Five months later.

"When the yuan is mixed, the vitality is not divided. Chaos is one, and the beginning of vitality is also. Vitality is born in chaos, bright outside and dark inside..."

Lu Xiaotian sat on the grass mat in the open space in front of the cave, crossed his knees, silently operated the skills in the Hunyuan Sutra, held his breath and concentration, held the yuan and kept one, operated the trace of vitality in his body for the second week, and spit out a mouthful of turbid Qi. Before entering the gas refining layer, the gas in Lu Xiaotian's lungs dispersed as soon as he vomited out. At this time, the gas from the mouth is like a short arrow.

It took nearly four months for Lu Xiaocai to enter the first layer of gas refining, which has been slightly consolidated this month.

"No, I almost forgot to feed animal spirit pills to the little green ant."

As soon as Lu Xiaotian patted his forehead, there was more Aura outside the cave. It was because he had been practicing for a long time. At this time, he regained consciousness. Lu Xiaotian's wheels climbed up from the ground, and his two legs hurried away and ran into the cave. A big black bear lay at the door and opened his eyes. Seeing that it was Lu Xiaotian, he closed his eyes listlessly and continued to sleep.

Lu Xiaotian skillfully ran to the dark room of the Dan room, took a white vial, and then came to the spirit animal room in the cave. In the relatively wide spirit animal room, in a jade pool with a square foot, there were some leaves of white fluorescein grass. White fluorescein grass is a low-level spirit grass, with a shallow white luster on the leaf surface, and there was a slight sound in the leaves of white fluorescein grass from time to time.

Lu Xiaotian took out a dozen black pills with strange fragrance from the white bottle and scattered them on the leaves of white fluorescein.

Hiss

There was a sudden sound in the Jade Pool. More than 20 green ants, five or six times larger than normal ants, climbed out of the leaves and rushed to the beast spirit pill to chew.

"One, two..."

Taking advantage of the small green ants to eat, Lu Xiaotian repeatedly counted the number. After finding that the number was not small, he was finally relieved. Over the past six months, the old man in black has gone out more and more frequently. In addition to cultivation, Lu Xiaotian is also responsible for helping the black robed elderly take care of these little green ants.

These little green ants are low-level spirit insects, which are not easy to keep. In recent six months, they have raised more than 20. Once there is not enough food, the little green ants will kill each other.

Two months ago, because Lu Xiaotian didn't feed in time, two small green ants were killed and divided by other stronger species. For this reason, Lu Xiaotian also received 20 lashes from the old man in black. He was so painful that he had to rest for more than three days before he could go down to the ground. With this lesson, Lu Xiaotian is always very careful.

Lu Xiaotian plugged the peach wood into the opening of the white bottle. Suddenly, there was a long and narrow shadow on the ground. Lu Xiaotian felt tight and soon relieved. He turned around. Sure enough, he was the old man in black.

"Geng Lao!" Lu Xiaotian saluted the old man in black robe.

"Do you know it's me?" his cultivation was much higher than that of Lu Xiaotian. He just appeared at the door of the spirit animal room. Lu Xiaotian seemed to have noticed it. The old man in black robe was not surprised.

"There is a faint figure on the ground. The black bear is guarding the entrance of the cave. Only Geng Lao can enter the cave silently." Lu Xiaotian said truthfully.

"Yes, at a young age, being able to have such a wise man is really outstanding among his peers." the old man in black robe nodded slightly and said in secret that it's a pity that this son's spiritual root potential is poor. He has been practicing Hunyuan classic for nearly half a year and has not made much progress. It's not impossible to accept him as a disciple before. But since the earth fire palace was exterminated, the old man in black thought of the word disciple, and his face became a cloud.

"Shadow ants are also well fed. This is a Qi gathering pill for you." the old man in black took out a pill bottle from his body and held it in his palm, and the pill bottle was suspended in front of Lu Xiaotian.

Lu Xiaotian took the pill bottle and opened the lid. There was a refreshing fragrance of pills in it. Lu Xiaotian couldn't help but be happy. Juqi pill was used by friars in the early stage of Qi refining. It had good effects from the first floor to the third floor. This pill was worth three months of hard training for him who was only one layer of Qi refining.

"Thank you for giving me the pill," said Lu Xiaotian in a hurry after she put it away.

"As long as you do well, I won't be stingy with the reward." the black robed old man nodded and took out a small jade gourd. "My time in the cave may be shorter in the future. After the shadow ants in the Jade Pool grow and mature, if I haven't come back, you can put the mature shadow ants into the jade gourd."

At this time, Lu Xiaotian also knew that this little green ant was called Shadow ant, but Lu Xiaotian's face was a little difficult. This little green ant is a low-level spirit insect, which is not very destructive, but it has a strong paralyzing effect. Two months ago, when the feeding was not timely, it was also because Lu Xiaotian accidentally put his hand into the Jade Pool and was bitten by the little green ant, The action was much slower than usual. He fell on the animal skin and slept two hours more than usual. Once again, the little green ants in the jade pool were cannibalizing each other.

"Geng Lao, after I was bitten by the shadow ant, I was paralyzed for nearly a day. If there are no preventive measures, I'm afraid I will delay the task assigned by Geng Lao."

Lu Xiaotian said carefully, for fear of making the old man in black unhappy.

"This bottle is an antidote to cure the paralytic poison of shadow ants. You only need to take the antidote before catching the shadow ants." the old man in black gave Lu Xiaotian a small medicine bottle again.

"Yes, Geng Lao."

After receiving the antidote, Lu Xiaotian thought, no wonder the black robed old man who had always said good-bye to him just gave him a Qi gathering pill. It turned out that he was asked to do such hard work. Even if there is an antidote, it is quite painful to be bitten by a small green ant. But the black robed old man arranged this, but there was no room for him to refuse.

"I'm leaving tomorrow, and the alchemy furnace will be taken away," said the old man in black.

"If the beast spirit pill runs out and Geng doesn't come back, I'm afraid I can't take care of these shadow ants." Lu Xiaotian said truthfully.

"I still have a small Dan stove here. Although it's not very good, it's enough to refine beast spirit pills."

The old man in black robe took out another small black pill stove, which looked like a black iron stove. The color was far worse than the one the old man in black robe used. But Lu Xiaotian didn't have any other side or other spiritual objects. Lu Xiaotian didn't mind this, but Lu Xiaotian thought he didn't have any means to protect himself, Through the dialogue between the old man in black robe and several others, Lu Xiaotian knew that friars should not only have skills, but also practice spells or combat skills, so as to have combat effectiveness.

In the past, when he was in the thunder sword sect, brother Shi Qingshan also had to practice martial arts after practicing internal mental skills. Therefore, Lu xiaotianxin thought that martial arts practitioners and immortals also have something in common.

The old man in black left more and more time, so Lu Xiaotian thought for a moment and summoned up his courage, "Mr. Geng, if you don't come back in time, I'll go out and pick the elixir for refining the beast spirit pill. If I take the black bear out, I'm afraid it will hurt and destroy the things in the cave. If I don't take the black bear out, I'll encounter little danger outside. If I don't come back and delay the shadow ants that Mr. Geng wants to raise, I'm afraid I'll lose Mr. Geng's hope 。”

"You mean you want to ask me for benefits?" Geng smiled darkly, and his eyes were as cold as poisonous snakes.

"No, I dare not."

Lu Xiaotian suddenly burst into a cold sweat on his forehead. The pressure of senior friars made Lu Xiaotian's legs and stomach tremble. At this time, it's good not to kneel down.

Old Geng's face was full of uncertainty. The spirit found in the canyon was indeed what he wanted. The shadow ant was also one of his killer tongs, but the single lethality was not strong. He had fought with the disciples of LingXiao palace several times before, and most of them were destroyed. The little guy in front of him was still useful. It would be really difficult if he was like what Lu Xiaotian said.

After a little consideration, Geng's face was a little calm, and a little thought flashed in his eyes. Then he threw an ancient silver ring and a booklet to Lu Xiaotian. "This is the spirit beast ring. The booklet is the art of taming animals. You can take the black bear out to subdue a low-level spirit beast."

"Thank you, Geng Lao."

Lu Xiaotian finally breathed a sigh of relief. For the old man in black robe, he had a kind of fear from his heart. If he had no choice, Lu Xiaotian was unwilling to bear this pressure for no reason, but as soon as the old man in black robe left, he went out alone to collect spirit grass and refine animal spirit pills. It was really too dangerous. He had to do so for the sake of his own life.