Chapter 116: The Arrival of the Bottleneck

"Junior Nephew, have you chosen the magic spell?"

In the Scripture Depository Hall of Yulong Peak, the gray-clothed old man looked at He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng returned all twenty-something magic spell books, then shook his head and said: "Didn't choose any; none of them are suitable!"

The gray-clothed old man's expression turned bitter: "Then... why don't you go and look at others, Junior Nephew!"

"Fine!" He Pingsheng walked over and pretended to pick again, finally shaking his head and saying: "Too trash, not even as easy to use as the magic spells I bought at the street stall at Mount Matou!"

After saying that, He Pingsheng strode away.

The gray-clothed old man opened his mouth wide.

Outside?

Mount Matou?

And at a street stall, damn it?

Can you buy good goods?

"Little Junior Brother... Qiao Shijie Qiao from Mount Tianqiang has entrusted someone to bring you a furnace of 【Spirit-Gathering Pills】..."

"Take it!"

Zhao Linger gave He Pingsheng a porcelain bottle.

He Pingsheng opened the porcelain bottle and took a look; it was indeed Spirit-Gathering Pills.

And they were all high-tier.

No wonder she had to entrust someone to send them specially.

If they were ordinary low-tier or mid-tier, she definitely wouldn't be so solemn.

So Qiao Shijie Qiao cares about me too!

He Pingsheng smiled and said: "Thank you, Qiao Shijie Zhao!"

"Why thank me?" Zhao Linger said: "Go thank your wife!"

"I'm leaving!"

Zhao Linger left!

He Pingsheng also walked into the small courtyard and hung the 【In Seclusion】 sign on the door.

Then he returned to the bedroom, directly set up a first-tier defensive formation, and began to cultivate in seclusion.

On one hand, cultivating that 【Sacred Wood Poison Dragon Art】; on the other hand, swallowing top-tier medicinal pills at the same time, cultivating the 【Li Fire True Method】.

Using one mind for two purposes.

One month later, this magic spell 【Sacred Wood Poison Dragon Art】 was cultivated by He Pingsheng to the Minor Accomplishment realm!

"Open!"

In the small courtyard, He Pingsheng gave a light shout.

On a certain piece of ground about ten zhang away from his body, a green thorn suddenly broke through the soil without warning.

Whoosh, it pierced into the void two zhang high.

On that thorn, seven more thorn heads flew out, piercing in different directions.

Each thorn head carried deadly poison.

When He Pingsheng cultivated that 【Nine Poisons Refining Golden Body】, he absorbed a lot of deadly poison into his body; he himself was immune to all poisons, yet also contained deadly poison.

Before, he didn't have a method to use poison.

Now that he had refined this 【Sacred Wood Poison Dragon Art】, the toxicity in his body had a vent.

If caught off guard, it would definitely give the opponent a surprise.

Of course, this poison art could be cast as long as it was within He Pingsheng's spiritual sense coverage.

He Pingsheng's current spiritual sense coverage was about eighty zhang.

It was much higher than cultivators of the same realm, and not far from the spiritual sense of those Foundation Establishment disciples.

In other words, as long as it was within eighty zhang, it could be cast.

Putting away the supernatural power, He Pingsheng returned to his small courtyard.

Continue cultivating.

Day after day!

Every one or two months, He Pingsheng could receive various supplements from Mount Tianqiang.

Among them, 【Spirit-Gathering Pills】 were the most numerous.

And every time, the Spirit-Gathering Pills were high-tier.

He Pingsheng felt warm in his heart.

He didn't know about others, but at least he saw what Qiao Shijie Qiao did.

Half a year later, He Pingsheng's cultivation base broke through to the ninth layer of Qi Refining.

However, he did not come out of seclusion, so no one knew about his breakthrough.

He was not in a hurry to impact the tenth layer's physical barrier, but followed the old rules, directly cultivating the remaining Gold, Wood, Water, and Earth four dantian.

Once the physical barrier of one dantian was broken, the improvement of other dantian was much faster.

Basically, it could be cultivated in one or two months.

Cultivation has no years!

In a flash, two years passed.

He Pingsheng's cultivation base reached the tenth layer of Qi Refining as he wished.

And it was all five dantian that reached the tenth layer.

After reaching the tenth layer, his spiritual sense also increased a lot!

Now that his spiritual sense roared out, he could easily scan a distance of one hundred zhang around his body.

One hundred zhang was also his casting distance.

"Open..." He Pingsheng, sitting in the room, gave a light shout.

Around his body, nine fire crows condensed and emerged.

This supernatural power could only condense nine fire crows at once at most; now it was considered to have been cultivated by He Pingsheng to the Perfection realm.

His Fire attribute dantian was also enough to support the simultaneous operation of nine fire crows.

Nine fire crows, with fire energy restrained, flew around his body; under the control of his spiritual sense, these fire crows could even easily pass through the coverage of the bed canopy and gauze windows.

Because the fire energy was restrained, it would not ignite any items.

"Withdraw!"

The next moment, He Pingsheng gave another light shout, and the nine fire crows lost their form, turning back into fire spiritual energy and being collected by He Pingsheng into his dantian.

"Hoo..." He Pingsheng breathed out a long breath.

For these two years, he had been in seclusion day and night, and finally reached the tenth layer.

Of course, he wasn't too rushed; this was just a normal cultivation speed.

After all dantian broke through to the tenth layer, He Pingsheng tried to continue cultivating, climbing to the eleventh layer.

Then, an awkward thing happened.

He swallowed a top-tier 【Spirit-Gathering Pill】, but it couldn't increase his cultivation base by even a tiny bit.

He Pingsheng knew that his bottleneck had arrived as expected.

There was a bottleneck at the tenth layer.

That also meant that in the future, the eleventh layer and twelfth layer would also have bottlenecks.

According to the records in the 【Cultivation Miscellany】, in this situation, if one reached the Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, and Nascent Soul stages in the future.

Similarly, at the same tenth, eleventh, and twelfth layers, bottlenecks would also appear.

It was very despairing.

The Water Origin Spirit Apricot could indeed let him break through from the tenth layer to the eleventh layer, but what about the eleventh layer?

"Hoo..." He Pingsheng breathed out another breath.

Forget it, talk about the future later.

When the boat reaches the bridge, it will naturally go straight.

Solve the immediate problem first.

He Pingsheng was not in a hurry to come out of seclusion, but directly took out the method of 【Nine Poisons Refining Golden Body】 and began to cultivate.

He wouldn't refine the spirit for now.

Because He Pingsheng felt that his current spiritual sense of one hundred zhang was enough.

Refine the body first.

If there was still time after refining the body, then choose to refine the spirit.

In a blink of an eye, another year passed.

He Pingsheng's all dantian were at the tenth layer, spirit refining at the tenth layer, and body refining also reached the tenth layer.

He came out of seclusion.

"I am truly gratified that you could reach the tenth layer of Qi Refining!"

In Master Yu Ning Palace, Biyun Laozu Chongyang smiled and twisted his beard, saying: "The cultivation base has caught up, so this first hurdle is passed!"

"As for whether you can win later, that is the second hurdle!"

"Let's go!" Biyun Laozu Chongyang flicked his sleeves and said: "Counting the days, there is only half a day left until the original three-year agreement!"

"The competition time for the two of you is at noon today!"

"I heard that the Ice Extreme Sect has already invited many fellow disciples from the Dao Xuan Alliance; it's time for us to go over!"

"He brat, tell me first, how much confidence do you have?"

"So the old man can be prepared!"

He Pingsheng thought for a moment and said: "Biyun Laozu, don't worry, I shouldn't lose too miserably!"

I have five dantian; if I lose any more miserably, then I really don't need to mix in this world anymore. ===== CHAPTER 117 =====