The demon race has great advantages, but compared to the human race, it also has certain shortcomings.
For example, a human race can live up to three hundred years after cultivating to the natal realm; after condensing the second soul, strengthening the soul, and slowing down the decline of the soul, the life span can reach a thousand years; and once the small world is formed and enters the realm of transformation (earth immortal), although
It's not even close to the point where the sun and the moon shine together, but generally it's not a problem to live for tens of thousands of years, let alone the Taoist realm and enter the sea of suffering. That's the real sun and the moon shining together, and your life span is as long as the sky.
But the demon clan is different.
Compared to humans, demons have one more stage of transformation.
What is transformation?
It means transforming into human form.
To put it bluntly, the monster clan is a monster beast that has absorbed the essence of the sun and moon, opened up its spiritual intelligence, and then learned to restrain its inner desires. It is just a spirit beast. In this regard, spirit beasts have some innate advantages over monster beasts.
So actually to put it more clearly, if monsters and spiritual beasts cannot be transformed into human form, they cannot be called "monsters" and can still only be distinguished by monsters and spiritual beasts.
And considering the ordinary life span limit of monster beasts and spiritual beasts, one can imagine how oppressive it is to the monster clan during the journey of cultivation.
Take sapphire as an example.
She must transform into a human form and truly change her body structure before the monster's life span is exhausted, so that she can practice the Qingqiu clan's skills and continue to grow - under normal circumstances, even after the monster has transformed
, will also have very obvious characteristics of monsters, maybe scales, or animal ears, or maybe skin color, or tails, etc. Only after reaching the orifice realm and thoroughly tempering the internal organs can these alien beings be transformed
The features are completely converged.
Just like the function of the appendix of people on earth has deteriorated, it is a part that can be cut.
Although these characteristics of the demon clan cannot be said to be really useless, they are indeed almost unnecessary to use after transforming into human form.
Of course, you can also eliminate these alien characteristics in advance by taking the Transformation Pill.
According to the research of the demon king of the demon clan in the past, the human body structure is the best cultivation structure - and it is precisely because of this that the demon clan has such a stage of "transformation". Only after transformation
, then you can start to practice a series of realms such as Qi Gathering, Divine Sea, Aperture Awareness, Soul Condensation, Life Fate, Soul Condensation, World Transformation, etc.
But here's the problem.
The "transformation" stage that the demon clan goes through is real, and it cannot be erased in vain.
It is precisely because of this that the first hurdle for human cultivation is the realm of destiny, but the demon clan has two initial obstacles: transformation and destiny - the time consumed in the transformation stage cannot disappear in vain, so whether
Being able to transform faster determines how long a demon clan has to continue practicing.
You must know that the lifespan of ordinary monsters is only five or sixty years.
Suppose that it took a demon clan for forty years to finally transform. Although he completely changed his body structure after transforming and could live to a hundred years without illness or pain like a human being, he had consumed a lot of energy when transforming.
These forty years will not be shortened. In other words, he only has sixty years left to cultivate to the realm of his destiny. Once he is unable to cultivate, he can say goodbye to this world.
Of course, there are also some monsters that can live for one hundred years, or even two hundred years.
But the laws of heaven will not say that if you successfully transform, it will add a few more decades to your life. Even if you can live to be two hundred years old, then if you can cultivate to the realm of your destiny, it will only add another hundred years to you.
The life span allows you to live to be three hundred years old.
However, this is not the only kind of cultivation method practiced by the demon clan.
There is also a special cultivation method called "Ontology Cultivation Method".
This method of cultivation does not change its form, but maintains the form of a monster or spirit beast and continues to practice by absorbing the essence of the sun and moon. However, this method of cultivation has many disadvantages compared to the method of incarnation.
There are drawbacks and flaws, and the upper limit is also limited - for example, this kind of cultivation method can only cultivate to a level equivalent to the Taoist realm, and it will never be possible to enter the sea of suffering, just like ghost cultivation cannot reach the other shore.
In addition, as the monsters' cultivation level increases, their ability to suppress inner desires will gradually decrease. Some of the more violent ones will eventually lose their intelligence and completely degenerate into ferocious beasts. This is
It's almost like the human race's obsession.
It is precisely because the cultivation of the demon race is extremely difficult, so the demon race is naturally far superior to the human race in terms of physical strength and the amount of true energy in the body.
Kong Ling, the favored son of heaven who was secretly cultivated by the Diancang clan in order to seize the next reincarnation of fate, is the key figure in whether the Diancang clan can produce a true saint in the future.
Therefore, not to mention that she was arranged to practice swordsmanship with the Great Sage Qian Ling since she was a child, the Dian Cang clan’s concentrated resources and efforts over the years have made Kong Ling’s innate initial stage far beyond that of ordinary people - her true energy
, which is only half less than Su Anran. You must know that Su Anran has not only attained the Great Perfection of the Divine Sea, but also practiced the complete version of the "True Essence Breathing Method". The amount of true energy in his body is more than eight times that of ordinary monks.
Although Kong Ling is also the Great Perfection of the Divine Sea Realm, let alone if she can practice the complete version of the "True Essence Breathing Method", the remaining version of the "True Essence Breathing Method" of the Zhenyuan Sect can only increase the true energy by three times.
The amount of Qi in her body will directly surpass Su Anran's.
According to what Kong Ling, an upright girl with no scheming ideas, said, the Dian Cang clan seems to be trying to find a way to obtain the Zhen Yuan Sect's "Zhen Yuan Breathing Method" for her, trying to make Kong Ling the person with the greatest amount of Zhen Qi in the Xuan Realm.
However, Su Anran could only think about this kind of thing.
Even if the "Zhen Yuan Breathing Technique" is incomplete, it is still the core inherited secret method of the Zhen Yuan Sect. Therefore, if the Dian Cang clan wants to obtain it, it will only be possible to get it if the Zhen Yuan Sect is wiped out.
Although Su Anran masters the complete version of "Zhen Yuan Breathing Technique", it is impossible for him to teach Kong Ling this technique now.
Even the "Artistic Sword Technique" that Kong Ling hoped for, Su Anran only taught the grenade sword energy, and the missile sword energy improved based on the two skills of the fourth senior sister Ye Jinxuan, Su Anran did not teach Kong Ling.
In fact, Su Anran's sword qi technique would be worthless to put it bluntly if it weren't for the combination of "Is there sword qi in one body of mind" and "Is there sword qi in soul blood" taught by Ye Jinxuan.
Because the real secret of constructing the grenade sword energy lies in the "balance fulcrum".
That is, the triangular structure of sword energy, divine consciousness mark, and spiritual power is on a delicate balance structure that can be broken at a touch - ordinary invisible sword energy pursues the stability of the triangular structure. Only in this way can it be used to deal with
The enemy would not be destroyed by the enemy in one blow. But Su Anran went in the opposite direction and did not pursue stability. Instead, he made these sword energies quite unstable and used dense covering saturation strikes.
To deal with the enemy, as long as one of the sword energy explodes, it will directly form a chain reaction and cause a large-area explosion.
This is also the real secret of grenade sword energy.
For real swordsmanship geniuses, such as Niyue, Kong Ling, etc., they can naturally find out the true structure of the grenade sword energy through a few more experiments - what really restricts other sword cultivators from being able to use this sword energy method is actually still
The amount of zhenqi in the sword cultivator's body is insufficient.
But Kong Ling has no worries in this regard. The amount of zhenqi in her body is only half that of Su Anran. There is no need to use it like Niyue. It can only be used as a special emergency measure. If she is willing, she can do it.
To the extent that people like Su Anran use grenade and sword energy as a regular attack method.
It's just that the emptiness is very clear.
There is a fundamental difference between the grenade sword energy that I have explored and the grenade sword energy that Su Anran taught me.
In the former, she is piracy. Unless she can achieve something better than her predecessor, then she can be regarded as an improvement. But even so, at most it can barely be called a copycat - to put it nicely, it is a reference. But this approach is very difficult.
It's easy to hate the relationship between her and Su Anran.
The latter has received the genuine copy taught by Su Anran. In this way, not only will the relationship between her and Su Anran not be harmed, but because of this teaching, the relationship between the two parties will become much closer, which can be regarded as
He is a true half-master.
Of course, Su Anran has only taught the skills and ideas of grenade sword energy so far.
The skill of missile sword energy involves two sword energy techniques taught by Ye Jinxuan to Su Anran. Therefore, Su Anran cannot teach this sword energy technique privately without Ye Jinxuan's approval. Therefore, facing Kong Ling, he looked hopeful.
In the request, Su Anran also made it very clear that he could only teach the basic forms of this set of sword energy skills to Kong Ling, and he would consider teaching the advanced forms to her after a while.
Kong Ling did not express any dissatisfaction with this, but showed a considerable degree of understanding.
She believed that this was Su Anran's test for her.
After all, she has been practicing with the Great Sage Qian Ling. From mental skills to sword skills, she started with basic postures, and then gradually exposed to advanced postures, general outlines, etc. So naturally she does not think that she should learn the basics now.
What's wrong with the formula?
But what makes Su Anran feel sad is that it only took Kong Ling a few minutes to master the operation skills of grenade and sword energy - of course, in this area where the aura is completely violent, the power of these grenade and sword energy is naturally almost equal to that of missiles
level.
Su Anran already regretted letting Kong Ling destroy the aura of this area.
…
After successfully dealing with the underworld people who tried to become the trio in the grass of Demacia, Su Anran and Kong Ling quickly turned around and returned to the sword test stone in front of the main entrance of the ruins.
"Mr. Su, please don't worry, I will protect you." Kong Ling said with a serious face, "As long as I am here, no one can hurt you."
Su Anran looked at Kong Ling with slightly complicated eyes.
He believed that Kong Ling was there, and most people really couldn't hurt him. But the current environment was so complex, and the spiritual energy was quite violent, so others didn't need to break through Kong Ling's defense at all, as long as they casually disrupted the surrounding spiritual energy near him, that would be enough.
It has formed a very dangerous and terrifying destructive power. This is no longer a problem that ethereal strength can solve.
So if possible, Su Anran wants to use another method to solve the current problem.
"There's no rush, wait a minute." Su Anran said, "We just fought here, and the noise caused was so great that someone will definitely come over to check. We just need to wait for a while."
Kong Ling didn't understand Su Anran's intention, but since "Mr. Su" said so, she naturally had nothing to do with it.
Anyway, what Su Anran said is correct.
The two of them waited for a while, until Shi Lezhi suddenly reminded that someone was coming. Su Anran cheered up and looked in the direction indicated by Shi Lezhi.
I saw four sword cultivators arriving hand in hand.
Three men and one woman.
These four people are very close to each other. It is a very standard joint defense formation. As long as one party is attacked, the other two parties can immediately provide support. If they are not very familiar with each other, it is absolutely impossible to form such a joint defense.
Formation, after all, you don’t know if your teammates will suddenly hit you with a sword in the back.
Among the four people, a young man was the leader.
But when Su Anran saw this person, she couldn't help but show a happy look on her face.
"Senior Brother Zhu Yuan." Su Anran stood up and waved to say hello.
"An Ran?" When Zhu Yuan saw Su Anran, he couldn't help but show a bit of surprise on his face, "You...have your soul condensed?"
No wonder Zhu Yuan was so shocked.
Although he did not feel the soul condensing aura from Su Anran at this time, he himself was a strong soul condensing realm, the other three people traveling with him were also in the soul condensing realm, and the female sword cultivator following Su Anran was also a condensing soul master.
Soul Realm powerhouses. All signs indicate that this examination room is definitely an examination room for Soul Condensation Realm powerhouses, so naturally only Soul Condensation Realm sword cultivators can enter.
So Su Anran's appearance here at this time must prove that he has entered the soul-condensing realm.
You know, when he met Su Anran in the secret realm of the Dragon Palace ruins a few months ago, he was only in his natal realm at that time.
"Not yet." Su Anran shook her head.
Although he does have combat power equivalent to that of the Soul Condensing Realm, as long as the second soul is not condensed for a day, he is not considered a true Soul Condensing Realm powerhouse. Without the second soul, once the body dies, it will be a real powerhouse.
After death, there is no possibility of turning into a ghost and practicing cultivation again.
"But it's fast... It's a half-step to soul condensation."
When he heard Su Anran's denial, Zhu Yuan was slightly relieved and didn't say much. But when Su Anran said the second half of the sentence, his expression became a little tangled, as if he was constipated——
However, thinking that Su Anran was as special as him, Zhu Yuan quickly adjusted his mentality.
But at this time, Su Anran turned to look at Kong Ling.
Kong Ling nodded slightly, and Su Anran understood.
Zhu Yuan's group was one of the four groups that Kong Ling discovered when he was looking for information two days ago.
Among this group of people, only Zhu Yuan is relatively strong. The other three sword cultivators who should be disciples of Beihai Sword Island in the Soul Condensing Realm Suppression Stage are not that strong. They should all be novices who have just condensed the second soul.
.Basically, among these three people, Su Anran is confident that he can win one on one, not to mention Kong Ling. Su Anran even guessed that Kong Ling looked fearless, and he obviously had something to gain.
His unique skills are comparable to Zhu Yuan's.
"What are you waiting for here?" Zhu Yuan changed the topic and asked directly.
Because he had a relatively pleasant relationship with Su Anran in the secret territory of Dragon Palace before, Zhu Yuan did not have much hostility. Of course, this was because he did not know the true identity of Kong Ling. Otherwise, with the current Beihai Jiandao and Yao
The relationship between the two alliances is probably going to come to a head soon.
Based on this, Su Anran guessed that Zhu Yuan's mission system must have quite a few flaws. At least in terms of intelligence functions, it was definitely not as good as his own system.
"I have a proposal for cooperation."
"Cooperation?" Zhu Yuan was stunned for a moment, "What cooperation?"
"According to my information, there are currently three teams near the ruins. Counting you and me, there are five teams in total... Oh, no, there are only four teams left. There was a team that planned a sneak attack, but I have already cleared it.
"Su Anran shrugged, "I personally think that there is no reason for us to fight here. After all, there is no limit on the number of teams in the customs clearance here, so we can achieve a win-win situation."
"You mean..." Zhu Yuan raised his eyebrows, "Let all the teams line up and pass in order?"
"Yes." Su Anran nodded.
"Other teams may not listen to you." Zhu Yuan laughed, "After all, everyone here is in a competitive relationship, and no one can be sure whether others will stab you in the back. So I don't think your proposal is right.
Very possible.”
"If it's just me and... her, it's really impossible." Su Anran wanted to name Kong Ling, but there seemed to be no one with the surname Kong from the Xuanjie human race in his mind, so in the end Su Anran didn't
Revealing Ethereal's name, "But after having you, it becomes very possible."
Zhu Yuan quickly understood what Su Anran meant: "Do you want me to come along to maintain order?"
"I can turn this into a mission." Su Anran laughed, "You won't suffer."
"Deal." Zhu Yuan agreed immediately without any hesitation.
If he wants to continue to become stronger, he must rely on his own mission system.
When he was in the secret realm of Dragon Palace, Su Anran helped him bypass the restrictions of the mission system and truly achieve a win-win situation. So at this time, Su Anran said that he could turn this matter into a mission, allowing him to gain more from it.
When it comes to big benefits, Zhu Yuan naturally cannot refuse.
That is to say, Su Anran knew Zhu Yuan's weaknesses and knew how to circumvent Zhu Yuan's system restrictions, so he was able to pull Zhu Yuan onto the pirate ship so easily.
If it were another person, Zhu Yuan would really not be able to talk to him.
He is not a great virtuous person in his tenth life, so how could he do such a thankless thing?
Kong Ling looked at Zhu Yuan and Su Anran as if they were playing a charade, his eyes filled with confusion.
Of course, Zhu Yuan's three junior brothers and sisters were also confused. They never thought that senior Zhu Yuan, who was usually moody, could be so easy to talk to today. This is really a rare thing.
Ignoring Zhu Yuan's junior brothers and sisters, Su Anran looked at Kong Ling, thought for a moment, and then said: "As I told you before, a truly strong man does not necessarily have to rely on force to win. I know Senior Brother Zhu Yuan, and I also know
What does Senior Brother Zhu Yuan really want? Then I can use this to achieve my goal and win the battle without fighting. This approach is called taking advantage of the situation, and it is also something that a strong person should master.
Basic means.”
"Taking advantage of the situation..."
The ethereal eyes became bright again: "You have learned a lesson, Mr. Su!"
