Beast

The waterfall slopes down tirelessly and endlessly, and you don’t know when it will dry up. It hits the rocks, and the white water spray rises high, and then flows into the pool. It’s time to rest in the pool for a few breaths.

, and hurried away again.

It is now late autumn, and the weather is getting colder day by day. When you wake up in the morning, there will be a thin layer of frost on the ground. Ordinary people are wearing cotton robes, and they are still thinking about whether to add another layer of clothing.

In such weather, there is a person staying in the pool under the waterfall. The water in the pool is freezing cold. Why is this man so cruel to himself? But looking at this man's expression, there is nothing but perseverance.

Only the man's head remained above the pool, while the rest of his body was soaked in the cold pool water. His movements were sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and sometimes he even bent his knees and lunged, causing his entire body to be submerged in the pool.

Moreover, this man only practiced the ten postures over and over again. Even his breathing was irregular and he looked like he was wandering.

This man is none other than Yang Qing, who has been practicing under the waterfall for more than three months.

Yang Qing had been on guard against the young man in black robes for the past three months. Apart from that fight, he had never seen him again. He didn't know whether he had forgotten about it or was unwilling to go out because of the cold weather.

At this time, Yang Qing was staying in the pool, practicing the ten postures of the Sea of ​​Consciousness in the "Thirty-six Movements of Hunyuan". These ten postures looked simple and required neither strength nor flexibility. Others liked them.

You can learn something with just a few glances, and you can master it with ease after trying it for a few times.

In fact, this is not the case. These ten postures of the Consciousness Sea Realm are not for tempering the body, but for controlling the body. There are many muscles in the human body, and only a few well-known ones can be actively controlled.

The ten postures of the Consciousness Sea Realm allow the cultivator to control any muscle in the body at will. What is enhanced is not the cultivation level, but the realm.

As the realm improves, the consciousness will be strengthened, and the soul will gradually transform into the soul.

After practicing "Thirty-Six Postures of Hunyuan" for more than a year, Yang Qing can control nine points of the muscles in his body at will, and the remaining one point is the most critical.

Yang Qing practiced the Ten Movements of the Sea of ​​​​Consciousness Realm in the pool because he wanted his body's strength to increase as he practiced the Ten Movements of the Sea of ​​​​Consciousness Realm.

Having only realm but low strength is like a child, no matter how superb his swordsmanship is, an adult will knock him down if he steps forward. For a monk, realm and cultivation are closely related, and one is indispensable.

In three months, a lot of things happened. Yang Qing killed more than a dozen demonic beasts, and filled in a few scars on his body. There were only a few pills left to treat wounds. But Fu Zhu didn't miss a single one.

, but still far away from Yang Qing, one person and a group of beasts, no one pays attention to anyone.

‘Wow’

Yang Qing climbed up from the pool, picked up the clothes on the open space and quickly put them on. It was not that Yang Qing was afraid of the cold, but that he was worried about being called a shameless person.

The ferocious wounds on his chest, shoulders, and left arm were covered by clothes, making Yang Qing look handsome, with straight features, clear lines on his face, and bright eyes.

To talk about "shameless", we have to mention that more than two months ago, Yang Qing was practicing in the pool as usual. Suddenly, he felt stones flying towards him and dodged away.

When he turned around, he saw a girl in light green glaring at him with a red face. She glared at him and said angrily, "You shameless person", and then ran away as if running away.

Yang Qing was scolded for no reason. When he climbed up to the open space in shorts, the girl ran away. Yang Qing shrugged and refused to argue with her.

“Only one left”

Yang Qing put on the badly worn gray robe and carefully took out an emerald green wild fruit from the bag. This wild fruit looked green, but Yang Qing regarded it as a treasure and was reluctant to eat it.

This fruit that looks green and immature is not an unknown wild fruit, but is called Forbidden Green Fruit.

The Forbidden Green Fruit is a spiritual fruit, and the flesh of the fruit contains some spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The content of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the core is still higher than that of the pulp. Therefore, Yang Qing is so cautious.

Yang Qing accidentally discovered the Forbidden Green Fruit Tree. This Forbidden Green Fruit Tree is only as tall as a shrub and is very inconspicuous. Even if you pass by it, you will regard it as an ordinary wild fruit.

If Yang Qing hadn't seen some unripe wild fruits in autumn when he was catching small animals to satisfy his hunger, he would have felt strange and stepped forward to look at them carefully.

A year ago, Yang Qing and Sun Xinyao picked Forbidden Green Fruit together, and they recognized it after taking a closer look.

"Crack"

Yang Qing crushed the Forbidden Green Fruit including the flesh and core in one bite, chewed it carefully, stretched his neck, and swallowed it all.

This Forbidden Green Fruit has a green color when it is ripe. It is the plant's self-protection. This fruit is very astringent to chew. At first, Sun Xinyao reluctantly ate half of it under Yang Qing's gaze.

As soon as the forbidden green fruit entered his stomach, Yang Qing immediately stood up and practiced the sixteen innate realm moves of the "Thirty-Six Moves of Hunyuan".

These sixteen postures of the Xiantian Realm can attract the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body and promote the integration of heaven and earth spiritual energy into the muscles and bones. Otherwise, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth will have dissipated before it can be integrated.

Yang Qing closed his mouth to prevent the spiritual energy of heaven and earth contained in the Forbidden Green Fruit from dissipating with his breathing. He performed the sixteen moves of the Xiantian Realm one by one, and his physical strength quickly recovered, and his strength also increased rapidly.

In less than an hour, Yang Qing was full of energy and energy. A Forbidden Green Fruit could save him two hours.

More than a dozen forbidden green fruits have been eaten. It is difficult to find them again. Generally, spiritual fruits are annuals and will mature in autumn. If they are not picked, they will fall off naturally after more than a month.

It will rot.

As for the male fruit, it takes several years, even ten or even decades to mature. It is really difficult to find. Even if you encounter it by chance, you can't say whether it is mature or not. Even if it is mature, there will be monsters fighting for it.

A dozen Forbidden Green Fruits allowed Yang Qing to increase his strength as fast as half a month in three days. Yang Qing did not want to resume his previous slow cultivation speed.

Looking at the pile of various monster materials beside him, Yang Qing fell into deep thought.

In the past three months, Yang Qing has shortened his training to make up for the time spent in refining. The method is very effective. In three months, Yang Qing has increased his strength by one thousand kilograms. His right arm now weighs three thousand kilograms with one arm.

, the gap between the left arm and the right arm widened, and the left arm now had a strength of 3,500 kilograms.

However, this method is very clumsy and can only be effective in a short period of time without solving the root cause of the problem.

The Forbidden Green Fruit made Yang Qing think of several possible ways, all of which require exchanging the materials on these monster beasts for contributions to the sect.

One is to use the sect's contribution to exchange for elixirs or spiritual fruits that contain the aura of heaven and earth, and the other is to directly exchange the sect's contribution for spiritual stones.

The price of elixirs and spiritual fruits is high, especially elixirs, which contain a large amount of spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Based on Yang Qing's consumption at this time, a single elixir will waste most of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. However, it is not easy to exchange for spiritual fruits.

Worth it.

Yang Qing's sect did not contribute much and could only be careful with their budgets.

As for the spiritual stone, Yang Qing has no spiritual roots, so it is difficult to extract the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from the spiritual stone. Even if he barely absorbs a trace, it will remain in the meridians and eventually dissipate from various acupoints.

Meridians are very wonderful things. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth can enter the meridians from the human body, but it is difficult to escape from the meridians into the muscles. This is why true energy can exist in the meridians and Dantian without dissipating. Unless it reaches the purple

In the Mansion Realm, at that time, the Purple Mansion was connected to every part of the body, so one could use spirit stones.

His thick sword-shaped eyebrows furrowed into a line, Yang Qing wanted to think of a compromise.

He was playing with the yellow talisman paper in his hands, but he couldn't think of a compromise.

"talisman paper?" Yang Qing stared at the talisman paper in front of him and muttered involuntarily.

Yang Qing has only seen the magic of talisman paper that records the contributions of sects, and knows nothing about the others.

"Go back and have a look. It's not okay to be bored like this."

Yang Qing started to pack his things, planning to send Huafeng's Fu Pavilion to find a solution.

He wrapped the materials for the monster beast in a bag, carried them on his shoulders with a fine steel rod, and left the open space with a five-baht ten-year-old pine-shirt Ganoderma lucidum and a small wooden box in his arms.

The poplar trees on Guanyue Mountain have lost all their leaves and are bare. Only a few scattered pine trees are still green, which does not add luster to the mountain, but looks abrupt and uncoordinated.

Yang Qing stood at the foot of Guanyue Mountain, looking up expectantly. With hope in his heart and all kinds of worries, he raised his feet and even walked toward the mountain with some fear.

I used to run up the mountain, but today I walked slowly. Looking at the trees around me, I felt so desolate, looking forward to it but fearful.

"call…"

I shouldn't have had hope, but I still had expectations in my heart. I thought I could hold back the loss in my heart, but what I ended up with was deep sadness.

Shuiling Peak is only ten miles away. Standing on the top of Guanyue Mountain, you can feel the pressure brought by Shuiling Peak.

Yang Qing had an urge to rush to Shuiling Peak. This urge was so strong that his steps moved involuntarily.

But he stopped him abruptly. He was too weak now, and rushing to Shuiling Peak would not have any results. It would only increase the longing and sadness in the two people's hearts.

Not daring to look at Shuiling Peak, which was surrounded by immortal energy not far away, I rushed to Qianhua Peak without looking back.

It was still the same as usual on Qianhua Peak, with disciples coming and going, accepting contributions from the sect and handing over various materials. Some were neatly dressed, while others were torn and stained with blood.

Yang Qing was not unusual at all when he came to Qianhua Peak. He did not attract the attention of others and silently carried the monster materials to the palace where the materials were handed in.

"Seventeen kinds of monster materials, five baht and ten years of pine-shirted Ganoderma lucidum, a total of 4,700 sect contribution points, here are the talismans," the inner disciple said after skillfully identifying, classifying, and calculating the materials.

Yang Qing's yellow talisman has the words "Four Seven Seventy" on it. If Yang Qing didn't have a container to store the blood of monsters, the sect's contribution would be more than this.

On Juhua Peak, Yang Qing came here for the first time, holding the talisman in his hand and pushing open the door.

In the Talisman Pavilion, three inner disciples were sitting behind the desk, and a dozen outer disciples were standing in front of the desk, selecting talisman papers.

"Icy Rain Thorn, middle-grade magic talisman, 1,500 points of sect contribution"

"True fire shield, low-grade spiritual talisman, seven thousand sect contribution points"

"Dust-proofing Technique, 200 points of sect contribution"

…

"Senior brother, I want to exchange for something that can attract the spiritual energy of heaven and earth..." It was Yang Qing's turn and he raised his hand and asked.

"Spirit Gathering Talisman, one thousand sects contributed one. Three of them can be used to set up the Spirit Gathering Array, but they require spiritual stones to be used. Which one do you choose?" Before Yang Qing could finish speaking, the inner disciple behind the desk said impatiently.

"Excuse me, what's wrong with this spirit-gathering talisman..." Yang Qing didn't know much about the talisman and was about to ask, but was interrupted again before he could finish.

"Do you want to exchange it?" This was an inner disciple, who was obviously not interested in answering, and looked even more impatient.

Yang Qing held three pieces of yellow talisman paper in his hand. The talisman papers were all six inches long and three inches wide. There were crimson lines on the talisman papers, which were densely packed and looked chaotic.

The crimson lines on the talisman paper lit up, and wisps of spiritual energy from heaven and earth continued to gather around the talisman paper.

The hand holding the fine steel rod also held a thin book, with three big characters on the book, "Spirit Gathering Array". This book records the arrangement method of the Spirit Gathering Array.

After that, he still had to exchange spiritual stones, one hundred points of sect contribution, elixirs, jade bottles, jade boxes, sundries... all the sect contributions were used up.

Yang Qing did not go back to Hantie Mining Area to take a look, but went directly back to the waterfall with his baggage on his back.;