Chapter 154 Progress
"The Silver Corpse is indeed a Silver Corpse. With Sishu and me, its speed should not be inferior to that of the Blood Goshawk!" In the cave, Qin Ziling patted Sishu's head in surprise, and then he set his eyes on the Black-winged Black Water Stork under Sishu's claws.
"The old saying is true, the brave ones will die of overeating while the timid ones will die of starvation! In the periphery, even though I had the help of the Soul Technique and was lucky, I worked hard for many days and only managed to kill three first-class exotic birds and beasts.
With that little income, I don’t know how many more years it will take before I can train my whole body to the level of iron.
But now I have caught a black-winged black water stork in just a moment! And it seems that there is at least a fifth-grade exotic beast lurking in this area, and there have also been third-grade exotic beasts and birds such as the Eight Desolate Green Python and the Blood Goshawk.
It is impossible that every place in Wuyang Mountains is like this. Otherwise, let alone ordinary martial artists, even a great bone-refining martial artist would be committing suicide if he entered the depths of Wuyang Mountains!
Obviously, this area should be a very suitable place for exotic animals to reproduce and thrive, so there are so many exotic animals and birds gathered here, and there may even be some precious medicinal herbs growing here."
Qin Ziling's mind was working rapidly, his starry eyes emitting a wise light that seemed to be able to see through everything.
"However, we still have to eat our meals one bite at a time. Especially since this place is so dangerous, we have to get familiar with it slowly and advance step by step. We must not be blinded by greed, otherwise if we lose our lives, everything will be over!"
Qin Ziling quickly put away his beautiful vision of this mountain lake, swamp and wetland, and secretly reminded himself.
Next, Qin Ziling used the same trick again and captured and killed another first-class exotic bird that was hovering in the air near the cave.
"Okay, go back first and digest these two exotic birds before coming back."
Qin Ziling glanced at the birds circling in the sky farther away and returned home decisively.
The way back was much faster.
In just half an hour , Qin Ziling returned to the cave where he had been practicing martial arts in seclusion.
He threw the unknown exotic bird to Ape Dayuan Er to enjoy its blood, while he happily dealt with the Black-winged Black Water Stork.
This black-winged mysterious water stork can not only replenish qi and blood, but also contains rich water spiritual power, which can greatly improve the speed of his practice of "Black Snake Mysterious Water Art".
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The days go by.
Ever since Qin Ziling discovered the world on the other side of the cave, he has gone hunting every few days.
With the help of elusive, invisible and intangible spirits and flying silver corpses, there are rewards every time.
Sometimes they were first-grade exotic beasts and birds, and occasionally second-grade exotic beasts and birds, but even if Qin Ziling occasionally saw a third-grade exotic beast, he would not dare to take it easily for the time being, for fear that it would cause too much noise and drag on for too long, which would attract the attention of an unknown and powerful exotic beast on the other side of the lake near the mountains.
But even so, Qin Ziling's current training conditions have undergone earth-shaking changes.
Now he ate exotic beast meat for every meal. Later on, he even stopped eating first-grade exotic beast meat and only ate second-grade exotic beast meat.
He built an ice storage in the cave and froze the first-class exotic beasts he killed, preparing to take them back for Shao E and others to use as nourishment.
The three-headed zombie also began to live a comfortable life. From time to time, he could drink some blood of exotic beasts. In addition, the evil energy in the corpse-raising ring was very strong. Lying in the coffin engraved with an advanced Yin gathering formation, the three-headed zombie was almost immersed in the evil energy.
Therefore, the three-headed zombie is now making rapid progress.
Especially Ape Dayuan Er, whose starting point was lower than the other four, so it was easier for him to improve. Within a few days, silver spots appeared on his arms. This was a sign that Ape Dayuan Er had already touched the threshold of becoming a silver corpse.
Even though Qin Ziling's cultivation conditions have undergone tremendous changes, his progress in body training is still relatively slow, but it is much faster than before.
The soul seems to have reached a bottleneck, stuck before the threshold of distraction.
Among the three ways of cultivation, only the Qi Refining way is improving at a terrifying speed with the daily intake of exotic beast meat.
Now, there are twenty-five tree shadows in the green qi ball in Qin Ziling's dantian, and twenty black snake shadows in the black qi ball. He is not far from the middle stage of true power.
The realm of true power is divided into three small realms: early, middle and late.
Once the Green Wood Evergreen Technique is practiced to the point where there are thirty-six green tree shadows in the Dantian's true qi ball, it means it has entered the middle stage. Once there are one hundred and eight green tree shadows, it means it has entered the late stage.
The division of the Black Mysterious Water Technique realm is also based on the same number of phantoms.
After the late stage of true power comes the realm of true essence.
Once the number of phantoms cultivated in the true qi ball in the Dantian reaches one hundred and eight, it is considered that the threshold for condensing true essence has been reached.
The more phantoms there are, the purer the condensed true essence will be, which also means the more solid the foundation will be. Once you enter the realm of true essence, you will not only be able to exert greater power, but you will also be able to go further in the future in the way of Qi refining.
Therefore, after a Qigong practitioner has cultivated a total of 108 phantoms, he or she will not immediately condense the True Essence, but will continue to cultivate the True Qi phantoms.
However, the number of phantoms that can be cultivated is just like practicing martial arts, and is ultimately determined by factors such as physique talent, understanding and perseverance, as well as financial resources.
Some people have reached the limit of their innate talent after finally cultivating to 108 phantoms. Some have not reached the limit, but their money and resources have been exhausted and they have no way to replenish their energy, so their progress becomes slower and slower. Some people lack perseverance, and as soon as they reach the breakthrough threshold, they rush to try to condense their true essence.
It is recorded in the "Black Snake Mysterious Water Art" that the number of shadows required to reach the perfection of the true power realm is 365. However, even the person who created the "Black Snake Mysterious Water Art" has never reached the perfect number of 365 shadows.
Although Qin Ziling was somewhat disappointed with the progress of martial arts and spiritual cultivation, it was also within his expectations.
From the moment he decided to forge his entire body into an iron layer without leaving any weaknesses, Qin Ziling knew that this would be an extremely difficult path.
Just like climbing a mountain, the higher you go, the more difficult it becomes. Just a few short steps on the mountain may require all your strength.
Because this involves a question of limits.
The same is true for the way of spiritual cultivation. There is a watershed between the realm of exorcising objects and the realm of dividing the spirit. Once you step into the realm of dividing the spirit, the soul can split into divine thoughts, which is equivalent to having one more clone.
It can be said that from this moment on, those who practice spiritual cultivation can enjoy a kind of freedom like a bird flying high in the sky.
This is a qualitative leap.
Before this, even though the spiritual cultivator could drive objects and kill enemies, his entire soul must leave the body and his physical body must not move. Once his soul was killed or his physical body was destroyed, he would die.
But it is different once you enter the realm of separation of spirit, the spirit and soul can be separated, and both the spirit and the body are free at the same time. At that time, a person can sit at home, chatting and laughing with family and guests, but he has already killed someone a hundred miles away.
According to his memory, Li Mo was stuck at this threshold for fifteen years.
Qin Ziling has only been stuck at this threshold for about two months. It is naturally not realistic for him to step into this threshold immediately.
However, Qin Ziling was not worried at all that he would also be stuck for fifteen years.
The so-called division of spirit is the separation of spirit and soul.
Qin Ziling has integrated two and a half souls and can do many things at the same time. It can be said that he has unique innate conditions in terms of splitting his consciousness.
Moreover, that half of the soul and divine consciousness came from Li Mo, a demon leader who had already reached the late stage of the Avatar. It can be said that although Qin Ziling has not yet stepped into the realm of Spirit Severance, he has already known and glimpsed some of the mysteries of the Spirit Severance realm.
These two conditions are impossible for Li Mo to meet even if he is the leader of the demon sect and has a large amount of resources for cultivation.
There is another more important advantage, that is, when Qin Ziling began to practice "The Evergreen Green Wood Technique" and "The Black Snake Mysterious Water Technique" together, he found that it was also of great help to his spiritual cultivation.
Therefore, although the cultivation of the soul seems to have reached a bottleneck, in fact this bottleneck is still loosening, but it is only loosening very slightly, and one needs to wait patiently for the crack to continue to expand, and then finally collapse!
In a blink of an eye, this day has become the fiftieth day that Qin Ziling has been practicing in Wuyang Mountain, and it is also the longest time he has been away from home in the mountains.
It is already late May and the weather is getting hot and humid.
It was drizzling almost every day.
But Qin Ziling likes such days.
Because such days can conceal the scent of the silver corpse, and he found that on such days, the terrifying unknown beast seemed to become very quiet.
Three days ago, he took advantage of the rain and teamed up with the Silver Corpse to capture a second-grade exotic beast in a lightning speed. He gave half to the three zombies and ate the other half himself.
"These past few days, I have collected six first-grade exotic beasts, half a second-grade exotic beast, and a lot of exotic beast meatballs. After today's hunt, I should go home to avoid my family from worrying about me."
The soul was floating in the misty sky with drizzle, looking for prey, while thinking about going home.
Qin Ziling boiled the dried meat of the exotic beasts that had had their essence and blood sucked by the ape-sized three-headed zombie into a meat soup, and then made it into exotic beast meatballs to prevent others from noticing the clues.
Of course, after the essence is sucked in, the meatballs must taste "wonderful".
The three-headed zombie is related to the Corpse Demon Sect, so the information must not be leaked out.
Suddenly, the water plants in the swamp on the south side of the lake moved violently, and the strong and powerful energy and blood fell into the eyes of the soul like flames rushing up.
The soul flew over quickly, and then saw in the swamp grass, a huge snake with a black body as black as ink and a tumor on its forehead was tightly entangled with a toad with a green body, four eyes, and the size of a calf. The big toad was biting the neck of the big snake tightly, and the two were in a stalemate.
"What is that?" The soul's "eyes" suddenly widened, and it couldn't believe what it saw.
The giant snake with a pitch-black body was actually the Eight Desolate Black Python, which was as famous as the Eight Desolate Green Python, and the giant toad with a emerald green body was called the Four-Eyed Green Toad, which was also a third-grade exotic beast.
