Xiuxian: I use magnetic fields to prove my truth

Chapter 225 Five Years
The sect leader spoke very frankly.

Zhou Qing also understood that this approach was not feasible.

After seeing off the sect leader, Zhou Qing checked his internal condition and found that his main dantian was exhausted of spiritual energy, while his fifteen secondary dantians were still full.

Based on the experience just now, the main dantian can be used to activate the "withered wood reborn" technique, which can sustain the activity for about one-third of a quarter of an hour, or about five minutes.

The lower dantian should be much shorter, probably around three minutes.

It takes about half an hour in total.

The effect of his five-minute cultivation session was equivalent to two months of his usual cultivation, which was truly astonishing. Unfortunately, this was at the cost of pushing the sect's spiritual veins to their limits, which could easily damage the lifespan of the spiritual veins. He shouldn't do this so easily in the future.

In the following days, Zhou Qing began to try to operate the withered tree reborn at the lowest efficiency and then absorb spiritual energy.

Finally, he concluded that his current minimum efficiency might be the limit of a certain stage, with the main dantian able to maintain its position for two quarters of an hour and the secondary dantian for one quarter of an hour.

In terms of cultivation efficiency, two quarters of an hour of cultivation can be equivalent to half a month in the past.

Moreover, this will not exhaust the spiritual veins to the extreme, and will remain within the range that the spiritual veins can adapt to.

Zhou Qing was very satisfied with the result, and he began to cultivate once every three days using the first stage of extreme state.

His sixteen dantian quickly filled up.

Zhou Qing entered a peaceful period of cultivation.

For the next five years, he spent most of his time cultivating in the Thunder Dragon Cave, only leaving when necessary to handle problems.

For example, the biennial academic exchange of the Formation Association, and the first confrontation between the Eight Sects Alliance and other sects due to the conflict caused by the long-distance communication system.

That was a Golden Core sect called Daoyu Sect.

This sect was built in a very large circular valley, which is a natural sound-collecting device.

This sect believes that the sound of the Great Dao resounding at the beginning of creation has been echoing throughout the world, but people are not good at listening to it.

Their practice is about listening to the first sounds of the Great Dao.

The original sound of the Great Dao is the essence of the Great Dao.

This sect is mysterious yet exceptionally powerful, and can be considered one of the most powerful Golden Core sects under the Western Extremity Dharma Propagation Center.

Therefore, this conflict has been taken very seriously by the Eight Alliances.

However, the two sides did not actually fight in the end.

When Zhou Qing played the infrasonic melody in their giant Jiyin Valley, the people of the Daoyu Sect knew they had encountered their nemesis.

They quickly backed down and agreed to allow the Eight Alliance to deploy a long-range communication system over their airspace.

This was a brilliant victory.

The members of the Eight Sects Alliance once again experienced Zhou Qing's unpredictable and oppressive power.

Only the Golden Core cultivators at the highest levels of the Eight Sects Alliance knew the inside story of this matter, and they did not publicize Zhou Qing's role in it.

This was Zhou Qing's own idea.

He did not want too much attention to be focused on him, even though he would soon be leaving the sect to draw the fire of the Dharma propagation field for the sect leader.

The firepower attracted by a genius disciple is completely different from the firepower attracted by a powerful figure who subdues the entire Daoyu Sect.

The latter might provoke an overreaction from the Buddhist center, something Zhou Qing was not prepared to deal with.

The Daoyu Sect itself would never want the outside world to know its weaknesses, so it naturally kept this matter strictly confidential.

Thus, the outside world learned the inside story of this dispute.

All they knew was that the Daoyu Sect clashed with the Eight Sects Alliance, and then the Eight Sects Alliance easily subdued the Daoyu Sect.

These powerful and mysterious rumors propelled the Eight Sects Alliance to new heights. From then on, the Eight Sects Alliance's long-distance communication system gained recognition throughout the Western Continent.

People could only grit their teeth and admit that the Eight Alliances had set up relay stations over their skies; after all, they could easily shoot them down if they wanted to.

That's all they could tell themselves.

Of course, this only refers to ordinary sects and does not include Buddhist centers.

The Eight Sects Alliance does not dare to abandon relay stations in the territory of the Dharma Propagation Center.

In fact, they handled their relationship with the Dharma center very carefully, showing utmost humility when interacting with each other.

The Buddhist center naturally remained highly vigilant against this emerging force.

Over the course of five years, they repeatedly sent elders at the Golden Core stage to the Eight Sects Alliance.

They met with all the Golden Core cultivators in the alliance, secretly assessing their cultivation levels and their potential to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

In the end, they concluded that the Eight Sects Alliance was still a long way from reaching the Nascent Soul stage.

This caused them to retract most of their vigilance toward the alliance.

For a behemoth like the Hongfa Dojo, which boasts over twenty Nascent Soul cultivators, only the Nascent Soul cultivators are truly worthy of attention.

Without the emergence of a Nascent Soul cultivator, even the largest alliance of forces is meaningless.

Of course, they have absolutely no intention of sitting idly by and watching one of their sects become the dominant force.

Therefore, a Nascent Soul Venerable in the temple issued a decree, which led to the formation of the other three alliances in the Western Continent.

These alliances are not as powerful as the Eight Sect Alliance, nor are they as closely connected, but they should still not be underestimated.

Over the past five years, the situation in West Antarctica has changed dramatically.

These changes were almost all caused by some of Zhou Qing's ideas.

He hasn't truly emerged from seclusion yet, and his fame hasn't spread far, but he's already a person who changes the entire situation in Western Antarctica.

Another thing that brought Zhou Qing out of seclusion was the sect's grand examination for his junior brothers and sisters.

Of his fifty-seven junior disciples, twenty became formal disciples after the major examination and stayed in the sect to continue their cultivation, while the rest were assigned to various properties within the sect, such as mines and shops…

Some people also enter the mortal world.

The mortal world, belonging to the immortal sects, also needs the immortal sects to provide relief, especially when they face threats from demonic beasts, immortals, and demonic cultivators.

Therefore, the Qingyun Sect has always had people residing in the mortal world.

Yunzhou City, which belongs to the Great Qian Dynasty, is actually part of the Qingyun Sect. However, because it is located overseas, it is not valued by the sect. Except for Yunzhou City, the birthplace of the founder, where the sect would go to recruit disciples every three years, the Qingyun Sect would ignore it at other times.

After the major exam, Wang Xiaohu approached Zhou Qing and asked him to arrange a permanent post for him in Daqian.

Zhou Qing understood that Wang Xiaohu had some ideas about returning home in glory.

He only has eight spiritual roots, and according to convention, reaching the seventh or eighth level of Qi Refining is already the limit.

Although thanks to Zhou Qing's care, he basically doesn't have to worry about using high-grade spirit stones, which can greatly increase his potential, it is still extremely difficult for him to establish his foundation.

After ten years of cultivation, he barely broke through to the fifth level of Qi Refining. Suddenly, his worldly desires stirred, and he wanted to go back and take a look, which is why he made a request to Zhou Qing.

Zhou Qing told him to go back and think it over.

A month later, he found Zhou Qing, but still hadn't changed his mind.

Zhou Qing then agreed.

(End of this chapter)