Chapter 18 Bottleneck
The week after, Liang Yan refined all three spirit gathering pills, and the speed of absorbing spiritual energy increased slightly. Coupled with the sufficient spiritual power of the spiritual spring and the nourishment of purple energy, the speed of cultivation is far beyond what it was before.
Since knowing that Zhuo Bufan invited him to the cave, Wang Yuan's attitude towards Liang Yan has become obviously much kinder, and even the sect's resources that he had withheld were actually returned to him. Of course, Li Dali and Sun Qianli were not as lucky as him, and there was still no hope of receiving the spirit stones and spirit-gathering pills they deserved.
This also made Liang Yan sneer in his heart, and he realized how despicable Wang Yuan was. However, Li Dali was optimistic and easy-going by nature, and Sun Qianli would never talk to Wang Yuan because he had the secret of Lingquan Cave. What kind of conflict will arise?
Compared with other lines, the formation disciples are quite peaceful due to their sparse personnel and simple relationships. Liang Yan worked every morning, learned formations in the afternoon, and went to Lingquan Cave to practice in the evening. Due to the nourishing purple energy in the Lingquan, he even spent a lot of time sleeping, and he often only slept for a few hours after three or four days. In the middle of every month, he would help Zhuo Bufan make elixirs in exchange for three spirit-gathering pills.
The life of cultivation is actually extremely boring. Liang Yan repeats the same thing day after day.
Three years have passed in the blink of an eye.
On this night, in the Lingquan Cave, a young man in gray clothes was sitting cross-legged, with his hands flat and his face serious.
This person is Liang Yan. Compared with three years ago, he is much taller and taller. At this moment, the spiritual power in his body was surging, wandering around his limbs and bones, and the aura on his body was gradually rising. He was about to reach a critical value. Suddenly, the spiritual power in his body became uncontrollable and chaotic, and it ran rampant through his internal organs. Liang Yan opened his mouth and spit out a stream of blood, and his breath quickly became weak.
“I didn’t expect that I still fell short.” Liang Yan smiled slightly bitterly.
He had reached the peak of the third level of Qi training two years ago with the help of the spiritual power of the spiritual spring and purple energy, as well as the help of the extraordinary spirit-gathering pill. In the past two years, he has used the opportunity of Qi perfection countless times to break through the bottleneck of the third level of Qi training. But in exchange it was indeed countless failures.
In the past two years, in addition to the rapid progress in understanding the battle method, his own cultivation has always stayed at the peak of the third level of Qi training, with almost no progress!
"Did that temptress really get it right? My natural aptitude is so poor that I will never be able to break through the third level of Qi training in this life?" Thinking of what Master Yixing Pavilion said, I couldn't help but feel depressed.
However, Liang Yan immediately stabilized his mood, "Humph! The difficulty of cultivation is like sailing against the current and building a ladder to reach the sky. I had known that it would be difficult and dangerous, how could I give up so easily."
"Yes. It’s the barrier-breaking pill I heard about last time!”
In the past two years, Liang Yan has repeatedly failed to break through the third level of Qi training. He also asked some of his classmates for ways to break through the bottleneck. Although most of them were impossible for him to achieve, he did know a method called "Breaking Barriers". Dan" elixir.
This elixir is said to have a certain effect on monks in the Qi refining stage to break through bottlenecks. Of course, the higher the cultivation level, the smaller the effect. By the time you reach the seventh or eighth level of Qi training, the effect is almost zero. .
Liang Yan took a deep breath, stabilized the spiritual power in his body, and thought to himself: It seems that the only way to get a barrier-breaking pill is to try.
To obtain elixirs within the sect, you have to go to the Dan Pavilion to redeem them with contribution points. For contribution points, you need to go to the lobby of the White Tiger Hall of the sect to receive tasks and obtain them after completing them. Most of the tasks in the White Tiger Hall are released by the monks within the sect, and they use their own contribution points as rewards to recruit others. Of course, there are also some tasks issued by the sect itself. Such tasks often have extremely high contribution points and are correspondingly more dangerous.
However, the sect stipulates that only disciples from the inner and outer sects can go to the White Tiger Hall to receive tasks. As a handyman disciple, Liang Yan is not qualified to receive the tasks at all, and of course he cannot obtain contribution points to go to the Dan Pavilion. Exchanged it for Barrier Breaking Pill.
"Wouldn't this be an endless cycle?" Liang Yan was annoyed, but he had nothing to do. While he was frowning, suddenly something flashed in his mind,
"That's right! Three years have passed. Counting the time, it's time for Uncle Lin Fei to go down the mountain to hold an auction. If There might be barrier-breaking pills for sale at the auction. "
The more Liang Yan thought about it, the more likely it was, and he made up his mind to go see Master Lin immediately after completing the task of being a handyman disciple tomorrow.
The next afternoon, a young man was standing in front of the courtyard of a secluded attic. He stood with his hands down and his face was very respectful.
This person is Liang Yan. When he came here, he was very worried. After all, he hadn't seen him for three years, so he might not even know if Lin Fei still had an impression of him. Although the old monk had helped Lin Fei back then, Lin Fei had also fulfilled his promise and introduced himself to the sect for the old monk. It was already settled. Whether he would help him this time could only depend on God's will.
While thinking about this, a maid suddenly walked out of the courtyard, nodded slightly to him, and said, "Lin Shangxian invites you, come in with me."
These servants in the elder's cave are all mortals. Most of them have no spiritual roots, cannot cultivate at all, and have limited knowledge. These immortal cultivators are only collectively referred to as superior immortals.
Liang Yan followed the maid into the attic and walked into a room in the west wing. The decoration was simple. There was a pot of warm tea on a square wooden table. Behind the table sat a Confucian scholar in Tsing Yi, looking at him with a smile. .
Liang Yan's heart trembled, and he stepped forward and saluted: "Liang Yan, a disciple of Zhenmai's handyman, has met Uncle Lin." "Haha, no need to be polite! Nephew Liang Xian, he has been in the sect for the past three years. How are you doing?”
"I asked my uncle to take care of me, everything is fine."
"That's good," Lin Fei said with a smile: "Speaking of which, if the old man hadn't come to the rescue, there would be no Lin today. I just helped him with a little effort, but I still feel indebted."
Liang Yan felt that he was in a surprisingly good mood today, and after observing it for a while, he understood: "No wonder. Yes, it turns out that Uncle Lin has just broken through to the middle stage of foundation building not long ago."
"Nephew Liang is here today, but what's the matter?"
"Yes, the disciple is having trouble practicing now. When we reached the bottleneck, we barely made any progress. I heard that Master Lin was going down to hold an auction, and I wanted to ask Master Lin to take his disciples with him so that he could purchase some elixirs for cultivation.”
"I see," Lin Fei nodded and said, "You servant disciples cannot accept the task of White Tiger Hall, so naturally you have no contribution points to exchange for elixirs. And the sect stipulates that disciples in the Qi refining period are not allowed to go down the mountain at will, so you Come to me."
"Uncle Mingjian, I have no choice but to do so!"
"Haha! , It doesn’t matter! You are the descendant of the old man, I can still do this little thing.”
Liang Yan said happily: “Junior, thank you Master Lin for helping me!”
Lin Fei. Waving his hand, he suddenly thought of something and said: "By the way, I heard Junior Sister Zhou say last time that you seemed to have joined the formation?"
Liang Yan didn't know what he meant by this, so he could only nod his head and said: "Yes, the disciple likes the formation very much, so he chose to join the formation."
Lin Fei sighed: "The people in the formation are withering. , Nowadays, the number of outer disciples is very small, and the handyman disciples heard that there are only two of them. Counting you, there are only three of them. At that time, the ancestor's unique skills were not understood by many in later generations. "
Lin Fei sighed for a while, and then asked: "Since you have joined the formation, have you spent time to learn the formation?"
"The disciple is not talented because he was with the pavilion master back then. I have made a six-year agreement and pushed myself to read and learn the formation day and night, but now I am still somewhat familiar with it.”
“Then do you know the Heavenly Eye Formation?”
Liang Yan frowned, but still said: "Disciple knows a thing or two. This Heavenly Eye Formation is a monitoring formation. It can observe people's reality and reality, and break some disguises and seclusion techniques."
Lin Fei was satisfied. He nodded and said: "Yes, it seems that you are not There is no time to waste." Then he said: "Since you know the Heavenly Eye Formation, can you help arrange a simple formation at the entrance of the auction venue. There have been troubles caused by evil cultivators near Cuishan recently, and I am afraid that someone will sneak into the auction venue."
“Although this disciple Although my level is limited, I am still willing to give it a try."
"Haha, okay!" Lin Fei said with a smile, "Don't worry, as long as you arrange it properly and the auction is successfully completed, I won't treat you badly. You, take twenty spiritual stones as your "How about the reward?"
Of course Liang Yan didn't have any objections. The two talked again, and Lin Fei finally said: "Okay, you go back and make preparations. We will leave in three days." Cuishan.”
Liang Yan stood up and said goodbye. On the way back to the dormitory, he had secretly made up his mind that he must use this opportunity to get the Barrier-Breaking Pill, otherwise he might have to wait another three years!
(End of this chapter)