Chapter 1255

In the past, when the Heposuo fleet went to the Great Lake to observe the strange phenomena, Ke Ko Wenbin and the others took out kites to play, soaring on the wind, with the river breeze blowing mightily. The sky was high and the road was long; it was a great joy, a great freedom, and a sudden enlightenment. Today, having cleared their debts, it felt almost the same as that carefree and relaxed time in the past!

The situation was the same, the realization was similar, and he had once again gained the favor of the seventeenth-layer River Master.

Liang Qu, sitting in the full lotus position, circulated his cultivation technique, stabilized his breathing, relaxed his entire body and mind, and slowly captured the flash of inspiration that had just passed by, grabbing it firmly as if catching a swimming fish!

The sparks of inspiration intertwined, converging into a bridge leading to the other shore.

Heaven, Earth, and Man breathing together.

Heaven and Man in resonance!

He transformed into a salmon swimming upstream in a mountain stream, flicking its tail, sliding its fins, swimming against the current. The path was obstructed and long; it crossed past a starving brown bear, dodged a circling hawk waiting in ambush, wove through a fierce school of fish, and leaped over a meandering waterfall, finally falling back into that warm, calm water filled with green velvet algae. That peace from the bottom of his heart allowed his entire soul to stretch out completely and thoroughly.

The stretching soul expanded infinitely, turning into a sleeping giant, standing between heaven and earth. Accompanying this extreme stretching, his skeletal joints seemed to loosen, lengthening layer by layer.

The resonance of the stretching spirit and flesh fed back into the lower dantian's boundless sea. The three hundred and twenty-five-fold root sea rose and fell with the tide, nourishing extraordinary energy in the calm, expanding its boundaries.

The core of "Wan Sheng Bao Yuan" lies in holding onto one's essence, Qi, and spirit, preventing internal depletion and external leakage, keeping the body filled for a long time, embracing the physical form as one, and possessing the ability to circulate on its own.

Before the Great Battle at Shuofang Terrace, Liang Qu's root sea was three hundred and twenty-three-fold. After one awakening, it grew to three hundred and twenty-five. At this very moment, he was moving upstream again!

The White Ape appeared behind him, with golden eyes and snowy teeth, its fur flowing.

Three hundred and twenty-six, three hundred and twenty-seven————

The opportunity was excellent.

"Gulp."

The blood marrow was swallowed into his belly, ground into blood marrow powder, and the two energies of the Yin and Yang earth veins surged and churned!

The two energies of the Dragon and Tiger galloped and circulated, transforming and growing, and intense baleful Qi erupted violently.

His physical shell became scorching hot.

The heart fire burned fiercely, incinerating the Yin and Yang baleful Qi, forging iron into steel, condensing it into pure energy, and pouring it into the root sea of his limbs and bones. It drew in the tides of heaven and earth. Above the First Immortal Island, the Dragon Court stood majestically, golden light shone brilliantly, and rosy clouds drifted between heaven and earth.

"Sizzle~"

The center of the broken Dragon Fubo spear turned red and hot. The Wolf Lord's will was like a tree without roots, water without a source, remaining attached to the break. During the exchange, it retreated step by step, emitting blue smoke as it was roasted. New branches gradually sprouted from the wound, the spear core fused, and the spear shaft combined.

Exhale.

Inhale.

His chest rose and fell, the Dragon and Tiger fought, and long winds circulated back and forth within the room.

Accompanied by Liang Qu's breathing, every blue jade brick shimmered in resonance. Jade-white patterns grew and spread like a giant spider beast, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, until it wrapped around the Great Wall of Blood and Qi of the Heyuan Prefecture.

In the wind and snow, scarlet patterns slowly emerged on the Great Wall of Blood and Qi. They flashed and dimmed, like a giant dragon crawling and breathing.

"This————what is this? Did something happen? Brother, should we report this to the General?" The new recruit looked down at the dark red patterns on the wall, looking left and right, panicked.

"What are you afraid of? It's a normal phenomenon."

The old veteran guarding the city tower was unfazed and continued to patrol forward. "When a Martial Saint cultivates, they can resonate with the Great Wall of Blood and Qi, just like the demon race assimilating heaven and earth, causing the place where they live to sprout mineral veins, making it incomparably hard. With this thing on our Great Wall of Blood and Qi, it will become even more solid."

"So a Martial Saint is cultivating? The Imperial Court is truly amazing." The new recruit was amazed. "With such obvious cultivation, won't the Northern Court on the other side discover it? What if they take the opportunity to attack————"

"Your brain turns fast, but you're a coward. What are you afraid of? Who said that one can't spare a hand while cultivating? Maybe it's a feint, waiting for the Northern Court to attack? And if too many Martial Saints are cultivating at the same time, the Imperial Court will restrict the Martial Saints from entering the cultivation rooms and find other 'dark rooms' not connected to the Great Wall of Blood and Qi to cultivate. Previously, it was rumored that the Dragon Elephant King gained a lot, and that was when he broke through in a 'dark room'. Maybe he'll rise another rank when he comes out again?"

"No way, can he still rise after becoming a Heavenly Dragon? This Dragon Elephant King just became a Heavenly Dragon? Any higher, and I'm afraid he'll ascend to become an immortal, right?"

The old veteran didn't look back: "Who knows? Those geniuses, they aren't the same species as us ordinary people. Haven't you heard that once the realm is high, it's even hard to have children? Only one in a million people produces such a person."

"Now this one————I think it should be the Huai Prince. The Huai Prince's realm is low, it doesn't affect the battle situation much, and I heard he made great contributions, so he probably exchanged for some precious medicine to swallow and refine."

"So that's it. Brother, you know so much. Come, big brother, have a smoke, top-quality tobacco leaves! I brought them from my hometown."

The new recruit suddenly realized, opened his armor and inner lining, took out a small cloth bag and a fire starter, didn't give him a chance to refuse, directly pulled out the brass pipe tucked in the old soldier's waist, knocked out the old tobacco, stuffed it full of new tobacco leaves, and used the fire starter to light it against the wind.

"Hey! Little brother, you're too polite. Oh, good tobacco leaves! This taste has strength, it's smooth going down, and has a strong aftertaste. Where is your hometown? Listening to your accent, you don't sound like a Northerner."

"Me? I'm from Sanshan. I came to the Western Army to seek a future. This is the Golden Leaf from my hometown in Sanshan. I only brought three taels."

"Golden Leaf, no wonder————three taels of dry tobacco is quite a lot. Your family must be quite wealthy. Why run so far to be a soldier?"

"I didn't have the idea to come originally. A single letter takes a year to go back and forth. Isn't it because the Imperial Court built some kind of waterway last year? Now it only takes a month, so I wanted to come out and explore."

"I remember now, the waterway, that thing that makes you vomit for three days after one ride. I was wondering why there are so many Southerners among the new recruits this year." The old veteran bit the pipe, smacked his lips, let it pass through his lungs, and exhaled a puff of white smoke into the cold wind. "It's no secret. After you've stayed as long as I have, you'll know too."

"Then brother, tell me more. I'll treat you to hot mutton soup tonight————"

"Whoosh————"

The two soldiers walked on the city wall, their figures blurred by the wind and snow.

Flowing Gold Sea, big fish whistling.

The old toad's iconic yellow skin bag disappeared, replaced by a palm-sized small bag at his waist.

"Footless Frog, charge!"

Cultivation has no years.

From mid-December to early January, it passed in a flash. The weather became colder and the snow thicker, covered in silver.

Da He Li climbed onto the roof and used a bamboo pole to knock down the accumulated snow.

"Click, click, click."

Taking a deep breath, Liang Qu opened his shoulders, chest, abdomen, and back, his bones popping like firecrackers.

Just by observing with the naked eye, a mountain-like heaviness emerged spontaneously, as if he were a mountain.

Introspection of his own body.

Three hundred and fifty-fold root sea flowing.

A small enlightenment, medium-grade creation medicine, plus half a month of cultivation, the combination of the three caused a violent surge of twenty-five-fold root sea!

Liang Qu suspected that the total root sea of the old monk and the Xu Yue Prince to date was not as much as the growth from this one cultivation session.

The progress of the thousand-fold root sea had already crossed one-third, heading straight for one-half!

Secondly.

The majesty of the First Dragon Court Immortal Island, the Dragon Court structure, regardless of the second, was already more precise than the third!

Third stage of the Dragon Tiger Golden Body.

【Seal Heaven and Lock Earth】!

"The Master was indeed right, I am naturally suited for this cultivation technique!"

Liang Qu clenched his fists, without using his heart fire. With a grab of his five fingers, it was as if the space within a radius of several hundred feet was completely solidified and grasped. This divine ability was not derived solely from the Dragon Tiger Golden Body, but incorporated 【Nether Sea Cage】!

【Nether Sea Cage】, solidifies underwater space, making it difficult for people to move. The disadvantage is that it is slow to activate, needs to be in the water, the wave traces are obvious, and it is difficult to hit.

However, the instantaneous 【Seal Heaven and Lock Earth】 incorporated this part of the characteristic of being difficult to move! It is not just about sealing space and blocking travel!

At the same time, the activation of Seal Heaven and Lock Earth indicates that Liang Qu's Dragon Tiger Golden Body has reached the third stage of divine abilities!

As the non-transferable secret of the Hanging Temple, the promotion route of the core golden body of the "Dragon Subduing and Tiger Taming Vajra Skill" is very long and clear, and even comprehensive in function.

【Dragon Tiger Golden Body】 itself, a powerful defensive divine ability, the root of thick blood.

Second stage 【Point Ground into Steel】, similar to a defensive force field, protecting and extending to the ground, clothing, and everything around it so it is not easily destroyed. Fortunately, Liang Qu sublimated to this realm just after being promoted to Heavenly Dragon, otherwise the flower-and-bird double-moon cave frame bed rewarded by the Holy Emperor at home would definitely have become a consumable.

The third stage is the current 【Seal Heaven and Lock Earth】, sealing space and blocking the most troublesome travel divine abilities among divine abilities.

Even the third stage 【Seal Heaven and Lock Earth】 is not the entirety of the golden body divine abilities. At least on the path explored by the Hanging Temple, countless predecessors have followed one after another, and there are a total of five stages.

Fourth stage 【Draw Ground as Prison】, imposes restrictions on existence within the surrounding space, similar to Liang Qu's fused 【Nether Sea Cage】 version, only more powerful, and can directly seal a certain characteristic of the opponent.

Fifth stage 【Instant Invincibility】, the description of this fifth stage in the "Dragon Subduing and Tiger Taming Vajra Skill" is relatively vague. The general meaning is that the long-term silence of the golden body is exchanged for a moment of invincible-level defense, ignoring any means.

The cultivation of the second stage is still considered simple.

The difficulty of cultivating the third stage began to rise significantly.

Liang Qu was able to reach it so quickly, leaping over the second and third, definitely with the blessing of his own martial bones. This was the direct reason why the old monk came to his door in the past.

Fourth stage 【Draw Ground as Prison】, currently only one ancestor of the Hanging Temple is alive and has cultivated it. As for the golden body of the fifth stage, it has not appeared for a long time. Perhaps he has to wait for Liang Qu to break this status quo.

Dao, Qi, and Technique.

All three are equally important.

The rank of the creation techniques of the Wolf Lord and Zhang Zhang Longxiang must not be bad, otherwise they wouldn't have annihilated most of each other, and then when they slashed at a low-rank Martial Saint, they still almost killed the person.

If he could have 【Instant Invincibility】 at the East Sea Great Hunt, it would definitely be a top-tier trump card.

"Seventeenth-layer River Master, my 【Dragon Slaying】 has also grown to the second stage, but there is no more functional performance. The third divine ability 【Ying Long Killing Scripture】 still remains at the first layer."

Liang Qu observed the scale of the Dragon Court on the three immortal islands and made an inference.

It's not that he doesn't want to sublimate Dragon Slaying and Ying Long Killing Scripture, but the Dragon Tiger Golden Body has a direct route, has similar and non-identical precious medicine to assist, has martial bone blessing, and gets twice the result with half the effort.

Dragon Slaying and Ying Long Killing Scripture are different.

Seeing the White Dragon King once, he already has six strands of dragon Qi in his hands. If another Great Demon Dragon Seed comes, he can sublimate Ying Long's favor once more.

"Ying Long's favor shouldn't require dozens of layers. The River Master's fifteenth layer appeared with musical rhythm and golden eye transformation, and the Ying Long's fifth layer appeared with the key Heavenly Pass and Earth Axis————"

"Waiting for the Dragon People and Dragon Sturgeon clans is too slow. I have to go to the Yellow Sand River to pan for them."

In the two great dragon species in Jianghuai, the Dragon People and Dragon Sturgeon, the experts at the Great Demon and Perfected Form levels were basically slaughtered by the Flood Dragon. There were no leaks to pick up, and the remaining protected animals were protected by the Turtle King and Frog King; the E River is in the Northern Court, and he can't go;

Only the Yellow Sand River within the Da Shun territory. He doesn't know how many remain. He'll ask the Holy Emperor for a permit to swim in the Yellow Sand another day.

Collect his thoughts.

The New Year is in late January this year, there are still twenty days. Master and the Xu family haven't come yet, and the Senior Brother shouldn't have left seclusion either.

Fourteen resources of unparalleled merit remaining!

Continue!

【Heaven Sea Qiong Flower】

【A strange flower growing at the source of the spiritual vein, blooming once every hundred years. When the flower blooms, the surrounding spiritual energy forms a vortex, like clouds and seas surging, filling the root sea.】

【Exchange requirement: Half an unparalleled merit, can exchange for one six-petaled Qiong Flower.】

【Note: The spiritual energy is abundant. It is not advisable to refine more than two petals per day. Hold under the tongue.】

For water-attribute precious medicine, at the level of creation medicine, the quantity on the exchange list is significantly less than land precious medicine, the types are few, and there is not much to choose from, otherwise Liang Qu would definitely choose something like the two-life flower, which is both similar and non-identical and water-attribute, to develop to the maximum extent.

Six petals fished out from the water.

Picked two petals and held them under his tongue.

Ze Ding.

Long Qi circulated, Drought Charm floated, Blue Tide surged.

【Water Ze Essence+】

【Water Ze Essence: 898,900】

"Good job, good job! Flip him! Flip him!"

"Do him!"

Huaiyin Martial Hall, yellow earth high platform, two teenagers arm-wrestling, head-to-head, sweating profusely in the middle of winter.

Students, parents, instructors, local villagers, local officials, tourists from other places————all kinds, almost forming a huge scale of twenty or thirty thousand people, encouraging and cheering, lively and extraordinary. At first glance, one would think it was the Imperial Court's Martial Examination, selecting the Twenty-Eight Mansions.

"It's different now————" Lan Tai pillowing his hands behind his head.

"What did Instructor Lan say?" Hu Qi turned his head.

"I said, it's different now."

"Yeah, it's different now."

Hu Qi and Xiang Xiang Zhangsong stared at the high platform, the sea of people roaring, recalling the small "Yang Family Martial Hall" that once existed in Pingyang Town.

At that time, there were at most thirty or forty people, a yellow earth field, and a large courtyard for accommodation in the back. How much has it turned over now?

The "Master Zhaowu" plaque bestowed by the Holy Emperor hung high in the house, the "Huaiyin Martial Hall" personally named by him shone in all directions, and there were more toilets than the original rooms.

Lan Tai looked around, feeling more than Hu Qi and the others.

He is Kou Zhuang's Senior Brother.

Kou Zhuang was born with strong bones, tall and strong, because he was dull, he appeared steady. He was like a thin monkey, and others said he looked like the Junior Brother, and Kou Zhuang looked like the Senior Brother.

In the early years, because the county was tortured enough by the Ghost Mother Sect, it happened that the Imperial Court wanted to change Pingyang into a prefecture, so he followed his master to beg for food, thinking of sparring with the Yang Family Martial Hall, showing off, but didn't beat Liang Qu. More than ten years passed, and this directly disintegrated, the entire martial hall merged into the martial hall, and followed his master to become an instructor.

Kou Zhuang is now also developing under the Huai Prince.

Many instructors in the martial hall came for this purpose.

Recalling, the two of them were also wrestling like the two on the high platform.

Lan Tai couldn't help but think, these twelve or thirteen years, is it long or short?

"Roar! Won, won!"

"We are the champions!"

On the high platform, accompanied by a teenager falling down exhausted, raising dust, the last teenager stood shakily, cheering like a tsunami.

The final assessment of the Huaiyin Martial Hall officially came to an end. Xu Xu Zishuai personally awarded prizes to the first place of different grades and registered credits.

It's just that the Galloping Horse side looked a little unconvinced at the award winner.

Everyone knows that the most outstanding and capable batch of apprentices had already followed the Huai Prince to the Northern Court to make military contributions. How could they come to participate in a small martial hall competition?

"Phew, finally finished." Xu Xu Zishuai waved his hand to greet, "Go, go, go, is everything packed? Let's go to Heyuan to see the snow together! I heard from the Senior Brother long ago that the snow in winter is as high as a horse's back. This time I must see if it's true or false."

January 21st.

The weather is clear and cold, with accumulated snow but no wind or snow.

【Water Ze Essence: 1,546,100】

The root sea promoted to three hundred and fifty-seven-fold, Liang Qu, with thirteen and a half unparalleled merits remaining, calmed his breath, sat for a while, and walked out of the quiet room.

"Oh!"

"Junior Brother! What a big snow!"

Half his body buried in the snow, Xu Xu Zishuai waved from afar.

"Wuhu, it's Senior Brother Xu! Master and Godmother!" A white shadow flashed, the Third Prince flew out, akimbo and suspended, "Did you bring anything delicious for this Prince?"

"There is osmanthus cake, do you want to eat it?"

"Eat, eat, eat!"

Yang Yang Dongxiong, Xu family, Yu Dun, Lu Gang————everyone jumped off the back of the water spider one by one, even Su Guishan, Xu Xu Yuelong, Ke Ko Wenbin, Xiang Fangsu and other former colleagues, all arrived.

The monkey grabbed the snowflakes on its fur, waved a shovel to shovel snow, Da He Li carried the master and apprentice's luggage, opened its arms, like a monk carrying water, and ran into the tent in a flash.

The Third Prince held it with two claws, flicked its dragon tail, its mouth full of sticky glutinous rice osmanthus cake.

Liang Qu bloomed with a smile.

"Uncle, Senior Brother Xu! Why did everyone come?"

"New Year's holiday, it's a waste not to come. Follow you kid to eat good food, and see if the mutton compensated by the Northern Court tastes better!"

"Rare opportunity, stay together for two days, wait for the New Year to take the waterway back to the Imperial Capital, how convenient. The Huai Prince is not what he used to be, you won't forget your old colleagues, right?" Ran Ran Zhongshi laughed.

"Hahaha, good, good, good, I'll arrange it, I'll arrange it! It's cold outside, go into the house first, Long Eying!"

Long Long Eying took off the warmed white bear fur coat and draped it over the Xu family.

Xu Xu Zishuai took down the last two pieces of luggage and looked left and right: "Hey, Liang Ashui, where is the Senior Brother? Why don't I see him?"

Liang Qu said casually: "Senior Brother is in seclusion eating Qi, I don't know if he can come out before the New Year."

"What?"

Everyone stopped.

"What what, is there anything strange about it?"

"No————"

"Click."

The iron chain hit the ground, colliding with the floor tiles, making a cold sound.

Chaos in front, pedestrians wrapped in fur dodged.

The road was cleared, a group of disheveled people with shackles on their feet lined up and passed through the long street.

Xu Xu Zishuai's attention was attracted by this special team: "Hey, who are these people? They aren't Northern Court prisoners, are they?"

"I don't know."

Liang Qu didn't know either, he had been in seclusion for a month, he looked at Long Eying.

"They are prisoners." Long Long Eying looked twice, "Maybe deserters, maybe criminals, forced laborers sent here. Shuofang Terrace is not stable yet. It's New Year, the soldiers want to celebrate the festival, worried that there are not enough people to look after them, someone ran away, so they were pulled back to Heyuan Prefecture. Heyuan Prefecture's supplies are relatively sufficient. Anyway, it's New Year, let them rest for two days."

"So that's it, then it's fine. Liang Ashui, hurry up and tell me, how did Senior Brother eat Qi? When did he open the mysterious light?"

"Yeah, tell me, tell me, is Senior Brother going to be a Perfected Form this year?"

Noisy, the white mist sprayed from their mouths intertwined.

The soldiers escorting the prisoners stopped briefly, bowed respectfully to Liang Qu, and after Liang Qu nodded, continued to escort the prisoners.

There were not many pedestrians in winter, the noisy commotion attracted many eyes, Lu Lu Xinqing raised his head, looking at Liang Qu at the head through the gaps in his hair, feeling a bit familiar, but the time was too long, the memory was too heavy, and after repeated redraws, his appearance had already blurred into a ball.

It's really good.

Beautiful women, reunited family, glamorous big shots, pawns surrounded by people.

He looked up.

The sun in the sky was yellow and dizzy, like an egg yolk, red paper scraps were flying in the air, filled with the smell of sulfur.

A new year.

Liang Qu noticed the gaze, subconsciously swept over, then took it back, and continued to talk.

Disheveled, bearded, appearance unclear.

Can't remember.

Brushed past.

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