Chapter 212: Everyone Is Working Hard

Pine and cypress trees swept past behind him, and slopes and rocks were leaped over. Liu Xiaolou ran forgetfully in Qingxia Valley, sensing the blade light of Deacon Zhan that followed him like a shadow behind his head, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, escaping a route whose regularity even he himself could not predict.

Suddenly, he remembered the scene when he was at the second level of Qi Refinement and was chased by Han Wuwang of the Dongyang Sect. Compared with that year, he was now running nearly 50% faster!

He rushed out of Qingxia Valley and out of the Luo Fu Mountains, running for two hours in a row, until his true qi could hardly maintain such high-intensity circulation in his body, then he slowed down. Seeing a dense forest nearby, he drilled into it.

He found a large tree four or five feet high, leaped up, hid in the canopy, and looked at the way back. No one followed him. He watched for a while, his nervous heart slowly relaxed, and he let out a long breath.

Should have shaken him off, right?

Looking back, that guy surnamed Zhan, I don't know what kind of deacon he was in the Luo Fu Sect. He was very strange. He should have had a conflict with Zhao Ru, right? He was quick to see the situation and escaped decisively, finally escaping from the place of right and wrong.

But the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the situation was wrong. Even if he had made great progress in cultivation, it should have been difficult to escape his control. What delayed his footsteps? Or did he change his mind? Or did he have a ghost in his heart and dare not make it public? After he rushed out of Qingxia Valley, he dared not follow?

Liu Xiaolou couldn't figure it out for a while, so he didn't want to, and he didn't intend to figure it out. Many times, wanting to figure out something always comes at a price. He didn't intend to take risks.

This road was the road he came from, so when he ran away, he subconsciously ran along this road. After thinking about it roughly, he found that he was already more than a hundred miles away from Luo Fu Mountain. This was a mountain road, not a flat ground. He ran so far in two hours, and he couldn't help but feel proud, and also a burst of longing.

When he enters the late stage of Qi Refinement, he will surely run faster, right? By then, he won't be afraid of the pursuit of these deacons from famous sects!

Liu Xiaolou returned north all the way without delay, and finally returned to Wulong Mountain seven days later.

The first thing he did when he returned to the mountain was to find a place to shelter from the wind and rain in the depths of the bamboo forest and hang the beehive on the mountain wall. The growth period of the Jin Huan Peak was very long. It had been more than two months since the beehive was removed, and the seven young bee pupae still hadn't broken out of their cocoons. Only their heads had broken open, and they occasionally poked out their bee mouths to bite the honey at the edge of the cocoon mouth. Relying on the honey in the beehive, they had lived for more than two months.

Perhaps because of the long growth period, their vitality was also very tenacious. For more than two months, there was no honey to collect, and they had traveled thousands of miles. I don't know how many times they had been rained on, but the queen bee and the seven young bee pupae were still safe and sound in the nest.

It was a pity that he had been a son-in-law in the Su family for three years, but he hadn't learned any skills in raising spiritual beasts and insects. There was a record of Jin Huan Bees in the "Thousand Extreme Formulas," but it only talked about what they were used for, and didn't mention how to raise them at all. Liu Xiaolou didn't know what to do, but he thought that hanging them on the cliff and letting them grow naturally couldn't be wrong.

When hanging the beehive, he specifically called Dabai and Xiaohei to his front, and while hanging, he urged them not to be greedy for play or food. In short, he hung his solemnity on his face, believing that these two guys shouldn't be so blind.

People in cultivation, going down the mountain to travel, going up the mountain to retreat, often for ten days or half a month, or even for a year, which is normal. So Fang Bu'ai of Bansongping was not surprised by this. After asking for peace, he told Liu Xiaolou that nothing big happened on Wulong Mountain in the past two months, and then returned to Bansongping.

Actually, a few small things did happen.

After a year of fierce fighting in Zhuoshui, many fellow practitioners on Wulong Mountain gained a lot. In addition to realizing the way of cultivation between life and death, they also earned a lot of family wealth.

For example, Tan Bazhang, I don't know how many spirit stones he earned, but last month, his cultivation level improved by one level, entering the seventh level of Qi Refinement. Now he is still working hard at his Longma Waterfall, wanting to walk more steadily and further on the road of the seventh level of Qi Refinement.

For example, Zuo Gaofeng, he retreated seven days ago and began to impact the ninth level of Qi Refinement.

There are many such examples on Wulong Mountain. Just what Fang Bu'ai heard, there are more than a dozen cases. When telling Liu Xiaolou about these things, he appeared a bit depressed, because he belonged to the remaining majority—he tried his best, but got nothing, no realization, no spirit stones.

Everyone is working hard!

After hearing this, Liu Xiaolou still felt a bit of urgency. With spirit stones and important family belongings, he prepared some food and went down Gan Zhu Ridge at midnight, rushing to his retreat place of the Three Mystical Sect, the tree hole secret cave in the northeast direction at the foot of the mountain.

As usual, he drilled in from the tree hole, turned six or seven corners along the tunnel, came to the karst cave, sat cross-legged by the small water pool connected to the Wuchao River, rested for half an hour, collected his mind, and entered the retreat state.

Forty-four acupuncture points of the Foot Shaoyang Meridian, eighteen have been opened, and now he began to impact the Zhengying acupuncture point.

The Zhengying acupuncture point is located above the hairline. Generally speaking, after opening this point, the symptoms of dizziness and vertigo will not appear spontaneously. In fact, the whole process of Qi Refinement cultivation is to open all acupuncture points. When it is perfect, all diseases can be eliminated. Even if there is no Foundation Establishment, one can live a long life, or even live to be one hundred and twenty or one hundred and thirty years old.

Zhengying is an ordinary small acupuncture point in the Foot Shaoyang Meridian, and there is no acupuncture point pool to store true qi. Therefore, Liu Xiaolou only spent nine days to break through the gate of the Zhengying acupuncture point, and the spirit stones consumed were only one.

After a little adjustment, he continued to impact the Chengling acupuncture point. The Chengling acupuncture point is also related to the head, and at the same time, it mainly treats tinnitus and other symptoms. After opening the Chengling acupuncture point, if he encounters the Golden Core battle at the Millennium Ceremony of the Danxia Sect three years ago, he will not have such strong tinnitus.

The Chengling acupuncture point also has no true qi acupuncture point pool, and one spirit stone rushed through it.

Liu Xiaolou made persistent efforts and impacted the Naokong, Fengchi, Jianjing, and Yuanye in one go. Among them, Fengchi and Jianjing are two large acupuncture points, both of which have true qi acupuncture point pools. Liu Xiaolou stored three spirit stones in the Fengchi acupuncture point and two and a half spirit stones of spiritual power in the Jianjing acupuncture point.

Summer passed in the retreat, and autumn followed. The weather gradually cooled down. Liu Xiaolou retreated for five months. By October, he had broken through fifteen acupuncture points in a row.

After opening the Fengshi acupuncture point, three-quarters of the cultivation of the Foot Shaoyang Meridian had been completed. Liu Xiaolou temporarily left the retreat and returned to Gan Zhu Ridge.

In the depths of the bamboo forest, Fang Bu'ai climbed on the cliff, concentrating on feeding the queen bee, sending the pollen collected from the foot of the mountain to the queen bee's mouthparts, which was rolled by the queen bee's two antennae and sent into the mouth.

Above his head, one or two Jin Huan Bees circled from time to time, vibrating their wings, or flying away, or flying back.

Suddenly heard someone behind him ask: "Little Fang, do you know how to keep bees?"

Fang Bu'ai turned his head and hurriedly bowed: "Senior Liu has finished his retreat? The junior once followed the teacher to raise a nest of poisonous bees and knew a little bit... Senior, this nest of Jin Huan Bees is very easy to raise, not delicate at all, just growing slowly. By the way, all seven young bees have broken out of their cocoons, two died, and the remaining five are very good. They have been collecting honey to fill the nest. This queen bee has laid eggs again, twelve, I expect them to break out of their cocoons before the end of the year..."

Liu Xiaolou climbed the cliff, looked for a while, and saw that there were indeed some small bee pupae in the beehive, and praised: "Very good... the beehive has also become larger?"

Fang Bu'ai said: "Yes, be safe, you can eat honey next year, can collect two taels..."

Watching Fang Bu'ai finish feeding the queen bee, Liu Xiaolou greeted him to come down from the cliff and asked: "The Eyang Mountain is about to harvest spiritual rice. The Zang family will recruit people to harvest spiritual fields. Usually there is a reward. Would you like to go?"

Fang Bu'ai scratched his head: "The junior is naturally willing, but the junior heard that there are many applicants..."

Liu Xiaolou patted him on the shoulder: "I will write you a recommendation letter, you go and try." ===== CHAPTER 213 =====