Chapter 383: Retreat and Penance (I)

After Zhang Yifan and Qi Yun separated, they did not immediately set off south.

Although he really wanted to return to the sect, after learning about the distribution of power in the Great Jin, he also decided not to rush back for a while.

The territory of the Great Jin Dynasty is vast, far beyond the Chu State, divided into five large regions in the southeast, northwest and northwest, in addition to the central area, there are more than a dozen vassal states in each region, basically each vassal state has a large sect, and then there are some subsidiary sects.

Therefore, the entire Great Jin Immortal Cultivation Realm was extremely prosperous, far surpassing the Chu State.

Whether it is the four major righteous sects located in the eastern region, or the five major demon sects in the southern region, and the two major Buddhist sects in the Western Regions, they are all more powerful than the Zhenji Gate and Qingshan Temple in the Chu State.

Moreover, the difference between the Great Jin and the Chu State is that the immortal cultivation forces of the royal and affiliated Confucianists who are located in the middle of the Great Jin Dynasty and are in charge of the entire Great Jin Dynasty are also the first-class immortal cultivation forces of the Great Jin Dynasty, firmly occupying the entire central region of the Great Jin Dynasty, which is no worse than the other major sects.

As for the northern region, it is relatively chaotic, mixed with fish and dragons, except for a few major sects such as Qingjiaomen, Hanshan Sect, and Dayan Sword Sect, there are many powerful forces established by the scattered cultivation and cultivation families. Many of the major powers in other regions have also established a number of strongholds in the northern region.

The reason for this is the trouble of the Wu Clan and the Feather Clan in the Thousand Feather Forest, and no first-class forces are willing to directly confront each other. And because of this reason, the consumption of the foundation is serious, so there is no sect in the northern region that can grow into a super sect.

After reading the jade slip given by Qi Yun, Zhang Yifan had a more detailed understanding of Dajin, and he also had a plan in his heart.

In the southern region of the Jin Kingdom, the power of the Demon Sect is monstrous, and in addition to the Corpse Sect that Zhang Yifan has dealt with several times before, there are also Ten Thousand Poison Sects, Demon Puppet Valley, Thousand Illusion Sects, and Demon Pole Sects, all of which are Demon Dao giants, and the strength of the Corpse Sect is only ranked at the end of the five Demon Sects.

Demon cultivation pays attention to recklessness, the weak eat the strong, and if they don't agree with each other, they will fight to death.

Although due to the agreement of the entire Great Jin Immortal Cultivation Realm, the Demon Sect would not specifically slaughter other monks, but the monks fought each other very frequently, so in general, monks from several other regions were rarely willing to explore and practice in the southern region.

Since the Demon Sect's power was so strong, it was much more risky for him to pass through the southern region where the Demon Sect was located. Without a certain amount of strength, it is very dangerous to want to pass through the southern region.

Therefore, Zhang Yifan changed his previous decision to leave for Chu immediately.

This time, he got so many opportunities, he was going to retreat and cultivate for a period of time, and it was best to break through to the middle stage of Jindan and strengthen his strength before acting.

After all, whether it was traveling through the southern region where the Great Jin Demon Dao sect gathered, or returning to the Chu State through two roads, it would take a lot of strength to protect itself.

In many cases, if you want to be fast, you can't reach it, and only by cultivating yourself, enhancing your strength, and accumulating your heritage, can you go further.

After making a decision, Zhang Yifan dug a temporary cave in a hidden valley near Poison Ze.

The reason why I chose this place is because there are many elixir demon beasts in Poison Ze, whether it is cultivating demon insects or collecting elixir demon beast spirit materials for cultivation, it is very convenient.

And he found that killing the Witch Clan could quickly break the seal of the Seventh Mystery.

He attaches great importance to the Nine Miao Lotus Sutra, whether it is the cultivation of supernatural powers or the strengthening of his own divine soul and divine consciousness, it is very beneficial.

After settling the cave mansion, Zhang Yifan began to sort out the previous income in the poison ze.

He got a large amount of cultivation resources from the storage bags of Bai Hong and Bai Fei, and he was also surprised by the wealth of his wealth.

There were more than 100 high-grade spirit stones in the storage bags of the two of them, and the total number of spirit stones was almost 450,000 spirit stones.

In addition to the natal magic weapons of the two, there are more than a dozen general magic weapons, most of which are some magic weapons that are not in the product, but there are also two or three magic weapons in the product, all of which are nine-grade magic weapons.

Zhang Yifan tried these magic weapons, but he basically couldn't look at them, and he planned to dispose of them when the time came.

As for the spiritual materials, elixirs, and elixirs, there are even more of them, especially the demon beast spirit materials have reached an astonishing level.

These treasures were basically needed by the Jindan period monks, which greatly enriched Zhang Yifan's income.

Moreover, among those elixirs, Zhang Yifan found a lot of Huiling Herbs of more than five hundred years, as well as a small amount of Three Whisker Roots, which allowed him to refine some elixirs immediately.

In Bai Fei's storage bag, Zhang Yifan also found a lot of beast pills that fed the Spirit Devouring Demon Worms, but most of them were not of high rank, suitable for Demon Worms below the seventh level.

Bai Fei's route of insect repellent is different from Zhang Yifan, most of his Soul Devouring Demon Worms are third-level demon insects, and only a few are fourth-level or above demon insects, so the burden on divine consciousness is very small, and the power produced by a large number of low-level demon insects is no worse than that of high-level demon insects.

In addition, there are also several Beast Dan Dan Fang in Bai Fei's storage bag.

Zhang Yifan checked it and found that most of them were pills below level six, and one was a pill that could enhance the cultivation of demon beasts above level seven, called Demon Yuan Pill.

As the name suggests, the Demon Yuan Pill can increase the Demon Yuan of the Demon Beast, and it is a very superb Dan Fang, and the main spiritual material required is a thousand-year-old Demon Refining Grass, which is very rare and rare.

However, Bai Fei seems to have been wanting to cultivate demon insects above level seven all these years, so he kept collecting demon refining grass, but he got some. This is all cheaper than Zhang Yifan.

The rest is some jade slips, exercises, secret techniques and other things.

Among them, Zhang Yifan discovered a lot of things and really gained a lot of knowledge.

Zhang Yifan found that the cultivators of the Great Jin Immortal Cultivation Realm generally had a much stronger understanding of cultivation than the monks of the Chu Kingdom, and Bai Hong also belonged to the elders of the Xuanming Sect, one of the four righteous path sects, and the classics he collected made him sigh even more.

Zhang Yifan found a lot of exercises and secret jade slips of the two of them, these exercises and secret jade slips are extraordinary, and they have some reference value. Among them, Zhang Yifan values Bai Fei's insect breeding experience, insect repellent methods and the weird insect clone secret method.

Bai Fei didn't know where to get a fragment of an ancient insect repellent secret technique, which contained many methods and secret techniques to drive insects and beasts, and the secret technique of insect clone was one of the three most important secret techniques, and it was also the only secret technique that Bai Fei had mastered.

Zhang Yifan read the introduction of the secret technique a little, and felt that it was obscure and difficult to understand, and it was not something that could be mastered in a short time. He has demon worms in his hands, and he has time to try, but he is not in a hurry.

Zhang Yifan's main thing now is to improve his mana cultivation.

He had previously obtained an astonishing number of elixirs to improve mana, whether it was Wuhuasan or Zihui Yuan Pill, which were very high-grade elixirs, and he also had the elixirs he had obtained from the Yu clan and other cultivators.

Although he currently has nine points of Jindan, and the amount of pills he needs is a quantity that ordinary cultivators cannot reach, but in terms of the number of pills he currently has, it is no problem for him to cultivate to the late stage of Jindan.

In the end, Zhang Yifan found a soul bowl hidden in the corner of Bai Hong's storage bag, which actually contained hundreds of souls of Terran monks, most of them were the souls of monks in the foundation building period, and there were more than a dozen souls of monks in the Jindan period.

After sorting out the retreat plan, Zhang Yifan sorted out the treasures of the two, and then began the retreat.

He first finished refining the elixirs such as the Spirit Cultivation Pill and the Demon Yuan Pill, so that his spirit insects and spirit beasts could also be cultivated and improved. Then he refined a large amount of demon beast flesh and blood to refine a batch of Blood Demon Pill suitable for his current use.

That's when you really start to enter the retreat.

As spring turned to autumn, Zhang Yifan spent nearly 20 years in retreat near Poison Ze, which was also the longest time he spent in retreat.

In the first six years of the retreat, with the help of the best mana enhancement pill and Tongzhi Pill, Zhang Yifan's cultivation speed was very fast, and he basically did not encounter a major bottleneck.

He practiced penance for six years and finally broke through the bottleneck of the early stage of Jindan and became a monk in the middle stage of Jindan.

Because taking Tongzhi Dan has an excellent effect on the comprehension of exercises, Zhang Yifan did not take much effort to comprehend the fourth layer of the "Nine Yin and Nine Yang Thunder True Formula", and then easily broke through the bottleneck and cultivated to the middle stage of Jindan.

Sure enough, Fu Demon Gong absorbed nearly thirty percent of Zhang Yifan's mana and essence blood, which had a very small impact on the current Zhang Yifan, and in less than three years, Zhang Yifan cultivated it back.

After that, Zhang Yifan continued to cultivate.

Although the cultivation speed in the middle stage of Jindan was slightly slower than the speed in the early stage of Jindan before, with the assistance of a variety of pills, Zhang Yifan did not show resistance, so his cultivation was very smooth.

But when Zhang Yifan cultivated the mana of the nine golden pills to the level of the middle stage of the golden pill, no matter how many pills he swallowed that had the effect of breaking through the bottleneck, he could not break through the bottleneck.

Even Zhang Yifan was a little unwilling to swallow two Tongzhi Pills in a row, but it had no effect and was wasted.

Zhang Yifan knew that he had encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation, and he could not break through by relying on the existing pills. Moreover, after all these years of consumption, there are only five Tongzhi Pills left in his hand, and he still needs to keep the Jindan for cultivation in the later stage, and he can no longer waste it on breaking through the bottleneck in front of him.

After cultivating for twenty years, Zhang Yifan cultivated himself to the level of the middle stage of Jindan.

Because of the nine golden pills, coupled with the mana of the "Nine Yin and Nine Yang Imperial Thunder True Technique", the mana in Zhang Yifan's body at this time far exceeded that of a monk of the same level. According to his estimates, it was at least ten times that of the average monk of the same rank.

Not to mention the secret spells and magic weapons mastered, such a strong mana in a single round makes Zhang Yifan's strength much more powerful than that of monks of the same level, after all, mana is the foundation of the implementation of many spells and secret techniques.

After twenty years of hard work, Zhang Yifan has not only cultivated mana, but also made great progress in other aspects.

The first is the aspect of consciousness.

In order to quickly accumulate and unlock seals and collect elixir spiritual materials, Zhang Yifan will basically enter the poison once every two or three years.

Basically, every time he would kill a large number of witches and evil cultivators, and after several accumulations, he broke the seal of the seventh wonder.

Then with the help of the Psychic Pill, after nearly three or four years of chanting and comprehension, he finally comprehended the seventh wonder and cultivated the seventh wonderful lotus.

Cultivating the seventh wonderful lotus, coupled with the advanced golden pill mid-stage, made Zhang Yifan's divine consciousness range reach a terrifying nearly two hundred miles, which can already be compared with the divine consciousness of the Yuan Infant Stage cultivators, and even surpass some Yuan Infant Stage cultivators with weaker beginner souls.

Miao Lian has increased by one, whether it is the promotion of the Six Lotus Array to Seven Lotus Town, or the Miao Lotus Protector Shield, or the Miao Lotus Purification Spell, the power of these Miao Lotus secret techniques has been greatly increased.

Of course, the most important thing is that the cultivation of the Divine Shock Lotus Divine Power is about to become a true Divine Power.

Both the distance and the power of this technique have increased by a little bit, and ordinary Jindan monks are basically unable to resist the attack of this technique if they do not have special means.

When Zhang Yifan condensed this secret technique in the sea of knowledge, the pale white lotus was almost complete, and it was obviously not far from cultivating into a real wonderful lotus supernatural power, maybe condensing the next wonderful lotus could cultivate the real divine power of the divine power of shaking the gods.

However, the seal of the eighth wonder was not easy to unseal, Zhang Yifan killed nine great witches equivalent to the Jindan period in a row, and none of the seals were unsealed, but there were only slight changes.

It's more than ten times more difficult than breaking the seal of the Seventh Wonder.

According to this progress, he would have to kill at least hundreds of Great Witches to unlock a seal, and if he wanted to break all the seals, he would have to kill thousands of Great Witches, which was equivalent to thousands of Jindan Stage Monks.

This is an astonishing number, Zhang Yifan doesn't know if there are thousands of Jindan stage monks in the entire Chu State Immortal Cultivation Realm, and even if there are, it will not exceed a lot, after all, there are only dozens of Jindan stage monks in Burning Sky Valley, and it should not be too far behind.

Killing thousands of Wu Clans is obviously not something that can be completed in a short period of time, and there are not so many big witches near this Poison Ze for him to kill, and even in recent years, there are a lot fewer Wu Clans in Poison Ze because of him, so that he will see fewer and fewer Wu Clans later.

Lifting the seal is not something that Zhang Yifan can complete at this stage, he estimates that he may need to kill the wizard to quickly and effectively contact the Miao Lian seal.

In this regard, Zhang Yifan could only temporarily give up increasing the number of Miao Lian to enhance the power of the Shaking God Miao Lian, and instead turned to comprehend the use of this divine power to see if he could completely comprehend this magical power.

But it backfired, even with the help of Tongzhi Dan, Zhang Yifan's comprehension of supernatural powers was very difficult and had little effect.

However, Zhang Yifan was not much disappointed, he also expected this situation, the comprehension of supernatural powers was particularly difficult, it can be said that it was much more than breaking through the Yuan Infant Stage, otherwise there were not many Jindan stage monks with amazing talents who could completely comprehend supernatural powers.

However, the power of the Earthquake Miaolian is enough for him now, and Zhang Yifan is not in a hurry to comprehend the supernatural power immediately.

The second is the physical aspect.

After nearly ten years of cultivation of the "Immovable Ming King's Refining of the Evil Pulse", Zhang Yifan condensed one hundred and eight evil veins in his Ren vein, but no matter how he tried, he couldn't break through the limit of Ren Mai.

Zhang Yifan knew that perhaps the challenges he was currently encountering were limited and he could not stimulate his full potential, so he could not break through.

Thinking back to the beginning, he was competing with the eighth-level Immortal Ice Flame Jiao in the flesh, and finally he was able to break through the Du Pulse.

Now to break through Ren's pulse, he estimates that he needs to engage in a hand-to-hand combat that breaks through his own limits.

That's when choosing an opponent is important.

Dealing with the tenth-level demon beast, Zhang Yifan knew that he did not have the slightest chance of winning in the flesh at present, and this move was too dangerous, and he would die if he was not careful.

And the ordinary ninth-level demon beast is no longer Zhang Yifan's opponent at present, only the ninth-level demon beast that contains the bloodline of the holy beast is the real opponent.

Just like the six-headed purple-veined snake demon beast he encountered earlier, it was a very good opponent.

It's a pity that after so many years, Zhang Yifan didn't find a suitable opponent in the poison.

The black ring snake that Zhang Yifan encountered before, because of Xiao Zi's relationship, Zhang Yifan was inconvenient to shoot.

After understanding, Zhang Yifan knew that the black ring snake was a female demon beast, and it seemed to have something to do with Xiao Zi, so he let it go.

At present, Zhang Yifan's physical strength has reached more than two hundred elephant powers, and his physical body and blood qi have been cultivated to the current extreme, unless the bottleneck is broken, it is difficult to increase.

Because the strength of his physical body has increased a lot, Zhang Yifan has increased his weight of the weight of the gravity treasure black gold weight to 40,000 jun, and has truly reached the level of a six-grade magic weapon, and his power has completely surpassed the blood-drinking knife and become his killer weapon.

However, at present, he can only barely use this treasure, and it is not easy to run it as he wishes.

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