From dual spiritual roots to a sword master with all attributes

During the days when Fang Xiao was consolidating his cultivation after his breakthrough, the number of disciples in the outer courtyard began to increase, and Fatty Han also brought accurate news.

It turned out that a beast tide occurred at the border of the Eastern Region and the Southern Wilderness. That area was exactly the sphere of influence of the Five Elements Sect. However, the five veins of the Five Elements Sect were not together. The five veins guarded the five directions respectively. The gold vein guarding the west was naturally the first to be hit.

This beast tide is different from previous ones. The number of monsters is extremely astonishing. There are also many monsters in the transformation stage. Some people even suspect that there are monsters at the god transformation level.

The Five Elements Sect's gold vein was surrounded by a tide of beasts before the auction, and the teleportation array within it was destroyed in advance. On the second day of the auction, the Five Elements Sect's gold vein's mountain protection array was breached by the tide of beasts, and all disciples below the Nascent Soul stage were killed. Several Nascent Soul cultivators in the early and middle stages were directly besieged and killed by more than a dozen transformed demons. The gold vein's ancestor, the late Nascent Soul cultivator Jin Chen, was directly split in half by a beam of white light. Even his Nascent Soul could not escape and he died on the spot.

The method used to kill the Golden Vein Ancestor was definitely not that of the Formation Stage Demon Clan, so some people suspected that there were Demon Clan members of the Spiritual Transformation Stage present.

The other four branches of the Five Elements Sect also quickly withdrew their forces and sent messages to the other three holy places requesting rescue. The reason for this was that the Five Elements Sect did not have any cultivators in the God Transformation Stage.

In the world of immortal cultivation, all the sects that can become holy places have cultivators in the God Transformation Stage, without exception. Among the four major holy places in the Eastern Region in this era, the Tianlan Sect has two God Transformations, the Nanhua Sect and the Xuanyuan Sect each have one God Transformation, and only the Five Elements Sect does not have any cultivators in the God Transformation Stage.

However, the Five Elements Sect has a secret method. When performed jointly by the five late Nascent Soul cultivators from the five veins, it is enough to compete with the God Transformation cultivators. Because the previous generation of God Transformation cultivators passed away not long ago, the three holy places temporarily recognized its status as a holy place.

It's a pity that the ancestors of the five veins could not stay together forever. The Gold Vein was directly wiped out this time without any reaction. The status of the Five Elements Sect's holy land is definitely lost. However, the other four veins are still there, and it can still be a top-level Nascent Soul Sect that cannot be bullied by anyone.

But if any other Nascent Soul sect produces a God Transformation cultivator, and the Five Elements Sect still occupies this area, it will definitely be destroyed by the new God Transformation cultivator. The Eastern Region is so small, and God Transformation cultivators also need resources to support, so it cannot accommodate the emergence of a fifth holy land.

Fang Xiao digested the news. He originally planned to go to the Five Elements Sect. It was probably quite chaotic there right now. Moreover, he had gold and earth spiritual roots. If there was a secret method to improve his spiritual roots, it would most likely be in the gold vein. Now that the entire gold vein had been destroyed, he couldn't go to the demon clan to ask for the gold vein classics. His hopes were basically dashed.

The outer courtyard has begun to recall disciples who are on missions outside, and there may be missions related to the beast tide assigned to them.

In the past few days, he has melted the copper essence into the Taibai sword pill. The sword pill has also changed from the previous dark silver color to the current light purple, and it feels sharper than before. However, if he wants to strengthen the copper essence and iron essence, he will need to collect a large amount of copper and iron spiritual ores in the future for them to absorb in order to strengthen the gold energy.

Thinking of this, he remembered that he had asked Fatty Han to investigate whether there were any disciples in the outer courtyard who were good at refining equipment. The broken flagpole he bought on the black market had been kept in the storage bag and had not been dealt with, but there had been no news.

He then took out the Calming Soil and the Soul-Shocking Wood, thinking that if he still hadn't found a suitable refiner after refining these two materials, he would ask Fatty Han to go to the market and ask Master Xu to deal with it. Although it was severely damaged, it was after all left by the magical Wanhun Banner, and ordinary refiners might not be able to do it.

He had carefully studied the two materials, the Soul-Calming Soil and the Soul-Shocking Wood. Both were related to the soul, but the properties of the two spiritual materials were exactly the same.

As the name suggests, the Soul-Calming Soil is mostly spiritual soil born on the sunny side of spiritual peaks, but the reason for its birth is full of randomness and has not been studied out yet. Its effect is to calm the soul, especially when the soul is severely damaged, it can stabilize the soul. The Soul-Shocking Wood is a yin wood that grows in the yin and evil places where ghosts gather. When the ghosts are disturbed for a long time, the Soul-Shocking Wood may be born. In most cases, it will be used to make magical weapons to attack the soul, but after being integrated into the sword box, it can be used to stimulate and sharpen the soul.

The two are one soothing and the other stimulating, and they complement each other.

Although the two spiritual materials are low-level due to their young age, they are enough to enhance the function of the soul-nourishing gourd, which is just right for my current use.

According to the Shangdan Ningyuan Refining God Method, Fang Xiao first used this method to activate the Soul-Nourishing Gourd, then drew out two streams of spiritual power from his Dantian to roll up the Soul-Calming Soil, grinding it continuously, relying on the gold-attributed spiritual power properties to grind away the impurities in the Soul-Calming Soil.

This process lasted for more than an hour, and after it was ground to nothing, the calming soil had turned into a handful of brown powder.

At this time, he controlled his spiritual consciousness to wrap the powder into his sea of ​​consciousness, used his spiritual consciousness as a pen and the calming soil as ink, and engraved the previous inscriptions on the gourd, using this method to integrate it into the soul-nourishing gourd.

After the integration was completed, he did not deal with the Soul-Shocking Wood immediately, but continued to practice the Shangdan Ningyuan Refining Spirit Method until the next day.

Feeling the warming and calming effect of the Soul-Nourishing Gourd, Fang Xiao felt that using the Sword-Nourishing Gourd to practice the Upper Dan Ning Yuan Refining God Method was indeed the best choice.

After the soul-nourishing gourd became stable, he used the same method to integrate the soul-nourishing wood into it, adding another soul-nourishing effect to the gourd.

After finishing the work, Fang Xiao decided to try using special effects on the soul. Inside the soul-nourishing gourd, the soul-stirring effect fell on the soul. He immediately felt a sense of terror, and his soul began to tremble.

Seeing that there were no more negative effects, he began to increase the effect. After a while, suddenly his soul began to become unstable and showed signs of collapse.

Not daring to delay, Fang Xiao immediately stopped stimulating his soul and activated the calming effect. His soul seemed to be wrapped in a ball of warmth and became stable, just like a tired person soaking in a hot spring, feeling extremely comfortable as if being pushed into the clouds.

After a while, Fang Xiao suspended the calming effect, controlled the soul-nourishing gourd to stop running, and then carefully checked his soul, fearing that there might be a problem. However, he did not find any problems, and even felt that his soul had been slightly strengthened.

He felt that he could use this method to slowly strengthen his soul in the future, but as his soul became stronger, the effect on him would gradually weaken, and he would have to look for similar high-level spiritual materials.

Only then did Fang Xiao feel relieved. He was impressed by the wisdom of his predecessors, who were able to create such a mysterious secret method. He was even more worried about his predecessors, wondering how many people had died in creating this secret method.

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In the next few days, there was still no news from Fatty Han about the weapon refiner, so he needed to go to the market.

Fang Xiao handed the matter over to Fatty Han and put his focus back on cultivation.

After reaching the eighth level of Qi training, his spiritual power became more condensed, and the daily process of refining the Nine Refinements Jingxiao Sword Scroll almost became an instinct. Now, even if he didn't use his spiritual power to condense the Jingxiao Sword Qi, the spiritual power itself had extremely strong offensiveness, and the improvement in his overall combat power was also considerable. Perhaps by the time he reached the ninth level of Qi training, his comprehensive combat power would be comparable to that of a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building.

As for kendo, he found that what was holding back his progress was his cultivation. Although his sword skills and sword theory were improving steadily, he only felt that his kendo realm had made a breakthrough when he broke through to the eighth level of Qi training. Therefore, he had reason to suspect that his kendo realm had always been at the limit of his current cultivation realm, and the only thing he had to do was to improve his cultivation.

As for improving cultivation, after breaking through to the eighth level of Qi training, both the amount of spiritual energy refined and the speed of practicing the exercises have been significantly improved. I was originally worried that my meridians could not keep up with my cultivation, but I underestimated the powerful effect of the Meridian Cleansing Pill. After being strengthened by ten Meridian Cleansing Pills, even if I practiced the exercises at the limit or beyond the limit, it did not cause any damage to my meridians. I will prepare more Meridian Cleansing Pills when I have the chance in the future.

During the days when Fang Xiao practiced every day, Fatty Han finally got back the Yuanpo Stone and integrated it into the Soul-Nourishing Gourd. As expected, the Yuanpo Stone provided a defensive effect. Fatty Han said that if it weren't for his constant persuasion, Master Xu would never do something like submitting materials, which is what a beginner in refining equipment does. Fang Xiao naturally understood Master Xu's temperament and gave Fatty Han some spirit stones as a reward for his hard work to express his consolation.

On that day, news came from the sect that the competition among the outer academies and sects was cancelled, or rather, it was replaced by a different method, which was to eliminate demons.

The sect will organize outer courtyard disciples to go to the border of the Southern Wilderness to eliminate monsters, and distribute monster-slaying orders for record keeping. Within a two-year period, the top 500 disciples in terms of contribution to killing monsters will be eligible to exchange for foundation-building pills.