Chapter 3 Qi Refining Period

At the age of five, Zhao Di began to receive guidance from an elder of the Jian family with other children, and began their own path of cultivating immortals.

The person in charge of teaching this group of children the introductory exercises is a white-bearded bald old man of the Jian family, named Jian Shi, although he is not young, his cultivation is not too high, and his status in the family is also very average.

Zhao Di still remembered the first time he saw the old man Jian Shi demonstrating the immortal method that day, and he was so excited that he often dreamed of similar scenes in the next half month.

The old man just muttered a few incantations in his mouth, and then raised the palm of his right hand, and the middle finger of his left index finger was brought together so lightly towards his right hand, and suddenly a fireball with a diameter of six or seven centimeters appeared a few centimeters high above the palm of his right hand, the size of a fist, which won the loud exclamations of all the children.

The old man's mouth kept saying incantations, and his left hand was constantly changing, pointing at the fireball above his right hand, and the fireball became bigger and bigger, and finally reached about half a foot in diameter, the size of a human head. Zhao Di, who was closer to the old man, had already felt a scorching breath constantly coming from the fireball, and it was obvious that the temperature of the fireball was extremely high. At this time, the old man spat out the word "go", and the fireball flew away quickly diagonally, smashing on the rocky ground three zhang away, and after a bang, the hard rocky ground was actually blown out of a big crater more than a foot deep and more than three feet wide by the fireball.

"This old man's fireball can have such terrifying power!" Zhao Di was shocked in his heart, only feeling that the experience of his previous life could not explain everything that happened in front of him, which further made him full of interest in cultivating immortals.

After the old man finished the demonstration, he looked at the surprised expressions of the children, nodded with satisfaction, and then began to teach the introductory cultivation of immortal cultivation. Sure enough, the children who were conquered by the old man's performance listened very seriously.

Zhao Di even forced himself to remember every word the old man said.

Originally, the path of cultivating immortals can be divided into nine levels according to the different realms of cultivation, from low to high, the Qi refining period, the foundation building period, the Dan period, the Yuan Infant period, the Shen Transformation Period, the Refining Void Period, the Merge Period, the Mahayana Period and the Tribulation Period. Among them, the qi refining period can be divided into thirteen levels, and the realm after the foundation is built is only three layers: the early stage, the middle stage, and the late stage. As for the tribulation period, it is rumored that there is only one level, that is, to survive the immortal tribulation, and after the immortal tribulation, you can become an immortal and live with heaven and earth.

The purpose of immortal cultivators' continuous cultivation is to improve their immortal cultivation realm, the higher the realm, not only will their mana and supernatural powers be doubled, but even their longevity will be doubled. Generally speaking, the lifespan of a monk in the Qi refining period is about the same as that of a mortal, and a monk in the foundation building period can live to be more than 100 years old if he dies at the end of his normal life, while a monk in the foundation building period can live to be more than 200 years old. As for the monks in the Yudan period, the longevity of the monks in the infant period has also increased exponentially. It is rumored that there are many monks in the Yuan Infant Stage who can live for more than a thousand years, and there are very few in the Golden Flame Country.

As for this old man, he is at the level of the early stage of foundation building, and he has lived for more than 180 years!

"Live for more than a thousand years, and even live with heaven and earth!" Zhao Di, who heard this, was almost crazy, and he couldn't wait to start the path of cultivating immortals.

Old Man Jian Shi didn't let them wait too long, and after briefly introducing some precautions and basic methods of cultivation, he took out five different method books for these children to choose from.

These five books look very ancient, and the cover is not silk or paper, which is extraordinary at first glance. On the cover, there are written "Ruijin Jue", "Changchun Jue", "Chasing Waves", "Flame Jue", and "Earth and Stone Jue", which correspond to the five spiritual root surnames of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, all of which belong to the primary exercises of practicing the Five Elements Spell. As long as you have the corresponding spiritual root, you can practice. For example, a monk who has the three spiritual roots of wood, fire, and earth can practice any of the "Changchun Jue", "Flame Jue", and "Earth and Stone Jue". Theoretically, a monk with multiple spiritual roots can also practice multiple exercises at the same time, but in practice, no monk does this, knowing that karma is precious and not much expensive. For example, if you practice the "Changchun Jue" to the thirteenth layer, it is the realm of the thirteenth layer of the Qi refining period, and the next level is the monk of the foundation building period. And even if this three-spirit root cultivator spent a lot of time and energy cultivating the three caste exercises of wood, fire, and earth to the twelfth layer, his cultivation was still only the twelfth layer of the Qi refining period, and no matter the size of his spiritual power or the power of the spells he cast, he was not as good as the thirteenth layer of the Qi refining period.

Of course, the characteristics of the exercises vary from caste to caste. Generally speaking, the fire surname exercise has the strongest attack power, while the water surname exercise is slightly easier to practice, and the wood surname exercise pays more attention to its own conditioning, and the monks who practice this exercise tend to have a higher longevity than the monks of the same level. The metal surname and the earth surname also have their own characteristics.

Since each child already knows his or her spiritual roots, they are free to make their own choices.

Zhao Di is a five-spirit root, and there are five kinds of spiritual roots, and these five kinds of magic can also be practiced. After hearing Jian Shi introduce the characteristics of various caste exercises, he did not hesitate to choose the fastest practice of "Chasing Waves". After all, his spiritual root surname is not good in the first place, and it may not be too slow to practice if he chooses an easy one, and as for the water surname exercise method is the worst, he doesn't pay much attention to it.

The rest of the children are different, everyone who has a fire spirit root basically chose "Flame Jue", I don't know if they were attracted by Jian Shi's performance.

After everyone had chosen the formula, several mortals of the Jian family brought the pen and paper that had been prepared to each child. After all the children had paper and pencils, the old man Jian Shi put on a strange posture with both hands, and then volleyed at the five exercise books one by one, only to see that the five books suddenly emitted a spiritual light of different colors, forming five light clusters with a diameter of about two feet, wrapping the five books inside, and then one by one the light characters flew out quickly from the light cluster, suspended above the light group. This brilliant five-colored light cluster attracted the attention of some children even more than the previous fireball technique.

"These are the first five mantras of the five exercises, copy them down quickly, and the light will disappear after half an hour. Old man Jane's voice was not loud, but it made the children who were fascinated by the five-colored light cluster tremble, and they hurriedly picked up the pen and recorded it.

Zhao Di copied it quickly, and he didn't think about the meaning at all, anyway, there will be time in the future. After he copied the first five layers of the exercises of "Chasing the Waves", he felt that there was still a lot of time, and he easily recorded the first five layers of the "Changchun Jue" with the shortest number of words.

In less than half an hour, all the children had finished copying, and Old Man Jian put away the five books, leaving behind the sentence "Work hard and cultivate, and go to the Ruzi Pavilion to find me after refining to the first level" and left.

Hearing the old man say this, Zhao Di thought that the first layer was easy to cultivate. Who knew it wasn't like that at all!

After carefully reading the mantra of the first layer and memorizing it by heart, he began to slowly guide the aura of heaven and earth into his body according to the above method, and controlled these aura to rotate and reincarnate in the body according to the corresponding route, and finally entered the dantian and gathered into his own spiritual power, which was for a small Zhou Tian. It turned out to be easy to do, but the aura gathered each time was really pitiful, and it was even far worse than those dolls who got started very late. Although he was constantly absorbing spiritual power except for sleeping for four or five hours a day, and he was becoming more and more proficient, and the time to complete a week was getting shorter and shorter, it took nearly a year to finally gather enough spiritual power in the dantian, and control these spiritual powers to impact several important acupuncture points in the body successfully, reaching the first layer of cultivation and entering the second layer of the qi refining period.

You must know that there are a few five or six-year-old dolls who have completed the first level of cultivation in two or three months, and most of the rest are about half a year.

He cultivated so hard and diligently, but he couldn't even compare to these five or six-year-old children, Zhao Di was a little speechless about his inferior spiritual root.