Chapter 9 [The Sands of Time]
The bright red sun has just jumped out of the top of the mountain, the fresh morning breeze is refreshing, a dewdrop on the locust leaves in front of the door is dripping, a tail-cut swallow drew a black line and passed by her eyes, an ant at her feet is holding a half grain of rice harvested from unknown places, and is crawling hard...
This is a scene that Luo Xiao saw before entering the Immortal Stone Cave Heaven to practice.
In the past, Luo Xiaochen practiced in the past, except for external skills, he practiced in his own yard. When practicing the exercises and heart techniques, he usually went to Qianchi Peak where the martial arts hall was located. The reason why the martial arts hall was built on Qianchi Peak was because it was the most lively place in the entire Yishui City, where he breathed and adjusted his breathing was the best effect. However, from today on, he would no longer need to go to Qianchi Peak to practice. His immortal stone cave heaven was the best place for cultivation in the world.
Luo Xiao gently pressed the pattern of the left arm's immortal stone with his palm, and his mind moved, and the light shone over him. He disappeared without a trace.
In front of the platform of the Immortal Stone Cave Heaven, Luo Xiao’s figure appeared. He took a deep breath of the strong spiritual energy, and felt his body and mind clear, floating in the air. After washing the muscles and marrow, Luo Xiao had slowly adapted to the spiritual energy of this cave heaven, and would never have the embarrassing state of "drunk" when he first arrived in Guidi.
"I'm afraid I can't live long if I breathe such aura every day." Luo Xiao opened his arms with satisfaction, jumped out of the platform in a diving posture, played around in the void, and then slowly flew back to the platform after a while.
The moment he landed on the platform, he clearly felt that the spiritual energy of the platform was more abundant and richer than the spiritual energy of the void. If it were teleported to this platform at the beginning, it would be a few days to get drunk. Since he had explored the entire fairy stone space now, he could also use his divine thoughts to accurately locate it, and he could stably teleport to the platform position every time, without appearing randomly in a certain position in the void as he was originally.
Around the platform, there were a bunch of harvests from Longyuan Mountain, such as inner elixirs, dragon teeth, scales, dragon tendons, dragon tails, and a lot of rare herbs, as well as the things that were suspected to be dragon eggs. The tiny jagged dragon teeth were handed over, leaving only the largest fang, and there were seven or eight pieces of scale left. Luo Xiao was not sorry. Originally, these harvests were to be taken out for cultivation resources, but they were only hiding because they were too shameful to hide. Now, the supervisor and the supervisor wanted to hand over them, not only could they whiten this part of the harvest, but they also gave them a lot of resources. It was worth it!
Luo Xiao sat down cross-legged and took the thing that was suspected to be a dragon egg. He knocked and slapped for a long time, but he still found nothing. Forget it, throw it aside and start practicing.
Before entering into meditation, Luo Xiao couldn't help but look at the magical stone gate a few times. Although he had seen it many times, every time he looked at it, Luo Xiao was deeply attracted by the strange stone gate. He had a premonition that if one day he could open the mysterious stone gate, it would definitely bring him a huge surprise.
It’s useless to think more, practice.
Luo Xiao put his hands together, his eyes were observed with his nose and nose, and began to run the fourth level of the "Hunyuan Yiqi Jue".
The Hunyuan Yiqi Jue is the main hall technique of Yishui Martial Arts. There are many martial arts in the world, but they can systematically and completely form a set of inherited martial arts that have been promoted from low-level to high-level. There are only the number of hands in the world. There are thousands of martial arts schools in the world, and all the martial arts disciples who come from martial arts can't run out of the number of hands. These inherited martial arts are called the main hall technique, which is the standard martial arts.
"Standard" does not mean that it is a big road product, but is finalized after layers of screening by countless generations of martial arts masters. It includes the best adaptable skills from the lowest level of warriors to the highest level of warriors.
There are ten levels of Hunyuan Yiqi Art, corresponding to the fifth level of foundation building for warriors and the fifth level of warriors. Each level of improvement is to advance to the next level. Of course, there are other conditions to be achieved, but the most core is the Hunyuan Yiqi Art, and the other conditions for achieving it are centered around this skill core.
Luo Xiao has advanced to the blood refining stage, and the Hunyuan Yiqi Technique has also reached the fourth level accordingly. Now he is moving towards the fifth level. With such abundant magical aura, Luo Xiao believes that he will definitely advance to the fifth level in the near future. However, he still doesn't know what kind of impact his feelings will be next.
With Luo Xiao's long inhalation, the spiritual mist between his mouth and nose rolled in, and then a faint white turbid air shot out like a long dragon. In an instant, it was melted and purified by the tide of spiritual energy, and it did not exist at all.
One big circumference, two big circumferences... run until nine big circumferences, and the meridians in the body are extremely full and have a little pain. Only then did Luo Xiao slowly end his practice and end his practice.
"Huh--" Luo Xiao spit out his last mouthful of the Great Circumference to transport turbid air. The breath was like an arrow, and a long white mark was drawn in the spiritual fog, which slowly disappeared. He opened his eyes and felt his body, and felt that the spiritual platform was clear and bright, with sufficient vitality, and endless energy in his body. The most important thing is that he could clearly feel that the fourth level of Hunyuan Yiqi Jue had another big step forward.
"It's such a blessed place to practice!" Luo Xiao sighed. The feeling of making obvious progress every time he practiced was so wonderful. Moreover, he didn't feel hungry after practicing for so long. Unfortunately, his meridians could only endure nine great circles and reach saturation. If there were more, it would damage the meridians. However, I believe that as the cultivation level deepens, the meridians continue to broaden, and the power to accommodate the circulation of the circles will continue to increase. It is a matter of time before and for the thirty-six great circles.
After completing the morning exercise, Luo Xiao didn't want to stay too long and directly teleported out of the cave world. Although the cave world is good, it is too quiet. It's okay to stay for a short time. If it's too long, it will be very depressing. It can be used for cultivation. If you live here, you will go crazy if you don't die.
Luo Xiao had just appeared in the courtyard, stretched his waist, and half of his arm was stretched out, suddenly he was stunned and completely frozen.
The scenery in front of me is still the same, the bright red sunshine has just jumped out of the mountain top, the fresh morning breeze is refreshing, a dewdrop on the locust leaves in front of the door just fell, reflecting colorful light, a tail-cut swallow drew a black line and just disappeared from the corner of her eyes, an ant at her feet carries half a grain of rice harvested from unknown places and crawls hard...
What's wrong with this? Did you see a ghost or was it just a dream just now?
Where did the ghost come from in broad daylight? Respond to the body, the feeling of improving the power is clear, and it is definitely not a dream!
Then, that would be... Luo Xiao was stunned for a moment, and a flash of lightning suddenly flashed in his mind. He jumped up like electricity, rushed into the room quickly, and took out a timing compass. Then he rushed out of the yard like wind, ran away from several neighbors, and finally borrowed an hourglass. Although the compass is different from an hourglass, the timing accuracy is generally the same.
Luo Xiao rushed back to the yard, buckled the hourglass directly to the ground, and disappeared with a copper compass in his hand. The next moment, he appeared on the Xianshi Cave Heavenly Platform.
Luo Xiao put the copper compass on the platform and wanted to run a few more circles, but he couldn't calm down and turned around the copper compass with his hands behind his back.
This copper compass is only half a palm-sized size and is round. There are twelve scales on it, representing twelve hours a day. The center is a copper ball like the sun, and there are also twelve smaller scales on it, representing twelve months a year. Between the sun and the moon scales, there is a slowly rotating disc, which is covered with small magnets representing various hours and month meanings. This timing compass for precise timing was made by Qianji Branch, which is famous for its mechanisms. It is much more accurate than the primary timer like hourglass, but it is also relatively expensive and ordinary people cannot afford it. This is why Luo Xiao ran away to several neighbors to borrow only the hourglass instead of the timing compass.
Because Luo Xiao was not able to carry such a crude and inconvenient timer tool as an hourglass with him, he had been jealous of this time compass for a long time. However, this thing requires a lot of merit points, and he has never been willing to do it. This time when he returned from Longyuan Mountain, he no longer worried about merit points. After leaving the Supervisory Council yesterday, he went to Yingyang Hall to collect the merit points of the mission, smashed them all, and bought this time compass directly. Unexpectedly, the first time he used it was in this situation.
After finally surviving an hour, Luo Xiao appeared in the yard again, and the scenery in front of him was still there, his eyes fell on the hourglass - only a dozen clearly identifiable grains of sand fell!
He had been in the fairy stone cave for a whole hour, and the hourglass only took one hour, and then he had to be reversed and re-timed. However, the sand particles falling now can be counted clearly!
The time flow rate of Xianshi Cave Heaven is actually different from that of the outside world, so that's it!
This amazing discovery finally solved Luo Xiao’s confusion - when he was in Longyuan Mountain, he always felt that he had been sleeping for a long time when he entered the Immortal Stone Cave for the first time. In addition, he had continuously broken through the second level, so the time spent was definitely not short, otherwise there would be no reason to be like that. But after coming out of the mountain, he checked the time and he was indeed only staying outside the deep valley of Longtan for a night. This time difference always made him feel that something was wrong. Now he finally understood that this cave is indeed different from the space he was in.
Luo Xiao didn't care about the external skills training he had to do next. He just kept testing and after repeated comparisons, he finally confirmed that the time difference between the Xianshi Cave Heaven and the outside world was 365 to 1 - a year in the Cave Heaven, one day outside world!
Luo Xiao was frightened by this result. The difference in time flow rate was so great. And it was not much, it was exactly one day for one year. Does it contain any mystery that I haven’t understood yet?
After thinking for a long time, Luo Xiao couldn't understand it, so he had to let it go. Now, the most important thing for him is what this huge jet lag can bring to him. The most intuitive and obvious thing is the benefits of cultivation. Others only practice for one day, and one day of practice is equivalent to one year.
"Such a huge difference, coupled with the abundant spiritual energy, what reason do I, Luo Xiao, cannot compare to others?" Luo Xiao clenched his fist hard, his eyes full of confidence.
After the joy, Luo Xiao suddenly remembered something and slapped his head: "Oh no! That dragon's tail!" The figure disappeared and appeared on the Xianshi Cave Heavenly Platform the next moment.
In the pile of harvests thrown in a corner of the platform, the largest and most conspicuous piece is the half of the tail that looks like a giant fish tail. Even if only half of it is left, it is as thick as Luo Xiao's waist. Almost everything here is resistant to releasing. The teeth, scales, inner elixirs, etc. cannot be damaged no matter how long it takes. Even the flowers and plants will become dry and wilt as time passes, and will not affect the efficacy of the medicine too much. After all, many herbs actually have to be dried and scattered. Only this tail is pure meat. It takes a few days for him to put in the cave to a few years. This meat can still be eaten...
However, the fact was unexpected. After Luo Xiao's inspection, everything including the dragon tail was fine. Just as when he was just collected, the dragon tail showed no signs of decay, and the flowers and plants were the same as when he was just picked.
Luo Xiao was puzzled for a long time before he gradually realized: "It's spiritual energy! The spiritual energy here is too rich, there are no decay conditions or environments at all, and it can be kept fresh for a long time."
However, even though he understood, Luo Xiao still felt that it would not be safe to keep the meat for a long time, so he cut off a large piece of meat from the tail of the dragon, flashed out of the cave, and went directly to cook and barbecue. With this large piece of meat, dinner was saved.
The dragon meat is quite fragrant when roasted, and you can clearly feel a strong fluctuation of spiritual energy. This fluctuation also triggered the surging of energy in Luo Xiao's body and blood tumbling.
Luo Xiao, who seemed to have some sense, swallowed the dragon meat as quickly as possible and ate it clean. Before he could wipe his hands clean, his dantian vital energy buzzed, his whole body was full of blood and energy. His exposed skin was like cooked shrimps, which was scary red.
Luo Xiao groaned, and two blood gushed out of his nostrils, his eyes were covered with blood, his whole face was swollen, and his skin was so red that it seemed to seep blood. Luo Xiao could not see his scary look, but he also guessed that this was a situation caused by the huge amount of blood and energy of the spirit essence that could not be absorbed in time. Now he could only work hard to turn the fourth level of the Hunyuan Yi Qi Art, constantly pushing the excessive blood energy of the dragon into the blood vessels and organs of the whole body. At the same time, the Yuan seed quickly, swallowing the huge spiritual essence, turning it into the spirit energy, and transporting it to the meridians of the whole body, and expanding the already extremely wide meridians...
boom!
After a while, a huge roar suddenly came from his body. Luo Xiao shook all over his body, his bones slammed, and his breath exploded - his blood and energy were actually full!
The fifth level, breakthrough!
Chapter completed!