Chapter 60: Three Years
Early in the morning, by the stream.
Luo Yin knelt on the stone by the stream, took out the "Heavens Mixed Yuan Sutra" from the Sumeru ring, and looked at it carefully.
Although he had already memorized this book, but now that he was about to start the cultivation of the refining period, he was still a little afraid that there would be a mistake in his memorization, so he took out the book and reviewed it again.
About half an hour had passed, and he gently closed the book, put it back into the Sumeru ring, closed his eyes and carefully recalled the cultivation points of the refining period that he had seen.
In this refining period, after the qi is exhausted, the true qi in the dantian is introduced to warm and refine one's own body. Know that mortal bodies are fragile, and a stone, a sharp blade, or a plague can easily take a person's life.
With the continuous growth of cultivation and the continuous growth of true qi in the body, these true qi will become a heavy burden on the body, which will cause serious damage to the monk's body.
Life is like a sea of suffering, and cultivation is the way to cross the sea of suffering, and the body of every monk is the boat that crosses the sea. Therefore, every monk, when he has completed his qi, must strengthen his body so that the ship that crosses the sea will not capsize halfway.
The refining period is divided into three steps, the first step is to temper the skin and flesh, the second step is to temper the meridian bones, and the third step is to temper the viscera.
The first step is to temper the flesh and skin. Draw out the true qi in the dantian, and use this true qi to temper all the muscles and skin around the body, making it as tough as iron, and the sword is difficult to hurt.
The second step is to temper the meridian bones. Use true qi to open up the eight veins of the strange meridians around the body, and make it tough and strong in continuous tempering and warmth, and at the same time constantly widen it, making it change from a narrow stream to a mighty river. After the meridians are broadened, the true qi is used to continuously temper all the bones around the body, making them as tough as steel.
The third step is to temper the internal organs. The human body, the internal organs are the most delicate and extremely susceptible, so it must be tempered and tempered to be extremely powerful. Once the tempering of the five internal organs and six internal organs is completed, the vitality of the human body will be greatly increased, and the heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, and lungs will provide the monk with a powerful power far beyond ordinary people.
When a monk completes the three-step refinement, the longevity increases greatly, and he can enjoy one hundred and eighty years, three Jiazi longevity.
In the process of refining the body, the fragile body is easily damaged by the true qi, so many monks will choose to use medicine to assist in refining the body.
This has two advantages, one is that the damage caused to the body during cultivation can be treated through medicine, and the other is that the power of medicine can speed up the pace of refining the body and shorten the time it takes to refine the body.
Although Luo Yin has basically been cultivating in the mountains all these years, his deceased mentor Zhang Xingzhi has already taken this into account, and prepared for him early to boil medicinal baths, refine pills, and most of the herbs he needs. These things were all stored in that Sumeru ring, waiting for Luo Yin's refining body to use.
After he obtained the Sumeru ring, he carefully checked the relics left by his master and found that in addition to the medicinal baths and the pills needed to refine the elixir, there were more than a dozen talismans, such as the vajra talisman for protecting the body, and the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth for attacking.
On top of that, there is also a three-inch flying sword in it. This flying sword is Zhang Xingzhi's personal weapon, and Luo Yin has seen him fly with a sword countless times over the years.
The flying sword is cyan and carries three inscriptions on it. Luo Yin tried to control it with the method of the imperial sword taught by his former master, and the flying sword began to rotate around him in circles with the rotation of his fingertips.
He looked at a large rock by the stream in front of him, and with a finger, the flying sword turned into a blue light and disappeared in front of him, and after a few breaths, it returned to his side again. And the fast boulder in front of him, with the blue light blowing, instantly turned into gravel and scattered everywhere.
Seeing that this flying sword could have such power with a light blow, Luo Yin was surprised and delighted. After a few more attempts, he found that he could only control it to fly a dozen feet away, and after this distance, he would lose control of the flying sword.
"I once heard that the immortal sword, thousands of miles away to take people's heads is like probing the bag to take things, to their own sword, more than ten zhang away is the limit, thousands of miles away from the sword is still 108,000 miles away. ”
Although he was a little disappointed with this distance, he also understood that it was only because of his own cultivation was not enough, and as his cultivation improved, the power of the flying sword would become stronger and stronger in the future.
Immediately, he once again picked up the sword spell, and in the blink of an eye, the three-inch-sized flying sword turned into a three-foot long sword, shining with a terrifying cold aura. Gently stroking the sword, his face was full of love.
Holding a sword and holding a sword flower, he danced his sword in this valley. I saw that his figure was as ethereal as a wild goose, accompanied by a sharp sword light wandering among the mountains and trees, and for a while, the sword qi in the entire valley was horizontal.
Half an hour later, he put away the Qingyang Sword, turned around and returned to the Taoist temple, and began to boil a medicinal bath for body refining and cultivation.
At the same time as forging his body, he also began the cultivation of the spells recorded in the "Heavenly Mixed Yuan True Scripture".
The simplest spell recorded in the "True Scripture" is called the Sacrifice Decision, and it can only be cultivated during the refining period. As the name suggests, this spell is a desperate method, once it is used, the cultivation will increase dramatically within a quarter of an hour, but the sequelae of this spell are extremely great, and after a quarter of an hour, you will fall into extreme weakness.
Looking at the introduction of this spell in the "True Scripture", Luo Yin understood in his heart the purpose of this spell, it could not be used as an ordinary spell, and could only be used when he had to work hard.
Putting it to death and then revitalizing is the only way to fight for a glimmer of life. At the same time, when using it, you must also choose the right time and occasion, otherwise once the spell effect is over, even a mortal can easily kill him.
Since then, Luo Yin has lived alone in Qingyangguan and practiced day and night, accompanied by the lonely grave of Qingshan, and three years have passed in a blink of an eye.
In the past three years, he boiled medicinal baths and refined some simple pills to assist his cultivation. In just three years, he has crossed the level of tempering the skin and flesh in the first step of body refining, and has successfully entered the stage of tempering the meridian bones in the second step of body refining.
On this day, he sat alone by the stream to cultivate as usual, and used the mixed yuan true qi to swim around his body, trying to open up the eight veins of the Qi Sutra, so that the meridians of the whole body could no longer be hindered. Now, he has opened most of the meridians in his body, and only the last two meridians remain.
The acupuncture points at the junction of these two meridians are occluded, like a plug, dividing the meridians into two sections and cannot be connected.
Today, he is going to try to connect these last two meridians, so that the eight meridians of the Qi Sutra are connected, and then the true qi will be able to run in the body of the Great Zhoutian.
And after many days of trying, this trick has been loosened a little, and success is just around the corner.