Chapter 177: Firm Spirit Perfection (Please Subscribe)

After completely confirming his course of action, Du En continued his quiet operations in a flurry of activity, intercepting at least sixty percent of the Southern Border mountain forest monster groups that were destined to be eliminated first and were completely caught up in the bad luck.

Then, he found a very secluded place and directly began his closed-door cultivation.

Because he could not let others discover his whereabouts, it was not suitable to absorb external spiritual Qi in such a situation, so he could only rely on spirit stones and spirit meals to cultivate.

Just like when he was back in the Forbidden Prison.

Fortunately, he had enough supplies in all aspects for now, so this problem was not a major one.

It was just that if he wanted to break through as soon as possible, he had to maintain a normal cultivation speed, rather than the half-efficiency speed he had in the Forbidden Prison.

"Moreover, Meng Changqing seems to have finally found some opportunity over there, and his movement trajectory has changed slightly. If this is true, a direct confrontation with the Emissary is about to happen, which is a good time to wait for an opportunity to rejoin the team."

A little intentional adjustment, one breakthrough after another in proficiency stages, finally brought about directional results!

That is to say, seven hundred and forty-four days later.

【Cultivation: Foundation Establishment Late Stage (95/100)】

It is very clear that this is related to the shedding of the spirit body, which passively affected his soul.

【Spirit Root: Low Grade】

Although it still could not be completely exempted, combined with the already shed spirit body, even the backlash superposition of group short-term self-detonation could hardly have any obvious effect on him.

Because there were still evil cultivators and evil objects lurking around, these filth-hiding creatures discovered that they could not handle a head-on confrontation, so they quickly turned to the shadows and began to secretly trip them up, preventing the Emissary's side from making any more thunderous strikes.

"They will come."

The murals painted on it seemed to be scenes from when this Daoist site was prosperous ten thousand years ago, but if one looked closely, one felt an indescribable sense of difference.

That guy Li Jian clearly used some method to find his general location!

At the same time, his cultivation technique had just broken through, and the Spirit Crystal Body had shed, driving the condensation of his Dao foundation, which still leaked a trace of clues and disturbed the spiritual Qi ripples here.

Don't look at it as only increasing by ten zhang, but there is a significant improvement in penetrability, and the anti-interference ability is also stronger than before; it is no longer just piling up quantity, but starting to have a trend of piling up quality.

They dragged and pulled like this, and actually really dragged it out until Du En had another breakthrough.

【Divine Ability: Burying Death and Flourishing Life (Well-versed 0/50)】

And a wall painting with broken and fallen plaster, but still with corners remaining.

And Meng Changqing seems to have other intentions and is very cautious, only fighting guerrilla warfare everywhere, showing a posture of gradual encroachment.

Early September, two years later.

Du En slowly finished his cultivation and opened his eyes.

Time has reached this node.

It also brought a significant impact on the construction of the Dao foundation in the lower dantian Qi sea, condensing from the original eighty percent back to seventy-three percent.

Based on these three reasons above, Du En can no longer continue to hide and grind, but must come out of seclusion to launch new actions.

【Age: 29/273】

This place is actually the basement of a palace. After going out, it is a small side room no more than two zhang in length, width, and height. Although time has taken away most of its glory, there are still some exquisite classical carvings and scattered, grand, and solemn ornaments left behind.

When practicing spells in his spare time, he focused only on this one, grinding it to "Small Achievement," able to control four hundred magical artifacts at the same time, with precision loss and the like rising and falling, and most importantly, minimizing the backlash caused by the self-detonation of the magical artifacts.

There are other small details that are not very eye-catching, such as adding ten years to his lifespan limit.

He also took time to leave his hiding place during his hard cultivation to observe the general development of the situation, and by the way, find a suitable place to practice spells.

"Finally, there are only three thousand three hundred spirit stones left, the beast meat is eaten up, and the spirit materials and spirit medicines are the same, so there is no way to continue to maintain the previous grinding state."

Simply put, add spirit stones!

Instead of spending twenty medium-grade spirit stones a day, it was directly increased to fifty medium-grade spirit stones a day.

However, just as he walked out of the main hall, his footsteps paused.

Of course, not focusing too much on other aspects does not mean there is no progress, it just seems relatively ordinary.

Because on the opposite side of the square outside the hall, on one side of a half-collapsed corridor, a person was sitting dejectedly.

Of course, this place is not the Forbidden Prison after all, so the capacity is still higher.

【Hundred Arts: Appraisal (Small Achievement 0/100), Culinary Arts (Small Achievement 95/100), Spirit Seeking (Small Achievement 0/100), Artifact Refining (Well-versed 0/50)】

This grinding session had four obvious changes.

"I am about to reach the perfection of Foundation Establishment."

Thinking of it, he did it; he left his closed-door cultivation place.

Cultivation technique, cultivation level, culinary arts, and the Hundred Control Technique.

This is a matter of time; rather, it is the result of both sides racking their brains to outwit each other that it has been dragged until now.

Undoubtedly, Li Jian will definitely come.

【Cultivation Technique: Firm Spirit Art (Perfected to the Extreme)】

He originally wanted to do it in one go, but recently evil cultivators and evil objects have been hovering around him, and even though he secretly changed his hiding place several times, he did not avoid them.

It is worth noting that in the center of this main hall, which clearly leans towards a temple in its overall layout, there is no high platform or divine seat set up, but it is empty, inexplicably giving people a feeling of emptiness.

【Spells: Earth Cannon Technique (Mastery 130/5000), Flying Sand Technique (Proficient 80/3000), Breath Concealment Technique (Perfected to the Extreme), Earth Armor Technique (Proficient 100/3000), Hundred Control Technique (Small Achievement 0/10000), Fire Burning Technique (Small Achievement 260/1000)】

The situation was as expected; after the two sides gathered, they immediately started the second half of mutual probing, then stalemate, and finally a tug-of-war.

Specialize in this!

The coverage of his divine sense has reached one hundred zhang.

That Spirit Crystal Body successfully and completely shed, bringing a fifteen percent increase in basic cultivation efficiency, and the proportion of crystal dust in his mana also reached four-fifths, which is mostly solid and very little fluid.

Walking out of this small side room, it is a dilapidated building.

Du En's Firm Spirit Art has finally been cultivated to the extreme, and there is no further room for improvement.

Du En does not know what kind of place it was originally, and now he is in a hurry and has no time to investigate.

Du En thought so, but felt some regret in his heart.

It must be one hundred and twenty zhang away from his side, so he did not see it with his divine sense in advance, and the overall feeling of the actual distance being wider was also not captured because of the other party's peculiarity.

Clearly, the only one who could arrive this quickly was the evil cultivator Li Jian, who had long since detected his trail!

Du En stepped forward calmly, and when his divine sense caught sight of this evil cultivator, the other party immediately sensed this invisible gaze and whipped his head around.

It really was Li Jian!

(End of chapter)