Longevity starts with inheriting a friend's legacy

Chapter 140: Casting the Tripod Star Map and owing a huge debt!
The realm of a martial artist is to open up one's own acupoints and stimulate the potential within them.

To break through from a martial arts apprentice to a martial arts master is similar to a process of connecting points into lines. In this process, the acupoints in the body can be regarded as stars in the sky, and divine bridges can be built between the acupoints, connecting the acupoints and forming a star map with the nine acupoints.

After that, as long as you continue to open up acupoints and connect them into a star map, you can reach the peak of martial arts.

Inside the secret room, Fang Xu sank his consciousness into his body.

Ever since he absorbed the animal skin that recorded the "Yan Shen Zang", Fang Xu found that he could naturally enter the state of inner vision every time he practiced.

His current cultivation level is at the peak of the eighth level of martial arts apprentice. If he wants to break through to the level of martial arts master, he needs to open another acupoint and then completely refine the chaotic power inside it.

For Fang Xu, who possesses the "Yan Shen Zang", there is no longer any bottleneck in breaking through to the martial arts realm.

The ninth acupoint was soon opened successfully.

While refining the energy of the ninth acupoint space, Fang Xu's consciousness split into two, and the body of consciousness once again came to the first acupoint that had been opened - the Neiguan acupoint.

The body of consciousness stood in the space of the Neiguan acupoint, looking at the huge stone door in front of him with a gap opened, and Fang Xu fell into deep thought.

After his last attempt to blast open the stone door failed, he never tried again.

He had no idea what was behind the stone gate.

But just from the most primitive energy emanating from behind the stone gate, he could feel that the world behind the stone gate was definitely not simple.

Compared with the last time he bombarded the stone gate, his current strength has increased a lot.

Now it's time to give it another try.

Having made the decision, he immediately stretched out his hand and grasped the strange long stick floating in the space of the Neiguan acupoint.

Holding a long stick in his hand and staring at the stone gate, Fang Xu's eyes condensed slightly, and then his body suddenly jumped up, and the long stick in his hand drew a shadow that reached the sky and smashed towards the stone gate!

The strange scene of loud sound but no sound appears again!
The entire acupoint space was shaking violently. The stone door in front of them that led to the sky originally had only a tiny gap, but now the gap had become bigger again, and they could vaguely see the colorful world inside the door.

Still not fully open?

After the attack, Fang Xu frowned slightly, and then without any pause, a blood-red demon ape nearly three meters tall suddenly appeared behind him!
The attack just now was the strongest attack he could launch, except for the three transformations of the Demon Ape.

Since he couldn't open the stone door completely, he decided not to hold back and directly used the third transformation of the Demon Ape!

Using the three transformations of the Demon Ape with ideology does not require the consumption of energy and blood!

At this time, a blood-red stick about ten feet long appeared in the hand of the blood-red demon ape phantom!
As Fang Xu moved, the blood-colored demon ape also leaped up synchronously and launched a devastating attack at the huge stone gate in front of it!
This time, the entire acupoint space trembled violently, and cracks began to appear on the surface of the huge stone gate, as if it would completely shatter in the next moment.

However, just as the stone door was about to break, a large amount of dark thunder suddenly emerged from the gap in the stone door!

The shadow of the blood-colored demon ape and the shadow of the stick that reached the sky and the earth were instantly shattered by countless dark thunders. At the same time, dark thunders also appeared on the huge stone gate!
The black thunder, with a power of annihilation, quickly climbed up along the stone gate until it covered the entire stone gate!
Fang Xu's conscious body stood in the acupoint space, looking at the thunder in the sky. A sense of fear deep in his soul made him tremble!

What is behind this stone gate?!

His attempt to open the stone door seemed to have violated some kind of taboo, and it actually caused the world-destroying thunder to fill the sky!

Click!

Click!

After the dark thunder filled the stone gate, it began to emit bursts of terrifying noises.

The black thunder actually tried to force the stone doors together?
Looking at the scene in front of him, an idea popped into Fang Xu's mind.

Is the black thunder preventing me from opening this stone door?
As Fang Xu's mind moved, golden lightning suddenly appeared out of thin air in the acupoint space!
The moment the golden thunder appeared, it forcibly took back the acupoint space originally occupied by the black thunder in a more brutal manner!

Not only that, wherever the golden thunder passed, the dark thunder was quickly evaporated like ice and snow under the scorching sun. As the dark thunder faded away little by little, the entire acupoint space was soon filled with golden thunder.

The black thunder has retreated to the stone gate and is now gathering all its strength to protect the stone gate.

But the golden thunder was so powerful that it did not give the black thunder any chance to react. A large amount of electric light directly struck the huge stone gate covered with black thunder!
boom!
boom!
The terrifying sound of thunder and lightning resounded throughout the entire acupoint space. Fang Xu, who was in it, was like a small boat in the midst of a storm-ravaged ocean, which could be torn apart by this destructive force at any time!

Zizi!

Zizi!

The two forces of thunder are entangled together.

Although the black thunder is very afraid of the golden thunder, it seems to have been forced into a desperate situation at this time. It is unwilling to give up the stone gate and can only gamble its life with the golden thunder.

But the strength of the two sides is obviously not on the same level.

The golden thunder swallowed the black thunder on the stone gate bit by bit, and the huge stone gate began to show pits and holes under the corrosion of the golden thunder.

Fang Xu just stood there, quietly watching everything in front of him.

If this scene happened in the outside world, any martial artist or martial arts master would probably not be able to withstand the electric flash emitted by the clash of these two forces, and would be directly evaporated.

The tug-of-war continued, Black Thunder was gradually defeated, and now only less than one-third of the stone gate remains.

boom!
The golden thunder that had been advancing gradually seemed to have lost its patience, and suddenly burst out with a huge electric light as thick as a bucket, directly blasting the remaining black thunder and the half of the stone door into pieces on the spot!

Roar!
A faint terrifying roar came from the bizarre world in front of them!
From this roar, Fang Xu heard a hint of pain, anger, and unwillingness.

After defeating the black thunder and the stone gate in one fell swoop, the golden thunder in the acupoint space slowly faded away like the tide, and finally no one knew where it hid.

The acupoint space returned to calm, and Fang Xu looked at everything around him with lingering fear.

so horrible!

What kind of secrets does "Yanshenzang" contain?
Why did my acupoint space change into this state?
The world behind the stone gate...

Fang Xu fell silent as he looked at the strange vortex that replaced the stone door in front of him.

A huge amount of original energy gushed out from the vortex, instantly filling the entire acupoint space. By the way, the dissipated energy was also rapidly strengthening Fang Xu's body!
The body of consciousness was in this acupoint space full of primitive energy. Fang Xu felt as if he was soaking in a pool of wine full of nectar and was about to die of drunkenness in the pool in the next moment.

No more! No more!
Resisting the comfortable feeling, Fang Xu quickly withdrew his consciousness from the acupoint space!
Watching the endless energy overflowing from the Neiguan acupoint and feeling the subtle changes in his body every moment, Fang Xu didn't know what his current realm was.

Martial artist?

Obviously not!

After being strengthened by this raw energy, his physical fitness has far surpassed that of martial artists, and even martial artists cannot compare to him.

However, according to the classification of this realm of cultivation, since he has not built a divine bridge or assembled a star map, he cannot be considered a martial artist.

After some hard thinking, he decided to just ignore it.

No matter how the acupoint space changes, it is still your own acupoint.

What he had to do now was to completely open up the ninth acupoint, and then build the divine bridge between the acupoints to form a star map, and then completely break through to the level of a martial artist.

Without paying attention to the Neiguan acupoint, Fang Xu's consciousness just arrived at the newly opened ninth acupoint and he was shocked to find that at this time in the ninth acupoint, all the chaotic energy had been refined at some point!

"This……"

Fang Xu was stunned!

I feel like not much time has passed.

How come all the energy in the space of the ninth acupoint has been refined?
After wondering for a long time and still not figuring out what was going on, Fang Xu suddenly felt a little amused.

No matter how I look at it, my own practice seems unreliable.

But at his current level, it was obviously impossible for him to figure out what had happened to his body. He could only practice step by step.

In order for a martial artist to break through to become a martial master, he needs to build a divine bridge.

The construction of the divine bridge requires enormous support from the energy and blood.

After his consciousness returned to his body, Fang Xu was about to swallow some Qi and Blood Pills when he suddenly remembered Jiang Feng's instructions.

Jiang Feng told him that it would be best to go to the Cliff Underground Palace when he breaks through to become a martial artist.

But he only had three days to study the Cliff Heavenly Scripture, and he didn't know how long it would take for him to break through. If he couldn't break through after three days...

Never mind, let’s go to the cliff palace first!

He stood up and left the secret room without stopping, and went straight to the gate of the cliff palace.

The last time he came here was during the entrance examination. Fang Xu arrived at the gate of the underground palace. Guarding the gate was Wu Ling, whom he met on the twelfth floor of the stone tower.

"Greetings, Elder Wu."

Wu Ling had an impression of him, and said with a smile: "Boy, are you ready to use up your opportunity for enlightenment?"

Fang Xu nodded, and then said, "Elder, I only have three days in this time. If I am at the critical moment of breakthrough and the time is up, what will happen?"

Wu Ling smiled faintly and said, "There are generally two solutions to this situation."

"One is for me to go in and force you to wake up."

"The second option is that you can continue to break through. The time that exceeds the limit will be charged at 15,000 contribution points per day. When it reaches ten days, it will be counted as one, and you will be charged 100,000 contribution points."

Fang Xu said with a bitter face: "What if I don't have 100,000 contribution points?"

"Just owe it and I'll charge you one thousandth of interest a day." Wu Ling said with a smile.

"Ah?" The interest rate is one thousandth, and the interest rate for one hundred thousand contribution points a day is one hundred contribution points!

You can even buy an ordinary third-grade martial art!
Moreover, this kind of interest would probably be charged on a compound interest basis. If I fail to pay it back after a period of time, I would probably have to work like a slave for the Ascension Society to pay it back in this life.

"Do you think it's dark?" Seeing the expression on his face, Wu Ling asked with a smile.

Fang Xu nodded resentfully: "It's not just ordinary black!"

"Haha..." Wu Ling laughed, then said seriously: "Kid, remember one thing, there is no free lunch in the world, everything has a price."

"Choose one. Do you want me to wake you up when the time comes, or do you want me to wait for you to wake up?"

Fang Xu hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's wait for myself to wake up."

Breakthrough is the most important thing. If I haven’t completed the breakthrough after three days and am forcibly awakened, all my efforts will be wasted.

"Okay, go in."

"You must choose a stone chamber, otherwise if other disciples go in, you will be affected."

Wu Ling reminded.

"The Stone Chamber doesn't need any contribution points, right?" Fang Xu asked hurriedly.

He was really scared. It seemed that he had to pay contribution points to do anything in the Ascension Association.

"That's not necessary." Wu Ling said with a faint smile.

Fang Xu handed the token in his hand that allowed him to enter the cliff palace to Wuling, and then walked straight in.

After entering the underground palace, he chose a stone chamber, swallowed two sixth-grade Qi and Blood Pills, and then asked the divine servant in his body to temporarily store the Qi and blood power. He then began to make a breakthrough while observing the "Moya Heavenly Scripture".

Jiang Feng reminded himself to come here when he breaks through, but he didn't know what it was used for.

Staring at the jade stele in front of him through the window right in front of the stone chamber, Fang Xu calmed down and began to comprehend it.

Deep in his consciousness, the rough bronze cauldron that had forcibly combined the four martial arts emerged. As Fang Xu comprehended it, the rough bronze cauldron began to slowly rotate in the depths of his sea of ​​consciousness. As it rotated, the rough bronze cauldron slowly changed from an ugly bronze lump into a bronze cauldron that had taken shape, and then gradually became more refined.

The shape of the tripod became more and more perfect, until finally, some strange patterns even appeared on its surface!

If you look closely, you can find that the patterns on the bronze tripod are very similar to the patterns on the broken sword that Fang Xu had seen in the Divine Weapon Hall before!

The cauldron slowly took shape, and the lines gradually spread...

Until the end, when the patterns gradually spread all over the cauldron, the entire bronze cauldron suddenly exuded an ancient, vast and mysterious aura!
The next moment, nine dazzling spots of light slowly lit up from the four legs, two ears, and the body of the bronze tripod!

The shape of the entire cauldron gradually disappeared, and only nine spots of light emitting endless light stood quietly in the depths of the sea of ​​consciousness.

Staring at the nine spots of light transformed from the big cauldron, Fang Xu felt a little more enlightened.

The opened acupoints in the body slowly emitted a faint glow. Then, a thin ray of light extended from the Neiguan acupoint and gradually stretched towards the second acupoint.

Is this the Shinbashi Bridge?!
Feeling a large amount of Qi and blood being drained from his body, Fang Xu hurriedly mobilized the Qi and blood stored in the Divine Servant to provide the energy to build the skeleton of the Divine Bridge.

After the light extends to the second acupoint, another ray of light appears and extends downwards.

However, Fang Xu suddenly discovered that there were no more opened acupoints in the direction where the light extended.

"wrong!"

"Wrong!"

Consciousness shouted, and Fang Xu wanted to control Xixi to extend in other directions, but at this moment he realized that everything seemed to be no longer under his control.

The light went straight to an unopened acupoint and sank directly into it.

Just when Fang Xu thought that his breakthrough would fail completely, a terrifying energy suddenly burst out from the Neiguan acupoint!

These energies flowed into the second acupoint along the divine bridge, and then passed through the second acupoint to this unopened acupoint!

hum!
Along with the injection of energy from the Neiguan acupoint, this unopened acupoint instantly burst into a burst of strong light, and was then forcibly opened by this energy!

Seeing this scene, Fang Xu felt numb all over!

This……

He now has no idea whether his way of practicing is right or wrong.

To open up the divine bridge and construct the star map, it should be enough to connect the acupoints that one has already opened.

But now, both the acupoints and the divine bridge seemed to have their own consciousness. They stubbornly built the divine bridge according to their own ideas. When they encountered an acupoint that had not been opened, they even forced their way through it.

After a warrior enters the martial artist realm, each realm can actually be divided into nine stages.

These nine stages are the process of opening up the nine acupoints.

Not until the nine acupoints are completely opened up and then formed into the second star map through the divine bridge can one be considered to have reached the second level of martial artist.

But Fang Xu's body is now in complete chaos.

Shenqiao does not follow the already opened acupoint space, but insists on choosing a path he wants to take.

Seeing the divine bridge extending from the third acupoint and heading towards the fourth acupoint, Fang Xu had a vague guess in his mind.

Why does the path taken by the Divine Bridge feel the same as the nine points of light transformed by the large cauldron in the sea of ​​consciousness?!

Everything seemed to verify Fang Xu's guess. With the endless supply of energy in the Nei Guan acupoint, the Divine Bridge could cut through mountains and build bridges over water. It directly formed a strange star map in his body according to the light spots transformed by the big cauldron!

When the ninth acupoint was broken, Fang Xu was shocked to find that his current cultivation seemed to have reached the peak of the first level of martial artist.

Because of the nine acupoints opened up before, the martial artist only used two for this breakthrough. The other seven were chosen by Shenqiao himself and then forcibly broken open with the help of the original energy of the Neiguan acupoint!
You have personality, you are amazing!

Looking at the energy continuously being injected into the Nei Guan acupoint and slowly lighting up the nine acupoints, Fang Xu didn't know what to say for a moment.

hum!
The star map took shape, and nine acupoints were instantly lit up. Fang Xu suddenly felt his body sink suddenly, and the shadow of a bronze tripod suddenly appeared behind the star map!

Although the shadow of the big cauldron disappeared in a flash, Fang Xu clearly felt that his body had become different!

This feeling……

It was as if a real cauldron was hidden inside his body!

For a moment, strange feelings such as heaviness, vastness, and simplicity flooded into my heart.

Fang Xu slowly opened his eyes.

If there were outsiders present at this moment, they would definitely notice that the moment Fang Xu opened his eyes, a shadow of a huge tripod flashed across his eyes.

"Is this the feeling of a martial artist?" Feeling the breakthrough in his body, Fang Xu slowly stood up.

"Kid, if you don't come out, another day will pass."

Below, in front of the jade stele of "The Cliff Scripture of Heaven", Wuling stood with his hands behind his back, looking at Fang Xu who had already stood up, and spoke lightly.

Hearing this, Fang Xu didn't even bother to check his specific situation and hurried out of the stone chamber.

"Elder Wu, how long have I been in there?"

Seeing Fang Xu's anxious expression, Wu Ling smiled and said, "Not long."

Hearing this, Fang Xu breathed a sigh of relief.

"Only one month."

Wu Ling's next words petrified Fang Xu!

"Elder, are you kidding me?!"

Wu Ling shook his head: "Of course I'm not kidding. If you don't leave now, it will be the thirty-first day in another quarter of an hour."

Hearing this, Fang Xu hurriedly left the cliff palace.

Outside the underground palace, Wu Ling took out a piece of paper and said, "You went in on the twenty-seventh day of the winter month. Now it is the twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month, and it will soon be the twenty-eighth day of the first lunar month."

"Excluding the three days I gave you as a reward, you owe a total of twenty-seven days."

"That's equivalent to three hundred and five thousand contribution points."

Hearing this, Fang Xu snatched the paper and took a closer look at it, his face instantly falling.

Three hundred thousand and five thousand contribution points, the interest for one day is more than three hundred. When will it be paid back?
"Boy, if I were you, I would stay in for three more days." Wu Ling suddenly said.

Fang Xu got anxious when he heard this: "Elder, please stop making fun of me. I don't know when I can pay it back."

Wu Ling shook his head and said, "You exceeded the limit by 27 days, which is twice and seven days."

"The charge for two days is 200,000, but the charge for seven days is 105,000. If you stay for another three days, the contribution points you owe will not increase, but will decrease by 5,000."

"Is it possible?!" Fang Xu frowned after hearing this. Without any further ado, he went straight back to the cliff palace.

"Haha...this brat!" Wu Ling saw this and shook his head with a smile.

Inside the Cliff Palace, Fang Xu returned to the stone chamber he had been in before. He suppressed all the thoughts in his mind and prepared to use the "Cliff Heavenly Scripture" to perfect the mysterious bronze tripod.

The strange patterns on the broken sword of the Divine Weapon Hall were not complete. When he had cast the bronze tripod in his sea of ​​consciousness, the patterns on the tripod were not complete.

Many of the points were deduced by him based on his own understanding.

Now that there are still three days left, he wants to see if he can use the Cliff-carved Heavenly Scripture to perfect those things.

Deep in the sea of ​​consciousness, the bronze cauldron appeared again.

However, the cauldron has now become virtual, as if it is supported entirely by the shining starlight and has no substance.

Fang Xu was not too worried about the cauldron becoming like this, because he could feel that his consciousness still had complete control over the cauldron.

Combining his insights from the cliff-carved scriptures, his consciousness made subtle adjustments to the patterns on the entire bronze tripod. Gradually, he forgot about time again.

hum!
As the patterns were constantly adjusted, the tripod-casting star map in Fang Xu's body was also constantly changing.

Gradually, the entire star map slowly exuded a mysterious aura, which Fang Xu did not notice.

Time flies and three days are about to pass.

At this time Fang Xu woke up slowly.

"Huh? Boy, you managed your timing very well this time."

Below the jade tablet, Wuling spoke with a smile.

Fang Xu walked out of the stone chamber and asked quickly, "Has it been three days?"

Wu Ling nodded: "There is still one hour left, boy, do you want to meditate for a while longer?"

Fang Xu quickly shook his head; he was afraid.

Now I have a huge debt of three hundred thousand. If I accidentally exceed the time limit, I am afraid I will never be able to pay it off in this lifetime.

"Elder Wu, is there any way to quickly gain contribution points?" Fang Xu asked.

I only have more than 20,000 contribution points now. If I want to pay off the 300,000, I definitely can't do it just by doing odd jobs inside the door.

"Have."

"Becoming an inner disciple will reward you with 10,000 contribution points."

"The Affairs Hall has many tasks for inner disciples, ranging from tens to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of contribution points."

"Of course, the higher the reward, the greater the risk. You must not lose your life in your rush to gain contribution points."

Fang Xu nodded, and then said: "I remember you said that donating martial arts skills can also be rewarded with contribution points?"

Wu Ling nodded: "That's true, but the third-grade and lower martial arts are of little use to the Ascension Society."

"Think it over for yourself."

"Oh, I forgot to remind you that until you pay back all your contribution points, you will not be able to continue to enjoy the resources of the Ascension Association that require contribution points."

"Give me your ID token, boy."

Somewhat reluctantly, Fang Xu handed his identity token to Wu Ling and said pitifully, "Elder, leave me some..."

Wu Ling nodded and directly swiped the contribution points in his identity token.

The next moment, Fang Xu discovered that his original contribution points of more than 20,000 were now reduced to a fraction.

"There are still 280,000. Remember, the interest is 1% per day."

After Wu Ling finished speaking, he slowly left the underground palace.

Fang Xu also walked out with a bitter face and began to think about how to quickly earn contribution points to pay back the huge amount of money he owed.

(End of this chapter)