Chapter 171: Retreat and Practice

Master Jin's various performances made Wu Yan feel that the Great Zhou Xiuxian world was really going to face an unprecedented catastrophe. With his current cultivation level of the middle stage of foundation building, he was afraid that it was not enough to cope with any catastrophe. Even whether he could save his life was still unknown.

Fortunately, Master Jin and three senior brothers were still here, and he could take this opportunity to improve his cultivation as soon as possible and strive to get a glimmer of hope before the catastrophe came.

With these ideas, Wu Yan did not dare to delay for a moment. He immediately put the small stove into a place specially opened in the quiet room of the cave to collect green soil and spiritual liquid. Then, Wu Yan took out the storage bag of the multi-eyed old Taoist and several leather bags containing spiritual insects. If he could cultivate the "Heaven Swallowing Worm" before the catastrophe, then there would naturally be another means of saving his life.

"Heaven Swallowing Worm" ranks ninth in the "Strange Insects List" of Yu Ling Zhenren, which is by no means ordinary. The "Spirit Insects Catalog" passed down to An Yingying by her grandfather was derived from this rumored "Strange Insects Catalog", but in this "Spirit Insects Catalog", the "Heaven Devouring Insect" was ranked second. The reason is that many ancient strange insects became extinct during the last catastrophe in the human world, so naturally they could not be ranked. Last time, Wu Yan saw that the old Taoist with many eyes released the golden-winged centipede and the golden-winged flying scorpion at once, and thought that he wanted to cultivate the "Corpse Fire Demon Silkworm", which was ranked outside the top 100 in the "Strange Insects Catalog" and was not outstanding. Now it seems that this old Taoist is even more ambitious and wants to cultivate the "Heaven Devouring Insect", which is ranked ninth in the ancient times.

Several leather bags contain four poisonous insects: the golden-winged centipede, the golden-winged flying scorpion, the earth-eating golden beetle, and the golden silk human-faced spider, but only one kind of golden-scaled seven-inch snake is missing. Wu Yan is a little depressed now. Without this golden-scaled seven-inch snake, he can't cultivate the "Heaven Devouring Insect".

He casually opened the storage bag of Duomu Laodao. In addition to some bottles and jars of poison, insect eggs, and some special small bottles of other kinds of insects, there were only some mid-level spirit stones and a book of "Insect Beasts". Wu Yan casually flipped through the book and felt that although the book also recorded how to cultivate insects and beasts, it was far from what Yuling Zhenren recorded. The poisons in those bottles and jars are worth learning from.

Throwing the book aside, Wu Yan picked up the bottles containing insect eggs and carefully distinguished them. Suddenly, Wu Yan showed a look of surprise on his face.

It turned out that the insect eggs in one of the bottles were actually the eggs of the golden scale seven-inch snake. As long as these snake eggs are hatched and cultivated, can't we get the golden scale seven-inch snake?

Thinking of this, Wu Yan got up and walked to a stone room for breeding insects next to the "Horned Viper" breeding room, and began to construct and arrange according to the special array for breeding spirit insects.

Fortunately, although the Baoxiao Sect is small, the master and his disciples have collected a lot of various materials over the years. Without having to report to anyone, Wu Yan directly took the materials from the storage cave. After more than ten days, five relatively independent insect breeding arrays were all built. Wu Yan put the four poisonous insects that were almost grown into mature into their own arrays, and then put the snake eggs of the golden scale seven-inch snake into the last insect breeding array. After sprinkling a certain amount of poison powder into the five arrays, Wu Yan sealed the stone door of the cave and returned to his own stone room for cultivation.

Sitting cross-legged on the stone bed, Wu Yan took out the wooden box that he had not yet opened from the Qingniu Tomb. There was not even a sealing talisman on the outside of the wooden box, which meant that there should be no powerful treasures in the wooden box.

However, to be cautious, Wu Yan still used his magic power and used his original poison avoidance technique. Wu Yan saw a faint white light on his right hand, so he stretched out his hand to open the wooden box.

The wooden box was easily opened by him. It seemed that he was too suspicious. It seemed that there was no trap or poison gas arranged by Qingniu Zhenren inside. But remembering that the Qingniu bag had not yet revealed its true form, and the words "drug prohibition penalty" that he had read inside the broken bag that was originally a trick, Wu Yan still did not relax his vigilance.

In the wooden box, there was only a palm-sized long golden token. On the token was carved a green ox with a full of ancient charm carrying an old man in Taoist clothes, walking towards a straight road, at the end of which was a red sun emitting light.

The whole pattern was carved by some unknown method, rich in meaning, bright in color, and lifelike, but Wu Yan was confused and did not understand why.

In theory, Qingniu Zhenren was about to ascend to heaven, and he could use a short time to arrange such a ban, and put the token into the wooden box with great care and put it under the bronze coffin. This fully shows that this token is definitely not an ordinary thing. However, in the wooden box, there was nothing else except the token, not even a piece of book or silk explaining the origin of the token.

The token was not poisoned, and the wooden box was just an ordinary wooden box, nothing special. After studying it for a long time, Wu Yan could not find anything extraordinary, so he had to give up studying the token temporarily and put it in the storage bag.

A few days later, Wu Yan, who was practicing in the cave, suddenly felt that the spiritual energy surging from under the cushion in the quiet room was very different from the past, and it became easier to refine and absorb.

After a little thought, Wu Yan understood what was going on. It seems that Master Jin and Master Mo have completed the arrangement of using the "Five Elements Evil-Suppressing Pearl" as the core of the entire cave formation. The change in spiritual energy shows that the "Five Elements Evil-Suppressing Pearl" has begun to play a role.

Since then, Wu Yan simply used forbidden methods to completely seal the stone door of the cave and began his days of seclusion and cultivation. In addition to meditating and practicing every day, he used the green soil and spiritual liquid he collected to cultivate spiritual herbs and poisons, and then ground the hundreds of years of poisons he obtained into powder and sprinkled them into the magic array of the two insect breeding rooms to cultivate those poisonous insects.

This is another cultivation method that is many times more advanced than the old Taoist Duomu's use of corpses to cultivate poisonous insects.

Wu Yan practiced in seclusion in the cave under the Red Leaf Peak, and everything outside seemed to be isolated. As time passed, the stone door of Wu Yan's cave was never opened. During this period, Master Jin and the three brothers, after learning about Wu Yan's seclusion and hard practice, never came to disturb Wu Yan's meditation.

A year passed, and there was no movement in Wu Yan's retreat cave.

Two years, three years, four years... In the blink of an eye, twenty years passed, and Wu Yan still remained in seclusion.

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The lineage of the Baoxiao Sect is now very different from twenty years ago.

Since the use of the "Five Elements Evil-Suppressing Bead" to change the spiritual energy of the ground veins under the cave, the entire Red Leaf Peak has now completely become a spiritual peak with abundant five elements spiritual energy.

Because of the change in spiritual energy, the spiritual medicines planted in the medicine garden under the Red Leaf Peak have grown better. In the past twenty years, several batches of spiritual medicines have matured. Feng Hanxiao, the eldest disciple of the Baoxiao Sect, used this spiritual medicine as raw material to prepare several batches of five-element attribute pills. Because Wu Yan has always been in seclusion, in addition to leaving him enough spiritual medicine, the rest of the pills were divided among the three. After twenty years of hard training, the three brothers have successively entered the late stage of foundation building.

Since Feng Hanxiao bought back a large number of refining materials for Master Jin, Master Jin has also been in seclusion for the past twenty years. In the past twenty years, the Great Zhou Xiuxian world has indeed undergone great changes.

Among them, there are three most sensational things. The evil-suppressing tower under the evil-suppressing altar of the Beast Spirit Mountain broke out of the seal, and the seal of the evil-suppressing valley was destroyed. A large number of big monsters and ancient demons that were sealed under the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain were resurrected, wreaking havoc on the world and the world of immortal cultivation; the Demon God Sect, the Heavenly Demon Sect, and the Buddha Palace merged into the Demon Palace, which came out of nowhere and began to frantically hunt big monsters and ancient demons. They used the big monster pills and ancient demon bodies they got to practice demon magic and magic skills to improve their own strength, and the world was shocked for a while; due to the appearance of the evil-suppressing tower and the crazy behavior of the Demon Palace, the righteous path felt that there were many crises in front of them, so under the initiative of the Shending Sect, the six righteous sects returned to one sect and re-formed the Xianjian Sect.

The resurrected big monsters and ancient demons were the most unlucky. They were not only hunted by the Demon Palace, but also hunted by the Xianjian Sect. Killing a big monster or an ancient demon can soar hundreds of moral merit points. For those high-level righteous cultivators, how could they let go of such an enviable moral merit?

In the past, people didn't know what the moral merit value was specifically used for. They only vaguely guessed that it might be related to whether one could successfully pass the tribulation. But since the appearance of the evil-suppressing tower in the evil-suppressing valley, the secret of the ancient great tribulation buried deep underground has gradually been discovered. The biggest secret is related to the moral merit value.

It turns out that the rules of the inheritance of moral merit were set by the heavenly rules of the upper realm after this great tribulation. Only by obtaining the inheritance of moral merit can one be qualified to pass the tribulation and ascend to the upper realm. After successfully passing the tribulation, the immortals of the upper realm will break through the realm to guide him. If there is no inheritance of moral merit, even if one cultivates to the peak of the late stage of transformation, it is impossible to ascend. Whether one can successfully pass the tribulation is closely related to the moral merit value.

As a result, these great monsters and ancient demons have become popular. Not only the demon palace hunts them down, but the righteous monks also hunt them down crazily. In order to avoid the pursuit of the demon palace and the immortal sword sect, the resurrected great monsters and ancient demons fled westward and entered the ancient desert of the Great Wilderness. In order to compete for these great demons and ancient demon resources, the Demon Palace and the Immortal Sword Sect have had countless conflicts. There are countless families of all sizes in the world of immortal cultivation that have been annexed and destroyed in this great change.

The Baoxiao Sect has been secluded from the world, and with the special mountain protection array, it is hidden in a small borderland. Therefore, in the past 20 years, it has never been discovered by the past cultivators, and it can be said that it has escaped this disaster.

Feng Hanxiao, Mo Ao, and Tian Qi, after 20 years of hard practice, finally entered the peak state of the late foundation building stage. The three of them are starting to prepare for the formation of the elixir. After all, the life span of the three is coming to an end. If they don’t form the elixir, they will probably die with hatred. However, the three of them have tried to impact the formation of the elixir, but all ended in failure. In desperation, one day, the three of them came together to the stone gate of the Jinshi’s cave, and used the sound transmission note to penetrate the forbidden method of the Jinshi’s cave, and informed him of the matter.

After the sound transmission note was inserted, the three of them sat cross-legged in front of Jin Renfeng’s cave, waiting for Jinshi to come out.

However, after several days, there was still no movement in Master Jin's cave, and the three of them were very surprised. One day, when the three were about to leave, they suddenly looked at the direction of Wu Yan's cave and screamed in surprise: "What a strong smell of demon poison! It's the fourth brother's cave, could it be that a big demon has sneaked into our sect and assassinated the fourth brother? Oh no, let's go and take a look!"