Chapter 1408: Retreat and Practice

Xiao Lin showed a curious expression and walked slowly towards the cave.

Soon he arrived in front of the cave, but it was a pitch-black cave entrance that was about ten feet high and only two feet wide. Xiao Lin followed the entrance of the cave with his spiritual thoughts and quickly understood the origin of the cave.

"It turns out that a casual cultivator once practiced in seclusion here." Xiao Lin smiled slightly and walked straight into the cave. As he entered the cave, the outside of the cave slowly condensed, and soon it condensed. It became a thick layer of black ice, covering the entire cave.

Following the long and narrow corridor, Xiao Lin went a hundred feet deep before he came to a place in the middle of the mountain. It looked like the guest room of the casual cultivator. There was an ice table and four chairs carved from black ice next to it. Even the patterns on it are clearly visible. Xiao Lin knows from the patterns that this casual cultivator is also a person with taste and attention to details.

And this person is obviously like him, practicing ice-attribute skills.

Behind the reception room, close to the ice wall, are four ice rooms side by side, with sunken writings vaguely visible above.

"Cultivation room, alchemy room, weapon refining room and rest room." Although it is simple, it is comprehensive.

After exploring the surrounding area, Xiao Lin showed a satisfied expression on his face. Not only was it hidden, but the environment was also satisfactory to him. With a little carving, it could be used as a retreat, which would save a lot of effort. .

After Xiao Lin thought for a while, as a green shadow flashed past, a figure walked out of Xiao Lin's body, it was his second soul Lei Lin.

With a wave of Xiao Lin's sleeves, a bunch of flag arrays appeared at Lei Lin's feet.

"Please arrange the restriction formation," Xiao Lin said.

Leylin nodded, stretched out his hand and sucked the pile of flag array discs into his hand, then turned it into a bolt of lightning and shot out of the cave.

Although the second soul can be cultivated independently, it also has a drawback, that is, once it is separated from the main body for too long, it will produce three views and consciousness that are different from the main body. Sometimes the character condensed from these different three views, It is completely opposite to his main body. Once such a situation occurs, there is a high probability that he will have the idea of ​​​​detaching from his main body. The more terrifying thing is that he may even have the intention to kill the main body and replace it. This is not what Xiao Lin wants to see. arrived, so he has decided not to let the second soul leave him for too long unless necessary.

Anyway, with the second soul by your side, you can not only become a loyal protector, but also practice independently without having a big impact.

After the second soul left, Xiao Lin patted the beast ring around his waist. As a gray light flashed, a "big black dog" appeared at Xiao Lin's feet, sleeping soundly. It seemed that the environment had changed. The change made him wake up suddenly. The moment he saw Xiao Lin, his bared white teeth were suddenly retracted.

"Boss."

"Take it out?" Xiao Lin looked at the "chubby" Xiao Hei, smiled and stretched out a hand and said.

"Boss, I have contributed a lot to this race war. This pill can be regarded as boss's reward to Xiao Hei. Can you?" Xiao Hei looked at him pitifully with a pair of big dark eyes. Xiao Lin, at the same time, a slightly childish voice sounded in Xiao Lin's sea of ​​consciousness.

Xiao Lin smiled and said nothing, and he obviously had no intention of taking back his extended hand.

When Xiao Hei saw this, he suddenly showed a speechless expression, opened his mouth wide, and as a flash of spiritual light flashed, there were hundreds of jade bottles of various sizes piled on the ground, some of which were obviously too big. Many of the elixir names above are unheard of.

Xiao Lin didn't even look at it. With a wave of his sleeves, he put all the jade bottles into the star ring, and then said: "Most of these elixirs contain huge spiritual power. You swallow them too." If there is too much, it will not be absorbed. It will only accumulate in your flesh and blood and become a fetter. In the long run, there is a risk of becoming obsessed. Although your fairy bodies are strong, you cannot make up for too much. You still have to do everything. It’s better to go step by step.”

"I know, boss." Xiao Hei was robbed by Xiao Lin. Although he knew that the boss was also doing it for his own good, he was still a little unhappy.

"Okay, I'll reward you with this bottle of Dragon Blood Bone Refining Pill. You can only swallow one pill every ten years, and don't eat more at one time." Xiao Lin couldn't bear it when he saw Xiao Hei's appearance. A flash of inspiration appeared, and a jade bottle appeared, and he threw it towards Xiao Hei.

Xiao Hei hurriedly opened his mouth and swallowed the jade bottle in one gulp.

"Thank you, boss."

"During the period of my retreat, you will practice here, and you will also let me guard the cave." After Xiao Lin finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the practice room on one side. When he came to the practice room, Xiao Lin said with one hand Stretched out and placed on top of the black ice, the thick black ice immediately turned into clouds of white mist, scattered in all directions, and soon disappeared, revealing a simple stone door.

The restrictions on the stone door have lost their effectiveness after countless years. With Xiao Lin's gentle push, the stone door opened in response, and a thick musty smell emerged from it. Xiao Lin waved his sleeves. , not only wrapped up the mold in an instant and sent it out of the cave, but also popped out several fireballs with one hand, and then opened his mouth, and a flame bead emitting five-color spiritual light was also shot into the secret room.

Almost a moment later, the moisture in the entire stone chamber was cleared away, and Xiao Lin did not take back the Five Elements Spiritual Fire Bead, but cast a spell to hang it on the top of the mountain outside. In this way, the entire cave would be dry and warm. So comfortable and pleasant.

The training room was empty, with only a stone-carved shelf. There was nothing on the shelf. Two rotten cushions could be vaguely seen on the ground. Xiao Lin cast a spell and cleaned it up. Then he took out a cushion and sat in the center of the training room.

After sitting down, Xiao Lin looked at the stone door that was closed again, and a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

He had just entered the fusion stage. After these years of mundane training, his realm had basically stabilized, and his understanding of medical alchemy had also improved. Although he might not be able to reach the realm of a top-grade purple pill master, he was almost there. Now he only lacked practice.

Over the years, he had collected quite a few seventh-grade spiritual herbs, all of which were cultivated in the spiritual wood space, and most of them were mature and could be picked to make spiritual pills.

And he did have a few recipes for seventh-grade top-grade spiritual pills in his hand. He could refine them into spiritual pills while in seclusion. In this way, it was still very likely that he would reach the realm of a top-grade purple pill master.

Of course, Xiao Lin's main purpose of choosing to practice in seclusion was not to refine pills, but to comprehend the power of rules.

The great war between the human race and the spirit race, especially the battle between Huanling Zun and Wanmu Ling Zun, shocked Xiao Lin greatly. Only then did he truly understand that the real magical power actually came from the degree of comprehension of the power of rules.

Other so-called magical powers are just minor ones. The power of rules is the power of the origin of heaven and earth, which contains the supreme truth of the world's life and death, annihilation and reincarnation. The so-called three thousand great ways, all lead to the immortal path, is exactly this truth. Therefore, comprehending the power of rules thoroughly is equivalent to understanding the origin of the world and how the world was born. Then it is not surprising to control some magical means that can destroy the world.

Especially the Heavenly Dao Absolute Killing Technique performed by Huanling Zun, which was just a spell condensed by some rules, and cursed Wanmu Ling Zun to death. This method, let alone him, even the ten Mahayana monks who watched the battle that day were terrified and shivered all over.

This was beyond their comprehension, and it also made them truly understand the terrifying nature of the Great Spiritual Venerable. In comparison, these top-level beings in the Mahayana stage were eclipsed.

This also made Xiao Lin understand the importance of comprehending the power of rules. He has been practicing for only more than 3,000 years, and he has reached the fusion stage. This speed of practice cannot be said to be unprecedented, but it is basically unprecedented. For him, it is not a good thing to reach a realm too fast. In a sense, the improvement of realm is a subtle process of strengthening one's own soul. Even if he is talented, it is impossible to be stronger than others' accumulation of tens of thousands of years. The reason for this situation is that Xiao Lin thought about it for a long time and attributed it to the Bu Tian Jing.

The Bu Tian Jing technique originated from Murong Yuntian. As for where Murong Yuntian got it from, he did not know, but as his realm improved, this technique became more and more unpredictable and too against the sky.

He had never heard of a second similar spiritual cultivation method since he cultivated to the fifth level of the Bu Tian Jing. Moreover, when he cultivated to the fifth level of the Bu Tian Jing, his spiritual power had surpassed most of the fusion stage cultivators. With his current spiritual power, even the fusion peak cultivators were only on par with him.

This gave him a great advantage when fighting with others. Not only did his several spiritual powers become extremely powerful, but he could also attack the enemy unexpectedly at critical moments. As long as the opponent did not have a soul weapon of level three or above in his sea of ​​consciousness, serious injuries were almost certain. This was definitely his killer move.

However, after Xiao Lin advanced to the fifth level, his cultivation speed slowed down significantly. After so many years, he had not been able to break through to the sixth level, which also puzzled Xiao Lin.

This time, in addition to comprehending the power of rules, Xiao Lin also wanted to further improve his cultivation to the peak of the early stage of fusion. After all, the second soul and Xiao Hei looted the Danmu clan's alchemy room and harvested many high-level elixirs, which were enough for his cultivation needs for quite a while.

In addition, there is also the upgrade of the magic weapon in his hand. He has studied the Eighteen Methods of Immortal Treasure Sublimation in detail whenever he has time over the years. Now he has some experience. Most of Xiao Lin's 144 Qingluan Ice Thunder Swords are first-level fairy treasures, which are no longer compatible with his current realm. Xiao Lin also wants to improve the grade of this set of flying swords.

As for the Purple Thunder Star Shield and the Soul Condensing Mirror, Xiao Lin wants to try the advanced methods in the Eighteen Methods of Immortal Treasure Sublimation. If he can upgrade the grade of his several magic weapons by one level, it will also be a great improvement for his combat power.

The more Xiao Lin thought about it, the more confused he became. He found that he had so many things to do. In addition to these things, he also had two small magical skills that he had to continue to practice, not to mention the Holy Scale Burning Heaven Technique.

At this moment, he has advanced to the first level of Blood Flame of Holy Scale Burning Heaven Art, and can condense the Blood Flame of Burning Heaven. However, this Blood Flame of Burning Heaven is only the primary stage of Blood Flame. With the further improvement of the Blood Flame realm, when he enters the third level, he can condense the Sun Fire of Burning Heaven. The Sun Fire of Burning Heaven is extraordinary, and even immortal treasures can be melted. With the Burning Heaven Indestructible Body of Holy Scale Burning Heaven Art, it can be said to be like adding wings to a tiger. Even with this body refining technique, Xiao Lin has the confidence to kill immortal cultivators of the same realm.

With thousands of thoughts, Xiao Lin also understands the truth that haste makes waste. After pondering, he began to designate a training plan for the next period of time.

Xiao Lin revised the training plan several times, and it was not until the third day that he finally finalized the preliminary plan.

But before training, Xiao Lin still needed to do one thing, that is, to enter the spiritual wood space.

As he entered into meditation, Xiao Lin's eyes moved, and the next moment, he appeared on a vast land, the land was endless, and on this empty land, near the center, there was a lush green spiritual flower and spiritual grass, and on the outermost, there were some elementary spiritual grass below the third level.

Spiritual grass above the fourth level cannot grow by reproduction, so each plant is a solitary copy and cannot reproduce and grow by itself, but the two or three-section spiritual grass left by Xiao Lin in his early years, but it continued to multiply and grow, just like weeds, it has grown to a range of thousands of miles. Every time Xiao Lin entered the spiritual wood space, he would find that this range has expanded a lot.

Xiao Lin ignored him. What he was most concerned about was naturally the most important spiritual tree. At this moment, the spiritual tree was already three feet tall and as thick as an adult's thigh. It was dark green all over, with straight branches and smooth as a mirror. It was still at the top of the tree, with a bunch of tender leaves on top. On each tender leaf, there was still a thumb-sized dewdrop, colorful and emitting a glassy color.

"Master, you haven't been here for a long time. Have you forgotten Xiao Zhi?" At this moment, Xiao Zhi still looked about five feet tall, but her figure seemed to be a little fatter. She was pink and very cute. At this moment, she was pouting and looked unhappy.

Seeing Xiao Zhi's cute appearance, Xiao Lin couldn't help but laugh lovingly: "How could it be? I'm busy these days, so I don't have time to see you. Besides, isn't I here?"

"Huh." Xiao Zhi snorted from her nose, but her body turned into a white light and threw herself directly into Xiao Lin's arms, rubbing Xiao Lin's chest intimately.

"Master Mu once told you that you should come here every hundred years to comprehend the rules, but this time you have exceeded the time limit. Master Mu is angry." He rubbed Xiao Lin's chest and spoke in a childish voice.

Xiao Lin was slightly shocked when he heard this, and secretly said "I shouldn't have done that". He had indeed forgotten this matter. In the years of training in the secular world, he spent almost all his energy on studying the pharmacy of hundreds of herbs, and even had almost no time for meditation and cultivation. As for the words of "Master Mu" conveyed to him by Xiao Zhi, he had forgotten them completely.

"Master Mu, Xiao Lin was negligent and forgot what you told him to do. I apologize to you." Xiao Lin did not dare to neglect it. After putting Xiao Zhi down, he hurried to the "Spiritual Wood" and bowed respectfully to apologize.