Zhang Yan sat on the futon, holding the book "Qingling Gong" given to him by the young man surnamed Bai.

According to the preface of the exercise, this is a pure wood attribute exercise, which is divided into nine layers, that is, there are nine layers of formulas, which correspond to the nine layers of the Qi refining period, and the breakthrough of each level is more difficult the further back, but the three-layer cultivation in the early stage of Qi cultivation is not difficult, as long as the physique is not hopeless, the cultivation is generally easy to get started.

And at the end of this "Qingling Gong", there are actually a few spells attached to it, which makes Zhang Yan surprised, but now he is not even a layer of qi refining, and he does not have a trace of mana in his body, so he can't cultivate and use it at all.

However, he still read the nine-layer mantras of the Qi refining period first, and those mantras were not profound, but the meridian routes that each layer needed to run were different, and the further they went, the more complicated they became.

The five spells that are the most difficult are: Imperial Sword Technique, Flame Bullet Technique, Winding Technique, Spirit Gathering Technique, and Green Spirit Finger.

Imperial sword technique, Zhang Yan directly ignored it, the reason is that he doesn't have a flying sword at all, it is said that it is a kind of flying sword for immortal cultivators, only the size of two fingers, although it is not difficult to cast, but for him, even if he uses his adoptive father's income from a few years of iron, he can't buy an inch and a half of iron.

The flame bomb technique made Zhang Yan overjoyed, this kind of spell is relatively easy to cultivate, and it can be released instantaneously when cultivated, and the mana consumed is small, which is difficult to prevent, and his own cultivation of wood attribute exercises, urging the flame bomb technique, the power can be said to be multiplied.

The entanglement technique can be said to be a powerful control spell in the qi refining period, especially in the deep mountains and dense forests with complex terrain, casting this technique can be said to be invincible, and between the cultivators' fighting methods, momentary distraction or inadvertent restraint may put oneself in a fatal and dangerous situation.

As for the later Spirit Gathering Technique, it needs to be above the fifth layer of the Qi Refining Period to be cast.

The most dear Qing Ling pointed out that he actually required to have a cultivation of more than eight layers in the Qi Refining Period in order to display it, which made Zhang Yan a little depressed, since the young man surnamed Bai had only been at the seventh level of the Qi Refining Period for so long, and he didn't know when he could cultivate, he sighed secretly in his heart.

But he also knew that all this could only come step by step.

Putting away his cranky thoughts, Zhang Yan took out the Bigu Pill sent by the Tiger on Tuesday, swallowed one, and the hunger dissipated in an instant until now, as if the whole body was also full of strength.

What Zhang Yan has to do now is to condense mana in the dantian, so that he can truly enter the first layer of the qi refining period, and he can be regarded as a real immortal cultivator.

Zhang Yan calmed his breath and ran according to the mantra of the first layer of "Qingling Gong", and after a while, he felt a slight fluctuation in the space around him, and then felt a small energy appear in his meridians, which could almost be ignored if he didn't feel it carefully.

For the basic knowledge of the human body, such as the twelve meridians, the eight veins of the strange meridians, and the acupoints of the body, the master didn't know how many times he explained it back then, even if Zhang Yan was still young at that time, but after five years of repeated times, Zhang Yan can basically remember these basic knowledge.

Feeling that energy, Zhang Yan hurriedly ran the mantra, and slowly led the energy along the meridians to the dantian, I don't know how long it took, the small energy was guided into the dantian, Zhang Yan could feel a tiny energy swimming in his dantian, he knew that it was a trace of mana.

Zhang Yan took a deep breath, and then continued to guide the filament-like energy from the dantian, through the second meridian of Rendu, and many other meridians, and returned to the dantian again.

However, when that tiny mana ran along many meridians for the first time, the heart-piercing pain from the meridians made cold sweat trickle on Zhang Yan's forehead.

Finally, he made a Great Zhou Tian cycle with difficulty, but Zhang Yan did not stop, and continued to mobilize the weak mana to run along the meridians to carry out the Great Zhou Tian cycle.

Zhang Yan continued to cultivate until late at night, and when he felt that his meridians were hot and seemed to be about to burst, he had to stop cultivating.

On this day, Zhang Yan carried out eight Great Zhou Tian cycles, which was already his limit, if he continued to cultivate, the meridians would have to be broken.

Feeling that the dantian had a trace of condensed mana, the whole body seemed to be carefully washed, and it was full of vitality.

Zhang Yan was so excited that he lay down on the spot, his eyes shining with indescribable excitement. Then sleepiness struck, and before I knew it, I fell asleep on the ground.

On the second day, Zhang Yan got up early, still following the mantra, guiding the slightly existing mana in his body to expand the Zhou Tian cycle, and constantly challenging his limits.

Half a month later, Zhang Yan officially entered the first layer of the Qi Refining Period, but during this period, Hu came once on Tuesday, saying that the elixir that Elder Hu used to refine the pill had run out, and by the way, he brought what Zhang Yan needed, two talisman pens and a large bag of yellow paper wrapped in rags, and a porcelain bottle of dye.

It is said that these were left behind by an elder in the previous generation who was proficient in the way of the talisman seal, and this elder and another alchemy elder competed for the disciple, and that disciple was obsessed with the Dan Dao.

The elder who was proficient in runes and seals was angry, so he picked up a lot of materials for making basic runes and threw them in the alchemy hall, thinking that in the future, that disciple would be able to change the way of runes and seals. And the original disciple is now Elder Hu.

As for why he brought two talisman pens, Zhou Hu explained very seriously that this is called a good thing in pairs, and he was afraid that Zhang Yan would accidentally break it, and then he would have to run it himself.

Zhang Yan could only smile and be speechless.

In the following month, he did not see the tiger on Tuesday again, and Zhang Yan was also happy.

The valley has returned to its long period of calm, and it is rare for anyone to come here except for Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan got up early every day to cultivate, and in the afternoon, he went to the elixir garden for a while, checked the growth of the elixir by the way, and then began to familiarize himself with other places in the valley.

This made him inadvertently discover a waterfall and a small hot spring deep in the valley, which immediately made him excited, he has spent almost all of his time in the back mountains since he was a child, and he prefers to stay in the waterfall and hot springs rather than the gloom and dreary in the house.

So he began to get used to practicing at the waterfall, and in the evening, he would soak in the hot spring that could only accommodate one person for a while.

When he returned to the house in the evening, he began to spend the little time of the night flipping through the dusty bookshelves, and he couldn't help but be surprised by the scattered books on them.

On the bookshelf, there are not only many illustrated books of elixirs, but also books about various demon beasts in the immortal cultivation world, which makes Zhang Yan's understanding of the immortal cultivation world more comprehensive, plus since he entered the first layer of the qi refining period, both his memory and wisdom have been improved, and after reading the books on the shelf, the things in it almost seem to be imprinted in his mind.

This made him sigh, compared to mortals, immortal cultivators can really be said to be immortal-like existences.

After half a month, Zhang Yan completely consolidated the first layer of the Qi Refining Period, and the mana of the dantian became extremely condensed, but no matter how he cultivated again, he just couldn't enter the second layer of the Qi Refining Period, which made him extremely depressed.

Zhang Yan also finally realized the obstacles caused by his own qualifications to his cultivation, without the assistance of pills and the help of external objects, no matter how hard he tried, it would be difficult to break through the second layer.

The only thing he hoped for was when Elder Hu would give him one or two pills for cultivation, he didn't think of asking for them in person, but in that case, I was afraid that it would leave a bad impression on Elder Hu.

As a result, he could only continue to cultivate his own, and began to cultivate the Flame Bullet Technique and the Winding Technique on the one hand.