Chapter 23: The Turmoil Rises
Xie Yu and his entourage went to the Heihe Fortress to say hello and returned to Jiuyuan City to hand in the task. A total of 1,600 points of merit were obtained, and sixteen medium-grade spirit stones were obtained.
And the fourteen demon generals exchanged their skin and bones for a lot of spirit stones and elixirs, and finally each of them got four medium-grade spirit stones and a lot of pills, and they were all happy.
And this time so many gains also made the rest of the monks look at them with admiration.
Later, under the deliberate propaganda of Xie Yu and others, Li Xuzong's strength and courage were widely praised by the loose cultivators.
But Li Xuzong didn't know this, and as soon as he got the spirit stone, he said goodbye to everyone and returned directly to Chaotian Palace.
Inform the senior brother of Chaotian Palace that he is about to retreat and will not see any guests for the time being, and then return to his residence to set up a formation around him to start retreat, and seriously summarize the gains and losses of this battle.
Although this battle seemed thrilling to Xie Yu and the others, Li Xuzong took it for granted, after all, the Five Elements One Yuan Array was a Xuan-level Array Plate.
If it weren't for the fact that his spiritual power was too weak, the demon commander would not be able to break through, so that cultivation would become his biggest shortcoming.
After understanding the gains and losses, Li Xuzong first adjusted the spiritual power in his body, and then took out the Five Elements and One Yuan Array Plate to start the cultivation according to the method given by the master.
Through the positive and negative sacrifice of the Five Elements Guiyuan Gong, after a day, it was finally re-stabilized, and Li Xuzong immediately spread it around, and then began to cultivate with peace of mind.
The foundation building period is divided into the early, middle and late stages, and there is no bottleneck during the period, and some are only differences in the accumulation of spiritual power.
Since Li Xuzong was already determined to cultivate, he took out all the spirit stones and used his exercises to refine them with all his might.
I saw that one after another colorless spiritual power was inhaled into the body, and after a week of passage through the meridians, it was reversed into colorful spiritual power and flowed into the dantian.
With the cultivation of the colorful spiritual lake in the dantian, the area continues to expand, and the lake surface is not calm, and the spiritual power is rolling, like a big river rushing, and sometimes turning up colorful waves.
Such crazy cultivation is really rare, you must know that cultivation pays attention to the unity of heaven and man, and if you over-improve your strength, your state of mind cannot be improved accordingly, and it is very easy to go mad.
Therefore, cultivators are always gradual, and no matter how many resources they have, they will not take such a risk.
And now, although Li Xuzong knows this, he was forced out of the small realm because of his lack of cultivation in the Furong realm last time, although he has a divine boat.
And this time in Heihe, because of his lack of cultivation, he was broken by the demon general to break the Xuan-level formation, which was really unbearable, making him bent on improving his strength.
And the powerful spirit refining ability possessed by his own Five Elements Spirit Body also made him dare to give it a go.
Just when Li Xuzong was cultivating frantically, there were more and more rumors of fighting demons among the foundation building monks of Jiuyuan City.
Even many disciples of the Divine Consciousness Sect were also well-known, and many people sought to visit, but they were all told by the Chaotian Palace steward monk that Li Xuzong was already in retreat and cultivating, and he had not seen any guests for the time being.
But the more this is the case, the more everyone admires it, only by cultivating so madly can it live up to the name of the Array Demon!
The nineteenth year of Dafeng, January.
At this time, more than two years have passed since the Bailu Peak Conference, although all the countries in the world are eager to try.
But the Great Zhou Dynasty was in its heyday, and no one dared to bother with it.
Therefore, although the Four Realms are tense, they are still peaceful, but everyone knows that this is the calm before the storm, and at some point, there will be a storm that will tear this peace and tranquility into nothing.
And what the cultivators of the Righteous Path in the world can do is to try their best to stifle this storm, at least, to make it late and late!
In the cultivation world, at this time, all major sects have lifted the restrictions on accepting disciples, as long as they have spiritual roots, they can go up the mountain to practice, and those with excellent talent are focused on cultivating by various sects.
In the past two years, a large number of genius foundation building disciples have emerged again in the mountain gates of various sects, and the momentum is even stronger than before.
In the past two years, there have often been treasures in the world, causing countless battles, and the entire cultivation world is suddenly in a prosperous world.
Jiuyuan City in the north of the Great Zhou Dynasty, a strong festive atmosphere envelops the entire city.
In the past two years, the country established by the demon clan is still integrating various internal forces, and has not started a war with the Great Zhou, and the people of the mortal world have returned to their old lives.
Jiuyuan City, as an important city on the northern trade route, has a master of the Yuan infant period sitting in the town, and the world's merchants gather, and it is extremely prosperous, far better than before.
However, outside Jiuyuan City, the fighting method between the monks and the demon clan is becoming more and more intense.
In the past two years, there were not many wars in the Jindan period, and only a few times were not known to everyone, and the main battles were in the foundation building period, and with the war, many geniuses emerged and were sought after by many ordinary people and monks.
Among them, the most popular and worshipped is Jiuyuan Sanying, who is the three Tianling Root disciples of Shenyi Gate Jianfeng Shang Yu, Ling Tianfeng Zhou Bin, and Bi Lingxuan Liu Ruyan.
Now the three of them are in the middle stage of foundation building, and in the past year, the three of them have teamed up to carry out missions and fought countless battles with the demon clan.
Every time, the demon clan can be defeated, and the three of them are all handsome talents, born in the top ten sects, and are known as the first combination of monks in the foundation building period of Jiuyuan City.
Behind them are various teams such as Yanbei Seven Heroes and Taihang Wuyi.
And Xie Yu and the others have been unable to contact Li Xuzong for a long time, and they have teamed up with two Xuanyuan family disciples to collectively call the Central Plains Seven Swords, creating a lot of fame!
At this time, due to the New Year's celebration of Shuoguo, the demon clan did not dispatch, and the tasks of Jiuyuan City were also few, and all the heroes and young people of all factions were gathering to celebrate the New Year, and the famous families in the world also sent people to set up banquets to reward the army, and took the opportunity to make friends with young talents.
The various restaurants and song shops in Jiuyuan City are bright and lively!
In a forgotten courtyard of Chaotian Palace, the formation shrouded in it finally surged, and it was automatically lifted from the inside.
Inside, Li Xuzong sat in the room, surrounded by countless spirit stones and spiritual power absorbed into powder.
After more than a year, Li Xuzong finally finished refining all the spirit stones and used them all to improve his cultivation.
And the spiritual power in the dantian was also first expanded by ten times from the colorful spirit lake to the surging river, and finally expanded by a hundred times into an endless sea.
And the waves of spiritual power gradually subsided, and the fairy aura on the colorful sea was swirling, although it seemed to be extremely calm, but the dark tide was surging, just like an endless beast, just waiting for one day to get out, choose people and devour!
The spiritual power of the sea has finally broken through to the late stage of foundation building!
Li Xuzong looked at the dantian inwardly, and thought with great regret that if these spirit stones were combined with the spiritual energy of the mountain gate, they would be enough to cultivate to the Jindan stage, but now they could only cultivate to the late stage of foundation building, and the spirit stones that broke through the Jindan in the future would have no whereabouts.
But Li Xuzong does not regret it, only the strength in his hands is the best guarantee!
Now that he has reached the late stage of foundation building, relying on the magic weapon in his hand, he can't go anywhere in the world, and he has the opportunity to wait for himself to get it. Thinking of this, I can't help but be full of pride again!
After stabilizing his cultivation, Li Xuzong sacrificed all kinds of treasures again, and his affinity with various magic weapons was enhanced again.
In the later stage of foundation building, the divine consciousness was also strengthened a hundred times, although it was still impossible to transform the array with the will, but the mobilization of the spiritual power of heaven and earth was like an arm.
It seems that only in the Jindan period can he personally deploy the Xuan-level formation, but now he can only use the array to cast it.
After the rest of the qi was finished, Li Xuzong cleaned up, changed into a Taoist robe, and walked out of Chaotian Palace, retreating for such a long time, how could he have a good meal to treat himself.
At this time, it was still in January, although it was just declared, the restaurants were already on the customer one after another, and it was lively.
Li Xuzong found the largest quaint restaurant named Wangyun Building, which has a lobby on the first floor, a private room on the second floor, and a private room on the third floor, which can overlook the whole city, which has a unique flavor.
At this time, there are not many people, and the third floor is even quieter, Li Xuzong found a window position and sat down, ordered some famous dishes and wine, looked at the scenery of the city, slowly drank alone, and enjoyed this quiet relaxation.
As the sky changed, there were more and more customers in the restaurant, but Liao Liao came on the third floor, until a noise woke up Li Xuzong.
But I saw a few stewards coming upstairs, and one of them walked up to Li Xuzong, bowed and said:
"Guest officer, it's really unfortunate, today there are seven young immortals from Lieshan who want to treat guests on the third floor, and they want me to wait for the clearance, you can see if you can vacate it, and the food and wine money will be free, and you will treat it as a restaurant." ”
Li Xuzong glanced at it, and some of the other drinkers shouted downstairs one by one under the persuasion of other stewards.
Li Xuzong felt unhappy for a while, what are the seven young people of Lieshan, what does it have to do with me when they invite a guest, it seems that they are also used to bullying and bullying.
But seeing that the store was pitiful, and he had almost eaten, he said:
"I don't owe you money for food, I'll leave when I'm done, go down, don't bother again." ”
The shopkeeper couldn't persuade him, so he had to go downstairs.
Li Xuzong saw that there was no one around, and he was no longer in the mood to eat, and just as he was about to get up and go downstairs, he saw a few clicks, and several Qi cultivation period monks jumped upstairs and shouted:
"My Lieshan Gang clears the field, where do the fanatics dare to make trouble!"
Li Xuzong was happy, and he dared to run in front of him arrogantly during the qi training period, it was really impatient for the old man to hang himself.
didn't say anything, casually slapped a few people to the ground, turned around and sat down, raised a glass and drank alone, but wanted to see where this Seven Young Spirits of the Burning Mountain was sacred!
After a while, another group of people climbed to the third floor, and Li Xuzong raised his eyes to see seven prime-aged cultivators in the foundation building period leading the way.
A handsome young man in the back, with a slender figure, wearing a purple and gold crown with a bundle of hair, a golden embroidered robe, a jade belt around his waist, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and a smile on his face, like a spring breeze in March, make people feel warm immediately.
is really a beautiful son, Li Xuzong can't help but shout from his heart.
On the left side of the young man was an old man, dressed in a noble manner, with a purple robe and a jade crown, and a long beard twisted in his hands.
On the right hand side of the young man, there was a naughty girl, dressed in bright yellow clothes, even more beautiful, originally holding the young man's arm and making noise, but at this time it was quiet.
Li Xuzong looked vaguely familiar, followed by two young men in white with swords on their backs, with a terrifying aura, obviously a master.
The group was also stunned when they saw Li Xuzong, only to see Li Xuzong sitting on the window seat, raising a glass and drinking alone, while there were several disciples lying horizontally at his feet.
The strong men in front of them couldn't bear it, but when they saw Li Xuzong wearing a divine will uniform, they had some scruples, and one of them stepped forward and saluted and said:
"Contemptible Lieshan Huangjiao, I don't know which senior brother of the Divine Consciousness Sect is Zunjia?
Now that I, the Seven Youths of Lieshan, am here to entertain me, can this senior brother let go, and he will personally come to the door to thank him. ”
What he said was reasonable, and Li Xuzong smiled:
"It's not necessary to say thanks, just don't bully people in the future. ”
Huang Jiao just wanted to be polite, but he only heard an angry reprimand:
"Where is the boy, talk a lot of nonsense, don't retreat, let you break your siblings!"
But it was a disciple with a sword behind him who stepped forward.
"Hehe, it depends on whether you have this kind of ability!"
Li Xuzong was suddenly scolded, and he was also furious. The young man with the sword on his back was also furious when he heard this, and with a wave of his fingers, the flying sword behind his back slashed directly towards Li Xuzong, ignoring that he was in the Jiuyuan City Restaurant at the moment.