Chapter 325: The Name of a Person, the Shadow of a Tree, the Name of Chu Ning

The golden spiritual energy overflowing from the golden spiritual seed entered Chu Ning's dantian.

It was quickly refined by Chu Ning's Five Elements Chaos Art and turned into metallic mana.

At this moment, Chu Ning did not stop refining, and continued to activate the Five Elements Chaos Art, converting it into water attribute mana.

"It is relatively easy to directly convert metallic mana into water-based mana."

Chu Ning was thinking to herself when she suddenly felt the violent fluctuations of spiritual energy in the hidden spiritual veins underground.

Immediately, streams of pure water-attribute spiritual energy circulated along with the magic power and directly entered the body.

And the water attribute spiritual energy was so rich that even if Chu Ning used all his strength to activate his magic power, the speed of absorption and refining could not keep up.

Soon the rich water-attribute spiritual energy wrapped Chu Ning into a white mist.

Sensing this scene, Chu Ning was slightly surprised at first.

Immediately afterwards, there was great joy.

The refining of the spiritual energy can activate the aura of heaven and earth, and it is no surprise that the refining of the golden spirit seed can activate the aura of heaven and earth.

But what surprised Chu Ning a little bit.

I don't know if it's because I activated the Five Elements Chaos Art to convert the golden spiritual power directly into water-attributed mana.

Or should we say that the water-based spiritual energy in this island is richer than the metallic spiritual energy.

Or maybe a combination of both.

At this moment, so much pure water attribute spiritual energy was directly aroused.

For Chu Ning, who had experience in condensing metallic mana before, he knew that under such circumstances, completing the conversion of mana would be twice the result with half the effort.

Immediately, Chu Ning no longer hesitated, and continued to activate the Five Elements Chaos Art, and began to induce the golden spiritual seed to continuously overflow golden spiritual energy.

At the same time, the process of refining and transformation just now is cycled.

And it drives the water attribute spiritual energy in the hidden spiritual veins to be continuously absorbed and refined.

Chu Ning was still in seclusion, and now outside the training room, Bai Ling was blinking with confusion on his face.

"Half a month ago, the master had already broken through to the late stage of the Golden Core. Why has he still been in seclusion and not come out yet?"

The aura of the late-stage Jindan monks that spread outside the training room has long since subsided.

But Chu Ning was nowhere to be seen, which surprised Bai Ling.

What surprised Bai Ling even more was that month after month passed.

Chu Ning still didn't show up.

In a flash, half a year passed.

For half a year, there was no movement in the entire training room.

If it weren't for Bai Ling's belief that with Chu Ning's current level of cultivation, there would be no problem just breaking through to the late Golden Core stage.

She might have broken into the training room to find out.

On this day, Bai Ling still stayed outside the training room. Suddenly, the restriction above the training room fluctuated.

The next moment, Chu Ning's figure finally walked out of the training room.

"Congratulations to the master for coming out of seclusion!"

Seeing Chu Ning with a faint smile on his face, Bai Ling immediately made a sound of joy.

Chu Ning nodded towards Bai Ling and said:

"Bai Ling, thank you for your hard work during this time. Nothing happened on the island, right?"

"No!" Bai Ling said with a smile.

"It's just that Da Jin and Xiao Jin fell into a deep sleep. They should be about to break through and advance to the fifth level monster."

"Oh? Dajin and Xiaojin are about to break through?" Chu Ning's eyes lit up when he heard it.

But it's normal to think about it. The two golden thunder eagles woke up from their deep sleep before they advanced to the middle stage of golden elixir.

At that time, not only was the beast crystal on his body completely gone, but he also broke through from the third level monster to the fourth level.

In total, it has been more than thirty years now. In the past thirty years, I have eaten a lot of monsters of all kinds, and I have even eaten a lot of corpses of fifth- and sixth-order monsters.

It's normal to advance to level five monster.

"What about you? Are you about to advance?" Chu Ning asked Bai Ling.

In total, it took Bai Ling more than twenty-five years to advance to the fifth-level monster.

It's just that I have been practicing in seclusion for more than twenty years, so it doesn't seem like it has been too long.

"It's fast. Breaking through from the fifth level to the sixth level doesn't require crossing a large level."

Bai Ling said with a smile on his face, then turned to Chu Ning and asked with curiosity:

"Master, you have already broken through to the late stage of Jindan half a year ago, and I have only been with you for about half a month, and I have noticed that you have stabilized your state.

No longer showing his breath, why did he stay in seclusion for so long this time? "

"My main purpose in retreat is to refine gold spiritual seeds!"

He did not tell Bai Ling how to practice the Five Elements Chaos Art.

But when it came to the golden spirit species, Bai Ling understood immediately, blinked and asked:

"Master, have you already refined the golden spiritual seed? That spiritual seed is said to be able to help monks break through to the Nascent Soul stage. Did you gain any special insights after refining it?"

"It's not completely refined yet." Chu Ning shook his head.

For more than half a year, Chu Ning has been refining the golden spirit seeds every day, and using this to induce and absorb the hidden spiritual veins, he has finally completed the conversion of all mana.

This takes twice as long as refining the spiritual energy in the middle stage of the golden elixir.

This is naturally related to his stronger magic power.

However, even though Chu Ning spent six months refining it, only a small part of the golden spirit seed was refined.

According to Chu Ning's speculation, even with uninterrupted refining, it would probably take nearly ten years to truly refine the entire Golden Spirit Seed.

By then, the third level of the Five Elements Chaos Art may have been cultivated to perfection, reaching the peak of perfection in the later stages of the Golden Core.

Of course, it is obviously impossible to refine continuously for ten years.

If you are so eager for quick success, you may end up being possessed by the devil, or even being attacked by the devil in your heart.

The reason why Chu Ning inferred that refining the golden spirit seed would reach the peak of the late golden elixir stage was also based on his judgment of proficiency.

[Five Elements Chaos Art (Heavenly Grade Middle Grade), Third Level (10800/200000)]

[Nine Evolutions Body Refining Art, Second Volume, Second Level (60840/90000)]

[Spirit Refining Art, Fourth Level (64000/64000)]

The effect of the golden spirit seed is indeed powerful. In the past six months, Chu Ning's Five Elements Chaos Art has been growing rapidly at a rate of nearly 60 points every day.

If you practice at this speed, it will take about ten years to practice to perfection in the third level.

However, after completing the conversion of mana, Chu Ning found that the speed of his refining the golden spirit seed was obviously slowing down.

Even if he practiced all day, he could only increase by about 25 points.

And the strange phenomenon of attracting the spiritual energy of heaven and earth no longer appeared.

Now Chu Ning could not achieve the effect of frantically gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth even if he refined the golden spirit seed.

It was just faster than absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth through ordinary practice.

However, Chu Ning also tried it. Refining the golden spirit seed and taking the spiritual medicines such as snow crystal ganoderma and elixir that increase mana do not conflict.

On the contrary, after taking the snow sun ganoderma, it can also promote the refining of the golden spirit seed.

So in the next period of time, he can rest assured to use these resources to practice.

After telling Bai Ling about this situation, Chu Ning immediately showed a trace of deep thought on his face.

"As for the spirit seed helping to break through and advance to the Nascent Soul stage, I don't have a very deep understanding yet.

After all, I still have too little spiritual energy on the golden spirit seed to refine. If I refine it as a whole, I may have some insights."

After Chu Ning finished speaking, he immediately said to Bai Ling:

"Since the two guys, Da Jin and Xiao Jin, are sleeping, you might as well stay on this island to guard the house.

With your cultivation level and this formation, there should be no cultivators or monsters in this inner sea that can pose a threat.

I will go to Iceland Fairy City to get a general understanding of the current situation in the North Cold Land.

Then I will see if I can get the spirit of an eighth-level water-attributed monster to refine the Water Spirit Sword magic weapon."

Even though he has broken through to the late Jindan stage, his magic power has improved a lot, and he has a lot of means in his hands, but Chu Ning does not dare to easily look for an eighth-level monster.

After all, it is comparable to the existence of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

In addition, it is still too dangerous to go to the open sea, and there are not only eighth-level monsters.

However, this eighth-level monster spirit is really rare. As for whether it can be obtained from other places, it can only be a matter of luck.

"Okay, Master, go ahead." Bai Ling responded with a smile.

"If I really can't defeat it, the worst case is to imitate the breath of a tenth-level monster, and it will probably scare it away."

"But this may attract late-stage Yuanying cultivators, and we probably can't stay on this island."

After Chu Ning finished speaking, Bai Ling immediately said:

"Don't worry, Master, that's only in extreme cases.

This secret technique of simulating the breath of a tenth-level monster consumes a lot of energy. I can't bear to use this cold marrow bead casually."

Chu Ning nodded.

Bai Ling did tell him that the secret technique of simulating breath consumes a lot of energy, which is why Ming Ling has successfully practiced the secret method.

In addition, with the help of the cold marrow bead, it has never been demonstrated in front of him.

However, Bai Ling has simulated the breath of a seventh-level monster, but it does not need the help of external objects.

Chu Ning had also felt it. Even with his extremely sensitive breath and such a powerful divine sense, he could not distinguish it at all.

It was the same when simulating the breath of a tenth-level monster.

After leaving the island to Bai Ling, Chu Ning released his divine sense to check and confirm that there were no other cultivators around.

Then he flew out of the island and flew towards the Ice Island Fairy City.

After putting on the new robe, his divine wind escape speed was extremely fast and the mana consumption was not high.

Although the island was only two thousand miles away from the Ice Island Fairy City, it would not take long for him.

So he did not choose to go to the island in the inner sea to use the teleportation array.

While flying all the way, Chu Ning also noticed that there were not many cultivators in this sea area, especially the number of Qi Refining cultivators was much less.

Even if there were some cultivators flying on the sea occasionally, they were mostly foundation-building cultivators.

This was obviously different from when he was in this sea area more than ten years ago.

More than ten years ago, the inner sea was arranged because Jindan cultivators were stationed on various islands.

The monks usually go out to hunt monsters and are quite active.

"It seems that something has happened recently. I was originally scheduled to garrison the island, but later I left directly.

I don't know if I have been blacklisted by the Changkong Palace."

Chu Ning muttered in his heart, but after all, he did not live in Iceland Fairy City later.

I think Changkong Palace will not treat him differently because of this matter.

However, he was originally preparing to fly directly to Iceland Fairy City, but now he also plans to find out the recent situation first.

Thinking of this in his heart, Chu Ning's spiritual sense spread out, and soon he sensed the existence of several foundation-building monks two hundred miles away.

Two hundred miles away, at this moment, there are four foundation-building monks, two men and two women, flying.

At this time, one of the square-faced middle-aged male cultivators flying in the front suddenly said:

"Have you ever felt that there is some divine consciousness locking us?"

"Someone is targeting us with their spiritual consciousness?" The other three were slightly startled when they heard this.

"I didn't feel it."

Several people shook their heads.

They didn't know that after Chu Ning discovered them with his spiritual consciousness, he directly targeted one of them.

Moreover, he did not deliberately conceal his spiritual consciousness to allow the foundation-building monk to sense it.

At this moment, he was sensing the positions of several monks and then flying away towards them.

Chu Ning was also feeling the change in the intensity of his consciousness.

"One hundred and thirty miles!"

Chu Ning muttered the number softly.

Within a range of one hundred and thirty miles, the intensity of his consciousness did not decrease at all.

This distance has increased by thirty miles compared to fifteen years ago.

Fifteen years ago, when his divine refining skills had just reached the fourth level of perfection, although he could only travel three hundred miles outward, his strength was only unaffected within a hundred miles.

Speaking of which, Chu Ning has not stopped practicing the art of divine refining in the past ten years or so.

However, Chu Ning tried it half a year ago and found that if he wanted to maintain the strength of his spiritual consciousness, the distance would only be about one hundred and twenty miles.

And now being able to break through to 130 miles is naturally attributed to the qualitative improvement in one's own strength brought about by breaking through to the late Golden Core stage.

Although there is still no new manifestation in terms of proficiency, the improvement in the intensity of his spiritual consciousness is real.

For Chu Ning, the distance of two hundred miles was only a moment.

The middle-aged monk who was the leader of the four had been uneasy since he was targeted by Chu Ning, urging the other three companions to quickly rush towards the fairy city of Iceland.

At this time, he suddenly saw a ray of light flying towards him and others, and the aura on it was obviously much higher than that of himself and others, so he whispered:

"No, there is a Golden Core cultivator. It seems that my induction just now was correct. The other party has been locking us with his spiritual consciousness.

In this case, this person should be coming for us. If anything goes wrong later, everyone should run for their lives. "

Just as he said this, the middle-aged monk's eyes clearly caught the figure flying towards him and others.

Immediately his face changed drastically, he secretly complained, sighed softly, and immediately sent a message to the three companions:

"I didn't expect it was him. Please don't anger this senior later, otherwise we won't have a chance to escape."

Hearing what the square-faced middle-aged monk said, the other three looked at each other and wanted to ask more questions.

But the square-faced middle-aged monk no longer dared to speak randomly.

But at this moment, Chu Ning had already arrived.

Just as Chu Ning stopped, the square-faced middle-aged monk immediately took a step forward, bowed and said:

"I've met senior."

Chu Ning's spiritual consciousness had already clearly sensed everything in this room, and even the sound transmissions of several people were all transmitted to his ears in front of Chu Ning's powerful spiritual consciousness.

At this moment, his eyes fell on the middle-aged monk with a square face, and he asked lightly:

"Do you know me?"

The middle-aged monk with a square face was slightly stunned when he heard Chu Ning's question, but he quickly said respectfully:

"This junior has met this junior once in Xianchengfang City."

"Have you ever seen me in Xianchengfang City?" When Chu Ning heard this, his eyes flashed slightly, and after recalling it for a moment, he asked:

"Have you seen me punishing the monk who wanted to seize things in the lower city, and then the city's law enforcement team came to deal with it?"

Chu Ning thought about it and realized that this incident, which happened only more than ten years ago, seemed to be more able to leave a deep impression on other monks.

After all, he has never appeared in the Fairy City of Iceland for more than ten years.

The middle-aged man immediately showed surprise after hearing Chu Ning's words.

It seemed that he didn't expect that Chu Ning would guess it right.

Immediately he bowed again and said: "Exactly."

Chu Ning nodded and didn't care too much about this matter.

“In that case, you are also casual cultivators in the fairy city of Iceland, so it’s easy to handle.

I have been practicing in seclusion for the past ten years. Please tell me what major events have happened recently. "

"A big deal?" Upon hearing this, the square-faced middle-aged monk pondered for a moment, and then replied:

"Senior, if we talk about this fairy city in Iceland, there seem to have been only two major events in the past ten years.

One is that the Snow Mist Valley, which opens every ten years, has been closed for unknown reasons.

It was supposed to be opened again this year, but many monks waited outside the valley for two months, and the valley was not opened. "

"Is Snow Mist Valley closed or not open?" Chu Ning was slightly surprised when he heard this.

Snow Mist Valley opens every ten years, which is extremely regular. Chu Ning has experienced it three times before in the Fairy City of Iceland.

For the first time, he had just arrived in the Fairy City of Iceland for eight years. Instead of joining in the fun, he went to the Central Sea area to hunt various monsters.

He also unexpectedly obtained Snow Crystal Zhi from the elders of the Phantom Sect and a casual cultivator.

Chu Ning participated in the second time, and that was when something happened in Xuewu Valley.

As for the subsequent two times, Chu Ning was in retreat and did not participate.

After all, it is true that Snow Mist Valley will be opened again this year.

The middle-aged monk with a square face continued: "Later I heard rumors from monks that the Snow Fog Valley will be closed every three to five hundred years.

It seems like there is something else to say behind this.

But no one can say for sure the specific time and reason. "

Chu Ning nodded and asked, "What about the second thing?"

"The second thing is actually not a major event in the Fairy City of Iceland, but a major event in the entire Northern Cold Land."

The square-faced middle-aged monk said with a somewhat solemn expression at this moment.

“Since half a year ago, eighth-level monsters have appeared one after another in the Zhonghai area.

And it's not just one area, it appears in two sea areas: Iceland Fairy City and Haiyun Basin.

However, no one has been found near the strait where Hanyanzhou is located. "

"An eighth-level monster appears in the Zhonghai area?"

When Chu Ning heard this, she was slightly startled.

You must know that before this, even seventh-level monsters rarely appeared in the Zhonghai area.

The golden and silver bird that Chu Ning and Chang Lingshan wanted to kill was in the outer sea area.

And listening to the meaning of this person's words, it seems that there is a lot more.

After Chu Ning thought for a while, he immediately asked:

"Has there been any other movement from the demon clan recently?"

The square-faced monk nodded.

“Generally speaking, the monsters are moving inward from the outer sea, except for the eighth-level monsters that appeared in the middle sea area.

Level 5 and 6 monsters also appeared in this inland sea area.

However, for the time being, they are still concentrated in areas relatively close to the mid-sea area.

But as a result, many third- and fourth-level monsters were driven inward.

In the past two months, some monsters have attacked the island one after another.

Fortunately, senior Jindan was stationed on each island, so the damage was not particularly serious.

But everyone is even more afraid to leave the island. "

After hearing this, Chu Ning pondered for a moment.

Looking at this situation, the conflict between human monks and monsters is more intense than it was thirty years ago.

"Did the Yuanying monks on our human monks side do anything?" Chu Ning asked immediately.

The square-faced monk shook his head, "Until now, the Yuanying monk has not appeared, and no one has spoken.

However, in the inner sea area, there are some more Jindan seniors patrolling the Changkong Palace. "

Chu Ning felt a little surprised after hearing this.

After all, he has stayed in this northern cold land for more than forty years.

I had come into contact with many monks in the fairy city of Iceland before.

Therefore, it is also clear that the reason why the different levels of monks and monster beasts in the boundless sea and Xuefeng Mountains are different is because the Nascent Soul monks have reached some kind of agreement with the transformed monsters.

Now the Nascent Soul cultivators in the entire Northern Cold Land are silent. This is obviously not normal.

But thinking about it, these few are just foundation-building casual cultivators, and they probably don’t know the reason behind this.

Instead, we can go back to the Fairy City of Iceland and see if we can get more information from the mouths of those Golden Elixir monks.

Thinking like this, Chu Ning couldn't help but ask one more question.

"Are there any other important things happening recently? The ones you know about Haiyun Basin and Hanyan Continent are also fine."

After Chu Ning said this, several people looked at each other, and a female cultivator behind said:

"There's another thing that happened in the past few years. I don't know if Senior is interested in it.

I heard that a Nascent Soul cultivator once disguised himself as a Golden Core cultivator and went to Haiyun Basin and Hanyan Continent, specifically to attack the Golden Core cultivators.

It is said that this person is good at metallic spells, and his pair of iron fists are extremely powerful. More than ten or twenty years ago, the young master of the Phantom Sect and the black and white demons of Biling from Hanyan City were all killed in his hands.

Then after disappearing for four or five years, he became active from time to time in the past ten years, but he no longer targeted these large sects, but focused on some small sects and casual cultivators.

Now in the land of Beihan, everyone is shouting for beatings. "

When Chu Ning heard what this female cultivator said, her face was very calm, but her heart was quite uneasy.

Obviously, the person this person is talking about is himself.

I think it was his action against the black and white demons of Biling in Hanyan Continent that made the people of the Phantom Sect know about it.

And then got connected.

But the other party said that he had been active outside for the past ten years and had taken action against some casual cultivators from small sects. What was going on?

I have not left the island for nearly fifteen years.

Thinking of this, Chu Ning pretended to be casual and asked:

"This person actually dared to take action against the young master of the Phantom Spirit Sect. Why didn't the Phantom Spirit Sect, with so many Yuan Ying monks, pursue this person?"

The female cultivator didn't know how to answer, so the square-faced middle-aged male cultivator took over and said:

"It is said that more than ten years ago, several Nascent Soul monks from the Phantom Sect went to Hanyan Continent to hunt them down, and they also had some unpleasantness with the monks from Shenyin Valley and other sects.

But later, when the monk started making trouble everywhere, no one from the Phantom Spirit Sect took action, which was quite strange. "

After Chu Ning listened, she pretended to be interested and asked a few more questions.

But these people couldn't answer it, so they had to give up.

After saying a few words of gratitude, he flew away directly.

It wasn't until Chu Ning disappeared for a long time that the square-faced male cultivator let out a long sigh of relief.

"Brother Luo, who is this senior and why are you so respectful to him?"

At this time, another female cultivator curiously asked the square-faced middle-aged male cultivator.

The other two people were also looking at him curiously at this moment.

After the square-faced middle-aged male cultivator heard this, he shook his head and smiled bitterly:

"Do you still remember that thirty years ago, something happened in the Snow Mist Valley, and the demon clan organized many monsters to enter the valley to kill human monks?"

Another male cultivator immediately said:

"Of course I remember. That time, more than a thousand Jindan and foundation-building cultivators died. It was a major event in recent decades, so how could we not remember it?"

The square-faced middle-aged male cultivator asked again after hearing this:

"Then do you still remember the rumor that a Jindan mid-stage cultivator killed more than ten sixth-level monsters at the valley entrance and rescued more than twenty Jindan cultivators?"

"You said, he... is that Senior Chu? So young?" The female cultivator who spoke before exclaimed.

The square-faced male cultivator nodded and said:

"It's him. This Senior Chu killed a foundation-building cultivator in the Bingdao Immortal City, and Changkong Palace directly let him leave."

"Fortunately, this senior just asked casually and didn't embarrass us."

The other three cultivators looked at each other after hearing this, and there was relief on their faces.

As the saying goes, a person's reputation is like a tree's shadow.

They knew very well that if Chu Ning really wanted to attack them, there would be no chance of escape.