Eternal Tranquility

Liu Qinghuan couldn't help laughing.

The little hoofed horned beast liked to follow Tai Zun Dayan's big rooster back then, and now that he saw Dapeng, he approached him with the same enthusiasm.

He has obtained Mingyangzi's consent. From now on, the little hoofed horned beast can freely enter and exit the entire mountain peak.

The first grade of junior high school was also pitiful. He followed Liu Qinghuan all year round and could only stay in a small cave and an even smaller spirit beast bag. Now there is a whole mountain for it to run wildly. With its lively and active temperament, I am afraid that it will not miss Shu.

Liu Qinghuan could not let it go, and had already sternly warned it: Mingyangzi's courtyard was not allowed, the medicine garden in Shannan was not allowed, and so on. As for daily practice, after experiencing the pain of upgrading, the little hoofed horned beast is much more diligent than before, so he doesn't need to worry too much.

In the next half month, Liu Qinghuan spent some time with friends. Bai Fengming had built the foundation a year ago, and Lin Guang had reached the peak of the ninth level of Qi training and was about to attack the foundation.

When Lin Guang saw him, he was a little embarrassed at first. After some training, his mind has become much firmer and calmer, and his character has become much more stable.

There are also Xuan Bo and others, some of whom are in the sect, and some who are not. We haven’t seen each other for many years and we had a great time chatting.

After visiting old friends, Liu Qinghuan calmed down and prepared to retreat.

Mingyangzi had already admitted him to the master's jade plate and brought him the monthly records of his true disciples.

"So many..." Liu Qinghuan couldn't help but be shocked after seeing it.

"You have not been in the sect for the past two years, but the monthly payment is as usual." Mingyangzi said: "As my true disciple, you will receive ten Yuan-Pui Dan and two hundred spirit stones every month. I will give you one You’ve paid for it in advance, so just practice hard.”

Liu Qinghuan really felt the benefits of being a disciple of True Lord Yuanying. In addition, he also saved a large amount of elixirs himself, so he basically didn't have to worry about the elixirs needed for future cultivation.

Liu Qinghuan did not start seclusion immediately. He decided to first practice the second level of Jiutian Divine Dividing Technique and the Disturbing Divine Technique.

Time flies, and Liu Qinghuan, who occasionally appears in the mountains in the garden, completely sealed the cave after more than a year.

Although people who cultivate immortality have longer life spans than ordinary people, they do not live as freely as ordinary people. The prosperity and wealth of the world must be given up. Gratitudes and hatreds are all to sharpen the tenacity of the Taoist heart, and a lot of time must be spent on cultivation.

So how can a person with a weak will endure sitting there day and night?

The back mountain is already rich in spiritual energy, and coupled with the spirit-gathering effect of the aquatic wood energy formation, in the closed quiet room, the spiritual energy is so abundant that it flows slowly like a substance.

Liu Qinghuan sat cross-legged in the formation, wrapped in a layer of blue light, breathing quietly. In the dantian, the green mountain of spiritual roots seemed to have grown a little taller, standing in the middle of the spiritual sea. And at the foot of the Spiritual Root Mountain, a green lotus blooms faintly in the blue water.

Outside the water spirit root, there is a spiritual sea composed of pure spiritual power. The waves are undulating and flowing endlessly. Following the route of the heart method of "Zuo Forgetting Immortality Sutra", it flows through the meridians of Liu Qinghuan's body and continuously circulates the Great Zhoutian. .

His mind has completely sunk into the depths of the sea of ​​consciousness, even if the sky is falling apart and the earth is falling apart outside, this moment has nothing to do with him.

Therefore, he did not notice that the landscape painting hanging on the wall of the quiet room seemed to be absorbing the surrounding aura. It's just that the changes are so subtle that you can't even see them without looking carefully.

Year after year, the ink marks in the landscape paintings seem to be soaked with spiritual energy, making the mountains a little greener, the water whiter, and even the trees seem to be thicker.

Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

During the past ten years, Mingyangzi would occasionally glance at Liu Qinghuan's small courtyard from a distance and sigh that his disciple could really endure loneliness.

Finally, the cave that had been sealed for ten years was finally opened on this day, and Liu Qinghuan's figure appeared in the small courtyard.

His appearance has not changed at all after taking the Dingyan Pill, only his eyes are deeper and harder to ignore, and his cultivation has reached the middle stage of foundation building.

Liu Qinghuan sighed and glanced at the flowers and grass in the courtyard, and then saw a group of white shadows rushing in from outside the courtyard at high speed and throwing themselves into his arms.

Liu Qinghuan had a flash of inspiration and was able to remove the impact of the little hoofed horned beast. He then took off a grass stem from its head and cursed with a smile: "Little thing, where did you run away like crazy again?"

On the first day of the new year, she cradled in his arms affectionately, feeling the longing that she hadn't seen for many years.

"You have a conscience and haven't forgotten me." Liu Qinghuan said with a smile: "Let me see if you have been lazy in these years."

Looking at it, I found that its cultivation level was higher than his...

Chu Yi jumped on his shoulder proudly, asking for a reward.

Liu Qinghuan threw a pill to it and couldn't help but sigh. He didn't expect that he would be in seclusion for ten years.

In fact, in the seventh year, he had broken through the shackles of the early stage of foundation building and reached the middle stage, but he did not stop there, but continued to cultivate.

However, he immediately felt that it was twice as difficult to improve his cultivation.

From the early stage to the middle stage, when he used the spirit gathering array, was in a place with extremely strong spiritual energy, and had enough pills, it only allowed him to maintain a cultivation speed similar to that of ordinary monks.

After reaching the middle stage of foundation building, the speed quickly dropped. His dantian was like a bottomless pit, with a steady stream of spiritual energy filling it, but not much growth could be seen.

Liu Qinghuan finally had a profound understanding of the difficulty of repairing the foundation chapter of "The Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting Immortality".

But even so, he still did not end the retreat immediately, but took out the jade liquid and fine wine!

He didn't believe it. With the help of Yuye Qiongjiang, his cultivation level still couldn't rise.

Unfortunately, the truth is so cruel!

Ten pieces of jade liquid and nectar extracted from Qiong Xin Ruan Zhi Yu filled a jade bottle, but it only raised his cultivation level to more than half of the middle stage of foundation building.

Compared to his own hard training, this is already a huge improvement. But if it were anyone else, after using so much jade liquid and nectar, reaching the late stage of foundation building would be an absolute certainty. If the cultivation level was frivolous, it would be possible to reach the peak in the later stage.

Liu Qinghuan began to doubt that in his short life span of two to three hundred years, could he really be able to refine the elixir? The middle stage of foundation building was already so difficult, and he couldn't even imagine the later stage.

How could he have such good luck in the future and find such rare items as jade liquid and fine wine to improve his cultivation level?

It is indeed extremely difficult to form a double elixir. And even if he wants to change his mind now, it's impossible.

In the ninth year, Liu Qinghuan finally decided to give up temporarily. It would be cost-effective for him to keep the remaining pieces of Qiongxinrunzhi jade to make elixirs later.

He spent the last year of seclusion practicing the Eight-Character Sword Technique - the Po-Zi Jue.

"Qing Huan, come and meet me in front." Suddenly, Ming Yangzi's voice rang in Liu Qinghuan's ears.

Putting down the little hoofed horned beast, he walked out of his small courtyard, walked through Jinghu Lake and the garden, and arrived at Mingyangzi's courtyard.

Ming Yangzi was sitting in the hall waiting for him.

He walked forward and knelt down first: "Greetings to Master! I'm out of seclusion today."

"Get up." Mingyangzi looked him up and down, brushed his long beard and nodded with satisfaction: "After ten years of seclusion, your cultivation has improved quite a bit."

Liu Qinghuan smiled bitterly in his heart: If Ming Yangzi knew that it took him seven years to reach the middle stage of foundation building in such a good cultivation environment, and he also used so much jade liquid and nectar to reach the middle stage, he would only think that he was better than The turtle is still slow.

Covering up the bitterness in his heart, Liu Qinghuan stood up and said respectfully: "I would also like to thank Master for helping me take care of the little hoofed beast these years. That guy didn't cause you any trouble, right?"

"Haha, your little beast is very well-behaved, but a little playful." Ming Yangzi said with a smile: "But your monkey is so weird. A month ago, it actually slipped out of the magic circle and ran outside to eat. , but it came back after being poisoned. If only your second senior brother hadn’t seen it lying on the ground outside the formation, so he had brought it back to the mountain.”

Liu Qinghuan was stunned. That Aoki Demon Monkey? No wonder I saw the little hoofed horned beast today, but not the little monkey: "And there's this thing! Is it dead? I haven't seen it since I came out of seclusion."

"Not dead yet." Ming Yangzi waved his sleeves, and the Aoki Monkey appeared on the ground in front of him.

Ten years have passed, and the little monkey has grown up, with shiny black hair all over its body, but it just lies motionless with its eyes closed. If the chest wasn't still heaving, people would have thought it was dead.

Liu Qinghuan raised its arm: "What's wrong with it?"

"The poison has not been cured." A look of interest appeared in Mingyangzi's eyes: "The poison of the white grass in it is very fast and violent. For a first-level monster, it will... It was killed immediately. As a result, it not only ran back, but also waited outside the formation for a long time before being discovered by your second senior brother. Seeing that it did not sign a spiritual beast contract with you, your second senior brother left it alone until I found out. It was already three days later.”