Seeking Immortality

Xia Ling Seven Islands is Xu Qingfan's base camp. Xu Qingfan is naturally very concerned about defense. Hearing that the old beggar wants to create a new "disaster cloud" to be arranged around the Xia Ling Seven Islands, Xu Qingfan also agrees very much. However, if the premise is to completely dismantle and study the "disaster clouds" that Xu Qingfan stole from Zhang Xusheng, Xu Qingfan can't help but hesitate.

According to the old beggar's words, as long as he can understand the specific structure of the "disaster cloud" created by Zhang Xusheng, he can create a new "disaster cloud". If the precious materials in Xia Ling Island are taken into account, the attack power of this new "disaster cloud" will be even greater. It is arranged around Xia Ling Island and combined with the island-protecting Xia Guang and the surrounding maze. In addition, the old beggar and others have transformed the Xia Guang maze in the past few months, and there is also the blessing of the array disk array heart. With this combination, even if the Shura tribe attacks collectively, it will not be able to attack the island without a moment's effort.

However, Zhang Xusheng's "disaster cloud" was mixed with a kind of blood-colored soil that could conceal its breath and hide its traces, so this kind of "disaster cloud" was silent in action, and it was extremely difficult for cultivators to be discovered when they entered it. In Xu Qingfan's view, compared with the powerful attack power of the disaster cloud, this characteristic was the real strength of the "disaster cloud".

Considering the current situation of the vast land of Shenzhou, "disaster cloud" would be needed as a cover for future entry and exit. Xu Qingfan hesitated for a while, and after bargaining with the old beggar for countless times, he finally reluctantly gave half of his "disaster cloud" to the old beggar for research. Although the old beggar promised that he would restore these "disaster clouds" to their original state after disassembling and researching them, Xu Qingfan once watched a large piece of "disaster cloud" suddenly disappear in the process of research and disassembly by the old beggar and others, and he no longer had hope for the old beggar's promise. He just told Wang Zegang not to let the old beggar and others get close to the other half of the "disaster cloud".

It is worth mentioning that the huge jade stone that Xu Qingfan used to suppress the spiritual veins of the Seven Xialing Islands and control the circulation of spiritual energy in the Seven Xialing Islands was discovered by the old beggar, who criticized Xu Qingfan for having dog eyes and wasting a lot of resources. According to the old beggar, this jade stone was a precious material even in ancient times, and it has been nourished by the rich spiritual energy in Tianji Island for hundreds of thousands of years. It is indeed the most precious thing in the Seven Xialing Islands. If it is refined properly, it can definitely be refined into a peerless magic weapon ranked in the top ten in the world of immortal cultivation. However, Xu Qingfan used it to suppress the spiritual veins after refining it roughly, and he was punished by heaven.

However, although the old beggar never knew what politeness was and had a high opinion of himself, he did not have the confidence to refine this jade into a peerless magic weapon now, so this jade was still used to suppress the spirit veins and combined with the defense array of the seven islands of Xialing to strengthen its power. For a while, it had no other use, which made Xu Qingfan feel that he was scolded in vain.

The old beggar and the other six weapon refiners would come to the array center from time to time, constantly looking at the jade with extremely hot eyes, and then gritted their teeth and resolutely left. That look was like a lovelorn man who wanted to marry his beloved woman, but felt ashamed of himself, so he made an appointment for several years and left to work hard.

The old beggar once said to Xu Qingfan that if he could perfectly sacrifice this jade stone into a peerless magic weapon in his lifetime, not only would he leave his name in the history of the cultivation world, but he would also die without regrets.

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Just like that, three years had passed since Wang Zegang brought a group of cultivators and mortals to the Seven Islands of Xialing.

In the past three years, in addition to the renewed defense system of the Seven Islands of Xialing, in addition to the violent explosions and strange spiritual fluctuations from time to time on Tianquan Island, there were several other things that caught Xu Qingfan's attention.

The first thing was that the seven weapon refining masters including the old beggar and the five alchemists including the North Sea Scholar had refined more than 20 top-grade elixirs and more than 30 magic weapons in three years. Among them, many of the elixirs were not inferior to the "Medicine King Valley Immortal Pills", and the level of the magic weapons was also above the Heavenly Rank.

The second thing is the growth of the strength and cultivation of the people on Xialing Island over the years.

The most noteworthy ones are Wang Yuxian and the other twelve Jiuhua disciples. They have been practicing very hard over the years, almost to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep. Tianji Island is the most common place for these twelve people. They have been listening to Xu Qingfan's preaching for many years. In addition, with the help of the top-grade elixirs refined by the Beihai scholar, they have all broken through to the virtual elixir stage. Among them, Wang Yuxian has reached the late virtual elixir stage. Combined with the heaven-level magic weapon refined by the old beggar given by Xu Qingfan, their strength is different from the past.

At the same time, the five casual cultivators such as Dongfang did not improve as much as Wang Yuxian. Under the combined effect of the rich spiritual energy, the top-grade elixir, Xu Qingfan's preaching and their own efforts, although the improvement of their cultivation is not as obvious as Wang Yuxian's,

they have also made significant progress and are only a hair's breadth away from the golden elixir stage.

On the contrary, those who followed Xu Qingfan to Xialing Island to live in seclusion at the beginning have all reached a bottleneck at this moment. Except for Bai Qingfu who reached the Golden Core Stage after taking a large amount of elixirs, the progress of others is not obvious. Whether it is Bai Yu, Zhang Ningmei, Tian Zhenxian, or Tian Zhenling, they are all hovering at the peak of the Void Core Stage. Although they are only a step away from the Real Core Stage, they have been unable to break through. Their situation is very different from Bai Qingfu. Bai Qingfu has been in seclusion for more than a hundred years of detention, and his realm is stable. At this time, relying on elixirs to break through is a matter of accumulation. These disciples of Xu Qingfan have relied on Xu Qingfan's elixirs to make progress before. If they rely on elixirs when they break through their realm at this time, their realm will inevitably be unstable.

However, although they understand all the principles, seeing Wang Yuxian, Dongfang and others make great progress in the past three years, the four of them are a little anxious for a while.

Especially Zhang Ningmei, because of her natural strong consciousness, it is more and more difficult to break through. Compared with the progress when she first entered Xialing Island, she has not made any progress ten years ago. In the past ten years, Xu Qingfan has not let Zhang Ningmei do anything, just let her practice with peace of mind.

Although the disciples are making slow progress, Xu Qingfan believes that as long as they break through the bottleneck at this time, the next ten years will be a period of rapid growth in strength.

As for Wang Zegang and Dongfang Qingling, there is no need to say more. Wang Zegang has reached the peak of the Golden Core Stage, and he will reach the Mahayana Stage if he goes further. Although the conditions in Xialing Island are good, it is normal for him to delay for a long time. Dongfang Qingling has focused on taking care of Xu Qingfan and Ting'er during this period of time. He has a taste of no desire for his own cultivation and has been stagnant at the peak of the Solid Core Stage for a long time.

It is worth mentioning that Liu Ziqing and Zhang Yi's cultivation has not increased at all since they came to the Seven Islands of Xialing. Liu Ziqing's cultivation has not increased since he gave up the **. The change in strength depends entirely on the power of the magic weapon in his hand. If the magic weapon is weak, it is extremely difficult to deal with a Jindan cultivator. If the magic weapon is strong, it can cause great trouble to top existences such as Zhang Xusheng and Zizhen Immortal. And Zhang Yi is practicing the "God-Destroying **", although it is powerful, but in the history of the immortal world, no one who has practiced this kind of practice has been able to break through to the Mahayana stage, and Zhang Yi's cultivation at this moment has reached the peak of the Jindan stage. Every time he sees Zhang Yi, Xu Qingfan always regrets whether he was too inconsiderate to let Zhang Ningmei practice the "God-Destroying **".

The third thing that caught Xu Qingfan's attention was the situation of the more than a hundred mortals who had just arrived at the Seven Islands of Xialing. The main reason was the 17 mortals who were qualified to cultivate immortals. Although the spiritual energy of Xialing Island was extremely abundant and there were a lot of elixirs to help them cultivate, due to their limited qualifications, except for the man named Shen Gang, the others only reached the stage of fasting at best.

But Shen Gang did not disappoint Xu Qingfan's expectations. Not only did his own cultivation reach the stage of spiritual silence in just three years, but he also initially showed his general style. Xu Qingfan and other immortal cultivators did not need to worry about a group of mortals at all. He managed them in an orderly manner, and those mortals were very convinced of him. Under his control, these mortals not only did not cause any trouble to Xu Qingfan and others in the past three years, but also helped the immortal cultivators a lot in their lives.

Wang Zegang was responsible for teaching Shen Gang and other 17 people the way of cultivating immortals in the past three years. When chatting with Xu Qingfan one by one, Wang Zegang commented that Shen Gang "may achieve no less than Li Yuhan in the future."

After three years of observation, Xu Qingfan finally made a decision about Shen Gang.

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On this day, everyone was still practicing as usual. Suddenly, a series of melodious bell sounds came from the Mingxin Hall in the center of Tianshu Island. In a moment, it spread to all the seas of the seven Xialing Islands. However, although the bell sounds were loud, no one could sense them. Only Shen Gang, who was practicing in seclusion on Tianji Island, was slightly stunned and suddenly came out of his meditation. Woke up.

Sensing that it seemed to be the summoning bell, Shen Gang was slightly stunned. He did not dare to hesitate and used a flying magic weapon that Wang Ze had just given him years ago to fly quickly towards Mingxin Hall on Tianshu Island.

However, when Shen Gang entered Mingxin Hall, he was surprised to find that there were only Xu Qingfan and his disciples Bai Yu, Zhang Ningmei, Tian Zhenxian, and Tian Zhenling in Mingxin Hall.

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