The Xu family follows Taoism and seeks longevity

Chapter 43 Double Happiness
  Time passed quietly while practicing as planned.

Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye. For Xu Zhiyu, these six months have not been wasted time, and some achievements have been made.

First of all, it is a breakthrough in cultivation. Now he is a genuine eighth-level qi-training monk.

On the day that Xu Zhiyu handed Sanyuancao to his father Xu Zhengyang, Xu Zhengyang went to his alchemist friend and asked him to refine the barrier-breaking elixir.

Because of his long-term friend and Xu Zhengyang's status as the master of the Zhou family's refining pavilion, the alchemist readily agreed and successfully refined it three days later. Xu Zhengyang immediately went to get it with joy. After getting it back, he handed it to Xu Zhiyu. Before he could stir up emotion, he drove him to retreat. Xu Zhiyu looked at his father's earnest eyes, took the elixir and entered the room. He directly activated the retreat formation and started the journey of breakthrough.

In fact, the main reason why Xu Zhiyu couldn't break through was not taking too many pills. You must know that in order for Xu Zhiyu to go further in the future, not only his father Xu Zhengyang repeatedly warned him, but his grandfather Xu Shengsheng also reminded him many times not to take pills before he broke through the late stage of Qi training. Xu Zhiyu has always listened to the teachings of his elders and has never taken pills to speed up his practice.

It wasn't until his cultivation reached the late stage of Qi training that he began to use Chalcedony Pill to assist his practice. And because of his rich wealth, he takes middle-grade or even top-grade elixirs. Although the price is much more expensive than ordinary elixirs, better quality elixirs contain less erysipelas and are easier to refine and absorb. After all this consideration, he still chose high-quality elixirs.

From the late stage of breakthrough qi training to now, it has only taken less than four years to achieve full success. How could he have a disorder due to taking too many pills?

In fact, the most important thing is that there is something wrong with his state of mind. One is practicing in the family since childhood and lacks experience. Although I also did family tasks in the middle, it was almost the same as meditating and practicing in the family. It was equivalent to changing the soup without changing the medicine. In addition, the breakthrough in cultivation was too fast, which caused the state to be unable to keep up. It may not be obvious in the early stage, but the later you go, the more prominent the problem will be.

In fact, there is another factor, and that is the red flame iron ore vein he discovered. It was a good thing, he got the family reward, and the family gained a lot of profits from mining the mineral veins, it was the best of both worlds.

But things in the world are unpredictable, and in the world of immortality, there are not only immortal cultivators, but also monsters. If the place you want to occupy is unowned, that's fine, but that place has an owner.

Now the conflict arises. It is impossible for the Xu family to leave the mineral vein unexploited, and it is even less possible for the monsters to move away because of this. The two sides can only fight to determine the ownership of this place by force.

As a result, all the monsters and beasts were wiped out. The Xu family's vitality was not seriously damaged, but it was still a considerable loss. One of the foundation-building elders was seriously injured, and seven of the monks in the Qi Refining Stage died and one was seriously injured. This can be regarded as a serious injury.

This has something to do with him. First of all, he was also a monk in the late stage of Qi training. The family did not recruit him to participate in the war, which made him feel that he was useless and could not share the family's worries.

Although the family also does his best, things in the world cannot be accepted with peace of mind just by saying they are for your own good. The family has family considerations, and Xu Zhiyu has Xu Zhiyu’s own thoughts.

Secondly, Xu Zhiyu did not participate in the war, but he was heavily rewarded by his family for discovering the mineral veins. It didn't make sense to him what he thought. Because those who died were his brothers, beloved relatives and friends!

Holding those family rewards looks like eating steamed buns made of human blood.

He thought over and over again and consulted with the great elder privately. He decided to use half of his reward to help the relatives of those family monks who died in the battle. But this was sternly rejected by the great elder, who also told him that the family had its own pension system and there was no need for him to come.

"Nonsense, you deserve this, you should have a clear conscience." The great elder said.

"But what if I have a guilty conscience?" Xu Zhiyu asked.

The two broke up on bad terms, and Xu Zhiyu couldn't figure out why the elder was so unkind; the elder felt that Xu Zhiyu was too kind to a woman.

This matter was finally resolved before the retreat. Seeing that the elder couldn't make sense, Xu Zhiyu informed his grandfather Xu Shengsheng of all his ideas through the messenger talisman, and asked him to help find a solution. In the end, Xu Shengsheng found another foundation-building elder to discuss with the ancestor. Finally, Xu Zhiyu's request was approved, and part of his reward was used to compensate the families of the clan members who died in the war. Of course, this was done quietly without anyone noticing.

This relieved some of his worries, so his breakthrough this time was relatively smooth.

After taking the elixir for a while, the barrier-breaking elixir began to take effect, and its properties were extremely overbearing, running rampant in his body. The burning sensation in my veins lasted for a full hour before gradually weakening. Then the endless pounds of sulfur medicinal power was released instantly, spreading to all parts of his body, constantly transforming into extremely pure spiritual power, and integrating into various meridians. Within a few breaths, the spiritual power in his body exploded. It rose by 50% and has continued to rise.

The huge spiritual power began to impact every meridian tyrannically. Wherever it passed, no matter how big or small, the meridians became obviously much thicker.

Then another gentle medicinal power began to nourish these meridians. At the same time, the bottleneck that was touched before began to slowly melt away.

As time passed slowly, under the impact of spiritual power, the bottleneck that had troubled Xu Zhiyu for four years collapsed.

After his breakthrough in cultivation, Xu Zhiyu did not leave immediately, but planned to improve his level of talisman making. He had been stuck as a first-level mid-level talisman maker for several years.

He was already on the verge of a breakthrough. In addition, he participated in a small exchange meeting some time ago and exchanged ideas with many people in the same field, which made his theoretical level of making talismans improve by leaps and bounds.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that he wants to break through to the first level of high-level Talisman Maker in one go.

Moreover, after becoming a first-level high-grade talisman maker, he can draw first-level high-grade spiritual talismans. This will greatly shorten the time it takes him to recharge the amulet. The amulet is his biggest support, and its importance is self-evident.

In the following time, Xu Zhiyu did not directly draw the high-grade spiritual talisman, but first selected the type of spiritual talisman to be drawn. After much thought, I finally selected the Earth Escape Talisman.

Then I drew the talisman on ordinary paper. When I became familiar with the lines of the talisman, several strokes of unknown meaning appeared again and again in the sea of ​​​​consciousness. They continued to emit gray light, and as my understanding of the runes continued to deepen, , the strokes floating in the mid-air gathered together one after another.

Whenever there are strokes mosaic together, it will change from gray to green.

As time goes by, the number of gray strokes gradually decreases, while the green strokes are connected together to form a strange symbol. The remaining gray strokes were tried over and over again to splice into the green symbols. Finally, a complete spiritual talisman was formed in my mind.

The first-level high-grade talismans require more runes. The Earth Escape Talisman even requires five talisman arrays to be superimposed before it can be drawn successfully. Each talisman has a total of 81 talismans. The difficulty of drawing has increased by an unknown amount.

Xu Zhiyu drew on the first-grade high-grade talisman paper again and again, but failed again and again.

At the beginning, the eighty-one runes were not finished before they were scrapped due to various problems. Xu Zhiyu was not discouraged. After every failure, he would take out the books he usually used to record and record the failure experience in it. Then start the next drawing of the talisman.

When the runes can be completely drawn, they are superimposed together and integrated into the spiritual runes. This is much more difficult than drawing runes. If the strength and accuracy are not careful, it will cause a chain reaction and cause the drawing to fail.

Finally, Huang Tian paid off his hard work. After hundreds of drawings, Xu Zhiyu's first-level high-grade spiritual talisman - the Earth Escape Talisman, was finally completed.

The hard work and sweat put into it are not enough to be appreciated by outsiders.

Looking at the Earth Escape Talisman in front of him, Xu Zhiyu smiled like a fool weighing more than a hundred pounds.

Next, he kept drawing the first-grade high-grade spiritual talismans until the talisman paper ran out, the spiritual ink ran out, and the talisman pen became bald, and then he finally stopped.

He is going out of seclusion.

(End of this chapter)