The candles flickered, and the light and dark were uncertain. 

Chu Tian sat cross-legged on the wooden bed, his eyes were tightly closed, his hands were clenched, and he secretly tried to run his main practice "Tongyuan Wujing". 

It's a pity that after running it several times in a row, several key positions in Chu Tian's body were firmly blocked, and Ling Yuan could not pass through at all. 

After a while, Chu Tian gritted his teeth, a ruthless expression appeared on his face, took a deep breath, and used all his strength to push the exercise. 

Just after a breath. 

puff! 

Chu Tian spat out a mouthful of blood, his face was pale and extremely ugly, and his spirit instantly slumped. 

"Cough cough... boy, remind you, your attempt is no different from courting death!" 

Suddenly, an unfamiliar old voice sounded in the room. 

"Who! Who is talking!" 

Ignoring his own injury, Chu Tian stood up all of a sudden, looked vigilant, turned his head quickly, and swept his sharp eyes around. 

However, besides him, there is no other person in the room! 

"Boy, don't look, I'm right in front of you." 

Just when Chu Tian rubbed his eyebrows, thinking that he was too tired and had hallucinations, the old voice sounded again. 

Chu Tian immediately looked at the broken knife that was entangled in layers beside the bed. 

In the next breath, he picked up the broken knife and quickly untied the layers of sackcloth wrapped around the surface, revealing the true face of the broken knife. 

This is a gray-black broken knife, the only remaining part is less than one-third of the complete blade, and there are faint dark lines on the surface of the blade, which looks inconspicuous at all. 

This knife was bought by Chutian from a stall in the early years. Apart from cutting iron like mud and being sharp enough, there is nothing strange about it. 

Swish! 

At the moment when the broken knife revealed its true face, the phantom of an old man in black robes jumped out. The old man's hair was gray, and the roots were like silk. 

"What!" 

Chu Tian was startled, dropped the broken knife, and took a few steps back. 

"Tool Spirit!" 

After a while, two words popped out of Chu Tian's mouth, and an ecstatic expression appeared on Chu Tian's face. 

Artifact spirits are legendary things. Only very high-level weapons can give birth to artifact spirits. 

Chu Tian never imagined that a broken knife that he had picked up at random would actually hide a tool spirit inside. From this, we can see that the complete broken knife must be an earth-shattering weapon! 

Snapped! 

The illusory old man raised his hand and snapped his fingers, then said with a smile: "That's right, but unfortunately there is no reward." 

"Senior, what should I call you?" 

Due to the great joy and sorrow over the years, Chu Tian's mind has matured a lot, and soon Restoring calm, he bowed his hands to the phantom old man. 

The illusory old man stroked his beard and said lightly, "You can call me Ba Lao." 

"Junior Chu Tian, I have seen Ba Lao!" Chu Tian hurriedly saluted the other party, and immediately remembered the other party's reminder, "Ba Lao I just said that forcibly running the exercises is no different from courting death, what the hell is going on?" 

"Hehe, boy, you are really stupid, you are already poisoned, and forcibly running the exercises will only speed up the spread of toxins and make your cultivation more difficult. In order to lose quickly, he will completely become a mortal within a month, and he will not even live to be twenty years old in the future!" 

A sneer appeared on Ba Lao's face. 

"What, poisoning!" 

Chu Tian was struck by lightning in an instant. 

It's not that he didn't think that he might be poisoned, but he visited so many masters and famous doctors, and no one detected that he was poisoned. 

Thinking of this, Chu Tian raised his own question. 

"Hehe, those quack doctors know shit, you are a vicious Spirit Essence Gu, which cannot be detected by ordinary methods!" 

Ba Lao said with a look of disdain. 

Immediately, his deep gaze swept across Chu Tian's whole body, and sighed: "Tsk tsk, at least nine key positions in your body are occupied by the spirit essence Gu. It seems that the poisoner hates you to the bone..." 

" Nine places!" 

Chu Tian shivered involuntarily. 

No wonder his cultivation has been going backwards all these years. No matter how hard he cultivates, he can't stop it. The lost cultivation has all been swallowed up by the spirit essence Gu in his body. 

As for who was behind such a vicious hand, the answer is not difficult to guess. 

Among the Hou Mansion, the one who hated him the most, besides the Hou Mansion Lady, there were also his sons Chu Xi and Chu Li. 

It's just that Chu Tian has always been cautious, he can't figure out how the other party poisoned him silently. 

"Also ask Ba Lao to save me!" 

Chu Tian was half-knelt on the ground with a sincere expression on his face. 

Since Ba Lao can see at a glance that he has been hit by the spirit essence Gu, there must be a solution. It is not too much for him to give this big gift to the other party. 

"It's not impossible for the old man to save you, but the old man has one condition. Only if you agree and make an oath of heaven, the old man will save you!" Ba Lao 

said seriously. 

"Senior, please tell me!" 

Chu Tian hurriedly spoke, as if the drowning man had grabbed a life-saving straw. Even if the other party asked him to pick the stars and embrace the moon, he had to bite the bullet and agree.

Ba Lao took a deep look at Chutian, as if he could see Chutian's careful thought at a glance, and scolded with a smile: "Don't worry, since you agreed to the old man's conditions, the old man will not treat you badly!" The 

next breath , Ba Lao raised his right hand and pointed at Chu Tian across the air. 

call out! 

In an instant, a gray light shot out and penetrated into Chu Tian's eyebrows. 

Chu Tian was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously closed his eyes to check what entered his mind. 

"Five Elements Diamond Art?" 

At this moment, Chu Tian's mind came up with a practice method out of thin air. It was called "Five Elements Diamond Art". 

"This old man really has some good stuff in his stomach!" 

Chu Tian's face flashed with joy, and he read the exercises from start to finish. 

Although the "Five Elements Diamond Art" is only a few hundred words, the words are precious and profound. After Chu Tian hastily read it, his whole body and mind were immediately attracted, his knees softened, he sat down cross-legged, and began to seriously comprehension. 

When Ba Lao saw this, he chuckled lightly, folded his arms, and waited patiently. 

However, in just half an hour, the smile on Balao's face disappeared. 

I saw Chu Tian raised his hands, put them in front of his chest, pinched out a strange seal, and whispered softly in his mouth, not knowing what to say. 

"This kid, I haven't explained a thing or two to him, but I just started practicing. Aren't you afraid of making a mistake?" 

Ba Lao opened his mouth, just about to stop, but his eyes instantly widened. . 

A faint five-colored spiritual light that could not be seen with the naked eye gradually formed in Chutian's dantian, and it gathered more and more. After gathering to a certain extent, it began to surge in the body. 

Soon, the five-colored spiritual light was blocked by the Gu of the Spiritual Essence closest to the dantian, and could not continue to surge. 

Time passed little by little. 

Chu Tian clenched his teeth tightly, the beads of sweat on his forehead gradually seeping out, and his body trembled slightly, as if he was suffering great pain. 

Balao was suspended beside him, staring at Chutian, looking alert, ready to speak to wake Chutian at any time. 

Before you know it, an hour has passed. 

Seeing that Chu Tian's face was pale, his head was sweating profusely, and his body was shaking more and more violently, Ba Lao sighed. The Gu of the Spiritual Essence had been living in Chu Tian's body for such a long time, how could it be so easy to refine! 

The first time he practiced "Five Elements Vajra Art", Chu Tian was able to gather five-colored spiritual light in his dantian, which was already earth-shattering, and even the direct disciples of the big clans in the cultivation world might not be able to do it. 

"Kid, stop!" 

Ba Lao shouted. 

Suddenly, a soft sound of "bang" emanated from Chu Tian's body. Immediately, Chu Tian's throat became sweet, and he opened his mouth to spit out a mouthful of blood, which was sprinkled on the ground. 

In the middle of the black blood, some broken Gu worm corpses could be vaguely seen, which made people shudder. 

After spitting out a mouthful of black blood, Chu Tian's pale complexion not only did not worsen, but a little more ruddy, accompanied by a moan, a stream of incomparably pure spiritual essence slowly flowed into his dantian. 

"This is... the corpse fragment of the spirit essence Gu that was refined, this kid actually succeeded!" 

Ba Lao looked at the pool of black blood on the ground in shock, his mind completely blank. 

Immediately, Ba Lao's eyes quickly shifted from the black blood to Chu Tian. 

The first attempt, not only condensed the five-colored spiritual light, but also successfully refined a spiritual essence Gu. Could it be that the ancestor of this kid Chu Tian was a holy king with extraordinary strength, not an ordinary saint? 

If it wasn't for Chu Tian being in the blood of the Holy King, Ba Lao would not be able to understand what was happening in front of him. 

"Saint-rank exercises are really profound. I practiced hard for more than an hour before I was able to get started, and it was difficult for me to refine a spirit essence Gu!" 

After a while, Chu Tian's breath returned to normal, opened his eyes, and let out a sound long emotion. 

Hearing Chu Tian's emotion, Ba Lao's lips trembled and he almost felt the urge to cry. 

What does it mean to practice hard for more than an hour before it is worthy of entry? 

Even the direct disciples of the great forces did not have ten days and a half months of effort to get started. Chu Tian only spent more than an hour to get started easily, and he seemed very dissatisfied. 

"Ba Lao, how was my practice just now, is there anything wrong?" 

Chu Tian asked Ba Lao. 

Ba Lao smiled bitterly, still pretending to be an expert outside the world, and calmly said: "It's just so-so, but nothing went wrong." 

Chu Tian breathed a sigh of relief. 

He was also afraid that if he practiced blindly, something would go wrong. From this point of view, his comprehension was quite good. 

As for the "Five Elements Diamond Art", he was just getting started, and he had refined a spirit essence Gu. After the subsequent refining of all the spirit essence Gus in his body, he could officially start the cultivation of the exercises. 

To practice this method, you need to collect five completely different evil spirits of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, swallow them into the body, refine the body outside, quench the spiritual essence inside, the vajra in the living, and access the spiritual essence.