Xu Sheng felt like he had plunged into the sea.
It was submerged in sea water for quite some time.
While immersed in the sea water, Xu Sheng heard another scream coming from the water surface.
But Xu Sheng was still immersed in the sea and did not see the light of day again.
Then Xu Sheng heard another voice telling him to close his eyes.
Xu Sheng agreed in a muffled voice, and at the same time moved his face up and down in the sea water to indicate his nod.
And then just keep your eyes closed.
Then Xu Sheng felt the sea water flowing over his face and around his back.
Then he finally got out of the sea completely.
A few minutes later.
Shi Niang, now neatly dressed, has turned back into the beautiful and charming lady in red.
She walked out again with graceful steps and stood in front of Xu Sheng.
"Thank you for your care during this time, Xiao Chengyuan."
Her cheeks were rosy, and she raised her white and tender hands to touch her long hair and said, "I, I'm ready to leave."
Xu Sheng was stunned for a moment.
In the past few decades since Chengshou left, it was the red cat Shi Niang who had always been with Xu Sheng.
Now she is leaving too.
Xu Sheng couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
As a result, Xu Sheng was the only one left among those people.
Of course Xu Sheng understood that it might be a little embarrassing because of what happened before.
So she chose to leave directly.
Xu Sheng would not ask to keep him.
Although Shi Niang is not Xuan Zhen’s official Taoist partner!
At most, the two people are only slightly emotionally involved.
At best, she can only be considered a girlfriend in name only.
But after all, she has some emotional entanglement with Xuanzhen.
Therefore, it is natural that Xu Sheng would not have any thoughts about her.
After all, Xu Sheng is a man who has lived to the third life.
He had many concubines in his previous two lives, so it is impossible for him to be easily distracted by beauty.
Moreover, Xu Sheng was devoted to the Tao at this time and was not thinking about beauty.
In addition, as a female demon, Shi Niang is indeed not suitable to live in a Taoist temple all the time.
There was no problem with her being a cat before.
But now she has regained her human form after all.
And now that she has chosen to leave, it means that she has recovered a lot of her magic power.
I am already confident that I can protect myself and no longer need Xu Sheng's protection.
After that, Xu Sheng just nodded and said, "Take care."
Shi Niang just nodded and said, "Xiao Chengyuan, you should take care of yourself too," then turned and left.
After she left.
There are still many people in the Taoist temple.
In addition to many ordinary Taoists, there are also some fellow Taoists who are truly practicing, as well as some new disciples that Xu Sheng has accepted in recent years.
But Xu Sheng is the only one left from that group of people.
Of course, after so many years, Xu Sheng has long known that practicing Taoism is lonely and desolate.
So it’s okay.
After that, he continued to manage the Taoist temple while continuing to practice diligently.
Now he has reached the realm of Yang Shen.
Normally speaking, his next realm is to transcend the tribulation. If he succeeds in transcending the tribulation, he will be able to attain enlightenment and ascend to heaven.
The power of ascension is irresistible.
Once you have attained enlightenment, you will be quickly led to ascend to heaven.
This was also the reason why Xuan Zhen didn’t even have time to fly down and hug Shi Niang that day.
After what happened to Xuan Zhen, it was naturally impossible for Xu Sheng to survive the tribulation now.
Besides, Xu Sheng didn’t originally want to pass the tribulation so quickly.
After all, that fake Guanyin Bodhisattva is still lingering in this world, and I don’t know whether the little nun died in her hands that year.
Xu Sheng must solve this matter first no matter what.
If the little nun is still alive, she must be rescued!
The cultivation in the Yang Shen stage is actually a process of accumulation.
Although Xu Sheng has now cultivated into a Yang God, there are only two pure Yang souls in his sea of consciousness.
These are the two spiritual thoughts after the soul-splitting stage.
At the Yang Shen stage, one must continue to split out more spiritual thoughts and train them into pure Yang.
The more pure yang souls you have in your sea of consciousness, the stronger your Yang God's power will be, and the greater your accumulation will be!
It also means that you are more likely to succeed when overcoming the tribulation.
After all, the stronger your spiritual power is, the stronger your magic power will be, and of course, the more you can resist thunder.
This is also the reason why Xuan Zhen practiced until his body had aged a lot before he could transcend the tribulation.
Many Taoists are like this as well.
They will try their best to cultivate more Yang God Souls within their lifespan, striving to maximize their accumulation.
Then go and overcome the tribulation.
This is more likely to succeed.
But it depends on one's luck.
Everyone's progress in cultivation is different.
Of course, there are also some people who can transcend the tribulation at a young age. After all, the body can undergo a qualitative change after successfully transcending the tribulation!
Some people are more talented and want to achieve success at a young age.
When Xuan Zhen was undergoing the tribulation, he only had 4416 pure yang souls.
When Xu Sheng was still Xu Longsheng and met Xuan Zhen, he was about seventeen or eighteen years old. At that time, he should have practiced for about the same amount of time as Xu Sheng is now.
Because Xuan Zhen's qualifications are relatively not as good as Xu Sheng's, they are a little bit worse.
Moreover, Xu Sheng also has the internal strength of a half-step Martial Saint added to his body, which actually also slows down the aging of Xu Sheng's body.
This is why Xu Sheng has been able to practice for so many years and now only looks like a sixteen-year-old boy.
In short, Xuan Zhen practiced like that for nearly two hundred years before he finally cultivated sixteen pure yang souls, and then he successfully passed the tribulation.
Therefore, it can be known that it is not easy to cultivate into a pure yang soul.
The little Taoist nun in the previous life was also an existence at the final level of Yang Shen.
However, the little Taoist nun had the help of Xu Sheng and was constantly refining the dragon blood.
She has already trained the Pure Yang Soul to seventy-seven forty-nine times!
She was already very strong at that time.
It was also because of this that Xu Longsheng was already old at that time.
But the little nun still looks like a young girl.
At that time, the little nun did not undergo the tribulation either. One reason was that she did not want to leave that world or leave Xu Longsheng.
I want to accompany Xu Longsheng throughout his life.
The other reason is that he wants to continue to accumulate more pure yang souls and lay a stronger foundation, so that he will have a better chance of overcoming the tribulation.
By then, the real body achieved will be even stronger!
Moreover, she still looked like a young girl at that time and was not in any hurry to overcome the tribulation.
But she didn't expect that she would meet the fake Guanyin Bodhisattva before she could overcome the tribulation.
"Seventy-seven Pure Yang Souls are still not enough. Let's set a small goal and cultivate to ninety-nine pure Yang souls!"
Thinking about this, Xu Sheng was also thinking secretly in his heart.
If you want to deal with that fake Guanyin Bodhisattva, you must be stronger than the little Taoist nun back then.
Although this goal is not easy to achieve, Xu Sheng has the Book of Eternal Life after all. If he cannot achieve it in this life, he can just continue in the next life.
In the blink of an eye, another half a year has passed.
Xu Sheng finally cultivated his third soul!
However, it has not yet been practiced to the point of pure yang.
Afterwards, Xu Sheng wanted to travel around the world, searching for some fairies to capture and refine to aid his own practice.
If I only rely on my own practice, without any external help, I don’t know how long it will take to cultivate ninety-nine and eighty-one pure yang souls.
So he handed the management of the Taoist temple to one of his fellow apprentices and left.
In those days, Xuan Zhen was often not in the Taoist temple, or he would go into seclusion when he returned to the temple. This was because that was how the Yang God’s cultivation was done.
In addition to practicing on your own, you also have to find some rare treasures or catch some monsters to refine, otherwise practicing on your own will be too slow.
This is also why some old Taoist priests in some Taoist temples always say that they have gone out to travel around and are no longer in the temple.
Then another month passed in the blink of an eye.
But Xu Sheng still didn't find a fairy.
Today, goblins are even more cautious when living in human cities than they were a hundred or two hundred years ago.
After all, ordinary humans now have access to explosives, pistols, etc.
So it is even more difficult to find fairies.
Xu Sheng didn't expect to find it right away.
He just travels everywhere.
When you arrive at a place, stay in a hotel.
Then spend a fixed amount of time practicing while looking for traces of the goblins.
Of course the Taoist temple is rich.
The imperial court did not collect taxes.
Various channels such as pilgrims coming to burn incense are sources of income.
Even if the money he brought was used up on the journey, Xu Sheng's martial arts skills as a Half-Step Martial Saint were enough to block bullets, so it was easy for him to get some money.
Of course, Xu Sheng already had a lot of money in his space magic weapon, so he didn't need to rob.
In short, I lived like this for a month, but didn't find any goblins.
This made Xu Sheng couldn't help but frown.
Finally, one day Xu Sheng heard that some strange things seemed to have happened in the mountains near a village, and it sounded like the traces of goblins.
Xu Sheng thought that most fairies might not dare to live in human cities now.
Those who enter human cities are very cautious.
He thought about it and decided to go into the mountains.
So Xu Sheng went into the mountains near the village that day.
Unfortunately, after entering it.
Another month has passed.
Xu Sheng still didn't encounter the fairy.
In the end he had no choice but to give up.
Don't stay in that area any longer.
Maybe the monster appeared here before, but has left now.
But then Xu Sheng did not enter the city.
Instead, continue trekking through the mountains and forests.
Crossing the mountains.
Because he felt that there should be more goblins in the mountains now.
Of course, he now carries a magical tool for sensing fairies, a demon-hunting compass.
The sensing range reaches two kilometers.
It was passed down from Xuanzhen’s master’s master.
In short, Xu Sheng traveled in the mountains for another month.
On this day, Xu Sheng finally sensed the evil spirit.
随后许升当然是立即朝着妖精所在的方位追了过去。
他一路赶过去的同时，法器感应到的妖，一直在移动位置。
不过之后许升还是追上了。
“什么？”
然而到达了许升一看却是瞬间惊愕：“施酿，怎么会是她？”
因为前边那两只在追逃的妖精居然有一只就是已经近一年不见的施酿。
她仍旧是一如初见，一袭红衣美艳不凡。
不过现在她的状况好像不是很妙，正在被一只蝎子精狂追。
期间二妖还相互喊话。
许升没有轻举妄动。
只是隐匿自己的气息悄悄地一路跟随。
听着其零星的对话，许升大致猜测出了事情的大致面貌。
原来是施酿在山中修炼，不小心碰到了这只蝎子精在山里猎杀一些进山里狩猎的猎户以及游玩的一些人类。
用其来孕养一颗天元树，结出的天元果！
这是一种对妖的修行，很有益处的天才地宝。
随后，施酿找了个机会悄悄地把这个东西给偷来吃掉了。
因此如今她被这只蝎子精狂追。
蝎子精愤怒地说要杀掉施酿。
然后将她整个炼化！
以把天元果的能量给收回来。
因此原本两只都吝啬法力的妖精，就在这山林里追逃了起来。
许升看着也不由皱了皱眉。
虽然此时施酿还没有生命危险，但是施酿的速度并没有比这蝎子精快。
‘没想到时隔近一年，居然在此相遇。’
之后许升也是心中暗暗地感叹了一句：‘找机会出手！’
他决定要出手！
本来许升就是出来寻找妖精的，虽然现在这只蝎子精好像有点强。
原本其不会是一些普通的修行者会选择猎杀的对象。
因为蝎子精已经强大到足以对标人类的阳神境界的修行强者。
这种境界的妖，想要靠丢炸药包炸死，或者用子弹射杀，已经是很难的了。
除非提前埋伏了很多炸药在某个地方，然后把它引到那里去，且在它没有注意到的时候，直接引爆大量的火药。
这倒是有可能。
不过若想在进攻的过程中，直接丢出炸药包去攻击。
那基本很难伤得了对方。
比如许升现在也是不会被这种攻击伤到的。
因为炸药包扔过来的瞬间，他的神魂之力可以非常快速地飞出去，瞬间就直接掐掉引线。
就算是把炸药包扔过来，然后立即射出一火星来打爆，也完全可以瞬间移动躲避开。
包括子弹射击也是一样扛得住。
若不是被大批的军队围着射击。
零星的些许子弹射过来，根本就不会构成什么威胁。
随便以法力将之拨到一边就是了。
而动用法力想要斩杀这样的妖精，自己需要付出的法力消耗也是很大的。
当然许升是至阳之体，法力消耗完了，还可以以不慢的速度恢复过来。
再加上当初他可是答应了玄真，要照顾施酿的。
如今见到施酿这样的处境，哪里有袖手不管的道理？若没有碰到也就算了，现在都碰到了。
不过许升也没有莽撞，他仍旧悄悄地尾随。
直到这只蝎子精已经快要追上施酿且要跟施酿交手的时候。
许升才从旁边偷袭了出去。
许升将自己的两个纯阳之魂飞出体外钻入了两柄飞剑之中。
两柄飞剑顿时绕在周身。
至于另外的那个没有练成纯阳的阴神之魂则仍旧在识海之中主宰着自己的身体。
此时炸药包跟子弹都没有用了。
用起来只能消耗对方的一些法力罢了。
根本伤不了对方。
现在许升要做的是偷袭！
是要利用对方还没有注意到自己的这个时机给对方造成伤害。
所以他当然还是动用自己本身的功力！
而不是动用炸药或者火枪。
由于两只纯阳之魂已经全部去驾驭两枚飞剑。
所以这个时候许升也没法再施展出另外的强力的道术攻击。
他剩下能动用的就只是自己的武道修为。
不过许升此时还是警惕的。
他没有直接仗着武道修为用肉身近身杀上前去。
只是以两柄飞剑杀过去！
毕竟若是他近身上前的话，有可能被对方的强力法术爆发攻击打中肉身！
如果被打破半步武圣的护身光罩，那就有可能会身死。
但是以飞剑去杀的话，就算飞剑被打到爆碎，纯阳之神魂被打得破灭，也只是损失掉修为而已。
当然神魂离体越远，威力也会越弱。
所以此时许升的身体也在附近，并没有在很远的地方。
他的身体躲在一棵大树之后，心神操纵着两柄飞剑呼啸杀过去。
不像是小道姑当年直接以手捏法印来打出攻击。
那是因为小道姑道佛双修，她的法印用的是佛门法印！
神魂去驾驭飞剑攻击的话，在阳神之魂还没有那么多的时候，在这种状态下，是没法再动用强力法印的。
且当年许升跟小道姑行走天下的时候，那时小道姑还没有到达阳神之境。
反正此时许升就这么将攻击给偷偷打了出去。
飞剑呼啸斩杀之下，还是取得了一定的成果，直接将这只蝎子精的一条手臂给斩掉了。
这蝎子精也已经修成人身了。
只不过其屁股后面还有一条锋利的蝎子尾巴，体表上还有一些黑色坚硬肤质而已。
“啊！！”蝎子精惨叫了一声。
它没有想到居然有如此强大的阳神境修士突然对它爆发杀击！
“小承源？”
而这时施酿也是惊愕地看着许升道：“怎么是你？”
“别废话！”
许升则道：“一起干掉它。”
“好！”
施酿也没有多废话，点点头，随后她也是爆发法力攻击。
两个人对着这蝎子精一顿输出。
不过蝎子精还是蛮强的。
居然没有在短时间内被干掉。
还是边扛住攻击边逃了几千米。
最后才不甘地惨叫一声，被许升跟施酿干掉了。
接着许升当然是取得了这蝎子精的内丹。
“到手了。”
许升也是露出了微笑。
这样一只强大的妖精的内丹足以顶得上十几只普通的妖精了。
“终于解决它了！”
施酿此时也累得气喘吁吁，心有余悸地松了一口气，用玉手拍着自己波**的胸口道：“这只蝎子可真难缠啊。”
此时两个人都各自得到了好处。
许升得到了蝎子精的内丹。
而施酿得到了她之前吃掉的天元果且摆脱了危机。
“小承源，没想到你现在的实力已经到了这种程度。”
这时施酿也关心地问了一句道：“不过刚才你法力消耗也很多了吧？”
“还行。”
许升说道：“虽然消耗了蛮多的，但若能把这个内丹炼化的话，应该能够弥补回来，且还有的赚。你呢，怎么样？”
“我法力近乎耗尽！之前追逃了太久，本就消耗不少，刚才为了杀死这只蝎子，又用了几个大招！”
施酿则说道：“当然只要能找到安静的地方休息！等炼化了天元果，我就能够恢复过来，且再进一步。”
许升点点头。
当然对于施酿跟他这样坦白，许升心里也是有点异常情绪。
毕竟施酿也是一只妖。
她如今坦白说自己法力耗尽！
就意味着她已经没有抵抗能力。
若许升对她图谋不轨，那她可能就完蛋了。
当然当初她退化为猫身的时候，许升还照顾了她三十多年。
也并没有对她有任何的不好。
她如今会信任许升也是完全可以理解的。
施酿这时又问说许升怎么会这么巧突然出现在这儿？
许升也讲述了一下自己来到这里的经过。
“什么？这么巧？”
施酿听完了之后也是愕然道：“难道这就是缘分吗？”
毕竟幸好许升出现了，要不然她不知道要被这蝎子精缠到什么时候。
许升也问她，既然知道有可能会遇到危险，为什么还要冒险行事？
施酿也坦白相告说，她是觉得自己修行太慢了，才忍不住**，以为可以悄悄地偷走，没想到还是被这蝎子精发现了。
“不多说了！”
许升又说道：“我们先去去找个地方躲起来修炼恢复法力再说吧。”
施酿也点点头说她知道一个地方挺隐蔽的，应该适合修炼。
两个人正这般说着。
没有想到就在这个时候突然之间又一个人类修行者出现。
这是一个白发苍苍的老头，他背后背着好几把剑。
并且他一出现就操纵着两柄飞剑，闪电般地偷袭杀向施酿！
施酿一开始都没注意。
差点中招，脸色发白。
幸好这时许升迅速出手。
同样操纵飞剑飞过去格挡。
同时手中也拔出了长刀。
“道友，何必如此。为了这只妖拼命，不值得吧？”
这老头冷声说道：“这两只妖，其实我已经早就注意到了。我就不计较你刚才夺走了这蝎子精的内丹了。如今我只要这猫妖！你速速离去，这猫妖我自己对付。但若你不肯，我只能连你也杀了。你刚才对付这蝎子精，法力应该也消耗很多吧？且你的道行应该还没我高。”
说着这老头手指一捏，法力一震，背后居然又两柄飞剑飞了起来。
Apparently he has cultivated four pure yang souls!
No, in his sea of consciousness, there must be a soul dominating the body!
I just don't know if this is pure yang.
In this way, it is certain that his level of Taoism will be higher than Xu.
At this time, Shi Niang's face had turned pale.
Her magic power is exhausted!
Although she ate the Tianyuan Fruit, she couldn't digest it in a short period of time.
There is no way to restore mana now!
Xu Sheng had consumed a lot of mana just now.
If this old man insists on killing both of them, he will suffer a lot in the end.
But he can obtain the inner elixir of the Scorpion Demon and the inner elixir of the cat demon Shi Niang, including the energy that Shi Niang used to eat the Tianyuan Fruit.
It can be said that the harvest is great!
Therefore, he is willing to take risks and expend a lot of mana to do this.
Of course, the old man still didn't want to fight to the death with Xu Sheng at this time.
But if he could force Xu Sheng to retreat, it would be 100% certain that he would capture Shi Niang.
He doesn't need to pay much.
It can be said that this old man is quite steady in his actions.
"Xiao Chengyuan, please go."
At this time, Shi Niang also said with a pale face: "You don't have to risk your life for me."
However, Xu Sheng said nothing at this time.
While operating two flying swords to kill.
The explosive pack was thrown over.
Boom!
A burst of explosion.
A gun appeared in his hand, and he pulled the trigger directly, shooting.
Although these attacks failed to hurt the old man.
But after a while of operation.
The scene was full of flying sand and rocks.
Xu Sheng immediately reached out and grabbed Shi Niang's hand.
"Walk."
Just said one word.
He jumped up with Shi Niang!
He stepped on the flying sword and flew away.
"Little Chengyuan!"
Shi Niang turned around and looked at Xu Sheng in astonishment with her beautiful eyes shining: "You!"
Unexpectedly, at such a moment, Xu Sheng would choose to live and die with her without hesitation!
In fact, she thought just now that if she were Xu Sheng, she might choose to retreat at this moment.
But Xu Sheng certainly wasn't scared.
After all, he has a yang body!
The speed of mana recovery will not be too slow!
If this old man dares to be arrogant with him, the final result will definitely be miserable.
The reason why Xu Sheng did not choose to directly compete with this old man in magic power at this time.
It's just that he is afraid of the other party's flying sword skills and Taoist magic.
If the opponent's attack is stronger in a head-on fight, Xu Sheng may be killed by the opponent before both of them have enough strength to hold on.
The advantage of the extremely yang body cannot be revealed!
So it’s better to just escape.
As long as you run fast enough!
This old man can only chase him!
Then it will turn into a mana marathon for both sides!
In addition to his extremely yang physique that can continuously restore his magic power, Xu Sheng's martial arts skills as a half-step Martial Saint also allow him to run fast for a long time.
In short, he just wants to exhaust this old man to death.
Wait until this old man's magic power weakens a lot!
Wait until he stops chasing you.
Xu Sheng goes back and kills him!
"You're given a way out but you won't take it!"
Sure enough, the old man snorted coldly and chased after them: "Then don't blame me for turning you into a pair of dead mandarin ducks!"
In his imagination, Xu Sheng had just consumed so much of his magic power that it was obviously impossible for him to maintain high-speed escape for too long.
As long as he keeps chasing, victory will definitely belong to him!
Moreover, Xu Sheng's behavior of turning around and running away also made him feel that Xu Sheng was afraid of him.
Even at this moment, he felt that there was no need for him to waste time talking to Xu Sheng.
No one should be let go.
It's time to kill both of them.
Get all the good stuff!
In short, at this time in the deep mountains and forests, the two sides were chasing each other at a rapid speed.
Xu Sheng flew wildly with Shi Niang on his flying sword.
With his magic power exhausted, Shi Niang could only stand in front of Xu Sheng and hold Xu Sheng's waist. After all, the old man behind him would also launch some long-range magic attacks from time to time.
Only Xu Sheng can stop it.
At this time, the brewer who has run out of mana may be injured if hit.
In the blink of an eye, several hours passed.
The old man chased for a long time.
But still couldn't catch up.
He has begun to doubt his life.
He also consumed a lot of his own mana!
In fact, he had thought about stopping the pursuit many times along the way.
But like a gambler.
I always feel that Xu Sheng in front of me will run out of magic power in the next moment.
Victory is just ahead.
So he could only keep raising the bet.
Keep adding more mana!
Like a gambler with red eyes.
Unfortunately, 80% of his magic power has been consumed!
Xu Sheng, however, remained strong.
Of course the old man gave up at this time.
I dare not chase you anymore.
However, at this time Xu Sheng turned the tide and fought back.
Another round of attacks on the old man.
After a while, the old man screamed and was killed by Xu Sheng.
"Threaten me? What I hate most is others threatening me!"
Xu Sheng’s last two magic seals completely destroyed the old man’s soul.
He said coldly: "Comparing endurance with me? You are courting death!"
Afterwards, Xu Sheng collected all of the old man’s space magic tools, flying swords, etc.
Xu Sheng was worried that it would be difficult to refine his future flying sword.
I didn't expect the old man to bring it up.
Of course, Xu Sheng was happily checking out the spoils left by the old man.
"Xiao Chengyuan, you, how come your magic power is so durable?"
Shi Niang, who was standing beside him, looked at Xu Sheng with astonishment and said, "Could it be that you are the legendary Zhi Yang..."
It turned out that at this time, she had already discovered Xu Sheng's abnormality!