Zhao Hai was quietly sitting in his courtyard. It has been five days since he returned from Incense Burner Mountain. This time, his mission could be considered to have been completed.
At this time, Incense Mountain had been completely taken over by the Sect. Moreover, the Sect had already sent experts to deal with the matter. Later on, Zhao Hai also heard about Old Shadow Demon from some Outer Court disciples.
The Old Shadow Devil was a rogue cultivator of the Devil Sect. However, his strength was very formidable. He had reached the Spirit Refinement Returning Realm. He could be considered an expert of the Devil Sect. Moreover, he was most proficient in shadow techniques and illusions.
The Shadow Technique was a very special Devil Sect Cultivation Method. It could control a person's shadow. It could even kill a Cultivator by killing the Devil Sect's shadow. It was similar to a curse technique, but it wasn't completely a technique, it was a cultivation method. According to legend, the Old Shadow Devil could infiltrate a person's shadow and kill them. He could also use the shadow to escape. He was a very troublesome Devil of the Devil Sect.
However, the Old Shadow Devil didn't belong to any of the Devil Sects. He was a Rogue Cultivator. Nobody knew where he obtained this Shadow Inheritance and how he managed to cultivate it. In the end, he became a famous Devil in the Sword Spirit Boundary.
However, the Old Shadow Devil had a sense of propriety in the past. He didn't dare to cause trouble for the Great Sects. He only attacked the small sects. Whether it was the Buddhist Sect, the Sword Sect, the Mystic Six Sect, or the Devil Sect, he had attacked all of them. He could be considered to be a loathsome character in the Sword Spirit Boundary.
But this time, the Old Shadow Devil actually dared to attack the Burning Incense City under the rule of the Iron Buddha Temple. This was beyond everyone's expectations. The Iron Buddha Temple attached great importance to this matter. Because of this, the Iron Buddha Temple sent their elite experts to Burning Incense City to check the situation.
However, Zhao Hai still hadn't received any news. This was also within his expectations. This was because Incense City's Fu Family had already sided with the Old Shadow Devil. They would certainly close the transmission formation. If the Iron Buddha Temple wanted to reach Incense City, they would need to use the transmission formations of other cities. This would take a lot of time.
However, this matter was no longer within Zhao Hai's consideration. With his current strength, it was impossible for him to consider these things. What he needed to do now was to work hard and cultivate.
Now that he had completed a sect mission, there were still four more to complete. But Zhao Hai didn't need to worry, he still had a few months to complete the four sect missions. He could finish them whenever he wanted.
The sect missions that the Iron Buddha Temple's Outer Court Disciples needed to do weren't very troublesome. Some of them were very simple and could be completed in a few days. Because of this, time was very convenient.
Zhao Hai carefully studied the sect missions that the Iron Buddha Temple's Outer Court Disciples needed to do. In fact, there were two types of missions that the Iron Buddha Temple's Outer Court Disciples needed to do. One type of mission was an excursion. This type of mission was very short and could be completed in a few days. If you really wanted to do it, then you could complete five missions in a month. This was also the type of mission that the Iron Buddha Temple's Outer Court Disciples needed to do.
The other type of mission was a long-term mission. This type of mission didn't require one to leave the Iron Buddha Temple. Moreover, it didn't require one to do five missions in a year. This was because these long-term missions would take a year or a few years to complete. Naturally, they wouldn't be required to do other missions.
Generally, these missions required disciples with special talent to do. For example, if you can concoct pills, and your talent in alchemy was very good, then you could accept these long-term missions. Refining pills for the sect, Outer Court Disciples could only refine low-grade pills. Every year, you only need to hand over a certain amount of pills to the sect to complete the mission. As for the rest of the time, you can do whatever you want. Naturally, the materials needed to refine pills would be provided by the sect. However, the materials provided by the sect were also based on a 20% success rate. In other words, if you were given five sets of materials, as long as you can refine one set, then you would be qualified. If you were able to refine two sets of pills, then you would have one set of materials left. Moreover, the sect wouldn't take those materials back. There were also blacksmithing missions and talisman crafting missions. These missions were the same as alchemy missions, they were long-term missions that required talented disciples to complete. Ordinary disciples wouldn't accept these missions.
In fact, for Zhao Hai, accepting these long-term missions was the most cost-effective. Whether it was alchemy or blacksmithing, for him, these were things that could be done in minutes. This was because he had the Space. For him, making these things was very simple.
However, Zhao Hai didn't want to do this. Right now, he only wanted to become an ordinary outer disciple of the Iron Buddha Temple. He wanted to use the sect's missions and other missions to go out and temper himself. This was Zhao Hai's goal.
At this time, Zhao Hai had already reached the first layer of the Iron Buddha Lotus Body. Three months wasn't a short time, but it wasn't a long time either. This was because for the disciples of the Iron Buddha Temple, reaching the first layer of the Iron Buddha Lotus Body in three months was still possible. Although the Iron Buddha Temple had very strict rules regarding training time, everyone's innate talent was different. Some disciples' bodies were able to absorb Iron Essence Qi very quickly. Because of this, the amount of Iron Essence Qi they absorbed in half an hour would be several times, ten times, or even dozens of times more than an ordinary disciple. Moreover, an ordinary disciple would only absorb 2000 jin of Iron Essence Qi. Because of this, their speed would naturally become faster. Zhao Hai's speed during these three months wasn't very conspicuous.
However, no one in the Iron Buddha Temple knew that Zhao Hai didn't use Iron Essence Qi to cultivate the first layer of the Iron Buddha Lotus Body. Instead, he used Heavy Strike Iron. Moreover, the amount of Heavy Strike Iron far exceeded 20,000 jin. Because of the data monitoring his body, Zhao Hai clearly knew that the benefits of using Heavy Strike Iron to cultivate the Iron Buddha Lotus Body weren't that great. If it was said that he could absorb 1% of Iron Essence Qi when he used Heavy Strike Iron to strike his body, then the amount of Iron Essence Qi that he could absorb was only 1/100,000th, or even 1/100,000th. It could be said that there was no use in tempering his body.
In the Iron Buddha Temple, there was a method to cultivate the Iron Buddha Lotus Body using only Iron Essence Qi. But so far, in the history of the Iron Buddha Temple, the disciples who used this method to cultivate the Iron Buddha Lotus Body had at most reached the sixth layer. Although they were very strong, the time required was simply too long.
Zhao Hai had countless Awakening Grade Metals in his Space, so naturally, he didn't need to use this method to cultivate the Iron Buddha Lotus Body. Therefore, Zhao Hai could be considered to have successfully cultivated the first layer of the Iron Buddha Lotus Body. However, he still planned to cultivate the second layer of the Iron Buddha Lotus Body after a period of time.
The Iron Buddha Lotus Body didn't just absorb the Iron Essence Qi into one's body. In fact, this wasn't the case. After absorbing the Iron Essence Qi into one's body, one would need a lot of time to fully integrate the Iron Essence Qi into one's body. Only then would one be able to display the full potential of the Iron Buddha Lotus Body. If one didn't fully integrate the Iron Essence Qi, then one wouldn't be able to cultivate the second layer.
Because of this reason, Zhao Hai had been resting in his courtyard for the past few days. He was now very excited about the Old Shadow Demon's Devil Art. The other party was able to manipulate shadows and even make people fall into illusions. Moreover, what the Old Shadow Demon used wasn't a Spirit Array or a Magic Technique. Instead, it was something between a Magic Technique and a Secret Art. This made Zhao Hai very surprised.
However, Zhao Hai could only have Laura and the others study the method used by the Old Shadow Demon. After all, Zhao Hai wasn't in the mood to deal with the Old Shadow Demon.
Zhao Hai rested for a few days in his courtyard. In addition to eating and doing his morning and evening classes, he spent most of his time practicing the Iron Buddha Lotus Body's frame. While practicing the frame, he would also recite scriptures. Every day was very boring, but for Zhao Hai, this wasn't a problem.
Five days later, Zhao Hai went to the Mission Building. He wanted to accept the Sect's Ren Li. After completing the five Sect Missions, he would be able to accept other missions. Relatively speaking, he would have more freedom.
When Zhao Hai arrived at the Mission Building, he looked at the mission crystal board and listened to the discussions of the Outer Court Disciples in the Mission Building.
There would always be Outer Court Disciples staying in the Mission Building. Sometimes, they would share the latest news. Some of these news were about the Iron Buddha Temple, some were about other Sects. Most of the news were rumors, some were true while some were false. However, this was the only source of information that Zhao Hai had.
Zhao Hai didn't care about this situation, he just wanted to see if there were any sect missions for him to take. Before long, Zhao Hai saw a sect mission. This sect mission was very special, it required ten people to complete it. The location of the mission was a crystal mine inside the Iron Buddha Temple. Zhao Hai didn't care too much about it.
For a large sect like the Iron Buddha Temple, crystal stones were indispensable. Every large sect controlled a lot of crystal stone mines, and they didn't want to mine them immediately. The amount of crystal stones traded in the sect was always maintained at a certain amount, not too much. This was because most of the time, the sect used contribution points to trade, not crystal stones. Moreover, for a large sect like the Iron Buddha Temple, ordinary disciples wouldn't use crystal stones to cultivate. This was because the spiritual qi in their sect was very rich. Once they had enough, it wasn't worthwhile to use crystal stones to cultivate.
However, Crystal Stone Mines still needed to be controlled by the Sect. If there were any changes, the Sect would be able to mine the Crystal Stones. This time, the location of the incident was a Crystal Stone Mine far away from the Iron Buddha Temple.
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