Zhengxian Road

Chapter 4 Black Snake Dagger and Immortal Cultivators

Yunlu Temple in Yuexi Mountains.

Cui Ning is sitting in the side room at the moment, eating snacks, while reading "Kaiyuan Continent Chronicles" with relish, this is a comprehensive book introducing the history, geography, culture, military affairs, etc. of Kaiyuan Continent.

If you want to understand a world, you must start with its history, so what Cui Ning likes most is to read the history books of this world.

Cui Ning knows that most of these so-called "official histories" are written by the victors, but there are still many events that can objectively reflect the situation at that time.

In order to be able to see these books in Yunlu Temple, Cui Ning asked the housekeeper of the palace to make a bookshelf in the wing room of the temple, and then brought all the books from the palace and placed them on the bookshelf for him to read .

Just as Cui Ning was wandering in the sea of ​​books, a hasty and joyful voice came in from outside the wing: "Young master, young master!"

Hearing someone calling him, Cui Ning withdrew his thoughts from the book, looked at the person coming from afar, and said hurriedly:
"What's the matter? Little Li, speak slowly."

It turned out that the person outside the wing room was exactly an escort assigned by the palace to Cui Ning.

"Young master, just now there is a letter from the palace, the prince is back." Xiao Lizi said after taking a few breaths.

"What? My royal father is back? Hurry up! Get someone to take me back!" Hearing this, Cui Ning quickly dropped the book in his hand and shouted to Xiao Lizi, his heart had already flown to the palace at this moment.

When Cui Ning came to the palace, he was told that the prince had already retreated, so he had no choice but to go to the princess.

For the "mother" in this world, Cui Ning has always felt a sense of indebtedness in her heart, because since the birth of Cui Ning, the princess's body has fallen to the root of the disease, and she can only rest in bed in the boudoir for a long time.

"My concubine is here, Ning'er greets my concubine!" Cui Ning kneeled outside the concubine's boudoir, solemnly kneeling to pay her respects.

"Quick, cough cough. Come in quickly, Ning'er."

The weak voice of the princess came from the room, Cui Ning jumped in his heart, and quickly got up and entered the room of the princess.

There was a faint medicinal fragrance in the princess's boudoir, and the whole room was tightly covered. Although it was not cold, there was always a brazier burning in the room, and a maid added firewood to it from time to time.

When the princess saw her child, she was overjoyed, and even her pale face became a little rosy, so she quickly got someone to help her up and leaned on the bed.

After chatting for a while, the topic naturally turned to King Cui.

"By the way, mother and concubine, why did my father go out for so long this time? And I went into seclusion as soon as I came back, and I didn't even see my father." Cui Ning's tone seemed to be complaining.

After hearing this, the concubine looked at Cui Ning tenderly and said, "Ning'er, don't complain, your father is also here to find a breakthrough opportunity.

"God bless him, he finally found it. The retreat is only for the purpose of attacking the realm of the highest martial arts master. Once he succeeds, he can..."

As she spoke, the princess began to sob, as if thinking of her eldest son who was still under house arrest in the capital.

"Mother..."

Cui Ning didn't know how to comfort him.

"By the way, Ning'er, your father also left some things for you before retreating, so that you can study them carefully, and I will send someone to bring them to you later.

"Your father told you that those books are what you like to read. The most important thing is that porcelain bottle. It is a fairy medicine that is very beneficial to the dantian tendons. You must absorb it well and step into the martial arts as soon as possible. .

"As a mother, I don't expect you to kill the enemy on the battlefield in the future, but I hope you can keep yourself safe after you succeed in cultivation..."

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After returning from the palace, Cui Ning's eyes were fixed on a burden that the princess gave him.

Sitting in the wing room of Yunlu Temple, Cui Ning looked at the bundle on the table, his face was full of excitement.Can you finally touch the mysterious martial art of this world?
Cui Ning slowly opened the bag, and what appeared in front of him was a dagger, a porcelain vase, and a book.

Cui Ning took the dagger first, only to see that the handle of the dagger was black, with a pattern similar to that of a boa constrictor from the previous life engraved on it. The dagger was blue in color and had a cold light that almost hurt Cui Ning's eyes.

"I heard from my mother and concubine that my father got these from the fairy cave in the desert."

Cui Ning looked at the dagger and said:
"Sure enough, it's used by immortals, it's so powerful." Then he picked up the small porcelain bottle, remembering what his mother said, this is the elixir that can let him get in touch with martial arts.

Cui Ning resisted the idea of ​​opening the porcelain bottle and swallowing the panacea immediately, and turned his attention to the last item in the package, a fairy book called "Changhao Essays".

As Cui Ning slowly opened this "Changhao Essay", a picture scroll of the world of cultivating immortals that was wider than Cui Ning imagined unfolded before his eyes.

Immortal cultivators are also called qi trainers, which is a general term for those who refine the aura of heaven and earth, go against the sky, and pursue longevity.

Immortal cultivators can walk with a sword and take people's heads from thousands of miles away;

Due to the arduous pursuit of immortality and the need for long-term retreat, the cultivators have long disappeared in the eyes of ordinary people on this continent. Occasionally there are fairy trails, but it is just that the cultivators accidentally lost their whereabouts when they went out to seek opportunities.

Immortal cultivation is divided into eight stages: Qi refining, foundation building, golden elixir, Yuanying, transforming spirit, refining emptiness, combining body, and Mahayana.

Among them, the Qi training period is divided into thirteen layers, the first to fourth layers are the early stage, the fifth to eighth layers are the middle stage, the ninth to twelfth layers are the later stage, and the No.13 layer is the Dzogchen.

Starting from the foundation building period, it is simply divided into the late junior high school, as long as you break through the bottleneck, you can enter the next stage.

It is recorded in the essays that there are still rumors in the Kaiyuan Continent below the stage of transforming gods, while the higher realms are said to have been handed down from ancient times, and the owner of the essays has never heard of them.

The owner of Suiji calls himself Taoist Changhao, and he has cultivated in the middle stage of foundation establishment. He is a deacon of Shanglinzong, the sect of cultivating immortals in the eastern part of Kaiyuan mainland.Even the foundation building period has a lifespan of about two hundred years.

"It really is the darling of heaven and earth."

Seeing that immortal cultivators not only have a long lifespan but also possess various supernatural powers, Cui Ning couldn't help being envious.

Cui Ning picked up the blue dagger on the table again, it turned out that it was a black snake dagger, a mysterious weapon in the world of cultivating immortals.

The book also records the levels of weapons, which correspond to the level of cultivation. Weapons are divided into four levels: Tiandi Xuanhuang, which correspond to Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Elixir, and Yuanying. I have heard that I have never seen the appearance of the magic weapon itself.

Cui Ning played with the black snake dagger and continued to look at it.

The essay also records Taoist Changhao's experience in cultivation, the knowledge of the sect, and some rumors in the world of cultivating immortals, etc.

In the last part of the essay, I also wrote that I went to the West Desert to hunt down the whereabouts of a traitor in the Qi refining period because of the mission of the sect, but the traitor was not chased and killed, but fell into the trap of the traitor and hid in the Went to an underground cave in Ximo, due to his serious injuries, he had to die in the end.

"Hey, people who cultivate immortals seem to be at ease, but there are also dangers. If you don't move forward cautiously, there will be a moment when you die."

Cui Ning sighed and said.Then he picked up the small porcelain bottle again.

"It turns out that this is the Foundation Establishment Pill. It can make the Qi Refining Stage complete, and there is a [-]% chance of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Stage. If you simply learn martial arts, you can break through to a great realm. Of course, it is better to break through the Foundation Establishment Stage. This pill was originally given to your nephew. I just laughed it off."

Cui Ningyou solemnly put away the elixir. At this time, his mind was no longer on practicing martial arts, but on cultivating immortality and attaining immortality.

(End of this chapter)