Time flies by like a white horse, day after day, time never comes again, and there are no two mornings in a day.
Three months have passed since Li Yan returned from Fangshi.
In the early morning of this day, Li Yan stood in the courtyard, looking at the huge ancient ape who was busy watering the spiritual field in the corner, in a daze.
Now it's the middle of winter again, and the New Year's Eve is only three days away. However, Wangliang Sect has basically no difference in the four seasons of the year. Maybe it's the seasons, maybe it's the method of cultivators. It doesn't feel like the coldest winter in my hometown at all, and there is no heavy snowfall in winter. Li Yan can only see a hint of the change of seasons from the black bamboo leaves in the undulating mountains.
In winter, the bamboo leaves are wide and dark in color, almost completely black, giving people a thick and solid feeling.
In spring, the thick bamboo leaves all over the mountains and plains recede, and green bamboo leaves grow, small and pointed, with the freshness of rain.
When spring turns to summer solstice, the bamboo leaves slowly begin to become wider and thicker, and appear green in color, as if they are dripping with verdant green. A very brightly colored bird will often stand on the bamboo branches, stretch out its thin pointed beak, and peck the broad bamboo leaves gently, and streams of green juice will flow out.
After the autumn wind blows, the entire Small Bamboo Peak mountain front and back are shrouded in a deep dark green sea. Only the undulating bamboo waves and the rolling ink waves can be seen, and no scenery inside the peak can be seen at all.
"It's the end of the year again, dad, mom, third brother, fourth sister..." Li Yan was thinking a lot. The ancient ape beside the courtyard wall was raising a large ladle of water. In the streams of crystal clear water, Li Yan seemed to see himself standing in the field. Dad and third brother were driving the shaft one by one, and pulling the shaft by the other. After the ridge reached the end, he smiled at himself while wiping sweat.??
After a long while, the ancient ape finished watering, placed the bucket and ladle on the edge of the field, and quickly came to Li Yan. After standing still, he grinned at Li Yan, and then stood still.
Li Yan woke up from his trance and looked at the ancient ape in front of him, his eyes slowly showing joy. This ancient ape was the puppet given by Bai Rou. Li Yan spent half a day practicing the control technique after returning, and then began to try to control it. As the number of times increased, it went from being unfamiliar at first to becoming familiar with it, and then became smoother. During this process, Li Yan did not find anything unusual about this puppet, let alone any unexpected discoveries.
However, after the puppet was restored and enlarged, and after seeing its internal structure, Li Yan was greatly surprised by the densely packed spirit stone slots. There were as many as eighty.
Li Yan filled eighty low-level spirit stones with heartache. After practicing the manipulation to make himself familiar with it, he took the puppet to a remote place in the back mountain. He directed the ancient ape puppet to launch a full-force attack, targeting a stone wall a hundred feet away in front of him. The puppet just raised its long arms, crossed his hands, quickly closed them into fists and raised his head.
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He raised it high, and when he raised it directly above his head, a dazzling white light suddenly appeared on the fist. Suddenly the whole world was bright in Li Yan's eyes, and Li Yan closed his eyes involuntarily. The moment he closed his eyes and opened them again, the ancient ape puppet made fists with both hands and slashed down from the top of his head, as if it was about to split the world in front of him. As it slashed downwards, the dazzling white light quickly separated from its fists and formed a straight line. He slashed forward fiercely, and the next moment Li Yan was stunned by a scene. Wherever the white light passed, no matter how thick the black bamboo was, it was turned into fly ash, and a streak of about four feet deep appeared on the hard rock on the ground. A straight ravine about a foot away went forward in a straight line, with mud and rocks flying, and finally the white light directly hit the towering stone wall a hundred feet away. Perhaps it was too fast, and no sound was made at the moment the white light hit the stone wall.
After a brief silence, Li Yan heard a loud noise in his eyes and ears. A ball of white light exploded, blinding people and brightening the world. The shock made Li Yan, who was unprepared, dizzy. There was a buzzing in his ears for a long time. Li Yan finally came to his senses. When he looked intently, he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. A large hole about ten feet wide appeared on the stone wall a hundred feet away. There were still puffs of dust and smoke coming out of the hole. Li Yan held back his shock and hurried forward to check.
The big hole seemed to be bottomless, extending all the way deep into the mountain. Li Yan finally used Divine Sense to check it, and found that it was more than 1,700 feet long. This made Li Yan feel cold. He didn't expect Foundation Establishment Early Stage's attack to be so powerful. It can be seen from this that the Foundation Establishment monks Li Yan saw in the secret realm before were either holding back their hands, or their spiritual power has been mastered to a subtle level and rarely leaked when attacking the opponent.
Li Yan Thinking again about Gong Chenying and how relaxed they were when they withstood the mid-to-late attacks of Foundation Establishment, which was even more powerful than this, Li Yan Once again, I felt the huge gap between me and Foundation Establishment, and I felt lucky that I could kill the Foundation Establishment monk by chance. If it was a head-on battle, I probably wouldn't even have a chance to escape.
After this loud noise, all the birds in the forest flew together. In a short time, just when Li Yan was staring blankly at the big hole, Wei Chituo turned into a ray of light and flew over quickly, with a look of anger on his face. After figuring out the situation, Wei Chituo looked at the puppet with envy in his eyes. He circled around the ancient ape puppet several times, making tut-tutting sounds from time to time, and then left amid constant praise.
Li Yan was extremely happy when he saw this attack. For him, it was a life-saving means. However, when he checked the ancient ape puppet, he couldn't help but feel a little heartbroken. The eighty spiritual stones embedded in the puppet only hit one blow, and the light was almost half dimmed. It is estimated that these eighty spiritual stones can only be used for two attacks at most. For this consumption speed, Li Yan finally accepted it helplessly. After all, this is a phase.
It's equivalent to one blow from Foundation Establishment Early Stage. Fortunately, Li Yan is still relatively wealthy now, so he has no worries about these spiritual stones.
And Li Yan has a guess. Even so, it may not be the full blow of this puppet. He only has low-level spiritual stones in his hand. What if it is filled with 80 mid-level spiritual stones? If that was the case, he didn't know if the formation inside the puppet could withstand the power of eighty middle-grade spiritual stones. Thinking about this made Li Yan's scalp numb, and he planned to find an opportunity to ask Bai Rou who it was.
This is also because Li Yan is currently at a lower level than Foundation Establishment, so it is impossible to know exactly how powerful monk Foundation Establishment Early Stage's full blow is.
However, what makes Li Yan a little relieved is that as long as it is not an attack like this, for example, if the puppet is only allowed to do chores, the consumption of 80 spirit stones is almost negligible.
Li Yan stood in front of the rock for a long time, and a thought slowly came to his mind. He had never known what level of combat power he had reached since Qi Condensation was stabilized on the tenth floor. He didn't want to go to his senior brothers and sisters to try out moves, which would expose his own secrets. Now that he had this ancient ape puppet, he could test it easily.
In this way, under the control of Li Yan Divine Sense, the ancient ape puppet attacked him, and continued to increase the intensity of the attack little by little. Li Yan did not dodge, but used magic to fight with it. In the end, After consuming nearly three hundred spiritual stones, Li Yan finally determined that he could take about 70% of the attack from this puppet. Eighty percent was already very reluctant. When the puppet's attack increased to 90%, Li Yan estimated that even if he could take on the attack, he would still be seriously injured. As for the puppet's full blow, Li Yan couldn't even imagine it, and he wouldn't dare to try it anyway.
This was the result when Li Yan had about twice as much spiritual energy as a monk of the same level. This shows the gap between the Foundation Establishment Realm and Qi Condensation Stage. This made Li Yan think that Wen Xinliang and the others killed the two women in the woods with just a raise of their hands.
In the courtyard, Li Yan looked at the puppet in front of him who was more than half taller than him, and he liked it more and more. Bai Rou was really willing to have such a puppet by his side. As long as the formation in its body was functioning normally, even if it had broken arms and legs, it would still have the ability to attack.
"Now, I should be able to take 80% of its attacks easily." Li Yan thought to himself. He had been working tirelessly in the past three months. He went to and from the secret room every day to practice hard Qiongqi Purgatory Art. When the spiritual power in his body was exhausted, he would practice Gui Water True Scripture cross-legged. Li Yan also gradually discovered that these two techniques were surprisingly matched., every Body Refinement is an excellent means to hone the physical and spiritual power, and the spiritual power cultivated by Gui Water True Scripture is very pure and strong, and can satisfy Li Yan at least for three weeks of Qiongqi purgatory each time, which makes Li Yan Qiongqi Purgatory Art progress very quickly. And Gui Water True Scripture operates even more crazily on the empty spiritual power cylinder behind Body Refinement. Every time Li Yan's spiritual power cylinder is consumed, Gui Water True Scripture swallows the spiritual energy of the world like a long whale.
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It absorbs water and quickly empties the surrounding spiritual energy. Fortunately, if the spiritual energy in the secret room is endless, Li Yan has nothing to worry about. And after practicing again, the spiritual power will be more solid than before, making Li Yan feel that the spiritual power is getting thicker and thicker, as if Xiao Shu has roots.
What Li Yan didn't know was that when Gong Chenying and Zhao Min were practicing on the first level of Qiongqi's purgatory, they could only practice once a day, and they needed to meditate and recover until the next day before they could continue practicing.
After practicing so hard in these three months, Qiongqi Purgatory Li Yan has actually reached the peak of the early stage of the first level, and seems to have broken through to the middle stage of the first level. Li Yan Now, even if he makes a fist, the air in the fist is squeezed, making a muffled explosion sound. Li Yan tries to attack from the back hill, and easily sweeps across with one leg. The thick and tough black bamboo in his arm can easily break two to three branches. You must know that this is a real sweep, not a break.
Previously, when Li Yan was on the seventh floor of Qi Condensation, he used Wind Blade Art to hit the arm-thick black bamboo. At most, he could only knock down and break one branch. That is, after the position attacked by Wind Blade Art cracked, bamboo strips were formed, so that this point could no longer support the weight of the entire black bamboo and fell to the side. However, with the current level of cultivation of Li Yan Qi Condensation, it is possible to break it with Wind Blade Art, but it can only break two.
As Qiongqi Purgatory Art improves, Li Yan's appetite now increases day by day, and he needs to take two to four Bigu Pills almost every day. Otherwise, the hunger would make Li Yan feel like he could eat an elephant. Before practicing Qiongqi Purgatory Art, one Bigu Pill could keep Li Yan from eating for seven or eight days in a row.
Although Bigu Pill is effective, it tastes like chewing wax, but Li Yan doesn't want to ask for food from the servants at the front. It is estimated that the amount he consumes in one meal can catch up with the food of everyone there combined for a day, and that doesn't scare the servants to death. This also made Li Yan wonder whether Gong Chenying and Zhao Min practiced Qiongqi Purgatory Art in the same way before. But what he didn't know was that the two of them could practice this technique for one week in a day.
The results of such efforts are eye-catching. Li Yan can now easily lift a three-thousand-jin boulder with a flick of his arms, and can easily lift a thousand-jin boulder with a flick of his toes. However, the strength of an ordinary Qi Condensation Stage tenth-level monk is only between 700 and 1,000 pounds.
He clenched his fists, and the invisible spiritual energy in the small courtyard became a little restless. "My cultivation has reached the late stage of the tenth level of Qi Condensation. It will not be a problem to withstand 80% of the attack from this puppet. Even if it is 90% of the attack, I can still try it without being seriously injured, but that requires the use of Qiongqi's purgatory body.", maybe when Qi Condensation Stage reaches the Great Consummation, the spiritual power of the whole body is condensed, and the purgatory body of Qiongqi can barely take the full blow of this ancient ape puppet. However, after such a blow, I should be completely exhausted and no longer have any strength to fight. It is better not to happen."