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Beautiful dreams are always short-lived. The reason why dreams are called dreams is because they are unreal. Now this has happened to Lu Xiuyuan. When the beautiful dream ends, the next thing is to face the cold reality.

Now there is both bad news and good news about Lu Xiuyuan. The good news is that Lu Xiuyuan's cultivation is improving rapidly and he has vaguely touched the threshold of the middle stage of Qi training. The bad news is that this feeling only existed last night.

This morning, Lu Xiuyuan woke up and found that something was wrong. His body was weak as if he had lost his soul, and his chest was stuffy, his heart was upset, and he felt uncomfortable all over. Lu Xiuyuan felt as if a big stone was blocking his chest. He couldn't breathe smoothly, his qi sea was dry, and the small light particles floating in the qi sea were dim. The spiritual energy in his body was blocked and blocked.

Lu Xiuyuan was completely speechless. He didn't even need to think about it. There must be something wrong with the Qi-training powder given by Senior Sister Qingying. This Qi-training powder was either a three-no product or expired. Senior Sister Qingying was really my dear senior sister. She was so "good" to me. When I reach the foundation-building stage, I will definitely "thank" her in person.

Lu Xiuyuan walked towards the woodshed with a dizzy head, picked up the backpack with a weak body, picked up the axe shakily, and walked to work staggeringly.

Nanny Sun from the firewood room noticed at a glance that Lu Xiuyuan's steps were weak and his skills were messy. It seemed that something went wrong during his practice, so she said to Lu Xiuyuan, "Lu Xiuyuan, what's wrong with you today? Did something go wrong during your practice last night?"

Lu Xiuyuan pretended to be calm and said in front of everyone: "It's okay, it's okay. I just got up early today and my mind is not clear. I feel a little stuffy. I will be fine after waiting for a while. It will not affect my work today."

After hearing what Lu Xiuyuan said, Nanny Sun didn't know what to say. Seeing his forced calmness, she said to Lu Xiuyuan and Liu Meng, "Your mission today is still to chop trees, but you have to change a forest. You have to go to the deepest part of the forest and chop down some blood vine wood. These blood vine woods are very precious and extremely tough. Every time you chop them, bright red blood will flow out. This blood is rich in spiritual power and is a good raw material for alchemy."

Nanny Sun paused and continued, "You two must take the spiritual liquid of the blood vine wood carefully and don't make any mistakes. This is an important material for the sect to make pills."

Lu Xiuyuan and Liu Meng said in unison that they would guarantee to complete the task, and then they both stepped out.

The two walked out of the woodshed and walked side by side. Liu Meng asked in confusion and concern, "Brother Lu, what's wrong with you today? What did you do last night? Why are you in such a bad state today? Why do you look so bad?"

After hearing this, Lu Xiuyuan couldn't say that he felt this way because he took the wrong medicine last night, so he just waved his hand and said to Liu Meng: "Brother Liu Meng, I can't do it today. Something went wrong during my practice last night. I feel very uncomfortable today. I'm sorry to bother you with the work later."

Liu Meng patted his chest and said, "It's nothing, Brother Lu, no need to be so polite. Today's work is all on me. You should sit aside and meditate for a while. In my opinion, your problem is caused by inner demons. It's because you are not focused when practicing, have too many strange thoughts, and your meridians are disordered. You have to guard the mountain gate, stabilize the sea of ​​qi, and turn the internal organs into a whole, so that the qi and blood can flow smoothly, and the spiritual power will naturally flow smoothly..."

The two walked side by side, and Liu Meng continued to persuade: "Cultivation is sometimes not just a matter of the body, the state of mind is also very important. You must adjust your state and don't let the inner demons affect your cultivation. If you have any worries, you may get help if you speak out."

Lu Xiuyuan was very upset when he heard Liu Meng's self-righteous and irrelevant analysis. However, he was too embarrassed to tell others that he had taken expired Qi-training powder, so he could only thank him repeatedly and said, "Thank you, Brother Liu Meng. I will do as you said and sort out my breath and regulate my blood."

The two walked slowly forward and came to this new work site. This forest is different from the place where they had cut down trees before. It is a virgin land that has never been cut down. There are few people here, the air is fresh and moist, and the lush trees shade each other, forming a dense green sea. When Liu Meng and Lu Xiuyuan came here, they couldn't help but sigh: "This is indeed a good place. Only in a place with abundant spiritual energy and few people can such a lush forest grow."

The two began their day's work, chopping down some trees in the forest. Liu Meng wielded the axe in his hand, chopping the blood vine wood skillfully, his movements smooth and powerful. Lu Xiuyuan, on the other hand, concentrated his mind, held his breath, and meditated to regulate his body, but to no avail.

The blood vine wood is indeed worthy of its reputation. Every time it is chopped with a knife or an axe, bright red blood splashes out quickly like blood. The juice of this blood vine wood is not only bright red and eye-catching, but also has a strong smell of blood, as if you are in a fierce battlefield. What is even more surprising is that there seems to be a spiritual power flowing in this juice, just like the mysterious vitality contained in blood.

Every time it was cut, the blood vine seemed to feel pain. The whole tree was twitching, the branches were shaking, and even the leaves were falling. This scene made people feel awed, as if they were challenging a powerful and mysterious existence, and triggering a response from nature. The pain reaction of the blood vine wood made Lu Xiuyuan and Liu Meng feel a little incredible, as if the creatures in this forest possessed some kind of indescribable spirituality.

As the felling progressed, the reaction of the blood vine wood became stronger. The twitching of the trees seemed to have an unknown rhythm, as if there was a subtle connection between the trees. Lu Xiuyuan and Liu Meng could not help but stop what they were doing and stared at this scene intently, with an inexplicable shock surging in their hearts.

"This blood vine wood is indeed unusual, and seems to possess some kind of spirituality." Liu Meng couldn't help but sigh.

As the blood vine twitched, the blood-like juice did not continue to flow, but was sucked back under the traction of a mysterious force. This not only included the droplets scattered on the ground, but also the bright red blood vine juice in the bottle suffered the same fate, being absorbed back into the body by the life essence that the blood vine guarded desperately. This scene made Liu Meng and Lu Xiuyuan secretly astonished, the blood vine could actually actively recover the loss of its vitality.

Looking at the blood absorbed by the blood vine wood, they both realized that this might be the self-protection mechanism of the blood vine wood. It does not allow its own life essence to leak out. Even if it is cut down, it will reintegrate that power into its body. Liu Meng and Lu Xiuyuan were both amazed at the magic of this sea of ​​trees. This blood vine wood has been around for so long that it seems to have developed intelligence and mobilized all its cultivation to fight against Liu Meng.

Seeing the blood vine fluid being absorbed, Liu Meng suddenly turned to Lu Xiuyuan and shouted, "Don't just sit there and meditate, come and help! We have to cut down and collect these blood vine trees as soon as possible, otherwise our hard work may be wasted."