In the starry sky, Chen Yuan remembered what he had asked his father when he was a child.

When he was young, Chen Yuan asked his father.

"Father, why do you want to worship the Immortal Gate?"

"Worship the Immortal Sect, it's for cultivation!"

"Why do you want to cultivate?"

"Because cultivation is the only way to have strength, and only when there is strength can people be respected. The main thing is that cultivation can lead to immortality!"

"Immortality?"

"Yes, Immortal!"

Chen Yuan couldn't forget the yearning smile on his father's face when he talked about immortality.

Perhaps, immortality is the pursuit of cultivation.

At this time, everyone was in the starry sky, and they were all sighing at the strength of Qingyunmen and Elder Shi Yan's magical means.

Chen Yuan also sighed, he found that the aura here was much richer than that of the outside world! If he cultivated for a quarter of an hour, he might be able to cultivate for an hour in the outside world!

Chen Yuan, who was immersed in the excitement of cultivation, didn't find the black stone on his chest, and suddenly the stripes were slightly bright, outlining a picture around him, the lines were intricate, and they didn't last long, and after a cup of tea, they dimmed and returned to a silent state.

At this time, a futon appeared in the starry sky, and at the beginning was a high platform, on which a futon fell.

Shi Yan floated onto the high platform and sat down cross-legged.

"This place is my Qingyun Gate Spirit Gathering Array, and the outer gate can only be opened once a year, so cherish it!"

Everyone in the audience sat down one after another when they heard this, and seized the opportunity to cultivate.

Shi Yan saw that everyone was seated, so he began to explain this time.

"Everyone is miserable. The red dust is rolling, and there are not many people who come and go, and a hundred years are passing in a hurry. There are those who seek immortality, hoping to be induced by heaven and earth.

So there are powerful people who create a cultivation system, which is called Qi Practitioner. Qi practitioners existed in ancient times, but now there are not many, according to the records of the sect, only the extreme north is still practicing the method of practicing qi practitioners.

To this day, cultivating immortals represents cultivators like us. What is the cultivation of immortals? Cultivating immortals is cultivating the truth!

Those who cultivate the truth also use the fake to cultivate the truth. Seek the Tao and practice to attain the true self. Removing the false and retaining the truth, cultivating the true self, is to cultivate the truth!

You are now only at the beginning of your practice, and you have not even taken the first step.

This time, I will explain to you how to take the first step, and the first step of cultivation, condensing qi!"

......

For a while, everyone listened fascinated, and some people got satisfactory answers to their confusions, and suddenly became enlightened.

What's more, they even started to try to break through directly, causing the surrounding aura to stir.

Chen Yuan was also suddenly enlightened by Elder Shi Yan's words, and the things that had been puzzled and puzzled before were answered in detail, and the next time he condensed the cyclone, he should be able to grasp it even more.

A conference, time flies. It wasn't until Elder Shi Yan stopped for a long time that everyone woke up one by one, stood up one after another, bowed to Elder Shi Yan, and recited: "Thank you Elder for giving you the law to solve your doubts!"

Shi Yan waved his sleeves and said, "Don't thank me, as a member of the sect, there will be everything." ”

"This conference is coming to an end, do you have any questions?"

The people around you, you look at me, I look at you, but they didn't dare to be the first to raise their hands.

Seeing that no one raised his hand, Shi Yan pointed at everyone casually and said, "Do you have any questions?"

This finger made the crowd look at the man.

This person is dressed in a green robe, he is not very old, and he looks ordinary.

Chen Yuan also looked stunned, he didn't expect the elder to point at him, he thought about it and asked Elder Shi Yan for a long time:

"Disciple Chen Yuan has seen the elders. ”

"The disciple has something unclear, please ask the elder to clarify the doubt. ”

Shi Yan gently motioned for Chen Yuan to continue.

"The disciple wants to ask, cultivating the realm of immortals. As the disciples know, cultivating a cyclone is the period of condensation. So what is the realm after condensation?"

Shi Yan nodded, motioned for Chen Yuan to sit down, thought for a while and said, "These should have been understood after you entered the inner gate, since someone proposed it, then it would be okay for me to talk to you in advance." ”

After a pause, he continued.

"Immortal cultivators, in the realm of cultivating immortals, are divided into condensation, foundation building, knotting, and yuan infant. ”

"As for what realm is above the Yuanying realm, I don't know, but according to the records of the sect, people in that realm can move mountains and seas and do anything. The founding ancestor of my sect is so powerful! It's a pity that ......"

Shi Yan was a little excited when he said this.

Then there was another gloomy face. The words in my heart didn't come out, "It's a pity that it has been passed on to this generation, and it is so difficult to achieve the Yuanying Monk!"

Everyone was waiting for the elder's words, but they didn't expect the elder to flick his sleeves and say.

"I've told you a bit too much, you're just starting to practice now, and don't be too ambitious to cultivate well. If you are lucky enough to enter the inner gate in the future, you will be able to build a successful foundation, and you will be expected to be married, and you can also be regarded as the backbone of the sect. ”

"This is the end of this conference!"

After Shi Yan finished speaking, his two hands played a magic trick, the magic circle was withdrawn, and the strong light made everyone close their eyes, and after opening their eyes again, they found that they were already standing on the square.

Only then did everyone know that the whole day had been spent in the Great Array.

After the meeting, everyone returned to their courtyards. The door has instructed that the task does not need to be done today.

Chen Yuan returned to the courtyard and began to digest what he had seen and heard today, and perfected his cultivation according to the method described by Elder Shi Yan.

Suddenly, Chen Yuan felt that the black stone on his body vibrated for a while, and after taking out the black stone, the stripes on the black stone showed in Chen Yuan's stunned eyes.

Streaks seemed to come to life, wandering around the black stones, and then surrounding Chen Yuan. After a few circles, the stripes fell one by one in a way that Chen Yuan couldn't understand. A few breaths later, a magic circle appeared in front of Chen Yuan's eyes, and a rich aura rushed to his face!

"This!" Chen Yuan felt the same rich aura as in the Sect's Spirit Gathering Formation, and was a little incredulous.

"This thing can even arrange a formation!"

Hold back your amazement and force yourself to calm down. Chen Yuan sat in the formation with great excitement and cultivated.

A quarter of an hour later, Chen Yuan found that his cultivation at this time was much faster than usual, probably comparable to an hour of cultivation before.

"This! Could it be that this black stone brought me the Qingyunmen Spirit Gathering Array? it is really a good baby!" Chen Yuan held back his excited expression and continued to start his journey of cultivating immortals.

......

Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye, a year had passed since the Outer Gate Lecture Conference.

Chen Yuan was completely adapted to the life of the outer gate, and after completing the task during the day, he would work hard in the courtyard at night.

From the excitement after learning that the black stone could condense the aura at the beginning to the dullness later, Chen Yuan's mind gradually matured.

With the aura condensed by the black stone comparable to the sect's spirit gathering array. The aura in the body slowly changed from one wisp to one wisp to two wisps and then to a lump.

In this way, day by day, the aura will slowly fill Chen Yuan's entire dantian.

After staying in the outer gate for so long, Chen Yuan had already learned a lot about Qingyunmen.

For example, the outer disciples can only wear green clothes, while the inner disciples wear red, yellow, blue, white, and gray clothes, which represent the five peaks of the Qingyun Sect.

Another example is that outer disciples have the opportunity to go home once a year to visit their relatives. If you want to go home, you have to go to the Outer Gate Medicine Garden to find an elder surnamed Sun, and receive a spirit rune and exit token from him.

After Chen Yuan completed the day's tasks, he said goodbye to Huang Batian, explaining that he was going home to visit relatives, so he came to the Outer Gate Medicine Garden. A young man dressed in white was standing in the medicine garden and inspecting the herbs.

Chen Yuan bowed and said, "Outer disciple Chen Yuan wants to receive the spirit rune and token to go home to visit relatives, and he bothers the senior brother to pass it on on his behalf. ”

The young man in white looked at Chen Yuan with disdain, and shouted at a house in the park: "Uncle Sun!

"Let him come!" said an old voice from inside the room.

Chen Yuan bowed again, carefully obtained the elixir, and walked towards the outside of the house.

"Stand there, don't hurt my elixir!" the old voice sounded.

Chen Yuan suddenly stopped in a corner of the house, and then arched his hand and said: "Outer disciple Chen Yuan, I have been in the sect for a year, and it will be my father's birthday in a few days. Let the disciples do their filial piety to the old father at home. ”

At this time, Chen Yuan had not yet discovered that the black stone he was carrying was carefully but rapidly absorbing the rich aura around him.

"Let's go!" a shadow came out of the house and stopped beside Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan took it, thanked the elder again, and walked out of the medicine garden cautiously, and when he passed by the young man in white, he politely gave a salute, but the young man didn't even raise his head.

Chen Yuan was no longer polite. I went back to the courtyard to pack my clothes, turned around and ran down the hill.

Out of the sect, stick the spirit rune on the leg, this spirit rune is extremely simple to make and use, it is designed by the sect in order to take care of these outer disciples, and it can be urged without spiritual power.

The spirit rune is very easy to use, and after a gallop, Chen Yuan was originally going to walk on a ten-day journey, but he arrived in one day.

Back to the medicine garden.

Elder Sun had already stopped cultivating at this time and came outside the house to observe his medicinal herbs.

Elder Sun, whose name is Sun Fugui, is the second-generation disciple of Qingyunmen, in Qingyunmen, the elder is the least valuable, all the second-generation disciples can be called elders, and the inner disciples are called uncles and uncles. However, although he has a high seniority, his cultivation is miserable, and he is a well-known second-generation disciple in the sect, and even some third-generation disciples look down on him, so it directly leads to an extreme lack of cultivation resources.

This outer gate is a well-known barren place for cultivation, and the inner gate is a place that no one wants to take over, only he applies to stay, and he stays for decades. Therefore, he attaches great importance to these elixirs and spiritual herbs that he grows.

"Huh, strange, why is there a lot less spiritual power in the medicine garden today?" Sun Fugui said suspiciously.

Then he looked at the young man in white and asked, "Senior nephew Zhang, is there anything unusual today?"

"Nope. ”

Sun Fugui stopped the lazy voice of the young man in white, and he was angry.

"Has anyone else been here?"

"Oh, there's only one person, it's the outer disciple who went home to visit his relatives! I can't remember what his name is. ”

Listening to the lazy voice of the young man in white, Sun Fugui didn't want to entangle with him anymore, so he summoned Huang Batian, the head of the outer gate, and asked, "Who is the person who came to my place today to receive the things for visiting relatives?"

Huang Batian heard that Elder Sun was asking an outer disciple at this time, thinking that he usually treated them like that, he was extremely nervous, how could he still have the usual majestic appearance in the outer gate, wiped the sweat on his face, and asked tentatively: "Elder, does this disciple have an old relationship with you?"

"Let you say, you just say, vague what?" Sun Fugui said extremely impatiently.

"Ah, this ...... This person's name is Chen ...... Chen Yuan has done quite well in the outer gate, and he is an example for all the disciples of the outer gate, and the disciples are also proud of him, and even want everyone to learn from him......"

"Okay! Don't say anything irrelevant! When he comes back from visiting relatives, you let him come to see me!" Elder Sun was angry and anxious, this yellow boy's head was in the water, and his heart was in front of him, so he immediately flicked his sleeves and went back to the house to cultivate.

"Hey, yes, disciple understands!" Huang Batian wiped the sweat from his face and hurriedly said. Then he muttered to himself in his heart, Chen Yuan, how virtuous and capable of this person, he was favored by the elders, it seems that he has used twelve points of his strength to please him, and maybe he can count on him to help him in the future.

Castle Peak Town at this time.

Chen Yuan returned home and saw that everything was fine at home, so he was relieved.

Ate and drink with the men, women and children in the family, stayed for three days, and returned to Qingyunmen as soon as his father's birthday passed.

The wind and dust were served, and they ran for a day. As soon as I returned to the small courtyard, the sky changed.

"Boom!"

Outside the house, thunderstorms and lightning, howling winds, and heavy rain poured out.

At this time, the black stone that Chen Yuan carried on his body became hot.

Hurriedly untied the cloth bag of the black stone, and the black stone hung in the air, trying his best to absorb the aura in the clouds and rain.

Fortunately, it did not emit light and did not attract the attention of others.

The night passed, and when the black stone had finished absorbing the aura, the clouds and rain would stop.

Chen Yuan put away the black stone and looked at it carefully. I saw that the stripes on the black stone converged in one place, forming a group of patterns that Chen Yuan couldn't understand at all.

"What is this?" Before Chen Yuan could study it carefully, there was a knock on the door outside the house.

"Chen Yuan, Chen Yuan, are you there?"

Chen Yuan opened the door and saw Huang Batian with a smile on his face.

asked, "What's the matter, Senior Brother Huang, is there something wrong?"

Huang Batian hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't dare, don't dare, you can call me Lao Huang in the future, I can't afford the name of senior brother." There was nothing to do, but Elder Sun asked me to come to you and tell you to go to him when you came back. ”

"Elder Sun, what is he looking for me?" Chen Yuan was puzzled, "Oh, okay, take me to clean up and go over immediately." ”

"Hey, hey!" Huang Batian looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, and then seemed to have made a lot of determination, "Senior brother, the spirit tree that senior brother helped the sect get before, the elder of the inner gate was very happy to give some cultivation things, I think there is also a junior brother in it, so I also bring some to the junior brother, please be sure to accept it!"

Chen Yuan was a little confused, what did this person mean, according to his true nature of being so greedy for money, he would actually spit out what he had eaten, was there any hidden meaning? Or did it have something to do with Elder Sun looking for me?

"Oh, it's easy to say, senior brother doesn't have to mind. ”

Chen Yuan accepted the things handed over by Huang Batian and closed the door, carefully cleaned himself up again, and put the black stone into a cloth bag and put it close to his body. I went out and went to the medicine garden.

When he came to the medicine garden, the young man in white was still fiddling with the herbs, and when he saw Chen Yuan coming again, he sneered and said, "What's the matter?

Before Chen Yuan could respond, he saw a figure flash to his side, it was Elder Sun.

"I've seen Sun ......" Before Chen Yuan finished speaking, he was grabbed by Sun Fugui, summoned a cloud of mist, and came to Chen Yuan's courtyard in a few breaths.

"Open the door!" Sun Fugui said with an unmistakable toughness.

"Yes. Chen Yuan opened the door as requested.

Sun Fugui entered the courtyard and rummaged through it. But nothing was found. Catching a glimpse of Chen Yuan's storage bag, he said sharply: "Bring the storage bag!"

"Elder, isn't this okay?"

"Bring it!" Sun Fugui's words were so fierce that he could even say with a roar.

Chen Yuan was startled by Elder Sun's roar, and silently untied the storage bag and handed it over.

"Open!" Sun Fugui didn't answer, but just asked Chen Yuan to open it himself.

Chen Yuan opened the storage bag as required. Sun Fugui grabbed it, poured out all the items in the storage bag, and then rummaged carefully.

Chen Yuan on the side seemed to be greatly insulted, his hands were clenched into fists, and his eyes were quite sharp.

"What is this?" Sun Fugui asked as he picked up a low-grade spirit stone.

"This ...... This is what I picked up by the river when I was carrying water. Chen Yuan thought for a moment in his heart and said.

Elder Sun sneered when he heard this, "Little children dare to lie to me, do I really not know the spirit stone? To be honest, where did you get it!"

"I really picked it up, I passed by a place that day carrying water, and I picked it up, I ...... I still have it here!" Chen Yuan pretended to be at a loss and hurriedly explained.

"This kid shouldn't be telling me the truth, and it's a little unbeautiful to forcibly pass on his things. That's it, wait for me to see what tricks this kid is going to play!" Sun Fugui watched Chen Yuan rummage on the ground, and a bunch of thoughts flashed in his heart.

"Pick it up, then you will continue to pick it up for me in the future!" Elder Sun took the spirit stone that Chen Yuan handed him and said viciously, "These are useful to me, count them as your contribution to the sect! If you pick them up later, you will give them to me, and I will not let you suffer." But if you can't pick it up, I'll let you walk around without eating!"

After finishing speaking, Elder Sun set up the clouds, stroked his beard, looked like a master with his hands behind his back, and left with the spirit stone he got from Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan waited until Elder Sun Jiayun left, then he let out a sigh of relief, and his body fell to the ground weakly, and at this time he was wet, as if he had just been fished out of the water.

"This time this level can be regarded as a temporary pass, but fortunately, I am smart, and I put the black stone close to me, what I am afraid of will be in the future? This old thief and donkey is very shrewd, and let me think about it. Chen Yuan lay on the ground and thought secretly.

After that, Chen Yuan, as usual, carried a bucket and walked to the riverbank, along the way there was everything a teenager should look like, after hitting the water every day, he was looking aimlessly on the riverbank, picking up a fish and shrimp today, a crab tomorrow, and a shell the day after tomorrow.

There was even a time when he directly picked up a stone and handed it to Elder Sun, almost without his nose crooked.

It went on like this for a month.

Elder Sun, who was silently following behind Chen Yuan, couldn't help but be a little uncomfortable, "This son is like this, does he know that I am following him? It shouldn't be, it's terrible for a teenager to have such a heart for the city." So what a chance it was, and it's damn good to waste a month of my life on this kid. Calculate the time, my orchid grass should also be ripe, leave him alone for now!

In the next few days, Elder Sun did not continue to follow Chen Yuan, concentrating on the elixir of the spirit herb.

When Chen Yuan felt that the black stone was no longer transmitting vibrations to him, he knew that Elder Sun was not following him.

This black stone is also strange, that day Chen Yuan walked to the river as usual, but suddenly found that the black stone shook, which caused Chen Yuan's vigilance. After a few tentative confirmations, he knew that it was Blackstone who was reminding him that someone was following him. In this huge Qingyun Gate, the only one who had reason to follow him was Elder Sun.

After confirming once again that Elder Sun was indeed gone, Chen Yuan let out a sigh of relief. Recently, Elder Sun has always followed him, causing him to only pretend that he doesn't even dare to cultivate, and he doesn't dare to take out the black stone.

The aura contained in him had actually been enough when he went home, and he originally wanted to break through after returning to the sect, but he didn't expect to be monitored by Elder Sun for so long, so he didn't dare to act rashly.

"No, I still have to hurry into the inner door, otherwise this old guy will always pay attention to himself, and he can't do anything he wants!"

Back at home, Chen Yuan locked the door and took out the black stone, but found that the black stone was a little wet at this time.

"How can there be water?" After wiping it clean, the water droplets were still exposed, Chen Yuan found a bowl and put the black stone in the bowl. After a while, some liquid gathered at the bottom of the bowl.

Dip some water droplets in your hands and put them under your nose to smell them, but they don't smell. After thinking about it, he picked up the bowl and took a sip.

"Hmm......"

I saw that Chen Yuan's face turned red instantly, and bursts of white gas emanated from between his ears, nose and mouth, and his body was hot. Hurriedly transported the Qi Induction Technique, only to see the aura in Chen Yuan's body burst out, and the aura was like a swimming fish in his body, until it reached the dantian. The aura intertwined in Chen Yuan's body, slowly forming a cyclone, hovering within the dantian.

"Hoo ......"

After a while, the aura slowly dissipated, and Chen Yuan's flushed face slowly recovered.

"Can let me break through directly to the condensation stage!"

"This liquid actually contains so much aura!" Chen Yuan looked at Heishi in surprise.

"With this treasure in hand, there will be no shortage of aura and spiritual liquid in the future!" Chen Yuan made even more decisions in his heart, not letting others know that he had the black stone.

After tidying up his clothes a little and looking at the remaining spiritual liquid in the bowl, Chen Yuan noticed in his heart.