However, when she saw Li Zhaoyan for the first time, Zhao Min herself was stunned for a moment, because in her memory, Li Zhaoyan was still the little girl of several years old.
When she called herself "Mother" before, she was a little confused. Whose eldest daughter was running here?
This is the sorrow of immortal cultivators. Their lifespans are long, but most of these years are spent on cultivation, and they do not have much time to accompany their relatives.
Now Zhao Min suddenly had an enlightenment and understood the situation of his parents. He forced himself to practice like that. Firstly, he wanted to make himself stronger as soon as possible, and secondly, he wanted to be with them for years to come.
I feel guilty now when I think about how I insisted on going my own way at that time.
When she was talking about Li Zhaoyan, she couldn't help but think of her past self, and her eyes still had a soft color. However, as long as she stabilized her state and came out of seclusion, she still had to control herself.
But what Zhao Min didn't know was that what Li Zhaoyan had done over the years was beyond her imagination.
Not only did Xiaozhu Peak explode, but the disciples of the other four peaks also complained endlessly. The places where Li Zhaoyan stayed were either earth-shattering or not even a blade of grass grew.
But Li Zhaoyan never used his power to bully others, but he just liked to tinker with all kinds of things that he found interesting, such as formations, alchemy, Gu refining, raising spiritual beasts, etc.
It would be fine if she just likes to research, but when she likes it, she does not follow the existing prescriptions and procedures, but often comes up with original ideas and seems to have endless weird ideas...
Therefore, explosions of compasses and alchemy furnaces were not uncommon, and the power became more and more powerful each time. Occasionally, various strange spiritual beasts that she had never seen before would appear around her.
Those spiritual beasts are either thousands-legged birds, rabbits covered with thick sores, long snakes with eyes, and so on.
"Dad? Yes, yes, there is his old man. He fights foreign monks alone. If the devil comes to kill the devil, if the Buddha blocks the Buddha, he will kill the Buddha..."
"Okay! Why fight alone, your grandfather and Patriarch Mo are both standing in the air, watching the joke? You also kill demons and Buddhas, your father is not that powerful.
It was all because of his caution that he went further on the path of cultivating immortality. Those who were killed were many who were more advanced than your father. They did not die due to carelessness. You must keep this in mind.
!”
Zhao Min frowned, she found that Li Zhaoyan was a little frivolous!
And... and what about "his old man"? When talking about Li Yan in this way, he is somewhat older than Li Yan.
"oh!"
Li Zhaoyan also noticed a change in Zhao Min's expression. Ever since she was a child, she had been most afraid of Zhao Min.
Others doted on her, but this girl really knew how to punish her, and she was also very frightened.
"By the way, Mom, where has dad been? I have never seen him. At first, people said he was in seclusion, but later my grandpa told me that dad might have gone out.
In the sect, I have only heard others talk about him, but I have never seen his appearance!"
Li Zhaoyan instantly became well-behaved. As a child, whenever Zhao Min was unhappy and she shouted that she wanted to see her father, Zhao Min's punishment would be much lighter.
"He, he should be back soon!"
After Zhao Min heard the words, she did not answer, but looked outside the hospital. It seemed that she could pass through the restriction and see far and far away. The soft color in her eyes became thicker...
Li Yan once told her about the approximate time, and by calculation, it should be the time when he will return soon.
"I just wonder if Senior Sister Ying will come back together? What will your expression be like when you see Yan'er?"
Zhao Min was thinking in his heart...
Next, after she and Li Zhaoyan talked some more, she asked Li Zhaoyan to practice.
This time, Li Zhaoyan immediately and obediently went to practice without even saying a word, but an unpleasant feeling arose in her heart.
After seeing Li Zhaoyan go to practice, Zhao Min left alone, but she did not immediately go into retreat to stabilize her state.
Because she felt that Li Zhaoyan might not have said something to her about her beloved daughter Mo Ruoniang, even though she hadn't seen her in these years, she still felt this way.
After leaving the courtyard, we went to the main hall first, and The person sitting in the main hall was Wei Chituo. The moment he saw Zhao Min again, Wei Chituo, a majestic man, showed a look of grievance on his face...
Half a quarter of an hour later, Zhao Min walked out with a frosty look on his face and flew into the air.
Less than half an hour later, Li Wuyi walked out of his courtyard, facing Zhao Min who was slowly walking out on the side, with a smile on his face and kept whispering something.
In response to Li Wuyi's whisper, Zhao Min ignored him. He just bowed slightly and flew directly to Wei Zhongran, leaving only Li Wuyi with a wry smile on his face...
That night, Li Zhaoyan, who was staying at home to practice "obediently" and longing for her mother to retreat soon, received news that stunned her.
From now on, all the spiritual stones you spend can only be received according to the share of the sect's foundation-building monks, and you need to earn more than one stone by yourself.
This news was told to her directly by Zhao Min, who was standing in front of her with a frosty look on his face.
"Then...then...what should I do with all my attempts...research?"
Li Zhaoyan looked aggrieved. Without his uncle, aunt, and grandfather's spiritual stones, how could he have any spiritual stones to buy materials and raise spiritual beasts?
"You can spend as much spiritual stone as you earn. Your father went to Lingzhi Garden to do missions! The sect has missions, and each peak also has mission halls!"
Zhao Min said with a cold tone.
Then, without waiting for Li Zhaoyan to refute, Zhao Min rolled up his sleeves and took her to his retreat cave. At the same time, a voice like ice sounded.
"For the time being, you don't want to go out to practice. You should stay in seclusion with me first!"
"No, mother... mother, mother, mother..."
Li Zhaoyan's miserable voice sounded in the sky above Xiaozhu Peak, but then there was no more movement.
Wei Chituo stood in his courtyard and breathed a long sigh of relief.
"You Li Wuyi, who has killed a thousand swords, let's see if you have any reason to steal my spiritual stone in the future..."
Wei Zhongran listened to the sound coming from the sky, he sighed, and then rubbed his forehead in distress...
"I said, you have to treat Yan'er and Gefu the same as Lichou. It's okay now, but Yan'er will be punished even more!"
Miao Wangqing looked dissatisfied and looked at the frowning Li Wuyi!
Since then, Xiaozhu Peak, and even the entire sect of the Sprite Sect, has lost a beautiful scenery, the sound of explosions one after another, and the weird spiritual beasts running around...
Muliusmen, the most recent sect under the jurisdiction of the Sprite Sect, has a forbidden area in the valley behind its sect. This is the place where the leader of the sect, Bai Rou, retreats all year round. Except for Tang Yuniang, no one else dares to come here.
.
Bai Rou rarely appeared in the sect before. Since Tang Yuniang succeeded in forming the elixir, Bai Rou has rarely appeared in front of the disciples. She spends almost all day practicing and studying the puppetry technique.
At this time, in front of a cliff in the valley, a completely black ancient ape was standing there.
A pair of long arms of the ancient ape are slightly bent and hanging, almost as high as the body, hanging to the ground. A pair of fierce eyes between the wrinkles on the face are glowing with red light, the thick lips are slightly turned up, and the sharp teeth are staggered up and down, glowing with a cold texture.
At this moment, it was leaning against a cliff, and on the ground in front of it, there were ten crocodile-like monsters lined up in a semi-encirclement shape, surrounding the black ape in the middle.
These crocodile monsters have layers of green beards glowing on their bodies. Each of them exudes powerful pressure, and they all have the powerful aura of the Golden Core Realm.
Suddenly, they opened their mouths wide, and balls of dazzling green light shot out from their mouths. Then, with pillars of light that shook the mountains, they all hit the black apes in front of them.
The black ancient ape's eyes were glowing with red light, but he was motionless, like a puddle or a pavilion.
In an instant, these light beams all hit it.
"Boom boom boom..."
Amidst the continuous explosions, the black ancient ape was instantly submerged in the blue light that filled the sky.
the whole mountain
The valley was suddenly shaken by the earth, sand and rocks were flying, the ground was cracked, and the surrounding array restrictions were flashing with light, and they all made the sound of "crack, click, click...", as if they were about to break apart.
While this sound shook the restriction, the ground for hundreds of miles around was shaking continuously, and all kinds of monsters trembled in fear.
Either he was trembling all over, lying on the ground shivering, or he immediately got into a nearby cave or rock crevice.
The disciples of the Muliu Sect in the sect in front of them just raised their heads when they heard the loud noise coming from the forbidden area in the back mountain, and some were stunned for a moment, and then everyone went to do their own thing.
Things are gone.
Over the years, all the disciples have become accustomed to the various strange noises in the forbidden area behind the mountain.
From the initial fear, to later suspicion, and various voices of speculation...
Nowadays, no one talks about this matter anymore. They all know that the Supreme Elder is practicing puppetry again.
The stronger the vibration in the back mountain, the more at ease they felt. In Muliumen, there was a Dinghai Shenzhen that made them all feel at ease.
It was a terrifying existence that once participated in the birth ceremony of an ancestor of the Demon Sect and fought against several people of the same level without being injured.
In the valley, the crackling sound lasted for thirty breaths. Just as those blue light pillars continued to shoot out all over the sky, suddenly, a majestic figure slowly walked out of the blue light. It was the head with red eyes.
The tall ape with awns.
The moment it walked out, it was still letting streaks of green light shine on it, and its head kept exploding. It seemed like an unyielding giant beast from ancient times, unmoved by these attacks that could shake the world.
It slowly raised a long arm and stretched out an index finger, seemingly slowly but urgently.
The moment it raised its arm, a red light appeared on the tip of its index finger, and that red light seemed to be extinguished at any moment.
But when it pointed, the red light suddenly radiated out like a fan. The next moment, it penetrated the green light coming from the front like a sea wave and landed on the ten crocodile-like monsters.
"Chi chi chi..."
In a series of green smoke rising, ten crocodile-like monsters with Jindan realm cultivation, their huge bodies, disappeared without a trace after a strange flash on the ground.
And where they originally lay, ten large dark pits were left, with curls of green smoke rising into the air.
At the same time, the red light on the black ape's fingers also disappeared, and then the red light in its eyes gradually faded away...
"suddenly!"
A hole of about ten feet suddenly opened in the chest of the huge black ancient ape. What flowed out was not blood, but a white figure that flashed and then fell to the ground.
It was a girl in a white dress, with a slim body and delicate appearance. She had shiny black hair, which was smooth and tied back casually. She was Bai Rou.
At this time, her cultivation has reached the middle stage of Golden Elixir, her face is getting whiter and fairer, and her skin is shining with a jade-like luster, making people have the urge to gently slide it with their fingertips.
Bai Rou walked to the place where the crocodile-like monster was lying, her consciousness spread out, and she began to carefully explore the black holes on the ground.
After a hundred breaths passed, she raised her beautiful face again, but her eyebrows were furrowed, as if she was thinking about something.
"The power... is overbearing... but... it only has the power of a monk in the early stage of Nascent Soul. If we can control these powers and prevent them from being scattered, is there any hope of breaking through... to the middle stage of Nascent Soul?"
?”
As she was thinking about it, a light suddenly flashed in her hand, and a book with a dark blue maple leaf pattern in the upper left corner appeared in her hand. It was exactly what Li Yan had returned to her, the cultivation experience of Shuang Qingqing and her master.
notes.
Then, she quickly turned the page to one of the pages, and then stared at several lines of writing in it, her delicate face full of thoughts...
After a long time, Bai Rou's figure that had been standing still finally moved. When she raised her head, the booklet in her hand had disappeared.
her eyes The color of thought in her eyes gradually faded away and turned into a clear light. She looked at the ten black holes lined up at her feet and frowned.
"This kind of consumption is too great. Ten third-order monster-level puppets were gone in an instant. I have to ask Yu Niang later, what happened to the batch of materials I asked her to purchase last time? And the recent years in the sect.
income..."
The ten crocodile-like monsters before were the ten golden elixir-level puppets she refined. Even in the Demon Sect, no one could easily refine one of them, but here, they appeared in one go.
Ten of them.
But these powerful puppets instantly turned into nothingness under the finger of the black ancient ape. Bai Rou just felt pity for this.
If the Sprite Sect knew everything that happened here, they would definitely be extremely moved, alarm the Nascent Soul Ancestors, and come over personally.
The black ancient ape behind Bai Rou was selected after she refined countless identical puppets and finally one puppet reached the level of "Qianluo Ancient Ape".
That was after she painstakingly studied the Beidou Formation, spent a huge amount of spiritual stones, and finally purchased a "Qianluo Stone", and finally completed the refining of the puppet with her own hands.
She was even very stubborn about refining a "Qianluo Ancient Ape". In her room, the shrunken ancient apes were arranged in jade boxes, but she was the only one who knew about it...
After Bai Rou understood the notes in Shuang Qingqing's manual, she continued to try to improve the power of this puppet over the years, and finally made it reach the terrifying power of the early Nascent Soul.
But even so, Bai Rou is still not satisfied with this. Her goal is to increase the power of this puppet to the late Nascent Soul stage, reaching the peak that monks in this world can achieve.
To outsiders, this is simply a joke. After all, her cultivation level is only in the middle stage of Jindan. If this idea is to be realized, it is tantamount to wishful thinking.
However, the Tianling Clan's secret technique can do all this. The key is to see how Bai Rou constructs the formation within the puppet's body, allowing it to squeeze out all the spiritual energy from each spiritual stone.
And during the operation process, try to reduce the loss of spiritual energy, etc...
Therefore, in recent years, Bai Rou has been studying the Beidou Formation. Now, she actually wants to try to modify this already perfect formation to achieve her idea. This approach is extremely bold.
She noticed that during the operation of this formation, about 30% of the circulating spiritual energy would be lost. If this 30% of the spiritual energy was retained, it would not be a simple accumulation at all, but would double the power of the puppet.
After Bai Rou's eyes regained clarity, she turned around and walked towards the black ape behind her. The black ape was as tall as a mountain and stood there motionless.
When Bai Rou walked up to it, her exquisite and petite figure only reached the ankle bones of the Huanhua Ape's legs, like an ant.
Immediately, she sat down leaning on the thick right leg of the black ancient ape, and her eyes became a little dazed for a while...
Under the setting sun, the valley is half sunny and half shaded, half hot and half cool. The red sunlight is scattered on the stone walls above the valley, reflecting the setting sun. In the shadows below, there seems to be a gentle wind blowing...
In the sky, there are white clouds in the distance, which look like the white rolling mountains, like my childhood hometown, and like the embrace of lovers...
Bai Rou just watched quietly, as if she didn't care. She didn't care about the changes in light and shadow in half of the valley. The white cloud mountains in the distance turned into strange giant beasts again...
"How long has he been gone? Ten years, twenty years? Or thirty years, no news, he is no longer the young junior brother, and I have returned to Muliusmen...
He is a Yuanying monk who spans the world, and I am just a golden elixir monk from a small sect..."
While thinking, she raised her head, looked up, and looked up along the thick legs of the ancient ape, and saw the outline of the face of the black ancient ape that was familiar to her and no longer familiar to her, ferocious and warm.
For a moment, she remembered the scene in the city where the boy appeared in the crowd when she was holding a miniature puppet that looked like this and was helpless!
When the crowd parted, a young man in a dark green robe slowly walked towards her...