After Zhao Di accepted the task, Ding Jue immediately arranged a mansion with reading power on the fifth floor of Xingchen Pavilion for Zhao Di and handed him an identity token that could prove his importance as an external affairs manager.
Although there are Yuanying period cultivators who find it difficult to enter the large array guarded here, and there are people from the Outer Sea Merchant Alliance who keep watch at night, Zhao Di still instructed You Ruo and the two women to set up several clever arrays after entering, ensuring that nothing goes wrong.
He dare not entrust his own safety entirely to the care of the foreign merchant guilds.
From then on, he stayed in the mansion and rarely went out.
Occasionally, Master Ding Jue would personally find him and hand over some jade slips with spiritual tool diagrams. After Zhao Di looked at them, he would make some more suitable modifications. A few days later, Master Ding Jue would come to collect them in person.
After this happened several times, Master Ding Jue rarely came to find Zhao Di again. Gradually, the fifth floor of Xingchen Pavilion became deserted, with hardly anyone coming and going, except for a few individuals, no one knew what this floor was used for or who lived here.
Master Ding Jue's medium-grade spiritual equipment designed by Zhao Di are all long-range attack-type spiritual equipment, such as light cannons and bows and arrows, which is exactly what Zhao Di excels at! Moreover, Master Ding Jue clearly stated that he only requires the refining method to be simple, with a high success rate, and the power to be as great as possible. The requirements for accuracy and flexibility are not too high.
This way, the requirement for refining techniques is lower, and Zhao Di only spent a few days to make Ding Jue Da Shi extremely satisfied before leaving.
After that, Ding Jue never looked for Zhao Di again, which made Zhao Di very satisfied, but he didn't know that during this period, Master Ding Jue was a very busy person, rushing to train a thousand-man combat team composed entirely of high-ranking cultivators in the Refining Qi stage.
It's not just Master Dingyue, but also the various managers of Waihai Shangmeng who have been extremely busy during this period, rushing around all day on No. 1 Island.
Not only that, but Wai Hai Shang Meng also spent a lot of money to hire Jigui and Jiudan cultivators, however, due to various reasons, not many people applied.
Island No. 1, everywhere is a tense and busy atmosphere before the war, not only the monks, but also the ordinary people, the island's defensive wall, which is known as the first wonder of the alien star, is being continuously strengthened and thickened!
At the same time, there were also many cultivators like Zhao Di who stayed in a certain place to meditate and cultivate, especially those in the later stages of the Stellar Sea's Condensing Dan. Many of them were making sufficient preparations for their journey to the Tower of Reaching Heaven.
Zhao ordered Yulan and You'rufu to guard the mansion, then found a quiet room for himself, and finally restarted his cultivation path that had been interrupted for over a decade.
Looking back on these years, having experienced life and death separations, and becoming indifferent to joys and sorrows, the same flowers, grass, and trees, Zhao Di's feelings have become quite extraordinary. Those lives, especially the fragile ones, were previously not worth mentioning in his eyes, but now he can give enough respect to these weak beings.
Nothing is irreplaceable, nothing is beyond respect.
Zhao Di was savoring the changing atmosphere, experiencing a subtle cleansing and purification of his mind. Unbeknownst to him, the bottleneck that had troubled him for many years since he started cultivating the Golden Elixir suddenly loosened on its own.
Next, Zhao Di simply followed the Hunyuan Jue method and slowly operated the true energy in his dantian, easily completing the seventh layer of Hunyuan Jue and entering the eighth layer. This also means that Zhao Di's cultivation has jumped from the peak of the initial stage of forming elixir to the middle stage of forming elixir.
This time's breakthrough, for Zhao Di, is both the most relaxing and the most unforgettable.
Zhao Di took some elixirs made from sixth and seventh grade demon dan, refining and meditating to continuously consolidate his cultivation.
Two years later, after Zhao Di's cultivation had consolidated in the middle of the Golden Elixir stage, he stopped taking elixirs and practicing meditation. This was not because he didn't have enough elixirs on hand - on the contrary, he had enough to take him all the way to the peak of the Golden Elixir stage!
Zhao Di stroked the two-inch-long, pagoda-shaped token and said softly, "According to this Heavenly Order Token, the Heavenly Tower will likely open in over a decade. If we continue to meditate, our cultivation speed will be limited, and it won't have much impact on increasing our strength. It's better to use this time to practice some secret techniques and skills, which can have an extraordinary effect, especially since there are a few that absolutely shouldn't be missed."
What Zhao Di said refers to the three exercises: "Nian Shen Jue", "Yu Jian Shu" and "Xiao Yao Xing".
"The Divine Incantation" was obtained from the Great Elder Feng Qingyun of the Qianji Gate. It has three layers of cultivation methods, which are suitable for cultivators in the early, middle and late stages of forming elixirs. Each layer that is successfully cultivated can increase the cultivator's divine consciousness by one level, making it very powerful. It also has a strange effect on resisting some illusions and mind-affecting techniques. Unfortunately, Zhao Di's most prized and unparalleled "Divine Incantation" secret technique requires at least the third layer to be cultivated before it can be used. He is far from meeting this condition, but cultivating the first two layers not only increases his divine consciousness but also makes him more resistant to attacks such as illusions.
"The Art of Swordsmanship" doesn't need to be mentioned, as long as you casually cultivate a few divine abilities and combine them with your innate treasure, the Dream Crystal Sword, you can greatly increase its power. Especially for "Sword Tip Technique" and other divine abilities that even Qi Refining stage cultivators can master, it's even more effortless for Zhao Di, who is in the middle of the Foundation Establishment stage.
It seems that "Journey to the West" is the most brilliant and powerful technique, but it may also be the most difficult to cultivate. However, once he masters the first layer, he will have an additional lifesaving trick in critical situations, which is especially important for Zhao Di. Therefore, he won't let go of this technique either.
Apart from this, the two Blood Spirit Pills in his body had been completely used up. In order to be able to use the Shadow Flash technique at a critical moment, he also needed to spend some time re-refining a few more Blood Spirit Pills and using the Elixir Fire to calcine them, achieving a state of mental and spiritual harmony.
There are many things to be done, but time is limited, so Zhao Di decided to start with the most important ones.
The auxiliary materials for refining the Blood Spirit Pill had all been prepared, and the main material was his own essence blood. This matter was important and could be completed relatively quickly. Moreover, after refining the Blood Spirit Pill, he could use the dan fire to slowly refine it while continuing to cultivate other techniques, without wasting time.
Therefore, refining the Blood Spirit Pill was the first thing Zhao Di chose to do.
After spending half a year, he refined three Blood Essence Pills and put them all into his Dantian, using the Golden Elixir of the Primordial Chaos to patiently smelt them with its elixir fire.
After that, he began to study the first layer of chanting magic spells.
This mantra, the stronger one's spiritual consciousness is, the faster and more effective the cultivation will be. Zhao Di originally had a strong spiritual consciousness that surpassed others, and he was already at the middle stage of forming his elixir, so he thought that cultivating the first layer of the mantra would be relatively smooth for him.
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As expected, in just two short years, he will complete the cultivation of the first layer of the Divine Incantation.
Zhao Di felt that his spiritual awareness had increased by a large margin, and it was not just a 10% effect. It seemed that he had great potential in his spiritual awareness. Previously, without deliberately cultivating his spiritual awareness, he had already surpassed same-level cultivators. Now, with the specialized cultivation of the mysterious technique for spiritual awareness, the effect was naturally doubled, and the gain was very obvious! Although he was currently at the middle stage of foundation building, he believed that in terms of spiritual awareness, he was not inferior to any late-stage foundation building cultivator!
As for the Imperial Sword Technique, those few kinds of powerful divine abilities, Zhao Di had easily mastered them in just a year or so, as for other higher-level divine abilities, they required a lot of time to cultivate the magic treasure before they could be used, and Zhao Di was unable to practice.
What most excited Zhao Di was the Xingyiquan, which he also considered to be the most difficult. He scheduled it last and left the most time for it.
Although he has a scholarly air about him and is also a mid-term cultivator of the elixir, barely meeting the basic requirements of the first two layers of this technique, after all, he is not a cultivator who mainly practices Confucian techniques, so when it comes to cultivation, he encounters great difficulties and extreme hardship.
Zhao Di, who was currently comprehending the carefree wandering technique, sensed a strange change in his heart and soul. Overjoyed, he put away the wordless heavenly book in his hand and arrived at the room where You Lan and You Ruo were located. The Ice Wind Python, which was also sleeping, was also present.
Apart from this, You Ruo specially arranged two sets of spell arrays in the stone room using high-grade ice spirit stones and wind spirit stones, greatly increasing the density of these two spiritual energies inside the stone room, which is even more conducive to the long sleep preparation for the Ice Wind Python's promotion.
"The master has arrived suddenly, could it be that this Ice Wind Python is about to shed its skin and advance!" Youlan guessed something from the joyful expression on Zhao Di's face.
"Not bad!" Zhao nodded and said. Bingfengmang was his spiritual beast, with a thread of mental connection, so the subtle changes that occurred in this python were all within his grasp. Although Youlan and You'er had been taking care of Bingfengmang on the side, they didn't understand it as clearly as Zhao did.
"Bingfeng Python has advanced again, I wonder what it will become. The fourth-level Bingfeng Python already has a small horn, I don't know if this time it will grow a complete dragon horn?" You Ruo said with some excitement.
"Yes, advancing again to the next level would be the fifth-level spiritual beast, equivalent to a human cultivator at the Congealing Dan stage. The divine abilities it possesses are simply beyond comparison with what we have now!" Youlan was also eagerly anticipating this.
The difference between a Jiedan period cultivator and a Jianji period cultivator is like heaven and earth, which everyone knows. But after Bingfeng Python's promotion, whether it can have a thorough change, Zhao Di dare not say.
He crouched down, gently stroking the beautiful jade-like emerald scales on the Ice Wind Python's back, carefully sensing the python's feelings at this moment.
This kind of spiritual connection that doesn't require voice or action can only be achieved by spirit beasts and their masters.
Zhao's eyebrows slightly furrowed, he clearly felt that the Ice Wind Python under his hand was becoming increasingly restless and agitated, as if it was extremely tense and also extremely fearful!
Especially that fearful feeling, as if it were a helpless struggling young bird falling out of its nest, quietly waiting for the verdict from above.
"Damn it!" Zhao Di suddenly thought of something and his face changed color as he let out a low cry.
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