There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

The aroma of tea fills the air beside the old locust tree.

The guests had already left. Yu Lian was lying in the pile of spiritual herbs beside her, blowing air at the locust flowers all over the ground. She seemed a little bored. The calico cat that used to play with her was nowhere to be found.

Wang Ping was drinking tea alone. On the coffee table in front of him was a scroll of bamboo slips and next to it were three command flags. He was not in a hurry to open the scrolls to read the secrets inside, nor did he check the three command flags.

"Haha~"

I don’t know how much time had passed, but when the sun in the sky became a little hot, Wang Ping suddenly chuckled, as if he remembered something interesting.

Bored Yu Lian raised her eyelids and glanced at Wang Ping, saying, "I thought you would be very angry when you saw Zi Luan, but I didn't expect you to be so happy."

Wang Ping shook his head, "I'm not happy to see him."

"Why is that?"

"Have you forgotten how Zi Luan seemed enthusiastic but actually looked superior when we first met? At that time, I remember you hid in your sleeves and didn't dare to come out."

Yu Lian tilted her head and recalled the past.

Wang Ping had already driven away the memories from his mind. Zi Luan's return allowed him to advance his plan to merge the Liuxin Sect into Qianmu Temple.

He had been thinking about this matter a long time ago. After all, there were two Taiyan Sect inheritances in several prefectures, which seemed awkward no matter how you looked at it. He wanted to re-establish the Taiyan Sect, so the first thing he had to do was to integrate all the Taiyan Sect inheritances in the south, and the Liuxin Sect would naturally be the first to be affected.

Zi Luan is the most suitable person to handle this matter. Only he can reduce the conflicts to the minimum. Later, the integration of other Taiyan sect inheritances in the south will go smoothly. Moreover, Wang Ping will also hand it over to Zi Luan. With Zi Luan's calculating ability, those small sects will help him count the money if they are sold.

"You have the same bad taste as Zi Luan!"

Yu Lian spoke in human language, and flew up into the sky and landed next to the coffee table.

Wang Ping smiled indifferently and said, "Everyone has bad tastes."

As he spoke, he picked up the bamboo scroll that contained the 'Art of Giant Objects' and spread it out.

This secret method has only a thousand words and comes with two magic array diagrams. The rune lines of the magic array diagrams are not complicated, but each connection point requires a fixed spiritual object or natural treasure. This is the characteristic of the demon clan's magic array. Most of their magic arrays require enough natural treasures to activate their bloodline power.

When Wang Ping understood the secret method thoroughly, the light screen panel popped up immediately:
[The Art of Giant Creatures: The bloodline magic of the six-armed spirit ape. It is rumored that if one cultivates it to perfection, one can transform oneself into a cosmic giant and devour the starry sky. However, the six-armed spirit ape clan was tragically exterminated just as they emerged. Some Taiyan monks secretly sacrificed their bloodlines to guide the 'Heavenly Talisman' to simulate some of its abilities.]

[1. Use a fixed sacrificial array to sacrifice the monkey's bloodline, then use the 'Heavenly Talisman' to communicate with the array, communicate with the power of heaven and earth, and try to use the array to simulate a little bit of the six-armed monkey's bloodline. With your current cultivation level, you can try it unlimited times every day, and it will take at most one year to succeed. (Progress 0/100)]

[2. Use your refined blood aura to carve a magic array and imprint it on the talisman. When using it, insert it into the surface of the magic weapon you need to cast, or imprint the array on the surface of the magic weapon in advance.]

[Note 1, the sacrificial array is as follows...]

[Note 2, the spell array is as follows...]

[Note 3, when refining your bloodline aura, you may suddenly become very irritable. Do not try to suppress your irritability, because that is in line with the characteristics of the six-armed spirit ape.]

The content of the secret technique is very simple. The most important thing is the two fixed magic arrays, and the "Tian Tong Fu" is also required. In other words, at least a Tai Yan third realm cultivator is required to practice it, otherwise only specific magic tools can be used.

Wang Ping was very jealous of this secret technique at first. After all, it was not only oppressive but also looked extremely handsome when used.

Wang Ping made a list of the materials needed for the magic circle and handed it to Guan Qi outside. He would deliver these materials to the warehouse behind the temple as quickly as possible.

Next are the three command flags.

"I remember asking Zi Luan whether he had obtained this combination array, and his answer seemed to be 'no', right?"

Wang Ping looked at Yu Lian.

Yu Lian urged, "Don't be as bad-tempered as Zi Luan. It doesn't suit you. Come and see if this thing can still be used."

Wang Ping smiled when he heard this and reached out to touch Yu Lian's head. He was particularly active today, as if he had returned to his memory from long, long ago.

Yu Lian dodged it easily and continued to urge Wang Ping to check the command flag.

Wang Ping stopped talking and probed his soul into the command flag. Suddenly, a familiar feeling came over him and he almost subconsciously formed a familiar spell with his hands.

The next moment, a green light flashed under Wang Ping. Three command flags floated in the air, forming mysterious rune circuits between them, forming a complex magic array.

At this time, Wang Ping saw an illusory afterimage emerging inside each of the suspended flags. They seemed to have some connection with each other, but were torn apart by the magic circle. When the magic circle was activated, the three afterimages tried to gather together. Their obsession made the originally unrelated magic circles closely connected together.

"It's a fourth-level wood spirit!"

Yu Lian's tone revealed surprise and confusion, this thing is a place for the fourth realm.

Wang Ping was also slightly surprised.

At this time, he looked up at the sky. In the world of inspiration, outside the barrier of the dojo on the top of the mountain, the consciousness of countless spiritual creatures were trying to descend.

Wang Ping saw this and used the 'Heaven Covering Talisman' to block the secrets from the sky. The consciousness of the spirits that tried to descend disappeared instantly. Then, he looked towards the core of the formation where Lord Xiaoshan was sitting.

He did not go over and sit down immediately. Instead, he first used his soul to carefully observe the formation, then used the luck formation to calculate, and only went over and sat down after confirming that nothing was wrong.

"Huh~"

"what's wrong?"

"It's a very strange feeling. I feel as if the wood spirit in my body has disappeared."

As Wang Ping spoke, he calmed down and carefully felt the changes in his body. He then added, "It didn't disappear, but was diverted by the magic array. The reason why I was able to improve my cultivation so quickly in the magic array at that time was probably because of the influence of the wood spirit in Xiaoshan Mansion Lord's body."

"Then what is the function of this magic array?"

"It can suppress the riot of the wood spirit in the body. In addition, it can not only divert, but also absorb..." Wang Ping's consciousness moved slightly, and the wood spirit energy in the surrounding area quickly gathered at the core of the other three magic arrays, and then flowed into his body. He said with some fear at this moment: "If Lord Xiaoshan had wanted to at that time, I'm afraid that the spiritual veins in my body would have been sucked dry overnight."

"You're right!"

A familiar voice sounded in Wang Ping's ears, causing Wang Ping's heart to tremble slightly, because it was the voice of Lord Xiaoshan. As he and Yu Lian looked on in surprise, an illusory familiar figure appeared in the center of the magic circle.

It’s Lord Xiaoshan!

However, it is still just a projection.

"How long has it been since I was promoted?" asked Xiaoshan Fujun.

As soon as these words came out, Wang Ping could confirm that this was really just a projection, and it was a projection set up by Lord Xiaoshan before his promotion, and it had never come into contact with Ziluan.

Wang Ping stood up, clasped his fists and said, "It's been more than three hundred years!"

Upon hearing this, Lord Xiaoshan raised his head and glanced at the Heaven Covering Talisman that Wang Ping used to conceal the secrets of the heavens and said, "Has only such a short time passed? I thought it was thousands of years later..." He looked at Wang Ping with his illusory eyes, "With your original cultivation level, you were able to advance to the fourth realm within three hundred years. You can indeed be called a genius."

"Someone needs me to be promoted!"

Wang Ping responded.

Xiao Shanfujun said, "No matter what the reason is, you have gotten rid of some things by coming here, but you also have to take on some things."

As he spoke, he circulated the last bit of spiritual energy in his body and made a spell. Then, a white light flashed under his illusory feet, and a thumb-sized amber that looked like emerald green appeared from the white light.

It's the 'Origin of the Wood Spirit'!
"This Wood Spirit Essence is yours now. You can swallow it directly. When you cultivate the Wood Spirit in your body, you will discover its benefits."

Lord Xiaoshan stretched out his illusory hand, and the 'Origin of the Wood Spirit' gently floated before Wang Ping's eyes.

Wang Ping picked up the Wood Spirit Origin, looked at Lord Xiaoshan, and asked, "May I take the liberty to ask you, Lord, what exactly is your plan?"

Lord Xiaoshan met Wang Ping's eyes and said, "All my plans have been revealed to the world. As for the arrangements made before my death, it was just to pass on our lineage. In order to ensure that we get a place in the fourth realm, I arranged for you, Xiu Yu, and Zi Luan. Although I don't know the process, the result is good."

Yu Lian couldn't help but complain in her soul: "I thought he could calculate everything, but it turns out he didn't even know that his two disciples had given up the fourth realm one after another. What do you think? Should we tell him about this and see what his expression is like?"

Wang Ping also thought so, but he felt that the energy of Xiaoshan Mansion's projection was rapidly weakening, so he decisively gave up this boring topic and asked, "Is Master Yuxiao still alive?"

"It's almost like being dead. If you can make it to the stage before being promoted to a True Lord, you can go find him. He is still in the Blue Palace."

"The senior said that the moon is very dangerous, but there is nothing on the moon now."

"The five elements of the universe and all things are mutually reinforcing and mutually restraining. The moon is in harmony with the yin and yang of this world. All stability is based on this world. The dangerous area of ​​the moon is on the shady side. You don't need to worry too much about it, because the danger on the moon belongs to this world itself. As long as you don't provoke it, it won't pose a threat to you."

Yu Lian then said, "But you described this matter as very dangerous and warned us not to step on the moon."

Upon hearing this, Lord Xiaoshan was silent for two breaths, then looked at Wang Ping and said, "You should have taught a disciple, right? When you don't want to explain something dangerous, how do you usually answer your disciple's questions?"

Wang Ping: “…”

Yu Lian: “…”

They were all speechless.

After saying this, Lord Xiaoshan changed the subject and said, "I will disappear soon. Since you have been promoted to the fourth realm, you should know that under the watchful eyes of the True Lords, the cultivators of the Xuan Sect and Tian Sect seem to be in harmony with each other, and most of the time, the fights are just a little bit over. But if you let your guard down, you will suffer a great loss..."

He looked up at the blue sky and whispered softly, "Some plans involving life and death are very cruel. A 10% chance of survival may lead to unexpected disasters. Also, many things are out of control. You have to deal with them carefully. If you have a falling out, don't hesitate. If you have a chance to kill the other party, do it decisively!"

"With your cultivation level, even if you have just reached the fourth level, you have the magic array I taught you, which is enough to do many things. Even if there are some troubles afterwards, it doesn't matter. After all, in this world, strength is respected!"

"But don't rely too much on the magic array. If you use it too much, your humanity will gradually disappear!"

"Okay, this consciousness of mine is about to disappear."

The increasingly illusory figure of Lord Xiaoshan looked up at the sky, as if expecting something to fall. Just as he was about to disappear completely, he spoke again: "This world is big, but our world is small. I hope you can find the truth."

As soon as these words were spoken, the illusory figure of Lord Xiaoshan disappeared completely.

Wang Ping clasped his fists and bowed to the position where Lord Xiaoshan had just been. After the ceremony, he put away the combined magic circle and the "Heaven-Covering Talisman", sat back silently beside the coffee table, and looked at the "Origin of the Wood Spirit" in his hand and began to think.

After a moment, he swallowed the 'Wood Spirit Origin' as he did before. The moment the 'Wood Spirit Origin' entered his body, it disappeared from his body just like the first one.

However, this time was different from the last time. This time Wang Ping clearly felt that when the 'Wood Spirit Origin' disappeared, the wood spirit at his heart position burst out with a surge of energy, causing a warm current to emerge in his limbs, meridians and qi sea. The 'Wood Spirit Origin' followed this warm current and merged with the wood spirit at his heart position.

That's not right. It wasn't a fusion, but it entered the wood spirit's body. At that moment, Wang Ping felt another 'Wood Spirit Origin' in the wood spirit, and he also felt that the wood spirit in his body was trying to digest the 'Wood Spirit Origin', but the speed was very slow, so slow that Wang Ping felt it would take at least thousands of years to digest it.

This is caused by insufficient cultivation!
The state of Wang Ping and the wood spirit at his chest is equivalent to the state of a mortal and his internal organs. He can sense it but cannot control it. This is due to his insufficient cultivation.

From this point, it can be seen that there is a huge difference between a cultivator who has just been promoted to the fourth realm and one who has reached perfection in the fourth realm. Therefore, even though Wang Ping possesses magical arts and formations, he tries his best not to fight with other cultivators in the fourth realm.

But what Mr. Xiaoshan said just now reminded him that he had already been in the situation, and being low-key and balanced was not a long-term solution. Sometimes he unknowingly blocked the way for others, and this way might determine the life and death of others.

For example, in the current second-chair meeting, the alliance of Wang Ping, Ao Hong and Lord Rongyang has encompassed the cultivation world from north to south in Zhongzhou. If others want to do something, they need the nod of these three first before it can go smoothly.

This will invisibly block the way for others.

For some reason, Wang Ping suddenly thought of Lord Liuyun, and then naturally thought of the siege of Wei Kong in outer space. As the chief, Wang Ping must go to outer space in person.

Thinking of this, Wang Ping silently took out the 'Golden Ball' given to him by Taoist Chongxing. With it and the 'Dongtian Mirror' with updated transfer talismans, fighting and escaping would not be a problem. If things really didn't work, he could also mobilize the divine power gathered by tens of millions of believers over hundreds of years.

When Wang Ping put away the "Golden Ball" and prepared to use the Qiyun array to deduce something, Dong Can came to his temple to ask for a meeting, bringing a piece of news that surprised Wang Ping but made him feel reasonable. The disciple of Taoist Cang Yue, who was previously dispatched to outer space by Wang Ping with a piece of paper, used his connections to hand over a visiting card to Dong Can. (End of this chapter)