Chapter 577 Three Spiritual Swords
In the world of immortal cultivation, strength is respected. Without strength, everything is in vain. There may be fairness and tranquility on the surface, but no one knows what is going on in private. If you have not encountered unfair things, it may be because you are lucky enough, or it may be because you are not good enough and do not have the conditions to attract others' covetousness. Once you stand out, it may be another result.
The incident with the Liang family in Yuling City was not because the Liang family was so greedy, but because Yu Mengmiao was too good, so good that the Liang family could do anything for it; the incident with the Qin family in Qingfeng Hall was also because his foundation-building pill was too tempting, so tempting that the Qin family could coerce and lure regardless of their reputation.
However, relatively speaking, it is still relatively safe inside the sect. Since it is a famous and upright sect, no matter how many things happen in private, at least it should maintain fairness and tranquility on the surface, which is good for most disciples.
It is this superficial fairness and tranquility that cannot be bought with any amount of spirit stones. Yuling City provides a tranquility for ordinary low-level cultivators, and Xianmen provides a tranquility for middle-level cultivators. If this tranquility is lost, it is estimated that the entire Jiuzhou Continent's cultivation world would have been in chaos.
After dealing with the corpse of the one-eyed dragon Leng Yu, Qingyang also found the spiritual weapon Qianfeng Sword and a collection talisman that he had used before. There were not many things in the collection talisman, mainly a hundred or so low-grade spirit stones and some miscellaneous elixirs, and the rest were some ordinary items.
In total, the biggest gain this time was the two spirit swords. Whether it was the Qianfeng Sword or the Hantan Sword, they were both outstanding among the low-grade spirit weapons. Their power was not much worse than some middle-grade spirit weapons, at least much better than the Yin Yang Slash and Bagua Bronze Mirror that Qingyang had seen before.
Before, Qingyang thought that the five high-grade magic swords he often used should be eliminated, which had seriously affected his strength. Unexpectedly, someone delivered them to his door in a blink of an eye, allowing him to get two high-quality spirit swords for free.
If you add the Qingmu Sword that Qingyang got in the Chaos Demon Valley, it means that he already has three low-grade spiritual swords. If nothing else, it is still no problem to perform a three-element sword formation. However, the spiritual weapon is of high level, and it consumes more divine thoughts and true essence. If Qingyang uses five low-grade spiritual weapons to perform the Five Elements Sword Formation, he is still a little bit overwhelmed.
After playing with the two spiritual swords in his hands for a while, Qingyang turned back and entered the demon monkey cave. The iron-armed spirit monkey was still healing in the cave. After such a long time, the monkey king's injuries have gradually stabilized, and there is no worry about his life for the time being. As long as he heals his wounds with his heart, he will be fully recovered in half a month at most.
Seeing that the iron-armed spirit monkey was fine, Qingyang did not disturb him, but put the alcoholic bee colony outside the demon monkey cave for warning, and returned to the stone room, first changed his blood-stained clothes, and then sat down on the stone bed and began to meditate and practice.
Qingyang had just broken through to the foundation-building stage, and his realm had not yet been completely stabilized. Then he experienced two fierce battles with cultivators of the same level. Not only did his true essence consume a lot, but his newly advanced soul also showed signs of instability. He had to consolidate his cultivation as soon as possible.
After breaking through the foundation-building stage, the effect of the Qi-gathering pills he used to use before was greatly reduced, and it was no longer of much use to Qingyang. However, in order to improve his alchemy skills, he had refined a lot of Yangyuan pills when he was practicing. These pills were always on him, and they came in handy at this time.
The first time he took the Yangyuan pill, the pill would cause a faint tingling sensation in the meridians, but for Qingyang, who had just experienced the impact and destruction of the foundation-building pill on his body's meridians, this tingling sensation was nothing at all, and he could be described as calm.
After the breakthrough, Qingyang also felt the changes in his Dantian. After the true qi turned into true essence, his Dantian seemed to have become a bottomless pit. A large amount of spiritual energy absorbed and refined from the outside world through the spiritual veins entered the Dantian, but he could not feel the changes in the true essence in his body at all, and his cultivation level did not improve at all, as if all his efforts were in vain.
Qingyang knew the reason. It was not that the spiritual power disappeared after entering the Dantian, but because the demand for spiritual power had a qualitative change after the realm was improved. Compared with the total amount required for the improvement of cultivation, the spiritual power absorbed and refined by the meridians was too little, so there was no change.
After becoming a foundation-building cultivator, Qingyang's efficiency in absorbing external spiritual power increased a lot. It should be faster to improve cultivation, but there was a qualitative change in the Dantian, and the energy required increased too much. This efficiency was relatively insignificant, which led to such a situation.
According to Qingyang's estimation, it would take about twenty years to improve one level of cultivation by absorbing and refining spiritual power from the outside world, and the speed would be slower as time went on. Not to mention the Jindan stage, it would take at least more than a hundred years just to improve the cultivation to the late stage of foundation building, so it is useless to practice hard in seclusion. You will die of old age before you break through. You must rely on a lot of pills to assist.
No wonder there are more than hundreds of ordinary cultivators in the early and middle stages of foundation building in Qingfeng Hall, but only dozens of cultivators in the late stage of foundation building. In the final analysis, it is because of the lack of cultivation resources. A Yangyuan Pill requires about ten spirit stones, and many foundation building cultivators have only a few thousand spirit stones in their entirety. It is not enough to replace spiritual tools and buy spirit talismans to protect themselves, so how can there be extra spirit stones to buy pills?
Qingyang does not have this problem for the time being. In order to improve his alchemy skills, he spent a lot of spirit stones to buy materials to refine Yangyuan Pills. Now he has four or five hundred Yangyuan Pills on him. Not to mention the future, at least in the early stage of foundation building, he is not short of pills.
Of course, with Qingyang's qualifications, even if he had no shortage of elixirs, his cultivation would not improve too fast, because it takes time to refine and absorb the Yangyuan Pill. If it is too fast, it will easily cause an unstable state, or even go astray. He can only watch step by step.
Time passed quickly. Half a month later, Qingyang finished his meditation and practice and walked out of the stone chamber. At this time, he was introverted, his eyes were normal, and he looked like an ordinary person at first glance, no longer as sharp as when he just broke through.
His cultivation has been initially stabilized, and there is no unstable state for the time being. In the future, he can practice step by step in the sect. Calculating the time, this breakthrough took two months, and it was time to go back.
Qingyang got up and packed up, and left the stone chamber. The stone that blocked the stone chamber was broken by Qingyang before, and it was difficult to find another one of the right size. Anyway, there was nothing important in the stone chamber, so there was no need to spend that effort.
The Iron Arm Monkey's injuries had recovered. He had been hanging out with the monkeys for a while. Now he seemed to know it was time to leave and was saying goodbye to the first and second level demon monkeys. Qingyang didn't know how the demon monkeys communicated, but he could feel their reluctance to leave.