Chapter 264: Foundation Increases Rapidly
Thanks to the help of half a dragon ball, Lu Changjing raised his spiritual cultivation to the second level of perfection several years earlier than expected and was about to break through the bottleneck.

Under normal circumstances, even with the assistance of sufficient magic pills and magic medicines, it would take Lu Changjing two or three years to improve his spiritual cultivation to the second level of perfection. However, half a dragon ball is close to the level of a rare treasure and can greatly improve the cultivation level of gods and demons.

Lu Changjing had already prepared himself. After activating the characteristics of his copper skin and iron bones, his defense became terrifying and he was fully able to withstand the pressure brought by the soul breaking through.

You know, after being blessed with the properties of copper skin and iron bones, his body was promoted to the level of semi-profound body. How could he not be able to withstand such a small impact?

"Boom boom boom..."

Therefore, even if he was trying to break through the bottleneck of spirit refining, Lu Changjing dared to attack violently and vigorously without worrying about causing any damage to his sea of ​​soul.

Under an impact of this intensity, cracks appeared on the bottleneck dam in just a cup of tea.

After another cup of tea, these cracks gathered together to form huge openings, and then collapsed with a loud bang, and the spiritual cultivation level also broke through to a new level.

Third level gods and demons!

The state of hatching!

As the name suggests, when the spiritual cultivation reaches the third-order divine and demonic level, the soul has grown to a certain extent and can leave the sea of ​​soul and appear around oneself, so it is called hatching.

After hatching, the soul can better mobilize the power of heaven and earth, and can also integrate into the power of heaven and earth. When performing various soul combat skills and secret techniques, it can increase the power by several times, or even more.

Therefore, after entering the state of hatching, the combat power of gods and demons can make a leap, at least increasing by about two times.

However, the soul at this level cannot leave the body too far, only a few hundred meters at most. If it is farther away, it will easily lose contact with the body and eventually find it difficult to return to the body.

At best they will be injured, at worst they will die, so they cannot leave too far, and they cannot hatch during the day, only at night.

After his cultivation level stabilized, seeing that it was already night time, Lu Changjing's soul moved and he left the sea of ​​soul and appeared above his head.

The soul is not big, only more than three inches. Even so, it has surpassed most third-level gods and demons. This is obviously because Lu Changjing has a stronger foundation.

Even though his deep-rooted nature had prevented him from improving his foundation due to the large amount of elixirs he had taken, it was still far superior to any god or demon of the same level.

When other third-level gods and demons were promoted, it was quite difficult for their souls to leave their bodies. However, Lu Changjing came out very easily without any stagnation.

His size is also much larger than that of other third-level gods and demons. The souls of those perfect third-level gods and demons are not as large as his soul, nor as pure as his.

The soul looks very similar to Lu Changjing, and can be said to be a smaller version of Lu Changjing. His whole body is light golden, and there is a light golden five-clawed dragon circling around him, which can protect Lu Changjing's soul. This is a special effect of the Imperial Dragon Soul Sutra.

Standing in the air, looking at the main body sitting cross-legged below, Lu Changjing had an inexplicable feeling. In a trance, he had a feeling of traveling throughout the universe.

It was as if he had taken off some shackles, and he unconsciously made hand gestures. In an instant, the power of heaven and earth within a radius of several hundred meters rushed in, forming layers of raging waves, surrounding his soul and began to temper and improve it.

A flash of inspiration!
Another epiphany!

Lu Changjing was immersed in it, and his soul, which had just stabilized, soared at an astonishing speed.

The quantity is soaring, the quality is soaring, and at the same time, I have a deeper understanding of the use of spirit and soul and the use of the power of heaven and earth.

All kinds of thoughts came to his mind, making him unable to control himself.

Before he knew it, a cup of tea had passed and Lu Changjing slowly woke up. This time his enlightenment did not last long, but even so, it allowed Lu Changjing's soul to approach the perfection of the third-level god and demon. He only needed to practice for a while longer, and perhaps he would be able to break through the shackles and step into the fourth-level god and demon realm, reaching the same level as his physical cultivation.

The most important thing is that the number of Imperial Divine Souls has more than doubled, and the quality has also more than doubled. Both the number and quality are about three times that of gods and demons of the same level. Combined together, it is nine times that of gods and demons of the same level, which is an exponential increase.

Even if the effect of "a big tree with deep roots" is brought to its full potential, it can only improve this much, and it requires a long period of accumulation. During this period, you cannot take miraculous pills and drugs wantonly.

Under the pressure of external threats in recent years, Lu Changjing has hardly stopped taking large quantities of magical pills and drugs. He originally thought that he didn't know when he would be able to maximize the effect of "The Tree Has Deep Roots".

I didn't expect that with the help of this sudden enlightenment, I could actually improve my foundation to this level.

Although it is only the foundation of spirit refining, but under the influence of the powerful and mighty power of the soul, it can also better temper and hone the cultivation of Qi refining and body refining, improve its foundation, and finally maintain consistency.

Feeling the surge in his soul, Lu Changjing nodded with satisfaction. Although he had not yet broken through to the fourth-level god and demon realm, he was already in no way inferior to the fourth-level god and demon, and was even close to the fifth-level god and demon.

Even if it is hundreds of meters away from the main body, it can still move freely.

Lu Changjing tried it and found that he could easily cross several hundred meters, even thousands of meters, or even farther.

Galloping through the night, it mobilizes the astonishing power of heaven and earth, and explodes with power beyond imagination.

This is clearly the strength that can only be exerted when the soul reaches the fourth-order god and demon level and enters the night wandering realm.

Although he is only a third-level god or demon, relying on his strong cultivation foundation, Lu Changjing's spiritual cultivation is not inferior to that of a mid-level god or demon.

In this way, some dragon essence can be taken from half of the dragon ball and used to improve the Qi training level.

After all, once the spiritual cultivation level breaks through the fourth level, the effect of the dragon ball will plummet. It is better to use it on the Qi cultivation level so that the effect can be maximized.

Unfortunately, the dragon ball is the condensation of the dragon's essence, spirit, and energy, and it requires special treasures and opportunities to form. Otherwise, Lu Changjing would have wanted to refine the green dragon Ross into a dragon ball as well, as its effect on improving the realm of cultivation is too great.

Not long after his spiritual cultivation broke through to the third level of gods and demons, after absorbing a large amount of power from the dragon balls, Lu Changjing's qi cultivation also broke through smoothly and reached the third level of gods and demons.

The remaining power in half of the dragon ball is enough for Lu Changjing to break through to the fourth level of gods and demons in his spiritual cultivation, and there may even be some left over.

The overall strength has increased by more than several times in these successive breakthroughs, and can basically sweep the middle-level gods and demons.

Relying on various combat skills, secret techniques, and characteristics...even high-level gods and demons can be defeated.

Lu Changjing felt more secure, and the next step would naturally be for him to continue to practice, improve, practice martial arts, and engage in actual combat... He could not give up on formations and alchemy, as these also played an extremely important role in increasing his strength, or his ability to protect his life.

His level in refining ordinary elixirs is average and can only be considered qualified, but when it comes to refining various poisons and drugs, he is outstanding and is close to the level of an alchemist.

It may not be long before he can enter the level of spiritual medicine master by refining spiritual-grade poisons and drugs.

For the sake of his own life, he also had a high level of attainment in medical skills, but he was a little bit lacking in refining ordinary elixirs. The improvement of his spiritual formation skills was still very impressive, and it could be said that he was making great progress every day, getting closer and closer to the top spiritual formation masters.

Lu Changjing is already looking for a suitable divine formation master to see if he can get one to be his master and help him improve his formation skills.

He has discovered that with the help of the thousand-year-old woman Teacher Fu, the progress of alchemy is so terrifying that it is almost catching up with the improvement of the art of formation.

You should know that he has a rare talent in formation, and is also a genius in formation, so the speed at which his formation improves is astonishing.

As a result, it is still not as good as the alchemy skills taught by the divine alchemist. This shows the great role of a famous teacher in the improvement of deputy positions.

Of course, this famous teacher must be the kind of person who can make selfless contributions and not keep anything to himself. Teacher Fu happens to be such a person.

Although she didn't take the initiative, she still gave her all.

Even if there is something difficult to say, Lu Changjing can find out the content through the soul-stealing technique.

During this period, he also got to know a lot of Teacher Fu's secrets, which allowed Lu Changjing to get to know her better. He didn't expect that this thousand-year-old woman had such a strange and eccentric personality, and there was a reason why she became so greedy now.

He grew up in a poor family and lived a hard life. His parents were killed one after another because of money issues, and his childhood was shrouded in shadow.

Even after joining Baiyao Valley, he was still troubled by money and lacked resources for cultivation. His master also died in the fight for resources and wealth.

Many disciples of the same age around him died at the hands of demons and monsters for the resources to practice, or died at the hands of hostile forces.

All these experiences combined together have created the character of Fu Shishi.

However, it is remarkable that Master Fu did not become a bad person after experiencing so many tragedies, and was only a little greedy for money.

When the two were together, maybe there was a problem when deleting or modifying the memory, but Master Fu always liked to touch him and take advantage of this young man.

At first, Lu Changjing was quite uncomfortable with it. After all, how could a young man in his twenties accept a thousand-year-old woman treating him like this?

But after doing it many times, he became less resistant. In addition, after knowing Fu Shishi's past, Lu Changjing also felt more sympathetic towards her.

Maybe this is just a habit, but if an old woman like Nie Sha took advantage of him, Lu Changjing would probably smash her head and kick her away.

Although Master Fu is older than Nie Sha, compared to her lifespan, she can only be considered a young adult, which is acceptable.

Lu Changjing is not the kind of person who does anything when he is hungry. He still has his own pursuits for love.

So even though they had been together for many days, Lu Changjing still did not give Master Fu a chance to engage in a verbal battle, let alone a chance to enjoy imported delicacies, which was something only his love could enjoy.

While Lu Changjing was busy, the demons and monsters that were driven out by the Daning Dynasty actually caused another big incident.

After these days of cleanup, the demons and monsters of the Da Ning Dynasty have basically been cleared out. Many demons and monsters who wanted to save their lives fled to the surrounding countries and even staged a scene of asking for help.

Unfortunately, the group of monsters and demons that were called in for help eventually disappeared without a trace and no monsters and demons saw them again. Not long after, news was received that some of their materials had arrived at the Monster Suppression Division, and the rest had entered the East Factory and the West Factory and were turned into commodities and sold.

Looking at their colleagues who turned into elixirs, weapons, armors, etc., the demons and monsters who fled abroad fell silent.

Immediately, the demons and monsters that remained in the territory of Daning fled at an alarming speed and never dared to come to Daning again.

This left the Demon Suppression Bureau and the East and West Factory with some free time. Many warriors from the East and West Factory were so idle that they volunteered to go abroad to slay demons and eliminate evil.

Lu Changjing gave them this opportunity, and money would invite them to enter the surrounding countries, and of course, the endorsement of these countries was indispensable.

But from the outside world's perspective, this was Ju Ye using the power of the Money Association and the power of surrounding countries to suppress Daning's East and West Factories and consume their warriors.

On the surface, most of the demons and monsters killed by the East-West Factory were handed over to the Jinqian Society, but in fact, they secretly returned to Lu Changjing.

Those demons and monsters who fled abroad were also a little confused. They didn't expect that the East-West Factory was so arrogant that they even chased them abroad. It was simply too much.

So continue to ask for help, or escape to another place.

The demons and monsters from other places were also a little angry when they heard that Daning was so arrogant.

You must know that in the surrounding countries, demons and monsters basically have the upper hand, and only a few countries are at a disadvantage.

They have always been the ones to bully humans, and humans have never been the ones to bully them.

If the demons and monsters had not been fighting among themselves and unable to unite, the human race would have been suppressed and defeated long ago.

I didn't expect the Daning court to be so arrogant. It would have been fine if they had just driven out the demons and monsters in their own country, but they actually extended their hands to the surrounding countries.

Then another batch of demons and monsters broke into the territory of Daning, but they soon stopped and there was no news of them anymore.

The same thing happened afterwards. The materials on them appeared in the Demon Suppression Bureau and the East-West Factory, and then these demons and monsters continued to flee.

Just when these demons and monsters were about to despair, another savior appeared, it was the low-level treasure-hunting dragon rat.

It is said that during this period of time this demon god was searching for treasure in the eastern part of China. He came to the vicinity of Daning and heard many stories about demons and monsters being bullied.

So the treasure-hunting dragon rat became furious and decided to stand up for his companions and teach Daning a severe lesson so that they would never dare to treat their companions like this again.

Of course the most important reason is that the treasure-hunting dragon rat has taken a fancy to the treasure that may have been passed down by the Ning family, so it just takes this opportunity to explore and see if it can steal anything valuable.

The treasure-hunting dragon rat just went with the flow and responded to the requests for help from these monsters and demons. It quietly headed towards the Daning Dynasty and soon appeared near Baiyujing.

Even though it was already a low-level god or demon, able to basically roam the territory of Daning, this treasure-hunting dragon rat was still very careful and did not reveal its tracks.

He also specifically asked the demons and monsters who asked him for help not to spread the matter to the outside world.

If it weren't for Ju Ye's channel, Lu Changjing would not have known that this demon god had come to Baiyujing and had also set his sights on the treasures passed down by the Ning family.

(End of this chapter)