In the next few months, Ding Qi spent all his time practicing. Unknowingly, it was almost summer, the season when ferns began to grow.

His cultivation has never improved.

Some time ago, many people, including Ding Qi, had already gone up the mountain to search for traces of ferns, but they found no traces of them. It wasn't until there was a heavy rain the day before yesterday that all the ferns seemed to have woken up.

Came out.

After the fern began to grow, there were more and more herb collectors around the mountain road.

In the evening, the herb collectors all begin to go down the mountain. You can often see herb collectors walking towards Qixia Town at the foot of the mountain at the end of the mountain road, or they may gather together in twos and threes and walk together.

Those with happy faces probably had a harvest today. However, such people are only in a very small minority, and most of them have disappointed looks on their faces because they did not pick any ferns.

Among those who did not gain anything, sometimes some looked at those who collected herbs with envy, but most people were so tired from the hard work of searching over the mountains all day that they even envied others' interest.

I couldn't even lift it up, I just hurried on with a disappointed expression.

Ever since it rained, Ding Qi started to go up the mountain to pick ferns. He also had a busy day today and was on his way back to Qixia Town.

When he was about to approach the town, someone came up from behind Ding Qi and patted him on the shoulder.

"Brother Ding, have you gained anything today?" The people who came over asked Ding Qi.

Ding Qi turned around with a gloomy expression on his face, but then he forced a smile and said, "It turns out to be Brother Zhao. Haha, I'm not very lucky today. I didn't gain much."

This person whom Ding Qi calls 'Brother Zhao', his real name is Zhao Yang, is an apprentice in the medicine shop in Qixia Town, has some dealings with the medicine garden where Ding Qi is, and is considered a half acquaintance of Ding Qi.

Since both of them went down the mountain in the evening, they often met each other on the road these days and would say hello to each other.

After hearing what Ding Qi said just now, there was no gain, Zhao Yang showed a rather complacent look on his face.

No wonder he was so proud. He had been searching for ferns for two days in a row since he went up the mountain. His luck was not bad.

There were gains for two consecutive days. Zhao Yang originally wanted to show off in front of Ding Qi, but looking at Ding Qi's gloomy face, he knew that the other party was in a very bad mood.

He also knew that he could no longer show off at a time like this.

Later, Zhao Yang comforted Ding Qi and said, "Even if you don't get anything today, don't worry about it. Things like luck have always been quite difficult to say. As long as you keep going up the mountain, you will get something rewarded sooner or later."

Zhao Yang met Ding Qi in the past few days, and every time he saw a disappointed look on his face. He guessed that Ding Qi had not gained anything in the past few days, so he had such an expression.

Soon, the two arrived in the town and separated.

Looking at Zhao Yang's retreating figure, Ding Qi frowned and walked towards the medicine garden.

Four ferns were lying quietly in the medicine basket behind him. This was his harvest today.

It's not that he didn't pick any ferns, but he harvested four plants that would stun ordinary people.

If Zhao Yang knew about Ding Qi's harvest today, his jaw would probably drop in shock. I don't know how he would feel about Ding Qi's amazing harvest.

Compared with Ding Qi, Zhao Yang's harvest in the past few days combined is not as much as Ding Qi picked in one day; compared with him, it is nothing compared to the big one, and there is no comparison at all.

During the past few days on the mountain, Ding Qi harvested several pearls of ferns every day. However, even so, he could not see any happy expression on his face. Instead, he became more and more irritable.

In the next few days, Ding Qi also went to the mountain to collect herbs every day, and his face became worse and worse.

On this day, Ding Qi came back from the mountain and sat at the table with a serious expression.

"Not enough." After a long silence, Ding Qi said to himself.

Since going to the mountain to collect herbs, Ding Qi has been harvesting a lot every day, but it is far from reaching the six or even seven plants he expected every day.

At the beginning, he still had hope, thinking that he would be unlucky in the first few days.

Now, more than ten days have passed since the initial collection of herbs, and Ding Qi can accurately judge the average number of ferns he picks every day.

Now, he can only pick four ferns every day.

The number that can offset the military service is still a long way from the boss.

"Due to my eldest brother's marriage, my family has no savings. In order to keep his position outside the door, my second uncle also used all his wealth to take care of his joints. I know Lao Bai and shopkeeper Tong, one of the few

A person with some wealth, but before, they lent all their money to others because of military service matters related to people close to them, and now..."

To fill the vacancy of ferns, the only option was to spend money to purchase them from elsewhere. However, Ding Qi thought about it for a long time, but could not find a way to get the money.

Suddenly, Ding Qi felt a lingering irritability in his heart.

Taking two deep breaths to suppress the irritability in his heart, Ding Qi temporarily calmed down: "There should be a way, but I have overlooked some things now. As long as you calm down and think about it carefully, there should be a way.

."

He knew that his current mood would only affect his thinking. If he wanted to truly find a solution, he must first calm down.

Thinking of this, Ding Qi planned to meditate to stabilize his thoughts, and then carefully consider the solution to the problem.

Xiantian Kung Fu has the effect of calming the mind and calming the energy. As long as you enter the cultivation state, you can calm down your mind very quickly.

But today's situation is a little different.

After Ding Qi entered the state of cultivation, the irritability in his heart not only did not dissipate, but instead gradually worsened.

As time went by, all the worries and anxieties that had been suppressed in his heart these days were magnified hundreds of times. The matter of military service kept popping up in Ding Qi's mind.

By the time Ding Qi realized that something was wrong with this situation and wanted to stop practicing the Xiantian Kung Fu, it was already too late. The Qi of the Xiantian Kung Fu in his body was completely out of control and began to operate automatically.

As the Qi circulated, the scenes in Ding Qi's mind kept changing. At some point, even the things about Zhang Tao that he had forgotten about a few months ago popped up in his mind.

Since that meeting, the two have had no contact with each other. The intermittent correspondence that was originally intermittent has also been completely interrupted.

The former childhood playmate turned into a master of martial arts with an unlimited future. For Ding Qi, who had a dream of entering the martial arts world, he was quite envious at first.

But later he obtained innate skills, and Ding Qi knew that even if his qualifications were not outstanding, he could eventually achieve something through hard work.

Now the practice of Xiantian Kung has entered into a difficult situation. It is no longer possible to succeed in practice in the future. The dream of making a career in the world is gradually moving away from him. Thinking of this, Ding Qi feels inexplicably irritable.

Thinking of this, the energy and blood in Ding Qi's body kept surging, and the true energy was rushing around, as if it was going to tear his body apart. Fantasy was reborn in his mind, and all kinds of negative emotions lingered. No matter how he controlled it, he couldn't.

any effect.

With Ding Qi's temperament, he could easily suppress these negative emotions and prevent them from disturbing his mind. But this time, no matter what he did, there were still hallucinations in his mind and his mind started to operate automatically.

, completely out of his control.

Ding Qi was shocked to find that he could no longer control his thoughts.

Ding Qi didn't know that this was the manifestation of a cultivator who encountered inner demons.

Now he has encountered a disaster that a cultivator of immortality will definitely experience: the inner demon.

At the same time, this is also the beginning of the true transformation of a practitioner from a mortal body into an immortal body.

After practitioners go through the inner demon tribulation, their character will undergo a transformation.

Although this is the first time that a cultivator encounters the inner demon tribulation in the initial stage of the Xiantian Kung Fu, it is also the easiest one. Compared with the various terrifying heavenly tribulations that cultivators will experience in the future, it can be said to be nothing to mention.

However, precisely because it is the first time, cultivators have no experience in resisting inner demons, so it is extremely dangerous. I don’t know how many cultivators who have just embarked on the path of immortality have accidentally died in this heart.

Under the evil tribulation.

Regular practitioners will usually have elders in the sect who are responsible for taking care of them at this time, leaving all kinds of back-ups to help the practitioners successfully pass the test of inner demons and prevent accidents.

It's a pity that Ding Qi only accidentally obtained this innate skill. He was completely unaware of all the dangers and precautions involved, and it was impossible for him to have any elders in the sect to take care of him, and he inadvertently caused the inner demon tribulation today.

Now he has to deal with everything by himself.
Chapter completed!