The chaos in Southern Xinjiang went away as quickly as it came. Because there was no fire spirit spreading across the grassland, the losses in this riot were limited to the Zhaofeng Department and those who participated in the small competition in Southern Xinjiang.

Comparators, among the onlookers.

The biggest sufferer is undoubtedly the Zhaofeng Tribe. Not only did they lose the clan-protecting zombie demons, but they also lost nearly 100,000 tribesmen in this riot. For the Zhaofeng Tribe, which has a small population,

The original status of the largest part of southern Xinjiang can no longer be maintained.

Other tribes have suffered varying degrees of casualties. Those who can participate in the Southern Xinjiang competition are all elites of each tribe. If there are casualties, the strength of the major tribes will naturally be greatly damaged.

The Xie Yang Department was one of the major departments that suffered smaller losses. This made the old diehards of the Xie Yang Department feel very lucky. Their attitude towards Xian Yuchun and Tamu Department instantly improved a lot. And Tamu Department deserved to become the leader.

The biggest winner of this riot.

The title of No. 1 in Southern Xinjiang finally fell to Tamu Bu, who was at the bottom of the Ten Thousand Years, because of Ning Fan's outstanding performance!

Unfortunately, due to the riots, the process of the entire southern Xinjiang competition was incomplete. According to the process, after the results of the civil and military tests were summarized, the tribe that won the first place had to receive a reward. The reward received was exactly the number of people hunted by each tribe in the military test.

30% of the fire crystals will be awarded to the first tribe.

The Holy Envoy Corpse Demon who was in charge of Xiaobi in southern Xinjiang that day was dead, so naturally there was no one to take charge of the reward matters.

Six days had passed since the riot before a new person in charge came to southern Xinjiang to handle the Tamu Tribe's reward matters. The first thing he wanted to do was to go to the various tribes and take away 30% of the hunting rewards from each tribe's martial arts trials.

Fire crystals, and then reward these fire crystals to Tamu Bu.

The person in charge who came this time was not the Corpse Demon from the Holy Mountain, but one of the disciples of Emperor Tiandou of Zhongzhou, with an eternity of cultivation. His name was Huijing.

This is a seemingly honest and honest Buddhist cultivator. On weekdays, he talks about Buddhist scriptures and debates about Buddhism, and his tongue is as bright as a lotus flower. But when dealing with people, he is slow in his words and deeds.

Huijing had a bit of a headache. He didn't like dealing with mundane affairs, but this time Emperor Tiandou personally asked him to handle the matter, and naturally he couldn't refuse.

"The emperor has an order. This trip to award a reward is a small matter. The only serious matter is to hand this invitation from the Ancient Buddhist Association to the outsider Ning Fan. It is incredible. The ancient Buddhist Association has never allowed outsiders to participate. He is a person from the Holy Mountain.

, not everyone is qualified to go there. I didn’t expect that Emperor Zun would break the routine for a foreign cultivator. I think he values ​​this person very much..."

Thinking of Emperor Tiandu's regard for Ning Fan, Huijing couldn't help but put away his racial discrimination against foreign monks. He respected him before seeing his face.

With Huijing's immortal cultivation level, he personally went to each southern Xinjiang tribe to ask for fire crystals. Naturally, no tribe dared not to give them. Thirty percent of the fire crystals were not a small amount. They were very important materials for improving the fire cultivation level of the headquarters.

.According to Wei Jing's experience, most tribes will do some tricks. On the surface, the number of fire crystals handed over is consistent with the results of the martial arts test, but secretly they will substitute inferior fire crystals for high-quality fire crystals.

crystal.

As a result, the fire crystals awarded to the First Tribe are often shoddy items, and the people responsible tend to turn a blind eye to this matter. This is an old practice.

But this time, Huijing's eyes were opened.

There should be twenty-six fire crystals for the Sea Soul Department. Among them, there should be twenty-two true fire crystals and four shekong fire crystals. There should be two hundred and fourteen actual fire crystals. Among them, there should be four shekong fire crystals alone.

Fourteen of them, all of them are of excellent quality!

The Evil Sheep Division was supposed to hand over nineteen Fire Crystals, but actually handed over two hundred and thirty. Among them were thirty-seven Shekong Fire Crystals, and there was also a Broken Thought Fire Crystal that was obviously not obtained during this martial test!

The Water Wolf Tribe, the Feisha Tribe...all the tribes in Southern Xinjiang all turned over the fire crystals in excess of their quota, and the excess was not just a little bit!

Even the Zhaofeng Tribe and the White Ghost Tribe, which have always been at odds with the Tamu Tribe, have handed over fire crystals in excess of their quota.

Ning Fan saved not many monks this time, but they rescued almost all the tribes in Southern Xinjiang. He actually gained the favor of the entire Southern Xinjiang in one fell swoop!

Many of those who originally hated Tamu died when they rebelled. Although some others survived, they accepted Ning Fan's life-saving grace and spared no effort to hand over the fire crystal this time.

He even did not hesitate to use the treasure troves of various departments to accumulate, just to repay Ning Fan's kindness.

"I never thought it would be so easy to collect the reward fire crystal."

Huijing sighed greatly and came to Tamu Department with the excessive reward.

For immortals like Huijing, the Tamu tribe did not dare to neglect them, and almost the entire clan welcomed them. After receiving the reward from Huijing, they officially gained the honor of being number one in southern Xinjiang. Every Tamu tribe member was full of joy.

, lit a bonfire and celebrated all night long.

However, among these rejoicing people, Huijing did not see Ning Fan.

"Why didn't you see the foreign cultivator invited by your department?" Huijing's words were calm, but in the ears of the Tamu clan leader Tagli, he answered carefully with supreme majesty.

"If I get back to the envoy, Lord Ning is currently practicing in seclusion. He seems to be hitting some bottleneck, so he didn't come here. Is it necessary for me to send a message to Lord Ning and invite him to come and meet with the envoy?"

Although he said this, the trace of reluctance hidden in Tagli's eyes still betrayed his true thoughts.

He didn't want to disturb Ning Fan's retreat. Ning Fan was Tamu's benefactor, the savior of southern Xinjiang, and the most distinguished guest on the grassland. Ning Fan's retreat was more important than anything else, so he didn't want to let this envoy

It's disturbing Ning Fan's practice.

"It's okay. There's no need to disturb this person. I'll just wait here for a few days. I think this person will come out of seclusion before the second round of seizing the tomb begins."

Huijing still had a mission assigned by Emperor Tiandu, so he had to take the invitation and stay temporarily in Tamubu, waiting for Ning Fan to leave seclusion.

Ning Fan chose the place for retreat this time in the Tamu Medicine Pond, a forbidden area in the Tamu Tribe.

This is the place with the highest spiritual energy in the Tamu Department, and it is also the most suitable place to break through bottlenecks. Ning Fan chose this place to retreat in order to prepare for the sudden second heart tribulation.

It is said to be a medicine pond, but on the surface it is just a thousand-foot-square square pond. In the center of the pond, there is a Buddha statue in the water, still dressed as the Medicine Buddha. There is an array on the outside of the medicine pond, which gathers the medicinal energy from all directions.

The gas liquefies, forming water in the pool.

The water in the pool has the magical effect of warming and nourishing the medicinal soul. The Tamu clan chiefs of all generations have refined the medicinal soul here. As time goes by, some medicinal marrow is often born in the medicinal pool and is deposited on the bottom of the pool, which has the magical effect of increasing the power of the medicinal soul.

The longer the deposition time, the longer the lifting effect will be.

Generally speaking, the Tamu people will take out medicinal marrow every thousand years for the powerful members of the tribe to take. Most other tribes also have medicinal ponds, which are basically taken once every thousand years. When Ning Fan entered the medicinal pond, the bottom of the pond had accumulated for a thousand years.

The medicinal marrow has long been taken away, and there are only some medicinal marrow that are hundreds of years old.

These hundreds of years of medicinal marrow are of great help to the cultivation of the medicinal soul of the sixth-level alchemist. But for advanced seventh-level alchemists like Ning Fan, the effect is not great.

Ning Fan sat in the medicine pool with his clothes on, closed his eyes and meditated without saying a word. Except for occasionally taking the medicine soul stone, he did not open his eyes. He had been like this for six days.

Outside the medicine pool, Duo Lan, Xian Yuchun and many Tamu people were waiting here, waiting for Ning Fan to leave seclusion and participate in Tamu's celebration.

Outsiders only think that Ning Fan is breaking through the small bottleneck of Eternal Immortal Master's cultivation. But they don't know that what Ning Fan is breaking through is just the bottleneck of giving up space.

Above the medicine pond, the phantoms of Ningfan's four real bridges have already appeared.

Under the real bridge is the gurgling river, and the reflected reflections are all Ning Fan's constantly changing thoughts.

According to Ning Fan's own point of view, his first mental calamity should be above the word promise, and this second mental strength seems to be above the word grace.

The calamity of equanimity can be met but cannot be sought. If you just practice hard in seclusion, you will often not be able to get rid of the calamity of mind for millions of years. If you travel abroad, it may befall you as soon as the opportunity comes, or you may never get it if you don't meet the opportunity.

Ning Fan was very lucky. Because Xian Yuchun's maniacal roar of grief actually touched his heart, and if it resonated with him, it directly triggered the second heart tribulation.

That roar contained Xian Yuchun's sincere emotions for his mother, including longing and grief.

After returning to the ground, Ning Fan specifically asked about Xian Yuchun's past before going into seclusion, and learned some of Xian Yuchun's stories, as well as the heart-wrenching roar.

When Xian Yuchun was young, he was kidnapped by Shi Yan. His mother tried her best to save him, but he himself died under the magical power of Shi Yan's volcano.

The young Xian Yuchun, just outside the volcano, watched his mother being killed little by little, but was unable to save her.

On that day, Xian Yuchun realized his own weakness.

On that day, Xian Yuchun vowed to leave Southern Xinjiang in this life and live stronger than anyone else.

Deep down, Xian Yuchun has a huge hatred for Sanyan. If he cultivates enough one day, he will definitely take revenge on Sanyan...

Ning Fan saw his own reflection in Xian Yuchun's body. Xian Yuchun's mother reminded Ning Fan of his own mother.

His mother also spared no effort to save him.

But unlike Xian Yuchun, Ning Fan's mother is still alive and still in the Rain Realm, but she doesn't know whether her mother's stone statue has been lifted from petrification...

He was a little homesick.

Together with these thoughts, Ning Fan's mental calamity came faster and faster. For six days, the reflection in the river of Zhenqiao, no matter how it changed, was actually a piece of memory with his mother.

I have false memories of living in the idyllic world with my mother in Zi Dou’s dreamland.

There are pale memories of my mother smearing her cocoon with blood.

There is also the memory of him sitting outside the golden house, not daring to enter the house, not daring to look at the cold stone statue of his mother...

Life is like a white horse passing through the gap between heaven and earth, just suddenly.

As a cultivator, what do we seek?

To the end of the Taoist practice, I often guard an increasingly unfamiliar world, guard those Taoist friends who have died forever, and guard their promise to live forever together. Occasionally, I look through old things and find a love letter I wrote to my senior sister when I was young.

; Passing through a certain market, I suddenly remembered that I had not yet had time to buy the things I promised my senior brother; suddenly I looked back on my life and realized that the people who walked side by side were no longer there. It felt so lonely.

And those who cannot walk together have become a piece of loess much earlier.

There are too few stories of one person attaining enlightenment and chickens and dogs ascending to heaven... The vast majority of monks who were born as mortals, when they achieved immortality, their parents had been dead for many years... What's more, they had already formed the elixir to slay love and transform into gods to slay. Whenever you are mortal, cut off the so-called parents with a sword of wisdom from your heart...

It's just that everything in this world has a cause and a result. You owe your parents a favor and it's too late to repay it. If you even cut off the memory and feelings of your parents, I'm afraid you won't be able to repay the cause and effect even more. Such a monk, no matter what, It is also impossible to achieve true perfection.

"It's wrong to form a pill to kill love..."

"It's wrong to transform into gods and kill mortals..."

"It is also a mistake to forget everything..."

Six days later, Ning Fan suddenly opened his eyes, green light flashed in his eyes, and he saw the shortcomings of the current cultivation system from a perfect perspective.

Can't forget, how can we forget?

In this world, not all scars need to be healed, and some need to be kept and remembered forever.

If in the past, he was just paranoid and unwilling to violate the Taoist heart in the calamity of his mind, now he has directly seen the shortcomings of the realm of emptiness.

During the first mental tribulation, he was not able to understand so much about equanimity.

But the second time...he clearly felt that giving up the tribulation of empty hearts was not that simple.

There was also a vague feeling that could not be explained or understood, which made him vaguely feel that the first time of giving up the emptiness of the heart was not just about the word promise, and the second time of the heart was not just about the word "nuo". The word grace is so simple.
To be continued...