"I was just a broken tree root before, and I don't know when I suddenly came back to life."

"At first, my consciousness was hazy and I didn't know what was going on. I don't know how long it took, but slowly I understood the communication between the living beings and developed my own cognition and thinking."

"It's amazing, isn't it? It's just so magical."

"For a long time, I have been under that sky-shaking five-colored spiritual tree. I have never seen the appearance of heaven and earth, and that towering tree has never cared about a withered branch and rotten leaves like me."

"He is like a fairy spirit supporting the heaven and earth, shrouded in colorful fairy light, high above, allowing the heaven and earth in the fairy palace to change, and the colors remain the same."

"As I was slowly gaining spiritual enlightenment, monks would come to the area of ​​the spiritual tree every once in a while, digging the soil under the tree or collecting fallen leaves."

"During this process, some of these living cultivators will fight each other, while others will cooperate with each other, just like the two of us before. We said we were cooperating, but in fact we were scheming against each other."

"Some of these monks died on the spot and turned into nutrients for the giant tree. I couldn't even get a bite and could only watch helplessly."

"I am just a rotten tree root half buried in the soil. No one cares about me, so I can hear some things."

"It's useless for you to listen to things that happened too long ago. Let's just talk about what happened when the Five Elements Palace descended last time."

"The last time the Immortal Palace opened, do you know how many monks entered?"

Heiya staggered and tried to be mysterious, but unfortunately Shen Lian's expression was indifferent and he didn't show any fluctuation at all, which made Heiya feel embarrassed.

“Last time, the Immortal Palace attracted more than a hundred old guys from the Immortal Cultivation World to enter.

The resources in the outside world are exhausted, but the resources in the Immortal Palace are not. As long as you have the ability, you can collect the fourth-level or even fifth-level spiritual medicines.

However, collecting elixirs was only one of their purposes.

The real reason is that some old monsters with five spiritual roots who have taken over other people's bodies want to participate in the assessment of the Immortal Palace.

Those who pass the assessment can become disciples of the Five Spirits Palace."

Shen Lian noticed the word "Five Spirits" in Heiya's words.

"Don't ask me. Ever since I was born with intelligence, the only information I have in my memory is the Five Elements Palace. The so-called Five Elements Palace should be the name given by the cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation."

"You said before that there are hidden cultivators in the Immortal Palace who need five spiritual roots?"

"Hehe, if I didn't say so, why would fellow Taoist help me?"

Hearing this, Shen Lian's eyes narrowed, "Daoyou, are you joking?"

"Just be patient and listen to me."

Black Cliff floated down, “There is indeed one or several strange five-colored soul bodies in the Immortal Palace.

I saw it with my own eyes more than once. These five-colored soul bodies were crystal clear all over, and their spirits had already materialized. They would float back and forth in the fairy palace.

The aura of these five-colored soul bodies was so strong that I could only sense a ball of colorful spiritual light passing through the sky. Therefore, I could not tell whether the five-colored soul bodies I saw several times were the same one or multiple ones.

The reason why I say they need a five-spiritual-root body is because I have personally seen them rush into the body of a five-spiritual-root cultivator.

Unfortunately, those five spiritual roots were too weak to support the five-colored soul body, and they exploded and died directly. "

As he spoke, Heiya looked around Shen Lian twice and nodded with satisfaction.

"Other people's physiques are not good, but yours is excellent. I guess those soul bodies will definitely like it."

"How about you go and give it a try next time the Five Elements Palace opens? Maybe with your skills, you can turn defeat into victory and swallow up the soul body."

…

“Last time in the Five Elements Palace, I escaped with the help of an old Yuanying monster from the outer continent. I forgot which sect this old guy was from, but I believe that what this guy did must be of interest to Fellow Daoist Lu.

After all, you love to run away so much, and the Tiannan Immortal Cultivation World is at most just a big fish pond, which is definitely not enough to hold you.

This old fellow’s Taoist name is Honglin, and he is in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. He is much stronger than the bearded man you killed before.

He stayed outside the Tiannan Continent, saying that it was to prevent the nearby immortal cultivation worlds from forming alliances. If you run away again, you must be careful not to get beaten up by others. "

"In short, Tiannan has become a hunting ground for some monks. Just wish you the best. I believe that not many people can escape."

…

"By the way, do you still want the Eye of Fortune that I promised you before? If you do, just come and dig it up."

Heiya pointed at the little female cultivator with five spiritual roots who was lying there.

"He is a poor man, so there is no need to dig out his eyes."

Shen Lian shook his head slightly. He could see how difficult the path to immortality was for this little female cultivator who was born in the Wanxing Sea like him.

"You have seen many five-spiritual-root cultivators, have you ever heard of the five-element techniques they practice? Give me a few so I can study them."

"Practice the technique." Heiya chuckled. "Fellow Daoist Lu, you have finally found the right person. Are ten copies enough? Give me a few jade slips and I will record them for you."

Shen Lian took out a few jade slips and floated towards the black cliff.

"Not enough, not enough. Didn't we agree to give you ten? Take ten jade slips."

Heiya nodded at the center of his eyebrows, and green light emerged. Densely packed words were contained in the green light, which were respectively embedded in the ten jade slips.

After branding it, Heiya pushed the jade slip to Shen Lian.

"Fellow Daoist, among the ten five-element spiritual root cultivation methods, there must be one that suits you. Do you want more? I have more here."

Shen Lian didn't say anything. He waved his hand and took out a pile of jade slips, pointing to Heiya.

"Hehe." Heiya smiled and had no intention of refusing at all.

Green streams of light flowed out from the center of his eyebrows and transformed into densely packed runes that were imprinted on the jade slip.

Including the previous ten jade slips, it has a total of sixty-eight jade slips.

"No, it's really gone this time."

Heiya exhaled, "Some of these skills were collected by me in the Five Elements Immortal Palace, and some were collected after coming to Tiannan Continent. Now I am giving them to you, my sincerity is enough, right?"

"We are still very happy to cooperate. You see, before, you and I worked together to our mutual benefit, and then we killed each other indiscriminately."

As he spoke, Heiya came close to Shen Lian and said, "Daoyou, the world of immortal cultivation is so big and full of dangers. Don't kill us if you meet us again in the future. Let's make peace."

As he spoke, Heiya evolved a human hand and hooked his finger at Shen Lian.

"Come on, come on."

Shen Lian glanced at the black cliff and also conjured up a finger.

"Come on, pinky promise."

The next moment, the black cliff turned into a ball of black light and re-entered the body of the unconscious female cultivator.

"I thought I could reach the sky in one step and leave this troubled place of Tiannan through the Exiled Immortal Tower, but I didn't expect that the heavens would not fulfill my wish."

"What about the grass?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Heiya rushed out of the little female cultivator's body with a whoosh.

“I don’t know, that secret place has disappeared.

That piece of broken grass is extraordinary and even better than my luck.

It grew on a twisted root closest to the Five Elements Immortal Tree, and I am nothing more than a rotten root in the mud."

Speaking of this, Heiya felt a little indignant.

"This grass can control the space of the secret realm. I guess it has already moved the previous secret realm. Hehe, if you go to the secret realm again in the future, you must be careful. Maybe this grass is waiting for you in the secret realm."

"By the way, where's that little bug?"

"This insect has good meat. How about we share it next time we meet?"

Heiya's suggestion was good, but Shen Lian did not respond.

"Fellow Daoist Heiya, do you think there is a possibility?"

After a moment, Shen Lian spoke up, "I'm not trying to cause trouble, I just want to know if there is a possibility."

"If you think you can believe it, then believe it. If you don't, just treat it as nonsense."

"Why are there so many withered tree roots under the spirit trees in the Immortal Palace? As for your spiritual wisdom, why did you fall from the Immortal Palace? Do you think there is someone in the Immortal Palace deliberately making trouble for you?"

"I'm not trying to cause trouble, I just have some doubts, just listen to me."

As soon as these words were spoken, Heiya's breath stagnated.

"Thank you for your concern, my spiritual power is a gift from heaven and earth, there is no conspiracy behind it."

"That's good, that's good." Shen Lian nodded.

"Goodbye. I hope we can meet less often in the future." Heiya's expression gradually turned cold.

"Didn't you say there is a secret method to conceal the aura of the five spiritual roots?"

Heiya sneered, and released rolling black energy from his body, sweeping up the little girl cultivator. "Daoyou, the secret method is very simple, that is, not using mana."

"cut."

Watching Heiya disappear, Shen Lian smiled awkwardly, "Daoyou Heiya, I'm not trying to stir up trouble. Don't take what I just said to heart. I was just talking nonsense."

…

A dilapidated place with freezing cold and dry spiritual energy.

Deep in the inconspicuous low hills, Shen Lian sat cross-legged in a cave, regulating his injuries.

The ability to escape four thousand miles in an instant still put a lot of pressure on his body, and in front of him were several empty medicine bottles.

“It’s hard to take medicine.”

A moment later, Shen Lian woke up and shook a few empty bottles. He had not yet officially advanced to the fourth-level Nascent Soul stage, so the elixirs to treat his injuries were insufficient.

After a fierce battle, there were some gains.

First, there were two Nascent Soul corpses, one in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, and one in the early stage of the Nascent Soul.

Three fourth-level spiritual treasures.

A total of 42,000 high-quality spirit stones were found in the two storage rings, as well as three medicine bottles containing fourth-order low-grade Yuanji Shengling Pills, a total of six pills, all of inferior quality.

Even the mid-Nascent Soul cultivators in the Exiled Immortal Tower are still using low-quality fourth-order elixirs for cultivation, which shows how difficult it is for Nascent Soul cultivators to cultivate.

There are three fourth-level spiritual medicines that are more than three thousand years old, but they are not the main medicines for refining elixirs.

Six pieces of fourth-level ore were found, but to Shen Lian, ore was the least attractive thing.

In addition to these, there are the sixty-eight five-element skills given by Heiya, and the spiritual object for physical cultivation that contains vigorous vitality.

After examining the sixty-eight five-element exercises, eleven of them were found to be directly aimed at the great way to spiritual transformation, and two could be cultivated to the level of virtual refinement, namely "The Five Spirits Derivative Sutra" and "Innate Yin and Yang Qi".

In addition, the "Five Elements Heavenly Treasure Sutra" is also included in these sixty-eight gates, but the one left by Zi Yang can be cultivated to the level of refining emptiness, while the one sent by Heiya can only be cultivated to the middle stage of transforming the spirit.

There is also the "Five Qis Converging to the Origin Gong", which can be cultivated directly to the late stage of the Spirit Transformation.

Looking at so many Five Elements techniques in front of him, Shen Lian was a little dazed. He felt as if these techniques were being sold like cabbages.

Before, the old demon Heiya gave the skills too easily.

It's not that he doubts Heiya, but judging others by himself, Shen Lian feels that there must be some unknown reason.

After putting the pile of jade slips of martial arts techniques together, he leaned back on the stone couch and squinted his eyes.

"It seems that the days ahead will be difficult. The spiritual medicine has dried up, cultivation is difficult, and living creatures are hunted..."

Although he knew that the environment for cultivating immortals was harsh, this incident also made him realize that there were infighting and dirty tricks among the major forces.

To put it bluntly, everyone is bad, it's just a matter of who gets worse slower.

He summoned the Five Elements Ship with one hand and bowed towards the 'Heaven and Earth' monument on it.

"Oh my God, please show me a way."

…

After much thought, Shen Lian felt that his top priority at the moment was to find a safe place to survive the Nascent Soul Tribulation.

After being promoted to the Nascent Soul stage, whether you choose to hide in Tiannan or leave Tiannan, you will have stronger strength support and more room for choice.

Although the route map that Li Yang gave before was only half, it was enough to leave the Tiannan Immortal Cultivation World.

Shen Lian is still a little short of advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, mainly because he has not condensed enough Yin and Yang Qi. However, this is not a big problem, he just needs to do more retreat.

Compared to seclusion, it is more important to choose a safe place to overcome the tribulation.

Tiannan is very big, where can I go to overcome the tribulation?

…

One year later.

In the western continent of Tiannan, there is a remote place in Xiangling Territory.

The location here is similar to the Wanshan Region in the Southern Continent, except that the Western Continent does not have mountains as majestic as the Tianzhu Mountain, and the cultivation environment is also somewhat worse than that in the Southern Continent.

The mountains are undulating, and in some places you can see snow on the top of the mountains.

Black-horned ants crawled through the forest.

“Chirp.”

Dahei flew in from outside and rushed into a secret cave.

"Master, everything is safe outside."

Shen Lian touched Dahei's head and said, "We need to investigate within a radius of ten thousand miles, understand?"

"clear."

Inside the cave, Shen Lian was arranging a formation. He needed to use the terrain and veins of the mountain to construct a most suitable combination of formations, and the overall process was very complicated.

His current formation can only resist the early Nascent Soul stage. It would be a bit difficult to deal with a cultivator in the middle Nascent Soul stage, but it is not without the power to deal a few strikes.

After doing all this, he did not sit down in a hurry to prepare to condense the Yin and Yang Qi. Instead, he released the Nascent Soul corpse he had obtained before, opened his mouth and spit out a rich spiritual fire, which began to burn.

Since the power of the formation is insufficient, Shen Lian plans to condense the two Nascent Soul corpses in his hands into fourth-order puppets as the second level of protection.

…

Spring goes and autumn comes, time flies.

A howling cold wind blew across the mountains and fields, and large flakes of snow fell, covering the entire mountain with a blanket of silver.

Shen Lian in the cave had colorful energy floating around him, and black and white energy was swirling and interweaving in his body. He was in a very mysterious state.

In the Dantian sea, the black and white vortex in the center of the five-colored magic power is clearly divided. There is black and white in the five colors, and the black and white are integrated into the five colors, giving the golden elixir pill a mysterious black and white luster.

(End of this chapter)