In the past few months, the little white snake's spiritual power has increased slightly, and Tang Ning desperately hoped that it could advance to a second-level spiritual beast, so that it might be able to help her.

After this battle, he deeply felt that his strength was seriously insufficient. Compared with Qin Tianjiao, Zhuang Xingqian and others, the gap could not be measured in miles.

People with their level of strength can cross realms and kill people who are stronger than themselves. Regardless of the realm gap, their magical powers and spells are far beyond comparison with ordinary people.

Qin Tianjiao's ability to summon a blue dragon out of the sea can even imprison space. A man as powerful as a zombie demon can only be killed by his neck when faced with this magical power.

Zhuang Xingqian's Ten Thousand Thunder Heavenly Prison was actually able to trigger the phenomenon of thunder. The skinny old man's rock-solid defense was instantly annihilated by the thunder. He used his cultivation in the middle stage of foundation building to defeat the demon sect in the late stage of foundation building. The best one can be said to have become famous in Xingang's spiritual practice community in one battle.

He Ziyang's water-transforming magical power is unpredictable, and he is not afraid of any substantial attacks. He overwhelms the monks of the Corpse Puppet Sect in the late stage of foundation building. In the entire battle, the Corpse Puppet Sect men could only parry but had no power to fight back. There was no way to use their strength. In any case, The attack methods may not be as strong as Zhuang Xinqian, but in terms of difficulty, they are definitely above it. The magical power of water transformation is invisible and formless, and can remove all tangible attacks. It is better than any strongest defense in the world.

Jiang Yuhuan has studied the art of vertical and horizontal voids to a very high level. The power of many space spells is unpredictable, and he also has the twelve transformations of the true spirit. There are endless ways to fight one against five without falling behind.

Tang Ning has witnessed this with her own eyes, and the genius disciple recognized by the monks in Xingang is indeed much better than the average person.

And this is just Xingang, a small place with talented monks. If you put it in the entire Tianyuan, Xingang is only the size of a pea, what a big deal!

The world still doesn’t know how many amazingly talented and beautiful people there are, and what methods the proud men of the great sects and great families should use.

Originally he was very ambitious, thinking that as long as he continued to practice and improve his cultivation, he might one day be able to join the Taixuan Sect. Now that he thought about it, it was so ridiculous.

As huge as Taixuanzong, it was impossible for any individual to move even a tiny bit of it. He felt deeply powerless, even a little hesitant and helpless.

Life in the sect was uneventful and peaceful. In addition to dealing with liaison matters with the intelligence station, Tang Ning spent every day refining Qi and practicing. The Corpse Puppet Sect had calmed down a little since they acquired the western region of the Chu Kingdom, and had no intention of a large-scale invasion. After all, They also need time to digest those resources.

Before the various sects of the Demon Sect were integrated, they were hidden in various counties. The intelligence station was still somewhat useful and reported the whereabouts of some suspicious disciples of the Demon Sect from time to time.

Now that the Demon Sect has raised its flag and formed a battle array with swords and real guns, the intelligence stations down below are quiet. All they report are trivial matters, most of which are the intrigues of some local cultivating families.

Time flies and five years have passed.

In the past few years, the two sides of Xuan and Demon have maintained relative peace, and there has been no major war. There are rumors that the Demon Sect has sent people to negotiate peace with the sect, and they want to unite the boundaries and rule the country. River water, it is unknown whether this matter is true or false.

But in the past two years, the atmosphere has indeed been much more relaxed than in previous years, and it is no longer as tense as before. Many disciples stationed in the camp have withdrawn to the sect. Lu Guang, the intelligence officer, returned to the sect a year ago.

Now the western region of Chu State has fallen into the hands of the Demon Sect, which has done very well in the past few years and can be described as impressive.

The Demon Sect allows the cultivating families within its jurisdiction to grow elixirs, only levies a 20% tax on those medicinal gardens, and encourages them to breed low-level spiritual beasts.

What kind of encouragement?

The Demon Sect spent its own money to buy many low-level cubs in batches from the large islands in Qinghai, and provided them to the cultivating families for free, distributing them to them in proportion to the family's power, and providing dedicated personnel to cultivate them.

For this reason, the Demon Sect specially sent a group of people to study the cultivation method. Now this group of people, together with the cubs, are assigned to various cultivating families.

This is simply unimaginable.

When Tang Ning first heard this rumor, she didn't believe it at all. It was completely beyond his understanding. It was understandable that the Demon Sect allowed cultivating families to grow medicinal herbs in order to win over people and reduce taxes.

However, it is unbelievable to spend your own money to go to the large island of Qinghai to buy cubs and distribute them to the cultivating families for free. Which sect would engage in such a loss-making business that harms oneself and others?

Isn’t this crazy?

But when the intelligence station below handed over files like snowflakes, he couldn't help but not believe it. The Demon Sect not only provided them with low-level spiritual beast cubs, but also specially assigned a beast breeder to each family.

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The only difference is that these cubs are not provided completely free of charge. After these cultivating families cultivate the cubs and make profits, the cost will be returned to them.

If an accident occurs midway and these cubs die due to improper cultivation, all losses will be borne by the Demon Sect.

After confirming that the news was true, Tang Ning was stunned for a long time and was shocked. Is this the Demon Sect? What they did was completely different from the cruel, cruel, arrogant and domineering propaganda of Xuanmen.

Although he already knew that the Demon Sect was not as inhumane, cruel and easy to kill as Xuanmen advertised, this incident still shocked him greatly.

Compared with Xuanmen's management style, they seem to be more enlightened, humane and tolerant.

They attach great importance to the property in their territory and spare no effort to help its development. Their internal management is chaotic, but the laws are very strict. Especially in terms of financial resources, it can be said to be harsh.

The intelligence station once reported this matter in a file. A disciple of the Demon Sect who managed the cubs of spirit beasts secretly asked for thousands of spirit stones from the cultivating family. He was actually beheaded by the senior leaders of the Demon Sect. The entire sect was notified that the Demon Sect would also

All the spiritual stones that the disciple requested were returned to the cultivating family.

If this matter were placed in Xuanmen, it would not be a big deal. It is too common and is the case everywhere.

When Tang Ning was in charge of Jingbei, there was no need for him to say anything. Those cultivating families would simply send the annual offerings directly, and this was all tacitly understood.

Xuanmen will not punish its disciples for such trivial matters.

The Demon Sect's emphasis on resources and financial resources is equivalent to the Taoist commandments of bullying one's master and destroying one's ancestors, and killing fellow sects, which are red lines that cannot be crossed.

For the disciples themselves, Xuanmen is much more comfortable than the Demon Sect, has greater authority, and has higher benefits and benefits. However, for third parties such as practicing families, it is obvious that the Demon Sect's management is more in line with their interests.

The files submitted by various intelligence stations all reported this matter. The disciples of the cultivating families were talking privately, and they were eager to see through the Demon Sect and wanted to turn against each other.

It's just that those places are still controlled by the sect, and they don't dare to change the flag directly.

The disfavor of the people is a very unfavorable situation for Xuanmen. It is conceivable that once the Demon Sect attacks, those families will immediately turn against each other.

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In the Zhongzhi Peak Cave Mansion, Tang Ning opened her eyes after falling into trance. The spiritual power in her body has returned to its original state. The fairy mother-of-pearl clam on the stone table still looks like that. There are more than a dozen black branches that look like wood but not wood, and look like stone but not stone.

, it looks extremely ancient and simple. He has been feeding it with his own green spiritual power for more than ten years, and there is still no change at all.

He stood up and put it away, sighed slightly, and waved to the little white snake. The little white snake suddenly appeared on his shoulder from the wine jar and burrowed into the spirit beast bag.

He left the cave and went straight to the alchemy room. For the past six months, he had been refining alchemy in addition to feeding fairy mother-of-pearl clams every day. Because his cultivation had reached a bottleneck, he could not make any progress.

Breaking through bottlenecks depends on chance. This cannot be rushed, and chance is the most mysterious and mysterious thing in the world.

Some people can break through the bottleneck in ten days, while some people never encounter the so-called opportunity in their entire lives. Everyone has their own opportunities to break through the bottleneck. There is still no standard and unified answer in the spiritual practice world, and there are different opinions on this.

Tang Ning has encountered bottlenecks several times in his practice. The first time was when he was at the third level of Qi refining, and he was trapped by the bottleneck. He did not make any progress in two years. Finally, on Hualong Peak, he saw Bai Yan die for love, which made him deeply moved.

It caused a huge shock and caused it to break through the bottleneck in one fell swoop.

He still remembers his state of mind at that time. He felt as if he was in a stormy sea, but his heart was as calm as water. It was an indescribable feeling, very mysterious.

Later, when he was at the sixth level of Qi Refining, he was not disturbed by the bottleneck at all, and directly advanced to the seventh level of Qi Refining. At that time, he thought it was the effect of the green spiritual energy in his body, but later he realized that this was the realm of transparency.

The world of spiritual practice calls this phenomenon Tongming, which means clear and bright. It means that there are no waves in the ancient well in the monk's heart, no joy or sorrow, and great enlightenment, so it is not blocked.

Then he encountered a bottleneck when he reached the ninth level of Qi refining, which troubled him for several years. In the end, Liu Ruhan was forcibly taken away, which caused him great stimulation and made him break through to the ninth level of Qi refining in one fell swoop.

Of course, Tang Ning didn't count on that mysterious opportunity. He had another plan. He secretly catalyzed a plant of dragon scale grass, hoping to catalyze it to have thousand-year medicinal properties, and then refine it into a pill. The pill refined from the thousand-year dragon scale grass could treat breakthroughs.

Bottlenecking in the early stages of foundation building is of great benefit.

Therefore, he now refines elixirs every day to improve his elixir skills. Catalyzing herbs into ingredients that take thousands of years cannot be achieved overnight, it will take at least several years. He will take advantage of this time to improve his elixir refining level.

When his elixir level is enough to refine the second-level elixir, he will use all his strength to catalyze the dragon scale grass. This is just a plan, a last resort plan, and it has not been implemented yet.

The most important thing at the moment is to improve my alchemy skills. Maybe one day I will break through the bottleneck! Then I won’t have to spend so much time catalyzing the herbs.
Chapter completed!