Chapter 110 The middle stage of foundation building (Thanks to Leader Li Xuanmeng!)
"The Thirteenth Layer of Evergreen Secret."
Ning Daoran carefully felt the vastness of the magic power in his body, which was long and deep.
Changqing Jue is indeed a wonderful skill, honest and full of foundation.
It's a pity that his ninth-grade miscellaneous spiritual roots are like a big mountain lying across his immortal path. After establishing the foundation, it is very difficult to break through the levels every time.
At this time, Ning Daoran's realm was infinitely close to the late stage of the early stage of foundation building.
It can be called the "Dzogchen in the early stage of foundation building" or the "mid-stage foundation building in half steps".
He is not in a hurry. He established the foundation at the age of forty and is now fifty-six years old.
In the early stage of foundation building, he only stayed for sixteen years, which is normal for monks in the foundation building stage.
Throughout the ages, the ages of many great monks who have established foundations and advanced to the Golden Elixir stage have basically ranged from eighty to one hundred and forty years old.
An old golden elixir like Gong Yangyan who is one hundred and eighty years old is an anomaly, while the age of the master Jiang Yu's elixir formation is one hundred years old, which is just on the threshold of achieving a golden elixir at the age of 100.
Ning Daoran knew that his talent was dull and he was no match for his senior sister. If he worked steadily, he would be the most successful at forming pills when he was around 150 years old.
……
In the early morning, clouds filled the air on Qibi Peak.
Ning Daoran walked out of the small building and walked to the fish pond in the backyard.
"Little Heizi!"
"Zhizhi~~~"
There was a tail spin in the water, and most of the head of the big black fish came out of the water, looking like it was ready for death at any moment.
Ning Daoran secretly praised him for his strong desire to survive.
"Your cultivation is a little slow."
He frowned: "Old deer has been building a foundation for several years. What are you thinking? Do you think it's fun to feed you good food and drink?"
"Squeak!"
Xiao Heizi was so frightened that the scales on his body stood up, and he yelled, saying that he would work harder to practice.
"Hmph!"
Ning Daoran snorted coldly, raised his hand and pulled out the Qiu Shui Sword. With a whirl of sword light, he chopped off a piece of monster meat weighing at least fifty kilograms from the storage bag.
There are even some dragon scales on this piece of monster meat.
"Go on!"
The monster meat with dragon scales flew out, and Xiao Heizi immediately opened his mouth and swallowed it in one gulp.
In an instant, Xiao Heizi's eyes widened. The meat tasted so delicious. It was the best thing he had never eaten in his life.
"This is the black dragon meat from the late stage of foundation building."
Ning Daoran patted the storage bag lightly and said: "Except for the head, the entire body of this black dragon is with me. I will feed you a piece of black dragon meat every few days."
His smile gradually faded, his eyes became evil, and he smiled and said: "If you still haven't made any progress after eating the whole black dragon, then serve it."
"Zhizhizhi~~~"
Xiao Heizi was so scared that he trembled all over. He almost stood up in the water and started spinning wildly, saying that he would break through the level as soon as possible.
"Hmph!"
Ning Daoran smiled and turned to look after Lingmi.
The new crop of purple jade rice seedlings has grown.
Ning Daoran rolled up his sleeves, carried a hoe, put an ox yoke for plowing around the neck of the big stupid deer, hugged a brand-new plow, and followed his elder brother on the road.
"Chen Weimo!"
Ning Daoran turned around and said loudly: "Lao Lu and I went to plant rice seedlings. You come here at noon to deliver food to us and cook two chickens. If you don't eat bean sprouts at noon today, I will vomit!"
"I know, uncle!"
Chen Weimo replied with a smile and quickly went to prepare the ingredients.
On Qibi Peak, farming began in full swing.
Huangshan, Ma Quanyou, Qin Xiang and others also led their tribesmen to plant rice seedlings. Soon, the rice seedlings in several spiritual fields on Qibi Peak were like smoke, swaying in the wind, which was refreshing.
……
A fulfilling day has passed.
Late at night, in a secret room twenty feet underground, Ning Daoran was holding a pile of formation books that he had "picked up" from a stall in Huanglongfang City, looking forward to researching something different.
In the dead of night.
"Buzz..."
Suddenly, there was a ripple in the formation restriction buried underground in the Little Cloud and Mist Formation, which was the result of the fluctuation of the power of the formation.
"What's going on?"
Ning Daoran frowned and spread his consciousness to scan out.
The situation was discovered immediately.
Someone is actually digging a tunnel under Qibi Peak. What are they trying to do? ?
Not long after, the thin restriction under the Xiaoyunmist Formation was directly broken, followed by a strong aura of spiritual insects.
It was a spiritual insect about the size of a fist, covered with golden veins.
It actually gnawed a hole through the formation restriction underground, and opened a hole in Ning Daoran's room.
Is it unreasonable to drill holes into your home?
Ning Daoran activated the breath-containing method without revealing a single breath.
The spirit insect quickly gnawed open the wall.
At this time, Ning Daoran also saw clearly the true face of this spiritual insect in Lushan.
It was a jade mole cricket, a spiritual insect that ranked number 3,000 on the insect list.
It has little effect, it is good at digging holes in the ground, and it has a certain restraint effect on low-level formation restrictions.
"Squeak!"
Jade Molecule saw Ning Daoran at a glance.
Immediately afterwards, a figure followed behind the jade cricket, and barged in with a disgraceful face, full of demonic aura.
"Ah!?"
The man was shocked and looked at the room in front of him in disbelief.
"Buzz——"
Between the electric light and flint, the gun light bloomed continuously! The first shot cut the jade cricket that rushed forward into two, and the second shot directly pierced the heart of the demonic man who broke into his room.
Search for souls!
“Shiss~~~”
Wisps of soul condensed into the appearance of the person who had just died, with confusion and annoyance in his eyes.
The excavation route should not pass through Qibi Peak. How could he have thought that he could still dig out living people at a depth of twenty feet underground?
Whose normal people live so deep underground?
"Who are you?" Ning Daoran began to search for souls and interrogate him.
"My name is Yang Chunbo, a disciple of the Tiansha Sect..."
The other party's soul has heavy whites in its eyes, is shaking, and knows everything.
Soon, Ning Daoran learned that the other party was an inner disciple of the Tiansha Sect, at the ninth level of Qi Refining.
He is good at breathing techniques and divine movement techniques, and has always been responsible for high-risk tasks such as spying and undercover in the sect.
This person volunteered and told the deputy sect leader that he could sneak into the Chaos Sect without anyone noticing and find out what was going on underground in the Chaos Sect.
As for why the Tiansha Sect sent people to the Chaos Sect to inquire about information, it was simply to take action against the Chaos Sect.
Then combine some of the details from before.
Ouyang Kun, the young master of the Tiansha Sect, disguised himself as "Fang Ye", a casual cultivator, to explore the land of Yinsha and look for the valuable treasures in the land.
And even the leader of the Tsing Yi Society is actually a demon cultivator from the Tiansha Sect.
In addition, Lin Chi from the Soul-Eating Sect went on a killing spree in the Cangnan Secret Realm and so on.
Various signs indicate that the infiltration of the demonic path did not happen overnight. They may have started the layout many years ago.
You have to tell Jiang Yu about this.
……
late at night.
Zixiao Peak, Jiangyu Cave Mansion.
"Junior brother, drink tea."
Jiang Yu made tea himself and sat opposite Ning Daoran.
She glanced at the corpse of the demon disciple not far away and said: "Did you sneak into our Chaos Sect from the underground at midnight to explore the location of the underground formation of the Tiangang Hundred Lies Formation in the inner mountain and find the weakness of the Tiangang Hundred Lies Formation?"
"Senior sister is really knowledgeable and insightful."
Ning Daoran praised: "I can see the key to the problem at a glance. Unlike the old deer, it can't figure out what's going on even if I remind it many times."
“Ouch~~~”
Beside him, the big stupid deer nudged him with his head, indicating that he had already guessed a little bit.
Jiang Yu smiled.
"Junior brother, what are you doing living twenty feet underground?" she asked suddenly.
Ning Daoran frowned: "Sister, don't ask these irrelevant things, let's talk about serious things."
"Yeah."
Jiang Yu sat upright and said with a smile: "Actually, I have mastered a lot of the tricks of the Qingzhou Demonic Way over the years. Naturally, I also know the ambitions of the Demonic Way, especially the Soul-Eating Cult.
This soul-eating old demon has long been dissatisfied with the status quo, and wants to break the balance and let the demon take charge of Qingzhou. The senior sister has been watching this matter, and the junior brother does not need to pay too much attention. ”
She narrowed her beautiful eyes: "Even if the demonic path really attacks, the Chaos Sect, Xingyue Pavilion, Steel Gate Sect and other sects will join forces to fight and have the ability to protect themselves."
"It turns out that senior sister had already planned it."
Ning Daoran was a little embarrassed: "It seems that I am worrying too much."
"The information provided by junior brother is also very useful. I can probably guess the time when the demonic path will move south."
Jiang Yu's eyes were full of worry: "The Qingzhou Demonic Path is heading south, and the Burning Sea Sect in the north of the righteous path is bearing the brunt. I wonder if Old Monster Tianhai can turn the tide..."
Afterwards, Jiang Yu did not reveal any more information.
There is no need for Ning Daoran, the foundation-building elder, to know too much about matters at the upper levels.
The devil is brewing to invade, and Ning Daoran no longer cares about it.
……
On Qibi Peak, one person and one deer still lived a happy life growing spiritual rice and practicing steadily.
Time flies, four years pass by in a hurry.
This year, Ning Daoran was sixty years old and had been building the foundation for twenty years.
Inside the Lingpu Cave.
He sighed deeply. He had no time to practice, and time passed by too fast, which made him feel a little sad.
At this time, the accumulated time of intensive cultivation has reached more than 50,000, and it is time to hit the level of Evergreen Art again!
"Old Lu, I'm going to practice."
He shouted: "Go and loosen the soil for the Tianyuan fruit tree."
“Ouch~~~”
The stupid deer farted away.
Ning Daoran sat cross-legged on the bare round tree roots in front of the wooden house, slowly closed his eyes, and poured his refined time into the Evergreen Art.
Suddenly, his body sank, as if he had fallen into a deep forest.
[In the fourteenth thousand years, you have become one with the deep forest. Sitting under the tree, you are like an old tree. The birds and animals in the mountain regard you as nothing, but the practice of Evergreen Jue has once again stopped moving forward]
[You know that you need time to accumulate, so you are not arrogant or impatient]
[In the 33400th year, an old Nascent Soul monster passed by. He found you hiding in the forest and practiced. He shouted, "Evergreen Jue is on the 13th level. This child must not be left here." Then he launched an attack on you. Your pursuit】
[You transformed into a tree root and kept escaping in the depths of the earth, finally escaping with your life]
[In the 51300th year, the old monster Yuanying who was chasing you has long since returned to his ashes. You came to his sect, smashed the ancestral hall to pieces, and then transformed into a powerful ancient tree that reached the sky. Tree, kill all his disciples and grandchildren】
[You feel extremely happy, and the problem of Evergreen Technique that has puzzled you for tens of thousands of years has been solved]
[Evergreen Jue. Top Grade Earth Level (Fourteenth Floor)]
【Foundation Building (mid-term)】
[Remaining time for intensive cultivation: six thousand four hundred and twenty-two years]
……
Ning Daoran slowly opened his eyes, and suddenly a powerful mana poured into his body!
Finally, it’s been promoted to the middle stage of foundation building!
(End of chapter)