On a summer night in 1979, in a room in the south of the city of N City, a little boy about twelve or thirteen years old was lying on the bed, with his palms facing the lungs, his legs and shoulders together, silently taking deep breaths, trying to relax his whole body, and then twisting and twisting several times, he finally put on a posture that satisfied him, so he began to imagine the intention of guarding the dantian.

The little boy's name was Sha Ling, and his name was very ordinary. The net worth is even more average, his father is an ordinary engineer in the metropolis of N City, and his mother is a primary school teacher. From the ancestors to the current distant relatives and close neighbors, no one is a martial arts supreme or a qigong master, not even a person who has practiced fists and feet.

Therefore, the "qigong" practiced by Sha Ling is purely a personal imagination, without the guidance of the Master, relying on the vague cultivation methods in the few martial arts novels he reads.

First of all, Sha Ling is still a child, he doesn't have enough discernment and resistance to which plots in the novel are illusory and which are real, and if he is an adult, he basically won't believe it because the book says that he can get any magic skills by cultivating like this.

In addition, Sha Ling is a relatively smart child who loves to read, which caused him to gnaw more than a dozen martial arts novels at a young age, and his vision has plummeted.

loves to read and fantasize, so Sha Ling, who is not afraid of tigers as a newborn calf, began to explore and practice.

The child has a simple heart, and he is dedicated to guarding the dantian, but he has also achieved real meditation and concentration, and it doesn't take long to really feel a small warm current in the abdomen.

He danced with joy, and thought of directing the warm current to swim along the meridians with his mind, but he couldn't figure out where the meridians were.

This time it was unsatisfactory, after trying for about half an hour, there was no response, Sha Ling began to get sleepy, trying to make himself sober and trying to try the mind control method, in less than two minutes, Xiao Sha Ling turned over and was confused.

The next night, Xiao Shaling began his practice again, and when he calmed down, there was still a faint heat current, and then he still did nothing.

This is intermittent for more than a month, and the heat he senses can neither let him crush the steel, nor can he be as light as a swallow, and the child's interest is difficult to last, and he can't see that he can't practice anything, so he was soon hooked by the new cartoon and left the practice behind.

This is just the reaction of a very ordinary boy who has read a martial arts novel, and I believe that many boys of the same age have similar experiences, childhood dreams that have gradually forgotten as they get older.

Time flies, seventeen years have passed in a blink of an eye.

At the age of thirty, Sha Ling is already a mature man. His life is uneventful, and he has experienced the joys, sorrows, and sorrows that ordinary people have.

Because he likes to study, his homework grades are good, he has crossed the single-plank bridge with thousands of troops, and he was successfully admitted to the university without danger, and after graduation, he found a job in a state-owned unit.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Sha Ling walked alone in the yard and was a little lonely, walking downstairs under the spruce tree, Sha Ling leaned against the tree, lit a cigarette, but did not smoke much, just let the sparks twinkle and shine, half-tilted his head, his eyes fell on the round and big moon on the summer night, and his eyes showed a little dazed.

Although Sha Ling worked hard, when he had just graduated, he was not very good at observing his face, and he inadvertently offended the leader, and he did not get the opportunity to be promoted for several years. Colleagues of the same generation sympathized with him to a greater or lesser extent, and his seniors expressed encouragement, but this sympathy and encouragement were like a thin needle pricking him, faintly painful.

Up to now, the male colleagues of the same generation have long been transferred to other positions, or promoted, or to easy and oily departments, it can be said that they have grown, but he stayed in the same position, conscientious for so many years, until recently he was promoted to a deputy position.

But for him, after so many years, he has seen a lot of tricks in the workplace, and deep down in his heart he has long been extremely tired of the days of learning from flies and no passion, even if the promotion of the position did not make him happy, but he saw more of the faces of the people around him.

Work is boring and helpless, and when it comes to love, Sha Ling's luck is even worse.

During college, the girlfriend who was not in love got married to someone else, and the little beauty near the water after work was also snatched away by a male colleague who was pursuing at the same time, in the same office building, and occasionally met each other in and out of the pair, Sha Ling's embarrassment is self-evident.

After that, there are also colleagues or friends to help introduce girlfriends, but there is no longer the tacit understanding and sweetness that I got along with my favorite girlfriend when I was in school.

Sha Ling envied the kind of deep affection that poor couples could not move, and what she envied was the crystalline feelings of Yang Guo Xiaolongnu, who wanted to find a true love that belonged to him in this utilitarian world.

However, this kind of thing is about fate, Sha Ling's "pickiness" has made him drag on until now without a marriage partner, Sha Ling's mother will inevitably nag often, which makes Sha Ling, who wants to rest well when he gets home after being tired from work, tired.

Like a summer night, the night breeze is blowing, Sha Ling took a deep breath, looked up at the stars twinkling in the sky, and thought of countless intelligent humans thousands of light years away, (Sha Ling resolutely believed that there were many advanced intelligent beings in the universe.) Thinking that every star is as big as the earth, and standing in a city on the earth, the smaller one is worse than the ants, and when I think about it, I feel that my so-called troubles and pressures are too funny - there is nothing in the world, and mediocrity disturbs itself.

However, he can't get rid of the world, and he is destined to be a mediocre.

After thinking about it and laughing self-deprecatingly, Sha Ling stepped on the cigarette butt and walked home.

Before going to bed at night, after reading today's popular Xianxia novels for a while, Sha Ling lay on his back on the bed, relaxed his body, silently listened to his breathing, and gradually fell asleep with the rhythm of his breathing. Of course, he didn't expect that he would be able to be like the male protagonist in Xianxia novels, practicing self-cultivation without a teacher and achieving Jindan, but he just regarded this as a way to maintain health.

Sha Ling got up in the morning to run, and in the evening he breathed like this, and after two years, he felt that he was in good health, and he had no middle-aged premature aging that people in the office often had, so he insisted on it.

As for qigong, Sha Ling also believed, he had tried to gather the dantian like a child, and luck all over the body, more than ten days later, once inadvertently the body did not sleep flat, the knee recess rested on the quilt, and he really felt a faint fluctuation in the skin to walk over, so far, he believed that the original air flow was really following his mind.

However, Sha Ling didn't have a teacher, he didn't have a cultivation method, and he wasn't ignorant when he was a child, and he knew that it was dangerous to practice Qi indiscriminately without a teacher, so he had no choice but to give up.

Two

"How do you sell this kiwifruit?" a female colleague asked at the stall, the kiwifruit sold was only the size of a date, and the price was very cheap. On both sides of the stone path, the rows are densely packed with small traders played by local farmers, selling mostly goods from the mountains, such as wild fungus, wild tea and the like.

Sha Ling also leaned over with great interest. He and more than a dozen colleagues in the unit are at a scenic spot at the foot of Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province, Sha Ling has always liked to eat fungus and bamboo shoots such as mountain fresh, and then paid attention to the way of health.

"What is this?" Sha Ling pointed to the strange thing in the basket—a dry and shrunken stem, ranging in color from a slightly transparent yellow to brown, with small sections of roots, apparently the tubers of some kind of plant.

"This is yellow essence. "Hawker Road.

Sha Ling's heart moved, and he remembered that he had seen in a book before that Huang Jing grew up in the mountains, and there was once a cultivator who took it all the year round and later became an immortal. This is a legend I don't know whether it is true or not, but there is still a record of yellow essence in the medical book, this thing is mild, non-toxic, sweet in taste, beneficial to qi and cultivating the spirit, it is a good thing. With the attitude of trying, Sha Ling returned the price and bought a catty.

After returning from the trip, Sha Ling checked on the Internet and confirmed that Huang Jing can indeed be taken for a long time, and it is good for high blood pressure.

As a result, there was an extra dish of steamed yellow essence on the dinner table of the Sha family.

Yellow essence is difficult to cook thoroughly, and the more you boil, the sweeter it becomes, the entrance is like a cloud cake, if it is not for some medicinal taste and itching, it is really quite delicious.

On the evening of this day, Sha Ling came back from overtime, his parents had fallen asleep, after washing, passing by the dining table, Sha Ling took a yellow essence to gnaw, there was a knot on the yellow essence, a round scar, every year it was a section, he bought it this time was generally five or six years old, gnawing and gnawing suddenly felt wrong, Sha Ling looked down, only to see that the middle of the yellow essence in his hand was actually empty, oozing milky white liquid.

"Broken?" Sha Ling walked to the light, looked closely, and saw a faint silver light in the milky white liquid, there seemed to be many silver insects swimming around, and there was no need to get close at this time, Sha Ling also smelled a faint fragrance, which was cool and sweet, which was refreshing.

Sha Ling's mind flashed through some fragments from Xianxia books, and words like "Huangzi in the Stone" and "Ten Thousand Years Spirit Milk" jumped out vividly.

Sha Ling's hand trembled, is there an adventure? In the book, it is often written that the protagonist eats natural treasures and can build a foundation to gain the Tao, Sha Ling's heart is surging, and he doesn't expect to build a foundation, but if he eats good things, improves his physique, enhances his sense of qi, or can he dig out one or two abilities, this requirement is not too much, right?

But what if this is not some elixir, but just the yellow essence is broken, and the silver light inside is just a parasite? What if the silver worm burrows into his body and gnaws him like in Wesley's novel? If he dies, who will take care of his elderly parents?

As soon as he thought of this, Sha Ling's fiery heart immediately froze.

Looking at the fragrant white liquid in his hand, Sha Ling was in a dilemma, extremely contradictory.

One is the opportunity to have an extraordinary life, and the other is a family member who is difficult to abandon, which is more important?

In an instant, the two thoughts fought back and forth, and all the decisions Sha Ling had made in his life had not been so painful and difficult at this moment!

"Oops!" Sha Ling's gaze fell back on the yellow essence, and he couldn't help but scream, only for a while, the liquid was a little less, the yellow essence was only the thickness of a finger, and the small puddle of mysterious liquid was originally only about a mouthful, but now it was less, Sha Ling couldn't help but feel a pity!

But this made his thoughts lean in the direction of "this thing is a treasure of heaven and earth", and he didn't read those books that said that the treasure of heaven and earth was born, and if it was not picked or taken properly, it would volatilize naturally or run away by itself.

Sha Ling was in a hurry, his brain turned fast, and he actually came up with a compromise method. He casually picked up the toothpick on the table and picked it into the liquid, making sure that there were no insects in it, and the silver light was just pure brilliance, and most of the worries in his heart were gone.

In his opinion, it would be better to have a small animal to test whether it is poisonous, but they have no pets at home, and things are in a hurry, so he can only give up, and instead stubbornly dip a small amount of liquid into his lips.

Sha Ling thought about it, if it was poisonous, he tasted less, and the rescue came urgently, if it was non-toxic, of course he swallowed it in one gulp.

As for whether there is a slight poison or something, he doesn't care about it, at least this way has reduced the danger of ten dozen or ten by about half, and in his heart, he doesn't really believe that something that smells so good will be a poison, and Huang Jing is a mild Chinese medicine that nourishes qi and condenses the mind, so it should be harmless.

The small drop of liquid is stained on the tip of Sha Ling's tongue, and Sha Ling is standing on the edge of the clear water pool, and the blue sky and white clouds in the sky are reflected in the pool, which is clearly visible......

Sha Ling raised his eyebrows, needless to say, this must belong to the ranks of heavenly treasures, and without hesitation, he poured all the liquid into his mouth in one gulp, and carefully licked all the liquid stuck to the yellow essence.

Just a small drop brought Sha Ling into a wonderful realm, needless to say a whole mouthful, in an instant, a cool and clean breath from the mouth straight into the five internal organs and six lungs, up to the brain, down to the limbs and hundreds of remains.

Sha Ling seemed to be floating in the clouds, the whole person was fluttering, every cell and nerve around him felt extremely happy and relaxed, his mind was blank, and he couldn't remember where he was.

I don't know how long it took, but he vaguely thought about it, as if he wanted to do something, but he couldn't lift his spirits at all. It's just that as soon as this mind moved, the cultivation method that he had been accustomed to for a long time naturally worked, and instinctively followed Sha Ling's breath and breath, and entered Sha Ling's body, and the aura that was in Siyi was concentrating on his dantian parts.

Sha Ling's expectation was good, what he occasionally got was indeed a natural treasure.

In this period of yellow essence was first generated, there was an underground spiritual spring passing by, and the spiritual spring rolled a little thin as foamy small water droplets, these water droplets were like liquid and solid, which was the condensation of the earth's spiritual energy.

This kind of spiritual spring occasionally escapes from the depths of the earth due to changes in the earth's qi, it is extremely rare, and even if someone can see it, it can not be collected, if it is collected with jade, the spiritual spring will dissolve into it when it touches the jade, the jade is nourished by the spiritual spring, and then evolves into a good jade, what is obtained is not the spiritual spring but a piece of beautiful jade, if it is collected with other materials, it will be directly volatilized, and only with the spiritual wood can it be collected, and the millennium yellow essence is a kind of spiritual wood.

At that time, this yellow essence has been a hundred years, although it is not a spirit wood, after all, the material is placed there, it happens that there is a drop of spiritual spring water beads splashed on it, it is incorporated into the body, with this drop of spiritual spring, this yellow essence has been retracted into a section for a hundred years, and it has grown for five or six hundred years, and it has shrunk to five sections, which is then sold by the mountain people as ordinary yellow essence.

And in these five or six hundred years, that drop of spiritual spring water beads in the body of Huang Jing continued to absorb and swallow the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, combined with the essence of wood, and grew to the volume of a mouthful.

The spiritual spring was drunk by Sha Ling, the aura was all around, and everywhere it passed, the meridians and bones had undergone abnormal changes, this was only an unconscious process, if you met a real cultivator, you would absorb it with exercises, not to mention being reborn, and at least increase your strength for a hundred years, but it was a pity that it was trampled on by Sha Ling, a person who did not know how to cultivate the truth.

Fortunately, after half of the aura escaped, Sha Ling's heart moved, and the qi gathered in the dantian, although the method was very poor, at least a small part of the aura was also reined in, and all of it was not wasted.

This is also Sha Ling's blessing, if ordinary people eat it, that clear spirit qi will not only give people a sense of ecstasy, but also disperse the soul of the undetermined person, Sha Ling gathered the dantian with qi, not only turned the aura into use, but also avoided the tragic ending of losing his soul.

Some of these spiritual qi entered the dantian and condensed into a small group, and some of them entered Sha Ling's brain and stayed.

The rest, when Sha Ling unconsciously gathered his qi in the dantian, stopped emitting out of his body, but stayed in his muscles and veins.

It can be said that this spiritual spring was wasted by Sha Ling, but the remaining one or two achievements brought him enough surprises.

Another: Let's start from the first chapter, this book is a similar earth environment, so please don't be serious about time, environment, place names, etc., thank you