Chapter 42: The First Glimpse of Cultivation

Zhao Lengfei was hit so hard as soon as he entered, he was naturally in a bad mood, and on the way back to his residence, he walked behind everyone alone, not knowing what he was thinking. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The young men could see that Zhao Lengfei was in a bad mood, but they didn't know how to comfort him, and their voices on the road were lowered, and even Yan Tu, who was not very opposite to Zhao Lengfei, didn't speak loudly.

Zhao Lengfei returned to the room with a heavy heart, comforted himself in his heart, and then sat down at the table and began to study the storage bag and the intermediate exercise of the dust rank "Shui Yuan Gong" issued by the ancient consul.

Because the production method of the storage belt has long been lost, the storage bag has become the most commonly used storage equipment for cultivators, and the storage bag is divided into three levels according to the number of things that can be stored, and the Xuanshui Gate is naturally the lowest kind sent to Zhao Lengfei and others.

Zhao Lengfei's storage bag is dark gray, the shape is similar to the small handbag of household rice, only one is wide, two are long, and the storage bag must reach into the bag to take out the contents inside, unlike the storage belt, which can be accessed and stored at will as long as you touch the surface.

Storage bags not only have a limit on volume, but also on weight, if the things are too full, the bag will bulge and increase the corresponding weight, so it can't be compared with the storage belt.

Zhao Lengfei put his hand into the storage bag, and felt how big the space inside was, about seven or eight times that of the storage bag itself, much smaller than a space in his storage belt, and he couldn't put many things at all.

Zhao Lengfei took out four sets of clothes from his storage bag, a saber more than three feet long, a few talismans, a small bottle of elixir, a badge of a high-ranking disciple of Xuanshuimen, a copy of "A Brief History of Xuanshuimen", a copy of "Outer Gate Door Rules" and nine colorless spirit stones the size of thumbs.

Zhao Lengfei looked through the "Outer Gate Rules", "A Brief History of Xuanshui Gate" and "Shui Yuan Gong", the content of the three books is not much, he has long developed the habit of reading ten lines at a glance, so the speed of reading is extremely fast, although it is not unforgettable, but there is no problem in remembering it.

There are only a dozen pages of "Outer Gate Rules", most of which are written about the nine taboos and ten commandments that all cultivators must follow, and there are only a few other rules, and the last few pages are to introduce the practice method of the outer door of Xuanshui Gate, and the same as what the deputy master of Qi said, there is no special person to guide them, and all new disciples who want to learn anything can only go to the lecture hall to listen to the lectures.

The lower level lecture hall is taught by certain advanced disciples or deacon disciples on the first five days of the month, and the advanced lecture hall is taught by deacons or consuls who have cultivated higher level on the last five days of the month.

There is only one day a month in the low-level lecture hall that is used to teach the knowledge of cultivating truth, and all the introductory knowledge of cultivation is taught, and the other four days are taught the courses in the Wenwu School and other miscellaneous skills.

Zhao Lengfei thought about it, if it weren't for his father teaching him since he was a child, maybe he wouldn't even be able to read all the words now, let alone comprehend the advanced cultivation techniques, this low-level academy is indeed for disciples who are young or have not studied much.

The lectures of the advanced lecture hall start from the introduction of cultivation and teach the knowledge of cultivation step by step, and the advanced lecture hall will also give special explanations of the exercises practiced by the advanced disciples at a fixed time.

In addition to being able to study and cultivate the truth in the lecture hall, if the high-level disciples encounter any problems in their practice, they can also go to the Chuangong Hall to ask for advice, but in the past, they have to pay for the teachings in the Chuangong Hall, and the price is extremely expensive.

Zhao Lengfei read the "Shui Yuan Gong" he got carefully, and took out the "Fluctuating Heart Formula" given to him by his father, on the way to Xuanshuimen, he looked through the "Fluctuating Heart Formula" several times, which was full of formulas, and he couldn't understand it at all.

"Fluctuating Heart Technique" should be a mortal-level exercise, and the specific level is not marked, and "Shui Yuan Gong" is a dust-level intermediate exercise, which is one level lower than "Fluctuating Heart Technique".

However, the content of "Shui Yuan Gong" is much more than that of "Fluctuating Heart Technique", and it is easy to understand, and there is a detailed introduction to the principle and realm of cultivation at the beginning.

"A Brief History of Xuanshuimen" records the major events and powerful figures in the development history of Xuanshuimen for more than 4,000 years, and also has a brief introduction to the development history of the cultivation realm and cultivation of the Dasheng Kingdom.

Zhao Lengfei originally only knew a little about Xiuzhen, and many things he summarized and guessed after reading some books, and after reading the three books in his hand, some doubts and ideas in his heart were finally explained and verified, but at the same time, he also had some new ideas and doubts in his heart.

The purpose of self-cultivation is to refine one's own body, and the purpose of cultivating one's nature is to strengthen one's own spirit, and to seek the true self is to seek the true self that is the pursuit of a strong and eternal true self.

The body and spirit of a cultivator will become stronger and stronger as the realm of cultivation deepens, and then become an anti-heavenly existence like a spiritual creature between heaven and earth, and can gradually break away from the path of the cycle of life and death.

When this kind of anti-heaven existence is strong to a certain extent, it will cause an energy riot between heaven and earth, and the energy riot will appear in the form of wind, fire, thunder, etc., the purpose of their appearance is to eliminate those powerful anti-heaven existences, and the cultivators call this energy riot a calamity, and it is said that if the cultivator can resist these calamities without being destroyed, he can get out of the cycle of life and death in this world, and even break through the shackles of space and fly into a higher level of the world.

Cultivation is divided into four realms: refining and refining qi, refining qi and transforming gods, refining gods and returning to emptiness, and refining the void and merging the path, and cultivators are accustomed to calling them the primary realm, the intermediate realm, the advanced realm and the Mahayana realm.

The four realms are divided into three stages, the primary realm is foundation building, enlightenment, and integration, the intermediate realm is heartbeat, Jindan, and Yuanying, the advanced realm is out-of-body, distraction, and integration, and the Mahayana realm is the cave void, the tribulation, and the Mahayana, which is what cultivators often call the four-order and twelve-level realm.

Each stage is divided into three levels: the early stage, the middle stage, and the late stage, and each level is strong and weak because of the amount of cultivation time, but people do not continue to divide them in detail.

Before entering the advanced realm, the lifespan of a cultivator is limited, generally not more than five hundred years old, so all cultivators are desperate to cultivate to the advanced realm before their longevity is exhausted. Because of various conditions, there are very few cultivators who can reach the advanced realm, and in the more than 4,000 years of inheritance of Xuanshuimen, only four great figures have cultivated to the out-of-body stage of the advanced realm.

If a cultivator cultivates to an advanced realm, if he is in a place where the aura is strong enough, he theoretically has infinite life, but such a cultivator has violated the law of the cycle of life and death in this world, so after the cultivator enters the advanced realm, all kinds of calamities will come one after another, and there is no way to avoid it.

Cultivators who have cultivated to reach the advanced realm are generally devoted to cultivation in order to make breakthroughs, and will not ask about any sect affairs, and the records of cultivators in the Xuanshui Gate History are also limited to before they break through the advanced realm.

The basis of cultivators' cultivation is to absorb the essence of heaven and earth, and cultivators call this invisible essence of heaven and earth aura, and there is aura anywhere between heaven and earth, but the concentration of aura varies greatly in different places, like the outer gate of Xuanshui Gate, which is more than ten times thicker than the aura of the ordinary secular world.

In addition to the ubiquitous aura in heaven and earth, aura also exists in various natural minerals generated by aura, as well as in animals and plants that can absorb aura like cultivators.

Spirit stones, elixirs, and demon beast inner pills are the most common kinds of aura polymers, and cultivators absorb aura from these things, countless times faster than absorbing them from heaven and earth, but the aura contained in these things is too large and violent, and special methods must be used to absorb and utilize them.

Cultivators divide the spirit stone into four levels: low-grade, medium-grade, high-grade and top-grade, most of the lower-grade spirit stones are not naturally formed, but the cultivators use the spirit stone to refine, the nine colorless spirit stones issued by Xuanshuimen to Zhao Lengfei are the original spirit stones, the original spirit stones are much larger than the lower grade spirit stones, but the aura contained is very small, only a quarter of the lower grade spirit stones, and the types of spiritual energy are mottled, unlike the grade spirit stones that only contain one kind of aura.

The original spirit stone can only be used by low-level cultivators in the foundation building period to absorb spiritual energy, or to provide energy for some simple formations, and the value of a primordial spirit stone is equivalent to one-tenth of a low-grade spirit stone.

The types of cultivation exercises are divided according to the attributes of the root bones, and the grades are divided into four levels: heaven, earth, mortal, and dust, and each level is divided into three levels: high, middle, and low.

The lower the level of the cultivation exercises, the less powerful they are, and the higher the bottleneck of cultivation is, and the faster the cultivation speed of the low-level exercises when the cultivation is low.

The higher the level of the exercises, the greater the power, the further back the bottleneck of cultivation, the speed of practicing high-level exercises is extremely slow when the cultivation is low, and its cultivation advantages can only be reflected when the cultivation is profound, so the vast majority of cultivators start to practice from the lowest level of dust-level exercises, and as the cultivation realm deepens, the cultivators will gradually switch to the higher-level exercises.

The conversion of cultivation exercises takes an extremely long time, and the time taken to transfer to some special exercises is even no less than practicing a low-level exercise again, but after the transfer to a higher-level exercise is successful, the power of the spell and the cultivation speed will appear to be qualitatively leapfrogged, and all cultivators will try to find and transfer to a higher-level exercise after reaching a certain level of cultivation.

The level of the exercises has no effect on the cultivation speed of people with extreme yin and yang qualifications, and it also has a relatively small impact on the cultivation speed of the owners of single bones and different roots with pure yin and pure yang qualifications, so these people can practice and teach high-level exercises from the beginning.

The bottleneck of the dust-level exercises is theoretically the Jindan period, which means that cultivators who practice dust-level exercises must change to higher-level exercises in order to reach the Jindan stage, while in fact, the vast majority of qualified cultivators will switch to higher-order mortal-level exercises during the fusion or heartbeat period.

Because the cultivation speed of the Dust Rank Exercises is relatively fast only during the Foundation Building and Enlightenment Period, the Fusion Period does not have a speed advantage over the Mortal Rank Exercises, and the cultivation speed is even slower to an incredible point during the Heartbeat Period.

The bottleneck of the mortal level exercises is theoretically the distraction period, there is no bottleneck between the earth level and the heavenly level exercises, there are only one or two ground level exercises in Xuanshuimen, and they are all ground level primary, only the head of the general gate and several elders who are extremely old and highly cultivated are qualified to practice or comprehend, and the heavenly level exercises are legendary things, not to mention that Xuanshuimen does not have them, and I am afraid that the entire Dasheng Kingdom does not have them.

The outer gate will issue nine primordial spirit stones to high-level disciples every quarter for their cultivation and maintenance of protective formations, but if they want to cultivate faster, nine primordial spirit stones are far from enough, so the high-level disciples in the door can go to the task hall to receive some tasks to do, and after completing the tasks, they can earn a certain number of primordial spirit stones or even low-grade spirit stones.

There are various tasks in the mission hall, such as going to the elixir garden to manage the elixir, raising spirit beasts in the spirit beast garden, cleaning the exercise pavilion, cleaning the lecture hall, and even going to the law enforcement team to patrol, etc., the affairs of the mission hall are all arranged by Elder Ye and his subordinate consuls and deacons.

Zhao Lengfei also understood their role in a few other things in the storage bag, several talismans could only be used after they entered the early stage of foundation building, that sword was the identity sword of the high-level disciple of Xuanshuimen, and it belonged to the primary magic weapon of the dust level, which was much better than ordinary weapons in the hands of cultivators in the foundation building period who could mobilize true qi, but it could not cause any damage to the cultivators who had successfully built the foundation, and the low-level disciples could replace a sword equivalent to a dust-level intermediate magic weapon when they reached the middle stage of foundation building.

The fights between cultivators in the foundation building period are similar to the fights of martial artists in the secular world, most of the time they are hand-to-hand or use sword attack weapons for hand-to-hand combat, and the martial arts skills between the secular are very important when fighting, the difference is that the cultivators in the later stage of foundation building often use defensive magic weapons that can automatically protect themselves when fighting, and occasionally they can also use long-distance spells, magic weapons, and talisman attacks.

Cultivators who have reached the late stage of foundation building, even if they have not practiced any martial arts, their hard strength is no less than that of first-class martial artists in the world, once the foundation building successfully enters the enlightenment period, the cultivators will be completely different from ordinary people, and the way of fighting has also undergone earth-shaking changes.

The identity card of the high-level disciple, Zhao Lengfei, must be worn all the time in the future, and the identity card can allow him to enter all the prohibitions and formations that are open to the high-level disciple without being affected.

The medicine bottle contains three first-grade pills to nourish qi, and cultivators in the early stage of foundation building take one qi-nourishing pill, which can probably save five days of cultivation time, and the outer gate gives three qi-nourishing pills to high-level disciples for free every quarter, and if the disciples in the door need it, they can also go to the pill pavilion to buy it.

Zhao Lengfei didn't find any information about his Bing Root Bone from a few books, he didn't know what the difference between Bing Bing Root Bone and Ice Root Bone was, and the exercise "Water Yuan Gong" that the Gu Consul sent to him was obviously water attributed, which meant that he had to practice the same exercises as the auxiliary root bone.

Zhao Leng suddenly remembered that Yu Huaqing said that his father was a cultivator in the heartbeat period, at that time his father neither admitted nor denied it, he thought about it now and felt unlikely, from the information he just learned, the vast majority of the deacon disciples in the history of Xuanshuimen have not broken through the fusion period in their lives, and it took decades or even hundreds of years for the consuls to cultivate to the heartbeat period and not read, so the fusion period is already a very remarkable cultivation.

My father has only been studying and cultivating for more than ten years, and he keeps saying that he has not been able to understand the exercises thoroughly, and the lack of external conditions has led to the slow progress of his cultivation, if his father's cultivation has really reached the heartbeat period, wouldn't it mean that all the disciples that Xuanshuimen has received in the past thousands of years are waste wood, the more Zhao Lengfei thinks about it, the more he feels that it is impossible.

"Father should have known that my cultivation qualifications were extremely poor, but why didn't he tell me in advance? Did my father really think that qualifications didn't matter, or did he think I had the ability to overcome these difficulties? Forget it, don't think about it, tomorrow is the beginning of the month, first go to the low-level lecture hall to study for five days, then study by yourself for ten days, the remaining ten days to find some simple tasks to do, and finally go to the high-level lecture hall to study, and then the problem of practice will be basically solved. Thinking of this, Zhao Lengfei sat cross-legged and began to sense the aura between heaven and earth according to the method in "Shui Yuan Gong".

"Shui Yuan Gong" says that being able to absorb and refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and operate the true qi in the body, is to enter the early stage of foundation building, and the early stage of foundation building can only be regarded as barely touching the threshold of cultivation.

In the environment of the secular world, it will take about 100 days for people with advanced and above qualifications to enter the early stage of foundation building from the beginning of their first cultivation, and the aura of the outer gate of the Xuanshui Gate is strong, and it only takes a few days to more than ten days for high-level disciples to enter the early stage of foundation building.

Some martial arts masters, charlatans, fortune tellers and feng shui metaphysicians in the secular world teach some dust-level exercises and mantras orally, and these people all believe that reaching the early stage of foundation building is the success of foundation building, so the folk have the saying of building a foundation in 100 days.

In fact, cultivators can only be regarded as truly successful in building a foundation when they can release their true qi in the early stage of enlightenment, and it generally takes more than five years for high-level disciples to succeed in building a foundation from the beginning of cultivation, and low-level disciples are more than able to build a foundation because of their small cultivation time and limited cultivation resources than high-level disciples.

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