Chapter 9: Cultivation
"Strip naked and jump in, this is the elixir for you to open up the meridians. ”
"Okay!" Chu Qing didn't hesitate, stripped naked and jumped into the barrel. At first, he didn't feel anything special, but as he spent more time in the barrel, he felt more and more a burning sensation all over his body.
"Elder Xuan, I feel that my body is getting hotter and hotter, is there any way to make me feel better. Chu Qing felt that he would not be able to hold on soon, and originally thought that he would feel something after a while, but who knew that the feeling was getting more and more serious. Now the whole body is crawling around as if it is crawling around by countless ants, which is not only painful, but also extremely itchy.
Shaking his head, Xuan Lao glanced at him pitifully: "No, I can only endure it!" But don't worry, I have already neutralized the medicinal power, and it will not damage your body." ”
Some are helpless, and some feel even more terrifying, if they continue like this day after day, they will go crazy if they don't succeed in cultivation. There was no choice but to grit his teeth and persevere, and after more than half an hour of purification, he finally couldn't help but faint. Even though his brain was unconscious now, his body was still shaking uncontrollably.
Xuan Lao looked at Chu Qing who was constantly twitching in the bucket and nodded: "People often say that difficulties are only temporary, and when you survive this first hurdle, you will find that this is not worth mentioning compared to the various problems you will have to face in the future." Come on, little one!"
As time passed, the color of the water in the wooden barrel where Chu Qing was located gradually faded, and the originally red liquid became transparent. A layer of red vapor was permeated around Chu Qing, and the backdrop of the gas made his body extremely hazy. Xuan Lao has been guarding the side, although he said that these potions will not cause harm to Chu Qing, but he still has to be just in case.
Chu Qing opened his hazy eyes and found that he was still sitting cross-legged in the bucket, and the original pain had reached an acceptable level. It seems that he has survived, and the old man in front of him is leisurely drinking tea: "Old Xuan, what time is it? How long will I have to soak here?"
Xuan Lao looked at the color of the liquid in the barrel: "This is a good thing, it can't be wasted." There is only one time to open up the meridians to this extent, and many medicinal materials can't be found if you want to find them, so you can come out again when the color of these liquids in the bucket has faded. It's almost two hours before dawn, and you've been soaked for almost eight hours. ”
Chu Qing nodded, and moved his muscles and bones in the bucket slightly, after all, it was a little uncomfortable to maintain the same position for a long time.
"The first realm of cultivation is called the physical realm, and as the name suggests, it is the realm that increases the strength of the body. After the strength of your body reaches the middle stage of the physical realm, I will guide you to open up the sea of qi, and then you will try to feel the spiritual power between heaven and earth, and gradually attract the spirit into your body. When the sea of qi is filled with spiritual power for the first time, it can be regarded as the critical point of advancing to the foundation building realm, and only when entering the foundation building realm can it be regarded as becoming a formal spiritual power cultivator. ”
The reason why the second realm is called the foundation building realm is because the overall process of this realm is to build the foundation for future cultivation. The physical realm cannot cultivate exercises and spiritual skills, and spiritual cultivation can only be regarded as having preliminary requirements when it reaches the foundation building realm. Although it is not necessary to practice the exercises in the foundation building realm, without the support of the exercises, ordinary people will not be able to advance to the transformation realm, let alone the nirvana realm. Learning advanced exercises not only has an advantage in terms of spiritual power intensity, but also has a natural spiritual power suppression, as long as you don't encounter some perverted leapfrog challenges, you can almost beat people of the same level or one level higher.
After an hour, the crimson liquid in the barrel had faded in color and was replaced by a gray liquid mixed with black impurities. Hearing Xuan Lao say that this was the impurities discharged from Chu Qing's body, Chu Qing didn't expect that his body contained so many impurities. After getting dressed and stretching my body, the crisp sound of bones was endless. Not only did he feel that his body was much more agile and flexible, but he also felt much stronger and more powerful than before, and he even felt that he was looking at the world more clearly than before.
"Have I reached the middle of the physical realm now?" Chu Qing casually punched in the room, and it seemed that he was very satisfied with his body now.
Xuan Lao shook his head and said something that hit Chu Qing quite hard: "The middle stage of the physical realm, with your current physical strength, you can only be regarded as having just touched the threshold of the physical realm, and there is still a lot of distance from that middle stage, you will have to continue to temper your body in the future." However, if this potion is used by a child with a slight talent, it may be possible to reach the middle stage of the physical realm. ”
Chu Qing rolled his eyes, did he belittle his apprentice so much! Although he didn't think he was a person with excellent talent, it should be okay to make do.
"In that case, for my sake, as an apprentice of your great master, you can casually give me a few high-level purple-level exercises or spiritual techniques for me to choose from. In the future, when you use it against the enemy, you can avoid embarrassing your old man, isn't it!" Chu Qing said with a cheap smile.
This time, it was Xuan Lao's turn to roll his eyes, and he almost didn't swallow a sip of tea and sprayed it on Chu Qing's face: "What do you think are purple-level exercises and spiritual skills?
"Then it's okay to give two purple rank intermediate ones, it doesn't matter if you are low-level, if you really can't give me this blue rank advanced exercises, you can also give me this blue rank advanced exercises!" Chu Qing looked at Xuan Lao Dao with blank eyes, and Xuan Lao looked at his expression and wanted to slap him to death, saving him trouble.
"No! There is no one above the green level in the city below the mountain, maybe you can't even find a green one, but your appetite is not small. Seeing Chu Qing a little disappointed, he continued, "There used to be, but after the storage space was destroyed in a battle, all of them were lost. I still have a copy of the low-level exercises of the Orange Rank, and this one I found in a ruin in the mountains, do you want it?"
Chu Qing couldn't help shaking as he looked at the scroll glowing with a faint orange light in Xuan Lao's hand, it turned out that the benefits of the high-level exercises that he had talked to me for a long time were just for me to understand and understand the knowledge, and it seemed that he was a big step away from becoming a dragon and phoenix among people. Just as he was about to take over the poor exercises, he suddenly thought of a question and said, "Since Elder Xuan has become your disciple, can't I inherit your elder's peerless methods?
Seeing Xuan Lao shaking his head, Chu Qing's nervous mood finally relaxed, but Xuan Lao's next sentence knocked him to the bottom: "I didn't practice the exercises!"
"No, but you didn't mean ... Before Chu Qing finished speaking, Xuan Lao answered his question, "My situation is a bit special, I'll tell you about this later." Also, you don't have to worry about the exercises, when you reach the foundation building realm, I will give you the opportunity to choose the exercises."
"I knew that Xuan Lao was so powerful, it was impossible to have only one low-level Orange Rank exercise. Under his soft and hard questioning, Xuan Lao finally told him the specific situation of choosing exercises.
"Although I don't have a high-level exercise for you, I can lead you to a place where there are countless exercises of various levels, and the purple-level advanced ones you mentioned may exist there, and you can only rely on yourself if you can't get it. ”
It turned out that Xuan Lao could use his powerful spiritual power to connect to a void space that existed in the ancient ruins. That space was a practice storage room, and countless exercises were put into it, and the lowest level exercises were all green rank intermediate level. This passage was left by Xuan Lao through a secret method when he first broke into the ancient ruins, so that in the future, if he accepted an apprentice, he could try it himself. But that space has a powerful heaven and earth prohibition existence, no matter how powerful a person is, he can only enter it once in his life, and each time it must not exceed the time of one pillar of incense, which is also one of the reasons why that exercise space can be preserved until now.
"When the time comes, I will guide your spiritual power to find the space through the passage I left, and what you can get in the time of a pillar of incense can only depend on your own creation!"
Chu Qing nodded, looking forward to the arrival of that day with anticipation on his face, if he really found a copy of the Purple Rank Exercises, his cultivation path would be much smoother, it was not that he was afraid of hardship, after all, why not take the shortcut that only had benefits?
"You don't think of the high-level exercises as simplistic, even if they are there, blue and purple are still cherished things, and they are very difficult to obtain. After speaking, he took out a booklet, "This is a boxing book, you should practice diligently when you go home, it can make you try to shorten the time to enter the foundation building realm." Well, it's getting late, it's time for me to send you down!"
"Elder Xuan, why can't I go up the mountain during the day?" Chu Qing asked the question he had been asking all along.
Xuan Lao didn't turn around, and said lightly: "I have other things to deal with during the day, and cultivation can't just rely on others, all you can rely on is yourself, even if you don't have me, you have to keep going." Listening to the teachings that Xuan Lao had said countless times to himself, Chu Qing said that after the disciple was taught, he hurriedly followed him.
Today is a little earlier than yesterday, and there are not many people on the roads in the village.
"I heard that the selection team is going to arrive in the village today.,I haven't seen a demon beast that is used as a mount when it's so big.,I don't know if it's majestic or not.。。 Although I won't go to the audition, it's okay to go and watch and join in the fun. "He didn't go into the house, and after eight hours of cultivation (sleeping), he is now very energetic. In the hazy sky, he opened the boxing book that Xuan Lao gave him-Invincible Boxing, although he complained a little about the name of this boxing book, but he still practiced it over and over again.
"Not to mention, after the spiritual fluid quenching last night, this fist is powerful. Just as Chu Qing was working hard to practice boxing, an old man with a lantern standing on the mountain looked in his direction and smiled with satisfaction, and then disappeared in place.