The day after Zheng Qiu and Master Ming Zong left the village, something strange happened in the village. One by one, the villagers fell down, closed their eyes and fell asleep, and after a whole day of sleep, these villagers woke up one after another.

However, the villagers seem to have forgotten about the past half a month, and only know that there is an extra patient in the village, which was picked up by Orion from the mountains.

Ten days later, a boulder was shaking slightly under the stone wall of the mound, and the gravel and thatch continued to roll down from the side of the boulder, and after a while, the boulder moved a gap, and the swamp river water suddenly poured in along the gap.

Something struggled out of the crevice, and it lay in the swamp, covered in mud, and after a moment's rest, it writhed its bamboo-pole-thin limbs in a strange way and climbed up the slope of the hills.

Back at Fangcao Peak in Qianyun Sect, Zheng Qiu went to Fangcao Pavilion to see his grandfather and Yun You, while Master Mingzong locked himself in Fangcao Building. For five days in a row, Master Mingzong did not give Zheng Qiu a lesson, so Zheng Qiu had to walk around on Fangcao Peak, holding chopsticks to practice folding flower fingers.

It was only on the sixth day that the master found Zheng Qiu and asked him to go to the 44th floor of Fangcao Building to attend classes.

Sitting at the table with his cheeks back, Zheng Qiu waited for the master to start lecturing, but the master didn't speak, just threw him a booklet. It is said to be a booklet, but it is actually a large stack of white paper, but a hole was pierced in the upper left corner of the white paper and hastily tied together with a rope.

Zheng Qiu looked through the booklet and found that the words in it had been scribbled and altered, as if they were drafts.

Zheng Qiu looked at it again and again, but he couldn't understand it, so he had to ask his master: "Master, what is this written?" It's a bit like an exercise, but it's not like it, I don't understand it. ”

"Ahem. Master Mingzong cleared his throat and replied, "This needs to start with the wood spirit in your body, and you will understand after you finish speaking." ”

"What is a wood spirit?"

"Apprentice, do you remember the hundreds of chrysanthemum herbs I asked you to plant?"

"I remember. ”

"That's where it starts......"

Master Ming Zong talked about the stone tablet of Wentian Pavilion from chrysanthemum herbs, and then from the stone tablet of Wentian Pavilion to the cave of the rotten swamp, and then from the spirit measuring wheel in the cave to the wine.

After saying something, Zheng Qiu was stunned for a while.

He touched his belly, looked down, and felt incredulous: "Master, you mean, I have a thing called Mu Ling in my body?"

"Yes, a power, not a thing, to be exact. ”

Master Ming Zong pointed to the booklet in Zheng Qiu's hand, and then said, "Judging from the situation I explored last time, the wood spirit on your body should have been awakened. The first one written here is the improved one, the cultivation method of the person of the Qi Fetus, you try to practice it. ”

Under the guidance of his master, Zheng Qiu began his first cultivation by comparing the steps in the booklet.

If you want to cultivate, you must first have good root bones, because to enter the realm of qi tires, it is inseparable from good root bones.

The so-called qi tire is actually the first trace of qi energy in the meridians, and this first trace of qi determines the type of exercise suitable for the cultivator, and also determines the direction of future cultivation.

To cultivate the first trace of qi in the empty meridians, this is a process of starting from nothing, and the difficulties in it are quite enormous. After thousands of years of research, countless capable people and wise people in the Cloud Sleeve Continent have figured out the three key points for entering the air tire.

Root bones, external stimuli, and talent.

Good root bones represent good meridians and flesh, which are the seedbed for the birth of energy. External stimuli refer to the method of cultivation, the medicine taken.

As for the third talent, it is completely a matter of luck, there are always people who don't do anything, and they will inexplicably step into the pneumatic tire after a good night's sleep. Therefore, the cultivation of cloud sleeves into qi tires starts from the first two key points.

Nowadays, each major sect has its own formula for improving the root bones, as well as special external stimulation methods, such as taking powerful pills to induce, meditating to regulate breathing guidance, exercising the body to stimulate fatigue, and so on.

The external stimulation method of the Qianyun Sect is a way of meditation and breathing.

However, Master Mingzong believes that the manifestation of the wood spirit in the meridians is very similar to the qi energy, so the meridians and the physical body cannot be used as a seedbed for cultivating the qi to cultivate new qi, but the wood spirit should be regarded as the qi that has been cultivated and cultivated.

Therefore, the first step that Master Mingzong asked Zheng Qiu to do was to close his eyes and meditate quietly to find out the wood spirit in his body.

"Meditation without self, without knowing heaven and earth...... Meditation without self, I don't know the ...... heaven and earth" Zheng Qiu recited the words written in the booklet to assist himself in entering a state of self-reflection.

Entering a state of introspection requires the cultivator to completely calm down and block out the perception of the outside world, and only in this state can the cultivator see the situation inside the body. Of course, what we see here is not really seeing with our eyes, but the picture that the cultivator imagines in his mind through his physical feelings.

After an hour and a half of meditation, Zheng Qiu finally entered a state of introspection, and he saw the meridians in his body for the first time.

It was a criss-crossing pipe, leading to all parts of the body, the pipes were not clear in color, very blurry, but they were clearly present in Zheng Qiu's feelings.

He remembered what his master had said, to find the "Wood Spirit", so he moved his gaze and searched inch by inch along the meridians. When he found the location of his chest, he saw a wisp of pale green mist, floating in a spiral within the meridian channels.

Zheng Qiu didn't know why it was pale green, and when he looked at his body, he could only see a blurred outline of gray and black. But the wisp of mist gave him a definite feeling, an instinctive feeling, that it should be pale green.

Zheng Qiu wasn't sure if this wisp of mist was the "wood spirit" in the master's mouth, he went to other meridian locations to look for it again, there was nothing, the meridians were empty, only the fog on his chest was here. Then this wisp of mist should be the "wood spirit" that the master said.

Now that you've found the "Wood Spirit", the next step is to catch it.

Zheng Qiu's gaze slowly leaned towards the mist, and just when he felt like he was about to touch it, the mist seemed to be alarmed. It writhed from side to side, stretching from spiral to straightening, swishing away from its original position and flying far along the meridians.

Zheng Qiu hurriedly followed, trying to move his gaze to prevent the fog from running away. But the speed at which the fog flew was very fast, and the intricate meridians seemed to be its home, and everywhere it was familiar, and after more than a dozen turns in a row, the fog completely disappeared from Zheng Qiu's sight.

Outside, Master Mingzong carefully observed the physical condition of his apprentice. After Zheng Qiu entered a state of introspection, about three hours passed, his body suddenly shook.

The shaking only lasted for a short time before stopping, and then Zheng Qiu was out of a state of introspection.

He opened his eyes and told the master in frustration: "Master, it is running too fast, I can't catch it!"