The next day, the envoys boarded the treasure ship and headed west back to Kunlun.

Song He sat near the stern, silently looking at the sea of ​​clouds outside the window.

The main purpose of Master Ziwei's visit to Penglai Yuqing Temple this time was to finalize the matter of the two sects' foundation-building disciples going to Li Palace together.

Although it is a relic of the ancient secret realm of the orthodox teaching, the three religions have now become independent and their relationship is not solid.

In addition, the Li Palace Secret Realm is located deep in the East China Sea, and its access mechanism is controlled by the Yuqing Temple in Penglai. Therefore, if Kunlun disciples want to participate in the Li Palace Trial, they must obtain the approval of the Yuqing Temple.

In short, leaving aside the trivial matters of exchanging interests, the two factions finally reached an agreement, and the list of disciples who would jointly go to the Li Palace for training had been finalized.

His fellow junior brothers Zhao Wencheng and Qiu Yuan had both just entered the Huafu stage not long ago. They wanted to use the power of the Li Palace to quickly transform into the Zifu and leave time for perfection, so they were successfully included in the list.

In order to allow them to skip the long stage of refining Qi into the body, Qiu Changtian and Xu Yinglian are naturally also on this list.

The Secret Realm of the Li Palace is located in the deep ocean of the East China Sea and is within the sphere of influence of Yuqing Temple. It is impossible for the headmaster to let him take the sect's treasure, the Taiyi Fenguang Sword, with him.

In addition, disciples who are not at the foundation-building stage cannot enter the secret realm, so a rare time window appears.

A time window that leaves Qiu Changtian isolated, without magic weapons or the protection of elders, which is also the most suitable time to attack him.

Song He stretched out his fingers and gently rubbed his eyebrows.

Last night, he went to visit an old acquaintance from Yuqing Temple and got information about the trial in the secret realm of the Li Palace from him.

Within the secret realm, the heaven and earth are vast and boundless.

If you want to find other fellow Taoists and overcome the difficulties together, it is theoretically possible.

However, when entering the secret realm, the palace restriction will identify the soul of the entrant and deliberately teleport each person to different places.

Due to the different initial positions and the different order of passing the levels, it is difficult for the trial participants to meet each other.

But there is one place that all trial-takers will inevitably reach, just in different orders.

That is the destination after passing the level - the main hall of the palace!

As long as he gets through before Qiu Changtian, he can ambush him at the palace gate.

With Qiu Changtian's qualifications, his clearance speed is likely to be ahead of most people. As long as you can arrive earlier than him, ambush him, and use powerful magic weapons to kill him quickly, the probability of success is very high!

As for the aftermath, it is even simpler. Once the secret realm of the palace is closed, it is unknown when it will be reopened again, and the cause of his death will be completely impossible to verify.

You know, in order to prevent someone from cheating and concealing the secrets, the restrictions in the Li Palace Secret Realm have brutally blocked even the means of detection such as divination.

Just as Song He was planning Zhou Ding, Luo Yan and Shi Liuli were called over by Elder Shi Ding.

"You have also heard about the matter of leaving the palace from the eldest brother, right?" Elder Shi Ding said solemnly, "The efficiency of the Three Flowers Gathering Spirit Technique of our Tiangongfang lineage is not very high."

"So, with the help of this secret palace, you can skip the long process of filling your sea of ​​qi. This is a rare opportunity for you."

Seeing his serious expression, Luo Yan and Shi Liuli also sat up seriously and listened patiently to Elder Shi Ding's instructions:

"The Secret Realm of the Li Palace Trial is divided into six levels, namely the First Line of Hell Fire Level, the Two Worlds of Red Dust Level, the Three Types of Beast Level, the Four Kings of Shura Level, the Sixth Heavenly Demon Level, and the Ten Palaces of Fengdu Level."

"Among them, the three levels of Hellfire, Asura, and Fengdu all test combat ability; the levels of Mortal World, Beast, and Heavenly Demon all test one's state of mind and understanding."

"After entering, the palace restriction will randomly teleport you to a checkpoint. As long as you can successfully pass the checkpoint, you will be randomly teleported to the next checkpoint, making it difficult for you to meet each other."

"So, you must make it through the customs on your own, and don't trust anyone you meet - whether you know the other person or not, you must treat it as if you don't know them."

"Disciple knows (daughter knows)." Luo Yan and Shi Liuli responded respectively.

"Hmm." Elder Shi Ding pondered for a moment and sighed, "The so-called Qi Refining Stage is both the process of drawing Qi into the body and the process of nourishing Qi and purifying the mind."

"The Qi Refining Stage, as the first stage for a cultivator, can take thirty or forty years at most. It is actually a kind of tempering of the heart of Taoism."

"Whether you can endure loneliness and keep your original heart is the key to subsequent practice."

"You used the Secret Realm of the Palace to skip this stage. I don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing..."

Elder Shi Ding sighed for a moment, then slowly left with his hands behind his back.

"Humph!" As soon as he left, Shi Liuli jumped up and said, "Father looks down on me again!"

"Master, what he said makes sense..." Luo Yan just tried to smooth things over when Miss Shi glared at him. After a while, he shut up tactfully.

"Dao heart, Dao heart, I don't have a Dao heart?" Shi Liuli said angrily, "Am I not a genius in cultivation? Who stipulated that others have to cultivate for thirty or forty years to reach the Qi Refining Stage? Why do I have to do the same as them and cultivate for thirty or forty years?"

"Senior sister, you are absolutely right!" Luo Yan could only flatter against his will, "Master, as a father, I always subconsciously treat my children as children."

"Then what?" Shi Liuli asked with a squint.

“But actually, with Senior Sister’s qualifications, there’s no need to worry at all.” Luo Yan said with a smile.

[Hypocritical personality, synchronization value +1. ]

"That's right!" Shi Liuli said as a matter of course, and smiled with satisfaction, "Junior brother still understands me."

"Alas, although my aptitude is not as good as that of Master Qiu, I am not bad compared to my senior brothers and sisters, right? It took them one or two months to pass the three levels, but I only needed half a month to cultivate the Qi Sea!"

"To be honest, it is true." Luo Yan flattered him again, "It takes half a month to cultivate the sea of ​​qi. What kind of cultivation qualifications does it take? I guess it took Master more than half a month to pass the three levels back then."

"Brother, I'm telling you something in secret. You are not allowed to tell anyone else. My father didn't have good aptitude back then." Shi Liuli smiled and whispered in his ear, "It took him one month and thirteen days."

Luo Yan was speechless when he heard this.

Miss Shi, they say that family disgrace should not be made public. Your behavior is truly filial.

Of course, to some extent, it also reflects how much Shi Liuli trusts him.

In any case, since Miss Shi was completely unaware of the relationship between Qiu Changtian and Luo Yan, he could safely reload Qiu Changtian's save file and start preparing to leave the palace secret realm.

…

I loaded the game file and went back to last night, put on Qiu Changtian's template, and spent the night in the room.

The next morning, Qiu Changtian and everyone else boarded the treasure ship back to Kunlun.

After arriving at Jinling, Qiu Changtian said to Xu Yinglian:

"Junior sister, please go back first. I have something else to do."

"Oh." Xu Yinglian did not ask any more questions. He just pressed down the sword light and landed it at the entrance of his own cave.

Qiu Changtian controlled the sword light and arrived at the entrance of Jian Qingnan's cave, rushing in aggressively.

But after a moment, Jian Qingnan, who was caught red-handed, confessed everything under the questioning of the chief senior brother:

"...Actually, these love knots are all fake. They are hair that I randomly collected from someone in Chitaifang Market."

Haha, you dare to cheat people with fake goods?

Qiu Changtian warned her seriously:

"Hair and nails, if they fall off within a month, they may be used as carriers of curses and secret arts, did you know that?"

"Of course I know." Jian Qingnan said aggrievedly, "However, most of these curse secrets have been lost."

"In ancient times, there was a book called Seven Arrows with Nailed Heads. As long as you know a person's name, you can sense their soul without using their hair or nails! According to this statement, even their name cannot be revealed..."

Qiu Changtian was furious and interrupted her:

"You dare to talk back?"

"I dare not." Jian Qingnan quickly shrank his head.

"Say 'Junior sister shouldn't talk back to senior brother' ten times! Louder!"

"Junior sister shouldn't talk back to senior brother..." Jian Qingnan was about to cry.