The Qi Refining Realm cultivates to a high-level realm, and all the large and small barrier nodes of the Qi veins around the body are opened, and the spiritual power flows in the Qi veins without hindrance, and the operation speed is several times faster than the previous junior and middle two orders. At the same time, the spiritual power absorbed into the body has accumulated to a certain thickness, and there is a faint potential for fusion and convergence, and all kinds of hard work and preparation are just to finally open up the jade mansion in the dantian qi sea under the abdomen, and contain the spiritual power of the whole body, and then it is the real first step in cultivating immortals - Ning Yuan Realm.

This step is extremely crucial, but it is also extremely difficult, and there are many monks in the world who are full of dreams of the Immortal Dao, and for various reasons, they have stopped outside the threshold of this Ning Yuan Realm for the rest of their lives. The reasons for this are naturally varied, some are limited by poor talent and talent, some are good but have too poor backgrounds to find the inheritance of famous teachers, and some are unbearable after reaching the high level of the Qi Refining Realm in terms of life embarrassment......

However, most of these bizarre reasons are for casual cultivation, for these famous disciples on Qingyu Island under the Lingxiao Sect, most of these obstacles do not exist, many times, the key still depends on the individual's talent and bones, in addition, if you have a flexible mind on Qingyu Island, you can earn more spirit crystals than others within the scope of the door rules, buy extraordinary elixirs such as Qi Nourishing Pill and Pei Yuan Dan, and eat them as snacks all day long, of course, this cultivation will be faster than others.

In the autumn of this year, the sky was high and refreshing, and the sea was still as beautiful and vast as today, and Shen Shi's mood also became very happy after he advanced to the advanced level of the Qi Refining Realm.

However, because before him, there were already twenty-four people who had been promoted to the high-level Qi Refining Realm one step faster than him, so Shen Shi didn't feel that there was anything special about his talent in cultivation, even if he once happened to hear Xu Yanzhi and Zeng Zhibai chatting with the two senior brothers and sisters when they said that in the past year, among the new disciples who could cultivate to the high-level realm in the fourth year, there were generally only five or six people, but after all, the facts in front of him were clearer than anything else, in front of so many fellow disciples with higher talents and faster cultivation, it was indeed a ridiculous question to think about whether he was different。

However, Rao was like this, he was still very happy, after Dao Xing broke through to the high level of the Qi Refining Realm, the spiritual power accumulated in his whole body had doubled compared to when he was in the middle realm, and because of the mysterious heart purification mantra, he also had the same spiritual power hidden in the mysterious acupuncture point at the center of his eyebrows, which was also doubled.

The vigorous growth of spiritual power has brought several direct benefits, one is that his physical body has become stronger and stronger under the continuous tempering of spiritual power, and with his current physical strength, he can barely fight directly with the low-level demon beasts on the demon island, and the other most obvious benefit is the Five Elements Technique he has practiced.

The mass of condensed spiritual power in his eyebrows and heart a year ago could support him to cast three first-order five-element spells and water archery techniques in terms of quantity, but now it has doubled, that is, in his perfect state of divine strength, Shen Shi can cast six first-order spells in a row in a single battle. However, in addition, the power of the Five Elements Spell and the speed at which it was cast were the same as before, and they did not increase and become faster as his realm improved.

But a year ago, Shen Shi took the plunge and owed a large amount of debt, and the talisman magic power that he learned from Senior Brother Zhang Yihui of the Five Elements Hall finally ushered in the harvest at this time.

It was also because of that mysterious Heart Purification Mantra that Shen Shi's control of the Five Elements Spell was far more handy and meticulous than that of ordinary monks, which was not only reflected in the fact that his casting speed was staggeringly almost comparable to that of a Ning Yuan Realm monk, but even in the runes, he also benefited a lot.

The most critical and difficult pass to make a talisman is to instill the spirit, and after Shen Shi has been cultivating for a period of time, he has quickly crossed the past from strange to proficient. When ordinary talismans make talismans, they will often be stuck in half of the finished product in the last process of pouring spirits, which means that even if it is a skilled talisman, when making the five elements magic runes, there will be a nearly fifty percent chance of failure, which is also an important reason why the price of talismans in many shops in the Hongmeng world has always remained high. On the other hand, Zhang Yihui asked Shen Shi to give him five finished talismans every month, which was indeed a valuable and heavy debt.

However, after Shen Shi practiced the talisman for a month, with far more than ordinary people's extremely fine control of the Five Elements Technique, his success rate in making the talisman reached sixty percent, and two months later, he had reached a high success rate of eighty percent. As for the current high-level Qi Refining Realm a year later, the spiritual power in the acupoint at the center of his eyebrows is becoming more and more condensed and strong, and the control of the Five Elements Technique is also becoming more and more handy, and in the production of talismans, in the past three months, he has not even missed.

If this news spreads, it will definitely shock countless people, Shen Shi has been in the field for several years, and his understanding of the cultivation of immortals, including the cultivation realm, is far from the ignorant and curious young man in the Xilu City of Yinzhou in the past, so he has been very careful to keep this secret. In addition to his cautious and cautious nature, the origin of this heart purification mantra is also a little difficult to explain to outsiders.

When Gan Ze went to Demon Island with him on the same boat, he once mentioned to him what Elder Pu, who was currently presiding over the Lingxiao Sect Art Hall, had said, the Five Elements Technique and the Fu Gong were mutually compatible, and if he had the ability to master the balance between the two, the benefits would not be underestimated. The speaker was a little joking, but the listener has felt it a year later.

A talisman that has been filled with spirit in advance only needs two percent of the spiritual power required to cast the spell in actual combat to be activated, and with Shen Shi's ability comparable to the casting speed of a Ning Yuan Realm monk, it also takes three breaths to cast a water arrow technique, but when using the talisman, he only needs one breath of time.

One breath, just one breath in between, is as fast as the blink of an eye.

The spiritual power in his eyebrows was enough for him to cast six first-order spells, and if he used the talisman, without considering the consumption of the talisman and regardless of the cost, Shen Shi could cast a full thirty first-order five-element spells before the spiritual power was exhausted......

There are thirty of them, and they only need one breath to cast the Five Elements Spell!

Shen Shi has been cultivating very quietly, and he has not done anything particularly eye-catching on Qingyu Island, but in his heart, he already has a faint sense of self-confidence, although he is only the twenty-fifth disciple of this group of newcomer disciples who has cultivated to the high level of the Qi Refining Realm, but if he is facing the more than twenty people in front of him in actual combat, even if he faces Gan Ze, who is known as the first talent in the Lingxiao Sect in the past five hundred years, Shen Shi is confident that he also has the strength to fight, and even has the possibility of victory.

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This year, Shen Shi was sixteen years old.

Compared with a year ago, his figure has grown taller again, and the childishness on his face is becoming less and less, and more mature. Among his friends, several girls also grew more and more with age, and gradually reached the most beautiful time when they bloomed like flowers, and they were full of youthful breath as far as the eye could see.

Zhong Qingzhu and He Xiaomei are both brighter, even Zhong Qinglu, who was slightly fat before, looked a little slimmer as his body grew, and the baby fat on his cheeks quietly receded, showing a little dazzling charm, which was impressive.

In terms of cultivation, everyone's progress is different, the most unexpected is of course Zhong Qingzhu, who was not obvious in the past, she is impressively above everyone, except for Gan Ze's demon, she is the first disciple among all the newcomer disciples to cultivate to the high level of the Qi Refining Realm, which can be said to have shocked many people, and also attracted the secret attention of many seniors in the sect.

Except for Zhong Qingzhu, Sun You and Zhong Qinglu both had a slower cultivation speed than Shen Shi, but both of them were not bad in talent, and they both cultivated to the high level of the Qi Refining Realm within a month after Shen Shi; 。

In this way, everyone has their own luck and luck, and the cultivation they show is different, but everyone's eyes are fixed on the last and most critical year.

In the fifth year, whether or not he can set foot in the Ning Yuan Realm is the key to whether the future is immortal or mortal, and the status is vastly different.

Shen Shi's mood is the same, he still cares about whether he can break through to the Ning Yuan Realm in the fifth year, and what the future holds, including what kind of attitude he can use to see his missing father again in the future, it all depends on this year.

However, at the moment, Shen Shi found that the most headache he had was still the kind of crystal clear and shiny small stone......

After Dao Xing broke through to the high level of the Qi Refining Realm, there were many benefits, but at the same time, there were also some side effects, that is, when he was cultivating, the amount of spirit crystal spiritual power he consumed every time he introduced the spirit into his body doubled. An intact and normal spirit crystal, on the premise of cultivating once a day, can be used for twenty days for a beginner disciple of the Qi Refining Realm, ten days for a middle-level disciple of the Qi Refining Realm, and when it reaches the high-level realm of the Qi Refining Realm, it can only be used for five days at most because the spiritual power absorbed has increased greatly.

And the consumption of Shen Shi is twice that of ordinary people......

At the same time, Zhong Qinglu's side had already gained a great reputation in the Dan Hall, and even heard that the high-ranking Yun Niyun Elder who presided over the Dan Hall on Jinhong Mountain already knew Zhong Qinglu's name. Now refining the Qi Nourishing Pill Zhong Qinglu has long been handy, and there are few mistakes, so before March, Zhong Qinglu was the first among all the newcomer disciples to obtain another spirit pill "Pei Yuan Dan" from the Dantang.

The refining of each new elixir is a long process for alchemists from scratch and from strange to familiar, and many of the hard work and consumption in the middle are stacked with spirit crystals.

The original deal, or gambling, was still a secret between Shen Shi and Zhong Qinglu, and this agreement had brought great benefits to each of them in their unexpected persistence and compliance. Now, they are unanimously ready to let the deal continue.

Except for one thing that made Shen Shi feel a little weak and stressed, that is, Pei Yuan Dan was a second-grade spirit pill that was one level higher than the Qi Cultivation Pill, and there were as many as nine kinds of spiritual materials required, and the cost of the spiritual materials required for a complete furnace of alchemy was as high as eighty spirit crystals, which was eight times that of the Qi Cultivation Pill.