In the year 855 of the Shenwu Calendar, three years have passed since the Battle of Thirty Thousand Miles in the Void at Tianwai Qionglu.
In that battle three years ago, all the major holy land sects in the Cangsheng Realm, and even the entire martial arts world, suffered extremely heavy losses in the process of resisting the invasion of the Lingyu Realm. A total of nearly thirty fifth-level masters before and after.
fall from the sky.
You must know that the total number of fifth-level warriors from all parties participating in the battle in the void outside the territory that day was only forty-five. Adding in some fifth-level warriors who stayed at various mountain gates and were unable to go out, the total number of fifth-level masters in the entire Cangsheng Realm would not be
More than sixty or seventy people.
In other words, that battle directly reduced the number of fifth-level masters in the Cangsheng Realm by a small amount. If the incarnations of Yuan Gang who perished during the battle were added to the list, the losses would only become even greater.
Although the battle ended with the Cangsheng Realm successfully repelling the Lingyu Realm, and after the war, the experts from all sides were able to recover some of the Yuangang of Heaven and Earth, but most of them were just the essence of Yuangang, and more of the Yuangang of Heaven and Earth and the essence of Yuangang were lost in
into the sealed chaotic void.
In the past three years, the newly born Cangsheng Realm can be said to be generally peaceful. All the major sects in the Holy Land are silently licking | licking | their wounds and trying their best to recover the losses of high-level warriors caused by that war.
Because after that great battle, Cangshengjie no longer had a vague understanding of Lingyujie.
But it is precisely because of this that the major sects in Cangsheng Realm will not take any chances just because they repelled the invasion of Lingyu Realm last time.
In the battle three years ago, Lingyujie did not try their best because the matter was in a hurry and there were many other things involved.
And the failure of this battle will not only not make them give up the idea of invading Cangsheng Realm, but will make the entire Lingyu Realm Shang Xia regard it as a great shame. They will definitely make a comeback next, and when the time comes, their preparations will be more complete and devoted.
The power will inevitably be greater, and the goal will be to overthrow the entire Cangsheng Realm.
Despite this, three years have passed. Although the fifth-level masters of various major sects who were damaged in the war have recovered, and the number of newly promoted martial arts masters has also increased, the overall strength is the same as that of the battle three years ago.
It's still a far cry from before.
However, perhaps in order to maintain its status as a martial arts holy land sect and maintain a deterrent to other forces, in the past three years, all the major forces who have been promoted to the fifth level of heaven warriors no longer use the blessed land and the secret realm of the cave to cover up, but
Directly causing the large-scale celestial phenomena caused by the promotion of one's own warriors to be publicly revealed.
The celestial phenomena caused by a warrior's promotion to the fifth heaven are so vast that the large-scale fluctuations in vitality caused by them can affect an entire state.
The moment he is successfully promoted and directly communicates with the original will of the Cangsheng Realm, he can be known to all the warriors in the entire Cangsheng Realm whose cultivation level is above the fifth level.
Therefore, in the past three years, almost every one or two months, a warrior would cause large-scale phenomena in the heaven and earth to appear due to his impact on the fifth heaven.
If it hadn't been for the battle in the Thirty Thousand Miles of Void at Tianwai Qionglu three years ago that was already known to almost the entire Cangsheng Realm by level 4 and above warriors, I am afraid that the entire Cangsheng Realm would not have felt that the golden age of martial arts practice had arrived.
Of course, not everyone of these warriors who attack the fifth heaven can succeed.
Even though most warriors come from sects in the Holy Land of Martial Arts, and have been carefully selected and carefully prepared before advancing, there are still many who fail to cross the threshold of the fifth heaven in the end.
But in fact, in the past three years, it seems that the Cangsheng Realm has added twelve or three fifth-level warriors, but there are also eight or nine who failed to be promoted. Moreover, these successful promotions are all at the first level of fifth-level.
There is simply no way to make up for the high-level combat power lost after the battle three years ago.
In the past three years, the newly promoted martial arts holy land Tongyou Academy may have exhausted all the accumulated resources.
According to the background, the number of fifth-level masters has not increased, but among the four martial arts masters, Ji Wenlong and Shang Bo have successfully trained the second natal Yuan Gang, and their cultivation and combat power have been greatly improved.
Shang Bo just paid it back. The second natal Yuangang he trained is called the "Three Rivers Liuqing" Yuangang. It is a heaven and earth Yuangang from Wuzhou carefully selected by Shang Xia. Among the five elements, it belongs to
A kind of Guishui Yuan Gang, which is very consistent with the first natal Yuan Gang he trained, "Tai Su Yin Sha Yuan Gang".
But it was extremely difficult for Ji Wenlong to practice the second natal Yuan Gang.
The first natal Yuangang that Ji Wenlong mastered when he advanced to the fifth level of heaven was the "Earth Center Yuangang", which was definitely a type of Wutu Yuangang among the five elements.
According to the principle and order of the five elements, Shang Xia suggested to him that the choice of the second natal Yuangang should be consistent with the metallic Yuangang of Heaven and Earth.
The original best choice should be the "Shouyang Bronze Mother Yuangang" that Kou Chongxue once trained. However, even if Kou Chongxue himself has only accumulated a few strands of Yuangang essence over the years, as for Shang Bo, who has trained it
The "Tai Su Yin Sha Yuan Gang" is even more difficult to find.
In the end, Ji Wenlong chose a kind of gold element Yuangang called "Yuanbaigang Qi" for refining. It took nearly three years to successfully refine it, and it still took a long time to polish his cultivation.
It is almost foreseeable that in the next long period of time, Ji Wenlong's cultivation will probably have no room for improvement.
This was not because there was something wrong with Shang Xia's suggestion, but because Ji Wenlong's own cultivation potential was almost on the verge of exhaustion.
Both Kou Chongxue, Shang Bo and even Ji Wenlong himself had already expected this.
In fact, if it weren't for the successful promotion of Tongyou Blessed Land and the excellent foundation laid from the beginning, which made Ji Wenlong's own background improve a lot, he might not even be qualified to practice the second natal Yuan Gang now.
Kou Chongxue has spent almost no time on cultivation in the past three years. In his own words, when his cultivation has reached his level, if he wants to go further, it can no longer be achieved by blindly practicing hard in seclusion.
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His current cultivation level has almost touched the ceiling of martial arts practice in the Cangsheng Realm. Unless the martial arts concept in this world has a major breakthrough in the martial arts realm, or is further improved, if he wants to make his cultivation level go further, I am afraid that
They can only rely on external forces to advance like the sixth-level beings of the other four major cave heaven sects.
As for Shang Xia himself, in essence, it was his own cultivation and combat power that had the greatest improvement.
However, due to the particularity of Shang Xia's own cultivation, his cultivation in the Five Elements Realm is difficult to measure with the conventional cultivation of the Five Heavens.
After Shang Xia advanced to the Five Elements Realm, he attacked and cultivated ten different essences of Yin and Yang, Five Elements and Yuan Gang.
Before completing the creation of his own Five Elements Realm skills, if Shang Xia wanted to improve his cultivation, he could only find ten identical Yuan Gang essences for superficial refining, which was essentially more like a passive assimilation.
After he successfully constructed the Five Elements Realm's Kung Fu system, although it was very superficial at the beginning and the cycle of Zhoutian transportation was extremely long, under this situation, Shang Xia's restrictions on the refining of Yuangang's essence have been
It can be expanded from the one-to-one correspondence of the ten Yuangang essences to those belonging to the ten attributes of Jiamu, Yimu, Binghuo, Dinghuo, Wutu, Jitu, Gengjin, Xinjin, Renshui and Guishui.
Yuan Gang Essence can be refined into natal Yuan Gang Essence.
In this way, Shang Xia no longer has to stick to a specific Yuan Gang essence, the range of choices is expanded, and the threshold for practicing the Yuan Gang of one's destiny is greatly lowered.
In the past three years, Shang Xia has been practicing using the Five Elements Realm technique he created.
Thanks to that battle three years ago,
Shang Xia was able to prioritize the selection of Yuan Gang essence suitable for his side from the four fifth-level heavenly masters of Tongyou Academy, and successfully collected twenty strands of Yuan Gang essence belonging to ten attributes, and successfully refined them.
In other words, the total amount of Yuangang essence refined by Shang Xia in the past three years has been equivalent to two complete Yuangang of Heaven and Earth!
At this time, the ten natal essences of Yin, Yang and Five Elements that Shang Xia had practiced had increased to three strands each.
For warriors who understand the essence of Shang Xia's cultivation in the fifth heaven, this speed of cultivation can be regarded as a rapid improvement even in the eyes of Kou Chongxue.
However, due to Shang Xia's special cultivation process, at this time, from the perspective of outsiders with divine perception, Shang Xia's own Qi is still at the first level of the fifth level!
Despite this, in Shang Xia's view, the growth of his own cultivation in the past three years still has a lot of regrets.
Of course, in order to avoid irritating other people, Shang Xia could only bury this "regret" deep in his heart.
Although after the battle three years ago, Shang Xia learned by analogy and successfully shortened the daily transportation of his self-created Five Elements Realm technique to about three hours.
In the past three years, while Shang Xia was practicing and refining the essence of Yuan Gang, he was further optimizing and perfecting the technique. The cycle of Zhoutian transportation has been shortened again and again, and the distance between two hours, which is the standard for excellent fifth-level techniques, is getting closer and closer.
close.
However, even with this two-hour standard, Shang Xia always came close to it again and again, but never made a substantial breakthrough.
Moreover, according to Shang Xia's expectations for the self-created Five Elements Realm Kung Fu, after its weekly transportation is shortened to less than two hours, it will inevitably lead to essential changes.
The most intuitive manifestation of this change is that the restrictions on Yuangang Essence have been further relaxed. They are no longer limited to the ten attributes of Yin and Yang of the Five Elements, but only need to distinguish the attributes of the Five Elements for Yuangang Essence.
This will undoubtedly further lower the threshold for Shang Xia to practice in the Five Elements Realm, and the choice of Yuangang essence types will also be further relaxed.
As for the changes in yin and yang among the five elements, Shang Xia can complete it by itself during the operation of the exercise.
If expressed in a more intuitive way, the "Shouyang Bronze Mother Yuangang Essence" that belongs to Geng Metal and the "Taisu Yinsha Yuangang Essence" that belongs to Xin Metal that were trained at the beginning of the Five Elements Realm in Shang Xia
"For example.
Before Shang Xia established the Five Elements Realm technique, if he wanted to improve his own cultivation, he could only continue to look for these two Yuan Gang Essences to enhance the natal Yuan Gang Essences of Geng Metal and Xin Metal respectively.
After he successfully constructed the Five Elements Realm Cultivation Technique, he no longer had to stick to the two Yuan Gang Essences themselves. He only needed to refine the Yuan Gang Essences that belonged to Geng Metal and Xin Metal in terms of properties.
Improve your cultivation.
However, when the weekly transportation of Shang Xia's Five Elements Realm exercises was shortened to two hours, the qualitative change it produced enabled Shang Xia to complete the qualitative change of yin and yang in the Five Elements on its own.
The Yuan Gang Essence originally belonging to Geng Metal can be transformed into Xin Metal by itself, and similarly the Yuan Gang Essence of Xin Metal can also be transformed and supplemented into the natal Yuan Gang Essence of Geng Metal.
In other words, at this time, Shang Xia no longer had to stick to whether the Yuangang essence belonged to Geng metal or Xin metal. As long as it was metallic Yuangang essence, it could be directly refined into the natal Yuangang essence.
But even so, in Shang Xia's deduction of the five elements' natal Yuangang refining, this was still not his final expectation.
In his estimation, when his Five Elements Realm Kung Fu reached its ideal state, according to the principle of the mutual generation of the Five Elements, he no longer even needed to worry about the attributes of the Five Elements of Yuangang Essence.
As long as it is the essence of any kind of Yuan Gang belonging to the five elements, he can transform it and evenly distribute it among the ten kinds of natal Yuan Gang during the refining process according to the principle of the five elements' mutual generation.