Above the night, the light of the silver moon was like streaks of mercury, falling onto the floor of the hut.
On both sides of the wooden table, Su Xing and Liu Yuexi sat opposite each other.
"Starting tomorrow, I need to go back to the inner mountain for retreat, which will take about a month and a half."
Liu Yuexi crossed her hands on the table and spoke in a calm tone.
Su Xing sensed the hidden meaning in this sentence, and he asked: "Senior sister, are you ready to break through the realm?"
After all the calculations, Liu Yuexi has been practicing with the help of her Yuan Transformation Formation for at least half a month.
Although Zhou Qinghan said that Liu Yuexi was reluctant to break through due to some factors, a martial artist's realm cannot be suppressed forever.
Just like water poured into a glass of water, one day the glass will fill up and overflow.
Liu Yuexi did not open her mouth to respond to Su Xing's question, but nodded silently.
It seems that Senior Sister still doesn’t want to advance to the Immaculate Realm now...but why? For a martial artist, isn’t the higher the level, the better?
Su Xing didn't say anything anymore, secretly thinking about something in his heart.
After a moment of silence, Liu Yuexi tried to break the awkward atmosphere with a gentle tone:
"While I can still stay here for a while, do you have any more questions to ask me? Martial arts, swordsmanship, whatever I know, I can tell you."
After Su Xing heard this, he lowered his head and thought for a moment, then raised his eyes and asked, "Sister, can you tell me about the demon-slaying event?"
Liu Yuexi nodded with a smile and said: "At the outer gate of Wanjian Sect, the Demon Slaying Festival can be regarded as the most prosperous event except for the year-end college examination."
"The Demon Slaying Festival is the same as the Third Avenue Academy Examination. It is only held once a year, and the time is set around the middle of the year."
"In addition to the academy examination, this is another test to test the strength of the disciples of the Third Avenue Academy."
"The Demon-Slaying Conference, as the name suggests, is a conference to kill monsters. At the conference, the three Taoist temples are divided into three camps. The dean of each Taoist temple selects no more than four disciples to board the ring and compete with the evil spirits.
Beast fight."
"The Demon Slaying Festival has two types: the Taoist competition and the individual competition. Every time a Taoist contestant kills a ferocious beast, he or she will get different points according to the level of the beast. In the end, the ranking will be determined based on the number of points between the individual and the Taoist."
"Although I didn't participate in the demon-slaying event last year, I watched the entire game as an audience."
"At last year's grand event, both the Taoist Academy champion and the individual champion were won by the Shenji Taoist Academy. And the disciple who won the individual championship also achieved second place in the academy examination at the end of the year and entered the three main peaks."
Su Xing listened to Liu Yuexi's words and imagined the scene of the monster slaying event in his mind.
"In other words, the disciple who ranks first in personal points has almost reserved a seat among the top ten in the academy examination in advance?" Su Xing said.
"As long as nothing unexpected happens, you can say that."
Afterwards, Su Xing asked Liu Yuexi some questions about kendo, and then he sent Liu Yuexi out the door.
Before leaving, he handed Liu Yuexi a black formation stone.
"Senior sister, please take the trouble to call out the spiritual formation in the formation stone when you break through. Junior brother would like to congratulate senior sister in advance on your successful promotion to Wujin, and you are one step closer to becoming a true warrior."
Liu Yuexi took the stone, feeling warm in her heart and showing gratitude on her face.
"Junior brother, practice well and come to you for delicious food after I finish my retreat!"
"Okay, I will cook whatever senior sister wants to eat."
"I want to eat spicy rabbit meat, stewed goose in an iron pot, stewed pheasant, and..."
Hearing Su Xing's words, Liu Yuexi's face suddenly showed a touch of happiness and expectation. She lowered her head and raised her fingers, muttering to the open space in the distance.
Su Xing smiled helplessly, but in his heart he wanted his senior sister to end the retreat early, and at the same time he wanted her to end it later.
When Liu Yuexi's figure completely disappeared into the night sky, Su Xing's eyes flashed with light and he murmured:
"It's time to get started."
…
Above the endless night sky, only the ivory white crescent moon and thousands of stars twinkled.
Under the stars, on Xiaozhu Peak.
A swift figure was shuttled through the complicated woods. Su Xing walked as fast as flying, jumping on the branches of the tree trunks in the forest without making any sound.
Every time he ran half a mile, he would take out a formation stone from his pocket, activate his energy, and bury a spiritual formation in the bushes.
In this way, he spent a whole night and returned to the door of the house when the sky was white.
There were beads of sweat on his forehead, and the thin clothes behind him were soaked with light sweat.
The early morning sun shone on his cheeks, allowing his tired body to recover slightly.
He took a deep breath of the fresh air on Xiaozhu Peak and stretched his body.
"Now, Xiaozhu Peak is really my peak."
Su Xing sighed with satisfaction after appreciating all the mountains on the far side with satisfaction.
In the month after Liu Yuexi left, Su Xing took the formation stones filled with spiritual formations every day and visited every corner of Xiaozhufeng Mountain, placing the spiritual formations in various secret places.
Although there is only one living person on Xiaozhu Peak, Su Xing, in his eyes, these spiritual formations are like individuals with their own duties.
Some spiritual arrays act as sentinels, and as long as someone walks into them, they will notify Su Xing; some spiritual arrays act as hidden secret soldiers, and as long as Su Xing snaps his fingers within a mile, he will alert the spiritual array.
The creatures inside attack.
Various spiritual formations are scattered all over the mountain. At this moment, Xiaozhu Peak is like the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea, Su Xing is the Dragon King, and those spiritual formations are like shrimp soldiers and crab generals.
"It's just that the level of these spiritual formations is not high. They only have a containment effect on the Huayuan realm warriors and cannot cause much damage."
"But fortunately, with the help of wood attribute energy, the speed of setting up the spiritual array is greatly accelerated."
After absorbing the wood attribute beast core, Su Xing was pleasantly surprised to find that the time it took him to set up a spiritual array was greatly shortened, twice as fast as before.
In the past month, in addition to setting up the mechanisms on the mountain, Su Xing began to practice day and night.
Because he realized that there were too many things that needed to be practiced now: martial arts, swordsmanship and the art of spiritual formation.
If you want to enter the top ten in the academy examination and become an inner disciple, martial arts and swordsmanship should naturally be given priority. But Su Xing thought that as a disciple of Emperor Yueling, if he abandoned the spiritual formation, it would be disrespectful to Emperor Yueling, so
Don't dare to drop it.
For this reason, he wished he could devote all his time to practicing the three aspects of the day and greatly shorten his sleeping time.
But warriors in the Huayuan realm are still mortals after all, and cannot avoid some worldly habits. Only by becoming a true warrior can one be transcendent.
Looking at the white fish belly on the horizon, a beautiful figure suddenly appeared in Su Xing's mind.
"I wonder if Senior Sister has successfully been promoted to the Immaculate Realm."
A trace of worry appeared on his face, but it quickly disappeared.
"But as long as she uses the spiritual formation I arranged in the formation stone, there won't be much of a problem."
Su Xing was full of confidence in his newly created spiritual formation.
Although he was not very fast at mastering the spiritual formations in the formation set, Su Xing always used some imaginative operations to create some practical spiritual formations.
For example, the formation stone given to Liu Yuexi that day contained a spiritual formation called the Qingxin Formation.
The inspiration for this Qingxin Formation came from Su Xing's sudden idea when he was performing the Qingxin Jue one day.
After he had the concept, he studied the secrets of the Pure Heart Art for several days, and experimented with the spiritual stones in his reserve for three days and three nights, and finally invented the Pure Heart Formation.
For warriors below the peak of the Immaculate Realm, the Pure Heart Formation can maintain the warrior's Taoist mind when breaking through, making them firm and unaffected by inner demons.
At this time, Su Xing tried to draw out the vitality in his body, and when he was about to set up a spiritual formation, he saw that the gas flying out of his body was milky white.
He sighed softly, "I am imprisoned in Xiaozhu Peak, where can I find the wood attribute beast core?"
That's right, the one-month period has expired, and the wood attribute element in the vitality has disappeared.
…
There are dozens of extremely tall peaks in the depths of the Wanling Mountains and the boundaries of the Wanjian Sect.
Just because these peaks are close to the precipitous areas of the second and third levels, the mountains are all bare and have no sense of beauty.
And just on one of the mountain peaks, among the dead vines and old trees, stood two figures.
Lin Qi faced a stooped old man, leaned over and whispered something.
The old man had white hair and frighteningly clear wrinkles on his face. His two eyeballs without pupils were staring at the wooden stick held in both hands. While listening to what Lynch said, he nodded tremblingly.
After a while, he exhaled a breath and tapped the ground with the wooden stick in his hand.