Ye Xiu's daily work is either chopping wood or carrying water, and every late at night he will go out to bury the droplets condensed by the stone carvings, and often drink the water in his arms. When he had drunk the water, he dug up the stone pot buried under the tree and poured the droplets into the water.

As Ye Xiu continued to take water, although he had to do a lot of work every day and had no food to eat, his physical condition was getting better and better. However, he chopped wood and carried water more and more slowly, and every day his hair was messy and weak.

Ye Xiu's performance became weaker and weaker, and the ridicule he attracted increased, and he saw everything in his eyes. As time passed, a month passed quickly, and Fang Jie finally left this miscellaneous office.

As soon as Fang Jie left the miscellaneous office, Steward He came to the door.

"Senior Brother Ye, I've really hurt you these days, this is a little apology from Senior Brother, don't mind if Senior Brother was wrong before, you don't have to do those rough jobs after today. Steward He stuffed a thumb-sized stone into Ye Xiu's hand.

"Don't care about things, senior brother knows your difficulties, and those things will pass. I don't know ...... this stone," Ye Xiu asked after his words.

"Oh, hahaha, look at Senior Brother's brain, I forgot that you are a new disciple of the sect, and you were squeezed out by that group of rough people. This is a fragment of a spirit stone, don't look at it as only the size of a thumb, but it contains spiritual energy, as long as you raise enough ten pieces, you can go to the deacon hall at the outer gate to exchange for a complete spirit stone. This is the hard currency of the immortal cultivation world, a treasure that assists in cultivation. Steward He explained.

"What's the matter, Senior Brother is just a mortal, even if he gets this spirit stone, what's the use?" Ye Xiu sighed.

Steward He frowned when he heard this, he didn't know what Ye Xiu meant, and he thought in his heart: "This kid, although someone has helped him intercede, I don't know what that person has to do with him, and what his status is in the sect." However, he offended that Fang Jie at the beginning, and no one paid attention to him this month, I am afraid that he has no background. Hmph, if no one comes to see him after a while, I want this kid to spit out everything!"

However, he said verbally: "Hehe, what the senior brother said is right, I am indeed qualified to grant the exercises to miscellaneous disciples, but the sect is very strict, and it is generally not awarded to new disciples." But for the sake of my junior brother, I will teach you the cultivation method of the immortals. ”

Then, Steward He took out a thin booklet, the cover had turned yellow, I don't know how long it had been, and then handed it to Ye Xiu, and said, "Senior brother, this is the method of immortals, practice well, I wish you success in the Great Dao." ”

He stuffed the booklet to Ye Xiu and left, Ye Xiu took the booklet in his hand, and couldn't help but get excited in his heart. After a month of forbearance, he finally got the method of cultivating immortals, thanks to those big mouths who shouted all day long that he was someone else's plea.

"I'm going to cultivate immortals too!" Ye Xiu's eyes were filled with indescribable joy, and his hand holding the booklet couldn't help but tighten.

Ye Xiu returned to the room, flipped through the booklet in his hand, and the three big words "Qi Refining Chapter" appeared directly in his eyes. Ye Xiu watched with excitement, and soon, when he finished reading the last page of the booklet, he let out a long breath. By this time, it was almost getting dark.

"Hmph, it's an old fox. Ye Xiu looked at the booklet in his hand, his eyes full of disdain. This Qi refining chapter is actually incomplete, the booklet introduces the general idea of cultivating immortals at the beginning, the first realm of cultivation is the Qi refining period, a total of fourteen layers, but this booklet only has the formulas of the first layer, and the formulas of each layer after it are different.

During the Qi refining period, the spiritual energy in heaven and earth is absorbed into the body with the help of mantras, and the spiritual roots and qualifications mentioned by the old man at the beginning refer to the affinity with the weather aura. The Five Elements Miscellaneous Spiritual Root with the worst qualifications, followed by the Four Spiritual Roots, and most of the sects are such disciples, the disciples who can have the Three Spiritual Roots are of a medium level and can become the backbone of the sect, followed by the extremely rare Twin Spiritual Roots, and almost no single Spiritual Root.

Specifically, a disciple with a single spirit root can enter the first layer of qi refining in almost a few days, a disciple with a double spirit root needs half a month, or even a month, a disciple with a third spirit root needs at least three months, and some even longer, and the four spirit roots are much more exaggerated, if you want to step into the first layer of qi refining, a year and a half is indispensable, as for the worst five elements miscellaneous spirit root, three years is less, and five years is normal.

"Three or five years, fortunately, I have space for stone carvings, and the speed of time in it is my capital!" Ye Xiu sighed, if he didn't get this stone carving, he really didn't know what to do.

Ye Xiu looked at the sky outside the house that was beginning to darken, resisted his impulse, and tried to cultivate according to the mantra in the booklet.

I saw Ye Xiu sitting cross-legged on the bed, breathing in a specific regularity, one long and two short, one long and three short breaths apart. The short breath is only half of the long breath, and in this way it communicates with the aura of heaven and earth and inhales it into the body.

Ye Xiu was cross-legged on the bed, always maintaining a cross-knee posture, and he still didn't react at all when his feet were numb. Until midnight, Ye Xiu still didn't feel any difference.

"Alas, that's why the old man refuses to admit me into the sect. Ye Xiu knew that with his qualifications, he might really have to wait five or six years before he could step into the first level of qi refining. But he soon had a determined look in his eyes.

Ye Xiu got up, stretched his numb legs, and then quietly left his residence, dug out the stone pot under the tree, and came to that relatively remote place again.

Ye Xiu unconsciously became excited, because he was finally about to enter the stone carving space again. After Ye Xiu filled two pots of water, he dropped a milky white drop on the stone carving.

Sure enough, this time, after the stone carving absorbed the droplets, Ye Xiu's eyes flickered and he came to the space over there again. It was the same strange world, but Ye Xiu didn't pay attention to the others, sat down cross-legged directly, poured a drop of liquid into a cup, and then split it into two pots of water.

He had already done experiments, and many of the previous droplets had been diluted by the river water, so his second pot of water did just that. Sure enough, the effect of two pots of water dropping with one drop of liquid is exactly the same as the water at the beginning.

Ye Xiu drank a large sip of water and began to cultivate according to that special law. The clear water went down his stomach, like ice cubes entering his body, but this time Ye Xiu didn't feel this coldness disappear again, it didn't take long before it disappeared, as if something had left his body.

This time, with Ye Xiu's special breathing rules, this coldness instantly decreased, turning into a coolness and began to melt into his body. After the cool sensation appeared, his body suddenly became numb.

I don't know how long it took, the cool feeling in Ye Xiu's body disappeared, and then his body actually emitted a feeling of hunger. That's right, it's hunger, that feeling of body craving.

Ye Xiu opened his eyes, took another sip of water and began to breathe, the cool feeling appeared again, and in this way, the hunger pang faded.

This time it was almost a day, Ye Xiu had just finished drinking the two pots of water, and then he was sent out of the stone carving space.

"Sure enough, that's right, a drop of liquid can enter the stone carving space for an hour, and you can stay in it for ten hours, ten times the time!" Ye Xiu calculated the time he entered and came to a conclusion.

Ye Xiu went to fill two pots of water and then entered the stone carving space again. This time he didn't cultivate right away, because he noticed that something was wrong, and the silver earth under his feet was already three times the original. Today, it has reached about 150 square meters.

"Could it be that the purpose of this droplet is to open up this place?" Ye Xiu said in surprise, he didn't pay attention to it last time, but this time he finally found out.

Ye Xiu looked back and saw the black cat still sleeping on the stone tablet, and there was nothing unusual. Ye Xiu looked at the blood-colored earth that made his scalp tingle, and always felt that this was not a bad thing, so he ignored it, so he continued to cultivate.

Soon, an hour passed outside, and Ye Xiu also came out of the stone carving space. At this time, the sky was almost bright, Ye Xiu buried the stone pot containing the droplets again, and then walked towards the compound.

As soon as Ye Xiu entered the compound, he saw Steward He sitting cross-legged in the center, cultivating. The next moment, a trace of mist visible to the naked eye in the air was inhaled into his nose, and then a milky white smoke dragon rose from the top of his head, hovering in the air for a while before entering his body through his nose.

After a long time, the sun had completely risen, and Steward He also stopped, seeing Ye Xiu on the side slowly getting up and asking, "Senior Brother Ye, why is it so early?"

"He is in charge of things early, in fact, the junior brother practiced all night last night, but there was no reaction, so he came over early in the morning to ask for advice. The first time Ye Xiu saw someone else cultivating, he couldn't help but feel a trace of envy in his heart.

"This is normal, I believe that the junior brother also knows about the spiritual root, take your time, the immortal road is difficult. Steward He glanced at Ye Xiu lightly and replied. After coming back yesterday, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he had been deceived by Ye Xiu, he might really have no backing, and now his attitude towards him couldn't help but be a little colder.

Ye Xiu left after talking to him for a few words, saying that he would go back to cultivation and strive to enter the first level of qi refining as soon as possible. However, it caused He Guan to laugh in his heart, without three or five years, he would definitely not be able to step into the first layer of qi refining.

After Ye Xiu returned to his house, after taking a sip of water, he began to cultivate. After this day, the news that Ye Xiu didn't have to work and started cultivating spread. As soon as those miscellaneous disciples heard the news, they directly exploded.

"That waste? Why, Lao Tzu has been here for five years and hasn't gotten the Immortal Law, why! I'm going to report it to the deacon hall in the outer courtyard!"

"Yes, let's go together, why, it's a big deal that Lao Tzu won't do it, this kind of life is not as good as me going back to live the life of a young master." ”

The next moment, the news that the miscellaneous disciples had collectively gone on strike and had reached the deacon's hall began to spread in the sect, all because of a miscellaneous disciple named Ye Xiu.