For a long period of time, Meng Zhou stayed in the Aurora Cave without going out.
Occasionally, some matters would come to his door, and they would be solved by "Ge Ping" who he stayed in Sanchuan Yuan, so he didn't need to worry about them at all.
Except for a few days of retreat at the beginning of each month, during the rest of the time, Meng Zhou, who was immersed in the inspiration inspired by the three professions of Medicine Spirit Master, Spirit Controller, and Spirit Adjustment Master, seemed quite idle.
Moreover, this kind of thinking activity consumes a lot of mental energy.
Even if he wanted to, he couldn't stay focused for long.
Relaxation and balance of work and rest.
To wake up and realize something, and to finish it when he is exhausted, this is actually the method that makes him feel most comfortable and makes the most obvious progress.
Every few days, he would also be distracted and summarize the information of the Five Realms Mingxin Pavilion through the Linglian clones scattered in various regions.
As a result, the interactions with Bai Zhi became more frequent.
What surprised Meng Zhou was that Bai Zhi had already taken a step ahead of him and made continuous progress before he realized the secret.
However, after thinking about it carefully, Meng Zhou felt that for Bai Zhi, this did not seem to be worth the fuss at all.
"For her, this is already a bit slow, right?"
Meng Zhou thought so in his heart.
Comparing the achievements of "Rope Spirit" Yaya, who has already reached the third level limit, and looking at her current progress, we can see that Meng Zhou's conjecture at this moment is not unfounded.
The progress of Bai Zhi during this period is mainly reflected in two aspects.
One aspect is career path.
Originally, she was an extremely pure painter.
After "copying" a powerful musical talent from Meng Zhou, coupled with some of his guidance, Bai Zhi really came up with the idea of "there is painting in the music, and there is sound in the painting".
After a little bit of speculation and practice, she really found the feeling bit by bit.
But just recently, this "feeling" has finally undergone a qualitative change due to continuous accumulation.
"I'm not a painter anymore."
One day, Bai Zhi suddenly said this.
Meng Zhouyi didn't understand for a while and said in surprise: "Forgot?"
Bai Zhi's eyes widened, as if she didn't expect his reaction and didn't understand what he said. After a while, she burst out laughing and said:
"You misunderstood, that's not what I meant..."
"what does that mean?"
"I succeeded."
Bai Zhi brushed off the non-existent dust on her body, straightened her body, and looked proud and proud.
She explained it carefully again, and Meng Zhou finally understood. This was Bai Zhi's "music and painting fellow practitioner" who had been studying for many years under his "enlightenment" and finally made a breakthrough.
How much progress has been made?
From Meng Zhou's point of view, this is really a mysterious thing. After experiencing it personally, it feels like some scenes in fantasy have become reality.
"What's the effect?" Meng Zhou asked.
Bai Zhi said: "Would you like to try it?"
There was no trace of eagerness to try in his expression.
Meng Zhou nodded.
Bai Zhi stood up and walked out of the stone pavilion where the two of them were, and came to an open space nearby, signaling Meng Zhou to come out as well.
She waved her hand gently, and in her hand came a lyre that she had made by herself.
——The materials used are all provided by Meng Zhou, and they are all excellent third-level spiritual materials.
When the lyre appeared and the void floated in the most convenient position in front of her, she had already sat cross-legged and devoted herself to the lyre in front of her.
He stretched out his fingers and fiddled with the strings a few times, but no sound came out. However, in Meng Zhou's "clearly aware" vision, Bai Zhi's spiritual energy gradually merged with the guqin in front of him.
She raised her head and glanced at Meng Zhou, who was behaving casually, and said, "Do you want to take some defensive measures?"
"Afraid of hurting me?"
"Um."
"..."
Although he was a little dissatisfied, he didn't want to waste time on this kind of thing, so with a thought, a spiritual shield appeared in front of him, covering him completely.
Under his deliberate release, the defensive ability of this spiritual shield is equivalent to an ordinary third-level high-grade spell, and can resist most power attacks at the sixth level of pill formation and below.
"Should I start?" Bai Zhi reminded.
"I'm ready." Meng Zhou said.
Bai Zhi nodded and said no more.
But his left hand suddenly waved lightly on the lyre, and the five fingers, as white as fat and as tender as onions, were light or heavy, fast or slow, smooth or sluggish, across the strings.
For a moment, Meng Zhou frowned.
This sudden sound was very strange.
Like broken ice, like cracked silk...
The suddenness makes people instinctively feel uneasy and frightened.
It was like the sound of a shovel scraping against hard stone ground, which made him feel extremely uncomfortable, with some vague physical discomfort.
This was one of the most impressive and uncomfortable sounds in his memory.
He subconsciously wanted to block the source of the sound, but then, Meng Zhou realized that things were not that simple.
The sound of the piano did not reach his ears through air vibration, but directly penetrated into his heart.
On a practical level, changes have not stopped.
Bai Zhi kept waving the piano with both hands, and a series of extremely sharp blades either walked in a straight line, rotated left and right, or flew like butterflies, attacking towards his position.
Although these sharp blades did not attack him, they slashed at the spiritual shield in front of her, just like the unlucky ghosts who fell into the mire and deep pool, they were quickly "submerged" in it and disappeared.
Apart from causing constant turmoil in the spiritual shield, no other changes occurred.
Meng Zhou, on the other hand, had some time to look at these sharp blades that were constantly flying towards him like moths to a flame.
From the appearance, apart from being longer and narrower, more flexible when rotating, and making people unpredictable, they are not fundamentally different from spells such as wind blades.
Bai Zhi saw that he easily swallowed her attack, and a look of joy flashed on her face.
"But be careful, I'm going to work harder."
She first reminded her aloud, and after Meng Zhou nodded, the hands that were waving at the strings suddenly changed.
Either twisting or picking, playing or wiping...
Her ten fingers jumped on the lyre like an elf, and more complex melodies flew out of her fingertips.
Meng Zhou was surprised to find that the surrounding waters were rising up unknowingly with her music, gradually giving people a feeling of being connected to the sky.
"Wow--"
There was a sound of breaking water, and the fierce deep-sea monsters rushed toward him.
All of them bared their teeth and claws, with ferocious faces.
Seeing this scene, Meng Zhou was slightly surprised.
Well, just a "little" one.
Then he couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth.
And just before the smile bloomed on his face, these big demons hit the spiritual power shield one after another, shattering instantly and scattering little spiritual lights.
Where did the deep sea come from, and where did the big monster come from.
All of this showed its "original form" in front of the spiritual shield.
However, just when Meng Zhou thought it was over, Bai Zhi's "craft" finally surprised him.
He clearly felt that the sea of consciousness was not lightly nor severely impacted.
Well, for him, the impact may be neither light nor severe, but if it were a mid-stage pill-forming monk, it wouldn't be so easy.
And if the fourth-level or even fifth-level monks who have just entered the middle stage of the alchemy formation are caught off guard and encounter this collision, the sea of consciousness may be "forcibly opened" by someone.
As for the early stage of pill formation, under this collision, there is no way to fight back, and it can be destroyed directly.
Bai Zhi, who originally wanted to show off, was quite frustrated when she saw this.
I put away the lyre, feeling unhappy, and seemed not to be so satisfied with the progress of the "music and painting fellow practitioners".
Meng Zhou had to comfort her in turn. There was something she didn't say clearly. Although I had let go, I was still a figure on par with the ancestors of the Five Realms.
Your ability to achieve such an effect is already extraordinary, right?
Finally, with Bai Zhi's explanation, Meng Zhou also understood the changes brought about by her progress this time.
To put it simply, she can ghostwrite the music and integrate the various abilities of the painter into the performance of the music.
Whether it is the sharp blades that are sharper than wind blades, more numerous than locusts, and flexible and agile, or the ocean that surrounds him, and the big monsters rushing out of the sea, they are all created by her in the form of music at the moment of playing.
The result of applying the ability of "drawing form" and "drawing spirit".
The effect is instantaneous and can be changed at will.
Not only can it attack the flesh and blood body, but it can also attack the soul of the sea of consciousness.
Meng Zhou discovered that this effect was quite similar to the Unbounded Sword Domain.
Moreover, compared to Unbounded Sword Domain, it is more flexible and changeable.
"Perhaps I can give her some guidance in this regard."
What Bai Zhi realized was only attacking the flesh and blood body and the soul of the sea of consciousness.
For Meng Zhou, this actually attacks the "material world of reality" and the "spiritual world of the sea of consciousness".
According to his experience, through the medium of sound, in addition to these two realms, the real realm can also be attacked.
The simplest way to use it is to use the sound of the piano or flute, or even a soft drink, to expose the whereabouts of those around you who have escaped into the "real world" through various strange escape methods, and reveal their true colors.
This is simply a practicing version of scanning radar.
Thinking of this, the corners of Meng Zhou's mouth once again curved in a way that he couldn't suppress no matter what.
When Bai Zhi saw this, she was almost coaxed and said angrily: "You are still laughing at me."
"No, no, you've got something wrong."
"Then what are you thinking about?"
"I was thinking about your last blow just now, it was a very good idea.
It's just that those big monsters in the deep sea are all figments of your imagination. They don't even have a shape, they just barely have an outline.
This greatly limits the use of your abilities."
"What's so funny about this?"
"I think I can help you in this regard, and I feel happy."
"...How can I help? Are you taking me to have close contact with each other?"
"It's not impossible, but it's too troublesome and you have to run back and forth. I have an easier way."
"any solution?"
"Well, you should study this secret technique carefully. Once you learn it, I will teach you slowly."
Bai Zhi took the jade slip, and her cheeks instantly glowed.
Although she had long regarded herself as Meng Zhou's Taoist companion, even so, the contents in the jade slips were still too exciting for her.
"This...this...you amuse me!"
Bai Zhi can be sure that the content in the jade slip may be all-inclusive, but it definitely does not contain what the two people just said.
Meng Zhou said seriously: "Look carefully, this is a treasure I got from the ancestor of the Hehuan Sect, and it has endless magical uses.
There is a little trick inside that allows me to share with you the memories of the great monsters I have seen and had close contact with without any reservation."
Bai Zhi forced her thoughts away from the jade slip and looked at Meng Zhou with an expression on her face, but she couldn't tell whether she believed it or not.
"Have you come into contact with many big monsters?"
Meng Zhou nodded: "I dare not say that there are too many. Within the five domains, there should be few who have come into contact with more great monsters than me."
Bai Zhi said nothing, looking at Meng Zhou as if to say, do you believe me or not?
But regardless of whether she believed it or not, when Meng Zhou told her to study hard and give her a day to figure it out, and after checking the results a day later, she still "reluctantly" put her thoughts into the jade slip in her hand.
With the top secret skills of acacia recorded in this jade slip, both of them gained a lot.
Because Meng Zhou surpassed Bai Zhi in all aspects of cultivation, his actual gains were relatively less, but he received spiritual comfort and nourishment. He felt that his inspiration was much more abundant than when he sat in meditation.
"Is this a status blessing?"
"Blessings from sages?"
The gains gained from Angelica dahurica are relatively more tangible.
Meng Zhou had a profound knowledge of the "Three Cycles of Essence, Qi and Spirit", and the essence of the Acacia Secret Technique is essentially a "double cycle".
With the top-level Acacia secret technique itself and Meng Zhou's own understanding, Bai Zhi felt as if she was being carried by someone to fly away in the void.
The image of one powerful demon after another was burned into her heart, and each additional one was a great help to her.
But when is it now? Go away, go away...
In addition, during that long-lasting flight, the magic power flowing in the Dantian meridians seems to never tire or become tired.
Continuous cycle, continuous improvement.
The mana is rising little by little, overflowing, overflowing, rising...
Finally, Bai Zhi was able to face the rapid improvement of her cultivation calmly and immersed her mind in flying itself.
I don't know how long it took, but she finally landed slowly from her flying state. A little confused, she opened her eyes and looked at Meng Zhou.
"Why don't you fly?"
When Meng Zhou saw this, he shook his head in his heart. No wonder the Hehuan Sect monks practiced dual cultivation and gradually became indifferent to the outside world and indulged all their thoughts in it.
He stretched out his fingers and gently tapped Bai Zhi's smooth forehead, "Wake up."
Bai Zhi, whose eyes were blurred, became clear again.
"ah?!"
When she discovered the current state of the two of them, recalling the experience during this period, she let out a soft cry. Not knowing where to hide, she simply closed her eyes and deceived herself by keeping out of sight.
"You are too excited now, and you will feel extremely tired soon." Meng Zhou reminded.
No one answered him.
"Your cultivation level has just broken through to the fourth level of pill formation. It is very unstable. You should rest and settle down for a while."
Bai Zhi still didn't respond to him.
"Well... although I know you may be addicted, you still have to exercise restraint." Meng Zhou reminded.
Bai Zhi, who closed her eyes and pretended to have escaped, couldn't bear it anymore, opened her eyes and stared at Meng Zhou, angrily saying: "I didn't!!!"
It looked like he had been slandered a lot.
In the end, Bai Zhi couldn't stop the fatigue and fell asleep again.
Meng Zhou carefully checked the state of her Dantian magic power, and after confirming that there was no problem, he took her into the sea of consciousness again.
Before this double cultivation, Bai Zhi's cultivation was at the peak of the second level of Dan Jie. In just a few years, she had reached this point when she had just entered Dan Jie. The speed was not too slow.
However, compared with this harvest, this speed is very slow.
This time, with the help of the secret technique of dual cultivation recorded in the jade slip presented by Yin Youyi, Bai Zhi broke through two levels in a row, first easily crossing the threshold from the second to the third level of the pill formation.
Then it only took a few months to complete the accumulation of all three levels of pill formation and break through to the fourth level of pill formation.
However, this is currently the limit of what dual cultivation secret techniques can help.
If you want to make the next leap forward, you need to go through a long period of precipitation.
Now she can rest peacefully for a while.
After collecting Bai Zhi into the sea of consciousness, Meng Zhou slightly processed the traces of the Aurora Cave, then escaped from this place quietly, and rushed all the way to the Sanchuan Plateau.
And just when he was rushing to Sanchuan Plain, a spaceship was taking off from Qingxuanzong and speeding toward Sanchuan Plain.