at night.
In a hidden underground cave, there was a dim light.
Yuan Ming sat cross-legged in the cave. The sunken cobblestone in front of him was dug out and filled with lamp oil made of anaconda grease. In the light of the fire, there was a slight smoke coming out, exuding a faint sweet smell.
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He was holding a green-cover book in his hand and was reading it attentively.
"No wonder Zhao Tong wants the face of the Human-Faced Ghost Spider. It turns out that this Thousand Machines Mask is so easy to use and can actually change thousands of faces. It cannot be seen through by monks who are not at the elixir formation stage or above." Yuan Ming clicked his tongue and said.
Over the past few days, his understanding of cultivation has gradually become clearer. He knows that after the Qi refining period, there is still a foundation building period. After the foundation building period, there is the elixir formation period, and after that, there is the fairy-like Nascent Soul stage.
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However, except for the Qi Refining Stage, he only knew the names of the following realms, and he still couldn't figure out what the differences were.
After a while, he closed the "Illustrated Book of Frequent Ferocious Beasts" and silently recalled the situations of the vicious beasts recorded in it, secretly remembering them in his heart.
"I'm stuck on the bottleneck of the second level of Qi Refining. I haven't been able to improve for a long time, and I don't know if this thing is useful." Yuan Ming put away the book, holding the palm-sized piece of fleshy Ganoderma lucidum, and said to himself.
"Herborist Collection" says that Ganoderma lucidum grown for more than ten years can produce white bones and remove carrion.
It has been used for more than a hundred years to revive the dead, strengthen qi and blood, and aid spiritual practice. It can be combined with Poria cocos, Rhizoma Polygonatum, Wujialing and other medicines to make Lingzhidan, and the effect can be doubled.
Judging from the shape and size of the medicine he had in hand, it was already a hundred years old. Unfortunately, Yuan Ming couldn't find anyone to help him refine the medicine. Once he took it out, he would probably bring disaster to himself.
After all, a common man is not guilty, but he is guilty of carrying a jade.
"It's better to eat it raw than not to eat it at all." Yuan Ming sighed and said.
After saying that, he sat cross-legged, adjusted his breathing, and began to silently run the second level of "Nine Yuan Jue", mobilizing the magic power in his Dantian to travel around the sky.
When the energy and blood all over his body were mobilized, Yuan Ming slowly opened his eyes, picked up the Ganoderma lucidum, and took a bite.
It felt fleshy to the touch, but what came out after biting was a wood-like fiber texture. A bitter taste spread between his lips and teeth, making him couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"It tastes terrible." Yuan Ming said silently in his heart, but did not spit it out. Instead, he endured the discomfort and started chewing.
After a while, Yuan Ming swallowed the entire Ganoderma lucidum tree into his belly.
Afterwards, he continued to try to run the third level of Jiu Yuan Jue and carefully feel the changes in himself.
But what disappointed him was that as soon as the third level of Jiuyuan Jue was activated, the feeling of stagnation and stagnation came over again. The operation of the magic power was like encountering a high wall, which was blocked and could not be overcome.
"Can't it?" Yuan Ming sighed secretly in his heart.
Sure enough, even the elixir of heavenly materials and earthly treasures needs specific refining before it can activate its efficacy.
But at this moment, Yuan Ming suddenly frowned and pressed his hands on his lower abdomen.
Immediately afterwards, a heat flow rose up from his Dantian, as if a heating stove was set up in his abdomen.
Yuan Ming was surprised when he suddenly felt that the temperature of the heat in his lower abdomen suddenly increased significantly, and the warm and hot feeling at the beginning became a bit burning.
He only felt that the heater in his lower abdomen had lost its water, and all the flames overflowed, causing burning pain in his abdomen.
Yuan Ming felt a little panicked, so he quickly untied his clothes and opened his chest and abdomen.
But this still couldn't offset the heat. The skin on his lower abdomen turned red and began to spread towards his chest and groin.
Yuan Ming quickly took off all his clothes and sat naked on the ground before feeling a little relieved.
But this soothing feeling didn't last long, and he was engulfed by the heat again, and the skin all over his body began to turn red, looking like cooked shrimp.
Yuan Ming even blew out the small oil lamp in front of him, but he still felt that his mouth was dry, his mind was restless, and his heart was beating like a drum in his chest.
At the same time, he also felt that the magic power in his Dantian seemed to be a little restless, and began to surge into his meridians uncontrollably, and he felt a pinprick-like pain in his meridians all over his body.
In the past, he had never been in such a situation during his practice, and Yuan Ming couldn't help but panic.
But soon, he forced himself to calm down and began to run the "Nine Yuan Jue" technique, trying to sort out and guide the mana back to his dantian.
After this try, he found that his magic power was not out of control and was still following his orders, but it was running faster and with stronger momentum.
As soon as he thought of this, Yuan Ming felt a sense of enlightenment.
He quickly recited the formula for the third level of "Nine Yuan Jue" silently in his mind, followed the practice method to guide the flow of magic power in the meridians, and tried again to break through to the third level of Qi refining.
Within a moment, Yuan Ming's eyes suddenly opened and their eyes shone brightly.
The bottleneck that could not be overcome before was easily overcome this time.
In an instant, the mana in his Dantian surged, and the flow of mana also accelerated. The time it took to run for a week was also doubled, and the efficiency of his practice was greatly improved.
Yuan Ming was selflessly running the technique, running it around the sky over and over again. He was sweating like rain all over his body, and there was a faint white mist rising above his head.
As he practiced, the hot feeling in his body began to gradually subside, and the red skin all over his body began to subside. The movement of mana in his body gradually became stable, but the mana stored in his Dantian increased significantly.
After a few hours, Yuan Ming slowly opened his eyes, with a smile on his face.
Under the stimulation of the medicinal power of this century-old Ganoderma lucidum, he finally broke through again and advanced to the third level of Qi refining stage.
After the joy passed, Yuan Ming did not stop practicing, but continued to sit cross-legged and meditate, trying to stabilize his state as much as possible.
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Half a month later.
Beside a jungle stream, a figure quickly shuttled through the forest. He was wearing a white ape skin and carrying an ancient bronze sword in his hand. It was Yuan Ming.
At this moment, he did not use the art of covering up his hair. He was just running wildly in his human form, and his speed was not slow at all.
Behind him, trees in the dense forest continued to fall, and the sounds of collisions were repeated.
In the billowing smoke, a gray-green anaconda with a length of seven feet and as thick as a bucket was twisting its body quickly, rushing towards Yuan Ming in the forest.
Its eyes were amber yellow, and it had a wide mouth, revealing two pairs of sharp teeth at the top and bottom. A scarlet snake snake spit out from it, which was six feet long.
Yuan Ming ran wildly and looked back. Seeing the anaconda getting closer and closer, he suddenly accelerated and jumped into the air, jumping seven or eight feet away.
Seeing this, Anaconda's head suddenly rushed forward, and his body flew straight up, chasing Yuan Ming.
Yuan Mingren was in mid-air, stretched out his hand to grab the vine hanging down from an old tree next to him, and pulled it down suddenly. The traps made of tree vines on both sides of him immediately retracted quickly.
Half of Anaconda's body got into a rapidly shrinking rope loop. Before he could completely escape, he was tightly bound by the tightening tree vines, and half of his body was hanging in the air.
It struggled endlessly, pulling on the vines and shaking the thick branches above it violently, and was about to break.
But at this time, Yuan Ming, who had returned, jumped up high, holding the herring sword tightly in both hands, and suddenly slashed at Anaconda's head.
Just when the anaconda was about to be killed by one move, its six-foot-long snake letter suddenly rolled up and tied up Yuan Ming.
The horizontal branches of the old tree couldn't bear the weight of the anaconda's body and collapsed.
The anaconda rolled its long tongue and dragged Yuan Ming, pulling him into its mouth at once.
Before Yuan Ming had time to react, his vision went dark, and the upper half of his body had been swallowed by the anaconda, entering a moist and sticky cavity.
The anaconda's upper and lower jaws tightened, and the huge pressure tried to crush Yuan Ming's bones.
Yuan Ming suddenly felt that his sternum and ribs were being compressed by a huge force, and his whole body was having trouble breathing. In addition, the fishy smell in the anaconda's belly kept rising, making him almost suffocate to the point of fainting.
Just as the muscles in Anaconda's mouth were squirming, and Yuan Ming was being pushed into the abdomen bit by bit, a green light suddenly lit up in his lower abdomen, and a sword tip with a green luster suddenly pierced through Anaconda's abdomen.
The skin was penetrated from the inside.
Immediately afterwards, as the muscles in the anaconda's mouth continued to squirm, Yuan Ming's body slowly penetrated into the snake's belly, and the herring sword also cut open the anaconda's belly, making a huge gash.
Yuan Ming emerged from the wound on the anaconda's abdomen covered in mucus, holding a herring sword in one hand and a dark green fleshy sac as big as a papaya in the other hand.
That is the anaconda's snake gallbladder, and it is also the most valuable thing in its body besides the animal blood. It is also something that Zhao Tong specifically mentioned and hoped that Yuan Ming could bring back.
Yuan Ming had killed three anacondas before, but every time he opened their stomachs after killing them, he found that the snake gall inside had been broken, and the dark green bile corroded the abdominal cavity to a mess.
At first, he thought it was accidentally shattered during the battle, but later he found out that the anaconda had broken it on its own when it was on the verge of death, in order to prevent its predators from taking advantage of it.
In desperation, he chose the method of being swallowed by an anaconda and extracting the bile from within.
The anaconda that had its snake gall removed did not die immediately. Its rolling body was twisting and turning, its long tail swept left and right, and it wanted to put up a fight before it died, but it was in vain.
After Yuan Ming used the blood storage bag to collect the animal blood, he came to the river bank with his long sword in hand, intending to wash away the dirt on his body.
He had just arrived at the water's edge, and before he had time to lean down, he suddenly saw that his reflection in the water was a little strange. When he was about to take a closer look, he felt a sudden jolt in his heart.
His face reflected in the water suddenly distorted and turned into an extremely ferocious snake face.
This chapter has been completed!