The appearance of this "Sickness Qi Gem" basically convinced Meng Zhou that there was probably a mysterious altar in the Hehuan Territory.

After finishing everything, Meng Zhou began to think about his own affairs.

Cultivation has passed the stage of rapid progress and has now entered the stage of steady progress.

In horizontal comparison, the cultivation efficiency is still far higher than that of other monks, but compared with the past, it is much slower.

This is a rhythm he must accept and adapt to.

But it is already August, and April of the next year will be the centenary celebration of Qingxuan Sect in less than two years.

At that time, his cultivation was only a little more accumulated than it is now, but he was still at the sixth level of pill formation, which was still early for the next level.

Now that he knew that this centenary celebration was not a simple celebration and that there might be something else behind it, Meng Zhou felt that it was necessary to make more preparations.

So, in less than two years, what can I do in this short or long time?

Which aspect can you invest your energy in that will bring you the greatest returns?

Meng Zhou thought carefully.

First of all, he put aside the strengthening of conventional spells, attack and defense.

Although he has never focused on these aspects since forming the elixir.

But with the rich foundation laid during the foundation building stage, these became part of his talent as he broke through the core formation. As his cultivation level improved and his strength increased, it would naturally increase.

Therefore, in these aspects, even though he put little thought into it, it was not bad.

He was even confident that even with the help of conventional means and without using any special moves, he could easily defeat the monks at the seventh level of alchemy.

With a little more effort, it would be difficult to get an advantage in his hands even with the eighth level of pill formation.

If he uses all his methods, not to mention the ninth level of pill formation, even the ancestor-level monks standing at the peak level of pill formation will not be afraid at all.

But facing them, mastering one or two more conventional methods will be of little help.

Later, Meng Zhou excluded the art of knotting and swordsmanship.

It's not that they are not strong, it's that he acted too violently and has pushed them both to the limit of the third level.

Until fundamental breakthroughs are made in knotting and kendo, it will be difficult for him to make any further breakthroughs in these two areas.

It's not that he can't develop new knotting methods and kendo sword skills, but it's just that he can't go to a higher level based on his achievements in celestial phenomena interpretation, time editing, the Unbounded Sword Realm, and the Time Flowing Water Sword.

Meng Zhou just kept searching and eliminating.

…

September 5th, afternoon.

Cultivation progress +165, six levels of elixir formation 2290/10,000;

Third-level Spring Water Sutra +3300, Grandmaster 145,200/240,000;

Black Turtle Bearing Monument True Skill +3300, Grandmaster 133,500/240,000.

After finishing this retreat, Meng Zhou just spent some time sorting out and mastering the results of this retreat, and then he was once again immersed in searching for the direction of the next stage of practice.

He first reviewed every skill, every path, and every direction he had practiced since he started practicing, and then he rejected them one by one.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that I don’t like them all, but it’s that either the price/performance ratio is not good enough, or it will be difficult to produce results within one or two years.

There is a conflict with his current demand for a device that is “short, fast, and cost-effective.”

After sorting himself out, Meng Zhou began to focus on the storage in the spirit gourd space.

As time accumulates, the storage in the spirit gourd space becomes more and more numerous and complex.

Many things are like that "niu treasure", which has special value in itself, but as time goes by, the ranking in his heart becomes lower and lower, almost as if he has forgotten it.

But none of the things that he could take a fancy to and put into the spirit gourd space were useless.

Meng Zhou hopes to get some inspiration from these items.

A few days later, I was in a pavilion near a pond.

A pot of boiling water was gushing as he thought, but Meng Zhou, who was sitting cross-legged on the futon, did not pick up the pot to make tea.

His attention fell on a few items on the table in front of him.

A dark little man as big as a palm.

Two jade slips.
Chapter completed!