Chapter 28: Great Luo Dala Dala Fa Shen

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Before dawn, there was already movement in the fields.

Li Yan waved his sickle, his left hand gathered, his right hand pulled, and large handfuls of wheat fell in response, neatly placed behind him, waiting to be bundled later.

After a while, when the horizon revealed a fish-belly white, Li Yan, who had been working with his head down, slowly stood up, did a few movements to relax his waist and back, and turned to look around.

In the wheat fields in the distance, it was also a scene of busyness.

The wheat at Li Family Fort had also reached the time for harvest.

There is a trick to the timing of harvesting wheat, the so-called "nine-tenths ripe, ten-tenths harvest; ten-tenths ripe, one-tenth lost," one cannot wait until the wheat is completely ripe.

Even the time of day has its requirements, mostly chosen in the morning and evening, because the stems are tougher at this time, not easy to break, and the wheat grains are not easy to fall off.

After working hard for a year, one feels heartache if even a little is wasted.

It had been four or five days since he returned. During these days, he visualized and conserved his spirit every night. Although he hadn't succeeded yet, he had made considerable progress.

It just so happened that the harvest began, so harvesting wheat and cultivating did not delay each other.

A strong laborer can harvest about one mu of wheat a day.

And Li Yan was a practitioner, his foundation was solid, and he had also learned the sickle technique passed down in the countryside. His hands were nimble, and he could harvest a full one and a half mu a day.

The few mu of land at home would only take a few days.

Every day harvesting wheat, threshing, drying, and putting into storage, he often went out early and returned late. Even as a practitioner, he was exhausted, with a sore waist and aching back.

However, he enjoyed it.

His supernatural powers were often out of control, making his emotions extremely unstable, but after every tiring day of work, his mood would empty out, making it easier to enter meditation.

Unknowingly, several more days passed.

In the wheat fields around Li Family Fort, the golden wheat waves had disappeared, leaving only vast yellow earth and dense wheat stubble.

When the wind blew, dust and sand would drift up.

In the sunset, the Guanzhong land appeared even more vast and majestic.

Although the beautiful scenery of wheat waves was gone, the people were all beaming with joy.

Literati and poets always thought that the golden sight represented a bumper harvest, but only those who scratched for food in the fields knew that hail, rain, and strong winds were all disasters; only when every grain was stored could it be considered a bumper harvest year.

And on this very night, Li Yan finally had a breakthrough.

Deep in the night, he sat cross-legged on the bed.

At this moment, he had no external objects in his heart, his breathing was almost imperceptible, and his consciousness was entirely focused on the center of his eyebrows. In the darkness, a glowing human figure floated quietly.

This was the spirit he had visualized.

According to the cultivation method in the "Daoist Daoist Zhen Jing of Xixuan Dongming," he visualized his five internal organs and six viscera, every organ of his body, every day, gathering that little bit of spiritual light from the void into the center of his eyebrows, and then Conserving Spirit.

The sign of success is that the Conserved Spirit does not perish.

Even after waking up, as long as his mind moves, the Conserved Spirit immediately appears in the sea of consciousness.

Of course, this method is also progressive.

As his Daoist practice improves, the visualized spirit will gradually become clear.

Practitioners of other great sects have their own ancestors or immortal blueprints, but for Li Yan at this moment, an abnormal situation occurred.

His visualization template was the statue in his dantian.

This object always existed in his dantian, heart-to-heart, and only required focus to be used, unlike other Mystic Sect practitioners who often had to gather scattered minds.

This was also the reason why his progress was extremely fast.

And at the moment he succeeded in visualization, the glowing human figure at the center of his eyebrows actually had a resonance with the substitute statue, falling rapidly and enveloping the statue.

This sudden situation caught Li Yan off guard.

Before he could react, the statue changed again.

Combining with the light of Conserving Spirit, the originally blurry face of the substitute statue began to twist constantly, and then the facial features took shape, becoming exactly the same as his.

At the same time, various information flooded into his mind.

Li Yan's eyes showed shock, followed by joy.

His previous sensing of the statue was very vague, so he could only infer the statue's function through incomplete information.

But after Conserving Spirit, the statue was finally completely refined by him.

This treasure is called the "Great Luo Dala Dala Fa Shen."

In addition to exchanging damage and replacing life, it can also guard the spirit.

The spirit he visualized had already merged with the Great Luo Dala Dala Fa Shen.

There are two benefits.

The first is to guard the Conserved Spirit, equivalent to the role of a building, so even if he doesn't perform rituals to build a building for the Conserved Spirit, it won't dissipate at will.

The second is that, like the physical body, it can exchange damage.

If he is hit by a curse targeting the soul, he can transfer it to the statue to bear, without damaging the Conserved Spirit.

Of course, the building still needs to be built.

After all, this Great Luo Dala Dala Fa Shen can only replace damage, not enhance cultivation.

More importantly, this Great Luo Dala Dala Fa Shen can continue to upgrade.

It only needs to devour Heaven-Earth Spirit Treasures to enhance the strength of the Dala Dala Fa Shen, and if he obtains enough Heaven-Earth Spirit Treasures to perform a ritual, he can reignite his Life Fire.

Equivalent to having an extra life!

Unexpectedly, this Great Luo Dala Dala Fa Shen also requires divine refining.

Li Yan revealed a smile. With a thought, the Conserved Spirit returned to the center of his eyebrows again. Even if his thoughts were chaotic, the human figure light cluster would not dissipate.

Enduring his excitement, he adjusted his breathing according to the method taught in the "Daoist Daoist Zhen Jing of Xixuan Dongming," then focused his spirit, and his supernatural power suddenly changed. Originally, this olfactory supernatural power had been out of control, mostly imperceptible, occasionally erupting suddenly, but after the eruption, he would be dizzy and blacked out, taking a long time to recover.

But now, that astonishing sense of smell began to disappear.

In the end, it was no different from an ordinary person.

Li Yan didn't panic; his left thumb pressed on the second joint of his second finger.

This is the Yang formula, representing the Sun Star Lord.

Pinching the hand formula, he took a deep breath, and his nose supernatural power was immediately activated. Various smells flooded into his nasal cavity, and became stronger with his intention.

Then, his left thumb pressed on the upper joint of his fourth finger.

This is the Yin formula, representing the Taiyin Star Lord, and the supernatural power was closed again.

According to the method, supernatural power originates from the six Yang roots, not purely physical strength, and consumes spirit and soul when used.

After Conserving Spirit, mastering the Yin and Yang formulas allows for free control of supernatural powers.

Closing it on weekdays prevents being targeted by those yin and evil things.

!.

The dark clouds hanging over his head finally dissipated at this moment.

Clatter!

Just as Li Yan was happy, a stone was suddenly thrown into the courtyard.

In the silent dark night, it couldn't escape Li Yan's ears.

Someone!

He raised his eyebrows, flipped off the bed, picked up the Guanshan Daozi on the wall, and tiptoed out the door.

Clatter!

Another stone landed on the ground.

Li Yan's eyes narrowed slightly, and his right hand pressed on the hilt of the knife.

This is "throwing a stone to ask the way," a method only understood by Jianghu people.

If there is a fellow traveler, shouting a secret code would make the other party leave, avoiding unannounced entry, conflict, and blood feuds.

If there is no response, then one can enter and exit at will.

He was about to speak to drive the other party away, but his heart moved. He pinched the hand formula, took a deep breath, and the smells within a hundred meters were clearly distinguished.

Sha Lifei?!

Smelling the visitor's scent, Li Yan was suddenly surprised.

He looked to the other side, noticed that his grandfather Li Gui was still fast asleep, then suddenly rushed forward, came to the corner of the wall, stepped left and right, borrowed strength to leap into the air, and then with a neat side somersault, crossed the courtyard wall.

Standing outside the courtyard wall was indeed Sha Lifei.

He was clearly in a sorry state, his clothes were tattered, covered in dust, hiding in the shadow of a jujube tree, his head poking out.

"What happened?"

Li Yan frowned and asked in a low voice.

Sha Lifei scratched his bald head and said bitterly: "Let's talk after leaving the village. Daoist Wang is also here; he is currently in the ruined temple on the back mountain."

"Also, can you get some water and food?"

"I've been hungry for a day..."

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Behind Li Family Fort, there is a Mountain God Temple.

Such Mountain God Temples exist everywhere in the Divine Land. Herb gatherers and hunters entering the mountains, or travelers on the road, often burn incense before entering the mountains to pray for safety and not be disturbed by ghosts and monsters.

When the old soldiers of Li Family Fort were still there, the incense was quite prosperous. After all, these old soldiers all had good archery skills and often went up the mountain to hunt wild game.

But now, fewer and fewer people go up the mountain, and there is nothing good on this barren mountain, so the Mountain God Temple has lost its incense, fallen into disrepair, and even a corner of the roof beam has collapsed.

At this moment, the bonfire in the temple was crackling and burning.

Sha Lifei and Wang Daoxuan picked up the pancakes, roasted them on the fire, and devoured them with cold water, like starving ghosts reincarnated.

"Bandits raided the kiln?"

Li Yan sat on the side, somewhat surprised.

No wonder, during the time he was cultivating, the wheat harvesters like Hei Dan who had gone out had all returned, but Wang Daoxuan and the other were nowhere to be seen.

He originally thought that the First Lady was holding on for a long time and the funeral hadn't finished yet.

He didn't expect that they had encountered bandits entering the village.

"Hmm, isn't that so!"

Sha Lifei muttered while eating: "The wheat harvesters had just left, and that night bandits raided the kiln. Fortunately, the Daoist and I went to order the coffin, so we weren't surrounded."

Li Yan frowned: "The Lu family has quite a few guards. Are there many bandits?"

Sha Lifei swallowed the pancake in his mouth hard and cursed: "There were many, black and dense, uncountable, but at least three or four hundred."

"I also saw a person, the leader of the Qilu horse bandits we met on the road that day, together with several big-sword bandits from Guanzhong."

"Damn, the whole village was slaughtered, really ruthless!"

"Qilu horse bandits?"

Hearing this, Li Yan was lost in thought.

This matter, I'm afraid, is not that simple...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 29 =====