Hearing that Zhou Yang was about to reach the late Nascent Soul stage, Master Qingyang's mood was extremely complicated.
All in all, he was hundreds of years ahead of Zhou Yang in successfully conceiving a baby, but now his cultivation is still at the fourth level of Nascent Soul, while Zhou Yang has already begun to hit the late Nascent Soul stage.
This feeling of watching oneself being surpassed by a junior who is hundreds of years younger than oneself is really uncomfortable.
But on the other hand, the good friendship and close relationship between the two parties made him feel quite happy about Zhou Yang's impact on the late Nascent Soul stage.
Although it was regrettable that Zhou Yang rejected his challenge to the Nine Sun Sect's Grand Elder last time.
But if he can break through to the late Nascent Soul stage, it will be a very important and beneficial thing for the Xuanyang Immortal Sect and the entire [Xuanqing Dao Alliance].
"Fellow Taoist Zhou wants to attack the late stage of Nascent Soul. Of course, we are willing to provide help. However, if Taoist friend wants to use [Qiongtian Wonderland] to retreat, I'm afraid it's not possible now."
When Master Qingyang said this, he said with a look of embarrassment: "Right now Master Situ of [Liuyun Merchant Alliance] is retreating there to prepare for the Tribulation Period. Before the results of his retreat appear, neither of us are allowed to allow anyone to enter and disturb him."
of."
After speaking, he paused again, and after pondering for a while, he looked at Zhou Yang and continued: "If fellow Taoist Zhou is not in a hurry, the result should be there after another twenty or thirty years. If fellow Taoist Zhou is in a hurry to make a breakthrough,
, I can also discuss with other fellow disciples and let fellow Taoists achieve breakthrough in seclusion on Xuanyang Peak."
Twenty or thirty years is not a long time for a Nascent Soul Stage monk, so it is not impossible to wait.
But Zhou Yang's cultivation is currently stuck at the sixth level of Nascent Soul. If he waits for twenty or thirty years, his cultivation will still be stagnant for a long time.
Moreover, Xuanyang Peak is a sixth-level high-grade spiritual mountain. Calculated, the concentration of spiritual energy is not much worse than that of [Qiongtian Wonderland], and it is more than enough to break through the late stage of Nascent Soul.
Therefore, after hesitating for a moment, he bowed his hands to Master Qingyang and said, "Then please help me, Senior Qingyang, to talk to the other Taoist friends of your sect and be accommodating."
"It's easy to talk, I will summon the other brothers to explain the situation."
Master Qingyang smiled and immediately sent a message to other Nascent Soul stage monks of Xuanyang Immortal Sect to explain the matter.
Xuanyang Immortal Sect now includes Qingyang Zhenren and four Nascent Soul Stage monks. Except for him who is permanently stationed inside the mountain gate, the remaining Nascent Soul Stage monks are either sitting in important spiritual mountains and spiritual places outside.
Either he travels abroad and only returns to the mountain gate when he needs to retreat and improve his cultivation.
Therefore, after Master Qingyang sent the message, he did not receive all the replies immediately. Instead, he waited for about half a month before receiving replies from everyone.
Not surprisingly, all the Yuanying Stage monks of Xuanyang Immortal Sect agreed to let Zhou Yang break through in seclusion on Xuanyang Peak.
The current Xuanyang Immortal Sect can be said to be in its lowest decline in the past five thousand years.
At this time, a monk with great supernatural powers like Zhou Yang, who has a deep relationship with the Xuanyang Immortal Sect, is naturally worth their efforts to win over and treat him, so as to help the sect tide over this period of decline with the help of external forces.
Therefore, as long as it does not involve the fundamental matters of the sect, almost all the resources and strength of the Xuanyang Immortal Sect can be used by Zhou Yang.
At this time, after getting the consent of all his fellow disciples, Qingyang Zhenren took Zhou Yang directly to a cave near the top of Xuanyang Peak. He used a special token in his hand to open the cave's ban and entered with Zhou Yang.
included in it.
"No one has stayed in this cave since Senior Brother Lu passed away. Fellow Daoist Zhou wants to retreat to enter the late Nascent Soul stage, so this place should be the most suitable."
In the cave, Zhou Yang was observing the situation of the cave when he heard Master Qingyang speaking in a low voice about the origin of the cave.
Hearing Master Qingyang's words, his eyes suddenly froze, and he couldn't help turning his head to look at the other person and said, "Isn't this appropriate? This is the place where Senior Lu practiced cultivation during his lifetime. As a junior, I am an outsider, so how can I be able to practice here."
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"There is nothing inappropriate. This cave is one of the caves with the richest aura on Xuanyang Peak. Senior Brother Lu is just a former owner of this cave. Since Fellow Daoist Zhou wants to break through the realm on Xuanyang Peak,
Then this place is naturally the most suitable choice.”
Master Qingyang responded to Zhou Yang's words without changing his expression. After speaking, he took a deep look at Zhou Yang and said, "Besides, Fellow Daoist Zhou is not an outsider to our sect!"
When Zhou Yang saw this, a look of deep thought flashed in his eyes.
After a while, his face straightened, he nodded seriously and said: "Well, since senior Qingyang has said so, this junior will be disrespectful."
Upon hearing this, Master Qingyang suddenly had a satisfied smile on his face. He cupped his hands with a smile and said, "Then I would like to wish fellow Daoist Zhou a success and a successful breakthrough."
After saying that, he gave Zhou Yang the token that controlled the cave's restrictions, and then exited the cave.
There are various functional buildings inside the Xuanyang Immortal Sect's mountain gate, so the caves on Xuanyang Peak are just places of pure cultivation. There is not much space inside. In addition to the retreat and practice secret room, there are only bedrooms, living rooms, study rooms, and storage rooms.
There are a few functional rooms such as the utility room.
After Zhou Yang got a little familiar with the environment inside the cave, he opened all the protective restrictions in the cave and entered the secret room.
"Fellow Taoist Lan, although Zhou also knows the formation, in order to be foolproof, I still have to ask fellow Taoist to help arrange the formation in person. In addition, if there is any mistake when Zhou performs the exercises,
I also hope fellow Taoists can help correct me in time."
In the secret room, Zhou Yang waved his hand to release Taoist Lan from the [Dongxuan Pearl], and spoke his request with a serious face.
"Lan will definitely try his best."
Taoist Lan nodded, his tone as calm as ever.
In the past, Zhou Yang might still have some doubts about him.
But after relying on him to tide over difficulties at several critical moments, Zhou Yang no longer doubted his strength and intentions, and could safely let him participate in such important matters.
Next, with the help of Taoist Lan, Zhou Yang and he worked together to arrange the secret array recorded in the "Five Elements Obstacle Breaking Technique" on the ground of the retreat room, and then Zhou Yang himself sat down cross-legged in the center of the secret array.
"It's time to begin!"
After sitting cross-legged and adjusting his breath for a few days, Zhou Yang felt that his energy and spirit had reached the best state, so he nodded slightly to Taoist Lan, who was guarding the formation, indicating that he could activate the secret formation.
After receiving his permission, Taoist Lan immediately waved his hand and took the sixth-order [Gold-eating Beast] demon elixir, the sixth-order tree demon's heart, the sixth-order high-grade demon king [Xuanjia Demon King]'s demon elixir, and the sixth-order mid-grade demon elixir.
The demon elixir of the king [Chongming Demon King], the sixth-level spiritual object [Earth Essence Marrow Crystal] and other five alternative spiritual objects were all thrown into the five formation eyes of the secret array.
Buzz!
As the spiritual objects in the array eyes returned to their positions, the secret array was automatically activated, and the entire secret room was filled with dazzling five-color auras.
When Zhou Yang saw this scene, he immediately began to operate his magic power according to the secret technique recorded in the "Five Elements Breaking Barrier Technique" and slowly absorbed the five-color aura formed by the pure spiritual power.
Seeing this, Taoist Lan also controlled the secret array with his hands, so that the five spiritual objects at the center of the array could release their spiritual power at a speed that Zhou Yang could absorb, thus avoiding meaningless waste.
Time passed slowly, and Zhou Yang, who had absorbed a large amount of pure five-element spiritual power, began to swell slightly. This was the result of the accumulation of a large amount of external spiritual power in his body.
Because his own cultivation is limited by the bottleneck and cannot be improved any further, he is simply unable to refine these spiritual powers and transform them into his own cultivation at this time.
"That's almost it. Fellow Daoist Zhou can now try to make a breakthrough. The quality of the substitute spiritual materials prepared this time is very good. Fellow Daoist Zhou should have two or three chances to try!"
Taoist Lan was observing Zhou Yang's situation at all times, and after seeing that Zhou Yang had absorbed almost enough spiritual energy from the five elements, he promptly issued a reminder.
After receiving the reminder, Zhou Yang immediately stared, roared in his mouth, quickly formed seals with his hands, and started another secret technique.
As the secret technique operated, the five elements of spiritual power accumulated in his body were stimulated, and his whole body suddenly floated from the ground, and the skin and flesh all over his body began to emit five-color spiritual light.
After an unknown amount of time passed like this, Zhou Yang suddenly let out a sigh full of regret, and his floating body fell back down.
Obviously, he failed to attack the bottleneck this time.
But fortunately, the spiritual objects he prepared this time were of high quality, and the spiritual power contained in the spiritual objects was enough for him to make one attempt.
However, before trying again, he needs to recover from the damage caused to his body by hitting the bottleneck just now, and at the same time summarize the experience of the failure just now.
After resting like this for about a year, Zhou Yang finally recovered all the internal injuries in his body caused by the huge spiritual power impact. He also analyzed the previous failure experience many times and came up with countermeasures.
So after he adjusted his mental state again, he said to Taoist Lan again: "Okay, Taoist Lan can continue to start."
The same scene appeared again. The difference is that this time, at Zhou Yang's request, Taoist Lan did not stop the spiritual power output when his body was about to reach its limit. Instead, he suddenly increased the spiritual power output, using five alternative spiritual objects at once.
All the pure spiritual energy inside was drained out.
Bang bang bang!
The five substitute spiritual objects that had been drained of their spiritual power were all blown into powder with slight explosions.
However, Taoist Lan did not pay any attention to these wastes that had lost their use value at this time. His usually indifferent face showed a rare nervous look at this time, and he looked at Zhou Yang solemnly.
At this time, Zhou Yang's body seemed to have been injected with water, and his body was swollen very much.
He has reached a height of one foot and three feet, his arms are swollen thicker than a normal person's thigh, and the pores on his skin have even begun to leak out blood.
That is to say, he has mastered the magical power of body refining, and his physical body is comparable to that of monsters of the same level. If any Nascent Soul stage monk dared to do this, his physical body would have been burst by the powerful spiritual power.
Drink!
Zhou Yang suddenly let out a low roar, his swollen hands quickly formed seals with a sensitivity that was completely inconsistent with his appearance, and he went all out to refine the massive five elements of spiritual power in his body.
Click!
I don't know how much time passed, but Zhou Yang suddenly seemed to hear a sound like something was broken.
Then he was pleasantly surprised to find that his mana, which he had stopped reminding him of long ago, finally began to increase again.
I succeeded!
Such a thought flashed through his mind, and then a severe and incomparable pain was transmitted to his consciousness, making him faint from the pain.
In the secret room, Taoist Lan looked at Zhou Yang, who was lying in a pool of blood with blood all over his body. His tense expression relaxed, revealing a look of relief.
He did not try to wake up the unconscious Zhou Yang, but raised his hand and cast a healing spell to help Zhou Yang's body stop the bleeding. Then he cleaned Zhou Yang's body and the ground, and then silently sat cross-legged and waited.
"How long was I unconscious?"
When Zhou Yang woke up from a coma and saw Taoist Lan beside him, the first thing he did was ask about this.
As a late-stage Nascent Soul monk, it is rare to fall into a coma, so Zhou Yang is more concerned about this matter than checking his current injuries and cultivation level.
Taoist Lan also understood what he was worried about, and immediately replied: "Fellow Taoist Zhou forced himself to break through the realm. Both his physical body and his spirit bear too heavy a burden, and he has been unconscious for more than half a month."
"Half a month? It's not too long!"
Zhou Yang murmured to himself, then distractedly checked his own situation.
Thanks to Taoist Lan's timely treatment, his internal injuries were not too bad. Judging from his experience of being injured many times, it would take less than two or three years for him to recover.
And because his cultivation level has been broken through the bottleneck, he can already be said to be a late-stage Nascent Soul monk. Of course, if he wants to truly stabilize, he will have to spend a period of time absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and refining it into his own mana.
Compared with the successful breakthrough in cultivation, this is just a small flaw.
Next, Zhou Yang was not in a hurry to leave seclusion, and An Xin continued to retreat in the cave to recuperate and practice.
About seven years later, with all his injuries recovered and his cultivation completely stabilized, he officially came out and announced the results of this retreat.
"You, fellow Daoist Zhou, succeeded so quickly!"
When Master Qingyang saw Zhou Yang after leaving seclusion, a look of extreme shock appeared on his face.
Although he has never experienced how difficult it is to break through the late Yuanying stage from the middle stage of Yuanying, he can see it from the personal practice notes of the late Yuanying monks of the sect. It can also be seen from the number of late Yuanying monks in the world of immortality today.
come out.
To be honest, when Zhou Yang asked him for a place to break through to the late stage of Nascent Soul, although he was very enthusiastic to help, he didn't have much hope in his heart that Zhou Yang could successfully break through.
After all, he had been watching Zhou Yang's cultivation progress, and he knew very well that it had not been long since Zhou Yang's cultivation had reached the sixth level of Nascent Soul, so this was probably his first attempt to hit the bottleneck.
However, he never expected that Zhou Yang would directly succeed in seclusion for the first time to attack the late Nascent Soul stage!
Is this the difference between geniuses and ordinary people?
Master Qingyang thought with bitterness in his heart.
"Although there were a lot of twists and turns, I finally succeeded by luck!"
Zhou Yang looked at the shocked and disbelieving Master Qingyang, and his tone was as humble as ever.
But when Master Qingyang heard his humble words, he was speechless.
Zhou Yang's modesty and courtesy in the past was an excellent character in his eyes.
But this time he felt uncomfortable hearing it.
Am I really getting old?
Or are times changing too fast?
Master Qingyang looked at Zhou Yang thoughtfully, his mood extremely complicated.