Zhou Qing took out a golden pill, which was extremely full and shiny.

"This golden elixir contains enormous power. Is it feasible to combine it with this puppet and make it the puppet's energy source?"

This is the external golden elixir dropped by Brother Shu, which contains energy at the level of Yin God's true blood, and as long as the golden elixir itself is not damaged, the energy inside can be automatically restored after being consumed.

Song Dongchen became interested. He took the foreign golden elixir and examined it carefully. Then he looked at the true blood puppet, thought carefully for a while, and nodded.

"It's a very good treasure. It can indeed be refined into a puppet. Leave it to me."

"Then I'll trouble you, Uncle Song."

"It's just a small matter."

Song Dongchen asked some more questions about Zhou Qing's situation, and then reminded Zhou Qing.

"During the three days you were in seclusion, the Merit Hall sent a message that your True Transmission Peak has been completed."

Zhou Qing nodded, "Yun Duo also told me about this. I will go and take a look later."

Song Dongchen smiled and said, "If you don't mind, I'll go join in the fun too?"

"You are most welcome."

They went back and brought An Lang and Yun Duo with them, and the four of them flew directly to Kunlun Mountain. Luo Liuli did not participate in this matter.

Kunlun Mountain is shrouded in clouds and reaches the sky. Little white clouds surround the edge of the mountain, covering the mountain and making it look like a peak in the sky.

The West Lake is rippling with water and the breeze is blowing, creating ripples. The light blue lake surface has a hint of gold under the sun, which is extremely dreamy.

The Mountain Protection Divine Array has always remained in a most basic operating state. In this state, it can absorb energy from heaven and earth and continue to operate without the need for additional energy supply.

But it is a divine formation after all, and this state is enough to resist many things.

Compared with Zhou Qing's last visit, Kunlun Mountain and West Lake have undergone some changes, with more buildings added, making them more harmonious and perfectly unified.

"Zhou Qing, is this where you will live from now on?"

Yun Duo exclaimed, "It's so big."

Zhou Qing smiled and said, "You can come here anytime."

"Kunlun Mountain, this name is really majestic and full of meaning."

Song Dongchen nodded, "The sect values ​​you very much, and this mountain is given to you."

"I am also extremely terrified, fearing that I will disappoint the sect's expectations."

"Just practice well, don't think too much about other things. Becoming a strong person is the sect's greatest expectation for you."

Song Dongchen looked at the formation covering Kunlun Mountain and said with a smile: "Sure enough, the mountain protection formation given by the sect is still the same, there is no change."

The mountain-protecting divine formations that every true disciple receives are actually standard divine formations, and there is no difference between them.

"I can help you improve your mountain protection formation and add some other functions."

Zhou Qing said hesitantly: "Isn't this a bit too much trouble?"

Song Dongchen smiled and shook his head. "It's not a big deal. It's just some minor improvements. It won't take much time or require any materials. I just need to adjust and add a few array patterns."

"Don't be polite to me. You have many tricks and you also have the True Blood Puppet. My strength is limited, so I can only help you do these things."

"Uncle Song, if your strength is still limited at this level, then I have no strength at all."

Song Dongchen smiled and didn't respond.

He is actually not weak. Lu Qingmo and Zhou Qing said that Song Dongchen has reached the third level of Yin God cultivation and has reached the perfection stage.

It’s just because he is in the environment of Xuandu Temple, and with the comparison of Luo Liuli, the three transformations of Yin Shen seem a little underwhelming.

The most important thing is that Song Dongchen is over a hundred years old.

With his talent at this age, he still hasn't been promoted to Huangquan in Xuandu Temple. It is really too slow.

However, Zhou Qing thought that he could lend the Yellow Springs Dragon to Song Dongchen later to see if it could help him.

The Yellow Springs Dragon can only assist in the advancement to the Yellow Springs Realm and cannot guarantee 100% success.

First of all, the cultivator himself needs to have felt the opportunity for a breakthrough and have the ability to reach that level, and then the Yellow Springs Dragon can play the role of icing on the cake.

Zhou Qing had no idea about Song Dongchen's specific situation.

Climbing up Kunlun Mountain, Han Shanshan and five other disciples of the Han family were on the mountain.

The cultivation environment here is far superior to that of the 108 Inner and Outer Peaks, or the Han Family in Hanyuan County. The newly arrived disciples of the Han Family are full of enthusiasm and cherish the current environment very much.

I just don’t know how long this momentum can last.

Seeing Zhou Qing and the other three coming, Han Shanshan and the Han family disciples came over to say hello, and then she said, "Brother Zhou, the news you wanted to find out has a result."

"Oh?" Zhou Qing became interested and asked:

"Where?"

At this time, Song Dongchen said something to Zhou Qing, and then went to various foothills of Kunlun Mountain alone to improve the formation. An Lang took Yun Duo and wandered around the mountains.

The intention to avoid the topic is very obvious.

"We found out there are four places where a lot of evil spirits are rampant."

Han Shanshan said: "The first one is the Minggu Divine Mountain. There is a ghost area in it with countless evil ghosts and fierce spirits."

"Then there is Beihan County, where there are many battlefields left by humans and barbarians, and there are also many evil spirits."

"The last two places are the Ten Thousand Souls Forest in Shuowang County and the Fallen God Swamp. The evil spirits in these two places are not as powerful as the first two."

Zhou Qing asked: "What is the origin of the Ten Thousand Souls Forest and the Fallen God Swamp?"

"The Falling God Swamp is the location of the Shenhun Sect. This is a sect with a master of the Huangquan Realm in charge. The Shenhun Sect is open to the public at the outermost edge of the Falling God Swamp and does not prohibit exploration."

"The Forest of Ten Thousand Souls is the remains of a great war in the distant past. Many people died and were injured there, causing evil spirits to wreak havoc in the Forest of Ten Thousand Souls. The strongest of them are ghosts in the Yin God Realm. However, it is also a place where many practitioners hone their skills, and many people go there."

For many practitioners, working in isolation has no future. Only by traveling and experiencing various trials can they go further and even break through their limits.

Mingu Mountain is a good place, but it is too dangerous and not suitable for practitioners with low strength to set foot in.

In this way, areas like the Forest of Ten Thousand Souls, where the strongest are only ghosts and gods in the Yin Shen realm, will have a place to be put to use and will be a better choice.

Xuandu Temple, the overlord of Hanzhou, will not take direct action to pacify such a place, but will only set up some safety precautions to prevent the evil spirits in the Ten Thousand Souls Forest from rushing out in large numbers to hurt people.

Then just ignore it and let it exist.

Not to mention others, the disciples of Xuandu Temple also need to go to these places.

Zhou Qing pondered, four places... Luoshen Swamp and Beihan County were ruled out first.

The former is occupied by a powerful sect. Even if you can enter the outer perimeter, you probably won't find any powerful evil spirits.

There is no other reason for the latter, the road is too long, and it is the direct border between people and animals.

The Ming Ancient Divine Mountain is quite dangerous, so Zhou Qing quickly decided where to go to collect the hundred evil ghosts.

Just go to the Forest of Ten Thousand Souls.

Han Ju handed Zhou Qing a bag and said, "Brother Zhou, when we were trying to find out the news, we also made some other gains. We captured eleven evil ghosts, but they were not very strong. The strongest one was only about the same as a day monk."

"Brother Zhou, don't worry, these are all evildoers."

Zhou Qing took the bag and was stunned for a moment.

He just wanted to ask the Han family to collect intelligence, but he didn't expect that they would directly capture eleven evil ghosts and bring them back.

The subjective initiative is quite strong.

"very nice."

Zhou Qing nodded, without asking them where they found the ghost.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Qing took out a few jade bottles and handed them to Han Shanshan.

"There are several pills in here to assist in cultivation, which are... You have worked hard these past few days."

Among the five people of the Han family, Han Shanshan is in the Day Travel Realm, the third brother Han Shu has just entered the Bone Refining Realm, the fourth brother Han Ju is in the Internal Organs Realm, and the other two teenagers are both in the Tendons and Veins Realm.

Zhou Qing has a lot of elixirs that can be used for this kind of cultivation, and they are of no use to him, so they will just gather dust if left here.

The few people worked very hard and brought him eleven evil ghosts. It was only right that he gave them some benefits.

Since you have joined him, you become one of ours.

When it comes to his own people, Zhou Qing has never been a stingy person.

After carefully understanding the situation of Wanhun Forest with Han Shanshan, Zhou Qing asked them to get busy while he went to look for Song Dongchen.

Han Shanshan distributed the pills according to their respective cultivation levels, and then heard Han Ya exclaim: "This pill is so pure, much better than the pills distributed by the family before."

As soon as these words were spoken, the other four people also looked at the pills in the bottle and discovered this, and were very surprised.

The medicinal power of these pills is so pure that it is almost... free of impurities.

In fact, these pills do not contain any impurities, but Han Shanshan and the others have never come across pills of this quality before, so they are not sure.

For the same kind of elixir, the degree of purity means that they have different values. The elixir without impurities is the most precious.

"Taking this kind of elixir to practice has almost no impact on the future, and it has many benefits."

Han Shu reminded them, "You have seen that Senior Brother Zhou is very good to me. You should do good things for Senior Brother Zhou in the future."

“Whoever dares to do anything detrimental to Kunlun Mountain will not be tolerated by the entire Han family.”

Zhou Qing didn't know that the pill he casually gave out shocked the five people from the Han family.

From the very beginning of his practice, the pills he took were those dropped by Brother Shu. He never used the impure pills made by the alchemists in this world to avoid affecting his future.

This kind of medicine is just common to him, it is a daily necessity.

After finding Song Dongchen, Zhou Qing watched him make various improvements to the Mountain Protection Divine Array. Sometimes Song Dongchen would tell Zhou Qing some knowledge about the array, letting him understand why the array pattern had to be changed and what its purpose was.

Luo Liuli was practicing alchemy. Although Song Dongchen had dabbled in many miscellaneous subjects, what he was most proficient in was the formation of formations.

Because when exploring various ruins and historical sites, the formation plays the greatest role and is what he needs most.

Even the way of formations is the way of heaven and earth, all-encompassing. In the early and middle stages, it is far more advanced than the way of elixirs and weapons.

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Formation, this is the most direct explanation of the universe.

After completing the modification of the Mountain Guarding Divine Array, Song Dongchen asked Zhou Qing to try it out. Sure enough, the power was much stronger and the change was obvious.

Zhou Qing nodded happily, "The formation is worthy of being the law of heaven and earth. It is indeed magical and mysterious, and contains the ultimate truth of heaven and earth."

Song Dongchen smiled and said:

"The more you study the formation, the more you can feel its charm, and understand the laws and principles of heaven and earth. That feeling is intoxicating."

But after he finished speaking, Song Dongchen stopped smiling and became serious.

"Since you haven't practiced other cultivation techniques or miscellaneous studies yet, don't get obsessed with these things before you achieve great success in your cultivation."

"The right way is to focus on improving your cultivation. The realm of cultivation is the foundation of everything. Any other skills are only auxiliary and secondary. You must not confuse the primary and the secondary."

"I am the most vivid example. The many skills and miscellaneous studies took up too much of my energy. For me, the time I spent on them was even more than the time I spent on cultivation. As a result, I was unable to advance to the Yellow Springs Realm for a long time."

Song Dongchen smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know if I will have the chance to enter the Yellow Springs Realm in this lifetime. I really feel ashamed of Master's cultivation."

Song Dongchen's situation is different from Luo Liuli's.

Although Luo Liuli was also extremely obsessed with alchemy, she still attached importance to cultivation, and even if her energy and time were divided equally between alchemy and cultivation, that would be enough.

But the areas Song Dongchen involved were too many and too diverse, including formations, puppets, prohibitions, weapon refining, feng shui terrain, deduction of celestial secrets, ancient secret texts and so on.

He has to learn so many things that his energy is dispersed and he is bound to run out of time.

Otherwise, with his talent, if he had not encountered danger, he would have been promoted to the Yellow Springs Realm long ago.

The head of Shuiyue Peak has always been annoyed by this, so he has never accepted him as a formal disciple.

Zhou Qing thought for a moment and asked:

"Does Master Song regret his previous choice?"

Song Dongchen was stunned for a moment, then smiled and shook his head, his eyes full of energy.

"I don't regret it, because I am really interested in those things. If I could do it again, I would spend more time on practice, but I would never give up other things."

This may seem like an unwise choice to others, but that's how people are. There are always some things in their hearts that they insist on that they can't give up.

Just like someone is willing to give up his life in order to forge a sword, this is something that ordinary people cannot understand.

"Zhou Qing, every practitioner should have a goal that they can fight for their whole life and never waver or regret. No matter what happens, they should move towards that goal."

Song Dongchen looked at the sky in the distance. The wind blew past, making his voice seem a little ethereal.

“In the process of pursuing that goal, you are bound to lose a lot of things, and there will be people who don’t understand you.”

"But it doesn't matter. That process is the process of knowing yourself and then transcending yourself. That is your path to enlightenment."

“Even if that goal may be wrong, it is the right path for you.”

To some extent, this is the heart of Tao.

Even if it is wrong, you must insist that it is right and keep going. Such unreasonable and incomprehensible mentality and behavior are the manifestation of a firm determination to follow the Tao.

In the process of spiritual practice, you may walk on the wrong path many times, which is okay, but you must never admit that you are wrong.

After listening to Song Dongchen's words, Zhou Qing asked himself in his heart, what did he want? Without any hesitation or entanglement, Zhou Qing easily got the answer.

Now he is doing what he wants.

Practicing to become stronger, breaking through the realm and reaching a higher level, for Zhou Qing, this is just like Song Dongchen's pursuit of those miscellaneous studies, and it cannot be abandoned.

He was just an ordinary man in his previous life, but in this life he is deeply fascinated by the feeling of practicing.

The feeling of mastering power, advancing life, and extending life is irresistible.

In the land of Zhou Qing's previous life, stories about becoming an immortal and achieving longevity were known to almost everyone.

Rooted deep in the soul and passed down in the blood, thousands of years of history cannot erase the people of that land's desire and pursuit for immortality.

Now that he really has this opportunity, Zhou Qing will not give up. He must go to the highest point and see the scenery there.

Even if this is a thorny road, a dark road with no end in sight.

"call……"

Zhou Qing let out a light breath, as if he had let out all the confusion in his heart. His mind became clearer than ever before, and his spirit was more uplifting than ever before.

"I see."

He said, Song Dongchen smiled and said nothing more.

An Lang and Yun Duo came over not long after. The two girls looked very excited and were very satisfied with the environment here, expressing all kinds of praise.

"Zhou Qing, this place is great!"

"Yes, yes, yes." An Lang also agreed: "It's just that there are not many people around, it's quite deserted."

"Kunlun Mountain has just come into my hands. Once I manage it carefully, it will naturally become lively."

Zhou Qing said: "But now I can add some movement to Kunlun Mountain."

He took out the black and white chicken and the lucky turtle and placed them on the ground.

“Giggle!”

The black and white chicken started crowing loudly as soon as it came out, while the lucky turtle was slowly turning its body on the ground.

An Lang asked in surprise: "What is this?"

"Two spiritual beasts. The eggs laid by this black and white chicken can assist in cultivation and are very useful. As for the turtle, it can be regarded as the mascot of our Kunlun Mountain."

An Lang and Yun Duo surrounded the chicken and the turtle with great interest, and studied them in various ways. For a while, the sound of chickens crowing could be heard all over Kunlun Mountain.

"Don't bother with it." Zhou Qing said to An Lang:

"If you continue to torture it like this, you won't be able to eat the eggs that the hen lays."

"If you don't want to eat it, then don't eat it. Eggs are nothing special. I'm a ghost."

Zhou Qing was helpless. An Lang was really a little black guy.

"Kunlun Mountain is now built, and no outsiders will come in. I just happen to have some things here."

Zhou Qing told An Lang, "If I go into seclusion for training or go out, you have to help me take care of these things."

"What is it?"

“Some flowers and plants.”

Zhou Qing took out the divine-level treasure trees, the Holy Blood Tree and the Soul Tree, which were opened from the treasure chest, as well as the spiritual plants and soul plants that dropped this month and needed to be planted and cultivated.

Withered Root, Sky Heart Clover, Dawn Tree...

They then found suitable places and planted them all. During this process, Zhou Qing also explained the uses of these things to An Lang and the others.

“That’s amazing.”

“It’s amazing.”

"There is actually such a treasure?"

An Lang and Yun Duo praised it repeatedly and felt that their horizons were broadened.

Song Dongchen was confused and shocked.

The two women either had little experience or didn't care, but he was knowledgeable and knew clearly how useful the things Zhou Qing took out were.

Any one of these things would be enough to serve as the fundamental foundation for a small or medium-sized force if taken outside.

But now, they appeared in piles in the hands of a practitioner in the Manifestation of Sainthood and Bone Refining Realm?

This seems a little unreal...

(End of this chapter)