Chapter 342: Daning City

Li Yan first placed the Heaven-stealing Handkerchief in front of him and observed it carefully. Although he knew that the Heaven-stealing Handkerchief had some extraordinary functions, he only knew that it was a very powerful magic weapon. However, since he learned that there was a magic weapon called "ancient treasure" in this world, Li Yan became very interested in it.

The Heaven-stealing Handkerchief was as smooth as water. It was like pumping water in Li Yan's hands. Li Yan immersed his consciousness into it and found that there were still crystal silk threads intertwined. They were entangled irregularly and then spread in other directions. In the center of these white jade silk threads, there were also many crystal clear red silk threads. This was the position of the red maple leaf embroidered on the Heaven-stealing Handkerchief. Looking from the inside in the consciousness, these red crystal silk threads were intertwined with each other, like a ruby ​​firmly occupying the center of the Heaven-stealing Handkerchief, connecting the sky and the earth, like a red silk curtain hanging from the sky.

Li Yan's spiritual sense was only carefully observing the red silk. He wanted to see whether these red silk threads were ancient materials. After a long time, he did not find anything special. Li Yan carefully controlled a trace of spiritual sense to touch a red silk thread. Li Yan suddenly felt a sharp pain in his spiritual sense.

"Sure enough, it seems that my cultivation is too shallow. The silk thread embroidered with red maple leaves may be the ancient or ancient material for refining this magic weapon. What it is is not something I can find out now."

Li Yan frowned and endured the severe pain to retract that trace of spiritual sense. He knew this result long ago. Looking at the white jade silk thread in the sky-stealing handkerchief for a long time with his spiritual sense would make him dizzy and nauseous. Every time he touched the red silk thread in the center, he would suffer. It was just that he didn't know about the ancient treasure before, so he guessed that it should be the core formation of the sky-stealing handkerchief, and it was also a forbidden protection made by the refiner.

Now that he has roughly heard about the origin of the ancient treasure, Li Yan guessed that although the red silk threads should be the core formation of the Stealing Heaven Handkerchief, they are also an ancient material from ancient times or even longer, and they should have the function of ignoring restrictions. In this regard, the Stealing Heaven Handkerchief may have other uses, but he just doesn't know it.

Even knowing this little bit makes Li Yan very excited. As his cultivation continues to improve, he believes that one day he will figure out the source and function of the Stealing Heaven Handkerchief. If it weren't for the Stealing Heaven Handkerchief this time, he might have died in the strong wind, or been captured by the Red Fire Ancestor, and he wouldn't have met Shuang Qingqing.

Li Yan had already refined the "Stealing Heaven Handkerchief" before, but Li Yan always felt that there was some estrangement in using it. Now he also understood the reason. Maybe the Stealing Heaven Handkerchief has its own set of independent cultivation and control techniques to truly drive it.

After confirming that the Sky-stealing Handkerchief might be an ancient treasure, Li Yan was even more happy. He glanced at the folding fan again. After thinking for a while, Li Yan did not open the folding fan. He waved his hand to put away the Cloud-piercing Willow, Sky-stealing Handkerchief and the folding fan. He had more important things to deal with now.

Li Yan's consciousness sank into his body, and the next moment he appeared in the purple bowels of his Dantian. Looking at the five spiritual power tripods filled with water vapor, Li Yan was a little absent-minded. When he first started practicing the Guishui Sutra, there were only five small spiritual power tanks in his Dantian, and the weak spiritual power in them could dissipate at any time. Now, not only has the entire Dantian Lake expanded by dozens of times, but the five large tripods floating on it are also flashing with a textured light, and the spiritual power is endless like a tide. For a moment, Li Yan was filled with emotion and his thoughts were like a tide.

After a long while, Li Yan took a deep breath, and then he quickly formed an ancient and complicated seal with his hands in front of his chest. Then, a look of pain appeared on his face, and then colorful lines appeared on his exposed skin, which made people's scalps numb. They kept wriggling under his skin, as if they were about to break out of his body, which made people feel creepy at a glance.

Li Yan's expression was painful, but his hand seals were not messy at all. His ten fingers flew like flowers, forming seals one after another. As the seals were formed, five-color runes, such as black, blue, or red, flew out from his ten fingers. After these runes flew out, they circled around Li Yan's body, and finally formed groups of five to form larger runes. Then, as Li Yan breathed, they were absorbed into his body one by one according to the rules of black, blue, red, yellow, and white.

As Li Yan's hand seals were formed quickly, the pain on his face did not ease, but became more distorted, making his originally ordinary face look extremely ferocious. More and more five-colored symbols were reflected around him, flickering unsteadily. The whole person was like a flickering fire cocoon in the dark cave, weird and ghostly.

At this time, Li Yan was unsealing the seal that contained the deadly poison. These deadly poisons were obtained by swallowing the rare poisonous spirit energy in the magic weapon of the old ancestor Hu Chen and the venom of the rare monster. It seemed easy when it was sealed, but once it began to release and absorb, the process would make Li Yan miserable.

Li Yan needs to use these poisonous spirits and venom to reach the middle stage of foundation building. He has been in the foundation building stage for less than half a year. According to normal practice, it is estimated that it will take several years or even more than ten years to reach the middle stage of foundation building. However, with the heaven-defying practice of Guishui Zhenjing, the five elements can promote each other, which can shorten this process to about three years. Similarly, when he breaks through to the late stage of foundation building and false pill in the future, Guishui Zhenjing will also have this effect. But when it comes to forming pill, it will be like Li Wuyi and others. It depends on the opportunity. It is normal to be stuck for dozens or hundreds of years from false pill to forming pill.

The path of cultivation that Li Yan takes is different from that of normal Wuxianmen cultivators. He also has a fragmented poison body, but he can make breakthroughs with the help of external objects.

, in fact, it is a common cultivation path for poison cultivators to use external objects to break through their own realm.

The Poison Cultivators are on the wrong side of the sword, and their advancement speed is often many times faster than that of normal cultivators. They either swallow poison pills, or absorb the venom of poisonous insects, and use highly toxic poisons to forcibly stimulate the meridians in the body or mutate spiritual power in order to seek alternative ways. breakthrough. For example, the disciples of the Spiritual Insect Peak and Buli Peak of the Sprite Sect, some of their methods are more extreme, which makes people feel uncomfortable. They often merge with the accompanying monsters or Gu insects, allowing these extremely poisonous things in the world to parasitize them. When they practice within their own bodies, the accompanying demonic beasts and demonic insects will also cultivate. The demonic beasts and demonic insects within their bodies will grow stronger, which will also make the master's strength continue to increase, and they will complement each other.

When the cultivation reaches the deepest level, the monk and the monster beasts and insects inside his body become one. If one party dies, the other party will also die at the same time, which is extremely vicious.

Although the amount of poisonous spirit energy and venom that Li Yan swallowed this time was not very large, the poisonous spirit plants and monster beasts in the ancestor of Huchen's magic weapon were both rare species, and the toxins contained in them had reached a chilling level. Li Yan If all the poison swallowed this time were released, it would take less than half a day to kill a town of 100,000 people. This is no lie.

It is precisely because there is such a huge amount of poisonous spiritual energy in his body that Li Yan has the confidence to attack the middle stage of foundation building, and he cannot suppress it for too long, otherwise once the seal is broken, it will be fatal to Li Yan and it will burst out in an instant. Toxins, even if he has a fragmented poison body, cannot bear it, so he has to put down everything and practice in seclusion, and let himself release the terrifying power in the seal bit by bit for refining.

This process is complicated and painful. Li Yan first needs to refine the poisonous aura and venom, which are not the same attributes at all, into his own five-element aura, and then cycle through the heavens again and again to purify the spiritual power that is not derived from his own cultivation. When the final purification is completed, the spiritual power in the five spiritual cauldrons needs to be rebalanced. If there is excess spiritual power of a certain attribute, even if it is a waste, it must be eliminated from the body. The balance of the five elements must be maintained. Only then, after quietly recuperating, can the final impact be made to break through the bottleneck. Li Yan estimated that it would not be completed within a few months.

The place Li Yan was looking for was after searching many places before he found this place where human traces could be seen in the barren mountains. There was no spiritual energy here, but Li Yan was refining the poisonous spiritual power in his body, and there was no need to breathe in the spiritual energy from the world. The barren mountains here have lost their spiritual energy, so there are very few monsters and beasts. The monks keep a respectful distance. Usually, there are only some wild beasts that have not yet developed their intelligence. They are simply unable to break through the several layers of formations arranged by Li Yan. It's not legal, but it's safe. Li Yan slowly released the seal in his body with his hand.

Two million miles to the north from the barren mountain where Li Yan is, there is a medium-sized city named "Daning City"

, this place is under the jurisdiction of the Pure Land Sect, and the city's population has exceeded 500,000, of which 70% are secular people.

The Pure Land Sect is somewhat similar to the Taixuan Sect. Most of them are immortals and mortals living together in the same city. This is very different from the Demon Sect and the Shibuyuan Sect. The reason is actually related to their respective inheritances. Pure Land Sect and Taixuan Sect are two major traditions that believe in Buddhism and Taoism. Whether they are monks or Taoist priests in the two sects, in addition to cultivating spiritual power, they also need to cultivate mind power and vow power. This is actually a unique kind that is not among the Five Elements. Strength is the power of faith.

Buddhism and Taoism are staunch executors of the power of faith, and the power of thoughts and wishes cannot be obtained through self-cultivation. It is necessary to build temples and temples, and then let people continue to worship and believe. Over time, the statues in temples and Taoist temples will This will produce the power of Buddhist thoughts and Taoist vows, which can be absorbed by monks or Taoist priests. Even the Buddha and Taoist priests with advanced cultivation can swallow them through the golden body created by them. Regardless of the power of thoughts or wishes, The power of non-immortal cultivators is even stronger than spiritual power in some aspects. Therefore, when fighting against monks and Taoist priests, in addition to guarding against their methods of cultivating immortals, you must also be careful of their other attacks. Generally, the most difficult thing to guard against is telekinesis. The attacks like Harmony Power are weird and extremely difficult to detect with spiritual consciousness. Once they are used, very few of the victims survive.

In view of this characteristic, Pure Land Sect and Taixuan Sect will not only intervene in mortal dynasties, but also build temples and Taoist temples in the secular world to spread the law and promote the benefits of Buddhism and Taoism, allowing more people to believe in them and worship them, in order to obtain more benefits. A lot of thoughts and wishes. Although there are many temples and Taoist temples within the Pure Land Sect and Taixuan Sect, the places where immortals hang out are often only a few larger cities. In other places, people are only sent to build temples and Taoist temples, but immortals rarely appear anywhere. After all, immortals and mortals have different paths.

As for the several larger cities under the jurisdiction of these two sects, although immortals and mortals coexist, the cities are also divided into areas. Some places are only accessible to immortals. Most mortals will not be able to know the conditions inside, let alone Entered, but they knew that there were land gods.

However, Shibuyuan and Xiaoshi Sect only control the dynasties under their jurisdiction and rarely appear in mortal cities. This is the biggest difference.

Daning City is only 300,000 miles away from the Pure Land Sect, which is not too far for some monks.

On this day, in a secret room in Daning City, there were continuous panting and white waves rolling in the room. A naked man was hugging a beautiful woman in a red vine array, panting heavily. The beautiful woman grabbed the man's strong back, her face was red, and her eyes were like silk. In the roar from the man's mouth, the beautiful woman's snow-white body was straightened and trembled a few times before she lay back on the bed weakly.