Chapter 74: Refining the Golden Spirit Qi
In the village.
After listening to Brother Squidward’s bewildering words, all the team members, including Xie Shen, showed puzzled expressions.
Obviously.
Everyone present did not believe everything Squidward said.
Squidward didn't take it seriously.
He glanced at Xie Shen and others, and said meaningfully: "You don't believe it, do you?"
"Then just wait."
"There is resurrection anyway. As long as the skill is there, no one will die, and we will always see that day."
After saying this, Brother Squidward said no more.
He focused all his attention on the game console in his hand.
After Brother Squidward left, Xie Shen and other members of the team walked around the village called 'Mirror Rome'.
I don’t know why.
The village is always surrounded by extremely dense fog.
——This fog is not a supernatural phenomenon, but simply small water droplets condensed from water vapor.
Under the heavy fog, Xie Shen and others did not dare to explore the outskirts of the village.
After everyone stayed in the village for a while, they all stopped the operation of Turtle Breathing Technique and woke up one after another in the core of the thalamus.
In the water.
The moment they woke up, all the team members looked at Xue Guoer who was hugging Xie Shen in unison.
After feeling everyone's gaze, Xue Guoer immediately let go of Xie Shen as if she was electrocuted.
She blushed.
Perhaps out of shyness, she was the first to swim out of the huge glass cube after a few seconds.
Xie Shen and others followed closely behind.
"What a pity."
In the laboratory.
Seeing that everyone had returned safely, Li Xiu concluded: "This time we failed to find a way to completely eliminate the core of the thalamus from the other world. As a result, we can only continue to hide in the aura array and counterattack the tower prison for the time being. There’s no need to think about it.”
After hearing this, Xie Shen said, “There’s no need to rush to attack the tower prison.”
“I want to know now: what the octopus head said. Is everything true?"
"Will there really be more monsters invading the real world in the future?"
"And the 'it' in the octopus head's mouth, too? It’s an indescribable creature. Will that thing really come to reality? ”
"I don't know." Li Xiu shook his head and said, "All this can only be verified by time."
"Then."
"Just in case."
"In order to prevent everything the octopus head said from becoming true."
"I plan to make two preparations from now on."
Li Xiu continued: "First of all, the technology aspect: I will apply to the senior management to invest more resources in the development of white mist, and update all weapons and equipment, as well as mechas and prosthetics as much as possible."
“Then there is the aspect of cultivation: in addition to helping Xie Shen cultivate the five elements of spiritual energy, we also have to find a way to allow the other monks to break through to the later stage of Qi training, or even the foundation building stage as soon as possible.”
"In short, let's seize both cultivation and technology!"
…
In order to break through to the golden elixir stage as soon as possible to deal with the possible crisis.
Since Xie Shen left the inner world, he has been in seclusion in a secret room, just to cultivate the golden spirit energy from the flying sword.
At the same time.
Li Xiuze continues to send people to various parts of the world to find herbaceous plants that are more than 500 years old and can be used to nourish the spirit of the earth, as well as herbs that are used to nourish the spirit of the wood. Woody plants over 1000 years old.
Time passes.
In the blink of an eye, Xie Shen had been in seclusion in the secret room for nearly half a year.
At the beginning of the next year, when the Spring Festival was approaching, Li Xiu took the initiative to find Xie Shen and brought good news.
Surface human base.
Secret room outside.
Li Xiu spoke up and said to Xie Shen: "You asked me to find the trees that are over 1,000 years old. I have already had people get them."
"I found a total of three trees this time. tree.”
"Two of them were spruce trees, and the years were 938 and 1023 respectively."
"Then there was also a locust tree, but there was an accident during the transplant and it died."
"So I won't say more."
Li Xiu continued: "Then what you want is herbaceous plants that are more than 500 years old."
"Compared to It will be much easier to find herbs if the trees are up.”
"I had several Welwitschia plants transplanted to the base in the Namibian desert in Africa. They are basically about 500-600 years old."
"Yes, yes!" Xie Shen listened Then he said with a hint of excitement in his tone: "What about the 'Strange Fire'? That thing is also very important. Have you asked someone to get it done?"
"It's already being done." Li Xiu said calmly: "The fuel used to cultivate the 'extraordinary fire' in the base is natural gas."
"And it has been burning for more than half a year now."
"Okay, okay!" Hearing what Li Xiu said After saying this, Xie Shen hurriedly said: "Cultivation of 'different fire' is a matter of time and effort, there is no need to rush."
"Anyway, you just need to send someone to watch and don't let the fire go out."
"Yes." Li Xiu responded and then said: "And in the other world, I will occasionally send people to investigate. ”
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“In that village, only the octopus head and the collection of corpses are mentally normal, and there is really very little information that can be gleaned.”
“So our people went there several times, and they all Nothing gained.”
After briefly talking about the situation of the surface base, Li Xiu took his leave and left.
Xie Shen continued to stay in the secret room, cultivating the golden spirit in seclusion.
——So far, the golden spirit energy contained in his body has begun to take shape. It is light yellow and as thick as a hair.
When it is as thick as a finger and appears golden, it is considered complete.
…
Half a year and half a year.
Soon, Xie Shen had been in seclusion in the surface base for a whole year.
During this period, in addition to Yang Sihui who often came to accompany him, monks such as Bu Tianran would also come to see Xie Shen from time to time on the grounds of asking for advice.
As for Xue Guoer, a reformer, she also took the initiative to bother Xie Shen during this period, but was turned away every time.
In this way, it was at the end of 6149.
The thalamic sentinels around the human base on the surface suddenly became extremely active without warning.
Every night.
These sentries will spontaneously gather outside the spiritual light formation, and rush towards the light shield formed by the formation like crazy.
This goes on and on.
Whenever a sentry is strangled to death by the formation, a new sentry will be added immediately the next second.
In just one night, the corpses of the sentries could pile up like a hill.
The sight of it is shocking.
Maintaining the aura formation requires continuous consumption of ‘white mist’.
And every time the formation is impacted by the thalamic sentinel, the consumption rate of the white mist will be accelerated.
This causes the stock of white fog in the human base on the surface to decrease every day at a rate visible to the naked eye.
As the commander-in-chief of the base, Li Xiu finally couldn't hold himself any longer.
He went to Xie Shen's retreat to get help.
"The base is besieged by Thalamus Sentinels?"
In the secret room.
After Xie Shen understood the general situation, he said blankly: "No way? Aren't the thalamic core and thalamic sentinels not intelligent?" "Is it possible that someone is manipulating them behind the scenes?"
"For example, a dummy?"
"Or is it the 'it' in the mouth of the octopus's head that is causing mischief?"
"On this issue, I Someone has been sent to ask Octopus Head." Li Xiu replied: "According to his statement, the attack on our surface base by the Thalamus Sentinels was caused by unspeakable creatures."
"And. The intensity of these attacks will increase each time until our base is breached.”
At this point, Li Xiudao revealed the purpose of coming here: "I came to you just to ask how long it will take for you to be released from confinement?"
"No more than half a year at most." Xie Shen replied Said: "I have reached a critical moment in seclusion now."
"It's okay to occasionally get distracted and say a few words to you."
"But if I leave seclusion early, all the previous All efforts will be in vain.”
“So.”
Xie Shen was helpless: "In the next year, you can figure out a way on your own! In short, you must withstand it no matter what!"
"I understand"
Outside the secret room.
After Li Xiu gave a simple response, he hurriedly said goodbye and left.
…
Over the next three months or so, everything went as Octopus Head predicted: the thalamic sentinels attacking the surface base became more intense every time.
Hundreds from the beginning.
To thousands three months ago.
Today, the number of sentries attacking the base every night has reached tens of thousands.
Not only that.
In the recent attacks, a suspected 'leader-level' monster - the super giant thalamic core - appeared.
Its size is about 6 times that of the ordinary thalamic core.
At a glance.
It is densely packed with countless thalamic sentinels. According to a rough estimate, there are nearly 2,000 at least.
The appearance of the super giant thalamic core seems to be some kind of signal.
In the following days, the surface base was never attacked again. It could even be said that not even a thalamic sentinel appeared again.
Although the sentinels of the thalamus have been dormant for many days.
But everyone knows very well that this is just the calm before the storm.
The big one is coming
Late night.
Xie Shen, who was in seclusion in the secret room, suddenly opened his eyes.
He said calmly: "Is it Chao Jing?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the voice of a man in a suit coming from outside the secret room.
“You’ve already recognized me before I even spoke, okay!”
“You can tell it by listening to the footsteps.” Xie Shen said strangely: “How come it’s so late at night? , came to me suddenly? Is something wrong?”
"Yeah."
The man in the suit replied: "When it got dark tonight, the super giant thalamic core appeared again."
"And this time, there were many ordinary people around it. Thalamus cores."
"Those thalamic cores are gathering more and more outside the base, and they are like a giant."
"It feels like"
The man in the suit described: "It's like an army is gathering."
"As expected, they should be launching a general attack."
"This should be their strongest A wave of attacks."
"Then Li Xiu felt that we might not be able to stop him tonight, so he asked me to call you."
"This time, you. It’s really necessary to close the door.”
The man in a suit stated his interests and said: "Otherwise, once the base is lost, the thousand-year-old spruce trees planted before and the more than 500-year-old Welwitschia will probably suffer."
"Okay, I understand. .”
In the secret room.
Xie Shen's voice was heard slowly: "You take two steps back. I have just refined the Golden Spirit Qi not long ago, and I still can't control it freely. Please be careful not to get hurt by me."
Is it the golden spirit?
After hearing what Xie Shen said, the man in the suit instinctively took a few steps back.
Next second.
He felt an extremely fierce aura suddenly overflowing from the secret room where Xie Shen was in seclusion.
With the sharp aura appearing, Xie Shen slowly walked out of the secret room.
I don’t know why.
At this moment, the man in the suit suddenly had an illusion: Xie Shen, after coming out of seclusion, looked like an unsheathed sword.
Sharp.
And unstoppable.
So he subconsciously said: "Xie Shen, how do I feel that you have changed after you came out of seclusion?"
The man in the suit thought for a while and said: "I have a feeling: just It’s like your whole body is surrounded by countless swords.”
"If I get close, I will be hurt by those swords."
"Ha," Xie Shen chuckled after hearing what the man in the suit said.
As he walked out, he explained aloud: "You didn't feel wrong that my whole body was surrounded by countless swords."
"Or to be more accurate. "
"Those 'swords' are not real swords, but the golden spirit energy overflowing from my body."
The man in the suit has also been trying to practice spiritual practice recently.
He has not yet been able to cross the threshold of cultivation, but under the influence of his ears and eyes, he can barely understand what Xie Shen said at this moment.
At that moment, he looked thoughtful and said: "Then your strength should be much stronger than before the retreat, right?"
"That's for sure." While walking, Xie Shen had a whim. , simply waved his hand and released several golden spirit energies.
Under the night sky.
Countless golden spirits gathered together and turned into countless swords shining with golden light.
Xie Shen waved his finger to the east, and his sword also pointed to the east.
Xie Shenfu waved again, and all the sharp swords gathered around him, forming a sword energy barrier around him.
Let’s not talk about the power of this magical power.
The appearance alone made the man in the suit feel astonished.
And it’s not just men in suits.
In the base.
Countless human soldiers, reformers and monks also noticed the magical power displayed by Xie Shen at this moment.
Among them.
After recognizing Xie Shen’s identity, some monks rushed forward and prostrated themselves before Xie Shen without hesitation.
Just listen to him shouting: "Disciple Tong Shuxin, I have met the Supreme Ancestor!"
As soon as he said this, the other monks present also reacted and knelt down to Xie Shen one after another. On the ground.
For a time, the shouts suddenly sounded like a mountain roaring and a tsunami.
Under the gaze of countless people, Xie Shen moved his hand and directly sacrificed his life that was kept in Zifu. Flying sword weapon.
He stepped on the flying sword and hung it high in the air, then rushed to the man in the suit below and said: "Let's go, take me to see the super huge thalamus core."
"Oh! Okay!"
Hearing what Xie Shen said, the man in a suit who was stunned on the spot quickly responded.
A few seconds later.
He trotted Xie Shen towards the battlefield.
(End of this chapter)