Chapter 303: Changes in One Year
Time flies.
In a blink of an eye, a year has passed since Qin Ziling returned to Fangqiao County.
This year, Qin Ziling was twenty-six years old.
This year, four major events occurred in Xiyun Province that shocked the entire Xiyun Province.
The first thing is that Jian Bailou, who had been lying low and dormant and was believed by the outside world to have died soon, showed his cultivation as a master of Qi Refining in Jinyan Mountain.
The second thing is that according to rumors from the disciples of Jinlie Sect, the strength of Xiao Qing, the prefect of Fangliao County, is almost comparable to that of a martial arts master.
The third thing is that Biyun Sect’s leader Qingsong and two elders are said to have disappeared for more than a year.
The last one happened recently and caused a great sensation. Cui Shanhe, the head of the Cui family in Qinghe County, broke through and became a martial arts master. He was only 39 years old that year.
A 39-year-old martial arts master might not be considered impressive in Shangzhou and Guodu of the Great Qi Kingdom, but he was already the youngest martial arts master to appear in Xiyunzhou in the past hundred years.
This also means that, unless there are any unexpected events, Cui Shanhe has a great chance of becoming a master of the middle rank in the future.
Qingsong disappeared, Jian Bailou broke through to become a master of Qi Refining, Cui Shanhe became a master of martial arts and had a bright future. Of course, Xiao Qing's strength was comparable to that of a martial arts master. What happened in this year caused a huge change in the entire Xiyun Province.
Especially in Qinghe County, the Biyun Sect declined faster than the Jinjian Sect in just one year.
At least the Golden Sword Sect had Jian Bailou in charge. But now the Green Cloud Sect, first of all, lost four masters in the Qinghe County competition, including a deputy sect leader. Then, when attacking the Netherworld Sect branch hall, Qingsong and several elders were seriously injured. Now Qingsong and two elders have been missing for more than a year.
It can be said that the current Biyun Sect basically has no masters that can be shown off, and has completely lost its transcendent status above all forces in Qinghe County.
The Biyun Sect completely declined, and the rising Jinjian Sect and the Cui Family have always been allies, plus the Xiao Family of Fangluo County who lives in a remote corner.
As a result, not to mention Qinghe County and Fangqiao County, there is no force that can match them. Even if you look at the entire Xiyun Province, it is difficult for any force to truly shake their foundation.
Even Xuanwu Valley, the number one Qi-refining sect in Xiyun Province, would find it difficult to do this.
The Xiao family and the Cui family were at odds with the Governor's Office, but on good terms with the Inspector's Office. Some slightly influential forces in Xiyun Prefecture basically knew this, so the rise of the Cui family and others, especially Cui Shanhe who became a martial arts master at a young age, began to shake the power of the Governor's Office.
The attitude of the Governor's Office towards the Military Governor's Office began to become noticeably tougher. Even when Cui Shanhe held a banquet to celebrate his mastership, the Governor Wei Jiongkuan went to congratulate him in person. Afterwards, it was rumored that Wei Jiongkuan talked with Cui Shanhe and Old Master Cui in the study for a long time.
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The outside world didn’t know that the things that Qin Ziling deliberately suppressed during this year were actually much more sensational than these four major events.
One thing is that Xiao Qing, who was only 29 years old, broke through to become a martial arts master last year. And because she was talented, young, her qi and blood were at their peak, her foundation was particularly solid, and she practiced the most vitality-enhancing wood-attributed exercises. After taking the Shenglong Fruit, she was able to refine her liver and one kidney with great success. Now the second kidney has also been mostly refined. It is estimated that before the end of the year, she will be able to start refining her lungs and become a mid-level master.
One thing is that Bai Yu Lieyang, who is over 70 years old, has broken through and become a mid-level master.
One thing is that Zhu Huiqin, the former judge of Xiyunzhou Judge's Office, broke through and became a master of Qi Refining at the age of 37.
Another thing is that Mr. Cui, who is already in his 80s, has also broken through and become a martial arts master. In fact, the Cui family now has two masters.
Over at the Golden Sword Sect, Jian Bailou was holding a gold magic crystal stone and refining his Qi every day. He was making rapid progress. It was estimated that if he didn't take the Shenglong Fruit, he would be able to become a grandmaster in another year or two.
Feng Ziluo is still in the process of training. It is estimated that by the end of this year or early next year, he will be able to take the blood essence of the Feijin beast, and then draw the evil energy of the Gengjin earth vein into his body, build up the magic essence, and become the second Qi refining master of the Jinjianmen.
These are things that the outside world does not know, otherwise it would not only cause a sensation in Xiyun Prefecture, but also alarm some neighboring prefectures and counties.
The outside world didn't know that Qin Ziling had been living in seclusion since the battle in Qinghe County and rarely showed up. For the past year, he had been living in seclusion on the island in the middle of Yunluo Lake. He practiced martial arts every day and ate the flesh and blood of fourth- and fifth-grade exotic beasts, elixirs and magic pills, and used high-quality magic crystal stones to refine his qi.
After a year, he had refined his qi, blood and strength into the last layer of 177 bones, leaving only 29 skull bones.
In the way of Qi Refining, he absorbed the pure energy from the top-grade magic crystal stone every day. Now the ten dragons in Dantian have been divided into two again, becoming twenty, with four in each series. He has already reached the late stage of Zhenyuan realm.
In terms of spiritual cultivation, this year has also been progressing steadily, and he is almost reaching the threshold of possessing another's body.
Once one reaches the realm of possession in spiritual cultivation, it means that even if Qin Ziling's physical body is destroyed, he can be reborn through a shell.
Now, Qin Ziling was confident that even without releasing zombies and evil spirits to help, he could kill Qingxu with just his three powers.
But the Grand Master is already able to perform the Five Elements Thunder Technique. Although he is only one small realm away from the Middle Master, the difference in strength is huge.
It is said that a great master can suppress five middle masters.
Therefore, although Qin Ziling can now kill Qingxu with only his three powers, he still has a small gap with the grandmaster .
After all, the difference in realm is too big.
In terms of martial arts, most of the twenty-nine skull bones need to be refined before one can truly rival the grandmaster. And if one wants to defeat the grandmaster directly, it is necessary to reach the grandmaster or the realm of possession in one of the three ways of martial arts, refining qi, and cultivating the spirit to make up for the gap in realm.
Now, if he wants to defeat the Grand Master, he needs the help of the Golden Corpse and the Ghost Demon.
In the corpse-raising ring, after the four zombies ate the Shenglong Fruit, Ying Bao broke through and became a low-level golden corpse, while Yuan Da, Yuan Er, and Si Shou became mid-level golden corpses.
After reaching the intermediate level of golden corpse, it is very difficult for Ape Da and the others to advance further. In addition to blood food and Yin evil energy, they also need to draw more Xin Jin evil energy into their bodies to continuously temper their bodies.
The three ghost demons, including An Tian, were unable to break through with the help of the Shenglong Fruit. Even though Qin Ziling had helped to refine them with the Immortal Star Fire over the past year, due to his own spiritual cultivation realm, he was ultimately unable to help them break through to the intermediate master level, and could only help them approach the intermediate master level.
On this day, Qin Ziling was sitting cross-legged in the hall on the island in the middle of the lake, feeling extremely quiet and anxious.
"After reaching the late stage of bone refining, the difficulty of refining the skull became much greater, and the progress began to slow down. In addition, the subsequent martial arts skills are still lacking the 'Iron Palm' and the 'Layered Waves Skill', and the Qi Refining Skill is still lacking the 'Red Python Bing Fire Skill' and the 'Yellow Python Wu Earth Skill'.
In addition to the skills, if you want to break through, you need to collect the five elements of evil spirits, the blood essence of strange beasts, and the gold corpse also needs to continue to collect the Yin evil spirit and Xinjin evil spirit. It seems that it is time to continue the unfinished experience last time. "Qin Ziling thought to himself and slowly opened his eyes.
Over the past year, the Jinlie Clan, the Jinjian Sect, the Cui Family, and Xiao Qing have all sent people to help collect the techniques for refining the internal organs and refining the Fa Yuan.
But as Jian Bailou once said, the techniques of refining the internal organs and refining the legal essence are not to be passed on to outsiders. Even though Qin Ziling mobilized more manpower this time, they still failed to help him collect these four techniques in just one year.
Qin Ziling had just opened his eyes when he felt a familiar breath coming from outside the door, and he couldn't help but show a hint of surprise on his face.
"Come in, Shao E." Qin Ziling said.
The door of the hall was slowly pushed open, and Shao E, who was wearing a light green silk shirt and although she was not dressed up specially, still exuded a hint of charm and seductiveness.
Shao E practiced the "Dielang Gong" and broke through to become a great martial artist in the late bone refining stage a few months ago.
Although she was already in her thirties, because of her natural beauty and the nourishing water-based skills she practiced, her figure and appearance actually made her look like she was only in her twenties.
"Shao E greets the young master!" Shao E bowed.
Shao E was still used to calling Qin Ziling "Young Master".
"Why are you here? Is there something wrong with my mother?" Qin Ziling asked.
"There's nothing going on with the old lady. But someone from the Qin family in Wuzhou came today, so the old lady sent me to ask you to go back." Shao E replied.
"The Qin family of Wuzhou?" Qin Ziling couldn't help but look surprised when he heard that.
"Yes, according to them, they are a prominent family in Wuzhou," Shao E replied.
"A prominent family in Wuzhou!" Upon hearing this, Qin Ziling couldn't help but think of the Qin family in Wuzhou that Zhu Huiqin mentioned last year.
At that time, Qin Ziling half-jokingly said that he might have some connection with the Qin family of Wuzhou.
If the incident in the War Ruins Forbidden Land had not happened, Qin Ziling might have gone to Wuzhou later to see if there was any way to exchange the "Qinglong Xuanmu Gong" internal organ refining technique from the Qin family.
Later, after coming out of the forbidden land of Zhanxu, Qin Ziling unexpectedly obtained a martial arts technique from Jin Yuan, and he completely forgot about the affairs of the Qin family in Wuzhou.
After all, the possibility of his family being related to the Qin family of Wuzhou is too small, and even if there is a relationship, it has been several generations. Who would pursue this relationship?
"What are they doing here at my house?" Qin Ziling asked quickly out of curiosity.
“I heard that the Qin family of Wuzhou is revising their family tree. They were sent by the Qin family of Wuzhou to various places to find the descendants of the family scattered throughout the Great Qi State, and then register them in the family tree.
They said that the young master's great-grandfather came to Fangqiao County with the army eighty years ago and never returned, so they found the Qin Mansion." Shao E replied.
"No way, my great-grandfather really is from the Qin family of Wuzhou, and after so many generations and such a long distance, they actually inquired all the way and came to my door?" Qin Ziling couldn't help but look surprised and incredible when he heard it.
"Actually, this is not surprising. The reason why big families are big families and remain prosperous is that they attach great importance to blood ties and use them to build a huge network of relationships and power." Shao E replied.
