Crossing the quiet path, Thorne came to the door of a very simple courtyard on the west bank of the lower city.

He glanced at the green fields on both sides of the path, stretched out his hand and pushed open the simple door, and walked in directly.

What catches the eye are four stone houses with two doors. The rough stone walls are without any decoration, only the creeping vines are spewing green shoots.

The path leading to the door of the house is all paved with stone bricks, and the winding path is more than one meter wide.

On the right side of the trail, a black bear the size of a calf led five or six wild boar cubs to play in the grass.

One of the most mischievous little wild boars is drilling into the arms of the black bear, arching around with its cute little pig head, and getting along very well.

On the left is a field, which is full of green beans, lettuce and other crops, and a group of ferocious chickens wandering in the field twittering.

"There is a rare visitor today, little friend Thorne. Welcome to the humble house."

At this time, Qingchen, the druid who was busy in the vegetable field, got up and looked at the half-elf at the door, smiled slightly, threw the weeds in his hands aside, and greeted, "Let's go, let's sit in the house."

Thorne looked at the druid who was wearing a plain cloth with his sleeves rolled up not far away, and nodded in response.

He stood still and waited until the Druid walked into the path from the vegetable patch before moving his footsteps into the room with him.

"Please take a seat." Master Qingchen pointed to the chair beside the wooden table and glanced at the other person in surprise, then he couldn't help but take a closer look, and a hint of surprise appeared in his calm eyes.

Obviously, the changes in the ranger in front of him were a bit beyond Druid's expectations.

Then, the dust master saw that Thorne was seated, and immediately took out a plate full of fresh berries from the counter and placed it beside the table where the guests were seated.

Then he put the upside-down clay teacup in front of Thorne, filled the other's and his own cups, then sat across from him and said with a smile:

"Little friend Thorne, this is a kind of scented tea that I carefully prepared. How about it?"

"Master Qingchen, you are too polite." Thorne glanced at the light orange liquid in the clay cup from the corner of his eyes, responded politely, and then took a sip directly.

This cup of scented tea, which is made from some kind of flower, has a slightly cool and bitter taste with a hint of astringency.

However, this vague astringency suddenly aroused Thorne's memory, because this bitter and astringent taste once left a deep impression on him that he could never forget for a lifetime.

"It tastes very good." Thorne immediately complimented him, and then took another sip from the teacup. His own actions seemed to prove to the Druid on the opposite side that the compliment just now was not a compliment.

For the drinking products in this world, Thorne has the most contact with the water in the water bag. As for those coffee and milk tea, for him, he is really not used to drinking it.

Relatively speaking, tea can still arouse his interest, at least the flower tea in front of him is very suitable for his appetite.

At this time, Thorne even started to think about whether to leave or not, pack a little and take it away.

Master Qingchen smiled at Thorne's lack of elegance but natural behavior, got up and filled the half cup of flower tea in front of him, sat down on the chair again and said:

"It is said that the sight of the phantoms in the dark area can make many people who return to the surface world undergo a major transformation, and even the will collapse in severe cases. I didn't expect that your state of mind has been tempered more tenaciously. It seems that this time you have The underground journey is very rewarding.”

"If I had to choose again, I think it's better not to go to that depressing world." Thorne looked at the dripping tea in the teacup, replied calmly, and then took out a book and pushed it to the In front of Druid, he said:

"I have copied all the contents of Qi Refining. Master Qingchen will see what needs to be improved."

"Thank you very much!" The Druid looked overjoyed when he saw the book pushed over, and immediately got up and looked at Thorne sitting in the chair, ready to give a big gift.

"Don't be so polite." Thorne quickly got up and stopped, then said with a smile:

"Although the effect of the improvement of Qi Refining is very significant, the improvement of each level is very difficult, so far I have not found a way to quickly improve, so I also ask Master Qingchen to see what needs to be improved. ."

What he said was the truth. Qi refining was just a first glimpse of the door, and his strength, physique and agility all exceeded the limits of mortals.

Not only did it greatly increase the energy of his qi, but he also obtained the skill of "rejuvenation of vitality" to recover from injuries.

So he is looking forward to what special abilities he will get when breaking through to the next level, but the difficulty he is encountering now is just like what he just said.

In addition to the increase in experience points and practice points obtained every day, he did not notice any upward trend.

The only time it changed was when the Wanruide family was inhabited by the lone wolf mercenary group.

At that time, due to his increased desire to fight, the Qi Refining Technique actually started to operate on his own without guidance, allowing him to instantly enter a wonderful state where he could fight while recovering his stamina.

If it wasn't for the sudden appearance of the mercenary leader, Thorne even had the illusion that he could kill all the mercenaries.

But what made him depressed was that after this situation appeared once, it never happened again, and he tried many times in the arena of Rezim King City.

Often in the case of fighting with the enemy, he deliberately lowered his strength, prolonged the fighting time, and burst out his fighting will.

Sadly, still nothing works.

So he remembered what he had promised to Master Qingchen, so he went directly to the other party and tried to ask him to give him some pointers.

After all, the other party is a cultivator, and he must be the best at the technique of qi refining and self-cultivation.

That is to say, the other party must be more likely than him to think of the correct cultivation method of this qi-refining technique that takes a long time to accumulate.

"I don't dare to improve, I should have asked such a book for advice." The Druid immediately denied it, and after speaking, he looked seriously.

Seeing the seriousness of the Druid, Thorne, who remained silent, did not disturb the other party, but looked at everything in the room casually.

The druid's room was just like what he was dressed in. It looked very simple, with few other decorations except a painting on the wall facing the door.

But the pattern on the painting caught Thorne's attention.

The painting depicts a verdant oak forest, in which there is a very old oak tree, and on the trunk of this oak tree is the face of a wise old man with long beards. The skin of his face is like the bark of an old tree. The same, gray-brown, and covered with many cracks.

Silvanus, **** of nature.

A powerful and absolutely neutral deity whose teaching is to see and balance everything. Everything and everything in the world is in the great circle—the delicate and beautiful 'Oneness in Balance'.

Thorne didn't want to comment too much on the god's teachings. After all, one was to maintain balance, and the other was to want to survive, so it was too difficult to keep the two without a trace of conflict.

The silence of the stone house lasted about half an hour.

After reading the book, the druid pushed the book to Thorne again, then sighed deeply, and said slowly: "There is no shortcut to the practice of Qi Refining, all of which require one's own perception."

"What exactly do you mean?" Thorne put away the book and looked at the frowning Druid.

From the other party's expression, he could find that this book seemed to have hit him, causing him to be unable to keep his very indifferent expression.

"To put it simply, Qi-refining is the heart, which is the so-called state of mind." Master Qingchen slightly stretched his brows, then took a sip from the clay teacup, and continued:

"Mood is a weak, calm and persistent emotional state with rendering. It often affects people's words, deeds and emotions over a long period of time.

For example, the outcome of a battle, the state of daily life, the departure of relatives and friends, etc., will affect the mood to varying degrees. This kind of influence is the main method you will use to improve your Qi Refining technique. "

"I seem to understand, thank you for your explanation." After listening to the Druid's explanation, Thorne nodded secretly.

At the same time, he recalled that when he fought in the Wanruide family, the reason why he entered that wonderful fighting state was precisely because of an inexplicable anger in his heart, which made him want to vent it completely with the weapon in his hand.

"Then, if there is nothing else, I will leave first." After Thorne wanted to understand, he noticed that the Druid in front of him looked a little wrong, so he prepared to leave.

In fact, he also has a lot of things to solve. In addition to clearing up the hobgoblin assassins wandering outside the town on the waterfall, he has to go to the Temple of Merika, and by the way, let the hobgoblins in the quiet forest also taste what it is like to be squatted every day. Son.

"Wait a minute." Seeing the ranger who got up and was about to leave, Master Qingchen got up and stopped him, then pondered for a moment, and reminded Thorne:

"I know you have brought the black dragon from the city of ruins to Waterfall Town, so I want to remind you solemnly."

"What's the problem?" Thorne asked when he saw Master Qingchen's slightly solemn expression.

"The silver crow messenger of Jade Leisure Garden found a trace of the activity of a red copper dragon near Iron Horse Town half a month ago." Master Qingchen said to Thorne with a serious look:

"This giant dragon who has reached the Legend of Destiny has a very strange hobby, that is, he likes to transform into a human figure and roam in civilized settlements, so you'd better not let her reveal her true identity and go out at will."

"I see." Thorne nodded and hurriedly turned away.

The five-color metal dragon and the five-color evil dragon are born to be deadly enemies, and they belong to the kind that never die.

From this, it can be imagined what will happen when the red copper dragon who has reached the legend of destiny realizes Sigrid's identity as a black dragon.

Seeing Thorne disappear without a trace, the Druid frowned again, he sighed deeply, and turned to look at the portrait of Sivanus hanging on the wall.

Although Sivanus is a wise and wise deity like a father, when he must maintain the balance of nature, he will be uncharacteristically indifferent, and when he discovers that someone dares to threaten the wild land, he will even show terrible anger. .

This is His 'One-to-One Balanced Way', so the God of Nature is an absolutely neutral deity.

As a follower of the God of Nature, it is the primary duty of Master Qingchen to understand the divine Oneness as clearly as possible, to try to make it known to others, and to fight against all the fools who disturb it.

"Looks like I was really wrong."

The druid quietly stared at the face of the long-bearded old man that appeared on the old tree trunk, the **** of nature in the portrait. The wisdom like a loving father seemed to contain incredible wisdom.

After he saw the qi refining technique that Thorne gave him just now, he realized that he was really wrong. Because the book of Qi Refining is about how to guide a person to walk out a path that truly belongs to him.

He used to be a cultivator, and he is still the same now. The so-called "cultivation" is to cultivate a path that belongs to him, a unique path.

Now, as a cultivator, in order to quickly improve his strength, he has embarked on the path laid out by the God of Nature for his followers.

Even if this path is in line with oneself, it does not belong to one’s own way.

At this time, the Druid finally figured out why his master, Master Deadwood, who lived in Twilight Town, did not accept the invitation of Jade Leisure Garden.

He had been cultivating for half his life, but he made such a simple and fatal mistake, and the Druid secretly rejoiced that the half-elf ranger had arrived just in time.

It was the change in the ranger's temperament and the qi-refining technique given to him that made him instantly understand the mistakes he had made and how he should go next.

"It's no wonder that my perfect advancement has been stagnant. It turned out to be bound by the 'one-to-balance method' of the **** of nature."

The Druid, who wanted to understand the reason, showed a bright smile, and then waved his hand gently, and the portrait of the God of Nature gradually turned to ashes in the bright firelight.

Walking on a path overgrown with weeds, wading out a path, then this belongs to the 'Dao'.

The elders of the families are used together for one's own use, which is the 'Dao'.

Dao to simplicity, returning to the original and returning to the truth, is also the 'Dao'.

There are ten thousand methods in the sky, and other paths are opened up, and it is still the 'Tao'.

All roads lead to Rome, and the most suitable one is the 'Road'.

So he has to walk out of his own 'Dao', instead of following the 'Dao' that others have already laid out for you.

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