Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 110 Practice
The next morning, before Du Qing woke up from his bed, he was woken up by Jin Shilun and rushed to Kang Dabao's dormitory.

"Junior brother Du Qing, you have worked hard recently." Master Kang said politely to comfort him.

"Master, your words are too serious. Du Qing does not feel tired when working for the sect." Du Qing raised his head deliberately to make the wound on his neck more conspicuous before continuing to sing in a high-sounding tone.

Although he did not gain anything while guarding the caravan as usual, he was almost beheaded by the evil cultivator who blocked his way.

Du Qing had thought it through before he came. If this damn Chongming Sect continued to ignore him as before, it would be better for him to find a chance to take his family away and go to another place to continue being a casual cultivator.

"Haha, Junior Brother is modest and restrained, and you are indeed a gentleman." Intentionally avoiding looking at Du Qing's somewhat horrible wound, Kang Dabao first praised him. Anyway, he was willing to say a nice thing without asking for spirit stones.

"Master, you are too kind." Du Qing responded calmly, looking quite humble, which was completely different from his previous downtrodden look.

Kang Dabao understood what was going on. "Over the years, you have developed a bad temper. These old guys are all very good at pretending. If you don't give them some benefits in kind, they will just do it for show."

"A poor family is rich on the road. Junior brother, take this magic weapon and these spirit stones for use first. If you need anything later, just come to me." Master Kang smiled and took out a low-grade magic weapon of good quality and thirty spirit stones. This was also a reward for Du Qing's hard work.

"Thank you, Master Brother!" The things Kang Dabao took out might not seem like much, but it would take Du Qing at least a dozen years to save up so much.

This made Du Qing very happy, and he bowed deeply. His movements were so big that even the gauze wrapped around his neck was bleeding.

Kang Dabao nodded and gave a few more words of encouragement, then sent Jin Shilun to send Du Qing out.

Only after Du Qing left did Kang Dabao suppress the discomfort in his heart. This was the reason why Chongming Sect was in such a predicament in the past few years and still did not recruit independent cultivators to join.

It is said that after entering the sect, you should treat each other as family members, but the independent cultivators who have entered the sect only focus on benefits. If you treat him with sincerity, he will think that you are reluctant to give up the spirit stones and are just promising him something.

In this way, even those who were originally family members have to interact with each other only based on interests, and finally they have to become outsiders again.

"Well, we still have to wait until the younger generation grows up quickly before we can share some of the burden. These people are hard to tame." Master Kang thought.

A few days later, Kang Dazhang and He Dezong sent the younger generation of the He family off together. The latter left Kang Dabao with some bad news: "The kid seemed to have seen Guixiang in Hancheng. He was wearing the clothes of a guest of the Yue family at that time."

"Gui Xiang, a retainer of the Yue family." Kang Dabao recited for a while, suppressed his worries, and explained things to Zhou Xinran and Jin Shilun again before returning to Chongming Sect.

The old cultivator Ji Wuwu was on duty at the gate. He had at least experienced a fierce battle and was injured. After returning to Chongming Sect, Kang Dabao did not let him go out to work, but arranged for him to spend a few months with his young wives in Chongming City.

After Ji Wuwu's injury recovered, Kang Dabao was not in a hurry to let him go. He let him stay in the sect to practice for a few days and wait for arrangements.

After briefly greeting Ji Wuwu and gathering his fellow disciples to ask about recent events, Kang Dabao turned around and went into his own cloud room.

Recently, three bad things happened: he was severely beaten by Ge Yangfeng, was appointed as the lieutenant of Pingrong County, and Guixiang became a retainer of the Yue family. Especially the first one, it made the head of Kangda feel a serious sense of crisis.

This feeling of being insecure at any time is too uncomfortable. Kang Dabao is eager to improve his abilities in all aspects.

According to Kang Dabao, based on the actions of the Xian Dynasty in recent years, the probability of conscription and war again in the future is not very small.

It just so happens that the county lieutenant has the unfortunate job of being in charge of military affairs. He will probably be chosen by his superiors to work hard for him in the future.

In this case, I'm afraid I have to pick up the art of battle formation. Yes, it means "pick it up", not "learn it".

Zhang Zushi, the founder of the Chongming Sect, was a military man. Not only did he get the opportunity to build his foundation in the Pingman Army, but he also relied on his military exploits to be promoted to the rank of Deputy Captain Zhiguo, a seventh-level military officer. He commanded a battalion of 300 soldiers and could barely be considered a mid-level military officer.

This is a military position in the Immortal Dynasty's Imperial Guards, and is much more valuable than the same level in border states like Yunjiaozhou.

However, Patriarch Zhang had experienced too many bloody battles and was tired of military affairs, so he wanted to find a place to practice in peace, and at the same time move all his close relatives and descendants out of the sect.

Only after pacifying the barbarians did he obtain the grace from Chief Steward Shen Lingfeng to establish a sect in Pingrong County.

Later, as the Chongming Sect declined generation after generation, the leaders of each generation were still able to maintain the Chongming Sect's reputation. In addition to the inexplicable element of luck, the most important thing was that the Chongming Sect members of each generation had studied the art of battle formations.

As the current head of the sect, Kang Dabao has studied the fundamental methods of the Chongming Sect from his master since he was a child. When he was young, he participated in a battle with a large group of bandits under the leadership of the sect's master.

At that time, Sect Leader Kang had only reached the second level of Qi training and was also very young, so it was not his turn to be the main force. He just gathered together the strength of the group and threw a few hammers under the cover of his elders.

That time, under the leadership of the teachers and commanders, the Chongming Sect faced an enemy force that was three times its size. Even though the high-level cultivators were not at an advantage, they relied on the advantages of the battle formation and almost killed all the invading enemies.

It is particularly worth mentioning that although the head of Kangda did not gain any prize at that time, Pei Yi and Yuan Jin each obtained a head.

Therefore, the battle formation techniques passed down by Master Zhang are still worth learning.

When Master Kang was young, he only learned some things in a hurry. He remembered everything, but had no place to apply it. He also forgot a lot of it over the years. Now he needs to review it again.

Another thing is his own strength. When Kang Dabao thought of this, his spiritual power gathered in his pupils, which gradually turned golden. Kang Dabao's golden eyes had obviously become more mature in practice, and their power was much higher than when he was in a desperate situation with the four ghosts of the Liu family.

However, he was still unable to achieve anything when facing powerful Qigong figures like Ge Yangfeng and Tie Xishui, which revealed the shortcoming of his single method.

The Golden Eyes that can see through illusions are certainly a powerful method, and they are also extremely compatible with Master Kang. The pupil technique of the universe level can be practiced to the realm of minor success. Many foundation-building cultivators would probably be envious after hearing about it.

The reason why he couldn't deal with Ge Yangfeng and Tie Xishui was that Kang Dabao's cultivation was too low.
As he had just entered the sixth level of Qi training, relying on his golden eyes that could see through delusion, it might not be a problem for him to kill some late-stage cultivators with shallow inheritance.

But once they face off against someone like Ge Yangfeng who has mastered the foundation-building technique, it would be very difficult if the opponent has outstanding weapons and extraordinary skills. Not to mention winning, even escaping would be very embarrassing.

But after reaching the minor success stage of the Golden Eyes of Truth, if one wants to continue practicing, he will have to use the Moon Fern mentioned in Grandmaster Zhang’s notes.

Unfortunately, Kang Dabao has not found the spiritual herb yet, so he can only put aside the practice of the Golden Eyes of Delusion for the time being, and at most he can increase his attack speed a little.

In addition, the cultivation level of Sect Leader Kang at this time was still far from reaching the threshold for a breakthrough, so he chose to place his hopes on the "Wangshan Zombie Refining Method" he got from the ghostly owl Zhao Gu.

Although Zhao Gu's corpse had been severely damaged by Yuan Jin, Kang Dabao had found a relatively good place for it to be kept and had buried it under a large locust tree for half a year. Now the corpse's vitality has recovered a lot.

Master Kang has been practicing the unorthodox martial art "Wangshan's Zombie Refining Method" for nearly a year. What surprised him was that he seemed to have a talent for zombie refining.

According to "Wangshan's Method of Refining Corpses", if a beginner wants to directly master a first-grade top-quality corpse, even if he is a person with superior qualifications, it will take at least one or two years to be able to control the method slightly.

However, it was different for Master Kang. He only spent three months on it and couldn't resist the urge to try it once. He actually controlled this first-grade top-grade weapon as easily as a flick of the arm on the spot.

This made him think for a time that he was a genius who had chosen the wrong career. He should have sought out a demon sect to become its apprentice. Maybe he would have become the saint of some sect now.

Unfortunately, when he tried to learn an introductory magic spell, the Heart-Eating Spell, with this idea in mind, it only took him three days to easily overturn his own hypothesis.

After his hopes of becoming a genius in the magic world were extinguished, Kang Dabao began to honestly go into seclusion to take pills and practice Qi.

Because he had drunk the spiritual dew, his cultivation speed was only slightly slower than that of an average cultivator with three spiritual roots. He also had no shortage of elixirs, so his progress in cultivation was not slow.

The practice of a monk is actually a rather boring thing.

The densely packed quiet room is silent and you can only feel the spiritual power from the outside being absorbed into your pores and flowing through your veins. At this time, you need to concentrate and regulate the spiritual power to flow through your body according to the trajectory of the meridians.

After each cycle of the celestial being, the monk can extract the most refined part and keep it in the dantian to nourish himself. Then he will repeat the cycle again, concentrating his mind and extracting spiritual power.
How much spiritual power a cultivator can obtain each time depends first on how much spiritual power the cultivator himself can absorb from the outside world.

Generally speaking, the better the spiritual roots, the more spiritual power they can absorb. Even if they work hard for one cycle, the spiritual power absorbed by a cultivator with heavenly spiritual roots can be nearly twenty times higher than that of a cultivator with five spiritual roots.

This means that a cultivator with five spiritual roots has to work twenty times harder to reach the most common cultivation speed of a cultivator with heavenly spiritual roots.

It is no wonder that among the cultivators in this world, there are quite a few who are disheartened and just want to get by from day to day.

The truth is that the way of the world is unfair, and everyone feels that their efforts are useless.

"Isn't it good to live a life of luxury in a mortal fortress? Why bother to work so hard to pursue that kind of simple life?" This concept is widely circulated among low-level cultivators.

There is nothing that can be done about it. The road ahead is too rugged and the retreat is too tempting.

The hardships of the path to immortality are not only due to the thorns that practitioners encounter along the way, but also due to the tempting warmth behind the practitioners.

Master Kang is not as lucky as those with natural spiritual roots, nor is he as nearly cut off from the path of Tao as those with five spiritual roots. Therefore, he still has hope and a heart that pursues the Tao in his heart from beginning to end.

I felt another wisp of pure spiritual power remaining in my dantian, and the spiritual power in my dantian became thicker.

When the spiritual power in the Dantian is full and complete, and there are faint signs of the spiritual power turning into liquid, then one will have the initial qualifications to impact the foundation. However, this is a height that many practitioners have never reached in their entire lives.

Of course, Master Kang Da was still a long way from this step. He could only hold on to the belief that "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and a river is formed by the accumulation of small streams." Kang Dabao devoted himself to practice for two months.

Relying on the fasting pill that Pei Yi had given him earlier, he had not left Lianyun Room for the past two months, practicing zombie training, breathing exercises, learning techniques, and performing formations in the room.

However, this peaceful life did not last long. At noon that day, a communication talisman was suddenly transmitted into the cloud room of Master Kang, interrupting his peaceful practice that he had not enjoyed for a long time.

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