There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

Yu Lian was silent for quite a long time this time. Wang Ping did not calculate how long it had been. He just read through several Buddhist scriptures in his hand.

In many novels of previous lives, Buddhist and Taoist classics were regarded as methods of spiritual practice. This is actually a big misunderstanding. Whether it is Buddhism, Taoism, or Confucianism in previous lives, they are all doctrines and just some thoughts. Transcending thoughts cannot lead to spiritual practice, but it can bring happiness that ordinary people cannot understand.

Understanding the true meaning of these doctrines can help practitioners see themselves clearly and achieve great freedom, but it cannot help them transcend their physical bodies in this life.

The same is true of Buddhism in this world. Although there are many schools of thought, in general they are all expounding some basic laws of the universe. That's right, whether it is Taoism or Buddhism, they are using people or things to explain the basic laws of the universe.

For example, Buddhism often mentions "karma". Each school has its own views, but they all agree that "karma" exists. "Karma" can be seen as a person's behavior in his life. More broadly, all cosmic phenomena can be called "karma". In the previous life, Buddhism called the cosmic phenomena of all sentient beings "karma", or his mind.

This world may be the result of the existence of truly great monks who directly label all movements in the universe as "karma", that is, their own minds.

The rules of the universe, the movement of the universe, and even the thoughts of the universe are all manifestations of the mind. Once the mind arises, no matter how far into the future, the results of the mind will be produced, which is the retribution of karma, commonly known as cause and effect.

The above are the viewpoints commonly recognized by all Buddhist doctrines. If extended further, it will be divided into many sects, which is very difficult to explain. Even the monks of Vajra Temple could not reach a conclusion, let alone outsiders.

Or maybe each of their factions is the result, just manifested in different ways and with different ways of thinking.

Wang Ping studied them out of interest and had no intention of getting involved. Otherwise, his thoughts would be entangled by the doctrines of various schools, leading him to fall into very contradictory thoughts. He now understood why the various schools of Buddhism had to argue, because if they did not argue, they would fall into self-contradiction.

While Wang Ping was studying Buddhist scriptures, Yu Lian's body had unknowingly grown to over a hundred feet in height. The inner elixir in her body had completely merged with her spiritual veins, generating a substance that was like the five elements spirit body, which complemented the spiritual veins.

Everything happened naturally, except that she hasn't woken up yet. This is because the inner elixir in her body is still transforming her meridians, and there are also inherited memories that need to be slowly digested.

Wang Ping sensed Yu Lian's changes, walked to the dark river, and quietly waited for her to complete her final evolution.

It was unknown how much time had passed. After the water temperature of the dark river changed more than five times, Yu Lian suddenly opened her eyes. Her huge vertical pupils were confused at first, and then turned left and right, reflecting Wang Ping's figure.

"Haha, I can definitely beat my mother this time!"

"... "

Yu Lian happily wagged her tail, and as a splash of water emerged, the dark river began to stir up waves. But every time the waves tried to get close to Wang Ping, they were blocked by a breath of water spirit.

After being excited for a while, Yu Lian rose from the dark river, spread out her scales, and instantly occupied half of the space in the cave. The other half was filled with densely packed water spirit arrays. These arrays were favored by the way of heaven, emitting a green halo, and madly absorbed the converted water spirit energy to nourish the inner elixir in her body.

Another half moment later.

Yu Lian looked up as if she wanted to cast some magic to vent her excitement at the moment, but when she saw the rock wall covered with magic arrays, she stopped thinking about it. Then she shrank her huge body to about two meters, flew in front of Wang Ping, and said in human language: "Let's go to outer space to try my new magic."

Wang Ping nodded, stretched out his left hand and tapped twice. Two green halos flashed by, and the magic circle on the bank of the dark river suddenly disappeared. Then the magic circle in the entire cave also disappeared. Then, the spirit gathering array that spread across most of the southern area with the transfer magic circle also collapsed silently.

Many cultivators in the third realm cursed in their hearts but also breathed a sigh of relief, their eyes all looking in the direction of Qianmu Temple at the same time.

Yu Lian's soul was very sensitive to the magic array set up by Wang Ping, and couldn't help but joked: "The southern cultivation community must have scolded us a lot over the years."

Wang Ping smiled and responded, "If you don't have this magic circle, you will need at least sixty years to evolve successfully, and you will most likely experience a period of weakness after evolving."

"Impossible, how could I be so weak!"

Yu Lian raised her head in response, and then urged: "Let's go to outer space, I feel very strong now!"

Wang Ping kept smiling, and when he made a transfer gesture with his hands, Yu Lian quickly shrank her body and landed on his shoulder. Then they both disappeared silently on the spot.

outer space.

Under the boundless starry sky where black and white light interweaves, there is a small meteorite hidden in the five elements of spiritual energy. It is surrounded by endless void and moves slowly under the gravity of the sun.

In the area where the meteorite alternates between light and darkness, there is a very small ecosystem where more than a dozen disciples from the Zhenyang Sect and Qianmu Temple are stationed. A huge transfer array in the ecosystem occupies more than half of the area of ​​the ecosystem.

At this moment, the center of the magic circle was transferred. As the space twisted, Wang Ping's figure appeared. The disciple guarding nearby was stunned at first, and then he clasped his fists and bowed, saying: "Greetings, ancestor!"

Perhaps he was very excited and spoke very loudly, causing the other disciples in the ecological zone to look at him and then they all saluted in unison.

This is the outer space transfer station built jointly by Wang Ping and Lord Rongyang. It is responsible for storing spiritual crystals and capturing some wandering extraterritorial monsters, and then refining them into absorbable energy.

Yu Lian and Wang Ping often came here decades ago and were not unfamiliar with this place, so as soon as Yu Lian appeared, she couldn't wait to soar into the sky, and then restored her original form. Her huge body then passed through the barrier formation of the ecological circle and flew towards the nearby starry sky.

Wang Ping followed Yu Lian at a leisurely pace. Yu Lian's speed was only slightly slower than Wang Ping's at the moment. While flying, she became familiar with her evolved power. Soon she could reach the speed Wang Ping had just reached when he was promoted, which was one percent of the speed of light. However, she soon slowed down because the heat generated by the high-speed flight made her very uncomfortable.

Afterwards, she tried to use the inner elixir in her body to merge herself with the water spirit energy, but she failed. After all, she was not a water cultivator and there was no water spirit in her body. She only had water spirit veins. At most, she could integrate into the water spirit energy like those in the third realm, but she could not fuse with the water spirit energy.

So, Yu Lian integrated his huge body into the water spirit energy, and then used the scales all over his body to build a layer of ice crystals on the surface of his body to resist the heat generated by high-speed flight.

A quarter of an hour later.

Yu Lian stopped in an endless starry sky, and then a mysterious magic circle emerged around her body, followed by a rich water spirit aura that instantly emerged, causing the spiritual creatures in the void to become extremely excited.

She first swung her tail to defeat those spiritual creatures, and then the area within a radius of thousands of kilometers was covered with a layer of ice crystals, which instantly reduced the temperature of the void to the limit that could freeze the spiritual veins, and this layer of frost was still moving at high speed. Wang Ping felt the temperature of the frost and subconsciously put an "armor talisman" on himself.

Wang Ping thought about it, and threw out the iron bamboo he had refined from the storage bag. When the iron bamboo entered the starry sky covered with frost, it disappeared directly like an illusory object. Then, Wang Ping thought about it, and sacrificed the "Hong Shield" obtained during the siege of Yang De, carefully exposing one corner of it to the frost, and activated the "Spiritual Vision".

Under the sight of "clairvoyance", all energy particles in the area covered by frost were frozen without even a crack. Then, because the frost was still running at high speed, other substances would be disintegrated instantly, while the particles on the surface of "Hongdun" were split neatly without even gaps between them, so the high-speed frost had nowhere to start.

However, it can be eroded if the time is long enough, but this time unit is calculated in hundreds of years, which seems very powerful. But if the opponent uses this spell, "Hong Shield" is almost useless because it is everywhere, and the defense of "Hong Shield" is single.

Tens of breaths later.

Yu Lian put away her magic, connected to Wang Ping's spiritual sea and said, "How is it? Awesome, right? You didn't need to use the 'Armor Talisman' just now. My magic won't cause any harm to you."

She seemed dissatisfied with what Wang Ping had just done because it showed a lack of trust in her.

Wang Ping smiled and responded, "It's really amazing. With your help, I will have a better chance of winning when fighting against other four-level cultivators in the future."

"Ha ha!"

Yu Lian laughed proudly, and then said, "The spell just now is called 'Breaking the Sky'. Isn't it a domineering name? When I was casting the spell, it suddenly occurred to me that since water can have extreme low temperatures and extreme high temperatures, it just needs some medium, and spiritual energy is the best medium. You have to find a way to equip me with a magic weapon that can quickly absorb spiritual energy."

Wang Ping responded: "We can only refine the magic weapon suitable for your current practice by ourselves. I will look through the files of the Taoist Palace when I have time."

"That's true!" Yu Lian said as she used 'Sky Breaker' again. After using it, she said to Wang Ping, "You are not allowed to use 'Armor Talisman'!"

Wang Ping must have absolute trust in Yu Lian, so this time he really did not use the "Armor Talisman". He saw that the frost all over the starry sky automatically avoided him when passing by, as if the aura on Wang Ping's body had the ability to repel the frost, and Wang Ping could not feel the coldness they emitted at all.

"Didn't you forget that when I summoned the ocean, you were also unharmed?"

As Yu Lian spoke, the frost that spread throughout the universe disappeared, and she shrank and landed on Wang Ping's shoulder.

Wang Ping pretended not to hear and changed the subject, "Senior Xin Shi passed away on the third day of your retreat. Now that you have been promoted successfully, you should go pay your respects to him first."

Yu Lian felt a little sad and said, "We have to worship him. We don't take birth, aging, sickness and death seriously. But the fact that he passed away so easily proves that your idea is wrong. Yu Xiao and he no longer have any connection, or Yu Xiao is no longer in a normal state of life."

Wang Ping nodded slightly, then summoned the 'Golden Exploration Ball' and transferred it directly to the sky above Sanhe Prefecture via the transfer station in outer space.

The past hundred years have been a prosperous century for all parts of the south. The fertile fields of Sanhe Prefecture have been developed to the edge of the swamp, and some small villages have been established along the upper reaches of the river. Sanhe Temple, in order to ensure that the spirit snake clan and the people live in harmony, has built many temples and Taoist temples along the river to preach to the people, describing the spirit snake clan as kind mythical creatures.

Therefore, the people living outside the swamp built many small temples for worshiping the spirit snake clan, and they would offer tributes during festivals. Sometimes when they encountered spirit snakes, they would panic, but they would not be afraid or frightened. The spirit snakes would occasionally cast some healing spells to cure diseases and relieve disasters for the people.

Wang Ping's eyes swept across the vast land, while Yu Lian could not wait to transform into a stream of light and fly towards the depths of Mingyuetan.

The Spirit Snake Clan has no custom of building cemeteries. After Xin Shi passed away, the spiritual veins in his body merged with Mingyue Lake, and the bones containing the water spirit veins sank into Mingyue Lake, gathering spiritual energy for the future generations of the Spirit Snake Clan.

Therefore, Yu Lian dived directly into Mingyue Lake and created huge waves, pushing the other tribesmen out of Mingyue Lake.

On a nearby mountain, Yu Lian's mother Zizhu and father Lan Yang were lazily basking in the sun. When they sensed Yu Lian's breath, they took off without any hesitation, and then flew towards a nearby river immediately, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Wang Ping stood in the pavilion where he had played chess with Xin Shi before, and said with some regret: "There is one less opponent to play chess with. Time is such a terrible concept."

He stretched out his hand and gave it a gentle shake, as if he were trying to seize time.

After sighing, he smiled self-deprecatingly, then walked to the stone table where the chessboard was placed and sat down, looking at the chess game that was in the middle of the game and studying it.

Around the deep pool not far away, many snakes were curiously looking at the waves that were gradually calming down. Some tried to enter the pool, but were quickly swept up by an irresistible wave and thrown back to the shore.

After a while.

Yu Lian's huge body emerged from the water, splashing a lot of waves. The spirit snakes on the shore were stunned at first when they saw the huge body in the sky, and then they swarmed away to the distant river.

"Hahaha~"

Yu Lian smiled triumphantly, then opened her mouth and spit out a water bullet, which hit Yuan Yuan who was running away.

Yuan Yuan staggered, and then was dragged into the air by a force.

"Where are father and mother?"

Yu Lian communicates with Yuan Yuan through her consciousness.

Yuan Yuan was startled while struggling, then turned her head to meet Yu Lian's huge eyes and asked in surprise: "Are you Yu Lian?"

"Nonsense, of course it's me, where are father and mother?"

"It's in the sun, I'll take you there!"

Yuan Yuan's mood revealed excitement.

Unfortunately, when the two sisters flew over, Zizhu and Lanyang had already disappeared. Yu Lian's soul consciousness spread, but she could not sense their presence. (End of this chapter)