In the year 855 of the Shenwu calendar, another three years had passed since the Battle of the Void 30,000 miles away from the outer dome.
In that battle three years ago, the entire Cangsheng Realm's major holy land sects, and even the entire martial arts realm, suffered extremely heavy losses in the process of resisting the invasion of the Lingyu Realm, and a total of nearly thirty rank five masters fell before and after.
You must know that there were only forty-five fifth-order warriors from all sides who participated in the battle in the outer void that day, plus some fifth-order warriors who were left behind at the gates of each family and could not go out, the total number of fifth-order masters in the entire Cangsheng Realm would not exceed sixty or seventy.
In other words, that battle directly reduced the number of fifth-order masters in the Cangsheng Realm by a small half, and if you add the Yuan Gang incarnation that fell during the battle, the loss would only become even greater.
Although this battle ended with the Cangsheng Realm successfully repelling the Lingyu Realm, and after the battle, the masters of all parties were able to recover some of the Heavenly Essence Gang, but most of them were only the Essence of the Heavenly Gang, and more of the Heavenly Essence and the Essence of the Heavenly Gang were lost in the sealed chaotic void.
In the past three years, the nascent Cangsheng Realm as a whole can be said to be calm, and the major holy land sects are silently licking their wounds, trying their best to recover the losses of high-level warriors caused by that great battle.
Because after that battle, the Cangsheng Realm's understanding of the Lingyu Realm was no longer half-understood.
But because of this, the major sects of the Cangsheng Realm would not have taken chances because they repelled the invasion of the Lingyu Realm last time.
In that battle three years ago, the Lingyu Realm was in a hurry because of the haste and there were still many other aspects involved, so they did not do their best.
And the defeat of this battle would not only not discourage them from invading the Cangsheng Realm, but would make the entire Lingyu Realm Shang Xia regard it as a great shame, and they would definitely make a comeback next, and when the time came, their preparations would be more sufficient, and the power invested would inevitably be greater, and it was inevitable that the purpose would be to overthrow the entire Cangsheng Realm.
Despite this, three years had passed, and although the cultivation of the rank five masters damaged in the battle had been restored, and the number of new martial arts realm masters had also increased, the overall strength was still far from what it was before the battle three years ago.
However, perhaps in order to maintain its status as a martial arts holy land sect and maintain its deterrence against other forces, in the past three years, all the promotions of the Five Heavenly Warriors among the major forces of all parties no longer used blessed lands and grotto-heaven secret realms to cover up, but directly revealed the large-scale celestial phenomena caused by the promotion of their own warriors.
The celestial phenomena caused by the warrior's promotion to the fifth heaven were so vast that the large-scale vitality fluctuations caused by it alone could affect the land of a state.
The moment he successfully ascended and directly communicated with the original will of the Cangsheng Realm, he was able to be known to all the warriors of the entire Cangsheng Realm whose cultivation level was above the fifth heaven.
Therefore, in these three years, almost every month or two, a warrior would cause a large-scale vision of heaven and earth to appear because of the impact on the five heavens.
If it weren't for the battle three years ago in the thirty thousand miles of void outside the sky, it would have been almost known to the warriors above the fourth rank of the entire Cangsheng Realm, I am afraid that not the entire Cangsheng Realm would feel that the prosperous era of martial arts practice had arrived.
Of course, not everyone who attacked the five heavens could succeed.
Even if most of the warriors came from the martial arts holy land sect, and they had been carefully selected and carefully prepared before advancing, there were still many people who still failed to cross the threshold of the fifth heaven in the end.
But in fact, in the past three years, the Cangsheng Realm seems to have increased twelve or thirteen fifth-order warriors, but there are also eight or nine who have failed to be promoted, and these successful promotions are all fifth-order first-level cultivation, which cannot make up for the loss of high-level combat power after the battle three years ago.
In the past three years, the newly promoted martial arts holy land Tongyou Academy may have exhausted what it had accumulated before
Foundation, the number of fifth-order masters did not increase again, but among the four martial arts realm masters, Ji Wenlong and Shang Bo both successfully practiced the second natal Yuan Gang, and their cultivation and combat power were greatly improved.
The second natal Yuan Gang he practiced is called "Three Rivers Liuqing" Yuan Gang, which is a kind of Tianyuan Gang from Wuzhou carefully selected by Shang Xia, which belongs to the Guishui Yuan Gang among the five elements, and is very consistent with the first natal Yuan Gang he practiced, "Taisu Yinsha Yuan Gang".
But when Ji Wenlong practiced the second natal Yuan Gang, it was extremely difficult.
The first natal Yuan Gang that Ji Wenlong practiced when he advanced to the Fifth Heaven was the "Earth Center Yuan Gang", which should be a kind of Wu Tu Yuan Gang among the five elements.
According to the principle and order of the five elements, Shang Xia suggested to him that the choice of the second natal Yuan Gang should be the same as the metallic Heaven and Earth Gang.
Originally, the best choice should be the "Shouyang Copper Mother Yuan Gang" that Kou Chongxue had practiced, but this kind of Yuan Gang even if Kou Chongxue himself had only accumulated a few strands of Yuan Gang essence over the years, as for the "Taisu Yinsha Yuan Gang" that Shang Bo had practiced, it was even more impossible to find.
In the end, Ji Wenlong selected a Jin Xing Yuan Gang called "Yuan Bai Gang Qi" for refining, and it took nearly three years to barely refine it successfully, and it would still take a long time to polish the cultivation base.
It was almost foreseeable that for a long time to come, Ji Wenlong's cultivation would probably have no room for improvement.
This is not something wrong with Shang Xia's suggestion, but Ji Wenlong's own cultivation potential is almost on the verge of exhaustion.
Whether it was Kou Chongxue or Shang Bo, even Ji Wenlong himself had already expected this.
In fact, if it weren't for the successful promotion of Tongyou Blessed Land, and laying an excellent foundation from the beginning, Ji Wenlong's own foundation would have improved a lot, he would probably not even have the qualifications to practice the second natal Yuan Gang now.
Kou Chongxue spent almost no time on cultivation in the past three years, in his own words, that means that his cultivation has reached his level, and if he wants to go further, it is no longer possible to blindly practice in seclusion.
Unless there is a major breakthrough in the martial arts concept of this world, or further improved, if he wants to take his cultivation further, he may only have to rely on external forces to advance like the other four major grotto-heaven sects of the sixth-order beings.
As for Shang Xia himself, in essence, it was actually his own cultivation and combat power that had improved the most.
However, because of the particularity of Shang Xia's own cultivation, his cultivation in the Five Elements Realm was difficult to measure with the regular cultivation of the Five Heavens.
After Shang Xia advanced to the Five Elements Realm, he attacked and practiced ten different Yin-Yang Five Elements Essence.
Before completing the creation of his own Five Elements Realm Technique, if Shang Xia wanted to improve his cultivation, he could only find ten identical Yuan Gang essences for superficial refinement, which was essentially more like a passive assimilation.
After he successfully built the exercise system of the Five Elements Realm, although it was very shallow at the beginning and the cycle of Zhou Tian handling was extremely long, in this case, Shang Xia's restrictions on the refining of Yuan Gang essence had been relaxed from the ten corresponding Yuan Gang essences one by one, to as long as they belonged to the ten attributes of Jiamu, Yimu, Binghuo, Ding Huo, Wutu, Jitu, Gengjin, Xinjin, Renshui, and Guishui, they could all be refined into natal Yuangang essence.
In this way, Shang Xia did not have to stick to a specific Yuan Gang essence, the range of choices was expanded, and the threshold for practicing Natal Yuan Gang was greatly reduced.
In the past three years, Shang Xia has been using the Five Elements Realm exercises he created to practice.
Thanks to that battle three years ago,
Shang Xia was able to give priority to selecting the Yuan Gang essence suitable for his own side from the hands of the four five heavens of Tongyou Academy, and successfully gathered twenty strands of Yuan Gang essence belonging to ten attributes, and successfully refined them.
In other words, in the past three years, the total amount of Yuan Gang essence refined by Shang Xia has been equivalent to two complete Heaven and Earth Gang Elements!
At this time, Shang Xia had cultivated ten kinds of natal Yuan Gang essences belonging to the five elements of yin and yang, and each of them had increased to three strands.
For a warrior who understands the essence of Shang Xia's cultivation in the Five Heavens, this speed of cultivation can be called a leap forward even in Kou Chongxue's view.
However, subject to Shang Xia's special cultivation process, at this time, Shang Xia's own qi is still the first level of the fifth order!
Despite this, in Shang Xia's opinion, he still had a lot of regrets about the growth of his own cultivation in the past three years.
Of course, in order to avoid provoking others, Shang Xia could only bury this "regret" deep in his heart.
Although after the battle three years ago, Shang Xia was bypassed, and successfully shortened the transportation of his self-created Five Elements Realm Technique Zhou Tian to about three hours in one fell swoop.
In the past three years, Shang Xia has been cultivating and refining the essence of Yuan Gang while further optimizing and perfecting the exercises, and the cycle of Zhou Tian has been shortened again and again, getting closer and closer to the two hours that are the standard for excellent fifth-order exercises.
However, it is the standard of these two hours, Shang Xia has always been close again and again, but there has never been a substantive breakthrough.
Moreover, according to Shang Xia's expectations for the self-created Five Elements Realm Technique, after its Sunday transportation was shortened to less than two hours, it would inevitably cause essential changes.
The most intuitive manifestation of this change is that the restrictions on the essence of Yuan Gang are further relaxed, no longer limited to the ten types of yin and yang of the five elements, but only need to distinguish the five elements of the essence of Yuan Gang.
This would undoubtedly further lower the threshold for Shang Xia's cultivation in the Five Elements Realm, and the choice of Yuan Gang essence types would also be further relaxed.
As for the changes in yin and yang in the five elements, Shang Xia can complete it by himself during the operation of the exercises.
If you express it in a more intuitive way, take the "Shouyang Copper Mother Yuan Gang Essence" that belongs to Geng Jin and the "Taisu Yinsha Yuan Gang Essence" that belongs to Xin Jin as examples.
Before Shang Xia built the Five Elements Realm Technique, if he wanted to improve his cultivation, he could only continue to look for these two Yuan Gang essences to improve the Natal Yuan Gang Essence of the two attributes of Geng Jin and Xin Jin respectively.
After he successfully constructed the Five Elements Realm Technique, then he no longer had to stick to these two Yuan Gang essences themselves, but only in terms of attributes, they were divided into Geng Jin and Xin Jin Yuan Gang essences, which could be used to refine and improve their cultivation respectively.
However, when Shang Xia's Five Elements Realm Technique Zhou Tian was shortened to two hours, the qualitative changes it produced could allow Shang Xia to complete the yin and yang qualitative changes in the five elements on his own.
The Yuan Gang essence that originally belonged to Geng Jin can be transformed into Xin Jin on its own, and the Yuan Gang essence of Xin Jin can also be transformed and supplemented into Geng Jin Natal Yuan Gang Essence.
In other words, at this time, Shang Xia no longer had to be particular about whether the Yuan Gang essence belonged to Geng Jin or Xin Jin, as long as it was a metallic Yuan Gang essence, it could be directly used to refine into the Natal Yuan Gang essence.
But even so, in Shang Xia's deduction of the five elements of natal Yuan Gang refinement, this was still not his final expectation.
In his estimation, when his Five Elements Realm exercises were deduced to an ideal state, according to the principle of the five elements, he no longer even needed to worry about the five elements of Yuan Gang essence.
As long as it is any kind of Yuan Gang essence belonging to the five elements, he can transform it and distribute it evenly among the ten kinds of Natal Yuan Gang in the process of refining, according to the principle of the five elements.