A life of clearness

Chapter 145: Nine as the Supreme
The pure black eyes are wet, the skin is snow-white, the tail is long and trailing, and the four feet are clinging to the sacred pillar, and each foot has three distinct toes.

“It’s not the White Deer.”

Rong Qing was puzzled. She had always thought that an elegant and majestic white deer would appear in the sacred pillar. After all, that piece of deer antler was truly magnificent and unparalleled.

But now, the antlers still exist, but they grow on the top of a giant fish. The head is covered with fine white scales and the lower part is slightly transparent, which looks very dreamy.

"What on earth is this..." She found it hard not to wonder.

But soon Rong Qing shook her head and stopped thinking about it, "As long as it is strong enough and under my control, it's fine. As for its origin, it's not that important."

Rong Qing took a step back and looked around at the three towering divine pillars.

"According to the description in the jade slip, three divine pillars are not enough. Theoretically, my sea of ​​consciousness will be more stable with each additional divine pillar. However, when the number reaches nine..."

"With nine divine pillars, I can build them into a special structure according to the secret technique. The nine divine pillars will complement each other, and the power of the divine pillars will increase greatly again."

"The number nine is the supreme number in spiritual practice."

Many of the secret techniques that Rong Qing encountered were basically related to the number nine, and it was common to divide the stages into nine.

"There aren't many things in the cultivation world that can be used as magic guides." Rong Qing's eyes flashed, "However, in the Dream Ruins, there are many human-shaped illusions. After killing them, you can naturally get magic guides."

Just like the corpse of the ferocious beast in the second divine pillar.

"Besides, Fenghuang'er and I haven't yet reached the eleventh level of the Ruins of Dreams. There must be even more powerful humanoid illusions there. And this time, I'm traveling with Chongyu, so the threat they pose won't be too great."

With the company of Sword Master Zhongyu, Rong Qing has regarded Rumengxu as his hunting ground.

"This way, the remaining six spells will have a place to go."

"After I have constructed the nine divine pillars, the strength of my sea of ​​consciousness will be enhanced to an incredible level. I have a feeling that by then, I will only be a hair's breadth away from the second floor."

Rong Qing was not shooting without a purpose.

From the description in the secret technique, after completing the structure of nine divine pillars, it is only the first stage. The divine pillars can still be increased, but the practitioner is required to reach the second floor before adding the tenth divine pillar.

The tenth to eighteenth divine pillars are the second stage.

When Rong Qing completed ninety-nine and eighty-one divine pillars, he truly mastered the technique and completed all its nine stages of changes.

But for now, this is still a long way off for Rong Qing.

She didn't think much about it here, and her eyes moved to the spiritual platform... There, sword beams were everywhere, and blood-red thunder was running and roaring.

"It's time to release the sword intent."

Rong Qing took a step and stood on her own spiritual platform.

With his palm facing upward, he just raised his hand and waved it lightly, and the sword intent obediently detached from the spiritual platform, turning into a stream of light and falling into Rong Qing's palm.

Rong Qing lowered her eyes and looked at the cold sword in her hand. It looked like white bones and felt like ice to the touch.

The sword is slender and looks delicate, but it is still too long for Rong Qing's arm.

"Although it is not something I have realized, after so many storms and life and death, it has already become half of my body." She sighed softly, as if she was looking at the two sword masters from a distance through the sword intent. More than ten years ago, when she became a mortal, the sword intent disappeared in her sea of ​​consciousness and could not appear. Until she entered the threshold of cultivation again through the floating word book... But at that time, Rong Qing was not very willing to use it. She would rather use her flying sword.

Because she couldn't help but think of the two sword masters, Chongyu and Chongji, whenever she saw the sword, even when she drew her sword at the moment of life and death, it was as if they were by her side. Although Rong Qing no longer liked Chongyu, as long as she held the sword, she felt a sense of peace.

"Are you looking at me too..." Rong Qing asked Jian Yi, but obviously she would not get an answer.

She sighed and let go of her hand, and the cold sword intent silently floated beside her.

Just like the two sword masters were naturally cold and didn't like to talk much. But they had always been paying attention to her silently. What Rong Qing didn't know was that after she left the Sword Sect, Chongyu and Chongji often made predictions for her.

She only knew that she had never shown her sword skills in front of Zhong Xiu because she didn't want Ah Xiu to be seen by the sword masters.

……

Rong Qing looked up. The thunder of destruction that had lost the suppression of the sword intent was obviously going crazy with joy, and it was running everywhere in her sea of ​​consciousness.

Roaring lightning and thunder appeared everywhere in the sea of ​​consciousness. They... obviously wanted to destroy everything they saw.

Rong Qing snorted.

Three divine pillars are enough to deal with the sharply reduced number of destructive thunders.

The blood-colored thunder no longer had the ability to transform Rong Qing's entire sea of ​​consciousness into a blood-colored ocean as it did in the Forest of All Laws Stele. At this moment, it had not yet destroyed Rong Qing's sea of ​​consciousness. Just as it approached the divine pillar, it was involuntarily attracted to it by the invisible force. It was not swallowed into the divine pillar, but surrounded the transparent divine pillar just like it surrounded the sword intent.

Even if some of the destructive thunders ran far away from the three divine pillars... they could not escape.

The three divine pillars did not make any big noise when releasing their power. But once the power began, there was no way for the destructive thunder to escape.

Strands of blood-like destructive thunder were pulled out from the depths of Rongqing's sea of ​​consciousness and merged into the segments of destructive thunder surrounding the divine pillar.

Among the three divine pillars, Rong Qing saw, as expected, that the third divine pillar, which was the divine pillar where the strange beast existed, had the largest number of destructive thunders gathered, reaching 80% of the existing thunder.

"Only this strange beast's horn surprised me the most."

More importantly, the price Rong Qing paid for it was much less than that of the mottled stone, as if she had gotten a bargain. How could Rong Qing not be secretly happy about this?

"Maybe I can ask more." Rong Qing got a lot of information from the sect elder, but definitely not all.

"Since we killed the beast, it's impossible that we only got the horn. At that time, I only wanted to get the magic guide, so I didn't get to the bottom of it. But the value of this beast is definitely high. If the sect can't digest it, I have a chance."

The other parts of the beasts all have something that may be a symbiosis of reality and illusion. It is not surprising that Rong Qing has such a plan. After all, the more high-quality magic guides, the better.

……

At this point, Rong Qing's two main purposes of retreat have been achieved.

The art of the divine pillar was successfully cultivated, and the sword intent was released as desired.

Rong Qing, who was sitting cross-legged in the quiet room, opened her eyes and saw the cold sword intent lying quietly on her knees. The destructive thunder that would have appeared would no longer appear around the sword intent, causing unnecessary losses.

"It's time to set off to enter the Dream Ruins." Rong Qing said silently.

(End of this chapter)