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Chapter 118: Between Joy and Sorrow

  A dark fire bead flew out from Zuo Mo's fingers, transforming into a stream of milky white flames that struck an ancient tree in front of him, its trunk so thick it would take seven or eight people to encircle it.

  A milky white flame spread along the ancient tree at an astonishing speed, and in the blink of an eye, the milky white flame enveloped the entire ancient tree, leaving not a single leaf untouched. The ancient tree that was once full of life had lost all its vitality, and wherever the milky white flame passed, the green leaves immediately turned pale white. Soon, the entire ancient tree turned pale white, without a hint of green, emitting an oppressive chill, as snowflakes began to flutter around it.

  The white leaf tips began to crumble bit by bit, like weathering, rustling down.

  A gust of wind blew by, and snowflakes danced in the air. Countless white fragments fell from the ancient tree, drifting away with the wind.

  A huge ancient tree with lush foliage, just like that, in front of Zuo Mo, turned into countless white powder and disappeared in the wind.

  Zuo Mo was deeply shocked by what he saw before his eyes.

  Returning to the small courtyard, he was still a bit dazed. The power of the Yin Fire Pearl was indeed astonishingly strong; if it had hit a person, Luo Mo suspected that even those in the Condensing Pulse stage would hardly be able to withstand it.

  But for the last resort of saving one's life, it is naturally better to have a stronger power!

  After that, he put all his energy into the refinement of the Yin Fire Bead. With the help of the Three Turns Fire Array, the refinement of the Yin Fire Bead went very smoothly. This time's refined Yin Fire Bead was different from the last one, the whole bead was white and spotless, and it couldn't be seen that it was a Yin Fire Bead at all. However, every time he refined a Yin Fire Bead, he had to meditate to recover. Indeed, it was a powerful killing tool, consuming an astonishing amount of spiritual power and divine consciousness.

  Looking at the twenty pellets of Dark Fire Beads in his hand, Zuo Mo's mood was lifted.

  Occasionally fantasizing, if one were to throw out all twenty Yin Fire Beads in one breath, what a terrifying scene would it be?

  With the yin fire bead, Yin Ci felt confused and didn't know what to do. What's strange is that Pu Yao seemed to have forgotten that he still had a lot of unfinished evil deeds, and didn't urge him to enter the Sword Cave.

  Zuo Mo was delighted to have some free time, but soon, before he could even enjoy the joy of refining the yin fire beads, after checking his spiritual power, his mood quickly plummeted to rock bottom.

  Damn it!

  His own cultivation had actually stopped growing!

  How did this happen? The sudden blow was like a thunderbolt on a clear day, stunning him and making his head buzz. After engraving the magic pattern, the speed of his cultivation growth had greatly decreased, he was worried, but he could still keep calm, because it was still growing.

  But what if growth comes to an end...

  He dare not imagine!

  Since the last time Pu Yao made a move, Zuo Mo had been extremely stingy with every thread of spiritual energy within his body. This also made him extremely sensitive to changes in the spiritual energy within his body. Even the slightest change, he could detect.

  He is still in the foundation-building period, which is the stage where his cultivation grows the fastest. He spends a lot of time every day practicing "Fetal Breathing and Spiritual Refining", hoping to make up for his lack of talent with hard work, even if it means increasing his spiritual energy by just a little bit. Previously, as he had imagined, due to the demonic seal, the growth of his spiritual energy had slowed down, but his cultivation was still growing steadily. However, from five days ago until today, for five consecutive days, there has not been the slightest change in his spiritual energy, and this situation is something he has never encountered before!

  Zuo Mo's face turned tense!

  If his spiritual power really stopped growing, his cultivation would be forever stagnant in the foundation period! Unprecedented panic spread in his heart, and he hastily ran to the sea of consciousness. Pu Yao closed his eyes and sat on the tombstone, no matter how Mo shouted at him, he didn't move, like a statue. Pu Yao was in meditation, this problem he couldn't go ask the master uncles. He wouldn't flatter himself into thinking that the second master uncle who became famous in the demon hunting, would not recognize the magic pattern.

  Cultivation stagnated at the foundation building stage...

  What about that dream? What will you use to find and change the person who recognizes yourself?

  Zuo Mo's entire body seemed to have been drained of energy, and he sat weakly on the ground. From the moment he knew he had been modified by the recognition spell, he kept telling himself that he must go find the answer to his dream, to find the answer to the modification recognition spell. But this belief that had supported him in moving forward was suddenly destroyed from its roots, and he felt lost.

  Deep into the night, he lay on the rooftop, with music playing non-stop beside him, his head resting on his arms, staring blankly at the sky.

  His thoughts drifted far, far away. How long had it been since he'd lain like this? He decided to go in search of the answer, but as time passed, he found himself lying on the rooftop listening to the sound of the wind chimes less and less often, every day filled with countless cultivation techniques and incantations, every day telling himself that he needed to work harder...

  In the night sky, the stars are like a sea.

  Lei Ju's left Mo curled up like a child, in the broadcast of Yin Gui, fell fast asleep.

  No dreams.

  The next day, the sunshine spilled on me, warm and cozy.

  With his eyes open, Zuomo felt an indescribable sense of relief throughout his body, and the gloom of yesterday was swept away. Thinking about his despair and pessimism from yesterday, he found it somewhat amusing. His cultivation may not have increased, but as long as he worked hard, he would eventually find the root of the problem. After a good night's sleep, he woke up with his body full of energy and fighting spirit.

  No spiritual power, no divine consciousness, no talismanic arrays, no spiritual plants, no alchemy of elixirs, and no refinement of artifacts!

  He re-examined the spiritual energy inside his body, and indeed it was still motionless. However, he didn't have any pessimistic thoughts at this moment, but instead felt very calm. He came out of his meditation and thought carefully, he needed to re-determine his next main direction of attack.

  In just a short time, he had determined his main direction of attack - Fu Zhen!

  For him, whose cultivation had stopped growing, the importance of the formation was elevated to an unprecedented height. To solve the stagnation of his cultivation, the formation was an insurmountable barrier. Moreover, now that he knew how to refine the formation disc, those aggressive formations could also be put into use. The formation's help in alchemy and equipment refinement was also immense, no matter which path he chose to take, crystal stones were indispensable. How to earn crystal stones was also a problem that Zuo Mo couldn't avoid.

  Unlike spiritual power, the growth rate of divine consciousness is not affected by anything and still maintains a good growth rate. Unfortunately, he has a treasure mountain but doesn't know how to use it. The attack methods related to divine consciousness are only divine consciousness pierce and yin pierce. Divine consciousness pierce has too little power, yin pierce has decent power, but was abandoned by Zuo Mo. Yin pierce requires pure and dense yin energy, the method that Zuo Mo can think of is to borrow the yin bead, but the yin bead is too eye-catching and easy to cause trouble. And if used as a life-saving method, yin pierce is not as convenient as the yin fire bead, nor does it have the power of the yin fire bead.

  Apart from that, "Diamond Sutra" is worth expecting. Zuo Mo decided to go find some body-refining cultivators' techniques to see if he could learn something. Or perhaps he could think of a way to use the symbol array, last time "Flesh Body Golden Armor" combined with "Thousand Jin", managed to block two dark stabs.

  Heh heh, I can still consider "Medicine Symbol Flow"! The Spirit Dan can be refined by myself, the law treasure can be refined by myself, as for the paper symbol, he doesn't mind learning another drawing symbol.

  The more I think about it, the clearer my mind becomes, and the more invigorated I feel.

  Heaven will not cut off a man's road, without spiritual power, there are still many ways to make a living.

  It has been proven that when people are driven to desperation, they will always burst out with great potential.

  In the early morning, Li Yingfeng opened the door and saw Zuo Mo outside. She was taken aback for a moment and subconsciously said: "Younger brother, why have you come again?"

  She let out a soft "ah" and didn't know what to say, it seemed that Li Yingfeng had really been frightened by the last time she practiced the Huamei Lotus.

  Li Yingfeng immediately realized the inappropriateness of the sentence and hastily added, "Aren't you going to participate in the Swordsmanship Competition? You should be practicing hard for it during this period!"

  Zuo Mo spread out his hands: "Our sect still has to rely on Eldest Brother, this little bit of strength isn't enough."

  Li Yingfeng heard this, furrowed her brow, and said seriously: "Junior brother, don't belittle yourself. Junior brother was able to comprehend the sword intent during the foundation building period, such talent is rare, in our sect, who else can compare to Eldest Senior Brother? How can junior brother exile himself and not strive for progress?"

  Zuo Mo was sweating profusely, knowing that his sister was doing it for his own good, but he didn't know how to explain himself, so he simply said: "Little brother isn't abandoning himself, it's just that things have been a bit tight lately."

  Li Yingfeng's face was shocked: "Where did your crystal stones go? You earned so many crystal stones last time, and you spent them all? How did you spend them?"

  Zuo Mo didn't know what to say anymore. He couldn't tell Shixiong that he had a bottomless pit in his mind that was eating away at the crystal stones. According to reason, several thousand third-grade crystal stones were a huge sum for a foundation stage cultivator like him. Even if it was placed in Dong Fu, it would still be an astonishing amount. Now Zuo Mo actually told her that all the crystal stones had been spent, how could Li Ying Feng not be shocked?

  "Jade stones are never enough to spend." Zuo Mo chuckled and said to his staring sister.

  Unable to resist Zuo Mo's persistent requests, Li Ying Feng finally agreed to his demands to reopen. Due to the accumulated reputation from before, as soon as Zuo Mo reopened, many cultivators came flocking in upon hearing the news.

  Zuo Mo didn't know that he was now somewhat famous among the production cultivators of Dong Fu. Especially after he successfully cut through fourth-grade Cold Magnetic Iron, and then exploded with his successful refinement of fourth-grade Ink Lotus Seed, Zuo Mo's one-handed control over fire had been passed down as a legendary skill.

  Especially with Zuo Mo's opening of multiple payment methods such as Crystal Stone Payment, Jade Slip Payment and Treasure Tool Payment, it was extremely well-received and business boomed to the extreme.

  After a day's work, Zuo Mo didn't look as tired as before. He handed Li Ying Feng a jade slip: "Sister, help me take a look at how many spirit stones these materials will need?"

  Li Yingfeng took the jade slip, glanced at it roughly: "About 50 three-product crystal stones. Hmm, Brother Shidi, you're also starting to take an interest in symbol arrays?" The list provided by Zuo Mo didn't have any particularly high-quality materials, all one-product materials, and 50 three-product crystal stones could buy a small half of the courtyard. Li Yingfeng became even more curious, how did Brother Shidi spend those several thousand three-product crystal stones last time?

  "En, yes, Fu Zhen is quite interesting. This is fifty three-product crystal stones, Master Sister will help me prepare."

  "No problem." Li Yingfeng quickly took over the crystal stone, she was familiar with almost all the shops in Dongfu, buying these things was effortless. As for cultivation, her junior brother had more talent than herself, he must have his own plans.

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