Longevity starts with choosing Hextech enhancement

Chapter 191 Facing Xiao Chen is like falling into an ice cave

The location of the Lihuomen Sutra Library is connected to the earth veins.

While it is convenient for setting up formations, it is also one of the places with the richest spiritual energy in the entire Qiyun Peak.

The top floor space is very spacious, and you can practice martial arts directly in it.

So Xiao Chen simply opened the "Wanxiang Huichun Sutra" here and practiced his true energy.

However, while Hextech brought him a hundred times the speed of cultivation, it also brought him a hundred times the consumption of spiritual energy.

Then in an instant, the spiritual energy of the entire top layer of heaven and earth was drawn and rushed towards him.

But the spiritual energy nearby was just a drop in the bucket and was consumed in an instant.

Even within a hundred feet around the Sutra Library, a void of spiritual energy was formed.

It's like a lake suddenly lacks a large piece of water, causing the surrounding water to immediately flow back.

The surging spiritual energy hit the Sutra Library, and even made a rustling sound.

Everything has two sides.

The faster the cultivation speed, the higher the requirements for the cultivation environment.

The overall spiritual environment in the Southern Region is weak to begin with, and it cannot withstand such violent extraction.

As the surrounding spiritual energy was consumed, Xiao Chen clearly felt that his cultivation speed was forced to slow down and almost stagnated.

"Ah, what is this, a happy trouble?"

Fortunately, this situation is not difficult to deal with, as long as you replenish your spiritual energy.

Xiao Chen immediately took out a thousand spirit stones from his storage bag and placed them around him for use. The Sutra Library already had a spirit gathering array, so there was no need for additional arrangements.

At the same time, he took out the last bottle of Liuhe Divine Water and drank it in one breath.

Although Liuhe Divine Water is only of the second level, it is a top-notch spiritual liquid after all and can provide a lot of wood spiritual power.

With this two-pronged approach, the concentration of spiritual energy will no longer be a problem.

Under normal circumstances, a newly promoted Jindan cultivator would spend half of his time every day meditating and practicing.

It also takes fifteen days to complete the training of all the true essence.

However, under the effect of Hextech enhancement, it only took Xiao Chen one hour to practice the new method and complete a full ninety-three great cycles.

He was a little unfamiliar at first, but he quickly got into the groove.

Not only did he re-cultivate all his true essences, but he also added three new true essences.

“This feeling is quite comfortable.”

Xiao Chen felt his own progress and even wanted to continue practicing for ten thousand hours in one go.

For others, spiritual practice is a boring thing.

It takes ten days, half a month, or even several months of persistent practice to make a little progress, without any positive feedback in the middle.

Therefore, many monks, although they know that practice is very important, lack sufficient self-control when it comes to practice time every day and always want to be lazy for a while.

However, for Xiao Chen, he could clearly feel his own progress.

I dare not say every minute and every second, but every quarter of an hour I can clearly feel that I have become a little stronger than before.

This experience is simply addictive.

It also made him wish he could immerse himself in cultivation forever.

"Huh, restrain yourself and finish the spell first."

Thinking about the threat from the Cang Yan Sect, Xiao Chen suppressed his desire to continue practicing and instead opened the magic book at hand.

After all, it is already three quarters past midnight, and it is estimated that there are less than four hours left before the Cang Yan Sect attacks the mountain.

If you want to practice the four spells, time is very tight.

"No matter what time, saving your life is the first priority, so practice the escape technique first."

Xiao Chen had experienced the benefits of suppressing escape techniques many times before, so to be on the safe side, he first opened the fire escape technique called "Chasing Stars and Catching the Moon".

In fact, there is also a wind escape technique in the Sutra Library.

Even at the Golden Core stage, Wind Escape is not inferior to other escape techniques.

The reason why he chose Fire Escape was not for any other reason, but just to try whether he could get the bonus of Yin Fire Seal when practicing the escape technique.

The Yin Fire Seal can greatly improve the cultivator's compatibility with fire spiritual power.

Theoretically, it can greatly lower the threshold for practice and indirectly improve the efficiency of practice.

After memorizing the formula, Xiao Chen walked out of the Sutra Library and casually took a grain of flaming spiritual sand.

Then he mobilized his true energy to wrap himself and activated the escape technique.

"Pong!"

A ball of fire exploded at the spot, leaving behind a large number of sparks.

"boom!"

On the Miscellaneous Peak not far away, a huge human-shaped hole suddenly appeared.

In other words, Xiao Chen was carrying the formation flag given by Master Ming Yan, otherwise the automatic counterattack of the mountain protection formation would have been triggered.

"Fuck! How come it's so much faster?"

As the saying goes, one learns from one's mistakes.

Before, when he practiced the art of escape, he either hit trees or pretended to be a mountain. Therefore, Xiao Chen actually had a psychological expectation that his escape technique might be faster.

He had already calculated that if he obtained the third-level escape technique, his speed could roughly double.

So I just reserved enough extra space to ensure that I would not damage the flowers, plants and trees along the way.

Unexpectedly, I miscalculated in the end.

Before he could react, he had already crashed into the Servant Peak.

Many menial disciples who were sleeping halfway up the mountain suddenly felt their beds shake.

Some people even woke up in shock and ran to the yard in confusion, looking around, wondering what had happened.

"That doesn't make sense. The secret manual says it's twice as fast."

According to the description in the opening outline of "Chasing Stars and the Moon", the fastest performance in the entry-level stage is indeed only twice as fast as "Golden Light Across the Earth".

But just now Xiao Chen was four times faster, so the reserved distance was not enough.

He quietly flew away from the Servant Peak and returned to the Sutra Library to think for a while.

"Ouch, I was so focused on the Yin Fire Seal that I forgot about the Yang Fire Seal!"

Xiao Chen soon found the reason, although the "Xuantian Secret Method of Taking Medicine" recorded that it increased the power of fire spells.

But when it comes to escape techniques, this power naturally refers to speed.

He readjusted the direction and this time no accidents happened.

Having said that, thanks to his previous experience of losing control of speed many times, Xiao Chen felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity when he adapted to the new speed this time.

It only took half an hour to successfully master the basics of "Chasing Stars and the Moon".

As he thought about it, sparks flew and he went from the corner of Qiyun Peak to the top of the mountain which was a thousand feet high.

"I didn't expect that even just the introductory stage would be four times faster than before."

A smile flashed across Xiao Chen's face: "If I can cultivate to the stage of minor or even major success in the future, I will be able to be six to ten times faster."

"By then, we can make two round trips to Hezhou in one day."

What made him even happier was that such a fast progress in cultivation proved the bonus effect of Yin Fire Seal on the cultivation of fire-based exercises.

The two offensive and defensive spells he had chosen before were naturally fire spells.
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In fact, there are also wood-related spells in the Sutra Library, but Xiao Chen chose to ignore them.

He no longer considers the attributes of his spiritual roots, mainly because the bonus of evil spirit is so tempting.

Unless one day he can collect both the Yin Wood Seal and the Yang Wood Seal, then he might consider switching to wood magic.

Both of these fire methods are relatively simple.

They are "Dance of the Nine True Yang Dragons" and "Fire Lotus on the Qiongtai" respectively.

As the name suggests, the former can summon up to nine True Yang Fire Dragons, which can besiege one person or fight against many at once.

The latter can condense a platform under his feet, and fire lotuses will be generated around it to help resist the opponent's attacks.

With the blessing of the Yin Fire Seal, practicing these two spells can also be twice as effective with half the effort.

It only took Xiao Chen an hour and a half to master the two skills one after another, filling the gap in the third-level spells.

Up to this point, he had completed the sacrifice of spiritual instruments, the refinement of true essence, the practice of fire escape, and the study of magic since he formed the elixir.

Although from the perspective of time, it is indeed a new golden elixir.

But in fact, everything is ready, and he has become a real Jindan Zhenren, possessing real Jindan-level combat power.

For other monks to complete these four steps, it will take at least two to three months, or even one to two years.

Excluding the time spent waiting for the skills, it took Master Ming Yan a full four months.

But Xiao Chen only took four days, and if you exclude the time spent on the road, it took less than a day.

"Since there's still time before dawn, let's learn this sword technique."

Thanks to the Yin Fire Seal and Hextech, there is much more time than expected.

So Xiao Chen practiced his last move, "Sharp Light Soaring Cloud Sword", on the top of the mountain as a backup.

The reason why this is done when the "True Yang Nine Dragon Dance" is already available.

Because one more means means one more trump card.

On the one hand, it can prevent the fire method from being restrained by the opponent, and on the other hand, it can also be regarded as an advance preparation for the use of wind and thunder swords in the future.

Now that he has successfully formed a pill and possessed true essence, he can now safely collect wind and thunder spiritual objects to sacrifice to the sword, and help this set of swords officially become spiritual weapons as soon as possible.

While Xiao Chen was practicing, a special guest came to Lihuomen.

It was Master Qianzhu.

He came this time as an envoy of the Cang Yan Sect to persuade them to surrender.

During this period of time, the White Bone Demon Body had almost swept through the territory of Wanhua Valley and began to advance towards Lingyuan Sect.

However, there was no progress in the peace talks between Lingyuan Sect and Shenhuo Sect.

The demonic cultivators don’t care about the catastrophe that will happen to the world or the harm that will last for thousands of years. They only pursue the benefits that they can get right now.

Therefore, Lingyuan Sect sent several waves of disciples to rush over day and night to urge Qianzhu Sanren to reconcile the civil strife in Lizhou as soon as possible.

But the problem is that the Cang Yan Sect is now determined to take down the Lihuo Sect in one fell swoop and swallow up Lizhou.

So there is no way to persuade them.

So True Man Qianzhu came to Qiyun Peak and wanted to persuade True Man Mingyan to surrender.

"Fellow Daoist Mingyan, even if the Cangyan Sect unifies Lizhou, you and I will still be Golden Core True Immortals, on par with Fellow Daoist Jinjian and the others, and we will not be inferior to them."

"Why do we have to fight to the death just because of our sectarian differences?"

"Besides, the purpose of offering the spiritual fire is to deal with the white-bone demon body and to save all living beings."

"If this stalemate continues, countless innocent people will inevitably die tragically. How can you bear this, Fellow Daoist Mingyan?"

Upon hearing this, Master Ming Yan was so angry that his mouth twisted.

He had persisted for so long, just wanting to wait for Lingyuan Sect's mediation.

I didn't expect this to be the outcome. Is this a partisanship? Isn't it considered inferior?
Are you trying to fool the baby who hasn't been weaned yet?

If the Cang Yan Sect unifies Lizhou, then in the future, if there are any third-level spiritual objects, how could Ming Yan have a chance to obtain them?

This is clearly blocking his path!
"Fellow Daoist Qianzhu, if we don't agree, please go back!"

Master Ming Yan pointed at the palace door. If it wasn't the wrong time to make more enemies, he would have even wanted to take action.

If this had happened yesterday, he might have considered it.

But now it’s different. Even though Xiao Chen has just formed a pill, he can still effectively assist him in defending the formation.

As long as we hold on for a while longer and wait for Lingyuan Sect to get anxious, there will naturally be better conditions.

That’s right, Master Ming Yan actually didn’t intend to live and die with the Lihuo Sect, but he wanted to fight for the right to distribute spiritual objects in the future.

Of course, there are risks in doing this, but if the pursuit of survival leads to a hopeless path, it is better to die heroically in battle.

"Fellow Daoist Mingyan, even if you don't consider yourself, you should at least consider all living beings."

"Fellow Daoist Qianzhu, there's no need to say more. If the Cang Yan Sect wants the spiritual fire, let them come and get it based on their abilities!"

Well, spending money is also a kind of skill.

"Junior brother is right. If you have the guts, just let those bastards of the Cang Yan faction attack the mountain. At worst, we can fight them to the death!"

A firm female voice came.

Then, a figure wearing bright silver armor strode in from outside the sect's main hall, holding a flaming red flying sword.

The person who came was none other than Master Yunxiang.

"Sister, why are you here?"

Master Mingyan was concerned that Master Qianzhu was still there, so he didn't ask directly about the injury.

But logically speaking, it is impossible for an injury that has lasted for decades to be healed in just a few days.

However, Master Yunxiang's face was filled with anger, and she looked at Master Qianzhu with wide eyes: "Don't even mention the matter of persuading surrender."

"Please tell the little boy Jin Jian and the old dog Zi Xiao that if you want to take the fire from the Lihuo Gate, you must step over my body first."

"As long as I am still breathing, this matter is non-negotiable!"

There are two reasons why Master Yunxiang was so excited.

One reason is that her ancestors were all disciples of the Lihuo Sect. More than three hundred years ago, she had worked her way up from the outer sect, inner sect, and true disciples, thanks to the care of the elders of the sect.

Therefore, I have very deep feelings for the Lihuo Gate.

The second reason is that she damaged her foundation a few years ago and has not seen any improvement after decades of cultivation. She is destined to have no chance of reaching the Nascent Soul stage in this life.

The more this happened, the more precious she regarded the sect.

At worst, I can risk my life to exchange for one without any loss, and even make a profit if I exchange for two.

Because of this, the words were so decisive that they revealed a desire to die.

Feeling Master Yunxiang's determination, Master Qianzhu opened his mouth in vain, and finally let out a long sigh.

Now that things have come to this, what else can he say?

After leaving angrily, he did not go far, but stopped not far away.

Now the Lihuo Sect is relying on the mountain protection formation and is determined to hold on.

But within a few days, after the formation was broken, he planned to go and smooth things over and try his best to save the lives of Master Mingyan and Master Yunxiang.

It's not for any other reason. The Divine Fire Sect is now very powerful, and preserving one more golden elixir means more strength.

Although the Beidou Spirit Fire is powerful, it has a prerequisite: it must come into contact with a living being.

The skeleton demon body is a huge target, so it is not difficult to deal with it.

But it may not be effective when fighting against the Divine Fire Cult.

True Man Qianzhu only hopes that True Man Yunxiang will not be too impulsive and put the overall situation first.
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"Senior Sister, aren't you in seclusion? Why did you come out early?"

"Don't get angry like that. It's not good for your recovery."

Zhenren Mingyan waited for Zhenren Qianzhu to leave and asked hurriedly with concern.

Master Yunxiang's expression eased slightly, but her gaze remained firm. "Junior Brother Mingyan, I'll be honest now. Back then, that beast ambushed me and injured my Dantian."

"I've tried everything over the years, but nothing works."

"I guess there's not much hope left in this life. In that case, I might as well make a final contribution to the sect."

"After I leave, if the situation allows, please take care of Mei Yong."

"He might become our hope for Lihuomen. If there comes a day when he does, remember to pour me a glass of wine and tell me."

Mei Yong was outside the hall at this time.

True Man Yunxiang went to find him first and brought him to see True Man Mingyan, which actually meant entrusting the orphan to someone else.

Although the two are not related by blood, they have been master and apprentice for many years and are as close as mother and son.

Therefore, listening to the determination and regret in Master Yunxiang's words, Mei Yong couldn't help but clench his fists, his nails digging deep into his flesh.

My heart is filled with grief, anger and hatred.

He hated the Cang Yan Sect, and he hated himself even more.

Mei Yong, Mei Yong, you are really useless!
If the sect could produce one more golden elixir now, it would not be forced to this point!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Fireballs, each about ten feet in size, fell one after another on the mountain protection formation like raindrops.

Looking outside, I saw a curtain of fire in the air, and the fireballs were falling from the curtain of fire continuously.

It was already morning time.

Under the shining of the morning sun, the fire energy between heaven and earth becomes active and can play a better role.

The Cang Yan Sect also activated the formation again and began to attack the mountain.

A large number of cannon fodder carried the battle flags and attacked Qiyun Peak one after another.

At the same time, three figures stood in the air, like three huge mountains pressing down on the clouds, and also pressing down on the hearts of the monks of Lihuo Sect.

Zhenren Yunxiang looked outside and couldn't help but tighten the flaming red flying sword in her hand.

Although she was determined to die, objectively speaking, due to the injury in her dantian, it would be extremely difficult to exchange one for one with only the two spiritual weapons on her body.

Only when the other party can no longer hold back and starts to rush into the defensive formation.

She had to cooperate with the formation and fight for her life to achieve a success rate of about 40%.

Moreover, this matter needs to be communicated in advance with Master Ming Yan, who is in charge of the formation.

When the time comes, don't worry about her being inside the formation, just focus on activating the killing formation.

Ming Yan Zhenren naturally shook his head repeatedly: "Senior Sister, this is absolutely not possible. How can I lay hands on you?"

"Junior Brother, now is not the time to let your emotions get the better of you. Now that things have come to this, only by making the Cang Yan Sect feel the pain will they fear you and be willing to back down."

The two of them were pulled together and arguing.

Suddenly, a voice came from the door: "Brother Mingyan, please help me open the formation."

Just as he saw the Cang Yan Sect attacking, Xiao Chen wanted to go out to meet the enemy, only to find that the formation flag on his body was useless against the mountain protection formation that had been fully activated.

It’s not that there’s a problem with the formation flag.

But in this all-out defense situation, the original design goal of the mountain protection formation was to block as much entry and exit as possible.

Therefore, Xiao Chen came to find Master Ming Yan, wanting him to lift the formation and let him out.

"You are... Xiao Chen?"

When Master Yunxiang heard the name 'Senior Brother Mingyan', she was stunned.

He turned to look at the young man in front of him, who looked a little unfamiliar. He had only seen him a few times when he occasionally used his spiritual sense to monitor the sect hall. He was a little hesitant to confirm: "Have you already formed a pill?"

Mei Yong at the door also wanted to ask the same question.

But when he saw Xiao Chen just now, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a moment.

According to the news from Hezhou, didn’t Junior Brother Xiao die in battle at Xunmei Mountain?

How is this going?

After hearing the name "Senior Brother Ming Yan", my brain immediately froze.

"Oh, I see. You must be Senior Sister Yunxiang."

Xiao Chen looked at the two spiritual weapons and immediately realized: "Hello, Senior Sister!"

"I was just lucky. I found a spiritual object in Hezhou and was lucky enough to form a pill."

Mei Yongren fainted.

He has been stuck at the great perfection of foundation building for forty years. Suffering from insufficient comprehension of the great way of fire, he has never been able to break through to the stage of forming a pill.

The first time he saw the name Xiao Chen was when he was promoted to an inner disciple. It seemed like it was only four years ago?

How is this possible?
This amount of time is not enough to build the foundation.

Even if one has the rumored natural spiritual roots, it may not be possible to cultivate to the great perfection of foundation building in four years.

Xiao Chen's breakthrough speed is so fast that it's simply inhuman!

Could he be some monster that has transformed into a human form?

Maybe the master and the apprentice have the same aspirations.

Master Yunxiang felt similarly.

How could this be?
It was obvious that when the sect gathered a year ago to discuss supporting Hezhou, Xiao Chen was only in the middle stage of foundation building, and he deliberately pretended to be in the early stage of foundation building.

True Man Yunxiang noticed this at the time and commented in his mind that this disciple was too cautious.

Who can tell her what happened in this year?
However, what was even more frightening was that in the next moment, she felt a biting chill directly from Xiao Chen.

In the early years, Master Yunxiang had practiced a secret technique of sensing, which could be used to roughly detect the strength of other cultivators.

If the other person's strength is lower than hers, she will feel warm and safe.

If the opponent is stronger than her, she will become cold as a warning.

Having just learned that Xiao Chen had reached the Core Formation stage, she subconsciously used her secret technique to try to judge his strength.

Unexpectedly, she felt a chill that penetrated directly into her bones, causing her body to shiver uncontrollably.

will die!

If she fights with the young man in front of her who greets her with a smile, she will die, and there is no doubt that she will die. There is absolutely no possibility of turning the tables.

This...how is this possible!

When True Man Yunxiang looked at the three True Men of the Tianshang Cangyan Sect, she only felt a chill.

But facing Xiao Chen was like falling into an icy cave.

The sense of danger is at least ten times stronger!
Even though she had interrupted the secret technique at the first moment, she still felt as if a layer of frost was hanging on her body, so she stared at the other party blankly and forgot to respond.

Ok?
This senior sister doesn't seem easy to get along with?

Xiao Chen took the initiative to greet her, but saw Master Yunxiang staring at him with cold eyes.

He didn't speak and there wasn't even a smile on his face.

Isn't it rumored that she practices fire magic?

Why is his personality like an iceberg?
　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)