There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

Wang Ping understood what Taoist Gong Wu wanted to say, but he pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Does the Zhenyang Sect really intend to sit on the sidelines?"

Taoist Hefeng responded coldly: "We have made it very clear just now that we will not stand idly by if we can help. Moreover, if we want to suppress Ao Yi, it is not just one or two people who have the final say. Just like when Master Xiaoshan was promoted, as long as he has the tacit approval of the majority of Masters, we can only express our attitude implicitly."

Wang Ping nodded slightly, remembering that Taoist Hefeng had once tested Master Xiaoshan, but the incident only flashed through his mind. He then said, "Only Master Long would agree to Ao Yi's promotion, right? What is Master Lieyang's attitude?"

When he asked the second question, he bowed to the golden statue of Lord Lieyang in the main hall to show his respect.

Taoist Gong Wu said: "I have already answered your question just now."

Wang Ping raised his eyebrows when he heard this, knowing that he would not get a definite answer this time, but their promise just now gave Wang Ping a way out.

"In that case, please give my regards to Fellow Daoist Rong Yang."

After Wang Ping finished speaking, he picked up the teacup beside him, took a sip of tea, and then clasped his fists towards Gong Wu and He Feng and said, "My two Taoist friends, we'll meet again later."

He didn't want to waste time talking any more, so he stood up and said goodbye.

Gong Wu and He Feng did not try to persuade Wang Ping to stay. They stood up and sent Wang Ping out of the hall. Then Qu Xuan sent Wang Ping out of the barrier formation.

Yu Lian asked when Qu Xuan returned to the inner part of the barrier: "What exactly do they mean? The answer is very clear, but it seems unclear."

Wang Ping turned around and looked at the vast snow-capped mountains, and replied: "Rong Yang may really be close to reaching the fourth level of perfection. No matter what, Taiyan Sect and Zhenyang Sect are still allies."

Yu Lian thought for a moment and said, "You are just deceiving yourself. The Zhen Yang Sect may stay away from the world, but that doesn't mean they won't fight for their own interests. They say we are their allies, but we are just tools for them to fight for their own interests."

"There is no other way. The Zhenyang Sect is now very powerful."

"Then you should practice quickly. Perhaps in less than two hundred years, you can also reach the fourth level of perfection. Then we will see who is more powerful."

Wang Ping chuckled. They were naturally talking to each other in the sea of ​​spirits, and while they were communicating they had already returned to Qianmu Temple. Just when Wang Ping was about to go into seclusion to collect the 'Origin of the Wood Spirit', a beam of green light suddenly fell from outer space, penetrating the defense barrier of Qianmu Temple without any hindrance and landed in front of Wang Ping.

It was a jade communication token. After Wang Ping used the wood spirit energy to check for danger, he probed his soul into it. Immediately, the voice of Yuanwu Zhenjun echoed in his consciousness, with just one sentence: Stop Ao Yi's promotion!

Wang Ping couldn't help but laugh out loud. It seemed that he couldn't avoid this matter. After all, he would still need the support of Yuanwu Zhenjun to advance to the fifth realm in the future.

"Is it Yuanwu?" Yu Lian asked.

"Correct."

"Are you talking about Ao Yi?"

Wang Ping nodded and said self-deprecatingly: "He really thinks highly of me. I guess the suppression of the Dragon Lord by the other True Lords has not worked so far. Instead, the Dragon Lord has found a way to break it."

Yu Lian said: "Don't think about things that we can't take care of. Only by taking care of the present can we have a future."

Wang Ping naturally understood this truth, so he would not openly oppose Ao Yi from the beginning, and would not contact Kering at this time.

To do such a thing, the first thing you need to do is to conceal your own thoughts, so Taiyan Sect still needs to continue to maintain friendly relations with Linshui Prefecture. Therefore, Wang Ping did not make any statement after receiving the order from Yuanwu Zhenjun.

In the following days, Wang Ping took Yu Lian to travel around the mountains and rivers. After adjusting his mood, he went to the bottom of Qianmu Mountain to prepare for seclusion to extract the "Origin of the Wood Spirit".

The cautious Wang Ping did the same as before. He first used the "Sky Sword" to summon the Divine Kingdom magic circle. After a hundred years of repair, the broken divine map within the Divine Kingdom magic circle was restored to its outline during the heyday of Zhongzhou, but it was only an outline. Moreover, some golden light also emerged from Dongzhou and Xizhou, and even roughly outlined half of Zhongzhou Star, but it was not strong.

When Yu Lian appeared on the magic map, she immediately connected with Wang Ping's soul and communicated with believers from all over the world. Wang Ping also read the thoughts of some believers to enrich his humanity, and then sacrificed the "Dongtian Mirror" to connect with puppets from all over the world to help him observe the situation in the world while he was in seclusion.

Perhaps the 'Sea of ​​Stars' sensed that Wang Ping was in a closed area at the moment, and it also showed his illusory figure to 'breathe'. He soon noticed the connection between Yu Lian and the believers, and immediately came over to communicate with Yu Lian.

Wang Ping sat cross-legged in the center of the kingdom of God. At this moment, he had entered a state of "self-control". His physical body was in meditation in an instant. His soul consciousness appeared beside his physical body with a mysterious light, and activated the spirit gathering array that had been arranged here long ago, as well as the array that cooperated to gather spiritual energy.

The spirit gathering array here connects all the spirit gathering arrays set up in Zhongzhou by Wang Ping using Taiyan Sect and his puppets through the roots of vegetation spread throughout Zhongzhou. Once activated, it can silently absorb the wood spirit energy of the entire Zhongzhou.

However, all of this must be guided by the wood spirit in Wang Ping's physical body, otherwise it would be impossible to condense the 'wood spirit origin'.

And first of all, he needs to use the "borrowed luck talisman" to attract the luck of Zhongzhou. This requires the recognition of the way of heaven. Wang Ping waits until night when everything is quiet, then enters the state of "nothingness" to try to attract the luck of the entire Zhongzhou.

But the first attempt was unsuccessful because he was too cautious and didn't dare to be too ostentatious and attract too much attention; the second attempt was also unsuccessful...

The third time still failed.

It was not until the fifth night that Wang Ping caught a perfect critical point. When he used the 'Borrowed Luck Talisman' to draw the luck of heaven and earth, darkness fell for a moment throughout Zhongzhou. At this moment, Wang Ping felt that although he had entered a state of 'nothingness', his life span was still taken by heaven for at least two hundred years.

Afterwards, the luck of the entire Zhongzhou continent gathered in Wang Ping's body. Wang Ping immediately used the "Tian Tong Fu" to connect to the spirit gathering array around him, and used the "Zha Tian Fu" to block his own secrets. Through the dense net between heaven and earth in his sight, he used the wood spirit in his body to drive the spirit gathering array to gather the "wood spirit origin".

Half a month passed in a flash, and a very obvious green light ball gathered in front of Wang Ping's body. It was pure energy matter. Under the observation of "clairvoyance", its energy particles were denser than those in other places, and its density was increasing as time went by.

A month later, Wang Ping's body showed the changes that were warned on the light screen panel. It was because the wood spirit in his body had gathered too much wood spirit energy from the outside world, causing the circuits running in his body to change. This was not a big deal, and Wang Ping only needed to use his soul consciousness to correct it in time.

During this month, Wang Ping not only paid attention to the gathering of the 'Wood Spirit Origin', but also used the 'Dongtian Mirror' to observe the situation in the world. On the surface, Linshui Mansion was still very stable, and Ao Yi never showed up.

Five years passed in the blink of an eye.

At the beginning of June in the new calendar year 114, a brilliant light of pale golden color suddenly shot up into the sky from the direction of Langtou Mountain in Hushan Kingdom, bringing Langtou Mountain and the surrounding area of ​​dozens of kilometers into a strange space.

This was the abnormal change that occurred when Taoist Huai Mo was promoted to the fourth realm. Yuxing Fujun rushed to the scene first. Her soul consciousness instantly captured Taoist Huai Mo's body and soul, and felt the surging power of the golden elixir in Taoist Huai Mo's body. She resisted the urge to snatch it, and with absolute rationality stretched out her left hand and lightly tapped the void.

The next moment, the strange space surrounding Wolf Head Mountain shrank rapidly, and in a blink of an eye, only the top of Wolf Head Mountain remained.

At this time, several souls came to investigate. Yuxing Mansion Lord stepped on the auspicious clouds and landed on the top of Wolf Head Mountain. With her own golden elixir as the core, she built a defensive barrier to block the investigation of those souls, and personally protected Taoist Huai Mo's promotion.

Wang Ping was also watching the promotion of Taoist Huai Mo. With the help of the 'Tian Tong Fu', he saw that the strange space around Taoist Huai Mo was a big net constructed by the Heavenly Dao, locking Huai Mo's body and soul inside, as if to monitor whether Huai Mo was qualified to control the larger Jindan Universe.

When observing the big net that locked Huai Mo's body, Wang Ping seemed to sense the existence of the Way of Heaven. It seemed to be an unconscious existence, and it seemed to be an invisible framework.

At this moment, Wang Ping suddenly wanted to use his "Sky Eye" to observe carefully.

"Don't go too deep!"

Yu Lian's voice pulled Wang Ping out of his self-consciousness.

Wang Ping's vision and consciousness suddenly became clear. He had just given birth to an unnecessary desire in the state of "self-control". Under Yu Lian's gaze, he used his powerful cultivation to forcibly suppress the desire and decisively deleted all the memories.

Then he looked at his own body. Just when his consciousness was being drawn by the Heavenly Dao, the operation circuits inside the wood spirit in his body became disordered again. He had no choice but to clear them again and observe the situation of Wolf Head Mountain again through the 'Dongtian Mirror', but this time he did not observe the Heavenly Dao.

At this moment, the strange space around Huai Mo has shrunk to a distance of several feet around his body. The big net of heaven and earth that locked him has also disappeared, but Huai Mo's breath is still steady, and it seems that he should be recognized by some rules of the way of heaven.

What Huai Mo is doing now is using his golden elixir to absorb the strange space formed around his body. His soul consciousness seems to be immersed in a sea of ​​consciousness in the golden elixir universe. This may be what the Yuqing Sect monks often call the inner demon. His soul needs to pass the test of the inner demon before it can escape from that sea of ​​consciousness.

This step needs to be completed by Huai Mo himself, and no one else can interfere.

Judging from Huai Mo's current stable state, his promotion should be smooth. After all, he has cultivated his humanity for thousands of years, and it is impossible for him to be defeated by a simple inner demon. With the protection of Lord Yuxing, he will surely succeed as long as there are no accidents.

Then the only thing left is a matter of time, but this time may take a long time. After all, the leap from the third realm to the fourth realm is a great leap forward in life.

Wang Ping asked his puppet to record the whole process, but he himself did not continue to pay attention to it.

Spring went and autumn came, and in the blink of an eye it was March of the 119th year in the new calendar. Unknowingly, another five years had passed. During this period, the Lan Kingdom was completely divided into various city-states, but the incense of Taiyan Sect became even more prosperous.

Liu Shuang returned to Qianmu Temple once, but left before staying for half a month. Xuan You also followed his master Zuo Liang to stay in Taiyan Sect. Yang Rong was in the Demon Realm and seemed to have found the threshold to the fourth realm. This made Qianmu Temple especially deserted inside and outside. Only Hu Qianqian occasionally brought her people to stay for a while.

As for Shen Xiaozhu, she was still preaching in Xizhou. Perhaps because of Ao Yi's pressure, Vajra Temple showed enough sincerity, making Xiaozhu's preaching very smooth. Many Taiyan monks who believed in Huishan Zhenjun were forced to switch to Xiaoshan Zhenjun.

The 'Origin of the Wood Spirit' gathered in front of Wang Ping has changed from the initial energy state to a physical entity, but it is still only the size of a needle, and most of the rest is still in the energy state. The wood spirit in Wang Ping's body has consumed a lot of vitality for this, but it is also within an acceptable range.

It is worth mentioning that in the past ten years, Wang Ping used the energy that overflowed from the "Origin of the Wood Spirit" to nourish the wood spirit in his body, increasing the perfection of the wood spirit a little bit, bringing it to (61/100).

But this does not mean that one can achieve some degree of perfection in ten years. After all, the current situation is very special, and Wang Ping has a hunch that if he uses the ordinary method of practicing Qi and meditation, the more useless work he will do in the later stages, which will make the time infinitely extended.

In half a year it will be time for the sect competition in Linshui Prefecture. Since the beginning of spring this year, the five Xuanmen sects, Yuqing Sect and the demon race have all sent their envoys to Linshui Prefecture to discuss the specific date of the sect competition.

It was finally decided that the event would officially begin on the third day of the second lunar month of the one hundred and twenty-year new calendar year, and the central island would open the island's magic circle barrier and surrounding ports three months in advance to welcome representatives from all factions.

This time, the five Xuanmen sects not only sent inner disciples to participate in the competition, but also had monks from the third realm leading the team. This can be regarded as the largest scale and level of this event since its inception.

"I suddenly have a hunch that Ao Yi will definitely appear at the sect competition."

Yu Lian said to Wang Ping after the various factions confirmed the time for the competition.

Wang Ping nodded silently. Recently, he would use the "Sky Eye" to deduce the future when he had nothing to do. In the future he deduced, Ao Yi's vague figure often appeared at the opening ceremony of the sect competition.

"What will he do?" Yu Lian guessed: "Just show up? Or does he want to force the various factions to do something?"

Wang Ping felt somewhat helpless in the face of this question. After thinking for a while, he said, "We can only wait and see his move. Only after he makes a move can we make a move."

Yu Lian sensed Wang Ping's emotions and rubbed his cheek with her little head.

At this time, 'Xinghai' said to Wang Ping: "I can quickly help you reach the perfection of the fourth realm, although this may cause some problems when you advance to the fifth realm."

Wang Ping responded: "Thank you for your kindness, but this is our last resort. Besides, Ao Yi is unlikely to target me this time. The Vajra Temple is the vanguard. Moreover, they have a master of forgetfulness in Buddhism." (End of this chapter)