Chapter 306: A Little True Essence

After confirming that the immortal stone could indeed store true qi, Xiao Mian never took it out again. Anyway, the immortal stone could still work if it was sealed in the body.

At this moment, Xiao Mian's true qi, under his control, was like thousands of rivers returning to the sea, flowing towards the immortal stone hidden in Xiao Mian's body. As time went by, the amount of true qi inside the immortal stone increased, and the speed of the true qi that was originally moving slowly began to gradually accelerate. The entire true qi flowed along a mysterious trajectory, running on its own inside the immortal stone, as if it was supposed to be like this.

At this time, Xiao Mian was fully focused, squeezing out the true qi in his body with all his strength. After putting the last bit of true qi in his body into the immortal stone, Xiao Mian immediately ran the "Three Pure Ones Bible" to try to replenish the whole body's true qi as soon as possible, in order to start the next plan.

Fortunately, the "Three Pure Ones Bible" that Xiao Mian practiced was originally known as the first Taoist foundation-building method, and the amount of true qi generated by each cycle was quite amazing. Therefore, after running for thirty-six cycles, Xiao Mian's body was filled with true qi again, and he felt refreshed and at ease. After adapting to the physical environment and confirming that everything was normal, Xiao Mian took a deep breath and began to release the original true qi from the inside of the immortal stone.

For a while, Xiao Mian felt that his meridians were swollen, his muscles were swollen, and even his bones were about to fall apart.

Fortunately, Xiao Mian has been practicing the "Ten Thousand Poisons Curse" for many years, and his meridians, flesh, and bones have been tempered several times. His toughness is far better than that of ordinary monks, so he can grit his teeth and persevere. Although he was sweating profusely, Xiao Mian was ecstatic in his heart: no matter how Xiao Mian operated the "Three Pure Ones Bible" before, he could not produce a trace of true qi in his body. Although he is now suffering from inhuman pain, it at least shows that Xiao Mian's seemingly whimsical idea is effective. The key is to see how effective it is!

As long as it works, Xiao Mian will carry it through to the end.

After that, Xiao Mian remained silent, did not eat or sleep, and just endured the tearing feeling everywhere in his body. He absorbed all the true energy stored in the fairy stone back into his body. At the moment of completing the whole process, Xiao Mian even had an illusion: his whole body swelled up!

However, realizing the three-color Taoist foundation above Dantian, Xiao Mian smiled silently. Just above the Taoist foundation, there was a substance like mercury suspended!

This mysterious substance like mercury is the true essence!

The body of the foundation-building cultivator is filled with the true energy that keeps wandering. On weekdays, they must rely on this true energy to control the magic tools and use the secret techniques. However, compared with the true essence, the density of the true energy is extremely low. The power of the same size of true energy and true essence is not comparable. This is the fundamental reason why the Jindan cultivator is more powerful than the foundation-building cultivator. With a wave of his hand, the Jindan cultivator can easily kill the foundation-building cultivator!

From the perspective of form, the true qi is like gas, and the true essence is like liquid. It is said that there are more dense spiritual properties above the true essence, but no one knows about it.

Don't underestimate the true essence that Xiao Mian has worked so hard to come up with. You should know that Lu Chengzhi would rather deliberately fail to pass the tribulation and suppress his cultivation in the foundation-building stage. On the one hand, he wanted to participate in the sword-fighting meeting as a foundation-building cultivator, and on the other hand, he wanted to keep that little true essence in his body. In the subsequent duels, Lu Chengzhi's little true essence first made Xiao Mian suffer, and finally relied on that little true essence to control the Ziwu Soul-Chasing Nail, which almost took Xiao Mian's life!

It's just that Lu Chengzhi was able to have a little true essence at the beginning because he deliberately failed to pass the tribulation and entered the realm of the fake pill cultivator. Now Xiao Mian has not tried to pass the tribulation at all. He is still a foundation-building cultivator, but he also has a little true essence.

If this matter is told, it may be enough to subvert the concepts of many cultivators.

But this little bit of true energy is Xiao Mian's trump card or life-saving talisman, how could he be so stupid as to shout it all over the world and make it known to everyone?

After thinking for a moment, Xiao Mian suppressed the excitement of the little bit of true energy obtained by his own efforts, and at the same time suppressed the intention of using the old trick again. After all, it was the first time for him to have this thing called true energy. Instead of having a little more true energy, it is better to be familiar with this little bit of true energy.

Fortunately, Xiao Mian has the old monster Guitou with him. Although Guitou's memory is incomplete, some experience about cultivation is easy to come by.

Under Guitou's knowledgeable teaching, Xiao Mian quickly mastered the method of using that little bit of true energy.

But Xiao Mian's little bit of true energy was obtained by trickery after all, unlike Lu Chengzhi, who can re-condense that little bit of true energy by using the whole body's true energy for a certain period of time after using it. Like Xiao Mian, this little bit of true energy is gone after it is used, unless Xiao Mian re-operates the previous method to have it again.

But even so, it is precious!

When Xiao Mian opened his eyes again, it was already September 18th.

September 18th, on the Tianxingtai, Yuanying duel!

I don’t know how, the news that the Jade Chu Patriarch and the God of Killing would duel on the Tianxingtai on September 18th spread all over Wanzong City like wings.

The so-called Tianxingtai is located beside the Tianmen.

The so-called Tianmen is located in the center of Tianmen District.

The reason why the entire Tianmen District is called Tianmen District is because of the existence of Tianmen. Tianmen is the only link between the nine districts of Wanzong City and the three sacred mountains suspended in the sky. It is because of the existence of Tianmen that the Tianmen District is so prosperous.

The Heavenly Punishment Platform is the execution ground for those monks who committed treason against Wanzongyuan. It is said that the criminal monks are tied to the Heavenly Punishment Pillar in the center of the Heavenly Punishment Platform. At 3:30 noon, thunder will fall from the sky and kill the criminals.

However, in the past thousand years, no one has been heard of being pushed onto the Heavenly Punishment Platform. Because the Heavenly Punishment Platform is full of evil spirits, it has become a place for monks in Wanzong City to duel.

After hearing that the Jade Hoe Patriarch and the King of Assassins will duel on the Heavenly Punishment Platform on September 18, tens of thousands of monks have been waiting at the Heavenly Punishment Platform the night before. When the news of the duel between the two spread, the news that the leader of the Assassin Alliance, the God of Killing, had quietly advanced to the Nascent Soul stage also spread like wildfire. It is precisely because of this that the duel between the Jade Hoe Patriarch and the God of Killing attracted so many monks to watch.

The purpose is to see the peak duel between Nascent Soul monks!

On the morning of September 18, the area around Tianxingtai was already crowded with people, but Tianxingtai was empty.

At this time, the old ancestor Yuchu was still drinking his homemade eight-treasure porridge in his own courtyard. The rice used in the porridge was the pearl fragrant rice planted by the old ancestor himself. Each grain was shaped like a pearl and was white in color. It made people salivate and left a lingering fragrance in their mouths. The ingredients added to the porridge were peanuts, golden dates, white-eyed almonds, black-hearted walnuts, pine chestnuts, heartless lotus, lily and longan meat, which was called eight-treasure spiritual porridge!

Thanks to the blessing of the old ancestor Yuchu, Xiao Mian also had a great feast. He enjoyed a bowl of eight-treasure spiritual porridge. He felt that the spiritual porridge melted in his mouth and turned into a trace of spiritual energy along the esophagus. Not only did Xiao Mian feel refreshed, but it also cleared away the fatigue of converting a little true energy before.

After drinking the Eight Treasures Spirit Porridge, Patriarch Yuchu stood up as if nothing had happened, walked out of the courtyard, and flew towards the Heavenly Gate without taking the teleportation array.

With the Nascent Soul cultivator's speed of escaping thousands of miles in an instant, this place is only a few hundred miles away from the Heavenly Punishment Platform, so it is naturally not as fast as flying directly. Of course, for Xiao Mian and others, it is more practical to sit in the teleportation array honestly. Therefore, after leaving the courtyard, Xiao Mian, Ding Kaishan, Yan Yan, Lu Jiu and others went to the teleportation array together.

Along the way, everyone had their own thoughts and no one spoke.

After arriving at the teleportation array, according to the previous arrangement, Yan Yan escorted Ding Kaishan first, leaving Lu Jiu to protect Xiao Mian. Seeing Yan Yan and Ding Kaishan turned into light and left, Xiao Mian wanted to board the teleportation array, but saw that Lu Jiu had no intention of moving at all.

"Xiao, I suddenly remembered that I left something behind at my residence. How about you wait for me for a while? I'll go get it and then I'll go with you, how about that?" Lu Jiu said this with a gentle look on his face. Xiao Mian was stunned for a moment, but soon smiled and said, "No problem! Senior Lu, just go get the things you left behind. It's okay for me to go ahead! I guess Senior Yan and Brother Ding are already at the teleportation array, so they shouldn't be in trouble!"

"Then..., that's fine!"

Having said that, Lu Jiu turned around and left neatly.

This made Xiao Mian even more confused about the other party's plan. Did he really leave something behind?

In any case, I'd better have less contact with Lu Jiu!

With this idea in mind, Xiao Mian stepped onto the teleportation array alone, intending to meet up with Yan Yan and Ding Kaishan first - compared to the smiling Green Scythe Lu Jiu, Xiao Mian had a better impression of the unreserved Earth Dragon Yan Yan.