There are quite a few familiar faces among these foundation builders.
One of them is Lu Quan.
Among the other foundation builders, three or four were quite good-looking. This was because Meng Zhou had sorted out the atmosphere of their fields in the past few months.
Although this was an arrangement arranged by the Sanchuan Society, and he was only an acquaintance with them, because of this relationship, they all had a very kind attitude towards Meng Zhou.
When Meng Zhou looked at them, they would all show warm smiles and actively nod to Meng Zhou.
Because of this kind of atmosphere, even those complete strangers treated Meng Zhou with full courtesy without any slight.
Kan Yue took the initiative to introduce him: "Some of you fellow Taoists may already know each other, while others may be just meeting you for the first time. This is fellow Taoist Zhuang Shengzhuang."
Everyone bowed their hands to Meng Zhou and greeted him.
Then, Kan Yue introduced everyone else one by one, and Meng Zhou took them all seriously in his mind.
The subsequent exchanges seemed to have nothing worth mentioning.
They are all talking in general terms, without any profound or unique insights.
Meng Zhou guessed that this was because everyone was not very familiar with each other's situation and had many reservations in their conversations.
However, it cannot be regarded as completely nothing.
This kind of exchange between colleagues still greatly enriched Meng Zhou's horizons and broadened his knowledge.
Gradually, Meng Zhou also came to realize that the speech and behavior style of many foundation-building monks revealed a strong atmosphere of the outside world.
In particular, there was a female foundation-building cultivator named Wei Xiao. She always had a faint smile on her lips, and her eyes scanned the crowd and stopped on Meng Zhou many times.
Whenever her eyes fell on him, Meng Zhou felt like his heart was hairy, as if her eyes turned into little hands, circling around his body.
Such unscrupulousness and unabashed aggression are hard to imagine from a female cultivator from the Qingxuan Realm.
This exchange meeting did not last long, only three or four hours later, everyone said their goodbyes and left.
Such an exchange meeting seemed dull and dull, but from the host Kan Yue to all the participants, it seemed that the trip was worthwhile, and no one found it boring.
Before leaving, everyone also discussed the time and place of the next gathering. Although everything is still to be determined, it is obvious that everyone is looking forward to it.
Meng Zhou did not say goodbye immediately, but continued to sit there with the old god present.
It wasn't until Kan Yue sent everyone else away that he returned to the attic. Looking at Meng Zhou who was still sitting there without getting up and leaving, he asked with a smile: "Do you have any doubts, fellow Daoist Zhuang?"
Meng Zhou asked: "How many of these fellow Taoists come from outside the Qingxuan Territory?"
Kan Yue said: "Except for you and Fellow Daoist Lu, all the other fellow Daoists are from outside Qingxuan Territory."
"Well……"
Okay, it turns out this is a gathering of monks from an outside world.
So it doesn't matter what was exchanged at this party.
What's important is the party itself.
In this case, what does it mean to bring me and Lu Quan in?
Kan Yue seemed to understand Meng Zhou's doubts and explained:
"I was the first outsider monk to come to the Sanchuan Plain to cultivate fields. Later, every time a new outsider monk came to the Sanchuan Plain, they would come to visit me.
A Taoist friend suggested that I get everyone together and hold regular exchange meetings.
But I think this is not appropriate. It would be too dangerous if all Taoist friends from the Qingxuan Domain were excluded from such an exchange meeting."
Having said this, Kan Yue shook his head, looked at Meng Zhou, and said:
"I then suggested that we invite some fellow Taoists from the Qingxuan Domain to join us. The first one I thought of was you, Fellow Taoist Zhuang."
According to Kan Yue, in this first formal gathering, everyone lacked understanding of each other, had reservations in their conversations, and the topics discussed were general.
But as the number of gatherings increases in the future, and as the exchanges between monks from various domains deepen, there will inevitably be many wonderful collisions.
This is actually more valuable than a group of outside monks working together to help each other.
Meng Zhou nodded in understanding and felt that there would be no harm in having such a channel to broaden his horizons.
However, this trip cannot be in vain this time.
Meng Zhou then expressed the thoughts that had been brewing in his heart since the first meeting.
"Fellow Daoist Kan, Mr. Zhuang would like to ask you for some methods of applying Qi and blood."
Kan Yue was startled when he heard this, and Meng Zhou explained further.
"Don't worry, Taoist friend Kan, the method I seek does not involve the fundamental method you practice.
What I ask for are the most commonly used methods of applying Qi and blood in the second-level body refining."
When Kan Yue heard this, he wondered, "Does Fellow Taoist Zhuang even lack these?"
Meng Zhou smiled bitterly and said: "Fellow Taoist Kan, it's not like you don't know the cultivation environment of Qingxuan Domain.
Many things that can be easily obtained in the Jinding Territory are really unimaginable in the Qingxuan Territory."
Kan Yue suddenly nodded, and after thinking for a moment, he found an ancient book with a yellowish color in his hand.
Meng Zhou stared at it and said softly: "Three innate skills?"
Kan Yue nodded and said: "Yes, "Three Innate Skills", this is the first classic that Kan learned after breaking through to the second level of body training. It not only contains the three innate skills, but also contains the second level of Qi and Blood.
Various methods of application.
As long as you master these three secrets, you can basically master the methods of applying second-level Qi and blood."
Meng Zhou took the classics, looked through them briefly, and said happily: "Not bad, not bad, this is exactly what I need."
Then, Meng Zhou asked seriously about the price of this classic.
Kan Yue waved his hand and said: "No need for spiritual stones."
"What do fellow Taoists need?"
"Nothing is needed, this is Kan's intention."
Meng Zhou was startled when he heard this. Kan Yue's aura was a bit beyond his expectation, but he was unwilling to just take this book away.
He thought for a while and said: "If there is anything wrong with the spiritual field in the future, Fellow Daoist Kan, just call me directly and don't bother Sanchuan."
Kan Yue said happily: "That's a good feeling!"
Although the Sanchuan Society will try its best to respond to requests, it is not free. When harvesting in the future, these contributions will be included in the cost.
With Meng Zhou's promise, he got much more benefits than selling a classic. The key is that it sounds nice to say.
After getting such a classic, Meng Zhou didn't stay long and quickly left.
After galloping all the way and returning to the courtyard, Meng Zhou immediately immersed himself in this classic.
This book "Three Innate Skills" records three second-level body-refining skills.
[Innate Great Capture] uses the power of second-level Qi and blood to transform into a big hand, which can be used for attack, defense, and to capture magic weapons.
According to Meng Zhou's understanding, this is basically an upgraded version of the crane control hand.
[Hundred Soldiers Splitting the Sky Finger] uses the power of second-level energy and blood to transform into hundreds of soldiers, splitting the air and killing the enemy.
In Meng Zhou's view, isn't this an upgraded version of the finger sword and palm sword?
[Baizhang Divine Fist], compared with the first two secret arts, the biggest difference is that the holding method and fingering method are changed into boxing methods.
Compared with the first two, it has slightly less changes, but in terms of absolute attack power, it is superior to the first two, and it can output a whole body of energy and blood in the fastest and most violent way.
Its killing power depends not only on the level of mastery of this secret skill itself, but also on the achievements in body refining and the abundance of Qi and blood.
These three secret arts are very consistent with Meng Zhou's spiritual talent. He didn't even do any practice. He just read the classics carefully and only had a brief aftertaste in his mind. He had successfully started to learn the three secret arts.
"Introduction to Xiantian Great Capture 20/250, Introduction to Hundred Soldiers Sky Finger 20/250, Baizhang Divine Fist 20/250"
Moreover, it is very easy to gain experience in these three secret arts. Every time it is successfully used, the experience will be directly increased by 20, which is much easier than his self-enlightenment.
In just two or three hours, the three secret skills have been successfully advanced from beginner to beginner.
The only price is the rapid consumption of energy and blood.
However, after these three secret arts reached their initial stage, Meng Zhou temporarily stopped further training in these three secret arts, and instead devoted his energy to various knotting skills again.
However, while Meng Zhou devoted all his time and energy to the cultivation of various knotting skills, he also used a moon mirror to carefully observe the growth of all the jade-heart red fruit vines in the spiritual field every day.
Since Soul Pond Lian Yuexin was promoted from Dacheng to Master, the two innate soul skills have been significantly improved.
The first improvement of the moon mirror is the observation range, which has been expanded from a radius of four miles to a radius of ten miles.
In addition, the depth of observation has also been further improved. Even his formation, which is comparable to the second-order small best, can reveal many clues.
Meng Zhou believed that those second-level and low-level formations were like undefended young girls who could look at them however they wanted.
The vitality and spiritual flow of all the jade-heart red fruit vines in the spiritual field can be clearly seen under the moon mirror.
The change of the natural heart is that it can capture the subtler and richer "emotional" changes of the spiritual plant.
What's even more amazing is that when he looked at the jade-hearted red fruit vines in the spiritual field through the moon mirror in the courtyard, he could vaguely "see" their "emotional" changes.
Meng Zhou has not watered them since President Pan watered them for the last time on the 30th of last month.
Starting from the fourth day, they slowly showed symptoms of water shortage, but on the other hand, Meng Zhou saw that they became tougher and more "stubborn" little by little.
Starting from the sixth day, the thick, bright and huge leaves began to shrink a little bit, in the process of "losing weight and fat".
A large amount of water stored in the leaves begins to flow in the opposite direction, supporting the survival of the canes and even underground roots.
On the eighth day of water shortage, the originally thick cane also shrank little by little, and the outer wall became tougher and thicker, as if a layer of armor had grown, and all the flow of water and life was strictly restricted to the cane.
internal.
Each jade heart red fruit vine is doing everything possible to maximize the use of water and circulate it repeatedly internally.
It was not until the ninth day that the jade-heart red fruit vines finally reached the limit of what they could bear now.
They are already preparing to initiate a "self-mutilation" strategy, sucking out all the moisture, spirituality, vitality, and nutrients from some leaves, and using the complete sacrifice of some leaves to support the survival of the entire spiritual plant.
At this moment, the rushing spiritual water flowed out from the courtyard and gathered into four reservoirs. Yang Chong arranged for the Qi-training monks to take water from them one by one, and then used magic to disperse them into a drizzle, evenly distributed.
It falls on the jade-hearted red fruit vines.
These jade-hearted red fruit vines, which have been thirsty for water for many days, greedily absorb all the spiritual water dripping on them.
In the courtyard, when the gate was opened to release water, Meng Zhou had already filled the pond twenty meters above the ground.
On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, the gates were opened to release water and the watering was officially started. As the water level continued to drop, Meng Zhou continued to use the cloud and rain technique to add water to the inside.
By the morning of the tenth day of the lunar month, all the jade-heart red fruit vines had returned to their full, bright, and emerald green posture. After two consecutive days of continuous rainfall, the cloud and rain technique finally completed the final accumulation of the master level and reached perfection.
The casting process can be completed in as fast as one second, and huge clouds and rain can be formed in the sky with just a wave of the hand.
The only thing that is inevitable is the consumption of mana.
…
On the tenth day of April, late at night.
When Meng Zhou entered the quiet room and prepared to retreat again, he had just accumulated half of the knotting skills at the master level.
After this retreat, Meng Zhou continued to devote a lot of energy to the accumulation of various knotting skills.
In order to cooperate with his own practice, Meng Zhou specially "adjusted" the irrigation cycle of the Jade Heart Vermilion Fruit Vine to once every ten days, which coincided with the retreat time.
The perfect level of Yunyu Technique has further improved his rainfall efficiency, and the time spent alone on this matter is limited to about a day and a half.
Late April.
After completing another retreat, Meng Zhou continued to accumulate various knotting skills. Finally, on April 25th, he completely completed the master accumulation of various skills and reached perfection.
A total of ten skills, including the seven talisman formations, the Black Turtle Spirit Puppet, the Giant Bear Spirit Puppet, and the Purifying Futon, have all reached perfection.
The knotting profession has also grown tremendously as a result.
"Knot Master Level 2 900/1000"
Then, Meng Zhou spent half a day making another upgrade to the courtyard formation.
The original second-level mid-grade wood spiritual materials were replaced by second-order high-grade wood spiritual materials. Among them, the earth power talisman array and the defensive talisman array also used part of the second-order high-grade earth spiritual materials - part of these spiritual materials were obtained from
Part of Xu Wanzhen's collection comes from the dismantling of used utensils.
After completing the upgrade of the formation, Meng Zhou deliberately tried it himself.
With his tyrannical physique comparable to that of the late Foundation Establishment, he is struggling even under the earth power talisman formation. The confinement talisman formation can tightly seal all of his mana within his dantian. In this case, facing the violent attack of the giant bear spirit puppet,
Almost completely losing their ability to respond, the battle situation instantly became one-sided.
"Comprehensive assessment, this protective formation should be at a quasi-third-level level, right?"
Meng Zhou finally felt at ease.
After settling this matter, Meng Zhou began to consider his next training plan.
After thinking about it, he set the focus of the next stage on the cultivation of the three innate skills and Cunbu.
However, before formal cultivation, Meng Zhou had to do one thing first.
Meng Zhou's spiritual consciousness swept into the jade volute, where a large area contained a large amount of high-quality monster meat.
The meat of these monster beasts is of extremely high quality, with nearly half of the second-order high-grade meat. The other second-order mid-grade and second-order low-grade meat also have their own characteristics.
If it is processed at will, it is simply a waste of natural resources.
Meng Zhou took out a piece of second-grade low-grade monster meat, ignited a ball of flame and a stream of circulating spiritual water in his hands, and put his hands together, and the piece of low-grade monster meat was enclosed in a spherical area.
The fishy smell that affects the taste and the turbid smell that is not beneficial to the human body are removed from it. What is finally retained is the essence that is beneficial to the human body.
Another advantage after processing in this way is that it is not beneficial to the human body. The parts that cannot be digested and absorbed are completely removed in this step. There is no need to worry about frequent excretion due to taking a large amount of monster meat.
The monster meat treated in this way can be regarded as a special elixir. Moreover, it will not develop resistance like normal elixirs.
After the processing, the monster meat shrunk by more than half, and the aroma that came out, without any fishy smell, immediately aroused the primitive instinct in the body, and saliva began to secrete uncontrollably.
Meng Zhou tore off a large piece and stuffed it into his mouth. He was stunned for a moment, then chewed quickly, feeling the unprecedented and wonderful taste spreading in his mouth.
Swallowing it into the abdomen, it quickly turns into the power of qi and blood, and soon disappears without leaving any residue.
However, perhaps because the mastery of the processing technique was not high enough, there was still some foul smell left, but with a few gastrointestinal movements, it was directly cleaned out through the pores.
This process lasted two days. After Meng Zhou finished processing all the monster meat, he gained 3,000 experience points in water-bending, fire-bending, and processing techniques respectively, and he directly entered the realm of master from the beginning.
"Master of Waterbending/Firebending/Processing 100/4000"
Just after all this was taken care of, it was time to irrigate the spiritual fields. By the time all this was taken care of, it was already April 30th.
And as another two months passed, the two Lingcha trees were ready for harvesting.
Meng Zhou used his master-level processing skills to process all the spiritual teas, and gained another 500 experience points from three related skills.
"Master of Waterbending/Firebending/Processing 600/4000"
…
Early morning on the third day of May.
Meng Zhou ended another retreat and first checked the progress of his practice.
Cultivation progress +60, foundation building level 4 756/1000;
Second level Spring Water Sutra +600, Master 12000/16000;
Soul Pool Refining Moon Heart +600, Master 2800/16000;
Black Turtle Body Refining Technique +600, Master 4830/12000.
After confirming that everything was as expected, Meng Zhou checked the condition of the spiritual field through the moon mirror.
Only then did he start to calm down and focus on the cultivation of the four body-refining methods.
Before preparing to practice, Meng Zhou looked around, jumped up the high wall, and jumped into an acre of wide pool of water.
He stood with his feet above the water. The current water had just flooded the pavilion in the middle of the lake. Meng Zhou looked at the high walls around him, and with a thought in his mind, he borrowed the power of the formation to bless these high walls.
The reason for this is because the practice of the Three Innate Skills is very dynamic and destructive. If you practice in the courtyard, it will be bad if you accidentally hurt the flowers and plants.
This pond, on the other hand, is a good martial arts venue.
After using the formation method to reinforce the four walls of the high wall, he can let go of his hands and feet and mess around at will.
Meng Zhou lightly stomped his feet, and before the ripples on the water surface spread under his feet, his figure had already disappeared, and the next moment he appeared dozens of meters away.
Meng Zhou reached out and waved his hand, and a big hand with energy and blood appeared in the void in front of him, and he grasped it forward.
The next moment, flying fish-like flying swords of Qi and blood flew out from his fingertips, submerged into the water below, and then rushed out of the water, hitting the high wall with a continuous "duh-duh" sound.
ring.
Meng Zhou practiced tirelessly like this.
Inch Step, Innate Capture, Hundred Soldiers Splitting Sky Finger, Hundred-foot Divine Fist, Meng Zhou practiced at the same time. While their experience increased rapidly, the price was the rapid consumption of Qi and blood.
If it was magic practice, then Meng Zhou would have to go back to the quiet room to adjust his breath and regain his energy. After spending a lot of time to regain his energy, he could continue to practice.
But at this moment, he just stuffed a piece of monster meat into his mouth from time to time, and the rapidly depleted energy and blood were replenished in time in this way.
It wasn't until his body finally sent a warning, and a strong sense of soreness and fatigue came from his limbs and bones, that Meng Zhou temporarily stopped practicing and sat down to relax and rest.
Only then did Meng Zhou realize that exactly a whole day had passed.
The three secret skills have all gained 2000 experience points. Originally, they were just at the beginning of attainment. After one day, they directly surpassed the level of minor attainment and advanced to the level of Dacheng.
Compared with the three unique skills, the improvement is quite satisfactory, with only 700 experience added, from "Grandmaster 2100/8000" to "Grandmaster 2800/8000".
"Sure enough, the slow upgrade of spells is mainly due to the limited mana. If mana can be continuously replenished like qi and blood, the experience gained every day will be increased by at least three times."
"Mana can replenish the consumption of qi and blood, so can qi and blood in turn replenish the consumption of mana?"
Thinking of this, Meng Zhou naturally had such thoughts in his mind.
However, mana can replenish energy and blood consumption. In addition to the three-pole cycle, another important factor is that mana itself is rich in vitality, and it itself has such potential.
But Qi and blood are not like that.
After thinking about it, Meng Zhou, who had no clue, put the problem aside and instead focused on the negative symptoms accumulated in his body due to high-intensity and long-term activities.
Meng Zhou used the magic power of the Spring Water Meridian, which is rich in vitality, and combined with the techniques of cultivating vitality, rejuvenation, and regulating qi to adjust and organize the body.
At the same time, he also brewed a pot of spiritual tea prepared by a master.
These many methods were used together, and after drinking a pot of spiritual tea, my physical condition has been completely restored.
Meng Zhou didn't waste any time and jumped into the pond again to practice.
After practicing for two days in a row, Meng Zhou thought he could enjoy some quiet time without being disturbed, but a flying consciousness message was sent to him.
By the time he had just finished reading the content, Zhu Qian had already led the two monks into the ten-mile range of the moon mirror.
Meng Zhou had to suspend his practice and sat cross-legged in the quiet room, waiting for the arrival of the three people.
While cooking the spiritual tea in his hand, thinking of what Zhu Qian had said, he couldn't help but shake his head and complain.
"Everyone, all kinds of monsters and monsters are coming to the Sanchuan Plain.
I'm really worried that one day you won't control your gun and it will go off, and the fun will be great."
Local foundation building, foreign foundation building, evil demon outsiders building foundation, foreign lands building foundation, this water is already muddy enough.