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Chapter 282 Zhongzhou rises and changes, Zhao's turn

".The three destruction plans are in progress in an orderly manner. More than one hundred caves in the Sky Burial have been destroyed. Millions of zombies and ghosts have been burned. The progress of the 'Golden Wall' is seriously insufficient, and it has just been built to one-third , the sect alliance once again recruited fire and earth immortal cultivators, and the treatment was generous..."

".According to the spiritual news released by Dangxian City, the exchange price of spirit stones has generally increased by 5000%. The exchange channel for top-grade spirit stones has been temporarily closed. The transaction price of bulk spirit mines has reached the highest level in [-] years. The average price of black iron has increased from four spirit stones per catty. Increase to five spirit stones. At the same time, the shortage of spirit pills is getting more and more serious..."

".In the past year, Wu Zeng, Zhou Yang, Xifeng and other eleven countries have been removed from the Ten Thousand Kingdoms Plain. The Ten Thousand Nations Plain is full of war clouds. There are many large-scale mortal wars that bleed millions of blood. Many countries have formed a national alliance. The cultivators behind it The family also suffered heavy casualties..."

".Many cultivating sects headed by Xiaoyaomen have opened their gates continuously for the past two years, and the recruitment standards have dropped significantly. Except for the top ten sects, the other second-rate sects can be worshiped as low as the four spirit roots. Heshan Sect, Heshan Sect, Qizong waits for the last..."

".Dongtian City, Dangxian City and other four major casual cultivator cities are sluggish in popularity, and the market continues to be depressed. The reason seems to be that a large number of casual cultivators joined sects and cultivating families."

". The ancestor Lancang of the Ziyang sect passed away in a strange way, and the cause of death is unknown... The Daoist Mu Yan, a casual cultivator, has been buried, and the relics were obtained by a casual cultivator who refines Qi. A riot broke out in the animal garden of the Royal Beast Sect. So far, there have been three heads and six The first-order monster escaped, below the fifth-order..."

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On the ninth floor of the Eight Diagrams Guangming Building, Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged on the Jingxin futon, slowly put the information jade slip into the storage bag with his right hand, and murmured to himself: "The mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of the building!"

After ten years of traveling to the Sea of ​​Broken Stars, the situation in Central Continent has undergone tremendous changes again. The current situation is becoming more and more serious, and all major forces seem to be slowly tightening their strings.

The atmosphere in the world of cultivating immortals became more and more gloomy, and everyone sat on the powder keg, as if they were about to catch fire.

There is no doubt that everything originated from the Sky Burial.The seal of the two worlds is about to expire, and the ghost world will inevitably invade the Tianzhu world again.

The tense and heavy atmosphere in Central Continent was created because of the approaching war between the two worlds.

The Central Continent Sect Alliance sweeps holes in the Li Court of the Sky Burial and burns zombies and ghosts without much concealment.

As a result, the news of the impending war between the two worlds also changed from slow to fast, and finally spread wildly among the immortal cultivators.

Perhaps the immortal cultivators on other continents and oceans are too far away, so the bottom cultivators know little about this matter.

But in Central Continent, not to mention casual cultivators, even some well-informed mortals were informed of this shocking news.

Therefore, when Zhao Sheng returned to Xinglong City, everyone in the Zhao family was ecstatic, and people's hearts immediately stabilized.

But also because of this, Zhao Sheng was "besieged" by all the clan elders immediately, and there were countless important matters that needed to be resolved urgently to report to the ancestor, and waited for the reply from the ancestor.

As you can imagine, sometimes a dispute over the ownership of a spiritual mine can involve interests at the level of millions of spiritual stones.

In the Xinglong Zhao Clan, there is not only one important matter like this, there are many more important and ten times more complicated matters that need Zhao Sheng to make a decision.

Faced with this difficult situation, Zhao Sheng had to spend half a month to deal with these matters.

But it was not until two months later that he straightened out the family's internal and external affairs, and made the entire Zhao family run smoothly again, greatly improving the efficiency of work.

Therefore, when Zhao Sheng occasionally feels bored, he will also envy the carefree and unrestrained Daoist Sanxiu.

However, what he didn't know was that Daoist Sanxiu actually envied him very much for having such a powerful immortal family who could fully support his cultivation.

Time flies, spring goes and autumn comes.

Half a year later, the Xinglong Zhao Clan gradually experienced a subtle change. When other forces were aggressively recruiting casual cultivators and starting the dangerous mode of "big fish eating small fish".

However, the development trend of the entire Zhao family has rapidly changed from expansion to defense, from pioneering to production mode, and the efforts to open up territories have dropped by half.

Not only that, the Zhao family even began to cut expenses internally and reduce unnecessary expenses.Cut off all kinds of non-profitable transactions, sell off unimportant fixed assets, and at the same time buy and hoard various materials in large quantities.

On the surface, what the Xinglong Zhao Clan does is no different from other cultivating forces. It is nothing more than reducing consumption in advance before the war, actively gathering resources, secretly hoarding and so on.

But in fact, before Zhao Xuanjing was promoted to Nascent Soul, the most important thing for the Xinglong Zhao Clan was to keep a low profile and maintain stability. This was the family's top priority.

In addition, because he didn't know to what extent the war between the two worlds would eventually evolve, Zhao Sheng secretly started a plan called "All Clans Armed Forces".

With the decree issued by the Jindan Patriarch, the huge machine of the Xinglong Zhao Clan started rumbling and quickly.

Of course, the bigger the boat, the harder it is to turn around.Even with Zhao Sheng in command, it took Xinglong Zhao a full year to finally complete the turn.

In less than two years, the major forces in southern Xinjiang saw a clear change in the Zhao family.

At this time, Zhao Sheng deliberately showed up at the birthday ceremony of a certain ancestor of the Danding Sect without losing the opportunity.

It is second to make a deal with the Danding faction to buy a large number of elixir, and more importantly, to tell the world that he, Zhao Sheng, the ancestor of the Zhao family's golden core is still alive!
The impact of Zhao Sheng's reappearance was immediate. The forces around Xinglongyuan quickly calmed down, and the disputes over territorial interests were greatly reduced.

Xinglong Zhao thus ushered in a rare period of stable development.

No matter how sinister the external turmoil was, Xinglongyuan ignored it all, and only cared about the whole family's large-scale production model of refining alchemy tools and making talismans.

When the war was clouded, no matter how many pills and magic tools the Zhao family refined, they could not satisfy those bottomless gluttonous mouths.

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Five years later, the seventh day of July.

On this day, the Kunzi area of ​​Xinglong Dungeon was full of people, and a long line of people extended along the underground passage to the end of the passage.

There are old and young in the team, all waiting happily, without the slightest resentment on their faces.

Next to each of them are two huge wooden barrels half a person's height, and the barrels are full of corpses of various low-level farmed monsters such as billows, wind rabbits, and armored pigs.

Five years ago, Gongde Hall issued a major announcement, announcing that it would purchase unlimited amounts of monster meat, regardless of grade.

In the beginning, only members of the Cultivation Clan actively participated in this matter.Later, when a secular clansman tried to sell a batch of the worst billows to the Gongdetang and successfully exchanged for a bottle of Qi Yang Dan, countless clansmen immediately followed suit.

Later, the entire Xinglongyuan set off an upsurge of breeding low-level monsters.Some immortal cultivators of the Zhao family who have no skills are even more motivated to hunt and kill all kinds of monsters and birds.

In the past few years, the Gongde Hall seemed to have turned into a glutton, which could swallow no matter how many corpses of monsters, and even asked the surrounding forces to buy them.

Zhao Shiluo lined up in the queue a little nervously, beside him was a fat, skinned big-headed pig in a wooden barrel,
Watching the clansmen leaving the counter in satisfaction one by one, Zhao Shiluo looked back at his grandfather, and couldn't help asking: "Grandpa, after selling the meat armor pig this time, can you really send me into the Immortal Martial Hall?"

"My dear grandson, you don't look down on grandpa! I think grandpa Ni came out of Xianwutang at least back then. If I didn't have the confidence to send you in, how dare I boast about such a seaport?!"

Grandpa is a burly old man with a beard, with bulging muscles on his bare arms, and his hands are as big as cattail fans, with thick calluses on his palms.

Zhao Shiluo felt a little relieved when he heard this, but he was still worried.

The threshold of Immortal Martial Hall is getting higher every year. Last year, it reached the standard of not accepting non-half-step congenitals. Who knows how strict it will be this year.

"Grandpa, I'm eighteen, but I haven't mastered the iron body yet, and my internal energy has only been 30 years old, I'm afraid I won't be able to enter the Immortal Martial Hall." Zhao Shiluo said anxiously.

"Relax! Today, my father and I sold two meat-armored pigs, and I will exchange them for two bottles of Jingyuan Pill. I guarantee you will be promoted to half-step Xiantian for three months. Before that, I will take you to meet someone, you go You will know that your grandpa did not mess around in vain in this life."

Grandpa's self-confidence infected Zhao Shiluo, and he finally relaxed.

At this time, several people in the front and rear of the team also heard the words of the grandpa and grandson, and looked at them with envious eyes.

Ever since the "All Clan's Armament", everyone in Xinglong City knows that the Xianwu Hall is the most popular place in the eyes of the mortals, and countless people want to squeeze in desperately.

"Old brother, if you have a connection, you might as well give him a hand. Then the benefits of old brother will be indispensable."

"I have a bottle of Bigu Pill here. If the old man can recommend it for me, this bottle of panacea will be considered as a gift."

"...if I have four spirit stones"

Others scrambled to step forward, setting benefits in advance one after another, Zhao Shiluo was very excited to hear that.

But his grandfather was not moved at all, he just chatted with others, and he didn't leak the key points at all.

Not long after, it was their grandparents' turn.

Grandpa hurried to the counter and exchanged the meat armor pig for two bottles of Jingyuan Dan, and also spared three wooden armor charms.

As soon as the exchange was completed, Grandpa grabbed Zhao Shiluo and quickly slipped out, making it impossible for others to catch up.

An hour later, the grandpa and grandson went round and round, passed through the small half of Xinglong City, and finally came to a grand avenue with a vast area, thick and solid houses, huge stone walls, and green rocks on the ground.

There were bursts of shouts in the dojo, and the air was filled with dry and hot breath, which made people's blood boil. In the depths of the dojo, smoke and energy rose into the sky, and it looked like a place of dragons and tigers at a glance.

This place is Xianwu Hall, also known as Xianwu Daochang.

"You wait here!" Grandpa Zhao Hong hurried into the Immortal Martial Hall after leaving a sentence.

After half an hour, Zhao Hong came out with a red-faced middle-aged strong man.

"Shi Luo, don't hurry up and pay your respects to your great master uncle!" As soon as the three of them approached, Zhao Hong quickly winked at his grandson and shouted loudly.

Seeing this, Zhao Shiluo hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Shiluo pays homage to Zeng Shishu!"

"Well, the muscles and bones are working well, but the internal energy is far from enough. In addition, the recruitment standard of Xianwutang this year is high. This year, it only recruits young geniuses under the age of 16. This kid should be eighteen. It's a pity ah!"

What the middle-aged strong man said surprised the grandfather and grandson.

Zhao Hong looked bitter, and begged: "Master Uncle, please see if you can be flexible. You must know that you are the youngest martial arts master in the whole family. If others can't do it, you must be able to do it. Back then, my father—"

The middle-aged strong man waved his hand and interrupted Zhao Hong's complaining, "Okay, don't always blame your father. 16 years old is a hard standard set by our ancestors, and I can't accommodate it. But I have You can join the Immortal Martial Hall indirectly if you have a quota of handymen. If you want to accept it, you can accept it, and if you don’t want to, I have nothing to do."

"Filling water and cleaning the dirty work is tiring, Shi Luo is capable. But I'm afraid that this will delay martial arts training. Do you have any lighter work?" Zhao Hong for the sake of his grandson's future, even disregarding his old face .

The middle-aged strong man smiled slightly, "There is really a job like this. There is a shortage of people at the mushroom meat field, so let him take over. In addition, the old man simply accepted Shi Luo as a registered disciple, which can be regarded as a repayment to Brother Qiong. life-saving grace."

Zhao Hong was overjoyed when he heard the words, and quickly pressed Zhao Shiluo's head, and Bang Bangbang kowtowed three times to the middle-aged strong man.

"Thank you, Master Uncle, for your kindness. Shi Luo will definitely not let you down!"

In this way, Zhao Shiluo worshiped his teacher in a daze, and incidentally became a handyman in the mushroom meat field.

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It was September, and the hot southern Xinjiang also ushered in a rare autumn day.

The sun was shining brightly, the sky was cloudless, and Xinglong City was still bustling and bustling with crowds.

However, within a radius of more than ten miles of the Bagua Guangming Building, the temperature dropped abnormally and the light became very dim.

However, the top of the Guangming Building is extremely dazzling, a thick beam of incandescent light falls from the sky, straight to the top of the nine-story building.

Looking from a distance, people with extraordinary eyesight can faintly see two tiny spots of light shining at the end of the beam of light above the extremely high and vast sky.

At this moment, if someone climbs above the sixth floor of the Guangming Building, they will be able to feel that the building is extremely hot, and the fire aura is very strong and extremely active.The billowing heat waves from above seemed to indicate that there was a large furnace hidden in the upper floors.

At this time, all the defensive restrictions on the sixth floor of Guangming Building were activated. At the stairway, three elders of the Foundation Clan were sitting scattered. The three of them were full of spiritual light, each holding a spiritual sword, guarding the stairway with a solemn expression.

No one is allowed to trespass on this place until the ancestor has finished training.

At this time, at the top of Guangming Building, on the jade platform outside the ninth floor, Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged in a huge spirit-gathering array, his whole body was enveloped by the dazzling beam of light, and endless fire aura cheered around him, waves of aura The frenzy surged in the magic circle.

Boom!

There was a muffled rumble in Zhao Sheng's body, and the golden elixir floated in the dantian, shining brightly, the real essence below surged like a sea, and the golden crow's real fire turned into a big sun, covering the golden elixir.

At this moment, a large amount of fire aura mixed with strands of Haori essence was sucked into the dantian, tempered by the Golden Crow true fire in an instant, and then transformed into pure true essence mana.

As time passed, strands of purer true energy rose from the sea of ​​qi, and finally merged into the golden elixir, which also made Zhao Shengxiu a little bit better.

After being promoted to Golden Core, the speed of improvement of the cultivation level of the immortal cultivator is so slow that countless real people are desperate. It is often only a little bit of progress that can only be exchanged for a little bit of progress after years of hard work.

Ordinary three spirit root golden pills, even if they spend their entire lives in seclusion and painstaking practice, if there is no great opportunity, they will not even be able to reach the edge of the Nascent Soul Tribulation.

This is the case with the three spiritual roots, let alone the four and five spiritual roots.

Well, most of the people below the four spiritual roots are even difficult to establish a foundation, let alone promoted to Jindan.

Zhao Sheng has two spiritual roots of gold and fire. Although he has the hope of being promoted to Nascent Soul, no one can guarantee that he will definitely succeed.

That's why he deliberately refined the Haoyang Mirror.

Originally, the Bagua Guangming Building had a large magic circle that transformed sunlight, which saved him a lot of energy.

Therefore, starting five years ago, Xinglong City suddenly had a strange scene of beams of light falling from the sky.

(End of this chapter)