"Forget it, the boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge."
After sighing for a while, Lu Qing calmed down.
These situations were actually within his expectations.
After all, his starting point was too high, and the power of the perfect golden elixir was too strong.
However, the speed of this world's recovery cannot keep up with the speed of his cultivation.
It is also foreseeable that practice will be difficult.
That is to say, he possesses supernatural powers and many rare treasures that can assist in his practice.
Otherwise, the time for practice would probably have to be extended by more than ten times.
After calming down, Lu Qing took out the communication jade talisman.
This time of retreat and breakthrough took quite a long time, and it was unknown whether anyone had sent any message to him.
After checking with his mind, Lu Qing discovered that there were indeed quite a few messages.
The first message was sent by Master half a year ago.
He said that he had recently traveled around the world and discovered a rare flower that could be used to prepare a very effective detoxifying powder, which was mild in nature and could be taken by ordinary people.
When he returns to the village in the future, we can study it together.
Next, he received messages from Wei Shanhai, Lin Zhirui and others.
Most of them just talk about recent developments, nothing special.
In addition to these, the one who left the most communication messages was Xiaoyan.
The little girl has been traveling recently, and she brought Xiaoli and Wuxing with her.
Whenever she arrived at a place or encountered something interesting, Xiaoyan would message Lu Qing and tell him about it.
Therefore, most of the contents in the communication jade talisman were interesting stories that Xiaoyan told him.
For example, she might have eaten something delicious somewhere, or picked a beautiful spiritual flower in a forest somewhere.
Although what Xiaoyan said were all very everyday things.
But Lu Qing watched with great interest, with a smile on his face from time to time.
In recent years, he has spent most of his time in seclusion in the Holy Mountain.
The time I can spend with Xiaoyan has become much less.
Now he is still very pleased to see the little girl having fun outside.
But as he watched, Lu Qing's brows began to frown again.
Because in the subsequent communications, he saw that Xiaoyan seemed to be traveling with some people of the same age recently.
He started to mention those people more frequently, and from his words, it seemed that he had a very good relationship with them.
"Was it a real chance encounter, or was he approaching her deliberately?" Lu Qing was a little confused.
He immediately calmed his mind and called out according to the sense in his soul.
"Five elements!"
In the distance, the colorful winged snake lying in Xiaoyan's hood suddenly woke up.
Then it showed surprise in its eyes: "Master, is it you?"
"It's me. Where are you, Xiaoyan and Xiaoli now?" Lu Qing asked in his mind.
The Five Elements are spiritual beasts enslaved by his soul. With his current level of cultivation, as long as he does not leave this world, he can communicate with his soul at any time.
This is also the reason why Lu Qing felt at ease letting Xiaoyan go out and travel.
It’s not just because she is protected by two spiritual beasts, Wuxing and Xiaoli.
Also, if anything happens, the Five Elements can summon him at any time through the Soul Slavery Mark.
"Master, we are now in a small state called Linzhou in the northern territory." Wuxing answered in his heart.
Over the past ten years, the five-colored winged snake has finally learned to use human language and can communicate with Lu Qing without any obstacles.
"I just came out of quarantine today and saw a message from Xiaoyan saying that you guys have been traveling with a few people recently. Who are they? Are they reliable?"
"Yes, Master." The Five-Colored Winged Snake thought for a moment and replied, "The young master has indeed been traveling with a few young people recently.
Those people seemed to come from different sects, and their cultivation was not bad, all of them were above the innate minor success level.
As for their behavior, Xiao Li and I haven't seen any bad intentions from them yet."
Hearing this, Lu Qing felt relieved.
The five elements might sense it wrongly, but Xiao Li could be absolutely trusted.
Xiao Li's sensing ability is very mysterious.
If those people really had any ill intentions towards Xiaoyan, it would be difficult for them to escape its detection.
However, human hearts are hard to predict, so Lu Qing still gave the Five-Colored Winged Snake some instructions.
"No matter what, you have to be careful and protect Xiaoyan."
“Got it, Master. Xiao Li and I have always stayed by the young master’s side and have never revealed our strength.
Even the young master has only ever demonstrated the strength of the Innate Realm.
Those people don’t know our background.”
The five-colored winged snake said in its heart.
"That's fine, you guys keep doing this, and when I'm done with my work, I'll come find you.
Also, don’t tell Xiaoyan about my contact with you for now.”
Hearing that Xiaoyan had not fully exposed her strength, Lu Qing was completely relieved.
In fact, he also knew that his worries were a bit unnecessary.
During these ten years, the little girl's cultivation progress has been very rapid.
Now he has become a powerful cultivator who has achieved great success in building a foundation.
Even in the entire cultivation world, he is considered a true master.
In addition, he also had many treasures he gave him and Xiaoli and the others on him.
Even if they were truly at the Golden Core stage, they might not be able to do anything to them in a short period of time.
After breaking the mental connection with the five-colored winged snake, Lu Qing continued to look at the communication jade talisman.
Suddenly, when he saw the last message, he was stunned for a moment, then showed joy.
"Has that old dragon turtle finally figured it out?"
Over the years, Lu Qing has contacted the old dragon turtle several times.
During this period, he also proposed to the old dragon turtle that he wanted to exchange some of its blood.
At first, the old dragon turtle flatly refused.
But when Lu Qing later put forward his own conditions, it hesitated again.
Now it seems that it has finally figured it out.
"It just so happens that the spiritual energy in the cave in the Holy Mountain has little effect on me now. I can go to the East China Sea to see if there are any treasures that can help me practice."
After Lu Qing thought about it, he was about to leave the country and head to the East China Sea.
At this time, a voice suddenly came from outside: "Little Daoist Fellow Lu, have you come out of retreat?"
Lu Qing recognized that it was the voice of the First Holy Lord and immediately left the cave.
"Senior Saint Lord, long time no see."
"Sure enough, when we sensed your aura just now, we guessed that you, Little Daoist Brother Lu, must have come out of retreat."
Outside the cave, the three Holy Lords were all there, and the First Holy Lord smiled.
"I failed to control my breath and disturbed the three Holy Lords." Lu Qing said apologetically.
"What are you talking about, Fellow Daoist Lu?" The First Saint Lord waved his hands repeatedly, "But even you can't completely control your aura. It seems that Fellow Daoist Lu has gained a lot from this retreat."
"It's just a small breakthrough, not worth mentioning." Lu Qing said with a smile.
"Little Daoist Brother Lu is too modest."
When the three saints heard this, they were all shocked.
Sure enough, Lu Qing had another breakthrough.
I just don’t know what realm he has reached after this breakthrough.
The three Holy Lords had never been able to see through Lu Qing's true level of cultivation.
Anyway, no matter when they face Lu Qing, they only have one feeling.
That is unfathomable and difficult to guess.
However, Lu Qing, who is so powerful, can still make breakthroughs from time to time.
This made the three holy masters sigh from the bottom of their hearts.
He is worthy of being the first person to transcend the tribulation after the changes in heaven and earth, and the most amazing and peerless genius of this era.
During these ten years, the three of them have made some progress in their cultivation.
For example, the first Saint Lord has already entered the second level of the Golden Elixir, and the second and third Saint Lords are almost at perfection in the first level.
His progress in cultivation can be said to be very fast.
But compared to Lu Qing's retreat and breakthrough every once in a while, the gap is really too huge.
"By the way, the three seniors came to see me, is there anything I can help you with?" Lu Qing asked at this time.
“That’s right, this booklet records the various spiritual objects collected by the disciples of the Holy Mountain over the past year.
It's a rare opportunity for you, Little Daoist Brother Lu, to come out of retreat, so we sent it to you for your review."
The Second Holy Lord then handed over a booklet.
"Oh? Let me take a look."
Lu Qing took the booklet and started flipping through it.
Ever since the holy meeting ten years ago, when the ban was formulated after consultation with many sectarian forces, the Holy Mountain has been committed to maintaining the authority of the ban.
If any monk was found to have violated the ban, disciples would be sent immediately to arrest and interrogate him.
Once their crime is confirmed, they will be punished directly. Even if the person has violated a ban or is a disciple of a major sect, they will be punished without mercy.
Catching criminals involves great risks, and Holy Mountain will certainly not let its disciples take risks in vain.
Therefore, the Holy Mountain has always had a complete system of rewards and punishments.
After the disciples successfully capture criminals, they will receive certain rewards.
The merit rewards obtained can be used to exchange for various skills or spiritual objects and magical tools.
Similarly, if disciples obtain spiritual objects outside that they cannot use, they can also hand them over to the Holy Mountain.
Convert your achievements into something else you want.
Ten years ago, Lu Qing accidentally learned about the reward and punishment system of the Holy Mountain and immediately became interested.
The world is changing now, and with the continued recovery of spiritual energy, all kinds of spiritual creatures will appear in the world one after another.
Even those secret realms that have disappeared for tens of thousands of years will gradually reappear.
And he often needs to practice in seclusion, so he obviously doesn't have much time to collect spiritual objects.
But if he could take advantage of the Holy Mountain's reward and punishment system, he could use the Holy Mountain's disciples to collect the spiritual objects he needed.
So, at that time, Lu Qing proposed to the three Holy Lords that he wanted to put some things into the Hall of Merit in exchange for the merits of the Holy Mountain.
The three holy masters naturally had no objection to this and even welcomed it.
The three of them cannot leave the holy mountain in their real bodies and can only go out in the form of puppet bodies.
If it was before the revival of spiritual energy, it would be naturally easy to collect treasures with the strength of the puppet body.
But now the situation has changed, and it is difficult for the puppet body to suppress the others.
Moreover, they themselves also need to concentrate on their practice and have little time to go out.
Therefore, the treasures that could be provided to the disciples of the Holy Mountain were gradually becoming insufficient.
It would be a good thing if Lu Qing could join in, as it would help them solve their urgent problem.
In this way, Lu Qing joined the reward and punishment system of the Holy Mountain.
What he put into the Hall of Merit was nothing else but various talismans.
Originally, he was planning to carve the talismans himself without much effort, and he could also practice the art of runes at the same time.
If I could exchange it for some spiritual items I need, it would be a pleasant surprise.
However, what was unexpected was that the talisman engraved by Lu Qing was placed into the Merit Hall.
Unexpectedly, he was welcomed by all the disciples of the Holy Mountain.
It even became the favorite treasure to be exchanged by the disciples of the Holy Mountain.
After all, the activation of the talisman does not require a high level of cultivation.
However, a powerful talisman can greatly increase a cultivator's combat effectiveness, and even allow him to fight against opponents of higher levels.
Who wouldn't like such a treasure?
It is precisely because the talismans are so popular that Lu Qing’s accumulated merits over the years have surpassed those of the three saints.
Become the person with the most merits in the entire Holy Mountain.
However, apart from the three Holy Lords, few people know about this matter.
The vast majority of the Holy Mountain disciples still believed that those talismans were taken out by the three Holy Lords.
Lu Qing flipped through the booklet and marked the spiritual object he wanted when he saw it.
However, most of the spiritual objects in the booklet were very ordinary and of no use to him.
When he turned to the last page and saw one of the things, Lu Qing's eyes suddenly lit up.
(End of this chapter)
After sighing for a while, Lu Qing calmed down.
These situations were actually within his expectations.
After all, his starting point was too high, and the power of the perfect golden elixir was too strong.
However, the speed of this world's recovery cannot keep up with the speed of his cultivation.
It is also foreseeable that practice will be difficult.
That is to say, he possesses supernatural powers and many rare treasures that can assist in his practice.
Otherwise, the time for practice would probably have to be extended by more than ten times.
After calming down, Lu Qing took out the communication jade talisman.
This time of retreat and breakthrough took quite a long time, and it was unknown whether anyone had sent any message to him.
After checking with his mind, Lu Qing discovered that there were indeed quite a few messages.
The first message was sent by Master half a year ago.
He said that he had recently traveled around the world and discovered a rare flower that could be used to prepare a very effective detoxifying powder, which was mild in nature and could be taken by ordinary people.
When he returns to the village in the future, we can study it together.
Next, he received messages from Wei Shanhai, Lin Zhirui and others.
Most of them just talk about recent developments, nothing special.
In addition to these, the one who left the most communication messages was Xiaoyan.
The little girl has been traveling recently, and she brought Xiaoli and Wuxing with her.
Whenever she arrived at a place or encountered something interesting, Xiaoyan would message Lu Qing and tell him about it.
Therefore, most of the contents in the communication jade talisman were interesting stories that Xiaoyan told him.
For example, she might have eaten something delicious somewhere, or picked a beautiful spiritual flower in a forest somewhere.
Although what Xiaoyan said were all very everyday things.
But Lu Qing watched with great interest, with a smile on his face from time to time.
In recent years, he has spent most of his time in seclusion in the Holy Mountain.
The time I can spend with Xiaoyan has become much less.
Now he is still very pleased to see the little girl having fun outside.
But as he watched, Lu Qing's brows began to frown again.
Because in the subsequent communications, he saw that Xiaoyan seemed to be traveling with some people of the same age recently.
He started to mention those people more frequently, and from his words, it seemed that he had a very good relationship with them.
"Was it a real chance encounter, or was he approaching her deliberately?" Lu Qing was a little confused.
He immediately calmed his mind and called out according to the sense in his soul.
"Five elements!"
In the distance, the colorful winged snake lying in Xiaoyan's hood suddenly woke up.
Then it showed surprise in its eyes: "Master, is it you?"
"It's me. Where are you, Xiaoyan and Xiaoli now?" Lu Qing asked in his mind.
The Five Elements are spiritual beasts enslaved by his soul. With his current level of cultivation, as long as he does not leave this world, he can communicate with his soul at any time.
This is also the reason why Lu Qing felt at ease letting Xiaoyan go out and travel.
It’s not just because she is protected by two spiritual beasts, Wuxing and Xiaoli.
Also, if anything happens, the Five Elements can summon him at any time through the Soul Slavery Mark.
"Master, we are now in a small state called Linzhou in the northern territory." Wuxing answered in his heart.
Over the past ten years, the five-colored winged snake has finally learned to use human language and can communicate with Lu Qing without any obstacles.
"I just came out of quarantine today and saw a message from Xiaoyan saying that you guys have been traveling with a few people recently. Who are they? Are they reliable?"
"Yes, Master." The Five-Colored Winged Snake thought for a moment and replied, "The young master has indeed been traveling with a few young people recently.
Those people seemed to come from different sects, and their cultivation was not bad, all of them were above the innate minor success level.
As for their behavior, Xiao Li and I haven't seen any bad intentions from them yet."
Hearing this, Lu Qing felt relieved.
The five elements might sense it wrongly, but Xiao Li could be absolutely trusted.
Xiao Li's sensing ability is very mysterious.
If those people really had any ill intentions towards Xiaoyan, it would be difficult for them to escape its detection.
However, human hearts are hard to predict, so Lu Qing still gave the Five-Colored Winged Snake some instructions.
"No matter what, you have to be careful and protect Xiaoyan."
“Got it, Master. Xiao Li and I have always stayed by the young master’s side and have never revealed our strength.
Even the young master has only ever demonstrated the strength of the Innate Realm.
Those people don’t know our background.”
The five-colored winged snake said in its heart.
"That's fine, you guys keep doing this, and when I'm done with my work, I'll come find you.
Also, don’t tell Xiaoyan about my contact with you for now.”
Hearing that Xiaoyan had not fully exposed her strength, Lu Qing was completely relieved.
In fact, he also knew that his worries were a bit unnecessary.
During these ten years, the little girl's cultivation progress has been very rapid.
Now he has become a powerful cultivator who has achieved great success in building a foundation.
Even in the entire cultivation world, he is considered a true master.
In addition, he also had many treasures he gave him and Xiaoli and the others on him.
Even if they were truly at the Golden Core stage, they might not be able to do anything to them in a short period of time.
After breaking the mental connection with the five-colored winged snake, Lu Qing continued to look at the communication jade talisman.
Suddenly, when he saw the last message, he was stunned for a moment, then showed joy.
"Has that old dragon turtle finally figured it out?"
Over the years, Lu Qing has contacted the old dragon turtle several times.
During this period, he also proposed to the old dragon turtle that he wanted to exchange some of its blood.
At first, the old dragon turtle flatly refused.
But when Lu Qing later put forward his own conditions, it hesitated again.
Now it seems that it has finally figured it out.
"It just so happens that the spiritual energy in the cave in the Holy Mountain has little effect on me now. I can go to the East China Sea to see if there are any treasures that can help me practice."
After Lu Qing thought about it, he was about to leave the country and head to the East China Sea.
At this time, a voice suddenly came from outside: "Little Daoist Fellow Lu, have you come out of retreat?"
Lu Qing recognized that it was the voice of the First Holy Lord and immediately left the cave.
"Senior Saint Lord, long time no see."
"Sure enough, when we sensed your aura just now, we guessed that you, Little Daoist Brother Lu, must have come out of retreat."
Outside the cave, the three Holy Lords were all there, and the First Holy Lord smiled.
"I failed to control my breath and disturbed the three Holy Lords." Lu Qing said apologetically.
"What are you talking about, Fellow Daoist Lu?" The First Saint Lord waved his hands repeatedly, "But even you can't completely control your aura. It seems that Fellow Daoist Lu has gained a lot from this retreat."
"It's just a small breakthrough, not worth mentioning." Lu Qing said with a smile.
"Little Daoist Brother Lu is too modest."
When the three saints heard this, they were all shocked.
Sure enough, Lu Qing had another breakthrough.
I just don’t know what realm he has reached after this breakthrough.
The three Holy Lords had never been able to see through Lu Qing's true level of cultivation.
Anyway, no matter when they face Lu Qing, they only have one feeling.
That is unfathomable and difficult to guess.
However, Lu Qing, who is so powerful, can still make breakthroughs from time to time.
This made the three holy masters sigh from the bottom of their hearts.
He is worthy of being the first person to transcend the tribulation after the changes in heaven and earth, and the most amazing and peerless genius of this era.
During these ten years, the three of them have made some progress in their cultivation.
For example, the first Saint Lord has already entered the second level of the Golden Elixir, and the second and third Saint Lords are almost at perfection in the first level.
His progress in cultivation can be said to be very fast.
But compared to Lu Qing's retreat and breakthrough every once in a while, the gap is really too huge.
"By the way, the three seniors came to see me, is there anything I can help you with?" Lu Qing asked at this time.
“That’s right, this booklet records the various spiritual objects collected by the disciples of the Holy Mountain over the past year.
It's a rare opportunity for you, Little Daoist Brother Lu, to come out of retreat, so we sent it to you for your review."
The Second Holy Lord then handed over a booklet.
"Oh? Let me take a look."
Lu Qing took the booklet and started flipping through it.
Ever since the holy meeting ten years ago, when the ban was formulated after consultation with many sectarian forces, the Holy Mountain has been committed to maintaining the authority of the ban.
If any monk was found to have violated the ban, disciples would be sent immediately to arrest and interrogate him.
Once their crime is confirmed, they will be punished directly. Even if the person has violated a ban or is a disciple of a major sect, they will be punished without mercy.
Catching criminals involves great risks, and Holy Mountain will certainly not let its disciples take risks in vain.
Therefore, the Holy Mountain has always had a complete system of rewards and punishments.
After the disciples successfully capture criminals, they will receive certain rewards.
The merit rewards obtained can be used to exchange for various skills or spiritual objects and magical tools.
Similarly, if disciples obtain spiritual objects outside that they cannot use, they can also hand them over to the Holy Mountain.
Convert your achievements into something else you want.
Ten years ago, Lu Qing accidentally learned about the reward and punishment system of the Holy Mountain and immediately became interested.
The world is changing now, and with the continued recovery of spiritual energy, all kinds of spiritual creatures will appear in the world one after another.
Even those secret realms that have disappeared for tens of thousands of years will gradually reappear.
And he often needs to practice in seclusion, so he obviously doesn't have much time to collect spiritual objects.
But if he could take advantage of the Holy Mountain's reward and punishment system, he could use the Holy Mountain's disciples to collect the spiritual objects he needed.
So, at that time, Lu Qing proposed to the three Holy Lords that he wanted to put some things into the Hall of Merit in exchange for the merits of the Holy Mountain.
The three holy masters naturally had no objection to this and even welcomed it.
The three of them cannot leave the holy mountain in their real bodies and can only go out in the form of puppet bodies.
If it was before the revival of spiritual energy, it would be naturally easy to collect treasures with the strength of the puppet body.
But now the situation has changed, and it is difficult for the puppet body to suppress the others.
Moreover, they themselves also need to concentrate on their practice and have little time to go out.
Therefore, the treasures that could be provided to the disciples of the Holy Mountain were gradually becoming insufficient.
It would be a good thing if Lu Qing could join in, as it would help them solve their urgent problem.
In this way, Lu Qing joined the reward and punishment system of the Holy Mountain.
What he put into the Hall of Merit was nothing else but various talismans.
Originally, he was planning to carve the talismans himself without much effort, and he could also practice the art of runes at the same time.
If I could exchange it for some spiritual items I need, it would be a pleasant surprise.
However, what was unexpected was that the talisman engraved by Lu Qing was placed into the Merit Hall.
Unexpectedly, he was welcomed by all the disciples of the Holy Mountain.
It even became the favorite treasure to be exchanged by the disciples of the Holy Mountain.
After all, the activation of the talisman does not require a high level of cultivation.
However, a powerful talisman can greatly increase a cultivator's combat effectiveness, and even allow him to fight against opponents of higher levels.
Who wouldn't like such a treasure?
It is precisely because the talismans are so popular that Lu Qing’s accumulated merits over the years have surpassed those of the three saints.
Become the person with the most merits in the entire Holy Mountain.
However, apart from the three Holy Lords, few people know about this matter.
The vast majority of the Holy Mountain disciples still believed that those talismans were taken out by the three Holy Lords.
Lu Qing flipped through the booklet and marked the spiritual object he wanted when he saw it.
However, most of the spiritual objects in the booklet were very ordinary and of no use to him.
When he turned to the last page and saw one of the things, Lu Qing's eyes suddenly lit up.
(End of this chapter)
