Do not die

April 5th.

Cultivation progress +330, fifth level of elixir formation 5010/10,000;

Third-level Spring Water Sutra +3300, Grandmaster 49,500/240,000;

Black Turtle Bearing Monument's real skill +3300, Grandmaster 37,800/240,000.

After finishing this routine retreat and sorting out the results of this practice, Meng Zhou just opened his eyes and saw a body that swam as flexibly as a snake falling slowly and quickly from the dome above.

Meng Zhou's heart moved, and he stretched out his palm. The long body that was swimming flexibly in the air shrank and turned into a coiled rope, lying quietly in Meng Zhou's palm.

"Uncle, I'm back." Yaya's voice sounded directly in Meng Zhou's heart.

Looking at Yaya at this moment, Meng Zhou was surprised:

"Yaya, have you really found the right spiritual material?"

Yaya replied with a slightly arrogant voice: "What else? Do you think I was joking?"

As she spoke, her voice paused, and then she said:

"Uncle, you saw that I didn't lie. You can't restrain me anymore."

After hearing this, Meng Zhou did not agree, but he also did not refuse outright. Instead, he thought about it carefully and then said:

"I have a few conditions."

"Say it!" Yaya said impatiently.

"First, no matter what the situation, you can only operate underground." Meng Zhou said.

"Okay." Yaya replied immediately, as if she was afraid that he would regret it.

"Pay attention, I am talking about any situation, even if there is a spiritual material that is very suitable for you on the surface of the earth, you cannot violate it!"

This time, Yaya did not answer immediately. She seemed to hesitate for a while, and then said firmly: "Okay, I agree."

"Second, you can only move within a hundred miles of Aurora Cave."

After saying that, without waiting for Yaya to answer, Meng Zhou emphasized:

"A hundred miles is a hundred miles, not even one more mile."

This time, Yaya did not hesitate anymore and nodded: "I agree."

"Third, if there are third-level demons or alchemy monks operating nearby, you must return immediately no matter what the situation is."

"Can...any more?"

"No, just these three."

After reaching the agreement, Meng Zhou could clearly feel the joy in Yaya's heart.

I don't know whether it was the change in Yaya's mentality or the objective result of the improvement of her rope body. Meng Zhou had an obvious feeling in his heart that the knotting technique he was studying became much smoother.

"Perhaps, both factors are at play."

With this thought in his mind, Meng Zhou couldn't help but thought to himself: "It seems that Yaya will indeed have to be given more freedom of movement in the future."

When Yaya broke through from the second level to the third level, because of Meng Zhou's preparation, Yaya's level directly reached the level of the third level low-level, close to the middle level.

"Rope Spirit Level 3 3000/10,000"

But this is not Yaya's limit.

Not to mention that she had swallowed a large amount of the ownerless divine will taken from the statue of Lihen, and she had higher growth potential.

Even if this factor is put aside, the upper limit of the growth of "Rope Spirit" is strongly related to his "Rope Knot Master" realm.

Theoretically, Yaya's growth is unlimited until she reaches the level of a knot master.

The reason why she stayed at the lower level of the third level without progressing was simply because of insufficient qualifications.

The materials she needs to grow at the third level are third-level spiritual materials belonging to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Compared to the second level where the recipes only included wood and earth elements, this promotion has more than doubled the range of her recipes.

Not only that, she also has the ability to find "food" within a certain range, which is five series of spiritual materials.

It stands to reason that with these abilities, Yaya can already be "self-reliant."

In a third-level evil like Tianqi Mountain, it is like living in a rice warehouse, and growth is a matter of course.

The reason why there has been no progress so far is that Meng Zhou thinks the same way.

"Since Yaya's growth after the third level is so easy, there is no need to rush. It doesn't matter if it's earlier or later. It's not too late to finish the most important plan first and then think about it later."

"Wait until the beast tide is over. After the beast tide is over, take some time to do this."

When Meng Zhou thought about it, this was a very logical arrangement.

There is actually a premise implicit in this, that is, even though Yaya has gained the ability to act independently and "forage" alone, Meng Zhou has never thought of letting her act alone.

What he was thinking in his mind was that when Yaya was wandering around Tianqi Mountain and "looking for food" with her newly acquired abilities, he must always be by her side.

That's what he thought, but Yaya quit.

She had already held it back so hard in the second level, and now she's doing it again?

So, whenever she had the chance, she would think about it in Meng Zhou's heart.

It’s talking, it’s promising, it’s pleading.

Finally, Meng Zhou was persuaded by her before this retreat and allowed her to move within a certain range.

Of course, Meng Zhou, who agreed to Yaya's request, did not really let it go, but after many attempts, he had confirmed that even if he was in a state of deep trance and retreat, he could still sense it through his natal connection. Yaya's status.

This was the real reason why he was convinced by Yaya.

However, what surprised Meng Zhou was that Yaya gave him a surprise during his first outing.

When he returned, he had quietly completed the transformation from the third-order low-grade to the third-order mid-grade.

Increased from "Level 3,000/10,000" to "4,000/10,000".

From this progress, you can imagine how much she gained in just four and a half days.

However, from another perspective -

"This Tianqi Mountain is really an untapped treasure house."

After negotiating with Yaya, Meng Zhou had a thought in his mind, and a five-yun spirit gourd warmly nourished in his dantian appeared in front of him.

Then, a line of blood flew out from Meng Zhou's heart.

There were no wounds, and the blood seemed to seep directly from under the skin, continuously.

After a while, Meng Zhou stopped extracting the essence and blood from his heart until his condition reached a certain critical point, and the Five Yun Spiritual Gourd returned to his dantian.

In the dantian, five five-yun spirit gourds are being warmed and nourished.

The Five Yun Spiritual Gourd itself is an excellent treasure for warming and nourishing various spiritual materials and spiritual objects.

Although it is slow, over time, it will bring positive improvements to the spiritual materials stored in it.

Since the individual strength of the golden armored spirit insects all reached the third-level mid-level level and their number was expanded to 5,000, the blood essence and blood that had been stored for nearly ten years were also consumed.

Meng Zhou also stopped feeding.

He once again began to reserve the essence and blood in his heart for a long time.

Those swarms of golden beetles that consumed a huge amount of their heart essence and blood in a short period of time deliberately kept them in a state of hunger and thirst.

After practice, Meng Zhou found that this was the most reasonable way.

On the one hand, the essence and blood in the heart are not wasted, and will gain positive benefits under the continuous nourishment of the Five Yun Spiritual Gourd.

On the other hand, this rhythmic "relaxation and relaxation" of being full and hungry for a while is most beneficial to the growth of the insect swarm.

Moreover, just like accumulating momentum, the more hungry the beetles become, the stronger the ferocity, aggression, and the extreme desire for devouring and growth deep in the blood of the beetle swarm become.

Of course, the premise is not to starve to death.

However, the golden-armored spirit insects whose individual strengths have all reached the third-level mid-level starved to death?

Normal people would not have such worries.

…

Through the Ice Heart Blood Lotus clone who stayed in the Sanchuan Plain, Meng Zhou had been paying attention to the general changes in the Qingxuan Territory while practicing quietly.

Through the information reported from the Changle Chamber of Commerce and Pharmacist Branch, as well as the news shared by other professional branches.

There are also information submitted by the Sanchuan Society, the Blue Blood Army, Qiandao Lake, Wucailing and other forces.

While Meng Zhou clearly grasped the changes in the entire situation, he also felt a special feeling in his heart.

The entire Qingxuan Domain cultivation world is like wrought iron being placed on the chopping block, and the frenzy of monsters throughout the entire outer ring area is like a giant hammer being smashed and beaten violently.

It is ravaging, but it is also a process of constant forging and refining.

Since Qingxuan Sect relaxed its restrictions on the entire Qingxuan Territory more than ten years ago, and even actively supported it, the power of the Qingxuan Territory's cultivation world has expanded unprecedentedly.

From Qi training, to foundation building, to fake elixirs, and even elixir formation, the number is far more than before.

In fact, this has caused the entire spiritual practice world to be too "puffy" and have a mixed bag of good and bad.

Although everyone had made the most complete psychological preparations, when the first wave of beasts hit hard, all the monks who were blocking the front of the beasts were violently impacted.

This is also the time when the casualties are the most serious and tragic, and the situation is the most dangerous.

There are many Qi-training monks and even Foundation-building monks who have died miserably at the claws of monsters before they have fully adjusted.

It was entirely due to the huge size of the Qingxuan Domain cultivation community and the proper scheduling and preparations of the Qingxuan Sect that they were able to withstand it.

These are also the two most risky months.

After enduring the first two months, the originally shaky defense line that felt like it could be broken at any time finally withstood the impact of waves of beasts from the front.

——The point to be emphasized here is that the tide of beasts is like the waves of the sea, coming in waves.

Every evil vein is a breeding ground for it, brewing outward in waves, from small waves to big waves, and finally forming a frenzied effect.

When a wave of "craze" is reduced to a certain extent, this wave will retreat, and with the help of the breeding and warmth of the hotbed, a new wave of craze will be brewed.

Wave after wave.

There are crests and troughs, rising and falling waves.

Rather than what many practitioners imagined, all the monsters in the evil veins lost their minds at a certain moment and charged together in a certain direction desperately. Unless you die, you will keep moving forward.

It's not like this.

No matter how ferocious the beast tide is, it is ultimately composed of monsters.

And as long as it is a monster or a living creature, no matter how crazy the bloodline becomes, the state cannot be maintained forever. There must be ups and downs, highs and lows.

The defense line formed by practitioners only needs to resist their momentum when the "tide rises". After its "ebb", the tide of beasts collapses, the threat is eliminated, beat the drowned dogs, and then wait for the impact of the next wave of beast tides.

This is the battle mode between the cultivators and the beast tide.

After overcoming the initial danger, as the beast tide continued, all the teams became stronger and more refined.

It's like refined iron that has been repeatedly forged.

In just half a year, many forces and individuals have stood out due to their outstanding performance.

Although many foundation-building monks died, the number of foundation-building monks did not decrease but increased, because more Qi-training monks became foundation-building monks.

The overall combat power has been significantly improved.

There are even cases every month in Sanchuanyuan where monks at the peak of the Foundation Establishment successfully break through and form pills. Of course, Qingxuan Sect has opened up the resource bank within the sect so that as long as the military merit is sufficient, it can be redeemed, giving more opportunities. But fierce tempering is also an indispensable part.

As for those who take the opportunity to break through to the fake elixir realm, there are even more.

Silently watching these changes, Meng Zhou's practice and life remained the same as before, without any impact.

In August, Meng Zhou was slightly distracted because of two things.

An incident happened in the Soul Controlling Realm.

Under his warning, Sun Yongxian returned to the spiritual world after hiding in secular society for a year.

After more than half a year of intense turmoil, the general environment in the spiritual realm cultivation world has returned to stability.

Although it is still in turmoil, it will not be affected for no reason.

In order to ensure the safety of their return, Meng Zhou also took some time to control the Linglian clone there to let Sun Yongxian and other core members return quietly.

As Sun Yongxian and others quietly returned, they quietly "restarted" Mingxin Pavilion, which had been shut down for a year.

Although there were many defects due to the impact of the environment, the overall structure was still preserved.

The "vision" that had been "blind" for a year became bright again.

After relatively comprehensively introducing the information from the Spiritual Realm over the past year into the "Deduction World", the first thought that arose in Meng Zhou's mind was——

Unknowingly, the Yuling Realm looked a bit like the Qingxuan Realm.

After injecting deadly venom into the Soul Controlling Sect and causing the entire Soul Controlling Domain to become restless, the Lihen Sect once again disappeared from everyone's sight.

However, the strength of the Yuling Sect has dropped to less than half of what it was at its peak, and almost all of its power has been shrunk back into the third-level spiritual veins where its mountain gate is located.

And in order to prevent the recurrence of the Lihen Cult and avoid facing the threat of this poisonous snake alone.

The Yuling Sect has used more benefits, resources, and opportunities to draw many non-Spiritual Sect forces in the Yuling Domain into the camp to replenish their strength and strengthen their strength.

This objectively created a situation similar to that in the Qingxuan Domain - that is, the cultivation forces other than the Lingyu Sect received an unprecedented growth atmosphere.

The difference is that Qingxuan Sect takes the initiative to loosen the restrictions, while Yu Ling Sect does it as a last resort.

Another thing is that at the beginning of the year, the Alchemy Domain Mingxin Pavilion was officially brought under control. It had been dormant for more than half a year. After the situation in the Hehuan Domain cultivation world slowly stabilized, Meng Zhou also officially brought the Hehuan Domain Mingxin Pavilion under his control. middle.

From then on, all the Five Domains Mingxin Pavilion was under his control.

He has a pair of eyes that shine across the five realms.

…

The fifth day of September.

Cultivation progress +330, fifth level of elixir formation 6660/10,000;

Third-level Spring Water Sutra +3300, Grandmaster 66,000/240,000;

Black Turtle Bearing Monument's real skill +3300, Grandmaster 54,300/240,000.

After finishing this practice, Meng Zhou did not leave the seclusion immediately, but waited quietly for a while.

As time passed, a trace of surprise flashed in Meng Zhou's heart.

"This girl, what's going on?!"

Since reaching an agreement with Yaya, every time during Meng Zhou's retreat, Yaya would move freely underground within a hundred miles around Aurora Cave, "foraging" everywhere.

Her strength has also improved again and again in a short period of time. Before this retreat, she had already improved from the middle level of the third level to the level close to the high level of the third level.

"Rope Spirit Level 3 6500/10,000"

According to her progress in the past few months, Meng Zhou was even ready to see that Yaya had been promoted to the third high-grade level after leaving the seclusion this time.

But the current situation is that Yaya has not come back at all.

"This girl, did you lose track of time while playing?"

After confirming that there was nothing wrong with Yaya through his natal connection, Meng Zhou gently put down the worries he had raised and urged Yaya to return.

After a while, Meng Zhou raised his head and looked towards the direction of the dome.

I saw a real and illusory shadow emerging from the rock wall, spanning thousands of meters in an instant, and landed in Meng Zhou's palm.

Meng Zhou was about to hit Yaya, but Yaya's voice had already sounded in his heart:

"Uncle, I discovered something very strange."

Meng Zhou was at a loss, "What did you find?"

Yaya immediately started telling the story.

Perhaps she was too excited and what she said sounded fragmentary and confusing, but Meng Zhou still heard what she wanted to express from her words.

Since being promoted to the third level, Yaya has the ability to sense "food" within a certain range.

Over the past few days, Yaya has also followed this induction, looking for "food", eating, and then growing.

As the amount and variety of "food" consumed increases, this sense has also been exercised.

Gradually, this feeling turned into a unique "smell". She could not only sense food, but also roughly confirm the grade and type of "food".

It was also at this time that she confirmed that there was a faint "aroma" that had been attracting her, but this "aroma" was not in her "recipe menu".

The reason why she didn't return on time this time was because she was distracted by the "smell".

"What do you think that is?" Meng Zhou asked.

Yaya replied honestly: "I don't know."

Saying that, Yaya paused, "After knowing that this aura had another source, the first thing I thought of was the masterless divine will, but after thinking about it carefully, it didn't feel right... it felt very different."

Her addition shocked Meng Zhou's heart.

Not only because of the information itself, but also because as this new information entered the "deduction world", Meng Zhou suddenly discovered that the background of the five domains suddenly dimmed by two points.

Not to mention the Qingxuan Domain and the Spirit Controlling Domain, which were already in a "gloomy" state, even the Jinding Domain and the Alchemy Domain, which have become bright and sunny again, have quietly dimmed by two points.

"Is this... Yaya accidentally dug up a nuclear bomb buried deep in the ground?"

Meng Zhou couldn't help but think half-complainingly and half-self-explanatory.

With this thought in his mind, Meng Zhou's mood had quietly calmed down.

Sensing the change in Meng Zhou's mentality, Yaya asked cautiously: "Uncle...is there anything wrong?"

That cautious tone seemed to be afraid that his behavior would cause trouble.

Meng Zhou shook his head: "Don't worry, Yaya, you have made a great contribution!" (End of Chapter)