Chapter Ninety-Seven: Retreat

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After a period of cultivation, he barely tamped the true qi of the dantian vanity, and the solid foundation Peiyuan also had some effect, Xiong Lin couldn't help but think about the prohibition of the Great Thousand Treasures again.

First, I tried to recall the memories of the two times I hit Vientiane Collapse, but I found nothing. Xiong Lin then took out the Daqian Mirror and began to comprehend the Great Thousand Treasures Forbidden again.

True Qi is fed into it, the Great Thousand Mirror is activated, and the spiritual sense penetrates into it. Xiong Lin seemed to return to the secret realm of inheritance again, surrounded by thousands of elephants, and then all of them collapsed in an instant, and Xiong Lin's spiritual sense naturally disintegrated, feeling the meaning of the disintegration of all things.

However, perhaps because of the limitation of cultivation, Xiong Lin can only comprehend the Vientiane Forbidden now, and after the disintegration of Vientiane, there is no appearance of the five elements, but it is restored to its original state again, and then continues to disintegrate.

Vientiane disintegrates again and again, and Xiong Lin feels the artistic conception of Vientiane disintegration again and again.

In this way, while retreating and cultivating, refining the true qi, and consolidating the foundation and cultivating the yuan, I felt the Great Thousand Treasures Forbidden from time to time, and I didn't know the flow of time, and half a year passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Xiong Lin had just completely refined the medicinal power of the second 'Luqi Pill', and he felt that the exhaustion of his mind and soul that had lasted for half a year had finally disappeared, and he knew that the sequelae caused by going mad and falling into the devil were temporarily suppressed. As for the lost vitality, it is not something that can be remedied in a short time.

After half a year of retreat, the introductory trial of the Nine Pear Sect finally began. A few days ago, Fu Luoying came to inform him that he was going to the Array Dao Hall today, always guarding against any abnormal changes in the trial.

When they came to the Array Dao Hall, Fu Luoying and Yan Huan had already arrived, but they didn't see Elder Yan Mu.

Xiong Lin greeted the second daughter, and couldn't help asking, "Where is Old Yan?"

"My grandfather needs to preside over the mountain gate formation, beware of any unexpected changes in the entrance trial......," Yan Huan explained.

Xiong Lin nodded, and suddenly asked a little strangely:

"I'm very strange, since the head of the sect is worried that something is wrong with the Blood River Secret Realm, why don't you find a few people from the outer disciples to enter the secret realm to take a look?"

When Fu Luoying heard this, she also showed a confused expression.

"Hey, don't you know?" Yan Huan said in surprise, "Everyone can only enter the Blood River Secret Realm once...... The second time you enter, you will be attacked by those bloody monsters in the Blood River Secret Realm!"

"Is there such a thing?" Fu Luoying said with some surprise.

"Of course, when the Blood River Secret Realm was first discovered, the sect tried it...... The second time you enter the Blood River Secret Realm, those bloody monsters will attack you madly and desperately...... No one can stop it!" Yan Huan nodded and said, "So every time the sect cleans up the bloody monsters, it is done through the entry trial, otherwise it will be enough to directly issue a task at the outer gate...... Why bother. โ€

"No wonder ......," Xiong Lin nodded.

"The introductory trial is a month...... There's no way for us to wait here......" Yan Huan said to the two, "Why don't we go to the side of the 'Yan Array Palace' to discuss the formation path?"

"Okay...... Fu Luoying agreed without thinking, and then looked at Xiong Lin again, "Senior brother, do you want to be together?"

Xiong Lin thought about it, the Blood River Trial has been for a month, and it is indeed not a way to wait here. Then he nodded, but said with a smile:

"My formation path cultivation is known to you, you two will discuss, and I will take a look at it from the side......"

The Array Dao Hall is the place where the Nine Pear Sect studies the Array Dao, and several palaces are naturally related to the Array Dao. The Yan Array Hall is the place where the disciples of the Nine Pear Sect Formation Dao usually learn from each other, discuss, and deduce the Formation Dao.

In the Yan Array Palace, there are all kinds of array weapons suitable for arranging formations, and Fu Luoying and Yan Huan obviously often come here to discuss the formation path. The two of them each chose a few formation weapons, and each laid out a formation.

"Hehe, Sister Fu...... After the 'Water Moon Array' I laid last time was broken by you, I made some improvements...... You're definitely not going to be so easy to break this time!" Yan Huan said as he laid out a formation.

Fu Luoying said with a smile: "You haven't been able to break my 'Qushui Quicksand Formation'......"

It can be seen that the two women are very proficient in the five elements formation of the foundation of the formation path, and the formations laid by the two of them are compound formations. Xiong Lin still has some understanding of the Five Elements Formation, and he has some understanding of the Jinshui Second System, but it is far worse than the two women.

However, watching the formation of the two of them on the side, Xiong Lin could gradually see some doorways, but he had been feeling the harvest of the Great Thousand Treasures Forbidden recently.

"Senior brother, do you want to break the formation together?" The two girls each arranged the formation, let the other party break the formation, Yan Huan entered the 'Qushui Quicksand Formation' arranged by Fu Luoying, and Fu Luoying stood in front of the 'Water Moon Formation' and said to Xiong Lin.

Xiong Lin thought for a while, nodded, and walked into the 'Water Moon Array' with Fu Luoying.

As soon as I entered the formation, the water rippled in front of me, and a lake and water moon appeared, and the water and light rippled all around, and the moonlight poured overhead......

"This Water Moon Array was created by Yan Lao, and the water and fire are both subordinate to the xing compound array...... Fu Luoying stood on Xiong Lin's side and introduced this 'Water Moon Array' to him, saying that the two of them broke the formation together, but it was Fu Luoying who took the opportunity to explain the formation to Xiong Lin.

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Xiong Lin and the three of them studied the formation in the Formation Dao Hall, and a month passed in the blink of an eye, and the entry trial was over, and there were no unexpected changes. The entire Nine Pear Sect seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

Xiong Lin had a somewhat inexplicable feeling, which seemed to be expected by him, but the future he saw always haunted and lingered.

"Perhaps, there is really a change, but I haven't noticed it for the time being......" Xiong Lin frowned, thinking in his heart.

"Senior brother, what's wrong with you?" The Blood River Secret Realm is fine, the Jiuli Sect breathed a sigh of relief, but Xiong Lin frowned at this time, and Fu Luoying couldn't help but ask a little strangely.

Xiong Lin shook his head and said, "It's nothing...... Senior sister, I'm going to close the pass next, and I shouldn't be out of the pass until I build the foundation. โ€

Fu Luoying nodded when she heard this and said, "Okay, when you get out of the customs, I will definitely have the foundation built." โ€

Xiong Lin smiled, then said goodbye to Fu Luoying, and returned to his wooden house on the cliff.

Taking out the jade plate that was scattered with cold air, Xiong Lin sat cross-legged, the golden light flashed in his hand, and the natal golden bell appeared in his hand.

After half a year of cultivation, constantly refining the true qi, and constantly using the true qi to urge the Daqian Mirror, the true qi that was already somewhat vain has already been tamped, Xiong Lin is now full of true qi in the dantian, and he can already carry out the last seal of the nine seals, the last sacrifice of the soul sacrifice, and break through the nine layers of qi training.

Soul sacrifice, Xiong Lin has already performed it twice, and he has long been extremely proficient. In front of the natal golden bell, Xiong Lin pinched the trick in his hand, and his spiritual sense probed into the natal golden bell, probed towards the interior of the golden bell, and entered a small space.

In the small space, the sphere composed of two hundred and sixteen golden sรจ true qi sigils like a nebula, and the inner jing blood sphere were already partially blended with each other.

Xiong Lin's spiritual sense probed into Jing's blood cell, skillfully branded a little, and began to carve a rune in Jing's blood, followed by a rune in the True Qi Rune Mark, and a rune on the Natal Golden Bell.

Now Xiong Lin's spiritual sense is much stronger than during the first soul sacrifice, but halfway through, he doesn't need to rest, he directly probes his spiritual sense into the true qi rune group again, carves the second rune, and then carves the last rune in the Jing blood group in one go.

"Hum ......" With the last soul sacrifice talisman inscribed, the natal golden bell suspended in front of Xiong Lin suddenly shook, the golden light bloomed, and a golden thunder flashed on it.

"Woo ......" Jin Zhong turned into a golden light, flew into the dantian, and began to reverse and devour the dantian's full true qi.

Xiong Lin's spiritual sense remained in the small space inside the Admiralty, observing the changes after the completion of the Nine Seals of the Sacrificial Vessel.

I saw that with the reversal of the golden bell, devouring the true qi, one after another the true qi flowed into that small space, refining the nebula ball and the jing blood ball composed of two hundred and sixteen true qi runes.

With the continuous refining of True Qi, the True Qi Rune Seal Pellet and the Jing Blood Pellet gradually blended and fused together. Gradually, half of the two blended together, and the true qi in the dantian was also devoured.

And according to the experience passed on to him by Murong Ying, the complete fusion of the True Qi Rune Nebula Cluster and Jing's blood cells was completed when the foundation was built, and at this time, the True Qi was insufficient, and only half of it could be fused.

"Tom ......" as the dantian true qi was swallowed up, the natal golden bell reversed and stopped, in a bell ringing, turned to a smooth turn, and the devoured true qi was also sprayed out, the agitated true qi doubled Xiong Lin's dantian again, this is also the last time to expand the dantian, since then the size of the monk's dantian is also fixed, if there are no special means or rare treasures, the size of the dantian will not change.

"Nine layers of Qi training!" Feeling the expansion of the dantian, and feeling the true qi that had been tempered by the natal golden bell becoming more condensed, Xiong Lin slowly opened his eyes.

Everything went smoothly, this breakthrough took three days, but Xiong Lin felt the cold air emanating from the jade plate, and his heart was still calm at this time, and the expected joy did not arise.

Getting up, Xiong Lin looked at the jade plate placed on the ground, frowned and thought: "The cold air of this jade plate is indeed a treasure to prevent madness, it can keep my mind clear and calm at all times, but it is also less fun!"

"If this continues, I'm afraid that sooner or later the mind will become as calm as water, and there will be no other emotions," Xiong Lin frowned and thought, "Or is this the state ......of mind that a cultivator should have?

Shaking his head, Xiong Lin couldn't figure it out for a while. However, without the cold qi of the jade plate entering the body, the joy of breaking through the ninth layer of qi training gradually came to his heart, Xiong Lin sat down at the stone table with satisfaction, turned over and took out a jade bottle. When the jade bottle was opened, a smell of wine came out, but it was monkey wine.

"Nine layers of qi training, you can build a foundation...... Xiong Lin directly raised the jade bottle and poured a sip of monkey wine, squinting and thinking.

In fact, as long as a monk reaches the ninth level of Qi training, if he has enough Zhuji Dan in his hand, he can immediately start building the foundation. It's just that the effect of foundation building is definitely not as good as that of building a foundation in the state of dantian true qi fullness.

Xiong Lin is not going to build a foundation immediately, but first retreats for two years, fills the dantian true qi, and then builds the foundation, the success rate is higher, and the effect is better.

"It's just right, take advantage of these two years, take a good look at the Vientiane Forbidden, and then you can use the foundation building to complete the leap of **, soul, and natal magic weapon to burn the first treasure ban!"