Practice begins with a fisherman

"Kacha" I don't know how long it took, the whole body of the two cormorants was filled with a strange red color, as if they had been boiled in water, and suddenly there was a crisp sound in their bodies at the same time.

A gleam flashed in the eyes of the two cormorants, and the surrounding blood and spiritual power merged into their bodies like swallows returning to their nests, and the wounds encountered in the battle recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Hiss..." Under the impact of spiritual power, the plum blossom snake demon looked like he had just woken up from a dream. Only then did he realize that his originally weak opponent had successfully advanced in battle, and at the most dangerous moment, the blood in his blood was stimulated. strength.

It is almost the weakest existence in the same level, and it mainly feeds on various second-level mid-level and top-rank monsters on weekdays. Since the two enemies who had already posed a big threat to him at the second-level top-rank have already been promoted to third-level. The most important thing now is to escape immediately.

"Quack..." Fatty Cormorant came to his senses, looked at the snake demon that was trying to escape, screamed frantically, and water walls appeared out of thin air, taking the lead to intercept the snake demon on the only way to escape.

In addition, the cormorant chubby stepped on a piece of transparent ice crystal on his lower limbs, and quickly slid forward. Under the cover of the cormorant chubby, with lightning speed, he used his long beak as a blade to kill the plum blossom snake alive. The demon's body was torn apart.

A quarter of an hour later, the two newly promoted low-grade third-rank cormorants disappeared without a trace after their cultivation stabilized after a delicious gluttonous blood meal.

Chapter 672

After a monk's cultivation base is promoted, it takes a varying amount of time to stabilize his cultivation base. In fact, the spirit beast is the same. The only exception is that after the challenge of stepping up and down before him is successful, he will devour the opponent and stabilize the power contained in the blood food. Xiuwei.

He had just been promoted to the third rank, and the power in his dantian hadn't been fully transformed yet, so the essence in the blood food could just provide a helping hand to make it complete quickly.

Blood food is as important to spirit beasts as elixir is to monks. Because of the lack of means to deal with enemies, the plum blossom snake demon is relatively weak among its ranks, but this has nothing to do with the energy contained in its body. affected.

The whole carcass of a plum blossom snake that has been promoted to the third rank for many years as blood food is enough to meet the needs of two newly promoted cormorants for a stable cultivation.

After the two little guys completed the promotion task, they did not continue to wander in the wild. After looking at each other, the cormorant chubby took a snake gall about the size of three fists into the spiritual soul created with the promotion of cultivation base. In the beast space, he quickly headed towards the dungeon at the bottom of the lake.

The spirit beast space is a space that can be opened up in the body of a spirit beast after it has been promoted to the third level, and it is specially used to carry some special treasures.

Of course, this needs to be prepared in advance, not every spirit beast has the opportunity to open up its own spirit beast space, especially for some monsters living in the wild.

The opening of the spirit beast space requires refining a space-attributed space stone in advance. The grade of this kind of spiritual material is only the third-rank low-grade, but its scarcity is quite high.

Zhao Shoushou was only lucky enough to find two of them in his past practice career. After refining them all for two cormorants, he has not obtained the third one so far.

From this, it can be seen that for monsters without the help of monks, it is very difficult to obtain and refine the space stone, not to mention that opening up the space for spirit beasts does not substantially help their combat effectiveness, and most monsters do not care about it. Not too concerned.

One month after "quack quack", the two cormorants returned to the dungeon at the bottom of the lake. While swimming on the lake, they kept calling, as if they were sharing their joy with their owners.

"It's been a few years since you've been apart, you two little fellows have good luck. It's not in vain to be promoted to the third-rank low-rank. It's not a waste of Zhao's hard work. Four complete bear paws." Zhao Shoushou took out the white bear that was specially reserved as a reward. palm.

The quality of the thickest and most delicious part selected from the white bear's carcass is unquestionable.

"Guagua" the two cormorants excitedly divided it up, and Xiaopang spit out a snake gall and returned it to Zhao Shoushou as a gift.

"Haha, you actually know how to share the loot with someone like Zhao, not bad." After playing with the two cormorants, Zhao Shoushou returned to the City Lord's Mansion, this time preparing to practice in seclusion without distraction.

Originally, according to his plan, this retreat should start as soon as he returned to the dungeon at the bottom of the lake, but unfortunately, he found traces of third-order dryads around, and Sun Jichang was powerless to resist alone, so he could only delay it.

This time, the return of the two low-grade third-rank cormorants to reoccupy this small lake territory should be fine under normal circumstances.

Even if some monsters or tree demons discovered the existence of the dungeon by luck, with the cooperation of Sun Jichang and the two cormorants, safety should be safe.

Taking ten thousand steps back, Zhao Shoushou is only in seclusion even if there is an attack by a strong man, and at worst, the seclusion is interrupted, and he can still attack the enemy.

Ten days later, after completing the deployment of some complicated affairs in the dungeon, and taking out four pieces of good-quality third-level low-grade spiritual materials, and giving them to Sun Jichang to meet his needs for refining magic weapons, he closed the gate of the City Lord's Mansion again and entered a deep retreat During practice.

Zhao Shoushou's current cultivation base is already in the late stage of the fifth level of Golden Core, and the real purpose of this retreat is the late stage of Golden Core, all based on the large amount of spiritual pills in the storage bag.

The threshold between the middle stage of Golden Core and the late stage of Golden Core is insurmountable, like a bottomless ditch in front of the monks.

There are two things he is going to use to cross the trench, first, marrow coins purchased from the underground city, and second, the mixed element elixir obtained from the storage bag of the thunder monk.

If he is lucky enough, the combination of the two will naturally help him to advance to the later stage of Jindan, but if he is unlucky, under the attack of the toxin of marrow coins, not to mention the promotion of cultivation, I am afraid that his life will not be saved .

Although Zhao Shoushou has been searching for some detoxification panacea these days and obtained some, he still dare not relax.

Once he finally encounters the attack of pitucoin toxin under repeated misfortunes, whether he can save his life is still in doubt, but his firm Dao heart still does not allow him to retreat half a point.

The City Lord's Mansion is completely sealed off, and is defended by a special patrol team every day. What is really used for retreat is a quiet room below the City Lord's Mansion that is more than a hundred feet deep and is closest to the spiritual veins of the underground city. It is also the place with the most spiritual power. It was the secret room he built specially for himself before he opened up the dungeon.

Except for Zhao Shoushou, no one knows about this special secret room. It is usually sealed off with a set of array flags. With a little bit of spiritual power gathered, over time it almost becomes a dense white gas that permeates the whole place little by little. In the secret room, waiting for the refinement of the monks.

"The accumulation of many years has almost reached the point where the spiritual power has been transformed into liquid, which can be regarded as a big help. This retreat can only succeed and not fail." Zhao Shoushou murmured, secretly making up his mind.

If you miss the opening of the teleportation array this time, it will take another hundred years, and the time and opportunity to attack the Nascent Soul will become less and less.

In addition, according to some jade slips, each opening of the teleportation array is theoretically equally distributed to the mainland cultivation world, overseas cultivation circles, and Central Plains cultivation circles.

But in fact, there is a focus in every distribution process, and this time the focus is on the Central Plains cultivation world, which must not be missed.

It is precisely because of the prosperity of the cultivation world in the Central Plains that there are unprecedented numbers of monks and monsters participating in the competition. Every seat in the teleportation formation is based on blood.

However, anyone who can increase his cultivation strength by one point during this retreat means that the possibility of successfully reaching the cultivation world of the Central Plains will increase by one point. From this we can see the significance of this retreat.

"The retreat is just the beginning, and Zhao's dedication will surely yield enough gains." After trying to calm down the turmoil in his heart, Zhao Shoushou began to run the Great Week according to the requirements of "Congealing Water Jue".

Sufficient spiritual power in the secret room rushed into the monk's body like moths rushing to the flame, even far exceeding the monk's refining ability. For a while, there was a slight swelling feeling in the meridians, which to him It is a strange feeling that has not appeared for a long time.

Chapter 673

Whenever a big cycle is completed, Zhao Shoushou can clearly feel the mana constantly replenished in the golden core, and a feeling of fulfillment comes to his heart, which is undoubtedly happiness for a monk.

In addition to the continuous enrichment and increase of the golden core, the virtual core in the upper dantian seems to be in a state of excitement since the retreat.

Not only is the speed of rotation faster, but the thumb-sized virtual pill seems to be constantly incorporating some special factors from the void, and it is also constantly becoming smaller and more compact, waiting for the moment when the two pills become one and the virtual and real are combined. arrival.

In short, this retreat had a good start. After the first year, even a single elixir was not refined, and all of them relied on the purest spiritual power for the most basic cultivation.

Even if this does not allow him to improve his cultivation quickly, it is very important for the foundation of monks.

Zhao Shoushou's retreat is over this time. Even if everything goes well and he raises his cultivation base to the seventh level of the golden core, and crosses two levels under the influence of a large number of spiritual pills, it will definitely make his cultivation base appear a little exaggerated and unreasonable. Difficult to control.

Now that he has the opportunity to consolidate from the original foundation, he will naturally not miss it, and this will be of sufficient obvious benefit to future practice.

While Zhao Shoushou was in retreat, the entire subcontinent fell into a new stage again because of the upcoming teleportation array.

Although all the monks who are eligible to compete for the teleportation array are all monks in the late stage of Golden Core or even in the state of Dzogchen, each monk has a considerable chain of related interests behind him.

Along the way, he was able to overcome difficulties and obstacles and advance to the later stage of Jindan, except for a very small number of wandering cultivators who lived all over the world, maybe he was the cornerstone of a small sect's town sect, maybe the patriarch of a small family or the elder of the Supreme Elder, or someone like Zhao Shoushou. Is the lord of a dungeon.

No matter where they were born, with the departure of the highest cultivator, many people will be affected. In addition to similar entanglements, what is more important is the collection of various treasures.

Any cultivator who wants to successfully leave to compete for the teleportation seat will be as good as possible for any treasure that can improve his combat effectiveness, and anyone who comes will not be rejected.

In almost all ways, a large number of monks will come to purchase during this period of time. Whether it is treasure charms, puppets, array flags, etc., they are all being scrambled for. Dan.

Of course, these temporary monks are a minority after all, and most of the monks who are interested in participating in this battle have been silently planning for the past few decades.

"Once senior brother leaves, the inheritance of my Wave Sect may be in danger of being ruined. Did senior brother ever live up to the respectful teachings of his master?" In an underground city located by the sea, two late Jindan cultivators spoke to each other in silence. Instead, the person who asked sharply was a monk at the early stage of Golden Core, and his tone was quite harsh, which is quite rare in the cultivation world that focuses on strength.

"Even if the two of us brothers and sisters leave, there are still junior brothers who are in charge of the sect. If we can successfully reach the cultivation world of the Central Plains, there must be one person who can be promoted to Yuanying. After returning, the influence of the sect can be raised to a new level. It can also help the younger brother to advance to the mid-stage or even late stage of Jindan, wouldn't that be double happiness?"

"All kinds of resources are abundant on the subcontinent, but there is a lack of treasures to assist in attacking the Nascent Soul. At the beginning, Master and his old man were only one step away, but in the end they could only sit down. It is precisely because we bear in mind his teachings that we will insist on Going to the cultivation world of the Central Plains, I ask my junior brother to understand more."

Different cultivation bases, different pursuits, different understandings, and naturally different goals. The quarrel between the three Golden Core monks of the Golden Core Wave School is just an inconspicuous corner of the subcontinent.

The separation between father and son, the entanglement between Taoist couples, and the filth between brothers and sisters all broke out without reservation at this moment.

In addition, due to the mass buying of monks and the untimely supply of various treasures, there were endless melees.

As another important force participating in the competition for seats in the teleportation array, monsters would hunt and kill in groups targeting the late Golden Core stage before the official opening every time.

When the total teleportation positions are limited, it is an effective strategy to reduce competitors, which is also a fixed play before the teleportation array is opened.

When monsters are hunting monks, it is also a good opportunity for the monks to fight back. In short, it belongs to the battle in the later stage of Jindan, and at this moment, it is almost flooding the entire subcontinent.

Tier [-] monsters are full of treasures, and for Jindan stage monks, they almost mean running around shining golden treasures one by one.

On normal days, most of these monsters are hidden in their respective territories, and every attempt to hunt and kill one of them requires careful arrangements and a battle of wits and courage, and the difficulty is quite high.

At this time, with the appearance of a large number of monsters, it is also a feast for many monks to hunt monsters and earn spirit stones. Driven by layers, a bloody battle due to the teleportation array has kicked off in advance .

All of this has no effect on Zhao Shoushou, no matter how arrogant the monster is, it will not swagger towards a dungeon.

What's more, the location of this dungeon is hidden. From the surface, first of all, it is a spiritual lake occupied by a pair of low-grade cormorants of the third rank. Under normal circumstances, no monsters will easily provoke it.

The entire sub-continent has entered into a fierce competition due to the opening of the teleportation array. Zhao Shoushou, who is interested in this, is still practicing leisurely in retreat. With the passage of time, he is refining the elixir in the jade bottle one by one. , little by little to increase the quality of the golden elixir in the dantian.

Time flies, the sun and the moon flow, and the years fly by. For a monk who is determined to break through the bottleneck and advance to the later stage of Jindan, 30 years are just a flash.

After years of development in the lake bottom dungeon, although the area has not continued to increase, the flow of people coming and going is in an upward trend.

After many years of operation, there is finally a lively atmosphere in Fang City, and the monthly rent of every store has also begun to flow into the secret storehouse and accumulate.

Under the auspices of Sun Jichang, the auction of the dungeon at the bottom of the lake every ten years has gradually gained some fame, and the influence of the entire dungeon is constantly increasing.

Perhaps the only doubt among the monks who came and went was that the city lord of the dungeon had never appeared in front of him. Except for some old people in the dungeon, many monks had even forgotten the existence of the city lord.

This may be the charm of time. With sufficient time, all excitement or sadness can be faded away little by little.

At this time, after years of hard work, Zhao Shoushou was already at the most critical moment.

Chapter 674 The Bottleneck of Golden Core Late Stage

At the beginning of his retreat, his own cultivation was at the late stage of the fifth level of golden elixir. Except for the first year of retreat, he used the spiritual power accumulated for a long time in the secret room as a means to consolidate the foundation, and the rest of the time was assisted by a large number of elixir , to quickly improve one's own cultivation.

It is also not easy to refine the third-order middle-grade spirit pills. Each spirit pill contains a large amount of erysipelas, and it will take at least one month to excrete all the toxins from the body.

In addition to the normal refining process, if there are some problems in the middle process, the cycle will naturally be extended a lot, and the number of third-level middle-grade spirit pills refined in a year will not exceed ten.

At the beginning, almost all of the 3 yuan high-grade spirit stones in the underground city were used to buy spirit pills except marrow coins, plus the spoils found in the lightning-attributed storage bags. In the tenth year of retreat, Zhao Shoushou was successfully promoted to gold At the sixth level of Dan, after the realm is stabilized, the practice of the next reincarnation begins.

In addition to sitting and eating, every once in a while, according to his instructions, Sun Jichang will exchange the profits earned in the dungeon at the bottom of the lake with panacea, almost using the power of the entire dungeon to support him. Practice quickly.

In the past 20 years, due to the abundance of spirit pills, the most important ones are four bottles of third-grade middle-grade Yunyuan pills. Every time you refine one, you can get the equivalent of three or even four Juyuan pills. Effect.

This kind of panacea is worthy of being one of the treasures in the cultivation world that is known as the most suitable for the refining of Jindan late-stage monks, especially after being promoted to the sixth level of Jindan, he has the most obvious experience.

It can be said that in just 20 years, Yunyuan Dan should be the first to be able to successfully upgrade from the early stage of the sixth level of Jindan to the peak state of the sixth level of Jindan.

After being promoted to the peak of the sixth level of Jindan, Zhao Shoushou has clearly noticed the insurmountable bottleneck lying in front of him, like a huge and endless trench that may shake at any time.

What he needs to do now is to build a bridge in this dangerous environment, pass through with part of the mana first, and fill it up bit by bit with the pure mana in the golden core, and when the last bit of ditch disappears, the It can truly be called the peak of Jindan in the late stage, and has the qualifications to attack the Nascent Soul.

Whenever Zhao Shoushou manipulated his mana a little closer to try to build a stable passage on it, and whenever he tried to build it outward from the trench, there would be a steady stream of vibrations jumping.

Accompanied by the vibration of the trench, no matter how solid the mana was, it could not last for a long time. Zhao Shoushou tried more than a hundred times without any success.

Of course, after every failure, the mana in Jindan will be tempered to a certain extent, making it more pure, and this is the only gain.

It wasn't until half a year later that Zhao Shoushou managed to build the bridge of mana to a place a few feet away from the trench under the shaking of the trench.

He didn't even have time to celebrate his success, a gust of strange wind swept away all his mana, and all his efforts naturally had no effect.

What this strange wind brings is a kind of bone-eating cold. According to common sense, a monk who has experienced many battles at the Jindan stage will not be affected by the surrounding temperature at all, but the wind from the bottleneck trench But there was an unbearable biting cold.

The strangest thing is that the mana, which was already quite solid, couldn't hold on to it in the cold wind, and soon completely dissipated in the trenches. After many tests, only about A third of them successfully returned to the Golden Core.

"Sure enough, it's the bottleneck in the later stage of Jindan promotion, and someone Zhao has understood how difficult it is today." This is his only feeling after countless failures.

Just like hitting the bottleneck before, after each failure, it will certainly have a purification effect on the mana, but the counter-shock force is inevitable.

Compared with the past, whether it is physical cultivation or actual strength cultivation, there has been great progress, and naturally there is a stronger ability to withstand the backlash after failure.

And compared to the previous bottleneck that required a steady stream of shocks, the bottleneck in the later stage of Jindan promotion requires a new start after every failure, which can be regarded as leaving a rest time, so his body is still within the bearable range within.

The only thing that has been in a state of tension from the beginning to now is the meridians. Even though I have prepared before and bought some special protective pills for refining and protecting, there are still wounds like threads.

In the process of a monk trying to break through the bottleneck of promotion and cultivation, the meridian is always the most stressful point, and it is also the root cause of success.

The third-tier middle-grade meridian protection pill is also one of Zhao Shoushou's gains from the underground city. This is a kind of panacea specially designed to protect the meridians, and one of the indispensable treasures in the process of cultivator's promotion.

In the process of his continuous attempts, time is also passing quickly. The channel he tried to build is the closest to victory, and he has already completed two-thirds of the trench. He is only one step away from victory, and it is even very clear See the other side of the trench clearly.

It's a pity that under the double test of the sudden acid rain and flames, after all, it fell short. What was wasted this time was a Primordial Primordial Elixir obtained from Brother Thunder and Lightning.

After trying his best to calm down the backlash and stabilize his injuries, Zhao Shoushou could only stare at a black and white marrow coin in a daze.

"After all, it is still necessary to fight for character and luck. Under the marrow coin, life and death are fate, and wealth is in the sky. Whether you can succeed can only depend on God's favor. It really conflicts with the habit of monks to control their own destiny." He has always hated a fate that is not in his own hands.

However, as time passed, and the opening of the next teleportation array was getting closer, Zhao Shoushou would no longer have a better choice.

Without the help of marrow coins, I am afraid that this retreat attacking the late stage of the golden core is doomed to fail, and it can be predicted that there will be no chance of hitting the late stage of the golden core for a long time in the future.

This point is destined to be unacceptable to Zhao Shoushou. After pondering for a while, the expression on his face gradually calmed down. He solemnly took out a half-black and half-white coin that looked like a copper coin from the storage bag, and swallowed it in one gulp. Enter the belly, then close your eyes and refine, waiting for the final effect.

Marrow coins are not the same as ordinary spirit pills, they are far from reaching the state of melting in the mouth, and after entering the dantian whole, they continue to revolve around the golden pill.

At this time, the monks can only rely on resignation to their fate. Only after the marrow coins have scorched a sufficient amount of pure mana from the golden core, can the refining and fusion begin.

It is also because it is too close to the golden core, once the toxin is emitted, its effect is irresistible.