There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

Chapter 872 Jiang Cun is promoted, Xiaoshan Zhenjun's consciousness reappears

Today, only mountains and forests remain in Qianmu Temple. All of Wang Ping's disciples moved out when he was in seclusion. This was inevitable as no one likes to stay in the same place with their ancestor.

The dojo of Liu Shuang and others had long been overgrown with weeds, but the front hall where the sages of Qianmu Temple were enshrined was still kept clean because of Hu Qianqian's maintenance.

After Wang Ping came out of seclusion, he continued to live in seclusion in Qianmu Temple in a low-key manner. When he had nothing to do, he controlled the puppets to clear the excess weeds and spiritual wood from the dojo of Liu Shuang, Shen Xiaozhu and Xia Wenyi.

After cleaning up all the Taoist temples, Wang Ping went to take a look at the courtyard of his master Taoist Yucheng.

In the second month after he came out of seclusion, Yu Lian called the calico cat back, and the calico cat brought Wang Ping a lot of interesting stories about the Taiyan Sect.

For many days that followed, Wang Ping drank tea while listening to Yu Lian retelling the interesting stories told by the calico cat, and Hu Qianqian would occasionally come to visit him.

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye. When the Spring Festival was approaching, the growth progress of the wood spirit in Wang Ping's body increased a little, reaching (63/100). In the previous fifty years, Wang Ping gathered the "Origin of the Wood Spirit" while absorbing spiritual energy with the wood spirit in his body, but the progress was only increased a little.

Seeing that Zhonghui City at the foot of the mountain was becoming more and more lively day by day, Wang Ping often took Yu Lian and the calico cat out for a stroll during the day, and his life was quite leisurely.

Zhonghui City has been spared from war in recent years for well-known reasons, but because it does not accept refugees from outside, the city's population has not increased much under the current saturated resource allocation.

It's just that the number of cultivators is a little declining, because the cultivators with ideas have gone out to look for resources. Although the current chaotic situation in the southern cultivation world is accompanied by risks, it is also accompanied by opportunities.

On the evening of the Spring Festival in the 172nd year of the new calendar, Zhonghui County was very lively. The local wealthy families organized a buffet outside the Red Boat, and there were southern opera performances, which attracted many dignitaries from surrounding towns.

Wang Ping also brought Yu Lian and the calico cat to attend the banquet. With Yu Lian's current cultivation level, as long as she cast a little spell, the people would not show any abnormality when they saw her consciousness.

In fact, if we break down this buffet into smaller areas, we can find that it is divided into several areas, which correspond to several wealthy families in the city. These wealthy families are headed by the Wang family, the Liu family, the Yang family, and the Zhao family, and these four families have close ties with Wang Ping.

In other words, the entire southern territory is now inextricably linked to these four families, and some are even their relatives or branches. After all, when Zhongzhou was hit by a fire, only Zhonghui City in the south remained intact.

Therefore, the wars in various parts of the South were the result of relatives dividing up their families, but their roots were ultimately in Zhonghui City.

"Many people here have the blood of your Wang family, but it's a little weak. Now you can really be said to have thousands of descendants." Yu Lian teased Wang Ping after swallowing a mouthful of mutton.

Wang Ping smiled but said nothing. He had been practicing for nearly a thousand years, which was a myth to mortals. During these thousand years, the Wang family had intermarried with almost all the families in the south. The bloodline was passed down from generation to generation, and it spread throughout the south.

In addition, due to the great fire that year, the bloodlines of other families were almost cut off. Perhaps in the future the entire Zhongzhou would be populated by the bloodline of his Wang family.

"Meow~"

The calico cat meowed softly, causing Yu Lian to laugh out loud, but she did not translate it for Wang Ping.

Wang Ping picked up the wine in front of him and drank it all. His eyes fell on the stage built on the red boat in the river. At this moment, there were more than a dozen young women dancing on the stage, attracting a lot of people's attention.

The seven emotions and six desires of mortals can be easily satisfied, but when Wang Ping looked at their beautiful faces and graceful figures, he could not muster the slightest desire, and naturally could not empathize with those cheering mortals.

"The whole world is worshipping you. You have gained everything, so why should you envy them?"

Yu Lian's voice rang in Wang Ping's ears.

The calico cat also meowed.

Yu Lian Tengyun landed on Wang Ping's shoulder and translated the words of the calico cat: "She said you are too pretentious. You have already obtained a lot, but you still want to compete with mortals."

"Meow~"

The calico cat called out again, and then spoke in a clear and cold voice: "You have spent most of your time in the mountains since you started practicing. You should observe the joys, sorrows, anger and happiness of the world. You will definitely be able to resonate with it. This is given to you by human nature, but you have forgotten some things after practicing for a long time."

Wang Ping asked with some interest, "You maintain your humanity by observing the joys, sorrows, anger and happiness of the world?"

The calico cat looked at Wang Ping strangely. "I don't need to maintain my humanity. I just like looking at them. They are very interesting sometimes."

"Haha~"

Wang Ping chuckled, then turned around and observed the people nearby...

Amid the noise echoing in his ears, Wang Ping watched the children fighting and chasing each other. Although the adults kept scolding them, they did not step forward to stop them. The children who were tired of playing ran to their mothers and leaned against their mothers with silly smiles on their faces. The women were scolding their own children while chatting animatedly with familiar neighbors and relatives.

Perhaps influenced by the dancers on the Red Boat stage, the men spoke louder and drank more enthusiastically.

The old people all had smiles on their faces, but no one knew what they were laughing at.

Unconsciously, Wang Ping gradually merged with their emotions, felt the joy in his heart, and the smile on his face unconsciously became sincere.

But happy days always pass quickly, and after the banquet, Wang Ping quietly returned to the dojo on the top of Qianmu Mountain.

The next day, Wang Ping woke up from his meditation and the puppet brought him a bowl of porridge and two steamed buns. After breakfast, he took out a piece of five-element stone that he had just bought a few days ago and began to carve in the gentle light of the morning glow.

He planned to carve what he saw and heard last night on this piece of Five Elements Stone. Hu Qianqian came to pay him a visit at noon with her apprentice. When Wang Ping saw Hu Qianqian, he suddenly wanted to listen to the sound of her playing the piano.

Soon the sound of the piano echoed inside and outside the temple on the top of the mountain.

After a while, Wang Ping stopped the carving knife in his hand, looked at the calico cat playing with Yu Lian, and suddenly asked: "If Taoist Zuo Xuan was here and cooperated with Qian Qian, that would be the real sound of nature."

Upon hearing this, the calico cat stopped playing with Yu Lian, a trace of reminiscence flashed in its eyes, and then it meowed.

Yu Lian did not translate for the calico cat, but spit a mouthful of water bullet at the calico cat. The calico cat dodged it easily and pounced towards where Yu Lian was.

At this moment, a bright light suddenly flashed across the southern sky. When Wang Ping looked up, a thunder-like roar rang in his ears.

"Such a rich aura of water spirit, it seems to have fallen from the sky!"

A look of desire appeared in Yu Lian's eyes, but she then suppressed it.

Wang Ping made a spell with his left hand, and the golden light of the "Heavenly Eye" flashed by. Then he quickly deduced. After a few breaths, he raised his eyebrows and said, "It is Jiang Zun who has advanced to the fourth realm!"

He did not immediately use his soul to investigate, because he did not want anyone to know that he had come out of retreat, and he did not want to get involved in the fight between the Vajra Temple and Linshui Mansion. Hu Qianqian's piano music suddenly stopped.

Wang Ping first explored the barrier formation in Qianmu Temple, but he did not use the barrier formation. Instead, he entered a state of "nothingness". At this time, a faint water spirit energy descended from the clouds in the sky.

Immediately afterwards, a strong wind blew in from the sea, causing the people in Zhonghui City to look up, and then heavy rain fell.

At this time, Wang Ping summoned the "Dongtian Mirror" and connected it to the consciousness of a puppet in the southeast sea area, so as to observe the specific situation with a more intuitive vision.

First, Wang Ping used the puppet's vision to see dark clouds, and then he felt a biting cold. The cold was brought by the sea breeze, and this sea breeze was so powerful that many houses on the edge of the island where the puppet was located had been destroyed.

Then he saw surging waves in the southern sky, which seemed likely to surge over and submerge the island at any time, causing the residents on the island to instinctively flee to the high ground in the middle of the island.

However, the waves did not come over, but formed countless whirlpools in the sky, but they covered the sky and made people even more panicked.

"Boom"

"Boom"

"Boom"

The successive thunders echoed between heaven and earth, accompanied by dazzling light, casting an incandescent light on the dark earth.

And under the boundless sea and waves, there is a vague figure of a dragon swimming, and in the dark clouds above the dragon, there is a huge whirlpool, and it seems that some restrictions have been released inside, and dense electric arcs and lightning flash continuously.

"crash"

The dragon suddenly emerged from the water, and the dragon scales on its body were illuminated by the lightning, emitting a dazzling fluorescence. But the next moment, a bolt of lightning fell from the sky and knocked the dragon back into the sea.

This is walking on water and turning into a dragon!
That is Jiang Cun.

Jiang Cun needs to break through the constraints between heaven and earth, and the obstruction of endless thunder punishment, and overcome all obstacles before he can get the chance to transform into a dragon.

It seems that things are not going smoothly now, and he is even having difficulty getting out of the sea.

However, his huge dragon body actually showed signs of growth under the suction of the lightning just now. The lightning looked like a divine whip, and although it lashed him mercilessly, it was also transforming his body, but it would inevitably cause damage to his body.

What Jiang Cun has to do is to go through all obstacles and transform into a dragon before his body can no longer bear it, so as to gain the true qualification to advance to the fourth level.

Through the puppet's perspective, Wang Ping could not clearly observe Jiang Cun's current condition and could only make a rough guess.

The people on the island also noticed the situation on the sea, but they did not flee in panic. In recent years, under the propaganda of Linshui Prefecture, the dragon clan has become synonymous with protecting the people of the world. When they see the dragon looming in the waves, they only think it is good luck. Many people have already knelt on the ground and prayed devoutly.

This was indeed the case. Despite the howling winds and the cold rainstorms falling from the sky, the people felt that the rain was expelling old illnesses from their bodies. Some crazy believers even swallowed the rain water in big gulps.

Wang Ping used the puppet to feel the vitality contained in the rain, and couldn't help but look up at the dark clouds above his head. He was now certain that Ao Yi was personally paying attention to Jiang Cun's promotion above the clouds.

He became more cautious.

An hour passed in a flash, and the huge body of the dragon once again burst out of the surging waves, and went upstream towards the whirlpool in the sky where endless lightning flashed.

"Boom"

The thunder echoed again, and a dazzling light flashed across the dark earth.

The dragon's body was hit again, and the dragon scales that were illuminated by the lightning seemed to be breaking, and the spiritual veins under his dragon scales were oozing white powder, but then they were swallowed up by the surging waves.

What followed was a full ten days of waiting before Jiang Cun finally emerged from the sea again, but was still blocked by a thunder punishment.

The cultivation world in the south was also flooded in many places due to continuous heavy rains. Zi Luan had to send some monks from the Diku Gate through the Taoist Palace branch to clean up the water spirit energy falling from the sky. He then had people set up fire spirit formations in various places to evaporate the excess water in various parts of the south.

Wang Ping wanted to deduce something, but got no response. He guessed that Ao Yi probably used his powerful cultivation to forcibly block others' peeping.

...

In the second month after Jiang Cun's fire started, Wang Ping was carving the five elements stone as usual. Suddenly, his soul sensed energy fluctuations behind the courtyard. He and Yu Lian were both startled.

But soon Wang Ping and Yu Lian both reacted. It was the energy fluctuations emitted by the altar of Master Xiaoshan. He immediately put down the carving knife in his hand, and appeared in front of the altar with a thought. Yu Lian also quickly got rid of the entanglement of the calico cat, flew over and landed on Wang Ping's shoulder.

The puppet was still chanting the name of Master Xiaoshan in a low voice. The sound seemed to penetrate the endless space and formed an illusory light and shadow above the altar, emitting a dark green halo.

Under Wang Ping's gaze, an illusory figure was quickly forming within the dark green halo. Sometimes he was in human form, sometimes invisible, sometimes even in the form of a ferocious beast, and sometimes appearing dignified and majestic.

“I miss this kind of scenery.”

The voice of Master Xiaoshan sounded in Wang Ping's ears, and then the image of Master Xiaoshan wearing gray and white Taoist robes appeared in Wang Ping's sea of ​​consciousness.

"I have seen the true king!"

Wang Ping's soul consciousness immediately sank into his own sea of ​​consciousness. Yu Lian also connected with Wang Ping's soul, and vigilance and precaution emerged in her emotions.

Master Xiaoshan looked at Wang Ping, observed him for more than ten breaths, and said, "Very good, your cultivation has reached a new level. Perhaps you can really change some things. While I was fighting for consciousness with Huishan, I used his body to refine a 'Wood Spirit Origin', which may be of some help to you..."

"Thank you, Zhenjun!"

"No need to thank me. These are the futures that were predicted back then. Although some things have deviated, I seem to have forgotten some things. It's probably because I overused the 'Divine Jade Pen' back then."

When Wang Ping heard this, his soul trembled slightly. Master Xiaoshan was telling him directly that they had peeked into the distant future at some point in the past, trying to use it to change some things. However, looking at his and Yuxiao's current state, he didn't know what the so-called deviation was.

As for this question, what Wang Ping is most concerned about is whether he has appeared in the future they are peeking at?

(End of this chapter)