Immortal cultivation starts with copying.

Chapter 256: Western Expedition

Chen Yunhao went deep into Thunder Mountain for nearly a hundred miles and finally found a second cave.

This place is far enough away from the first cave, and the falling thunder is becoming more dense and its power has increased a bit, but generally speaking it is still on the outskirts of Thunder Mountain.

Chen Yunhao simply tidied up the cave, placed the alchemy furnace in a quiet room, and put down the cushion.

I don't plan to practice today. I've been away for two years and have been exhausted all the way. I'm a little tired.

So today I indulged myself, took out a jade slip that recorded the formation restrictions, and studied it slowly and carefully.

This was one of his ways of relaxing. He didn't practice any techniques like alchemy or refining weapons, but just studied the forbidden formations.

In the past, Chen Yunhao had almost no experience with forbidden formations, because compared to alchemy and weapon refining, formations were more complicated and more energy-consuming and time-consuming.

However, because of the floating island in the ancient mirror, Chen Yunhao had plenty of time to study these time-consuming and labor-intensive arts of cultivating immortals.

By studying the formations and restrictions, Chen Yunhao understood more about the principles of heaven and earth and gained a deeper understanding.

Because to put it simply, the formation is a way to borrow the power of heaven and earth.

Those formation flags and formation plates do not seal energy, but use a special arrangement method to mobilize and utilize the power of heaven and earth.

As for the formation, Chen Yunhao is not planning to work in isolation. He will find Xu Chao to study it in the future.

In terms of formation, Lin Changfeng is far inferior to his disciple Xu Chao.

Nowadays, Chen Yunhao has become an alchemist in terms of refining pills, and he can barely be considered a talisman maker in terms of making talismans.

As for refining equipment, he has not yet reached the level of a weapon refiner, but he is almost there.

Just like refining weapons and refining pills, refining equipment requires long-term and extensive practice to make rapid progress.

Therefore, Chen Yunhao only needs to spend some more time refining on the floating island, and he will definitely be promoted to a weapon refiner.

After reading the detailed explanation of the formation for three or four hours, Chen Yunhao felt dizzy.

It's one thing to practice refining an array, but it's another to understand its meaning. It's different from refining equipment and elixirs; it doesn't matter how much you practice.

After putting away the detailed explanation of the formation, seeing that it was still early, Chen Yunhao took out the "Ten Thousand Swords Returning to the Origin" diagram.

Ever since I got the Map of Ten Thousand Swords Returning to their Origin, I haven't been able to study it properly because I have been on the road.

This is not just an ancient painting that allows sword practitioners to understand the meaning of sword, but a real ancient treasure.

The method of refining this ancient treasure has been lost in the Boundless Sea. The key point is that even a cultivator who has reached the stage of Divine Transformation like Lin Changfeng has no way to seal a heaven-defying sword intent in a picture.

Sealing the sword intent is one thing, but the Ten Thousand Swords Returning to Their Origin diagram has many other uses. Chen Yunhao will use his retreat days to study it carefully.

The Sky-Breaking Sword in Chen Yunhao's dantian now was a replica of the Sky-Breaking Sword Sect, and its prototype was the sword in the "Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Origin" diagram.

Therefore, Chen Yunhao's thorough study of the Ten Thousand Swords Returning to their Origin Diagram was equivalent to learning the sword-controlling method of the Sky-Breaking Sword, killing two birds with one stone!

Retreat is boring, but it is also the fastest way for time to pass.

After a year of seclusion, Chen Yunhao has advanced to the second level of Jindan, which is a small improvement.

Although his cultivation had only progressed a small step, his research on formations and restrictions had taken a big step forward.

In one year, more than three thousand days were spent on the floating island.

Chen Yunhao practiced during the day and worked tirelessly on the floating island at night. He spent almost a whole year without sleep. Of course, there will be rewards for your efforts.

Now Chen Yunhao can skillfully set up a first-level formation, such as a simple spirit gathering formation and an illusion formation.

So Chen Yunhao has already gotten started with formations, but they are still too complicated. It took him more than three thousand days, equivalent to five or six years, to get started, so the progress is quite slow.

After advancing to the second level of Golden Core, Chen Yunhao stayed with his third senior brother at Liangyi Peak for more than half a month.

To be honest, he gained more in the past half month than he had in a whole year of working behind closed doors.

Half a month later, Chen Yunhao returned to Thunder Mountain. Time was running out, and the words of the weapon spirit often lingered in his ears, and he dared not forget them for a single day.

Time flies, and another two and a half years have passed in a flash.

Chen Yunhao's cultivation has advanced to the third level of the Golden Core, but of course he is still in the early stage of the Golden Core.

Overall, the progress of cultivation is not fast, but only more than three years have passed, which is considered extremely fast in the eyes of ordinary cultivators.

For cultivators with three or four spiritual roots, it will take at least ten years to advance to each level.

Although Chen Yunhao was a little dissatisfied with the progress of his cultivation, his other skills had improved by leaps and bounds.

After all, with the Ancient Mirror Floating Island, Chen Yonghao has enough time to waste.

After breaking through the third level of Jindan, Chen Yunhao stopped seclusion.

He was in seclusion for three or four years in a row. In fact, from his mentality, it was more than three years. The time he spent on the floating island was ten times longer.

So for Chen Yunhao, this period of seclusion was long enough, and he was already mentally and physically exhausted.

As the saying goes, balance work and rest, haste makes waste.

More than three years ago, when Chen Yunhao came back to see his master, he gave a brief account of the situation in the western sea area in front of Lin Changfeng and Qi Yang.

In addition, in recent years, some sects in the western waters could not withstand the invasion of sea monsters, and many of them moved eastward.

Lei Ting Mountain, including the Qingtian Sect and Ziwei Palace, have received many requests for help from sects in the west.

But after all, the emperor is far away and the place is too far away. It takes time to mobilize monks on a large scale, and it also takes time to coordinate among the three major sects.

Therefore, the arrangements for the Western Expedition were not made until ten days before Chen Yunhao left the country.

Chen Yunhao happened to encounter this incident after he came out of confinement, and he could not be left out of this matter.

Firstly, he was more familiar with the western waters. Secondly, he had been in seclusion for too long and needed to relax and verify the results of his seclusion.

This Western Expedition was led by the three major sects, each of which sent out a God Transformation Patriarch, and several Nascent Soul and Golden Core disciples. The number of people in each sect was controlled at around 200.

As for the low-level disciples, we won’t bring them along because the journey is too far and inconvenient. Besides, in order to solve the troubles in the western sea area, these cannon fodder-like disciples must be sent from the western sea area!

Of course, the three major sects have issued a call, and those sects willing to participate can go there on their own and gather in the Zizhu Sea.

As long as the sect participates, the captured sea monsters will belong to them, and the three major sects will not participate in the division of the spoils.

Another reason why Chen Yunhao actively participated this time was that the ancestor of the God Transformation who led the team was Lin Changfeng.

How could the master take action personally without the disciples following him? Not only him, but also the eldest brother, second sister and third brother will go with the team to show their support for the master.

It is true that brothers fight together to fight the tiger, and father and son fight together in battle. All members of Lin Changfeng's lineage have been mobilized.

The quota for this Western Expedition was voluntarily signed up by the disciples, and anyone who went would get points.

It was like a piece of cake to gather 200 people in the huge Thunder Mountain. It only took an hour. Many people who were not selected were very upset!