In fact, Gou Zhu doesn't want to look better on the rankings. But even if he won the first place and slashed all the other more than 1,500 senior brothers under the sword, he would only be able to collect more than 1,500 wisps of soul breath. Then the five of them withdrew in turn, and the reward was only seven or eight thousand Pure Yang Pills, which was really a drop in the bucket for him.

What he wants is 300,000 Pure Yang Pills!

In this battle of the Self Monument, no matter what the battle record is, it is impossible to exchange so many Pure Yang Pills through soul breath points. But there is one thing that has the same value as 300,000 Pure Yang Pills. That's the self-rooting marrow.

The reward that Qin Zunyang originally arranged in the Self-Born Monument was not the Pure Yang Pill obtained according to the score, but the Aoki Immortal Gong inheritance left in the "Root Cave".

However, the Aoki Immortal Gong inheritance is only given to one person, and the disciples of the Jade Palace are all combined according to five people and one martial arts, and the other four people cannot return without merit. Therefore, Patriarch Qin left his own root marrow in the root cave. If any disciple is bathing in the marrow of their own roots for the first time, they are ninety percent sure that they can improve to a higher realm!

Self-rooting is one of the foundations of the Jade Palace. The essence aura in the self-rooted marrow was obtained by Qin Zunyang personally refining the aura of the immortal tree before ascending, and it was mild in nature, and it was nourished in the deep roots of the immortal tree, so that it could be retained for five hundred years.

But these root marrows are also used up a little, and there is a little less. Fortunately, only five or six people from the Jade Palace can come here every year, and they are not abused. So for 500 years, only 30% of it has been consumed.

But if you want to avoid depletion, I'm afraid you can only wait for another Ascending Power from the Jade Palace within a thousand years to personally refine the Immortal Tree Aura before it can be replenished.

This method can be consumed and unsustainable, and it directly consumes the foundation of the sect, so it must be used with extreme caution. The other is to break through with the help of the root marrow, and there is not a 90% chance of success in any situation. For example, if the foundation is upgraded from one to two, the probability of success is almost ten. But if the foundation building sixfold breaks through the qi gully to the seventh, the probability of success is much lower. If it is to build the foundation to the Void Pill, or the Void Pill to the Purple Mansion, it is more difficult, and the amount of root marrow consumed is also very different. The third is that any monk bathing the root marrow is only effective once. If the second or third time is nothing but the consumption of the root marrow in vain, there is no point anymore.

There is a prohibition outside the root cave. Only when the first-ranked Wu Yuan is decided on the list of self-born monuments, this prohibition will be opened.

But after all, the Biluo Holy Maiden is the head of a generation, but she still knows another secret of this self-rooted cave.

"There is no need to decide the first place, as long as there is the blood of the Tree Emperor, it will take root and open itself. ”

This is a secret rule that has only been known to successive generations of leaders and a few elders. The reason why so few people know about this is not because the sect is deliberately secretive.

Qin Zunyang planted the immortal tree back then, and achieved the emerging force of the Jade Palace, it is said that the seed of the immortal tree was obtained from the tree clan, and he himself had an inextricable relationship with the tree clan. It's just that the Tree Clan now lives in the wilderness and rarely walks around in the middle of the Divine Continent. Usually it is rare to be a tree person, and the tree emperor lineage has always been a single transmission, where to find the blood of the tree emperor? So even if this rule exists, it is the same as not, and naturally it has long been ignored.

But it's a different story for Gouju. Because he and Biluo Holy Maiden both know that Mutou, a dumb guy, is possessing the blood of the real Tree Emperor, and he is a direct descendant of the Tree Emperor!

Nominally, the Tree Emperor clan is a single passenger. But if it is a certain generation of Tree Emperors who violated the precepts of the ancestors and left unknown heirs among the human race in the middle of the Divine Continent, it is also not impossible.

It's just that these people are likely to be unfathomed and spend their lives as ordinary people, so that although the blood of the tree emperor will not be stimulated for life, it will still be passed down from generation to generation.

Wood's parents were both hunters, and he disappeared when he was a teenager. By the time he was recruited as a disciple of the Jade Palace, he had been hunting and living alone in the mountains for more than five years. He was slightly younger than Gou Xu, he was sixteen years old, and the origin of the blood of the Tree Emperor in his bloodline was no longer available.

This matter is extremely important, if the blood of the Tree Emperor is spread out, the Tree Clan will inevitably send a blood purifier to chase and kill it. Even if the foreign clan is easy to defend, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not be coveted by the power of the Xuanmen rivers and lakes and the sect. Therefore, everyone in the Wu Courtyard is careful to keep secrets. Gou Xu, Song Ruhai, and Murong Qing were all very strict-mouthed, but later Huang Lu didn't know at all.

As for wood, Mu Fei is willing to respect him as the emperor and swear allegiance to the death, but he is just inexplicable. He also knew that when he was angry, he would transform into a tree, but he didn't know anything about the connection between the tree emperor bloodlines. Gou Zhu knew that he was simple-minded, and if he didn't know, he wouldn't leak, so he didn't bother to explain it to him.

But since they had the blood of the Tree Emperor in their hands, they didn't need to participate in the ranking battle between the Wu Academy. They could have taken advantage of the time when everyone was fighting the rankings, rushed to the root cave first, opened the ban with the blood of the Tree Emperor, and directly bathed in the self-rooted marrow. At that time, Gou Zhu quietly broke through the qi gully and advanced to the seventh level of foundation building, and he could let go of the battle with Tang Su.

This is the plan he made with Lian Ling. But on the one hand, he wants to pull this guy to the root cave and bleed and ban it, and on the other hand, he can't explain too much to the wood - who knows if this guy will inadvertently leak out of his bloodline?

Gou Zhu had to make up a logic casually and let him follow him obediently.

But it's not easy to find the entrance to the root cave either. They walked through the scorching deserts, through the swamps covered with water, and then into the grassy forests. Here the trees shaded the sky, the ground was full of thorns, mosquitoes were annoying, and everyone was miserable and struggling to move forward.

But in fact, the person who led the way was not Gou, but the Biluo Holy Maiden.

Lian Ling had already appeared, but no one else could see her except for Gou. As the Holy Maiden of the Purple Mansion, she was originally unable to enter the Self-Born Monument, but she was hidden in the body of Gouzhu, and there was no such obstacle to enter in the form of Shuralan. Before entering the Zisheng Monument, she had already filled her true qi in the Ziyun Hot Spring. At this moment, there is no need to fight with others, but I am not afraid of consumption, and I can go out for a walk.

In the reckless jungle, the saint is independent of the world, the ice is clear and jade, and the dirt is not clean. She walked lightly, her body was erratic, her hair hung down on her shoulders like green silk, and her bare feet were like lotus roots stepping through the mud, like a cloud of mist sliding through the mountains and forests, without any filth.

She was the only one here who had ever been to the Cave of Self-Rooting. With her Purple Mansion's divine sense, even the memory of a hundred years ago is as clear as yesterday. It's just that the scenery in this self-generated monument is not static, but like a large array that constantly rotates and combines, changing endlessly year after year. So even if she is looking for her hometown, she will inevitably go back and forth.

When encountering difficult places, this peerless woman, whose gaze is always calm and waveless, will also show hesitation in her eyes. She would also stop and pinch her hanging hair from time to time, silently plan in her heart for a while, and then continue to get up and move forward after reaching a conclusion.

If they use the Flying Magic Weapon, they will be able to search for the entrance to the root cave much faster. But flying magic weapons are too easy to be seen when flying high in the sky. When Tang Su, Gu Wentian and others find out about their plan, they will inevitably come out and make trouble.

But there are still two-thirds of the Wu Yuan surviving in the ranking battle. In other words, it will take about ten days to get a result at the earliest. Lian Ling estimated that another three to five days would be enough for her to find the entrance to the root cave. At that time, she first assisted Gou Zhu to fill the air gully, and then she could wait for the final battle in the Zisheng Monument and assist Lian Ping to protect King Yun.

Therefore, although she has been tossing and turning several times, Lian Ling still has no distractions and is moving towards the entrance of the root cave that she is constantly calculating and getting closer and closer.

"I've seen His Royal Highness the Cloud King. At this time, outside the self-born monument, Lian Ping made a blessing. When she looked up, she saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy who was tall, but a little thin, pale and bloodless, and his eyes were a little swollen. Although this young man seems to be frail and sickly, his eyes are sharp and abnormal. As soon as he saw this Wenping female crown coming, he immediately straightened his figure, his eyes did not squint, his waist bowed slightly, his hands were rubbed, and he replied without humility or arrogance: "I have seen Lian Daishou." ”

The Houtu Dynasty respected the monks. All those who belong to the Xuanmen Taoist Temple, as long as they have the status of a disciple, regardless of their generation, whether they see the local sesame-sized county order, or the emperor's relatives, they will all be treated as equals, and they will not kneel or bow under any circumstances.

At this time, King Yun was not wearing a royal dress, but a simple white sermon robe, with a scarf on his head, and ten square shoes on his feet, and high white socks. In fact, everyone in Jinyu and Jinyu knows that King Yun is a disciple of Confucianism, not Xuanmen. But at this moment, he came by holy decree and entered the Xuanmen to practice. There is no size in the sect, and the holy decree cannot be violated, so he is also the outer disciple of the first-level martial arts of the Jade Palace at this moment.

Yun Wang's surname is Hao, and his name is right. The surname Hao is not only the surname of the Yao people, but also the national surname of the current Houtu Dynasty. It is said that the surname Hao is a member of the Haotian God Clan, who was ordered by the heavens and has ruled this Divine Continent for 10,000 years, and its dignity is naturally incomparable.

But in Lian Ping's eyes, this Cloud King is just a weak gentleman. This person has a good set of bones, but this figure is blown down by the wind like a rice stalk. Although his eyes were divine, his breath was vain and his face was pale. Among the disciples of Xuanmen, if there is a foundation and a heavy foundation, they will have strong muscles and bones, and they will be full of blood and energy, and they will never be like this.

Yao people are born with extraordinary qualifications, not to mention the surname Hao. However, not all of the descendants of the Yao people practiced the Xuanmen exercises. After all, the cultivation of the Xuanmen Gong has to endure a lot of hardships. A lot of boys can't stand it at all.

Lian Ping knew at a glance that not only had this person never practiced the Xuanmen exercises, but he was probably addicted to alcohol for a long time, so that his qi and blood were deficient. I couldn't help but feel a sense of disgust in my heart, and my face couldn't help but turn a little colder.

King Yun didn't seem to notice it at all, and asked respectfully:

"The year before last, there was no palace five sects of the Xuan Fa meeting, and the disciple also met the palace master. It's really graceful, shocking, I don't know how I'm okay now?"

Lian Ping snorted in her heart, thinking that this lustful prince still wants to beat my sister's idea? She didn't dare to show it too much on her face, but said coldly: "The palace master is in retreat, thank you for your concern." ”

In fact, after King Yun received this holy decree and entered the Jade Palace to practice, he was already temporarily deprived of the prince, and he had no authority, and he was not even allowed to bring an entourage. So he no longer called himself the king in front of Lian Ping, but called himself a disciple. Hearing that Lian Ping still called him king, he hurriedly bowed down with the courtesy of a disciple and said:

"Now that I have received the holy will of my father and entered your palace, I am no longer the king of clouds, but a disciple of your palace. It is most appropriate to call me Haozheng by my name and treat me as a disciple. Otherwise, it is against the will of the disciples. ”

Lian Ping originally hated these red tapes the most, but when she heard that this guy was no longer a king, but her own disciple, her heart was relieved. I thought that since I was a disciple of the Jade Palace, then I would stop talking nonsense and just listen to my arrangements honestly. She waved her slender hand, like the sleeves of her coat, and said:

"Haozheng, you come with me. ”