C1 (1/2)
Taixuan Sect, rear mountain, a quiet place, tree-lined shade, luscious flowers, birds chirping. Beside a stone path, there was a stone about the height of a person. On the stone, a young man in a long white robe was cultivating with his legs crossed.
Spiritual Qi rippled around the youth's body. With a single breath, the gathered Spiritual Qi also expanded and shrunk. It then gathered towards the youth's Dantian in accordance to a profound pattern.
The young man's name was Gu Fei, and was a disciple of Taixuan Sect young generation.
Taixuan Sect, was one of the Three Great Dao Sects above, and had a long history, it was an ancient sect. Gu Fei was an orphan. When his master, Wan Xiancheng, was eight years old, when he was travelling around the mountain, he brought him back to the Taixuan Sect and accepted him as a concubine.
Although he was in the Dao, Gu Fei was not cultivating the Dao Art, but a technique called the ”Ancient Body Refining Art”.
Body refining technique, as its name implied, was a technique that used one's own body as its foundation to defy the heavens. The martial arts described in the mantra were sufficient for the body to become a saint, and the ancient battle skills were enough to slay immortals and kill gods.
However, once he started cultivating this ancient technique, it would be extremely difficult. Even if he failed, he wouldn't be able to transfer to another technique.
Gu Fei who was sitting on a rock with his eyes closed channeled an ancient body tempering technique and absorbed the heaven and earth spirit energy from all around into his dantian, gathering it all up. When the spirit energy in his dantian had been compressed to a certain extent, it would guide the spirit energy in his dantian to rush into his meridians.
As waves of spirit energy gathered, regardless of whether it was the surrounding essence of the plants or the Sun Essence Moon Flower that was floating in the air, Gu Fei did not refuse them all as he absorbed them into his Dantian like a sea of 100 rivers.
Faintly, one could see tiny rays of light that resembled black hair curling around his body. As time passed, Gu Fei's dantian began to emit a rainbow-coloured light. It was the spirit multicolored light that was condensed from the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth.
Spirit Qi that was sometimes strong and sometimes weak started to spread out from Gu Fei's body. As the cycle went on, waves after waves of rainbow-coloured spirit essence started to surge out from Gu Fei's Dantian like a dam bursting, at the same time, the meridians in his body that had not been opened yet.
With every impact, it was as if a thousand kilogram hammer was ruthlessly smashing Gu Fei's body. With every impact, his face would reveal a hint of pain.
Powerful spirit energy gushed through his meridians, bringing about a tearing pain. The spirit energy of heaven and earth that erupted from his dantian was extremely violent, causing his meridians to feel as if countless sharp daggers were cutting through them.
He clenched his teeth tightly and started sweating profusely. His hair was stuck to his face and his white shirt was soaked through with sweat and stuck to his body.
He was experiencing the second bottleneck of the ancient body tempering technique — Invigorated Meridian.
Later, it would attack the acupoints on the meridian channels, allowing the meridian channels to be unobstructed. This way, the heaven and earth spiritual energy would be able to flow along the meridian channels in the entire body, reaching every inch of the muscles, every bone, thus achieving the goal of refining the muscles, bones, flesh, and blood, and causing the body to evolve.
The ancient body refining technique was a cultivation art that defied the heavens. Without a will that was like a boulder and endless cultivation, one wouldn't even be able to step past the first Qi gathering threshold.
The Soaring Dragon Continent cultivation system is innumerable, but the realms of cultivators in the world can be divided into five levels: Awakening Me, Mortal Separating, Void Resisting, SemiGod Resisting, Holy Orchid. Every realm is further divided into nine levels of heaven, which is in harmony with the Nine Five Sovereign's Will.
The Ancient Body Refining Art has four stages in the Awakening Realm, the first step is Qi Gathering. Only by mastering the ability of Qi Gathering can Gu Fei start the next step of his Invigorated Meridian.
After opening his meridians, it would be Muscle Altering, and upon reaching Large Success of Muscle Altering, he would enter the realm of Bone Forging, and upon reaching Large Success of Bone Forging, he would be able to transform his body, and upon successfully transform, Gu Fei would be able to break through the shackles of cultivation, and advance into the Mortal Separating realm.
”The gathered Spiritual Qi is still not strong enough!” Fail after failure, bringing about excruciating pain like death. Gu Fei had even bit his lips to the point that blood was leaking out, but he continued to persevere.
”The Twelve Channels of the human body have only opened two of my meridians. In addition to the Twelve Channels, there are also eight other meridians. When will I be able to open all of my meridians and enter the Altering Muscle stage?”
Most of them had practiced this name, but for those who had practiced this extremely slow cultivation technique, there seemed to only be one ending. That was, these people had already passed on before they had even successfully practiced the ancient body tempering technique.
In the late morning, when the time for early cultivation was about to pass, Gu Fei sat on the ground for an entire morning. Since he had opened up his second meridian two years ago, he had not been able to progress an inch!
The training screen was like an insurmountable chasm, spanning out in front of him.
Gu Fei was a little disappointed, but he was not discouraged. His personality was a little similar to his master Wan Xiancheng. They were all as stubborn as a cow, people who would never be able to turn their heads back.
”Let's go all out!” Gu Fei raised his head to look at the sky, there was still enough time for him to break through another acupoint. Thus, he clenched his teeth, a resolute look appeared on his face, and his gaze became extremely resolute.
Circulating his incantation, the Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth that had yet to disperse gathered once again. Inside his Dantian, the Spiritual Energy slowly rotated as it absorbed the Spiritual Energy that had converged from all directions.
A strong wave of Yuan Power rippled out from within his body as various colored lights emerged from within his Dantian. It was the highly compressed Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth. Moreover, it did not undergo any form of transformation.