In addition, they had an unexpected surprise, that is, the top ten monks on the list had the right to skip the next round of competition and directly participate in the final round.

This is good news for Jiang Li. Now he needs some quiet time to practice hard in seclusion and digest the benefits he has gained from his spiritual root clone.

Although his name was on the Jade List, Jiang Li’s mind was no longer here.

After bidding farewell to Shenshan Qiuhua and rejecting many invitations from fellow apprentices, Jiang Li went straight back to his own cabin.

Jiang Li's current cultivation progress is close to the foundation-building stage. If he doesn't change his practice method, it will be too late.

In the hut, he smashed the floor tiles with one punch, then threw out the burial coffin, walked into the coffin, and sank into the ground together.

Since he wants to practice, for Jiang Li, there is no better environment than the coffin space.

He took two deep breaths in the coffin space. The spiritual energy and yin energy were so rich that they almost formed a thin mist on the ground. Jiang Li felt refreshed.

After adjusting himself for a moment, Jiang Li immediately sat cross-legged.

Since his spirit and understanding were no longer what they were before, in just a few breaths, his mind had reached a state of meditation.

This is why it is widely said in the world of immortal cultivation that practicing divine skills can assist in cultivation.

Because it really can.

Although the two attributes of spirit and comprehension are extremely difficult to improve, the role they can play is like a panacea, and can enhance all aspects of the cultivator.

Even as a physical practitioner, Jiang Li was mentally constrained several times. The situation did not improve until the Guanyin Heart Sutra showed certain results.

After calming his mind, he entered the spiritual world again.

The environment in Jiang Li's sea of ​​consciousness was now a night sky. Under the shining of a bright moon, the lush and strong locust trees were shaking their leaves slightly.

This is the locust tree that Jiang Li visualized over a period of more than half a year since he began practicing Qigong.

At the beginning, what he visualized was just a seed. As he continued to practice and devote himself to it, the seed sprouted and grew, eventually forming an excellent tree that was five meters tall.

"But now, it's time for you to play your final role."

The Ghost Wood Art that was running slowly in Jiang Li's body suddenly stopped, and then the pure and rich spiritual energy began to run in a strange and unfamiliar route.

The rules governing the flow of spiritual energy are very different from the current cultivation techniques in the immortal world, revealing an ancient and mysterious flavor.

"Nine Netherworlds Taoist Scriptures" is worthy of being a martial art named after a Taoist scripture. It is mysterious and in line with the wonderful laws of heaven and earth.

Before Jiang Li officially started, the yin and spiritual energy in the surrounding coffins began to gather spontaneously, as if there was a feeling of worshipping an emperor.

What is the principle behind being surrounded by spiritual energy and negative energy in the center? Even Jiang Li, a practitioner of martial arts, knows the reason but not the reason.

However, he did not need to think too much for the time being. After another complete circulation of the Qi, the effect of the upper-overcoming technique had completely destroyed the Ghost Wood Technique in Jiang Li's body.

However, the ghost wood spiritual energy did not dissipate and disappear directly, but was locked firmly in the body by the newly formed power circuit.

In Jiang Li's sea of ​​consciousness, the locust tree was already swaying in the wind and rain. The Ghost Wood Skill, which had been running smoothly under many enhanced states, suddenly suffered a dimensionality reduction attack.

Here, Jiang Li once again connected with Jiuyou's clone, and transmitted the memories and fragments of the spiritual root's predecessor over continuously.

For Jiang Li, who was visualizing the generation of the spiritual root Nine Nether Wood at this time, these fragments that preserved precious memories and insights undoubtedly put the answers and steps to solving the problem in front of him, and he could just copy them directly.

It is even easier than when I first started learning the Ghost Wood Technique.

Soon, a pitch-black oval seed appeared in Jiang Li's sea of ​​consciousness.

Immediately, the visualized body of the locust tree began to sway more and more, as if it was deeply afraid of something. A large number of leaves fell down, forming a thick layer on the ground! Jiang Li's consciousness appeared at some point, he grabbed the seed, and shot it directly into the trunk of the locust tree.

As the locust tree turned yellow and withered, the seed representing the Nine Nether Wood finally began to sprout. Dense roots and vines climbed out and pierced the entire lush locust tree.

Jiang Li wanted to use the Ghost Wood Art as nourishment to quickly promote the advancement of the Nine Netherworld Taoist Scripture.

This is also the correct way to convert the exercises.

Soon, with the nourishment of the Ghost Wood Art, he completely mastered the Nine Netherworld Taoist Scripture.

It was as if a bottomless hole appeared in Jiang Li's stomach, greedily absorbing all the spiritual energy.

You should know that Ghost Wood Art and Nine Netherworld Taoist Scripture are both Yin wood attribute skills, and there is almost no loss in the conversion of spiritual energy between them.

But after all, it is an ancient Taoist scripture of the top level, and the amount of spiritual energy required to practice it is far beyond what the Ghost Wood Sutra can compare to.

The first, second, and third levels of the Jiuyou Daojing.

The Ghost Wood Skill cultivation in his body was quickly devoured by the bottomless pit of the Nine Netherworld Taoist Scripture. At the same time, Jiang Li also absorbed and refined the endless flow of high-quality spiritual energy in his body and the burial Yin spiritual energy that filled the coffin space.

When it comes to cultivation and spiritual energy, the Jiuyou Taoist Scripture accepts all comers, and the speed of running the technique is far higher than that of the Guimu Jue.

The practice went smoothly. By combining one part of his practice with another, mixing one part of spiritual energy and one part of Yin energy, when the transformation of his practice was completed, Jiang Li's total amount of spiritual energy should have increased instead of decreased.

But that is not the case.

Jiang Li roughly calculated that he would need to invest three or more portions of Ghost Wood Art cultivation to generate one portion of Nine Netherworld Dao Sutra cultivation.

This is because the level of the Nine Netherworld Taoist Scripture is too high. Jiang Li's spiritual energy strength is already very amazing, but it is still far inferior to the Nine Netherworld spiritual energy.

If this continues, Jiang Li will still become stronger, even much stronger, but his Qi training level will probably return to the level before liberation.

According to this ratio, returning to the middle stage of Qi training is an inevitable event, and returning to the early stage of Qi training is not impossible.

After all, in the ancient times when immortals and Buddhas coexisted, "Nine Netherworlds Taoist Scripture" was also a top-notch martial art. It is normal that there is such a gap between it and the Ghost Wood Art.

In this situation, most people would just accept their fate, but Jiang Li couldn't stand it! He had worked so hard to cultivate to the late stage of Qi training, and he couldn't accept it if he had to go back all of a sudden.

Fortunately, Jiang Li has a lot of good things in his hands. His usual accumulation and preparation give him some rights to be willful when facing key issues.

As early as when he embarked on the journey to immortality, Jiang Li obtained the first spiritual root seed from the scale monster.

The second time was in Yunxi City, when the largest spiritual root seed, suspected to be that of Elder Duan Shuang, a rebellious golden elixir cultivator, was forced out of the body of a red-coated rat.

The third time, he controlled the sword cultivator clone to attack the scale monster's lair, from which he obtained two cherry-sized spiritual root fruits and four spiritual root seeds. Among the four spiritual root seeds, there was also a seed from a scale monster in the foundation-building stage.

And finally, it was the nineteen spiritual root seeds that were harvested in the foggy mountains a few hours ago.

(Originally there were thirty-one, eleven were returned to the sect’s monks, and one was given to Huangfu Tai.) If all these spiritual root seeds were transformed into Nine Netherworld Fruits.

Jiang Li currently has a total of twenty-seven spiritual root fruits in his hands!

Among them, there are twenty-five spiritual fruits from the Qi Refining Stage, one spiritual fruit from the Foundation Establishment Stage, and one spiritual fruit from the Golden Core Stage.

Of course, the spiritual root seed that absorbed the essence of a Jindan-stage cultivator is extremely precious. Jiang Li does not intend to consume it directly here, so he does not touch this spiritual root seed for the time being.

Among the other twenty-six spiritual fruits, the ones that Jiang Li can take directly include four wood-attribute spiritual fruits and two yin-attribute spiritual fruits, all of which come from Qi Refining cultivators.

Jiang Li controlled the spiritual root clone and used the energy in the clone's body to continue to infuse nutrients into the six Nine Nether Earth Fruits of varying quality.

Try to infuse them all to the limit of one-star spiritual fruit, that is, one spiritual fruit is equivalent to the entire cultivation of a ninth-level cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage.

However, the spiritual root clone, which was already malnourished, could not even provide this little energy, and could only begin to extract other Nine Netherworld Fruits to provide nutrients.

This kind of cross-attribute conversion is an extremely wasteful act, after sacrificing nine one-star fruits and most of the nutrients in the branches.

On the treetop of the spiritual root clone, six more round and pearl-like Nine Nether Earth Fruits appeared. Four of them were a vibrant green, and two were a deep black like obsidian.

The tempting aroma emitted by these fruits almost filled the entire coffin space.

Hundreds of thousands of ghosts were excited and restless under the temptation of the spiritual fruit.

Even Qin Shuman was drooling at the fruits from afar.

But they were all firmly controlled by Jiang Li and the Zang Yin Coffin, and could not make any waves at all.

This can be understood by thinking about the peaches and ginseng fruits. Although the lowest level of the Nine Netherworld Fruit is still a long way from the other two, in essence, they are both spiritual fruits of heaven and earth.

Due to its powerful effect, even a novice cultivator who has just started practicing Qi can, after eating a Nine Nether Earth Fruit, break through directly to the ninth level of Qi training and be ready to build a foundation at any time.

But Jiang Li, who had switched to practicing the Nine Netherworld Taoist Scriptures, was still thinking whether these spiritual fruits could prevent his Qi training level from falling.

Because the consumption of the Nine Netherworld Taoist Scripture is really too huge.

Relying on his amplified state, Jiang Li has hardly felt the existence of a bottleneck since he started practicing Qi.

Now that I have turned to practicing martial arts, I have finally gained this not-so-pleasant experience.

The spiritual energy of the Ghost Wood Art is rapidly dissipating, while the spiritual energy of the Nine Netherworld Taoist Scripture is increasing.

Jiang Li kept repairing the technique without stopping, and it took him two whole days.

If other people continued this kind of non-stop high-intensity refining for two days, their bodies and meridians would definitely suffer some injuries, and they would need a considerable amount of time to recover slowly afterwards.

But fortunately, Jiang Li does not need to consider this problem. His body's recovery speed is much faster than the speed at which the damage is caused.

The last bit of his Ghost Wood Technique cultivation was completely consumed, and Jiang Li's Nine Netherworld Taoist Scripture level had barely reached the fifth level, the middle stage of Qi training, which was neither good nor bad.

"The fifth floor? That's to be expected."

Jiang Li raised his hand and pointed it upwards. A Nine Nether Earth Fruit automatically fell from the tree and landed in his hand.

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The extremely sweet and rich smell that was irresistible once again filled Jiang Li's nostrils, making his whole body tremble.

He had long wanted to taste this magical fruit from heaven and earth, which in ancient times could only be enjoyed by immortals and Buddhas.

Jiang Li ate the spiritual fruit in two or three bites. The flesh was soft and juicy. The extreme deliciousness and satisfaction after taking it in the mouth almost made him feel that his mouth was about to melt.

It is truly a delicacy that is hard to forget once you have tasted it.

Moreover, this Nine Nether Earth Fruit is not only delicious. As the flesh is swallowed into the stomach, a stream of pure spiritual energy instantly flows into the body, directly causing the Nine Nether Taoist Scripture cultivation that had been stagnant to begin to advance by leaps and bounds again.

Unfortunately, this effect of directly increasing cultivation, similar to the experience fruit in the game that directly increases experience points, did not take effect. Jiang Li could only practice on his own.

One day later, two days later, he reached the sixth level of Qi training.

Three days later, four days later, he reached the seventh level of Qi training.

Five days later, six days later...

In the outside world, the Dachongshan monk competition is still in full swing.

The jade lists on both sides of the field are constantly being filled.

As more and more monks crossed the foggy mountains, the first round of the competition gradually came to an end.

After all, only a few Qi-cultivating practitioners can make it to the end.

It is a good thing that some monks can recognize the reality and themselves in time, return to the entrance and give up their qualifications.

At least their lives are safe and they can watch the fun from outside.

However, some monks did not know how to act within their capabilities and went too deep into the pit, unable to even return. They could only stay where they were and struggle to hold on, waiting for rescue after the competition was over.

A larger number of Qi-cultivating monks will be buried directly in the mountains. Their fate will be that their flesh and blood will be eaten by monsters, and their souls will turn into wandering ghosts and wander in the mountains.

However, this tragic number of casualties is not taken seriously by most people in the world of immortal cultivation.

No one ever remembers the losers. Everyone's eyes are only on those who stand at the top and are the most dazzling.

In the competition, various heroic monks and dark horses emerged one after another, and all kinds of trump cards, shady tricks and devilish tricks also competed with each other.

In this competition, even if you are the most knowledgeable elder, you may not be able to tell everyone's magic.

Some unexpected unorthodox methods even caused many monks from sects who were originally promising to fail.

In these exciting and fierce battles, many geniuses made a name for themselves and became talked about by people.

There were also many betting odds, and the monks spent huge sums of money, betting their own spirit stones on these young monks.

As the second round of fighting progressed, the names on the two jade lists began to jump constantly. Some of the rankings changed dramatically, while others simply disappeared from the jade lists.

As the leader in the Qi Refining Stage competition, Jiang Li's name has now gone beyond the scope of Sutra Valley and is known by more people.

Many monks are curious about whether Jiang Li from the Sutra Valley has three heads and six arms.

However, the top of the Jade List disappeared from everyone's sight after the first round of competition.

And this disappearance lasted for a full twelve days.

In the coffin, after the sixth earth fruit entered his stomach, Jiang Li sat silently on the glowing moss. Due to the long-term pressure, the layer of lichen on the ground had withered and died.

Jiang Li's aura at this moment has far surpassed his previous self. If he didn't say it himself, no one would think that he is still a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage.

After eating the sixth earth fruit, he was making his final effort.

After a long time, the rich spiritual energy surrounding Jiang Li suddenly shrank and completely disappeared into his body, then turned into a breeze that blew in all directions, announcing the successful conclusion of his long retreat.

"Phew~ It's finally over!"

After taking a long breath, Jiang Li lay down relaxedly on the soft moss.

He was very satisfied with the results of this transformation.

Of course, he was even more satisfied with the effect of the Nine Nether Earth Fruit.

【Name: Jiang Li】

【Age: 13 years old】

[Lifespan: 282 years x 500%]

[Race: Human]

[Spiritual root attribute: Wood, Yin]

When Jiang Li opened the panel, the first thing he saw was the newly appeared lifespan column.

Jiang Li has not yet broken through to the foundation-building stage. Theoretically speaking, his basic lifespan should still be around a hundred years.

And just now, he ate six Nine Nether Earth Fruits offered by a Qi Refining Stage cultivator in a row.

Each of these earth fruits can bring Jiang Li about thirty years of life.

This adds up to two hundred and eighty years.

And the “×500%” at the end is even more impressive.

An effect from the status [Dragon Turtle Blood Mark] is that the rate of cell aging is slowed down by 80%, and one year is better than five years, directly increasing his lifespan fivefold.

Counting on my fingers, wow! One thousand four hundred years!

Jiang Li is now almost fourteen years old, which means that he has only lived one percent of his long life.

In other words, he is still an ordinary mortal baby who has not yet been weaned.

Now Jiang Li's whole body is filled with vitality like a newborn baby, and overall he feels very comfortable.

If he wants to hide now, he can find a mountain valley and practice for more than ten centuries before coming out to play. By then, he should be almost invincible, if not invincible.

But this is just a thought. Hiding in the mountains may also bring disaster.

And although it is good to hang up, he also needs to contact the outside world and constantly obtain more and stronger states in order to continuously accelerate the speed of becoming stronger.

After scanning the overall enhanced panel again, he looked at the column of skills below.

[Kung Fu: Jiuyou Daojing Qi Training Chapter lv9, Beast Blood Atlas lv4, Zhuangshan Sutra Body Training Chapter lv8, Dazizai Guanshiyin Heart Sutra Remains lv2, Suihu Kung lv8]

The Guimu Jue that had been dead for a long time had disappeared, and was replaced by a "Nine Netherworlds Dao Sutra" with a cultivation level as high as the ninth level.

In other words, Jiang Li can now start preparing for the breakthrough of the foundation-building stage! 　Vote, vote, dear comrades!

(End of this chapter)