Longevity: Never leave the mountain until you are invincible

Pei Zhixuan died, and all the things he left behind were given to Chu Chen. In addition to the many secret manuals in his memory, there were also things in this cave.

After carefully checking Pei Zhixuan's memory, Chu Chen felt relieved and began to count the harvest.

There were not many valuable things left in this cave. There were several jade boxes with medicinal materials on the stone shelf, a bronze furnace, a white jade cushion, and a holy heart relic.

Chu Chen first took down several jade boxes on the stone shelf, a total of four, in which Pei Zhixuan stored several medicinal materials with a medicinal age of more than 300 years, including a 500-year-old Ganoderma lucidum.

Because the time was too long, even if the jade box was sealed, the medicinal power was very little.

"What a pity."

Looking at the precious medicinal materials in the jade box, Chu Chen felt very sorry.

If the medicinal power of these medicinal materials was still there, it would be enough to improve the Soul-stealing Body-forging Sutra by one or two levels.

The bronze furnace tripod in the center of the stone room is not a magic weapon. It is just an alchemy furnace that Pei Zhixuan used to imitate the mythological books to solve the problem of schizophrenia.

An ordinary alchemy furnace has no other special effects.

The white jade cushion placed in front of the alchemy furnace is also of no value.

Compared with it, the most valuable thing in the whole cave is the Holy Heart Relic.

That yellow night-shining pearl.

The Holy Heart Relic is a treasure left by the founder of the Wusheng Sect, and has always been the inheritance treasure of the Wusheng Sect.

The biggest function of the Holy Heart Relic is to absorb and store true energy.

Before the death of the Wusheng Sect leaders of all generations, they would pour all their strength into it. As long as they master a secret method that only the Wusheng Sect leaders of all generations would know, they can extract the true energy in the Holy Heart Relic to assist in cultivation.

"In a sense, isn't true energy the spiritual energy?"

Chu Chen's eyes flashed.

The innate warriors opened the divine bridge between heaven and earth, refined the free spiritual energy between heaven and earth, and turned it into true energy.

True Qi is essentially spiritual energy.

In other words, Chu Chen can absorb the true Qi from the Holy Heart Relic and practice the Soul-stealing Body-building Sutra.

As for the secret method of absorbing the true Qi from the Holy Heart Relic, Chu Chen also got it from Pei Zhixuan's memory.

"A Holy Heart Relic is equivalent to seven or eight 500-year-old medicinal herbs, or even more."

Chu Chen played with the Holy Heart Relic, with an undisguised smile on his face.

All the leaders of Wusheng were innate warriors, with different levels of cultivation. The strong ones, like Pei Zhixuan, reached the peak of the innate realm, and the low-level ones also had the cultivation of the early innate realm.

Pei Zhixuan was the 24th leader of Wusheng Sect, and there were 23 leaders before him.

Before their death, these leaders poured all their true Qi into the Holy Heart Relic. It is conceivable how much true Qi was poured into the Holy Heart Relic.

Even though almost every leader of the Wusheng Sect had used the true qi in the Sacred Heart Relic to practice, most of them would not extract the true qi from the Sacred Heart Relic.

The true qi in the Sacred Heart Relic comes from others. If you take too much, it will only pollute your own true qi, which is not conducive to your own practice.

Therefore, most of the true qi in the Sacred Heart Relic was retained.

It was precisely because of the nourishment of the large amount of true qi in the Sacred Heart Relic that Pei Zhixuan's residual soul could survive for more than 600 years.

Chu Chen had no such concerns. He absorbed the true qi from the Sacred Heart Relic and refined it with the Soul-stealing Body Refining Sutra to temper his body without polluting his own true qi.

"It's a great harvest."

During this trip to the Yunwu Mountains, Chu Chen not only obtained a method for practicing the soul, a Sacred Heart Relic containing countless true qi, but also many martial arts methods in Pei Zhixuan's mind.

Pei Zhixuan is a martial arts master of his generation and a peak innate strongman. Naturally, he would not only practice one set of soul-refining techniques. There are also many powerful martial arts techniques in his memory.

One person is equivalent to a huge martial arts treasure house.

"The spiritual energy in this cave is more abundant than that in the imperial capital. It is a good place for retreat and practice."

Chu Chen felt the spiritual energy in the cave and became more and more satisfied.

Practicing in this cave for one day is equivalent to practicing in the imperial capital for four or five days.

He decided to stay in this cave to practice in the future. As for the pawnshop, he can go back and take a look at it at any time. The distance between the imperial capital and the cave is not far. With his lightness, he can go back and forth in three hours.

Of course.

You can also go to the Qunfangyuan by the way and discuss the way of yin and yang harmony with the young ladies.

Martial arts practice, tension and relaxation.

Very reasonable.

With a determined idea, Chu Chen immediately went down the mountain and went to the nearby city to buy some daily necessities and some things needed to set up traps.

In this way, Chu Chen started his secluded life in the mountains.

Every day, he practiced the Soul-Snatching Body-Forging Sutra, Water Element Sutra, and the newly acquired Soul-Refining Sutra.

Or he copied the many martial arts techniques left by Pei Zhixuan in his mind.

Because Pei Zhixuan only had a part of his residual soul left, his memory was confused, and Chu Chen needed to sort it out before he could practice. Writing down these martial arts secrets was a good choice.

If there was a problem, it could be discovered in time.

Every two or three months, when he was bored in the mountains, Chu Chen would return to the imperial capital and open a pawnshop for a month.

When he was in the imperial capital, Chu Chen would temporarily suspend the practice of the Water Element Sutra and practice more of the Soul-Snatching Body-Forging Sutra. With the Sacred Heart Relic, even in the imperial capital, the practice of the Soul-Snatching Body-Forging Sutra would not be affected.

As the days passed, Chu Chen's cultivation became higher and higher.

Whether it was the practice of the Water Element Sutra or the practice of the Soul-Refining Body-Forging Sutra, they all made rapid progress.

On the contrary, the practice of the Soul-Refining Sutra was not smooth.

The Soul Refining Technique involves the cultivation of the soul, and few sects in the world are involved in this.

In Chu Chen's opinion, the Soul Refining Technique should not be a martial arts technique, but a technique passed down from the world of immortal cultivation.

It is understandable that the progress of cultivation is slow.

Chu Chen is not in a hurry. As long as he can increase his ability to save his life and strengthen his strength, he is not afraid to spend time practicing. For him, a hundred years or a thousand years is no different.

…

On the mountain, he is busy practicing.

Down the mountain, a storm is rising.

While Chu Chen is busy improving his strength, the court of Dayan is in turmoil again.

Xu Chengxing is dead.

This veteran of three dynasties, no, four dynasties, has been a tribute scholar since he was eighteen years old. Since he entered the officialdom, he has experienced four emperors, including Emperor Jingzheng and Emperor Hongguang, and has been in the officialdom for more than seventy years.

He has been promoted and demoted, but he has always stood on the court of Dayan and is known as the evergreen tree of the court of Dayan.

And now, this evergreen tree has fallen.

A few days ago, Xu Chengxing caught a cold and his health deteriorated. Emperor Hongguang personally ordered the Imperial Hospital to take good care of the old man.

The imperial doctors in the Imperial Hospital were not gods after all. The imperial doctors spent countless precious medicinal materials but failed to save the old man's life.

Before he died, the old man called Emperor Hongguang to Xu's house.

That night, Emperor Hongguang stayed at Xu's house and chatted with old man Xu Chengxing all night.

No one knew what Emperor Hongguang talked about with Xu Chengxing. Maybe it was the strategy of establishing the country, or the strategy of rejuvenation, or the way of being a monarch and serving the people.

The next day, Xu Chengxing died suddenly on his sickbed at the age of 88.

Emperor Hongguang carried the coffin with the etiquette of a disciple, and later conferred Xu Chengxing the title of Duke of Xu and the posthumous title of Zhongxian.