Chapter 381: Planning for the Birth of a Baby

Whenever the old year comes to an end and the new year comes, there will be some special changes between heaven and earth.

This is a truth that Meng Zhou has known for a long time.

However, this did not bring him more benefits except that he gained more Qinglian Sword Essence during the first retreat of each new year.

And this time, it was Meng Zhou's first new year retreat after the completion of the Hanhai Mingyue Zhentu. Meng Zhou finally realized the wonderful reaction after the special changes that only occur at the turn of the old and the new year combined with his own "three-pole cycle of spirit, energy and spirit" that has reached the third level of perfection.

The negative energy accumulated in the body had already reached the limit that he could bear at the moment, but he still felt extremely relaxed and could continue to practice.

Meng Zhou, who was used to "big winds and waves", quickly calmed down his mood until the negative energy that continued to accumulate finally reached the limit that he could bear at the moment, and he decisively stopped practicing.

Meng Zhou checked the gains of this retreat. Although he was prepared, he couldn't help being shocked after seeing the obvious changes.

[Cultivation Progress +720, Nine-layer Jindan 2445/10,000]

The gains from one retreat are equal to four retreats in the past.

However, the negative energy accumulated in the body is also far more than before. If all of it is to be released, it will take about four times as long as in the past.

"So, the biggest change is that the retreat once a quarter has been changed to once a year."

Even so, this change is still a great surprise to Meng Zhou.

Even many of Meng Zhou's subsequent plans have been adjusted due to this change.

In addition, Meng Zhou also made money in terms of time.

Originally, retreat once a quarter, each retreat lasted a little more than nine and a half days, and the retreat time for a year was about thirty-eight days.

Now, Meng Zhou only took thirty days to complete a year's cultivation task.

——When he just came out of retreat, Meng Zhou immediately confirmed the current time, which was exactly the late night of the 30th day of the first lunar month.

No more, no less, the retreat time is exactly a whole month.

These are all gains.

However, another thing that happened made Meng Zhou a little disappointed.

During this month of retreat, in addition to the improvement of his cultivation progress, another harvest was sixty drops of third-grade upper-grade Azure Lotus Sword Marrow.

"It seems that harvesting sixty drops in one retreat is the limit." Meng Zhou thought to himself.

As early as when Meng Zhou's cultivation was still at the eighth level of Jindan, he would harvest sixty drops of third-grade upper-grade Azure Lotus Sword Marrow every time he retreated for the first time in the new year.

After his cultivation broke through to the ninth level of Jindan, he harvested the same amount of Azure Lotus Sword Marrow.

Now, the retreat time has been extended three times, but the amount of Azure Lotus Sword Marrow has not changed at all, and it is still sixty drops, no more and no less.

Meng Zhou took a look at the amazing reserves of third-grade upper-grade Azure Lotus Sword Marrow in the spirit gourd space, and the regret in his heart that was not much soon disappeared.

Since leaving Qiyun Peak, until Meng Zhou's cultivation broke through to the ninth level of Jindan, that is, at the end of his eighty-fourth year, Meng Zhou had accumulated 6128 drops of third-grade upper-grade Azure Lotus Sword Marrow.

The only consumption was when he stuffed fifty drops of the third-grade upper-grade Azure Lotus Sword Marrow into "Qi Huangzi", and the two together blew Lian Ziling's fourth-grade body into ashes.

After his cultivation level broke through from the eighth level of Jindan to the ninth level of Jindan, the average monthly harvest of the third-grade upper-grade Azure Lotus Sword Marrow increased from fifty-four drops to sixty drops, and he could get 720 drops every year. As of now, he has obtained another 2220 drops.

In other words, the total reserve of the third-grade upper-grade Azure Lotus Sword Marrow in the Linghu space has reached an astonishing 8348 drops.

In addition, it is also worth mentioning that when Meng Zhou was at the eighth level of Jindan, the amount of his life-giving poison assimilated by the Soul Pool every month was just enough to make six "transparent round mirrors" and six life-giving poison flying swords.

Since leaving Qiyun Peak, the accumulation has never stopped, but considering the actual situation of the Five Domains, Meng Zhou did not increase the number of "transparent round mirrors" and life-giving poison flying swords, and all these life-giving poisons were deposited in the Soul Pool.

As Meng Zhou's cultivation level broke through from the eighth level of Jindan to the ninth level, his blood, body, life force, sea of ​​consciousness, and soul, and all aspects of his abilities have been further improved.

The life-giving poison assimilated by the soul pool every month has increased by about 50% compared to the eighth level of Jindan. If it is transformed into a physical object, it can make nine "transparent round mirrors" and nine life-giving poison flying swords.

Up to now, the life-giving poison deposited in the soul pool is also a very exaggerated reserve.

…

After spending some time to roughly sort out the gains from this retreat, Meng Zhou once again devoted himself to the cultivation of the "Wanxiang Pearl".

Two hundred and eighty days later, on the tenth day of the eleventh month of this year, after gaining 350,000 experience points, the "Wanxiang Pearl" completely completed the accumulation of the small success realm and entered the great success realm.

[Wanxiang Pearl Great Success 0/800,000]

As the realm of the "Wanxiang Pearl" improved, more insights poured into Meng Zhou's heart.

Although this realm improvement has allowed the "Universal Pearl" to be further expanded and improved, it has focused more on simplifying the entire production process and improving proficiency. This has enabled Meng Zhou's efficiency in making the "Universal Pearl" to be significantly improved again on the original basis.

From an average of five pearls every two days, gaining 2,500 experience points, to an average of six pearls every two days, gaining 3,000 experience points, that is, gaining 1,500 experience points every day.

Fifty days later, when Meng Zhou finished making the last "Wanxiang Pearl" of the year and prepared for the upcoming retreat, the "Wanxiang Pearl" had already gained 75,000 experience points.

[Wanxiang Pearl Great Success 75,000/800,000]

…

One month later.

The eighty-nine-year-old Meng Zhou ended this retreat and woke up.

[Cultivation Progress +720, Nine-layer Jindan 3165/10,000]

After spending some time to roughly sort out what he had gained from this retreat, Meng Zhou did not immediately start practicing the "Wanxiang Pearl", but instead began to think about it in his mind.

"According to the current progress, it will take one and a half years to complete the accumulation of the Great Accomplishment Realm."

"Above the Great Accomplishment Realm there is the Master, above the Master there is the Grandmaster, and above the Grandmaster there is the Perfection.

Every time you advance to a higher level, the time you spend basically doubles."

Thinking of this, Meng Zhou shook his head.

Obviously, it is very foolish to continue to invest time in the cultivation of the "Wanxiangzhu".

Every year that passes, he is one step closer to the peak of the Jindan Realm.

In addition to cultivation, his most important task is to prepare for the breakthrough of the Yuanying Realm.

Thinking of this, Meng Zhou slightly raised his head and looked at this lotus space. His eyes looked around the pink lotus petals, and he felt a little melancholy in his heart.

If possible, he would like to continue to cultivate in this small space.

But reality does not allow it.

Meng Zhou stood up and walked to the other end of the lotus space.

Bai Zhi, who had been meditating with her eyes closed, opened her eyes and looked at Meng Zhou who was standing in front of her, and asked: "Are you going out?"

Meng Zhou nodded: "Yes."

Bai Zhi then calmed her mind and with her active cooperation, Meng Zhou took her into his sea of ​​consciousness.

Meng Zhou originally wanted to tell her that this time she might stay in the sea of ​​consciousness for a longer time.

But from Bai Zhi's perspective, time had already stopped the moment she entered Meng Zhou's sea of ​​consciousness.

Whether the time was longer or shorter, for her, it was just a matter of opening and closing her eyes.

…

After leaving the lotus space, Meng Zhou put the golden powder double-stemmed lotus back into the spirit gourd space, and did some processing on this area. After erasing all suspicious traces, Meng Zhou left this place directly.

After leaving the place where he had been meditating for many years, Meng Zhou first went to the edge of the five domains.

The realm of death.

When he stepped into this place again, he looked at the land that stretched to the end of his sight like a solidified wave. Compared with the last time, Meng Zhou felt more calm in his heart.

After entering the Death Realm, Meng Zhou went deep into the Death Realm for 15,000 miles. This was also the "loop point" he deduced from his last exploration of the Death Realm by relying on his many unique abilities.

At that time, Meng Zhou discovered that the seemingly infinite and endless Death Realm was actually only 15,000 miles. He relied on reasoning and did not have a more powerful first-hand discovery.

Now, Meng Zhou stood near the "loop point" and looked forward.

He easily saw a sky-high barrier stretching in front of his sight.

Left, right, up and down, there was no end in sight.

——This is the natural improvement in vision brought about by the advancement of the knot master to the fourth level, and the way of alchemy, weapons, and arrays all crossed the threshold of the fourth level.

This barrier is not in the real world, but in the real world.

The ground under his feet has no meaning for this barrier, and it can't create any obstacles.

Looking at the huge barrier in front of him, Meng Zhou's mind emerged with everything he explored last time around the five domains.

The two superimposed together, and a picture naturally appeared in Meng Zhou's mind.

The Five Realms was like a giant egg, and the barrier in front of him was like the shell of an egg, enveloping the entire Five Realms.

For this barrier that existed in the real world, the earth was never an obstacle.

And the means that, in his original cognition, condensed the real world of the entire Death Realm into a piece of iron plate and made his "Five Elements Escape" ineffective, now looked less mysterious.

According to his understanding, this was just a "by-product" of the sky-reaching barrier, a source from the "radiation field" of the sky-reaching barrier.

From then on, the Death Realm was no longer "mysterious" to Meng Zhou.

What he was thinking about now was "Can I break this barrier?"

After studying for a long time, Meng Zhou shook his head with some regret.

With Meng Zhou's current perspective, he could see that this sky-reaching barrier contained extremely profound concepts of formation and talisman.

But if he wanted to solve it, Meng Zhou, who had just entered the fourth level, was powerless in both formation and talisman.

Although, his "first entry" is somewhat different from the usual "first entry". With the breakthrough of the "Wanxiangzhu" to the state of great success, the knot master profession has also made great progress, reaching the level of [knot master fourth level 25,000/100,000].

He is already a senior fourth-level lower-grade knot master, and his vision of the way of alchemy, weapons, and arrays has also reached the level of senior fourth-level lower-grade.

But this achievement can only barely see the doorway in front of this sky-reaching barrier. As for letting him do something on it, or even secretly poke a hole so that he can pass through this barrier, it is still far from enough.

Although Meng Zhou felt a little regretful about this, he was not too disappointed.

This time, he had low expectations for the Death Realm. The discovery of this barrier to the sky had already exceeded his lowest expectations.

——Before coming, he was prepared to find nothing.

…

After leaving the Death Realm, Meng Zhou began to think about his next move.

If he wanted to break through the Nascent Soul, a suitable fourth-order spiritual land was a prerequisite, regardless of other things.

If there was a choice, the best way would be to leave the cage-like Five Realms and find such a place.

But if the Five Realms really couldn't get out, then they could only think of a way within the Five Realms.

Meng Zhou naturally thought of the grand plan he had heard from the Qingxuan Five Elders.

In the past few decades, the Qingxuan Sect had implemented many radical plans in the Qingxuan Realm, but the original intention was a plan of the Qingxuan Five Elders.

——They wanted to upgrade the third-order spiritual vein Qinglin Peak to a fourth-order spiritual land.

And in order to maximize the success rate of this plan, they planned to practice with those first- and second-order spiritual veins.

Cuiyu Lake and Sanchuanyuan were able to upgrade from the second-level spiritual vein to the third-level spiritual land so easily, and benefited from this.

Later, in order to win over "Qi Huangzi", the five elders of Qingxuan took the initiative to share this plan with him.

In order to prove their ability, of course, the more important reason was to create the "Hanhai Mingyue Zhentu" practice method and collect more real sample information for the upgrade of the first and second-level spiritual veins.

Meng Zhou directly caught all the first and second-level spiritual veins with upgrade potential within the Qingxuan domain and upgraded them all in a very short time.

In fact, after doing these, the plan could have been logically advanced to the last step - to start with Qinglin Peak and try to push it to the fourth level.

In the end, this step was not taken, and the reasons were many.

As for the five elders of Qingxuan, they had just come into contact with "Qihuangzi" at that time, and they were far from trusting each other, but Qinglin Peak was their foundation. Before they were sure of it, they could not make a complete decision;

As for Meng Zhou, at that time he just pretended to be at the same level as them, with the peak of Jindan cultivation, but the actual situation was only known to him. Under such circumstances, he certainly would not actively promote the upgrade of Qinglin Peak;

In addition, there were changes in the outside world. First, the altar of Lihen Sect attracted their attention, and Guangcheng Patriarch used his life to verify that the Xushen Crystal could be seized by force, and then Xingxiu Palace came out of the mountain...

One thing after another, this plan was stillborn.

At this moment, Meng Zhou really reached the stage where he had to make plans for his breakthrough to Yuanying, and he naturally thought of this plan again.

"Why not give it a try?"