Cultivating the truth, is the path of mortals to pursue eternal life, the cultivation of the truth, one is self-cultivation, the second is the cultivation of the mind, the third is the cultivation of the gods, this is for the cultivation, give up the dross of the body, it is to take the truth, but all the powerful cultivators, all have the ability to make clouds and fog, move mountains and seas.

Gathering spirit, is the gathering of aura is called, is the foundation of practice, aura is the foundation of life, mortals to the air for survival, and the cultivator, then to the aura for food, the so-called aura, is the essence of the air, if there is air, then there must be aura, the thinner the air, if the aura is not, if the air is fresh and bright, then the aura is of excellent quality, if the aura is gathered, you need to be a pot, enter with the heart, gather its essence, break the drive straight into its heart, condense into the spiritual pool, accumulate over time, continue to open......

Lin Fan looked at the dense small words on the book, and suddenly felt dizzy, and it took a while to figure out that the so-called gathering of spirits is to first feel the aura existing in the air, introduce it into the body, and wait for the body to be washed by the aura, after eliminating the scum and impurities, the aura is introduced into the heart, and the spirit pool is formed under the continuous impact, the larger the spirit pool, the stronger its strength, so there is the order of cultivating the mind after cultivating first, and cultivating the god is to constantly temper people's perception ability, so that the cultivator has the ability to turn evil into good fortune. The ability to avoid misfortune and seek blessings, the higher the realm of cultivators, it can be said that they have clairvoyance and the ability to listen to the wind.

However, many disciples of the sect are stuck on the threshold of gathering spiritual energy, and they can't even step into the gate of the first heaven of the gathering spiritual period, and they have become the handymen of the sect.

Most cultivators, if they are fast, a month of time, their hearts have already formed a spirit pool, and the slow one has half a year to form a spirit pool, the higher the realm, the longer the time to break through.

Before you know it, it's the season of recovery.

Lin Fan has been trying to gather spirits for more than two months, although he can feel the aura contained in the air, but he can't introduce it into his body, during these two months, Meng Jianshan is no longer teaching Lin Fan to read, in addition to participating in the rotation, he has devoted himself to practicing in his cave, and the third elder Lin Shi, who is Lin Fan's master, has visited Lin Fan three times before and after, and found that this apprentice has passed for two months, and even the aura cannot be gathered, and he leaves disappointed every time.

"Senior brother, the day after tomorrow is the martial arts competition, we have five places for the Ethereal Gate, who do you say will be sent?"

In the kitchen, Meng Jianshan, who was sitting on a small wooden bench washing vegetables, turned his head and asked Zhou Zhongchen, who was chopping meat.

"It's not your business, wash your dishes, I said you have to wash the dishes, don't let the juniors eat mud and stones again"

This week, Zhongchen has thick eyebrows and big eyes, and there are thick beards on both sides of his face.

"Senior brother, aren't you burying me, then how can I be, although my realm is not high, washing vegetables is quack, don't believe you"

Meng Jianshan waved the washed carrot in his hand at Zhou Zhongchen a few times.

"Look at the fart, what are so many words, go and brush the iron pot after washing", Zhou Zhongchen glared.

"Okay"

Meng Jianshan fartfully held the loofah, and said secretly while brushing the big iron pot: "This senior brother, everything is good, but he has a bad temper when he is on duty in the kitchen."

"Do you have any candidates for this martial arts competition?"

In the main hall of the Ethereal Gate, the doorman Chen Feng sat on the Taishi chair, picked up the teacup and took a sip and asked.

"Your eldest apprentice is one of them, and my apprentice will send Meng Jianshan and Guo Chengxing," the second elder Zhao Mojian replied.

"Meng Jianshan and Guo Chengxing, well, both of them are in the Transformation Period, one is a Triple Heaven and one is a Quadruple Heaven, okay, it's just the two of them, Zhongchen, as the senior brother of the disciples, count him as one, so there are still two places left, you decide", Zhang Chenfeng muttered.

"What about you, senior brother, one senior brother, two of me, which two disciples do you plan to send to fight for the remaining two places, and win glory for our ethereal sect", the second elder Zhao Mojian looked at the great elder Chen Li.

"Since that's the case, I'll send my disciples Gu Feng and Zheng Mingcheng, these two people's realms are in the Seven Heavens of Transformation, but ...... Senior brother, our disciples can't get the top three every time, this time you see ......"

Chen Li recalled that in the past martial arts competitions, the best result of the Ethereal Gate was Zhou Zhongchen, who won the seventh place, and couldn't help but worry.

"Forget it, let's focus on participation, let's set the five places like this, and then Senior Brother Zhao will be taken by you to bring them over, my old face in the last session was lost", Zhang Chenfeng frowned and said.

The light of dawn crossed the dark night, the four seasons continued to alternate, and eight years passed, Lin Fan was already seventeen years old, and he was getting stronger and stronger, with short black hair and a mediocre appearance, he would not attract attention when thrown into the crowd.

However, eight years have passed, and the spiritual pool in Lin Fan's heart still cannot be formed, and Lin Shi became more and more disappointed after coming to the cave several times, and then he simply never came to the cave again.

Eight years ago, in the martial arts competition, as one of the four major sects, the Ethereal Sect did not even enter the finals, the main reason was that the strength of the disciples of each sect was breaking through, and none of the disciples of the Ethereal Sect had broken through, even if it was Zhou Zhongchen of the Nine Heavens of the Transformation Period.

If it weren't for the fact that the Ethereal Sect had four masters of the Three Crossing Period and two Divine Beasts of the Nine Heavens of the Three Crossing Period, I am afraid that the Ethereal Sect would have fallen from the so-called Great Gate Sect ranking to the second-rate sect, Lin Fan has also strengthened a lot in the past eight years, because he could not gather spiritual energy, he could only help in the kitchen, and finally Lin Shi was out of sight and out of mind, and sent Lin Fan to the kitchen to be in charge of the spoon full-time, perhaps because Lin Fan could not gather the spiritual pool within eight years, all the disciples did not dare to mention this matter in front of the door master and the three elders, for fear of angering the four of them.

And Lin Shi had the heart of accepting apprentices because of Lin Fan, and also because Lin Fan broke off the heart of accepting apprentices again, but although he was not able to practice, Lin Fan cooked a good dish, which made the ethereal door full of praise, especially the two divine beasts Xuanwu and Qingjiao, who originally fed on the fish in the reservoir, and later coveted Lin Fan's craftsmanship, but they fought with Lin Fan hotly, these two divine beasts are usually very arrogant, even Zhang Chenfeng didn't give a good face, just this is enough to make everyone embarrassed.

"Hi, Senior Brother Lin, it's morning"

Guo Chengxing, Gu Feng, Zheng Mingcheng, and Meng Jianshan arrived in the kitchen early in the morning and greeted Lin Fan, who was steaming steamed buns, with a smile.

"Four senior brothers, today is your shift in the kitchen, no, Senior Brother Jianshan, didn't you just help the kitchen the day before yesterday?", Lin Fan responded to the four of them, and looked at Meng Jianshan suspiciously.

"Don't say it, it was originally another senior brother on duty, it just so happened that this senior brother had just broken through the five heavens of the god and was recovering from retreat in the cave, your senior brother Meng Jianshan was called by his master to replace him."

Guo Chengxing teased, while Meng Jianshan had a blue face.

Guo Chengxing, Gu Feng, Zheng Mingcheng, and Meng Jianshan all have the same physique, all of them have strong bodies and creamy faces, and they are all of the same age, which can't help but make people suspect that they are four brothers, and because of this, these four people have always been called a foursome group of "cream faces, strong limbs" by the disciples of the Ethereal Sect.

As the so-called kitchen is the biggest, the spoon has the final say, whether he is a disciple of the Transformation Period or the Gathering Spirit Period, when the turn is here, he has to listen to Lin Fan's words obediently, who makes Lin Fan's cooking skills good up and down the ethereal door now, especially the two divine beasts, although Lin Fan can't practice, but his status is very important, maybe this is the blessing of Sai Weng's loss of horses.

"That's it, then Senior Brother Guo, you set the dishes and chopsticks, Senior Brother Gu, you serve the dishes, Senior Brother Zheng, you put the porridge in a wooden basin and bring it to the table, Senior Brother Meng, you also put the steamed buns in the wooden basin."

Lin Fan saw that the steamed buns had been steamed, and began to arrange them.

"Gotta grin"

The four of them began to take the dishes and chopsticks, the dishes were served, and the porridge was served, as for Meng Jianshan, it is estimated that he was ordered to come to help the kitchen just after the end of the rotation kitchen, and he had nowhere to sprinkle his anger, so he didn't say a word in his stomach, and he took a wooden basin and began to load steamed buns, fortunately, the four of them are all cultivators, and they can get twice the result with half the effort, otherwise just a few people, I am afraid it will be difficult to cope with the diet of hundreds of people.

"I've cooked all the food, I'll leave it to you first, I'm going to send some food to Xuanwu and Qingjiao."

Lin Fan carried two wooden barrels, one containing roasted chicken wings, and the other containing pasty porridge with various vegetables and meat.

"Okay, you can go with confidence", Gu Feng smiled with a mouthful of silver teeth.

"Eh, I said Senior Brother Gu Feng, can we change the word, go with peace of mind, this sentence sounds, why does it feel weird", Lin Fan said depressedly.

"Leave him alone, his speech has not been filtered by the brain, and the so-called quality education is also a fish that has slipped through the net," Guo Chengxing laughed.

The sound of a thunderclap came, it was Gu Feng and Guo Chengxing, you punched your eyes, I made a fuss with my legs, the last one held a rolling pin, and the other fought with a big iron spoon.

Lin Fan carried the wooden barrel one by one, along the trail to the side of the reservoir, this reservoir does not know how deep, about 500 zhang wide, about 4,000 zhang long, this is a lake, in order to let Xuanwu and frogs live here, this dam was built, forming such a huge reservoir, both sides of the reservoir are dense leafy woods, the water in the reservoir has turned dark green, Lin Fan stood on a platform under the steps of the reservoir rippling blue waves, put two wooden barrels at his feet, and shouted at the top of his voice.

"Little Turtle~~Little Snake~~ Eat"

Lin Fan just shouted a few times, the calm water in the distance suddenly surged, two huge beasts in an instant, one of the dragon head turtle body behemoth jumped on the platform, this is the divine beast Xuanwu, the dark green dragon head has a pair of yellow trident horns, majestic Xuanwu, its four huge three legs are stepping on the platform, this Xuanwu is the product of the combination of one of the ethereal door guardian beasts and another door guard beast turtle.

Xuanwu, like a hill, shook off the water traces on his body a few times, and showed a dragon-like smile to Lin Fan, and when he saw a wooden barrel containing roasted chicken wings, he didn't care about Lin Fan, opened his mouth to bite the wooden barrel, swallowed all the chicken wings, chewed a few bites and swallowed the bones without even spitting out, and looked at Lin Fan with unfinished eyes.

"Whoa" sounded

A cyan python with a thickness of more than 20 zhang poked out its head from the water, this is another door guard beast frog, the head of this frog is seven points like a dragon, a pair of inclined ink-colored right angles on the top of the head, this frog only has two three-legged palms, is grasping the edge of the platform, Jiaotou is drinking another barrel of special porridge.

"Hiss~hiss"

Before he could breathe, Qingjiao drank the porridge in the bucket and looked at Lin Fan with unfinished eyes.

This frog is one of the descendants of the Python, one of the ethereal door guards beasts, its strength is still insufficient, it can only turn into two three-legged, Frog Jiao and Xuanwu both like yin, love to live in a place with water, once Lin Fan himself took a bowl of porridge and a few roasted chicken wings, on a boulder next to the reservoir while drinking porridge and gnawing chicken wings, the fragrance happened to be smelled by Frog Jiao and Xuanwu, after eating once, he relied on Lin Fan, every few days Lin Fan will always get some special porridge and barbecue, and give the two divine beasts a tooth sacrifice.

But the bodies of the two divine beasts were too huge, and the little food that Lin Fan brought was not enough to stuff his teeth.

"No, I'll bring you more next time," Lin Fan shrugged and said.

There are only two meals a day, breakfast and dinner, so Lin Fan doesn't always need to stay in the kitchen to work, and there are rotating disciples who come to the kitchen every day to help, since he is in charge of the spoon full-time, Lin Fan does not live in the cave anymore, Zhang Chenfeng made an exception and let Lin Fan live in an empty house next to the kitchen.

At noon, the sun was shining warmly on the ethereal peak, Lin Fan was lying on Xuanwu's back with Erlang's legs crossed, his hands on the back of his head, and a branch in his mouth, sighing non-stop.

"Little turtle and little snake, why can't I practice, it's been eight years since the spirit pool was formed, alas, I haven't seen Master and his old man for a long time", Lin Fan looked at the frog with half of his body lying on the platform, sighed and said.

Only Lin Fan dared to call Xuanwu Qingjiao a little turtle and a little snake, this Xuanwu and Qingjiao are more than seven hundred years old, and their age is higher than Zhang Chenfeng and the three elders of the Ethereal Gate.

Hearing Lin Fan's complaint, Xuanwu just snorted, squinted and continued to bask in the sun, but Qingjiao gently arched Lin Fan a few times with his head.

"Are you telling me to insist and not give up", Lin Fan touched Qingjiao's head and said.

"Hiss~~~hiss~~~"

Qingjiao responded to Lin Fan, these divine beasts, like other animals, if they want to speak human words, they need to reach the realm of the Three Transitions, unless they are holy beasts bred between heaven and earth.

"Okay, starting tomorrow, I will concentrate on cultivation as soon as I have time, and I will come to you once every half a month in the future."

Lin Fan was encouraged by the frog Jiao and clenched his fists.

Now Xuanwu is no longer squinting in the sun, the huge dragon head stared at the frog viciously, as if he was blaming the frog for talking nonsense, if he wanted to eat roast chicken wings in the future, he had to wait for half a month, and the frog looked at the sky with both eyes, as if to say what can you do to me.

In the next fifteen days, in addition to being busy with breakfast and dinner, Lin Fan ran to the original cave for the rest of the time, and worked hard to integrate the aura into his body, perhaps inspired by the frog, or perhaps thinking of Lin Shi's disappointed expression, Lin Fan really succeeded in introducing a grain of sand-sized aura into his body, which made Lin Fan excited.