Chapter 198: Slaughtering Relatives and Exterminating the Clan?

The floating clouds were deep, and Ning Zhuo was practicing silently.

Sometimes he was surrounded by five colors, his aura fluctuating; sometimes his essence and blood were exuberant, and the demonic energy was dense; sometimes he was solemn, his face full of Buddha light.

After testing the three cultivation techniques, he had a more intuitive and profound understanding of the newly obtained subsequent techniques from the seventh to the ninth levels.

"These three cultivation techniques all retain the biggest advantage of the past—fast cultivation speed."

"But if you really want to practice according to the original method, the cultivation time will be at least three times longer than the sum of the previous ones!"

This is because the techniques from the seventh to the ninth levels have a new advantage—thickness.

Whether it is divine sense, magic power, or essence and blood, they are much thicker than those cultivated by ordinary techniques.

Although the advantage of cultivation speed is maintained, the standard total amount cultivated is three times higher, so the cultivation time is also suddenly stretched by three times.

And there is another point that makes Ning Zhuo frown even more.

"Starting from the seventh level, these three cultivation techniques began to echo each other."

"Small realms are fine, but large realms must advance and retreat together, which is really troublesome."

That is to say, the three cultivation techniques must enter the seventh, eighth, and ninth levels at the same time. But one can be at the early stage of the seventh level, another at the middle stage of the seventh level, and the third at the peak of the seventh level.

Previously, Ning Zhuo had a divine sea cultivation base reaching the sixth level, while the other two techniques were at the fifth level.

This situation must not occur in the subsequent techniques from the seventh to the ninth levels.

According to the techniques, once this situation occurs, it will greatly affect the possibility of successful Foundation Establishment.

Ning Zhuo knows the reason.

"Because this involves the integration of the three fields!"

It was mentioned before that after the Qi Refining stage is the Foundation Establishment stage. The Qi Refining stage has three main paths of cultivation, namely the Upper Dantian Divine Sea, the Middle Dantian Qi Sea, and the Lower Dantian Essence Sea.

For most cultivation techniques, they specialize in one Dantian. Therefore, there is no concern in this regard.

But for excellent or top-level cultivation techniques, they specialize in more than one Dantian, often involving two Dantians.

No matter which two Dantians these are, they must involve unification. For example, the combination of spirit and qi, the unification of spirit and mind, or the harmony of essence and qi.

For the Three Sects Master, what he needs to achieve is even more—the integration of the three treasures of essence, qi, and spirit!

This kind of integration is not to merge the three Dantians into one, but to unify their auras, making them look like one body, truly opening up the path to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Without this kind of integration, Ning Zhuo practicing these three cultivation techniques is like practicing three incompatible techniques at will.

When impacting the Foundation Establishment stage, it is bound to fail.

All three Dantians have cultivation bases; as long as there is a slight disharmony and no distinction between primary and secondary, it will form a violent conflict, leading to failure in impacting the Foundation Establishment stage, and the three fields will collide and break. Lightly, it will affect the foundation of cultivation, falling from a genius to a waste; heavily, there will be a life crisis.

This is the main reason why the three Dantian cultivation is still very rare in today's developed world of cultivation.

Ning Zhuo summarized: the Three Sects techniques reached the late stage of Qi Refining, the cultivation speed advantage was maintained, but the time was stretched by three times, and the three techniques must advance and retreat together.

He immediately thought of the difficulties involved.

"In this way, my divine sea cultivation base cannot progress too fast."

"Must take into account the progress of the other two fields."

"Fortunately, small realms do not have to be consistent; I can still use Ice Jade Wine to carry the Qi Sea cultivation base."

"The problem is what to do about the Essence Sea cultivation?"

Ning Zhuo's cultivation in the Essence Sea has always been the slowest.

It's not that he has no talent in this regard, nor is it really slow, but compared to the rapidly progressing Divine Sea and the carried Qi Sea, the Essence Sea has always been the last one.

Before, this was not a problem.

But now, according to the Three Sects late-stage techniques, this is Ning Zhuo's biggest shortcoming in cultivation.

"The subsequent techniques are in hand, but new problems have also emerged."

Ning Zhuo only studied the late-stage content of the Mirror Platform Psychic Technique for a few glances, and felt that his divine sea cultivation base was faintly exuberant, with a trend of crossing to the seventh level, which scared him to quickly dispel all related thoughts in the divine sea.

His Qi Sea cultivation base also reached the peak of the sixth level.

Only the Essence Sea cultivation base lagged behind.

"Must go all out to improve the Essence Sea cultivation base!"

Most of those who have research on the Essence Sea are demonic cultivation techniques.

Ning Zhuo really hasn't been exposed to much in this regard.

His knowledge mainly comes from the Ning family's public library, and his mechanical attainments basically come from his mother's legacy classics.

Although he has also collected information in the black market for many years and has also paid attention to collecting classics.

But the cultivation techniques, spells, etc., that have fallen into this level of market are of low quality (Fire Persimmon Immortal City is a new city after all). Unless you pick up leaks or some auctions, it is difficult to buy high-quality cultivation techniques.

Demonic cultivation techniques are also items officially cracked down on and banned, and it is also difficult to acquire them from the conventional market.

Before the age of sixteen, Ning Zhuo firmly believed in his own development path of walking the righteous path and had no desire for demonic arts.

He also didn't think that the Lava Immortal Palace's cultivation technique was a three-path cultivation.

This made his preparation and accumulation in demonic arts seriously inconsistent with actual needs.

Fortunately, he still has an old big brother who comes from a major evil sect.

Ning Zhuo asked Sun Lingtong about this matter.

Sun Lingtong gave the answer directly: "This is very simple."

"To improve the essence and blood cultivation base, it is actually the easiest."

"But Little Zhuo, you definitely can't do it."

"Boss, just say it." Ning Zhuo asked.

Sun Lingtong gave the answer, which made Ning Zhuo's face change slightly, and he immediately shook his head: "Can't do it, can't do it!"

The method Sun Lingtong gave is very simple, that is, relatives of the same sect who possess the same source of bloodline.

Terrible demonic cultivators, for their own benefit, slaughter their relatives in exchange for rapid progress in cultivation.

The key is that as long as the demonic cultivator pays attention to refining and purifying, this method really has no side effects!

Ning Zhuo was not reconciled: "Boss Sun, besides this, what other ways are there?"

Sun Lingtong also put forward several plans, but they all had very high thresholds or were far from solving the urgent need.

What should I do?

Ning Zhuo had to go all out to cultivate the Essence Sea while paying attention to collecting relevant information to see if there were such opportunities in the outside world.

Sun Lingtong comforted him: "This is not a bottleneck for you; it is still moving forward steadily. This is clearly a normal cultivation speed, but you are not satisfied."

Ning Zhuo sighed and told Sun Lingtong his concerns.

Fire Persimmon Immortal City has begun to become crowded, and outsiders are constantly attracted by the Recruitment Order to come here to try to explore the Immortal Palace.

Ning Zhuo felt the pressure increasing day by day.

He must go all out, race against time, and do his best to increase the possibility of seizing the Immortal Palace.

If there is the slightest slack, he will not forgive himself.

"Sigh, Little Zhuo is holding himself too tight." Sun Lingtong sighed in his heart but did not persuade him.

Because he knew very well the significance of the Lava Immortal Palace to Ning Zhuo's life.

He also knew: any persuasion is meaningless. Helping Ning Zhuo with all his might is the most meaningful help he can bring.

This is why Sun Lingtong was wanted, yet he still took the risk to stay in Fire Persimmon Immortal City.

He always hides in the underground base and moves once every period of time. According to his personality, this life is more tormenting than being in prison.

But Sun Lingtong endured it, just wanting to get closer to Ning Zhuo and see what he could do to help his little brother.

He didn't know yet that his situation was more dangerous than Ning Zhuo's—he had been targeted by two Jin Dan true disciples, Luo Shang of the Soul-Devouring Sect and Yang Chanyu of the No-Empty Gate.

When he rotates to the previous underground base, he will fall into the enemy's trap.

Ning Zhuo's small courtyard.

"Okay, this mechanical fire-exploding monkey is of high quality, I'll buy it." Ning Zhuo took out money to buy a mechanical monkey.

Recently, the number of times he has done this action has increased significantly.

"Hmm, you made this jet tube based on the mechanical map of the Lava Immortal Palace, improved by yourself?"

After getting an affirmative answer, Ning Zhuo also bought this jet mechanical tube as encouragement.

After Ning Xiaohui withdrew from the modification team, the remaining main line members were already few in number, and now lacking a backbone, they were not worth worrying about at all.

The Ning family's modification team was completely decided by Ning Zhuo.

Ning Zhuo took the initiative to arrange for the modification team members to go to various mechanical workshops to accumulate mechanical attainments.

After a period of fermentation, the effect was visibly outstanding!

This once made Ning Zhuo wonder if the Ning family was originally a family based on mechanical arts, and now practicing ice and snow techniques, was it going astray?

A former Foundation Establishment deacon solved his confusion.

This former deacon had once participated in the work of selecting personnel at the high level.

Only then did Ning Zhuo understand that the personnel of the modification team were not chosen at random, but the Ning family high-level spent a lot of thought, specifically selected from a huge base, suitable for mechanical arts.

"The more people in the family, the more talents suitable for practicing different cultivation techniques."

"From the perspective of the family, having more people is good; it is simply the more the better."

The personnel carefully selected by the Ning family now fall into Ning Zhuo's pocket and are used by him.

Sun Lingtong's former black market was also controlled by Ning Zhuo, and the revenue rose crazily.

Everything has advantages and disadvantages. Many outsiders poured into the Immortal City, bringing him huge competitive pressure, but also bringing more transactions and more income.

The funds in Ning Zhuo's hands are increasing, accumulating rapidly at an unprecedented speed, even though he has been spending.

When donating to the Ciyou Garden, he donated a sum of spirit stones that was more generous than previously planned.

The proportion of the salary given to the Ning family Foundation Establishment subordinates in the total income is falling rapidly.

Ning Zhuo also invested a large amount of funds to secretly collect information.

A lot of information about demonic arts accelerating cultivation has been collected, but it is basically unreliable.

Ning Zhuo has information sensitivity cultivated for more than ten years, and for a lot of information, he can roughly estimate how much rumor component there is at a glance.

There is a lot of information and clues collected, most of which are floating in rumors and have no value.

The vast majority of the answers are what Sun Lingtong mentioned—starting from relatives.

"Because it involves demonic cultivation techniques and is related to the Lava Immortal Palace, I cannot start from regular channels, nor can I seek help from the three major families."

"The situation is okay now, if the Essence Sea cultivation base is promoted to the seventh level and the time is stretched by three times, then it will be even more unbearable!"

Ning Zhuo thought hard for many days.

This day, he suddenly had a wonderful inspiration and achieved a gratifying breakthrough—

"Wait, I can let the mechanical puppet practice for me!"