My Optimized Immortal Life

Heavy snow was flying all over the sky, covering the entire Ziyun Mountain. The lush green pines of the past were no longer seen, but the sky was covered with white snow, giving it a unique sense of vastness.

"It's snowing again."

Xu Lingxin stretched out her hand to catch a snowflake floating in the air, and watched it melt in her hand. A smile appeared between her brows, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

Chen Qingze stood beside her, looking at the heavy snow falling all over the sky, but there was a rare depth in his eyes.

Xu Lingxin turned her head to glance at Chen Qing, and seeing that he was still looking at the sky, she did not say anything, but gently put her arms around him.

"fine."

Chen Qing couldn't think any more now. He could only smile bitterly and let Xu Lingxin hug him.

Ever since Zuo Ze destroyed the defense line of Pingxiang Prefecture, the righteous alliance in the Song State's immortal cultivation world was like a desperate dog that was stepped on. Not only did they recapture Pingxiang Prefecture within a month after the defense line collapsed, they even fought back for a while. However, they only advanced to the area of ​​one or two prefectures before withdrawing.

On the surface, this move greatly boosted the confidence of the righteous monks, but in the eyes of those who were concerned, it was not the case.

Originally, there were only three Jindan-level sects and one Yuanying-level sect in the Song Kingdom's world of immortal cultivation. In terms of high-end strength, they were far inferior to the two invading demonic Yuanying-level sects.

The victory on the front battlefield was only due to the advantage in the number of low-level monks.

Although the Demonic Path suffered some losses in this battle, it officially established a foothold in the territory of Song. Next, if the Tianyuan Sect and other sects still want to force the Demonic Path out of Song, it will inevitably fall into a protracted war.

This also means that the Song Dynasty will most likely be divided into two parts by good and evil, and the situation where the Tianyuan Sect once ruled the Song Dynasty alone will be gone forever.

Chen Qing got the news from Qingsong Sanren not long ago.

When he learned the news, he was not surprised. In his expectation, this was one of the best possible scenarios.

The evil and the righteous jointly divided the Song State, which was bound to lead to constant friction between the two sides. Even if there would not be a large-scale war like at the beginning, there would definitely be small-scale conflicts at the border between the two sides.

For Chen Qing, this means stability. As long as both sides are in this state where you can't do anything to me and I can't solve you, it can provide him with a sufficiently stable training environment, allowing him to successfully practice to the perfection of Qi Refining and even break through the Foundation Establishment.

Thinking of this, Chen Qing couldn't help but smile bitterly. It had been several years since he traveled through time, but he had bad luck. When he was in Maple Valley, he encountered Zuo Ze leading the demon cultivators to attack the market. When he was in Qiuye Island, he encountered the disaster of the demon invasion. He fled all the way until now. To be honest, the time he spent quietly practicing was only three or four years. But in these three or four years, he practiced from the third level of Qi Refining to the sixth level of Qi Refining. This speed might be slightly slower than those cultivators with natural spiritual roots, but it was definitely faster than a lot of casual cultivators.

As for now, only after coming to Ziyun Mountain did Chen Qing finally settle down. Although the concentration of spiritual energy here was insufficient, he was no longer the third-level casual cultivator who would break a spirit stone in half.

With the dual help of formations and elixirs, Chen Qing officially reached perfection in the sixth level of Qi Refining three days ago. Today, he is ready to break through to the seventh level of Qi Refining and enter the late stage of Qi Refining.

After standing on the top of the mountain with Xu Lingxin for a while, Chen Qing took her back to the cave. After explaining his preparations for breaking through to the late stage, Chen Qing plunged into the retreat room and asked Xu Lingxin to keep an eye on the cave formation.

Sitting cross-legged on the cushion, Chen Qing closed his eyes and looked inward at his dantian, only to see a space about ten feet in size shining brightly in his spiritual consciousness.

Countless thick magical powers gathered in the dantian, filling it up.

Chen Qing took a deep breath, and many key points of breaking through the bottleneck in the later stage immediately flowed through his mind.

Although he is almost certain of this breakthrough, he will not be careless. Instead, he will prepare in the best condition.

After regulating his breathing for a while and waiting for his own condition to reach the best, Chen Qing began to practice the Earth Fire Transformation Technique, mobilizing his magic power in his dantian and circulating it through his meridians.

"open!"

A low sigh sounded in his heart, and then he felt a meridian gate in his body suddenly opened up under the impact of the strong magic power. The magic power rushed in like a torrent, and immediately circulated in the meridians all over the body, connecting all the meridians in the body together.

The main purpose of practicing during the Qi Refining Stage is to improve the magic power and open up the meridians, perfecting the circulation of the exercises in the meridians in the body, so as to increase the speed of the cultivator's absorption of spiritual energy and conversion of magic power.

In the early stage of Qi Refining, the Fiery Fire Power that Chen Qing practiced had only a small circulation in his body. After breaking through the fourth level, he opened up an important meridian, forming a second small circulation in his body, and now it is the third small circulation.

After getting familiar with how the magic power circulated in the newly opened meridians, Chen Qing immediately made several hand gestures and changed the order in which the skills circulated in his body.

What followed was the reversal of the magic power in the body's meridians.

The third small circulation of meridians in the body was instantly filled with magic power, but this was not the end. Soon, the surging magic power entered the second small circulation, connecting the second small circulation with the third small circulation, and then incorporating the first small circulation into it.

This is one of the reasons why the mana reserves of cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining far exceed those of cultivators in the middle and early stages.

The meridian circulations opened up in the body are connected together in the later stages of Qi Refining, forming a large meridian circulation in the body.

In this great cycle, the spiritual energy absorbed by the cultivator will travel throughout the body, and finally converge into the dantian to form magic power.

This may seem to increase the time a cultivator spends practicing, but in fact it is not the case. The large circulation of meridians in the body has a much greater ability to absorb spiritual energy than the small circulation, and because it spreads throughout the body, it can also better absorb the remaining medicinal power in the elixir.

As Chen Qing broke through, the spiritual energy around him was also attracted and continued to gather around him. Under the operation of the skills, it was continuously absorbed into Chen Qing's body and transformed into magic power.

An hour later, the spiritual energy around Chen Qing suddenly dispersed, a gleam of light suddenly flashed in his eyes, and the fluctuations of magic power all over his body gradually calmed down.

It took Chen Qing almost an hour to stabilize the realm he had just broken through.

He stretched his body and relaxed his legs which were numb from sitting cross-legged, then he stood up and walked out of the retreat room.

Inside the cave, Xu Lingxin was sitting on a stone chair, her beautiful eyes fixed on the door of the retreat room, obviously worried about Chen Qing.

Although she knew that Chen Qing had a deep cultivation base and that breaking through this bottleneck should not be a problem, she still couldn't help but worry.

Suddenly, the door of the retreat room opened, and a figure in a long gown walked out with a steady breath.

Seeing this, Xu Lingxin secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

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