The sudden addition of such a formal disciple as Li Mu in the Xuanming Sect naturally caused a huge turmoil. Especially as Li Mu is an ordinary person, the results of the spiritual root test are only inferior, which makes many innate beginner disciples with old qualifications extremely unconvinced. If it weren't for the name of Lingmu, I'm afraid there would be trouble the next day.

But because they didn't know Lingmu's attitude, these old disciples didn't dare to act rashly and be the first bird. After all, Li Mu's official disciple qualifications were set by Ling Mu himself.

Therefore, in Li Mu's low profile and the silence of the innate disciples, the provocation that Wang Shan expected never happened, and Li Mu was able to settle down in the Xuanming Sect and cultivate seriously.

In the blink of an eye, it had been more than a month since Li Mu entered the Xuanming Sect.

During this month, Li Mu sensed the aura of heaven and earth every day according to the method contained in the Introductory Mind Method, and tried to use the special method of breathing and breathing into his body for his own use.

In addition, in his spare time of cultivation, he entered the library of the Xuanming School with the token of an official disciple, and read some classics about the cultivation realm and the Xuanming School that were open to ordinary disciples, and finally had a relatively complete understanding of the cultivators and the Xuanming School.

It turns out that there are nine steps in the realm of cultivating immortals for cultivators, which are called "nine steps to the sky", which are: Huafan, Zhuji, Jindan, Yuanying, Shen, Refining Void, Combination, Tongxuan, and Mahayana. The records of the first four steps in the classics of the sect are relatively complete, but the records of the last five steps are relatively vague, presumably due to the author's vision and cannot be recorded.

In the classics, each realm of cultivators is divided into four stages: front, middle, post, and Dzogchen, and the difference in strength between cultivators in each small realm is not particularly obvious in the case of low major realms, such as the two stages of transformation and foundation building. There are often those who rely on exercises and utensils, and those who defeat the strong with the weak, or those who rely on the number of people to defeat the few. However, after reaching the Jindan period, every small realm was a watershed, which clearly showed the difference in strength between the cultivators of the various realms. As for the gap between the great realms, let alone say that unless they are cultivators on the verge of breakthrough, otherwise, the disparity in the strength of the cultivators of the two great realms is far from being able to be made up by quantity.

In addition, there are also records in the classics of the sect the names of some pills that assist in cultivation and break through the realm, because Li Mu first entered the Daomen, he didn't care too much, but focused on the names of the "Juyuan Dan" required for congenital entry into the fan, the "Zhuji Dan" required for the foundation of the fan, and the names of some of the more important pills in the practice.

Because he has the authority of an ordinary disciple in the mortal stage, he can read a lot more classics than an ordinary innate disciple, so he also flipped through some classics about the innate stage martial artists according to his own situation.

Innate is a stage in which a person discards acquired distractions, cleanses the impurities of the body, and transforms from external cultivation to internal cultivation to attain martial arts, which is a watershed between cultivators and ordinary people, and it is also a process that all cultivators must go through. Although it is not included in the nine realms of the cultivator, its importance to the cultivator is recognized by the cultivator.

In the countless years of the existence of cultivators, the study of the innate stage has also reached the extreme, providing great convenience for future generations of practitioners.

As we all know, the cultivation of a martial artist in the innate stage is called "true qi", and true qi is a special power that is controlled through a series of tricks after absorbing the aura into the martial artist's body through a special method of exhalation.

In the case of the conventional situation in the cultivation realm, the cultivator roughly divides the innate stage into four stages: in the early stage, he can use his true qi to float on the surface of his body or on his weapon to defend and attack; in the middle stage, he can release his true qi within one foot, but he still needs to use the weapon as a medium; in the later stage, he can increase the range of his true qi to within one zhang without the need for a medium; and in the early stage of the congenital great perfection, a martial artist at this stage can already skillfully control his true qi and defend against the enemy in a ten zhang area around his body. And because the sensing and control of aura has reached a certain level, the martial artists of the Congenital Great Perfection can already preliminarily learn some relatively basic Dao methods, so their strength is far from being comparable to the martial artists in the middle and late stages of the congenital period.

The difference between the innate and the acquired lies in the induction and absorption of aura, but because the dantian qi sea has not been completely formed, most of the aura absorbed by the innate martial artist is in the meridians and cannot be gathered, so it can only be called "true qi". The first step for an innate martial artist to enter the mortal stage and officially become a cultivator is to collect the true qi in the dantian, condense the sea of qi, and transform the "true qi" into the unique "yuan power" of the cultivator, so that he can practice the immortal family's way of magic and immortal arts.

For ordinary people, it is extremely difficult to obtain the innate mental method of cultivating true qi, but even if they are lucky enough to obtain the cultivation method, among the hundreds of people, only one person has a sense of qi and can absorb spiritual qi to form true qi.

Moreover, the accumulation of true qi is extremely difficult, and the method of dividing the four stages of innate nature has nothing to do with the total amount of true qi, but only about the degree of mastery of true qi. Therefore, the total amount of true qi of the martial artists in the late innate stage may not be more than that of the early innate stage.

It's just that a martial artist who spends less time and can master the method of using true qi more quickly will definitely be stronger in terms of cultivation talent than those who have been in the early stage for a long time, and the power of the exercises he has mastered will definitely be even more powerful. Therefore, generally speaking, martial artists in the early stage of innate nature have people who are very full of true qi, but they are suffering from qualifications and cannot better use their strength and learn powerful exercises, but can only sigh silently.

A martial artist's mastery of true qi depends on his "qi sense".

What is Qi Sense?

Those who want to cultivate the Tao must have spiritual roots. The spiritual root corresponds to various free special elements between heaven and earth, and these special elements are spiritual energy. Often the simpler the spiritual root, the easier it is to sense the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, especially the type of spiritual energy corresponding to the spiritual root of its body, for example, those who have a water spiritual root are more sensitive to the induction of water spiritual energy, and it is easier to absorb it. This degree of sensitivity to aura is qi sense.

Qi is extremely important to every cultivator. Therefore, the importance of the spiritual root has also been highlighted, which is why the cultivation world attaches so much importance to the spiritual root. There is even a saying that the spiritual root determines everything, although this statement is somewhat absolute, but it also highlights the importance of the spiritual root to the cultivator from the side.

During this month's practice, Li Mu also felt the importance of spiritual roots. Although he had already made mental preparations when he learned about the situation of his spiritual root, he still deeply felt a sense of powerlessness in his specific practice.

He was not a descendant of the declining Xiuzhen family, and he had never received any training in cultivation since he was a child. Now that I have entered the Dao Gate and obtained the method of cultivation, I have neither the guidance of my predecessors nor the talent to rely on, and I only rely on a heart that never gives up, and I am hard to support, and it is really difficult to achieve any benefits.

Although there are elders in this sect to solve some doubts in the cultivation for the disciples in the sect, not only must those who go to inquire must pay a certain amount of spirit stones or sect contribution points, but also the objects of the sect to solve doubts are limited to disciples above Huafan, so Li Mu is also helpless.

He also thought about Wang Shan and even Lingmu. Wang Shan said that if Lingmu was a good person, I was afraid that he would not even have the qualifications to see him at all. As for Wang Shan, although he said it nicely when he left before, Li Mu knew that it was just a polite remark. After all, who would have the leisure time to point out to a person who didn't want to do anything with him? Moreover, what Wang Shan had said to him before could be regarded as benevolent and righteous.

In this month's exploration and cultivation, Li Mu has also truly felt the slowly flowing qi of heaven and earth. And because he has the three colors of earth, water, and fire, he can perceive no different types of spiritual energy.

When he first sensed the heaviness and solidity of the earth-attribute aura, the agility and transparency of the water-attribute aura, and the warmth and riot of the fire-attribute aura, his heart was filled with the excitement of discovering a novel world and the awe of the nature of heaven and earth, and he deeply felt the strong attraction and affinity of the aura element to him.

But when he used the method of breathing and exhaling taught by the sect's heart method to try to absorb these aura, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

His body's sense of the aura of those three attributes was indeed strong, and he was very eager for it, and even the aura that he sensed seemed to be cheering and wanting to pour into his body. But how can there be such a simple truth in the matter of cultivation?

For example, holding a pen in both hands and drawing at the same time, drawing a circle with one hand and a square with the other hand is a seemingly simple thing, I don't know how many people who are smart by nature are stumped. What's more, it's a three-handed drawing?

The situation of Li Mulinggen determines that in his cultivation, he will definitely sense several different kinds of aura, and when absorbing it, because of its confusion and even conflict (such as water and fire), it is extremely difficult to smoothly absorb it into the body meridians for his own use.

After Li Mu's cultivation in this month, he had only accumulated a trace of insignificant true qi.

But he was personally designated as an official disciple by Lingmu, and he was able to live in the second layer of Xuanxiao Peak, and his identity was the same as that of a mortal disciple, but there was a great benefit that those innate disciples could not reach, that is, the distribution of spirit stones.

The Xuanming Sect, as one of the five major sects in the Xuanying Realm, has declined in recent years, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the heritage is still extremely rich. For the disciples of each realm in the sect, there are different welfare benefits. On the way to cultivation, the disciples of Huafan can already be regarded as the first to enter the immortal sect, so there is no need to talk about the thirst for spirit stones. Therefore, at the end of each month, the Xuanming Sect would distribute twenty spirit stones to its mortal disciples, although it was not much, but it also made those innate disciples extremely red.

Li Mu had already learned from the sect's classics the specific use and use of the spirit stone, but this thing was too precious, he originally planned to stay after turning into a mortal before starting to use it, but now he has encountered such a big problem. So he no longer spared the spirit stone, and he was ready to use the spirit stone to absorb the spiritual energy inside.