Cao Yu did not respond directly. He looked at Zhang Shiping for a while and then said slowly:

"Shiheng should also know that our clan has inherited the ancient inheritance, and the nine ancestors worked together to understand three methods from the inheritance. One is "Blood Soul Refining", the second is "Returning to the Infant after a Hard Journey", and the last one

The name of the Dharma is "Changing Yuan and Changing Soul". I think you should have been exposed to it to some extent, but do you know the mystery of it?"

Zhang Shiping didn't know what the old guy was planning, so he said without changing his expression: "Is it possible that fellow Taoist Cao wants to share the secret with me?"

"Why not? Shiheng should have already practiced the method of "Changing Yuan and Transforming Soul" to the second half of the volume. Do you think this method is difficult or easy?" Cao Yu said with a smile, stroking his beard.

"It's naturally very dangerous. When practicing, you should always be careful and walk on thin ice. If you make a mistake, your soul will be damaged." Zhang Shiping did not hide it. After all, Cao Yu must have a more thorough understanding of this method than him.

In fact, although this "Yuan Yuan Soul Transformation" is a first-class soul cultivation method in the world, it is too difficult.

There are many miraculous elixirs in the world of spiritual practice that can cure injuries of the soul. Xiao Chengwu, who has practiced this method, as a revered person, it is naturally easy for him to obtain these elixirs.

But even if it is like this, he will inevitably end up with a split soul.

"Indeed, in fact, the nine ancestors of our clan have never practiced this method to great perfection. But even so, they can achieve the transformation of gods, instead of taking the wrong path to understand the method of transforming gods."

After Cao Yu finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Shiping with a faint smile on his face.

"Thirty thousand years ago, Xiao Huan Realm should have started to suppress the realm of monks. In this environment, they can also advance to become gods?" Zhang Shiping was a little puzzled, and at the same time, he was also a little moved in his heart.

After all, the realm of divine transformation can be regarded as the lifelong pursuit of all Yuanying monks. Only after reaching the realm of divine transformation can they pass through the counter-spiritual passage, break away from the barrier of Xiaohuan Realm, and have the possibility of immortality.

It was just based on what he had read in the ancient records.

The ancient times date back about 138,000 years. The period from 80,000 years ago to the ancient period is called the end of ancient times. There are still monks in the world who are in the integration period. Xiaohuanjie was still called Linghuan at that time.

However, the entire world is constantly shrinking, and the three realms such as Nanzhou are the best examples.

In ancient times, the territory of the three realms was so vast that even one realm could not be crossed by Yuanying monks relying on their own cultivation. Only when monks reached the realm of cave and initially understood the mystery of space could they cross the void.

, coming and going.

However, the spiritual power between heaven and earth declined rapidly. During the period from 40,000 to 80,000 years ago, there were very few monks in the realm of integration. At that time, even the Xuanyuan Sect was no more than 80,000 years ago.

There is only one ancestor in the integration stage, and he is already the best monk in the world.

Therefore, even though Master Jin Guang was a powerful person in the late Dongxu realm at that time, he had to come from overseas to pay his respects after being summoned by the ancestor in the integration stage.

But after tens of thousands of years, the spiritual power between heaven and earth became extremely obscure, and suddenly it was no longer enough to support the monks in their cultivation to the realm of becoming gods.

The decline of the world's intelligence is not a slow decline, but a step-by-step cliff-like decline.

It was about 40,000 years ago at that point in time when Xiaohuanjie's spiritual power declined further. At that time, the Nascent Soul realm was already the highest realm that monks could achieve through normal practice.

At that time, it was considered the early stage when the spiritual power of Xiao Huanjie began to decline sharply. At that time, it was relatively easy for Nascent Soul monks to break through the bottleneck. Therefore, there were many monks in the middle and later stages.

As for now, Xiao Huanjie's spiritual intelligence is still the same, with no sign of recovery. Low-level monks have not yet been able to feel this, but Nascent Soul monks have a deep understanding of it. When they practice, every step they take is as good as

Sailing against the current.

Otherwise, most of the hundreds of Yuanying monks in Nanzhou would only be in the early stages of cultivation.

"Of course he can be promoted to a god. Otherwise, the nine ancestors and the Mingxin Sect, ten of them would not have broken through almost at the same time. This is the secret of the ancient inheritance." Cao Yu said confidently, he believed

No Nascent Soul cultivator in this world can resist this temptation.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Shiping's expression suddenly became indifferent. He picked up the tea cup and took a sip before asking:

"In this case, I don't know what Fellow Daoist Cao wants to get from me. With your cultivation level, if there is something you can't do, then it should be even more impossible for me."

"Shiheng has worried too much, I have nothing else to ask for." Cao Yu said with a smile.

"What? Do you think fellow Taoist Cao is treating me like a three-year-old child? The more unasked you are, the heavier the price you will pay in the future. What is your request? If I can do it, I will do my best, but

If you really want to be powerless, then let’s stop talking.” Zhang Shiping chuckled lightly.

Cao Yu picked up the tea cup at hand, brewed it, took off the lid, took a sip, and said slowly:

"Good tea leaves a fragrance on your lips and teeth. Shiheng, do you know what the best things in the world are? One is tea, and the other is wine. The former is light and the latter is strong. All the flavors of life are in it. How long do you think the small world will last?

There will be a moment when the inspiration fades again, and there is not much time left. It doesn’t matter that I am old, but you are still young. If you don’t seize every opportunity, how can you go further?”

"Is it possible that I should follow the clan's example and use the blood soul refining array again?" Zhang Shiping said.

"You little guys, you don't take life as one thing, you always feel that there is still time, unlike old guys like me, who only think about how to live for one more day. But this blood soul refining, cloth formation

The Dharma is for external use, and there are also internal refining methods. The three Dharmas of our clan are inherited from the same source, and the final cultivation method is a discipline called "Blood Demon Sutra"

This is the ancient magic that our clan has inherited. It also records the experience of our ancestors practicing "Changing Yuans and Souls". I don't ask for much, I just hope that you can consider it as a bloodline of the Qin family.

Come on, take good care of those younger generations from now on and give them a place to live, it doesn’t need to be too much." Cao Yu said calmly.

As soon as he finished speaking, he put down the cup of tea, turned over his hands and took out a palm-sized blood jade, placed it on the table, then stood up and walked out slowly.

Before leaving, he paused for a moment, turned his back to Zhang Shiping, and sighed: "Whether you agree or not, the inheritance of our clan is entrusted to you. I have committed too many sins in this life, and my clan members will die without mercy.

The sacrifices in the blood soul refining array are just to fulfill me. They just want me to have a chance to break through to become a god. But I have failed everyone's expectations after all. Now I just need to close my eyes, ugh

!”

After saying this, Cao Yu suddenly seemed to have aged a lot, and his figure became rickety. Previously in the Bixiao Palace, he rejected the entreaty of the Marquis Suan. I don't know how determined he was at that time.

He walked out step by step, rose up against the wind, and flew slowly towards Baimang Mountain.

Zhang Shiping looked at the blood jade on the table, turned slightly, put his elbow on the armrest of the chair, touched his chin, and said nothing.

But after about half a stick of incense, Jiang Si walked in. Seeing Zhang Shiping's appearance, he couldn't help asking: "Master, what's wrong? What did the old guy say?"

"It's nothing." Zhang Shiping responded. Killing each other among the same clan is not a glorious thing.

After Jiang Si heard this, he did not ask any further questions. Instead, he looked at the blood jade on the table and said, "This is what he left behind. What does it say?"

"Clan inheritance." Zhang Shiping replied calmly.

"Don't you want to take a look?" Jiang Si didn't rush to check.

"I'm worried that the temptation here is too great, and if I lose my true intention, the gains will outweigh the losses," Zhang Shiping said.

"Then let the master decide for himself. However, this method should come from the Mingxin Courtyard. You can never go here again." After Jiang Si finished speaking, he walked out without hesitation, leaving Zhang Shiping alone.

space.

After a long time, until the sky outside turned dark, he reached out and took out the blood jade.

However, he didn't look at it, but put it directly into the jade belt around his waist, then turned around and returned to the quiet room.

Under the blue flame of the bronze lamp, he sat down cross-legged, calmed down his distracting thoughts, and waited for his mood to calm down.

Then with a thought, a ball of golden light slowly rose from the palm of his hand.

Immediately afterwards, the golden light dispersed and condensed into small golden mirrors, suspended in the air. Then in the misty clear light, Zhang Shiping's Nascent Soul came out of his body.

The twenty-one golden light mirrors immediately surrounded the Nascent Soul and formed a formation. Wisps of golden light flowed out from the mirrors and enveloped it.

The night passed quietly until dawn, when the morning light dimmed.

The Nascent Soul flew out of the golden light, slowly landed on the top of the body's head, and then disappeared in a flash.

Zhang Shiping slowly opened his eyes, and the twenty-one golden light mirrors condensed into a ball of golden light and submerged into the middle Dantian again.

"I see, no wonder Jin Guangjing recognized me." Zhang Shiping stood up and said, then extinguished the bronze lamp and put it away.

That night, he tried to communicate with the confused gods in the golden mirror, although he did not receive a clear response.

But in the god's vague memory, he saw the scene where Master Jinguang and the self-proclaimed Fire Crow Master Crow Thirteen worked together to practice the exercises under the fire mulberry tree in Xiaotang Valley under the red sand island.

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However, during this period, the two exchanged only a few words.

Most of the time, they condensed their own insights into formation talismans and recorded them on red stones.

It's just that these formation patterns are still too profound for Zhang Shiping. He can only get a rough idea using "Liujia True Strategy" as a reference.

I don’t know how much time passed before Master Jin Guang left Xiaotang Valley, and the scene was only recorded here.

After leaving the quiet room, Zhang Shiping flew straight up, stepped on the clouds, stood with his hands behind his hands, and looked at the intersection of the sea and the sky.

In the layer-dyed morning glow, a half-rising red sun sparkles on the sea surface, like a flame burning in the sea water, and birds soar between the clouds and the sea.

Zhang Shiping closed his eyes, completely let go of his soul, felt the mystery of the rising sun, and breathed in the purple energy between heaven and earth.

It wasn't until the sun completely rose above the sea and the golden light shone brightly that his soul felt an extremely blazing aura of the sun, and then he turned back and returned to the White Ape Palace.

In a huge square in the palace, he waved his sleeves, and a Nascent Soul dragon corpse more than twenty feet long suddenly appeared.

It took him eight plants and five thousand years of precious medicine to get this.

Previously, in the Bixiao Palace, everyone was bidding on twelve monster corpses, as well as the two monster infants. Among the ten corpses, the transaction price was eight treasure medicines, and no monk raised the price too much. This is also because

The Nascent Soul monks present only received seven of the precious medicines.

However, the price of the remaining two demon infant bodies was much higher. Each body fetched a high price of ten treasure medicines, and the number of demon infants reached seventeen.

This price may be a bit exaggerated, but demon babies have always been rare, and there are other wonderful features. Even the monks from Xuanyuan Sect, Bixiao Palace and other major sects are unwilling to give in, so they have raised the price.

The reason why Zhang Shiping was able to take out nine plants was that some of them were ginger-like. The same was true for other monks. Several people who were close to each other combined the treasures they got and one person used them for auction, while the others did not bid.

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Therefore, a total of twelve Nascent Soul cultivators made bids this time, and the remaining twenty-four True Monarchs shared the 144 precious medicines obtained through the bidding, with each of them receiving six plants.
To be continued...