Seeking Immortality

On the southern coast of Huandao, the sun was shining on the beach, the waves were rolling, and the sky and the earth were golden and dazzling.

On the beach, three girls stood quietly. They were the disciples of the "* Palace" in the six holy places. At their feet, there were three corpses lying on the ground, one man and two women. The two female corpses were wearing the clothes of the "* Palace". Obviously, they were the two remaining disciples of the "* Palace".

The sea breeze kept blowing, constantly lifting the hair of the three girls, but they were not aware of it. They just stared at the corpses on the ground for a long time without saying a word for a while. Their expressions were mixed with anger and sadness.

Among the three * Palace disciples, the woman in white clothes with a lonely expression was also among them. However, as the leader of the "* Palace", she did not have a cold expression like Xu Qingfan had seen before. Instead, she looked very embarrassed. Her white clothes were also wrinkled, and even stained with some mud, and her hair was messy.

"Senior Sister Gong, what should we do now?" After a long silence, a beautiful woman on the left of the woman in white finally couldn't help asking.

The woman in white didn't turn back after hearing what the other woman said. She just stared at the three bodies on the ground and said coldly: "Revenge."

"What should we do with the bodies of the two senior sisters?" asked another woman.

"Take them." The woman in white was very frugal with her words. She glanced at the other man's body and added, "Take them all." As she spoke, the woman in white no longer looked at the body on the ground, and headed towards the center of Huandao without looking back. The other two * Palace disciples looked at each other, waved their robes, and used the "Universe in the Sleeve" technique to roll the three bodies into their sleeves, and then quickly chased after the woman in white.

What's going on?

Xu Qingfan, who had woken up from his coma, looked at the concerned eyes of Jin Qinghan and Lu Qingshang, as well as Feng Qingtian wrapped in flames in his arms, and his heart was full of doubts.

What was particularly puzzling was that Xu Qingfan found that although Feng Qingtian in his arms was emitting blazing flames, it did not cause any harm to him, and even his clothes were not burned, but instead made him feel faintly intimate.

In fact. Feng Qingtian The flames on his body were not real flames, but Phoenix spirit energy that had transformed into the shape of flames. At this time, it was transforming Feng Qingtian's body, so it would not cause any harm to Xu Qingfan, because his body was now very sensitive to Phoenix spirit energy.

But Xu Qingfan didn't know this, so he was just confused now.

In addition to being confused, Xu Qingfan also found that his body seemed to have undergone some changes since he woke up, but he couldn't tell what the changes were. He just felt that the world in his eyes seemed to be different from before, with clear textures. Especially clear. The most important thing was that Xu Qingfan found that his ability to sense the sunflower spirit energy between heaven and earth seemed to be more than ten times stronger than before.

And all these changes made Xu Qingfan even more confused.

"Junior Brother Xu, what happened just now? Why were you and Junior Brother Feng suddenly surrounded by flames? Also, why was Junior Brother Feng still surrounded by flames? Weren't you hurt in the flames just now? "

As soon as he saw Xu Qingfan escape from the flames and wake up, Lu Qingshang asked several questions in a row, obviously confused about the change just now. Jin Qinghan, who was standing by, was also ready to ask something, but when he saw Xu Qingfan's eyes full of confusion and Lu Qingshang expressed all his doubts, he just stared at Xu Qingfan with a puzzled look. He waited quietly for his explanation.

Hearing Lu Qingshang's continuous questions, Xu Qingfan's mind, which was already confused because he had just woken up, became even more confused. He didn't bother to answer, but closed his eyes and began Recalling the scene before he fell into a coma.

Seeing Xu Qingfan's appearance, Lu Qingshang also realized that he had asked too hastily just now. So after Xu Qingfan closed his eyes, Lu Qingshang did not ask any more questions, but waited quietly for Xu Qingfan's answer like Jin Qinghan.

In the silence, after a long time, Xu Qingfan's mind regained clarity. The scene kept replaying in his mind. Finally, he recalled the scene before he fell into a coma.

Through careful recollection, Xu Qingfan knew that the reason why he fell into a coma just now was because the Wutong branch suddenly changed, bursting out a large amount of Phoenix spiritual energy and entering the Phoenix through his body as a channel. In Qingtian's body, not only did he fall into a coma because he couldn't stand the impact of the spiritual energy, but he also caused this change.

There is no doubt that this change is closely related to two things. Because of the phoenix nirvana, the sycamore branch with a lot of phoenix spiritual energy, and Feng Qingtian with phoenix blood, could this change have something to do with the phoenix?

Xu Qingfan couldn't help but think of the words that flashed through his mind before he fell into a coma - "Phoenix Nirvana"! !

At the moment when the flames ignited on Feng Qingtian's body, this word appeared in Xu Qingfan's mind without warning, as if This word has been deeply engraved in this change. This word is not Xu Qingfan's idea at the time, but it seems to be the memory of the phoenix spirit itself.

A memory that has been passed down for tens of thousands of years.

Could it be that Feng Qingtian is undergoing "Phoenix Nirvana"?

Xu Qingfan was surprised when he thought of this conclusion, but it was quickly rejected by Xu Qingfan. Feng Qingtian is not a phoenix, but just has the blood of a phoenix; and the phoenix spirit contained in the sycamore branch is very amazing to him, but it is still far from enough for a phoenix to undergo Nirvana, let alone Feng Qingtian.

"Forget it, it's no use for me to guess here. Let's discuss it with Feng Qingtian after he wakes up. This matter is related to his phoenix blood and phoenix spirit anyway. He should know it better than me."

Xu Qingfan thought secretly.

Although Xu Qingfan guessed that this change was not "Phoenix Nirvana". But it was probably related, so Xu Qingfan was no longer worried about the safety of Feng Qingtian. What's more, Xu Qingfan could clearly feel that when the flames around Feng Qingtian were burning violently, the vitality in his body became more and more powerful.

Compared with guessing the cause of this change, Xu Qingfan was more concerned about the changes in his body after the change.

The moment he woke up, the flames around Xu Qingfan were all concentrated around Feng Qingtian, so the flames around Feng Qingtian were stronger than at the beginning. Before, Jin Qinghan and Lu Qingshang could vaguely see Feng Qingtian's figure through the flames. But now he couldn't see it anyway. He only felt that Xu Qingfan was holding a ball of human-shaped flames, which looked very strange.

But more importantly, when Xu Qingfan withdrew from the flame, his body also underwent many changes. The most intuitive aspect is that Xu Qingfan's sensitivity to the sunflower fire spirit between heaven and earth is now far better, and the affinity between his body and the sunflower fire spirit is more than ten times stronger than before.

What does this mean? This means that Xu Qingfan's absorption of fire spirit will be much faster than before! ! And he will have strong resistance when he is hurt by the fire method.

The reason why Xu Qingfan practiced the wood method was not only because he had a lot of wood spirit sealed in his body, but also because Xu Qingfan's body had some affinity for wood spirit when the "mountain spirit wood monster" invaded. So he can absorb the wood spirit between heaven and earth.

And now, after this change, Xu Qingfan can not only absorb the wood spirit between heaven and earth. He can also absorb the sunflower fire spirit, and the speed is much faster than absorbing the wood spirit.

Thinking of this, Xu Qingfan couldn't help but get a little excited.

But in a flash, Xu Qingfan became depressed again, because he suddenly found that even if he absorbed the fire spirit faster, it would be useless.

Xu Qingfan knew that the biggest reason for his poor aptitude was not because he absorbed the spirit slowly, but because his body could not intercept the spirit of heaven and earth for his own use. The reason why Xu Qingfan could cultivate to the realm of the Spiritual Silence Stage now was not because he absorbed enough spirit of heaven and earth, but because he had been relying on the spirit of heaven and earth absorbed to refine the existing earth and wood energy in his body.

And speeding up the absorption of fire spirit. In addition to allowing Xu Qingfan to speed up the refining of the wood energy in his body, it had no effect at all. In other words, Xu Qingfan could reach the realm of the late Spiritual Silence in a shorter time than before, but it still did not help him break through to the Dan Formation Stage.

"No matter what, I won't have such a headache facing the fire cultivation in the future. At least I have a strong resistance to fire." Although Xu Qingfan was disappointed, he didn't care much, because he knew that there was no such thing as a one-step success in this world, so he just thought of it to comfort himself.

At the same time, Xu Qingfan thought again. Now he is awake. The flames around Feng Qingtian are burning more and more fiercely. It is obvious that the changes in Feng Qingtian are far from complete. In other words, when Feng Qingtian wakes up, the changes in him will be far more than Xu Qingfan. So what changes will Feng Qingtian have after he wakes up?

Xu Qingfan shook his head and buried his curiosity in his heart. What changes will happen after Feng Qingtian wakes up will be known naturally.

Thinking of this, Xu Qingfan opened his eyes and wanted to tell Jin Qinghan and Lu Qingshang about his guess. But the moment he opened his eyes, Xu Qingfan saw the flames burning around Feng Qingtian and the powerful phoenix aura fluctuating in his body, which made Xu Qingfan suddenly realize something very important.

No matter what the reason for the change in Feng Qingtian, the reason why it can happen and continue is all due to the phoenix aura contained in Xu Qingfan's sycamore branch.

Judging from the fluctuations of the Phoenix spiritual energy on Feng Qingtian's body and the gradually stronger vitality in his body, this change must have consumed a lot of Phoenix spiritual energy in the Wutong branch.

You know, although there is little hope, if Xu Qingfan relies on the mystery of "Hua Ling Jue" to completely integrate the Wutong branch in the future, then after obtaining the powerful energy contained in the Wutong branch, Xu Qingfan still has a chance to rush to the Jindan stage in one fell swoop.

And this is the only way Xu Qingfan can think of to break through to the Jindan stage.

In other words, the energy contained in the Wutong branch is of great significance to Xu Qingfan. Every time the energy in the Wutong branch weakens a bit, Xu Qingfan's hope of breaking through to the Jindan stage by relying on the energy of the Wutong branch will become more slim.

Thinking of this, Xu Qingfan was really surprised in his heart, and hurriedly began to carefully explore the changes in the Wutong branch. After providing Feng Qingtian with a large amount of Phoenix spiritual energy, the Wutong branch returned to the appearance of an ordinary small branch before and was inserted back into Xu Qingfan's bun.

After a long time, Xu Qingfan smiled helplessly.

The changes in the Wutong branch were indeed as Xu Qingfan expected. A large amount of Phoenix spiritual energy was consumed for the previous changes. Although the Mu Yi Qi inside was still magnificent, the Phoenix spiritual energy was only half of what it was before.

But at the same time, Xu Qingfan found that the compatibility between his body and the Wutong branch had been greatly enhanced after this change. If it was only the state of mind-body synchronization before, then now Xu Qingfan and the Wutong branch have reached the state of mind-body unity. In the next step, Xu Qingfan can directly retreat to refine the Wutong branch and merge it with himself. It can be said that after this change, Xu Qingfan saved more than ten years of refining.

But Xu Qingfan was still helpless. Although the refining progress was accelerated, what's the use? After all, the hope of breaking through to the Jindan stage was greatly reduced.

However, although Xu Qingfan was helpless in his heart, he was not particularly disappointed. Because even with the help of the Wutong branch, he still didn't have much hope that he could break through to the Jindan stage. If he exchanged Feng Qingtian's life at this price, Xu Qingfan felt it was a pity, but he could still accept it.

But whether it was Xu Qingfan's body or the Wutong branch, whether these changes were good or bad, it would take time to prove.

After finally sorting out the matter, Xu Qingfan slowly opened his eyes.

After Xu Qingfan closed his eyes and pondered, Jin Qinghan and Lu Qingshang waited anxiously for his response. However, Xu Qingfan still had no intention of speaking after closing his eyes for a long time, but his expression changed continuously, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes comforted, and he opened his eyes once during this period. But he immediately closed his eyes and continued to ponder, but he didn't know what Xu Qingfan was thinking of, which made the two people next to him anxious.

Finally, Xu Qingfan opened his eyes again and looked at Jin Qinghan and Lu Qingshang, who were full of doubts. Slowly said: "I don't know what the reason for this change is. But I still have some guesses in my heart, I will tell you now and discuss it."

Said. Xu Qingfan told the two people around him all the guesses in his mind just now. After hearing that Feng Qingtian might be undergoing a change similar to "Phoenix Nirvana", Jin and Lu couldn't help but be stunned. After hearing that the loss of energy in Xu Qingfan's Wutong branch would reduce the possibility of Xu Qingfan's forming pill, he couldn't help but sigh, but he couldn't help but feel happy when he knew that Feng Qingtian's life was safe.

In short, after Xu Qingfan's explanation, the two finally knew why Xu Qingfan's expression was so changeable when he closed his eyes and meditated just now.

After Xu Qingfan finished explaining, Jin Qinghan asked: "Brother Xu, you guessed that the reason for the mutation was that your Wutong branch resonated with the phoenix blood in Feng Qingtian's body, but why did you also participate in the mutation?"

After Xu Qingfan pondered for a while, he said: "Maybe it's because I have initially refined the Wutong branch, and there is already a part of the phoenix spirit in my body, and as the connection channel between the Wutong branch and Brother Feng, when the two mutated, I was also forced to participate in the mutation. So now that the Wutong branch has input enough phoenix into Brother Feng's body, After Feng's spiritual energy withdrew from the mutation, I also withdrew. "

Lü Qingshang asked again: "Then according to Junior Brother Xu, how long will Junior Brother Feng's mutation last before it ends? "

Xu Qingfan shook his head and said: "I am not very clear about this. It may only take a cup of tea, or it may take several days. We don't know the specific situation, so it is difficult to speculate. It is said that the Phoenix takes several months to nirvana. Although Senior Brother Feng is not a real nirvana this time, it should take a few days. "

Speaking of this, Xu Qingfan couldn't help but frowned. Now the situation on Huandao is weird. Danger is everywhere, especially for his own group. Xu Qingfan always feels that there seems to be some conspiracy waiting for him, so he is more and more cautious.

He had memorized the terrain of Huandao before, and knew that although the terrain of Huandao was flat, there were still some small hills in the south, and the terrain was more complicated.

According to Xu Qingfan's idea, he was going to lead everyone to hide there for a day, waiting for the elders on Zhantai to come to Huandao, but at this time Feng Qingtian was undergoing a mutation. No one knows what will happen along the way. It would be bad if Feng Qingtian went crazy because of the rush, but if he didn't rush, he might be ambushed again, so Xu Qingfan couldn't help but hesitate.

Finally, Xu Qingfan said to Lu Qingshang: "Please ask Brother Lu to set up a few more formations for hiding breath outside this breath-retaining formation. Anyway, according to my estimation, the elders of various factions on Zhantai will come soon, and we only need to hide here for less than half a day."

Hearing Xu Qingfan's decision. Lu Qingshang nodded silently. He knew that this was the best solution now, so he waved his hands quickly. Countless talismans flew to the breath-retaining formation around everyone, forming several different formations for hiding breath.

Then, as if worried about another attack, Lu Qingshang mixed two defensive formations among the many formations for hiding breath. After all this last night, Lu Qingshang's face was pale and his breathing was slightly heavy. Obviously, the formation just now consumed a lot of his spiritual energy.

In fact, in the battle to kill the Azure Dragon Python last night, Lv Qingshang and Jin Qinghan had already consumed most of their spiritual energy. Later on the road, they encountered Xu Qingfan and Feng Qingtian's abnormalities, so they had to stop to protect them. They didn't dare to meditate to recover. They had just set up so many formations in one breath. It really consumed the last bit of Lv Qingshang's spiritual energy.

"Brother Lu, Brother Jin, you two have worked hard to protect me and Brother Feng just now. Now meditate and rest, and try to recover your spiritual energy as soon as possible. I will protect you." Xu Qingfan's spiritual energy has recovered after the abnormality. Even to a higher level, so when he saw Lv Qingshang's pale face, he said hurriedly.

After hearing Xu Qingfan's words, Lu Qingshang didn't say much, and immediately sat cross-legged on the ground to meditate and recuperate. He had indeed consumed a lot of spiritual energy this time.

When Jin Qinghan saw Lu Qingshang start to meditate and recover, he didn't rush to sit cross-legged, but quietly looked at Xu Qingfan. Speaking of which, this was the first time the two of them were alone together since the rookie competition.

Seeing Jin Qinghan looking at him with strange eyes, Xu Qingfan asked curiously: "Junior Brother Jin, what's the matter?"

Jin Qinghan smiled faintly and said: "Nothing, I just didn't expect you to change so much after coming to Huandao."

Xu Qingfan smiled helplessly and asked: "Do you think these changes are good or bad?"

"Good." Jin Qinghan said affirmatively: "You were too easy to suffer in the past."

Xu Qingfan shook his head and said: "What I didn't expect was that after Senior Brother Feng was injured, you would be more anxious than anyone else."

Jin Qinghan said faintly: "I just don't want him to have any accidents before I defeat him."

Speaking, Jin Qinghan stopped talking and sat cross-legged on the ground like Lu Qingshang, closing his eyes and meditating.

Looking at Jin Qinghan's arrogant look, Xu Qingfan shook his head and smiled, and then began to patrol the surroundings with his eyes, from the scenery outside the formation, to Feng Qingtian surrounded by flames, and Jin Qinghan and Feng Qingtian who were meditating with their eyes closed.

Suddenly, the smile on Xu Qingfan's face froze, and then a sad look flashed in his eyes, because he saw the broken arm next to Lu Qingshang, which was the only intact body part of Wang Qingjun after his death.

With a slight sigh, Xu Qingfan slowly walked towards the broken arm, because he suddenly remembered that he had obtained a "Bing Ningzhu" from the market before. At that time, he exchanged this foreign object just because it was beautiful, so he wanted to please Ting'er, but when he found that Ting'er didn't like it, he put it away.

But at this time, this "Bing Ningzhu" can be used, because "Bing Ningzhu" has the special effect of keeping the appearance of the corpse unchanged for thousands of years. Although it is only a broken arm, it is also the whole of Wang Qingjun's corpse.

But when Xu Qingfan took the broken arm in his hand, he was stunned, because he found that this broken arm was the lower arm of Wang Qingjun's right hand, and it was connected to Wang Qingjun's right hand. At this time, Xu Qingfan clearly saw that Wang Qingjun was holding something in his right hand.

At this time, in the sea nearly a hundred miles west of Huan Island, a group of immortal cultivators were rushing towards Huan Island. These immortal cultivators were flying very fast even in the strong winds over the East China Sea. It was obvious that they had cultivation bases no less than the Jindan stage. They were the elders and guardians of various sects who came from Zhan Tai.