Chapter 301 Breakthrough

Half a month later.

Yuan Ming returned to Wangyue City, waited and watched for a while, and received news that the team that captured Pu Zhengqing from Changchun Guan had returned to Dajin. After the Shahao incident calmed down, he, Hu Tu, and Mu Yang reopened the Lingxiang Shop in Wangyue City.

After he took care of the matters related to the store, he returned to the cave alone.

The new store opened, and the business was much quieter than in the past. However, now Yuan Ming has no shortage of spiritual stones and elixirs, and the store is just for the sake of a steady flow of water. Therefore, in terms of operation and publicity, Hu Tu and the two are only allowed to do what they can. There is no past. So attentive.

If nothing unexpected happens with Shahao's legacy, it should be able to support his cultivation to the later stage of foundation building. In the future, if nothing major happens, he will continue to practice in seclusion here.

His past experiences have made him more eager to improve his strength. Whether in Southern Xinjiang or Dajin, only absolute strength can have the absolute right to speak. The so-called fairness is based on equal strength. words.

If he had been trapped in the early stage of foundation building, he might not be low among ordinary monks, but facing the real strong men would not be enough. He didn't want to have to leave his hometown after killing Taoist Yuhu and throwing a rat weapon to happen again. .

The incense needed in the shop will only be delivered by Leiyu after it is made, and he will not leave the cave easily.

While Yuan Ming was thinking about future plans, he took out another stick of black incense.

A few days ago, he had used Heixiang to confirm that his parents were okay, but now he used Heixiang again because he wanted to know about Xiying's situation.

Whether it was the news of Sha Hao's death or the fact that he had accepted all the great elder's inheritance, Yuan Ming now had a lot of things to say to Xiying. Unfortunately, the mountains were far away and the road was far away, so his words could not be conveyed. To Xiying's ear.

On the Tiantian Cauldron, black incense burned slowly, and in the misty smoke, Yuan Ming's vision gradually changed, switching to Guoguo.

puff--

Just as the possession was completed, before Yuan Ming could react, a cluster of waves hit his face, and the salty and wet sea water slapped Guo Guo's face, drenching it from head to tail. Not a single hair on his body was dry.

"Meow!"

Guoguo screamed, seemingly complaining, but the waves still washed over its body mercilessly, forcing it unable to open its eyes. It could only pathetically pick at the scales of the giant beast under it with its claws. She pressed her body, which had become smaller due to the shrinkage of her hair in the water, to her.

Although it had its eyes closed, after Yuan Ming calmed down, he began to observe the surroundings with the help of his spiritual consciousness.

Not far in front of Guoguo, Xiying stood on the back of the giant beast, shrouded in pale white light, blocking out the incoming sea water.

But every time waves hit her body, Xiying would shout excitedly, her eyes full of excitement and anticipation.

And under her and Guoguo's feet, there was actually a giant monster fish several feet long, covered with solid blue scales. Its back was flat, like a long table, with eight pairs of fins on each side. Like a cattail leaf fan.

The strange fish jumped and shuttled on the sea, its powerful fins rolled up clusters of waves, and its huge body sometimes dived into the water and sometimes jumped out of the sea, which gave the passengers on its back a refreshing experience.

Seeing the blue sea and blue sky all around, Yuan Ming speculated that Xiying might have left Southern Xinjiang and arrived somewhere in the East China Sea. Unfortunately, the Wangyue Mountains were still far away from the East China Sea, so the transmission talismans should still not be used.

After an unknown amount of time, the strange fish tumbling in the sea seemed to attract the attention of others. A stream of green light suddenly flashed across the sky and hovered in front of the head of the strange fish.

However, Xiying didn't seem surprised when he saw this situation. He pinched the magic technique directly and stopped the strange fish under his feet.

"Senior Xiao, my master is already waiting impatiently. You'd better get there quickly." In front of the strange fish, a female pedicurist wearing light green clothes stepped on the magic weapon and held her hands towards Xiying.

"Anyway, there is still time, so it doesn't hurt to let her wait a little longer." Xiying waved her hand with a look of reluctance.

"Senior Xiao..." The female cultivator in green shirt smiled bitterly and opened her mouth, as if she still wanted to persuade.

"Meow——" At this time, Guoguo suddenly called out weakly.

Xiyingliu frowned, turned around and picked up Guoguo, and said angrily: "Usually I can't walk when I see a fish, but this time I can't stand it even though I'm so good at lying on the fish's back? When I go back, I'll punish you for a month No fish allowed!”

Hearing this, Guoguo yelled again but obviously had no intention of getting out of Xiying's arms.

Yuan Ming, who was possessed by it, felt the vague thoughts in its heart. Apparently, Guoguo hated getting wet even more than not being able to eat fish.

Xiying carried Guoguo in her arms, drove away the strange fish, and then flew straight into the sky.

"Okay, I'm going over there, you should hurry up and catch up."

After saying that, she dodged directly, took out a gourd magical weapon, stepped on it, and flew towards the east, without any intention of waiting for the female cultivator in green shirt.

Seeing this, the female cultivator in green had no choice but to hurriedly move her magic weapon and follow him.

The place Xiying wanted to go was not close, and she did not arrive until Yuan Ming's black incense burned out and the possession ended.

However, Yuan Ming originally wanted to confirm her condition, but now that he saw that she was safe and sound, he had nothing to worry about.

After Yuan Ming recovered his thoughts, he calmed down his mind, put aside distracting thoughts, and devoted himself to cultivation.

…

Five years have passed in the blink of an eye.

In the cave, Yuan Ming's spiritual power fluctuations have reached the level of the middle stage of foundation building, and are still some distance away from the peak.

Relying on the elixir left by Sha Hao, the purple incense he made, and the gathering spirit formation he got by chance in exchange for spirit stones, Yuan Ming worked day and night and succeeded in breaking through the middle stage more than four years ago. With the continuous blessing of elixir, his mana has made rapid progress and is constantly moving towards the peak of the middle stage of foundation building.

In addition, with the nourishment of the soul accumulated by the Heaven Stealing Cauldron over time, and the practice of the Dark Moon Art every night, Yuan Ming's soul has also been greatly improved, and today he has finally reached the edge of the fourth level of the Dark Moon Art.

He was about to break through, so he didn't dare to be negligent, and took out another spiritual incense from the storage ring.

In the past few years, he often read the cultivation experience of the great elder, and gained a lot of insights from it.

The experience mentioned a kind of elixir that can help break through the bottleneck of soul cultivation. Although Yuan Ming is not good at refining elixirs, through analysis and research, he has made another spiritual incense with similar effects.

This incense can stabilize the cultivator's state of mind. While dispelling distracting thoughts, it can also slightly enhance the strength of the soul. It can not only assist soul cultivation to break through, but also has great benefits for the cultivation of ordinary cultivators.

Yuan Ming named this incense "Soul-nourishing Incense", and it can be put on the shelves of the spiritual incense shop in the future, but there is no rush now.

He lit the soul-nourishing incense and as the smoke entered his nose, he suddenly felt a cool feeling in his mind, all trivial matters were thrown behind his mind, and the nervous mood facing the breakthrough gradually calmed down.

Then, Yuan Ming began to silently operate the Dark Moon Art, and the soul power in the sea of ​​consciousness surged up little by little, and soon washed Yuan Ming's sea of ​​consciousness like a stormy wave, and at the same time rushed towards the soul phantom in the center of the sea of ​​consciousness.

As the soul power entered, Yuan Ming's soul was gradually filled up, and soon reached the upper limit, but the soul power in the sea of ​​consciousness was still surging, with no intention of stopping at all.

Soon, Yuan Ming's soul swelled up, and the appearance was unnaturally distorted.

Yuan Ming noticed that there seemed to be some kind of inexplicable restraint outside his soul, which hindered it from growing and becoming stronger.

But this was not caused by external objects, but the natural restraint of every cultivator.

The elder mentioned this in his experience. He called it the soul shackles, which was the key to the difference between soul cultivators and ordinary cultivators. From the beginning of breaking through this shackle, the practice of soul cultivators will gradually drift away from the practice of ordinary cultivators, and finally completely distance themselves.

In the sea of ​​consciousness, Yuan Ming's soul could no longer be seen in its original form, but the shackles that bound him still existed. No matter how Yuan Ming operated the "Nether Moon Art", he could not break free.

Gradually, the soul power in the sea of ​​consciousness was exhausted, and the surging waves gradually subsided. A trace of anxiety flashed through Yuan Ming's heart. Although it soon subsided under the comfort of the soul-nourishing incense, it still failed to change the fact that the breakthrough was about to fail.

But at this moment, the mark of the Heaven-stealing Cauldron on Yuan Ming's arm suddenly lit up, and the familiar heat flow appeared again, rushing towards Yuan Ming's sea of ​​consciousness.

However, this time, when the warm current reached the sea of ​​consciousness, Yuan Ming found that there was a sudden shadow of the Stealing Heaven Cauldron in front of his soul shadow.

Before he could figure out what was going on, he saw the shadow of the Stealing Heaven Cauldron hit Yuan Ming's soul fiercely.

Yuan Ming felt a sharp pain in his brow, which made him dazed. Before he could come back to his senses, he heard a loud noise in the sea of ​​consciousness. It turned out that the shadow of the Stealing Heaven Cauldron hit the soul again.

Under the fierce collision, there were fine cracks on the shadows of the Stealing Heaven Cauldron and the soul.

Yuan Ming was dizzy because his soul was damaged, and the "Underworld Moon Art" that had been running stopped for a moment. However, at this moment, the shadow of the Stealing Heaven Cauldron hit the soul for the third time, completely smashing both into pieces.

Yuan Ming suddenly felt a black screen in front of his eyes, and the whole person fainted.

Although he lost consciousness, he had completed the last step of breaking through the shackles.

The soul power that had previously flowed into the soul was no longer restrained by external forces, but it did not disintegrate. Instead, it began to operate autonomously, absorbing the fragments of the Heaven Stealing Cauldron and the soul fragments, and then rapidly condensed and deformed, gradually transforming into a human form.

The whole process was like breaking a clay figurine into pieces and then mixing it with mud to shape it. The newly born soul phantom was more solid than before. Although it was still far from being fully formed, it had already shown some signs of becoming a physical entity.

In the cave, after an unknown amount of time, Yuan Ming woke up faintly, supported his head and sat up. When he recalled his experience just now, he immediately looked into his sea of ​​consciousness anxiously, wanting to check the current situation.

When he saw the slightly solid pale yellow phantom in the center of the sea of ​​consciousness, he was stunned at first, and then he became happy.

He immediately released the soul crows. As expected, the number of soul crows he could control increased by two, and the range of long-distance travel was also increased to forty miles away.

In addition, his soul crow also awakened a new ability called "crow cry", which can emit soul sound waves to attack the enemy.