The scorching summer passed in a blink of an eye, revealing bits and pieces of gold among the emerald greenery of the mountains. Walking on the mountain path of the Qianyun Sect, you can smell the sweet fragrance of wild fruits everywhere, which is a unique taste of autumn.

The climate of the Cloud Sleeve Continent is quite strange, obviously the territory is vast, but everywhere, the season is the same, in the spring, the entire Cloud Sleeve is spring, and in the winter, it snows everywhere in the entire Cloud Sleeve.

The autumn Fangcao Peak is beautiful and intoxicating, and the autumn harvest medicinal herbs planted in the terraced fields bear fruit and bloom one after another, making the mountain full of harvest atmosphere. Even the thatched houses in the back mountain, the birds raised in it, hatched more than a dozen birds in autumn.

The happiest person on Fangcao Peak was Zheng Qiu, who completed his master's request ten days ahead of schedule and successfully filled a meridian with energy.

You must know that during this time, he had to use the "Snake Devouring Body Sutra" every day to refine his qi, which was simply tossing his body as a towel, absorbing water, squeezing dry, then absorbing water, and then squeezing dry.

Every day after cultivating half-dead, he still had to eat the medicinal paste prepared by the master, if it weren't for the increasing strength in his body, Zheng Qiu wouldn't even have the courage to persevere.

Master Mingzong was very satisfied with the apprentice's completion of the requirements in advance, and he specially gave Zheng Qiu a five-day vacation and allowed the apprentice to wander around the sect.

Today is an important day, it is the day to test the strength of Zheng Qiu's refinement, Master Ming Zong has placed various props in the patio of Fangcao Building to experiment with the effect of his apprentice's strength.

"Master, I'm here. Zheng Qiu came to Fangcao Lou early, and his two little hands clenched into fists for a while and released for a while, both nervous and excited.

Master Mingzong also deliberately changed into a clean sect uniform, and combed his snow-white short hair, which was usually messy, neatly.

He pulled Zheng Qiu onto the straw mat and repeatedly advised: "Don't panic, don't mess up, meditate first, and go into a state of self-reflection to transport Mu Lingyun for a week." ”

Zheng Qiu nodded, sat down on the straw mat, took a deep breath, and recited the words of meditation.

He understood what the master meant, and the master had reminded him many times that he had very little energy in his body, and every trace was extremely important. In this test, he could only consume half of his qi at most, because the remaining half would remain in the sea of qi as an introduction to his future cultivation.

The strength of half of the meridians is not a big meridian, and it is naturally pitiful, so for every test today, Zheng Qiu only has one chance to exert his strength. To this end, Master Ming Zong studied for three days and nights in a row to find out the most ideal test props in advance.

Half an hour later, Zheng Qiu opened his eyes, he had already run the "Wood Spirit" for a week, and his originally excited mood was calmed down through this time.

"Master, I'm ready. ”

"Really ready?"

After getting the apprentice's second confirmation, Master Ming Zong rubbed his hands and walked to a wooden table excitedly: "Then let's start with this control test, this test has the least consumption of qi and is suitable for the first one." ”

There is a square wooden frame on the wooden table, the middle of the wooden frame is built into a labyrinth with cyan jade pieces, the two mouths of the labyrinth are at the two ends of the wooden frame, the route in the middle is not complicated, you can see it at a glance, but the route is very winding, and there are many bends.

Each piece of green jade is engraved with the same pattern, and at the same time, at the position of each turn of the route, three heaven and earth crystals are used to form arches.

Master Ming Zong pointed to the maze in the wooden frame and introduced the function to the apprentice: "This maze is three feet long and two feet wide, and it is used to measure your control over qi......

The labyrinth was built by the master himself, and the entire route through the labyrinth is two zhang long if it is connected in a straight line.

Each piece of jade was engraved with a spell pattern that locked the qi to prevent the qi released by Zheng Qiu from overflowing. The arches made of each heaven and earth crystal are used to amplify the amount of qi to avoid the weakness of the qi and the inability to move forward.

Master Ming Zong motioned to Zheng Qiu to look at the paper pasted on the wooden table: "Apprentice, this is the fingering technique to exert strength, and you use this fingering technique to perform the least energy." ”

Zheng Qiu watched carefully, looked up and asked, "Master, will I start now?"

"Hey!wait," Master Mingzong hurriedly went to get a pen and paper, stood on the wooden table and stared at the maze, and then spoke, "Okay, let's start." ”

Zheng Qiuxu pressed his abdomen, then slowly raised his hand, and the qi surged from the position of the sea of qi to the dantian, and then continued to ascend along the meridians.

Lifting the qi energy to his chest, he gathered his left hand, and pressed his palm to his arm, and the qi energy followed the meridians, from the Tianquan acupoint all the way to the Lao Palace.

For ordinary cultivators, when the qi energy reaches the palm of the palm, it is enough to directly urge it out of the body, but Zheng Qiu can't do this, he has to use the fingering technique provided by the master to reduce the consumption of qi as much as possible.

Make a fist, open your palm, then clasp your ring finger with your thumb, pull your palm back inward, and finally push your fist outwards while pointing out your index finger.

Zheng Qiu felt the tip of his index finger tingle slightly, and a hair-thick white qi came out of it. The white qi detached from the fingertips and quickly expanded, becoming as thick as chopsticks.

"Stop!" Seeing that the apprentice was in a daze, Master Mingzong hurriedly reminded in a loud voice.

Zheng Qiu hurriedly raised his left hand, stretched out his thumb and pressed it on the nape of his right index finger, and then wiped his thumb back to stop releasing qi. At this time, the energy he released was already six inches long, and it began to overflow.

Zheng Qiu immediately moved the direction of his index finger to let Qi enter through the entrance of the maze.

As soon as the qi energy entered the labyrinth, the green jade pieces on both sides lit up slightly, and those overflowing breaths were suddenly pressed back to the middle, fixing the qi qi on the shape of the white line thick with chopsticks.

"Apprentice, let the energy go forward, don't be afraid, it won't disperse in here. ”

Hearing his master's words, Zheng Qiu gathered his thoughts, concentrated his mind on the released white line, and controlled it to float forward along the route.

"Turn left!Okay, turn right at the next intersection!" Master Mingzong shouted as he wrote down the paper with a pen, bending over, and his whole face was almost attached to the wooden frame.

"Turn right again, no, not left, turn right. ”

At a bend in the corner, the white line shook violently and hit its head on the jade piece on the left. The white line paused for a while before it floated up again and staggered to the right. It didn't go far before the white line shook again and snapped against the jade piece.

Master Mingzong raised his head and found that the apprentice was gritting his teeth, holding his strength to control his strength.

"Okay, don't force it, there's a test later. ”

Master Ming Zong held his hand to stop him from continuing to control, and at the same time pulled out the jade piece next to the white line. With a soft thud, the qi lost the confinement of the jade piece, and immediately turned from the white line into a faint mist, drifting away with the wind.

Master Ming Zong turned to the wooden frame, noted down where the qi had reached, and then calculated the distance. Qi Qi only walked to a position of two feet and three inches, which was the farthest distance that Zheng Qiu could control.

It's very close, very close, even if a Qi Realm cultivator who has just been able to release his qi strength, his qi energy can be swung at least half a zhang away, while for people in the Qi Condensing Realm, the control distance of his qi strength is at least one and a half zhang or more.