C11 (1/2)
The heaven and earth was filled with countless amounts of spiritual energy. Spiritual energy was the source of life. Those who possessed spiritual energy could live on in a healthy manner, otherwise, they would die. If he wanted to live forever, he had to train his Qi and condense the spiritual energy into his body. Qi training was divided into two parts: qi acceptance and qi circulation. Comprehending qi meant absorbing the spiritual qi of the world. The time spent in the morning was the main point, while the sunny day was the main point. As he sat cross-legged, he closed his eyes and started kowtowing. The tongue is pressed against the upper jaw, the fluid is swallowed back, moderately powerful. Cultivation energy was used to circulate the spiritual energy of the heavens and earth in the body, forming a cycle, and stored it inside the body.
Han Yan followed the instructions given above and swallowed air with her mouth. She could not make a sound. She swallowed three swallowed two, five swallowed one, seven swallowed one. After swallowing, the spiritual energy was stored in the body and circulated around. The excess impurities were removed through the pores and the pure spiritual energy was kept in the body. This kind of strange cultivation method nearly made Han Yan unable to breathe, and even after a long time, she still wasn't able to find the rhythm of the breathing technique.
Looking at the sky, it was no longer early in the morning. Han Yan stood up and left the room with the medicinal basket.
Cultivating Qi was best in the morning. At that time, the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth was the densest and easiest to condense into Spiritual Qi. Although he could cultivate during the rest of the time, the effect would not be as good as the tenth of what it was in the morning. Outer sect disciples didn't have much time to spend time cultivating. Only the official disciples were allowed to practice cultivation. All of this was done by the outer sect disciples. If you need anything, you can go to the outer sect disciples' steward.
Walking out of the room, Han Yan saw those disciples that had just finished their meal. She subconsciously rubbed her stomach, but was surprised to find that she wasn't that hungry anymore? Could it be that training one's Qi was able to relieve one's hunger? In fact, Han Yan was right. Qi training could alleviate hunger, but one had to reach the Foundation Establishment stage or higher before the spiritual energy in their body would circulate by itself. The so-called Fasting Valley could last for several months or even several years. It was completely filled with spiritual energy.
Han Yan was quite lucky. She had dug out a few Spirit Gathering Grass that day, and after he gave one to Sun Yuangang, she hid the rest. In this way, he only needed to take out one herb a day in the future so she wouldn't have to go up the mountain to look for herbs. He would have a large amount of time to cultivate. What Han Yan needed to do now was not to absorb spiritual energy, but to find the rhythm of breathing. Swallowing three swallows to two, swallowing five swallows to one, swallowing seven swallows to one sounded simple, but Han Yan had to try for a month to barely master it. During this month, Han Yan could be said to leave early and return late. Every morning before dawn, she would leave her room to cultivate deep in the mountains, but the results weren't good. After a month of cultivating, her body still didn't feel numb.
The paper Tang Xiaofeng gave Tang Xiao was very clear. Once the spirit energy entered the body, the bones and meridians in the body would feel a numbing sensation, as if an ant was biting at them. Han Yan had never experienced such a situation before, which could only mean one thing. There was no spiritual energy in his body. Those with good talent would be able to enter the sect in a few days and reach Qi Disciple level 1 in a month. However, he didn't feel anything in this one month.
Han Yan kicked the basket to the side gloomily and said hatefully, ”Qualification, again.” Now, she finally understood why the old man would say such a thing earlier. His aptitude was too low, and he was unable to condense the spiritual energy. With Han Yan's personality, he wouldn't give up so easily. Even if she knew that it would be extremely difficult, he would still continue walking forward without hesitation.
In the blink of an eye, it had been three months since Han Yan arrived at the Tian Ming Sect. There was only half a month left before the new year, and she wondered how her parents were doing.
From Xie Hu, he learned that regardless of whether it was the outer sect or the inner sect disciples, they would have the opportunity to visit their families in the first three years. Three times in the first year, two times in the second, and once in the third.
He did this so that his disciple would be able to quickly end the mortal world and concentrate on the great path of cultivation. There were some people who had been here for a few years and could also go home and visit their families, but the elders did not stop them. After all, these people might not be able to cultivate for their entire lives, so it was not important how many times they went home to visit their families. As long as they did not do something that would harm the sect, the sect would not question them.
Han Yan was ready to go home once. She greeted Xie Hu and walked towards the inner courtyard.
The inner courtyard was different from the outer courtyard. There were very few houses, and most of them existed as caves. Disciples who had cultivated to the 1st level of the Qi Cultivating Stage would be able to own their own cave abode. Although Han Yan had come to the Inner Academy, he was only an outer disciple and did not have the qualifications to enter the Inner Academy. At most, she could only go to the foot of the Inner Academy.
At the foot of the mountain, there was a large courtyard with three large words written on the door signboard: ”Mantra Room.” When Han Yan arrived at the door, an honorary disciple dressed in green stopped him and asked, ”What are you doing?”
There were two kinds of honorary disciples. One was those who had no status and could only train on their own, just like Sun Yuangang. The other method was to become the disciple of an elder. Not only could they cultivate celestial spells, they could also help an elder by helping him get some extra rewards. The person in front of him was the honorary disciple of the elder of the talisman house. His main task was to help the elder create the talisman.
Symbols, magic tools, pills.
Many of the disciples in the sect had average aptitudes and were not in the mood to continue cultivating, so they studied these three things. Although their cultivation level was not high, and most of them were in the early stage of the Gong Foundation Stage, their status in the sect was not inferior to the peak of the Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators. There was no other reason, because the sect could not leave them, and Qi Cultivation Stage disciples also needed the things they refined to increase their cultivation and strength.
Han Yan cupped her hands and said, ”Senior Brother, please report to Elder. I would like to go home and visit my family.”
The disciple nodded and told Han Yan to wait a bit before she went back into the yard.
After a moment, that disciple came out and said to Han, ”You can go in!”
After Han Yan entered the gate, what appeared in front of him was a courtyard that covered an extremely wide area. There were many herbs grown in the yard, among which were the Spirit Gathering Grass Han Yan had collected every day, as well as the herbs described in the books. Han Yan had never seen most of the medicinal herbs before, but she could feel the amazing spiritual energy emitted by them.
Over the past month, although Han Yan hadn't been able to cultivate spiritual energy, she was much more sensitive to spiritual energy than before.
There was a small path in the middle of the courtyard. Han Yan walked along the path and stopped in front of the room. She cupped her hands and said, ”Disciple Han Yan greets Elder Li.”
A moment later, Elder Li's voice came out of the room and asked with a hint of surprise: ”You are an official disciple?”