Early morning, breeze, drizzle.

There are green trees all around the mountains, and outside the pavilions the drizzle is as misty as fog.

The pavilion was filled with fragrance. Qingyi sat under a grass cushion, holding a teapot filled with tea in her hand, and gently placed it in front of Shen Lian.

Shen Lian squinted his eyes and looked at the interior scene of Qingmu Sect from afar.

The valleys within Qingmu Sect are filled with spiritual gardens and medicinal gardens of all sizes, and the disciples serve these spiritual plants every day.

“This tea is good.”

"This is the third-level Cuiyin Lingwen tea that our ancestor transplanted from the depths of Tianzhu Mountain. It has the effect of concentrating the mind and is helpful for cultivators to break through bottlenecks and practice magic. It is also one of the tributes our sect offers to Yunshang Sect."

"The Yunshang Sect is quite domineering."

At this time, Shen Lian spoke, not polite at all.

"This tea is quite good. Can you give me some? Or you can just give me a tea tree."

Qingyi glanced at Shen Lian. If we talk about shamelessness, Shen Lian is the one.

"There is only one spiritual pattern tea tree, and it cannot grow without a third-level spiritual vein. As for sending you some tea leaves, it's just a coincidence that the sect doesn't have that much, so I can only send you half a tael."

"It's not that we won't send more, but all the tea leaves picked recently will be sent to Yunshang Sect."

"Master Yunlong of the Yunshang Sect and Master Yuhuan of the Xuanyin Sect are going to become Taoist couples.

It is rumored that Master Yunlong is expected to advance to the Nascent Soul stage and succeed Patriarch Molong as the next generation protector of the Yunshang Sect.

Therefore, the Yunshang Sect attaches great importance to this grand ceremony, and our sect’s cloud pattern tea is the spiritual item that the sect has clearly decided to use to entertain the monks.”

Shen Lian's eyebrows jumped, and he said casually: "I heard that Yunshang Sect's Yunlong Zhenren messed up something before, and it was related to some rumors in the South China Sea."

"How would I know about the affairs of the upper sect?" Qingyi shook his head.

Shen Lian picked up the teacup and put it to his lips, but his eyes were rolling around.

At the beginning, he scattered the shadow beads and jade slips randomly in the sea, but he revealed that the old demon Heiya could possess people. He also deliberately added a description that Heiya might possess Yunlong. Does that mean that Heiya did not succeed in possessing him?

Or it could be said that Heiya succeeded in possessing the body and hid it from the Yunshang Sect's investigation.

This possibility is very high.

"Master Yunlong and his Taoist couple's wedding ceremony."

After putting down the teacup, Shen Lian suddenly felt that things became interesting.

For female Taoist friends, when looking for a male Taoist partner, you should look for a positive and optimistic one, not one that is whining and complaining.

Will the old rotten tree root from Heiya work?

Qingyi looked at Shen Lian across the table and always felt that there was something abnormal on Shen Lian's face at the moment.

Subconsciously, she straightened her dress.

Shen Lian stood up and stood at the edge of the pavilion, looking at the misty rain outside.

If Yunlong was really possessed by the Black Cliff Demon, no matter how rotten the demon's body was, it was still a spiritual plant after all. Once the spiritual plant noticed the spiritual plant on Qingyi, the probability of enslaving her was quite high.

And with the old demon possessing him, there will probably be turmoil within the Yunshang Sect.

…

Outside the misty rain, on a high mountain at the edge of the Qingmu Sect Valley, another Shen Lian stood with his hands behind his back, and the misty drizzle around him avoided his body.

"It still has to be you."

"He created a clone to fool me, but his real body still keeps me company."

A faint voice sounded from the Five Elements Ship.

"Senior, you have lived for more than three thousand years. Have you never experienced love between a man and a woman?"

"Tsk tsk... No way, no way."

“…”

Inside the Five Elements Ship, Zi Yang was silent.

After a long time, the voice sounded again.

"Wine and sex wear away the mind. If you are a Taoist who hopes to become an immortal, how can you indulge in the land of beauty?"

"I'm sipping tea."

"Beauty is like a knife scraping bones, each knife pierces the heart."

"Hard bones."

"When are you leaving?"

"Wait a little longer, you have to savor the tea slowly."

The clone's secondary soul spoke softly, and his figure swayed gently in the drizzle, turning into drizzles all over the sky, and rushed into the wheat waves in the spiritual fields outside Qingmu City.

…

Deep in Qingmu Valley, in a cave opened in the belly of the mountain.

Shen Lian was sitting cross-legged, with the jade box containing the heart of the spiritual tree placed in front of him.

Looking at the tree heart in the jade box, a fiery flash passed through his eyes. For this spiritual tree heart, he even threw away his face.

There is no other way, since this thing is so powerful that refining it will not produce side effects such as erysipelas and impurities.

We must hurry up, the secondary soul cannot hold back the old monster Zi Yang for long.

The energy stored in the heart of the third-grade, top-quality spiritual wood is extremely enormous, and a rich green light enveloped the house.

The surging energy hit the surrounding walls, but was blocked back by the emerging runes.

Being practicing in someone else's sect, Shen Lian was naturally well prepared. In addition, the secondary soul hiding outside and the old monster Zi Yang were his strong backings.

Zi Yang would never have thought that he would become one of Shen Lian's backup plans outside.

The heart of this spiritual wood is half a foot in size. Shen Lian used his magic power to split it into dozens of pieces.

The big hand reached in and picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth.

In an instant, his whole body was enveloped in green light, and the green light was even brighter in his pores, emitting strands of green needle-like rays.

After the heart of the spiritual tree entered his mouth, it was directly transformed into rich energy and poured into his stomach. He felt surrounded by endless wood-attributed spiritual power.

The green wood-attribute energy surged in his body, washing over every corner of his body, causing Shen Lian's body to tremble constantly.

During this repeated baptism process, the strength of his body began to increase.

Every once in a while, Shen Lian would grab a piece of the spirit tree heart and put it into his mouth to keep the wood energy in his body at its peak.

The enormous wood essence contained in the heart of the spiritual tree turned into huge green waves that repeatedly surged in his body. The green light that seeped out of his body alone formed a cyclone around him.

…

Half a year later.

“Crack!”

Shen Lian, who was immersed in the green light, trembled violently, and his body broke into the middle stage of the third level.

Then, this wave was also transmitted to his sea of ​​consciousness.

At the edge of the sea of ​​divine consciousness, small waves arose and began to expand.

The improvement of the physical realm also triggered the growth of spiritual thoughts.

The small waves formed by divine thoughts expanded outward little by little, fifteen thousand feet... fifteen thousand six hundred feet... sixteen thousand feet...

One hundred sixteen thousand four hundred feet!

The ripples in the sea of ​​divine consciousness subsided.

The improvement of the physical body increased the spiritual power by one thousand eight hundred feet. This increase was not that large. The main reason was that Shen Lian did not practice the orthodox physical cultivation method, but relied on brute force to improve the strength of his physical body.

The physical body was advanced to the third-level intermediate grade, and only a quarter of the spirit tree heart in the jade box was consumed.

After resting for a day, Shen Lian began to swallow the heart of the spiritual wood again.

…

He was practicing in the inner room, while the figure in the outer room was True Man Qingyi.

There were also several formations covering the outer room. Qingyi felt the breath coming from the inner room through the formations and was very frightened at first.

However, more than half a year had passed and her fear had subsided.

This fellow Daoist Lu from the Central Continent was indeed extremely powerful, but in her opinion, this fellow Daoist Lu was sick! Why did he keep her together when he could practice on his own?

If you say he was detained, he wasn't completely detained. He detained her outside and he went inside to practice.

It's really a serious illness!

…

"Senior, if you want, I can take you to Hongyanfang."

"It's not a good idea to go snooping."

"I, a secondary soul, don't know what the main soul is doing. How about I take you to spy on other fellow Taoists?"

…

In a spiritual garden within the Qingmu Sect, beneath a large colorful mushroom umbrella, a head grew out of the secondary soul, and on top of the head grew another Nascent Soul head.

"Is this young lady really that delicious that she hasn't come out in half a year?"

Zi Yang looked puzzled.

"That's right. Otherwise, why is the furnace and cauldron trend so popular in the world of immortal cultivation? If the taste is not good, who would flock to it?"

At this time, Zi Yang changed the subject.

"Fellow Daoist, you really can't sense the main soul's thoughts?"

“I can’t sense it.”

"Fellow Daoist, your intelligence is so high, so the secret method you derived should also be very high, right?"

"Fellow Daoist, your main soul is enjoying itself, aren't you envious?"

“…”

…

Two years later.

Deep in the cave, Shen Lian, who had been shrouded in green light, gradually lost the light and shook his body gently to disperse the dust.

Then he opened and closed his eyes.

Feeling the terrifying power hidden in his body, a smile appeared on his lips.

At this moment, Shen Lian had a feeling that he could blow up a thousand-foot mountain with a wave of his hand.

The third-stage late physical body.

The divine consciousness is eighteen thousand nine hundred feet!

At this moment, he could clearly feel the strength of his body, which was more than three to five times stronger than before. This transformation was not only in physical strength and defense, but also in the addition of a blood-colored airflow flowing between the five internal organs in the body.

This airflow is not compatible with magic power, and there is no mutual influence between the two.

"Physical cultivation of mana?"

Shen Lian had some guesses about this. It was said that physical cultivators would also generate "qi" in their bodies, which could also be called physical cultivators' mana or physical cultivators' essence.

Right now, the energy of this physical cultivation is still very small, but it contains rich life essence.

"The physical body is at the late third stage, and a breakthrough to the middle stage of the golden elixir is just around the corner."

“Crack!”

In a flash, Shen Lian stood up and stepped on the ground, making a big hole.

He lifted his other foot and another hole was stepped on.

It took him several days to regain control of his somewhat out-of-control body.

With a wave of his hand, two jade boxes and two jade slips appeared in front of him.

In the jade box, there are ten pieces of third-grade top-quality talisman paper and two pieces of fourth-grade talisman paper. In the jade slips are the secret method of cultivating spiritual plants and the place to find the heart of the spiritual tree.

The Qingmu Sect is able to produce top-grade third-level and fourth-level talisman paper. This craft alone is quite remarkable, but the sect's strength is not good enough.

The entire sect was dependent on the Yunshang Sect and became an employee of the Yunshang Sect.

Shen Lian checked both types of talisman paper. The quality of the third-grade superior talisman paper was quite good. It couldn’t be said to be the best among the same grade, but it was also considered a fine product.

As for the fourth-level talisman paper, it was quite bad and could only be considered as entering the fourth level.

But the fourth level is the fourth level. Even if it has a little bit of scope, the aura on the talisman paper is far from comparable to the third-grade upper-grade one.

The fourth-level talisman paper is green in color, and clear spiritual plant fibers can be seen on the surface. Its structure is similar to the mats woven in the secular world.

But the talisman paper was woven more delicately, with each ring interlocking with the next. However, on the palm-sized talisman paper, there were at least 100,000 woven buttons.

Aoki Munen is a genius to be able to come up with this idea.

In addition, third-grade high-quality talisman paper is also made using this method, but compared to fourth-grade talisman paper, the steps are not as complicated.

The talisman paper made in this way is not included in the talisman paper making method currently passed down by Shen Lian.

He asked Qingmu, who said that this method was passed down by his founder. It took three generations of monks to gradually perfect the idea and produce a complete talisman paper.

I don’t know if it’s because his current level is too low to be inherited, or if this production method is not included in the inheritance.

If it is the latter, then... it means that the inheritance does not know everything about the past.

However, this is also normal.

The world of immortal cultivation has been passed down to the present day, and no one knows how many things have been lost, and even more so how many things have been invented.

For example, the Foundation Establishment Pill, there was no such thing before the Middle Ages.

Suppressing the thoughts in his mind, Shen Lian set his eyes on the third-grade, top-quality talisman paper.

Because it was made using weaving technology, small weaving nodes appeared on the talisman paper, which gave him a new idea.

Treat each node as an independent small unit. There are tens of thousands of nodes on a third-grade high-quality talisman paper. If all of them can be utilized, they will surely unleash a power far beyond the grade of the talisman itself.

"It would be great if we could kidnap these two brothers and sisters and put them in the cave."

After pondering for a moment, Shen Lian sighed.

"No, the entire sect was abducted."

After getting the talisman paper, the next thing is spiritual ink. The blood of a fourth-order demon king is impossible to obtain, but at least one must get a third-order late-stage or even a highly perfect demon king.

Finally, Shen Lian grabbed the jade slip.

The combat power of a plant cultivator relies on his or her own spiritual plant. Some spiritual plants are good at fighting, some are good at defense, and some are even not afraid of lightning and fire.

But Shen Lian was interested in none of these; he wanted something that could repair injuries.

For example, if he was seriously injured, the spiritual plants in his body would release rich life essence. Not to mention that his injuries would be healed instantly, even if he was only 70% or 80% better, it would be enough for him to escape.

Although he inherited the spiritual plant heritage, he did not inherit the corresponding plant cultivation method. The secret method in this jade slip can be said to complement each other.

Speaking of spiritual plants with abundant life essence, there are many of them in the tradition, the most common ones are ginseng and ganoderma lucidum.

It replenishes your vitality and is a great tonic.

Of course, if fellow Taoists need it, they can eat more epimedium.

After some thought, he smashed the hole he had stepped on before, and then opened the formation in the cave.

In the outer room, Qingyi seemed to be practicing, but the moment the fluctuations of the formation appeared, she opened her eyes and a terrifying aura suddenly hit her.

"From now on, until I leave Qingmu Sect, you cannot leave this cave."

Without waiting for Qingyi's answer, Shen Lian waved his hand as if catching a villain, grabbed Qingyi and threw him into the inner room where he had just been in seclusion, and then restored the formation with the other hand.

He was thinking about whether he should directly advance to the middle stage of the Golden Core in Qingmu Sect. Otherwise, if he stayed in Qingmu Sect for several years without a breakthrough, would it alert the old demon Ziyang?

(End of this chapter)