Qiu Zu: From an apprentice in a medicine shop to an immortal ancestor.

Chapter 112: The Storm Ceases! Jade Liquid Golden Body

Seeking Truth Valley.

"You lickspittle!"

Qiu Zhen took the ancient bronze seal emitting brilliant golden light from Xiao Zaozi's hand, feeling very speechless.

After the hunter who called himself Mei Qingshan left, the golden light emanating from the Mountain God Seal became even more dazzling, as if afraid that Mei Wulang wouldn't sense it.

This ancient bronze seal usually ignored ordinary people, but when facing someone who truly possessed a "fated destiny," it was incredibly proactive, like a peacock spreading its tail.

Unfortunately, with the blessed land concealing it and his own concealment talisman, Mei Qingshan couldn't possibly sense "its" existence.

At most, Mei Qingshan would have some inexplicable feeling in the dark.

"A fated genius with a great destiny actually appeared in the Qingmu territory."

Qiu Zhen was surprised and vaguely understood why, over the past year, the Myriad Gods Alliance's attention to him had been lukewarm, and their support hadn't been greatly increased.

On the one hand, there was the reason of his master, An Jishi, but perhaps the biggest reason was that the Myriad Gods Alliance had found "Mei Qingshan."

Born as a hunter, with no background or support.

No matter how you looked at it, Mei Qingshan was more worthy of investment than him.

If he were in their shoes, he would also choose to fully support Mei Qingshan.

"Compete for destiny? Who is competing for destiny with you..."

Qiu Zhen shook his head, secretly amused.

To conform is to be mortal, to defy is to be immortal.

As a cultivator, he believed in seeking truth through cultivation, transcending the ordinary, and controlling his own destiny, not valuing the illusory Mandate of Heaven.

Furthermore, he didn't have a "great destiny" himself, so he couldn't compete for it.

"Waving the banner of destiny is indeed useful, but unfortunately, trouble has also come."

Qiu Zhen played with the ancient bronze seal in his hand, and without realizing it, it had stopped emitting golden light and turned back into ordinary scrap metal.

The fated genius with a destiny had already been revealed, whether it was true or not, people similar to Mei Qingshan would inevitably come to his door in the future to "compete for destiny" with him.

"Forget it, I'll face soldiers with generals and water with earth, am I afraid of them!"

Qiu Zhen pondered for a moment, soon not caring.

Break all laws with one force.

With higher cultivation, geniuses like "Mei Qingshan" would be small troubles.

Qiu Zhen entered a state of tranquility, introspecting his spirit, and deducing with his primordial spirit Dharma body.

"The early stage of Refining Essence into Qi is expected to be completed in three years."

The early stage of Refining Essence into Qi, in martial arts, is called the "Innate True Qi Realm," and in the path of cultivating the spirit, it is called the "Night Wandering God," but they are essentially the same.

He cultivated both body and soul, refining acquired essence into innate qi using the [Dragon-Tiger Intercourse Method].

He refined his form in the physical body, with innate true qi flowing throughout his body;

If the Yin spirit left the body, the innate qi would condense into a "Night Wandering God" between the virtual and the real.

This month, Qiu Zhen had focused his mind on deducing the [Mind Monkey Intent Horse Refining General Method], but he hadn't neglected his daily cultivation.

Not only had his superficial cultivation been stabilized, but his physical body refinement had also completely matched his own cultivation.

If Yun Rou Fairy saw this scene, she would probably be extremely envious.

Yun Rou Fairy didn't have the [Mind Monkey Intent Horse Refining General Method] to melt away baleful energy to conceal herself. Although she was cultivating a method of dual cultivation of body and soul, she didn't dare to properly cultivate the form refinement method and temper her physical body. From the outside, she still had the cultivation of an acquired martial artist.

Not only Yun Rou Fairy, but all other Daoists in the "Yin Spirit Realm" in the immortal cultivation world were like this.

Currently, Qiu Zhen was cultivating both body and soul, refining both form and Yin spirit, which could be considered having the style of ancient cultivators.

"Now that my cultivation is stable, I will continue to refine the essence of spiritual energy, improve my cultivation, and advance vigorously!"

Qiu Zhen felt Mei Qingshan's strength and felt a sense of urgency in his heart.

Although the other party said that he would wait until both sides had established their power before fighting for the Mandate of Heaven and achieving each other.

However, Qiu Zhen didn't fully believe it.

There were only so many people with the Mandate of Heaven. If Mei Wulang played dirty and killed him, and if he truly possessed luck, Mei Wulang would definitely be able to gather that luck.

In this way, his difficulty in becoming the one destined by Heaven would be much smaller.

No one could guarantee that Mei Wulang was an honorable person.

With this thought, Qiu Zhen stopped thinking and immersed his mind in the spiritual platform sea of consciousness.

In front of his primordial spirit Dharma body, there lay quietly clusters of spiritual light-filled "essence of spiritual energy."

These days, besides rewarding Bai Zhu and Xiao Zaozi with the essence of spiritual qi, he hadn't refined the "essence of spiritual energy" for cultivation, but only used the essence of spiritual qi to restore his primordial spirit and mana at the critical moment of deducing the [Mind Monkey Intent Horse Refining General Method].

Currently, he still had a large amount of spiritual energy essence that he hadn't used.

"One large cluster of spiritual qi essence, twelve small clusters of essence."

Qiu Zhen didn't hesitate and immediately refined them, starting to cultivate and improve his strength.

Qiu Zhen secluded himself and devoted himself to hard cultivation, ignoring worldly affairs.

However, Qingmu County and even Changle Prefecture were extremely lively.

After being beaten, Wei Tanzhi, the Demon Suppression Division's supervisor of Changle Prefecture, was extremely depressed. The next day, he submitted a memorial to the court, impeaching An Jishi for acting tyrannically, arbitrarily beating court officials, disregarding the law, and the great Jianghu sect of Yaowang Valley in Changle Prefecture for plotting rebellion, placing extremely large hats on them.

As soon as the memorial was submitted, it immediately caused a shocking wave.

Knights use martial arts to disrupt the ban.

Martial arts were prosperous, and the Jianghu forces were extremely large. Martial arts masters had always believed in their own martial strength and didn't obey discipline. The imperial court had always been wary of the Jianghu forces and even deliberately suppressed them.

After Wei Tanzhi's memorial was presented, the capital was shaken, winning the support of many officials and military generals who advocated suppressing and controlling the Jianghu forces, calling for attacks and killings.

Even military generals submitted memorials, requesting the court to allocate troops and actively volunteer to suppress Yaowang Valley and deter the Jianghu forces of the world.

The news caused an uproar in Changle Prefecture.

However, the wind of encirclement and suppression of Yaowang Valley didn't last long, and soon a new storm appeared in the court.

Some people began to impeach the Demon Suppression Division for being lawless, disregarding the law, committing countless crimes, harming all directions, causing resentment among the people, and angering the martial arts experts who had always been neutral, truly a scourge of the world.

From royal families to local wealthy families, which family didn't have excellent children, and who hadn't been harassed and threatened by the Demon Suppression Division.

All parties in the world had suffered from the Demon Suppression Division for a long time.

This matter may have become an opportunity. Those who usually dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak out, took this opportunity, and countless memorials impeaching the Demon Suppression Division flew to the capital like snowflakes.

For a time, the entire court was shaken by a shocking storm, with endless debates.

The two sides cursed each other from a distance, attacking each other, which was very lively.

Five days later.

The official in the palace couldn't sit still and issued an imperial decree.

An Jishi was stripped of his title and fined 10,000 taels of silver.

In those years, An Jishi had also served in the government and had a non-influential honorary title. Stripping him of his title and fining him 10,000 taels of silver was really painless, considered raising high and lowering gently.

This was how martial arts experts like An Jishi were treated in the court.

Either strike with thunder, or try to appease and win over.

As for those who cultivated outside the court, as long as they didn't plot rebellion, they would generally leave some face.

The punishment for the Demon Suppression Division of Changle Prefecture was different.

Lin Shoulong acted recklessly, perverted the law for personal gain, was removed from his position as Deputy Commander of the Demon Suppression Division of Changle Prefecture, demoted to Demon Suppression Centurion, and fined for three years;

Wei Tanzhi failed to supervise his subordinates and was derelict in his duties, fined for one year.

The court's move was to give each side fifty strokes, which at first glance was to mediate, but the direction revealed was undoubtedly obvious.

The day after the imperial decree was issued, two groups of guests came to Qiu Family Village.

One group was the housekeeper of Lin Shoulong, the Deputy Commander of the Demon Suppression Division, who came to apologize with a large pile of gifts, spiritual herbs, precious medicines, jewelry, jade, cloth, silk, and so on, with a total value of nearly three thousand taels of silver.

The other group was Wei Tanzhi's housekeeper.

The Wei family was rich and generous, and their gifts were even greater, sending treasures worth ten thousand taels of silver.

Seeking Truth Valley, martial arts training ground.

Qiu Zhen stood still, and a ray of sunlight shone on him, making his whole body seem to be cast in gold, emitting a faint golden light.

If others were here, they could see that between his hair and skin, there was a faint stream of true qi flowing, as if there was a "Golden Bell Cover" "Iron Shirt" protecting him, giving people a feeling of "indestructible" and immovable.

"Nine Revolutions Returning Pill, Jade Liquid Golden Body"

Qiu Zhen felt the "Innate True Qi" spread throughout his body, and his whole body was filled with a terrifying power, and he was pleasantly surprised.

Cultivating the Patriarch Lu's form refinement method [Nine Revolutions Returning Pill Skill], one can cultivate the most top-level form refinement hard skill—[Jade Liquid Golden Body].

Currently, as his power increased, he had more and more of the aura of the [Jade Liquid Golden Body].

"The early stage of [Refining Essence into Qi] is expected to be completed in one year and eight months."

Qiu Zhen introspected himself, and under the deduction of the primordial spirit Dharma body, the cultivation situation was clear at a glance.

Refining a large cluster of spiritual energy essence and twelve small clusters of spiritual energy essence saved one year and four months of hard cultivation. His power had gone a step further, and he was not far from the middle stage of [Refining Essence into Qi].

The middle stage of Refining Essence into Qi, in the martial arts physical body, is the "Innate True Gang Realm," and in the Yin spirit, it is the [Day Wandering God] realm.

Once the middle stage of [Refining Essence into Qi] is completed, the innate qi will condense and manifest, and one can initially practice the [Jade Liquid Golden Body].

Qiu Zhen couldn't help but think of his master, An Jishi, and the protective true gang he showed that day was also extraordinary.

"I don't know what my master's protective true gang is?"

Qiu Zhen couldn't help but be curious.

These days, he had been staying in Qiu Family Village and hadn't disturbed his master, An Jishi.

The reason was that beating court officials in person, no matter how lightly his master, An Jishi, put it, was not a trivial matter.

During this time, his master, An Jishi, and his mistress, Nan Zhiyi, were quite busy, so he naturally didn't ask for any advice.

And today, Wei Tanzhi and Lin Shoulong successively sent their housekeepers to send apologies.

Even if Qiu Zhen didn't know what had happened in the court, he guessed that this matter was probably over.

Moreover, Wei Tanzhi was probably the one who suffered the most.

"Young master, young master, Apothecary An sent someone over to ask you to go to the city."

While Qiu Zhen was thinking, Bai Zhu came hurriedly from outside the valley.

"Master summoned me? Did he say anything else?"

In the hazy white mist, Bai Zhu transformed into a pink and jade-carved little boy:

"I don't know either. I only heard the An residence servant say that people from Yaowang Valley have come, and Apothecary An asked senior brother to go to the city."

Yaowang Valley...

Qiu Zhen was slightly startled, and soon a faint smile appeared on his face.

He was a disciple of Yaowang Valley. In principle, once he broke through the innate realm, the Yaowang Valley mountain gate would definitely send someone.

There had been no movement for several days, obviously because of the Demon Suppression Division matter.

Now that the storm had stopped, Yaowang Valley had sent someone.

"Young master, what happened again?"

"It's okay, it's good news, someone is going to give us rewards and promotions."