Practice begins with immortality

After a while, the demon spirit arrived at a wasteland. As black light flashed, the space above the wasteland began to distort, and then a cave appeared in the middle of the wasteland. The demon spirit immediately entered, and then the cave flickered again, transforming into the wasteland it had been before.

After entering the cave, the demon spirit came to an underground palace, which was his base.

"Disciple, come out and help me!" the demon spirit shouted anxiously.

"Okay, I'll come out and help you." A somewhat stiff voice came out, and then Xiao Miao came out of the underground palace and flew towards the demon spirit. Then a powerful force emerged from his body, and it actually trapped the demon spirit directly.

"Ah! Bastard! You actually!!!" Mo Mai said in horror.

"I didn't expect you to be so weak. God must be helping me!" An old voice that did not fit Xiao Miao's image as a young man came out of his mouth.

"I clearly left a ball of mana control on you—wait, you're not Xiao Miao, who are you?"

"That ball of mana, you mean the mana filled with ghostly energy? Speaking of which, I have to thank you."

"what?"

"If it weren't for the power of those ghosts, I would probably continue to sleep. To thank you, please die!" Then, "Xiao Miao" grabbed the ghost pill of the evil spirit and began to refine it.

"You! Ah!!! My cultivation! Stop it!!!"

"You have gone to great lengths to devour the souls and blood of the monks to restore your mana. I still have some use for you."

"Don't even think about it! They're mine! They're mine!"

"What kind of waves can a mere Jindan ghost cultivator create?"

"No!! Senior, please let me go. I am willing to offer a wisp of my soul for you to command."

"Your spirit? Now it's mine!"

"No!!! Please, I beg you, or I'll be completely annihilated and won't even have the chance to reincarnate!"

"So?" Before he finished speaking, the demon spirit's ghost pill and soul were completely refined. After the demon spirit howled, it completely dissipated in this world, leaving only two storage bags.

"Kid, I have done what I promised you. I will use this soul essence to repair my injuries later. Now I will return my body to you." After the old voice finished speaking, Xiao Miao felt his soul was in a trance, and he regained control of his body.

"Thank you, Master Xuan!" Xiao Miao said cautiously.

He originally found a mysterious branch in a relic. At that time, he only thought it was a kind of wood-attributed spiritual material, so he carried it with him.

Later, he was captured by an evil spirit, which left a ball of magic power on him to prevent him from escaping. However, by chance, the magic power was absorbed by the branch, leading him to meet the mysterious remnant spirit who called himself Tian Xuanzi. Xiao Miao called it Xuan Lao.

Based on their conversations over time, Xiao Miao had a rough idea of ​​his origins. Tian Xuanzi was a cultivator born in the South Sea immortal world a thousand years ago. He left his homeland and traveled to Nanyan Continent, where he cultivated to the perfection of the Nascent Soul stage. Later, while attempting to achieve a breakthrough to the Divine Transformation stage, he was ambushed, his spirit damaged. Forced to sleep in the branches of the Soul-Nourishing Tree, he finally recovered after a thousand years of recovery, aided by the magic power of that ball.

I took him as my master and made a vow to wait until I reached the Nascent Soul stage to find a complete soul-nourishing wood and a portion of the resurrection water to rebuild his body.

"Little ghost, I will teach you a Yin-type technique that can be cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage. It's called the Mysterious Netherworld Atlas, also known as the Mysterious Yin Sutra. Forget about the Netherworld Ghost Technique you practiced before. It's just the way of demons and ghosts."

"After you break through the foundation-building stage, go to the South Sea. I left a few caves there, one of which contains a Heaven-Reinforcing Pill, which is enough to upgrade your upper-grade Yin spiritual roots to the highest-grade spiritual roots."

"So there really are treasures in this world that can improve spiritual root aptitude. By the way, Master, are there even higher aptitudes above the top-grade spiritual roots?"

"Of course, those with spiritual roots above the highest grade are called spiritual bodies. Those people are generally concentrated in the center of a continent, and there are even people who have reached the Dan stage in their forties or fifties."

"Alright, now find a place to practice peacefully and break through the foundation building stage. I'm going to sleep for a while. As for the two storage bags, if you're not afraid of the sinister tactics inside, feel free to take them."

After that, Xiao Miao left directly. Naturally, he would not touch the storage bag. He was just a minor Qi-refining cultivator. If any tricks were used, he would definitely die. It was better to be careful in everything.

Just half a minute after Xiao Miao left, Wang Bai also came to the underground palace.

"It seems he was seriously injured and dissipated." Wang Bai judged, sensing the scattered magical energy in the underground palace and the two storage bags on the ground. Then he put away the storage bags on the ground and left.