Seeking Immortality

After giving all the spiritual stones, elixirs and magical instruments to Ting'er, Ting'er thanked Xu Qingfan without mentioning them. Xu Qingfan encouraged the three disciples for a few words and let them go.

Among Xu Qingfan's three disciples, except for Ting'er who had reached the Jindan stage and could perform the "Sleeve Qiankun" technique, Zhang Ningmei and Bai Yu were only in the Qi Refining stage and could not perform the "Sleeve Qiankun" technique. They could only carry the large number of spiritual pills, spiritual stones and magical instruments given to them by Xu Qingfan and leave. Unfortunately, there were too many things and they were too scattered. In the end, it was Ting'er who helped them take them out of Xu Qingfan's room.

After Ting'er and others left, the smile on Xu Qingfan's face gradually disappeared, and his brows gradually frowned. After settling these things, Xu Qingfan began to think about what he should do before and during the retreat.

At this time, there are still seven years before the catastrophe of the Xiuxian world begins, and there are still twelve years before Jiuhua Mountain opens. It sounds like a long time, but it will pass in a flash for Xiuxian, so Xu Qingfan must use his time in the most reasonable way, think clearly about the direction of his efforts, not waste a day, and maximize his strength.

For Xiuxian, retreat is not so casual. First, you must restore your state to your prime, and you must be calm, otherwise you may go crazy if you are not careful. So although Xu Qingfan has decided to retreat, there are many things to prepare, and the real time for retreat will be several months later.

After completing Liu Huaxiang's will and returning to Jiuhua Mountain last time, Xu Qingfan set himself five goals that he needed to achieve before Jiuhua opened.

The first one is to complete his second magical power "body incarnation" technique, this one. Xu Qingfan had already completed it. He had already refined the two external incarnations of Xu Zhiyuan and Xu Ying a year ago. Although he was defeated by Feng Qingtian in the battle with Feng Qingtian, the core, the two jade cards, were still there. As long as Xu Qingfan replenished the spiritual energy in the two jade cards, Xu Ying and Xu Zhiyuan could reappear in the world.

Xu Qingfan's second goal was to reach the late stage of solid dan before Jiuhua opened the mountain. At this time, Xu Qingfan's cultivation level was not far from the middle stage of solid dan, so this goal was mostly achieved.

As for the third goal. It is to perfect the "Life and Death Art" created by Xu Qingfan by chance, but unlike the first two, Xu Qingfan still has no idea about this one. The "Life and Death Art" is a technique that uses the "dead air" and "living air" in Xu Qingfan's body. In a way, it is Xu Qingfan's greatest reliance when dealing with the catastrophe of the cultivation world in the future. But on the one hand, Xu Qingfan has no experience in creating techniques on his own, and everything is moving forward by trial and error. On the other hand, although Xu Qingfan has already mastered the "dead air" and "living air" in his body, he still doesn't understand the subtleties of the two spiritual energies. So although he has often thought about the perfection of the "Life and Death Art" over the years, except for evolving the "Way of Life and Death" based on these thoughts, he has not gained much. The fourth goal is to improve Xu Qingfan's first magical power "Desolate Wind" that has gradually been unable to be used. For this, Xu Qingfan already has some preliminary ideas, and he only needs to wait for the test after the retreat to see if it is feasible.

The fifth item is to use the mystery of "Life and Death Jue" to improve Xu Qingfan's own qualifications as much as possible. Although Xu Qingfan has never tried this, he has made great progress, because the third magical power "The Way of Life and Death" created by Xu Qingfan is most consistent with "Life and Death Jue". It is not an exaggeration to say that it evolved from Xu Qingfan's "Life and Death Jue". Every time after resurrection, there is also a magical effect of improving qualifications under the destruction and then establishment, and the rest will also wait for Xu Qingfan to work hard after retreat.

The above five points. Either completed or no progress. They are the direction of Xu Qingfan's preaching efforts in the next twelve years. Because these five points are the direction that can best improve Xu Qingfan's strength in twelve years.

Before Xu Qingfan retreats, he still has two things to do, one is to restore the internal spiritual energy that has been depleted for a long time as soon as possible, and the other is to find out the origin and usage of the strange skull in the ruins of the "Treasure Pavilion".

As for Xu Ying and Xu Zhiyuan, Xu Qingfan was not in a hurry to let them reappear in the world, because Xu Qingfan planned to carefully study the puppet he obtained during the retreat, and it would be best if he could add some of the puppet's advantages to Xu Ying and Xu Zhiyuan, so that the strength of the two incarnations would be greatly increased. After setting the goals before and after the retreat. Xu Qingfan's mood became much more stable. In the following days, Xu Qingfan's life became leisurely, or he would sit in the house to restore the spiritual energy in his body. Or he would play chess with Zhang Ningmei, taste tea, and discuss his state of mind, or he would read a lot of books to find the origin and use of the strange skull, and seize the last time to preach to Zhang Ningmei and Bai Yu.

If it weren't for the impending catastrophe in the world of cultivation, Xu Qingfan really wanted to let this kind of life continue.

Three months later, Xu Qingfan's spiritual energy was finally restored, and his state of mind became peaceful, and the day of retreat finally arrived.

After going to the front mountain to talk to Liu Huaxiang, Li Yuhan and others, and after settling Ting'er and the other three disciples, he turned around and walked towards his room under the complicated gazes of the three disciples.

Although the door was closed, several barriers of various colors appeared outside Xu Qingfan's room. In the eyes of the three disciples, Xu Qingfan's figure finally disappeared completely, and they could not even sense a trace of breath in the room. For a moment, Ting'er and the other three felt as if they had lost something.

This time, Xu Qingfan will be in seclusion for twelve years. This is not only the longest seclusion since Xu Qingfan started cultivating immortals, but also difficult and uncomfortable for the three disciples. You know, Ting'er only wants to follow Xu Qingfan all the time, and Zhang Ningmei and Bai Yu have only been Xu Qingfan's disciples for two years.

For cultivating immortals, time is the most precious and the most dispensable. At this moment, the three disciples all deeply understand this.

The door closed, and layers of barriers were set up outside the room. For a while, Xu Qingfan's room and the outside world seemed to have become two completely isolated worlds. There is a world outside the room, and another world inside the room. There are sun, moon, stars, birds and flowers, and friends from the master, but in this world, there is only Xu Qingfan.

Or, there are still a lot of problems that Xu Qingfan needs to solve?

For the monks in seclusion, the biggest danger after seclusion is the unbearable loneliness and monotony in the emptiness. They study the same problem day after day, and see the same scenery in front of them. Even if the cultivators are used to loneliness, their mentality is still easy to be out of harmony for a long time. Once the mentality is out of harmony, not only will the seclusion be useless, but there is also the danger of going astray.

But seclusion can also improve the cultivation of the immortals. With nothing else in mind, only the cultivation of the immortals, the concentration will naturally improve the cultivation. It can be said that the longer the seclusion, the greater the achievement, but also the greater the danger.

Xu Qingfan naturally knew this, so the moment the door was closed, Xu Qingfan breathed a sigh of relief, his mood became calm, and he only focused on cultivating the immortals, and no longer thought about other things.

However, after Xu Qingfan sat cross-legged on the bed, he did not start practicing immediately, but took out the skull from the ruins of the "Treasure Pavilion".

Seeing the skull reappear, Xiao Hei, who was standing quietly on Xu Qingfan's shoulder, became excited again, and kept fluttering on Xu Qingfan's shoulder, very anxious.

But Xu Qingfan did not stop Xiao Hei again this time. He threw the jade box in his hand, and the green skull floated quietly in front of Xu Qingfan. Then, Xu Qingfan waved his sleeves, and a black bead appeared in Xu Qingfan's hand again, and then floated in front of Xu Qingfan like the green skull.

This black bead was the "Death Bead" that Xu Qingfan had obtained from No. 2 before, which had the effect of gathering death energy.

Seeing these two things floating in front of him, Xiao Hei couldn't help but shouting happily. Although the crow-like cry was still so unpleasant no matter how cheerful it was, Xu Qingfan still sensed the unbearable joy in Xiao Hei's heart.

I saw Xiao Hei quickly flew to the skull and the "Death Pearl". Without any movement, I saw a very strong death aura suddenly appearing on the skull, turning into a black mist, and rushing towards Xiao Hei. With the help of the "Death Pearl", this black death aura became thicker and thicker, but it seemed endless and kept rushing towards Xiao Hei.

Xiao Hei did not refuse the black death aura that came, and kept absorbing it. Because the time was still short, it was not clear what changes Xiao Hei had made after absorbing such a large amount of death aura.

Xu Qingfan, who was sitting quietly and observing, was secretly shocked when he saw the black death aura surging in front of him. He did not expect that the skull that showed no abnormalities no matter how he explored it actually contained such a strong death aura. With such a rich supply of death aura, how far could Xiao Hei grow?