Chapter 1160: Retreat and Practice
As Qingyang practiced his skills, a large amount of spiritual power entered his body from the spiritual stone, and then entered the meridians throughout his body. After being refined, it was converted into true essence and stored in Qingyang's Dantian.
The method of refining pills is similar to using spiritual stones, but the spiritual power in the spiritual stone is purer, and it is more convenient and faster to refine. There are almost no impurities that need to be cleaned and discharged from the body, so the efficiency of cultivation is more than a little higher than that of pills.
Of course, so much spiritual power pouring into the meridians of the whole body at the same time is also a huge test for the tolerance of Qingyang's meridians, just like a large amount of flood suddenly pouring into the ditch. If you can bear it, it's good. If you can't bear it, there will be a danger of bursting the dam.
Fortunately, Qingyang has been breaking through the Jindan realm for a long time, and his meridians are not so fragile. Moreover, he has experienced this situation many times before, and he is quite experienced. He has a certain psychological preparation for the pressure and pain that the meridians have to bear, so he is not in a hurry.
The spiritual power in the spirit stone continued to flow into the body, and the cultivation in the Dantian was also slowly increasing. Qingyang could clearly feel that this growth rate was much faster than the speed of taking and refining pills, and the speed of strength improvement was almost two or three times faster.
After more than 20 days, the spiritual power in the spirit stone was all used up, and the spirit stones originally spread on the ground all turned into a pile of useless powder. Qingyang cleaned up the powder and threw it into the drunken fairy gourd, then took out thousands of spirit stones and spread them again in the original position.
If it was before, there would not be much change in just more than 20 days of cultivation. If there were no pills to assist, relying solely on absorbing spiritual power from the outside world, more than 20 days would not feel any improvement in cultivation. However, Qingyang used spirit stones to improve his cultivation, and the changes were more obvious. These more than 20 days could almost catch up with the effect of others' cultivation in a year. At this rate, it would take about three or four years for a Jindan cultivator to improve his cultivation by one level.
Qingyang just had an idea in his mind, and soon put it behind his mind. Try not to be distracted when practicing. After laying the spiritual stones, Qingyang resumed his practice, channeling the spiritual power in the spiritual stones into his body and refining it into his own cultivation.
The situation was the same afterwards. Each time he laid thousands of spiritual stones on the ground, he could support his cultivation for more than 20 days. When the spiritual power in the spiritual stones was exhausted, Qingyang would clean up the abandoned spiritual stones, replace them with a new batch of spiritual stones, and continue to meditate and practice.
Cultivation is extremely boring. Fortunately, Qingyang has been practicing for decades and he has long adapted to such a life. Moreover, the location of the cave he built is relatively remote, and no one comes to disturb him at ordinary times. He can practice quietly, and three years have passed unknowingly.
In three years, Qingyang has replaced spiritual stones at least forty times, requiring thousands of pieces each time. The 300,000 spiritual stones given to him by the One-horned Ghost King have all been used up, and Qingyang's cultivation has also been raised to the peak of the second level of the Golden Core, and he is only one step away from breaking through the third level of the Golden Core.
Before Qingyang got up and left the retreat, the One-horned Ghost King sent someone to deliver another 300,000 spirit stones to him. It turned out that the 15% tax of the seven overlords of the Fallen Ghost Abyss in the past three years had just been delivered to Qingmang Mountain. I don’t know how the One-horned Ghost King is doing. This side just happened to continue the consumption of Qingyang’s spirit stones.
300,000 spirit stones are just enough for three years of consumption, and can be continuously supplied to Qingmang Mountain. If it is like this in the future, I am afraid that I will never have to worry about spirit stones in this life. Not to mention the late Jindan, even the Yuanying realm is not far away. No wonder the seven overlords of the Fallen Ghost Abyss are all at the ninth level of the Jindan. With such good training conditions, it is too easy to improve their strength.
Since the spirit stones have been delivered, Qingyang did not go out again, and continued to practice in seclusion in his temporary cave. Just like the previous procedure, every time he laid thousands of spirit stones around him according to a certain pattern, and then practiced the exercises to guide the spiritual power inside to refine and absorb.
Qingyang's cultivation had reached the peak of the second level of the Golden Core before, so this time it only took him half a year to raise his cultivation to the third level of the Golden Core. After that, he continued to practice in seclusion without any rest, and consumed all the 300,000 spirit stones sent this time in one breath.
He had been practicing in seclusion for six years at this time, and his cultivation had reached the level of the third level of the Golden Core. Judging from the speed of practice during this period, it would take at most half a year to a year for his cultivation to reach the peak of the third level of the Golden Core. The rest was to break through the bottleneck from the third level to the fourth level.
The One-horned Ghost King seemed to be particularly familiar with the situation here. Qingyang's spirit stones had just been used up, and 300,000 spirit stones were sent again. In addition to this time, the One-horned Ghost King had given Qingyang a full 900,000 spirit stones. It was difficult for a Nascent Soul cultivator to take out so many spirit stones at once. Even a powerful sect would feel heartbroken to give others so many spirit stones at once.
However, the One-Horned Ghost King casually gave it to Qingyang without any reluctance, as if the spirit stones were not his at all. But on second thought, they were indeed not his. They were collected by the seven overlords of the Fallen Ghost Abyss as a tribute to him. Moreover, the One-Horned Ghost King had a very high status in the past. As the former lord of one of the Ten Kings Palaces, he probably did not take these spirit stones seriously.
However, Qingyang was very moved by the generosity of the One-horned Ghost King. When he first met the One-horned Ghost King, he had just entered the world of cultivation and was ignorant of many things. He saved the other party without knowing what was going on. Qingyang did not actually do much, and saving the One-horned Ghost King was just a piece of cake, but the reward was huge. Several times when Qingyang encountered problems, he asked the One-horned Ghost King to help him. This time, he continuously provided him with spiritual stones, which was a huge reward.
Qingyang knew that the reason why the One-horned Ghost King did this was not only to thank him for saving his life, but also because the two had been together for decades and had an extraordinary relationship. The relationship between the two could be said to be both a teacher and a friend. The One-horned Ghost King even took care of him like a junior.
After getting the spiritual stones this time, Qingyang still did not come out of retreat, and continued to use the spiritual stones in his temporary cave to practice. He changed the spiritual stones almost every twenty days, consuming thousands of spiritual stones each time, and Qingyang's cultivation was also improving at a noticeable speed.
This time it only took Qingyang one year to improve his cultivation to the peak of the third level of the Golden Core. However, he encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation at this time. His cultivation was stuck at the threshold of the early and middle Golden Core stages. He spent more than half a year without any progress and was unable to successfully break through to the middle Golden Core stage. Instead, he wasted a lot of spirit stones.