Mortal Cultivation: Immortality begins with the Spirit Gathering Array!

There is no time for cultivation, flowers bloom and spring comes, and another year has passed quietly.

Su Ming sat cross-legged on the stone bed, and the water-based spirit gathering array in the cave emitted a faint blue halo, causing strange phenomena in the entire cave.

Within the three-meter range centered on the stone bed, there was almost no spiritual energy of heaven and earth with other attributes, and it was filled with water-based spiritual power. Outside the three-meter range, there was a mixture of spiritual energy of various attributes, but the water-based spiritual energy was a little thin.

Su Ming, who was sitting on the stone bed, had more and more mana fluctuations than a year ago, and his mana had increased by at least 30%.

With the assistance of the water-based spirit gathering array, Su Ming's cultivation level at this time has improved further in a year, and he successfully broke through to the fifth level of Qi Refining.

It took Su Ming an hour and a half to complete his daily practice of the exercises.

The realm of cultivation is the root of everything, and Su Ming always keeps this in mind.

With the help of the water spirit gathering array, Su Ming's mental consumption during cultivation was greatly reduced. From being unable to continue to practice the technique for half an hour every day, he can now support two hours a day at most to operate the technique and refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

However.

In cultivation, too much is as bad as too little.

Su Ming was afraid of damaging his meridians, so he set the time for his daily practice to one and a half hours, and used the rest of the free time to study the basics of the array and practice the array in the river map space.

Finally, three hours were left for sleep and rest. The cultivation level of the Qi Refining cultivator was low, and he could not stay awake all the time, so he still needed to use sleep to restore the consumed mind.

For a year, Su Ming did not leave the cave house at all. Every day, apart from practicing, he stayed in the river map space to practice the array. He almost ate up all the fasting pills stored in the storage bag.

Every day's time was used to the extreme, without any waste.

But Su Ming was happy and enjoyed this boring day like hard practice.

At this time, the Luoshu in the depths of Su Ming's mind had already recorded the essence of three formations.

They were the "Phantom Formation" and "Yellow Sand Formation", two first-level medium-grade formations, and the first-level top-grade "Spirit Gathering Formation". As for the "Water Spirit Gathering Formation" that Su Ming improved through the River Map and Luoshu, it was determined by the Luoshu to be a variation of the "Spirit Gathering Formation" and was included together.

Huh!

A breath of turbid air came out of Su Ming's mouth, and his tightly closed eyes slowly opened, and a blue light flashed in his calm eyes.

"It only took me one year to cultivate from the fourth level of Qi Refining to the fifth level. If there is no water spirit gathering array to assist, with my pseudo-spiritual root aptitude, I would not be able to succeed without ten years if I want to cross the bottleneck of the middle stage of Qi Refining and cultivate to this level."

"Unfortunately, if there is enough time, I really want to cultivate to the sixth level of Qi Refining and come out of retreat when I encounter the bottleneck of the late stage of Qi Refining..."

Su Ming sighed, got up from the stone bed, raised his right hand, and put the water spirit gathering array diagram emitting a blue halo in front of him into his storage bag. The water attribute spiritual energy in the cave suddenly lost its restraint and began to slowly mix with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the air.

Compared with the normal formation based on terrain, magic tools, magic treasures, and spiritual objects, the biggest advantage of refining array diagrams is convenience, which can be carried with you and reused.

But there are also disadvantages.

The range of using the refined array diagram to set up the array is limited by the array diagram, which is far smaller than the normal array.

The most important point is that the difficulty of refining the array diagram is far beyond the normal array. Before comprehending an array to an extremely high level, it is completely a pipe dream to want to refine the array diagram.

After removing the water spirit gathering array, he walked to the stone table and swept his spiritual sense. The other two array diagrams on the stone table slowly floated on his chest, emitting white and yellow halos on the left and right.

The one on the left emitting white halos is the psychedelic array diagram. The original grade was a first-grade low-grade illusion array, but Su Ming improved it in the river map space and now upgraded it to a first-grade middle-grade array. Even if a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining is trapped in it, he will be confused and fall into the illusion and can't extricate himself.

The one on the right emitting yellow halos is the yellow sand array diagram, which is a first-grade middle-grade killing array. With the improvement of Su Ming with the help of the river map space, the grade remains unchanged, but the speed and consumption of array deployment are greatly reduced.

With Su Ming's fifth-level Qi Refining cultivation, he could barely use it as a trump card in a fight. Its power was so strong that even a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining would die if he was not careful.

This is the power of the formation.

Although there are many inconveniences, once the formation is formed, it can allow cultivators to control the power of heaven and earth within a certain range, greatly increase their strength, and fight against higher-level cultivators.

This world of immortal cultivation is extremely cruel, the strong prey on the weak and the fittest survive, and killing and robbing treasures is commonplace for many cultivators. Even if they are backed by a large Yuanying sect, it does not mean absolute safety.

For Guiyuan Sect, the death of an outer disciple is normal and not a big deal.

With insufficient cultivation, inferior magic weapons, and lack of combat experience, Su Ming thinks that his ability in fighting is sparse and ordinary, and he is probably better than some casual cultivators who cannot afford magic weapons. If he fights with others, he will not be able to win and escape.

He will never be willing to let his fate be controlled by others.

Two first-level middle-grade array diagrams, as well as the array flags and array plates that had been refined in the storage bag, were the trump cards that Su Ming had prepared for himself.

With two first-level middle-grade array diagrams in hand, Su Ming could fight against a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining. As long as the opponent was not a top-level Qi Refining cultivator, he would at least be able to protect himself.

If one wanted to pursue immortality in this cruel world of cultivation, sufficient methods of protecting the way were also indispensable.

It should be noted that in the battle between immortal cultivators, as long as the difference in cultivation is not too great, then various magic weapons, talismans and arrays can greatly improve their strength.

Of course, if the difference in cultivation exceeds one major realm, then these external objects will basically be difficult to work, so just think about how to save your life!

Cultivators who think about fighting across realms all day long generally don't live long. If possible, Su Ming hopes that he will be the one with a higher realm when fighting.

However, using arrays to protect the way, for the cultivation of the Qi Refining Period, only Su Ming, who has the River Map Space, can do it.

Only by simulating the formation hundreds of times in the River Map Space every day can Su Ming be able to integrate the arrays he has mastered in the Qi Refining Period and increase the speed of the formation to a level sufficient for actual combat.

For other formation cultivators, the number of times they set up arrays in their lifetime may not be as many as Su Ming's number of simulated formations in the River Map Space in one day. When they really fight, they have no time to set up arrays.

It can only be said that it is all hard work and sweat.

Only practice makes perfect!

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After finishing a day of practice, Su Ming walked out of the cave slowly.

It was noon, and the sun was blazing outside the forest. The hot sunlight fell on his face through the leaves.

Su Ming, who had not seen the sun for a year, squinted his eyes slightly. The dazzling sunlight made him a little uncomfortable.

However, the physique of a cultivator is far from that of an ordinary person. This abnormality only lasted for a few breaths and then returned to normal.

Su Ming took out the Qingye magic weapon and prepared to leave Qingcui Peak and go to Tianmu Peak to receive miscellaneous tasks.

By the way, he received the salary that he had not received for a year.

The outer disciples of Guiyuan Sect can receive a salary every month, but they must complete the sect's tasks every three months, otherwise their salaries will be cancelled. If they fail to complete the sect's tasks for a consecutive year, they will be expelled from the sect.

Sect tasks can be accumulated. Just complete one task every three months. If there are special circumstances that require retreat, breakthrough, etc., you need to report to the sect's task hall in advance.

Su Ming had been in Guiyuan Courtyard to instruct the children to awaken their spirits, which was one of the sect's tasks.

However, awakening the spirits in the courtyard was a long-term task, and the content was easy and did not affect cultivation. Su Ming had only one year of free time in the two years he had been in the courtyard.

Now that the time has come, Su Ming must naturally continue to complete the sect's tasks.

Previously, with Su Ming's cultivation in the early stage of Qi Refining, he could receive five low-grade spirit stones every month, plus three "Gathering Spirit Pills" suitable for improving cultivation in the early stage of Qi Refining.

Now Su Ming has reached the middle stage of Qi Refining and can receive more salary.

As a disciple of the sect, although there are tedious chores to do and he cannot concentrate on cultivation, even so, countless casual cultivators are coveted and can't wait to replace him.

Qingcui Peak is about a hundred miles away from the Tianmu Peak Mission Hall. If Su Ming is still in the early stage of Qi Refining, he will not be able to arrive even if his mana is exhausted. He needs to stop halfway to restore his mana. It will take several hours to fly and stop, and it will take night to arrive.

Now Su Ming has reached the fifth level of Qi Refining, and his mana is about twice as strong as that in the early stage of Qi Refining, which is enough to control the Qingye magic weapon to reach Tianmu Peak.

Seeing the big picture from the small, Su Ming showed a happy smile on his face when he felt the growth of his cultivation.

Immortals travel between heaven and earth, watching the sea in the morning and the mountains in the evening.

With Su Ming's cultivation, he has not yet reached this realm, but one day, his footsteps will travel all over the world of immortal cultivation and see the beautiful scenery of this world.

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