Longevity and Immortal Cultivation: Starting from Controlling Your Own Essence.

Chapter 209 The Treasures of Heaven and Earth in the Second Stage
Hearing the words of Taoist Sansha, Zhang Yao squinted his eyes, his expression did not change much, and he said in a flat tone:

"According to what you say, they are indeed a little suspicious."

"But in the final analysis, this is just your guess, without any evidence. Could it be that you want Pindao to turn against fellow Taoists because of an unfounded guess?"

"I naturally dare not have such delusional thoughts."

Taoist Sansha lowered his head slightly, and said:

"I just want to remind Fellow Daoist Qingxu, lest you be deceived by one of them."

"I don't expect Fellow Daoist Qingxu to trust my judgment based on just one side of the story, but in some subsequent checkpoints, if things change, I hope Fellow Daoist will think twice..."

After he finished speaking, he kept silent and turned his eyes away as if nothing happened.

Next breath:
"call……"

Haihe Patriarch suddenly opened his eyes, took a deep breath, and when he saw the figures of Zhang Yao and Taoist Sansha, he suddenly showed a smile:
"Qingxu, you are indeed faster than me, probably the fastest among us?"

Zhang Yao frowned, revealing a hint of surprise:
"I didn't expect, Haihe, you are second only to Taoist Sansha and me. It seems that your spirit is very strong."

It is not surprising that Sansha Daoist's soul is powerful. He is the oldest and most profound of the Golden Core monks in Dayu's Immortal Cultivation World, and he is very close to the middle stage of Golden Core.

However, Haihe Patriarch has only achieved the golden elixir for more than 50 years, but in terms of soul, he is even better than Yuanxu Patriarch, Baihong Jianxian and others.

"No, I'm just a little faster than them."

Haihe Patriarch smiled and explained:
"You may not know, but the "Nine Seas and Ten Thousand Rivers Manual" I cultivated has a supernatural power that can increase the soul and strengthen the mind."

"I see."

Zhang Yao nodded slightly, while Taoist Sansha listened with envy.

Divine channel techniques that can directly increase the soul, body, or mana are usually relatively high-level and relatively rare. It seems that the Sea Overturning Sect still has some background.

While the two were chatting:

Patriarch Yuanxu, Fairy Xiaguang, Sword Immortal Baihong and the young swordsman came to wake up in front of the Qingyu ancient gate one by one, and completed the first test.

As for the last ones, the body-refining cultivators were quite born, still moving slowly, with struggling expressions all over their faces.

"Sure enough, he is the worst spirit..."

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yao was not too surprised.

The strength of body cultivators also comes at a price. Generally speaking, while their bodies are extremely powerful, their spirit and mana are weaker than those of monks of the same rank.

Their mana needs to make sacrifices to strengthen their bodies; the same is true for their souls, they need to further strengthen their bodies through methods such as "melting souls and refining their bodies".

But the weakness of the soul does not mean that this is the weakness of the body cultivator.

The spirit and body of a high-level body-training monk are very closely combined, coupled with a series of strengthening methods, so that the body can also resist attacks and influences on the spirit, and the self-consciousness is like hiding in an indestructible fortress.

Under normal circumstances, some divine channel techniques that specialize in the soul cannot harm their soul, otherwise, with such obvious weaknesses, it is impossible for the body-refining cultivator to gain the reputation of being invincible at the same level.

But the current encounter in the Emerald Shrine is obviously not a normal situation, and the high-level body-refining cultivator's ability to protect the soul can't resist the powerful formation here.

Under all eyes:
After a full quarter of an hour, Man Tiansheng finally arrived in front of the Qingyu Ancient Gate.

"Huh, huh..."

He suddenly opened his eyes, panting violently, as if he was under great mental pressure.

"Haha, everyone is here..."

After he saw the surrounding scene clearly, he found that everyone was waiting for him, and his face blushed, but he quickly laughed, as if nothing happened.

And just after he arrived last.

"Om!" "Om!"...

The ancient sapphire gate trembled slightly, bursting out strands of bright light, and floating out four clusters of milky white brilliance like water droplets.

"The reward for the first level is here!"

Seeing this, Zhang Yao, Man Tiansheng and the others suddenly smiled.

The level-breaking rewards in the Emerald Shrine are all very precious treasures, but once they have been obtained once, they will not be given out again.

Otherwise, before entering the Emerald Shrine, Haihe Patriarch, Taoist Sansha and others should swallow the elixir, operate the secret method, and stimulate the power of the soul and mind, in order to obtain better results.

"Hey!" "Hey!"...

The direction of these four groups of brilliance was very clear, and they flew directly to Zhang Yao, Man Tiansheng, Fairy Feiying and the young swordsman.

As for the four groups of milky white brilliance, the size difference is also obvious:

The largest one was the size of a skull, larger than the sum of the other three; while the smallest one was only as big as a baby's fist, which looked very pitiful.

Undoubtedly, the largest ball of milky white brilliance flew straight to Zhang Yao; while the smallest ball flew to Man Tiansheng.

"This!!"

Many Golden Core cultivators present couldn't help but change their faces when they saw the milky white brilliance that was the size of a skull.

The faster you break through the first level, the better your grades and the more rewards you get.

But the rewards that this Patriarch Qingxu received were too generous, already far above everyone else, and not at the same level as them at all.

"How could his be so big?!"

Seeing this, Taoist Sansha was horrified:
"How much faster is he than me? How strong is his soul?!"

He originally thought that even if this Patriarch Qingxu was faster than him, he should be limited in speed, after all, the other party was only at the early stage of Golden Core.

But he never expected that the size of this ball of milky white brilliance alone is more than twice his size, which shows that the strength of the two sides' souls is very different.

"..."

While everyone was looking at each other, the head-sized milky white brilliance had already soaked into Zhang Yao's body.

All of a sudden, Zhang Yao felt his sea of ​​consciousness tremble, and his soul felt a cool and comfortable feeling, just like lying in a bath with cool water in the hot summer.

In this state, the power of the milky white brilliance continued to penetrate, making Zhang Yao clearly feel that the power of his own soul and mind was constantly growing.

After just a few breaths:

After he broke away from this state, he lifted his spirits and realized that the power of his soul had increased by at least one tenth!

"It's amazing!"

Zhang Yao was also amazed by it.

The strength of the soul and mind is more and more difficult to increase in the future, and it often costs ten times the price and it is difficult to have the initial effect.

And with the strength of his soul, the total amount increased by one-tenth, which is enough to cover the complete soul of the first half of the monks at the early stage of Jindan. One can imagine how huge this gain is.

"As expected of a site from the ancient times."

Zhang Yao's spirits were lifted, and he looked forward to the rewards that followed.

"boom!"

After everyone had absorbed the rewards, the ancient sapphire gate finally opened with a bang.

Through the wide portal, you can see the interior of the second hall, which is almost exactly the same as the first hall, but the whole is much larger.

The only difference is that the ground of the second hall is covered with dense black stones of different sizes, almost covering the entire hall.

"The second level is not easy..."

Everyone filed in and came to the second level.

"Don't waste time, go directly!"

Man Tiantian couldn't wait to speak, grinned, and took a step forward.

In an instant, it seemed that there was a huge pressure on him, but he just swayed his body slightly, and continued to move forward as if there was no one else around, his speed was only slightly slower than normal people's walking.

"As expected of a body-refining cultivator!"

Taoist Sansha, Patriarch Yuanxu and others all had a hint of amazement in their eyes.

The first level tests the mind, soul, and mind, and the second level tests the body and physique. In this level, Mantian naturally has the upper hand.

"Let's go too."

Everyone stepped forward one after another, officially entering the test of the second hall.

"Buzz!"

The moment Zhang Yao stood firm, he felt a terrible and invisible heavy pressure on his body, pulling his limbs and internal organs.

At the same time, the powerful magic power circulating around him was also directly blocked by an invisible force, unable to come out through the body, and could no longer exert any influence on the body.

"The gravity here has changed!"

He instantly understood the principle of this formation.

Roughly estimated, the gravity here is at least thirty or forty times that of the outside world, which is an extremely terrifying number.

Normal mortals and beasts will be crushed into pancakes in an instant here; even monks in the Qi refining and foundation building stages will be crushed to death.

Only Jindan monks who have undergone many times of washing the marrow and cutting the veins, and whose body has been washed and strengthened by spiritual energy for hundreds of years, can move here with difficulty and pass the test little by little.

"But to me, this gravity change is nothing more than a trivial matter."

Zhang Yao smiled slightly, without even shaking his body, he just walked forward.

Every step he took was steady, and his speed was even faster than Man Tiansheng's. Before he took a few steps, he had already passed him.

Under such a terrifying gravitational field, his movements remained flexible, avoiding larger black stones on the route from time to time, and quickly completed a third of the distance.

"what?!"

This scene not only surprised Taoist Sansha, Fairy Xiaguang and others, but even Man Tiantian was dumbfounded.

"how can that be?!"

He knew that Zhang Yao's body was very strong, and he was able to rely on the skill of the yellow rune armour, which was comparable to him in the foundation building stage.

But he has already refined the golden elixir and stepped into the level of a high-level body-training monk. How could he be inferior to a monk who is not a body-training way in terms of pure body and physique?

We must know that Zhang Yao during the Battle of Shuifu was not as good as him when it comes to the strength of pure body and physique!
"Impossible! It's impossible!!"

Man Tiantian couldn't accept this result, his eyes were red, and he dragged his heavy legs desperately, trying to catch up.

However, under the circumstances that mana was banned and it was difficult to activate the supernatural powers of body training, he could only watch helplessly as the distance between the two sides gradually became farther away, feeling a great sense of frustration in his heart.

"how so……"

Man Tiansheng was in a trance for a while, and the flames of war in his heart seemed to be extinguished by a basin of ice water.

Even if you are not the opponent's opponent in your best and strongest aspect, then you still have to force yourself to challenge, isn't it self-inflicted humiliation?

"This this……"

Taoist Sansha and the others who were struggling to move behind looked at each other in blank dismay, shocked beyond words.

The mind and soul are extremely powerful, and the body and physique even surpass the body-refining monks of the same level. Not to mention the magic power, the monks who refine the formation and enter the body are famous for their powerful mana.

This kind of all-round, crushing intuitive power makes people feel like they are looking up from a high mountain.

"This man is truly terrifying!"

Taoist Sansha and the others felt a little uneasy unavoidably:
"I hope that a few of us, together with Man Tiansheng and Swordsman, can stop this person..."

the other side:
Zhang Yao, who was walking in the front, was in a very comfortable mood.

"The hard work of more than 70 years has finally paid off..."

In the foundation building stage, his physical strength was not as strong as that of a body-refining cultivator of the same rank.

But after more than 70 years of devouring and refining, under the continuous blessing and strengthening of the "Liuhe Taiyuan Returning to the Ruins Great Formation", his body and physique also surpassed himself little by little and became stronger and stronger.

Before achieving Jindan, he was actually not far from Yu Wentai at his peak.

After refining the golden elixir, thanks to the baptism of heaven and earth aura and the transformation of the golden elixir, the physical strength has undergone a new qualitative change. Bare hands are enough to shake the ordinary magic weapon and stabilize the barbarian in the early stage of the golden elixir.

Of course:
It is obvious that Man Tiansheng has not been able to achieve golden elixir for many years, and he has not practiced many body-refining supernatural powers and strengthening secret methods, which are far from representing the true level of high-level body-refining monks.

But the same is true for Zhang Yao. He has not cultivated the 'Taixuan Golden Body', and has not yet used the 'Five-phase God Wheel' to refine his body into a magic weapon for life, so there is still room for substantial improvement.

"Ok?"

Seeing that Zhang Yao was about to reach the ancient sapphire gate of the second hall, he suddenly moved his mind and looked at the black stone on the ground.

Xiaguang Fairy once said that it is possible to obtain the treasures in the different levels of the Emerald Shrine, which exists independently of the rewards of each level.

Could these unremarkable black stones be the treasures of the second level?
"Why don't you give it a try..."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yao bent down and tried to remove a black stone.

His unremarkable black stone was only half the size of a copper basin, but it was incredibly heavy.

"Drink!"

Zhang Yao's feet were rooted, his waist and hips exerted strength, his whole body was surging with energy and blood, and his forehead was covered with blue veins, but he only slightly shook the black stone, and he couldn't even lift it off the ground.

"This weight is outrageous!"

There was a trace of horror in his heart.

With his current strength, he can lift a small hill of tens of feet, and it is easy to split the mountain with his bare hands, but he cannot lift a small stone.

Roughly estimate:
Even if the influence of the gravitational field is discarded, this black stone itself is extremely heavy, hundreds of times heavier than steel of the same volume, and it is the heaviest thing he has ever seen or heard of!
After Zhang Yao figured this out, he immediately realized:

"This must be an incredible treasure of heaven and earth!"

(End of this chapter)