corpse Demon, but one of the disciples of Emperor Tiandu of Zhongzhou, who had a once-in-a-century cultivation and was named Yijing.
This is a seemingly honest Buddhist practice, who talks about scriptures and debates Buddhism on weekdays. can still speak lotus, but when dealing with people, he will be contemptuous of words and deeds.
Yu Jing has a bit of a headache, he doesn't like to deal with mundane affairs, but this time it was Emperor Tiandu who personally opened his mouth and asked him to handle this matter, so he naturally couldn't refuse.
"The emperor has an order, this trip is a small reward, and it is the right thing to hand over the invitation of this ancient Buddha to Ning Fan. It's incredible. The Ancient Buddha Society has always not allowed external cultivators to participate, even the people in the holy mountain, and not everyone is qualified to go, I can't imagine that the emperor would make an exception for an external cultivator, and I think he values this person very much..."
Thinking of Emperor Tiandu's importance to Ning Fan, he couldn't help but put away his racial discrimination against foreign monks, and respected him before he saw him.
With the cultivation of pure immortals. personally went to the southern Xinjiang tribes to ask for a reward for fire crystals, and naturally no tribe dared not to give it. Thirty percent of the fire crystal, not a small number, for the promotion of the fire cultivation of the headquarters. But it's a very important material. According to the experience of the Pure Spirit, the vast majority of the tribes will do some tricks, and the number of fire crystals handed over is ostensibly consistent with the results of the martial arts test. Secretly, they will use shoddy and replace high-quality fire crystals with poor quality fire crystals.
In this way, the Fire Crystal was awarded to the First Tribe. It is often something that is shoddy, and the person in charge will often turn a blind eye to this matter, which is the old practice.
But this time, it was an eye-opener.
The Sea Soul Department should exchange 26 fire crystals, including 22 cross-true fire crystals and 4 Shekong fire crystals. There are two hundred and fourteen real fire crystals, of which there are forty-four fire crystals in the sky, and all of them are of excellent quality!
The Evil Sheep Department should hand over nineteen fire crystals, and two hundred and thirty actually handed over, among which there are thirty-seven Shekong fire crystals, and there is even one shattered fire crystal that is obviously not hunted in this martial arts test!
Water wolf department, flying sand department... One by one, the tribes of southern Xinjiang have all handed over the fire crystals, and more than a little exceedance!
Even the Wind Summoning Department and the White Ghost Department, which have always been at odds with the Tamu Ministry... They also handed over the fire crystals one after another.
There are not many monks that Ning Fan rescued this time, but he covered almost all the tribes in Southern Xinjiang, and he actually won the favor of the entire Southern Xinjiang in one fell swoop!
And many of those who originally hated Tamu died at the time of apostasy, and some although they did not die, but because they inherited Ning Fan's life-saving grace, they handed over the fire crystal this time, sparing no effort to make more friends, and even did not hesitate to use the accumulation of various treasure troves, just to repay Ning Fan's kindness.
"I didn't expect it to be so easy to receive a reward for Fire Crystal. ”
Yi Jing sighed greatly, and came to the Tamu Department with an excess reward.
For such immortals as the pure, the Tamu Department did not dare to slack off, almost the whole clan greeted, and then received the reward of the pure, which can be regarded as officially obtaining the glory of the first in southern Xinjiang, and the Tamu people were full of joy, lit a bonfire, and celebrated all night.
However, among these celebrants, Yin Jing did not see Ning Fan's figure.
"Why didn't you see the outer cultivator invited by your department?" the pure words were calm, but in the ears of the Tamu patriarch Tagri, there was a supreme majesty, and he replied carefully.
"Back to the envoy's words, Lord Ning is now in retreat and cultivating, as if he is hitting some bottleneck, so he didn't come here. Do you need the villain to send a message to Lord Ning and ask him to come and meet with the envoy?"
That said, but the reluctance hidden in Tagri's eyes betrayed his true thoughts.
He didn't want to disturb Ning Fan's retreat, Ning Fan was the benefactor of Tamu, the savior of southern Xinjiang, and the most honored guest on the grassland. Ning Fan's retreat cultivation was more important than anything else, so he didn't want to let this envoy disturb Ning Fan's cultivation.
"It's okay, don't bother this person, I'll wait here for a few days, I think this person will be out of the customs before the second round of the tomb capture begins." ”
There was still a task assigned by Emperor Tiandu, so he had to take the invitation and stay temporarily in the Tamu Department, waiting for Ning Fan to leave the customs.
Ning Fan's retreat was chosen in the Tamu Medicinal Pool, a forbidden place among the Tamu tribes.
This is the place with the highest aura in the Tamu Department, and it is also the most suitable place to break through the bottleneck, Ning Fan chose to retreat here, in order to meet the sudden second heart tribulation.
It is said to be a medicine pond, but on the surface it is just a thousand-foot square pond, and in the center of the pond, there is a statue of Buddha in the water, which is still the dress of the Medicine Buddha. The outside of the medicine pool is covered with a formation, which gathers the medicinal qi from all directions, and the medicinal gas liquefies, forming the water in the pool.
The pond water has the miraculous effect of warming and nourishing the medicinal soul, and the Tamu patriarchs of all dynasties will temper the medicinal soul here. As the years go by, some medicine marrow is often born in the medicine pool and deposited at the bottom of the pool. It has the miraculous effect of increasing the power of the medicine soul, and the longer it is deposited, the longer the improvement effect will be.
Generally speaking, every thousand years, the Tamu people will take out the medicine marrow for the strong people in the clan to take. Most of the other tribes also have medicine pools, which are basically taken once in a thousand years. When Ning Fan entered the medicine pool, the deposited marrow at the bottom of the pool, which had reached a thousand years in age, had already been taken away, and there were only some medicinal marrow of hundreds of years.
These hundreds of years of medicinal essence are for the cultivation of the medicine soul of the sixth-turn alchemist. It was of great help, but for a seventh-rank alchemist like Ning Fan, the effect was not great.
Ning Fan and Yi sat in the medicine pool, meditated with their eyes closed, did not say a word, except for occasionally taking the medicine soul stone, they did not open their eyes, and this has been the case for six days.
Outside the medicine pool, Duolan, Xian Yuchun and many Tamu people are waiting here. Waiting for Ning Fan to come out of the customs and participate in the celebration of Tamu.
Outsiders only said that Ning Fan was breaking through the small bottleneck of the cultivation of the Ancient Immortal Venerable, but they didn't know that Ning Fan was only breaking through the bottleneck of abandonment.
Above the medicine pool. The phantom of Ning Fan's four real bridges has already been conjured.
Under the real bridge, there is a gurgling river, and the reflections are all Ning Fan's constantly changing thoughts.
According to Ning Fan's own point of view. His first heart should be on top of a promise, and this second heart strength. It seems that it should be above the word grace.
If you just retreat and do penance, you often can't drop your heart for millions of years, if you travel abroad, you may come down as soon as the opportunity comes, or you may not meet the opportunity to never meet it.
Ning Fan was very lucky, because the roar that was rarely pure grief and madness touched his heart, and if it resonated, it directly triggered the second heart tribulation.
That roar has a sincere emotion for his mother, with longing and grief.
After returning to the ground, Ning Fan specially asked Xian Yuchun about the past before retreating, learned some stories about Xian Yuchun, and also learned the heartache of that roar.
When Xian Yuchun was young, he was kidnapped by Shi Yan, and his mother tried to save him, but he himself died under the magic power of Shi Yan Volcano.
The young Xian Yuchun, just outside the volcano, watched his mother being killed little by little, but he was powerless to save him.
On that day, Xian Yuchun realized his weakness.
On that day, Xian Yuchun vowed that he must go out of southern Xinjiang in this life and live stronger than anyone else.
In his bones, Xian Yuchun has a monstrous hatred for the Three Flames, and if one day he cultivates enough, he will definitely take revenge on the Three Flames...
From Xian Yuchun's body, Ning Fan saw his own shadow. And Xian Yuchun's mother reminded Ning Fan of his mother.
His mother also did everything to save him.
It's just that unlike Xian Yuchun, Ning Fan's mother is still alive and still in the rain world, but I don't know if the stone statue of my mother has been depetrified...
He was a little homesick.
Together with this thought, Ning Fan's heart tribulation came faster and faster, and for six days, the reflection in the water of the Zhenqiao River, no matter how it changed, was actually a memory with his mother.
There are false memories of living in the countryside of Zidou and his mother.
There are pale memories of mothers cocooned with blood.
There are also memories of him sitting outside the golden house, not daring to enter the house, not daring to look at the cold stone statue of his mother...
Life in the world, like a white horse passing through the gap, suddenly.
What do I ask for?
In the end, the cultivation of the Tao is often guarded by a world that is becoming stranger and stranger, guarding those Taoist friends who will die forever, and guarding their promise to live forever together. Occasionally looking through old things, I found the love letter I wrote to my sister when I was young; I passed through a certain market, and suddenly remembered that I had not had time to buy the things I promised my brother; I suddenly looked back on my life, only to find that those people who walked side by side were no longer there, and that feeling was so lonely.
And those who can't go with it have become a piece of loess even earlier.
There are too few stories of one person attaining the Tao and the chicken and dog ascending to heaven... The vast majority of mortal-born monks, when they were immortal, their parents had been dead for many years... What's more, as early as when he was slashing his love and turning into a god, he cut the so-called parents' sword out of his heart...
It's just that everything in this world, there must be a cause and effect, you owe the favor of your parents, and you don't have time to repay it, if you even cut off the memory and feelings of your parents, I'm afraid you won't be able to pay off the cause and effect. Such a monk will not be able to attain true perfection under any circumstances.
"It's a mistake to tie up Dan's love..."
"It's wrong to turn into a god and cut mortal..."
"It is also wrong to forget in the emptiness..."
After six days, Ning Fan suddenly opened his eyes, and the green light in his eyes flashed. In fact, from the perspective of perfection, I saw the shortcomings of today's cultivation system.
If you can't forget, how can you forget?
In this world, not all scars need to be whole, and some need to be kept and remembered forever.
If in the past, he was just paranoid, unwilling to disobey the Dao heart in the heart tribulation, but now he directly sees the disadvantages of the realm of giving up emptiness.
The first time I tribulated. He couldn't understand that much about Shekong.
But the second time... But he clearly felt that giving up the Hollow Tribulation was not such a simple thing.
There is a vague feeling, he can't say it, and the way is unclear, which makes him vaguely feel that the first time to give up the hollow heart tribulation is not just as simple as the word promise, and the second heart tribulation is not just as simple as the word en.
The heart tribulation is not only the heaviest obsession in the heart of the monk Shekong.
Heartbeat. It seems to be a major turning point in the change of the monk's Dao heart!
Ning Fan had wondered before why the first scene of his first illusion would start from the memories related to Hu Fengzi.
This person is not an important role in his cultivation path, let alone an important role in the rain world. However, now that I think about it, this person has a profound impact on Ning Fan, and this is the first time his Dao heart has changed!
When he first entered the Demon Dao, Ning Fan was burdened with hatred. It's just an ignorant teenager who just takes revenge, and what he sees has never been the dark side of the road to cultivation. But until he met Hu Fengzi. Ning Fan really realized that on the road of cultivation, there are also some positive things, and there are also the painstaking persistence of monks, and there are things that are more important than life, which are worth protecting.
Perhaps from that day on, Ning Fan was not just a vengeful teenager, but a real monk.
This can be regarded as the first Dao heart change on Ning Fan's cultivation path!
As for the memory of his mother, it started from the Purple Dou Fantasy Realm, the Purple Dou Immortal Emperor gave Ning Fan an illusory memory, and spent an ordinary life with his mother, and it was also from this time that Ning Fan realized that he was not only a demon cultivator, but also an ordinary person...
Go up the mountain for immortals, go down for people!
If it weren't for the teachings of the Purple Dou Immortal Emperor, maybe Ning Fan would have fallen into the Demon Dao, unable to extricate himself, without a smile, only indifferent killing. It can be said that during this period, Ning Fan found a balance between the Demon Dao and the human heart.
This can be counted as the second Dao Heart Change on Ning Fan's path of cultivation!
"The two heart tribulations, if only understood with promises and graces, are a bit superficial. It's not so much a calamity as a change in my heart. It's just that since then, my Dao mind doesn't seem to have changed dramatically, it has already been fixed, and if I understand it in terms of my heart, I don't know how my mind will change after the third or fourth hollow heart tribulation... Ah Liang can also touch my heart calamity, there must be a calamity related to her, but I and Ah Liang not only have a connection in this life, but also in the past, could it be that my heart calamity, not only in this life, but also in the past, if so, maybe I have a change of heart in my previous life, and the statement of a change of heart may not make sense..."
Because of the comparison of the second heart tribulation, Ning Fan had a new guess about his heart tribulation law. His heart is different from ordinary people, so he naturally needs to figure it out by himself in order to find the right path.
Beginning on the seventh day, other phantoms began to appear under the real bridge, with the kindness of the old devil and the kindness of other people, and it was indeed on the word grace.
On the eleventh day, the apparition stopped.
Ning Fan knew that his breakthrough in sacrificing the Hollow Tribulation had reached the most critical moment. I still remember the first time I was in the heart of the calamity, there was that terrible withered palm coming, and danger was everywhere. According to Ning Fan's guess, there should not be such a change in the second heart tribulation, but he can't be too sure, so he still made preparations, and once he is attacked by the withered palm again, he will not be restrained.
Fortunately, in the second heart tribulation, there was no withered palm attack, the process was very smooth, almost like a matter of course, Ning Fan Ancient God and Ancient Demon Cultivation broke through the Sacrifice Period one after another!
It takes a lot of time to stabilize his cultivation, but unfortunately Ning Fan is located in the Jidan Sacred Domain, and he can't open the Xuanyin Realm, so he can't use the Time Tower inside to stabilize the realm for the time being, so that he can only stabilize the realm slightly, so that it won't fall, but the aura of the gods and demons seems a little vague, and it still lacks condensation.
Ning Fan scrutinized himself.
The improvement of the cultivation of the ancient gods and ancient demons did not increase much in the total strength of his four systems, after all, his ancient demon and blood robbery realms were higher and the proportion was greater.
However, after the cultivation of gods and demons was improved, Ning Fan could still clearly feel that the balance of his four-line cultivation in the body had increased a lot, like the shortcomings of a wooden barrel, which had been improved. The amount of water in the bucket naturally rises accordingly.
"The overall strength has not improved much, but when using a variety of powers to cast supernatural powers, the loss of mana has been significantly reduced, and the power of supernatural powers has also increased a little, after all, in the past, a lot of mana was wasted on maintaining the balance of power, if the cultivation of gods and demons can continue to improve, the power of the four in my body can also be more balanced..."
A mouthful of turbid breath exhaled, Ning Fan walked out of the medicine pool, and urged with mana. Then the wet water on the body is steamed and dried.
Without immediately stepping out of the range of the medicine pool formation, Ning Fan sat on a big stone by the pool, turned over his hand and took out the Flame Ancestor Golden Palm Order that he had taken from Meng Zhen's hand, and put it in his hand and rubbed it carefully.
After rubbing back and forth like this for seven times, in the middle of the golden order, a golden light suddenly flew out, and a half-body golden mist giant appeared in mid-air!
The giant's momentum was extremely strong, and it gave Ning Fan the feeling that it was almost not much weaker than the fierce spirit of the Two Realms Seal. However, the giant's power seems to be limited, and if it is exhausted, it seems that it will disappear.
"I am the guardian spirit of the Golden Palm Order, and I can do it within my power. Fulfill the three wishes of the order holder! This order is made by the previous owner, Meng Zhen, has used the first and second wishes, and you are the new commander of the order, and you can invoke the original spirit. After three wishes, this order will self-destruct!"
Ning Fan's eyes flickered.
As early as when he obtained this order, Ning Fan felt this order. There is an unimaginably huge force, which expresses its surrender to himself, and the huge amount of this power gives Ning Fan an illusion, if he wants, he can even directly rely on this power to kill the Immortal Emperor!
You must know that although the Origin Qi is powerful, it only has the possibility of severely invading the Immortal Emperor, and the power contained in this token is far above a single Origin Qi!
Of course, Ning Fan could vaguely feel that this Flame Ancestor Golden Palm Order could not only be used for killing, but could also be used for a variety of purposes.
Before retreating, he asked Dolan a little bit about the Golden Palm Order, and was deeply surprised.
The so-called Flame Ancestor Golden Palm Order is the status symbol of the Flame Ancestor's descendants, and only a very small number of Heavenly Vertical Elite Three Flame Cultivators may obtain this order when they pass the Flame Ancestor Trial.
Flame Ancestor is the name of the evil corpse cut out by the saint, and it is the ancestor of all the Three Flame Monks!
Legend has it that although the Flame Ancestor is a saint's evil corpse, his cultivation has not yet entered the third step, but with his ancient overhaul cultivation, he has severely damaged the saint, making the saint's fall several reincarnations in advance, which shows its power!
Legend has it that the Flame Ancestor has a unique understanding of creation and destruction, and the Flame Ancestor Golden Palm Command created by him can realize any holding three wishes!
Of course, it must be the wish within the power of the Golden Palm Order!
You can ask the Golden Palm Order to improve your cultivation!
You can ask the Golden Palm Order for magic weapons, pills, and exercises!
It is also said that in ancient times, there was an Empty Flame Demon who made a wish and finally killed a Holy Mountain Eight Tribulation Immortal Emperor. Sensational!
As long as Ning Fan made a wish, the guardian spirit of the Golden Palm Order is the Immortal Emperor, and it can also be killed for you, of course, if you don't kill it, it won't be necessarily, after all, time passes, and the power of the Golden Palm Order is also being worn away by the years a little bit, and it has long been much worse than before.
For Ning Fan, this Flame Ancestor Golden Palm Order was stronger than the self-preservation power of Shi Qi, and I believed that as long as he held this order, even the Immortal Emperor of the Great Bei Clan would not dare to do anything to him.
At the same time, Ning Fan also secretly rejoiced, if Meng Zhen used the Golden Palm Order to kill him at the beginning, it would definitely bring him a huge crisis.
It's a pity that Meng Zhen was reluctant to use it, and wanted to use the power of the Two Realms Seal to kill Ning Fan, but Ning Fan reversed the situation and threw him into the Two Realms Seal and burned him to death, and this order was immediately cheapened by Ning Fan.
"If I make a wish to upgrade my Twelve True Flames to Innate True Fire, can you also achieve it?" Ning Fan suddenly asked.
"Of course, are you sure you want to make this wish come true?" the Golden Palm asked the Djinn in a stiff tone.
"There are drawbacks to this kind of promotion!" Ning Fan asked again.
"Damage to the foundation. The Golden Palm ordered the Djinn to reply.
The Golden Palm Order can improve cultivation and supernatural powers, but it is forcibly elevated in a manner similar to an empowerment, which is extremely damaging to the foundation.
If the flame is raised, the flame after the elevation may stop at this realm for the rest of its life, and the same is true for cultivation.
In this way, Ning Fan's heart was originally a little hot, and it cooled down a lot, and he said regretfully, "If it is based on the premise of damaging the foundation, then this matter will be stopped." ”
After thinking about it, he said, "If I make a wish to make my True Fire level reach the level of Saint's Fire, you may be able to do it!" This question is to find out the bottom line of the Golden Palm Order's ability.
"No, at most, it will help you rise to the Innate Medium Flame Level!" the Golden Palm made the Djinn reply indifferently.
"If I make a wish and make my Ancient Gods, Ancient Demons, and Ancient Demons all break through the Ten Thousand Ancient Immortal Venerable level, it may be possible?"
"It's really not, at most, it can only make you cultivate a single to the Zero Tribulation Immortal Venerable realm, which will also damage the foundation. "It's also an extremely terrifying promotion, but it's a pity that the disadvantages are too great.
Ning Fan thought for a moment and then asked, "If I want to open my eyes and see the world that only those people of the True Realm can see, you may help me achieve this?"
"No, it's too much beyond my means. ”
"If I let you kill someone, what kind of cultivation can you kill!"
"This order is too old, if it is in its heyday, it can kill everything under the quasi-saint, and now it can only kill about six tribulations of emperor cultivation, if the other party is very good at defense and escape, there is still a possibility of missing. ”
That's not bad either... In other words, if the other party is the kind of Six Tribulation Immortal Emperor with slightly weaker magical powers, or if the other party is careless and careless, it is still very likely that he can be killed.
It's really a terrible token, even the Immortal Emperor can be killed, and this is still the state of this token in its heyday. In ancient times, this order would be unimaginably terrifying.
Ning Fan didn't ask again, and the golden palm ordered the giant spirit to salute and indifferently returned to the token.
This order does not need to be refined, Ning Fan directly swallowed this order into his stomach and stored it in the dantian, he would not make the mistake of Meng Zhen and let others take away the token.
How to use this order, Ning Fan did not decide, after thinking about it, he decided to keep this order for the time being, as a life-saving thing for walking Dabei.
"Dolan, you can come in!"
After doing all this, Ning Fan gave a sound to Dolan outside the medicine pool formation, and opened a passage for the medicine pool formation.
Dolan took a deep breath, as if he had made some important decision, and walked into the medicine pool, and then the formation closed.
The Tamu people outside suddenly began to coax.
Lord Mo Finnen's retreat has ended, but why did you just call Master Dolan in?
Sure enough, sure enough, Lord Ning and Lord Dolan have a leg! What a blasphemy against Medicine Buddha!
A few stunned young people wanted to remind Ning Fan that mating is not allowed in the Buddha land here, which immediately aroused Xian Yuchun's anger.
"You all get out, get away, don't disturb the good things of my master and my mother!"
Xian Yuchun regained his usual evil tone, and his fierce and evil appearance drove away the Tamu people on the chassis of the Tamu Department. He is a twenty-four filial apprentice, how can people hinder the good deeds of the master and the master, and what about the Buddha land, it should be snapped!
Inside the medicine pool, Ning Fan naturally couldn't have a relationship with Dolan, he didn't have that leisure.
Compared with this matter, he cares more about the coordinates of the stone sitting.
"It's time to explain to Ning. Stone coordinates, what is it!" Ning Fan's eyes narrowed slightly, giving Dolan a huge sense of oppression.
Dolan's little face turned slightly pale, she didn't dare to deceive Ning Fan, it was really Ning Fan who left her with too cruel and cruel impressions, once she lied, she didn't know what she would end up with. Knowing that this secret could not be kept, Dolan actually knelt down in front of Ning Fan with a thud.
"Senior Ning, the coordinates of the stone seat can be given to you, but please agree to Dolan's request, otherwise even if you kill Dolan, you will only get a corpse!"
"I have no interest in granting your request, and I am not bound to obtain the coordinates of the stone sitting, but I am a little curious why I can't see any information about the coordinates of the stone sitting in your heart. I'll ask again, what is the stone coordinates!" (To be continued.) )