A wisp of soul flew out from Zhou Qing's soul, floated into his body, and controlled his body's movements.

Then Zhou Qing used his soul and body to fight against each other.

"boom!"

There was another roar, as if a meteorite hit the ground, but the soul did not change or show any weakness.

Even if Zhou Qing had not restrained the power of his soul, his physical body would be no match for his soul in a pure struggle of strength.

It was all his own, with an unparalleled foundation and a body that had achieved a small level of bone refinement. How could it be possible for it to compare to a soul that was in the early stage of manifestation?

Zhou Qing looked at his soul and wrestled with his body several times. The feeling of this real soul made him very happy.

If he were to walk the mortal world as a spirit now, no one would be able to tell that he was not actually a "human" unless he met a master.

Only Zhou Qing was happy, but the constant noise coming from inside made An Lang outside restless.

What on earth are you doing?

"The holy realm has finally been achieved..."

Zhou Qing smiled, feeling a little emotional for a moment. Once upon a time, this was a realm that he had to look up to, a legendary master.

Like Lu Qingmo, when Zhou Qing first met her, he didn't even know her realm, couldn't see through her, and didn't know what a saintly cultivator was. He just felt that she was so powerful that he couldn't resist.

But now he has reached this step. Looking around the world, this realm is already a master in the general sense. The mainstream realm of Xuan Du Zhen Chuan is also the manifestation of the saint and cleansing of the marrow.

Only when his realm is equal to that of the saints can he compete with those who have revealed their true teachings.

The soul returns to the body, and the powerful soul begins to feed back to the body, nourishing it and making it more vital and energetic.

The spirit and the body are two sides of the same coin. They complement each other and nourish each other.

The top masters among the monks, even if they do not cultivate their physical bodies or use any treasures to strengthen their physical bodies, their bodies are not ordinary bodies, otherwise they would not be able to withstand the erosion of long years.

From daily travel to manifestation of the Divine, this was a transformation that completely transformed him. Even though he had been comparable to the masters of this realm before, the essence of his own soul had transformed to this point, which was still different.

He now felt that he was so powerful that he seemed like he could blow up Shuiyue Peak with one punch.

“Speaking of which, this breakthrough should be the easiest and safest one I’ve ever had since I was promoted to the Out-of-Body Realm.”

Zhou Qing smiled and shook his head. This breakthrough was indeed very easy, because he had long understood the mystery of the harmony of yin and yang, so all the processes were smooth and natural.

With his experience, it is normal for there to be no problems. It would be abnormal if there were problems.

And what Zhou Qing meant by "easy" was not the difficulty of breaking the level, but some external factors, namely: the devil.

When he was promoted to the out-of-body state, he met the Yuan Qi Demon. With each subsequent breakthrough, he encountered the Moon Demon and the Sun Demon respectively.

Normally, these monsters would never be encountered by low-level cultivators, but they took turns to attack Zhou Qing, including now, when they appeared to harass him during his daily practice.

However, he easily resolved them all with various means.

This time when he was promoted to a saint, he did not encounter any demons. To be precise, he did not encounter any demons other than the three old friends, Yuanqi Demon, Moon Demon, and Sun Demon. He did not meet any new friends.

Zhou Qing was already accustomed to those three old friends, so they could not cause much harm.

The main reason is that the demons are also quite disciplined. Zhou Qing's current cultivation level will only attract demons of similar level, and there won't be the kind of world-destroying demons that are so terrifying that they cannot be dealt with.

From this point of view, demons are more rule-abiding and moral than humans.

The main difficulty in becoming a saint is the conflict between yin and yang, which can be considered an internal calamity.

But it does not mean that there are no corresponding demons in the realm of manifestation of the Holy Spirit, such as the Moon Demon to the Night Wanderer and the Sun Demon to the Day Wanderer.

Because of Zhou Qing's special situation, Lu Qingmo once told him in detail about the situation of the demon, and specifically mentioned a type of demon that he might encounter after being promoted to the Manifestation of Sainthood.

That kind of demon is called: true demon.

The Yuan Qi Demon and the Sun and Moon Demons are both invisible and intangible. When they arrive, you cannot be observed. It seems that they are constantly eroding you in another dimension.

But this kind of true demon is different. Although it belongs to the same demon clan as the Yuanqi Demon, it is tangible and has substance.

In history, there have been cultivators who have encountered this kind of real demon. No one knew why or how they came, but when they appeared before the world, they already had a physical form.

The way a true demon erodes a cultivator is very different from that of the Yuan Qi demon. A true demon will directly engage in head-on combat with its target cultivator and possesses extremely powerful strength.

Unlike the Yuanqi demons, they drill into the souls of cultivators and start eating them directly, bewitching the cultivators.

If you encounter a real demon, you have no choice but to fight.

If we win, then everything will be easy.

But if you lose...

The true demon will directly devour your soul, obtain your complete memory and even your abilities, completely replace you, take over your body, and walk the world in your manner.

After replacing the target monk, the true demon can also become stronger through cultivation, and because of their origins, they are simply natural demon kings and can easily cultivate to the peak.

In the hands of a true demon, practicing any magic skill is as easy as eating and drinking, and there won't be any backlash.

The goal of those evil demons who practice magic is to become demons, but true demons are demons themselves. How can there be backlash if they practice magic with the essence of a demon?

It is said that some of the demonic sects in this world were left behind by real demons who successfully killed their target monks and lived in the world in their guise.

What's even more terrifying is that according to legend, when the body that a true demon occupies in the human world dies, the true demon will return to his own world, receive good fortune, and transform into an even more terrifying world-destroying demon.

Then, such a world-destroying demon will have a fixed connection with the world it has transcended, and can always peek into this world.

However, this is just a legend. There is no clear record of who has seen the real devil after the transformation. After all, no one can go to the world of real devil.

According to the deductions of senior masters and the fragmentary records left in some ancient books, after a cultivator is promoted to the realm of manifestation of holiness, it is possible that he will be targeted by true demons.

The saintly monks refine the false into the true, and the evil spirits become saints. Such changes are somehow directly consistent with the changes of the true devil compared to other demons, and may be sensed by the true devil.

Although Lu Qingmo said that she had never seen or heard of any saintly realm in the world having such treatment, it was indeed recorded in ancient books.

If it was someone else who was promoted to the level of a Manifest Saint, Lu Qingmo wouldn’t have specifically said these things.

Real devil?

It’s just a legend. How could a low-level cultivator possibly encounter a demon?

It's a joke.

But what Zhou Qing did... really broke common sense. Three demons had already appeared before, so it seemed not impossible for another real demon to appear, so she specifically mentioned it to Zhou Qing.

If you really encounter a real demon, there is no other solution. Only by defeating and killing it can you eliminate the demonic disaster. It all depends on your own hard power.

However, those ancient books that contain fragmentary information say that if a cultivator is promoted to the level of a Saint and causes the True Demon to sense his presence and descend upon him, the True Demon will not appear beside him when he breaks through.

The process of that cultivator's promotion is equivalent to guiding the true devil and pointing out the direction for the true devil, which is equivalent to coming at the right time.

Only when the cultivator has completed the breakthrough and completely transformed the false into the true, can the true devil truly come to this world. If the breakthrough fails, the true devil will naturally fail to come.

If successful, it will appear somewhere in this world, then lie dormant, secretly spying on the monk with whom it is entangled, like a poisonous snake, waiting for the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.

It’s just that the real demon can sense that cultivator, but that cultivator cannot locate the real demon in turn, so Zhou Qing is not sure whether his breakthrough has attracted this special demon.

Well... based on past practices, Zhou Qing felt that maybe, perhaps, should, probably... he couldn't escape.

But it’s not a big problem. Whether there is a real demon coming or not, it can’t affect him now.

As for if he really encounters a real demon targeting him in the future, he will just beat and kill it.

They are just demons. He doesn’t know how many of them he has to kill during his daily training.

Now when it came to killing the devil, his heart was as cold as stone.

"Now that I have been promoted to the Manifestation Saint, I only need to continue to absorb the power of the moon and the sun, merge the yin and yang, and constantly temper my soul and body. I can slowly improve my cultivation to the limit of the early stage of the Manifestation Saint."

Zhou Qing secretly pondered his future path of cultivation. After the perfect fusion and harmonious coexistence of yin and yang, a new force would be born. This force is called the Force, and it is a more primitive force than yin and yang.

This power allowed the cultivator to advance to the realm of manifestation of holiness, and subsequent practice was also related to the Force.

In the early stage of manifestation, one must constantly integrate the Force, continue to temper the soul and body, and cultivate to a limit.

Then, if one wants to advance to the middle stage of Manifestation, one needs to add the vital energy into the process of Yin and Yang fusion to enhance the essence of the Force.

By tempering the soul and body with the three-in-one force, one can break through to the middle stage of the manifestation of the saint. Then, just like the early stage, one can slowly use the three-in-one force to temper the soul and body to another peak.

After reaching this step, one needs to face the barrier of the late stage of manifestation of the saint. If one wants to break through this barrier, one needs to integrate one's own soul power into the force and enhance the essence of the force again.

If one is a ghost cultivator or other cultivator without a physical body, then at the stage of perfect manifestation of holiness, one can also use the blood and qi treasures naturally produced between heaven and earth to replace one's own blood and qi.

The fusion of Yin and Yang is already fraught with difficulties, which has stopped countless people, not to mention the subsequent fusion of more power.

You know, although yin and yang are opposites, they are still connected and can coexist.

However, the four forces that are to be integrated later will cause more intense conflicts with the previous forces.

Moreover, if something new is added to something that is already harmonious and perfect, the balance will be destroyed in an instant.

The difficulty of practicing in the holy realm is much greater than all previous soul realms.

It is also at this level that cultivators need to spend a very long time, and warriors of the same age and talent will slowly catch up with those who have fallen behind due to the earlier cultivators’ faster practice.

The world is fair. When the soul reaches the realm of manifestation, it has the ability to compete head-on with warriors. It is no longer at a disadvantage. It even has an advantage over warriors because it can fly.

But they would also watch warriors who were originally far behind them catch up with them little by little until they stood on the same starting line.

The realm of manifestation of holiness is a realm of continuous transformation, a realm that integrates all previous realms, and is destined to be difficult.

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Making the essence of the Force more extraordinary time and time again, and tempering the soul over and over again, has only one purpose, which is to prepare the soul for its transformation into a Yin God.

Only when the soul is tempered to the extreme, will it be qualified to transform and sublime into a Yin God.

And the force fused in the stage of Manifestation of Sainthood does not only have the function of tempering the soul and body.

If a cultivator can successfully ascend to Yin God, then at the moment of breakthrough, the origin of Yin God will merge with the Force, allowing the Force to transform into a new type of power controlled by the Yin God cultivator.

That new power is called: mana.

Just like when a warrior advances to the realm of true blood, the true essence in his body will transform into indestructible true energy.

When reaching the Yin Shen realm, cultivators will also master a new kind of power to replace the previous soul power, that is, magic power.

This is a very magical energy. Compared with Zhengang, it may not be as destructive, but magic power has all kinds of magical effects, just like the characteristics of the cultivator itself, and can be used in all aspects of the field.

The Force is the predecessor and foundation of mana.

In the path of spiritual practice, each realm is closely related to the next ones, so each realm must be perfect and without any defects.

Otherwise, if one step is wrong, all steps will go wrong, and a chain reaction will occur.

Zhou Qing thought quietly for a long time, thinking about the various things on his body.

Fortunately, he has several... dozens or even hundreds of treasures that are helpful for practicing in the realm of sainthood and have no side effects.

It's not a big problem.

It is difficult to practice in the realm of sainthood, but what does it have to do with me?

After suppressing all his thoughts, Zhou Qing's face suddenly showed excitement, and then he logged into the Fairy Tree Secret Realm.

Now that he has been promoted to a holy man, Zhou Qing is looking forward to seeing how much more powerful the treasures dropped by the immortal tree will be.

[Soul Realm: Manifestation Realm (Early Stage)]

[Physical Strength: 10/10]

The changes in these two data on the panel were completely within his expectations. After just a glance, Zhou Qing no longer paid attention to them.

"Bang!"

After ten consecutive cuts, the ocean of treasures descended again and enveloped Zhou Qing.

Zhou Qing excitedly began to check out various treasures with full of anticipation, and soon he saw a treasure that surprised him.

[Superior Artifact: Qingxu Palace]

[Palace-type artifacts, containing various pavilions, suitable pavilions for meditation, alchemy, refining, healing, and sharpening, and also have the ability to defend and suppress]

A divine weapon dropped, and it was a top-grade palace-type divine weapon! The preciousness of palace-type divine weapons was beyond doubt. Apart from other things, just the materials used, the difference between the divine materials consumed by a magic sword and a palace was huge, not to mention that this was a top-grade divine weapon.

A top-grade divine weapon generally refers to the divine weapon of a master of the second transformation of the Yin Shen. The divine weapon of a master of the third transformation of the Yin Shen can be called the best.

Going further up, there are the earthly artifacts and heavenly artifacts.

This was the first time that the Immortal Tree dropped a divine weapon for Zhou Qing. It was of extraordinary and immense significance, and it meant that the Immortal Tree's drops had completely entered the realm of the Venerable.

The treasures dropped by the immortal trees in the first few days of this month, those with better quality, have actually barely entered the Venerable level, but the quality is not high, which is about the level of the True Blood Realm and the Original Blood Stage.

He can only be regarded as having barely stepped into the realm of the Venerable. It can be seen from the battle against Zhang Xinkong that his upper limit is probably just the level of the first refining of true blood or the first transformation of Yin Spirit.

But now he was given a top-grade artifact! Among the many Yin God True Blood-level treasures, the artifact was undoubtedly the most precious one.

Now that even artifacts can be dropped, other things must be able to take off too, right?

Looking at the Qingxu Palace floating in front of him, Zhou Qing liked it more and more. This was the second artifact he owned, and the Miaoshu as a whole was one of them.

He is about to open a new peak, so this artifact can be placed in the True Peak to show off his strength. If he needs to use it in battle, he can take it away directly.

It is worth mentioning that the magic weapons and martial arts weapons dropped by the fairy tree to Zhou Qing are directly bound to Zhou Qing. It is equivalent to that they have just appeared and have been refined by Zhou Qing and have automatically recognized their master.

The fairy tree had reminded Zhou Qing of this when the magic weapon dropped in the first month.

Because this is due to the mechanism of the fairy tree, unless he takes the initiative to unbind it, there is no way for others to erase this connection.

It would be useless even if you snatched his magic weapon.

Treasures like these dropped by the fairy tree were like a layer of insurance.

This was quite comfortable for Zhou Qing.

Put away the Qingxu Palace. It’s a pity that only this artifact dropped this time, and the others are still magical weapons.

As for the warriors' weapons, they are not much different from before, and no real weapons have appeared.

He is now in the state of soul manifestation, not physical marrow cleansing, so the drops from the immortal trees are still affected by this aspect, and it is more likely that higher-level soul treasures will be dropped.

Of course, the Manifestation of Sainthood will definitely help to increase the level of martial arts drops, but the probability is smaller.

Zhou Qing continued to check other things and soon found another surprise.

[Divine Material: Mysterious Ice Marrow Fluid]

[Ice attribute divine material, extremely cold, widely used]

In terms of refining materials, this is also the first time that divine materials have appeared, which shows how great the changes brought about by the promotion to the Manifestation of Sainthood are.

Looking at the ice-blue divine liquid in front of him, Zhou Qing pondered:

"Ice attribute... We already have the purple-red jade talisman with thunder and fire attributes. If we feed Miao Shu the divine material with ice attributes, will there be a conflict?"

This question requires careful consideration. Perhaps I can change the way I put it and ask Luo Liuli for her opinion.

However, the power attributes between the existing branches of the wonderful tree do not conflict with each other.

The first branch is the righteousness, the third branch is the thunder and fire of heaven and earth, and the second branch that has never taken shape is the attribute of longevity.

These three branches look fine no matter how you look at them.

In addition, there was something unique among the talismans that dropped this time.

[Talisman: Mana Talisman]

[It can store all of its own mana without leaking a single bit. When needed, it can be directly absorbed to make up for all consumption. The talisman will not become invalid unless it is destroyed.]

This is not a magic talisman, but a divine talisman! It looks like a higher-level talisman than a magic talisman.

Storing magic power is undoubtedly a matter of the Yin Shen realm, and this talisman can be used for a long time.

Its function is also very obvious. In Zhou Qing's words, it is a power bank.

After putting away the talisman, the smile on Zhou Qing's face never disappeared.

Brother Shu, you were really awesome this time.

Of course, this is undoubtedly also due to my own efforts.

Heaven will not let down those who work hard! (End of this chapter)