There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

Wang Ping was mentally prepared. Hearing Liu Shuang's answer, his expression showed no emotion. His eyes fell on a wooden box on the rustic coffee table under the eaves of the courtyard and he asked, "Who brought back the news? Also, did Yu'er leave anything behind?"

"The two registered disciples that Yu'er accepted into the Moon God Sect brought back the news. They said that Yu'er passed away on an isolated island in the endless sea between East Continent and West Continent. In her last moments, she was in meditation, trying to merge the two powers in her body."

Liu Shuang's voice was low, but the tone was clear: "Yu'er was conscious at the last moment. She called the two new disciples she had accepted from the Moon God Sect to her side and told them some things. Then, she controlled half of the Wood Spiritual Veins in her body to disperse her power, and the other half of her body was burned to ashes in the flames."

As she spoke, she walked forward, picked up the wooden box on the coffee table under the eaves of the courtyard, opened it, and revealed a metal sphere sealed by a sealing array. She said, "This was bred in the heart after the alien creature merged with Yu'er's spiritual vein. It looks like it should be the core of the Star God."

"It is the Star God Core!"

Wang Ping took the wooden box handed over by Liu Shuang. Inside the sealing array was a thumb-sized gray metal ball with a complex fire spirit array on its surface. It must have had consciousness when it landed from outer space, but now it is a dead object. That consciousness should have been assimilated by Zhao Yuer's soul.

Zhao Yuer's original condition was recorded in the Taoist Palace's archives.

Those extraterritorial creatures that carry the Star God Core particularly like to attach themselves to monks with weak spiritual veins. Most of the monks they attach themselves to will go crazy on the spot, and then be killed by other monks who rush over and collect the Star God Cores they have formed.

Only a small number of cultivators can suppress their madness with their own human cultivation. If they are cultivators who have already entered the country through other secret methods, the only thing they can do in the following years is to balance the two energies in their bodies. Few can get out of it. Only cultivators who have not yet entered the country and turn to cultivate the Star God Core can have a chance to continue.

Zhao Yuer might have known her fate long ago, so she chose to leave her hometown. Liu Shuang must have searched for information everywhere and also knew Zhao Yuer's future. She also intended to let Zhao Yuer go and let Zhao Yuer choose her limited future herself.

When Wang Ping confirmed that the thing in the wooden box was the Star God Core, Liu Shuang took out a bamboo scroll and said, "Yu'er recorded all her cultivation experiences before she passed away. There is a set of secret methods in it. According to her instructions, wood cultivators can use the things she left behind after her death as the basic materials to refine magic weapons. They can control flames like fire cultivators, which is very useful to deal with gold cultivators who are restraining us!"

Wang Ping took the bamboo slips. Yu Lian stared at the bamboo slips and said, "I have seen Yu Er's magic. It is very strange. He can ignite the fire through the wood spirit energy. After adding the wood spirit poison, the fire has the same effect."

Liu Shuang also added: "I also studied it at that time. I used some seeds with strong characteristics to evolve the wood spirit energy, and then borrowed some instruments with fire spirit attributes to ignite the flames. However, the power was much smaller than when Yu'er performed it, so I didn't study it in depth."

Wang Ping knew that Liu Shuang wanted him to see whether this secret method was feasible. He did not rush to look through the bamboo slips, but looked at other people in the yard. Yang Rong and her disciples looked at Liu Shuang worriedly, just worried that Liu Shuang would be too sad. They did not feel too sad about Zhao Yuer's death, which was understandable. After all, they did not have much contact with Zhao Yuer.

Zhao Mingming's expression was a little dazed. He looked towards the east from time to time, as if he couldn't believe that Zhao Yuer had passed away.

It's actually quite sad when you think about it. After hundreds of years of hard practice, only a handful of people can remember Zhao Yuer in the end. This is the fate of most cultivators, even the cultivators in the fourth realm, and even the True Lords. After all, this universe has existed for who knows how many years, and how many people know the names of those great gods in ancient times?

longevity.

How illusory.

Just as Wang Ping was thinking about who would know him if he passed away in the future, he suddenly woke up, sat on the stone bench in the yard, and opened the bamboo slips in his hand under Liu Shuang's gaze.

The content in the bamboo slips was the same as what Liu Shuang said. This secret method created by Zhao Yuer was to use her own spiritual veins to plant the Qingyou tree, refine the seeds of the Qingyou tree, use the wood spirit energy to extract the flammable substances in the seeds and combine them with the wood spirit formation to generate combustible wood spirit energy, and then create instantaneous high temperature through flame reaction.

When Wang Ping finished reading the contents of the bamboo slips, the light screen panel also popped up:

[Unknown secret method: In addition to the five elements of yin and yang energy rules, there are more mysterious rules between heaven and earth. It can also peek into the secrets deep in the universe and can also be combined with the five elements of yin and yang. ]

[1. Use the wood spirit veins in your body to plant vegetation that can produce flammable substances. Currently, the preferred recommendation is the oil-clearing tree.]

[2. Use the Wood Spirit Qi to extract flammable objects, and then combine it with the fixed Wood Spirit Array to generate flammable Wood Spirit Qi.]

【3. Use different flames to light them and test their burning temperatures.】

[Note 1: There are many plants in the world that can be experimented with, and the Qingyao tree is not the best one at the moment.]

[Note 2, the magic array diagram is as follows...]

【Note 3, theoretically, the combustion temperature can be infinitely high.】

After Wang Ping read the prompts on the light screen panel, the first thing that came to his mind was the future city he saw when he merged with the locust tree spirit, where cultivators and technology coexisted.

However, it is not really technology, it is just another way of presenting magic. It is when the civilization of the world of cultivation has reached an unattainable height, and the monks have the leisure time to study why and how their magic exists, so that such a civilization can be born.

But now in this starry sky, cultivators even have trouble surviving. Unless they are promoted to the fourth level, they have to hurry up and plan for the next promotion after each previous promotion, otherwise they can only wait for death in despair.

Even if he was promoted to the fourth realm, there were still various constraints, just like Wang Ping at this moment. In his heart, he was actually always thinking about the cities in Huaishu's memory. He could now use puppets to do some experiments and plan some things to push this backward civilization forward.

However, under the watchful eyes of the True Lords, even if he took this step, as long as one of the True Lords was dissatisfied, they could destroy him in a moment, so he could only remain silent.

After thinking for a moment, Wang Ping returned the bamboo slips to Liu Shuang and said, "It is a good secret method, but it requires some specific fire spirit instruments to drive it. You can let some disciples try to practice it. Anyway, there is no shortage of money to buy fire spirit instruments in the sect now." He then returned the wooden box to Liu Shuang and reminded him:

"You can go find Taoist Yuanzheng. He may have a way to refine this Star God Core into a magic weapon. This magic weapon can be passed on to the disciples of Yu'er's lineage in the future."

"Yes!"

Wang Ping raised his head at this time and looked towards the direction of the mountain gate. There was a familiar aura that clashed with the disciples at the mountain gate.

Liu Shuang also looked towards the direction of the mountain gate, and then his expression was startled, because the person who had a conflict with the mountain gate disciples was Liu Ling, who had been in seclusion for hundreds of years. Her identity token had long been invalid, so the disciples in front of the mountain gate did not let her pass, but she chose to force her way through!
"I gonna go see!"

Liu Shuang immediately turned into a stream of light and flew towards the mountain gate.

The conflict that was about to break out at the mountain gate was stopped in time. Liu Ling was not punished and she was led to the courtyard by Liu Shuang.

"Master!"

Liu Ling looked at Wang Ping in shock for a moment before saluting him.

Wang Ping looked at Liu Ling. At this moment, Liu Ling was wearing a blue wide-sleeved Taoist robe and no belt, which made her look a little rebellious. However, her expression was a little dull, which might be due to her seclusion for too long. Her slow reaction just now was also due to this.

Looking at her face again, her complexion was pale, and her eyes were gray and black. She was not as lively and active as Wang Ping remembered, but numb and lonely. Her hair was very long, without a crown, but with a linen strip tying most of her hair behind her head, and some scattered hair covered most of her cheeks. Yu Lian communicated with Wang Ping in the spiritual sea: "This is completely different from the Ling'er I remember!"

She was right.

In Wang Ping's impression, Ling'er laughed the loudest at every gathering. She was very confident and cheerful, full of energy every day and had endless things to say.

Thinking of Ling'er's laughter, Wang Ping unconsciously recalled the lively scenes in his own temple during the Spring Festival in the past, but there are only a few people left in that scene now.

"How do you know about Yu'er?"

Liu Shuang reached out and gently straightened the messy hair on Liu Ling's shoulders and asked in a low voice. Yang Rong, who was standing next to her, stared at Liu Shuang's actions with an inexplicable look in her eyes.

Yu Lian, who was lying on Wang Ping's shoulder, looked up and down at Liu Ling's soul with her vertical pupils, and then continued to communicate with Wang Ping in the sea of ​​spirits: "Ling'er's emotions are very stable, but it's because her rationality occupies too much. If this can't be combined with human nature all of a sudden, perhaps something terrible will happen."

Wang Ping did not respond, but he focused most of his attention on Liu Ling in case anything happened. At this moment, Liu Ling seemed to be the protagonist of the world, and everyone cared about her and greeted her.

Facing Liu Shuang's question, Liu Ling had some communication barriers, perhaps because she hadn't communicated with anyone for a long time. She tilted her head and was stunned for a moment before answering, "It was my junior sister's disciple who came to tell me!"

Liu Shuang frowned slightly and his eyes fell on Zhao Mingming.

Zhao Mingming immediately clasped his fists and responded, "After the two junior brothers delivered Master's relics, they did ask about the retreat location of my Grandmother. They said that Master specifically told them to tell Grandmother before she passed away that she had admitted defeat!"

"Where's Zhao Yu'er?"

Liu Ling's voice rang out, and she asked stubbornly. At this moment, she looked as if she had locked herself up and gone stupid.

Liu Shuang reached out his hand, gently stroked Liu Ling's long hair, and said, "Ling'er, you should calm down. Your master is still here. Don't be so rude."

"Where's Zhao Yu'er?"

Liu Ling's voice became sharp.

Wang Ping also frowned slightly. In his eyes, Liu Ling's condition at the moment was very strange. Her soul was very stable, and rationality occupied most of her consciousness, but her mind was very excited, as if humanity occupied most of it.

Very contradictory!
Theoretically, this situation should not happen, but it happened right in front of Wang Ping.

"Yu'er has passed away!"

Liu Shuang forcibly suppressed the excitement of Liu Ling, as if he was afraid that she would bump into Wang Ping, and seemed unwilling to see Liu Ling's rude state at this moment, or perhaps for some other reason.

After she answered, she put her hands on Liu Ling's shoulders and kept comforting her.

Liu Ling seemed to be slow to react. After Liu Shuang had comforted her for a long time, she finally responded. She looked into Liu Shuang's eyes and said in disbelief, "She really passed away."

"Didn't she say she wanted to compete with me?"

"Didn't she always want to challenge me to a duel?"

She looked at Wang Ping, "Master, you should still remember. She was imprisoned near my dojo at that time. I could hear her voice every day. It seemed like it was not long ago. It was like this, it was like this. I have been waiting for her..."

She said this in a calm tone, like a puppet without emotions, but her eyes were trying hard to show excitement and unwillingness.

Wang Ping decided to suppress Liu Ling's consciousness by force, because he felt that something bad was going to happen. Yu Lian sensed what Wang Ping wanted to do and reminded him in the spiritual sea:

"Can you suppress her forever? She has to find her way out of this road by herself. If she can't, it's her fate. If she can, she will have a bright future. Maybe you can correct her over-rationalism caused by her seclusion. Besides, given Ling'er's current state, if you forcefully suppress her consciousness, I'm afraid she will subconsciously resist."

This is true. The balance between human nature and rationality depends on one's own practice. Direct intervention by outsiders may lead to loss of memory and consciousness, thus causing more terrible things. After all, real creatures under the way of heaven are different from puppets. Each of them exists independently and has their own unique human nature.

Just as Wang Ping was hesitating, Liu Ling looked up at the sky mechanically, then knelt on the ground and said, "Disciple must go back and continue his retreat."

After that, she kowtowed three times to Wang Ping and Liu Shuang.

Afterwards, Liu Ling stood up and walked towards the gate of the courtyard. Liu Shuang wanted to call her several times, but she couldn't get a word out. Until Liu Ling reached the gate of the courtyard, her whole body suddenly shook, and then she sat straight and cross-legged at the gate of the courtyard.

The next moment, her fair skin dried up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Wang Ping reacted the fastest. He immediately cast a 'Qingmu Technique', and then used the 'Heaven-Covering Talisman' to conceal the secrets of this area. Looking at the world of inspiration again, the 'net' that represented Liu Ling's connection to the universe was disappearing at a visible speed.

This is the rule of life and death of all living beings. Even if Wang Ping has great cultivation, he cannot prevent such a rule from happening.

"Ling'er!"

Wang Ping shouted loudly, trying to wake Liu Ling up, but Liu Ling herself was giving up the spiritual veins in her body and entering into a state of meditation.

But this does not mean that this is Liu Ling's true thought. She just lost interest in life at this moment. It is a paranoid thought that she cannot get out of the vicious circle of her own thoughts for a while.

"Ling'er, with your current cultivation level, you will be able to reach the third realm in less than a decade. By then, the sky will be high and the birds will fly freely. Don't you want to see the outside world? This world is extremely wonderful!"

Yu Lian also spoke loudly, trying to awaken Liu Ling's sense of humanity.

Liu Ling's skin was still drying up quickly. She opened her weak eyes, which were gradually losing their color, and looked at Wang Ping. She said softly, "Master, I can't fulfill my filial duty. I'm sorry..." (End of this chapter)