Do not die

Watching Governor Li go away and returning to his courtyard alone, the emotions he had been carefully controlling spread freely in his heart.

Sitting cross-legged in the elegant house, Meng Zhou took out the tea stove, stretched out his hand and touched it gently, and a dense cloud and rain appeared above the teapot.

Soon, a small rainstorm appeared in the pot.

It is rich in spiritual energy, far more than the spiritual rain in the pond. And using this freshly prepared spiritual water to cook tea will taste even more wonderful.

These are also some tips that Meng Zhou has figured out these days.

Since harvesting the self-made spiritual tea, Meng Zhou would brew a pot here every day unless he was practicing in retreat or had special arrangements.

This is one of the few hobbies in his regular spiritual life.

When the rich tea soup entered his stomach, the last barrier in his heart about this unexpected discovery was eliminated.

"Hu Gui?"

Meng Zhou chewed on this name in his heart, and when the fear in his heart slowly subsided, he felt a little funny for no reason.

This Hu is noble, of course not the other Hu is noble.

There is no doubt that "Bi Hugui" was burnt to ashes by his own hands.

This Hu Gui's appearance and temperament have nothing to do with "that Hu Gui", let alone the huge gap in cultivation level.

The reason why he felt something was wrong was because Yaya's performance in the Consciousness Sea made him alert. In addition, his powerful soul, which was comparable to the late stage of Foundation Establishment, also revealed some clues through careful sensing.

"This guy has been in contact with the three idols."

As soon as the two met, Meng Zhou basically had such a judgment in his mind, but he didn't show any abnormality in his performance.

It wasn't until they left far away that I learned the other person's name during a "casual chat" with Governor Li. While I was shocked, I finally confirmed the other person's identity.

Knowing that the other party's identity was strange, Meng Zhou paid extra attention when sorting out the earth energy of the other party's spiritual field.

Then, he discovered that the eight hundred acres of spiritual fields opened by the other party were all planted with various second-level spiritual trees.

Because of the characteristics of spiritual trees, the cycle from seedlings to trees is at least ten years. For those higher-quality second-level mid-grade spiritual materials, the growth cycle is even more than twenty years.

This and Meng Zhou's choice are completely two extremes.

This choice of "Hu Gui" fell in the eyes of Governor Li and other Sanchuanhui. It was clear evidence that the other party wanted to stay here for a long time for long-term interests.

But in Meng Zhou's eyes, there was another interpretation.

"Is this because outsourcing channels have been cut off and we are planning to be self-reliant and self-sufficient?"

Meng Zhou had already made a conclusion before that the "Mother Yun" of Meixiang Tower was lurking in Qinglinfang, not to cause trouble for Qingxuan Sect or to make big news, but to be a "purchasing specialist".

Taking advantage of the convenience of Qinglinfang and her own identity, she secretly collected second-level wood spiritual materials from Qinglinfang.

Because this is a must to create the three statues of gods. For this mysterious force, this is a rigid need.

It's a pity that this "purchasing point" was reported by Xu Wanzhen and eliminated by Qingxuan Sect.

Coupled with the series of measures launched by the Qingxuan Sect, it has become increasingly difficult for them to purchase large quantities of second-level wood spiritual materials in the Qingxuan Domain while concealing their identity, and there is also an increasing risk of exposure.

Therefore, as a last resort, they chose to come to Sanchuan Plain to open spiritual fields to become self-reliant and self-sufficient.

Thinking of this, an originally extremely serious incident suddenly felt a little inexplicable joyful in Meng Zhou's eyes.

This gave him a sense of a dynamic social group picking up hoes and reclaiming wasteland for themselves.

"Has the cultivation environment in Qingxuan Domain become so complicated without even realizing it?"

…

After drinking a pot of spiritual tea, Meng Zhou completely suppressed this matter in his heart.

Do what you need to do, and it doesn't seem to be affected at all.

However, Meng Zhou still made some adjustments in his choice of training for the next stage.

Originally, he planned to make earth escape and water escape the focus of his training in the next stage.

Now, Meng Zhou plans to improve his various knotting skills.

Even before coming to Sanchuan Yuan, she had already mastered various talisman formations and spiritual puppet skills. Later, when setting up the courtyard and when Yaya was promoted to the second level limit, she also took the opportunity to improve them.

But until now, it has only been at the Dacheng level.

And his Knotting Master attainment is only second-level mid-level.

Meng Zhou decided to reach the full level of these skills first and upgrade the courtyard formation into a veritable "turtle shell".

Anyway, these skills must be cultivated to perfection in his plan, and there is no delay.

Before we knew it, it was late February.

During this period, Meng Zhou completed another retreat and went out to do "volunteer work" for two days.

The art of dispelling filth finally completed the accumulation of the master stage and advanced to the perfection level on February 26th.

It is worth mentioning that at the beginning of the month, when he helped two mysterious turtles complete the bloodline transformation from the first to the second level, the pharmacist also completed the final accumulation of the eight items and successfully entered perfection.

Myogenic techniques have also advanced from Xiaocheng to Dacheng.

After completing the Eight Medicine Masters, Meng Zhou discovered that the related spiritual body talents had been significantly improved.

This improvement is not only reflected in depth, but also in breadth.

Originally, the spiritual body talent could only cover the field of pharmacists, but after this upgrade, Meng Zhou found that his talent as a spiritual planter had also improved a lot.

In addition, mastering the talent of "Heart of Nature" has helped the spiritual plant masters. Even by Meng Zhou's own evaluation, he is now considered a genius among the spiritual plant masters.

Because of these changes, the Medicine Spirit Master was directly promoted to the second-level high-grade, "Medicine Spirit Master Second Level 850/1000".

At the same time, with the progress of the two Xuanling Turtles, the Spirit Controller also improved and entered the second-level mid-level.

"Spirit Controller Level 2 350/1000".

Until February 30th, Meng Zhou allowed Yaya, who had just formed the spirit-gathering talisman array in his hand, to turn into a grasshopper and jump away. The "seven items of the talisman array" (spirit gathering, shielding, Concealment, defense, confinement, soil power, and confinement breaking) all reach "Dacheng 1600/2000".

The Giant Bear Spirit Puppet, Black Turtle Spirit Puppet, and Pure Futon also all reached "Dacheng 1500/2000".

Because of these improvements, the Knot Master has once again taken a small step forward.

"Knot Master 400/1000".

The reason why Meng Zhou temporarily stopped practicing was because after two months, the two spiritual tea trees were ready to be picked again.

Moreover, because of his proper care and the fact that the two Lingcha trees are still in the growing stage, the quantity that can be picked this time is much larger than that picked at the beginning of the first year.

Before the official picking, Meng Zhou took out a jade slip and decided to study it first.

Last time, it was because of the lack of processing techniques. The taste of Lingcha was entirely supported by its excellent material. His processing techniques not only failed to achieve the effect of adding points, but also deducted some points.

At that time, Meng Zhou decided to learn more techniques before picking and processing again.

And in the inheritance jade slip that Chu Zheng gave to him, there was the inheritance of "Spiritual Chef", which happened to be the professional counterpart.

Meng Zhou looked at it carefully, and after having a comprehensive understanding of the way of spiritual food, he chose three skills to try to get started.

These three skills are firebending, waterbending, and processing.

The art of controlling fire and water is a very large and very popular two spell categories. From the first level to the second level, there are a large number of related spells. For weapon refiners and alchemists, this is a compulsory subject.

He has just learned it now, which is very rare among practitioners.

For Meng Zhou, there were no setbacks in getting started with these two spells.

Getting started with the art of processing also didn’t take much time.

If mastering the two arts of fire and water control had not enabled him to master this spell better, Meng Zhou would have wanted to bypass the two arts of fire and water control and achieve it in one step.

After successfully learning these three spells, Meng Zhou picked all the buds and buds from the two Lingcha trees without thinking.

In order to practice his spells and avoid destroying all the materials if they were not handled properly at one time, Meng Zhou divided them into dozens of small portions.

Meng Zhou stretched out his hands, a warm flame burned in one palm, and a dense stream of water flowed in the other hand.

He clasped his hands toward the center, and the two gentle forces merged into an invisible spherical area in front of his palms, with a portion of freshly picked buds and buds in between.

The buds and buds are changing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Not only are their spiritual qualities not lost, but they are undergoing wonderful changes during his gentle cooking process.

When the spiritual tea was processed, Meng Zhou reached out to take it in his palm and observed it carefully.

The other hand took out the spiritual tea that had been prepared casually before. When comparing the two, the difference was immediately apparent.

Then, Meng Yiyi worked hard and processed all the newly picked spiritual tea.

When the last part was processed, firebending, waterbending, and processing had all just advanced from first level to minor level.

The spiritual tea processed with this technique was obviously different from the one processed with the beginner and first-time techniques just now. Meng Zhou couldn't help but want to brew a cup and taste it.

"It is said that if the processing technology is mastered to a high level, it will not only give the raw materials more wonderful changes, but may even upgrade them. We can look forward to this."

After handling these spiritual teas, Meng Zhou couldn't wait to boil water and brew a few cups.

After comparing them one by one, Meng Zhou put all the spiritual teas he made after this technique had reached its initial perfection into the spirit sealing box.

As for other spiritual teas...

Meng Zhou thought for a while and sent a flying message to Yang Chong.

Soon, Yang Chong appeared outside the hospital.

Meng Zhou opened the formation, let him in, handed him two bags of spiritual tea and said:

"This is the spiritual tea grown in our courtyard. The production method is a bit rough. You can take it and drink it."

Yang Chong was surprised and delighted, and stretched out his hands to hold it in his arms.

"Thank you, senior."

No matter how "rough" these spiritual teas are, they are still second-level low-grade spiritual teas. For him and his wife, the benefits are not too great.

Meng Zhou asked a few more questions casually, getting to know the current situation of his husband and wife, the entire team, and his first-level village.

…

In a calm and regular daily life, time always passes quickly.

It's already halfway through March, and apart from being arranged by the Sanchuan Society to go to "Hugui" Zhuangtian to sort out the local energy, there is nothing else impressive.

On a daily basis, he is either practicing in seclusion, or sitting cross-legged in the elegant house, facing the green courtyard, constantly knitting talisman arrays or spiritual puppets one after another with knots, or running around in one farm after another.

March 20th, late at night.

Meng Zhou had more expectations for this retreat.

Because at this moment, Soul Pond Refining Moon Heart has reached the limit of Dacheng. In this retreat, the soul will definitely undergo another transformation.

"Dacheng 7800/8000".

During the retreat, Meng Zhou paid more attention to the soul of the Sea of ​​Consciousness.

At a certain moment, as the accumulation of soul refining techniques reached the limit of Dacheng and entered a new level, the soul pool underwent drastic changes and expanded further.

But Meng Zhou's attention was not on the transformation of the soul itself, but on the oath threads surrounding the soul. Many of the oath threads had already been damaged. With the rapid transformation of the soul, they were broken everywhere.

In the end, no trace of the remaining thread of the oath was left, and its traces completely disappeared from the soul of the sea of ​​consciousness.

And long before they disappeared completely, Meng Zhou's attention had already been focused on the edge of the sea of ​​consciousness.

Not to his surprise, another shadow of a rope passed by the edge of the sea of ​​consciousness.

This time, perhaps because he was prepared in advance, or perhaps because his soul was further improved, his perception in the sea of ​​consciousness became sharper. He could see more clearly than last time and noticed more details.

After the retreat ended, Meng Zhou opened his eyes and woke up, letting out a long breath in his heart.

"After this breakthrough and transformation, the strength of the soul alone is completely comparable to that of a ninth-level foundation-building monk, right?"

After this soul transformation, Meng Zhou found that the Qi-gazing and Soul-shaking techniques that were supposed to be the most difficult to acquire were no longer too difficult for him.

However, after a few attempts to verify it, Meng Zhou temporarily put aside the practice of these two spells.

He decided to perfect each knotting skill first.

And now, as he devotes a lot of time and energy to this, various knot skills have not only been promoted from Dacheng to Master, but the distance is not far away.

In addition, it is also worth mentioning that as the soul refining method becomes a master, the experience gained in a single retreat increases from 500 to 600. Coupled with the Chun Shui Jing, who is already a master, the experience gained every time he practices is also +600 , together with the Xuangui Body Refining Method, which is slightly inferior to these two methods in all aspects, the experience gained from a retreat has also been increased from +500 to +600.

After leaving the quarantine, Meng Zhou got used to the situation a little, and then went out to do "volunteer work" for a whole day in exchange for a few days of peace.

Knot skills were also successfully promoted from master to grandmaster in this process.

As a result, the Knot Master profession was promoted from the second-level mid-level to the second-level high-level.

After completing this transformation, Meng Zhou made a comprehensive "renovation" of the formations covering the entire courtyard. All the formations, including the four guardian spirit puppets, were completely upgraded, upgrading them to a veritable second-level high-grade one. Multifunctional protective array.

Whether it is defense, confinement, concealment, gathering spirits, or killing enemies, they all reach the second-level high-grade level.

After rounding off and summarizing, it is true to say that this is a second-level little masterpiece.

After doing this, Meng Zhou felt a sense of security greatly increased.

The vague feeling of uneasiness that lingered in my heart because of the appearance of "Hu Gui" finally dissipated.

March 30, noon.

Meng Zhou and Governor Li flew from a distance to the sky above Zhuang Tianzhuang.

Both of them looked in the direction of Ling Tian.

At this moment, there is an old man standing over the thousand-acre spiritual field. This man is President Pan himself.

Under his feet, there was a cloud and rain group covering an area of ​​almost a thousand acres.

This huge cloud and rain mass is like a wet towel, pouring energetic rainwater into the thousands of acres of greenery below.

In just three months, in a thousand acres of spiritual fields, jade-heart red fruits grew from spiritual seedlings less than ten centimeters into a green forest.

Each "seedling" is now more than 20 meters long, with thick canes and thick leaves. It must be said that it is a miracle that it can grow like this in three months in the waterless Sanchuan Plateau.

However, they seem to have reached their own limit, and their original greed for spiritual water is rapidly weakening, becoming slow and gentle.

After today's rainfall, the clouds and rain quickly disappeared under their feet, and President Pan had already flown towards the two of them.

Coming closer, President Pan looked at Meng Zhou with a smile and said: "Fellow Taoist Zhuang, the three months when Jade Heart Zhuguo was most thirsty for water have passed. Your next task will be much easier."

Meng Zhou didn't seem to hear the teasing hidden in his words. Instead, he generously raised his hands and thanked Sanchuanhui for their careful management in the past few months.

Meng Zhou has already agreed with Governor Li that since the Sanchuan Society has trained enough monks who are proficient in the art of regulating qi, he will not continue to join in the fun starting next month.

Therefore, today is also the last rainfall arranged by Sanchuan Club.

From now on, Meng Zhou himself will be responsible for all the rainfall work for these thousand acres.

Meng Zhou just didn't expect that this "full stop" would be drawn by President Pan himself.

"The vitality of the Jade Heart Vermilion Fruit Vine is extremely tenacious, and because of its extremely strong water storage capacity, it will be very easy until its final fruiting period arrives. However, there are still some things that need to be paid attention to..."

After Chairman Pan gave some instructions, he took Governor Li and left.

After President Pan left, Meng Zhou called Yang Chong over.

Looking at Yang Chong with a surging aura, Meng Zhou asked in surprise: "When did you break through?"

Yang Chong's cultivation level has been improved from the seventh level of Qi training to the eighth level of Qi training.

Yang Chong replied:

"I just made a breakthrough a few days ago. Thanks to the spiritual tea you gave me, senior, it washed away some of the old wounds left in my body from the worldly world when I was young.

If not, this breakthrough would have happened by the end of the year. "

Meng Zhou asked curiously: "Is Liu Ying almost here?"

Yang Chong nodded and said: "She is currently in seclusion to attack the late stage of Qi training."

Meng Zhou thought for a while and said:

"If you two have nothing special to do, just practice here with me. Since your farmland can be left to others to take care of, don't do everything yourself.

You must know that for both of you, being able to advance to Foundation Establishment one day earlier is a huge advantage. "

Although the two of them are not very old, they cannot be said to be young. The earlier they are promoted to foundation building, the more obvious their advantages will be.

Meng Zhou spoke cryptically, but Yang Chong felt a chill in his heart.

He thought that since the middle of last year, more and more foundation-building monks had come to Sanchuan Yuan.

When the couple went out, they would often encounter foundation-building experts flying back and forth in the sky. He didn't feel it before, but now he felt a strong sense of crisis in his heart.

He immediately replied respectfully: "Yes."

Meng Zhou nodded and said nothing more about it.

Instead, he said to Yang Chong: "The daily care of this spiritual field will be left to you."

"Yes." Yang Chong nodded.

“You just need to manage, you don’t need to do everything yourself.”

"yes."

…

After returning to the courtyard, Meng Zhou sat cross-legged in the elegant house and had just knitted the talisman formation for a while when a flying message came to him.

Meng Zhouyi thought it was Governor Li at first.

But when he took it into his palm, he realized that this message was from Kan Yue.

It was an invitation to a party, and the attitude was very serious.

He said that he had long wanted to hold a gathering and invite some close Taoist friends to attend, but it was only because Meng Zhou had been traveling back and forth to help the Sanchuan Society in the past few months that the gathering was postponed again and again.

Now that he heard that he had ended his cooperation with the Sanchuan Society, he immediately sent an invitation, asking him to pay him a visit.

His attitude made Meng Zhou stunned for a while before he came back to his senses.

However, it is already March 30th, and retreat is imminent.

Meng Zhou thought for a while and then sent him a message back, saying that he needed to rest for a few days and could the party be held on the fifth day of next month.

Not long after this Feizhi message was sent out, Kan Yue's reply came.

Meng Zhou received the reply and confirmed that the other party had set the date of the party on the fifth day of April.

…

The third day of April. early morning.

Cultivation progress +60, foundation building level 4 576/1000;

Second level Spring Water Sutra +600, Master 10200/16000;

Soul Pool Refining Moon Heart +600, Master 1000/16000;

Black Turtle Body Refining Technique +600, Master 3030/12000.

After leaving seclusion, Meng Zhou immediately came to Lingtian to check the condition of the Jade Heart Vermilion Fruit Vine.

Compared to three days ago, their condition was a bit sluggish, but due to their strong water storage capacity, their internal vitality was still strong.

Through the "Heart of Nature", Meng Zhou even felt that the Jade Heart Vermilion Fruit Vine was more tenacious now than it was three days ago.

A layer of enlightenment emerged in Meng Zhou's heart.

"Proper tempering is a good thing for the Jade Heart Vermilion Fruit Vine, not a bad thing!"

"The growth cycle of this fruit is much lower than that of other spiritual fruits of the same quality. It takes a shorter time to complete the accumulation that other spiritual fruits take a longer time to complete. It cannot be just because the final result has a sufficient supply of spiritual rain for three months. .”

"Tempering, in the process of its growth and accumulation, it needs to be subject to strong tempering at all times!"

“The vitality of the Jade Heart Vermilion Fruit Vine is extremely powerful, and its ability to store water is also terrifying.

Rather than ensuring that it is always full of energy, it is better to hone it at the edge of the limit again and again.

Only in this way can it complete the greatest accumulation in the shortest time! "

Afterwards, Meng Zhou returned to the courtyard and continued to practice various knotting skills.

The fifth day of the lunar month, early morning.

Meng Zhou went to the spiritual field to check on the condition of the jade-heart red fruit vine. After confirming that it was fine, he jumped up and flew away.

After a while, Meng Zhou came to the sky above Zhuangtian in Kanyue.

From a distance, Meng Zhou saw Kan Yue coming out of a courtyard to welcome him inside.

The size of this courtyard is much larger than the one in Mengzhou, and its level of care is much more exquisite. Every detail reveals delicacy and care.

The two of them entered a pavilion facing the lake, and several foundation-building monks cast curious glances at Meng Zhou.

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