However, when she saw Li Zhaoyan for the first time, Zhao Min herself was stunned for a moment, because in her memory, Li Zhaoyan was still the little girl of several years old.
When she called herself "Mother" before, she was a little confused. Whose eldest daughter was running here?
This is the sorrow of immortal cultivators. Their lifespans are long, but most of these years are spent on cultivation, and they do not have much time to accompany their relatives.
Now Zhao Min suddenly has a clear understanding and understands the situation of his parents. He forced himself to practice like that. Firstly, he wanted to make himself stronger as soon as possible. Secondly, he wanted to be with them for years to come.
I feel guilty now when I think about my own insistence on going my own way at that time.
When she was talking about Li Zhaoyan, she couldn't help but think of her past self. There was still a soft color in her eyes. However, as long as she stabilized her state and came out of seclusion, she still had to control herself.
But what Zhao Min doesn't know is that what Li Zhaoyan has done over the years is beyond her imagination.
Not only did Small Bamboo Peak explode, but the disciples from the other four peaks also complained endlessly. The places Li Zhaoyan had been were either earth-shattering or barren.
But Li Zhaoyan never uses his power to bully others, but he just likes to tinker with all kinds of things that he finds interesting, such as formations, alchemy, Gu refining, raising spiritual beasts, etc.
It would be fine if she just likes to research, but when she likes it, she does not follow the existing Pill Formula and processes, but often comes up with original ideas and seems to have endless weird ideas...
So the explosion of compass and Pill Furnace happened frequently, and the power became more and more powerful each time. Occasionally, various weird spiritual beasts that she had never seen before would appear around her.
Those spiritual beasts are either thousands-legged birds, rabbits covered with thick sores, long snakes with eyes, and so on.
"Dad? Yes, yes, there is his old man. He fights foreign monks alone. If the devil comes to kill the devil, if the Buddha blocks the way, he will kill the Buddha..."
"Okay! Why are you fighting alone, your grandfather and Patriarch Mo are standing in the air, watching the joke? You are also killing demons and Buddhas, your father is not that powerful.
It was all because of his caution that he went further on the road of cultivating immortality. Among those who were killed, many were more advanced than your father. They did not die due to carelessness. You must keep this in mind! "
Zhao Min frowned, she found that Li Zhaoyan was a little frivolous!
And... and what's more, "his old man", so to speak, Li Yan, he is older than Li Yan.
"Oh!"
Li Zhaoyan also noticed a change in Zhao Min's expression. Ever since she was a child, she was most afraid of Zhao Min.
Others doted on her, but this girl really knew how to punish her, and she was also very frightened.
"By the way, Mom, where has dad been? I have never seen him. At first, people said he was in seclusion, but later my grandpa told me that dad might have gone out.
In the sect, I have only heard others talk about him, but I have never seen his appearance! "
Li Zhaoyan instantly became well-behaved. When Zhao Min was a child, as long as she was unhappy and shouted that she wanted to see her father, Zhao Min's punishment would be much lighter.
"He, he should be back soon!"
Zhao Min After hearing this, she did not answer, but looked outside the hospital. She seemed to be able to pass through the restriction and see far and far away. The soft color in her eyes became darker...
Li Yan once told her about the approximate time, and by calculation, it should be the time when he is about to return.
"I just wonder if Senior Sister Ying will come back together? What will your look be like when you see Yan'er?"
Zhao Min is thinking in his heart...
Next, after she and Li Zhaoyan talked some more, she asked Li Zhaoyan to practice.
Li Zhaoyan This time, Zhong immediately and obediently went to practice without even saying a word, but an unpleasant feeling arose in her heart.
After seeing Li Zhaoyan go to practice, Zhao Min left alone, but she did not immediately go into retreat to stabilize her state.
Because, she felt that Li Zhaoyan might have something that she had not said to her, and she still felt this way even though she had not seen her beloved daughter Mo Ruoniang for all these years.
After leaving the courtyard, we went to the main hall first, and
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The person sitting in the main hall was none other than Wei Chituo. The moment he saw Zhao Min, the majestic man Wei Chituo had a look of grievance on his face...
Half a quarter of an hour later, Zhao Min walked out with a frosty look on his face and flew into the air.
Less than half an hour later, Li Wuyi walked out of his courtyard, facing Zhao Min who was slowly walking out to the side, with a smile on his face and kept whispering something.
In response to Li Wuyi's whisper, Zhao Min ignored him. He just turned sideways and saluted slightly, and then flew directly to Wei Zhongran, leaving only Li Wuyi with a wry smile on his face...
That night, Li Zhaoyan, who was staying at home to "behave" and practice, but in her heart was longing for her mother to go into seclusion soon, received news that stunned her.
From now on, all the spiritual stones you spend can only be received according to the share of the Foundation Establishment monks in the sect, and you need to earn more than one stone by yourself.
This news was told to her directly by Zhao Min, who was standing in front of her with a frosty look on his face.
"Then... then... what about all my attempts... research?"
Li Zhaoyan looked aggrieved. Without his uncle, aunt, and grandpa's spiritual stones, how could he have any spiritual stones to buy materials and raise spiritual beasts?
"You can spend as much spiritual stone as you earn. Your father went to Spirit Plant Garden to do missions! The sect has missions, and each peak also has mission halls!"
Zhao Min said in a cold tone.
Then without waiting for Li Zhaoyan to refute, Zhao Min rolled up his sleeves and took her to his retreat cave abode. At the same time, a voice like ice sounded.
"For the time being, you don't want to go out to practice. You'd better stay in retreat with me first!"
"No, mother... mother, mother, mother..."
Li Zhaoyan's miserable voice sounded in the sky above Small Bamboo Peak, but then, there was no more movement.
Wei Chituo stood in his courtyard and breathed a long sigh of relief.
"You Li Wuyi who kills a thousand swords, let's see if you have any reason to steal my spiritual stone in the future..."
Wei Zhongran Listening to the sound coming from the sky, he sighed, then rubbed his forehead in distress...
"I said, you should treat Yan'er the same as Gefu and Lichou. Now it's okay, Yan'er will be punished even more!"
Miao Wangqing looked at Li Wuyi with a dissatisfied look on his face!
Since then, Small Bamboo Peak, and even the entire sect of the Wangliang Sect, has lost a beautiful scenery, the sound of explosions one after another, and the weird spiritual beasts running around...
Muliu Sect, the nearest sect under the jurisdiction of the Wangliang Sect, has a forbidden area in the valley behind its sect. This is the place where the leader of the sect, Bai Rou, retreats all year round. Except for Tang Yuniang, the rest of the people dare not come here at all.
Bai Rou rarely appeared in the sect before. Since Tang Yuniang successfully formed the elixir, Bai Rou has rarely appeared in front of the disciples. He has been practicing and studying the puppetry technique almost all day long.
At this time, in front of a cliff in the valley, a black ancient ape was standing there.
A pair of long arms of the ancient ape are slightly bent and hanging, almost as high as the body, hanging to the ground. A pair of fierce eyes between the wrinkles on the face are glowing with red light, the thick lips are slightly turned up, and the sharp teeth are staggered up and down, glowing with a cold texture.
At this moment, it was leaning against the cliff, and on the ground in front of it, there were ten crocodile-like monsters, lined up in a row, semi-encircling the black ape in the middle.
These crocodile monsters have layers of green beards glowing on them, and each of them exudes powerful pressure, and they all have the powerful aura of the Golden Core Realm.
Suddenly, they opened their mouths wide, and balls of dazzling green light shot out from their mouths. Then, with pillars of light that shook the mountains, they all hit the black ancient apes in front of them.
The black ancient ape's eyes were glowing with red light, but he was motionless, like a puddle or a pavilion.
In an instant, these light beams all hit it.
"Boom boom boom..."
Amidst the continuous explosions, the black ancient ape was instantly submerged in the blue light that filled the sky.
the whole mountain
The valley was suddenly shaken by the earth, sand and rocks were flying, the ground was cracked, and the surrounding array restrictions were flashing with light, and they all made a "kakakaka..." sound that was about to break into pieces.
While this sound shook the restriction, the earth in a radius of hundreds of miles continued to tremble, making all kinds of Demon Beast tremble in fear.
Either he was trembling all over, lying on the ground shivering, or he immediately got into a nearby cave or rock crevice.
The Muliu Sect disciples in the sect in front only raised their heads when they heard the loud noise coming from the forbidden area in the back mountain, and some were stunned for a moment, and then they went to do their own things.
Over the years, all the disciples have become accustomed to the various strange noises in the forbidden area behind the mountain.
From the initial fear, to the later suspicion, and various voices of speculation...
Nowadays, no one talks about this matter anymore. They all know that the Supreme Elder is practicing Puppet Arts again.
The stronger the vibration in the back mountain, the more at ease they felt. Among the Muliu Sect, there was a Dinghai Shenzhen who made them all feel at ease.
It was a terrifying existence that once fought against several people of the same level in the Wangliang Sect's ancestor Nascent Soul Formation's grand ceremony, but he was unscathed.
In the valley, the crackling sound lasted for thirty breaths. While those blue light pillars continued to shoot all over the sky, suddenly, a majestic figure slowly walked out of the blue light. It was the tall ape with red eyes.
The moment it walked out, rays of blue light continued to explode on its body and head. It seemed like an unyielding giant beast from ancient times, unmoved by these attacks that could shake the world.
It slowly raised a long arm and stretched out an index finger, seemingly slowly but quickly.
The moment it raised its arm, a red light appeared on the tip of its index finger, and that red light seemed to be extinguished at any moment.
But when it pointed, the red light suddenly radiated like a fan shape. The next moment, it penetrated the green light coming from the front like a sea wave and landed on the ten crocodile-like Demon Beast.
"Chi chi chi..."
In a series of blue smoke rising, ten crocodile-like Demon Beast with the Golden Core Realm cultivation level appeared. Their huge bodies disappeared without a trace after a strange flash on the ground.
And where they originally lay, ten large dark pits were left, with curls of green smoke rising into the air.
At the same time, the red light on the black ancient ape's fingers also disappeared, and then the red light in its eyes gradually faded...
"Suddenly!"
A hole of about ten feet suddenly opened in the chest of the huge black ancient ape. What flowed out was not blood, but a white figure that flashed and then fell to the ground.
It was a girl in a white dress, with a slim figure, a delicate appearance, and a head of shiny black hair, which was soft and smooth and tied back casually. She was Bai Rou.
At this time, her cultivation has reached the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm. Her face is getting fairer and fairer, and her skin is shining with a jade-like luster, making people have the urge to gently slide it with their fingertips.
Bai Rou walked to the place where the crocodile-like Demon Beast was lying before. Her Divine Sense spread out and began to carefully explore the black holes on the ground.
After a hundred breaths passed, she raised her beautiful face again, but her eyebrows were furrowed, as if she was thinking about something.
"The power... is overbearing... but... it only has the power of a Nascent Soul Early Stage monk. If we can control these powers to prevent them from being scattered... is there any hope of breaking through... to break through to Nascent Soul Middle Stage?"
As she was thinking about it, a light suddenly flashed in her hand, and a book with a dark blue maple leaf pattern in the upper left corner appeared in her hand. It was exactly what Li Yan had returned to her, Shuang Qingqing's notes on her master's cultivation experience.
Then, she quickly turned the page to one of the pages, and then stared at several lines of writing in it, her delicate face full of thoughts...
After a long time, Bai Rou's figure that had been standing still finally moved. When she raised her head, the booklet in her hand had disappeared.
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The color of thinking in his eyes also gradually faded away, turning into a clear and bright scene. She looked at the ten black holes lined up at her feet and frowned.
"This kind of consumption is too great. Ten third-level Demon Beast level puppets were gone in an instant. I have to ask Yu Niang soon, what happened to the batch of materials I asked her to purchase last time? And the income of the sect in recent years..."
The previous ten crocodile-like Demon Beast were the ten Golden Core Realm level puppets she refined. Even in the Wangliang Sect, no one could easily refine one, but here, ten appeared at once.
But these powerful puppets instantly turned into nothingness under the finger of the black ancient ape. Bai Rou just felt that it was a pity.
If Wangliang Sect knew everything that happened here, he would definitely be extremely moved, alarm those Nascent Soul ancestors, and would come over personally.
Bai Rou The black ancient ape behind her was selected after she refined countless identical puppets and finally one of them reached the level of "Qianluo Ancient Ape".
That was after she painstakingly studied the Beidou Formation, spent a huge amount of spiritual stones, and finally purchased a piece of "Qianluo Stone", and finally completed the refining of the puppet with her own hands.
She was even very stubborn about refining a "Qianluo Ancient Ape". In her room, the shrunken ancient apes were arranged in jade boxes, but she was the only one who knew about it...
After Bai Rou understood the notes in the manual of Shuang Qingqing, he has continuously tried to improve the power of this puppet over the years, and finally made it reach the terrifying power of Nascent Soul Early Stage.
But even so, Bai Rou is still not satisfied with this. Her goal is to increase the power of this puppet to Nascent Soul Late Stage, reaching the pinnacle that monks in this world can achieve.
To outsiders, this is simply a joke. After all, her cultivation level is only in the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm. If this idea is to be realized, it is tantamount to wishful thinking.
But Celestial Spirit Race's secret technique can do all this. The key is to see how Bai Rou forms the formation in the puppet's body so that it can squeeze out all the spiritual energy in each spiritual stone.
And during the operation process, try to reduce the loss of spiritual energy, etc...
Therefore, in recent years, Bai Rou has been studying the Beidou Formation. Now, she actually wants to try to modify this already perfect formation to achieve her idea. This approach is extremely bold.
She noticed that during the operation of this formation, about 30% of the circulating spiritual energy would be lost. If this 30% of the spiritual energy was retained, it would not be a simple accumulation at all, but would double the power of the puppet.
Bai Rou After her eyes regained clarity, she turned back and walked towards the black ape behind her. The black ape was as tall as a mountain and stood there motionless.
Bai Rou When she walked in front of it, her exquisite and petite figure only reached the ankle bones of the Huanhuan's legs, like an ant.
Immediately, she sat down leaning on the thick right leg of the black ancient ape, and her eyes became a little dazed for a while...
Under the setting sun, the valley is half sunny and half shaded, half hot and half cool. The red sunlight is scattered on the stone walls above the valley, reflecting the setting sun. In the shadows below, there seems to be a gentle wind blowing...
In the sky, there are white clouds in the distance, like the white rolling mountains, like my childhood hometown, and like the embrace of lovers...
Bai Rou just watched quietly, as if he didn't care. He didn't care about the changes in light and shadow under the sunlight in half of the valley. The white cloud mountains in the distance turned into strange giant beasts again...
"How long has he been gone? Ten, twenty years? Or thirty years, no news, he is no longer the young junior brother, and I have returned to the Muliu Sect...
He is Nascent Soul Cultivator who travels all over the world, and I am just a Golden Core Realm monk from a small sect..."
While thinking, she raised her head, looked up, and looked up along the thick legs of the ancient ape, and saw the outline of the face of the black ancient ape that she was familiar with, ferocious and warm.
For a moment, she remembered the scene in the city where the boy appeared in the crowd when she was holding a miniature puppet that looked like this and was helpless!
When the crowd parted, a young man in a dark green robe slowly walked towards her...