Chapter 1270 Thirty Years
Of course, there is one last reason, which is that Qingyang rarely encounters a cold pond that can be used at will and without restrictions. He can practice and improve his cultivation here to his heart's content, so he will not give up easily. Although he wanted to go out to find the One-Horned Ghost King as soon as possible, he also knew that the matter of the One-Horned Ghost King was very difficult to deal with. If his cultivation was too low, he would not be able to help much. The higher the cultivation, the more effort he had to make, so he had to improve his cultivation as much as possible before that.
Let's not talk about these for now. As time went by, Qingyang's cultivation was gradually improving. The cultivation efficiency of the cold pond was amazing. After only a few months, Qingyang's cultivation broke through from the fourth level of the Golden Core to the fifth level of the Golden Core. At the beginning of the cold pond in the Ghost Valley, Qingyang's cultivation was on the verge of a breakthrough. Now that nearly a year has passed, it is natural that he will break through.
After that, Qingyang did not relax, and still spent most of his energy on cultivation. His cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, and in less than five years, he raised his cultivation to the sixth level of the Golden Core.
After that, Qingyang continued to work hard and spent another six years to reach the peak of the sixth level of the Golden Core. At this time, he finally encountered the bottleneck between the middle and late stages of the Golden Core, and his cultivation stagnated. Qingyang first tried to break through the bottleneck on his own. After a year of accumulation and several attempts, he found that it was too difficult to break through with conventional methods, so Qingyang took a bunch of grapes from the spiritual vine in the Drunken Immortal Gourd and the spiritual wine that he had collected for many years to assist. I don’t know whether Qingyang’s cultivation has really reached the time for a breakthrough, or the grapes and spiritual wine are really effective. This time he successfully broke through to the seventh level of the Golden Core and became a late-stage Golden Core cultivator.
In the Ancient Wind Continent, the cultivation of immortals is well developed, and there are too many high-level cultivators. Late Jindan cultivators are nothing, and Qingyang's cultivation is not very conspicuous. But if it is taken to the Jiuzhou Continent where Qingyang was originally, this cultivation is quite scary. Take the Qingfeng Palace where Qingyang was born, for example. The head of the sect, Qiyun Zhenren, is only at the eighth level of Jindan, and the other two heads of the seven major sects, Yuling Sect Huangming Zhenren and Jinding Pavilion Yuchu Zhenren, are only at the seventh level of Jindan. In other words, if Qingyang returns to the Jiuzhou Continent, his current cultivation is enough to serve as the head of one of the seven major sects.
What is more terrifying is Qingyang's strength. When he was a fourth-level Jindan cultivator before, he could fight with a ninth-level Jindan cultivator. Now that his cultivation has been raised to the seventh level of Jindan, there is no opponent below the Jindan level. Even if he encounters an ordinary Yuanying cultivator, he is not afraid at all. With his current strength, I am afraid that no one in the entire Jiuzhou Continent will be his opponent.
Unknowingly, Qingyang has grown to the level that he had to look up to at the beginning.
Up to now, Qingyang has been here for twelve years, but Hun Su is still alive and well, so he can only continue to fulfill his promise and stay in this cold cave to accompany him.
In these twelve years, not only Qingyang, but also the Iron Arm Monkey and the Alcoholic Queen Bee have been practicing in the cold pond. The three of them consumed at the same time, but the spiritual energy in the cold pond did not decrease too much. The consumption was severe and the replenishment was also large. It can be said to be a rare Feng Shui treasure land.
After that, Qingyang continued to stay in the cold pond to practice, racing against time to improve his cultivation. In the late Jindan period, each level of cultivation required more spiritual energy. From the seventh level of Jindan to the eighth level of Jindan, Qingyang spent a full eight years, and the ninth level of Jindan later, Qingyang took ten years. In other words, Qingyang spent the 30th year in this cold cave, and his cultivation finally broke through to the ninth level of Jindan, catching up with the ghost dust real person who needed him to pay a huge price and use the five elements sword formation to injure him.
The ninth level of the Golden Core is the last level of the Golden Core Realm. As long as this level is cultivated to perfection, you can try to condense the Nascent Soul. That is the Nascent Soul stage, a realm that I dared not even think about. I didn't expect that I would be so close to it one day.
In addition to cultivation, there is strength. When Qingyang was at the seventh level of the Golden Core before, although he was not afraid of the Nascent Soul cultivator, he still felt a little guilty when he really faced it. That was a completely different level. They were not comparable to each other. Not to mention other things, just from the direct increase of 600 years in lifespan, it can be seen how big the gap between the two realms is. But now that his cultivation has reached the ninth level of the Golden Core, he will no longer feel guilty. Now, let alone ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators, even senior Nascent Soul second-level cultivators, Qingyang is confident that he can fight.
Qingyang had never thought that he could practice in seclusion here for thirty years. Since he embarked on the road of cultivation, Qingyang had practiced in seclusion countless times, but he had never stayed in one place for such a long time like this time. Qingyang was only over 130 years old, and these thirty years accounted for almost a quarter of his life, even more than the time he spent in Qingfeng Palace. However, Qingyang also knew that as his cultivation level improved, such things would only become more and more frequent in the future. It might take one or two hundred years for ordinary Yuanying cultivators to improve their cultivation level, so seclusion was a common thing.
In these thirty years, not only did Qingyang's cultivation level improve rapidly, but the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey and the Alcoholic Queen Bee also made progress. As early as the seventh year of practicing in the Cold Pond, the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey had reached the peak of the eighth level. However, due to his limited qualifications, the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey spent three years unable to advance. In desperation, Qingyang had to take out a portion of the materials left when he was refining the Demon Barrier Pill for the Demon King on Hengxing Island.
Qingyang's alchemy skills are now much higher than when he was on Hengxing Island. Not to mention the golden elixir, he dares to try even the Nascent Soul elixir. In particular, the last time he used the Nine-Child Ghost Lotus Lotus Root to batch refine the golden elixir, and finally synthesized the Lingming Heshou Pill, which greatly helped Qingyang's alchemy skills, so it is now very easy for him to refine the Demon Barrier Pill.
With the help of the Purple Cloud Tongxiao Cauldron, Qingyang's luck was bursting. He only used one material to successfully refine the Demon Barrier Pill. Later, the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey broke through to the ninth level with the help of this Demon Barrier Pill and became a ninth-level demon beast. Now another twenty years have passed, and the Iron Arm Spirit Monkey's strength has been improved to a level close to the peak of the ninth level, which is roughly equivalent to the ninth level of the golden elixir of human cultivators, and even half a level higher than Qingyang.
As for the alcoholic queen bee, her strength has reached the peak of the ninth level early, and she is only one step away from advancing again, but she still lacks an opportunity for a breakthrough.
For monster beasts, the transition from level six to level seven is a threshold, because they have to overcome the spiritual tribulation. If they overcome it, they can open up their spiritual intelligence and become a spiritual monster beast. If they fail to overcome it, they will either die or become a demon beast.