The drop of liquid contained in the jade bowl, obtained from the golden sword-like storage bag, was a drop of Gold Devouring Beast's Golden Marrow Jade Fluid.
This kind of spiritual fluid is not easy to take. Zhang Ling spent a year refining just this one drop. The transformation process was also extremely painful.
It often made his whole body's Qi and blood surge, and his meridians continuously swell.
If he didn't have the Nascent Soul realm and his physical body wasn't already stronger than ordinary cultivators due to the parasitic vines, it would probably take an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator seven or eight years to refine such a drop of Golden Marrow Jade Fluid.
But after complete refinement, his physical strength was indeed two or three times stronger than before. Even the meridians in his body had expanded a lot.
This was very beneficial to his cultivation of his main cultivation method. When fighting with other cultivators, the speed of his magic power circulation and spellcasting would also be much faster.
Now, any magical artifact can't cause damage to his physical body. It's not a problem to take ordinary magical treasures head-on with his bare hands.
A drop of Golden Marrow Jade Fluid had allowed his physical body to undergo several baptisms. At the same time, after refining this drop of spiritual fluid, he gained the ability to use a small amount of Golden Fiend Evil Wind.
Even during this period, Zhang Ling also discovered that the power of the vines on his left hand had also increased slightly. According to the records of the 'Glazed Demon Bone' cultivation method, he had already cultivated the Blood Bone Demon Body.
This cultivation method is divided into six layers in total, without obvious realm divisions, but it has several stages.
The first stage is Copper Skin Iron Bones. If a cultivator mainly cultivates this method and reaches this realm, it is equivalent to the early to mid-stage of Foundation Establishment.
The second stage is to cultivate the Blood Bone Demon Body, with the whole body surface glowing with blood, and the physical body comparable to most fifth or sixth-order demon beasts. A Blood Fiend Core will be condensed in the body.
At this time, Zhang Ling naturally also had a Blood Fiend Core in his body, which he had just successfully condensed a few days ago.
What's special is that it wasn't condensed step by step according to this cultivation method.
When he condensed the Blood Fiend Core, the Qi and blood in his body involuntarily condensed on the Human Yuan Fiend Core. At that time, he was at a critical juncture and couldn't interrupt the cultivation method.
Zhang Ling simply refined the Human Yuan Fiend Core into a Blood Fiend Core. This sudden change was unexpected and he was prepared for failure.
However, the condensing process was extremely easy.
Afterwards, he carefully pondered this matter and felt that although it was somewhat unexpected, it was also reasonable.
The Human Yuan Fiend Core on his body was originally condensed from his own Qi and blood power, which was very similar to the way the Blood Fiend Core was condensed in the Glazed Demon Bone.
Thinking in his heart, Zhang Ling involuntarily circulated the cultivation method. His face suddenly turned crimson, looking a little sickly, but his aura rapidly increased, and a layer of faint blood light covered his body.
With a light pat of his hand, the blood light instantly transmitted to his hand, turning into a mass of blood-colored air waves that he slapped out.
With a loud bang, a five or six zhang-sized blood-colored palm print was imprinted on the mountain not far away. The entire mountain shook.
Zhang Ling smiled, took a deep breath, the blood light on his body reintegrated into his body, and his face returned to normal. Being able to increase his physical strength so quickly can be said to be a coincidence, or it can be said to be destined.
Parasitic vines, Human Yuan Fiend Core, Golden Marrow Jade Fluid, Gold Devouring Beast, and many other reasons, are all coincidences that contributed to all of this.
Perhaps if he mainly cultivated the Demon Master cultivation method, his strength might not be weaker than it is now.
After putting away the cultivation method, Zhang Ling looked at the setting sun in the distance, and his thoughts drifted to another place.
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Time passed, and another three months passed.
On this day, in a secret room in the cave dwelling, Zhang Ling was cultivating the Glazed Demon Bone. Above his head, there was a one-zhang-sized golden ball slowly rotating, scattering a golden glow.
The glow was condensed and did not dissipate, rotating like a wind ball, forming a gust of breeze that wrapped Zhang Ling inside. The speed of the golden light flowing was not fast, but some white light spots in the golden light would occasionally merge into his body.
Zhang Ling's whole body flickered with blood light, and his body shook from time to time. Suddenly, his face turned red and he opened his eyes, quickly shouting, "Little guy, stop it."
The golden ball above made a gurgling sound and stopped rotating. Its body contracted and expanded, turning into a palm-sized ball and falling down, curiously rotating around him.
"Hehe, it seems my physical body is still far from enough, I can only last for half a quarter of an hour."
Zhang Ling sighed helplessly, took out a pill and swallowed it. At the same time, with a flip of his hand, a two-inch-long golden-black spiritual grass appeared in his hand, with three or four straight leaves, like gold and iron cast.
There were some golden patterns on the leaves of this grass, which were very beautiful.
When the Gold Devouring Beast saw this spiritual grass, it cried out excitedly, opened its big mouth, and sucked the spiritual grass into the air and swallowed it. A clanging sound of gold and iron came from its mouth.
This spiritual grass was the kind of unnamed gold and stone grass he had obtained from the spiritual vein land in Qionghua Mountain before.
Zhang Ling still didn't know the name of this spiritual grass, but the Gold Devouring Beast liked it very much.
After feeding the Gold Devouring Beast a lot of this spiritual grass, the little guy had a better impression of him and could understand some of his instructions.
Although sometimes, this beast was unwilling, it couldn't resist the temptation of the spiritual grass and the gold spirit stones he often took out.
Therefore, during the cultivation of the Glazed Demon Bone, Zhang Ling let this little guy spit out Golden Fiend Evil Wind to assist in cultivation.
However, the Golden Fiend Evil Wind that the Gold Devouring Beast spat out was too strong. He would ask this guy to deliberately slow down the power of the Golden Fiend Evil Wind every time. But even so, it could only last for half a quarter of an hour at most.
When the Golden Fiend Evil Wind entered the body, it would make people feel like countless tiny steel needles were shuttling through the body.
The first few times, he endured it for a while, and even with his current physical body, he still suffered some damage.
Of course, it wasn't that he couldn't really endure it, but he couldn't use too much spiritual power to resist when cultivating this kind of iron refining method. After all, it was originally to use the Golden Fiend Evil Wind to temper the physical body, stimulate the blood and Qi, and cultivate the Glazed Demon Bone.
Now it seems that he needs to change his thinking. His current physical strength is not enough to resist the Golden Fiend Evil Wind for a long time right away.
Many body refining methods have this kind of cultivation method that uses external objects to temper the physical body. But it also pays attention to gradual progress, and can't make the physical body collapse right away.
This is also why few people would cultivate body refining methods. The suffering of tempering the body time after time is not something ordinary cultivators can bear.
Naturally, there are also some cultivators with high perseverance who forcibly cultivate. Only a very few have reached a certain level.
There is also a considerable number of people who have accumulated too many hidden injuries in their bodies during the cultivation process, suffered from Qi deviation, and their physical bodies collapsed. Their cultivation has not progressed, and many hidden dangers have appeared.
As for cultivating the Glazed Demon Bone, it cannot be done in a short period of time.
Now that he has cultivated the Blood Bone Demon Body, his physical body still needs to undergo at least three or four baptisms before he can refine the Glazed Demon Bone.
So in the following time, Zhang Ling's focus will still be on the main cultivation method.
Cultivating the Glazed Demon Bone can only be regarded as a side cultivation. As for whether he can reach the level of the Blood Demon Loose Practitioner, he can only look at the opportunity.
As for his main cultivation method, the Earth Origin True Spirit Art, he has gained some different insights from studying swordsmanship and the Glazed Demon Bone during this period. Touching one thing and understanding all things, verifying each other.
Zhang Ling felt that he was not far from the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and seemed to have touched some bottlenecks.
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On this day, just as it was getting light, two cultivators flew outside the Little Cloud Peak where Zhang Ling's cave dwelling was located.
One of them, an old man wearing a white robe, like a middle-aged scholar, was the head of the Hao Yuan Sect, the Heavenly Wind Old Ancestor.
The other person was a Taoist wearing a purple robe, somewhat short and fat, but with extremely long eyebrows on his forehead, hanging beside his ears, and holding a horsetail whisk in his hand, with a smiling appearance, a look of immortality.
These two were both old men with white hair, but they didn't look old, looking like middle-aged people.
"Old Brother Ziyun, this is where Zhang Brother's cave dwelling is located." Heavenly Wind Old Ancestor said with a smile. The two flew in the clouds, looking at the Little Cloud Peak below, where a layer of clouds and mist covered most of the mountain.
"I heard a long time ago that the Hao Yuan Sect had a new Supreme Elder named Zhang. I was in seclusion a few years ago when the sect entry ceremony was held and didn't make it. I heard that this Zhang Fellow Daoist originally came from our Cangyun Country. It seems that he has such cultivation before he is even three hundred years old. This cultivation speed is probably unmatched even by the Heavenly Spiritual Root."
The purple-robed Taoist stroked his three strands of beard, smiling with a strange light flashing in his eyes.
"Old Brother Ziyun is too kind. Although Zhang Brother has some opportunities, it is not so easy to break through when you reach my realm. I heard that your Qingyun Temple accepted a disciple more than ten years ago, rumored to be a wood-attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root aptitude. I wonder if it is true or false."
Heavenly Wind Old Ancestor raised his hand and released a sound transmission talisman that flew towards the Little Cloud Peak below, while laughing and changing the topic.
"Heavenly Wind Brother still believes in such rumors. I don't know when our temple has a Heavenly Spiritual Root disciple." The purple-robed Taoist responded with an unchanged expression.
Heavenly Wind Old Ancestor cursed secretly in his heart. This old guy didn't reveal any information. Qingyun Temple and Hao Yuan Sect are both sects in Cangyun Country, and they know each other quite well.
He also heard about the information about a Heavenly Spiritual Root disciple, and no one knows whether it is true or false.
But if Qingyun Temple really has a Heavenly Spiritual Root disciple, they will definitely cultivate him vigorously. In two or three hundred years, there may be another Nascent Soul old monster.
Thinking in his heart, Heavenly Wind Old Ancestor changed the topic. "How many people are there in that group of alien demons we talked about just now? If we can't determine the number and cultivation level, it will still be risky for only the two of us plus Zhang Brother."
Hearing this, the purple-robed Taoist's face also sank and he said, "I just received the information from Yanhua City an hour ago. The group of guys didn't investigate clearly how many Nascent Soul old monsters there are. After all, Yanhua City has been a little uneasy recently. But at least one mid-Nascent Soul alien demon can be confirmed."
"This is not easy to handle. If there are more than three Nascent Soul old monsters, the risk of us intercepting them will be a bit too great." Heavenly Wind Old Ancestor narrowed his eyes slightly, with a trace of worry on his face.
"Heavenly Wind Brother doesn't need to worry. In addition to us, I just notified White Crane Ghost Old Man. He will also stop them with us. Moreover, our task is just to hold back that team of alien demons. As long as we hold them back for half a day, the elders of Immortal City will arrive, and naturally there won't be too much danger." The purple-robed Taoist said.
"Very good." Heavenly Wind Old Ancestor nodded, and a smile reappeared on his face.
"According to the information, this team of alien demons doesn't know what they are planning, but it seems to be related to the blood sacrifice incidents that have occurred in several nearby countries. The Twelve Immortal Cities attach great importance to this matter."
"Blood sacrifice incident, it seems that it will not be too peaceful. It may not be long before another alien demon war will be provoked. They suffered a nosebleed in the dispute two hundred years ago. I didn't expect that they would come out to cause trouble again after not being idle for long. I'm afraid many disciples will be killed or injured." Heavenly Wind Old Ancestor looked up into the distance and sighed leisurely.
"Heavenly Wind Brother, why are you so sentimental? Even if there is another alien demon war, as long as we Nascent Soul cultivators are careful and not besieged..."
The purple-robed Taoist shook the horsetail whisk in his hand, but stopped talking halfway and looked at the Little Cloud Peak below.
I saw the clouds and mist surrounding the mountain below rolling, and a cloud and mist passage split open from it, and a figure flew out.
Heavenly Wind Old Ancestor immediately changed his mood and greeted him with a smile. "Zhang Brother."
Zhang Ling was wearing a blue-black robe and looked at the two people who had suddenly arrived.
He was sitting in meditation and cultivating in the cave dwelling when he suddenly received a sound transmission talisman from Heavenly Wind Brother, saying that he had important matters to discuss, so he naturally had to go out to greet them.
"Eh, Brother's cultivation has improved a lot again." Heavenly Wind Old Ancestor glanced at Zhang Ling and immediately noticed that compared to a few years ago, this brother's cultivation had increased a lot.
The purple-robed Taoist next to him also glanced at Zhang Ling and also discovered that the cultivation of this seemingly young man was not much worse than his own, and he was even more shocked in his heart.
"Hehe, I was really seen through by Brother. Junior Brother obtained a good alchemy spiritual medicine a few years ago, which is why I have improved. But it's not as good as Brother. By the way, Brother, who is this Fellow Daoist..." Zhang Ling shook his head and said modestly, while looking at the purple-robed Taoist next to him.
This person's strength is also not weak. Although he has not reached the mid-Nascent Soul stage, he has already reached the peak of the early-Nascent Soul stage.
"This is Qingyun Temple's Ziyun Fellow Daoist, who is a long-time friend of mine."
"So it is Ziyun Fellow Daoist. Zhang Ling greets Daoist Priest."
"Fellow Daoist Zhang's strength is indeed extraordinary, which really makes this old man ashamed. Heavenly Wind Brother, you have really picked up a treasure." The purple-robed Taoist cupped his hands towards Zhang Ling and said with a strange expression.
Hearing this, Zhang Ling couldn't help but laugh dryly.
The old Taoist shook his head and sighed sourly. "Our Qingyun Temple is afraid that we can't catch up."
"Haha, you old fellow, don't make fun of my Zhang Brother. Let's quickly explain the main business." Heavenly Wind Brother smiled triumphantly.
The three of them talked for a few words, and Zhang Ling invited the two into the cave dwelling to talk. The important matter that Heavenly Wind Brother said was related to this Ziyun Fellow Daoist.
After staying in the cave dwelling for not long, in just a quarter of an hour, the three of them turned into escape lights and flew directly out of the Hao Yuan Sect, flying towards the southwest.
The three of them, as Nascent Soul cultivators, had extremely fast escape lights, and they all deliberately hid their escape lights, which were not easily noticed by ordinary cultivators.
