The sun rose and the moon set. Winter and summer alternated. After Zhang Yan introduced the Yan sisters to Huo Xuan that day, he went back to cultivate in seclusion and did not care about the outside world.
Another two years passed in the blink of an eye.
In these two years, other than the disciples of small clans coming to visit Huo Xuan, Qincang School was as peaceful as ever.
In the Donghua Continent, the Kingdom of Wei was in chaos. The Northwest Hu tribe invaded the border, and rebellions broke out everywhere. Bandits and evildoers ran rampant. It was a scene of chaos.
In the small pot mirror, Zhang Yan sat on the top of the bamboo building. He did not speak or move. Outside the house, the bamboo swayed and rustled. The water in the pond rippled slightly. A few golden carps jumped out of the water from time to time, splashing colorful water droplets.
After a long time, he opened his eyes, and a bright light burst out from his eyes. Then, he shouted loudly and pointed his finger. Lightning burst out, and with a rumbling sound, it was like a thunderbolt in a drought. Amidst the purple light, half of the bamboo forest outside the house was forcibly destroyed by him. The bamboo leaves that filled the sky scattered down, and on the ground, there was already a deep pit that was a few feet wide.
Zhang Yan looked at it and nodded with satisfaction. He had passed the thirty-six turns of the Heavenly Thunder of Purple Cloud, and he had made some progress.
The power of the Godly Thunder was indeed not to be trifled with. Moreover, the good thing about this technique was that it followed the circulation of the Inner Qi. Its power could be big or small. Just now, he had only used a little bit of Dan Sha and it had already made a mess of the place. If he used all his strength, the power of the technique would be even greater.
Fortunately, everything in the small pot mirror was a world of its own. As long as the Spiritual Qi was not exhausted, it would not take long for everything to return to its original state.
He stood up and folded his sleeves behind him. He stepped out of the small pot mirror, and as soon as he came out, he looked to the side.
In these two years, he had not come out of the small pot mirror. Now that he looked over, he noticed that the Nine Subduing Devil Slip had already completely refined the wyrm tail, and it had transformed into a jade slip that emanated brilliant light and overflowed with multicolored light as it floated there silently.
As if it had sensed his arrival, the magic slip did not wait for a call. It flew into his hand with a clear sound.
Zhang Yan held it in his hand, his eyes filled with joy. He said, "It's been about three years, but it's finally here."
Patriarch Tai Heng's thousands of years of cultivation base had been drained by the flood dragon's tail. Even though half of it had dissipated in the past ten thousand years, it still hadn't dissipated. Much of it was swallowed by the Nine Absorption Demon Taming Slip, but it was enough for him to cultivate to the fourth level of the Divine Contract.
With the jade slip in hand, there was naturally no need to delay any further.
He sat cross-legged on the jade couch and pointed. The jade slip throbbed and transformed into a streak of light that flew into his glabella.
He used his mind to guide the Simplified Body into the Aperture acupoint and lightly trembled. Then, it turned into a ball of mist and suddenly expanded. In just a moment, an unfathomable stream of Essence Qi poured into his body.
This Essence Qi was simply too vast. It actually caused his body to tremble. He hurriedly used the Divine Contract to calm his mind. While calming his Essence Qi, he sent it into the acupoints that needed to be channeled. At the same time, he used his mind to slow down the Nine Absorption Demon Taming Slip.
However, it came so quickly that even the jade slip could not control it. It let out a series of whistling sounds, but it could not stop the Essence Qi.
In an instant, the joints in his body crackled. His blood surged like a tide, his skin was boiling like fire, and blood was already seeping out of the acupoints on his body.
When Zhang Yan looked at the 4th level of the technique, he knew that he would definitely encounter some obstructions in this test. He calmly straightened out his aura and ceaselessly circulated his Profound Art to suppress this aura, and his injuries gradually healed.
After maintaining this for a full twelve hours, the Essence Qi finally eased up and he could slowly control it with his mind. As he continued to use the Divine Contract, the Essence Qi gradually condensed into mercury and poured into each acupoint.
After refining more than twenty main acupoints, he suddenly felt that his body was as heavy as lead.
With a cracking sound, the jade couch under his body actually had circles of cobweb-like cracks. It seemed that it could not withstand the force and was about to collapse.
The mirror spirit hiding in the small pot mirror immediately noticed the abnormality. At this time, she turned around and pointed at the jade couch in time. The jade couch immediately stopped falling apart, and then looked at Zhang Yan with a somewhat nervous expression.
He stood in the same place and thought for a moment. Then he waved his hand and operated the formation to protect the cave house, in case there was any change in time.
Zhang Yan's eyes were closed, and his Essence Qi was faintly discernible. He sat there like a stone statue, as if he was unaware of the outside world.
Although the Essence Qi that entered his body was violent at first, it was still easy to move. But now, because of the changes, every movement felt like he was moving a ten thousand kilogram boulder, so he had to move it slowly. Every time he moved through an acupuncture point, he had to use up a lot of energy, and he felt a sense of exhaustion.
Fortunately, he knew that he could not rush it. With full patience and sincerity, he squeezed the Essence Qi and slowly moved through the acupoints, changing the internal acupoints.
After more than thirty days, all the acupoints in his body had been moved. At this time, his body suddenly shook, and he slowly floated up from the couch.
At this moment, the Essence Qi actually changed again!
This time, it was no longer sluggish and heavy. Instead, it was light, graceful, and unfathomable. Strands of it scattered throughout his limbs and bones.
Even though the previous heavy and turbid Qi was difficult to move, at least there were traces to follow, and it could not run away.
But now, he had to search for the scattered Qi activity all over his body, and this was even more difficult to accomplish than before, because it would swim everywhere like a fish.
At this point, he couldn't be impatient. Zhang Yan held his breath and concentrated his mind. He didn't think about anything else, he only cared about searching his body, searching for the Qi, capturing all the scattered Light Qi and collecting it, even if he didn't miss a single strand of it.
He searched everywhere in his body. As more and more Essence Qi was collected, there was a strange feeling in his heart, as if he had a deeper understanding of his body. All kinds of subtle changes were clear in his heart.
His body also grew taller and taller in this kind of cultivation, and gradually reached the top of the cave house.
The mirror spirit did not want Zhang Yan to be hindered, so she gave a low shout and made a gesture to expand the cave house.
After more than thirty days, Zhang Yan also successfully took this step.
At this time, all the Essence Qi flowed out from the aperture, stirring like a tide, like a hundred rivers converging into the sea, and gathered under the abdomen.
Zhang Yan looked inside and saw that the Essence Qi finally gathered in one place, like a lake of light, in a dantian aperture.
It was written in the Spirit Comprehending Contract that as long as this mass of Essence Qi was dispersed, and then it ran through the aperture of the whole body, he could achieve the fourth level of Spirit Comprehending Contract in a flash!
However, just when he was about to move, his body trembled slightly. He vaguely felt that if he took this step, some kind of calamity would fall upon him.
This was an extremely mysterious thought. He couldn't tell where it came from, but it just gushed out from the bottom of his heart.
Zhang Yan was a cautious person, and he would not take unnecessary risks. He pondered for a moment, stopped his movement, and thought to himself, "Although that sense of vigilance came inexplicably, it will not be without reason. There must be a reason."
He thought for a while, then reached into his sleeve and held the broken jade. He decided to use the deduction method to find out the truth.
His mind sank into it, and after a few hours, he withdrew from it with a thoughtful look on his face.
Just now, he had deduced and found that once he took this step, it would definitely cause a great commotion. Not to mention this, in the cave house of Clear Nether Heavenly Lake, there was the protection of the formation, so he didn't need to worry about others noticing.
But the key was that after reaching the fourth level, even his appearance and aura had changed slightly, and he didn't know if he could hide it in a short period of time.
This was an ancient demonic cultivation method. The younger disciples might not be able to tell anything, but the powerful cultivators, such as the people from the Heavenly Abode Abode, could tell at a glance. If they felt something was wrong, they might come to kill the demon.
Zhang Yan thought about it and smiled. To him, this matter was actually not a big deal.
The reason why he had spent so much effort to cultivate this cultivation technique was so that he could protect himself and his life when the Devilish Tribulation arrived. Before he reached the Nascent Soul Stage in the Dao of Qi, it would naturally be for the best if he didn't take that step.
Since he could take this step at any time, of course he didn't need to be anxious.
But if it really came to a life and death situation, then he didn't need to worry so much. He could only think about saving his life first.
However, there was still a doubt in his heart that hadn't been solved. He couldn't help but think to himself, "That sense of calamity, I wonder where it came from."
He thought about it carefully and gradually remembered something.
He remembered that when he first entered the demonic treasury, there was an inscription that said, "Those who cultivate this Dao will have a calamity from the heavens."
Lu Ge once thought that the calamity should be on the cultivator who cultivated this Dao, while Zhang Yan thought that the cultivator himself was the calamity of entering the world.
He wasn't sure which was right and which was wrong. Maybe it was a combination of both?
If this was the case, he had to be cautious. He wasn't afraid of calamity, but at least he had to be fully prepared before it happened.
The mirror spirit saw that Zhang Yan finished cultivating and reported, "Master has been cultivating in seclusion for three years, and there are many visitors outside …"
Zhang Yan said in a deep voice, "Is there anything in the mountain gate?"
The mirror spirit said, "There is no such thing. Those visitors are all disciples of small sects. Some of them even said that they have met master once."
Zhang Yan smiled and said, "I still have to cultivate now, so I don't have time to spare. Remember their names and wait for me to come out from seclusion."
The mirror spirit nodded.
Zhang Yan waved his sleeves, lowered his breath, and slowly floated down from the top of the cave house.
Now that he had the capital to protect himself, then he had to consider how to condense the true seal of spiritual power.
But before that, he had to cultivate the Five Elements True Light completely.
He waved his sleeves, and a jade dipper flew out. It was filled with the first and second wood essence Qi that Hibiko Higashi gave him.
According to his plan, he would first spend a few years to cultivate the Wood Elemental True Light, and then use the Nine Numbers Sutra to reverse the cultivation method. Based on his previous experience in condensing the Water Elemental True Light and the Earth Elemental True Light, he roughly estimated that it would take him about ten years.
Thinking of this, his expression changed. At that time, his eldest disciple, Liu Yanyi, would most likely return.
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