Chapter 1701: The Three Giants Reunite

Since starting the trip to the Yao Nation, he has been fighting wits and courage with all kinds of people in the Yao Nation and Qing Yang during the day, and at night he has to dream into Panlong, experiencing the joys and sorrows of another world. It is a typical day and night, twelve hours of continuous work.

The ox pulling the mill and the rooster announcing the dawn would shed tears if they saw him working so hard.

Correspondingly, He Lingchuan did not have much time left for cultivation.

This time, he practiced with the help of the opportunity of the Emperor Flowing Syrup, which was quite hasty like holding Buddha's feet at the last minute, but the effect was very prominent.

Originally, He Lingchuan vaguely felt that he was about to touch the ceiling of cultivation, and continuing to practice would be nothing more than faster speed, stronger body, tougher meridians, and more condensed spirit, while the thickness of true power had to be polished and tempered by time, and it was not something that could be achieved in five or ten years.

A typical representative is Qing Yang, who practiced hard day after day for 170 or 180 years, which made her physique and cultivation closer to the land immortals of the medieval period.

This is exchanging time and resources for progress.

However, the world of the spiritual energy explosion is not like this. The upper limit of all living beings has been raised, so latecomers like He Lingchuan have the opportunity to quickly catch up with the predecessors in the cultivation world.

After just one month of immersive cultivation, he vaguely felt something in his heart.

Although he didn't have much time for cultivation in the Yao Nation, the insights this trip brought him were no small matter.

Other practitioners often have their Dao practice grow step by step, and the improvement of insights and state of mind is extremely difficult; He Lingchuan is just the opposite. He entered the world too deeply and dealt with things too dangerously, dancing on the tip of a knife and walking in a sea of blood every day, so the tempering of his spirit and the improvement of his state of mind are far beyond what ordinary people can look up to.

With his state of mind improving so fast, in the current background of spiritual energy recovery, it will be easier for his cultivation to be pulled up. After all, his Dao heart is firm, just like the ballast stone in a big ship, and the ship will not be overturned no matter how high the wind and waves are outside.

Previously, he also vaguely felt that the improvement of his state of mind was limited, as if he had touched a barrier—

It is time to find the right direction for his future cultivation.

Ancient immortals called this hurdle "standing a pillar in a torrent," also known as "lighting a heart lamp." Having reached this step, whether it is right or evil, right or wrong, one must first establish one's heart and clarify one's ambition to withstand the rolling torrent of the red dust and turbid waves, and only then can one hold high this point of heart fire and walk on the cultivation road where demons dance and monsters are strange.

With the change of the general environment, more and more practitioners will encounter this problem and touch this threshold.

If one can cross it, the willows are dark and the flowers are bright, the road ahead is long, and one can take big strides forward.

If one cannot cross it, the mountains are exhausted and the waters are finished, and one will just wander in front of the gate for the rest of one's life.

After touching this barrier, He Lingchuan slowed down his mentality.

The breakthrough of the state of mind requires opportunity; in layman's terms, it means having a "feeling."

At this time, haste makes waste.

Unexpectedly, the "heart-establishing" before the end of the Emperor Flowing Syrup actually made him passively break through this mental barrier.

Every subsequent practice prompted him to take a step closer to transformation.

A few days later, Dong Rui arrived and pulled everyone out of the state of being addicted to cultivation.

After a fair and square battle between puppet masters with Cao Wendao, he was kicked out of the Yao Nation by He Lingchuan to heal his wounds, and on the way, he also visited Cao Wendao's old nest.

It is said that it takes a hundred days to heal muscles and bones, but thanks to the Emperor Flowing Syrup that ended not long ago, his shoulder healed early. The Emperor Flowing Syrup makes life flourish, benefits muscles and bones, and grows blood and energy, which is very good for bone injuries.

When he saw He Lingchuan, his first sentence was: "Is there any apricot wine left?"

Not drinking it for more than a month, he missed it very much.

He Lingchuan asked someone to fish out a jar of apricot wine from the cellar, and also grabbed a bag of dried fruit and threw it to the Ghost Ape.

The monkey took it and ate it with a beaming face.

Sure enough, it was the fruit preserves from Yongquan Villa!

Dong Rui scooped a bowl of wine himself and drank it down in one gulp, then let out a long "Ah": "It still has to be this sip."

At this time, Zhu Xiuer didn't know where she had wandered over from, and when she saw only a small jar of wine on the table, she immediately lost interest.

Dong Rui said to her: "Your sister walked to Julu Port in person to lend you a treasure, and I brought it for you. Phew, it wasn't easy."

If he hadn't gotten a super-large storage ring from the Ghost King's underground palace, he wouldn't have been able to fit that big treasure.

"I know." The sisters of the Earth Cave Spider Queen have a unique way of contacting each other. Erniang had already greeted her.

He Lingchuan asked: "How was the harvest from the trip to Honglu?"

"I led the Black Armored Army to sweep through there. The Honglu disciples were defeated in one blow; those who died died, those who surrendered surrendered, and those who ran ran!" Of course, Honglu also had guards, but how could they be the opponents of the Black Armored Army? The disciples and attendants Cao Wendao left in Honglu were either puppet masters or logistics personnel, and their combat power was not outstanding. Dong Rui drove the Ghost Ape to kill a few thorns, so the tree fell and the monkeys scattered.

"The resources, materials, and records in Honglu, especially Cao Wendao's own hand-notes and experimental products, were all cleaned up by me!" Dong Rui was beaming when he talked about the spoils, "If I didn't have to rush to help you, I should have returned to the Sharp Howl Forest to retreat for two or three years by now!"

"Those materials can be stacked into several small mountains, and they can't be finished in a short time. I'll just flip through Cao Wendao's hand-notes first. This guy recorded his experiments in detail for nearly ten years. Oh my, it can be mutually verified with my own insights..."

He Lingchuan interrupted him: "Say something I want to hear?"

He had no interest in how puppet masters learned from each other; he wouldn't understand it anyway.

Dong Rui gave him a look of contempt: "Our previous inference was correct. The most important task the Tiangong assigned to Cao Wendao was to study the humanization of puppets."

"It wouldn't be just having a human appearance, right?"

"Of course it's not that simple! You have to possess the basic elements of 'becoming a human,' you can't just have an empty shell!" Dong Rui gave an example, "For example, Ashimona, just looking at the appearance, it is close to a human, but its core is actually the essence of earth + the divine bones and divine blood of a small demon cub. Cao Wendao originally used it for appearance experiments, but found it didn't work; having an appearance but no substance didn't work!"

Explained very clearly, good! He Lingchuan continued to ask: "Why does the Tiangong need human-shaped puppets?"

"In the materials and hand-notes I have seen so far, not a word is mentioned."

"Deliberately not mentioning it, there is a catty trick instead." He Lingchuan said immediately, "Not being able to flow into writing means this matter can only rot in the heart. Cao Wendao presided over this research on the Flash Gold Plain and must know the purpose of the Heavenly Gods to adjust the direction in time. It's a pity that this person died suddenly, and there was no time to extract intelligence from his mouth."

He had always had some conjectures, but they couldn't be verified; Ashimona's speed of killing its master was too fast.

Dong Rui looked mysterious: "Cao Wendao's hand-notes also recorded one thing: the first to carry out the humanization experiment of puppets was not a puppet master, but a Heavenly God!" ===== CHAPTER 1702 =====