Do not die

In the courtyard, in the elegant house.

Meng Zhou closed his eyes and sat cross-legged. A piece of Xuanling tortoise shell covered with dense cracks and dark lines was placed on his legs.

Meng Zhou's hands naturally caressed the surface of the tortoise shell without any deliberate intention, but all the secrets about this mysterious tortoise shell were fully revealed in his mind.

At this moment, Meng Zhou was not immersed in the comprehension of this mysterious tortoise shell, nor was he wandering on the path of body refining.

His thoughts drifted elsewhere.

It still has something to do with the capture and killing of the spirit master at the beginning of the month, but it has little to do with the spirit master himself.

It's about some of the insights that come from it.

From a fair point of view, although the spirit control master is a fake elixir, his vigilance and difficulty are far beyond ordinary fake elixirs.

It is even more difficult to kill it.

It can be seen that one person fought against the entire Blue Blood Plains and fought back and forth.

Those monks in the Jade Blood Army who had participated in the pursuit of this person should have the most say on this point.

But for such a person, when Meng Zhou found the right method, he knocked him down effortlessly.

He remained a fool until his death, not knowing who the murderer was.

Even the deceased himself was confused about whether he was dead, how he died, and when he died.

Viewed from this angle, he showed another side that was completely opposite to the impression of the Blue Blood Army.

It's as fragile as a bluff balloon. It only needs a slight poke with a needle for the balloon to explode immediately.

The same monk showed such two completely opposite sides. The more he thought about it, the more emotional Meng Zhou felt.

Not to mention Qi training and foundation building, even the fake alchemy monks turned into bluffing paper tigers in Meng Zhou's eyes.

They are like glamorous magic masters, presenting their most powerful and perfect side to outsiders.

But this is actually a trick.

They present their brightest, best, and strongest side to others.

And in other places that others can't see, it's actually a house with bare walls and leaky foundations everywhere.

"The fake elixir is like this, but what about the elixir formation?"

Thinking of this, Meng Zhou didn't stop and continued to go further.

"what about me?"

After carefully examining himself, Meng Zhou finally came to a conclusion.

"Maybe I'm better than other foundation-building and fake elixirs."

"But it is still far from being truly powerful from the outside in, and invulnerable."

This "invulnerability" is not invincible.

Instead, all levels go hand in hand, with no shortcomings or “covers”.

The enemy cannot attack from the front, nor can he attack from the side, or even from the rear.

If the enemy cannot defeat me openly and openly, then other methods will not work either.

The dark, treacherous, evil, poisonous, partial, rare... none of them work.

Unless the enemy is suppressed forcefully with absolute power that far exceeds "I", no other method will work.

"I" is a copper pea that cannot be beaten flat, soaked, or baked.

This is what he thought was "impeccable".

The other practitioners gave Meng Zhou the feeling that they were doing everything possible to put their strongest side between themselves and their enemies.

In other respects, it is either just a fiction or not at all.

As long as the enemy doesn't attack from the front, change the direction and relax, he can hit the fatal point.

Of course, Meng Zhou is not so paranoid that he wants to pursue perfect "impeccability" now. He is just aware of this level and will continue to consciously improve it in his future practice.

From this perspective, the three poles of essence, energy, and spirit are the most basic and core cornerstones of this body's achievements. The incompleteness of the body refining side compared to the refining of qi and soul is the biggest shortcoming.

This demonstrates the necessity of perfecting the method of body refining from another angle.

Otherwise, his so-called strength is just another bluffing paper tiger.

…

His thoughts drifted away, and he pressed his hands on the Xuanling tortoise shell, and the power of qi and blood rose and fell naturally with the change of breathing.

Like the ebb and flow of the ocean's tides, and like another breath.

During this process, the power of Meng Zhou's energy and blood had quietly merged with the Xuanling tortoise shell covered with dark patterns.

On the Xuanling tortoise shell, there is a faint vitality.

As one's own energy and blood naturally rise and fall within the Xuanling turtle shell, this piece of turtle shell, which was extinguished with the death of the Xuanling turtle and fell into silence, seems to have come to life again.

It's like a transplant has been connected to the back of another mysterious turtle, and the vitality and vitality have returned.

The dense cracks and dark lines began to heal during this process.

Originally, the quality of the Xuanling tortoise shell had dropped to the edge of the second-level high-grade, and was about to fall from the top-grade to the middle-grade. With this change, its inherent spiritual quality rapidly improved.

In the end, it even surpassed the second-order top grade and fully reached the quasi-third-order level.

This is also the state when this Xuanling Turtle is at its strongest.

As this piece of Xuanling tortoise shell was restored to its most complete and peak state, its value increased by more than ten times.

Back then, Meng Zhou used fifteen high-grade spiritual stones to buy this Xuanling tortoise shell at Hexin Tower.

But at this moment, Meng Zhou believed that even if the price was one hundred and fifty high-grade spiritual stones, there would still be people rushing to buy them.

But this was not the purpose of Meng Zhou's attempt.

This time, the reason why he wanted to make such an attempt was to verify his attainments in the black turtle body refining process.

With this move alone, his understanding of the Xuanling Turtle has reached an incredible level.

This also means that he has solidified the foundation of the "Black Turtle Body Refining Method" to an ultimate state.

He wants to use this method as the core foundation and add on to it. This is a necessary step.

The firmness of the foundation determines the upper limit of the magnificent spectacle.

This can be considered a test.

But this is more than just a simple test.

As the Xuanling tortoise shell regains its vitality, its quality reaches the quasi-third level limit.

Meng Zhou pressed his hands on the Xuanling tortoise shell, controlling the regular rise and fall of Qi and blood in the tortoise shell. Finally, the majestic power of Qi and blood that filled every part of the Xuanling tortoise shell suddenly shrank.

It carries a strong spiritual vitality, mixed with a trace of wonderful and obscure life fluctuations.

And as he acted this time, the Xuanling tortoise shell in front of him, which had already reached the quasi-third level in quality and was famous for its defense. It would be difficult for ordinary monks who had just formed pills to destroy it with one blow, suddenly became like a Like rotten wood, it collapsed and shattered into a pile of rubbish with no trace of spirituality remaining.

On the other side, Meng Zhou had already arrived at the pond area, split the essence extracted from the Xuanling turtle shell into two parts, and injected it into the two Xuanling turtles.

At this moment, it was raining in Guida, and Guerr was playing on the side.

Along with the infusion of this strong spiritual vitality, it is also mixed with life fluctuations that make them feel more intimate.

This power naturally integrates with their own life fluctuations and becomes stronger.

With the injection of this wonderful power, the two turtles instantly fell into sluggishness.

Meng Zhou keenly sensed the emotional changes of the two mysterious turtles, and Meng Zhou also felt emotional in his heart.

They may not know that there is a word called "the feeling of admiration", and there is another word called "the affection of a licking calf".

But at this moment, they undoubtedly have a more direct feeling from the power that suddenly merges with their own blood.

Meng Zhou's consciousness carefully observed the changes in the two mysterious turtles.

With the injection of this power, the blood quality and blood potential of the two mysterious turtles have been significantly improved.

The quality of bloodline more represents its current strength.

Although they are still second-level high-grade, Meng Zhou believes that as long as they take the time to work hard to thoroughly digest this harvest, their strength will definitely improve significantly based on the current level.

"It can probably equal their three or four years of growth and accumulation." Meng Zhou judged in his heart.

His "three or four years" are not the three or four years in a natural wild state, but the three or four years that he has continuously fed them with high-quality animal pellets and taken proper care of them.

It originally took several years to complete the accumulation of second-level high-grade products, but with this "father's death and son's succession", they have directly completed most of the accumulation.

At the same time, the blood potential of the two turtles has also been significantly improved.

Through the contract connection, Meng Zhou was even able to know that the mysterious turtle that fell during the tribulation shared its experience and state during the tribulation with these two bloodline sons through some kind of wonderful inheritance.

Although, because they have not succeeded in overcoming the tribulation, and this method itself is somewhat tricky, their gains in this regard are still relatively fragmented and vague.

But these gains are enough for them to successfully overcome the tribulation in the future, increasing their success rate by more than 30%.

Coupled with their own rich accumulation under Meng Zhou's special training, their road to the third level has basically been forcibly cleared.

If this couldn't complete the extraordinary sublimation of bloodline, then there wouldn't be so many wild third-level monsters in the world.

…

Meng Zhou returned to the Yashe and sat cross-legged again.

As Meng Zhou breathed in and out naturally, Qi and blood flowed and dispersed in the body like water.

Gradually, this majestic Qi and blood took on a hint of coldness.

This coldness is not external, but an inherent attribute of the Qi and blood.

And as Meng Zhou's mind changes, this cold quality will turn into the opposite, becoming unbearably hot.

But the strange thing is that if you look at his Qi, blood and body as a complete system, it does not show any changes in cold and heat, and is always stable as usual.

At this moment, if you look at the personal information, you will find that the first-level body training method of "White Bear Cold Body" is gradually fading away.

Just like the Water Nourishing Body Technique was integrated into the second-level Spring Water Sutra, Meng Zhou also integrated the White Bear Hanji Body into the Black Turtle Body Refining Technique.

He perfectly integrated the "extreme coldness" characteristics that he had established for his body during the first level of body refining with the achievements of the second level of body refining.

However, this is far from a simple integration.

Otherwise, he had plenty of time before, so why did Meng Zhou wait until now to do this?

Behind this simple step, there are several important tasks that Meng Zhou completed in advance.

First, he further solidified the foundation of the original Black Turtle Body Refining Method, pushed it to the point of no further progress, and took this path to the end.

Secondly, although the original first-level body training method of White Bear Hanji Body laid the foundation for the characteristics of the body's cold body, it was a first-level body training method.

Now, his body refining achievements have reached the second level limit, and he is only one step away from the third level.

Copying it as it is won’t work.

He must dig deeper into the "Han Ji" to match his current physical training achievements.

Now, this is the answer sheet that Meng Zhou handed over after nearly half a year of hard work.

At the first level, "extreme cold" is approximately equal to the cold characteristics recognized by other monks in this world, giving attacks, magic power, etc. cold characteristics.

But now, the "extreme coldness" is more in line with Meng Zhou's own expectations. If it is understood by the monks in this world, the "extreme coldness" is not that accurate. It is better to call it the "extreme coldness and heat".

Because the "cold pole" he constructed is rooted in the water-based or physical characteristics of the "nature of cold and heat".

He treats his body as a special battery, but what is stored in it is not electricity, but "cold and heat".

In the concepts of other practitioners in this world, "cold" and "heat", "water" and "fire" are natural opposites.

Those who forcibly incorporate these opposing qualities into themselves.

Perhaps through the inheritance of some secret techniques, powerful strength can be obtained, but there are always hidden dangers that are difficult to completely overcome.

But Meng Zhou's "Han Ji" is different.

Here, here, "cold" and "heat" are not two different things. They are naturally unified from the beginning.

They are two manifestations of one property, just like the positive and negative poles of electricity.

With the completion of the construction of the second-level cold pole, the forces that monks in this world considered to be naturally opposing were united under one characteristic at the most fundamental level.

This is the second preparation to complete the fusion of the two body-refining methods, the first-level white bear cold body and the second-level black turtle body refining method.

In addition, Meng Zhou also completed the third preparation work.

Its importance is no less important than completing the further construction and improvement of the "Hanji".

This third task is to give this body-training method a "soul". This is the most critical step in getting through the second-level body-training method to the third-level body-training method.

Now, of course, he does not need to create a perfect third-level body training method.

But he must give it a third-level "soul" to transform it from an extremely perfect second-level body-training method into a body-training method that can be cultivated to the third-level.

Through the understanding of the three-level general outlines of the Spring Water Sutra and the Houtu Sutra, as well as the in-depth study of the Mountain Ape Negative Mountain True Skill and the Furnace Golden Body True Skill.

Combined with Meng Zhou's profound accumulation of cultivation and his two lifetimes of experience, Meng Zhou already had a relatively clear plan in mind.

At this moment, two creatures appeared in Meng Zhou's Sea of ​​Consciousness Soul Pond.

One is a negative mountain ape, and the other is a mysterious turtle.

Although the ape and the turtle were both based on his visualization of the two body-refining methods, the Negative Mountain Ape seemed illusory, while the Xuanling Turtle was as real as a living thing, and even moved with the movement of the soul pool. Ripples and real reactions.

However, although the Xuanling Turtle is more real, its momentum is much inferior to that of the Negative Mountain Ape.

At this moment, the ape and the turtle looked at each other, as if they wanted to get into each other's hearts.

One hopes to become as real as the other, and the other hopes to become as majestic as the other.

At a certain moment, the mountain ape suddenly disappeared like a bubble.

But the huge mountain on its back did not disappear. Instead, it crashed onto the Xuanling Turtle's back with a loud bang.

Suddenly, the mountain pressed down on him, and the Xuanling Turtle suddenly sank to the bottom of the soul pool, and its true and true image suddenly became shimmering and trance-like.

Even if it disappears the next moment, it won't be surprising.

But in the end, Meng Zhou stabilized this change with his profound accumulation of Xuangui body-refining techniques.

The Xuanling Turtle, whose figure flickered in a daze for a few times, became clear again.

It even began to work hard to adapt to and accept the mountain that was transplanted on its back.

In the process of accepting and adapting to each other, the mountains they carry are changing little by little.

The illusory mountains are becoming smaller and smaller, but they are also becoming more and more real.

The originally rough contact between him and the Xuanling Turtle became more and more natural.

When the mountain further shrank and changed, turning into like a giant monument, it was already integrated with the Xuanling Turtle below.

The monument seemed to grow out of the body of the Xuanling Turtle.

It seems that the monument itself is part of the mysterious turtle's body.

At this moment, whether this creature carrying a monument should be called the Xuanling Turtle has become a questionable matter.

Because just as the mountains were turning into huge monuments, the image of the Xuanling Turtle was also changing.

Although the change is not as obvious as the mountain monument, it is already significantly different from the real Xuanling Turtle.

When all these changes stabilized, the giant turtle carrying a monument was only 60 to 70% similar to the Xuanling turtle.

Together with the monument it carries, it forms a seamless whole, and its momentum is far beyond that of the original Xuanling Turtle.

Although it is only carrying a huge monument, the visual image presented in the soul pool is no less than that of the Mountain Negating Mountain Ape.

It was obviously just carrying a stele, but it still created the depth and heaviness of a mountain being carried on its back.

Moreover, it is much more real and powerful than the illusory Mountain Negating Mountain Ape.

Meng Zhou continued to "polishing" the giant turtle carrying a stele in the Soul Pond of the Sea of ​​Consciousness, until he exhausted all his accumulation in the body refining process, and then he stopped with unfinished thoughts.

As his thoughts changed, the giant turtle carrying the stele also disappeared from the soul pool.

At this moment, the qi and blood in Meng Zhou's body were changing, and the flesh, flesh, fascia, organs and bones were trembling slightly.

The blood rushes through the body like a river as he breathes.

In the personal information, the first-level white bear Hanji body has long disappeared, and the original second-level black turtle body training method has also become [? ? ? 】.

The state that had already been perfected had fallen back to the master level.

Meng Zhou thought in his heart:

"Although I drew lessons from other third-level cultivation methods, especially Shan Yuan Fu Yue Zhen Gong, this body training method has completed its sublimation and transformation.

But in the final analysis, its upper limit is only the third level, and its path after the third level is still unclear.

Nowadays, it is still a bit reluctant to say that it is a third-level body training method. It is really too rough and must be continuously explored and perfected. "

Because of this understanding, although the third-level "soul" of this new body-training method borrowed some ideas from previous lives, Meng Zhou did not directly use its name.

According to the naming convention of body-training methods in this world, this new body-training method is named "Xuangui Bearing Monument True Skill".

[Black Turtle Bearing Monument Zhengong Master 18000/32000]

"This is the limit of what I can do now. If I want to go further, I have to continue to accumulate."

Meng Zhou, who was feeling emotional, breathed a long sigh of relief.

And when he finished all this, it was already the night of December 29th, and there was only one day left before the new year.

…

On December 30th, Meng Zhou did not arrange any other training projects for himself.

He gave himself a day off.

But he did not wait idlely for the arrival of the New Year. On the one hand, he took out many anecdotal notes and read through them.

Among them, there are various classics purchased from the black market, as well as gains from the fake elixir master.

However, in order not to cause trouble for himself at this time, Meng Zhou picked out the bloody "anatomy notes" and put them aside without reading them.

On the other hand, Meng Zhou also learned about many of the latest changes in Sanchuanyuan through the Earth Spirit Lotus clone.

This December is also an extraordinary December for Sanchuanyuan.

People's hearts change like waves, rising and falling several times.

Those with a little less psychological endurance almost destroyed themselves.

However, despite experiencing a series of huge waves, the final result was good.

Better than many people’s most optimistic expectations.

Because of the timely and strong support from the Professionals Association, the losses in the animal pen riot did not have any negative impact on the Sanchuan Yuan spiritual vein cultivation plan.

After a year-end review, the actual area of ​​spiritual fields opened up in Sanchuan Plain this year exceeded the original plan.

Therefore, if there are no accidents, next year, one day later, Mikawahara's spiritual veins will grow again.

It has reached the standard for upgrading and transforming the Sanchuanyuan spiritual veins.

Originally, everyone unanimously regarded this time point as a key node for all parties to "fight for the pie", and everyone prepared various hidden foreshadowings for this.

But now, due to a series of unexpected changes, this matter has been resolved in advance in a way that exceeded everyone's expectations.

Now, more than a dozen fake vice-presidents of the Sanchuan Society are surrounding President Pan, and together with their respective foundation-building forces, they have formed the first force in the Sanchuan Plain in name only.

In addition, the two allies, the Blue Blood Army and the Professionals Association, have given strong support to the Sanchuan Association with practical actions.

In this case, even if the main palace of Jade Lake City wanted to get a share of the upgrade of Sanchuan Yuan, it would have to sit down and discuss it in a good manner.

Moreover, there are incidents like the members of the Yuling Sect causing trouble and the Qingxuan Sect taking the lead. Even if there are external forces lurking, they would not dare to continue causing trouble at this time.

The storm was calmed down in advance in this way.

Different people have different feelings about this, and not all of them are happy, but Meng Zhou is very satisfied with this change.

This meant that his agreement with President Pan was completed ahead of schedule, and he could retreat with peace of mind at this equally important moment for him.

late at night.

As the New Year is approaching, he feels that the negative energy accumulated in his body from the last practice is about to be cleared. Meng Zhou, who has been prepared for a long time, sits cross-legged skillfully, and his consciousness quickly switches to a state of mind that is like heaven looking down.

As soon as the three poles of energy, energy, and spirit began to operate, Meng Zhou noticed a difference.

"Huh? It's so smooth!"

At this moment, in this state, Meng Zhou's mentality was much more detached than normal.

But even so, he couldn't help but marvel.

It has always been because the Black Turtle Body Refining Method has performed better than the other two Qi Refining Methods and Soul Refining Methods.

The three-pole cycle is a cumbersome model of "two big ones and one small one".

Because it has been too long, Meng Zhou has become accustomed to this method, and even defaults to the fact that the three-pole cycle of energy, energy and spirit should be like this.

But now, as the body refining method has been replaced and reset again, and it has finally kept pace with the qi refining method and the soul refining method, Meng Zhou finally realized the correct operation of the three-pole cycle model.

On the one hand, they help each other.

On the other hand, they borrow strength from each other.

The three-pole circulation of essence, energy and spirit becomes silky and smooth.

This was only one aspect. On the other hand, Meng Zhou also clearly felt that the limit of negative energy that this three-pole cycle could withstand had been significantly improved than before.

In this state, Meng Zhou's time perception of the outside world will be blurred.

But Meng Zhou could roughly judge some situations through the amount of Bailiansheng spiritual marrow condensed.

Since his cultivation reached the ninth level of foundation building, he could harvest two drops of White Lotus Spiritual Essence from every routine retreat.

The amount harvested this time in the New Year will be much greater, but according to the rules of the past life dew and life marrow periods, Meng Zhou judged that harvesting twelve drops of white lotus life marrow would be the limit.

However, when he felt that the negative energy had accumulated to the limit and had to stop practicing, Meng Zhou was surprised to find that during this retreat, he had harvested thirty-six drops of White Lotus Spiritual Essence.

After he stopped practicing, Meng Zhou did not wake up immediately, but carefully felt the conditions inside his body.

The three circulations of energy, energy, and spirit did not stop when he stopped. They were still flowing freely in the body, as natural as breathing.

What surprised him even more was that with the circulation of the three cycles of energy, energy and spirit, there was also a majestic negative energy that far exceeded the previous ones.

It's like the circulating water is mixed with thick sediment.

To continuously release and empty it will inevitably take longer than before.

"One month!"

"The negative energy accumulated in the body is so huge that it will take longer to completely release it. The next practice should be in a month."

Meng Zhou thought that the three cycles of Jing, Qi and Shen had already undergone a change when they were first formed.

After that change, Meng Zhou's body's ability to withstand negative energy increased a lot.

The retreat went from a few hours a day to two and a half days every ten days. Then, inspired by the Acacia technique, the three-pole cycle was made more rounded and smooth, and the retreat time was shortened by several hours each time.

That change undoubtedly had a huge impact on him.

But this time, with the further improvement of the three cycles of essence, energy and spirit, such a change happened again.

Meng Zhou felt excited and checked the results of this training.

…

[Cultivation progress +40, foundation building ninth floor 105/1000.

Black Turtle Bearing Monument’s real skill +2400, Grandmaster’s 20400/32000.]

"The progress is ten points higher than I expected."

Meng Zhou has basically determined that this time, with the further improvement of the three-pole cycle of energy, energy and spirit, the retreat that used to be once every ten days has become every thirty days, that is, once a month.

If this is the case alone, the cultivation progress gained from each retreat is +30, which is the result of three retreats combined into one.

But the actual situation now is +40. Meng Zhou soon understood that this time, with the further improvement of the three-pole cycle of energy, energy and spirit.

In addition to the "three-in-one" aspect, a more complete underlying framework has additional bonuses to the efficiency of cultivation.

…

When Meng Zhou finished digesting all the gains from this retreat and walked out of the quiet room, he found that it was late at night.

Under his "clear and discerning" gaze, it can be clearly seen that the quality of spiritual energy in the courtyard has been significantly improved compared to before the retreat.

Looking outside the courtyard, thousands of acres of spiritual fields are surrounding it. The earth's aura uses it as a node and hub, flowing like water in the void of Sanchuan Plateau.

Because of this flow, the earth's aura in this area and the earth's aura in the larger area are connected into a closer whole.

The spiritual energy within the Sanchuan Plain became more majestic and thicker.

Like a flat land that cannot contain water, with the emergence of a river bed, the spiritual energy scattered everywhere finally found order and began to flow regularly.

Seeing these changes, Meng Zhou knew in his heart that Sanchuanyuan's spiritual veins had grown again.

Moreover, according to his judgment, this time, the quality of Sanchuan Yuan's spiritual veins has reached the standard for transformation into a third-level spiritual land.

Meng Zhou was not in a hurry to confirm the matter, but silently calculated the time of this retreat in his mind.

"It's late at night on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and my retreat lasted five full days."

This is more profitable than before.

In the past, retreats were held every ten days, and each retreat lasted about two days and six hours.

If it were just a simple "three-in-one" retreat, his retreat would take more than six days and nearly seven days.

Now, the equivalent of earning nearly two days per month. (End of chapter)