Later, Shen Chong couldn't hold his face, so he no longer retained his strength, and even used the 'Flying Spell' and 'Stepping on the Stars and Picking the Moon', which reversed the situation of losing more and winning less.

However, Shen Chong's doppelganger, up to now, has been about 35 meters away from the main body at most. Such a distance made him very aggrieved, and he couldn't use his fists and kicks at all.

Ren Yi is small and flexible, which is very suitable for such a small range of battles and attacks.

After a period of time, Ren Yi gradually mastered Shen Chong's 'Flying Spell' and 'Stepping on the Stars and Picking the Moon' routines, so Shen Chong's defeats gradually increased.

Losing to the little kid Ren Yi, this is unacceptable to Shen Chong. However, there are only so many ways for him, plus his body is injured and he can't move. It's not so easy to win with a clone alone.

So, Shen Chong could only rack his brains.

Today relies on unexpected tricks, tomorrow by the 'gray aura' aerial camera sneak attack, and the day after tomorrow by flying into the air and opening up the distance to fight a war of attrition.

There are no routines and rules in various combinations.

Relying on such a tactic that is not above board, Shen Chong barely allowed himself to win more times than Ren Yi's.

was repeatedly plotted by Shen Chong to win, and Ren Yi was naturally unconvinced. But what can she do?

Shen Chong has too many ghost ideas, plus he can also 'fly in the air', 'step on the stars and pick the moon' and other cheats, if you want to win easily, how can it be so easy?

Knowing that the little guy was unhappy, he was afraid that she would lose her temper and stop fighting against herself, Shen Chong could only reluctantly soften: "The main thing is that our Xiaoyi is too powerful, I can't win if I'm not insidious." Even if Xiao Yi lets me this time, it's okay, right?"

"Hmph~~" Xiao Yi turned his head angrily. But there was already a smile on his face.

After a year of getting along, the little girl never understood anything. More and more like ordinary children.

Joy, anger and sorrow have added a lot of color to Shen Chong's boring life.

Fight for breath. The two sat opposite each other and discussed the process of the battle just now.

Half a year of fighting, summarizing and discussing after the battle, not only made Ren Yi's process of learning words faster, but also greatly improved the strength of the two in close combat.

With a flexible and terrifying opponent like Xiao Yi, in half a year, Shen Chong's melee combat has been honed to be sharper and faster.

Sparring battles and life-and-death battles are completely different concepts.

If Shen Chong used the vital blow that Xuan Yun had taught at the beginning, and then combined with the new methods that emerged one after another after cultivating the 'Vortex Technique'. In hand-to-hand combat, it will definitely become a nightmare for cultivators of the same level.

A lively discussion ended. It's getting dark.

Shen Chong's gray-robed clone came to the edge of the Black Rock Land and acted as a guard.

And Shen Chong himself and Xiao Yi are about to get ready to rest.

Their rest is actually to absorb the geothermal aura.

I have been in the Hongyan Mountains for nearly 1 year, and it has been almost 1 year since I started to practice the 'Vortex Exercise'.

The whirlpool in the 'Vortex Exercise' is rotating very slowly, but it is still running. After such a long period of absorption and refining, it has been continuously replenished with geothermal aura. The gray aura in the whirlpool was already very thick, and even condensed into many traces of cotton wool-like aura.

However, in these two days, no matter how the geothermal aura is replenished. No matter how the 'Vortex Technique' refined the aura of heaven and earth, the gray aura in his body no longer increased in terms of the total amount.

According to Shen Chong's estimate. His 'Vortex Technique' had reached a bottleneck.

If the strength is to be further improved, it must break through to a new stage.

Shen Chong decided. Just try to break through tonight.

Patiently waiting, the night fell.

Geothermal aura also appeared as scheduled.

The geothermal aura is after passing through the dual circulation of Shen Chong and Ren Yi's bodies. Naturally cooled down and the temperature was comfortable and pleasant.

At this moment, Xiao Yi was already asleep.

Shen Chong glanced at the gray-robed clone more than thirty meters away, then took a deep breath and began to break through.

"Bang!" The gray-robed clone naturally exploded, and then, like a gray cloud, suddenly drifted towards Shen Chong.

"Huh~~" Shen Chong opened his mouth, like a long siphon absorbing water, and inhaled all the aura after the gray robe clone exploded into his body.

Within a range of thirty-five meters, even if the gray robe clone exploded, the gray aura would not be wasted.

The gray aura that formed the clone entered his body, and Shen Chong suddenly felt that the energy in his body was unprecedentedly full.

Geothermal aura is still being replenished.

Shen Chong's heart moved.

The 'Gray Aura Vortex' contracted abruptly.

After nearly a year of cultivation. The 'Gray Aura Vortex' in Shen Chong's body was already much more stable than when he first saw the mysterious man and woman. Even if Shen Chong contracted with all his strength, there was still no sign of collapse.

In the continuous compression, the diameter of the 'Gray Spiritual Qi Vortex' was directly reduced by a hundred times from nearly half the size of the original filling dantian.

In Shen Chong's Qi Sea Dantian, countless gray spiritual qi were compressed and pushed against each other, forming an expanding centrifugal force.

The gray aura has formed a cotton wool-like gas, which is full of toughness, just like pinching a rubber ball, the tighter it is pinched, the stronger the rebound force. Shen Chong tried hard to control it, but he still couldn't suppress the rebound power of the aura mass after it was compressed to the limit.

After a moment, the gray aura mass, which had shrunk a hundred times, suddenly swelled to its original size.

Shen Chong once again controlled the compression of the aura mass.

The internal force of the aura mass resisted and expanded again.

Shen Chong continued to control the compression of the aura mass.

"Snoring~~purring~~~" The aura mass was compressed again and again, making a strange sound.

The aura group shrank and rose, implying some kind of unique rhythm and rhyme, like a beating heart.

"Hmmm~ Shen Chong, you are playing tricks......" Xiao Yi let out a dream and moved his head closer to Shen Chong.

At the beginning of the formation of Shen Chong's 'Vortex Technique', it was a spiritual energy circulation formed when it was connected to Xiao Yi's body.

In this breakthrough, Shen Chong compressed the aura mass in his body, but it also affected Xiao Yi, and Xiao Yi's whole body released a layer of heroic light.

Why do you want to break through by compressing the 'gray aura mass'?

Even Shen Chong himself couldn't say this clearly.

At the moment when the 'Gray Aura Vortex' reached saturation, he naturally knew in his heart that the time had come to break through. At the same time, this breakthrough method of making the 'gray aura mass' shrink and expand, like a heartbeat, also naturally appeared in his mind.

Similar to intuition, Shen Chong knew that if he broke through in this way, as long as he succeeded, he would be able to make the 'Vortex Exercise' develop in the best direction.

Perhaps this is the providence of the underworld.

The compression of the 'Gray Spiritual Mass' continued.

Ordinary ordinary realm cultivators don't even have a tenth of Shen Chong's mind.

Even if they had the 'Vortex Technique', they wouldn't be able to break through, at least not like Shen Chong.

For ordinary mortal realm cultivators, the power of the mind can be compressed by a maximum of ten times the 'gray aura mass'. But Shen Chong can control the shrinkage a hundred times.

This gap is destined for Shen Chong, who is the most suitable cultivator of the 'Vortex Exercise'.

However, the rebound of the 'Gray Spiritual Qi Mass' was so strong that Shen Chong's mind was extremely tired.

Still, he's still holding on.

Finally, Shen Chong's mind was tired to the point of numbness.

The 'gray aura mass' rebounded! Shen Chong habitually continued to compress.

Suddenly, like a seed breaking through the hard shell, Shen Chong's mind was awake for a while in the sound of "click".

A spiritual power that was nearly half stronger than before poured out.

After using the power of the mind to the limit, Shen Chong's mind actually made a breakthrough again.

The improvement of the strength of a cultivator is very closely related to the cultivation of spiritual power, the cultivation of true spirituality, and the cultivation of state of mind.

Spiritual cultivation refers to the energy in the body of a cultivator.

True spiritual cultivation is the perception and experience of heaven and earth, and the cultivation of the soul.

Cultivation of state of mind refers to the inner heart of the cultivator, which is the worldview and values, and is related to the personality and character of the cultivator.

And the cultivation of the mind is a natural occurrence after the cultivation of mortals. However, the cultivation realm's understanding of mental cultivation is very low. Mortal cultivators, everyone knows the power of the mind, but they only know one purpose of the mind, that is, it can be used for internal vision, and it can be used to investigate the situation in their own body.

A very small number of people, the 'illusionists', know that the mind can also speed up the mastery of the 'illusion technique'. But once the 'illusion technique' is mastered, the mind has no other functions.

Shen Chong didn't know the function of 'mind' before. But in the study of the 'Illusion Technique' and today's breakthrough in the 'Vortex Technique', he discovered the great usefulness of his mind.

The sudden increase in mental strength has brought a huge boost. The 'Gray Spiritual Qi Mass' was instantly compressed to one hundred and twenty times its original size.

The strange rhythm of a heartbeat is broken. In Shen Chong's Qi Sea Dantian, the entire gray aura mass was compressed to the limit, constantly emitting a 'cooing' sound.

The strength of the mind is holding on, and the elasticity of the 'gray aura mass' is also constantly resisting.

Finally, after holding on for nearly 1 second of compression time, the 'Gray Spiritual Qi Mass' suddenly burst and dispersed into a ball.

Countless bursts of gray aura dispersed, still maintaining a slowly rotating vortex. However, many small spiritual energy cotton wool balls formed in the explosion began to converge, condense, and shrink.

It seems that a trace of cotton has been blended into a tiny cotton ball.

The gray aura vortex of the 'Vortex Technique' has doubled in size, and although the rotation speed has increased a bit, it is still slow. The most peculiar thing is that there are many small points of light in the whirlpool.

These points of light are all condensed by the spiritual energy of the cotton wool that has been pinched.

The bits of light gathered and dispersed, forming clusters, floating freely in the 'gray aura vortex' that had shrunk by one, looking extremely mysterious and ethereal.

Shen Chong was completely attracted by the beauty of his dantian.

In an instant, he thought of a word - stardust.

The 'Vortex Exercise' was successfully broken.

After admiring the beautiful scenery formed by the exercises, Shen Chong impatiently tried the power of the exercises after the breakthrough.

The results were pleasantly surprised.

The original 'Gray Aura Vortex' has shrunk by one size and transformed into a 'Stardust Vortex' that is now mixed with points of light. And Shen Chong's strength suddenly jumped from the peak of the late Ning Dan stage to the level of the middle stage of transformation. (To be continued......)