"Grandma, I didn't inform you in advance..."

Li Guanqi, who suddenly traveled to a new era, slowly opened his eyes and looked at the familiar clear lake in front of him with a helpless expression.

This place is an unnamed lake in the Nanhu District of Sakura Shogunate. It is also the place where Li Guanqi returned to reality last time.

"Ah, I'm back..."

Shunkong's voice rang in Li Guanqi's mind, "To be honest, although the extraordinary power in this era is stronger than that of Five Extraordinary Years, it is really not as interesting as Five Extraordinary Years."

"That's because of the novelty."

Demonic Sword replied dully, "Of course you'll find things you've never seen before feel fresh, but you'll get tired of them after looking at them for a long time."

"Xiaoxue thinks both worlds are beautiful."

Xiaoxue's soft voice contained a hint of joy and laughter.

"At least, there will be no blood moon day in five extraordinary years."

Li Guanqi, who was standing on the shore, did not participate in the discussion of the three artifacts. He just raised his head, looked at the stars and the bloody full moon in the night sky, and smiled softly.

Blood moon day, blood rain comes to the world, the product of the end of the world.

This is something that doesn't exist in the real world yet.

This is a weird world!

According to the system prompts when he returned to reality last time, Li Guanqi spent 60 days of vacation in reality, so 6 days of time in the strange world will also pass.

That is to say.

The strange world now is the world after Li Guanqi evaporated and disappeared out of thin air for 6 days.

Today is the first day of Li Guanqi’s sixth 365-day trip to the strange world.

At the same time, it is also March 8, New Era 4872.

The next time we return to reality will be March 8, New Era 4873.

"By the way, where is Sophia?"

Li Guanqi looked around, but he didn't see the figure of the lioness, nor could he sense her aura in the surrounding area.

But think about it, he disappeared out of thin air for six days, and Sophia should have gone elsewhere to wait.

After all, they have completed the recognition of the soul mark and are aware of each other's aura. There is no need to worry about getting separated. For example, now...

"North?"

Li Guanqi turned his head and looked to the north, "Has the lioness run over there now? Let's go look for her later."

He can only find Sophia.

Because the soul mark is essentially a master-servant contract, however, Li Guanqi had only opened the function of "the master sensing the servant's position" before, but did not open the function of allowing Sophia to sense his master's position.

And this function requires him to use his soul power to contact the soul mark to turn it on or off.

So he couldn't open it from the air, and couldn't call Sophia to come over. He could only run over and find someone by himself.

"Forget it, don't worry, let's make a plan for the next trip first."

Li Guanqi looked at the sparkling lake reflecting the bright moon and stars in the night, and thought carefully.

What will he do during the 365 days of his sixth trip to the strange world?

Go to Heian Kyo to find Tokugawa Shinji of the Jiugong level and complete the mission [Greek Myth: Armor of Ares].

After all, the mission deadline is coming.

And he also wanted to see if Tokugawa Shinji had found the temple of the god who liked to say Greek proverbs? Or was it the armor of that god?

Judging from the mission name, it should be battle armor.

Of course, the most important thing is to see if you can get any benefit from it.

Otherwise, it would be a big loss to go all the way there, take such a big risk, become a translator and then leave.

And the most important thing is that after Tokugawa Shinji got the treasure, out of the consideration of "killing people to silence", whether he could keep Li Guanqi alive is actually a very questionable matter.

At that time, we must rely on the simulator to see the next direction.

②Go to the Tulip Empire to find the Queen, and ask her to help take you to the Big Dipper Land of the Tulip Empire, complete the guide of the Big Dipper, and enter the realm of the seven-star pinnacle.

Um……

It seems like these two things are the only ones that matter?

The next step is to see if we can find "secondary targets" such as phoenix eggs.

"Seven stars..."

"Um?"

Li Guanqi was suddenly stunned.

Wait, it seems that after practicing for so long, he still hasn't figured out what the last two steps of the nine steps of cultivation are.

Bagua level.

Jiugong level.

His understanding of these two realms is just their names.

He doesn't know the specific contents of these two realms at all.

When he was at the Nanjiang Main School, the books in the library only introduced the one-yuan level to the seven-star level, and were completely silent about the Bagua level and the Jiugong level. After Li Guanqi left the academy, he also learned about these two realms along the way.

There is no contact or understanding.

But fortunately, he, Li Guanqi, is not alone.

"Shun Kong?"

Li Guanqi asked aloud in his mind: "Tell us about Bagua level and Jiugong level?"

"Um?"

Shunkong was stunned, "What did you say?"

"Tell me about the origins of these two realms, the specific cultivation content, and related abilities."

Li Guanqi said calmly.

"Ah? You don't even know this... Well, I thought Master you knew this."

Shunkong was speechless for a moment, but he quickly organized his words and began to speak:

"Bagua level.

The eighth step of human cultivation.

The Bagua level, like the Liuhe level, is actually a transitional period to the next stage of cultivation.

In the old era, after people completed the seven-star cultivation stage, that is, after completely pulling the seven stars and reaching the seven-star Dzogchen stage, they were unable to find a way to continue progress for a long time.

Until that day.

In the eastern region, a five-element level beast spell master named 'Zheng Yuan' discovered eight mysterious acupoints hidden in the body of a demon species during an accidental excavation.

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Moreover, after a large number of human experiments, he also found these eight acupoints in the human body.

Zheng Yuan initially called it a ‘gene lock’.

Because these eight acupoints were originally closed.

Once the eight major acupoints are broken through and opened, the limits of spiritual strength will be further liberated for spellcasters, and the limits of physical strength will be further liberated for humans of different blood.

These eight acupoints are like restrictions on the living body. Only by unlocking the restrictions can you continue to become stronger.

Therefore, Zheng Yuancai named them gene locks, believing that they are the culprit that restricts humans from becoming stronger and are a kind of 'lock'.

However, Zheng Yuan is only at the Five Elements level.

He discovered eight major genetic locks in the human body, but did not have the ability to open them.

Later, he was still a seven-star Dzogchen warrior of different blood named "Mengchen". By chance, he learned about Zheng Yuan's research theory and put it into practice.

Mengchen used the power of Seven-Star Dzogchen to successfully open the first genetic lock in his body and became the first Bagua-level human in the history of the old era.

Of course, the Bagua level at that time was not called the Bagua level.

As I said before, the Bagua level is essentially a transitional stage.

Therefore, unlike seven-star humans, Bagua-level humans will no longer activate any special abilities.

Unlocking the genetic lock actually means unlocking the upper limit of growth.

The conjurer can continue to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, refine and purify his own spiritual power, and increase the intensity of his spiritual power.

Humans of different blood can continue to supplement the flesh and blood of different blood and demon species to strengthen their physical bodies.

The Bagua level is simply an improvement in basic strength, nothing more.
To be continued...