"Yi'er, what are you thinking?"

Ding Zhongyuan asked while wiping the sweat from his forehead, and the green armor cow followed behind him with a steel whip-like tail, flicking his thick buttocks left and right.

Ding Zhengyi buried his head in thought, looking back at the family classics he had read over the years, he didn't even notice that his father walked to his side, and when he heard his father's voice, he quickly rubbed his face gently, raised his head and replied with a smile

"I didn't think about anything, I just combed through the classics I had read in the past two years."

"You kid has time to figure out more exercises, after all, cultivation is the foundation of a monk. ”

The father casually touched the horn of the green beetle next to him.

Ding Zhengyi couldn't help frowning, and his mood was a little low

"In the past two months since the completion of the family studies, I have been stuck in the third level of qi training, and it seems that I have encountered a bottleneck. ”

"Don't worry, your cultivation qualifications are good, it's not a big problem to have a bottleneck, I'll go back to the house for dinner later, I have good things for you!"

After saying that, Ding Zhongyuan waved his hand, led the Qingjia Niu and walked slowly towards the spirit beast pen, the smoky aura on the Qingjia Niu dispelled the quiet and peaceful fragrance of grass and tea around Ding Zhengyi, and the soothing atmosphere gradually dissipated.

Looking at his father's back as he gradually walked away, Ding Zhengyi took a sip of the spiritual tea that was already a little cold, there was really not much time to be as comfortable as today in the cultivation realm.

The monk's limited time is either used for meditation and cultivation, or he is running around in order to obtain cultivation resources, after all, without the mentality of going all out and the courage to fight for his life with the heavens, it will be difficult to make a difference on the path of cultivation.

In addition to a firm heart towards the Tao, cultivation must also have sufficient cultivation resources, and another decisive factor is the so-called cultivation qualification.

The better the qualifications, the longer the cultivation time can practice the qi every day, the faster the speed of absorbing and refining the spiritual qi, and the smaller the probability of encountering a bottleneck.

Regarding cultivation qualifications, Ding Zhengyi learned very much about them when he studied in the family genealogy.

The foundation of cultivation qualification is to sense, absorb, and refine the aura of heaven and earth, and a person who can sense and absorb the aura of heaven and earth has the foundation of cultivation, and is called a spirit body.

There are good and bad spiritual bodies, because there are eighty-one spiritual networks in the human body, and the spiritual networks are naturally unblocked and blocked, and the unblocked spiritual networks can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, so theoretically, the more unblocked spiritual networks, the better the cultivation qualifications.

The reason why it is said that it is only theoretical, it is because in addition to the spiritual network, there is another restriction in determining the quality of the qualification, that is, the spiritual aperture, the role of the spiritual aperture is to refine the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and turn it into vitality.

Yuan Qi can be used to cast spells, can be used to refine the spirit body, and the most important thing is to improve cultivation, the more spiritual apertures can be refined, the more heaven and earth aura can be refined, and the faster the cultivation will naturally improve.

There is a close connection between the spiritual network and the spiritual aperture, and the nine specific spiritual apertures form a spiritual aperture outside the dantian, if these nine spiritual veins are unblocked, then this spiritual aperture is called the true spiritual aperture.

If the nine spiritual channels that make up the spiritual aperture are blocked and unblocked, it is a false spiritual aperture, and in the worst case, the nine spiritual veins that make up the spiritual aperture are all blocked, then this spiritual aperture is called a necromantic aperture.

When everyone is about ten years old, after the growth of the spiritual veins in the body is stable, they can use a special detection instrument to check it, of course, they can also sense the aura of heaven and earth by themselves, and sublimate the divine soul after initially refining the vitality to produce divine consciousness, and the divine consciousness can look at the spiritual veins in the body.

A spirit body that can sense and absorb the aura of the weather must have at least one true spirit aperture, and a true spirit body does not necessarily have only nine unblocked spiritual channels, because in an extreme state, there may be eight unblocked spiritual channels and one blocked spiritual network together to form a false spiritual aperture.

If a true spirit body has eight such false spirit points, then this spirit body will have seventy-two unblocked spiritual networks, but there is not much difference between nine and seventy-two unblocked single spiritual channels in the early stage of cultivation.

During the Qi cultivation period, the strength of the vitality in the body is limited, and when the vitality is vigorous, some blocked spiritual channels can be slowly dredged under the conditioning of medicine, but under normal circumstances, even if you persevere every day, it will take several years of hard work to dredge one.

After the age of thirty, the undredged spiritual veins began to slowly shrink due to the lack of vitality nourishment, and the cultivation qualifications were also finalized.

If there is no heavenly material and earth treasure containing the essence of the Yuan Force, to continue to warm and repair the spiritual network, the day after tomorrow can dredge more than five clogged spiritual network monks, it is very rare in the cultivation world, even if there are sufficient resources, because the dredging of the spiritual network will become more and more difficult with the improvement of cultivation, so the limit that can be reached is about ten.

The heavenly and earthly treasures that can play a key role in dredging the spiritual network, such as the thousand-year-old spirit peach, the hundred-year-old vermilion fruit, etc., are often rare for high-level monks, most of them can be refined in the foundation building period or even the pill period to improve cultivation, and there are very few opportunities to fall into the hands of the monks in the qi cultivation period, and only the core disciples of those major sects may occasionally be able to get one or two.

When the cultivation advanced to the foundation building period, the Yuan Qi in the monk's body turned into a liquid True Yuan, even if the spiritual network had not yet shrunk, it could not withstand the impact of the True Yuan, and forcibly dredged it could only cause the spiritual network to break, and even cause irreparable damage.

When Ding Zhengyi was twelve years old, his qualifications were tested in the clan, and when he stepped into the Qi training period, he produced a divine consciousness and reaffirmed that there were fifty-six unobstructed spiritual channels in the congenital senses, five true and four false in the nine spiritual apertures, and three of the four false spiritual apertures were blocked, and there were eight more.

In the past four years of cultivation, Ding Zhengyi has refined a large amount of vitality, except for the cultivation to be promoted to the third level of Qi cultivation perfection, the rest has been consumed to dredge the clogged spiritual network.

Relying on water grinding kung fu, Ding Zhengyi barely opened a less seriously blocked spiritual network half a year ago, and the second blocked spiritual network that was dredged was even more difficult, and there was no obvious progress in the past half a year, and with his far more than ordinary perseverance, he couldn't help but be a little discouraged.

Ding Zhengyi's cultivation qualifications are considered to be upper-middle in a small cultivation family like the Ding family, but according to the requirements of a small sect to recruit disciples, it can only meet the conditions of outer disciples.

Although the cultivation qualifications of the Four True Spiritual Techniques have the hope of building a foundation, in fact, there is not one in a hundred that this qualification can build a foundation, and even those one percent opportunities are often some coincidences and cannot be copied.

When a monk breaks through and builds a foundation, he needs a huge amount of vitality to replenish the consumption of liquefied true yuan, and a monk who lacks spiritual aperture, even if he has the supplement of pills, is facing the dilemma of limiting the capacity of the spiritual network.

When the amount of spiritual energy absorbed by the spirit network reaches the limit that it can hold, if it still can't meet the consumption of the foundation, the consequence of the failure of the foundation building is generally to explode and die, even if it survives, it will also face the consequences of losing its cultivation, so few monks with the qualifications below the normal four spiritual knots are willing to try to build the foundation in reality.

In the Qingyun Continent, the number of human beings exceeds one trillion, and the huge population base has also created a large number of cultivation groups.

Although there are very few children with spirit bodies that ordinary people can give birth to, the probability of having spirit children is relatively high when monks combine with each other, about three layers.

With the improvement of the monk's cultivation, half of the children born to the foundation building monk have a chance to have a spirit body, but the monk who cultivates at the foundation building period and above has a very low chance of being conceived.

In order to obtain a spirit body with high qualifications, various cultivation sects and families encouraged Qi refining stage cultivators to reproduce.

Children in the secular world will also undergo large-scale screening every three or five years, although the vast majority of spirits are below the four spiritual aperture and stop practicing qi for the rest of their lives, but in the cultivation world, the production of all kinds of cultivation resources is inseparable from these low-level cultivators.

Except for the location of the spiritual vein, all other places in the Qingyun Continent are lacking in spiritual energy, although there are also a small number of scattered cultivators, but the concentration of spiritual energy is too low to be suitable for long-term cultivation.

The reason why each Xiuzhen sect has to establish a state is also to facilitate the effective management of the territory under its control, although mundane things are floating clouds for monks, but children with spirit bodies are the foundation for the development and growth of each sect.

Each country is directly administered by the Xiuzhen Sect, and depending on the size of the territory it controls, the sect will build several to dozens of cities in key locations, as well as countless villages and towns around the cities.

The clan elders in the ethnology also introduced the situation of the Xuanshan Kingdom and the surrounding boundaries, such as the southeast, northwest, and northwest of the Xuanshan Kingdom, and built a large city, namely Xuannan City, Xuanbei City, Dongshan City, and Xishan City.

Each city has at least one inferior spirit vein, each of which manages a surrounding area of thousands of miles.

The main managers of each city are low-level monks of the Xuanshan faction, representing the maintenance of order by the Xuanshan faction, and the most important role of these cities is to conduct spiritual tests for school-age children around the city every five years.

Although most of the children who came to the test were ordinary people, and occasionally there were a small number of offspring who were scattered cultivators, and the chance of children having spirits was less than 1 in 1,000, because the base was very large, thousands of children with spirits could be found in each test, and these children were selected by the Xuanshan Sect to be included in the sect to replenish fresh blood for the sect.

Of course, most of these thousands of children have cultivation qualifications below the four spirit knots, and there are only more than 100 people who exceed the four spirit knots, but every time they will always discover a few high-quality seeds above the seven spirit knots, having such qualifications means that as long as they are not lost halfway, within decades to hundreds of years, the Xuanshan Sect will be able to obtain a foundation building or even a knotted monk.

Because the quality of the cultivation qualification corresponds to the consumption of cultivation resources, the qualifications below the Five Spiritual Tips, even if they join the Xuanshan Sect, they can only be used as outer disciples, and the outer disciples are mostly doing some miscellaneous things such as cultivation and breeding, and the cultivation resources that can be obtained from the sect are extremely limited.

Sects generally concentrate resources on cultivating highly qualified disciples, so that the sect can maintain its long-term prosperity.

Historically, due to the lack of resources, the internal friction of the inner disciples and even the core disciples did not compromise the means, so the number of failed sects did not know, so most of the current sects paid great attention to the allocation of cultivation resources in the sect, reducing the possibility of high-qualified disciples due to the distribution of resources and reducing the sense of belonging to the sect.

It was precisely because of this that the outer disciples of the sect had too many chores and too few resources, and they could not concentrate on cultivating and improving their cultivation at all.

The outer disciples of various sects, including the Xuanshan faction, are basically recruited from the mundane, and the clansmen of the Xiuzhen family with ordinary qualifications generally do not take the initiative to join the sect, because being an outer disciple in the sect is not much easier than being in the family, and the sense of belonging is far less strong than in the family, which is why Ding Zhengyi did not worship the Xuanshan faction.

Ding Zhengyi pondered that the Xiuzhen family does not have high requirements for cultivation qualifications, and even talents with excellent spiritual skills will basically be sent to the sect for cultivation, which is probably because the continuation of the Xiuzhen family is mainly maintained by blood and family affection.

Clan monks with poor qualifications often work hard for their sons and nephews willingly, giving up their personal cultivation to produce basic cultivation resources, so that the limited cultivation resources can be more reasonably distributed, which is very rare in the sect.

The controller of the Xiuzhen family only needs to maintain a relatively fair environment, promote the relative unity of family members' emotions and intentions through clan activities, and maintain harmony within the family.

Moreover, every family member has been educated in the family science since childhood, and they have also understood a simple truth, the current environment of the cultivation realm is still the law of the jungle, and the undercurrent is surging, and only when the family members are warm can they get better conditions for survival and development.