Ascension Through Generations

In the realm of foundation building, the late stage of foundation building is a relatively special stage.

Because after being promoted to the seventh level of foundation building, even ordinary foundation building monks will have the opportunity to experience qualitative changes in their spiritual power.

Once the qualitative transformation of spiritual power is successfully completed, the strength of the monks in the later stage of foundation building will be improved by leaps and bounds. It is not a problem to fight against ten of them alone, and it is no problem to deal with two ordinary people of the same level alone.

If it were the middle stage of foundation building, three or five would be no problem. Winning was not guaranteed, but maintaining an unbeaten state was normal. At the very least, escaping wouldn't be a problem.

Then drop it by half a level and switch to the early stage of foundation building. A powerful late-stage foundation-building monk (with a qualitative change in spiritual power, holding a high-grade spiritual weapon, and practicing true skills above the golden elixir level) can really fight ten of them. It can be thought of as an adult beating a group of children.

Zhao Yunxian didn't know if Zhao Sheng was the legendary powerful foundation builder who could hit ten at a time, but judging from his super spiritual consciousness. Even if the opponent is not strong enough, he is not that weak.

At a time when the demonic tide was about to break out and the Zhao family might be in danger of annihilation at any time, the Zhao family suddenly received such strong help. It must be said that it really felt a bit like the blessing of the ancestors.

From this we can understand why Zhao Yunxian was so excited.

Buzz!

After a buzzing sound, the six black lights instantly flew back to Zhao Sheng and regrouped into the Liuhe ephemera shield.

The high-grade spiritual shield that was about a foot in size fell down. Zhao Sheng caught it and put it into his storage bag.

If a cultivator wants to do whatever he wants, like a spiritual weapon wielded by a wielder, it must go through years of refining and fusion of essence, energy, and spirit.

Just now, Zhao Sheng was forcibly controlling it with his spiritual consciousness. It looked very flexible and freely, but in fact it was just a show. Any violent impact can make the spiritual shield lose control.

"Yes, I am very satisfied with this Liuhe ephemera shield. I would like to thank the master for giving it to me." Zhao Sheng smiled and thanked Zhao Yunxian.

"Haha! As long as Taoist Master Cen Hezi is satisfied." Zhao Yunxian said with a happy face and laughed.

…

Since then, Zhao Sheng has settled down on Qionggui Island.

He likes to be quiet and doesn't like to move. Although he declined invitations to banquets in each room of the Zhao family, he was not rude at all. Every time he politely refused, he would be given a few bottles of elixirs in return, both first and second level, and of high quality.

Such an approachable manner made everyone in the Zhao family very happy, and all of a sudden more and more invitations came flying in.

Zhao Sheng is not really a good person. He used to do it out of excuses because each house is his descendant. Anyway, the good news will not flow to others.

However, their greedy desire to push the envelope even further is wishful thinking.

Zhao Sheng's approach was extremely simple, he just passed all the invitations to Zhao Yunxian.

Within a day, this evil trend suddenly disappeared, and Zhao Sheng's place immediately became clean.

As an otaku who cultivates immortality, his daily schedule is full.

There are three hours of practice every day and half an hour of deep sleep.

Set an hour every day for refining the talisman to avoid scratching your hands. At the same time, he spent two to three hours a day refining elixirs, mostly refining first-level elixirs. Occasionally, when inspiration came, he would spend a few days refining a furnace of second-level elixirs.

During this period, when his condition was adjusted to its peak, Zhao Sheng also took action to refine a furnace of foundation-building pills, and successfully produced three pills, one of middle grade and two of low grade.

As an aside, after the crazy alchemy refining on Jiuzhen Island, his success rate in refining the Foundation Building Pills has reached 89%. However, the number and quality of the pills produced are not satisfactory, with an average of one to four pills. The total number of Foundation Establishment Pills exceeds thirty, but none of them reach the top grade.

The reason may be the quality of the elixir, the alchemy technique, or there may be some unknown secret.

In short, due to the limitations of his own knowledge and vision, Zhao Sheng believed that he had reached a bottleneck. It would be difficult to break through the bottleneck in a short period of time without external help.

Currently, he has accumulated as many as six Foundation Establishment Pills, but only three Thousand Pattern Star Algae Fruits are left.

If there is no new breakthrough, he has decided not to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill again for the time being.

In addition to refining the Liuhe Ephemera Shield, most of the rest of the time was used to extensively read and study ancient books, secret records of magic, exercises and various knowledge of immortal cultivation. This is not only to accumulate for the advanced golden elixir, but also to further consolidate one's own foundation.

The more in-depth he studied, the more deeply Zhao Sheng realized how vast, obscure and profound the knowledge of a cultivating civilization was.

He was obsessed with exploring the unknown and couldn't extricate himself from the pleasure of practicing. He always felt that there was not enough time, and wished that there were forty-eight hours in a day.

Zhao Sheng knew that something was wrong with his mentality. With a hundred generations of books, he doesn't have to be so impatient. The right answer is to enjoy life carefree.

It's just that he understands the truth, but it's really hard to describe his current state.

Obsessed is not a good adjective. But it is quite appropriate to describe Zhao Sheng in this life. He only got the word "obsession", but he didn't really "enlightenment".

Maybe when you feel tired in a certain life, you will truly "enlighten" the truth.

In this life, he was "enjoyed and obsessed with it".

…

The demon tide is coming!

I can’t tell which day it started. When a grain transport ship was attacked and sank by a sea monster near Qionggui Island, Qionggui Island suddenly became panicked, and it felt like the wind was roaring, the cranes were shaking, and the vegetation was all at war.

Everyone in the Zhao family realized that the demon tide had finally arrived. While everyone was panicking and fearful, they felt a strange sense of relief in their hearts. It's like a heavy hammer hanging high in the sky has finally fallen to the ground, and there is no need to worry all day long.

According to the long-established plan, Qionggui and its affiliated islands have been cleared of wild areas, and the population has retreated to settlements deep in the island mainland, leaving the surroundings of the islands vacant.

At the same time, except for the Dome Turtle treasure ship and the two first-order spiritual ships, all other ordinary ships were parked back at the dock, and no sails were allowed to go into the sea.

As long as they don't deliberately provoke a fight, the Kraken will generally not land.

Therefore, the 300,000 people of the Zhao clan stayed on the island and stayed safe for the time being.

In this way, half a year has passed by in a flash.

In the past six months, the Zhao family has received various pieces of information from countless foreigners, especially the information sent back from Longshou Island, which is the most detailed and accurate.

But one afternoon, a sudden and shocking news made all the immortal cultivators of the Zhao family stunned.

Longshou Island has fallen!

Thousands of years later, Longshou Island's Tianguan was once again breached by the Kraken.

Ten days ago, the Great Elder Lingyuan of the Sea Demon Clan led three seventh- and eighth-level demon kings and more than a hundred third-level and above-level pill-condensing sea monsters. They used a strategy to point east and west, and actually deceived everyone. In one day He crossed thousands of miles of ocean and suddenly attacked Longshou Island.

After only holding on for less than three days, Longshou Island's defensive formation was breached. The Four Saints Immortal Cultivating Group headed by Chongfeng Patriarch suffered heavy casualties, and only a tenth of the island's millions of people remained.

A few days before the fall of Longshou Island, six key spiritual islands including Fufeng Island and Zhi'ao Island were easily breached by an army of sea beasts. In less than ten days, the vanguard of the army had arrived at Longshou Island. Soon he will rush into the inner star sea,

It is inevitable to see a loss of lives. However, everyone in the Zhao family was surprisingly relieved.

Because Qionggui Island is on the edge of the outer star sea, since the sea monster tide will hit the inner star sea, this means that the disaster of annihilation will hardly fall on the Zhao family.

As for the Broken Star Sea human race, there will definitely be countless casualties, but so... so what. Anyway, as long as your family doesn't die, you don't care what other people do.

It must be said that the mentality of the Zhao family is very similar to that of most immortal cultivating families.

This is the characteristic of island civilization. Because of the isolation of terrain, inconvenience of communication, and living on a small island, over time, the vast majority of mortals and even some immortal cultivators have developed the mentality of being indifferent to matters that do not concern themselves. .

After hearing the shocking news, the two Zhao family members who stayed behind on Qionggui Island were extremely anxious.

Not only because one of the Zhao family's foundation builders and five late-stage Qi refiners are now trapped on Longshou Island, with their lives and deaths uncertain. Another important factor lies in the serious consequences caused by the fall of Longshou Island.

Longshou Island is located between the outer and inner seas of stars. It not only guards the main transportation route, but is also the core of the entire outer sea of ​​stars.

There is not only a third-level spiritual vein on the island, but also nearly a hundred first- and second-level branch spiritual veins distributed in the nearby sea area of ​​thousands of miles. There are countless spiritual mines and fields under the sea. All kinds of immortal cultivation resources are available and extremely rich. It can be said that it is the best in the world. A rare Gao Ling area in the Pillar Realm.

Normally, there is at least one Nascent Soul Ancestor sitting on Longshou Island, and the Four Saints Immortal Cultivation Group is also stationed on the island.

Every time a sea monster tide arrives, Longshou Island will bear the brunt.

If the three overlords of the Spirit Tribe, Ba Haizhang and Jiaolong want to lead the endless sea beasts into the Inner Star Sea, they must break through Longshou Island.

If you choose to go around, you will face the danger of being attacked from both sides. Secondly, when going back, it is easy to close the door and beat the dog, or the sea beast group is divided and disintegrated, and each one is defeated.

Putting aside the resources and military status of Longshou Island, it is also the well-deserved commercial and material circulation center of the entire outer star sea.

Not to mention the resources for cultivating immortals, bulk goods such as meat and food, which are most important to mortals, must usually be concentrated and traded on Longshou Island, and then distributed and transferred before being shipped to the islands in the outer star sea.

This is the invisible control of the major cultivating forces in the inner star sea over the many spiritual island families and sect forces in the outer star sea.

However, now Longshou Island has fallen.

what does that mean?

All the people in charge of the Zhao family who knew the seriousness of the consequences had serious expressions and frowned.

"Dingda, go and ask for your master!"

In the Tongxin Hall, all the elders of the Zhao family and the Immortal Cultivators were here. Zhao Yunxian thought for a while and decisively ordered Zhao Dingda.

"Yes, head of the family." Zhao Dingda responded quickly, turned around and left.

After a while, Zhao Dingda respectfully led Zhao Sheng into Tongxin Hall.

Looking at the layout and furnishings of this Tongxin Hall, Zhao Sheng seemed to have returned to Longli Lake hundreds of years ago.

He was in a daze for a moment, but quickly regained his composure, and saluted two fellow monks, Zhao Yunxian and Zhao Hanguang.

As soon as he sat down, Zhao Yunxian couldn't wait to tell everything about the fall of Longshou Island and the current dangerous situation.

After Zhao Sheng digested the bad news, he admitted that the food on the island could only last for half a year at most.

The fall of Longshou Island means that this sea monster tide will not end easily.

Will this catastrophe last for a year? Two years? Maybe even longer.

Facing 300,000 people who are waiting for food, Zhao Yunxian, as the leader of the clan, must prepare for the worst.

Without him needing to explain in detail, Zhao Sheng immediately realized that his life of living at home and practicing asceticism was over.

"As a guest of the Zhao family (ancestor), it is of course my duty to help the Zhao family. What's more, I haven't thanked you for the Liuhe Mayfly Shield. If the master of the family has anything to do, just ask him." Zhao Sheng said bluntly.

Zhao Yunxian was overjoyed when he heard this, with gratitude and relief on his face. After saying a few words of thanks, he revealed his plan.

To sum it up in one sentence, dispatch the Dome Turtle treasure ship to the Xinghai Islands as soon as possible, try every means to purchase food, and at the same time trade resources for cultivating immortals.

The first target is Biluo Island, known as "Dragon Claw". It is the second largest spiritual island in the outer star sea after Longshou Island. There are thousands of small and medium-sized islands scattered within thousands of miles nearby. It is not only famous for its developed commerce and trade, but also a famous grain production area.

…

Seven days later, in a certain sea area.

The originally calm blue sea surface was like the beginning of boiling. Large white sea foam kept rolling out, and under the cover of the foam, green flag swordfish more than three meters long suddenly jumped out of the sea. It crazily crashed into a shiny black three-masted ship with two decks on the sea.

Among these green flag swordfish, there are even larger first-order swordfish.

Strips of sharp blue light like sword light shot out from time to time from the long thorns on their heads, constantly shooting at all the living creatures on the ship.

The green flag swordfish is a kind of small and medium-sized marine fish with a gentle nature and a gregarious nature. It has a bony fish spine like a long sword on its head, long flag-like fins on its back, and hard fish scales all over its body.

Ordinary adult swordfish can usually grow to more than three meters long, and can swim faster than a land horse. They can easily swim thousands of miles in one day and night.

Generally speaking, ten swordfish may give birth to a first-order demon fish, and a school of more than a hundred fish will often give birth to a second-order blue-flag swordfish leader.

The second-level green flag swordfish is at least over two feet in size. Its swimming speed in the sea water is not inferior to that of a foundation-building monk's flying weapon. The spiritual thorns on its head are extremely tough and as sharp as a low-grade flying sword.

Normally, a school of blue-flag swordfish would not attack passing ships, but at this moment, they suddenly turned into a group of terrifying killers with astonishing efficiency.

At this time, at the hatch of the ship below the second deck, Zhao Dingda timidly hid behind the crowd, daring to encourage everyone's morale loudly.

"Hold on! My master will definitely come back. Brothers and uncles, hold on!"

The defensive shield of the Dome Turtle treasure ship had been shattered a quarter of an hour ago by the green flag swordfish's crazy thrusts as it flipped over.

The twenty-five Qi Refining clan members of the Zhao family had to retreat to the cabins and corners of the ship. With the help of the strong hull, they formed small groups of twos and threes and struggled to resist the attack of the swordfish swarm.

At this time, blood was flowing everywhere on the deck, and the strong smell of blood filled the cabin.

There were deep scratches resembling sword marks everywhere on the deck of the treasure ship. The three sails were already full of holes and had been torn in half, and two of the three masts had been knocked off.

Facing a large school of nearly a thousand swordfish, everyone on the boat felt a little desperate.

However, since the attack, Taoist priest Cen Hezi, who was in charge of the treasure ship, suddenly plunged into the sea and was never seen again. It is not known whether he is alive or dead.

In the hundred-foot-deep sea water under the Dome Turtle treasure ship, Zhao Sheng looked solemn and was surrounded by three layers of mysterious ice walls.

Outside the ice wall, only six rays of black light were seen flying at extremely fast speeds, as fast as lightning, and blocked the thick cyan sword light that was shot three feet away.

At the same time, in the dark sea water a few feet away, there were five huge and slender dark cyan shadows, quickly surrounding Zhao Sheng, swimming back and forth, left and right.