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After getting Lin Youyou's toys from Shang Caixia the day before yesterday, Qiu Zhe did not act immediately, but asked Cui Peng to send him directly to the bottom of Swallow Mountain, and then he went up the mountain alone and stayed on the top of the mountain for two days and two nights.

After the first time he failed to deal with Lin Youyou, Qiu Zhe knew that if he wanted to subdue this spirit ghost, he would not be able to do it with his current ability. Therefore, while Cui Peng was investigating the clues, he was cultivating diligently and preparing for the sacrificial refining of magic weapons.

The practice of Taoism pays attention to "Tao, Law, and Technique", in which Tao is the foundation, Law is the way, and Art is the means. In the past, the more authentic the Taoist sect was, the more emphasis was placed on the practice of Taoism, and the supernatural powers of magic were regarded as stubble.

As one of the top sects of the Dao Sect, the Jindan Nanzong is naturally no exception. Lai Shouzhong once said: "Some people are in a hurry, often learn a few powerful spells, or refine what magic weapons, they think they have a plan, and rush to compete with others. In fact, these people are sacrificing their roots and losing more than they gain. You must know that qi practitioners are based on Taoism, and spells are branches and leaves. If you specialize in magic powers, even if you succeed for a while, it will be a rootless tree and a sourceless water, and it will not last long after all. If you can endure the heart of victory or defeat for a while, concentrate on cultivation, and wait until the Tao is refined, any magic power can be achieved overnight. ”

Qiu Zhe didn't understand much of Master's words at that time. At that time, he was a young man, and he was very envious of the legendary immortals who flew away from the sky and moved mountains and seas, so he naturally wanted to practice a few spells to have a good time. It's just that the disciples of Lai Shouzhong are very strict, except for teaching the fundamental Dao method, they are just a little bit of water for those magic methods, so that he can't get them if he wants to be opportunistic.

It wasn't until Lai Shouzhong said goodbye without saying goodbye, and he gradually matured, that he finally understood what the master said. Dao methods and techniques are like the Qi Sect and the Sword Sect in Master Jin's Xiao Ao, the latter is easy to achieve quickly, and the former is the foundation of cultivation.

It's just that as Qiu Zhe's Taoism gradually deepened, he had a new understanding of the relationship between the two. Time has changed, and in today's world of the end of the Dharma, cultivation is difficult, and progress in Taoism is slow. Cultivators often fight with others for the sake of wealth and wealth. In such an environment, if we stick to the lessons of our predecessors, only focus on the Tao and ignore the means, and what can we do to fight with others, there is no way to talk about protecting the Dharma and defending the Tao.

Qi practitioners' cultivation begins with the formation of the primordial womb, and directly breaks through the boundary between heaven and man, reaching the legendary state of "scattering becomes the wind, gathering is formed", during which there are "four folds and nine realms", which is the difference between the realm of cultivation.

The fourfold is "refining and refining qi, refining qi and transforming gods, refining gods and returning voids, and refining voids and merging the Tao", and every breakthrough in these fourfold realms is marked by the mutation of the essence of power. For example, the first refinement of refining qi is the process of transforming the essence of blood qi into the true qi of the Dao Gate.

Within each weight, there is the division of the so-called "realm", and the gap between them can only be regarded as quantitative changes. The first refinement of the refining qi includes three layers: the Inspiration Realm, the Passage Realm, and the Circle Formation Realm.

The first level of inspiration refers to the state in which after the primordial fetus is formed, it can sense the qi of heaven and earth and exert the divine power of the Dao. If you can't practice to this point, then you will always be a mortal, and you will be regarded as a martial arts master, but you can't reach the category of a cultivator.

In terms of qi cultivation alone, Qiu Zhe is already a master of the Inspiration Realm, and he can reach the threshold of the Secret Realm. For his age, this kind of cultivation speed was rare even in the world hundreds of years ago. In today's world where cultivation is difficult, it is even more outlierable.

It's just because of Lai Shouzhong's teaching method that Qiu Zhe has always emphasized the Tao method and neglected the number of techniques. Although the Tao is not low, the ability to fight with others is commonplace, and I don't know how much I have suffered for this.

Many times, his Taoism is obviously more than one step higher than his opponent, but he is tied to his hands and feet, and finally relies on his deep cultivation and squandering his true qi without money to get back into the situation, but he is also thankless, and he gets twice the result with half the effort.

After eating a trench and growing wise, Qiu Zhe also began to consciously cultivate spells. It's just that under Lai Shouzhong's disciple, the number of techniques he has been taught is extremely limited, and the supernatural powers recorded in the Dongji Heavenly Book are too demanding for Taoism to be practical at all.

In desperation, he had no choice but to spare no expense to buy a copy of "Ten Thousand Laws Return to the Sect" from the hands of Heavenly Master Dao, and use it first.

"Ten Thousand Laws Return to the Sect" is a classic book that records spell talismans in the Daomen, which is widely circulated in the world, and its status is basically equivalent to the big road goods such as Tongjiquan, Baguazhang and Shiduanjin in the martial arts inheritance. Although Qiu Zhe bought a corrected version of the Ming Dynasty Heavenly Master Shao Yuanjie, it was not very clever.

After that, he wandered the rivers and lakes, relying on the relationship between his masters, and successively obtained several spell secret books, although there are almost no that kind of masterpieces that can be regarded as the core inheritance of the sect, but the spells that can be called superior, and he finally learned a few.

At this moment, what he was sacrificing was a magic weapon called the Five Mountains True Form Diagram. This sacrificial refining method is said to have been passed down by Dao Ancestor Taishang himself, and it is a magical Taoist recipe from talisman to magic weapon, and among the many spells that Qiu Zhe knows, it is also one of the only ones that can be called the top inheritance.

The people who passed this method to Qiu Zhe at the beginning, firstly, they could not erase their face, secondly, the price given by Qiu Zhe was considerable, but the most important thing was that this spell was not rare, and many sects had inheritance.

This Dao technique is easy to get started, but it is extremely difficult to achieve something, and it is a Dao method that is easy to learn and difficult to master, and the more you go to the back, the more difficult it is to practice. Even the people who taught Qiu Zhe have not really been refined.

This array has been practiced intermittently in Qiu Zhe's hands for more than a year, and it has been almost hot. In fact, with Qiu Zhe's current Taoism, it is impossible to truly refine it. This time, for the sake of Lin Youyou's affairs, he made up his mind to refine the first prohibition first, so that it could come in handy when he subdued Lin Youyou, and it could be regarded as a temporary cramming.

Stars hung in the sky, and the starlight fell from the sky and shone on the top of the mountain. Qiu Zhe sat cross-legged in front of a boulder, always maintaining a posture of five hearts facing the sky. The starlight landed on Qiu Zhe, and was introduced into his body by using the adopted technique of the Southern Sect's secret transmission, but he refined them one by one.

With the power of the starry sky, Qiu Zhe constantly adopted the mountains and rivers of Swallow Mountain, and all of them gathered in a picture scroll in front of him. This scroll is made by him at the expense of a lot of money, inviting master craftsmen to make it, from the selection of materials to the brushwork, every step is meticulously crafted, in order to achieve perfection.

The night faded and the sun shone again. After three days and three nights of penance, Qiu Zhe finally reaped his achievements. Looking at the true shape in his hand, the prototype is faintly visible, and he can't help but feel satisfied,

Not only is there a new magic weapon, but for Qiu Zhe, there is also a greater windfall. After these three days of hard work in refining, his cultivation became more and more stable, and the northern black qi in his body was about to move, and there was a faint tendency to form beads.

"No wonder people say that retreat and qi training is just accumulation, and to truly break through the realm, it often takes experience and chance. This refining is also a kind of experience for me. If you can continue to practice here for ten days and a half months, maybe you can really break through in one fell swoop and refine into the Black Emperor Spirit Bead. Thinking of this, Qiu Zhe had regrets in his heart.

"It's a pity, I can afford to wait, I'm afraid those girls can't afford to wait. ”

During the three days when he hid in Swallow Mountain to refine the magic weapon, Cui Peng came with news that another girl had been killed on campus. The same unconscious as a vegetative person, the same frightened expression on his face. The girl who had the accident was also Gao Yongxia and Qiu Tingting's high school classmates, who also lived in Building 17 of South Park.

Rumours in private at the school intensified, and some faculty and staff became suspicious, despite the school's efforts to suppress it, with little success. The girls living in the seventeenth building of the South Park were all in danger, and they began to find other places to borrow, and in less than two days, the seventeenth building was empty, and even the dormitory manager aunt asked for leave to go home.

"If it drags on any longer, I'm afraid that the girl who was the first victim will be corpsed. ”

Qiu Zhe is not the kind of Holy Mother who is full of sympathy and always wants to save the world, but he can't bear to watch innocent people die in vain, and he can't help him when he has the ability. He has always acted as he pleases, and as long as his thoughts are clear, he will not deliberately force anything.

After leaving Swallow Mountain, he first got into a taxi and rushed to the hospital where Lin Meiqi was. According to his instructions, Gao Yongxia and the others tried to take time out of their time in the past few days, came to the hospital to take care of it, and notified Qiu Zhe whenever there was any movement.

"You're finally here," Seeing Qiu Zhe appear at the door of the ward, Gao Yongxia, who was sitting in front of the hospital bed, breathed a sigh of relief, pointed to Lin Meiqi on the hospital bed, and said in a low voice: "There is no change you said for the time being." ”

The so-called "change" naturally refers to the sign of corpse. Qiu Zhe has always been worried that the three souls of the victim girl will not be able to return to their places, and the seven spirits will not be restrained, and after a long time, I am afraid that they will become zombies. For now, however, it seems that such fears are somewhat unnecessary.

"It's better if it's okay. Qiu Zhe didn't pay too much attention to the fact that he seemed to have made some mistakes in judgment. He wasn't proficient in the ghost path in the first place, and he didn't have much interest, if it weren't for Cui Peng, he wouldn't have gotten involved in this matter at all.

Lin Meiqi's father has gone home and is ready for tomorrow's work, while her mother is in the hospital, but she is overworked and has been persuaded by Gao Yongxia and others to rest. Without the presence of others, Qiu Zhe spoke and acted more casually:

"Where's the rune I gave you?"

As soon as Gao Yongxia stretched out his hand, he took out a talisman drawn on yellow paper from the quilt of the hospital bed, and his voice was still very low: "According to what you said, I secretly pasted it on her navel, you can take a look." ”

Qiu Zhe glanced at the rune paper, and the rune on it showed no signs of deformation, and he immediately relaxed:

"It seems to be fine, so I'll go first. ”

"Well, be careful. ”

From beginning to end, Qiu Tingting didn't speak, but her eyes were always staring at Qiu Zhe, with a little curious look. For this girl, Qiu Zhe and everything around him are full of magic.