It was already dawn when we came out of Qu Yunhe's Qiongxin Courtyard. After Liu Qinghuan said goodbye to the others, he returned to Zizhu Courtyard.
There was still a month left before the competition, and there would be a secret trial after that. Liu Qinghuan changed some of the elixirs in his hands into various talismans and thunder blast pills, and ran around doing a lot of sect tasks, plus
With the contribution points he had accumulated in the past, he once again came to the second floor of the Chuan Gong Building.
After searching for a long time, he found the recipe for Zhu Yan Dan, but he couldn't find the recipe for Foundation Establishment Pill. Liu Qinghuan raised his head and looked at the top of his head. It seemed that the Foundation Establishment Pill was probably found on the floor above.
However, he found many ancient elixir recipes. Although many of the magical herbs and elixirs in them can no longer be found today, Liu Qinghuan still read them with gusto.
Twenty days later, the counter-growing bamboo finally grew to three feet!
Liu Qinghuan looked at the half-black and half-white bamboo plant in the pottery pot with mixed emotions. From breeding to growth, this reverse-growing bamboo has condensed his countless efforts for five years. The daily cultivation has never stopped. Now it is
Closely connected to his spiritual thoughts.
The black half of the bamboo is not the dirty air of death, and the white half is not just the anger. Liu Qinghuan cannot see through it with his current humble behavior.
Rather than saying that he felt that this bamboo was consistent with the attributes of the sword he might condense in the future, it would be better to say that he trusted Dayan Taizun.
But now it’s useless to think about it anymore. After silently reciting the bamboo moving chapter of "Bamboo Heart Planting Swordsmanship", Liu Qinghuan sat down cross-legged. He calmed down, kept his mind between his eyebrows, and his consciousness gradually sank into the Niwan Palace, and then "opened"
When you open your eyes, you reach an endless void.
There is no sky above, no earth below, boundless, endless, and the entire void is filled with wisps of gray mist. This is where Liu Qinghuan's sea of consciousness will be where Nishengzhu will move into.
After wandering in the sea of consciousness for a while, he exited the sea of consciousness and performed the mind method of sitting and forgetting the Immortal Sutra until he became emotionless and emotionless, and his whole body and mind were pure and untainted, then he opened his eyes.
With the index finger of his right hand, the bamboo in the pottery pot began to shake slightly, shaking off all the bamboo soil on the roots, and floating into the air. Under the three-foot black and white bamboo stalk, a thin and dense bamboo was dragged.
root.
Liu Qinghuan used his spiritual thoughts to wrap up the entire reverse-growing bamboo, and cast several spells at the same time. The reverse-growing bamboo shrank, shrunk, and then shrank again, until it shrank to the size of a broad bean. Liu Qinghuan made a move, and the reverse-growing bamboo turned toward him.
Fly over and get into the Niwan Palace between the eyebrows.
Looking again at the sea of consciousness, the reverse-growing bamboo has returned to its original size and is hanging in the void. The gray mist that was originally scattered around it slowly gathers and forms a gray cloud at the roots of the bamboo.
Those gray mist are Liu Qinghuan's spiritual thoughts. He nourishes the bamboo with his spirit. After that, the reverse-growing bamboo will take root in his sea of consciousness and continue to grow.
The next step is to gather the Taoist mind and condense the sword intention. But this step is the most difficult.
Liu Qinghuan took out the "Zuo Forgetting Immortality Sutra" to understand. To gather the mind of Tao, we still need to rely on this sutra. Compared with "The Sword Art of Bamboo Heart Planting", "Zuo Forgetting Immortality Sutra" is more profound about the word "Tao".
The Taoist heart of a monk combines his own nature, obeys the rules of heaven and earth, experiences everything in life, and condenses his original heart.
To find the "Tao Heart", you must first find the "I". My nature, what I do, what I know, and who I am, have I recognized the "I" clearly?
Throughout their lives, the most unclear thing for many people is themselves. They don’t know what they want, and they are confused and wandering. There is a huge difference between their external performance and their internal cognition. They think they are romantic, but in fact they are greedy and lustful;
Thinking that you are rich and incomparable to the country and superior to others, in fact you are just groveling and struggling to survive.
If you can't clearly recognize "I", how can you talk about "Tao"? Every meal and every sleep is the source of profit and loss, and every word and deed can be the source of misfortune and blessing. Even if you stick to the end of skill, it is better to be ignorant of the root. Observe
At the end of the original knowledge, there is no impatient and competitive mood. Therefore, if you focus on simple things, you will make progress every day. Only when the body is calm and the mind is leisurely can one see the truth.
However, life is full of ups and downs, and destiny is full of misfortunes. How can the universe be the ultimate destination? Only by not going against the laws of nature and not forgetting the beginning can we gather our Taoist heart.
Liu Qinghuan sat quietly and contemplated. Although he was still ignorant, he seemed to have learned something.
Time passed by in a hurry, and soon the first day of the competition came.
Early that morning, a large number of Qi-training disciples gathered in front of the Zhuyi Hall. Zuo Zhishan, the master of Zhulin Mountain who had not been seen for a long time, stood in front of the hall and said sternly:
"This competition is very important! Although I, the disciples of Zhulin Mountain, do not have as many disciples as the other peaks, but! Your cultivation resources are the same as others. Therefore, I don’t want to see anyone drag me from Zhulin Mountain.
Hind legs! When you get on the competition stage, you can lose, but whoever wants to act timid and embarrassed by me will have to face the wall on the bamboo washing table for ten years!"
Bamboo Washing Platform! All the disciples couldn't help but tremble. Bamboo Washing Platform is located at the back of Bamboo Forest Mountain, on a cliff. A majestic waterfall flows down, washing away the iron pillar-like black bamboos standing below.
Like a sharp sword, pointing straight into the sky.
There is no place to sit or lie down there. The punished disciples not only have to withstand the overwhelming force of the waterfall, but also have to sit on the sharp black bamboo to practice. Except for the monks who practice physical training, they will deliberately seek abuse, and others will avoid it.
Less than.
"In addition, as long as those who get the top 100 rankings in the competition this time, in addition to the rewards from the sect, we, Zhulin Mountain, will also have another reward. The higher the ranking, the better the reward!" Zuo Zhishan said again, seeing
Everyone looked overjoyed and wished they could fly to the Immortal Peak immediately. He said slowly and calmly: "There is one more thing about the secret trial after the competition."
Everyone pricked up their ears. After hearing the rumors for so long, they finally heard the exact news.
"In this secret trial, only the top 100 sects will be selected." Zuo Zhishan said slowly: "The sect's uncle will be led by the sect's master to go to the Burial Wind Tundra to compete with the other three sects and seven medium-sized sects.
."
His eyes swept over the young faces raised below one by one: "The location of the trial is, the Duanyuan death place in the Wind Burial Tundra!"
Duanyuan Death Land! It is a place full of death!
Everyone was stunned, and no one even noticed Zuozhishan's departure. On the way to the Immortal Peak, the disciples of Zhulin Mountain were whispering, and Liu Qinghuan also had a solemn face.
It is rumored that Duanyuan's death place was originally the cave of a Nascent Soul demon cultivator thousands of years ago. This person practiced some kind of corpse refining technique and wanted to create an army of zombies, so he refined thousands of corpse puppets here.
.Later, when he couldn't find a suitable corpse, he went even more frantically to kill the monk quietly, and even boldly reached out to a Nascent Soul cultivator with the same level of cultivation.
When the world of cultivators noticed that more and more missing monks were missing, they searched for traces and found Duanyuan. They found that there was a dark wind inside, and ghosts were crying and wolves were howling. The Nascent Soul demon cultivator had set up the three-yin and five-ground Yin-gathering formation here.
Transform a good abyss canyon into a hell.
The Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivator is really powerful, and other monks of the same level are almost vulnerable to him, but he has added many new troops to him. He was so arrogant for a while that he claimed to establish a Corpse Demon Sect.
This matter was so critical that many sects asked for help from the four major sects. After discussion, the four major sects each sent a Yuanying True Monarch, plus an eminent monk from Nanmo Temple who had boundless Buddhist dharma.
Only after a fierce battle in the dark did this man be wiped out.
It's just that the terrain in the Duan Abyss is complicated, and a huge maze was built underground by Yuanying demon cultivators. Several Yuanying True Lords destroyed the three Yin and Five Earth Gathering Yin formations, and then destroyed the high-level corpse generals and most of the corpses.
The puppets were eliminated, but as for those who slipped through the net, they didn't have the time to kill them one by one.
But the environment in the Duan Yuan could never be restored, and the Yin Qi was extremely strong. As time passed, many ghosts and demons were born on their own, and together with the remaining corpses, they gradually became a climate again, and later formed
A place of death.
In order to prevent harm, the four sects set up a demon sealing array outside Duanyuan and stationed people to monitor it. Slowly, they discovered that there were a lot of various Yin attribute spiritual herbs and spiritual materials inside, and because there were not many powerful ghosts,
, and gradually became a testing ground for various sects.
But in the past, this trial place was only open to monks above the foundation building level. This time, it was really unusual for Qi-training monks to enter.
Duanyuan's place of death was too dangerous, which made many Qi-training disciples who were originally ambitious to participate in the competition hesitate.