Zhou Li returned the gift with his hand, and said with a gentle and elegant smile: "It will be good when you are back! The Third Ancestor, Jing Heng, and I have prepared immortal delicacies and wine in the mountain city in advance, specially for you to catch the wind and wash away the dust. We will get drunk later and then rest.
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"Brother Zhou, it's not easy to get me drunk! Unless the wine is the drunken immortal drink that has been secreted for thousands of years." Zhao Sheng joked after hearing this.
"Haha, I hit the nail on the head! It's the Drunk Immortal Drink. You and I each have a jar, which is enough to have a good time. You must know that the sages in ancient times were all lonely, and only the drinker left his name!"
After Zhou Li heard this, he suddenly clasped his hands and laughed, rarely showing his wild and unruly side in front of others.
At this moment, Zhao Jingheng, who had been left out in the cold, suddenly took a step forward, slightly cupped his hands at Zhao Sheng, and said seriously: "Jing Heng, I have met the second master."
"Well, not bad, I'm very pleased. With Jing Heng here, I, Shen Zimai, have a successor." Zhao Sheng nodded and said with a happy smile.
Back then, after Zhao Sheng recognized his ancestor and returned to the clan, he was classified into the Shen Zi lineage by Zhao Xuanjing. As a generation of Holy Emperors, Zhao Jingheng was naturally a direct descendant of the core clan of the Shen Zi lineage.
This is where the title of Second Master comes from.
As for the master of this lineage, it is Zhao Changsheng, the fourth ancestor who has not returned from exploring the void.
After hearing the praise, Zhao Jingheng's expression did not change at all, he just raised his hands again to signal, then quietly retreated behind Zhao Changdu, standing solemnly and quietly.
Zhao Sheng smiled and seemed not to feel the other party's alienation at all.
Zhao Changdu's eyes flashed, and he suddenly smiled heartily and said: "Let's go! Don't delay in the secret palace. Let's go to the mountain city first. The banquet has been held there. I won't come back until I'm drunk today!"
When Zhao Sheng heard this, he deliberately showed a look of drunkenness on his face, and immediately urged: "Then what are you waiting for? Third Patriarch, Brother Zhou, leave quickly! My greedy mind has been aroused."
"Ha ha!"
While laughing, Zhao Sheng and the others turned into streams of light, flew into the stone gate on the cliff, and disappeared in an instant.
Zhao Sheng followed Zhao Changdu and flew downward along the wide underground passage.
Compared with a hundred years ago, this originally opened passage has been widened many times and is already nearly twenty feet wide. There are rows of palaces and stone buildings on both sides of the passage, all shrouded in a faint spiritual light barrier.
Zhao Shengyou noticed that there were many people from the Zhao clan coming in and out of the palace buildings he passed along the way, and they looked extremely busy.
However, a hundred years ago, there were not so many tribesmen living in the underground buildings of the Secret Mansion.
As the passage continued into the mountain, Zhao Sheng saw a larger group of buildings, as well as tens of thousands of Zhao clan members.
Zhao Sheng suppressed his curiosity and flew silently behind Zhao Changdu.
In a dozen breaths of time, the four of them flew through the underground passage that was more than three hundred miles long, and the end was right in front of them.
There was great light ahead, and as soon as he passed through the barrier light curtain at the entrance of the passage, Zhao Sheng's vision suddenly became clearer!
A huge cave in the mountain was directly exposed in front of his eyes.
At this moment, it was difficult for Zhao Sheng to describe in words the shock in his heart. He also didn't know how to describe the magnificent cave in the mountain in front of him.
The cave heaven spiritual realm? Or the fairy city in a foreign land?
Every building in the city looks so original and pleasing to the eye.
Giant pillars connecting the sky and the earth stand among the cities, the most conspicuous and occupying the core position.
The huge pillars were actually carved into palaces and buildings, and the whole body emitted a soft clear light, providing light for the city.
The style of these pillar towers is vaguely similar to the Bagua Guangming Tower, but each pillar tower is unique in the details of decoration.
Surrounding the pillar tower, every street below has also been carefully designed. The winding corridors and green trees and grass complement each other, making it more vulgar and less inelegant.
At this moment, humanity and nature have reached an astonishing harmony. It can only be described as one step at a time, and it is so beautiful.
At a glance, this giant city in the mountains seems to condense the culture, culture and architectural styles of all continents in this world into one square and one street, as if it is nakedly showing off the uncanny craftsmanship of the people who opened this city!
If it were just these, Zhao Sheng would only admire Zhao Xuanjing's superb skills, but he would not be shocked from the bottom of his heart.
What shocked him the most was what methods Zhao Xuanjing used to make this city beautiful and at the same time perfectly construct an unprecedented array.
That's right! The entire city is clearly a grand formation. Every building, street, and even the flowers and trees in the city have all become necessary elements to build this grand formation under Zhao Xuanjing's ingenious design.
Zhao Sheng, who is close to the master of the formation, has amazing eyesight, and he quickly saw through this high-level composite formation hidden behind countless beautiful scenery.
This formation not only has the five elements of offense and defense, but also has formation attributes such as life, death, illusion, and trapping. Its level is so high and the formation is so complex that it can only be found in a few super formations such as the Heaven and Earth Law Network, the cross-border teleportation formation, and the ascension formation.
under.
In addition to this, Zhao Sheng also saw the styles of the three major formation schools.
He even boldly guessed that the creation of this city would have been inseparable from the great help of Li Ziran, Liu Yishou, and Huang Yu.
Maybe, this unknown formation was created by the joint efforts of the three great masters and Zhao Xuanjing.
When the four flew into the city, Zhao Changdu noticed Zhao Sheng's shocked expression. He suddenly looked very proud and said with a somewhat showy tone, "How is this city? I must be shocked too!"
Zhao Sheng sincerely praised: "It is a work of extraordinary craftsmanship, unique in the world!"
"Haha, to tell you the truth, when I first saw what it looked like after it was completed, I was shocked. The skills of our ancestors were truly unprecedented. My descendants and I were amazed, and they were far inferior.
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When talking about their ancestors, not only Zhao Changdu, but also Zhou Li and Zhao Jingheng showed reverent expressions as if they were looking up to the mountains and standing still.
But the difference was that Zhao Sheng noticed that in addition to reverence, Zhao Jingheng's eyes could not contain the blazing fire of ambition.
"This man is ambitious and has the best temperament and skill, but unfortunately his qualifications are not good. Jing Heng's heart is as high as the sky and his ambition is too great. This is not a good thing for the Zhao family!" Zhao Sheng thought to himself, feeling faintly in his heart.
A bit worried.
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bursts of celestial music.
At this moment, many people in gorgeous clothes flew out of the building one after another, shouting in unison to welcome the ancestor.
Zhao Changdu nodded slightly, then motioned for everyone to disperse, and then took Zhao Sheng and three others to fly into the topmost Wuyou Pavilion.
That day, people were drinking, drinking, and enjoying themselves, and they returned home exhausted!
Zhao Sheng also became drunk in Wuyou Pavilion and had to rest on the spot for a day.
After waking up the next day, Zhao Jingheng took the initiative to look for it and personally accompanied the second master of this line to visit this fairy city in the mountains.
It wasn't until he saw the awe-filled faces of the tribesmen in the city towards Zhao Jingheng that Zhao Sheng discovered that Zhao Jingheng was actually the lord of the mountain city. No wonder it was him who came to accompany him.
However, does Zhao Jingheng have other hidden intentions in this move?
Although Zhao Sheng was not completely sure, he probably guessed some of his thoughts.
No matter how powerful the Zhao family in Nantian is, and no matter how harmonious and united the clan members are, there are still inevitable disputes over interests.
Although he returned not long ago, just seeing the scale of the mountain city and the richness of the spiritual energy in the cave, he can confirm how important the mountain city is to the family!
You must know that this city is clearly built on the core spiritual aperture of the only fifth-level spiritual vein in the Tianzhu Realm.
It can be seen from this that the aura environment of the mountain city is so superior!
Zhao Jingheng is the lowest generation among the ancestors of the Yuanying family, but he still assumes the position of city lord.
Not only does it illustrate the mastery of his tactics, but it also illustrates the importance Zhao Xuanjing attaches to him.
However, as soon as Zhao Sheng came back, the situation immediately changed completely.
He is not only senior and powerful, but he has also sacrificed his own life and made great contributions to the family business.
Just for the sake of reward, as long as he thinks or speaks, Zhao Jingheng will have to give up his position as city lord!
Zhao Jingheng absolutely does not want to give up his position as city lord, because this position involves huge interests.
Since ancient times, there have been no parents before interests, let alone a second master whose background is unclear!
After all, the benefits here are terrifying, and it may even determine to a certain extent whether he can cultivate to the state of becoming a god in the future.
Little did he know that Zhao Jingheng clearly thought too much.
The position of city lord has a lot of affairs, and although the salary and salary are very rich, how can Zhao Sheng think highly of it.
If he revealed his true net worth, he would probably shock everyone in the family, including Zhao Xuanjing.
For example, Yuanshen Fruit, Sumeru Precepts, Three Yang Fierce Flag, Jiu Ming Pagoda, Sky Photographing Basket, etc.
Any of these are priceless treasures, how can they be measured with spiritual stones?
Zhao Sheng could see the other party's dark thoughts, but he didn't point it out and just pretended that he didn't know.
Seven or eight days later, Zhao Changdu and Zhou Li left one after another.
Upon seeing this, Zhao Sheng took the opportunity to propose a retreat for cultivation. At the same time, he declined Zhao Jingheng's well-intentioned suggestion to stay in this city for retreat. He only said that Diyan Island was the most suitable place for cultivation.
Zhao Jingheng did not do much to persuade him to stay, but he personally accompanied Zhao Sheng to Diyan Island and saw the second master entering the Wuding Star Cave for retreat before returning to the mountain city with an expressionless face.
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After not returning for a hundred years, the Star Cave has been restored to its original appearance.
The amorphous star core is shrouded in red light and fire pillars, like a star, slowly rotating in the void.
However, at this time, seven or eight jade towers stood on the magma lake below.
Each jade tower is covered with a layer of red barrier. It seems that someone is practicing in seclusion in the tower.
Zhao Sheng glanced at the jade tower below, and then he flashed and landed on the Indeterminate Star Core.
He sat down cross-legged, holding a top-quality spiritual stone in each hand, closing his eyes, feeling the invisible rhythm emanating from the star core, and his mind quickly entered the realm of emptiness and darkness.
Boom boom!
Waves of spiritual energy surged in from all directions, converging crazily towards the Indeterminate Star Core.
The extremely rich spiritual energy of heaven and earth accumulated more and more, gradually condensing into a dense layer of spiritual cloud, and under the cover of the divine light of God Destroyer and Soul Erosion, it glowed with a faint fiery red radiance, like a burning cloud.
The momentum created by Zhao Sheng's practice was so great that it quickly alerted all the Jindan practitioners who were retreating in the tower.
Everyone stopped practicing one after another and hurriedly flew out of the tower, looking at the flaming clouds above the star core with expressions of horror and inexplicable horror.
Just when everyone was stunned and stunned, a huge storm of spiritual thoughts suddenly passed through everyone, and a familiar and unfamiliar voice sounded in everyone's ears at the same time.
Someone quickly identified Zhao Sheng's identity from his voice.
So in the blink of an eye, everyone knew the news that the Sixteenth Patriarch was back.
Seeing the Sixteenth Patriarch cultivating in the Star Cave, these Zhao family golden elixirs were very discerning and valuable, so they all withdrew from the Star Cave without hesitation and voluntarily gave up this precious land for cultivation.
Zhao Sheng's original intention was not like this, but he didn't want the younger members of his clan to be so sensible.
He understood the kindness of his juniors and secretly made a note of it, so that he would be rewarded in the future.
Ten days later,
A faint divine light bloomed between Zhao Sheng's brows, and the Nascent Soul's dharma body was majestic in the depths of his soul, surrounded by a dazzling light as rich as water.
At this moment, many identical "Nascent Soul" illusions appeared behind the body, all surrounded by the radiance of divine thoughts, but the brightness was slightly weaker than the main body.
These infant images are all the result of projections of distracted consciousness, and at a glance there are hundreds of them.
A trace of light of divine thoughts descended from the soul sea, along the meridians of the chest, abdomen, limbs, and bones, and penetrated into the depths of the Dantian Qi sea. Countless torrents of mana flowed endlessly in the meridians with the pull of the divine light, forming extremely complex but complex
And an extremely precise cycle of exercises.
Every moment, a massive amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth roared into Zhao Sheng's body, and along with the torrent of mana, fell into the Dantian Qi sea, forming a steady rain of spiritual energy.
The mana in the Dantian is like a vast ocean surging and rising, drinking in countless drops of spiritual rain and automatically converting them into purer mana.
Time passed slowly, and Zhao Sheng's cultivation improved slightly.
After half a day, Zhao Sheng felt that the torrent of spiritual energy pouring from his hands suddenly stopped.
So, he slowly stopped the operation of the technique, opened his eyes and looked at his hands, and sure enough he saw two empty shells of spiritual stones that had dissipated and whose spiritual energy had been absorbed.
Zhao Sheng sighed slightly and put the two blank spirit stones into his storage bag. Then he turned over with one hand and found an apricot-yellow ring in his palm.
After calming down, Zhao Sheng suddenly shot out a divine light from the center of his eyebrows and landed on the Sumeru ring.
In an instant, the endless space-time faults were reflected deep in his mind, and his spiritual thoughts formed nearly a hundred invisible tentacles, which penetrated the time-space faults one by one.
This search has been repeated so many times over the decades that it has become almost instinctive.
While Zhao Sheng persisted in searching for the whereabouts of Xumi Space, he also regarded it as a way to exercise his mental strength.
After decades of hard work, the intensity of his spiritual thoughts has increased significantly again, and his tenacity far exceeds the imagination of the world.
After persisting for nearly half an hour, nearly 50% of the spiritual energy had been consumed.
At this time, Zhao Sheng stopped habitually and put Xumijie into his arms with his backhand.
Then, he poured out another three-return magic pill and drank it with his head raised, and then began to meditate quietly with his eyes closed.
Two hours later, Zhao Sheng opened his eyes fiercely, his eyes piercing the void like lightning. At this time, his spiritual consciousness had been completely restored.
After thinking for a while, he waved his hand, and a dazzling fire shield suddenly rose around him, blocking outside sight.
Then, Zhao Sheng took out a jade box from the storage bag. The surface of the jade box was covered with sealing talismans.
Carefully remove the seal and open the lid, you will see a crystal red fruit inside, which is only as big as an egg, but there are traces of Tao Yun flowing on the surface, and it seems to contain unimaginable vast spiritual power inside.
Zhao Sheng looked at the Yuanshen Fruit in the box with a deep look, and he couldn't make up his mind for a moment.