The day of their departure finally arrived.

During this period, while Jiang Li was receiving special training from Elder He, he also took time out to go to the Sutra Hall to receive three Sutra teachings on "body, qi, and method."

What he used, of course, were three lowest-level scripture transmission tokens, each good for one hour.

As for the eight-hour token awarded as a reward for winning the first place in the Qi Refining Stage Martial Arts Competition, he traded it with Ma Donggui again.

A large amount of monster blood, Yin object materials, and some array base items used to set up array formations were exchanged from the Foreign Affairs Hall.

The things he exchanged were not high-end stuff that could enhance combat power, but rather low-level materials that were extremely common in the world of immortal cultivation.

Ma Donggui almost thought that Jiang Li was going to set up his own small sect.

Unfortunately, during those three times of transmitting the sutra, there was no other great inheritance like the Heart Sutra of Guanyin.

Jiang Li didn’t get the Fang Tian Yin that he had been longing for.

However, the three inheritances obtained were not bad at all. Any one of them could cause a bloody storm if released to the outside world.

This relatively ordinary level of inheritance also has its advantages.

Although the power is relatively small, the difficulty of preaching will also be smaller.

He no longer needed to wait as long as he did for the Guanyin Heart Sutra. Perhaps it would come in handy in this competition.

The sun had just risen, and the flying boat fleet of Sutra Repository Valley was already ready in the air.

This time, there are only fifteen contestants from the sect, but they are one of the four major sects in Dachongshan, and they want to show the majesty of a famous and large sect. It is impossible for them to let fifteen of them crawl through with difficulty.

There are many people cheering them on along with them.

After all, this competition was also about the allocation of resources in the secret realm of the medicine garden. If the force we brought was not strong enough, and we were unable to control the situation, it would be bad if we suffered a loss.

The master of Sutra Valley needs to stay in charge of the sect and naturally cannot act rashly.

The three chief elders of the Demon-Subduing Hall, Rejuvenation Hall, and Foreign Affairs Hall all went out in person with a large number of people under their command.

One team of them is responsible for maintaining order with force, one team is responsible for medical support, and one team is responsible for receiving the results after the competition.

This time, the sect directly dispatched four floating flying boats to show its strength.

Among them are one luxury building ship, two escort warships, and one transport cargo ship.

This transport ship showed the absolute confidence of Sutra Vault in this martial arts competition. They were determined to win the first place in Qi Refining Stage. After all, it was Sutra Vault that produced a freak who could fight against the Foundation Establishment Stage with Qi Refining Stage cultivation.

According to the rules of the competition, there is a huge difference between the first place in the two competitions and all the other places behind them.

This item alone represents 10% of the annual production share of the entire spiritual medicine secret realm.

Coupled with the efforts of his disciples, they shouldn't be far behind.

After the competition, we will definitely get a good share. What if we have too many herbs to transport back? So a cargo ship is necessary.

There were even disciples discussing that if Senior Brother Chu Yunxuan had not broken through to the Jindan stage early on, he would have exceeded the cultivation limit of this competition and would not have been able to participate in the competition.

Then the first place in the Foundation Establishment Stage and the first place in the Qi Refining Stage in this competition might be won by them.

Before setting off, in Changqing Palace, the Valley Master once again gave a mobilization speech to the fifteen disciples.

The benefits represented by this large-scale secret medicine garden are too huge. The impact on the future is also extremely far-reaching, and may even lead to a reshuffle of the forces in the cultivation world in the Dazhongshan area.

For example, Bailian Mountain has been established in the world of immortal cultivation by refining pills and tools. If they are allowed to get the largest share, they may even go further and leave the other three major sects behind.

Therefore, this competition is not just about winning or losing and ranking, but also related to the future survival and prosperity of the sect.

These words made the fifteen disciples excited and at the same time, they all felt the heavy responsibility on their shoulders and secretly resolved to go all out.

Walking out of Changqing Palace and standing on the backs of cranes, they flew towards the fleet of flying boats that were already suspended in the air.

However, unlike the excitement of others, Jiang Li, who was originally the most optimistic and active, seemed to be thinking about something in his heart and did not respond much to the cheers of others.

This is a bit abnormal for Jiang Li, who has always been keen on socializing.

Jiang Li stood on the back of the crane, the strong wind blowing on his cheeks, which made him feel a little cool and comfortable.

In fact, he didn't have any worries in his heart. He just felt the cold air blowing towards him. The world he felt was a little different from before. The spiritual energy around him seemed to have become clearer and more active.

And this feeling did not just appear, but has been there for several days.

In the past few days, Jiang Li had a vague feeling that his body seemed to be a little more friendly and sensitive to the spiritual energy of the surrounding environment.

During the practice, even the efficiency of refining the high-grade spiritual energy flow was improved. The improvement of spiritual energy refining efficiency usually only occurs when the level of the Ghost Wood Technique is improved.

But now, although he is on the verge of a breakthrough again, he has not yet broken through. Such a sudden change is still somewhat abnormal.

This feeling was different from the effect brought about by the breakthrough in spiritual attributes. He could feel that this improvement still came from physical changes.

After a few days of real experience, Jiang Li had some bold ideas.

Although it was just a guess, Jiang Li felt that his guess should be closer to the truth.

As soon as he got on the ship, Jiang Li just casually said a few greetings and ran hurriedly into the cabin assigned to him.

The people who were familiar with him just thought he was nervous before the war and went back to practice without thinking much about it.

With a bang, the cabin door was closed forcefully. Jiang Li also activated the protective isolation formation in the cabin, and the small space instantly became extremely quiet.

The fifteen disciples who participated in the martial arts competition this time were honored with great honors, and they received the highest treatment in some small matters.

The cabins on the ship are also configured according to the elders' standards. This is why there are cabins with separate protective formations.

Jiang Li took a deep breath, then took out a formation stone plate with a diameter of about two meters and a transparent glass ball the size of a volleyball from the burial coffin.

Jiang Li had come into contact with this set of equipment when he was in Shengxian Pavilion. It was exchanged from the Foreign Affairs Hall. It was a set of spirit testing arrays used to detect the grade of spiritual roots.

After more than half a year, Jiang Li suddenly wanted to re-test his spiritual root qualifications.

If it weren't for the fact that few people usually buy things like spirit-testing arrays, and if it weren't for the fact that there were no stocks in the Foreign Affairs Hall, and he only got the thing a few hours before departure, Jiang Li wouldn't have waited until he was on the flying boat to do something like this.

Sitting cross-legged on the spirit-testing array, Jiang Li was slightly excited. He picked up the glass spirit-testing ball, and before he inserted the spirit stone, black and green light quickly rose from the spirit-testing ball.

Oh, by the way, my body is still filled with high-quality spiritual energy, so of course the spirit ball will have this kind of reaction.

In order to test his spiritual root aptitude, he had to eliminate his super talent of [Spiritual Energy Infusion] first.

However, Jiang Li did not hesitate at all, because he had originally planned to replace the 50 points of spiritual energy infusion per second with the more efficient 100 points of spiritual energy infusion per second in the near future.

As soon as the five-second minus button expired, the pure spiritual energy that had been gushing out of Jiang Li's body came to an abrupt stop. He also promptly cut off the flow of spiritual energy supplied to his clone and magic weapon. Otherwise, the loss of spiritual energy at this rate would drain him dry in no time.

This feeling is so empty.

The flow of spiritual energy that had been surging in his body for years suddenly disappeared. Although there would not be any side effects, it still made Jiang Li quite uncomfortable.

It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. It is like when you are used to using 5G traffic, and suddenly even the 2G network has poor signal, and it takes half a day to load a picture. That’s a crazy feeling.

It took Jiang Li several minutes to recover. He turned an hourglass upside down, embedded a spirit stone into the stone plate, and then held up the spirit ball and sat there.

Testing the quality of his spiritual roots required him to suppress his own spiritual energy and skills, and only automatically absorb spiritual energy under the effect of the formation.

So Jiang Li could only concentrate and sit there helplessly with his eyes closed.

As for the task of observing time and measuring the progress of the spirit, it was handed over to the parallel consciousness that had not yet transformed into a second incarnation.

The second parallel consciousness entered the body of a red-coated rat zombie and squatted next to the main body to help watch.

The colored glass spirit ball held in Jiang Li's palm was also being filled with two-color light bit by bit.

Finally, there was a buzz and the black and green light flashed at the moment of filling.

The red-coated mouse next to it immediately overturned the hourglass.

Jiang Li had already seen the result through the eyes of his second parallel consciousness, but when he opened his eyes and saw the hourglass, a hint of joy flashed across his face.

His hourglass lasts exactly ten minutes at a time, but this time, after Jiang Li filled the spirit ball, there was still some sand in the upper half of the hourglass.

Although there wasn't much sand left, maybe not enough to drain in a minute, but there was still some. It took him less than ten minutes to fill the spirit ball this time.

In other words, Jiang Li now has the qualifications of a top-grade spiritual root.

Sure enough! Just as I guessed, the spiritual root grade has been improved! This is outrageous. I haven't taken any natural treasures, elixirs or magical medicines during this period. How come the spiritual root grade has suddenly improved? Jiang Li quickly called on the two parallel consciousnesses in the consciousness space to recall when this change began.

As the saying goes, three stupid Jiang Li are better than one Zhuge Jiang Li. The three consciousnesses analyzed and recalled together and soon came to a conclusion.

The change happened after he used his new ability to "break out of the cocoon"! Could it be that... the effect of breaking out of the cocoon on the body can actually have an effect on the spiritual root aptitude?

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Hiss! Didn't that mean I had picked up a magical skill for nothing?

As long as you keep breaking out of the cocoon and adjusting your body, you can continue to improve your spiritual roots?

Is this too outrageous? No, I have to try it quickly.

Jiang Li immediately took off his clothes and sat cross-legged. After the effect was activated, the stratum corneum on the surface of his skin became thicker and thicker, and soon began to dry and harden into a cocoon-like shell.

Two hours later, the cocoon began to twist and was soon torn apart from the inside by Jiang Li.

He didn't care about his clothes and started testing again on the spirit testing array.

Time passed quickly amid the sound of sand rubbing against each other.

The red-coated mouse was quick-witted and overturned the hourglass at the moment the spirit ball flashed, but the result this time was almost the same as before.

It seems that the situation is not that simple. The abilities learned from four ordinary insects are indeed impossible to achieve the effect of changing one's destiny.

So why is that?

Obviously, the change did happen after the last time he broke out of the cocoon, so how could it be unrelated to this ability? Jiang Li scratched his head, and his three consciousnesses fell into deep thought again.

Perhaps, simply “breaking out of the cocoon” cannot improve his aptitude. However, perhaps this is also an important reason for the change in aptitude.

Based on his own situation, Jiang Li ruled out one possibility after another.

Finally, he focused on the beneficial effect of [Spiritual Energy Infusion] which he had just eliminated.

High-quality spiritual energy continuously flowed out from his body and constantly transformed into several streams of spiritual energy, which were distributed and transmitted to his magic weapons and clones.

This method of bathing with high-quality spiritual energy is extremely luxurious and wasteful.

If these amounts were converted into high-grade spirit stones, then during this period of time, the spiritual energy of probably thousands of high-grade spirit stones had flowed through his body.

That value is equivalent to tens of millions of low-grade spirit stones. Even for a large sect like Sutra Valley, it is a huge expense that will make people feel the pain.

Most people, when holding a top-grade spirit stone, should carefully absorb the pure spiritual energy inside and refine it, and would not be willing to waste even a single drop.

But Jiang Li actually allowed 99% of the high-quality spiritual energy to flow in and out of his body.

It is equivalent to taking a sip of the soup after the Manchu-Han banquet is served and then pouring it all out. It is a typical example of squandering money.

But perhaps it is this kind of spiritual energy that is washed away at all costs that is slowly and imperceptibly changing Jiang Li's body, allowing his body to gradually transform into a state suitable for spiritual practice.

But that speed was naturally not obvious enough, and then Jiang Li got the effect of the skill of breaking the cocoon by chance.

The body can enter a state of transformation, thereby stimulating the changes accumulated over the past few months, which leads to the current effect of improved spiritual root qualifications.

The combination of these two reveals the truth of how spiritual roots can change one's destiny.

Perhaps in the future, I will really need to break out of my cocoon and be reborn regularly, improving my spiritual roots bit by bit.

Jiang Li couldn't help but smile when he thought of this, feeling delighted. The importance of spiritual root qualifications in the path of cultivation is self-evident.

Look at the other fourteen geniuses outside. Eight out of ten have top-grade spiritual roots, and the remaining ones either have mutated spiritual roots or have other special talents.

Is there any ordinary disciple who got promoted through hard work?

Cultivating immortals has never been about fairness.

Even Jiang Li relied on plug-ins. He relied on the unlimited resources and powerful amplification brought by the plug-ins to build up his wealth.

But even so, qualifications are still extremely important to him.

Because many times, the effect of resources and qualifications put together is multiplication rather than addition.

If Jiang Li had a top-grade spiritual root aptitude, he would have already established his foundation by now.

Feeling regretful about his own qualifications, he took out the top-grade spirit stone and the small bottle of unused spirit-melting liquid.

He dripped the soul-melting liquid onto the top-grade spirit stone with ease. The luster of the spirit stone dimmed a little. After waiting for a moment, Jiang Li put two drops of liquid full of spiritual energy into his mouth.

The crude use of this soul-melting liquid is like using a power bank to charge a power bank.

This is a huge waste of top-grade spirit stones. When the spiritual energy is integrated into the spiritual liquid, most of the spiritual energy will be wasted. When Jiang Li takes the spiritual liquid, most of the spiritual energy will be wasted again. The spiritual energy that actually flows out of his body is even less than one-tenth of the original amount.

But even so, in front of Jiang Li's plug-in, the result is still a huge profit.

【Take the top-grade stone-melting spiritual liquid, and let the spiritual energy fill your body. 】

[Spiritual Energy Infusion: 100 points of high-quality spiritual energy infusion per second, duration 30 seconds] (-+)

After five seconds of plus sign, the gain state that had just been eliminated by Jiang Li reappeared on his panel in a doubled form.

Then Jiang Li didn't dare to stay for a moment and jumped directly into the burial coffin.

A larger amount of spiritual energy was flowing through his body at a faster speed, which meant that Jiang Li's physical strength had increased several times, otherwise he would not be able to withstand this kind of flow.

Before his body was burst by the spiritual energy, he repeatedly used the "Spirit Surging Technique" (an enhanced version of the Yin Refining Technique) to directly create several spiritual energy springs in the Yin Burial Coffin, and more high-purity spiritual energy poured into the coffin space.

The concentration of spiritual energy, which was already frighteningly high, began to slowly rise again. The large number of ghosts floating densely in the air also began to swim excitedly, and countless ghost lights flickered in the coffin space.

After the last demon-eliminating mission and the subsequent acquisition of the Manjianghong Inn, the number of various ghosts in the coffin space has increased significantly, breaking through the 400,000 mark and reaching the exaggerated number of 430,000.

Sharing spiritual energy with these ghosts is not a waste for Jiang Li, but a help instead.

In this way, he doesn't have to worry about the burial coffin being burst by spiritual energy.

And with such extravagant investment, Jiang Li was also looking forward to seeing what this group of ghosts and the magic weapon, the Yin Burial Coffin, could achieve.

"My lord, you have come. I did not greet you. Please forgive me."

Not far from Jiang Li, such a voice was heard from a clay statue with a broken piece of its head.

In the damaged area, half of a beautiful and delicate face was revealed, and one eye blinked at Jiang Li, with complex and inexplicable emotions in the eyes.

It seems that the Lord of the Seven Paths Ghost Market has also recovered with the nourishment of the rich spiritual and yin energy in the Burial Yin Coffin.

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