Several fellow disciples came forward to offer some words of comfort, but those brothers in the Foundation Establishment stage did not say in the end that they would "defeat Shen Ruoshi for her".

Obviously, no one had that confidence. After all, the Earth Dust Sutra was particularly restraining for physical cultivation. I don't know if their master, Elder He, has any useful suggestions.

Senior Sister Liu went back to clean herself, while Jiang Li and the other fellow disciples continued to watch the martial arts competition.

There were many disciples from the Demon Subduing Hall participating in the martial arts competition. Jiang Li and his fellow disciples watched the sunset together. He also cleaned up a basket of eggs. The first day of the martial arts competition came to an end.

It has to be said that the disciples of the Demon-Subduing Hall often carry out demon-subduing missions, and their level of magic fighting is quite good.

After the first day of the competition, generally speaking, we won more than we lost. The only time we met the disciples of Tianditang was when we were more likely to be defeated.

Because there is no lack of qualifications among the disciples of Tianditang, they basically recruit the most talented disciples among the new disciples every year.

Of course, there are also disciples with top-grade spiritual roots in other halls, but the number is not as many as that of the Tiandi Hall of the Valley Master.

This can be seen from the fact that Qi Tianya, a disciple with top-grade spiritual roots, did not worship under the Valley Master, but was just a disciple of an ordinary elder of the Tiandi Hall.

Even though not everyone among them knew the Earth Dust Sutra, given the age limit, the faster cultivation speed brought by their high-grade spiritual roots also allowed them to have considerable suppression over the disciples from other halls.

However, geniuses are always scarce, and while Tianditang has high requirements for its disciples, it naturally means that the number of disciples is limited.

The Demon Subduing Hall has an absolute advantage in the number of disciples. If the Demon Subduing Hall and the Tian Di Hall engage in a group fight, the chances of winning are still very high.

In addition, the speed of cultivation is fast? It may suppress others, but it is hard to say for me, Jiang Li.

Jiang Li snorted, returned to the courtyard of his mansion and started to sit down.

The spiritual energy in his body has been stirring for a long time and is about to break through at any time.

This kind of training speed is basically like using nitrogen to accelerate.

When Jiang Li started practicing Qi, he made use of the Yin energy of the outer sect cemetery. The strength of his spiritual energy was 20% to 30% higher than that of cultivators of the same level, and the power of his spells was also greater.

Moreover, since Jiang Li began his practice, he had never had the experience of honestly and laboriously absorbing spiritual energy from the heaven and earth bit by bit.

He is in the state of [Wood Yin Entering the Body] and [Accelerated Qi Nourishing] all year round, which basically means that the spiritual energy with the most suitable attributes for him is directly stuffed into his body for refining.

After that, he obtained the state of [Spiritual Energy Infused into the Body], which made his cultivation even faster.

In addition, it must be said that top-grade spirit stones are top-grade spirit stones. The purity of the spiritual energy in them is higher than the Mu Yin spiritual energy that Jiang Li cultivated with great effort.

For several consecutive months, Jiang Li simply practiced Qi regularly every day to refine the spiritual energy that continuously flowed out of his body. While his cultivation level improved by leaps and bounds, the strength of his spiritual energy also increased little by little under this nourishment.

He had roughly calculated before that his spiritual energy strength was now about twice that of the cultivators of the same level. If he cast two spells and they collided with each other, his spell would definitely crush the opponent.

With such a boost, breaking through the realm, a difficult hurdle that ordinary cultivators would struggle with, seemed to become insignificant to him.

Soon he will break through to the late stage of Qi training, and then the Ghost Wood Art will undergo some new changes.

He sunk into his mind, and with the blessing of several states, Guimu Jue began to operate frantically as if he was on a highway with no other vehicles.

In his sea of ​​consciousness, a small locust tree with lush branches and dark green leaves was swaying gently in a space of consciousness where wind could not possibly exist.

The trunk of the locust tree was only about as thick as an average person's arm. Although it was no longer a seedling, it had not yet matured into a mature tree.

If you look closely, you can find that there is a small mound on the soil next to the locust tree.

What was beneath the mound was none other than the ghost that had accidentally entered Jiang Li's sea of ​​consciousness and was captured by Jiang Li using the roots of a locust tree.

As the Ghost Wood Technique was activated, Jiang Li could feel the locust tree in his sea of ​​consciousness stirring.

It's like reaching a certain limit, and just one final step will make it happen.

He took a deep breath, and with a thought, an iron ring on the Dragon Prison Lock that was originally emitting a faint light immediately went out.

One of the spiritual energy flows that was transmitted to the Dragon Prison Lock was temporarily cut off by him.

The next second, the spiritual energy that surged even more in the body immediately broke through the barriers between the small realms.

Jiang Li felt like a patient who had been bedridden for thirty years. He stretched hard and his whole body swayed with comfort.

In the space of consciousness, the locust tree grew rapidly as if time was accelerated.

The tree is rapidly rising in height, its trunk is becoming thicker and thicker, its branches and leaves are spreading outward to cover a wider and wider area, and its roots beneath the soil are constantly climbing and spreading deeper into the soil.

About quarter of an hour later, Jiang Li slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a breath that was enough to spray out a distance of three or four feet. When it hit the wall, it scraped off a layer of wall dust.

Is this the later stage of Qi training?

The amount and intensity of spiritual energy have increased by nearly 50%.

Besides, this spiritual energy seems...very different from before.

Jiang Li closed his eyes and felt it for a moment, and he had some understanding of the changes in Guimu Jue.

After thinking for a while, he took out the Yin Burial Coffin from his arms, threw it out and it fell to the ground. The automatic sliding cover of the Yin Burial Coffin opened, and inside was a darkness that seemed to be able to swallow everything.

Jiang Li spread out his palms, and a ball of spiritual energy slowly emerged from his palms, but this spiritual energy was not as scattered as usual. Instead, it condensed into a ball and slowly changed its shape.

After a moment, the dark green spiritual energy formed a translucent root in the palm of Jiang Li's hand.

In the later stages of Qi training, there is no need to use any spells. Just using spiritual energy is enough to demonstrate some of the characteristics of the practice.

For example, like this!

Jiang Li stretched out his hand forward, and the dark green spiritual root suddenly grew forward and penetrated into the burial coffin.

Then the roots rolled and pulled, and a faint black shadow was pulled out of the burial coffin by Jiang Li.

This is the ghost transformed from the soul of the past, and it can now be seen with the naked eye.

The more than 300,000 ghosts and spirits in this coffin have changed greatly at this time.

The vast majority of ghosts and spirits have been re-paired and, with the nourishment of the increasingly rich spiritual energy within the burial coffin, have been transformed into primary ghosts with certain combat capabilities.

As for where this spiritual energy comes from?

That was naturally the large amount of high-quality spiritual energy that Jiang Li had continuously invested over the past few months.

The fifty points of high-quality spiritual energy per second might be fine for a while, but after a while the sword cultivator's clone and the Dragon Prison Lock would still have difficulty digesting it.

Only the space inside the burial coffin could directly transfer the spiritual energy into the coffin space and store it even if it could not be absorbed and utilized. Therefore, most of the spiritual energy during this period of time actually fell on the burial coffin.

Then, the magic weapon's special ability "Burial Yin" was used to transform the high-quality spiritual energy into Burial Yin spiritual energy that filled its internal space.

These more than 300,000 ghosts and spirits were nourished by the burial Yin spiritual energy for several months, which is why they collectively advanced and transformed into higher-level ghosts.

If you want to know what the level of this higher-level ghost is.

It is probably the kind of creature that, alone, can easily kill and eat humans, and can fight back and forth with mortal Taoist priests without spiritual energy, but can be easily destroyed by a piece of talisman paper from a real cultivator.

It is not much different from the evil ghost in folk legends.

However, although they are still weak, primary ghosts, many ants can kill an elephant. If all these 300,000 evil ghosts were released, even if there were ten or eight Foundation Establishment cultivators, they probably wouldn't be able to withstand them.

This ghost was bound by dark green spiritual roots. An expression of pain flashed across its unclear ghost face from time to time, but it did not resist or struggle at all.

Jiang Li was not worried at all that he would be attacked back by these more than 300,000 ghosts.

Because in addition to being a storage magic weapon, the main function of the Burial Coffin should be a logistical magic weapon used to refine various evil spirits.

Such as zombies, skeletons, ghosts, and so on.

The more burial spiritual energy these ghosts absorb, the more they are controlled by the burial coffin.

Moreover, the original foundation of this group of ghosts was too weak. More than 95% of their power came from Jiang Li. Not to mention now, even if they all became ghost kings, they would not be able to resist Jiang Li's will.

The spiritual roots slowly retracted, pulling the ghost into his palm.

Jiang Li only felt a chill on his palm, and then the chill went up along his arm, quickly sank into his brow, and then disappeared.

I closed my eyes and sank into the space of consciousness again. There was another small bulge on the ground next to the tall locust tree.

Sophora japonica is the ghost among trees.

It raises lonely, cold, and foul ghosts.

Now Jiang Li is no longer in a state where he needs ghosts to crash into his sea of ​​consciousness in order to capture them.

Now the Ghost Wood Art can already transform into spiritual roots and actively capture ghosts.

In addition, capturing ghosts and tying them under the roots can also bring Jiang Li several other wonderful uses.

The simplest one was... Jiang Li stretched out his hand, a layer of green light blossomed in his palm, and a thin wooden armor suddenly began to grow, soon covering his entire right hand.

Although it was not very obvious, his spiritual energy strength did increase again.

And if more time is spent, the ghosts captured by the roots will turn into tumors and attach to the roots. If there are more of them, Jiang Li's spiritual energy reserves will be greatly increased, which can be regarded as an external blue bar.

Although this effect is useless to him, he has never lacked spiritual energy since he started practicing.

Jiang Li didn't care about anything else. He just kept catching thirty ghosts and dragging them into his body. He didn't stop until he reached the upper limit of his current skill, feeling unsatisfied.

These thirty-two ghosts need to be transformed into root nodules before he can continue to kidnap more ghosts.

Jiang Li was quite satisfied with having broken through to the late stage of Qi training, so he struck while the iron was hot and practiced for the entire night.

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The next morning, Jiang Li opened his eyes, got up and was about to go out, but his face changed.

Snap!

A familiar voice came, and Jiang Li looked down with a changing expression. Sure enough, the bluestone floor under his feet had shattered into hundreds of pieces along the spider-web-like patterns.

He clenched his palms, and the sense of power coming from his body surged again.

Jiang Li pulled up his own panel and took a look in confusion. The "Mid-stage Physical Training" in the professional physical training column had changed to "Late-stage Physical Training" without him noticing.

No wonder my whole body reacted so strongly when I made the breakthrough before. It turned out that not only did my Qi training level break through, but my physical training level also broke through to the later stage.

Well, the combined effect of the four beast-blood tattoos and a variety of body-building elixirs made his physical training progress no slower than his Qi training.

It is definitely a good thing that both the physical and qi training have broken through to the later stages.

But... this breakthrough came at a really bad time.

We are still in the sect's martial arts competition period. With this sudden breakthrough, Jiang Li is really afraid that he might accidentally kill someone.

Looking at the creaking ground under my feet, this is really not impossible.

I bought a basket of eggs yesterday, but it seems like it was all wasted.

But it’s too late to go to Chui Mountain now.

Jiang Li scratched his head, feeling quite distressed.

After thinking for a long time, he suddenly looked at the Dragon Prison Chain wrapped around his waist.

This thing might be able to help.

Hualala! Under Jiang Li's will, the dark chain instantly came alive, circling around his body like a nimble snake.

It started by wrapping around his waist and then slowly wrapped around his upper body and arms.

Finally, there were two clicks.

The shackles at both ends of the Dragon Prison Lock were buckled on Jiang Li's wrists.

An invisible pressure enveloped him, causing his expanding strength to gradually decline.

Under Jiang Li's own control, the Dragon Prison Chain naturally did not directly exert its strongest power.

Instead, he suppressed the power bit by bit until Jiang Li felt that this level was barely acceptable to him.

After taking two more steps, at least the bluestone floor on the ground did not crack, so I could get by for the time being.

Putting shackles on oneself is really something unique.

Jiang Li shook his head dejectedly, and after leaving the house he did not go directly to the venue to watch the game.

Instead, he went directly to the Sutra Repository wearing chains.

He needs to find a physical training method that can help him control his own strength.

Before, it was because Jiang Li already had a lot of training projects, such as physical training, qi training, and listening to scriptures, and each of them required too much time, so there was never enough time every day.

This was the case when he had left the tasks of carving runes, learning to refine equipment, and practicing physical skills to the parallel consciousness.

So he had previously thought that it would only take a few days to get familiar with power control, and there was no need to learn a time-consuming spell.

However, the successive out-of-control of his power told him that such situations would likely occur more frequently in the future. If he had to familiarize himself with it again every time he lost control, the time he would spend might actually be more than learning one more spell.

Walking through the inner gate, Jiang Li no longer encountered the embarrassment he had experienced as an outer disciple. From time to time, he would meet a team of patrolling registered disciples, who had to bow to Jiang Li.

Soon, the metal door embedded in the mountain wall was knocked open.

Elder Li from the Sutra Repository was still drinking alone behind the counter.

By the way, Jiang Li still has an unused token for the Sutra Hall that he got when he joined the inner sect.

I'll have to find time to use it later.

After bowing in the direction of Elder Li, Jiang Li went into the physical training area and began to search the bookshelves.

Obviously, fewer people come to this physical training area, and the dust on the bookshelves is much thicker than that on other bookshelves.

As he flipped through the pages, Jiang Li's expression became even more gloomy.

It seems that there are not many cases in history like mine, where power is difficult to control because of rapid progress.

So he searched for a long time but still couldn't find the method he liked in the physical cultivation area.

This is quite embarrassing.

In fact, logically speaking, improving spiritual attributes is the best way to deal with poor strength control.

Practicing spiritual exercises such as the Heart Sutra of Guanyin is very suitable for Jiang Li's needs.

As long as he takes back his sword clone now and undergoes another spiritual transformation, this overflowing power will soon be fully controlled.

Or he could not release the parallel consciousness, and have an extra consciousness in the body to help Jiang Li control it. Not only would he be able to control his body well, he could even do two things at once and fight in more ways than one.

But the problem is that his level of Guanyin Heart Sutra is not high enough to separate out a second parallel consciousness.

As for the sword cultivator's clone, he couldn't give it up easily for the time being, so he couldn't rely on the Guanyin Heart Sutra for the time being. That's why he wanted to find a method to train his body and control his strength as a transition.

But Jiang Li didn't believe it and searched for a long time, but still didn't find much.

"Elder Li, Elder Li!"

In desperation, Jiang Li could only go back to the counter and wake up Elder Li who was taking a nap while drunk.

The other party was not angry.

After Jiang Li told him about his needs, he thought for a moment, looked Jiang Li up and down, then stood up and walked towards the depths of the Sutra Library.

Jiang Li's eyes lit up. This looked promising! He followed Elder Li closely, walking between the bookshelves, and soon returned to the physical training area.

Jiang Li was a little confused. Hadn't he already searched thoroughly here before? Could there be some fish that slipped through the net?

Elder Li stopped in front of a bookshelf, his body swaying as if he was about to fall to the ground drunk at any time.

After shaking for a long time, Elder Li finally stood up with the help of the bookshelf, and then he fumbled around on the bookshelf in a drunken state.

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