Ask the Peak, Thousand Steps Cliff.

In the early morning, the sky had just spit out the white of the fish's belly, and the forty-five new disciples of the Spirit Dao Academy gathered at the top of the cliff.

The cliff head is high, there is a square boulder, the vertical and horizontal are all thousands of steps, so it is named the thousand steps cliff.

The disciples sat cross-legged, closed their eyes and bowed their heads, feeling the aura surrounding their bodies with the spiritual root nodes in their spines.

At this time, the aura is the purest, although it cannot be absorbed, but it can sense its existence, and then give birth to a "sense of qi" to prepare for the subsequent opening of the pulse.

In fact, it stands to reason that the aura is like water, flowing everywhere, and the aura on the Xuanyuan Continent should be evenly distributed, but this is not the case.

The earth's veins contain aura, which is called the spiritual veins.

Wherever there is a spiritual vein, monks gather.

In order to prevent the aura from escaping, the monks would arrange a spirit gathering circle around the spiritual veins, which caused the uneven distribution of the spiritual energy.

It also corresponds to that sentence: the mountain is not high, and if there is a "fairy", it is spiritual.

According to the amount of spiritual energy, the spiritual vein is divided into one to five levels from low to high, and each level can be subdivided into upper, middle and lower grades.

There is a second-order high-grade spiritual vein in Hanchi County, which is enough to support a thousand monks.

"The tone at the end of listening to the elder's lecture yesterday is estimated to be about to open today."

The red sun rose, everything recovered, and the turbidity gradually appeared, Zhao Lin slowly opened his eyes.

It has been seven days since he joined Chenghuazong in the blink of an eye, and his biggest feeling these days is two words: comfortable.

As long as it is within the scope of the jade plate, you can go wherever you want, and the spiritual temple preaches for one hour every day, and the rest of the time is free to use.

Although the elders and senior brothers are responsible, they never restrain their disciples too much, let alone ask for orders, and everything is based on their own self-awareness.

No wonder it is said that cultivating immortals is actually cultivating two things: one is freedom, and the other is immortality, both of which are indispensable.

With so much free time, Zhao Lin continued to practice martial arts in addition to observing everywhere and increasing his knowledge.

There is a stage in the Dharma Pavilion of the Lingdao Academy, where the senior brothers sometimes demonstrate their spells, and the senior brothers who entered the Lingdao Academy a year or two earlier often compete here.

The power of the spell is indeed extraordinary, and it is far more magical than martial arts.

Take the most basic air knife as an example.

Blood realm martial artists can condense their strength into knives, and Yuan realm martial artists can even gather knives and release them.

However, no matter how strong the martial arts are, they can only attack at a distance of three or five zhang at most, and after the wind knife is issued, I can no longer control its direction.

But the spell's "aura knife" is different, the attack distance can reach dozens of zhang, and it can be controlled at will, which is unguardable.

In terms of lethality and flexibility, the two are completely different from the same level.

If it was within three zhang of each other, Zhao Lin was confident that he would be able to compete with a mid-stage Qi refining cultivator.

It's just that...... To have this kind of thinking is in itself to put yourself in a vulnerable position.

As for the late-stage Qi refining cultivators, there is basically no chance of winning.

Because of the late stage of Qi refining, you can instantly summon the body protection aura cover, and there is basically no possibility of a sneak attack.

Even so, Zhao Lin was not ready to give up martial arts.

Before entering the late stage of Qi refining, martial arts still have a place to play, at least as a killer weapon.

Moreover, Zhao Lin felt that when his body was full of aura, the strength of martial arts would also rise.

"Seven days after entering the sect, you must have understood how to cultivate the Tao, and you have also thoroughly comprehended the introduction of spiritual energy into the body, and it is time to open the pulse!"

Returning from the Thousand Step Cliff, in the Transmission Hall, Elder Wu said solemnly.

Zhou Hongfang, the head of the court, and Nie Kui, the governor of the province, also sat on the side.

When the disciples heard this, their faces showed nervous and excited looks.

Once the pulse is opened, they will break away from the mortal body and officially become monks, so how can these teenagers not be excited?

In the past few days, the elders have explained the method of opening the pulse.

The human body is its own world, and the cultivation is still dominated by meridians and acupoints.

For people like Zhao Lin who have experience in martial arts, they can understand the truth as soon as they hear it, and most teenagers who have never practiced martial arts can understand it without much effort.

Those who are gifted with spiritual roots have no foolish people.

Elder Wu picked up a jade box in his hand and lightly opened the lid of the box, revealing dozens of brown pills.

Kaimai Dan!

Opening the pulse is the beginning of the path of cultivation, simply put, it is to attract spiritual energy into the body, wash the meridians, and condense the divine consciousness.

Originally, this step would take several days, or even ten and a half months, but with the help of the Kaimai Pill, it could be completed in less than half a day.

As long as it is a low-grade or above spiritual root, taking the Open Pulse Pill, almost 100% can break through to the Qi Refining Realm.

And the success rate of the Fan Ling Root is only two or three percent, which is why the lower grade Ling Root is a watershed in whether or not you can cultivate the Tao.

Kaimai Pill has such an effect, but it is not precious.

Because even if he didn't take the Open Pulse Pill, the monk would be able to break through to the Qi Refining Realm, but it would just take a little more time.

Moreover, the level of the pill is related to the realm, and the higher the realm, the higher the level of the pill.

Taking the Open Pulse Pill is just entering the Qi Refining Realm, which is far less precious than the "Foundation Building Pill" that can help the monk break through to the Foundation Building Realm.

And the "Ascending Dragon Pill", which can increase the success rate of foundation building realm monks breaking through to the Purple Mansion Realm, is even more priceless.

"Come on, get one for each person."

Elder Wu's voice fell, and the disciples stepped forward one by one and received a Pulse Opening Pill.

Zhao Lin held the Dan in his hand, sniffed it carefully, and kept its taste in his heart.

He didn't know much about the spirit grass of the Immortal Cultivation Realm now, and he could only smell about twenty or thirty different medicines.

The disciples returned to their places, and the hall was quiet, only the sound of breathing could be heard.

Elder Wu bowed his head slightly, and said in a deep voice, "You can start." With us here to protect the Dharma, there is no need to worry, just do your work boldly! ”

Most of the disciples were a little nervous, looking left and right, wanting to wait for others to take it before taking it, and some disciples were more simply swallowing the pill in one gulp.

Zhao Lin ignored others, calmed down, held his breath and concentrated, let himself enter a relaxed state, and then swallowed the Open Pulse Pill into his stomach.

A swallowing sound rang out in the hall.

The pill enters the abdomen, and the medicinal power is slowly released.

According to the guidance method taught by the elders, Zhao Lin channeled the medicinal power to the sea of qi, and then continued to put pressure on it.

With the help of the medicinal power, the Qi Sea Acupoint suddenly collapsed, and then suddenly expanded, naturally giving birth to a suction force.

This suction force reached the Linggen node in the spine, and the surrounding spiritual energy began to move.

Zhao Lin couldn't help but secretly marvel at the power of the elixir here.

The aura gathers near the spine, but it is not allowed to enter.

Zhao Lin was not in a hurry, he just squeezed the sea of qi repeatedly according to the mantra, collapsed, expanded, and so on.

After about a quarter of an hour, a cyclone was born in the Qi Sea Cave.

There seems to be a small bead under the abdomen, which is constantly spinning.

Zhao Lin has practiced martial arts for many years, but this feeling is the first time he has experienced it.

The beads rotate faster and faster, and the cyclone slowly amplifies, like a whirlpool, and the suction becomes stronger and stronger.

After another half a cup of tea, it finally came to fruition, and the aura squeezed through the "life gate" acupoint of the spine and poured into the body, and then traveled from the Du pulse to the Ren pulse and merged into the sea of qi!

Different from the strength and vitality cultivated by martial arts, the aura is condensed like fat and full of vitality, although it is murmuring like a stream of water, it has the meaning of being as vast as the sea.

Until the Qi Sea Acupoint was full and swollen and could no longer hold a trace of spiritual energy, Zhao Lin knew that the time had come, and the Qi Sea rotated in reverse and pushed the spiritual energy into the meridians.

The aura circulates in the meridians, repeating itself over and over again, washing back and forth.

After the forty-ninth turn of Zhou Tian, there was a sudden "boom" sound.

Zhao Linyin's hall suddenly exploded, like an initiation, first gray, then clear and thorough, giving birth to a huge sea of knowledge.

I only felt refreshed, as if I had opened a pair of heavenly eyes, and I was able to see a fine picture within a radius of ten zhang.

Successful Pulse Opening!

Zhao Lin was the first to open the pulse, and the head of the courtyard and the two elders immediately sensed it, but there was no surprise on their faces.

Wu Xiu was already good at this, and it was reasonable to be the first to open the pulse.

Stepping into the threshold of cultivation, Zhao Lin did not have any joy on his face, because there was one more important thing next: impacting the acupuncture point.

There are more than 400 acupuncture points in the human body, but not all of them can be used for cultivation.

Only one hundred and eight of them can sense and contain the aura of heaven and earth, which is also known as "qi aperture" and "spiritual acupoint". ”

Break away the qi, absorb the aura, and turn it into your own mana.

The Qi Refining Realm cultivators cultivated this one and eight qi apertures, and every time they broke through one qi aperture, their mana became one point stronger.

And every time the twelve qi orifices are opened, the quantitative change causes the qualitative change, and the cultivation is raised to one level.

Therefore, the gas refining period is divided into nine layers, the first to third layers are the early stage of gas refining, the fourth to sixth layers are the middle stage of gas refining, and the seventh to ninth layers are the late stage of gas refining.

When the pulse is first formed, it is the time when the body is most active, and it is necessary to take this opportunity to impact the qi, the more the better.

But at this level, Zhao Lin encountered obstacles.

It's the same as the situation he encountered in the Innate Realm: he has been practicing martial arts for many years, and he doesn't know how many times he has tempered and sharpened his acupoints, and he is strong and strong, and the impact is extremely difficult.

At this moment, he finally understood why Wu Xiu would become a separate faction.

In the past, he thought that since he had cultivated the spiritual root and was cultivating the same exercises, the next path should be no different from that of an ordinary monk.

In fact, ordinary monks' acupuncture points have not been tempered in this way, and it is much easier to impact, but martial cultivators have changed their path halfway.

What was once an achievement has become a burden today.

However, there are also benefits: Wu Xiu's acupoints have been expanded and deepened to contain more aura, which means that when in the same realm, Wu Xiu's mana is stronger!

"It seems that we have to take a different path after all, but fortunately, we are not alone on the road."

Just when Zhao Lin was attacking the acupuncture point with all his strength, Lin Chaoran successfully opened his second pulse, and the head of the court and the others looked at him together.

As the only disciple of the Earth Spirit Root, after Lin Chaoran opened his pulse, his body made a soft sound of "snort", and he rushed away without pause.

And then there's the second, and then there's the third......

All the way to the tenth aperture, the momentum is still unabated!

Zhou Hongfang, Nie Kui and Wu Chuanchu looked at each other, with a look of surprise in their eyes.

The spiritual root grade is only a rough estimate of the cultivation talent, and there are still many variables, and the more qi apertures that are rushed out when the pulse is opened, the better the cultivation talent!

Breaking through the ten acupuncture points, he is already the best performing disciple in recent decades, can he go further?

All three unconsciously folded their palms and clenched them into fists.

Lin Chaoran didn't disappoint them either, eleven, twelve...... It wasn't until he broke through the fourteen acupuncture points that he ran out of aura and suddenly stopped.

Zhou Hongfang and the others looked at each other in shock.

Next, one after another, some disciples completed the opening of the pulse, but no one made a sound, so as not to disturb the fellow disciples who were doing the exercises.

The disciples looked at each other, and they all felt that each other was out of the ordinary, and their temperament had changed a lot, and they couldn't wait to find a mirror to take care of themselves to see if they were the same.

In general, those with a higher grade of spiritual roots are the first to open the pulse and complete it, followed by the middle and lower grades.

However, Zhao Lin was more special, and when all the disciples finished their exercises, they still sat with their eyes closed.

Some disciples were puzzled, and some secretly shook their heads.

After waiting for a stick of incense, Zhao Lin finally opened his eyes.

When the disciples saw this, they immediately made an uproar, and they inquired about others and rushed away a few breaths.

Lin Chaoran ranked first, rushed through the fourteen qi apertures, and entered the second layer of qi refining.

Aside from him, the best one only rushed through eight qi holes.

For the rest, most of the lower-grade spiritual roots only broke through two or three qi apertures, the middle-grade spiritual roots were four or five, and the high-grade spiritual roots were mostly six or seven.

Zhao Lin rushed through the three qi apertures, ranking in the middle and lower reaches, but he didn't feel lost in his heart.

Originally, he didn't have a spiritual root, and it was a great fortune to be able to cultivate the Dao, but now that he has entered the Qi Refining Realm, how can he not be satisfied.

Besides, the road is long, don't worry about it for a while, the road is still long!

(End of chapter)