Chronicles of Celestial Origins

In the past few months, the little white snake's spiritual power had increased slightly, and Tang Ning eagerly hoped that it could advance to a second-level spiritual beast, so that it might be able to help her.

After this battle, he deeply felt that his strength was seriously insufficient. Compared with Qin Tianjiao, Zhuang Xingqian and others, the gap could not be calculated.

People with their level of strength can cross realms and kill monks who are stronger than themselves. Regardless of the gap in realms, their magical powers and spells are far incomparable to ordinary people.

Qin Tianjiao's ability to summon a blue dragon out of the sea can even imprison space. A man as powerful as a corpse demon can only suffer death in the face of this magical power.

Zhuang Xingqian's Ten Thousand Thunder Heavenly Prison was actually able to trigger the phenomenon of thunder. The skinny old man's rock-solid defense was instantly annihilated by the flying ashes under his thunder. He used his cultivation in the middle stage of foundation building to counterattack the demon sect in the late stage of foundation building. The leader can be said to have become famous in Xingang's spiritual practice community in one battle.

He Ziyang's magical power through water transformation was unpredictable, and he was not afraid of any substantial attacks. He was able to overwhelm the monks from the Corpse Puppet Sect in the late stage of foundation building. During the entire battle, the Corpse Puppet Sect men could only parry but had no power to fight back, and had nowhere to use their strength.

In terms of attack methods, they may not be as strong as Zhuang Xinqian, but in terms of difficulty, they are definitely above them. The magical power of water transformation is invisible and formless, and can remove all tangible attacks. It is worse than any strongest defense in the world.

Jiang Yuhuan has studied the art of vertical and horizontal voids to a very high level. The power of many space spells is unpredictable, and he also has the twelve transformations of the true spirit. There are endless ways to fight one against five without falling behind.

Tang Ning has witnessed this with her own eyes, and the genius disciple recognized by the monks in Xingang is indeed much better than the average person.

And this is just Xingang. The talented monks in this small place. If you put it in the entire Tianyuan, Xingang is only the size of a pea, so it doesn't matter.

The world still doesn’t know how many amazingly talented and beautiful people there are, and what methods the proud sons of those big sects and big families should use.

Originally, he was very ambitious, thinking that as long as he continued to practice and improve his cultivation, he might one day be able to join the Taixuan Sect. Now that he thought about it, it was so ridiculous.

As huge as Taixuanzong, it was impossible for any individual to move even a tiny bit of it. He felt deeply powerless, even a little hesitant and helpless.

Life in the sect was uneventful and peaceful. In addition to dealing with liaison matters with the intelligence station, Tang Ning spent every day refining Qi and practicing. The Corpse Puppet Sect had calmed down a little since they acquired the western region of the Chu Kingdom, and had no intention of a large-scale invasion. After all, They also need time to digest those resources.

Before the various sects of the Demon Sect were integrated, they were hidden in various counties. The intelligence station was still somewhat useful, reporting the whereabouts of some suspicious disciples of the Demon Sect from time to time.

Now that the Demon Sect has raised its flag and formed a battle array with swords and real guns, the intelligence stations below are quiet. All they report are trivial matters, most of which are the intrigues of some local cultivating families.

Time flies, five years have passed.

In the past few years, the two sides of Xuan and Demon have maintained relative peace, and there has been no major war. There are rumors that the Demon Sect has sent people to negotiate peace with the sect, and they want to unite the borders and rule the country. They have placed the entire western part of Chu State under the Demon Sect. River water, it is unknown whether this matter is true or false.

But in the past two years, the atmosphere has indeed been much more relaxed than in previous years, and it is no longer as tense as before. Many disciples stationed in the camp have withdrawn from the sect. Lu Guang, the intelligence officer, returned to the sect a year ago.

Now the western region of Chu State has fallen into the hands of the Demon Sect, which has done very well in the past few years, which can be described as impressive.

The Demon Sect allows the cultivating families within its jurisdiction to grow elixirs, only levies a 20% tax on those medicinal gardens, and encourages them to breed low-level spiritual beasts.

What kind of encouragement?

The Demon Sect spent its own money to buy many low-level cubs in batches on the large islands in Qinghai, and provided them to the cultivating families for free, distributing them to them in proportion to the family's power, and providing dedicated personnel to cultivate them.

For this reason, the Demon Sect specially sent a group of people to study the cultivation method. Now this group of people, together with the cubs, are assigned to various cultivating families.

This is simply unthinkable.

When Tang Ning first heard this rumor, she didn't believe it at all. It was completely beyond his knowledge. In order to win people's hearts, it was understandable that the Demon Sect lowered taxes and allowed cultivating families to grow medicinal herbs.

However, it is unbelievable to spend your own money to go to the large island of Qinghai to buy cubs and distribute them to the cultivating families for free. Which sect would do this kind of loss-making business that harms oneself and others?

Isn't this crazy?

But when the intelligence station below handed over a file like snowflakes, he couldn't help but not believe it. The Demon Sect not only provided them with low-level spiritual beast cubs, but also specially assigned a beast breeder to each family. .

The only difference is that these cubs are not provided completely free of charge. After these cultivating families cultivate the cubs and make profits, the cost will be returned to them.

If an accident occurs midway and these cubs die due to improper cultivation, all losses will be borne by the Demon Sect.

After confirming that the news was true, Tangning was stunned for a long time and was shocked. Is this the Demon Sect? What he did was completely different from the cruelty, arrogance and domineering propaganda promoted by Taoism.

Although he already knew that the Demon Sect was not as inhumane, cruel and easy to kill as the Xuanmen propaganda said, this incident still shocked him greatly.

Compared with Xuanmen's management style, they seem to be more enlightened, humane and tolerant.

They attach great importance to the property in their own territory and spare no effort to help its development. Their internal management is chaotic, but the laws are very strict. Especially regarding financial resources, it can be described as harsh.

The intelligence station once reported this matter in a file. A disciple of the Demon Sect who managed the cubs of spiritual beasts secretly asked for thousands of spirit stones from the cultivating family. He was actually beheaded by the senior leaders of the Demon Sect. The entire sect was notified that the Demon Sect would also All the spiritual stones that the disciple asked for were returned to the cultivating family.

If this matter were placed in Xuanmen, it would not be a big deal. It is too common and is the case everywhere.

When Tang Ning was in charge of Jingbei, there was no need for him to say anything. Those cultivating families would simply send the annual offerings directly, and this was tacitly understood.

Xuanmen will not punish its disciples for such trivial matters.

The Demonic Sect's emphasis on resources and financial resources is equivalent to the Taoist precepts of bullying masters, destroying ancestors, and killing fellow sects. They are red lines that cannot be crossed.

For the disciples themselves, it is much more comfortable to stay in Xuanmen than in Demon Sect.

It has great authority and high benefits and benefits, but for third-party similar cultivating families, it is obvious that the management of the Demon Sect is more in line with their interests.

The files submitted by various intelligence stations all reported this matter. The disciples of the cultivating families were talking privately, and they were eager to see through the Demon Sect, and they all wanted to turn against each other.

It's just that those places are still controlled by the Qian Yizong, and they dare not change their banner directly.

People's support is against them, which is a very unfavorable situation for the sect. It is conceivable that if the Demon Sect attacks, those families will immediately switch sides.

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In the Zhongzhi Peak Cave Mansion, Tang Ning opened her eyes after falling into trance. The spiritual power in her body has returned to its original state. The fairy mother-of-pearl clam on the stone table still looks like that. There are more than a dozen black branches that look like wood but not wood or stone. , looks extremely ancient and simple. He has been feeding it with his own green spiritual power for more than ten years, and there is still no change at all.

He stood up and put it away, sighed slightly, and waved to the little white snake. The little white snake suddenly appeared on his shoulder from the wine jar and burrowed into the spirit beast bag.

Tang Ning left the cave and went straight to the alchemy room. In the past six months, he had been refining alchemy besides feeding fairy mother-of-pearl clams every day. Because his cultivation had reached a bottleneck, he could not make any progress.

Breaking through the bottleneck relies on opportunity, and this cannot be rushed, and opportunity is the most mysterious and mysterious thing in the world.

Some people can break through the bottleneck in ten days, while some people never encounter the so-called opportunity in their lifetime. Everyone has their own opportunities to break through the bottleneck. There is still no standard and unified answer in the spiritual practice world, and there are different opinions on this.

Tang Ning has encountered bottlenecks several times in his practice. The first time was when he was at the third level of Qi refining, and he was trapped by the bottleneck. He did not make any progress in two years. Finally, on Hualong Peak, he saw Bai Yan die for love, which left him with a deep feeling. It was a huge shock, causing it to break through the bottleneck in one fell swoop.

He still remembers his state of mind at that time. He felt as if he was in a stormy sea, but his heart was as calm as water. It was an indescribable feeling, very mysterious.

Later, when he was at the sixth level of Qi Refining, he was not disturbed by the bottleneck at all, and directly advanced to the seventh level of Qi Refining. At that time, he thought it was the effect of the green spiritual energy in his body, but later he realized that this was the realm of transparency.

The practice community calls this phenomenon Tongming, which means clear and bright. It means that the ancient well in the monk's heart has no ripples, no joy or sorrow, and is profoundly enlightened, so it is not blocked.

Then he encountered a bottleneck when he reached the ninth level of Qi refining, which troubled him for several years. In the end, Liu Ruhan was forcibly taken away, which caused him great stimulation and made him break through to the ninth level of Qi refining in one fell swoop.

Of course, Tang Ning didn't count on that mysterious opportunity. He had another plan. He secretly catalyzed a plant of dragon scale grass, hoping to catalyze it to have thousand-year medicinal properties, and then refine it into a pill. The pill refined from the thousand-year dragon scale grass could treat breakthroughs. Bottlenecking in the early stages of foundation building is of great benefit.

Therefore, he now comes to refine elixirs every day to improve his elixir skills. Catalyzing medicinal herbs into ingredients that last for thousands of years cannot be achieved overnight. It will take at least several years. He will take advantage of this time to improve his elixir refining level.

When his elixir level is enough to refine the second-level elixir, he will use all his strength to catalyze the dragon scale grass. This is just a plan, a plan made out of necessity, and it has not been implemented yet.

The most important thing at the moment is to improve my alchemy skills. Maybe one day I will break through the bottleneck! Then you don’t have to spend so much time catalyzing the herbs.

Moreover, the elixir refined from the thousand-year-old dragon scale grass only has a chance of helping the monk break through the bottleneck of cultivation, but it is not necessarily effective. He has only encountered the bottleneck for half a year, so there is no need to be so anxious about the catalytic elixir.