There is an unknown amount of depth underground on Platinum Island.
In the thick magma fire, there is a ball of white light floating in it, constantly absorbing the magma fire and turning it into pure heat.
At the same time, the spiritual energy in the entire Platinum Island's leyline is also flowing into the white light.
Xu Dao stayed inside, and his body was constantly washed by heat and spiritual energy. Every time he took a breath, the true energy in his body would be tempered.
When he entered the treasure house, he had already stayed in the alchemy room composed of white light and spent thirty-six years alone.
During these thirty-six years, he was constantly improving and polishing his cultivation. Occasionally relaxing, he was just doing two things, his consciousness turned into a human form, and he fell into the inner world to read and relieve his boredom.
Nowadays, compared with the past, the true energy in Xu Dao's body has undergone great changes, both in quality and quantity.
Under such continuous grabbing, the spiritual energy accumulated in the Platinum Island treasure house for hundreds of years has been consumed by him to the bottom of the valley. Even the magma and fire underground are less intense than before.
This day.
Xu Daode sat cross-legged in the white room, his eyes trembling slightly.
Click! As he swallowed again, the entire white room that protected him suddenly cracked, and waves of manic fire penetrated into the white room from the outside and spread rapidly.
In the blink of an eye, it filled the entire white room and enveloped Xu Dao's body.
But Xu Dao was unmoved. He continued to breathe, and his breathing was faster and longer than before.
The wind blew around him, and his robes ruffled.
In the strong wind, the cracked white room completely collapsed and turned into a little light, like mist that was about to disperse. But under the blowing sound of the wind, whoosh!
Clusters of white light gathered in groups, turned into streaks, and surged in front of Xu Dao, and then were slowly but long inhaled by him into his lungs.
With just one breath, all the white light around him was sucked away, and even the raging earth fire was sucked in a lot.
After clearing the collapsed white room, Xu Dao's eyes trembled again. He suddenly opened his eyes, and his eyes were pure white, as clear as the bright moon.
He slowly exhaled again, and all the fire breath that he had just breathed into his lungs was spit out and turned into smoke and drifted away.
In the magma fire, Xu Dao's sigh sounded: "The hundreds of years of accumulation on Platinum Island have finally been consumed."
The time he swallowed just now, he sucked up the spiritual energy that maintained the white room and turned it into his own true energy.
Now that the spiritual energy has been completely consumed, it means that Xu Dao's retreat this time has come to an end, and it's time for him to come out.
Obviously after more than thirty years of seclusion, Xu Dao was looking forward to breaking out of the seclusion and having a good time in the outside world. But when things came to pass, he really couldn't bear to do it.
Xu Dao lowered his gaze and looked at the magma fire surrounding himself.
He thought in his mind: "The locking formation on Platinum Island actually penetrates directly into the earth's fire, using the earth's fire as a continuous source of heat. The method is really clever, and the effect is really good. It seems that I want to arrange it in the future
This aspect can also be considered when forming such a large formation..."
This thirty-six-year retreat is the longest one in Xu Dao's current monastic career.
After such a long period of seclusion, he gained a lot, especially in this spiritual place created for Taoist priests to forge pills, and the benefits he gained exceeded the imagination of ordinary Taoist priests.
In just thirty-six years, his Taoist practice has increased to 220 years! His Immortal Dao and Martial Arts have each increased by 110 years. He is already a master of refining the Gang, and is only one step away from perfection.
ten years.
The total amount of Qi in Xu Dao's body now totals 580 years, which is comparable to that of ordinary Jindan Taoists. Moreover, such a large increase has not caused his foundation to become unstable.
Because such an increase in cultivation was not achieved by Xu Dao swallowing elixirs or elixirs, nor by other people's initiations to him, but by him swallowing them bit by bit, and was tempered by the earth's fire at all times, allowing his
The true energy has been tempered.
It can be said that as long as Xu Dao has been practicing in the treasure house of Platinum Island, his true energy has been tempered for as long as thirty-six years.
Not only has he now reached the level of the Immortal Martial Arts Master, but also among the Taoist priests who have achieved the Great Master's Degree, he has a deep foundation and an astonishing foundation, and is not comparable to ordinary Taoist priests.
And these are the wonderful effects of Platinum Island’s treasure house!
It used the formation model and hundreds of years of accumulation to create a superior spiritual land, allowing Xu Dao to be concocted by the formation like elixirs, boosting Xu Dao's talent in disguise.
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The earth's fire surged, and Xu Dao sat cross-legged in it, rising and falling.
The white rainbow piercing the sun wrapped around his side, blocking out all the earthly fire, so that not a single drop could fall on his body.
In fact, even if it falls on him, the earth fire will not cause harm to his body. At most, it will be like being burned. If he is willing, he can even transform into a dragon body and burn it in the earth fire.
Roll around in the lava and take a bath using the lava as a hot spring.
Xu Dao moved his thoughts away from the harvest and couldn't help but look up above his head. He already had the idea of leaving this place in his heart.
He has consumed all the hundreds of years of accumulation in the Platinum Island treasure house. He is surrounded by pure magma and fire. He doesn't even have half a talisman. It's time to leave this place and get some fresh air.
But a thought popped up in Xu Dao's mind:
"Anyway, I've been in seclusion for thirty-six years, so I'm not in a hurry. I'll just stay here again to sort out my cultivation and master my current cultivation so that I can deal with the outside world after I go out."
When he thought about it, although he had already left a backup force on Platinum Island, thirty-six years was not a short period of time. It was enough time for Platinum Island to change its appearance, and maybe a new foundation-building Taoist priest would be born.
In order to avoid encountering unexpected events after leaving this place, he had to adjust his condition to the best.
Moreover, Xu Dao vaguely understood that such a place where he could practice with peace of mind was quite rare, and I was afraid that he would not be able to see it again for a long time in the future.
Moreover, staying in the magma fire, even though he lost the protection of the white chamber, it was more convenient for Xu Dao to temper his body and soul, and helped him stabilize his realm.
The only problem is that if Xu Dao continues to practice here, although he will not be hurt by the earth fire magma, without the protection of the formation, the earth fire energy will inevitably mix into his true energy.
After he has mastered his own cultivation, he will have to find some fire-eliminating elixirs after he comes out of seclusion to help eliminate the fire in his body. Otherwise, it will be a bit cumbersome to just rely on his own true energy.
It's just that compared to the benefits of staying in the earth fire, this little fire is a small drawback.
In particular, Xu Daoxiu has a Qingjing chapter. Other Taoist priests are smoked by the energy of earth fire, and will suffer from headaches, brain swelling, and irritability, but he can directly suppress it and is not affected by it.
Immediately, Xu Dao continued to float in the magma and fire, and even dived down again.
He didn't have any magic weapon to protect him, so he directly drilled into the magma, harvested the heat of the earth fire, and tempered his body and soul at the same time.
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While Xu Dao continued to retreat, the Platinum Island above his head was filled with stormy clouds and gloomy clouds.
In the meeting hall that had received Xu Dao, all seventeen foundation-building Taoist priests from Platinum Island gathered in the hall, including elders and guests.
And the person sitting in the top spot is none other than Jin Shisan.
Thirty-six years have passed, and the Taoist priests who build the foundation are all good at looking good. Jin Shisan's appearance has not changed much. It is still green and beautiful, but his temperament has become much more charming and powerful.
In the past, the cold and strong look on her face was just due to her personality, but now she has a sense of superiority brought about by being immersed in power for a long time.
In short, the former female Taoist priest of Platinum Island has grown a lot, and is far from the one Xu Dao first came into contact with.
Although Xu Dao was new here, he had never had much contact with this woman except for skin-to-skin contact, and he didn't know much about her personality.
A voice sounded in the hall: "Island Master, in half a year at most, the conscripts will come to our island. What should we do?"
Someone immediately responded: "The general trend is irresistible. When the conscripts arrive, we will naturally treat them with delicious food and drinks. We will measure the material resources of Platinum Island and gain the favor of the envoys."
"But it is rumored that the man is greedy by nature, and he has already set his sights on the island-protecting spirit beast before he reaches this sea area. He asked his subordinates to send a message to us. As long as he offers the spirit beast, he will be spared in this conscription.
One horse."
"Here, although the island-protecting spirit beast is valuable, it is nothing more than a beast. Are you fellow Taoists really willing to go to the front line?"
"There is some truth to this."
One of them shouted to Jin Shisan: "Island Master, a certain family said something bad, dead Taoist friends are not as good as dead beasts!"...
The meeting hall was in chaos, with more than a dozen Taoist priests talking to each other, full of worries and quarrels.
Jin Shisan, who was sitting in the first seat, frowned slightly when she heard this, especially when she heard that someone strongly supported sacrificing spiritual beasts as the price of flattery. Her face turned cold and she sneered:
"That's a good point! It's as if the spiritual beast is raised by you."
Jin Shisan glanced at the Taoist priests who supported the donation of spiritual beasts and said, "If you want to use our Taoist spiritual beasts to avoid labor, are you worthy?"
"You!" Several Taoist priests immediately blushed, and one said angrily: "The island-protecting spirit beast eats the food from Platinum Island, and uses the food from Platinum Island. It consumes resources every year in vain, why is it not raised by us?"
"If it weren't for the support of the entire island, the two island-protecting spirit beasts would probably starve to death."
Hearing these words, the sneer on Jin Shisan's face became even heavier. Her eyes were like knives piercing the Taoist priests, and she said coldly:
"Is this treatment given to you willingly, rather than being brought along by the Dao to protect the island with the spirit beasts?"
Seeing Jin Shisan retort back, the Taoist priest who was close to her in the hall also said: "Exactly, if it weren't for the island owner and the spirit beasts protecting the island, how could my Platinum Island be stable in the Western Sea these years?"
"It has been more than forty years since the storm broke out in the West Sea. Platinum Island is far away from the war zone, but as long as you are in the West Sea and are recruited and driven, it is only a matter of time. Can you hide once, can you hide twice? If you will be
The island-protecting spirit beasts have been sacrificed, and the power of our island has weakened, and the situation in the future may be even more difficult."
If Xu Dao were here, he would immediately have a general understanding of the changes in Platinum Island and the West Sea by listening to the discussions on the island.
It turned out that after he retreated, Jin Shisan successfully survived the disaster and was not challenged by other Taoist priests on the island. Instead, with careful operation, she climbed to the top of Platinum Island and obtained the position of the Grand Elder of Platinum Island.
In this stage, Soaring Snake and Fang will play a vital role.
If it were not for the two spiritual beasts to protect her, even if Jin Shisan was a Taoist priest at the established level, she might still fall or be expelled due to lack of means and shallow foundation.
But relying on Teng She and Ya Jiang, she continuously succeeded in revenge, either killing the Taoist priests on the island who had betrayed her, or exiling all the Taoist priests who disobeyed her and expelled them from the island.
After more than 30 years of cleanup, Jin Shisan thought that Platinum Island had become her one-stop shop, but who knew that as soon as the conscription messenger spread the news, demons began to dance around the island, and many people's positions deviated from hers.
Suddenly someone shouted: "The conscripts must all be Taoist priests in the Lian Gang realm. It is rumored that the one in charge of our side has even more powerful cultivation and strength. He is in the Perfection realm. That person also has treasures such as talismans in his hands... We are waiting
So what?”
These words made the Taoists in the meeting hall clamor again.
Someone shouted: "Isn't it just Lian Gang? It's a paper tiger."
Someone shouted: "Invincible, the island owner should think twice."
There were also people who secretly glanced at Jin Shisan, assessing Jin Shisan's strength in their hearts.
When Jin Shisan saw everyone arguing, she spread her eyebrows, with a cold face, and suddenly said calmly: "Actually, the island-protecting spirit beast is not a spirit beast of this Tao, and this Tao is not qualified to deal with it."
This statement made everyone stunned: "What? The island-protecting spirit beast belongs to someone else? Then I, Platinum Island, am raising spirit beasts for others?"
"In this case, it is more appropriate to sacrifice the spiritual beasts to the conscripts to save food on the island."
There were also smart people who were overjoyed and said anxiously: "May I ask who the Taoist master is? He must have reached the realm of refining Gang. The island owner will invite him quickly."
Jin Shisan sighed softly in his heart when he saw everyone getting excited.
During these thirty-six years, while seizing power, she practiced hard. Fortunately, her talent was not bad, and she was assisted by elixirs and spiritual objects. After more than twenty years, she was already in the realm of condensing evil spirits, and the evil energy she condensed was also powerful.
It's not just miscellaneous evil spirits.
But compared to Xu Dao, and compared to the rumored conscript, Jin Shisan's realm was still insufficient, far from enough to support an island, so she did have the idea of asking Xu Dao for help.
As for flattering the enemy and offering spiritual beasts, Jin Shisan really has not considered it. After all, Teng Snake and Ya Jiang are indeed not hers, but Xu Dao's!
In the meeting hall, everyone's thoughts fell on Xu Dao, who had not yet appeared.