According to the old man, from Beishan City to Taiqing Palace, it is separated by 35 million miles, passing through the five major prefectures of Ninghai, Pingjiang, Kunnan, Yuejing, and Weiqiu.

Before leaving the town, the farthest I went was a hill outside the back mountain. I have no concept of the whole mountain and sea, including the sense of distance.

In the first two days of my trip out of town, I was very curious about all the new scenery around me, and as a half-grown child who hated cats and dogs, I made the most of my skills along the way. Sometimes he scared the birds that were hatching eggs in this tree, sometimes he ran to the rabbit's nest and stared at the rabbit cubs, and even once he strayed into a wild boar hole while blocking a silver-tailed deer.

After a few days of joy, the grass was still so similar as far as the eye could see, and even the rabbits with folded ears around me looked very similar, and I gradually lost interest in them, and it was deeply boring and boring to follow.

Seeing my listless appearance, Master smiled, "I thought you could make trouble in Zhongzhou, why didn't you move for so many days." ”

I sighed, "Master, how long are we going to go, although I have eaten a lot of things that I haven't eaten these days, but I always eat these, I am about to vomit." Can we go around the city, I kind of miss Master Li's oil cakes in the west of the city. ”

The old man scolded with a smile: "If it weren't for you, a stinky boy with no spiritual power, I would have flown to Zhongzhou for the teacher, and I would have to grind with you here." Still want to go into town? At your speed, it will take at least three and a half years to get to Zhongzhou, and if you count entering the city, I am afraid that you can live until you marry a wife and have children. ”

After listening to what Master said, I couldn't help but sigh again, "It's going to take so long." ”

"Heh, don't be like a little old man at a young age, you've almost had enough fun these days, today as a teacher, I'll teach you something to get started, if you can step into the Qi Refining Realm, you won't just walk a few steps and shout to rest."

As soon as I heard that I was going to learn spells, I suddenly came to my senses. Although Master said that he wanted to take me to practice, it has been almost half a month since I realized it, and I haven't seen him teach me anything practical. Driven by curiosity, I looked at the master with a blank eye, "Then you can teach." ”

"Qi refining realm is the entry point of cultivation, but it is also the first threshold for you to enter the cultivation realm from mortals, as for whether you can succeed or not, and how long you can step in, it depends on your creation."

As he spoke, the master sat cross-legged and sat on the ground, and saw him put his hands on his chest, pushed them outward, opened and closed his hands towards each other, and then returned to his chest, and his left hand stood slightly and his right hand was held weakly, three times in succession, and his hands naturally fell on his knees, and at the same time pinched a strange gesture.

Immediately afterward, I felt an inexplicable rhythm around me, like water, flowing down the top of Master's head into his body. The breeze flowed around him, forming a breeze that kept coming and going from his mouth and nose as he breathed.

As I continued to feel and observe Master's strange state, I saw him slowly open his eyes, look at me in amazement, and say, "Learned?" ”

Listening to his words, I was surprised and asked, "What have you learned?" ”

“…… What I demonstrated for the teacher just now is the basic qi refining method of my Lingxiu lineage, don't be stunned if you don't learn it. ”

"Huh? Master, I just felt something like a stream of water around me sinking into the top of your head, is that qi? ”

The master was slightly stunned, and then laughed and said, "My apprentice is really a little spiritual, what you just felt is the qi of this heaven and earth. The qi that can only be felt by the monk at the beginning of the open pool, and you have inspiration as a mortal, which can already show that you are extraordinary in your cultivation. ”

I scratched my head and laughed twice, "Then you can teach me that Qi Refining Technique!" ”

As I spoke, I sat down cross-legged as Master did and looked at him excitedly.

Master smiled slightly, "You can do my previous action twice first. ”

I tried my best to recall the whole process just now, and my hands practiced step by step according to the picture in my memory, from lame to proficient, and I didn't see Master interrupt me again and again. I did it to myself many times, but I couldn't find the rhythm of the qi, and wiped the sweat from my forehead, "Master, why don't I feel it at all?" ”

The old man put his hands behind his back and made an unfathomable look, "You only care about the movements in your hands, and your mind and body are not completely compatible, how can you feel the qi." ”

Then he sat cross-legged as he had just done and demonstrated the Qi Refining Method again.

This time, I found that when Master stroked his hands, his whole body worked in harmony from top to bottom, from front to back, and from left to right.

Then I heard him say, "All external actions can be regarded as a ritual, the purpose of which is to unite one's mind and body, to put aside distractions, and to calm one's mind." When the mind is calm, the body can naturally relax, and you can feel the aura between heaven and earth. I will teach you another trick, 'Taishang Star, strain without stopping, condense the spirit and turn the qi, refine the gas and turn the essence, breathe in the sun and the moon, the upper and lower are combined, the first signs of water and fire, and the humanity is clear'." ”

Following Master's movements, learning that strange gesture, I kept reciting the Dharma in my heart. I don't know how long it took, but a special sense of relaxation filled my whole body, and my whole body felt like I was about to float.

There seemed to be small fish around me, touching all parts of my body, and my heart gradually calmed down, and I carefully understood what was happening in the outside world.

I don't know how long I played with those fish, but with a soft sound from nowhere, the little fish found the entrance, and at the same time went down the middle of my head, like thousands of streams flowing into the river, and thousands of rivers merging into the sea, and a cool and somewhat warm feeling spread everywhere with the fish, or rather, drilled everywhere chaotically.

Some were fierce, some were gentle, and one of them was a large stream of reckless fish that diverged in the way and slammed into the wall of my chest so hard that I almost screamed out with a sharp pain that pierced my heart, and my body trembled, and beads of sweat rolled down my cheeks.

"Concentrate and calm down, and guide the aura into the lifegate source pool!"

I almost messed up a few times, I resisted a hint of sweetness in my throat, tried to adjust my breathing to calm myself, tried to twist the joints of my body slightly, controlled the aura with my mind, and led it towards the door of life in front of the back of the umbilicus.

That qi seemed to be a little stubborn, constantly turning its head and impacting all along the road, and the small fish of spiritual energy flowing from Baihui were still making it grow in a steady stream.

"Adjust your breathing, clear your breath into your body, and control it to relieve the impact of your aura!"

Following Master's instructions, I took a big breath. With the entanglement of Qing Qi and Reiki to compete, the stubborn Aura has a new target.

I don't dare to slack off, I try to keep my mind at ease, adjust my mind, and constantly guide the pure qi and aura to sink, sink and sink again. With a bang, it seemed as if something had been broken.

The source pool was like a long-dried land, turning into a whirlpool, sucking in the aura and the clear qi together. A faint fragrance flowed between the mouth and nose, and the aura of Baihui continued to enter the source pool along the route that the two qi of the Qing Ling had just opened. After a long time, the source pond reached saturation, and although I could still clearly feel the qi around me, not a single fish was interested in me.

I opened my eyes and saw the wide-eyed Master just a stone's throw away, his beard almost poking the tip of my nose. I was so frightened that I screamed, "** (Harmony)!" I wasn't mad by that aura, and I was almost scared mad by you, old man. ”

The master didn't mind, and asked with concern, "Seeing that there is a faint aura around you, and you have already stepped into the primary stage of qi refining, how does it feel?" ”

"It's not good, the aura entering the body was very painful at first, but fortunately, there is clear qi to help neutralize it, and the source pool is opened, so there is nothing uncomfortable. Oh, I still smell a fragrance. ”

"Hey, yes, yes, the apprentice that the old man likes is good, I didn't expect that the possibility of refining qi in law would be so easy to succeed."

I looked at him blankly, "Huh? What is legal possibility? ”

As soon as he saw it, he said that he had leaked his mouth, and the old man smiled, "The source pool is the foundation of a cultivator's cultivation, and it is a treasure given to a cultivator by the Great Dao. Different people, the source pool is more or less different. Generally speaking, the method of refining qi is to first introduce the aura into the body, and travel along the meridian route to the limbs and hundreds of remains, so that the body can slowly adapt to the aura of heaven and earth, and at the same time reduce the intensity of the aura. After that, by continuous cultivation and accumulation, the source pool will grow and condense, and then lay a good foundation for the cultivation of the art realm to attract qi into the body.

In addition, there is another way that few people have tried, which is to blend and reconcile the pure qi and the spiritual energy, and directly incorporate the clear spirit two qi to break the open source pool. Then, balance these two qi so that they converge, grow, and travel everywhere, opening up the qi veins around your body, which is the cultivation method you have just had.

The first is the choice of the vast majority of cultivators, polishing themselves with pure heaven and earth aura, and gradually expanding the source pool through the accumulation of cultivation day after day. Maybe when it comes to breaking the catastrophe or becoming a thought, you can reach the limit of the source pool and see your own potential. But this step is hopeless for the vast majority of monks.

The second type is very powerful, which restricts the pure aura with the pure qi of the breath, so that the two can coexist peacefully in the body, and the breath and breath can be practiced all the time. These two kinds of qi are interdependent and compete with each other in the body, which can expand the source pool to the limit of what you can carry in a relatively short period of time, and maximize your potential. ”

I tilted my head to look at him, with a look of "believe that you will have a ghost".

"Hehe, of course, the gains and losses are always balanced, and the second one will be a little less dangerous. It's okay to start practicing, but if the two qi are strong enough in the future and your body can't balance them, then something may happen. Because once the two qi are out of balance, one side will overpower the other, and then the strong one will run rampant in your body, and the blood will be shattered at the least, and the blood will be ...... at worst."

“！！！” I clenched my fists and glared angrily at the good master in front of me, "Doesn't that mean that the more you practice, the more dangerous it is, so dangerous that you still let me cultivate, do you really treat me as an apprentice!" As he spoke, he felt tears roll in his eyes.

Master took a deep breath, looked at me, turned his hands behind his back, and was silent for a long time.

I clenched my fists and trembled, wondering if Master had any reasonable reasons for this.

After a while, Master turned back and said solemnly, "Cultivation is full of danger and opportunity all the time, and if you don't pay, you won't get anything!" The sinister nature of the cultivation realm is far more violent than daily cultivation, and this cannot be endured, so what will we talk about in the future to enter a higher level. From the moment you worship me and join my Lingxiu lineage, you are no longer a child in the mountains. Only if your own strength is strong enough to be able to take charge on your own, will you not be slaughtered by others in this cultivation realm where the fish and dragons are mixed and the weak eat the strong. I am your master, and I should protect you regardless of the reason when I encounter problems, but if I am not by your side, what should you do! ”

Being so frightened by Master's words that I didn't know what to say, it sounded a little reasonable, but for me, who was ignorant at the time, I only felt grievances. Why should I be blamed for something so dangerous that I have just experienced? I wiped a handful of tears stuck to my eyelashes and ran into the forest next to me without looking back.