Seeing that Chen Xiao listened with relish, Huo Lao said again: "The cultivation methods are always the same way, nothing more than cultivating the vitality, cultivating the soul, and cultivating the physical body, and other categories are all bred from this. ”

"Then what is the teacher's major?" Chen Xiao continued.

Huo Lao smiled: "I am quite greedy in my cultivation, and I have dabbled in all aspects, but I still focus on cultivating vitality. ”

Huo Lao thought for a while and recalled: "But I once met a guy who only cultivates the body, this person's King Kong body has reached the pinnacle, although the teacher is a level higher than him, but he has fought hard for a long time and cannot win, and in the end no one can help the other party, so he has to stop, and he cherishes each other and becomes best friends." ”

Huo Lao remembered the past and was unconscious again, Chen Xiao stood and waited quietly without a sound.

After a while, Huo Lao finally came back to his senses: "Whether it is the cultivation of vitality, the cultivation of the soul, or the cultivation of the physical body, it is divided into nine layers. Every three layers are a realm, there are three realms of man, earth and heaven, and the big master you are talking about is just the pinnacle of the human realm, and in the eyes of the real powerhouse, he is an ant cannon fodder-like existence. ”

Chen Xiao was stunned and said secretly: Then what am I? Am I not even as good as dust?

Huo Lao seemed to be able to see through his thoughts, and continued: "Now you are still a layman who is not in the stream, you don't want to be ambitious, cultivation needs to be steady and gradual and gradual, don't be greedy for merit and rashness, if you damage the foundation, your future cultivation path will be blocked by yourself." ”

Chen Xiao's heart sank, and he quickly nodded yes.

Huo Lao said: "At the beginning of cultivation, the speed of progress lies in talent, but when it is more difficult, many people with outstanding talent are often wiped out here, and those who really achieve great things are those who are stoic and can look down on life and death. ”

Huo Lao waved his hand to summon the Yuan Stone, Ning Shen Ding and the Wind King Pestle to his side, and with another wave of his hand, these artifacts went straight to Chen Xiao's left wrist, and when they were approaching, they turned into a few rays of light and disappeared into the Qiankun circle, leaving only two Yuan Stones outside.

Huo Lao came to Chen Xiao and said: "Before cultivating, you need to be able to sense the vitality of heaven and earth, and you should remember these two mantras first: the qi and the spirit are one and keep the bright platform, and the meditation will not lose the dust." Then, Huo Lao explained carefully, and Chen Xiao listened to it with a heart.

Chen Xiao pondered for a long time and felt something, so he sat cross-legged on the ground and began to sense the vitality of heaven and earth, he held his hands in the dantian of his lower abdomen, his mind slowly stabilized, and he breathed slowly with the rhythm of inhaling five breaths and one breath, and then gradually condensed his mind on his eyes.

At this time, it was almost noon, the sun was shining through the roof of the cave to the ground, the beam was full of dust and dancing, Chen Xiao sensed for half an hour but made no progress, his eyes gradually sore, and his legs and feet gradually became numb.

But Chen Xiao has been born in poverty since he was a child, and his tenacity far exceeds that of teenagers of the same age. Just when he felt that the limit had arrived, he suddenly felt that the scene in front of him seemed to stand still for a moment, and then small points of light slowly emerged. Chen Xiao was overjoyed, but he didn't have time to take a closer look at the light spot and there was no trace, it turned out that he had withdrawn from the cultivation state because of excitement in his heart.

Huo Lao bowed slightly: "It's not bad to be able to sense the vitality of heaven and earth in half an hour, you can rest for a while and continue to sense." ”

Chen Xiao stood up as he said, relaxed his muscles and blood for a moment, and immediately began to sit up and sit down again when his strength recovered slightly.

This time, in less than half an hour, Chen Xiao had already sensed the appearance of a point of light, he kept in mind Huo Lao's previous explanation, carefully observed the movement and characteristics of the Yuan Qi, and this cultivation lasted for an hour.

When Chen Xiao withdrew from the cultivation state again, Huo Lao handed him a booklet, "You can already sense the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, now you can start cultivating." The first layer of the human realm is called Tongyuan Realm, as the name suggests, at the beginning of cultivation, you need to open up the meridians of the human body, in preparation for opening up the dantian qi mansion and storing the vitality in the future. ”

Chen Xiao took the manual and looked at it carefully, and there were four words on the slightly yellowed cover: Yunyuan Neijing.

Turning the book cover, the first page is a diagram of the meridians of the human body, on which the meridians are criss-crossed, some as thick as chopsticks, some as slender as filaments, and there are eight thick lines painted with a cinnabar-colored pen, and the main meridians are annotated.

Turning to the second page is the cultivation method of opening up the meridians. There are eight main meridians of the human body, and the Tongyuan realm is divided into nine layers, each meridian can be upgraded to a small realm, and when the eight veins are all connected, they will be integrated with each other, which is the ninth level of the Tongyuan realm, and then open up the dantian qi mansion into the Huayuan realm.

Chen Xiao carefully read it three times from beginning to end, memorized the cultivation method by heart, closed the booklet and closed his eyes and thought for a moment, feeling that there was nothing missing before he was ready to start impacting the meridians.

Chen Xiao sat cross-legged, pinched a Sumeru mudra on his abdomen with his left hand, stood with one palm in front of his chest in the Buddha-worshipping posture, and hung his elbow above his left hand to stabilize his mind and begin to swallow the vitality of heaven and earth with the method of breathing in the inner scriptures.

The dots of vitality light entered his mouth with Chen Xiao's breathing, Chen Xiao only felt a slight coolness in his mouth, and hurriedly guided the vitality to impact the yang vein, but the little vitality in the entrance was pitiful, and it was exhausted when it passed through the acupuncture veins of the whole body to the soles of the feet.

Chen Xiao swallowed and vomited seven or eight times repeatedly, and finally a trace of vitality traveled to the soles of his feet, the impact of this trace of vitality was like a mayfly shaking a tree for the blocked main vein, but Chen Xiao was not discouraged, he still slowly exhaled, and slowly experienced the gains and losses in the operation of each breath of vitality, so as Chen Xiao gradually entered the state, he was more comfortable controlling the vitality, and the vitality reaching the soles of the feet was also increasing.

Chen Xiao guided the vitality to slowly collide with the Yangwei vein, and the blocked veins slowly opened up at a speed that was difficult to see with the naked eye, but this vein was very long, and it would be difficult to work in a few months according to this efficiency.

Seeing that Chen Xiao's control of Yuan Qi was becoming more and more proficient, Huo Lao smiled slightly, and gently waved his hand to hang a piece of Yuan Stone in front of Chen Xiao, the Yuan Stone rotated slightly, and with Chen Xiao's absorption, a fluorescent spray suddenly erupted, like a dragon entering the sea, straight into Chen Xiao's mouth.

Chen Xiao only felt a shock all over his body, and a majestic vitality came from his mouth, which was more than ten times stronger than the previous pitiful appearance. Chen Xiao knew that this was the teacher's help, and he didn't dare to slack off, guiding this vitality straight to the Yang Wei vein.

At this impact, the occlusion slowly disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye. Chen Xiao was overjoyed and his spirits were greatly lifted, and the Yuan Stone continued to convey pure vitality to his mouth, and Chen Xiao was also happy to impact the blocked meridians. It took half an hour for the vitality of the Yuan Stone to be exhausted, turning into a pile of stone powder scattered on the ground.

Huo Lao waved his hand, and another yuan stone floated in. Chen Xiao was as hungry as a wolf greedily absorbing the vitality and hitting the meridians, until this piece of yuan stone also turned into powder, Chen Xiao waited for a long time to see that the teacher did not move again, and then he still withdrew from the cultivation state.

Huo Lao smiled and asked, "How?"

"The Yang Wei Pulse has been opened up by about one-fifth, and at this rate, the disciple will definitely succeed in a few days. The corners of Chen Xiao's eyes and eyebrows bloomed with joy.

Huo Lao smiled and nodded: "It's not early, let's cultivate here, after you go back, you will carefully figure out what you have learned today, and if you don't understand something, you will find a teacher." After that, it turned into white light and drilled into Chen Xiao's arm.

Chen smiled out of the hole, and when he saw that it was almost dark, he hurriedly fetched a bundle of dry firewood and returned home.

Shuang Qinghua saw Chen Xiao go out early and return late for a few days in a row, and he didn't catch a fish, I'm afraid that this kid is greedy for fun and it is inconvenient to say deeply, but fortunately, he got some white rice copper coins before, and it is enough to live a hungry life.

Chen Xiao thought about it again and again and did not report the matter of apprenticeship to his mother, firstly, his mother had no good impression of the cultivators on weekdays, and secondly, the teacher's identity was mysterious, and he did not ask for his old man's opinion before he said it to others, for fear that the teacher would blame him.

After dinner, Chen Xiao returned to the side room, took out the Yunyuan Inner Scripture and looked at it carefully, and recalled what he had learned and heard today, but he felt that he had gained a lot, and after thinking for a while, he fell asleep when he was tired.

The next day, Chen Xiao was still cultivating in the cave, and this time he consumed five Yuan Stones, and half of the Yang Wei vein was opened.

At the same time that Chen Xiao was indulging in the cultivation world, on the narrow road from Shanwang County to Manniu Village, a team of chariots and horses was slowly marching, with six strong guards in front and behind, among which several horses and beasts were stepping on their hooves, and two small sedan chairs behind the horses and beasts followed.

This horse beast is taller than an ordinary horse, and there is an extra eye between the ears above the horse's head, the ears are long and the teeth are pointed, the body is extremely vigorous, and there is a faint sound of thunder between the neighing. The name of this beast is called Motie, it is a low-grade Yuan Beast, it is extremely difficult to tame, and those who can ride it must be a person with considerable status.

On top of one of them sat a middle-aged man, about forty years old, with sword sleeves and a light shirt and a breeze cloak. The face is white, the nose is straight, the mouth is wide, and a pair of eagle eyes seem to have fine light flowing, and they are not angry and arrogant. When his followers turned their eyes to him, they all looked in awe.

On the left side of the man is an old man, dressed in a black robe, with fox eyes and sharp cheeks, and a sarcoma the size of an egg directly above his eyebrows, which adds a bit of mystery to this dignity. He held a black bone staff, the staff was eight feet long, and it seemed to be made of the leg bones of some demon beast when he looked closely, and two small black snakes were carved on the head of the staff, like living creatures, glowing with ghostly light.

Whenever someone accidentally sees him, they immediately look elsewhere, as if disaster will befall him if they take one more look.

On the right side of the middle-aged man is a weak-crowned young man, fourteen or fifteen years old, also dressed in a black power suit, very handsome, but his lips are slightly thin, and there is a gloomy color between his eyebrows.

At this time, the old man in the black robe was looking at the middle-aged man: "The head of the family, the old man has taken advantage of a hexagram, today's itinerary should not be too long, and it will change after a long time." ”

The middle-aged head of the family raised his hand to signal, and the horse team stopped suddenly. The head of the family asked, "Does Mr. Di know what happened?"

Mr. Di looked unfathomable: "This hexagram is like a rampant image, I am afraid that there will be a small offense at night, and I hope that the head of the family will prepare early." ”

When the head of the family heard the old man's words, he knew that a strong enemy would attack at night, so he ordered his entourage to find an open field, set up tents, set up stoves, and reorganize the men and horses to wait for the strong enemy.