October 23rd, early morning.

After finishing his routine retreat, Meng Zhou immediately checked the results of his first retreat after completing the Spring Water Sutra.

Cultivation realm +40, foundation building level 140/1000;

Soul Pool Refining Moon Heart +800, Grandmaster 22400/32000;

Then, Meng Zhou's consciousness sank into his Dantian again.

The life essence that should have existed in the dantian disappeared, and only a drop of the life essence that had begun to take shape was condensing.

Next to it, a small dark green gourd floated on the side.

It's a small dark green gourd, but when your consciousness sinks into it, you can see an extremely huge space inside the gourd.

Three small drops of life essence are suspended in it.

Meng Zhou nodded with satisfaction. He had no idea of ​​using these soul marrows for the time being. Instead, he got used to the current situation a little and walked out of the quiet room.

Every time after leaving the customs, Meng Zhou would first sort out the conditions of the two mysterious turtles, the spiritual plants in the courtyard, and the spiritual fields outside.

With the innate soul skill of Yue Jing Yuan Guang, it doesn't take much effort to sort out all of this.

He could even clearly understand what happened during his retreat.

After doing all this, Meng Zhou continued to study the true meaning of swordsmanship.

And his way to understand the true meaning of swordsmanship is to regard the three perfect swordsmanship as the "general teacher".

By dismantling them, using different methods, over and over again, and mutually confirming them with the explanations in the True Explanation of Kendo, we can make rapid progress.

…

October twenty-fifth.

A flying knowledge message from Kan Yue caused Meng Zhou to pause his enlightenment, briefly explained to the two mysterious turtles, and led Yaya out of the courtyard.

At every gathering, Meng Zhou could hear a lot of fresh news.

This is also a rare window for Meng Zhou to have a stable understanding of changes in the outside world.

In this gathering, the most talked about topic was not the Sanchuan Plain, but a second-order spiritual vein called Hongliang Bay.

This second-level spiritual vein, like the Sanchuan Plain, is located in the "middle ring area" of the Qingxuan Domain, which is more than 40,000 miles away from the Sanchuan Plain.

This Hongliang Bay not only has a large number of high-quality spiritual lands, but also has many high-quality spiritual springs that flow all year round, making it extremely rich in water resources.

Like Jade Lake, a large amount of water-based spiritual materials are produced every year.

Although they are both at the second level, they are stronger than Sanchuan Yuan in terms of spiritual vein quality, resource production, and power base.

There has been little communication between the two spiritual veins. In the past, people looked down upon him, but now everyone's attention is all on Qinglinfang and Cuiyu Lake.

The reason why this topic is brought up here is because not long ago, a huge foundation-building battle broke out in Hongliang Bay.

The number of foundation-building monks directly involved exceeded 300. Not counting minor injuries, there were dozens of serious injuries, and more than 20 people died directly at the scene of the battle.

Those who died from serious injuries and those who were seriously injured and became disabled are included.

This conflict completely destroyed more than 60 people.

Although the composition of both sides in the war was complex, generally speaking, it can be temporarily classified as a conflict between "local faction" and "foreign faction".

However, if you look at it in detail, you will find that it is far from being so clear-cut. It is also mixed with internal fighting among the local factions and conflicts within the outside factions.

The direct result of that battle was the complete elimination of a local force with a history of hundreds of years.

Several other local forces were also severely damaged, and the toughness and arrogance of other local forces were almost completely stripped away in this war.

The trigger for this war was, of course, the conflict between foreign foundations and local forces that had heated up suddenly in the past two years.

The direct cause is that a high-quality spiritual mine with extremely high reserves was discovered under a hidden spring in Hongliang Bay, which contains a large amount of gold, earth, and water spiritual gold minerals.

The emergence of this spiritual mine directly ignited the already anxious atmosphere in Hongliang Bay.

Originally, after paying a heavy price, the local faction wanted to go all out and completely eliminate the foreign foundations that had suffered even greater losses.

At this time, Qingxuanzong appeared.

I don’t know whether it should be said that it came quickly or slowly. Anyway, it was just a coincidence that it appeared when both parties were seriously injured.

I'm not here to pick fruits. Qingxuanzong would never do such a tasteless thing.

Qingxuanzong is a peacemaker, and all the people from Qingxuanzong who have their own "talent of face" forcibly suppressed the anger of both parties, forced them to the same table, and jointly formulated the Hongliang

Bay's new order.

The details are not important, the main principle is just one, no matter whether you are an outsider or a local, everyone must have meat to eat.

Secondly, do not take action if you can, try not to see blood, let alone kill people, and maintain the stability of the overall situation.

After sorting out all this with a quick knife, Qingxuanzong did not think that "it is easy to invite gods but difficult to send them away" as everyone thought. Things happened that refused to leave, and he left in a hurry.

When I arrived, Hongliang Bay was still filled with blood, fire and swords, but when I left, it had turned into flowers and applause - okay, none of these, but the killing did stop.

Because Qingxuanzong said, "Since the rules have been set, you must abide by them. If anyone breaks the rules first, come to me and I will stand up for you!"

This incident not only became a hot topic at this gathering, but also became a hotly discussed event in the entire Sanchuan Plain during this period.

Because everyone was horrified to discover that as early as last year, the situation in Mikawa Plains almost reached this point.

This incident that happened in Hongliang Bay has a warning significance for all the foundation-building monks in Sanchuan Plain.

In fact, this conflict is of great significance not only in the Sanchuan Plain, but also in the entire Qingxuan Territory.

In the past, any battle involving multiple foundation builders would be talked about.

If the number of foundation builders exceeds ten, it will be regarded as a huge event. If there are thirty or fifty foundation builders... run away.

Directly participate in the battle and build more than 100 foundations, or 300, and destroy fifty or sixty foundations at once?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

But now, this has actually happened.

This conflict, which is tens of thousands of miles away, is likely to accelerate the reshaping of the concept of all foundations in Qingxuan Domain.

During the gathering, someone sneered and said, "This is also a good thing. Look at Dai Shouli and those people, they are much more polite now."

Meng Zhou wondered in his mind, "Is there someone like Lu Quan from outside the country or someone else with evil intentions behind this conflict?"

And looking at Qingxuanzong's performance in this incident, we can also see that Qingxuanzong is indifferent to this.

The purpose of Qingxuanzong is to "inject a lot of water" into the foundation building class, so that they can actively dilute and impact the old order based on their own desires, and guide the establishment of a new order when necessary.

As for the foundation building that unfortunately died because of this, in Qingxuanzong's view, it was all a "necessary price".

As for whether this conflict evolved naturally, or whether someone secretly instigated it and accelerated the process, from the perspective of Qingxuan Sect, maybe most of them are happy, right?

…

After the gathering, the other monks dispersed one after another, but Meng Zhou did not leave.

After everyone left, Meng Zhou handed a jade slip to Kan Yue.

Kan Yue took it doubtfully, glanced at it with his consciousness, and his eyes immediately widened like bells, with a look of disbelief on his face, mixed with extreme surprise.

"Fellow Daoist Zhuang, are you ready now?"

Meng Zhou said modestly: "It's a small success, just a small success."

But Kan Yue kept praising: "This is incredible, this is incredible!"

The jade slip given by Meng Zhou to Kan Yue records the inheritance of "Angry Ape Tyrant Body".

The only difference from the classics that Kan Yue gave to Meng Zhou last year is that there are many more notes.

Its nature is like Kan Yue giving Meng Zhou a brand-new textbook last year, and one year later today, Meng Zhou returned the textbook.

What's more important is that every article and page in this "textbook" contains various records left by top students.

There are not only understandings of a certain paragraph, a certain topic, and an example, but also various notes of experiences, and even the occasional "eureka" divergent thinking.

Through these written records, not only can this "textbook" be digested more easily, but also the thinking process and growth path of a top student when learning this textbook from scratch can be clearly restored.

However, Meng Zhou knew that a true academic would not record things like this.

He did this so that Kan Yue could get started better - if he really used all his methods, Kan Yue would probably become even more confused and unable to find a way to get started.

At the same time, it is also to allow one's genius to be expressed within a relatively reasonable range that can be recognized.

…

After receiving the jade slips given back by Meng Zhou, Kan Yue put almost all his thoughts on it.

He has been exposed to the method of Angry Ape Tyrant Body for decades. Although he has never started, the thoughts he has spent on it in the past few decades are not useless.

What's more, he also has an advantage, that is, the body training method he practices is the most suitable for displaying the angry ape hegemony.

The thoughts spent on this method in the past decades, as well as the various doubts and problems accumulated, were all solved one by one by the jade slips presented by Meng Zhou at this moment.

From time to time, he would feel a sudden enlightenment in his heart.

Even without quantified data, Kan Yue could clearly feel that he was getting closer to truly mastering this unique skill.
To be continued...