As time goes by, heaven and earth are renewed.

Aurora Cave.

On the afternoon of the fifth day of the first lunar month, 67-year-old Meng Zhou ended this round of retreat.

Cultivation progress +330, fifth level of elixir formation 4020/10,000;

Third-level Spring Water Sutra +3300, Grandmaster 39,600/240,000;

Black Turtle Bearing Monument True Skill +3300, Grandmaster 27,900/240,000.

At the end of December, Meng Zhou quietly returned to Aurora Cave with Bai Zhi.

During ordinary months, it didn't matter to Meng Zhou whether he was retreating in Sanchuan Plateau Cave or returning to Aurora Cave.

But the meaning of this retreat in the first month of every year is different. Meng Zhou will still return to Aurora Cave as much as possible.

Thinking of this, Meng Zhou's consciousness fell into a spiritual gourd space.

Before this retreat, the reserve of the third-level mid-grade Green Lotus Sword Essence was 786 drops. Now it has increased to 846 drops. This retreat has increased by 60 drops.

But Meng Zhou was not very satisfied with this growth.

At least, there is still some gap between what he expected.

In the first month of last year, Meng Zhou's cultivation was still at the fourth level of elixir formation. In normal times, a single retreat could add eight drops of third-level mid-grade Green Lotus Sword Essence.

But that retreat yielded a total of forty-eight drops, which was six times that of normal times.

During my retreat in February last year, my cultivation level broke through to the fifth level of alchemy.

At the same time, Chun Shui enters the master's realm through the master's realm.

This double improvement also greatly increased his Qinglian Sword Essence harvest.

In an ordinary retreat, you can harvest twelve drops of the third-level mid-grade Green Lotus Sword Essence.

Twelve drops at other times, harvesting twenty-four drops per month.

Before this retreat, Meng Zhou estimated based on his harvest in the first month of last year that if it increased sixfold this time, then he should have harvested seventy-two drops of Green Lotus Sword Essence during this retreat.

But the actual situation is that only sixty drops were harvested, and nothing more.

But rather than harvesting something less than expected, Meng Zhou was more curious about the reason behind it.

Previously, before the place of retreat and practice was moved to Aurora Cave, this situation actually happened in Sanchuan Yuan Cave.

This is even an important basis for Meng Zhou to guess that he is approaching the ceiling of Sanchuan Yuanling Land.

But this time, Meng Zhou didn't think this was the reason why he touched the ceiling of Aurora Cave again.

"It's not the reason of Aurora Cave, maybe it's some deeper reason?"

Meng Zhou had such an idea in his mind.

This idea did not come out of nowhere.

As early as when he was building the foundation, Meng Zhou had encountered a similar situation, that is, after the upper limit of life reached a certain limit, no matter whether it was the improvement of the level of the Chun Shui Sutra or the advancement of cultivation, there was no further progress in the upper limit of life.

After forming the elixir, he almost completely ignored the element of life limit in his daily practice.

Because except when the foundation is built and the core is broken through, the upper limit of life is like being welded to death at other times, without any changes or fluctuations.

Meng Zhou therefore speculated that both foundation-building monks and alchemy-forming monks had a life limit that was difficult to surpass.

The difference is that when building the foundation, I still had a lot of shortcomings in all aspects, and my spiritual body was incomplete. Therefore, when I first broke through the foundation building, I was still far from the limit. I only slowly reached this point through continuous practice and progress.

A limit.

When he formed the elixir, his conditions were much better than when he formed the foundation. He had three incomplete Tao bodies and formed a golden elixir that contained the true meaning of immortality, and the true meaning of immortality was exactly the vitality. Therefore, as soon as he formed the elixir,

, the life limit has been reached.

However, no matter whether it is the improvement of the third level Spring Water Sutra or the breakthrough of the lower level of pill formation, the upper limit of life has not changed at all.

Because of this experience, Meng Zhou had such a judgment in his mind.

"Perhaps it has really reached its peak."

"It's quite good to gain sixty drops in one retreat."

…

White Lotus Spirit Essence: 71 drops.

Green Lotus Sword Marrow:

Third level lower grade: 347 drops.

Third level middle grade: 846 drops.

Meng Zhou took the opportunity to take stock of his inventory.

Last year, the biggest consumption was at the end of the year, I used 65 drops of the third-level low-grade Qinglian Sword Marrow to cultivate the Five Yun Spirit Gourds with Angelica dahuricae.

Then the original Ice Heart Blood Lotus clone self-destructed to defeat a late-stage pill-forming monk. It was this self-destruction that lit the fuse that detonated the entire Qingxuan Domain, and even spread to further places.

In a sense, the power of this explosion was so terrifying that it would make the scalp of those who knew it go numb.

The price Meng Zhou paid was to consume a drop of the third-level low-grade Green Lotus Sword marrow to once again cultivate a Ice Heart Blood Lotus clone, which was nailed to the Sanchuan Plateau for him to serve as his "window" to the outside world.

…

After digesting the harvest of this retreat, Meng Zhou reached out and made a move. Yaya, who was playing with a group of silly fish in the water next to him a moment ago, suddenly disappeared. When he reappeared, he was lying quietly in the palm of Meng Zhou's hand.

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A small fish that is less than the size of two fingers, less than the size of a hand from head to tail, and is very lively.

After appearing in Meng Zhou's palm, she jumped up and down mischievously, patted Meng Zhou's palm with her fish tail, and then turned into a long rope coiled in a circle.

Meng Zhou took the long rope and played with it habitually.

The "Deduction of Celestial Phenomenon" is complete and has a deeper integration with Meng Zhou. The changes in "Deduction of the World" are only superficial.

The essence behind this appearance is that the integrity of the "Transparent Dao Body" has been greatly improved, from "66%" to "75%", which has improved the integrity by nine points.

At the same time, the Knot Master, who was originally "Level 3 7500/10,000", improved his progress by 2,000 points, reaching the level of "Level 3 9500/10,000".

From just entering the third-level high-level, you can reach a level close to the third-level limit in one step.

It can be said that the skill of "celestial interpretation" perfectly fulfilled all of Meng Zhou's goals.

Not only did it give him an extremely powerful skill, it also made his knotting skills even further.

In addition, it also greatly complemented the integrity of his transparent body.

You must know that among the three bodies, the transparent body is the most difficult to complete.

In Meng Zhou's core plan, the "Celestial Phenomena Deduction" project itself is a "springboard", a boost to help him reach a higher level, so that he can achieve that goal more easily -

Use the Knot Master's method to "edit" the past.

With the "Celestial Phenomenon Interpretation" as a springboard for him, Meng Zhou already has the confidence to truly touch this field.

After completing the practice of "Celestial Phenomenon Deduction" last year, Meng Zhou began to devote a lot of time and energy to this aspect during his time in retreat.

…

"The retreat is over? Come here quickly."

At this moment, a message entered Meng Zhou's mind.

Meng Zhou's figure flashed and he soon arrived at another small island more than ten miles away.

Nearly 90% of the area in Aurora Cave is water.

Less than 10% of the other area is scattered into large and small stone islands, floating in the water here and there.

Meng Zhou arranged the stone island closest to the central area and the largest area as a retreat place. The aurora talisman formations all over the dome rock walls were also deployed with this island as the core.

When you practice in seclusion on this island, your spiritual energy will be the most abundant and replenished most quickly.

The other stone islands are not abandoned either.

These stone islands were no longer stone islands long ago. They had been transformed by Angelica dahurica into treasure places full of vitality and full of spiritual plants.

When Meng Zhou appeared, he looked at everything in front of him with some surprise.

Meng Zhou was not surprised at all by the spiritual plants and flowers surrounding Angelica dahurica.

But behind Bai Zhi, there is a small courtyard that is not large in area, but has a simple and elegant shape. It has a bedroom, study, and living room.

Bai Zhi was standing at the door waiting for him, standing quietly and quietly, her hands clasped together naturally hanging under her lower abdomen. In a trance, Meng Zhou seemed to see a wife waiting for her husband to return home.

Walking closer, Meng Zhou said in surprise: "Why do you want to build such a small courtyard in the cave?"

Bai Zhi smiled and said: "How's it going? Is it okay?"

"Let me see."

Meng Zhou looked around under the leadership of Bai Zhi and found that the materials used were very simple. They could just use local materials and use the chemical technique to turn the hard stone on the island into various shapes.

For her now, this is easier than a child playing with plasticine.
To be continued...