Practice begins with a fisherman

Moreover, it is very likely that there are some undeveloped spirit stone mines and other veins on this spirit island, and the interests involved are so great that it may take years or even decades of competition and division.

For such a long time and everything went well, Zhao Shoushou had already successfully condensed the golden elixir. Even during this period, this spirit island already had a new owner. After successfully condensing the golden elixir, the new owner here should also Will not deliberately make things difficult.

Of course, all of this is based on the successful condensing of the golden core. On the contrary, if the impact process fails, the new owner here will definitely not mind beheading a foundation-building monk who broke in without authorization.

Golden core and foundation building seem to be only one step away, but the treatment between the two is very different. However, there are risks in the cultivation world. Since this place can help the subsequent cultivation to a certain extent, it is acceptable Certain risks are naturally reasonable.

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, he finally decided not to run around anymore. This spiritual island will become the best place for retreat to break through the bottleneck and condense Kinda.

The current task has been changed to choose a place with relatively abundant spiritual energy from the bottom of this fast-flowing river, and build a temporary cave.

In addition, in order to ensure the safety of the cave, the layout of some formations is also essential, especially in the river, the breath of nirvana, water avoidance, and illusion formations are indispensable and the most important.

"The improvement of cultivation base is not a simple matter. It involves the improvement of a large realm. For monks, it is even a matter of life. How can we not be careful?" For casual cultivators like Zhao Shoushou Improving cultivation is not a simple matter.

From the search for various spirit island medicines, the selection of retreat places, the arrangement of formations, and even the departure after success, it is necessary to plan in advance and do it yourself. Maybe a small mistake in the middle may cause losses that are beyond the monks to bear. range.

For him, the most urgent thing at present is of course to choose a location in this river that is hidden and full of spiritual power, and open up a safe cave.

Chapter 488

It takes at least ten years or more to three to fifty years to condense the golden core. In addition to the monk's own qualifications, chance is also very important.

It can be said that from the beginning of the impact to the successful condensing of the golden core, it is a process of vicissitudes of life. For monks, it is just a relatively important retreat in their cultivation career. For many mortals and monks in the refining period, it is almost a lifetime half the time.

According to common sense, except for the final stage in the process of condensing the golden core, generally there will not be too much attention-grabbing movement, but there are exceptions to everything.

The most important thing for him now is to avoid accidents, or to have enough self-protection ability even in the event of an accident.

In fact, this is also a sad thing about a casual cultivator. For many sect monks, once someone chooses to retreat and attack the golden core, they will enter a specially opened quiet room to practice, and there will be special monks patrolling outside, no matter whether it is successful or not. At the very least, it is safe.

Even in some small sects, the birth of a Jindanqi ancestor is almost a major event that changes the fate of the sect. They will definitely open the sect's protective formation, gather all the forces of the sect as if facing a big enemy, and No interruptions are guaranteed during this process.

How can it be like Zhao Shoushou that before retreating to practice, the first problem to be solved is to find and excavate the location of the cave.

It can be seen from this that even though casual practice is successful, it is free and unencumbered, all of which are based on one's own hard work and overcoming countless unimaginable difficulties and obstacles.

As a veteran Zhao Shoushou with thick lines and a serious background in casual cultivation, of course he would not feel any anger because of this small setback. On the contrary, he was happy for his momentary intelligence.

"The most dangerous place is the safest place. No matter if it is an enemy or a friend, I would never have thought that Mr. Zhao would retreat here." Two days later, at the most turbulent part of the river, a straight stone wall caught his attention.

This place is basically located in the middle of the river. Once it is crossed, the area of ​​the river will increase greatly, and there will be turbulent changes.

On the surface, this is not the best location in the entire river, and even some aquatic creatures don't like to thrive here.

However, when Zhao Shoushou passed by this place, he accidentally caught a stream of pure spiritual power that was constantly escaping outwards. After some searching, it was confirmed that it came from the stone wall that had existed for an unknown number of years.

Another reason for choosing this place to excavate the cave is that it is full of the sound of the river crashing against the stone wall all year round, which can hide some movement during the practice process to a certain extent.

Of course, this does not mean that the location on the river that almost runs through the entire Spirit Island is the most superior in all aspects.

It's just that after comprehensive consideration, this stone wall is the existence that most meets its requirements, and it is also the most appropriate location, that's all.

"I hope this Whispering Wall can bring some good luck" Now that he has made up his mind, Zhao Shoushou will naturally not continue to hesitate.

This echoing wall has become extremely hard under the erosion of the river, but it is still unable to resist the destruction of a nine-story foundation monk, and soon a temporary cave that is more than ten feet deep in the stone wall has been dug.

In the process of digging the cave, Zhao Shoushou has been walking along the root of the pure spiritual power, hoping to gain something and increase a little bit of peripheral heritage as much as possible.

It's a pity that after advancing ten feet, although the amount of dissipated spiritual power has increased significantly, the source has never revealed the slightest trace of existence, which made him scratch his head endlessly.

The location where the spiritual power is emitted is very important. For the sake of the secrecy of the cave, we can only stay here, and we must not continue to dig deeper. If the existing figure is revealed because of this, the real loss outweighs the gain.

According to previous observations, the overall thickness of this echoing wall is about fifteen feet. If you continue to dig forward, it is likely to attract the attention of patrolling monks.

This is not unfounded worry. Since the tide of sea beasts is about to dissipate, this spiritual island with good conditions has naturally become a taboo in the eyes of the Spirit Island Alliance and some famous sects, and will never continue to allow many casual cultivators to stay here.

What's more, there are still a lot of spiritual medicines and spiritual materials on the spiritual island that have not been harvested, so how can these monks let them continue to stay here?

Zhao Shoushou firmly believed that during the tide of sea beasts, the elixir and herbs collected by the monks were just a drop in the ocean, and the real treasure must have not yet appeared.

At this time, once his body shape is leaked, he will be expelled at least. If the news of exchanging the spiritual liquid for body cleansing is leaked at the same time, it is very common for him to be besieged and fall here.

Benefits and wealth are the most touching, and it is the same in the cultivation world, not to mention casual cultivators, even among the major sects, there are countless monks who are stuck at the peak of the ninth floor of foundation building due to the lack of various elixir. Opportunity, they must be willing to fight for it.

"The spiritual power in the cave is basically close to the third-order low-grade spiritual veins. In addition, the spirit-gathering array arranged by 15-yuan high-grade spirit stones is enough to meet the needs of this promotion. The grade will be improved by one or two from the original foundation." Zhao Shoushou couldn't help praying.

The golden elixir is not the end of his expected cultivation path, so there are certain requirements for the grade of the golden elixir. The low-grade golden elixir basically has no hope of breaking the elixir into a baby. Pin Jindan, it is still possible to give it a try in the future.

Although according to the descriptions on some jade slips, only the middle-grade sixth-order golden elixir formula is the basic threshold to meet the broken pill to become a baby, but unfortunately, the number of monks who can achieve such a golden elixir in the cultivation world is too rare.

From the rumors in some jade slips, it can be clearly judged that as long as you can condense the middle-grade golden pill, you will be qualified to attack the Nascent Soul if you search for some elixir to consolidate the foundation in the future.

Perhaps it is unrealistic and too far away for a monk who has not yet condensed the golden core, but for a monk, every stage of practice is inseparable. If you can't think about it in advance, you may only be blind .

It took about a month to open up the cave, and he was relieved when the four sets of array flags were installed.

The four sets of formation flags were all accumulated during Zhao Shoushou's cultivation career, and their functions were also divided according to needs. The outermost formation flags in the cave were designed to avoid water, which could ensure that the river would not flow backwards during the cultivation period. prerequisites.

The second formation flag is a set of phantom formations with good effects. During the cultivation period, the cave must be kept secret and must not attract the attention of some monks and sea beasts.

What monks need in the process of retreat is absolute silence, and the combat power is almost zero. For their own safety, the phantom array must also exist.

Chapter 489

The function of the third formation is the breath of nirvana, ensuring that the breath of the cave and the monks are as consistent as possible with the river. This is the most important thing.

The fourth layer is undoubtedly a set of second-tier top-rank extremely lethal formations. If there are monks or sea beasts that break through many obstacles and successfully appear here, it means that it is the last moment of life and death. Is the last resort.

This set of formations is called "Wind, Thunder and Fire Formation". Once in danger, it can burst out attacks with four attributes in the shortest time, each of which has great power, which shows its powerful attributes.

The wind, rain, thunder and fire array was specially exchanged by him for this retreat from the Spirit Island Alliance at the price of eight points, which can be regarded as a considerable contribution.

From this point, it can also be seen that Zhao Shoushou has worked hard for this retreat, prepared carefully for a long time, and has high hopes for this retreat.

In fact, from Shouyuan's point of view, if this retreat fails, the possibility of a subsequent search for elixir and a second retreat is also very small.

For Zhao Shoushou, whether the retreat is successful or not is the double heaven of water and fire. Successfully condensing the golden core and increasing the lifespan and supernatural powers, he has become an existence that can suppress one side in the overseas cultivation world. Failure must be besieged by the monks on the spiritual island. If you are injured, you will be lucky and escape, and if you are serious, you will fall on the spot.

It can be seen from this that no matter from which aspect, this retreat is very important to him and cannot be ignored, and its success is directly related to his future path of practice.

"This can be regarded as the first death test in the true sense since Mr. Zhao embarked on the road of cultivation. If he fails, he will be benevolent. If he cannot condense the golden core, this cave is the place where Mr. Zhao sits." This is the true meaning of his heart. thoughts and monologues.

After all the external affairs were cleaned up, Zhao Shoushou chose a place with the most abundant spiritual power, sat down cross-legged, surrounded by a spirit-gathering formation with 15 yuan high-grade spirit stones as the core and 150 middle-grade spirit stones as the auxiliary, Will inspire and provide a helping hand at critical moments.

So far, after more than a hundred years of hard work, he has a total of three kinds of elixir that can assist in congealing golden elixir. The best effect is undoubtedly the Birihe lotus seed, followed by the cleansing spirit that was exchanged during this wave of sea beasts. The last one is to get the earliest few drops of Tianma blood essence.

Zhao Shoushou is a monk with four spiritual roots. After hard work on the road of cultivation, the aptitude of the spiritual root should belong to the best existence among the four spiritual roots. If there is no effect of any elixir, the success rate of the impact should be around [-]%.

Among the three elixirs, Birihe lotus seed can increase the success rate by half, Cleansing Spirit Liquid is about [-]%, and Tianma Blood Essence is only half of it at most, and all the effects add up to more than [-]% on the surface.

It's a pity that the success of the impact of the golden elixir is not achieved by relying on the elixir alone, it is a special comprehensive effect, otherwise why are there so few golden elixir stage monks in the cultivation world?

Although there are not many kinds of panaceas that play an auxiliary role, it is not impossible for some monks in the late stage of Jindan to obtain them. success.

All the elixirs in Zhao Shoushou's current hands may have good initial conditions, but that's all, and he can't be overconfident because of this, guaranteeing 100% success in achieving golden pills.

And he didn't rush to take the elixir immediately from the beginning of the retreat to attack the golden core stage. It has always been his code of conduct to make a decision and then act, and such an important moment is naturally no exception.

What's more, after a series of things such as the careful escape, the opening of the cave, and the arrangement of the flags, I have already had a lot of consumption, and my state has never been maintained at the peak level. Act rashly at a high level?

Under the explosion of the core stones of the Sea Beast Tide before, Zhao Shoushou, with the assistance of a large amount of pure spiritual power, has reached the peak of the ninth floor of foundation building on the surface, but there is no room for improvement whether it is the real peak , but it needs to be re-polished.

Only when he guarantees that all his conditions are at their peak, will he really start charging towards Jindan step by step.

This process is also the most time-consuming. According to the different qualifications of the monks, it can range from one to two years to three to five years. Each monk can only be confirmed to be in the true peak state after thousands of confirmations and polishing. Only after the possibility of moving forward can we really move on.

When Zhao Shoushou sat down and operated the Great Circle according to the requirements in "Congealing Water Jue", most of the spiritual power after each refinement would eventually dissipate in the body and return to the space between heaven and earth.

But he wasn't discouraged at all, because he could clearly sense that every time a big cycle ended, a trace of spiritual power would successfully join his dantian and become part of the sea of ​​mana.

This kind of situation proves that water milling work is obviously effective. Whenever there is a ray of spiritual power in the dantian, the internal background is also increasing at a slow speed.

Only when the dantian is in a truly full state, even if it takes countless hours of polishing, can it be regarded as the real peak state of the ninth level of foundation building, and it is truly qualified to charge the golden elixir. Doubtful.

What's more, in this seemingly thankless cultivation, whenever the spiritual power returns to the world through the physical body, the strengthening of the physical body is also a slow process of improvement.

Therefore, he had enough patience and time, and he had to complete this seemingly difficult polishing task before taking the first kind of Tianma blood essence that was conducive to stimulating potential.

Tianma Essence Blood is a relatively unpopular special elixir. Taking it before the monks start to attack the golden core, it can increase the thickness and impact of the mana in the dantian, making the mana in the dantian more dynamic and explosive.

Of course, the effect of Tianma's blood essence varies from person to person, it can increase the success rate by [-]% at most, and the minimum lower limit is about [-]%.

Zhao Shoushou calmed down and polished the spiritual power in his dantian little by little, and with the company of the continuous impact of the river, he tried to improve his potential as much as possible.

It was half a year after he started to retreat, the three black-clothed monks who had been scattered in the river looking for him had just completely evacuated.

"I wasted half a year waiting for nothing. These casual cultivators are always cunning, and I am really angry."

"No matter what, I picked some elixir here, and it can be regarded as some gains. The guys in Lingdao, you might as well be as comfortable as the three brothers like me."

"Who would have thought that there would be a good-grade spiritual vein in an ordinary river, and it might be used as a hidden cave in the future"

After the three brothers forced themselves to comfort themselves, they each performed their spiritual spells and soon their figures had disappeared into the dense jungle.

Chapter 490 When the golden gate hits, the brilliance spreads

Zhao Shoushou, who was in retreat, didn't know that a choice made in a flash of inspiration made him successfully avoid an innocent disaster, and he didn't even know the existence of these three black-clothed monks.

The three black-clothed monks should also be very grateful for this. After all, it is not an easy matter to provoke a possible future ancestor of Jindan who was born as a casual cultivator.

You must understand that even some famous sects in the cultivation world are unwilling to easily provoke a casual cultivator Jindan ancestor, the main reason is that they act without scruples, and revenge is always unscrupulous.

Whether it is the overseas cultivation world or the mainland cultivation world, this point is universal. There are countless historical experiences to prove that some ancestors of the golden core who are ruthless in their hearts may squat in one place for a hundred years, It is specially used to hunt outstanding disciples of a sect.

Therefore, this incident was a win-win for Zhao Shoushou and the three black-clothed monks. Of course, for him now, this incident that did not happen did not have any impact on the monks who were in retreat.

Time flies, time flies, spring goes and autumn comes, sun and moon go by, for the monks in retreat, time is the most common and the most precious thing.

The early polishing has been spent for five years, until the magic power in the dantian cannot increase even the slightest bit, and even the physical body cannot be improved a little under the nourishment of the dissipated spiritual power. When he was at his peak state, Zhao Shoushou was really relieved and prepared to attack the golden alchemy magic weapon with all his might.

"It takes five years to return to the real peak of foundation building. It is not a loss for Zhao. He sharpens his knife and cuts firewood by mistake. Only at this time can he hit the golden core with a little bit of confidence." This is at this moment. Sincere thoughts.

Zhao Shoushou's own aptitude is only four spiritual roots. Even though he has been working hard to polish it in the following hundred years of practice, the natural aptitude restriction will not disappear because of this.

Only by polishing his own cultivation to the true peak state, ensuring the highest success rate, and leaving no regrets is what he really needs to do.

After some detailed thinking, the expression on Zhao Shoushou's face became more and more determined, and he took out a white jade bottle with multiple magic talisman seals from the storage bag, which contained five drops of the blood essence of Tianma that belonged to him. An elixir that provides support.

There are two ways to take the blood essence of Tianma. The first is to apply it on the skin where the dantian is located to stimulate the potential in the dantian, and the second is to take it orally.

Comparing the two, the effect of the first medicine is very mild and will not cause any damage to the monks. It is also the best way to take it in the cultivation world. The disadvantage is that it will waste a certain amount of medicine effect.

The second way is to directly wrap and refine the Tianma blood essence into the dantian with layers of mana, which can undoubtedly bring out its full effect.

However, a little carelessness during the refining process will cause irreparable losses, which is equivalent to adding some boiling water to boiling oil.

Even though the oral method has thousands of flaws, it still has a huge appeal to monks with low aptitude like Zhao Shoushou.

After all, the first threshold to hit the golden elixir is an indestructible bottleneck like a rock. Only after breaking it with mana can it be possible to enter the process of truly condensing the golden elixir. Berserk can unleash mana of mighty power.

The monk's condensed golden core is like breaking through many obstacles on the pilgrimage road, and it is not easy to achieve the goal overnight.

Generally speaking, there are three hurdles from the ninth floor of foundation building to the real golden core. The first one is the bottleneck that Zhao Shoushou is currently facing like a stumbling block.

Only after opening it with the magic power in the dantian, can one have the opportunity to move forward to the next step. This is exactly the reason why the so-called golden gate hits the brilliance.

The so-called brilliance hidden behind the bottleneck is just some of the essence accumulated by the monk himself during years of practice, and it can be regarded as a reward for this level.

Once successful, these brilliance will be integrated into the mana of the monk, adding a trace of its background, and realizing the first step of changing from liquid to solid, which is very important.

In fact, more than half of the monks in the cultivation world have difficulty making progress before the first level, which is not the easiest existence.

It is not an easy task to break open the golden gate, and this level also requires the highest qualifications of monks, so his choice is obvious.

This so-called golden gate must be smashed open, and it must be knocked open at all costs. If it fails and returns, all previous preparations will be reduced to nothing, which is meaningless.

"Tianma's blood essence, help someone to break open this golden gate." After murmuring in a low voice, Zhao Shoushou decisively swallowed the Tianma's blood essence in the jade bottle, and surrounded by layers of mana, Refining it strand by strand, and then putting the refined blood into the dantian.

Whenever a ray of inconspicuous blood essence merges into the mana of the dantian, the mana in the entire dantian is like a lake suddenly encountered an unknown attack, setting off waves of monstrous waves, and this situation is still in a state of turmoil. in the process of increasing.

In fact, this kind of change is a process in which mana is constantly gathering strength. At this time, the only thing he needs to do is to guard the stability of his dantian and ensure that all changes are within the controllable range.

Otherwise, before the strength reaches its peak, let alone breaking through the golden gate, I am afraid that such a terrible backlash will be unbearable.

Maybe it was a cup of tea, maybe a quarter of an hour, maybe an hour, when Zhao Shoushou's forehead kept dripping with sweat, the last drop of Tianma's blood essence was finally refined.

At this time, the mana in his dantian is like a sea in the eye of a storm. The only difference and difference is that all mana riots cannot be precisely controlled, and the general power is still under control. Roars are also sent to targets in the sky.

"The time has come, when will we wait if we don't attack at this time? Make a big effort, then decline again, and exhaust three times, order" Zhao Shoushou yelled loudly. The mana under him, like a wild horse that has run free, rushed forward with a rumble.

The bottleneck, which had been unresponsive before, seemed to be aware of a certain crisis at this time, and a dazzling golden light suddenly burst out from the plain surface.