Mortal Mage

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Beneath the sea of ​​clouds, a lush continent surrounded by mountains suddenly appeared.

Yu Shitao looked into the distance with a complicated look in his eyes. After thinking for a long time, he said timidly, "Master, the territory of Liang State is ahead."

"Brother Yu, please don't call me Master."

Zhang Mingxuan leaned on Yu Shitao's shoulder and said, "Brother Yu, don't degrade yourself. I'm just worried about bringing disaster upon yourself. When this matter is over, I will let Haofen remove the fox demon mark from your Dantian." He patted Yu Shitao on the shoulder. "We have already left Xuantian Sword Sect. From now on, we are fellow Taoists. There is no need to distinguish between master and servant. We can just call each other fellow Taoists."

Yu Shitao's expression gradually eased after hearing this, but he still did not change the way he addressed him. He said carefully, "Master, to be honest, I have no hope of breaking through to the Jindan stage."

Zhang Mingxuan looked puzzled. As far as he knew, as long as he could successfully build the foundation and follow the routine and steady progress in future practice, with the help of the sect's spiritual funds every year, it would not be too difficult to break through to the Golden Core stage.

"I have mixed spiritual roots of Thunder, Fire and Yin. Thunder and Fire belong to the dry type, Yin belongs to the cold type. My aptitude is both dry and cold, which is below average. Moreover, my Qi Sea has reached its upper limit, making it difficult to form a pill." A hint of gratitude appeared in his eyes. "Master may not know that the path of demon cultivation is a hundred times more difficult than the righteous path of cultivation, not to mention a seventh-level fox..." He hesitated and added, "Not to mention a seventh-level demon king..."

"It's difficult to form a pill?"

Hearing this, Zhang Mingxuan had a vague feeling that Yu Shitao might have gotten a great bargain in this matter, but when he heard Yu Shitao talking about the Dan formation, doubts arose in his heart.

As far as he knew, Jindan was a trap in cultivation and should be avoided as much as possible. After building the foundation, it would be best to directly enter Jindan. But from what Yu Shitao said, Jindan seemed to be an important realm. He looked puzzled and said, "I heard that after building the foundation, it is Jindan, and Jindan stage is a trap in cultivation."

Yu Shitao also looked puzzled when he heard this, and then his expression gradually became solemn. After a long time, he seemed to have thought of something, took a breath, and slowly asked, "Master, I'm afraid you are not from this world?"

Zhang Mingxuan frowned but did not answer.

"In this universe, there are three levels of interfaces: the mortal world, the real world, and the immortal world." Yu Shitao said softly. Seeing that Zhang Mingxuan just listened quietly without making any arguments, he continued to talk; "In fact, there is another world below the mortal world, which is the dead world."

"What is the realm of death?"

Zhang Mingxuan spoke.

Canglang is a dead world and has no spiritual veins. Cuiyun has spiritual veins, but they are not real spiritual veins, but spiritual vein worms.

However, he couldn't figure out what the relationship was between the realm of death and the realm of cultivation.

"When the spirit veins dry up, it will become a dead world, and the interface will turn into flying sand within a hundred years."

"What does this have to do with the realm of cultivation?"

Zhang Mingxuan frowned.

After sorting out his thoughts, Yu Shitao slowly explained, "I've heard from some senior brothers in the sect that there are spiritual vein worms in the dead world that can provide spiritual energy for cultivation, but the improvement is limited. Some people in the dead world can only cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage, and they can't even form a pill." As he spoke, a hint of suspicion flashed in his eyes, and he glanced at Zhang Mingxuan on his shoulder; "Although it looks similar to the cultivation in the mortal world, the actual strength is a level lower."

Zhang Mingxuan did not answer.

Yu Shitao guessed correctly, he was indeed from the world of the dead.

Canglang is the realm of the dead, and so is Cuiyun.

If his guess was correct, Cuiyun's world of death was actually a cage, and this cage was used to cultivate spiritual roots and keep monsters.

And this world of death, Canglang, should have been forgotten long ago.

Liu Hanyan, who acquired the Canglang Spiritual Vein, was probably just passing by while looking for the dead world and collecting spiritual insects.

Spiritual vein worms recognize their owners. If you try to snatch them directly, you will only get a worm that will eat but not vomit.

Seeing that Zhang Mingxuan had been silent for a long time, Yu Shitao also fell silent and flew quickly on the flying sword under his feet.

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The sun and the moon alternate.

Yu Shitao stepped on the sword in front, and Zhang Mingxuan stood behind him. They flew for more than seven or eight days.

The sky was white.

The two of them looked down and saw a city looming below them.

"Where's ahead?"

Zhang Mingxuan looked ahead and asked.

"Liang State."

Yu Shitao explained softly, "Liang State is located in a remote area with few people. I was born here and I am familiar with it. I can stay here for a while."

The two of them had flown into the sky above the city. Yu Shitao looked around and landed in front of a dilapidated courtyard in the city.

He walked to the door and took a deep breath.

"clang clang"

With his hands trembling slightly, he knocked on the gate.

For a long time, the courtyard was silent.

He used a little bit of his true energy in his hands, and with a "clang" sound, he opened the gate.

Behind the door, there is a stone screen with two arches on both sides.

The two walked into the courtyard.

The white fox poked its head out from inside Zhang Mingxuan's shirt.

Behind the stone wall is a stone path with deserted flower beds on both sides and the yard is overgrown with weeds.

The door of the main hall was covered with thick spider webs, and the rusty door knocker kept swinging, making a dull "clang" sound.

The walls around the courtyard are covered with ivy.

Yu Shitao looked around, and with his two fingers he controlled the Ice Wind Sword and swept across the yard, chopping off the dead branches and weeds in the yard. Then he pinched his fingers, muttered something, and waved his hand to sweep across.

With a rustling sound, a breeze blew up, carrying the dust, weeds, cobwebs and fallen leaves in the yard out of the door.

Pushing open the door to the main hall, I saw that it was also covered with a thick layer of dust, and the beams, windows and tiles were covered with cobwebs.

He sighed helplessly, bowed to Zhang Mingxuan who was standing in the courtyard and said, "Master, this courtyard has not been inhabited for a hundred years. You can walk around the courtyard first, and I will clean it up."

"It doesn't matter."

Zhang Mingxuan dropped the white fox in his arms to the ground and strolled around the yard.

The white fox transformed into a human form and followed behind him.

There is a main hall in the inner courtyard, two side rooms on the left and right, and three private courtyards and a garden behind the main room.

Although this yard cannot be considered a wealthy mansion, it is at least that of a wealthy family.

Without waiting for Yu Shitao to finish cleaning, Zhang Mingxuan found a fairly spacious room in the backyard, and told Hao Fen to keep an eye on the door so that Yu Shitao wouldn't disturb him. He then took out a handful of low-grade spirit stones, set up a simple spirit gathering formation in the room, and began to meditate and continue to practice Dong Huazi's secret of longevity.

His current Dantian Qi Sea was forcibly filled to the great perfection of Qi Refining by Shi Manman. In fact, he did not practice the method seriously, so he was very clumsy in the deployment of true Qi and control of spiritual power. He had already felt these shortcomings when he set up the Fire Escape Formation to besiege He Yiping and He Yihu.

Otherwise, if it was just a Jindan stage fire escape formation, it would not have consumed his two rat fangs.

Daochu Realm is different from Cuiyun. The spiritual energy of Cuiyun is diffused throughout the entire space, while most of the places with spiritual veins in Daochu Realm are occupied by major sects or various forces. They use various means to lock the spiritual veins and spiritual energy within their sphere of influence. Except for these places, the spiritual energy in other areas is extremely thin, and some remote places have no spiritual energy at all.

Right now, as long as he is not found by the people from Xuantian Sword Sect, he does not need to rush into the matter of the immortal foundation-building pill.

After all, with his level of perfection in refining equipment, living for another three to five hundred years should not be a problem.