Chapter 9: The First Realm of Cultivation
In Yi Chen's hand was a small crystal clear, adult-sized jade pot, made of hundred-year-old jade, and the spout the size of a thumb was also blocked by a cold jade stopper.
Inside the small pot, there was a small ball of red liquid wrapped in an unknown flame, shimmering with a little light, counting as many as fifteen drops, which looked particularly enchanting against the backdrop of the flame.
But what is surprising is that although this small red liquid is wrapped in flames, it does not show the slightest sign of escaping due to the temperature of the flames, and it seems to be completely unaffected by the flames.
"Its state is like water, covered with flames, shaped like underground magma, and when it shakes, there are starlight spots flickering inside, this is the earth's Yan liquid," Yi Chen took out the small pot in the box, and said with a frown after several verifications.
"How could there be such a precious thing on Zhu Jin's body?...", Yi Chen felt a moment of doubt in his heart, but soon remembered some of the information that Zhu Jin said before he died, and his eyes condensed slightly.
The Heavenly Materials and Earth Treasures in the Starfall Land were almost destroyed in the natural disaster five years ago, and only two or three percent of the Heavenly Materials and Earth Treasures that had strong vitality and grew in the same environment as the current environment survived.
Of course, the change of the environment and the change of aura will inevitably appear in the heavenly treasures that are more suitable for this area, and there will be more fierce beasts that match them, but it will also take a lot of time to grow.
As far as most of the trophies that Yi Chen obtained from Zhu Jin's hunting group a few days ago are concerned, many of them are medicinal materials adapted to this place that have been gradually mutated by this influence, and many of them are new medicinal materials that have been discovered in the past few years.
However, the shortcomings of the new medicinal materials are also very obvious, that is, their years are only one to two years old, and the medicinal effect has not been fully accumulated, and it is difficult to see the specific efficacy and effect of it.
The reason for picking them back is to study their effects in advance, so as to gain more useful information so that they can be taken over before anyone else has discovered it.
On the other hand, there are the most important interests, these are completely unknown new medicinal materials, maybe there will be some anti-heaven medicinal materials among them, and these represent a huge benefit.
It's just that unlike these medicinal materials, the Diyan liquid that Yi Chen held in his hand at this time was not something that had only appeared in recent years, but a genius earth treasure that came with the meteorite that fell from the sky.
As far as he knew, there was only one place that could produce Diyan liquid, and it was controlled by the two forces of Starfall City at the same time, not only was a large number of people deployed on the periphery of that place to protect it, but there were two strong men at the entrance, which could be described as a well-guarded place.
Yi Chen did not deny Zhu Jin's strength, with his cultivation in the Turbidity Pill Realm, he was one of the strongest in Starfall City, he might be able to hide from all the guards on the periphery and thus sneak into it, but he definitely couldn't hide from the eyes and ears of the two powerhouses guarding the entrance of the Diyan Liquid.
This is the reason why he was puzzled when he realized that the thing in his hand was actually Diyan liquid, but now that Zhu Jin was dead, he didn't have any way to know the origin of this small pot of Diyan liquid.
"However, although this small pot of Diyan liquid is not much, it is the most suitable for my current situation, and the problems in my body can also be temporarily alleviated", Yi Chen looked at the Diyan liquid in front of him, although the doubts in his heart still lingered in his heart, he was still secretly happy.
The effect of Diyan liquid is very powerful, and it is exactly what Yi Chen needs most now, just enough to remove the hidden dangers in his body.
As for why this is the case, we have to start with every practitioner in the cultivation world who starts to practice.
From ancient times to the present, the pursuit of all practitioners in the world has never changed, this is a move to trace the origin of the ordinary, it is an unknown path for the living beings in the world to try to ascend to the level of heaven and earth with a mortal body, and it is also a path to immortality in order to seek the way to explore their own bodies and finally make themselves stand in front of the gate of immortality.
However, the mortal body is incomparably weak, neither the strong qualifications of the psychic body, nor the strong body of strange birds and beasts, and wanting to ascend to the sky in one step is tantamount to a fool's dream.
Therefore, the first task of every practitioner before stepping into cultivation, which is also the first step in cultivation, and the first difficulty that ordinary people need to face, is to draw qi.
As the name suggests, at this stage, it is necessary for ordinary people who have not yet started the path of cultivation to perceive the aura that is free from heaven and earth, and through their own perception and control, they can absorb these free aura into their bodies, so as to open the bridge between the human body and heaven and earth, and achieve the first step into cultivation.
Once ordinary people have achieved the ability to attract the aura of heaven and earth into their bodies, then they will officially step into the path of cultivation, and then after continuous practice, when they can do whatever they want, they can start the next step of cultivation.
The second step requires the practitioner to reopen the blocked and solidified meridians and acupoints in his body, and to warm and recuperate and broaden them to a certain extent, so as to absorb the aura of heaven and earth from the outside world, which is to expand the veins and enter the body.
At this stage, although the meridians and acupoints in the practitioner's body have been opened, because they are still in a relatively fragile period, it is difficult to withstand the practitioner's next step of cultivation, which is also the most important practice.
Therefore, in order to have enough to withstand the pressure brought by the next stage to the meridians and acupoints, a transitional stage was derived in the cultivation world, which was for Qi refining and cultivating Yuan.
Only by completing this step, the fragile meridians and acupoints can support the spiritual energy absorbed into the body by the practitioner from the outside world, and can also carry the true qi that runs at high speed in the body after the practitioner's transformation.
Because there is only one thing that a practitioner at this stage does, that is, to refine the aura of heaven and earth that he has absorbed, compress it into a qi-like form that can be seen in the inner vision, which is commonly known as the true qi form in the cultivation world, and then use it to warm and strengthen the meridians and acupoints.
Moreover, at this stage, since the place where the spiritual qi is tempered is the meridians and points in the practitioner's body, the true qi refined by the practitioner will also become more refined with the increase in the number of tempering, so that the effect of warming and strengthening the meridians and points can be repeatedly enhanced.
When the practitioner has completed this crucial step, the next step is the second hurdle that the practitioner needs to face after stepping into the practice, and the practitioner who has rushed past can continue to the next stage, otherwise there is no possibility of progressing an inch.
This stage is to open the dantian that is closely related to the cultivation and improvement of the practitioner, and open it up through the action of true qi until the limit of the practitioner's own qualifications is reached.
The reason why this stage becomes the second difficulty for cultivators is because the dantian is the source of vitality, and ordinary people have not been able to open it, and their lives are only a hundred years.
Once a practitioner opens his or her dantian, the first wisp of life qi contained in it will be greatly enhanced, and eventually it will spread and integrate into every part of the practitioner's body, thus greatly enhancing the life span of the practitioner, and there is no problem in living for more than a hundred years.
Once the practitioner fails, the cultivator's own life qi will be affected to a certain extent, and while it is attenuated and damaged, it will also increase the difficulty for the practitioner to break through the next time, and even more so, he will die at this stage due to the damage of the life qi.
It is precisely because the slightest mistake at this stage will bring unimaginable danger to oneself, so the cultivators in the cultivation world who are more than seven layers are all stopped by it, and in the end, they will die of depression.
As for the cultivators who have successfully opened their own dantian, in their next practice, they will find the first wisp of acquired qi formed in their own body at the time of birth, and then nourish and strengthen it through the true qi they have refined themselves, so as to further improve their physical fitness, which is the acquired realm.
After that, it is necessary for the cultivator to use his own nurtured and strong acquired qi to attract the wisp of life qi that has spread to all parts of the body, so as to form another innate qi, and also through the cultivation and growth of his own true qi, to elevate it to a state that is the same as the acquired qi, which is the innate realm.
After these two steps are completed, the next step is to fuse the innate qi and the acquired qi to form a true qi Yuan Dan that contains the innate qi and the acquired qi, so that it can run endlessly in the practitioner's body, which is the true pill realm.
The path of cultivation begins with the induction of qi, then opens up the eight main veins in the body and the thirty-six points around the body, condenses the spiritual qi into true qi, opens the human dantian to stimulate one's own life qi, and finally induces the innate qi of the acquired qi, and condenses into the true qi Yuan Dan of the two qi circulation.
This is the recognized first realm in today's cultivation world, the first step of cultivation that has been explored and summarized by countless predecessors, and it is also the most suitable cultivation path for ordinary people in the world to step into cultivation, and it is also the first step that must be passed by the mortal body through the spiritual body - the mortal realm.