Chapter 172: Three Steps of the Physical Body

Giant Marsh City is south of the Soldier Ancestor Marsh. The Prefecture City of Qiuzhou is north of the Soldier Ancestor Marsh.

The official road along the sea of the marsh has to go around two thousand miles to arrive.

Of course, one can take a boat to cross the Soldier Ancestor Marsh.

But in the depths of the Soldier Ancestor Marsh, some strange events and phenomena always occur, which cannot be explained, and countless ships go missing every year. Among the missing martial cultivators, there is no lack of high-cultivation experts.

The place where those young martial cultivators fought was only two or three hundred miles away from the land, not truly deep into the Soldier Ancestor Marsh.

It has been snowing for five consecutive days.

The carriage drove rapidly on the official road. The road full of snow was crushed with ruts, muddy and extremely bumpy. For the last hundred miles to the Prefecture City of Qiuzhou, the road widened, paved with giant stones, and planted with thousand-year-old pine and cypress on both sides, and it finally became stable inside the carriage.

Li Youyi sat alone inside the carriage, golden light flickering in his pupils. He clenched his fists, and the sound of cracking bones echoed within his body as golden light erupted from every pore on his skin.

"The whole body's bones are gilded on the surface, finally achieving small success in Golden Bone. Just relying on physical strength, combat power can be comparable to an ordinary fifth-realm Five Seas Realm martial cultivator."

Li Youyi felt as if his whole person had been reshaped, full of power in his body, as if he could take his body to hit the city wall.

Fishing boat half a month, road travel five days.

A short twenty days passed. If he met Huo Qiankun, a Nine Springs Supreme of the fourth realm of the Five Seas Realm, Li Youyi believed that even if he didn't wear the Prefecture Governor's official robe, he could send him on his way within ten moves.

After all, he not only had physical strength but also a body of magic power.

As for Yuwen Chao of the fifth realm of the Five Seas Realm, he could also be packed up within twenty moves.

This was just his own combat power, not counting the Evil Camel Bell, Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish, Prefecture Governor's official robe, and other trump cards. At this level of realm, high-grade magic weapons could no longer be called trump cards; almost everyone had them.

From the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish came a soul thought from Chan Hai Guan Wu.

"Whoosh!"

Li Youyi brought her out from the Blood Mud Space.

Appearing in the carriage was Li Ling. Chan Hai Guan Wu's true body could only be exposed to the heaven and earth of the Yang Realm alone at night, and currently still needed to reside in Li Ling's body.

Li Youyi laughed: "Seclusion ended? Coming out at this time, I suppose the soul thought has recovered to a certain critical point?"

"The Lesser Yang Star is not simple. For those of us who participated in the war that year, it is a holy realm for healing and recuperation."

She sat opposite Li Youyi and lifted the carriage curtain: "How far is it to the Prefecture City of Qiuzhou?"

"We will arrive this afternoon," Li Youyi said.

Chan Hai Guan Wu nodded slightly, covering the carriage window that was constantly pouring in cold wind again: "You are right. In these two months, my soul thought has recovered a lot, but now the newly cast physical body has become a short board. Your Golden Bone has achieved small success?"

Li Youyi nodded, asking in surprise: "Your bone body is the Son of Heaven Bone, how can the physical body become a short board? Isn't physical strength your strongest point?"

Chan Hai Guan Wu said: "Our current situation is very similar. The bone body is strong, but the flesh, muscles, and skin are not strong. I am even more extreme. One punch, the bones might not feel anything, but the flesh and blood of the whole arm have shattered. Taking a palm from someone else, your bones can resist, but the internal organs might have already shattered in the palm force vibration."

"If the physical body wants to go further and become more powerful, you must nourish blood with blood crystals and cast flesh with immortal soil."

"When blood Qi flows like a dragon's roar, and internal organs and muscles produce immortal mist, it is small success in flesh and blood. At that time, your physical combat power will naturally go to the next level."

Li Youyi said: "Reaching that level, can it rival a seventh-sea martial cultivator? Mortal seventh sea!"

He knew that although they were all Nine Springs Supremes cultivating the seventh sea, the combat power was vastly different.

Mortal seventh sea, compared to the hundred-vein all-silver pure immortal body seventh sea, the combat power could differ by several levels.

Chan Hai Guan Wu said: "The first step, Golden Bone small success. The second step, flesh and blood small success. The third step is refining tendons and shaping skin. If all three steps are achieved, it can be called a Dao Body, and the physical body can rival a Dao Seed Realm martial cultivator."

"You have been cultivating in the Lesser Yang Star for a long time and absorbed a lot of blood mist there, so your blood Qi is already very strong and should achieve small success soon."

"Immortal soil is used to refine Longevity Pills and cast Longevity Bodies. If you can use immortal soil to shape internal organs and muscles, you will naturally be stronger than an ordinary Dao Body. So, I can't give you an accurate strength positioning. How strong you can be can only be verified after you achieve it yourself."

Physical body cultivation finally had a direction to continue moving forward.

Li Youyi asked: "The first step requires Golden Spring. The second step requires immortal soil. Then the third step, refining tendons and skin to small success, what kind of rare resources are needed?"

Chan Hai Guan Wu said: "This is the reason why I walked out of the Lesser Yang Star! Tendons and skin belong to wood, and you need to collect Divine Stove Wood to quickly refine them. The Divine Stove Earth Abyss, eight hundred miles away from the Prefecture City of Qiuzhou, is like a heaven and earth stove, with magma erupting all year round. Only there can you find Divine Stove Wood."

"Are we going to the Divine Stove Earth Abyss now?"

Li Youyi secretly calculated the time.

There were still more than twenty days until the end of the year.

There was still more than a month until the Lantern Festival, which was completely in time.

Chan Hai Guan Wu shook her head: "With your cultivation, you can't get in. I will go! I will try my best to return before the end of the year... and spend the New Year together."

When she said the last sentence, a smile appeared on her face.

Li Youyi leaned back, his back against the carriage, and laughed: "Actually, you don't have to force yourself like this. We don't look like lovers at all. Clearly close at hand, but it seems like thousands of miles apart, and neither of us can produce that impulsive emotion of wanting intimate contact."

Chan Hai Guan Wu did not deny it, but asked: "What about Jiang Ning?"

Li Youyi restrained his smile and fell into thought, saying: "She is very beautiful, and there is no man who doesn't want intimate contact with her. Honestly, the half-month alone on the fishing boat, I had an unprecedented sense of relaxation and pleasure. Even if everyone was just sitting at the bow of the boat without saying a word, blowing the evening wind, there was a kind of leisurely and peaceful beauty... I really wanted it to continue."

"Youth is really good!"

Chan Hai Guan Wu sighed.

"Don't think wrong! Toward Jiang Ning, it's at most just appreciation, the same as toward all other beautiful things in the world," Li Youyi said.

"Is that so? Chan Hai Guan Wu's beauty actually doesn't lose to anyone, but her cultivation is too high, which leads to everyone only recognizing her as a Son of Heaven and not daring to discuss her posture and appearance. Your impression of her cannot always be that white bone in the tomb."

Chan Hai Guan Wu's tone was sweet, and her body was overflowing with a confident and calm relaxation.

Li Youyi stared at her for a moment and waved his hand with a smile: "I think, as long as you are still residing in Li Ling's body, it will be very difficult for me to separate you from her."

Chan Hai Guan Wu restrained her smile and nodded seriously: "Give me some time, you and I will first be Dao friends who support each other on the path of cultivation! How many directions of Qi have you accumulated in the second Qi Sea?"

"After taking the Qi Rising Pill, the Qi accumulation speed has greatly increased. It has already been cultivated to perfection. After nourishing the lung lobes for a period of time, I can impact the third realm," Li Youyi said.

"Using immortal soil to shape internal organs and muscles can significantly shorten the time for nourishing lung lobes."

Chan Hai Guan Wu took out a medicine bottle and handed it to him: "It's the last furnace. The medicinal materials have been used up. All the Qi Rising Pills are here. Wait for me to return from the Divine Stove Earth Abyss, and then I will help you refine them. By the way, I took ten jin of the immortal soil you put in the Blood Mud Space."

She also wanted to cultivate her physical body.

Inside the carriage, it became quiet.

The two seemed to have no common language except for cultivation matters. In comparison, he could still bicker with Li Ling.

When they were about to arrive at the Prefecture City of Qiuzhou, Li Youyi got off the carriage and waved goodbye to her.

The carriage turned and headed north.

After the heavy snow, the weather cleared, and the vast blue sky was spotless.

The Prefecture City of Qiuzhou was the largest city in the Southern Region and also the first cultivation holy land in the Southern Region. The magic Qi was thicker than anywhere else, and there was more than one Heavenly Law Earth Spring.

Jiang Ning didn't want him to come, but he insisted on coming.

Young martial cultivators from all over the world could come, so why couldn't he?

The Brother Zuoqiu family obviously attached great importance to the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival and managed it strictly. When entering the city gate, everyone had to clarify their identity.

Li Youyi took out the Li Min Register and naturally passed easily, but was told that the young martial cultivators of the seven states in the Southern Region could only live in the South City. They could go to the North City, East City, and West City to travel, but had to return at night.

When asked for the reason, the other party only said it was the regulation from above.

Li Youyi was naturally indifferent. After entering the city, he directly paid for a carriage and headed to the Immortal Forest.

Go to the Immortal Forest to find Yin Ten.

Say one thousand and ten thousand, he was just a newcomer who had been in the Jiuli Hidden Gate for less than a year, and he was not familiar with many things. The Prefecture City of Qiuzhou was vast, almost boundless, and asking him to find the special marks of the Hidden Gate strongholds one by one was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Yin Ten was easy to find!

As long as she came to the Prefecture City of Qiuzhou, she would definitely live in the Immortal Forest.

Thinking that he would soon see Yao Yin and Yin Twenty-Four and the others, Li Youyi was very happy. Sitting in the carriage, he lifted the curtain and looked at this prosperous giant city that was one of the few in the entire Lingxiao Life Realm.

The Lantern Festival was still more than a month away, but the young talents from the twenty-eight states had already gathered one after another.

Accompanying them were strong people of the older generation.

Young people didn't just value power and profit.

Many of them valued fame even more!

Who didn't want to be famous all over the world when they were young?

With fame, wherever you go, countless people will look up to you and respect you, be regarded as idols by young boys and girls, be valued, be favored, and be admired.

This grand feast specially prepared for the talents of the world, the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, was an excellent opportunity to become famous in one battle, not to mention that there were the world's top treasures as rewards.

Such an opportunity was enough to make countless hot-blooded youths fight for it.

Of course, there were also many young people with self-knowledge who really came to join the fun and wanted to see the demeanor of those young talents who were famous all over the world.

As for the strong people of the older generation, they came from all over the world, and their purposes were complicated!

Of course, they had their own circles and would not easily appear in front of people, and even didn't want the Brother Zuoqiu family to know of their arrival.

The carriage drove for more than an hour, passed through the inner city gate, and came to a Dao domain area with thick magic Qi like clouds, finally stopping.

The very center of the Prefecture City of Qiuzhou was Peach Plum Mountain, the ancestral land of the Brother Zuoqiu family. It was the largest Dao domain in the city and had the largest Heavenly Law Earth Spring in the Southern Region.

That Heavenly Law Earth Spring was located above the clouds, just like a crack in the sky, and the energy of the law fell down continuously like a waterfall.

Standing anywhere in the city, one could see the strange scene of the light waterfall falling from the sky, shrouding Peach Plum Mountain like a fairyland.

With Peach Plum Mountain as the center, it expanded in the way of the Eight Trigrams, divided into eight inner city districts. 【1

This Eight Trigrams formation, it is said, was laid down by the founder of the Brother Zuoqiu Sect's Daoist lineage, with formation scripts densely covering the ground beneath.

Each of the eight districts contains a small Daoist domain, and the Immortal Forest is built inside one of these small Daoist domains.

Even if it is just a small Daoist domain, it still covers an area of ten thousand mu.

Li Youyi stepped out of the carriage and couldn't help but be stunned by the sight of the Immortal Forest before him.

(End of chapter)