After Ye Qin left the Northern Qi Dynasty, he went to the territory of the Great Zhou Kingdom, found a small city with a population of less than 10,000, lived in seclusion, and refined three Guiyuan Pills every time for cultivation and growth, while concentrating on cultivating the "Sitting and Forgetting Sutra".

He carefully calculated that according to the current progress of taking the spirit pill and cultivating the Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting, it would take more than a year to complete the first layer of the foundation building period. It will take about six years to complete the initial stage of the foundation building period, from the first layer to the third layer.

This speed, for the vast majority of foundation building period monks, is simply a shocking speed. Because the vast majority of monks don't have enough mid-level elixirs to take.

In the Fang market, the price of one Guiyuan Pill (suitable for low-level monks to build a foundation) is as high as thirty low-grade spirit stones. After taking it, it takes enough time to absorb the spiritual power of the elixir, so each monk can take up to three pills a day. If you take three Guiyuan Pills every day, even if you are a great cultivator of the Immortal Family, you will be exhausted in a very short period of time.

Therefore, the average foundation building monk can take more than a dozen pills of elixir every month, which is already very good.

However, for Ye Qin, as long as he had spirit stones, he could directly grow elixirs in the Purple Mansion at a very low cost, and use these spirit grasses to refine the Guiyuan Pill needed for the first layer of the foundation building period and increase his cultivation.

To refine one Guiyuan Pill, it would cost him about three lower-grade spirit stones. This cost is far lower than that of ordinary foundation building monks.

However, Ye Qin knew very well in his heart that even if he had the huge advantage of the Purple Mansion, he was not the only foundation building cultivator who could take enough elixir.

In the Qingdan Gate, as the daughter of the Jindan Ancestor Huang Fu Rui, Huangfu Bing'er got a considerable herb field in Qingdan Peak since she entered the mountain gate, and after planting the elixir for more than 20 years, she has been able to harvest enough elixir for refining the middle-level elixir and go all out to impact the Jindan period, so she has no shortage of elixir at all.

In the Qingdan Sect, there are actually more than ten core monks like Huangfu Bing'er. They are all directly related to the Jindan Ancestor, or they are monks of the Great Cultivator Immortal Family within the sect. The spiritual root potential of these monks themselves is usually very high, and with the financial and human resources of the sect, they will almost certainly be able to reach the ninth layer of the foundation building stage within thirty or forty years, which is the greatest hope of the sect to attack the Jindan monks.

Thirty or forty years is actually a very short time for the 200-year-old life expectancy of a foundation monk. When he was in his prime, he stepped into the realm of the Jindan period, thus laying the foundation for the future to fully impact the Yuanying.

In the other major cultivation immortal sects in the Lingwu Mountain Range, there are also many core foundation building stage cultivators who have been focused on cultivating like this, and they are all going directly to the masters of the Jindan stage.

Of course, it is not like this, the core monks who are focused on cultivating by the sect will definitely be able to become Jindan monks, and it will take great chances to do this. The bottleneck of the Jindan period, as well as the small heavenly tribulation, are extremely difficult thresholds. But there is no doubt that these core cultivators who have been poured a lot of financial resources into the sect definitely have a greater chance of attaining the Dan than others.

Ye Qin had a sense of urgency about this.

Because of the existence of the Purple Mansion, he was able to cultivate a large number of spiritual herbs in a very short period of time, surpassing ordinary foundation building monks. However, compared to the few core cultivators who were backed by the entire sect, his advantage in cultivation was not so obvious. Or rather, there are few advantages.

Everything can only rely on desperate diligence, and you can't slack off for a moment. Therefore, even on the way to the Northern Qi Kingdom, he did not stop cultivating for a moment.

After a few months of seclusion and cultivation in the Great Zhou Kingdom, the spirit stone in Ye Qin's hand was exhausted.

After using up the spirit stones in his hand, he had to go out to look for the spirit stones.

He had obtained a large number of spirit stones in the Wankuling Cave before, but most of them were used to refine the Jidan. In the Southern Liang Kingdom, some spiritual weapons were sold in exchange for some low-grade spirit stones, but most of them have also been used. The speed of obtaining spirit stones is always unable to keep up with the speed of consumption.

Ye Qin was also quite helpless about this.

However, with such a large amount of spirit stones consumed and continuous diligent cultivation, his cultivation finally made a small step of progress and entered the realm of the second layer of the foundation building period. You must know that it is difficult to improve his cultivation after building the foundation, and it is quite rare for him to advance to the next level in more than a year.

Before going out to look for spirit stones, Ye Qin practiced the "Demon Shadow**" in the "Heavenly Heart Formula" obtained from Liao Wang's Mansion in his secluded residence.

This spell is the state of mind spell of the monk in the foundation building period, forming a mana mirror with powerful mana, projecting his own figure on the mirror, and then transforming this mana mirror into a human form.

He was already able to make a mana mirror, and he was still one last step away from turning the mana mirror into a human form.

As Ye Qin's hands continued to play cumbersome spells, a smooth mana mirror soon appeared on his opposite side.

But how to transform it into a human form stumped Ye Qin. Holding the damaged "Heavenly Heart Formula" cheatbook, thinking for a long time, Ye Qin suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and shot a mana towards the mirror, and the mirror revolved around him.

The shadows of Ye Qin's front and back, left and right, were completely ingested. The mirror erupted in a burst of light and began to distort, gradually concave into a human figure. Half a day later, the light dissipated, and another vivid "Ye Qin" appeared opposite him.

The appearance, temperament, and aura and cultivation of this "Demon Shadow" are the same as those of him, a real person, and the only flaw is that it has no substance. The most amazing thing is that it can also use its divine sense to control "it" to perform simple actions.

"It worked!"

Ye Qin breathed a sigh of relief and stopped, with an unexpected surprise on his face. He tried hundreds of times, and finally he was able to master the spell. The first time a magic mirror was used to cast a magic shadow, and it took a long time. However, once you become proficient, the time consumed can be greatly reduced.

This is only the first level of the "Demon Shadow**", and when the cultivation reaches the third layer, you can conjure three demon shadows at once. At the sixth layer, the aura of the demon shadow can reach several times that of a real person.

After months of seclusion, it's time to get out and about

On the border of the Great Zhou Kingdom, a military town, Danyang City. Dozens of miles further north is the Dingbian Pass. After exiting from Dingbian Pass, he passed through a deserted jungle valley and entered the territory of the Northern Qi Kingdom.

This was originally a city between the Great Zhou Kingdom and the Northern Qi Kingdom between the north and south, and there were many caravans driving horses between the two countries in Pingyueli. But as soon as the war between the two countries began, the border was blocked, and the border trade was cut off. Thousands of merchants were trapped in the city closest to the border pass.

Since the war between the two countries, a large number of Great Zhou troops have been requisitioned and transferred to Danyang City, and they have amassed nearly 500,000 troops. Waiting to go to the border at any time and fight a decisive battle with the Northern Qi State.

Danyang City.

A palace guard rode his horse to the head of the city, jumped off his horse, came to the wall of the city gate of this important town, and posted a proclamation: "The Great Zhou State Decree Yu openly recruits immortal protectors to accompany the army to the Northern Qi Dynasty." ”

Immediately, a lot of businessmen and ordinary people surrounded them, pointing and laughing, "Recruit the Protector Immortal Master?"

The guard whipped it and said angrily: "Pass the customs, all supplies are forbidden to be transported to Northern Qi, you can't get through to the enemy! Disperse immediately, don't block the passage of the city gate." ”

Immediately the people were scattered.

After this announcement was posted in Danyang City, there were very few applicants. Not everyone is qualified to do it, it must be a real immortal to be qualified. But the immortals wander around, and their traces are hard to find. Helpless, he could only stick it on the walls of all the cities in the Great Zhou Kingdom, hoping that the immortals passing by could see it.

This notice was posted on the city for months.

At this time, there was a strong peasant man wearing coarse cloth clothes and a dark appearance, carrying a hoe to the front of the city, looking at the city for a while, and then took down the announcement of recruiting the Protector Immortal, and said loudly, "I will be the Protector Immortal, where should I go to apply?"

The palace guards standing at the announcement office glanced at Dahan. This guard is a guard in the Northern Qi court, and he has seen a lot of real immortals in the court. The strong farmer in front of him, how did he look like a farmer who had just finished working in the field, he couldn't help but laugh shamefully, "You peasant man, what other skills do you have besides farming?"

The swarthy man heard the ridicule in the guard's tone, stared at the guard with wide eyes, roared, and his body shook violently, and his body was immediately covered with a thin layer of yellow earth armor. Pierced a horse step, and smashed his fist on a boulder used to plant a flagpole at the head of the city, and thousands of catties of boulder were punched by him into a large hole deep in the arm.

The swarthy man dissipated his armor and glanced at the guard with contempt, "What do you think I have to do?"

The guard was startled, and secretly screamed in his heart that he was obedient in the middle of winter, this strong farmer is really an immortal, and if this punch goes down, even if it is an ironclad man, he will be stoned to death. "The immortal master is offended, please go to the Danyang camp with the little one! There are already a lot of immortal masters gathered there. ”

At this time, a young man also walked from afar at this time, came to the head of Danyang City, looked at the guards and the big man with great interest for a while, and said, "Wait a minute, what conditions do you need to be the protector of the Great Zhou Kingdom?"

The man was ordinary-looking, and he didn't see anything out of the ordinary, but he had a gentle expression.

The guards were taught a lesson, and they didn't dare to judge people by their appearance, so they said respectfully: "If you want to be the protector of your country, as long as you are an immortal." However, the country's protector immortal masters are divided into several grades. There are at least twenty lower-grade spirit stones per month, and a slightly more intelligent immortal master can also have a hundred lower-grade spirit stones a month. However, now that the war is tense, the country's Protector Immortal Master needs to go out with the army. ”

"Hundreds of spirit stones a month, that's not bad. ”

The young man thought about it for a while, and it should be enough for him to use it for a month. Moreover, there are many monks in the Great Zhou Kingdom, and he should be able to exchange some useful items with them. couldn't help laughing: "Then I'll follow you to the barracks." ”

The big swarthy man stared at the young man in shock. This great man's cultivation is too low, and he is only at the second level of the Qi cultivation period. Coupled with the fact that the young man deliberately lowered most of his cultivation, the big man couldn't see the true cultivation of this young man at all. But Dahan also knew that the monk in front of him was much higher than him.

"The junior is Li Tiecheng of Baicang Fort in the Great Zhou Kingdom, I don't know what the seniors are called?"

"Qin. ”

The swarthy peasant man hurriedly said, "It turned out to be Senior Qin!"

The young man smiled lightly and nodded.

(To be continued)