Practice begins with a fisherman

Golden elixirs can be clearly divided into upper, middle and lower grades, and each grade can be divided into first, second, and third grades, which are strictly distinguished according to the golden lines on the golden elixirs.

One to three golden threads are low-grade golden pills, two to six golden threads are middle-grade golden pills, seven to nine golden threads are top-grade golden pills, and each golden thread corresponds to the division from first-grade to ninth-grade. is not within this scope.

The potential to become a low-rank golden core monk is quite limited. The first-rank low-rank (with a golden thread) is also the worst-quality golden core, and you can only spend your entire life in the early stage of golden core. At the peak of the early stage of Golden Core, if there are enough opportunities, it is possible to break through the bottleneck and advance to the middle stage of Golden Core, which is quite difficult.

It is not difficult for a lower-rank third-tier golden elixir to reach the mid-stage golden elixir, but the road ahead is getting narrower and narrower. The hope of the later stage of golden elixir is quite slim, but this tier of golden elixir is also the mainstream with the largest number.

If you can condense middle-grade golden elixir, there is a certain hope for the fourth and fifth tiers to be promoted to the later stage of golden elixir, and the sixth level is also the most basic threshold for promoting broken elixir to become an infant.

As for the achievement of the top-grade golden elixir, it is something that can be encountered but not sought after. According to records, the expedition team has never appeared in history. At least a genius monk with dual spiritual roots is needed to have a glimmer of hope.

Of course, this is only a rough division, and it does not mean to cut off the hope of all Jindan monks to advance. There have also been some monks with great luck and great opportunities. .

"If you don't want to stop at the Golden Core Stage, the sixth level of the Middle Grade is the lowest requirement. From now on, you must pay more attention to the solid foundation, and you must not neglect it at all." These are Zhao Shoushou's vigilant words for himself.

As a casual cultivator, his qualifications are limited. Since he stepped into the road of cultivation, the only thing worthy of praise is perhaps one step at a time. He has moved forward steadily, and the accumulation of many years can be regarded as rewarding.

If he just blindly pursues the improvement of his cultivation and forgets about this only advantage, I am afraid that even if he is lucky to condense the golden core in the future, it will be only the third rank of the lower rank at most, which obviously cannot satisfy him.

Recently, through the various travel notes here, we can know that the world of cultivation is vast and the monks are small, and the golden core is just another new beginning.

Perhaps only after condensing the Nascent Soul can one truly have a place in the realm of comprehension. The current practice is just to lay a better foundation for the future.

Before the two-year period came, maybe Zhao Shoushou had to practice diligently and make up for his own shortcomings through various means, which was the most important thing.

Chapter 416 The Legendary Central Plains

Even if everything goes well, it will take at least 30 years to go from the seventh floor of the foundation to the ninth floor of the foundation. If Zhao Shoushou pays too much attention to the foundation, it may take longer.

This is obviously unacceptable for monks with limited lifespan, and they can only make up for it in other ways, such as a large amount of supplements from various natural materials and earth treasures.

It's just that all kinds of elixir that can assist in improving one's cultivation have always presented a situation where one cannot make ends meet, and one has more wolves and less flesh.

Especially after being promoted to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, it is quite difficult to find all kinds of treasures. As a casual cultivator, you must get strong support from some organizations to make further progress.

For Zhao Shoushou, the only possibility at present is the expedition team, because the only elixir in his hand is from the deep sea canyon where he was tested last time.

For two years, he has been busy between training, healing, scripture storage, and patrolling. The time is just fleeting. Of course, members of the expedition team or some elders who are resident here will participate in trade fairs almost every time. There are no absences.

The main purpose of participating in the trade fair is not to exchange for some treasures, but the first stage of communication is more important. Every monk on the ninth floor of the foundation will gain something.

Of course, if there is a chance, Zhao Shoushou will also exchange some partial elixir in the storage bag for some cultivation resources, such as the second-level top-grade dogtail flower that was ridiculed by some people at the beginning.

At a trade fair in the second year, a senior foundation-building nine-story elder and a second-rank top-grade yellow maple dog were severely injured in the battle, and there was an urgent need for dogtail flowers.

In the end, the price of a bottle of Zengyuan Lingdan was successfully traded, and both parties were quite satisfied. For Zhao Shoushou, there would never be too many spirit pills to help improve his cultivation.

For the senior foundation-building ninth-level elders, it is obviously acceptable to exchange a bottle of unnecessary panacea for the recovery of the spirit beast's injuries as soon as possible without causing damage to the original source, as the saying goes, everyone is happy.

The only thing that bothered him was that it was more difficult to improve his cultivation in the later stage of foundation establishment than he had imagined. In the past two years, except for the recovery of his injuries, the improvement in his cultivation was not obvious.

Even if this is already the result of hard work on the premise that there is no shortage of various spirit pills in a short period of time, as for the grade of the golden pills considered before, it is far away.

If there is no chance to improve a little bit according to the current cultivation base, maybe when Shou Yuan is approaching, it is possible to touch the threshold of the peak of foundation establishment.

What's more, the spirit island where the base camp of the expedition team is located is the second-tier top grade, and the caves assigned to the two new monks are all relatively abundant in spiritual power, which can be said to far surpass Hulu Lingdao in this regard.

In other words, the current slight progress is due to the abundant supply of various resources and the excellent environment. If it is in Hululing Island, it may not be possible to achieve the current achievements.

Therefore, when the various cultivation resources on his body were basically exhausted, he was already looking forward to the next expedition, after all, he didn't have much time to delay.

In fact, during this period, the expedition activities of the various teams on Hululing Island have not stopped, including the sixth team, which is the weakest in terms of strength, cultivation, and personnel.

However, Zhao Shoushou and Hu Jing were restrained because the two-year period had not ended, so they could not participate in it. Now that it was coming to an end, Zhao Shoushou naturally needed to plan ahead.

"It's a pity that Mr. Zhao doesn't have enough exploration points and various resources, otherwise he would definitely choose a higher-quality breath-containing spirit technique on the second floor of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion." After finishing studying the first-level jade slips this day, Zhao Shoushou looked Sighing up the stairs, a longing look appeared on his face.

Expedition points are a special unit of measurement in the expedition team. Every time an expedition is completed, it will be comprehensively evaluated based on difficulty, harvest, performance, etc. Every monk can get a certain amount of exploration points.

These exploration points can be used to trade with various cultivation resources in the expedition spirit island, which can be regarded as an indispensable existence, and its role is basically equivalent to the contribution points of various sects.

As of now, Zhao Shoushou has not participated in an expedition, and naturally he does not have any adventure points on him. He knows that there are treasures he needs in the Sutra Pavilion, but he can only be greedy.

As for the various cultivation resources, it is quite clear. Every jade slip here is a monk of the expedition team, who risked his life to get it from different dangerous places and caves. Naturally, he would not give it to others to learn and comprehend.

Once every jade slip in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion is exchanged for income, in addition to the expedition team itself occupying the majority, the monks discovered at the beginning will also continuously obtain various resources according to a certain proportion.

Until all the monks discovered at the beginning fell or were promoted to the golden core stage, the monks of the expedition team were quite persistent for all kinds of valuable jade slips.

It is also because of this income that all the expedition teams are also very happy to hand over the obtained jade slips to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion for management.

At present, Zhao Shoushou's only breath-containing spirit technique is nothing more than the mainland goods he carries in his practice. It can handle the general situation. After passing through the deep-sea Grand Canyon, he urgently needs a real one. Concentrating spirit technique.

Of course, all of this can only be further improved after completing his first expedition. At present, Zhao Shoushou can only wait for the arrangement of the first expedition honestly, and carefully read and study the first floor of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion. There are so many jade slips that almost cover everything.

"Could it be that the realm of self-cultivation in the Central Plains really existed? Or does it still exist now? This is the true blooming of a hundred flowers, which makes people envious." Looking at the broken jade slip in his hand, Zhao Shoushou couldn't help but sighed.

In the past two years of continuous reading, all the jade slips on the first floor have basically been completed by about half, and it took a total of five times to find information and simple descriptions of the Central Plains cultivation world.

According to the simple and rough description on the jade slips, the cultivation world of the Central Plains is located in the center of this world, and there are quite a lot of reserves of various resources such as spiritual stones, spiritual veins, and spiritual medicines.

According to legend, every cultivating family has at least one Golden Core Stage Patriarch sitting in town, and a small sect also has three or five Golden Core Stage monks, and a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator is just a budding monk here, and it is not enough to dominate here.

Some powerful first-class sects are all seated by monks in the transformation stage. Every three to five hundred years, there will always be monks ascending to the spirit world.

Moreover, these sects have special inheritance methods to communicate with their ancestors in the spirit world, and occasionally some magical methods are passed down, and the entire cultivation world is full of a thriving situation, as the so-called letting go of a hundred schools of thought.

Relatively speaking, no matter whether it is the cultivation world in the mainland or the overseas cultivation world, it is far from being comparable to it.

Chapter 417 The First Expedition After Two Years

Based on the descriptions on multiple jade slips, Zhao Shoushou's current overseas cultivation world and mainland cultivation world are only in a small corner of this world.

Cultivation civilization is nothing more than some little guys and casual cultivators from the Central Plains, and there was a certain communication channel between the two parties.

It's a pity that I don't know when or why, the contact between the two places completely disappeared, and with the passage of time, they were completely isolated, and even now there is a doubt as to whether the cultivation world in the Central Plains really exists.

In the past, some Nascent Soul stage monks who were unwilling to be lonely tried to join forces to re-open the possible communication channels between the two parties, but unfortunately all ended in failure due to various reasons.

Some ancient teleportation arrays occasionally appeared in some ancient secret places, but because there were many gaps that were difficult to make up, they were never really opened.

At present, the mainstream theory in the overseas cultivation world generally believes that there was a huge change and disaster in ancient times, which led to the complete destruction or collapse of the legendary Central Plains cultivation world.

On the contrary, the overseas comprehension world and the mainland comprehension world, which are remote areas, were lucky enough to escape disaster. A single spark can start a prairie fire. After a long enough brewing period, they have just developed to the current stage.

However, these are not of much help to Zhao Shoushou's current situation. They just expand his knowledge inheritance from another aspect and make up for some shortcomings.

"Since the two-year period has passed, if there is still no new exploration mission, I need to return to Hululing Island to sit in town, so as not to arouse the greed of some monks." It is far from enough for two monks in the early stage of foundation establishment to sit in town.

In the realm of comprehension where strength is the king, Zhao Shoushou, a monk in the late stage of foundation establishment, obviously has enough deterrent power. Many problems are quite difficult and difficult for Fu Yuehua and Liu Baihua to solve. He only needs to come forward to resolve them.

What's more, he is the owner of Hululing Island after all, and most of all the income belongs to him. It is also his duty to come forward to deal with some difficult affairs.

The expedition officially organized by the expedition team is completely different from the previous test mission that only lasted ten days. An expedition can last for several months, and some obstacles are encountered during the period, and it is common for three to five years.

At this time, returning to Hululing Island to deal with some affairs is also due, but unfortunately there are nine out of ten unsatisfactory things in the world, so naturally he will not change according to his wishes.

Two days later, when he was finishing packing up and preparing to leave with the captain of the Sixth Expedition Team, the new expedition mission also arrived late at this time.

"According to the assignment of the Presbyterian Council, the sixth team is about to go to a newly discovered ancient cave to explore. It takes half an hour to prepare, and it will start immediately after three quarters of an hour." After confirming that the number of people is complete, Huang Youbo, the captain of the sixth team, decisively ordered With that, there is no room for negotiation.

The old team members here are obviously quite familiar with this kind of thing, which is also the old rule of the expedition team, in order to prevent the leakage of news.

In fact, in the world of comprehension, whether it is an ancient cave or a dangerous place rich in elixir, it is almost the forbidden area of ​​various sects and families, and the same is true for the expedition team.

Before each operation, only the captain of the team is in charge of the situation of the destination. These monks who serve as captains are all trustworthy members of the expedition team after going through many tests.

As for the other monks, even though they had signed the oath and spell book before officially joining, they will only have a preliminary understanding of the destination when they arrive at the destination.

The oath book is a special kind of spiritual tool, its main function is to keep promises, once the promises left are broken, every time one tries to break through the cultivation level, one will suffer backlash from the inner demons.

Of course, if the monks can regulate their words and deeds according to the oath, these spell books will not play any role, and they will not even feel their existence.

Only when the cultivator's cultivation level exceeds a large level, will these vows and spells lose their due effect. For Zhao Shoushou, if he wants to get rid of them, he has to condense the golden core.

Fortunately, the oath spell book of the expedition team is only aimed at keeping the locations of the places to be explored secret, and there are no restrictions on other matters.

Not only the expedition team, but also the other two small groups, the Beast Hunting Club and the Herbal Gathering Team, had the same requirements. These things were the basis for their existence.

"I don't know where to go, and I don't know what the next environment will be like. How should I prepare for this? Could it be that all the treasures are ready?" On the way back to the cave, Zhao Shoushou couldn't help complaining.

Obviously, he is not satisfied with this kind of agreement. Although before each expedition, he can borrow a certain amount of treasures from the expedition team, after all, it is limited, especially for new monks such as Zhao Shoushou.

In addition, he consumed a lot of treasures in the previous cultivation process, and his pockets were shy, and there were very few options to choose from. This was also the reason why he complained.

In fact, what Zhao Shoushou should add most at the moment is a second-tier high-grade spiritual weapon that is suitable for displaying his own strength. Unfortunately, even if it is an expedition team with monks gathered in the late foundation establishment stage, it is still elusive, and it is difficult to solve it in a short time. The problem.

After a quarter of an hour, Zhao Shoushou's final choice was nothing more than a second-tier top-grade magic talisman that is common in gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. He prepared two for each, and one each for healing, detoxification, and exorcism.

Three quarters of an hour later, on top of a huge second-tier high-grade sea shark, the eight members of the sixth team officially set off to explore the northwest of Lingdao.

This sea shark is also the spirit beast of the captain of the sixth team. It has been cultivated since childhood, and the degree of compatibility between the two parties is quite high. There is not much communication between many monks along the way.

Frightened by the sea sharks, apparently no low-grade sea beasts came out to make trouble. It was not until noon on the third day that they stopped on a barren reef.

This place should be not far from the destination. The team leader should introduce the specific situation of the expedition and give the seven team members a buffer time.

"According to the regulations of the expedition team, the following will introduce the destination and goal of this expedition. According to the mission of the Presbyterian Council, a cave of formation masters and monks in the late stage of foundation establishment will be born in the red algae sea area [-] nautical miles away from here. We wait The mission this time is to inherit the formation, do you have any objections?" The team leader Liu Hongyuan's introduction was not detailed.

Every action of the expedition team has a specific goal, and the goal task is also the first thing to be completed. Except for the target treasure, all the rest of the harvest belongs to the individual monk.

The target task of each harvest needs to be handed over to the expedition team. If it is a jade slip inheritance treasure, the participating monks are also eligible to observe and learn. Only by completing the task target can they be eligible to get the adventure point.

Chapter 418 The Weird and Difficult Formation Master

Formation masters can be said to be the rarest, lonely, and difficult group of special monks in the cultivation world, just as the formations they have carefully studied are the same.

Every formation mage must have three elements if he wants to be successful. The first is to be able to endure loneliness, the second is to have enough talent, and the third is to have enough luck.

The layout of the formation is not smooth sailing, once it fails, it is very likely that the spiritual material will explode due to the loss of spiritual power, and the formation master in it is naturally unavoidable.

In the history of the comprehension world, there are not a few formation masters who have fallen in this way, including some experienced and long-established formation masters among famous schools.

It is precisely because of this reason that among the six arts of cultivation, the inheritance of formations is the rarest, and apart from some famous schools with a long history, very few can master them.

Even the expedition team that has existed for more than a thousand years only has three or five unsystematic inheritance jade slips, which has also resulted in never cultivating a real array mage.

This has always been the biggest regret of the Expedition Squad Leaders. This time, after getting the news that a formation mage was born in the cave, he decisively sent the sixth team, which has no mission yet, to explore.

Even if they knew the difficulty and danger of exploring the formation master's cave, they would not hesitate to do so. If all the other high-ranking teams had missions, the elders would definitely choose stronger monks to come.

Of course, effort and gain are equal. Although the cultivation of a formation master is quite difficult, once successful, the benefits obtained are also no small matter.

In Fangshi, the price of the simplest set of second-tier low-grade array flags is above 300 yuan for middle-grade spirit stones, and they will always be in a very popular state.

In addition, whether it is various families, sects or even some casual cultivators who occupy the land of spiritual veins, they all need to arrange some defensive formations according to local conditions.

Every time the formation master makes a move, depending on the rank of the formation, he can earn at least 500 to [-] yuan for middle-grade spirit stones, or some precious spiritual materials, spirit pills, etc. In short, the rewards are quite generous of.

In addition to the various dangerous large formations, the caves of each formation master are also quite abundant and rich. After understanding the goal of the exploration, all the monks present showed satisfied smiles.

The sixth team is the most embarrassing existence in the entire expedition team group. Every time an expedition mission is carried out, the difficulty is relatively small, and the harvest is also the least.

Obviously, this must not satisfy the desire gap in the monk's heart that can never be filled, not to mention that the difficulty of any task in the expedition team is relative, and the danger and casualties will not necessarily be smaller.

What's more, they are also late-stage foundation-establishment monks, and the gap between each small grade is actually not that big. These high-minded monks will not easily bow their heads and admit defeat.

Exploring the cave of the formation master this time is a good opportunity for the sixth team to prove themselves, provided that they successfully explore and return with a rewarding experience.

"The Presbyterian Council finally looked at me and waited for once. The formation master's cave is a big fat job. If you can get one or two formation weapons from it, it will be a truly worthwhile trip."

"Arrays are just some spiritual materials and spiritual weapons. The most important thing is the spiritual pill that can help you improve your cultivation. Your own cultivation is always the most important."

"Spiritual tools, spiritual materials, and spiritual pills are important, but the real value is the treasures of heaven and earth that can increase the success rate of condensing golden pills. If you don't condense pills, you will be an ant after all."

Some acquainted monks in the sixth team kept discussing. As a newcomer, Zhao Shoushou did not join in hastily. Instead, he listened carefully and learned some information that might be helpful for the next exploration.

The so-called formations are actually treasures that are placed at the core of the formation after each second-order spirit formation is formed to suppress and enhance the power of the entire spirit formation.

Of course, there is no such treasure in the formations arranged by the formation flags. Since this is the cave of a formation master, there must be some chain formations.

As far as the wealth of an array mage is concerned, he will naturally not be reluctant to part with an array if he has the spare power. This also means that every time a formation is broken, it is possible to obtain a treasure of good quality.

"Naturally, there are some treasures in the cave of the formation master. Don't forget the dangers in them. Don't waste your life because of the treasures. What's more, the elders' meeting provides only the approximate location. I'm waiting for the first task. It is to confirm the location of the cave as soon as possible, so as not to have long nights and dreams." Team leader Wang Hongyuan was quite calm.

Today, when various resources are increasingly scarce, the birth of each ancient cave will cause a large number of monks to compete, and the expedition team only has some information in advance.

If the cave can't be completely destroyed before a large number of monks arrive, and the treasures in it can be collected, it will definitely turn into a chaotic battle when they evacuate as soon as possible.

This kind of situation is not unprecedented in the history of the expedition team. For the sixth team, the most important thing is time.

After pouring cold water heavily, Liu Hongyuan took out a rather delicate compass-shaped treasure from his bosom, which was the special compass used by the expedition team to confirm the position of the formation.