Chapter 46 Introduction to the Dead Wood Longevity Technique

Among the three streams that flow into the Qingshui River at Sanhekou, the largest one is called Xuansha River.

It got this name because of the black river sand deposited in the river.

This black river sand is not ordinary sand and gravel, but the ore fragments of black iron ore.

In the Xuansha River Basin, there are several small and medium-sized black iron mines.

The ancestral home of the Chen family, the Liu family's biggest rival, Xuansha Lake, is located in the middle reaches of the Xuansha River.

The several black iron mines in the Xuansha River Basin are naturally the property of the Chen family.

Liu Yuanchen did not plan to gain enlightenment in the Sanhekou Swamp, but went upstream along the Xuansha River.

The water volume of the Xuansha River is not as much as that of the Qingshui River, and after being intercepted by the Chen family, the water volume is even less.

Moreover, there is little spiritual power left in the water.

On both sides of the Xuansha River, there should be more trees that will shed their leaves in autumn and winter, which can be used to comprehend the dead wood longevity skill.

Since he was almost killed by the Chen family last time, Liu Yuanchen has always wanted revenge.

However, when the Chen family was trying to trick Liu Yuansi, they showed extraordinary means.

It is certain that the Chen family has a tactical master, and the enemy is in the dark while we are in the light.

To deal with a tactical master, playing tactics is to seek abuse.

The simplest and most effective way is to use intelligence advantage to defeat him outside his cognitive range.

With the background of the Chen family, the information channels are limited to the territory of Qingdan Sect.

To win, we must introduce forces outside the scope of Qingdan Sect.

The Blood Bat Sect, an extraterritorial force, has recently taken the initiative to jump out, which is the best choice.

The Chen family can be said to know nothing about the Blood Bat Sect.

I have some understanding of the Blood Bat Sect, although not much, but it is enough to form an intelligence advantage over the Chen family.

As long as they can attract the hatred of the Blood Bat Sect for them without the Chen family knowing, the goal will be achieved.

In the face of absolute strength, any tactics are meaningless.

And the Blood Bat Sect happened to have absolute strength when facing the Chen family.

Not long after the flying boat flew far, a black hill appeared in front of Liu Yuanchen.

This mountain is called Black Rock Mountain, which is only about 40 feet high. There is a mine at the foot of the mountain.

There are also large forests around the hill.

As soon as Liu Yuanchen's flying boat approached, a ninth-level cultivator came out.

This man looked to be in his 50s, with some gray hair on his temples.

He bowed to Liu Yuanchen and said, "I wonder who you are, and what's the matter with you coming to my Chen family?"

Liu Yuanchen controlled the flying boat to slowly descend. After landing, the middle-aged cultivator bowed and said, "It turns out that you are a disciple of the Qingdan Sect.

Chen Changlin of the Chen family, meet you."

Liu Yuanchen bowed and said, "Liu Yuanchen, a disciple of the Alchemy Hall of the Qingdan Sect, meet you, fellow Taoist."

Upon hearing this, Chen Changlin's face turned green.

His eyes showed a fierce light, and his whole body was full of magic power, as if he was ready to attack at any time.

"Liu Yuanchen, you killed my fourth brother, and you dare to come here to die?"

His fourth brother is Chen Changning, the son of the Chen family who guards the Qingling bee in the Qingdan Sect.

After failing to assassinate Liu Yuanchen, he took the blame and committed suicide.

The Chen family has always been unreasonable. They can kill others, but others cannot kill them.

Seeing that he was about to take action, Liu Yuanchen smiled.

As long as he dared to take action, the rules of the Qingdan Sect would take his life.

The cultivators of the affiliated forces dared to take action against the disciples of the Qingdan Sect who were performing official duties. This was a naked rebellion and a great crime of exterminating the clan.

Liu Yuanchen added fuel to the fire: "Chen Changning deserves to die, what? Do you want to die too?"

Hearing this, Chen Changlin was furious.

But when he thought of Zhao Hong's words, whoever dared to touch his disciples would be exterminated.

Whether there was evidence or not, he would take action.

Since then, the Chen family has been on tenterhooks.

Fearing that Liu Yuanchen would be in trouble, Zhao Hong ran over to massacre the Chen family.

The Chen family's top leaders also gave death orders to the clan members, never to have any conflicts with Liu Yuanchen again, and not to touch his close relatives.

If he is in danger, the Chen family will also try their best to help.

Even if they cannot save him, they must let Zhao Hong see the sincerity of the Chen family.

Thinking of this, Chen Changlin suppressed his anger.

Seeing that he did not take action, Liu Yuanchen felt a little regretful: "I am under the command of Deputy Hall Master Hu of Qinghe Town, and I have been ordered to patrol the Qingshui River Basin to prevent sneak attacks by evil cultivators.

This Xuansha River is also a tributary of the Qingshui River, and it is also within my patrol range. I came here to patrol today."

Hearing this, Chen Changlin cursed in his heart: "Patrol, why didn't you come to patrol when the evil cultivators attacked and the Chen family suffered heavy losses?

The evil cultivators haven't come for several months, and you come to patrol now."

However, he still tried to squeeze out a smile: "Then I'll trouble you, fellow Taoist."

Liu Yuanchen waved his hand: "My duty, This place is not far from the main stream of Qingshui River, and it is easy to be invaded by evil cultivators.

I will stay here for a while, what do you think? "

Chen Changlin was so angry that his face turned blue, but he could only smile: "It is true as you said, there are often evil cultivators here, and I am also very annoyed.

With you here, I don't have to worry all day.

My mine is a little shabby, please don't blame me."

Liu Yuanchen waved his hand: "Don't bother so much, I will just meditate and practice in the woods near the mine, no need to arrange a cave for me."

Hearing this, Chen Changlin's face turned from blue to black.

The mine is guarded by formations, Liu Yuanchen will not be in any danger if he lives in it, and he doesn't have to worry.

But if he stayed outside, once he was attacked by evil cultivators, the consequences would be disastrous.

He wanted to persuade him a few more times, but Liu Yuanchen left the mine directly and walked towards a forest to the east of the mine.

There were many poplar trees in the forest, which was also a kind of charcoal wood.

Even if this tree was nourished by spiritual energy, it would easily shed its leaves in autumn and winter.

At this time, the tree was already full of yellow leaves.

As long as there was another cold wind, the leaves would fall in a very short time.

This forest was only more than 20 miles away from the main stream of Qingshui River, and this distance could not stop the evil cultivators.

Staying alone in the forest was the best target.

Liu Yuanchen found a relatively clean stone in the forest and sat cross-legged on it.

Released his spiritual sense to sense the changes in the vitality of the surrounding poplar trees.

In his spiritual sense, large patches of emerald green light appeared around him.

These emerald green lights outlined the appearance of large trees.

Moreover, the light distribution on these large trees was not uniform.

There is a lot of vitality in the trunk and roots, and the green light is very bright.

The vitality in the branches is much less.

And the vitality in the leaves is very little.

In a palm-sized leaf, there are only a dozen green light spots representing vitality.

When the vitality in the leaves disappears, the leaves will naturally wither.

In the next few days, Liu Yuanchen continued to observe these trees with his spiritual sense.

The north wind kept blowing, and the weather was getting colder day by day.

As a cultivator, Liu Yuanchen naturally didn't care about a little chill.

The refining realm before the nourishing qi realm is to constantly temper the body.

When the refining realm is cultivated to perfection, it can already avoid cold and heat.

Therefore, the change of seasons does not have much impact on cultivators.

Even many spiritual plants grow as usual in winter.

However, the leaves of these poplar trees are already withered and yellow, and there is little vitality left.

Now the cold wind blows, it is even worse.

As Liu Yuanchen explored with his spiritual sense, the little vitality left in the leaves was also slowly moving into the branches.

Finally, the leaves that had lost all their vitality broke away from the branches and slowly fell down.

At this time, the tree further shrunk its vitality into the roots and trunk.

Even in the branches, the vitality was obviously reduced, and the green light became very dim.

Some relatively tender new branches even lost all their vitality and turned directly into dead branches.

A few days later, Liu Yuanchen felt in his heart.

He combined his own perception and began to practice the Dead Wood Longevity Technique.

The essence of this technique is to give up the branches and preserve the roots.

As the Dead Wood Longevity Technique was running, the blood and qi in Liu Yuanchen's body began to gather inside the flesh.

The blood and qi on the surface of the body became less and less, and the blood and qi fluctuations that escaped outward were naturally slowly weakening.

The originally ruddy skin color became a little pale.

Then, the fluctuations of his mana were also slowly weakening.

The state of the operation of the mana has changed significantly. In the deep part of the body, the operation speed is obviously accelerated, while in the meridians close to the surface of the body, the operation speed is obviously slowed down.

If someone uses the spiritual sense to detect him at this time, it is likely that he has just broken through the seventh level of nourishing qi.

As the operation time of the dead wood longevity skill increases, his qi and blood fluctuations and mana fluctuations are further weakened.

Chen Changlin, who was hiding in the mine, saw that he was practicing, so he naturally did not dare to use the spiritual sense to spy on him.

If he disturbed his practice and let him go crazy, the Chen family would be finished.

Not only did he not dare to disturb him, he also patrolled several miles away to prevent anyone from disturbing Liu Yuanchen.

This state lasted for two days. Liu Yuanchen was surprised to find that he had not eaten for two days, but he was not hungry at all.

Although the demand for food for cultivators in the nourishing qi realm is not large, they need to eat a bigu pill every two days at least.

He had not eaten for two days. Under normal circumstances, he should be able to feel hungry obviously, but now he has no hunger at all.

It seems that practicing this dead wood longevity skill can also reduce the energy consumption of the whole body.

At this moment, the mana, blood, and a small amount of spiritual power that were moved to the deep part of the body were all gathered in the lower dantian.

These energies merged together, and at first there were still various colors.

The blood power was blood red, the qi was blue-black, the mana was emerald green, and the spiritual power was colorless.

As time went on, these colors gradually decreased and turned into a gray color.

Finally, all the colors other than gray disappeared and turned into a group of longan-sized droplets.

Liu Yuanchen successfully operated the Dead Wood Longevity Technique for the first time, and he didn't know what happened.

However, he didn't feel any discomfort, and there must be no problem.

As the technique was running, other energies in the body continued to merge into this gray energy group and then assimilated.

After a day, this gray energy group finally changed.

Two kinds of energy were constantly separated from it, one was a blue-black liquid, and the other was a light red mist.

The blue-black liquid seemed to contain cold air, and there was a cool feeling wherever it went.

The light red mist was hot, and wherever it reached, there was a warm feeling.

Under the guidance of the exercises, the dark blue liquid gradually flowed into the kidneys and continued to circulate in the kidney veins.

And the light red mist gradually gathered in the heart and kept running in the heart veins.

With the circulation of the two energies, Liu Yuanchen felt that his body strength had been slightly improved.

Moreover, the whole person had a sense of fullness.

Gurgle~~

After a few hours, Liu Yuanchen's stomach suddenly growled.

He woke up from this wonderful feeling and slowly stopped running the exercises.

At this time, he remembered that he had not eaten for three and a half days.

He took out three bigu pills from the storage bag and swallowed them into his stomach, and the feeling of hunger disappeared instantly.

After all, he was not Meng Tieshan. Even if he was very hungry, two or three bigu pills would be enough.

At this time, he found that although he did not actively run the dead wood longevity exercise, the various energy running methods of the whole body were still running in the way of the dead wood longevity exercise.

However, the running efficiency was much lower than before.

Most of the blood and mana that were originally gathered deep in the body returned to the surface of the body again.

His face, which was originally a little pale, became rosy again at this time.

However, there is still a small amount of energy such as blood and mana that continues to remain deep in the body.

In the lower dantian, these are still gathering and eventually condensing into gray energy.

The gray energy is also slowly producing blue-black liquid and light red gas.

It's just that the conversion speed is less than one percent of the previous one.

He thought to himself: "The Dead Wood Longevity Technique is a slow process, and the body's operating state needs to be adjusted slowly.

It seems that my previous practice has played a role.

Even if I don't actively practice the Dead Wood Longevity Technique, the operation mode of various energies in the body has changed a little."

"According to the records in the technique, the degree of change will deepen every time the technique is practiced.

To truly achieve a 30% reduction in the loss of innate energy, it is necessary to practice the fallen leaf level of the Dead Wood Longevity Technique to perfection.

At that time, whether or not the fallen leaf level technique is practiced, the body's operating state will be the same.

Only when you reach this level can you practice the dead wood level technique."

"I can now practice blue-black liquid and light red gas, which is considered to be a formal entry.

Next, it's a slow process.

I'm not yet twenty-one years old, and my life span is sufficient, so there's no need to rush."

Liu Yuanchen was a little curious about the blue-black liquid and light red gas. He used his spiritual sense to explore these two energies, but he didn't see any clues.

There is no introduction to these two energies in the techniques he already has.

But with the circulation of the two energies, the body felt very comfortable.

Seeing that Liu Yuanchen had finished his practice, Chen Changlin dared to approach.

He walked up to Liu Yuanchen and bowed, saying: "Seeing that you look radiant, I believe your practice has improved again. Congratulations."

Liu Yuanchen looked at him carefully. This guy had messy hair, a pale face, dull eyes, bloodshot eyes, and two big dark circles.

Although Chen Changlin looked a little old before, he was still quite energetic.

I felt the changes in the vitality of trees when they shed their leaves, and practiced the dead wood longevity technique. It has only been ten days.

These days, Chen Changlin has not fought with anyone. How did he become like this?