Eternal Tranquility

It was already dawn when we came out of Qu Yunhe's Qiongxinyuan. After Liu Qinghuan said goodbye to the others, he returned to Zizhu Courtyard.

There was still a month left before the competition, and there would be a secret realm trial later. Liu Qinghuan exchanged some of the elixirs in his hands for various talismans and thunder blast pills, and ran around doing a lot of sect tasks, plus With the contribution points he had accumulated in the past, he once again came to the second floor of the Chuan Gong Building.

After searching for a long time, I found the prescription for the Zhuyan Pill, but I couldn't find the recipe for the Foundation Establishment Pill. Liu Qinghuan looked up at the top of his head. It seemed that the Foundation Establishment Pill was probably found on the floors above.

However, he found many ancient elixir prescriptions. Although many of the magical herbs and elixirs in them can no longer be found, Liu Qinghuan still read them with gusto.

Twenty days later, the counter-growing bamboo finally grew to three feet!

Liu Qinghuan looked at the half-black and half-white bamboo plant in the pottery pot with mixed emotions. From breeding to growth, this reverse-growing bamboo has condensed his countless efforts for five years. The daily cultivation has never stopped. Now it is Tightly connected to his spiritual thoughts.

The black half of the bamboo is not dirty death energy, and the white half is not just anger. Liu Qinghuan cannot see through it with his current humble behavior.

Rather than saying that he felt that this bamboo was consistent with the attributes of the sword he might condense in the future, it would be better to say that he trusted Dayan Taizun.

But it was useless to think about it anymore. After reading the "Moving Bamboo" chapter of "The Sword Art of Bamboo Heart Planting" again in silence, Liu Qinghuan sat down cross-legged. With a calm mind and a focus on the center of the eyebrows, the consciousness gradually sank into the Niwan Palace. When he "opened" his eyes again, he arrived at an endless void.

There is no sky above and no earth below. It is boundless and endless. The entire void is filled with wisps of gray mist. This is the place where Liu Qinghuan's sea of ​​consciousness is waiting for Nishengzhu to move into.

After wandering in the sea of ​​​​consciousness for a while, he exited the sea of ​​​​consciousness and performed the meditation method of sitting and forgetting the Immortal Sutra. He did not open his eyes until he became emotionless and emotionless, and his whole body and mind were pure and untainted.

With the index finger of his right hand, the bamboo in the pottery basin began to shake slightly, shaking off all the bamboo soil from the roots and floating into the air. Under the three-foot black and white bamboo stalks, there is a group of thin and dense bamboo roots.

Liu Qinghuan used his spiritual thoughts to wrap up the entire reverse-growing bamboo, and cast several spells at the same time. The reverse-growing bamboo shrank, shrunk, and shrunk again, until it shrank to the size of a broad bean. Liu Qinghuan made a move, and the reverse-growing bamboo came towards him. Fly over and get into the Niwan Palace between the eyebrows.

Looking at the sea of ​​consciousness again, the reverse-growing bamboo that has returned to its original size is hanging in the void. The gray mist that was originally scattered around it slowly gathers and forms a gray cloud at the roots of the bamboo.

Those gray mist are Liu Qinghuan's spiritual thoughts. He nourishes the bamboo with his spirit. From then on, the reverse-growing bamboo will take root in his sea of ​​consciousness and continue to grow.

The next step is to gather the Dao Heart and Concentrate the Sword Intent. But this step is the most difficult.

Liu Qinghuan took out the "Sitting and Forgetting Immortality Sutra" to meditate on it. To gather the Taoist mind, we still have to rely on this sutra. Compared with "The Swordsmanship of Bamboo Heart Planting", "The Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting Immortality" is more profound in terms of Tao.

The Taoist heart of a monk combines his own nature, obeys the rules of heaven and earth, experiences everything in life, and condenses his original heart.

To find the "Tao Heart", you must first find the "I". My nature, what I do, what I know, do I recognize "I" clearly?

Throughout their lives, the most unclear thing for many people is themselves. I don’t know what I want, I am confused and wandering, and there is a huge difference between my external performance and my internal cognition. Thinking that you are romantic and unrestrained, you are actually greedy and lustful; thinking that you are rich and incomparable to the country and superior to others, but in fact you are just groveling and struggling to survive.

If you can't recognize "I" clearly, how can you talk about "Tao". A meal and a bed are the source of profit and loss, and every word and deed is the source of misfortune and blessing. Although it is wise to hold on to the end, it is better to clumsily guard against the root. Looking at the end of the original knowledge, it is not a feeling of impatience and competition. This is why if you focus on simple things, you will lose something every day. Only when your body is calm and your mind is at ease can you see the truth.

However, life is full of ups and downs, and destiny is full of misfortunes. What is the ultimate outcome of the universe? Only by not going against the laws of nature and not forgetting the beginning can we gather our Taoist heart.

Liu Qinghuan sat quietly to comprehend. Although he was still ignorant, he seemed to have learned something.

Time passed by in a hurry, and soon the first day of the competition came.

Early that morning, a large number of Qi-training disciples had gathered in front of the Zhuyi Hall. Zuo Zhishan, the master of Zhulin Mountain who had not been seen for a long time, stood in front of the hall and said sternly:

"This competition is very important! Although I, the disciples of Zhulin Mountain, do not have as many disciples as the other peaks, but! Your cultivation resources are the same as others. Therefore, I don't want to see anyone dragging me from Zhulin Mountain. You can lose when you get on the competition stage, but whoever wants to show cowardice and embarrass me will have to face the wall on the bamboo washing stage for ten years!"

Bamboo washing station! All the disciples couldn't help but tremble. The Bamboo Washing Platform is located at the back of Bamboo Forest Mountain, on a cliff. A majestic waterfall flows down, washing away the iron pillar-like black bamboo standing below like sharp swords, pointing straight into the sky.

There was no place to sit or lie down there. The punished disciples not only had to withstand the force of the waterfall, but also had to sit on sharp black bamboo to practice. Except for the body-refining monks who would deliberately seek abuse, everyone else would avoid it.

"In addition, as long as those who get the top 100 rankings in the competition this time, in addition to the rewards from the sect, we at Zhulin Mountain will also have another reward. The higher the ranking, the better the reward!" Zuo Zhishan said again, seeing Everyone looked overjoyed and wanted to fly to the Immortal Peak immediately. He said slowly: "There is one more thing about the secret trial after the competition."

Everyone pricked up their ears. After hearing the rumors for so long, they finally heard the exact news.

"In this secret trial, only the top 100 sects will be selected." Zuo Zhishan said slowly: "The sect's master uncle will be led by the sect's uncle to go to the Burial Wind Tundra to compete with the other three sects and seven medium-sized sects. ”

His eyes swept over the young faces raised below one by one: "The location of the trial is, the Duanyuan death place in the Wind Burial Tundra!"

Duanyuan death place! It's a place full of death!

Everyone was stunned, and no one even noticed Zuo Zhishan's departure. On the way to the Immortal Peak, the disciples in Zhulin Mountain were whispering, and Liu Qinghuan also had a solemn expression.

It is rumored that Duanyuan's death place was originally the cave of a Nascent Soul demon cultivator thousands of years ago. This person practiced some kind of corpse refining technique and wanted to create an army of zombies, so he refined thousands of corpse puppets here. . Later, when he couldn't find a suitable body, he went even more frantically to kill the monk quietly, and even boldly reached out to a Nascent Soul cultivator with the same level of cultivation.

When the world of cultivators noticed that more and more monks were missing, they searched for traces and found Duanyuan, only to find that there was a dark wind and ghosts crying and wolves howling inside. The Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivator set up the Three Yins and Five Earths Yin Gathering Formation here, transforming a good abyss canyon into a hell.

The Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivator is really powerful, and other monks of the same level are almost vulnerable to him, but he has gained many new troops. For a moment, he was so arrogant that he claimed to establish a Corpse Demon Sect.

This matter was so critical that many sects turned to the four major sects. After discussion, the four major sects each sent a Nascent Soul True Monarch, together with an eminent monk from Nanmo Temple who had boundless Dharma. After a fierce battle in darkness and darkness, this man was annihilated.

It's just that the terrain in the Duan Abyss is complicated, and a huge maze was built underground by Nascent Soul demon cultivators. Several Nascent Soul Lords destroyed the three Yin and Five Earth Gathering Yin formations, and then destroyed the high-level corpse generals and most of the corpses. The puppets were eliminated, but as for those who slipped through the net, they didn't have the time to kill them one by one.

But the environment in Duan Yuan could never be restored, and the Yin Qi was extremely strong. As time went by, many ghosts and demon spirits were born on their own. Together with the remaining corpses, they gradually became a climate again, and later formed a dead land.

In order to prevent harm, the four sects set up a demon-sealing array outside Duanyuan and stationed people to monitor it. Slowly, they discovered that there were a lot of various Yin-type spiritual herbs and spiritual materials inside, and because there were not many powerful ghosts, , and gradually became a testing ground for various sects.

But in the past, this trial place was only open to monks above the foundation building level. This time, it was really unusual for Qi-training monks to enter.

Duanyuan's place of death was too dangerous, which made many Qi-training disciples who were originally ambitious to participate in the competition hesitate.