Chapter 155: Retreat and Penance
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Thinking of the battle over the spiritual stone veins that Senior Brother Zhao had mentioned in detail on the way back from the Yuanying Grand Ceremony, Zhang Yang felt a sense of tension and pressure.
The five sects of Shenjian Sect, Huoyun Sect, Yuanming Sect, Taixuan Sect, and Tianhua Sect, each send a hundred monks in the foundation building period into the Wuji Country every hundred years, and compete for nearly 100 spirit stone veins.
Since the Huoyun Sect was attacked by the Qianyang Palace, the Wuji Gate, and the Sunset Sect more than a hundred years ago, the turtle has shrunk to the Heavenly Peak, and it has been getting worse, although it is taking the elite route, but most of them are newly promoted foundation building monks in the past hundred years, and their cultivation is not high.
If it weren't for the surviving foundation-building monks of the sect more than a hundred years ago, I am afraid that they would not be able to gather a hundred foundation-building monks to participate in the battle of the spiritual stone veins.
Rao is like this, and the foundation building monks of the Fire Cloud Sect who participated in the battle for the spirit stone vein are not as good as the other four sects.
Needless to say, the Divine Arrow Gate is a big sect, there are thousands of foundation building monks, Yuanming Sect, Taixuan Sect, and Tianhua Sect also have hundreds of foundation building monks, and most of the monks sent to participate in the battle of the spirit stone vein are monks in the late stage of foundation building and the middle stage of foundation building, and there is not a single monk in the early stage of foundation building.
On the other hand, the Fire Cloud Sect will send a lot of people in the early stage of foundation building, otherwise they won't be able to make up the numbers!
The spirit stone vein is a major spiritual stone income of the Huoyun Sect today, almost determining the future rise and fall and survival of the sect, as the foundation building period monk of the Huoyun Sect, Zhang Yang has no resistance to the battle of the spirit stone vein, although it is a matter of life and death, it is an unshirkable responsibility!
Although after worshipping the Huoyun Sect, he had a dirty relationship with Xiao Tianchen, Wei Zixu and others, and he also saw Senior Sister Miao kill her fellow Daoists, but the sect also treated Zhang Yang well, and several senior brothers and masters treated him sincerely.
As a monk of the Fire Cloud Sect. Zhang Yang still picked up this responsibility, and even rejected Cao Baifeng's promise to help him get married.
With responsibility comes responsibility. Zhang Yang felt a burst of tension and pressure, responsibility is responsibility. But he didn't want to lose his life, and if he didn't want to lose his life, he naturally wanted to enhance his cultivation and means.
Sitting on the stone bed and pondering for a long time, Zhang Yang made a plan for the next year, and the first step was to enhance his cultivation.
With his cultivation at the fourth level of foundation building now, although refining the mid-grade spirit stone can also increase his cultivation, it is no longer as great as the effect of the mid-grade spirit stone in the early stage of foundation building, and it is far less fast than the pill enhancement cultivation.
Zhang Yang patted the storage bag, and a jade slip appeared in front of him, which was the Danfang given by the master. Sticking to his forehead, Zhang Yang carefully understood the Dan prescription of Xuanyuan Dan.
Xuanyuan Dan is the most commonly used pill for monks in the foundation building period, suitable for monks from the first to the fourth layer of the foundation, and the ones needed to refine the Xuanyuan Pill are all hundred-year elixirs, which require more than thirty kinds of century-old elixirs.
Zhang Yang's storage bag contained a large number of hundred-year-old elixirs from Xiaoling's territory, and as soon as he patted the storage bag, the Baoding and more than thirty hundred-year-old elixirs purchased at the Xuantian City auction flew out and began to try to refine Xuanyuan Dan.
After casting the fire control technique, the elixirs were put into the treasure in turn and purified. Zhang Yang began to refine the Dan according to the record on the Xuanyuan Dan Dan Fang.
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This alchemy is half a month, Zhang Yang refined twenty furnaces of Xuanyuan Dan, but he actually refined thirteen furnaces, and he didn't know that the 100% success rate of refining Peiyuan Dan had increased his experience. Or do you really have a talent for alchemy?
Baoding also has the property of enhancing the rate of becoming a pill, and the dense qi in it has improved the efficacy of the Xuanyuan Pill refined by Zhang Yang!
There are twenty-four Xuanyuan Dan in one furnace, and there are three hundred and twelve in the thirteenth furnace.
Back in the days of Xuantian City. Zhang Yang bought a bottle of Xuanyuan Dan at the auction for the price of 3,000 medium-grade spirit stones, helping him break through from the peak of the third layer of foundation building to the fourth layer of foundation building. Now that the elixir is in hand, it is natural to start cultivating.
Xuanyuan Dan is worthy of being an elixir of three hundred medium-grade spirit stones. Each pill Zhang Yang has to refine for two or three days, which is almost worth a month of penance!
By the time Xuanyuan Dan was finished, more than two years had passed.
After taking three hundred and twelve Xuanyuan Pills, Zhang Yang was almost equivalent to more than three hundred months of retreat and penance, and his powerful medicinal power allowed him to cultivate all the way to the peak of the fourth layer of foundation building.
Due to the resistance generated in the body, more than 300 Xuanyuan Dan went down, and Zhang Yang was no longer much use if he took Xuanyuan Dan now.
There are more than 300 Xuanyuan Pills, which are worth more than 90,000 medium-grade spirit stones, which is not counting the medicinal effect of the Xuanyuan Pill refined by Zhang Yang.
With Zhang Yang's current net worth, he is not distressed, full of joy of cultivation for enhancement, after a while, after suppressing the joy in his heart and the loneliness of more than two years of retreat and penance, Zhang Yang indifferently took out a jade slip, which was the Danfang of Huanglongdan.
I have to say that the life and death struggle in the Little Spirit Realm and his party in January made Zhang Yang much calmer, otherwise the loneliness of more than two years of retreat alone would not be something that ordinary monks could bear.
Huanglong Dan is a grade higher than Xuanyuan Dan, it is made of Huanglong Stone as the main medicine, supplemented by dozens of centuries-old elixirs, and it is impossible to study who the Dan Fang came from.
Huanglongshi is a kind of ore with medicinal properties, which can also be called an elixir, although it is also formed in a hundred years, but because of its unique medicinal properties and preciousness, the value is not weaker than the elixir of two or three hundred years.
Due to the preciousness of the Yellow Dragon Stone, it has long been frantically picked by successive monks in the Immortal Cultivation Realm, except for some Immortal Cultivation Sects and large Immortal Cultivation Families, which can only be found in the territory of Xiaoling.
Coincidentally, Zhang Yang got many storage bags in Xiaoling, and there were twenty-three yellow dragon stones in total.
It seems that Yi Xuan also knew that Zhang Yang had Huanglongshi on him, and specially gave Huanglongdan's Danfang, maybe he did it casually.
After comprehending the Huanglong Dan's formula, Zhang Yang began to refine the Huanglong Dan, sacrificed the Baoding, pinched the fire control technique, and carefully put the Huanglong Stone into the Baoding for purification.
...... This alchemy is more than half a month.
Of the twenty-three furnaces of Huanglong Dan, Zhang Yang practiced eleven furnaces, and the rate of refining the pill in the foundation building period was close to fifty percent, and he could already be called an alchemy master.
As an alchemy master, earning spirit stones to enhance cultivation is naturally far away, not to mention alchemy masters like Zhang Yang, who are already wealthy.
The Huanglong Pill is still twenty-four pills, and the medicinal effect is much higher than that of the Xuanyuan Pill, and the characteristics of Baoding to improve the quality of the pill are only five Huanglong Pills, and after a month of retreat, Zhang Yang broke through from the fourth layer of the foundation to the fifth layer of the foundation.
The next two hundred and sixty or so Huanglong Pills were taken in turn, and another two years or so passed, and each Huanglong Pill Zhang Yang would have to refine for several days, and as the cultivation gradually improved, the degree of refining the pills would also increase faster.
Under the two hundred and sixty Huanglong Pills, the cultivation of the fifth layer of Zhang Yang's foundation has gradually improved, but there is still a big gap between it and the sixth layer of the foundation.
As the monks in the foundation building period become higher and higher, it is more and more difficult to advance, and aside from the bottleneck, each level of cultivation requires decades of penance. Even if Zhang Yang, who had a large amount of pills in his body, still felt this gradual increase in difficulty.
Zhang Yang was not discouraged, and took out another Danfang, Snow Ginseng Pill.
As the name suggests, the snow ginseng pill is mainly made of snow ginseng that has been hot for two or three hundred years, supplemented by dozens of centuries-old elixirs, and its medicinal effect is not weaker than that of Huanglong Dan.
Two or three hundred years of snow ginseng, Zhang Yang circulated in various auctions in Xuantian City, and bought more than 20 plants, thanks to the universality of the elixir of snow ginseng.
Next, it was naturally alchemy and cultivation.
Two years later, after taking two or three hundred snow ginseng pills, Zhang Yang's cultivation was able to be upgraded to the sixth layer of the foundation, and sure enough, the higher the cultivation, the more difficult it was to improve!
In six years of retreat, Zhang Yang has cultivated from the fourth layer of foundation building to the sixth layer of foundation building, so that the foundation building monks of the Fire Cloud Sect can only look at him, not to mention that he has only built a foundation for about ten years!
Among them, Zhang Yang's divine sense is far from the same level, and his cultivation bottlenecks are few, and he has a deep understanding of Huoyun Jue under the ** of his senior brother, and the huge medicinal power of the pill is indispensable.
But Zhang Yang was not satisfied, the cultivation of the sixth layer of the foundation may be able to barely protect himself in the battle of the spirit stone vein, or he may not even be able to protect himself.
Zhang Yang sat cross-legged on the stone bed, patted the storage bag, took out a jade box, and opened it to see three jewel-like fruits the size of a fist, with an orange glow, placed in it.
The three jewel-like fruits are exactly the same, and they are the clover fairy fruits.
The five pills given by the master, one low-level pill in the foundation building period, two medium-level pills, and the last two are high-level pills, although there are a few elixirs in Zhang Yang that refine the high-level pills in the foundation building period, but far from water can not quench the thirst, and a few furnaces of pills are useless.
For today's plan, we can only pin our hopes on this legendary three-leaf fairy fruit.
It is rumored that the three immortal fruits produced by the three-leaf fairy fruit can be taken at the same time, which can greatly enhance the cultivation of the monks in the foundation building period.
After taking the three three-leaf immortal fruits, Zhang Yang's face turned red, and his hands were connected to the seal, and he transported the fire cloud recipe to refine the medicinal power.
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A year later.
In Yi Congyang's cave mansion, Zhang Yang, Huang Shengnan, and Song Fei were each sitting on a stone bench.
"Fourth, fourth junior brother, you have advanced to the late stage of foundation building!!" Yi Congyang had an incredible look on his face since Zhang Yang walked into the cave, and it wasn't until everyone sat down that he couldn't help but exclaim!
He has been building the foundation for seventy years, and with the care of the family seniors, that is, the master Yi Xuan, the cultivation resources are much more than the other foundation building monks of the Fire Cloud Sect, and he can also go to the Fire Spirit Pool to practice once every ten years, and in the past seventy years, it has only been the cultivation of the seventh layer of the foundation, and now this fourth junior brother has been building the foundation for about ten years, and he is actually catching up, and it is also the cultivation of the seventh layer of the foundation!
It seems that the mana fluctuates, and it is even stronger than him!
Yi Congyang is the junior of the Yi Xuan family, Yi Xuan was born in a small family of cultivating immortals, although the Yi family has an extra Jindan monk to take care of it, but it can't change the heritage of the small cultivation family, among the descendants, only Yi Congyang, the only monk with three spirit roots and fire spirit roots, worshiped in the Huoyun Sect.
But as long as the steady development continues, the Yi family will sooner or later develop into a medium-sized immortal cultivation family, and even a large-scale immortal cultivation family is expected.
Seinfeld also looked at Zhang Yang dumbfounded.
Huang Shengnan's expression of unyielding defeat showed a bit of helplessness and disbelief. (To be continued!)